THE DISCLAIMER: Moving To The Beach

0:01For all you mad bastards loving the big show podcast, get up even closer on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok or Raw Doggy. 4 to 7 every weekday on Radio Horete. Oh, get up! Yeah! Hello. How are you going, fellas? You all good? Much better today. I was down in the dumps yesterday, fellas. Were you? I'm back. Oh, that's good, man. I don't have any down in the dumps days. What were you down in the dumps about? Just a bit of stuff going on. Just life, man. Just life, you know.

0:35Keyzie:Just people, man, you know. The one thing I will say, Moggy, and the good thing about life is everything passes. Everything does. Even the shit stuff and even the good stuff. So even when you're having a great day, just know this. There's a shitter. There is an absolute shocker coming your way. That's right. So don't enjoy the highs. No. Yes. But just know that when you're sitting in that low, possibly a high is coming.

0:58Mike Minogue:Yeah, but right after that high, another fucking low, way worse than this one.

1:01Keyzie:What I like to do is really indulge in the lows and really wallow in it. And then when I'm going through a really good patch and I'm high, I know, you've told me this before. The whole time I think, oh, this isn't going to last. Yeah, can't expect this to last. Yeah, this is going to fall apart very soon.

1:18Mike Minogue:Genuinely, my brain is the complete opposite of that. Yeah. So I'll be like, hi, hi, hi, this is normal, this is normal that a bad thing happens. I'll be like, what? They'll be like, hey, we're back again. Yeah. But it is interesting. You're one or the other, aren't you? Who, me, personally? No, everyone is wired to be one or the other. I'm happy. Yeah, I'm positive. I'm a positive person as well.

1:38Keyzie:I'm certainly not that. I'm positive, but I've also, I just don't. It doesn't bother me. You know, like bad stuff will come along. It's like, that's okay. Yes. I'm okay with that. I'm very much like that now. I mean, not all the time, but most of the time I'm like, oh, well, what the fuck? You used to be very anxious. Yes, I was. About things. You've done a lot of work, Jase, over these last few years. And now I'm like, that's all good, man. Yeah. Keezy will sort it out for me. And it's not all good. No, of course it's not. But at least you're able to look at it from a, oh, God. Oh, no. You know, you're not doom and gloom in it.

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2:42Mike Minogue:The Hauraki Big Show podcast. I've found recently that I am a very happy, very chill person, but it's because I've worked very hard to make my surroundings very secure. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yes. As soon as anything fucks with that, you're in trouble. Well, that's why right now, because I've sold my house, and I'm looking for a new one, nothing's come up, I don't have anywhere to live in a couple of months, and I'm like, fuck. Yeah, that wouldn't bother me at all. And then, Jase, the other day we were at golf, he was talking about going from working paycheck to paycheck, like off acting gigs and stuff, to then moving into radio and it being a secure thing.

3:15Mike Minogue:And I was like, I can't fucking imagine just sitting there like, man, I hope another acting job comes along. Could never do it. It would fucking do my head in.

3:21Keyzie:And go for months. Well, no, I was very lucky because I had a lot of voice work as well, which really tidied me over.

3:28Mike Minogue:But even that, you don't know if there is another one coming.

3:30Keyzie:Well, that's right. But the thing was, and I've talked about this before, but the difficult thing was you'd do a job and then it would take two months to be paid. Yeah. And then you're fucked. That's right. That's right. And then there's also, and this is kind of contract stuff, and I still have these conversations with my mates now who work in film where you don't know if there's another film coming in. No. And if it does come in, you don't know if you're going to get a job on it. And then often what happens is you've got X amount of time off, but you don't know how long that – you're going to get another job.

4:02Yes. But you don't know when that job is, and I'm talking contracting, so working is on set or in production or something like that. And then you get a phone call. It's like, can you start on Monday? so you haven't been able to enjoy any of that time off because you think, ah, fuck, maybe I've got six months off. Maybe I've got three. I don't know. You're treading water almost. Well, you're just being careful because you don't know how long the money's got to last. But if you're new going between, it's going to be a month. It's like, fuck, I'm going to have an awesome holiday for a month. Yes.

4:30So it is stressful.

4:32Mike Minogue:It is a stressful thing. Like it's great because you've got a bit of freedom if you want it. And it used to be that you would get paid a lot more than you got in the normal world, but that's not the case anymore in film. That's true too. Unless you work fuck loads of hours. And that's the other thing in film is a normal week is 25 % longer than a civilian job. So a normal week in film is 50 hours, 10 hours a day. You think, so fuck, I'm rolling it. But any job, if you chucked another 25 % salary on top of it, you're probably going to go all right.

5:00Keyzie:Like my daughter works as crew in film and stuff. Fuck they work long hours, man. She's exhausted all of the time. It's just hardcore. She's there at like 5.30 in the morning. She leaves at 6.30, 7 at night. So similar to us then? Yeah, similar to us. They've got to pack everything in, sort everything out. The actors swan in. Oh, I'm so over it. Yeah, that's you. That's you. That's you. Oh, I can't be bothered. Somebody gets me a coffee. You do your scene. You're brilliant. And then you leave. And then, you know, the crew. Before you know it, you've gone from number nine on the call sheet. To 44.

5:43Keyzie:That's an oddly specific rant there. I was so fucking fired up today on the computer trying to sort shit out, right? I wish I was there, man. You know what I did? This is truly what I did. I went online and went, rental property, Russell.

6:04Keyzie:Because there's some fucking beautiful places out there.

6:07Mike Minogue:You should look up there, Keezy. I've got a story for you, but I can't tell it on here. So that was all because of, are you going to talk about this, Jan, on the radio? Well, yes, I can.

6:15Keyzie:I put it in the chat, but I don't want to be specific about what job it is. No, no, no. That's right. And in actual fact, to be fair, it's not just this job. It's the way it is now. With everything. With everything. It's like, can you fill out this? Can you do this? Can you do that? No, I can't.

6:32Mike Minogue:You having to put a password in to log into a site was enough to make you look up rental properties in Russell.

6:38Keyzie:It was a bit more involved than that, Keezy, and it wasn't just one thing I had to do, and there was no password. There was no password. For fuck's sake, there was no password. Did you log into the rental property site? Yes, I did. That was fine. Did you have your password? And I'll tell you what, there was, and I kid you not, it was like the first. Where was it, rental properties in? Russell. Yeah, good on you. The first property I looked at was like my dream come true. It was a little cottage. Have you got jokes going through your head now, Keezy?

7:13Mike Minogue:Something about moving in with a guy called Russell, but that's all I've got.

7:16Keyzie:It was a little cottage right next to the beach, and I just went, ah, fuck. It was 500.

7:22Mike Minogue:What do you do, Jake, cottaging with Russell?

7:25Keyzie:580 bucks a week, and I went, I gamed it out. Living with six other people. How can I? Six other young professionals. How long would I last? Now, this is the trouble, isn't it, is that you've got to fill up the coffers again. Unfortunately, while you and I are going to die soon, Jase, it's not soon enough. Yes. Some would say. Not soon enough.

7:46Mike Minogue:But also, I think old hoity J, you should go and live up there for like a month or some shit.

7:51Keyzie:Yeah, maybe.

7:52Mike Minogue:You know what I mean? Like, go get a short-term rental or something.

7:54Keyzie:Well, no, actually, but having said that, I mean, I only do that when I'm massively stressed out. I love being in the CBD. It's great. It's awesome.

8:03Mike Minogue:I think going from, for example, your family batch to the CBD is quite nice because you can switch off and then come back and it's alive and then switch off again.

8:11Keyzie:Yeah. We were meant to go to the batch this weekend, my wife and I, but she forgot to ask her dad. And I think someone else is there now. Fuck. You must have been fuming. How was that around the hoity house? It would have been fucking quiet coming from old hoity J, old hoity J's, keeping his lips sealed.

8:27Mike Minogue:I saw his wife. Apparently after the bollocking she got, she was so stressed. Unless you started looking up rental properties at Russell.

8:34Keyzie:No, it would be Coromandel for her. Whereabouts? Yeah, I'm going to go to the Coromandel this year. Beautiful. I haven't been for years. Yes. Decades. Like when? Honestly, late January is going to be my aim. Yeah, after. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

8:51Mike Minogue:It fucking rules. I love Cook's Beach, man. It's my favourite. Yeah, I haven't been there, honestly, since I was 17 years old. We went and stayed at Ha-He. Yeah, Ha-He's pretty packed now. Yeah. We got a, we were staying at a camping ground, met a bunch of mates. What year was that? I can't remember. And then got the ferry over the road and the exponents were playing on this particular night. Oh, how good. So we got in there about midday. One of our mates, two of our mates went on a, like a ride on a little aeroplane. Sick. Little fucking acrobatic number or something. Was that at Whitianga? This was, they did it from the Ha-He.

9:25Oh, mate, Whitianga it was. Yeah, that's where the airfield is.

9:28Mike Minogue:Or it's Pawanoo is the other airfield. Right, because we came from Haje and we came across the water. And you went across the ferry, so that's mean. So Cook's Beach and Haje are cool. Cook's is my favourite because you can drive, hop on the ferry for$7, go to Fideyanga, go to the pub, nice dinner, blah, blah, blah, and then that ferry back across the Cook's Beach where it's chill again.

9:44Keyzie:Yeah. Just on that, by the way, a really good friend of my wife's, who she worked with, said to her this week, actually, they've got a place in Cook's Beach, and they said, if you guys ever want to use it, help yourself.

9:58Mike Minogue:And does that extend to us? No. That's great. That sounds good. I'm keen. Because we could go there and get hammered. Yeah, totally. Well, speaking of hammered, so we went to this pub while we waited for our mates to go on the flight. Yes. I drank 10 jugs in two and a half hours. When was this? When I was 17. Right. 10 jugs, like the plastic. 10 one litres, yeah. So 30 beers. And the locals, because it was just a pub, you know. Yes. They were quite impressed by us because we drank like animals. But then I passed out in a cubicle in their toilet for four hours. Wow. They could not move me. Door locked.

10:37I'm in there. I am out. I am comatose. Are your pants down? No, no, no. I knew what I was doing. I went in there and puked for a while and then nice cold porcelain on the face. Nothing quite like it. A little bit of a lie down. Nothing quite like it. And then I went back on the front, got back in the car, had to sleep over there. Yeah. Then came back over completely sober now for the exponents. but all my mates are still there and they are hammered now. They've been drinking for 11 hours. And you were like, fuck, these guys.