The Worst Idea Of All Time - A 2026 Grown Up Announcement

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

Tim and Guy are back on the airwaves that are these internet signals and boy do they have some news to share. You'd think it was the erotica that Tim has written about himself and Guy, however, it is not. It's actually about what's next for The Worst Idea of All Time. Promises made, promises promised to be kept...The ad-free video episode and other goodies can be found at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim here, if you want to see me in the flesh and you're in New Zealand or Australia, good news. I'm coming to Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington for the comedy festivals. Please buy some tickets now at timbat.com.com. Hi, everyone. It's Timbat here. And Guy Montgomery. Famous. It's usually, when you hear both of us talking, it's usually us too. unless you've fed all of our podcasts into a large language model

and are now listening to like representations of us too that aren't actually us too but this as it stands for now, this is us too. Did I send you my erotic fiction about us that I wrote? You gave me a brief overview in person but I've not. And you actually showed me like the body of text, which was,

That's right, I did too. Which was hefty. So, listeners, what happened is, actually, both of us were invited on to a forthcoming project that our friends are making, a podcast called erotica by the fire. And guy has been a bit busy, so I represented sort of us as a duo. And what the task was was to write an original piece of erotica. And that's kind of the whole brief, and then you had to read it out. and you know it just had occurred to me that over the many years we have been making things and sharing it with an online audience there's been a lot of frequent questions not like

overwhelming but we'll put a photo up of the two of us and there'll often be a few comments did you guys kiss for example the sort of tenor of a question of romance between us and I thought let's give the people what they want for once I said out this this fiction, this fan fiction that you wrote that involved us in erotica, this was not for you. You were holding a torch on behalf of the unspoken masses. Fan service in the most literal term. But I also, so as I want to do, I put it off and put it off and put it off. And then the deadline was right in front of my face as in, I think I had.

like an hour before I had to head in and record this thing and I hadn't written it yet. So I made a big, huge, strong cup of coffee and I sat down at a laptop and just bashed keys for an hour. And what I came up with, I wouldn't actually fully describe as erotica per se. It's probably a bit more sci-fi, if anything. Or just like a short story. It's a short story about a guy in Arkansas. But it is, what he does is he creates a digital twin of the two of us guy and then sort of like a couple of Barbie dolls forces them to kiss

and get the exact product that he wants out of this. And you know what? I showed it to Zoe and she was amazed at what I'd written. Oh, did she read the whole thing? She did. She was she amazed. She was very impressed. She said, you wrote this in an hour?

And I said, yes. She said, this is really good. I said, thank you. That's so nice. It's nice that she read it in the first place, and it's unbelievable that she enjoyed it. I'll tell you who I think didn't enjoy it as much, and that was the two co-hosts, Shoshan and Donna on Erotic by the Fire, who I think after I read it, they said, I understood about half the words in that, which is not the feedback you're looking for after sharing a short

story, but I also fully understand and get it. it was very me, very unfettered Tim Bat. And that's what they booked. You booked Tim Bat, you get Tim Bat. You know, what are you going to do about it? Guy, how in God's green earth are you? We've been spending so little time together over the last little while. Oh my God, I know.

I'm actually really good, man. So I'm not sure how much of my life I've shared information of with you or our audience. But basically, baby, fantastic, healthy baby. Chelsea has been working as an actor on a show out of Auckland in Arrowtown for six months. I've been down there too, looking after the aforementioned baby. Long time to be away from home. Long time to be away from Tim, who, I don't know if the visual component of this conversation is available,

but Tim is dying as I'm describing this. Are you all right, brother? Choking on water. Yeah, it's kind of pathetic. The solution to that, more water. Yeah. Keep going. Anyhow, I'm happy to say, you know, boots on the ground.

We're back in Tamaki. You know, all of the family are reunited. We're back in the sort of, I suppose we're finding, but back in the approximation of a rhythm of what our life will be now, which is really fun and slowly managing. to, I'd say, re-immers ourselves, you know, in the friendly waters of our social life. But yeah, it's good, man. Like, I'm feeling really good to be back.

And I'm feeling really great to be talking to you, both on and off mic. I'm feeling blessed for my bountiful friends, because one thing I'll tell you about narrow town I don't have any of is friends. You're back in the New York groove. Yeah. That's the song that would play. in my head on repeat when you said we're getting back in the groove. I like that you soundtrack in real time. I got...

Ace freely. Look it up, everyone. It's a real good song. I know that song. How are you? I'm stoked to hear you're doing well, guy. I'm happy that you're happy. I'm happy that you back. I'm happy that things are settling in. Happy to hear that things are going well with the newborn child. Happy that you and I are going to be embarking on...

Well, we've made a few decisions as a couple, haven't we? you and I. Yeah. First, we should probably, mum and dad have had some discussions recently. We'd like to tell you about what we've been talking about, kids. So firstly, we need to address the largest of elephants in the smallest of rooms. And that is the fact that grown-ups three is about to be in production.

Grown-ups three exists. Where it is in the pre-production or post-production, phase of its life is less relevant than the fact that it's not just online speculation now it's sort of it's verified trade magazines it's not a thought experiment it's not a joke that tim and guy referencing it's uh this is this is in deadline um this is in the hollywood reporter uh this is a has its own page on i mdb there are financiers involved there are production companies there are screenwriters there are actors there are unions a thing is being made and that thing is grownups three.

It doesn't yet have a Wikipedia, I'll say that. But otherwise it's present. It's not all the other boxes ticked. Yeah. Now, long-time listeners will know that I made a vow aloud, that if grown-ups three was ever made, I would watch it for two years. And there's just, there's something in me that I've said it

allowed and it needs that needs to happen i think that's not willing to jump into that end of the pool and i fucking respect that i've got yeah i just think i've got to say like there's that is a conversation that has to take between you and a mental health professional the the need to uphold something that you've said 12 years ago um i respect because i believed it when i said it yeah yeah Okay. And a man is only as good as his word. And think, yeah, yeah, okay. Okay, you know what?

It's your life. It's your words. It's your decision. But, um, so this movie's not coming out for a long time, by the way. Like maybe we reckon a year from now is what we're thinking. I think so. Just on the cursory research I'm doing as we talk, it seems to say that production's going to start in July, 2026.

And with a little bit of sort of deeper digging and forecasting. I'm imagining about a year It might be I don't even know if we get a cinema release But it'll certainly be part of the Netflix deal That Adam Sandler signed Sandler's got a pretty good machine You know

If they're shooting next month It's conceivable to me That this could get like a Christmas release To be honest Yeah It's not outside the realm of possibility You know If it's Sandler at the top

these things can get pushed through pretty quick you've got two pretty honed sausage factories one is the sandler machine the other one's Netflix like the movie's going to look terrible it's going to be that flat salaridos is what we call the collaborations between Ted Serendos and Adam Sandler it's like a dinosaur who produces

really average movies driven for the lowest common denominator derived from Latin that's what it means in English Guy has signed on to do do a year. That's right. That's hot. That's hot shit. I think spiritually I feel a deep yearning curiosity and without even having said as much

previously like a, I owe it to the project basically. I owe it to myself. I owe it to Tim. I owe it to whoever is listening to this recording of a conversation to turn over all the stones on offer, you know, all the stones that are carefully laid out for us in Grownup 3 to try and decode the message that is being sent to us by the very fact that the movie exists. Yeah.

And I'm willing to do that traditional style is what I would call the viewing experience and the podcast experience, which is to say, as we, you know, as we started, once a week, every week for a calendar year, I will investigate. Gron Ups 3 alongside my co-pilot and the finest, you know, horseman I know, Tim Beck. I am so stoked to be riding side-saddle with you in the cockpit. Well, my God, you have to. But I will say the other thing I said is that at the conclusion of watching that, I will not be doing any of these sort of, I will no longer degrade my mind

what I hope is a long and healthy life by exposing myself to these nuclear. clear-grade disasters repeatedly. A couple of things on this. Number one, we are not the men who we were when we set out on this adventure with grown-ups two in February of 2014. Oh my God, are we not? There is a galaxy of dependents,

relationships, obligations, commitments that we're in a twinkle in anyone's eye at that stage. Literally, none of our lives, as they are currently rendered, Not a single child mortgage partner that we currently have was on the scene when grownups too who was having its wicked way with us all those years ago. And look at us now, eh? Look at us now.

So it's a, look, let's not beat around the bush. It was kind of a big commitment. It was a headline-grabbing commitment back then. Now it might not sound as flashy to people, but it is a far more dramatic cannonball to be wrecking through every week that we have in our year. Like it will be,

there's no doubt about it in my mind. This will be challenging and ultimately not insignificantly destructive to some relationships in my life. It is not a decision that has been met with, met with like the same level of unanimous enthusiasm, but it is, It is an absolute necessity.

And it feels to me the fact that this project continues to exist and has existed for long enough to see both the dawning of grown-ups three. Something that was, you know, beyond our lives now was just a matter of pure sort of hubristic speculation that it would ever conceivably exist when we were talking about it, that it has actually come to pass and that we still have this. you know, it's too perfect. Artistically, romantically, this is an aligning of the stars, which means that it must be done.

It must be done. The experiment must continue. The experiment must continue. And as such, though, I look at it as an outstanding and sort of apropos means of jumping off the horse and saying, thank you to everyone. And if you want to do this. Yeah, basically and good night. Good night and good luck.

Doing the math on this, it will mean. And Guy and I've only sort of spoken very briefly about this, really, and we're kind of locking it in with you, our children, in real time. But one balloon that I floated is that Guy and I will be engaging with the text on a weekly basis for a year, as we've outlined. And then pursuant to my commitments made aloud on the podcast, I will probably then have a period of pursuing it for an additional year after that on a weekly basis

wherein I think the only way that I can sort of get her done without really spinning out is to have quite a lot of guests and my hope is that Guy Montgomery will be a persistent guest who maybe pops up every sort of four to six weeks, checks in sees how everything's going. There's every chance I'll reappear. But I would be reappearing purely in a, a mental

A clinician role. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I would not necessarily be sharing in your hallucination. I'd just be there to talk through it after the fact. Sure. Yeah, that's fine. Just as long as you're there, man. So that's kind of where it's at.

And doing the math on it, if we consider what I've signed up to, what guys signed up to when we think the movie's coming out, I believe that means that the worst idea of all will be a 15-year podcast project, which is, that feels kind of cool. That's a nice big number that ends in a five or a zero, and there's something good about that. As a child, that was an acceptable volume setting that would not irritate me. Yes. It had to be in blocks of five. It had to be.

So now, I'm just trying to figure out if someone's entered my house. My dog's going crazy out there. I can just hear him. Can you? So what we're going to do in the meanwhile while we're doggie paddle around waiting for them to finish up this movie for us is we're going to be taking a deeper dive

into the sort of ancillary universe that rotates around the sun of Adam Sandler? Yeah, I think it'll be like a helicopter view of the grown-ups to, I don't want to call it cinematic universe because I feel as though that's sort of been played out by various different comic book franchises. But I suppose we'll be, it's birds-eye view, zooming in and out of various different

ancillary players of various different... It's a solar system. Amounts of talent. And Sandler is the sun. And there are many celestial bodies that orbit. That's right. There's warm and gravitous pull. Yeah.

We're astronauts. And we're visiting faraway lands. Some that scientists have looked at before. some that will be new dawns to all of us. It means that we have an opportunity to explore the various back catalogs of your featured players, namely the top three dogs are basically your Kevin Jameses, your David Spades and your Chris Rocks, but I think, you know, more curious stones to turn over, your Schneiders, your Swartons.

It's basically an opportunity to explore all the different people who have contributed something to, even your Shaquille O'Neils, your people. to Don Tasey Ellen Covert's. It's a chance to have a look at what they've been doing in the build-up to, I would say at least an hour on our red carpet, an hour version of Hollywood, the cinematic event of the millennium. Undoubtedly. First, we're going to be kicking off by firing up the old Saturn 5 rockets

and setting a course for Planet Schneider, a fascinating character that we've spent quite a lot of time with already on our sister podcast featuring a couple of the co-hosts of the worst idea of all time Tim and Guy overlooked and undercooked where we look at Real Rob, his sitcom that he's made three seasons of, I believe.

Yeah, which is... And I don't think that's coming back because he has been divorced by his wife now. I mean, if you want the real, real Robb, I think a reality, like I think a documentary crew, which is what he wants. Like his ongoing effort to remain in the spotlight Means there is no cost you know like no level of degradation he won't subject himself to for people to still know he exists and

Inside of knowing Rob Schneider exists knowing how dangerous vaccines are So he's that okay So the hope is that Our turning the spotlight onto Schneider will create a Kardashian style franchise that he helms. Yeah, we're as so As soon as real Rob launches as a reality show, I'm going to write a season-diss letter to Rob Schneider saying until you start calling me Chris Montgomery, spout with a K, you're not allowed to release your project.

The first moon that we will be having a look at that's on the planet of Sandler which orbits around the sun, sorry, the Schneider planet, which orbits around the Sandler Sun, the first moon that we'll be looking at is Daddy Daughter Trip, which is a movie that has John Cleese in it. That's right. I believe from memory the marketing materials spotlight Schneider, of course, and Cleese are the two big players. And it's like a father-daughter sort of family comedy where Rob Schneider and one of his daughters get in a car in Arizona and I suppose hijinks ensue.

Just from looking at the materials, I get the sense that this was not a studio film. think, you know. You think independent release? You think maybe non-union. I think we need to support our indies, you know. Nice. And that's what we're doing here. And that's what we're doing here.

Not as independent films, but independent thinkers. You're Rob Schneiders, for example. But yeah, it's a movie that definitely caught our eye years ago. And I suppose as we take a low and slow circular approach to the, you know, to grown-ups 3D day, it's certainly an interesting insight into where Rob Schneider because you've got to remember he wasn't even in grownups too

where his career has made it to since then he still pops up in Sandler's stand-up specials which seems crazy to me but if there's one thing we know about Adam it's that he's loyal yeah yeah indeed

a lot to look forward to guys baby's about to wake up I'm going to check if my house has been robbed since I've been in the studio but pretty big announcement from the boys. I hope you've enjoyed it. Apologies for the fallow times that can happen in between releases.

But as you'll understand, few moving parts going on. That's right. We're putting the wheels on a fantastic new machine. Well, and I've got to, you know, just further to, and also if there are any sort of pieces of cinematic miscellaneous that you know of that exists in the Sandlerverse, don't be afraid to slide them across our desk. Logically, I got quite taken by the idea of Swardson.

Yeah. And there's one that I haven't seen, which I'm sure you'll be a where it exists called The Benchwarmers. Oh, yeah, that rings a big fat bell. They came out quite a while ago, right? That's right. But it's got like so many of the grown-ups key players. Directed by Dennis Dugan,

written by Alan Covert and Swordson. Sandler's got a producer credit, and the leads are Schneider, Spade, and John Hader of Napoleon Dynamite fame, but that feels, again, like a culturally relevant text. To us, to our culture. Yeah. To worst idea of culture.

But, yeah, as you say, I, you know, the timing's been fortuitous. I don't want to risk it any longer, Tim. It's been an absolute delight to see you. Yeah. And, you know, I look forward to seeing you again soon to break bread over whatever it is. Rob paid you.

2021. One question before we end. And this is a question about eventually getting in the pool with grown-ups three. Do you feel scared? Not yet. I feel excited.

Awesome. Bye everyone.