Put a line under that Davo (29 July 2025)

Marcus talks award winning pies, chores that kids can do safely, and whether anyone remembers watching Diana and Charles get married in 1981.

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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 (00:12):
Greetings, Welcome ETO seven. How are I hope You've got to?
Hope you better by the time it gets to midnight tonight.
I'm just looking at what happened today in history. So
this day, this day, forty four years ago, right, was
the wedding Charles, Princess of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer
this day in nineteen eighty one. So I've just spent
a bit of time as I get myself grounded before

(00:34):
the show starts reminiscing. And you know what, I've got
no idea what time of day it was on. I
thought we were watching that about eight pm at night.
But if I got that wrong, I did say, according
well check GPTKI was no use for it. But what
time was down his wedding? It appears it appears as

(00:56):
though in the UK, what's hard for to work out
when it was on? Should go back and watch it again.
I think the coverage started at eleven AM, which would
be eleven pm New Zealand time. I don't remember watching
that in the middle of the night, so got must
have a little bit unfounded about this one you will remember,

(01:17):
you'll be royal followers. I thought it was early evening.
I thought it was about eight pm. I remember having
phone conversations about the same time, because you remember phone
conversation those days. Couldn't have many. If someone knows what
time Dana's wedding was on, there was a Dame Condecta
Kanama in that dress, Philly stiff occasion there. But we

(01:40):
I mean, you know, it was such a such a
huge wedding event. I would imagine most of you would
even remember the dressmakers. They were the Emmanuel's. I think,
if memories serves, we write with that very long train.
You know how much I love trained. So anyway, if
you know what time the wedding was on, that's just
by the by, So I wouldn't mind talking a bit
about that. You probably got some memories for that and

(02:01):
day of the week. I think it was eleven o'clock
at night, though I don't think we're have stayed up
all night. It wasn't that interested in it, but you
might have some take on that also. Michael Hill will
Sir Michael Hill has died eighty six. I played mini
golf with Michael Hill once as part of a TV story,

(02:21):
because the thing about Michael Hill you don't realize is
in his day, I'm talking the nineties, mid nineties, Michael
Hill was famous for very every budget commercials. Hi, I'm
Michael Hill. I think that started like that, That's the
way I remember it. And this was well before well,

(02:44):
he was sort of cheap and cheerful with the TV
commercials and they're everywhere. This was before actually people got
to know them. And then of course he moved to
Queenstown and got into golf and all things. I then
got the Souper yacht. He told me to buy shares
this company, which I didn't, and I'm fine about that.
But anyway, kind of a you're pretty focused sort of

(03:04):
a guy, I guess you'd say, didn't talk about much
beyond the business. I think it was his music too,
was he Anyway? You might have some memories about him
tonight that you want to say, But yeah, I don't
know what to say about Michael ll. Actually he was

(03:26):
every focused, I guess, is what you'd say about him.
I've never really understood the jewelry business. I'm not someone
that purchases jewelry, and I've never really understand the inherent
value of jewelry. I know people pay big money for it,
but actually what's it worth? That's always the question I've
always found interesting though. Anyway, I do come through if
you want to join the fray. But I'm very curious

(03:47):
about Diet Princess Dana's wedding and what time that was on,
only because I like to check out my memory from
time to time and your memories of that event. I
don't even know what day of the week it was,
but you might know. Someone said it was mid afternoon
on a sunny christ Jud to been mid afternoon, that

(04:07):
means they would have had to be married in the
middle of the all. Well, yes, anyway, someone will know something.
Marcus the new hobby is checking the water care aucan
Damn Level's website, slowly creeping up to one hundred percent
all for Damn's Yahoo. I remember, well, it was the

(04:30):
mid afternoon, it was sunny in christ Church. Was that
the funeral or was that the wedding?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Why?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
I think this is interesting because what it tells us
is our memories are hopeless. We swear black and blue
about things, but more often not that we are completely wrong.
You find that right anyway, get in touch Marcus to
Midnight and Sir Michael Hill, you might have worked for him.
We're saw a lot of standing around in those shops
with no doors, prett obviously why they went into retail

(05:00):
with jewelry, wasn't it got those things? You stand around
those big counters. Never in one anyway A twelve past eight.
Welcome to feel free to get involved with the show.
My name is Marcus Head on Midnight. There's something else
you want to mention to get amongst it. I think

(05:20):
probably in some ways in my mind I've got the
Michael hillads confused with the Vince martinads for the tires.
They're a very good campaign too. They're both kind of similar.
Marcus is a shame we didn't live in the UK.
The government would have got forty percent of Michael Hill's
money as a tax. Now he's died. That would have

(05:41):
paid for the nurse's pay rise. Thank you Hamish for
that must be the death tax, I would imagine. So
there we go, but welcome you want to start the
whole Frey Frey for a Frey Tonight eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety six and Michael Hill and
Dana's wedding. He's pretty yeah, And it wasn't ever a.

(06:02):
It wasn't ever a. It was always kind of the
Michael Hill brand was always one that is just driven
by endless TV commercials, all of them terrible. It was
almost kind of a subject of ridicule until I went
a bit more upmarket. I would have mentioned some markets.

(06:24):
I think you've got your cums on threes Redeaths. Oh,
there was Ozzy Osborne? Then who else died? There was
someone else died that was big last week that we
talked about. That's gone too. Now Ozzy Osborne. There was
Ozzy Osborne and there was someone else about two or three
days later. Put my headphones on. Do you remember what

(06:47):
it was and we talked about them. Hogan, of course,
six foot eight, that's right, and now Michael Hell, that's
the TRIFECTA. Good evening. Kaushon State Highway too at right
road intersection. The car has crashed and parked on top
of the wire ropes of emergency suits and attendance. Oh,
by the way, the weather hasn't been bad down south,
but we do need to cover off what's happening around
the country. She got weather updates for us from Auckland

(07:12):
North Or and the Mainland are the main part of
the North Iron are also too in the Tasman district.
Let us know. I will probably should cover that off tonight.
I've forgotten about that my rush to get to work.
It looks like they're not going as full on with
the weather that maybe it's kind of turned out to be. Okay.

(07:32):
That's a good thing, because gosh, Nelson's got it. After
days and days and days and days and days. The
next pulse of rain is approaching Auckland. Auckland under orange
heavy rain until ten pm tonight, you're expecting another ninety
miles on what's already fallen, so it's still going to go.

(07:54):
There is a power outage in gray Linn. The crews
are investigating another pulse of rain approaching from the north.
It's on the rain radar and Tasman's quietly confident they've
got through the worst of the weather. So that's all good.

(08:18):
Two hundred mills recording the Tasman one hundred and seventy
seven mills in Kharkoori. So there's been a lot of weather,
even though it hasn't led to flooding. There's been a
lot of rain, heavy rain set to less the Waikato
and Bay of Plenty this evening. The worst the weather's
hit to go into the evening, coinciding with high tide
around ten thirty, which is increasing the risk of flooding

(08:38):
and low lying areas. That's in the bay. Oh, that's
in the Coramanda and the Bay of Plenty. So that's
the information for you, lines for you if you want
to start the whole ball rolling. Sixteen past eight. My
name is Marcus Good evening and welcome, looking forward to
what you've got to say. The Royal wedding. When's it on.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
It was the evening nine thirty to ten. I remember
the wedding. It came on TV after the Hammer House
of Horrors. Mum, let me stay up till I'd like
to watch it because I had school the next day.
I remember Kenny and the dress and Diana mixed up
Charles's name. What day o the week was? It was
a weekday. If you got some information about that we're
on about tonight, the wedding in Michael Hell any other

(09:20):
topics will chuck some other's asue. Throughout the course of
the evening, wance I work out what the mood of
what people want to talk about, where they want serious
or light or historical or contemporary. All these things we
go through before we work out what we're going to
get going. You get you going on. But if you
want to start the whole cavalcade of call, sixteen past day,

(09:41):
looking forward to what you've got to say, He says.
The funny thing about Michael, I imagine he's one of
those people that probably not a lot of people have
got a lot to say about, because he was one
of those people that was probably imagined extremely hard to
get to know. He had a sort of a reservedness
about him, didn't he. I guess he's probably painfully shy,
probably like a lot of those people. Yeah, not one

(10:01):
of those Gregaria's out and about people. You never really
heard him comment on anything else, did you. He wasn't
one of those guys that was fronting up to the
protest outside Parliament about the vaccines or things. Just kind
of fairly kind of straight, fairly focused, I suppose. And
so someone says the Royal wedding wasn't in the afternoon,

(10:22):
I christ itch sunny day, Well, is that right? What
I don't know about that? By jumping. If you want
a pine, my name is Marcus. Welcome Hitel twelve. You
might have had parties for the royal wedding. You might
have gone and especially got a color TV, because I
know that was a big thing that they were actually
telling you get a color TV to watch the wedding.

(10:45):
I don't know what it would have been like in
black and white, really less colorful as I say, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety eighteen past eight.
You want to start the whole war rolling tonight.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Now?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Someone said they were married forty four years ago today?
How ironic? What's ironic about that? Where's the irony? Where's
the irony that was forty four years ago? Yeah, because

(11:21):
we are talking about it because it is the adniversary
of their wedding. Someone said it was a Wednesday. Someone
said it was a Tuesday something, So it was a Monday. Marcus.
It's Carol here. I'm just driving around doing some Uber
Eats deliveries. I'm just wondering, could you please clarify something
for me? So with this paything that the government says
that I'm not going to charge you for, does that

(11:43):
mean the bank is not going to charge the fee
to the owners of the people saying the goods, or
does it means the government is saying to the people
saying the goods that you cannot charge pay for anymore.
Because I just want to get clarity. I understand that
you've just got to have one price and that's what
it costs, and you can't add more on paywaves, so
you've just got to even out by charging more for everything.

(12:08):
Marcus Michael Hill started his career Fisher's Jewelry and Fargarde
as a window dresser. His first jewelry task was to
redesign my mother's engagement ring for my parents' twenty fifth
wedding anniversary. I'm seventy one and now have that same ring.
A wonderful memory, chairs Sue Marcus. Is a tangential collection

(12:31):
connection between railways and Michael Hill. There was a train
control on Wellington who signed track warrants. He would sign
them as Michael Hill jeweler. Well that's interesting anyway. Well, yes,
he did become part of popular culture. But the reason
Michael Hill was famous was because of the as bad
TV ads. I'm convinced about that. You might remember those

(12:52):
as well. A twenty past eight, here til tomorrow, heatil
the very bitter end. Get in touch if you want
to talk already run about the payWave and the wedding.
They've already said it was a Monday, Tuesday or a Wednesday.
But did you have a party, did you stay up late?
Because forty four years ago most of you will remember it.

(13:14):
I would think, well, those that are over forty four
will make it over forty eight. Let's just put it
that way. Anyway, Do get in touch. You've got to
talk for something else. I haven't really followed. The whole
thing about what X doing with kids on farms seems
to be the discussion that no one wants, not even
the farmers. I don't know if anyone is concerned about

(13:36):
collecting eggs. What was weird about Charles and Dana's wedding
that only met thirteen times before they're married. That's weird,
isn't it. It's not exactly an arranged wedding, but still weird.
Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
Yeah, I'm Margus. Can you hear me? Okay?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, I'm wearing TikTok like a clock or is it
your windscreen wipers?

Speaker 6 (13:55):
That was my windscreen? Windscreen ripers.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
That's true.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
They just turned them off.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
So it's weird. It's we say, where you are it's pouring.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
Yeah, yeah, I'm an organ I'm just about to go
out to work on the motorway network. So it's going
to be a lovely night. But came down here about ten,
which is that time we actually get on the networks.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Are you changing light bulbs?

Speaker 8 (14:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yeah, I suppose you could. Yeah, yeah, kind of yere.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Okay, let's leave it there. What do you want to
tell me?

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Oh yeah, so my timeline away, I worked things out.
Always tend to go back to music. And I recall
when they were getting married. I was I don't know
how they call it this year, but back in the
day it was first or second form high school years.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
But I go with forms. I'm always reconverting. I think
that was stupid what they did.

Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah yeah, and it was intermediate school, you know, so
you leave prime. We got into meeting to do first
and second second second forming out of the high school,
so it was either first or second. And the thing
I remember.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
As it's you indicators, I can hear, well.

Speaker 6 (15:00):
It's actually my hazard lights. I've just oh yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
I don't send them on.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Now to them.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Jeeves. That's a good line, all right. And I recall
the song because I used to sing it around the
school cross country and it was Charlie's getting married at last.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Really, I have no recall of it at all.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
It was one of those English bands. It was a
bit like Chess and Dave.

Speaker 9 (15:23):
You know.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
It was kind of a comical song with some funny
stuff and not. All I can remember in the chorus
was when Charlie's getting married at last two something girl,
and then there was there's something something Daddy. The Duke's
are happy chappy because Charlie's getting married at last year?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Who is it? What sort of radio in listening to.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
Well, you know back then and Hawks Bay, I think
it was, yeah, yeah, it was. I can't remember the
I think I think we only just got I mean
it was on. It was on the radio stations. It was,
you know, every every kid at school knew it and
we're all singing it.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
I wonder how I never heard of it.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
If someone will know, someone will even know the band.
But you know, it was a catchy Joe, Yeah, But
I mean, of course, I mean it's probably catchy when
you're when you're leaving or twelve.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
That's interesting. You read it during the cross country. Were
you're a good runner?

Speaker 6 (16:28):
No? No, well, of course it's forced on you, so
you got to do it.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
And I thought you could sing to make it past quicker.
That's a great thing to do.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Well. We were lucky I growup because our cross country
took us around past past the river. We went over
a stock banker, basically the river that flooded in tar
it Ole, the curry. We sort of do a circuit
around the block and run along the river. So you know,
it was picturesque and yeahe of us have skive off
and go for a swim on the way.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Did you watch the wedding?

Speaker 6 (16:58):
I think so, But I remember leaving or twelve not
bad under. I do remember, yeah, I do remember. It
was a big deal that Currie was there singing. I
remember that much because I remember Mum and dad, you know,
oh look there's crew to I was singing.

Speaker 7 (17:11):
I recall that.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
But yeah, that was I mean, as I say, my
biggest memory a drawn to that is the song Charlie's
getting married at Last.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
I'll talk more about that because I've got no recollection
of that. All day but I enjoyed you. I enjoyed
everything about you. I enjoyed what I thought was the windscreen,
but it was indicator. I thought, hang on, he just
said the wind screens are off. Got me? But anyway,
get in touch Marcus till twelve oh, eight hundred and
eighty to And some people want to talk about the surcharge.
I got emails about that. Didn't run as a topic yesterday,
but today who knows ditching the surcharge on payWave? When

(17:45):
on he put the price up on things, the retailer
will be better off. Reason is that people that always
use the old villa f post and never had a
surcharge left to wear the goods price ache. What's the
vanilla f post? By the way, what was the dress
made out of? You can remember everything? Was it raw silk? Taffeta?

(18:06):
Was it organza? Was it organza?

Speaker 7 (18:13):
Now?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I remember the Farmers. The Farmers shop in Auckland very
soon had a replica of the dress. I think they
had people that night sewing to display the replica the
next day. Gotch how that's fallen as a business, the farmers.
You wouldn't get a replica or anything there these days,
would you? I feel we should have a Diana and
Child's wedding. Quiz quizy, quizy quizzy? Who was there from

(18:36):
New Zealand? Eighty one? Was Muldoon there? You wouldn't ask
keemdra a wedding, would you? Would you? Anyway? Do get
in touch? So we are talking about Michael Hill? Yes,

(19:00):
sort of? Am? I don't know what? Yeah, I don't
even know what to say about Michael Hill. So focused Vanila.
If post is a card without pay Wave or Visa logo.
I think they must have played that song in Napier,
because I've never heard of it. Yeah. Sometimes those small

(19:20):
town date I shouldn't say small town. That sounds disparaging.
Sometimes those DJs, you know, maybe they're running their cousins,
set them across the casite or something. I've never heard of.
It sounds like a terrible song too, Didn't it all right?
For the cross country? Up and down the river? Peter?

(19:41):
It's Marcus, Hey, Peter, thanks for hanging on there. You're
a soldier for doing that. Welcome not a.

Speaker 10 (19:46):
Problem, Marcus, and good even to you and to your listeners.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh what a nice welcome, Peter. I feel just embraced
by all that yeah, welcome to you too in your family.

Speaker 10 (19:54):
Yeah, hey, Marcus. Two things. Prince Charles and Lady Diana
were married on twenty nine and July.

Speaker 11 (20:01):
It was a Wednesday, was it.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Why would you get married on a Wednesday though would
be a weekend activity.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
I think so, but no, it was a Wednesday. I
didn't see it way to go to work next day,
but my mother sat up and watched it.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
It's probably it's probably booked. It was probably booked and
with Camilla on the weekend, that's probably the way it worked.

Speaker 11 (20:22):
Yeah, yeah, true.

Speaker 10 (20:23):
And the second thing is that I'm all for the
payWave no charges because I use payWave, but I won't
use it. I won't use payWave if I'll always asked
and say, hey, is you're a search ardge. Yes, I'll
put it the way and get me out. It's no charge,
I'll use it.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (20:43):
Things are going to go up, but it doesn't mean
now either way, because the people who use and don't
care about it, they'll just keep using it, and so
it works out the same whether you've got money or
or payWave. So I'm pleased that payWave is coming in.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Nice to hear from your summed up beautifully there evening gym.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah you know, Arcus. Hey, look I was in London
when the wedding was on, working in the Yeah, yea,
working in the pub which was just opposite Green Park.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Hang on, tell us, tell us the theme of the pub,
because Kiwis would have dron little Green Man or something.
Was it?

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh no, no, it was all no, no, it was
a Parklane hotel which it was very pleashed, Yeah, very pleashed.

Speaker 12 (21:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
It had a ballroom and everything and it was it
was pretty posh. And just opposite it was Green Lane
and if my memory served me correctly, just opposite Green
Lane was the mail leading up to Buckingham Palace. And
we turned on the TV early, went to the TV
room early in the morning and it was a hot
day that had the windows open and we could hear
that all the crowds, you know, getting all warmed up

(21:50):
before the wedding early in the morning as we were
watching it on the TV, which was really great. And
then we walked over to the over to the mall
and people before they shut it off entirely. People were
hiring taxis and stuff and driving down during the big
Royal wave out the window.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Going down in front of people and waving yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, no, they Werekenue. They were the war couple driving
down the right past everyone who was there to see
the wedding. And I remember quite clearly that, you know,
while we were watching it. I think it was the
same time as the Springbolt tour, and there was a
they entered and they had they were covering the all
the horses at the horse guard. They were grooming the

(22:31):
horses again them already and they interrupted it to say
they're in a pre spat in charge in Wellington, New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
I think you're right. I think they came up in
my I think they came up on my history chart
for yesterday, so I think you are right. That would
have been a day. Yeah, okay, that was.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Pretty amazing, you know. And and there was people there.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
People were terribly injured by that too, went there. There
were people that got bashed.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Yeah. And they had a big fire weeks display that
night in Hyde Park which was just down the road
as well, and we got up onto the roof of
the hotel and we could we set up there and
watched the all the fireworks going off and everything.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Well we actually do in there.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
I was it was it was an I I suppose
you call it.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
No, I mean at the park lane. That's quite a
flesh park bike lane.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Well it was a dog's body. Are you doing it, oh.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, cleaning glasses.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Doing the work, doing the work the English people wouldn't do,
by the sound of things, Jim.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, it was. It was
a very it was a very interesting time to be there.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Actually it sounds it.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Yeah. All the pubs were a lot of little pubs
down where we were working. Were drink dry that night.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, should nice memories? Think you anyway, get in touch.
Twenty four to nine were away. What about the dress? Yes,
they had that made the next day and Farmers the
copy of it. You go and see. I thought that
was well done. Organza raw silk Teffer. I can't remember,
only showing town there for a very long train, like
a crumpled sort of a muddy looking fabric. Some will

(24:02):
remember Adama, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (24:04):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus respects to Michael Hill.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yes, rather yeah, rather.

Speaker 11 (24:12):
Unfortunate, but there you go. But what I would say
is that I was actually in Hyde Park on that wedding.
Uh not by design? And I'm fairly certain it was
a weekday because I was working that day and some
colleagues I was working with should we should go down
to Hyde Park with have a nosy down there. But

(24:34):
the interesting thing I found is that it was a
member It was a calm and beautiful sunny day.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (24:40):
And there were, of course there were thousands gathered in
around Buckingham pouns and whatever around the main activity.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
But I just mentioned.

Speaker 11 (24:48):
The one thing I can recall is the absolute feast
of atmosphere that prevailed in Hyde Park. I mean we
had people from all walks.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Of life gathered.

Speaker 7 (24:59):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (25:00):
There were picnics, it was kiteline, it was pantomime, maybe
the Penny Farthings circling around. It was puppet shows. I
mean there was a punch and duty and hit at
the Shakespeare stage.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
It must have must have been a public holiday, was it.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (25:18):
I'm not too sure. I can't recause only I was
really young at the time. I was really war and
I just sort of went along with the crowd. But
I remember mcgovernor he shareded all staff because we were
we expect to be inundated, swamped with with multitude, and
so I remember he paid us double the paint because
we were we're on a bit of his christ.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
But I can I don't know what what what were you?
What were you working at?

Speaker 11 (25:46):
I was in one of the bars down in Oxford circus.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Trust what was it called?

Speaker 11 (25:51):
Work for Trust House forty? Uh, trust House forty. It
was the name escapes me. I was on the circus. No, no,
they were coming. But as I say, the one thing
I do recall is this just the total atmosphere, the
fist of atmosphere. Everybody was in a jovial mood and

(26:12):
you know, people were back slepting and welcoming each other.
Really this was quite as quite as quite refreshing. Actually said, yeah,
that's what I remember that. I didn't actually get to
see the wedding itself because there were throngs there, there
was the multitube.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
It was amazing. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 11 (26:30):
That's my memory of the wedding.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And so they went to the park, not to see
the wedding, but just because to go to a park
for a nice day. And it was sort of like
a party atmosphere, is that right?

Speaker 13 (26:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (26:40):
I mean the girl went with she just said, oh,
we were sitting here and we'll see what's happening. And we
just soaked up all the atmosphere and got involved with a
bit of this and a bit of that, and yeah,
it was a really fun day.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
It was because not the slugg, not the slugg, not
the slug, and letters, not the not the alarms, not
the lab.

Speaker 11 (27:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, down.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
A road that would have been Was it the alarms?

Speaker 11 (27:13):
Uh? It was? It was a corusthouse forty.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (27:19):
Yeah. I just can't rename the skater. I've got a
photo of it somewhere, but I can't the partner I
was with her trumps she should know.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
But yes, cor opting your memory to it, Adama, Thank you,
Steve and Marcus, welcome, good.

Speaker 14 (27:34):
Good any magus Marcus. The song Chali getting Married at Last.
It's hung by a folk group from England called the
Harwock Meant Are.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
They from England?

Speaker 5 (27:45):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Never heard of them? You sure they're from England?

Speaker 14 (27:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's been Oh that's been around years and
years ago.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Really yep.

Speaker 14 (27:59):
Here they've got a lot of music out.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I've never heard of them, is it? Is it a
bad thing?

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Well?

Speaker 15 (28:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (28:07):
Did you take some music?

Speaker 14 (28:08):
I suppose what are they called the Men of Harwock. Okay, yeah,
look it up. Look it up, you'll you'll come uponss it.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Do you remember the lyrics of it?

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (28:26):
Yeah, Charlie's getting married at last? All yeah, I member
the true not the words.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, okay, I think they might be. I think what
I can say about them. I think it says they're
from Tasmania.

Speaker 14 (28:46):
That could be right too, Yes, that could be right.
I thought they were could be. In Australian Mean.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Of Harleck is an Australian pub choir made up around
fifteen men of Welsh descent who would sing in pubs
around the Cronella Fairfield area. This single Charlie getting Married,
which number fifty seven in Australian six sixteen in New Zealand.

Speaker 14 (29:08):
Yep, yep, that's.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Recording a single day cost fifteen hundred dollars.

Speaker 8 (29:14):
Oh okay, you don't hear it much on that.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
You don't hear it much on the radio these days,
do you? Steven? Thank you? Eighteen to nine to nine
to nine. I'm all for the removal of payWave if
it means I can use my card more and click
the yearly one percent cash back on annual spend win
or Winner Marcau's in the eighties. I paid forty cents
per transaction on my f POS card. When I get

(29:40):
a mortgage, the bank wave the fee simple solution across
the boards card user pays. They'd de cleared a public
holiday on the day Princess Dinah and Prince Charles married
twenty nine July nineteen eighty one. I read the book
about her. It was a good book that read about her.

(30:01):
Wonn't Tina Brown's book. She was kind of more posh
than he was, which feels weird when he's actually the king.
But anyway, I don't understand how the whole system works.
Don't really want to understand. I thought that was interesting.
Marcus Charles Dana's marriage was Wednesday, twenty ninth July ninetety one.
TV carriage began at seven forty five a m. That

(30:25):
must be in the UK. What time was on here?
And was it delayed? What a topic kid's been made
to through the cross country. I bet many were scarred
for life, hated it. Made to run on the pounding rain,
third form Stretford High Cruel always a great topic, the

(30:46):
old cross country. I've listened it off that song I
could cope with. It's a whole lot of Australians pretending
to be Cockney's or Mockney's singing and Ahi gum are
that sort of accents. The lyrics go, Charlie's getting married
at last to a pretty girl without a past. Her
Majesty is so happy. The Dukes are happy. Chappee, Charlie's
getting married at last. Wow, talk about writing a single

(31:10):
that's right for the Times. It's like an Australian pub
band and the video is the sort of in a
coal mine, which is we'd also fourteen to nine? How
are you going? People? Three topics Michael hell danea his
wedding and paywaves sprang up as a topic tonight. You
couldn't get booted of people about it to yest last night,

(31:31):
but tonight woo payWave. We need to rejig some of
the words. If post never good and payWave? What's it

(31:54):
called tap and golready? Way, it's not really a wave,
is it? It's more hold close. There'd be a better
name than payWave should be called like what was tap
and go? Was tap and go a thing? Damn you've
got all this sort of stuff should be called Tapango's better,

(32:17):
isn't it should be called tapano. That's tap and go?
Would you like to? Would you if you got cash?
No thanks, I'll tap and go. Could you tap?

Speaker 6 (32:31):
Then you go?

Speaker 2 (32:32):
You don't pay?

Speaker 17 (32:33):
And wave?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh I thought of something there. A friend's daughter informed
one round the cross country and complained of a sore foot.
Her mother said to stop moaning and keep going. Later
that found she'd broken if foot. I'm not ready to
talk about cross countries yet. One day I'll tell you
it's too soon. Your ift post, what is it? Any

(33:03):
of what's theft post? Mike? It's Marcus welcome. Hi, Hi Mike.
How the eggs? He clicked the eggs tonight.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
I'm not a farmer, but it just strikes me. It's
amazing that that's something that that they've they've brought in
or bringing in.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I thought was about less can't sorry, I thought act
was about less rules.

Speaker 11 (33:30):
Is it? What is an actors bringing it in?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
It's okay, it's brought Vanda Velden.

Speaker 7 (33:40):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Anyone can grab as Yeah, anyone can grab eggs as
long as you don't lick them. I mean that's basically
what they've what they're what the rules are. We've all
collected the eggs as kids.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
But I mean, just should be able to do anything
on a farm if they want to, you know, I mean, and.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
They do, well, we'll talk more about I'm gonna run
commercials ten to nine. By the way, there's afar at
the Brown's Bay New World. The sign has gone up
and flames. The New World signed that eyewitness there. Let
us know if you're Johnny on the spot or carry
on the court, let us know what's happening there. And

(34:21):
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (34:24):
Oh hello. I thought I just you might have mentioned
it and I missed it. But I was quite astonished
when Prince Charles got engaged to you know, his wife,
and he and the reporter asked, are you in love?
And he said, well, whatever love means. And I thought

(34:50):
that was a bit something that might put her off
marrying someone. And whatever love is is, isn't it terrible?
I mean really terrible when she was probably too young,
she was very young to have realized, look you've.

Speaker 16 (35:08):
Got it wrong.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah, oh yes, yes, yes, I'm not really really in
a frame of mind to discuss the reasons that marriage
would bed. I was just talking about the actual wedding itself.

Speaker 18 (35:22):
But yeah, right, yes, I sort of just knew from
the beginning that that that had happened, and it all
did happen. So anyway, I am the Royals are a
funny lot.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I was going to say, I was going to I
was going to say something, Well, she you know, yeah,
but of course you know she didn't go on to
have a happy life after that, did she. She had a
sort of a dramatic and very short life after that.
Really it was tragical around.

Speaker 18 (35:50):
Crazy life. And she died. That was horrible. I remember
it's quite near my birthday when she died, and I
came in and from the walking on the beach with
my late husband, and it was a horrible shock, horrible.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Not to hear from you and or not nice, as
the case may be.

Speaker 17 (36:08):
Good evening, Jeff, Yeah, good evening. The first thing I'm
going to say is, I've never heard so much Tommy
nonsense about children doing chores and jobs, either on farms
or chicken farms. Now, listen, my father had a chicken farm.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
No, what are the chances that you had a chicken farm?
When we talk about chicken farms?

Speaker 17 (36:33):
Yeah, well, I'm just talking about work generally that young
people do. They can get injured anywhere, on the rugby field,
on the soccer field, any anywhere. But all business about
the safety of children, on doing chores on farms, or

(36:55):
doing anything. I used to collect the eggs. I used
to help my dad in many places that I could
have got injured, But nobody carried on like this. I've
never heard anything so stupid than nonsense.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
What did you click the eggs in.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
Buckets?

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Was it like? It was it like a battery farm?

Speaker 11 (37:21):
It was?

Speaker 17 (37:21):
It was It was a chicken farm where the where
the chickens laid twice twice a day. And then my
father sold the chickens off to a guy who killed
them and put them into upper sail.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
And uh where where was this?

Speaker 17 (37:41):
Uh? And then and uh but well what what what
I'm trying to say is that all of a sudden
all about the safety of children.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
And well it's too complicated for me, jif because because
no one's asked for the law, I can't even work
out why she's gone on about it. I don't get it. Well, well,
there was all something on that the farmers don't want it.

Speaker 17 (38:05):
No, that's right, it's not it's.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
A it's a law to not it's lord. It's a
lord of fix the problem, which doesn't exist as my understanding.

Speaker 17 (38:14):
Yeah, but for goodness sake, you know, you know, well,
well we're going on about safety of children, you know,
doing jobs and doing things either on farms or whatever.
But the point is, you know, kids have been doing
things on farms for for fliming years.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
But you could you could also use that logic. But
I mean kids have been cleaning chimneys for years, like
at the Kensian. I mean not everything kids did in
the past were right, They were like chimney sweets and stuff,
weren't there.

Speaker 17 (38:48):
Yeah, well what my dad was a chimney sweeper and
warrington but he wasn't but.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
He wasn't a kid doing it, was he.

Speaker 5 (38:59):
No.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
The point I'm making is that just because things change
doesn't mean, you know, in some laws it's good they've changed.

Speaker 19 (39:09):
No.

Speaker 17 (39:10):
Yeah, you know, you know there's there's there's plenty of
things to talk about, Okay, and their children they wouldn't
let them get injured or hurt.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, that's not that's not quite that, Jeff. That's not
quite right. When you look at the number of children
that have died on farms and quad bikes, and the
farmers insist that they have their rights to ride their
bikes without helmets. So yeah, I think probably there have
been unnecessary deaths on farms. But that really is a
mine field, that one. But yeah, but I appreciate your passion, Jeff,
if you've got anything else, I appreciate your passion. Yeah,

(39:47):
I mean it's yeah. I don't think Health and Safety
are investigating kids picking up eggs. I don't know what's
got into Van Velden to go with that one sounds
quite frightening those caught in the Brown Spain New World
when the sign caught fire. As the smoke came down
inside the building, people were struggling to breathe. I thought

(40:11):
it was a drill, but as the flames from inside
the building, it wasn't too scary. But when people saw
the flames, people started to panic. Didn't think Brown's Bay
people would panic. The staff successfully evacuated the building and
kept everyone safe. They were telling people not to run.
There was quite a bit of smoke and the wind
was blowing in towards the melting point, the meeting point.

(40:35):
It smelled of burnt plastic. I suppose course it would
have been new world. People didn't want to leave without
getting their stickers for their smegcock where a hang on,
what about my stickers? I bought some stuff in you
with the I got one sticker. I thought Cheapest Creepers
was a confusing shop because I was trying to get
cashed in my card, was trying to get cashed because
there was a scratchy board outside with people I knew anyway,

(41:03):
So I never know what to say about that. I'll
tell you what countdown? What rubbish? What do they collect now?
Disney stick is or something? Have you noticed that at
countdown it looks like the least interesting thing to collect. Ever,

(41:28):
don't normally my mind countdown? But I'm not gonna. I
almost want to boycott it because of the Disney discs.
I don't know if any adult or child that would
be remotely interested in those unless they were two years old.
So sort it out. Australian soup. No I wants a
Disney disc. We want knives, and we want crockery. We

(41:50):
love that Smeg stuff. Now I wants a Disney disc.
No one's gonna be bringing talk back and complaining because
everyone out of tinker Bell will they.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I don't imagine though terrible anyway, getting touched by names
Marcus head of the end. What do you got people?
What's happening? So far? We have talked about mainly payWave
and the Royal Wedding this day in nineteen eighty one,
that's forty four years ago. It's screened in a weeknight.
But for a long time they were trying to get

(42:25):
pilled by Calor TV's to watch the Royal Wedding. I
wonder if people had Royal wedding parties. I suspect they
probably did. I don't know what it was on a weekday.
That was a shame. I think Rob Muldoon was there.
Was that right? Anyway? You might want to mention that.

(42:45):
Anything else you want to talk about too, feel free
get in touched Marcus till twelve yep, oh way eight
hundred and eighty. I'll get to the texts in a minute.
Slight breezing Gisbon has knocked the power out. That good

(43:06):
has cell phones. Marcus did Hay eleven to a twelve
year old, and a number of summers after that started
a fish factory at thirteen. It does a complicated story.
I think probably, Yeah, I don't think. I just don't
think this. I don't think probably Health and Safety are
prosecuting people collecting eggs. That's right. It can't work out.

(43:28):
But anyway, oh, Jeff though eh, oh, by the way,
there's a so a couple of things happening tonight. There's
a meteor shower and we get the results of the
pie Awards, which will be pet lamb, pet lamb, pet lamb.
And there's not a problem. The same people win it.

(43:48):
There'd be sub controversy because of fruit pile win the
best pie overall or something like that. That's my take.
But yeah, and there's be a lot of pies that
aren't in it. I think there's one of the there's
an invercargo guy called the Pioneer. I think he might
be going up for it. He does quite good pie
is that rooster came down from Gisbon after the flood,
set up a caravan, sold from those. Now he's got

(44:09):
a shop that's some pretty interesting pies. Actually, I don't
know about the name of the Pioneer. He's into his pies,
but I think it's a bit where the pie awards.
I think you've got to use Backel's products to be
into it. It's not like every pie. It's pies that
actually use the sponsor's product. I think that's how it works.

(44:36):
He hasn't posted a while on Facebook, the Pioneer. Maybe
he's maybe didn't get the awards. The last thing he
did was him sending off his entry form and haven't
seen anything posted since. So yeah, looks like he's given
up on the old Facebook anyway. Gillet's Marcus, welcome and
good evening.

Speaker 20 (44:56):
Oh thank you, Marcus. I'll never forget the night of
Charles and Diana's wedding. We lived in Seaton and Wellington
in those days, and my goodness, did we have a wedding.
We all bought cheap tiaras and beads and dressed up,
and so did the men. We made a wedding cake.

(45:19):
We had the most wonderful night. You've got no idea.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
This is the sort of stuff I want to hear now, Jill.
Is this the people in your community and seating the
neighbors and stuff.

Speaker 20 (45:31):
Yes, yes, so we're about I suppose about twenty of us.
We lived in a big old house and everyone bought food.
But I have still got my two dollar Tiara, and
it's in my living room. He yes, it has because
it was very classy. Two dollars one much a memory

(45:56):
of a wonderful night.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Did you organize it? Jill?

Speaker 20 (46:02):
Yes, I did, really, but I mean there were a
group of we women who it all together. Someone made
a wedding cake. We all did something and we had
a glorious night. Was just wonderful. I'll never never forget it.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
What sort of food did people bring, Jill, Because I'm
going back to eighty one, I'm trying to think what
would be the food.

Speaker 20 (46:21):
Yes, Oh it wasn't earth dies we have I think
we had. We made Sandra dis and we had lots
of little cakes and the big someone made a fruit
cake for a wedding cake and tarted it all. That
was I sing, Oh gosh, it's so long ago.

Speaker 19 (46:40):
Through maybe it.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Doesn't seem that long ago, but that's interesting. Now tell
me something too. So this is yes, this is nineteen
eighty one. And I imagine you all on you You said
you had a big house.

Speaker 20 (46:50):
Yes, it was a big old house and Seaturn which
is by the beach.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Yeah, and I imagine you all got around the TV
and the TV these days would probably it'd be tiny.

Speaker 20 (46:59):
It was. It was just little.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (47:02):
And although the house was big, a big old one
hundred years older doesn't not. But the lune wasn't huge,
Oh no, it was. That was part of the fun
was being all squished and squashed and it was lovely.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Oh people did. People have a bit to drink and
they sort of shouted things as it went and things
like that.

Speaker 20 (47:20):
I think there was a little bit of public there, yes,
but it was wonderful and we all had kids, and
the children were teenagers at the time. It was just
the best night.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I thought. People must be having parties. Jill. And you're
kind of given win to my sales. I like what
you've got to say. Someone said, if you do have
to click the eggs, don't put them all in one basket.
Doesn't end well. Very good point there, Marcus. You're hilarious
to not ironically, I need one more smag sticker. I
thought I was good. I agree that Disney things are rubbish, honestly.

(47:57):
Van der Velden or whoever's the ministers supermarkets Old Fair
as well as she should just ring up countdown and
say out you go, Nish, you can get a better
loyalty scheme than those places that plastic rubbish get on
the next boat to Australia. How dare they encourage the
kids to collect such tat and they're probably a choking

(48:17):
hazard Marcus hilarious to ironically? I need one or smex sticker.
I thought I was good. I agree that Disney things
are rubbish. I've gone right off countdown re wasteful too,
good job New World getting people out, no easy feed,
poor Marte. What if they are a choking hair at

(48:39):
those persfect discs? Yeah, they are rubbish to Disney things.
No one's in Disney anymore are they? I can remember
being six years old at nine point one sleeping on
a mattress in the lounge in the station master's house
in Hamilton watching the Royal wedding. Don't you mean telethon?

(48:59):
I don't think we slept on the mattress for the wedding,
did we? The whole family were in there. It was
an absolute eventy family, no power in a hawksprey that
in Australia.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Evan, Hey Marcus, Evan, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
What do you got? What's your report by the Bran Durhams.

Speaker 5 (49:26):
Yes, I think we need to go old school.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Around them through them.

Speaker 6 (49:32):
Ah, yeah, like they're doing the quarries, mate, fly them.

Speaker 5 (49:37):
By them up.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Well, they're just about out. They've just about had to
remove the whole thing, haven't they that a mess of earthworks?
It still doesn't.

Speaker 6 (49:44):
Work right, Yeah, just wasting that time.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
We don't call them the Brindowins, Dan, what do we
call them? We call them? A guy rings up the
show and he says they're not the Briandurwans. He said,
they are called I remember it with the help of Google,

(50:12):
pul Browhill. Pul Brow Hill, they'll call always called. It
was never called the Brandurwans. It was always called pool Browhill.
I said, it's full of quarries. There a lot of
quarrying going on there. Anyways, it must be good rock.
Wouldn't be a bad thing to actually erode it. I

(50:34):
think it's time to get rid of the electric scooters
in the city. Wouldn't it better to get rid of
the cars? Marcus, did you read the Adrian Mule Diary books? Yes,
I did. I remember when the wedding happened In the book,
it was a massive street party of all the houses
of the street involved. Although the books were fiction, the as
somewhat accurate with history. Very huge phenomenon. Adrian Mole. Oh,

(51:01):
by the way, Hawkesbury is in New Zealand, Otago, so
no power in hawks b Well, I'll keep you entertained hopefully.
So Hawksbury is cherry farm, is it? Yeah? Just by

(51:29):
Wai Kawaiti and from there it was at gas station
has become a pub on the corner. Is that right? Marcus?
She got at Marcus talking to a Waipoo neighbor and
they're going over the quarry there with the road. Pulbrough
family are still around. Cheers dug And what happened to
the quality of fishing in New Zealand? Just disappointing. The

(51:53):
princess down is winning this day in nineteen eighty one?
Did you have parties a special party for it? That's
of interest. Also, payWave people are finally celebrating about payWave Welcome,
Welcome in that stupid song Charlie's getting married. Never heard it.
You don't let the eggs if you're collecting eggs, That's

(52:15):
what they say. Why does Woolworths always give toys a
way to collect but never kitchen products because they've got
no clue, no clue at all. I think they had
a bit of success with Little Kitchen. Did they do that?
And they just stayed with that. They think we're infants.

(52:39):
We want knives and we want crockery. No one wants
that stupid little plastic shields. What do they call Dan
Disney discs? What's a disc? What's the kid can do
with a disk? Swallow it? Choke on it? Marcus. If

(53:00):
you're after any sport, to keep an eye or update.
Tonight Auckham FC are playing Gold Coast Nights in the
Australi In Cup at nine thirty on the Australian Football
YouTube channel. So good to hear Lorne Bowls meached last night.
Plenty of bowls live on the New Zealand Bowls YouTube channel.
It was good to see it on Sky TV over
the week and I enjoyed the bowls. Although I like this,

(53:24):
I think that I'd like to let them to go
back to their whites. I thought they looked scruffy and
it's not like me to say that, but why go backwards?
Oh well, I can tell you that we are getting
the awards for the Pie Awards through. They're just done.
I've got the website and this is good actually, so
I can give you the pie awards for today. This

(53:44):
is just breaking as it happens. We haven't got the
fullest yet, but it's been updated the whole time. Best
Bacon and egg Pie, Levan Artisan Bakery, White Swine Road,
Blockhouse Bay, mister shan Vo. So that's good, that's exciting.
Ronnie's Cafe Marta Marta highly commended, Bronze and Wood, Papa's
Buys Pies Bakery and Cafe Avon Moore Drive, Highland Park

(54:09):
Silver Award, Mister song Hing saw High Bakery and Cafe
Silverdale Road. So you most of them. Our North Island
places are best Mince and Gravy mister Missus, top Heap,
Long Euro, Petisseri, Torbay. They have won before. I've had
a pie from them. Pet Lamb Second Bethleham Roade Bethley
Him Bronze Award. James Owen Fat Bastard Pies they are

(54:31):
in Vera Cargill. That's good to know too. So there's
two bakeries of inc in Fat Bastards Pies and the Pioneer,
but none other in the South Island at all. Oh,
hang on rang you or a Bakery. They've got seventh
in the Mince and Gravy pot Top Potato Top Mister
sam ramskik So Rosedale Bakery and Cafe, Rosedale Silver Reward,

(54:54):
Dairy Flat Bakery Bronze Award, Target, Roade Bakery Glenfield, highly commembered,
Nada Bakery Tawer, now that's good to know. And Gravy
Taste Bakery and Roast Henderson, The Royal Bakery, Grafton and
Penny Lane Bakery, Ornie Hunger and that's all good as

(55:18):
well once again mainly North Island bakeries apart from the
one in rang Era Best Steak and Cheese, Milldale Bakery
Wai Nui and the Baker Tito Silver Reward and Sellurn
Bakery Lincoln for the third that Steak and Cheese, Best
Chicken and Vegetable Reshue, Patisserie Elleslie, Clevl Bakery, Clevil and

(55:41):
Wild Grain Bakery, Silverdale, Gourmet Meat, Wild Grain Bakery, Silverdale,
Taste Cafe and Bakery Avondale and Lunch Bar eighty eight Hamilton.
So well, a lot of pie shops now, aren't there.
Best Cafe Boutique, Main Street Cafe, Huntley, Rhubarb and raspberry.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Who would have.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Thought sounds delicious? Peter Tims Meat's got the silver with
addictional pork pie there in it's an Alban's christ Church,
Kel's Kitchen, good name, brisket and cheese. Ambly, I'll get
some more interesting with the cafe boutique. I'm liking this. Wow,

(56:27):
there's some interesting pies. Peaks Kitchen, Pappa to why never
heard of them? And the smokehouse and Stoke got the
best salmon pie. There's some more information there for you
as well too. That's the pie was if you've got
a if you've got a pie shop you want to
ask you about, I can look through it. If you've
tried any of those pies, let us know. But then

(56:48):
we'll get a champion of champion that will come up
soon with the best pie of the lot. Marcus loved
the pubs in the day with x men ster carpet,
the smell with spelt beer and smoked great of the ambiance.
Why is that not in the Why is that not
on the chase?

Speaker 5 (57:08):
About?

Speaker 2 (57:08):
What did New Zealing give the friends? Why is that
is it?

Speaker 7 (57:10):
Now?

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Quiz Dan? Did you put that down?

Speaker 11 (57:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (57:14):
What did New Zealand give Charles and Danna for their
winning carpet. So if you want any answers about questions
about pies, I could tell the Pie Awards. Someone wants
to know about those pies and Cromwell, they have not
won anything yet. I'd a pie. They were very salty.
I almost thought it was too salty. Might have been me,
might have been a bad day. Don't judge them on that.

(57:39):
So anyway, get in touch. Gosh, I've lost my audience,
not have anything. What are you going to talk about guyes,
the wedding or pies. I don't know what we could
discuss about pies, but there'd be more and more of
those results coming through. I'm waiting for the champion and champion. Now,
what would you like? A chicken leak, a salmon pie

(58:00):
of corned beef, a slow cooked lamon, red wine, a
green chicken curry, a slow cooked wag yu and cheddar,
a laid vegetable, a brooklet and cheap brisket and cheese.
Were a rhubarbon, I'd go the rub barb and raspberry
like a fine pie. So I am getting their wards
as they're coming through. They'll send us a stupid just

(58:21):
to hap us team but it's too late for us anyway.
Twenty away from ten Namers, Marcus, welcome with the other
stuff you do want to talk about tonight you that's good.
I'll update you with sport and things. New World, Browns Bay,
the New World sign caught fire and gone up in smoke.

(58:42):
People had to get evacuated without their stickers. Is it
crockery or not?

Speaker 7 (58:46):
Is?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I think it's crockery this year. But yeah, as for
countdown doing those stupid plastic discs. By the way, there
was panic and Brown's Bay. I don't think the Browns
bade people would panic, but they did. Yep, they could
smell smoke, and I guess after New World Victoria Park
burning in such an exciting way, Marcus Pinneer and the

(59:12):
cargo best pies in South and I thought they're very good.
For the royal wedding, the rounge was transformed into a
sleepover for my two children, a light dinner later, everyone's
favorite food, complete with Coca Cola retreat. Excitement was high
and sleeping bag struggling. His evening drew on sleep in

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no school next day, Lynn, Yes, so that's the situation there,
and I'm just constantly updating the pies for the Pie Awards.
For more updated awards there nineteen to ten. If you
want to come through. I think there's probably a champion champion.
I think there's probably only one to say what the

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categories are. No, but I think that might be all
the number of categories down. Either be a fruit pie.
I think then there'll be the champion of champions. I
imagine I can't think of one. Next would be a
fruit pie, wouldn't it. Bacon, egg mints and gravy mints
and cheap popped tops, DK and gravy, steak and cheese, chicken, vigeable,
gourmet meat.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
By the way, the gourmet meat pies. You're like these
cream These were the winning winning awards. These were the
gourmet meat pies. Here's what they were. Raised steak with
creamy mushroom, creamy pork, billion, cheese, raised biscuit, Asian raised
mocka beef pork billion mushroom, ceet, creamy power, venison with

(01:00:38):
spicy eggplant, creamy power, pull a Sami pie and creamy power.
That's all the categories. That's all the awards that won.
Gourmet meat goor May Meat gor May Meat. I agree,
The rhubarb and raspberry pie sounds delicious. Is it made
again stand by Coller Huntly? I think Main Streak Cafe

(01:01:03):
Huntley one two to Main Street, Miss Ellie Linton Brown.
They'll sell out tomorrow. That sounds delicious. I'd get the
train to stop if you're on I not always forget
the name of that train. What's it called to Huia?
I'd get to Huia to stop. That would be delicious. Ye,

(01:01:24):
put on a phil pilgrimage. I'll go get the to
Huia down for that. Rhubarb and raspberry my two favorite vegetables. Fruits.
Traditional pork pie. That doesn't do it for me, sounds fetty,
sounds like it's full of gristle. Oh, hang on, we've
got to get a vegetadn't do vegetarian, did we, Yeah,

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we've got vegetarian Europartisseri roasted veg with mushroom sauce.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
It seems to be an noiser of Auckland as ground
zero for the pies green Apple cafe and bakery, spinach
and veg. Then there's a curry veg in fat Bastards pie,
creamy Malaysian veg. That's the inveracar One, so they've done well.
They're betting above their pay grade. Anyway, someone makes the

(01:02:14):
good points. They say, I thought there would be a
beef Wellington pie, which is a good idea. Someone's missed
the zeitgeist. Marcus, at the risk of selling in sense
couldn't help. But wonder if the New world on fire
as a side of the times, thank you. Water care
dam levels now ninety nine point nine four percent, so
the rain's doing well. Two pies that are hardest to

(01:02:35):
find around Auckland steak and kidney whither or without mushroom
and plain steak potato top. I don't like cheese and
my pies. It kills the taste. I don't know why
who invited the cheese to the pie Marcus? Why does
Spelt Bakery indeed not ever into the pie Woods. They're
pretty good, probably the best. Yes, I think there's problems
with the pie Woods. I think they are if you've

(01:02:56):
got to use they're sponsored by Bacels. I think you've
probably got to use Bakeel's products to be in there.
I don't know that for a fact. I imagine there's
also a bit of expense. You've got to cure a
number of pies up there for judging, so it's probably
not for everyone. Marcus, Rush Green Bakery and paho Oh
that's what I haven't done but seen before. Par hoody hoody.

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Papa curta South Auckland said, a good steak and kidney pie.
One of the hardest pies to find these days is
lamb and mint. Watch the Royal Wedding eighty one. I'd
been in London nineteen eighty remember the plane trees boarding
them all or the mail I think they call it
the Royal carriage coming along bordered by those wonderful plane trees. Marcus,

(01:03:40):
I recommend bringing back Georgie Pie, the best ever, Sady.
Miss Davo put a line under that, Devo John Marcus
good evening, Oh goody Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:03:50):
Yeah, yes, I had to learn about Michael Hill today.
I just have a little story. Did have a chance
to meet it once our family was involved in the hammer.
Were you a while ago now? But I think it
was either ninety ninety six or ninety seven. Had we
had the annual conference at Queenstown and then we were
up at the top of the gondolas in the skyline,

(01:04:14):
and around mid morning part way through presentations, one of
the ham I had we directors appeared on the stage,
kind of er exactly how it was dressed, sort of
as a bit of a madman, possibly akin to something
the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Anyway, he was holding a chainsaw
and around. At the same time, a large wooden chest

(01:04:38):
was wheeled out from behind the back of the stage
and the gentleman started the chainsaw up and it was
a petrol one. I don't know if electric ones around
in those days, so it was very noisy in a
confined space, and produced lots of blue smoke. And he
proceeded to cut this tall wooden box in half from

(01:05:01):
top to bottom, and as the smoke cleared away, a
figure emerged from merk and the next words we all
heard were Michael Hill, jeweler, who then proceeded to give
the audience about a half hour talk on his business
story and motivation and that sort of thing, which was

(01:05:23):
real highlight for our conference back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
And that was my little kil The point you make
is very good because the thing Michael Hill was not
famous for being a jeweler. He was famous for fronting
his own TV commercials. Wasn't he because it was always
there was terrible ads and always Michael Hill Jeweler. He
said at the beginning of the end? Did he at
the beginning of the ad?

Speaker 16 (01:05:45):
They played some clips on TV news tonight which didn't
really indicate whether it was at the end or the beginning.
I have an idea it was at the end of
the ad.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
And it always and he just fronted his and he
wasn't he wasn't particularly good at it was it, But
he just did it, and it was They were so
regular on the TV and it became a kind of
a catchphrase. Michael hild Jeweler became almost a punchline to
a joke.

Speaker 5 (01:06:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:06:09):
I think people related to him as a sort of
a down to earth here. And of course he had
that terrible loss of his house and a fire up north,
and that spurred him on, motivated him further to be
successful and to overcome the odds. So, you know, very
very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
And there weren't many businessmen. There weren't many businessmen apart
from lv Martin that fronted their own ads. I mean,
there was Vince Martin for Barrupeas, but he wasn't the owner.
He was an actor and he was quite unique. He's
quite and it clearly worked for him.

Speaker 16 (01:06:38):
It did. There was one other gentleman that fronted his
own ends who actually worked for in the mid eighties,
and that was Bill Pert from the Winds oils campaign.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
As soon as you say that, I remember he sort
of got a got a ruddy, kind of quite complicated face,
didn't he. Yeah, I remember that really well he did.

Speaker 16 (01:06:54):
And he had a gum boot full of holes and
that he.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
Put water and then.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Remember that straight away.

Speaker 16 (01:07:03):
So those sort of guys just sticking your memory because
they were a bit unique and the kind of doing
their own thing, and people related to that, I think
and supported them for that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Well, it's like Victor kai Am, the guy that built
the you know the Yeah, he believed it in front
of his own ads, didn't he.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
He did.

Speaker 16 (01:07:21):
He liked it so much he bought the company.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
He just out of interest. John was Michael Hillard. He
moved to Queenstown by that time eighty six.

Speaker 16 (01:07:29):
I don't know that it was really clear, but quite
possibly he always had strong interest down there with his
golf and so on. So he did actually produce a
book which I've got a copy of only fairly recently
twenty nineteen. I think it was called Catch and Release,
subtitled A Life of Art, Thoughts and Nonsense, which is

(01:07:51):
full of his own sketches which are quite interesting and
I must go through it and have a closer look.
But yeah, just the little things like that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
Yeah, do you remember what?

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Was he a good motivational a good conference speaker?

Speaker 16 (01:08:06):
Oh yeah, excellent, yep. I don't know if he at
that stage he was on what you call the professional
sort of paid circuit at that stage, could well have been,
but he kind of with his background, he may have
just done it out of the goodness of his heart.
I really don't know, because of course it's getting on
for thirty years ago. I suppose, yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I don't think a conference. I don't think you have
a conference at the Skyline anymore, would you. It always
seems a bit down on its luck or something of
the odd Skyline.

Speaker 16 (01:08:37):
Well, yeah, I've just recently, I think upgraded the gone
Bolas down now. I haven't been up there for a
week while, but friend of mine's just been down there
and had a good time in the area. And we're
on the zip lines. There's always plenty to do, and
I'm down whether it's summer or winter.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Always play to do John nice to hear from you.
Thank you, fifteen past ten. I'll welcome here till twelve.
If you want to be a part of it, get
in touch. Oh wait at eighteen eighty PI and Michael Hill. Yeah,
by the way, he also owned that chain of cafes

(01:09:17):
that did very well and all around the country. He
didn't start them off, but yeah, that was a big
part of him. He was all about those too. So
he certainly was far and wide I means, clearly a
successful business person. So yeah, Joe's garage was the name

(01:09:40):
of the cafes. He owned all of those and took
those around the country or franchise those that would, and
they always send to be particularly a successful run of cafes.
They featured very well in our Schnitzel Night Schnitty. They
must do Schnitzel's. That's something as well. But yes, my
name is Marcus Good Evening talk about the Royal wedding
this day nineteen forty four years ago, nineteen eighty one,

(01:10:05):
and talking about Michael to talk about meat pies, how
they've become too complicated. I'm enjoying your text. I'm enjoying
your calls on anything. If you don't want to come through,
we'd love to hear from you. Best pepper steak pies
are at the Bake chap Mount Mountanui. All the pies
are awesome. Marcus Burley pies belit him a top drawer.

(01:10:31):
Always get one on the way to see the Farno
at Fearhall Cemetery. Springfield Pies also well with a mentioned
great topic love the show Marcus. The pies at Sims
baker and Timma Nash but delicious also in Waikawa Ei
Benos Pies. Both places are on State Hiway one and
their bakery is scrumptious as well. Oh, they have released
the name of the best pie in the country and

(01:10:53):
I can tell you about that now. That's the best pie.
Rose Dale Bakery and Cafe in Auckland, a swirled potato
top pie with a central call of fon dance style
cook but and ogatan layers. That's the winner. He owns
two bakeries in Albany. So it was a sausage roll

(01:11:18):
that really got famous on But there we go. The
Rosedale Bakery and Cafe. We've got an address for that, Dawn.
If people want to go tomorrow. Where is that though?
That's Rosedalees north of Albany. I got that confused with
Rosebank Road. Okay, so wrote the best pie in the country.

(01:11:46):
It's near the water treatment Park, Rosedale Bakery and Cafe
gosh An author of Auckland, seems to be a real
stronghold for meat pies. To a unique pie, this one,
the judge has gone and saying this year's competition, the

(01:12:07):
standard was incredibly high and all the categories and the
expectation of how they would taste certainly get the judges
working hard. We saw so much innovation in every aspect
of the pies, from eleborate toppings, different pastry styles with
some new and really interesting flavors like the Pacific style paalisami,
the veniceon portant tamarillo and the Malabar beef curry. And
leads the world in pie making. We own that credit,

(01:12:30):
so congratulations to all the winners.

Speaker 5 (01:12:32):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
That's a situation with pies. You've got a question about pielists.
Do you wonder if your favorite pies by the list?
Give me a call. I'll check up on it. Otherwise
we are talking about Michael Hill and surcharges on cars.
Worst ever pie mixed Vejesus pastry filler and bacon EG pies.

(01:12:54):
Baker Neig pies are sult enough, but nothing is salty
than KFC chips. Hey, Matt here read this card. Surcharges
in auction rooms where we sell on behalf other people,
we charge a commission on what is sold, but there's
a big issue for us having to cop the SEO charge.

(01:13:14):
When we take a payment for something that's been sold,
we get twenty five percent we pay the seller, there's
seventy five percent. If we sell something for one hundred
and we have to eat a two percent fee, then
our total revenue decreases from twenty five dollars to twenty three.
That's an eight percent reduction and total revenue for the business.
This isn't just eight percent in profit. An eight percent

(01:13:36):
loss and revenue is catastrophic to a business. There needs
to be more consultation on this matter. I know it's
a nearlyier topic, but I've been riled up all day
about this, and I hope you can share this example
of the logic comes up again. It's a great example,
and we'll explain that I can understand that now, Marcus,

(01:13:57):
anyone know what the old man says on the one
advert on TV. I've tried and can't understand him. Between
the mother's son are sitting at the table with the grandfather.
No idea, Marcus. Best pies of Jimmy's, Minton Cheese from
Rocksbury and Helias Steak cheese and Relish and Lincoln get
one in you, Marcus. What about the government telling farm
prints what the children can or cannot do? They're in

(01:14:18):
schools with chickens where they collect eggs by the lawns.
Take care of the environment will be what will the
rules be there? Thank you? Marcus. What do you think
is healthier for you? KFC McDonald's are a pie? What
would be the healthiest? I'd say probably McDonald's because you've
got the letters and the tomato and it's not deep fried.

(01:14:42):
I mean the pie. It's full of fat, the the
golf baller fat, the crust. KOSC is terrible for you,
I'm sure of it. I think it's probably McDonald's. What
would be healthier McDonald's KF Sarah pie? Can you ask
chet gpt Dan? Marcus? Back to the butter prices here

(01:15:02):
and Ash Burton on the Spot and Beach Road and
produce Pals, The Bug Vegetable Shop, but Tin Wilder both
advertising Butter at seven ninety nine. Bought Butter today at
Woolworths and the cheapest day was their brand, which is
now eight ninety nine. The price has risen again. No, yes,
but it's what they pay overseas for it, not what
it costs to produce. Oh no, so you got stitched

(01:15:26):
up old heral facing the nation, didn't he He'll be
doing it tough, well, six million dollars a year. Tough
but still anyway, twenty eight away from eleven. My name
as Mark as welcome now. I don't know what else
I can tell you to tonight to get you up
and running. But if those topics have interested you, or
there is something else pies, I'm always up for discussion.

(01:15:51):
A lot of people talk about the pies in Cromwell,
could Sanger's pies. I haven't seen them in the awards,
but you know you've got to enter. It's not like
there is secret shoppers travel the nation just looking at
pie is It's not like the Mitchellan Star, Harriet's Marcus
good Evening.

Speaker 7 (01:16:14):
One.

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
You've already hadn't readed is Elias pie and cristis a
very good, very good. But there's another one around. You see.
They just called number eight pie.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
That's quite a good min that's a great it's a
great name, number eight, great name. Where are they?

Speaker 13 (01:16:32):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
And k but in any dairy? I don't have done all,
Darius haven't. But some of them don't. Pretty good, pretty
pretty faces. I'll tell you what I was thinking.

Speaker 7 (01:16:41):
If you Katis.

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
There was a part years ago called Margarita. Margaret was
hat on the Margareta, and they were mint s ground
up Martin mints and knows that knows that at all
one hundred percent mins. And the secret to them being
good was they were unleaving pastry. They didn't. You sit

(01:17:04):
there and you didn't have you didn't have pastry all
over the floor. And and another thing too was, oh
it's gone out of in mind. That's right. They were
baked in a in a wood fight oven and Sydney.

Speaker 12 (01:17:18):
But that was many years ago.

Speaker 8 (01:17:20):
They've gotten out of business since.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
Britt.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
That's a good memory, Horry, Thank you, David and Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 12 (01:17:26):
Oh Marcus, my name's David. I have called up before
a not in recent times. Yeah, David, I do know.
But we were talking about something before about take away.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
What's healthier pies or take KFC McDonald or a pie.
We'll come back to you. Stuart's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Oh yeah, just went to McDonald's. No, nineteen dollars to
two burgers. Mine was a double cheese. The Wench had, Yeah,
the big burger. There's only one piece of meat in
it for nineteen dollars. Definitely not McDonald's at nineteen dollars.

(01:18:28):
I could have gone out and bought some real meat
and real veggies and cooked us up myself.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
But you can see on the menu what it looks like.
You can see what I mean. You're not going and
blind to McDonald's.

Speaker 21 (01:18:38):
Are you? I wasn't driving, But as in saying that
you lost your license to have a double meat burger,
well I got a double cheese, but there was only
one slice of meat.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
And which is burger? The wife's burger?

Speaker 11 (01:18:56):
There is?

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
You lost your license?

Speaker 15 (01:19:04):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Have you got a Have you got an ankle bracelet?
You've got the Rudy Hill rolics?

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
No, no, no, no, I got I got rid of
that about not about four weeks ago.

Speaker 12 (01:19:19):
But I've got the alcohol.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Into lock in the car.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Must have been a tough Hello, are we on the
old the handcuff for?

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
Oh this time?

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Only five months?

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Must have been a tough five months for the winch.

Speaker 6 (01:19:34):
Oh no, she works.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Oh so you're home on your own the whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Oh no, on my mates come around, and I've never
drunk more since I got it wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Cheapest creepers the way he talks about his wife. Anyway,
twenty two away from eleven Colin Marcus welcome, Yes, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:19:55):
Naru islands in the news because they're going to go there.

Speaker 6 (01:20:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:20:01):
When I was when I was about twenty two years
of age, I had a relative of an uncle who
was with the British Phosphate Commission, and I went up there.
It took us on a Norwegian ship called the Vilia.
It took us about five days to get up there,
and then this great big cantilever comes out and loads

(01:20:25):
of ship and took us seven days to get back.
But a lot of people don't see realize it's only
nine square kilometers in nine and there are a tremendous
amount of sunken ships around there from the Second World
War and it was the first place that I ever

(01:20:48):
saw a Chinese opera. Oh so the Chinese were already
in the Pacific. That would be about end somewhere in
the nineteen fifties. When I went up there. It was
a wonderful trip.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
And what do you reckon the population is.

Speaker 22 (01:21:07):
Well, the bloody Australians. They used it as a prison,
didn't they. Yeah, yeah, but I wouldn't have any idea.
There was nothing like that, of course in those days.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
But I mean so while there was an extremely wealthy place,
the wealthiest in the world, and they all get diabetes,
and they all got diabet they all got diabetes, and
they blew all their investments and now it's hollowed out
and they're desparate for crypto. It's a heartbreaking story, it is, really.

Speaker 22 (01:21:38):
But it was a beautiful little island. We went around it,
and I was very I was a bit shocked by
someone calling his wife or a wench.

Speaker 21 (01:21:50):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Absolutely, that's not on.

Speaker 22 (01:21:52):
That's just retrial, and.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
I think my technic of mirroring it back to the
prospect was probably not that successful.

Speaker 22 (01:21:59):
But anyway, Yeah, so that's about Naru and crypto. We'll
see what will happen twelve people.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Colin, Yeah, and of.

Speaker 22 (01:22:09):
Course Trump is into crypto now.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
But that's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Cryptosporidium with a battle luck.

Speaker 22 (01:22:15):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay then Marcus, nice.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
To hear from you, Colin, Thank you. Nineteen to eleven.
My nameers Marcus, welcome Heredill twelve, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty Marcus, I'm glad to be Celiac is. All
takeaways are rubbish? Marcus. Remember the dollar pies at the

(01:22:41):
dairies and Chroistich around two double six two buys pies
and a book out the back of the airport listening
to zb Morning Show. What a great start to the weekend.
Were you watching planes? Marcus was talking with the baker
one day, told me the award should be done on
blind tasting by judges traveling the country rather than sending pies.
And as it's not reflective of what a bakery would produce.

(01:23:09):
Margueritea pies were the best back in the seventies in
christ Church. That stuff doesn't decompose. What are they talking about, Marcus?
Can you please explain the rules of a roundabout? Yes, straightforward,
if you're going straight through, indicate as you leave. If

(01:23:33):
you're turning to your right, you indicate to the right
as you come on, and just before you come off
past halfway round, you indicate left.

Speaker 5 (01:23:42):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Well, by the way, there's no hungy Pie in the
awards tonight. What's that about, Susie Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 23 (01:23:57):
Oh killed Marcus. Yeah. I was just listening to, you know,
people talking about crypto and that and thinking about the
two charge today that it's going to get white but
obviously it'll be put on the consumer. But reminded me
of in the nineties. We belonged to a group of
people and I can't remember how it was spread because

(01:24:20):
we went like, well, we didn't have like social media
like you did today, but it was green dollars and
we used to belong and it was a group of people,
and I think it was through like a grass roots
magazine or something that was put out those subscribed and
you're with a group of people, and we used to

(01:24:40):
do people's gardens and then the return you could you
gain so many points, and then with those points you
could buy like a dozen eggs, or someone would make
your bread, or you could get jam, and or you know,
someone might come around and give you a message and
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Do you remember that, yes, so vaguely. Do I know
there was a few systems like that whereabouts.

Speaker 10 (01:25:03):
Were you.

Speaker 23 (01:25:04):
We were in Hawk's bat. Yeah, yeah, But I always
wonder now that you know, because of the economic climate,
whether and social media, whether it could take off again
putting it out here, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
A really good point because I know that barter cards
still around, which I never really understood, but that was
that a similar thing barter card.

Speaker 23 (01:25:29):
I'm not familiar with, but a card. But yeah, but
we just called it green dollars and it kind of
worked for a little while until the chocks didn't lay
the eggs and someone got tired of making the bread.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
It's a good way of getting around GST, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (01:25:45):
Yeah? Yeah, and it was. It was just a barta
system and you exchanged goods and services for you know,
whatever you did, and you had points system and there
was no money that exchanged hands. I just thought, in
today's world, it might be quite a good idea to
start again.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
I don't know what you do, you reckon?

Speaker 23 (01:26:05):
That was I think I was in the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
Okay, we'll talk more about this. So I appreciate you
coming through evening, Matt Marcus, welcome, just having me mate
my pleasure.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Mat all right. So my take is there is no
way that a potentio top pie can win the best pie.
It's not even a pie. It's like a dish. It
was wrapped in pastry. It is not a pie. It's

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an abomination.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
What would you call it.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
It's a dish. It's like a like a kesse role.
You cook up a croc pop, you chuck some the
most potato on the top. There you go. It's not
a pie. It's a kesse role. It's like a whole dish.
It's a pie. Is versus you have?

Speaker 21 (01:27:09):
You have?

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
I really think have you eaten many potato top pies?

Speaker 19 (01:27:16):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
I hate I think that you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
Have you ever eaten one at all?

Speaker 5 (01:27:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:27:24):
I have.

Speaker 5 (01:27:24):
I've had one or two because.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Our skill touch shops sold them, and the potato would
become quite firm and almost crispy. Then you'd put the
sauce in there and it would hold the sauce well
because the sauce wouldn't slide off because I had all
the hills and valleys. I think it's a great pie.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
You've got a little bit of a point there, but
it's more of a dish though, isn't it. It's not
a pure pie.

Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
Now you're adding condiments and saying, well, I've got this
side of potato on the top. It's not a pie.
The pie is the meat in the paste.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
What about a fruit pie that hasn't got What about
a fruit pie that hasn't got a lid?

Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Oh? At my touch shop, we actually had some really
beautiful strawberry pies in case.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Yeah they were did your touch shop did you did
your touch shop have custard pies?

Speaker 5 (01:28:25):
No, we didn't have custod pies with things like bulldogs. Wow.
It was really really, really unhealthy, to be honest.

Speaker 7 (01:28:36):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
But they never had a custard pie because I never
had the Do you know what I'm talking about? The
custard pie it had, you wouldn't call it a pie,
just yeah, it just was a lower pastry shell with custard.
I suppose inside h custody pie.

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
It was a dessert. It was a dessert. Oh no,
a pie feels to me. Yeah, it's meat and paste
fry to me. Okay, And I found I'm going to
have to shut them out. Choice cakes on Ricken Road,
but down near the university, in the corner of Farnui

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in Ricken Road, near glas Road. Absolutely brilliant pies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
What's it called again? Chyste cakes, choice cakes, choice cakes,
Funny baker. Okay, appreciate it, Matt, thank you, choice cakes.
Pie suggestions. Who would pay for the blind tasting around that?
They probably should be a Minister of pies. The way
we're going looking to a blind tasting around the country.

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It's not a Kesser old shepherd's pie.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
More like.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Anyway, lambs, fry and bacon pies. Already tasting my favorite
something old mints and cheese. Margaret potato pie is a
cottage pie, been around for centuries. Marcaus, I've just which
is healthier. But Donald's case, there are pie said, go
to Peter Pitt Marcus and the Pies Awards, Roys and

(01:30:24):
Augland disadvantage to traveling pies, not me. South Island pies
on the list. Looking forward to hearing from your My
name is Marcus with it ll twelve Tim Beverage at
midnight eight and eighty ten eighty Graham, good evening.

Speaker 24 (01:30:38):
Oh hi, they're wending from south and then we've had
light steady rain since nine o'clock this evening. The weather
update for you for thank you for where I live,
no wind and no thunderstorms sign please to report, so
thank you. That's keeping you in the frame there. And

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my favorite pie wood is very popular in and then
lose your cells out sends a girl on the shep
Else at the pie shop just block north of the Octagon,
and that's steak and mushroom.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
What's the pie shop a block north of the Octagon?

Speaker 24 (01:31:18):
Oh, I think it's just called pies or the pie shop.
It's right next door to the West Pink Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Is that in the area where it's all? Is that
the area where it's closed off?

Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
It's not not only closed off. You're thinking of the.

Speaker 24 (01:31:39):
One way street that goes south down to Murray Place
from about now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:51):
I'm thinking of the part of George Street which is
now like a more with that seasaws.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:31:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm referring to. I don't think
it's gott an official name, but it is. It's a
bit of walkway and it's sort of me and has
spends in it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
Is that only one is that were your pie shoppers?

Speaker 24 (01:32:09):
H at the start of Yeah, Yeah, it's just it's
just on the northern side of the what do you
call it, uh, Morrow Place, Morrow Place North, one block.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
North of the Octagon on north of the Octagon.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:32:29):
Well, and it's right next door, directly next door to the.

Speaker 5 (01:32:35):
Bank.

Speaker 24 (01:32:38):
It's a it's a very popular pie place.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
So it's north of Moray Place.

Speaker 24 (01:32:45):
It's just north of Myron Place. A few paces north
of Myray Place. You go past the bank, Westpac Bank,
and the next shot past the north, heading north towards the.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
Gardens is.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Bakehouse on Bond bake House on looks good. I've had
a pie that was good. Yeah, okay, I agree with you, Graham.
Nice to hear from Glad we got that name, Amy,
Good evening, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Marcus, Hello, Maes.

Speaker 9 (01:33:16):
You started something with the pies, haven't you. I mean
waiting for someone to say a certain name and I
haven't heard yet, so I thought give a quick call.
And it's called gestures.

Speaker 24 (01:33:29):
I know.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
We pies and anything cooking that has personal preference and
doesn't mean one is better and all.

Speaker 25 (01:33:37):
It's good. It's just not be like or not like.

Speaker 9 (01:33:40):
But for me, I like the very thin crust of pastry,
not that sick stuff for me.

Speaker 25 (01:33:46):
I agree, yeah, And I like Justice because they've.

Speaker 20 (01:33:51):
Got so many choices. It's amazing, from chicken fita and
spinach and premium New Zealand steak and spiners and buttoned
mushrooms and lean steak, gravy, melted charity your name, and
they've got so much choice. And you can buy them
colds to take them home, put to me in your

(01:34:12):
own freezer, and then you can use them at home
without having to go back to the store.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Now, I remember that Justice pies a while back. They
were if we were, but now there's not as many,
is there. There used to be a lot more shops.

Speaker 9 (01:34:25):
Right, yes, yeah, yeah. We still got a very small
shop here in Manoreva, Manicau on Chres South Road, and
there is so much wonderful choice. And I also do
fish and chips things or sorry chips only and that's
really wonderful. Better quality is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
So good, you know, I always they're always good when
I try them. Maybe thank you for that just us. Yeah, okay,
it was there if we and they actually they've got
a thunder crust. You don't feel like you kind of
your arteries are hardening. Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:35:00):
Yeah, Marcus. Three points first, lessons max pies, second making
them and wood in bakery missus max pie is and
it's terrible, disgusting decent all the time I lived in
work in Whist, Australia. In my opinion, you can't guy

(01:35:22):
bacon big pie and yeah, and what in bakery you
can't go wrong? Were nine dollars about nine bucks a pie?
Don nine dollars a pie?

Speaker 5 (01:35:31):
But they are a very good pie.

Speaker 15 (01:35:33):
And yeah, someone mentioned Fendleton the bakery there, and the
name of the place just escapes me off ship not Shippington.
But anyway, Yeah, that's my points. I like to make
speaci about the bacon eg pie.

Speaker 11 (01:35:51):
I like it yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
You like a bacon big pie? Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 10 (01:35:54):
Oh you made?

Speaker 15 (01:35:55):
I love a bacon eg pie, puffy pastry, several eggs
and ed corn and chop up your bacon beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
And the wood in bakery is the wood in tevan
am I right?

Speaker 11 (01:36:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Would you drive drive that far? It'd be a half
hour drive for a pie, would it No?

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
That's on the way to ham Sprinkles.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Can you get can you still get a good piet?
The hem the bakery.

Speaker 5 (01:36:25):
No no, I never tried it.

Speaker 15 (01:36:28):
I won't no, no, no no, I get me fell
on the way Marcus to where I know is good,
and that is the Wooden Bakery.

Speaker 12 (01:36:37):
Can't go wrong.

Speaker 15 (01:36:39):
Yeah, missus macks pies mate, as I say, they are disgusting.
They're a thick, heavy, not a puffy pace you sort
of like a short crust or something like you don't
know how to make a.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Pie gravy milkshake. Thanks Dave Clear, Hello.

Speaker 26 (01:36:59):
Hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 5 (01:37:01):
Clear?

Speaker 10 (01:37:01):
Thank you good?

Speaker 26 (01:37:03):
Good Now Marcus. My husband and I we went down
to and traveled in our caravan at the beginning of
this year March April May. We spent down in the
South Island and we tried a few pies on the way.
And we got down I can't remember whether it was
the need or in the caddle, and there was a

(01:37:24):
place called the Fat Bazards Pie.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
Oh yes, yes, yes, yeah, and I thought.

Speaker 26 (01:37:30):
I turned to my husband, I said, no, cheeky buggers
if named a pie after you. But we went and well,
I can't remember whether we mentioned and got one or not,
but said he picking my husband out of millions of
men in his season's frame of Bloody pie after that was.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Very, very funny. Yeldo fifteen past eleven. So lucky to
be close to Patrick's Pies and Bethleyhem. Back in the day,
Tricia's Pies and Island Bay were the best marks. I
think that lady talking about just As Pies probably works
there or owns it. Marcus in a motorhome near Tadaha,

(01:38:15):
been battered around by strong winds from the carmes and
heavy rain. Great to have you interested in this show.
Listen to cheers, Hey, Jude Marcus. They love the atmospheric
river Malarkey overused by fast sausage rolls wayy than pies,
Michael Hill. An incredible amount to admire there. Marcus is

(01:38:38):
fundraising by running a battens up illegal in New Zealand.
Is bettons up actually gambling or like potluck did as
a harmless weight of maze. I don't know what a
battens up as. Could someone explain that to me? Marcus?
Georgie pie, BlackBerry and apple hard to beat. You've said
something there that's the truest text I've ever seen. Cottage
Bakehouse did even do a mean as potato top curry pie.

(01:39:01):
So good because I was part of the Green Dollar
in Auckland the early nineties. I traded manual labors such
as gardening for home brew. It was an excellent arrangement.
So it's like the great Kiwi novel PJ Pies ham
A very good apparently Bakerman's Pies, Bakermen's Bakery and Finndalton

(01:39:25):
more fantastic. Pie is always packed with people, not the pies.
The shops prices for all their food very reasonable. Just
back from the Pie Awards. Eight went to the North Shore,
go the Mighty Shore. What was your connection there? Did
you have an entry? I didn't go to many of

(01:39:49):
the pie wards over the years. Beck in the Day, Yeah,
beck in the Day, seventeen past eleven, Oh you're good
on you thanks for that number any and eighty two
good reply. So the best pie at the bakery at

(01:40:15):
the Pie Awards was a potato top pie. But it's
a bit more than a potato top pie because the
sort of that it's got a core of thinly sliced
sliced potato and a potato grettame that kind of goes
through the middle of the pie. So it looks quite interesting.
Rosedale Bakery and Cafe in Auckland. I'll look at it

(01:40:39):
google Maps s if there's anything interesting in the window.
But it's just one of those. It's just one of
those strip more type things. The guy's got two shops.
I think it's on the I'm pretty sure it's on
the it's on Racetale Road. I'm pretty sure I've been there.

(01:41:02):
Let me just look at the Google Maps. He it's
a very ordinary looking shop. I want to say that disparagingly,
but could be any shop on the shore. I'm just
looking on Google Maps. Have I said that? Yes? Now
said it again? Twenty one past leave a grieving sell

(01:41:26):
and this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:41:28):
Good evening. Ye you'll mention of Shepherd's Pie took me
back to Billy t James stip. I don't know if
you ever saw it, but it was Billy t is
dressed up. He wouldn't recognize him. He had a long
white bed and white hair in shepherd's garb of biblical times,

(01:41:51):
and with a shepherd's cook and he's in the middle
of a paddock. And then there's At that time they
used to typecast secret agents in Secret Service agents in
New Zealand always put in a black suit and a
black troop till we hit true we had, But there's
two of these guys come marching across the perry and

(01:42:13):
come up to him and say you're under a wrest
and said, what what for do you think you are
a foreign spy. I'm not a foreign spy. I'm a shipherd.
He said, right, we're going to arrest being a shepherd spie.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
Very good salad, thank you. None of your shipherd spy joke.
But wow, that's great, Jimmy, good.

Speaker 13 (01:42:37):
Evening, you got eveling, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:42:40):
I've just caught the towel intobut pies of just popping
into bed.

Speaker 24 (01:42:44):
One of the best I've got to it, Mick, is
a lovely piles that have to be fairly pised.

Speaker 8 (01:42:48):
Make you name that they've.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Got it from the very good pies. It's a great pie.

Speaker 11 (01:42:55):
Good on your Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Have a good one brother, You too, mate, Jimmy, appreciate
your enthusiasm. Twenty three pounds eleven Philly pies are quite good, Marcus.
Johnny's pies, Titler, the best power pies. What did most
makers ruin? A good steak? Piper adding cheese. I spooned

(01:43:16):
the gooey missed out before it burns me. Now there
is a place called Fat Bastard's Pies and Vocab, But
there's two good pie shops in the cable. Fat Bastard
and the Pioneer both make a bit of a name
for themselves. Why don't they? Guy called his wife the winch.

(01:43:41):
What was expecting from an other? Even knew what McDonald's
was by now, not the first time he'd got out
of the house. You're Tony, welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:43:54):
Yes, good evening, Marcus, wonderful show as always. I've been
waiting fourteen months for cataracts operations and finally got it
done today and only to find that tomorrow three thy
six hundred nurses are on strike. So here's your luck.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
It's perfect timing, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:44:18):
Okay? Yeah, I'm so grateful that finally got in and
had it done.

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
If you kicked it with credericks, you can see straight away,
can you?

Speaker 5 (01:44:28):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:44:30):
Three days with the patch on? Yep, it's slightly uncomfortable,
like a grain of sand under the eyelid, but it's
not unbearable.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
You didn't get poking horn died you.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
Nah, But I'm so grateful to the nurses here at
christ Church Crust You.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
Yeah, okay, you know that's great. Oh that'll be having
a day off tomorrow. So that's get Not much going
to get done tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (01:44:58):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (01:44:59):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
No, so yeah, I was so lucky after fourteen months
of waiting and begging and and ringing and hoping, and
finally got in just by the skin of my teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
You might say, do they do you do the other
one as well?

Speaker 7 (01:45:17):
No, that's on the list now again, so it might
be another fourteen months of the other eye, is it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Do they normally do? They normally deteriorate at the same
well to the cataracts. Are both the cataracts the same
size or as one often different size of the other.

Speaker 7 (01:45:34):
The left one went quite rapidly and just black. It
could not see a thing. And then the right eye
I suppose, I wonder if it's through strain, but it
slowly went and everything was milky. I could only see
meter in front of me, and I put up with
that for preps twelve months. Yes, yeah, been a bit

(01:45:59):
of a trial.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
But it sounds so tony. I can hear the re
leaf in your voice. It's quite moving listening to you.
How grateful you are. This is exciting and just did
it out like in the day, isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:46:11):
Yes? Yes, exactly, yes, thank you very much for taking
my call.

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
Have a great evening, my absolute please are Tony.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
Jay.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
He's turned the corner. Good evening, Lorraine. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:46:24):
Hi Marcus. I married an Aussie back in the sixties
and lived in Australia for forty years. My raised the
family boys there, and my oldest boy went to Colorado
to Denver, where he ran a tavern. One day in
the tavern there was a New Zealand family there and
my son, the waitress came over and told him he said,

(01:46:47):
I'll go and say hello. So he went over and
where are you from? And they said, Ohvaru. He said, oh,
my mom's from Ovaru and they didn't believe him until
he said, whenever mum goes home, the first thing she
has to do is have a well it's pie.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Yeah okay.

Speaker 25 (01:47:05):
So they then everyone fell about. It was that the
Willets pies and Mutton pies.

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
Yes, disappeared every famous, aren't.

Speaker 9 (01:47:16):
They they are?

Speaker 25 (01:47:18):
And they're absolutely delicious. And I now live in christ
Church and don't have access to them.

Speaker 14 (01:47:24):
There is.

Speaker 25 (01:47:25):
In fact, I don't know whether the Willet's Tea room
has disappeared. I don't know where it's gone, but I'm
pretty sure the Willets Pies recipe would be somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
But I also know that Tibodoo that there was the
Maze pie everyone raved about. Have you heard of that
as well?

Speaker 5 (01:47:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
I think that was like the slightly more northern equivalent
of the Willets Pie.

Speaker 23 (01:47:47):
Uh huh.

Speaker 25 (01:47:48):
Well, the Willet's pie is nothing like an ordinary pie.
It's got this ball of mutton, and it's got quite
a lot of quite a lot of muttons around.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
I mean, it sounds it sounds like people's taste buds
might have changed. That's not so appealing anymore.

Speaker 25 (01:48:06):
No, I just wonder if they're still available. I guess
someone will ringing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
And you we'll find out. They're nice to hear from you.
Thank you. Twenty two to twelve, Antonio, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:48:17):
Oh, Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:48:18):
Yep.

Speaker 19 (01:48:19):
Does anyone mentioned the BP connect pies or the shell
station pipes? See the station pis.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
They're pretty good, now, aren't they.

Speaker 19 (01:48:28):
Yeah, they're good. Everyone. I go to the one sometimes
when I'm going south and the motorway is past Papakurah
heading down south, and a lot of every time I
stop there, everyone gets a coffee or they're buying food,
and the pies are seem to be really nice. I
like the seven pastry ones, the vegetarian ones actually which

(01:48:51):
guest as.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
You say, BP directed you BF connect, you connect, connect
do what the guest stations are really up the game
when it comes to pies. I mean that I think
and even Z that they've done very well with pies.

Speaker 19 (01:49:02):
I reckon, yeah, yeah they have. They're awesome and yeah,
so they're good. And I'll just touch the subject about
the eighty one Raw wedding. Of course we had Dame
Kerry Takanawa singing in that wedding, and it's good for
New Zealand. Had a connection with that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Yeah, it's kind of funy because I was a child
and it seemed as in those days game Dame Kenny
Decando had been around forever, but she actually probably must
have been quite young then because she's still around now
and that was forty four years ago.

Speaker 19 (01:49:37):
So funny thing is I was in England just by chance.
This is ninety nine and I was in a department
in the shop and I heard someone talking about it.
I s I remember that I just happened to be
over there for a few weeks, and they were talking
about Kerry Takana was singing, and that they were actually

(01:49:58):
complimenting her how good she was.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Oh, she was top of a game when she sung there.
That's why she was there.

Speaker 19 (01:50:04):
Yeah, put us on the map, you know. Well, well
anything like that, it's always good for New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Well, I think she was. I think she was. I
think she was dead famous anyway. I think she was
like the fun I think she was. Yeah, I don't
know too much better. I'm pretty sure she was top
of your game, like the like the greatest at the time.
So no surprises you. What were you doing there?

Speaker 5 (01:50:27):
I just.

Speaker 6 (01:50:29):
What did I do?

Speaker 19 (01:50:30):
I flew over to London. I just did a kind
of mate over there. But I went on a bus
tour and around Europe as well Scotland.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
Oh it sounds a great holiday.

Speaker 19 (01:50:43):
Yeah, it was good fun.

Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:50:45):
I went to the Rugby World Cup game in Edinburgh
and all Blacks were there, but they weren't playing at
the time. Oh yeah, And I said to one of
the guys actually spoke to a couple of them, Oh
can I sit with you and nodded his head. I
remember Brendan Keller half back. Yeah, and there's Alema Ama Yeah, yeah,

(01:51:15):
he was there. And I walked away. I was just
on my own. I walked about one hundred meters one
hundred yards and I looked back and Alama Rama was
still looking. He was looking at me directly because he
knew that I wanted to sit with him, and I
was like, he probably figured out that I was just
on my own, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
Oh well, okay, oh, I.

Speaker 19 (01:51:37):
Just remember that because I had my I bought a ticket,
official ticket, but I was just on my own, you know.
I didn't know anyone. Yeah, but it would have been
good to sip with your backs, but of course it
wasn't allowed to.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
I'm seeing you, okay, Thanks Antonio. Nice to hear from
your nineteen to twelve Jared. Good evening. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:51:58):
I love pies, the probably my favorite comfort food. I
probably have one a week on average, So in my opinion,
the best pissure in New Zealand is in Blenham and
are called the Burley. I don't know if anybody has mentioned.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
Yeah, I recognize the name has been texted through.

Speaker 8 (01:52:22):
Okay, they are absolutely fantastic. They packed their pies full
of meat. I went there last week on my birthday
and I had a Jamaican lamb curry pie and it's
the best pie I ever had. I've had it three times.

Speaker 5 (01:52:47):
Over the years.

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
Tell me that. Tell me the flavor again.

Speaker 8 (01:52:51):
Jamaican lamb curry. Okay, So there's pieces of lamb in
it and potato and it's quite spicy. They need to
be prepared for that. And then my second favorite, it
is Philly bake House.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 8 (01:53:12):
Yeah, this salmon and bacon is just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Is there a beck story to the Burley Pie Shop?

Speaker 6 (01:53:22):
I do you know who I am to do?

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Who the chef is or anything? No, I don't know
much about it. Hang hang on a sick Dan, Can
you do a search of can you do a search
of those documents? Can you do a burly search to
see if they're there? Clas I suspected they were there,
You've got have you got the ability to do that?

Speaker 5 (01:53:40):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
Yeah, I'll just see if they were in the piewoods Jakes.
I think they might have been okay, so number one's birdie.
Number two is fairly.

Speaker 8 (01:53:52):
And bakers. Have you been to White Piata Country Hotel?

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
Yeah, I'll tell you. It's a funny story because I
i Valisa had gone someone else by. We had a
camping holiday and central probably the year before last. Yeah,
and I took the kids on a pub tour and
we went to White Piata and it was quite a
busy day at the pub and the kids are exstended

(01:54:18):
to be in a pub. Got great beautiful Otago summer day.
It was fantastic actually, with the garden bar. The pies
took quite a long time to arrive, probably forty five
minutes or something. But the pies, it was the pies
said be about four times the size of any other pie.

Speaker 8 (01:54:36):
Oh yeah, I was there a couple of months ago.
I had the brisket and lapino. I think that's what
I heard.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
That was good.

Speaker 5 (01:54:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:54:46):
Their meat was so beautiful and tender, possibly the best
meat I've had in a pie. Yeah and yeah, so
the best pies are all in the South Island.

Speaker 2 (01:54:59):
What put me off with what put me off with
White Pada Pies is the pub was for sale. I
never quite liked to go to a place and it's
for sale, because I always think sort of they might
have lost the love for what they're doing, but they
didn't seem to.

Speaker 8 (01:55:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay. It's interesting how they kind of make
the pies out of the back and then bring them
into the into the pub. So I wasn't quite sure
what the operation was, but it doesn't matter because I
really enjoyed the view.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
It was great. Now, what's the cowshed pie? Is that something?

Speaker 8 (01:55:29):
Cow shed pies? In among Hawaii and north of Auckland.
They just run out of a sort of caravan in
the village there. Beautiful pastry and great fullings.

Speaker 5 (01:55:42):
That was it.

Speaker 8 (01:55:43):
I had a brisket and jalapeno as well. Recently and
in Cromwell they're seeing as pies.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Yeah, a lot of people have been asking about saying
is pie. I had a corned beef one and it
was incredibly salty, okay, And I kind of felt that
they had kind of been a victim for their own success.
There was a it was all sort of happening a
bit quick there. I thought that as a brewery and stuff,
and I just thought they were sort of chasing the
dollar a bit too much.

Speaker 8 (01:56:13):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like how they expand too quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Yes, I thought then that sort of happened.

Speaker 8 (01:56:21):
I think that's happened to Patrick's pies in Toto and Ruter.
That's just my opinion. I think they've got, you know,
too big for themselves, so they're not for me just personally.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Yeah, are you talking about saying it's not for you?

Speaker 8 (01:56:39):
No, Patrick's yep, okay, because it's you expand and got
too popular. Yes, I just love going on road trips
around the South Island and trying all the all the
Poe shops. I don't really did you get really interested?

Speaker 2 (01:56:55):
Did you get to Tiano to try Miles better pies?

Speaker 8 (01:56:59):
I tried them seven eight, nine years ago. They were okay,
I think from memory. I had a pie for breakfast
that day.

Speaker 2 (01:57:07):
Okay, yeah, and that's good. And Myles, I think Miles
has since deceased, but that was a I think so,
but that I mean, he really he really he kind
of did for Tiana for pies what ferg Burgers had
done in Queenstown for burgers. So it certainly was a
bit of a visionary and and Sidley was one of
those shops with the sum where people were queuing outside.

Speaker 8 (01:57:28):
Yeah, I reckon pies in general are getting better and
more expensive as well, but I'm happy to pay more
for good quality pie.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
Just think of any other any other ones that are
hidden in the back blocks that you might have tried,
but I can't think of. There was a pie and
Papa to why I saw on the awards. I can't
work out where that one was, but I might go
back and look at that afterwards, Jared. But look, I
appreciate your input. I thought that was very good, so
thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:58):
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