But what was the book called? (27 January 2025)

Marcus talks about expensive school uniforms, custom confiscations, and the night Sir Peter Snell broke a world record.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, welcome. My name's Marcus had Or twelve o'clock. I
hope it's good where you are. If it's not good,
I hope again's better than the next four hours. A
lot of you will be heading home from your holidays too,
I presume from long weekends from Tope or North. Does
your anniversary day? Happy anniversary. I hope it's been good
wherever you've been. Obviously, too, there has been a weather event,
did they? I think I saw it was a tonight.

(00:34):
I guess they didn't know with the middle of the night,
but I think I don't know there's been the actual
footage of it yet, but I saw some stuff got
strewn for about three kilometers, so it was pretty extraordinary.
So yeah, also too, just while we are talking about
the weather, it is today two years since the twenty

(00:56):
twenty three Auckland Anniversary floods, which I remember extremely well.
They were on a Friday night, weren't they, And I
remember I came on here and it was a strange
short of a night that Friday. Because I think Elton

(01:18):
John was supposedly performing. I think they might have been
canceled by the time I'd got on air, but certainly
throughout the course of the evening we realized how bad
things were. We didn't get the full extent, but we've
got a fairly big extent with people going in buses
home from that concert at Mount Smart with water around

(01:42):
their feet and the buses. When I heard that, I
knew they were onto something. So that was kind of
an extraordinary night of radio. That was two years ago today,
and just just of course to an Auckland or north
of Auckland, the very strong win the tornado and Munga fire.
So anyway, if you are driving home, obviously it's a

(02:03):
good time of the night to give us any updates
on road conditions. So I suppose some people will be
heading home for this from this summer break. They will
have been there away for a long long time, be
back to work on Tuesday, I guess for a lot
of you. So yeah, if you've got the information about
Rhodes now snow. I was surprised for my short sojourn

(02:25):
in the North Island how congested the traffic was heading
north out of Auckland. As I said on Friday, to
going north from Auckland. We spent a long time to
get through Welsford, about an hour, so yeah, you might
want to talk about that. I'll just give a snap
lead about how that's working, because seems as though the
Holiday Highway or whatever they're calling it is moving traffic,

(02:46):
but only moving at north for about half an hour,
so you still get the pinch point. I guess that's
what you've called. So I've got any updates about there
any other updates about what's tepending where you are, as
far as whales stranding, shark sidings, dolphins, hectors, wallabies, anything
out there, let us know into all of it, interested
in all of it? Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine two to text, So get

(03:10):
in touch with there's something you want to mention about
that also too on Friday, I don't I thought a
lot about that topic on Friday that we struck up
on a very good topic and not often I relaunched
your topic, but she was pretty damn good. Actually the Friday,
what we were discussing and I just mentioned after eleven
o'clock it was actually based on a discussion on a
Reddit feed whatever redd it is. I think Reddit was

(03:32):
one of those things that was bigging about two thousand
and four. Anyhow, I might be wrong about Reddit, but
it seems though something has been along from a long time,
like Craig exists. But the topic was for ten thousand dollars.
If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to talk about
something for an hour and make it interesting, what would
you talk about? What would your topic be? And I

(03:53):
guess probably the provisover that is to make it interesting
because a lot of people rang up with their obsessions,
but I don't think they could talk about it off
the cuff, cogently for an hour.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
In fact, I think one woman just wanted to unpromote
her pyramid scheme. So yes, if you've given that some thought.
In faund, out of everyone that rang, there was one
guy that had motorbike trips around the world and the
other guy that rang knew everything about track and field
since nineteen fifty. By the way, speaking of track and
field today, this very day, a number of years ago,

(04:29):
nineteen sixty two, Peter Snell broke the world mile record.
He did that in Cook's Garden, Wuaganawe. That was nineteen
sixty two. That's sixty three years ago. You might have
been there. I don't know how many people were in attendance.

(04:54):
I presume in those days Peter Snell was a big act,
and I presume track and Field was a big act. Yeah, Puaganui.
So I don't know how many people would be in attendance,
But if you were there, that's bucket list stuff for
me to find out what that was like. I think
everyone says it with cinder tracks. I don't know what

(05:14):
that means. Fifteen thousand people the most attended athletic event
in Fonginui's history. January twenty seven, nineteen sixty two, smelted
a new world mile record with a time of three
point fifty four point four it says here on Google,

(05:42):
which shows you shouldn't trust it, and became the first
person to run a mile under four minutes. Must have
been under four fifty five. I think what they're saying
because of because we know that Roger Banister who comes
up offering the cryptic crossweed clues he was the first
person to go sub four. But yes, what's happened that

(06:05):
is it's truncated the article, so there's dot dot DoD
after four. So yeah, if you were there at Cook's
Garlands gives a hollor about that also too. There might
be something else you want to mention too. Tonight feel free.
It's more than welcome. Someone said, Marcus. Did anyone predict
the weather event up north? I don't think anyone printed
a tornado? Did they daren No? It was money, no money, earthquakes,

(06:27):
But yeah, tornadoes. I think tornadoes. From my experience, the
tornadoes have normally come from the other direction. I think
the worst tornado in New Zealand's history was one that
came into Frankdin. We've done plenty of good talk back
on that. And there was one that came into Kaitar
with spoken to survivor of that. That was a long
time ago. That was like nineteen twenty nine or something.

(06:51):
It might have came in through why Papa Cody, But
the Mangafi one seemed to come from the other angle.
From my understanding anyway, if those are things that ring
your bell, ring your bell if you want to talk about,
I am here for that. Eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine, two detects one of his
Marcus were here till twelve. I will keep you updated
with the news that happens both here and around the
world in the next three hours and fifty five forty

(07:13):
five minutes. If you've got something to add to that, also,
always good to hear from you. But I think we'll
probably have a bit of a be a bit of
a bits and bobs night tonight, I would think, with
most people traveling are on their way home. But we
will persevere and there's plenty of good things that we
can talk about also tonight. So if you're inclined to

(07:33):
start the discussion, Parliament starts tomorrow. Chinese New Year is Wednesday.
If you do anything special for that, let me know.
The New Moon, I don't fully know how it works
with the moons, by the way, but it's the year

(07:56):
of the Snake and it will culminate in the Lenten
fested on February twelve. Also the Super Bowl, those teams
have been decided. It be February ten, New Zealand time.
Kansas City Chiefs will play the Philadelphia Eagles, same teams
as the twenty twenty three Super Bowl. Looks like Taylor
Swift will be going there once again, and if the

(08:18):
Chiefs win, they'll be the first team to win three
Super Bowls and a row. Kendrick Lamar will be doing
the halftime entertainment. I always felt slightly unsavory about Tayler
Swift's boyfriend shaking up the coach. Thought there was a
sort of a marred event the way that happened. Anyway,

(08:38):
So there is that. But today in history, the Auk
Anniversary killed four people and caused billions of dollars worth
of damage to property's infrastructure. Gosh, having spent some time
on the West Coast over the holidays at Pire, still
a fee bit of damage there from those floods. Also today,
seventy three was the end of the Vietnam War. I
think we've seen those helicopter of shots as they took

(09:00):
the people out. And Peter Snell breaks the world mile record.
Also this day, the American inventor Thomas Enderson Peyton the
incandescent lamp one hundred and forty five years ago today.
But looking forward to what you've got to say, my
name is Marcus Welcome head toll, twelve o'clock, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two to text.

(09:22):
So something that takes your fancy or something else you
want to talk about, be my guest, get involved, get
in touch, traffic to begin with Peter stealing Cook's garden.
And the one thing you could talk about for an
hour A continuation from Friday's topic. I don't know what
that is, but I'm up for it. So yes, I

(09:44):
kind of had to reappraise what I could talk about
for an hour. Actually I've rethought about it. I would
talk about things code for half an hour, but not
an hour. There you go, Marcus. Easy to talk about
my key week Christmas for an hour, creating magic and
making people smile. Well, gosh, I think I could talk

(10:05):
about my for an hour.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
A Masterton man went to Australia. He went to Sydney,
and he went to a large indoor market, and he's
looking for a souvenir of his trip, and he brought
a hat. Sais the hat was made of crocodile leather,

(10:34):
although I would doubt that. I think the band is
made of crocodile I'm not quite sure if the whole
hat is made of crocodile leather, because only paid one
hundred bucks for it. Surely a hat made out of
all of crocodile leather would cost more than one hundred bucks.
So this is him, Michael Whitelocks's name. He's brought a
crocodile hat from Australia from farm to crocodile and he

(10:57):
came back to New Zealand confiscated it under the Convention
for International Trade in a Dangered Species even though it's armed.
That had no sway with the officials. So he's now
contacted dot calling for more publicity about the site's rule.

(11:18):
He says travelers like me are unwillingly purchasing items overseas
I know where they may be prohibited in New Zealand,
he says, lead to his financial loss, but also frustration
and disappointment. So there you go. I'm warning you don't
buy anything with crocodile on it. It also says if

(11:41):
you want jerky, crocodile jerky or leather, that will be seized.
It was just biggs another topic for me, So I
think we're going to be topic hungry tonight. What is
the thing you've had confiscated at customs? Have you had
a hat or jerky or anything like that. It looks
like an okay hat, And I guess the point is

(12:03):
that even though they farmed crocodiles. It kind of encourages
people to I don't even know what the whole situation
is with that. I don't even know what happened to
the hat. I'd be curious to know where would the
hat go? Would there be some customs official wearing it?
I'm sure there wouldn't be. That might be something else
you want to mention also to tonight twenty five past
eight break and yous, You've got to let us know
about that also too. I'm across all of it. It's Monday,

(12:26):
feels like Sunday. Don't know whyf a lot of it's
still the long weekend. How many people would live north
of Topol? Would it be half of New Zealand? Where
is the center of population? I think when you find
the center of population, half is above that and half
is below that. It used to be around about Nelson,
but I presume it's moved up the country a great

(12:49):
deal since then. I would think probably half the people
would be on anniversary day to day. That's a random guess.
I'm up for the debate. I've googled it and I've
had not much luck with that. Three and four live
in the North Island. The median center of population was

(13:10):
one kilometer offshore west of Carfia. Stranger, it's at sea,
isn't it. The median center of population is one kilometer
offshore west of Kafia. So half people of above that,
half the people of below that, half the people of
west of that, half the people of east of that.

(13:32):
It's bizarre, isn't it. I guess it's just the way,
the quirky way the country is shaped. So half the
people be on public holiday times that tonight, and that's
not a bad idea. Don't get me start anniversary days,
but I'll board you with that in the past. Anyway,
Do you want to start the whole wall rolling? If
you're a cooks garden, if there is something you can
talk about for an hour, or any of those mirroor

(13:55):
other other topics that you are, there might be something
entirely different you want to chuck into the mix. I
have no problem with that. I alwaysn't quite enjoy lighthearted Monday.
High country must didn't go so well with the sheep.
You'll be pleased to know that was my big mission
for the weekend. The family got all involved, but the

(14:15):
sheep had a will of their own and they didn't
go where they went and needed to go, and fir,
I spend a lot of today trying to get them
out of where they went. So that's sheep for you,
isn't it. And bearing in mind of money, farming too challenging. Now,
the other thing, at this time of the year, one
of the topics that will often come up will be
and I'll just chuck it out there so I can
feel first and the cure to mention these topics. One

(14:38):
will be should we move the school holidays to February
because the weather's better? Then no comment. The other topic
is the price of school uniforms, and you might want
to mention something about that. I'll tell you what I
because it's been a while since I've been involved in
the purchase of school uniforms, but I didn't do have

(15:00):
some involvement with that. This week or last week, I
experienced the joys of a second hand school uniform sale
organized by the schools, very well run and obviously from
a recycling and sustainability viewpoint, not a bad thing to do.
So I think schools are kind of a lot more

(15:20):
aware of things like that, and that's not a bad thing,
because I mean, people kids grow quick in the ground
of clothes and they're still were left in them, so
so I'm sure that will be have occupied some of
you for the last week purchasing school uniforms. Well, there's
so many things that need now, peer uniforms and winter uniforms.
And some tell you what, no one wears sandals. We'll

(15:43):
certainly not down south. What about the sandals? Are we
bringing sandals back? No one seems they want to wear sandals.
Let your feet breathe, I say, but nope, seems as
though I don't know why that is. People prefer the
shoes anyway. Twenty nine past eight manamers Marcus, welcome, eight
hundred and eighty Taddy and nine ten nine two de

(16:03):
text get in touch here till twelve. And as I say,
there's something different you want to come in with beautiful
bring it on, someone said. One American hustler magazine confiscated
the New hilland Border still got letters saying, so took
them a month decide if I could have it. Nineteen nineties.
That seems quaint, doesn't it? After the Internet that there

(16:25):
was a while you couldn't import adult magazines into the country. Wow, Wow,
heard the first akata of summer today here in Blockhouse Bay.
Always nice to mark the change in seasons. You've probably
noticed things changing down where you are with the seasons.

(16:48):
Had a peglet run past our house last night? Eight pm?

Speaker 5 (16:51):
Weird?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Whereabouts?

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Is that.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Twenty six to nine getting attacked by animals? That's what
we're right about tonight. School uniform is getting attacked by animals.
There's some other top anyway, you, Pete, Marcus welcome, Oh jee,
do you want to get him? Do you want to
get see if we had a call back for him.

(17:21):
She's a ropey old start tonight ropey ropey ropie. So
some of you might have school uniform of shame stories
when you got senter off in a school uniform ten
sizes too big for you, or the old classic when
your parents knitted your school jersey always looked a bit

(17:44):
different and always looked a bit chunky. You're there, Pete,
it's Marcus welcome. Yeah, Marcus, Yeah, good thing you, Pete.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
I was on that. I was just mucking around on
the old Internet last night and I was an old Googled.
They're took me up, pets. You go on and it's
called the mouse farm top hundreds regarding pigs and even
in Risbon in Australia, the peaks can swim for two hours.
I didn't realize how else could a swimmer they were?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
How could they.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Swim with those little trucks? How would they be moving
themselves through the water.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh, it's amazing. You want to watch the night little submarines.
You go up there and watch it. And what they're
doing in the God, there's the big river somewhere in
the Brisbane or something, because they're crossing somewhere. They're actually
on there. You get you a look at it. And
on the on the Gold Coast beaches they're actually walking
along the sand now and that's quite bad. Over there.

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They got putting signs that be weary of peaks.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
So when they swim, is the head under and just
little eyes and snout out the top.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
No, the little four leggs are going like little going
like crazy, so they head above their heads above the water.
But they just get They say they can swim for
two hours and constantly for two hours and on one go.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Why would they be why could they why would they
be able to swim?

Speaker 4 (19:06):
And didn't realize pizzas how I didn't really could swim, right,
they know they could swim For two hours. Go on
that site mouse Top one hundred horse out pigs and
tigers and lions and elephants, all about the roaming and
a games for Ferrari parks and stuff like that. But
it's very interesting. You have a look at that, you'll
learn a lot about peak.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
When you say, just bucking around on the internet, Pete,
what form does that normally take?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Sometimes I go on like a Ukraine and I always
you what was going around the world, and the next
minute you're going through and it strolls. Any When I
had like a half a dozen of different topics of
our poetin or whatever, I have a got this one.
I'll pop on this one and they have a go
and there their wild animals. Next minute it comes up
all about these pigs.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Hey, Pete, what's the one thing you could talk about
for an hour for.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
A listen, there a bit I can talk about their
bit the pigs are. What's that there?

Speaker 3 (20:06):
H Rose as Marcus, welcome that me, Marcus, Yeah, Hi, Rose,
welcome him, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
I hope you have a good evening. After the ropeie starts.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I'm sure it always balances out. Yeah, I'm sure it'd
be great.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
Yes, sure does. Mine is about school uniforms.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
My mum was a thenstress or. She wanted and she
had four daughters, and she wanted us girls to learn
how to sep properly. So she got us onto making
our own school uniform or.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Made you make your own uniforms. Everyone should do that.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Well, it was under strict supersition sort of until I
kept mind really really short, knowing that I couldn't put
it back on again. And instead of two inches above
the knee, mine was six.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
What year we talking?

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Rose?

Speaker 3 (21:01):
And have we got any photos?

Speaker 6 (21:05):
I hope, I hope there's no so though, and we
are talking about seventy three? Wow, seventy four it was?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
And at the risk of sounding sort of soiling slightly
close to the wind, was that with sandals or with
a Charlie Brown or with what sort of shoe.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
It was to Charlie Brown?

Speaker 7 (21:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (21:28):
So six feet above the knees and Charlie Brown? Wow?

Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yep? And I thought I looked hot, for everybody thought
I looked really naughty.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Did you get sent home?

Speaker 8 (21:39):
No?

Speaker 6 (21:39):
But I got questioned a lot.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
What what school? Was it?

Speaker 6 (21:50):
Newland's College And it was my sister who was a
year older than me. She was the founder of the college.

Speaker 9 (21:57):
Yes, And then they let me in no worries, thinking
I was just as drainy as her, And of course
I was, and I was quite sick, and I was
always outside the office of.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
The head haunch at the school. Anyway, when my little
sister came along my oh, I can't remember what he
was called, the head master. The head master said to
my sister, well, if you are as naughty as your
older sister, are you sure you want to come here?

Speaker 7 (22:34):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (22:34):
So I had made quite a name for myself.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
And like a black and white like a black and
white chick pleated skirt, was it?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Except it was sort of a bluish blackish whitish.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Did you make the fourth form?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
I just I left in the middle of the fourth form.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I got a job stress.

Speaker 6 (22:59):
No, I got fired and I had to go back
to school.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Yeah, no. And they said to me, you're only being
going to be here for the end of the year,
and that.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Was in August, and we just need to the end
of the year.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
My mom put me into the printer headdressing.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Oh wow, did that work out well for you?

Speaker 6 (23:22):
Not really?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Did you?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Did you finish it?

Speaker 10 (23:27):
Not quite.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
I was only a few months out of not finishing it,
but I just simply fagged us over it and I
went into another job doing I really don't think you
want to know. Marcus, Wow, wasn't wasn't your Joey Abridge job?

Speaker 3 (23:49):
He went, askar Aska, Okay, now, I'll respect your privacy
on that one. Goodness, And did you lasted that one
for long?

Speaker 6 (23:59):
I did? Because I was pretty good at that job?

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Goodness? Okay. Well's well, that's an exciting call. Made my night.
Hold your horses. Graham will be with you soon. Nineteen
to nine. Peter Snell, what a good idea. If it
would be the first two weeks of school you made
your own uniform. I might talk to Luxon about that,
or Luxton as you like to call him, or Erica Stanfords.

(24:24):
That's Erica, a little bit of Erica. You have some
sewing rooms and the first you go on a track.
So in the first two weeks you make your own uniform.
It would mean that parents could afford secondary school, and
it would mean that the kids would have a skill.
It might seem slightly Edwardian it or the Kendian good

(24:49):
evening Grahamont's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah, Hi, nice memories of Peter and nine sixty two good.
I met him a few times and I even jogged
a mile about on that through course. Be about done ago.
I went under five minutes from now in my seventies.
Sad to report that the track has long had a

(25:16):
synthetic service on it, but in Peter's day it was
a grass track. And also the actual world record was
actually an accident backing up with the bus to weave it.
Peter was not a four minute miler at the time.
It was the first attempt at a four minute mile.
He was hoping to run about three fifty eight and

(25:36):
goes slightly under. He was well nine and something. The
circle was a very fast, very competent half miler, and
quite a few athletes were in the field who were
from the after this stable, and the only four minute
mileer at the time was Murray Albick who's just went

(26:02):
bad under four minutes about nineteen fifty seven or ninety four.
I think it was either Canter for Ire than somewhere anyway.
I was a very high class field, and I met
Peter a few times afterwards because he was also into
sports medicine and they got a doctorate and was a

(26:24):
world class investigator in exercise physiology and all that sort
of stuff. He thought, well, I'm going fast enough the
year of calling out the lap times, I'm going to
break four minutes. And he says, yeah, I feel hell
of afresh, I'll like hell, you know, yeah, like an
next the withering acceleration was one that to go, and

(26:47):
he did, and he just took away from hit, away
from the field as it were, and came around the
corner and he just gave it all he had and
he broke the world record by one chance. For a second,
it was an excellent He didn't think he actually gone
that fast to break the world record. And then of
course he broke horror world records in nineteen sixty two
a a half mile on the eight hundred meters that

(27:09):
was down in Krastich, and then he got the world
mile record down to three fifty one fifty four point one,
and that was the best he could do.

Speaker 11 (27:19):
Now.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Peter only ever ran fifteen sub form minute miles. That's
well recorded. John Walker ran one hundred and twenty six.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Were you there at a newly four his sub four?

Speaker 12 (27:33):
No, I wasn't.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Mile was just young kid there on none of my
seventies now, but it made the newspapers and around the world.
You'll probably find some clips on YouTube, maybe through Google search.
You'll probably find some images of the major metropolitans. And
it was front page news.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
So was theis? Was it never a sinder track?

Speaker 7 (28:01):
No, it was a grass track and that was almost
unheard of. I think for sub format Mile at if
he rode in May ninety fifty four, I think was
also on the grass track. Okay, synthetic checks didn't come
till much later.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
So what was that was? What was cinder tracks?

Speaker 7 (28:21):
Oh, cinders is going back to probably just after the
war or around about wartime. Think of the nineteen thirty
six spread in the Olympics when Jack Lovelock send new
war record in the fifteen hundred meters that was on

(28:41):
the cinder track at Berlin in nineteen thirty six.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Just before you grow, before you go, Graham, what would
be the topic you could talk about for an hour?
Would it be track and field?

Speaker 11 (28:52):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (28:52):
I would just do anything. Really, my favorite creek, my
favorite creature, Lamborghiney's my favorite car. Fron Meester physics. I
used to be a professional cinema.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Oh, you'd have no shortage. Did you say great?

Speaker 7 (29:05):
I can hold a comp station for paraders on journey thing,
so I'm just going to try and keep the stand
about it two three minutes.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
So it'd be great white. Did you say great whites?
Did you say Lamborghini's.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
Yeah, Lamborghini cars, yep.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Great white sharks, Lamborghini cars. What was next him?

Speaker 7 (29:22):
I put in a Ham radio one, a fully qualified
radio Ham. That's not exactly a state secret. Of course.
I'm Zulu Limmatoo Charlie Hotel for Romeo. That course weren't
Where was I hearing about?

Speaker 3 (29:35):
I was talking about Ham radio when we're talking about
that Wellington Littleton yacht race that went bad and how
hard work the Ham radios did to try and find
those yachts. Some woman on the other day.

Speaker 7 (29:48):
About a similar incident. Fastnet yes, and as well.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
No.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
Ham radio operators a part of international network that provides
such a rescue. That's community communication, emergency communications where we're
a world class at that.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
You're a selfless group.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
Oh we do it. We do it as a global service.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Yeah, selfless Graham nice to talk a text or has
texted through? Are always scam aware on this show. S
not sure if it's worth a mention, but TVNS he'd
reported it reported a scam involving nine live dot co
dot nz website setting medical alert bracelets online for hundreds

(30:34):
of dollars and reported their requesting medical info from online inquiries.
I can't find a copy of that's through. If anyone
knows anything more about that, let me know. Also talking
instant coffee, surging and popularity in the UK, the things
that customs have taken off you. It's another topic, the
thing you could talk about for an hour are a

(30:59):
lot of these people overrate their abilities. But I'll be
curious to put a busload of people together and take
them around the country on their own special topics for
an hour. I'm sure some of them would be sensational.
Some of them wouldn't be very good at all. Be

(31:20):
in touch of on talk on your My name is Marcus,
Welcome Hitded twelve eight hundred and eighty. Teddy or So
too Petersnell nineteen sixty two broke the record an year.
There will be videos of that, no doubt fifteen thousand
people of Wanganui for that, the biggest crowd ever for

(31:44):
athletics and Fongannui probably never will be beaten. I wouldn't imagine.
I don't even know if we have a nationwide track
and field event these days. But like all local sports,
it's very hard to get coverage. I think, will they
tell you what they have? No trouble getting coverage for

(32:05):
that cricket match betweing rugby and cricket. Yeah, people must
watch that there, but people must love that anyway. Jump
if you talk before the news, my name is Marcus. Welcome,
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two text, Looking forward to your wisdom tonight. You might
be driving home, always good to break the tour, curious

(32:28):
to know how the road north is working. Also, I
don't know what time it will have peaked to the traffic,
but I'm sure there's a lot of people on the
road tonight after a long weekend and the end of
the holidays. So do get in touch, as I say,
Oh eight hundred eighty teny and nine two nine two text.
I can't seething on the website about that. Maybe it
was a commercial during the news like one of those
scam notices that might have been something. So you might

(32:52):
want to talk about that too, but do get in touch.
My name is Marcus Welcome. There's something different you want
to mention. Good good evening, Helvin.

Speaker 13 (33:06):
It's Marcus welcome, Very good evening, Marcus. Now, it must
have been nineteen sixty two or whatever here in the
tron and Hamilton at the Athletic where the athletic track was,
which is now where they play the big time cricket
Seidn Park. Now, it was a Tuesday evening what they
call a twilight Athletic meeting. And I saw Peter Snell

(33:30):
run there and he ran around it must have been
the eight hundred meeters anyway, he ran around, you know twice,
no problem at all. They announced was one second outside
the world record. No problem. And then so that was
Tuesday night and then what was it ten days later
on the Saturday night at Wanganui he broke the world

(33:54):
record on the grass track there and I'm just trying
to remember when he broke his time. When he broke it,
his time was three minutes fifty What was it now, Steed,
do you know the number?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
It was three fifty four. It was three fifty four
point five.

Speaker 13 (34:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah, three fifty four point yeah,
three fifty four point five, and they announced Peter Snell
is equal the world record, and then a couple of
minutes later they announced hang on, hang on because their book,
what their athletic book, you know what they have there
at the sports meeting, it had the wrong time. It

(34:31):
had three fifty four point four, three fifty four point
four and Peter Snell had run three point fifty four
point four. Yeah, so they are there three fifty four
it was in the book, three fifty four point five
whatever it was, it was in the book and correct,

(34:53):
and they announced it equal the world record. Then straight
afterwards they announced he's broken the will record by tenth
per second.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
So the runner you were at citta in Park but
not at Cook's Guard, is that right?

Speaker 14 (35:04):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 13 (35:06):
As a Seddon Park, good crowd, oh yeah, quite a crew,
evening crewd than that for Hamilton nice yes, yeah, that's
where they have the cricket ground there.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
You know, I've been to cricket. There's not a bad
cricket ground. Actually quite quite close to the city.

Speaker 13 (35:22):
Well, I'll tell it very briefly. You know the embankment there, yes,
or a few years ago when they built the new
wyk at a Rugby Park stadium.

Speaker 15 (35:32):
The old.

Speaker 13 (35:34):
Grandstand kept in the same place, but they moved the
ground about three meters or so further away from the
grandstand and went down I think three meters so for
the whole playing area. So all of that soil from
that Rugby Park was part at about five hundred meters
up the road and became the embankment for Seddon Park.

(35:55):
Cricket had no.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Idea, Kevin. Very interesting, Thank you very very much for that.
I'm back after the newspaper with more of you, hopefully
of course, to bronze stitch of Peter Stellon his birthplace
all Naki. Then he went to Tiaaha. I think that's
the way it all worked for him.

Speaker 13 (36:12):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Good evening and welcome. I hope if you're on a
holiday for the long weekend, that your junny becker's been
safe and RESTful. Who doesn't have a riskful return from
the journey. If you've got anything interesting, you've seen anything interesting,
let us know what's going on in your neckla. What's
the number is eight hundred eighty tenny and nineteen nine
also to its school uniform time. There'll be a lot
of talk back the next three days about the price

(36:38):
of school uniforms. I'm pleased too that the that there
seems to be a great sort of willingness for pewtered
by second hand uniform which it's probably very good from
a environment point of view and a cost point of view,

(36:59):
and good on the schools for organizing those sales of
secondhand school uniforms. So there you go. I personally think
of the belief that probably the Warehou should be given
the contract to all the school uniforms around the country.
Just do the very cheap and cheerful. But anyway, it's
enough for me. Oh yes, and perheps. Your parents tried
to make you make your own school uniform. I like

(37:22):
those sort of stories or school uniform horror stories with
rises six inch above the knee japers. Jen Marcus, welcome,
Hi Jen Jen Jen.

Speaker 16 (37:38):
Hi Hi the Marcus. You know I won't get into
the uniform thing getting through customs and what was taken
off me and my hand luggage. I hit my nail
kit and that got taken off me. And the next

(38:00):
time I went to Australia, I forgot put it in
my new nail kit, put it in my hand luggage,
and they went to take it off me again and
I had an argument with them, and so instead of
taking the whole kit, they took my nail file which

(38:21):
had a point on it, and the scissors.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Oh, they weren't taking things because they're ivory, or you
weren't training and training training in rare animal skins or anything.

Speaker 16 (38:33):
No, they just thought I might stabbed somebody with something
in my nail kit.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Okay, family, Do you have family in Australia?

Speaker 16 (38:42):
Jan, Yes, yeah, in Melbourne, having a baby soon. I
might be popping over there, Boil girl, Well, we don't
know yet. It's to sort of any time.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Oh goodness, will you get a phone call or a text?

Speaker 16 (39:03):
Well, it will have to be a phone call.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Great, Okay, I'm probably really goodness. Okay, and what could
you talk about for an hour?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Well?

Speaker 16 (39:15):
Guess what they say is number one going into homeopathy
and the the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Wow, okay, they're probably quite a big audience for that
because it's in some people's wheelhouse, isn't it. They like
those sorts of things. Don't they beat the system in
some sort of alternative cure. I think probably there'd be
a market for that.

Speaker 16 (39:40):
Well, I think that's where Luxeen's coming from, because I've
written to him, the previous health minister, and he wants
to move it along. Wow, whichever way possible, and my
way works.

Speaker 17 (39:56):
You put it to the test.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
You'll be looking forward to Robert If Kennedy involved with Trump,
he seems to be in your kind of line of work,
isn't he. Do you know much about him?

Speaker 16 (40:08):
Kennedy?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (40:11):
About Trump?

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Well, Robert Kennedy is his health advisor. He's kind of
got some Have you not come across that yet?

Speaker 16 (40:22):
Well, I'm just about another letter after Donald sol.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
What do you write to Donald about?

Speaker 16 (40:29):
Well, I'm going to tell him about the cancer treatment.
Well you should, America will grab it.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
You should write to robertie of Kennedy because he's he's
Bobby Kennedy's son, and he's Trump's health advisor health. He's
he's a and don't call me about this. He's a
fluoride skiptic, vexing skeptic. Yaddy yaddy yah. He's right in
your wheelhouse. So honestly, you should be wing digging your

(40:57):
way over there once the baby's born.

Speaker 16 (40:59):
Yeah, I might go over this should chat with them
and the Trump tell us.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
They probably make your chief advisor with your skills, Jen,
I reckon, because you've got a bit of psychic ability
in there, and of course your ability with the fans.
A giant fan chief for student and it's Marcus. Good
evening and welcome high end.

Speaker 18 (41:20):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yes.

Speaker 18 (41:22):
Now I have didn't go to Cook's gardens, but I
actually worked up at the Auckland Central Library in nineteen
seventy five and issued a library book to Sir Peter Snell.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Goodness, may.

Speaker 18 (41:40):
Amazing guy.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
How did that happen? What was the book?

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Well?

Speaker 18 (41:44):
I am during my Christmas holidays I got a job
holiday a dril and working up at Auckland Central Library.
And this was actually the second year that i'd worked

(42:05):
up there, and they wanted extra people, so on registration.
I was working up in the children's section and I
went down to registration and so Peter Snell came in
and I issued him a library book.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Now, of course he wouldn't have been Sir Peter Snell then,
was he?

Speaker 8 (42:25):
Was?

Speaker 3 (42:25):
He just Peter Snell?

Speaker 15 (42:28):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (42:30):
Do you remember what the claim to fame?

Speaker 3 (42:33):
That could be an hour long topic. Do you remember
what the book was?

Speaker 18 (42:35):
An amazing guy?

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Is that what the book was? What title was the
book that he got? And you issued him a book?
Do you remember what book it was? Yes?

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (42:57):
So?

Speaker 18 (42:59):
And actually when you said he went to Tara, I
actually used to go down there for holidays because I
had relatives who lived on there.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Yeah, I think I think I've just asked you what
book he was giving. I was asking you what book
he was getting out of the library?

Speaker 6 (43:13):
And so.

Speaker 8 (43:18):
And and.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 18 (43:25):
So quite amazing?

Speaker 15 (43:26):
Really and and can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Mmmm?

Speaker 3 (43:32):
And you say, and can you hear me talking to you?

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Hi, Anne, it's Marcus. How are you? What's happening? And
and I was just asking what was the book that
you issued to him?

Speaker 18 (43:45):
I can't remember. I can't remember what the name of
the book was, but I it was, you know it was.
It's something I've always remembered and special doing that, something.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
You've always remembered us not remembering the book?

Speaker 17 (43:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 18 (43:59):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Do you remember what the book looked like?

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (44:04):
So, As I said, I can't remember that, you know
what the name of the book was, but I followed
him right through until I saw and it's actually the
Woman's Weekly where I read that and on the radio
that he'd passed away.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Yeah, so he came up with a book, right, and
you don't know what the book was or what the
book looked like? Have I got that right? Is is
that right? You didn't? You didn't don't remember what the
book looked like?

Speaker 16 (44:33):
Hmm, yes, so can you?

Speaker 3 (44:40):
And are you hearing what I'm saying? Are you hearing
what I'm saying? It's it feels like yeah, I've asked you.
Do you remember what the book looked like?

Speaker 18 (44:50):
Yes, it's quite quite amazing.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
And did you have a conversation with him?

Speaker 8 (45:00):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
What did you say to him? And I've asked you.

Speaker 18 (45:09):
I think it's good that you know you remember all
these things.

Speaker 8 (45:14):
Do you remember?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
Do you remember the conversation you had with him?

Speaker 10 (45:17):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (45:18):
And what what?

Speaker 3 (45:19):
How did that go?

Speaker 18 (45:20):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (45:21):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Curious, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Wow, there's a hard conversation for mine. What was I
missing out?

Speaker 7 (45:31):
Then?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
And she gone, Peter Steale comes up? You think, well,
what's the book?

Speaker 17 (45:45):
Right?

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Is it? How to run Faster?

Speaker 18 (45:48):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I wasn't quite sure. She had the phone on delay
or something was happening, but she kept saying yes, like
what she would hear me because she'd say yes. Nisha
turned the volume down. The phone was just saying yes
to be polite. Goodness. People think that Ansil have a podcast. Marcus.

(46:19):
I was part of a small group of runners who
traveled from Marsden to wang And to watch the occasion
of Petersteale breaking the world mile record. It was nighttime,
halfway through the last lap Peter talk off. One runner
tried to stay with Peter, running for about twenty meters
in the night lights. Peter looked like a giant in
four leg boots. For me, a great memory Roger's Denny
so the pit that confused me about that text, it

(46:39):
sees I was part of a group of runners who
traveled from Marsden to wang And to watch Dick. I
initially thought they'd run, but wow, so yes, that's Anne

(47:00):
Wow Marcus. Those buggers at the border took my keeled
two dollar moisturizer, my expensive foundations both that empty whereever
they scan on the size of the bottles, not the content,
chucked them with a bit in front of me. There
is a lesson pack in your check luggage, not carry on.
I think I was talking more about two of the

(47:22):
men from Marsten that went to Australia wanted a souvenir
and he went to the markets in Sydney and he
brought a crocodile skin. We brought a hat. I think,
I don't think the whole hat to crocodile skin. We
had a crocodile skin band. Even though the crocodile skin
was farmed, they confiscated it because you can't trade in that.

(47:48):
He wished he had been warned. I don't know why
they doesn't remove the band. Oh wait, one hundred and
eighty tidy and has rung back. What did she say?

(48:10):
She couldn't hear. She must have had the volume turned
down on the phone. She did very well to keep
the conversation going on. I'll be able to hear me.
So that's a situation with her, and she's fine for
those that are worried about her. There is something different.

(48:34):
You want to mention school uniforms, your challenges with school uniforms,
your bad experiences of school uniforms. It's probably something that
we can identify with in some ways. The stress of
going to high school and an intermediate school, and the
parents trying to get that right. They're not always managing

(49:00):
to get that and sync with what the children want. Yes,
twenty seven past nine, laye ats Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Oh,
good evening.

Speaker 15 (49:09):
Make because I'd just like to have a quick word
about Peter Snell. I was a nurse at Living Hospital
and Training School in Kimberly Road in the like fifty
sixty seventies before it closed down. It's now a rest home.
It's in Kimberly Road. Do you did you ever go
past there?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
I'm just looking at that on the map, but I
don't know living that well.

Speaker 15 (49:32):
But yeah, no, well it's sort of out its rural.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah I'm saying that now.

Speaker 15 (49:37):
Yes, but it is a lovely old folks home now.
But Peter Snell after he broke that record, well I
think it's afterwards. I'm nearly ninety, so my memories a
bit faded now. But he actually came. They put on
an athletics thing and there was one particular patient, Jimmy,

(49:58):
who was absolutely was a genius runner, but because of
his condition he couldn't. He was physically there, very beautiful
that his head wasn't bright. And so they had had
an athletic meeting there and Peter Snell turned up and
ran raced with him. He was this Jimmy hero and

(50:22):
it was a wonderful thing to do. And he was
such a lovely bloke, Peter.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Snell, I mean, and just the two of them raced.

Speaker 15 (50:31):
No, no, they had an athletics meeting for all the
able patients. People came from town. But it was just
a wonderful thing for him to do, and it just
made Jimmy's life.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
What sort of hospital was it?

Speaker 15 (50:49):
A hospital and training school for handicapped children?

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Okay? Well, and so Jimmy was a child.

Speaker 15 (50:56):
Well, he wasn't a child. He was a child in
a man's body and very artistic, but very athletic, wonderful.
He used to run the field, you know, round and
round and round and unboundless energy.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
It almost sounds like a movie.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Elane.

Speaker 15 (51:16):
Yeah, well, I know there won't be many people alive
that still remember that.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
No, well, I'm kind of intrigued by that. Now, tell
me something. Did did Jimmy win or did Peter snelwyn?

Speaker 5 (51:26):
Well?

Speaker 15 (51:27):
I don't remember, because I was just a lonely nurse
and award. But you know my husband was the tutor there, Yes,
nursing tutor.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Did they put a running track on the field, Well.

Speaker 15 (51:42):
There was this fabulous field for all sorts of events
for the patients. They used to put on things for
the patients. You know, people came from town and entertained
them and there's a wonderful place.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Oh it's a great story of lane. Thank you for that.
Cheapest creepers. So all the kind of adjacent stories we
get that are so great. Wow, the legend grows. Get
in touch. You want to be on the amneum as Marcus.
Welcome here till midnight, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus.
I'm a digital Noma nomad outside in for three months
every year using its way too expensive to hang in

(52:18):
the wrong time zone and just as not very interesting.
That's from David. So it seems more likely people are
prepared to leave newsinand to become digital nomads. Hey, just
speaking about running, which we all love, well, I people
don't love running now like they once did, particularly this

(52:41):
time of the year. There was always at the end
of Januar there's always that sort of the summer series
of athletics with people coming from America and Africa, and
it was always unbelievable, but now we don't get that.
But any we're talking of running. I read an article
by sports journalist Susan mcfatd and I don't know if

(53:02):
you saw that, and it's about a woman and fung
are right, it's extraordinary artical And she is continuing to
break the world record for running the most ultra marathons

(53:23):
in a row, and an ultra marathon is fifty k's
or more. And she has done this for the last
three hundred and ninety days. But get this, she also

(53:47):
works as a lawyer. So to do it, she gets
out of bed at one forty five and runs fifty
one k's before work at eight point thirty every day
for over a year, almost two years, well threat of

(54:09):
ninety days, but over a year. And even when she
travels to events overseas, she's got to travel in short
amounts because she can't you've got to respect the time zones,
so it's all got to be within the same time zone.
So she can't fly to England direct because you'd miss
a time zone. She needs to actually take short hops
so she can still run the ultra marathon every day,

(54:31):
but not only that. So she gets have one forty
five and runs for six hours. But during her run
around the streets of Fungada at like three in the morning,
she needs to get two witnesses that see her running.
So she needs to stop random people while she's running

(54:52):
and get them to fill in the paperwork to say
that they saw this woman running and where they saw
her in the times and the dates, because all that
needs to be done for proof. Most of us have
never done a marathon. She's doing ultra marathon every day
for three and ninety days. She's almost doubled the existing

(55:16):
world record, but she's not stopping. It does sound slightly obsessive,
but I imagine once you start it's hard to stop.
But I imagine doing that and a full time job unbelievable.

(55:38):
So yeah, not entirely sure her age, it does that.
I think she's in her forties or something. She goes
to bed at six. She also collects twenty minutes of
video footage each day to prove that she's run it.

(56:01):
Sometimes people join her, but more often than not she's
on her own. Kind of amazing. Hey, I've never seen
anyone putting a record like that. Get in touch Marcus
till Midnight. There's something else. Want to talk about digital nomads.
I don't really know what a digital nomad. I actually
don't understand that. So they come here, what's the point

(56:22):
of all of that? Is it to do it to
do with tax or to do with actually overstaying their
visitors permit? Is that what it's about. I kind of
feel a bit overwhelmed by new laws coming through, particularly

(56:42):
this time of the year, so so I don't quite
know what it means. So the rules the visa, I
guess it's a visa thing you here on a visitors visa.
The digital nomads include visits such as it species as

(57:03):
long as they are not receiving any income from New
Zealand sources, so not paying any text or anything apart
from gest I understand. I think it's probably to do
with that guy, that YouTube influencer that came here and
we kind of checked, you know, did the hucker and
then trained with the warriors. They probably think they get
some free publicity, like when Barack Obama came and played

(57:25):
golf with John Key but never posted anything for it,
much everyone's chagrin. Oh, surely has it goes to a
pair of shoes. Every two weeks someone is texted, which
I quite like. They said digital nomad sounds like a gang.
But yeah, that's what they want. They want people to

(57:45):
come down and be influencers, I suppose and do Instagram
posts of I don't know what people instagram post these days.
Look at that Instagram Remember that song anyway? Get in
touch by Name's Marcus, Welcome head of twelve o'clock tonight.
Things you've had confiscated from customer because they were rare

(58:08):
or banned, the thing you could talk about for an hour.
Continuation of a topic. Peter Snell and school uniform mishaps.
In the seventies, if my memory is right, there was

(58:31):
endless controversy about school uniforms, length of hair, and school
uniforms and lengths of skirts. It seems as though we've
moved on from that now. Well there imagine it'll be
some school in the beginning of the year that will
ban someone's from attending school because there's because their hair
is too long. That's what I would be would imagine.

(58:51):
But let's just wait for that, because yeah, it's always
the start of the year. There's always something about school
uniforms and something about moving the school too. Actually, I
think the some has been pretty good. We had some
rain today but we needed it, particularly after the joy
of the High Country Muster, which was not good at all.

(59:13):
The thing about the High Country Muster, you think it's
all going well into one of the kids that are
cheepest creepers. You know, we went up and around. We
had the whole plan because what you don't know is
the sheep bolt away quickly then you run. Anyway, the
plan and the actuality were two very different things. So yes, anyway,

(59:39):
does sheep live another day? Nineteen to ten? Graham ats Marcus, welcome,
How are you good? Thank you?

Speaker 12 (59:45):
Graham Sell.

Speaker 19 (59:48):
I went to Edington School in christ Church around the
nineteen sixty Mark, Can anyone or yourself help me out
what was Petercell's job at that point? Was he a
school teacher or was he still? I can remember him
being at the school. He was not my teacher, he

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was in another room. Okay, how good ge knowledge or
can someone help?

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
What school did you go to?

Speaker 19 (01:00:19):
Graham Addington School in christ Church?

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
Okay? And you think Peters there was a teacher there?

Speaker 19 (01:00:27):
He was a teacher there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Teaching.

Speaker 19 (01:00:29):
What uh is this.

Speaker 20 (01:00:37):
Order?

Speaker 19 (01:00:37):
Public school?

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
A primary or secondary?

Speaker 19 (01:00:41):
No, around primary school. I would have been six years old,
so he was in the not the it's not one, two,
three and four as you call it there, it was
the next ones out standard standard yeah standard, Yeah, you
got it. Yeah, send them one and two.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Okay, I'm going to miss. I never was aware that
he was a school teacher.

Speaker 19 (01:01:03):
Well, I understood he was. I had something to do
with teaching because he was at the school for quite
a while and you knew it was been visiting quite
a bit, and.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
You knew it was him. You knew it was him.

Speaker 17 (01:01:17):
Yes, yes, for goodness.

Speaker 19 (01:01:22):
Sake, nineteen sixty, nineteen sixty era.

Speaker 6 (01:01:26):
I know, I know.

Speaker 19 (01:01:29):
You go, yeah, it was fifty nine because I didn't
go to Primer three. I went to prim one, two
and then four, So to be nineteen fifty nine or sixty,
he was involved with the school. I remember him being there,
I remember talking to him, but I don't know what
he was involved with, but I associated it with teaching. Yeah,

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that's quite a long time ago there, macus.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Well, someone else will be at Ington School. Someone else
will know that it's listening, no doubt.

Speaker 19 (01:02:00):
Yeah, Okay, I think you said, I have a good one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Yeah you too, there, Graham boggles. Hi Any started to Marcus, good.

Speaker 10 (01:02:11):
Evening, Hello Marcus, my hilarious uniform. My granddaughter Liza with me,
and she had to order a new uniform last year,
so I had to do it online. You know you
have to do them online these days. I'm her seventy
old grandmother. And I thought I did everything right, and
I pressed scened and everything, and I ordered, by mistake,

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ninety six skirts, one hundred and ninety one pairs of trousers,
and ninety one hundred and ninety shirts and it was
twenty six thousand, one hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
It's a good story.

Speaker 10 (01:02:51):
And I pressed Prince because I thought i'd better keep
them a seat. And my granddaughter went, I said, I
was going, grandap thing from the Prince's sweetheart. And she
came back said, Nanny, what you do? And of course,
so it was like Friday at four o'clock and I
just went, you know, went onto a meltdown with twenty

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six crabs the dollars for my feasic car.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Oh wow, so they honored that. You think there would
be something that would I know that some warning. Was
it from overseasly?

Speaker 8 (01:03:24):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
No, it was one of the main school where order
online faces that has hundreds of high schools and primaries,
you know, right throughout New Zealand. So I rang the
bank and had a sort of meltdown.

Speaker 12 (01:03:43):
Rang the people.

Speaker 10 (01:03:44):
Actually the lady was really nice. She was lovely, the
accountant lady, and she listened it on and I just got.

Speaker 12 (01:03:51):
The one item want.

Speaker 10 (01:03:55):
So I've actually kept the invoice because it's just I
just honestly mic has house. You know, when it said
how many times quantity, I went one and one pairs
of trousers and two shirts, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Got you know, and I must have thought I was
going to So what went wrong?

Speaker 15 (01:04:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:04:18):
It was really interesting because the next test she needed
to get another shirt and went once again. When I
pushed two for two new shirts, it went to one
hundred and ninety as well. So I don't I don't know,
I don't know, But this time my granddaughter sat behind
me and.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
I'll get the grand daughter to do it.

Speaker 19 (01:04:41):
But yeah, so twenty six thousand dollars on wow, I know.

Speaker 12 (01:04:45):
So, I mean, honestly, I.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Could buy them online. But that's quite interesting.

Speaker 10 (01:04:51):
You have to, you have to. I don't. I don't
think there's very many. Well, I live in Ortoda and
it was just one of the local high schools that
my granddaughter goes to. And and you know when you
click on to the it's called our guy quickly when
you click onto it, it's just got alphabetically schools from

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a Hipata to Zinzari Primary.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, I don't know. Yeah, okay, yeah.
It's a good receipt. You have to frame that it is.
It's kept great story. Angela, you're down in the car.
We to have Hi and Jays. What is Shane. That
was a great job that did all the uniforms, but
that closed down. So now I think we're in the

(01:05:36):
in between. So I think the people that had the
clothes that they've gone ahead, but it's not quite the same.
So yes, I think we're in that in between stage
about to go online and digital nomads Marcus. People need
to look for the bigger picture re nomad visa, possibly
to attract talent and using them permanently to qualify for

(01:05:58):
using a cityship on time spinnings in as nine months
a year for five years, a digital nomad. It is
just someone who can work from home, but the home
can be anywhere. Didn't they actually get people at working
at home to come and work in that. Didn't they
say that you couldn't work from home. Wasn't that one
of their missives, for example an author or an architect.

(01:06:19):
So they travel, I go to cheap countries where there's
a bit of history and eating out as cheap. So
not New Zealand. That's from David Marcus driving across another
boar heading to Perth for the America's Cup in eighty seven,
just before Western Australia. There was a fresh fruit and
vegice on the side of the road, like an oasis
out of the desert. We loaded up with pricey fresh

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fruit just up the road. After the border we had
it all confiscated by border security. Not allowed to take
the uncopd fruit into Western Australia. We didn't think to
back up and need it will always reckon. The stall
and security were linked to Peter. I'm sure they were.
I'm sure they are selling the peaches multiple times. That's

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my take on that one. That's what we are talking
about today. Also too, Day two years ago was the
Auckland Anniversary Day floods.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Where it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Rained and rained and rained, and I think it blew. Yeah,
I remember I was at work. It was a Friday night,
and it kind of unfolded throughout the course of the
show how bad things were. I think Elton John was
supposed to play at Mount Smart but that got I

(01:07:40):
think they prevaricated from canceling that. I don't quite know.
I don't remember the full details. I think people were
bussing there. They were loath to cancelor but then when
they did cancer it was too late because most people
already there. Then they're on buses going through kind of
flooded streets. Hello, Brian, it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Yeah, Marcus. In the middle sixties, we went to Western
Springs and saw Peter Snell, Murray hell Burg. I can't
think of the other two. Might have been Bill Bailey,
and that they raced the four by one mile relay
against the United States team.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
It's a pretty interesting it's a pretty interesting memory then,
and it was it was at Western Springs. It wasn't
it that other track at o Way Raka Okay, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:08:26):
I'm pretty sure it was the Western Springs and yeah, group,
the group of this went through and saw it, and
yeah they beat the United States quite well. Yeah, I
can't think of who the fourth one was. Might have been.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
Gordon Perry was here round about then, or someone later
than that pre that, it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
Was Peter Snell, Murray Helberg.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
Was it a mile or a fifteen hundred?

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
They each run a mile four by one mile relay.
It was four in the team.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
And Peter Snell, Murray Halbert.

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
And could have been Bill Bailey. And I can't think
of the other one. Yeah, it was held at Western Springs,
and yeah, they beat the United States. They had a big,
big sports meeting there that night.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
Did they? Because I know that Peter Snell did hold
the four by one mile world record? Was the world
record broken?

Speaker 18 (01:09:29):
Then?

Speaker 5 (01:09:30):
Ah, I can't I a text now. I can't quite
remember what it was about.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
But I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
I'm pretty interesting, you know States anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
I'm pretty interested in that. I had a little bit
to do with Bill Bailey, only because he drove taxis
for so long.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, a lovely kind.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
I seem to drive Texas till quite late in life.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Yeah, I vaguely remember that too, But but I've never
forgotten that night up there, and yeah, it was great
at Western Springs.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
I'm just trying to see somebody else.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
Somebody else might remember it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
I'm just trying to see if I can bring that
up for you now while I'm here. I'm just desperately
trying to look for that. No, I'll see if I
can find that out. I'm not going to find that
before the news, I don't think, but yeah, someone will know, brah,
but thank you if it. Don's got any more information

(01:10:37):
about that. I knew that he broke the world record
for that in Ireland. It does say that happened but
a four by the mile relay, and it makes sense
that it was a Western Springs although I thought a
lot of that and feel happened or White Raka. So yeah,

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mile wheeler mile relay, westerns. I can't see anything that's
come up, just straight around the computer. Everyone's got an
more information, call me after the news. Would like to
hear from you. We're talking about Peter Snell's record for
the mile that was this day in nineteen sixty two,
Panganui before fifteen thousand people on a grass track. Apparently

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three point fifty four point five I believe was the
record time because you only at the shorter distances. I
think probably the thousand meters was a big race in
those days, and the hour race was also big. Golden Age.
Keep it going. The calls about there, Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten, eight nineteen nine to detext Norm. Hello, ats, Marcus, welcome, Yeah, Marcus, Hello,

(01:11:46):
good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:11:47):
I was just listening to the gentleman for the news
and he was sort of getting pretty close. That world
mile record for the four by one mile relay was
sixteen months, twenty three point eight seconds, and there was
of course Peter Snell, Murray Hellberg, Barry McGee and a
guy I've not really heard much of, Gary philipopp. It

(01:12:10):
was the team.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
Now he was right about Western Springs.

Speaker 14 (01:12:17):
Pretty certain it was. I'm pretty certain it was. Yes,
I wouldn't I wouldn't argue, but.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
No, it was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
It'd probably will explain why I haven't got the information
up about Bill Bailey, because he wasn't there by the
sounds of things.

Speaker 14 (01:12:31):
No, according to me, he's not being in a few things,
Bill Bailey. Why don't you come home, Bill Bailey? Of
course No, I was beginning to wonder if it may
have been another good athlete. I think one of the
medal at the Olympics in Tokyo over fifteen hundred John Davies.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Yes, but he was.

Speaker 14 (01:12:53):
He was actually born about the same year as Peters Talbot.
He wasn't in the team from the information of SASSA.
I just thought i'd put a courtesy called for enjoy.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Your show, and that was quite a big I mean,
it's it's a it would be an exciting race to
watch four by one mile event.

Speaker 14 (01:13:12):
Oh yeah, but it's it's uncommon, isn't it unbelievably uncommon?

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
But you know, I mean that's what. Yeah, well, no
one seems to watch track and field anymore.

Speaker 14 (01:13:21):
But I'll tell you what. I was just a young
fella and a friend of dad's took us two boys
to the Lancaster Park and we watched Peter Snell break
the eight hundred meter record on the grass and it
was bloody spectacularly, you know, it was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:13:36):
Was Lancaster Park good for athletics?

Speaker 14 (01:13:39):
You know I used to run there as a kid. Honestly,
Lankster Park, we miss it terribly. Yeah, it will always
be lancos To Park. For me as forget about great
stadium anything else where commercials and mentors into the fray.
It was a great venue and there's lots of things
being held there over the years. You know, trotting was
held here years and years ago. Of course rugby. There's

(01:14:00):
been some great football on now. We used to call
it soccer when I was playing, but there have been
some great sporting events.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Even the Pope went there, yes, rib probably probably not
only the Pope, but probably Billy Graham as well.

Speaker 14 (01:14:15):
Hear the evangelist. He was definitely there and I even
saw Dire Straight they were Yeah, what.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Did they Why did they knock there? Because because Lancaster Park,
you know, when they put all the concrete stadiums that
clipsed in the quake, that wasn't Was it still called
Lancaster Park even when they had the refud, No, I.

Speaker 14 (01:14:35):
Think it was a jade stadium at that point. I think.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
So normally we talk about Lancaster Park. We talked about
the old We're not talking about the one that was
redone before the quake.

Speaker 14 (01:14:44):
No, no, no, we're talking about well it's historical really
Lincos The park was just you know, there's something else
people I know of people that used to come me
as tourists and they wanted to go and see Lincolns
parks that heard so much of it, or they'd seen
famous rugby matches with the or Blecks and the Lions
and what have you. In the spring Box. It was

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one hell of a venue. And I mean, you're lucky
down yourway where you've got forsythe Bar, and we're about
to get something to match it here in the next
year or so which will create great a great venue
for great sporting events, plus importantly more concerts we need.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
I don't think I don't think. I don't think to needs.
I don't think forsythe Bar is happy about that. No, No,
because and Lock. Yeah, I mean I had I had
a visit that came around today from dneed and who
was talking about the cable cars. But he said it's
all gone. You know, Forsyth bars are dead duck. That's
how they're relying on bringing back the cable cars for
something for tourists to do in Dunedin, which a little

(01:15:47):
good on them.

Speaker 14 (01:15:49):
Yeah, hey, look, enterprise, you can't you can't go backwards,
and you know you've got to take it as it is,
but we've got a lot of bad country overall. It's
a bit of a shame at trying someone on the
crime get to the other hand, but overall she's not
a bad place to live. And that's keep on keeping
on and carry on with a live in general.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Thanks very much doing on links the pa con Tuna, Diastrates, Bully,
Joel beat Life, Roger Waters, bon Jovi, Pearl jam. In
ninety four Lancaster Park held a Roman Catholic prayer rally,
drawing a lot. Well, who was that? I wonder anyway
one that would good evening? Joe, Hello, June?

Speaker 15 (01:16:32):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:16:34):
Is that is that.

Speaker 20 (01:16:37):
All right? Hius? My husband used to ring up sometimes
and I'd be in another room and recognize his voice.
Every time you've put up Peter Snow, I've wanted to
ring and tell you every night, Peter Snow, Bill Bailey

(01:17:02):
and oh blow the yellow names Slip may Bury. My
yet who had a four square store and three teens.
They used to run up the hill and hill for
a road after work, and our children used to watch
for them every night, and out the back my little

(01:17:23):
pipe screen of a girl would be saying to her
brother and her sister you'll be Peter Smell and I'll
be a bill baby, And they'd have raceds on the
back lawn. But every night we had to watch for
them running past. I've got a feeling the one who
made the shoes shoes, and he ran with them too sometimes.

(01:17:52):
But they used to go all right away up hill
for a road every night after work. And Peter Smell
at that time was working for the neighbor opposite as
a as a oh numbers of the quantity svel. Yes,

(01:18:15):
he'd only been in his twenty then, so he went
a long way after that, didn't he.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
And I think that what the man with the shoes
would have been atholdiad is that right?

Speaker 20 (01:18:27):
Yes, it would be Aldia.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Yes, I mean the thing about the thing about running,
you'd always see them because they're always running. You'd see
them off and around, wouldn't you.

Speaker 20 (01:18:36):
Yes, it was the feature of our children's day. Yes so,
And I love your program, Unpad your back, but brashed
off with for some of the programs I've listened to.
The nineteen thirty seven My brother had one of the

(01:18:58):
first dog brands of this radiograms with the Magic Eye.
So I've always been a really radio person. But I
do miss Simon, Bernice and James in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Oh yeah, that's right, Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:19:16):
It beate them. Yeah, I want James, I want Sermon's
love to get better now. Yeah, okay, it's good to
hear your stories. Yeah, so you when you used to
all overnight too. You've got a different here, do you now?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
How do you know.

Speaker 20 (01:19:40):
You have going different? Dads?

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Now, there was there was a nineteen ninety.

Speaker 20 (01:19:47):
I've listened all my life.

Speaker 13 (01:19:50):
Really, what year were you born?

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
What were you born in the twenties or the thirties.

Speaker 20 (01:19:56):
I'm nineteen thirty one.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Oh goodness, okay, twentieth.

Speaker 20 (01:20:00):
Of October nineteen thirty one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Well, I write that down down.

Speaker 20 (01:20:05):
I've just about that's done, my jesh.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
Oh do you think.

Speaker 20 (01:20:10):
We'll win the radio? Chills up? Then I will do
my dish.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
RDA is not going anywhere, Joan. We can't now. Jeepers,
jeepers get here in the focus group from nineteen thirty seven, Wow, wow,
you quite often watch those runners running around in Auckland.

(01:20:43):
Nineteen sixty one, Sellers teammates Gary Phillip, Up, Marray Helberg
and Barry McGhee broke the world record for the four
by one mile relay in Dublin grass or Cinders. It's
a great name, Barry McGee, isn't it because it's like
the song Marcus. I hope I'm not too late for

(01:21:03):
my predictions. Twenty twenty five Crusaders win Superchampionship this year.
More than one cyclist will be killed on Wellington Rhoads.
Wellington Mere won't stand of this years election race. Probably
prices will decline further. Ryan Fox will win either British
or Irish. Opens Billy Joel concert was also Johnny Farnham

(01:21:26):
opening act. He was amazing. Did they bring the bad
pipe bagpipes on for the voice? Always good, good evening, Graham,
thanks for hanging on there. It's Marcus, welcome, no worries,
a great talking to you.

Speaker 8 (01:21:45):
Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:21:46):
I love that last prediction too, the first one. I'm
at the Crusaders winning. I'll take that and I agree
with it. But just on the about the stadium and
a couple of other things. Lancas Park was always still
called Lingus Park, but they I remember I've become Jade Stadium.
In nineteen ninety eight, it was the year the Crusaders
first one. About halfway through that camp and it was

(01:22:09):
always Lincs the Park, but I think technically it was
someone like at Jade Stadium, so they were Jade Stadium
at Lancaster Park.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Did that? You did that? You concrete bohemoth go right around.
Everything was replaced when it became the concrete.

Speaker 8 (01:22:25):
One, right, well, they've been replaced in parts. And then
of course because the embankment got they replaced the old
embankment of the new one which they demolished and put
the Paul Kelly Stand and then they've got the Deans
in Hadley or the Hadley Stand was around for a
bit longer. The Deans Stand went up the year of
the earthquake or the year before, so it only lasted

(01:22:47):
one season and then but yeah, yeah, so it was
sort of it is complicated because they didn't get rid
of the old name, but it was, but it was
they had to call it Jade Stadium. Is when they
poured the money in. You've got to put that first
and foremost year I went, I.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
Happened to be there when I saw the match. I
saw a shield match between Canterbury and Southend and South
actually took the shield.

Speaker 13 (01:23:17):
That night, and that must have been about two thousand
and nine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
I was, okay, I've still got the ticket at home,
which is weird thing for me to say, but I
was there for that and it was an impressive kind
of stadium they built. It was rick concrete and it's
in hindsight we realized on that swamp and that quog
it probably wasn't the best thing to build. But yeah,
I mean it was certainly lost when it went.

Speaker 8 (01:23:40):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that game well, ninety three. It
was a pretty dual match, yes, that South, Yeah, and
they won fifty years that was for them, but there
was Runners too. Yeah, Dick Taylor, I thought that was
Roman the other night, a couple of nights ago about
the seventy four games that I got to remember the

(01:24:03):
moment when he won the ten thousand, of course is
and I got to know he's president of the Kenemy
Rugby Supporters Club for about twelve years. And great guy,
Dick Taylor. He isn't down in the targo now, but yeah,
a great guy. And I mean, no great Runners and
what a dynasty and now it's it's got the guy.

(01:24:23):
What did you go to it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
Because I think he was much loved in Canterbury.

Speaker 8 (01:24:26):
Well, yeah, he's from Timaru. He's a South Canterbury boy.
But I think he's got a good place down there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Is he in Wanaka or something?

Speaker 8 (01:24:36):
No, I think it's I won't, I won't. Don't get
on the beach. It's on the he's on the coast
at the Targo somewhere. But I know he has a
bit of band with the local farmers, with Canterbury and
Targo and Crusaders Islanders. But yeah, no, a great guy

(01:24:57):
and they were a fantastic dynasty of runners and it's
great that it's coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
Well, I I think it is.

Speaker 6 (01:25:03):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Running is not gonna and hey's about running?

Speaker 8 (01:25:06):
Well? God, the guy's name. He got the medal jump ker, Yeah,
I mean yeah, well, I mean I'm just saying that
at the Olympics that was big. So yeah, I mean
you get an Olympic medal Commonwealth used to be. I
mean when Dick got it in seventy four that that
was higher standard than what we have now at the

(01:25:27):
Commonwealth Games and where John Walker and you know brod Dixon,
Dick Quacks and all them and many others, John Davies
he died. You know, they were great runners and including
obviously earlier ones of Snow and Hellberg. You really set
the pace obviously, excuse the pun, but yeah, but yeah,

(01:25:48):
I think it's coming back, hopefully. But we were especially
with him. But it may be we probably won't have
a cluster of them we've, like you say, we won't
have the group of runners that we used to have.
It was a particular part of that time in New
Zealand sporting history. Really.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
I don't know why it was that. I don't know,
maybe if the other countries weren't doing as much running
or quite why it was so that we just seemed
to radio. I guess we had some great coaches too,
didn't we read some sort of visionaries?

Speaker 8 (01:26:16):
Yeah? Well yeah, the arched Jelly was another one, and
I can't remember he's involved with maybe John Walker, I
don't know. Lydia was then obviously Lydiad and you know it's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
I saw an article about Haim on the paper today
at one hundred and two, which is pretty extraordinary, is
that Jelly?

Speaker 8 (01:26:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, that would be about right incredible? Yeah, yeah,
I mean they were old school, you know they. I
think Lydia had had a beer with dig Tail of
the night at the Bosh and and christ Church the
night before the team ten thousand meters running. I mean
Dick talked about that quite a bit. Yeah, there were

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different times, but it had one a Jugger and that
and discussed tactics, how to beat the English and African
runners and it all worked out.

Speaker 20 (01:27:07):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
Where's the bush and a Ricord?

Speaker 8 (01:27:11):
Any good upper Ricord?

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
Good pub?

Speaker 8 (01:27:15):
Have be I live on the other side? What sort
of the other side?

Speaker 13 (01:27:18):
Yeah, oh it is.

Speaker 8 (01:27:19):
Yeah, it's a traditional pub and yeah, yeah, a lot
of yeah, I know a lot of people that live
locally go there. Yeah, but I mean yeah, it's some
sort of semi iconic I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Yeah, what's your.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
Topic you could talk about for an hour there, Graham?

Speaker 8 (01:27:35):
Well, topic I go to talk about probably one year
bore you. It's but yeah, the Beatles are Rolling Stones
music or canterbr and Crusader's Rugby children.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Pretty standard a Beatles all rolling Stones, I know, but
it's not.

Speaker 8 (01:27:51):
Yeah, I'm pretty I wracked myself on that one.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
Yeah, you know I can understand that.

Speaker 8 (01:27:57):
Yeah, No, I no, I mean yeah, I mean I
mean just yeah, I mean but a history yeah, but
I mean why do you ask about? What do you
talk about for an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
I'm just curious, though, who's got a topic they go
with for an hour? And that's just all my thing, Graham,
that's all. I'm not going to make you go on
it for about an hour. How would you how would
your theme your beatles talk? What would you start with?

Speaker 6 (01:28:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:28:22):
Well, maybe the German you have to go with. You
have to go with one of the early ones, and
there to be twist and shout. I mean, hey, Jude, maybe,
but I mean a day in our life from the
last time on Sergeant Pepper. I mean, you've got a
sport for choice on subjects like that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
I guess the idea. I guess the idea editing, breaking
it all down to what stories and what.

Speaker 8 (01:28:45):
But you'll concentrate on a well, yeah, I suppose you're
going to make it one of the better, more dramatic
openings of songs if you're talking music.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Nice to talk, Graham. Thank you for that. John, good evening,
and welcome. Hi John.

Speaker 12 (01:29:01):
Hey hey, I was just ringing up getting Peter Snell
and Murray Helberg and Bill Baby. And there was another
chap who used to run with them, Neville. He was
a harrier. This is nineteen fifty three and they used
to run around the domain in Auckland. They had a

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circuit exactly a mild circuit. And in those days I
was thirteen fourteen and training for my cross country and
I'd go down there with them and they'd do four
miles and I'd do my one mile.

Speaker 6 (01:29:42):
But that.

Speaker 12 (01:29:45):
I don't know whether that was the team that's actually
one of the relay but that was, as I say,
it was nineteen fifty three fifty four that they were.
They had that circuit and they don't go down there
three nights a week.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
It seemed as though our great lesson for middle distance
running was that you had to do a huge amount
of miles to get fit. That seemed to be it,
didn't it. So you're often and right into the seventies
and the eighties, you always saw a lot of those
runners running the whole time.

Speaker 12 (01:30:23):
Yeah. Yeah, well, they of course were seven or eight
years older than me, and my little legs wouldn't go
that fast. But anyway, that let me see you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
See, you don't see as many people running these days,
do you or do you? You're on park right? Okay,
where are you?

Speaker 12 (01:30:44):
I'm in Cumu? Oh yeah, okay, out in the country.
But and of course at eighty four, I don't run
doing much myself.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Good on, John, I might say at the COMU show
twenty eight away from eleven, my name is Marcus. Welcome,
Hello John, Marcus. Evening.

Speaker 17 (01:31:03):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus. I've not long been listening. But
if you already touched on pe to smell tonight's twenty
seventh of January. So the night that he broke the
world record of MORMONERU called Cork's Gardens womanue, you know,
excuse me, and I was. I was there with a

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bunch of bunch of friends. We witnessed it at corks Yardens.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
That's kind of why we were talking about that. Fifteen
thousand people were there. Can you tell me a bit
about it? I imagine you must have been what's that
sixty two years ago? You'd be eight or.

Speaker 17 (01:31:38):
Nine, were you, yes, a little bit older than that,
a teenager? Yeah, no, sixty three years ago, sixty two
excuse me, yeah, sixty two.

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:31:56):
No.

Speaker 17 (01:31:56):
It was a great evening. The conditions were perfect, and
a grass track and three minutes fifty four point four
I saw got the program on it, and I've actually
had it. I've got it signed by Peter. I met
him in Auckland when he was out here for the

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World Master's Temps back in twenty seventeen. He played in
the table tennis and I met him, met him at
that and he signed the program for me. He had
never seen the program, the actual program itself.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Can I ask you, John, can ask you a couple
of questions.

Speaker 6 (01:32:37):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (01:32:37):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Did you live in Wangonui?

Speaker 14 (01:32:39):
Then?

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:32:41):
Correct, Yeah, the old home town. I'm ringing from Taupo, Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:32:47):
And was was that an event you'll always go to
or is there a sense that history was going to
happen in nineteen sixty two?

Speaker 17 (01:32:56):
I would have to say that what was the years
we look forward to it?

Speaker 12 (01:33:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:33:02):
I was involved in but I did a bit of
running myself, not a great shake, but a bit of
Harris and cross country and that sort of thing, and
that particular lot of I think heard you mentioned fifteen thousand.
Was I think I believe it was actually nineteen thousand.
There it was, It was packed and according.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
To the chronicle it he has said fifteen thousand.

Speaker 17 (01:33:28):
Is that right? Okay? All right? Also, I just mentioned
that there was actually mistake in the program and they
had the world record for the mile at that time
in the program, that's three months fifty four point five
was held by Herb Ellias of Australia and he and

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originally after the race they actually thought that Peter actually
had just equaled the world record and they apparently someone
was onto us and anyway, the story was that they
rang Wellington and in turn Willington rang rang through to

(01:34:17):
London to actually ratify that what the world record was,
and I realized that he had actually broken it by
one point of a second three fifty four point four.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
Do you remember the other event with Were there other
events that?

Speaker 6 (01:34:36):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:34:36):
Yes, it was, yes, yeah, there was a lot of
cycling they used to have was cycling of course the
gardens as well running. It was all sorts of all
sorts of events. Yeah, but that was that was the
main event. And also apparently originally the idea was he
was up to that time the four minute miles had

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not been broken in New Zealand. Uh, and the aim
was he was just trying to break for you know,
he break four minutes for the mile. Yeah, what what
Murray Helberg?

Speaker 11 (01:35:12):
What year?

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
How?

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
What year?

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
At Banister corrected He's in the fifties was.

Speaker 17 (01:35:17):
Yeah, yeah, fifty fifty fifty four, yeah, May fifty four.
But Murray Helberg was the first New Zealander to break
four minut a mile, and that was in fifty eight
in Dublin, Ireland. But yeah, and he just got under
the four minutes three fifty nine something and yeah, so

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that was the original idea was with a four minute mile.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
But so who did you say was the first two.

Speaker 17 (01:35:48):
Murray Halberg?

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
I can't understand four min so this was the first.
This was the first sub for by New Zealand and
New Zealand correct, well, by anyone probably in New Zealand,
I would.

Speaker 17 (01:35:59):
Think, yeah. Yeah. He also came back to other times
to Wanui over the next two or three seasons, and
I saw him each time. We would go along to
watch him. And the first the second time, he didn't
break four minutes. The conditions weren't very good and the

(01:36:23):
pace was not quick enough or something. But then he
did come back the third time and he just got
he just got under four minutes the third time.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
But yeah, well, is there an athletics event there this year?
Is they wanted this one every year? About?

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
Now?

Speaker 17 (01:36:38):
Are they just they just had one? On Saturday night.
You cook, they call it the Cook's Cook's Classics.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
Anyone someone go sub for?

Speaker 17 (01:36:49):
Have you harden?

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
Does anyone go sub fo?

Speaker 15 (01:36:52):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:36:53):
Not to my knowledge, I haven't actually had had results back.
I didn't hear much about it at all.

Speaker 12 (01:36:59):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 17 (01:37:02):
Uh yeah, and he also a week after I think Sam.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Tan I think Sam Tanner and Jack Bruce both might
have gone sub four.

Speaker 17 (01:37:18):
Oh yeah, okay on Saturday.

Speaker 6 (01:37:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
I'm just trying to look at the article now, all right.

Speaker 17 (01:37:23):
Yeah, No, I haven't heard the results. I just mentioned
that a week after one when he went to christ
Church in chester Park and he broke two world records
on the one race eight hundred meters and eight eighty
yards okay two? Yeah, see, he actually wrote three world
records in the eight days.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
It just says here about Crook's Garden on Saturday. It
says this year's men's Open mile was won by Olympian
Sam Tanner, clocking in at three point fifty five point
seven five, his two consecutive win in second place going
sub four was Australian that Jack Bruce for AUSSI looking name,
just falling short by one fifteen point six seconds with

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three minutes fifty six point nine go on forty five
entries into the open miles. There's still still kind of
a bit of a bit of an event that isn't
it It is?

Speaker 17 (01:38:19):
Yes, it was always the drama of event.

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
Ye Duneff was televised. I've been watching it last year.
I was if this track and field on, I'll always
watch it.

Speaker 12 (01:38:27):
I like it.

Speaker 17 (01:38:29):
Yes, Yeah, it's it's an interesting Yeah. My father went
to Tokyo and sixty four Olympics and he saw he
saw Peter win the two he won the two doll
medals eight hundred, eight hundred meters in the fifteen hundred

(01:38:52):
meters in Tokyo and sixty four. The father's there, look I.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Very interesting, John, thank you for calling. Seventeen to eleven.
Hello Mike Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:39:02):
Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:39:03):
Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:39:03):
First one caller, A yap, A bit of the youn ll.

Speaker 19 (01:39:08):
You about Snell.

Speaker 11 (01:39:10):
I remember back nineteen sixty eight Rock and Sports Foundation.
I think the guy was Brian Wilson and there was
Peter Snell and b Sucliffe going around the regions from
Woting Sport and at the time they came to Piru
and the Athletic club was up the top of Muntgiven Avenue,

(01:39:30):
we met the Community Center group of US runners.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
We went up and then did.

Speaker 12 (01:39:36):
A few laps.

Speaker 11 (01:39:37):
Then on the way back to the community Center, a
couple of guys coming out of their house getting ready
for work, and they're loading up a truck, small truck,
and one of them said, oh, who do you think
you are? Peter Snell. Peter Snell's in the middle of
running with us, but I'll always remember it, remember it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
And then.

Speaker 11 (01:40:01):
They're here for a couple of days. And then I
went up to the track and I was privileged to
do a number of two twenty yard repetitions with the
guy and it was something I'll never ever forget, and
I took up running. Later on, I got into coaching
and I had connections with Arthur Lydiad and one of

(01:40:24):
my runners actually broke subformance for a mile from a
coach to the last who was three times national a
marathon champion, and that all feed through from those experiences.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
It's a great story. So did you say they were
the Rothmans Foundation? Have I got that right?

Speaker 11 (01:40:42):
I just a Rothman Sports Foundation at the time, and
they had a caravan which was touring around the country
I believe the different regions promoting sport with youngsters and clubs.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
Peter Snell, Bert Sutcliffe.

Speaker 11 (01:41:00):
Yeah, I think he was amongst them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
And who was the other one?

Speaker 11 (01:41:05):
The guy running it I think was Brian Wilson. He
was sort of the organizing guy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
And this wasn't This wasn't Pottadora.

Speaker 4 (01:41:13):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Yep?

Speaker 11 (01:41:15):
He said, yes, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
So was running just beginning then? Is that after that,
after their work, did everyone start running? Is that when
the whole thing kind of took off? Late sixties early seventies,
would that be right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:41:31):
Yeah, those guys had retired Snetl had been retired about
five years, I think, yep, and they just turning around
the country. But I always remember doing repetitions with him.
There was a huge man, Marcus every powerful man.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
And when you got into running, Mike right, did you
straight away to heaps of distance?

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:41:57):
The editor was one hundred mile a week and the
athletes I I've coached athletics at National leave all dater
on and I'd headed to the Lidiard system. It was fullproof,
big mileage ace work before you put in the quality work,
and it certainly got the results.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
And you did one hundred miles a week over seven days.
That's quite a lot, isn't it. That's like thirteen miles
a day. That's a lot. That's twenty k's a day.

Speaker 11 (01:42:25):
Yes, that's right, Yep, there's vary ancient you had fart
of training. You weren't doing the same minage every day.
You're doing different mileages and a lot of hill running,
partly type work, which is a Sweedtish word for speed play.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Yep, a lot of that.

Speaker 11 (01:42:44):
And I got a lot of eye coached a very
good eight hundred meter runner.

Speaker 12 (01:42:49):
And is it still also.

Speaker 3 (01:42:52):
Broke micause that still the head too? Is that still
common coaching practice or has that fallen out of favor now?

Speaker 11 (01:43:00):
To be quite honest, Marcus, a lot of modern coaches
have tried to mix a match and it doesn't work.
Leave the systems followed overseas. I know the Kenyans and
even in the States and that they do high mileage
and it's called elistair running. First, you've got to build
a foundation before we put in quality works of quantity,

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and then you start reducing the bogame. Lets you increase
the quality, but you've got to do that base work first,
and then a lot of athletes not doing that anymore.
They're trying to max and match it. Next one New
Zealand's not getting results.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
When did the guy you coach go sub for?

Speaker 11 (01:43:40):
Oh, I can name the guy for you.

Speaker 19 (01:43:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:43:44):
Sign Maunder was his name, and in the eighties and nineties,
And the last I coached was Lenn McPhillips yep, and
she was national marathon champion. I had her running one
hundred miles a week, conditioning and building up towards marathons.

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
It must be it must be hard to motivate someone.
I mean you must need a special person to do that.
But then it must be hard to motivate them.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Aye.

Speaker 11 (01:44:11):
Yes, it's got to get into a goad environment. The
group of good runners they feed off each other and
rather than having them train individually, get them. You've got
to get a squad under you and motivate them that way,
and if one does well, the others want to do well.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
So yours did you say you're still involved with it?

Speaker 11 (01:44:30):
Mike, No, I'm well retired now. That was in the
eighties nineties, but I had had to the LIDIA system.
I got to know Arthur and one of the runners
I coached guy Bruce Adams. He was the first and

(01:44:51):
his elder to beat John Walker here in New Zealand
at a trial. And it was Arthur that gave me
advice a couple of weeks leading up to that race.
What was the advice interesting.

Speaker 19 (01:45:05):
Was a time trial?

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (01:45:08):
He told me I went for a six hundred meter
time trial, which is under distance to bring a guy on.
And he said no, he said do something, but didn't
undermead it, so it's unfamiliar. So I did that and yeah,
we've got a good result.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Wow, M and I and I suppose these days everyone
once the sixteen or seventy they want to get the
degree in the American university, so they're gone for about
ten years, aren't they.

Speaker 11 (01:45:40):
Yeah, that's right. Scholarships so they pursue scholarships and the States.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Kind of wrecked about, hasn't It means you're not seeing
them running around the streets because they're all gone Burger.

Speaker 11 (01:45:50):
Yeah, but we still had talented guys. It's just we've
got seen Tana young guy from talent.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
Yes, yes, but he was he was disappointing at the Olympics,
but he was coming out of injury. Wasn't he.

Speaker 11 (01:46:01):
Yeah, but they with James Preston, very very quick guy.
But what I noticed is that they don't seem to
run technically correctly because they hugged the pole line. Those
do I say to my athletes one lane now too
bad because if you get boxed in, you can't get through.

(01:46:24):
And their athletes have a tendency to stay on that
pole line.

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
How much how much further you're running distance wise one
line back to out, Well.

Speaker 11 (01:46:33):
You're running about definitely running more distance, but you've got
more room to move and you've got more room to
respond to athletes on the inside and the outside. But
that's just a poor I saw at the Olympics anyway,
all tend to hug the pole line. But some of
you guys are pretty quick. That James Preston, very very

(01:46:56):
quick athlete.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
What just distant to see the young one that was?
Is he the sixteen year old?

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:47:05):
Yeah runner, Yeah, Wellington based. But yes, I thought you'd
be interested and I've got I mean, what's.

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
The amazing story about that? Even though it was a
tobacco company to send people around to the small clubs
like that, there's nothing there's nothing like that to inspire people. A.

Speaker 11 (01:47:25):
Oh definitely, Marcus definitely need.

Speaker 4 (01:47:28):
More of it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:29):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:47:32):
I've got a book here that he no bugles, no drums,
and Peter Persley signed it for me. I've still got
it well good reading but he oh yeah, if you
can get hold of a copy, it's well worth it.
But he Snaw I would consider to be the greatest
middle lest insulnerable time because he doubled in the eight

(01:47:55):
in the fifteen hundred meters at the Olympics, Yes, gold medal.
No other athletes even ever done that. I know Cibo,
vet So based and co and a lot actually those
guys tried to do it and they never did it, and.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
It seems it seems as they know and in the
future will do it because they're quite different events. Now,
I suppose the fifteen hundred the po were to sprint now, yeah, But.

Speaker 11 (01:48:18):
Peter Snelly when he broke the world record len hassed
to park on the grass track eight hundred eight eighty yards,
appeared to run on synthetic tracks that they've got today
and they've done analysis on it. He would have run
one forty for eight hundred meters, which would have been
the current world record.

Speaker 17 (01:48:38):
Goodness, yeah, just a freak.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Nice to talk, Mike, Thank you so much for that
eighteen past eleven. Get in touch. You might text, you
might want to call. It's all about running.

Speaker 12 (01:48:50):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Marcus Snell ran about thirteen sub fours while Walker ran
around one hundred and twenty Barry, Now we're going to
how many you do?

Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
Is there?

Speaker 3 (01:49:01):
I don't even know how to compare people. It's like
sports talk, What about snow? What about Walker? I wanted
to tracks?

Speaker 7 (01:49:07):
What about? What about?

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
What about?

Speaker 6 (01:49:09):
What I like?

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
Is it captured the nation before TV? What are you
doing tonight? I'm going to get a Cooks Garden to
watch the athletics. But as I said when I was
at the Dogs next to Cooksgap, beautiful an evening, a
summer evening in fun, unbelievable. I'm a beautiful looking city.

(01:49:33):
I'll get there one year for the mile that's on
my athletics bucket list, not to run it. Like my
running days are over, my competitive running days are over.

(01:49:55):
But yeah, if you do get a chance to read
that story about that woman and fund that has written
has run an ultra marathon fifty k's every day for
the last three hundred and ninety days and she gets
to have to bed at one forty five because she

(01:50:15):
works a lawyer. But not only that, to prove it
for the Guinness Book of Records, she's got to film
it for fifteen or twenty minutes, and she's out in
the street to the middle of the night, and she's
got to stop people and ask them to sign her
form to prove that she is the person doing what.
You know, she got to look for referees. And when

(01:50:38):
I'm saying referees, I'm not talking about referees. I'm talking
about I'm not talking, you know, like referees. It's a
great article, well worth reading. Google Legal Eagle source passed

(01:51:00):
NonStop Ultra World Record. What does she listen to? Get
through a lot of things? Wouldn't you? What does she
listen to? That's the great question. I can show the

(01:51:22):
answer to that. There's a lot of time on the
road I can't see in the article it says what
she listens to but a pair of shoes every two weeks,
she's probably run the equivalent of running around the world

(01:51:43):
around the world. Thase listens to music? Does say in
the article, I can't find the actual after threshing podcast
to keep a Company now listens to music with an
eclcntic playlist from Metallica to CELINDI on depending on her mood. Wow,

(01:52:09):
by the way, not long until the Super Bowl, I
will watch that. I don't actually, in fact, I want
to watched the game this morning, but I forgot about it.
I didn't realize it was on, So I feel kind
of a little bit tardy for forgetting there. But look,
if you don't want to talk on a tonight, the
long weekend is over. Interesting. What was interesting for me

(01:52:31):
is when I looked up tonight the center of the
New Zealand population. That's the spot where as many people
as above, as below, as west, as east. Where do
you think it would be good doorways moving north? But

(01:52:52):
the center of population in New Zealand is one kilometer
offshore of Kafire, So as many people live above that,

(01:53:13):
as below it, and to the west as the east.
Bearing in mind that the one point one million people
in the South Island are to the west of Kafia.
But every year you look at the way it's progressed.
In about nineteen twenty one, it was off Carpeti. In
nineteen ninety seven it was near Auraquino, and it just

(01:53:34):
slowly moves north. Is it in center of populations defined
as the point of the intersect of two lines, one
equally dividing the population north and south, the other equally
dividing the population east and west. The point has moved
two kilometers turn in eighty kilometers north since nineteen eighty one,

(01:53:58):
at a rate of one point seven kilometers a year.
Extra ordinary. We can thank the census for that. You guys,
give it a little bit up at you about the census,
don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:54:14):
Oh not?

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
May I see that Bluff is one of the country's
ten most affordable suburbs, coming in at number nine. I
thought that was interesting as well. Yep, and Apple will

(01:54:36):
be made the top ten. That's an invert Cargol as
well as Wador, as well as Partier, as well as
Metoda can remember most of them. I am gonna go
a memory for things like that suburbs. Yeah, so track

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and field, But we are talking about Petersnal because this
day in nineteen sixty two Petersnow ran three point fifty
four point five at Cook's Garden for the mile on
a grass track. They said it equalled the world record
held by an American. Then they phoned Wellington, and Wellington
phoned the UK and they found out, in fact it

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was wrong in the program and he had got the
world record. Mind you, I guess it was just a
guy with a stopwatch, normally a guy. I don't know
how accurate the timing would have been in those days.
Maybe they had more than one person. And it was

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also the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. There
are big of removing memorials there. It'd have been nineteen
forty five, and I think it then took some time

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for those stories to be told. That's my understanding of it.
It appears as though there are fifty survivors. By the way,
just since I've got a lot of time to talk,

(01:56:24):
I have to find myself at an occasion, at a
party in the weekend, and I wasn't in a talking
mood or no, no, I'm just I just I found myself,
and I found myself reading a New Zealand geographic magazine,
which is always excellent, and there was an article on

(01:56:48):
it about I think it must have been the latest issue,
because I think I must have all of them. But
there was an article in it about the Polish refugees
that came to New Zealand, and given all the stories
these days about refugee and people being deported in the
likes Jeer, it was a moving story. Honestly, I could

(01:57:11):
not believe it. But anyway, if you get a chance
to have a look at that, extremely moving. I didn't
realize that those people had traveled for so long before
they even came to New Zealand. They were the ones
that went to pay here tour and arrived in a

(01:57:34):
terrible state, malnourished and trauma, if that's the word, and
mainly had very very good stories, although there are some
other stories that are not so good that I talked about.
But yeah, extremely moving article. And also to some very

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common surnames of some names you will recognize from the
people from the you know, the further generations from those families. Hi, Marcus,
I was at Cook's Garden nineteen sixty two. It is
a euphoric night. The place was packed and when they
confirmed the time Peterson now had run and that was

(01:58:17):
a world record, unbelievable scenes of joy because I think
those days people remember it well because these days you'd
be videoing it on your phone, which is a full's
errand because then you never go back and look at it.
Although I presume there's probably film coverage of that. It
probably went on those show wheels they took around the country.

(01:58:38):
Oh and also too, the digital nomads. The government's going
to try and attract digital nomads. Oh and the other
thing too. I own a guy that visited today to
the house and it seems as though it's all good
to go for the restoration of the cable cars in Dunedin.

(01:59:03):
They will be going from the Mornington shops down to
outside the casino. So yeah, and that will be the
only cable car that operates with that system outside San
Friand it'll be huge for tourism. You can imagine, can't you.
So I'm excited about that. Looks like the Edendale crank

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up went well too. By the way, for those that care,
a lot of tractors. Donner at Marcus Good Evening, Hello
about I just.

Speaker 10 (01:59:34):
Said the comment that you made about these days people
would be filming everything.

Speaker 18 (01:59:38):
On their phone.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Yes, I think it's so rather we've all been at
a concert, or we've been at a function and everyone's
so fixated on their phone.

Speaker 4 (01:59:46):
They're actually not enjoying the moment, and I thought I would.

Speaker 3 (01:59:51):
Say that because I don't know if they're filming it
or they're actually broadcasting it live on to Facebook. Is
that what they're doing?

Speaker 18 (02:00:00):
Some do Some just want to.

Speaker 16 (02:00:02):
Show that they've been there.

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
Well, it will stick contaibook later, it'll be on Instagram.

Speaker 18 (02:00:06):
And I mean, I've done it.

Speaker 15 (02:00:08):
And then I caught myself and thought.

Speaker 18 (02:00:09):
What are you doing, closed it up and just put
it in my pocket and enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
It feels a bit breggie to me. Feels a bit breggie.

Speaker 4 (02:00:17):
To me, a lot pretticky, a lot greggy.

Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
Yeah, oh no, I'm not one of those persons. Done,
but you know, nice to hear from you, Liz Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 2 (02:00:29):
I'm just really confused because I'm getting old. But I
used to live there Westerns roam, Oh, mommy used to
spend it all down there on the sense of the night,
and I've got a vague recollection that I used to
watch them. Now I could be confused. Could you just
just talk up a bitler's Oh, I got a vague idea.

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I used to go and watch some running down there.

Speaker 7 (02:00:59):
You probably did.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
Where were you living on the old bullet treck or something.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
No, no one else. The road nears part up there,
so we went down there all the time. So I'm
working out and it must have been a college or something,
because I'm sure because we used to go down there
every not every Sunday, but the speedway. And then I'm
quite sure that I saw them running down there.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
I'm sure you did. Where were you at college?

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
Parish college?

Speaker 3 (02:01:30):
Of course you were any good?

Speaker 6 (02:01:32):
What?

Speaker 3 (02:01:32):
I oh?

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
Probably actually very good. I would say it's a very
good grounded I wondered. I'm wondering if you can see
if they didn't run down there or.

Speaker 3 (02:01:48):
Well someone someone said they saw the four by mile
relay with Peter Snell running against the Americans with their
four by mile team.

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
What had it been at the speedway though?

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
It was a Western Springs, Yes, probably the early sixties.
Where did you say you lived?

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
I looked up in Avenue.

Speaker 3 (02:02:09):
Where's that there?

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
Actually felt felack.

Speaker 3 (02:02:13):
Oh, i' know what that is.

Speaker 2 (02:02:16):
It's near a very busy place. It's one of the roadships.
It's where the old plant man with a plant banner.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
It's just ye, isn't it Luke's No, I think it
might be.

Speaker 2 (02:02:32):
No, it's not where the plant banners. Yeah, we lived there.
That was the properits the plant ban Yeah, we didn't
live in the plant man. I took our house. Really, yes,
so the plant band and all that here is where
we love.

Speaker 3 (02:02:52):
It wouldn't be fir It wouldn't be fair to because
the motorway wouldn't have been there in those days. But
you just go, oh, you're quite close, only be about
four I thought. I felt kind of dissected by Yeah,
you're not far away all from there?

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
Oh no, no, quite a distant.

Speaker 3 (02:03:07):
About it wouldn't be more than a kilometer, would it?

Speaker 2 (02:03:11):
Probably not? But all I don't want to know is
the whether made it all up? Or they did round?
Run there?

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
They ran there your memories, godlers, they ran there, ran
and round.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
Yeah, but I'm just wondering. I thought they ran quite frequently,
and I'm sure that one who was there was two
or three of them at the time.

Speaker 3 (02:03:29):
Peter Snell, Barry McGee, me and Barry McGhee.

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
John don't tell it wasn't crack or I think us
but later, No, but there was one before that ran
a lot when he was the first of them.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
All, but before Snell pre Snell, Yeah, no, they used
to be.

Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
Together, but I can't remember there was there was half
a dozen of them at the time that they used to.

Speaker 3 (02:03:56):
Barry McGee that had the fourth square?

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
Did they Where was that?

Speaker 3 (02:04:01):
Matt Roskill.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Yees?

Speaker 6 (02:04:06):
So?

Speaker 10 (02:04:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:04:06):
And I remember Lidian when whenever the same story because
there was a height of person, probably from school because
we all kept up from that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:19):
Yeah, it would the wouldn't be much.

Speaker 15 (02:04:20):
There wasn't.

Speaker 3 (02:04:21):
There wasn't much else to keep up on to be fair.

Speaker 2 (02:04:23):
Was there. Well, I don't know. I had two brothers, so.

Speaker 3 (02:04:27):
Were they runners and fathers?

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
No, that was just too much checking in.

Speaker 3 (02:04:34):
Father brain boxers.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
Yeah, brain boxes. She's one of the only played crickets
and that that was her sport.

Speaker 3 (02:04:44):
Did they start the plant barn.

Speaker 2 (02:04:49):
When I got married? They kicked my mouth from where
she loved were dead because they the government bought the
property or somebody bought her after they got nothing for
her for they lost their help. But that's a long
time before.

Speaker 3 (02:05:05):
Was taken taken from them for forcefully.

Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
Yes, m why well for the make away and all
that widenings of the road. Yeah, but that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (02:05:18):
That's a sad story. Though they didn't care where they
go from there from where they go from.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
They were older by the end, so they got a
unit in Scendra ham jus creepers.

Speaker 3 (02:05:32):
I love a unit and saying it as it was innocent.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
Luke's what dad is hauled down the back steps anyway,
how confident and really about im was quite pleased to
get out. Goodness, the double story, how dad was getting
a bit old of us.

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
Sounds like it was meant to happen that I had
a mother.

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
Who didn't get two those worth much clearly, Yes, so
we're protect The boys were always called. There was the characters,
one boy, one grown up while he was solicit and everything.
That's about how he'd always have He probably have green

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green country for lawn and when he did married, he went.

Speaker 3 (02:06:15):
And lived in the bush cheap as whereabouts.

Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
I'm all sure, law, I never had any lawns too,
And it was a typical If you met him, you'd
probably think, oh my god, he's lived two centuries ago
or ever. Did read books from play cricket?

Speaker 3 (02:06:34):
That's all bookish, they call that bookish.

Speaker 2 (02:06:37):
Yeah, yeah, so he was funny.

Speaker 3 (02:06:40):
Didn't like I did? Did you say?

Speaker 7 (02:06:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
They all did? They all go j really Yes, just
one of these thingsn't the anyone left out of three?

Speaker 8 (02:06:53):
No? Five?

Speaker 3 (02:06:54):
O goodness, do you forget one?

Speaker 2 (02:06:59):
Wonder what God? And died when asked a child? So
we didn't have the best, we had not but we
all ended up. We all ended up coming out the
other side. There's something you can do with it.

Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
Just get on with you're onto it anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:07:18):
I just was curious about that.

Speaker 3 (02:07:21):
I think you probably did go to track and field
at Western Springs.

Speaker 2 (02:07:25):
Yeah, well, I have some idea.

Speaker 3 (02:07:30):
Might have been Murray help Marry Helberg might have been
one of them. Mary Halberg not married Deacon Marry Halberg.

Speaker 2 (02:07:38):
But I think mum used to send us all from
the Saturday night for a bit of peace.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
Yeah, pick her husband up off the stairs.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
No, he wouldn't do that much. She had five of
us and went. There was a baby arrived later, so
there's a big gap. So I'm sure she said down
every Saturday night for peace.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
What did you think of the What did you think
of the plant? But I must have given you a
weird feeling.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
I've never gone.

Speaker 3 (02:08:03):
There is in your bedroom. You didn't go.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
No, we had no house to be and I lived
somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (02:08:11):
For the Oh we're not at the plant bound place.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
No, because they took the house and they widened the road.
So where I lived probably is where the plant parers
and the world was roads all wider, and so by
that they go as well and truly married.

Speaker 3 (02:08:31):
Did you play golf at the golf club there?

Speaker 6 (02:08:35):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:08:35):
Yeah, we used to go there.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
We're getting a lawful lot of trouble. My brother was terrible.
We used to make money.

Speaker 3 (02:08:43):
Well find finding golf balls.

Speaker 2 (02:08:46):
Yeah, but my brother he didn't find it once at
a loss. He found the ones that were being you.

Speaker 3 (02:08:54):
Wow, not a bad tech.

Speaker 2 (02:08:56):
We used to get into trouble all the time. And
why not have to run away? I tell you we
had the Fells Park and the golf club, so we're
probably a sclly weds. That's all I concerned.

Speaker 3 (02:09:08):
It's like a great life. Let's thank you so much.
Nine to twelve Almost there, Gosha rip pleasant evening, reminiscing
about running. I guess I don't know why it's fallen
from favor. I guess probably it's been taken over by gaming.
What would you rather do? Run run one hundred miles

(02:09:30):
a week, or would you rather actually spend forty hours
a week playing Fortnite. Because you mentioned the shoes they
were running in too, there would have been imagine running
one hundred miles and a pair of kind of X
Navy shoes you'd get from the Army surplus shop. Be
rubbish on your heels and your tendons. Well these days

(02:09:54):
with the waffle sole of those shoes, it's any one
of those Hoker shoes, those giant shoes with a giant soles.
Don't know if they're any good or not. Seeing a
lot of people wearing those. In fact, I went to
Manawa Bae. I think it was you've been to Manawabee.
That's a bit different in it. I see it. If

(02:10:15):
benst we better go soon because of the traffic. No
traffic got the kids some pence, but that was about it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
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