Tick, tock (7 August 2025)

After Marcus misplaced his phone - he realised he had no way of tracking the time. 

That got him thinking - are the traditional wall and home clocks a thing of the past?

And that question led to some great stories. 

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Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be a lot to talk about tonight, although it
has kind of been a week that's been focused on driving.
We had two days driving anyway, just because we did,
and then we've got the road user charges last. It's
been good, although I do suspect going to end up
playing more than probably we are paying. Currently doing some
more reading about that today, but anyway, we might give

(00:32):
that a bit of a pass tonight. The old road
users charge yourself. There's other stuff you want to talk about.
Feel free to get in touch, feel free to get involved.
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
ninety six. Just a question from me to you to
just start off the show right, because I think this
is quite interesting. It mightn't be, but I suspect it's
interesting if you think back twenty years to twenty to

(00:57):
two thousand and five, right, and then you come forward
to now. Right, So back twenty years ago, forward to now. Now,
he's an honest question for you. Compare then and now
how many clocks did you have in your house twenty
years ago? And how many clocks he got in your house?

(01:17):
Now because I've just realized because I was getting ready
for work and I'm thinking, gee, what time is it?
I left my cell phone in my car. I had
no idea what time it is because no one has clocks?
Am I right? Because we look at everything that the
cell phone has replaced. It's replaced the landline and it's replaced,
the calculator and it's replaced the alarm clock and it's

(01:38):
replaced the camera. It's replaced all those things. But I
never realized it replace the clock. No one's got clocks.
Have I got that right? There's no point your batteries
run out, you don't replace it because think, goodness, gracious me,
I'm just looking at my phone the whole time. So
ring me up and let me know. Twenty years compared
to then and now, would it be fair to say

(01:59):
you've now got no clocks or many fewer clocks because
the business you wouldn't want to be in as a
clock shop or a c fixer, they have just completely disappeared.
Never thought about that. Every time you move into house,
the first thing you would do ceremonially put the nail
in the wall, hang the clock from it in the kitchen.
Beautiful keep it wound up, looking it the whole time

(02:21):
doing recipes. Just disappeared twenty years bang gone, And the
weird thing is a bit like rollerblading. It's disappeared and
no one's acknowledged it. So there you go. I'm officially
acknowledging it. We've all got rid of our clocks. Tell
me that I'm wrong, because I suspect probably with some
of you you'll be dyed in the wall. You don't
want to change your habits. But I think for most

(02:43):
of you, in the last twenty years you've let your
clocks go, and when they've broken or when the battery's gone,
you've quietly just taken them down and put them in
a drawer, put them out of the garage sale. Have
I got that one right, suspect I have? And feed
the way this works. If you're not telling me that
I've got it wrong, I suspect I have got it right.
But come through and let me know. Here ll twlve

(03:03):
o'clock my names. Market's good evening and welcome. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine detects. By the way, I
don't want to go back to the pie woods, but
I did tell you on that night, I said, you
want to go to Huntley right away because that rhubarb
and raspberry one sounded like the shizzle will goodness me,
what do you know flying off the shelves? And they

(03:24):
reckon rhubarb might be making a comeback. I reckon, it's
never gone away, tremendous plant. And what's good about the rubarb?
It's a metaphor for a lot of things. No, it's not, actually,
but the worse you treat it, the better it grows.
If you want to grow rhubarb, because we've done shows
on this, what you want to do is treat it

(03:46):
terribly and then like fish guts anything like that, dig
that around that and perfect, it'll just blossom. It's it's
just one of those extra do you call it a plant?
One of those extraordinary plants? Anyway, get in touch? Clocks
or no clocks? Am I right about that text? If

(04:07):
you want to donak here, if you don't call? Have
you not got a clock on your microwave? Cheers Chale?
Not only have I not got a clock? I ever
got a microwave, never had a microwave, don't want a microwave.
In fact, most people now don't have a microwave. I
would say for most people the air fry has replaced

(04:30):
the microwave and work microwaves you don't want to go
to because they always smell the last thing that someone's cocked. Marcus,
my rock. My boss refused to buy office a clock
because she said we will have phones and computers. I
went and bought one. What else will you glance at
during meetings in a subtle way? No clocks, no watches,

(04:52):
just a digital time display on the oven microwave. You're wrong,
laugh face. We have a wall clock in the kitchen
and another one in the lounge. Wouldn't be without them.
Not a slave to my phone? Gee, old school or
we're an old school watch, which seems to be getting rarer. Wow, yea.

(05:13):
I've got a number of watches I don't wear, and
they're good watches. Marcus. What about the sun dial beat
around longer than both time? Imagine having a microwave. My
clock doesn't even have batteries in it. Good evening, Marcus,

(05:33):
how are you going? We have clocks in every room
but the bathroom and hallway chairs. Idiots who'd have a
clock in every room? Because I kind of thought that
this would be defined as the post clock ERAR have
three clocks in the house, large in the dining room
and clock ready on bedrooms, so it's the clock inventory tonight.

(05:54):
Helen Marcus, welcome. Hi.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
You're talking to a pioneer here. Still. Wow, I've got
a big, probably twelve innch by twelve inch clock on
the wall in the sitting room. One in the kitchen,
so if you walk past into the kitchen, you think, oh, yeah,
I've got three minutes my cavity, you know, just like
that finest.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Do you have a cell phone out of interest?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Uh? Sort of. I had one, a cheap one, and
I go to my son and he gave me your
smartphone where your swipe it and everything, or just to
be through the at the door. I gave him my
card to go to the wa has to buy me
a forty nine dollars numbers one where you press the numbers.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Wow, you swipe it and everything.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
You do.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Sound like someone that's time traveled from the Egyptian and.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I'm proud of it. I want to stay. Yeah, absolutely.
I stayed at the flat for nine days and I
went to do the washing. That's got all these buttons
across the front that don't mean anything, and you press
them randomly, but at twenty times hope the health and
water comes into the washing machine. Yeah, it does after
a lot of pressing. Go to heat ups and sausages

(07:04):
in the oven needs to be at the whole road
dial sort of fans and this net go to in
the TV on there's about forty squares for the YouTube
and Netflix. That doesn't mean a blood anything all. I
wanted to watch Watches on TV one and I never
watched it the whole time I was there.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You pretty much summed up the world for most of us.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
That's pretty much absolutely.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Netflix or at Sky or Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Oh, just ridiculous, Yes, just so randomly. I put it
on those funniest animals that cats and dogs do. And
I just had that gun while I was doing my
code Breaker and having a cup of tea in this net.
So just for company, basically, So I never heard the
news and the whole Do you like the.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Do you like the code Breaker?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'll tell you what. Once I sat on the plane
next to Richie McCaw right, Yeah, aucan Christ you spent
the whole trip doing Code Cracker.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah, and especially my age on seventy four that's you
need that, and the like anything old fashioned. In fact,
if I went lotto, I'm going to buy an old colonial,
two storied house and teenagers and a duty can and
make my own butter brilliant. But I have done before,

(08:26):
like everything old fashioned, and I'm proud of it. I
haven't even got a computer.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Is a two story household fashion?

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Well, it wants to be an old colony or one year.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Okay, I'm hearing Helen lovely to talk. Thank you've taken
me back. No one's got clocks. Well, that's what I'm saying,
because I've got to. It's the thing I've stake my
career on, Helen. It's Marcus welcome to tell me you
haven't got any clocks, Helen?

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Is this interesting to Helen's in a row?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes, Tuesday.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
This sort of thing happens quite often, isn't it. Yeah, Well,
I've got two very large alarm clocks. I had to
get one because I'm completely deaf in one year and
I need something really loud to wake me up and
sometimes I don't even hear that. And then because I
thought the first time it was broken, I had to

(09:15):
get a second one. And then I found that both
of them worked, so I've got two.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Wow. I think a lot of us are thinking, what
a luxury to have alarm clock. Most of us wake
up long before we're supposed to be awake anyway.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
Yeah, yeah, I'll do that now, but at the time,
it's not My sleeping patterns changed.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Okay, But if you got rid of wall clocks because
you've now got the time on your cell phone.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Well I had the cell phone turned off most of
the time because the coverage is so bad out here. Wow,
and it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
We're about to tell you, Helen.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
I'm in Northland, mid Northland. You know this, it's just redful.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, we need to get the infrastructure right for the
country to go ahead, and we're not doing that free. Well,
are we so nice to hear from your Helen? Seventeen
past eight? We're away. There's a million texts and when
I say million, i'm exaggerating. I will get to them.
But yeah, it seems what I am talking about is
mainly the wall clocks. They've disappeared because normally in a

(10:21):
kitchen of a house of a war clock to know
what time it is. I had a good old railway clock,
not a slave clock. But one you'd wind. Well, I
got bored that quite quickly. You get up on the stool,
you wind the clock, then you wind it again. The
cheapest creamers. I can't be bothered anyway. And no one's

(10:41):
got those old giant grandfather clocks. How they tik TikTok.
I don't even know what you get rid of those
these days. I'm sure some people collect them. Have you ever
been to the clock museum and fung it? A boy?
That's depressing? Gee, something quite depressing and war but about
a room full of clocks. Twenty one past eight, Liz

(11:02):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (11:04):
Yeah, hi Marcus. I've got a walk I've had one
for years and years and years, and I've got it
in the house that we're in now. I've got it
up in the family.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
How long you how long you've been the others?

Speaker 7 (11:17):
Oh, in this place? About seven years?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
So you moved there and you put the clock up.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
No, it was there in my previous home, but it
was in the kitchen. But this time it's sort of
a different design. But I actually rely on it quite
a bit because I'm not in that generation of carrying
my cell phone around me like it's stuck to my hurts,
so I often end up looking at there. Or I
have a wristwatch as well.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Wow, that is old school, the watch and the clock.
So you're not on the phone the whole time. It's
not in your pocket the whole time.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
No, half the time it's in the handbang. And sometimes
it's quicker just actually to look at a wristwatch, because
it's quick.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Out of curiosity? Is that of curiosity? What generation are you?

Speaker 7 (11:59):
Oh, I'm in my late sixties.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Oh okay, which, yeah, okay, which I think that might
be the same as mine, not that I'm in my
late sixties, but yeah, okay.

Speaker 7 (12:06):
Yeah, I guess it's just a different way of looking
at it. Quite often, if I'm busy doing stuff, I'll
or if i'm outside gardening, I'll look at my wrist
watch to see what time it is. Or I come
inside and I've left my cell phone sitting somewhere and
I look up and think, oh, what's the time, and
see it on the big clock on the wall.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, but like that, what I love to do when
I'm out in the farm with something doing, I love
to think, Gosh, I wonder what time it has, Let
me guess and let me see how close And it's
amazing even after hours, how close you are to the
real time. Do you notice that?

Speaker 7 (12:37):
Yes, it's not bad. Actually I actually said it a
bit fast too, so I always.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Think right, oh no, Honestly that drives me crazy people
that set their clock fast because they're always I can't
stand that.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
It's only about three minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I say, yeah, I know that, But then you'd always
be reconverting it, wouldn't you. You'd always be there. I'll
take three minutes off.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
No, I don't.

Speaker 9 (12:59):
I go with it.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Really. Wow, that's what reminds me that woman that calls
a show that doesn't change for daylight saving is there?

Speaker 10 (13:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Wow? She was a bit bit interesting. Clocks. Do you
see clock shops anymore? I don't think you do. Mind
you get a clock that cheaply? What it cost you
four dollars probably for a clock on tu.

Speaker 11 (13:24):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (13:24):
What about China buying all Brazilian's coffee? Smart? Hey, it'll
be the answer. There'll be a Chinese version of Starbucks
that will take over the world. You watch the Space Gosh,
even in the carget I saw one of those by
D electric cars. World's changing, isn't it? And they reckon
they're very are they the one they reckon there? Very good?

(13:46):
I can't remember. I said to the kids, what cars that?
Because they're good with cars. I don't know, Bob, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
You're the best thing people could have done was get
rid of the bloody clocks exactly because whenever I went
to stay with someone that's we put the camp street
tra up in the lounge for you and try to
doc me. Being me, would get a broom or something
and look them blood eything off the wall and pull
the battery out. And I must have smashed about four
people's clocks, but I didn't care.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm not putting up for that. Everywhere I was stay somewhere,
And if you're in a motel, the first thing you
do is aren't take the bet ro out of the clock.
And the next thing you do is unplug the mini
fridge because that engine will go on all night. Terrible things.

Speaker 12 (14:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, I couldn't stand it. The only other
thing that annoyed me was my main had one of
those great big white carrots and it used to coffin
splutter all night long too. I was threatened to throw
it out the door if he didn't come and get it.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
A white carrot.

Speaker 12 (14:43):
Yeah, one of those big white cocka two parrot things.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
You see, a big white carrot?

Speaker 13 (14:47):
I thought, talking to your thing, and that used to
write me nutty do until I was written us right outside.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
So I like what you've said there with you in
camp stretches around the lounge, and what were you doing?

Speaker 12 (14:57):
You just were you sort of guy that when I
go to chrostach or that I start my mate. He
didn't have to be a beach. So you just put
up the camp stretch. Oh yeah, in the lounge.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
You know they'll do. You put the cap stretcher out
in the lounge, Bob, you'll be happy airs, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 12 (15:11):
I wasn't happy.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well did the parrot talk?

Speaker 14 (15:15):
No?

Speaker 12 (15:15):
It coughed and grunted like a bloody old man.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Okay, well I couldn't.

Speaker 12 (15:19):
I couldn't stand it. And then the clock was sticking.
I might as well be sleeping outside.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Exactly did you put a did you put a sheet
over the parrot?

Speaker 10 (15:28):
No?

Speaker 12 (15:28):
He come and took it right. I don't know what
he did with the wind in dis room or something.
I wasn't gonna put up with it anyway.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
But normally with a carrot with a I'm saying carrot. Now,
normally with a parrot, you do put a sheet over
them at night, don't you.

Speaker 12 (15:39):
Oh well, I preferred to put a hand around its
neck personally. But then you go to drive me mad.
It's like a driven tap. I couldn't stand.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, Or what about you ever stayed in a place
away with them? You stayed in a place where there's
one of the smoke alarms is beeping, Yes, terrible beep
beep beep, and kind of as random. You never think,
oh well it stopped then.

Speaker 12 (16:09):
Yeah, because I've got one on a council front that
was doing that and I had to get the dolly
fibergate coming sorted out. So they've got a different one
that works.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Was wired? Was it properly plummed in?

Speaker 15 (16:21):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (16:21):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (16:22):
And malfunks for some reason. But they council sent the
tribe again around. They put a brain new one in.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
And it's not it hasn't got a battery in.

Speaker 12 (16:32):
No, No, that's wired.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
And do that thing?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Do you remember that? Do you remember the parrot's name? Bob?

Speaker 17 (16:37):
No?

Speaker 12 (16:38):
I did not. I didn't want to put up with
a parrot. I hadn't. I just wanted them to get
rid of the bloody The best thing even done, got
rid of the clocks.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Brilliant. Nice to hear from you, Bob well Gost. It
was an exciting almost half hour, wasn't it. I'm just
digesting what people are saying. But the question I want
to know is, twenty years ago, have you got less
clocks on your head? Twenty years ago? We have wall
clocks in the kitchen, lounge, family room, and second lounge.
Gee Flesh, I have a wristwatch. We will have cell phones.

(17:10):
Having the clocks on the walls just helps me see
the time quickly rather than getting our phone out. I'm
in my mid forties. We have five clocks in each room. Jay, Oh,
your clockist? Who have five clocks in each room? How
do to keep them all going? Marcus? I don't change

(17:34):
my clocks either. With DLS daylight saving makes me chuckle
every time I get in the car and realize I
still have an hour carro Old saying, man with one
clock knows what time it is. Man with two clocks
never sure. Marcus. Remember every town and he's in and
had a town clock in the main street. Wonder how
many are still in service? Well, funny you mention that

(17:56):
because that's still the big debate, and invert Cargol because
they've put a road where the clock is. But I've
done talk back on this now what this is quite interesting.
The trouble with all the town clocks is most of
them were earthquake risks, so most of them, like in
New Plymouth, favor had to modernize them. We'll get rid

(18:18):
of them altogether, because you've got a lot of weight
up high, I would imagine. So yes, probably the first
thing to fall in a quake would be the would
be your town clock. But I'd much prefer a digital
clock with the temperature. That's the thing you ready want
to know. You want to know how cold it is.
Giant digital clock with the temperature. That's much better than

(18:39):
one of those old fashioned clocks. Anyway, I'm big on clocks. Well,
I'm big on not having clocks. Not quite what sure
what to do with the old railway clock. Now it'll
be bare an earthquake. Also, Marcus, I reckon Bob's and
Deniala's friends. We just try to annoy him so much
you'd finally fork out for a hotel and steared the

(19:01):
old camp stretcher Thanksteena twenty nine away from nine oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty first question I'd be asking
Albanize is how come you got ten percent tariffs and
we've got fifteen? Who gets your first question? Off the bat?

(19:22):
I see people on Facebook posting the reason our taris
are fifteen to fifteen percent because on the Breakfast TV
when they shot the Trump doll, their record so slipped
that to I wouldn't be surprised. I'd be thin skinned
enough to take offense at that. Yeah, they're all there.
I saw them that for cheapest creepers. I thought, is

(19:44):
what's his name? Not Meddi? J is Maddi still on
the breakfet Obviously it was an old clip. I think,
what I'm watching this?

Speaker 12 (19:50):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (19:50):
The firing hadn't seen it before anyway, Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty nine to nine text we're talking clocks?
Why not? But I just thought that clocks were thinking
of the past, because every one knows what time it is.
Many of mcclaims the guys thinking of anyway, he wasn't

(20:11):
the guy shooting the Trump doll. He was just sending
off to the edge laughing. Anyway, I think they've got
a fear bit of fleck for that. But yeah, videos
don't die, do they do? You get in touch with
our talking clocks. I will read to the texts when
I get a moment talking about earthquakes, right and clock

(20:34):
towers collapsing and earthquakes, because they will have done that.
That's what will have happened. That's why they got rid
of them all, because they're an earthquake risk. I was
reading today about I don't know where I was reading,
but you know, in like a newspaper, online version of
a newspaper. I was reading about the White and Upper earthquake,

(20:54):
the big one in the century before last. They reckon
it was an eight point two, although of course you
wouldn't know because Richter hadn't even be born. So I
was reading about that today, the wide lapp A earthquake
eighteen fifty five. I reckon it was an eight point two.
But what was surprising about that was the wave. The

(21:17):
tsunami wave went right across the peninsula where Willington Airport is.
And I'm thinking, you know, we sort of and what
this focused for me was your tsunami warnings because I
don't know how long that would have taken to travel
it could be five minutes. But wow, and I thought,

(21:39):
jeepest creepers. You know, we laugh and ridicule about the
tsunami warnings. But if you were in Miramar it was
somewhere like that in Wellington, you know, and the wide
rapp of fault happened again, you would not have long
at all to get out of there. And I don't
know where you'd go. I imagine you'd go up to where

(22:03):
Mount Crawfords are up the other way. But yeah, not
long at all. So I thought that was quite sobering.
If you're living in Coolberni in those places, boy oh boy,
you want to sleep with your car keys in the
ignition because you want to be to be looking for

(22:24):
your car keys. Would you you have seconds? Anyway, I've
got a lot of text about clocks. What would be
New Zealand's favorite clock? What favorites I've got you can't
think off the top of my head, but a million

(22:46):
text about clocks. Marcus, I have three clocks in the house.
Great for teaching the grandchildren how to tell the time.
Fourteen year old used to struggle telling the time, but
now has no trouble. We have two radio clocks, an
oven and a microwave clock, and two wall clocks, one
being an aautical clock and a matching barmeter. We live

(23:08):
rural in its New Zealanders and it's we live rural.
What's this mean? What do you mean? Do we live rural?
And it's all New Zealanders. It's a disturbing thing to say.
I like some of an old time with a barometer
and they tap it, they say, ooh, weather's changing. Marcus,

(23:28):
we have one kitchen, one in the kitchen and alarm clocks.
Preteen kids generally don't have phones, so learn to tell
the time from analog clocks. We don't let teenagers sleep
with phones in the room, so hence the alarm clock
changing world doesn't even have girls in your room, but
not phones. Marcus havn't a clock for twenty years and

(23:50):
just thought it may have something to do with me
not having done anything for twenty years. Marcus has a
clock shop in Tito keen to purchase a big one
for our kitchen in Henderson. As we pass through closed
Bugger keen to support them before the highway diversion goes
around the outside. Didn't know there was a highway diversion
going around anyway, I'm sick of that giant tin sheep. Yeah,

(24:15):
no I'm not. I'm quite happy with it going around there, marcus.
I'm old score sixty five and have quiet wall clocks
in four rooms and especially the toilet to discarage overstayers.
The last clock I bought as large. There's both numbers
and moldy words for the numbers written out. I can
tell the time from a distance and keep up with
my today all at once. Over twenty years ago we

(24:38):
got clocks and teapots, teapots galore for our wedding presents. Anyway,
get in touch one is just saying that for the
last twenty years you got rid of all your clocks,
because we certainly have. And even though we've done it,
that's how subtle it was. That's how pervasive this technology is.

(25:00):
And they're quite fun things. Clocks. I mean, good ones
are nice, aren't they. The mechanism get in there, the
old railway clock beautiful. But yeah, I've never had a
grandfather clock because they freak me out. I've antiques generally
freak me out. Old furniture freaks me out, well, not really,
but you know, if there's too much of it. What

(25:21):
do they call it? Brown ware eight hundred eighty eight.
If you want to talk about clocks, so mate, there'll
be other stuff tonight too. This is we'll just see
how far we go with this. Trump to meet Putin
in coming days, says the Kremlin. He'll get played. I

(25:44):
mean Trump, not Putin anyway, Peter, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (25:50):
They're going there, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Good, Thanks, Pete, thanks for asking.

Speaker 19 (25:54):
I reckon.

Speaker 18 (25:55):
The people that haven't got clocks or watches, they're living
around the universe there what they're living around a universe
and none in the real world.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh that's a big call.

Speaker 20 (26:11):
I reckon.

Speaker 18 (26:11):
I'm from the old school.

Speaker 20 (26:13):
You know.

Speaker 18 (26:13):
It's also good for your nick muscles.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I go on, good, It's not good for your nick muscles, Pete.
Let's face it, there's no point to clocks anymore because
we've all got the phone on us with the time.
Get real, just a real good watch.

Speaker 18 (26:26):
It's called the Saiko Wonder probably wall now well off
here and I look at it straight. You got kind
of had met the laptop on that as well.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
But did you say you did you say you've got
your watch on the wall?

Speaker 21 (26:40):
No?

Speaker 18 (26:40):
No, no, I've got a wall clock on the wall.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, hey, Pete, I've got how come you've got an office?
Is it to Is it to plan your talkback calls?

Speaker 10 (26:51):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (26:51):
Yeah, just small room of myself here, it's warm.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
You got to you got what you see up? You
got a computer.

Speaker 18 (26:59):
I've got a laptop and computer music for I was
probably one't when I was starting. That will probably blow
up on me.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
But I've got you sitting there and watch your clock.

Speaker 12 (27:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (27:09):
I just do what I do. But Eve, you see
it so often. I just I got me left up
right in front of me. Now, I've got the timeline there.
You know, all these bones and that too, But just good.
I reckon. It's you know, it's part of the house.
You haven't got a clock. You don't know you love them?

Speaker 10 (27:23):
You know?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
You know that's old school. I reckon. You spoke to
someone in their twenties or thirties and they might call
I reckon that I reckon they'd be clockless.

Speaker 18 (27:31):
But it's also like wearing a watch.

Speaker 12 (27:32):
I always have a watch always, really.

Speaker 18 (27:36):
I've got out. We've got the old Saki watch. He's
quite funny. Always wear it quite off when I go
to the pubs and it. I was at the Rugby
the other day and I was in a bar there
and don't guy there from there? I think they were
from Beneden or somewhere, and they said, look at my watch,
and that's an old watch.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
A conversations, good conversations. Data. Well, I see there's some
guy from the Rugby running for council. I saw that article.
A couple of guys, one with a mullet and one
without or something. What's that about.

Speaker 18 (28:04):
Ah, I've been trying for a while ago. It in.
They just what they do. I think they're doing the
right thing. Good luck to them.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
You know they're entitled to They got your have they
got your vote?

Speaker 18 (28:12):
Peepe, I'm not too sure what they have to wait
and see on the day, won't he's going to get
her and he's.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Not going to get her your cagy about your vote?
You've got it all worked out yet.

Speaker 18 (28:24):
Oh, I sort of got a bit of an idea.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Okay, if you need a hand, let me know. If
you need a hand, let me know.

Speaker 18 (28:32):
Yeah, you tried. You tried three years ago too, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I can't go into it. Pete. Nice to talk twenty
away from nine eight hundred eighty ten eighty Marcus, my
favorite clock is the rolling ball clock at fung ade
reinteresting to watch. Yes, I'd like to see that one,
and I meant to, but we had to wait outside
for the inter city. That's right, we're up there, and
I don't know why we didn't go and see that,

(28:56):
although we spent a few bit of time in that
hunter of Vaus, a place that was fantastic actually, because
the bus leaves from just outside it brilliant. Oh yeah, Marcus,
I put my clock in the cupboard. Fricking noisy TikTok
all you can hear at night evening Marcus. I was
just thinking about the hard wired meatwork clocks in the
boning room back in the day at Belfast freezy works.

(29:20):
Try not to look at the time, will go very slow, Marcus.
How are you I like to know about cooker clocks,
Like to get one if they still make them. I'm
sure so they make in the Black Forest, Switzerland, Switzerland
for clocks, isn't it you're Dave Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 22 (29:41):
Yeah, I'm Margus. I thought I heard you say a
few minutes ago that the clock had worked in a
place had been shifted.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Well, what's happening is they've put a road through there.

Speaker 22 (29:55):
That's what I thought. You said that's my family clock.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, is that right?

Speaker 22 (29:59):
And I hope you're looking after it topery.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, it's funny because it's been under a pairs. But
then because they've put everything around it, there's going to
be a new clock tower which is going to be
paid for by Distinction Hotel. And they've got to move
it because they've got this hotel that's going in there, right,
And one of the conditions for the hotel was the
bus had to arrive from D Street, so they've redismantled

(30:26):
what in the place, So the buses going through there,
all right, And they've moved the clock.

Speaker 22 (30:37):
I mean now in McCargo, WI two three years. So
that's why I'm they're just doing all the major city renovations.
Last time I was down there.

Speaker 23 (30:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, and now they've come up with a new design
for the clock, which no one likes. So you have
you got a connection with the clock.

Speaker 22 (30:54):
Yes, it's my family clock. Yeah, you have the name
on it. You know the name on the clock. Oh,
do I build it? Well, they have your producer knows.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Okay, well he's probably Okay, we.

Speaker 22 (31:06):
Have a guest, Little John, Little John.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Of course, Yeah yeah, little John, yea.

Speaker 22 (31:12):
Yeah, well that's me. That's my granddad's brother. Yeah, okay,
oh well I hope it gets looked after. And I
heard you somebody ask him to go about cuckoo clocks
the shop and tea row he has the German he'd
have one hundred cuckoo clocks in the shop.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Does he make them himself for the imported?

Speaker 22 (31:34):
Well, he's a clockmaker. He's only a young collar, but
he he did repairs on one for for us. But
he knows all about him and he's got heaps of
them there, and so be your genuine German ones, because
he is a German boy.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Okay, appreciate that, Dave. Thank you. So I think that clock, hey, Dave,
that clock's originally the post office clock, isn't it?

Speaker 20 (32:00):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (32:01):
It was. I've got the history on it because I
used to call and see Tim when every time I
came down there, because Tim's and old friend of mine
from way back, and he got me the history of
the clock from a guy at the South On Time.
So had done the history. And originally it only had
two faces. But then there were so many complaints over

(32:22):
the years that they put four faces on it.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Good story, I'm going to run day, but nice to
talk funny enough to show about clocks. We've always had
a backwards clock in the kitchen. I brought my son
one when he let a backwards clock's a great thing, Marcus.
My husband and I are thirteen thirty five. We still
run a wall clock and a digital clock in the bathroom,
but we also still watched regular TV. Marcus. Two clocks

(32:47):
in the kitchen, one on the oven, and a big
analog clock over the French great teacher. The kids had
to read the clock when they were little. Once brought
a cuckoo clock back from Switzerland and traveled through sam
on the return and was questioned at customs by a
burly bloke if we had an actual bird in the box,
had lots in the line and stitch cheers from Mount Summers.

(33:09):
Tell you I had a text from Mount Summers before
Jeff Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (33:16):
Hi.

Speaker 23 (33:18):
Yeah, oh sorry, Marcus. Just talking about clocks. As I
grow up in our house, we always had clocks. My
dad used to check them, wind them up, and we
had one in the lounge like a big old clock

(33:40):
that he used to wind up. But my best memory
of any clock was when we went to it when
I was a young fella and we stayed at my
grandmother's house from Wallington, loved in Levon, and she had
a cuckoo clock, and we used to sit there and
wait for that cuckoo clock to jump out, and we

(34:02):
all thought it was a kid. It was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's pretty exciting when you were a kid. Cocking clock.
I also remember a lot of a lot of people
when you go and see old people, a lot of
people had those clocks with those Sorry, when you used
to go and see old people, a lot of them
had clocks that were in a glass dome and they
had those four balls at the bottom that they would rotate.
You were ever seen those?

Speaker 23 (34:27):
Yeah? I have.

Speaker 15 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I never know what they were, but they were everywhere
there for a while that you couldn't take a step
without coming they were. I don't even know what the
point of them was. I guess those four balls were
kind of like the balance, were they?

Speaker 23 (34:42):
Yeah, But people don't have clocks very often now because
I have.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's my point. No one's got wall clocks. I can't
think the last time was in someone's house with a
wall clock.

Speaker 23 (34:56):
Ah uh no, I can't either, be honest, I don't
I ever had clocks in my house. I I don't
worry about it. I don't think. But the warehouse sell clocks.
Lots of people sell clocks.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Thing of the past. You if I reckon ten years time,
they'll be none around. Mark my words. I'm big with
these predictions. Anyway, night away from nine head or midnight,
there's breaking news. I'll bring that to you. Just a
quick squidge around now kin the kremin expecting Trump. Not
much I can see, but I'm across it looking forward

(35:39):
to your calls. The commander has emailed me. The esh
Burton town clock is still going well and strong. Also
we have a digital one on the city street with temperature.
I also built an r O k R clock the
other week. Now I'm just trying to think. Don't tell
me what r ok R stands for a Okay, it

(36:04):
must be some sort of fans in type things like No,
it's one of those those thin wood things. I don't
like those. I don't like those. The kids came home
from them. They're hard to push the things out and
they snapped, Yeah, good luck doing a good luck, good

(36:25):
luck doing it. It looks good by the way of
said a photo. But jeepest creepers, you're not a big
fan of those. Oh, thank you for your email, big At,

(36:48):
just trying to decipher it. Anyway, do get in touch
if you want to talk with you till midnight tonight
we are talking clocks on my theory that no one's
got clocks on the walls anymore. They're a thing of
the past, to be fair, and all the texts and
calls have backed me up. But that's all right, Marcus Damn.

(37:14):
I live in Tino from over fifty years ago, moved
back three years ago. I love cook at clocks, but
I've never been to that clock shop. Guess where I'm
going tomorrow. It's just done to rain, so tree planting
can wait. Marcus, have you got an update on the
black Caps score? I'll crick in for it for you people.
Sorry about that, that's remiss of me.

Speaker 24 (37:37):
On it.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Twenty eight for one Zimbabwe chose to bats and Barbe
must have won the toss. I've chosen Abat. This is
a second test at Bulawayo. Twenty eight for one. The
clock on a dome with the four balls are called
anniversary clocks. You won them only once a year. I
had no idea, had no idea that you only wound

(38:05):
them once a year. Wow, I've got a new respect
for them.

Speaker 4 (38:07):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
You can tell me anything more about anniversary clocks. You
see a lot of them in second hand shops, which
proves my point. Marcus just had to check around their
house counting clocks. Do watchers count? If they do? There
is a ton of twenty one, ranging from one made
in eighteen twenty on the wall to one maid this year,
also on the wall. I love my pendulum clock. It's

(38:34):
a square case, though not a dome. It was my
great grandmother's. Got you're nostalgia. Can't you listen to you?
When would the anniversary clocks a thing? No one have
an alarm clock anymore would they? They are a ticker? I
think normally you woke up when it stopped ticking. Marcus,

(38:56):
my name is TK. Like your show. It puts me
to sleep. Great, that's the point for some of us. Anyway.
That's what we're on about tonight. Clocks And if anyone's
tried that rhubarbied raspberry Pie and Huntley I wouldn't mind
your verdict on that one that was the pie winner.

(39:19):
And looking at the anniversary clock, I had no idea
that you only round it once a year. To think
of all those people's house I've been to as a
child and watching those clocks, no one ever said you
only wind it once a year. Wow, So I'm sure. So,
having done some googling about anniversary clocks over the break,
what I'd like to talk more about this hour? And

(39:40):
I reckon you might be able to tell me something
about this. Tell me about the interesting clocks that you have,
because I'm sure everyone has got some clock off a
ship that their grandfather was a skipper of, or some
sh clock that their brother gave them before they went
to the war and may or may not have returned,
or anything like that. You might have made a clock.

(40:00):
You might have got a cuckoo clock from the Grand
Tour of Europe you did, and you twenties, you might
have won o'clock and anyway, just clock stories. I don't
know how well we'll go with us, But as they say,
and talk back, if you don't try, you don't get.
And if you don't try and you don't get, you
end up talking about compulsory third party insurance, and that

(40:22):
would get people running from the room. So let's talk
clocks or watches. But you've got clocks with interesting You
might collect clocks and that's good. You might have a
noisy clock. I don't know we will go with this,
but we'll see what you've got to say. What would
I ring up about? Which clock? When I rang up
about I always ask myself that when I'm doing something

(40:46):
like this anyway, do get in touch if you want
to talk. That's what we're right about tonight. And those
anniversary clocks. You all have had one. I don't even
know where you'd buy one now. For these, I don't
even know how much that cost. Sometimes in old main
Street you see old dusty watch maker clock shops in
the window will be one of those, so I guess
they still make them. I think it's called a torsion clock.

(41:09):
It goes for four hundred days. I would imagine there
are varying quality. Wouldn't they be twenty bucks trade me
pick up only eBay two hundred and fifty one dollars,
Saiko three three five Home Loft, New Zealand. I don't

(41:32):
think they'd be a very loud clock either. Are they
you must take the dome off to wind them. I'm
sure you could probably get one on Temu. Whether it
would work or not with that's another story. To be fair,
I wouldn't be buying my anniversary clock on Temu. I'm

(41:54):
just trying to think we're a good clock Shoppers anniversary
clock for sale near me? Oh yes, Evandale. I'm not
that close to Evandale, although I have been there for
watch parts over the years, getting touched Marcus till twelve

(42:15):
eleven past nine. If you want to talk get or
on about the clocks. You're interesting clocks and your interesting
clock story. If you could actually have your cooker clocks
up cookoo'es as I'm talking to you, I'd like that.
Anniversary clocks? What about anniversary plates? Recently moved mum into

(42:36):
a retirement village and now a Marvel's collection of plates
going back to the coronation of King George the sixth
and his sixtieth birthday, Queen Elizabeth, even one celebrating Charles
and his wedding, and one for the Queen's ninetieth All
gorgeous Murray Marcus the digital KFC clock near upper Simon

(42:57):
Street in Auckland. Isn't working this evening? That's fine, It's
always two minutes off, Dylan. Is there a KFC in
upper Simon Street. A lot of people have clocks in
the bathroom to get kids out of the showers, which
is weird. Good evening, Jane, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (43:19):
Oh is that Marcus?

Speaker 14 (43:20):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (43:20):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Higinix comedy gag, Jen? Yeah, who's writing your material these days?

Speaker 26 (43:32):
Jen?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Do you write your own stuff?

Speaker 25 (43:37):
You're a character?

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Here we go, here we go. What was I doing
in your dream?

Speaker 19 (43:43):
Jan?

Speaker 25 (43:46):
It was quite funny. I went to your house and
you took me into the kitchen and made me a
cup of coffee, and then we went into the lounge
and there was a big black Ferrari sitting in your
lounge and it had a roof cut office, and your
boys were sitting in the front seat, one of them

(44:09):
driving with the steering wheels to make the game go on.
The TV was somehow connected to the TV game.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
They could do that these days. Well, and then you
wake up.

Speaker 25 (44:24):
Yes, no, your partner was there, and do you have
a daughter?

Speaker 2 (44:29):
No? Not yet?

Speaker 25 (44:31):
Ah, Well, your partner, we were just sitting in the
round and nexting this little aeroplane zoom past the window,
and it was apparently you driving it in the aeroplane
and your partner said, where's the little girl? Thed your daughter,

(44:54):
so you must be going to have one, and she
was worried you'd taken her in the airplane with you.
And then she found it playing in the kitchen and
she said, goodness.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
What appropriate. Well, if we have a daughter, will call
it Jen. How does that sound?

Speaker 25 (45:15):
Poor girl?

Speaker 11 (45:17):
Right?

Speaker 21 (45:17):
What's Jen?

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Short for.

Speaker 25 (45:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (45:23):
Just?

Speaker 27 (45:23):
Is it?

Speaker 21 (45:24):
Your name?

Speaker 2 (45:24):
J is in it? Jen?

Speaker 25 (45:27):
My name is actually.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Radio stud. Okay, Jen, how many clocks have you got?

Speaker 25 (45:36):
I've got one of those dome clocks.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
An anniversary clock.

Speaker 28 (45:42):
Yeah, when did your last one?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Now you run from Okay, So it's like it's like
a it's like a fake dome clock.

Speaker 25 (45:53):
It's a real one.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
The real ones don't have The real ones don't have batteres.

Speaker 24 (45:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (46:01):
Mother used to click clocks. She had heat on them,
and my father the TikTok and so she was only
to wind up.

Speaker 29 (46:11):
One of them.

Speaker 25 (46:14):
Had a big ding ding and every hour it would
do Jan.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
He sounds a bit controlling, the old man, but if
he was offended by clocks. You wonder why your mother
was collecting them. That's a bit of a wind up,
isn't it.

Speaker 25 (46:30):
Yes, it's a good pun.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Psycho analyze your family, Jan, But you've got a cuckoo clock.

Speaker 25 (46:38):
Yes, I've got one and it's all packed up. I
didn't get it out, Jane.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Get it out.

Speaker 25 (46:45):
Yeah, and a lovely little marble French clock that's got
a cute little tick and ding on the on the ol.

Speaker 15 (46:55):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
That's one of the downsides of talkback, having the having
the news every hour. We don't get people's clocks ticking
and going off in the background.

Speaker 23 (47:04):
Do We.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Might have changed that on to put the use at
ten pass so we get more more of the clock.
Am Beyonce eighteen past nine, Kate, this is Marcus Welcome.
Hi Kate.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
Hi, Yeah, Hi, Well I have an alarm clock and
my brother.

Speaker 29 (47:20):
Bought it for me when I was like, I think.

Speaker 9 (47:24):
Fourteen, and I'm like forty years on top of that.
So and it still works.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 9 (47:32):
It's not one of those throw away It really really works.
It's like to follow everything AMFM.

Speaker 30 (47:37):
The what do they call it?

Speaker 9 (47:39):
Like the sleep button, the whole alarm off on everything.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Oh snooze, snooze, oh.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
Snooze, yeah, yeah yeah. But my grandma she so she
died thirty years ago and she was just in the
ninety so I'm trying to think what one hundred and
thirty years ago that whatever. Anyway, so we when we
used to go to her house, she had everything like
well Crown Derby, she had the whole get up, and

(48:05):
she had silver and she always cooked us cakes and
beautiful roast dinners, and and she had dyed here like orange, yellow, pink, purple.
All her curly hair was always dyed different colors, like
real different colors. She was a nurse and like even
ten years before her retirement or even after, I think

(48:27):
she liked one practice and said she was ten years
younger so she could continue to work. But my grandny,
my grandmother, she had she had a cooker clot like
the real royal cockoo clot, like the rural setting, and
it was standing like free standing the big moment, the
big one, you know, like floor up, and this cocka

(48:48):
would come out and it would but it was sort
of like I'm sure there was other little men behind
the cooker clock. It was sort of like came out
like a really beautiful I don't know, like a theater show,
but this the bird would come out and cook or
whatever they do. It's so long ago I kind of

(49:08):
remember I'd loved really now after tonight. Thanks for bringing
this topic, Cup.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
It's one of the greats of that time.

Speaker 9 (49:14):
I mean, well on your top, that was great. You
need to get her on again.

Speaker 29 (49:21):
She's going full length.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
So it was a full length cookoo clock. And there
were characters, Yeah, were the characters that came out.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
There was characters.

Speaker 29 (49:31):
And then you're not going to you're.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Not going to be confused with a weather vein when
the characters come out.

Speaker 9 (49:36):
No no, no, no, no no no, no no no.
It was quite creative. But it was back in the
old days. So my grandmother, so, my grandmother's best friend
and the family was from Mensfield.

Speaker 12 (49:49):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (49:50):
Yes, yes, I'm giving you the wrong name.

Speaker 21 (49:52):
My name is not Kate.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yes, so clearly.

Speaker 9 (49:55):
Yeah, everybody used to save me. Oh look you know
whatever my name is, you remind me from. So my
grandma was good friends, used to go to Corey and
see k thrown and you know, so she was really
back in those days and fall on it was just lovely.
She was a beautiful woman.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
And so is there a story A which you get it?
And B where is it?

Speaker 8 (50:19):
Now?

Speaker 9 (50:21):
Well, I need to phine out because I when Dad after.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
You, of course you must when you're back, and you
don't know you don't know the story about wish because
I mean, as a child, if you go to your
grandmother's and I think she got.

Speaker 29 (50:32):
From her mother, okay, from her.

Speaker 9 (50:35):
Mother, so I think it was hear loan through you know,
it even could be with my auntie right now. Yeah, okay,
So I'll phoned out and Dad and ask. And quite
interesting because I really want to line it up. And
also and I'm thinking of something else, sorry, so I'm
thank you for something else. I was thinking of the
church bells the christ Church cathedral. That was totally different.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
That's right, it's good. Yeah, I don't mind about it. Okay,
I'm going to move on, but thank you for that. Yees.
So it's interesting looking at giants stand up on the
back of Kate or what her name was. I was
confused with the Black Forest and Swiss clocks, but I
think a lot of those cookie clocks are made in
the Black Forest, so I think there probably is some
symbiosis there. And I imagine if you're a second hand shop,

(51:22):
try to sell Grandfather. Isn't it a big second hand
shop in the carget's full of grand for I don't
know if anyone wants to buy them. I'm sure you
can get them extremely cheaply, because the obsessives would get
all the good ones, wouldn't they. So we are talking clocks.
It's a great topic. Thirty eight for three, am I right?

(51:44):
Forty three for three Zimbabwe won the toss and they've
gone into bat forty three for three Bulawayo. And also
to this rugby league tonight Melbourne versus Brisbane. That's like
number two versus number three, versus number two versus number six.
So that's that's a top eight clash that will be

(52:06):
tonight from ten. Don't mind if you go and watch it.
I won't take offense, but I'll keep you updated with
that also tonight too, Maxine, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 31 (52:18):
Oh hello, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Thank you, Maxine.

Speaker 31 (52:23):
I'm glad you can hear me. I think the last
time we spoke of was spluttering like mad I had
a cold.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
You were who are is it this year?

Speaker 12 (52:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I think the cold this year is quite a bad
The cold this year is quite a bad one.

Speaker 31 (52:39):
But anyway, Yes, I purchased this clock many many, many
years ago, living Indonesian. I came back from overseas and
decided to establish myself in Donedan, and many opt shops

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were in the Octagon. As anyone knows, Toneden octagons in
well isn't begin shape city for eight I think. And
I purchased this clock on the hunger for antique and
I paid one hundred dollars for it, and it tipped

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and it kept time. I still have that clock thirty
eight seven years later, and when I wind it up,
it's still ticks. It has the Westminster chime like the
one in the Octagon, and another chime.

Speaker 16 (53:52):
I got it restored.

Speaker 31 (53:54):
And when I moved back to Chicago, not that I
ever had to come back the first time I came
here and I'm still here. And the house that I
moved into their was a perfect.

Speaker 12 (54:07):
Slot for it.

Speaker 32 (54:08):
Wow, it just fitted in.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Yes, what you haven't told us what sort of clock
it is.

Speaker 31 (54:17):
It's it's the shape of Napoleon's hat.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I know, so it's you how would you describe that
front on It's like a low curve and comes up.
It's like it's like a probability curve.

Speaker 31 (54:32):
Come up the side, move across dome, down the other
side down, Yes, Napoleon at.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
It's wood in the and the dial is round within it.

Speaker 31 (54:45):
Well it wouldn't be square.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
I can imagine it.

Speaker 16 (54:51):
And it winds up.

Speaker 31 (54:52):
It's got three winding mechanisms beneath the about probably where
the four six and I don't know three maybe where
you wind. It's a three digit wind up.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
So the chimes, what what do you need to wander three times?

Speaker 31 (55:16):
Well, it's got three charming mechanisms. It's got three charming
mechanisms to the clock. So every fifteen minutes it goes dead.

Speaker 16 (55:31):
And then goes.

Speaker 31 (55:32):
Tip tip tip, and then on the sixth it goes dead.

Speaker 33 (55:38):
It just winds around.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
But will it goes soon?

Speaker 31 (55:43):
Well, I haven't wound it.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Why not?

Speaker 16 (55:47):
Because my children hate it.

Speaker 31 (55:52):
You used to sit on a mantle in the health
that I brought my child, my children, our children up
and it's set on the mantle piece. Oh yeah, an
old house and Dunedin.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Brilliant, most Maxine, thank you for against twenty seven past nine.
I'm getting emails from Britain we may be in our
six series. We're not stuck in the past. Two of
the wall clocks of radio controlled using signals from Rugby.
And we have Alexa. No cucko clock, though there was
one in the kitchen of our house was growing up
which was blowing my bedroom. The clock with its bond

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cuckoo all through the night was a pain. Paul. Nice
to hear from you, Paul, surely, good evening. This is Marcus.

Speaker 27 (56:39):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus, thank you for taking my call.
I have eight clocks in my house. One of them, yep.
One of them is it's like a half a grandfather clock.
It's on the wall in the lounge and it was
my grandparents clock, which went down to my mother and
then came down to me. I also have a little

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clock with a glass dome with the four little balls
at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
An anniversary clock that you wind one a year.

Speaker 27 (57:07):
Well, no, it's better operated this runt.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Oh that's not right. Doesn't sound right to me, But Jens,
I think said, who was battery operated?

Speaker 20 (57:14):
Yep.

Speaker 27 (57:15):
And the other one is on my dining room wall,
and it's like a cuckoo clock, but it's not because
when it chimes every hour, the top of the door
opens and outcomes an Australian soldier, a New Zealand soldier,
and in the middle is a bugler. And it goes

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like this and it plays the last post.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Pretty good, beautiful? Surely when does it do that?

Speaker 27 (58:12):
It goes every hour?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Does it do that through the night?

Speaker 19 (58:17):
Yep?

Speaker 27 (58:17):
But I can turn it down. If I've got visitors,
I tune it down. If not, I just leave because
I'm used to it.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
It's quite a nice It's got quite nice tone for
the last post. Is that just a recording? I presume?

Speaker 19 (58:27):
Is it?

Speaker 27 (58:28):
Probably? But it's just beautiful hearing it. When we used
to sit in the dining room with a few wines
or two with friends and at six o'clock it would
go mathon would say, would you please be upsta.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
They shall not die? And see how could be like
the RSA.

Speaker 20 (58:47):
Isn't it?

Speaker 27 (58:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
That's right, they shall not die or age? Wearing them
wherever it goes shruld. He love me to talk to you. Thanks.
What a rich tempestry of different lives this is. You
can visualize people in their houses. I love the way
we said we're having drink, having drink with friends to
magine they're not just hitting it every night on their own.
And that's my favorite. But some great clock texts. Anyway,

(59:17):
I'll get to those where I've got to be a
moment good even, think, Calvin, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (59:23):
Hello there, Marcus. I've got a clock in my car,
but no clocks in my house.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Three and twenty years ago? You would have had a
clock in your house, wouldn't you, Calvin.

Speaker 10 (59:32):
No, you're wrong again.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
No, I'm going to be the first time, the.

Speaker 10 (59:38):
First time tonight. Yeah, now, Marcus, uh yeah, that is clock.
That's what I was gonna say. I'm retired, so I
don't need a clock. No, what I've rung up about
what I've rung you up about you mentioned earlier on
about rhubarb and raspberry, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
It's quite a nice story about that woman that's running
that shop and Huntley because she's had tough times and
now she's the pie gods have smiled on her. She's
got an award, one of them.

Speaker 19 (01:00:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:00:07):
Yeah, Well, I let's to leave my car at home
and get the free train through there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Well me think you're in Hamilton? Are you free onto Huia?

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
Because I'm old, ugly and white.

Speaker 31 (01:00:22):
Is there?

Speaker 17 (01:00:23):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Is it free for pensioner with Winston's yep?

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
Wow?

Speaker 10 (01:00:28):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
Is there a stop at Huntley?

Speaker 10 (01:00:33):
Yep, there will be. If not, I can get them
to stop for me, I can jump off as if
it slows down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
But Kelvin, right, let's look at this. If you're going
from Hamilton to Huntley onto Huia, Yeah, you're probably going
to get there at about eight thirty, right, and you're
probably not going to leave until about five about six
o'clock at night. It's a long time to spend in Huntley.

Speaker 10 (01:00:54):
Yeah, but they've got a new timetable there. It goes
up a couple of times a day now one. Yeah,
but I rang you up what I rung up about
that rhubarb and raspberry and you you may be interested
what I'm holding here in my hand now in your
local supermarket, you've probably got a supermarket that with sells

(01:01:15):
Barkers jams and this is which comes from Geraldine down
your way somewhere. But what what I've got here is
called fruit compote? Is it c O N P O
T E fruit compote?

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
I don't know how, I don't know how that's pronounced.
It could be compot, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (01:01:33):
He has got a knee on the end. But he
had rubib strawberry and raspberry and you can use it
for breakfast, baking and desserts, and so that that's the
ingredient for when you decide to baker, do a bit
of baking one day, and you've already got the ingredient

(01:01:56):
for it. And it's got it's got some very fine
printed words small on the side, and I thought it
was quite intriguing.

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Really.

Speaker 10 (01:02:05):
It's got four for recipes and inspiration and then it
tells you the log on thing to do. But I
like the word inspiration.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
That's good. You've got to be different these days. When
do you think you'll get the train up to Huntley?

Speaker 10 (01:02:23):
Well, I've had a hell of a crook back lately.
I'm only just starting to get mobile again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
And because you've got to keep you got to keep active,
don't you. That's the thing with Becks, is that right.

Speaker 10 (01:02:34):
Well, I've got prostrate cancer and it's spread to my
hip prosperate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I'm said to hear that, Calvin. That makes me say, okay, yeah,
that's you.

Speaker 10 (01:02:42):
Know, you just got to keep going.

Speaker 7 (01:02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:02:45):
But anyway, so it's affecting.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
It's affecting your movement and your hip obviously.

Speaker 10 (01:02:50):
Oh yeah, I got hard to get around yesterday. But
it's come right. I'll popped twice the amount of pain
pain pills and mobile tonight. But the whole thing, it
sort of comes and goes, as it were. But while
I was going to oh, I'm also in the middle
of getting because of eighty four and September that's when

(01:03:11):
my driver's lives expires on your birthday is on you
when you're eighty four. So I've had my memory test yesterday.
The next Wednesday, I've got to go to the doctor
and have the vision test. It's unusual because when they
test you for your driver's license, you don't get anywhere
near emotorcar.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
No, no, was your memory? Was your memory good? I
can't remember?

Speaker 10 (01:03:38):
I can't remember. Yeah, it was pretty good.

Speaker 34 (01:03:40):
There.

Speaker 10 (01:03:41):
They give you a person's name street.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Oh, the is in Hevlock, North? Is he Is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:03:49):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:03:49):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:03:49):
This one is Woodville.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Oh it's Woodville. Yeah, yeah, you have done that test.
What what's the guy's name in Woodville? Peter Brown Woodville
or something?

Speaker 26 (01:03:57):
Is it?

Speaker 10 (01:03:59):
I think it was Harry something.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I can't remember when it was summer in the hawks, baby,
And then they then they.

Speaker 10 (01:04:05):
Asked you, they give you one minute to name all
different animals.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
You go through alphab Yeah, in one minute.

Speaker 10 (01:04:12):
So that's you know, after about three quarters them, and
it's just started running out of animals.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Well you've been it's just just go antelope and baboon, cheetah, dolphin, elephant, fox, gorilla, hippopotamus, aguada, jaguar, kangaroo.

Speaker 10 (01:04:38):
How did you a good idea?

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
How did you get?

Speaker 10 (01:04:40):
I think I got about twenty. I think it was
help me with a nurse, A nurse who does it?
Was it? And I asked her? Then I said, have
I done? Have I passed?

Speaker 17 (01:04:51):
Or what?

Speaker 27 (01:04:52):
You know?

Speaker 10 (01:04:53):
But I knew she wouldn't say yes or no. But
she said she left to count everything up, and then
left the doctor next Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
So you don't sit ap practical and just if your
site's good, you're good to go again.

Speaker 10 (01:05:05):
Yeah, but I have a it's all bad, bad, bad news.
You could eventually finish up behind the steering wheel, as
it were. But I got cataracts in both eyes, ones
very bad, the other one's not not too bad. And
so when the old doctor she's a woman doctor, lady doctor.
When she gives me the vision visual test, that sort

(01:05:28):
of bad news. Well then it's just about impossible to
get in the wag at a hospital for cataract operations.
So I have to get a doctor that all quickly
arranged for me to get it done privately. You know,
I think it's four thousand or five thousand, but that's
I think it's not an arm or a leg. It's
only money.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Hey, what do you mean if you'll be behind the
steering wheel on the other way if it's no good?

Speaker 10 (01:05:56):
Well, I can't remember the exact details. Now, I've had
a couple of letters, you know about at all, and
then recently I've had about four different lots about you know,
telephone going to be cut off in January, but I'm
half of mine.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Not to bothering you, don't worry, but it sounds like
it's it sounds like it's you've got a bit going
on there, Calvin.

Speaker 10 (01:06:21):
Yeah, I have. And also Warner of Fitness for the
Old Age Hotel Star.

Speaker 23 (01:06:24):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
But are you coping with it all?

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:06:28):
Well see my blood pressure has gone down a hell
of a lot now just speaking to you, Well, feel.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Free to get to feel free to get the doctor
to call me. I can vouch for your ability to drive.
I mean, you're not gonna you're not going to go
out there and you're not a boy racer, are you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:06:45):
But evidently you can, man. But evidently you can even
get a sort of a classification where you know you're
only just buzzing around the town.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
You get one of those urban passes just around the Hamilton. Well,
you got the bus, handy though, heavens you you're on
the bus.

Speaker 10 (01:07:02):
Yeah, I got the bus outside my front gate.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
That's why I'm surprised. You haven't got a clock to
know when the bus is coming.

Speaker 10 (01:07:09):
No, but it doesn't matter if you missed the bus,
because another one comes along fifteen minutes later.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
You got up Calvin Lovely to talk Holland of my
night nineteen to ten. It's all about the clocks tonight.
Very interesting. Someone wants to know off topic, but this
is what's troubling someone. Some come in green, red and
yellow and sometimes orange. Could someone please explain why capsicum

(01:07:35):
surprised differently according to color. They ain't tasty different to me.
But the cheapest was five dollars one Kepsicum cheers, Meg,
I just scan them all through as the cheapest one
and say you're color blind. That'd be my suggestion to you.
Otherwise they can get tellers back on, might get in

(01:07:56):
trouble for saying that don't care. But yeah, goodness, why
would they charge? Did you see the profits from food
stuffs up against other grocery stores around the world, Like
the highest were up there with the highest eighteen to ten. Charlie,
this is Marcus. Welcome Marcus, Charlie.

Speaker 24 (01:08:13):
We've got a cock in our family that was brought
over and it was apparently brought over on the Aurora
in eighteen forty. It's a large, a big mahogany. It's
got your Roman numerals around the end. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 35 (01:08:30):
We're in Vocago now, and yeah, that's been in our family.
Was given to our family by another family, Scottish family,
a funny store. Actually, we were going to take it
in for evaluation and the day we had it backed
up to take in, the grandson broken egg on it.

(01:08:51):
He was bringing the eggs in and he for some
reason he cracked an egg over the top of the
over the top of it. Now, yeah, the face is
eggy and yeah, but that's bats at eighteen hundred's cock.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
It's a I mean, you must have a fairly good
Kevin allowance if you're bringing the Grandfather clock over with
you wouldn't because you think, well, actually we'll you get.

Speaker 19 (01:09:14):
It behind hi.

Speaker 35 (01:09:15):
You know, I'd say it's about knee high.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
The Aurora came into Tony Harbor, the first immigrant ship
to come and there wrecked on the Kuiper heads.

Speaker 35 (01:09:26):
Yeah, apparently he came in on that Scottish family and
the old grandson, Whey was eight. This is about twenty
twenty five years ago. He cracked an egg over the
top of the clock.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
Jee.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
They didn't get into the internal workings, did it.

Speaker 35 (01:09:42):
No, it's got an eggy face though.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
That's dear from you, Charlie. Seventeen to ten. We're talking clocks.
Why would a ship be wrecked on the Kuiper heads.
Surely wasn't going over the bar. Oh yeah, that's tough
old for cal anyway, he said he hasn't asked for

(01:10:09):
any help. But I'm sure there's no shortage of anyway.
You know what I'm saying, or the sentiment, Marcus, the
most outstanding clock I've ever seen was the late seventies,
I was working for the legendary racehorse trainer Bart Cummings
in his South Australian stables. One of his daughters took
me over to their house and the first thing I
saw was a full sized grandfather clock. It was black

(01:10:30):
and inlaid with mother of pearl all over. An incredible
piece of work, she said. Bart was given it as
a gift from one of his owners, Maria. Marcus have
a four duels transistor clock where the day and date
flick over got its service at island watchmakers re busy
placed doing repairs. Also, a couple of electric clocks were

(01:10:53):
a bit of fun. No ticking, just to continuous sweeping hand.
I inherited a grandfather clock from my grandparents to the UK.
It doesn't look anything special but has sentimental value. However,
when having it recently serviced, the clock make it told
me it's three hundred years old. If humans didn't exist,

(01:11:17):
time wouldn't exist. Maxine's clock is often termed a grandmother
clock Marcus. In the forties my grandmother and the forties
my mother bought a Chiming mental clock and Newcastle upon
tie in the UK. It was fifty k's home in
a bus, then five k's in the dark on a bicycle.

(01:11:39):
The clock was still going when I attended her funeral
in two thousand and four. I love clocks, Leslie. I've
read that text three times and I still don't know
where she kept the bike. Was it locked up near
the bus station. In the eighties and nineties I collected

(01:12:02):
mental chiming clocks from up shops. Had two pendulums. They
have two Pnge lumm and keys now twenty five years later,
after being stalled on the house and the carton a
total of twenty two gave back for free to among
a hospice shop. Marcus, You've never been in my dreams,

(01:12:24):
but listening to your show every night sends me to
the best sleep ever. Used to have a backwards running
clock from dick Smith Electronics back in the eighties, where
all the numbers were reversed and it ran counterclockwise. Used
to confuse our friends when they came around. Now have

(01:12:46):
a cuckoo clock with a cow that that moves on
the hour. Oh that's right, this is sorry, I've been
Someone sent me this text half an hour ago. Marcus,
I just passed someone getting on the motorway in the
wrong direction as I was coming off. It's Hillsboro and Auckland.

(01:13:06):
I've already reported to the police and hopefully they've turned
around now. But who knows passing on in case it
turned into anything. Happened about eight point fifty at town
like someone else was calling into the time as me.
Hopefully someone confirm there are no excedents. We haven't seen extent,
have we I haven't seen any reports of anything awkward.
Just checked the Herald website. Nothing on slack. I mean,

(01:13:29):
it's not your fault, but it'd be terrible if anything
did happen. There seems to be happening quite often, people
getting on the motorway the wrong way. I don't know
what the reason for that is. It could be is
it a Google Maps thing? All about Clock's clock Thursday
No as partners, partner and children. Oh eight hundred and

(01:13:52):
eighty ten eighty my Marcus till twelve eight away from
ten o'clock. Do come through if you want to be
a part of the show. It's all about if have
you got interest in clock, because I'm sure you will have. Marcus,
my husband and I bought his parents are fancy wall
Clock they didn't like it till they gave it back.
Husband and I divorced. I've got the clock. Always hated

(01:14:13):
the clock that no one wanted. Marcus, I'm the motorway
text guy. I've been checking the motorway traffic cams online.
There's no traffic build up in those stretches of motorway,
so I think I must have it must have all
worked out fine. It's always terrible and you see something
like that and there's nothing you can do because you
do feel and you think, oh, jeepest, creepers, because you
don't feel responsible, but you'd feel like that you've that

(01:14:37):
you've seen something about that. I don't quite know what
that emotion is to think about that. Any who, we're
talking clocks. I And the reason we're talking clocks is
because I was of the thought that probably they're a
thing of the past, but because a lot of hows
you go don't have clocks now because everyone's got cell phones.

(01:14:59):
But I'm not sure that's true. Be a part of
it if you want to here till twelve. My name
is Marcus Good Evening nine away from ten. If you
want to be a part of the show. As I say,
eight hundred and eighty said, it's about clocks and nine
to nine to text, and if there's news around the

(01:15:21):
world that's important, I will bring that to you tonight.
Is it as well as that? What we've got in
the hourly bulletin? The Trump Putin talk is likely in
the coming days. Didn't they play them last time? They
sent sort of an intractive interpreter, and didn't they kind
of I forget the way that happened last time. Anyway,
govern it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:15:42):
Yep.

Speaker 34 (01:15:42):
Today. A couple of talk stories going back a few years.
My father had a very guys walk and at times
and well yeah in nineteen ten and at times kill
plump clo clo the way and other.

Speaker 36 (01:16:03):
Hormometers.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Oh yeah, yep.

Speaker 29 (01:16:07):
Well he's got a.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
To the attack. Yep, yep.

Speaker 34 (01:16:11):
Actually, see what the SPoD is a third height up
to me down there. If you tap it, you see
it's going to be how you're a hot or cold or.

Speaker 27 (01:16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:16:24):
It's still function pretty well and it does tell a tide.

Speaker 37 (01:16:30):
It might be seeing it out, but that's fine. You
can live with that because if you've got your cell phone,
get store to put yourself right. So it's not all
that important. And I've spent over the last period of
time quite a few dollars Tibet going for some reasons
because you both at text.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Nice to hear from you, Kevin, Thanks for coming through. Bruce.
Good evening, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 38 (01:16:56):
Good evening, Marcus. It's Bruce. And I've got quite a
collection of clubs. Actually I haven't count them, but friends
have know. That's trund about four hundred.

Speaker 15 (01:17:06):
Wow.

Speaker 38 (01:17:07):
Yeah, I've got twelve grandfather clocks yep, the old the
oldest is about seventeen ninety.

Speaker 15 (01:17:17):
Ye.

Speaker 38 (01:17:17):
And it's got a beautiful what do you got skeleton
clock that's where you can seal the workings.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
Oh yeah, I don't know those, but it makes sense.

Speaker 38 (01:17:29):
Yeah, it's English. It's got a glass dome, stands quite tall,
and it tells you the date and day at the day,
the day of what day it is in the week,
and the date, and it also tells you the it's
moon phase. That tells you where the moon is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Yes, sure, have you? Have you worked on any of them? Bruce?
Are you like you're a clock? A horology? What's the clockmaker?

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
God?

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
A horologist?

Speaker 38 (01:17:56):
Horological? Yeah, horror lodgers yeah, I do. I do all
the week myself, do them up. A lot of them
are quite rough when I got them, and slowly do
them up and slowly get more gay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Are you still buying them? I made you be a
good time for clocks?

Speaker 19 (01:18:15):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Is that right that a lot of people are getting
rid of them?

Speaker 4 (01:18:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 38 (01:18:19):
Well, I've managed to pick up some incredible ones, ones
that you think you'd never ever find, But I found
them all over the place. Is actually you know, option
rooms and now and again someone all will hear about
you and literally give you one. Yeah, but some of
them have had to pay some serious money for them too.

(01:18:41):
You know, some of them are quite valuable for.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
I'm just coming up to the news. But I just
do you still keep them all running? Or do you
not do that?

Speaker 38 (01:18:48):
Not all the time, but I give them a run.
I'd ratate them around, but I do keep one or
two of them going.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
All the time, okay, And so every clock would get
to go every year or so?

Speaker 38 (01:18:59):
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, sometimes I've got visitors. I'd
get the cookie clocks and I have one chime cookies,
and then the cookies and then another one of cookies.
And the children does love them? You know because some
of the cookie clocks do other things, so they'll play
music after it's crook read and all that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Absolutely fascinating, Bruce, thanks for coming through. Good to fit
you in before the news. Thanks very much for that.
Get in touch with our talking clocks tonight where we
want to be Skeleton Clock. Hadn't heard of that, but
that's nice. We're talking clocks and the interesting clocks that
you have. You might even have novelty clocks. I talked

(01:19:40):
about starting tonight the show by saying, I think clocks
are thinking of the past because no one's got wall
clocks anymore. Go go, go go, because we've all got
we've all got cell phones. But it seems as though
people have got clocks and love their clocks. Of course
they do, because clocks are one of those few things
that you can give for twenty firsts and weddings and
things like that, and anniversaries like the anniversary clock. So

(01:20:02):
we are talking about the clocks that you have. Interesting
clocks are interesting clock stories. I'll get to the text
given a chance, because we've been bumping a bumper with calls.
Marcus used to have my voice went funny. Marcus used
to have a Batman clock with the voice of Robin
for the alarm Holy night, me as Batman. Look at

(01:20:23):
the time, We've got to make our friends wake up,
Wake up. It was the real Robin Bert Ward's voice.
I had a friend who took her cook a clock
to be repaired. When she got it back, run to
go cook, Cook, Cook. So it's all about clocks tonight.
I didn't know about a skeleton clock. I also didn't
know about those clocks. Were the four balls according anniversary

(01:20:45):
clock you only wind them once a year. Anyway to
get in touch by name is Marcus welcome? So yes, yes,

(01:21:07):
that's what we are talking about. If you want to
be a part of the show. It's all about clocks.
And if anyone's tried the rhubarb and raspberry pie and Huntley,
I'm very king to hear how that is. Give a
lot of texts about Luxon. I don't know what that's
on the back of, but something seems to be boiling there.
But anyway, I don't know because we haven't mentioned Luxon. Really, Marcus,

(01:21:27):
we're at Huntley. What is the name of the pie shop?
That's a good question, although I don't think there'd be
that many pie shops in Huntley. I think it'll probably
be pretty easy to find. However, because you've asked, I
will tell you the name of the pie shop and
the Huntley is It's a lovely story. And I knew
as soon as I saw that name of that pie,
I knew that would be the pick of them, rhubarb

(01:21:48):
and raspberry. Oh no, it's called Huntley's Main Street Cafe.
Don't know what street it's on. Be State Hiwei would
be the old State Hiwi Wan? Would it Hateley's Main
Street Cafe. I'm joking, of course, now what you might
like to know, it's because a lot of fruit pies

(01:22:09):
are more like a flan. This pie is in an
aluminium a foil bottom and it has a lid on it,
but the lid has a hole in the middle like
the shape of his Shoesberry. It looks absolutely delicious. I'm
just trying to think when my next Huntly trippers, when

(01:22:34):
I go to the Auckland, see the old man and
see if he wants to go to because he of
the old Penchler card, We'll go to Huntley. On to
who you might be able to plan that? Actually planning
it around school holidays or something, because that would be
good anyway. Nothing wrong with all of food pilgrimage. But

(01:22:56):
do get in touch with our talking clocks. If you've
been trying to get through, keep trying, because I've got
some spear lines there for you. Now you didn't know,
and you might have with an anniversary clock or a
grandfather clock, or a cuckoo clock, or a clock you've
got on travels or something like that, or a humorous clock.
You have a cockoo clock that's got something different coming
out of it. Because yes, you know me, when I

(01:23:19):
get on a topic, I like to stick with it.
I don't want to do a mid show topic change.
But if there's something different you want to bang on about,
you're more than welcome. I will keep a look and
keep across international news. France's largest wildfire in decades leaves
a trail of devastation. Not a good sign, is it

(01:23:45):
every summer year at burns now or our winter of course?
Just looking at the cricket score two Zimbabwe sixty seven
for four. This is the second Test at Bulawayo. Zimbabwe
won the toss, chose to bat. They've had twenty eight
overs and there's sixty seven for four in the NRL

(01:24:07):
six Verses two Brisbane versus Melbourne. High spirited game. There
Brisbane are ahead to zero, just the one penalty in
the kick there. But looking forward to your clock calls
or texts, I'm not fast or pie talk endless pie talk.
Amazing that when people came from the Old Country to

(01:24:28):
England on those ships, they they brought grandfather clocks with them.
I mean, when we go overseas, we don't take it
on the grandfather clock with us, do we? Marcus. I
make raspberry and rhubarb jam. It's quite it has a
lovely quality taste. We have a tied clock at our

(01:24:51):
beach batch good to know when the tide is low
to glick pippies for fishing. Will you just look at
the sea? Was always a great thing. The Herald always
used to replay. Used to put out a tied chart
every year. And don't think they do anymore. May sure
it was always a great thing. A thirteen past ten.
It's all about clocks. Have you got an interesting clock story?

(01:25:14):
If you can highlight your story by getting the clock
going off while we're listening to it, that's great to
get that clock that did the last post brilliant. Anything
else clock related that you've got. It's a Thursday clock show. Yeah,
be free to come through. Feel free. Yeah, I like

(01:25:37):
that guy with between three hundred and fifteen and four
hundred clocks. That was kind of extraordinary. So yes, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine to text clocks till
midnight tonight. I've got an email from Switzerland. We have
three clocks in our house and oh no, I don't

(01:25:58):
know if he's in Switzerland or Australia. Kind of makes
it a confusing to read that. Now another email, check
out this amazing clock I want to buy, but Husby
says no, it's a link to the marketplace listing. Thanks Anita.
I'm just going to look at that now and I'm
going to describe it to the people. It's a bit

(01:26:21):
slowed up, and I think I've got too many apps
opened pretty much my style. Oh wow, but it's quite
a good clock. It's just a distressed bit of metal
that looks like about six hundred across and a a

(01:26:42):
meter tall, and it's got letters cut out in it
and lights go off behind letters, and in the image
it says it is twenty to four. It's two two
dred dollars. It is to eight, so it comes up

(01:27:08):
in lights. It's great. It's a fantastic clock. It's a
novelty clock. But it looks kind of a It's good, Marcel,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:27:17):
Good evening, he Marcus, you know, just ring up at
the clocks. My grandfather had a clock and he was
rolling the clocks and he flew for the in New
zeal And, your force and he said that you can
time into the atomic clock. It's on the radio. I'm
not just sure if it still is. But he used
to the atomic clocket and we'll give you the exact time.

(01:27:41):
This is in the eighties, so yeah, but I can't
remember what ch what frequency it was.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
How old are you, Marcel?

Speaker 26 (01:27:51):
I'm forty okay, devn.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Okay, because it's interesting because we used to go on
the rail and this is interesting because it's actually brought
up some extra topics. We used to tune the radio
for the world clock. Do you remember that?

Speaker 33 (01:28:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
I think there's the atomic clock and it would just
go the time strewitch meantime? Is it was the radio,
wasn't it it was? Yeah? Someone some radio buffalo notes
what frequency it was? Where it was am referee. It
was still was it? Yeah, and there must have been somebody.
There must have been someone in the room just reading
it out because it was the days before automation.

Speaker 26 (01:28:33):
MS quite used about so that time.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
And there was also something that was that you could
phone that There was dial of time. Do you remember
that You could you could phone the talking clock and
you'd you could die, and you do that if you're
pretending to call someone that so you don't either call
you could either call dial a prayer. You could find

(01:29:01):
up on the prayers, but also the talking clock.

Speaker 16 (01:29:04):
Yeah, because I've got my son at.

Speaker 26 (01:29:07):
These for Christmas, I've bought him an analogue watch and
forty fucking bats, but his aunt he ended up buying
him a really nice kiss your digital watch.

Speaker 21 (01:29:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
That's a shame, isn't it.

Speaker 26 (01:29:22):
I really wanted him to learn how to how the
time on an analogue before he went digital, but he cant.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Because I've tried with my kids. I've tried with my
kids with watches. They had one of them had a
Superman analogue watch, one of them had a g Shock watch.
They've got zero interest in them kids, So I don't
think kids really want to know the time. I don't.
I mean, I don't know what I don't. They've just
got zero for a drive.

Speaker 26 (01:29:45):
We how long are we going to be? How long
we're going to be we get there? Or to look
at your quawk twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
And quite often I want to stay and play at
school later on, and I'll say, well, you know, how
long are you going to be? Since I said I
don't know what time it is? So that yeah, they
seem to be relevant of time. But anyway, yeah, that's
where those kids. I'll try and find more about that
atomic clock mark. So that's a good strand to go
down with that one. If anyone knows can remember about

(01:30:12):
the talk the radio with Greenwich Meantime all the talking clock,
they both got topics for me. Oh way T one
hundred and eighty ten eighty to get involved with the show.
Laureates Marcus welcome, Oh hi there, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:30:26):
Yeah. Regarding those the old time signals, they were on
shortwave and the station, well, the one used to hear
clearer in New Zealand was from Hawaii. The station called
WWVH and it broadcast on two point five, five, ten
and fifteen megahertz, and there was a voice there was

(01:30:48):
a female voice would come on every minute and announce
what the time was, but quite often in the background.
The other complimentary station, WWV from it was broadcast from
Colorado in the USA. Yep, I mean they're.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Actually broadcasting from Hawaii, were they?

Speaker 21 (01:31:11):
Yeah? Yeah, one was in Hawaii and one was I
guess perhaps they might have been relayed where the atomic
clop may have been. It was the was put out
by what they call the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
and I mean that was been the background of navigation.
Marine navigation and surveyors used them a lot, you know,

(01:31:34):
for going back to the I think, way back to
the nineteen twenties, and I think they actually, I think
they're actually still running. I haven't chicked for a little while,
and it's we used to use them for.

Speaker 12 (01:31:44):
But well, well I.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Hope someone will check tonight. Well, yeah, it's short waiver.
How would it be of use to a.

Speaker 21 (01:31:49):
Surveyor because they used to have to do sun shots
or you know, estonomical for bearings and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:57):
Like that, like longitude or what's that boob?

Speaker 21 (01:32:00):
Yeah, okay, yeah, But the the other one, there was
another station in Australia also that put it rebaadcast time.
It didn't actually have the voice. I think it came
up with a beat beat deep, but there was quite
a useful one as well. But the main ones you
know on short wave was the American ones, well though.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
I do seem to remember going around the dials and
probably was short wave here in Greenwich meantime. That would
be right, wouldn't it.

Speaker 21 (01:32:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what they say that the time.
At the tone, the female voice would say Greenwich, even.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
With the Hawaiian one, they're giving up Greenwich meantime with a.

Speaker 21 (01:32:41):
Or then they change it one day to Universal Universal time,
not in later years here, but in the female voice proceeded,
and then if you were actually picking picking up the
good good reception, then you'd hear the male voice chip
them just after that with the same same time, and

(01:33:01):
then the best silence and then the beep and the
way she went basically, and you know, people would set
their clocks on you know, their navigation that would set
their clocks.

Speaker 19 (01:33:16):
Basically, it was.

Speaker 21 (01:33:20):
Pretty useful service.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
There was also you could dial the time, but that
wouldn't be as useful for survey as but that seem
pretty each I guess that. I guess the post office
run that in the old days, or telecom or whatever
it was.

Speaker 21 (01:33:31):
Yeah, yeah, but it was so accurate. And also that
they were used for calibrating a lot of radio dials
as well, you know that. Yeah, but yeah, the or
just touching on what Calvin was saying, he thought with
his cognitive tests for his driving, one of the tests
they give you is I'll tell you to draw a

(01:33:53):
diagram or say a particular time, and you've got to
draw their hand cloth.

Speaker 15 (01:33:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:34:02):
It's funny that the supposedly it's not compulsory, that cognitive
it's just a hell of a lot of the doctors
or medical practices are insisting on doing it for the drivers.
But in theory it's it's apparently it's not required.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
I think that's the one that gave Trump. Remember remember
Trump nailed it. They said as the best he's ever
been on something.

Speaker 39 (01:34:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:34:25):
Yeah, well it is the standards. It's actually the standard
dementia test. It's you know, two or three varieties of it.

Speaker 10 (01:34:30):
Yeah, and one of them is.

Speaker 21 (01:34:33):
This address they give people in Woodville to start with,
basically something such a street somewhere when Woodville hawks Bay,
and then they give that address at the start of
the doing all these other puzzles and stuff, and then
they've got to come back later on and ask you
what that address was, and if you can't recall it
then Yeah. But I think even with those tests you

(01:34:58):
still get the chance to actually, if I say, failure
on those, you still insist on having a practical test.
But in the Calvin's case, also if he's vision, if
he's got he said he's got a cataracts, YEA, well
obviously you'd probably have them sort of first, and then

(01:35:21):
they do peripheral vision tests as well. But given all that,
there's still is he consist on having that practical Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Nice to talk, Laurie, Thanks so much. That good evening
the rain As Marcus welcome.

Speaker 40 (01:35:37):
Hi Markeesre. Are you listen to that chat before the
last guy who said he'd given watches to his grandkids
or his kids and they weren't interested. My daughter recently
was asked to supervise an exam in the institute that
she works in, and they were all like seventeen, eighteen,
nineteen year olds and they had to sit this ex

(01:35:58):
them and she said to the lady, she said, well,
but there's a clock up on the wall, and the
lady said, no, I want you to write down every
call of an hour when it goes past, and tell
these kids that you know, called of an hour, less
you know what the time was, she said, But surely,
she said no. None of them are allowed their phones
and their whatever anything digital, and so most of the

(01:36:22):
kids couldn't read an analog clock. And I would have
thought that would have been taught at school.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Even Yeah, I don't people. I know people get quite
outraged that people can't use analog clocks. Children going to.

Speaker 40 (01:36:41):
See Big Ben and all these other big clocks in
the world, and you know, twenty years from now, they'll
think what moves that up there?

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Yeah, I don't have a problem with it, but it
is surprising that that that that skill disappeared so quickly.

Speaker 40 (01:36:55):
It is, it really is. And you know, kids wear
fitbits and they look at their phones all the time,
and they don't wear watchers.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
And I can't tell you, I can't tell your hand
on heart that my kids can use them. I think
they probably can. I'll check them because we're not around
clocks or watches, but I'll check tomorrow.

Speaker 40 (01:37:11):
Yeah, but you know, you think it would be just
a basic schools taught at school as well. You know,
it's like learning to read. You can should be able
to tell the time.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Entire issue. People get obsessed about kids that can't.

Speaker 40 (01:37:27):
Straps, yes, yes, and because don't want in how to
tie up shoelaces.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Hm, well, they're smarter and other things though that we
would have no idea about that. You've got to remember
that too, Yeah, teenager, you'll be asking your teenager first
thing when they are when your iPad goes down, you
won't be saying I can't believe you can't tell the time.
You'll be happy for them to help you, won't you.

Speaker 40 (01:37:51):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
I will nice to hear from you, Lorraine. Thank you.
The rooster is a great alarm clock in the right place,
like on a farm, the first alarm clock is the rooster.
A ticking clock is splendid for comforting a young puppet
it's new home while they settle in. All this is
good stuff. Marcus I was posted a cuckoo wall clop

(01:38:12):
from friends in Switzerland on the hour as Cuokoo pops
out at Cuckoo's then a light shadowy cuckoo from the mountains,
which is fun by twelve o'clock listening to twenty four
cuckoos followed by a tune. My favorite tune is Idle
Vice of the twelve tunes. It's quite a talking point.
All the cuckoos and the music, especially the hours get later.

(01:38:35):
Four little Swiss country people go round wearing additional dress.
It's a beautiful clock. I love clocks. I have a
clock and all the rooms in the bathroom, cheers Margaret.
My parents had a huge bronze clock which was aged black.

Speaker 20 (01:38:49):
In the hall.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
There was a big statch of an olden day soldier
holding up a big sword on the side of it. Marcus,
are you still talking clocks? Yes? The wife and I
are busy people trying to get by, and in a
living we live by clocks. A new one in the lounge,
one on the oven in the kitchen, a digital on
the room. We each have a Joe ninety wristwatch. We've
got deadlines of furry to catch buses, to catch contract
jobs would tend to no room for lateness. Yep's stressful.

(01:39:15):
We haven't moved on from clocks. Things are more time critical.
Probably not in the carble though. I just thought, if
I use this cell phone Marian.

Speaker 7 (01:39:23):
Good evening, Good day, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
How are you good than you? Marian?

Speaker 7 (01:39:28):
Oh, I'll just tell you a little story that when
I was about five or six, I used to go
and stay with Banana and she had a big grandfather
clock in the hall. And when you at that age,
it's so tall and big, you know. And I used
to stand there for so long waiting for it to strike.

(01:39:52):
And the only way that my Nan would get me
back out into the kitchen was enticed me with raspberry jeans.
Stand would just wow and oh, and I used to
go the Rebury holiday and they used to love this
beautiful old clock. And of course when you're bed age,
you know, it's so tall.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
And they had they also they had re impressive sounds,
didn't they.

Speaker 25 (01:40:18):
Oh they did?

Speaker 7 (01:40:19):
You know, you'd wait for the longer the hour. Of
course you get more dogs as that I used to
call them. And I used to have to go out
and win a back was turned on to be back
in the you know, in the hall again. Because in
those days where Nan lived was a great big old

(01:40:42):
fashioned house, you know, were big bay windows and it
was a big place. But I can remember it so vividly,
and I'm ninety now, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Now tell me what about that house was Marian, Oh,
that was in christ Church. I'm trying to visualize where
it might have been here.

Speaker 12 (01:41:02):
Do you know what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Do you know what happened to that clock? Because the
trouble with clocks is hard for them, irritance because you've
got four or five kids and someone's got to get
the clock.

Speaker 7 (01:41:11):
No, after all this time, I don't know what actually
happened to it. No, Oh, it was a beautiful and
what I can remember.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Of at that age, you know, And Marion is I'm
talking to you. I'm trying to think about the chimes
because I know they've got a tool they're in a
tool case because that's where the weights fall down. But
where are the chimes and the grandfather clock?

Speaker 37 (01:41:36):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Are they down in that cabinet part of it as well?

Speaker 7 (01:41:40):
Bottom you can open the I'm not too sure. I
can't remember when you open the bottom there down down,
you know, in a sort of the case.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Yeah, I wonder if the if is there is that
where a bell someone will tell us somebody it's a.

Speaker 7 (01:42:01):
Long long time ago. If I can remember, and it's funny,
I still.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Again, well, nothing better. Mary, nice to talk, Thank you
so much. Melbourney Head tend to in the rugby league.
Kick to come, Pappenhausen went over, We've done through them,
sell the dummy induct in. So there we go, bigeps
there for Brisbane in. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 32 (01:42:25):
Yes, I'm Marcus. Good evening listen. Growing up in the fifties,
Sunday nights exactly nine o'clock we had the bells.

Speaker 41 (01:42:36):
From from from Old from from Big Ben for a
time check. Oh yeah, yes, and that's what you set
your clocks by every Sunday night.

Speaker 13 (01:42:51):
So you're obviously in London, No, no hearing lahat was
here in lalahap yeah, and I think it came over to.

Speaker 32 (01:43:02):
Well what was two ya?

Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Oh okay, understand what.

Speaker 21 (01:43:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
So two WAYA would broadcast the big bell chimes at
nine o'clock on a Sunday on.

Speaker 15 (01:43:17):
A Sunday night.

Speaker 32 (01:43:18):
Yeah, and that was your time check and ag.

Speaker 30 (01:43:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Do you think they were doing it? Do you think
they were alive or was it a recording?

Speaker 15 (01:43:28):
Do you think I had no idea at that age?

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
No, I don't know either I hadn't heard about that
or I've misremembered it.

Speaker 32 (01:43:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, some others will, some others will remember,
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
Yeah, and we'll see if we can find more about
the Greenwich meantime on the radio. Thank you for that,
because that's what something we're all obsessed about listening into that.
I think I get the radio out and going up
and down the dials. I don't know I people would
have excess radios like that anymore.

Speaker 15 (01:44:07):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
Our family home is a charming clock and my visits
were sun there as you got up and stopped the
pingulum from swing to shut it up. Speaking of a
time I remember that in the City's going to see
the time ball at Lyttleton found it first day then
nineteen ninety nine, was in London, went to Greenwich and
saw the original. Hi, Marcus, I have a four foot

(01:44:28):
water breeze American wall clock and cased in a carved
oak cabinet Peyton in eighteen eighty seven. There's a glass
pendulum in two heavy weights, also a large face with
Roman numerals and below that the almanac used to be
in the office of Cadbury, Fried Hudson's and Dunedin. Still
going with a loud TikTok. Thank you. Could you text
me tell me what the Almanackers would be keen to

(01:44:54):
hear about that. It's not a word I know, Marcus
two AAA National Prayer. We used to have the time pips,
as the dad called them, the top of the hour,
not sure if it was every hour. I think they
still have them and they are called the pips. I
have my clocks on the microwave an other and narrow part,
so I have to change them for daylight saving. What

(01:45:15):
a great hack. Our eldest son asked for an analog
watch for his twenty first like a piece of jewelry.
Sisters have followed, which is lovely a keepsake for them.
My anniversary clock must be absolutely on level. There are

(01:45:39):
justice on each foot of the clocks, so I can
adjust it to level. There is an astronomical clock in Prague.
Dave Allen does an excellent skit on time, very clever,
can be seen on YouTube. That's clocks halftime in the

(01:46:06):
rugby Melbourne twelve Brisbane two Isra Man and Adam Reynolds
are off with hamstring trouble. They all got problems with
the hamstrings. What if it's been in too long in
the gym doing leg raises or car phrases. Something's going
wrong there isn't it. It's tough sport, though, Marcus I

(01:46:27):
learned back and cadets that you could use an analog
watch as a compass. You point the twelve o'clock mark
towards the sun. The point halfway between the hour hand
and the twelve o'clock mark will indicate the direction of north.
That's right, Cody. Apart from daylight saving direct everything like that,

(01:46:49):
it's wrecked. Even sundials be a part of the show
People Hit til twelve. It's all about clocks, something we've
already talked about before on this show. That's fun away
one hundred and eighty ten eighty. You can take that.

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On Tuesday. So this country was built on patriots stepping up.
Truly believe this is the right thing. Shoopers eighteen to eleven.

(01:48:17):
Good evening, Johnet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:48:20):
O Hio, Marcus. I can remember next door never had
a grandfather clock and a cockoo crock in the hall.
This is going back a long time ago, in the
nineteen forties that I used to love to hear. I'd

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stand in the hall and wait for that grandfather clock
to chime. There's big tubes in the body of the
clock which makes the chimes.

Speaker 10 (01:48:54):
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
So there's big hanging tubes down by the pint.

Speaker 23 (01:48:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:48:59):
That's right?

Speaker 30 (01:49:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
And what strikes them?

Speaker 14 (01:49:04):
I don't know. No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
Look I thought you might be a watch clockmaker.

Speaker 14 (01:49:09):
No, And I must recommend to you a song. It's
there's quite a few versions of it. It's really old,
old song. There's quite a few versions on Google. It's
called My Grandfather's Clock. I don't know if you've ever
heard it, but it's quite a little story to.

Speaker 21 (01:49:30):
It, isn't it?

Speaker 36 (01:49:33):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
Is it a good song?

Speaker 15 (01:49:35):
Or is it?

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
Is it sort of sentimental.

Speaker 14 (01:49:38):
Or kind of sentimental? It's it's it's it's just like
a story. It's a it's a it's.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
It's a famous song Johnny Cash song.

Speaker 14 (01:49:47):
Oh well not really. Yeah, but he did sing it, okay,
but it was not older than him, So I recommend
that one to you.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
Okay, I'll look that up. John, Thanks for the heads
up that I do appreciate that. Talking clocks. It's fourteen
away from eleven. How are you? What's happening? I just
want to go it on the Friday Free for all
now and on the Friday Free for all on a
Thursday with clocks. Keep the texts coming, people, and you
feel free to get in touch if you want to

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be a part of the show. The number is eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty if you want to text
nine to NINETI ZBZB sixty seven for four Zimbabwe. On
the first day of the second Test of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
chose to bat. I want to talk more about the

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talking clock or that one when you phone the time.
I'm sure plenty of people did that, but I'm not
quite sure why if you just pretend phone someone with
a good person to phone and I don't know, yeah,
and I guess people don't have clocks in those days,
or watchers. It's a valuable service. So you might want

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to mention that and talk about that as well tonight.
Oh wait, all that time thing he could tune into.
That was a good thing, wasn't it. Oh eight hundred
eighty eight?

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
You Max?

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:51:27):
Yes, the song my Grandfather's Clock. I can remember singing
this at school. We used to have a guy come
in and play for the play the piano while we
sang as a choir. We were a bit of a require,

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a ragtag choir, but every class would have at least
one session of that every.

Speaker 34 (01:52:01):
Week.

Speaker 19 (01:52:01):
And this was one of the you know, the staples
of of that sort of singing the school singing for
very very many years. And the story that the song
told was of how grandfather's clock was born. I was
bought on the day he was born, and it stopped

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never to go again the moment he died.

Speaker 24 (01:52:28):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (01:52:32):
I think that was from the Edwardian era or even.

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
The disinc from the eighteen nineties or something. Looking at
there is a story I saw on the Wikipedia page
for it.

Speaker 19 (01:52:43):
Eighteen ninety did you say?

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Or eighteen seventy six Henry clay Work, the author of
Marching through Georgia.

Speaker 19 (01:52:52):
Well, we used to think us we used to sing
that too, marching through a long way from New Zealand,
of course, but no, we had that in our song
book as well.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
Very popular in Japan. Funnily enough, my grandfather's clock to Georgia. No,
my grandfather's clock. Oh, my grandfather's clock was too large
for the shelf, so it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller than half by half of the old
man himself, though it weighed not a pennyweight more. It
was brought on the morn of the day he was born,

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and was always his treasure and pride. But it stopped short,
never to go again. When the old man died ninety
years without slumbering tic tick, his life seconds numbering tic
tic tic tick. It stopped short, never to go again.
When the old man died bringing back memories.

Speaker 19 (01:53:44):
Man, that takes me back, That takes me back, you know,
sixty nearly seventy years.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
So my grandfather said that of those he could hire,
not a servant, so faithful he found, for it wasted
no time and had but one desire at the close
of each week to be wound, and it kept in
its place, not a frown upon its face, and its
hands never by its side. But it shopped, stopped short,
never to go again. When the old man died, we

(01:54:14):
rang an alarm and the dead of night, and alarm
that for years had been numb, and we knew that
his spirit was pluming for flight, that his Arab departure
had come. Still the clock kept the time with a
soft and muffled chime as we silently stood by his side,
But it stopped short, never to go again when the
old man died.

Speaker 19 (01:54:35):
Yes, we used to rule that out as kids bellow it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
There's not much to it, really, is there, as far
as a great side looking at it anyway?

Speaker 19 (01:54:47):
Anyhow, what was the tue? It's just a little that's
just a little, a little passage from the past for me,
So anywhere I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Let you go, Thanks so much, Max. We'll find out
what the tune was. Seving away from eleven, My grandparents
had a grandfather clock that used to wake us all
night when we stayed with them, especially at twelve, as
the twelve bonds felt like they would never end. I
can imagine I now live in their houses. They both
have died and still swear I hear it, don't Lola,

(01:55:21):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 33 (01:55:24):
Yes, believe me. You want to know the tree nor
grandfather's clock.

Speaker 29 (01:55:27):
Yes, I'm not very.

Speaker 33 (01:55:30):
Good at singing on the air my grandfather's clock. I
don't know the words.

Speaker 30 (01:55:36):
Do do do do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Do Do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do do.

Speaker 16 (01:55:54):
Do do do do doo topped never to go again
when the old man died.

Speaker 2 (01:56:05):
Oh gosh, it with the lyrics, and it's quite upbeat.
It's quite nice.

Speaker 33 (01:56:10):
And when you have the tiktoki, yeah, tech tech. It
went well with kids at school because it was the
way it was sung and everything, and it was.

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
A favorite.

Speaker 11 (01:56:25):
Yeah, so it was.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
There was no sign of it when I got to school,
pattern there was no It must have done its desk
by the time I've got there, because I've never heard it.

Speaker 33 (01:56:35):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 16 (01:56:38):
It was in the forties and fifties.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
Yeah, god, by the sixties. Nice, Lola, thank you. This
is Marcus. This is Marcus, Marcus mac good evening, Hi, Ra.

Speaker 5 (01:56:49):
You're stolen half my thunder with that Grandfather's clock song
that had an ubby team with it. The other reason,
I ran, I've got reations of fielding. And we visited
them one day and they said, have you seen the
crock museum? I said, where is that? Just north had
fielded by about eight or nine k there's an old

(01:57:12):
schoolhouse and that's a clock museum. And the guy bought
a little lands with it, and he had all his
clocks in there, and it were fascinating to walk around
and look.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
How many were there.

Speaker 5 (01:57:32):
It would be over the hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
Yeah, I can imagine. I can imagine people getting obsessed
with clocks because the mechanism and everything is you know,
I can imagine someone collecting clocks.

Speaker 4 (01:57:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
I had another a work colleague and he was an
antiquarian horologist and he had things to do with clocks
in time.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
I imagine probably, And someone might back me up on
this mach I imagine if you had an old grandfather clock,
now that it were becoming more and more difficult to
find someone who's skilled to fix them, I would think,
or to get the parts.

Speaker 5 (01:58:09):
Yeah, it's a seasonally a specialist change or it was.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
Yeah, And I don't think the other parts interchangeable from
one clock to the one end. I don't. I think
they probably have all their own sized cogs, wouldn't they.

Speaker 27 (01:58:24):
Know?

Speaker 5 (01:58:24):
I'm not up with the intra cases of their works,
but I just loved them, and that that grandfather clock
song was a popular request on the Sunday morning told request.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
Oh, I have a listen to the news. Thanks Mac.
I appreciate you coming through up there with Molly Woppi
in the single the Bridge of the single Span. I
never really understood that story either. They come to the
bridge of the single span. Marcus. We used to sing
Grandfather's Clock at school, but the teacher Marcus, we sing

(01:59:00):
Grandfather's clock at school with a T shirt bed because
we say the word clock without the sea in it.
I can imagine. I think that I think that's probably
why this ended. Yeah, of course you did. Just for
another wicket in the cricket against some barbewe. It's now
eighty three four six, looks like it might be another
three day tests there. So it's a situation there at

(01:59:22):
Melbourne twelve, Brisbane two second half half an hour ago left,
and that that's set in Melbourne too. If you Warrior supporters,
you don't want Brisbane to win because that means they'd
go over the Warriors on the ladder. But Melbourne is
so unluckibly anyway because their coach Marcus. I up with
a clock an our kitchen that my parents had in
their kitchen in Westport. My dad was a grosser and

(01:59:44):
used to get tea in a tea chest. The supplier
sometimes put a gift in them. Was always excited to
see what the gift was. The clock has Roama Tea
time on. It must have been in the kitchen of
the late fifties. It keeps good time, runs on a battery.
I think it originally was electric, but my mom for
some reason changed it. Love hearing the tick all these years, Margaret,

(02:00:07):
great story. Like an early promotional clock. I'll see if
I can find an image of it on Google. Hey,
get in touch with our talking clocks and my grandfather's clock,
which is funny. Do come through. I can't see an
image of the Roman Tea time clock, but thanks for

(02:00:34):
the text. I've liked that a lot. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty anyway, if you if you want
to talk, that's what we're about. Hi there, Marcus. Many
years ago, about sixty nine, family went on a holiday
I think it was the Bay of Islands or summer
up there during the holliwod went to a house and
the owner of man had lookally hundreds of clocks, all types,

(02:00:56):
big and small, absolutely unbelievable. Possibly someone out there might
remember more than me. He and his clocks were quite famous.
It might be Clapham's. There's a new ziem and fang
aade called Clapham's Clock Museum, and I presure once upon
a time there was a mister Clapham. Remember my grandfather's

(02:01:19):
clock so well, can remember the tune very clearly. So
we're talking clocks. Obviously, it's been the tale of the night.
If you want to add to that, good I'm liking
you for that. The number eight hundred eighty ten eighty,
the text nine to nine to two. Get in touch, oh,

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eight hundred eighty ten eighty. You'd love to hear from you.
Anything else you want to mention. I am here for you,
but that, Yeah, it's all about the clocks. Tell us
the story of your interesting clock. Would love to hear
from you. Anything else you want to mention? This final
hour also too, but the clocks are doing it for

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me during the stories plenty at ten past eleven. Oh, actually,
I do I need to tell you. No power cuts
tonight that I can see. But what I do need
to tell you is that Roman will be along from
midnight tonight. The reason I started to about clocks, souse,

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I said, they've wall clocks were a thing in the
past day. I don't see them in people's houses anymore
because everyone's got their time on their phone. But you
might have something different to say, But do come through
and grandfather clock stories would be appreciated. I don't know

(02:02:52):
why they call them a grandfather clock. Have we worked
that one out yet? He had never ready thought about that.
Good evening, jilds as Marcus.

Speaker 17 (02:03:01):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I couldn't resist sringing with my
grandfather clock story. It began when I was three years old.
I'm eighty nine, but the first time I saw my
grandfather clock was in an old house in Seatoo where
my parents and I visited, and there was this grandfather clock.

(02:03:21):
I'd never seen one standing in the hall of the house.
Years go by, my mother eventually inherited that very clock
and when she passed away, I inherited it. But in
the meantime our family had bought that very house in

(02:03:42):
Seaton Wow. We put grandfather back Wow Hall where he
had stood since nineteen twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:03:52):
Great story and still there now.

Speaker 17 (02:03:54):
Oh he's with me and Palmers didn't know.

Speaker 2 (02:03:57):
It's fantastic. Do you wind did and keep it going?

Speaker 17 (02:04:02):
I do it to get the weight to very very heavy,
and you pull a chain and put your hand under
the weight, just to ease it up. The three weights
and my chimes are behind the clock face, and when
it's been serviced, they pull the face out and there's
these beautiful, beautiful brass chimes and they go do as

(02:04:26):
the ding dong comes okay.

Speaker 2 (02:04:29):
And tell me something? Does it keep feeling? How often
you get it serviced?

Speaker 17 (02:04:32):
It keeps perfect time. But over the years when we've
had visitors, I have to put it on silent. I
never hear it. It's my friend. But in the night,
if you wake up, you have to lie await to
hear is it quarter past half past? I mean it

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does drive you a little bit tippy.

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
Hey, Jill, how often do you get it serviced? Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:05:00):
Not very often. It's mainly when we've moved half sure,
because it's sort of the weight to come. After the
big pendulum comes off, the big face pulls up and
each piece has to be packaged really really carefully. And
it's had a few shifts, but not one scratch is

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on that beautiful mahogany case.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
And does someone come round.

Speaker 17 (02:05:30):
And Palmerston there is a special man who's services always precious.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
Yes, yeah, that's a great story.

Speaker 17 (02:05:42):
Sure, around the country there are people whose service these
wonderful old clocks.

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Thank you, Jill, really nice story. Thank you for By
the way, of course, the reason they call Glack grandfather clocks,
the answer was steering me playing in the face. After
that they were named grandfather clocks after that song. Yeah,
that's why they called grandfather clocks. The song was composed

(02:06:09):
by the American songwriter Henry Clay. Worker discovered a long
case clock in the George Hotel in County Durham. When
he asked about the clock, he was informed that had
two owners. After the first owner died, the clock became inaccurate.
When the second and died, the clock stopped working all together.
The story inspired Henry to create the song for it
to be a grandfather clock. There are certain height six

(02:06:29):
foot three, there are grandmother and granddaughter clocks which are
slightly shorter. It's all to do with it. I mean,
the history of clocks is quite fascinating because there was
much development and advancement and gears and pendulums and the like.

(02:06:52):
Are Patricia as Marcus good evening.

Speaker 17 (02:06:55):
He's good evening, Marcus. I'm just ringing about a clock
or clock. I have a talking clock, and in Japan
they don't have daylight saving, so all the clocks I
have are Japanese. But there's such a nuisance when we
have to change for our daylight savings. But anyway, one

(02:07:23):
of them, the talking clock, they're all on batteries, you see,
and of course I got tired of having to get
someone to change it. But the talking clock is round
and on the front of English it says talking.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
Clock and are you vision? And Peter, is that why
you've got one?

Speaker 6 (02:07:45):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (02:07:46):
But it was too much rather to try, and I'm
ninety four, so it is a little bit difficult and
I have trouble with their eyes.

Speaker 2 (02:07:56):
Nice to hear from you, Patricia, Thank you so much.
Sixteen plast eleven den It's Marcus, good evening, good.

Speaker 36 (02:08:04):
Evening, Marcus, we must have terribly behind in christ Church
in the late eighties because we were still singing Grandfather's
Pocket primary still.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
Then really.

Speaker 36 (02:08:19):
Absolutely it stopped short, never to go again when the
old man died. Just hearing this, there's been wonderful, yeah,
but mostly people in their eighties talking about it, not
of people in their bodies.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
By myself, did you not sing morning has broken an
inch worm?

Speaker 36 (02:08:43):
We did, and we had one teacher who was very
keen guitarist. They had a very floppy pick that would
mostly be the sound of a pet kind of flopping
up and down the streets. But what as you were
saying there was there were grandmothers. You goes, oh, I
was just saying that the about the grand other clocks

(02:09:07):
as well, which were I always thought it was a
bit sexist, but I do remember houses going up even
in the in the eighties. But there were there were
a grandfather clock and a grandmother clock sort of in
different places. But you were asking about winding them as well,
and most of those were the weights, so you would
pull down the weights at the beginning of the week.

(02:09:28):
I think it would be a Sunday night thing, and
gradually over the week, the weights would kind of go up.
They would somehow counterbalance each other to to keep the
mechanism of the clock going.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
I wonder about those people, like I think the two
quarters back that has one going every quarter hour. I mean,
I guess you just get used to it and you
can sleep through it.

Speaker 36 (02:09:54):
I guess you could. My grandfather himself had a cuckoo clock,
and that was quite perturbing. When you would go and
stay Granddad's town, it would cook. They were coo cookoo
through the night as well.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
Yeah, I think people were fascinated by the mechanism for
the cuckoo, but imagined, well, how did they make that sound?
It was just a tape, was it?

Speaker 36 (02:10:13):
Or that's a good It always seemed like a whistle
to me, like, I don't know if it had a
whistle mechanism. God, I have to look that up. I
never questioned, No, we won't look at it.

Speaker 10 (02:10:27):
We won't look it up.

Speaker 36 (02:10:29):
Great questions.

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
Yep, we'll get someone to tell us Dean, thank you
cockoo clock. How did the cockoo clock make its cuckoo?
I mean, I'm sure it's sort of pretty basic animatronics
and it's probably more advanced ones you can get cook
Ara binds with the sound of music, doesn't it? Is
it with a cockoo in that? I think there was, Marcus.
I have three clocks on my kitchen wall in a Rye,

(02:10:50):
one for New Zealand time, one for Perth time, one
for Sydney time. My daughter was in Perth and travels
to Sydney. I need to check the time before I
ring those. I don't ring in the middle of the
night with between four and five hours time difference. Marcus.
I remember the middle seventies a caller mentioned becore before

(02:11:11):
of how to Watch you to watch as a compass.
But do you remember when you were young there were
shoes some children had with compasses inside the shoe with heels.
I never got a peep, but a few of the
richer kids had them. Cheers Minty. I think my mother
was read disparaging of those shoes. But however, not only
do they have a compass in them, I think they

(02:11:32):
also had different animal prints on the soul for identification,
which seemed I don't know what it seemed. The name
comes oh, it does come from you, as the name
comes from the song my Grandfather's clock. Nice version, Dean Marcus.

(02:11:58):
There is a scheduled power outage in Wyuku. It's all
about clocks. Eleven twenty two. Hello Gordon, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (02:12:07):
Oh, mar I went to the Cold Cold Guitars of
Gore and as the guy saying a song about his
grandfather's clock was passed down to him and he passed
it down to this guy's a cockkeep sticking on?

Speaker 2 (02:12:26):
Were just a where did start that? Cook?

Speaker 19 (02:12:29):
Cook?

Speaker 2 (02:12:29):
But again, what did you say?

Speaker 37 (02:12:31):
I went to Gore.

Speaker 36 (02:12:34):
To the gold.

Speaker 2 (02:12:37):
Of course, understand, and someone did grandfather's clock.

Speaker 20 (02:12:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:12:44):
He was passed down from the great grandfather White through
the family and the end of the song is the
clock still sticking on?

Speaker 23 (02:12:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
I think it became a country standard with Johnny Cash too,
he's sort of country fighter, I think.

Speaker 5 (02:12:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (02:12:58):
It was really nice.

Speaker 2 (02:12:59):
Good on your Gordon, thanks for that. Hello.

Speaker 40 (02:13:01):
So hello there.

Speaker 39 (02:13:04):
We have a very old clock which has an interesting history.
It's a louis Co Tours which we think is late
seventeen hundreds and it's a ball clock that sits on
a plint on the wall and it was Kirkaldi in
Stain's feature clock in Wellington and they had a big

(02:13:25):
fire apparently and the clock being bull, which is tortoiseshell,
was caught in the fire and the tortoiseshell sort of
melted and crinkled a bit. And it had a lot
of gilded garniture on it. I can't think of the
right word, but it had cherubs on the bottom of
the clock, gold cherubs, and it had a gold top

(02:13:47):
knot as well. And they were apparently taken off and
sent to someone to be regilded and restored. And they
were putting the sack and sent off and we don't
know what ever happened to them, and across the clock
and loved it, even in its.

Speaker 27 (02:14:09):
Slightly shabby state.

Speaker 39 (02:14:11):
But it is quite gorgeous. It's quite bag And then
we were in the twenty ten earthquake and it bounced
off the wall and crashed to the floor, and it
was in quite a few pieces, and no one wanted
to fix it. And in the end it upset me

(02:14:31):
so much. I thought, I'm going to do this, and
I glued all the bits back together and it looks
as good as when we got it. Wow, it was
a bit shabby, but I would love to be able
to find the gilded bits that someone has somewhere.

Speaker 29 (02:14:48):
Okay, So I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (02:14:50):
Was it working before it fell?

Speaker 17 (02:14:53):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (02:14:54):
Yes, and I've got it going again.

Speaker 2 (02:14:55):
Okay. And did you see it and find it in
a second hand shop or something?

Speaker 39 (02:15:03):
I think it wasn't. Oh gosh, we've had it for
quite a while now. I think it wasn't an antique
shop or it was antick shop. Yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
Did you say it was a bull a ball clock?
I didn't understand that, but.

Speaker 39 (02:15:18):
Yeah, it's called bull, which is b O U L
A F three stock and that means that it is tortoiseshell.
It's tortoiseshell overlay on a wooden case, and it's got
the most beautiful blue and white porcelain numbers all around
the dial.

Speaker 27 (02:15:41):
It's gorgeous.

Speaker 39 (02:15:42):
It's old, and it still looks a little bit battered,
but we love.

Speaker 2 (02:15:46):
It, and so I wonder how cool because it must
you say it's from the seventeen hundreds, Is that right?

Speaker 39 (02:15:52):
Yeah, very late seventeen hundred eighteen King on the dial, so.

Speaker 2 (02:16:00):
It would pre date Cucaldi's and stains. Was it was
it incorporated into the shop or was it just standing
there somewhere?

Speaker 40 (02:16:07):
No, No, it it was on a wall.

Speaker 39 (02:16:08):
It was their feature clock. Well, it wasn't for sale
if someone would probably know about it and remember it.

Speaker 2 (02:16:16):
Because you're very brave of you to fix it, to
get it fixed correctly.

Speaker 39 (02:16:20):
Oh, we actually knew this lovely old chap and he
actually got the the mechanism working properly again. But he
wouldn't didn't didn't. He wouldn't touch the case work though.
But I just got a bit cross one day and
decided I was going to have a go and it
actually worked.

Speaker 27 (02:16:38):
Out really really well.

Speaker 2 (02:16:40):
Lovely story. So thank you very much, friend. This is Marcus. Welcome,
That is it me? Yes, grant here Marcus, the good good,
thank you.

Speaker 11 (02:16:53):
I've got sustained clocks, of course you have, and yes,
three of them are cuckoo clocks. Yes, one of them
is the German Black Forest, which that was a quite
good one, the old charlet you know ones that you see.
And this Myrlin's got a band that stands on a

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veranda and plays music after the cuckoo.

Speaker 2 (02:17:19):
How's that is it?

Speaker 14 (02:17:20):
Just?

Speaker 2 (02:17:20):
How does that work? Is that a tape?

Speaker 10 (02:17:24):
No?

Speaker 11 (02:17:24):
No, it's all run by wheels like the old like
the old piano. Sure you know the old pianos?

Speaker 2 (02:17:33):
Yes, So how is the how is the how is
the cuckoo noise made.

Speaker 11 (02:17:39):
With bellows? There's a set of bellows each side and
just like the size of a matchbox, and and the
lever pulls pulls them up and comes down and makes
the cuckoo sound so and and the other I've got
two like that.

Speaker 12 (02:17:57):
But the other one I've got.

Speaker 11 (02:17:59):
Is from the Bradford things, so it's a bit of
a modern one. It's run by battery, but that has
a it's a train station and there's a train coming
out of a tunnel and around the front of the
station and back through the tunnel, and a station master
comes out of where the cuckoo would normally come out.

Speaker 2 (02:18:17):
That's quite a good one, sounds quite fun. But that's
all modern stuff, isn't it now?

Speaker 21 (02:18:22):
No one is?

Speaker 11 (02:18:23):
Yeah, that do you keep?

Speaker 19 (02:18:25):
And then all the others?

Speaker 11 (02:18:27):
Yet you go? The others I've got are all like
the Mantle clocks with the Westminster chime. Yep, I've got
about three different four to well, I know five different
models of those, and then the Anniversary clocks. So yeah,
my son's think on the weird.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
Do you keep them all running? Grant?

Speaker 11 (02:18:47):
I don't know only one cockoo clock and it's just
gone off. Actually, probably would have heard it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:52):
Oh I missed it. Didn't hear it at all. That's
noise canceling for you on a cell phone. Yeah yeah,
cancel at the background, noise grunt. Appreciate you coming through.

Speaker 4 (02:19:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:19:00):
Half past eleven. Sorry I went to the wrong call.
I went to grant rather than friends. I was saying friend,
but friend now anyway, good evening. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (02:19:09):
Yeah again a Marcus friend here. Yeah, I've spoken with
you before. I up in Russell. I knew your grandparents,
your dad, and this year look on this grandfather's clock one.
I've got a hard case thing here for all the
listeners who are enjoying that as I have been. There's

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a comedian, a country music sort of comedian guy from
way back. Now you can goggle this. It's Lee Roy
Troy singing my grandfather's clock and it's absolutely hilarious. I've
got something for it.

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
What frin did you you?

Speaker 34 (02:19:47):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:19:47):
Friend? I better remember I think last time I spoke
to you, I've talked to you old many remembered you
quite fondly. Are you in your eighties?

Speaker 4 (02:19:55):
Not quite there, not quite to eighty, but almost yet,
so you.

Speaker 2 (02:20:00):
Knew that you knew the full set up there, and
that would be the fifties and sixties, right with grandparents
of that be right?

Speaker 4 (02:20:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, spent a lot of time with them.
And another thing too that I've been working on a
little bit recently. Took a long time to learn that
a lot of your listeners will know, is I'm my
own grandpa?

Speaker 29 (02:20:22):
Have you ever heard of that one?

Speaker 2 (02:20:24):
Never?

Speaker 4 (02:20:26):
It's fantastic. If you've got a minute and a half, I.

Speaker 36 (02:20:30):
Could give it to you.

Speaker 2 (02:20:32):
Is it a poem or is it a song?

Speaker 29 (02:20:34):
Or is it well, well, it's it's a song.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
Yeah, give it to me, Give it to what the heck?
Your family? Almost my own grandpa?

Speaker 4 (02:20:43):
Now, many many years ago, when I was twenty three,
I was married to a widow who is pretty as
can be. This widow had a grown up daughter who
had hair of read. My father fell in love with her,
and soon they too were weird. This made my dad
my son in law and change my very life. My
daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife.

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To complicate the matter, and though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother in law to Dad,
and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad,
for if he was my uncle, then that also made
him brother of the widow's grown up daughter, who of

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course was my stepmother. Father's wife then had a son
who kept him on the run, and he became my grandchild,
for he was my daughter's son. My wife is now
my mother's mother, and it makes me blue because although
she is my wife, she's my grandmother too. Now if
my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild, and

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every time I think of it, it nearly drives me.
While for now I have become the strangest case you
ever saw as husband of my grandmother. I am my
own grandpa. The choruses, I am my own grandpa. I'm
my own grandpa. It sounds fun and he and oh,

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but it really is so I own.

Speaker 29 (02:22:10):
My own Rampa. And the whole thing makes sense.

Speaker 4 (02:22:15):
But it takes a lot of word.

Speaker 2 (02:22:17):
Now that it's excellent, it's lifted the show immeaserably. Have
you drawn it all out the diagram?

Speaker 15 (02:22:24):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:22:25):
And if you goggle it, I'm my own Grandpa, you'll
get people like Ray Stevens, you know, who's saying, hey,
the Arab and songs like that. He actually has a
drawing up on a board with arrows going here and there,
and I worked it out that the guy who would
be the person involved actually has about nine different parts

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because with the generation separating it. So you know, when
he first starts talking about when he's twenty three and
married this widow, well, he's got the father above above
him as a generation who then marries the wood's daughter,
which of course becomes his stepdaughter. Okay, and then because

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the stepdaughter is married to his dad, then that becomes
his mother because that's his father's wife, so it's got
to be his mother, and then all the other things
take off from then. It really is good.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
Now, what was your first recommendation, friend?

Speaker 4 (02:23:34):
The first recommendation here is the Grandfather's Clock and it's
Lee Roy Troy tro Wife, and.

Speaker 2 (02:23:44):
That's the same song. That's a good version of the
Grandfather's Clock. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 4 (02:23:49):
Absolutely? Absolutely? And he flings his banjo around over his
head and tiktoking and things, and yeah, have a look
at it. It's wonderful.

Speaker 2 (02:24:00):
Really appreciate your cool friend, Thanks for so much for
coming through twenty three away from twelve one hundred and
six for nine Zimbabwe, so it's going to be short
taste twenty to two Melbourne over Brisbane, although that last
try might not be disallowed, but that's a score at
the stage. Good evening, John, Wow, good evening.

Speaker 15 (02:24:23):
Market's lovely listening to you.

Speaker 12 (02:24:25):
I enjoy it so much.

Speaker 15 (02:24:26):
Talking about clocks back and me. It was back in
the fiftieth Actually we were from Wayam North and I
went to a wedding of my cousin in Auckland and
there was a lot of people staying there and we've
slipped in the message on a matrice in the lounge

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and she's got six of these clocks for a wedding
twins and if we quarter of an hour they were
going off. Goodness gracious, I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:24:59):
Not much sleep, no, no, okay, nice to hear from
your good story, John, Thank you, Alistair. It's Marcus.

Speaker 20 (02:25:08):
Hello, Hello, Marcus. I saw on the repairs shop one
night a clock that went downhill.

Speaker 2 (02:25:22):
I might have seen one of those.

Speaker 20 (02:25:25):
I think they started at midday and it was raised
and every hour it would go down one hour and
then the ball. I think they had a ball that
would go down one hour, two hours, and then I
think it was about twelve pm it was finished.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
Okay. Is it called an Is it called an inclined
gravity clock?

Speaker 11 (02:25:53):
Is it what they are?

Speaker 2 (02:25:54):
Do you remember it?

Speaker 34 (02:25:56):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (02:25:56):
I couldn't say, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:25:58):
And they managed to fix it. That's what the interesting
thing is, right, they fixed it.

Speaker 20 (02:26:03):
Well, it wasn't going, was going, but it was so unusual.
I think it belonged to a young girl. They should
play it on a game because they it's three or
four years since I had it on TV.

Speaker 2 (02:26:23):
Tell me something else. How did they actually work?

Speaker 20 (02:26:27):
I think it had a ball and it had a
raised piece of wood about twelve inches wide, and the
ball would go down every hour and then two hours,

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three hours until it was right down on to the ground.

Speaker 2 (02:26:54):
Okay, I like all the table. I'd like to see it.

Speaker 20 (02:26:59):
I've got a lot of story for you. About sixty
years ago, a lot of young news religers used to
get cross with the high peats on it, and they
used to get them for Christmas twenty first Christmas parties

(02:27:24):
or their present. What sort of clocks, any type of clock,
But young men used to get crops with the high
you know, the temagus and the humidity.

Speaker 9 (02:27:41):
Ye.

Speaker 20 (02:27:43):
Yeah, Another of young men used to get those about
sixty years ago, and I got one because I may be.

Speaker 2 (02:27:52):
One really, Plus you're older than your sound.

Speaker 20 (02:27:57):
Oh well, I'm getting over a cold.

Speaker 2 (02:28:00):
I'll tell you what. You might be still in the
middle of the cold, alista because it don't sound fine.
How long has it been.

Speaker 20 (02:28:07):
I'll go and buy some mars muff tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
Yeah, how long you been crooked for?

Speaker 35 (02:28:13):
Weeh three weeks?

Speaker 2 (02:28:15):
Yes, it's got to still got a tough sounding cough
to today.

Speaker 20 (02:28:19):
It's very it's going around a lot this year.

Speaker 2 (02:28:24):
Yeah, she's tough to shake.

Speaker 20 (02:28:26):
So watch yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
I've had it because I'm down the bottom. That's we
get them first. Oh I was croc six weeks ago,
which is not like me. So yeah, touch what I was.
That's where I had those days off. Yours I was,
and it's still still cough. For a while. I had
to keep telling the microphone off, but yeah it was.
It does hang around a bit too, so it so

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that you'll throw it just about through it.

Speaker 20 (02:28:51):
Yes, my daughter had it poor seven weeks. Yeah, but
there was no headaches or four legs, justice annoying coffee
all the time, the one.

Speaker 2 (02:29:04):
Hundred day heck they call it o yeah, so I
call it. It seemed to go for one hundred days.

Speaker 20 (02:29:12):
We'll try maggot one day.

Speaker 30 (02:29:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:29:14):
Good luck to you, Alistair. I've watched it. The clock
on the they're a pair shop. I'm not a big
fan of they're a pair shop. I know that some
of you guys set your clock to it, but it's
always a bit sentimental and mawkish for me. Marcus. If

(02:29:37):
you're into craft building, spotlight it has a five piece
kit inclanding, an ol clock that you were seeble together.
Another was a globe clock of Earth. When I was
a kid in the late fifties, we had a party
phone line with around four to six people showing the
phone line. There was one woman who would listen to
other people talking. Unfortunately, had a cook a clock that
would sometimes start sparking when it wasn't meant to, or

(02:29:59):
starts sparking here. That's not quite the word, but the
cuckoo sounds come from paper bellows shaped like an accordion
and sheer great show, Livingston, Thank you Livingston. The cooking
clock has two bellows, the chainwait's power, the ticking and
the little bellows. There we go, just twenty seconds left

(02:30:22):
of the Rugby League twenty two to two. Brisbane didn't
score minded to be fair, two of the best places
were a man and Adam Reynolds were off with hamstrings.
So but I'll tell you what. Reese Walsh was lucky
let through a certain try but there was just a
technicality wasn't allowed. But yeah, he's still slightly sketchy anyway.

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Had enough of clocks yet, No me neither. Hittel twelve
fourteen to twelve, Janet. It's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (02:31:02):
Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 42 (02:31:04):
Marcus have a family clock which was my grandparents wedding
and verse wedding present in nineteen thirteen. It's a wall
clock about two foots high. It's carved.

Speaker 20 (02:31:21):
And it had a rearing.

Speaker 42 (02:31:23):
Horse on the top. Wow, it's would it's not going
at the moment. We need somebody to to fix it.

Speaker 2 (02:31:35):
Yeah, although there's no there's no drama for clocks not working,
is it? Because I think with a clock not working,
you know you know that it's only a phone called
again at working. I think I quite like clocks that
don't work. I mean, it's it's not going to get
any more broken, is it? It's just will be some
winding that needs to be done.

Speaker 42 (02:31:51):
Spring, I have it going again and have it charming again.

Speaker 2 (02:31:55):
Well, it makes a huge recket though, it wouldn't make
a click click click tick away.

Speaker 42 (02:32:01):
It's not too it's not too bad. Actually, it's just
that it was a grandparents wedding presence. It would be
nice to have it going.

Speaker 2 (02:32:08):
Yeah, how long since has it been since it hasn't
been going?

Speaker 42 (02:32:11):
Oh, probably twenty years.

Speaker 2 (02:32:16):
You just haven't lost it. You ever just lost the key?
You ever just lost the key to it?

Speaker 37 (02:32:24):
Oh?

Speaker 42 (02:32:24):
I think I overweund part of it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:27):
I forgot about the overwinding. You break the spring, don't you.

Speaker 42 (02:32:30):
We had it at our house up on a wall
above the double garage, and I think what upset it
was every time the garage door square slam that just
garage doors slam down.

Speaker 35 (02:32:41):
It upset it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:44):
I don't even know how. I don't even know how
hard it is to get clocks fixed these days. If
there are in small communities, there are people that would
do it.

Speaker 20 (02:32:53):
Well.

Speaker 42 (02:32:53):
I heard that lady say that she's got a parmesan,
that she's got one that'll come and to her. Yeah,
so I thought I might be able to find out
who is you might be able to do this one.

Speaker 2 (02:33:04):
Are you near Palveston here? Okay? Or nice to hear
from you, Jette. That's a good story. Thank You're twelve
away from twelve. We're talking clocks and it's been a
night of clocks. Who would have thought? Who would have thought?
A night of road user charges in a night actually
did something else before road use it? I can't think
of what it was. Oh, trade me. People saying no

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pickups still drives me crazy. Someone should write a musical
about trade me. A lot going on?

Speaker 34 (02:33:43):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
What else can I tell you before I go?

Speaker 23 (02:33:50):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (02:33:50):
Do get in Touched by miss Marcus. Welcome here till midnight.
If you want to be a part of it's turn
away from midnight. Gosh, it's been an easy show this end.
Are there to do any calling for calls? But if
you want to be a part of it before the end?
BEG of England cuts interest rates to four percent and
bid to boost sluggish UK economy. Well tell me about it,

(02:34:16):
Louis is Marcus.

Speaker 28 (02:34:17):
Good evening, Oh good evening in Marcus. Hey, I don't
know whether you had the same as what we did
in the UK. But you used to be able to
ring up the tellicom for the time.

Speaker 2 (02:34:27):
You know, we did, we hit we certainly we had
a dial of prayer and a dial the time that
was it.

Speaker 28 (02:34:33):
Yeah, well back in the late eighties, I can't you
can't quote me on. But back in the late eighties
it reached our national tabloids, The Sun and the Daily Mirror.
There was a young couple that was going on holiday
for a month, and the day that they was going
on holiday, the boyfriend said to his girlfriend, Hey, look,
I'm really really sorry, but I'm not taking you on

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this holiday because I'm taking a new girlfriend with me.
I finished with you and I don't want you to
hear when I get back.

Speaker 12 (02:35:04):
So there was a little bit of control and whatever
it was.

Speaker 28 (02:35:07):
Anyway, he went on holiday for a month and when
he came.

Speaker 12 (02:35:11):
Back there was they was pretty joyous.

Speaker 28 (02:35:13):
Like they got back into the flat and his old
girlfriend had obviously taken all her stuff and left. Anyway,
while they were sat downstairs discussing and laughing, they could
hear this little voice going on and they didn't know
what it was. So they decided to go around the
house and try and find out what it.

Speaker 29 (02:35:30):
Was, and the girl went.

Speaker 28 (02:35:31):
Upstairs and at the side of the bed on the
bedside cabinet was the old phone with a lift up receiver,
and it was the talking clock telling him the time. Now,
I didn't ever find out how much they had to
pay for it, but it used to, you know, as
you know, it used to say, at the third stroke,
it will be seven thirty three and thirty second feet beat.

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But I never did find out. But it was going
for just a full month, from the day left to
the day got back.

Speaker 2 (02:36:01):
How much was how much was it to call the
talking clock?

Speaker 17 (02:36:04):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (02:36:04):
Was it ten pince or something?

Speaker 28 (02:36:06):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was twenty. I think it
was twenty pencent to talk to the but it would
tell you but it never stopped.

Speaker 2 (02:36:13):
It kept just the whole time. Lo I think and
New See. I think in New Zealand it was free.
I don't know that, but I'm trying to I'm trying
to confirm that. But someone might lit to know. But
that's a good story because you would be you'd be
on there the whole time.

Speaker 28 (02:36:28):
A yeah, anyway, great, Hey, it was great to night say.
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 29 (02:36:34):
From starting to finish clocks.

Speaker 2 (02:36:36):
Nice to hear Lou thank you. Yeah, you never know,
do you. That's the old weird, weird old beast to
talk back something that you've got the topic of the
century and you'll die on it. And other times you
think you've got nothing and there you go. What's the moral?
Don't think about it. And what I think was the
height of the show is that we got friends song,

(02:36:58):
which I think was much better than Grandfather's Clock. But
that was a ripper in free Really do I a
song or a palm?

Speaker 15 (02:37:06):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (02:37:06):
But that was that helped me from start to finish,
from start to finish anyhow. That's me return to Borrow
for the Friday Free for all Romans. Next, don't bring

(02:37:28):
up Roman and talk about clocks. No one wants to
inherit the old topic terrible. Oh now, Roman, I'd like
to tell you about my grandfather clock. In the coming days,
Trump and Putin will meet and they might have a
three way with Zolenski three way summit.

Speaker 4 (02:37:52):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:37:56):
That till I can tell you really. Oh, the cricket school,
let me just whip whip that up on crick Info
for you, the cricket score, and I'll tell you what
Zimbabwe weren't doing well one twelve for nine, so big
last wicket stand. Now Zimbabwe won the toss they chose

(02:38:19):
to beat and Melbourne have thrashed Brisbane like twenty to two.
Brisbane didn't crossed the line. Someone says, you've got to
close with Grandfather's Clock. What I mean, if every show

(02:38:43):
deserved a song, it would be this tonight's show with
it'd been so thiep. But it just it's not a
song I could play, Okay, yeah, I just I just
think it got me a bad mood for a drive home.
But it wasn't a centimentdle as one of those songs.
I thought it was gonna be like like Deck of
Cards or some of those terrible country songs. But anyway,

(02:39:05):
we're not going to finish on there Grandfather's Clock. But
I can't believe that the Grandfather's Clock was named after
the song. And I can't believe we've been talking about
clocks and that song and I didn't put two and
two together. Yeah, so that's weird. Anyway, I know that

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forever now, that's why they called grandfather clocks. If you
want to be first in line for Roman, that'd be
good and if you want to be first in line
for torow night for me, tough, you can't. You have
to call tomorrow from eight pm. You can email me. Also,

(02:39:54):
Marcus at News Talks, he'd be dot cot on did
I don't get those that come to work between seven
and eight, So yes, there's no point or email me
tomorrow or something. I just don't reply until I get
to work in the evening. But yeah, thanks for everyone,

(02:40:14):
and enjoy your Friday and I'll catch you then.

Speaker 1 (02:40:18):
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