Steve Braunias
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1,194 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Steve Braunias’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, yeah, yeah, you know, I would get, like, the two best-looking students would stand at the door and give the people their name tags.
And they would...
You know, the people would be coming in, these sort of like household names would make contact with these kids.
And even if nothing led from it, and often it did, but even if nothing led from it, it was exciting for them.
It was interesting for them.
It was fun for them.
And of course, they got a free meal and free alcohol.
Yeah, that helps.
And then in 2018, Wintec pulled the funding?
Yeah, they did.
When it got to around about 10 students, they thought, what are we doing here?
Yeah.
No, no, it continued for a couple of more years.
A terrific guy, Scottish fellow, I think, a local architect, he decided to privately fund it because he believed in what it was doing for Hamilton and making it this sort of focal point.
People would be travelling, you know, from Dunedin, Christchurch.
Auckland everywhere who I was inviting to come here and they'd, you know, stay the night and that kind of thing.
And, you know, it was a huge element of comedy.
There's nothing very funny about being invited to come to Auckland.
That's just what happens.
But it was funny being invited to Hamilton.
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