The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone 113 (actually 111.5)
Episode Date: February 5, 2021WOOPS - 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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                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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,
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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,
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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...
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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,
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         march around
                                         
                                         in a fascist uniform
                                         
                                         or watching the obscure
                                         
                                         horribly transphobic
                                         
                                         third movie
                                         
                                         which was only released
                                         
                                         in China
                                         
                                         with no subtitles available
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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,
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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!
                                         
    
                                         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!
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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,
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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.
                                         
    
                                         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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                                         to worst area of all time.com forward slash stream uh otherwise i'm so sorry to drag the song because
                                         
                                         i know you're closing things up but it has occurred to me we should make some sort of statement because
                                         
                                         we have been asked online multiple times um about our response to the
                                         
    
                                         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
                                         
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