Marcus has a run-in with the parking wardens, Sky TV continue to have problems, and why is basketball so popular in New Zealand?
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It's gonna be like I just feel that it's kind of gonna have a bit of a newsy time to the end of the year. By the way, okay, two things from me being someone that does a huge amount of walking, cars that park across the footpath incredibly annoying. I'm all for infringement notices for people parking across the footpath one of the most selfish things you could do, so just putting that out there stop it. The other thing tickets. My partner is they got a ticket and bluff The council must have come down for seventy bucks and the car was parked facing the wrong way on the side of the road. Who's that gonna Who's affected by that? No one? I could imagine at night time because of the reflector lights, you might want a car park. As far as the daytime, I am yet to see what the problem is with that. I know in the UK you can park either way backwards and fords. What's the problem here? Instead of bluff and the cargo council, don't come out there in start issuing tickets. How I mean spirited that driving all that way out for someone and I see there was a caravan that's been yellow sticket. But what's the problem with parking facing the wrong way? For goodness sake? Oh high markets, Marcus.
Welcome, Yes, good afternoon. Cars parked on the wrong side of the road or facing the wrong way. What the driver does in order to do that is that he crosses the center line and drives for a short distance on the wrong side of the road in order to get part. Subsequently, when he gets in the car to drive away, he then drives on the wrong side of the road for a short distance before crossing the center line. That's why you get a ticket for it. A lot of people.
So it's not that it's the potential act that's still to come.
That's where the potential hazard is. That of course have if you're driving on the if you're pulling away from the curb on the facing the wrong side of the road, you've got a bind spot behind you before you cross over the center line to get onto the right side of the road.
It's a very good explanation that are you explaw enforcement.
No, I'm a retired rollway man.
Oh good, oh, thank you for your service.
Mark.
Okay, that's a very good explanation. I appreciate that for you. For you from that you wouldn't pack your train on the wrong side, which you couldn't do that. Nice stuff. Thank you. Julie Marcus welcome.
Oh hi Marcus. Look I've got I've got a blog with a lot of photos on there and just all my family history. It's all sort of family photos and there's a lot of stuff. Yeah, I've just been I was just going to leave it there on the on this platform. I mean, it's on a public you know, like it's on the Internet. And I didn't sort of realize at the time, but I was going to leave it there for just for my kids, who, you know, so we could have a look at it. Yes, And now I'm you know, I've been just a little bit freaked out and thinking, yeah, that it's already been there for eight years, and that that's not a good thing to do, and just to leave it, leave them all there, and so they all just keep going out on the interview, as I suppose, and I just don't know now whether that would be wise and whether I have to just take the whole thing down.
So the purpose of this cause to see whether people think you're advised to have private photos on a public blog. Is that right? Yeah?
Yeah, and there's yeah, there's a lot there. And it's already been out there for eight years, so it sounds.
Like it's if nothing beds happened years. Sounds like it's fine. Who's got you worried?
Well, I don't know. There's just been a lot of what's happened?
You sound anxious? What happened to you?
Yeah?
Yeah, there's been a lot of stuff sort of happening, and and and I don't know, just it's just seek me out sort of a.
Lot of family family. Did a family member call you? I want to shame you about it?
No? No, but I just I just yeah, it is. There's just a lot, I mean, eight thousand photos.
What's what's the theme?
Well, it's just a lot of older stuff, all things that just everything. Really, it's just everything. It's just a scramble, but all my whole, my whole last.
What's your blog? What's your blog about?
It's about the it's just my whole history and all the kids, all the kids stuff, all the kids toys. It's got just photos of sort of food, funny sort.
Of with a blog, you normally write posts that are interest to other people that no.
No, there's no no, there's no writing on it. And it's just all pictures. It was stuff, all the stuff that I had in my house, which is all the whole whole history of all my kids, all just everything that they had in their childhood, all my childhood, you know, old puzzles, old.
I don't know if it's a blog, but it sounds fascinating.
Well, there's just you know, it's just a big scramble of like a whole everything we had for the past sixty years.
And Julie, you did a.
Young person to change your settings so it's not open to the public.
Yeah, and just have it on private. I know. Well it's like that at the moment. I've got it on private at the moment, and yeah, but it's just a it's not an easy view to sort of look at them all when.
You I'm going to go to good headlines, but look, someone else might say something about that. By the way, ironically, when Vanessa got the tickets, she was up there mowing the boom, so go figure council won't do it. People who park across the footpaths around Auckland more often than than most are out and out arrogant, more so than selfish. Marcus. If any of you else has ever seen a sky down a technician in the last three weeks, are they on stripe for more coin? The call sender is hopeless and won't answer my question. Aren't one of the many that's been waiting that long? Well, apparently from last night putting, but reading between the lines, there just aren't many technicians because the sky technicians across to work for down because they're paying them a lot less. That's what I heard, but I've never seen one. It's all about the booms, Marcus. My driveway is just over the verge of a hill. If backing out is dangerous, reverse across the road, So sometimes I reverse out to the curbside facing wrong way and take off from there. Sounds like illegal, but less dangerous by the way. Often in Bluff you have to park against the flow because if you park the way you're supposed to park and open your car doors, they will get blowing off the chessis, so quite often you're going to tune your car into the wind to get the kids out of the car. It's not straightforward, so typical Towney coming up, ticketing of ticketing Towney Tony, the ticketing Towny out there and we should be able to park where we like in Bluff was the real danger of the wind and car doors flying down the streets. I still don't necessarily know that you're right that you can't do a oui or not. What's the opposite of a yui do a P shaped turn. I'm just trying to picture the car. Oh, it's not hard to go out that way and go the right direction. Oh yeah, I don't know about that, but fair enough at least the guy who gave an explanation. So it's all about sky and parking. Oh now, on Monday night, I said, the seagulls are destroying my car right that they are always on it. They just camped there, leaving their meadow muffins, and they're like, it's not good. They've never been on the car before in the last two weeks they've lived there. Carlok terror Look they'd been abandoned. Looked like it had been a band in Australia under a jaccarina tree or something with kooker barros up there or galas it said that parrot that's gone missing. By the way, speaking of galas, So, I took calls about the seagulls on the car on Monday, and boy, there was a cavalcade of calls. And I don't think I've ever heard such good advice. Some things that talk about callers can be a bit sketch. On seagulls, that's their sweet spot. I've never heard such wisdom. Anyway, last night, once I dropped the children at karate, I went to the car wash and I got the deluxe car wash. Yeah, and boy, what a time that was in the car park. My car then had the panic that the era was up has got no aeriel. They had the panic about the wing mirrors. But anyway, I survived and the car is now clean and shiny on the roof. And the theory was that if the car is shiny, the birds will see reflections of themselves and get freaked out because seagulls are thick. I mean, how why would it, Why would a seagull be coming to attack them from underneath a bit a sheet of metal. Anyway, do you think that there were seagulls on top of the car today, No, there weren't so tentatively it's a success. It's worked. H However, it was blowing a howling gale, and maybe there were just no seagulls around because they're still in the car. They would have been blown all the way to Tapanui. Are you family with how talk about works? Ben?
No, it's the time.
Okay, you got your radio off?
Yeah?
Did the producers say you to your radio off? Uh? No, that's perfect. It's Marcus here.
Okay, Marcus?
Are you going? Yeah? Good being there? You going all right?
Yeah?
Not too bad? Not too bad?
You got you got a special occasion coming up.
Yeah, got my lovely wife his birthday today?
Wow?
Wow?
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah's word to take your Marcus?
What's your name?
Taylor Smith?
No one, I didn't want his soname?
Right?
What do you want?
Well, it's name is Sheryl or Sue or something is in the car.
They're with you, yeah, Taylor Taylor?
Okay, So why you are asking me where you should take it when it's a decade birthday?
I don't know.
I just thought maybe you've got some experience with for decades.
But didn't you put some thought to it beforehand and plan something for her? Ah, he's gone, he's a coward. Always mindfu. When people say that someone's surnames are, they're either trying to prank someone or I don' quite know what they're trying to do. Bucketing down to Hannah. Thank you, Marcus. The chopper is tuned up in Hamilton. We can hear it arriving from the north. Marcus, could someone please explain the idea between Kywi drivers hugging the sin to white line. What's that about? Marcus? You must leave a re sheltered life of going to the car washes the event of the day. I don't think I said it was the event of the day. I said it was something I don't often do. Why would I who wants to spend the life washing your car? But you must lead a re sheltered life. If you're talking texting, talk back. His last text is I'm seventy nine, I've never seen a Star Wars film and you're calling my life sheltered? Do you ever know what obi wan kenobi is? Goodness me anyway? Beck atcha Aaron Marcus welcome.
I'm Marcus hire good thank you.
Hey.
Just about packing on the opposite side of the road or in the wrong direction. The guy. The guy who explained that last time was kind of right. But the main reason is, if you're facing the wrong way, you have to pull out into oncoming traffic. And if cars are parking in front of you facing you, most cars obviously the right hand drive. If you park the right way, you're closer to the road. But if you're parked on the wrong side, you are far from the road and you can't see the cars coming towards you, whereas you've got your wing mirrors. If you're parked the right side, is it.
Any more dangerous than coming out of your driveway when this car is parked there and giant four wheel drives that are blocking your view?
But not if you live in Auckland Totty much driving anywhere, I mean.
I do wonder. I mean they say it's dangerous, but I mean cars are dangerous themselves, aren't they?
But you know, I just want to absolutely But if you're if you're if you're inching out and you can't see in front of you and the front left of your car is pulling out into the road of incoming traffic.
Fair enough, Okay, you're not law enforcement? Are not at all?
Right?
The opposite.
What is the opposite of law enforcement. Murray.
Yeah, hi, Marcus. You know I'm not too sort of rule based either, but oh, absolutely intense. When I heard you say you couldn't see what.
The problem was.
Oh you think it's a no no.
It's an absolute no no. So you probably don't want to go on parck opposite the supermarket car park in the middle of town, facing towards Admiral Street, in the main street. And when when you're in a parallel car park and everything's tight, because you know, in towns these days, they like to make things as small as possible for some reason. Small car parks, small roads. So I've got my indicator on. I'm easing out of the car park. You're trying to make sure you're not gonna you're not gonna hit the car in front of you right with your bumper. You try to look in your reversion to make sure someone's coming up to you too fast. You try to ease out. So finally I get out into the road and at the same time, you're just about looking forward and I see a car and I start to accelerate when I realized that that car is coming towards me because he had pulled out from the other side of the road facing me about three three, about three car parks ahead of me.
You've been you've been a victim of the wrong side.
Of as I just stopped riding front of again in the full blast on the horn, and I let him know which country. That's what you do, and that's why people who come here should learn our rules.
So you've you've turned into a migration story.
Have you, Yeah, yep, and we should and we should let these people know on their planes and.
You've traveled, yeah, I have can Where can you park both sides of the road?
Well, as far as I can see. The only people who really are into it is in the UK.
They love it. The English love it. It's like there it's like they're right to row. They love to park, but.
They don't have the right to treat New Zealers is back home with a bit more sun.
It's not.
It's another sovereign country and they're going to lun our laws and.
They ought to park on the right side of the road and not start. Every discussion was saying I love the country. It was a shame we don't have the little neighborhood pubs, the bes, those don't they.
That's right to you or anywhere it is not happy. The gate's not locked. They could always go back.
The gate's not locked. The gate's not locked. Marcus. I bought a house in christ Bitch in twenty twelve. I was made to move my house back one meter so I could beck up and have enough room to drive out of my driveway, not back out into a side street. I'm very much opposed to people parking over the footpath. Marcus lived north Shore for a few years and used to bury the front of my three ton truck and a bamboo patch by countdown to stop the parking warden from seeing the waffle redge. He was a tosser and then timidoy is to drop twenty cents in any expired meters. When I saw the meda man coming along fifty minutes behind me, I think we might have come up with a topic. What's the most ridiculous thing you've been ticketed for? I'll probably get in trouble for foaming discontent. And I don't think bluff, I mean praise, I like it married. I don't think bluff is anywhere near Warnica. I don't think we've got people. There's not many people parked on the side of the road and it's half an hour from town. I don't know why you'd come down to give out tickets. What's that about welcome people? My name is Marcus. If you want to talk before before the news, I can well know I comfit you, and well I might be able to. I've got thresh mienutes. It does still say they are still working over night to extinguish this fire. Evacuations are underway, so twenty people will be working overnight, so I don't know if it's all resolved. Part of the winds pretty intense, so it could still flare up again. It could whip up fairly quickly so the ego, but I think they are in the containment phase. The CP containment for each should be CF but containment phase CPH. Marcus Downer is Australian but operates in New Zealand and Australia head offices in Sydney. You can get an aerial technician out of service disappeacement or come as a private charge to that customer, whereas it should be a free charge through Sky. It is a Sky equipment problem full stop. If the problem is the Sky to code to your private contract that cannot fix this, in which casually they need a Sky technician to swap it out and set up a new one, or Sky will set a replacement box to you which you have to install yourself. Customers should not be forced to employ a private company to fix their problem, and Sky should reimburse customers for any costs involved with a dude with this jew to down a technicians not turning up on multiple occasions. People have had a guts fill They pay enough to have a Sky subscription. Cheers Jane. Yeah, this is getting away from Sky. This is becoming a very problem, complicated problem. I mean Sky's complicated enough with different dishes and satellites in different formats and as they're trying to pivot to online, but this whole thing, after a night to talk back on it far too complicated. They've just got to sort it out and they're going to tell us what's going on because people aren't happy, and I think most people are looking for a reason to get rid of Sky. Yeah, that would be my sense of that. I don't know if that's going again trouble for saying that, but I.
Would be.
Because it's just easier. I mean you're trouble with things like Netflix. It's just there. They have to wait ten times for a person to come to arrive, that it's not going to arrive. It's heartbreaking, breaking of.
The heart.
Netflix.
Yeah.
Whether I'm seeing an article they're saying Netflix, might I've forgotten about New Zealand because it's got let cluster local content. Oh there's not much local stuff? Is that You've got quite good Aussie shows but nothing local. Don't know what's going on there? Sort of out Netflix. Mind you, I'll have worked out how that money go around works, although I wouldn't. Yeah, get ready for the next hour of the Hour of Powers. You want to be involved our eight hundred and eighty ten. If you want to text nine to Nino and the strangest ticket you ever got or the weirdest ticket for an infringement, I'd be curious to know about that. I'm pleased the wrong parking one was explained. I found that quite expository. If that's the right word. I think there's that. I'm sticking with it. The explanations do get in touch. Marcus till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text welcome people. My name is Marcus Hurdled twelve o'clock tonight. It'd be good to hear from you. The number is eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two text. The major topic tonight is we're still got to discuss Sky and there's still problem with the serve. There was an overhang from last night, but there's sort of it seems to be a more evolving story this one because I can't work out if they're giving If they provide you a service right each month, sure it's conditional on them to get your box everything installed, so you can pay for that service. I don't know what the analogy is with something else, but it just makes it. Yeah, they should do that when you're paying a fortune. At least they can do is get you good to go. So that's Sky. Also, the craziest reason you've been given a ticket from the council and forces or from the police. I can kind of understand the tickets for parking on the wrong side of the road, but in the scheme of things, I think it's slightly petty. Yeah, in fact, more than slightly petty. So that's something you want to mention. Also, so get in touch you got something to check into the mix on that. I don't want to be one of those people say it's Rivenu Colick and gone mad. But by the way, I thought the old counselor Mike leacanded a bit out ofttached there. All those people are parking across footpaths. Of course I need to be ticketed. People walk. It's just about cars. You're just silly train anyway. It was a trend, wasn't He was assisted on the cost everyone of fortune and went nowhere. Hello Nickots, Marcus, welcome still e tickets.
It's about twenty five years ago. I was driving on the Auckland Motorway and a lot pulled over by the police and the only reason was for failing to indicate for a minimum of three seconds before changing lines. And he said, I did it twice.
Good on them.
It was a bit rude, isn't it?
No cheapest Everyone stopped indicating and that was probably when the rots said it. And how long ago was it?
Oh, it was about twenty odd years ago.
You'd be one of those that would actually pull on the indicator as you're turning the handlebar a.
Listen, you know Auckland as well as I do. If you indicate the first thing someone's going to do is nipping before you've had a chance to.
Make him Anever, how many how big was the fine? Nick?
I can't remember, but I remember the ticket. I've never for gotten it.
Good on you, thank you, keep it going. Ten past nine, hit at the beginning, here to the end, eight hundred and eighty ten eight silly tickets, tilly tickets, silly tickets and whatever else you've got. I reckon right, And this is not the topic. This is just me talking. There's going to be real trouble with basketball because they can't just build a whole lot of courts. I mean, rugby fields is all right because it's outdoors. It's not that expensive, even that the council charges a fortune for them. But basketball courts it's going to be cost prohibitive. I've gotten because it's not like it's a major sport with this, it's it's not like rugby in the local sport. They've got that local Yeah, I don't think it's much money been made for that local sALS Inbiella whatever. Yeah, that's amazing of course too. They're all the church halls they had basketball courts and I'm not sure what's happened to all of those, but they're going to sort that out. And I can't see what the solution is because there's not a fortune to build basketball and they're expensive. Yeah, I don't know the solution they're Actually I'm kind of quite worried about that because people loving basketball can't get enough of it. Evening, Ricketts, Marcus, welcome.
It's good evening, Marcus. Is I have a god a good RYE. I was parking well, I parked in an area and it was right next to a reserve or park, and I just as I stopped the car and put the hair and broke on, but there was someone back to me about twelve hours away. And then I realized there's another guy in front of them. And I was throwing something backward and forwards, and I was a cricket ball. And of course my car was in the way. So I'd seen someone back out and passed me, so I thought I'll go there. So I did. It's about such cars up despite the empty space, and the cop was going past. He came over again and the ticket. I was on the side of road in the big car park and came here a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt.
That's madness, that's pity. Sorry, that's pity.
Yes, and another one. I was sort of in between cars that I had, the bigger cars like station wagons and and a little a little Honda Civic not quite petty, and I got to only spin ticking over the head and I was one k over. I was only in a third gear.
And one hundred k limit.
In town.
I think you go with a hundred Okay, nice to hear from you, right, good on you. Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty petty tickets? Basketball you have with all the courts. I can't work out the solution there, Frederick.
Yeah, yeah, how are you?
I am good?
How are you in a good calm place?
Yep?
Parked on the side of the road, beautiful.
What did you want to talk about? Oh, you're not. You're not parked the wrong way, are you?
No?
No?
Hell no, I amne parked the right way, though I did park in a weird place because I was just driving.
Okay, what do you want to tell me?
Well, yeah, for context, just finished high school. But for most of the of this year at school, I was parking somewhere and I probably parked for six months in this location until sorry, six weeks in this location until I realized I was I was not allowed to park then, and I was getting parking tickets. And the problem I have with that, since we're having a round about it is it takes so long to get these tickets.
In the post?
Why aren't they digital?
Right?
No?
I was just racking up.
And it's a good don't they put them under your wind screen?
No?
I didn't get I didn't get anything.
Like that, so I was probably taking them. So had they arrived they arrived on the post, not email.
Yeah, they came to the post, and I didn't realize a lot of post of our house was getting redirected to a PO box that didn't for ages.
I just thought all tickets went under your wind screen.
Well that's what I thought when I lived in London. That's the way was the sixteen I was just getting away was.
A sixty minute park zone?
Oh it was.
I think it was authorized victas only, but it was next to a P one twenty so I couldn't. I couldn't really work it out.
And how much was the money you had charged you for.
I don't, I don't know.
What the full price was, but they kept adding up and being bored because I wasn't paying them. I didn't even realize I had them.
But how much was the two.
Seems like a scam? Sixteen bucks?
I was parked and how many how many do you get a day?
More than twenty?
Wow?
The school, the schools, the schools have a place where you can park.
No, there's no parking. This is this is awkrom Grammar School.
Oh, for goodness sake, sixteen past nine, eight hundred and eighty eight nine nine to de ticks getting touched on a tork Keittill twelve basketball all those courts.
Oh mh.
I'm not sure if you know, Marcus, I turned out, but there was someone from council too. Then car parks parked on the booms and bluff to day as well. Could have been down there two days cheapest what booms? Marcus got a ticket while park my truck on flush My ah, you know what that means? Could you retext that? Could you spell check that text? Because you got me quite interested now, Marcus. The Australian government required Netflix sign an agreement deal for Austream productions. We've invested billion dollars into Aussie productions, you said, and government have not done the same here. Yeah, I don't know about that, and you don't get an actual ticket, but does seem a bit mean spirited, apart from the one where you park over with the footbath. That's bad. Now get in touched. My name is Marcus Hurd on midnight, Oh eight hundred and eighty to the fire seems to be under control. Yep, that's happening. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two to text basketball. What will they do? Where will they get all the courts? Because I can't imagine there's many at all, and it's not something that councils can quickly pivot around and build on. Then they need the buildings. Basketball courts won't come cheap. You might want to mention that. Also, here's on midnight kram It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.
Hi Marcus. You just want to mention about the parking. It's in Auckland please, So, yeah, I live near the city, you know, around Newton, So there's cars Auckland Council or wherever the cars go around and they've got cameras on the side, so they take photos off the cars regio's or whatever.
Okay, and they don't automatically it's robot cars ain't.
Yeah yeah, yeah, so I mean they drive around, but they obviously take all the details off, you know, the ones that have gone over the time limit or have parked, you know, in places they're not supposed to. And yes, they do send it in the mail, yeah, which is very annoying because you know, like if people are away from work or things like that, they don't realize they've got tickets.
Yeah, okay, so yeah, it is, it is.
I can I can see what happened with the other person who called before. Yeah, it's actually yeah, getting the physical tickets where better. And this seems to be even more dangerous. Yeah, so if you probably could look it up online, I suppose about.
How they do it, Although good on for them for doing that as a way to put out tickets and collect revenue. It may it must be a pretty horrible job in a parking ward, I can sort of see why they're doing it.
Yeah, yeah, but I think I'm, like the other caller mentioned, what they could do is, you know, I'm sure there's an email that be linked to your regio and they could email it, you know, so people know, you know, instantly they've got it, instead of sending it in mail, Like no one checks letterboxes anymore, you know, and they get broken into all the time as well in the city, like you know, in apartments, and so it's kind of like, yeah, like if you don't see it, and then you're taking the court and whatnot, and you know, all the fines wrack up, and so yeah, I just wish they actually just send it in an email, you know.
Oh yeah, yeah, And look, Karen, thank you for that. I'm just try to look at that situation too. So people have got tickets for parking in their own driveway, but if you are obstructing the footpath, so if you've got a pram or you're walking with, it's yeah, it's that's not your place to park. But wow, there's a problem with parking, isn't there. So I think it's wrong to pack over the car back like people are over the footpath like people are doing. I'm please the ticketing for that, but yes, I think too. For Auckland, probably what the situation is for some of those inner city suburbs that are now quite sought after. A lot of the house have probably brought the days before people had cars. There's a lot of garaging, so yeah, it's a problem. JT.
Helloo, Mar guess I'm with Murray from how We're Flat. I hate it when I see cars park on the wrong side of the road. It's like, yeah, all of a sudden, being transported to England. Those people come here and they think they can do that in our country. They now when I'm out walking and I hate it when cars park over the footpath. I hate it when vegetation grows over the footpath and people don't anything about it. Yeah, so when I go walking it may seem hard to believe, but yes, I have been armed to throw them up other people's bushes.
You should give her those little folding souls. They're pretty good.
In fact, one time I trimmed up this woman's tree and she just happened to be out on the by a letter box.
What'd she say?
She tried to bail me up. So that's a bit of explained. But as far as it's parking on the footpath goes, I think there's been a lot lost in translation. I heard Maurice Williamson, Auckland counselor on with Heather, and Heather is using the wrong words because she said that it was all right to park across her driveway between the road and her own property. Of course that doesn't sound right, It's not right. Morris Williamson explained it that in some of these suburbs in Auckland, the distance between the guffa and your own and the footpath, in fact, the grass is so wide that it's long enough to take the whole length of your motor vehicle. So that's where the confusion is coming in.
But you still should be parking there either, should you.
Well, you're not blocking the footpath, you're not blocking the road. So the way Heather was talking, it's like she owns that.
Piece, but the resids don't own them. They're not driveways, Like you.
Don't own the road out in front of your house. People are at the park here.
Yeah, and you don't own that footpath. You can't, you can't. You don't get me started.
The only reason where I reckon you can park across your driveway. When you say across your driveway, that means ninety degrees to the length of your driveway, and that just sounds wrong. But if you've got a double garage. So you've got like say, six seven meters of driveway wood. I suppose you could park in there and not get a ticket.
You shouldn't be blocking the driveway and you shouldn't be blocking the pavement. So there's people parking. Yeah, it's complicated to discuss, isn't it.
Because you've got to remember that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If I was saying, if you're parking on your driveway, you should be parking along your driveway, not across it. But also think of ambulances and fire engines. I mean, they need somewhere to park to keep the road to flow, the road open if there is an emergency. But can I just talk about playing basketball outdoors please, because you know how you were saying as a shortage of courts, Well, you know that there was a there's been a few NBA games played outdoors. Didn't know that that was at the Indian Wells Tennis Center in America there and also there's an NHL ice hockey game played outdoors every year, or there's one or two of them. So that's quite interesting. Why are they doing that, Well, it's they're trying to get back to the traditional of what it was like back in the day before the huge stadiums were built with Was.
It originally outdoor sport basketball?
No, I was referring to ice hockey thea okay, okay, but basketball it was only invented in our agent ninety. There's no reason why you can't play outdoors, you know, that's no idea playing the black top?
What what?
What difference would the ball be list bouncy? Ah these what if you're jumping on the McAdam.
And it's the same for both teams, So what does it really matter? But playing outdoors ice hockey?
That that that's uh, that's old school.
Yeah, that's different level, isn't it? Because I remember when did ice hockey actually when did they actually start? When did they form the league? I think there was six clubs. It was the Chicago, Boston and three teams from Canada. But it's interesting history.
I love. Got'll do some research on that. JT. Thanks for alerting me about that. I'm liking the idea of an outdoor ice hockey match. Looking online, there's quite a few of them that have being happened. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve. You want to come through all about everything tonight? Oh wait, one hundred and eighty, ten eighty all about everything, nine to nine two text keept those texts coming through. I'll keep you updated with news. Hold your horses. Bobby'll be with you in two ticks. I've got a great email from someone who is an ex Sky technician Sorr. It's a text yep, Marcus. I have a license since November nineteen sixty five and have never had one single traffic violation ticket. I've driven all over news in Australia USAKF. I haven't lived. Good evening Bob AT's Marcus.
Welcome Marcus earlier this evening.
Good thank you boy.
You were just talking about ticket, so I got a different ticket. We've been on a trip down south when we're living over the coast. We hired a caravan in christ Church, went the way down south, came back, got back a bit later than what I intended to to christ Church to drop the caravan off, and he was closed. But we didn't have much much money left. We'd just been on a holiday with two young kids, so I thought I would con't really a fordy camping ground, so I pulled him to one of those. It was a park down in quite a leathy suburb. There was no one around, and it had a toilet block and everything there, and I thought I got to be perfect for the young kids. About nine o'clock at night, some guy comes pounding on the door and tries to present me with a sixty dollars ticket for breaking council by laws.
Wow.
And I explained him the situation. He wasn't interested. He wrote out a sixty dollar ticket, which I think I used the toilet paper in the finish. You know, I just no matter what I tried telling me, he wasn't interested. He had one of these jolly neighborhood watched something or other and hired by the cancel for going around. I mean, I can understand that they don't want two thousand people camping in their pack, but come on, it was one night, We're on our way home from a holiday. You're in the raamily no money.
You're in the wrong, though, wit you, Bob?
Well, no, because I didn't know the women buy a laws. Where did I thought, I just camp here and then the kids can use the toilets and then we go in the morning. I mean, there was no such thing as freedom camping or anything in those days that I how long I did not think twenty years ago. Oh hell, but no, I did not think I was in the wrong Marcus. I thought I was just God. In the morning, we'll just pack up, we go, we drop the caravan off, we go back to the coast. Did you stay come around banging on my caravan door at nine o'clock at night? He's lucky he didn't get something else but a ticket on writing me out of ticket we really wanted to give.
Where was it that?
Uh?
And one of the christ did something must be known by Addington somewhere, because that's where the caravan high place was. Did you Why can't people just mind their own business, get on and what he's got to do during the day and let me worry about.
What I was doing.
Yeah, I told him what I thought of him, don't worry about that market. But he's still insisted on writing a ticket out and then trying to throw it in the caravan door. Yeah, so that's that I got that I thought was quite unfare. I definitely don't think I was on the wrong. I didn't have any choice.
Did you stay the night there?
Yeah?
I did.
He told the bugger off and in the morning, after the caravan we left no mess or anything. We took a rubbish with us to choose the facilities here in the morning, which was only the toilets, buy some wash, hand basemin and then we went back, dropped the caravan and went back to the coast. Yeah.
So I suppose there are many freedom camping places for caravans, are they? I don't know what you do with the caravan.
Yeah, well, in those days it wasn't the one. Don't even think then that thing that's freedom camping.
I mean.
Beginning Beck Henners from the local caravan park operator.
I don't know what he was doing, but we couldn't have boord the caravan back. So yeah, he was just a bloody busybody as far as Oskin's erned. But that was the ticket I got that. I didn't think I should.
Have got bloody busybody, Bob. Thank you for that, Marcus. There are dozens of free streaming websites that have the latest release movies, usually before cinema release, and TV series on within thirty minutes have been broadcast in the usl UK, which makes me wonder way anyone would throw their money down the toilet paying for Sky TV who don't broadcast the set above for weeks or months later. I see Sky disappearing within five years permanently, when more of the brainwashed Sky subscribers wake up to this fact. Hello, Trevortt's Marcus, welcoming, Good evening.
Good evenings, But windy here, Marcus.
It's windy everywhere where are you?
By the way, I'm just a little hy he here it's been putting silence bars away and she's getting blun around a bit. So I'm going home.
You can see why wind scenes animals mad. I had an inside data because it was I couldn't be bothered with the wind. That seems you're.
Mad, hey, but you just sit the nail on the head. I was just thinking about what you just came out with, and I just thought, that's that's crazy, Like, oh shoot, I might show my age a little bit. But I went. I went the tongue probably oh forty odd years ago now, I suppose. And the one thing that stood up there was the Mormon churches had the best basketball court, and they that was the one thing that they attracted the people. Everywhere they went, a Mormon church would have a basketball court, and if they didn't end up using it, and the church didn't sick. See, they just bought a bulldozer and pushed it into the water. But it was an amazing thing that Mormon churches had the basketball courts.
Was it the same place? Was the church the court or there'd be a church and the court beside it. They didn't have They didn't have this. Do they have their services in the in the and.
It was outside beautiful court outside, Yeah, beautiful basketball court outside the church, which would attract the people, you know, their kids and the stuff.
But yeah, makes sense if you're going to kind of conquer a religion, you bring the basketball as well and bring some does it does make sense, doesn't it?
Yeah?
Yeah, it's definitely gone crazy and tearing here with the the Bay Park arena and that that's just go over there and have a look at the kids running around, which.
Is quite cool.
How many courts are there?
Shoot inside that arena? I'd hate there's it's Yeah.
Is this is this called? Is this called Bay Active.
Where the Baypark Arena as?
I think?
I don't know if it's changed the beck.
There appieces to be a lot of them, like about twelve or something.
A yeah, but this is insight.
Yeah, I'm looking at that. Yep, yep, I'm looking at from Google Maps, not from street view.
Yeah.
Kind of a strange old sport because it takes the kids a while to get any good at it.
Yeah, but there there they can reap the benefit at the end of They get some pretty good coin out of it, don't they exactly.
So also talk about basketball tonight, Steve. It's Marcus welcome. Oh, hi, thank Steve.
Oh, I just kind of tune in. I hear you're talking about basketball tonight. I've played in the first eleves basketball game back in nineteen sixty four in New Zealand. Yep, wow, wow, Yeah, I was. I was out here on a RDY Foundation fellowship and I was at Canterbury and I played for the Canterbury University a team. And back then, of course, basketball is very new. And I was from Indiana, which is.
Just crazy about basketball.
And I grew up, you know, playing basketball every night after school with my friends, even in the summer. In the winter we'd shovel off the snow anyway, so this beat kind of egotistical. But I was seen as a big basketball star here.
Wow are you still here?
Yep, yep, yep. I went back to the States, but then came back Mary the Kiwi and came back And yeah, so I played in the first televised basketball game, which is in nineteen sixty four, I think I was, and I scored thirty five points.
And yeah, there's all sorts of interesting points you made about this. You say you're from Indiana, right, Yes, I'd never worked this out. But is there a curl in the United States between states that play a lot of basketball and climate? Is it more a cold climate place because you need to have fun indoors? Is that where it happens more often?
I hadn't really thought of it that way, but I suppose, suppose it could be. But definitely, in Indiana basketball was a sport and people from Indiana called the Hoosiers.
And yeah, and in nineteen sixty four, with this this match, it was just broadcast locally for.
The Canterbury region. Yes, but it was the first. Yeah, I played for a Canterbury Canterbury a team at the university. And you know, because I grew up with the basket in my hand, you know, Kiwi's just weren't you know, as new to them, so it's easy for me to make a play. I was you know, I was in the christ Church Press two or three articles with inspirational man from you know, basketball and all that. But it just was natural to me because that's what I grew up with.
And tell me about basketball in this country, Steve with people often quite resistant to it because it's taken a long time for it. It seems to me the reason it's gone huge now is because all the matches screened in New Zealand and all the kids are made for the NBA and the clothing. But was it a slow road to get Kiwis into basketball? Is that what you've noticed?
Yes, definitely, But as you said, it's just grown and grown and grown and with the you know, the breakers and all that and attracting you know, overseas players. Yeah, and no, it's really huge now, well relatively.
I wonder what it took so long. I guess people. I guess football and rugby was what they wanted.
Yeah, it's fent like in the US, you know it's football and basketball and baseball and other sports take a long time, you know, like soccer's getting big there, but it took a long long time. It's the same with basketball here because you had rugby cricket, you know, those are the big sports.
And probably thinking about basketball too. You do need to spend some time with hoops practicing, so probably for a long time there weren't a large number of basketball hoops with backboards available for people to practice on. So it's taken it. That's been quite gratual, hasn't it.
Yes, exactly, Like across the street here in my retirements, we had a guy playing basketball every night in his backyard, which we'd never see before.
But we grew up.
As I said, we come home from school and my parents had basketball go on the backyard and my friends and I would play every night in the alleyway with we had like you know, telephone wires, but we had to shoot low. But we played every day, and we played in the winter. We would actually shove off the snow and have gloves on and play basketball. So you have to be good because you've been playing for years a year.
But you see that more and more now, particularly if you and that's some of the things that particularly in places like in the north through of Auckland where the break is are strong. You wander around the suburbs there and most of of those portable ones, but you know, it seems every second house has one of those big portable hopes with backboards and the kids you know, on the driveway.
That's right, and I guess yeah, even like the glass backboards you know and everything. Yeah, so it is definitely getting bigger, So exciting to see now.
And did you play for a long time you're here in sixty four. Did you play for a long time as the professional league started or did you just was was that one and done for that year?
Or did you play while that was just one year? Because then at the end of the year, I went back to the States and did my MBA and oh I'm married at Key We went back to the States, did my NBA, worked in New York and didn't come back until nineteen seventy one or so.
Yeah. And have you supported have you supported the Rams the local team? Are you someone that's got involved with it and got involved with the local the local games and god to see those?
Yeah, not the Rams that I've gone to games here and I was a you know, I wore the thing with a volunteer on the back and all that. Where you work crowds and stuff like that.
Yeah, Oh, nice to hear from you. Steve, you send a video. I wonder if you've still got there, it still exists anywhere? Your basketball match?
Well, yeah, my son who is a TV producer and everything is trying to find it because we he reckons that they're somewhere. We can find that game because the other team I had to play is called the Best against the Rest in Canterbury, and I had to play for the Rest because I was an import.
Uh.
And so it's funny because the guy from the ret the best team had someone marking me who was not very good, and I started scoring, so he started marking me and no one can stop me. It's just it's just a happen to be in amaze in game that you know, probably the best.
You know, it's just olock and you won.
We know we lost by two points, but as I said, no one had ever seen went score thirty five points before in a game. Yeah, it was just I was lucky. I mean, it's just, you know, everything just seemed to you know, I met I met the Beatles that here in christ Church, then got my picture with them. It's just an amazing year. Yeah, it's just so lucky. The whole year was just amazing.
Did you have any preconceipt. Did you choose to come you see it or that just where your course was going to be.
Oh well, that's interesting. I won this Rotary Foundation fellowship and you had to name five universities that you'd like to attend overseas, but only three could be in one country, and I chose England. I chose like three universities in England, and then I had to pick two others. And that got the rotarian who asked me to apply for it said, don't worry, Steve. Just you know you'll get your you know, you get your first and anyway, I'll never forget. My mother called me up and said, Steve, you've won this. You know you've won this Rotary Founders Foundation fellowship. Said amazing. Am I going to Oxford or Cambridge? She said, You're going to someplace called new It's back in sixty four, people in Indiana had not heard of New Zealand.
Wow, what faculty did you go to?
I studied in political science back then.
Yeah, and yeah.
I was a political science major at my university in Indiana. And then I changed the business after I went back because I got involved with rotarians all through the South Island and I got interested in business, so I changed from law school to business school. Yeah, changed my career.
What a great story that that happened, and ended up being here now for all those years. Oh look, I've really enjoyed that, Steve. Look, I think and I don't know that, but I reckon if your son found that, he'd be doing really because I can't imagine that. I when they talk about archives that all be shot on film, I can't even in the room where that exists.
Yeah, I can't even. But John produces a lot of TV problems, So if anyone's can find it, I'm sure he can find it.
How he'p in touch? Steve, love you to talk to you seventeen past Deeen, my name is. We're talking about basketball, the early days of basketball, and you said, I think it's potentially could be quite an interesting topic. Well, it already has been interesting. But we're going to need five hundred more courts. Marcus, my son loves basketball, plays everyday in the driveway, represents his school, plays all the local schools. It's huge, Marcus. The Totong accounts want to take away Baypark Speedway and build basketball courts at its place. We are doing our best to stop that happening. Hands off Baypark on Facebook. Thanks, I guess too. They're also concerned that the growth is going to last, but I would imagine it would be. I would think the growth and basket growth in basketball is permanent because it sort of correlates that the kids can play and practice at school. I just think something about it. And you don't need a whole group of people to play. You can just kind of have a pick up match with two or three people, which you can't quite do that with football or rugby. It's not quite the same. Marcus. I'm not that old, but I would have thought you'd have your wedding reception in the church all for a good point. You're probably right. You're probably right. I don't even know if people have the wedding receptions and church halls. I'd be interested to hear more about that. What is the point of the church halls?
Here you go?
People twenty one past ten min names, Marcus got everything. I'll keep in touch with breaking news. But there's lines there free you know, the topic sky parking and basketball. The number we're with all the courts were, I mean, flip, I don't ever know where they're all going to be, because what are those multi use for you, because it's not like you can use well, I'm just trying to think. I suppose most towns have halls they could use. But yeah, I'm kind of interested in this, and that's what we are talking about the growth in basketball because people playing this rugby. Obviously, the number of rugby teams have just just diminished because I think the kids enjoy playing basketball more. I think that would be my understanding there. It's more of an international sport anyway, isn't it, Although I think it's also one of those sports you can probably play more than one sports. Most kids sem to play everything these days anyway, basketball and softball and soccer and rugby in league, which I think is what you're supposed to do. You give it all a go and then you specialize a little bit later on. But that's what we are talking about. Know, if you want to add to this, it'd be nice to hear from you, Oh, eight hundred eighty eight, if there's something different you want to mention. We've had a couple of single issue topics tonight, so I'm not too fussed if you want to chop out with something different or get into something different. I have a problem with that at all. But just let's be hearing from you and I'll keep you updated with news and if you've got news that you want to tell me about. Also, we're doing pretty well at keeping people up to date with stuff. Do get in touch nine million lotto this weekend. That's the way that's going to go anyway. And the birth of your involvement with basketball, I'd be curious to know how that happened over the years, because I'm sure there was church leagues. I'm not entirely sure, but that's kind of what I understand there probably was. I think I've heard some radio show somewhere that the Mormon Church was quite big on that had their own league and produced a very good players. Yeah, that's what we'reight about tonight. Good evening, K it's Marcus. Welcome, hik Hello Marcus.
I'm just ringing up to let you know that the interne Revenue Department in New Zealand was very strong in basketball.
Right.
And I started to work there in nineteen sixty two and every year they had a basketball tournament. One year was in the North Island and next year was in the South Island and that had been going. I'm not quite sure, but I think this has been going since not long after the war Second World War finished. Wow, So it's been going for a long time. And when we got married, and we got married so we could go down to the basketball tournament in Dunedin and I think it was the Need and Christ Church. They used to set up courts in the big old wallshed you know where they stored the wolf for youself, Yes, and they'd set up about one corner of this great, big, massive wolf store. They'd have about four courts in one corner and needed a bike to get to it. And we had them all over every year. As I say, we had them either the North or the South Island.
Okay. Questions for UK. You worked at the Hamilton the.
Tax department in Hamilton, Okay?
And was it for men? Did your husband work there also?
Yes? Yes, they had men's teams and ladies teams. And when I started playing in sixty two, we were playing and I don't know if it was the Bledislow Hall or the William Paul Hall. And then we went up to the YMCA and they had two courts going then and they used to go from. I think we used to start about US five six o'clock and they would have their last game about ten o'clock at night. And I think they were except for the weekend. They were every night of the week. It was very popular.
So it wouldn't just be a land with you. There'd be other teams, no.
No, no, no, there'd be all sorts of business teams and different rugby clubs had teams. And we had a lot of extremely good players in the Waycato area that made the New Zealand top team. I can't remember their names. Murray McMahon who became a New New Zealand player, and oh Chap Espon I think, yeah, I know, we did have some very good players and we used to have in you know, in the Hamilton Association. We had some American teams tour and some Australian teams and back at that stage, I know in Townsville in Australia they used to play outside.
Yeah they'd be right, yeah, yeah.
But oh, I know, it's a wonderful game and we had lots of fun.
Did I suppose the inland revenue they probably would be in most towns, so so most towns lived in then revenue team. Is that the way it worked?
Yes, yes, every every office had a team and if they didn't, they made one up to go to the tournaments.
Wow. So as soon as I suppose I said, the new recruit comes in, they're taller for the team.
The team.
Yeah, yep, that's right.
And did you play did you play for other teams as well or just the inland revenue team?
No?
I just played for the Inland revenue but we played in the local competitions. But this was a special portament and it was always at Queen's birthday weekend.
Wow.
So it's been going for a long time in New Zealand.
Is it still going?
Yes?
I don't know.
I imagine it'll be centralized in Land Revenue now. Is it's still around the country as it must be.
Well, as far as I'm aware, they're still having them.
Okay, Oh very interesting. Kay, thank you for coming through and then incredibly interesting. Keep it going if you want to talk about this eight hundred and eighty basketball in New Zealand and what we're going to do with all the court where we're going to get all the courts we need five hundred more. It's a lot Marc's we always had dancers or play in the church hall or Thanksgiving festival. We brought along growing produce. Marcus. Basketball played inside out of the elements also makes it more appealing than running around in the rain and cod winsess. I'd mentioned that would be the case too, But Fancy and Baypark Speedway. They're trying to stop the birth about the creation of basketball courts. They're saying hens off Baypark. Someone says, Marcus, I think basketball maybe a short term thing, at like netball soccer. I don't know if that's two things or one thing, netball soccer, unless there's a game called netbull soccer, which does sound like a short term. No, basketball will be here forever. Most sports, there are many sports that are just fads. I don't think I'm trying to think sports that have come and gone quite quickly. I'll tell you a sport that I reckon. I'm amazed it survives hockey. When you ever heard anyone say, g I saw an exciting hockey match last night, it seems to be a whole sport that exists without any audience appeal whatsoever. And there's that guy that retired this week. It has been playing for twenty years. Couldn't even picture him Simon someone anyway, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine two text, basketball and other stuff will get to the text before too long. Now I'm watching Women's quit. Quite sure what channel I've gone on the moment, but anyway, half past ten houris to headlines, please Marcus.
The Transport Agency has spent nearly eight hundred million dollars on traffic management in the past three years. The Government's revealed the spend on road cones and traffic management for state highway maintenance and capital works. Transport Minister Simmy and Brown announced in July that m ZTA would start publicly reporting its spend, which had previously gone untracked. New Zealand's new top cops says under his leadership, the ethos will move away from policing by consent that was the controversial approach of the outgoing commissioner Andy Costa. Richard Chambers has been named today as Costa's replacement. And as you've been discussing, times are changing for high school sport. Basketball is about to become the top sport in schools, participation up sixty one percent. More in the News at eleven and on injied Herald dot co dot inseet.
Thank you, Alisa, twenty nine away from eleven Murray textas I knew you were going to say, hockey lull your terrible sport and always expensive all weather courts that cost there's always fund and it was getting fundraising for millions of dollars for hockey. Must be very very good at getting funds for some reason. Oh, crakes a good point. Indoor cricket was big back in the eighties and nineties. That's exactly right. It's a very good point you make. I think indoor cricket was big because they suddenly and it must be because manufacturing moved offshore. There are a lot of old warehouses, a lot of old ware house space they need to use for people sit up indoor cricket. But you're right, end or cricket was very big, and not so much anymore. I know indoor netball's quite big. No way you call it indoor netballs. You just call it netball, shouldn't you it it's netball. But we're going to get five hundred courts because you already think the fastest growing school sport would be fortnite seems to what everyone wants to play jumping. If you want to at these topics or anything else. My name is Marcus. Got evening welcome, HDDLE twelve. Whatever you want, that'd be nice to hear from you. Wednesday feels like Thursday. Every windy with strong winds coming up the country. That's a warning. Although the fire is out in west of Todonga. It seems to be sorted out. So anyway, that's why I've got to tell you good evening, Ray. It's Marcus welcome.
Hello Marcus. Well, I had to go to the dentist or somewhere, you know, they're going to take my head off or something, and I got my book in my hand about bitcoin, and the girl looked at me. This is a reception, she said. Well, she said, I was down at Dunedin at the university there, and there was this young chap who oh he got fed up with the course. He was playing with the computer and anyway, he didn't turn up to the lectures and he carried on playing with her. And then he sold his car because he was playing with his computer. So he got his money and then I don't know how much it was, we'll say five hundred dollars. So this is twenty ten.
So he.
Spent his carmony on bitcoin, which at that time you've got one hundred to a dollar a dollar New Zealand. So I don't know. He probably had five thousand, ten thousand, probably fifty thousand for his five hundred dollars. Now, what I'd like to know is, does anyone know the name of this chap?
How did this come up at your dentist?
Ray?
Because I got my book in my hand. I'm trying to work out I trying to work out about bitcoin, how it works, and I got a book on bitcoin.
What's the book called?
Oh?
I have no idea because I put it back to the library. You know, he got terribly boring after the first one hundred pages, something about.
Okay, and so were you reading this book at the dentist exactly? Okay. So I think a lot of those people right in the early days of bitcoin, a lot of them lost it all because there were so many hecks and there were so many people that lost all their bitcoin, or they sold it when it was down. I don't think he would still have all that. Most people I know with bitcoin have sold it or lost it.
Well, this, this young man did not.
Okay, Oh so you know more. Okay, well tell me, well, well.
The the the girl of the dentist the exception said, oh no, no, he sort of managed to hold on and he's now an extremely wealthy man.
Okay, so you don't know what as nighers?
Yeah, exactly anyone.
How did the dentists know all about it?
Well?
Because she was part of the university.
Okay, okay, it's a good story. I'm gonna leave it there, Raye, but thank you so much for me. It's too confusing. Betty Marcus welcome, Hi, Betty.
Ah, Hello.
I wanted to say that my husband was playing basketball in nineteen fifty.
Great, this is all we need to know about. Whereabouts busy Well, he was.
Working for the Physical Welfare Department of Internal Affairs.
Oh Cheapest was there as well, yep.
Is and he he coached there. He played there. We moved to New Plymouth, he played and coached there. We moved to tom Nui, he played and coached there, and then we moved up north and he played and coached there.
Wow.
And that was yeah.
I always told him it was his first love. He just so enjoyed.
Basketball, so were there are quite if were you when you seemed to be teams in leagues? Is that what you're saying? This is in the fifty there were a lot of people playing it.
Oh, yes, and Tom Renui Queen's birthday weekend they had a Maori tournament. Yes, we had teams from everywhere. It was a wonderful, wonderful weekend.
Were there a lot of people from church teams?
No, okay, they were just teams made up from all the people from the area and it was just, I don't know, wonderful experience.
And this is right back to nineteen fifty, nineteen fifty. Yeah, oh, thanks for coming through, Petty Free Interest to keep your calls coming through. Joe Marcus, welcome, How are you good, Joe?
He's talking about basketball and other sports tonight. Well, a lot of people don't know that. Caine Williamson, usual Creek captain, who's my cousin. He was a great basketball player. I don't know where he still plays it, but he used to play. Because he's quite sured. He played in the middle mid court and the tall guys are the ones of the defense and the tech on either end of the thing.
Well, that makes sense because I know a lot of people have a lot of sports. People that are coordinated tend to be good at basketball, like like Jeff Wilson was a very good basketballer or is it a good basketballer.
Yeah, the there's a lot of people have got at more than one sport.
And Joe maybe that's why why basketball is not such a fantastic sport because it does seem to be at the top levels to be for redependent on height, doesn't it?
Yes?
Yeah, mostly Sandra herself. Sandra is Cane's mother. She was a great net more player, be right.
Yep, and she was a basketball she was ripped in a basketball player too, I think yes.
And Gain's father was a great cricketer, but he wasn't quite good enough for the black Caps. This was years ago, of course, because there were related is Sandra Kane's mother's Kane's mother's father was a guy called Ian Johnson who was originally from here from Christeech And he had a brother called Bruce Johnson. And Bruce Johnson was.
My father in law for goodness sake.
And.
Caine's parents plus one of his sisters. He's got three sisters and named Anna, which is what my daughter's name. They came down last year for a funeral, family funeral. In fact, the two Johnson brothers that were their sister that died. Okay and Kane's parents and one of his sisters came down at the funeral. But they had to be back. They just come down for the day. They had to be back in Auckland that night to pick up Kane. He'd just flying back from India from his playing cricket over there. But I see today here today he just had his first game for Northern Districts and he got sixty because he did a serious coin injury for some time.
Did you play basketball, Joe, No, No, But I was.
A world champion. I've talked to you before about I was a world champion fifty years ago. I think it my particular.
Spart ice racer.
Yes, that's right, I talked to you a long time ago about it.
What year were your world champion?
Seventy three? Very well, But originally I come on the scene when I was well, got famous when I was seventeen. My last year high school, I said a world junior record and because that's been.
Broken outdoor indoor.
Outdoor, but yeah, I did a weave. It indoor with two types? Where did you set the record the two types on Lake Ida?
Okay? When did your first step on the skates?
When I was five? Because my father was a skater, but he comes from down south. There was a lot of naturalized, you know, outdoor ice and he was a bit of an ice hockey player. Yes, and we were the first city in New Zealand to get an indoor ice rink.
So what what lakes would you have?
Where?
Was it always like Lake Ida for you?
No?
No, no, no, It's like I Air in Canterbury. We'll get this place where you get for the four hundred meter tree. There was a lake idl in Lake London in Canterbury which the top of Porters passed. And in central Itago there was Man of burn Dam. It's just out of Alexandra and Ida burn Dam, which is near end.
Fairly yep.
But we used to have every second year. Every one year we'd have in the New zeal champs on Lake Ida. The next year we'd have them my Man of burn Dam. Okay, but we had a lot of We've had a lot of world champions speech skaters over the years, but unfortunately in the Olympic Games, we've never done better than four. We're still waiting to get a placing in the Winter Games. And here we've had a lot of world champions beach skaters.
Do you think the years, do you think we'll get there?
Well?
I hope though, hope.
So yeah, Okay, nice to talk Joe. Thanks for calling sixteen away from eleven. Catch your soon, Ellen, it's Marcus.
Good evening here any Marcus basketball. Basketball has been going quite a long time. It started off it's about with the Wellington Fire Brigade in the nineteen forties. Oh wow, and a couple of them went over to England and got involved in promoting basketball over in England.
I wonder what fibrigade got into it.
Yeah, they played basketball and Wellington.
Do you wonder how that came about? I guess they might have been yeah, okay, and they.
Were quite good. And I started a basketball club off in Taupo in nineteen sixty three, the Forest Routine.
Yes, and.
Our basketball was going quite strongly in Tapo in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
So what sort of.
Teams would there be? Were there established basketball teams or they come from the work league, or tell me a bit about that I'm just trying to come to terms with where it all evolved from.
Oh, well, when when I started a team off in Tapo that there was a Bank of New Zealand team. Yes, Forest is at w Iraqi, just up north of Tapo. They were very strong, and yeah, all sorts of clubs here, so it.
Seemed it came from workplaces would have teams. Is that right, Yeah, they'd be right, Okay, that's interesting.
And then I moved to I started a team off there in nineteen sixty three and we learned the game. First year wouldn't do too good, but then we were quite strong in our second year, and that was quite interesting because we were we had a forest routee from out on a napier road and we had to travel sixteen miles at nighttime and get back before the power went off on the local generator after ten thirty. And then I moved to rote Ruh and I started a basketball club club here with the with the teachers. We had a men's and two men's and a women's team from the teachers, and then we incorporated other organizations and we changed our name to Combine Services in the Road and we had up to seven teams and our club and I was a coach to the team, and I become manager of the Basketball Association, a life member of the roader of basketball. Now okay, and talking about basketball courts, the high schools have basketball courts. We used to train our club there at nighttime. And one of the high schools and road in another high school, a Rodora Boys High School that there was a club called All Stars. Used to train there and we trained with the Catholic College and road room there assembly hall head basketball hoops up.
Oh, you've had long involvement with the game then now and haven't you well.
Hang here okay? From nineteen sixty three were you were.
You in the fire brigade in Wellington? Is it how your involvement started? No, that that wasn't how I got How did you get into it?
I started the basketball was quite strong and rode and I'm sorry. In Tapo in the earlier sixties. It was nineteen sixty three, the forestry team made a forestry team and we got a couple of goals sied up at the place called sixty bar eight. It was on the that was a the code name of the forestry area. The division was sixty bar eight was named of our team.
And did you have did you have backboards and things to practice out there?
Yeah, we got a couple of erected. The forest ranger helped us put the We put them up at school. I was a teacher out there at the forestry there sixteen x eight as the only teacher out there. And here we put basketball goals up outdoors on our school grounds.
It's a good story. And thank you so much for calling. I appreciate your ringing tonight.
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