FULL SHOW: The Keyzie Gripes Special (feat. Jimmy Barnes)

13:33Keyzie:Radio head there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday afternoon, the time 4.38.

13:39Mike Minogue:Hey, fellas, tomorrow, not sure you're aware, we've got a live show down in Wellington at Parrot Dog. Yes. So you're locked in for that? Pretty exciting stuff as well. Yes. Yeah. I've just had confirmation that the Prime Minister's going to be down there. Unsurprising. And the Mayor of Wellington to give us the keys to the city. Wow. Good stuff. Oh, my God. Because there was talk at one point of us just having it at the Beehive. That's right. Yeah, we're going to have it on the ninth floor in the Prime Minister's office. Yeah. But we don't do politics.

14:09Keyzie:And they didn't have the seating. No. You know what I mean?

14:12Mike Minogue:They couldn't fit that many people in there. And then they were searching for a venue, and they're like, where can we do it? Where can we do it? And we were like, what about the cake tin? Yes. And they were like, oh, there's no doubt we'd sell it out, but Bear Vana's on that weekend.

14:24Keyzie:Yeah, there's a lot of logistical issues.

14:27Mike Minogue:And so the next thing was, what about Parrot Dog, Lyle Bay? Yes. We were like, you know what? Let's just lock that in. So tomorrow, 4 to 7, live, the big show at Parrot Dog, Lyle Bay in Wellington. Make sure you come on down. We are celebrating Beervana, which kicks off on Friday. But, fellas, this could be a really good opportunity for us. And if you've just joined us, this is what we've been banging on about for the last sort of half an hour or so. This tipping culture that's coming into New Zealand, fancy restaurants, Ubers, asking for tips now, the big show Tip Jar. We do our live show. We have a tip jar at the front.

14:57Mike Minogue:People can put tips in there if they think the show is going really well. If it's not, they don't have to put a tip in. But maybe we could run it tomorrow as a bit of an experiment to see how it goes.

15:05Keyzie:I'm slightly anxious about what people actually put in there. Look, I get a vibe it's going to be, you know, ciggies. Yep, durries. Shots of this, that and the other, beers. Well, you can't tip it in. I know, I know, but, you know, the tip jar will be, you know, the table in general. Cash will be there, obviously, as well. Oh, if it's cash, it's all G. Gunja. Yeah. A bit of gunja will go in there.

15:31Mike Minogue:We should get pay wave. Oh, that's a good idea. Get a little pay wave station set up. Yes. And then people can get really responsibly steamed and then just make really bad decisions. Yeah, make bad decisions. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

15:40Keyzie:That's a bloody great idea, Kesey.

15:42Mike Minogue:Yeah, okay, so we'll do that.

15:43Keyzie:We'll get pay wave sorted out.

15:44Mike Minogue:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's easy to get it sorted out, eh, Jase? You've done that before. Pay wave? Yeah. Yeah, totally, man. Okay, sweet. We'll do it tomorrow, 4pm, parrot dog, Lyle Bay. And we're going to run a little experiment there as well. We want everybody to come down, but we also want people to come along that perhaps haven't listened to the show before. Oh, yeah. So all of our listeners, just bring your girlfriend. Yeah, pretty much. Here's Pink Floyd. The Hauraki Big Show. Weekdays from four on Radio Hauraki.

16:12Keyzie:MTMT there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday afternoon. The time is 4.49. Let's talk TV. What's on the telly with Mike Minogue?

16:27Mike Minogue:Yeah.

16:28Keyzie:Yes.

16:35Keyzie:Yeah. Yeah. Fells. So good, guys. Hey, when I was on the plane and I went to Europe, and I watched a doco called Breath of Fire. Breath of Fire. And it was about this yoga guru type woman. She was a con woman, obviously. And she said that she was connected to some other guy that was also a yoga sort of a dude that had come over to the US in the 70s. Yes. But out the back of, he was under a bit of a cloud. But what he did, from my memory, was he was a security guard when he lived in India. So he went over to LA. but because he was Indian and he had a beard and had a turban, everyone thought he must know a thing or two about spirituality.

17:34So next thing you know, he's running one of the biggest cults in the world and absolutely dominant, and he's telling everybody how they should live their life and purity and all of this sort of stuff and don't poison your body with this and don't do that. Meanwhile, he is just scoffing takeaways. Oh, really? Drinking piss. He's got a harrow of woman. He's preaching all this stuff while openly doing none of it. Always the way.

17:55Mike Minogue:Because you've seen the doc on Netflix, Wild, Wild Country. Oh, yeah, yeah. I can't remember his name. Yeah, mind if it's the same dude, actually. But he wasn't doing that. Yeah, right. He was really skinny and he was preaching all that stuff and doing all this, but the stuff he was getting up to was a bit different. Bit shady. He wasn't just smash and take away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this guy was pretty shady. They found out a lot came out after he passed away. But ultimately then this white woman took over his mantle, said that she'd been told by him that she was the one to carry it on, sort of was a great marketer, put it all through social media, heaps of websites, heaps of companies, eventually lost her mind and died at a pretty young age.

18:34Interesting stuff. People in the absence of religion, they need something, don't they? They do. They need a purpose. They need a reason. They need a feeling of belonging. And it just sort of reminded me that that's what we give people here at The Big Show, backbones. You know what I mean? And that just brings me back to the tipping jar. Yeah, tomorrow. It's just like we've got to start getting some money in on this bastard. and we can really take advantage of people.

18:56Mike Minogue:You know what we do is we do like some religions do. We lock the doors. Yes. Pugs comes around with like a donation hat or tray and then we read out who's donated the most this week. Yes. And then at the end and just embarrass people. Tithing. Should get tithing and then we get lots of money in. If you subscribe to the podcast and you listen to the podcast, you have to give us 10 % of your income. Yes. That's great.

19:18Keyzie:It's amazing how often these spiritual leaders in quotations do the exact opposite of what they're preaching to everyone. They always do. They always do. That's great. I watched a show last night on Netflix called Undercover. And actually, to be honest, my wife was watching it when I got home and she said, oh, I can turn this off. And I said, no, no, you carry on watching what you're watching. It was about homelessness for women over 50 in Australia. Oh, yeah. And it was a really actually quite a fascinating documentary. 405 ,000 women in Australia aged over 50 are homeless. Wow, that's so many.

19:55Keyzie:And it was an interesting phenomenon. And a lot of them were like, where mums, et cetera, et cetera, didn't have careers, looked after the kids and all that sort of stuff. Then their husbands left them and they ended up on the road because they didn't get any money. It was a fascinating documentary and it just showed you how bad the problem is becoming and it's only going to get worse, and how exhausting, how exhausting it would be being homeless. Yeah, yeah. You know, a lot of them living in their cars and beaten up vans. Just a nightmare. Yeah. Where'd you watch that? Netflix.

20:33Mike Minogue:How many buzzies?

20:34Keyzie:Oh, look, it was really depressing.

20:36Mike Minogue:How many buzzies out of five did you give it?

20:38Keyzie:You know, it brought something to my attention that I was unaware of, so I'll give it three buzzies.

20:43Mike Minogue:Only three? Yeah. So would you give it like four or five if there was like more people homeless or it was more sad, you know what I mean? Like what did you need more of? Buzzies. The Hauraki Big Show with Jace, Mike and Kesey. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

21:02Keyzie:The Strokes there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday afternoon. Now, big guest after five o 'clock, the one and only, the legend that is Jimmy Barnes, fellas.

21:12Mike Minogue:Yeah, he's a personal hero. Barnsey. Barnsey. Working class man. Yeah, we're actually celebrating the 40-year anniversary for the working class man, the album. He'll be coming on a little later on. I'm fizzed up. Yeah, man. Stay tuned. The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

21:34Keyzie:Welcome back, you're massive backbones. Hope you're surviving hump day. You're listening to The Big Show brought to you by Reburger. Serving good times and good food.

21:41Mike Minogue:Dine in or takeaway at Reburger today. Yummy.

21:46Keyzie:So good, man.

21:47Mike Minogue:Yeah, man. Thanks, fellas. Love it.

21:48Keyzie:Do they have Reburger in Wellington? They've got everything in Wellington, man. Yeah, that's true. Okay, that's good to know for the late night sort of celebrations. Just on that front, by the way, fellas, we're having a pizza party in Old Hoardy Jays. I feel like you guys are going to hit the town hard and not get back to like three or four. Well, I was thinking we're going to have the pizza party about three or four. Yeah, well, that's what happened when we were in, was it Christchurch? you guys didn't sort of show up and I was sort of left with my cold pizza.

22:19Mike Minogue:So what Jase is referring to is when we do a live show on the road somewhere, we'll quite often, a few times now, maybe three times, we'll end up all in one room eating pizza for some reason. Yes. The issue is if it's a really good night, Jase expects us to not go out and have fun and to be back at his room eating pizza and bringing him pizza as well.

22:38Keyzie:That's why I bring it up because I'm getting the vibe from you fellas that you are going real hard and so maybe should I just can that idea right now and just get it off the agenda? Play it by ear. Right. But I think the vibe that you've got is probably spot on. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I can just text you guys throughout the night, see where you're at kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you're keen, I can just order it and then you fellows can show up. Oh, so you'll order it? Yeah, of course I'll order it. Yeah, yeah. If not, I'll just have a go at myself and go to sleep.

23:08Mike Minogue:There is a Reburger in Wellington, by the way. Oh, great.

23:10Keyzie:Oh, good.

23:10Mike Minogue:Thank God for that. And they'll be stoked to have me mention it just after what Jay said. They'll be real stoked with that, which is cool. Hugh Jawa, this hour fell. It's Jimmy Barnes coming on shortly. Can't wait. He's one of my childhood heroes, actually. Grew up with a lot of Barnsie. A lot of Barnsie. Speaking of great, he's Foo Fighters. That is a great segue, Jase. The Hauraki Big Show. Weekdays from four on Radio Hauraki. Red Hauraki.

23:37Keyzie:Chili Peppers here on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday afternoon. The time, 14 minutes past five o 'clock. You'll recall last week, Moggy, in one of our podcast chats, the podcast outro chats, we were talking sort of TV ideas, and you came up with an absolute doozy. Yeah. And I've got to admit, when you first proposed it to me, I was like, no, that can't possibly work.

24:01Mike Minogue:Yeah.

24:01Keyzie:But I haven't been able to get it out of my system. Yeah. And it's just been reverberating around in my head, around in my head, and today I took action on it. Can you just remind, what was the name of the TV show again? Well, my fantasy always used to be, it started that my fantasy was always like doing a show like Heartland, like Gary McCormick used to do.

24:25Mike Minogue:Right. And so that was a show in like the 90s or something, was it? Yeah. So it's where he goes out to rural New Zealand. They'll have something going on. There might be a rodeo happening down somewhere. And Gary will turn up and he'll talk to all the local backbones and he'll talk to the ladies in the kitchen and do all that sort of stuff. Have a beer in the pub. That's right. The problem with that is it's been done, Jason. So I came to you and I said, look, why don't we put a modern twist on it? Yes.

24:46Keyzie:And the basic modern twist was I still do that. So I've got the feel-good factor. There's some tawny going on. Like a flower show or something. A flower show or something like market or something like that. Also, you know, there's something going on in the little hall there, the community hall. Everyone having a bit of a boogie and a dance and a beersy. Yeah, shindig. And then after that all happened, I end up in a place of ill repute. Yeah, a brothel. Pretty much. And or slash strip club. Oh, I think the brothel's key. I know, I know. But it might be that in this particular situation, there isn't one of those.

25:24Mike Minogue:Yeah, and if anyone wants to have a full walkthrough of the original pitch and how we came up with it, it was last week, podcast outro. It's called Brothel Chat is Back. It was six days ago, so just go search that up. and the part of this show that I didn't get was it was like a 22 minute show for half an hour on TV with two ad breaks. Yes. 18 minutes. Yeah, prime time, like TV one after seven sharp. 18 minutes of it was like this real like, oh, there's a flower show. Wholesome stuff, blah, blah, blah, blah. Heartfelt. Heartfelt. And then at the end for four minutes, it was just you sort of going hammering tongs.

25:56Keyzie:Well, I mean, I don't know if we have to get that graphic, but there will be filth. And so I had the class and we were talking about this the other day. I had the classic situation at TVNZ today because I was pretty nervous about it because it's got all the feel-goods, but it's also got an edge. Yes. And you took it into TVNZ? I took it into TVNZ. I met up with one of the executors and I had the old elevator chat. You've got to the time I get to the top of the building here to convince me. Yeah. I pitched it, you know, feel-good Heartland vibes. Meats. Meats, filth at the end of it. And they loved it.

26:29I think the beauty of it is, and you're talking to us about this off-air, Hoity J, is that they've actually bought in just off the basis of the title because it's all in there. And the title, the working title, is Hoity Jizz's Brothel Rampage. And who's not watching that? They loved that.

26:50Mike Minogue:They loved it. They loved it. You're joking, really.

26:54Keyzie:And because it was really funny, actually, because I was chatting away about the Heartland aspect of it. Sure. And the guy was like, mm-hmm, okay, sort of been done. Yeah, gotcha. Then into Hoardy Jizz Filth. And he was like, now you're talking. Now there's an edge. Now there's a reason for me to watch this.

27:12Mike Minogue:And TVNZ. TVNZ. National Broadcaster.

27:15Keyzie:7.30 on one, they're thinking. Straight after country calendar on a Sunday. Country. Or, or, dog squad. Boom. The Hoardy Jizz Brothel Tour.

27:28Mike Minogue:Okay, and it's been green lit, essentially.

27:30Keyzie:What they've said is, look, it's in the preliminary stages. I've spoken to Mogi about producing it. He's keen as. We've obviously got to take it to New Zealand on air and get a bit of taxpayer dollars behind it. Totally. It's got a few boxes to tick. You've got to have the cultural side of things has got to be ticked as well. But the fact that it's going to be in the regions, don't get a lot of coverage these days, Keyes. They get left off. It's a lot of Auckland-centric stuff that you find on your TV. That's why people are leaving in their droves. you give people an opportunity to get to know some backbones out in the outer regions, finish off with a bit of hoity jay in a brothel, are you kidding me?

28:05Hoity jay, hammer and tongs.

28:09Mike Minogue:That's really great news, man. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad you got Moggy involved too because it's sort of his area of expertise.

28:14Keyzie:Look, I'll be honest, my wife isn't stoked about the idea, but, you know.

28:19Mike Minogue:But it's TV, right?

28:21Keyzie:Yeah.

28:22Mike Minogue:You could get some te reo in there, get some funding from Te Maongai Paho. Racism, I love that show. No, what are you talking about? That's shocking. What do you mean? That's a real thing. That's offensive. The Hodaki Big Show with Jace, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hodaki.

28:40Keyzie:Yeah, welcome back to the Radio Hodaki Big Show. It's not often, fellas, you get to talk to a musical legend, is it? Nah. But we do this afternoon. What a special treat. The man himself, the legend, that is Jimmy Barnes. G'day, Jimmy. How's life? Very good, thank you. How are you doing, guys? Yeah, very, very well, thanks. Jimmy, I've just got to start off. We had a gig the other day in Auckland called Full Metal Orchestra. Yeah, I know, but I've seen some. Yeah, it was absolutely magnificent, let me say this. And I was sitting there enjoying the show, and then this woman came on and started singing, and I was like, who the bloody hell is that?

29:21Keyzie:And so I spoke to one of my mates who knows all about the musical world, and he said it was your daughter, EJ. My God. She's a screamer. Actually, EJ is the sweetest singer in the world, and every now and again she does rock gigs, and I said, you should be doing this for a living. This is great. Oh, I'm telling you what, mate. EJ sings in my band. She's awesome. She smashed it out. Where do you think she gets that from? It was a good lineup, wasn't it, with Phil Rudd playing drums? Yeah, Ruddy playing the drums. It was absolutely magnificent, mate, but she blew me away. Yeah, it was good.

29:50Mike Minogue:Hey, Jimmy, the reason we've got you here, man, is that it's a 40th anniversary release of For the Working Class Man. Have you heard about that, man? No, I vaguely remember it. Jimmy, just for me growing up, for some reason my dad absolutely, I use the word punished, not in a bad way, but he used to punish me with Barnsley and he used to punish me with Joe Cocker. What a good punishment. Yeah, it was great. But for some reason working class man and also driving wheels were two that really just like really, I don't know, stuck with me and he used to blast me with them so much. Like how much of an impact was that particular album and that particular song as well on your career?

30:29Well, you know, that song I can remember the first time I heard it. I was actually, I was in America and I was meeting up with a guy called Jonathan Cain. Jonathan was the principal songwriter and still is in Journey and he was also in The Babies. He was a fantastic songwriter, right? But I didn't know much about them back then because Journey didn't mean a lot in Australia. So I went there and the record company introduced me to Jonathan and I was looking at talking to him about some other songs and we were just chatting away about, you know, he asked me about, he was really keen to get to Australia and New Zealand and he said, you know, what are the audiences like there?

31:02And I sort of explained that, you know, most of the audiences I play to are pretty, you know, hardworking people, work all week and go out on the weekend and kick their heels up and get wild and then, you know, pull their heads in and get back to work again. And we were laughing about it. And about a week later, Jonathan rang me and said, I've written this song for you called Working Class Man. Wow. And, you know, first off I thought it was an odd title. I thought it was about me or something. I'm going, oh, it's going to be cheesy. But he explained that it was about my audience, and I thought that's a really good thing that I'm dying to hear.

31:31When he sent me the song and I listened to it for the first time, I knew immediately it was going to be a sort of a monumental song in my life, and I knew it would be sort of defining. What an unbelievable coincidence. where a happy, a lucky, a stroke of luck that you run into a guy who has written some of the most unbelievable tunes of all time. And incredible that he really managed to connect with, I guess, something that must go across Australia and New Zealand worldwide, that working class ethic. I just always assumed that you'd written it with somebody in Australia. Jonathan, and that was the start of a really great friendship.

32:11Jonathan and I headed off really well that day. and we went on to do, right, you know, Drive and Wheels, that whole Freight Train hard album. We wrote that all together. Wow. And Jonathan and I sort of, I learnt a hell of a lot working with Jonathan, incredible songwriter and really great piano player. So it was great. Yeah, it was a big stroke of luck. You know, one of those things where you just happen to walk into the right room at the right time.

32:31Mike Minogue:Yeah, absolutely. Barnsley, you do still have blue denim in your veins though, right? Absolutely. I managed to get most of the vodka out of it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad would be gutted to find out that you didn't, man.

32:44Keyzie:But it is, when you think of your audiences, as you put it, Jimmy, they play hard and they work hard and then they pull their head in. You know what I mean? I mean, that's not necessarily the case. They might not land the plane at all. Well, some of them don't. Some of them play really hard. And I was sort of amongst them for a long time. That's right. But the thing is, it's about working class. It's not just about working in a factory. It's people who work hard to bring up their families. Yes. People who have an ethic about hard work. And, you know, you work hard and you play hard. You know, you get what you give.

33:19And you can get that from working in an office and everything. You don't have to be working in the foundry like I used to. It's about an ethic in your heart about wanting to give everything you got so that you can look after the people you love. And I think, you know, that's always been in my veins and it always will be there. People sort of, I remember getting, when this record came out, I got a bit of grief from some aspects of the press. They were talking about, oh, you know, he drives a Mercedes. How can he be working class? I had to literally say, look, being working class is not something I wear on my wrist or sit in the car and drive.

33:52It's in my heart. It's in my soul. And it's there every time I open my mouth and sing. And it's in there when I think. And so it's part of my whole psyche.

34:02Keyzie:And that's maybe why, Jimmy, people connect with you so passionately because you are genuine and that is who you are, you know what I mean? And people relate to that. Yeah, what you see is what you get and sometimes people don't like it. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, but listen, no, but it is. I've always tried to keep my feet in the ground. You know, occasionally I've sort of got a bit up myself, but, you know, my family soon drags me back down to earth, you know. So I'm very lucky, you know, to be making music and doing what I love, for a living is incredible, especially after this record, 40 years on, and obviously the Colchisle 50 year too, we just got through.

34:39It was a great milestone in that too. So I feel very blessed I'm still doing it, and I'm going to keep singing and keep moving and keep rocking until the day I drop.

34:48Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show with Jace, Mike, and Kesey. Tune in weekdays at 4 on Radio Hauraki. We're chatting to Jimmy Barnes, by the way. It's an absolute honour. you know you just said 50 years cold chisel, 40 years solo 40 years I'm sorry celebrating you know working class man the album

35:05Keyzie:I was going to say is Jimmy 90? No he's not Are you 90 Jimmy? I'm 90 now yeah Wow you look great for 90 I'm nearly 70 Wow

35:13Mike Minogue:But at this point Jimmy do you ever look back and go man I wish I had chosen like croning or a different style of singing because you've been given a death for half a century man You know what I have sort of painted myself into a corner you know I get up there and I go Because I don't like to change the keys in my songs either. Yeah, right. So if I'm going to do the song, I want it to sound like the original. Yeah. So I get up there and I go, oh, Jesus, did I really sing it that night?

35:35Keyzie:Yeah. Did I really scream like one of Jeffrey Dahmer's house guests? But you must have a hell of a technique because, like, for example, I've just went over to Wembley and saw Oasis. And there's a lot of chat about Liam's voice sort of falling apart. He's done a lot of work on it, it seems like, because it was really bloody good. but you see sort of footage of Axl Rose, an old mate from ACDC, and people can't wait to post the latest clip of them from a concert not sounding 100%. But even those guys, mate, you give it absolute death. Your technique must have been unbelievable from day one. No, I see.

36:09The thing is with me and a lot of those guys, you know, like, you know, they're just, you know, Rod Stewart and everybody, they all sing and have problems with their throat. Yeah. Because normal singers, human singers do. So I was somehow when I was in early days of cultures or using bad PA systems and bad monitor systems so I couldn't hear what I was singing, I taught myself how to sing really loud. And I taught myself you have two main vocal cords and they're surrounded by secondary cords. Apparently this famous, very famous who taught Liza Minnelli and Michael Jackson, a singing teacher from America, was at a TV show here and she heard me warming up and she said, oh, you sing with your secondary chords, your false chords.

36:52And I said, do I? I don't know. And she said, yeah. She said, it's very rare that people can teach themselves how to do that. But those chords, everybody else, when they sing with the main chords, they get damaged. They can get nodules and growth in their throat and it makes it really hard to sing. My secondary chords, they don't get gross. So, you know, it's like I'm sort of unbreakable, touch wood. And there's been times where I've been out on tour and I couldn't speak, but I could still sing. Wow. But, you know, having said that. And I don't know how I taught myself to do it. People have asked me to teach them.

37:24I'm going, yeah, well, you're going to have to go out and drink 45 bottles of vodka and scream at a punch. Exactly.

37:30Keyzie:So I'm very lucky. On the other side of that, though, you're a pretty healthy fella these days. You're also quite the chef, aren't you? I'm pretty good, Jeff, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm a cook, but I'm pretty good. You know, I've got lots of good – I've learnt lots of great techniques from lots of different people. Beautiful. Peter Gordon who had Homeland in New Zealand every time I go over there I learn something from Peter he's like one of the best guys around

37:54Mike Minogue:One more question Jimmy this once again comes from Chris who grew up listening to a lot of your music, the album in particular that I remember my dad putting on Start to Finish was Soul Deep and that was actually my introduction to sort of the world of Motown and I grew up actually not realising that you were covering these so I thought that you know Barnsley wrote these and then I heard the Is he good in here? He's a good writer. I was like, this guy's a genius. This guy's a bloody genius. Yeah. You know, the funny thing was when I was with that record, I've spoken about it a lot over the years, but it was sort of done just over Christmas for some fun at my house.

38:31Right. I had all the bands stand there. And we picked, literally picked songs that were top five songs in America. You know, like all my favorite songs. I started off just pick, I pick this one, I pick this one, I pick this one. And then we noticed they were all soul songs. So we're all like most of them, a lot of Memphis and a lot of Melbourne. And every one of those songs had been like top three even in America, you know. And I looked at the album at the end and I thought, you know, a lot of people will know these songs and they'll connect with it. I hadn't realised, but later it was sort of a lot of people's introduction to those songs.

39:03So I feel really good that, A, I hope people went and bought my record. But secondly, I hope they listened to my record and went, oh, that's great. I think I might listen. Who's this guy, Sam Cooke? I'll go and buy his record.

39:13Keyzie:Yeah. Yeah, beautiful. Hey, well, Jimmy, it's been an absolute pleasure talking to you, mate. We really appreciate your time. And all the best for the release of the album. Thanks, mate. We're looking forward to it. We're going to come to New Zealand soon, too, and play. Well, this is – sorry to interrupt you. I haven't got the date yet, but I'm telling you, we're coming in very, very soon. You better, Jimmy. And we'll be doing the working-class man from start to finish. Well, we'll be there, mate. And the beauty of releasing this album 40 years on is a lot of people are going to think it's a new release, mate.

39:38It's a new release. These ones are dead, mate. Thank you very much, Jimmy.

39:43Mike Minogue:Thanks, Jimmy. All the best. Thank you. Bye. Yeah, good.

39:48Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

39:54Keyzie:Sure is Jason Hoyt, Mike Minogue and Keezy on The Big Show. Brought to you by Reburger, by the way.

39:59Mike Minogue:Handcrafted burgers, loaded fries and gourmet eats.

40:01Keyzie:That'll change the game. You know, fellas. Oh, that's right. Sorry. No, you're right. I got overexcited after talking to Jimmy. I've always had the immense respect for people that live a hard life. that go to the edge of things and then are able to pull back and renew themselves. And that was Jimmy because, like you said, he went pretty hard out in the early days. Yeah, Jimmy Barnes. And now he looks fantastic.

40:27Mike Minogue:He does. He really does.

40:29Keyzie:And living a healthy life. Good on him.

40:31Mike Minogue:Yeah, if you want to catch that interview, by the way, we just had a chat with Barnsley. It'll be available wherever you get your podcasts from. Search Hodaki Big Show at 7.30 tonight. That's when Pugs uploads them.

40:40Keyzie:To be honest, though, I kind of prefer dudes that completely blow out. You know what I mean? I mean, I have respect for Barnsley for pulling back from the edge. Yes. But, you know, the ones that just keep on trucking. Just, yeah, you know what a sad life that would be behind the scenes. Yes, very much. And you like that. Just go engulfed in flame. A blaze of glory. A blaze of glory.

41:02Mike Minogue:Yeah. That would be miserable and sad and depressing. Hey, fellas, just coming up next, man, I had my 34th birthday yesterday. Did you? And then last night I had a bit of an incident which made me feel like an old man. Couldn't get it. Huh? Huh? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Happens to most of us, Gizzy. Nothing to worry about, man. Perfectly normal for guys like you. No. What do you mean guys like me? It wasn't that. How many bottles of wine did you have? One. Trust me, it wasn't that. Trust me, fellas. Fellas. I heard you were pretty full. Huh? The Hauraki Big Show, weekdays from four on Radio Hauraki.

41:46Mike Minogue:Hot there, tune. Yeah, barracuda. That was a good tune. You're on the Big Show and August 29th, fellas, is Daffodil Day. You know Daffodil Day, remember that? Yeah, I do. I do remember it. So a year ago on the 29th is when I jumped off the Auckland Harbour Bridge dressed as a daffodil, raising money for cancer, of course, because thanks to ANZ, and it's the Cancer Society, not the cancer itself we're raising money for, but thanks to ANZ, we have been able to help one in three Kiwis that have been affected by cancer. Good stuff. Yeah, it's a very common affliction. Everyone knows someone or is related to someone that has dealt with cancer.

42:21Mike Minogue:If you would like to donate, by the way, text DONATE to 3493 right now. Make an instant$3 donation to the Cancer Society. This year, no one is jumping off a bridge. Instead, it is an all-day hodaki ping-pong championship. We're going to be playing the entire day. We'll be banging on about it. I can't wait because I bloody love ping pong. You do, don't you, mate? And, of course, Daffodal Day, Friday the 29th of August. Make sure you make a donation.

42:45Keyzie:Just on the ping pong front of things, Kesey, what do you call your grip there? Pen grip. Oh, is it a pen grip?

42:50Mike Minogue:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a particular style common in the Asian regions of the world. Right, yes. And for some reason when I was like nine, I saw a dude in the Olympics doing it, and I was like, that's how I'm going to play ping pong. and it's been the most punishing thing ever since. Yeah, good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once again, that's donate to 3493, instant$3 donation to the Cancer Society. 3493. Yeah, yeah, write it down, fellas. Might do that a couple of times. Hey, do you guys consider yourselves grumpy old bastards? Certainly not. Nah. Oh, okay. Do you? Nah, well, consider you guys. Consider you self.

43:27No, no, not me. Certainly, I mean, I know what I like and I know what I don't like. I don't think I'm grumpy about it. I'm plain talking.

43:35Mike Minogue:Yeah, right, okay. Straight shoot. I'm a straight shot. I shoot from the hip. What about you, Jase?

43:39Keyzie:No, certainly. I'm pretty chill.

43:41Mike Minogue:Nah, but seriously, though. Yeah, I'm very chill. So you don't think you're a grumpy old bastard at all? Outside of the last couple of days.

43:48Keyzie:Yeah, I can't think of an occasion where I've been grumpy.

43:52Mike Minogue:Right, okay. Well, look, this kind of derailed this because in my mind, you guys are both definitely grumpy old bastards. There's a different way to frame it. I'm sure some people would frame it that way, but, you know, I'm not going to call myself a grumpy old bastard. As I say, I shoot from the hip.

44:05Keyzie:Well, I'm grumpy now that you're suggesting that I am grumpy.

44:07Mike Minogue:All right, chill out, man. Jeez. But something happened to me last night. I'm 34 now, right? I had my birthday yesterday. I was at the ice cream store. Yes. Because we went for an ice cream after dinner. Because we're at this really nice restaurant. We looked at the menu. We were like, you know what? These sound okay. Not really tick in the box. You looked at the price, didn't you? Looked at the price. Yeah, we're already paying the fortune.

44:26Keyzie:They'll probably ask for a tip.

44:28Mike Minogue:100%. No, no. We were just like, we really like this one ice cream company that's up here in Ponsonby. It's delicious. Another one, yeah, yeah. And so we were like, let's go there. We went in there and from a restaurant across the road came about 20 young people, young people being between the age of like 18 and 21, I'd say. Very young, very lively, happy, that had clearly just had a great night. And they were so loud in the ice cream store. One of them jumped up and down with, oh my God. And I turned around and we're like, oh, because they'd like hurt my ear. Yeah. Was it a man or a woman? Woman.

44:59Sexist.

44:59Mike Minogue:No, it's not about being sexist, Mogi. That's certainly. Well, you know, you were repulsed by a woman making a noise. Is that what I'm hearing? No, no. In this particular situation, I was caught off guard and, like, got a bit of a shock and went, ah. Can I? Yeah, I was going to be quite loud.

45:15Keyzie:I just wanted a bit of clarification on that. So she made the noise and you went, ah. No, Chase, no.

45:20Mike Minogue:That's not what happened. She made a loud noise. I went, ah, like that. In a very madly fashion. Right, oh. And then I turned to my wife and I said, I just got kind of grumpy because some young people were having loud fun behind me. You know what I mean? They're having a great time. Yeah. And then old Boomer Kesey turns around and goes, oh, and is like a bit annoyed about it. And then I caught myself. Yeah. And I was just like, is this what happens? Is it your 30s where you start becoming a bit grumpier?

45:42Keyzie:Oh, I would have joined in the festivities. That wouldn't have bothered me at all. Really? You would have joined in with the 18 to 21 year old female? I would have gone, what are you having? What are you having? That's a bit weird.

45:50Mike Minogue:I certainly wouldn't have gone, ah. What about you, Michael? what you've done, shot from the hip. Yeah. I know what you mean when things are a bit loud, a bit too loud, certainly too loud. For a Wednesday ice cream. Things being too loud. You take it down, man. You take it down a little. Just knock out the enthusiasm for life, the lust for life that you're demonstrating here. Be a bit more miserable like me, old Keezy. Birthday boy. The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

46:19Keyzie:Blur there on the Radio Hauraki Big Show this Wednesday evening. Now, listen up, you massive backbones. You might not be very good on the tools. You might not be naturally a handyman. You might be a fellow like old Hoody Jay here who's not very good at fixing stuff. That's why you need to get involved

46:40Mike Minogue:with the good bastards at Hire a Hubby. Yeah, that's right, Jase. You might not be good at fixing stuff, man, but the good news is the listeners can win the chance for you to come over and have a crack anyway. Yeah, well, I can give it a whack. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically, you go to hodaki.co.nz. Bit of four but two, just whack it in there. Yeah. You go to hodaki.co.nz, you tell us what needs done around your place, and you could win the chance for the big show to come around and fix it all up for you. What needs done? What needs done at your place. What needs done? Are you steamed, man? No, I'm not.

47:11Mike Minogue:I'm just like, did I? What needs doing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What needs doing? It's important that we talk about this on here any time one of us makes a mistake. We always try and just iron it out on here. Yeah, yeah.

47:21Keyzie:Just clear it up straight away, deal with it straight away. A lot of other stations won't deal with it at all. They'll try and pretend it didn't happen. Yes. We will not sweep these arrows under the carpet. We embrace our horrendous mistakes on air.

47:32Mike Minogue:And some people might say it's like, you know, it interrupts the flow of the show. I know. But what do they know about radio? Exactly. Yeah. I mean, there was our manager that said that. But, yeah, if you're keen, hire a hubby you'll be there as well. So they'll be helping. So it'll be a good job. When I was a kid, man, my dream was to be a franchisee for hire a hubby. Really? Yeah, yeah. But I just had no idea how to do it. It's like, okay, sure, there's guys out there that have got franchises for Hire a Hubby, but surely is that possible for someone like me, someone that comes from Levin? Well, that's a really good point, Mo.

48:03Mike Minogue:100%. You'd be aiming high if you're from Levin. If you go to hireahubby.co.nz, go to their website. There's a page set up. All the info's there on how you could become part of it. If you're handy and looking for a change, why not join the award-winning team at Hire a Hubby? But also, if you need some stuff done around your house, hodaki.co.nz. Get yourself in the drawer. Tell us what needs doing. Ryan from Hookaticka writes, G'day, lads. We have an old heat pump that needs to be taken out of our house and the old wall repainted and what have you. He's not going to replace it? No, so maybe he's...

48:35Mike Minogue:Putting in a fire.

48:36Keyzie:I just feel like Hookaticka is a little bit out of the way.

48:39Mike Minogue:Right, so you wouldn't travel down for that? I mean, I wouldn't, no. I would. Yeah, I would. I love it down there. Pugs would. We love it down there. They love us down there. Yeah, yeah. Chase, you haven't been down there, but you simply must go. Oh, my God.

48:51Keyzie:So many places I have to go.

48:53Mike Minogue:So many places. So many places. Let's iron this one out on air.

48:56Keyzie:So many places I have to go.

48:58Mike Minogue:Okay, so you're putting a line through Ryan from Hookaticka? Wow, no. And sending the message. He's still got a chance. Yeah, he does. What about Gemma from Nelson? Our interior desperately needs to be painted. It's so tired and dated looking. Please help refresh our home. Nice. What? Refresh. Oh. Okay, Phil, this is... We're ironing too many things out. We could do that, right? We could paint it up. I think so.

49:20Keyzie:I don't mind putting on a lick of paint. I've been doing that around my own house.

49:24Mike Minogue:Oh, have you? Yes. How does it look? It looks really good. What colour?

49:29Keyzie:White and an off cream. Have you had a look at it with your glasses on? Yes. It looks even better with my glasses on.

49:37Mike Minogue:Old hoity Jay, eh? Yeah, man. Best in the world. A number one. Hauraki.co.nz. Get yourself in the drawer while you're doing that. The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune in weekdays at four on Radio Hauraki.

49:53Keyzie:What's going on with the music there, Keezy? A bit. What? Kooky. I was going to say pooky, weirdly. Quirky. Yeah.

50:02Mike Minogue:It's an odd fish. It is a funny fish. Yeah. I'm sorry, what's happening, Jase, sorry, is Pugs and I don't know what the hell's happened to the end of show music that we've used for four plus years. Whose job is it? Well, it's no one's job, Mogi. Really? Nah. It's no one's job? To what? Look after the end to show music? Well, the problem was someone put it in a long time ago. Right. And it had an expiry date on it. Yeah. And it's just expired and now deleted out of the system in the archive. And we don't know what it was called. We don't know where it came from. Pugs is going to try to find it.

50:32Mike Minogue:But in the meantime, this is pretty good.

50:35Keyzie:All right. What's on the podcast outro clip today, Keezy?

50:40Mike Minogue:Today's outro is mostly about how much Jase hates meetings. Here's a clip.

50:46Keyzie:Yeah, I thought Anaya banged on a bit, but, you know, other than that, it was fine.

50:50Mike Minogue:Jase, there is nothing wrong with asking questions and being interested.

50:52Keyzie:Yeah, he was just f***ing going on and on. No, he wasn't. Didn't he shut the f*** up Anaya? Crikey. Yeah, man. Far out, man. He was really going on. Yes, no, look, meetings are one of those things, aren't they, fellas? You've got to get them done. Yeah. You've got to do them. It's part of it, man. You may not love it. You may not love it. Yes, you've got to share information. Opportunity for feedback. Opportunity for management to listen.

51:13Mike Minogue:Yep. Opportunity for management to talk. Communication. Yeah. Hey, fellas, quite a few texts have just noticed on 3483 asking, what's up with Keezy's voice today? I don't know. Yeah. It's just gone. It sounds fine. It sounds a little bit usky. It doesn't sound like it's gone. It's fine, though, yeah. It's getting a bit more nasally. Can I say that? Really? It seems to be what happens with you. That's your thing. I get a bit croaky in the voice, and my voice box shatters. Yeah. But we'll see. Have you been on the darts? Were you on the darts for your birthday? No, not on the darts. Not on the darts at all.

51:40Mike Minogue:Just got a weird dry throat. Right, okay. So tomorrow, hopefully, it'll be good as gold for the Wellington live show. Mate, it's all on. Parrot dog, 4pm till 7pm. Yeah, Lyle Bay. We'll see you down there. Hell God. Can't wait.