WEBVTT - The Lamson Cash Rail System (21 May 2025) 0:00:07.133 --> 0:00:11.173 You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News Talks. 0:00:11.173 --> 0:00:11.493 That'd be. 0:00:13.093 --> 0:00:15.693 This is Wednesday, and welcome here till twelve. I hope 0:00:15.733 --> 0:00:18.413 things are good, and if they're not good, I hope 0:00:18.413 --> 0:00:20.933 they're better by the time midnight rolls around. I hope 0:00:20.933 --> 0:00:22.413 we can do some good tonight. I don't know what 0:00:22.453 --> 0:00:26.213 they're good is. Maybe who knows? Oh eight hundred and 0:00:26.253 --> 0:00:29.053 eighty toighty is the number? Are nine to nine two text. 0:00:29.133 --> 0:00:31.453 There's a couple of things probably we should talk about tonight. 0:00:32.493 --> 0:00:35.133 Got three or four things, but this will change throughout 0:00:35.133 --> 0:00:38.573 the course of the evening. There's other stuff that bounces up. 0:00:38.613 --> 0:00:40.133 Will bring that to your attention to We might even 0:00:40.133 --> 0:00:44.453 discuss it. We have quite a broad brief. 0:00:44.093 --> 0:00:44.413 Do we. 0:00:44.613 --> 0:00:48.733 Yes, we'll talk about anything basically, So if you want 0:00:48.733 --> 0:00:50.093 to be a part of it, get in touch. As 0:00:50.133 --> 0:00:52.253 I say, oh, eight hundred eighty thirty and nine two 0:00:52.373 --> 0:00:56.253 nine two to text. You'd have heard the news the 0:00:56.293 --> 0:00:59.093 news during the news also that Psmith and Cohe has 0:01:00.013 --> 0:01:03.573 Smith and Coey's has closed. Now for those that don't 0:01:03.613 --> 0:01:07.493 know Smith and coy'serhaps it's a bit like Ballantine's or 0:01:07.533 --> 0:01:11.013 a bit like Caircaldi's or a bit like I don't 0:01:11.013 --> 0:01:12.253 know what that the need and equivalent would have been, 0:01:12.253 --> 0:01:13.813 there would have been one, but you're or a bit 0:01:13.893 --> 0:01:17.813 like an invert cargol. They had h and Jays and 0:01:17.853 --> 0:01:20.173 that's God left a gaping hole. H and Jays also 0:01:20.333 --> 0:01:22.893 to the whole blocks just did with nothing going on. 0:01:22.973 --> 0:01:26.373 But anyway, so now it's turned for Smith and Curries 0:01:26.773 --> 0:01:29.173 were already about a year ago talked about their demise 0:01:29.253 --> 0:01:31.213 because it was going to go, but they decided to 0:01:32.253 --> 0:01:34.973 have another go with it. What was interesting I was 0:01:35.013 --> 0:01:37.093 an Auckland a bit over Christmas. Everyone was going to 0:01:37.133 --> 0:01:39.813 Smith and Curry's. They are the people that people go 0:01:39.893 --> 0:01:43.773 to for Father Christmas photos. Yes as kind of naph 0:01:43.853 --> 0:01:46.893 as that sounds, it is the go to people book 0:01:46.933 --> 0:01:49.333 ahead and it's like this right of passage for people 0:01:50.533 --> 0:01:52.493 seems to be a rite of passage, mainly for people 0:01:52.493 --> 0:01:54.373 that have moved to Auckland from elsewhere. I don't want 0:01:54.413 --> 0:01:56.573 to sound jelish, but that seems to be what it is. 0:01:57.373 --> 0:01:59.013 I'm not quite sure why that is. They think that's 0:01:59.013 --> 0:02:00.813 something that you need to do in Auckland is but anyway, 0:02:01.533 --> 0:02:06.933 and they booked out. You couldn't get in, was booked 0:02:06.933 --> 0:02:08.733 out for weeks and weeks in advance. So I don't 0:02:08.813 --> 0:02:12.693 quite know who now picks up that mental because who 0:02:12.693 --> 0:02:16.573 else would do that. I can't imagine what the answer 0:02:16.613 --> 0:02:20.413 that would be. And they be father Christmases that will 0:02:20.413 --> 0:02:22.653 be out of work, I suppose to, but who knows anyway. 0:02:22.733 --> 0:02:25.253 So if you want to talk quickly about Smith and Coey's, 0:02:26.013 --> 0:02:29.213 I've been there recently, recently in December. I think I 0:02:29.253 --> 0:02:32.773 had to buy something, and I had to buy a 0:02:32.813 --> 0:02:34.813 shirt for a child whose birthday was on the nineteenth 0:02:34.853 --> 0:02:38.613 of December. It was a sure he looked at for 0:02:38.653 --> 0:02:40.653 five minutes and decided it wasn't for him, gave it 0:02:40.653 --> 0:02:45.213 to his brother, who was quite happy with it. But yes, 0:02:45.333 --> 0:02:47.093 it was in one of those desperate shopping things that 0:02:47.133 --> 0:02:49.573 was the last place to go to, and even then 0:02:49.613 --> 0:03:00.053 it seemed slightly well, it seems slightly abandoned. However, also 0:03:00.053 --> 0:03:02.053 I took myself and sat myself in the cafe there 0:03:02.053 --> 0:03:03.773 and that was quite pleasant for a length of times. 0:03:03.773 --> 0:03:05.773 The people will miss that too, anyway, if you do 0:03:05.853 --> 0:03:11.133 want to. It's been there forever, but obviously to retail 0:03:11.213 --> 0:03:19.533 has gone. Department stores have gone. Queen Street's gone, and 0:03:19.573 --> 0:03:21.973 people blame it on COVID and the renovations, but it 0:03:21.973 --> 0:03:23.413 will be all manner of things and the fact they 0:03:23.413 --> 0:03:31.253 didn't pivot to online retail quick enough, and also too 0:03:31.253 --> 0:03:33.373 when it comes to big departments at stores. You might 0:03:33.453 --> 0:03:34.973 like to say too, perhaps with some of them that 0:03:35.013 --> 0:03:37.693 perhaps some of their brands, the choice of brands was 0:03:37.733 --> 0:03:41.213 perhaps in some cases too luxury and in other cases 0:03:41.253 --> 0:03:43.973 not luxury enough. So yeah, if you want to comment 0:03:43.973 --> 0:03:45.773 on that quickly. The My name is Marcus Welcome, eight 0:03:45.853 --> 0:03:50.133 hundred and eighty ten eighty. I don't know what will 0:03:50.133 --> 0:03:54.733 happen with the building. It feels like it's about six stories. 0:03:54.813 --> 0:03:56.533 It's quite a big building, takes up a whole block 0:03:56.573 --> 0:03:58.533 of be a significant building. I can't imagine what would 0:03:58.573 --> 0:04:01.413 go in there. I can't imagine who is the rising 0:04:01.453 --> 0:04:04.653 stars of commercial real estate that they would put in there. 0:04:04.973 --> 0:04:07.133 What's everyone clamoring to do? I know what it will be, 0:04:07.373 --> 0:04:11.613 probably bubble Tea put in the world's biggest bubble tea 0:04:11.653 --> 0:04:14.293 place that seems to not be falling out of favor 0:04:14.293 --> 0:04:15.053 with anyone, does it? 0:04:16.333 --> 0:04:16.493 Oh? 0:04:16.573 --> 0:04:18.533 Yes, so we had those yogurt places, you go those 0:04:18.533 --> 0:04:20.453 ice cream places you do, all the different topics they 0:04:20.453 --> 0:04:24.453 came and went. But bubble Tea, well it seems to 0:04:24.493 --> 0:04:26.813 work better in smaller shops. Bubble Tea you would want 0:04:26.853 --> 0:04:30.893 five floors a bit don't even know what the bubbles are. 0:04:30.933 --> 0:04:32.613 We tried the family once in Dneed and it was 0:04:32.653 --> 0:04:36.813 a disaster. The people we were with you, I've never 0:04:36.853 --> 0:04:38.813 known anyone who has so much trouble struggle with But 0:04:39.013 --> 0:04:40.653 I mean I loved it, but the kids were sort 0:04:40.653 --> 0:04:42.493 of non play. There was a bit too sophisticated for 0:04:42.533 --> 0:04:47.013 them out from Bluff and the big city of Dunedin 0:04:48.853 --> 0:04:52.813 experimenting with the bubble Tea thing. Anyway, I think they 0:04:52.813 --> 0:04:54.053 thought it was going to be more excited than next 0:04:54.173 --> 0:04:56.813 you was, which is probably very much what I've always 0:04:56.813 --> 0:05:03.093 thought about bubble Tea. Anyway, who although I kind of 0:05:03.093 --> 0:05:04.653 thought I was there at the beginning of bubble Tea, 0:05:04.653 --> 0:05:07.893 when was at about two thousand. Anyway, do get in touch. 0:05:07.933 --> 0:05:10.293 My name as Marcus Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten 0:05:10.293 --> 0:05:12.813 eighty nine two nine two to text. Winston's been a 0:05:12.853 --> 0:05:18.653 bit precious a with the guy. I don't know what 0:05:18.693 --> 0:05:20.693 he does it Tonkin and Taylor, I certainly hope he 0:05:20.773 --> 0:05:23.013 keeps his job. Otherwise I'd been feeling differently about Tonkin 0:05:23.053 --> 0:05:25.213 and Taylor. I could imagine going to work one day 0:05:25.213 --> 0:05:28.733 on a train and seeing Winston Peters there grandstanding and 0:05:28.773 --> 0:05:30.693 PEPs thinking I need to say something, and that's a 0:05:30.973 --> 0:05:32.893 that's a healthy kind of thing to want to do. 0:05:34.613 --> 0:05:36.693 And we all have bad days sometimes think oh, well, 0:05:36.733 --> 0:05:41.573 you know, and someone cops what we have to say. 0:05:41.973 --> 0:05:44.453 I presume that dominated talk back today. Everywhere I've heard, 0:05:44.493 --> 0:05:48.293 there's been online polls what should you do? Should be 0:05:48.333 --> 0:05:48.973 able to say anything? 0:05:48.973 --> 0:05:49.053 Like? 0:05:49.093 --> 0:05:49.373 At work? 0:05:49.413 --> 0:05:51.013 I mean I was sure, well, you know, should you 0:05:51.053 --> 0:05:54.373 be able to do that? I'm probably in a slightly 0:05:54.373 --> 0:05:56.173 different position because if I went out there and sort 0:05:56.213 --> 0:06:03.573 of started abusing someone, probably I would expect there'd be 0:06:03.653 --> 0:06:07.493 consequences because I am someone that works in that public realm. 0:06:07.733 --> 0:06:09.413 If you work at Tonkin and Taylor should be able 0:06:09.413 --> 0:06:10.653 say what you like when you're off the clock. That 0:06:10.653 --> 0:06:12.813 would be my take on that one also tonight. But look, 0:06:12.853 --> 0:06:14.453 no doubt that's been every time I've turned they ready 0:06:14.493 --> 0:06:16.253 to I've heard people talking about that. So no doubt 0:06:16.293 --> 0:06:20.653 that dominated the discussion today. So there's that also too today, 0:06:20.733 --> 0:06:23.973 since I have to throw things through a few things 0:06:24.013 --> 0:06:28.933 at you to get your grabbing. Tonight, the guy from 0:06:29.053 --> 0:06:32.253 Chairs has died. Now, probably most of you. The first 0:06:32.293 --> 0:06:34.253 thing we thought was well, I didn't know he was 0:06:34.293 --> 0:06:38.253 still alive. It didn't look like he was going to 0:06:38.293 --> 0:06:41.413 hang around for if. I believe he spent some time 0:06:41.453 --> 0:06:43.373 in New Zealand filming a movie, and I think that 0:06:43.373 --> 0:06:46.413 would be the late nineties. I remember working at a 0:06:46.493 --> 0:06:50.013 restaurant when he was a frequent visitor. I don't know 0:06:50.053 --> 0:06:52.213 what the movie he was filming was, but it was 0:06:52.213 --> 0:06:58.053 certainly filmed in New Zealand. He was here for some months. 0:06:59.573 --> 0:07:01.453 I will do some research. I remember what it was. 0:07:01.533 --> 0:07:03.613 But also the other thing I can tell you about 0:07:03.773 --> 0:07:08.213 George Went who was from Cheers, and there's a very 0:07:08.293 --> 0:07:10.213 funny song about that. And it's not often we can 0:07:10.213 --> 0:07:13.733 get a song about Norm from Cheers, but yes, we 0:07:13.773 --> 0:07:16.733 might ever played that later tonight. I've just remembered the 0:07:16.813 --> 0:07:24.533 lyrics to that. Someone remind me what the song is called. Anyway, 0:07:25.093 --> 0:07:26.733 I'm putting the show together on the fly. I'm quite 0:07:26.813 --> 0:07:31.453 enjoying this. So Norm from Cheers, but the three I 0:07:31.653 --> 0:07:41.293 about Norm from Cheers? What was the song? Someone remembered? 0:07:41.373 --> 0:07:44.813 I can't. I can't even google it up. I'm not 0:07:44.853 --> 0:07:46.773 looking at the song from Cheers. I'm looking at the 0:07:46.813 --> 0:07:51.213 song that contains the Norm from Cheers lyrics. What's it 0:07:51.253 --> 0:07:58.573 called Dan? Who's it by? Yeah, that's right, that's right. 0:07:58.653 --> 0:08:03.013 It's the welcome Matt from Cheers. What's the song called? 0:08:03.013 --> 0:08:09.573 Play me? Anyway? So the thing about Norm from Cheers is, 0:08:09.613 --> 0:08:15.333 once upon a time at christ Jewich Airport they had 0:08:15.373 --> 0:08:18.013 a bar called the Cheers Bar, and this was like 0:08:18.093 --> 0:08:22.133 thirty years ago, and in that bar they had animatronics 0:08:22.173 --> 0:08:23.853 people sitting at the bar, and one of them was 0:08:23.893 --> 0:08:28.933 Norm from Cheers, and one of them was one of 0:08:28.933 --> 0:08:30.373 the other guys from Cheers. I think it was the 0:08:30.413 --> 0:08:37.213 poster and they talked to you when you drank. Now, 0:08:37.213 --> 0:08:39.053 how sad that a bar We've got to go and 0:08:39.093 --> 0:08:43.613 sit next to robots that will talk to you. But 0:08:43.653 --> 0:08:47.173 then they got sued by the Cheers people and they 0:08:47.213 --> 0:08:52.173 had to change them into just nondescript people at the bar. 0:08:55.173 --> 0:09:01.933 So that is the situation with the Cheers Bar, some 0:09:01.973 --> 0:09:03.453 of them. It was a big deal in christ Church 0:09:03.453 --> 0:09:07.373 at the time. We thought it was the future, but 0:09:07.453 --> 0:09:12.093 not as much of the future as AI. But it 0:09:12.093 --> 0:09:13.733 was pretty exciting at the time. Can you see me 0:09:13.773 --> 0:09:16.853 as lyrics down? I couldn't find them. Was it called 0:09:16.893 --> 0:09:24.333 they'll play me the welcome matt uh? Is that what 0:09:24.373 --> 0:09:27.453 the song is called? It might be the one I'm 0:09:27.493 --> 0:09:29.213 exactly thinking of it. You seen those lyrics through and 0:09:29.213 --> 0:09:30.773 I'll tell people if that's the one I'm thinking of 0:09:30.933 --> 0:09:33.613 or not. Anyway, full board men will get going with 0:09:33.613 --> 0:09:36.213 the people. There's people there would like some more. Actually, factually, 0:09:36.533 --> 0:09:38.813 oh eight hundred and eighty sady and nine to nine 0:09:38.933 --> 0:09:45.773 two to text. Oh beautiful. I'll start drinking hot water 0:09:45.973 --> 0:09:49.493 quite good. I don't know why I've switched, but it'll 0:09:49.493 --> 0:09:54.213 make sense sometime. So three things they are already free speech, 0:09:54.253 --> 0:09:59.613 Winston Peters, Smith and Cowe's and norm from Cheers you 0:09:59.693 --> 0:10:04.093 hit send? Oh you have found the lyrics yet? Now 0:10:04.093 --> 0:10:10.053 I've found them either just a song okay, dB Marcus welcome. 0:10:10.813 --> 0:10:16.733 Where everybody knows your name? Anyway, Smith and Curry's. As 0:10:16.773 --> 0:10:21.733 a young child, and I'm talking six, maybe five, maybe seven, 0:10:23.093 --> 0:10:26.573 I Smiff and Curry's fascinated me because they had the 0:10:26.653 --> 0:10:29.933 lambsome tube system of doing the money. 0:10:32.613 --> 0:10:35.533 Now is that the one that's that's not the one 0:10:35.573 --> 0:10:37.853 on cables. That's the one that's hydraulics. 0:10:39.173 --> 0:10:40.493 No, this one's pneumatic. 0:10:40.893 --> 0:10:41.413 Okay. 0:10:42.373 --> 0:10:42.613 So you. 0:10:44.213 --> 0:10:46.773 Would hand over your money with a receipt to the 0:10:47.773 --> 0:10:50.373 I don't know what they would call them. Anyway, they 0:10:50.413 --> 0:10:52.733 would put it into a little capsule where they'd go 0:10:52.733 --> 0:10:59.173 into a tube. Zum gone. Yeah, at about two maybe three, zook, 0:10:59.693 --> 0:11:03.653 come back with your change, your receipts for paying, and 0:11:03.693 --> 0:11:07.733 you could leave the shops. Fascinated me. 0:11:11.333 --> 0:11:13.893 I wonder, I wonder why I phased that out. What 0:11:14.013 --> 0:11:15.013 was the point of all of that. 0:11:16.293 --> 0:11:18.573 Well, the first the point of it was that way the. 0:11:21.293 --> 0:11:22.133 I'd really like a. 0:11:22.093 --> 0:11:25.373 Better word from the attendant. But the person telling you 0:11:25.413 --> 0:11:27.893 the goods didn't handle the money. It was taken to 0:11:27.933 --> 0:11:33.533 a central position and they had cashiers there that did 0:11:33.013 --> 0:11:36.653 the money transaction. There was no money in the shop. 0:11:36.693 --> 0:11:41.653 It was in a secure location to use an americanism, 0:11:42.053 --> 0:11:45.573 and that was that was quite common in the fifties 0:11:45.653 --> 0:11:49.773 and sixties. And I'm talking sixty five sixty six, So 0:11:50.333 --> 0:11:54.493 in that era that wasn't unusual because there were no 0:11:54.853 --> 0:12:01.013 point of sale pills, you know, a till was considered 0:12:01.013 --> 0:12:07.613 a little bit yeah, not the high class. And also 0:12:07.973 --> 0:12:10.373 these people shopping at Stiff and Courage. They would have 0:12:10.453 --> 0:12:14.773 themselves a credit token that they could put in with 0:12:15.373 --> 0:12:17.893 what they're purchasing, and then they actually have to pay cash. 0:12:18.053 --> 0:12:21.173 It was they would have a running account that was 0:12:21.253 --> 0:12:23.973 kept again in the cashiers are they would check your 0:12:23.973 --> 0:12:28.493 token against what, you know, your account. This was long 0:12:28.573 --> 0:12:32.413 before anything electronic, of course, and if you had a 0:12:32.413 --> 0:12:36.013 good credit rating with them, or even perhaps a positive 0:12:36.533 --> 0:12:44.653 credit balance, you could buy stuff without handling money, and 0:12:46.293 --> 0:12:48.813 that was considered. They was there for the. 0:12:48.973 --> 0:12:53.333 Time because there are there are other shops that had 0:12:53.413 --> 0:12:55.613 things like cables that you could clip stuff on that 0:12:55.693 --> 0:12:58.813 was quite complicated as well. The other thing I need 0:12:59.333 --> 0:13:00.893 to use there, yes, and the other thing I probably 0:13:00.893 --> 0:13:02.413 need to tell you about. There is a burger bar 0:13:02.493 --> 0:13:05.373 in christ Gyge that's quite interesting and they deliver your 0:13:05.413 --> 0:13:06.853 food in the pneumatic tubes. 0:13:09.653 --> 0:13:11.693 Hopefully it's not a MiG shake. 0:13:12.213 --> 0:13:12.373 Now. 0:13:12.413 --> 0:13:15.893 It comes to like a canister, an animinium canister canister 0:13:15.973 --> 0:13:19.933 that you kind of unroll and it works quite well well. 0:13:19.973 --> 0:13:22.493 A lot of hospitals still used the them method for 0:13:23.853 --> 0:13:29.333 samples across vast distances, you know, and you could program 0:13:29.333 --> 0:13:31.253 the canister go different places. If we had to go 0:13:31.333 --> 0:13:36.053 to thematology. You push a different an exeit coator they 0:13:36.093 --> 0:13:40.093 had to go to I don't know, tissue something. It 0:13:40.093 --> 0:13:43.573 would go somewhere else. And they were very efficient. I 0:13:44.213 --> 0:13:46.493 could a bit of a sudding on damp and shoes 0:13:47.133 --> 0:13:50.733 there is. But the other thing that I remember, they 0:13:50.773 --> 0:13:56.613 have conflated the memory. They had a lift caller, so 0:13:56.733 --> 0:14:02.573 the the elevator, the lift was manually operated and they 0:14:02.573 --> 0:14:06.333 had a list attendant and he would call the good 0:14:06.573 --> 0:14:12.093 on the floors as you arrived, very much like are 0:14:12.133 --> 0:14:14.653 you being served? You hear it in the background, I. 0:14:14.613 --> 0:14:16.693 Think, because in those days the lift quite I think 0:14:16.693 --> 0:14:18.733 in those days the lift were quite complicated to operate. 0:14:22.613 --> 0:14:24.813 Was that right handle that you went go up and 0:14:24.853 --> 0:14:27.773 go down? Yes, I don't know if they were necessarily complicated. 0:14:28.093 --> 0:14:31.453 I remember being allowed to operate a few I missed 0:14:31.453 --> 0:14:35.813 the floor being dead. Even that requires skill. But the 0:14:36.373 --> 0:14:39.373 mechanism itself was turn the handle one way, it go up, 0:14:39.533 --> 0:14:41.773 turn the handle the other way it goes down. Not 0:14:41.933 --> 0:14:44.893 unlike a train pushing forward, it go forward, push it backwards, 0:14:44.853 --> 0:14:49.133 did go backwards. The skill was stopping where people wanted 0:14:49.173 --> 0:14:49.373 to be. 0:14:50.693 --> 0:14:53.253 How many years was it since you've been dismissing Coe's dB. 0:14:55.533 --> 0:14:56.493 Ah. 0:14:56.573 --> 0:15:03.453 Oh that's a great question. Maybe thirty years. 0:15:03.533 --> 0:15:05.813 Okay, Well hasn't changed much, but now it's going. Able 0:15:05.853 --> 0:15:07.773 to move on, d bit nice to talk interesting sown. 0:15:07.773 --> 0:15:09.813 I feel I threw too much at you, but that's fine. 0:15:09.813 --> 0:15:12.413 I was excited to be here. Welcome anyway. I didn't 0:15:12.413 --> 0:15:14.173 find that song. It's called the Welcome Mad. It's from 0:15:14.173 --> 0:15:17.333 probably about nineteen ninety two. Was big an alternative radio 0:15:17.613 --> 0:15:22.653 at its day. Happy International Tea Day, Marcus, how do 0:15:22.693 --> 0:15:24.973 you like your tea? What's your predictions on the budget tomorrow? 0:15:25.093 --> 0:15:29.013 Budgets these days are of no interest. Really, little will 0:15:29.053 --> 0:15:31.653 happen to be a little that we talk about, much 0:15:31.693 --> 0:15:40.453 debated figures and much talk about tightening the belt. Thank 0:15:40.493 --> 0:15:43.573 you Marcus for that. If I saw Winston private, I'd say, 0:15:44.053 --> 0:15:47.933 can we have the six September the sixth Test live? Please? 0:15:48.013 --> 0:15:48.653 Three TV? 0:15:48.853 --> 0:15:49.293 Thank you. 0:15:51.093 --> 0:15:53.973 Very good, Marcus. If you're out, if you were to 0:15:54.013 --> 0:15:56.613 shouted a supplier or customers and advertise of news talks, 0:15:56.653 --> 0:15:58.693 there'd be whilst wearing the news talks, he'd be lanyard 0:15:58.773 --> 0:16:02.733 or cap. Do you think that is okay? I don't, Peter, 0:16:04.333 --> 0:16:06.253 I don't think what the person had done was illegal. 0:16:09.213 --> 0:16:13.973 I think you can say stuff that's free speech, but 0:16:14.093 --> 0:16:16.933 certainly they've made that into a big deal. I guess 0:16:16.933 --> 0:16:20.653 because there are reporters there. Someone said that the Tonkin 0:16:20.693 --> 0:16:24.533 and Taylor are also a client of Well ended Rails, 0:16:24.573 --> 0:16:27.933 a client of Tonkin and Taylor, but that becomes complicated. 0:16:27.973 --> 0:16:29.373 I think it looked bad on Tonkin and Tailor if 0:16:29.373 --> 0:16:32.293 they did dismissed the guy or took action against them. 0:16:32.333 --> 0:16:34.773 But you might differ. I see also the run it 0:16:34.893 --> 0:16:37.373 or run it straight. They've run into some of those campaigns. 0:16:37.373 --> 0:16:40.013 They have run into trouble. It looks like some of 0:16:40.013 --> 0:16:41.973 those ones might be going ahead, but it appears to 0:16:42.013 --> 0:16:48.093 be about three of them trying to go ahead. Anyway, 0:16:49.493 --> 0:16:51.973 You're going to need to retype that text, Brink, because 0:16:52.013 --> 0:16:54.133 I can hardly understand the writing. You're just gonna have 0:16:54.173 --> 0:16:55.933 to edit it because I've read it and I can't 0:16:55.933 --> 0:16:57.973 read that out just yet. Could it didn't make much sense, 0:16:58.693 --> 0:17:00.453 but just spell check it that. I think it would 0:17:00.453 --> 0:17:07.453 be good. Smith and Coey's Winston Peters, remember how Cheers? 0:17:07.773 --> 0:17:10.853 How good Cheers was? I think you'd put that in 0:17:10.893 --> 0:17:16.213 your top five American sitcoms. Wouldn't you. It was one 0:17:16.253 --> 0:17:20.213 of those great ones that very really did they leave it. 0:17:20.213 --> 0:17:21.893 It was always in the bar, which I think is 0:17:21.893 --> 0:17:23.853 a great thing. I think a sitcom is great when 0:17:23.853 --> 0:17:27.773 they don't kind of when you know what you're up against, 0:17:30.013 --> 0:17:32.013 you know, it's just them around the bar. I think 0:17:32.053 --> 0:17:38.173 once or twice they might have left. And then of 0:17:38.173 --> 0:17:43.293 course Frasier steamed off from that too. Very well done 0:17:43.293 --> 0:17:46.573 in its day, and every time I've seen an episode 0:17:46.613 --> 0:17:49.613 recently it's kind of aged pretty well. Oh by the way, 0:17:49.653 --> 0:17:52.333 if also anyone remembers that bar at the christ Jewish 0:17:52.373 --> 0:17:57.853 Airport where it was a cheers bar and you'd sit 0:17:57.933 --> 0:18:03.293 next to a drink next to the robot that was 0:18:03.493 --> 0:18:08.093 based on him until they sued for their likeness. I 0:18:08.133 --> 0:18:09.653 don't know who's going to pick up the mantle for 0:18:09.693 --> 0:18:12.013 the Santa Claus because it was an extremely big deal 0:18:12.013 --> 0:18:13.533 for Smith and Goey's. I mean, if you could actually 0:18:13.533 --> 0:18:16.773 manage to get that going, get that ip or whatever 0:18:16.813 --> 0:18:18.493 it's called. I mean, it's not much to it. It's 0:18:18.533 --> 0:18:21.973 just a winter wonderland and a guy in a bed, 0:18:22.013 --> 0:18:24.053 but you can do kind of an upmarket Santa Clause 0:18:27.493 --> 0:18:30.813 could be of every exciting thing, hold your horse's lease 0:18:30.813 --> 0:18:32.733 away with you. So the number, as I say, is oh, 0:18:32.813 --> 0:18:34.813 by the way, nineteen eighty two chairs started. It went 0:18:34.853 --> 0:18:41.213 for eleven seasons. But yes, skid amongst. If your doing 0:18:41.253 --> 0:18:43.173 a talk, miname as Marcus welcome, Oh eight hundred and 0:18:43.213 --> 0:18:45.253 eighty ten eighty nine two nine two detect of his 0:18:45.293 --> 0:18:47.013 breaking news, and of course the Smith and Coen news 0:18:47.013 --> 0:18:48.853 only came out with in the last hour also, so 0:18:49.013 --> 0:18:56.053 just breaking or readjusting that it's closing for good. I 0:18:56.133 --> 0:18:57.973 don't know what will happen to the building. You'd be 0:18:58.013 --> 0:19:03.693 a fitty bold person to take that on. But now 0:19:03.693 --> 0:19:06.013 that you've got the rail loop opening, it's quite handy 0:19:06.053 --> 0:19:10.173 to every thing. In fact, with the rail loop, I 0:19:10.213 --> 0:19:17.013 think that becomes an extremely attractive proposition. Maybe there's a 0:19:17.053 --> 0:19:20.573 giant bubble tea seems to you what everyone wants. It's 0:19:20.573 --> 0:19:22.613 what everyone goes into town for. Oh, eight hundred and 0:19:22.653 --> 0:19:27.773 eighty ten with gelato, Oh eight hundred eighty good evening, sir, 0:19:27.853 --> 0:19:28.813 it's Marcus welcome. 0:19:30.493 --> 0:19:30.573 Hi. 0:19:30.733 --> 0:19:31.173 Can you hear me? 0:19:31.253 --> 0:19:34.853 Or eight speak unclear sounding very crisp, So thank you 0:19:34.893 --> 0:19:35.453 for that, Lisa. 0:19:36.173 --> 0:19:39.773 Oh that's good. So I was just listening to the 0:19:39.813 --> 0:19:42.773 other guy talking about Smith and Cowie, and it reminded 0:19:42.813 --> 0:19:47.093 me of my very early years. That would have been 0:19:47.133 --> 0:19:52.333 about the mid seventies, I think, going to George Courts 0:19:52.333 --> 0:19:57.773 and k Road with my mum and we'd we'd part 0:19:57.853 --> 0:20:01.013 in the back somewhere and we'd go across this bridge. 0:20:01.453 --> 0:20:04.253 That's right. There was that sort of that bridge, wasn't 0:20:04.253 --> 0:20:05.853 there like an eb what would you call that, like 0:20:05.893 --> 0:20:06.573 a flyer over? 0:20:07.813 --> 0:20:13.173 Yeah, which was quite modern in those days. Yes, And 0:20:14.413 --> 0:20:16.773 so we'd park in the car park and go across 0:20:16.813 --> 0:20:20.013 there and and then we're geting a lift and it 0:20:20.133 --> 0:20:22.293 was this very manual lift where where there would be 0:20:22.333 --> 0:20:26.213 assistance like the other guy was talking about where. 0:20:27.493 --> 0:20:29.413 And it was it was like a cage. 0:20:30.573 --> 0:20:33.253 You should. You'd bring the grid across first and then 0:20:33.253 --> 0:20:35.533 you'd close the door and hook it in, wouldn't you. 0:20:36.493 --> 0:20:40.693 Yeah, there there were like two doors and that were 0:20:40.733 --> 0:20:44.653 manually closed by this person that did it for us. 0:20:44.773 --> 0:20:48.333 It wasn't left left for the public to do. And 0:20:48.373 --> 0:20:50.173 he would ask you where you want to go, and 0:20:50.253 --> 0:20:53.453 he would push the button for the correct store at 0:20:53.533 --> 0:20:54.333 the correct level. 0:20:55.573 --> 0:21:00.213 And yes, there was the George Court and there was 0:21:00.253 --> 0:21:02.333 there was Rendell's just down as well, there was two 0:21:02.333 --> 0:21:03.053 big departments. 0:21:03.253 --> 0:21:08.253 Yeah, it might have been either. Now you mentioned that 0:21:08.333 --> 0:21:10.693 it might have even been that we win the same lift. 0:21:10.373 --> 0:21:14.853 I can't remember. And yeah, I don't know how how 0:21:14.853 --> 0:21:18.693 we went to either Rendall's or the other one, George Courts, 0:21:18.733 --> 0:21:21.893 but I remember particularly George Courts is very classical building, 0:21:21.933 --> 0:21:23.653 and they's now converted to a partner. 0:21:23.733 --> 0:21:26.213 That's right, And I think probably for most people, I 0:21:26.213 --> 0:21:28.573 think George Courts and Rendall's were a more sort of 0:21:28.573 --> 0:21:31.893 a accessible situation, and what happened at Smith and Coey's 0:21:31.933 --> 0:21:35.453 it probably was more designed to be affordable, would be 0:21:35.493 --> 0:21:37.453 my take. I would think. Nice to hear from Elsa, 0:21:37.533 --> 0:21:40.013 Thank you, Nicotts s Marcus. 0:21:39.733 --> 0:21:40.213 Good evening. 0:21:41.813 --> 0:21:45.213 Yeah, it's Nick here. 0:21:46.253 --> 0:21:47.693 How are you good? 0:21:47.693 --> 0:21:48.093 Thank you? 0:21:49.533 --> 0:21:49.733 Yeah. 0:21:49.893 --> 0:21:54.813 Just regarding Smith and Coey, it's said that I'm one 0:21:54.853 --> 0:21:56.253 of the professional tenders. 0:21:57.853 --> 0:21:59.333 Oh hang on, you one of there? 0:21:59.333 --> 0:22:01.693 What professional? 0:22:02.573 --> 0:22:02.733 Oh? 0:22:02.813 --> 0:22:04.493 Okay, for how long have you done that? 0:22:06.453 --> 0:22:09.733 I've been there, I'll be doing for a number of years. 0:22:09.733 --> 0:22:11.293 I did, will be there for about eight, eight or 0:22:11.373 --> 0:22:11.973 nine years. 0:22:12.093 --> 0:22:14.813 Oh well, condolences for losing your job. 0:22:15.653 --> 0:22:19.453 Yeah, I did seventy dig here last year. 0:22:20.933 --> 0:22:23.973 You did what six seventy. 0:22:23.613 --> 0:22:27.933 Gigs seventy so seventy different shifts. 0:22:29.173 --> 0:22:31.013 Yeah there last year. 0:22:33.413 --> 0:22:35.933 And what and sorry? How long was a shift? 0:22:36.053 --> 0:22:36.213 Nick? 0:22:37.773 --> 0:22:48.493 Three? Three hours? And yeah, we started early November. 0:22:48.853 --> 0:22:52.253 And people booked into like five minutes slots, did they? 0:22:53.013 --> 0:22:55.213 You know, we could only spend five minutes with a family. 0:22:55.573 --> 0:22:59.173 And it's pretty pretty continuous over there over the seventy gigs, 0:22:59.453 --> 0:23:01.253 four thousand children on my knee? 0:23:01.733 --> 0:23:05.493 Wow, and what would happen if the if the five 0:23:05.493 --> 0:23:07.453 minutes would I wouldn't else come and get them? 0:23:08.973 --> 0:23:09.333 Well? 0:23:09.893 --> 0:23:12.413 Well, no, we we sort of were just conscious of 0:23:12.493 --> 0:23:16.693 the time and we tried and I mean five minutes 0:23:17.013 --> 0:23:19.493 with the screening pread is far too long, but five 0:23:19.533 --> 0:23:22.293 minutes with a couple of teenage kids and stuff, it's 0:23:22.333 --> 0:23:25.573 nowhere near enough. But it's yeah, we sort of get 0:23:25.573 --> 0:23:27.813 a feeling and we we we that they let us 0:23:27.853 --> 0:23:29.693 know after a while, how are we tracking? 0:23:30.133 --> 0:23:30.533 Yeah? 0:23:30.613 --> 0:23:33.453 Yeah, and it's mainly for then. It was manly a 0:23:33.453 --> 0:23:34.933 photo opportunity too, was it. 0:23:36.253 --> 0:23:39.053 Yeah? Yeah, well they get the photo. Yeah, it's but 0:23:39.133 --> 0:23:43.373 the whole experience, the whole center experience is world renowned. 0:23:43.413 --> 0:23:46.893 They got the enchanted forest with all the center of 0:23:47.013 --> 0:23:51.293 reindeer workshops and stuff and and and they're going to 0:23:51.373 --> 0:23:52.933 a you know, so in the room. I mean, I've 0:23:52.973 --> 0:23:56.293 done malls. I've done heat and malls and you know 0:23:57.013 --> 0:24:00.133 smith and Cory's the census. Every center's favorite place. 0:24:00.493 --> 0:24:03.093 Oh, more than one place? You more than one place 0:24:03.133 --> 0:24:03.613 is center. 0:24:03.733 --> 0:24:07.293 Yeah, I've done most of them all, and i'd have 0:24:07.973 --> 0:24:11.653 you know, my first choice is when you get our rosters, 0:24:11.693 --> 0:24:16.653 which is usually around about September October, and I wait 0:24:16.693 --> 0:24:19.613 for the center for the Smithy Coey's roster, and then 0:24:19.653 --> 0:24:22.053 all the other mauls will work around that. 0:24:22.493 --> 0:24:24.933 So is this some is this some business that runs 0:24:24.933 --> 0:24:25.653 all the centers? 0:24:27.453 --> 0:24:27.733 Yeah? 0:24:28.053 --> 0:24:31.853 Well yeah, these with there's twenty six centers there and 0:24:32.653 --> 0:24:34.653 the six on the floor at any one moment. 0:24:35.173 --> 0:24:37.973 But you you hold hang on, hang on. Are you 0:24:38.013 --> 0:24:39.733 booked to go to other malls as well? 0:24:41.053 --> 0:24:42.973 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, by the. 0:24:42.933 --> 0:24:45.053 Same by the same age, from the same agent. 0:24:47.213 --> 0:24:50.933 No, no, no, I work for about three different recruitment companies. 0:24:51.013 --> 0:24:54.093 Oh okay, I understand, Okay, I appreciate terrible line bred, 0:24:54.133 --> 0:24:56.693 but I appreciate that. Thank you. I appreciate you coming 0:24:56.733 --> 0:24:59.493 through next. Sorry. By the way, of course, for the 0:24:59.533 --> 0:25:02.293 young people listening, there are Probably these are just representative 0:25:02.333 --> 0:25:05.973 centers until the real one can come through. I guess 0:25:06.013 --> 0:25:09.213 we've got to tall you that, don't we this time 0:25:09.213 --> 0:25:11.093 of the year. So that's what there's just it's just 0:25:11.173 --> 0:25:13.973 for the photo chants because so you can actually yeah, 0:25:13.973 --> 0:25:18.213 I think you get that whole drift. Anyway, some extremely 0:25:18.253 --> 0:25:20.413 good texts. The good texts are back, and that's an 0:25:20.453 --> 0:25:24.373 exciting thing. Someone's texture that said, what are people texting? 0:25:24.413 --> 0:25:27.093 Actually we just bring those ones up. Any kid listening 0:25:27.093 --> 0:25:28.333 throughout this time of the night should be on the 0:25:28.413 --> 0:25:33.613 NAISI list anyway, exactly. George Courts and John Courts were 0:25:33.613 --> 0:25:36.573 on opposite corners Renders further down the k Road opposites 0:25:36.613 --> 0:25:38.973 and Keevintac not familiar with the John Courts, but I'm 0:25:39.013 --> 0:25:41.573 sure someone will know about that. Marcus is Nick ringing 0:25:41.573 --> 0:25:45.013 from the North Pole, noisy and weird that his name 0:25:45.053 --> 0:25:48.253 is Nick. You're really weird. He's sounded young for a father. 0:25:48.333 --> 0:25:53.733 Christmas Marcus. I've just had a left of meeting at 0:25:53.733 --> 0:25:55.773 Trust Stadium and we're stalkland run it straight going on 0:25:55.813 --> 0:25:58.533 to the own absolutely huge crowd. That was always going 0:25:58.573 --> 0:26:00.093 to happen with that sort of publish I think it's 0:26:00.093 --> 0:26:02.213 the heat tonight? Is it? 0:26:02.253 --> 0:26:02.373 Is it? 0:26:02.413 --> 0:26:10.893 The heat? Is the heat? Marcus? Can they stop mentioning? 0:26:10.933 --> 0:26:13.653 Running it straight on the news? Now it's gone, Tony destroyed. No, 0:26:13.773 --> 0:26:15.133 I think that was just one of them. But is 0:26:15.133 --> 0:26:18.813 it trust stadium tonight? If that's what you mean. Good evening, Brent. 0:26:18.933 --> 0:26:22.293 Welcome, Hi Marcus? How are you good? 0:26:22.333 --> 0:26:22.573 Brent? 0:26:23.573 --> 0:26:25.693 That's the story? Hey, I sent you that text. 0:26:25.693 --> 0:26:27.933 You couldn't be that's right to say. 0:26:29.293 --> 0:26:33.173 It's a book called Machines Like Me written by a 0:26:33.213 --> 0:26:34.773 guy called em McEwan. 0:26:34.853 --> 0:26:37.453 Oh, yelled mckuwen YEA, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:26:37.613 --> 0:26:41.573 It's related to AI. This can gets left three hundred 0:26:41.573 --> 0:26:45.333 and fifty thousand pounds and he buys a robot that 0:26:45.693 --> 0:26:50.173 is so low lifelike people can't differentiate whether it is 0:26:50.533 --> 0:26:55.973 human or whether it's a robot. And he introduces it 0:26:56.053 --> 0:27:04.333 to his girlfriend and it copulates with her wow, which 0:27:04.413 --> 0:27:08.013 is kind of bizarre. And he takes it to parties. 0:27:08.053 --> 0:27:10.133 He is the scary, but he takes it to parties 0:27:10.173 --> 0:27:14.373 and introduces it to people, and the robot sets on 0:27:14.493 --> 0:27:17.293 the side no, and can tell that he's not human. 0:27:18.133 --> 0:27:22.973 It says to him, I don't trust him, and he'll say, 0:27:23.013 --> 0:27:26.933 but you don't have that capacity, and the robot says, 0:27:27.373 --> 0:27:34.413 don't I. Well, no, that's that's a scary tale. 0:27:35.133 --> 0:27:37.453 What takes you? Has he got a kill switch? 0:27:39.693 --> 0:27:44.573 Well, it's it runs out of power. Here, it runs 0:27:44.613 --> 0:27:47.613 out of power, but then it learns how to actually 0:27:48.413 --> 0:27:51.613 recharge power. You know, it click power on before it 0:27:51.653 --> 0:27:54.333 knows it's going to run out of power. So he 0:27:54.413 --> 0:27:56.533 has to do away with its lead. But the whole 0:27:56.573 --> 0:28:01.973 thing is very scary when something like that that can 0:28:02.253 --> 0:28:06.213 talk says don't I have that capacity? Because he read 0:28:06.213 --> 0:28:08.093 them annual about what it could do, but he didn't 0:28:08.093 --> 0:28:09.733 think it could do that with his girlfriend. 0:28:11.133 --> 0:28:13.013 And what did the girl? What did the girlfriend think 0:28:13.013 --> 0:28:13.373 about that? 0:28:15.213 --> 0:28:18.453 She was quite It just happens to be very attractive. 0:28:19.013 --> 0:28:19.973 Was she none the wiser? 0:28:21.653 --> 0:28:22.853 She was none the wiser? 0:28:23.453 --> 0:28:23.853 Wow? 0:28:25.493 --> 0:28:27.973 Crazy, good book to read. And another good book he wrote, 0:28:28.013 --> 0:28:29.853 it's called Saturday. That's a very good book. 0:28:30.453 --> 0:28:31.253 I've read that book. 0:28:32.133 --> 0:28:32.813 Have you? 0:28:33.373 --> 0:28:35.973 They will read read machines like about very good. 0:28:36.133 --> 0:28:38.173 Tell me about Saturday. Is there a balloonist or something? 0:28:39.573 --> 0:28:42.013 No, Saturday is about a guy who. 0:28:43.573 --> 0:28:44.013 Is a. 0:28:45.773 --> 0:28:47.893 He's a brain surgeon or whatever. And he goes down, 0:28:48.133 --> 0:28:50.013 goes down and gets some preissants and he has an 0:28:50.053 --> 0:28:53.293 accident and it wasn't his fault in the people he 0:28:53.453 --> 0:28:59.773 hit weren't the most likable people, so they home invade 0:29:00.293 --> 0:29:03.013 him and it all turns a bit nasty. 0:29:03.653 --> 0:29:04.893 What's the one with the balloon? 0:29:06.573 --> 0:29:09.373 Not read that, but you must see that when you 0:29:09.453 --> 0:29:12.973 spoke about I'm in christ Church, about the christ judge 0:29:13.013 --> 0:29:18.613 bar with those tears characters, I thought, well, I wonder 0:29:18.693 --> 0:29:21.133 how life right they would have been. I never went there. 0:29:21.253 --> 0:29:25.693 But so Enduring Lover is when the people witness a 0:29:25.693 --> 0:29:27.533 ballooning accent. That's the other in me cure and one 0:29:27.573 --> 0:29:30.493 ballooning Enduring Love, which is a good read. 0:29:31.533 --> 0:29:33.813 Yeah good, he's a good author. 0:29:33.853 --> 0:29:35.693 One of the greats, one of the greats. Hey, but 0:29:35.773 --> 0:29:37.253 tell me something. I don't know about you, but I'm 0:29:37.253 --> 0:29:39.573 a big fan of robots having a kill switch. Have 0:29:39.653 --> 0:29:40.893 you got strong feelings about that? 0:29:42.853 --> 0:29:46.413 I think that is a necessity when you read what 0:29:46.573 --> 0:29:48.693 Ian McEwan thinks might happen, because. 0:29:48.453 --> 0:29:50.693 Now they're doing backflip. Now they're doing backflips and all 0:29:50.733 --> 0:29:51.413 sorts of stuff. 0:29:52.533 --> 0:29:55.053 Yeah, hey, I think you've got to have a kill switch. 0:29:55.133 --> 0:29:57.653 I don't think i'd like one taking off as my girlfriend. 0:29:57.893 --> 0:30:02.933 No, I've been more concerned about well, yeah, okay, I 0:30:02.973 --> 0:30:06.053 was also. I was also slightly concerned that when they 0:30:06.053 --> 0:30:10.493 had that prowler at Margo mar Lago Trump's place before 0:30:10.533 --> 0:30:14.373 he took over power. The second time the prowler was 0:30:14.453 --> 0:30:21.333 caught by robotic dogs that were that were monitoring the 0:30:21.373 --> 0:30:22.213 boundary fence. 0:30:26.933 --> 0:30:30.173 Hey, well, I'm I'm sure they'd probably make a mess 0:30:30.173 --> 0:30:31.093 with somebody because. 0:30:30.933 --> 0:30:36.053 They sound terrifying, don't they do. Yeah, it's bad enough 0:30:36.053 --> 0:30:38.973 normal dogs, but once robotic dogs come at you, jeep, 0:30:39.093 --> 0:30:42.453 is it? Brent? Thank you. I appreciate your text now 0:30:42.453 --> 0:30:45.013 that I understand what that was about. But no one's 0:30:45.093 --> 0:30:47.093 yet rung up and talking about the bar at the 0:30:47.173 --> 0:30:52.373 Christchiech Airport with Norm from Cheers and also talk about 0:30:52.373 --> 0:30:57.533 Smith and I know people love nostalgia, but yeah, I 0:30:57.533 --> 0:31:00.293 don't even know what to say about Smith and Coey's 0:31:02.493 --> 0:31:10.253 huge number of staff. Yes, a very successful I didn't 0:31:10.253 --> 0:31:15.893 really experience the grotto or the workshop. I guess we're 0:31:15.973 --> 0:31:18.173 more of a farmer's family with their free bus up 0:31:18.173 --> 0:31:21.453 that would go in mckew and gosh, today was the 0:31:21.453 --> 0:31:27.413 anniversary of amiliar Earhart's flight. Thank you for that. Never 0:31:27.453 --> 0:31:30.453 to be seen again. Every five years there's someone found 0:31:30.493 --> 0:31:35.333 there wreckage, haven't they. I've read some fairly good reportage 0:31:35.413 --> 0:31:42.013 on that about just what happens. This is a text markets. 0:31:42.013 --> 0:31:43.973 Can they stop mentioning running it straight in the news 0:31:43.973 --> 0:31:46.293 now it's gone totally destroyed. No, I think it's still 0:31:46.333 --> 0:31:50.133 going badline for the North Pole need and back in 0:31:50.173 --> 0:31:55.933 decemberfore his stories. Please so now there's probably the only 0:31:55.973 --> 0:31:58.613 apartment department store that has left I would think in 0:31:58.653 --> 0:32:05.533 the whole of the country would be Ballantine's, and that's 0:32:05.573 --> 0:32:08.773 always looking lightly hollowed out these days. You might want 0:32:08.813 --> 0:32:14.213 to mention that, Marcus. Lots of public sympathy for Smith 0:32:14.213 --> 0:32:16.813 and Koey, but reality is consumers aren't shopping their hence 0:32:16.813 --> 0:32:20.413 the closure. Well, there's only sympathy in the terms of nostalgia, 0:32:22.173 --> 0:32:24.613 but people lamenting the end of Smith and Kowey as 0:32:24.613 --> 0:32:28.973 they're filling out their order formers for Timu or whatever 0:32:29.013 --> 0:32:31.773 they're doing online. I mean that's the reality. People have changed, 0:32:31.773 --> 0:32:34.573 haven't they. They've gone about the roadworks in the parking, 0:32:34.573 --> 0:32:37.653 but people want to buy stuff online. Our mess. You's 0:32:37.653 --> 0:32:39.853 put Mesh in your top five comedies. Fair enough to 0:32:40.733 --> 0:32:42.453 remember we all tune in for the last episode of 0:32:42.453 --> 0:32:44.293 mass and there was no laugh line or that was 0:32:44.293 --> 0:32:46.933 telling them that they were wow. Look at that no 0:32:47.093 --> 0:32:49.853 laughs and that no fun in war, Clinger in the 0:32:49.933 --> 0:32:54.493 dress Radar with his thick glasses difficult to work with. 0:32:54.613 --> 0:33:00.253 They reckon hot lips. Hulahan, It's all coming back, Marcus. 0:33:00.293 --> 0:33:02.493 Funny thing about robot dogs. One of the main dogs 0:33:02.493 --> 0:33:04.733 made advantages. They can spell you out, kind of robots 0:33:04.733 --> 0:33:15.453 spell you hiding in a bush? Still remember that terrible voice? 0:33:15.813 --> 0:33:20.293 What what someone's referring to on that Someone said, I 0:33:20.293 --> 0:33:22.933 would say that few American comedies are funny. Well, I 0:33:22.933 --> 0:33:25.253 think most would disagree with you. Actually, I think we're 0:33:25.293 --> 0:33:29.133 sort of beyond that. Only the Brits can do humor 0:33:29.213 --> 0:33:32.493 type thing from the fifties. But oh well that's you 0:33:32.613 --> 0:33:35.453 do you, you do you, and welcome you. Oh, by 0:33:35.493 --> 0:33:37.093 the way, we know what was the movie that George 0:33:37.133 --> 0:33:45.773 went filmed in New Zealand? And It was a big 0:33:45.813 --> 0:33:47.973 deal at the time, but not a very good film. 0:33:48.493 --> 0:33:53.853 Never Say Die with Tim with a Morrison. It was 0:33:53.893 --> 0:34:04.933 a big deal. Never Say Die Jeff Murvie movie, The 0:34:04.973 --> 0:34:08.453 Great Tony Barry. John Clark was a car salesman It 0:34:08.493 --> 0:34:10.373 was kind of a police chase around the country with 0:34:10.453 --> 0:34:12.733 a house in Grayland that blew up. You remember it, 0:34:12.813 --> 0:34:16.373 nineteen eighty eight, Well you might remember it. It was 0:34:16.373 --> 0:34:20.813 a good watch. Actually, I might rewatch it on the 0:34:20.813 --> 0:34:26.093 back of that five to nine here till midnight. Good evening, John, welcome. 0:34:26.813 --> 0:34:28.533 Him, Marcus. How are you using this? 0:34:28.773 --> 0:34:28.973 Good? 0:34:29.013 --> 0:34:29.693 Thank you John. 0:34:30.653 --> 0:34:30.893 Good. 0:34:31.573 --> 0:34:39.253 Now I'll start at the bottom in the things. Yes, yes, 0:34:40.333 --> 0:34:43.053 Arthur Banet's was that that even top shop? 0:34:44.613 --> 0:34:45.653 What the cargel? 0:34:46.973 --> 0:34:49.853 No, No, I'm starting at Arthur Bannette. 0:34:49.853 --> 0:34:51.133 Do you said you're starting at the bottom. 0:34:51.973 --> 0:34:53.933 Well, no, I haven't got a bottom. That part with 0:34:54.013 --> 0:34:55.253 the big guys, the big guy. 0:34:55.933 --> 0:34:58.413 The big H and J's was one of the great 0:34:58.413 --> 0:35:00.373 department stores in the country. 0:35:00.933 --> 0:35:02.573 So Arthur Barnets was too. 0:35:02.893 --> 0:35:04.813 Yeah, but I think in the end H and J's 0:35:04.853 --> 0:35:08.893 board Arthur Barnett. Okay, Ancient Jays, then Arthur Barnet and Duneda. 0:35:08.653 --> 0:35:15.613 Yes, then Valentine's. In christ Church. Beasts were also in 0:35:15.693 --> 0:35:16.573 christ Church. 0:35:16.853 --> 0:35:20.373 Pattern Beasts how's that spelled. 0:35:21.093 --> 0:35:28.013 B E A t HS, Beasts, Beasts and Armstrongs. They 0:35:28.013 --> 0:35:30.013 were the top three in christ Church. I used to 0:35:30.053 --> 0:35:31.973 work for such of these people. 0:35:32.813 --> 0:35:33.573 Were you are ripped? 0:35:34.893 --> 0:35:34.973 No. 0:35:35.253 --> 0:35:39.453 I used to be a footwear buyer lady the Ladies. 0:35:39.733 --> 0:35:41.933 Yes, I realized that I had. 0:35:41.813 --> 0:35:45.813 Eighteen staff and then Valentine's in christ chirts eighteen staff. 0:35:48.853 --> 0:35:54.453 Then Wellington, no christ Church? Are you moving up the country. 0:35:54.773 --> 0:36:01.253 A Wellington you had Cocordias Stains, James Smith and d C. 0:36:03.213 --> 0:36:05.293 Yes. And where else. 0:36:06.533 --> 0:36:09.853 No they there main ones No. And then you went 0:36:09.893 --> 0:36:13.653 to Paris North you had Joice's Joyces. 0:36:15.813 --> 0:36:16.613 Right yep. 0:36:17.293 --> 0:36:20.333 And then you went to Auckland and there's nothing in Hamilton, 0:36:20.413 --> 0:36:23.133 no big stores in Hamilton. Then you went to walk 0:36:23.213 --> 0:36:26.973 near Spit and Curries which was a beautiful shop, beautiful 0:36:27.013 --> 0:36:30.453 shop and farmers. So they were the two big ones 0:36:30.453 --> 0:36:36.293 in Auckland. And I used to sell all that or 0:36:37.253 --> 0:36:40.053 predict what woman was going to be wearing in the 0:36:40.173 --> 0:36:43.613 ladies foot where six months or nine months ahead? 0:36:43.773 --> 0:36:45.653 Goodness? Do you still follow the trends? 0:36:46.893 --> 0:36:50.213 No? I don't because I've eighty four now. Mean I'm 0:36:50.533 --> 0:36:52.813 you know, but I hear you talking about and I 0:36:52.853 --> 0:36:55.853 thought you couldn't get the one Undernead and I thought 0:36:56.013 --> 0:36:56.773 Arthur Bannets. 0:36:57.373 --> 0:37:00.973 Thank you very much, John, I appreciate that. Just so 0:37:01.133 --> 0:37:03.893 you know, I'm not saying this to drive talk back, 0:37:05.693 --> 0:37:10.853 traffic chatter or conversation, but I think it's undignant. And 0:37:10.893 --> 0:37:12.453 this is going to sound weird for me because it's 0:37:12.453 --> 0:37:15.373 going to sound pious and slightly righteous, and that's fine. 0:37:16.093 --> 0:37:21.293 I think it lacks. I think it's undignified for our 0:37:21.333 --> 0:37:24.373 finance minister to call it the no b S budget. 0:37:25.893 --> 0:37:28.773 I know she's probably trying to sound tough and no nonsense, 0:37:29.853 --> 0:37:36.613 but yeah, yeah, it just kind of sits wrong with me. 0:37:36.813 --> 0:37:38.533 Not a big deal in the scheme of things. I mean, 0:37:38.533 --> 0:37:40.493 why not call it the no bullshit budget? You wouldn't 0:37:40.493 --> 0:37:43.253 say that, would you, So I abbreviate it. But yeah, 0:37:43.333 --> 0:37:45.173 I kind of think she's miss a trick with that one, 0:37:45.773 --> 0:37:47.573 and already by that's put her on the back foot 0:37:47.573 --> 0:37:50.173 of it. But that's just my comment. It might be 0:37:50.213 --> 0:37:53.253 one of the most compelling and exciting documents, but she 0:37:53.293 --> 0:37:57.733 could have framed in a slightly more less confrontational, more 0:37:57.813 --> 0:38:03.533 kind of growing up way. It's beneath the office she holds. 0:38:03.573 --> 0:38:07.493 I think there you go. Any we are a good 0:38:07.533 --> 0:38:09.213 text coming through. We are talking about the death of 0:38:09.253 --> 0:38:11.253 the apartment store, and that very much has happened by 0:38:11.293 --> 0:38:13.053 the way, this is an international thing. I think you 0:38:13.173 --> 0:38:16.653 find that your David Jones in your minds and Australia 0:38:16.653 --> 0:38:18.013 aren't quite what they used to be. I don't know 0:38:18.013 --> 0:38:22.333 what's happened internationally. Herod's is still the thing. Of course, 0:38:22.333 --> 0:38:24.453 that guy that owned it appeared to be fairly grubby, 0:38:24.493 --> 0:38:29.693 didn't he now as he did now? I think Dodie's dad. 0:38:29.773 --> 0:38:31.773 But yeah, it's sort of what's happening around the world. 0:38:31.813 --> 0:38:35.413 I think as retail falls and will not retail falls, 0:38:35.413 --> 0:38:39.053 but people buy online and go to the malls. So 0:38:39.053 --> 0:38:41.093 someone has said that Hamilton did have a mall, so 0:38:41.133 --> 0:38:43.173 you might want to ring about that. So I did 0:38:43.253 --> 0:38:47.853 not have a mall at it did have an apartment 0:38:47.933 --> 0:38:52.333 store at an apartment store with the DIC and a 0:38:52.373 --> 0:38:59.373 lift attendant in Chandler House, very exclusive for Cowtown. By 0:38:59.413 --> 0:39:02.053 the way, someone's texted me the entire copy of Never 0:39:02.093 --> 0:39:04.893 Say Die, of the movie with George went in it, 0:39:05.293 --> 0:39:07.813 and there's a scene with we'd a Morrison and a 0:39:07.893 --> 0:39:11.293 car and another guy who I think is I can't 0:39:11.373 --> 0:39:15.413 quite work out the actor doing that, but anyway, the 0:39:15.453 --> 0:39:17.653 line that this guy uses three times a week, and 0:39:17.733 --> 0:39:19.453 you might remember this from the movie never say die, 0:39:20.213 --> 0:39:26.733 I'm looking for Prognini strog Nostrovitch. Yeah, it's quite a 0:39:26.733 --> 0:39:29.693 fun rob that one. At ten past nine summon Texters. 0:39:29.813 --> 0:39:33.853 Agree with you about the budget title, just be genuine. 0:39:33.973 --> 0:39:37.013 People really respond well to people that are genuine in themselves, 0:39:37.893 --> 0:39:41.133 not full of bluster and pretense. Get in touch people. 0:39:41.173 --> 0:39:43.093 My name is Marcus. Welcome Heedal midnight tonight. We are 0:39:43.133 --> 0:39:46.213 discussing department stores. Smith and Coe's finally gone. There had 0:39:46.213 --> 0:39:48.773 a second go of it. I bet they wish they hadn't. Actually, 0:39:53.133 --> 0:39:55.013 there's probably good gesture of closed the store down when 0:39:55.053 --> 0:39:56.413 they did, like a year or so ago, but that's 0:39:56.413 --> 0:39:58.173 what did. They gave another another go. It didn't work, 0:39:58.173 --> 0:40:00.613 But there's going to be a huge hole for a 0:40:00.733 --> 0:40:04.493 winter wonderland or a center's workshop. I don't know where 0:40:04.493 --> 0:40:09.573 they'd put one of those now, Marcus, I agree the 0:40:09.613 --> 0:40:11.973 government talk about standards and call the new budget no 0:40:12.093 --> 0:40:18.373 bs really, Susie, Yeah, it's just wrong. It's just the optics. 0:40:18.613 --> 0:40:23.493 Well what's the sound version of optics? But it's all wrong. Marcus. 0:40:23.533 --> 0:40:24.973 I agree with you about the name of the budget. 0:40:25.013 --> 0:40:27.253 No nonsense budget would have been much more prepped, exactly 0:40:30.533 --> 0:40:32.933 absolutely exactly. I mean that might be the fun talk 0:40:32.933 --> 0:40:34.573 in the belt, whey you'll talk like that, but I 0:40:34.573 --> 0:40:37.653 think people expect something a bit better, especially with old 0:40:37.693 --> 0:40:42.333 Winston going on about that guy, sort of profaning him. 0:40:42.773 --> 0:40:47.213 But yes, and you know, I might be prone to 0:40:48.573 --> 0:40:52.013 colorful language off here, but it's a time and place 0:40:52.013 --> 0:40:53.733 that I would indulge it on here because it's the 0:40:53.733 --> 0:40:56.533 wrong kind of thing for it. When you start getting 0:40:56.533 --> 0:40:58.093 involved with the language like that, it's always a race 0:40:58.133 --> 0:41:00.053 to the bottom lines free if you want to talk 0:41:00.253 --> 0:41:03.893 eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus, I agree, it's 0:41:03.893 --> 0:41:10.013 an odd thing to say for a finance person. Also, 0:41:10.133 --> 0:41:12.773 balance sheet can be shortened to b S and finance 0:41:12.813 --> 0:41:15.173 to speak. Thank you for that. Maybe it's a no 0:41:15.253 --> 0:41:19.093 balance sheet budget. That's probably what she'll be criticized about tomorrow, 0:41:19.213 --> 0:41:21.013 she said byes, But she might have been balance sheet. 0:41:21.333 --> 0:41:23.653 The juniors would be picking that up. By the way, 0:41:23.693 --> 0:41:30.173 discovered something today, the battery save mode on your cell phone. 0:41:30.813 --> 0:41:34.413 You go into set trees, you go into battery. Is 0:41:34.453 --> 0:41:40.653 there any downside to that? Marcus? Pressly, I'm not bothered 0:41:40.653 --> 0:41:43.573 too much with Nicholas no Bs where I do find issue, 0:41:43.573 --> 0:41:46.013 whether it's the PEM and others across the media saying 0:41:46.133 --> 0:41:48.133 furking or is it fricking? Which you want as a 0:41:48.213 --> 0:41:55.013 placement for the F word? Just saying cheers Terry. Yeah, 0:41:55.173 --> 0:41:56.733 well they try and get down with the people, don't 0:41:56.733 --> 0:41:58.693 They just come across looking like Gidiat's that's my take 0:41:58.773 --> 0:42:04.573 on that. John, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome. 0:42:07.813 --> 0:42:10.813 Is that you talking to Steward to John? 0:42:11.013 --> 0:42:12.173 Yes, I'm talking to John. 0:42:12.213 --> 0:42:14.453 Oh, okay, I didn't expect you to come up that correct. 0:42:16.893 --> 0:42:24.013 But on the subject of AI, I heard that somebody 0:42:25.093 --> 0:42:27.653 had been defending their position of their security in the 0:42:27.733 --> 0:42:35.253 workplace because because they had so much experience, and I 0:42:35.413 --> 0:42:38.333 immediately sawt a'll ring in and I thought it was 0:42:38.373 --> 0:42:41.653 your program, But maybe it wasn't, and it doesn't matter. 0:42:42.973 --> 0:42:46.293 The thing is I immediately saw it. This is where 0:42:46.373 --> 0:42:52.053 AI can actually help people that have got a huge 0:42:52.093 --> 0:42:57.093 amount of knowledge to spread that knowledge more widely and 0:42:57.253 --> 0:42:59.653 more accurately than they can as an individual. 0:43:00.453 --> 0:43:03.013 Yeah, do you agree with that? 0:43:05.613 --> 0:43:09.413 Yeah, maybe tell me more about this. Well, who was 0:43:09.453 --> 0:43:11.373 saying they weren't going to get replaced by AI? I'm 0:43:11.413 --> 0:43:12.053 interested in that. 0:43:12.933 --> 0:43:13.133 Ah. 0:43:14.773 --> 0:43:16.293 He was a guy that works in. 0:43:18.933 --> 0:43:24.493 Detecting leaky buildings, yes, and he considered himself to be 0:43:24.613 --> 0:43:28.213 quite an expert at it, and he didn't feel threatened 0:43:29.333 --> 0:43:33.533 by the concept of AI because he was pretty onto it. 0:43:34.293 --> 0:43:37.973 But the thing is he could be miles more onto 0:43:38.053 --> 0:43:41.493 it if he used AI to be able to be 0:43:41.893 --> 0:43:44.013 more places at the same time. 0:43:43.933 --> 0:43:45.773 More accurately, exactly. 0:43:47.213 --> 0:43:47.373 Right. 0:43:47.773 --> 0:43:50.013 And so that I just kind of sort all of 0:43:50.133 --> 0:43:51.693 ring in because I think you've opened it up to 0:43:51.733 --> 0:43:55.573 a bit of general topic rather than something and the 0:43:55.693 --> 0:43:55.973 thing for. 0:43:56.053 --> 0:43:58.853 Me and talk back. I don't know with AI if 0:43:58.933 --> 0:44:02.253 the AI will replace the callers or the host or both. 0:44:04.453 --> 0:44:05.613 So I've got a really. 0:44:05.413 --> 0:44:10.253 Good friend at a very successful winemaker in the Hawk's Bay, 0:44:10.893 --> 0:44:15.533 and I was through going to his sieve India's birthday party. 0:44:16.933 --> 0:44:19.613 I meet a person from AI who's based in New 0:44:19.693 --> 0:44:24.133 Zealand that's Worldwide board and he's very good about AI. 0:44:24.773 --> 0:44:28.013 And so I said to my friend, very close friend. 0:44:28.533 --> 0:44:30.733 I said to him, you know, like, if you're coming 0:44:30.813 --> 0:44:34.573 up to retirement, you possibly need to look at AI 0:44:34.853 --> 0:44:37.293 because you need to be in several places at once 0:44:38.533 --> 0:44:41.533 and you really want to be spending more time with 0:44:41.733 --> 0:44:46.093 your loved ones and not working so hard and he said, well, 0:44:46.133 --> 0:44:49.093 how would that work? And I said, well, I think 0:44:49.133 --> 0:44:53.173 AI probably presents the opportunity because you can people can 0:44:53.213 --> 0:44:57.293 get access to your knowledge and without you actually being there. 0:45:00.133 --> 0:45:00.373 Yeah. 0:45:00.653 --> 0:45:02.493 Were you saying that to the winemaker or to the 0:45:02.573 --> 0:45:03.133 AI guy? 0:45:04.173 --> 0:45:07.453 No, to the wine maker. Okay, that's one night I 0:45:07.573 --> 0:45:10.933 was talking to the AI guy who is one of 0:45:11.013 --> 0:45:14.013 his closest friends. And the next night I talked to 0:45:14.093 --> 0:45:17.173 him and said, well, you know, this is possibly the 0:45:17.213 --> 0:45:20.373 way that you can retire and your your expertise and 0:45:20.573 --> 0:45:26.853 your future aspirations actually carry on with greater access to 0:45:26.973 --> 0:45:30.813 the people without overloading you and your retirement years. 0:45:32.653 --> 0:45:33.533 That's quite powerful. 0:45:33.933 --> 0:45:37.053 Oh powerful, all right? Be the end of civilization? Probably? 0:45:38.093 --> 0:45:40.613 Oh well, I just you know what is going to 0:45:40.653 --> 0:45:42.733 be the end of civilization when you look at what's 0:45:42.773 --> 0:45:43.453 going on around the. 0:45:43.453 --> 0:45:48.053 World, Probably probably AI when they become well be what's 0:45:48.173 --> 0:45:51.333 what's the word, when they become sentient? 0:45:52.933 --> 0:45:53.133 Yeah? 0:45:53.333 --> 0:45:53.613 I mean. 0:45:53.893 --> 0:45:56.573 And then there was somebody in the in the discussion 0:45:56.653 --> 0:46:02.653 somewhere along the line talking about about no idea in 0:46:02.733 --> 0:46:07.213 the same subject was people are saying AI isn't a 0:46:07.293 --> 0:46:10.293 bit of a threat because but you know. 0:46:10.453 --> 0:46:13.013 It sounds like a pretty dry party if this is 0:46:13.053 --> 0:46:14.773 a party and a wine or eat cheapers. 0:46:17.053 --> 0:46:20.133 No, no, I just said that I was at that party. 0:46:20.533 --> 0:46:22.573 Oh yeah, but it sounds like quite a serious topic. 0:46:24.373 --> 0:46:26.413 Oh No, it wasn't at the party itself. It was 0:46:26.493 --> 0:46:31.853 the next day the party summer lunch event, where I 0:46:32.013 --> 0:46:35.853 just kind of got closer to this guy that's involved 0:46:35.853 --> 0:46:38.293 with AI and he said, well, at the end of 0:46:38.293 --> 0:46:40.453 the day, don't be scared of it instead of what 0:46:40.693 --> 0:46:44.013 it is if you're not using it, because if you 0:46:44.333 --> 0:46:48.493 if you're really successful at something and truly successful, not 0:46:48.573 --> 0:46:52.933 a cono, then you really do want to share that 0:46:53.173 --> 0:46:58.333 knowledge of your expertise in that. They'll say, like wine making, 0:46:59.933 --> 0:47:02.573 that's what a winemaker is. A winemaker is a person 0:47:02.693 --> 0:47:07.213 that's involved in the storyline in a marketing line and 0:47:07.373 --> 0:47:10.493 it's got enough experience to be winning all the awards. 0:47:12.373 --> 0:47:13.813 Live at the Stuart. But nice to talk to you. 0:47:13.933 --> 0:47:16.133 Thank you for that news from the New South Wales 0:47:16.253 --> 0:47:22.173 Mid Coast. In Australia, Mid mid Coast chaos as cows 0:47:22.333 --> 0:47:26.453 washed up on beaches. Where did the cows come from? 0:47:28.453 --> 0:47:38.173 They're walking jeeves, Lola, Yes, you. 0:47:38.213 --> 0:47:41.933 Were asking about that departmental store in Devon Street. 0:47:42.213 --> 0:47:43.093 Yes, thank you. 0:47:46.013 --> 0:47:48.893 Yes, I can hardly hear you. 0:47:49.173 --> 0:47:55.493 I wonder what it is. Oh was it really? 0:47:57.053 --> 0:47:57.293 Yeah? 0:47:58.093 --> 0:47:59.493 Well you can't hear me. Can you hear me now? 0:48:01.293 --> 0:48:01.613 Adam? 0:48:01.853 --> 0:48:03.493 I can hear you better now, okay? 0:48:03.613 --> 0:48:03.853 Cool? 0:48:04.373 --> 0:48:05.453 Where did it close down? 0:48:07.573 --> 0:48:11.133 I don't know because I wasn't in the Taranaki district 0:48:11.293 --> 0:48:11.813 at the time. 0:48:12.293 --> 0:48:15.773 Okay, but it did have the police system. Is that right? 0:48:18.053 --> 0:48:20.653 Yes, they put the receipts and the thing paul a 0:48:20.733 --> 0:48:22.573 lever and away it went to the office. 0:48:22.853 --> 0:48:25.933 Okay. Why did they not trust the workers with money 0:48:26.053 --> 0:48:27.573 or was just was it just simpler that way? 0:48:28.893 --> 0:48:31.093 You'd put the money in there and they and they'd 0:48:31.133 --> 0:48:32.413 send the change back in it. 0:48:33.013 --> 0:48:34.813 It seems like a complicated way to do it, doesn't it. 0:48:36.613 --> 0:48:38.933 Well that's how they did it. I don't know any 0:48:39.013 --> 0:48:40.933 other store that operated that system. 0:48:41.533 --> 0:48:43.693 No, Well, find and it was it was on basket. 0:48:43.973 --> 0:48:45.173 Was it on bulldog clips? 0:48:48.573 --> 0:48:51.533 No, it was a little round tin sort of thing, 0:48:51.853 --> 0:48:56.653 and and it just oh, you just pulled the lever 0:48:56.813 --> 0:48:58.453 and it went was into the office. 0:48:59.013 --> 0:49:01.173 Okay, maybe we might find something that worked in the 0:49:01.173 --> 0:49:02.853 office and know what they actually did there. Thank you 0:49:02.973 --> 0:49:07.493 for that, good evening, grace. This is Marcus welcome, good evening, Marcus. 0:49:08.933 --> 0:49:12.253 I've lived in Auckland all my life except when I 0:49:12.333 --> 0:49:15.013 came from My parents came from Gisbon when i was 0:49:15.093 --> 0:49:17.693 five years old, so I've got eighty years of memories 0:49:17.733 --> 0:49:22.613 of Smith and CEY's. Wow, I've tried to think what 0:49:22.893 --> 0:49:28.653 that the payment procedure was at Smith and Colly's. That 0:49:28.733 --> 0:49:31.853 the lady has just been trying to describe about a 0:49:31.973 --> 0:49:36.413 cylinder on a line that was sent upstairs to the offices, 0:49:36.853 --> 0:49:42.813 So the money was actually had handled upstairs. So that 0:49:43.333 --> 0:49:45.253 was the money part of it. But the other things 0:49:45.333 --> 0:49:48.493 I've thought about since I heard you talking about Smith 0:49:48.533 --> 0:49:52.213 and CEY's is all the stuff that will especially I 0:49:52.293 --> 0:49:56.053 remember the female staff were all always dressed very smartly 0:49:56.133 --> 0:50:01.733 in black uniforms. The toilets were penny in the slot, 0:50:03.253 --> 0:50:08.733 which was I can imagine that these days. And they 0:50:08.813 --> 0:50:13.733 had a very nice ladies' restroom where mums could feed 0:50:13.813 --> 0:50:16.573 their babies and change their babies, which was part of 0:50:16.773 --> 0:50:26.413 the toilet complex area. The counters were old fashion. Behind 0:50:26.453 --> 0:50:31.893 the counters were old fashion drawers that held gloves in 0:50:32.013 --> 0:50:36.733 one one drawer and scarves in another, and that sort 0:50:36.733 --> 0:50:42.853 of thing. The old fashion type of holding, you know, 0:50:43.093 --> 0:50:45.893 the products that they had. Some of the Coe's was 0:50:46.813 --> 0:50:51.733 has always been a high end retailer. There was, of course. 0:50:51.813 --> 0:50:54.533 The others were, and I've grown up with all of them. 0:50:55.133 --> 0:51:00.933 Was the Farmers, George and John Courts and Randolph's, which 0:51:01.253 --> 0:51:03.373 you could class those as sort of more of a 0:51:04.213 --> 0:51:09.893 working person's department store. And I know about George and 0:51:09.973 --> 0:51:13.773 John Courts because I grew up just along the road 0:51:13.813 --> 0:51:16.053 from where George Courts used to be, on the corner 0:51:16.093 --> 0:51:17.933 of Front Street and Crangapi Road. 0:51:18.173 --> 0:51:19.853 Oh yes, yeah. 0:51:20.933 --> 0:51:25.133 John Court's, for memory, was halfway down Queen Street. I 0:51:25.293 --> 0:51:27.293 think eventually it became whit Calls. 0:51:27.813 --> 0:51:28.213 Oh yes. 0:51:29.893 --> 0:51:32.653 There should be quite a lot of people round about 0:51:32.773 --> 0:51:36.213 my age in the eighties and nineties that have lovely 0:51:36.333 --> 0:51:40.973 memories of those places. A closer memory of George and 0:51:41.093 --> 0:51:45.693 John Courts is there's a Court Crescent in Pamua and 0:51:45.933 --> 0:51:50.573 the original Court Home is actually on Court Crescent. 0:51:51.173 --> 0:51:54.613 Okay, how do you know, so, Elia, are you a historian? 0:51:54.653 --> 0:51:55.813 Because you know a lot, don't you. 0:51:56.933 --> 0:51:57.133 Yeah. 0:51:58.573 --> 0:52:02.133 Up until ten or plus, I belonged to the local 0:52:02.333 --> 0:52:04.013 Historical Society. 0:52:05.293 --> 0:52:08.213 In which area this is Pamua. 0:52:08.333 --> 0:52:10.813 I actually live in Court Present. I actually live in 0:52:10.893 --> 0:52:14.933 Court present and right opposite me is the Court what 0:52:15.133 --> 0:52:19.533 I've always called it the Court Homestead. It would originally 0:52:19.653 --> 0:52:24.693 been surrounded by acres of farmland, and because it's near 0:52:24.733 --> 0:52:28.213 the foot of Mount Wellington, and because that's where you know, 0:52:28.373 --> 0:52:31.813 the horse breeding and a hunt club was and all 0:52:31.893 --> 0:52:38.413 those sort of things in the market gardens. So I've 0:52:38.453 --> 0:52:41.573 really got some wonderful memories of Smith and Coey's. 0:52:41.573 --> 0:52:42.133 It was lovely. 0:52:42.373 --> 0:52:44.773 It was a treat when I got older and when 0:52:44.813 --> 0:52:48.613 I was working to go to Smith and Coey's for 0:52:48.733 --> 0:52:49.413 a cup of tea. 0:52:50.133 --> 0:52:52.653 Yes, I've very good. Nice to hear from you, Grace, 0:52:52.693 --> 0:52:55.293 Thank you for those meenories. Twenty six to ten. There 0:52:55.373 --> 0:52:57.693 is a big website you can go to about have 0:52:57.813 --> 0:53:01.293 all the different shops and the different systems they had. 0:53:01.333 --> 0:53:03.413 A lot of them had something called a cash railway, 0:53:04.813 --> 0:53:08.533 which we think different from the pumatic system. It's a 0:53:08.893 --> 0:53:12.853 remarkable website. But a lot of them had the kesh railway, 0:53:13.093 --> 0:53:15.893 a lot of them had a wire system, a lot 0:53:15.933 --> 0:53:19.133 of them had a cable system, and some had the 0:53:19.173 --> 0:53:27.053 pneumatic system. All extremely interesting. Actually, good evening, Billet's Marcus, welcome, Yeah. 0:53:26.933 --> 0:53:32.293 Good evening. Sorry, I'm just telling you, going to explain. 0:53:32.773 --> 0:53:38.173 The pulling system was made by a company from the 0:53:38.213 --> 0:53:42.933 East end of London called Lambson Paragon. Yes, they made 0:53:43.013 --> 0:53:46.973 that system in all the department stores around the world actually, 0:53:47.413 --> 0:53:48.933 and that was the later That was. 0:53:48.973 --> 0:53:51.053 The Pulley system, not the pneumatic system. 0:53:51.613 --> 0:53:54.373 No, the pneumatic system came later, and that was with 0:53:54.573 --> 0:53:55.573 air and tubes. 0:53:55.973 --> 0:53:58.173 Okay, so the same couple did it, did they? 0:53:58.933 --> 0:54:02.173 I believe so I'm not sure on that. But the 0:54:02.253 --> 0:54:09.773 original what was Lambson Paragon, and they were called Lemson 0:54:09.973 --> 0:54:11.253 Paragon and they're. 0:54:11.093 --> 0:54:13.653 Called cash railways. That was a general name for them. 0:54:13.693 --> 0:54:13.813 Was it. 0:54:14.533 --> 0:54:17.013 I wouldn't know what they called it. It's just a 0:54:17.133 --> 0:54:20.133 wire system and they pulled it like it sprung away 0:54:21.053 --> 0:54:22.013 back to the cashier. 0:54:23.773 --> 0:54:25.973 Yeah, okay, that's fascinating. I appreciate that, Thank you, Bill. 0:54:26.173 --> 0:54:27.853 Some of them seem to have balls that would roll 0:54:27.973 --> 0:54:33.173 down too. The cash ball system manufactured in the thirties. 0:54:33.813 --> 0:54:36.373 The cash is conveyed in the hollow wooden balls running 0:54:36.373 --> 0:54:39.773 along a pair of inclined tracks. The top one slopes 0:54:39.813 --> 0:54:41.893 down from sales point to kesha and the bottom slopes 0:54:41.893 --> 0:54:45.613 the other way. They were literally kind of railways gravity 0:54:45.653 --> 0:54:49.573 fed Railways. Hello, Willie, it's Marcus welcome. 0:54:50.853 --> 0:54:52.613 Hey, did I buddy? Here you go? Mate? 0:54:52.733 --> 0:54:52.893 Good? 0:54:52.933 --> 0:54:55.893 Thanks, Willy, Hey, just. 0:54:55.933 --> 0:54:58.493 One of those pictures here. I run a restaurant and 0:54:58.733 --> 0:55:03.093 towering on the waterfront, and the name of the restaurant 0:55:03.253 --> 0:55:04.333 was called Lemson's. 0:55:05.053 --> 0:55:05.493 Oh yes. 0:55:06.693 --> 0:55:10.493 And in the day, the Lensns they were on why 0:55:10.533 --> 0:55:15.413 are police? And the lady down below she would put 0:55:15.453 --> 0:55:18.493 the money in the Lensen thing and she'd send it 0:55:18.693 --> 0:55:20.093 up to the teller up top. 0:55:22.813 --> 0:55:23.053 Wow. 0:55:24.413 --> 0:55:28.773 And they are actually called Lensen's. Yeah, and. 0:55:32.213 --> 0:55:32.453 You go. 0:55:34.973 --> 0:55:38.213 Believe it or not. Like this restaurant under I took 0:55:38.293 --> 0:55:42.333 over very upmarket restaurant. They still had all them in there, 0:55:42.853 --> 0:55:47.973 and sometimes people are a bit naughty with them, you know, 0:55:48.213 --> 0:55:50.533 put a bit of undergarment on and send it right 0:55:50.573 --> 0:55:52.173 across the obston at the restaurant. 0:55:53.133 --> 0:55:55.253 So when was this that it was still going, Willie? 0:55:56.573 --> 0:55:59.933 I know it was closed down, but they still were. 0:56:01.333 --> 0:56:04.093 They still had the lenses working, but it was just 0:56:04.453 --> 0:56:06.933 a feature in the restaurant. And it's called land Jair. 0:56:07.653 --> 0:56:13.333 But whenabouts was this, Willy, pardon, when was this restaurant open? 0:56:14.653 --> 0:56:14.813 Oh? 0:56:15.453 --> 0:56:20.413 You're going back to nineties, early nineties, Okay, but it 0:56:20.413 --> 0:56:23.053 had always been there as it always been there on 0:56:23.173 --> 0:56:26.053 the waterfront. Hey, can I ask you something else? 0:56:26.213 --> 0:56:26.413 Mate? 0:56:26.613 --> 0:56:28.813 Can I just stick with us for a Secah? The question, 0:56:29.373 --> 0:56:31.973 so would this place? Was it a new medic tuber? 0:56:32.133 --> 0:56:37.493 Was it right at Whys and Pulleys? Yes, yep it 0:56:37.613 --> 0:56:38.613 was Wyse and Pulleys. 0:56:38.693 --> 0:56:42.773 Correct Roger that yes, yep, definitely mate, Yes. 0:56:43.093 --> 0:56:46.053 And before it was a restaurant was it a department store? 0:56:47.013 --> 0:56:48.133 Yes? It was yes. 0:56:49.213 --> 0:56:50.173 Okay, what's your question? 0:56:53.133 --> 0:56:53.333 You know? 0:56:54.093 --> 0:56:56.893 And rug me, okay, this is going off the chart, 0:56:57.653 --> 0:57:00.933 and rugged me like if a rugby will come down 0:57:01.053 --> 0:57:03.173 HiT's one of the planes square in the head and 0:57:03.253 --> 0:57:06.813 whatever would they would they go take love for? 0:57:07.573 --> 0:57:07.933 You know that? 0:57:08.213 --> 0:57:12.773 He and look at the reader masking this is my daughter. 0:57:14.133 --> 0:57:17.213 She knows a friend that's a good one. With players 0:57:17.253 --> 0:57:22.293 in the Penwich soccer and higgetspan headaches and all if 0:57:22.333 --> 0:57:26.533 she said was how can they hit up balls all 0:57:26.613 --> 0:57:29.973 the time? But any rugby players get one knock and 0:57:30.173 --> 0:57:31.613 they get tacking off your checked. 0:57:32.053 --> 0:57:34.213 I think there is concerns about head knocks with the 0:57:34.293 --> 0:57:36.573 ball and football. And I don't think they practice hitting 0:57:36.653 --> 0:57:38.933 at practice. They just do it at matches because they've 0:57:38.973 --> 0:57:43.053 realized they could get repercussions from it. It is something 0:57:43.093 --> 0:57:45.773 that's recognized and they are looking about for that, Willie. 0:57:45.813 --> 0:57:51.013 But thank you, Vicki. It's Marcus. Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. 0:57:51.533 --> 0:57:54.333 I'm wondering up to say that my first job after 0:57:54.453 --> 0:57:58.533 leaving school was operating the wire cash railway system in 0:57:58.613 --> 0:57:59.813 a department store. 0:58:00.253 --> 0:58:00.733 Fantastic. 0:58:00.813 --> 0:58:01.893 We worked in the office of. 0:58:01.973 --> 0:58:05.853 The office junior receptionist and all the money came in 0:58:05.973 --> 0:58:10.773 on the wire system is actually called a Lemsen rapid 0:58:10.933 --> 0:58:12.573 wire cash railway system. 0:58:14.093 --> 0:58:15.773 Is it lents and with two ends or. 0:58:17.573 --> 0:58:19.893 Now l A M S O N. 0:58:21.133 --> 0:58:22.373 So it was called a lamps on. 0:58:24.013 --> 0:58:27.973 Red rapid wire cash railway system. 0:58:29.493 --> 0:58:32.053 So whereabouts were you what's what building? 0:58:32.533 --> 0:58:38.053 I was in Thames and in tims coramanal Manicola, and 0:58:38.413 --> 0:58:40.493 I worked in a shop called a Court and Son, 0:58:40.573 --> 0:58:44.453 and it was it had four or five different departments 0:58:44.973 --> 0:58:50.933 means where ladies wear material, habitashery, and they all had that. 0:58:51.213 --> 0:58:53.133 They all had that little thing. You screw it up, 0:58:53.373 --> 0:58:58.133 fulled canister and it screwed up and then you pulled 0:58:58.173 --> 0:59:00.573 the cord and it went into the office where I sat. 0:59:00.653 --> 0:59:03.493 And they had a docket that came with the money, 0:59:03.613 --> 0:59:06.773 and you made sure that they'd added the docket up correctly, 0:59:06.853 --> 0:59:09.613 and then you put the change in the folded it 0:59:09.693 --> 0:59:11.213 all up in the docket and put it back in 0:59:11.333 --> 0:59:13.453 the canister and screwed it up and pulled the wire 0:59:13.493 --> 0:59:15.933 and it shot off to the department that came from. 0:59:16.733 --> 0:59:19.533 And just to clarify, was it on a pulley or 0:59:19.653 --> 0:59:20.853 was it a eumatic system? 0:59:21.853 --> 0:59:21.893 No? 0:59:22.093 --> 0:59:24.373 Police, it was on a police put the scud down 0:59:24.413 --> 0:59:25.693 and off it went like a rocket. 0:59:26.493 --> 0:59:28.253 And yet how was the canister? 0:59:28.373 --> 0:59:28.493 Hell? 0:59:28.613 --> 0:59:29.933 Was it clipped onto the system? 0:59:30.813 --> 0:59:32.893 No, it's screwed on and you unscrewed it. 0:59:33.133 --> 0:59:37.573 Okay, And how many different how many different tracks would 0:59:37.573 --> 0:59:40.333 be because each track had the same there in return 0:59:40.453 --> 0:59:40.853 one did it? 0:59:43.413 --> 0:59:46.373 Yeah, it had its own separate returns. So okay, they 0:59:46.413 --> 0:59:49.733 all came into the one. Only one could go at 0:59:49.773 --> 0:59:50.213 one time. 0:59:50.533 --> 0:59:52.573 But if you had a sale day, that's okay. 0:59:52.613 --> 0:59:53.693 They were going pretty fast. 0:59:53.973 --> 0:59:56.093 But how many different lines were coming in? Like half 0:59:56.133 --> 0:59:57.973 a dozen different lines coming in? Were there? 0:59:59.173 --> 0:59:59.373 Yeah? 0:59:59.413 --> 0:59:59.613 Four? 1:00:00.053 --> 1:00:01.613 Four okay, came in from each parts. 1:00:01.773 --> 1:00:04.573 Well, there was four departments from memory, and they came 1:00:04.653 --> 1:00:07.933 in a line coming from each the par artment they 1:00:07.973 --> 1:00:10.853 had a little little hole. The office sat up high 1:00:10.893 --> 1:00:14.293 and the little hole had a little cut out in 1:00:14.373 --> 1:00:14.773 the wall. 1:00:14.853 --> 1:00:15.573 And where it came for. 1:00:15.693 --> 1:00:17.613 It came in from that department. 1:00:18.173 --> 1:00:19.013 How was it powered? 1:00:21.733 --> 1:00:22.573 Yes, spring powered? 1:00:22.853 --> 1:00:25.693 Okay, okay, so it's just okay, So it was spring power. 1:00:25.693 --> 1:00:28.173 There's a pull that go ah okay. 1:00:28.413 --> 1:00:31.413 So it was pulled down and went like a rocket. 1:00:31.493 --> 1:00:35.013 Yeah, straight down to the to the department. And then 1:00:35.133 --> 1:00:42.413 that person unscrewed it and got the money out. Yeah, yes, yeah. 1:00:42.733 --> 1:00:45.093 Why why would they a thing? Was that because there 1:00:45.133 --> 1:00:46.893 were no cash registers in those days. 1:00:47.653 --> 1:00:51.013 Yeah, there was no cash register at each counter. No, 1:00:51.253 --> 1:00:53.973 that's how they operated it. The cash just came up. 1:00:54.013 --> 1:00:54.613 To the office. 1:00:54.653 --> 1:00:57.933 And yeah, you were responsible for giving back the correct 1:00:58.053 --> 1:01:01.013 change and making sure they had added the docket up 1:01:01.053 --> 1:01:03.333 in the first place correctly, and then you and it's 1:01:03.533 --> 1:01:06.733 that the money just went to that one department all day. 1:01:07.253 --> 1:01:10.693 Was the document handwritten, the docket. 1:01:10.693 --> 1:01:12.813 A carbon copied yep? 1:01:12.853 --> 1:01:13.093 Okay. 1:01:13.453 --> 1:01:15.173 And how many of you in that little box up the. 1:01:15.173 --> 1:01:21.493 Top, A senior receptionist and me the junior wow. 1:01:21.613 --> 1:01:23.213 And times it would be quiet and times it would 1:01:23.213 --> 1:01:24.173 be flat out, I suppose. 1:01:25.333 --> 1:01:27.813 Yes, if you had a sale day it was flat out, 1:01:28.093 --> 1:01:31.173 but when it was quiet because the juniors would all 1:01:31.253 --> 1:01:34.333 be play up a bit and they'd seen spied as 1:01:34.373 --> 1:01:35.493 an awfut wrepped. 1:01:35.293 --> 1:01:38.813 Up in those of course they did. Vicky, are we 1:01:38.893 --> 1:01:41.813 talking Are we talking the nineteen sixties? 1:01:43.973 --> 1:01:47.773 No, yeah, very late sixties. I were there, but they 1:01:48.253 --> 1:01:50.453 had been operating for quite a while. There was another 1:01:50.573 --> 1:01:52.973 store in Teams at the time called Heatherington's and they 1:01:53.053 --> 1:01:54.373 also had the same system. 1:01:55.613 --> 1:01:58.533 Wow, fantastic, VICKI thank you so much. I've loved that 1:01:59.093 --> 1:02:02.453 more than you can imagine. I've got to bring those back. 1:02:02.493 --> 1:02:04.373 Thank you so much for that. By the way. By 1:02:04.373 --> 1:02:06.813 the way, of course, a Ted West from Outrageous Fortune. 1:02:06.813 --> 1:02:08.773 They robbed Smith and Coey's well, they robbed the Juwel 1:02:08.773 --> 1:02:10.813 and next doraor of the Cougar ends remember, and Ted 1:02:10.853 --> 1:02:15.453 West wit inside for three years. John Marcus good evening, Hi, 1:02:16.053 --> 1:02:16.493 Hi John. 1:02:18.013 --> 1:02:18.213 Yeah. 1:02:18.893 --> 1:02:21.933 I worked for a company called I N. L and 1:02:22.013 --> 1:02:27.253 Lower Heart, and we had one of those vacuum tube 1:02:27.333 --> 1:02:33.133 things to send the corrections and bruce to the proof readers. 1:02:34.533 --> 1:02:38.013 We could an a plastic tube that had suck it 1:02:38.093 --> 1:02:40.013 up and you could hear it rattling away above your head. 1:02:40.413 --> 1:02:44.133 Then you could hear coming back deliver it to the 1:02:44.933 --> 1:02:46.133 who made the Friday flesh. 1:02:46.813 --> 1:02:51.133 Oh okay, So you're you're a printing publisher, were you? 1:02:52.813 --> 1:02:56.773 I did the what it's called cold type yep, okay, yeah, 1:02:56.933 --> 1:03:00.613 And that was in nineteen eighty five and I left 1:03:00.693 --> 1:03:01.373 in eighty nine. 1:03:02.773 --> 1:03:04.853 Was it quite a complicated system with there a number 1:03:04.893 --> 1:03:05.693 of different routes? 1:03:08.933 --> 1:03:11.893 I think it was only maybe one maybe one more okay, 1:03:11.973 --> 1:03:15.813 the editor, but it was on a different floor and 1:03:16.173 --> 1:03:17.053 where's a fair walk? 1:03:18.453 --> 1:03:20.533 So all this, I guess is replaced by computer, so 1:03:20.533 --> 1:03:23.093 that all you're doing is saving you going back, because 1:03:23.133 --> 1:03:24.933 you'd be making a lot of trips each day, would you. 1:03:26.813 --> 1:03:29.413 We didn't make the ships ourselves, but I'm. 1:03:29.293 --> 1:03:32.333 Talking about if it wasn't, there'd be walking back and forward? 1:03:32.453 --> 1:03:34.813 Right? Yeah? 1:03:35.413 --> 1:03:37.093 Was it reliable system that breakdown? 1:03:37.173 --> 1:03:37.373 Much? 1:03:39.573 --> 1:03:41.733 As far as I know, it seemed to be okay. 1:03:42.973 --> 1:03:45.253 But it was just funny to he hear them rattling, 1:03:47.013 --> 1:03:49.613 see him coming along when they hit a joint. 1:03:51.613 --> 1:03:53.173 It's a shame. Well, of course there is that one 1:03:53.213 --> 1:03:55.533 preserved in that cafe and Christ judge, but it seems 1:03:55.533 --> 1:03:57.053 that we should be doing more to preserve them. There 1:03:57.093 --> 1:03:58.813 needs to be a museum for them. Thank you for that. 1:03:59.133 --> 1:04:02.773 Seven from ten Good Evening Gaiale. Hello, it's Marcus, Welcome, Hi, no. 1:04:02.973 --> 1:04:06.813 Curse, how are you jing? I remained of the the 1:04:06.973 --> 1:04:10.373 system that you're talking about. They used to have one 1:04:10.573 --> 1:04:14.733 at a department store Core George and George in Newtown 1:04:14.893 --> 1:04:15.533 and Wellington. 1:04:15.853 --> 1:04:21.093 Oh, tell me more about that. 1:04:22.613 --> 1:04:25.493 Well, I was a young child at the time living 1:04:25.573 --> 1:04:29.253 in Newtown and that was the largest department store that 1:04:29.373 --> 1:04:32.493 we had, and it was right in a Newtown's school, 1:04:33.653 --> 1:04:36.493 primary school, and we used to go on there and 1:04:36.613 --> 1:04:39.653 they used to as one lady said, there were no 1:04:39.813 --> 1:04:42.173 such a as credit cards, so you think it had 1:04:42.213 --> 1:04:45.133 to be cash. So whenever you bought, the lady behind 1:04:45.173 --> 1:04:47.893 the counter would put the cash into the sort of 1:04:48.133 --> 1:04:51.293 trolley thing and then it would whizz off above your 1:04:51.373 --> 1:04:55.693 head really fast, which was quite frightening at times, because 1:04:55.733 --> 1:04:58.733 it just whizz that went from from where you would 1:04:59.013 --> 1:05:03.053 purchase your your goods to somewhere which is an office 1:05:03.253 --> 1:05:07.733 which is above your head, and and then they would 1:05:07.773 --> 1:05:10.853 put the change back of it and you'll come back again. 1:05:11.093 --> 1:05:14.693 So it was quite an interesting thing to watch as 1:05:14.733 --> 1:05:15.733 a child growing up. 1:05:16.333 --> 1:05:19.573 Yeah, because I'm amazed. They didn't just have cash registers. 1:05:20.853 --> 1:05:25.893 No, nothing like that either, not that I can remember. 1:05:26.293 --> 1:05:28.373 That mustn't have been. I can't quite work out why not, 1:05:28.493 --> 1:05:29.653 but that seems to you what they've done. 1:05:31.493 --> 1:05:34.053 Yeah, well, I was quite surprised that they had one. 1:05:34.293 --> 1:05:37.653 After listening to you tonight, I thought, I remember that 1:05:37.933 --> 1:05:40.413 a new Town of all places, and it was a 1:05:41.053 --> 1:05:42.293 department store called. 1:05:42.133 --> 1:05:43.253 George and George. 1:05:43.653 --> 1:05:45.533 What sort of stuff would they say? All sorts of. 1:05:45.573 --> 1:05:50.933 Goods, all sorts of things? I say, any any typical department. 1:05:50.653 --> 1:05:53.253 Store, you know. 1:05:53.333 --> 1:05:55.453 Look and looking at that, there's a there's a list 1:05:55.493 --> 1:05:57.013 of all the places they had that system. It's quite 1:05:57.013 --> 1:05:58.413 a long list of them. So thank you for that. 1:05:58.533 --> 1:06:01.853 I enjoyed that call. I appreciate that. And New Town 1:06:01.893 --> 1:06:05.173 get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome. We'll talk 1:06:05.213 --> 1:06:06.613 more about this after the news If you had to 1:06:06.653 --> 1:06:09.173 come through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, I can 1:06:09.253 --> 1:06:12.213 tell you too that I have got some information through 1:06:12.333 --> 1:06:19.093 here that Frank Gibson Junior has died, extremely well known 1:06:19.133 --> 1:06:23.773 and acclaimed drummer. His wife has contacted the newsroom to 1:06:23.853 --> 1:06:25.813 say that it's with great sadness I let you know 1:06:25.893 --> 1:06:29.413 that my husband, the legendary drummer Frank Gibson Junior, has 1:06:29.533 --> 1:06:33.733 passed away today, so no doubt on audio culture and 1:06:33.853 --> 1:06:36.333 some of those other music websites there will be fairly 1:06:36.413 --> 1:06:42.813 deep dives into his career of probably seventy five years. 1:06:42.813 --> 1:06:46.773 I'd think I think luded his father's knee quite young there. 1:06:46.893 --> 1:06:50.653 So that's news that's through also too. So you might 1:06:50.693 --> 1:06:52.573 want to mention that the next hour we're here until 1:06:52.613 --> 1:06:54.733 midnight tonight, we are talking about the end of Smith 1:06:54.773 --> 1:07:00.733 and coey Zah and the aerial railways that were in 1:07:00.813 --> 1:07:06.893 some of those places. Someone said, Marcus Smister start this convo, 1:07:06.973 --> 1:07:09.533 but crazy to think that drive through banking in America 1:07:09.693 --> 1:07:12.653 is still done at this today with vacuum canisters sent 1:07:12.693 --> 1:07:17.773 to the tellers inside the bank. Marcu's got to bring 1:07:17.853 --> 1:07:20.173 the conversation back to Costco. Costco in the US, some 1:07:20.253 --> 1:07:23.573 of them still use the tube system. I've been at 1:07:23.573 --> 1:07:26.053 one in Los Angeles where they had the tube outlet 1:07:26.093 --> 1:07:30.493 at every register. I believe they would load the cash 1:07:30.533 --> 1:07:32.253 into the register begin of a person shift, and then 1:07:32.493 --> 1:07:34.453 close out the register there, fill up the tube and 1:07:34.493 --> 1:07:38.613 send it back from Tony. We are spending much time 1:07:38.653 --> 1:07:41.653 tonight looking and talking about cash railways. There seems to 1:07:41.693 --> 1:07:48.893 be five different systems ball, cable lifts, wire, anumatic tube. 1:07:50.893 --> 1:07:53.533 There's good websites. It's obviously obsessives that kind of follow 1:07:53.573 --> 1:07:56.813 them all and look for photos. It's quite fascinating. I 1:07:56.893 --> 1:07:59.933 haven't quite yet really understand understood the point of all 1:07:59.973 --> 1:08:04.173 of them, but I presume it was because they couldn't 1:08:04.253 --> 1:08:08.053 have tills. Well, they didn't trust their staff. I'm not 1:08:08.133 --> 1:08:12.653 quite sure which is which. I don't know. Someone might 1:08:12.733 --> 1:08:17.293 know more about this, Someone might work the benefits of 1:08:17.333 --> 1:08:20.773 a centralized cashste whether it could be more closely supervised 1:08:20.813 --> 1:08:28.013 by management. There was less opportunity for pilfering, and it 1:08:28.093 --> 1:08:30.013 freed up their assistant to attend to the customer, perhaps 1:08:30.093 --> 1:08:35.893 make further or better sales. There we go, just like that. 1:08:36.213 --> 1:08:38.053 Good evening, David Marcus, welcome. 1:08:39.013 --> 1:08:40.453 Yeah, Hi Marcus, good evening. 1:08:41.293 --> 1:08:41.493 Yeah. 1:08:41.573 --> 1:08:45.613 I worked for the company that in fact invented, manufactured 1:08:45.653 --> 1:08:51.213 and installed those wire systems and the tube systems. The 1:08:51.453 --> 1:08:55.133 wire system was called rapid wire, and that was in 1:08:55.413 --> 1:08:58.333 the old department stores, as you were talking about, and 1:08:58.453 --> 1:09:02.333 then when that became sort of supersededs. If you like 1:09:03.253 --> 1:09:08.213 the tube system come in and they were manufactured by 1:09:08.253 --> 1:09:12.813 a company called Lampson Paragon, which was an English company 1:09:13.533 --> 1:09:17.213 and had branches in different parts of the world, and 1:09:17.333 --> 1:09:21.293 in New Zealand of Australia, the company was called Lampson 1:09:21.333 --> 1:09:26.533 Paragon and the tube systems were installed by part of 1:09:26.613 --> 1:09:31.373 that company called Mamson Engineering. And there were many many 1:09:31.493 --> 1:09:34.733 tube systems throughout New Zealand, but one of the more 1:09:34.853 --> 1:09:41.373 recent developments of that tube system was at twy point 1:09:42.653 --> 1:09:45.173 and what they used to do there in the smelter, 1:09:45.693 --> 1:09:48.813 they would put samples of the smeltered aluminium into a 1:09:48.933 --> 1:09:52.813 tube and shoot it across the road to the laboratory 1:09:52.893 --> 1:09:55.733 to be tested. And that was the best and most 1:09:55.813 --> 1:09:58.453 efficient way to get it from a very hot environment 1:09:59.453 --> 1:10:02.813 to a laboratory type environment. And they used the choose 1:10:02.853 --> 1:10:05.853 system to do that, and that was probably one of 1:10:05.933 --> 1:10:10.173 the more it's going way back many years, but it 1:10:10.293 --> 1:10:13.773 was probably one of the last systems that were installed. 1:10:14.133 --> 1:10:18.173 IDA should reach there because at t y today, so 1:10:18.693 --> 1:10:21.133 did that require a special cannister to put the hot 1:10:21.213 --> 1:10:21.693 sample in. 1:10:22.853 --> 1:10:25.893 Yes, they're DIAD, but the system was the same in 1:10:26.053 --> 1:10:30.573 terms of instiding it into the tube system itself and 1:10:30.693 --> 1:10:34.933 then the system that then superseded dat was one called 1:10:35.053 --> 1:10:43.373 tele lift, and the telelift was a more electronically controlled 1:10:43.453 --> 1:10:46.413 and it used to go up inside building. So the 1:10:46.533 --> 1:10:48.533 mail would all come into the bottom of a high 1:10:48.613 --> 1:10:54.213 rise building and the mail would be sorted in the 1:10:54.293 --> 1:10:57.173 mail room and put into these telelift systems, and then 1:10:57.213 --> 1:10:59.213 you'd hit the button and I'd go on a railway 1:10:59.293 --> 1:11:03.693 system up inside the infrastructure of the building and pop 1:11:03.773 --> 1:11:06.293 out on the fifth floor, the tenth boor the thirtieth 1:11:06.533 --> 1:11:10.973 or whatever and deliver the mail to whatever that company 1:11:11.213 --> 1:11:15.573 was on that floor. So that was the development after 1:11:15.693 --> 1:11:16.533 the Tude system. 1:11:17.493 --> 1:11:18.693 So tell me a bit more about that. 1:11:18.893 --> 1:11:19.293 What was that? 1:11:19.813 --> 1:11:22.453 Was that wired driven or how was that powered? 1:11:25.173 --> 1:11:27.893 I think that not one hundred percent said that. It 1:11:27.933 --> 1:11:31.053 was only like a little railway line gripped. 1:11:31.653 --> 1:11:33.373 They gripped under the right understand. 1:11:33.533 --> 1:11:37.653 It would go up. It would go up vertically up 1:11:37.733 --> 1:11:40.213 inside the building, if you like. And then they have 1:11:40.293 --> 1:11:42.933 a like a gimbal type system like they have on 1:11:43.053 --> 1:11:47.373 ships yep, so that the Telly lift would remain equal. 1:11:47.413 --> 1:11:50.693 And they used it also in hospitals for delivering blood 1:11:50.773 --> 1:11:53.933 samples and things like that between floors and high roads 1:11:54.573 --> 1:11:55.533 hospital setups. 1:11:55.773 --> 1:11:59.533 So did any places. Did any places have that system 1:11:59.573 --> 1:12:00.173 in New Zealand? 1:12:00.253 --> 1:12:00.293 That? 1:12:00.773 --> 1:12:01.893 Yes? Is that what you're saying? 1:12:02.173 --> 1:12:04.573 Oh, yes, yes, yes, lots of them. Yeah, it was. 1:12:04.693 --> 1:12:08.093 It was a big It was a big operation. I 1:12:08.173 --> 1:12:12.373 mean I eventually did at a time as CEO of 1:12:12.853 --> 1:12:17.533 what was then Lambson Paragon English company sold out to 1:12:17.733 --> 1:12:21.333 an American company called More and it was called More 1:12:21.413 --> 1:12:25.493 Business Systems and they changed their name that it was 1:12:26.133 --> 1:12:28.853 and More took over the English company Lambson Paragon. But 1:12:28.933 --> 1:12:31.493 it's a really old old company. 1:12:32.093 --> 1:12:33.493 Could you tell me some of the name of the 1:12:33.653 --> 1:12:34.693 could you tell me some of the name of the 1:12:34.733 --> 1:12:39.333 buildings that had that later system? No, I can't because 1:12:39.333 --> 1:12:42.133 I remember when I remember my mother was at UCLAM Hostel, 1:12:42.173 --> 1:12:47.253 that main big tall building overlooking the domain. There was 1:12:47.733 --> 1:12:50.053 a lance and tube system and that that they used 1:12:50.053 --> 1:12:52.453 to send samples around. So that must have that looked 1:12:52.453 --> 1:12:53.533 like it was a building that was built in the 1:12:53.573 --> 1:12:55.533 sixties or the seventies. That very much ad that. 1:12:56.933 --> 1:13:01.533 Yes, yeah, and the Lambs and the Telly rift was 1:13:01.653 --> 1:13:06.013 more for not for cash or anything like that. It 1:13:06.093 --> 1:13:09.733 was more for mail delivery inside high rise building. So 1:13:10.293 --> 1:13:12.493 that was that's why that was Belding and it would 1:13:12.533 --> 1:13:16.173 come out through the wall through a fire fire doors 1:13:16.173 --> 1:13:19.733 would open and the tellylypt system would pop out of 1:13:19.813 --> 1:13:22.773 the wall, if you like. Quite quite fascinating. 1:13:23.133 --> 1:13:25.333 And that would have been a suit by emails, I presume, 1:13:25.373 --> 1:13:26.933 would that be right? So that would have gone right 1:13:26.973 --> 1:13:28.453 into the nineties. I presume. 1:13:30.333 --> 1:13:34.533 Yes, it would have, Yes, yep, right through to then yep. 1:13:35.173 --> 1:13:37.933 And and David with the wire system you talk about 1:13:38.013 --> 1:13:39.253 that was lampsun as well. 1:13:39.973 --> 1:13:41.333 Was that was that? 1:13:42.613 --> 1:13:47.213 That was that was electric? That wasn't just spring operated 1:13:47.293 --> 1:13:48.413 or was it spring operated? 1:13:49.413 --> 1:13:54.133 Spring operated? They pulled the cord, they'd reach up above them, 1:13:54.893 --> 1:13:58.693 clip the docket in a little pouch, clip it to 1:13:58.813 --> 1:14:01.533 the wire, and then pull the cord and it would 1:14:01.533 --> 1:14:05.093 shoot across at great speed up to the cashier's office, 1:14:06.693 --> 1:14:09.293 and then they'd deal with it there, put the change 1:14:09.333 --> 1:14:12.453 in and then put it back up again, pulled the 1:14:12.533 --> 1:14:15.173 cord and shoot it back to the cashier that it 1:14:15.293 --> 1:14:17.813 came from, to give back to the customer of their change. 1:14:18.293 --> 1:14:21.493 And because that someone had mentioned of on the emails, 1:14:21.813 --> 1:14:24.093 I'm sorry on the text before that that was just 1:14:24.173 --> 1:14:26.893 a security thing really in terms of that way you 1:14:26.973 --> 1:14:29.693 only had one or two people handing the cash in 1:14:29.853 --> 1:14:32.133 what can be quite a big store, or you'd have 1:14:32.253 --> 1:14:33.293 more than two. 1:14:33.853 --> 1:14:36.893 And would that would that have wheels vertically on top 1:14:36.933 --> 1:14:38.813 of the wire? Is that how they ran along the wire? 1:14:40.173 --> 1:14:47.533 No, the wire moved so or not one hundred percent 1:14:47.653 --> 1:14:52.293 certain about that, actually, Marcus. And just remember that was 1:14:52.373 --> 1:14:53.533 a bit before my time. 1:14:53.573 --> 1:14:54.533 I can't understand it. 1:14:55.013 --> 1:14:57.053 In terms of the ticklar. I was more involved in 1:14:57.133 --> 1:14:57.973 the tube system. 1:15:01.013 --> 1:15:03.773 Just a big was it just a big compressed guess 1:15:03.893 --> 1:15:05.093 tank that would fire it all? 1:15:08.053 --> 1:15:11.933 No? No, it was you see it today in internal 1:15:12.093 --> 1:15:17.133 vacuum cleaning systems inside houses and buildings, you know when 1:15:17.133 --> 1:15:20.053 you might plug your vacuum cleaner into a little hole 1:15:20.093 --> 1:15:23.933 in the wall. Yes, that that was also installed by 1:15:24.373 --> 1:15:27.933 in later years, installed by Lamps and Paragon which became 1:15:28.053 --> 1:15:33.253 more Paragon, same technology. So you'd have a just like 1:15:33.333 --> 1:15:37.373 a gigantic section. It's like a vacuum cleaner. 1:15:38.013 --> 1:15:41.173 So that wouldn't that would have Yeah, that makes that 1:15:41.293 --> 1:15:43.453 makes sense. Okay, that makes perfect sense of to suck 1:15:43.493 --> 1:15:45.213 it through. And they'd be quite tight in the tube, 1:15:45.253 --> 1:15:45.733 wouldn't they. 1:15:46.453 --> 1:15:48.973 Yes, they would. It had a sort of a tube 1:15:49.053 --> 1:15:54.213 with say maybe three hundred million long, and when you 1:15:54.293 --> 1:15:57.333 put it into the tube. It was quite a snug fit. Yes, 1:15:57.493 --> 1:16:00.293 so that it would, you know, the vacuum would suck 1:16:00.373 --> 1:16:01.573 it through the tube system. 1:16:01.973 --> 1:16:04.293 Is there's still one working, and there's still a Cafeine 1:16:04.373 --> 1:16:06.293 Christ that has a lens and system work that does 1:16:06.413 --> 1:16:08.333 Spencer's food and it's quite successful. 1:16:09.373 --> 1:16:11.973 Yes. Yes. And the other one they used to have, 1:16:12.133 --> 1:16:15.333 of course, was the I'm just trying to think of 1:16:15.413 --> 1:16:17.533 the name now, the dumb waiter. 1:16:18.173 --> 1:16:20.853 Oh, yep, you know that was also. 1:16:21.213 --> 1:16:23.053 I don't I don't think that that would have been 1:16:23.093 --> 1:16:27.493 invented by by Lambsons, but they certainly installed them. 1:16:28.013 --> 1:16:29.773 When did this? When did they stop using it at 1:16:29.773 --> 1:16:31.173 t Y? Was that during your time? 1:16:33.173 --> 1:16:36.493 I don't know that they've ever stopped. I can't answer that. 1:16:37.693 --> 1:16:39.613 It wouldn't surprise me if it's still operating. 1:16:40.293 --> 1:16:42.533 Okay, I've got mates that work there. I'll find out, David. 1:16:43.653 --> 1:16:46.573 Yeah, yeah, that was yeah, and just see if if 1:16:46.653 --> 1:16:49.493 it's still if it still works, I think from memory, 1:16:51.453 --> 1:16:54.813 I never saw it operate. I don't know whether it 1:16:54.813 --> 1:16:59.333 went under the road or on a tube going across 1:16:59.413 --> 1:16:59.733 the road. 1:16:59.773 --> 1:17:02.053 If you like, I'll report back, David. Look, thank you. 1:17:02.173 --> 1:17:03.653 That was more than I could hopeful with your as 1:17:03.693 --> 1:17:05.413 a call, I mean a city with a fondable knowledge 1:17:05.653 --> 1:17:08.453 with the GMS. I appreciate that greatly. Thank you. Ten 1:17:08.573 --> 1:17:10.293 nineteen Good evening, Daniel. 1:17:11.373 --> 1:17:13.813 Could I Matt, I'll tell you a friend, good Daniel, 1:17:15.053 --> 1:17:18.453 you know trip down Memory Lane? Because she is I 1:17:18.573 --> 1:17:21.493 used to watch it a wood On and it was 1:17:21.533 --> 1:17:26.493 probably Born. It was Matte before born. I'm five years 1:17:26.493 --> 1:17:29.853 from fifty. But there's some characters in me and where 1:17:29.973 --> 1:17:33.253 she's very tame with people. But what he Harrison, he 1:17:33.413 --> 1:17:38.453 was a Kno, there were a few in the phraser 1:17:38.533 --> 1:17:40.813 crane he and then he went on to make his 1:17:40.933 --> 1:17:44.813 own show. Remember, so he made his own show doctor phrases, 1:17:45.293 --> 1:17:51.653 phrases Grant they were in me is tousey Ellen. She 1:17:51.813 --> 1:17:54.453 was in there for w O. But then did Danton 1:17:54.533 --> 1:17:57.173 headed out a given? I think her name was Hilly Long's. 1:17:58.493 --> 1:18:02.293 Yeah, yeah, because he was Whatdy Harrelson wasn't and originally 1:18:02.493 --> 1:18:04.053 was he. There was another guy there that was the 1:18:04.293 --> 1:18:05.173 seecond in command. 1:18:07.013 --> 1:18:09.013 Yeah, I think you come along later on. 1:18:10.253 --> 1:18:11.013 What was normOn? 1:18:11.773 --> 1:18:12.853 What was Norm's job? 1:18:15.053 --> 1:18:15.653 What was normal? 1:18:16.293 --> 1:18:16.493 Mate? 1:18:17.173 --> 1:18:18.973 Next time? Well he was the post poster. 1:18:19.173 --> 1:18:20.853 Yeah, but we never know what Norm did? Would we. 1:18:22.573 --> 1:18:25.173 No, no, never, you seed what his gob was. But 1:18:25.253 --> 1:18:27.893 he always sitting in the bar and sit at the 1:18:28.653 --> 1:18:33.173 mate the posty, and you know, and I remember that 1:18:33.493 --> 1:18:36.493 it was over they had the fire and the bar 1:18:37.013 --> 1:18:39.693 got burnt to christ and a lot well and they 1:18:39.773 --> 1:18:42.733 all come and said, no, we're going to help the rebullet. 1:18:43.853 --> 1:18:45.733 Okay, we'll talk more about that tonight, Daniel. But thank 1:18:45.773 --> 1:18:50.133 you for that, Susan. It's Marcus. Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus. 1:18:51.293 --> 1:18:54.853 I was prompted to call by the lady who grew 1:18:55.013 --> 1:18:58.133 up in Newtown and was talking about Newtown and Wellington, 1:18:58.573 --> 1:19:01.973 and she remembers the George and George store next door 1:19:02.093 --> 1:19:05.653 to the Newtown School. Well I grew up in Colburnie, 1:19:05.733 --> 1:19:11.093 which is just next suburb over after after Newtown, heading 1:19:11.173 --> 1:19:14.453 towards the airport, and we had a George and George 1:19:14.613 --> 1:19:18.773 in the little village of shops in Kilburnie. Oh, and 1:19:18.893 --> 1:19:22.453 I remember exactly what you're talking about. I was fascinated 1:19:22.493 --> 1:19:26.093 as a child watching these people take they'd unscrew a 1:19:26.173 --> 1:19:30.413 little barrel it's like only about the size of your hand, 1:19:30.533 --> 1:19:33.893 it seemed like an adult hand, and they'd unscrew it 1:19:34.013 --> 1:19:37.293 off the wire above them and they'd clip the money 1:19:37.533 --> 1:19:42.173 and the account whatever you'd bought, and clip it back 1:19:42.293 --> 1:19:44.853 up and then pull the cord above them, which was 1:19:44.933 --> 1:19:48.013 attached to the wire, I think, and it zoomed off 1:19:48.093 --> 1:19:51.773 at great speed, and the office was upstairs. You could 1:19:51.813 --> 1:19:54.933 see the office because it was semi open, and so 1:19:55.093 --> 1:19:58.493 there was a whole network of wires all over the store. 1:19:59.093 --> 1:20:01.813 And as a child, I was fascinated that there weren't 1:20:01.813 --> 1:20:03.133 any crashes. 1:20:02.773 --> 1:20:03.333 On the line. 1:20:04.253 --> 1:20:06.773 I think you're conveying it, well, then, am I that's 1:20:06.813 --> 1:20:10.573 my sentiments exactly? Chaosity Roof didn't that it was chaos. 1:20:11.573 --> 1:20:13.733 And then I think there was a bell or something 1:20:13.773 --> 1:20:17.333 that went bing like this, and you know, you'd think, oh, yes, 1:20:17.373 --> 1:20:20.293 another one's gone off or something like that, and then 1:20:20.333 --> 1:20:23.773 you'd be waiting down there by the counter, waiting or 1:20:23.813 --> 1:20:25.693 winds that come to come back. And if it was 1:20:25.773 --> 1:20:28.573 a busy time, of course there'd be quite a delay. 1:20:29.093 --> 1:20:31.213 I don't know how many people were working up in 1:20:31.293 --> 1:20:33.453 the office, but it only looked like two or three 1:20:34.013 --> 1:20:39.493 people up there. But this is a memory from when 1:20:39.573 --> 1:20:42.653 I was about four, because I would walk up to 1:20:42.733 --> 1:20:46.293 Kilburnie with my mother and we would go there to 1:20:46.413 --> 1:20:53.173 buy our underwear, our blouses. Mother would buy the sewing, habdasherie, 1:20:53.213 --> 1:20:56.533 cottons and things like that. They'd be women's clothes with 1:20:56.653 --> 1:21:01.653 their men's clothes, boys clothes, hats and gloves and that 1:21:01.973 --> 1:21:04.493 kind of thing. It was not two story, it was 1:21:04.613 --> 1:21:08.533 just one level. Now that store, I don't know what 1:21:08.693 --> 1:21:11.813 it became after. It was George and George I cannot 1:21:11.893 --> 1:21:16.173 quite remember. But now it's a funeral home called part 1:21:16.253 --> 1:21:19.933 of the Harbor City chain, and a very nice funeral 1:21:20.013 --> 1:21:23.653 home now too. But the funny thing I find quite amusing. 1:21:24.133 --> 1:21:28.373 It's right opposite a retirement home called Rita Angus, and 1:21:28.533 --> 1:21:32.693 on beside it, this is in Colbernie, Wellington, there is 1:21:32.773 --> 1:21:36.493 the Westpac Bank, a very big branch of the Westpac Bank. 1:21:36.613 --> 1:21:39.693 So you're sitting, if you're sitting on that side of 1:21:39.853 --> 1:21:43.013 the retirement home, you just look out the window to 1:21:43.133 --> 1:21:45.813 the place that's going to take your money, the bank, 1:21:47.013 --> 1:21:49.453 and then the other place you're going to deposit the 1:21:49.493 --> 1:21:54.653 money into when you go is the funeral home. Of course, 1:21:54.773 --> 1:21:57.973 behind it is a little chimney spire. You can see 1:21:58.093 --> 1:22:01.333 within with somebody's cremated. You can see little puff of 1:22:01.413 --> 1:22:04.453 smoke go up every so often, I think that's right 1:22:05.373 --> 1:22:09.173 in opposite on the corner, because this goes to the 1:22:09.453 --> 1:22:11.573 end of the street, and on the corner of the 1:22:11.693 --> 1:22:16.573 next street there is the chapel. I think if I 1:22:16.653 --> 1:22:18.573 went to that home, I'd rather be on the other 1:22:18.733 --> 1:22:21.893 side looking out at some people's houses in a place 1:22:21.933 --> 1:22:25.293 where I'm going next kind of thing. But I do 1:22:25.533 --> 1:22:29.533 remember the store very very well. It has lovely window displays, 1:22:30.173 --> 1:22:34.093 and I remembered going there to get my college uniform. 1:22:34.773 --> 1:22:38.293 And I went to Wellington News Girls College and mother 1:22:38.573 --> 1:22:42.373 made my uniform because the parents were given a pattern 1:22:42.413 --> 1:22:43.533 if they were a sewer. 1:22:43.813 --> 1:22:47.373 Wow, that's gone, hasn't You couldn't get a patent anymore, could? 1:22:47.533 --> 1:22:48.453 That's amazing to hear. 1:22:48.733 --> 1:22:51.813 Oh well, my mother was a dress maker dress designer, 1:22:51.973 --> 1:22:56.053 so she could draft her own patterns. But the thing 1:22:56.293 --> 1:22:59.853 was that you had to buy your raincoat there. And 1:23:00.053 --> 1:23:04.053 I'm quite short, while my mother was short, didn't make 1:23:04.173 --> 1:23:07.853 five foot and unfortunately never did I for eleven and 1:23:07.933 --> 1:23:11.773 three w inches. And of course when I was I 1:23:11.933 --> 1:23:16.133 was growing quite normally as a child, just slightly below 1:23:16.173 --> 1:23:19.733 average maybe or average some years. And of course mother 1:23:19.893 --> 1:23:23.573 looked at this raincoat wall Garbadine. We had to have 1:23:24.173 --> 1:23:28.053 a great, big, heavy thing. I hated heavy clothes. I 1:23:28.213 --> 1:23:31.413 just couldn't stand heavy clothes or heavy shoes. And the 1:23:31.533 --> 1:23:35.133 regulation school shoes were great, heavy clumping things, and I 1:23:35.333 --> 1:23:39.013 just hated getting into them. And so mother thinks, oh, well, 1:23:39.333 --> 1:23:43.173 children do have a gross spurt in teenage life. So 1:23:43.373 --> 1:23:46.093 she bought me an extra long raincoat. 1:23:47.773 --> 1:23:51.093 It should be hopeing than her spring up. 1:23:51.213 --> 1:23:51.413 Yeah. 1:23:52.453 --> 1:23:56.453 My father was about five foot eleven and tall and broad. 1:23:56.573 --> 1:24:00.013 He was from the Shetland, so good Viking and Scottish stock, 1:24:00.653 --> 1:24:03.533 And of course she assumed I would, you know, grow 1:24:03.693 --> 1:24:07.173 some more. My seat kept growing, kept going up as 1:24:07.213 --> 1:24:10.653 shoe size, and I was ever hopeful as a teenager, 1:24:10.693 --> 1:24:13.053 and I'd say to my mother, well, I'm definitely going 1:24:13.173 --> 1:24:16.133 to grow because my body's getting the base a little 1:24:16.173 --> 1:24:19.133 bit longer to deal with the upright, you know, the 1:24:19.253 --> 1:24:22.933 shooting upright and going a few more inches. But no, 1:24:23.413 --> 1:24:25.973 I never made the great achievement I wanted to make 1:24:26.173 --> 1:24:28.893 was to be over five foot. But the sunny thing 1:24:29.053 --> 1:24:32.653 is everybody thinks I'm about five foot three because I. 1:24:32.733 --> 1:24:34.733 Had all I do. 1:24:35.373 --> 1:24:37.813 Well, I don't think I'm sure you sound. I think 1:24:37.853 --> 1:24:39.493 I'm me just a normal height. 1:24:39.853 --> 1:24:43.493 Now, hang, are we stuck wearing that John Gavitten coat 1:24:43.573 --> 1:24:44.533 your whole time? Yes? 1:24:45.053 --> 1:24:47.493 And it was so heavy, and Mum put in a 1:24:47.693 --> 1:24:50.493 hem probably about ten inches, you know, because she was 1:24:50.533 --> 1:24:53.333 a dressmaker, she could take it up. So of course 1:24:53.653 --> 1:24:57.333 it was a coat with this big hem, and I 1:24:57.693 --> 1:25:01.133 just felt like I was sinking into the ground with 1:25:01.253 --> 1:25:05.013 the clumping shoes and then this heavy raincoat. I just 1:25:05.133 --> 1:25:07.813 hated it when it rained. And because when I was 1:25:07.893 --> 1:25:11.133 a child at primary school, mother made me beautiful little 1:25:11.213 --> 1:25:14.493 plastic raincoats. I had a white one with red and 1:25:14.653 --> 1:25:15.773 gold spots on it. 1:25:15.933 --> 1:25:16.093 You know. 1:25:16.413 --> 1:25:19.133 I was always dressed like a little model because she 1:25:19.213 --> 1:25:22.853 would see fashions overseas and she could draft her own patterns. 1:25:23.253 --> 1:25:26.693 So I went from that to the heavy raincoat and 1:25:26.773 --> 1:25:31.013 the heavy walk And was she restrained? 1:25:31.253 --> 1:25:33.973 Was she restrained with the Wellington Girl's uniform? Did she 1:25:34.053 --> 1:25:36.613 follow the patent or did she put her own flourishes 1:25:36.653 --> 1:25:36.933 into it? 1:25:37.213 --> 1:25:41.133 It was very meticulous and she and she made that fine. 1:25:41.213 --> 1:25:43.613 I didn't have a great big hem on that because 1:25:43.653 --> 1:25:46.413 she knew she could make it the next year if 1:25:46.453 --> 1:25:48.653 I grew But of course I just had the same 1:25:48.813 --> 1:25:52.373 uniform all the way through because I never woman will grew. 1:25:54.133 --> 1:25:55.133 But never mind. 1:25:55.293 --> 1:25:59.653 I've enjoyed life. But I do vaguely remember that when 1:25:59.773 --> 1:26:03.733 we went to get the school uniform there the raincoat, 1:26:04.253 --> 1:26:07.253 I vaguely remember. I don't know if my memory serves 1:26:07.373 --> 1:26:10.573 me correctly, but I thought they had those big silver 1:26:11.253 --> 1:26:16.813 embossed tools. I see that image. I know when I 1:26:16.893 --> 1:26:21.413 went to Diic downtown in Wellington on Lampton Key, I 1:26:21.573 --> 1:26:25.973 remember the big silver embossed tools there. But I think 1:26:26.133 --> 1:26:29.173 the IC when we were children, I think that had 1:26:29.213 --> 1:26:33.853 the wire system as well. So, but great memories of 1:26:33.973 --> 1:26:37.693 walking up to Colbernie on a Friday night with Dad 1:26:37.933 --> 1:26:42.493 or Mum and watching the Salvation Army playing their songs 1:26:42.533 --> 1:26:45.453 and the ladies with their bonnets and the tambourines with 1:26:45.613 --> 1:26:49.893 the colored ribbons on, and Dad would meet his Shetland mates. 1:26:50.973 --> 1:26:54.533 Then we'd be all standing around, and I'd be standing 1:26:54.573 --> 1:26:56.933 there listening to adult conversation. It was all good and 1:26:58.453 --> 1:27:01.973 excuse me clean. And of course all these men had 1:27:02.013 --> 1:27:05.453 a Shetland accent, so I was quite used to listening 1:27:05.573 --> 1:27:09.013 to their bro their Shetland accents, and I could understand 1:27:09.093 --> 1:27:11.853 what they were saying because my dad had the same accent. 1:27:11.973 --> 1:27:15.173 And they were always very jolly men. And a lot 1:27:15.293 --> 1:27:19.493 of the Shetlanders settled in Island Bay where the Italians settled, 1:27:19.613 --> 1:27:24.333 and the Shetlanders and the Italians they fished together. And 1:27:24.613 --> 1:27:28.773 I was told by an Italian lady that the Shetlanders 1:27:28.893 --> 1:27:32.693 taught the Italians the long line of fishing system. 1:27:34.093 --> 1:27:36.733 That was okay, I'm just going to cover with It's 1:27:36.733 --> 1:27:38.933 been absolutely fascinating. What a pleasure has been to talk to. 1:27:39.253 --> 1:27:41.893 I'm right on headlines, but wow, gosh, you've got some 1:27:41.973 --> 1:27:44.333 great things to say. And thank you so very much 1:27:44.413 --> 1:27:48.133 for that good evening, Zeta, welcome, Thank. 1:27:48.053 --> 1:27:51.173 You, Marcus. I'd like to talk about my first memory 1:27:51.333 --> 1:27:55.573 of Smith and Coe great That was in nineteen thirty 1:27:55.653 --> 1:27:59.933 two and I was four and my mother took me 1:28:00.093 --> 1:28:05.653 to buy brown leather gloves for the winter. Quite a procedure. 1:28:05.853 --> 1:28:09.933 I was on a high stool with a backing, my 1:28:10.133 --> 1:28:14.853 elbow was put on a velvet cushion. All the gloves 1:28:15.093 --> 1:28:19.573 was kept in long narrow drawers the wedding gloves. The 1:28:19.693 --> 1:28:22.413 gloves were going to the races and so on, and 1:28:22.613 --> 1:28:28.573 each pair was wrapped in white tissue. So my brown 1:28:28.653 --> 1:28:32.133 mather gloves were brought out and the lady stretched each 1:28:32.373 --> 1:28:37.613 finger was some sort of stretch of thing, and first 1:28:37.613 --> 1:28:41.053 of all the thumb was put on. Then each finger 1:28:41.653 --> 1:28:47.093 was smoothed down lovingly by the sales person. And all 1:28:47.173 --> 1:28:49.853 the time I was watching the money flying over my 1:28:50.013 --> 1:28:54.773 head going up to the glass office where I could 1:28:54.813 --> 1:28:58.453 see the girls on the next floor. But getting back 1:28:58.493 --> 1:29:01.253 to the gloves, each finger, as I said, was smoothed 1:29:01.333 --> 1:29:07.973 on and finally buttoned with a little glass brown button 1:29:08.133 --> 1:29:11.733 at the wrist. And my mother bought the gloves. And 1:29:11.853 --> 1:29:14.493 that is my first memory of Smith and che. 1:29:15.733 --> 1:29:19.173 Wow and it all. Did children have gloves in those days? 1:29:19.173 --> 1:29:19.973 I suppose they did? 1:29:20.573 --> 1:29:25.653 Oh, of course, dressed up to go to town. And 1:29:25.773 --> 1:29:30.453 then I'd like to talk about Gibson. Frank Gibson, the drummer, Yes, 1:29:30.893 --> 1:29:33.013 thank you. I don't know if it was Frank or 1:29:33.213 --> 1:29:37.093 Don Gibson who played at the Peter Pan in Ruhlm 1:29:37.173 --> 1:29:41.693 Street in my heyday when we went almost every Saturday night, 1:29:42.413 --> 1:29:47.213 Nancy Harry on piano, Don or Frank Gibson on drums, 1:29:48.093 --> 1:29:53.573 and Tommy Andle on bass, and sometimes Mavis Rivers sang. 1:29:55.373 --> 1:29:56.933 And those were great days. 1:29:57.773 --> 1:29:59.773 Now, could you just remind me, because it's kind of 1:29:59.893 --> 1:30:07.973 beyond my days. The peter Pan was where Rutland Street. Okay, 1:30:08.133 --> 1:30:12.413 copy that, yep, and then it moves Rutland Street in 1:30:12.493 --> 1:30:12.933 the city. 1:30:13.093 --> 1:30:17.453 Yeah, yeah, and this will be in the sixtieshow it's 1:30:17.613 --> 1:30:19.093 very sad about Smith and Kewey. 1:30:19.533 --> 1:30:21.693 Yeah, and this is the fifties or the sixties for 1:30:21.773 --> 1:30:29.813 the peter Pan. Oh, late forties, Okay, I understand, yep. 1:30:30.413 --> 1:30:33.333 Yes, I got married in fifty two, so we were 1:30:33.413 --> 1:30:36.893 going to the peter Pan regularly before that. 1:30:39.813 --> 1:30:40.013 Yeah. 1:30:40.013 --> 1:30:41.813 I'm looking at the line up there and I think 1:30:41.893 --> 1:30:44.373 that certainly was Frank Gibson that was there at that one. 1:30:44.413 --> 1:30:46.373 But I'll do some more research on that, Zeta. But look, 1:30:46.413 --> 1:30:48.213 that's a tremendous call, and thank you very much for that. 1:30:48.693 --> 1:30:49.533 It's unbelievable. 1:30:49.973 --> 1:30:50.253 Julie. 1:30:50.333 --> 1:30:54.173 Hello, in a very good evening, and what an interesting 1:30:54.293 --> 1:30:54.853 program is. 1:30:55.773 --> 1:30:57.533 It's dangerously interesting tonight. 1:30:58.093 --> 1:31:04.453 Well, extremely the previous previous lady so that she was 1:31:04.653 --> 1:31:09.133 extremely interesting. But I was raised in Martin and we 1:31:09.333 --> 1:31:14.893 had Martin, the farmers co op and Martin and they 1:31:15.053 --> 1:31:18.693 had the wire system and I used to be fascinated 1:31:18.773 --> 1:31:23.533 how they could put the little They were wooden, the 1:31:23.613 --> 1:31:27.573 little containers were wooden. And they would put the money 1:31:27.653 --> 1:31:31.893 in the containers and put the docket underneath and zips. 1:31:33.293 --> 1:31:37.613 She pulled her like a handle and it was spring 1:31:37.733 --> 1:31:41.333 loaded and shot up to the office. But I don't 1:31:41.373 --> 1:31:43.053 know if they had to do it on the way back. 1:31:43.133 --> 1:31:47.893 It just came down naturally, I think. But Martin Farmer's 1:31:47.973 --> 1:31:52.733 co Op they had everything from men's clothes right out 1:31:52.813 --> 1:31:55.333 to the back where you could buy fencing wire and 1:31:56.053 --> 1:31:59.653 wheat for the chicks. And it was a really, really big, 1:31:59.933 --> 1:32:03.693 fascinating strat I used to love going there and get 1:32:03.813 --> 1:32:06.773 my gum boots. When I got my first pere gum 1:32:06.853 --> 1:32:12.013 boots there, Dad took me in there and with all 1:32:12.093 --> 1:32:15.613 these just all you could name it. It was there, 1:32:16.053 --> 1:32:19.453 from hammers to saws to then out the front was 1:32:19.533 --> 1:32:23.653 all the ladies where and and the men's where was 1:32:23.733 --> 1:32:26.613 on the right hand side, I remember, and the ladies 1:32:26.693 --> 1:32:29.613 where it was on the left hand side. And many 1:32:29.693 --> 1:32:33.053 years later my friend Katie Island she worked in the 1:32:33.533 --> 1:32:37.053 women's there. But it was a fascinating store and a 1:32:37.213 --> 1:32:40.013 big store for a little place like Martin. 1:32:40.173 --> 1:32:40.253 Well. 1:32:40.293 --> 1:32:43.773 I guess Martin was a berg supply town for a 1:32:43.813 --> 1:32:46.453 big cultural area. I guess a. 1:32:46.493 --> 1:32:51.693 Roundabout, Oh absolutely, And the Salvation Army always stood out 1:32:51.733 --> 1:32:56.173 there on a Friday night, and the man would stand 1:32:56.213 --> 1:32:58.693 out there and preach whether it was raining or snowing 1:32:58.853 --> 1:33:03.493 or whatever. And they played their organs, sing their songs. 1:33:03.733 --> 1:33:07.733 And at Christmas time they used to bring a big tree, 1:33:07.853 --> 1:33:12.773 a big fir tree, pine tree, and stick it up 1:33:12.813 --> 1:33:14.453 in the middle of the road that was strapped to 1:33:14.533 --> 1:33:18.853 the post office and to the hotel on the corner 1:33:19.093 --> 1:33:24.493 and story, and we in New Year's New Year's Eve, 1:33:25.093 --> 1:33:28.973 everybody gathered around the tree to see the new year 1:33:29.093 --> 1:33:33.693 and fabulous town. You're still there, yes, yes, you can 1:33:33.733 --> 1:33:34.013 hear me. 1:33:34.613 --> 1:33:35.453 He's still in Martin. 1:33:36.173 --> 1:33:40.013 You're still am I still in Martin? No, I live now. 1:33:40.133 --> 1:33:44.293 I live across the river in the in the Range 1:33:45.253 --> 1:33:46.293 River Valley. 1:33:46.693 --> 1:33:48.293 Okay, so you're not far from there. 1:33:48.933 --> 1:33:52.053 Yeah, no, I can see the station lights at night. 1:33:52.453 --> 1:33:54.533 I don't really know much about Martin. It's kind of 1:33:54.613 --> 1:33:56.933 not a town. It's not a town you actually end 1:33:57.013 --> 1:33:59.613 up and by excident, is it you did? 1:33:59.613 --> 1:34:04.973 It have to be an accident, but you know, if. 1:34:04.853 --> 1:34:07.293 You're going Auckland to Wellington, you do drive that. It 1:34:07.413 --> 1:34:09.373 appears to me. I mean it's on the railway line 1:34:09.453 --> 1:34:11.973 is it, but not on the railway. 1:34:12.533 --> 1:34:18.133 The railway always went through it. You could catch the 1:34:18.253 --> 1:34:22.253 train to go to Wellington or to Auckland, however, and 1:34:22.813 --> 1:34:26.453 I can remember in those days trains were fascinating with 1:34:26.573 --> 1:34:30.213 all the different kinds of carriages. Now they're boring as heck, 1:34:30.293 --> 1:34:32.253 they're just all containers, yes. 1:34:32.173 --> 1:34:34.453 Oh they are. That's I don't know if you could 1:34:34.493 --> 1:34:37.973 you would the train. Would the train stop at Martin anymore? Yes, 1:34:39.293 --> 1:34:41.533 the person I don't. 1:34:41.373 --> 1:34:44.533 Think the passenger train does. But it was a huge, 1:34:44.693 --> 1:34:49.413 huge junction yard for all those years ago. There was 1:34:49.533 --> 1:34:56.053 cattle yards and sheep yards. And I've never heard of 1:34:56.133 --> 1:34:59.253 the train actually stopping there at all, but it just 1:34:59.413 --> 1:35:03.013 goes through. But if there is still some quite heavy 1:35:03.093 --> 1:35:06.293 industry in Martin, but nowhere near. 1:35:06.173 --> 1:35:08.733 Life it used to be what would do you know 1:35:08.813 --> 1:35:11.533 what the popular? Is the population static increasing? Or would 1:35:11.533 --> 1:35:13.533 it be five thousand or two thousand? 1:35:14.173 --> 1:35:17.453 Oh, she would be I just bought a house there, 1:35:17.533 --> 1:35:21.213 but it's probably about three and a half thousand, I think, yeah, 1:35:21.813 --> 1:35:25.933 but fascinating little place in a very friendly little town. 1:35:26.173 --> 1:35:28.693 Can Set's friend Too far from the sea for me, Judy, 1:35:28.693 --> 1:35:32.253 I reckond but lovely to talk to. Thank you. Also 1:35:32.293 --> 1:35:37.453 talking about Norm from Cheers, Marcus Good Evening, Parmeston North 1:35:37.533 --> 1:35:39.533 Hospital used a system like you were talking about, a 1:35:39.613 --> 1:35:43.973 solinitude system where it put paperwork into descend towards approximately 1:35:44.053 --> 1:35:48.693 twenty fifteen. Oh Dan, do you know what Norm did 1:35:48.733 --> 1:35:52.733 for a living? Someone said Norm previously saved the United 1:35:52.773 --> 1:35:54.853 States Coast Guard, though and earlyerpretad his state he had 1:35:54.893 --> 1:35:56.493 been in the Army. He loses his job in an 1:35:56.533 --> 1:36:02.333 accounting firm by defending Diane from his boss. After strugging 1:36:02.373 --> 1:36:04.813 for a few years an independent accountant, eventually becomes a 1:36:04.853 --> 1:36:09.893 house painter. His wife was Vera, but of course they 1:36:09.933 --> 1:36:13.253 pretty much lived apart because she was never there or 1:36:13.333 --> 1:36:17.333 she had never appeared on episode you heard his voice, 1:36:17.493 --> 1:36:22.013 you heard her voice, Vera's voice once voiced by Norm's 1:36:22.133 --> 1:36:26.173 real wife, but did also film the movie Never Say 1:36:26.293 --> 1:36:31.493 Die in New Zealand. That's also true. But that's a 1:36:31.533 --> 1:36:36.893 situation with Norm from Cheers. I don't know if he 1:36:36.933 --> 1:36:39.413 had as sooner. I'll look at his Wikipedia page now, people, 1:36:41.773 --> 1:36:48.173 Norm Peterson, yes, a fictional character. 1:36:50.373 --> 1:36:50.693 I don't know. 1:36:50.733 --> 1:36:52.253 I for his typecast. I don't know if he did 1:36:52.333 --> 1:36:58.693 much work after that. Quite good Norm's entrance into the 1:36:58.733 --> 1:37:02.373 bar as a running gag on Cheers, typically beginning with 1:37:02.413 --> 1:37:05.173 a greeting by Norm, usually afternoon or evening. Everybody. This 1:37:05.293 --> 1:37:08.293 is followed by the car the bar crowd getting his name, 1:37:08.613 --> 1:37:12.013 except Diane, who would allowed them follow them with a 1:37:12.093 --> 1:37:16.573 more refined Norman. Afterwards, someone usually Sam, Coach or Woody, 1:37:17.453 --> 1:37:19.693 will ask how Norman is doing and what he'd like 1:37:19.733 --> 1:37:22.133 to order. Norman's respond with what he remarked frequently about 1:37:22.133 --> 1:37:26.773 his life In Orders to Bear. Normans also greeted it 1:37:27.013 --> 1:37:29.613 on the customary Norms shout at other locations, looking a 1:37:29.693 --> 1:37:35.893 bowling Alley, the Hungry Heifer, Gary's, Old Town teven. When 1:37:35.973 --> 1:37:38.813 Sam asks why people at Gary's know him by the name, 1:37:39.253 --> 1:37:41.893 Norm replies that he goes there on Christmas when cheese 1:37:41.973 --> 1:37:49.253 is closed. A running gag in the series is following 1:37:49.333 --> 1:37:51.893 commercial for the bartender to ask Norm if he wants 1:37:51.893 --> 1:37:55.413 the other bear. Normal replies one quick one, after which 1:37:55.533 --> 1:37:59.173 he inevitably stays a bit longer. Oh, it's it's a 1:37:59.213 --> 1:38:05.613 good Wikipedia page. That one. There we go. Norm's wife 1:38:06.053 --> 1:38:09.133 is offer mentioned, but her face is never seen. When 1:38:09.213 --> 1:38:11.453 she has finally showed her faces covered in a pie 1:38:11.613 --> 1:38:14.813 thrown by Diane, and the actress is uncredited. The only 1:38:14.893 --> 1:38:17.173 time she has seen viewers can see only her legs, 1:38:17.573 --> 1:38:19.373 and one time her waving from a car when she 1:38:19.453 --> 1:38:25.093 drives past chairs on her fifteenth winning anniversary. Vera is 1:38:25.133 --> 1:38:26.773 the butt of many of Norman's jokes, but on many 1:38:26.813 --> 1:38:29.613 occasions Normous professed secretly an undying love for his wife 1:38:29.893 --> 1:38:34.453 or defended her honor. He also refused to cheat on 1:38:34.653 --> 1:38:36.773 her in the episode Normal's Book Ordered, when a female 1:38:36.813 --> 1:38:39.813 IRIS agent was prepared to overlook his text evasion. If 1:38:39.853 --> 1:38:44.893 he did, there we go. I don't know what he 1:38:44.973 --> 1:38:49.213 did after that, by the way, was on sound elsewhere, 1:38:51.133 --> 1:38:55.493 but didn't do much, I don't think, but did appear 1:38:55.573 --> 1:39:00.493 in the movie Never Say Die. Thing was called, by 1:39:00.533 --> 1:39:03.653 the way the cultural reference. In the Simpsons episode Flaming Mo's, 1:39:03.773 --> 1:39:06.173 Barney Gamble walks into the news success from Popular Mos 1:39:06.813 --> 1:39:09.093 to be greeted with a friendly cry of Barney, which 1:39:09.213 --> 1:39:14.293 chatirizes Norm's entrance. When a bartender similar to Woody asks 1:39:14.373 --> 1:39:17.813 him how he is doing, he boops in response, we 1:39:17.933 --> 1:39:22.293 are talking about Smith and Coey's and also Norm from chairs. 1:39:24.493 --> 1:39:26.893 Smith and Curry's is no longer a thing. Well, I mean, 1:39:26.893 --> 1:39:30.053 they've said today that they that's it, they're closing that down. 1:39:30.173 --> 1:39:31.733 So that's one of the things we are talking about. 1:39:33.013 --> 1:39:35.453 But mainly we're talking about the communication system in the 1:39:35.573 --> 1:39:42.173 department stores with the pneumatic pipes and the aerial railways, 1:39:42.173 --> 1:39:47.693 which is kind of kind of remarkable and I'm not 1:39:47.773 --> 1:39:49.773 quite sure what happened that everyone got rid of them. 1:39:53.213 --> 1:39:56.213 There are ways to actually oversee staff and pilfering. But anyway, 1:39:58.453 --> 1:39:59.933 when the last one is still be running in New 1:39:59.973 --> 1:40:02.893 Zealand was someone probably will know. That's what we are 1:40:02.973 --> 1:40:07.093 talking about tonight. Keep those texts and coming through your 1:40:07.093 --> 1:40:10.013 contributions if there's been some sensational calls tonight, So thanks 1:40:10.053 --> 1:40:16.653 for everyone. There's been discussion about Frank Gibson Junior who 1:40:16.693 --> 1:40:19.613 has died today, and I will read what someone has 1:40:19.653 --> 1:40:23.173 sent through to me from Audio Culture, which is the 1:40:23.293 --> 1:40:28.453 very good music Facebook page and website. It'll just take 1:40:28.493 --> 1:40:31.293 me a short time. No name in New Zealand is 1:40:31.373 --> 1:40:35.293 more synonymous with drumming than Frank Gibson. Frank Senior was 1:40:35.373 --> 1:40:37.693 one of our great band leaders and drumm edicatas, and 1:40:37.733 --> 1:40:40.693 from his earliest years Frank Junior followed in his footsteps. 1:40:41.453 --> 1:40:44.533 Today we lost Frank Gibson Junior, which leaves a huge 1:40:44.573 --> 1:40:47.813 hole in our music community. One of the great images 1:40:47.813 --> 1:40:51.133 of our musical culture is nine year old Frank on 1:40:51.293 --> 1:40:54.853 stage at Auckland Town Hall in nineteen fifty four pounding 1:40:54.853 --> 1:40:57.693 out a rhythm with his dad. It's posted here. He 1:40:57.853 --> 1:41:01.053 was so proud of that. Frank was larger than live. 1:41:01.173 --> 1:41:05.253 Generations of drummers were taught and inspired by both father 1:41:05.453 --> 1:41:10.293 and son. It's hard to overstate the loss to us 1:41:10.733 --> 1:41:14.893 all as Frank Junior was and is both loved and respected. 1:41:14.933 --> 1:41:17.933 Our thoughts are with his family and so many friends. 1:41:18.693 --> 1:41:22.813 Rest well, Frank, you were one of a kind. He's 1:41:22.813 --> 1:41:25.093 a good text. Marcus. I know you have some flexibility 1:41:25.173 --> 1:41:26.773 with topics on a Friday, but I won't be able 1:41:26.773 --> 1:41:28.813 to listen Friday night this week. Do you think MH 1:41:28.933 --> 1:41:31.253 three seventy, John Bono Ramsey, he was only at Keller 1:41:31.453 --> 1:41:36.013 and medline Ken will ever be sold? Love the show mate, Marcus. 1:41:36.053 --> 1:41:38.413 Remember the Wellington years ago and onedon years ago. Cocolian 1:41:38.453 --> 1:41:41.013 stains ds and James Smith had lamps and tube systems. 1:41:42.293 --> 1:41:46.533 Also ce one Cafe christ Church now olivers hamburgers By 1:41:46.613 --> 1:41:48.693 lamps and tube system. That's what we have talked about 1:41:48.733 --> 1:41:53.653 that it's very good too. Kids love it. Marcus. I 1:41:53.733 --> 1:41:56.613 remember a book transport system when the National Library of 1:41:56.653 --> 1:42:00.333 New Zealand opening ninetety seven. Suitcases were on tracks, on 1:42:00.493 --> 1:42:02.413 ceilings and up walls around the building. But I can't 1:42:02.413 --> 1:42:04.333 remember anything about it. Can't for anything about it. Hey, 1:42:04.373 --> 1:42:06.333 list is timoth they remember it? Or am I going? Man? 1:42:06.973 --> 1:42:11.133 This is the National Library of New Zealand. I worked 1:42:11.133 --> 1:42:13.853 at Valentine's in the mid sixties and the sanctioned department 1:42:13.933 --> 1:42:17.453 of the office, the countisate was received by the kasher 1:42:17.493 --> 1:42:19.333 and forwarded to me to approve that the buy had 1:42:19.333 --> 1:42:22.093 an accountant on a file system. The docket was stamped 1:42:22.133 --> 1:42:25.693 to prove returned via the cashier again to the department 1:42:25.893 --> 1:42:31.213 received from initially wouldn't trust Nikola wills not to means 1:42:31.293 --> 1:42:35.333 test the pensioners. The contrition the contribution of finances from 1:42:35.333 --> 1:42:38.253 the boomers will be able to help us all plus 1:42:38.373 --> 1:42:40.573 can pay for the rising costs. Everyone should have to pay. 1:42:42.373 --> 1:42:45.973 Countdown New Brighton still post COVID had a vacuum tube 1:42:46.013 --> 1:42:48.773 that sent the till float end of the day report 1:42:48.853 --> 1:42:50.453 up to the office. Not sure if it's still there 1:42:50.853 --> 1:42:55.933 since the refurbishment. That's from Zane Marcus, HJJ Smith and 1:42:56.053 --> 1:42:58.613 Verkargill had the system in every department Magic to watch 1:42:59.013 --> 1:43:04.453 what year would have it ended? Maggie, Maggie Marcus, thank 1:43:04.493 --> 1:43:06.213 you for your show every night. My mother had an accountant, 1:43:06.373 --> 1:43:08.653 George and George and Winnington and shop there regularly for 1:43:08.773 --> 1:43:11.733 numerous things. We kids loved watching the cannisters shoot along 1:43:11.773 --> 1:43:16.933 the wire. It's all very good now called the suction system. 1:43:18.253 --> 1:43:21.213 Marcus went to farmers in Bayfair Mountain Monganui today, the 1:43:21.333 --> 1:43:24.253 closest to the old department stores. Feber Service walked out 1:43:24.293 --> 1:43:27.893 with lipstick and lipliner one forty dollars. Shouted to the 1:43:27.933 --> 1:43:30.053 woman that Serby wasn't intending to spend that much, but 1:43:30.173 --> 1:43:34.733 his service inspired me. Susie Marcus, Google aircom dot com. 1:43:34.813 --> 1:43:37.413 Are you they still specialize in EU medic tube delivery. 1:43:37.933 --> 1:43:39.933 I worked for PC common Beck in the seventies. We 1:43:40.013 --> 1:43:42.493 had the canisters and chew powered by air. We sent 1:43:42.653 --> 1:43:44.533 job cards for the money of the office and the 1:43:44.613 --> 1:43:46.453 days returned the change with the seats wong and we 1:43:46.493 --> 1:43:51.093 had London Town d C Mcgruers and Mackenzie's Harry. 1:43:51.173 --> 1:43:55.093 Hello, Hello there, Marcus. How are you doing good? 1:43:55.133 --> 1:43:57.373 Thanks Harry, Oh it's good. 1:43:57.533 --> 1:44:00.413 This in college and in Cunningham's Farmers the North was 1:44:00.493 --> 1:44:05.533 mentioned before. Yes, sisters always joined the radio show. I 1:44:05.733 --> 1:44:09.453 went to work for Farmers who took over the Collinson 1:44:09.493 --> 1:44:13.973 in Cunningham's building and we renovate. They renovated the building 1:44:14.573 --> 1:44:19.573 and inside all the under all the tiles, the roof tiles, 1:44:19.653 --> 1:44:22.613 ceiling tiles and so on. There was a full vacuum 1:44:22.733 --> 1:44:27.413 tube system up to the office that they had in 1:44:27.533 --> 1:44:33.013 the sixties. There was also there was also traces of 1:44:33.453 --> 1:44:36.533 much earlier which looked like it might have been a 1:44:36.613 --> 1:44:39.573 cable system that went through the building as well to 1:44:39.693 --> 1:44:44.093 the cash office. But definitely it had a vacuum system. 1:44:45.293 --> 1:44:48.973 They just shut it off with the fall ceiling. Today. 1:44:49.973 --> 1:44:52.253 Yeah, they shut it all off with the It was 1:44:52.293 --> 1:44:55.973 all covered over with the ceiling. And then Farmers in 1:44:56.173 --> 1:45:01.573 nineteen eighty seven eighty eight renovated the building and they 1:45:01.653 --> 1:45:07.213 tore opened and of course they couldn't do anything. Immediately, 1:45:07.293 --> 1:45:09.853 the guy stuck his head up under the tois. He 1:45:09.973 --> 1:45:12.693 came back down. He said, we won't be working this today. 1:45:13.373 --> 1:45:17.773 It was all asbestos. It was sprayed on there and 1:45:17.933 --> 1:45:20.613 so they had to shut there. We had to work 1:45:20.693 --> 1:45:23.413 in the conditions where they were dealing with the isbest 1:45:23.533 --> 1:45:26.253 or in one half of the store. Well we worked 1:45:26.333 --> 1:45:29.053 and sold stuff on the other half. I was fairly 1:45:29.133 --> 1:45:33.973 new to the company at the time. But the history 1:45:34.093 --> 1:45:37.133 that send that was in the Collinson and Cunningham building 1:45:37.733 --> 1:45:41.573 was unbelievable history. And it had tracks all the way 1:45:41.653 --> 1:45:46.053 back to the early nineteen hundreds. And the fantastic Christmas 1:45:47.293 --> 1:45:51.173 cave that they had down underneath the building was Oh, 1:45:51.293 --> 1:45:55.493 it was just absolute magic. I watched people for eighteen 1:45:55.653 --> 1:46:00.093 years and go down there, old people come out in 1:46:00.253 --> 1:46:06.093 tears after taking their grandchildren and great grandchildren down. Absolutely amazing. 1:46:06.533 --> 1:46:09.733 That can all be found at the Tea to Manawan 1:46:09.933 --> 1:46:12.813 Museum now, but it's all walked away. They bring it 1:46:12.893 --> 1:46:15.253 out in October or November for Christmas. 1:46:15.853 --> 1:46:16.853 But it was a. 1:46:17.013 --> 1:46:20.853 Fabulous They've got the grotto, have they. 1:46:21.813 --> 1:46:24.493 Yeah, they've got part of They've got large parts of 1:46:24.573 --> 1:46:28.173 the grotto that they that they're rescued quite a bit 1:46:28.253 --> 1:46:32.853 of and they they set things up for Christmas at 1:46:33.053 --> 1:46:36.493 to Manua, And from what I understand, I haven't seen it. 1:46:36.973 --> 1:46:40.293 I've only seen I got to look in the door 1:46:40.373 --> 1:46:42.573 where they had an old stored about four years ago. 1:46:43.053 --> 1:46:46.093 But I haven't actually seen it because I live up 1:46:46.133 --> 1:46:48.773 in New Plymouth now. But I'm definitely going down there 1:46:48.853 --> 1:46:51.853 this Christmas, and I'm definitely going to go and set 1:46:52.373 --> 1:46:53.493 on the wee roundabout? 1:46:53.613 --> 1:46:56.893 Think definitely what's the roundabout? 1:46:57.973 --> 1:46:59.093 The little there's a. 1:46:59.133 --> 1:47:01.893 Little round about, a pedal round about that they have 1:47:02.773 --> 1:47:05.653 and oh it's a it's a very very old one, 1:47:05.893 --> 1:47:06.693 very mcare. 1:47:06.933 --> 1:47:09.133 Is that from the is that from the department store? 1:47:10.213 --> 1:47:14.773 That's from the department store cave Christmas cave they had. 1:47:15.373 --> 1:47:18.053 They had a train set down there. They had area 1:47:18.373 --> 1:47:19.653 planes flying across. 1:47:19.853 --> 1:47:22.533 That's a good thing. They've kept that. That's great they've kep. Yeah, 1:47:22.853 --> 1:47:25.933 tell me what happened? Did the tube system go to 1:47:25.973 --> 1:47:26.373 the dump? 1:47:28.013 --> 1:47:30.773 I think it did, Yeah, I think it did. I 1:47:30.853 --> 1:47:31.933 think it just stripped it out. 1:47:32.933 --> 1:47:36.013 It's pretty hard. It's useless for anyone, really, is it? 1:47:36.053 --> 1:47:36.933 Anis you're kind of a. 1:47:38.493 --> 1:47:40.773 Unless you know what, unless you know how to operate it? 1:47:40.893 --> 1:47:43.173 Yet, well, I kind of me, any, I kind of 1:47:43.653 --> 1:47:47.413 meagine any post any uses fraud Apart the restaurant that 1:47:47.533 --> 1:47:53.813 serves burgers and kids bills and it works quite well. Actually, yeah, christ. 1:47:55.253 --> 1:47:57.613 Yeah, I'll tell you now that one of the other 1:47:57.773 --> 1:48:01.253 things that I know is all the electronic stuff we 1:48:01.373 --> 1:48:04.373 do know f pos and credit card and everything. It's 1:48:04.453 --> 1:48:08.253 the electronic version of it. Exactly no cash handling at all. 1:48:10.013 --> 1:48:13.293 It's just exactly the same thing, except for its electronic 1:48:13.413 --> 1:48:17.653 from your account to their account. It's just the same 1:48:17.773 --> 1:48:18.973 thing done electronically. 1:48:19.213 --> 1:48:21.533 It's the only place where those tubes seem to have 1:48:23.253 --> 1:48:27.133 contemporary use, I think is in hospitals when you've got 1:48:27.213 --> 1:48:31.773 to see prescriptions and blood tests and samples to the 1:48:31.893 --> 1:48:34.133 labs and stuff. And I think it works quite well there. 1:48:35.333 --> 1:48:37.973 That would work quite well. Yeah, but they stood there. 1:48:38.093 --> 1:48:40.373 I think you'll find that they've got order these running 1:48:40.413 --> 1:48:43.893 backwards and forwards much leason of fit. But some of those, 1:48:44.053 --> 1:48:44.773 many of them. 1:48:46.133 --> 1:48:48.893 Harry, some of those hospitals do have the cash that 1:48:49.173 --> 1:48:51.373 tube system. So but look, nice to talk to you. 1:48:51.493 --> 1:48:53.453 Thank you, good evening, Dion. It to Marcus. 1:48:53.533 --> 1:48:57.133 Welcome, Oh, thank you Marcus. And look, I've got to 1:48:57.173 --> 1:48:58.973 apologize I have not been able to listen for the 1:48:59.053 --> 1:49:02.053 last three hour because I've had phone calls to listen 1:49:02.133 --> 1:49:07.733 to basically even busy. Yeah, you've got to care for 1:49:07.813 --> 1:49:09.013 people sometimes. 1:49:09.173 --> 1:49:09.933 But I did. 1:49:11.733 --> 1:49:16.053 Towards the end of my time with you. Here Mash 1:49:16.173 --> 1:49:19.773 being mentioned as as a TV show from the US, 1:49:19.853 --> 1:49:24.093 and I rate that is number one. Ever, is a 1:49:24.173 --> 1:49:29.493 comedy I wanted to mention as a comedy, Yes, also 1:49:29.653 --> 1:49:32.293 I mean across the board, but I think the comedy 1:49:32.333 --> 1:49:37.853 the comedic writing I think was was wonderful, but also 1:49:37.973 --> 1:49:43.133 touched other areas of of of writing that were pretty clever. 1:49:45.133 --> 1:49:48.613 But I thought of four others that kind of go 1:49:48.733 --> 1:49:55.453 across the board. One of them is Mork and Mindy yep, 1:49:57.693 --> 1:50:02.413 Happy Days yep, until the jumping of the Shark. Of course, 1:50:03.213 --> 1:50:05.133 The Simpsons. I'm not sure if that's been mentioned or not. 1:50:05.493 --> 1:50:07.573 Like I said, I haven't heard, but Simpsons I think 1:50:08.093 --> 1:50:10.773 changed the way that a lot of things have been 1:50:11.213 --> 1:50:16.893 looked at and also have seen what's going to come 1:50:16.933 --> 1:50:20.493 in the future. And one of my favorite most recent ones, 1:50:21.253 --> 1:50:24.293 which is kind of getting a bit aged, is Brooklyn 1:50:24.453 --> 1:50:24.973 nine nine. 1:50:26.973 --> 1:50:28.973 Yeah, that's not one of them. That's not one I 1:50:29.133 --> 1:50:32.213 have seen. I would dispute Morganman there. I've always found 1:50:32.293 --> 1:50:35.453 Robin Williams in that role quite annoying, but that's just 1:50:35.533 --> 1:50:39.733 my opinion. Okay, but what's Brooklyn nine nine very funny? 1:50:39.813 --> 1:50:44.813 Yes, it's it's very funny, but it's also very clever. 1:50:45.253 --> 1:50:47.693 It's not just funny. The thing I like about humor 1:50:47.773 --> 1:50:53.413 is if it's if it's clever, it adds to it. 1:50:53.613 --> 1:50:58.133 So the Simpsons are clever. Brooklyn nine line is very clever. 1:51:00.253 --> 1:51:02.853 Until what the synopsis of Brooklyn nine nine. 1:51:05.533 --> 1:51:13.173 It is about a New York PD Police Department team 1:51:13.573 --> 1:51:17.853 of mainly detectives, but other people as well, peripheral people, 1:51:18.413 --> 1:51:21.213 not many of them. It's also, like you spoke about 1:51:21.293 --> 1:51:24.733 chairs being centered in one place, it's kind of centered 1:51:24.773 --> 1:51:25.373 in one place. 1:51:27.173 --> 1:51:27.893 It has. 1:51:29.253 --> 1:51:30.253 A kind of. 1:51:30.293 --> 1:51:32.653 Diverse cast, and. 1:51:34.133 --> 1:51:40.013 It just looks at the way that people treat people. 1:51:40.133 --> 1:51:44.973 I guess sometimes a bit differently. But the comedic values 1:51:45.173 --> 1:51:50.693 are in the in the text and also the storylines 1:51:50.973 --> 1:51:54.013 which continue through and it runs through I think eight 1:51:54.133 --> 1:51:57.933 or nine series. I think eight series, and it's just 1:51:58.013 --> 1:51:58.613 it's very clever. 1:51:59.173 --> 1:52:01.053 Was it was it screened Free to Wear in New 1:52:01.093 --> 1:52:03.733 Zealand or was it screened No. 1:52:03.853 --> 1:52:08.533 It's on it's on TV one. In said, well, what 1:52:08.613 --> 1:52:11.253 if it's called one plus? I think pretty. 1:52:13.453 --> 1:52:15.533 It's not what I've had a lot of people talk about, 1:52:15.653 --> 1:52:17.573 but doesn't mean I'm not going to give it a go. 1:52:20.733 --> 1:52:25.773 I would recommend giving it a crack for maybe a 1:52:25.893 --> 1:52:28.653 couple of shows, and if you don't like it, walk away. 1:52:29.093 --> 1:52:30.213 Is it binge watching. 1:52:32.013 --> 1:52:32.293 It is? 1:52:33.173 --> 1:52:35.693 I can sit there And I actually watched the entire 1:52:36.413 --> 1:52:41.813 series over a period of I think three days A 1:52:41.933 --> 1:52:44.453 few months ago. I did the same thing with Matsh 1:52:44.533 --> 1:52:44.853 as well. 1:52:45.333 --> 1:52:49.133 So Mesh, had you seen Mesh before I saw. 1:52:49.053 --> 1:52:52.093 Mash when I was I don't know what I would 1:52:52.093 --> 1:52:54.213 have been at about eight or nine or ten or something. 1:52:54.813 --> 1:52:59.613 And then I watched it again periodically I think in 1:52:59.653 --> 1:53:03.333 the UK when i'd been in my twenties, and then 1:53:03.373 --> 1:53:06.893 I binge watched the whole thing in one go with 1:53:07.053 --> 1:53:10.133 somebody and we watched the whole thing in about five 1:53:10.253 --> 1:53:11.053 days or something like that. 1:53:11.333 --> 1:53:14.893 Well, it still steps up, absolutely. 1:53:15.013 --> 1:53:21.693 It is the best show ever written ever. It's top, top, 1:53:21.853 --> 1:53:25.253 top notch. And as you said when I heard you 1:53:25.333 --> 1:53:28.533 saying about there, there's no last in that final show. 1:53:28.573 --> 1:53:32.613 There are a couple of lasts, but the truth of 1:53:33.253 --> 1:53:38.333 what they're actually pointing out it's pretty amazing, really. 1:53:38.133 --> 1:53:39.613 Nice to hear from you, Dean. Thank you so much 1:53:39.653 --> 1:53:46.453 for that one whole night. Haven't mentioned Butter. No calls 1:53:46.493 --> 1:53:53.133 about Butter, but gosh, what great publicity for Costco. How 1:53:53.213 --> 1:53:56.813 good's that? I think the crossover from Happy Days to 1:53:56.893 --> 1:54:00.093 Walk and Minnie's a side of the brilliant he bought. Yeah, 1:54:00.693 --> 1:54:02.653 it didn't last long though Mork and Mindy did it. 1:54:04.933 --> 1:54:07.453 I thought they sort too much. It was too much 1:54:07.533 --> 1:54:14.733 showcasing him. I'll tell you what's an underrated American sitcom? Alf, 1:54:16.733 --> 1:54:20.853 If you want that kind of extraterrestrial thing, that was 1:54:20.893 --> 1:54:24.773 a much funny. He was good. Alf. He only went 1:54:24.813 --> 1:54:30.053 for four seasons. That should tell you something. That's my 1:54:30.213 --> 1:54:38.773 take on it. Steady decline, people stopped watching it never 1:54:38.893 --> 1:54:42.493 rated if that was never successful, and they always try 1:54:42.533 --> 1:54:44.253 to change it to make it better. I'm talking about 1:54:44.533 --> 1:54:49.253 Mark and Mindy. In the second season, the show's main 1:54:49.333 --> 1:54:51.773 focus was no longer on Mark's slapstick attempts with justin 1:54:51.813 --> 1:54:54.013 Knew World he was in, but on the relationship between 1:54:54.053 --> 1:54:56.933 Mark and Mindy on a romantic level. Some of the 1:54:56.973 --> 1:54:58.933 focus was on work, trying to find a steady job. 1:54:59.013 --> 1:55:01.053 Because the erupt changes to the show in times not 1:55:01.453 --> 1:55:05.773 ratings slipped dramatically, dropping to twenty seventh the show has 1:55:05.813 --> 1:55:08.013 quickly moved back to with the previous time starting. Efforts 1:55:08.013 --> 1:55:10.173 were made to return it to the court of the series. However, 1:55:10.293 --> 1:55:13.493 rating did not recover. There you going to be listened 1:55:13.573 --> 1:55:17.733 from that because there was also a Lavoon and Shody, 1:55:17.773 --> 1:55:21.493 which was also a spinoff. I think of Happy Days, 1:55:22.853 --> 1:55:23.613 Good evening, Doug. 1:55:23.653 --> 1:55:29.973 This is Marcus Welcome, Okay, matey's work years ago when 1:55:29.973 --> 1:55:32.253 I was a young fellow and John edmund on Tay 1:55:32.293 --> 1:55:38.773 Street and we had the old vacuum vacuum system and. 1:55:40.413 --> 1:55:42.213 Yeah, it used to work at a real treat. Actually, 1:55:42.293 --> 1:55:45.333 it was quite novelty to start up doing that with 1:55:45.453 --> 1:55:46.933 your first cover shop assistant. 1:55:47.453 --> 1:55:50.253 What was what was so Tay Street? We're talking in 1:55:50.413 --> 1:55:51.173 the cargol are we. 1:55:52.213 --> 1:55:57.853 Yeah, John Edmondson on Tay Street just a long oppositeation 1:55:58.133 --> 1:56:00.613 days there. Yeah, it was a big hardware shop. Used 1:56:00.613 --> 1:56:06.613 to sell everything there and and we used to send 1:56:06.653 --> 1:56:08.413 them up to the used to put them in the 1:56:08.733 --> 1:56:12.333 in the put your money in the in the docket 1:56:12.413 --> 1:56:14.573 and the canister and close it up and then send 1:56:14.653 --> 1:56:16.893 it down the street. And then you would go up 1:56:16.933 --> 1:56:18.853 to the top, up to the ladies up the top 1:56:18.893 --> 1:56:22.253 and they'd sort out all the change and send it 1:56:22.333 --> 1:56:22.973 back down to you. 1:56:23.413 --> 1:56:28.453 What shop is that now, Doug, I'm not sure. 1:56:28.493 --> 1:56:30.493 There was the sports shop next door to there for 1:56:30.613 --> 1:56:37.853 a while. There's the ant Birds next door, and yeah, 1:56:37.893 --> 1:56:41.133 it was white opposite the arcade. I'm not sure what 1:56:41.253 --> 1:56:44.213 that arcade is now, going right through from Tay Street 1:56:44.253 --> 1:56:51.493 through to s Street. It was right opposite that, okay, yeah, yeah, 1:56:51.573 --> 1:56:54.493 so and one of them not one, well last young 1:56:54.573 --> 1:56:57.493 fellows have a bit of fun and used to be 1:56:57.493 --> 1:57:00.693 able to grab a little lever on the box and 1:57:01.853 --> 1:57:03.973 if one of the girls was a bit slow up there, 1:57:04.013 --> 1:57:06.733 you'd give this thing a bloody rattle. And they made 1:57:06.733 --> 1:57:08.613 a hell of a dorn up there in their office 1:57:09.453 --> 1:57:11.413 and let you just stir them up at it and 1:57:11.493 --> 1:57:14.533 then mix these girls be coming down and giving you 1:57:14.613 --> 1:57:18.613 a rack up and there's just a lot of tunb. Yeah, 1:57:20.533 --> 1:57:23.093 that's what's what. And it was great system. It was 1:57:23.093 --> 1:57:24.613 about eight machines. 1:57:25.733 --> 1:57:28.253 It was where it was where H and J Sports 1:57:28.493 --> 1:57:30.533 was for a while, wasn't It was a big shot there. 1:57:30.613 --> 1:57:33.053 I remember exactly where it was. Okay, had that high setting. 1:57:33.053 --> 1:57:35.333 It looked like there'd be something up there. Never realized 1:57:35.333 --> 1:57:35.893 that was there. 1:57:36.053 --> 1:57:40.853 Yeah, okay, yeah, you just listening to your show and 1:57:40.933 --> 1:57:43.853 I was like, when I'm here listening to your shows 1:57:44.533 --> 1:57:48.973 and yeah, I remember meeting New years ago. You interviewed 1:57:49.133 --> 1:57:51.053 Barry Crump from my hotel and Headlock. 1:57:51.733 --> 1:57:54.533 Oh yeah, that's right. What was it a hotel called. 1:57:55.773 --> 1:57:56.013 It was? 1:57:56.493 --> 1:57:59.133 Well, it was the Florer soon at that time. 1:58:00.053 --> 1:58:01.773 Over the over the water or something, was it? 1:58:02.773 --> 1:58:05.053 Yeah, just right in the middle of right in the 1:58:05.093 --> 1:58:05.853 middle of Headlock. 1:58:06.613 --> 1:58:09.213 Yeah, so were you south were so where you were 1:58:09.333 --> 1:58:11.773 south Ender there that had become a publican and Havelock. 1:58:11.493 --> 1:58:11.893 Is that right? 1:58:12.453 --> 1:58:18.573 That's that was the story. Yes, yep, yeah, around of that. 1:58:19.773 --> 1:58:22.853 I don't know why, because crub wasn't living in Heavlock, 1:58:22.933 --> 1:58:25.013 was he? I think we drive over from Nelson Will didn't. 1:58:27.853 --> 1:58:33.213 He lived in Rock for oh probably probably six years 1:58:33.253 --> 1:58:33.533 and more. 1:58:34.613 --> 1:58:36.853 And I subsequently met her that that wife he was 1:58:36.893 --> 1:58:39.413 with several times after that too, that she was he 1:58:39.573 --> 1:58:40.613 was with at that time too. 1:58:40.773 --> 1:58:43.293 So yeah, they shifted up. They shifted up to the 1:58:43.373 --> 1:58:45.373 Hawk's Bay somewhere from Headlock. 1:58:46.293 --> 1:58:46.533 Yeah. 1:58:46.893 --> 1:58:49.133 So why did you end up there in Havelock? 1:58:50.533 --> 1:58:53.733 Well, basically had a farm and Luis farm in Southland 1:58:53.773 --> 1:58:57.173 and they have a Fairfax there and and yeah, just 1:58:57.333 --> 1:59:02.053 sold that up and and be a publican and a 1:59:02.133 --> 1:59:05.453 little poor poor the beer in my life before that, 1:59:05.693 --> 1:59:06.613 So it was a lot of fun. 1:59:07.373 --> 1:59:08.733 Hell did you last? 1:59:10.893 --> 1:59:14.733 Probably we built up. We hit motels here as well, 1:59:14.853 --> 1:59:16.973 so yeah, about nine years in total. 1:59:17.053 --> 1:59:18.493 That's a good stunt. I don't have a pub for 1:59:18.533 --> 1:59:23.493 that long. Yeah, it's always every time upstayed there, it 1:59:23.533 --> 1:59:25.373 always seems to be quite a lovey little town. I 1:59:25.453 --> 1:59:25.933 quite like it. 1:59:27.173 --> 1:59:29.893 Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah, it's it's going a lot 1:59:30.213 --> 1:59:32.453 of the Marina's quite big there now. 1:59:32.613 --> 1:59:33.693 Yeah. Yeah. 1:59:33.973 --> 1:59:36.613 And getting back to your shows, you know, I've never 1:59:36.853 --> 1:59:43.893 routeen on American comedy. Always like the British comedy. I 1:59:43.893 --> 1:59:47.413 don't know why, but the one American show I really 1:59:47.573 --> 1:59:52.093 enjoyed was Texting. Yeah that was a real dry right. 1:59:52.253 --> 1:59:55.013 Yeah. It had a great script, didn't it. 1:59:56.733 --> 1:59:57.653 I really enjoyed that. 1:59:57.773 --> 2:00:01.733 It was so fantastic, fantastic characters here. You're quite right. 2:00:02.893 --> 2:00:05.853 For more from Marcus Slash Nights, listen live and news 2:00:05.893 --> 2:00:09.413 Talk Said from eight pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 2:00:09.533 --> 2:00:10.533 on iHeartRadio.