Four french doors, a deck, a conservatory, and a lemon tree (11 March 2025)

Marcus hears about lost TV remote controls and incredible stories of other things lost and then found.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Greetings, good evening, Welcome and spoil water Day. It's boil
water day. And Naseby they've had a leak in the reservoir,
so that you go from the central Otago town of Naseby,
funny old town Nasby. I don't know if you've been there.
Every time i've been there, I've come away feling slightly
less together from when I arrive. What's that about? The
streets are all crooked, they're weird, it's meandering. It's just

(00:35):
a funny little town. Anyway, how are you're going people?
Welcome here till midnight tonight. Man name as Marcus. I
hope things are good where you are. Finally we've got
some rain down south that is welcome. Enable me to
plant some trees to day. Although the ground is not
entirely wed, it's still quite dry under about the first centimeter.
About three hundred plants and today, so that's progress. That's

(00:56):
been a good day for me. Anyway. Other learnings today,
I can't tell you what they are. Here till midnight tonight.
If you want to be a part of the show.
Eight hundred and eighty to eighty. I feel there might
be breaking news tonight. I've got no idea what it is.
All year, we've never used the breaking news stressing. It's
never been warranted. There was a while about three years back.

(01:17):
We're using it most nights, but if something happens, it
is my strong purpose to inform you of anything that
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at you. If there's news where you are, if there's
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(01:38):
onto it and we'll let you know what is happening.
So by tuning into the show, you are across everything
that will be happening for the next three hours fifty
three minutes. Anyway, that's a situation tonight. The number is
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two to text.
Here's something that I'm going to ask you about tonight.

(02:01):
Strangest place you've found the remote after losing it for
long time, because I out I feel the nature of
the remote has changed for a while. There it was
something quite large that kind of stayed on a table,
probably a wooden table the glass top of you stayed
there and you push the buttons. But over the last

(02:24):
few years the remote has become something that's quite tactile,
and you'll slip in your pocket and then you'll go
somewhere you'll place it, and when they go missing, goodness,
gracious me, that's the whole entertainment seemed to gone. You
can't turn on the TV, you can't do anything. I
don't think there is anything that describes the modern condition
quite like turning the house upside down to find the remote.

(02:47):
So my first start off question to you is your
story is about losing the remote. But more importantly, no,
not more importantly, equally as importantly, has anyone ever lost
the remote permanently? Because where everything always gets found, isn't it.
I would imagine that there are some furniture upholsterers that

(03:10):
have got hundreds of remotes. Down the back of every
couch would be a remote, wouldn't they, and a teaspoon
and lego. I hate to say what's down the back
of the couch, But the weirdest place, the longest you've
lost the remote, for in the weirdest place you've finally
found the remote. Kind of fascinate about that, because yes,
and now they're all kind of slicking. They're not slippery

(03:33):
with that smooth plastic that's shaped for your palm. It'll
just ziz down the back of the couch or something
like that, or fall out of your pocket. Who go
into the car and nexiting out down the back of
the car like the phone. Sometimes in the car the
remote can slip out and can go down that place
in the chair where the stalk of the receiver for

(03:56):
the seat belt comes out. You've lost anything down there? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I have?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Now it's the first place I look. So the strangest
place you've found the remote after it's been lost. I
think this is a good topic we'll soon see. So
if you've got a story about that jump and quip you,
then we might talk about things have been lost in general,
and the weird place you've found things that if you lost. Now,
I can't I can't just I can't just tell you

(04:24):
straight off the bat where I've lost something that I
found it. It's been quite interesting place. Because you've got
to be genuine in this job. You can't make up
things because you get foul like, oh goodness, graces to me,
this one time I last the remote and I found
it on one of the dwangs when I was renovating
the house. Well that's not going to work for me.
So yeah, the strangest place you've lost the remotes and

(04:44):
we've subsequently found the remote. It's a start of for tonight.
And how long was it there for? Gosh, I've been
looking forward to drink of water all day. You wonder
why I started the show. I've had twelve hours to
prepare for the show and now I've decided to have
a glass of water. What's that about? Oh eight? The

(05:07):
longest you've lost the remote for and the strangest place
where you've found the remote. I think as you get older,
you become more inclined to place things. I'm a great
one to place things on the rails, on fences, cups, spoons, phones, keys.

(05:31):
Always said, well that's a good horizontal, fun place to
put something and then have no recollection of it. Although
I haven't put the remote out there. Get in touch.
So the strangest place you have lost the remote the remote,
and the longest you've lost it for and we've subsequently
found it. I've got to be careful with this as

(05:52):
a topic. Because I don't want to get topic creep,
because it's a very fine line from where you've lost
the Sky remote to someone ringing up about the Sky satellite,
because that's catting up to talk back for these people. Yes,
we know the satellite's coming down the way. I don't
know what happens to people on freeview. They've got a dish.
You might be in peril, you might not be. I
want to stick though with the remotes. That's what I'm

(06:13):
on about tonight. Oh eight hundred and eighty Teddy and
nine two nine two detect come on. Particularly what sort
of TV? If we got LG would that be right?
It's not a very good TV. Mind, your TV's are
pretty much the same. It's in adequate TV. But the
remote is about probably an inch a cross and curved
like a banana. Were not it's curved like a straighten banana.

(06:36):
It's probably got a third of the curve of banana.
But just for boy oh boy, that and gravityre it's friends.
Before you know, zip down something zoop down? Some has
someone flopped found the remote in the freezer. I'm doing
the heavy lifting here. People come on the place. You've
lost the remote and the bizarre place that you've found

(06:59):
at bearing in mind that probably the place you've lost
the place you've found it are probably the same thing,
especially if you come home late at night your night
work like myself, looking for the remote around you go.
Does anyone know where they've put the remote? Text at
nine to nine to call it through. Oh, eight hundred

(07:20):
and eighty ten eighty breaking news when that breaks? I'm
all about that, Wow, Marcus. In the bottom of the
ironing basket was there for weeks? Such an easy place
for it to be. Marcus found our small, sleek remote

(07:42):
and our dog's stomach with the X ray because of
stomach problems. Thank god for pet insurance. Remote did not
work on retrieval, Rachel. Why would they sell a bone
shaped remote? I'm not saying that's true, but jeepest creepers.
Would a dog eat a remote because the batteries could
kill you, couldn't they? Marcus? I lost my remote. Found

(08:07):
it when I piled the washing out of the dryer
turned it turned out it was in my pocket. We
now have a smart TV and our remote is and
our phone. Same with the car radio. Did it still
work once it had gone through the full cycle? Would a
remote work through the spin cycle, lost the remote for

(08:30):
two days sitting on the tilet system first front time.
Don't know what those last three words mean. Letterbox. Don't
know how or why I'd imagine putting a letter my
remote the letter box. Oh say, we don't have a
letter box. Oh timots Marcus.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Welcome, gooding Marcus.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I think you've got a big story, Tim, I can
just sense it.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Well, yeah, I'm going to take it, make it short,
but I don't think the memory is anyway. Okay, So
thirty years ago, when I was a young man, me
and four mates got together on a Friday night, as
you do, for a few drinks with the intention of
going out, and one of them produced some mind altering

(09:17):
little bits of cardboard. Okay, yep. Anyway, so we consumed
that and had many many drinks, and there was the
owner of the house was sort of he had added
new stereo and you know, it got a bit loud
at times, so I see he took control of the remote.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
And that was that.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Anyway, We called a cab, went down to a big
pub on the north shore, and probably after about three
hours of being there, very confused but enjoying it, I
turned around to asking if he wanted to drink, and
he had the remote in his top pocket and so yeah,

(10:03):
and he was a very very even kind of guy anyway,
you know, he wouldn't necessarily do that kind of thing usually,
And the Shock Horror Forum was staggering.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
For me.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
It was humorous, but I felt bad for him because
then he was stuck with his remote control in this
pub nightclub setting. And anyway, maybe it was that you
had to be there, but you can imagine the confusion.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Whose house was it?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Who's the guy? The guy that ended up with the
remote in his pocket? It was his house and his stereo.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's the best thing about it was his house. And
it's different if you'd been on a wild night, a
wild bender and you weren't quite sure whose house you'd
but ended up with the remote your top pocket at
the and the bar was the Poe n It was
the part And yeah, sounds like a Poe night to me.
Skirt night at the Poe here we go.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, yeah, we're pretty buckled. To be fair, it sounds
you know, it was fun and but yeah, then he
was quite perplexed. And I think it may have ended
up going into town from there and then back, you know,
to his place in the morning, all the lads and

(11:25):
then someone come up with the idea, well, let's go
to way Hecki as you do, because why wouldn't you
in that condition? We did manage to get the remote
off and at that point and went to way Heki
for the day, which involves a whole different set of stories.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
To tell me. I want to visualize the remote.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Okay, So this would have been nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
That's a giant remote. It's really it's reaching out the
top of the pocket, isn't it. It's coming.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
It's well out. It's half to two fads out like
it's it's out there. You know.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's a good story, Tim, thank you, it's a good
remote story. I think it was at the Poe Armor
as well, Jeep as Davy RCUs welcome.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
Okay, Marcus. Hey list is so much a lost remote scenario,
but more more of an abuse of the use of
a remote. My brother and his next door neighbor happened
to buy the exact same TV at the same time,

(12:29):
and they lived opposite each other across the road, and
and his mate didn't have curtains on his windows. You've
got panoramic views. But as it turned out, my brother

(12:51):
accidentally worked out that when he changed his channel, the
signal actually bounced across the road to his mate's house
and could change his channel and so spread on where
he found out by accident, but realized very quickly when

(13:16):
his mate said every time he was wanting to watch something,
it flicked to a particular channel, and he realized that
it was the same channels that my brother had been
flicking through. And my brother worked out that it was
him that was doing it, and he was then able

(13:36):
to spend over the Christmas holidays watching his friend literally
get his evening dinner on a tray, sit down in
his comfy chair, sit down, pluck on the TV show
that he wanted, and then my brother would flick the
button and put on some Married at First Light or

(13:59):
something like that, and a great consternation would go about
as this chap we jumped up and trying to adjustice channel.
So I just thought that was it.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Did it resolve itself.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
It went on for about a month before my brother
told him that it was him because because his friends
said he was going to send the TV back because
he said it was remote with Bagga.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Good story, being Davey, thanks for that being Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
Yeah, hey Marcus.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Yea.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
So we brought a smart TV and it didn't come
off a remote. You when you turn it on, you
scan the QR code with your camera on your phone
and it links your phone, links your Google account and everything.
The trouble is I lost my phone and I couldn't
access to TV because you know the new TV's they
don't have buttons on them or anything. And because it

(14:51):
was Google lock to my phone without my phone, I
call an access.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
So how was that resolved?

Speaker 8 (14:59):
We had to run Samsung take it to the europe
Here agent. It was about three hundred bucks and yeah,
they got a sort of yeah, it's it's just a
good thing. You know how you put the two factor
authentication on your Google account on your phone. Yeah, if
you've got that on you, you basically bug it. I
feel ease your phone to be able to unlock your TV.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
So how so what are you going to do differently
about that? Are you going to I mean, that's crazy,
I reckon, that's just makes no sense.

Speaker 8 (15:28):
We go, We've got to I'll set up a separate
Google count. I've got a couple on my phone and
I'll link the TV TV to that, and that's not
under the two textor aumunication. So now if I lose
my phone, I can just type in the past middle
on another device and unlock the TV from there.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I don't want to sound like Larry luddye, but this
is when it gets too complicated for me. When you
need your phone a remote, when you lose your phone
until gone, that's to me, that's crazy.

Speaker 9 (15:53):
Look, it does become painful, especially if you're doing something
on your phone and you want to change the channel.
You know you've got to go onto the app to
change the channel, and it does get painful. But it's
really good because you always know where you're remote it
as long as.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
You get before.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Nice to hear from you, Ben Leader, Marcus, Welcome, Hello Hilda.

Speaker 10 (16:15):
All right, I just wanted to call and tell you
the little story about the last remote.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (16:22):
Oh, my dad he would like stop us from using
the remote, and he would like to hide it. So
one night he hit it. I think he had a
little bit too much to drip. The next morning he
didn't remember where he put it, so we would look
for it, and like years later we found it. My
mom found it in the pot plant. So it was

(16:45):
like heading for years. And we found it in the pot.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Plant and he poked it on the soil. Tell me
how it was there.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
No, it was like an artificial one that we never touched.
We didn't even move it.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
It was down the pot of it.

Speaker 10 (17:04):
It was down the pot of it.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I can really understand that happening because it's such a
You think, oh, that's good because because you were kids
at the time, were.

Speaker 10 (17:12):
You, Yeah, yeah, we were a kid. And he just
kept saying that he didn't he didn't have a last thought.

Speaker 11 (17:17):
And we found it.

Speaker 10 (17:18):
It was like you did have it last you hit it,
but you didn't know where you put it. So I
was like, yeah, a funny story about my dad hiding
the remote leada.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
How many years later would it have been.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
Years?

Speaker 10 (17:31):
I don't know because we never moved to this plant.

Speaker 11 (17:34):
Years, I don't know.

Speaker 10 (17:35):
I don't know. In the morning, three are again.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
But what did you?

Speaker 10 (17:41):
As he always used to know, was going to buy
another one. He always used to call us to come
and change channel.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh so you just did an.

Speaker 10 (17:50):
Yeah that's an old story.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
So you changed channels by getting up and pushing the
buttons and you did that for all day. Yes, did
it still work when you found it?

Speaker 10 (18:02):
Yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 11 (18:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
It's a good story. Leader, Thank you so remote, So
show the lost remotes. Oh eight hundred and eighty. Yeah,
that's that's a long one. But I can see someone
doing that down the pop plant. I've hidden things often
for kids bookshelves. I normally put it in a bookshelf
high bookshelf by one of the books. I can entirely
understand that probably the ones that are lost are the

(18:25):
ones that are wrongfully hidden.

Speaker 13 (18:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
I done that plenty of times. So we haven't got
pop pop pop plants like that. But that's a good story.
Hold your horses, Shirley back with you're suing to trun
and get some texts through push those through the pipeline.
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus
till twelve, looking forward to what you've got to say.
My kid put a phone on the toaster. Found a

(18:50):
few a few hours later in the toaster. Brilliant Marcus,
Please help, who's right home? Command on myself? Does the
remote live next to the TV where it can always
be found or always next to the viewing chair on
the far side of the room will ideally be close
to the TV. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve oh

(19:12):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty that we've got a two
for Shurley's It's exciting. Get in touch if you want
to be a part of the show. As I say, oh,
eight hundred eighty tight. Someone wants to know about what
about those cars Steerra remote? Did he want ever use them?
Can we ask the team? I don't know what a
Carstierra remote is, but I'm interested for the discussion, Shirley Marcus.

(19:36):
Good evening.

Speaker 14 (19:38):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm still thoroughly enduring your show. Having
been made a widow for a while. You really fill
in my evenings. It's with great joy that I do that.
My story is about a remote picture, four French stores,
a deck, a conservatory, and a lemon tree. My husband
and I were having a discussion regarding what he wanted

(20:01):
to watch and what I wanted to watch. He watched
what he was wanting to watch for a little while
and I I went to change it, and he growled.
So I picked up the remote and it went through
one set of French doors. Wow, they were open the
second French doors, through the conservatory out into the lemon tree.
But that wasn't the end of the story. The male

(20:21):
lemon has got huge thorns, and do you think he
could get that remote out of the tree? And I'm
standing on the deck laughing at him. In the finish
it finished up being a big joke. So my joke
is the lemon tree and the remote.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
But it went through all the French doors and the
conservatory were open. No glass was smashed, all.

Speaker 14 (20:42):
The doors were open. I took a perfect basketball shot
and pumped straight into the lemon.

Speaker 12 (20:47):
Three.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
It must have been a substantial remote. Was it like
a sky remote to fly that? Well?

Speaker 14 (20:52):
Yeah, it was, and it was very successful. We had
a very calm night after that.

Speaker 15 (20:56):
We had shared.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
How did he go into the male lemon? Did he
just get a long stick or something? Because they aren't.

Speaker 14 (21:04):
He got to lead the gloves out. He had to
do the whole Yeah, and understanding up the laughing and
laughing what all, Buddy Pinch, Do you.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Remember what show? The what show the controversy was about?

Speaker 14 (21:18):
Yes, I was wanting to watch Coronation Street and he
was wanting to watch crickets. So we're going to start
doing half and happening.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It's a real good story. Surely, thank you. Four fridge
do very well, told to four Fridgs do, that'll be
the name of the podcast. Four French Door was a
conservatory and lemon try Marcus. I don't know how many
times my partners put the TV remote in his pocket
and got out, thinking it's his phone, told me to
take fly spray back to the shop. Wasn't spraying right,

(21:47):
t I spelled? It was running around with oven spray, Marcus.
Every time my wife broke up with a partner, she
would take their remote or the handle of their deep fryer.
Leaders to say. When I met her she had quite
a significant box of remote. Yes, it's all stories about remotes,

(22:10):
which is good. This is fertile ground. It seems like
everyone's got a remote story, including me. Well, actually I
think I have a remote story. We're a house with
two remotes. Why is that ones for sky and ones

(22:32):
for the TV, and the one for the TV is
black and we've got black carpets. There's always a problem.
It's impossible to see. Sometimes it's small. It's not that
you can tie a ribbon to it to make it
the sounds like a pension AROUNTI it's like they've got
a hole you can plant, tie a ribbon to it.
So I don't know how you can do that. Jeff

(22:54):
fors Marcus welcome, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
You go, Marcus gone, good?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Thank you, am right.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I've got a great story for you, mechanomy. God will
check Donald now. Legends are made, just a legions for
story like this. But I was looking after his farm
from him. He had a bag of hits, so shining
my farm the natives fail on his farm. Anyway, this
day I was particularly busy, so I said to him, look,
I'm waiting to do it late. He said, I'm actually
I'm getting better. I might be able to do it.
So anyway, he goes out there. His boy said to him,

(23:23):
make sure you take your cell phone. If you're full over,
you won't be able to get up, and you can
ring yet he can rush.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Down and pick you up.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Anyway, he gets home and she said, from your bloody idiot,
you didn't take the remote control, I mean the cell
phone with you, And he said, yes, so I did.
She said I can't find the remote control either. Where'd
you put there? He said, I've got the cell phone
in my pocket and he pulls out the remote control
from his pocket and he's taken that, thinking it was
the bloody cell phone. Now, I don't know what he
was going to do if you fell over. Maybe change

(23:51):
the channel on the local TV. Jack Donald, he's dead now,
but he's an absolute living legend in mid Canterbury.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Nice, very nice told you if there we go again?
Good at this twenty three away from nine micas she
is ago. I had a brain wave to check my
remote it out that was playing up. The tab had
the same Samsung TV, so I took it and tried it.
It turned every set off. The teletext about ten TVs
re embarrassing. The lady had to tune them all. Rob, Marcus.

(24:20):
Not a remote. But I lost the head of my
vacuum cleaner in the house a couple of years ago.
I've never found it, Matt. I checked the pop plant,
high showers, pop plants, sconsor's rails, rails and outside fences, pockets,
coat pockets. What would you take the handle of the

(24:45):
deep fry when your relationship broke up? Evening, Max, it's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 16 (24:56):
I've got a story about a remote. We had a
golden remote was it was one that operated all the
televisions around Dunedin when we were a students and we
had a wander the streets at night and we'd change
everybody's tellies and we're just sitting there having beers and
having a great old time.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
So was it one that was specifically made or do
all remote change all TVs?

Speaker 16 (25:18):
I think you know it was the student special television.
You know, everyone were going by the three hundred dollars
tally and it had the same same remote, so you
could just go walk around and change people's See.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
You'd be around the student areas with the people that
got the same TV. Do you know what brand that was?

Speaker 16 (25:36):
Yeah, it must have been a Sony. It wouldn't have
been a Panasonic.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Well you don't you feel the envious of the student days,
don't It seems quite simple wandering around having some bears
changing the channels, rolling with laughter, brilliant, pretty one away
from nine. My name is Marcus. Welcome, hello, Mike.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (25:56):
A bit of a remote story for you, but not
really lost remote. You remember the old telephone call of
telephone that we had before pretty much landliness disappeared. That
when you lost it, you could press the button on
it and find it. Yes, I've always wondered why that
was never put on television remotes.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Of course it should Why is that not happened? Why
is that not a thing?

Speaker 4 (26:17):
And be a great idea?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Why are TV remotes rechargeable?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
You for your point?

Speaker 2 (26:24):
They have a portal? Shouldn't they?

Speaker 4 (26:26):
They should?

Speaker 2 (26:26):
The brilliant thank you. There is something you can buy
on Amazon that's called Remote Rescue thirty seven dollars. I
thought was a lot, but what it is. It's a

(26:52):
retractable string and a sticker that attaches to your remote
and then it gets anchored somewhere. Easy installation efforts. He
set up the Remote Rescue with its user friendly design
tools required. The device features adhesive on both ends, one
to stick discreetly to your table and another to the

(27:13):
back of your remote. Enjoy the convenience of retractable string
that eatly stores away we're not in use, preventing tangles
and maintaining a sleek, organized look. Customize the length of
your liking, providing flexibly for various entertainment setups. Tailor the

(27:33):
Remote Rescue your preference. When the adjustable stop or allowing
you to set the perfect distance between your remote and
the remote rescue. The word rescues doing a lot of
work in that title, because I don't know if it's
just on a string, but it's more like a remote lishus.
Our sam sung remote has a charging port and a

(27:57):
small soul of panel. But a rain today here on
the Mighty Pardo on the West coast definitely need it. Marcus.
I think that golden remote the Union student spoke of
was called a universal remote. Marcus got a UTIV a
few weeks ago. The remote has looked rechargeable, either plugging
or solar. Marcus had a girlfriend twenty five years ago

(28:23):
who lost a piece of jewelry which was quite sentimental.
Months later she would call a psychic and they told
her exactly where it was. It had fallen behind the
mantle of the fireplace. Marcus, I was teaching myths today

(28:45):
and was trying to turn off the heat pump and
the class it wouldn't work. Students pointed out that I
had the remote for the projector also did this the
other way around. Tried turning on the projector with the
heat pump remote. The joys of a teacher in the

(29:07):
remote age. I kind of wish for us that lose
the remote, that the TV just had basic channels and
things on the front of the screen. I don't prefer
ouryone that you twist and clicked, like the old TVs
that was satisfying the resistance and the click as it

(29:29):
found its next channel. Click click. The vertical hold. Gosh,
these great buttons. We no longer have no idea why
TV needed a vertical hold For those that don't know, heck,
how can I explain this? That they had a channel button,

(29:51):
a volume button, a vertical hold button, and once in
a while the picture would start rolling, it would go
up towards the top of the screen. Then the same
picture would come up again. You have to get the
vertical hold and was that slightly and settle the picture down?
God knows what was happening one of the great buttons.

(30:19):
It didn't do the same thing sideways. A legendary button. Yeah,
the vertical hold button. Have I imagined that? Is it true?
Mister Tesca will ring soon?

Speaker 18 (30:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Vertical hold brilliant? So deep TVs in those days, wouldn't
they go in the bag? All sorts of why as
we hot, how would a soul of powered remote work.

(31:00):
Would you have to take it outside Marcus part our
six k's south of Greymouth? And yes, the hook it take.
A rail line runs behind my house very close. I'll
get a picture. How many trains would run there to
a day just to get milk powder? Will that be right?
Or one a day? Because you'd stack your watch to it,

(31:24):
wouldn't you. This is the train that would go, Yeah,
it would go. Who knows what would happen. But there's
a big milk powder factory in Hoka Ticket, so I
would be going to get I presume containers of milk powder.
I think the Chinese are in the West coast Deery,

(31:44):
now do they not the I'm not saying that disparagingly,
but I'm just trying to think if they, it would
be all be for export, I would imagine. So I'd
go across to Littleton and then bang it out of there.
Do fine rail quite interesting logistics. Get in touch if
you've got texts and calls losing the remote, losing the
remote and then finding it again. Anyone want to psychic

(32:09):
about the remote? And always good to go to the
thing about what the psychics have predicted for you? If
you've helped help you find something. The other thing. Two
young children will hide remotes. They'll put them in the freezer,
freezer because it's the only place they can reach. They

(32:30):
love opening and shutting doors. That's my take on that one. Emails.
If you've got them, there's some good ones. Nice coctus,
beautiful coctus. I can see Dan's photo of his house

(32:57):
and part oh. I can also see the maximum minimum thermometer,
but can't get a reading on that one. Appreciate the photo.
We talk about remotes, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eight
nine text and losing of remotes and the longest you've
lost them for when we lost them, it's been quite

(33:19):
fertile ground for discussion. This get in touch oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty rose at Marcus good evening.

Speaker 13 (33:32):
Oh hi Marcus, how are you very good?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 13 (33:35):
Oh good remote? My friend a statuere remote and the fruits,
and forgot all about it and didn't know where she
put it.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Tell me how tell me the background to that.

Speaker 13 (33:48):
But she took something out of the fridge and she
had her remote and in her hands, so she put
that in the fridge and shut the door and got
the milk out, and then she forgot that she put
it in there.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Because people are busy and absent minded, aren't they. There's
always things that you've got to hold these and used
to have. I can see this happening.

Speaker 13 (34:07):
Yes, me too, And I've lost mine in the toy box.
Happened and mons until I cleaned out the toy box.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well you go the toy box for the kids.

Speaker 13 (34:17):
Yes, the green kid.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
I didn't want to say that. Okay, Why did she
not say it when she went back to.

Speaker 13 (34:24):
The fridge, I don't know. But not only that, she's
lost your teeth, she's lost your glasses. She's done it all.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Is she okay? Or is she got? Is she got?
Is she is? She got to meet you?

Speaker 13 (34:39):
No, not at all. She just might have been one
of those evenings.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
She might have had a couple oh yeah, ye ye
ye yeah yeah.

Speaker 13 (34:46):
It's a really good caller of the show who named
Mary Lee.

Speaker 19 (34:51):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (34:53):
She calls up the night shows.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
She wow. Of course that's probably the thing if you're
drinking at night that you've done a where you put
the remote? Of course you're going to the fridge to
get the wine, aren't you. I can see it all
happening now, brilliant. Oh that's a pretty interesting window to
the world. Head on midnight. My name is Marcus. Welcome.

(35:17):
She threw merrily under the bust and she how's the remote? Merrily?
Not a name I'm familiar with, but I can't wait
to hear from her when she finds the phone. Welcome
and good evening, Marcus till twelve talking about remotes and
losing the remotes. Yeah, mightn't sound that much of a topic,

(35:37):
but see there've been some good calls often the way
people have built the good conversation to round the topic.
Oh wait at eighty two, Yeah, Peter, Marcus welcome, O
kill Marcus.

Speaker 15 (35:54):
My I lost my remote in the folds of the
fish and chip paper And it was three days later
that I tracked back to where I lost it, and
when I rubbered through the bin, it was just covered
in the other sauce and the vinegar and the bits

(36:18):
and pieces of the person chip thing and yeah, and
from that day onwards, it's something that usually sits on
the arm rest and I just tell it my daughter
every now and then for losing it down the side
of the cout. But yeah, I've had many replacement remotes
over the years, Peter.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
For you to have done the forensics and found that
after three days, that means to me that you must
have had the most unbelievably frustrating three days to find
yourself eventually going through the Wheelibin.

Speaker 15 (36:57):
I checked the cout I checked my pockets, into the laundry,
I checked everywhere that I went to. The only place
that could have been was the red Wheelibin, and I
was correct, and I was absolutely gutted. But that life
with the TV remotes and you then you had the
stereo remote, and you had to at the little remote

(37:19):
that you usually runs those the little camera frames, remember
those old camera frames. They just have a remote and
you could change the.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Oh god, normally the fish and chips and you do
a satisfying scrunch them up, which should be the tell
that the remotes in there.

Speaker 15 (37:39):
Yeah, but you always forget that you have to cut
tier tub a maybe a can of soda. That usually
is the kind of giveaway of the hard part in
the paper. So what's the us.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 15 (38:02):
Come on, brother Tartar Sauce. Any time you have.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
It is that your daughter with you, Peter.

Speaker 15 (38:09):
Unfortunately, they're freaking out at the moment.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
They sound quite they sound quite good value. I like how,
I like how the way they're just chirping away in
the background.

Speaker 15 (38:23):
Yeah, in two seeds, but they're just at the moment.
Feen year olds just finished the network trials, so I
want to shame them. Mountain say what score? They're from
Sacred Heart College.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
I'll tell you what, Peter, you'd be the first guy
that's called from a car with children in their car
and not and managed to turn the radio off. That's extraordinary.
Most people the kids can sleep the radio on and
all sorts of time delay trouble going on. You've done extraordinarily. Well.

Speaker 15 (38:57):
The only reason I've got the radio on is I
removed the charging cable from my card to my phone,
which she used. He connects to her phone and plays
her rubbish music, and so there's there's no chords that
I've had to sit in silence.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
So whens the team announce girls? Is it days away?

Speaker 20 (39:20):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Days?

Speaker 20 (39:21):
Well?

Speaker 15 (39:22):
Good luck as the father figured they got those chances
of making the top.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Squad, well did they? Did?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
They go right at the trials though, Peter.

Speaker 15 (39:38):
Yeah, they had a trial last weekend which they didn't
feel they were confident, But tonight's one they confidence and
you know it's that whole thing of going to trial
and not as mate, just go hard so you make
the team and.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
Enjoy yourself.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Have you got two daughters with not much of an
age difference? Is that right?

Speaker 15 (40:02):
You've got one daughter but the other one is almost.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
A she's a friend, she's like the daughter.

Speaker 15 (40:10):
Yeah, yeah, we're classes family.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Brilliant. Oh what a lovely little scenario that was. It's
like a Kiwi short film. Jeeves, Where's what city they?
And then I'll just ask Peter what because I'm not
saying what That was a boys' school, but I thought
they might be awk. I don't know that. Oh god
on you. Okay, they're went in Auckland. Good Jim, AND's Marcus.

Speaker 21 (40:36):
Good evening Marcus are too, but Jim, thank you. Yeah,
just a little remote story for you. And you're you're
a similar age to me. So really you remember that.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
You sound older? Come on, mate, you do you sound older?

Speaker 12 (40:55):
America?

Speaker 19 (40:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (40:56):
Anyway, you can't say that anyway, we're of a similar
similar No, I.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Quite believe decades.

Speaker 21 (41:03):
Yes, yes, hey you're in the back in the old
is when people used to rent televisions.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, I know when the color TVs first came out,
right seventy four for the comm games that most people
would rent them, is that right?

Speaker 21 (41:24):
That's correct? And you know the other reason they used
to rent them because if you rented, you didn't have
to pay the TV license. Okay, do you remember the
TV license market?

Speaker 2 (41:33):
You're not so well? I'm sixty five. You said that
you're about sixty one.

Speaker 21 (41:39):
Nineteen got three? I've got three on you mate.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Are you nineteen sixty two?

Speaker 21 (41:44):
No, no, sixty you were born in sixty five?

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah? You said they born about fifty.

Speaker 21 (41:50):
Seven, fifty six mate?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, oh boy, yeah you are you about nine years older?

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yep? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 22 (41:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (41:59):
Anyway, so they used to have a rental TV license
which she had to pay, so people didn't like to
play there. My dad rented a TV. It was a.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
Majestic.

Speaker 21 (42:13):
We rented it from the local television shop as used
to have in a day. But he was a miserable
bugger and he wouldn't get a remote with it, so
he just got the new color TV but with no remote.
My wife and I we hired the same TV but
with a remote. We went visiting one day, he's sitting

(42:34):
in his sitting in his lounge, sitting in his lounge
watching the whatever the hell was on. I can't remember,
but it was a Saturday afternoon, so it wasn't much.
And my wife and I sat outside the lounge window
with the remote and kept changing channels and turning it
on and off, and he was up and he was

(42:55):
getting so damn angry. And because in those days you
didn't have there was nothing on the TV. You didn't
know we have was a little white bit flashed.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
So we did that.

Speaker 21 (43:05):
From our hearts for now. That was the one of
the funniest things I've ever done in my life.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
He was so damn angry.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
The funniest thing was that was taunting your father.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
Well, why not you do it?

Speaker 21 (43:20):
If he could, It's just a bit of fun, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
I didn't think the old v's head remote, you go
keep going.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Then I know that.

Speaker 21 (43:28):
Well that was that was one of the very very
first ones. So yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
You remember Kevin Black, Yes, Kevin Black.

Speaker 21 (43:38):
Had a really good remote story and he rang this
lady and the lady actually happened to be married to
the owner of Skyline Garages, and she lived in Tabatoto
and she was one of the country to ever remote

(44:02):
garage dwar and I knew the family and knew that
Blackie rang her one day one of those famous stories
which you no doubt heard and they're retold, And he
said he was from the Orcan Airport and he was
having issues with planes with the undercarriage coming down. This

(44:30):
poor woman she stood outside with her garage remote, with
Blackie on the phone, on her handheld cordless phone with
an aeriel hanging out the top, pressing her remote and.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (44:43):
It was a famous story, a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
And she would she would press and yeah, okay, And
she was right in the flight flight parts.

Speaker 21 (44:54):
Yeah, so the planes were flying overhead and she said
the wheels had come down. Anyway, good story.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
It's probably there on one of those vinyl records you
see occasionally. His best phone, Franks, I would think, would
that be right? It's probably online on YouTube now, is it?

Speaker 21 (45:12):
Prararily will be black He was classic for that.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Hi, great mind, great mind.

Speaker 21 (45:18):
Great mind, great drinker too. You got on the fist
for the monnight and he was well, ate it up
with a bar?

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Did and ate it up with a bar? And Oni hunger.

Speaker 22 (45:25):
I think he did.

Speaker 21 (45:27):
Yeah, yeah, but he used to live in Sir Mary's
Bay constably. And we went to his house one night
and we had this crazy spaniel dog. The dog's name
was Havoc h Avoc, and there was never a more
apt aim for a dog. And the dog was perfectly
suited to Kevin Black as he had the same temperament.

(45:48):
He was as mad as a snake, a dog all
over the room like anyway.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
It's a good remote story, Jim, Thank you for that.
Seventeen past nine Be in touch eight hundred and eighty
ten eight nineteen nine two detect If you do want
to come through HUTI twelve remote? Do you remember teletext?
Marcus Marcus with my husband and I had our first TV.

(46:15):
There were no remotes. He used to use a long
piece of bamboo to push the buttons from a far
to change the channels. Warbird Sunday, sixteenth March nine to four,
Hardboard Airfield Marcus. My sister got so fed up with
her husband dominating the remote she decided to hide. It
was lost for a few weeks before she heard him

(46:36):
inquiring electrical shops about buying a replacement. She had to
face up before he spinned up large on a replacement.
Cath Marcus. Back in the nineties, I used to invite
my mate Turbo to come to my place and watch

(46:57):
the All Blacks play. He would bring his scar remote
and a hide mind. Just before the hacker, he would
talk up how much she was looking forward to the
hacker and the game. Just as the huck was about
to start, he would use as a remote and turn
the channel out to Shortland Street or turn it completely off.
I'd be frankly looking for the remote or trying to
get it working on the skybox. All the while Tube

(47:18):
I would be ripping into me about missing the best
part of the game. Then he would flick it back
on without me saying do it again at halftime, And
when he left he would leave my remote on the
floor next to my chair and tell me I sort
of need to sort my TV out. He did this
a couple of times, so I worked it out. He
still dines out on the story thirty years later. Still
my best mate Waino Marcus Steve here forever lost their

(47:45):
remote when their dial ate it to operate, shake the
tail left to right to change channels, lift left poor
for volume control for on off feed one dog biscuit. Wow, Marcus,
TIMU have silicon glow in the dark, Universal remote control
covers Boom never lost again pretty past nine. In fact,

(48:15):
they got think out sixty nine. Now is your name
co or Ko? Sorry, it's k Co. It's co Co
Marcus welcome, Hi, Hey, hey, do good?

Speaker 23 (48:29):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (48:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (48:31):
I just searing your stories about the remote and it
gave me a flashback of a couple a couple of
decades ago. I was in the video store in Hamilton,
and back in those days, I had a mongoose car alarm,
you know, And I was and I was in the
store looking at the videos and suddenly heard my alarm.

Speaker 15 (48:53):
Go I thought, oh, what's this?

Speaker 24 (48:54):
So I just stepped aside just in time to see
the car next to mine see the lights flash. I thought, ah,
this guy's got the same alarm. In any case, you
got out of his car when he got in the
store out of sight, and thought, oh, I can have
a bit of fun with this. So when he was
out of sight, I beat my alarm, and of course

(49:15):
he thought it was hi, and he walks back out,
goes foot book, walks back in and again this when
he's out of side of his car. I beat mine,
just making sure he didn't see the lights flesh on
my car. I had him going backwards, him forwards quite
a few times, and I was giggling to myself. I thought, Oh,

(49:36):
but what do I do now?

Speaker 25 (49:37):
Do I tell this guy?

Speaker 24 (49:38):
He might get angry and who knows what. So unfortunately
for him, I hope he didn't spend too much money,
because I did. The cat took the carwards way, just
snuck out of the door and it was fun and
didn't tell.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Him wondering about it as what happened to the alarms.
We don't have him anymore, do I guess cars I
had to steal now A.

Speaker 24 (50:06):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, you don't hear too
many cars going.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
No, because there were some days. There were some days
that alarms would go all weekend on cars.

Speaker 26 (50:16):
I hate you.

Speaker 15 (50:17):
Yeah, thanks to me.

Speaker 24 (50:19):
I'm just reminded too of also with my car alarm
we had our officers were in the center of town
and have had lunchtime.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Sorry, just cutting out there, car. I apologize, but I
just can't hear what you're saying. But thank you. Oh,
get in touch. When we lost the two button remote
and our old wooden TV. The clinging together the two
middle dessert spoons would change the channel. I duck make myself.

(50:56):
I duck taped my remote to half a red pool noodle.
I was losing days every year searching for lost remotes.
Easy to find out, but bloody terrible looking. It's terrible
looking if you're if you've taped it to a for noodle.
Of course, look at some of the houses. You guys
are in your remote strapped to a for noodle loving this.

(51:22):
It's all about the remote. By the way, Dan has
texted me Dan's and part of On the hooka Ticker
line from Graymouth to Hooka Ticker. There's two trains a
day about four point thirty am. An empty train goes
down to Hooka Ticker, returns about anywhere between half past
three and seven pm. Don't really notice after fifteen years,

(51:46):
That's what people that live next to trains always say.
The only time they notice is when the train doesn't run.
I don't know how much deer is coming out of
West Coast aian Hoka ticker. That must be a bit
full of train, not all going on trucks. That's a

(52:08):
good thing. There was the road rail bridge. I'm not
sure what happened to that they built a new bridge.
I think that's not of interest to everyone. I realize
that sometimes with train stuff. I've got a text you
I don't understand. Hey, it's rob My was on two
out of four, so I never lose it. AH four

(52:32):
x two yep, anything remotely remote, grant, don't know what
that means. Get in touched by Ms Marcus welcome eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety the text you
have trouble finding the remote because of the remote location, Steve.
Thank you, Steve. Thanks for the text about the wool
birds too. Didn't know they had to air shot, by

(52:56):
the way, that's not my thing airbirds. How much interest
is zero interest? Marcus? Remember the old can nines two
button clicker as a remote you could jingle the car
keys to change the volume and channel. I don't really
remember the old K nine two button remote or the
two button clicker. I could google it up. I didn't

(53:21):
think the first color TV's had remote. But yes, if
you've got something to add to any of these discussions,
that's be hearing from you. Awa eight hundred and at
ten nine two nine to detext's trying to look on
the image search for those remotes. Oh, can't see them.

(53:47):
I do love those posts on Facebook, the people that
have gone to their grandparents and got the remote and
then covered everything with masking tape apart from the volume
and channel button and the on off button. We should
all be doing that, John Marcus, Welcome evening.

Speaker 20 (54:07):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm speaking to you remotely from the
Kenny Perou Sound out of my motor home at the moment.
I'm seventy k's off the main road.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
So what are you on?

Speaker 20 (54:22):
I'm on What do you mean on?

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Are you on a road?

Speaker 3 (54:28):
Uh?

Speaker 20 (54:29):
Yeah, I'm on to road. I'm in a motor home
about seventy k's off the end of Kenny Prew Head,
right out on the peninsula on the Kenny Prew Sound.
It's just lovely out here, very quiet. You talked about remote.
I just had to ring you.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
So what will what? What's the name of the what's
the name of the place where you are?

Speaker 27 (54:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Perah n O P A R A.

Speaker 20 (55:01):
Something like that. Yes, it's just a little we school there.
It's like your little week classroom and we're just down
the road on the edge of the sound freedom camping
and we can pick you up lovely and clear.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Are you seeing many people?

Speaker 20 (55:21):
Probably three cars a day in the last three days
of past the road?

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Yeah, okay, I'm desperately. I'm desperate to find out where
you are. And it's obviously spelt a different way than that.

Speaker 20 (55:35):
Yes, okay, if you go into Kenney Peru Kenny Peru
head and then come eastward from that, so westward, sorry,
westward from that to the end of the road and
the sound.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
So you're on you're on.

Speaker 22 (56:01):
Oh yeah, Kinny Peru Road.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
I'll try find it because I'll get frustrated if I don't.
I've got the lighttop of the studios. I can't see
much to make If.

Speaker 20 (56:12):
You see a place called Kryle Bay, how's that spelled?
See what A I L.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
C R A I L.

Speaker 20 (56:32):
Yes, you'll be surprised.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Yeah, I can see that.

Speaker 20 (56:36):
Is that where you are pretty close to there?

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Yes, so you've gone up round and then done kind
of a big horseshoe, kind of a you tube. Haven't
you even come back right out?

Speaker 20 (56:45):
That's correct, Yes, that's correct.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
I can see no pro too. Yeah, I haven't been
there and they just gravel roads.

Speaker 20 (56:57):
Mostly tar seal. It's amazing and they the councilor who
has been in charge of the roading since they had
that big storm, I have done a marvelous job of
opening it up. It's pretty narrow. I'm in a mobile
home a bus and it's one lane most of the way.
But they've done a really good job of opening the

(57:20):
road up for these people here. But it's SI's lovely.
There's not a lot of visitors down here at the moment,
but there's not a lot of to spend money on
here either.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
So you are on the note by the golf course
on the south facing side. Is that where you are
you more in a crailboat.

Speaker 20 (57:40):
No, that's correct. That's about where we are, just about
four k's out from the golf course. And that's a
beautiful little golf course too.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
If you don't I know that this is probably the
obvious thing to ask, but have you caught any fish?

Speaker 20 (57:57):
Yes, we have been catching one snaper a day, enough
to feed four people.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
And you've got that because you've got a boat. We've
got that from the rocks.

Speaker 20 (58:07):
No, we've got a drone off the beach between the
muscle farms. There's hundreds of them here and it's just yes, it's.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
About three cars.

Speaker 20 (58:19):
There was one tract that went past yesterday.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
So the drone takes the line out and drops it.
Is that right, You've got a button on the remote
to drop the.

Speaker 20 (58:27):
Loan correct drops four four hooks down. And we've been
using some fresh bait after we've been catching off the
beach in it. And yeah, we've been getting one nice,
very nice condition snapper a day.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
It's just nice and the cod don't take it. Was
a different bait for cod. I always thought the sounds
were cod, but the numbers are down they are a
snapper moved in.

Speaker 20 (58:53):
I can't answer that, my Marcus, because I'm from the
north from one and I'm really not familiar with the
fishing down this way. But cod is one. But we
haven't caught any cod yet.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
No, And I do see that the point opposite you
is called snapper point, and that probably indicates that SNAPPERI
probably always been there.

Speaker 20 (59:14):
Well, you've got a better picture than what I have.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Hey, how's the weather. There's a front coming up, but
it's two days away. Is the weather?

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Good?

Speaker 20 (59:23):
Weather has been beautiful the last three to four days.
But we have heard today on the local weather forecast
that there is a front coming through here probably tomorrow morning.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
It came through Bluff today. And are you Are you
living on your bus forever or you just on holiday?

Speaker 20 (59:42):
I wish no, we're on holiday down here to meet
some people in the Motorweka, which we are sort of
eng edging down that way once we get rid of
this lovely area that we're in here, very nice paradise.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
John, love you to talk to you. I've really enjoyed that.
There we go, John himself as remote. Now why have
I not been there? I've been down that walkway through Endeavor,
and I forget what it's called. There's at the Queen
Charlotte Walk, but didn't venture out around that way. But
that looks like it's only the place where it's just beginning. Wow,
that looks great. I enjoyed that a great deal. Thank

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you for that. I think and talk about you probably
mentioned any place and there's someone going there or about
to go there. My daughter got a job in the
USA as housekeeper in a gated community. A car was
supplied on her first day, coming back from the SuperMac,

(01:00:40):
she could not remember the house number, so she opened
the car window and pressed the garage door remote. Five
garage doors open in the street. The neighbors used the
same default number that came with the doors, same house builder.
John My parents' first color TV had a remote attached
by a cable. Worst thing about it was the TV
was sold to them as you from a shop, but

(01:01:01):
when it gave trouble, it was discovered that was secondhand goodness,
good news for the pope. He woke up on Tuesday
to good news from his doctors that upgraded his prognosis
and says no longer an imminent danger of death as
a result of double pneumonia pneumonia and pneumonia that kept

(01:01:23):
him hospitalized through the month and his longest and gravest threat.
He's not outther words yet, however, doctors are still cautious
to decide to keep him hospitalized for several more days
to receive treatment, not to mention a period of rehab
he was will likely need. There you go, still on
the oxygen to breathe and a ventilation mask at night

(01:01:46):
to help him breath, Or who hasn't got one of
those oh eight hundred ninety to text crazy about kitchens?
Crazy about kitchens? Well, it's better than singing the commercials
than singing the theme tuned for Love actually, which I've

(01:02:07):
been singing for two days. I've even watched the movie
What's that about? Seventeen to ten? Anyone else remote? We
are remote? I think that guy is probably one of
the remotest. I mean, I don't think there's anyone at
the bottom end side of the South Island that would
be more remote. Haven't they ever got anyone at the

(01:02:30):
Auckland Islands. Oh, I don't know if the Mutton birders
would be there. When do they head off? They're probably
not down there yet. I don't think.

Speaker 11 (01:02:40):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
There were choppers going in and out today. Maybe there
are people down there. They're pretty remote as well. They're
on the islands. A lot of those are in the
islands south of a Rocky or as Stuart Island. You
think I'll be a little bit early for them. I
think we'll get the first team in the school holidays.
I think they go off sixteen to ten. If you've
just joined the show, welcome, we're talking about the longest

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length of time from when you lost the remote when
you found the remote. One guy hid it from his
kids and the pop plant the fake pop plant. It
was years till they found it. Another guy wrapped it
up and well he must have had the fish and chips.
He put the remote down, rolled it all up and
the bit it went in the red bin. At least
he had it in the right bin. Three days. It's

(01:03:29):
a long time for remote to have gone, because in
three days you'd turned the house upside down, wouldn't you. Yeah,
it's the discussion tonight and losing things and finding things.
And some guy found the remote with a psychic down
the back of the mantel piece. I don't even know
how that happens. And then remote stories in general, and

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these have been good. I'm not sure about drone fishing.
That does sound quite special though, just dropping the line
out there better than winning down one of those giant
kind of things you see on the TV commercials that
look like their way about three ton that seems the
summarine out with the big wheel reel. Well, they catch fish,

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don't they. Stephen Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:04:19):
Yes, Gid, you mean the Mutain Boog season. It starts
the perft of April to the thirty person may.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Brilliant, Okay, And they go don a couple of weeks earlier,
do they.

Speaker 19 (01:04:30):
No, it's that is the normal season. The perf of
April to the thirty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Person may appreciate that. Stephen, thank you for that. Max Marcus,
Welcome our home.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:04:42):
You mentioned drone fishing. I've been getting into the drone
fishing in about the last nine months. Got me a
little drone there and yeah, it's it's quite a bit
of fun really. I think it's more about flying the
drone the next fishing, you know, guys with their toys.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
So I'll just try to think of the setup. Do
you have the drone controls attached to the fishing line?

Speaker 28 (01:05:12):
No, they they the drone controls is separate. It's like
on a little console that you hold in and some
of them, I think there are there's different models, you see,
so I think some of them can be on your phone.
That the one that I have is just on a

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like a console and it's got all your up and
down and left and right and so on. So the
whole thing is that what you do is you when
you before you launch it, your your line and everything
with it. You actually calibrate the drone and it picks
up normally about fifteen satellites, so it's all GPS. So
what will happen is when you launch it and you

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send it out, it can go out as far as
a kilometer. The one that I've got, which is not
an expense, well it's not. It's not the pro model.
So once you get it out, you push the button
and it releases the sinker and the hooks and stuff,
and it goes up from where you release it. It'll

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go up, ascend to forty meters and then it'll turn
around and it'll fly back to where you are and
where you calibrate it. It's pretty accurate a land almost
like within oh just you know, just half a meter
where you calibrate it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Indeed with your line. Is that on a reel that
you just put into this house. That's not on a
fishing rod, that's just the real you just put into
the sand. As that how it works.

Speaker 28 (01:06:47):
Yeah, you can use either a fishing reel with a rod.
Some guys have electric reels on them because they go
it quite away so they can haul the thing back
in with it so they're not to stand they're winding.
But I've actually got a rod and reel so that
one doesn't go out quite as far that when I'm

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going about one hundred meters. But I do have a
reel that has got five hundred meters of line on it.
But what I do find is that when I send
it out, you're going to be very careful. I've had
one or two little heacuts with the with it calibrating,
and I don't like losing sight of it because you know,

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I mean, once it gets out about three hundred and
fifty meters, they're quite small. I mean, if it's at nighttime,
you see the lights, it's all right. But if it
goes out sort of beyond that, you actually can't even
see the thing. So you're sort of flying blind, really,
and you're just hoping it's going to drop the sinker

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and then come home. And I don't like losing sight
of it because of it. If something happens.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
The line is down, do you leave it for a
while or you just start pulling it straight back in?

Speaker 12 (01:08:05):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (01:08:06):
No, I generally leave it out there for you know,
it's like setting a long line.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
But so how do you how do you tell if
there's fish on it? Can you can you tell?

Speaker 28 (01:08:15):
You can normally feel the weight. I mean, they even
just want one car. Why, there'll be quite a bit
of pull and so on. Yeah, yeah, but generally it's
like I can put seven hooks on my one. But
one of the downsides with drone fishing, and I have
to say this in case anybody's getting interested, is the wind.

(01:08:37):
I can only launch it when the wind is under
twenty four kilometers, So you know, around the coast here
quite often we have you know, you can be limited,
whereas if you have a kon tickie it's not so limiting.
But the kon tickie I had one of those too.
I sold it in the end. But they're those those
big ones. They're incredibly heavy and unless.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yeah, yeah, the wood is that because it's there's too
much line up there and that gets blown the or
the the drone struggles with the wind.

Speaker 28 (01:09:09):
Yeah, you've got to consider the drag on it. What
I have done when when when the wind gets up,
I just lightened the payloads. Sead of putting seven hooks,
I by down and put three. But you've got to
be careful of the gusting right. The met surf is
pretty good on the app on the phone overlooked to
see what's happening there. But but that is a little

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bit limiting because you know, I mean around the coast,
I mean save you and Warrington, you've got the southerlyas
and and you know, so out of recently, like going
back four weeks ago, for about three weeks, it was
only like two days out of seven that I could
actually get out and use the thing, which is a
bit so that's the downside. But the upside is it's

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good fun and you're.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
Catching good You're catching good fish.

Speaker 13 (01:09:58):
MiGs.

Speaker 28 (01:09:59):
I've caught a few, but I haven't caught a snappy yet.
Could have garnet and some why but I really would
love to catch a big snapper. But I think it's
on its way. There's one out there and that's got
my name.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
I've got to go get in touch with us, Max.
Would you catch it? Thank you? That'd be me. Lines
are free. If you're trying to get through good keep trying.
We're talking about losing the remotes. The longest time between
you from when you've lost the remote and when you
manage to find it, it'll be years and some And
just losing things in general. That's always good for me.

(01:10:40):
And the weird place you've looked an issue aware the
whole time, you will place things and not know where
they are. You think, oh, I know where that is,
and then cheaper. I've done that with my keys at work.
I'll leave them somewhere that's to be an interesting place
to leave my keys. Well, it's only interesting because I
can no longer remember where it was. That's what we're

(01:11:00):
on about tonight. I get in touch when of miss
MICUs welcome. Also fishing with drones. Find that fascinating. I
don't really know much about that. I don't think I've
got a problem with it. It makes perfect sense. It's

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just about getting the line out to where the fish
are providing. Even't got kelp and stuff to drag it
back through. It makes perfect sense to me. I haven't
actually seen a lot of people fish and bluff off
the wall in the rocks. I haven't seen people do
it with a drone might be particularly useful. I haven't

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even seen people at all eaty beach us a drone either,
But I imagine it's something that's taking over. It makes perfect sense,
doesn't it, to get your line out like that. I
believe were really with driving. I still think with drones
we haven't really quite worked out the point of them.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
Have we.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Not a kind of mini uses for drones, like when
they do those giant pictures in the sky. That seems
a lot of pilarva, doesn't it. None of them are
delivering our parcels yet. I've noticed it seems to be
a long time before that happens. It's kind of what
we are on about tonight too, if you want to
talk about that or anything else to losing the remotes
or losing anything basically lost and found. Who's been to

(01:12:22):
a psychic? Oh, you might have lost rings too. People
have to lose their rings, don't. They take their rings off,
can't find them. That's common. Ah, eight hundred and eighty
today eighty Simon Marcus, good.

Speaker 20 (01:12:35):
Evening, Killead Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 29 (01:12:38):
Simon?

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 30 (01:12:40):
That's good.

Speaker 20 (01:12:41):
I don't lose remotes, but I I don't smoke anymore,
and so I have a bath. And do you know
what my wife said to me, you need to tie
that thing around your head. So I always lose my vape.
It's just the same kind of thing, isn't it really?

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
And you guys hang off you you guys hang off
your vapes because it's not like a smoke. You put
the smoke down, you sit like to your beard a smokes.
Smokes are dangerous.

Speaker 20 (01:13:07):
You put it down, you put it down, then you
go ship wherever.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Yeah, but with cigarette, with cigarette? Should ever put those down?
Because that have like the house you no got the
expensive smoke suddenly aren't there?

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Here you go what I came smoking?

Speaker 24 (01:13:25):
Because it's where where do you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Find you leave you? Where do you find you leave
your vape?

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
Well?

Speaker 22 (01:13:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (01:13:32):
Sometimes so I bought two. I would have backed up
one as well.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
You're cutting down? Then are you cutting down the nicotine?
Sounds like you're not?

Speaker 20 (01:13:42):
Absolutely yeah you sure?

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Dog?

Speaker 20 (01:13:46):
Yes, well two point eight. I don't know cigarettes these
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
I don't smoke, but if I would, I would smoke
the vabes. I would smoke the analogue. I wouldn't go
to the vabes. Whatever I singing the other day, I
seen the other day we went to the Warriors for
the first match thirty years ago. It's ok at the
rugby league. But you wouldn't do that now, would you?

Speaker 20 (01:14:09):
Don't talk to me about all that kind of I know,
but depressed about all everything?

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
And hang on, hang on someone, what are you depressed.

Speaker 20 (01:14:16):
About in there and the black Caps.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Did you what was that? Was that an eventful match?

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Was it?

Speaker 20 (01:14:27):
Well? The Indians ruled the roast basically, and they based
themselves where they were because they all the money and traveled.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
But unfair they wouldn't go to Pakistan and they just
stayed where they were.

Speaker 20 (01:14:41):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yes, you got it. Yeah, you're you're
you're on the money.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Pleasant.

Speaker 20 (01:14:49):
I just I just heard your thing about losing controls
and I lose my baits and I just I just
had to ring you. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
No, it's very good. I appreciate that something. James, Hello,
Market's welcome evening.

Speaker 5 (01:15:03):
Well, good, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
James?

Speaker 5 (01:15:07):
Well, I've got a buddy story from when I was
in London, right and me and my brother we had
a few, We had a couple as you do.

Speaker 22 (01:15:19):
I'll dropped my.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Phone on the on the underground and it went from
South London which is about an.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Hour and a hang on, hang on, hang on, James,
just stop.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
Yeah, where are you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
I'm standing outside of my balcony at the moment, Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
I can hear crickets.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
Yeah, yeah, you can get the buddy out they've wiped
me up every night.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Bloody crickets. So there you are on there, you've had
a few, as you do, and then you and your
brother are on the London Underground.

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
London Underground, and I've realized as we've just got to
our stop we were we were visiting family in the
south of England. So we've gone up to London to
visit extended family, which is a bit of a trip.
We've learnt the trains and we've done all that. We've
a shirt. Next thing, I realized that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
I've lost the phone.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
Gone the last train home, which is about not going
south back time, I realized I lost it. Well, it
turns out someone picked it up in North London, about
two hours north. Someone actually picked it up off off
the t and made the effort on the emergency contact

(01:16:42):
in the phone and called my brother who was with me,
and we've gone. We've had to then go two hours
north pick up the phone. We didn't get home that night.
But it's another story. I just think there's some good
people in this world.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:17:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
I don't know where you find fine, how you find
that contact? You'd have to undo the password on the phone.

Speaker 11 (01:17:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
I don't know how she found it either. Don't get
me wrong, I don't know how she found it. I'm
not going to argue that. Boy, I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
No, because I found a phone. I found a phone once.
I was out in the backs of Queenstown and it
was someone had lost and it was locked and in
the phone rang right and it was the doctor. Yeah,
and they're ringing with results, and I thought, well, actually
that's not something I need to be a part of.

(01:17:37):
So then it all got a bit murky.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Well, I don't blame you, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
No, And I walked back to the end of the track,
and then a woman came towards me. She'd have you
seen have you? Have you found a phone? And I said, well,
funny should ask? I said, By the way I ask
her her if she was a doctor anyway. There's a
miscall from a doctor anyway. So yeah, a little bit,
a bit sketchy. End of story. Nice to talk to you, James.
Thank you losing things. I'd love to talk about losing

(01:18:04):
cell phones because that seems to me a rich kind
of a topic. Play if you can track them down
and you got a sketchy people's houses. Is that something
that we do, probably, But mainly it's about remotes because
they send me the things we lose most often that
caused us the most annoyance and vaps. Oh, this is
always a challenge. Marcus not sure, Marcus not sure how

(01:18:26):
this will come across right in a text. But here goes.
Many years ago, my only parents lived across the road
from us in Wabadu, Dad for a few weeks said
on Wednesday morning, something weird's happening with our garage. It
opens up during the night. Took me a few weeks
to click that. My husband always went to Bridge on
a Tuesday night. When he arrived home, he'd opened our garage,

(01:18:50):
but he had set our opener to be the same
as theirs in case we had to go over there
to their place of the night. We had to fesce
up when we clicked came across. Well, if you are
putting keys or something else a different place, you an
easy jog. You'll meet place the object in your non
dominant hand, cross the hand over the midline of your body,

(01:19:18):
and tell yourself where you have put it. You will
not forget because your brain logs that you have used
your non dominant hand. Forty years I've been in this game.
That's probably the best text I've ever seen. That's brilliant.
Put it in your non dominant hand. My wife and

(01:19:41):
I don't do Christmas presents to each other. Last Christmas Eve,
my five year old son asked me what I had
got my wife for Christmas. As I explained we don't
do presents to each other, he put into a prison
under the tree for me from my wife. They were
jendles I was meant to buy earlier in the day,
but it had run out of time, so she brought
them and wrapped the put under the tree. Putting you
on this spot, I just had to say it was
a surprise. To my wife's excitement, she found a present

(01:20:05):
for me under the tree, TV remote that I took
off the bench and wrapped, plus a bag of coffee
beans from the cupboard. My wife thought it was hilarious,
but my son todd it was weird and he will
help me with present choosing next Christmas. Talking about things

(01:20:25):
we lost when we had a few drinks we would
end up with we would end up into the Allison
Hols frozen sausage rolls we'd grab a log of them
and cut them up and cook them. We did this
one night, and I wrapped the last log in glad
rat we put in the freezer, or so I thought,
until a couple of weeks later when the flatmate asks
while the glad why the glad rate was in the freezer,
which means there was a two week old, uncooked sausage

(01:20:48):
roll log in the kitchen drawer. To be fair, they
both looked similar. I'm going to murray it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 31 (01:20:58):
Yeah, good evening, Markish. I just heard in that link
to a call of pre use about the days of
Kevin Black, the DJ yees, So I just thought i'd
just share an angle because I actually a long time
ago actually met the guy.

Speaker 32 (01:21:15):
Yes, yeah, So the thing about Kevin Black he was
probably one of the most gifted DJs in the rock genre,
because I heard behind machines that a lot of his
faux pas and skeitzy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
I recently took the screw on the plug to put
the spa off to drain the water. I remember thinking,
I'm not gonna I'm gonna put this plug in a
really clever place because it's a critical component of the Spa.
Now I can't remember that clever place and so now
no spar staalipty, I will find it. Marcus. In the

(01:21:51):
seventies I was the remote for Mum and dad. Glad
there are only two channels, Marcus. I came down from
Auckland to christ Church for Cup Week a few years ago.
Were you bert from town on to a Ricketon and
I left my phone in the uber. I realized after
about now I was a grab my mate's phone and

(01:22:11):
rang my phone. The driver runs and said to bring
it back, and I paid for the trip. I said,
just call me when you get your next job coming
to Ricketon, and I'll come out and get the phone.
Here greed and I had my phone back about three
hours later. Top Man five star rating in a good tip,
brilliant good evening, John AT's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:22:35):
Good evening market. Going back to the early nineties, A
business associates and myself. We're in Japan. We were heading
back to New Zealand with Japanese hosts. We stopped at
the coffee house just out just as we were going

(01:22:56):
to the Nagoya Airport for a coffee, and we were
a bit early for our flight and Anyhow, my associate accident,
he left his sunglasses at the coffee shop. We came
back to New Zealand and ten days later those glasses
arrived in the post. The people that owned the coffee

(01:23:20):
shop knew the Japanese people, and they tracked who we were,
got the address and sent them back. How about that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
It's remarkable, isn't it. It's a nice story, and yeah,
and that's what people should do. John, thank you. Good evening.
So it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 33 (01:23:41):
Good eating. Marcus and I found a phone several years
ago up on the porthills in christ Jet. I was
walking up there, found a fast sylphone lying in the
middle of the road and figured it hadn't been there
very long. It was ringing and ringing. I didn't know
how to answer it, so I said, oh well, I'll
keep on my journey down to the bottom of the hill.
So I asked one or two people and they were

(01:24:02):
very keen to take the phone, and I thought, no,
this looks an expensive in an expensive case, I'll hang
on to it. So the phone kept ringing. I figured
it was the person who owned the phone. Long story short,
I got to the other side of christ Church where
I lived, and I thought, I'll go in to vote
a phone which was there then, and they told me
what to do. I got home and I rang, the

(01:24:23):
lady rang, and she was so excited. She said, where
do you live? I told her, and she arrived with
an enormous bunch of flowers, a bottle of wine, chocolates.
I've never seen anybody so excited. She was so delighted.
She said, Oh, she said, You've got no idea. We
carry all this information on our phones. And she said,

(01:24:45):
then you lose it. She said she had been walking
up on the porthills, but she got out of a
four wheel drive, put the phone on the roof, you know,
and went walking and then suddenly remembered she'd left it
on the roof of the car.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Goodness, it's a lot. It's a lot to bring flowers
and wine.

Speaker 33 (01:25:04):
And I know she was so excited. They were up
from Wanica. Their daughter had got married and they were
up here to sort of help her to paint her
new house.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
That's a nice story, So I thought.

Speaker 33 (01:25:16):
That was really yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:25:19):
I couldn't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
How did the votaphone people, what did they tell you?
How to find out who it was?

Speaker 33 (01:25:24):
No, they didn't. Well, she just knew. She just kept
ringing and ring. She thought somebody would eventually answer it,
she said, And I couldn't answer. I didn't know how
to unlock it. So the Voter Phone people unlocked up
for me, so then they were able to she was
able to contact you know, I was able to.

Speaker 19 (01:25:38):
Talk to her.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Well okay, but I.

Speaker 33 (01:25:41):
Had, you know, that was what I did. It was
just lucky the Vota phone people were near where I lived,
so that I.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Think, normally you can answer a phone. I don't know
what goes on there, but I think normally you can
answer one.

Speaker 23 (01:25:51):
Can't you can?

Speaker 18 (01:25:52):
Did?

Speaker 33 (01:25:52):
I didn't know how to? And then I asked one
or two people and they didn't know, but they wanted
to take the phone blast, No bigger, I'll take the
phone myself.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Wow, n story.

Speaker 33 (01:26:05):
It was just it was the joy that it gave
her that was amazed me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Yeah, well no, I think too, because it a hassle
to lose your phone. You lost everything. That's your world,
isn't it now? Thank you for that lost the car
key fob a month ago, five hundred and twenty one
dollars for a forward for a replacement. What a Roard

(01:26:31):
Marcus on the Samsung ten plus Fione. I have placed
ice contact on lock screen under contact information. In nineteen
ninety six, my husband and I traveled Durope with Trafalgar Tours.
Only for on the of us on the bus were Kiwi's.
Each day the tour guide entertained all passengers with some

(01:26:52):
of Kevin plank Black's prank phone calls. The laugh from
the bus was wonderful. Love your show, kind regards, Chris, Hello,
Gary Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:27:06):
This is a story about a key. So I went
to Murauai lost khaki. That is, we went to burau
I and decided to go down one of the steep
hills to my daughter and I then lost my footing
and did a big kind of four forward rolls and
had an undignified splat on the kind of path below.

(01:27:29):
And I then got up and then kind of embarrassed
and walked away. This was about two o'clock. We were
watching you know, there was a time back. There was
some comet that was coming through. So we were waiting
for dusk for the comet to come. So we went
and saw the comet. It was amazing. It was about
ten o'clock at night. And then we said, right, it's
time to go. And then my wife goes, well, you've

(01:27:51):
got the key and I don't have the key, and
then I looked and then I'm thinking, this is like
and we live on the other side of Auckland.

Speaker 15 (01:28:04):
So the sack.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
For those don't know, just son to appreciate the story,
Modwai is a West Coast beach north of Peaha, so
wild West coast beach with sandhills yep, okay, yep, and literally.

Speaker 25 (01:28:16):
An hour and twenty minutes to our house on the
other side of Auckland. So I'm thinking, what the hell.
So anyway, there's me down the side of the mountain
looking for the key with my torch and trying to
find it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
Did you did you have a torch on your person
or use your cell phone torch?

Speaker 25 (01:28:35):
Cell phone torch? So that's kind of that's quite pathetic.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
That's the era.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:28:41):
Anyway, So anyway, I said, we were lucky that my
son was there, and we decided that I would go
back get the sphere key and drive all the way back.
I get back to our place.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
And as we hang on, hang on, listen, your son
was there. Your son's an adult with his own car.

Speaker 25 (01:29:02):
Yes, yes, yes, true.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
So you drive back to Howard am I thinking, yes, yes.

Speaker 25 (01:29:09):
Well done, yep. So we're there, and when we I
get back, grab the key, and of course I'm sitting there,
you know, the whole time going you bloody.

Speaker 11 (01:29:20):
You full, you full?

Speaker 26 (01:29:21):
What an idiot?

Speaker 31 (01:29:21):
What are you?

Speaker 25 (01:29:22):
That's the whole thing. I'm thinking, this is really late.
Were all want to be ginning up early in the morning.
And of course my wife's waiting there in the middle
of a car park and thinking some widow is going
to come and get it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
She should have come back, she should have come back
with you in the sun.

Speaker 25 (01:29:36):
Oh no, she was there was there was hot. There
was a whole argument about that about who's going to
drive back, and I don't want to drive back because yeah, yeah, yes,
just kind of like came to the rone. But that
was the agreement. Anyway, So where's I'm going out and
I'm driving along the waterfront to go back there. My

(01:29:57):
wife friendsby and she goes, you can't guess what's just happened,
And so I said, wat goes I'm sitting in the
car and all of a sudden my car locks and
then it unlocks and then it locks again, and there's
a guy driving around the car park with my key.

(01:30:18):
And then when he found it, it comes up and goes,
is this your key? And he goes and smiles, goes,
yes it is, and she goes, oh, I found it
earlier today, but I didn't know who it was because
all the people. So I went home and thought I'd
come back to now and find it easier.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Wow.

Speaker 25 (01:30:37):
So the guy, the guy had found us with the key,
which made it kind of like a bar, was thinking
what you know, I was thinking bad things. I think
he's coming back to steel bloody car or is it?
But no, but my wife said he was a really
nice guy.

Speaker 22 (01:30:50):
And yeah, well crazy in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
The car, was she? Because the car was locked?

Speaker 25 (01:30:58):
No, well no, it was unlocked and we were and
we didn't have the key, so she was just sitting
in the car. Grandfather that was there as well, so
she was on her own.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Oh so the grand the grandfather was sitting in the
unlocked car. Yes, And so they're both sitting in the
car and the car start the car study locking and unlocking.

Speaker 25 (01:31:20):
Yeah, yeah, and they're going they're looking at each other
going what the hell and like this, and then of
a sudden, this guy comes past his vand and then
hands it over.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
And what's it? What's the What does the guy say?

Speaker 25 (01:31:32):
He just said he was there earlier in the day
he found the key. He didn't know what to do
about getting the key to anybody. But later they thought
they'd come back and see if they could find the
person by unlocking the car, and then they would find it.
And so that was about ten o'clock at night.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Couldn't have just unlocked the key when he found it
and they just put the keys in the car.

Speaker 25 (01:31:59):
Yeah, sometimes you don't know. We'll think so anyway, relieved,
and I still kind of like nowadays, I am so
worried about when I go somewhere about the keys.

Speaker 13 (01:32:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
I can understand that it's a long way with three
generations of the family right across town. How Tom, you
do I to fight wow to see the commet Yeah,
I mean I reckon the guy is skitchy.

Speaker 25 (01:32:29):
Well it could have been. I mean all my family
were handing me the loser cards, you know, like they
were going here you can go back, and you know
there was this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Well it's never good, Garry. It's never good to fall,
is it? Because you get a fright and then you
lose stuff and you try and regain your composure.

Speaker 25 (01:32:44):
Well, of course when I fell, I like a scuff
that was bleeding, and my scuff and knee and all
the rest of it, and of course my daughter is
all embarrassed, and I just tumbled down the side of
the hell.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
So you got your grandfather, your wife, your son, and
your daughter.

Speaker 25 (01:32:59):
Yeah, I know, as the whole clan was there. We
had we had the whole clan. Then my son had
his girl friend there, so it was about six or
seven of us total. Yeah, so it was an eventful night.
We did find the keys anyway, so.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
We got why the guy had come back and say, oh,
because it's not like there's a lot of cars ever,
the car bucket mout away.

Speaker 30 (01:33:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:33:19):
My wife's a pretty good person at judging character, though,
and she said he didn't seem dodgy. He's seeing legit.
So and she's always been a good judge of character,
except for marrying me.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
I think, oh, go up down on yourself. You're making
me sad about that good evening. And it's Marcus.

Speaker 30 (01:33:37):
Hello, Oh hello, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:33:42):
I was in Las Vegas with my two children and
their families. So that meant four adults and five children,
children between ten and five. Anyhow, my son comes up
to me at the airport and says, have I got
his tickets? And I said no, and he went back

(01:34:04):
to the counter and he couldn't find them, and the
security had a look, and then they got the marshals
to come in and have a look talk to him
to see what could happen. Where could they be. Not
only did the folder have his tickets, his passports for

(01:34:25):
the family and his money. So he was very concerned,
very just didn't know what was going to happen. And
the marshals said to him, now, what did you do?
He said, well, I checked in and then I had
the trolley that the sickcases are on, and he said

(01:34:45):
I was taking it back outside and then he said,
oh no, I let the door to take it. And
they went back outside and the black folder was still
sitting at the top of the trolley. Wow, I mean, yes,
I don't know what we would have done.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Actually, yeah, boy, the relief must have been a huge.

Speaker 11 (01:35:07):
Well, we've been to New York and we were in
Vegas and we were going to La on the way home,
and I sort of thought after itself. I think we
might have just come home if it had.

Speaker 15 (01:35:16):
All gone to custant.

Speaker 11 (01:35:18):
But once he says he got the marshals, I thought,
what's going on? But they were very good and he
was just extremely lucky. Yeah, it was just that it
was a black folder on top of a black surface.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
It's a great It is a great feeling when you've
found something you've lost. I'm not quite sure if the
feeling is as good as the dread when you realize
you've lost something.

Speaker 11 (01:35:43):
Well, when you've lost something in you're overseas and you've
got no other everything, your hand, your money, everything was
in there, at least myself and my daughter and her kids.
We had our own, you know, we would have helped out.
But oh, you think, what's going to happen. Do we
get the plane, don't we get the planed? What do

(01:36:03):
we do? But it was a good it was a
good story in the end.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
It's a great story, Anne, brilliant. Thank you so much
for that. Marcus. My keys are on a lanyard now
to minimum is losing them. Cheers Roger. This might come
as a surprise to you. It might not come as
a surprise to you. I hate a lanyard. Can't bear

(01:36:31):
a lanyard always, They always look so terrible around your
neck with though sometimes when I go to work and
all they give me a lanyard, can't stand it. And
I judge people that were a lanyard. I think cheapest
creeper is your life? What's happening that you've got to
have a lanyard around your neck like that? Look you're
working for NASA going through top secret door. That's just me.

(01:36:56):
If I ever have to have a swipe card on
a retractable string, I have it on my pant pocket.
Find that snazzier anyway. Well, these days I've got my
swipe card for work, and I've got three cards, and
my wallet never leaves. My pocket fits perfectly. Because you

(01:37:19):
don't want to spend your life looking for things you've lost. Hi, Garriots, Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:37:28):
Grevling Marcus. Three three little stories about remotes. We bought
a well, we shifted the house, and we bought one
of the slash door bell ring of things. And you know,
every now and again to go off and you go
out there, nobody's there because of the kids playing cup branding.
And I cut a long story short. I found out

(01:37:50):
that was neighbors. I had visitors and their doorbell what
our doorbell was on the same code as there, So
pulled it to bits and changed that one. So that
solved that problem. Now TV remotes. My wife used to
work for the Farmers Trading many many years ago, and
when she left, she got a TV with a remote.

(01:38:15):
But you talked about a cable remote. I heard you
earlier one and yeah and yeah. She left in about
twelve months later, the same manager in there and he
said I want you back, and he said you can
have another TV. You bring your TV in and he said,
I'll give you a color one with a with automatic remote,

(01:38:37):
you know, get one that's just on the sofa. So
that's that one, but the real classic one is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
Well.

Speaker 22 (01:38:48):
We shifted over to tower on her and we're in
the Bayfair big parking. I parked our car in there,
had a couple of proms with a real rumbling car,
and they sort of came in quite quietly and on
the first floor and then they sort of went down
in and so they read this thing up where it

(01:39:08):
was about four car alms all ready off it disappeared
and up to the second floor and we could hear
them and you know up in there and there was
about three or four floors, these Junke fellows. Yeah, they
had a hell of a fun day. The whole mildage

(01:39:29):
was the car alms gone. Of course nobody knew you're
all inside the big Bayfair shopping center. But I thought
the real thing about that jefer. Yeah, good on new kids.
You know, a harmless one.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Nice to hear from you, Gary, Thanks so much for
that saving away from eleven. Marcus. If you go into
the contact on your phone and tap your profile at
the top of the screen, a screen will come up
for you to into your emergency contacts. Those numbers can
be accessed by tapping the emergency phone on your line screen.

(01:40:07):
I don't know if that's true, is it? No? I
can't say think on my lock locked screen. No, I
don't think can get into a phone on your locked screen.

(01:40:28):
Sit in the password you But what's that got? Good evening, Amy,
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Amy.

Speaker 18 (01:40:44):
So I am calling because a few months ago I
went on Facebook Marketplace and I bought a phone and
it turned out that it had been a stolen one
that had been broken. So this is a warning for everyone.
Do not defy phones on Facebook Marketplace or you will
lose a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
It was a stolen phone that had been broken, so.

Speaker 18 (01:41:09):
Pretty much it's like had been blacklisted. I couldn't do
any calls. It had no cellular network.

Speaker 2 (01:41:17):
Do you ever write a reply with marketplace?

Speaker 18 (01:41:22):
Well? See that was my mistake is there's nothing that
they can do. So everyone who's listening to news storms
who not just stamped on Facebook Marketplace?

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
How much you pay for it?

Speaker 18 (01:41:35):
Four hundred dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Was it picked up?

Speaker 18 (01:41:37):
Waiting hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Where did you?

Speaker 4 (01:41:39):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:41:39):
Did you meet them.

Speaker 18 (01:41:41):
At their house? And I did go back. I did
go back a few times, and I was like, can
I please with my money back? Can I please with
my money back? It was a big no on that one.
Oh and then I printed out a letter and I
touched it on their door. Didn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
What did they decay on the door? That seems free medieval?

Speaker 11 (01:42:01):
Thank you?

Speaker 18 (01:42:01):
And it truly it was it truly. Well I got
out my quill and my ink in my fitter so
but I just please, it was it was honestly forbid.

Speaker 12 (01:42:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:42:12):
Well what yeah? Okay, Well were they skitchy when you
went round there?

Speaker 18 (01:42:18):
Honestly No, they seemed like a very normal, average Joe.
It was a very very very normal encounter.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Yeah, are the police don't interested in this? I don't
know what goes on with who these days? Are the
police interested stuff?

Speaker 18 (01:42:35):
The police honestly do not care, and I wouldn't either.
I feel like if I heard a little like like
twenty year old girlman like please like my phone? You know,
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
But four forties a lot, isn't it?

Speaker 29 (01:42:49):
If I know?

Speaker 18 (01:42:50):
I mean it is?

Speaker 12 (01:42:51):
It is?

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
It was an Apple phone.

Speaker 18 (01:42:56):
It was it was an iPhone, which is ridiculous. Anyway,
since then, I've gotten just a very dumb phone. I've thoughts.
That's the silver lining is I've on completely dumb phone.
No Instagram, no nothing. It's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
How are you feeling disconnected?

Speaker 18 (01:43:14):
Enlightned? Med evil? In fact, it's actually how I'm feeling.
Fel very very pleasanty.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
I'd stick with a quill a. It's lovely to talk
to you, Amy, Thank you fifteen past eleven. I love
that putting a letter on their door. Do I want
to talk about Louis? There must be some right of
redress for her. Amy. You'll probably get a lot of misinformation,
but someone might have some good information for you Marketplace.

(01:43:43):
Never bought anything on Marketplace. Do you know why haven't
yet seen anything I want to buy? If I found
what I wanted, I would buy it like a shot.
That's just me saying things that I say. Good evening,
Chris Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 34 (01:44:04):
Oh Marcus here. Just subject of lost cell phones. I
was driving along a couple of months ago and I
saw a cell phone on a road as I drove past,
so I stopped. Then for the year, we went back
to get it. But tweeny the time i'd seen it
in the time that I got there to had been
run over so completely crushed and broken. Took it to

(01:44:25):
the local police station. Took it to the police station.
Two hours later, I got a phone call from a
lady who thanked me very much for finance. She had
put it on the roof of her car, and she'd
driven quite a long way of actually three or four
hundred meters she'd driven before it fell off, but the
police had found I gave the phone to the police

(01:44:47):
and then they went into it and found her emergency contact,
which was a son or a daughter, So the police
contacted them. They contacted mum and then gave mum my number.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
And then she got a smeshed up phone.

Speaker 34 (01:45:03):
Yeah, but as she said, at least she got the
sim car and you know there's obviously stuff on it
that she couldst She lost the handware, but keep the software,
so to speak.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
Do they still have of caounts? I guess they must.

Speaker 34 (01:45:16):
But the police managed to get in. It was quite
smashed up, I mean, run over by a cat.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
I imagine that's a lot of the police job as
people dropping off broken cell phones and stuff, isn't it.

Speaker 34 (01:45:27):
Well, I'd say I've done it. I've dropped stuff a
few times, and generally I can think of two other
times where people have contact me and said thank you.
So it's quite nice to know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Brilliant thank you, Chris Marcus. That girl I got out
my well best phrase of the year.

Speaker 22 (01:45:44):
Lol.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Yeah, I thought she brought a top game to that one.
Marcus emergency contact iPhone unlocked with password bottom lift emergency click.
They're you see medical idea click and it brings up
your emergency context. I think it does for me. Twenty
four past eleven, Good evening, Jim Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 30 (01:46:01):
Oh Marcus. Just a lost phone story. Last last Thursday,
the day before we due to leave Tokyo. I lost
my phone. Didn't I have some station in Tokyo. Anyway,
I got back to the hotel and got on my
tablet and notified my daughter back here in Auckland, and

(01:46:22):
she tracked it down the Samsung phone. She tracked it
down and told me exactly what station it was at,
and I hopped on the train and now I was
ride out to the station where it was, went to
the office, described the phone and they pulled out the phone.

(01:46:47):
I was very relieved. I was very relieved. It had
four weeks of holiday photos on.

Speaker 2 (01:46:52):
Was that the station you'd lifted that or it remained
on a train without you?

Speaker 30 (01:46:56):
No, that was I would say it was somewhere around
there and obviously been handed in by somebody. But she
tracked it from that station which we'd been at earlier
on in the day, so straight away I knew exactly
where it was. But it took me an hour to
get back out to the station on the train. In
another hour back, but it was. I thought, well, and

(01:47:19):
I was talking to American at the hotel, was saying
that he was working there, and I said, well, if
I'd lost it, in Auckland, I wouldn't have.

Speaker 21 (01:47:25):
Seen it again, No, you.

Speaker 30 (01:47:29):
Might not fear it might be a bit unfair. But anyway,
he said, oh no, not in Japan.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
No, it seems to be the case. Although you went
back to the hotel and on your tablet, you could
have had that Trekking software on your tablet and not
caused your door to the trouble.

Speaker 30 (01:47:45):
Yeah, but it was easier in some ways. The table
was very limiting. But it was quite happy to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I think that's a great thing to do. I think
that's to be commendable.

Speaker 12 (01:47:57):
But she was.

Speaker 30 (01:47:58):
She got straight onto it. And the amazing thing what
staken me was she told me exactly what station it
was in Tokyo.

Speaker 12 (01:48:05):
Yeah, where it was when it fortunately had ninety minutes
of Yeah, it had quite a bit of ninety percent
of charge on and everything there.

Speaker 30 (01:48:16):
But as I said, the.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Because will they ask you to describe your phone? Most
phones would look identical, wouldn't they.

Speaker 30 (01:48:24):
Yeah, well, he asked me. There wasn't too much fuss,
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
To ask you in English?

Speaker 30 (01:48:33):
No, as English was quite limited, but he asked he
had a certain amount of English. But he asked me
what the phone I said it was in a blue cover,
and when I showed me the phone, I said, yes,
that's it, and then I opened it up and was
able to go into it to see.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
Oh that would have that He would have found that
heartening because you knew the past, were they?

Speaker 4 (01:48:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 30 (01:48:54):
Yeah, So I was able to go into it. But
it was quite I thought the last thing I'd wanted
to do. They before due to get home, but I
thought that it does work. This tracking certainly does work.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
It's umble and your knowledge of the Tokyo train station
train system worked all right?

Speaker 30 (01:49:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there was no trouble. I would
be we'd come back on that train. So I was
able to go to there and ask a few people
and they directed me in which way I Fortunately, I
was able to get the train straight right through to
that station, or almost to that station. There was a
fore minute walked to another station where it was at brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
Nice to hear, Jim, Thank you, Kathy, Marcus Hellong, good.

Speaker 23 (01:49:39):
Evening, Good evening. I want to tell you about a
funny story about Lost, a gentleman who used to help
me with stock on the fam lost as well. It's
in the in the drafting ads. One day when he

(01:50:01):
was drafting stock. Anyway, we looked and looked and looked,
and couldn't find it anywhere wherein decided that perhaps a
cow might have eaten it. However, about three months later
I went over with hammer and nails to fix the
bottom rail, and as I bent down there was a cowpad,

(01:50:27):
very dry, with something sticking up through it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
What really?

Speaker 23 (01:50:33):
And it was a wallet, all in good condition through
the cattle have been in and out of the yard
several times. And whether it had been eaten or whether
it had just been hidden by a green layer?

Speaker 22 (01:50:54):
Do you think do you think everything?

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
Do you think it had been through the cow?

Speaker 11 (01:51:00):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:51:00):
I don't think so. We thought so for a long time.
But when I thought, well, I think what might have happened?
It dropped on and the cow had dropped on it,
had dropped a load on it, and it just happened
to be by the yes rowl that I was going

(01:51:22):
to fix. Anyway, I hauled it out of this gray
mixture and returned it to him, but unfortunately it just
head happy to replace all those valuable things that you
carry in the wallet, like driver's licenses and things like that. However,

(01:51:45):
everything was complete and he So that's the story of
a wallet that might have been through a cow.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
I guess the only I guess, the only way of
knowing if it had been for the cow would be
put it back through the cow and see if it
came out altered. Wouldn't it nice to talk? Kathy? Thank you?
Twenty nine to twelve. But on bomb bomb use a
quill Marcus brought a rubber grip phone case, put it
on the phone, put the phone down on the car roof, turned,
took five steps to chuck the case, ripping and the

(01:52:17):
footpath rubbishp and gotten car. Drove home seventy three k's away.
Pulled into the driveway, then couldn't find the phone. Tore
the car apartment side looking for it. Not there, went
inside half an hour later, remember putting on the roof,
looked outside and there it was, still on the roof.

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Survived seventy three k drive home because of the rubber
grip case. That is the story of the night that
and quill girl. Oh eight hundred and eighty Today Selendra Marcus, welcome,
Hi him Marcus. High Slendra.

Speaker 26 (01:52:56):
Yeah, I had a customer who dropped five hundred dollars
in my cab one day.

Speaker 4 (01:53:01):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (01:53:02):
Yeah, he came from Wakland to say, and yeah, I
dropped him home because he dropped it on the left
hand side where the door is that I couldn't see,
and he tried to check in his wallet he couldn't
find it. He probably must have dropped it in Akod somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Goodness.

Speaker 26 (01:53:24):
So my son found it next day. But I had
the phone number, so I gave him a ring and yeah,
give him back.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
He'd be happy, Oh he was. It'd be ecstatic. It's
a lot to lose, yes.

Speaker 26 (01:53:40):
Now, he was a elderly person who was moving from
Christis farre Uh. You know, as a taxi driver, we
look after people.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
Nice to hear from you, Selinda. Thank you for that
good evening. Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 29 (01:53:57):
Yeah. I got a story about swallowing the gold crown. Yes,
one Christmas. It was about ten years ago now, just
before Christmas. My mom called in and she said, oh,
try one of these toffees. So I didn't think anything
more of it, but after she left, I interrupted it
and chewed to the toffee and swallowed it. Then poking

(01:54:19):
around in my tongue, I slid my crown.

Speaker 4 (01:54:23):
So I shot.

Speaker 29 (01:54:25):
Off to the pharmacy to see if they could give
me something to help me to vomit. So they said,
we don't do that anymore. You need to go and
see the doctor, which fortunately he was next door to
the pharmacy, and he said, no, we don't do that anymore.
It has to come out the other end. So he said,

(01:54:46):
I'll give you these tablets and they take about two
hours to work. I said, well, I'm working the night
shift tonight. He said, you take these tablets. You won't
be working tonight. Okay, So I had to ring it
sick then to say I wouldn't be in So then
for the next three days, No, what happened? Then bang
on the two hours he said that he came laid

(01:55:09):
a hair off to the bathroom. So for the next
three days they had to seft all that I passed.
I never ever found out gold crown.

Speaker 2 (01:55:17):
Still an.

Speaker 29 (01:55:19):
Could be.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
But yeah, what did they used to do? What did
they used to make you vomit?

Speaker 29 (01:55:26):
Did they they were back around from me?

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Did you wonder what with.

Speaker 29 (01:55:34):
Toppies?

Speaker 2 (01:55:36):
Hey, tell me something. Did you get that crown replaced?

Speaker 14 (01:55:41):
No?

Speaker 29 (01:55:41):
I didn't know, just at a fill in put on
top of it. I got the crown done in the
UK and it was a lot more expensive to get
a gold crown out in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
So well, gold crown gold crowns must be really expensive
now with a price of gold at four thousand ounces
or whatever, it must almost be prohibitive.

Speaker 29 (01:55:59):
Yeah, it probably is.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Yeah, I like gold in my mouth. I'll enjoy gold.
I enjoy the feel of it.

Speaker 29 (01:56:06):
Okay, smooth a yeah, I've got.

Speaker 30 (01:56:11):
You go go crown.

Speaker 29 (01:56:13):
I got one. Well, there's a bit of a story
behind it, because just before coming to New Zealand, I
went to see my dentist. He said, come and see
me again before going to New Zealand. He said, because
get some work done before you go there, because he
had just got back from New Zealand and he said
he was an ominate ade for any dentist work. So
I went to see him and if you were on

(01:56:34):
a benefit in the UK at the time, all dental
work was free. So I got two free gold crowns
before coming to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
A bad thing? Is it?

Speaker 29 (01:56:42):
Not bad at all?

Speaker 4 (01:56:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
I don't know if I do gold crowns much. You
want to have a discussion about that sometime, Not tonight,
but thank you Anthony Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:56:51):
Welcome, Hey MICUs, hope you well.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
Yes, thank you, Michael, No pleasure.

Speaker 27 (01:56:57):
Yeah, well, my kid I was a single parent. My
kids were about nine or ten, and we were driving
into our local shopping thinker and stormy night, and my
daughter spotted a wallet lying out in the rain, and
so we went and picked it up and saw the
photo of the person. It was full of cash, and

(01:57:19):
so we walked around the center. I couldn't find the person.
I actually said to the kids, you know, we were
flat broke, and you know, you can't imagine single parents
struggling from week to week. And so I stuck it
in my glove box. And the kids were, well, what
do we use the money? I said, no, no, we've
got to make sure. We've got to try and return
the money to the person. And you know they're they're

(01:57:42):
the impressionable age. So it's a life lesson. And so
took them down to the local police station the next
day and the local cops is me, oh, you're going
to have to drive it down to another station. Well,
back then I just couldn't afford petrol. So I just
stuck it in my glove box. And went through and
tried tracking down, you know, looking through phone numbers and

(01:58:04):
stuff like that. It was a French name, so I thought, well,
if it's in the phone book, it'll be easy to
find in. About three weeks later, we're standing in our
local fish and chip shop and my daughter taps me
on the leg and she says, Dad, that's the guy.
She recognized him from the photo.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
Wow. Sorry, wow, from his license or something.

Speaker 20 (01:58:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:58:24):
Yeah, And I went running out to the guy. Back
then I had quite long, goodlocks and looked a bit
of a shambles and he was quite taken back in
the system. Did you lose a wallet? And he goes, yeah,
I said, oh, come with me, So we went back
to the car. He handed him as wallet and yeah,
so hopefully out of that and the universe has always
been kind to me.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
A good story. Yeah, what was he much cash it?

Speaker 27 (01:58:52):
Yeah, there was quite a bit. Oh, you know, I
would say at least four hundred dollars. I didn't actually
go through. I just kind of looked at it and thought,
you know, and realistically there would have covered my power bill,
my phone bill, you know, but it wasn't mine.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
It's pretty amazing she recognized him for driving license. It's
a good story, Anthony, thank you for that. Sixteen to
twelve Matt Marcus Aloe, Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:59:18):
Just a bit of a story on the finding of
a wallet. My mother had sold her old house. It
was actually Debbie Door day.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
I don't know if you remember, Yes, used Debbie from
Burgundy's See you at Burgundy's.

Speaker 6 (01:59:35):
Yes, And it was a pretty, you know, pretty sort
of it was down It was down in Bucklam's Beech.
It was a bit of a sort of classic eighties
sort of style house, and mum had moved and my
you know, mum stepfather had passed away, and the furniture
was pretty outdated, you know. And as we were leaving

(01:59:57):
the house, you know, we'd cleared out hundreds and hundreds
of boxes that day and furniture, and someone noticed, like,
you know, a leather sitting up and up in Mumba's wardrobe.
So we've got to, you know, step letter out looked
up there and it was a Thomas Cook, you know,
an old Thomas Cook travel leather pouch for like passports

(02:00:18):
and wallets and cash and things. And so we opened
it up and there was one hundred dollars American bills
sitting in there. So Mum decided to go down to
the lot of shop and buy a I think it
was a strike ticket and went and bought a one
hundred dollars worth of strike tickets and one thirty eight
k cheapers. Yeah, so it was pretty cool. And so

(02:00:43):
you know, moved into a new house, got all modern
furniture and mum was away.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
What a story, wow, jeepers. Oh they got to find
the owner. But thank you for that. Matt called back
the travel while it was a stepfather's not from the
previous owners. That makes much more sense. That's a very
good story too. I like that with a thirty seven
thousand dollars it's a great story. Thank you, Marcus. I
was traveling from Blenham to duned and stopped in Caua

(02:01:10):
Kolda and left my wallet and the public toilets don't
didn't know this, SINTI I made another stop. Was so worrying.
I don't know where my wallet was. I didn't know
where my wallet was, and the police rang me as
someone found my wallet in the toilets and handed it
and the police posted my wallet to Duneeden for me. Marcus.
Each year we give our staff a Christmas bonus of
five hundred cash each. I used to get CASS. I

(02:01:35):
got a few days before the Christmas holidays and put
it in the drawer of my desk. The next day,
our new desks arrived and out went the old one.
I went to get the money for everyone over six
thousand dollars and it was gone. I immediately thought it
was stolen. Started interrogating my staff. Then I remembered it

(02:01:56):
was in the old desk. I recalled the guy who
took the desk.

Speaker 17 (02:02:01):
I caught it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
The guy who took the desk that dropped off at
a friend's place. They He gave me his name and number.
I called him. He at the desk, he gave me
his address. I went around. He gave me the six
k back. I tried to give him a hundred bucks.
He would not take it. My husband was swimming with
kids at the beach as we were leaving, realized his

(02:02:21):
watch wasn't on his wrist. He looked around but couldn't
see anything. Next morning, we wondered if it might have
washed up on the beach. Overnight we headed down to
the beach again and within minutes there it was lying
in the sand, unbelievable, very happy man.

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
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