The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone 142

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

Imagine this, it is a sunny Sunday morning and Tim and Guy are on the couch at Guy's place. Now stop imagining it because it is happening. They've had a coffee, Tim has picked up a Time magazine full of the best inventions of 2021 and the lads are assessing their value. We've got cats surviving asthma attacks, a prompt to discuss our favourite Worst Idea theme songs, not one but TWO reminders to do a Cats DirCom and an incredibly lengthy and insightful message from a listener who has just traversed TWIOAT discography for a third time.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: (facebook.com/WorstIdeaOfAllTime) SEE GUY: (guymontgomery.co.nz) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

today you ready okay let's go the hunt for the wildest movie of the summer everybody ends here this is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately borderlands now playing welcome to the friend zone in the friend zone, we're always home In the friend zone, you're not alone Anytime with Tim and Guy Okay, and we're rolling. And we're on the friend zone. Hello, Guy.

Hello, Tim. We're not just on the friend zone. We're on a couch yeah at opposite ends but set together in a room where are we guy where's the we're in my lounge we're in guy's lounge it's a uh it's a sunny sunday morning we've taken the time to uh enjoy a coffee together we've had a little social call before we got down to business. Thank God. Long overdue. Yeah. It was a delight.

And now what we've tried to do is relocate the vibe, the energy onto these microphones and onto this couch. And I've got to say, I still feel fantastic. I feel relaxed. It's such a nice day. And you've got a good house for a nice day. Really, it lets the sun light in let the sun light in let the sun light in the sun that's what my house sings hey what where's that

from what guy on his shelf has a pretty cool, like really cool actually, object. I would describe it as a sculpture. And it kind of looks like a Mr. Potato Head made by Pablo Picasso. Oh, that's something called Zolo. Which is... Bray Zolo. It was a toy that Chelsea had as a child. It's like these wooden... It is like sort of Picasso, Mr. Potato.

It's all these wooden different shapes, like there's some ovals. They're all, you know, not 2D shapes, they're 3D. Yeah. There's curls and all sorts of stuff and eyeballs and mouths, and you pull them apart and you put them together. You can make all sorts of stuff. Oh, so you can reconfigure that. Absolutely.

It's really quite amazing. i like it a lot and it sort of reminds me for some reason of a mr meeseeks maybe it's the eyes yeah it's uh i mean i see that olive plays with it sometimes but olive's like obsession is there are all these sticks to support the bodies of the different sort of shapes uh-huh and she likes to take the sticks and just put like a circle or something over it and she calls it her ice cream shop. And all she does is you come and you buy ice cream from her. It sounds important. When she's doing it, Tim, it genuinely feels, she has an incredible ability

to make like her very banal imaginative play feel very important. It's crucial. Crucial in the moment. But yeah, I mean, that's, you know, and what you're admiring is I'd say Zolo at its peak. Peak Zolo. Praise Zolo.

I've got a Time magazine here. Double issue, November 22nd and 29th, 2021. That guy has purchased for 12 New Zealand schmeckles I did, I bought it towards the end of last year the cover do you want to read that? best inventions of 2021 and we're going to go through them

oh wow, not all of them but we're going to put a highlight on some of these ok so we've got something called clove sneakers, comfy kicks for healthcare workers of them okay but we're going to put a highlight on some of these okay so we've got um something called clove sneakers comfy kicks for health care workers yeah the average health care worker spends more than five hours of their day standing i believe it the clove speaker 129 created specifically for those who tend to patients provide some some much-needed foot therapy for doctors, nurses, and more. Thick EVA, which is ethylene, vinyl, acetate, foam mid-soles, offer an extra layer of comfort and stability.

The shoes are wrapped in Japanese carlino comfort and stability. They look pretty cool. They're pink. comfort and stability they look pretty cool they're pink um also featured guy is a roland vad 706 electric drum kit ah they finally got the drum kit right is that what it says it says they've been trying to get this drum kit right and they finally got the drum kit right what if notoriously noisy drum kits could be rendered neighbor friendly without compromising sound quality yeah electronic musical instrument manufacturer roland finally achieves its long-held goal with its latest offering the vad 706v drums it sounds like they're eight grand yeah us do you know what i'm proud of what i remembered the gist of what they said in that little blurb which is like man these

guys been trying to get this drum kit yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah true uh not a new invention though no no but that's the thing you know like that's that's so many that's everything because they release it they're like we did it and then they release it and you're like this is not quite what you said it was and they go no no this is no, this is it. And then they keep going. And then eventually like, okay, we couldn't say it before. But you were totally right. We didn't have it. But now we have it.

Feels like you're describing the iPhone. Well, I feel like I'm describing everything. Like, do you know who really, I mean, I think you used to have a stand-up joke about it. But Gillette, every time they're releasing new Razer, they're like, every other other razor we've released is total dog shit we finally made a razor that works that's one of the that is the only joke i know of that i've had to retire because someone told me to why why did you know someone from the pr team at jaleel no no yeah i got three big razors on my case now now someone had done it on a like a very similar joke on a gala oh parallel thought yeah um what else have we got nothing super compelling to be honest

oh mind controlled computing oh this is all horse shit so there was there was one of them one of them which appealed to my... Sorry, I've lost the page. No, that's all right. That appealed to my sort of hapless attention span and desired... Oh, yeah, there was an attention clock. ...to outsource. It's called Freedom from Distraction. It's called Time Chi. It's an egg timer.

The result, Time Chi. Yeah, with the clue of a button, this mouse-sized desk gadget enables a do not disturb feature on your devices and apps. Should a colleague wander over? I don't have any colleagues. To visit you at your desk, the time cheat displays a light to let them know politely that you're trying to focus. It's like a traffic light for your desk. No, it isn't. It's like a passive-aggressive sign that you tap when someone comes over to you that says, do not talk to the driver.

Well, that's true. Could we use traffic lights passive-aggressively? No. Sadly, they're too direct and functional. What do you think about passive-aggression, Tim? Very useful. Sensationally useful, albeit unhealthy. Yeah. sensationally useful albeit unhealthy yeah um now before we you know read a um a piece of external correspondence i want to check in on some internal correspondence how's my guy

uh your guy being tim yeah usingly he's good he's good man sun's out guns out i'm wearing a t-shirt yeah it's t-shirt weather. You're looking good. Don't know what to tell you. Everything's hunky-dory. Just trying to, you know, ride the wave of us probably being in between viral breakouts, lockdowns. Everything's up and in and out. Yeah.

Topsy-turvy. Breakouts, lockdowns, everything's up and in and out. Yeah. Topsy-turvy. New Zealand is a fascinating case study because we've had an exemplary response in so many ways, but also we are psychologically, it feels like decades behind the rest of the world. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. But that's, I mean, I'm choosing to concentrate on what is in my control. What's going on with Guy Montgomery specifically? Well, I had a sore eye. I couldn't run for a month and then I went for my first run yesterday. Oh, man. It reaped great rewards.

I've been watching more movies, watching a lot of movies. That's great. How's that treating you? It's good, man. You took me to the movies without being there the other night. I know. You took me to the movies without being there the other night I know South and David Correos went to Licorice Pizza Yeah

Paul Thomas Anderson joint And it was good Because the guy bought the tickets and then the guy couldn't go I know Like a damn fool And we're actually, full disclosure We're going to watch a movie after this You and I

Not a movie And we're watching some more sex Oh yeah, we're going to watch sex movie after this, you and I. Not a movie. Are we watching some more sex? Oh, yeah, we're going to watch sex. We're going to watch it just like that. But then after that, we're going out on a social outing. Oh, that's right. You're taking me to the flicks. To a film.

What a treat it is to be a friend of Guy Montgomery. Can I say that? He bought me a coffee this morning. I can't stop buying people coffees and taking them to the movies. He took me to the movies. He's taking me to the movies again. Life's good being friends with Guy Montgomery. Well, why don't we read something from a...

Some other friends. Yeah. Some more of your friends. Can I open the dialogue, Tim? I'd love it if you would. The date is the 23rd of December, 2021. Gimme, gimme, bomb, bomb. I trust you both well. In the first episode of season one tim says can

we just watch it five times i can't do more than that i'll kill myself in a completely honest and matter-of-fact way it's not a threat it's not even a plausible reality but it is definitely said in the first episode third time through I've now listened to all the seasons three times through. Wowee. Not including Emmanuel, which wasn't finished at the time. This time I decided to try and take notes

to record things I thought were interesting, fun, good, notable in a fairly similar, though entirely accidental, way to how the note-taking in each episode usually starts strong and then peters out. I essentially took as many notes for season one

as I did for all subsequent seasons combined i don't know why this happened but it happened the underlying nature of all life is repetition we eat work eat work eat play sleep every single day 365 for 80 years we know what's going to happen we drive to work along the same roads we say hello to the exact same people in the same way. We drink the same coffee, Guy. We eat the same lunch, et cetera, et cetera. In the 32nd episode of season one, Guy says, I just realized that I'll never play for the All Blacks. Tim replies, I also had that realization recently.

Is this a telling moment, a moment of delusion, of allusion, illusion, or just a truthful account of a child's bucket list getting one tick box shorter in the 39th episode of season two the name mattress pikelet king is said for the first time well met and twice regarded sure but how is it so late in the season in the first episode of season two, Tim introduces Coffee Guy, immediately, not episode eight, nor 15, episode one. The distortion of memory and the human brain's ability to overlay, categorize, sift, and at times ignore repeated experiences has been studied by psychologists, I'm sure, in many ways. I doubt it's been studied the way the worst idea of all time does. We learn through stories, we repeat stories to our friends, our families as

stand-up comedians you both regurgitate the same stories night after night during a month-long month-long comedy festival you aren't watching a film 22 times in four weeks you are the film 22 times in four weeks telling the same stories and canting the same logic the same rhythms the same cult-like indoctrination of large groups of people in the mass hypnosis of a subconscious humoric response. Episode 30 of Season 3, you watch Sex and the City 2 instead of We Are Your Friends. It might be the best episode of the entire show, not just of Season 3, which is very strong in and of itself,

but of all seasons. The seemingly random yet familiar choice of something different, an old repetition, an old song, was very funny and hard to understand in terms of appeal, but was so appealing, so surprising. During this third listen, I stopped listening to the podcast and started trying to understand the podcast. What about it is actually interesting? Do more My Week With Cats, in parenthesisesis where's the dircom podcast in a tree kill your near every day we wake and are resigned to repetition but we don't talk about it some people do i guess and they're labeled as depressing insane mentally ill etc the worst idea of all time

embraces through the metaphor of planned and honest repetitive engagement with mundane storytelling one of the taboos of life, the taboo of the lament of our carousel lives. I think there is release in that struggle. I think there is empathy in the shared journey. We listen because we too know we are watching the same film over and over again, saying the same lines, hearing the same ideas, notions, songs, seeing the same roads, the same weather, eating the same food, crying the same ideas notions songs seeing the same roads the same weather eating the same food crying the same tears it is hard to do the same thing over and over again the worst idea of all time is a metaphor for the human condition i've started a fourth time through through all of it but i don't honestly think i'll finish it It becomes hard doing the same thing again and again.

Funnily enough. Shay, my name. Chris Malton. That was, honestly, I don't know. That's probably the deepest piece of correspondence I've ever received. That was an incredibly interesting and resonant message. We've corresponded with Chris before. Chris has previously sent us, I think it was, it was in May last year,

they sent us a reflection on their second time going through the entire back catalogue of the podcast and so you know this is this is uh this is someone who's been pretty dedicated i won't lie chris pretty confronting stuff um though i will say this chris if you have taken extensive notes which it sounds like you did for that whole third go around. May I have them? Because I would very much like to have them. I think, I mean, yeah, I enjoyed the distillation. And I think you probably did tap into some part of why people who enjoy the podcast enjoy the podcast. Do you agree that the worst idea of all time is a um some sort of podcast representation of the human condition do you know that i do it's uh totally unfiltered

it charts irrespective of our emotional state it charts you know it charts our lives it persists like i'd say inside of it we've encapsulated all of the dizzying highs and the plummeting lows of you know that are representative of a life on earth and uh it's by no means what we set out to do and i uh i i think it's like it's a very honest time capsule and inside of it because of the specific circumstance in which we've been capturing you know our experience of watching these movies i think it it does it it is like some part of the essence of life is distilled into the podcast do you believe in that or do you think i'm being a a twat um i certainly don't

think you're being a twat nor do i think chris is i don't think i think i'm too worried to interrogate the thing i'm creating with that much focus and depth because for fear of breaking it whatever it is but you can't we can't break it you can definitely break it we cannot break you can break everything everything can be broke this is the thing tim if we break it that's part of the experience if people hear us breaking it that is exactly part of what chris has articulated yeah maybe you're right buzzy yeah thank you Chris I really enjoyed that we turn our attention now

to Patreon where our supporters have buoyed us financially to allow us to do what we do and share the content with everybody else Michelle writes Hiya Tim Slash Guy, was really excited

to see the new Deciders Club. I'm wondering if you two know about comedians like Danny Gonzalez or Curtis Connor? Their main platform is YouTube, but they're incredibly funny guys. Danny released a video a few weeks back talking about He's All That, which is why I'm reminded of him. And Curtis has made a few videos about our friend Neil Breen and has even exchanged messages with the man himself. Anyway,

all that to say, I think a collaboration between all of you would be phenomenal. Love the pod. Makes my life at least 3% better. Ah. Generous percentage. i'm looking up these guys danny gonzalez and curtis connor these guys you know that's sort of like um they're big guys yeah it's sort of like you say i'm doing stand-up comedy and one of your parents friends says oh you should um you know jerry seinfeld you? You should do something with him. Exactly. Obviously, smaller scale, but a similar energy.

But I mean, I'm interested to look into them. I like critical analysis of Neil Breen. So that's something that I'm excited to. I've really been mucking around on YouTube the last little while. Samsung gave me, when I bought a new phone uh um i shouldn't say samsung they haven't paid for this but part of the promotion was you got i think like a year of youtube premium dude it did work it got me on the hook are you still i'm paying for it i pay for youtube premium as well which is crazy because it's not cheap no it's like i think it's almost cheap. No. It's like, I think it's almost $20 a month in New Zealand, which is so much money.

But I genuinely get a lot out of it. And, can I say this? I'll fucking throw my voice into the fray. It is fucking psychotic that YouTube got rid of the down thumb counter. It is insane. It is the worst decision. They've made so many bad decisions. What about that decision is bawling to you?

A big part of what I personally use YouTube for, A, it's watching video essays from really interesting, funny people. In fact, can I shout out one that I've been getting really into recently? This guy who does, the account is called Ordinary Things, and it's pretty popular. All his videos have got around a million views but it's really great he just picks something like windows you know in houses and buildings he's like this is the history of windows and why they're shit oh wow but he's super funny he's a really interesting cat but it's it's uh

in terms of information communicators. It's genuinely educational. Yeah, yeah. Really educational. So that, I watch those sorts of videos. But then probably my main use of YouTube is like kind of DIY stuff. It's figuring out how do I build a network accessible storage from scratch using bits? How do I program Trueueness so that it works reliably um what kind of drill do i need to fucking put a hole in this thing you know that

kind of informative tutorial style stuff how do i use reaper so i don't have to pay adobe money anymore that's right shift to another software suite like how how do i edit videos using da vinci resolve so all of these things that you know are there to teach me shit and the dislike counter is the single most useful way to determine whether a video is high quality or not because the view counter is fucking irrelevant there's always all these different ways to game the algorithm so you can get heaps of um clicks but to determine whether it's actually worth listening to and watching and accurate and you know this advice is not going to cause me to get electrically shocked by the thing i'm working on and they've taken that away taken it away and they've done it purely to satisfy advertisers and it's so fucking cooked it's

crazy that is why they would do it yeah advertisers don't like people downvoting their promotional content exactly it's movie studios who are like no we're afraid our trailer and the other funny thing is that they're like consistently every year after year the most downvoted thing is always youtube's own what do they call it rewind which is when they make a big mash-up of like the year in youtube and everyone always fucking hates it and down downvotes i love oblivion i like that's the sort of thing online i like the community reality yeah like almost an annual tradition of being like hey yeah we love the website but fuck you youtube and youtube are

like genuinely performing a community service by putting themselves up for that kind of tomato throw at the landlord abuse you know to keep the serfs happy once a year we have an annual festival where we stand up on a stage and they get to throw rotten fruit at us and then it's back to the fucking fields for them taking some of the joy from it. But then they took that bit away. Stupid. But the functionality of the doubt, anyway, look, it's insane that they're not bringing it back.

I really thought they'd backtrack on that, like they'd backtrack on other stuff, but they didn't. It's crazy. Life marches on. This message comes from Christmas 2021. Hey, Christmas, I'm dad Nice You're doing a lot of the dad jokes aren't you

You're getting a lot out of it Just that one But at home is it getting out of play Yeah I do it when it doesn't make any sense is my favourite Yeah Zoe would be like should we go now And I'd be like hi should we go now I'm dad And what does Zoe do

Oh it's not good Not a good response So this comes from Christmas 2021, which to miraculously somehow is in the past. Although I feel like Christmas 2021 should always be something that's coming up. Definitely. Dear Timmy boy and apple of my guy, just wanted to let you know that I saw a blaze pizza for the first time in real life today

while I was in the car with my parents on the way to see family for Christmas. I flipped off the restaurant as we drove past, causing both of my parents to get upset with me. Worth it. Happy holly jolly days to you both. Say my name, Ava. Pronounced, Ava. Well, I nailed that pronunciation. Thank you, Ava. I'm sorry that I can't imagine if I was in your position

bothering to explain to my parents why I'm flipping off a pizza restaurant. It's a fun journey, especially if it's a long car trip. You've got some time to kill. I just can't imagine getting my parents on the hook with that story. Yeah, it would be difficult. I recently had to shell out. Does your mum still listen to the podcast? Oh, yeah, it would be difficult i recently had to shell out is your mom still listening to the podcast oh yeah bro you better believe it that's so incredible she just had her birthday recently happy birthday mom um so i just had to renew the domain for blazepizza.co.nz

still waiting it came it came to it was this i've probably had it for about seven years now yeah and every one or two years it comes up for renew and i changed my credit card number recently so it was like auto renew has failed and i keep getting these emails being like it's failed and i was like should i is now the time to say goodbye to blazepip.co.nz? Is the whole credit card expiring to... Take care of things? Well, like, it's just such a satisfying reset. Oh, it's so good, dude. It makes me real worried about, like,

if crypto does take over and you've just got, like, a wallet where it can auto-go, all of those nice little inefficiencies that actually help you will go away. Yeah. Which is bad. Yeah, it's really bad. But you thought it might be the end of the line?

No, I've got it again now. Fuck yeah, brother. Yeah. Locked it in for another, I think, two years. I wonder if Paddy ever listens to us. No, dude. Absolutely not. You're 100% correct.

Dom writes from June 2021 via our patreon have you good calionia boys seen bo burnham's new special yet highly recommended if not because these seem relevant um i am not going to click the links there to youtube videos but i am going out on a limb and saying it's almost certainly Bezos. Jeffrey Bezos. Come on, Jeffrey, you can do it. Babe, the way you put your back in two. I fucking fuck their wives, drink their blood. Come on, Jeff, do it.

Anyway, keep up the good work of enriching billionaires. Love your work. And then another message from Dom in October. So a few months later, I haven't replied at all. It's really bad and on me. The Rum Tum Tugger is a fuck of a cat. Drunk as all hell, but I love you. Good, nay, great boys.

Can't wait for the long promised cat's durcom. Say my name or better yet, never read this at all. As is your want. And then another message. Have you ever felt so like totally seen and interpreted by such a short piece of correspondence bloody brilliant that asks nothing of you should we go for it one more time from dom end of october 21 the rum tum tiger is a fuck of a cat honestly fucking incredible way to open any email any correspondence really that feels that to me

feels like a message i would receive from guy when one or both of us is hammered it's like it honestly just drops you right in the song yeah looks like uh oh it's a new message same day looks like i was on one and listening to music from cats as good as it gets. Have a good one, lads. So this is like hours later, maybe in the morning. Dude, so this is two messages that's reminded us that we have not done a cats dercom. I know. Which is shocking. The thing about it is we will.

We need to do it. We must and we will. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you very much for that and you know the read it or don't well guess what we read it guess what dom and i like that he trusted the process we read it on our own time yeah this one is from the 5th of january 2022 so as always um slowly but surely here on facebook we we're advancing towards the present day Hey boys

Hello Coming to you from Burlington, Vermont Ah, the home of Bernie Sanders We're desperately pretending to be something other than American Just wanted to let you know that your podcast has become a real shining light In an otherwise quite shitty years My wife Zoe and I Recently sat in the parking lot of our local emergency vet, waiting for them to tell us whether or not our cat Yam would survive a severe asthma attack,

listening to a Death Blunt 2020 episode. Yes, that's right, emotionally compromised and without the movie in front of us, we listened to your live commentary and imagined in our mind's eye the Kevin James-flavored torment you were suffering through, and damn if it didn't keep us going. Aww. Yam has been doing well,

and we fall asleep laughing almost every night as we catch up on episodes of what I can only imagine has been the biggest mistake of your impressive comedic careers. Love you both dearly. Say my cat's name. Yamato Takeru Nomikito.amato yamato yamato cannon i guess i don't know i just had a whole bunch of flashbacks to starcraft um

i'm glad that that yam's doing okay i thought yeah i mean i'm going to be honest by the tone the introductory paragraph and tone of the email, I thought that that might have been Yam's last asthma attack. Yes, I thought we were going down that road as well. Our pets and our people come into our lives, and then they leave our lives, and then we leave as well. Such is life. That is life. Such is the flow of time.

But I'm glad that, at least at time of writing, Yam's still doing okay. And with you guys. And that we could be some small comfort while you were waiting for an outcome yeah Deathblart 2020 which one was that? Dercom Director's commentary

oh yeah okay I listened back to that and it was too chaotic for me I couldn't make heads or tails of it I uh It was a bit much I didn't hear it back As is your want As is my want

I guess it's my turn Today You ready? Okay let's go The hunt for the wildest movie of the summer Everybody run Ends here This is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately Okay, let's go. The hunt for the wildest movie of the summer. Everybody run! Ends here.

This is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately. Borderlands, now playing. How long have we been going? Should this cap us off? Oh, 29 minutes. We could do a couple more. Zach writes, I'm going fucking loose on the names. These people aren't even telling me if they want their names.

Yeah. Back to the old school. You know what? Yeah, I feel like you're feeling relaxed. Let's see. November, mid-November 2021, Zach writes, Fallows of Frost. Now, can I, I'm going to pause for a second from the message. I feel like the origin of frosty fowlers has been

lost a little bit and i just think it's important every now and then to remind everyone where these these little memes come from and it comes from this in new zealand there is a cartoon mascot for an ice cream company called the frosty boy yeah and the slogan for the frosty boy is often licked never beaten and guy and i uh associate with that mentality so much because we are persistently attempting to be licked by these repetitious views of dangerously bad content but we are never defeated that's right and so just so everyone's aware that's where the frosty if you look at frosty fellas nz ice cream you'll see an image frosty boy yeah oh yeah we're the frosty fellas we're the fellas frosty boy nz ice cream you'll see a

rendering of this young ice cream enthusiast he rocks we should get a version of that hey he's got good steez oh we should we should get a version of that same animation style same basic graphic but it's got two heads coming out of two heads coming out of the t-shirt and maybe instead of a an ice cream he's holding a microphone that's really good that's really good bro yeah fuck that's awesome um fellows of frost i sent you a donation earlier this year when i had just finished season three thank you yeah very much at that time i said that when i caught up i would send some more well i finally caught up and i hope it's all right but in lieu of another paypal donation i got signed up on patreon gotta get that kill your near content damn right zach congratulations on

finishing the Emmanuel season. With a toddler and a newborn at home, media consumption is very limited for me right now. But you will be happy to know it has almost been exclusively Twi'o-et based between your podcast and then watching Taskmaster NZ on the television. Taskmaster is one of my favorite shows

and New Zealand season two is one of the best seasons in any country. Congratulations, Guy, on putting out a great show, and I will be legitimately upset if Mr. Bat is not starring on a season soon. Cannot wait. Catching up is a little bittersweet, though, because I can't tell you how great it has been to have a plethora of Tim Slash Guy content on hand at any moment. I'm just going to take a brief pause here. Plethora? Plethora.

I think both are on the table. What do you do, though? I'd say plethora. But I often, and it goes against my natural instinct now, I often mispronounceounce almost deliberately mispronounce certain words to try and emphasize comedic effect so i could be putting you wrong there this week i went to queue up another episode and much to my dismay realized there was no more how did people get by with only one a couple episodes per week i guess i might finally look up one of those mcelroy brothers podcasts i don't really care what it does always tickle me

and honestly satisfied the most like i guess needy part of myself when people go from us to them yeah yeah it's part of it is that when we years and years ago when we uh were very kindly offered by justin to stay at his house for american thanksgiving which we took him up on which was so nice. We saw some of the download numbers for the McElroys, and it was insane. It was crazy stuff. I don't really care what you guys do next,

but just know that I will be there to listen. Hopefully this isn't too long of a message, but I wanted to know if you guys have a favorite Twi'o-et theme song. My favorite is season two but podcast in a tree is probably second for me that being said i listen to all your podcasts at one and a half times speed so take my rankings with a grain of salt keep up the good work and can't wait to see what's next say the name zach hurley if you dare regards zach hurley yeah brave man tim bat saying zach hurley you wouldn't know the't know the Twilight themes if they ran you over the steamroller.

I know the season two theme. It's the worst idea of all time. Yeah, that's true. I know that I can think of the original, or not the original, but I can think of the, it's the friend zone. That's sort of very's the friend zone. That sort of very simple acoustic friend zone. And that's basically the two that I have to choose from inside of my mind's eye. And I'll take the season two.

What's the podcast in a tree thing? I can't remember. I can't remember, Guy. Oh, there you go. I think I bought that one, guy. Well, there you go. I think I bought that one, though. Yeah, nice. Yeah, I think I licensed some music from somewhere for that. Like, it's production music.

Well, it's a fun... Can you bring it up? It's a fun question to ask. Oh, wait, you probably can't, eh? Can I? I can. It would take a little bit of research. I wonder if I've got it, like, saved somewhere on a thingy.

We shouldn't both do this. You read a message i look for it okay that's a good idea and i'm gonna i'm calling it here last message for the friends he's calling it folks we've got some uh we've got work gals in the city to observe i got work to do i got work baby the 10th of january 2022 dear frosty fellas first of all thanks again for reading out my last message in episode 135 i was surprised and grateful two things numero uno after listening to your my week with cat series twice without seeing the movie i finally got around to watching it as it dropped on a certain popular streaming service i have to say that having listened to your reviews of it i

actually found watching it a strangely enjoyable experience sorry hold on what what are we talking about what movie cats oh yeah i admit to getting really emotional during the mr mistoffelees routine and i was very excited to see the skimble shanks number number number fuck Number. Number. Fuck. English language is confusing, isn't it? Number and number. Same spelling. Yeah. Different pronunciation. Totally different meaning.

Shit. You got me there, bro. I was very excited to see the Skimble Shanks number after you'd hyped the fuck out of it. I wonder if I would have enjoyed the movie as much if I hadn't been properly prepped by hearing your thoughts twice. After watching it, I rewarded myself by listening to My Week With Cats a third time. And secondably, loving the And Just Like That series so far. You had me in stitches the other day over your assessment of the ongoing Samantha fiasco, but it got me thinking.

Rather than having all of the awkward text messaging, wouldn't it have just made more sense to recast the character? I know Sex and the City fans would never allow this but if i was a producer writer on the show it would make more sense to me to replace an actor than keeping the character on hold while waiting for hoping kim cattrall changes her mind discuss thanks again lots of love say my name beautiful boys david from london england here's me discussing it. They, in some ways, have attempted to replace Samantha, but not literally by casting another actor to portray the character. Think of Seema. Seema.

It's Seema, yeah, basically. But Seema is another St. Louise type character. I know. She might be purely in the imagination of Carrie. I don't think she interacts with a single other gal. No, Carrie can't cross the streams. It's a very interesting interpretation of the Sex and the City universe as we know it,

which obviously doesn't include the television shows. That is not canon. That a good chunk of this show that revolves around her is her imagining an imaginary friend and a show that is centered almost entirely around female friendship a lot of what carrie is experiencing is make-believe yeah uh some sort of fantasy or psychotic breakdown solitude well what do you think guy what's your opinions on them recasting someone else to be it's the it's the classic thing there'd be furore uproar and then after five episodes we'd forget and honestly do you know i'm relieved that they didn't because the best thing to do is to

just get on with the show just get on and now that they've done that like i don't know i haven't finished the season there's two episodes to go but it's as we discussed the most recent episode of the and just like that podcast it's such a relief that we are no longer you know spending all this time anguishing over the whereabouts of samantha and even like grieving big it's just nice that we're actually in the present you know watching everyone live their lives that's what i think how nice i'm um you're finding the theme song well i couldn't find it guy so what i'm doing right now is opening an episode of podcast in a tree and hoping that the theme is like the first thing you hear because i genuinely can't remember oh yeah

yeah it's like back andal you did play this for me hello welcome yeah that rocks that honestly actually that is the best yeah yeah that's my fave that's a great vibe well tim it's been a pleasure. And to everyone who wrote us, to everyone who's listened, and to everyone who's, I guess, picking this up through some third party who's walking past their partner. Doesn't happen.

Doesn't happen. I recently heard a statistic that 94% or 96, 94% of podcasts are listened to by yourself. They are. But sometimes Chels will come home and she's listening to a podcast on a, like a Yui boom. Oh yeah. And I'll pick,

I'll get part of the podcast. Oh, okay. Well, if that's you right now. Yeah. You have been blessed by the boys. And please send Chelsea back to me. I miss her. Tim, I just want to quickly say,

and you can tell me off for this, but if you're listening and you live in Sydney or Melbourne, I am coming to do. Why the and you can tell me off for this, but if you're listening and you live in Sydney or Melbourne, I am coming to do... Why the fuck would I tell you off for this? Because I know you get cross. Not at this. No, I know.

No way, buddy. No, this is exciting. I'm coming to do stand-up comedy in Sydney and Melbourne, and I am currently rusty, but by the time I'm in your cities, I'm going to be in the fucking form of my life. Listen to me, you sons of bitches. On this podcast is one of New Zealand's funniest comedians, Guy Montgomery. You have the opportunity to see this guy perform for you in person

if you're in one of the major Australian cities. I implore you to take him up on this very generous offer of coming over, risking life and limb during a pandemic to dance for you like a performing monkey throw your gold coins at this performing court jester for your amusement life is short and hard so suck it go see guy montgomery please i you can find tickets at guymontgomery.co.nz bye everyone love yous love you my friends kakite Today.

You ready? Okay, let's go. The hunt for the wildest movie of the summer. Everybody run! ends here. This is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately. Borderlands. Now playing.