OUTRO: A Real Mixed Bag

13 Jul 2026 · 11 min · 3 chapters

Ask about this episode

Ask anything about it. ChatGPT or Claude reads this page and answers with the times it was said.

Connect VO and ask about every podcast you hear, including the moments you saved. Add to ChatGPT · Add to Claude

In short

Morning banter about adjusting to early wake-ups, alarm sounds, and a “real mixed bag” of life stories, then pivots to tributes and film/art discussion.

Guests

No guests appear; it’s a host roundtable (Jase, Keezy Mogey, and others) on The Hauraki Big Show.

Key claims

Sam Neill’s death is “devastatingly” sad; he’s an NZ acting icon. Alec Baldwin praised Hunt for Red October but allegedly didn’t mention Sam Neill until the end. Ian Mune’s acting/directing genius is being very still; he directed Sleeping Dogs (and had a contentious awards rant).

Notable examples

Hunt for Red October (1988/89); Sleeping Dogs; Broken Hearted; Bruno Lawrence (Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Smash Palace); da Vinci cadaver dissection; fruit bowl still life as art-school training.

Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.

Chapters

Tap a time to open that second in VO

Early Morning Musings

0:12 to 3:39

The hosts discuss their blurry-eyed experiences of early wake-ups.

“Just to put this in context, the time is 5.45am and we've all just staggered in here blurry eyed.”

Tribute to Sam Neill

3:39 to 8:10

A heartfelt discussion on the legacy and contributions of Sam Neill.

“Weekdays from 4 On Radio Hauraki The Hauraki Big Show Podcast Bit of Sam Neill last night Yeah really sad Very sad Yeah.”

Art and Anatomy in Painting

8:10 to 10:35

Exploration of art education and the importance of understanding human anatomy.

“Also, just on Ian Mearn, he's a very good painter.”
Hear the part that matters, and keep it.Open this episode in VO. Double tap your headphones to save a moment as you listen.
Get VO free

Transcript

Automatic transcript. May contain errors.

0:00Keyzie:For all you mad bastards loving the Big Show podcast, get up even closer on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok or Raw Dog It. 4 to 7 every weekday on Radio Horeke. Oh, g'day fellas. Hello. Just to put this in context, the time is 5.45am and we've all just staggered in here blurry eyed.

0:27Mike Minogue:Have you noticed that we've all got smaller eyes than normal? Yes, I have. Jase, your eyes are tiny. Are they really? Yeah.

0:35Keyzie:Right, okay. Piss holes in the snow. I saw that hot pot you've been having. No, no hot pot yesterday, but I paid the price yesterday. I won't get into the details. Three poos. I knew it. Save it for on here. Three poos. I knew it.

0:48Mike Minogue:As soon as he said I won't get into the details, I was like, hang on, here comes some details. Here's the details.

0:53Keyzie:How are we going, fellas? All G? Good, mate.

0:55Mike Minogue:So fucking good, man. Good stuff.

0:57Keyzie:I was saying to Keezy Mogey because we bumped into each other coming in today. Oh, yes. You know what's going to happen, of course, is that our body's going to fully adjust by the end of the week to this time frame, and all of next week we're going to be fucked because we'll be waking up because our bodies are going, oh, that's right, we're doing breakfast. Bing, wake up at four, and that'll be us all next week. I wake up at four anyway. Are you really? Yes. Sometimes I am.

1:22Mike Minogue:Fuck every day. Yes. Oh, my God. Earlier, earlier. And then I just go back to sleep if I can. But if I can't, then I get up and I do. A little bit of work. A little bit of work. Part of me wanted to say fuck all there, but.

1:36Keyzie:I woke up at quarter to four this morning and I went, oh, well. So I turned the alarm off.

1:42Mike Minogue:I woke up at 20 to four.

1:43Keyzie:I woke up at quarter past. Right. And so I went out into the lounge.

1:47Mike Minogue:Quarter to four? Absolutely. Quarter to four, yeah. You turned your alarm off?

1:51Keyzie:No, no jacking on it.

1:53Mike Minogue:But you turned your alarm off.

1:55Keyzie:Yeah, because I didn't want it to go off and wake my wife.

1:58Mike Minogue:Oh, so it hadn't gone up?

1:59Keyzie:No, because I'd set it for 4.30 or something. But anyway, so I'm just in the lounge there, just flicking through the YouTube and all the political dramas, and then I hear this bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, and I was like, what the fuck is that? And it's some dude walking down the street ringing a cowbell, just banging on this cowbell all the way down the street. And it's like, good on you, man. Fuck, why not? I mean, it's only, you know, 10 to 4 in the morning. That's just made me think that maybe we could do a segment on the show where we play our alarm. What is your alarm like? Because I was just thinking this morning when mine went off, I was like, shit, I've got to change that.

2:39It's brutal for my life.

2:40Mike Minogue:Yeah, what is your alarm like? But we can have a bit of fun with it if you like, because I know yours is people having sex. Kesey. Is it? Can you play it? I mean, like vigorous sex or? Just towards the end there, you know, when she's sort of going, you know, hurry up, Kesey. Yeah, it's pretty hammer and tongs stuff, Jase, and I recorded it.

3:03Keyzie:Is it actually you having sex?

3:05Mike Minogue:Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5.48 in the morning right now. Oh, that's good stuff. Oh, is it? I do actually have a strategy around my alarm. Oh, you do? Which is quite interesting See alarm chat You see With me Keezy Alarm chat with me Mogey Jase's is just audio Of him taking a steamer Yeah exactly It's free a day Hey Jase Ding ding ding Alright Grow up fellas Come on man

3:35Keyzie:For fuck's sake

3:37Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show Weekdays from 4 On Radio Hauraki The Hauraki Big Show Podcast Bit of Sam Neill last night

3:46Keyzie:Yeah really sad

3:48Mike Minogue:Very sad Yeah. Sad news. Sad news.

3:50Keyzie:Lovely man from the few times that I met him. Yeah. And just an icon of New Zealand acting. He's had a huge career. He'd be the one, wouldn't he? Yeah, I think so. If you got to choose one, I think he'd be the one. Yeah, I agree. Greatest ever. Devastatingly good looking, too. He's a beautiful looking. Back in his, well, right through, but amazing actor. Yeah. Very sad news. I was just watching a reel with Alec Baldwin, because Alec Baldwin did Hunt for Red October with him. Oh, yes. Yeah. And he said, oh, you know, I just wanted to jump on here and talk. I'm absolutely stricken about Sam Neill.

4:32Yes. He said, I did Hunt for Red October in 88, came out in 89. It was my first sort of proper meaty roll up until then. I'd done Beetlejuice and other things that are sort of small rolls. God, it was a great cast. so I just had to write it down. He goes through and he reads out all the cast and he sort of talks. Anyway, it goes on for about four or five minutes. At no time does he mention Sam Neill, except to say that he's sad about it at the start. Yes. And then at the end, after mentioning every other actor in the film and how great it was working with him, he then says it's Sam Neill. Very sad for his family.

5:07Very sad for his family. He doesn't even say that Sam Neill was in Hunt for Red Ox. God almighty.

5:15Mike Minogue:I think you're thinking of Hunt for the Wilder People. Yeah, that's right. Wrong one.

5:19Keyzie:I remember an interview with Ian Mune. Oh, yes. And Mune, who's worked with him a lot, and he was talking about, he was saying. That was Sleeping Dogs, wasn't it? Yeah, Sleeping Dogs, classic film. Your wife wouldn't like it, Keezy.

5:34Mike Minogue:She likes Sleeping Dogs. Does she let them lie or no?

5:38Keyzie:Ian Mune was talking about Sam Neill, and he was going, there's this amazing-looking guy, and he's on screen. and he's not doing anything. He's not doing anything. And, you know, he's just so still. And I'm just like, what? And Ian Mune's quite a big actor, and he was just going, what the fuck's this guy about? But he realised that was his genius, was that he was very still as an actor, very sort of settled, and that was his power. And he went, fuck, and then I realised, and I saw him on screen and went, ah, ah, okay, that's what it is.

6:14Mike Minogue:So Ian Barry Mew, New Zealand character, actor, director and screenwriter. He directed what becomes the Broken Hearted. Sleeping Dogs.

6:22Keyzie:Very controversially, remember, because he was fuming about the reviews and stuff. Oh, was he? Yes, and he had a rant at the film awards about it. Oh, did he? Yeah. He was a little bit. It's not. It had a few beers. People like a few beers. Yeah, yeah. I remember because I used to televise them live back in the day, and I remember compatriot of Mewen and old dear and dear Sam Neill there, Bruno Lawrence. Oh, one of my heroes. And he was absolutely maggot pissed when he got his award. Yes. And my mother was disgusted. And he, well, that was not unusual for Bruno.

6:57Mike Minogue:Whereas I was. Smash Palace. Smash Palace, a great movie.

7:01Keyzie:That is a great movie.

7:02Mike Minogue:It says here he died at 54. That's young. Yeah, of cancer.

7:06Keyzie:No.

7:06Mike Minogue:No, David Lawrence. Bruno Lawrence. Bruno Lawrence.

7:10Keyzie:Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of Jack Nicholson's favourite actors, Keezy.

Read the full transcript

7:12Mike Minogue:Really? And he's a Kiwi. Well, he's a English fella. He was a sex symbol as well, despite the bald head. But he was just so virile.

7:22Keyzie:He's a good looking fella, you can tell.

7:24Mike Minogue:Yeah, yeah.

7:24Keyzie:And he was a bit of a character and he loved his piss.

7:27Mike Minogue:Who, Bruno?

7:28Keyzie:Bruno did, yeah. I was actually told, true story, when I was doing Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby. And it was by not his relative, but it was sort of a distant relative of Bruno's. And she was part of the crew on Seven Periods of Mr. Gornsby. And she said, you remind me of Bruno. Oh. Probably because I was really hungover. Pissed up on set. Well, I probably was. And I said, oh, fuck, Bruno was like my hero. That might have been Veronique. Yeah. Who's a script supervisor. Maybe, yeah. Yeah, she's a weapon. But, yeah, really sad. Really sad about Sam Neill. Also, just on Ian Mearn, he's a very good painter.

8:13Keyzie:Oh, really? Very good painter. I've seen him. Houses and. No, sort of landscapes. Materials. Oh. Oh, and he does portraits. Yeah. He's fucking good. I was like, he puts them on Facebook every now and then. I'm like, shit, that's good. Yeah.

8:26Mike Minogue:Does anyone ever just do a fruit bowl anymore? Oh, come on. Yeah. Yes. Really? Who? Still life. Everyone. It's how you learn, Keezy. It's a great way to learn about light.

8:36Keyzie:I was going to say it's your classic art school sort of first step is the fruit bowl.

8:42Mike Minogue:And then why the human form? Why? Why does that become a thing? The painting nude thing?

8:48Keyzie:Same thing. Yeah, it's just about light and shade and muscularity. And the amazing thing about it is because my wife's a painter and she's learning more and more. But what you learn at school and what you get taught. So over in Europe especially, and here a little bit, but not as part of the curriculum, you're actually taught about the physiology of the human body. So you start, you learn the skeleton, then the muscles go on. So you learn why the body looks the way it does, why the face looks the way it does. You know all of the layers that are underneath all the way down to the skeleton.

9:29Mike Minogue:Was it primary school? This as well with kids over there. Maybe not primary school. Well, later in primary school, maybe. But, yeah, it makes a huge difference. To the art. Because that's why da Vinci was so great, because he dissected so many cadavers to understand why the human body looked like it did and then made his paintings look more lifelike.

9:50Keyzie:I used to do a bit of modelling back in the day, actually. Noses. Pardon?

9:57Mike Minogue:Yeah, he posed for the Easter Island head when they were carving those.

10:05Mike Minogue:I was like, what's something with a big no? I can't do anything.

10:10Keyzie:It's too early. Fucking hell. I'm trying really hard not to just go overboard on the coffees, by the way, fellas. I only had one yesterday for the entire show and morning. You should have another one. Well, I had one when I went and met my wife. No, you should have two today. No, Keezy, because it makes me feel nauseous.

10:30Mike Minogue:Oh, okay. Listen to the big show, 4 to 7. Weekdays Radio Hodaki. Okay. Good listening.

From the publisher

On today's poddy, there's filth, reminiscing and art discussion.

Follow The Big Show on Instagram

Subscribe to the podcast now on iHeartRadio, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Featuring Jason Hoyte, Mike Minogue, and Keyzie, "The Big Show" drive you home weekdays from 4pm on Radio Hauraki.

Providing a hilarious escape from reality for those ‘backbone’ New Zealanders with plenty of laughs and out-the-gate yarns.

Download the full podcast here:
iHeartRadio

Apple 
Spotify

Follow The Big Show on Instagram

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

More from The Hauraki Big Show

All 659 episodes
OUTRO: A Real Mixed BagThe Hauraki Big Show · 11 min
Listen in VO