No word on why (4 September 2024)

Of course Christchurch shouldn't host the Commonwealth Games, Donald's upset at what's now missing from Palmerston North Hospital's foyer, and we all learn about polydactyl cats (including how to spell "polydactyl")

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is the first Wednesday in September. It's the first
Wednesday and springs but evening are welcome on him. As
Marcus hadle twelve o'clock tonight, the number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine to text. Could
hear Damien McKenzie there in the old bulletin like him
to kick a bit quicker? Kind of terrifying to watch
a man watch the shot clock anyway, his journey welcome people.

(00:39):
By the way, I can tell you that the Commonwealth
Games will not go ahead and christ Church so they
did the report and they can't really do it alone.
They have to bring others through into the fold, and
the others don't want to. And of course the Commonwealth Games,
I think one third of the people in the world
are in the Commonwealth and one third of those are Indian,
so that's good. But it's not the Olympics, is it anyway?

(01:02):
So it looks like we won't begin those. And I
don't know if I think there was some desperate bid
from Gold was something like that. They'll go ahead, but
in a hobbled form. By the way, the big story
that's going to break tonight perhaps breaking ray Gunn Ray

(01:23):
Gunn the breakdancer. She's appearing on the Australian version of
the Project tonight, so no doubt we will get some
intel about that. I did see one question that was
previewed where the guy that hosts the project said, do
you think that you are the best female breakdance in Australia.

(01:44):
Its clearly she wasn't the reckon. She's all over dancing
with the stars and all sorts of she's going to
pivot that into some sort of celebrity proud be a
weird sort of celebrity, because she's sort of the celebrity
of someone that sort of seems to have underachieved and
taken someone else's spot. But that's of interest tonight also too.
So yeah, by the way, too, if you've got break

(02:06):
news where you are, something that happens that you want
to let us know about, do that also. I think
the tugs are getting ready to take the barge off
tomorrow about midday. This is the stranded barge south of Westport.

(02:26):
Well it's more like west of Westport. When you look
at the way the geography lands, so that will be well.
I don't think they managed to get it off, but
I'll give it a damn good go be a very
good documentary. The barge is called the Manaho and they's
got specialist tugs. You don't know how they're going to

(02:51):
do it, but I'm fascinated. They say their a floating
plan is on track. Yes, the vessel iss stable, and
the hull and all tanks are in tech tech. There
are no leaks and there's no idiot resks for the
environment that whether it's good the tides are favorable. The

(03:11):
specialist recovery team's plan to refloat the Mana who is
on track. Towing vessel mm A Vision has arrived at
Carter's Beach to help with their recovery. A small tug,
the Kuda Tie, is en route from Napier and will
reach Westport later this evening. Western Mineral Stands engaged independent

(03:36):
expert to help us understand how the incident occurred, and
their investigation is well underway. The barge operators responsible for
the salvage plan and the work to implement it, I
don't know what happens. Maritime law is quite interesting. Well,
it's interesting. It's studied and people specialize in maritime law,
like there are people that specialize in space law. Now

(03:57):
that's interesting. But anyway, with maritime law, I don't know
what will happen. Maybe if they can't remove it, then
does it become subject to salvage laws. I don't know
the answer. But everything maritime I'm sort of slightly fascinated by.
But that's happening tomorrow about midday. So there you go.
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty teenty of nine two
nine two dits and ray Gunn will be making an

(04:20):
apology for her poor performance. Yep, that's gonna be. They're
calling her a cult figure, but she's really a figure
of ridicule, that would be my take on that. But
she's on tonight, yeah, although she's sort of playing the

(04:41):
victim and saying, oh poor me, and why has even
been mean to me? Anyway, get in touch. My name
is Marcus Hidle tweve o'clock right, So if you've got
breaking news picalarly about the barge or anything else, I
presume that bushfire bushfire sort of not bushfire's forest fire,
and why put he is out? If you got some
more information about that let us know fure So what
do you want to talk about tonight? People? You can

(05:04):
set the agenda. By the way, Brian May he has
suffered a stroke. He's from Queen Sir Brian May no
control over his arm, although he can still play guitar. Now,
I'd tell I've got to start with tonight as a topic.
And this you're actually someone that's lamenting the fact that

(05:26):
christ Church aren't having the Commonwealth Games, because I tell
you what, it would be impossible to compare to those
ones in seventy four that went seventy two, seventy four,
seventy four that went so very well. But anyway, who
was the mayor of christ Church in seventy four? Someone
might know about that. I'm still remembering that it was

(05:49):
Norman Kirk days. I enjoyed that greatly. And I tell
you about that book I'm reading about Norman Kirk. Once
I get a bit more into that one. But the
number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two
nine two to text do get in touch twelve past nine,
Ben Marcus. Welcome either Marcus.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
I'm on the course, shot right, great payer mate, And
this you know, not going through with this Commonwealth Games.
But in that there's a great news mate, Like you know,
my rates are gone through the roof and I'm sick
of it. So anything to keep the raids down, I'm happy.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I think your counsel paid for a report to see
whether they should host them or not. How do you
feel about that?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, you know that it comes from the same mayor
who agreed with what the problem ministers said on waste
will spend the other week and then he goes and
waste how much dollars on a report? So yeah, yeah,
and I'm not happy about that, but just it just
as a ratepayer of corossures, mate, it's good. You know
you look what happened on Berni in the UK. It

(06:51):
almost bankrupts the debt town. You know that that city,
those guys are paying off major debt from the Economwealth
Games a few years back. And yeah, I'm square it's
not going to happen here.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I think games just about bankrupt every city. They always
took cup how much trickle down and how much benefit
there's going to be this city, but it never kind
of eventuates.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, no, I don't think they've ever turned the pocket
and any I think the Olympics. It only ever happened once,
and there was one city in America where as she
turned to propet and I think they were trying to
say it was going to turn one this year, but
it turns out it's not.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, And comparing the Olympics of Conwealth's like comparing Eston
Martin to a Toyota. I mean, there's no comparison. There's
no comparison. I mean they were a dud there, and
there's been a dud since seventy four. They've been a
dud for a long long time. If you ask someone
that's been only the earth for forty years, what's the
best moment of the Commonwealth Games they can remember, they
wouldn't remember anything. It's always unexciting. Nice to hear from

(07:51):
your fourteen past eight. I kind of thought it was
surprising of the Mayor of christ just to even mention
that he was trying to ride some sort of nostalgia
wave that didn't even exist. Yeah, not the time people
worried about their water the way, there's something I did
wanted to talk about that. I was just mentioning is

(08:14):
your pet gifted? Because there are signs that some animals
are gifted and there's two signs to look for. The
first sign is their ability to remember the names of
hundreds of objects, and they can remember them for at

(08:36):
least two years. So yeah, so if you've got a
dog that can remember things and a lot of things
for more than two years, then you've got a gift
a dog normally a collie. Yep, these are good things.

(08:57):
So they got dogs and they had them remember the
names of multiple toys, and they tested them on that
two years later. Yeah. So what if you've got a
gifted animal, dog or a cat curious to know about
gifted animals and the things gifted animals and the great
things they can do, it might be a feat of memory.

(09:18):
I'm sure every pet owner thinks their pets particularly clever.
Let us know how clever they are, because what would
be fun as you ring up and say something that
your cat can do anything's well, actually that's not that clever,
or unless you have something that's extraordinary, let us know
about that eight your gifted pets. I'm all about that tonight.

(09:39):
And the Commonwealth Games. Gosh, diden't ben sound unexcited. Woo,
Marcus is a shame about the games. Christ Church has
the world's best bowling greens. What sport can't you hold
in christ Church? Marcus, The only thing in the fifty years

(10:02):
I remember for the common games are bowls. Is it's
the only sport that it's not the Olympics. All others
seem mixed with Olympic memories. Well that's a really good
point JA make. I'm sure there's other sports that just
in the comm games are there? Get in touch by
name is Marcus Hurdle twelve. A lot of people don't
like my car analogy. The analogy didn't come that freely

(10:24):
to me. I couldn't think of any other analogies between
a car and some so I hope I'm trying at
the Eston Martin being the dud not the mighty Toyota. Yes,
that's probably what I am comparing or saying. Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text
Gifted Pets. What's the most remarkable thing your dog, cat,

(10:45):
animal birds ever done? Always like a show on talking parrots.
That's always good, let me know. Eight hundred eighty ten
eighty nine two nine two to text and comm games
and christ Ditch, I kn't even Yeah, I did talk
back at the time that mer was talking about that,
and I said how crazy it was, And people gave

(11:08):
you a bit of jip. They said, to be a
great thing for the city, A talks chair, a great
thing for the city. Well, really, I don't think so.
Oh eight hundred eight tendan nine two nine two texts.
Also updates on the barge and the laws of salvage.

(11:28):
Always big on that. Love to hear from you about that,
two people. As I say, oh eight hundred eighty ten
Eightian nine two nine to text, let us know what
you've got. By the way. Big story in Timau, a
chicken was spotted walking up the town's main street. Yeah.

(11:52):
Despite the unusual site, both police and the Timulu District
Council said they had not received any reports in relation
to the feathered jaywalker. However, as CBD antics may have
helped land the bird on its feet, as it was
picked up by South Canterbury bird rescuers inn the Guthrie
after it was caught by residents loving that Timm It's Marcus,

(12:19):
welcome and good evening.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Well it must be one of a slow news story.
A chickens Oh listen, Timo.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I think probably yeah, I think probably yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Okay, fair enough, Marcus. Next Commonwealth Games, I knew. Was
it Bendy Girl or something that was supposed to have
the next Calm Games. Have they decided on a venue?

Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, I think it was going to be the state
of Victoria. We're going to have it, right, and it
was going to be shed a number of a number
of towns like bet I forget what they're all called.
And then the mayor or the premiere of Victoria just said, no,
we can't do it. We're gonna reneg Yeah, yeah, fair enough.
So then I think they got Then I think they
got Glasgow or someone to do it.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Well, like you said, it just Bank Rubin's places nowadays,
and you know when winners at time when we just say,
well it's just can the colm Kings because it's a
dead yeah, And a lot of countries nowadays they're just like,
well we don't really have an affinity with the British
War anymore or being a part of the Commonwealth.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
And yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Did you say Bendigo or Ballarette?

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Oh, well one of them.

Speaker 7 (13:42):
Me.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
I think it might be Belarrete.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
What did you say.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I think I said Bendigo, but I think it might
be Bellerette, Right.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
It's going to be it was, It was going to
be in Geelong, Bellerette, Bendigo, La Trobe and Shipperton.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Well there you go.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Where do they make the where do they make Where
do they make the commodoes?

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Oht yeah, I thought it was and as a commodore
museum that people talk about.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Well, I don't think they make them anymore.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
But they don't, yeh. By the way, today is the
day that's Today's the day that Steve Irwin died.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh well come you know commiseration.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well they've done well after it, haven't they. God does
something they want, dancing competition and done all sorts of
things nice to hear from you, Tim, gifted animals and
the rest, oh eight hundred, you know the rest. By
the way, Just so you know, Dolate Saving starts on
the twenty ninth of September. We'll also be checking in
with Karen. She was a caller. We had this may
who said that she never does daylight saving. She just

(14:49):
stays the old school the whole way. So I think
she said she'd ring about half past dates, so we
could hear about anywhere about hap past nine past ten,
seven Lennard's Marcus Welcome, Good evening, Hi, Hilen.

Speaker 8 (15:05):
I was just thinking when you were saying that nobody
would have many memories of the Commonwealth Games. And when
they were in Auckland must have been the early nineties,
I'm not sure. Our children were sort of primary school
age and we went to quite a few of the
events and we went out to Mount Smart and we
were seated right in front of the high jump and
there were two New Zealand girls in it who were

(15:26):
in the final, and one of them eventually, you know,
didn't make it any further. And so she gathered up
all her things and had put all stuff in her bags,
and we didn't realize that her family were actually sitting
right in front of us, and so when she had
finished everything, she jumped over the fence and she came
up to sit with her family and she lit up
a cigarette.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
And I've never forgotten it so that I have to
ring and tell you that when you said, and the
look on our kids' faces were like, oh my god,
and I said, well, you know, if she didn't smoke,
she might have.

Speaker 10 (16:01):
Got further, you know.

Speaker 11 (16:04):
And that's my memory of the Well's Game because.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's a memory. That's not a fake memory. That's something
you couldn't forget.

Speaker 9 (16:12):
No, I've never forgotten.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's unbelievable because you could because of course you could smoke.
You could smoke in stadiums.

Speaker 10 (16:20):
But that's right, absolutely yeah. But you know, to tiver
of an athlete to be competing in that, and then
she got knocked out and jumped over and came up
and set with a family.

Speaker 9 (16:31):
And although it's quite as a.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Smoke off and you think, you know, I wish, you know,
I have to give up smoking, get foot, but you're
probably a better off getting fit and smoking at the
same time, because you're a stippy head. But did she
did she ask you? Did she ask your family? Did
you say you've got some smokes or they're they're in
your bag? Beg, this is extraordinarily that's become my great memory.

(16:57):
Now I might have that one. I just thought it
be marked Todd on charisma at the opening ceremony. But
that's excellent. Goodness me. Occasionally Wally lewis smoking on the
sideline in the rugby league, but it was the Windfield Cup.
But a high jumper. Wow, nice to hear from you, Lyn,

(17:20):
Thank you It's changed my day eight hundred and eighty
e tedy nine detext Ooh, Marcus, we're in christ Church.
Could you hold Colm Games? Equine events? And how's Emney Hills?
I don't think they have equine events at the COMM Games, Marcus.

(17:42):
The fact Dubert and Melbourne have pulled out of hosted
the Games of the past ten years shows that the
comic games are dying. Event Why christ Church counts even
paid rate pays money Revivaity report when every outcomes a disgrace.
I feel for the rate payers. They're governed by such incompetence.
And this is coming from an awkward Yeah. Absolutely, and
it was just because the mayor had some sort of smug, warm,

(18:02):
fuzzy feeling about his day during the thing in nineteen
seven four. Marcus, why wouldn't you just run the games
for TV rights and not have it all set up
for people to come here? New Zealand has enough buildings
of great standard to hold all the events. We wouldn't
need to build a single building friendy of it if

(18:22):
we just focus on TV rights, not stadiums to fit
more people we have. I don't think the TV rights
the Common Games are worth much. I mean, they haven't
got this where they might have the best sprinters. Where's that?
Where did that woman come from? Dan, this is your
area of expertise. She came from Saint Lucia. Do we
think that's in the Commonwealth? I reckon it could be.

(18:45):
It's kind of pirate territory. A probably isn't the Commonwealth.
So we might have the world's fastest woman if we
had it is this Saint Lucha remains a member of
the British Commonwealth, So there we go. She'd be across.
They'd be exciting. Yeah, so strudents, we normally do quite
well at the comms. Hey, get in touch by name
is Gifted Pets. I'm up for as well tonight, Marcus,

(19:11):
just saying I was interested. I went to the Cowal
Champs for wrestling in nineteen eighty nine and Malta as
it took place. There's a bit I can't read, Marcus.
I had a cat that when my husband snored, the
cat locked his eyelids so my husband woke up. But
if that didn't work, the cat used to bite his nose.

Speaker 12 (19:34):
Cheepers.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes, I don't know why they didn't do the story
with a chicken about why did it crossed the road?
It's a it's a waste of a headlined that because
it did cross the road. Chicken with attitude wings it
in timidu CBD. Sure the headline would be chicken crosses road.
No word on why. That's a bit of a that's
a bit of a sad day for the Timid paper.

(19:58):
They've missed that because jaywalking. Then they went to the
White Meti Poultry Club for comment. Some chickens think they're
on top of the world, she said. Looking at the
front of the bird, it was difficult to confirm its breed.

(20:19):
With an increasing number of people keeping chickens in urban areas,
she said, the birds could have come from anywhere. It's
a big day. Said then made it deposit near the
ASB bag, which is quite a good line. September rains
came early in Barcelona. There will be no yachting tonight
because of the weather. Day six has been postponed. The

(20:41):
weather is unsuitable. I suppose they got the kind of
the willies after that guy got struck by lightning just
about they say. The beginning of September is of very
much a transition period in the weather. Mediterranean storms are
commonplace where the winds up to fifty knots on the
Balaric Islands.

Speaker 13 (21:03):
Cheap.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
It's a good bolt of lightning though, wasn't surprise he
didn't hit the yacht, came close lines free Gifted Pets
and the Colm Games. Tell you what we hosted. The
people seemed to like that was the choir competitions was
so that was that was popular. A lot of people
said they went to Auckland for that. But you know,

(21:25):
when you want to have something interesting, do you get
the comm Games or do you get Adele? You know,
one artist probably would generate more interest these days, wouldn't
you were these kind of mega concerts. Be nice to
hear from your eight hundred and eighty tell if you
have got breaking news in us what that is. Also
would love to hear from your hair till midnight tonight

(21:46):
christ Church, the com Games and the Gifted Dogs and
the Gifted cats. But dogs have extremely good memories. Some do.
They can remember up to two things. Have you got
like soft toys with special names? And then two is
two years later you could say, okay, fid oh, fetch Dan,

(22:09):
and that you would have done know that the name
of the soft toy was dann from two years earlier,
and they'd go and retrieve it. I don't know how
you could utilize that. Suppose it'd be good for party trick.
I guess are they going to try and use it
to help humans memory? There was some connection with a

(22:29):
story I've read, I hope. So anyway, Robbie Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (22:37):
Good Marcus.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
How are really good? Thank you?

Speaker 15 (22:40):
Robbie good Man.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Good Man.

Speaker 14 (22:43):
I've had two cocker tails from my life. One was
like a like a parrot that used to sit in
my shoulder and eat, you know, sausages and meatal whatever.
I'm an ex butcher, so that was quite cool. Then
we got another one years and years ago later and

(23:04):
I toured him to h whistle Pop over Sailorman Wow,
Pop goes to whistle. He could speak. He would say
to me, what are you doing? And I said, I'm
going to work? Why because they have to? Like they're amazing,

(23:27):
Like yeah, it was quite amazing because I just sit
at night around about this time and just talked to
him and he'd say nothing. For we got him as
a small bird, and then he'd say nothing, and then
all of a sudden, you go, what are you doing
And I said, what am I doing?

Speaker 16 (23:47):
Watching TV?

Speaker 14 (23:49):
Why?

Speaker 17 (23:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (23:52):
It was.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Unfortunately delightful. Cockatil or cockatail? Did you say cockon til cockatiel?

Speaker 16 (24:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, sure, Unfortunately, Yes, you're going to say there's going
to be the sad end too it unfortunately.

Speaker 14 (24:12):
Yeah, my lovely partner, who's an animal lover, extraordinary, any
any animal planning the cage left a little because we
had him clipped so we couldn't sort of fly around
because we have dogs and cats as well. But yeah,

(24:36):
he just walked out the window. Unfortunately. Yeah, his name
was Sparky because he was so bright, Like, yeah, where
would have been gone?

Speaker 2 (24:46):
What what if he just walked away? What he worked?

Speaker 14 (24:49):
Apparently I've talked to experts and he apparently he would
have been you know, hunted.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, because he can't get away.

Speaker 14 (25:00):
Yeah, well yeah, he's They are not you know, fighting
birds or anything.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
But yeah, do you.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Eat a whole sausage?

Speaker 17 (25:11):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (25:12):
The first one used just to pick at it like
he was quite funny. He used to fly around the
house because I let him. Or a single at the time,
but then I'm you know, were.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
You not single for along with a cocker?

Speaker 14 (25:28):
But oh, man, like you can teach any apparently you
can teach magpies to talk.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah, I believe that to be true.

Speaker 14 (25:39):
And let's get him young and yeah. But like this
guy was amazing. Like he would go, we'd put a
blanket over him so he could sleep. If I was
watching TV.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Las Sparky, this is the first one, right.

Speaker 14 (25:55):
No, Sparky, Yeah, and he go, what do you do?
Must they go to sleep? Then he would go into
like a trends where he would just gabble at everything
that I've taught him for the week or the day
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Doad Yeah, wow.

Speaker 14 (26:17):
Yeah, what are you doing my mind? I recorded it
once that didn't listen to this. This was my bird
you Yeah. Yeah, he was gray and gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Might need to hear the tape of it sometime, Robbie.
Nice to hear from you, Thank you very much. Twenty
three away from nine animals and the special things they
can do in the Calm Games, get in Touch and
the Calm Games in Christ You're not going ahead with
them anymore. They did a report and the report told
them the blundingly obvious. It was a daft idea from

(26:54):
the beginning. But why have the report? It kind of
the scene. It was didn't hurt. We've got more information
now we know. Well, I think we're pretty obvious to
know beforehand. Jeepis creepers. If Victoria don't want it, Duba
don't want it, you don't want it, it's a dud.

(27:15):
Get in touch Marcus Till twelve, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine two nine to two de text. You
want to come through anyone sicker monopoly at McDonald's yet
quite it must work for them. But do they wheeled
that out a lot, don't they? Of course there was
the great scandal because the prizes weren't being given away

(27:36):
because someone that was in charge of carrying them around
was keeping themselves. That went for a long long time.
I think I think it's I think it's fair now.
I think you do have a chance of winning. But
I think last time it had a bit of a
go around it. People were upset that they thought the
prizes and New Zealand weren't very good. Just end us
Killy tart and vouchers. Hopefully this time it's more exciting. Oh,

(27:59):
by the way, the Warriors have opened up a bar. Well,
they're in the process of opening up a bar in Kingsland,
and they had a bit of a competition to work
at what the bar should be called. That name has
been revealed. The bar is going to be called the
full Time Sports Bar and Eatery, which they might think's
that clever, but it's not a very good name because

(28:24):
you're not going to say I'll meet you at full time,
because it's confusing and lame. I reckon, that's me. I
guess people might call it the fully to New North
Road and the Kingston Shops used to be the Holy
Hot Bar. I don't know if the players go. They
don't quite know how a bar goes. But you get

(28:44):
the train I suppose from Mount Smart and go there
and you get on it. Drown your sorrows or celebrate
your victory. This year they're a bit more of drowning
the sorrows, but next year who knows. Hope springs are
too extraordinarily gifted animals. That's the topic for tonight, and
the loss of the Commonwealth Games and the fact that
christ which will no longer be looking into having them.

(29:09):
This would be called the world's least surprising headline. D
after them to do the report anyway to have that,
but there we go. That's christ Church. That's what they've done.
They've paid for the report. The reports told them what
was blindingly obvious that probably well they hadn't said that.
I imagine that no one wants the Commonwealth Games. A couple
of textans of very good texts. Love that call about

(29:29):
the high Jumper. Here's a text about John Travolter Marcus.
I worked for Quantas two thousand and one and we
had John travolt to visit our Queen Street office. We
were all lined up outside the lift on level nine
and when he walked into office, everyone was like possums
in the headlight. I finally, just I finally spoke to

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ask him how his flight over from Sydney was, as
he was the pilot. After his offers visit, he invited
me to a bar at softcotl on the Harbor Front.
We're here and his crew of many were drinking and
having fun. I was last to leave and was grabbed
at the exit daughter bay. The bill my f past
card declined, so my wife had to come to the
city with her credit card to bail me out of

(30:12):
the kitchen. I asked to call him from his room,
but turned out he wasn't staying there and departed first
thing the following morning. Talk about Saturday night fever. When
my wife first saw the bill, geez, true story destroy
that John Treval doesn't come out of particularly well, is it?
What if he's famous for that? Goodness and pet stories? Tonight? Jealous,

(30:39):
it's Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
How are you my friend? I had as I had
a cat who was a black Oriental Siamese version. It
looked like a panther with yellow eyes, the very naughty kt.
My neighbor next door had a fishpond, and my cat
used to sit and watch out my kitchen window at
my neighbour's fishpond every day. And one day I was

(31:04):
in the lounge and I heard bang bang on the
kitchen floor. I said to Jesse, what have you got
in your mouth? He never killed them. He had a goldfish.
You wouldn't believe it. Yeah, And I picked it up
and didn't hurt it. I put it in the bucket,
took it back, Blow me down. When the man died
Marcus next door of my old house, the family took

(31:28):
the goldfish and covered the pond over. Here's my cat
sitting by the empty pond, trying to dig up the dirt,
thinking there was a pond.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
The goldfish was sean. It was a mean thing to
cover it up, I know.

Speaker 7 (31:44):
But he was a beautiful cat, a beautiful cat.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, I wouldn't say there was an extraordinary ability just
to take goldfish. That's what cats do the way.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
Yeah, he was signing. He said, problem why they break
everything home made?

Speaker 15 (31:56):
Sort of, yeah, that is that part of.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
The course for gold I've never thought Siamese cats too much.
I just thought they kind of lounged around.

Speaker 7 (32:03):
No, he was Sy's half Persian. Oh yeah, so basically
possessive and temperamental at this you know, two personalities.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
The Persian cats are sort of the brown and cream ones,
are they?

Speaker 18 (32:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
Yeah. And my cat used to bite me if I
sort of not not talk too much, but he'd bite
me like be quiet, like I'm trying to slip kind
of thing, you know, like nip my leg, you know.
But very very intelligent, very loyal, very comforting to me.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
You know, you got what you got now, jeanous, you
got a.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
Catsell no, no, no more no, no. My cat would
have been over thirty now if he'd been alive.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Well, they'd been old Cadi for still alive like a
forerriver cat.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
I've got a photo of him and I keep it
beside my bed.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
So lovely to hear from jenis thanks twelve past nine oh,
eight hundred and eighty Teddy Marcus, till midnight tonight. If
you've got breaking us, let's know what that is. If
there's something entirely different you want to talk about our cat,
Reck's third time rescued from a tree. No surprise, is
there powerable not struck tonight. That's from me, Thank you Lee.
Thanks for the omelot on top of the O. I

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like that looks like a little person peeking out at me.
The Ford plant was in broad Meadows. Commodorees were made
in Elizabethsouth Australia, except the last ones were from Europe.
No one wanted those ones. Cheers cheers to you. Get
in touch Marcus to twelve oha eight hundred and eighty

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ten eighty nine nine two text. So some people are
sending me images also of the tug Sito twenty two,
which was used to tow a barge off the beach
and Graymouth after a stranding in nineteen ninety seven. This
has happened before. I think it's looking good for coastal shipping.

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I don't know if this barge is ever going to
actually do this job to carry all the sand and
grain to Nelson. To back topic there one, But if
you got anything else you want to talk about tonight?
Commonwealth games and pets with extraordinary abilities. I thought you
guys have talk up your pets more. It seems as
though the dogs it's collies with memory. Yep, that's the

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topic for you. Eight hundred and eighteen eighty nine to
nine to text. I love it how people say the
cat would have if it was still love, would have
been thirty. It's interesting. I think the cat would have
to thirty? Would they maybe? But yeah, there we go.
What have you got there? Where I'm about tonight? There's

(34:35):
a Holden Museum and a kid a couture. If I
pronounced that right, Northern Victoria a chuker, someone would have
been there. One't been to the Holden Museum. I suppose
you get to sit in the card or if your

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Instagram is it on trip Advisor's best thing to do
in a Chuker? I don't know. I'm not on it yet.
Doesn't crop up the Commodore Museum. Sintan's winery looks fun.

(35:18):
You can have a get on a pedal steam wrap.
You go up the river. Who doesn't have a pedal steamer?
A Chuka great name for a town of Chuka. Mark
is still twelve, looking forward to you. Cats, cats and
animals with extraordinary abilities and like extraordinary I want people

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to say things. I think jeepers. Did you hear that
person around when their cat did that? Like cats that
can do sudoku or dogs that can do I don't know,
you'll know, I don't blah blah blah. How's the internet?

(36:02):
Does that? Beck on? After the vandals? People? Now there's
much talk about that. The insect that's been down on Auckland.
Let us know about that also, people. But oh eight
hundred and eighty eighty nineteen nine to the text Hittle twelve.
If you don't want to come through, come on fourteen
path day. Let's be hearing from you. Liz Marcus, welcome, Liz.

Speaker 16 (36:27):
Don't.

Speaker 19 (36:27):
My daughter's done. Not a genius, but I think it's
quite funny because she's gotten the day here because she's
teacher and twice a week and I go down to
stay the night so on a Tuesday, it doesn't go
to day here. Well I wasn't well, so yesterday she
took them to go here here refuse to get.

Speaker 20 (36:46):
Out path.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
Does it all?

Speaker 19 (36:49):
He knows to days if he doesn't go because I
look half of I thought that was really smart.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It's clever if he knows days of the week.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Oh he does.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
To say, won't go to day care when you're there?
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (37:04):
No?

Speaker 19 (37:05):
I have him on a two Tuesday, so it doesn't
go to day here. And Priday, well happen not well,
which I couldn't. I couldn't have one Tuesday, so said,
put them on daycare and extra day. He refuges to
get out the car.

Speaker 12 (37:21):
Absolutely refuge.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Wow? What what what breed? What breedlers?

Speaker 19 (37:26):
A little tiny sausage a dog with her terrier, a
dish interior cross. Yeah, and now it's such age dog
with a terrier.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yeh, sausage dog's addiction, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (37:41):
Probably yes? That's not dog hunter hunter one.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
It was called hunter. Thanks listen, Donald Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (37:52):
Okay, hey, I've heard recently or red ucently, just very
in the last few months, the Holding Museum and the
Tutor has closed down. A lot of stuff's been sold
off to other people. It's happened in the last three months.
I read that somewhere I've never been to a.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
That's poor that they didn't even have the commitment to
keep it open.

Speaker 15 (38:10):
Yeah, I don't know why. There were a couple of
guys ran it had the same surname. They weren't related
or something, and they couldn't get it.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
What's that about.

Speaker 15 (38:18):
Sixteen thousand dollars for a hold and brown, which apparently
was a stunning price.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, but you know, what's that about having the same suno?
What's that? That must be weird. I'm still listening.

Speaker 15 (38:33):
Oh sorry, yeah, Hey, can I take a comment about
Partners North Hospital?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
I'm sure you can, and I'd like you to.

Speaker 15 (38:40):
I've had a lot to do with it lately, for
various reasons. And anyway, after a month, I had to
go back yesterday and today. It's very irritating. The main
entrance there was always a large clock to tell if
you had ten minutes to get to a department or
your appointment, or when to catch the bus over the
road back to the city. But they've redecorated the entrance
where the big clock has disappeared. There's no clock, and
you don't know what the hang of the time is.
You've got to go and hunt for another one because

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I don't carry what. There must be very irritating for
older people that are waiting for you know, shuttles and
all that, because you knew where time it was. Now
that the clock's been mislaid and nobody knows where it is,
somebody could, surely and partners could donate a big clock
or get a cheapye at the warehouse, a large plastic
based one and give it to them to put up.
In the meantime, it's just disappeared and there's no sense
of time in there.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Donald, tell me about the clock.

Speaker 15 (39:26):
When you go on the main entrance of Parmas North Hospital.
There was always a big clock as you go in.
You go on the main entrance and it's just before
you go up to the elevators to go to the
wards or to the departments to the right, and it's disappeared.
They redecorated the place in the last month and the
clock has been mislaid and it's quite a large clock
hanging on a wall. I think it's electric, but there's
no clock, so you have no idea what time it is, Well,

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only you got it on your arm. And it's very
irritating with people arriving in shuttle from places as far
as a field is Wong and Ewie and Danny Burke
and the tacking on that, and you don't know when
to know how close you are to your shuttle going
or how late you are.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Now I realized all that. I just wonder what sort
of a clock was a digital clock or was it?
Was it one that was an extraord clock or just
an ordinary clock?

Speaker 15 (40:09):
Oh, just a flat faced clock hanging up. I looked
at the King's still there, but.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
They paint was my next question.

Speaker 15 (40:15):
People they say it's been mislaid.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Cheap as creepers. Maybe that's going to be like the
casino where they hide the clock, say, don't know how
long you've been waiting to be seen. Maybe that's what the.

Speaker 15 (40:26):
It's not too good if you if you're late an appointment,
you miss it and you've got to waste a couple
of months for a new one, you know, I mean,
it's quite a serious thing. That's missing.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Serious. But Donald, if I was you and I haven't
had a hospital quite often, and I was worried at
the lock of lack of clock and havingny disappointments. I
would just get a watch.

Speaker 15 (40:44):
Well, that's the trouble. I should wear one. Maybe next time,
Parmas and I'll go to the warehouse and donate a
big plastic clock to them because I hang on the wall.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Get a watch or just do you carry your cell phone?

Speaker 13 (40:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (40:55):
I don't normally care it. If I'm in a health shovel.
I head it at my car today, I suppose I
should carry my cell phone.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Because your cell phone whatever clock on.

Speaker 15 (41:02):
It, Yeah, definitely has And I do have watches I
never wear. I've mis that it's just candy. Reassured you
have it.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
There, Donald, I love a public clock. I love a
public clock. More buildings should have them. And I think
now that most people carry sure, I think more people
now that more people have cell phones, and I think
watches and clocks will become a thing of the past
quite soon.

Speaker 15 (41:28):
Well it's a big thing to misslay. I mean, the
face was probably about a foot and half across. It's
quite a large one, just dominating the doors. And so
you think I know I'm earlier on.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
I'm looking for I'm looking for a picture on online.
I can't see it, but I'm hearing you, but probably
one of the trade's broke it and they hit it
try and hide the evidence or something like that.

Speaker 15 (41:47):
Well, I've asked the office, I've asked some John people there,
and you have to hunt for another one of courture.
I know where others are, but you've got to walk
a bit to find them.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
You know you're not pestering them, Donald, You're not pestering
them about the missing clock, are you?

Speaker 19 (42:01):
Am?

Speaker 11 (42:01):
I what?

Speaker 15 (42:02):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Are you pestering them about it?

Speaker 6 (42:06):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (42:07):
Well, I don't have to go back for a while now,
but in two days I certainly missed it the first
thing that struck you, and I'm ate, oh god, the
clock's gone. And I later on my early sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
How many people did you ask about the clock?

Speaker 15 (42:17):
Donald, I asked the main officer, asked the information lady,
asked the Saint John lady it was there again today,
and asked the ambulatory care lady. They all agree it's
been mislaid. The people are decorated. Don't know where they've
put it. Well, it's probably the large thing to mislay.
Then maybe they dropped it and don't want to miss it.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
So how do those conversations go? How would you start
those conversations? What would be what would be your opening line.

Speaker 15 (42:39):
About the clock?

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (42:42):
Oh, or what's happened to it's a bit irritating. I
don't know what the time is basically.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Okay, so got it? They say, gee, what I don't
know what time is? The clock's gone? Do you know
what's happened to me?

Speaker 15 (42:51):
Do you know how much been missing? I haven't been
in the place from.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
I'll be the person behind the desk. You you ask
me about the clock.

Speaker 15 (43:01):
I certainly did. The lady remembered my face and she said, oh,
they mislayed that. They don't know what they've done with it.
They can't find it. This is stunning for a hospital.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Wow, but true, you're quite worked up about this.

Speaker 15 (43:14):
A well, that's a means irritating, especially when you've got
health shuttles and that to catch, as I had at
one stage. I missed a health shuttle by one minute
one night and it ended up having got one hundred
and fifty dollars taxi rider to get home.

Speaker 13 (43:25):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
True, thanks, what about the mirror of the parmister that's
rugby going? Oh, Cam, it's Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 21 (43:38):
Good Marcus. It's just on the conversation about clock. So
I saw an awesome clock the other day. I was
waiting for my pregnant pregnant fiance to go the loo
and the old Bank Arcade and Wellington, and I was
bored as hell, and I was looked up in his
old ben Z clock. But it's a spherical clock, and
the arms on it followed the curvature of the sphere.

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And I stood there and I looked at it for
a while. And I've actually got a viewing place formed
for the clock, and I thought that was quite interesting.
You could see the whole clock from standing underneath it.
But I thought i'd go up this viewing platform and
you can get about a meter or so closer to it,
you know. And I just stood there with my hands
in my pockets there for a few minutes and wondered

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why you'd want to go up the stairs and view
the the clock that you could see there. But and
I found a ship also. There's a there's an old
ship under the old Bank Arcade, the old Benzed building
there too, which I thought was quite interesting. My eight
year old didn't really care too much of it, I thought, yeah,
I think.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
The clock is animated with music.

Speaker 21 (44:47):
Is it really well?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
I'm looking at a video of it, and I think.

Speaker 21 (44:53):
It it looks like it's a bank clock. It's an
official old ben Z Pock.

Speaker 15 (44:58):
It.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
It's got the seal of the Bank of Bens and
it's saphirical. But I'm just watching the video.

Speaker 19 (45:04):
This is what.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Yes, So above the spherical thing, there's a globe right,
and it opens like the pedals of a globe, and
there's a picture inside there of the first settlers at
porna Key by the looks of things, And and I

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think it plays music as well.

Speaker 21 (45:29):
And I'll tell you what the amount of people that
just walk under it and actually don't think to look up.

Speaker 13 (45:33):
But it's one of the.

Speaker 21 (45:34):
Most sagarine clocks I've seen. And great world.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Were you trap? Were you there on the hour?

Speaker 20 (45:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I wasn't actually, And it spits around there. They've got
they've got a number of different vistas, ones that sort
of raising the flag and others have kind of a
slide groger and a shipwreck. It's quite beautiful.

Speaker 21 (45:57):
Maybe that's fine. They they've got the viewing platform and
it really worked it out and.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
No, and then there's a and then there's an another
vista with a tram in front of that ben Z building.

Speaker 17 (46:07):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 21 (46:08):
But did you know about the ship the ship wreck
under that building. I don't think a lot of people
know about that.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
He is aware of that, but I wasn't aware of
this clock doing all this.

Speaker 21 (46:17):
It's just outside Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It plays for three and a half minute. It plays
for three and a half minutes each hour.

Speaker 21 (46:24):
On the hour. All right, we'll I have to go
back tomorrow. I'm not going to have a look when
she do. What's a second of December?

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Of December?

Speaker 21 (46:34):
Yeah, my mother's birthday.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Finally enough, it'll be late.

Speaker 21 (46:39):
Yeah, you reckon?

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Is it the first?

Speaker 21 (46:43):
That's my first? The two seconds?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
I don't want ever, I don't I don't want to.
I don't want to have a lottery on your child.
But let me know if it's late, that'd be my pick.

Speaker 17 (46:55):
Cam.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
But love you to hear for well, I loved looking
at that video of that clock. Who you it's a
great clock. And if it wasn't for Donald, Yeah, I
know what sometimes people can get. Yeah, I don't want
to get like that adamant about clock. Say, now do
you know where the clock. Oh, he's asking about the
clock again, Marcus. I've spent the last two years going

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to Palmerston North Hospital about thirty times. I don't remember
ever seeing a clock in the foyer, Marcus, just listening
to Don's feedback. Palmerston North Hospital gets a lot of
unnecessary flex sometimes. I have had calls to be at
Pean Hospital every day of the last week, and we'll
be going for a while longer, supporting family. The staff
and facility just amazing. We cannot fault the care and professionalism.

(47:41):
We are so lucky to have such a great hospital
in our region. Agreed. Don needs to buy himself a watch, Marcus.
Donn has just reminded me they need a clock and
my classroom can't check the time on my phone now
they're banned, thanks Don. First world problems, but well it wouldn't.

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If it wasn't for Don, we wouldn't have known about that.

Speaker 11 (48:05):
Fan.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
What are what are New Zealand's best clocks or New
Zealand's best clock by a country mile is the clock
on the hill in Alexandra. There's not often a public
lions or rotary project present something as extraordinary as that

(48:28):
that clock never doesn't put a smile on my face
when I see it. Whenever we're in alexandri always will
run up to the clock. Whenever we're in Alexander, someone
will say anyone and I've got any idea what the timers?
And I look over to the hills and I'll see
one of New Zealand's greatest clocks. But this one well

(48:50):
into the close second. I can't think of any other
good ones. I think there's one in Stratford that does
Shakespearean stuff, but i'd worry about that with vandalism, because
you know Stratford and a clock like that expensive to
fix anyway. But never seen the clock at Palmerston North Hospital.

(49:12):
I wonder where it could have gone. It will be
in a skip, no doubt about it. Gifted animals and clocks,
New Zealand's great clocks. If I missed any, We've talked
about the one at the benz End, the one in Alexandra.
Someone keeps saying the clock at Tierra. A lot of
people are missing. Lois with a call about the rugby.

(49:34):
She's coming back Monday after the test. I don't normally
forte callers that we're getting back, but Lois will be
back on Monday. And Karen that doesn't do daylight saving zah,
she'll be back Monday the thirtieth. I don't know what
time she'll call a I'm sure she doesn't know what

(49:57):
time she'll call either. Anyway. Actually, I think I might
be at Alexandra for the changing of the daylight savings clock,
which I'll be excited about. It'll be a big job anyway,
get in touch by name is Marcus welcome. I wonder
what Don should have done, or he should have taken
his concerns about the clock too. How many people he
speak to? Five did say ambula tree? Did he say ambulatory?

(50:21):
I'm liking that. I don't know what that was a
loss of Gee, here we go. That wasn't what I
was expecting. I think he lives somewhere else and has
to get a shuttle. He might live at Levin, has
to get a shuttle to the hospital, which he missed
once by a minute. So yeah, I mean, obviously he's
got medical stuff and he's stressed out about it. So

(50:46):
but as I often say to the kids, change yourself
or change the world. And what's easier to change yourself?
Get a watch the ball clock fung today amazing. Look
I do like that. You're right, Marcus. Albert Parker is

(51:08):
a clock in a flower bed lying tilted the summit.
Largely horizontal clock in the main street of win I
look at every second day. Head to Wellington beautiful clock,
Seymour Square, Blenham Rose a Marcus. The West Coast is
home to some lovely clocks. Westport, Hoka, Tika, Graymouth has

(51:30):
a special one on the flood wall. Marcus. Palmerston Hospitals
a big clock up above the main entrance doors from Tracy. Really,
I saw that in the Google maps. I think, why
was he walking out and having a look at that? Well,
I can't see it on the maps. It might have

(51:51):
gone anyway, Marcus. In the year two thousand, we left
our long hair fox terrier Pip with our friend for
one and a half years while we worked in Germany.
When we came back, she recognized us instantly jumped at me,
whimpered and urinated on my feet. She then jumped into
our Karen wanted to go with us. We felt real

(52:12):
bad for our friend who treated love to the bits.
Our friend was re understanding it didn't mind whenever we
took her back to visit or stay with our friends,
who would rush into her house and clean up her
cat's bowl. I'm not sure she was smart, but she
certainly had a good memory. Sadly she passed away at
age eighteen. You say sad, and you must miss the dog.

(52:33):
But I think that's quite a good age. Is eighteen years?
Think anything about fifteen these days as of bonuses? Is
that way it works? I always like people that can
convert doll years to human years. Your time's at by
eight that the calculation still how to calculate? How to

(52:58):
calculate doll years to human years? Fifteen years equals the
first year of a medium sized dog's life. Year two
for a dog equals about nine free humans. After two years,
they're twenty four. After that, each human year would be
approximately five years for it. God, that's more complicated than
I thought. Howd was the dog down? I can't click

(53:22):
on that. It's on an email? Is it eighteen eighteen?
So it was fifteen for the first year, nine for
the second. Yet it's twenty four after two plus sixteen
times five eight, so it's eight plus twenty four. Godness,

(53:46):
it's one hundred and four and even. Yet it was
so complicated the convert Wow, you see it's great. Clocks.
You say it's great pets. Marcus, would you know the
location of the lighthouse that's featured on the opening of
One News at six pm? Surely there are no man
lighthouses left all in or around you? Is in it anymore?

(54:07):
Would you know the location of the lighthouse that's fit?
I don't know the opening of TV, but I know
a bit about lighthouses. Now I can find the TV
ins in opening credits. I will have a look for
you One News. Would you see that? To me?

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Just an image One News opening? I presume it would
be the nuggets that seems to be using In's most
photographic lighthouse. That would be cack a point. I'm trying
to have a look at that now, but thank you.
That's a good question. Seems to be a bitter Ask
me anything night, Marcus old post office clock three thumbs up. Marcus.

(54:47):
The best clock was the flower clock at Lorry Hall Park,
fang Are Saturday. No flowers anymo, perhaps even in at nighttime,
removed each night to avoid vandalism. Marcus our cockatial nearly
about to thirty four, and someone said the opening the

(55:08):
lighthouse of the opening credits is Castle Point. I think
you call that the whited Upper. Thank you for that, Maria.
My name's Marcus. Welcome animals with extraordinary skills, particularly memory
christ Church not going ahead with the Commonwealth Games. I
think everyone think that's probably a good idea. Was a
daft I did even throw money at a report. Our

(55:32):
public clock's the thing of the past because now everyone's
got watches on cell phones. Everyone knows what the time
it is. Our castle Point definitely castle Point said one
hundred and fifty anniversary about ten years ago. I know

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that because I tended a function there, but yeah, that's
it is. But thanks for that Castle Point, brilliant Evan,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome good evening.

Speaker 11 (56:06):
Barge. Yeah, the best clock is the one up above.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Oh for a good point, you made the astral clock.

Speaker 11 (56:15):
Yeah, of course, the old sun clock, you know. Ye yeah.
I think the barge might have slowed down, but with
the anchors out, so it's probably not pushed up on
the beach that high.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
You know, if you had a look at it, are
you on the coast, No, no.

Speaker 11 (56:31):
But I'm just picking that's what's happened.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
But if you have a tug at sea trying to
pull something that's on the beach, it's not a fair contest,
is it.

Speaker 11 (56:44):
Yeah, but if the anchors are slided downside, hasn't pushed
it up quite as high as it could have been
pushed up. Plus, I'll you have to use the anchor winches,
plus the power of the tugs and the high tide
because we've got bigger tides coming up.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
So you've got two tugs. Do you got two tugs?
Do you have them like in a triangle or do
they there's one there's one pull the other.

Speaker 11 (57:08):
Well, from the way the news report was saying, it's
a smaller tug. So maybe that's just going to be
taking wires and stuff and they'll be able to load
those ankle winches up as well.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
You know, tell me what they are. So they chucked
the ankle, they chucked the picks of the bar.

Speaker 11 (57:25):
The anchors would have been out and they just dragged.
But once they got into shallow water they probably hooked
up a bit.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
Yeah, Okay, there's a.

Speaker 11 (57:33):
Different angle, so they would have dug in a bit.
So that's holding it from getting washed right up onto
the beach.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
Sure, So they'd use that, they'd wind those as the
tag pooled as well. The two tags pulled, And do
you put earbags underneath or rollers or anything like that.

Speaker 11 (57:51):
I don't think they'd be able to do anything like
that because it would be so deep stuff, wouldn't it.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
I haven't actually had I haven't actually had a good
look at the shots of it. I've seen quite a
feverit on some of those ship pages on Yeah, but
I'm kind of slightly fascinating Bay on Sunday too.

Speaker 11 (58:11):
Pardon the dolphins were in Potiki Bay on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Oh well how many?

Speaker 6 (58:17):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (58:17):
But of a pod I didn't take count, No.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
But like twenty or like forty?

Speaker 11 (58:23):
Yeah, about twenty of them, I suppose thirty.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
Do you see him off and Evan?

Speaker 11 (58:29):
Yeah, quite off? And the killer Whale's company you.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Took one of it chasing the sting rays? Is that
what they do?

Speaker 13 (58:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
You have seen them at Martyrti. It was kind of
extraordinary actually watching them come in. Nice to hear from you,
of course that the killer whale there was a dolphin?
Is that right? I think we've learnt there on the
show Marcus in Medieval Times, if I remember rightly the
government text anyone who owned a time piece, so people
got rid of them. So the count had to put
up public clocks so people knew what time, what the

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time was for business purposes. The text was removed later
and grandfather clocks grew in favor in private homes. Nothing
nicer than the ends at our station clock. Beautiful, Peter,
it's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 22 (59:17):
I think my favorite clock in New Zealand is the
one in Littleton. Now I'm not sure if it's still going,
but it.

Speaker 23 (59:28):
Has the ball.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, that's right.

Speaker 22 (59:32):
And you know the history of that is that the
ships had their own clocks and with sun sight, if
you had an accurate clock, you could work out where
you were. And so that was the most effective way
of all the ship's masters and harbor to be able
to look at that clock at midday and make sure

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their clocks were accurate.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
It's unbelievable. It is still there. I'll tell you what.
It kind of got badly damaged by the quake. By
the way, the first quake and christ Church was on
this day. Of course, it was a subsequent quake that
caused all the damage, but that they've kind of rebuilt
it in a kind of a slightly gerry manded way,
so it's pretty much just the tower that's there now.

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It doesn't look as good. I guess that's what they
had to do. But yeah, I don't know if the
ball store drops maybe summer or know, Peter, it's a
great thought. Thank you, Jason, it's Marcus. Good evening, you're there, Jason. Hello, Jason,

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I'm hearing a little bit. I'm hearing a rattle, Jason.

Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
Oh, yes, sorry, do So we're talking ships and kits.
So my sister had a polydectal kit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Tell me about that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
Polyctor. They have an extra claw. Oh yeah, and they
were extra pool and glaue. So I'm sort of guessing
they were bred for ships. They they can climb up.
Let's get used to climb up the wall, specially here
the old wallpaper, specially with bubbly straight out the wall,

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you know, hang off the roof, sort of a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
So the extra claws give it bitter bimbing abilities.

Speaker 5 (01:01:29):
Oh decently.

Speaker 11 (01:01:31):
Yeah, Okay, so.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Yeah, well it's called a polydectal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
But are they sort of they're sort of like thumbs
they've got are they is it right.

Speaker 5 (01:01:44):
Oh, if you, if you, if you're look at it,
it looks like the feeder. Super they're bigger, you know,
they're like almost like the snow kids or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, and I'm looking at them now. They look like
more poors, don't they like a tiger's paw or something.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Yeah, it's just a bigger poor its got I don't
know if five they got six so the but yeah,
they're climbing kits. I just got told they were bridges
for ships, you know, the rents away from the food.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
You know, what would this what would the kit climb?

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
Well? Anything?

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Okay, good answer, good answer.

Speaker 5 (01:02:29):
My mom had a man coon as well. We're talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Cats, and you know they're.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
Domesticated fighting it. Yes, super big, big, big fighting kits.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
It does say on the internet that man main coon
kits very very often have polydactylism too.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
I didn't know nothing about that, but oh yeah, my
mum is one of because well they have a lot
of here they go to the old beat and you
get the more shoved out. But they do actually have
a man.

Speaker 12 (01:03:13):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Okay, I didn't knuckle that because that that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
Oh well, I maybe guessing that's the relationship. But yeah, yeah,
but they are fighters. I will even beat up a dog.

Speaker 24 (01:03:25):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Really, Oh yeah, they're brief and forty.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Okay, we'll talk about polydected animals. I'm sure that might
string a few. And I'm sure if people had a
polydect or cat that'd ring about that. I've never known
a talk back show about polydecty or cats. I find
that very interesting, remarkably interesting. I don't know if it's genetic.

Speaker 11 (01:03:49):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Born with extra toes? Oh, it's inherited. Cats with plenty
of people call them cats with thumbs yep. Most commonly
found in the East coast of North America and in

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southwest England and Wales. Godness, they're also known as Boston
toad cats or boxing cats or Hemingway cats. Ernest heming
Ernest Hemingway loved them. Marcus used to be building on
Main Street and Hornby with a huge clock that hardly
ever showed right time. It didn't survive the quakes, so

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after a while a freezanding clock appeared, but that, too,
is almost always wrong. Makes you wonder why they bothered.
The Greymouth flood wall clock is the best. There you go.
I don't know. I don't know about that greymouth flow.
It always sort of reminds me of the power of
the sea, that kind of breakwater or whatever that is.

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By the way, Raygun the breakdancer, she's had her interview
on Australian TV and looking online all of his has
made people even more furious with her. She hasn't gone
back and watched the performance or any of her performances,
which I think would be slightly problematic considering her performance

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was that bad. So yeah, Marcus, big town clock here
in the main street and Cambridge have just spent seven
hundred and twenty one thousand refurbishing the thing. Duh, Colin
and Cambridge counsels love to spend a fortune on town
clocks because they're all quake prone. They should have just
got rid of all of them a long time ago,

(01:05:44):
because yeah, I mean that, what's worse as a modified
quake protected one that looks terrible. No comment with that
one is we're talking about gifted animals and polydectyl cats.
I still don't think I've really got a good vibe
on polydectyl cats. It seems that I don't even know
how many fingers or toes cats have. Why is it

(01:06:09):
on the chase? Oh wait, eighty tonight he Rob Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:06:14):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus. Nice. Nice to hear from your
new radio station.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Yeah great, nice to be here. Thank you. Yeah, appreciate that.

Speaker 16 (01:06:24):
I'm on the Hawk's Bay and you're nice and clear here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Good, really nice support.

Speaker 16 (01:06:30):
Yeah. Hey, I'm just going to tell you about Irish
setterdog we had when we were kids. Her name was Reader,
and she's a lovely dog. And dad had taught her
to shake hands and you know, little bits and pieces,
and one of the tricks that you taught her was
to go and fetch the paper. In those days, the

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paper boy used to come around and he chucked the
paper up your drive and the dog would whip down
and grab the paper and she'd get a we treat
for that. And one day we came home from school
and there was about nineteen papers sitting there. She worked
out that everybody got a paper and she was going
to collect them all and get a little treat for everyone.

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So we had to go and take all the papers
and work out he had lost their paper. But another
story I like tell you about was a chocolate labrador
I had of my own, and he was a great
little dog and I used to take him duck hunting
and things like that. And anyway, I lived in Hastings

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and there was a chap down the road who I
didn't know at the time, but he used to have bantams.
And I came home from work one day and I
had a yard full of bantams and my dog. He
managed to jump the fence and he'd found out where
the bantams lived and went down and brought back the bantams.

(01:08:00):
And it wasn't long after that I got a ring
from a neighbor down the road to say, all my
bantams are gone, and do you know about it? I
saw your dog down here. So anyway, we took them
all back. They weren't killed or anything like that. The
dog was a soft mouth Labrador and he had just
brought them home and thought that was a good place
for them. So, yeah, they're great things.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Stop that lower dog could do that with a beer.

Speaker 16 (01:08:24):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, when I used to take him
duck hunting in the evening after that we'd been duck
hunting and it got too dark for duck hunting. We're
walking along the fence line and hello, he comes back.
He's got a turkey in his mouth. He grabbed the
turkey had been roosting on the fence, and he just

(01:08:45):
went along and grabbed him off the fence and as
easy as that. You know, very very good dog. Yeah yeah,
but he just got some very very skillful dogs. You know,
there's a lovely lot of dogs. I can tell you
plenty of dog stories. But anyway, it was quite a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Useful thing to have than picking up the paper, was it.
That's a good trick. I like that one because I'm
sure peter dogs did that.

Speaker 16 (01:09:12):
Yeah. But when you got to go and work out
who's lost the paper, he had to knock on everybody's
door down the street. Did you get your paper? Because
no reader brought your paper home?

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Nice nay for a dog to rob. Thank you for that.
As a paper where I remember actually putting papers in
certain dogs mouths that would take them to their owner,
normally Labrador. Well, thank you for that, Rob. Oh wait,
one hundred eighty ten eighty Marcus years ago one of
my mates put a sundale under shade in the tree,
saying he'd found the perfect spot. Whenever let him that
live it down to oda has a great clock, and
at eight and five there's a siren. The siren was

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at the dairy factory when it closed. The townspeople wanted
to keep the siren. His children was great five pm syron,
You knew it was time to head home, Marcus. Years
ago our family in Hamilton had a green budget be
called Paddy Murphy, and we taught him to say his
name and our phone number. Also copied what he heard
Mum and Dad saying to us kids, have you made

(01:10:07):
your bed? Have you feed the chocks? Also, my name
is Paddy Murphy. I must not play with sparrows. One day,
fly off outside. We thought we'd never see him again.
But some days later we received a phone call from
someone across the other side of the White Cato River
asking if that was the Murphy residence they had had
they had found our little budgy, such a clever little bird.

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They must have listened to the number. I presume, I
guess that's what they're saying. They say phone number, year,
they've said phone number and polydectyl cat's my name is Marcus.
Welcome HITDLL twelve. Anything else on he news about the barge?
Do let us know she's all on people polydectyl cats.
I'm not even quite sure if they're a breed or
what they are. A Hemingway cat. Yeah, I don't know

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how many claws a cat would have. I don't know
if they'd do well to picture, would they? Catcher Hailey Marcus, welcome,
Hi Macus. I'm all easy. Have you got are you
about polydectyl cats?

Speaker 24 (01:11:18):
Yeah, yeah, so I know, I don't know like a
huge its now, but I know that because we're going
to main cat. He's not polyadactyl, but it is. You
can't get polydectyl main codes. Yep, she disprayed is out
the events specialized polydect main codes. But I also think
I know a lady whom work was that she's got
a polydet cat who had kittens was polydecked as well.

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So I think it's obviously like a sabredatory.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Than it does. Say it's hereditary, which because I thought
it of a mutation, but a surprise it is hereditary.

Speaker 24 (01:11:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's cool. But they were awesome. We
had my brother in law, I had a polydecked main
code and they just got this massive food, like this
giant wauns that played out.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
So people like a polydecked main coon because it's got
that that pronounced poor. That's they like the way.

Speaker 11 (01:12:11):
It looked at Okay, yeah, yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Does it make them does it make them better climbers
or anything.

Speaker 23 (01:12:19):
As it does?

Speaker 24 (01:12:21):
Possibly? Yeah, because we've got another quarter to crip.

Speaker 19 (01:12:25):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
And sometimes it looks a bit more like a thumb too.
They're a bit like come out the side from what
I can see with images, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:12:33):
Yeah, makes it quite large, like you.

Speaker 23 (01:12:37):
Can definitely see it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Do you know do you know how common they are
in Maine coons? A?

Speaker 24 (01:12:44):
I don't think. I said the comment that they're not
read so you can't have these surch breeders that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Which like.

Speaker 23 (01:12:54):
Okay, yeah, but I think.

Speaker 24 (01:12:58):
Most macons would just have the normal counter little fingers
or if you want to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Yeah, appreciate your calling, Hardy, Thanks very much for that.
Twenty past two, I've never talked about this polydectyl cats
and someone said that Paeddals was polydectyl. I didn't know that.
I think someone said polydecyl. I probably didn't know what
it meant. Carol, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Thanks
for calling.

Speaker 12 (01:13:20):
Hi, Carol, Oh, Marcus, how are you going?

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Good? Thank you Carol.

Speaker 25 (01:13:25):
Good. Hey, we've got a polydactyl cat.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Wow. Did you know about them before or just get
it because it's polydectyl or tell me about that.

Speaker 25 (01:13:34):
We knew the breeder his mum is polydactyl and his
dead polydectyl recessive gene. Yep, and both parents have to
carry it for both for all the cats to have it.
Mum had another litter to a non polydactyl cat, and
half the kittens were polydicctyl on the front as is polydychtyl.

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Front end, back.

Speaker 12 (01:13:59):
Wow, it literally looks like a hand.

Speaker 25 (01:14:02):
He's got a thumb.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
And symmetrical. Yeah, okay, the front front, front and back
front and back's got the whole bit right, front, back, extra.
It looks like a myt, doesn't it?

Speaker 12 (01:14:16):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (01:14:17):
Yep?

Speaker 25 (01:14:18):
Yeah, it's exactly like a mitten.

Speaker 12 (01:14:21):
It looks they look like they do piece.

Speaker 25 (01:14:26):
Because when they walk they sort of swing their legs
at a wee bit wider.

Speaker 13 (01:14:31):
When if they walk along.

Speaker 25 (01:14:32):
Fence, they look absolutely idiotic because of the foot being
slightly wider. They're not from what I've seen, they're not
as well balanced as a non poly cat.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
It almost look like they amazing. Look, it almost looks
like kangaroo pauls or something. So because it's almost got
that opposable thumb, that thing out that does it have?
Can it pick up more stuff that cats normally couldn't
pick up?

Speaker 25 (01:15:03):
I don't know. He's quite an intelligent cat, and he
will pick stuff up mainly in his mouth, but he
will hold things in his paws. But it's not really
a sum as such. It's like an extra stump. And
then in between, in that gap.

Speaker 14 (01:15:19):
There's actually a claw.

Speaker 25 (01:15:20):
But you've got to be really careful because of course
that claw doesn't connect with anything. You've got to cut up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Okay, wonder why that is that? The claw from the
thumb so to speak, that's in the wrong place.

Speaker 25 (01:15:34):
Yeah, yeah, that's the only way to describe it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
I bet you're on Facebook pages just for polydectyl cats,
are you. I suppose there's all sorts of groups of
you people together, are there?

Speaker 8 (01:15:44):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:15:44):
I don't know. Okay, Yeah, I love the breed.

Speaker 25 (01:15:50):
The one we've got who's a huge, gentle giant who
sleeps between us, even though it about ten kilos.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
I don't think you said what it's not a main coon,
is it?

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
What breed did you say?

Speaker 17 (01:16:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Ok, sounds adorable. What color? Carol?

Speaker 25 (01:16:05):
Caramel?

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Gender caramel? Okay and had it for a while.

Speaker 12 (01:16:10):
Yeah, you'll be too in January. Okay a name, actually.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Of course it is? Love it? Okay, nice Carol? Thank you.
Polydectylism to the topic for the ages. You've got a
polydactyl cat because I sound adorable. The statsu said in
population clock will show five point four million tomorrow, felt
like it was a three million forever when you think

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it will be six million twenty twenty seven, I reckon
will be ten million in our lifetime. Who knows? It
depends how old you are. I don't know how. I
don't even know how big you said it will get extally,
I don't think about that. Marcus, my polydactyl cat opens

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a can of cat food with my cat opener. Need
a video for proof of that? I'm afraid Marc is
Google up, Mark. I guess Google up the clock in
the main street of Temuka. What a little ripper, cheers
Michael the Milkman. Thanks Michael. Mind you if your best
part of town is your clock, what does that say?

(01:17:25):
Only putting it out there. I can't see the Tamuka
clock on the on the website. I can just see
one on the chewch. I have to go town clock.
I think nothing came up for me. Oh yep, it's good.
It's like it's like up a pole. It's not in

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a tower. And now I can't I've clicked on something.
Now I can't see it. It's got three lights at
the top. Then it's got an old fashioned dial, an
octicon face them below that, it's got the temperature below that,

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it's got a security camera. It's a bit of everything.
And you click on it and they tell you the
best things to doing to Muca Fossic for vintage treasure,
to Muka pottery. Just ask anyone Intomuka who flew first,

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Richard Pearce or Wright Brothers. You're sure to get the
right answer. Goodness, scoff some great food the Jolly Potter.
I've been to the Jolly pot It was a long
time ago. Don't mention the clock and the things to do.
Marcus wasn't able to call it at the time, and

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I thought you might be interested in this article I
put together a few years ago. Long story short, I
haven't clicked on the article, so it must be about clocks.
I'm just clicking on this article because this looks really interesting.

(01:19:11):
Just verifying the link make it's legitimate. Now, Oh, so
they are electronic. I'm just trying to frantically read this article.
And they were electronic IBM clocks. And it's a long article.

(01:19:33):
I haven't got time to read all of it and
there's many updates. So yeah, these are the original sort
of illuminated electronic clocks, but like that one on the
Hient Jaysmith that some of you will know, and I
just read the email that goes with it because the
article is going to be too long to read. Marcus
was able to call, but I thought you might be

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just to this article I put to give a few
years ago. Long story short, These were large illuminated clocks
that often existed during the sixties and seventies in Willington
that i've first year and then learned about them in Auckland,
christ Church and Dunedin. The Wellington and Auckland ones are

(01:20:15):
long gone. The christ Church one was lost the demolished
after the earthquake, but I understand the need one is
still in place, although it's probably not been functional for
many years decades. My wife and I visiting Dunedin and
October and I hope to verify it's still there. Chairs
from Wellington, Stephen, do you mind telling me we're about
to duned and you think it might be And I

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know there's a big digital clock on top of the
ancient Jay tower which isn't going to be there for
much longer because it's looking like it's not in a
good space, because of course that building is now empty.
But I'd love to know where the ones were in
Auckland and Sydney. One in Dunedin, Yeah, there was one

(01:21:08):
Underneada that was hit by lightning in nineteen sixty nine.
I don't know where it is, so if you've got
some information about that, love to hear from you about that. Anyway,
we're talking clocks and polydect or cats and that my
friend is a show, and also animals with extraordinary abilities. Oh,

(01:21:37):
Marcus won't take much effort for the big tug to
pull the barge off the beach at Westport. The Mema
Vision is a large multi purpose vessel who normal workers
servicing the rigs off Taranaki, but has towing capabilities. She
towed the large broken down container ship last year. If
you remember that there are the grounded barges in suction

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to the sand. There are time laps of it moving
around when the tide comes in. Thanks for that, because
the depressives were of certain that it was going to
be a wreck. But yeah, what you might say might
be fine, I think, with a bit of luck, gwynethit's Marcus.

(01:22:21):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:22:24):
I want to tell you about a dog that we
had that could count great.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
This is what we want.

Speaker 13 (01:22:31):
Well, it's many years ago, of course, but I arrived
home from school one day and my parents went there
on the farm. They had gone into town to shop
and had a breakdown with the old truck. So consequently,
the afternoon milking cows had not been got in. The

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milking hadn't been started. So we had a dog called Joe.
And so I let Joe off the train and said
get away, Joe. And so he went to the paddock
where the cows were, and I opened up all the gates,
and then as the cows were coming into the yards,

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I was counting them, but Joe had rounded up the
cows and he was bringing them first through the fire gate,
and then he stood beside the fire gate and watched
them as they came through, and before and I was
counting in the in the shed, and before I could

(01:23:38):
even say to him that the three missing had taken off,
and he went and hounded those cows out. They were
hiding in a bit of bush. Wow, And he went
and bought the three cows in. And he must have
been able to count to know that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Was it a big Was it a big herd?

Speaker 13 (01:24:01):
We were milking about sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Six at the That is a fairly good count, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:24:07):
Well, it was considered a small farm in those days.
I'm talking about the nineteen fifties.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Yes, and.

Speaker 13 (01:24:17):
Yeah, so it really was. It wasn't a big Thankfully.
My mother and father came out, started the machines and
everything and got everything going, had the first bail a
lot in when they arrived home.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
So I just want it's good for you to do that.
Where was the farm, Gwyneth.

Speaker 13 (01:24:38):
Out in glen afton Pokimeo way, oh ye out from Huntley.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:24:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:24:46):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
They must have been very grateful for the initiative that
you showed and the dog.

Speaker 13 (01:24:51):
Well, I think, Joe, you know, I'll never forget him,
because no, it was just exceptional the way he didn't
even have to be told to do anything. And he
was able to count those cows as they came through
the farm away gage and before I could even call
out to them, get away, Joe again, because I knew

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there was three missing, he was gone.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Lovely to hear from you. Got to thank you so
very much. Eda, it's Marcus. Good evening, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:25:23):
Oh hey mate, how's it going good?

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Thank you, madam. Thanks hanging on to by the way,
I appreciate that.

Speaker 20 (01:25:28):
Oh no way, Yeah, I just thought you're talking cats
and stuff, so I thought i'd share my little story
about Stomper, my old cat. Yes, but yes, I grew
up with dogs, so I was kind of a dog person.
Never really liked cats, you know. But I had an
ex girlfriend and when I moved in with her, we

(01:25:49):
we got this cat called and we called him Stomper
originally because we'dn't have a cat door. So he'd jump
through the window by the washing machine, and then he
would jump off the washing machine onto the floor and
every time it would make this loud thump on the
on the floor. You'd actually think someone's breaking into your
house sometimes. But yeah, so but anyway, GROUP like a

(01:26:10):
good bond with this cat, which I didn't think I would,
you know, but he was real cool. Like when you
get home from work, you'd sit down on the chair
and you'd jump on the table. Some people won't let
their hat on the table, but yeah, you'd come up
and you'd rub his little forehead on my forehead. And
pretty much every time I saw him, he would rub
his forehead like do the cat thing, like how they
do for a pet, but he'd do it on my

(01:26:32):
face all the time. So if you're lying down, you'd
do it on your face. But he was a bit
more fun than that. Like I realized that he liked
playing games, and he liked jumping up on things, and
he liked jumping off things. So I ended up setting
my bedroom up so I had like a small drawer
to a bigger drawer, and then I had the bed board.
It's got a bed like a top take pretty much

(01:26:54):
on the bed that he could get up on the
drawer and then onto the other drawer. Then he'd jump
up on the bed. Then you'd hop into the window
sill you'd walk behind the curtain and then pop his
head out the other side of the curtain. And then
I set it up even or and put like another
drawer a tall boy, so that was right next to
the wardrobe. And then so he would jump up on

(01:27:14):
this tall boy, go around the whole circuit kind of thing,
like a trick cat. But then he'd jump up on
the tall boy and he would jump up into the
cupboard and he'd hide up there in that little shelf.
And yeah, then whenever another cat would come in. We
used to have another cat called Jack as well, but
Jack with big fat feet, one of those big fluffy ones. Yeah,
the two would fight all the time, but they'd kind

(01:27:36):
of attack each other like a but in like a
friendly kind of way, I guess, like a cat fun way,
I guess. But yeah, like Jack would hit him with
his pow on his forehead like boom, and you'd hear
the stump, you know. But anyway, Yeah, so he'd jump
around his little obstacle course that I made him, and
then he'd get up into the cupboard and then when
Jack would come in, he'd dive out of the cupboard

(01:27:56):
and attack Jack. And then, yeah, it was quite see.
But yeah, so yeah, that's pretty much. That's pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
It sounds adorable. It's still alive.

Speaker 20 (01:28:09):
It's like, no. Unfortunately, I lived at in Hamilton for
quite a while, about eight years, and then I moved
out to Mattawaiir and it's a new spot and across
the road there's like this big reserve and like a stream.
So they were going over there looking for rats and
things like that, I guess. But yeah, unfortunately one night

(01:28:31):
somebody maybe hit them with the car. But h yeah,
I found them that. I didn't find them till the
next morning, and then they had to had to bury
him and that. But he just had such a great
life up till then.

Speaker 19 (01:28:41):
You know.

Speaker 24 (01:28:41):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Yes, you and Hemiseta, they were shoot you. You were
great companions.

Speaker 20 (01:28:49):
It was like a best mate there. Because I wasn't
into cats, because I didn't think they were like you know,
I thought they were very like they keeps it there themselves.
You don't walk them on a lead, you know, you
don't do things like that. But this cat actually created
like a real big bond with me, you know, and
and it would do the tricks for me and stuff.
So it was kind of like a yeah, so when

(01:29:10):
he when he did get run over, Yeah, I bored
my eyes out like a little kid. And my dad
laughed at me because he's sort he's crying over his cat,
you know, but it's but yeah, no, he means a
lot to me that cats say. It's pretty cool. But yeah,
I didn't actually replace I.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Was gonna ask you that, did you replace it with
all the kid No?

Speaker 20 (01:29:30):
I didn't in the end, to be honest, But I
ended up getting a couple of labradors just because I've
got a property where I can have dogs.

Speaker 17 (01:29:36):
Now.

Speaker 20 (01:29:37):
Yeah, yeah, I started with the boy labs Charlie, and
then I've got a girl called Molly as well, so
the like boyfriend girlfriend, but she's fixed and they just
buck at all the kids that go past the sense
and stuff now. But yeah, but I mean sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Yeah, it's gonna ask me you think you will do you?

Speaker 19 (01:29:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:29:57):
Yeah, yeah, because at the time, you know, I just
I don't want to. I don't like seeing the cats
get hit by the cards because it's just not natural,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Nothing nothing natural hit by a car.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:30:10):
And we used to live down like a long driveway
and there was about four houses around and he used
to roam that whole area, used to fight all the
neighbors cats and ever blasted. Actually, Like I'd open the
back door and there was this orange cat in the
backyard one time, and he would seriously look at look
me in my eye, and then he would go and
chase that orange cat, and then he would fight this
thing until that orange cat gets over the fence and

(01:30:32):
runs away, and then he would come back for a path.
So that used to tell me like he was he
was kind of you know, like he was he was
trying to protect us or something, you know, from those
other cats. So I thought, yeah, there's a lot more
to them than what people think.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Hey, do you have a battle? Did you have a
battle with your expartner over who got position of the cat?

Speaker 20 (01:30:54):
Pretty much, I had to take the other cat because yeah,
so we worked out a deal. But and then I
ended watching them because I had the more reliable home
for them and the food.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
You'd take both of them, yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:31:07):
Because one was hook At and one was my cat.
Pretty much Jack was hers and one was Stumper. But yeah,
they I had to take him as well if I
was going to take Stomper, because you didn't want them
to be separated, you know what I mean, they live
in a good life. Unfortunately, Oh that's it was. He
was a really cool cat, but I think he was
about twelve years old by the time. He was a

(01:31:30):
bit older, you know, and he ended up losing some
teeth and then so I took him to the VET
and paid a lot of money to get them to
put the injections and do the stuff to his mouth,
pull a few teeth out and things like that. But unfortunately,
it was like nine months later he still had this
mouth infection, you know, and he was going around kind

(01:31:51):
of looks like. It's not a great story, to be honest,
that one. But yeah, so I had to take him.
That was one of the worst things I've don't actually
take him to the VT and get him put down
and then at that point, because that's what the VET
told me to do, because they said, we can put
antibiotics and him again, but chances are it's not going
to come right kind of thing. But yeah, so in

(01:32:14):
the end they had to take him to the vittoria
and get him a little you know, they give him
the injection to make him go to sleep, and then
he was like pairing or snoring, you know, with his
little tongue out, poor thing. But it just makes you
feel horrible that day because you think, what gives me
the right to take, you know, to finish his life
for him, because you can't ask him if he wants

(01:32:36):
to do it, and you can't ask him if he
wants to hang on for longer, you know. But it's
just even though people might think it's just a cat,
but it's it's a heavy burden to take a that
you said that made me bore my eyes out too,
because I just thought it's it's not it's not the
act because it was like a humane act.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Did that happen before Stomper?

Speaker 20 (01:32:57):
Before Stomper died? Actually, yeah, that was kind of fair.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, yeah, look I enjoyed told you I mense itam
so thank you for that, Marcus Alkett. Fluffy just peered
after a third child and four years was born. Six
or so months later, the old lady toodles down knocked
down door since she was going away. Would we feed
her cat? We said yes, and guess what it was
Fluffy who was not happy seeing us. The food she

(01:33:21):
got was so much better and she didn't have to
compete with kids tolerated us feeding her, but had an attitude.
We never got asked to feed her again. Rip Fluffy.
This was twenty five years ago. Great story here till midnight, Patsy,
Good evening, Good.

Speaker 18 (01:33:37):
Evening, Marcus. Marcus had like, good just to listen for
one minute, Okay, listen, Kefley. That's an alarm clock.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Wow, that would do something wonderful to your dreams, wouldn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:34:05):
Goodness, that's an old and old steam engine with wheels,
goes around and everything else. And the whole thing just
is an great alarm clock, which God helped me still
here and my husband isn't that is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
That is fantastic. How did you get it to go
on the radio? You did very well with the timing
to get it to go off right at the right time.

Speaker 18 (01:34:37):
Well, that's the alarm, you see, So I had to
make sure that it was ready for you to go
with the alarm.

Speaker 16 (01:34:43):
Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:34:43):
Yes, if I pushed the damn thing again, it'll keep
on going until I finally got out of bed or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
How long how long have you had it, Patsy?

Speaker 18 (01:34:52):
Oh, for a long time. We got it. We had
a friend who was an elderly chap and he was
quite lonely, and he used to work, he did his training.
He told us we used to bring him home for
on a Sunday and he would he told us the
stories about his upbringing. And his father was called apple Jack,

(01:35:16):
and they had apple orchard and Henderson in the good
old days, and apple his father used to take apples,
pick apples from their orchard and climb on the train
and take them to the railway workshops in O'tahu and
give them give them away to the people there was

(01:35:37):
during the depression or the war Second World War, I'm
not sure. And then Charles, his name was Charles, was
telling us that story, and then he would he was
told us about how he did all his engineering training
at the railway workshops in Ota. Who so one he
got finally he had to leave his little house and

(01:36:00):
go into Saint Andrew's village into care. And when he
went into care, I thought, what can we give Charles?
What can we give Charles? So we decide do we
give Charles this clock that we managed to find years ago.
And we gave him this clock. Well, he played the
alarm clock so many times that the nurses tried to

(01:36:24):
put the stop onto it and take it down, and
finally when Charles passed away, we got the clock back.
So to see, we've got to have the clock. We've
got to have it. So we had this darn clock.

(01:36:45):
Here we are.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Was it s Andrew's village and Glenn Dowy, Yes, yeah,
that fantastic staff there, that's where my mother was to
that lovely staff there. I never heard the.

Speaker 18 (01:37:00):
They might ever been so click keen of they had
the clock in any meaning more people with clocks, I'm sure,
But charlested love his clock.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
Yes, thank you so much, Patsy, lovely to hear from you.
I like a phone call with sound effects. Marcus, my
pet called cat called monkey Love. Fireworks should run around
the house at go Forks night. Against my better judgment,
open the little letter out, should watch the fireworks that
keep rubb against my leg pier and go figure. Almost
every cat I've owned, apart from one, have been able
to learn tricks like shake hand drivers that even fetch

(01:37:32):
in my opinion, sometimes just as quick to learn as dogs. Marcus.
When I was a commit a gray female cat called
blue Bottle. When dogs come and I probably you would
jump on the back of the dogs and ride them
out the Gate like a jockey, talk about laugh love
your show period and even well that these days those
would go viral. A cat riding a dog like that,
that's tremendous. It's kind of stuff we want visually. And

(01:37:53):
that high jumper having the cigarette. That's been the heart
of my show tonight. Lots of lovely pictures of Maine
coons and that's the way it should be. Loving some
of these shows. Good evening levelt's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:38:09):
Yeah, hi Marcus, Marcus. I've just only just got home,
but I've been in the last five to ten minutes
riding this down on the hand. But I've just we've
got a cat run over only three days ago. We've
got two cats and now we've only got one. But

(01:38:30):
I was quite intrigued about hearing about this Ben. Is
it Ben gold Cates? What's it with the big sums
or something?

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
I think it's the main I think it's the main coon.
Some of them have extra fingers.

Speaker 6 (01:38:47):
Yeah, that's that's the ones I'm talking about. If I'm
going to get another one, I like to know where
you get them from.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Where would you get a main coon? What's your budget?
I think they're quite pricey.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Yeah, what's the cat called I got down here at
ben Goal.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
I think I think the ones you're talking about. If
you've got a pen and paper, you're right on your hand,
do you.

Speaker 6 (01:39:13):
No, No, I did that on the car coming up.
But I've got them goal here and you're saying, I've
got a pen and paper.

Speaker 17 (01:39:20):
Now, m A I n E in A I n
e Yes, con c o.

Speaker 6 (01:39:30):
O cuble o n Yeah. Right, that's that's the nake
of the cat. Is it the breath?

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
That's that's yeah? There there there are quite a fashionable
cat for every large cat.

Speaker 6 (01:39:43):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, that's okay. You know I've
got fifteen acres we were listing there. I'm listing your cat,
and I wanted to be a pet for the other one.
And I don't know who's going to be the boss. Yeah,
so it's a it's a men any man cone you're

(01:40:05):
going to Maine coun Yeah, then mainteen us. And that
was the one you called called Ben Goal V.

Speaker 23 (01:40:15):
E n g A double l B E n g
A L.

Speaker 6 (01:40:22):
Yeah. The e n g A just one of ole.
Yes right now, what's the things between that one and
the the main tool is this one? And it hadn't
got the big fingers, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
It's a different look a cat the main the Bengal
cat just looks like an ordinary cat, but it's got
marking a bit like a tiger.

Speaker 6 (01:40:45):
Oh okay, what are you looking for?

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
What are you looking for? A cat?

Speaker 17 (01:40:51):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:40:52):
I just thought I'm going to get another cat. I
was going to go to the vet and in rollers
in here and see if they've got any cats in
there that they haven't got home for. But then when
I heard this on the radio coming up from Truth,
I thought I'd like one of those ones with the
big fish of the summer.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
What what what's happening in Timidy? What have you been
there for?

Speaker 6 (01:41:17):
I had to go down there and uh and fix
the trucks. Well, one of the trucks that always go
down there, and yeah, got down there and the crutch
have been slipping that they reckon it was slipping that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
No see do you do you own the truck or
are you a mechanic?

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Mechanic?

Speaker 6 (01:41:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's all I've done on my life, fixed
trucks from badazers and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
Well, thank you for your service. That's a good calling.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:41:47):
So yeah, so where will I get one of them?
You've got me confusedly, I want one of those ones
with the thumbs that in A in A I N
E c O.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
C w O M.

Speaker 6 (01:42:07):
But that's the one I want.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
And you want a main coon, and you want to
know what the word is when they've got extra thumbs.
You're ready for this?

Speaker 6 (01:42:17):
No, I ain't ready here.

Speaker 23 (01:42:20):
P O l y b O l y d A
what was it after the y d A b A
D D.

Speaker 6 (01:42:36):
D or b d oh d?

Speaker 23 (01:42:39):
Okay d A.

Speaker 6 (01:42:44):
D today that af airple ye and then work Indeed,
I've got polly.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
D A yeah, P for Papa for Oscar, alpha lima,
Y for Yankee, D for Delta, A for alpha, C
for Charlie, T for tango, Y for Yankee, alpha lima.

Speaker 16 (01:43:17):
Lisa.

Speaker 17 (01:43:18):
Ok good, all the read that back to me.

Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
Okay. Then it's it's polly t O l y.

Speaker 23 (01:43:27):
D A t O l y ye d A c
T y l.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
No, you haven't quite got that right. I'll read it again, right, okay?
This you want a main coon, but you want a
poly dectyal one and it's p oh. I'll just read
it out once, okay, p O L.

Speaker 6 (01:43:48):
Y yeah, I got that.

Speaker 23 (01:43:52):
D A C t y l or hang on d
A C.

Speaker 11 (01:44:01):
Y t y l.

Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
D A C t y l Yeah, D for D
four delta polydectyl.

Speaker 6 (01:44:16):
Oh good, I've got the polly and it's d A
you do it to be again?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
D A C C for Charlie, t y l t
y l t t t F tango y yankee l lima.

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
T y l.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
D p p o l y D for delta A
C T y l.

Speaker 6 (01:44:48):
A C.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
D y l or t t t tango. Yeah, yeah,
that you got it?

Speaker 6 (01:44:57):
Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Ye. So you want to go to the you want
to go to the vet and you want to ask
for a polydectyl main coon.

Speaker 6 (01:45:04):
Yes, yes, will be that, yes, yeah, okay, well thanks
for that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
I guess should be quite straightforward an evil.

Speaker 16 (01:45:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:45:12):
Well lead you know here, I get on.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
No, no, I can't wait. I'm sure you will.

Speaker 13 (01:45:17):
WHOA.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
That was hard to spare. I didn't do that so well?

Speaker 17 (01:45:19):
Did I?

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Spelling that? Friendly? Trying to find the phreatic alphabet JP?
What do you reckon? You're Nevel's going to get a cat.
It's a big ask a polydeck or maine coon in
this market.

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