What were you doing at 15? (21 August 2024)

Marcus asks listeners, what surprising thing were you doing when you were 15 years old?  The discussion follows criticism thrown at Location, Location, Location host Kirstie Allsopp for allowing her 15 year old son to go on a three week interrailing holiday in Europe without an adult.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Greeting is good evening. My name is Marcus. Welcome, just
caing up to scratch with some of the news stories.
You'll be excited to see plane spotters, exciting plane on
the tarmac and Wellington are wrong Atta today it was
the plane of the Quitar Prime minister. So I wasn't
aware of that. Sheikh Muhammad bin Aldur Rahman Altani wasn't

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willing to make forty years of deplanet relations when New
Zealing and Qatar. So there you go, amazing looking plane,
gorgeous looking plane. I hope I've got his Monkara. I
guess he is the president, he might be the Prime minister.
But there we go to g seven hundred, gorgeous looks

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at it like the concord and it's lyne to there
we go. That's just if you've saw something at the
tar Mec and wonder what that was. That's happened. Yeah,
Katari Prime minister paid a visit to the capitol. I
think it's gone now, didn't linger, So there we go.
That's what happened today. It's got exciting sort of oval
windows anyway, that's that if there is news, I'll keep
you updated from that between now and Midnight's some enjob

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and it's also what I find for interesting to keep
up to date with what's going on. So rest assured
if it's happening, you'll know about it. Back at your
twof there's stuff that you're finding interesting. Do let us
know if you have got breaking news. I enjoyed last
night show muchly about dates and missing buses. The dates read.

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I hope you all enjoyed your date Scones today and
get in touch. You want to start the whole ball
rolling tonight as I say, oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine to nine two de text A couple
of things to go on about tonight, but there be
other stuff that you might have that you might want
to set the agena. Don't have a problem with that,
but do get in touch. I'll also check with the

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roading because there have been instances throughout the country today,
so I'm not quite sure aboutads, but if you've got
road information let us know. I can tell you. The
bad weather down south has finished. It felt quite spring
like today, felt gorgeous actually, so yes, how far away.
Is it just nine days? Can't wait looking forward to that.

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I'm just look at the road closures now around the
situation in Geraldine. It seems as though there's plenty of
other places to go. Northbound traffic used State Harvey seventy
nine return right on Tip Lady Road, left on Winchester
Geraldin Road, then left on to Huffey and reverse for
southbound traffic. That was updated five thirty ones. That's going

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to be there. There will be obviously the serious crash
people looking into that. It's not like there's not other
ways around that. So that's a situation there. So just
so you know, anyway, if you dont want to start
the whole wall rolling with non curated talk, oh eight
hundred nine two detects one of them me just get

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the air con right. One of the things actually I
did want to talk about tonight that I thought was
quite interesting and because I myself was surprised when I
read this article and it featured the woman from Location
Location Location, which we love in the country because he's

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rather good. The guy there's something about him, he's not
too smug like the guy of Brand Design. There's something
about them. Looks actually he's not taking himself too seriously.
But he's on with Kirsty Allsop, right, and she seems good.
I mean, she's got good and bad things. First, she's
like the Nigella Lawson of real estate. She's a snob,

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total snob. Because of course she was rejudgment about people
that had washing machines and dryers and cupboards in their kitchen.
She thought that was a no no. And I'm thinking, Kirsty, also,
check your privilege. But anyway, that was her but blah
blah blah blah. So anyway, the situation with Kirsty is

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that she's left her fifteen year old son go on
a three week rail holday around Europe, and I think.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Good on you.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
But a lot of people have been quick to condemn
and say fifteen is far too young to be railing
around Europe. Well, I think it's an extremely good story.
Her tweets said, my little boys returned from three weeks
into railing. He'll be sixteen on Wednesday. So we went

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with a major's y sixteen due to hostile trevel restrictions.
But they organized the whole thing Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich,
Marseille to lou Barcelona and Madrid to me parent of
the year, And what did you do at fifteen that
you look back now? And I think, jeepers, creepers, I
can't believe I did that. I mean, some of you
probably went to war at fifteen, did you?

Speaker 4 (05:12):
So?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I don't fully know how to phrase the topic, but
it's all about like fifteen, What were you doing at
fifteen that would shock your parents? Would shock people now?
And should you go on a hold on your own
at fifteen? I think probably you should. It was one
of the impressive things about Martin Phillips and some of
the stories after he died that when he was fifteen
he hit chiked. His parents dropped him north of the city.

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He hitchhiked from Denein to Auckland to see the last
of the punk bands. Changed his life forever and clear
his parents recognized his passions in Off you go. Don't
know how he got into the gigs, but I guess
they're in all age venues anyway. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. You didn't kick it off tonight, Glenn,
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh Marcus evening, Glenn evening. I was just gonna touch
base with and I turned the radio down off. You
know when you said about four or five days ago,

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as anything weird happened to you today? Yep, Well, because.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I had walk because because I had a pot of
water that wouldn't boil. Oh man, it was like the
devil's water. It just would not boil anyway. So I'm just.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Explained market, there's a connection here somewhere. I was making
a coffee in the morning, right, and I had the
coffee milk and see whatever it was equal.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
On the on the island, right an island, and yeah,
and I in the kitchen and I turned around and
got the jug and I went to pour it in,
and I imagined it going all over the island, right,
And I thought, you know, that's just you know whatever,

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And I tipped the water into my cap and I
started stirring the cap. It was a bone tron a cup,
and the square like this small square about twenty mils square,
broke out of the bottom one sort of side, and

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the stuff went all over the island and I just
put it in the sink. And then I thought of thought, whoa,
that was like a premonission or something. And I sat
there for like half an hour quiet, trying to see
if there was any connection that I can find, And

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there's nothing, isn't it? But that happened. That happened. And
then that night I heard you say.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Hey, Glenn, could you describe to me the square that
came out of it? Have you got a photo of it?

Speaker 6 (08:12):
No?

Speaker 5 (08:13):
But I put it. I've found it on the floor
just under the island a couple of days going through
it in the rubbish, but I can and I've thrown
the cap out too, bro.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
But it was it was a square? Was a square
really geometric?

Speaker 5 (08:29):
It looked pretty well. It looked like a small rectang
or maybe twenty mil by thirty. But cap and my
coffee went all over the island. And before I put
the water in, I imagined that, and I thought, whoa,
this is theition.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Maybe subconsciously you could see that.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
There was something that day. You see there's anything weird?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why don't you ring that? Why don't you ring that day?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
It was?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
It was weird? You didn't ring that day?

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Oh now I'm not really I've still got no TV
or no internet. I don't use any screens.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
But you've got a breakfast island. How do you find
the breakfast island, like you perch there on a high
stool in the morning with your coffee.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
Are you what.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
On your breakfast island around?

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Because forty years ago and now had heard of those
a breakfast island. Now they seem to be everywhere.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
Yeah, I've got a big, big kitchen.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, clearly it's.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
A beautiful house. But I just thought i'd chug base
with you because I like, wow, if you did.

Speaker 8 (09:40):
That, photos would boil.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, and I still haven't worked that out, but always
good to get photos too. I'd love to see the
bone china with a little rectangle out of it. Glenn,
nice to talk. Thank you. Sixteen past eight. The things
you did at fifteen that your parents allowed you do
they never allow you to do now, or that your
parents didn't allow you to do. Marcus, that sounds like
a good bed time strew about the coffee cup. Marc

(10:05):
is slightly older than fift But look at Luke Littler
and the darts. What I think he was fifteen when
he got there? Oh, Luke Lutler just six then reached
the world finals, probably already made over one million of
the sport at such a young age. And of course
here last week of the Indied Darts Masters. Get in Touch.

(10:26):
My name is Marcus Hurdle twelve eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine two de text. Looking for
to you. The thing ended when you were fifteen, which
would surprise people, so I'm kind of interested about Get
in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two

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nine two de text. Anything else you got with news
also too, it'd be good to hear from you, Marcus.
I didn't think, didn't I definitely didn't rush out for
date Scones. Wow, guys, the moon is seriously called low
and glowing so brightly. That's from PIP on the North
Sure du Val Statutory Management first in South Candory. I believe.

(11:13):
Thanks thank you for that anyway, Get in touch. My
name's Marcus oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nineteen nine two to text. Get in touch and will

(11:33):
you let your kids go around Europe on train at fifteen?
I think it's a great thing, Jonathan, it's Marcus. Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
Yeah, I'm Marcus. Just thinking about when I was fifteen
and what I did, which wasn't dangerous or anything, but
it would never happen today. I flew on Spans. Remember
Spans South Pacificia lies in New Zealand. No, I don't,
but I yeah, yeah, I h I'm seventy six now,

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so it fift one years ago, yes, And I flew
from Auckland to a Accagol where my sister was living.
And you can fly by yourself. And I flew at
that age because I think year later it would have
cost me full fear, were across my parents full fear.
So we flew on Spans and DC three. We took

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off from Auckland, went to Napier Martin really yep. Then
we bypassed it. They used to hop skip all the
way down the country.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Took me all day and.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
Christ Church and at lunch time for the pilots, So
who ranged off the plane? I was flying by myself
and the pilots brought me a sandwich to have lunch.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So this is a good story.

Speaker 7 (12:54):
Yeah, put me in the cockpit of the DC three,
ye said, season we went to lunch. You can't imagine
that happen today, can you.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's a great story. And I've never heard of SPANS.
I always thought there was n a c before in
New Zealand, but what was span.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
NAC was SPANS was independent NAC was normal airlines at
the time, but spent in South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
I've never heard of that, and I'm embarrassed I haven't
heard about it because I thought my history was pretty good.
But yeah, wow, that's a real dog le journey, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Yeah, and we christ Us, I think maybe certly Alexandra,
and then took off from Alexandra and put me up
into the cockpit. So I was in the corport with
them when we slew up and over through a belly
over hump, you know, and down into the plains of

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the southern But anyways.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Because not many people get to take off for not
manly people get to land and take off at alex
Airport now because that's kind of decommissioned, not decommissioned, but
no one flies there anymore.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
No, no, no, But I still think that a couple
of pilots leaving me, a fifteen year old alone in
a DC three, I don't know where the keys were, but.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
So they bought that. They brought you a sandwich. Then
what they went to get lunch themselves?

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Did they and the terminal had their lunch in there,
and but I was caving alone, so they thought, well'd
rather look after the terminal hairs left in the in
the plane, which was fine by me. I thought it
was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Did you go to Gore as well? They always said
they serve as Gore.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
Don't remember Gore. I'm not sure we hopped all right
down to say. I think it may have even been
right to ruin Napier.

Speaker 10 (14:49):
I think we.

Speaker 7 (14:49):
Mispassed past Masters and didn't pass, didn't land and Wellington,
but did land in Christie. But they were doing route
that you know in your NAC wouldn't do.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
So yeah, never heard it was a It was a
Convy four forty.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Was it in DC three three?

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Okay? Copy?

Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yep, yeah, yep.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
And he did the reverse to fly Did you do
the reverse to fly back? Or did you get the train?

Speaker 7 (15:16):
I wish I love the did the train all there?
I'm then?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Did you fly back?

Speaker 11 (15:23):
No?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Yeah, probably, I don't remember flying back, but I remember
the fly down because all the stocks were men on
the way down and it was different.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
It's a great story, Jonathan. Thank you so much for that.
The things you did, the things you did when you
were fifteen, the things that you're surprised you're allowed to
do when you're fifteen, and the things that perhaps you
know when you're fifteen that people wouldn't do in their
fifteen today. Maurice Marcus, welcome, Yeah, I Marcus.

Speaker 12 (15:51):
Spans was South was South Pacific Airlines, New Zealand. They
ran one or two DC threes. The main operating base
was a fertilizing airstrip on the ring of Tiger Plane
between Tapo and Napier. And that's because they didn't have
to pay any airport charges and they were a competitor

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NAC and that's so they used to side their plane
from Talpo back up to Auckland in the morning and
then take passengers all over and wherever. And then most
nights they'd take the DC three back to the Pummers
Strip on the ring of TAKEI plane to get a
servist field and ready to go the next day.

Speaker 7 (16:29):
Good on them, Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
And they got five they got they got five six
years out of it.

Speaker 12 (16:35):
Eh. I don't know how long they were. But when
I was at primary school, we came from Tamaranui for
a school trip to Tammackee intermediate school. And one of
the things we did is we went for fi and
we went with spans up to Kirie Carey I think
it was, and then we took a bus trip over
to Higher and to Russell and looked at Kroerica and

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the church with the bullet holes in it and top
down flagpole and all the rest of We were only
about April nine. We we thought were beyond Disneyland when
that happened.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Good as exciting that as something else you wanted to say?

Speaker 12 (17:14):
Yes, can I revert to dates briefly?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yes.

Speaker 12 (17:19):
I went to sleep last night and I meant to
ring up, but I didn't. I worked on a date
plantation on Tibbutz Dargonia Alaf, which is in northern Israel
on the southern shores of the Sea of Galilee where
the Jordan River runs out, and that the plantation was
part of the production. They had ever padow orchards and

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date orchards and had banana orchards. And I got there
out of season and there was only about four volunteers
in the whole place, and I got assigned to work
in late plantation. We were driving slowly check the units
around the date plantation. They were didn't have cabs on them,
were just four wheels for the motor, and they had

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a great big hydrolic arm out in the front had
on the front and you could drive the unit from
the bucket whether it was on the ground or right
up the palm fronds. You obviously couldn't drive it with
the hoist the hydraulic arm full extent, because otherwise you'd
tip the thing over. But we went from tree to
tree cutting all the dead fronds and the lower fronds off.

(18:28):
They all dropped to the ground, and the dates were
when I started, The dates were about a month off
being ripe.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
There was a.

Speaker 12 (18:36):
German, young German guy.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
I was only.

Speaker 12 (18:38):
Twenty five or something. There was a German guy in
charge of the gang that was doing all of this,
and at ground level they had a whole lot of
young men and woman running around picking up the fronds
and putting them on a trailer to take them to
the tip. They were the most unworkmanlike people that the
world's ever seen. They were called gharen and they were

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the people that didn't or wouldn't under mills military subscription.
And most of them were there because the Israeli Army
wouldn't take them either, because they were just hopeless rejects
and they were the most unwilling workers you'd ever seen
in your life. So at the end of my first week,

(19:22):
the German guy left and I was put in charge
of these two hydraulic machines, and my badge of office
was a transistor radio.

Speaker 11 (19:32):
On about the.

Speaker 12 (19:33):
First morning, half an hour into the morning, I didn't
like the station that this radio was on. I was
at the top of this tree and we had a
big pneumatic chompers at the top of the thing to
take all these fronds off, and I changed the radio
station and all hell boats. I was getting stones thrown
at me, people were crashed, bashing the machine was all

(19:55):
these guarreen people at the bottom. And what I'd done
is that I didn't like the music that was on
the radio station. So I flipped through the channels and
I found a really good music station. It was great music,
but when the music stopped, they always, unknown to me,
it was an error shouting all anti Israelis propaganda, and

(20:17):
these guys didn't like that, so they were investigating me.
So I looked my lessoners to get them to tune
the radio station in the morning before I leaned up
in the hoyster go and do tree shopping.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
I thought they're very, very good. So anyway, we are
talking about the things that you were surprised that you
did when you were fifteen. They've got some good texts,
but your stories also would be good. And I got
some great texts about that. So what did you do
when you were fifteen? When you look back, you're surprised
that you did that when you're fifteen. I don't know
where this topic. We'll go on the back of CHRISTI

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Alsops sending his son eurailing around Europe at fifteen. Good
on them. Marcus fifteen back in the early nineties had
a mate whose old man was good with cars. A
group of us would scour the classifieds for old rex

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that we might be able to get going. We'd find
one every couple of months in the old mate. We'll
get it running for us and we'd take it down
the river and do burnout until it broke completely. Goodness.
I started university at fifteen. I was too young, really,
but I had finished school. Marcus at fifteen are smoking
pot on Middleway Beach. Brilliant. This is something that's also

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texted twenty twenty. Do you have an opinion on the marijuana referendum?
True to type twenty eight to nine, Steve Marcus, Welcome, good.

Speaker 13 (21:50):
Evening, Marcus.

Speaker 14 (21:51):
As well as fifteen years old, I was. I was
the first of my friends to get their license. So
I was in the queue one day after my birthday,
and I got got my learners, and I got my learners,
and I did my little course and got my six
months down to three months and had my restricted and
one of us had a car. But there was me
and my three of my mates, and one of them
had a farm. And we went to one of the

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immigrant workers that were on the farm and said to
him he had to lend us his car or we
were going to dob him into immigration. And he was
only too keen to pass the keys over, so he
passed the keys over and we made the trek into Auckland.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
We grew that where where was this?

Speaker 14 (22:30):
Just south of Auckland, just in the in the Franklin region,
and we're in all the market gardens. And we took
his dats in one t would he be? And we
drove it all the way into Auckland, over to the
north shore, and we went to Ranguetoto College. We parked
outside the front. We tapped the phone out the front
to ring the Ranguetoto College front office where one of

(22:51):
my friends and that were in the car where us
had his girlfriend there, and we pretended to be the
girlfriend's father.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
We turned around and said, this is a great story
apart from the pressuring of the migrant, but anyway years yep.

Speaker 14 (23:03):
We turned around and told him there'd been a death
in the family and that we didn't want her to
raise suspicion to the girl in question, but could she
please come out of class and meet us out in
the front of the school please, where we were going
to whisker away because of the family morning and on
all the situation with the family death. And they let
her out of school, and they let her out and
we spent the whole day going around Myrangi Bay and
all the bays, sitting out in the sunshine.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's like the Great New Zealand movie.

Speaker 14 (23:31):
You wouldn't do it now, but you know back when
I was fifteen.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, the keep it was tapping the phone.

Speaker 14 (23:39):
Yeah, that would that would date the story slightly, wouldn't It?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Was it pre arranged that you go and grab her.

Speaker 14 (23:46):
No, not at all. She had no idea. So we
drove in, well.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Why was your mate dating so far away from home?
And she moved out of Pooky to go to ring
A Tooto.

Speaker 14 (23:58):
We were all in school and we used to be
involved in the group's theater sports. I don't have anyone
remember theater sports, but it was like a who's line
is it any way type thing for the people who
may remember that. And we used to go around all
these competitions around all the schools in Auckland, and so
we met all of these people, all of these other schools,
and my mate and this girl happened to have head
it off, and so he had this long distance thing

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going between Cooka Keoey and Rangitota College.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
And of course the theater ports theater sports schools would
have come to play with the phone call and pretending
to be.

Speaker 14 (24:28):
The father pretty much.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, and now they're happily married.

Speaker 14 (24:34):
No, no, not at all. It was just one of those,
you know, high school type things. But as far as
an active day, he goes, you know, we we bunked
out of school and.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Firest Buller it's like Fairest Buller's day off. Isn't it.

Speaker 14 (24:51):
Although the rest of the story doesn't go too particularly
well because when we got back, all of our parents
that had all spoken to each other and they were
all lined up at one place waiting for us to
arrive back, all standing there looking very furious, and they
caught it up in the corners on all. In the
end we all got in all bit of trouble.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
For it, so worth it.

Speaker 14 (25:12):
Well, the story I'm still telling, and that's coming on,
coming on a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Now. She sounds good. Really, do we have a name
for her?

Speaker 14 (25:20):
What the girl in question?

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Yeah? Vanessa?

Speaker 14 (25:24):
It was if I remember rightly.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Of course, of course it was Vanessa. Steve. Nice to
hear from. It's a great story. Straight to the podcast,
the texts the next level. I will get to those
Rose as Marcus. Welcome, Hi Rose, Yeah, Rose, I thought
you robbed.

Speaker 15 (25:43):
Sorry, oh preaching. Great show. I've had a free laughs.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Already, that's the key, I reckon you have a couple
of laughs before. Now we'll get you to eleven.

Speaker 15 (25:51):
Yep, yeah, absolutely great show. My little story is that
when I was sisteens Are we are living in Wellington,
and I said to my mate, you tell your mum
staying at mine. I'll tell my mum that I'm staying
at yours and let's do something right, you know. Anyway,

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we're in Wellington. We lived there and my mate said
to me we should just hitch to Tawerpo, and I went,
what a really good idea. So we did. So we
got a few rides up from Welley's to Twerpo and
all we're just coming into Towerpos. We got dropped off

(26:36):
and these motorbikes went past and we did a bit
of a smile, so they stopped. They were jumped on
the back of these motorbikes nose filmets in those days,
I don't think.

Speaker 16 (26:47):
Or it was.

Speaker 15 (26:50):
Optional optional sent you any hope.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Before nine ye, any yep.

Speaker 15 (27:00):
We decided to party with these guys. So they were
camping and between the naps are both and they were
in the I don't know, camping ground somewhere. But we
jumped on the bikes, went back to the camper ground,
had a really good night on the booze, et cetera.
And we each slept with one of these guys guy

(27:24):
each not the same one. And the night that I
slept with this guy, in the morning I stole a
chaquito bar because we had to get out of there. So,
because I stole a chaquito bar, it's something I've always remembered.
So ten years four, Martis, I was put on a

(27:48):
blind date and I went on this blind date and
I walked into the pub with my mates and they
introduced me and he said, I already know you.

Speaker 10 (27:59):
You stole my chapevo bart.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
No shit, ten years that's the hell of a story.

Speaker 15 (28:09):
It's been a marcus. I married the guy. Wow, And
do you know to that day I never bought him
a bloody hipputo bar.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Did you did you? Did your girlfriend reunite with the
guy she'd been with?

Speaker 15 (28:28):
No, this was a love mate. Yeah, not only me, but.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
The two girls went up right.

Speaker 15 (28:36):
Yes, that's.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
And that was.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You didn't and you didn't get you didn't? Well, no,
what year were talking? Are you in your fifties now.

Speaker 15 (28:48):
I'm in my sixties.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Did you get found out?

Speaker 16 (28:52):
No?

Speaker 15 (28:55):
No, I just we could chell subspect then? Really, well, well.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Maybe and maybe people were busy and winters weren't as
I can't think of the word, weren't as in disurveillance,
or weren't as kind of vigilant. I suppose of the
word I'm looking for about what was going on?

Speaker 15 (29:18):
Yeah, if there were certain times that they were vigilant
and certain times you're not, that's another story. I've got
the nets later.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's weird that it's weird that you set you up
and that the whole country was a guy you'd already been,
were they and the gacchetto.

Speaker 15 (29:30):
Bar, I stars bar.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, it's a good story. Rose, thank you. Eighteen to nine.
Keep it going, oh, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty
So I don't even know I'm going in all sorts
of areas with that discussion. I'm also thinking, is it
still a thing, the chacqetto bar? And is it that

(29:54):
different from a picnic bar. It's got a peanut, it's
got peanut and hazard, peanuts and toffee. Still a thing
or not? Should be? It's got a great name now
it was crisped Rice on the outside. Of course it

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was seventeen to nine. The things you did when you're
fifteen that you're surprised you did, you you're fifteen, surprised
you got away with when you were fifteen. These are
good things. Texts m. Marcus, the Jaquita. I think may
have a biscuity cerebral cerebral type crumb or something. It's
been year since. Apparently it was rice little earthquake of Willington.

(30:39):
Someone says the earthquake of Wellington straight to the drums.
Thanks for that. Can't be very big because I normally
the phone's light up. I'm on gionette now. Thank you
for the person that texted, I feel a lot of
phantom quakes at home. I think they must be blasting
the channel viewell quakes. Weak earthquake five minutes ago. They're

(31:01):
completely right. It's a three point one to eleven k's
southwest fifteen k's southwest of Wellington had a depth of
eleven k's. It's been felt, wh It's been felt narrowly.
One person's felt it in Hamilton. Everyone else has felt

(31:22):
it in Wellington. Thanks the information on that, so yes,
you did feel something. Keep it going. Marcus. I flew
a Cessna solo in Mata Mata after the minimum ten

(31:43):
hours training in only fifteen to the nineties during a
scouts camp. Unfortunately didn't take up flying and that was it.
Pretty cool anyway. Marcus Rose fifteen is to WAG School
and go to to the Upper races and punt never
got caught. Matt Marcus Rose fifteen, we smoked pot and
went to the National Cat Show in Auckland. This wawn't

(32:06):
read it, Marcus. When I was fifteen, my parents and
my friends parents allowed us to catch the bus from
well Enton to Taranaki and stay in a campsite for
about a week. It was early eighties and we're female.
I'm still surprised to this day that we were allowed.

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Marcus nineteen ninety two, Hawks Bay used to catch a
public bus to school. Schoolmate in the school clay bird
shooting team used to board the bus with a shotgun.
Nobody bit batter than eyelid. Marcus Rose, fifty. I left
school and worked on a longline, a commercial fishing boat

(32:49):
up in the Three Kings. My first job. Wouldn't see
many young fellows doing the hard work nowadays at that age.
I think there's plenty of people of bluff going to
see at fifteen and she's fairly.

Speaker 10 (33:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I think there's a lot of people to see at
that age oftened with friends or family, but yeah, but
it's an extramely thing to do. Marcus. Dad locked his
car keys in the car and Marngoti. When I was fifteen,
a cop drove by saw us trying to break it
to the car. He pulled up and asked what we

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were doing. He proceeded to give us a hand. Meanwhile,
traffic was building up in the Mangoti Town Center car park.
Copper looked at me and my school uniform. NaSTA I
had a license, I said, YP want to move my car?
He asked, you bet, I said, I drove a cop
car at age fifteen. Very good, Marx's. I'd like to

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hear the cat shows story. I'll text it to you.
That's what I'll do, so I can text you back
the stories so you can read it on your phone
and your own accent. The thing you did at fifteen
that might surprise me might surprise yourself. Or good stories

(34:11):
in that Spans airline, I'd never heard of, you see,
we would have heard of that if we got on
topics like this. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
oh no, oh, no, one way. No small quake in
Wellington well three point. When I say a small quake,
but you know, I don't know if it's just men.

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We had very strong mona blades vibes with Ros's story
with the napier Topol road and things like that. But
there we go. It had a happy ending. Well, I
presume she's happy. She's out happy, very honest communicator. We
like that in this business. Jason and Marcus. Hi there, Jason, I.

Speaker 17 (34:58):
Was just throwing up when I was about to day
and Night had Bouncer's shop and that was down Fornston Street,
not to Bringston for of like the row of shops here?

Speaker 2 (35:11):
What what Sady and Hornby crushed you Yep yep, yep,
yep yep, Hornby Night Markets on your soupe.

Speaker 17 (35:20):
Some shops and yeah, and I was about fourteen. I
was like put my hands and smoking saucys and light
in the old bloody thing at the back for the
smoking and that with the legs of pork and stuff
like that. But I just sorted to talk about I
did ring up you about two weeks ago, and I

(35:41):
thought about my butchery jobs. But I really want to
talk about industrial jobs.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I'm not interested. I'm not interested. I'm not interested. Jason.
You went on forever about your jobs. I couldn't work
at the point. I don't want a list. Email it. Jason,
did you own the butcher shop at fifteen. Is that
what you're saying?

Speaker 17 (36:00):
No, definitely not. It was like you sawt us on
the floor.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Old school, old school.

Speaker 6 (36:07):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Did you do did you do? Did you do your apprenticeship?

Speaker 14 (36:11):
The ad?

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Jason?

Speaker 17 (36:13):
No, I've done that. A can and trips corner? We
can and trus corner.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
What's the first?

Speaker 8 (36:23):
Sorry say that again?

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Something in trink corner?

Speaker 17 (36:28):
Countdown, troops corner?

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Oh yeah, the countdown?

Speaker 17 (36:33):
Yeah, ninety ninety sex for the two thousand.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Cheapers. Did you end the Butcher of the Year.

Speaker 17 (36:41):
No, I wouldn't do that. Why not they aren't They
called the black Knives saw something.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh, it's a good point. I think that I called
the black Knives.

Speaker 17 (36:52):
Yeah, yeah, I think the competition is coming up. And
about the Knicks, oh, next to two months. Yeah, so
you've got a few people probably leaving New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Jason, Jason. The sharp Blacks, Oh, they are the sharp Blacks.
We're learning thanks five to nine. What you do when
you're fifteen you'd be surprised at Marcus. It might not
sound exciting, but it was very exciting to me when

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I was fifteen and the early nine so I drove
a combine harvester for my grandparents in Canterbury. Marcus. My
uncle James had his sixteenth birthday in Japan as part
of the j Force nineteen forty five. Jim, there you
go the things you'd be surprised at. Other people would

(37:47):
hear that you were doing when you were fifteen. I'm
sure I could phrase that better or punchier, but you
get the vibe when you were fifteen. Oh wait, one
hundred and eighty ten, eighty nine to nine to detext Marcus,
till twelve get amongst it. You got something different. We're

(38:09):
here for that. With it till twelve o'clock, Irony Marcus.
When I was fifteen, we style a sheep, put in
the back seat and took it out to the principal's
front yard, tied it up at ate all his prized comedias.

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Sounds very believable that, and I mean that I can
imagine someone doing that. Oh, I don't know who they're
going to get into the new Immortal. God they I
love rugby League, but by their pompous about their own history, Aret',
they're gonna meage them on the footy show. Oh he's
a new Immortal, I mean sort it out. It's only
a game. Yeah, kee get a bit pompous rugby when

(38:54):
they talk about the immortals, all the immortals. I mean,
it's good that they can talk themselves up, but they've
got a kind of you got to be a bit
tongue in cheek with it anyway. Not lucky as surely

(39:20):
Head on midnight. No surprises if you want to get
in touch, oh eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty, if
you want to text nine to nine two with little
twelve o'clock. And it's all about what you did when
you were fifteen, because of course Christy also up her

(39:41):
child went you were railing for three weeks at fifteen.
Sounds like a great thing to do. How much trouble
would you get into on a train? Not that much?
You'd think they went youth hosteling. I don't even know
youth hostiles was still a thing. Airbn b had put

(40:04):
the kibosh on that, or whatever it is is Airbnb
one of those things I don't have. We've got youth
hostels here anymore.

Speaker 16 (40:09):
Have we.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Remember the youth hostels you to take your own bed sheet.

Speaker 6 (40:14):
It was weird.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
It's that about. Have you got a bead sheet, that'd say,
and doing chores in the morning. Yeah that's right. Oh well,
did us no harm. That's what you're supposed to say,
isn't it. I'm having trouble phrasing tonight's topic. I think

(40:36):
it's the surprising thing that you did when you were fifteen,
or perhaps more honing it in the thing you did
when you were fifteen that surprises you now that you're
allowed to great stories. Kept going, great emails and texts,

(40:58):
and we have some more coming through. See more calls
also too. So yeah, you've got a story, would be
good to hear from you, cheapers. There's some incredibly good texts. Marcus.
At fifteen, I scaled a tower crane and wellington over
the current Ministry of Health Building are so having on

(41:21):
a Friday night that I played with the crane controls,
going up and down and dragging the chain over office
roofs before passing out and spend the night up there.
The actual crane driver woke me up on Saturday morning
when he scaled sixteen stories and opened the hatch door
to find me asleep on the floor. Even he kept

(41:44):
quiet if I promised to shout him a create o
lion brown flagons which I never did. Enjoy the night Chudley,
or you should have and you must the old library.
What do they call the lion round? What's the nickname
for that? When I was fifteen, we smoke pot when

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they filmed The Hiding Hobbits Seen and Lord of the Rings,
which is in Mount Victor, Victoria Forest and Willington. I
always get an overwhelming urge to tell people when the
scene comes on in our annual Christmas Lord of the
Rings rewatch bags. I haven't seen it once, Marcus. When

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I was fifteen and nineteen eighty five, my friend and
I stowed away on a Russian fishing boat from Littleton
and thought we would end up in Russia, but ended
up in Timudoo. We were both fifteen year old girls
hoping to explore the world.

Speaker 17 (42:47):
Lull.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
It's a good story, Marcus, Heybro. When I was fifteen,
I was living in Saint Kilda on the streets, had nothing,
retirement at sixteen, never been to jail. Happy days, Sint Kilda, Australia.
Sink killed it in Eden. I'll presume it. Sink kill
Australia is Marcus. At fifteen I got my license and struck.

(43:12):
I said to go around the block a hill start
and then back to the post for the office passed
license to drive it off. I went to the takapoona
pub for my worst investment. Oh that's we've got stiff rowdy,
thank you Marcus drummer and a band at fifteen Irish
pub circuit. Tried my first Guinness. When I was fifteen,

(43:38):
I was doing all night is to pass fifth form graphics.
I wasted my youth graphics. I wanted to go parachuting.
The middle age was eighteen. I was fifteen and you
could go with parental consents. So I filled out the
parental consent forms for myself and a friend and we

(44:00):
went to Dairy Flat I think it was, I think
it was, and we did tandem jumps forging stuff. I
was a member of the Young Nats. Muldoon stood down
and I thought it would be a good idea forre
A young woman interviewed him. So I wrote and put
this idea to him. I'll never forget how terrified I

(44:21):
was when he wrote back and said yes, and to
go to his home and chats. On a particular day,
thea answered the door. Such tiny people. I still have
the cassette goodness. Matt here born nineteen sixty five, age

(44:42):
fifteen and four months. I drove a creaky Austin Kimberly
with a Starling yacht on the roof rack to Aukan
from Willington Camp to Tuckapoona in the campground at the
boat ramp, did the National champs and drove back eight
days later for the record eighty something boats placed in
the twenties. Well pleased. Half the fleet were Jeffers and

(45:03):
knew the waters and what the tides the year will
of course local knowledge. You be used to watch windy
places to coming up, wouldn't you, marry Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Hey do Marcus.

Speaker 18 (45:14):
I'll try to give it brief, but it's a good story,
so he might want you want to keep me on.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
A couple of months, couple of months, A couple.

Speaker 18 (45:21):
Of months before my fifteenth birthday, I was sitting on
the terrace at home. So this is nineteen twenty four
by remember it's around Easter, just after Easter. It walking
me and I was a member of the tramming club
and all the tigers are away during the trip. For
some reason, I was home and then a car pulls
up and it's a friend of mine from the Trainman

(45:43):
Club and Boxhall Victor two liter Graham softot. He goes,
grab me Gear, I go, why what's going on? He goes,
We've got to go and rescue some boys brigade members.
We're stuck on Cox Horn and Cook's horns in the
car Wickers. If you put that up you'll see exactly
what I'm talking about. Then you go south along the
main range to you find the tips in Cox Horn
at the Tutaoikirier River. So we drove out towards crib

(46:07):
of Poer and we were met by a guy called
Nevil Cock and the little pillar or bell type helicopter
like a Nash helicopter, and this is right on dark
and he flew as in one time because it's underpowder.
There was a lot of wind, and he flew Graham
and I right up on top of Cook's Horn and
from there it was now it's completely dark, and Graham

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went down on the rope be laid by me and
grabbed six boys were game members, one at a time.
We brought them back up and once that we've done
plus there with the someone went out, but quite well
that's blue. Were met by other members of the Trainmen
Club who were coming from the tents, and then we
took them down the south side of Cook's Horn, down

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this frozen shingle side of the dark place called Carver
Huts is gone up because they got burnt down the
road as you might be able to forest roads there.
We went to school the next day, done.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Fantastic story. What happened?

Speaker 7 (47:12):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
What happened to the what happened to the boys brigade?
Did they did? They just get caught out?

Speaker 18 (47:20):
It's pretty blussy and they just got t put up
the rogue, which that.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
You like?

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Your lines, just your lines, just your lines, just going
a bit dodgy?

Speaker 14 (47:39):
Murray?

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Can you can you go? Can you walk close to
the transmitter? It's a good story.

Speaker 19 (47:47):
No, I can't.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
That's been. That's been. Now, Hey, why were you the person?

Speaker 20 (47:52):
Was that?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Because it seems like you're young to get a fourteen
year old to go and do it?

Speaker 21 (47:55):
Was were you?

Speaker 22 (47:55):
Just?

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Were you the most able?

Speaker 9 (47:59):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (47:59):
Because all the other tigers were away doing their own trip?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I know what are the tigers? That's a bit I
didn't understand.

Speaker 9 (48:07):
The target look like a.

Speaker 18 (48:09):
Year old which means the guns, the young two, that
way of doing the last man steady. But I knew
how to mine because that was what I was into.
Since four wonderful two?

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Were they gracious? Were they grateful?

Speaker 18 (48:28):
I really can't remember. It's just time from down there
by that classical in each day.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Great story, murky, great story. Thank you, well, I can
tick off my bucket list date. Life with Guacamoli gave
it the world today. Do not recommend Marcus. When I
was fifteen, me and my best friend Julia would stay
up late watching their dad's videos of Stalin and his speeches.

(48:59):
We developed a teenage crush on him and even nicknamed
him Starlight. All those feelings of just Peters. I've grown
older and learned more about his regime. Lyon Brown, lying down.
That's right, get in touch your stories. When you were fifteen,

(49:31):
have enjoyed this immensely, Especially people were staying at starring
away on boats and things fancy seven, then all night
at the past for form graphics to be replaced by
a computer program. That's heartbreaking. I turned fifteen in the

(49:53):
early seventies. In those days, there was no learning license thing.
Got my license on my fifteenth Dad brought me car,
was driving my mates to high school the next day.
Get in touch the stories of when you were fifteen, Um,

(50:15):
Get in touch Marcus till twelve. Good stories, Marcus. When
I was fifteen, the local publican would call my mum
at home and tell her Dad was drunk. I would
then make the fifteen minute walk from home, go to
the pub, spend about fifty five minutes talking to my
uncles and aunties when I have a quick beer, then

(50:38):
walk Dad to the old land drover and drive him home.
Didn't even have my car license, but no one really cared.
This was a regular occurrence. We lived in Kaye Tyre
where everyone pretty much knew each other. Leon from Melbourne. Wow,
it's a good story. Least mum didn't see you the
pub with dad's dinner. That's the classic. I've heard of

(51:03):
that happening more than once. Trisha's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (51:07):
Oh hi Marcus, just relying the story to you about
what happened to me when I was fifteen. Embarrassing story.
My girlfriend and I had gone out to the beach
at Saint Clair Dunedin, and you know I loved going
out to beach. In some other days, we're just sunbathing
on the little grassy knoll outside the sint Clear Surf

(51:29):
Life Saving Club. Went the chains and rooms well gone
to our bikinis, got a towels, wit ye down on
our towels, some bathing and kind of nodded off. And
when we kind of turned over, started chatting, realized our
bags with our clothes were gone. So we thought, what

(51:52):
do we do now? So we went over to the
Surf Life Saving Club, talked to the guys over there,
told them how started being stolen, and they said, well,
have a look out there the lockdown, and they pulled
the flag down, the life club flag, and they tied

(52:12):
our bags of clothes to the to the flagpole and
hoisted up to the top and they were all our belongings.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Up old track.

Speaker 19 (52:22):
Wow.

Speaker 23 (52:24):
So they said, look that we had a gig last night.
Here a bit of a do we need to go surfing.
The club needs cleaning. Cleaning with your job. You'll get
your clothes back when you've cleaned this. This is not
a good story for the Clear, No, it wasn't so anyway,

(52:44):
with our bikinis on, we spent hours and hours and
teen the club and they just didn't come back, and
we waited hours and hours and hours unto how long
we're going to have to wait. But anyway, they came back.
They were happy with what we had done, and they
hoisted the flag flag down and gave us back our clothes.

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We thought we're going to have to get the bus
home in our bikinis and all their bust money and
everything was in the bag. So yeah, it was a
bit of a dilema.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
It's a pretty sketchy story. I've always had that sort
of view of the surf lifesavers, but that puts something
a particularly bad light, doesn't it.

Speaker 23 (53:20):
Well, it was funny, you know. That's funny now, you know.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Are we talking Are we talking eighties or seventies?

Speaker 24 (53:29):
Oh, fifties, sixties.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Oh, it's a different times, different times.

Speaker 23 (53:36):
I mean, it was just it was scary because we
didn't know when we were going to get our clothes back.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
There'd be terrifying. Yes, I'm I'm looking at on Google
Maps now I can see the flag pole, so I'm
looking at.

Speaker 23 (53:50):
It now, the little grassy knoll outside, you know, the club.
I'm looking all just lying on there on our towels.
But to see your clothes and your belongings, you know,
hanging from a flag pole. We didn't think it's going
to wells.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Fantastic story, trist thank you for that sketchy though cheapers.
I thought there's going to be a shark attack and
that one twenty past nine. My name is Marcus. Welcome,
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty tatty and nineteen ninety
to text Mark said my fifteenth birth of the Greek
liner Queen Frederica heading back to the UK nineteen seventy one,

(54:30):
eight Weeks of Fun nine twenty three. Good evening, Bob,
This is Marcus, Welcome to the radio show.

Speaker 13 (54:38):
I am Marcus. Yeah, Bob, talking about when I was fifteen,
I worked on a dairy farm and Allingon, which is
just out of the Naton. And anyway, they got hay
contractors to come in and do the hay, and anyway
I was giving them a hand. And in those days
they used to pull all the cowmen. You were out

(54:58):
in these big skip things and you'd throw it out
with the tractor and then you flip it upside down
onto the paddock. Anyway, me, being the mouthy little bugger
that I was, was given these contractors a bit of crap, and.

Speaker 7 (55:15):
They looked at each other and.

Speaker 13 (55:16):
One order to the other while they grabbed me and
they put me in that manure thing, and they buried
me and then and helped me under there for quite
a considerable amount of time.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
You would to get away with that, now, what with
the work with with roop relations, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 14 (55:33):
Yeah, but that's fifteen, that's forty years ago, making forty
five years.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I'd hunt them down now, find their names and hunt
them down. God. So that was the best thing that
ever happened to.

Speaker 21 (55:42):
You, was it?

Speaker 20 (55:45):
Well?

Speaker 6 (55:45):
It didn't shut me up any I can tell you that.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
It was one of the things that one of the
things that when I was fifteen, why did.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
They collect them? And were was that the then to
apply it?

Speaker 13 (55:55):
And they put it in, put it in sort of
a skip thing, and then they tow it out in
the paddock, put on manure and it just slide down.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
So is this the manure from the from the from
the milking shed.

Speaker 5 (56:05):
Yeah, from the milking shit? Yeah?

Speaker 19 (56:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (56:08):
And I mean in those days they didn't have great
pumps and splashed around the paddock chap to take it
out and put than yourself, you know, different days, but
I wouldn't get out of the poor so you're still stunk.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
And the guy I worked for he thought it was hilarious.
He thought it was a great joke.

Speaker 8 (56:24):
That's just one story I can remember.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
When I was fifteen, make your own fun in the
farming life. Thanks Bob for goodness sake. Yeah, yeah, I
don't have those initiations for work, because that's not we're
about tonight too, by the way, because that's a different show,
asking for the long wait and stuff. People love that show,
by the way. It's one we've done once in a while.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
When I was eighteen and got my apprenticeship, they left
handed ham me, you know, the whole drill. Anyway, thank
you for that. That's a good text, a good called.
These are great stories. Keep them going. Age fifteen, I
ran the orcand Marathon in three hours, two minutes. It
was nineteen eighty four. Afterwards, all the guys at school

(57:08):
called me marathon man, matthew T. It's a great story.
Three hours to it. There'd be something of a record,
would it not. I'd a bit more about your training
friends of that person watching watching the speeches of Stalin.

(57:31):
That's from a different time.

Speaker 9 (57:32):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
The things you did at fifteen that would surprise people,
might even surprise yourself, certainly would surprise your parents. I
reckon a lot of them, particularly young girls hit shiking.
You see people hit shiking these days. I suppose in
those days they weren't the cheap cars were there. Anyway,

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that's what we're not about tonight. If you've got something
to say about that, that's good. That's the point eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine text. You've got breaking
news where you are, also, let us know what that is.
We're all about that tonight. So you've got the drill. Oh,

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eight hundred eighty ten eighty let's be hearing from you
anything else you've got looking forward to that tonight also,
So yes, it's a situation, but lines there free if
you want to come through. It'll be good to phone
meet you tonight. So let's be hearing from your hypat
nine tony headlines.

Speaker 25 (58:42):
Please thanks Marcus. Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones is warning
the Electricity Authority we'll end up as roadkill if it
doesn't take action on electricity prices. The regulator has released
a new dashboard of weekly data on energy margins. Going
back to the start of July, Prime Minster Luxon has
put the hard word on councils. He's given the local
government New Zealand Conference one he calls a frank assessment

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of the state of play. And three people are dead
and too seriously injured following a crash near South Canterbury's Geraldine.
Emergency services were called to the State Highway seventy nine
and Kennedy Street intersection about three fifteen this afternoon. More
on those stories at ten or check out enzid Herald
dot co dot nz.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Thanks Tony twenty nine away from ten o'clock. I'm here
till twelve people, So we're talking about the things you
did when you're fifteen that would surprise you or you
surprised you got away with that. We surprised you did it.
To on about Today's got something to add to that.
Get in touch. Tim Beveridge on from twelve but lines

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they're frere be nice to hear from you, but yeah
again amongst at eight hundred and eighty ten eighty enjoyed
the stories immensely. There's something exciting about the optimism and
adventurous spirit of young people. I think we might have
crushed that some ways to get that feeling. But yes,

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you want to talk about they'd be nice to hear
from you. Lines they're free, be good to hear from you.
Two injured as turbulance hits get flight from Corfu to
London happens more than all the old tubulents done. It
won't be long before people start wearing helmets on planes.
I reckon, there's my prediction. I'll put that in for

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my prediction for next year. But yes, getting touched hit
or twelve, Neil, it's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. Hope things are well with you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Good, Thank you, Neil.

Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
Marcus about teenage years if I may now, I don't
know if it's appropriate, Marcus, but our sell to usuallyand
on my little boats, and i'd be sun with mate.

Speaker 10 (01:01:04):
And we were in that.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
He was nine when we set off, and we lived
cheap by Jowell for seven years, and I was able
to observe him growing up and going through puberty. And
what I found real interest in Marcus is that when
we sailed off and all like that, and things got
a bit blowy and there's worked to do a loft.
I used to move him out the way, and I

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used to do it. And as the years passed and
me approached puberty, it started changing Marcus and because he
was getting bigger than me, stronger and sitter and everything.

Speaker 24 (01:01:38):
And it evolved.

Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
So he moved me out the way and he did
the hard stuff. So I found that really fascinating and interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
You see, when years on your bike were.

Speaker 8 (01:01:49):
You well, didn't I we went rushing anywhere. I was
a long time in the Caribbean. Didn't rush enough. We
used to stay Barbados, Martini wherever we.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Would? You would would you work as well, Neil, to
get more fans.

Speaker 8 (01:02:10):
Well, I'll tell you something, Marcus, I feel a bit
strongly about it, about the doll and all things like that. Yeah,
run out of money. I did find, Marcus, that if
you were prepared to do a really crappy job that
nobody else wanted to do, you could get a few bucks.

(01:02:33):
You could always get I never went I never went.

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
Hungry, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
But what what what jobs would you do, Neil?

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:02:42):
Scraping boats?

Speaker 19 (01:02:43):
I did a lot of that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
Into heat is scraping boatoles in terrific heat. You know,
it was really tough. I've done toilets, in Dum Dum
dumb the Canary Islands and what did I do? But
can I just really quickly tell you a story that
you know, you maybe find a bit interesting or not.

(01:03:05):
My son, it seems happened overnight when he went through puberty.
And remember we were just together twenty four to seven
and we were laid on the deck. We were only
doing about three knots it was there was hardly the wind.
It was calm, and the sky was just full of stars.
You can't believe how clear it was. And he says, Dad,

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how do you talk to girls? So I started explaining
as best I could by being complimentary and polite, you know,
the things that were good. But as the night went on,
the conversation got more and more flippant, and what we
finally came to was that, you know, the nicest thing

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to say to a girl as a dance, you don't
sweat much for a fat glass.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
We need to hear that. But thank you twenty five
to ten, eight nine to to text. Thanks for the topic, Marcus.
I had nearly forgot this adventure to fifteen year old
hitching through the South Island, were befriended by a pair
of twenty one year old nurses who took us for
our money penniless. We stole milk, bottle money it picked

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in the night before the ferry crossing, and some milk
in the morning before stowing around the ferry. We slept
in a stationary railway carriage at Wellington Railway Station, but
had to exit in the hurry when we were jolted
awake by the engine connecting. It's from Mozzy. Marcus went
in the South Island, was staying at Mount Hutet had
to be rescued from Mount Sefton as we never had
the correct equipment for such a task. We got a

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real killing off. Believe me, Marcus. When I was fifteen,
I couldn't wait until Tuesday. That was our Carla's day.
In the seventies we could drive the parents car, the
Morris Liven hundred around the streets. We never got caught.
This went on over the whole summer. Shane Shane and

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hearing from you your fifteen year old stories eight hundred
and eighty, ten eighty and nine to nine two text
at twenty four from ten all across the breaking news.
If you've got it and we've got it, will bring
that to you. Let's be hearing from you. Yeah, eight

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hundred eighty, ten eighty and nine to nine two to
text emails if you've got them, also tonight and keep
those coming through. I think we've got most of the
text out of the way. The old Lion Brown Ah,

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the old lying down there. You go a lot of
people going around ships, stowing away on boats, which is interesting.
The persons spent there doing all night. It's passed from graphics.
Good on you. I appreciate your dedication. Twenty from ten

(01:06:10):
at Richard, Marcus welcome, good evening, Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:06:14):
Yeah, nineteen eighty three, I was fifteen. I was a
boarding school. Not it's exciting as some of the other stories.
But yeah, we've got picked to play in the under
fifteen counties rip team and we had a game against
Auckland and we were the first junior team allowed on
the number one Eden Park. What play to play the

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curtain raiser for the obviously this you know, the senior
Auckland senior counties team. So that was pretty cool. And
there was the old scoring days and we beat Auckland
four nor which was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Oh so, hang on, Richard, what sport are we talking Rugby. Ah,
I couldn't pick that school with rugby either with four. No,
But they were the days, weren't they.

Speaker 15 (01:07:03):
Yep?

Speaker 11 (01:07:04):
Yeah, good old days.

Speaker 9 (01:07:05):
Make there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Anyone go on and have higher honors.

Speaker 11 (01:07:12):
Yeah, a couple. Yeah that a guy called Lawrence Hassen
Place Senior Counties later on. But yeh, since enjoy of
Facebook off, sort of been stalking trying to find some
he's he's selling cars and papaka or something now because

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we're all some age group obviously to you a couple
of years maybe, yeah, but yeah, it was pretty cool.
We've got to look up under the stands at one
stage and Andy Hayden and then we're watching us before
they were getting ready to cut up for their actual
game themselves. And they had the shield in those days.
Auckland too, so we were allowed up into the the

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main room and you know, got to hold the shield
and then pretend. But that was pretty cool. It's something
I'll never forget because and.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
You're you're a victorious fauna, is that right?

Speaker 19 (01:08:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:08:07):
Counties four now over Auckland, which was a bit of
a feat because Auckland were obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Beating them, beating them at home too.

Speaker 11 (01:08:15):
Yeah, it was great. It was a great time. Mention.
We never actually lost the game that year. It was
awesome year for counties Junior y nearly wonder Y Kadow competition,
Tim's early competition and beat Auckland for North.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
So yeah, great story, Richard, thank you. Nineteen to ten
John Marcus, Hello, good evening.

Speaker 10 (01:08:35):
Welcome, Yeah, welcome. I just came to at the and
you're man being a manure minds me nineteen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
John, can you just get your line your phone line
a bit better because I'm just getting every second word.

Speaker 10 (01:08:59):
Are you each better?

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Are you on speaker? No, it's not bad. This this
is how we go anyway. If I stop you, we
might have to readjustment. It's good for now, okay, is that? Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:09:13):
It's good.

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
Back on the Yeah, I'm going back on the man
who was buried in manure down on a dairy farm
some years ago. But in nineteen fifty five, I was
a track rider at Takaninny in the racetrack.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
And can you hear me yes loud and Claire southering God.

Speaker 10 (01:09:38):
Yeah, okay. And in those days the Prince will had
to keep down to around about seven and seven and
a half stone and we go out down to the
track at and we were working for a bloke called

(01:09:59):
Clarie Davis who was one of the top trainers of
race horses. He had about twenty sex horses there and
had approximately ten apprentices all riding trying to keep their
weight down. And of course the apprentices rode the horses,

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kept the stables clean and what have you, and we
piled all the manure up into a pile and the
back paddock. If the certain apprentice had to keep his
weight down, we would bury him in the.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
Shit heap.

Speaker 10 (01:10:40):
Had to recalled it, because there was no such thing
as sweatboxes or anything else. And these apprentices would be
living on oranges and ebbed some salts to try and
keep their weight down. So I thought that if you

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can go back to nineteen fifty five I've dealt with
any of them are still alive.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
And John John, it was it was very hot in there,
is that right? It would be fifteen degrees or so?

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
How hot it would be?

Speaker 10 (01:11:14):
Well, it was steaming all the time, and three or
four of us would have to dig the hole to
put him in and leave them in for three or
four hours and then bring them out. But it was
one of those things that they did for their livelihood,

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I suppose.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
And it worked obviously.

Speaker 10 (01:11:40):
Yeah, so it wasn't so, but I don't know whether
anyone would remember that now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
But it's a long time ago into that seventy years ago.
You must be eighty in your late eighties, are you
maybe five?

Speaker 9 (01:11:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Mid eighties, Yeah, yeah, I did. I did read that
book about that horse sea biscuit in America, and most
of the racing in those days was done in Mexico,
down in Tijuana, and in that book they talked about
a giant pile of horse maneuver that jockeys would go
in and spend their time and to get the weight down.
I'd never heard it happen in New Zealand.

Speaker 10 (01:12:18):
Oh yes, regularly. Yeah, okay, well anyway might.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Still happened, John, thanks so much that fifteen to ten.
Good evening, Margaret, it's Marcus, thanks for calling, and welcome hello.

Speaker 21 (01:12:32):
The surprising things I did when I was fifteen. In fact,
I just turned fifteen and I was in Wellington. There
was a radio station called two ZB at that stage,
well no sorry, two M at that stage, and they
had put out a feeling that they were going to
take a whole carriage, two carriage full of people up
to Neil Diamond, and I thought, oh, that's a bit

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of me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
Wha yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:12:58):
And so that that was about nineteen, I don't know,
maybe nineteen seventy three or seventy four or something. And
I had my money because you know, us girls that
have put had put our ages up, and so we
were all working and had our own money. Went home
and said to Mike proudly said to my parents, guess
what I'm going to Neil Diamond. Great. So Dad, who

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was just a little bit more onto it, the mum
said he's playing in Auckland. Margaret. I hadn't ever been
to Auckland, and I said yeah, yeah, yeah, And he said,
well you're not going to Auckland. I said, yes i am,
and here's the tickets. Look, I'm so excited, and by
that stage, of course that they really couldn't stop me,
because you know, that's that's what I was going to do.

(01:13:41):
And so and they said, but you're by yourself.

Speaker 11 (01:13:43):
I said, oh, don't worry, I'll meet people.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
And I did and it was great, okay, and a
lot of questions who was that? Who was the DJ
from the station, and some did someone from staff go.

Speaker 11 (01:13:53):
With you.

Speaker 6 (01:13:56):
Year?

Speaker 21 (01:13:56):
There were several. The one that comes to mind is
Lloyd Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
Scott, what a great guy here is?

Speaker 11 (01:14:03):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Oh yeah, you know, and one of the great.

Speaker 21 (01:14:06):
They probably I think they probably realized that there were
a couple of girls like me who were kind of young,
and they I think they sort of kept a weary
but we were all put on, you know, and I
was put into Oh, this is Margaret, this is this
is Janus, this is Michelle. You know, you guys are
all sleeping. You know, you guys are all sharing a
room together, and it was very exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
So you went up on the friday.

Speaker 21 (01:14:32):
I can't remember what night it was, but yeah, went
up on the overnighter yep.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Yeah, okay. And where was the concert? Was it carl
Or Park or Eden Pak?

Speaker 11 (01:14:41):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:14:41):
No, Western Springs?

Speaker 19 (01:14:43):
Wow?

Speaker 21 (01:14:44):
So it was it was sort of his and he
was talking about three people, so it was it was
really his hot August night.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (01:14:54):
It might have been seventy five actually when I think
about it, but it was something like that, and we
just thought we were the cat's pajamas.

Speaker 11 (01:15:01):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
You know, I wonder where you stayed so you come
up to the you come up to the orcan main train.
Stay you almost at the station hotel or something to do.

Speaker 21 (01:15:09):
Yeah, I think it's called the Great Northern Hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, there'd be one of the pubs, one
of the breweries pubs, yes, yep.

Speaker 21 (01:15:17):
And then they and then we're all and it was
the happiest. It's still one of the happiest concerts I've
ever been to because everybody was just.

Speaker 9 (01:15:27):
I guess it was still.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
There's still singing Sweet Carolina at the Olympics now, I
mean doesn't date.

Speaker 21 (01:15:34):
And you know, it was really it was just it was,
you know, it was just fantastic and you know, as
I say, we just thought, you know, we wouldn't have
called the Queen there, aren't you. And then the following
we stayed, we stopped over the night, almost to stop
over two nights, I can't remember. But and then we
went back on the on the daylight train back back

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to Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
And how did you get to the concert?

Speaker 21 (01:16:00):
They put on buses so it was pretty well organized.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Sounds fantastic, you good old tum they or did they
have sound system on the train for the way home?
So singing sort of you know, all the hot August
night stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Oh.

Speaker 21 (01:16:17):
As a matter of fact, we probably had a little
too much to drink. So the going home was a
lot quieter than going too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Would you take hip flasks into it with you? I
suppose would you? Would you smuggle stuff into Western Springs?

Speaker 11 (01:16:32):
I think we might have, Marcus. I think that's what happened.

Speaker 21 (01:16:36):
So, you know, But so that was and that of course,
that was the days before cell phones or anything like that.
Your mum and dad said, be careful, try and look
after yourself, try and get with some nice people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Good luck.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
At least they knew they couldn't stop rock and roll.
You're going, You're going. I think the Great Northern was
on the corner of Queen and Custom Street. Well, it
could well have been where you were. So that's where
I mentioned. That's where you were, I think so.

Speaker 21 (01:17:05):
Yeah, And I met up with a couple of great girls.
Never never met them before, I never seen them since,
but you know, we had, you know, for two days
and two nights. We were our new besties.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
God goodness, Okay, I meant all of it. The lack
of the trains anyway, Thanks for that, Margaret. That's nice
to hear from the keep it going people, the things
you are and you hold your horselete you after the
break order, restart is going to reset. And we were
talking to the things that you did, the exciting things
you did looking back when you were fifteen, hit or twelve,
the things you did when you were fifteen that would

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surprise you. Audrey, it's Marcus. Thanks having on there, and
good evening, Audrey. Welcome, Oh Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:17:45):
I was twelve when my story started, and my flather
came to me one day. We had a big section
and de deaned, and my flather came to me one
day and said, would you like to grow some strawberries?
And I said yes, And he said it's a load
of work, and I said okay. So I got this

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big plot of land and I had my three hundred
strawberry plants, and I had to when the food came,
I had to put straw around them in the off season,
we didn't cut the runners off them, and then postle
the strawberries up. He would take orders and pottle the

(01:18:32):
strawberries up and he would deliver them for me. And
I did that until I was in the fifth form,
and of course then I had school seert and we
had that polio epidemic and so sort of that was

(01:18:52):
the end of that. But I'll tell you what it
taught me, the value of money. It taught me work ethics.
And that's my story.

Speaker 21 (01:19:06):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Do you still do it?

Speaker 22 (01:19:11):
I'm eighty nine?

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Oh hell, okay, okay, it's a good story, eh. I
mean because everyone loves strawberries as well too. It's'd be
nice thing to be involved with.

Speaker 22 (01:19:22):
Well it wasn't. I love strawberries, but it became a
bit of a chore in the engine because before I
went to school, we had to puzzle them all up
and waise them.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Well, I bet you they're more tasty than the ones
you get now.

Speaker 22 (01:19:41):
Oh they were. They were called up. I've never forgotten
that name.

Speaker 15 (01:19:47):
Did you them?

Speaker 26 (01:19:48):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
Did you have manure as well in there?

Speaker 18 (01:19:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:19:53):
We had mandure. Yeah, yeah, we've put the manure and
first and then a straw.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Oh nice to hear from you. We thank you. Dinnis Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 16 (01:20:05):
Hello there. My exciting story when I was sixteen was
I worked Norway on a boat to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
It seems really young to do it, doesn't It tell
me how that started.

Speaker 16 (01:20:18):
One week before the Panma Canal. We had a huge
storm and we're carrying high octane fuel. Drums flashed to
the hatch covers and they broke loose and the boat

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was listing ma to the maximum on the list and
decade in the middle of the boat thirty degrees. And
this was really frightening to a young sixteen year olds
And anyway, all hands on deck, the boswain saw me

(01:21:04):
coming onto the deck fortunately pointed down it down below
the stairs again denth and so I watched from a
protected position as these young seamen who weren't much that
much older than me in the early twenties, had these
oil drums were rolling from one side of the deck

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to the railing and back to the hatch covers again,
and they had to throw themselves on the barrels and
pears and roll them back to the hatch covers and
relash them securely to the hatch covers. Now you know,
one high octane fuel had one opened up steel drums

(01:21:54):
and a steel deck in that boat was history. But anyway,
we lost the radio aerial and the buck stops with
the boatswain. So the boats and I'm watching us from
a protected position, and the boats grabbed the radio aeriel

(01:22:19):
and he's getting the boson's chair and he's hauled to
the top of the mast. Now this was not a
Hollywood movie, Margut. This was for real, okay. And the
lip boat listening to the maximum and the Boston at
the top of the mast was over the ocean, right.

Speaker 11 (01:22:45):
It was. It was an.

Speaker 16 (01:22:47):
Incredibly brave thing to do.

Speaker 4 (01:22:50):
So he.

Speaker 16 (01:22:52):
So he secured the radio aerial to the top of
the mast and was lowered back to the deck and
life went on.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Now tell me, Dennis, can you tell me about Can
you tell me what the vessel was?

Speaker 16 (01:23:14):
The motor vessel PAPAROA?

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Oh yeah, And how did you happen to get on it?

Speaker 16 (01:23:19):
Pardon?

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
How did you happen to get on it? Were you
a seaman anyway? Or how did you?

Speaker 11 (01:23:24):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:23:25):
No, I was. I applied for New Zealand and migration,
but I was too young and my father worked for
was under the command and the Army Cadets before the
Second the War that a fellow who was director of

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shipping for Churchill during the war, Sir Lawrence Edwards, And
my grandmother said to Dad Norman, right to Sir Lawrence
and see if he can get you Dennis on a
ship to New Zealand. And so he did, and a
couple of weeks later has told the report of the
Paparoa at Liverpool them here I am in New Zealand. Wow,

(01:24:11):
it was Marcus who was a wonderful adventure for a
young lad going through the Panma Canal and the storm.
And anyway, we arrived safely at queenswarf Wellington week ten
days before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
And yeah, what year did you arrive, Dennis?

Speaker 16 (01:24:36):
And nineteen fifty six?

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Okay, well, and it was a good thing. You were
glad you moved to New Zealand.

Speaker 16 (01:24:42):
Oh yes, of course.

Speaker 9 (01:24:43):
Oh good.

Speaker 16 (01:24:46):
Castles about fifty five degrees north of the equator. He
gets a lot of snow and winter. That's one of
the reasons I decided to come out to New Zealand.
And so where I am in Auckland, I was about
twenty degrees closer to the equator.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
And you spent you spent most you spent most of
your time in Auckland.

Speaker 16 (01:25:06):
Oh well, I was in Wellington. I got a job
with the railways and got bored with that, and after
two years left and got a job with ibm.

Speaker 24 (01:25:21):
Well then.

Speaker 16 (01:25:27):
Got married, had kids and but we moved to Auckland
in nineteen eighty five and live on the shore.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Do you go back? Did you go back to England?
Many times?

Speaker 10 (01:25:39):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:25:39):
Yes, it went several times to see my parents.

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Yes and no.

Speaker 11 (01:25:47):
It was.

Speaker 16 (01:25:48):
Six weeks for a young lad. It was especially with
a storm. This is not a Hollywood movie.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
It sounds unbelievable and I was.

Speaker 16 (01:26:02):
It was so exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
Love you, hear from you, Dennis, Thank you so much.
Sixteen past ten are Reagan? Reagan Marcus welcome You got
terrific update.

Speaker 26 (01:26:14):
Yeah, maybe just I've just come to Compass and Glenn Murray.
I'm saying that both sides of the road is going
to be closed. The car transporters covered went over the
cheese cutters, so it's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Taking out both lanes.

Speaker 26 (01:26:30):
See, anybody nor in southbound.

Speaker 9 (01:26:32):
Is going to get head.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
So a car transporter with cars on it to full or.

Speaker 26 (01:26:39):
Drive with a like I'm doing a sports Carols, I'm
going to back of it. It's laying over the middle
of the cheese cutters.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Okay, okay. Ambulance ambulances.

Speaker 26 (01:26:51):
I've just gone past two ambulances to fire Chigans and
four police officers coming from the south side, so coming Hamilton,
so it's going to heat up stopping here. I'd say
unfortunate for the guys coming down to Bortland because through
there's major roadworks and there's gonna be a lot of
tripping coming down that hill. I'm down Bombay, So anybody's listening,

(01:27:12):
I did go down Sad twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
Okay, so we're talking between we're talking between Henny Why
and Mady Medi. That's where when you say it was
really and yeah, yeah, you're.

Speaker 26 (01:27:28):
Talking about that. I'd say between Hunbra downs and on
their way and between there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Okay, Roger that Reagan, thanks so much for that.

Speaker 9 (01:27:37):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
It's a state hiway Wan. It's not on the ENTEDI
website yet, but not looking good. Avoid like the plague
and then avoid some more also, so go and the
go up the old road, go west of the river.
I don't know where you could go to go there
a truck, but yeah, that's just breaking news people. Marcus.

(01:28:04):
Two months before my sixteenth birthday night seventy when I
got my first job head dressing tenty. I was fifty
for forty hour a week. Mark's at fifteen, I went
to see Rod Stewart Athletic Park. Blonds have more fun
to her when in my boyfriend's big valant with five others.
Can't believe my parents let me go. Marcus Cure Marcus.

(01:28:30):
At fifteen, I told my parents I was at indoor
basketball finished at ten pm. It was new for gals
and they were more concerned about my bros playing rugby,
so never watched me. Basketball finished at seven pm. I
changed in the jeans, but my boyfriend would go downtown
Friday night. It was a thing because the shops would
open on the weekend. Then would get dropped off, change

(01:28:52):
back into the basketball uniform. Little do they know, we're
at Mayfair Pub, Hastings Hotel, drinking beer and smoking. Marcus
got tickets for Pink Floyd for my sixteenth birth day
at Western Springs in nineteen eighty seven. I went with
my friend. We were supposed to at my aunt's but

(01:29:12):
we met some people there. Ended up north of Auckland,
then down to New Plymouth. We stayed with Sticky Filth
before heading down to Palmerston North. That was our introduction
to mohawks and chaos. Best long weekend at that age.
My poor aunt had filed a missing person's report. When

(01:29:33):
I get home, Dad was livid. Pink Floyd were mesmerizing.
Did you go north of Auckland then down to New Plymouth?
Marc's I stowed away on a Government Native Affairs breat
in Ken's Australia that I had been told was going

(01:29:54):
to New Guinea where we could start wen another boat
to Europe. We're discovered at Thursday Island and flowing back
to Kens. Get in touch. The things you do when
you're fifteen that would surprise you now or surprise me now?

Speaker 10 (01:30:18):
What do you got?

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine to text, be good to hear from you? Anything else?

Speaker 9 (01:30:33):
Up for it?

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
Emails if you got them to their good Marcus, my
brother's first car was a V Dub. Minutes after getting
his license, he picked up his younger brother, drove up
and nearby Hell took the corner too tight, rolled the
car under its roof. Blokes behind them rolled the car

(01:30:58):
back up right. He drove straight back home. Younger brother
thought he might die no seat belt. Early seventies, Marcus
went to friends parents apartment for an impromptu party. Had
earlier picked up a bag of crimanal gold. So I
was fitting a bit excited, was jumping in the elevator
when it stopped around the eighth floor, picked up the

(01:31:21):
phone and the operator asked where we were, said somewhere
between seventh and eighth floor Shangri Lara apartments. She said
you have to wait, as you'd have to wait at
five point thirty on a Friday to be rescued. So
mema mate roller joint sparkeld up halfway through. A young
kid yelled out are you stuck in the lift? I
said yip. He said, don't worry. There are two cop

(01:31:44):
cars and evidence in a fire truck downstairs to get
you out. Luckily it was a young fireman to meet
us with a big smile who said, have a good
night boys. It's a good story that shangil our apartment.
To those the cookie cut of ones on du Voice
Road and Hern May twenty five past ten, Marty Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:32:05):
Yeah, Marcus, sorry from when you're fifteen that surprised you. Now,
when I was fifteen, I think I was on my
third year at cleaning a frontacy at the old camping
ground and I had my first car, which was a
no no it was afford Tex five Telstar like you

(01:32:27):
know the hatch, and I took a group of mates
up to the big bart in Lookland. I paid some
ten year old kids to do my towork cleaning jobs
for two days for the subcontracting. So I was a
pretty big hustler when I was fifteen at the Oldki.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Was that your holidays, Joe? Was it your holiday job?

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Boy?

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Did you live there? I know?

Speaker 9 (01:32:49):
It was was my wholday job. On the holidays, I
leave the farm and go out to the Ankle's farm
and seen the toilets the camping ground there, which was
quite a big job.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
How many hours how many hours a days of cleaning
the toilets is fifty side.

Speaker 9 (01:33:08):
And I reckon I doing probably five or six thousand
a day cleaning.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
Toilet Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
That's tough work.

Speaker 27 (01:33:16):
Yeah, okay, well it was well to wipe and toilet
paper refresh and and I locked the gates in the
morning at six o'clock unlocked in the caps of jobs.

Speaker 9 (01:33:30):
Yeah, but anyway, I managed to get someone else to
do it for two days and actually picked out with
the mate and still have my rounds covered. Yeah, but
you just can't leave your camping ground in the middle
of the peach summer.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
No, and what did you okay with a boss or
did you have to get the boss okay? Or was
it just fine?

Speaker 9 (01:33:50):
Yeah? He said it was okay, but make sure that
they get done. So I to like train this guy
how to do it for a day and then set
them off on the old four wheeler and truly did
it right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
And what was the up is that the upshot of
the story is there? Ousional, that's it, Marney.

Speaker 6 (01:34:10):
I made it?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Which picked out which biged out?

Speaker 21 (01:34:13):
Was it?

Speaker 9 (01:34:14):
I mean ninety five? So it was like probably like
the Smashing Contents, Oh yes, yep, okay, it was pretty
fifteen years old from hugely Swamp was pretty pretty.

Speaker 11 (01:34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
I think who was there in ninety ninety five?

Speaker 9 (01:34:32):
I think Courtney Love.

Speaker 20 (01:34:34):
Was probably their hole.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 9 (01:34:38):
Well it all goes into a blue maybe maybe the fire.

Speaker 2 (01:34:42):
Starter Prodigy was it.

Speaker 9 (01:34:48):
And it's also the vergion into one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
Yeah, I think you're right. I think.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
Yeah, Okay, I like the smaller group, I like the
the not so big groups.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Good story with that, Mardy, I'd better run. I'll get
Chris on. I'll hold your horses, Chris, I'll be with
you after. Sorry, should to cut you off? Not quite
so quick, Marty, but thank you for that. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to text.
I quite a lot of hope and ambition and moxy
with these fifteen year olds, Marcus. In seventy five or fifteen,

(01:35:27):
my mother helped me buy the first car. She said,
don't get a powerful car. I said, I went and
got a Cortena GT Top Speed one twenty Marcus, I've
been polishing a little trophy cup. I won a nineteen
fifty eight Saint John's First Aid competition. I was fifteen.
Then David, good on you. Let's all going't it? Get

(01:35:55):
in touch? Marcus till twelve Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty nine two nine two two text. Be great to
hear your stories, Chris Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:36:10):
When I was fifteen, I think I was fifteen, I
had a part time job at a bakery and I
was still at high school. And as I was coming
across going to the bakery, I went across their par
river and here's a couple of young fellows that are
asked out of a canoe, and in the process of drowning,
I managed to get the first I managed to get

(01:36:30):
the first guy onto the boat. Paul got I topped
my reprojacket off and dived into the edge and the
first one had gone under and I managed to get
him because when I went sort of jumped off the bridge,
I jumped bloody there on top of him. But he's
under the water. So I managed to grab him, fed
him on the boat or up against the canoe. Then
went gropped the other kid that had floated off Tom

(01:36:53):
and he was he was sort of almost ass up,
got him to the canoe, then pushed both them and
swum back with both of them hanging on the side
they can move back to the bank, and then dropped
them back to the parents' place, and just made the
comment to the parents they should have had some life
jackets or something. That was about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
So tell me the geography.

Speaker 20 (01:37:15):
We was this a part of river and krasch.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Wow. And so it was a day he went morning,
it was a night shift. It was daytime.

Speaker 20 (01:37:24):
It was it was about I'd finished school, It must
have been about four o'clock, four thirty or something, and
I was going to the bakery to do some work,
or I was cleaning up and stuff at the bakery
and and then I just heard these kids as I stood.
I was on the old push bike and I was
pushed back and across. I think they called it McKenzie Av.

(01:37:46):
I think it was the bridge at the end of it.
And I heard one of the kids scream out, and
there was just a case of what I had to
do at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Wow, did you get any recognition for it?

Speaker 20 (01:37:59):
They turned up on Saturday when I was at the
bakery and topped and thrones. I think I got my
sad depress know that that was about it. Nothing else.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
So is it the heath coat oparer of Is that
what you're talking about?

Speaker 20 (01:38:17):
Yep, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Were you biking across Johnson's Bridge? Is that the one
at m the McKenzie's av.

Speaker 20 (01:38:23):
Yeah, I think it does. That's what the school dear.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Wow, I loved How deep would it be? Oh the
drown drought? That drowning were they?

Speaker 20 (01:38:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was that was screwed like the
following and they about ten or twelve years old, ten
ten years old and something like that. I know one
was Deerbyshire. The surname I think it was Harkess and Berbershire.
The surnames of the kids cheap as creepers.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
That's a good story, Chris, thank you.

Speaker 20 (01:38:58):
Yeah, yeah, it was just luck at the time that
I was there to speak of. So, but nowadays everyone
should be wearing life jackets, and wouldn't they.

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
That was That's exactly right, Chris, thank you. Oh, eight
hundred eighty twenty six away from eleven hre or midnight.
My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty with two of the thing you did when you're
fifteen that surprised you, nave Marcus welcome. You're on the nave?
Are you on the level?

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Nivel?

Speaker 24 (01:39:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay and yeah okay with you, Yeah, Marcus.
When I was fifteen, I lived in Timoru, and in
the summer time, yeah, in the summer time I spent
most of it, or me and a few mates, and
they spend most of their time on Caroline Bay, you know,

(01:39:48):
so this particular day and they had they always had
a raft here for about two or three months over
the Christmas period, and so we used to swim out
for the raft, and different other ones and girls and
all that used to swim out for the raft and
we're out there and sitting on the raft and two girls.

(01:40:12):
Two girls jump jump dives off the raft to come
back into the Caroline Bay, and one of them when
she died, then she got up, you know, surface started swimming,
and the other one didn't come up, and then she
went down again, and I thought, that's very strange. She's

(01:40:36):
got a dram So there was me, Nate Kevin and myself.
I said, look that girls from Boody Troubles. She hadn't
come up. So we dived off the after what's name
into the water and there she was well below the water.
We had to dive down to pick her up. She
must mean three or four feet below the water. And

(01:40:59):
we pulled her up the service and she was unconscious.
So we took her back to the We were only
just a couple of meters away from this thing there,
and we got her up on board. And I didn't
know bugger all about although I was in the boy

(01:41:20):
Scouts and the Cubs and the boys Caps in it.
So I laid her on the back and pulled her
tongue out, and I don't think she's florowed it, but
I made sure her tongue was her out and anyway
give us some hard talents on the back and one
thing and another just things that I sort of learned

(01:41:42):
and uh and got a back breathing. So there was
a lot there was.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
What a story, yep, And.

Speaker 24 (01:41:54):
There was these uh guards and all that they that were,
you know, looking after everyone on the water. But we
Kevin and myself just swam ashore with her, not not
right the shore until until these guys come out and

(01:42:15):
picked her up. But yeah, she was she was the
gone biger.

Speaker 7 (01:42:20):
She work.

Speaker 24 (01:42:22):
So that was one of the things that did when
I was fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
So she survived and she was all good.

Speaker 24 (01:42:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she did survive and and oh
hell her parents wanted to give us money. They were
quite rich, but they had a big farm out towards
I don't know, going down c for clean ORKI.

Speaker 15 (01:42:45):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 24 (01:42:48):
That was just one of the things that Then another
thing was I I didnn apprenticeship with the as a
mechanic with the New Zealand Railway Road Services in Timmorary.
And when I h when I was working there, I I, uh,

(01:43:13):
what the hell did I do there?

Speaker 16 (01:43:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:43:16):
I was down at glen Orkie and there was a
head on collision a truck, had a milk truck, a
milk truck had a car, and and one was one
was dead and Paul Bugger the one in the car

(01:43:37):
and the milk truck to either was was stilive. But yeah,
so I had to put them in the car and
rushed them to the Omoru and to But on the
way to Omoru had a place called there's no houses
there or nothing. I think it was Glenn's again, a

(01:43:59):
foot poor hild a footpoor something. There was all these
lights on the side of the road, all linking the
and I thought of me, saw those biggers aren't even moving,
so anyway, surely they went either. So what had happened
was the there'd been a a seven car pile up.

(01:44:27):
There was three cars going south and five coming north,
but had blocked the whole road. And yeah, so nobody
could get through. But as we were sitting there, it
wasn't a five car pile up. There was two. There
was a three car pile up. And it was the
middle of the night, dark as hell and drizzling with rain,

(01:44:50):
and these other cars were coming down and running straight
into the back of these others.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
Oh cheaper, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:45:00):
So I said to the I rushed down because we
got up on the RAVA line, so we were out
of it, you know, we lost their car and and
everything that I got up onto the rower line and
I could see what was hit me. So I went
they then again and put You couldn't beg in those days.

(01:45:20):
You didn't have a car that you couldn't put your
lights on hazard or whatever it works, you know, Like,
so I got and the black car here, and I
kept backing me foot on the break your head.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Break smart. It's like fish to keep the people away
from here. Okay, I got to go and live. It's
a good story. But thank you, Kevin Marcus. Welcome here
you go. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
Given I got my license, told the pop I was
leaving count if I get my license. So he just
about rolling out for me.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
To go to the works.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
A sheep farm down there outbar already beach.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
Really, God wish there was still sheep out by there.

Speaker 19 (01:46:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
As a sort of an unspoken rule in our family,
you turned fifteen, you've got a pair of steel caps
and your bugger off to work.

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
How long did you stand south? And for Kevin.

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
About about a year.

Speaker 9 (01:46:29):
But it become my home.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
I left and traveled around New Zealand and Ozzie and
ended up back and under cargo because yeah, it was
like it was like home.

Speaker 9 (01:46:41):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:46:42):
Ended up getting married down there, but younger than that,
at age eleven. I went from the Hawk's Bay down
to Wellington on the train, stayed with friends in Wellington,
got the picton ferry. The next morning. I happened to
meet the fourth engineer on the Endeavor, the train from
Hawk's Bay down to Wellington. He got me to meet

(01:47:05):
him on the ferry and he had me a terror
as the ship and took me up to the bridge
and the captain let me have a little steer of it.
And I didn't crash it into like they won the
other day. I didn't crash it or anything. So where
were you hitting?

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Where we where? We're heading for Kevin.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
Christ Church. Hopped off the ferry and then hopped on
another train and fund the christ Church to stay with
dad for.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Oh you're dead?

Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
Was there?

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
He'd gonna walk about to head he yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
The local cop gave him the choice. Stopped driving drunk
and without a license.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you've got to sort that one out.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
He went down to Hemna Springs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
And oh yeah, oh queen, oh queen, were he I've
been through there. That's a bit of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
Yep, yeah, yeah, he went there the same times, all
in Farcloth off Corow Street.

Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
Oh I don't think, I don't. I think what happened, well,
I think with a hammer. A lot of people are
so wed or that there they don't know who went through.
I think they just show them movies and they get mistaken.
I don't reckon Len Faircloth would have gone through. I'll
find out. People were telling Dick van Dyke went through there,
and I'm sure he didn't. I going to run kid.
It nice to hear from you. Thank you, good stories, Marcus.

(01:48:35):
I'd developed epilepsy when I was fifteen, not much fun.
I'm almost seventy two now, mostly under control. Thankfully. Love
your show, Ellie. Lovely to hear from you, Allie, Marcus.
When I was fifty, I was caught by my father
reversing his carrot of the driveway. He was making his
way home from being away and was only two doors

(01:48:56):
down boarded. I cop it brilliant cheap is the old
local town cops could just bend people from town. It's
the way you want a bit more of that. I'm
joking as you're going to say it sometime on the station.
When you say things like that, the jo anyway, she

(01:49:24):
the outrage here or midnight if you want to be
a part of it. Marcus till twelve seven.

Speaker 19 (01:49:28):
Keep that going.

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
They're good, good, good good. Keep the cool calls coming
through and the texts. Marcus. Restoration is starting soon on
the Queen Mary at Hamnah, must be time for Hemna
story night. Jackie hex not anyway getting touched even pass
to leave, and we are talking about the surprising thing
when you're fifteen. Basically on the back of Christy Alsop
from Location Location Location, she tweeted that his son had

(01:49:53):
just been back from three weeks going around Europe on
trains and son's fifteen, and there was a bit of
kind of tut tutting. I quite like Allsop. I think
she's quite good.

Speaker 14 (01:50:04):
Sort of no not.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I think she's a blue bloe she comes from I forget.
I think her family's oh looks yeah. Anyway, you shouldn't
judge someone because of that. But anyway, the eldest child
and daughter of Charles Alsop sixth Bear and end Up
she had blue Blood anyway. But that's the story and

(01:50:33):
that's what we talk about. That's what's led us into
the topic. So we can't begrudge her that. So eight
hundred and eighty chatting with your stories relating to that
what you did at fifteen, the surprise and think you've
been some great stories. Keep it going eight past eleven
eleven eight. That's what we're on about tonight. So what's
the thing that you look back saying, Gee, I can't
believe my Piers let me do that, or gee I
can't believe I did that. It seemed so young, no

(01:50:58):
doubt something. You've probably gone to war at fifteen, have
you we had a family or joined the side shows
and became McCarney, did you anyway? If you want to
mention that, that's we're about tonight, get in touch Marcus
till twelve. It's something different you want to mention. Beautiful,

(01:51:25):
let's be hearing from you, as I say eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine nine. To take your texts
and emails coming through. That's all good. Anything goes here
to the end. Are they giving the referees now? Bill

(01:51:47):
Harrigan's getting a Hall of Fame Award. They had the
women's rugby, now they've had the referees. He is always
a good, good guy, Old Bill Harrigan want he quite
respected three out of ninety three Premiership games. But look
getting touched you on to talk. My name is Marcus
Hddle twelve. There might be something different you want to mention.

(01:52:08):
The final hour can take the foot off the topic,
pedal a little bit and maybe entertain some other stuff.
So if there is something you want to pine about,
be nice to hear from you. Just remember there's other
people listening to try and make it interesting. I'm enjoying
all the stowaway stories. Also, that's good people leaving country

(01:52:32):
at fifteen. This was different before we needed a passport
to go to Australia.

Speaker 24 (01:52:40):
Um.

Speaker 2 (01:52:42):
Yes, let's be hearing from you people. Marcus till twelve.
If you want to be a part of it eleven fourteen,
the surprising things you did when you're fifteen and these
have been good, So keeping going. If you've got one
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two to text, just standing by people, be with you
soon and get amongst it. Yep, yep, yep. Be yep, yep,

(01:53:04):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty keep those texting through
two people, have you got them? Yeah, let's be hearing
from here as I say, eight hundred and eighty eight emails. Also,
if you've got any that are interesting, be good to
hear from those. Also, Yeah, Brented's Marcus, welcome in good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:53:29):
Yeah, you know, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:53:30):
It's not really a stowaway story. But when I was
a young blog in my early twenties, I was traveling
around Australia and I drove up from Sydney, spent a
couple of years Sydney, drove up the got the canes,
and then looking for a place to stay. And I
met these people and I stayed at the place for
about a week and I couldn't find a job. And
I thought I'd like to work on a tourn boat.

(01:53:52):
Maybe I'll give that a go. But they all wanted
to experience people. And I came across says a guy
and he had a sign there. I said, ah, oh,
the go mate job and he said to me, you
get sea sick because I get terrible sea sickness. And
so I said no, no, I'm good as gold, mate.
He is what okay? Then he said, you've got a

(01:54:14):
job there. I said, I've got no experiences in our
old trainer. There's another deck end. There's two deck ends
and a skipper. And so I said, when are we leaving?
He says tomorrow morning, at four o'clock in the morning
or something. Oh okay. So I get down there. I
had a holding Penelvan and I left it with his
people that i'd met a week earlier. And so I said,

(01:54:34):
you can drive my car around. I'm going out fishing
sea later. I mean, I don't even know how to
notice that people. I just dumped onto the boat and
we got north of Kings and Queen's need heating up
the Cape York, and we did what it's called a
shot when you put the nets out. We did a
day shot because I wanted to show that I was
King in the first and we pulled up the cod

(01:54:55):
ends and we put them on the deck, put them
on a big tray, and I wanted to show I
was Kings. I jumped them and got to look for
forms and put them in the buckets and stuff and whoa, whoa,
oh it is nah. I hap to have a look first,
And there was about six or seven sea snakes or
slut they had to give it those. Australia is notorious

(01:55:16):
for things that will try and poison you or kill you.
But but usually fishing is down at night. But we
did the day shot just for some reason. But I
used to get seasick. But I hit it here, had
no idea I would get sick, and I'd pretend I
just go out of the wheelhouse and I'll just get
for a look, and I'd vomit over the side. And
when I was working would vomit. But after well, we
were gone for two months. I don't know these guys

(01:55:39):
from bars so and we'd go and I get at there.
But I got I got used to it. I just
got used to the sea sickness. And we would work
all night and sleep during the day. We'd have a study,
a big fresh up we took up for a fresh
fresh fish for breakfast. We were cleaning out the deck
and we'd catch fish where we were anchor for them
all for the days sleeping and we'd catch a tuna

(01:56:00):
or Spanish mackerel or something like that, and we'd fill
its straight away and like within fifteen minutes the frying
pan and we have prauns tuna or mackerel or something
like the p and there's mighty big feed him out
to study of beer and then hit the sack. But yeah,
you got a maximum of about four hours sleep. I'll
tell you it was just work all the time. But

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it was great. But I wrote age. I wrote a
I thought we hit. It was in the days of
VHS videos. We had a supply of videos which you
watched about ten times each and then in the wheelhouse
and I'll write some poetry. So I wrote this poem.
I'll tell you one. I was quite neat and the
boat his name was Piscy Star. And I spent a

(01:56:41):
couple of weeks writing this post, a big long one,
but I can remember this one line and it goes, uh,
Piscy Star, Piscy Star. The radio cackles as the boat
stems along to the creak of the shekels. We'll pick
up the gear the skipper. He barks up, come the
coddy and is followed by sharks. So I wrote this

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poem all online with this.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
It's a great poem.

Speaker 12 (01:57:06):
Well, it tells the story of the fish.

Speaker 6 (01:57:10):
Yeah, it tells. And I wrote poems about when it
was rough and I shot I shot a crocodile up there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
What year we're talking? What do you were talking?

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
Britain?

Speaker 6 (01:57:21):
Early nineteen, early nineteen eighties?

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Okay, yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (01:57:25):
Shot a crocodile up there. We were right at the
top of Cape York Peninsula between sees the island and
mainlands Australia, and were more in the spot. There's there's
a lot. There's lots of what they're called sand caves,
which is a piece of sand like you see in
the cartoons that the high tide never goes above. You've

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got to watch those because you get your boat stuck
on them, and then also get ones with a bush
on them, no water on them. There's just lots of
tropical rain. And we worn up with these other guys
that boat. We tied up next to each other and
it would go ashore. And they had this rifle, was
a stainless steel ruga to to three and I was

(01:58:08):
holding the rifle and there was six of us and
this little dingy.

Speaker 5 (01:58:11):
Up and rather shore.

Speaker 6 (01:58:12):
Well, young guys. The skipp of the boat was only
twenty six or something. All young, all guys in the
twenties or young guys. And then and then we saw
the big what we thought was a log that slithered
into the water. I said, I was sitting in the
rear of the dingy and I said, he run, get down,
and they all gone, and I slide over their heads.
Boom boom, ball booming, and the steeds the bullet in

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the sand and the crock was racing towards the sea,
and I heard it right on the neck and he
stopped them right. I shot this crock and then we
went over and we skinned it, and we ate the
flesh and it tastes like a tough, chewy fish. Yeah,
like the chicken with We gathered it to see what
it was eating, and I had prawns and crabs in
its gap.

Speaker 10 (01:58:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:58:54):
So yeah, we had lots of other benches like that up. Yeah,
we got for a couple of months at the time,
come home for.

Speaker 2 (01:58:59):
So hang on, hang on, did you not did you
do longer than the two months?

Speaker 5 (01:59:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:59:04):
No, two months was a maximum triple with it?

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
Yeah, but did you do one one? Did you do
more than one trip?

Speaker 24 (01:59:10):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:59:11):
Yeah, we've done for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
Oh and tell me that. So that was your third
a couple of years.

Speaker 6 (01:59:15):
And then then I had to come home. For some reason,
I was coming home, and then the skipper didn't want
saying I'm not taking you all the way back to Kens.
But then there's a little community at Cape York. You see,
we can take you there, and the boats going there
for some reason, maintenance or something. So he drops me
off there and I made my way in and there's
there's an aborigin little community in this guy come out

(01:59:37):
this flesh drive government paid for and I went for
an hour to drive through the tropical rain frost and
we come through this little clearing, a little cloud in
this plane appears out of the clouds and lands and
take you back to Kens. So there was there was
another story. There was a one like where one afternoon,
it was after a very rough night, and then we
were anchoring. There's there's certain spots where the boats anchored

(01:59:59):
and get shelter, and we were anchored up and then
we usually get up about two o'clock in the after
You've got to do some work in the nets and stuff,
and then we hear this clunk on the deck. What
the heck they got up And there's this young guy
on our deck with a plastic bag for the clothes said, mate,
where did you come from? He said, I'll see that
boat over there. Yeah, had a broken boom. And you see,

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the pawn boats got two booms that go up. You
put them out sideways and that's where your trawl boards
go out. One of them was broken off because the
night before they had a hook up and if you're
not quick, it can roll the boat over. There's a
boat and prop keeps turning and you hook up on
one side and they'll turn the boat over. But in
this case, the boom broke off and the skipper went

(02:00:44):
berserk and he was gowned, berserk and abusing everybody. Yet,
what these yet one to two decades and this guy,
I'm not taking a nurse. So he swam ashore. He
swam into our boat with a plastic bag for the clothes.
So we feed them and said, well, we're going to
go back to work this afternoon. He said that's right,
and then we took them over to the shore and
he did and there's no this was no this was

(02:01:04):
way out with his no houses, nothing, just tropical rainforest.
And it of course it was coming on evening and
he said, see you mate, He said, yeah, see you
have mister black and there's last I saw them. You
just got to just pick up the bush. With tropical
rainforst you probably get covered. And it was coming on
evenings that'll be dark but black in the jungle. So
I've got no idea whether he even made it back

(02:01:24):
to our lives, to Keynes or and we were about
a thousand nautical mile north of Kens and good, you've
got to watch out for CrOx every where you go,
up in the crocodiles everywhere. So yeah, lots of adventures
up there.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
But it was were on commission.

Speaker 6 (02:01:39):
Was the money good, Yeah, well I wouldn't say it
was fantastic, But what made it good for me was
because I wasn't paying any rent or ending back in
the back and cans. I just think these people I
met a week earlier used my can. I only paid
and I got back, and so I would get I'd
come back after six weeks to two months, several thousand

(02:02:02):
dollars you know that that's even green something like that.
But that was a chick because we were fully feed.
We had the beer one w a day and the
best of food. The skipper would go to the buttshet
he'd get a couple of months with a meat made
of the packets of three three steaks.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
Oh, it seems like a good skipper. Three young guys.
Seems good, you skip, He seems all right.

Speaker 6 (02:02:23):
It was he was really good because I had heard
of other dick he's having to pay for their keep.
They had to pay out of there, you know, their cats,
for their kip and so. And I think it was
on six percent or something like that. Doesn't sound a lot,
but it's huge costs. The boat carried seventeen thousand liters
of diesel six and a half thousand liters of water

(02:02:45):
and and that's a lot of these a lot of water.
And we would fill up. There was a mother ship,
and the mothership would come up take your frozen prawns.
The motor, there's a motive in twenty the auxiliary motive
in twenty four hours a day, around the clock for
the whole two months, NonStop. Yeah, And because we had
to run the freezers. You see, it's all a tropical

(02:03:06):
and the sea, the sea water is like a warm bath,
you know, it's like twenty six. When he got to
twenty eight degrees. He would be careful because it was
cyclone weather. You didn't want to be caught the cyclone.
So but we need some rip roaring parties. And we
were shot the place Prince of Challott Bay. And you
had google you see the princes the Charotte Bay halfway okay,
your peninsular and there was really rough. So all the

(02:03:28):
about a dozen boats all tied up. So we were
all lest the gun altogether, tide by side, and there's
one boat in the middle had a great, big, powerful
stereo and we cracked it up and everyone was having
a rep rowing party, and a few of us this
is what you do when your young go for sure.
So we all jumped with the dinghy go ashore, and
then we dragged the dinging up and someone said, you said,
maybe we should drink the thingy have a bit higher

(02:03:49):
because the tide might come up. And of course, and
we don't know how to be right. Oh no, We
a little fire and everything, and then the tide came.

Speaker 19 (02:03:56):
Up, was dark.

Speaker 6 (02:03:57):
We had some beers and it was the dingy had gone.
The tide came up and put the dinghy away, and
then we were on the shore and our.

Speaker 19 (02:04:04):
Boat was way out.

Speaker 6 (02:04:05):
We did the lights were turning away out. We're ramches.
And then one of the skippers was going, isn't it
that married boat with doing a hacker over there talking
about me? Is that we've been going to check them out,
and so the boat comes over and hey, what's happening?
We've lost the danis that we had the way out
to swing out to the boat. You things like that,

(02:04:27):
you're crazy stuff which was dangerous because they could to
be crocs around and all sorts of things. There's all
sorts of wicked things. Is blue blue ring octopus and
then these of course of blue things and there's there's
dozens of things that that will kill you then if
they wanted to.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
Did you go fishing? Did you go fishing after that?
When you're back and did you Is that the Indian
fishing career? I? I think it was sounds like you
loved it.

Speaker 6 (02:04:56):
Yeah, I did some time in the chair of Myrlin's
Commercial power Diving.

Speaker 10 (02:04:59):
Yeah okay, yeah, And but.

Speaker 6 (02:05:01):
I've ended up back in my trade as for the
worlder so and I've done it for the last time
been years. So but when you're young, goer, it's great
to get out and just do that sort of thing,
you know, and you still like these things. You still
like prawns, oh look, they're great. They're great. But the pawns,
there's three types of pawns. You had to kip pawns

(02:05:21):
and dev rights and tiger prawns and banana pawns up
in the golf of carpeteria and they catch him in
the daytime. Weuverish at nighttime. And because pawns were money
and so, but always get soft and broken. The soft
as when they're during the shell change. We seem to
be all the time and broken once and they were

(02:05:42):
down greater than price. So ecuriously we do only eat
those ones, and we just ate them all the time.
Fresh prawn fresh fish and crayfish, you know what, the
painted grayfishes, they call them painted crayfish.

Speaker 8 (02:05:55):
They are there.

Speaker 6 (02:05:57):
They're like the green packles, but they got brilliant colors.
I just want to call them painted. They're green, but
the leaves and things and the horns the all pink
and purple and blue, really brilliant colors. There a little
bit puff and chewy that would catch those occasionally in
the nets. And we caught some massive big groper in
the nets, but they're no good deep like I'm talking

(02:06:18):
like one hundred and fifty kilo groper, you know, huge things.
You catch them, and it's a bit environ mentally not rank.
They're basically nit scraping the sea floors for they are
sure so you pick up everything. So but I think
what I did do I'm not a greenyat but I
did do this what they and I hope it's not
on the boat. You had these flat pack cardboard boxes,

(02:06:39):
wax coat of boxes, and they wrapped. They're strapped to
get in that blue packing strap, you know, and then
in plastic bags they used to just cap the plastic
off then the blue straps.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
You see a lot of that stuff on the sea
at the beach. Yeah, okay, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
But I felt really bad about it. And the skip
that saw me one day just putting it in the
bag is what you doing? Oh I just feel bad
about dinner then, and he said, now haven't you take
it out side? But after a few weeks heah, there
you go.

Speaker 2 (02:07:08):
You're a visionary trainer.

Speaker 6 (02:07:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so you know he just thought, oh,
he's right, and I'll bet to do that. But we're
talking like, you get a thousand boats up there fishing,
they ordered them.

Speaker 2 (02:07:19):
I'm going to move on, Britt, it's been fantastic talking
to you. Thank you so much for that. Oh eight
one hundred and eighty today free interesting. Dave Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 19 (02:07:27):
Christie Marcus here to I follow that maybe something that
I remember that he said that reminds me of a
Fred Dad, someone that goes start up wonder Star, so bright,
Star of Glory. That's the story following you Understar.

Speaker 2 (02:07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (02:07:45):
I got a question from the Chase that I think
you might be interested in, which of snow White seven
dwarfs doesn't speak? It's a good question, anyhea, I'll follow
on and I remember.

Speaker 2 (02:08:00):
Don't tell me the answer.

Speaker 19 (02:08:01):
Oh well, I wasn't going to, but the.

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
Dopey, dopey, sleezy doc.

Speaker 19 (02:08:13):
Yeah, the question of which one doesn't speak? That's the
question question, Johnny. Now, I had my first seven hundred
and forty five mirle Lion Brown at the Shirley clubrooms
and that was enough to get me pissed. And that
was a nice fifteen.

Speaker 2 (02:08:29):
Really tell me that. How were you a big fifteen
year old? Did you get in all right? Where was
it at the Shirley club?

Speaker 19 (02:08:36):
Yes, sure you've got Rugby League clubrooms. It was Mary
the mary House scout then and men because we're pushed
biking up hills road back to his place, and it
was hard to get the steer on, but we got back.
We got back all right, and it ain took me
one bottle, one big bottle. That then you drinking crates

(02:08:57):
or we used to, or they used to. The mary
boy was used to because we had a honey. We
coached on a honey in a forty four gallon drum
by gas. Nothing was it was typical honey food everything
case detain.

Speaker 22 (02:09:09):
You know.

Speaker 19 (02:09:10):
And anyhow I remember I was given this bottle of
seven hundred and forty five noddle lion brown, which was
which would go back then, you know, And it only
took me one bottle of Marcus. So anyhow, the answer
is dopey, there's dope.

Speaker 2 (02:09:26):
I never talk, so there you go. I wondered I
wouldn't know the names of all the others. But that's
a good call day. That's at all the bases. But
in nostalgia, the old lion down liking it, keep it going.
People your stories when you're fifteen, the thing you did
that surprised you would surprise the people. These days, people

(02:09:46):
love the fisherman's story. Thanks for the text about that.
Good on you. I don't think it was going to
last more than a minute anyway. Pity mats have gone
and done that, and there's always great stories from the
prawn boats. I don't know if it's ti the big deal.
I don't know if they're still, if they've outfished, or

(02:10:09):
what's gone on there. You'll know, someone will know. Get
in touch, Marcus till twelve you've got I think he
misquoted the fred Daggs song two day with it all right,
star of one this yeah, I can't think of it myself.

(02:10:30):
Actually now I think of it anyway. Twenty eight to
Midnight tim beverage along from twelve and the surprising thing
you did when you're fifteen you look thinking chee. It's
been a free, entertaining show to sit at the scene

(02:10:51):
and hear the stories. I've liked it greatly, muchly what
you did when you're fifteen you look bat Oh what's
that about? That was exciting? You're fifteen times? No prawn trawling,
no money anymore, Marcus. I did it for years, but
it's pretty ruined and I was now mate, not worth doing?

Speaker 14 (02:11:06):
Is it over?

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
Fish story. They're cheaper farmed ones from Asia. I'd like
to know the answer to that. Was there a movie?
Sit on the prawn boats? I feel I've seen something
like that. Quite a great country. Australia is How good
is that underground railway? And Sydney the metro boy those

(02:11:27):
shot to those stations look fantastic infrastructure. That's what we want.
Do you want to be a part of the show. Welcome.
My name's Marcus Hurdle twelve. Good on you. I'll wait
one hundred and eighty ten eighty detext be a part

(02:11:48):
of it. Let's be hearing from your people. If there's
something else you've got, what is it, let's be hearing
from you. Pretty Much anything goes in the last twenty minutes.
Oh several of my night's nearly gone. You made it
very easy for me tonight, people. Yeah, yeah, ye yeah.

(02:12:14):
What else can I hockey in on the last the
last bit? I don't really know what I can actually,
I thought Dave was pretty dismissed about the hungy. I've
never had a raw one, but good on you.

Speaker 1 (02:12:38):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
I'll do a night on prawn fishing one night sometime
like a year or two it's pretty interesting, but let's
be hearing from if you do want to talk before twelve. Now,

(02:13:01):
what else can I tell you of interest? The Royal
Mail in the Yuka have been forced to close a
country postbox after discovering snails have been eaten the mail.
It happens quite often with snails and letterboxes. They like
the paper, I think, but that destroyed for another night

(02:13:23):
sixteen to twelve. Let's be hearing from you. There might
be something different all the same, you want to talk
about the surprising thing you did when you were fifteen

(02:13:44):
to show up. That's the nuts and bolts of it.
So if you've got something to bang on about, it'd
be good. Otherwise we'll make do with it.

Speaker 19 (02:13:54):
It of me.

Speaker 2 (02:13:58):
The news tonight there was oh the motorways closed State
Highway one to Coofeta around there. It's closed. A car
pulling a trailer with a race current, probably from Hempton Downs,
has hit the cheesecutter and gone both sides. So that's

(02:14:20):
what's happened there. Marcus enjoyed the prawn North Queensland story.
Recently in Cooktown, a few prawn boats there chatted with
a skipper chairs Marcus overfished mate, prawn Boats struggle to
get good shots there now and ron Cooters the newer

(02:14:47):
Mortal and Rugby league. He seems stoked. He's all about
players welfare. Good on him. A few of those league
he's hit hard times too. The few of them had
a head knocks also, which doesn't help. I would imagine
fourteen to twelve. It is ten to twelve people. My
name is Marcus. I'm right the end. Look, three or

(02:15:07):
four calls will get me through. There's none there at
the moments I have you been waiting to think? Who's
that person? You are that person? The surprising thing. The
best one I thought was Roses with a Chichino bar.

Speaker 15 (02:15:23):
As.

Speaker 2 (02:15:23):
I call it Rose unfiltered. Yeah, that's true. Went in
all sorts of directions. Not that there's always a best call,
but it was a good story. A lot of the
stories I weren't quite sure where they're going to go,
like Nevill's one. Neville just seemed to come across a
lot of car accidents, which was weird. But yep, back

(02:15:45):
atch you people. You've got something to say, Marcus or
Midnight I eight hundred eighty ten eighty. The surprising things
you do when you were fifteen and what those in
fact were. I wait hundred eighty ten eighty nineteen nine

(02:16:07):
to text to if you're something else you want to
bang on about yep ten to twelve to beverage at twelve,
Yvonne AT's Marcus, good evening, Hi there, hy yvon Yeah.

Speaker 21 (02:16:25):
I just wanted to say.

Speaker 28 (02:16:26):
When I was fifteen in nineteen seventy eight September, I
left Auckland to go on adventure with my parents to
the east coast of Malaysia in a small place called Quantan.
It just changes your life fever when you go live
somewhere else and to see the world. I was just
a little fifteen year old when West Aalkland and flew

(02:16:49):
out on the DC ten plane for ten hours to
Singapore and then another flight to kl and then another
flight over to Quantan, and we were there for fifteen months.
I turned sixteen in the October and then seventeen in
the next October, and we flew home in December.

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
What's the name of the town? Looking at from them,
how's it spelled?

Speaker 28 (02:17:13):
Quantaine k U A.

Speaker 8 (02:17:17):
N T A N.

Speaker 28 (02:17:18):
It's on that It's on the on the east.

Speaker 2 (02:17:21):
Coast of Did you did your parents have a work
or a calling there, or they missionaries or what were
they doing.

Speaker 28 (02:17:28):
No, my dad was looking for mtt M A and
the machinist and he was setting up a planing machine
in the middle of the jungle.

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
Oh my god, what wow wow.

Speaker 3 (02:17:44):
Yeah, just so many.

Speaker 15 (02:17:46):
Places so cool.

Speaker 28 (02:17:47):
Stayed overnight in the forest, and now that I think about,
I don't even know how we did it, but we did.

Speaker 2 (02:17:52):
Were they just were they just the three of you
or did you have siblings?

Speaker 15 (02:17:56):
No, there was just me.

Speaker 28 (02:17:57):
They tore me away from the other three.

Speaker 2 (02:17:59):
Sisters, which is okay, who'd your sisters stay with?

Speaker 28 (02:18:05):
They were like they were all working so well they're older, yeah, yep, yep, yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:18:10):
Yeah, yeah, they were older.

Speaker 28 (02:18:12):
But there was Kiwis over there, three families they were
over there that were able.

Speaker 15 (02:18:17):
To shout the ropes. So it was really cool.

Speaker 28 (02:18:19):
But the places they went to with the locals that
no one would ever go to was amazing. In going
up the Kenting Highlands, which is five thousand feet above
sea level, the big casino up there, and this is
in nineteen seventy eight, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:18:35):
And and Yon. They spoke English.

Speaker 28 (02:18:40):
Yeah, yeah, we kind of got to know the local Lingo,
but they you know, we kind of hang out with
those that spoke English, some not.

Speaker 8 (02:18:47):
But you know, but you went to school, Nana.

Speaker 28 (02:18:51):
I set my last exam in a hotel in Singapore
before I left school. While I left school and I
had to do that last it was a school for
the exam. And yeah, I was just so frequent as
me and mum and dad was also doing the spoon
you know.

Speaker 2 (02:19:07):
Wow it didn't work now.

Speaker 28 (02:19:12):
Wow money, Yeah, but you know, I think that every kid,
child or should do that when they leave school, to
go to another country and experience just what we have
and they don't. It's just amazing. They just like they
have nothing, you know, back in seventy eight, I'm talking

(02:19:35):
they had nothing. But they're so happy in the beautiful
place just down the road from the beach to White Sands.
But the scariest part was when they had cordon off
the beach because a boat came over on Pakistan and
they were trying to get off the boat, you know,
and the cops just shot at them, but they wouldn't

(02:19:57):
go away, so they brought them in and barbe wired
theomen and then they took them to an island out
further on.

Speaker 15 (02:20:03):
The East coast.

Speaker 28 (02:20:05):
Wow, I've kind of read up about, you know, because
we wondered whatever happened to them, and I've kind of
found out where they went to. And yeah, it was
really horrible. But hey man, everyone should just be able
to do that as a young person because it just changes.

Speaker 9 (02:20:21):
Your whole life.

Speaker 2 (02:20:22):
Did you go back after those year and a bit?
Did you go back? Isn't it late later on?

Speaker 28 (02:20:28):
No, I've been thinking about it, like now I'm sixty
two now, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:20:33):
Hector Thos when quick? Okay, yep, I suppose you are.

Speaker 28 (02:20:37):
Yeah, it was so long ago, but you just you know,
before we came back, we did Hong Kong and like
Thailand and things like that, and you're so yeah, it
was just a trip of a lifetime, you know. And
dad just had to work. But mind you work. They
only worked till lunch time and then they slept and
never came back.

Speaker 15 (02:20:58):
So that was the yuster in the day.

Speaker 6 (02:20:59):
But it was too hot.

Speaker 28 (02:21:01):
It was thinking hot. It's like forty degrees.

Speaker 2 (02:21:04):
The great food. Did you did you get into the food?

Speaker 27 (02:21:07):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (02:21:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (02:21:07):
And great food, great, great, great, great little places on
the side of the road.

Speaker 9 (02:21:12):
Can you know?

Speaker 15 (02:21:15):
It was so cool? It was so so cool.

Speaker 2 (02:21:19):
I'm glad you rang up, Yvonne. Thank you very very
much and that was nice to hear from you, said,
thank you. Just five away from twelve Marcus, just back
from Vietnam and trailer on a few sleeper trains. A
great way to travel and was comfortable they would be
great from Willington to Auckland. Also Bowen and Australia is
the best king prawns, Marc. As you mentioned, there have
been a film, a prawn fishing movie. There were shrimp

(02:21:39):
goats fishing and Forest Gump. It's not prawn fishing, but
that was the movie that came to mind for me. Steve.
Thanks for that. If you want to come through quickly,
I'm here. You're there, how are you? Marcus? Till midnight?
Haven't left the seat?

Speaker 15 (02:21:56):
Not like me?

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
Is that I've sat here for four hours. I'm not complaining,
but normally I move around in the hourly gaps. Now
I don't. It's easier not to what's that about?

Speaker 9 (02:22:10):
And that is it?

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
And that is me saying I'll be back tomorrow. All
concanterbry Rugby is in the afternoon game four thirty five.
It didn't part triple heater trying to follow up. Eh,
good on them. Now that's it for me. People. If

(02:22:35):
you need to email me, no hurry.

Speaker 14 (02:22:39):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
Is that news Talk dot co. All that stuff's on
the website anyway, and I think you can probably click
it through if you're desperate to get in touch, and
I will talk to you again tomorrow from eight pm.
So enjoy your Thursday good night.

Speaker 1 (02:22:57):
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