In short
Two/three hosts reminisce about the “boarding school experience,” then pivot to childhood breakfast food sugar levels and nostalgia (cereal, Nutri-Grain, Sultana brand, Weet-Bix, ginger nuts, Marmite drinks).
Guest backgrounds
The main guest is Kesey (attended boys’ boarding school; describes shower blocks, intercom wakeups, cold runs, prep/homework schedules). Mogi joins briefly as a co-host/guest. Jase also discusses boarding school exposure (claims none of the others went, but he jokes about Kesey’s “downstairs” experiences).
Key claims
Boarding school showers were communal and fast; mornings used intercom alarms; panel heaters barely warmed; prep/homework ran early and late. Breakfast cereals are marketed as “Ironman food” but contain heavy sugar (e.g., Nutri-Grain ~six teaspoons per bowl; Sultana brand “~60” sultanas).
Notable examples
communal shower block with ~10 shower heads; running barefoot in winter; homework 6–7 and 7–9; hot water Weet-Bix; Marmite drink; dunking ginger nuts in tea.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOBoarding School Anecdotes
0:45 to 4:24
The hosts share humorous stories and experiences from their time at boarding school.
“For me at the moment, it's about not thinking too much about the fact that I fly Friday midnight to Europe.”
Morning Routines and Showering
4:24 to 7:04
Discussion about morning routines, shower practices, and the challenges of boarding school life.
“Then you'd put on your PE gear and you'd have to go for a run around the perimeter of the school, whatever the weather.”
Cereal and Nutrition Insights
7:04 to 8:42
The hosts discuss various cereals, their nutritional content, and childhood memories associated with them.
“And they say it's high in, well, the fact that you can market it as Ironman food.”
Grandparents and Family Traditions
8:42 to 10:48
Nostalgic reflections on family traditions, meals with grandparents, and the simplicity of past times.
“Yeah, I'd need a little bit of crunch in the middle.”
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 Hood Air Kids. Yeah!
0:21Keyzie:Oh, yeah, jeez, boys. Fire out, man. How good, eh? How good? I tell you what. What? Just so good. Yeah, man. It's so good to be alive. The sun's just peaked through the clouds there.
0:33Mike Minogue:Do you think maybe we're overcompensating a bit for the fact that Mogi's about to join us but he's not quite here yet? Yeah. By laughing heaps.
0:42Keyzie:Oh, how good. How are you going, Kesey? I feel like I haven't seen you for ages, man.
0:47Mike Minogue:Yeah, no, I'm going well, Jase. For me at the moment, it's about not thinking too much about the fact that I fly Friday midnight to Europe.
0:55Keyzie:Well, it's always been my concern, as I asked you yesterday, Have you already clocked out on us?
1:01Mike Minogue:No, no, I don't do that. I don't clock out. Whenever I walk through the door of the studio, it's game time. Right, okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. Plus, if I do clock out, I do so little that it's really hard for you to tell.
1:14Keyzie:Well, I know when you clock out because you go slightly cross-eyed. Do I? Yeah, so your eyes start like crossing over. The weird thing. See, you've got your hooded eyes. Right. Which is hangover eyes.
1:27Mike Minogue:Yeah, right.
1:27Keyzie:Which is like you can barely keep them open. Yeah. And when you go cross-eyed, it's like Keezy's gone. Bleep, bleep. I'm out of here. I've clocked out. Yeah, I've clocked out. I've punched in my numbers.
1:38Mike Minogue:Do you know what's interesting is when my cock's out, you go cross-eyed.
1:46Keyzie:Language, Keezy. I go cross-eyed. Yeah. Oh, no. I mean, I went to a boys' boarding school, man. I've seen them all. I've seen all shapes and sizes.
2:00Mike Minogue:Do you reckon you've seen – you would have seen the most out of the three of us, right?
2:03Keyzie:Well, none of you guys went to boarding school, so yeah, I'm picking so.
2:06Mike Minogue:Yeah.
2:06Keyzie:I've seen your button mushrooms. I've seen your shiitakes. I'm not saying you've got a button mushroom.
2:12Mike Minogue:No, okay, well, that's a first. Yeah.
2:15Keyzie:I've seen your shiitakes. I've seen your flatheads. What's a flathead? I've seen your sort of completely disorganised circumcisions. I've seen your bot circumcisions. I've seen them all, man. You know what I'm saying?
2:30Mike Minogue:If you had to put a number on the amount of downstairs you've seen. Yeah. Do you reckon it's over 50?
2:37Keyzie:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
2:38Mike Minogue:And I'm talking in person.
2:40Keyzie:Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you've got to remember back when I was at boarding school, we all showered in like a shower block. And it was basically like, if you can imagine a prison ward. Right. But it's surrounded by concrete. it's just a big block with about 10 shower heads in it. What's up with that? We'd have to file through there and wash and clean ourselves.
3:04Mike Minogue:That's weird, right?
3:06Keyzie:Well, why would it be weird?
3:08Mike Minogue:I don't know. I just think it's weird to make young boys and girls and stuff have to shower together when you could quite easily just put walls in and give them their own private cubicle.
3:18Keyzie:Yeah, I suppose so. But I guess that was just a lot of admin, you know what I mean, in terms of they want to get you in there and get you out pretty quick is basically was the thing. Right. You'd get in there, you'd be squirted on a little bit, you'd have a quick sort of shake down, a bit of a rub down, a bit of a wash and then go out. G'day, fellas. God, g'day, Mogi. G'day, fellas. How you going there, mate? It's interesting being outside of that, not listening outside and realising how much everyone in here shouts. I think you're overcompensating. By shouting? Yeah, yeah. What was more interesting was at boarding school, because, of course, you'd have the alarm and everyone would have to get up at the same time.
3:59Keyzie:Now, you imagine maybe 114 or 15-year-olds getting woken up. Yeah, okay. Yeah, getting woken up with the intercom. Morning, boys, time to get up, time to get up. I remember that very well. Wow. And then, you know, 115, 14-year-old boys making their way down to the shower. It was something to behold.
4:23Mike Minogue:Did you have to shower? Everyone had to shower in the morning.
4:26Keyzie:Yeah, had to go for a shower. Then you'd put on your PE gear and you'd have to go for a run around the perimeter of the school, whatever the weather. I think that's cool. Freezing cold, middle of winter, little shorts, your little house sort of singlet on, away you went bare feet, no sneakers or anything.
4:46Mike Minogue:Obviously you'd have a shower in the evening as well. Because kids out there playing all day, going for runs, surely they had showers in that night.
4:53Keyzie:Yeah, I think that was more voluntary.
4:55Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show, weekdays from four on Radio Hauraki.
5:02Keyzie:The Hauraki Big Show podcast. Did you go to boarding school for a year or something, maybe? I did, yeah. Yeah. I think it was all exactly the same. Yes. I'd forgotten about the running around the field. Yes. I can't have done that, otherwise I'd have more of a memory of it because I hated running. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I hated it every morning. And as I say, I was in all conditions. It didn't matter what the weather was doing. If it was the middle of winter, it was pissing down. You had to run around the perimeter. You get up, we had to study, I think, for an hour from like 6 to 7 or 5.30 to 6.30 or something.
5:32Yeah. Jeez, that's early. Freezing coals. Yes. Freezing coals buildings made of brick. Yeah. No insulation. Panel heaters. Just have the panel heaters, which don't emit any heat. But if you touch them, you die. You die.
5:47Mike Minogue:I still remember having a vivid memory of like you'd get into the class first, hopefully take your sweater off and make a pillow and then lean against it using your sweater. That was the only way to get you in the warmth.
5:59Keyzie:We used to do our prep, as we called it, our homework after school. Yeah, we did. We were top and tail. Yeah, start of the day and the end of the day. It's crazy when you think about it. We did homework from 7 o 'clock till 9 o 'clock. That is crazy. It's just so that they know where you are. They don't have to do anything with you. You're not going to watch TV. There is no TV. No. Yeah, so that's your lot. Screw that, man. Whereas you'd just go home with your keys and all hammer away at yourself.
6:28Mike Minogue:Hammer away at myself. No, I'd go home. I would eat a bowl of cereal straight after school every day. Iron Man food. Neutral game for a bit. Crunching up for a bit of mum if that was on special. Coco Pops if that was, you know, but she didn't like buying us Coco Pops. No, no. Because of the sugar? Because of the sugar. It would usually be Nutri-Grain, even though it's probably sugary as well. Well, Nutri-Grain, yeah, I saw something about this the other day. Six teaspoons of sugar in every bowl. And that's assuming you have a normal bowl and you don't. You have a double up. And that's over half of your daily requirements for sugar.
7:01What about for kids? Oh, it's even worse. Because when I was a kid. That's terrible, eh? I was so active, though. And they say it's high in, well, the fact that you can market it as Ironman food. There's not an Ironman on the face of the planet who'd eat it. Yeah. But they say it's high in calcium, but they count the milk that you eat it with. Yeah. And they count the eggs that it's made with. So they don't add any protein. It's just the general ingredients.
7:23Mike Minogue:Yummy, though. Oh, yeah, it is.
7:25Keyzie:My daughter and I are going through a Sultana brand thing, and I'm sure, I'm absolutely sure that's probably still the same scenario. It's worse than NutriBrand. Oh. This is a thing. It was on the Australian project, and it came up on Instagram. Those were the two things I looked at, and that was higher than NutriBrand. And sugar. Higher than sugar.
Read the full transcript
7:43Mike Minogue:Too many fucking, oh, there's so many Sultanas in there. So many Sultanas, too many. Clues in the title, though, Keezy. Come on, brother. But, you know, just right, let's say. Just right, hang on, before you launch it and interrupt my story there. You have a bowl of it. That was JC I was talking to. Yeah, you have a bowl of it. There might be 10 raisins in there. That's 10 scoops. Perfect. Sultana brand has about 60, and that's not even an exaggeration. There's so many Sultanas in there.
8:08Keyzie:Well, as a regular eater of Sultana brand, And I think you're overstating the Sultana count. I bet they would have cut back on the Sultanas over the years. You're probably remembering childhood Sultanas.
8:18Mike Minogue:I am remembering the big box of Sultana bread I took home from the day in lieu and just ate and was blown away by the sheer quantity of Sultanas. Jeez, that's generous though, isn't it?
8:28Keyzie:I tell you what I need to do, get back to Fialos, which was a big staple of mine, the old Wheat Bix. It was sugar, though. Yeah, it was sugar, for sure. My daughter's on the Wheat Bix. She calls them Wet Bix. Wet Bix, yeah, yeah. As soon as they get wet, they're gross.
8:43Mike Minogue:I can't handle them. Yeah, I'd need a little bit of crunch in the middle. Yes. But with Weet-Bix at least, right, let's say you have three in a bowl, a bit of milk, and you get a heap teaspoon of white sugar and you sprinkle that over, that's one teaspoon of sugar compared to six in Nutri-Grain. Yeah, well, God knows how many there's in Weet-Bix. Well, because it's just flaky oats. It's just gross. They'll find a way to put it in.
9:03Keyzie:And this is absolutely true, and I've already told you this many years ago, but at my granddad's house we had Weet-Bix and all he put on it, Water? Yeah, hot water. That's right, yeah. Hot water and no sugar. That was living large. Just hot water. And he used to also make us a Marmite drink. Far out. A Marmite drink? Yeah, with just a spoonful of Marmite and hot water. And that's what he grew accustomed to. That was good eating. Yeah. Because you're so poor after the war. Yes. That's your lot.
9:30Mike Minogue:I suppose it would be like a soup almost, eh? Like a hot, savoury soup. Well, it's just better than water. That's what it is. Yeah, it's kind of like a... Slightly better than water.
9:39Keyzie:Beefy broth. You know what? I used to always love, too, with my grandparents, you know, he'd come in from his shed and they'd have their morning tea. Right. And it would be a biscuit and a cup of tea. And it was an occasion. And then I'd have an afternoon tea. Nowadays they could do that. They'd come in and they'd just both get on their phones and he'd be trawling filth. Yeah, exactly. Do you know what you've just reminded me?
10:02Mike Minogue:I loved having a cup of tea and dunking a ginger nut in it.
10:06Keyzie:How good?
10:07Mike Minogue:I'm going to get my wife. My wife. And this isn't a sexism thing, but I'm going to get her to get ginger nuts in the next shop. On the shopping list. Yeah, because we have different jobs. You could get her to make some. How come she does that when you're home all day? That's a really good question. And I guess we'll never know the answer. Hey, man, I'll do the shopping. She just does it online anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If she puts the bins out, you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. Sure, man.
10:33Keyzie:Takes me five seconds. Oh, bugger that just reminds her. I was meant to put my green bin out today. Oh, man.
10:39Mike Minogue:Tonight for me. Hey, we're going to go because the show's about to start, but thanks for listening. Thanks, fellas. Check out the big show, 4 to 7 weekdays on Hodaki.
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