And 5ZB which was a train (14 November 2024)

Famed New Zealand broadcaster Lindsay Yeo has died, and Marcus hears from listeners and former coworkers alike about a different era of radio.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome people, Marcus hid or twelve. Hope it's good where
you are. If it's not good, I hope it gets
better within the next four hours. There we go. Get
in touch, you want to be part of it? Numbers
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eightyan nine two nine
to two to text woo looking forward with what you've
got to say? Yeah, oh w eighte hundred and eighty

(00:34):
tenadean nine two nine two to text fear But to
talk about tonight, Not so much about cold Play because
that's not happening tonight. Fifty seven thousand people. There was
a lot of people last nights, Tomorrow night, the night after. Also,
I was thinking today people might have advice for people
going to the concert. I think you want that went there,
had a very good time there actually, so yeah, you

(01:00):
might want to mention that anyway, but that's out there.
I'm aware, I'm we're aware of that. Get in touch.
You want to be a part of the show. Oh
eight hundred and eighty tatty and nine two nine two
text curious today to read about Donald Trump's mcdonald' daughter.
Did you read that his standard order? Because him and
him and JFK Jr. Would appear to have a possibility

(01:25):
to have a falling out over his diet. He says
he eats poison. Trump eats poison with his McDonald daughter.
That's all they eat on the planes apparently. And his
order is two Big Macs, two fil the o fishes,
and one chocolate shake. That's his standard McDonald order, which

(01:45):
I thought was surprise. That's a lot of food, isn't it.
Two filets, two Big Max and a chocolate shake.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Anyway, just so we know, the number is oh, eight
hundred and eighty taty and nineteen nine two text get
in touched you want to be a part of the
Show's like this other stuff we will talk about obviously too,
talking about Lindsay Yo, who has died. You heard about
that in the news. He was the king of the
corn flakes in Wellington for a long long time. Surprisingly,

(02:20):
he retired at fifty two, which is pretty young to
get out of radio, mind you a bit of change
and gone all to kind of a news talk format
as Holmes took over the country. It's also to people
in the local stations like Move Smith and like lindsay O,
who eventually were replaced with the Home Show, which was
the format of talk and information with no music, hugely

(02:43):
popular by all accounts in Wellington, with an array of characters,
which very much seemed to be the way that radio
was done in those days. Buzzy bumble or your had
sort of your sidekick that was probably you doing a
strange voice. People loved it, couldn't get enough of. It'll
come back, no doubt will come back. It could well

(03:03):
come back. So you might want to mention lindsay to
be on the breakfast show you But I've done things
like that also to get in touch. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to ninety. Text will
be talking about him throughout the course of this. Very
much a Wellington broadcaster. But we've got to talk about
that as well, to get some important something like that,
the radio person who has died. That's something we will

(03:25):
talk about tonight. By the way, Donald Trump never drinks water.
I found all this quite fascinating. He's clearly going to
fall out with RFK about his diet. But two big Max,
two fili oo fishes and water. I might have said
filiofish wrong. I don't really care, but get in touch.

(03:48):
They're calling it poison. I don't know if anyone out
there would have a bigger McDonald's order than that, would
they standard order. I kind of find an interesting that
people develop their standard order doesn't have fries, which is
surprising to me. All So anyway, get in touch, hit

(04:08):
or twelve. I imagine the flare of fishes in America
around as nice as the ones here because we got hoky.
I think ours are made from hoky. Maagine having all
that money eating that food. Does that seem surprising to you?
Seems surprising to me. I can't actually find where the

(04:32):
exact order is. I had it written down earlier. Now
I can't find it. Oh, well, can you find that
for me? Now? What a standard order was? I've got
a tunnel vision, Jamie, it's Marcus. Good evening, Joe and Marcus.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
How are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Jamie good? Thank you?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I just want to talk about Lindsay yoh like I
was born in nineteen seventy one, and yeah, bather Bumble,
Wally a wetter all of those they were great times made.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
So this is your breakfast show you wake up to
listening to Is that right?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:06):
When I was a child, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, is it just him there? And is he doing
the voices for Buzzy Bumble buzz Bumbo?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
What Buzzy sorry, bub Buzzy Bumble is the Wetter? He
had a whole lot of range of when I was
a child. Just yeah, heaps of stuff that he could
that he would get me out of bed and go
to school and was good fun.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
And would they talk to each other? Was the conversations
and sort of little kind of skits with Buzzy Bumble
and the like.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, that was awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
That was awesome.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
That was real cool. There was real cool.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Wally the Wetter, Buzzy Bumble was just it was awesome, mate.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
And would they talk to each other?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I don't think they talked to each other, but it
was skits like where Buzzy Bumble would come in and
then he'd bring in Wally the Wetter and yeah, just
Beck in the seventies of the eighties was awesome upbringing
for me.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Wow, And not much music in the show, mainly him
doing skits and entertaining and stuff. Is it how it worked?

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (06:06):
I actually thought he'd I didn't even know. I thought,
I don't even know he's still alive, to be honest, Yeah, would've.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Been away for it for long. He retired to Nelson
twenty years ago. Okay, no, not twenty years ago. Yeah,
twenty years ago. He retired when he was No, twenty
five years ago, because he retired when he was fifty two,
and I think died at seventy seven. I think it was,
it'd be twenty five years ago.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yes, twenty five years ago. What would have been twenty
eight yeah, okay, yeah, But back in the seventies, he
was he was the the man to wake up to
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeal. He had a fifty percent market share, which when
half of everyone listened to him, which in any radio
market is pretty well huge as big as it gets.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yes, he would be on the I think he'd be
on the parthday as Hoskins is back then.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, all those Hoskings do different voices. No, he probably
should do Buzzy Bumble. That'd be good, Actually, that'd be
a good idea. Yeah, Christopher Lxi inachview for Buzzy Bumble.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Who you?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, I guess it was. I guess it was probably
the big station was there, and also Radio Windy was
a big brand in Wellington, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
That's right, the Radio Windy was. But two ZB back
in the day was Mum was like, my dad was
into two ZB, So you couldn't listen to anything else
but to ZB.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Wow, you got one of those dad day, I did have.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
One of those dads. You can't listen to nothing else.
And then when I went to when I started work properly,
my colleague introduced me a to z MFM, which I'm like,
what's this rubbish?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You know who was?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well I was only ever into two ZB because I
didn't know any other station, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
But who were the hosts on ZMFM.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
They would have been drug Kiddy Yam and Paul and Gillespie.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh Kiddy Armor Yeah, okay, yeah that was.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Back in the day.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
So yeah, they've been there for a while. Jammy. Nice
to hear we were away. It's all about that buzzy bumble,
old buzzy bumble A little about ZB. I spoke buzzy
Peter Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Hey Marcus. The performed grants in Great Kurayama was Swampy
Marsh Scott McCloud. I believe on zim F m we
we we grew. I grew up with lindsay oh and
and I remember even going to parades and lindsay O

(08:40):
was on the back of the the float and it
was just awesome to see him, especially with Belinda the
other Bumblebee, and you know, while he with her and
Buzzy Bumble it was just amazing and just knowing that
what you listened to on the weekend when you woke

(09:00):
up for two three hours, you could see that person
in real life and it was crazy. Yeah, it's just amazing.
Now those memories just come floating back. When their last
call said while he we he I was, I completely
forgot about and but it's like a crazy times and

(09:21):
you know, it's just an amazing voice that you know,
it's kind of you know, like Keith quinnin sports Talk,
and you'll never forget them, and you know you need
those heroes on New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Did he do all the voices?

Speaker 6 (09:38):
I see that the Bumblebee. I believe it was the
you know, he talked through.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
One of those.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
The high.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
Thing.

Speaker 6 (09:51):
It's like he I can vaguely remember the voices of
while you wetter. But the bumblebee sounded like a bumblebee rather.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
It sounds it sounds unlistable. Okay, okay, well, yeah it
was for a f and I was unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
And what I remember, I was just captivated the entire time.
The show was only the WIT's playing with Sunday.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
And I think Peter hang on, I think he was Monday.
It wasn't the weekend announced it. It was weekdays.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, he was on positive. He was on the weekends
as well, announce.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Okay, we'll try and get clarity on that, Peter, but
we'll keep it coming. Guys. It's all about Lindsay Yo,
Lindsay Yo. We're talking about him today, not someone of
em come across, by the way, in my broadcasting days
that I can remember. I'm not familiar with his backhand.
And I wouldn't mind some audio over some of his
earliest shows because it seemed like it was a fairly
full on experience. Yeah. I'm not even sure if you

(10:58):
even played any music. It was just it was just him,
I think, and all the different characters.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
Kevin, Hello, Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Good? Kevin? Thank you?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (11:07):
Great?

Speaker 8 (11:08):
Kevin calling from Farmers North. I had the pleasure of
meeting Lindsay Yo when he was MC. He had been
invited to be the MC at our lighthouse Keepers reunion
in Lower Hutton Easter weekend nineteen ninety and he was
a very personal man to talk to. He had a
genuine interest in our particular job and it was a

(11:34):
great night. And I never forget what he wore. It
was like a white tuxedo jacket. Very smart, a very
very smart dresser. He with a white bow tie and
a pink shirt and black trowel. He looked quite striking.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Were you Were you listening to his radio shows at all?

Speaker 8 (11:53):
Yes, we used to listen to him quite often, specing
when I was on the Brother's Island. The Judy keeper
had his choice of radio stations and a couple of
them with tune, and the.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Two s'd me, you don't know what, Can you give
us a rundown of what the show was like?

Speaker 8 (12:13):
No, to be honest with you, that many stations we
listen to. That's perfect, perfect radio reception from the out there.
But no, he was quite a chirpy sort of a
chapter listen to and wide variety of subjects and everything
like that.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah, okay, live.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
With there Heaven, but thanks for that. Oh wait eighty
eight old buzzy bumble and yeah, I think there's another
name for someone also too, So keep those texts coming through.
Two people. Marcus Lindsay was Monday to Friday with public
shows in the weekend. I worked with Wally the Wedter,
who is now a JP Peter. Oh so that must
be a different person, Wally Wetter. Why would anyone eat hopey,

(12:55):
it's the most horrible of all fish? Are we welcome
all breeds of fish on this show. Some of the
words buzzy, bumble, buzzy, bumble buzz the bumblebee, nol napier.
Marcus wasn't the Zby weekend host Dick where I think
it was different hosting different places. Zby was kind of
one ZEDB two Z'B three's 'B four ZEDB and five zedby,

(13:17):
which was a train Marcus, he I don't think he
was on the weekends. Gary Ward did a Saturday morning show.
He was good as well. Gosh, they all seemed to
be so good on that day. Marcus. Also back in
the eighties on Radio Windy was John Guess going Wow one.
He was later Roger Gascoyne, Mike D. Marcus just turned

(13:42):
about lindsay Ooh dying. Yes, I was growing up listening
to him in Wellington the morning before going to school.
Very popular on the seventies up to the mid nineties.
Lindsay Oh's famous buzz was made by him squeaking the
end of a torch. Marcus. I went with a friend
today to bo Host Cafe, Parmeston, North, which flooded two
weeks ago. Tomorrow pleased to say it's back in Norman

(14:03):
looking great. Cheers. Christine doesn't like the old nuggets Trump Marcus.
Buzz Bumble would post in the male birthday and Christmas cards. Marcus.
I think Lindsayeo came from Wayanawa, way back in the sixties.
He played in a band around Southland. He does appear
to have been from in Vert Cargo Way. A lot

(14:27):
were in those days broadcasters. I think Murray Fogy also
from Invert Cargole. Alice Marcus, good evening, Good.

Speaker 10 (14:35):
Evening, Marcus, I'm a Valuntonian. An old joke of lindsay
Oh's was Buzzo Bumble Buzzy Bumble was Where did buzzy
Bumble go to? The toilet between Brington and Botoni.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Where did he go to the toilet between Willington and
Boni at.

Speaker 10 (14:55):
The BP station.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Oh, he's quite good enough. It was very old, quite locally,
quite locally specific. Thank you, Ellie. Ye See when she
said that, I thought that was the whole joke, I said,
she said, where did? I thought the punchline was between Wellington?
Patona thought that's funny because it's like what he got
a stick of stick? But then actually there was a punchline.

(15:20):
Brilliant John Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 11 (15:23):
How are you Marcus? G That last joke fell flat
with me too, until she said the DP station. There,
I had a good old I had a girl barely
laughing on my way to play Paul at my cousin's place. Good.
I better give you a ring. I met you as
an asside. I met you a very very long time
ago at an upstairs flat with a mister Justin Brown
and Tim Wilson and Ronnie Wilson. Does that ring a

(15:46):
bell to you those three characters?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well it being like or something wasn't?

Speaker 11 (15:54):
Yes? It was yeah, absolutely long, long, long time ago. Anyway,
Who was who was the guy you said? Justin Brown.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
You've seen him around a bit lately with the last Yeah.

Speaker 11 (16:09):
Yeah. He was a bit of a jump junkie jim
junkie back then and lay on the beach all day
looking buff. And Tim's never been buff.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Where's Justin now?

Speaker 11 (16:20):
He's had on a little farmlets somewhere in Auckland. He's
a bit reclusive.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
It was always going that way, okay anyway.

Speaker 11 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, so Buzzo bumble Yeah. I mean, I remember
him from my younger days a lot, but I but
the actual structure of the show, not sure so much.
But I do remember the tune and I can recite
it for you briefly before I go and.

Speaker 12 (16:43):
Play pole Yes please, Barzo bumbo baro bamboo Barzo bumboob
And that's all I know.

Speaker 11 (16:54):
It's a little bit on a little teapot. There's about
ten verses, but that's all I know.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Sorry, because kind of funny, because it sounds like it
sounds like, I mean, these days with Pious the radio,
they're all four in the morning. It's well, I guess
there's difference is using this music. Radio wasn't there, But
that seemed to be kind of a bit of in
between both we.

Speaker 11 (17:16):
I grew up on a dairy farm and we used
to listening to the kids radio station in the morning
with with Diana and the Golden Apple and.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Hang on every angle word.

Speaker 11 (17:31):
But you're listened in every week because you just couldn't
help yourself.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Diana the Little Blue a little too.

Speaker 11 (17:40):
I'm a little fire engine. Flick is my name. They
won't let me pour it out fire and that a shame.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
What was the one where they came to the and
they came to the bridge of a single span.

Speaker 11 (17:54):
Oh, not sure about that one, but the.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Bridge hang on, hang on the bridge of the single
hair span or something like that. Remember that's still not sure?
Oh come on, I say, you know, no.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
I know, well I don't.

Speaker 11 (18:05):
I remember Gossamer dingle jingle, jingle jingle, I want to
play with my thro angle and his pants keep falling.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Down, sounding of it sounding anyway? Thank you. I hate
nostalgia sometimes, but you've got to give into it occasionally.
What was the bridge they came to the bridge at
the single here because this is a different this is
I don't think. I don't think they said other Lindsayo's
show was a kids show, though it sounds a lot
like that doesn't it. I mean, I guess it was
a family show, adults and children, people kind of in

(18:36):
the cargoing to school. I guess they played lost pets
and birthday requests in all those standards cancelations. What am
I talking about.

Speaker 13 (18:49):
Matt, Yes, Molly, Molly WHOPPI came to the bridge with
the single hear.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Really and what was it? Why would a bridge just
have a single here?

Speaker 14 (19:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (19:03):
If I can't remember, Molly WHOPPI would get into trouble.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I think you might have combined. I think you might
have combined two stories.

Speaker 13 (19:11):
There, No, no, I remember Molly Whoppy came to the
bridge with a single hair because I'd watch it every
listen to it every Sunday morning on One's V in
the sixties, and it was it was definitely Molly Whoppy.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
It's they spill it more Molly Whoppy. W h U
P P I E.

Speaker 13 (19:33):
But yeah, you're right, yeah, And I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
It's like he was he would get into trouble with a.

Speaker 13 (19:39):
Giant or something like that that I remember he would
always get to the bridge with a single hair.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I reckon the kids are better I reckon the kids
are better off on TikTok.

Speaker 13 (19:49):
Actually, uh, the stories on one's V were fantastic. Yeah,
there was the fire engine.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
What was the story about the golden Pallomino? Do you
remember that?

Speaker 15 (20:02):
No?

Speaker 13 (20:02):
I don't remember that.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Sure if I made that up.

Speaker 13 (20:08):
No, I don't remember it.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (20:10):
I just remember Molly Woffy and plucked the fire engine.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
There's one.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think there's a golden Palomino.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
But thank you, Hi, FI owner. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (20:21):
Hello. Hey, I'm just LINDSEYO. Now thinking back in maybe
the late eighties in Correy, he had a costume shop.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
He did it does say it does say that on
his Wikipedia page.

Speaker 15 (20:41):
Yeah, and he was absolutely fantastic. Ever you wanted a costume,
he he just did it for you.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Because it's I think which of the modern broadcasters would
open up a Fendi dress shop. I can't think of
anyone that would do it.

Speaker 16 (20:58):
Yeah, he was great, it says.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
It says. Jane and Lindsay ran various business, including a
fancied rist costume shop and coole and rest homes.

Speaker 15 (21:10):
Yes, yeah, he was so great. Like if eva you
wanted to go in there and get a costume, he
was there and new.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Zealand's biggest suburb. Of course.

Speaker 15 (21:25):
Yeah, so funny. I think now it's a cafe, is
it really?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Okay?

Speaker 15 (21:32):
Mhm, but yeah, I hadn't heard anyone say anything about that.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
But the night, the Night's young Fiona, you've got a
re character filled voice. Oh even told you that no
one of those sort of leaning voices. We should start
a voice agency. Do on the list. Thank you, Fiona

(21:59):
in it's Marcus welcome, Good evening, Ian, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (22:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (22:09):
Look, my grandmother lived across road from Lindsey and Gain Road.
I'm sorry, Londsey in Corory Grave Waite Street, but street
breath Waite Street.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Hang all right, could you spell it?

Speaker 18 (22:29):
B r A b r A I.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
T h w A I t E think breath wait Okay, it.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Was in Cory.

Speaker 18 (22:39):
My grandmother looked across the road for them. When my
wife and I had chilable five year old to visit her,
long and Janus and came over. Lindsey played the piano
on my grandmother's piano, singing duzzo bumble, then the first

(23:05):
up of the bumble, and my little boy had grown
up listening to her buzzo bumble on the radio. They
were just so scrolled that these people, well, I was
so sold these people had taken the time to come out.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Oh, for goodness sake, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 18 (23:25):
It's not unbelievable. It's exactly what happened. They were the
most wonderful couple you could ever believe. They ran a
nursing home across the road, like Grandma went into their
nursing home, and they were honestly the most lovely couple

(23:46):
you could ever believe.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
For goodness sake, what number do you remember? What number
of breath? What your mother was?

Speaker 18 (23:53):
Grandmother was thirty six, puddon, it's thirty six.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Goodness, it's just exactly the one i'm on. That's a sight,
that's exactly what I'm on in Google Maps. And they
were cross the road at thirty five, were they?

Speaker 18 (24:09):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Nice looking, nice looking house. Your grandmother's house. Beautiful.

Speaker 18 (24:15):
It's been very much done up. She left it many many,
many years ago.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Did the did the Yoh's family house have a widow's walk?

Speaker 18 (24:27):
I don't know what you mean by that, but.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Like a tower, like a turret? Yes, Oh goodness, yeah,
I think they call them a widow's walk because often
they're near the sea, and if your husband goes down
on a ship, then that's where you sort of stand
and look out to see. It's why they call them
a widow's walk.

Speaker 18 (24:44):
Well, I grew up in number thirty six freight Way
Straight and very very good things of ours lived across
the road before the Ohs bort and turned it into
a nursing home.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
So oh so that actually that actual house became the
nursing home. Yes, oh, well, okay, I see well.

Speaker 18 (25:07):
But honestly, Jane and lindsay, o God chas goodbys.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
And I can I can hear it in your voice
how much they meant, Oh they did.

Speaker 18 (25:21):
I took my grandmother and when she was very summer. Yes,
I think they were the most wonderful people I haven
met well.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
And she just had to move across the road when
she went to the home because it's where it was right.

Speaker 17 (25:37):
Yes, oh wow, So.

Speaker 18 (25:40):
I'm sorry that they were the most wonderful people you
could ever meet. To do that for my or five
year old son.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's a nice story. And thanks for coming through with that. Hello, Jeff,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (25:54):
Oh Marcus, how you good?

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Thank you? Jeff?

Speaker 20 (25:58):
Right?

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Great?

Speaker 19 (25:59):
Yeah, I was just finding up to see if you
would call one of Linda Yo's characters called Lory Gnome.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Jeff, I don't recall any of it because it wasn't
part of my I wasn't living in Wellington. So yeah,
I unfortunately I've gotten That's why I'm finding interesting. I've
got no experience of it at all.

Speaker 19 (26:17):
Ah, no problems, no problems. Yeah, there was one of
his buzzer bumble sidekicks was called Normy Gnome. And my
father always told me the story that he worked at
Radio New Zealand at the time and worked with Lindsay.
And my father always told me the story that he

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dad had drawn a sketch of this Gnome and left
it on his desk and one day Lindsay saw it
and thought, oh Normy because my dad's surname is Norman,
and Lindsay came up with the idea for Normy Nome.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I'm not too sure the story of your family's mythology.

Speaker 19 (26:56):
Yeah, so, I'm not too sure how true the story
is where the dad was just pulling the leg, but
he did work with Lindsay and he knew Lindsay back
in the day.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Do you remember listening to the show much yourself.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 19 (27:09):
I remember that quite often in the mornings, Lindsay would
have radio competitions, and because it'd sit down and sit
by the phone and frantically dial away to try and.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Hang on, hang on, Jeff, let's stop there. In those
days when you had to frankicly dial into the radio station,
that wasn't straightforward because it took about four minutes to
ring one number with those old ring dials too, didn't
it You ring all the numbers apart from the last digit.

Speaker 19 (27:41):
Yes, exactly, and wait and then try and time it,
and then then try again. I think we managed to
get through once.

Speaker 20 (27:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
The sketch with the sketches with Buzzo Bumble and Norman
the gnome, would they be conversations between these little animals.

Speaker 19 (28:06):
I think Dad just did the sketch of Normy the name.
I never saw it, so I don't know how many
he actually did in the end, but he always told
the story of just doing that one sketch, and Lindsay
came up to the idea of the character called Normy.

Speaker 21 (28:22):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Nice to hear from you, Jeff, Jiff Norman, thank you.
Twelve away from nine Alistair. At some Marcus. Good evening
and welcome.

Speaker 20 (28:31):
Him, Marcus. I'm just trying to bridge the way my
way through my memory banks. But actually, Lindsay Yarrah had
another show besides does the Bumbled that goes way back,
probably back in the eighties from my memory, and it
was called the Golden Oldie Yo Yo Show actually, and
it was an evenings and it was a sort of
I think it was a Saturday night sort of a

(28:53):
request thing actually, so I just thought, yeah, i'd better
sort of se if other people can remember it and
know more about it or remember more about it than me.
But yes, so he had two shows in effect, but
I think it was only a once on Saturday nights
from memory.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Imagine that you mentioned the Golden Older Yo Yo Show
would be after he had finished in the morning. But
I don't know what if that's the way it worked.

Speaker 20 (29:20):
No, No, I'm pretty I'm pretty sure it was in
the evenings, and I'm pretty sure it was a request
sort of a session on oldies and stuff like that,
or if it wasn't a request, it was just stuff
from the past, you know where there back in the
sixties and seventeen.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
So I think the way I think I think the
way I think the way when he went fours in
the cargo, which is the station I'm in, which is
in the cargo difficult? Then I think he went two
z in, which I think is Nelson.

Speaker 20 (29:55):
I think you're right, yes, And then he didn't or not?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Yeah, I see, And they did Breakfast in two z
B in Wellington from seventy two to ninety five.

Speaker 20 (30:07):
Yeah, well it might have been a Nelson then, because.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
You think he had his own radio study. I think
he had his own radio station Nelson and it was
called he had his own station that was called Radio
Radio Richmond. There's a pun there with the word yo
and radio and it'd be a low there'd be a
low power frequency there because you are you Nelson.

Speaker 20 (30:31):
Yes, I'm speaking from Nelson. And yeah, actually I think
the gold Noddy Raio show must have been when he
was based in Nelson. So yeah, it probably predates Buzzo
Bumble and the Wellington arrangement then year, but it's going
a long way back now. I'm sort of scratching the
memory itself, because the thing.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Is he retired for you, and he retired. He retired
at fifty two two.

Speaker 20 (30:53):
That's right. Yeah, so he had a pretty good run
twenty seven years of retirement. Can't contain about that.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well, I can't think of any broadcasters that would retire
at fifty two anymore.

Speaker 20 (31:03):
Well, I think those guys that were I think he
was on from sex to nine in the mornings, wasn't it.
And I think you know, they're pretty well paid to put.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Actually elist I don't necessarily know that they were, because
it would be if you look at MERV Smith, who
was as good as a broadcast as this country's ever produced.
I mean, I think because it was government broadcasting, you're
almost just on a technician's wage.

Speaker 20 (31:28):
Oh, you're right. It was all back in the days
of MDB.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yes, and I think Kevin Black was one of the
ones that became a superstark as he went off to
private radio. But I think I think for a lot
of them it was yeah, but you know, I mean
that's you know if.

Speaker 20 (31:45):
Yeah, yeah, yes, well yes, the Golden A Yo Yo
Show must have got that goes back a long way
now then, yes, it must have been when he was
broadcasting from Nelson then obviously. Yeah, so it could even
be the seventies and early eighties. Yeah, whatever, it was worth.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Low frequency yep, okay, thanks Alisten A low frequent tim
what jo I had pick it up. My name is Marcus.
Welcome here to midnight. Talking about Lindsay Yoh the broadcaster
huge in Willington had a fifty percent share in broadcasting.
That is unheard of. You'd be lucky to get ten
percent these days. But getting of course, you know, there
weren't many stations because it was also regulated. I think

(32:27):
I don't know what stations were and welling to at
the time. There's probably the Lindsay yo Show. I guess
which on tuesday'd b be. There was probably I don't
know what the other stations would be. There'd be a young,
more contemporary station. There was the private stations like Radio Windy,
which was a fairly early on as far as the
privates go, and that would probably be in it, and
constant National probably five stations, probably all on the AM

(32:51):
two for a while. So yeah, she's pretty she's pretty ropey.
Get in touch with our talking about Lindsay O'Brian, it's Marcus,
good evening and welcome here you.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Go mate, good Brian.

Speaker 22 (33:04):
He was an absolute icon't really Willington. He chews all
the other stations up in London and spat them out
in the morning. He was the man to listen to.

Speaker 17 (33:14):
Good.

Speaker 22 (33:16):
I had two daughters born seventy eight and eighty and
they just absolutely as they got older, bloody buzzer bumble shows.
I had to drag them around the city to all
the shows that he had on and that wonderful news
read the news, talks that be has on today Raileian Ramsey.

(33:38):
He was basically his right hand person.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (33:43):
And to hear that wonderful voice out there still today
reading the news is really she's got a beauty And
she had that laugh oh yeah you know, and yeah
she made she.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Was part a big part of this show.

Speaker 22 (34:00):
And when he retired I used to call and see
him on Gray's Road. He lived around the part and
New Here and Gray's Road and the lifestyle block and
if you saw him at the gate and you stopped,
he'd always have a chat. Wonderful and I have fond
memories of him absolutely and r I P Lindsey. That's
how I feel.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
So he didn't leave straight to Tasman District. He was
in Wellington a lifestyle block.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
For a while, was he Yes, he was.

Speaker 22 (34:29):
He lived Oh god he built this beautiful house around there.
I'm not sure how long he lived there.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
But.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well him and Raley must have been close then.

Speaker 22 (34:42):
Oh yes, very very.

Speaker 14 (34:46):
And I don't know where she lives now, but you're.

Speaker 22 (34:49):
Here, read the news now on news talks. They'd be
still today.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Wish would she be?

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Would she still be in Wellington?

Speaker 9 (34:56):
No?

Speaker 22 (34:57):
I think she's an orphan. Used to do the midday
the Afternoon show on SI Woman then his mate. Yeah,
well she used to read busting to them every day
and read the news out. So I don't know where

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she is, whether she's still in Willington, r Nor You'd
never know.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Today was the way you and she could well be AI.
She could have just been a computer personification.

Speaker 22 (35:31):
Well that could be the ghost on the payroll if
you're in business.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
What did you call the to on the Afternoon show?
What did you call it? A couple of rogues?

Speaker 17 (35:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (35:40):
They are Simon the mad mate.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Yeah, they were a great Joe Wren't they tremendous?

Speaker 22 (35:48):
Tremendous Yeah, missed them too, but Lindsey was absolutely stunning
for Wellington. Yeah, they would barely been a person. I
came back from Australia in about seventy three, and Dad
used to say, God listens, funny guy, And yet.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
There was a bumble on the.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Radio, because, to be honest, looking back, Richs, it sounds unlistenable.

Speaker 13 (36:17):
For the guy talking to a bubble this morning?

Speaker 22 (36:20):
What keen past eight every morning? And he had read
the act kid's birthday names? God he was he was
buddy marvelous.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, wow.

Speaker 22 (36:34):
Unfortunately the clock has ticked and moved on.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
But would you be would you be driving past his
lifestyle block?

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yes, I would be, yeah, just to catch him.

Speaker 22 (36:48):
No, no, no, I was going out there to call
on people and business and different things. He'd go out,
maybe lean on the gate, and a few people would
go past two because local people knew where he was
and who he was and if he was there and
you wanted to stop and talking or whatever.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Check different days there Now, these days all the broadcasters
are hiding down high fences and their mansions.

Speaker 22 (37:14):
Oh ship, there will only be one with these oh
what's his bloody name? In the morning, the Awckland.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Sounds very humble. The sky Lindsey, Brian, I'm going to
keep moving on because you're swearing and stuff like that.
I think we're in icy territory. But yeah, fancy and
rale there, Craig, it's Marcus. Welcome here, hows the.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Game this evening?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Good? Thank you, Craig.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Two things. One thing that wasn't too impressive what you
were saying last night about cars and stuff.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Cig great, Greig, Craig will stay on the day. I think.
I think that's just probably good advice to you.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, well, you need to be more respects for people.
That's the main thing.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Excuse me, we're talking about we're talking about a man
that's just died, and you've rung up on that. You've
rung up on that show and trying to study that
with some sort of ancients. Three.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
Well, I was not.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
I was going to say I met the guy a
couple of times, and I was last night, And you
need to buck up your ideas about the raw respect
or cause.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Hang on, this is let me just rejigt this. What
on earth are you on about.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
From last night? I was the one that bought the
car without the motor. You said, who would buy a
car without motor?

Speaker 17 (38:33):
And I was.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
The whole family is the whole family is mechanically inclined,
so there's no problem changing the motor. It sounds like
a press.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
It's a fairly feir rhetorical question. If someone's going to
buy a ute, right, and it's too expensive, So he
says to the guy, right, I'll tell you what, how
much is it without the motor?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I mean most people would find that unbelievable conversation.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Well, and this is what we're dealing with.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
This is what we're dealing with and talk about. We're
dealing with people and they're experiencing Gee, that's surprised that
the guy said how much without the motor?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
You said, who would buy a carry that you don't And.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I stand by that. That's the joy of talk that
we don't know people. We can go with a sentiment
who would buy a ute without a motor?

Speaker 3 (39:23):
A lot of people? No one anyway, I reckon.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Craig tonight, I don't reckon anyone would ring up that's
been to buy a ute and would say it's too expensive?
How much without the motor? And Craig, if you think
you are mechanically minded and your family are mechanically minded,
you would not take offense because you know how you are.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah, but it's my need to you make it sound
like you knew.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Who I was, and I don't know who you're just
a voice. I don't know who you are. I've got
no idea. But now I know is the guy that
bought a yute without a motor?

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Okay, Well, anyway, if you want to get onto another subject, I.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Don't know that. I don't know that you can handle
the gender Craig. If you taking a fence when someone
says who would buy you without a motor, which in
the scheme of things is a fairly a fairly un
controversial thing to say, then I don't know if you

(40:25):
could trust the whole medium.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Well that's your view. Imagine No, but.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
You want to go on a pint about something else,
But I might say, I don't necessarily other situation where
you're going to take offence. It's something I say in
a lighthearted and conversation provoking way. The whole key to
talk back that someone else could have run into Electionally,
it's quite common for people to buy utes without engines.

(40:52):
Eye to that myself after I separated from a second wife.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, but when you said that, you cut me off.
You didn't get a chance to give it a rebuttal
and say what.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
More to get finially, text, you can email facts, you
can find management. There's a million things you can do.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
At the moment, due to a work instagram visibly impaired,
so I cannot text, I cannot use the computer, and
I don't have a fax.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I'm sad to hear that what's happened to your site?

Speaker 3 (41:22):
A guy threw a sponge of chemicals into my eyes
and it's been down for the last two years. That
it's getting better, but it's taken a while. A lot
of medical stuff and all that.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
But with that, but a workplace thing, yeah really, yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Was he prosecuted?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
No, no work basically just said, oh, I was just
an accident. We're just like, well, I don't see how
it was an accident and how he can throw a
sponge upwards. But then I had a mild condition one
of my eyes years ago, which was only a small condition.
It wasn't it was fixed and treatable. And because of
the reason because of the previous condition, the latest condition
has been classed by SC is a pre existing condition.

(42:06):
So I don't get any acc from anyone that's.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Not pretty existing. That's because a sponge guy through something
in your eyes.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, well, they said because I had an injury with
one of my eyes previously. It's classes pre existing. I
don't believe it. My specialist says no, but yeah, that's
a side note. It's just I try not to think
about it. It's just did you get your polarmes?

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Did you get an apology from the guy?

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Yeah, he said, I'm sorry why it was laughing his
head off. So after that, I basically resigned and went
to work for another company. It's thought, well, the management
didn't treat me very well. The wash stations and the
workshop we were like about fifty meters away from where
we were. There's nothing close by, and when I pointed
that up, they go. And then then the wash station
itself it was about half of the stuff was actually empty.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
So was the essence.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
That was a cleaning thing to take off the what
you call like the orange peel ficktim paint, you know,
like the little rip you get from sun and think
like they're ripple effect on top of your paint. So
what's coming Manling?

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yeah, Well, Craig, I'm sorry if I offended you by
making out that you and your family were not mechanically
minded or doing a strange thing to buy you without
an engine.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
I probably took it a little bit too much. So
I apologize too for we can order that.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
We can order that from time to time, Craig. But yeah,
by gone, to be by gone. It's nice to talk.
Thank you, s big of you. Eighteen past nine, someone said,
Lindsay Oh can't have been seventy eight. Lindsay O can't
be seventy eight. Euston him on tuesday'd b when was
at primary school in the hut. That's from Bears. That's

(43:45):
just what it says, and all the articles about him,
so it does a bear to be his age. He
was young. When he retired, he was fifty two, and
his broadcasting career went inver Cargel, Nelson, Wellington, then back
to Nelson for a low frequency radio station he had
in his garage called Radio Christine Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 23 (44:11):
Morning, Morning, God Night. I hadne that lindsay had died,
and I'm very sad about it because he was a
really nice guy. I listened to him for years and years,
and if you really want to get my costing and
get him really wild, you should reach in the fact
of what happened to him on the Lindsay Oh Show

(44:34):
when he had to take over for Lindsay one day
because Lindsay got sick and they had my costing on
and he had to do the morning show and to
get the children we did to go to school, so
I had They told him to make sure the hair
was brushed to their teeth were brushed, and they had
their lunches and they would go to school without stopping

(44:55):
anywhere and go straight to school. And they all got
ready and Buzzy Bumma was buzzing around and making the noise.
And I don't think Mike liked him very much because
he was getting annoyoid. And he said he made some
sort of noise and made it like a grabbing noise
and told Buzzy Bubble that if he didn't shut up,
he was going to put fly spray on him, and yeah,

(45:20):
andw ked and Willington under the age of well.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Hang on, hang on, hang on. Didn't Lindsey Oh do
the buzzy buzzo bumble.

Speaker 23 (45:30):
It was somebody else doing the buzzy bumble noise. It
was a I can't be who did it, but it
was a different buzzy bumble noise. But but the buzzy
bumble noise was still there, so Lindsay wasn't operating that one. Yeah,
mist he got ready annoyed as pretend to better, used
fly spray on him, and all the kids are willing
to started crying and all the mother's writing a true yep,

(45:53):
and they reckoned.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
That the I know that Mike cost worked for T.

Speaker 23 (45:58):
Well he was he had worked a tes b here
and what's what happened was on the the actual board.
The bone board was strung for hours because all the
order women in Willington had to ring up because their
kids were upset. They got really upset, and the mother's
got upset about it as well. So I don't think

(46:18):
he ever did the Breakfast Show again. But I remember
that because I was sitting in bed listening.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Race what year would it be?

Speaker 23 (46:27):
Oh God, I'd come back to Willington from overseas so
and I was living bing on Terrace, so it would
be yet late seventies, eighties yet more like need in
the middle of eighties. I was there because I was
living bit on the terrace and I used to live
to to Lindsay getting ready to getting the kids ready

(46:47):
for school.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Okay, well fact check that one, Christine, but thank you
twenty five past nine, eight hundred and eighty, Terry talked
about Lindsay Yoh the broadcast. Someone has texted me he
died on Tuesday. Mike has just heard on your show,
Lindsay Yoh has died. Reset. Indeed, my memories when I
was young and about seven fifty five, every morning conjunction, buzzo, bumble,
he broadcasted young kids birthdays the parents obviously pre advised,

(47:13):
was outstanding in something quite special when we're young. What
memories are made of?

Speaker 20 (47:17):
You know?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
I think every community, well every sort of local station
had a big thing about birthdays, I think, and always
a number of them had a character, whether it be
I think there was in the cargo one called Bertie Budgy,
So that just seemed to be a thing. I guess
for a while, kind of silly voices or animal voices
were kind of the go on radio. Not so much anymore.

(47:41):
Marcus fond memories of Lindsay Yoh's Night show My dar
dare listened to and taped, as he declined with Alzheim
as the music we played as we're doing into how
much Dad loved the music and everyone's ability to tape
these shows much later and we're playing them. Realized how
it connected dads was love of music. We taped hours
and hours of these lovely shows. Greatlestly tonight. Thanks Genie Wellington,

(48:06):
U said Roller Coast of the call with the acid,
wasn't it well? Bob AT's Marcus good evening, PI Marcus the.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
Year at Lindsey Yo, and buzn't bumble? I do remember
he used to be up in the studio above the
used to be the Biggie on Bulls Biggie, the VP
there were Radio Windy used to be and he used
to be up in another studio beside Radio Windy.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Sure go on.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
And he then I'm pretty sure I went to the
broadcasting house.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
Yeah, said this with him.

Speaker 7 (48:48):
He ended up going on his trouver and he used
to have a machine that used to send a buzzer
bumble noise. You're just presented him against the ass and
the talk away to it, and a lot of just
didn't find the kind of fascinating.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
But not the beat.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Okay, something that was a torch.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
I don't know what it was, but it was only
here he used to work at himself. That's when I
was told I never saw we used to walk past
a studio and I know you got the eight second
delay and as a school would going through of them
will have watched the show at Radio Windy. I don't
know who was so O'Brian. I can't remember he was

(49:37):
one DJ there at once back, but you know, I
do remember Lundio being in that studio by himself and
then did hear their buzzo bumble? And I never saw
no one else in there but himself.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Bob, Yes, did buzzo bumble talk to lindsay, Oh.

Speaker 7 (50:02):
No, I think it was just a machine that he preston.
You'd be talking away to himself and of course we
were listening to it eight seconds own whatever have any sections.
It was after the bag and it was quite amazing
as kids watching this guy do his show. Uh, this
was early in the morning day, so it was still

(50:23):
kids going to stop in the morning. And I remember
us going there early in the morning and I thought,
this is the weird time for sported on.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I don't think they would have I don't think they
would have used I don't think they would have used
the like because you wouldn't need to dump yourself.

Speaker 7 (50:40):
I don't know, I don't know. I just saw him
in the seat there by himself, and he's talking away
and then you could hear the buzzer bumble bots in
the background, but I never saw anyone.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
In there was the voice or was it just a
buzzing sound?

Speaker 7 (50:57):
Well he was just out there by himself and talking away.
So what are you doing this morning? About them? But
you get the singer.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Are then he'd reinterpreted and say what and then he'd
translate what the bee said, copy, I understand, so it's
this is oh is that right? But oh yeah, oh yeah,
I can understand that. Now I've got an email here.
It says, Marcus, you were making a mess of Buzzo

(51:29):
Bumble's name. His first name was buzz His last name
was O Bumble. Assume you bumblebees had a first and
the last name. He had a wife called be Linda
O Bumble. There was a nasty Wally Wetter. They dropped
the nasty bit when they realized they were putting a
generation off kid Wetters. Well this is serious, Marcus. One year,

(51:49):
for my father's birthday, Lindsey surprise Dad in his butcher's
shop with a singer from the Gilbert and Sullivan Wellington
Society Books and golf balls and my brother and I
got to talk on the radio. I still have a
tape of it. Plus remember going to his kid's birthday.
Lindsay taught me how to cut up an art without
cutting the peel Mark's. If you had to have a

(52:13):
talking animal with you on the radio show, what would
it be? There's not much choice for talking animals, is there, Nigel.
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (52:23):
Good evening there, young Marcus the Irem. But Lindsay yo.
When I was up at Wellington, I used to tune
into to Z B y at the breakfast show that
I remember on he was he was a character. I
don't know what he looks like to you?

Speaker 2 (52:40):
No idea, no, but used to Nigel not only is
have I got no idea? There's a photo right in
the paper, yeah, talking about his death and there's a
shot of two people in the photo. I've got no
idea which is Lindsay yoh, and which is the other person?
No idea at all. It's not caption. There's one guy

(53:01):
with a hat and the Ukulelean's other guy with a
floral shirt.

Speaker 5 (53:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (53:07):
Yeah, Because sometimes we hear these radio announcers we don't
know what they look like we imagine what they might
look like. But yeah, there are two different things, aren't they.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Yes, what were you going to what you look like?
What we're going to say about d.

Speaker 16 (53:23):
Yeah, I was going to say about we used to
have a guy under Eden I'm for years ago Colin Layman.
You heard of that name?

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I have?

Speaker 16 (53:32):
Yeah, he had animal Charlie Mouse.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Oh really?

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Do you?

Speaker 16 (53:37):
Did you not know that?

Speaker 3 (53:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I had no idea. I don't know everything about regional radio.

Speaker 16 (53:42):
No, I don't know. Yeah. Do you remember that name though?

Speaker 4 (53:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Yes, very much. You're very famous broadcaster?

Speaker 16 (53:50):
And uh is he still alive?

Speaker 3 (53:52):
Do you know.

Speaker 19 (53:56):
He went?

Speaker 16 (53:57):
I think he was an Australian guy. Colin Layman? Are
you googling him?

Speaker 11 (54:04):
Well?

Speaker 2 (54:04):
What else am I supposed to do?

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Yeh?

Speaker 16 (54:07):
I like a good answer.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Former Dunedin broadcaster dies in Queensland. Well known former ed
broadcast anity Colin Lehman has died after short ill was
in Queensland. He had a forty four year radio Crean
radio and TV spreads, spending several years as a premiere
Breakfast anouncer in Dnedin with his alter ego Charlie Mouse.

Speaker 16 (54:37):
Yeah, forty four years he done it, and he did.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
At seventy, so not long for a retirement.

Speaker 16 (54:46):
No, he was to say he was born there too,
in Australia.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I didn't say that, so we don't know where he
was bor quite a few across to broadcast. I think
Layton Smith was an Australian.

Speaker 16 (55:00):
Yeah he is told he Yeah, so Harold woul Layton
Smith be now he over.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Seventy or i'd be well over I don't know, but
well over you reckon? I don't know. Is just what's this?
Ask someone something? Ask the host questions he's got no
idea about with other broadcasters, I go then, sorry to
pick the right, but I don't know. It would be eighty?
Would he would? Would he be eighty?

Speaker 16 (55:28):
I don't know. I haven't seen Leyton Smith has a
mean on. Wow, how long's Carry been doing the morning show?
She took over from late to eight?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Is it how it works? It would be ten? Be
ten years? Would it.

Speaker 11 (55:43):
So?

Speaker 16 (55:44):
Because Carrie used to do the hours you're doing? Now,
did you take Terry's ours? Because Carry used to be
on on the evening, remember Kerry? Would them?

Speaker 5 (55:54):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (55:55):
Yeah, okay, can't you?

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (55:58):
I thought you would have done.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
All that no, I just come and out you go.
You know, I'm not too worry about where you fit
into the into the squad. Yeah, it used to be
Chris Carter used to do the nights. I've done the
nights before. I'd done nights in about nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 20 (56:16):
On z B.

Speaker 16 (56:19):
No, I don't remember that.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
There was There was Chris Carter, there was Pam Carkery,
there was me, then there was Kerrie Woodham, then there.

Speaker 11 (56:32):
Was me again.

Speaker 16 (56:34):
Did you did you used to be on Radio Pacific
or Radio Live.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Or you'n't talk about the slot now?

Speaker 16 (56:44):
Do you want to stick with?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
You said? You said who was on this slot? And
I said, well, I said for when the station started,
I don't know if it was Chriss, a guy called
Robin Harrison, do you remember him?

Speaker 16 (56:58):
George Bllaranney George Ballartney was the first talkback host I
knew on for z B, and he broadcast out of
christ Church.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Was but once it'd be was its own station that
just broadcast to Walkland when it first went to talk.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (57:12):
Yeah, they are more localized back in those days.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Weren't they just listened to You've listened to a radio Nigel?

Speaker 16 (57:19):
Yeah, I love radio and television.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
You know you?

Speaker 16 (57:25):
Yeah, it is?

Speaker 3 (57:27):
Is that?

Speaker 16 (57:27):
Well, that's what's wrong with pe.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Do you think I don't there's anything wrong with your
information is as good as Wikipedia. You know you're not
a tech. You're not a taching me for ridiculing you,
which I.

Speaker 16 (57:40):
Like, yeah, yeah, oh no, you're a good man. Keep
up the train spotting.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
I'm not a train spot Nigel.

Speaker 16 (57:49):
But that's where I know what you looked like when
you're done there.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
It's disparaging to call someone a train spot Oh sorry,
because you know I'm not upset. But when did you last?
I mean, where would you go to spot a training
in Vicago as well too, because there's no passenger trains?

Speaker 16 (58:09):
Yeah, well that's true, that's true. Do you think you'll
how long will it be before you go back to
Auckland or and live in Auckland?

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Can you always turn you on a talk back thing
into some sort of interrogation.

Speaker 16 (58:25):
That's not interrogation. I'm just thinking because the other day
you said that.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
I find you too confronting.

Speaker 16 (58:34):
The Southland weather you're complaining about.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
As you would too if you've been through what we've
been through.

Speaker 16 (58:40):
Okay, then and now and now did.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
You're in the paper? I reckon Bluff's vulnerable to a
twelve meter tsunami.

Speaker 16 (58:47):
Oh well, I'd get the hell out of there. I'd
go back to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
We've got out, we've got an hour's warning.

Speaker 16 (58:53):
Yeah, I'd get the hell out of there, go to
high Left.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Well, Auckland's not good for a tsunami? Is it funnel
up the harbor?

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (59:02):
No, come got some high Hells Wellington.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Where are you in need?

Speaker 16 (59:06):
And Nigel, I'm up halfway Bush.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
Of course you are quite like halfway But funny name
for a subbing halfway Bush though, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (59:17):
Yep? Yep?

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Shows a lack of imagination. Don't you think?

Speaker 16 (59:21):
Close to lockery hospital? Lockery hospitals?

Speaker 2 (59:23):
And I spent a night there once?

Speaker 16 (59:27):
What Yeah, well it's not a hotel.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
What was that night? It's a long story, Nagel, not
quite fresh enough to tell it yet. Halfway Boche. Did
the cable cars go up that far?

Speaker 16 (59:48):
The trolley buses did?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Brilliant, that's what we need to know. Transport Graham, Good evening,
it's Marcus, welcome, good to talk to you, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (59:56):
Yeah, just about that host than that? Yeah, I remember
Robin Harrison Well and George Ballati. Obviously they were based
here in gross here and yeah, no no, they was
sort of the birth of talkback really. But just on
Lindsay Yoh died in Wellington recently a couple of days ago.
I think I heard, Yeah, I'm in christ I got

(01:00:19):
quite fond memories of he was a you know, a
bit of a character on the radio up there. And
remember when Canterbury at the Shield ranfle Shield and Alan
Houston was the fallback for Wellington and Robbie Deans for
Canterbury and Barry Corbett's on our side of it, you know,
put out a song about Robbie Deanes and it was

(01:00:40):
and Lindsay Yoe responded with one sort of against and
it was all good fun. But I mean they were,
you know, he was great fun himself and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Very much what broadcasting was in those days. It was
very much regional tech songs about rugby matches and birth
they called in voices and anything like that, and getting
the sixth The key to successful broadcasting in the seventies
and the eighties was getting communities behind you.

Speaker 24 (01:01:12):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
I know that Bertie Budge from in Vcago went to Disneyland,
I think, and came back and of course it's a
Ghana suit. There was five thousand kids waiting at the airport.

Speaker 9 (01:01:24):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Well, I don't know that's true or ruben myth, but
you know, if you get someone, if you get someone
behind you where they like you're going to go down
like a shield soil and going down to Barry Core.
But or yeah, I mean that's what it was all about,
was that people loved that sort of stuff. I don't
know why they stopped doing it. Maybe it was too
much effort, or maybe kind of people got into different
sort of stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:01:47):
Yeah, I think we'll just you know, technology, I mean
obviously we could changed even more than say that's out
twenty years ago. But I mean, you know, there was
a good side and it was about community more.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
And yeah, it was very much about family too, with
sort of kid stuff there, I mean Movesmith with the
same with a spy Movesmith. And there was Lindsay.

Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
He was big and a bit black. We heard him nationally,
but he was also quite a chronic.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
In the Auckland broadcast nationally. But he was the King
of the corn Flag, so we moved Smith.

Speaker 9 (01:02:20):
Was Yeah, That's what I associated him was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
He had a huge market share for a long long
time in Auckland, which was a big radio, big radio market.
There would only would have been about five stations, but
he was. And then they switched off and went to
homes for talk.

Speaker 9 (01:02:34):
I remember Blackie up in Auckland. He was. He wasn't
on ZB I don't think, but yeah, I knew of him.
He was quite an iconic figure out there on radio.
I forget his name, but this is called Blackie. But yeah,
I mean there were good times and people poke fun
at each other, but it wasn't It wasn't like social

(01:02:54):
media is now and all that, and it was. It
was genuine rivalry, but it was also a bit of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Yeah, and you look back and you think who was
the christ Church equivalent? Breakfast Taste was a better Corbett
did the general from the.

Speaker 9 (01:03:09):
Guy Courtney who was quite funny.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Actually, a lot of program directors got a lot to
say about Pat Courtney.

Speaker 20 (01:03:21):
Yes, there's.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
There's two things I'll ever do. One is climb Everest.
The other has worked with pet Courtney. That seems to
strike me as one of the well known quotes.

Speaker 9 (01:03:30):
He put together some very heated the weather forecast and
every I can't remember now, but he's there was. There
was a couple of things where he play on words
and you know about mountains where the snow was, where
maybe skifields were closed and yeah I've heard it before
and yeah I think I have. But yeah, he didn't

(01:03:51):
last long. And then Barry Corbett came and you know
Kennery won the Shield or Wellington and then there was
this Linda Cotney broadcasts in Ireland at the moment, all right,
oh that doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Probably he's probably doing it's probably breakfast time in Ireland now.
You could probably go on to iHeart listen to him.

Speaker 9 (01:04:13):
Oh that's amazing. Yeah, you haven't wonder where he got
So he was great, Yeah in the mornes. But yeah,
no good talking to dear Marcus all.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
The best Graham. I forget the lists of the three
people no one will work with. I think you can
imagine who they are. And that style of radio from
the eighties, the seventies and the eighties very very different.
Highly Yeah. But the thing that surprises me about lindsay
you and I've read widely about him today is how

(01:04:44):
much out of the studio work he did he was
always off having parades and kids parties. He must have
worked the whole damn time, but always out and about
just doing events with his characters. And I think he
took his kids on the road dressed as characters, kind
of out and about doing performances. Yeah, true story. That

(01:05:07):
parade through the street. It says when Buzz married Belinda.
I think that's the person, not the bumblebe. In nineteen
seventy four, the happy couple paraded through Windington Hut Valley
with thousands flocking to the streets to see them. These days,
should flog his stories to the women's mags. We are
talking Lindsay. Oh the broadcaster who died on Tuesday. I
think it was at seventy eight, a very successful broadcaster

(01:05:29):
in Wellington. Started at Vert Cargo, moved to Nelson for
a number of years. I guess when Nelson had two stations.
I don't know where yeh fIF Shore opened, but anyway,
then was off to Wellington, was there for a number
of years and was extremely successful there with a fifty
percent market share. And then of course Paul Homes started

(01:05:50):
zedby Auckland and one ZEDB and then they rolled out
that talk format around the country except christ Church Is
some people have pointed out to me. And then lindsay
O did some other stuff, some other stuff I think
on classicate, so that wasn't called classicates at the time,
and then went and had his own station, his own
communities station, low wattage station and a garage in Richmond
in Nelson. I think that's the broadcasting story of him,

(01:06:15):
but very I mean yeah, a lot in the articles
of every interesting about his career, but particularly about how
much community stuff he did, Like he weren't just on
the air in the morning. There's a lot of other stuff.
I suppose it was probably a Wellington parade you get
on a float and something like that. He also had

(01:06:39):
guests such as Nancy of nine I and Sir Nigel Noring.
I don't know what these was like. He created a
character for the children's birthday called buzz Oh Bumble, who
became a phenomenon, sparking five records, so there you go

(01:07:01):
and music. Buffer had created his own songs to mark
such community triumphs as Wellington winning the Filly Shield. He
rebelled against the radio tradition of sticking to a strict
formula and scripted radio and often didn't decide what he
would do or say on air until the moment arrived.
I was loose because I'd like to surprise beyond predictable
and be fun, and sometimes you just can't plan unpredictability.

(01:07:24):
It has to happen. He had internal battles over his
style all the time, with bosses complaining he didn't play
enough music, but YO believed his comedy was often better
than the music.

Speaker 15 (01:07:38):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
Some people in a position to put the wheel clamps
on me had absolutely no idea, and it was sad Sadly,
I did work for many years in an environment which
didn't allow for full creativity, or it was poisoned by
greediness with advertising.

Speaker 17 (01:07:54):
Who she.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Where had that constant battle, which contributed to my disappointment
with the way things petered out raally. In nineteen eighty seven,
two zb's Auckland sister station one z'd be shifted to
a news talkback format, ending the free wheeling community radio format.
After initial problems, it was a rating success, and by

(01:08:21):
the mid nineteen nineties, Radios in Chiefs wanted all its
community stations to adopt the same format. So Yes, it
was very much the breakfast show of its time. At
the young age of fifty two, retired moved to a
lifestyle property near Richmond in Nelson laureates Marcus Welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:08:43):
Hither Marcus. Yeah, I can remember him and Nelson about
nineteen seventy two. It would be he was on the
radio then and also made of Mine flattered next door
to m He was in a flat with a couple
of other guys. Yeah, and was known to have some
pretty good parties there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
He'd be a party guy. They'd be, no doubt about that.

Speaker 25 (01:09:05):
I think there was even some talk there was they
got some stimulation from sources other than alcohol. It was
the seventies and that was great. I tell you, mate
bought before when he shifted off to Wellington, he sold
his big reel to reel tape?

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Is this Lindsay hour? Is this your mate?

Speaker 20 (01:09:27):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:09:27):
Lindsay Ye, yep. He bought it off them, and there
was several reels of great music, you know. I mean
he'd obviously compiled it over quite a.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
Period of time.

Speaker 25 (01:09:40):
Great parties, and I guess some of them. I'm just
trying to think, first time I'd ever heard sort of
the moody blues and Chris christoffers and I think that
was probably the first taste I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Got to hang on, hang on, hang on, Laurie. Are
you telling me once upon a time about party and
someone would bring out the reel to reel machine.

Speaker 25 (01:09:58):
Yeah, well we had I was flirting with some guys,
which was sort of another party. House of Nelson was
known as Awful House down near the airport by the Piggery.
And uh, this mate that bought it, Yeah, he was
stopped there and he hit all out the old tape
and a couple of weeks speakers and this thing just
went on and on and you know, and indeed obviously

(01:10:21):
stacked it with you know, his favorite music, and it
was brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Was it called Awful House because it was next to
the piggery?

Speaker 9 (01:10:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:10:30):
I think the address is still the thirty eight quarantine Road.
Just we're right at the entrance to Nelson Airport. There
is a little muddy creek comes in and the guy
used to run a piggery and just further up the
road and the house was sort of a pretty rough,
sort of almost like almost like a farmhouse. But you
get about five guys in the different roommension.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
And paradise the piggery the awful Lindsay is reel to reel.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
You go there going this smell?

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 25 (01:10:57):
There was something When I think of Lindsay, I think
of that music. There was sort of really set the
nights in.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
White certain Chris Christophers on Sunday morning having down Where
would you get a flint there? It looks like a
god forsaken place.

Speaker 25 (01:11:10):
It was well, I mean ill, people were crying up
to go on there. It was just before I went
down the Antarctic.

Speaker 26 (01:11:18):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (01:11:20):
But the previous guy had been down there, he'd been
in there as well. He sort of moved out in
there was a space.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
So Laurie move and he's a nice young guy, he'll
be great him around.

Speaker 25 (01:11:33):
But after the pub's close, that seemed to you have
Bloody Neilson's even what I've sewn up and joining the
fun a place where you could turn the music up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
You've got pigs next door, Knights and White setting and
the pigs.

Speaker 25 (01:11:49):
But no, he had a great reputation around the town.
He wasn't into the kids show up much so much
of that stage I think just.

Speaker 19 (01:11:57):
But yeah, quite a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Yeah, you ever listened to the Wellington Show? I never head,
but people seem to have a lot to say about it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:04):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 16 (01:12:05):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
H It's hard to imagine. Now people say it sounded
a bit disparaging, but you say, you're doing a breakfast show,
and what it is is you got it's just you
and you've got a torch that's a bumblebee and you're
doing kids breakfast. You know it sounds like a that's
a lot for one guy to carry.

Speaker 25 (01:12:23):
Yeah, well, in upon Palmi A that's the same when
I shifted up here. I mean there was a guy Bourns.
He was the guy that was doing the radio morning stuff,
you know, all the good shows and stuff in those days.
And obviously what was his first name, Burns. I think
he's still around, Actually this is still around.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
And did he have a sidekick that was an animal?

Speaker 25 (01:12:46):
I don't think he did.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
No, that'll be why.

Speaker 22 (01:12:49):
Yeah, uh no.

Speaker 25 (01:12:52):
He seemed to be old, sort of handled.

Speaker 17 (01:12:54):
On his own.

Speaker 25 (01:12:55):
Chris Chris Burns Like what Chris Burns?

Speaker 19 (01:12:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:13:02):
He's still still around here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Mccasley, Yeah, he's still Is he still doing radio?

Speaker 25 (01:13:06):
Yeah yeah, I'm pretty sure he is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Flip is probably one of our stations.

Speaker 25 (01:13:11):
It's just want to flick on to. It's mostly you know,
mostly it's either just mostly music. But I kick it
on in the morning sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Yeah, who does the what what's the local big community
station in Palmerston? Now, what's the big one that's got
people listening to.

Speaker 25 (01:13:27):
It us to extens Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Yeah, because our ball old what's the name Mike west
Win didn't he finally tapped out the last radio awards.
I think he replaced some What do they network it?

Speaker 25 (01:13:40):
I think it's networks of this small.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Town broadcast as cheap as creepers, how.

Speaker 5 (01:13:45):
Do you think?

Speaker 25 (01:13:47):
But certainly in the morning BOONDI still on, you know,
I cook them there to get a bit of local
news and stuff. Sometimes there's a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Of wonder where that reel to reel is now? Is
the pig farm? Is the pig farm still there?

Speaker 25 (01:14:02):
I don't think No, No, that's all been tidied up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
All our port comes from overseas.

Speaker 20 (01:14:09):
Now.

Speaker 25 (01:14:09):
Well, the guy that bought it, actually I'm thinking of
calling in and I'm later in the year and he
lived down in Parmerston South.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
I think we just called him. I think we just
called that Palmerston.

Speaker 25 (01:14:19):
Actually he may still have it. Yeah, I've got some
work to do there here later in the year, and
I thought I might drop and and see him. Yeah
and yeah, he's got the real real wo.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Yeah, it's a good place. Parmas didn't say what the
hill's worth climbing up the back of it with the
McKenzie memorial. That's worth a walk up there, Lurry, you.

Speaker 25 (01:14:37):
Know that you can take it. No, I did A
long long time ago. I called him to see him
and there was a concrete a son sort of tau
thing there, yea, And I took I took my son up.
That was his first experience with electric fences.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
A good book.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
I said, don't touch it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Your kids have got to touch electric fence otherwise that
I mean, I don't think anyone's got through without getting
his shock. I let her go, Larry, but nice to talk.
What happened in Hamilton. I guess Hamilton was a very
big town then in those days, was it? Don't if
you any broadcasters have come from Hamilton. Was trying to
think actually actually effectually anyway you might have something to add.
See a lot of people came from Indicago, of people

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came from Welling to a little people came from christ
church profets having a real to reel. H good evening, John, Oh,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:15:26):
Welcome today, Marcus sal This evening.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Very good, thank you John.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Oh, yeah, awesome.

Speaker 14 (01:15:34):
I'm in Wellington and it's just started raining. It's lovely
and warm, not beautiful. But I was just calling about
a guy used to be around in the eighties and
nineties who was Swampy Marsh.

Speaker 22 (01:15:45):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Yes, he used to do.

Speaker 3 (01:15:47):
He used to do.

Speaker 14 (01:15:49):
He was famous for us to premp call people at work. Yes,
And I remember this this one that he did. It
was so funny, I still remember it. But he rang
a lift for repair company and he pretended to be
stranded inside of a lift in the middle of Wellington,
but he made out that he had the cover off

(01:16:10):
the lift and then had his pocket knife out and
he started working on it, and he started to talk
to the guy at the lift company about what to
do next, whether to you know, he's got the circuit
board out, and the guy starts to panic and starts
to try to get his address. And it was really
really funny, actually was. And of course at the end

(01:16:31):
he just reveals that he's Swampy Marsh from more FM,
and it was just he just had a real style
about him. It was absolutely stunning. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Well, I think probably most of those. That was the
golden era for those sorts of phone calls, because I
think Kevin Black even to an album of his great
phone calls with some and most of them. Yeah, sort
of with that sort of you pretended you were somewhere
else and get people. I guess these days you do
it knowing an answer. You call that to be the problem,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:17:01):
Yeah, well, I guess it was just a particular period
in history, probably quite a little but innocent, you know.
Then I.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
Think then, I think what happened right now when the
Internet came along, a lot of people and those sorts
of shows would get all their ideas from America and
it'd all become well maybe they were getting those anyway,
it all become a bit samey. But yeah, I mean
that was the golden age of it.

Speaker 5 (01:17:23):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:17:25):
And people used to nominate other people. So if you
if you had a birthday, for example, or if you're
a practical joker at work, you get swampy much to
call and play a practical joke on you know, someone
at work, and just yeah, it was it was really
quite funny and that really well and it was brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
And I think the way it would work as you'd
you would do a prank that would involve one of
the people's kinks or something, so it would be someone
that would obsessed with their lawn or something, so you
do a call that made fun of that, like a
UFOs landed on your lawn or something something like that.
I think was the way to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
Yeah, yeah, I think then.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
I think he was in sales. I remember working in
Wellington for while. He was there in the sales room,
but I think he also was a Wellington counselor for
a long time.

Speaker 14 (01:18:18):
Yep, yeah, that's right. Yeah, he was really well known.
I don't know what happened to him. He just he
was here one day and then I think they had
a bit of a well for him and he was
just going.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Oh, that's radio. There's something in radio called the Christmas
cal tappening about now, and they just fire half the
people and replace them with new ones. It's not so
bad that it's not so bad these days, but you know,
it's all about the ratings and if they're not there
out you go, don't come Monday.

Speaker 14 (01:18:48):
Right, Wow, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I don't know if that's true, but I feel it
might be. I'm just reading about Blackie's phone calls, I
think somewhat. Yeah, they'd always discover plutonium in someone's backyard
or something, or that the or that the remote control
for the garage was interfering with the planes, or these
albums of them out do you find at the second
hand shops?

Speaker 3 (01:19:10):
Chris Marcus, Welcome, Welcome, Hello Marcus. How are you.

Speaker 27 (01:19:16):
So my I'm just calling about the you know, radio announcers.
My dad, Neil Collins, was a well known radio announcer
in Dunedin for fifty something years.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Wow, how long did you say? It was fifty years?

Speaker 27 (01:19:30):
It was fifty seven years. He started when he was
sixteen seven on four XD Radio Dunedin and he was
on four ZB as well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
And tell me what sort of what sort of show
did he do? You would have listened to a lot
when you were a child, right.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Oh, yes, I did, so he did.

Speaker 27 (01:19:51):
He did a he did when I was When I
came on the scene, he was running a station called
four XD Radio Dunedin and he sort of did an
easy listening, easy listening show like he did at for ZB.
You talked about memories, talked about the Needen. He played
and did interviews with crime, with politicians and that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Did he do a show like a lighthearted show with
funny characters?

Speaker 27 (01:20:17):
Didn't he did? He did like an Auntie Selma. He
did an Auntie Selma, which was an old lady had
do impersonations of He did the ninth to noon show
on for z B for a few years and it
was really popular.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
So Auntie Thelmer would be ringing up and she'd be
talking to him, and an Auntie Felmer would be his voice.

Speaker 20 (01:20:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Yes, you got any tapes of it?

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
I do, I do, I've got it, got it, and
I've got some tapes of it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Yep, unreal to reel, No one cassette tape.

Speaker 27 (01:20:48):
I don't have too many of the real I have
a couple of real to reals, but not too many.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
And are you still are you still Inigo, Chris?

Speaker 27 (01:20:56):
No, I'm in Auckland, but I'm in Auckland being an
Auckland for a few years now. But did one story
I'll tell you his dad was one of the first
to do talk back and the need in New Zealand
because he did. He got people to announce the song
on on the air, so he'd put the microphone, he
put the receiver up to the microphone and they'd get

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them to request then announced the song and he'd just
played this head. He'd get them to say, play I
Love You Bess by Jim recently put it up and
hadn't did mention it on air and then offered go
and you'd put the song on.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Well, And you remember the CEO he used to do.

Speaker 27 (01:21:35):
He had heard the bulbum Bumble Bumble album which they
had had and we used to put the kid he
used to put it on with sing it together.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
I might see if I can find that later on, Chris.
But look nice to hear from you. Thank you. Ironical
that your phone one wasn't great, But that's that's the
way the world I suppose these days. Clear Markers evening,
Oh hello Marker.

Speaker 28 (01:21:54):
So I've just heard you talking about or referencing Hamilton
and any broadcasters that come from Hamilton. It just made
me think of two. Let's bring to mind K Gregree
and Mark Bunting. They come from Hamilton. Mark Bunting was
a great local legend that used to be on, Well,

(01:22:15):
it was Classic Cans and then he was a local
station and he traveled up to Auckland and around then
when it went national frequency, he went up and did
the hits up from there until things got bigger and
brider in that area, but for that station. But yeah,
he's a classic, you know, local local celebrity.

Speaker 21 (01:22:32):
In this area.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
So when all those stations had their ones ' be
with Merve Smith and the TWOSB and Wellington with lindsay
O and threes' be with is it Barry Corbett or
is it anyway? And those what did what was going
on in Hamilton there? Did they have their own z
B station?

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
Well, they had.

Speaker 28 (01:22:52):
I remember Bunting was that he was the morning and
he was on the hits and he yes, he was
a local celebrity, so he was around and about and
everything thing all the local news and then he obviously
got recruited to go up. And when it went.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Before that, like twenty years before that, what showed I
don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:23:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 28 (01:23:12):
He's since gone on to become a counselor in the area.
So we still did a couple of terms I think
in the area. And then I think he runs his
own business now going to corporate you know, selling personality
training and HR type things for corporate businesses. And then
Kay Gregory still goes on zd B. She still does

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the weather here. You'll hear her beautiful tones come through
on doing the local weather.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
But what about in the eighties seventies, in the eighties
there was there anyway?

Speaker 28 (01:23:43):
Are you going going back too far beyond there?

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
You quite? You're quite the bunting expertise.

Speaker 28 (01:23:50):
Oh, I don't know, just he's just the guy around
the town. But a lot of stations, a lot of
the ones that have gone national now did start off
in Hamilton. So The Rock The Rock used to be
a local station before it went national. And then I
think the which I think they may have started in
Hamilton with JJ Feenie and then they went out national.

Speaker 15 (01:24:12):
There was.

Speaker 28 (01:24:14):
It wasn't Rodney Hyde involved with some of those local
stations that then went to the low He brought up
a lot of franchises and then didn't I read that
he was involved in some stations.

Speaker 29 (01:24:25):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
Would you know you're you're the XP. I don't know
anything like that.

Speaker 28 (01:24:30):
I'm sure I read that Rodney Hyde was involved when
JJ Feeney retired. There was something about here and I
remember thinking that was an interesting point. But yeah, I
just thought i'd ring up to represent Hamilton. And yeah,
and it's local, little hit radio history, well not literal anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
It's getting huge.

Speaker 28 (01:24:49):
It is getting big. We know the place now, what's
going on the new road through Stabulous though. You can
get to Auckland so far back down the interchange at Piety.
That will make things revolutionary when you go up to Torona.
That's that's a game. Ange are now going over to
the Comos because that up's over the road here, so

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that will be great. You can just zoom around it
and go anywhere from Hamilton now. So that's why so
many people coming.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Oh, so many people go to Hamilton because it's easy
to leave, is it what you're saying?

Speaker 28 (01:25:21):
Easy to go and come from, get to other places
and then come back.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
To Somebody said there was a Dave Richards from Hamilton,
lighton Thomas for night shows. Do you know him?

Speaker 15 (01:25:31):
Dave Richards.

Speaker 28 (01:25:33):
On a late show? No chairs Trader, No, don't know
those names. But you might have been on too late.
You might have been on too late.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
For when I was little, you'd be in your forties,
would you clear?

Speaker 28 (01:25:44):
Yeah, I'm in my the forties now, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Mid forties.

Speaker 28 (01:25:46):
But it's lovely. It's lovely listening to all these people
talking about you know, local shows, local celebrities, local little
highlights on their community. Especially when you hear now that
the Herald is cutting all these local papers and it
just makes you reminisce of a time when community was
you know, through the radio means that the local paper means.

(01:26:07):
And now it's all changing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Hamilton Facebook pages though, haven't you that they go off.

Speaker 28 (01:26:14):
Everyone's got their Facebook pages with their missing cats and their.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Argument tonight with drunken keyboarders. I'm going to run clear.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
Thank you, Good evening, Ray, goodaymen, Marcus, how are you?

Speaker 19 (01:26:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:26:28):
Marcus? Vaguely remember lindsay O there and Radio Nelson and
when it was in Trafalgar Street Nelson and I don't
know whether he went to five FM, but five was
remember where the church steps are on the top end
of Falgar Street. The five radio was station was in

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there behind the.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Not from the Rutherford Yep, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
Yeah. And you know the guy was saying earlier on
about the pink farm he had by the airport, yes,
it wasn't next to your pig fam. It was was Seabrooks.
So they used to cook the offal out there, and
and thing was right by the interest and where the
where the quick way goes here the around about there

(01:27:19):
by the going out to the airport else in the airport.
And they used to took all the offl and the
big cooking potsy and taking it out to the pigs.
He had the mess island by the green cork course.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Yes, so they processed the offer. Would pigs not eat
the off.

Speaker 5 (01:27:38):
No, No, that had to be cooked because they couldn't digested.
So they they put it in the big cooking pots
here and sea Books Seabrooks running creat called Seabrooks, And
they used to get all the offer from the from
the fish shops and restaurants and all that sort of stuff.

(01:27:59):
And they put in the cooking pots, the big copper
cooking pots here and then they cook them up. And
they've taken it out of the trucking it to sea
Book up to the with the firing pigs were at
it by the b silent by the green Acres gold
course on the and or the pigs just go and

(01:28:23):
just gave a Zurich when a smell the stuff coming
in the tracks, and that's what they did it for years.
But there was never never stug.

Speaker 11 (01:28:33):
Gan.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
It was actually a pig farm, which the cooking there was.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Is the pig farm still on Beast Island.

Speaker 5 (01:28:43):
As far as I know. It is by the gold
Course year and the sixteenth Hole and the green Eggs
gold courses called Pigadilly which runs.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
It's a great name for Picadilly. Yeah, Okay, if.

Speaker 5 (01:29:04):
You hook your if you hook you all over the fitch,
you don't go and get it because those sales are
about a thousand pounds and they'll that you go for.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
Well, I'm seeing some big cages look like they might
be pig cages there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
They are free, they're free running.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Yeah, I didn't even know there was an island that
I didn't know about best and I've been to Rabbit
Iron and biked along there and then got that ferry across.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
The Rebbin Island was all the pine.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
You're that guy was sitting light to them money anyway,
you got a lot of you have a lot of
local history there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Yeah, it's a nice place up there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Were involved with pigs, No, no, no, no, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
The the avator over and watch awake and there they
used to do all the things over there for the
because the freezing works and Nelson wouldn't do them. And
I used to get down and watch them kill the
pings and watch awacre there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
And hang on while are you going to watch them
kill the eggs?

Speaker 5 (01:30:07):
Oh? And here right? They had a little evatory there
and they steal the things here for the Nelson district
because because because the main evator and by accomposite sinking field,
they wouldn't handle the things here.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Why would wh why why would you go and observe them?

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
Not mean sdistic, but or like watching them the slaughtered net.
I mean I used to help. I was staying up
there on the on the steel. We can watch them.
But what wasn't the sadistic that you watch them get killed?
And I know they had to be done. So it
was Tuesday and Tuesday was.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
The killing day and you just go there and you
just go there was a spectator. H wow, didn't say
anything like that before. That's pretty interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:31:04):
Well, if they and they the big lean race more
and there they they they think these order on them
and elite to keep them and they has got a
big lean race and they had to shoot it because
they get real strawpi. But the little wee ones they

(01:31:24):
just sing then that much of them and for the
local shops.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Goodness, well, well that's I found that. I found that
very interesting, right, thank you for that. Twenty two to eleven.
Marcus first heard lindsay my grandparents in Vccagoula the sixties
on the huge wire switched down on the top of
the fridge on the shelf, both about the same size.
Then we went to went in with buzzer bumble, which
was a big step up a gribbled and there was
Colin Lehman with Charlie Mouse, then Neil Collins who was

(01:31:52):
well liked, free, easy going. Marcus Hamilton was one today.
Ellen mcglocklan I'm sure was a host. Yes, Dave Richards
was a host. I'm good friends with Ronnie Phillips. He
was a morning host with KIFM. A lot of people
out there friends with old broadcasters. Get in touch, Marcus
till twelve, Good evening, David at to Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:32:14):
Yeah, hi Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:32:15):
Back in the late forties, it was a guy on
was dead Bee called Phil Shanne and one April fourth day,
he talked about a big swarm of bees going through
from Newland to Avondale Point Ship and he carried that
on the whole morning, rode up to twelve o'clock about
putting honey out on windows sill, sketchy bees, and it
was quite the show. He actually got stood down for

(01:32:37):
a while because it was actually a prank for the
first of April.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Did he get still down, Yeah, he did for a.

Speaker 24 (01:32:45):
Period of time until they wanted him back again. So
his name was Phil Shann andran a very good program
back in the late forty earty fifties.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
You wouldn't have remembered that though, would you.

Speaker 17 (01:32:56):
Well?

Speaker 24 (01:32:56):
In eighty three, okay, forty one, So yeah, we're all
getting ready to go to primary school where I lose
in Avondale, and I think Mum sort of cottoned on
what it was all about. So we got seen to
go to school because there are a lot of people
holding their kids back because of the v's and goodness

(01:33:16):
knows what else.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
In nineteen fourteen, nineteen forty nine.

Speaker 24 (01:33:23):
Was it forty nine?

Speaker 16 (01:33:24):
It's all shown.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
Yeah, recommend listeners put brown paper speed with jam outside,
block up keyholes do you able to lie down and
keep flat, tie up the trouser legs ones. He'd be
received thousands of phone calls and letters, yet to go
on a year later and apologize.

Speaker 24 (01:33:40):
Yep, Yeah, it was quite funy at the time. What
that wasn't in some respect when you look back over it,
how people sort of He really really took everybody in
as it was for good Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Which shows how much trust he was for ready these days,
so we go on the internet and say that's not true.
We'll get on their local Facebook page.

Speaker 24 (01:33:58):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, yes, things are certainly changed.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
What road did you grow up in, David in Victor Street.

Speaker 24 (01:34:06):
Right off at Evandale College.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Oh yeah, two one two, yeah, okay, well.

Speaker 24 (01:34:11):
Yes, so forty two Victor Street that was in at
the time.

Speaker 20 (01:34:14):
And was there was built.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Was that was that rural? Almost?

Speaker 5 (01:34:20):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:34:21):
No, down the Lass and nose they grow they call
usually all market gardens is all now industrial down there now.
But Cavendall College my sister can remember back in the
I think it was the very early forties when it
was Paddock where they came and the Americans came in
and built the Eavndale College at the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:34:45):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, a long time ago, long long
time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Yeah, well but coming. Yeah, that's not talk, David. Thank
you for that. Forty Victor out of the house. Still there,
let's get in touch. Sixteen to eleven, Marcus, still do.
It's kind of up there with Ray and going to
Monter Waken to watch the pegs. Hi, Myriat's Marcus. Welcome evening, Marcus.

Speaker 30 (01:35:07):
I just wanted to say that I knew Lindsey when
he started in broadcasting at Foisy Day in the Cargole.
At that stage, I was a technical assistant and Lindsay
was working in programs and his lovely wife's family had

(01:35:28):
an apri and I think that's where Buzzo Bumble started off.
And from memory, they I think there were some children's
books about It may have been his wife that wrote them,
but yeah, they are very talented family and they weren't

(01:35:57):
folks singing, etc.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
He must have performed around South then. That seemed to
be what he did before he got in there.

Speaker 17 (01:36:03):
Ye, well yes, so.

Speaker 30 (01:36:08):
No, he was always good to work with and lots
and lots of loves and quite helpful really for somebody
that wasn't too sure what she got herself into and yeah,
the years that I was there, I thoroughly enjoyed his

(01:36:29):
company and his wife's and yeah, lots and lots of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
So what was your job?

Speaker 30 (01:36:39):
And a technical assistant?

Speaker 17 (01:36:42):
There were two.

Speaker 30 (01:36:44):
Two females. The others were all boys that we had
the opportunity of doing the panel operating the studio recordings.
That was the building that was on Devren Street.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
Yes, that's right, it's one that that's the one that
just so. Were you when that building was when they
first moved into that building? Yes, yes, because I saw
that plaque and it was nineteen sixty seven I think
was is it when it would have been?

Speaker 30 (01:37:18):
Yeah, around about then mm hm. And we used to
go out and do outside broadcast. They had a show
on Friday evenings. It was like the home around that
they used to have. I think it was in christ Church.

(01:37:41):
They had downed around, but we every Friday we used
to go out country areas and have a outside broadcast
which involved a lot of things, sports broadcasts.

Speaker 21 (01:37:59):
And the.

Speaker 30 (01:38:02):
Technicians, quite a few of them tourists based sick wiring,
et cetera.

Speaker 20 (01:38:10):
There was a lot of practical jokes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Pardon I imagine.

Speaker 30 (01:38:17):
Yes, they always paid pranks on us when the first
time we had to open up the station in the morning.
We used to go in early and do word band
tests and quite a few things, and the announcer was

(01:38:38):
always the we started have us fire, they announced it
started called to six and the first time that they
got us in Susan or myself to open up the station,
they pray, play practical jokes and respect of that. The

(01:39:04):
announcer disappeared and we had the technicians in Wellington in
everything saying you've got to do it, You've got to
do it, You've got to open up the station and everything.
And yes, there was quite a few pranks that way.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
I well love you to hear from here. I'm just
going to go to the news, which you understand, but
thank you so much for calling. We're talking seventies, eighties
and nineties. Our community radio was big. It wasn't networked,
and it wasn't about reading stuff from the internet. It
was about well you seen those days. Didn't get me
if I'm right, right, right, right right right, let me
have it, take my headphones off and think about radio.

(01:39:44):
I think the way radio changed those sorts of shows
because once upon a time it was all birthdays and
lost pets and parody songs and prank phone calls, and

(01:40:06):
that seemed to be the way radio shows went, you know,
and different characters you'd put on different voices and you'd
have sort of Nancy from nine to nine, stuff like that. However,
I think perhaps from the nineties onwards, eighties nineties onwards,

(01:40:29):
it kind of those sorts of radio shows changed. It
was a lot more putting callers to where with callers
becoming more the stars with their stories. That became a
very big thing, real voices, and I guess its technology changed.
People had better phones, and people had phones on them
and cell phones they could ring from anywhere. And also

(01:40:49):
toolong came the Internet, and people probably became less insular
in the way we were, and there was a lot
you know, you listen to the certainly the music radio stations.
Now there's a lot more focus on international celebrity stuff

(01:41:09):
because all that stuff's available, Whereas once upon a time,
you know, there wasn't the Internet. You couldn't have international news,
which is what happening for the people the movie stars
around the world, because it'd be days before you'd find
it out. So everything changed. It changed quite dramatically, and
I think a lot of it probably changed because people

(01:41:30):
were bringing back cassettes of shows from America and stuff
like that, where there were some really amazing radio shows
over there, and that was sort of a much more
intimate and if I can say, authentic thing, So it
wasn't so much about the with the Bumblebees and stuff
like that, or Bertie Budgie or Charlie Mouth. It's just

(01:41:52):
what you know. It's just radio changes. And then of
course what happened is that they switched one ZB in
Auckland about nineteen eighty eight. It went from Mevesmith to
a talkback station which was right widely pilloried at the time,

(01:42:13):
and that was just broadcast to Auckland. But after some
initial fees that it wasn't going to work, it became
very successful with Paul Holmes, and then they wheeled that
out around the country. They put that into Wellington and
that's when Lindsayo finished because that was his station, and

(01:42:33):
they put that news talk format into there, and they
put that news talk format into Dunedin too, I'm pretty sure,
and ride around the country except for Dunedin, except for
christ Church because christ Church was seen as being a
fiercely parochial market that wouldn't want Paul Holmes in there,
and they stuck with that for a lot. I don't

(01:42:53):
know if Paul Holmes ever went into christ Church, which
is pretty amazing because he was a once in a
generation broadcaster. So yes, that's kind of the way it worked, Marcus.
Some memories of Lindsay Yo from my mother in LAWA
and Carori. They lived over the road from us when
we were at thirty eight Breithwheet Street. During that time,

(01:43:15):
they had quite a monkey. Sadly, a group of neighbors
strongly objected and the monkey ended up residing at Willington Zoo.
He had quite a menagerie parrots, rabbits, etc. Wouldn't be
the first broadcaster with a monkey. Now I've texted you
back number ending in five eight, So yeah, yes to that.

Speaker 11 (01:43:37):
And no to that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
But yeah, I'm reading that, but I'm not going to
read that out.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
But thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
I had spoken about that earlier today. Anyway, I get
in touch thirteen parts seven moments. Want to talk about
this for anything else? For the final hour? Check it
at the max. It's been good. There's been good calls. Yes,
I tell you, I was going to say something stupid then,

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so I've stopped myself from that. Now I tell you
what the stupid thing I was going to say was,
but I can't anyway. Now I'm get in touch. If
you've got to talk about this or anything else, come
on Good Hour as a fast hour as the last hour,
oh eight hundred eighty ten. Text. It'd be nice to

(01:44:26):
hear from you. It's funny how people send me texts
that are nothing to do with the show, like asking
me questions about broadcasters opinions. I mean, really I want
to say, is grow up? But that's just me. Now,

(01:44:53):
let me think what else I've got yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
Have I got anything else interesting to say? What was
I realy on? I can't think that. Thirteen past eleven, Sharky,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:45:13):
Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
Receiving you've cut out, Sharky. Are you talking? Because I'm
not hearing anything.

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
We'll stick.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
I heard, Hi, Marcus, that was up. But you've all
I've got at the moment. Call us Becker. We'll call
you back if we head your number. Get in touch
more about Lindsey EO. If you've got emails, I'll check
those out. Also tonight people people are predicting traffic mayhem

(01:45:55):
for tomorrow night because it's going to be wet for
cold Play. By the way, I talked to my boss,
who goes a lot of concerts about those bracelets their
old hat. He's been to six concerts with the bracelets.
I think last time Coldplay we hear about eight years ago.

(01:46:15):
Eighteen years ago they had the bracelets. I'm not saying
that that's but I actually watched some video of the
concert last night after I went home with the giant
balls of giant balloons looked free, good Marcus. In the
eighties on Radio Taranaki, we had Roger Tonkin and YETI

(01:46:37):
the Abominable Snowman. That's when if M came and we
got energy. IFM with Steven Joyce, there you go. YETI
the Abominable Snowman. I think probably in fang Are they

(01:46:59):
had a long list and a long heritage of broadcasters too.
No sign of Sharky again. Mhm, give him a call back,
but don't just see what he's got to say. Might
might crank on the discussion for the last hour Hour
The Hour of Power. Oh maybe I need to sidekick

(01:47:25):
like a little torch Bumblebee thing. I was listening to
some of that during the news. Can I play, Dan?
Can I play?

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
This?

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Will test you Dan? Can I play on air? I'd
like to do this off my desk. I've got something.
I've got something on my computer. Can I put that
fader up and play it? That'd be very significant for

(01:47:58):
me if I could studio PC. Okay, let's see if
we can do this, because I've found this. This is something.
This is not the best thing, but this is some
of Buzzo Bumble. This is the intro to his album.
And I think you understand then what the Bumblebe did
because the bump we didn't talk. It was kind of
a call and response thing. He listen to this if

(01:48:18):
you can hear it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
Yep.

Speaker 26 (01:48:21):
Merry Christmas, girls and boy, Merry Christmas, Moms and dads,
Merry Christmas, Grandma and Granddad.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
And a very special Merry Christmas to my good.

Speaker 21 (01:48:34):
Friend Buzzo Bumble. Thank you, Buzzo Bumble. Are you looking
forward to Christmas Day? Girls and boys? Are you looking
forward to Christmas Day? Buzzo Bumble? Good so am I Ah. Incidentally,
are you doing anything at the moment?

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
Okay, I'd like you to come with me.

Speaker 26 (01:48:59):
Sorry, I can't tell you.

Speaker 8 (01:49:01):
It's a big surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
Will you accompany?

Speaker 26 (01:49:05):
Buzzo bumble? Excellent, We don't have far to go. Okay,
Buzzo bumble. I promise you the time of your life. Here,
hop in my bumble buggy. Remember your seatbelt. Buzz that's
very important. Okay, buzzo bumble.

Speaker 8 (01:49:25):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Gee, do you want to hear it again at different times?

Speaker 9 (01:49:32):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Wow, I don't know where Wally the Whetter was, but
that was buzzoh bumble So didn't talk, but what he
would do is he would talk in a way that
only Lindsay Yo could understand by that special language. Don't
you love that? And then lindsay Yo would kind of

(01:49:58):
through what he would say, you'd infer what the bumblebee
was saying. I'm real talented to get that to carry
a breakfast showing fifty percent market share. Jeers, Good evening,
Shaky Marcus, welcome, I can.

Speaker 14 (01:50:19):
Hear you now.

Speaker 31 (01:50:21):
I'm just ringing about your radio announcers. So I think
I told you once before. I used to do the
radio show with Mike Baker's Community Radio and Devonport and
we had Murray Ingles used to work there. Who was
mother who's passed away since? And also I remember in

(01:50:44):
the eighties eighty nine X in Auckland was the top
Mark and Kerrie Smith and she passed away. I believe
Carrie Smith.

Speaker 5 (01:50:56):
She was lovely.

Speaker 31 (01:50:58):
And I'm just trying to think of another. Lady said
something about Rodney Hyde. Now, Rodney Hide used to do
a tour back show and I believe that was on
zb back in the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
I suspect that woman had I suspect that woman had
Rodney Hyde confused with Stephen Joyce.

Speaker 31 (01:51:25):
Okay, yeah, well no, I definitely remember Rodney Hide doing
talk back and who's the other chap down in wong
Aanui he was talk back host. He was also a politician,
blonde hair. I can't remember his name now, it's slipped

(01:51:46):
my mind, but I remember him doing talkback as well.
So but yeah, but as I say, you know, in
the in the nineties, but I definitely because I worked
with mother when I was working at the community radio station.
But I remember Mother used to do a lot of
those sort of phone call things as well. But that

(01:52:08):
was well after Blackie had sort of done that stuff
in the seventies eighties from Celtics House.

Speaker 2 (01:52:14):
Celtics House, what a great place for radio station that
was shaky. Nice to hear from you. Thank you, David Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:52:19):
Welcome, Hello Marcus. I met Lindsay EO in the mid
nineteen sixties when he still lived in Winton, just out
of in v Cargo. He was a musician in a
band called the teen Beat five. He played a guitar
I played in another band, and I got to know

(01:52:40):
him reasonably well. He was an interesting character.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
I'd have to say he was from Wayanawa, is that right?
Or he wasn't from Winton.

Speaker 17 (01:52:50):
I ever knew him when he was living in Winton
because he was still at school when I met him,
as was I. This would have been sixty three sixty four,
probably somewhere around there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
And you'd play country halls, would you?

Speaker 17 (01:53:06):
We played weddings, we played church socials, We've played country halls.
We played lots of places all around Southland.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Who did the vocals.

Speaker 17 (01:53:20):
For the Team Beat five? It was Lindsay for the
band that I did. We had three brothers plus myself
and another guy and we all did a bit of
vocal stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
Okay, well, are you still in Cargo in south and David?

Speaker 17 (01:53:33):
Oh no, I live in Hamitangi Beach now north of
north of Foxton. For him?

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
What were the other names of the people in the
team beat five?

Speaker 25 (01:53:45):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:53:46):
There was a guy by the name of Merv Cook
who became an accountants as did I? I knew Merv
through university? What sorry, what did you say? Move became
He became a charter of accountant and in vagov And
I went to university in Dunedo until Okwellton in the

(01:54:06):
late the late sixties, and I've been in the morning
ever since. There was a fellow called Gary.

Speaker 18 (01:54:11):
I can't remember his other name, Gary mcnetty.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
Was it?

Speaker 20 (01:54:17):
You're right, well done?

Speaker 17 (01:54:19):
This was this is I'm going back sixty years now, Marcus,
and the memory is getting a wee bit foggy.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
You know, And tell me something. This is nineteen sixty
three and you've got a band.

Speaker 17 (01:54:33):
And your band is called for Satellites.

Speaker 2 (01:54:37):
And are they playing skiff full or rock or folks.

Speaker 17 (01:54:41):
Playing playing covers for dancers, playing old time stuff? Playing
whilst is playing a bit of Beatles stuff, playing a
bit of other vocal stuff and again I can't remember
them now, but it was. It wasn't fun in today,
and it helped me to pay my way through university.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Yeah, okay, do you prefer you a Dirvis in Doneda?
Did you?

Speaker 17 (01:55:04):
Yes? I did university Indoneda and then transferred to Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
And you performed that you'd perform around places when you
were studied at university days?

Speaker 20 (01:55:13):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:55:14):
No, I know.

Speaker 5 (01:55:15):
The band.

Speaker 17 (01:55:17):
Disbanded when three of us left the band at the
end of nineteen sixty five. We're from in Vcago. We
all went to the university in Dneda, so the band
was no longer.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
And how come there were so many people that were
adept musicians? Was that because they went to classes or
they just picked it up or how did that all work?

Speaker 17 (01:55:37):
I don't know, but there certainly was a lot of
musicians and a lot of good bands in the Southland area.
About ten or fifteen years ago, there was a book
and I'm trying to think of the name of it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
I have read that book to about the music in
the south.

Speaker 17 (01:55:53):
Yes, it's just amazing the number of musicians that came
from the Southland area through the sixties. Seventies and eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
Must be those long winter nights, I guess and things
for that. But yeah, it certainly, I mean it certainly
was that. There's a lot of people talk about those days.

Speaker 17 (01:56:09):
Yeah, yeah, great days.

Speaker 2 (01:56:12):
Okay, well, look I appreciate you ringing David, thank you
for that. I don't think buzzo bubbles for everyone. But
that's a lot a to carry a show if they're
a pretty good script, so says God. That would have
driven me up the wall as a child. Glad I
missed it. It was a torch. He made that noise
with which I don't know what noise the wetter made.

(01:56:33):
The night's young. What are we going to do for
the opening of the Innicity rail loop? We're going to
do the show from the train? Probably not, but I
would like to see that. That's twenty twenty six, just
thinking how that's it's gonna be quite a big deal
for news Land, I reckon, or certainly for Auckland. I
might be a bit of a Jeffer story though that one.
Well what about us? Down here people be saying what
about us? We're sick of the train, what about us?

(01:56:59):
I have spoken to people today that went to cold
play reload. I'd preload and hide a Lime scooter and
a hedge. Oh is it irresponsible? That's what I'd do.

(01:57:25):
And then I'd get the Lime scooter out of the
hedge and take off and get the train. But the
woman that paid twenty dollars for two centimeters of champagne
and people are talking today, had one guy spoke to
today walked for an hour to get an uber because
we're no ubers. There was no internet. I even reckon

(01:57:50):
a pushba could be a good idea. You could chain
that somewhere, chain it to a hedge and get on
that and then just drive like the window and then
chuck that in the back of your double cab mute.
That's my advice to you. I think there'd be a
great way to do it. That I'd be doing it
if I was going there. Yeah, park and then bike,

(01:58:15):
but park so you're far enough away that you can
beat the traffic jam. That's for free, that advice kind
of for a tiny moment there yesterday, I thought, at
last I thought I wouldn't mind going to the concert.
But unless probably not good evening, Karen, It's Marcus. Welcome,

(01:58:40):
I'm Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:58:41):
I'm so nervous, but Kar Karen.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
I'm nervous for you.

Speaker 32 (01:58:46):
Oh good listen. The last time I spoke on the
air was about the mid eighties when I was asked
for england'say oh oh wow, and I knew of him
but didn't know him. On Tuesday b and we were
running a wine festival here over in Marlborough and we
needed more people, so we thought, well, the chairman said

(01:59:08):
to me, ring Lindsay, see if he can get bombs
on seats and get them over to Blenham.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
This is one of the great studies of all time.

Speaker 14 (01:59:15):
Yeah have you heard this?

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
No, No, I could just tell. I could tell you've
got a wine festival not going so well. You sound
like the starter. You've given the hospital pass to try
and drum up some tickets by calling Wellington. Yeah, I'm
with yeah, okay, that's right.

Speaker 32 (01:59:29):
So we had no money, so I rang Lindsay and
he got him behind us.

Speaker 5 (01:59:34):
Wow.

Speaker 32 (01:59:35):
And so in New Zealand were very accommodating and flew
him and his family over here and we showed him
what we were doing and he backed us. He was
in their lark Flunn. He was amazing and we couldn't
have done it without him, and we had planes coming
in from everywhere. It was amazing. And I think that
was the first year that we got about eleven thousand

(01:59:59):
people there. I think the year before we had about five.
And we have him to think he was He just
believed in what we were doing and he got in
and it was everywhere. We had people from everywhere, so great.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
So this is almost the beginning of that very famous
Marlboro Wine Festival, is it.

Speaker 32 (02:00:18):
Yeah, well, I'm trying to think when it was. It
was about nineteen eighty three because my son was two
years old and I thought, oh my god, I can't
get into this. I've got young children. And he said,
yes you will. The chairman said we and we'll have
the meetings at your place.

Speaker 20 (02:00:34):
Wow.

Speaker 32 (02:00:35):
And so that was how it started. And Lindsay was
incredible and so was jam and the kids would come
over and they became good friends. You know, they came
over in the winter and he'd get on air and
all he could talk about was the Rainbow Skifield, and
you know, we just opened our arms to them because
they were so energetic and charismatic about our province and

(02:00:56):
that your.

Speaker 2 (02:00:57):
Market too, would be Wellington wouldn't it, because that'd be
the place that's close. That's the people you want for
your wine festival. Were you a we were a vineyard
fat a wine family.

Speaker 32 (02:01:06):
No, no, no, we were in real estate.

Speaker 2 (02:01:09):
Actually we ended up Why were you involved?

Speaker 32 (02:01:14):
I just got asked.

Speaker 16 (02:01:17):
You was amazing.

Speaker 32 (02:01:19):
Yeah, it was on committee. Okay, Well, and you know,
we just started in the lounge room and we had
a few whinos. It was Alan Scott and Jane Hunter
and a few of This is way back in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (02:01:30):
Big names, yep, a few of us, and we just.

Speaker 32 (02:01:34):
All believed in what we were doing and got out
and did it. And then we had wine writers arrived,
and then it was wine and food festival. We had
food festival people Annabelle Lamby and got them behind it,
and it was just amazing. It was done on the
smell of an oily rag. But of course now it's
become very professional.

Speaker 29 (02:01:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 32 (02:01:56):
But we did it as volunteers and did it as
long as we could until it got too big and
we needed security and everything else. But that's where it started.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
And were you ay a Lions group or something like that?
Is that what brought you guys to you that know.

Speaker 32 (02:02:10):
Okay, no, but we had people like the Lions that
would do security and would give them donations. But in
those days we couldn't afford to even take insurance. You know,
it was on for a day, or it was on
for one day, and we got all these big marquees
from down in christ Church, which costs thousands of dollars,
and then the exhibitors had to pay to have their site,

(02:02:33):
which paid for the tents. But if we've got rained out,
we couldn't even afford to ensure it.

Speaker 9 (02:02:38):
You know.

Speaker 32 (02:02:38):
It was it was all done on volunteers.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
And wine. I would imagine it'd only be about four
wineries in Marlboro then, would that be right?

Speaker 32 (02:02:50):
Oh no, there was more than that. I think now
there's about one hundred and forty, but back in the
day there was just the prominent ones. I suppose we
started off with about eight or ten, and you know,
we all dressed up for the day, and buses came
around and we started off going from my to winery
and then we had it at one. Montana gave us
their big amphitheater and we did it there. And now

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it's just to be moved out to Renwick, which is
a superb location. I mean it's it's still fabulous and
you still go, yes, I'm getting to roll now to
go to that sort of thing. But no, we went
last year and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
Love you to hear from you, Karen. Thank you so
much for your second time on radio. That's fantastic, nice
to talk, appreciate it and good evening to you. Straight
to where Helen, It's Marcus welcome, Hi.

Speaker 29 (02:03:45):
Am I on here.

Speaker 2 (02:03:45):
Yes it's Marcus Helen, Welcome to the US.

Speaker 29 (02:03:48):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (02:03:48):
I worked in Broadcasting House with Lindsay yoh oh wow,
you've left it late to bring your run.

Speaker 29 (02:03:55):
Sorry, very lovely chat, always extremely positive. I worked with
a lot of people. I worked with Television New Zealand
and Broadcasting House before we've done to Everlon So I
did all sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (02:04:11):
Many people person and how many people would be on
his radio show? Was it him and a newsreader and
a sports reader and a technical producer or was there
more than one of those?

Speaker 29 (02:04:23):
No, there would be. That was quite a big team.
And I also did help doing with their afternoon program
as well. That often bring him and and I'd take
the calls. I did all sorts of jobs, who was
short and slatted and.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
Who was the person? They said it was called something
shops and she'd go around the shops and talk about
what was on sale.

Speaker 5 (02:04:44):
Ah, that was, that was, that was?

Speaker 16 (02:04:47):
That wasn't But.

Speaker 29 (02:04:50):
They didn't have somebody who did that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:52):
What was her name, Sue?

Speaker 19 (02:04:56):
Was it suit?

Speaker 30 (02:04:56):
No, I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
I don't even know that before from.

Speaker 29 (02:05:02):
The time he entered the place and he had his
children insol came into the studio and I to do
the Children's Requests show for a Sunday morning as well.

Speaker 2 (02:05:13):
Oh, I see, so we did do that. Someone wondered
about that. Okay, so he'd do that with his children.

Speaker 29 (02:05:17):
No, some not necessarily did. He bought his children for
special occasions. For Christmas, he would bring the family in
for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
Well, I've got to leave it there, Helen, but thank
you so much and I'm glad you came in at
the end.

Speaker 1 (02:05:31):
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