Episode 18 - Friday, 28th of November

  • Ferg and Grant have a catch up and then a sports focus on episode 18.

  • Wanaka Ironman Braden Currie has retired from professional Ironman racing. He shares his story from the Mid Canterbury to adventure racing to being a Red Bull sponsored athlete to Ironman.

  • From Wanaka - All Black legend Richie McCaw and the Pure Adventure charitable trust currently staging the return of the Godzone adventure race in Marlborough.

Episode 17 - Friday, 21st of November

  • The Jimmys Pies Story out of Roxburgh with Denis Kirkpatrick.

  • Olympic Silver medallist Nicole Shields, from Clyde, is back from her fundraising cycle in Africa.

  • Warbirds Over Wanaka 2026 Event Director Ed Taylor.

  • Domenic Mondillo - From the USA to Queenstown to Mondillo wines at Bendigo.

  • More Mutterings on life from our mate Jim in Tarras.

Episode 16 - Friday, 14th of November

  • This week Grant has pidgeon holed himself again and goes down the aviation rabbithole with his old mate, ex TVNZ Weatherman Jim Hickey…Theres more to Jim than meets the eye in this interview, but try as they might to steer clear of the said subject…you got it…it got around to aviation with these two!!!

  • Ferg was MC at the Braintree Golfing with the Stars charity fundraiser at Clearwater Resort last week. So many well known sports stars playing in an event that has become one of New Zealand's most sought after and favourite charity events.  He had the chance to chat with some of those famous names who took part.

Episode 15 - Friday, 7th of November

  • Tamah Alley, Mayor of the Central Otago District Council discusses her journey to holding the Mayoral Chains.

  • Hamish Talbot, Pilot and Engineer talks about the set-up process for the new season at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica.

  • Willa Pringle & Toby Davis (and Matt Leach): Queenstown Primary School pupils (and their teacher) share their experience on the Stewart Island camp.

  • Plus more muttering on life from our mate Jim from Tarras.

Episode 14 - Friday, 24th of October

  • Jill Wolff from Naseby the project lead for Naseby vision and the small Central Otago town announced as New Zealand's first international dark sky community.

  • More mutterings on life with our mate Jim from Tarras. If you are a pigeon lover this is the one for you!

  • Jason Thomson from Viticultura in Cromwell and the important RSE workers for Central.

  • Anton Hood from Naseby and Curling. Qualifying the men's 4 in Scotland for the final qualifying tournament for next year's Winter Olympics.

Episode 13 - Friday, 17th of October

  • Greenstone Entertainment have announced the acts for the Summer Concert Tour 2026. Promoter Dean Calvert on the Greenstone journey to Gibbston to Wanaka and 16 years later.

  • Grant is doing some song writing and chats with Katrina Bristow about a song in the planning and you get a wee sample. It's pretty good !!

  • Well known Queenstown identity and entertainer, now living in Alexandra, Lyall McGregor and his musical journey from Dunedin to Queenstown and around the lower South Island to the volunteer fire brigade and the RSA and much more. We apologise for some of the audio quality. Still work in progress.

  • Rising Queenstown tennis star Kai Milburn talks to Ferg from Ole Mississippi College in his first year on a tennis scholarship in the USA.

Friday, 31st of October

No Podcast this week due to Charlotte being away. Back into it Friday of next week.

- FnG

Episode 12 - Friday, 10th of October

  • Jayne Kiely - From Ranfurly to Alexandra to Tauranga - Two Commonwealth Games, radio in Queenstown to TV in Auckland then Real Estate in Auckland then back to TV on our screens.

  • More mutterings on life from our mate Jim from Tarras.

  • Olympic Gold medallist Finn Butcher from Alexandra and a look back with Ferg from last weekend's World Champs in Sydney.

Friday, 3rd of October

No Podcast this week due to Ferg being away. Back into it Friday of next week. Apologies to our millions of fans😂

- FnG

Episode 11 - Friday, 26th of September

  • Ferg flying solo this week - We meet and find out more about a young lady called Charlotte Hamilton, who is .... Our Producer!

  • Queenstown filmmaker, James Holman, launched a Boosted Campaign on September 7, in the hope to raise enough money to cover costs to complete Barika Rising, a documentary capturing the construction of the world’s first concrete skatepark inside a refugee camp — a project bringing hope and healing to displaced  children and their community in Iraq. 

  • Ferg catches up with Olympic Silver medallist Nicole Sheilds from Clyde and her charity bike ride through five African countries. Nicole talks to Ferg from Malawi. The end is in sight.

  • Blossom Festival weekend and when it comes to vehicles in Alexandra no more well-known name than Bill Currie Motors. There has to be a story here and Ferg talks to Bill and digs for his history and journey in Central Otago.

Episode 10 - Friday, 19th of September

  • Eriks Fish and Chips has sold in Queenstown 10 years after Anna Arndt took a plunge into the unknown on a vacant section in downtown Queenstown. Eriks have been a neighbour to Ferg's radio studio so he popped down for a chat.

  • He’s spent most of his flying life at unusual attitudes, he’s been at every Warbirds Over Wanaka since ’93, flown gazillions of competitions winning the national advanced category in both ’23 and ’24, he founded the south island Akrofest, he teaches aerobatics and mountain flying, he is a display pilot for the New Zealand Warbirds Association, he is a volunteer pilot with the vintage aviator limited, where he flies priceless world war one aircraft and he’s back for next year’s Warbirds Over Wanaka as Display Director. Andy Love with Grant and we think Ferg asks one question ??

  • Jim from Tarras with more mutterings on life plus Ferg and Jim share a story about Jims great late friend photographer Peter Bush and a fundraiser in Omarama many years ago.

  • Former Wallaby half back Brett Sheehan now lives in Queenstown with his wife Laura and three young children. He was part of a recent fundraiser in Queenstown that involved former All Blacks Justin Marshall, Stephen Donald and Kees Meeuws. He chats with Ferg about his premature diagnosis of CTE through numerous concussions, the effects and how he deals with life today and as a husband and father.

Episode 9 - Friday, 12th of September

  • The boys talk with Stu Clark, along with Hamish Bourke they have brewed the very popular Rifters Gin out of Arrowtown. Two builders who have created the world's best Navy gin. Quite the story !

  • Ferg meets two new citizens from the QLDC Citizenship Ceremony in Wanaka during the week. An Aussie Yanni Hatzidis and Dean Rushby from England.

  • Grant shares more on his beloved "Chippy" aircraft.

  • Ferg chats to Katherine Lamont from Queenstown and her volunteer firefighters ACC petition to Parliament that 36,500 people signed.

  • Chris Cochrane from Avalanche advisory on the avalanche on Treble Cone last weekend that took 4 skiers with it but luckily no serious injury.

Episode 8 - Friday, 5th of September

  • Grant talks to a true local, a young local who was born in Invercargill, grew up from nearly day one in Queenstown, attended Wakatipu High School, got the dirt bike bug, formed a band who opened for Simple Minds, Texas, Collective Soul and Pseudo Echo at the Gibbston Valley Concert 2024, she is now into her first year, doing an  Aircraft Engineering Apprenticeship, and is starting to get noticed on the circuit as a National Motorcycle Racer with Heli craft Racing…all this and more and she’s only 18- Mya Wilcox

  • More Mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras

  • Ferg with Calum McLeod from Wanaka. Leaving Scotland at 21, finding Wanaka, setting up Cinema Paradiso then time as Deputy Mayor of the Queenstown Lakes District Council and then a big bike journey across Europe.

  • Campbell Wright from Hawea back home for a break and the Merino Muster. A breakthrough year in Biathlon with two silver medals at the World Champs this year under the flag of the USA.

Episode 7 - Friday, 29th of August

  • Ferg by himself Grant out of action this week

  • Penny Clark long time QT Hotelier to Queenstown Lakes District Councillor to working on the renovation project at Earnscleugh Castle in Clyde

  • 10 years of brewing sake in Queenstown. Ferg talks with Dave Joll from Zenkuro

  • Grant shares more aviation stories

  • John Gray co founder of HOBANZ - Home Owners and Buyers Association of New Zealand. His thoughts on Minister Penks new leaky home legislation. He was head of his body corporate when they had to deal with a leaky building issue. QLDC and there payout and how squeaky clean is Queenstown now 

Episode 6 - Friday, 22nd of August

  • More mutterings on life from our mate Jim from Tarras

  • Gliding royalty Abbey Delore who will join the Warbirds Over Wanaka commentary team in 2026. There is so much more to this young woman.

  • The audio/video presentation that played at the ZQN Airport 90th birthday celebration last week

  • Air Milford's Hank Sproull and his 50 plus years at ZQN Airport

  • Former Bruce Grant Youth Trust recipient Scott Columb and his sports journey in Motocross. Ferg says it is his best chat of the year so far.

Episode 5 - Friday, 15th of August

  • Kim Logan from Cromwell and his book 'Kim - A Journey Between Worlds" It is more than just a mountaineering story.

  • This week the 30th anniversary of Bruce Grant going missing on K2 and the Bruce Grant Youth Trust. We play Bruce's last call to Alexa Forbes on Q92FM live from K2 in 1995.

  • We catch up with Olympic Silver medalist Nicole Shields from Clyde cycling through East Africa raising money for charity. She talks to us from Kenya.

  • Born and bred in Queenstown, Laurie Scheib, brought up in Skippers Canyon. More fascinating stories and memories from him and his families past.

  • Grant acknowledges the 90th birthday for the Queenstown airport this week.

Episode 4 - Friday, 8th of August

  • Ferg n Grant remember Sir Michael Hill, and a crank call they made back in the day.

  • Author Lauren Roche on her book Julia Eichardt - A Life Of Grit And Grace from Tipperary to Central Otago.

  • Grant takes us back to Antartica.

  • Alexandra Blossom Festival next month. Festival boss Martin McPherson.

  • Ferg was at the opening of a new playground at Hawea Flat. He talks with QLDC Councillor, from Hawea, Cody Tucker and playground committee member Lousie Merrell.

Episode 3 - Wednesday, 30th of July

  • Queenstown comedian Mike Legge - From doing dishes for royalty to numerous theatre productions to window cleaning and being abducted by aliens to a role in Under The Vines and starring in the Mainland Cheese commercials on the TV.

  • Grant pays his tribute to Ozzie Osbourne.

  • Light Up Winter in Cromwell with Anthea Lawrence.

  • More life mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras.

  • Dougall Allan from Wanaka. The story of an adventure racer and 2-time Kathmandu Coast to Coast Longest Day winner to a cyclor for Emirates Team NZ in their successful defence of the America's Cup in Barcelona. 

Episode 2 - Friday, 18th of July

  • The Gary Anderson story out of The Mall in Cromwell

  • 2025 is 50 years of women on Everest. Lydia Bradey from Hawea has been up and down 6 times.

  • Long time radio listener, from the start at Q92FM to the end 32 years later, Sharon 'Shazza' Shaw a journey of love, burying her husband in covid lockdown and now a breast cancer diagnosis.

Episode 1 - Friday, 11th of July

  • Why does Gilly from Glenorchy go to Glastonbury.

  • Grant was in Antartica recently.

  • Olympic silver medalist Nicole Sheilds and her charity ride through 5 African countries.

  • More mutterings from our mate Jim from Tarras.

  • Long time Queenstown local Dave Reid with his journey and finally a unit at the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust's new Tewa Banks development in Arrowtown.

  • Former lead singer of The Peddlers, Roy Phillips, passed away recently. We remember his time in Queenstown and we play a classic Peddlers song.

  • An in depth interview with now departed CEO of the Queenstown Airport Corporation Glen Sowry.

Episode 19 - Friday, 5th of December

  • Final podcast for 2025 - Back early February 2026

  • The boys chat about their podcast experience.

  • In this weeks episode Grant goes back to school- Alexandra Primary School, where he is put through his paces by the Year Three Weka Students- they interview him about being a radio announcer.

     

  • The new edition of the book, The Gibbston Story has been released. Ferg chats with John Cook about the first release and what the second edition covers.

  • Our final Mutterings of the year with our good mate Jim from Tarras.

    Thanks for finding us and we hope you have enjoyed what we have tried to bring to you from our Central Otago community. We hope our content has helped to lighten the load through 2025. Charlotte, Grant and Ferg would like to wish you and your families an enjoyable holiday season. Take care, look out for others !! More Rated FnG next year.

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