I'll be all sharked up (17 June 2025)

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A'd be welcome to New Zealand. Marcus here till midnight tonight. I hope things are good where you are. I hope in the next three and a half hours, three hours fifty three. If they're not good, they will get better. Obviously, a big deal with the old supermarket of Victoria Park. That's where, well some of you will know where that is, near the old Victoria Park markets, just across the road from there. It's a weird kind of supermakers. You park downstairs,

Bloody yell fifty years ago since I had to leave the theater because I pull my eyes out with parents were terrified. Not that old. Parents decided it was a great idea, even though we lived near the beach. Let's go see Jaws. Fantastic idea when I was ten years old. Great, So the part that got me it was all bit as scary, But the part that got me was when the boat started to he was feeding the I remember it distinctly. He was feeding the slush out going I

Mom and Dad put it up on the wall.

And I didn't sleep for a week and I never went in the water for years.

Did your parents go back and enjoy the rest of the film, Yes, it's a good story. When did you find when did when did you finally see it?

The end of it? Yeah?

When did bick age later? Bick age later?

And then I watched the sequels as well?

I know that.

Yes, okay, one, two, and.

Three, I think yes, But traumatized, never went in the sea for probably five years.

Horrific.

It's well, I never saw them, but there was a neighbor across the road and their father was quite a military type person. He I mean, never took his kids to the movie, just stayed open. Took us three kids, I think, almost a tougher them up and I thought, jeepest creepers. That was a tough move and as a rest by that. But I never saw it. I missed the boat, was scared. Never seen it in my life. Can't wait to see it. Can't work out where I can see it.

On YouTube and just look out Jaws and then find the movie link for Jaws. I've watched the Waltons, all the ard stuff on YouTube. We just find it and watch it, you.

Know, Will Jaws be on YouTube?

Yeah?

They thanks on you man.

Just you do a little bit of a search. I'm sure you'll find it.

Haven't you giving me a poster?

Oh?

I can't believe it. Because the poster was terrifying, The music was terrifying.

It was all terrifying, exactly, exactly, just nuts. Because I'm sweet and just thinking about it.

Yeah, Well, because because living in Bluff there were people always asking me if I want to go and go shark watching where they drop in their cage, and I'm thinking I couldn't think anything worse.

You're in a cage, you'll be right.

Oh yeah, I wouldn't want to go. Gary, not that interested. Thank you too for Tuesday. We've got two. Gary's got a doublehead of garys. Second Gary, Gary, but two it's Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Hey, you want to know we watched yours. Okay, you can stream it on Neon or Apple TV and JB Hi Fi sell the DVDs.

Wow, would most people still have a DVD player? I don't even know if I would have one.

Yeah, probably for most of your Blu ray players will play DVDs as well.

Okay, that's why I think i'm sort of in the in the Okay, we've got a JB High fight down. They'll try that and report back. The poster if you don't know, the poster is that great lettering of duwelers. And then you've got a woman swimming and she might be naked, she might be a skinny dipper, and then most of the poster is just a shark surface about to take her.

Yeah.

So that's a pretty interesting story, is it. And the shark looks menacing April. It's Marcus, Welcome.

Marcus Hello. I just had to talk to you about Jaws. When that came out, I was seventeen at the movies, and back then I think it was pretty well made, and it was damn scary and at the tender age of seventeen, like so many other people that are probably going to ring, and I was terrified to go in the ocean after that. Look, even I take we'd go on holidays to Tatne and then we beat j Nelson And if anyone knows what I back, it's.

Like a milk on about you.

It is too if the water.

Came up past my chest, who would be terrified? There was going to be a sharkner And that's been one of my favorite I've never been too scared to watch a movie, but the impression it made on me was lifelong.

Where did you, April? Where did you see it? Who did you see it with? Were you and Nelson?

It would have been with my with my boyfriend at the time.

I saw it in.

The movie theater in donedan Wow and.

Hang on did you Holiday? And Tahuna Nui from Dunedin. Yes, often every year that's a drive.

We'd go up for a couple of weeks and stay out there.

I want a mission. That'd be like a twelve hour drive, wouldn't it.

Yeah, Oh, we did it in a couple of a couple of days. We'd sometimes stop in christ Church on the way up. But we loved it up there. But even in that water, I was still terrified, and to this day I've never felt the same about swimming in the ocean. It really did have a lasting effect. And they did make a Jaws two and the George Jaws three, but they didn't measure up and they.

Didn't but they didn't remake. They didn't remake the original either, which I think is the best thing with because I'm sure there's a temptation to bring the real crash hot animatronics, you know, CG CGI, and they've never done that because I think probably what was quite good about it was that the mechanical shark didn't really work, so it was used quite sparingly.

He I think I remember reading that Steven Spielberg, who was quite young at the time when he made that movie, just to spared sometimes with the mechanical shaft didn't behave. It didn't behave, but we didn't know that when we were watching it, obviously. I think I also remember reading that because he was quite young and he had quite

From what I've read over the years.

But if I think, you've still got to pay per view if you want to see it on YouTube or something like that. But it was on Netflix for a long time and I used to watch it once a month, So not scared of the movie. Totally impressed with it for the way it was for the time, but honestly, yeah, just terrified me. And I used to love to swim in the ocean. I'd dive in the waves, so new I got beaches inndermedia and we used to spend a lot of time in them.

But you know, of course, seems quite shocking. Well, thanks so much, Donna, quickly, Marcus welcome.

Hi, it's Donna. I just thought i'll tell you Acus.

If you've got sky towards.

The is on Saturday night, is it really?

Yeah?

I saw in the Buddhistment today on Bravo on the movies.

On the movie, we've got sky. But on the movies.

No, no, it's not on the movies.

It's on Bravo.

Oh wow, jupesscreepers. It's we can sort it out. I'll watch the kids. I'll get the kids to watch. Okay, Donna, thank you. Remind me that Dan, that's good for Matarika. Yeah, okay, yes, Sky Bravo. Oh that's brilliant, brilliant. Okay, I appreciate that. Our line's free. If you want to talk. We're talking Sharks and Jaws. Why not just a couple of things. Quickly they called the mechanical shark Bruce, after Steven Spielberg's lawyer.

Why.

I think the reason why they haven't remade.

The Jaws is because the guy who wrote the.

Book was at Brenchley or Peter Brenchley, and also Stephen Spielberg. They both expressed enormous regret at the impact that the film had on the public section of sharks. And yeah, because the decimation of the shark population since that, the people saw them as you know, like you know, shark hunting and fishing and all of that. Yeah, So it's interesting what a film can have, the effects, the cultural effect that can have.

So I was reading that last night, according to Benchley's widow, that he spent a lot of his later life, you know, really campaigning and putting money towards the preservation protection of sharks because he I mean, look, I don't know what it was like before that. It's hard to remember what it was like because I was only ten at the time. But it's hard to remember if people were terrified of sharks pre the movie.

Pet's not to that extent though, because it really was an early horror movie, wasn't it.

Oh yeah, and look just all of it, the music, everything, and just you know, you didn't even have to see it to be terrified by them.

They're always playing it is that callers said they always replay it on television like three times a year on that. I know you probably don't watch free to air channels one, two, and three, but they're forever playing it.

Apparently it's on channel it's on Bravo, which is free to wear on Sunday nights, so that's channel four or channel twelve. So I will be watching it if the kids. I don't know, if I've got trouble with our kids, right because our kids jump off the wharf at Bluff.

I wouldn't show it to them, definitely, no.

But the thing with them jumping off the wolf at Bluff, it's it's controversial because they're always having fights with the council. But now one of the news in shark Experts to see that's the same place the boats come in and they're fillitting fish and doing stuff like that. Sounds like a perfect shark spot. So oh no, okay, there's sea scouts as well, so don't want to fill them with Tara Marcus, how really old? Are you lush? Not seeing Jaws? Are you a sock? Get real?

Oh?

I'm desperate to see it, but you know, I forgot to see it for a long time. And now I'm looking back and realizing it's fifty years and I'm appalled. I can't wait to see it. I think of all the conversations of used out because I couldn't say we're going to need a bigger boats, because that's what you say, isn't it when you're at sea? Jules Marcus, Good evening, Marcus.

Did you ever work at Armadillo? Yes, in krop.

Simon Street, f Street. Yeah, yeah, anyway, Eden, Wellington, Yeah, I remember that.

Anyway. My story about the Jaws is that I couldn't stand university, so I left it my first year. I went traveling and I was walking along Oxford Street with my handy Canon camera and I saw it crowd forming, and I thought I'd go along there. So I went along there and it was Andy Warhol and is then very young mus.

And Oxford Street, Sydney or in London, London, yep, okay, yep.

And I thought I was the official photographer, of course, you know, hiding behind my twenty year old fears. And they said, make way for the photographer, make way for the photographer.

What year we talking.

Seventy four or seventy five?

Okay, you've got a young setting woice just hanging their jewels. We'll come back to the rest of the story because you're not going to be a short call, because this is a good material and we'll build it up. So just don't go anywhere jewels. Thanks Tony, Back to your jewels. So nineteen seventy four or seventy seven, what did you say, seventy.

No, no, no, no, I'm fifty four. I was born in fifty fours seventy four or seventy five, okay, and had just come out and I had lucked into the crowd lining up to see Andy Warhol, and they thought I was an official photographer, so they let me in. I got all these great photos of Andy Warholf and I lined up also with the box that was his A to B again, I think it was A to b Andy Warhol is one of Andy Wowholf's books. And Andy Warhol said to me, oh, who do you want me

And did you actually say jewels?

I said jewels, but he was as Jaws. Wow, Now how's that? And I've still got it on my wall. And I just went to check it that I was still there, and I thought my wife replaced it with a Chinese painting. I found it.

It's a poster of his book, is it.

It's the you know, the inside cover. He wrote a book A to B. Yeah, and so you lined up to get him to sign it and he signed it on the on the inside cover, A to B to Jaws Andy wohol.

Wow.

And I've still got it and i've you know, I kept it very really carefully on the sid free paper and stuff. But fifty years ago you can hardly see it. Very funny story. I still have the photo.

That faded away, has it?

Oh you can still see it?

Yeah?

What a story. Thank you, Jiles. I appreciate that greatly. Sewanotte's Marcus, Well.

Marcus, welcome. What a fantastic topic. I was only five years old when George came out, but I saw it later. But it's a movie where there's been several documentaries. It's had a number of unique stories. The first story is Steven Spielberg was Tho, the third string director. He'd made The American Caffeedi and he couldn't get a job with only twenty nine and a big studio wouldn't give a

Wow. I think it says originally that Spielberg wanted to use a live shark, to use live sharks for that, But that's that's why I think the production or the Yeah, they delayed because I wanted to use live shots, but had decide they did to use mechanical ones. But they just would have to scratch.

And they got inside and the drowned that they nearly had fatality. It was quite a it was quite a comedy of well I say comedy of eras, but it was. It was a remarkable and did die. But he credits his later career if he didn't didn't get Jaws, he didn't believe he worked done a terminator or when part of Star Wars, he says it started with Jaws for him.

You put it as one of the great movies.

I do think it was one of the great movies because I thought it made people think about it was a unique subject. There was nothing like in the past. It wasn't a horror movie, it wasn't a science fiction. It was something unique. I think it was authentic, and also said Royce Schneider was a very seasoned actor, and I think it was actually quite quite a pointed thing. It may be a little bit of fake to go in the water for a while, but as I recall,

Just I don't want to affect check you sure, but I don't think he did American Graffiti. I think that was Lucas, wasn't it.

Something?

I think I think Joe was his first one that had kind of done, which is just a truck chasing a car. But nice to hear from you, Seaw, this is good stuff. Guys twenty four to nine, Karram, it's Marcus.

Welcome Hi Marcus. Yeah, just Jaws.

It reminded me.

I know this is probably going off topic, but kind of related to the Jaws. There's a movie playing called The Dangerous Animals at the moment of the cinemas.

Is it a guy feeding people to live sharks?

Yeah, yeah, it's a shark movie. But it's really interesting that they've shown the animal the humans to be actually more dangerous than the sharks, because he's doing something more dangerous than the sharks. So it's kind of like, you know what I mean, it's kind of like opposite to the Jews.

What's it like? Have you seen? Have you seen it?

Yeah?

I actually like this.

So he's a psychopath and he's catching people and feeding them the sharks, is he.

Yeah, yeah, that's what he does. And it's kind of it's you know, the message is seending is that actually the humans can be more dangerous. And I thought that's very interesting because you know how everyone's kind of like skin of sharks and then here there's this human trying to Dutch people and then feed them to the sharks and you know, so, yeah, it was quite an interesting movie. Yeah, the focus is not a lot on the shark itself. It's not really scary in that term at all. So

You know, what are the special effects like on this one?

They're okay, But it's just because normally what he does is he you know, the sharks kind of like you know, he's just paus a bit of blood or whatever into the water and comes around and circles around and he's feeding these people. And it's not really much to do with the shark itself. It's he likes capturing the you know people, He likesmera and then he likes to capture to see how they're being eaten.

Does he feed them? Are they alive when he's feeding them to the sharks?

Yeah, he ties them to a ripe and then like kind of lowers them down into the water. And it's this whole movie is about you know, the whole rope going down, you know, the noise, it makes and the cinematography and all of that is pretty good, like you know, the movie Buff, but yeah, the shark itself, you don't really see much of it because you know, sometimes they're kind of half their bodies in the water and it's

Is it a horror?

It's a thriller? I mean, yeah, yeah, I think it's just a yeah, thriller. But yeah, I just found it quite interesting, you know. I mean I go to most movies that are playing, and I found this one to be kind of interesting, like a lot of other ones are just so boring.

You know.

It's a different take, you know.

What I mean. Like, so it's a naughty film? Is that I just filmed in Australia?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know you get the Gold Coast and everything, and it's quite well band Like sometimes you know, they can be too weird, but this is kind of it is weird, but you know it's kind of not too weird. They've kind of found a balance, I suppose,

You know.

Nice to hear from you, Kuran, Thank you. Eighteen to nine. Jeff, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Hi, Jeff, yeah believing.

Oh sorry is this why call?

Yeah, it's your call, Jeff, This is Marcus. Welcome about that.

It's just going back to talking about Jaws. That took me right back. I was twenty four years of age in Australia and I'm not about nineteen seventy four, and when the first Jaws movie came out, Yeah, sure, who was pretty scary, but it was great.

It was a great movie.

I went and saw Jaws two and three, but not very impressed with it. It will never be the same as Jaws one.

I think there was Jaws and three D two was there.

It could have been. I'm not sure about that.

But the.

First Jaws was really scary. My girlfriend and I were sitting there and in one part, I think she jumped about ten feet out of her seat and I had to keep telling her it's onny a movie don't get too carried away. And anyway, it was a great movie. Steelbird did a great job of making that movie. But Jaws two and three it was okay, but not the same.

Yeah.

I don't think anybody ever thought that Matrix were going to be in the sequel, and at least the three at least they've never remade the original. That's what I think I'm happy about. Jeff, thank you. If we had three Jeffs, two Garries, one Jeff. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten. It's all about Jaws tonight, fifty years brilliant, so plenty of you would have been young kids when you're dragged along to set and terrified. Someone says, watched

Brilliant?

Not quite sure the story of the music, but that was pretty legendary as well. Steve Marcus, good evening.

Andy Marcus, How are you good?

Things?

Good? Jaws three was the three D one. Oh, it's the marketing, pretty sure, because that was one of the first ones I saw as a lad. And I'm pretty sure they played the first Jaws on TV prior to freak Us all that. Again, that was the first time I saw it.

What we're talking like nineteen eighty eighty five or something, Yeah, yep, something, And then I guess there's plenty of the action of the shark jumping out towards you. It been three D.

Yeah, it was pretty good. Back in the day. That was when you had to wear or make your own glasses with the blue limbs and the red Lins as well.

It was quite good, they market. Yeah, it was quite good. And then it came back about ten. Yeah, don't quite because even about ten years ago there was a huge thing about three D. It disappeared because Evatar was three D, wasn't it.

Yeah?

There was, and I think maybe even the Hobbit they did it their high refresher rate end three D or so.

Maybe.

So you saw the Jaws movies in reverse order? Did you start off with a terrible one then worked up for the epic one?

Yeah?

Probably a bit like Star Wars.

Yes, yes, I will. Star Wars is different all together, Steve, Thank you? When do you start off with number four?

Is that right?

Pleased? I've left the Star Wars behind. I did a job for the kids. We watched them all a number of times, but you don't miss them. They never really grabbed me. Don't know why. I think in the in the end, the whole Star Wars universe became too complicated, too different characters and different things. Although I like the last one actually surprisingly enough, Rise of Skywalker thought that was good. I'll go see any when they come out of the cinema. I think these cinema things, it's where

Macus.

Can you hear me?

Okay, yes, well, thank you, thanks for asking. Yes, well, thank you.

Hey.

I really enjoyed showing that too.

Yeah.

So I've just caught the tail. I'm just setting minute ago the leave the topic, George. It's just reminded me a great movie, really good book too. I can't remember the name of the ride, but he's written some other quite there's another great book he wrote which is all similar. It's not a shark, it's kind of like an octopus thing, and it's about this couple and it's that's another great route. It might be called The Beast or something like that.

You know he was he was the guy on the boat.

In the movie with Richard Dravia and I can't think of the actor's name, but he's a he's a famous famous British actor someone Sure. He was this He played the part of the Nailei old skipper.

Yeah.

So apparently those two had what you what you called bad chemistry going on from the get go, which really helped these scenes. And it was just to the sort of it was to the extent where they couldn't be together without people being around them unless you know, when they weren't playing their role. And I think a story is that Draaic has kind of swanned onto to the.

Film set.

And complained about having to be out on a boat and he shouldn't be there because he just had a couple of big films and he was a bit of a star, and he was containing about being in this stupid movie out on a boat in this very famous English I think it's someone Sure, someone on Oh took an instant dislike to him, so just really really gave him a hard time the entire.

Robert Sure, Robert s, Yeah, I thought you thought Grayfuss was arrogant and sort of above the station. I think, but I reckon it made the movie what it was the fact that they were so so sort of you know, there was so much hatred.

Yeah, yeah, well gave it that great tension, you know, but like Lingwood Mac, Yeah, that's right. And and also and of course that that that movie. You know, there's there's scenes from movies like Lawrence of Arabia and it's you know, certain scenes from movies. And of course Robert Shaw's little story that he tells, you know, him and his mates by the bombing and the Second World War on that ship and then they all float around in

I think, as I say, Dave, I haven't seen it.

Oh my god.

Yeah.

So I started off tonight's show by saying, look, it's fifty years undetermined to right the wrongs. Where will I watch it? And anyway we've ended we've ended up just talking about it tonight anyway. So so I'd like to watch some of those documentaries about the making of it, because the whole thing, I mean, it seems absolutely fascinating.

You know, there's so much going on because of course Spielberg. I think that was was that was that was.

I think that was it was.

It was.

It done duel in a couple of minor ones, but this was as big as he was only twenty nine as a young guy.

Yeah yeah, I mean you watch it as well. I actually I watch sport of but yeah, yeah, well, well you'll enjoying it.

That's one thing.

Else one and another thing. I'd encourage you to because it's reminding me of I think I ard you one night say you don't we and have never worn gendles. I encourage you to do the driving the word right now.

I might we Gendles and watch Jaws. Dave make a real Sunday.

Yeah, tack too often the same night.

Brilliant, You're good on your day. Thanks for calling me out on my stupidity. Fancy that there's been a bed of honor. How ridiculous six to nine never worn gendals. It's good what people remember. Oh yeah, lust, he doesn't mean Jennal's an idiot. That's what you want to get people going around about. I was seventeen when Jaws came out and I was traumatized about going in the water.

For years.

I was met on She used to go out from Carlo karabaita fish and the whole Eccre Gulf. I'veter seen the movie. They're seized off for a couple of summers, not because I was nervous, but also my boyfriend and his three brothers. The dad music is embedded my memory even now I go for a paddle. There are really scary moments and at tension throughout the movie. Beatty gives you a breather, relentless terror and unforgettable. He also did Peter Benchley, the author also did The Deep, which was

Was it a movie?

The other day?

Tiana had a half time and I thought that was quite good. So, yes, it's all about Jaws tonight. So let's be hearing your take on this one. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two to text. Loving the calls, love a bit of movie nostalgia. Also fifty years ago. I don't know when it came out, and you see them, that's not important. Tonight's the night we talk about it, and I'll be watching it on TV on Sunday. Be a good wine down from Matariki.

Oh?

You people love that, don't they? Six victims in the movie, including a dog, not that i'd know. After seeing Jaws at the Savory in christ Church, I wanted a bigger boat, Mike Chopper. Someone's texted to intermission and I use the wrong word, so I apologize, so I say interval. Kind of think why that's sen through that?

Come on?

Oh.

According to Fire and Emergency Senior Manager Senior Officer Mike Neville, the fire Victoria Park has been extinguished and five fighters will remain there of have an ideal with any hot spots and ensure the perimeter of the side of secure. Nine crews sell at the site. This will reduced to five. They expect to hand the building back to the property owners in the morning. It's too soon to have an information about the fire investigation. No word on the Red

Yep.

Just that, and of course they had Golden It didn't get the Oscar for Bex's picture. That got that was One Fly Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which I have seen. But America is full of kind of articles and stuff talk about the fifty years on, so come on, that's what we are talking about tonight, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine too known to detext YEP. So the novel came out in seventy four, of the movie within

Oh hi, I'm just sitting here. I'm reading something interesting. Anyhow, Jaws is on at twelve fifteen on Monday during the twenty third, and that's in the TV week that's in there.

Start okay, Now, I think that might be on Bravo, was it? Because it's on yes, Bravo. I think it's also on the Monday on the Sunday night, so that's a repeat. So that's good to know.

I haven't seen it, but I've looked for Saturday. Was it Saturday night?

Sunday?

The lady? Oh Sunday? Okay?

Is yes?

She still get the TV guide, Jennie, Well, it comes on our newspaper. I see what you like in the press. Is it the Press?

Yes?

And christ Church for next week.

The Sunday, the twenty second.

And Monday, so it's all next week's TV.

Okay.

Are you planning to girl? Are you planning to watch it? Janus, Well, you seen it already?

Oh whoa.

I watched it.

I was twenty two. It was a bit scary, but I need to rewatch it because I don't remember.

Man, was that when you were twenty two? Was that fifty years ago?

Here look him.

Okay, Well we conveen on Monday and discuss it. Jedous, thank you for that. Thirteen past nine. We're talking about Jaws eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and your memories of it or your experiences of seeing that, and how terrified one was. Keep the text coming through two people nine two nine two to text. Good response so far, Keep it going. The music score from John Williams absolutely amplified the suspense. Brilliant two notes and everyone knows the

Oh hi Marcus.

We live up the road actually not too far from the fire this afternoon and quite shocked in appalled because this is the second major fire that we've had. From our home on the second level, we could see the sky City Convention when it burned for three nights straight after a I think a welder left a guest torch ignited and the whole bitchermen on the or the waterproofing just went up in flames and it burned like a distant fire and we could see that from our window

I just don't know what it was.

Yeah, so it has the news come out about what exactly started the fire or someone did.

Say they thought it might be the red Hot specials. But I think they are being humorous. But you're probably not the mood for that.

No, absolutely not, not when you're stret back it's shut down areas actually almost.

Shannon, tell me a bit, a little bit about your anger. Who's it towards?

I know it.

I feel sadness over the loss of quite a building that was being rebuilt. I don't know what they were doing on the ground floor, but you know, it's already so congested through the inner city there, and then to have these awful fires and the liability the past just over small eras it frustrates.

Me because another fire to take a long time to put out that three day one didn't it?

Oh?

Absolutely, And it's just frightening when you all. I can see up our window because we've got a second level, and all you can see is the spire in your in your window frame, and that's frightening.

She had a nice to talk. Thank you. Twenty past nine, Maxing, it's Marcus. Good evening. Oh Maxine, that's Marcus good evening.

Ah, hello, Marcus. I'm suffering you cold at the moment. I hope I'm quite audible.

You are, ding, Oh, thank you.

I do want to share my experience of.

The Jewels movie.

Yes, fantastic.

And you haven't seen it yet.

No, No, I'm going to see it on Sunday and I'm going to become a Jewels boar. Yes, oh, very very good.

I saw it.

Goodness me, I must have been was when it first came out and my brother and I were shipped off on the bus to get out of our mother's here and we would take ourselves off to the Century Picture Theater Indonedan and here was this Jaws movie.

It was brilliant.

It had all thoughts in it, It had wonderful family dynamics, it had caring of the community. You were really going to enjoy it, and there were certain aspects of it where you basically.

Screamed, and I agree.

Where were you?

Where were you?

Where were you? Bust from?

I was brought up indonnedan.

Okay, but yeah, okay, but you will okay. So you caught the bus from home to the city to watch it? Is that right?

Yes, that's right.

Yeah, to basically get out of mother's here.

You know, it was fifty years ago today or in two days. Do you know how old you would have been?

What have you been?

Six or seven? Nine? Well, it's quite young to see it.

Yes, it was, but a very very good movie. I sent the neighbor across the road from our spirit glamorous woman was reading the book because it was like a summer.

The book to read, you know.

And I remember viewing the.

Cover of the book of Jaws coming up underneath.

The south board.

It was brilliant shot. And I know, I suppose we must go to the theater. Mum, we must go to the theater. Take money, go, get out of my hair.

Wow, And off we went.

To this movie, very very good movie. And the funny thing is, for months I wouldn't even slash the toilet. I was too frightened the chores would.

Come up through the bottom.

Goodness so fast. That was, you know, interesting, very interesting, Maxing, thank you for that. Twenty three past nine, we are talking Jaws and every iteration about that fifty years ago. It was on the June twenty it was released, and I think one hundred and fifty theaters across America. I imagine it would be somewhat later in New Zia. It might be three or four months later. Marcus. I watched Jaws the eighties of my parents' lounge was seven to eight.

How are you good?

Thank you?

And the Jaws movie from a cinematography point of view, was quite roundbreaking, the way they did the course up shots, you know how the cand of zoom men. That's the first time that technique was ever used in mainstream cinema, and it's still like used a lot in my horror movies and stuff the family.

Yeah, so it's quite groundbreaking, it seems.

Yeah, yeah, just I just like, yeah, appreciate it.

Appreciate that. Jason, Thank you. Twenty six past nine catches soon see your text through two people or your emails. Marcus at Newstalk zb dot co dot m Z. Marcus loved Jewels not on you him personally. As my birthday and Monday, I'm planning to see the new zombie movie twenty eight years later. Looks good. Oh the movie called twenty years I haven't heard of that. I think I said, zombie movie. I never heard of it. Oh yeah, okay, the third film in the twenty eight Days Later franchise.

Saw Jaws when I was sort of fairly young and at the Saint James Theater in Auckland. I think it was I was in the balcony. I just fell off when Jaws the guy's ladling chum off the back of the boat and the shark comes up right behind him. I got such a friday. It just about fell off the balcony.

Were you too young? It was about right for you, Tony.

I think most of it was that was not that scary, but there were just a few kind of explosive, unexpected moments that kind of made the whole film, and it was it was pretty impressive for such a low tech era. But then they spoiled it a bit later by showing us the sort of gas canister that drove the shark and kind of ruined the whole thing because it was great.

And of course when you would have seen that, there were no sportler alerts because people wouldn't get on the day and say, oh, you got to watch out for this, fright. I mean, it was all you didn't know what was going to happen.

No, exactly, no, if you hadn't hadn't spoken to anyone else who saw it. I think I saw it quite early on in it's run, and yeah.

Because it was quite this seemed to be I don't even know how you did hype in those days, but it was quite hype, wasn't it. There was a there was a frenzy for I don't even know how you did that.

Yeah, I think it was on the back of the because it was on the back of the book as well, which had come out. And of course, you know, there's no decent Hollywood film that doesn't have a book.

Yeah, but yeah, it was.

It was a pretty It was a pretty big issue, a pretty big sort of thing. And I guess movies were hyped a little bit more in those days than they are now, with the posters and the launchers and that sort of thing.

Okay, good on, you tell you thank it to ten. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. We are talking Jaws. When did you see it? Marcus? The presided VEGISEI two was the first part of the three scary ones for me. The town in Funty, then Jaws scarred me for life. Yes, I saw the Beside, then I saw the Infernover. Didn't go to Jaws. Don't know why just tapped out, didn't really appeal, didn't really appeal to me. No surprises there. But I'm gonna watch

Is that Marcus?

Yeah?

Alex welcome?

Yeah, thank you Marcus.

On about nineteen seventy nine, my wife and I were doing a tour through I'm pretty sure it was Paramount and we were open, followed with many other people and we're quiet. They're going through all the studios, and one round we came to this corner and suddenly this massive shark came out. At this this massive shark came right. You've never heard so much screaming in your life. It was it just stopped short.

Boy.

It was so real that it was pretty scary.

It was it was it the same one from the movie. Was Is that what it was?

Well, I don't would that be Paramount was made that film Paramount?

Yeah, I don't know too much about the studio tours, but I guess it probably would have been.

Yeah, Oh, you never heard so much screen of your life. I'm beating myself and I believe it or that.

Thank you, Alex, Chris, it's Marcus welcome.

Oh yes, hi Marcus. It's Chriss speaking. For years and years and years after seeing Jaws, I could never ever swim in the sea. And my husband was a fisherman and we were living at the beach, but all I could even do was pedal in the waves. And now I've tune seventy one and I've just moved to a beach. I never even think about Jewels, I swim in the sea in summertime.

And yeah, but no, it left.

It left a long term.

Oh yeah, you wonder why you're really, Chris. You wonder why you went to see it. You must have known you'd be prone to getting terrified of it.

No, this was way back when it first came out.

Nobody had seen it.

Oh so you didn't think it was going to be as bad as it was?

No, nowhere it.

Was nowhere near.

I knew that it was.

It was about a shark.

But you, like other people are saying, when it rows up out of the water, everybody in the theater just screamed.

Did it fect your husband?

No?

He thought I was being stupid, He said, for heaven's sake, you know, it's only a movie. I said, I know, but I can't get there music out of my head. It isn't it funny? Now I've moved and I live right beside the sea. In fact, it's right outside my house, and I don't even think about it, not to.

Hear from Christin and what that indicates. Marcus call it and upper Hut the last night currently two degrees hitting downwards. Jim mcgrandad Jim for one one who know that we've turned the heater on in the garage for the cat. Marcus. My girlfriend I saw Jaws as sixteen year old, didn't find it scary and all. It was so ott clock with orange seventy do it spooks me to this day, Chris.

Welcome, are you I'm just driving home?

Yes, draws terrified me.

I don't like going in the water over my knees, but I love going to the beach. But what actually does terrify me? As have you seen the David Edinburgh doco with.

Get the Seals?

Sorry?

Are you just cut out there a bit? Tell me more?

Oh, oh, the David Edinburgh with the killer whales and the beach and they come up onto the shore and grab the seal.

So now I'm afraid.

Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it.

Yes, that is.

That year Jaws.

I mean I loved I loved it being by the beach, but.

I hate going in the water.

Do you regret seeing the movie?

No, because I've watched it probably a dull a dozen times since. Still, but my poor children, like you know, the adults now that's growing up, like my younger sister seem and to this day, you know, she's not allowed and over a waist.

You know, I'm kind of amazed that the whole movie has just passed me by all those years that you know, the originally I didn't step. I've never come across and as some sort of all night session or anything. It kind of surprised that it's passed me by. But anyway, I'm going to remedy that.

Yeah, but the look out for the dayvid es for a one that's here.

I can't believe that they do that.

Yeah, I'll keep an eye on that one. I thought you had about this. It's got a new Ocean documentary out too. It's amazing he's still alive, isn't it. Mind you are, Dick, Dick van dok must be just to be about one hundred. I felt slightly bad telling Shannon what caused the fires at New World. She didn't seem in the mood for laugh at all, did she. That was a miss That was a misstep. You do wonder about people that ring up and are furious about fires.

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On Youth Talks' good evening, Sandy, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Thank you Marcus. Hope you're having a wonderful evening.

Yeah, good evening.

Good.

Let me tell you a few things about my experience with not only Jaws, but also great white sharks. So, my husband is an avid Jaws fan and I probably have watched the movie over about fifty times. Wow, And there are certain parts of the movie that still makes

Was it the Jaws movie that got your husband into sharks?

Yes, he watched it when he was seven. Wow, had the little T shirt to wear and everything.

Did you do the cage diving in Fobo Straits?

That what you did?

Yes, we went out with Mike and you saw.

Them, Yes, the sharks, and straight there they are, or actually out towards Stewey Island. They are the most aggressive sharks I think that I've seen around the top cage. They are a little bit more boisterous, let's say, when they go to comeing towards the cage. That it's generally the smaller male sharks that, let's say, arc up a

What's your next trip planned for.

Are probably, I would say it back to Adelaide to go out again out there?

Goodness m And that's just the Nptrid Islands that just south of Adelaide. Is that where they are?

They're about forty five I think it's about forty five nautical biles of the coast of South Australia here.

And what's the set up? What happen in that one? Okay?

So you go out and you fly from Adelaide up to Port Lincoln where you join the boat the Princess the Princess too and you spend either four or five nights on the boat out at the Neptune islands and the shark diving.

In a cage.

In a cage.

Definitely in a cage.

And did you say the cage goes to the ocean floor? Did you say that?

Yep, they have got the only ocean floor diving set up in this part of the world. I'm not sure whether or not they do it in South Africa anymore. You know that orcas kill great whites, right, yep. Yeah, so most of the big great white sharks in South Africa have been evacuated by orcas, so they have disappeared.

I think they also did. They also did shark diving in Ekapolko, but someone got eaten I think, and they stopped that.

Ah.

Yeah, there's Guadaloupe.

Yep.

They do quite a lot of shark week filming over in Guadaloupe. See it, it's been cut right back.

Well, there we go. Okay, standy, thank you, six away from ten. My name's Marcus Wilk. If you want a text, see you a lot. There we go, husband, well into sharks. Eh goodness, anyone called it Stewie Island, But there we go. Never Marcus, I'm on the boys trip the Caple going out to the Ranfredy Bank at father m to hunt for bluefin tuna. My mates are all snoring, so I'm listening to your show. We may see some sharks out there. Jaws movie is great. A trial for bikes on Auckland

Yeah, hi Marcus. Yeah, I think Stephen Stielder was a bit put out because he wasn't not expected to be nominated in the director's category, but he wasn't so and it was up against like you say, one two over the Cookoo's Nest, but burn a field two of the editor.

She won.

And he never employed her again, so he probably little bit out of spite. No, no, wow, she never worked again for him.

Side.

I don't know she but she won, yeah, for editing. But I got a real shock. Robert Shaw, who played quint he died only three years later. I've got a really real shock when he does, because it.

Wasn't that old.

And his son Ian does a play called The Shark Is Broken. He plays his father in this stage play, which is I think it's been one of Edinburgh Fringe Award and he plays his father and our actives play Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfus parts. So Richard Dreyfus is the only one who's still living of the three.

But it was a brilliant movie. It stands a test of time, you know.

So could just.

Explain to me Terry. For those of us are not familiar with I presume Richard Drayfus is the boat's captain and nal kind of a seaman, that's correct. But what's Quentin's role?

Hooper? Yeah, Quinn he is he had the the boat that that that went out to catch the shark.

So so what was Drafus's role then, Hooper, Yeah, explain what the role was.

He was, you know, the oceanographer okay, and sharks yeah.

Okay, he's a shark expert. Okay. The other one was the skipper. That makes sense, yep, yep.

So but they all played their parts really well, and I think that was part of the success, you know. And Ray Shaded went made Jaws too, but the others stayed away from the sequels, you know, but I think, yeah, I thought, I mean, yeah, it was a scary movie, you know.

So, and it was brilliant. The script was good.

And the Benchley, the guy who wrote the book, he was had the easy played the guy on the stand who was played a reporter. He was dressed in a suit on the beach when he was So that was Peter Benchley. He just had a scene in that.

Yeah, did you see Terry? Were you Truman? Did you see it? As a child?

Fifteen years get to the beach and deaf and port Ye have a friend when in the water thought, oh my god, maybe this's just year this sort of put the TV GBS into it. But you know, it's it's pretty I mean, that's the power of movie making.

So yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm looking for I mean looking more and more forward to seeing it. Terry, so thank you, and for those that don't know, it's not a film I've seen, but not through any reason apart from I didn't really want to see it as a child and haven't cover across as an adult, which is surprising. It's one of those movies you can always you know, you almost said that you've seen so many scenes of it. I can actually, you know, I'm looking forward to how

I don't know.

It's just going to tell you.

Uh.

Someone said all the smeg stickers it knew, well, possibly would have burned. That's right. That could affect the smell giveaway, couldn't it. We're trying to find out the Jaws screening date New Zealand. Someone will know. I'll tell you what doesn't know. That's chet GPT New Zealand. I said it was October seventh of the ninth. Oh that's twenty twenty, stupid. So I'm looking out when it was released. Well, there we go, the Gavette Brewsters having a fiftieth anniversary screening.

I guess I was almost ten.

I think when Mum and dad took me to Jaws. I don't really remember the movie, to be honest. I know I liked it and I probably jumped when the shark came out of the water. But the notable thing was we went to the Saint James on Queen Street and Auckland, and I think it was the season. Immediately for us, a man dropped out of a heart attack.

Wow, that's exciting, you know.

I think we read about it or heard it on the news the next day, and I think, like everyone a little bit after that, I didn't really want to go through it at the beach, but the thing was to always make sure you were the last one out, so if there was a shock, someone else would get eaten first.

I imagine it would call into question your parents judgment for taking a ten year old to the movie. But that was just then, was it.

But yeah, no, it wasn't.

We didn't.

There was no great discussion of oh look you're too young, Togo or anything so and I wasn't disturbed by it, or I wasn't a sort of child who was, you know, like timid. I think if you were, you wouldn't.

Were you like a movie going family, you'd often go to movies as a family. Yes, okay, yeah, Well.

Years later as an adult, I remember going down to the Beats at Brown's Faith and I decided to go for a swim at night, and I'd parked my car on the boat ramp with the lights going out, and I can remember going out there thinking, Oh, this is just too freaky.

It's just completely black.

I can't see anything behind me, And I think I stayed in for all of about five minutes and then dumped out again.

Yeah, having not seen the movie, I presume there was some shark attacks some people knowned swimming at night?

Is that right?

I only remember the daytime attacks.

Okay, but yeah, nighttime is classic. How did you know someone had died in the screening before? Were there ambulances the stuff there or was it just everyone talking about that?

No, we heard it on the news.

Wow.

So when we got there, and that was in the days when you know you'd have there was a two o'clock seasion, a five o'clock session, and at eight o'clock, and so I'm pretty sure it was the session immediately before us, and so I don't know if it had happened early in the movie, but there were no signs of ambulances or anything.

Yeah, okay, it's an interesting point. It was always the movies eleven two five, and what did they change that? Now all the show I enjoyed the regularity of that, go to a five o'clock catch at eight o'clock. Goodness, it's all become sor But ho hum, movies these days, has it? Although I know the kids have gone plenty of movies they haven't bothered going to because they's just kind of not been myice. What was the last one they went to? Lilo and Stitch was something before that.

Welcome, hey, market towns and hangs and all right, good have you been? Everybody a laugh when you're talking about Jaws? I think I've got that last. I was about ten years old and we took the family Carl who was a dats in two sixty c from them the Tago back up to the Naden and and we went and went watch a show. It was called the Food Tube. It was the family Show. We got there and there was some bloody walk around the stage pop withs. I remember.

We walked straight in there.

And yeah, I've never looked the water ever since. The same a Markers freak you out? Yeah did it?

She did?

And it was like that. I didn't move the Damien. I think it was about twelve. I did in when I watched it. Remember the triple sixth boy year whatever it was, Damiens.

What was the stage show your parents took you too?

It was it was called the boob tube.

The boob tube.

Yeah, it was some sort of I don't know. It was in't the Need, and it was like a production play. And right at the start we all sitting there and that because I had three sisters and one brother and mom and dad, We're all sitting there. And next it starts, and the light go down and it's part here and it's gone, and this lady just starts worn across the across the stage, pop goodness.

And I remember thinking, oh, I don't.

Know what was called the boom tube. You wonder what your parents were expecting.

Well it was it was the paper. Apparently it is meant to be, like, I don't know, some sort of play, and yeah, it turned out to be a web bit risque.

Have you eats your fear of the water been diluted over time?

Well, no, I remember going across my brother LAWI used to live on Durgle Island and we went across from a little rowboat or a clinker as they call it. He used to go back and forth from school from from Durgal Island to the mainland, just right at French Pass on the north side of it. He knew where the where the coach through the general stick because he's will force and all sorts. We're going through the little clinker.

The sin was buller than.

Me, and I was just like, let's go, mate, let's go, Let's get the.

Heck out of here.

All right, this is not cool, but yeah, yeah, that's I remember that Marco looking it was one passed. He looked at me with his eye, he was looking up. He just swim past, and I was like, oh, this is not cool, but yeah, chores when you're young like that, that was just yeah, you're absolutely.

I'll see what I can find about that, play Ben, But thank you. The boob chup. Never heard of it. Keep your calls coming through Angel Texts. Two people. Nine to nine too was the text number. I'm still trying to find an opening date for Jaws in New Zealand. It was the twentieth of June in the United States nineteen seventy five. Someone says, did he have any fear of boobs as well? Good question, which I thought of that Rod and Valerie Taylor, Australians, provide a lot of

You're calling a bend there. Marcus was talking about the movie. He said it was Dami and it was called The Omen, and that movie made me dead scared of rot wilder dogs.

I've never seen that terrible, terrible, I've never seen terrible.

I was well freaked out. By those things.

I don't even know they existed before that, did they?

Right?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I don't think I've ever seen one in New Zealand. And I've heard of Doberman's but never rot whalers.

And I've always known, well, maybe I thought they were what they would have been, Doberman's ros. Weren't they.

Yeah, I've always been very wary of rot whalers ever since.

What good reason? Okay, Tony, thank you for that. Twenty nine to eleven. Jennet's Marcus welcome, good evening, Oh Markaire, good Jenny, it's good. Well.

We had an account with the real Jaws. Oh god, back in the nineties. We're oven America, and we went to Universal Studios and we jumped aboard the little train thing on wheels that takes around on the movie sets, and we came along as along to this little lake and they said, oh, this is a lake where Jaws was filmed, and maybe one was all looking out the window and next thing, this nonstrous shark come flying out

That sounds quite clear how that works, because you're not expecting it obviously.

Well, no, and the and the.

Lake was quite small, and they said that that was where the whole thing was filmed. And when when you saw the film and it saw on this you think it's in this big ocean, but it's actually only on a small lake.

Yeah, I think that. Yea, I think a lot. I don't know where the whole I think a lot of it was filmed out. I'll look into that, but Genny, thank you for that. Patrick, it's Marcus. Welcome, Mike.

How are you mate?

Good?

Patrick? God good, goody good, good good.

You're wanting to know when Jaws was released in New Zealand.

Yeah, and where would you look? I find that out?

Well, I just remember it because I actually went and saw it, and it was it was during the Christmas school holidays of seventy five seventy six. I would have seen it very early seventy six, and I'm pretty sure

Where did you drive? Where did you drive in? From Patrick, South Auckland. Yeah, I'm lucking the story. Big family out there.

And years I say it was. It was quite scary for a fifteen year old kids.

Yeah, well there were a lot of kids a lot younger that went to it too, because the kids across the road must have been about seven and eight. I was surprised they went, but you know, I think their father took them to toughened them up. I thought it was a strange choice.

It was actually good. I think it's been on telling a few times and I think if I remember OLLI scoring through the sky planner sort of thing, I think it's on in the next few day sort of thing.

So yeah, yeah, I think it's on Bravo on Sunday, Yeah, okay with the commercials and then the next day as well, so they must be they must be honoring the fact that it's a fifty year anniversary. So it seems that it's going to get quite a few outings. I don't know if they've done it. I don't think they've been a recut or a longer version, have they. There's never been a director's cut. It's always just been the movie, hasn't it correct?

Yeah?

Correct? Yeah, Yeah, I've seen them a couple of times. I say, seventy five, seventy six, but yeah, I think i've seen it on TV maybe once since.

Yeah, didn't put you off the water?

Oh?

Yeah, did?

I think it did initially? But yeah, Now I think as time goes on, you get a bit older, and yeah, like life goes on and you go in the water, I think, yeah, I just like.

Your family mission. Driving into town and parking the topic. It seemed a long way away, but I guess that's the that's the reality in those days.

One of them.

Oh it was.

Yeah, we just came along along the Southern Motorway and talk and found a found a parking spot where with a friend of mine and his parents and and I'm pretty sure it's the Saint James Theater. Yeah, it's during it's definitely during the Christmas school holidays. So ye're siventy five s and six there. I think it'd be pretty safe to assume.

That you've got a good memory. Patrick.

Thank you very much. Mark, it's good to talk to you, my friend.

I talked to you too. Twenty five to eleven, I would say, is it text Marcus? I would say the irrational fear that Gen X and boomers have with Jaws as similar to the irrational fair millennials have with logging trucks driving in front of them due to the final destination movie. Blair texts, my mother went into labor with me while she was watching Jaws in seventy six at the cinema. It's been my favorite movie since childhood. Watch it every couple of years. Cheers, Blair Marcus. I was

Evening, Marcus. I'm just listening to about the Jaws movie. I was an oper girl to the family that booked in New York, and they had a summer house on Martha's Vineyard.

Wow.

And that's where they That's where it was filmed, wasn't it. That's where they filmed it.

Yeah, we were.

We had We used to go down to the beach and snorkel and swim because it was summer. And then one night we went off to the movie theater and we saw Jaws, and of course a lot of the locals were the extras, and they all stood up and everyone cheered, and God when I got home from there, and I don't think I ever at the beach again.

Wow.

Apparently it was too cold. I think there to actually have sharks.

So but yeah, it was.

It was filmed there. And you know down where we were, we were living, you could see the places, you know, down by the wharf. So yeah, Martha's Vineyard off the coast.

Of Yes, because what was up and I'm remembering now, that's what said the article I started us talking about talking about reading about the career and the f year was filmed at Matha's Vineyard.

Yeah, a lot of a lot of the locals were in the in the film, and of course they were all there at the theater and everyone was cheering. But yeah, it was pretty pretty gary go on the water after that.

Nice place, Martha's Vineyard, Yeah, oh there was.

There was in the seventies way back. And yeah, we lived we actually lived next door to the Kennedy And I don't know who. I don't even know who the Kennedys were until some yacht past our house and park next door. And yeah, there's quite a lot of I think wealthy people and movie stars.

The Taylor Oh yeah.

There must have been quite that market family you were working for.

Oh yeah, he was a developer, a Jewish fan, Jewish family, and we went to this place on Martha's vineyard, but place with the tennis court, and they had the people come. They had to have private beaches there, and they had a couple of guys come and they took all the stones off the beach so we could just have stands. But I mean, I I had to work because I was working for them. And it was a it was a it was a lovely place. But I mean the

And just to get me right, just to correct, Martha's Vineyard is an island, isn't it.

Yes, it's off.

Oh Boston or the Cape Cape Cape Cod. There's another island called Nantucket. And it was the bigger island marthas inion. I think a lot of people from New York and they go there for the summer.

It's not a huge also, it's about five kilometers across. It's not messive, is it?

But no, no, And it's got like a real Cape Cod like.

Town.

And you know, all the boats go fishing and people say, you know, sail over there and stopped there for the summer.

Did you fly there? Did you fly there or go by Faery.

No, just buy Faery, okay, because we lived in New York, just in Rye, New York. Yeah, and then we must I don't know, we must have traveled up somewhere and then they went across with the car. If I can remember, yeah, it was a while back, but yeah, that's where Jaws I remember.

I'll remember that it put you off swimming for life to that silla.

Yeah, kind of. I like swimming pools now, but.

No funny.

I never I really enjoyed the swimming with the snort cling and you could see little fish, But that that night stopped stopped all swimming.

In the sea.

From then onwards, I think I spuck to the swimming pool.

That's a talk, So I thanks so much. Seventeen to eleven A text door says, I went to the Jaws movie in nineteen seventy six on a first date and have been with that person for coming up to forty four years married this year. Nice story. Maryland says, I'm enjoying as the the Peel's Memories of Jewels. I remember the aerie music in the film. Whenever I heard it gave me the creeps. I think it still does give people the creeps for a famous bit of music and

I'd like to tell you about a tale, a true tale about forty years ago, approximately seventy star from Foodstuff Swellington and some of them were grossers, went to California. One of the places we went to was one of those film studios now around. They had a lake there and they towed a little trailer around for a bus and a trailer, and in there we went alongside this lake, and the lake had a pier going out and it

So anyway, what were there other special effects on that tour? Was it the only one?

Oh?

I know, there was things going here, there and everywhere. You know that the House of wax and went into a railway station, for instance, and a train came and alongside the platform that we were in the suttle cart, and all of a sudden there was an earthquake and the concrete all broke up, water pouring out of it and all the rest of it. You know, very realistic.

No good on food stuff taking seventy people. Were you a grosser?

No, I was in charge of the property at the time.

Well it was a good junket that way, Yeah too, right, it was what else did you do when you were there?

We went and saw a lot of.

The s supermarkets Disneyland. I thought, oh, well that would be for kids in that I'll tell you what. I've been back to America since, and in the first place we work with Disneyland because it was really something so well, there's many many things I saw.

Are they you know the.

For the world, the fish and so on. But anyway, that's their adventure out there.

What's your favorite supermarket? These days? There are Kendall, I do the shopping and I go to a new world and stoke brilliant. It's good, is it?

It's just being a.

New ones being built at the at the present time?

Is it?

Are your self checkout, no, no where.

I'll get a bigger order than that, okay, and so I get the the ladies to do it.

Brilliant.

Nice to hear from your Kendall. Thank you. Nine to eleven. What we are talking about is Jaws. Because it's fifty years ago on the twentieth, which is three days away that it was released in the United States. Many call it the greatest movie ever made, not for the greatest skip, not for the greatest acting, not but just the greatest general all around film, which is probably fair enough. Spielberg did it twenty eight apparently he was when he nailed that.

Yeah, Hi Marcus.

Yeah.

There's quite a famous scene in Jaws when Roy Scheider, the guy that plays the police chief.

Is on the beach and.

There is there's a big scare on the beach. It creates a whole lot of panic and Steven Spielberg, the director, he is quite a what's become quite a famous method of filming for that scene and what they did they put the camera on a like a little track that allowed them to pull the camera back from from Roy Scheider, but at the same time they zoom in, So it creates quite a cinematic effect that that enheartss the sort of panic that he's showing, you know, And it's a

So just to clarify, you've got tracks with the carts on it, and you've got the camera fixed and they're pulling that back, but you've got a focused person that's actually focusing zooming it in as it's been pulled back.

That's right.

Well, I hadn't thought about that. That's quite clever, isn't it.

Yeah, you're watching it this weekend for the first time, you might notice that one.

Yeah, and it must be quite cinematog cinematographically significant with some of the things they've done, because I guess what happens when you're young and you're kind of pressed for time, and you know, and the mechanical shark's not working, you pull out all the tricks.

Yeah, yes, I think there were quite a few, because I think It's really a film that, although he didn't get the Academy Award, it certainly put him on the map as a very innovative director.

I think we all know the Academy. I think we all know the academies are rigged though, aren't where someone gets because.

It's the.

Yeah, yeah, I think so too. But he went on to direct, of course, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with Richard Jafuss starring in that as well, who was in Jaws. So yeah, that was another thing they collaborated on.

Have you seen it?

Have you seen it recently?

I can't remember the last time I saw it, but I have seen it several times and it's it's in a movie I enjoy.

Yeah, I think.

Actually the first ever three D movie that I saw was Jaws three three D. I think it was quite quite an early one that they did in three D.

Yeah, I think it was very good. My first three D movie was Piranha and it wasn't much good.

No, yeah, I only for that one too.

Yeah.

No, because ten to fifteen years ago, three D movies and all the rage again. But now they're cand be disappeared again, haven't they. There's no nothing anymore?

Na you don't see it, you know, I remember because I've taken my kids to three D movies, can't remember what they were, but no, that would have been yeah, sort of probably over ten years ago.

Yeah, because even Avatar was three D and I don't know if the sequel was or not, but that seemed to be a big part of Avatar's success. That was at hollow me kind of feel that's right, Yeah, it was okay, John, Thanks for that. Now Dolly Zoom, I've been to look at that. I was talking to you, Get out of the water. That's the famous Dolly Zoom. Thank you for those texts getting touched. My name is Marcus, Welcome.

There we go.

I wonder whether they'll have tellers. It'll just all be self scanning. Good evening, George, welcome.

Yeah, you're mentioning the Trump parade. The birthday present parade.

Yes is seventy ninth and the two fifty year of two and fifty years of the American military.

I suppose it was I've recorded that, but I watched most of it, and there was a couple of things that amazed me.

How slow it was, and they seemed to spread it out so that the fireworks would end up being taken in the dark because they couldn't have it going any faster.

I think the service people would just round off, having just spent a day rehearsing. It just seemed to be over it.

They I've watched the Russian parades. Those guys have impeccable timing. Everything's up close. It's mess on mess, you know. And you watch the Chinese one and.

They have just.

Impickable clothing, the timing, the lines are dead straight, no one's out of place, every movement is all together a mess. It's incredible. In the North Korean ones, you know, same again, huge background, huge number of people with flags, all waving and everybody cheering, everybody on. And he watched the Trump ones. The guys weren't even walking properly in step. Their expressions on their faces was why do I have to do this? Didn't even in straight lines.

Did you see the drone guy.

Oh, he just sort of carried it.

Yeah, unbelievable the.

Point, I don't know. And it looked like a drone out of the local toy shop. Yes, yes, And Trump many times his ies grouped doing a Biden. You sort of wondered if he'd fallen asleep.

Well, I think most of the time he's realizing, Gee, why did I ask for this? This is just ridiculous?

No, why did he demand it? Because he demanded on his first time and they refused, so he didn't get it.

He went to Paris with mccrawn and saw one that he was quite impressed with because the French you're good at that, and wanted one, and of course too. It just made the US military look incredibly underwhelming and not laughing and not fight fit, because I reckon most of them can't serve anyway because they won't pass the health standards because their physical condition is so poor. And I think that was a fairly quick representation of it.

And where are the missiles? Where are the decent bits of armory instead of tank on tank on tank?

Were there any fly people? Were there any flyovers?

Yes?

There were. You didn't see much of them, though, But the guys in the tanks were all waving and cheering everything as if they'd been told to do that, you know. But the guys marching one or two would turn to Trump as if they wanted a salute, but the rest of the guys know, in the middle of the crowd, you know, in the Chinese they all turned to the president as they go past, or premiere or is he

And the same with the where did you get hold of it?

I watched the whole thing on teev It was interesting. Fox Fox had it on, but they kept poking advertisements in the middle of it, which I thought was really amazing. And then they replayed it later in the night full with no advertisements, so somebody must have complained. And then if you went to Sky Australia, they had it on

How long was it?

And the.

Sorry, how low did the prey take?

Oh?

Ours started at ten o'clock on TV and they finished about three and it finished well, it must have been an afternoon one there, because it finished as it got dark and then they had it would have been an hour of fireworks in the middle of all this stuff, which was choreographed with music, and it was quite interesting. But the amount of money they must have spent on fireworks was huge.

Were there any bagpipes or anything?

I didn't see any bagpipes. They started the parade with the sort of like seventeen hundreds with drawn carriages and guys and red and white English type soldier uniforms and all this sort of stuff. So they went right back through history and slowly worked there up to the present. Then they went through all the different platoons and all

It was quite a big deal when Desert Storm came out with that special desert camouflage and those special dessert boots. That was a big thing. I remember that win.

In nineteen ninety I was which I was actually involved with an international outfit and we had a TV screen satellite feeds from all the Iraq and Kuwait, Yep and all the American armories.

You know, in the history of the Americans, they used to have those wagons and circles to fight the Indians off. In the movies. Yes, well, we saw flying over the desert. They had huge encampments, tampments with there would have been probably five hundred one thousand tanks, not kidding, in tents and all sorts of stuff in these huge encampments in

Time, because it was the first kind of contract we had CNN, didn't we There was a lot of you remember for.

That, yes, yes, but it was also choreographed all the newspeople. From what we saw and what we understood from the army information for the Americans was they were all taken in groups to the same places to see the same things. They never saw the rest of what was going on, So they were taken to what the army wanted the public to see, and so everybody kept seeing the same thing.

What was your role, George, Can you say any more about that?

I was and.

Sometimes controlling feeds to Televison New Zealand, Okay, and all this sort of thing. So we're feeding news feeds through and feeding news feeds out I was actually in control of the nineteen ninety Commonwealth Games to the World. Wow, I pushed the button to turn that on. So I've had some interesting moments. I looked at the button on the console and the screen as we had the opening ceremony,

Clearly, you didn't nice to talk, George, Thank you, twenty six past eleven. Well, he's a good point. Got a feel for the New World staff at Freeman's Bay, the uncertainty of where they may be relocated to other food stuff locations if you're lucky enough. So yeah, I don't know about that. The insurance not cover their wages during the rebuild. Perhaps they don't. That is a concern. Marcus. My memory of Jews. When I was twelve years old, my mother dropped myself and three other siblings off at

Yeah?

I have actually see I put the damn good movie, but I thought it was quite well. You were old they had made it. But in the day I don't stand good move.

Yeah, everyone seems to think that one of the best.

I reckon it was, yeah, sounds and everything, it was quite quite well done. You're just regarding the I can't play bring the bells down at thet the final on.

So they're not and it's very toldish, incredibly childish, because there wouldn't be many people coming down from from the Wyekado anyway.

If they bring whoever whatever team it is. If you can't handle the pressure, well tough.

You know.

They said it would be dangerous to have a cow bell, Well no one's been. No one's who'd of Whitekato standing with the cow bells?

Are they absolutely prosthetic? And yeah, there should be a shane in themself. Actually, I hope they do. After that, they lose it by quite a bit.

They deserve to lose it now. The crusaders don't want the cheat to win anyway, but they deserveship.

Brother, did you know about that or you just heard it when I said it?

No, I just hit it now.

I couldn't believe I just can't believe and if you cross shocked, I just.

Bring the article ups to make sure I've got it right.

Yeah, yeah, shouldn't be to stop that.

Crusader's chief executive Colin Maine for said the band was due to spectator safety.

We have, we have the games here on some you plumber the highlands. What they bring their buckets along, you.

Know they bang on the part of it to kill the vibe.

Apparently detonment.

I think, bring whatever you like along long you not hit anybody.

We've made the decision to ban cow bells for the Super Rugby Grand Final to ensure fans are able to come to the stadium and enjoy a great game of rugby where everyone is safe.

What that is bad sportsmanship?

Totally bad sportsmanship.

Yees.

Not not that they got room.

That they've got room for those bloody horses going back and forward.

You know, let's see what they can have that fun.

They don't mind bringing the horses along with it. They can bring whatever they bring along. But is the other the other opposition team they want to bring what they want to bring along and where it's just intertoned.

Just certainly makes half the country want to back back. White cutter, doesn't it?

Ah after that, never coding.

These crusaders now they're hips the car a tune on them.

Good to hear so animated. Pete, thank you, and it's Marcus. Welcome.

I'm Marcus.

I've just been listening and talking about sharks and things, and I always remember my mother telling me the story. She was a good swimmer in her day, and this

Wow, they were.

Waving at her. To come back in. But so she must thing went right past very close to us, so obviously it wasn't hungry enough for you know, she had.

Lucky escape, did she see?

Yous? I do?

And I'll never forget that. I can still have that very first scene lodged in my mind when they still went out early morning, and I can still remember seeing her shooting sideways through the water all of a sudden, and I'll never get that first scene out of my head. But I haven't started the swimming.

I can't wait to see it. And but thanks so much for that. Nice to hear from you. Yes, the other topic too, if you want to get outrageous about the Canterbury rugby team or the Crusaders. Health and skinned evening, Cheryl Good evening, Hi.

Marcus, how are you good?

Cheryl Good?

Yeah, I'm really gutted that the no cowbells are allowed on Saturday night.

Yeah, seems surprised. A cow bell is a feature of White Cato the Super rugby team though.

Yes, of course the games yeah both Yeah, whether it's NPC or Super Rugby, the cowbells are always there. And I'm really really pissed off the Crusaders. They need to get off their bloody pedestals. I don't know who they think they are, who made them chiefs go? Yeah, I hope the chiefs go down there and kick their asses big time.

I really do.

I'm really pissed off, to be honest, yep, not on bad sportsmanship.

And there's probably no one going to find up with cow bells anyway. It's probably sold out for the cantabs.

Oh exactly. I had looked at at prices of tickets, you know, the e fares, but they were between four hundred and six hundred dollars that was in I find from Hamilton or Auckland. Yeah, not not doable, which is which is a shame. So yeah, I'm just I'm discattered.

I don't know the text.

The Texas people are furiously saying, no, no wonder. Everyone hates the Crusaders. People think it's terrible, yellow yellow bellies, pecker w words. People hate them.

I know that we were some of the some of us up here call them the cheap Saders, not the Crusaders.

The cheap Saders.

Don't see how that works for clever I me, Marcus, welcome, Are you.

Cool?

Yeah?

You just said the old rugby thing mate episode. So who canceled.

The beltin Colin Mansbridge?

Who is he?

Oh?

He's like the head biscuit of Canterburry Rugby.

Oh, okay, So he speaks for the whole of white Killow rugby.

Is he?

No, he's speaking for he runs. He's the Crusader's chief executive.

So he speaks for the whole of the White Kidow rugby people.

No, he's the guy in charge of the Canterburry Rugby. And it says they run the venue. This is they're not allowing cow bells because it's dangerous.

Okay, So for their safety, is it? Okay?

Set on alcohol?

Very good point, Very good point. It's such a joll be they'll be having their flags.

Because he just put his name on the on the on the mets.

He's a loser.

Eh, he's a great fellow. Call him a Greek soul.

How's it soft, Gary Marcus welcome.

Yeah.

I won't be quite as rugged as that lady call of But the fact is I've always thought they were very parochial, and now they've just proved it.

Do you watch many of the games they're running scared?

Yeah.

Whenever an opposition team makes a mistake drops them all or something. They laugh, And if that isn't being narrow minded, I don't know what is. But I certainly agree with that, lady. I just hope the heck good Chiefs can take them down, although in a way I've done a bit of a doubt because I've noticed I've done an analysis of the Down and Super Rugby and ninety percent of the games are won by.

The home team.

But having said that, we mustn't forget that Moana Pacifica took them down, didn't they exactly?

Yeah, without cow bell's Good on you, Gary, thank you. I'm out of here. I've had enough. I'll return hopefully tomorrow. Enjoy your thirusday. Good on you, Shyril with you all the way. One eyed Crusaders was it the Chiefs go and said that they were selling cow bells at the game. Well, this lady's youngest I've heard on your show. Go all night, go the Crusaders, cheepers. Put the cow bells sound on your mobile phone. Very funny thing to do. It's a great point.

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