The Worst Idea Of All Time - 06: Unreachable and On A Ranch
Episode Date: December 24, 2025Coming to you from the sleeping bags they just spent the night in, inside the comedy club they currently live in - Guy and Tim are picking apart the financial performance of Joker 2 and the incredible... reaction of Todd Phillips upon release of the film. Tim tries (to limited avail) to tie the trajectory of the watches to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ five stages of grief. Guy poses the question: Who are the fans of this movie?Please enjoy our pursuits in full HD video at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The worst idea of all time.
Worst idea of all time.
A fresh way to lose your mind.
Your boys are bad with what you need.
It's got worse things, then life are free.
It's an idea of all time.
That was a great new way to wreck your mind.
What's the worst idea of all time?
I'll wait until we're on the record.
What should I say?
On the record.
You know, sometimes you say something
and you convince it's going to just change everyone's day
and it just passes you by.
What feature of the different pronunciations of record
would suggest to you that it would have any impact on anyone in here?
Well, it's different.
On the record
and on the record,
Yeah.
Is it the same thing?
Yeah, you're right.
Has it always been the same thing?
Sorry?
Has it always been the same thing?
You're saying they're not the same thing.
Yeah, because people were putting things on the record
before there was recording equipment.
Yeah.
So on the record.
Well, I would say etymology is putting it on the record means to note something down,
to record it.
And then when you had the technology that was music with a vinyl,
that's what that meant.
It was a record of the music.
On the record.
But then we started saying...
We changed how we say.
Record.
Yeah.
And we relegated...
Put on my record.
Hey, can you put on that new Steely Dan record?
Yeah.
No one's ever said that.
I was hasty to judge you before.
Thank you.
Maybe we just went on your level.
That's how I feel moving around in the world sometimes.
You probably could have given a little more context.
Well, maybe it just required a little more explanate...
I want to ask you a question.
Yeah.
Is this conversation being broadcast?
I don't know.
I think it is.
Hi everyone and welcome back to the worst idea of all time.
Method film review for the 2024 $200 million US dollar budget, Joker 2, Foley et De.
You meet us at breakfast, the most important screening of the day.
I'm Guy Montgomery.
And I'm Tim Bat.
we have just
woken up for
our AM screening
of the film
and
you could call the AM screening
you could call it the sixth screening
you know there are different ways
to skin a kit you call it the first screening
to watch a movie first screening of today
yeah today is
Tuesday for us
one of the seven most famous days of the week
what do you think is the most famous day Friday right surely
Friday was a bullet
Friday or Monday are the two big
they're the heavy hitters
Yeah
Like if you were
You know
If you were gonna make a movie
About the week
Yeah
You were the two stars
You'd want to secure first
Would be Monday and Friday
I feel like this Joker 2 picked Monday
To make us the focus of the film
And what everyone wants is to see a movie about Friday
Dude yeah
This movie has absolutely no Friday
Do you know
There's not a single Friday in this movie
I think
And it covers multiple days
But there is not a single Friday
It captured on screen
I've had so little sleep
The last two days
What is the Australian
Hold on for a single
What's changed about your sleeping arrangement
That's challenging you like this
What's the Australian actor's name
Who portrayed Joker in the Nolan films
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger is a Friday Joker
Yeah
Wachene Phoenix is a Monday Joker
Dude
I couldn't agree more
And what's crazy is
I mean
I don't want to get into it
You know
May God rest his soul
but Joaquin Phoenix didn't joker himself
as hard as people say Heath Ledger joked himself
and yet the Friday you know
I think a Friday joke would be holding things
a little more lightly
you would think
this is yeah this is a bit
I would like to introduce something
that isn't this particular topic
and that is something that occurred to me
last episode that I didn't
oh there's a couple things we've learned
first of all I can't stress this any more strongly
we just watched the movie
I think that has been established.
I don't doubt that anyone listening to this is questioning the veracity of that claim.
It is.
There is not, no one in the world could be having this conversation right now except us.
I know.
And how did we get here?
Everyone believes us.
But some things are so important.
You need to like really just affirm that it happened.
Like we just watched that again.
The whole thing.
I knowable.
Us and it.
Yeah, together.
And I will say, I thought we were collaborating.
Yeah, we were working together a lot better than last night.
I thought we collaborated this morning.
Yeah.
I understand last night's episode was struck from the record.
So I don't know if you've listened to it, but we did one.
Oh, yeah.
Happy update, nothing burned down.
That's right.
So that's a plus.
The battery remains in a metal bucket.
Yeah.
Next to a brick wall.
Yeah.
Fact.
Scott.
owner of the building
if you're listening to this
it's all good
don't worry about it's all good
just don't worry about it
that's right
so what have we found out
the budget of the film
aforementioned
200 million US dollars
and I'm not quite
The box office
The box office for memory
$213 million
It's still considered
a bit of a bomb
Oh a huge bomb
You gotta make
You gotta make you money
I also don't know if the 200 million
I don't think it covers marketing
You don't think it's marketing?
You just think it's production.
I think this is a, you know, the studio in a real quandary here.
I don't think it mattered how much money you threw at the marketing of this movie.
Like, it could not make it an appealing prospect.
Now, speaking of marketing, the other, the second of two fun facts we've learned since we last joined you, is Guy discovered the whereabouts of our genius director.
Yeah, opening weekend.
I was just dusting up a little bit on the sort of.
of, I suppose, the law of not the universe of the film, but the universe of the film's
release.
And the law I understand is that on opening weekend, Todd Phillips was described as both
unreachable and on a ranch.
Unbelievable artistic ambition.
You told me that while we were watching, I think, and I'll repeat what I said to you.
I said, I long for a day of my life when I reach so far that I make something which causes me to be uncontactable on a ranch for a week after it comes out.
Upon delivery.
The courage.
Is it courage?
Or is it cowardice?
Oh, that specific move is cowardice.
Yes.
Yes.
Hard to get away from that.
I had to get away from the fact that you are making the problem you made everyone else's problem in that moment.
You talk about people jokering themselves.
No one jokered themselves harder than Todd Phillips in the making of this movie.
I'm not quite sure how we're defining that verb.
But what does it mean to joker oneself?
It means basically, I think, to alienate yourself from reality.
Right, right.
To buy into your own fantasy, to drink your own collade.
get high on your own supply
This guy basically
Even if it went
If it went well or poorly
It didn't make a difference to him
Because he is so divorced
From the world in which this movie was released
What did happen though
Because if we don't have any test screenings
There would have been like premieres or something
That critics went to
It premiered
As to the first Joker
Can't
Venice
And he fought for that
I'll bet
The studio didn't want
want this to premiere at Venice.
I'll bet.
And he wanted it to.
Right.
And he got his wicked way, and then it got a commercial release, and he said, if anyone
needs me, I will be uncontactable.
At a ranch for a week.
Do you, did you read anything about its reception at Venice?
No.
I love to know.
I know very little.
I think what's important is, this is good sort of color commentary.
This is good peripheral ambient noise on our.
experience but we must divorce what we are doing from the way that these sort of uh you know they
can call us johnny come lately's i would call them sort of fly by critics i you know these guys
i genuinely think and you pointed this out to me during this morning screening you you said
this is a fine choice for a method film review you could not ask for a richer text no matter how
challenging it is to watch as a movie
and isolation from the experiment
as far as, you know...
Well, what I told you is that this movie is essentially about
psychosis and the process we're undergoing
of how we are watching it is
is getting us closer, which feels like a more honest way
to review Joker 2.
And to that end,
may I introduce something to the court, Your Honor?
You go for it. It occurred to me yesterday
and I googled it this morning. The seven stages
of grief
because this was our
sixth's
sixth
screening of the
movie
so the first
stage of grief
is disbelief
incredible
that sixth
is trading on
one vowel
like the way
you struggle
then tells me
it should have
a second
foul
put a fucking
consonant
after the X
there's an X
in there
give us an E
or something
six
an O
would be fine
and yet
width
rolls off the
tongue.
Width does.
D and T.
People think you can substitute a D for a T, but you can't.
Dude, X is like a syllable and a half or by itself pretty much.
It's a mouthful.
Yeah.
Concept of X.
By the way.
Disbelief is the first.
I think that does sort of track to our first watching, don't you think?
If you can remember back to...
No, I can't.
I just want you to tell me how you're grieving.
Okay, well, disbelief was the first, and I think that maps quite well into the first episode,
and I'm so glad you're not going to join me in this journey.
The second episode
Oh sorry
The second stage of grief is denial
Yeah
I cannot remember
Our reading of the second
You think
Each time we watched
Yeah continue
Anger is the third
That's certainly come up
Denial actually does sort of track
With what I remember to be
A sec
Wait no
They are all blurring together
Bargaining is the
fourth stage of grief
how can you bargain with something like this
I'm trying to remember which
episode was our fourth
that was our mid
yesterday midday
we did bargain with the movie we did bargain with the movie
yeah
depression is the next stage
which was our last
go around
which brings
us to testing
and I believe it
I think that
where we're at
this morning and the sort of conversation
that occurred while we were watching the film today
does suggest that you and I are both
willing to hear it out
again
we're kicking the tires on this film
after a little bit of sleep
and we're saying
would be too hasty
we're unfair is there something we didn't notice as there a new perspective with which to
absorb the material uh is there a new perspective with which to view ourselves as film reviewers
is there and what does that say about what we said about the film we are dealing in a
secondary market of opinion i can't make it there i i i what
I mean, what is interesting to me
is that this would mean
that this next screening
is going to be acceptance
and that this does not allow
for the subsequent
Oh, do you know what the final stage is?
Acceptance.
Yeah.
So then where does that leave
the eight subsequent screenings?
A drift.
If you want to talk numbers, Tim.
Well, maybe we're over-greaving at that point.
How many...
It's the stages of grief, yes.
How many...
How many minutes do you think we're going to spend watching this movie?
Okay, 800 blasted into my head.
And I know it's not true, but I have to tell you my emotional...
1920, a prox.
Fucking hell.
So as many lines of...
As many lines of vertical pixels on a full HD image
is the minutes we have to spend with Joker.
I've not run these past a calculator.
I spent some of my time during the script.
figuring it out
32 hours
So for a five day project
Good Lord
We are spending over one full day
Of our time
Yeah
And that's good
In the company of
And that's good
And that's correct
And that's as it should be
I'm glad this has put a bit of wind
In your sales
Well it is I mean listen
People aren't fucking
Reviewing movies properly
Do you but
And if we have to
The amount of times man
You see someone doing something
And you're like
Well I guess I'm going to
have to fucking do this myself
if no one else is going to do it right
and it is up to us
because no one else is going to do this
are they? They're not going to fucking relocate
into a comedy club for a week. Do you ever worry
that our
spend a biological day
with Joker 2? They're not
doing that. Do you ever worry
that even through our process
our findings are going to
map exactly on
top of the fly-through critics
experience of Joker 2?
it's not even important to me
because we'll be qualified to say so
even if we arrive at the same destination
what we have to say is valid
and what they have to say is not
because they only got to watch the movie once
so I don't even care if the landing position
of where arrive there is like
exactly what they think as well
there's is irrelevant
that's not for them to say invalid
and invalid
that is crippled
and ours is correct
because you've got to do the work
that's where we are
yeah
so I guess that brings us to
the question which is
what did you think of the movie
Joker 2 today guy
I
I think
it bothers me
the way that sometimes I
take this movie seriously
it is like it is honestly
hanging over me
and it is inevitable
and yet it still weighs on me
to confront this movie
you know like in earnest
I think it's
I mean top line
I think it's boring
I think a huge reason
why it's boring is that
you know what is meant to propel us
forwards through it is watching a love story
between two people who have the
emotional and whatever they're portrayed as mentally ill like the movie is essentially meant to be
about mental illness but it is and it is a serious movie but it is not a serious movie it is not a
movie that can be taken seriously it is a movie that treats itself seriously yeah it is not a
movie that deserves to be taken seriously yeah and yet the more i watch it the more i am forced
to imagine what i might think if i were to take the
movie seriously and I know completely what you mean and the more I watch it the more it bothers me that
what I'm meant to latch on to what my fingers are meant to hold onto and is going to propel me and
drag me through the two hours and 18 minutes in this beautiful sort of gray scale experience that
has been exquisitely captured by whoever is responsible for manning the cameras is that it's a love
a story between two people who are basically like that they have there's no i mean number one
there are no real redeeming qualities in either of them number two you know you told me i believe
last night before bed about a reddit page you know called i'm 14 and this is deep i'm 14 and
this is deep and that to me is stuck in my mind is communicating the essence of the intensity of
their relationship yeah because i was referring to a specific moment in the first
when it flashed up to me
and it's when they are separated
by the courthouse jail
and they're on opposite sides of the bars
and they pass cigarette smoke
from Lady Gaga's mouth into White Canes.
I'm refusing to use the character's names
such as my disrespect to the film to.
To care or invest in their story
is like such a monumental ask
of the audience
aka me
that it is like
it is honestly
it's not just boring
it is disrespectful to me
it is disrespectful for me
to take all of the information I have
of what it is to be alive
and use that
to interpret what is communicated
on the screen
like Arthur is pathetic
whatever that is the text of the movie
like Arthur is
you know he's
he's pathetic
Harley is
is pathetic
is equally pathetic
but she like
I don't
she does she seems in some ways
to be more pathetic because
we don't have that much information about her
but all the information about her that we have
as an audience says that she is
not a victim of any circumstance
whatsoever
yeah at least Arthur
can be a pro he refuses
to take any responsibility for himself
and again the fucking
frustration at myself
that I am too
forced to take this movie
seriously allowed
listen
look at the
look at the
it's
there's nothing else
for us to do though
that's the problem
right
it's narrowed us into a corner
I feel like we're
spoke about this yesterday
we're just going to have to
accept
and
have some acceptance
for the fact that
we are going to need
to kind of take
this movie
a little bit
on its own terms
I think we're
because if we don't
like if we
maintain
an appropriate but sort of ironic detachment from the film we're fucked bro we've got so much more
time to spend with it i do think we are breaking ground this episode and like this is a monday
this is it's a monday of a movie yeah and so i well i still believe we are breaking ground
i have lost the ability to communicate that in the last 15 seconds sure but it is it's a
Monday of a film we're currently sitting on a Tuesday it's bad it doesn't deserve our time
we acknowledge that however we also must give it our time because that's the decision
we've made we are we not as in the decision we made to review this movie but does this movie
exists because Joaquin Phoenix wanted to sing on camera again quite possible quite possible
I think if you have walked the line as a credit on your IMDB page
and there's some galaxy in which you can bend the universe to make Lady Gaga your co-star in a movie
then you can get Todd Phillips to make a musical for you
to support your desire to sing in a film again
like absolutely
he yeah he's he's look he's is
I've said it before
he can carry a tune but he can't
he can't carry a movie as a singer
I think he's quite a can I say this
mercurial character
is a Joaquin Phoenix as a man
in reality I don't know very much about him at all
I mean he's an unbelievable actor
yeah unbelievably talented actor
that doesn't necessarily make
you know and any movie here's in
here's the interesting thing about being a great actor
it doesn't make you a great singer
because they are too
different things as with anyone who achieves greatness in their chosen field it doesn't
make you anything beyond a great actor it doesn't make him a great decision maker it doesn't make
him uh you know it just it just means that when he has to pretend to be someone else yeah he can
get there and so i we are now living with the you know i i am worried about us man okay can i
I'm back to
I managed to park my fare for a bit
and now I'm back to being
quite concerned about the rest of the journey for us
because we're not halfway yet
I drew a little picture of
Joker you did I can see that in your notebook
and he's saying you're doing okay guy
wow he does say that in a speech bubble
that is terrifying to me that's scary
you've also gotten big bold letters with 3D shading
just Joker yeah
can I ask you this
how many people are listening to the
CD of the soundtrack to this in their car
that's a great question it's not zero
that's what's fascinating
there's people out there
and I sort of touched upon this yesterday
I think a little bit
there'll be people who are out there
purely being contrarian
pieces of shit
who fucking
like live online as trolls
and and just
thinking the opposite to what is
the truth gives them oxygen in their lungs but there's other people separate people who just
have such a weird faulty sense of taste for which this film really fucking spoke to them i think
they're probably quite young i think they're like um probably that they might be 14 but with
kind of the emotional maturity of even slightly younger like sort of 12 i think this is a movie for
12 year olds in some way
because you need
to have a lack of a fully
developed frontal lobe
to fully fuck
with these characters in a way where you're like
I'm on I can't
not only am I on the
you don't need to graft yourself onto the movie
but just to say I'm on board with what's
happening I'll follow it
without
being forced to such as we are
I will by dint of my own
choice, watch the rest of this movie happily and be a fan of it because I'm 12 years old
and my brain isn't all there yet. So I'm into it. There's a lot to trick you. It's beautiful,
as we've mentioned many, many times. Lady Gaga's in it. That's novel. It is technically
a musical, I guess. That's something for some people. There's a massive turnoff for most.
But for some people, they operate inside of the intersect of this crazy Venn diagram of about 16 different circles that barely touch each other.
But to your question, I do believe there's four people in the continental United States who have the CD on at their car on the rig.
Now, visualize this.
You pull up to a traffic light.
It's a hot summer's day.
a year from now two years from now have passed your windows are down the car next you has the windows down
and audibly not so loud it's for everyone but audibly in a way that communicates they are
enjoying it this song is coming through their car and you're sat next to them do you feel moved
to say anything oh dude all that's going through my head is
how do I
balance
the absolute need for me to talk to them
without going so far as to scaring them
so like what is the perfect amount of getting them
on the hook to pull over so I can have a chat to them
like how do I do I do that without freaking
do you want to tell them about your experience
or do you want to ask them where they're at
I need to hear where they're at
I need to hear all about them
I like want their full life story
can I say one of the
like a genuine sort of curiosity
or itch I have in my head right now is like we are doing this for for reasons that at this
point are completely unclear to me I think because we thought it would be funny and the
the risk of doing this is that the audience of people who enjoy this might be exactly
the people who earnestly enjoyed choker too I don't think there's any possibility of that
you've just introduced a brand new tiny circle to the Venn diagram and that one it's nowhere near touching the other ones
you don't think I don't think so I don't think so I don't think so no surely not like you know because
my understanding is everyone hated this almost entirely and and and we're not at the end of
our journey yet, but it seems so far as if they were correct.
Can you look back to the start of our journey?
Yeah.
And remember what, you know, what got us over the starting line?
Because look, right now, we're approaching the middle.
So I can hardly see where we start it.
And I certainly can't see where we end.
So what's your question?
So we're standing in the middle.
And I want us to just look on either side of us.
I remember, and I said this in the episode to you, when the movie.
screened for the first time for about 10 or 12 minutes, I was worried that we had picked a
really great movie, which was confusing to me because of everything that I'd heard about the
movie. That's what I remember of our starting point. And then the 13th minute started rolling,
and I thought, hold on, hold on a second, maybe this isn't a great movie. And then the movie
kept on rolling for a subsequent two hours and three minutes beyond that and my suspicions
were confirmed yeah there's dog shit I didn't hate all of it all right well this is as good a time
as any to talk about what you liked even if it's one moment a shining light if you mean when
Arthur's being carried away after he has his outburst at the court so he has decided to fire
his attorney Mary Ann take it upon himself to represent his case don
the full clown makeup put on the joker outfit and just go health for leather he's had his best day
in court he's been talking at gary puddles he has he has had his best day in court um and then
like yes well there was a moment where we were both quite clear-eyed and lucid in the middle of
this where we were like analyzing in terms of legalese his defense like analyzing the idea he
thought there was what's his legal strategy here
He was going to get off.
He didn't even attempt to mount any kind of defense to the charges,
presumably that he's fighting in his court case.
He just put on a little show.
He's got no legal strategy.
Yeah.
And it frustrates me that it even occurred to me to think about that.
He's oblivious to this, and he's had his best day in court.
He's called the guards fat and stupid.
Yes, he has.
And he's being hauled.
He's denigrated everyone else out there who also such a bizarre,
argument he's making
if I'm understanding him correctly
he's saying
Joker's awesome because he got famous
because he killed five people
therefore he's cool
it's like his whole thing with Gary Paddles
if you kind of like actually try and get to what he's saying
is nah
the reason he's cool is everyone knows who he is
because he killed five people
everyone knows about that it's like
nah man
and also so long as we're talking Gary Paddles
I mean
you talk about now
actor having two different days on set, like this guy, he's a fantastic actor. I don't know
what he's been in before. He gives this really genuinely wrenching grounded performance of
the impact of Arthur's behaviour in the real world. It's like, it's such a strong performance. I
believe it every time I see it. The only other day this actor had on set was in one of Arthur's
like fantastical dream sequences where him and Lady Gaga are getting married and he serves as
Joker's best man
and standing just off centre
dancing. Yeah, and a little white
suit, I think. Like, what's
his read on the movie?
I reckon it's a great gig for anyone
except for maybe, you know,
Joaquin and Lady Gaga. Everyone else in this
is like, this is pretty good.
I mean, Todd Phillips hasn't been
making nothing but hits
his whole career, but, you know,
he's got some good notches on his belt.
Yeah, I've waylaid you.
The Shining Lighters is being hauled.
So this is, he's had such a great day.
He's, you know, he's cock of the walk, as you said.
And dancing in the moonlight is playing.
On the car trip, on the car ride home, yeah.
He's taken back to what I will refer to as proto-Archam Asylum.
And the guards go, this fucking guy's gotten a little bit.
Big for his boots.
Exactly.
it needs to be taken down a peg
and take him down a peg they do
so there's like three guards
hauling him away
and it's a good clown move
while he's being like
physically dragged
really manhandled by these men
he just slaps one of them in the face
it's a really great
loose rister
like real good clown slap right on his cheek
and the
I like that not too much attention
of it is paid, like by the camera
or whatever, it's just a thing that happens, but
it's funny. Yeah. It is
genuinely... It does make you laugh. It's funny.
So there's 16 jokes. Well done,
Todd Phillips. Yeah.
Mine would be
it's just a line read
I've been enjoying. It's one of the
guards, it's the one who's always got a little towel over
his shoulder. I don't know if you've noticed. One of these guards
always has a little towel. Yeah, because that's
the guy who says, how do you feel, Arthur?
They're going to kill you.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's not that, but...
But it's that guy.
Yeah, yeah, it's before it.
When he gives that, when, you know,
Jimmy, Billy, whatever the sort of...
Jimmy.
Two-Vowye name is that approaches him on the, you know, in the prison courtyard.
Yeah.
And he goes, you know, I never had a kiss.
So you get a good kiss.
And, you know, Joker gives him one brief kiss on the lips.
And he's walking away.
And the guy says, I got to be...
And this is when the guards are still portrayed as somewhat humane and likably.
He says, I got to be honest with you.
I wouldn't have took you for a hopeless romantic
And there's just something about the way the line is delivered
I'm always like, you know
Do you know one thing actually to zoom out
And give credit where it's due, I think
This movie really does dictate its terms
Like very rarely do we get to watch
The experience of the movie being made
Because it is so self-serious
You know, I just think it's a good thing
I like this, dig more into there
So you're saying like you don't see any of the
of the seams you don't get any sense of like what's like it's a
what's happening right outside the reason it feels like you know the reason that our
conversations to me right now feel so soupy like i feel so like i'm in the middle of the
soup yeah you know is because our traditional uh safety measures have been taken from us
they have been removed there is because we are trapped in a monday of a movie yeah
there is no one walking through in the background of frame with a smile like
on their face that we can point to and say
what's going on for them
either as an actor on set
or for this character on this day
in this movie. This movie is so
contained and all of the action is so
centralised around the story it is force
feeding us that all of the
characters we see in the background of frame
basically are purely existing
in service to following the story
that is being told. So there is no character
who is walking through the background of frame
on their way to work, on their way
to a different day. There is
no one in the world of this movie who is not following the exact story that the movie is telling
us and that is exhausting yeah that is an exhausting place to method film review from because there's
no one who's just living their life everyone's life is existing on arthur flex terms we're on the
titanic and not only are there not enough life rafts there's none yeah there's none i would love
to be on the titanic i would love to be watching jack and rose on the titanic you talk about
a different movie.
Good Lord.
What I wouldn't give
for a competent love story right now.
But my shining light
was that guard's delivery
of that line.
And I've enjoyed it time and again.
So hats off to you.
I mean, am I alone?
Are you feeling soupy right now?
Yeah, it's not good.
I feel richard.
We are like...
I feel...
I feel...
It's the worst kind of exhausted
because it's okay to feel tired
if you can see light
at the end of the tunnel.
Yeah.
There's no light.
where I pray are at our lowest ebb if it gets worse than this there's no way this is our lowest
deb you don't think I say this with so much love and care but also a lot of confidence
and for myself go on there's just not a planet in which we have not crossed the halfway point
and we have hit our lowest point where do you think that's going to come watch number sort of
11 or something like that.
This feels pretty bad to me, man.
I don't like this.
You know what? I'm gaming it out in my head and I'm thinking
maybe Tim's right.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe this is as bad as it gets.
Maybe this is the scariest.
The whole thing will feel.
I guess, to put it another way,
are we ever going to be better than this?
there's a question I'm opposed to you
there's another thing I wanted to talk about since the start
and I talk about
our traditional support structures being taken from us
we're at Arkham Asylum
and someone says Arthur you're on the news
and we then watch with the inmates and guards
Harvey Dent
piece to camera on the
court steps
this is another
this is the public
this is the level
what do they call them a DA
this is the level of
me's on scene
which creates this despondence
is in the background of the frame
of Harvey Dent
giving his sort of address
to the media
on the courthouse steps
in the background there is a tree
and it is the depths of winter
there's not a single leaf on the tree
right there's not an orange leaf
to fall off there's not a green leaf
in bloom it is a totally
barren tree yeah
and that to me is like
that's part of what is
painting this unbelievably bleak picture that we are currently existing inside of so harvey den
is talking to camera and inside of this you've got to remember i'm telling you about a life raft
for us so i noticed early that we have discussed got it harvey den is giving his piece to camera he says
uh you know it's all horse shit the joker's horse shit turns out to be right by the way if you're
curious uh we're going to be pursuing the death penalty because this fucking remorseless
maniac killed five people in cold blood one on TV we're going to take steps to discourage people
from thinking this in any way is okay whatever you think of capital punishment it's a pretty
strong argument he's putting forward well especially in 1950s 75 the inmates are watching this the
guards are watching this and they sort of you know turn to arthur and say arthur what do you think
they're going to give you the death penalty they're going to try fry you've talked about this in
this very episode he does a song and
dance that's still to me whatever at the end of the song and dance which is a fantasy so it doesn't
take place so in the reality in the real time of the movie yep that like one minute is
passed got it and we go from a news broadcast with harvey dent on the on the court steps saying
we're going to pursue the death penalty yes on the same terrestrial television
channel that is broadcasting the news
without anyone changing the dial
in less than one minute
we are now in the middle of a
Pepe Lepepeu
Looney Tunes cartoon where a skunk is
trying to fuck a cat
and it is whatever message you're
trying to send me Todd it is so incongruent
with
any terrestrial
television's broadcast schedule
in the history of TV
that we would not have an anchor
signing off the broadcast.
that we would like and even if we did have an anchor signing off the broadcast
there is no world in which any TV channel in the history of TV
has gone from the news to Pepe Lepeu
it also seems like we're coming into the Pepe Lepeu
cartoon midway through so they've interrupted
mid-episode of Pepe Lepeu
to tell you about how the public DA
is treating the serial killer
and then back to the cartoon.
What I will say to you is this.
In the background of this movie,
there is a station controller
having a very bad day at work
and they are going to get in trouble.
And that is something I will hold on to
as we move forward.
That is something I will hold on to.
That is solid to me.
How many thumbs are you giving this watch?
This is absolutely.
two thumbs down.
There's not enough thumbs on hands
in the world to communicate what this movie is
currently doing to me. All thumbs down.
Every thumb I have access to,
every thumb I have seen, on camera, off camera
in my life, the thumbs of everyone
I went to preschool with. Montessori,
primary, intermediate, high school, university
has been in a comedy club in which I've performed
watched a show. All of the thumbs are down today.
all of the thumbs
are pointing towards the ground
also two thumbs
down from me this was no good
I'm talking for your thumbs bro
and they're facing the fucking floor
well we'll see you in the next one
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