COLD CUTS: Stoic Reading Of Every Now & Then

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

0:07Keyzie:Smashing pumpkins there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Monday afternoon. The time is 5.38. Fellas, sounds like we all had pretty busy weekends. And I don't mean busy weekends. Well, maybe. No, I don't mean busy weekends. I just mean a busy week. We were all doing stuff that we loved by the sounds of it. But my wife and I ended up going up to Ponsonby Road on Saturday night because the Pride Parade was on. Right. And we were very keen to go along and support that. We got our timing wrong because we thought it was about 7 o 'clock that it started. Didn't actually properly begin until 7.30. Oh.

0:45Keyzie:So we were a bit early. And so I said to my wife, well, look, you know, let's just walk along Ponsonby Road anyway. Get the steps in. Get the step count up. And there was heaps going on on Ponsonby Road anyway. It was all set up. It was great. And we got to the end of the road and everyone had congregated. There was a great congregation of people celebrating Pride Parade, obviously, a lot of companies and stuff like that. And my wife and I got talking to a few people and so forth. We were just sort of mingling with the crowd there. And then it just started moving forward. And so my wife and I, we were talking with this other couple, and we didn't sort of realise that it was actually part of the Pride Parade, and we were actually walking with the Pride Parade on the radio.

1:36Now, on the road.

1:40Mike Minogue:Yeah, okay.

1:41Keyzie:So we were walking with, you know, all the backbones that were representing it at Pride, and old Hoity J's walking along there with his wife and chatting away to this other couple, and then I hear, oh, Hoity J, re-bear gear. Represent. Nice. Because I was wearing my re-bear gear hat. And so it was like, oh, actually, I should just carry on with this because people think that's what I'm wearing to be part of the Pride Parade. Right. And the amount of people that were screaming out, re-bear gear. Right. And then I got into the music. I did a bit of a dance, you know. Took a few items off because I was a little bit overdressed.

2:25Keyzie:You know, really got into the – because I tell you what. Did you get thrown out because you're taking it too far? Well, actually, in the end, that's what ended up happening because the further down the road we got, Mogi, the more I was taking off because I tell you what, there's a lot of buttocks. There's a lot of beautiful human bodies walking in Pride Parade. There used to be, yeah. Absolutely. Well, there'll be people out there that don't know what the Pride Parade is. Explain that for us. Well, Pride Parade is celebrating the gay community out there. The rainbow, if you will. Thank you. And diverse sexualities, whatever they are.

3:02Keyzie:Beautiful. And as a result, and what they do to celebrate that is often it's pretty, pretty clotheless. Very much so. I tell you what, I've got to say, the costumes were amazing. You know, there's a lot of music pumping out. By the time I got halfway down Ponsby Road, I only had my Reeburger hat on.

3:19Mike Minogue:Right, because I wasn't there. I'm just picturing.

3:21Keyzie:I was doing the old lasso. Olders, right?

3:28Mike Minogue:Pugs, can you do up a photo of, like, naked Parker from Thunderbirds? No, Keezy. At the front of a parade with a Reeburger hat on? With a really horrid-looking lasso in his hand. There's pixies. The Hodaki Big Show. Weekdays from four on Radio Hodaki.

3:48Keyzie:Good old Iggy Pop, eh, Fielos? The time, by the way, 6.42. Here he is. But right now it's time for The Stoic Reading of the Day.

4:01Mike Minogue:With Hoity J. Of the Day makes it seem like you're going to do this daily, but this is probably the first one we've done in three weeks.

4:09Keyzie:More, yeah. Yeah, I just couldn't be arsed. You know what I mean? That's very stoic of you Well I'm just being honest Do you want to do it now? Not really But anyway I said I would

4:24Mike Minogue:Okay well hang on If we're going to do it We've got to sell this I'll just replay it And then you launch into it And just pretend like you want to be here Okay The stoic reading of the day

4:37Keyzie:With Hoity J Fellas this is a really good one is one that really affected me and touched me deeply and really touched a nerve for old Hoody J because it's something that I suffer from terribly. And it's from our good mate Seneca. Oh, yeah. And he writes... Ayrton. Yeah, Ayrton Seneca. No, hang on. Isn't he a Formula One racer? And he writes, we are often more frightened than hurt and we suffer more in imagination. than in reality. One more time. We are often more frightened than hurt and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. Break it down for us, Jiz. Can you use it in a sense? So what does it even mean?

5:31Keyzie:Like when you were a young kid, Keezy. Yeah. and you, you know, had to go and swim at the pools.

5:42Mike Minogue:Right. I know the pools that I went to as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just picture them now, man. Everyone's at my school.

5:48Keyzie:And you would scream and yell at your mum, no, no, Mama Kesey, no, Mama Kesey, I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it because you were thinking about your naps and the ridicule that you were going to get. And in your imagination, you created this world where everyone was going... Whereas in reality... Yes. You know, whereas in reality, people were disgusted, but they didn't really care. No. And so the imagination took you to places that were much darker than the actual reality. Right. Yes, people were disgusted, but not as disgusted as they were in your mind. I don't know. I feel like they were more.

6:34Mike Minogue:Yeah. Yes. So does this resonate with you at all, Mogi? Well, it is, isn't it? It's the fear that you create in your mind is often worse than the reality. So you think, oh, no, I better not do that because of X, Y, and Z. You make all the excuses. And then when you do, oh, that wasn't that bad at all. Yes. So you're better off just doing it, cracking on with it. See, but I would argue. It's always worse in your imagination than it is in reality, unless it is worse in reality. Well, that's what I'll argue is that, you know, when Jase said he was going to do a Stoic reading of the day, in my head I was like, oh, this is going to be terrible.

7:05Mike Minogue:Right. Yeah, yeah. And then we're doing it now in reality, and it's way worse than I thought.

7:10Keyzie:Right, okay. What do you think about anxiety, right? Right, so it's when you're hung over. Yeah, you're hung over and you go, oh, my God, what did I do last night? And in your imagination, you know, you're an absolute piece of work and incredibly handsy, you know, and groping and saying inappropriate stuff. But the reality is probably that you were just, you know, a little bit steamed and you had a nice evening and went to bed. Right. Unless you didn't. Unless you didn't, of course, and you were really handsy and, you know, saying really inappropriate stuff because you'd had 50 beers.

7:47Mike Minogue:This is a hypothetical situation, though. This is not me. It feels like you're talking about me. No, no.

7:52Keyzie:No, no. You see, again, in your imagination, you think we're talking about you. But you're sitting in front of me saying that. But the reality is we're not, are we, Moe? No, that's right. Okay. But if it's ringing some bells...

8:07Mike Minogue:Well, it's not. The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

8:19Keyzie:Stained. Stained. Never really heard of them. Not really familiar with Stained, I'll be honest with you, fellas. Well, they came out in around about your 2003, 2004 roundabout then. Okay. Produced by Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Yes. Stained were on a tour with Limp Bizkit, and old Fred Durst came out there and sang a song with them. That blew up the live version of it, and then he went on to produce their album, and that did pretty well. Although, really, if you're honest with yourself, Stained are shit. but they've got a couple of good tunes.

8:53Mike Minogue:Yeah. In that era of sort of like Creed and a few other bands where they've got a few songs where I'm like, I love this song. I would say Creed are infinitely better because they've got a lot of great songs. They're about Guilty Pleasure but Stained, I tried to like them. That's a hard listen. But there's so many bands like that though. Even on our playlist, quite a lot of the bands, they have a great song that's just epic and then you go and listen to more of them, you're like, oh. Oh, yeah, it's not very good.

9:18Keyzie:Okay, so I won't do that on my walk home tonight. Aaron Lewis. Aaron Lewis is the fella's name there. Can I say this? It might be a little bit controversial. It's a very sort of stand-y kind of voice. I mean, it's a good voice. It's a very classic rock voice. It's the old school, slightly off Eddie Vedder sort of imitating. A little bit nasally up there, very typical of the times. Same as Creed. Scott Stapp ripped his voice off too. Very much so. Now, after 6 o 'clock, we're going to try and help Kesey snap out of his dumpling addiction.

9:47Mike Minogue:Yeah. 100%. Good luck with that, by the way. The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

9:56Keyzie:Chemical Brothers there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday afternoon. The time is 4.38. Fellas, I'm on the horns of a dilemma and I need your help.

10:08Mike Minogue:Sure, man.

10:08Keyzie:You got a sting for that, Keezy?

10:10Mike Minogue:Uh, yeah. What was it? Dilemma. Horns of a dilemma.

10:17Mike Minogue:Horns of a Dilemma with Hoity J. Can it? What about that Benny Hill one? No. Horns of a Dilemma with Jizbot.

10:31Keyzie:Let me set the scene if I may. I'll listen to you. So tomorrow is my youngest daughter's 18th birthday. Okay?

10:41Mike Minogue:Big day.

10:42Keyzie:Now, as you'll be aware, we've just moved into an apartment. And I said to my daughter, my wife said to my daughter, what do you want to do on your birthday? Your apartment there, yeah. Yeah, and she said, well, I want to get all my friends over, like the filth from out west, and I want them to come to the apartment and then we're going to go clubbing. That sounds great. And I said, clubbing, really? And she said, yeah, I've got to do it. I've got to go clubbing. And I was like, okay, fine, you can do that. And I said, what are you going to do afterwards? And she said, well, then we'll all just come back to the apartment.

11:25Keyzie:Presumably, one would think in the early hours of the morning, in celebratory mood. Now, you know, from your own experience of my apartment, were at 7.50 whilst we were having a dinner party. One of my neighbours came up and complained about the noise. And I have deep concerns. And I've said this to my daughter. I said, well, how about we pay for an Uber for you and your mates to go back to your mate's place who lives out west? And she was like, no, I really want to come back to the apartment and do that. And I said, well, I just don't think it'll be very fun because we'll be coming in constantly going, shh, guys, keep it down.

12:14Keyzie:Just keep it. Yeah, right. They'll be thumping around all over the place, slamming bloody doors, you know, laughing, have a merry old time because who knows what they're going to get up to on the bloody nightclub.

12:25Mike Minogue:Yeah, right.