COLD CUTS: Getting Into Pegging

0:00Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show with Jace, Mike and Keyzie. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

0:07Keyzie:Iggy Pop there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Monday evening. Let's give out some advice.

0:14Meet PaddyNip69 at gmail.com.

0:19Mike Minogue:Get in touch with the fearless. It's a real email address. Do reach out. Meet PaddyNip69 at gmail.com. And if we read it on the show, you get a$50 re-burger voucher. It is anonymous. And today this one comes in from anonymous. Yeah, man. G'day, fellas. I'm after some advice from you three wise gentlemen. My dad has recently been made redundant three years off of retirement. He's still in between whether he will find work or not. But at the moment, he's just at home doing the bare minimum in terms of work around the home. Oh, yeah, yeah. Backbone. Now, he lives with my mum who works long 10 hour plus days constantly.

0:56Mike Minogue:Yeah. She is a backbone early childhood teacher. Super hard worker. and my father's unemployed will still let my mum cook dinners most nights of the week. Yeah. How can I get through to him that he's being useless, he is a boomer, it's hard to get through to him, cheers fellas, and that's from Anonymous. Yeah, keep your nose out of other people's relationships, man. Is that what you reckon? Just back off. But that's his dad and his mum, you know. Yeah, it's none of your business. That's their relationship. I feel like it is their business. Well, if it's a complaint about, you know, what's going on.

1:22Is the mum complaining? Probably. Well, we don't know. Well, she probably doesn't complain because she's used to it. We don't know. But my point is, if she's not complaining about it, you keep your beak out of other people's relationships.

1:34Mike Minogue:Even your parents? I think so, I know. No, you should definitely stick your beak in it, but I think you should keep your beak out of it. You see what I'm saying? You're always going to stick your beak in, but it is none of your business, so you should keep your beak out of it. Right. But you are always going to stick your beak in it because it's your mum and dad. But it's none of your business.

1:54Keyzie:And what's he like as a cook? Yeah. You know, he could be terrible. But he could learn he's got all day. You know, you get home after a hard day's yakka and he's got some burnt sausages and some... Well, this is your complaint, Jess. And some lumpy bloody potato mash.

2:09Mike Minogue:But he could, you know, you could order some, like a HelloFresh or something, or like a MyFoodBag or something, and he could learn to do it. 100 % he's in the wrong. Even one or twice a week, you know, Keezy, even to start things off. Would that be too much to ask? Nah. I mean, the guy does nothing, man.

2:25Keyzie:This is the thing too, you know. It's a difficult time when you're that age and you're retired. People often find themselves very lost. Well, that's right. They don't know what to do with themselves. Just sit on the couch all day. Yeah, and watch a bit of Netflix. Feeling a bit melancholy. It's Monday-itis, but it's every day. Every day, yes. You know what it is? It's terminal.

2:43Mike Minogue:Terminal Monday-itis? Yeah. Wow. Because if that was me, I'd have a word to my mum. I'd be like, hey, does it annoy you that dad does nothing? Yes. Because my mum would be like, oh, no, it's fine.

2:54Keyzie:Well, why are you asking her then?

2:55Mike Minogue:No, but then I'd be like, no, but seriously, though, just between you and me. You should break up with him. What? You should break up with him. I love him, though. Nah, he's no good for you. Get rid of him. Get rid of him. He's a deadbeat. He's not making you dinner. Yeah, 100%. That's what I'd do. But I mean, my dad, luckily, he cooks all the time. Oh, yeah.

3:10Keyzie:What I would do is probably go around there and make dinner for my mum every night after work. Oh, yeah. Right, so you... I would set an example for my father. Do you know, that's a lovely idea. you could go around and you could take your father under your wing there and you say to him, hey, Dad, tonight you're going to learn how to make, you know, beef wellington. Yes. And so one day a week, Dad's making beef wellingtons.

3:36Mike Minogue:Right, he's not going out foraging for wild mushrooms for those beef wellingtons or anything like that. Oh, he could do. That's why I thought you were going down there. No, okay. No, he could do. But maybe being supportive rather than shouting at someone who's not feeling good about himself, having lost his purpose, three years out from retirement or two years out from retirement or get your mum to divorce him because he's a loser. The Hauraki Big Show, weekdays from four on Radio Hauraki.

4:01Keyzie:Led Zeppelin there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Tuesday evening. Fellas, I've got a problem. I am. You know, I'm one of those sort of personalities. I've got the sort of personality that when I like something, I get into it big time. You know, like your durries, for example. I'll smoke those bars. It's like your booze back in the day. Golf. Golf. You know what I mean? Chips. Yeah. Stealing chips. Stealing chips. You know what I mean? Just any kind of thieving. If I like something and it feels good to me, I indulge in it a lot. And I feel a bit sort of vulnerable about admitting this on the radio.

4:39Keyzie:But one of the things that's sort of got a grip on me now is I'm really enjoying my pegging. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

4:47Mike Minogue:What do you mean? Like pegging? Yeah.

4:50Keyzie:Like pegging, pegging? I never thought it would be something that I'd be into, but actually it turns out it's right up my alley. You know what I mean? Well, that's what pegging is. It's just the sort of thing I love. Yes. Because, you know, I'm a bit tight-fisted. I don't like, you know, giving away money willy-nilly. I don't like paying for stuff for other fellas. But you'll pay for pegging. One of the things – I'll pay for pegging, yeah. but one of the things that I hate most of all is food wastage.

5:22Mike Minogue:Yes.

5:23Keyzie:You know what I mean? I don't see the connection here. And so you have a packet of crackers, Mogey. Crackers? You know, your Huntley and Parmas. Cream crackers. And you'll eat four or five of them. Salada. You'll eat your saladas. I like a salada.

5:36Mike Minogue:Four or five crackers. Come on, man.

5:38Keyzie:You'll eat four or five crackers, right? Yes. And then in the past, I'd just put them back in the pantry. Would I seal them off? No, I wouldn't. And then a couple of days later I'd go, ooh, I feel like a salada. Stale. And they're stale, Moggy. And then my wife came across these great things, these like sort of metal pegs that you can put on food to sort of clamp them down and prevent them from going stale. Sort of like a clothes peg but you're just using them on food, I hope, not a special food peg that you've bought for food. Well, funnily enough, I ran out of these special food pegs and started using clothes pegs.

6:17Keyzie:And they work just as well. And that's when I realised I had a problem, fellas. I was looking in my pantry today, and I kid you not, there's about 15 things in my pantry that have got pegs on them. Right. And I've created, because you know how I hate second-hand food in my fridge? Yes. You know, there's plates and plates of leftovers. Does my head it? Do I eat them? No. And now I've created the same situation in my pantry where everything's pegged, and for some reason I never eat them.

6:43Mike Minogue:You know what you could do if you run out of space in your pantry? What's that? Is hang them on the clothesline. So you know what I mean? You could peg them all on the clothesline and then you go out there and spin it around and you've got a little selection of food. Oh, that's nice.

6:55Keyzie:Frees up some space in your pantry. Actually, that gives me a great idea, Keezy, because I could put them on my clothes horse. Put them on your clothes horse, yeah. Yeah, in the lounge. And that way I'd probably eat more of them, you know what I mean? Because I'd be sitting there on the couch looking at my clothes horse going, look at all that pegged food there. I should eat that.

7:17Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

7:23Keyzie:Faith, no more there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday evening. Our fellows, I don't know if you recall this, I think it was last week, where Keezy stumbled upon a potentially good idea, and that was the man bib.

7:41Mike Minogue:Oh, that was three weeks ago.

7:42Keyzie:Oh, was it three weeks ago? God, time goes fast, doesn't it, when you're having such a great time? And I wanted to revisit that because I was sitting at home last night eating my dinner. What was it? Bento bowl. Oh, that's right. It was really good, man. I was really impressed with it. Who made it? My wife. Well, I prepped all the chicken and all the stuff, and she just shoved it all on there.

8:04Mike Minogue:Right, okay. Was it a bento bowl? Yeah, it was in a bowl. Yeah, okay, all right.

8:09Keyzie:Not a box. But anyway, to get to my point, and I was sitting there watching TV and I finished my meal and I looked down and this happens all the time and you've talked about it too, Moggy. I was covered in food filth all over my chest. And I thought to myself, for God's sake. And then I remembered Kesey's idea of the man bib. Yeah. And I think, you know, if we were to make, you know, like backbone bibs. Now I understand that it's a kind of humiliating thing for a man to wear. But I wonder if we can get past that with men and look at the purely practical implications of it so that, you know, you can put your man bib on, you can eat your burgers, your re-burgers, with sauces and stuff going everywhere and save yourself getting stains all over your lovely sweater and or T-shirt.

8:57Well, the obvious thing to do, of course, would be to talk to men and say, can you stop eating like animals?

9:02Mike Minogue:You could do that. Yeah, that's in the first instance. Now, obviously, that's not going to work. Nah. So I think you could be onto something. Also, I'd just like to say it was never called a man bib. It was always a unisex bib. I don't know why it's just for blokes all of a sudden. Well, women don't suffer from this. My wife does.

9:18Keyzie:She's a shocker. Is she? Yeah, man. Okay. Well, I mean, okay, we can make it unisex,

9:22Mike Minogue:but my predominant feeling is that it's a man issue.

9:27Keyzie:It is. And I was thinking to myself, geez, if I was wearing a bib last night and I just whipped it off my shirt beautifully clean, and I buy a new sweatshirt, for example, and then I eat my dinner, And then I look down and there's stains that never come out. And I do it every single time. It happened to me last night. The wife went out for a walk. Yes. And I was in bed. I was reading a script, actually, and I thought, ooh, I'll just go and get myself a massive bowl of popcorn. Yeah. So I'm lying down with my head crooked up against the bed head there. Just shoveling popcorn. And I'm just jamming it in there.

10:06I'll tell you the trick that I do, Horty Jizz. Yes. I take my shirt off and I just let all the popcorn kernels and all those bits and pieces, all the debris and the refuse, just sort of settle all over my chest. And then once I'm done, I sort of scoot over to the edge of the bed, I stand up quickly and I just brush it down onto the floor and then I go back to bed.

10:28Keyzie:The only concern I'd have with that is if I were to do that, it would just congregate in my massive bush.

10:37Mike Minogue:Well, the interesting thing about the man bib, or the unisex bib as I'm calling it, is it is actually a thing overseas. In some Chinese restaurants, especially when you're having really spicy, chilli, oily noodles. Oily is the key there. Because oil is the thing that ruins your clothes. It is. Because it can't get it out. You're right. They will give you a disposable bib. So we need to normalise it. The problem is, even if I had it at home, I wouldn't put it on. Right. I wouldn't. Because you look hot, right, when your wife comes home and you're eating popcorn in bed. I don't care how I look to my wife.