The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone 113 (actually 111.5)

Episode Date: February 5, 2021

WOOPS - This Friendzone is appearing OUT OF ORDER but hey, it's Worst Idea, amiright? Tim and Guy have a think about the year ahead (cause ya know, they recorded this a month ago). We hear from our fr...iends who have gone through a lot of Mr Bean movies, a lot of ads from various military organisations trying to recruit you through our show and a lot of waiting for more Til Death Do Us Blart.Get read for our upcoming livestream event! worstideaofalltime.com/stream Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, it's the Friend Zone with Tim and Guy. It's the Friend Zone. We're gonna have a good time. It's the Friend Zone with Tim and Guy. Because making friends is the best idea of all time. Friend Zone. Hello, friends, and welcome to the Friend Zone. My name is Tim. My name is Guy. You may know us from a little podcast called The Worst Idea of All Time, which you are, if you're hearing this, already subscribed to. Here's the idea. Two plucky young upstarts from Aotearoa watch and review the same movie over and over again. We did it once, twice, thrice, four times.
Starting point is 00:00:46 A lady. Four times a lady. Five times a lady? Five times. Four times a lady. Then we started watching pornography. Yeah. What did you think about that as a maneuver,
Starting point is 00:00:58 as a direction, as a sea change? I mean, nice to try something different. I don't know if it's for me, but we're doing it. We're inside of it. And that's kind of how this rolls, I guess. I just, yeah, you know. You know what I think about it. We talk about it weekly.
Starting point is 00:01:17 Folks, we've just done one. We've just done an episode. We're recording this hot off the back. And I do mean hot because it is sweltering in the studio. So I've kicked the door open. Hot off watching Krista Allen fuck her way around space and Earth, but we're going to park that to one side for just a moment while we dig into the old mailbag,
Starting point is 00:01:38 because that's what this is all about. I love the friend zone. It makes me really happy. Always puts me in a good mood and i've missed it so we haven't done one in about two months yeah we've got um a wealth of correspondence to get to but before we do i just want to dig into you tim i want to know how you are we spent new year's eve together yeah we did um and then we've since both independently traveled back to auckland we've seen a little bit but not a lot of each other.
Starting point is 00:02:06 And I'm just wondering, how's the new year treating you? How's your life? How's your Wairoa? 2021. Exciting. Yeah. An exciting unknown year. You were saying earlier that you feel like everyone's just...
Starting point is 00:02:23 Brushing the sleep out of their eyes. Yes, that was 2020. We were all locked indoors and didn't know Arthur from Martha, our heads from our asses. But now, I know not for everyone, but in certain parts we're starting to open back up and start our lives anew, figure out what's fucking going on I feel like this year
Starting point is 00:02:49 could be good we've had a pretty hefty restart and I think maybe it's given people an opportunity to take a bit of stock and go right what the fuck am I up to and what am I about but also
Starting point is 00:03:04 I haven't done that and if you haven't done that fucking good on you yeah i haven't done that i'm just like you know transitioning from holiday mode into let's keep our head above water for another year mode yeah i'm excited that um it looks like there's probably going to be a comedy fest this year that we're both involved in. We're both going to do shows. So I'm actually now at that point in the year when I'm just heading into that familiar fear, self-loathing, inability to write material for an impending show.
Starting point is 00:03:41 It's a nice zone to be in. You know what I've done, Guy? I've got a widget on my phone, and it tells me as soon as I open the phone exactly how many days there are until the comedy fest starts so that I can keep scaring the shit out of myself as I see the clock tick down.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Have you thought of any funny ideas lately? I've been trying to do a bit of writing. It's all in a notebook somewhere. Can't remember what I've written down. Have you got any notes to share? No. No, nothing very good. I don't believe that.
Starting point is 00:04:10 I don't believe that, yeah. Building the muscle a little. Oh, do you know what? Here we go. The one thing I thought of yesterday was, you know how in a comedy show you always ask what people do? Yes. I haven't quite figured out the wording.
Starting point is 00:04:25 Do you know what I've never heard anyone say in all my time, in my 10 years of doing stand-up? Landlord. There's a fucking reason. I really want to dig into property owners in this show. The name is so good. Classy warfare. Landlord.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Oh, landlord. The name's good too, but like landlord? Yeah. No one would say that. They'd say, oh, I provide housing to people for a nominal sum. It'd be like calling a chef a food lord. I'm a child lord. I look after people's kids.
Starting point is 00:05:01 What I do is I buy up a huge amount of food and then people come to me and they pay me for the right to have some of the food but it's my food i um i uh my my i got um you know what really pisses me off is when i go on google street view and the photo of the street is on an overcast day i know that street's had a nice day. Do it again, Google. Send them back. Why are you trying to badmouth the street like that? Anyway.
Starting point is 00:05:32 You've got access to so much AI. Just make it look like a sunny day. Here I am on Facebook. A message has come in that reads, as far as this is in mid-November. Is it for us? It's for people called Dear Land Before Tim and Golden Guy. Sounds like us.
Starting point is 00:05:47 I've been listening to you lovely boys since 2015 when you were shouted out by the Welcome to Night Vale lads. Oh, sick. And have been an avid listener since.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Season one and two were my companions as I walked an hour to and from work. And you two have stayed my companions as I've walked, biked,
Starting point is 00:06:01 bussed, and gone back to walking to work but now for five minutes instead of an hour. I'm mainly writing to say that, like Riley from FriendZone 107, you also introduced me to the McElroy brothers through Death Plat. And all of you have brought me so much joy over the years.
Starting point is 00:06:13 I've also started transitioning and have been on T for a year now. I've seen you lovely boys in person twice in Portland, and I'm so happy to have been with you both in your descents into madness over the last five years. Thank you for being gifts to the world and making people laugh and smile. You both inspire me a lot and
Starting point is 00:06:29 I'm excited to listen to more Emmanuel and whatever comes after that. I know Guy said my name but probably pronounced it wrong, so say it again. Lee Farmer pronounced Lee, he, him pronouns. Well, Lee, or they, however you want to say it. It appears that you him pronouns. Well, Lee, all day.
Starting point is 00:06:46 However you want to say it. It appears that you want to say it, Lee. Thank you so much for your correspondence. Thank you for adding to our tally of two people now who we have introduced to the battling young McElroy brothers. And congratulations to you. It feels like your life's really going places. You've made some awesome calls. Yeah, absolutely. Good on you, feels like your life's really going places you've made some some awesome calls yeah absolutely um so it's appreciated as always thank you for writing
Starting point is 00:07:10 lee this is for you and you alone no one else can hear this i hope you have a fucking killer yeah yeah trust that no one else heard that have you deserves have you got have you got emails i've got so many guy do you want to hear a message that was attached to a portion of money sent into our account to sustain us? I want to hear the ka-ching of the money hitting the bank account. Ka-ching. That wasn't very good. That was pretty good.
Starting point is 00:07:37 Alex writes, Dear Timistry of Defense and Guided Missile Launcher. Not bad. Very good. Very good. You're winning the war on my boredom. Not bad. Very good. You're winning the war on my boredom. Keep at it, boys. I send this donation of 10 British pounds or 19-ish Kiwi bucks
Starting point is 00:07:54 so that I can tell people I support the troops. I'm subscribed to the Patreon, but after realizing I didn't get any of the references I didn't get any of the references I refuse to listen to anything new until I'm caught up. Can't wait to find out why you're frosty. Ah, often licked.
Starting point is 00:08:13 We should bring back the frosty fellas. I've just reached season three, and with the quality of this content, I assume by now on season five, you're both millionaires and my donation is irrelevant. Either way, maybe i'll hear you attempt to say my name in a couple of months in the friend zone much love iris wristwatch iris wristwatch what an incredible name so unlikely pretty good uh i was just sorry checking
Starting point is 00:08:42 for the date of when this came in and you are absolutely correct. Irish wristwatch was a couple of months. Hell yeah. Well, thank you so much for listening, for writing, for donating. And for giving us money.
Starting point is 00:08:53 Yeah. And for organizing yourself so that you can listen to the podcast sequentially, as is the only way to consume this media. Hello, Timbo and hi guy, guy, long time listener of your work be it on twio at or death blot happy to say the work has inspired a year of two-thirds a year of two slash three suffering for me and two friends a year of two-thirds suffering for me my friends the three of us decided in early december 2019 that it would be fun to watch one of the three Mr. Bean movies
Starting point is 00:09:25 on a three-week rotation for a year. Ooh. We're currently in the late 40s of episodes and have gone beyond losing our minds. Watching Mr. Bean
Starting point is 00:09:32 march around in a fascist uniform or watching the obscure horribly transphobic third movie which was only released in China with no subtitles available
Starting point is 00:09:43 has honestly worn us down. What the heck? I did not know about that. Rowan Atkinson's a weird cat. He's making a lot of the wrong moves at the moment. He keeps issuing statements saying... Has he gone a bit John Cleesey? He's very Cleesey.
Starting point is 00:10:00 Do you know, actually, funnily enough, I was trawling Schneider's Twitter recently, and do you know who's doing a stand i was uh trawling schneider's twitter recently and do you know who's doing a stand-up rob do you know do you want to guess what double bill stand-up comedy show you can go and watch somewhere in america right now dane cook john cleese and rob schneider fuck rob's doing well yeah and john cleese is not um anyway uh and china do you think that's indicative of how far john Cleese has fallen because of his public declarations of ignorance
Starting point is 00:10:28 I don't think it's a testament to how far Rob Schneider's climbed I think they're both moving in the same direction but at different rates I think one of them's got further to go down I can't imagine the pain of watching a single movie for an entire year especially something 37 hours
Starting point is 00:10:44 long like Sex and the City 2 so my hat goes off to you gentlemen although i'm happy to report that the 1997 bean movie has thankfully remained a 10 out of 10 experience for the whole year highly recommended i think that was the one where he goes to america with that uh what's the is it whistler's mother what's that famous painting that movie stars does he ruin the painting and then try to repaint it which kind of like he does a predated when that happened in real life with that renaissance yeah yeah portrait uh it's called um mr bean goes to america it's called bean yeah and if i'm not much mistaken it's the way to do it isn't it man create a comedy character
Starting point is 00:11:25 that is in mime and nail it and then you're just rich because it can go to every country Mr Bean remains the Facebook page for Mr Bean is one of the top 5 Facebook pages in the world for likes
Starting point is 00:11:40 I stumbled across a there are like a lot of video essays on YouTube and I fuck with them and there was a guy did one about the Bean YouTube channel and it's really I don't know if mysterious is the right word but it's a fucking cash grab
Starting point is 00:12:00 so they've engineered it for kids and it's like Bean branded but you only ever see the hands and it's someone else doing horrible voice acting mimicking the bean thing but it's all been rubber stamped with the official YouTube sign of approval and they
Starting point is 00:12:15 just pump out content in a kind of computer generated fashion just to rack up those bucks. But it's really low quality shit. Really weird shit, too. The message continues. Over the course of the pod, we've had guests call in from as far as Oceania,
Starting point is 00:12:31 tested techniques in art forgery, had one of us publicly come out as trans on air, and produced enough original songs to fill an EP. Shout us out if you don't mind giving some hardcore fans a bit of shameless advertising. We're on all major podcasting platforms as a as a three bean salad that's good say my name jack butch holman and if you don't mind say my co-host's names jack rudden and robin cleaver redmond jack jack and robin the salad really good really good names uh ps i know the backlog on these friend zones is long so it's
Starting point is 00:13:05 possible this will only get read out after we've completed our year of bean worry not because that means i can use this platform to selfishly announce that in 2021 we will be switching up the format to something called a three bean salad presents here we go again this will involve watching both mama meh films on a rotation for the year because apparently this year hasn't taught us our lesson yet jack phenomenal instincts great anticipation wonderfully written um thank you so much for writing good luck on your 2021 adventure in the company of mama mia both really joyous films i'm sure that they will wear down and wear you down the more time you spend with them they've got a bond i really really love uh how many trans listeners we've got brings me a lot of joy incredible to think really isn't that he's a message from zach
Starting point is 00:13:52 hello tim you're a real bat and guy piece of shit montgomery i've been a listener since season one way back when i was in high school quite a lot has happened since then and through it all you boys have been by my side and in my ears i've written in before seen you live in new york city and shared your voices with countless begrudging acquaintances it is safe to say that by now i really truly consider us to be friends this fall i will be starting any guesses my phd of course of course in molecular biology finally while you frosty fellas have often joked about the number of phd listeners you have i wanted to write in to let you know that i have honestly drawn inspiration from the dedication it just occurred to me that we could have done a doctorate in the time we've done this podcast.
Starting point is 00:14:46 We've done a doctorate of sorts. Of sorts. Not recognized by anyone or thing, though. I wanted to write in to let you know that I've honestly drawn inspiration from your dedication, even in the face of what often seems like a silly endeavor. Throughout college, I was motivated by a desire to join the ranks of your learned listenership and, above all, make you boys proud. Thank you for all the joy you have brought to my life and I look forward to hearing your voices, even if it's only by way of deathblart until your dying days.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Say my motherfucking name best. Zachary Mullen Bernstein. Zachary, it is tremendous to hear from you, and I wish you the very best at the start of this journey to your PhD. I've just had a friend of mine, IRL, complete his PhD, and I couldn't be more proud. It's such an undertaking. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:15:38 It was, and I'm really proud of myself for finishing it. This one reads as follows. Boys, I sent this to you fellas about a year ago and I didn't hear it mention it in any friend zone. Oh, fuck.
Starting point is 00:15:51 I went back to make sure I hadn't missed it so I didn't annoyingly send it a second time. All that to say, I made an alternate version of the intro to the Sex and the City episodes
Starting point is 00:15:59 and I'd quite like you to hear it. I was trying to capture the sound of my brain melting when I watched Sex and the City 2. Hold on, let me get a cable. Perhaps you have experienced this feeling. Hold on, guy. Hoping the link works.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Hand for time. Sending butt tons of gratitude across the ditch to you two good boys and kind boys for you have helped me smile and laugh many times when things have been grim. Say my name, you cowards. Oh, say my name, you cowards. Kate. Speaking of Sex and the City, this is Friends Owners taking place after the announcement of, and just like that, a continuation of the Sex and the City universe, excluding Samantha Jones. And it seems as good a time as any to announce that in conjunction with the fantastic performance and art space Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York City, and a streaming festival they're putting on through February.
Starting point is 00:16:46 We, Tim and Guy, will be writing and performing the pilot episode of And Just Like That, the reimagining of the Sex and City universe starring Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda as they navigate life in their 50s. We've already started hashing out the story beats. We will be performing the script. It will be for your entertainment, but then also obviously
Starting point is 00:17:10 a great body of work for us to take to Sarah Jessica Parker and say, what do you reckon, Sears? We've spent a bit of fucking time in this universe, probably more time than anyone else in the company of the characters
Starting point is 00:17:20 post their lives in the TV show. If anyone's got insight into what they'd be doing, it's us. So if you want to join us for that, you can just look up Littlefields. No, you can just go to worstadierreveltime.com slash stream. Oh, yeah, and you can do that too. But anyway, yeah, it's happening on Thursday, February 18th. This is in Eastern Standard Time at 9 p.m.
Starting point is 00:17:43 We are writing the pilot to perform for your entertainment. We're seeing if we can get some special guests. I don't know about that. But we'll be there and we're pretty special, I think. That's kind of cool. Anyway, this is called We Go For It. And the description is Mr. Big is a gronk. Got the volume on, it's plugged in.
Starting point is 00:18:07 We just have a good rhythm together. You know, he sort of feels me out. I feel him out. And we go for it. The best idea of all time. Fuck, I like that. What was the movie quote? I couldn't quite pass it through the beat.
Starting point is 00:18:28 I thought that was the same quote that we get from... Kim Cattrall. Kim Cattrall, yeah. I kept saying Samantha Jones. You know what? You're absolutely right. But it had just been put through some flange, if my amateur audio editing ears don't deceive me. Kate, thank you so much for that correspondence.
Starting point is 00:18:48 Apologies it took us so long. And congratulations on your lucrative career in beat making. You back in your emails, big boy? This one's from Kyle. To my favorite frosted boys. As a citizen of the USA, I want to start off by saying that your in-depth review and bad boy antics have kept me afloat this past year i love that we're finally getting credit for some of our bad boy antics me too man about fucking time people recognized deathblart
Starting point is 00:19:18 first brought you to my ear and ever since i have gobbled up every morsel you have released as a service industry worker i've seen my fair share of first dates, and this evening, do you want to know what that date is? November 10th, I witnessed a budding romance between two strangers dining in. They sat across from each other until the fowler went to piss. Upon returning, he decided to sit side by side with his new love interest, and immediately my mind screamed, Boner Inspector!
Starting point is 00:19:48 Boner please! Please keep up the inspections. And I look forward to a never ending array of your Kiwi antics. Scream my name you fuckers! Kisses and hugs. Kyle! Legs! Wit!
Starting point is 00:20:12 Thank you Kyle Leg legs wit for the legs is legs is a really good nickname especially to give yourself uh for that dispatch from the front line of the hospitality industry fuck yeah dude um i got a i got a a one here for you, Tim. Smells yum. Yeah, it's interesting. I don't know. You might know more about this than I do, but it says, Hi, Frosty Fella. Singular. That's a nickname we gave ourselves.
Starting point is 00:20:34 It's based off of an old mascot for an ice cream. This isn't really for Friend Zone. Okay. Should we do it anyway? No, I don't think so. Sometimes people say that If they don't want it read Does it look like it doesn't
Starting point is 00:20:47 It's not personal It's for us Okay go for it But I got an advert on the show A few episodes ago For the British Army Oh yeah okay And I was like
Starting point is 00:20:56 Ew that's out of place But I let it go Because I don't think You control what adverts we get We have some say in it But we kind of And then in print This is because my friend Doesn't get the same I'm in Scotland She's in England, but we kind of don't. And then in print, this is because my friend
Starting point is 00:21:05 doesn't get the same. I'm in Scotland, she's in England. But me and my friend were just talking and we were both like, this is something the boys probably wouldn't appreciate
Starting point is 00:21:10 being on this show and should know. So I'm letting you know, I can't remember what episode it was, but I can double check. XX, love the show. You've kept me sane
Starting point is 00:21:16 for a long time. Yeah. Look, these are the Faustian bargains that we have to make to keep ourselves afloat. And it is a tricky one because um they certainly wouldn't be my first choice advertiser but the way that it works on our
Starting point is 00:21:31 um uh podcast platform is that they will distribute ads as you have very cunningly figured out yourself uh based on your location and those ads will change it's called dynamic ad insertion so over time you'll get different ads and uh to be honest with you um it is part of the reason why we can like it gets us money and before we couldn't get any money because i had to like go and knock on doors for companies they'd be like who what fuck off what's a podcast the show sounds weird i don't like the look of you get out of my inbox so um yeah look there's going to be some shitty ads from time to time uh apologies i don't know if that's gonna change but i hate to say it but the patreon is ad free so you know if you give us five bucks a month everything on there is son's ads and you can
Starting point is 00:22:23 even add it to your podcast catcher you can get like the rss feed and put it into your your itunes your podcast app um or you know whatever one you use and it'll just give you an ad free one and you get it before anyone else as well if you're on the patreon i'm gonna join right now get all the bonus content i'm a patron. Yeah, so hey, good point and I'm sure something a lot of people have clocked to, so I think it's good that we discussed it. It's good to be addressed. Do you have any thoughts or feelings about the ads
Starting point is 00:22:53 on the podcast, Guy? No, I mean... It's a means to an end, you know, is what it is. I'm sorry that you have to sift through advertisements for the British Army trying to recruit youift through advertisements for the british army trying to recruit you it's not necessarily what we're trying to align ourselves with when we pump out the podcast but while we're here i watched very interesting video uh yesterday do you know
Starting point is 00:23:14 the british army is um a lot of armies have done they did some experiments on their soldiers with lsd and uh they gave them too much and they lost radio communication with the platoon although the guys themselves were having a fucking cracking time and one of the I think was a radio technician climbed the tree and started feeding the birds oh wow instead of doing his experiments and noting down his observations fair enough they're up to fucks there's video footage of it's in black and white and they're just like rolling around having a good old time. I'll bet. No wonder Nixon got so terrified of LSD.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Anyway, that's for another podcast. The Friend Zone takes Chicago. That's the subject line. Oh, well. Hey, Tim and Guy. While listening to the latest episode of The Friend Zone and a one-two punch with worst idea of all time this evening, I was delighted to hear you enjoyed Chicago when you visited.
Starting point is 00:24:09 As a Chicago resident who frequently gets asked asked what's good to do when viewing however i had to throw my two cents in when it comes to eating deep dish pizza which is of course you fucking did which is don't oh there is a much better regional chicago cuisine i hope you were able to eat yourselves a couple of Italian beef sandwiches while in town. But if not, that's the true Chicago delicacy and almost impossible to get done right anywhere else.
Starting point is 00:24:34 As a bonus, they serve them up a lot faster than deep dish. We probably revealed our story about how we did. Yeah. We missed the pizza because it took so long to come out.
Starting point is 00:24:43 If or when you come back to Chicago in the aftertimes, hit me up for a recommendation on where to get a good Italian beef. Don't Google them ahead of time. Savor the surprise. If you read this on the podcast, say my name. And that name is Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. Actually, it's funny you should mention Chicago and beef Or beef in Chicago
Starting point is 00:25:05 Because Long time vegetarian But once or twice a year I might treat myself To a burger And that's the very thing We did in Chicago We went to
Starting point is 00:25:13 Le Petit Cheval Oh Fuck I forgot about that An offshoot of Au Cheval And we had ourselves A couple of cheeseburgers And they were Fan fucking
Starting point is 00:25:21 Tastic They really They were a delight Man I was raving about that burger. Yeah, and rightly fricking so, brother, man. I remember that night. I don't have the best memory, folks. It's why I should, I bemoan the fact that I didn't keep a journal
Starting point is 00:25:36 while I was traveling around the world. But I distinctly remember the evening of eating that hamburger because it was so interesting. That was the last thing we did that night. I'm done on reading messages, I think. We tied one on at Sleeping Village. I hope that venue's still going. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Actually, I can't remember where we moved to from Sleeping Village. Fuck, that venue was awesome. That was a really good venue. They looked after us, too. Really good show. Really great city. I just read recently Michelle Obama's Becoming. Yep.
Starting point is 00:26:06 A lot of that's in Chicago. Is she from Chicago? She's from the south side of Chicago. Gotcha. Born and raised. Her family are steeped in Chicago. Generations all living in the same block. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:26:20 How much of Barry's success do you think we should attribute to Michelle? Would he be the senator of Illinois without her? Probably not. Yeah, it's an interesting question. She's certainly, yeah, she's a very plugged in person and had to sacrifice a lot of herself and her own ambition to enable our mate Barry. She seems like one of the better first ladies.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Yeah, yeah. Reading it, I was really into it. And when her and Barry first had their kiss, I was like, this is some steamy shit. But then it just got into Barry getting into the operational part of politics. And I was like, I know how this part of the story goes. And I got a bit bored.
Starting point is 00:27:02 I've seen this movie. And then at the end, she talks about the inauguration with Trump. And you're like, oh, we're back in the story goes. And I got a bit bored. I saw that. I've seen this movie. And then at the end, she talks about the inauguration with Trump. And you're like, oh, we're back in modern times, kind of. And it's interesting. But, you know, I read it. I borrowed it from a friend of the podcast, Alice Sneddon. I read it afterwards because I remember watching some Bill Burr jokes about it.
Starting point is 00:27:21 And I was like, I wanted to watch them with Alice. But to do that, I wanted to inform myself on the source material of the jokes and so i spoke with alice on the phone yesterday yeah and i said i read the book i'm coming over we're watching some bill burr and she laughed in my face and said okay i bet she would have loved it though i think she appreciates the research i did anyway i've got one long one and, and then should we close it out? Yeah. I think we're in a good place. Yeah, I think so too.
Starting point is 00:27:49 I feel really happy. I know. I love the friend zones. And we can still get out of the studio without, or I can get out of the studio without having totally destroyed my outfit for the day with sweat. Oh, man. It's honestly a real running concern of recording in the studio for too long. I've been listening to
Starting point is 00:28:05 your podcast a lot this year hello listener this comes from the year 2020 hello past listener and i'm a new supporter on patreon even though i'm not terribly sure how it works i first discovered you guys through deathblart and of the many things i'm grateful to the mackeroys for it's that introduction i'm an appreciator of terrible films and over committing to a bit and so your show is a welcome and enriching addition to my life 2020 has been hard for all of us but it's been particularly difficult for me as my father passed away just before the pandemic hit and now both my mother and i are sick with the coronavirus wow i certainly hope that in the time since you wrote this and now you've both made a full recovery one of the only comforts i've had is
Starting point is 00:28:44 the enjoyment of listening to you to talk about the various films you all have suffered through, life in New Zealand and your ever-blossoming friendship. I'm also a big fan of the secret third host, Rufus. He's a champ. As a newer listener, I wonder if you could refresh us on how you choose the movie you dedicate your years to. There are plenty of bad movies out there,
Starting point is 00:29:01 but Sex and the City 2 and Grown Ups 2 are mostly forgettable bad, not enjoyable bad. Is there some sort of criteria the City 2 and Grown Ups 2 are mostly forgettable bad, not enjoyable bad. Is there some sort of criteria for each films or any subject matter you guys avoid? Clearly sexual content isn't one of them. Thanks for all that you do, and I can't wait for Death Blight 2020. Love you boys. Say my name, if you fucking please, Elizabeth Flora. And then a follow-up.
Starting point is 00:29:19 P.S. It's been about a month since I sent that, but I thought I'd update that Mum and I are okay. Oh, thank goodness. Dad's still dead though Cry laugh emoji I just want to express again how much you guys have helped me get through this year On top of everything mentioned previously, I have insomnia, PTSD And late at night when there's no one to talk to, I listen to you boys
Starting point is 00:29:37 And it reminds me that there's joy and kindness in the world PSS, Death Blight was very good this year Devastated, we have to wait a year for the next one that is from elizabeth elizabeth in addition to the um barriers to your happiness perhaps and afflictions that you have in the moment you have a real gift for the written word um that was sensational i'm really sorry for your loss and really stuck to hear that you and your mom are doing a lot better now so the thing about picking movies for us is i mean almost the formula is that there is no formula but that has to be the case in a way like i'm quite a petulant person
Starting point is 00:30:19 uh in some respects and what one was it i think it was when we decided to do we are your friends it was specifically in response to an expectation from some in the audience that we are the guys who watch bad sequels yes it was very uh needlessly antagonistic or like petulant and also i i've said it before i say it again, I'm glad we did it for the experience and you can't change anything and you learn more from a loss than a win, but it was the hardest movie to do because it was an earnest passion project.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Yeah, that's true. I think what we have come to learn are the better movies through the years of us doing it is mediocrity. And we've said that before, but you want to aim for a movie that's not so bad, it's enjoyable, a la The Room, which I've seen voluntarily many, many times.
Starting point is 00:31:12 You don't want a movie that's actually good because I don't think that would make for very fun listening. That's not funny to me. What you want is something that is quite shit but not in an interesting way and that will drive you nuts yeah it's honestly it's hard to know and it's hard to remember as far back as you know how how we went about doing what we did all i know is that we're here now you're here now the god's honest truth is there's no there is there's nothing behind it. What you see is what you get.
Starting point is 00:31:47 We plan nothing. A guy arrives at my house, often with a sandwich because he's incredibly kind and generous. And then we sit down and I had a big red button that says record. It actually just says the letters REC on it. And we start talking and then I press that off, and we put it on the internet. And that's just how it is. So thank you for your correspondence. Thank you to everyone.
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Starting point is 00:32:45 announcement of the new sex in the city season sans samantha i'll tell you what my response is we're gonna watch it we're gonna record our response to it you're gonna fucking hear about it on the record thanks so much for listening we'll see you next time well it's the friend zone with tim and guy it's the friend zone we're gonna have a good time it's the friend zone. We're gonna have a good time, it's the friend zone. With Tim and Guy, because making friends is the best idea of all time. Friend zone.

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