Better carry on then (26 July 2024)

On the eve of the Paris 2024 Olympic opening ceremony, Marcus talks about the best moments of past Olympic Games.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be eight oh seven us any good evening. One
of them is Marcus. Welcome. I hope your day has
been as good as mine. Greetings and welcome. I hope
it's good where you are. Here's what I can tell
you too. I'm looking at the schedule for the what's
the date? Maybe that's today's sedule. Have bits in today's

(00:32):
schedule anyway? Olympic Games commentary schedule twenty sixth of July Thursday.
That's not good for me. Hey, welcome, bar came for
five to a hap. Welcome people who would have thought
the sevens had gone, had finished before the before the parade,
before the opening. Very surprised to understand that this morning. Yeah,
I think it was one v eighth But yeah, it

(00:53):
didn't play good enough, so that'd be tough for them.
I don't know if they just come home or quite
what happens with the rugby sevens team. So there we go,
and fantasy spying on the key we team cheap as anyway,
Welcome people, as Marcus hit or telve o'clock sight up.
I hope it's good where you are there's no score
yet and the Warriors. It has been down the Warriors ends,

(01:15):
but there are bananas what they call a banana skinning game.
I think we could actually lose to them, the Tigers,
So I'll keep you updated about that also too. So
that's happening, and I'm very much also about keeping you
informed for the Warriors for the Olympics as well. People.
I'll let you know when the games are and what
is happening. Five thirty in the morning is the opening ceremony.

(01:38):
I think snoop dogs one of the people carrying the
torch and they take the teams down the river on boats. Yeah,
that's the way it goes on boats. So that's what's
happening tomorrow. That's the opening ceremony from five point thirty.

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So there's not much happening overnight, which is a worry
because they're all getting ready for the opening ceremony. And
also the trains aren't running because of bad actors. And
when I say bad actors, I mean countries have been dodgy.
I'm not talking about people that act badly or actors
that are bad at it. But anyway, so year five
thirty in the morning be worth getting up for Lady Gaga.

(02:25):
Celine Dion, she's all on for the opening ceremony. I
think this might be the third time they've had the
Olympics in Paris. They're the Olympics in Paris in the
year nineteen hundred was mainly men and they allowed women
into events where they wouldn't sweat. Well, the first ones

(02:49):
were in Greece in eighteen ninety six. The nineteen hundred
was Paris, right, and some of the events included fire fighting.
The warriors had just scored firefighting, tug of war and
there is one other that springs to mind, but anyway, so, yeah,
that's a situation where the original, well the original Olympics
in Paris, which was a nineteen hundred go figure. So yeah,

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women went allowed an event where they could sweat. I
don't know what more to say about that, but that happened.
I don't know if they swam in the river that ti.
I don't think they took the Olympics very serious. That
By the way, I was thinking before I came on
air of what the great Olympic experiences or your great
viewing experiences are of the Olympics. The highlights, and I

(03:39):
guess what you'd probably have to say. If I think
about this a little bit, and it comes to me
quite clearly, I'm of a certain age. You'll be a
certain age as well. I'm of a certain age where
the things that seemed to be the most extraordinary was
the gymnastics. There was a stage there. I think it
must have been color TV. It must have been nineteen

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seventy six or something, and it was just extraordinary watching
the Olympics. There was gymnastics, There was perfect teen's being
given that seemed to be absolutely beyond the realms of
people's endeavor. I don't know if it was Olda Corbett
or Nardia common each perhaps it was both, and that
seemed to be when people would go the next day

(04:22):
they j just see the Olympics last night. Wow, mind you.
The gymnastic gymnasts were terribly treated, not about thirteen four,
fourteen to fifteen years old, so that's changed, of course
now they're in their twenties, a lot of them, and
I think they're treated better. But anyway, that was sort
of one of the highlight. Mind actually, looking back of it,
probably we shouldn't look at it as a highlight anyway. Oh,

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by the way, hot air ballooning, hot air ballooning, firefighting
and tug of war. They were the events and the
Olympics of nineteen hundred and the women could compete as
long as they didn't sweat. Yeah that's weird, isn't it anyway?
So I'm asking you about your highlights of the Olympics
from those years, from the early years. You want to

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comment on that also because there will be some. In fact,
it's already started quite well with the spying and the
upset for New Zealand. I mean, it's exciting already, isn't it.
And they'll be swimming in the river and the opening ceremony.
The boats will be going down the river. So I'm
all and to text me, throw or call me if
you've got any best moments of the Olympics. Shahn's failed

(05:26):
to get the kick, so it's just four nil the
Warriors over the West City Tiger with Sydney Tigers. Of course,
he gave me the kicks last week here. That would
be tough for him. But yeah, text, yeah, highlights of
the Olympics, So let me know what the best moments were.
They seemed to reach their peak in the seventies and
the eighties. There was one that was in Portugal that

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seemed to be slightly disappointing. Am I right Portugal or
Spain in the mid eighties, But yeah, if you've got
some memories of the Olympics, nice to be good to
get the mood for it people. If you want to
say that, I'm sure if you count backwards most you
can remember where they all were. Of course, the last

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ones were in Japan during COVID no one could go
because it was a super spread of event. And the
one before that was in Rio. That's how far back
I can remember, and then before then it's all around. Anyway,
do you get in touch Marcus till twelve oh eight
hundred and eighty eight, Teddy and nineteen nine to de
text anything else you want to talk about to It's Friday,

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big week, good week, be good to hear from you.
I won't mention a torch tonight. We'll try not to knick.
Sports for New Zealand are rowing and the equestrian tomorrow night. Well,
at the early stage of the requestrians always a bit random.
It's sunny, ever good when they get into the cross

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country event, and I remember that fondly from nineteen eighty
four wasn't Los Angeles did a very good eventing course,
that's my take, that's my memory. Four teen past eight.
I will keep you updated with the news throughout the
next three hours fifty three minutes. If you've got news
happening where you, I'll let us know. But there's been
massive attacks on the train network in France ahead of

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the Olympics. That's not good, not good at all. But
I'll keep you updated on that also too, throughout the
course of the evening. But here, as I say, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten, eighty nine, two nine, to
detext your Olympic highlights if you've got some of those,
would like to hear from you about that. As we
get kind of hype, these will be fantastic. It's perfect
time for us. Also, well, here we go. I can

(07:45):
tell you something. Get this, in the cargol has smashed
its July temperature record by almost two degrees. Yeah, telling
people how hot it was. They weren't believing me. An
in the cargo the temperature reached eighteen point six at

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the airport two n three pm. That smashed the previous
record goes back to nineteen forty eight. Goodness, we didn't
get the town's high that was Cowardo. The country's high
Calwodo was nineteen point eight, which was not a record,

(08:26):
by the way, Matthew Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh Marcus, I think you nailed it with the Kathy
Freeman comment.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
She had a green suit, didn't she remember that suit?

Speaker 3 (08:39):
The indigenous winning the two hundred in Sydney, like it
bought Australians together.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Might have been four hundred, not two hundred, but we
won't know if it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
No, no, yes, yeah, I'm thinking about Ben Johnson, which.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson was a drug Canadian drug cheek that.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Two hundred minervation Carl Lewis. But anyway, but yeah, Kathy
Freeman winning in Sydney, that gold medal, amazing, amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
It was just so quick she was, she was you
can see almost I can see her hen she hit
her hands pointed up and you can see her hands
get she got. I don't know if she had a
distinctive style or it was accentuated with a green suit.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
I remember, Yeah, just the indigenous winning like Sydney, Australia.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Were you there, Matthew, were you there in the stadium?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
I remember it though, I remember regular why won't you
go there?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
I wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think I was in I think I don't know
where I was. I might have been in Darwin.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Really for the type for the cyclone Tracy.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
That was seventy two or something that was way before.
But yeah, no, amazing. And there's so many critical moments
like that that the same bolts. Everyone wants to track
and field the Oh, there's so many moments tabal and
I mean there.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Was you know there's belierat Tunden Balero. I can almost hum.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
That was.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Of the Olympics. I mean that's Winter Olympics. But yeah,
that Karl Lewis, Ben Johnson, those those times, I mean.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, okay, good to hear me. I appreciate. What's a
bit of enthusiasm Balero brilliant. There were some great kind
of the reckon some of the great matchups we've been
ice hockey Russia USA. But I don't think why that

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was Winter Olympics too, isn't it? Marcus? How much Persis
did medal? Twict? You contain what they are? Oh, that's
always good. They always going about that. How much Golden
Olympic medal. It's a really really good question. Now, what
do we know about something? What were the medals made from?
Last time? Dan, you remember this they made from cell phones.
You're quite right, remember they were all excited about that

(11:10):
they made from cell phones. They made from recycled, recycled kit.
Haven't heard anything yet about the Paris medals. What are
they made from? Is it ethical gold? Yeah, that'd be interesting.
That's a really good question. Texter. Oh, here we go,

(11:35):
Here we go, here we go. It looks like they
might be made of part of the Eiffel Tower. Each gold, several,
This is interesting. I'll listen to this show. Each gold, silver,
and bronze medal at the twenty twenty said we need
sort of Pete Montgomery on one of those old people
over there, telling us, what's there's no commonplace to go

(11:56):
and watch the Olympics anymore. In the old days we
had some TV did reporter banging on about this endlessly.
Each gold, silver, and bronze medal of the twenty twenty
four Paraslympics features an eighteen gram hexagonal chunk of iron
taken from the Eiffel Tower. The medals contain iron pieces
taken from good as another piece of the famous tower

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that replaced during past renovations and then kept in storage.
That is fantastic. How good's that? How good's that? And
they look sensational. You've got a yeah, it looks like
it looks like a you've got a one, two three,

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you've got a Hicks Agen of iron and then kind
of oh they look God, what a great question. That's brilliant.
But not for the sevens because they're out. They got
someone from LVMH Louis Vuitton to design the medals and
they look priceless. They look really really good. Why if

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we not had an article on that are brilliant? You
got any weird Olympic facts, I'd be up for that.
I don't know what they are, but I love that
about the medal. I love a weird Olympic fact. So
you've got a weird Olympic fact for us. I know
once upon a time. Now, of course there's some of
the great stories, but you're said in athletes going across

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there by ship to compete, But still a weird fact?
Is it really whether it'll be hard to train if
you're going across by ship? So weird Olympic facts and
just general Olympic chat in general. In the old day
is a lot of key wes. There'd always be a
lot of brochures telling people to go and follow the Olympics,

(13:47):
to go over They haven't. Who do anyone going over
the Olympics this time? But fancy hot air ballooning being
part of the Olympics. Yeah, And until nineteen twelve, the
medals were made of gold. Roger Marcus evening, Hey Marcus,

(14:15):
how are you going good? Thank you? Roger welcome, thank you.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Thank you. I'm first time caller, so we'll hopefully.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Oh yeah, you're doing you're doing well. You're doing well
so far. Your phone's off, which is all Yeah, radio
is off, which is always good.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
Yes, nice, nice, Hey. I think it was Daniel Lodo
was it the ninety sixth Oh yeah, yeah, when he
won his two boars.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
That was unbelievable. What he that was unbelievable, what he did.
It was just the nervous guy and he wasn't for
a fourth fright at the press conference and I felt
the key was turned on him. But after that, which
didn't seem to be fear at all. Our greatest swimmer.
What a legend.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
That's right, that's right.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
There's a couple of key things for me there. One
was the I forget the commentator, but the second when
he got a bit excited from memory and yeah, he
just got a bit excited and got his voice or
really high, which was which was funny but doesn't take
away from the amazing event that it was. And the
other key thing was my wife at the time she

(15:15):
was over there. I was sorry my wife to be
was over there helping out. Not one of those why
whim things or something, you know, where they can go
over as young people and volunteer to help out. So yeah,
there was a couple of key things. She was a
bit of a character and she's a bit of a
practical joker, so she had a bit of fun with
a couple of teams and she was working with over.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
There, and that was what the ones with Daniel was.
It was ninety two, right.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Was it?

Speaker 7 (15:41):
No?

Speaker 8 (15:41):
Wasn't it was?

Speaker 6 (15:42):
It wasn't it ninety was there one in ninety six?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Ninety six? Atlanta might have been. So she's we is
she we wham?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Well, you know, they had their youth group thing where
they can go over and do voluntary work and stuff.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
So she went over with.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Them, and you never heard of. It sounds excellent. Where's
the wedding?

Speaker 9 (16:02):
Roger?

Speaker 6 (16:04):
No, this was we got married the year after that.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Albert, didn't you say your wife to be? Are you
going to marry her again?

Speaker 10 (16:11):
No?

Speaker 11 (16:12):
Yet.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
At the time I see what I'm saying, your wife
to be abou, I'm thinking, oh gosh, you're going to
get married this weekend, as we'll excited for you. Roger,
good on you. We went four. Nell still worries that
there should be a lot higher than this. John. AT's
Marcus good evening.

Speaker 12 (16:28):
Hello, Marcus. I'm going toways say. It's not a story,
it's a fact that the Olympics in nineteen thirty eight
pre war. The background to this is I went to
Timmery Boys High School and we were almost indoctrinated there

(16:52):
because there was an oak tree growing on the school
grounds and it grew from a nut an acorn that
Hitler had presented to love Lock after head after he
had competed in the nineteen I think it was thirty

(17:14):
eight Olympic Games. And that tree last time I was
there was about five or six years ago, is still
very much alive and growing on the school grounds. And
Hitler apparently he presented an acorn to some of the

(17:34):
winners of some of the competitions that extraordinary.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yes, and not many have survived.

Speaker 12 (17:48):
I don't haven't heard of any others. But tim Erboys
High was famous, of course for Jack Lovelock, and.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
He wasn't from there. He was from the coast originally.
I think was he from Reefton or something he came across.

Speaker 12 (18:04):
I think yeah, he probably boarded went to boarding school
at Thomas House there at Boysie.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
So John, I'm all in for this story. So when
you get to school, right, what year is it? Nineteen fifty?

Speaker 12 (18:20):
I was there, started in fifty six, left in fifty
nine and we last storebost Accolade. You could get school
certain agriculture.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Go yeah, okay, and tell me how how tall was
the tree then? And was it? Was it revened or
what it was a big deal? Was it?

Speaker 12 (18:43):
It was a big deal. It was held in great reverence,
and underneath it was a big whale pot, which was
another replica from the early days of New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
And I've got I've got to go and have a
look at that tree because a normal times to Teman,
who I've never had a look at that tree.

Speaker 12 (19:09):
Well, go and have a look at it, Marcus. At
it was alive, and well, that's so I heard about it.
I'll tell you what if somebody chopped it down or
poisoned it in some way, there would be an.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Uproar, yes, and no one would advocate. I can imagine
there was times that was considered here. It was one
of Hitler's oaks. And of course too Lovelock died in
forty nine.

Speaker 12 (19:35):
Yeah. Is he the one that fell in front of
the train or was he the one that died in
the dentist chair?

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I think, and I think fell in front of the train.
I think that's an inverted commas. Also the fell in
front of the train.

Speaker 13 (19:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think that.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
You know, we don't need to go into that, but
I think that was the insinuation there. But yeah, there
we go. Ducks, I think it was Ducks. Was he
his dux too? Was he of the school?

Speaker 12 (20:00):
Oh well may well have been. I don't know that,
but yes.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Okay, nineteen to night. She's all go, Henry, Marcus, welcome, good.

Speaker 14 (20:10):
Evening, Hey, Marcus said it's going mate.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
Good test Henry, Hey, Yeah, sixty eight.

Speaker 14 (20:16):
Olympics had everything you know, board Beaman broke the set
the long jump world record. John Posary guy, he you
know he invented that the way.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
The year Yeah, yep, sideways, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
That's right.

Speaker 14 (20:36):
And Peter Norman was an Australian sprinter. We come second
in the me and hundred meters and remember they had
the black Power salute. Then Peter Norman was you know,
he was involved in it. No, he didn't didn't salute,
but he had a badge.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh yeah, I've said, I've seen the image of that.
What was his name, Peter Foreman.

Speaker 14 (20:54):
Peter Norman. Okay, so you go forward to ninety ninety
six and Michael Johnson the Golden Shoes and Golden Chains
wins the two hundred and four hundred ninety six Olympics.
So then you go forward to two thousand. In Peter
Norman's time in ninety sixty eight would have won the
gold medal when the turn of the meets at Sydney
and the Americans invited them to the Olympics, not the Australians.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Wow, and his time would have won it.

Speaker 14 (21:24):
This song would have won the gold medal at Sydney,
but he ran in nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
That's surprising. A, Yeah, surprising.

Speaker 14 (21:37):
Or the Olympics in between and eighty four don't forget
sold above the beer foot South African and mir.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Look, that's a that's a that's a huge story of
that because that was so hyped, wasn't it? It was
this person to come from nowhere and it was just
so disappointing. A.

Speaker 13 (21:54):
It was.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
It was just yeah, because she wasn't She wasn't that.
She was sort of overwhelmed by the whole thing. Was
she is that? Technically it was far wasn't it?

Speaker 13 (22:05):
Well?

Speaker 14 (22:06):
That so you know, history season, it was she was
only young in personally you know Mary Dicker was to open.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Up girl very much. So is trek and field your thing? Henry?

Speaker 14 (22:18):
Yeah, because I did running myself. So yeah, I've always
going to followed the running.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Because it's a name I don't Peter Norman died of
a heart attack quite young. But were you aware of
that from sixty eight? Were you young? Were you old
enough to remember that in sixty eight when he.

Speaker 14 (22:32):
When he Yeah, I was kind of you know, I've
always just kind of liked watching, you know, sporting, you know,
I just kind of followed him, and then I brought
his book a couple of years ago, and yeah, most
two guys, you know, they came over and we're paul
bearers from in his funeral.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Wow. Oh that's really moving to hear that, because it
was Tommy Smith and John Carlos both. You say, I presume,
is that right?

Speaker 14 (23:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, yeah. It was the time about ten point one
or something, was it?

Speaker 14 (23:10):
Yeah, it was you know for those for those years
that was that was quite. You know, that was quick.
Well are you saying bolts gone faster? But you know,
back then that was that was quick.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
And then of course all those other years, probably for
the twenty years subsequently, it was all drug cloud territory anyway,
wasn't it.

Speaker 14 (23:29):
Yeah, exactly being Johnson and you know then even Carl
Lewis was a little bit you know, suspect, but they
could never throw anything, so you.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Know, but no one talks about Carl Lewis has been
one of the great do they? It seems almost by
by ignoring, how you you get the sense that people
know that something was up there?

Speaker 14 (23:46):
A yeah, exactly so, And who can forget Marcus I
laid down sally that the Olympic canoe was you know
they were rolling.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
You know that girl will be laid down and well,
look I never quite understood what the fuss was about that.
Tell me about that. She didn't win, and.

Speaker 14 (24:01):
She growing with the girls and you know the eight
and then she just just you know, got tired or
just just gave up, you know, she just fell down.
They just called it a lady on selling, you know.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Really and they lost though they really turned on.

Speaker 14 (24:18):
It, didn't Yeah, they did. Yeah, they called her every
you know, you.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Know, yeah, I'll look under some research about that. You go, well,
that's it. Thank you for that, Henry Oh, eight hundred
and eight thirteen to nine. So it's likely an elegant
to get out of that called that's all right. Onwards
and upwards. Yeah, I remember that laid down Sally at
the Olympics. Every kind of Olympics has its kind of moment,
don't they. Yes, it was twenty years ago for laydown Sally.

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She's Australian, which I wasn't aware of. I thought she
might be English. But twenty years ago and boy, oh boy,
the country turned against her, probably with good reason. And
she'd done it before previously in a race. So anyway,
that's laid down Sally Christ's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 15 (25:06):
Gaving Marcus look.

Speaker 16 (25:07):
I also went to Timaru boys after that, older gentleman,
I feel. And I'll tell you a little bit more
about Jack Lovelock for the Lovelock Oak when he won this,
when he won the when he won in Berlin in
nineteen thirty six, Hitler was in the stand with with
the henchman Gour and Gebels and a few others.

Speaker 13 (25:29):
And.

Speaker 16 (25:32):
Jack mowed down. Jack mowedown the area and German runner
who was supposed to win.

Speaker 13 (25:36):
It, and.

Speaker 16 (25:39):
Hitler presented in the the acorn and then promptly left
with Goebels and Gurring and co.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
And yeah, he wasn't waiting for the general flavor to
go up.

Speaker 13 (25:53):
I can tell you from history.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, that's right. It says that, because it says in
the Wikipedia that love locks, if any, were presented by
the love locks for examples presented by doctor Theodor lu World,
So that must have been it. And just Chris, I
don't want to affect checked joke, because I was curious.
They were little saplings as opposed to acorns, so are
little plants.

Speaker 16 (26:12):
I think there were plants there weren't acorns, they were
oak seeds. And I'll tell you what we've done.

Speaker 17 (26:18):
I was I was before.

Speaker 9 (26:19):
I moved away from just five or success.

Speaker 16 (26:22):
I was on the Old Boards Association, and we give
a cup each year for excellence whether we're be in
sport or whatever. And we've made and we started making
replicas from from from the trimmings of the love Lock oak.
And Tom Walsh has got two replicas because he's won
the test Cutbacker Cup twice, so they get replicas of
the oak. And his older daughter has both his daughters

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as younger and his older daughter came to the school.
I started there in sixty three. They came I think
in the fifties. And when you go to have a
look at the oak, I looked out of my class
two fastrooms for at least three years over the oak
when you go after going the Mooral Library and his
gold medals there from the thirty six Games, his Cambridge

(27:04):
University medals, Illen medals, et cetera, cetera. She donated oars
medals to.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Go on the Moral Library.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Tomorry boys any word on the trip of the Beck
to his in up resument came with Lovelock by ship,
did it or did someone else bring it back? You
got any intel about that?

Speaker 13 (27:24):
No?

Speaker 16 (27:25):
No, And I look, I have that because there's been
several books written about Jack Lovelock and I bought one
six or seven years ago. And what you mentioned before
about that when he tragically died in the New York subway,
they leave that, they leave that chapter unanswered.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yes, okay, And I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Whether whether it came back blast ship.

Speaker 16 (27:47):
But one thing I've heard, have you heard? I've heard
the broadcast when he won because he was at university
in England, the you know, so we were very much
readed by the English as well, the English commentator, and
when he went past, when he made the German runner down,
he just forgot about the commentary and anyone else and just.

Speaker 13 (28:04):
Yelled out, go Jack, Go for God's sake, go Jack,
Go Jack.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, I think I've heard that, it says on the internet.
In his thesis, Jane Constance refers to lovelocke and trusting
his seedling into the care of teammates Cecil Matthews deliverate
to a delivererate home to New Zealand. By the time
it arrived, it was in poor condition, but was nursed
back to health and in nineteen forty one was planted

(28:29):
at Timloo Boys High School. So it's obviously had quite
a long trip back if it's taken three or four years.

Speaker 16 (28:35):
Yes, yes, yes, And I mean we were all you know,
we were all told about it when we went to school,
and mean we used to sit around the playground underneath
it and in the plaks here.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
So it's a beautiful oak as you walk in and
in front of the rectory ground which is which, which
is which? Where he ran. I ran around there too,
like a lot of other boys.

Speaker 16 (28:57):
Where he ran and you know where he went the
mile and I think fourth form, fifth form, sixth form.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, and would have been ducks as well too. I
was pretty smart one he.

Speaker 16 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, and he was he was a doctor and
everything and he yeah, I think he. I think he
he actually competed at Los Angeles in thirty two, but
he I think he made the final and came about fifth.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
In thirty two. Okay, look nice to hear from you, Chris.
I really appreciate that extra information about that. By the way, halftime,
the Warriors are up fourteen to zero. I don't they've
got to kick over they're going good, go then go them. Hello, Johnny,
it's Marcus. Good evening, Good.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Evening, Marcus. What a great radio show tonight. I remember
the nineteen eighty four Olympics as a kid, as a
ten year old, and Carl Lewis was somebody I was
quite impressed with. And you know, as a kid, he
won the long jump in one hundred meters in twoundred

(30:06):
meters and you've got a lot of gold medals and
athletics and when when you were saying not many people
talk about him, it was funny because that's what I
sort of run up to talk about. The other one
was Sebastian co and I think as a kid watching those,

(30:28):
you know, Olympics in nineteen eighty four, my whole school
got into it.

Speaker 18 (30:33):
And today I've got a thing through Story Park, which
is through the kindergartens, and it was my son's class
doing a thing on the Olympics and every child had
their photo tacked them with a supercized hand, and that
was that was.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Kind of cool because it took me back to my
days of being a young fellow in.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
What's the what's with the supersized hand?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
I'm not too sure, but they've all got this big,
super sized hand with it, and they've got an Olympic banner.

Speaker 13 (31:02):
And yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Kindergartens love it. Kindergartens love having the Olympics because then
they get the kids to do a march and they
have them are coming through, they do the opening ceremony.
I think that standard at the day keys of the Kidneys,
isn't it? They love it. Yeah, And do you remember
Tavel and Dean?

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Was that the Serajevo Olympics? The Winter Olympics? I think
it was had the song Ballero.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
You know, we talked about that earlier this hour, Johnny,
But thank you. Yeah, it's so sort of given credit
to the Winter Olympics. But yeah, do I won't have
it anyway, keep it going. I talk about the great
moments of the Earth. It's been good, people remembering some
pretty interesting stuff. I reckon people talking about thirty six,
not thirty eight with the Berlin Yeah, do you imagine that?

(31:49):
And there has been a big coordinated attack on Paris
on the trail. They're expecting this, They expected there's going
to be trouble and there has been. They sent some
Russian spy type person home breaking news on the male
has putin stuck. The Olympics, Fiers moscows behind coordinated massive arts,
an attack on French railways. You never attacked the railways. Goodness,

(32:11):
that's sacred. I don't remember much the White Games in
eighteen ninety six and Athens, or the ones in nineteen
hundred and France, but hot air ballooning. I think they
might have shot pigeons too. Of course Jermie had them
in nineteen thirty six and nineteen forty, but the nineteen
forty ones were canceled, so were the ones in nineteen
forty four. For every entry. Finos for very interesting and

(32:34):
interesting enough in nineteen fifty sixty the Olympics, we're both
in Australia and Sweden. The horsey horsey stuff was in Sweden.
Go figure, that's news to me that it wasn't news
so anybole week ago. Of course Moscow nineteen eighty we
didn't go. Boycott could have invaded Afghanistan. I think some

(32:57):
people win. I think it can Newest went. I think
one athlete might have gone one or two. That was
a situation that'll loom large in some of your childhoods. Yeah,
of course there was Zola bud running barefoot. And the
last couple, of course, there was Tokyo, which was COVID
no one went to watch, you couldn't and before that

(33:19):
was Reo, and before that London, which had that sort
of opening that people kind of REMI. I don't know
any of the events at London. Can't remember the magic
moments where we are talking about the great times of
New Zealand or the great times of the Olympics altogether,
just not just New Zealand ones, but any take on

(33:39):
that your great moments. For a while there was all
about the gymnastics. We couldn't believe how good they were.
I think some of those moves have since been banned.
On the asymmetric bars. They spun around one way, back
around the other way, unbelievable click clacks with their click clatter,
what they were and who can not forget Nadia Komenichi

(34:01):
were their celebration at the end of the dance or whatever.
She threw her arms back and jupers so's a triumphant
look at sort of a look anyway. My name is Marcus.
Welcome eight hundred and eighty eighty nine nine to the
text Adele's Engaged. There you go make it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 19 (34:25):
Was fortunate enough. I was posted to be an agent
Hanover and I took a week's leave and I scored
some a free accommodation in British Military Hospital Berlin, and
there was a direct bus route from the Berlin Hospital
into the center of Berlin, down the Cafersen darm and

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on the way was the Olympic Stadium and he could
get on or off the bus with a tourist pass.
And I went into the Berlin Olympic Stadium and I
looked at the Jack Lovelock's name there and I just
sat there quietly looking and thought, what a great tree

(35:07):
that they finally pull up there for him.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, what year was that, mac.

Speaker 19 (35:13):
I was there in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
And there's a list of all the medalists from thirty
six is there?

Speaker 19 (35:22):
Yep? Yep, there is yep. And it was just so
moving that the place was empty. And but about three
or four days later they actually had a football match
in the stadium, so I went along to that, so
I was able to enjoy the crowd noise. I don't

(35:42):
I'm not a big football follower, but I just went
along because because I could basically.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hey and make You probably have more sense of this
than iwall because I don't follow it. Is that stadium
still there? Well it was when I was yeah eighty,
that's forty four years ago. Do you know if it's
even looked recently?

Speaker 19 (36:02):
At no, no account that I have, it would be
it would be a soldier storing if they got rid
of it. Even when the war got I had to
fly in from Berlin from so I had over to
Berlin because the war was still up, and being a

(36:23):
military person, I wasn't a lad al on the rail corridor,
so I went into Timberhof Airport. But it were it
would be tragic if that stadium is still not there.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Well, I believe it'll still be there. I was just
checking up on that mag but you're someone else will
checked that for us. I appreciate that. Eleven past nine, Kingy,
it's Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (36:44):
Yeah again, Mark, it's just all spoken to you. I
had a good friend, my best mate, probably the Raven's
warm Boy from Dunedin. He lives in New Zealand. In
the nineteen eighty eight soulop it's John Camill in the
marathon and a lot of people don't know about.

Speaker 13 (37:00):
John, but.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
He actually's probably New Zealand's best ever placed marathon runner
in the Olympics ives round about two twelve or something.
Not too sure what timey ran a soul, but I
know that in eighty eight was pretty hot and John
was funny. Yess the best. I think the Castello was
out there.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
I think Castell because he was shot. He was he
was beloved in Australia. Deeks, wasn't he the loved? He
was a mustache and.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
John John trained with him quite a bit and from memory,
I think John was John's telling the story that he
was running it's soul and it was that hot, and
the leading runners were going along and deliberately knocking over
the drinks, so the runners training behind didn't have anything
drink and John got that angry that pushed him to

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a point where he got into almost the top ten.
I think he finished eleventh. Was not one hundred percent sure.
John will probably able to correct me on that, but
he's probably the best ever placed more and running the Olympics.
He later went on to run in the Veterans in
the United States and ran on the Boston Marathon. His
first event there was as a as an officsional athlete,

(38:16):
and he finished second overall in the Boston Marathon and
two hours eleven and broke the world record from over
forty and two hours eleven.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
So he was your neighbor and Raven's bord. Is that
what you said, Kicky?

Speaker 9 (38:28):
No, No, he's my best mate. He's still kicking around
the hecks Bay used to run the hex Bay Hotel
motel and he's seventy four to thirty five years old now.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Of course, because I stayed there not so long ago
at a hecks Ban I saw that that he had
that I didn't put two and two because you think
someone that went there in eighty eight is not going
to be their seventies now, you think they'll be in
their forties because everyone gets so much older.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
A yeah, but marathon ounners don't start peaking till the
thirty five forty And like I said, John broke the
world recoral from und over forty and two eleven in
the Boston Marathon, finished second overall and won my vetan section.
He ran on two pete competitively in the veterans in
the United States, and I did quite well in a

(39:15):
sport that people didn't think you should make money out
of it, but John reed to make money like the
Taylor wrote the books that gold are easy, but gold
don't pay the bills. Money does.

Speaker 12 (39:27):
So.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Was he made of yours from as a child or
just from as any.

Speaker 9 (39:31):
We used to run together at the morning from the
athletics club.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (39:35):
It was he was?

Speaker 2 (39:36):
He always was?

Speaker 15 (39:37):
He did?

Speaker 2 (39:38):
He always have huge stamna.

Speaker 15 (39:39):
Was he some of that?

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Did Big Miles?

Speaker 8 (39:40):
Was he some of that?

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Well?

Speaker 9 (39:42):
He reads in New Zealand at the age of eighteen
and nineteen sixty nine and Morocco cross country?

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Okay? And was he one of those guys that followed
Lydian and those ones? Was he into that sort of
stuff doing?

Speaker 9 (39:56):
He was coach coached by Alston McMurray. And you know
it's the old adage. You know, you do the case,
you win the race, one hundred and sixty k a
week and just do it. Yeah, he's with the Grindstone,
just a real tough bastard from down south.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, isn't good. He's in good health now, can you.

Speaker 12 (40:19):
Yeah, he's fine.

Speaker 9 (40:20):
He's flying helicopters.

Speaker 20 (40:23):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 9 (40:24):
You know, he's pretty cable. He's just recently sold the
x a hotel motel but to fear and you know
he's got a farm in it. And I speak.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
He's kind of under celebrated, isn't he in New Zealand?

Speaker 9 (40:45):
And they go on and they talk about the Dictaylors
of this world and everybody the job was frowned upon
because he made money out of an eleateur sport. But hey,
what do you do when you haven't got a job
you don't like money? Do you get in the United
States and you use your talent?

Speaker 15 (41:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Do you remember watching that race?

Speaker 10 (41:05):
And y do you?

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Were you watching it from New Zealand?

Speaker 9 (41:09):
Well it wasn't actually televised.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Going to ask you about that, Okay, so didn't you
couldn't see anything?

Speaker 9 (41:15):
No, But you know I certainly heard about it, and
I knew about it because I remember I used to
work for the Parks Department and I'd be walking to
work in the mornings and I'd see John running from
Ravensbourn he used to run. He used to live out
Saint Leona's and I'd see him about the Boutenant Gardens.
Was about to go to work, and he'd be going
past me on George Street and I knew that he
was still going to go to Cavesham, halfway to Molesgow

(41:37):
and back, looked back around again, come up Fairfield, straight
back down to Ravensbourne, back down in St. Leona's every morning.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Wow, nice to hear from me, KINGI thank you, that's
pretty interesting. Thank you so much that. Hi Diana and
s Marcus welcome. Good evening.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
Yeah, hi Marcus. The stadium in Berlin is still there.
I've been taking stados and they had done some work
on it to make it still look good. Same as
the how Sinky stadium that looks really good. I had
a look at the Montreal Olympics. I was over there,
so that that was good, and also the eighty four

(42:14):
Olympics and the States where Mary Decker and Soul of
Bud were running. And it was quite interesting because I
was sitting in a group of Americans and one of
them said, oh, look at that soul of Bud Spike.
You know it was Mary Decker, Queen of the Wines
that used to call her. And I said, no, she didn't.

(42:34):
I said it was Mary Decker. She did that there.
And there's an American guy sitting next to me and
he said, she's right. It was Mary Decker's fault.

Speaker 9 (42:43):
You know.

Speaker 7 (42:44):
And I saw Carl Urth run one hundred meters and that.
But when I'm overseas, I will go to a lot
of the sporting stadiums, stadiums just to see, you know,
what they were like, and you know, it's been quite interesting.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
So you go to a lot of Olympics.

Speaker 13 (42:57):
Is that right?

Speaker 17 (42:59):
Now?

Speaker 7 (42:59):
I don't go anymore because I think it's too professional now.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
But you were you an athlete yourself.

Speaker 7 (43:06):
I did a bit of running.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (43:08):
Actually, was that last person I came in on the
end of it was that John Campbell.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
He was talking about correct affirmative.

Speaker 7 (43:15):
Yeah, he was when he went to the cross country
Champs in sixty nine. I was over there then two.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Here competing yep, and that.

Speaker 7 (43:28):
But John was really good. He was, you know, and
the team and that's so.

Speaker 13 (43:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
No, I make a point of going to Evan the
big rugby stadiums like Twickenham and some of the other
big ones.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Are you looking forward to the Olympics.

Speaker 7 (43:47):
Ah, yes, yep, And I'll see some of them, yep.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
You'll be watching some other track and field.

Speaker 7 (43:53):
Yes, I watched quite a bit of it. Actually, I'll
tomorrow morning. I'll have a look at the opening ceremony.

Speaker 9 (44:01):
And that, but.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Quite interesting on certain things and there. So hope our
new Zealan team do well.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yeah, good on you, Diane, thank you. I hope we
do too, because we're for a bad start with the
The rugby seven has been eliminated before the opening serial
of it. By the way, just an offside Wis Tigers
are coming back there up it's ten fourteen, so what
the other switch off session for the Warrior is gonna
be a nerve wrecking if we lose to the bottom

(44:29):
place team, that's not going to be good. By the way,
Barrick and Michelle Obama of endorsed Kamala Harris. They've phone
the Vice President to offer her support. I don't know
what they took so long to do that. Do I
have reasons? Fory one past nine full AT's Marcus Good.

Speaker 20 (44:44):
Evening Colors Good Evening's Evening film.

Speaker 12 (44:52):
I don't.

Speaker 20 (44:52):
I'm not sure whether this is Olympic or Commonwealth. But
my greatest hero of all that era was that left
that pressure McKenzie. What a great guy here? Was he
not a South African?

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Look I think he was South Africa and I think
when he came to News, he's competing for England when
he came for christ I think that's a situation. But
I'm prepared to be wrong on that, but that was
my understanding. I think I think he represented England and
he started representing New Zealand.

Speaker 20 (45:31):
I believe so so. And yes, I believe he was
born in South Africa, Brady Gadia, but he is precious
McKenzie has to be an unsung hearer.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 20 (45:49):
Well, that's my belief and is it proven. Yes, he
did come to live in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
He still lives here. He's still on ads for a
retirement home on the radio. You might hear. Yeah, you
hear him talking on the radio quite often. He's eighty
eight now.

Speaker 13 (46:09):
Excellent.

Speaker 15 (46:10):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 20 (46:15):
I think it was a death. I can't remember where
when it was because.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
And I.

Speaker 20 (46:25):
Both we have one thing in common. We're both vertically challenged.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
He's four foot nine.

Speaker 10 (46:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (46:34):
Well I'm not well, I'm almost almost better.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (46:39):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (46:41):
I mean that guy was an inspiration.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
He was a hero for well, for me, Okay. I believe.

Speaker 20 (46:51):
He was an incredibly neat guy. He was so humble and.

Speaker 10 (46:59):
And I think.

Speaker 20 (47:02):
I don't know anyone who doesn't love precious McKenzie.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Yeah, I agree, I agree, and King's loved him and
Ounce loved We always had that huge smile to everywhere,
and he just seemed to be someone that attracted people,
that just had such an unbelievable kind of aura about him.

Speaker 20 (47:19):
He yeah, he and Margaret he yeah. You've summed it up.
He had an aura and the only door he couldn't
get through was a smile. Yep, it was. He was
a just and he was an inspiration and that conaw

(47:41):
doesn't confuse me. But how up comes he's not mentioned
more often.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
I think I think I think he is. I think
he is mentioned quite often. I don't know why he
didn't go to Olympics. Maybe that category of weightlifting wasn't there,
because it seems that most of his success with the
Conwealth Games, so I'm not fully aware of that. But yeah,
he was a extraordinary.

Speaker 20 (48:07):
Oh he was in his day. He was the name,
wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Yeah, agreed, Phil, nice to hear from me, Thank you,
twenty six past nine. Keep it going, Oh eight hundred
and eighty eighty nine two. By the way, we went
to three Olympics, sixty eight, seventy two, and seventy six.
Interesting story about someone has alerted me to it. About
the men's pole vault in thirty six final was won

(48:36):
by Earl Medals of the United States, a three way
tie for second result of jump off. After American Bill
Seft was eliminated, two Japanese jumpers were left. They refused
to compete further, so Japanese officials chose Shuheenesheda as a
silver medalist in shuah Wai as the bronze. After the games,

(48:58):
the two took their medals, cut them apart, and combined
them into a half silver half bronze medal. Only two
of their type ever created. What a great story. I
imagine they would be worth collecting those. I don't know
where those medals are. Probably they became known as the

(49:19):
Medals of Friendship.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
I like that a lot.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
All I'm missing is a picture of those. It's a
good story. Sport does produce good stories. That's a great text.
Thank you for that numberedning. In seventy seven, Marcus. Several
of the matches in the EU Football Championship were played
in the Berlin Olympics Stadium a few weeks ago, including

(49:47):
the final.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I'm not good on my European stadiums. I've had a
look at it on Google. It's a beautiful looking kind
of it looks like it's of the time, doesn't it
presume it's concrete?

Speaker 8 (50:03):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
That kind of brute list architecture of the period. And
the other big news was the temperature in the cargo
today was the highest ever by two degrees in July. Yep,
that's true, very very hot by a country mile, much

(50:31):
hotter than Auckland. That will mean something to the people
of the southern city or hotter than Auckland. They'll be saying,
who Christ's Marcus?

Speaker 13 (50:41):
Welcome?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Good evening.

Speaker 17 (50:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (50:44):
The stadium that Hitler designed, that Will had design. He
had it designed by Albert Sayer and Albert Sair was
the lead architect for the Third Rike and he designed
all the buildings that they did. And he was one
of the only blokes that got away with actually not

(51:05):
being home.

Speaker 13 (51:09):
What he was an architect?

Speaker 2 (51:11):
What happened to him? Well, he lived out his life,
did he I didn't know that? Okay, Yeah, he lived.

Speaker 14 (51:18):
Out his life and he.

Speaker 21 (51:22):
Did lots of more architecture and bits and bobs, but
he also he did a couple of He never spoke
for many, many years, but in the nineteen sixties you
can find on YouTube if you look his name up,
he did an interview and it was an hour long
interview and the interviewer asked him about you know, all

(51:44):
the bits and bobs, and yeah, very interesting interview. But
he was still a Nazi even in nineties.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
So was he prosecuted for those beliefs or was he
not guilty of war crimes?

Speaker 21 (51:56):
He was not guilty of war crimes, okay, because he
was an architect. But he also designed some prisons that
a lot of Jews died in.

Speaker 13 (52:07):
Yah, But he wasn't guilty of that.

Speaker 21 (52:13):
Because he was told to design a particular thing.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
And yep, That's why I asked about the stadium because
for some people, I presume that must be a similar
all sorts of things. I don't know what the stadium
was used for in World War Two, but it's a
fairly it's a fairly loaded piece of architecture, isn't it.

Speaker 21 (52:35):
Well, Well, what you've got to go back to is
his main practice was and Hitler's main practice was they
actually loved the Roman architecture. So most of the buildings
that he designed for public buildings, which there was dozens
and dozens that he designed, huge buildings that were built.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
They were very Romanesque, and I knew you got to
say Romanesque.

Speaker 21 (53:00):
Yeah, but they were very beautiful and they were crafted
and beautiful ways with stone and I mean just beautiful
statements of architecture. I mean, forget about the Nazi thing.
But Albert Stair was a leading light and Oscar and

(53:22):
Nebermeyer met him many times. Oscar Nebermeyer was a man
who died at one hundred and two one hundred and three,
who got married for the third time when he was ninety,
and he was the one that did Brazilia.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Oh, yes, correct, Yeah, I'm familiar with that sort of
planned city and all that bruteless architecture. Yes, yeah, and
they were mates. Have you been there?

Speaker 21 (53:48):
Well I have actually, and it's well worth going to.
But there's brutalless you've been to.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Brazilian's resilient.

Speaker 21 (53:57):
It's very minimalist, but it's very beautiful and the cathedral
that they did there at the church is absolutely magnificent.
It has something very special about it that's got a
stained glass window in.

Speaker 13 (54:13):
The roof, not in the walls.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
When were you there?

Speaker 21 (54:19):
Well, the last time, Well, I've been there three times
because I have friends in just up the coast from Rio,
in Saint Paulo. Yes, I go occasionally, but I've been
there twice. To Brazilia and the road into brazili Res
or concrete, So.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
It sort of seemed to be a planned city.

Speaker 8 (54:39):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (54:40):
And then it's the capitol and but it's I presume
it wasn't the great success that was meant to be.
Is it still a functional in a big place?

Speaker 21 (54:49):
It's still the capital of Brazil and it's and it's
actually it's had a renaissance since the Rio Olympics. A
lot of people went up there and had a look,
and a lot of people were very inspired by it.
By the way it is, because they have all their
their buildings there and everything. It's like Canberra basically. It's well,

(55:12):
the same thing happened in Australia, but much earlier that
the and the same thing happened actually in Bangladesh. And
that's Louis Khan.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
That and he died.

Speaker 21 (55:25):
He died when he came back from viewing it once
in the in the New York train station and his
body wasn't found because no one knew who he was
for five days and the sky Louis Khan, My Architect,
was the movie that was made about him, about his
personal life, but fantastic artect.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
And hang on, Chris, where did We're moving a bit
quick with where did he die?

Speaker 3 (55:53):
In the New York.

Speaker 21 (55:56):
Underground and not by identified who he was? And he
just comes back from Bangladesh because he he built their
parliament buildings which have wars around them.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I just I just, I just I just want to
I just want to come back to Brazilia. Okay, Yeah?
Are they respectful and the locals love all the buildings
and they've left them there. They're not knocking them down
or anything like that.

Speaker 21 (56:26):
Absolutely, the Brazilian people love Brazilian.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Okay, God, that's all.

Speaker 17 (56:30):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
The other question, what's the metro? Is there a train?
It's a planned city? Is there an underground or a
train system in Brazilia?

Speaker 21 (56:38):
Yeah, there is transport systems. There's trams. At one stage
they got rid of those and they did another system,
and yeah, moving around it is quite fine.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
But whyn't you Why don't you become a whyn't you
were to a guide, I wasn't I Why aren't you? Well,
it's a good question, doesn't admitted?

Speaker 21 (57:04):
Well, I've never thought of being a to go.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
I'd go on your tour Brazilia. I'd feel I'm almost
there with bruitless architecture. I feel you've got it all sucked.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
Yeah, I never thought about it.

Speaker 21 (57:17):
And I do speak Portuguese. Really, yes, Well, brazil speaks Portuguese.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
Well where did Brazilian?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Where did you learn Portuguese?

Speaker 21 (57:29):
Well, when I was in Australia, I used to employ
a lot of Brazilian people as my staff, and I
learned that some pieces of their language, thinking that that
was the main language of South America, But when I
went there, I found out it was actually the second
language because Spanish. Every other country speaks Spanish.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Because you good at language as your are you polyglot?

Speaker 13 (57:53):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (57:53):
Well I do in French and Yeah and Arabic? So yeah,
a couple, wow, but only places i've lived. Wow, living
them to them.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
You've got to live in them and love in them
to really absorb them, don't you.

Speaker 21 (58:10):
Absolutely Otherwise you just don't get it right, That's what
they say.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Got to live and love in a different language, Marcus,
maybe a mention of Lorrie Buyers who won the medal
in cycling just passed the last couple of days of
milkman from Kai Korhy, who gave all youth a job,
good or bad, always saw the good and all God
bless you Lorry rip, blessings to family, condolence as much

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what he got a chance. Thank you. Oh that's a
nice text.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
I don't know too much about Lorry Buyers, but now
I can google that up, removing tonight with a lot
of things that people are saying. So lor Buyers got
a bronze in the men sixty two and sixty six

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British Empire and Common Games appeared to the nineteen sixty
fourth Summer Olympic Games, replaced tenth in the men's road race.
But the piece just died on the twenty first, just
five days ago. And I think the person that texted
me was one of the person he gave a chance.
It's a nice story. Goodness, some good stories in sport.

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I mean we might, you know, we might get cynical
about some parts of it, but does provide good stories.
And no doubt these Olympics there'll be some bangers I'm
full immersion for two weeks all right into it. I
can't get enough of it, especially now they got there,
go go, go, go go. Don't know what tennis les
neck there we go, put it down, put it down?

(59:52):
Who that's Dallan's back. And as they're going into a
showy it's twenty six ' ten full crowd at Ericsson.
Five to go. We should win this and the crowd
they beginning a big night. M bignited that don't know
where they'll go afterwards. Actually that's a good victory. Let's

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hope that's five minutes if we should have won that
one cheap as it's all on good on your chance,
look like him. I've got a couple of kicks over hope.
So Richard Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:00:25):
Good Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Thank you're Richard.

Speaker 15 (01:00:28):
Good.

Speaker 22 (01:00:30):
All us talk about the Olympics and everything, you know.
Sort of thought myself when Daniel iis swim for his
second gold medal, I'll never actually forget watching it because
it was halfway through a surgery. Wow, and the surgery
stopped so that we could all watch it. Fah.

Speaker 12 (01:00:53):
I was patient.

Speaker 22 (01:00:57):
I went in for surgery on my arm and my
wrist and they did it with a nerve block, so
I'm wide awake, all the nerves and all the surgeon
and they said, they're all sitting there staring at the watches,
and eventually the surgeon said, look, you might if we
just stopped for a bit. Just Endy motors Bet swim

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in the Olympics, and we want to watch it. And
they had a great, big, big screen TV. We turned
it on and I'm lying there and the surgeons and
the nurses are standing there and we watched him swim
and win. But at the same time, I had micro
cameras all in my arm and I can look at

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another screen and see the inside of my wrist and
the inside of my arm. So we stopped for that
for about eight and nine and watched it. We are yeah, no,
that's really good. The big TV screen off. Decision went on,
we'll have better carry on then, and he carried.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Off successful surgery.

Speaker 22 (01:02:01):
Yeah partially, yeah, okay, And I won't blame I won't
blame you. It just makes me up some damaged inside
my arm. But it was at the time, it was
very surreal, but it was sort of like the most
natural thing for a bunch of key, which to do?
Will to stop? Right, that's don't Let's carry on.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Great story, Richard, Great story sits us up nicely for
the knicks down. Thanks for the news. By the way,
the warriors have one convincingly. May probably look a bit
hard than they should have. But how yell going people?
My name is Marcus. For those that don't know too,
what's really interesting The medals? I don't know why? Who
man were song and answer this? The medals at Paris

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are made from bits of metal from the Eiffel Tower.
You probably don't believe me, that is true. Designed by
Louis Vaton. That company looked fantastic, classy. Hey, how are
you going people? My name is Marcus. Welcome. We're getting
ready for the big bang tomorrow, which is the Olympics,

(01:03:09):
and we're all big, We're all we're all in on
interesting Olympic facts and your great Olympic memories. I don't
know what they are, but you'll have some.

Speaker 10 (01:03:21):
For me.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
I'm in the age. Well, seventy two there was the shootings.
Now I was a bit young to really remember that,
but it sort of in my mind. I remember something
quite sinister happening. Seventy six, Well, we watched a lot
of that. I fully know what happened. I think you
sent well on track and field and hockey. I'm pretty
sure that was seventy six, nineteen and eighty. Of course,
nothing much happened because in Moscow because then invaded Afghanistan,

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that's right, and then invader Aghanistan toa we boycotted it.
Apart from one athlete, I think went independently.

Speaker 12 (01:03:51):
So that was that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Eighty four was Los Angeles. It was a big deal.
They did it well, commercialized it and it was good
and had that the great old Arena and stuff like that. Anyway,
eighty eight Barcelona, I don't know why I didn't really
kind of resonate for me in some ways. Don't quite
know what. Probably to do with the time difference. If
it works time wise, it's good. If it doesn't, and
then on we go. So your memory is about anything

(01:04:13):
about that? YadA, yadia and back atcher who Marcus. I
was working as a nanny in Santa Barbara, California in
nineteen eighty four, age twenty three. My parents came to
stay and we thought we'd drive to Lake Casitas to
see the Olympic rowing. We drove a few hours had

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no tickets, but got speaking to security guy on the
gate about buying tickets. His name was Anzac. You can
guess where he was from. Gave us a wink, and
we were in just in time to see the coxles
fours win gold and watch the Cox four winds bronze.
An amazing day and a great memory, and people are

(01:04:57):
often interested in the medals. The last medals of the
Last Winter the last Winter Olympics were in Korea. Were
they anyway or China? Can't remember, but the medals were
were made out by recycled gold from computer chips. Where
was that, Dan Tokyo twenty one? There we go, of
course it was.

Speaker 17 (01:05:18):
Will.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
The medals this time are made from iron from the
Eiffel Tower. Now you might think I'm making that up.
They're not going to make it from iron from the
Eiffel Tower. But what they have done is they've got
hold of some trussess truss when they've been repairing it,

(01:05:46):
and they've kept that and stopped and they've made medals
out of that, which bears the question why aren't we're
saving stuff from the Harbor Bridge and making something out
of that like memorial coin DoD buy one of those
sort of that, Wayne Brown, I'll be into that next time.
You're repairing bits of the old Harbor Bridge. Save the metal. Anyway,

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get in touch your memories from the Olympics. It's been
very interesting so far. We've talked about the Havelock, the
love Lock Oaks, We've talked about Brazilia, We've talked about
the Nazi architecture, and on and on we go, the

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looning hooves, steep, you got anything, it'd be nice to
hear from you. Eight hundred and eight. And by the way,
five point thirty in the morning is the opening ceremony.
They go down the river. It's not in the Stateium.
They get on the river, Sin the Sin Snoop Dogg
is one of the torch bearers, and they go down

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the river and Celine Dion will sing and Lady Gaga
will sing, not with the other guy from the movie,
I don't think, which is a shame. It was a
good song. So yeah, that's all I've got to tell
you about. But yes, the medals will be made from that.
And by the way, there's really bad like strikes on

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the transit system in Paris, which they reckon is the
Russians yep, that's what we're on about so far. Guys,
four nil, Paramotter over the Eels. Good evening, Timm, it's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:07:35):
Did you say parame O the Eels?

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Yeah, Para Paramotta of Melbourne for sorry about that, yeah, yep, no, no,
no worries.

Speaker 17 (01:07:43):
Hey.

Speaker 8 (01:07:44):
So the last Olympics in Paris was nineteen twenty four, right, yep?
Was was that the one where Hitler was kind of
coming into power in Germany?

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
I think that was the thirty six I think it
was the thirty six ones that were the ones in Berlin.
I think they were the ones that he made a
real showcase. But then the American athletes won the track
and field, which put pay to his master race kind
of theory.

Speaker 8 (01:08:12):
I think, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. I was
just thinking because a hundred years ago when it was
last in Paris, I think, well, everything will have been
on the radio back then. But I think we were
participating as Australasia.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
I think you're right.

Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
Yeah, I don't think we participated in New Zealand until
maybe the nineteen thirties, if someone can correct me around anyways,
I just want to tell you Mark, it's one of
my greatest memories with the Olympics is the two thousand Olympics.
Privileged enough to be there in the Great Stadium in Sydney,
Kathy Freeman, you'd probably remember yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I did mention that. I did mention that earlier in
the first day. One of my magic memories here are
in that green suit with the hod and just extraordinary.

Speaker 8 (01:09:02):
Oh and honestly, if you were in Australia at the time,
it just it just brought the nation together like I
don't think anything has brought it together like bad Head
back in two thousand. You've got to remember in the
two thousand Olympics a lot of the teams are wearing
the old swim suits that are manned. Now yeah, I
think it was China and Russia at the time. But yeah,

(01:09:25):
just great memories mate. I'm looking forward to the Olympics
in Brisbane in eight years time.

Speaker 4 (01:09:33):
I'll definitely be there.

Speaker 8 (01:09:34):
It'll probably be the closest will get to an Olympic
Games the world for I don't know for the next
fifty years or today.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Did you go specifically to Ozzie to watch that and
ed Sydney.

Speaker 8 (01:09:48):
Well, I was living there at the time, so I
was where as a security guard in Bankstown and Bankstown
is where the Olympic stadium as if you've ever been
to Sydy yes or not, Yeah, it's it's in the
suburbs anyway. And back then the state in Australia could
hold one hundred and ten thousand people. Well, it was

(01:10:12):
just extraordinary. I think the Allbecks played there and broke
the record for the biggest crowd that year and don't
a long we've scored the winning train. But yeah, it
was just incredible, mate, and I can't wait for tonight.
Unfortunately our seven boys won't be there, but hey, I
might win.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Oh look I reckon. I saw them coming through the
tunnel singing their song. They're just a magical team, so
hopefully they will. I don't know what went wrong with
the men. I mean, well played by South Africa one
versus eight and eight ones. I mean that was But
what do they do they come because they won't even
get to experience the village, will they or any of it?

Speaker 8 (01:10:49):
Well, I think they'll be coming home, probably after the
opening ceremony. It's kind of weird because they played before
the opening ceremony. And yeah, I think they'll be playing
for fifth fifth place tomorrow or something like that. But anyways,
I think our girls are just brilliant, mate, and they're
going to win gold.

Speaker 17 (01:11:09):
I believe.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
I believe that. Hey, just before you go, Tim, there
were four athletes from New Zealand, arthur Port who became
Governor General in the running. Two swimmers Clari heard and
with a shand and a box of Charlie shand there
was a rowing. Eight was qualified but they couldn't raise
the money to get there. And that's all the information.

(01:11:33):
And yeah, I think they swam in the oh No,
there was the early one in Amsterdam where they swam
in the canals. I don't quite know where that was,
but it was a combined it was a combined news
inand Australian team, I think.

Speaker 8 (01:11:46):
And remember one hundred years ago there weren't as many
countries around too, So things have changed.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Since THEEAD changed magnificently. Tim. Good luck with that. I
hope it's enjoy the whole two weeks of that and
nice to talk to you. Sixteen past ten four six
Paramount of four Melbourne six go to have some league
back on on a Friday. We're talking at the Olympics
and why not, Simon, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:12:11):
Welcome by Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:12:14):
Hey, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Simon? Thank you?

Speaker 17 (01:12:19):
Happy Friday?

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Yeah happy for We've got to think of a special
word for that, but yeah, happy Friday to you too.

Speaker 17 (01:12:26):
I was, hey, Marcus that I called in about six
months ago, I think about six months ago about potatoes.
And I've been listening here sharing backing off on this evening.
They were all about the Olympics. But I didn't hear
someone the other day talk about potatoes. Potatoes is still
an issue in New Zealand. There's still a lack of

(01:12:47):
good quality potatoes and restaurants in New Zealand. Not trying
to track from the Olympics, but what is it about
the lank of good potatoes in restaurants?

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
And I remember the call. You were here on business
or something. Is that right to the viaduct in on Ponsonby?

Speaker 12 (01:13:08):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Right?

Speaker 17 (01:13:10):
You've got a great memory, your your your your memory
must be yeah, pop notge, You're absolutely ride But yeah,
I switched my time between. He's in Australia, but I
I'm back just first three weeks. There is still a
lack of potatoes in Auckland, right, And I read this

(01:13:34):
article the other day about this restaurant at least get
it in pomp In the PQR right, which was absolutely
the legendary. Like I remember moving to Auckland's host seven
the Palm, who moved to New Zealand and s c
QR was like the place to go and unfortunately bringing

(01:13:56):
the internet and trying to go to the other night,
they've gone insolvent. I'm not saying that's about potatoes, but
it seems like there's a real restaurant epidemic at the moment.
But everywhere I go, and often the steep and I've
been out to dinner with Climbed. I'm sorry, I know
I'm ranting on a bit.

Speaker 9 (01:14:12):
But.

Speaker 17 (01:14:13):
There is a la everywhere I go the restaurant. I
sit down and goes, oh, we've got a, B and C,
but the items we don't have X, Y and Z,
and generally they're the.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Potatoes, which all there is the where'd you go?

Speaker 17 (01:14:30):
So this evening I cruised through whether they go. I
went to Mexico, I don't name and shame he actually marcus,
it's not myself.

Speaker 10 (01:14:44):
I went.

Speaker 17 (01:14:45):
I went to a couple of places in and none
of them had potatoes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
To me to be fair, Simon, I don't think I've
ever had potatoes at s p q R. I don't
even think they were I don't think that's even what
they did. They were sort of more like Italian. So
I never had that there, So I never but I
don't think i'd ever ordered potatoes.

Speaker 17 (01:15:09):
I definitely had, but the definitely we're out in there
and pray.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Go pray goos potatoes.

Speaker 17 (01:15:17):
Mexic ran out of potatoes. I was going to vibe
like last night as a restaurant there ran out of potatoes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Did you go did you go to did you go
to pre go tonight?

Speaker 17 (01:15:29):
Sorry last night or not before? While on another but
you know, back for a week. But is there still
a potato problem in New Zealand?

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
What's your business? What's your business? Signment? I'm finding you
quite into what's what do you deal? Are you find it?
You'll be financed?

Speaker 13 (01:15:48):
Are you?

Speaker 9 (01:15:50):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (01:15:51):
I do many things? But but but no idea I
work in the well yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:15:58):
Okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
You do you normally get a side of potatoes? Is
itly what you do or you just you're obsessed with it?
Or tell me tell me you like are you like
a steak eater like potatoes with your steak.

Speaker 17 (01:16:15):
Two things, Marcus, I'm a vegetarian. But but number two
of you ever met a property developer and you're a
guy who I assume mix this and a lot of
people based on pr never met a property guy who
doesn't order a side of potatoes, who doesn't what sorry,
doesn't order a side of potato?

Speaker 2 (01:16:36):
Yeah, pat see, I don't think I ever got I
don't think I ever got to dinner with the property
guy because the property guy is normally taking a dinner
to a deal, isn't it, you know, to work out,
to do the shake and houdies, and so that's not
because that's not normally what I'm about. And I live
in Bluff and we haven't really got property people there.
You know, I'm in the South Island.

Speaker 17 (01:16:53):
A Actually I didn't know you were in the South Island. Marcus.
I do apologize.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
Yeah, I love ware at the bottom of I love
where at the bottom of Bluff. But I'm up in
Auckland a lot, and maybe next time I'll catch up
with you. But because I reckon I could find you
some potatoes, I'm going to run along because I've been
full boarded but yeah, you're a delight.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Go Bryce go. I'll tell you what, I'm not happy.
It was harder to watch that I thought it was
gonna be Bryce.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
It was nervous. I'm not gonna lie. I did offer
opinion and advice to the referee more than one, but
I've been doing that for however long now, you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
Know, hang on, I've got some questions for you. I've
got some questions for you. Bryce. You're driving home from
the game. Are you a guy that lives far away
like Total or fun and Ay or west Auckland.

Speaker 16 (01:17:45):
You're sure?

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Okay, So I've spoken to a few people over the years.
How many kicks did Chance get over?

Speaker 13 (01:17:52):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (01:17:52):
Was a great thing because he missed the first and
the third one and he had his file on the
space and when he got it, the crowd just stood
and gave him a standing appreciate.

Speaker 10 (01:18:06):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
He'll feel bad from last week. Did the guy do
the showy? Did the did the guy do the showy?

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
They get the camera off him?

Speaker 7 (01:18:14):
Now?

Speaker 22 (01:18:18):
Was this just a tragedy?

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
Absolute tragedy. There's some you know about Yeah, yeah, but
that's that's not why I'm ringing. It was a windsorware.
It's an ugly win, but a Windsor Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
But I'll tell you what I saw that. I saw
that young guy on the footy show, that eighteen year
old from from the Tigers. Lachlan is his name.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
He's good, Yes, he is good.

Speaker 5 (01:18:41):
And they had some big big boys there that numbers
things as speaking idiot and now he didn't get ten
minutes beyond.

Speaker 15 (01:18:47):
But I know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
I agree. Okay, So what did you ring about?

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
Well, that was actually quite interesting because I was talking
to some mates about it and I thought I was
the first time I've actually called here. So it's an
adventure for me and I'm enjoying.

Speaker 21 (01:19:01):
It so far.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
What is your sport? And you know I watched the
Olympics and the black jerseys in there. I'm watching it,
you know.

Speaker 10 (01:19:12):
But what.

Speaker 13 (01:19:15):
For me the sports?

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
I really enjoy watching the matter who's competing in the
Olympics in the conwell game, and one of them is weightlifting. Yeah,
I get really really engaged in it. I find myself
hearing come on, come go call you know, and I
thoroughly enjoy watching weightifting. The other one, and I don't

(01:19:38):
know if it's I both called the romance of it
is the aid in rowing. There's something about it. And
have we got a make thing this year? Please say
we do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I don't know. I know we're supposed to watch rowing
because we're good at it. But but if you go
back and describe a great swimming race or a great
rowing race, never will because they're all the same, aren't they.
I mean, not much happens.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
But what what what? What is the what is the
one of food?

Speaker 12 (01:20:07):
Compelling?

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
What is a sport that you get really engaged in
and enjoy watching it?

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
For me, it's okay, well I want to answer that
question Bryce, because for me, right, it could be any
old sport on the day, you might turn on the
channel on the middle the middle of the day, it
might be handball, women's handball North Korea Versus and Goala,
and it's just one of the great battles, and it

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can be any sport. Ever, the Olympics bring something out
and you just chance upon it and it will be
absolutely compelling right to the end. Four years later that
same match will be a dud. I think it just
changes from Olympics to Olympics.

Speaker 5 (01:20:49):
Yeah, come on, mate, I agree with you. And the
wife and I were watching and the Netherlands versus someone
in handball and we're fully into it. Whereas you're a
sports fan and you appreciate when you watch a sport
plaid in the highest quality, you appreciate the technique and
all that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
You know, you're a.

Speaker 13 (01:21:05):
Sport and price.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Can I just can I just say, who would let
any of their children be a goalkeeper? And handle? What
are hiding to?

Speaker 15 (01:21:14):
Nothing?

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
That is you never save anything?

Speaker 8 (01:21:18):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:21:19):
Yeah they didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
They didn't stop it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Stop?

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
They didn't stop her goal, did they?

Speaker 8 (01:21:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
She stopped too.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Okay, how hard is the same thing?

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
And then she saved one? And I said, well, have
you just proved me wrong? Don't I feel an idiot?
But you know, like I get that and I'm the same,
you know, but there must be one that you actually
make a point where you're looking at the weight of
things on tonight or weight of things I'm going to say,
and what's that? Because you know you're going to enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
I'm looking forward to the rock climbing and I'm looking
forward to the breakdancing, breakdancing.

Speaker 5 (01:21:56):
Here you go?

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Where's your wife? Does she not go to the warriors
with you?

Speaker 13 (01:22:04):
H you'd be most welcome, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
That went barely that question. I can't work at what
the answer was. I don't think we've got Nates too expensive.
Maybe good on your Bryce Bricey. By the way, it's
all unfolding at Paris. They've kind of taken out the
railway system. Apparently bad forces won't be the North Koreans.

(01:22:28):
They can only send balloons across the border. It'll be
the old against the Russians against the Russians. But get
in touch. You've got anything to add to this, Radu,
it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Hi, Radu.

Speaker 15 (01:22:45):
Ghetto Mircus. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Think you Hi?

Speaker 15 (01:22:49):
Yeah, I'm still waiting for your touch. There arrived to Apahatya.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Yeah, that's right, what.

Speaker 15 (01:22:56):
Your touch, he says. You're going to send me your
sell your such.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
I don't want to mention the torch tonight, but it
will be going here are you?

Speaker 15 (01:23:06):
Nineteen seventy six? Okay, Montreal perfect ten on gymnastics.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
You know who was comment uh over Corbett.

Speaker 15 (01:23:17):
Nadia comedy, Yees Nadia comedy. I remember I watched it
with my grandmother in a black and white TV, sitting
on a bed, and I was very surprised, it's going
to put one and the points zero. Nobody was understanding
what's happened there?

Speaker 17 (01:23:35):
Yes, where were you?

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Where were you? Where were you watching it.

Speaker 15 (01:23:42):
In Romania? Back in Romania in a bedroom with my
grandmother in the.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Course of the black and white tv O because she's Romanian,
of course, of course, Oh wow, that would have been
a big v that would have been.

Speaker 15 (01:23:56):
A big time for it or one hundred percent. I remember,
very very vivid because even at the time, who was
a commented on the Olympics what everyone was surprised, white
is just the one it can be. But what's first
perfect ten in history gymnastics?

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Yeah, and everyone thought, everyone thought that was impossible because
it ricked the whole screwing system. It was perfection.

Speaker 15 (01:24:21):
That's correct, that's correct, Yes, perfectly right, yes, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
So she remember she got she got three roll, three
goals and seventy six all around uneven bars and the
balance beam.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
That's correct.

Speaker 19 (01:24:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, I thought like yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:24:35):
I remember, I remember she was a very famous and
you know she cleared Romania after that. Yeh yeah, she was.
She was a faith for the Communist Party.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Yes, I don't know. I don't know much about Romanian history, Radu.
But did she leave before you did?

Speaker 15 (01:24:55):
Oh, she lived in the communist time, she flee what
she was in a in a sport, and then she left,
and you know in eighty I think eighty sixty, if
I've not wrong, he left left after revolution eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
I did read an article about gymnastics these days, Radu,
and they reckon in the Olympics this year most of
the gymnasts will be in their twenties because they don't
target them as young and coach them like in the
Soviet way, and they reckon now they get better as

(01:25:29):
they get older. In the old days they thought yet
to be fourteen or fifteen. But you know, the sports
changed quite a lot, apparently for the for for a
good reason, for the welfare of the athletes.

Speaker 15 (01:25:38):
I think, yeah, Look, we had a very famous gymnastics
school in Romania, was in Deva, was the very famous
in east of Europe, and by becoming all the greatest
the gymnasts in Dominia. But right that a program, what
they was doing at the time was herendous. And yeah,

(01:26:00):
I can't see how much world they put them.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Not to hear from you, Radu. Thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
One of the reasons that female athletes are getting older
is that there's more interest in women's sports though, so
there's more sponsorships. They can actually compete for longer, which
is a positive thing, although I imagine that would be
the problem in communist times. You probably would get paid
by the state for a long time. Show up marrying
a American I think Nadir common Niche Beverly. It's Marcus.
Good evening, and welcome, my good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:26:28):
I'd like to take you back to the Empire Games
in Auckland in nineteen fifty.

Speaker 20 (01:26:34):
Well, I was eight and my father was.

Speaker 10 (01:26:38):
The manager of the team fencing with the epaim Saber
and they took me off school and which was a
no null in those days, and he said I would
learn more in the ten days up there than at school.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
And I did.

Speaker 10 (01:26:53):
I met so many people, and I've got still got
this autograph book that he's said long dead. Now I'm
eighty two and I've got his autograph book and we've
got all the photos and we're just going through them
just the other day, looking at them. And it was

(01:27:13):
it was a fantastic thing to do. In those days,
we had tickets to anything we wanted.

Speaker 13 (01:27:18):
To go to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Now, Beverly, where was your hometown? Where'd you come up from?

Speaker 10 (01:27:25):
From Wellington?

Speaker 13 (01:27:26):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:27:27):
And the and the fencing was at the Auckland Town Hall.
Is that correct?

Speaker 10 (01:27:31):
Yes, that's right, Okay, Yes. And the swimming for down
the bars down by Farmers so I think, well, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
The swimming was at the Newmarket.

Speaker 13 (01:27:43):
Barths Was it Newmarket?

Speaker 10 (01:27:46):
Yes, many of the days. But I was only eight.
But it was just such a wonderful experience to meet
all these people that I would have never met before.
And Arthur Poett was there and he won the hundred
he got a bronze medal in the one hundred meters
and Garris in nineteen twenty four. Yeah, and he was,

(01:28:11):
he was, he was on the Winter committee.

Speaker 13 (01:28:13):
Was dead.

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
Yeah, there an Olympic committee together.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
Was Arthur Parrat was. He was in that movie Chariots
of Fire. But they didn't mention his name, no, And
there was some reason for that, There was some reason
out of humility he didn't do that.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
But oh he was a delightful man. Because when I
went over after finished nursing, I went over to England,
and Dad gave me his name. He was over there
the en If I ran into any trouble and anyway,
he just rang me up to see if I was okay,
and it was yeah. But to go to the Empire Games,

(01:28:51):
it was just I was the only one in the
school that went. But all our family are sporty, and
my young cousin is Nick willis the meter runner.

Speaker 2 (01:29:02):
Well, he had a major career, didn't the amazing Yes, yes.

Speaker 10 (01:29:06):
Yes, yeah, Well I swam and ran for the North
Iron at school. But then I had to give it
up because I went nursing, and you give a lot
up when you go nursing, you know, they just don't work.
But it was just just a wonderful thing to go to.
And then when we traveled over to Greece, we went
to the original opening, original grounds of where they were

(01:29:31):
held first. Then I ran around the track then and
Mon took.

Speaker 13 (01:29:35):
A video of it.

Speaker 9 (01:29:37):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
What was your time, Beverly, God, I was older then.

Speaker 10 (01:29:42):
I don't know, No, I couldn't tell it. Then we
were only allowed to run one hundred and two twenty.
It's all we're allowed to run at school. Anyone could
beat me at fifty and seventy five will I'll be close,
but no one could touch me on a distance, so
it was straight. Yeah, it was fun doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Yeah, nice to hear from your beauty. Thank you so much?
Do you buy the way I was saying this? From Wikipedia.
The race was made famous once again the nineteenty one
film Chairts of Fire. How Are Pirate's character was given
the studentnom Tom Watson due to porrich modest, reluxed and
reluctance and having his own name used. There he go.
It was one of the great movies and the great races.

(01:30:26):
That was, of course the guy that would run on
the Sabbath, that's right. And Arthur Park got the bronze
and went on serve in World War Two, I do
believe was a Rhodes scholar. Spent the war in Europe
and Africa being President Dan Dunkirk while the evacuation took

(01:30:48):
part part. Then he became governor general of course, and
his army uniforms at the National Army Museum in wayoudu Marcus.
During the nineteen sixty for Olympics, my dad was off
school six so my grandmother rented a TV for the
games and never send it back. She ended up buying
it and headed tal Chap graded to color TV in

(01:31:10):
nineteen ninety two. The old TV still worked fine. Good evening, Bruce,
thank you for hanging on there. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:31:18):
Yeah, get Marcus. With reference to Precious Mackenzie, back in
the early eighties, I was playing in a band at
the fitz Roy Hotel and New Plymouth and he was
a market a Precious Mackenzie was the guest speaker for
either the fitz Roy Rugby Club or the fitz Roy

(01:31:40):
Rowing Club I can't quite remember, but just to let
you know, he used to be a cabaret singer. I
think it was back in South Africa. And at the
end of his at the end of his speech and
what have you to this to this club function, he
got up and sang with the band, what a great story.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
Do you remember what he sang?

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
It was around the time of no I can't remember
the actual numbers, but yeah, powerful singer. He was a
powerful singer. He was also I think the New Zealand
representative for weeder Jim Waits and Jim Equipment and that
and the other fact that I think I've got it right.

(01:32:28):
Per pound of body weight, I think he was the
strongest man in the world per pound of bodyweight. I
think he lifted six times five or six times his
own weight.

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
It's extraordinary, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Absolutely a fabulous singer, and you wouldn't think that, you know,
such a strong fit man would have such a great voice.
Tom Jones sort of stuff, Engelbert Humberdink stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
But I had a lot of stories about Precious Mackenzie.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
I've never heard that, Well there you go and that,
and that's for real because I was playing lead guitar
and the band at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Yeah, I mean, and funnily enough, i'd never he was
four foot nine. And we had a call a caller earlier, right, yep,
that just said what inspired the caller that rang? Because
you never know anyone's height on talkback, right, the guy
that rang earlier rang up and he said, I'm shorter
than Precious Mackenzie and he was a true inspiration to me.

(01:33:29):
And I thought, well, that's amazing, ah, because you know,
I suppose you're four foot eight or four foot six.
You know, have many of those people that height that
inspire you, because just then I get that kind of
attention or prominence.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
Yeah, correct, correct, but so's there's a couple of extra
facts for you. It was a really great cabaret singer.
And I'm pretty sure if you work out the weightage,
I think he was the strongest man in the world
at that stage.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
Yeah, I always, I think. And there's that classic photo.
You'll know what I'm going to say, don't you, Bruce.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
Go on, then go on.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
There's a classic photo. You can google this. I shouldn't
say that. And there is a shot of Muhammad Ali
on Precious Mackenzie's shoulders. He's lifting him in the sky.
You ever seen that?

Speaker 4 (01:34:24):
I have never seen it, but I've heard about it. Yeah,
well there you go. I mean, he was super super
strong man, but absolutely lovely guy, absolutely lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
It says during the story I'm reading. During that visit,
this is when Muhammad Ali came right. McKenzie invited him
to come and dine at the restaurant he worked at
in Henderson. He was singing there regularly to pay off
his second mortgage there you go, called the Palomino Restaurant.
So he was a singer.

Speaker 4 (01:34:54):
Yep. Absolutely yeah. Back in joe Berg, I think that's
where he came from. Joe Berg in South Africa. Yeah, yeah,
he was doing it back there as well.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
I have no idea about that. Why has he not
got a knighthood?

Speaker 4 (01:35:10):
Oh well he should have, of course he should.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Yeah, I should have more than one.

Speaker 4 (01:35:16):
If I can say that, you'd probably be right there anyway.
That's my.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
I haven't finished with you. What was your being called?
What was your being called?

Speaker 13 (01:35:30):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
Look home, man, I'm an old person now. I was
way back in the early eighties. I can't remember, to
be honest.

Speaker 20 (01:35:39):
A little.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
The other thing that precious Mackin's his father was killed
while hunting crocodiles. Oh you already rough start to life?

Speaker 4 (01:35:50):
Oh he had pretty rough sport, that is, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
Yeah, you're onto a precious seated there, Maureen, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:35:58):
Oh yes, hello, I just put the radio on and
you were they were talking about the Hunting fifty. It
was my husband actually competed there as a namateur wrestler.
His name was Jack Jack Monaghan. Yes, wow, he died
two years ago, the age just under one hundred and one.

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
Yes, what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Tell me what his name was again there, Maureen.

Speaker 23 (01:36:30):
Yes, Jack Monaghan. I think he's on he is on
Google orunday.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Yeah, and you would with him, you would with that
was before you were in the picture, is that right?

Speaker 13 (01:36:41):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:36:41):
No, we were married. No, oh wow, I'm in my
late nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Goodness. Yes, and so were you there supporting him?

Speaker 23 (01:36:53):
No, No, I was a term because we had a child.
We had a little girl with Jack was in the
navy during the war, and we married after the war.
And he trained as an amateur wrestla in Wellington before
the war with a guy called Anton Coleman, and then

(01:37:17):
he joined the navy. Then after the war we lived
and we went to a ver cargo and he took youether.
He started again and trained and taught and well that
sort of thing. He was very good. He won, he
had he won ten New Zealand gold medals plus a

(01:37:39):
couple of silvers, and he was Sportsman of the Year
and all sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (01:37:45):
Here, how extraordinary. And what did he what did you
do with in Chicago?

Speaker 23 (01:37:52):
He was a carpenter.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
Okay, well, wonder why you moved to.

Speaker 23 (01:38:00):
Chicago because after the war, because he came from excuse me,
he came from the tower in Tower.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Yes, absolutely, that's right.

Speaker 23 (01:38:15):
And so then he went we went to the cargo
where he lived where we lived, built our house and
that's where he worked and then later moved moved to Chasturate.

Speaker 14 (01:38:29):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Do you remember what street then Vicago? Your house was in.

Speaker 23 (01:38:33):
Pomona Street.

Speaker 15 (01:38:37):
Street, well two two four Open Street.

Speaker 23 (01:38:44):
Yeah, towards the bottom there was the new block. There
were new houses that built one or two after the war.

Speaker 20 (01:38:51):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
And do you remember how he went at the at
the Games in Auckland.

Speaker 23 (01:38:57):
Oh, no, he didn't win because they had they were
competing against the of the ubern European ones who were
amateur wrestling is a very big sports in Europe and
all those countries. Oh what's this other countries you know,
Russia and all those they didn't have a show, you know,

(01:39:20):
I mean they were just real amateurs who hadn't done
it for years.

Speaker 13 (01:39:25):
So yes, and.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
Looking at the looking at the Google, it must have
been quite a big sport wrestling at the that particular
There are a lot of wrestling events at that particular games.
It must have been a big thing.

Speaker 23 (01:39:37):
Yes, Oh it was. Amateur wrestling is a great, big
thing all over the world. It's just not really here
in New Zealand, for England or anything that the Europeans.
That's yeah, it's a big, big diggle like rugby is here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
Yes, and are you looking forward to Are you looking
forward to the Olympics?

Speaker 23 (01:40:00):
Oh yes, obviously, yes, you watch.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
You're gonna watch the opening ceremony.

Speaker 23 (01:40:07):
Oh, I don't know. I'm a bit old now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Lovely to talk to you, Mauren, Thank you so much
for calling. I was working at the Palamino restaurant the
night Muhammad Ali came to dinner. Precious was friends with him.
So Precious was friends with the owner, Pat Hill and
worked with us as a matre d. Muhammad was such
a lovely, humble and softly spoken man, not what we expected.
All loved working with Precious, Such a beautiful human being.

(01:40:44):
Marcus is the small world. I used to live in
Pomona Street, one of the great streets. We're talking all
about the Olympics and your golden memories, your great Olympic memories,
and got to talk about the Empire Games also tonight.
So yeah for Ron about be good to hear from
if you want to talk about that. What do they
say these days? Talk to that? Ryan welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:41:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:41:10):
A couple of track and check and field distant facts
in the seventy six Olympics. So I walked with one
and bronze and sorry one of gold brother in the
fifteen hundred meters. Yeah, and in the five thousand meters
the quick sam second and Rod Dierson just narrowly missed
out on third place.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
That's right. I remember him running.

Speaker 13 (01:41:29):
That and one of my lasting memories that it was
a musical that was public performance of Emerson, Lake and
Palmer which had a very electronic version of that famous
standard called Fancy for the common.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
Man at seventy six?

Speaker 24 (01:41:47):
Did they do that?

Speaker 17 (01:41:49):
Yep?

Speaker 13 (01:41:50):
I believe I did they? Sidney The following their solo
in the was the whole March Fall Stadium all by themselves,
and I've got the whole ten minute reward is recording
of that on YouTube. At the at the Olympic Stadium
there is like an emphitheater. Oh the thanks quite good.

(01:42:12):
Now you mentioned also.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
The and I think that I think they were considered
soft medals because all the African teams had boycotted because
of our Rugby Tiger of South Africa, so which was yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:42:26):
Well, John was very upset in many ways. He's looking
for a showdown with Philip by his rival, and they
never they never raced against each other ever again apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:42:37):
Oh that's bad. The nineteen there you go.

Speaker 13 (01:42:40):
Yeah, the nineteenth sorry, the nineteen twenty four Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
We got a guy in the which won nineteen nineteen
one twenty four.

Speaker 13 (01:42:51):
One hundred years ago at the Olympics. The actual one
hundred meters final provided the basis of the film Carriots
of Fire and third place the bronze medal was won
by Sir later Sir Arthur Poet. And that was a

(01:43:14):
new Zealand record right up. So it was nineteen fifty
so one hundred meters, it was one hundred meters. It
was one hundred yards. Yeah, And the guy who won
that final was his good friend Wow, what's his name?
The British the controversial British sprinter who parrot bit about

(01:43:40):
three or four times over the rest of the year
and ended up being the commentator commentating in the fifteen
hundred meters at the nineteen thirty six Olympakes. Very is,
come on, Jack, come on, Jack, almost there, almost there,
Come on a little bit more, Jack Lovelock, which will
said a world record in the fifteen hundred final along

(01:44:01):
the three forty seven, And that was in his Zealand
record until the for minute MA was broken by just
just to put a little bit in the nineteen fifties,
I think late fifties, so we're to see there and.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Of course to that race was featured in that film
Charts are far, but they didn't mention Arthur Parrot because
humility meant that. He didn't mention that. So I think
it was called Tom Downing or something was.

Speaker 13 (01:44:30):
His name, not to be mentioned, and then years later
he regretted it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
We had that.

Speaker 13 (01:44:36):
Beautiful what he called electronica music hall, but by is
it Beanelous?

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
I think we called it van Jelous?

Speaker 13 (01:44:45):
Yeah, and you see them running along the beach and
slimy bo.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
How didst Lake and how does that fan fare for
the common mango?

Speaker 13 (01:44:59):
He goes, Oh, it's some do do do Do Do
Do Do Do do? Would have would who with a
whole lot of mood synthesizers thrown? It's a good that's
really powerful.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
I think our Olympic medals, area of Olympic Medals and
sprinting as he's in Never.

Speaker 13 (01:45:20):
Got I think that would be about the only one.
I think that's that I can think of it. The Olympics. Yep,
and it was something like nine points nine point eight
seconds or something for the one hundred yards, and Part

(01:45:40):
actually bet the world record holder who held the world
record ten point five, a guy called Charlie Paddick. Oh Paddick, Yep, yeah,
Charlie Paddick. He used to throw himself in the air
and leap off the ground as he crossed from the
shne And I think the guy who the birtht Guay
won to ten point six and Part to ten point eight. Yeah,

(01:46:03):
it was nine point eight. I'm getting a bit confused
with the conversion for metric to imperial.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
I notice that I'm very excited about joe I'm very
excited about Zoey Hobbs. I hope she makes the final.
And if she gets the finals, she could become someone.
She could be there or thereabouts because she's quick.

Speaker 13 (01:46:24):
Well, I'm I'm got my eye on our prominent pobwolder
who has been injured for a few years in this
So I'm sitting at macatack.

Speaker 20 (01:46:35):
We see, yeah she is she?

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
What are her results like this year? We're talking Eliza McCartney,
I presume, are we?

Speaker 13 (01:46:45):
Yeah, Eliza McCartney. Yep, she's there's one some perma events,
and she's been versed in the podium podium finishes just
about every time. I think her personal best is still
about four point ninety four or four point ninety six.
I'd like to see a break five minutes. I like five, oh, brain,

(01:47:05):
fade again, break five meters and get a bronze or
a silver. I don't know, she's quite good enough get
of gold. The current world champion is a pretty plot
form and has done about five point two meters or something.
So no, she's she's aiming her and she's been. The

(01:47:27):
important thing is that Elias McCartney has been injury free
all year. So that's really good. And it's so she
stays that way, got a new coach and things are
working out really well.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
Yep, and has been on the Olympics. No medals are
certain because the New Zealand rugby sevens were supposed to
bring a medal home. The men there out before the
event starts.

Speaker 13 (01:47:45):
Yeah, that was quite remarkable. There's not saying in an Olympics,
he're in as good as your last performance.

Speaker 21 (01:47:51):
It's great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Recations count for nothing.

Speaker 13 (01:47:53):
It's not saying a track and field yeap.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
What's your distance? What's your distance Graham.

Speaker 13 (01:48:01):
Oh, I don't do anything now. We had a new
play stroke about two years ago and one was seventies now.
But I used to when I was at the high
schooled to be a sub for and happened at my
race train was Oh, what's his name? The guy won
the ten thousand of the Commons Games? Taylor Taylor, Ye
and I were training mates. Yeah, he is a weere
older than me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
South seventy six.

Speaker 13 (01:48:24):
Yeh. He originally came from Winchester. It's in the South Canterbury.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Where are you from.

Speaker 13 (01:48:30):
I'm from Leeden. Oh goodness, speaking to you from South
and Eden.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 13 (01:48:38):
I said, follow John Walker around it to a few
nationals and then I became a racewalker National racewalker and.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
Always looks a bit ridiculous.

Speaker 13 (01:48:50):
It's it's a very technical thing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
And I don't care. It's just walk.

Speaker 13 (01:48:55):
Kivy who won the gold in the fifty sixth Olympics. Yep.
He was in from from oh croky not. I'm not
getting inn sleep. You'll you'll be able to find him.
Just fifty six thirty six Olympics gold medalist Norman Norman

(01:49:16):
Norman read that's right, yep. He's run. He's pretty much
the father of race walking in the Zealand, regarded as
a bit of a hero by a lot of by
a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
Yeah, the ever smiling Norman read that's right.

Speaker 13 (01:49:32):
And he was still winning national titles thirty years later
before he died. He was that good. Pretty often he
couldn't get He would beat the qualifying time, but he
would not get selected.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
How much a good walk in his body architecture like
long legs.

Speaker 13 (01:49:50):
It's basically technique, rolling your hips, locking in knees in
every one foot in contact with the ground, that the
whole at all times. I'm apparently the first person in
his Zealand to racewalk a marathon. Might be quite a
few marathon runners. What was the type of uh, well,
under four and a half hours?

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
Anyone say anything humorous to you during that race, like
why don't you run?

Speaker 12 (01:50:15):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:50:15):
Guys used to wolf whistle at me and you know,
and bloody kisses from the side of the road. It's
it's all for fun. And then yeah, would they do that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
Why would they do that? Because it looks does it?

Speaker 10 (01:50:28):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
Because it looked strange? Is that why they're blind?

Speaker 15 (01:50:30):
Kids?

Speaker 13 (01:50:30):
It looked a bit. It looked a bit of seminas
me running passing them race walking, and then they would
drop out the race. But I went in. The race
was about seven hundred people, big mess marathon thing, and
I passed it at one hundred and twenty runners.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
Do you not think I wonder how quick I can
do it if I run it?

Speaker 12 (01:50:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
I was never.

Speaker 13 (01:50:54):
Disqualified once I was, mister, but didn't you?

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
But why spending your whole time walking one? I just
run it. You probably could have gone to and a
half hour three hours.

Speaker 13 (01:51:01):
Well it was I could. I could have just met
one on the Tiger title. But I chose to run it,
to walk it rather to promote racewalking in honor, largely
in honor of Norman Red. And yeah, my club bel Iv,
the co founder of had a very large number of racewalkers.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
And what's what's your club? What's your club?

Speaker 21 (01:51:22):
Graham?

Speaker 13 (01:51:23):
Oh, I was one of the co founders of now
called Hill City University. We produced a lot of women
racewalkers too, who were pretty damn good. And one and
my club mate, she got a bronze Middle of the
Commers Games in the women's ten k walk or something.

(01:51:46):
She walked race walked in about forty two minutes or
forty three minutes. I could only do about forty Who.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Was the guy that just clapped on the finished light?
He was a key We want to remember him?

Speaker 13 (01:52:00):
Uh that that there was a British marathon runer. I
think you're thinking of.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
The key we racehow okay?

Speaker 13 (01:52:07):
Sorry, yes, you know, I think for reminding me. Yeah,
May was much from since then he and he and
he basically seriously dehydrated and spent I think about two
days in the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
He was what was it?

Speaker 24 (01:52:22):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Never right again?

Speaker 12 (01:52:23):
What was his name?

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Barrett?

Speaker 13 (01:52:25):
Was Barrett? Chris Barrett Barrett?

Speaker 17 (01:52:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:52:33):
What was his name?

Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Oh yeah, it was famous at the time.

Speaker 15 (01:52:38):
What what what?

Speaker 6 (01:52:38):
What?

Speaker 10 (01:52:38):
What?

Speaker 17 (01:52:38):
What?

Speaker 13 (01:52:40):
He was twelve hundred meters from the twelve hundred meters
on the Sonish and he was.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
Leading and Craig that's that's right.

Speaker 13 (01:52:48):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
I don't think hey, eight calm games is cooked after that?
Want to know it at all?

Speaker 13 (01:52:56):
Yeah, okay, it's like he didn't expire. He was boy.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Yeah, good to hear from you, Graham. Think you currious? Marcus,
well come a Marcus, good Carrie?

Speaker 17 (01:53:10):
Real god, Hey, look Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:53:13):
I was working for Fulton Logan and often at once
and there, and they got precious McKenzie as against speaker. Wow,
And I thing that amazed me when you meet him,
he's so small. How can a little element like that

(01:53:34):
list eight six times a week? You know, because when
you meet him, you're thinking there's something like a little
An Salts figure and you're going, Holy maccael. And so
I said to him after that today, I gotta I got,
I got a I you saw back in that and
he gave me a belt Marcus, yep, and I've still

(01:53:58):
got that, uh what he calls a back belt. I'm
so glad to admit him, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
I think for a while he beg that was his
thing about how to lift proper. He was and I
think he was paid to advise people on proper lifting
and stuff and proper technique.

Speaker 11 (01:54:15):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
He saved, he saved. He saved your life. Carrie.

Speaker 11 (01:54:21):
Oh man, I've still got that belt. And I'm just
glad I missed the man. But I just couldn't believe
how small he was. Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Yeah, if you'd asked me, I would have sought five
two five three until I googled it tonight in four
foot nine That is tiny.

Speaker 11 (01:54:39):
Tiny that that's the thing that when I want to
shake his hand, he had to me he had small hands,
almost like like Milt hands. And how they could he
lift those weights from Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
Although Kirie no one ever mentioned he didn't have to
lift them as far? Did he?

Speaker 11 (01:54:57):
What do you mean the weight was imaged six times
or five?

Speaker 8 (01:55:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
Yeah, but he's only lifting it five ft off the ground.
If you're six feet told you to be lifting it higher,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 13 (01:55:11):
I mean, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
I mean because I presume that I presume the people
he was up against were a lot taller, right, I.

Speaker 11 (01:55:21):
Should say, But it sounds so comical that our market.
But like I said, he didn't have the seat like
animal swampsinger, He just did.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
He just have the belts there with him. Kiri when
he was speaking to your Filton Hogan group and he said,
I've got one in the car.

Speaker 11 (01:55:40):
No, he invited me to his house, Oh wow, And
I went over him and his wife.

Speaker 13 (01:55:47):
Goodness, and it was at the pick of.

Speaker 11 (01:55:52):
The belt. Worry are we going to say? Makers?

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
Was it in Packetanga or somewhere like that?

Speaker 11 (01:56:00):
Yeah, it was something like that. I'm trying to remember,
but yeah, we went around to Farely you now I
mean his wife, and he gave me the pilk.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
This is a good story. Thanks Marcus, Lovely to talk carry.
I enjoyed that more than you can imagine.

Speaker 13 (01:56:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
Twenty six away from twelve, he got to love news.
Everyone touches greatness somewhere along the line, don't they Not much?
It's of interest, but gold medals must contain a least
six grams of gold. Silver medals must be at least
ninety two silver. Yep, more than seventy nations have never

(01:56:38):
won a medal. Bangladesh is the most populous city country
without a medal. So Spira thought for that that there's
plenty of countries that do worse than us. Vatican City
is the only nation state that's never sent an athlete. Yep,

(01:56:58):
good evening, Lizard's Marcus, welcome and good.

Speaker 24 (01:57:00):
Evening to live down the road where I lived and
precious Fortenzi.

Speaker 13 (01:57:08):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:57:10):
And also he has a children at the same school
that I once went to.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
They have twins.

Speaker 24 (01:57:17):
Now he didn't have twins, and the children went to
the same school as my childre went to. Lovely the
whole family of schoogeous and there was keptic school, so
it was quite a celebrity because it was a false school,
so everybody knew pressure for Kenji, so they thought they
were quite It was quite a celebrity thing for the

(01:57:40):
one He was extremely giving and involved in the school.
A lovely man, well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
Pretty much a perfect role model because he was you know,
kids loved him as well because he was a little
with a huge smile and get and an amazing physique
and so strong.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:57:58):
Well, the thing is I think he's I don't think
he's alive now.

Speaker 2 (01:58:03):
Oh is he still on the edge on radio? Is
he still alive?

Speaker 24 (01:58:06):
Eight TV advertised is one of the rest?

Speaker 7 (01:58:11):
That's right?

Speaker 13 (01:58:11):
Yep.

Speaker 24 (01:58:13):
Yeah, all that beautiful of work was gorgeous and the
three kids were gorgeous, and I think.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
People were excited because he chose to live in New Zealand.
He was winning gold medals in the Games for England.
Came down here seventy four and I'm liking it here
a liver bit of that and it was very humble.
Humble that's to walk with kings and keep the common touch.
That's what you want to be. It was beautifully just
Harry Humble.

Speaker 24 (01:58:38):
Never made much of him shelves at all, you know?
To me, yeah, we all got into up there. He
was our freeing, lovely man. Oh so it's still there. Oh,
I didn't know what had happened.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
Eighty eight, how our dealers?

Speaker 24 (01:58:59):
She would?

Speaker 2 (01:59:01):
I don't know. There was a Catholic school in Packetanger.
What was that school?

Speaker 24 (01:59:05):
That's just pretty well known a huge it's not it's.

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
Not that well known. I've never heard of it. And
I know schools. Where is it mountain or something?

Speaker 24 (01:59:20):
No, it's Onpackering a high and it's been there for
fifty over fifty years. Because I was one of the
foundation people at Miltwood.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
Who would it be its most illuminati? Who would be
its most well known pupil?

Speaker 24 (01:59:39):
Oh, I can't do you that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
I just well, because I've never heard of it. They
must have some great heavy hitters come from there.

Speaker 24 (01:59:50):
All the priests that A lot of the priests that
went through there or ended up as bishops because we
had bishops or whatever and got someone else, and they
all craned in that diocese because it was a new diocese.
So it was a bit of a craning ground. Yeah,

(02:00:11):
it's just surprising you haven't heard it because there's a
lot out there. There's Saint Luke's and then there's Start
the Sea. Have you heard of those?

Speaker 2 (02:00:19):
Yes, he'll Start the Sea.

Speaker 13 (02:00:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:00:22):
The Saint Lukes is on down where my grandson went
to the school, down the sanc Of area. So I'm
not store boy, you haven't heard of that one because.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Let's move on. But I'm just saying that not everyone's
heard of it. Yeah, anyway, I agree with ye. Are
you still in that Are you still in that area?

Speaker 24 (02:00:44):
Yes? I am, yes, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:00:46):
Are you in a home?

Speaker 24 (02:00:48):
Yeah, I'm in a I'm putting apartment up from the
village here.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
Well any good?

Speaker 24 (02:00:55):
Yeah, well you know I meant like having your home.

Speaker 2 (02:00:59):
No, but I don't think you ever complained, do you?
You kind of take it well, don't you?

Speaker 24 (02:01:04):
Well, I should put yourself here, that's what you do.

Speaker 13 (02:01:08):
Yep, good, You know what I mean.

Speaker 24 (02:01:11):
You put them yourself here for a reason because you
don't want anybody to have the responsible self here. So
that I mean, well, you know they're well catered for.
I'm not going to pretend it's like living in your
own home, because I.

Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
Wouldn't no, how long you been there?

Speaker 24 (02:01:28):
Oh since my husband died, two or three years since
he died. I've moved from here. I boarded them. They
have apartments here, so you can buy your own unit.

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
You got your leader box, Yes I have. Actually that's something,
isn't it?

Speaker 24 (02:01:45):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (02:01:45):
It is.

Speaker 24 (02:01:46):
Actually it's quite good because in the door. No, that
they serve the purpose they're they're designed for.

Speaker 2 (02:01:55):
Yeah, why do you people love your letter box and
your mail?

Speaker 24 (02:02:00):
Yeah, well they've got a little private one as the
improus way, so you can open map up in all
your mails. Yeah so no, no three, well, no one
one of them, so you know they're all to the purpose,
don't know.

Speaker 13 (02:02:14):
Yeap?

Speaker 2 (02:02:15):
Oh, well, delightful, delightful to hear from you, Liz. Thank
you that. Who would have thought we could talk about
the Olympics all night?

Speaker 1 (02:02:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
What about the old Australian women's football team. They've got
a hiding three nil. Rible. I was expecting better things
and you're siding Rugby sevens out. That's woeful. And I'll
tell you whose fault that is. Insteed, Rugby, they should

(02:02:43):
have sent the all backs. He's right, Kitchen. They do
anything they can direct that sport inded au. I see
Hoskins onto them too for not letting any of their
players become available for the media. Appalling. Or then when
you interview, they've got nothing to say because they've all
been kind of coached out of it. You get the

(02:03:05):
Footy show, you got the NRL players on there every week.
That's what people want. They want to if they want
to like their players, they want to know something about them.
They want to have a sport they can relate to,
not some precious kind of thing where they kind of
drip freed the occasional interview. People don't want that anyway,

(02:03:27):
they should have yeared. That's woful to not even get
a meddle. In the sevens, you got one event every
four years. You want to forget the others. It's the
inpuct one, that's any one that counts. But oh no, anyway,
don't be feling bad about that. No doubt they won't
go to the opening ceremony. Probably that's bad. For more

(02:03:50):
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