The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone 159

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

We enter on the boiz discussing Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's iconic BBC panel show Shooting Stars, a program that introduced the world to Matt Lucas and Mark Lamarr. While trying to keep their heads above water, Tim and Guy are informed of the exciting future of Mattress Pikelet King's 'And Just Like That' series and the fact that Paul Blart Mall Cop 2's Neil McDonough is on TikTok now. The pair (Tim and Guy, not Neil and TikTok) have been working on spelling and porn respectively and gently guide any interested parties to a live show in Auckland to celebrate the success of the Did Titanic Sink? TWIOAT Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Website / SubstackGUY Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / WebsiteTIM Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the friendzone, in the friendzone, you're always home, in the friendzone, you're not alone, anytime, with Tim and Guy. I think it was. It was a source of inspiration for me. Shooting Stars, um game show the making of um what's his name he was george doors on the show matt lucas matt lucas i think that was like his first thing right george doors with the scores give us the scores george door and it was so sick because he'd just go fucking wild doing a big drum fill and then see what the teams were on. It was a good format. With a little gag.

And there was a great one where they play around the dove from above. Yes. And to get the dove down, all of the panelists would have to coo the dove down. They go, whirr, whirr. And only once everyone was cooing would the dove be lowered from above. It was Mark Lamar who was like the heel of the show. Yeah. I can't remember what the guy's name the, was it Mark Lamar? Yeah. Who was like the heel of the show? Yeah. I can't remember what the guy's name is, the comedian who sort of played him.

Because that wasn't his name, eh? That was like a sort of. I thought that was his name. Was it him? I thought it was like a performance piece by that guy. Chris Morris. Not Chris Morris. It wasn't Chris Morris.

I don't know. I'll look it up. I mean. Yeah, look up Mark Lamar. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the friend zone. Just as you said that, I was wondering whether or not we were still talking just into microphones or we were actually- Always recording.

Always assume the mic is hot and the recorder is active. This kills me. The number one Google response if you look up Shooting Stars is the song by the Bag Raiders. Boo. Google responds if you look up Shooting Stars. It's the song by the Bag Raiders. Boo. And also shootingstars.co.nz.

We have a close and well-established team who are committed to providing a homely and engaging environment that is filled with opportunities to spark curiosity. We're assuming this is for children? This sounds like Scientology so far. I'm not pro it. I'm not for it. To elevate your consciousness. No, it's not. Mark Lamar. Just look up that.

Here we go. Mark Lamar. I feel it's with a C as well. I don't know why. Mark with a C? No, he's playing himself as a character. He's a real guy, Mark Lamar. And that's his name?

Born Mark Jones, but recognizes Mark Lamar. Okay, gotcha. So it's like a stage name, but that's what he goes by. It's just a stage, brother. Man, yeah. What I remember of it, it was a good game show. And speaking of game shows, hi, everyone. We've been away.

Dormant. Is that what you say? Yeah. Which fucking kills me. Yeah, it does. Every day I wake up and I go We gotta get some fucking content Stream

We have been behind the scenes Organising the Winner's Circle Supreme Showdown That's correct That will be happening When are we recording this really? Is it tomorrow? Tomorrow morning Oh shit We need to figure that out that's why i came over early sick ass good to know

um the guy and i have been living our lives sort of 12 hours in front at the moment just getting through just trying to keep our heads above water and we have so far yeah because if we hadn't uh the whole podcast would sound like this good gag but a fun on the wireless still got it we caught we i'm gonna i'm gonna claim that podcasts now are what should be referred to as the wireless. Okay. It used to be radio. Yeah. But I feel like most radios now are wired in.

And we'll start calling Bluetooth headphones and sort of audio receivers ham radios. So we're the wireless and you're listening to us on your ham radio. But you'll be pleased to hear, as detailed by the fact that our voices are both dry, that we have kept our heads above water and we are about to put our heads, plunge our heads simultaneously, side by side, into the water as we launch an exciting new season, a new project that will take us almost to the end of another calendar year. And I don't mean, actually, a calendar year is not right.

It's basically. Well, it isn't. It's going to last for a year. Yeah. We've got a project that will be familiar. You know, look, we're doing another season is what we're trying to say. Yeah. You know how this show works.

And it's kicking off very shortly. And I think we've, I'm not going to announce it yet what it is, but we've left enough clues I think. Yeah. People who are listening will know what we're doing. And if you don't, then you're in for a lovely little surprise. Although we haven't actually revealed what the kind of twist is this season, which is pretty fun.

Let's save it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not getting. I'm really i'm really i'm um i'm really excited it's a return to original formatting uh you've got the boys riding side saddle we're arranging it around uh increasingly inconvenient lives or full and enriching lives if you look at it from a family perspective but from a podcasting perspective uh are deeply inconvenient lives yeah and uh it's going

to be a week by week we're going to be getting the work done and um it's going to be better than ever i'll tell you that i genuinely think it's got all the all the constituent parts to be an absolute rip snort of a season yeah it's going to be fantastic and we couldn't be looking more forward to it the reason we've been off the traps a little bit recently, we've had a few things going on. Guy's been, and we've mentioned it before, but I want to dig into it a little bit. Guy's been making his own game show, his own game show for television that he conceived of and hosts,

and his name appears twice in the title of it. It couldn't be more branded if he tried, unless you had it a third time. But I don't think any broadcaster in their right mind would have a show with your name thrice in the title. You'll be surprised to hear Tim. I had to fight to keep it in twice. Did you really?

Yeah. The production company and the network were like, what do we think about the name? And I was like, I think it's great. I thought it's good to go. Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee is going to take the world by storm wow hopefully i'll tear it off to begin with to begin with sure um we've just recorded last week eight episodes i'm on it we shotgun them tim batt appears in one of them as an outstanding comedic talent,

speller, foil to the host. I don't think you could describe him as an outstanding speller. You put your best foot forward and anything can happen on the day, Tim. Yeah, it was a huge, honestly, the culmination of the most intensive block of work of my life. I had to drag his ass out of bed and go to an office and work on it week after week after week.

And I tell you what, I saw him a few times in the middle of it. Didn't sit well with him. Well, it's all worth it in the end, but my God. It's not your constitution though, is it? No. The old nine till five?

Well, I mean, it became like, it was just, you know, it's your own project and so eventually just becomes an all-consuming 24-hour fuck yeah yeah true that i but very grateful did it stress you out were you stressed making it no i had seemed pretty on top of it it was just constant yeah i had an amazing team um around me the people who worked alongside me, it was a small skeleton crew, but they did so much heavy lifting. Joseph Moore?

Joseph Moore and I, yeah, we wrote it together. You know, I don't want to get into singling. I don't think anyone listens to this podcast. You do. You're straying into awards territory, awards speech territory, but I've dragged you here. I mean, it was amazing. The whole thing was amazing. I'm so excited for it to come out. straying into awards territory yeah award speech territory but i i've dragged you here let's say i mean it was it was amazing the whole thing was amazing i'm so excited for it to come out i can't

believe that it happened the set was insane yeah crucially we do have to shout out thomas coddle absolutely because thomas coddle who does all of our artwork like for this podcast and is incredible and you can see him at sick hyphen.com. You can see his portfolio. He did your set. Yeah, he did the logo, the B logo, which I've posted on Instagram, and he did the letter wall, which is behind the contestants, and he did the colorway, all the fonts. He was amazing.

And actually, he came to the last episode. We recorded the eighth episode on Friday night, and he came. We were having a beer afterwards, and I was reflecting and saying how grateful I was, and he was saying, it's funny, you know, it's just another badge in the ongoing collaboration between us because I've got, I drew the Patrick Schwarzenegger that's tattooed on your ass.

Yeah. And while I knew that, it was certainly not top of mind. Sometimes I forget I have the tattoo at all. So Thomas, his DNA is all over everything. Yeah. yeah it was certainly not top of mind sometimes i forget i have the tattoo at all so thomas's his dna is all over everything yeah um but yeah it's been crazy made a big visual impact on your life yes he really has how much of the ip do you like can here's my question i want merch because the logo is so sick and i would love to get like it on a t-shirt or something. I mean, this definitely feels like an off-the-microphone conversation. No, because you could sell. I don't know the details.

I was emailing with my manager this morning saying, what is the stipulation for merchandise in the contract? Because I feel like the merchandise could be. No one's going to make heaps of money out of it. I just want it. I agree. Could we just do some off-the-rack? I'll get the logo off, Thomas. I'll sort it. I agree. Can we just do some off the rack? I'll get the logo off, Thomas.

I'll sort it out myself. Tom's got me covered. Some bootleg merchandise. It'll be all good. And look, you've been, I mean, you're always a perpetually busy beaver, but you've got some tantalizing projects on the go. One of them, you were a producer, has culminated just recently on Chris and Eli's. Yeah, man.

Associate producer. First time I've been an associate producer on a project. What's it like? Oh, so much cruisier than like a showrunner or whatever. Man. I was just a showrunner. It was not fun. I know.

Well, it was fun. I know that feeling. So this is kind of the spiritual successor to The Male Gaze, which we made for tvnz on demand what four or five years ago five yeah five years i don't know a number of years ago now and we've been trying to get a second season made for ages and but this thing is slightly different it started life and they're not telling the story so i hope i'm allowed to but we were trying to pitch to the government funder to make the first um proper like big budget professionally shot professionally crude gay porn in new zealand um you'll be shocked to hear that the the nation's sort of main art funder were like i don't think we can fund that yeah so we keep sort of repitching our

our funding body um is chaired by courage the cowardly dog um no fair enough look fair enough they get hauled into the headlines particularly at the moment enough as it is so they're not looking for trouble that's for sure but so what we've got chris chris parker eli matthewson the funniest guys around um the male gaze podcast which you can listen to they've made chris and eli's porn revolution which launches tomorrow at the time of recording at the spinoff.co.nz and i don't think it's i don't think they geoblock this shit so it's all going to be on youtube it's all going to be on youtube you should be able to view that without issues.

And I did a little bit of work on it, but I've had very little creative involvement and it just looks fantastic. I think I would have weighed it down. No, no, no. It's like a lovely head. I can imagine the meetings now. Tim's in the room going, where are the vaginas? It's actually not as gay centric as i think anyone was

expecting yeah it's yeah i was i would talk to them while they were making it and they were constantly surprised at the um because they were sort of following the conversations that were coming up in real time yeah they were surprised by the you know where it wound up leading them yeah it's quite i've seen all but the last episode, like pretty much final cuts and it's awesome. It's very sex positive. And there's just like, in particular there's some great stories from sex workers who are making

their money on OnlyFans now, like younger people, early twenties. And they're just having a fucking great time and leading a great life. And it's just like, oh, that's cool, man. I've stored a bit of my faith in how the internet can work, you know, for some people. You just got to pick your corners. Yeah. Pick your pockets.

Yeah. As Fagan in the Artful Dodger would say, he's an Oliver Twist fan. Not going to get through a podcast without mentioning my boy Charlie Deet, Charlie Dickens up in this bitch Shout out Charlie Dickens You thought that you'd get a friend's home without a Dickersonian reference And you were fucking wrong as Guess again motherfuckers

Can I have some more please sir That's right same book Also I want to say It was the best of podcasts It was the worst of podcasts It was the worst idea of all time i want to know about this titanic live show you've got coming oh fuck good memory because i've been a huge fan of the season i've got to confess i was following along until i think five

in and i haven't been able to finish it i haven't at the time oh man we've got some complaints about the last episode no you don't we do really yeah yeah from people who've listened the whole way through they're like you fuck they haven't resolved you haven't resolved what people want you to resolve i just want you to have a listen to it okay i know what you think i have been loving it i think it's thanks man it's like that probably in every other podcast we're on second to alan partridge from the host house but it's been my favorite podcast of the year incredible company to keep in your brain. Yeah, it's the number one spot.

And I'm so glad I'm not actually here for it, but what is the live show going to be? So Abbey Howells and Carlo are both going to do some Titanic stand-up. Abbey Howells is so funny. She's so funny. God, she's funny. And I don't know what's happening for the rest we

haven't sussed it yet but oh wow it's and i've seen carlo carlo richie has performed um i've watched him perform an hour-long stand-up show purely on the titanic and he's done more than one without hyperbole it was one of the most impressive shows i've seen there is a joke in it that the structure and length of is i would say for any standard comedian working in the world like including the best of the best the top shelf from america and the uk the gold standard of what can be achieved in the art form so that so that's did titanic sink is the name of the podcast and if you go to did titanic sink.com you can get tickets for the live show happening on november 18th and tamaki makoto at soap bar no soap dance hall it's called in the

city gonna be so much it's gonna be fucking lit yeah and i think it'll sell out the tickets aren't flying out the door yet but you know it's still got a week it's gonna sell out i'd get on top of it now if you're interested yeah i would and they're cheap too irons were like you're charging 25 for this it's like it's dead in a shoe they were like it's a bit more than what we normally charge for live events i was like carlos flying here from the middle of australia not like a sydney or a melbourne yeah crying out loud. He's coming from Canberra. If we sell out, I think we still lose money, which is the way. The worst idea ink model. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

I wouldn't have it any other way. Shit, man. We got to read some. I see. It's great. It's great to shoot the breeze. It's good. It's good to see you.

And yeah, if anyone is in Australia listening, just before we launch into some messages, I'm actually doing stand-up in Melbourne this Friday, November 11th. I'm improvising an hour of stand-up at 10.30 p.m. I'm also doing a 7 o'clock show, but it's sold out. And then next weekend in Sydney, I'm doing the same thing again at 9 p.m. on Friday, November 18th. If anyone wants to come.

Your boy's got shit going on. Yeah. Well, yeah. Got to do something. I've got something in the Twitter inbox here, Tim. Twitter? Yeah. Random, bro.

Still alive. Throw it at me. Not for much longer, surely. I mean, we don't need to get into the Muskiverse. Dear Tim and Gim gim i've been a supporter through your migration to substack and i'm absolutely enjoying killian air tv yes your sultry tones and distinct lack of any erection has gotten me through most of my work days this past year but more importantly as we near american thanksgiving I thought it right to not only acknowledge your devotion to Kevin James,

but also his beautiful counterpart, Neil McDonoghue. Is that right? McDonough? You tell me. McDonough, I'm going to say. Neil McDonough. Oh, there's like a H-U-E at the end? There's an O-U-H.

I discovered just recently that he's made the move to TikTok, documenting the behind the scenes of an upcoming football movie of his. It truly made me feel that I can never escape the looming cloud that is Paul Blart 2. And with Guy's love of sports, I felt it was a fitting match of both work and pleasure for you boys. Thank you for the wonderful content and may you live another year. Say my name.

Calus. Oh, Neil McDonaghough the heel who's the really good actor yeah the guy who's so crazy he i can't remember but he's crazy yeah uh are you crazy for breakfast yeah that guy yeah yeah they have a big shout off that is coming up tis the season oh it's so soon we're recording it really to be blotty tra la la la la pa pa pa you and i are both i think we discovered having to watch the movie on a plane yeah it's cool like separately it's called living the dream fucking google i'm actually so looking forward to that because you know how movies just hit different when you're on a plane yeah like i won't cry watching a movie ever unless i'm on a plane and then it could be any movie and i'll cry i remember the my first time remembering that it's

a different experience was watching a um watching liar liar on the plane jim carrey's liar liar and laughing so hard i must have been featuring emmanuel. Yeah. She's the woman in the elevator. That's right, yeah. And just laughing so hard that I was disrupting other passengers and being like, this is more intense than at home. What is up with that? Is it like the altitude? Is it the solitude?

It's a great place. It's both. It's a great place to reflect. And I think everything exists in a vacuum. And so you're sort of, you're divorced from the emotional tethers to what you feel on land. And so I think that you're swept. You're in international waters. You're swept up in the world of the film war because it is your reality.

Because you've got no distractions to pull you back into your ground. That's why I'm against Wi-Fi on planes. Yeah, man. Yeah, absolutely. It's like one of the last places we've got. What? Are we going to have to go to caves now to just get offline? I saw on one of those cool like, you know, like creatures of New York,

whatever, Instagram accounts, there's a guy who's just hollowed out a microwave and is wearing it as a helmet. And he pops the door open because, you know, it's spring loaded. And he just goes, don't film me and he pops the door over because you know it's spring-loaded and he just goes don't film me and then shuts the door again which is awesome because like i know what he's doing he's made a faraday cage as cheaply as possible but it is the best fucking thing in the world and that and frankly listen folks if you really do think that the government is reading your thoughts or whomever, that's actually how you would stop it.

Tinfoil, if anything, is probably going to amplify the waves. They're going to be able to, you know, it's conductive. That's not what you want. You want a fucking microwave on your head. You're doing it on your terms then, I feel. I want to show you the video. Whatever the outcome. I'll find it afterward. Yeah, maybe feel. I want to show you the video. Whatever the outcome. I'll find it afterwards.

Yeah, maybe after. Don't film me. Too good. Okay, coming to us from February and my email inbox. Kylie writes, Hey, I'm super excited to have just discovered you're doing a fourth season. This is truly one of my Oprah's favorite things ever. I was devastated when I found out that I miss you guys in New York City last year.

Clearly, I'm not on the up and up about your news. Is there something I can follow for more info on the podcast so I don't miss you again? Yeah. We're on Twitter, twioatpod. We're on Facebook, which at pod We're on Facebook Which is facebook.com slash worst idea of all time Both great platforms on the up and up

And Instagram At twio at pod That's right and if I remember correctly At the end of the last friendzone I threatened to make a TikTok I haven't done it yet but I'll get there You were talking a big game Blazing through the 6th episode

Old Lang Syne Right now but I'll get there. You were talking a big game. Blazing through the sixth episode. Old Lang Syne right now. I don't know if you will figure it out in future episodes yet, but I think I have the answer to the 76 trombones riddle. Oh, we've been given that answer multiple times. There was a TV movie remake of the movie musical The Music Man that I saw as a child along with eight other people in America. It starred Matthew Broderick. Hey, y'all.

He's JP's husband in which he sings the famous song 76 Trombones. It was not well received. Amazing bit of subtle in-house humor from the gang. Side note, last year I went to a party that was at MPK's former townhouse. Hey. He just moved out a mere week prior. His presence lingered in every room. Gross. There was an outdoor backyard area that was below ground level of the house,

which could very well be the pit in which he penned these films. Thanks very much for the ridiculousness. I loved every minute of it. Kylie PS, did you know this was the first time an iPhone was ever featured in a movie? I feel like I've read this. Just that last bit now. Oh, wait, that message was from 2019.

Fuck, I read the wrong bit, guy. I've got to say, that was a huge stroll down memory lane. I felt like it was very transportative. That got me sort of nervously thinking or reminiscing on the fact that, and just like that, is a product that is out there in the universe. And there's a second season that's being filmed

or being filmed. And in amongst everything, when it comes out, we're going to jump on it like a goddamn landmine. The email I was supposed to read has got girth on it. So, we're going to jump on it like a goddamn landmine. The email I was supposed to read has got girth on it. So I'm going to try and speed run it, okay? Girth it up. Hey, Tim and Guy, I'm addressing this to both of you because I fondly remember when you read my email above

on a Friendzone episode and warmed my heart for six years. Too fast. Slow it down. Let us catch up. I am so beyond thrilled that you are covering in just like that. I haven't listened to last week's yet, but I look forward to your addressing of the phrases desert ritual and workout wear.

Also in the finale, I caught a glimpse of concerningly excitable Abu Dhabi Miranda at the coffee bar with her foamy latte. Perhaps coffee guy was lurking there just out of sight, guzzling the sweet caffeine buffet to his uh buffet to his heart's content or else he must have been on that bridge barely containing the poor golden retriever who had to a few too many itself i exchanged some dms with tim after sending over my short film green many years ago a sincere thanks for watching and heard the lovely news about a new baby. I was going to send over a Mario Cantoni story as a congratulations. This has sat over in my drafts for several months,

and here I am again. A new baby, new year, new season of Sex and the City, celebration in the form of a story I have been desperate to share with you for four plus years. This happened at the height of me listening to the podcast, and I wanted nothing more than to tell you straight away because who else would care? But I was afraid of career repercussions at the time. Lol.

I was hoping I'd have a chance to meet you in New York City. In my 2019 email above, I wrote about how tragically I tragically missed you and then I believed you. Look, you've missed us twice. And I'd have something interesting to share but uh as i don't think that it happened anytime soon i thought i could maybe send this sex in the city gossip your way and brighten your day if you don't mind i'd very much appreciate it if you keep this just between us i probably won't read this then, I guess. That seems like a sincere request for this to not be broadcast.

Absolutely. So I'll read that to Guy after we're done here. We've got a lot to do after this podcast. Yes. I've spent some time now trying to find the name of, and I will give you, Tim, $10 cash, if you can get it off the top of your head, $10 cash if you can get it off the top of your head.

Shea Diaz's Netflix special that they record, and then just like that, their comedy concert. It's a stand-up special. The audience is standing. The podcast, I remember, is called XY and Me. It's the stand-up show I'm trying to get. I don't know. Oh, you have lost it or are you quizzing me?

I'm doing both. I don't have the answer. I don't have the answer either. Anyhow, just to further discuss and put a button on there and just let that conversation, filming of the second season began on October 4, 2022. So I suppose... Uh-oh, Spaghetti-O. That sometime next year,

we're going to have a lot on our plates. It feels like... How does post-production work? That'll be post-Christmas, you'd think, eh? Oh, yeah, yeah. It'll be... I'm forecasting Easter. 2023, a treat for Guy and me.

Something to look forward to, certainly. I've got something here. Someone sent us this on Twitter as well. It says a hinge prompt for the boys to consider. I'm tempted to engage because... Do you know about hinge prompts, Mr. Coupled over here? No, this is what I'm excited to do. Do you know about hinge prompts?

It's an app. I know what it is. I don't know exactly how it works, but that's how they connect you with a potential partner, is they ask questions. Can I tell you, when I was doing The Spelling Bee, there's an episode that involves 13-year-olds being paired with the comedians.

There's four comedians per episode and the 13-year-olds want it. And I was talking to, you know, on the show before the gameplay, I was talking to one of the 13-year-olds and I said, I was just asking what are they like at school and they said, oh, my favorite subject is eating lunch. And I said, oh, yeah, is that a lunch you bring from home? You buy lunch, he goes, oh, no, we get it on an app. I was like, oh, you've got an app for that?

And he goes, yeah, an app. It's like a website. You got fucked up. I got so fucked up. And anyway, I got to the bottom of it the school has an app for the lunch huh which is the question i wanted the answer to of course um because i'm 90 i genuinely think school has changed the most dramatically between like the current gen and i mean there's like probably two genes since we were at, you know. Yeah. Primary and intermediate, or what they would call in America, elementary school?

Elementary and junior high. You know, it's dramatic change, all the tech that's gone in. But the hinge prompt. We didn't even have laptops. Everything was bloody pencil on paper. Until you got your pen license, then you were off to the races. Then it was pen on paper. Would you rather have, let's debate this topic.

Okay. Would you rather have hairy palms for five years or only be able to watch Adam Sandler movies for the rest of your life? Hairy palms for five years. Wow, that's a good one. I'd take hairy palms for five years. Really? Yes.

Do you love the cinema that much? No, I, well, yeah, I guess it is. I just feel like I could get through five years. It'd be interesting when you'd shake hands with people. That is a good point. Do you get to pick when the five years is? It starts immediately. Man, this would not be a good time.

And what do you say? I know it feels unusual, but it was this or I could only watch Adam Sandler movies. Would you just have to wake up and shave your palms every morning? No, because then I'd go back and have stubble. It would be like carrying around sandpaper. Oh, stubble on your palms. That's no good. Gloves?

Gloves all day, baby. Sweaty fingers. Sweaty palms. Sweaty palms. Sweaty and hairy palms. Mom's spaghetti. Anyway, it's an appreciated prompt. I think I'd take the Adam Sandler movies, personally. Huh.

Still got TV. And I guess that's why the podcast works, everybody. We're a little bit different. We've got different things. He's a little bit country. And me, well, I'm a little bit different. We've got different things. He's a little bit country and me, well, I'm a little bit rock and roll. Have you got any more?

Yeah, I've got, I got messages. Have you? Dude, I just read you one from 2019. I got messages. You better believe Arena got in touch with us and said,

hi, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim,

Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim,

Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, us and said hi tim tim bit bat and guy maple leaf montgomery big fan of the pod as i was listening

to it on episode 41 of the emmanuel season tim was talking about the youtube algorithm he said that the thing that sucks is that it only shows you new videos the old youtube videos before the algorithm was implemented will never be seen well let me tell you how wrong you are it was through the algorithm that i found this very lovely podcast i had finished re-watching both seasons of taskmaster nz legally of course and watched a couple on youtube live streams i found the one where you all saw the finale together and i watched the finale the day after a few weeks later i got recommended a stand-up clip featuring one guy montgomery why isn't that the gentleman dressed like a dad with the shirts with all the pictures of paul williams on them yes it was i started watching the three minute clip but

immediately my attention was drawn to the recommended video a few thumbnails down the title was something like new zealand comedians watch grown-ups to 52 times in a year i'm confused so many questions pop into my mind what does this have to do with taskmaster did they really do that was the weird charity event why that movie i click on it ignoring the fact that i am sure fantastic but guy was performing and watched the interview yeah this is Yeah, this is a glowing message, but it's very difficult for me to get past the fact that the one piece of content you could engage with was my stand-up.

I will do better. A story as old as time. These are some thoughts I had while watching it. Oh, shit. I don't understand a word they're saying. They look oddly similar to not be brothers is bat his full last name bet he doesn't run out of space filling in forms they really did it the mad lads that is so funny and they haven't even watched the first one this is great i need to

find their podcast this was in october 2021 i am now writing on the 15th of january 22 and i and we are now reading on the 7th of november and i am almost up to date with the pod i found that interview i after i found that interview i googled the podcast meanwhile i listened to the first episode which i could find on the website i loved it so much by the end i was still confused about where the first season was so i went back to youtube only to discover that that video is six years old. I don't even know if something that old is on Apple Podcasts. Turns out I was wrong, and there it is, the podcast that would become my companion for the next three months.

I ended up watching the pilot of the YouTube Red series next. So the way I listened to the pod was episode one, YouTube Red pilot, rest of season one, season two, the first few friend zones. And after I have listened to all of the podcast in sequential order, filling my time as I had to take a semester off uni. Not being able to go to Toronto because my visa took too long and I couldn't go to my biochemistry labs. I'm originally from Colombia I am I and being stuck living with my parents as a 23 year old was not fun but you made it fun and reminded me that life is only about having a nice time with your powers hopefully I'll finish my degree soon and apply for a postgraduate program so I can join the other PhDs in the audience sometimes that is my only

motivation and i'm okay with that i appreciate the sometimes fun sometimes torturous work you do to bring us this podcast if this ever gets read on the friend zone you are allowed to say my name and the info in this letter lol lots of love arena ps it is now february 6th when i'm sending this it has been a couple of weeks since i am listened to the podcast because i am not used to having it in small doses now that i caught up so who knows where i'll be when i hear this i'm in the future to the person that wrote this email but when you read this i am in your past but when i hear this i will be in your future time just goes by doesn't it bye you're having a lot of fun with us and with yourself in that message and i really respect

that thank you for um i mean charting such a unique journey and relaying it to us okay i'm gonna read one and then it's time to put a pin in it. Yeah. Timbo and Guy. Timbo and Guy. Just thought I'd shoot you a note to say thanks for the latest friend zone. This message was received on the 4th of October. Been working myself to the bone lately and not committing enough time to friends in the physical or online

and sitting down with two fuck boys through my headphones half an hour on a beautiful afternoon and was exactly what I needed. Keep up the holy warming friendship you two blast out into the universe as it is a great microwave for those cold days. All the best, Jordan. P.S. Feels a little wrong

given some recent context but feel somewhat obliged to congratulate Guy on his recent announcement to headline the 2023 Adelaide Fringe. I feel like that's a joke, but I do recognize the author, and this is someone who messages me every time I say I'm doing a comedy show.

Say, come to Adelaide. And do you know what? I don't think it has been announced, but I legit am coming to Adelaide next year. My man. So, I look forward to seeing you there. Look out, cats and kittens. Well, we only made it up to February.

Or in my case. Oh, yeah. My case was February. Sorry. But in your case, October. I really love catching up with you, Tim. And I really love catching up with you, Libertarian listener. you tim and i really love catching up with you libertarian listener and uh i'm really really uh truly excited for this um for you know the adventure we're about to draw to a conclusion

which is the killian air series and also the um the boat that we're about to launch into the high seas of podcasting which is this exciting project. In the words of a band whose name I can't remember, oh, Bachman Turner Overdrive, you ain't seen nothing yet, folks. Hey. Bow, bow. B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet. Bow, bow.

Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you very soon. In the friend zone, you're always home. In the friend zone, you're not alone. We'll talk to you very soon.