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

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Greetings, good evening, Welcome and spoil water Day. It's boil water day. And Naseby they've had a leak in the reservoir, so that you go from the central Otago town of Naseby, funny old town Nasby. I don't know if you've been there. Every time i've been there, I've come away feling slightly less together from when I arrive. What's that about? The streets are all crooked, they're weird, it's meandering. It's just a funny little town. Anyway, how are you're going people? Welcome here till midnight tonight. Man name as Marcus. I hope things are good where you are. Finally we've got some rain down south that is welcome. Enable me to plant some trees to day. Although the ground is not entirely wed, it's still quite dry under about the first centimeter. About three hundred plants and today, so that's progress. That's been a good day for me. Anyway. Other learnings today, I can't tell you what they are. Here till midnight tonight. If you want to be a part of the show. Eight hundred and eighty to eighty. I feel there might be breaking news tonight. I've got no idea what it is. All year, we've never used the breaking news stressing. It's never been warranted. There was a while about three years back. We're using it most nights, but if something happens, it is my strong purpose to inform you of anything that happens the next three hours fifty two minutes and back at you. If there's news where you are, if there's something that you know that is breaking news or something that's incredibly important, do text us and we'll get people onto it and we'll let you know what is happening. So by tuning into the show, you are across everything that will be happening for the next three hours fifty three minutes. Anyway, that's a situation tonight. The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two to text. Here's something that I'm going to ask you about tonight. Strangest place you've found the remote after losing it for long time, because I out I feel the nature of the remote has changed for a while. There it was something quite large that kind of stayed on a table, probably a wooden table the glass top of you stayed there and you push the buttons. But over the last few years the remote has become something that's quite tactile, and you'll slip in your pocket and then you'll go somewhere you'll place it, and when they go missing, goodness, gracious me, that's the whole entertainment seemed to gone. You can't turn on the TV, you can't do anything. I don't think there is anything that describes the modern condition quite like turning the house upside down to find the remote. So my first start off question to you is your story is about losing the remote. But more importantly, no, not more importantly, equally as importantly, has anyone ever lost the remote permanently? Because where everything always gets found, isn't it. I would imagine that there are some furniture upholsterers that have got hundreds of remotes. Down the back of every couch would be a remote, wouldn't they, and a teaspoon and lego. I hate to say what's down the back of the couch, But the weirdest place, the longest you've lost the remote, for in the weirdest place you've finally found the remote. Kind of fascinate about that, because yes, and now they're all kind of slicking. They're not slippery with that smooth plastic that's shaped for your palm. It'll just ziz down the back of the couch or something like that, or fall out of your pocket. Who go into the car and nexiting out down the back of the car like the phone. Sometimes in the car the remote can slip out and can go down that place in the chair where the stalk of the receiver for the seat belt comes out. You've lost anything down there? Oh?

I have?

Now it's the first place I look. So the strangest place you've found the remote after it's been lost. I think this is a good topic we'll soon see. So if you've got a story about that jump and quip you, then we might talk about things have been lost in general, and the weird place you've found things that if you lost. Now, I can't I can't just I can't just tell you straight off the bat where I've lost something that I found it. It's been quite interesting place. Because you've got to be genuine in this job. You can't make up things because you get foul like, oh goodness, graces to me, this one time I last the remote and I found it on one of the dwangs when I was renovating the house. Well that's not going to work for me. So yeah, the strangest place you've lost the remotes and we've subsequently found the remote. It's a start of for tonight. And how long was it there for? Gosh, I've been looking forward to drink of water all day. You wonder why I started the show. I've had twelve hours to prepare for the show and now I've decided to have a glass of water. What's that about? Oh eight? The longest you've lost the remote for and the strangest place where you've found the remote. I think as you get older, you become more inclined to place things. I'm a great one to place things on the rails, on fences, cups, spoons, phones, keys. Always said, well that's a good horizontal, fun place to put something and then have no recollection of it. Although I haven't put the remote out there. Get in touch. So the strangest place you have lost the remote the remote, and the longest you've lost it for and we've subsequently found it. I've got to be careful with this as a topic. Because I don't want to get topic creep, because it's a very fine line from where you've lost the Sky remote to someone ringing up about the Sky satellite, because that's catting up to talk back for these people. Yes, we know the satellite's coming down the way. I don't know what happens to people on freeview. They've got a dish. You might be in peril, you might not be. I want to stick though with the remotes. That's what I'm on about tonight. Oh eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two nine two detect come on. Particularly what sort of TV? If we got LG would that be right? It's not a very good TV. Mind, your TV's are pretty much the same. It's in adequate TV. But the remote is about probably an inch a cross and curved like a banana. Were not it's curved like a straighten banana. It's probably got a third of the curve of banana. But just for boy oh boy, that and gravityre it's friends. Before you know, zip down something zoop down? Some has someone flopped found the remote in the freezer. I'm doing the heavy lifting here. People come on the place. You've lost the remote and the bizarre place that you've found at bearing in mind that probably the place you've lost the place you've found it are probably the same thing, especially if you come home late at night your night work like myself, looking for the remote around you go. Does anyone know where they've put the remote? Text at nine to nine to call it through. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty breaking news when that breaks? I'm all about that, Wow, Marcus. In the bottom of the ironing basket was there for weeks? Such an easy place for it to be. Marcus found our small, sleek remote and our dog's stomach with the X ray because of stomach problems. Thank god for pet insurance. Remote did not work on retrieval, Rachel. Why would they sell a bone shaped remote? I'm not saying that's true, but jeepest creepers. Would a dog eat a remote because the batteries could kill you, couldn't they? Marcus? I lost my remote. Found it when I piled the washing out of the dryer turned it turned out it was in my pocket. We now have a smart TV and our remote is and our phone. Same with the car radio. Did it still work once it had gone through the full cycle? Would a remote work through the spin cycle, lost the remote for two days sitting on the tilet system first front time. Don't know what those last three words mean. Letterbox. Don't know how or why I'd imagine putting a letter my remote the letter box. Oh say, we don't have a letter box. Oh timots Marcus.

Welcome, gooding Marcus.

I think you've got a big story, Tim, I can just sense it.

Well, yeah, I'm going to take it, make it short, but I don't think the memory is anyway. Okay, So thirty years ago, when I was a young man, me and four mates got together on a Friday night, as you do, for a few drinks with the intention of going out, and one of them produced some mind altering little bits of cardboard. Okay, yep. Anyway, so we consumed that and had many many drinks, and there was the owner of the house was sort of he had added new stereo and you know, it got a bit loud at times, so I see he took control of the remote.

And that was that.

Anyway, We called a cab, went down to a big pub on the north shore, and probably after about three hours of being there, very confused but enjoying it, I turned around to asking if he wanted to drink, and he had the remote in his top pocket and so yeah, and he was a very very even kind of guy anyway, you know, he wouldn't necessarily do that kind of thing usually, And the Shock Horror Forum was staggering.

For me.

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

Whose house was it?

Who's the guy? The guy that ended up with the remote in his pocket? It was his house and his stereo.

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

Yeah, yeah, we're pretty buckled. To be fair, it sounds you know, it was fun and but yeah, then he was quite perplexed. And I think it may have ended up going into town from there and then back, you know, to his place in the morning, all the lads and then someone come up with the idea, well, let's go to way Hecki as you do, because why wouldn't you in that condition? We did manage to get the remote off and at that point and went to way Heki for the day, which involves a whole different set of stories.

To tell me. I want to visualize the remote.

Okay, So this would have been nineteen ninety four.

That's a giant remote. It's really it's reaching out the top of the pocket, isn't it. It's coming.

It's well out. It's half to two fads out like it's it's out there. You know.

It's a good story, Tim, thank you, it's a good remote story. I think it was at the Poe Armor as well, Jeep as Davy RCUs welcome.

Okay, Marcus. Hey list is so much a lost remote scenario, but more more of an abuse of the use of a remote. My brother and his next door neighbor happened to buy the exact same TV at the same time, and they lived opposite each other across the road, and and his mate didn't have curtains on his windows. You've got panoramic views. But as it turned out, my brother accidentally worked out that when he changed his channel, the signal actually bounced across the road to his mate's house and could change his channel and so spread on where he found out by accident, but realized very quickly when his mate said every time he was wanting to watch something, it flicked to a particular channel, and he realized that it was the same channels that my brother had been flicking through. And my brother worked out that it was him that was doing it, and he was then able to spend over the Christmas holidays watching his friend literally get his evening dinner on a tray, sit down in his comfy chair, sit down, pluck on the TV show that he wanted, and then my brother would flick the button and put on some Married at First Light or something like that, and a great consternation would go about as this chap we jumped up and trying to adjustice channel. So I just thought that was it.

Did it resolve itself.

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

Good story, being Davey, thanks for that being Marcus. Welcome.

Yeah, hey Marcus.

Yea.

So we brought a smart TV and it didn't come off a remote. You when you turn it on, you scan the QR code with your camera on your phone and it links your phone, links your Google account and everything. The trouble is I lost my phone and I couldn't access to TV because you know the new TV's they don't have buttons on them or anything. And because it was Google lock to my phone without my phone, I call an access.

So how was that resolved?

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

So how so what are you going to do differently about that? Are you going to I mean, that's crazy, I reckon, that's just makes no sense.

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

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

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

You get before.

Nice to hear from you, Ben Leader, Marcus, Welcome, Hello Hilda.

All right, I just wanted to call and tell you the little story about the last remote.

Yeah.

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

Plant and he poked it on the soil. Tell me how it was there.

No, it was like an artificial one that we never touched. We didn't even move it.

It was down the pot of it.

It was down the pot of it.

I can really understand that happening because it's such a You think, oh, that's good because because you were kids at the time, were.

You, Yeah, yeah, we were a kid. And he just kept saying that he didn't he didn't have a last thought.

And we found it.

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

How many years later would it have been.

Years?

I don't know because we never moved to this plant.

Years, I don't know.

I don't know. In the morning, three are again.

But what did you?

As he always used to know, was going to buy another one. He always used to call us to come and change channel.

Oh so you just did an.

Yeah that's an old story.

So you changed channels by getting up and pushing the buttons and you did that for all day. Yes, did it still work when you found it?

Yes, yes, of course.

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

I done that plenty of times. So we haven't got pop pop pop plants like that. But that's a good story. Hold your horses, Shirley back with you're suing to trun and get some texts through push those through the pipeline. The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus till twelve, looking forward to what you've got to say. My kid put a phone on the toaster. Found a few a few hours later in the toaster. Brilliant Marcus, Please help, who's right home? Command on myself? Does the remote live next to the TV where it can always be found or always next to the viewing chair on the far side of the room will ideally be close to the TV. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty that we've got a two for Shurley's It's exciting. Get in touch if you want to be a part of the show. As I say, oh, eight hundred eighty tight. Someone wants to know about what about those cars Steerra remote? Did he want ever use them? Can we ask the team? I don't know what a Carstierra remote is, but I'm interested for the discussion, Shirley Marcus. Good evening.

Good evening, Marcus. I'm still thoroughly enduring your show. Having been made a widow for a while. You really fill in my evenings. It's with great joy that I do that. My story is about a remote picture, four French stores, a deck, a conservatory, and a lemon tree. My husband and I were having a discussion regarding what he wanted to watch and what I wanted to watch. He watched what he was wanting to watch for a little while and I I went to change it, and he growled. So I picked up the remote and it went through one set of French doors. Wow, they were open the second French doors, through the conservatory out into the lemon tree. But that wasn't the end of the story. The male lemon has got huge thorns, and do you think he could get that remote out of the tree? And I'm standing on the deck laughing at him. In the finish it finished up being a big joke. So my joke is the lemon tree and the remote.

Wow.

But it went through all the French doors and the conservatory were open. No glass was smashed, all.

The doors were open. I took a perfect basketball shot and pumped straight into the lemon.

Three.

It must have been a substantial remote. Was it like a sky remote to fly that? Well?

Yeah, it was, and it was very successful. We had a very calm night after that.

We had shared.

How did he go into the male lemon? Did he just get a long stick or something? Because they aren't.

He got to lead the gloves out. He had to do the whole Yeah, and understanding up the laughing and laughing what all, Buddy Pinch, Do you.

Remember what show? The what show the controversy was about?

Yes, I was wanting to watch Coronation Street and he was wanting to watch crickets. So we're going to start doing half and happening.

It's a real good story. Surely, thank you. Four fridge do very well, told to four Fridgs do, that'll be the name of the podcast. Four French Door was a conservatory and lemon try Marcus. I don't know how many times my partners put the TV remote in his pocket and got out, thinking it's his phone, told me to take fly spray back to the shop. Wasn't spraying right, t I spelled? It was running around with oven spray, Marcus. Every time my wife broke up with a partner, she would take their remote or the handle of their deep fryer. Leaders to say. When I met her she had quite a significant box of remote. Yes, it's all stories about remotes, which is good. This is fertile ground. It seems like everyone's got a remote story, including me. Well, actually I think I have a remote story. We're a house with two remotes. Why is that ones for sky and ones for the TV, and the one for the TV is black and we've got black carpets. There's always a problem. It's impossible to see. Sometimes it's small. It's not that you can tie a ribbon to it to make it the sounds like a pension AROUNTI it's like they've got a hole you can plant, tie a ribbon to it. So I don't know how you can do that. Jeff fors Marcus welcome, Jeff.

You go, Marcus gone, good?

Thank you, am right.

I've got a great story for you, mechanomy. God will check Donald now. Legends are made, just a legions for story like this. But I was looking after his farm from him. He had a bag of hits, so shining my farm the natives fail on his farm. Anyway, this day I was particularly busy, so I said to him, look, I'm waiting to do it late. He said, I'm actually I'm getting better. I might be able to do it. So anyway, he goes out there. His boy said to him, make sure you take your cell phone. If you're full over, you won't be able to get up, and you can ring yet he can rush.

Down and pick you up.

Anyway, he gets home and she said, from your bloody idiot, you didn't take the remote control, I mean the cell phone with you, And he said, yes, so I did. She said I can't find the remote control either. Where'd you put there? He said, I've got the cell phone in my pocket and he pulls out the remote control from his pocket and he's taken that, thinking it was the bloody cell phone. Now, I don't know what he was going to do if you fell over. Maybe change the channel on the local TV. Jack Donald, he's dead now, but he's an absolute living legend in mid Canterbury.

Nice, very nice told you if there we go again? Good at this twenty three away from nine micas she is ago. I had a brain wave to check my remote it out that was playing up. The tab had the same Samsung TV, so I took it and tried it. It turned every set off. The teletext about ten TVs re embarrassing. The lady had to tune them all. Rob, Marcus. Not a remote. But I lost the head of my vacuum cleaner in the house a couple of years ago. I've never found it, Matt. I checked the pop plant, high showers, pop plants, sconsor's rails, rails and outside fences, pockets, coat pockets. What would you take the handle of the deep fry when your relationship broke up? Evening, Max, it's Marcus, Welcome.

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

So was it one that was specifically made or do all remote change all TVs?

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

You'd be around the student areas with the people that got the same TV. Do you know what brand that was?

Yeah, it must have been a Sony. It wouldn't have been a Panasonic.

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

Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

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

Of course it should Why is that not happened? Why is that not a thing?

And be a great idea?

Why are TV remotes rechargeable?

You for your point?

They have a portal? Shouldn't they?

They should?

The brilliant thank you. There is something you can buy on Amazon that's called Remote Rescue thirty seven dollars. I thought was a lot, but what it is. It's a retractable string and a sticker that attaches to your remote and then it gets anchored somewhere. Easy installation efforts. He set up the Remote Rescue with its user friendly design tools required. The device features adhesive on both ends, one to stick discreetly to your table and another to the back of your remote. Enjoy the convenience of retractable string that eatly stores away we're not in use, preventing tangles and maintaining a sleek, organized look. Customize the length of your liking, providing flexibly for various entertainment setups. Tailor the Remote Rescue your preference. When the adjustable stop or allowing you to set the perfect distance between your remote and the remote rescue. The word rescues doing a lot of work in that title, because I don't know if it's just on a string, but it's more like a remote lishus. Our sam sung remote has a charging port and a small soul of panel. But a rain today here on the Mighty Pardo on the West coast definitely need it. Marcus. I think that golden remote the Union student spoke of was called a universal remote. Marcus got a UTIV a few weeks ago. The remote has looked rechargeable, either plugging or solar. Marcus had a girlfriend twenty five years ago who lost a piece of jewelry which was quite sentimental. Months later she would call a psychic and they told her exactly where it was. It had fallen behind the mantle of the fireplace. Marcus, I was teaching myths today and was trying to turn off the heat pump and the class it wouldn't work. Students pointed out that I had the remote for the projector also did this the other way around. Tried turning on the projector with the heat pump remote. The joys of a teacher in the remote age. I kind of wish for us that lose the remote, that the TV just had basic channels and things on the front of the screen. I don't prefer ouryone that you twist and clicked, like the old TVs that was satisfying the resistance and the click as it found its next channel. Click click. The vertical hold. Gosh, these great buttons. We no longer have no idea why TV needed a vertical hold For those that don't know, heck, how can I explain this? That they had a channel button, a volume button, a vertical hold button, and once in a while the picture would start rolling, it would go up towards the top of the screen. Then the same picture would come up again. You have to get the vertical hold and was that slightly and settle the picture down? God knows what was happening one of the great buttons. It didn't do the same thing sideways. A legendary button. Yeah, the vertical hold button. Have I imagined that? Is it true? Mister Tesca will ring soon?

Yeah?

Vertical hold brilliant? So deep TVs in those days, wouldn't they go in the bag? All sorts of why as we hot, how would a soul of powered remote work. Would you have to take it outside Marcus part our six k's south of Greymouth? And yes, the hook it take. A rail line runs behind my house very close. I'll get a picture. How many trains would run there to a day just to get milk powder? Will that be right? Or one a day? Because you'd stack your watch to it, wouldn't you. This is the train that would go, Yeah, it would go. Who knows what would happen. But there's a big milk powder factory in Hoka Ticket, so I would be going to get I presume containers of milk powder. I think the Chinese are in the West coast Deery, now do they not the I'm not saying that disparagingly, but I'm just trying to think if they, it would be all be for export, I would imagine. So I'd go across to Littleton and then bang it out of there. Do fine rail quite interesting logistics. Get in touch if you've got texts and calls losing the remote, losing the remote and then finding it again. Anyone want to psychic about the remote? And always good to go to the thing about what the psychics have predicted for you? If you've helped help you find something. The other thing. Two young children will hide remotes. They'll put them in the freezer, freezer because it's the only place they can reach. They love opening and shutting doors. That's my take on that one. Emails. If you've got them, there's some good ones. Nice coctus, beautiful coctus. I can see Dan's photo of his house and part oh. I can also see the maximum minimum thermometer, but can't get a reading on that one. Appreciate the photo. We talk about remotes, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eight nine text and losing of remotes and the longest you've lost them for when we lost them, it's been quite fertile ground for discussion. This get in touch oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty rose at Marcus good evening.

Oh hi Marcus, how are you very good?

Thank you?

Oh good remote? My friend a statuere remote and the fruits, and forgot all about it and didn't know where she put it.

Tell me how tell me the background to that.

But she took something out of the fridge and she had her remote and in her hands, so she put that in the fridge and shut the door and got the milk out, and then she forgot that she put it in there.

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

Yes, me too, And I've lost mine in the toy box. Happened and mons until I cleaned out the toy box.

Well you go the toy box for the kids.

Yes, the green kid.

I didn't want to say that. Okay, Why did she not say it when she went back to.

The fridge, I don't know. But not only that, she's lost your teeth, she's lost your glasses. She's done it all.

Is she okay? Or is she got? Is she got? Is she is? She got to meet you?

No, not at all. She just might have been one of those evenings.

She might have had a couple oh yeah, ye ye ye yeah yeah.

It's a really good caller of the show who named Mary Lee.

Wow.

She calls up the night shows.

She wow. Of course that's probably the thing if you're drinking at night that you've done a where you put the remote? Of course you're going to the fridge to get the wine, aren't you. I can see it all happening now, brilliant. Oh that's a pretty interesting window to the world. Head on midnight. My name is Marcus. Welcome. She threw merrily under the bust and she how's the remote? Merrily? Not a name I'm familiar with, but I can't wait to hear from her when she finds the phone. Welcome and good evening, Marcus till twelve talking about remotes and losing the remotes. Yeah, mightn't sound that much of a topic, but see there've been some good calls often the way people have built the good conversation to round the topic. Oh wait at eighty two, Yeah, Peter, Marcus welcome, O kill Marcus.

My I lost my remote in the folds of the fish and chip paper And it was three days later that I tracked back to where I lost it, and when I rubbered through the bin, it was just covered in the other sauce and the vinegar and the bits and pieces of the person chip thing and yeah, and from that day onwards, it's something that usually sits on the arm rest and I just tell it my daughter every now and then for losing it down the side of the cout. But yeah, I've had many replacement remotes over the years, Peter.

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

I checked the cout I checked my pockets, into the laundry, I checked everywhere that I went to. The only place that could have been was the red Wheelibin, and I was correct, and I was absolutely gutted. But that life with the TV remotes and you then you had the stereo remote, and you had to at the little remote that you usually runs those the little camera frames, remember those old camera frames. They just have a remote and you could change the.

Oh god, normally the fish and chips and you do a satisfying scrunch them up, which should be the tell that the remotes in there.

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

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Come on, brother Tartar Sauce. Any time you have.

It is that your daughter with you, Peter.

Unfortunately, they're freaking out at the moment.

They sound quite they sound quite good value. I like how, I like how the way they're just chirping away in the background.

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

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

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

So whens the team announce girls? Is it days away?

Ye?

Days?

Well?

Good luck as the father figured they got those chances of making the top.

Squad, well did they? Did?

They go right at the trials though, Peter.

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

Enjoy yourself.

Have you got two daughters with not much of an age difference? Is that right?

You've got one daughter but the other one is almost.

A she's a friend, she's like the daughter.

Yeah, yeah, we're classes family.

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

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

You sound older? Come on, mate, you do you sound older?

America?

Yeah?

Anyway, you can't say that anyway, we're of a similar similar No, I.

Quite believe decades.

Yes, yes, hey you're in the back in the old is when people used to rent televisions.

Well, I know when the color TVs first came out, right seventy four for the comm games that most people would rent them, is that right?

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

You're not so well? I'm sixty five. You said that you're about sixty one.

Nineteen got three? I've got three on you mate.

Are you nineteen sixty two?

No, no, sixty you were born in sixty five?

Yeah? You said they born about fifty.

Seven, fifty six mate?

Yeah, oh boy, yeah you are you about nine years older?

Yep? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

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

Majestic.

We rented it from the local television shop as used to have in a day. But he was a miserable bugger and he wouldn't get a remote with it, so he just got the new color TV but with no remote. My wife and I we hired the same TV but with a remote. We went visiting one day, he's sitting in his sitting in his lounge, sitting in his lounge watching the whatever the hell was on. I can't remember, but it was a Saturday afternoon, so it wasn't much. And my wife and I sat outside the lounge window with the remote and kept changing channels and turning it on and off, and he was up and he was getting so damn angry. And because in those days you didn't have there was nothing on the TV. You didn't know we have was a little white bit flashed.

So we did that.

From our hearts for now. That was the one of the funniest things I've ever done in my life.

He was so damn angry.

The funniest thing was that was taunting your father.

Well, why not you do it?

If he could, It's just a bit of fun, isn't it.

I didn't think the old v's head remote, you go keep going.

Then I know that.

Well that was that was one of the very very first ones. So yeah, it was.

You remember Kevin Black, Yes, Kevin Black.

Had a really good remote story and he rang this lady and the lady actually happened to be married to the owner of Skyline Garages, and she lived in Tabatoto and she was one of the country to ever remote garage dwar and I knew the family and knew that Blackie rang her one day one of those famous stories which you no doubt heard and they're retold, And he said he was from the Orcan Airport and he was having issues with planes with the undercarriage coming down. This poor woman she stood outside with her garage remote, with Blackie on the phone, on her handheld cordless phone with an aeriel hanging out the top, pressing her remote and.

Yeah.

It was a famous story, a lot of fun.

And she would she would press and yeah, okay, And she was right in the flight flight parts.

Yeah, so the planes were flying overhead and she said the wheels had come down. Anyway, good story.

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

Prararily will be black He was classic for that.

Hi, great mind, great mind.

Great mind, great drinker too. You got on the fist for the monnight and he was well, ate it up with a bar?

Did and ate it up with a bar? And Oni hunger.

I think he did.

Yeah, yeah, but he used to live in Sir Mary's Bay constably. And we went to his house one night and we had this crazy spaniel dog. The dog's name was Havoc h Avoc, and there was never a more apt aim for a dog. And the dog was perfectly suited to Kevin Black as he had the same temperament. He was as mad as a snake, a dog all over the room like anyway.

It's a good remote story, Jim, Thank you for that. Seventeen past nine Be in touch eight hundred and eighty ten eight nineteen nine two detect If you do want to come through HUTI twelve remote? Do you remember teletext? Marcus Marcus with my husband and I had our first TV. There were no remotes. He used to use a long piece of bamboo to push the buttons from a far to change the channels. Warbird Sunday, sixteenth March nine to four, Hardboard Airfield Marcus. My sister got so fed up with her husband dominating the remote she decided to hide. It was lost for a few weeks before she heard him inquiring electrical shops about buying a replacement. She had to face up before he spinned up large on a replacement. Cath Marcus. Back in the nineties, I used to invite my mate Turbo to come to my place and watch the All Blacks play. He would bring his scar remote and a hide mind. Just before the hacker, he would talk up how much she was looking forward to the hacker and the game. Just as the huck was about to start, he would use as a remote and turn the channel out to Shortland Street or turn it completely off. I'd be frankly looking for the remote or trying to get it working on the skybox. All the while Tube I would be ripping into me about missing the best part of the game. Then he would flick it back on without me saying do it again at halftime, And when he left he would leave my remote on the floor next to my chair and tell me I sort of need to sort my TV out. He did this a couple of times, so I worked it out. He still dines out on the story thirty years later. Still my best mate Waino Marcus Steve here forever lost their remote when their dial ate it to operate, shake the tail left to right to change channels, lift left poor for volume control for on off feed one dog biscuit. Wow, Marcus, TIMU have silicon glow in the dark, Universal remote control covers Boom never lost again pretty past nine. In fact, they got think out sixty nine. Now is your name co or Ko? Sorry, it's k Co. It's co Co Marcus welcome, Hi, Hey, hey, do good?

Thank you.

Yeah.

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

Go I thought, oh, what's this?

So I just stepped aside just in time to see the car next to mine see the lights flash. I thought, ah, this guy's got the same alarm. In any case, you got out of his car when he got in the store out of sight, and thought, oh, I can have a bit of fun with this. So when he was out of sight, I beat my alarm, and of course he thought it was hi, and he walks back out, goes foot book, walks back in and again this when he's out of side of his car. I beat mine, just making sure he didn't see the lights flesh on my car. I had him going backwards, him forwards quite a few times, and I was giggling to myself. I thought, Oh, but what do I do now?

Do I tell this guy?

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

Him wondering about it as what happened to the alarms. We don't have him anymore, do I guess cars I had to steal now A.

Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, you don't hear too many cars going.

No, because there were some days. There were some days that alarms would go all weekend on cars.

I hate you.

Yeah, thanks to me.

I'm just reminded too of also with my car alarm we had our officers were in the center of town and have had lunchtime.

Sorry, just cutting out there, car. I apologize, but I just can't hear what you're saying. But thank you. Oh, get in touch. When we lost the two button remote and our old wooden TV. The clinging together the two middle dessert spoons would change the channel. I duck make myself. I duck taped my remote to half a red pool noodle. I was losing days every year searching for lost remotes. Easy to find out, but bloody terrible looking. It's terrible looking if you're if you've taped it to a for noodle. Of course, look at some of the houses. You guys are in your remote strapped to a for noodle loving this. It's all about the remote. By the way, Dan has texted me Dan's and part of On the hooka Ticker line from Graymouth to Hooka Ticker. There's two trains a day about four point thirty am. An empty train goes down to Hooka Ticker, returns about anywhere between half past three and seven pm. Don't really notice after fifteen years, That's what people that live next to trains always say. The only time they notice is when the train doesn't run. I don't know how much deer is coming out of West Coast aian Hoka ticker. That must be a bit full of train, not all going on trucks. That's a good thing. There was the road rail bridge. I'm not sure what happened to that they built a new bridge. I think that's not of interest to everyone. I realize that sometimes with train stuff. I've got a text you I don't understand. Hey, it's rob My was on two out of four, so I never lose it. AH four x two yep, anything remotely remote, grant, don't know what that means. Get in touched by Ms Marcus welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety the text you have trouble finding the remote because of the remote location, Steve. Thank you, Steve. Thanks for the text about the wool birds too. Didn't know they had to air shot, by the way, that's not my thing airbirds. How much interest is zero interest? Marcus? Remember the old can nines two button clicker as a remote you could jingle the car keys to change the volume and channel. I don't really remember the old K nine two button remote or the two button clicker. I could google it up. I didn't think the first color TV's had remote. But yes, if you've got something to add to any of these discussions, that's be hearing from you. Awa eight hundred and at ten nine two nine to detext's trying to look on the image search for those remotes. Oh, can't see them. I do love those posts on Facebook, the people that have gone to their grandparents and got the remote and then covered everything with masking tape apart from the volume and channel button and the on off button. We should all be doing that, John Marcus, Welcome evening.

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

So what are you on?

I'm on What do you mean on?

Are you on a road?

Uh?

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

So what will what? What's the name of the what's the name of the place where you are?

No?

Perah n O P A R A.

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

Are you seeing many people?

Probably three cars a day in the last three days of past the road?

Yeah, okay, I'm desperately. I'm desperate to find out where you are. And it's obviously spelt a different way than that.

Yes, okay, if you go into Kenney Peru Kenny Peru head and then come eastward from that, so westward, sorry, westward from that to the end of the road and the sound.

So you're on you're on.

Oh yeah, Kinny Peru Road.

I'll try find it because I'll get frustrated if I don't. I've got the lighttop of the studios. I can't see much to make If.

You see a place called Kryle Bay, how's that spelled? See what A I L.

C R A I L.

Yes, you'll be surprised.

Yeah, I can see that.

Is that where you are pretty close to there?

Yes, so you've gone up round and then done kind of a big horseshoe, kind of a you tube. Haven't you even come back right out?

That's correct, Yes, that's correct.

I can see no pro too. Yeah, I haven't been there and they just gravel roads.

Mostly tar seal. It's amazing and they the councilor who has been in charge of the roading since they had that big storm, I have done a marvelous job of opening it up. It's pretty narrow. I'm in a mobile home a bus and it's one lane most of the way. But they've done a really good job of opening the road up for these people here. But it's SI's lovely. There's not a lot of visitors down here at the moment, but there's not a lot of to spend money on here either.

So you are on the note by the golf course on the south facing side. Is that where you are you more in a crailboat.

No, that's correct. That's about where we are, just about four k's out from the golf course. And that's a beautiful little golf course too.

If you don't I know that this is probably the obvious thing to ask, but have you caught any fish?

Yes, we have been catching one snaper a day, enough to feed four people.

And you've got that because you've got a boat. We've got that from the rocks.

No, we've got a drone off the beach between the muscle farms. There's hundreds of them here and it's just yes, it's.

About three cars.

There was one tract that went past yesterday.

So the drone takes the line out and drops it. Is that right, You've got a button on the remote to drop the.

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

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

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

No, And I do see that the point opposite you is called snapper point, and that probably indicates that SNAPPERI probably always been there.

Well, you've got a better picture than what I have.

Hey, how's the weather. There's a front coming up, but it's two days away. Is the weather?

Good?

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

Tomorrow.

It came through Bluff today. And are you Are you living on your bus forever or you just on holiday?

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

John, love you to talk to you. I've really enjoyed that. There we go, John himself as remote. Now why have I not been there? I've been down that walkway through Endeavor, and I forget what it's called. There's at the Queen Charlotte Walk, but didn't venture out around that way. But that looks like it's only the place where it's just beginning. Wow, that looks great. I enjoyed that a great deal. Thank you for that. I think and talk about you probably mentioned any place and there's someone going there or about to go there. My daughter got a job in the USA as housekeeper in a gated community. A car was supplied on her first day, coming back from the SuperMac, she could not remember the house number, so she opened the car window and pressed the garage door remote. Five garage doors open in the street. The neighbors used the same default number that came with the doors, same house builder. John My parents' first color TV had a remote attached by a cable. Worst thing about it was the TV was sold to them as you from a shop, but when it gave trouble, it was discovered that was secondhand goodness, good news for the pope. He woke up on Tuesday to good news from his doctors that upgraded his prognosis and says no longer an imminent danger of death as a result of double pneumonia pneumonia and pneumonia that kept him hospitalized through the month and his longest and gravest threat. He's not outther words yet, however, doctors are still cautious to decide to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment, not to mention a period of rehab he was will likely need. There you go, still on the oxygen to breathe and a ventilation mask at night to help him breath, Or who hasn't got one of those oh eight hundred ninety to text crazy about kitchens? Crazy about kitchens? Well, it's better than singing the commercials than singing the theme tuned for Love actually, which I've been singing for two days. I've even watched the movie What's that about? Seventeen to ten? Anyone else remote? We are remote? I think that guy is probably one of the remotest. I mean, I don't think there's anyone at the bottom end side of the South Island that would be more remote. Haven't they ever got anyone at the Auckland Islands. Oh, I don't know if the Mutton birders would be there. When do they head off? They're probably not down there yet. I don't think.

No.

There were choppers going in and out today. Maybe there are people down there. They're pretty remote as well. They're on the islands. A lot of those are in the islands south of a Rocky or as Stuart Island. You think I'll be a little bit early for them. I think we'll get the first team in the school holidays. I think they go off sixteen to ten. If you've just joined the show, welcome, we're talking about the longest length of time from when you lost the remote when you found the remote. One guy hid it from his kids and the pop plant the fake pop plant. It was years till they found it. Another guy wrapped it up and well he must have had the fish and chips. He put the remote down, rolled it all up and the bit it went in the red bin. At least he had it in the right bin. Three days. It's a long time for remote to have gone, because in three days you'd turned the house upside down, wouldn't you. Yeah, it's the discussion tonight and losing things and finding things. And some guy found the remote with a psychic down the back of the mantel piece. I don't even know how that happens. And then remote stories in general, and these have been good. I'm not sure about drone fishing. That does sound quite special though, just dropping the line out there better than winning down one of those giant kind of things you see on the TV commercials that look like their way about three ton that seems the summarine out with the big wheel reel. Well, they catch fish, don't they. Stephen Marcus, welcome.

Yes, Gid, you mean the Mutain Boog season. It starts the perft of April to the thirty person may.

Brilliant, Okay, And they go don a couple of weeks earlier, do they.

No, it's that is the normal season. The perf of April to the thirty.

Person may appreciate that. Stephen, thank you for that. Max Marcus, Welcome our home.

Marcus.

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

So I'll just try to think of the setup. Do you have the drone controls attached to the fishing line?

No, they they the drone controls is separate. It's like on a little console that you hold in and some of them, I think there are there's different models, you see, so I think some of them can be on your phone. That the one that I have is just on a like a console and it's got all your up and down and left and right and so on. So the whole thing is that what you do is you when you before you launch it, your your line and everything with it. You actually calibrate the drone and it picks up normally about fifteen satellites, so it's all GPS. So what will happen is when you launch it and you send it out, it can go out as far as a kilometer. The one that I've got, which is not an expense, well it's not. It's not the pro model. So once you get it out, you push the button and it releases the sinker and the hooks and stuff, and it goes up from where you release it. It'll go up, ascend to forty meters and then it'll turn around and it'll fly back to where you are and where you calibrate it. It's pretty accurate a land almost like within oh just you know, just half a meter where you calibrate it.

Indeed with your line. Is that on a reel that you just put into this house. That's not on a fishing rod, that's just the real you just put into the sand. As that how it works.

Yeah, you can use either a fishing reel with a rod. Some guys have electric reels on them because they go it quite away so they can haul the thing back in with it so they're not to stand they're winding. But I've actually got a rod and reel so that one doesn't go out quite as far that when I'm going about one hundred meters. But I do have a reel that has got five hundred meters of line on it. But what I do find is that when I send it out, you're going to be very careful. I've had one or two little heacuts with the with it calibrating, and I don't like losing sight of it because you know, I mean, once it gets out about three hundred and fifty meters, they're quite small. I mean, if it's at nighttime, you see the lights, it's all right. But if it goes out sort of beyond that, you actually can't even see the thing. So you're sort of flying blind, really, and you're just hoping it's going to drop the sinker and then come home. And I don't like losing sight of it because of it. If something happens.

The line is down, do you leave it for a while or you just start pulling it straight back in?

Oh?

No, I generally leave it out there for you know, it's like setting a long line.

But so how do you how do you tell if there's fish on it? Can you can you tell?

You can normally feel the weight. I mean, they even just want one car. Why, there'll be quite a bit of pull and so on. Yeah, yeah, but generally it's like I can put seven hooks on my one. But one of the downsides with drone fishing, and I have to say this in case anybody's getting interested, is the wind. I can only launch it when the wind is under twenty four kilometers, So you know, around the coast here quite often we have you know, you can be limited, whereas if you have a kon tickie it's not so limiting. But the kon tickie I had one of those too. I sold it in the end. But they're those those big ones. They're incredibly heavy and unless.

Yeah, yeah, the wood is that because it's there's too much line up there and that gets blown the or the the drone struggles with the wind.

Yeah, you've got to consider the drag on it. What I have done when when when the wind gets up, I just lightened the payloads. Sead of putting seven hooks, I by down and put three. But you've got to be careful of the gusting right. The met surf is pretty good on the app on the phone overlooked to see what's happening there. But but that is a little bit limiting because you know, I mean around the coast, I mean save you and Warrington, you've got the southerlyas and and you know, so out of recently, like going back four weeks ago, for about three weeks, it was only like two days out of seven that I could actually get out and use the thing, which is a bit so that's the downside. But the upside is it's good fun and you're.

Catching good You're catching good fish.

MiGs.

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

I've got to go get in touch with us, Max. Would you catch it? Thank you? That'd be me. Lines are free. If you're trying to get through good keep trying. We're talking about losing the remotes. The longest time between you from when you've lost the remote and when you manage to find it, it'll be years and some And just losing things in general. That's always good for me. And the weird place you've looked an issue aware the whole time, you will place things and not know where they are. You think, oh, I know where that is, and then cheaper. I've done that with my keys at work. I'll leave them somewhere that's to be an interesting place to leave my keys. Well, it's only interesting because I can no longer remember where it was. That's what we're on about tonight. I get in touch when of miss MICUs welcome. Also fishing with drones. Find that fascinating. I don't really know much about that. I don't think I've got a problem with it. It makes perfect sense. It's just about getting the line out to where the fish are providing. Even't got kelp and stuff to drag it back through. It makes perfect sense to me. I haven't actually seen a lot of people fish and bluff off the wall in the rocks. I haven't seen people do it with a drone might be particularly useful. I haven't even seen people at all eaty beach us a drone either, But I imagine it's something that's taking over. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it, to get your line out like that. I believe were really with driving. I still think with drones we haven't really quite worked out the point of them.

Have we.

Not a kind of mini uses for drones, like when they do those giant pictures in the sky. That seems a lot of pilarva, doesn't it. None of them are delivering our parcels yet. I've noticed it seems to be a long time before that happens. It's kind of what we are on about tonight too, if you want to talk about that or anything else to losing the remotes or losing anything basically lost and found. Who's been to a psychic? Oh, you might have lost rings too. People have to lose their rings, don't. They take their rings off, can't find them. That's common. Ah, eight hundred and eighty today eighty Simon Marcus, good.

Evening, Killead Marcus, how are you good?

Simon?

Thank you?

That's good.

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

And you guys hang off you you guys hang off your vapes because it's not like a smoke. You put the smoke down, you sit like to your beard a smokes. Smokes are dangerous.

You put it down, you put it down, then you go ship wherever.

Yeah, but with cigarette, with cigarette? Should ever put those down? Because that have like the house you no got the expensive smoke suddenly aren't there?

Here you go what I came smoking?

Because it's where where do you.

Find you leave you? Where do you find you leave your vape?

Well?

I don't know.

Sometimes so I bought two. I would have backed up one as well.

You're cutting down? Then are you cutting down the nicotine? Sounds like you're not?

Absolutely yeah you sure?

Dog?

Yes, well two point eight. I don't know cigarettes these I have no idea.

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

Don't talk to me about all that kind of I know, but depressed about all everything?

And hang on, hang on someone, what are you depressed.

About in there and the black Caps.

Did you what was that? Was that an eventful match?

Was it?

Well? The Indians ruled the roast basically, and they based themselves where they were because they all the money and traveled.

But unfair they wouldn't go to Pakistan and they just stayed where they were.

Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yes, you got it. Yeah, you're you're you're on the money.

Yeah.

Pleasant.

I just I just heard your thing about losing controls and I lose my baits and I just I just had to ring you. I'm so sorry.

No, it's very good. I appreciate that something. James, Hello, Market's welcome evening.

Well, good, how are you good?

James?

Well, I've got a buddy story from when I was in London, right and me and my brother we had a few, We had a couple as you do.

I'll dropped my.

Phone on the on the underground and it went from South London which is about an.

Hour and a hang on, hang on, hang on, James, just stop.

Yeah, where are you.

I'm standing outside of my balcony at the moment, Auckland.

I can hear crickets.

Yeah, yeah, you can get the buddy out they've wiped me up every night.

Bloody crickets. So there you are on there, you've had a few, as you do, and then you and your brother are on the London Underground.

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

I've lost the phone.

Gone the last train home, which is about not going south back time, I realized I lost it. Well, it turns out someone picked it up in North London, about two hours north. Someone actually picked it up off off the t and made the effort on the emergency contact in the phone and called my brother who was with me, and we've gone. We've had to then go two hours north pick up the phone. We didn't get home that night. But it's another story. I just think there's some good people in this world.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know where you find fine, how you find that contact? You'd have to undo the password on the phone.

I don't know.

I don't know how she found it either. Don't get me wrong, I don't know how she found it. I'm not going to argue that. Boy, I have no idea.

No, because I found a phone. I found a phone once. I was out in the backs of Queenstown and it was someone had lost and it was locked and in the phone rang right and it was the doctor. Yeah, and they're ringing with results, and I thought, well, actually that's not something I need to be a part of. So then it all got a bit murky.

Well, I don't blame you, to be honest.

No, And I walked back to the end of the track, and then a woman came towards me. She'd have you seen have you? Have you found a phone? And I said, well, funny should ask? I said, By the way I ask her her if she was a doctor anyway. There's a miscall from a doctor anyway. So yeah, a little bit, a bit sketchy. End of story. Nice to talk to you, James. Thank you losing things. I'd love to talk about losing cell phones because that seems to me a rich kind of a topic. Play if you can track them down and you got a sketchy people's houses. Is that something that we do, probably, But mainly it's about remotes because they send me the things we lose most often that caused us the most annoyance and vaps. Oh, this is always a challenge. Marcus not sure, Marcus not sure how this will come across right in a text. But here goes. Many years ago, my only parents lived across the road from us in Wabadu, Dad for a few weeks said on Wednesday morning, something weird's happening with our garage. It opens up during the night. Took me a few weeks to click that. My husband always went to Bridge on a Tuesday night. When he arrived home, he'd opened our garage, but he had set our opener to be the same as theirs in case we had to go over there to their place of the night. We had to fesce up when we clicked came across. Well, if you are putting keys or something else a different place, you an easy jog. You'll meet place the object in your non dominant hand, cross the hand over the midline of your body, and tell yourself where you have put it. You will not forget because your brain logs that you have used your non dominant hand. Forty years I've been in this game. That's probably the best text I've ever seen. That's brilliant. Put it in your non dominant hand. My wife and I don't do Christmas presents to each other. Last Christmas Eve, my five year old son asked me what I had got my wife for Christmas. As I explained we don't do presents to each other, he put into a prison under the tree for me from my wife. They were jendles I was meant to buy earlier in the day, but it had run out of time, so she brought them and wrapped the put under the tree. Putting you on this spot, I just had to say it was a surprise. To my wife's excitement, she found a present for me under the tree, TV remote that I took off the bench and wrapped, plus a bag of coffee beans from the cupboard. My wife thought it was hilarious, but my son todd it was weird and he will help me with present choosing next Christmas. Talking about things we lost when we had a few drinks we would end up with we would end up into the Allison Hols frozen sausage rolls we'd grab a log of them and cut them up and cook them. We did this one night, and I wrapped the last log in glad rat we put in the freezer, or so I thought, until a couple of weeks later when the flatmate asks while the glad why the glad rate was in the freezer, which means there was a two week old, uncooked sausage roll log in the kitchen drawer. To be fair, they both looked similar. I'm going to murray it's Marcus. Welcome.

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

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

I recently took the screw on the plug to put the spa off to drain the water. I remember thinking, I'm not gonna I'm gonna put this plug in a really clever place because it's a critical component of the Spa. Now I can't remember that clever place and so now no spar staalipty, I will find it. Marcus. In the seventies I was the remote for Mum and dad. Glad there are only two channels, Marcus. I came down from Auckland to christ Church for Cup Week a few years ago. Were you bert from town on to a Ricketon and I left my phone in the uber. I realized after about now I was a grab my mate's phone and rang my phone. The driver runs and said to bring it back, and I paid for the trip. I said, just call me when you get your next job coming to Ricketon, and I'll come out and get the phone. Here greed and I had my phone back about three hours later. Top Man five star rating in a good tip, brilliant good evening, John AT's Marcus, welcome.

Good evening market. Going back to the early nineties, A business associates and myself. We're in Japan. We were heading back to New Zealand with Japanese hosts. We stopped at the coffee house just out just as we were going to the Nagoya Airport for a coffee, and we were a bit early for our flight and Anyhow, my associate accident, he left his sunglasses at the coffee shop. We came back to New Zealand and ten days later those glasses arrived in the post. The people that owned the coffee shop knew the Japanese people, and they tracked who we were, got the address and sent them back. How about that.

It's remarkable, isn't it. It's a nice story, and yeah, and that's what people should do. John, thank you. Good evening. So it's Marcus, welcome.

Good eating. Marcus and I found a phone several years ago up on the porthills in christ Jet. I was walking up there, found a fast sylphone lying in the middle of the road and figured it hadn't been there very long. It was ringing and ringing. I didn't know how to answer it, so I said, oh well, I'll keep on my journey down to the bottom of the hill. So I asked one or two people and they were very keen to take the phone, and I thought, no, this looks an expensive in an expensive case, I'll hang on to it. So the phone kept ringing. I figured it was the person who owned the phone. Long story short, I got to the other side of christ Church where I lived, and I thought, I'll go in to vote a phone which was there then, and they told me what to do. I got home and I rang, the lady rang, and she was so excited. She said, where do you live? I told her, and she arrived with an enormous bunch of flowers, a bottle of wine, chocolates. I've never seen anybody so excited. She was so delighted. She said, Oh, she said, You've got no idea. We carry all this information on our phones. And she said, then you lose it. She said she had been walking up on the porthills, but she got out of a four wheel drive, put the phone on the roof, you know, and went walking and then suddenly remembered she'd left it on the roof of the car.

Goodness, it's a lot. It's a lot to bring flowers and wine.

And I know she was so excited. They were up from Wanica. Their daughter had got married and they were up here to sort of help her to paint her new house.

That's a nice story, So I thought.

That was really yeah.

I couldn't believe.

How did the votaphone people, what did they tell you? How to find out who it was?

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

Talk to her.

Well okay, but I.

Had, you know, that was what I did. It was just lucky the Vota phone people were near where I lived, so that I.

Think, normally you can answer a phone. I don't know what goes on there, but I think normally you can answer one.

Can't you can?

Did?

I didn't know how to? And then I asked one or two people and they didn't know, but they wanted to take the phone blast, No bigger, I'll take the phone myself.

Wow, n story.

It was just it was the joy that it gave her that was amazed me.

Yeah, well no, I think too, because it a hassle to lose your phone. You lost everything. That's your world, isn't it now? Thank you for that lost the car key fob a month ago, five hundred and twenty one dollars for a forward for a replacement. What a Roard Marcus on the Samsung ten plus Fione. I have placed ice contact on lock screen under contact information. In nineteen ninety six, my husband and I traveled Durope with Trafalgar Tours. Only for on the of us on the bus were Kiwi's. Each day the tour guide entertained all passengers with some of Kevin plank Black's prank phone calls. The laugh from the bus was wonderful. Love your show, kind regards, Chris, Hello, Gary Marcus, welcome.

This is a story about a key. So I went to Murauai lost khaki. That is, we went to burau I and decided to go down one of the steep hills to my daughter and I then lost my footing and did a big kind of four forward rolls and had an undignified splat on the kind of path below. And I then got up and then kind of embarrassed and walked away. This was about two o'clock. We were watching you know, there was a time back. There was some comet that was coming through. So we were waiting for dusk for the comet to come. So we went and saw the comet. It was amazing. It was about ten o'clock at night. And then we said, right, it's time to go. And then my wife goes, well, you've got the key and I don't have the key, and then I looked and then I'm thinking, this is like and we live on the other side of Auckland.

So the sack.

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

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

Did you did you have a torch on your person or use your cell phone torch?

Cell phone torch? So that's kind of that's quite pathetic.

That's the era.

Yeah.

Anyway, So anyway, I said, we were lucky that my son was there, and we decided that I would go back get the sphere key and drive all the way back. I get back to our place.

And as we hang on, hang on, listen, your son was there. Your son's an adult with his own car.

Yes, yes, yes, true.

So you drive back to Howard am I thinking, yes, yes.

Well done, yep. So we're there, and when we I get back, grab the key, and of course I'm sitting there, you know, the whole time going you bloody.

You full, you full?

What an idiot?

What are you?

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

She should have come back, she should have come back with you in the sun.

Oh no, she was there was there was hot. There was a whole argument about that about who's going to drive back, and I don't want to drive back because yeah, yeah, yes, just kind of like came to the rone. But that was the agreement. Anyway, So where's I'm going out and I'm driving along the waterfront to go back there. My wife friendsby and she goes, you can't guess what's just happened, And so I said, wat goes I'm sitting in the car and all of a sudden my car locks and then it unlocks and then it locks again, and there's a guy driving around the car park with my key. And then when he found it, it comes up and goes, is this your key? And he goes and smiles, goes, yes it is, and she goes, oh, I found it earlier today, but I didn't know who it was because all the people. So I went home and thought I'd come back to now and find it easier.

Wow.

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

And yeah, well crazy in.

The car, was she? Because the car was locked?

No, well no, it was unlocked and we were and we didn't have the key, so she was just sitting in the car. Grandfather that was there as well, so she was on her own.

Oh so the grand the grandfather was sitting in the unlocked car. Yes, And so they're both sitting in the car and the car start the car study locking and unlocking.

Yeah, yeah, and they're going they're looking at each other going what the hell and like this, and then of a sudden, this guy comes past his vand and then hands it over.

And what's it? What's the What does the guy say?

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

Couldn't have just unlocked the key when he found it and they just put the keys in the car.

Yeah, sometimes you don't know. We'll think so anyway, relieved, and I still kind of like nowadays, I am so worried about when I go somewhere about the keys.

Yeah.

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

Well it could have been. I mean all my family were handing me the loser cards, you know, like they were going here you can go back, and you know there was this.

Well it's never good, Garry. It's never good to fall, is it? Because you get a fright and then you lose stuff and you try and regain your composure.

Well, of course when I fell, I like a scuff that was bleeding, and my scuff and knee and all the rest of it, and of course my daughter is all embarrassed, and I just tumbled down the side of the hell.

So you got your grandfather, your wife, your son, and your daughter.

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

We got why the guy had come back and say, oh, because it's not like there's a lot of cars ever, the car bucket mout away.

Yeah.

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

I think, oh, go up down on yourself. You're making me sad about that good evening. And it's Marcus.

Hello, Oh hello, Marcus.

I was in Las Vegas with my two children and their families. So that meant four adults and five children, children between ten and five. Anyhow, my son comes up to me at the airport and says, have I got his tickets? And I said no, and he went back to the counter and he couldn't find them, and the security had a look, and then they got the marshals to come in and have a look talk to him to see what could happen. Where could they be. Not only did the folder have his tickets, his passports for the family and his money. So he was very concerned, very just didn't know what was going to happen. And the marshals said to him, now, what did you do? He said, well, I checked in and then I had the trolley that the sickcases are on, and he said I was taking it back outside and then he said, oh no, I let the door to take it. And they went back outside and the black folder was still sitting at the top of the trolley. Wow, I mean, yes, I don't know what we would have done.

Actually, yeah, boy, the relief must have been a huge.

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

All gone to custant.

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

It's a great It is a great feeling when you've found something you've lost. I'm not quite sure if the feeling is as good as the dread when you realize you've lost something.

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

It's a great story, Anne, brilliant. Thank you so much for that. Marcus. My keys are on a lanyard now to minimum is losing them. Cheers Roger. This might come as a surprise to you. It might not come as a surprise to you. I hate a lanyard. Can't bear a lanyard always, They always look so terrible around your neck with though sometimes when I go to work and all they give me a lanyard, can't stand it. And I judge people that were a lanyard. I think cheapest creeper is your life? What's happening that you've got to have a lanyard around your neck like that? Look you're working for NASA going through top secret door. That's just me. If I ever have to have a swipe card on a retractable string, I have it on my pant pocket. Find that snazzier anyway. Well, these days I've got my swipe card for work, and I've got three cards, and my wallet never leaves. My pocket fits perfectly. Because you don't want to spend your life looking for things you've lost. Hi, Garriots, Marcus, Welcome.

Grevling Marcus. Three three little stories about remotes. We bought a well, we shifted the house, and we bought one of the slash door bell ring of things. And you know, every now and again to go off and you go out there, nobody's there because of the kids playing cup branding. And I cut a long story short. I found out that was neighbors. I had visitors and their doorbell what our doorbell was on the same code as there, So pulled it to bits and changed that one. So that solved that problem. Now TV remotes. My wife used to work for the Farmers Trading many many years ago, and when she left, she got a TV with a remote. But you talked about a cable remote. I heard you earlier one and yeah and yeah. She left in about twelve months later, the same manager in there and he said I want you back, and he said you can have another TV. You bring your TV in and he said, I'll give you a color one with a with automatic remote, you know, get one that's just on the sofa. So that's that one, but the real classic one is.

Well.

We shifted over to tower on her and we're in the Bayfair big parking. I parked our car in there, had a couple of proms with a real rumbling car, and they sort of came in quite quietly and on the first floor and then they sort of went down in and so they read this thing up where it was about four car alms all ready off it disappeared and up to the second floor and we could hear them and you know up in there and there was about three or four floors, these Junke fellows. Yeah, they had a hell of a fun day. The whole mildage was the car alms gone. Of course nobody knew you're all inside the big Bayfair shopping center. But I thought the real thing about that jefer. Yeah, good on new kids. You know, a harmless one.

Nice to hear from you, Gary, Thanks so much for that saving away from eleven. Marcus. If you go into the contact on your phone and tap your profile at the top of the screen, a screen will come up for you to into your emergency contacts. Those numbers can be accessed by tapping the emergency phone on your line screen. I don't know if that's true, is it? No? I can't say think on my lock locked screen. No, I don't think can get into a phone on your locked screen. Sit in the password you But what's that got? Good evening, Amy, It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi, Amy.

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

It was a stolen phone that had been broken, so.

Pretty much it's like had been blacklisted. I couldn't do any calls. It had no cellular network.

Do you ever write a reply with marketplace?

Well? See that was my mistake is there's nothing that they can do. So everyone who's listening to news storms who not just stamped on Facebook Marketplace?

How much you pay for it?

Four hundred dollars?

Was it picked up?

Waiting hundred?

Where did you?

Where?

Did you meet them.

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

What did they decay on the door? That seems free medieval?

Thank you?

And it truly it was it truly. Well I got out my quill and my ink in my fitter so but I just please, it was it was honestly forbid.

Yeah?

Well what yeah? Okay, Well were they skitchy when you went round there?

Honestly No, they seemed like a very normal, average Joe. It was a very very very normal encounter.

Yeah, are the police don't interested in this? I don't know what goes on with who these days? Are the police interested stuff?

The police honestly do not care, and I wouldn't either. I feel like if I heard a little like like twenty year old girlman like please like my phone? You know, I don't care.

But four forties a lot, isn't it?

If I know?

I mean it is?

It is?

It was an Apple phone.

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

How are you feeling disconnected?

Enlightned? Med evil? In fact, it's actually how I'm feeling. Fel very very pleasanty.

I'd stick with a quill a. It's lovely to talk to you, Amy, Thank you fifteen past eleven. I love that putting a letter on their door. Do I want to talk about Louis? There must be some right of redress for her. Amy. You'll probably get a lot of misinformation, but someone might have some good information for you Marketplace. Never bought anything on Marketplace. Do you know why haven't yet seen anything I want to buy? If I found what I wanted, I would buy it like a shot. That's just me saying things that I say. Good evening, Chris Marcus, Welcome.

Oh Marcus here. Just subject of lost cell phones. I was driving along a couple of months ago and I saw a cell phone on a road as I drove past, so I stopped. Then for the year, we went back to get it. But tweeny the time i'd seen it in the time that I got there to had been run over so completely crushed and broken. Took it to the local police station. Took it to the police station. Two hours later, I got a phone call from a lady who thanked me very much for finance. She had put it on the roof of her car, and she'd driven quite a long way of actually three or four hundred meters she'd driven before it fell off, but the police had found I gave the phone to the police and then they went into it and found her emergency contact, which was a son or a daughter, So the police contacted them. They contacted mum and then gave mum my number.

And then she got a smeshed up phone.

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

Do they still have of caounts? I guess they must.

But the police managed to get in. It was quite smashed up, I mean, run over by a cat.

I imagine that's a lot of the police job as people dropping off broken cell phones and stuff, isn't it.

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

Brilliant thank you, Chris Marcus. That girl I got out my well best phrase of the year.

Lol.

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

Oh Marcus. Just a lost phone story. Last last Thursday, the day before we due to leave Tokyo. I lost my phone. Didn't I have some station in Tokyo. Anyway, I got back to the hotel and got on my tablet and notified my daughter back here in Auckland, and she tracked it down the Samsung phone. She tracked it down and told me exactly what station it was at, and I hopped on the train and now I was ride out to the station where it was, went to the office, described the phone and they pulled out the phone. I was very relieved. I was very relieved. It had four weeks of holiday photos on.

Was that the station you'd lifted that or it remained on a train without you?

No, that was I would say it was somewhere around there and obviously been handed in by somebody. But she tracked it from that station which we'd been at earlier on in the day, so straight away I knew exactly where it was. But it took me an hour to get back out to the station on the train. In another hour back, but it was. I thought, well, and I was talking to American at the hotel, was saying that he was working there, and I said, well, if I'd lost it, in Auckland, I wouldn't have.

Seen it again, No, you.

Might not fear it might be a bit unfair. But anyway, he said, oh no, not in Japan.

No, it seems to be the case. Although you went back to the hotel and on your tablet, you could have had that Trekking software on your tablet and not caused your door to the trouble.

Yeah, but it was easier in some ways. The table was very limiting. But it was quite happy to do it.

I think that's a great thing to do. I think that's to be commendable.

But she was.

She got straight onto it. And the amazing thing what staken me was she told me exactly what station it was in Tokyo.

Yeah, where it was when it fortunately had ninety minutes of Yeah, it had quite a bit of ninety percent of charge on and everything there.

But as I said, the.

Because will they ask you to describe your phone? Most phones would look identical, wouldn't they.

Yeah, well, he asked me. There wasn't too much fuss, I think.

To ask you in English?

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

Oh that would have that He would have found that heartening because you knew the past, were they?

Yeah?

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

It's umble and your knowledge of the Tokyo train station train system worked all right?

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

Nice to hear, Jim, Thank you, Kathy, Marcus Hellong, good.

Evening, Good evening. I want to tell you about a funny story about Lost, a gentleman who used to help me with stock on the fam lost as well. It's in the in the drafting ads. One day when he was drafting stock. Anyway, we looked and looked and looked, and couldn't find it anywhere wherein decided that perhaps a cow might have eaten it. However, about three months later I went over with hammer and nails to fix the bottom rail, and as I bent down there was a cowpad, very dry, with something sticking up through it.

What really?

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

Do you think do you think everything?

Do you think it had been through the cow?

No?

I don't think so. We thought so for a long time. But when I thought, well, I think what might have happened? It dropped on and the cow had dropped on it, had dropped a load on it, and it just happened to be by the yes rowl that I was going to fix. Anyway, I hauled it out of this gray mixture and returned it to him, but unfortunately it just head happy to replace all those valuable things that you carry in the wallet, like driver's licenses and things like that. However, everything was complete and he So that's the story of a wallet that might have been through a cow.

I guess the only I guess, the only way of knowing if it had been for the cow would be put it back through the cow and see if it came out altered. Wouldn't it nice to talk? Kathy? Thank you? Twenty nine to twelve. But on bomb bomb use a quill Marcus brought a rubber grip phone case, put it on the phone, put the phone down on the car roof, turned, took five steps to chuck the case, ripping and the footpath rubbishp and gotten car. Drove home seventy three k's away. Pulled into the driveway, then couldn't find the phone. Tore the car apartment side looking for it. Not there, went inside half an hour later, remember putting on the roof, looked outside and there it was, still on the roof. Survived seventy three k drive home because of the rubber grip case. That is the story of the night that and quill girl. Oh eight hundred and eighty Today Selendra Marcus, welcome, Hi him Marcus. High Slendra.

Yeah, I had a customer who dropped five hundred dollars in my cab one day.

Wow.

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

Goodness.

So my son found it next day. But I had the phone number, so I gave him a ring and yeah, give him back.

He'd be happy, Oh he was. It'd be ecstatic. It's a lot to lose, yes.

Now, he was a elderly person who was moving from Christis farre Uh. You know, as a taxi driver, we look after people.

Nice to hear from you, Selinda. Thank you for that good evening. Dave Marcus welcome.

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

So I shot.

Off to the pharmacy to see if they could give me something to help me to vomit. So they said, we don't do that anymore. You need to go and see the doctor, which fortunately he was next door to the pharmacy, and he said, no, we don't do that anymore. It has to come out the other end. So he said, I'll give you these tablets and they take about two hours to work. I said, well, I'm working the night shift tonight. He said, you take these tablets. You won't be working tonight. Okay, So I had to ring it sick then to say I wouldn't be in So then for the next three days, No, what happened? Then bang on the two hours he said that he came laid a hair off to the bathroom. So for the next three days they had to seft all that I passed. I never ever found out gold crown.

Still an.

Could be.

But yeah, what did they used to do? What did they used to make you vomit?

Did they they were back around from me?

Did you wonder what with.

Toppies?

Hey, tell me something. Did you get that crown replaced?

No?

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

So well, gold crown gold crowns must be really expensive now with a price of gold at four thousand ounces or whatever, it must almost be prohibitive.

Yeah, it probably is.

Yeah, I like gold in my mouth. I'll enjoy gold. I enjoy the feel of it.

Okay, smooth a yeah, I've got.

You go go crown.

I got one. Well, there's a bit of a story behind it, because just before coming to New Zealand, I went to see my dentist. He said, come and see me again before going to New Zealand. He said, because get some work done before you go there, because he had just got back from New Zealand and he said he was an ominate ade for any dentist work. So I went to see him and if you were on a benefit in the UK at the time, all dental work was free. So I got two free gold crowns before coming to New Zealand.

A bad thing? Is it?

Not bad at all?

Yeah?

I don't know if I do gold crowns much. You want to have a discussion about that sometime, Not tonight, but thank you Anthony Marcus.

Welcome, Hey MICUs, hope you well.

Yes, thank you, Michael, No pleasure.

Yeah, well, my kid I was a single parent. My kids were about nine or ten, and we were driving into our local shopping thinker and stormy night, and my daughter spotted a wallet lying out in the rain, and so we went and picked it up and saw the photo of the person. It was full of cash, and so we walked around the center. I couldn't find the person. I actually said to the kids, you know, we were flat broke, and you know, you can't imagine single parents struggling from week to week. And so I stuck it in my glove box. And the kids were, well, what do we use the money? I said, no, no, we've got to make sure. We've got to try and return the money to the person. And you know they're they're the impressionable age. So it's a life lesson. And so took them down to the local police station the next day and the local cops is me, oh, you're going to have to drive it down to another station. Well, back then I just couldn't afford petrol. So I just stuck it in my glove box. And went through and tried tracking down, you know, looking through phone numbers and stuff like that. It was a French name, so I thought, well, if it's in the phone book, it'll be easy to find in. About three weeks later, we're standing in our local fish and chip shop and my daughter taps me on the leg and she says, Dad, that's the guy. She recognized him from the photo.

Wow. Sorry, wow, from his license or something.

Yeah.

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

A good story. Yeah, what was he much cash it?

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

It's pretty amazing she recognized him for driving license. It's a good story, Anthony, thank you for that. Sixteen to twelve Matt Marcus Aloe, Yeah, Marcus.

Just a bit of a story on the finding of a wallet. My mother had sold her old house. It was actually Debbie Door day.

I don't know if you remember, Yes, used Debbie from Burgundy's See you at Burgundy's.

Yes, And it was a pretty, you know, pretty sort of it was down It was down in Bucklam's Beech. It was a bit of a sort of classic eighties sort of style house, and mum had moved and my you know, mum stepfather had passed away, and the furniture was pretty outdated, you know. And as we were leaving the house, you know, we'd cleared out hundreds and hundreds of boxes that day and furniture, and someone noticed, like, you know, a leather sitting up and up in Mumba's wardrobe. So we've got to, you know, step letter out looked up there and it was a Thomas Cook, you know, an old Thomas Cook travel leather pouch for like passports and wallets and cash and things. And so we opened it up and there was one hundred dollars American bills sitting in there. So Mum decided to go down to the lot of shop and buy a I think it was a strike ticket and went and bought a one hundred dollars worth of strike tickets and one thirty eight k cheapers. Yeah, so it was pretty cool. And so you know, moved into a new house, got all modern furniture and mum was away.

What a story, wow, jeepers. Oh they got to find the owner. But thank you for that. Matt called back the travel while it was a stepfather's not from the previous owners. That makes much more sense. That's a very good story too. I like that with a thirty seven thousand dollars it's a great story. Thank you, Marcus. I was traveling from Blenham to duned and stopped in Caua Kolda and left my wallet and the public toilets don't didn't know this, SINTI I made another stop. Was so worrying. I don't know where my wallet was. I didn't know where my wallet was, and the police rang me as someone found my wallet in the toilets and handed it and the police posted my wallet to Duneeden for me. Marcus. Each year we give our staff a Christmas bonus of five hundred cash each. I used to get CASS. I got a few days before the Christmas holidays and put it in the drawer of my desk. The next day, our new desks arrived and out went the old one. I went to get the money for everyone over six thousand dollars and it was gone. I immediately thought it was stolen. Started interrogating my staff. Then I remembered it was in the old desk. I recalled the guy who took the desk.

I caught it.

The guy who took the desk that dropped off at a friend's place. They He gave me his name and number. I called him. He at the desk, he gave me his address. I went around. He gave me the six k back. I tried to give him a hundred bucks. He would not take it. My husband was swimming with kids at the beach as we were leaving, realized his watch wasn't on his wrist. He looked around but couldn't see anything. Next morning, we wondered if it might have washed up on the beach. Overnight we headed down to the beach again and within minutes there it was lying in the sand, unbelievable, very happy man.

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