Sean & Soph Catchup Podcast - The Worst Idea Of All Time

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Comedian's Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery join me to discuss what its like watching the same terrible movie 52 times...

This is a podcast from Rover. It is the Edge Knights. Join in studio right now by two Kiwi comedians. They are the host of my current most listened to podcast. Tim Back, Guy Montgomery. Welcome to the studio, guys. So good to be here. I can't have but notice you said most listened to.

So not your most favorite. No. But the one that you are listening to with the most frequency. In the last couple days leading up to this interview. Man, I respect the honesty. I tip my hat at the honesty of that. Too much of the New Zealand media, there's a lot of ass-kissing. Backslapping and ass-kissing.

But not you. You tell it how it is. I'm aware your podcast exists. I'm begrudgingly getting through it. No, I really do like it. For people who have never heard the podcast, do you want to explain the concept? It's called the worst idea of all the time. Guy and I watch and review the same movie over and over again.

So we did our whole year of watching grown-ups too, which is like a famously bad Adam Sandler movie. We watched that for just a whole year. keep reviewing it. Then we did it with sex in the city too, which is probably the most depressing experience I've had in my life. Tim's had a great life. I've had a good run, but that is a bad movie. And then we did some other movies as well. Right now, we're doing the whole Fast and Furious franchise, but in reverse. I've got a little clip of episode one of the season. We represent the audience of the Fast franchise, and we are idiots. And so they treat us accordingly, and I love them

for it. Anytime an annoying person you go to the movies with would lean across to you and say, where are they? How do they know him? They just tell you. They're in front of that. They say it out loud. They've split the workload across nine core characters. Now, my favourite part of this,

I don't love the Fast and Furious franchise, although I have been invested in it. I've probably missed a couple there. I don't think I watched seven or eight. But I watched nine recently in the cinema and it was just so ridiculous that I just couldn't quite stomach it, the idea that I joked with my partner before going in or like, this is

got to be the one they go to space. And then they actually go to space. Yeah, they did spoiler. Was that gratifying or was that irritating to you? I laughed out loud in the movie. I was like, there's no way. And this is a series that, and my favorite thing about it, you guys actually haven't seen the other ones. No, no, no, it starts off good. Well, this is what we keep hearing. They are good. So you, I'm assuming the reason you dipped out around seven and eight is it become two, it became sort of disconnected from reality. What was happening was no longer rooted in actuality. Is that true?

Yeah, well, I thought it was just like a cash grab for one more movie at number six. I see. And somehow they've done another three since then. They've just announced if X number 10 coming out very soon in May. I'm excited. Yeah, and the taglines like the beginning of the end or something. Yeah. The end of the road.

The beginning of the end. Well, yeah, because there's two. I think it's the end. The last one's a two part or I think. There's two more ago. They've definitely hallows it. Look, cards on the table. We've seen F8.

F9 is a far and furry movie. F8, it's not amazing, but it's a lot better. I think a lot of people have gotten wrong. Because a lot of people understand we've watched the franchise consecutively, one through nine. And if you do that, of course, the quality is going to drop off eventually. But what if I told you, due to our movie watching technique, every new Fast and Furious movie improves.

exponentially on the last. The characters make more sense. The physicality of the world actually, you know, it measures up to what we're living in. I mean, I can't imagine how excited I'm going to be when I get back to Fast One, and I assume it's just a couple of fellas driving cars down a street the whole time. I heard they're just stealing DVD players. I saw that on Twitter the other day. I'd love to see that movie.

Oh, my God. That sounds awesome. Yeah. I would have loved to see it at the movies when they used to play. It was more when you got a VHS, and they'd play the video before. the feature presentation would be like you wouldn't steal a DVD player or whatever and you wouldn't steal a car and I'd be like well the guys I'm hanging out with wood they're about to do both don't you know a single freaking thing I've got a question how many times are you through

so you're six times through watching fast nine yeah at the moment is there a point along this journey we have almost thrown in the towel maybe not with this one because you're watching it nine times, but when you were watching grown-ups too, and you're on view number 37. That's actually a really good, you've picked a great number, because those late 30s, we've done this, you know, a few times now, those late 30s are tough because you're so far into the woods. And you're far from the end. You're far from the end.

You're over the halfway, but it doesn't feel like it. All you can see is just a long stretching road in front of you, and you've lost any desire to watch the movie. There's nothing enjoyable about the movie anymore. I actually recently, someone, a fan had made like an animated clip of a moment from the podcast. And this clip probably distills the closest I've ever heard to Tim quitting, which was halfway through, literally 26 episodes through the Sex and the City two season. I remember that episode because I was in Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival and Tim was in Auckland. And it was your birthday and you were recording on your birthday.

And in the middle of the episode, you were saying, I can't do this anymore. I don't want to do it. And I was sort of gleefully laughing at you saying no to him. You will do it. It was awful. And I sort of, you know, I haven't listened back to the episode, but hearing that snippet, what in your voice sounded like a genuine desire to give up? And you're quite a tenacious and gritty guy.

Thanks, man. That's not a compliment. You're handsome. That's also a valuable quality. I just think that, and from my own memory, it might just be recently by. But hearing that back, I was like, wow, Tim really went as low as, you know, as you could go. Yeah, I wish you'd heard that in the moment because I really was not having good time. I was doing my job.

I was keeping you motivated and I was providing entertainment. You were kicking a man while he was down on his birthday. I said the good news, Tim, is we're halfway through. That's what I said. You said a lot of stuff. Yeah, you didn't. Yeah. We don't need to retread this.

We need to air our dirty laundry in front of company. It was not fun. So back to the. currency. Yes, yes. You've got money from Universal to do it. That is your first official spawncon. That is what we've been telling people, yes.

That's correct. You can say anything, you know, anywhere. No one's policing podcasts. This is what people haven't quite cottoned on to yet. So we actually had a concept in the first season where there's a restaurant chain called Blaze Pizza Pizza Place in America. and we just started doing ads for them. It's kind of a long story in how we got there.

It's tangentially connected to the movie. But we just started doing ads on the podcast, and then we started sending them invoices for the bill, and we just got all our fans to tweet at them and go on their Facebook group, and we started hashtag pay the boys. And we just tried to incessantly get this company to back pay us all this ad.

We thought we were on the frontier of a new sort of mode of working, which is reverse invoicing, or like, you know, invoicing for work that was not contracted after the fact. and you don't, legally speaking, it doesn't hold a lot of power. We did embarrass them enough to force one of the company's representatives to come and meet us in LA and try and calm things down and he gave us a big voucher. We organised the public. We were sort of mobilising the troops on a trip to LA saying we're going to do a sit-in at Blaze Pizza.

And like a few people showed up and then they had like their head chef and a business guy there. And they were like, hey man, we're going to winnie trouble. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, all I'll say is we have constantly been innovating in the podcast advertising space and we'll continue to do so. Universal. No of their money has reached our pockets yet. Yet. But our pockets are open.

Amazing. Make sure you check the podcast out while I've got you here. Allow me to play a wacky radio game with the two of you. Yay! The show is called The Worstsager of All Time. a little game with the two of you. It is called What's the Worst? I'm going to give you two scenarios.

You tell me which out of the two of these things is the worst one to happen to you. Okay. First one, opening the fridge to find the food you were craving has expired or B getting hit in the ankle by a scooter. B, getting hit in the ankle by a scooter. Gotta be. Yeah, I agree. Because I'd probably just eat the food. The food still sounds all right.

I don't take that. This expiry is too seriously. Man, that's big grocery there. Trying to get in your head. Number two, which is the worst? people who stand on escalators or people who wear active wear to brunch. Escalators

100%. I hate it. Listen, wear whatever you want to wear. You do you. You do you, babes. You look great. I don't mind. It's all good. But don't get my goddamn way. I've got places to be. This is a solve. What if everyone who's standing still stands to the left? This is what happens in most

functioning societies. It's always too abreast. It's just... I mean, yeah, that's a problem. When the seatbelt is twisted and you can't quite get it back to being straight or hearing someone play the song Gangnam style in 2023. The seatbelt thing uniquely gets me. Why it doesn't sound unique? It's something that gets everyone. True.

We're talking about it on the radio. Good point. Kills me. Realising you're out of clean underwear while getting ready in the morning or forgetting about a cup of tea and having it go cold and then realizing it again once it's already cold. Neither of those are problems. I'll drink the tea and I'll happily wear the stinky underpants. No, the underpants is more irritating. The tea's fine.

I'm tea rich. Come over to my house. I got tea bags coming out of the wazzo. You drink a cold tea though? No. Don't you? No. Well, it depends.

You just out here wasting tea. No. I'll drink it hot. It won't get cold in his place. It'll get cold. It'll get cold in my place, but at least I'll drink it. I actually, I am quite militant with my tea. I'm walking around seeing if other people are drinking their tea.

The other night, we're watching a movie. My partner says, oh, do you want a tea? And I said yes. And she said, oh, thanks. I'll have one as well. And I'm sort of like, okay, that's dicky, but I'll make the tea. I make two teas. The whole movie, she didn't touch the tea.

Whole movie, just sitting there. And then I'm like, why have I made the, you know, I was, I was sitting down. It was not nice to have. It's not a looking tea. It's a drinking tea. I'm doing the, I'm putting stuff in the dishwasher end of the night. She's sculling a mug of cold tea to get me on a technicality. It's a comfortable thing to have a cup of tea on hand.

You don't have to drink it. No, that is, you, what are you? royalty. I'm going to cold half a cup of tea right here. Down it, mate. In honour of Guy's partner. Thank you. It would be better if it was cold, but it was just at that just at that temperature. It sounds awful. It sounds awful.

A stand-up themed question, as you've both done stand-up comedy. Both retired. Not allowed to do it anymore. Not true. We've got shows coming up and we've got a plug. Still going. Trying a new joke that doesn't take as well as you'd hoped or getting really heckled? Trying a new joke doesn't go as well as you hope.

That's going to happen all the time. Getting really heckled, I would say usually the heckler will lose, but getting really heckled is worse. Yeah, I would, God, I would never ever invite it, but like I'd say Guy and I at this point are pretty capable of dealing with a heckler or two. The worst heckle I had, I can't even remember what he said anymore. I was doing this thing,

a stand-up set at Waikki High School on the island. It was like at lunchtime, it was this thing class commended you go to schools and do stand-up for the students and it always felt really risky and someone,

I think it was something as simple as next or boring in a big pause and I could just feel a single beat of sweat dripping down my back which is when you know it's code red,

you're in big trouble didn't have anything for them just got absolutely totalled in front of this school what are you going to say to a 14 year old, eh? I'm allowed ice cream for dinner he probably is too

he lives on the island his parents are hippies what's the worst heckle you've had tim um i've just had you know consistently for me it's been drunk middle age woman who just refused to stop talking the entitlement is real yeah always at the classic always two three four women in their 50s just smashing vno talking very loudly at the front

and i've um i've been pretty rude to the i've got a three strikes policy though i'll like draw attention to it the first time the second time i'll give a pretty stern warning to, you know, this isn't how you acted a comedy show. And the third one, I will go to town on you. And then what if they go like, we love you though. Doesn't matter. They're upsetting the show. Oh, we love you.

No, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to do it here because I can't say this. It's things on the radio, but I go to town. Not anymore. What's the more? Yeah, back in the 80s, man. What's the most savage thing, like you've said when someone's heckled you and you've just snap back at them?

You might not be able to even call off. the top of your head. I made, there was a middle-aged woman who was drunk and I can't remember how I did. This was good for you years ago now, but there was like, it was at Christmas time and there was a Christmas tree on stage at the classic because Scotty always dresses it up with all the lights and everything. And I made some joke about like, you know, I was kind of leading everyone down the path of describing Rudolph, but then I said it was this woman, basically saying she was a drunk

with a big red shiny nose. That was fun. That's good. I enjoyed that. A seasonal dis. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. A yule tied put down.

I liked it so much I started doing it, but it was May by then. You know, I looked like a mania. Hey, thanks much for joining me, guys. Make sure you check out their podcast. It is called The Worst Idea of All Time. You can catch it on any podcast streaming platform. Bloody everywhere. New episode out today?

Was it today? Yesterday. We're a little off the beaten track at the moment, but we're playing catch-up. I don't even know what day it is. But thanks for having us. We love the edge. Yeah. Hey, up next, Ed Sheeran.