The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Ninety Two

Episode Date: December 18, 2019

This episode supported by PodFaves.com Here we are, hung over Timbo and a very friendly Guyguy. It's been a minute and we've got some beautiful letters to share. We've also got some devastating news about Monty's mate who was supposed to join a great American Roadtrip. Today we're hearing from an Ol Lang Syne celeb-adjacent listener, a big fan of our musical ideas, Squirrel supporters and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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And have a good time, yes, tag team, back again. It's your boys, and we're in a pretty friendly zone right now. Um, Tim? Sup? It's your boys, and we're in a pretty friendly zone right now. Tim? Sup? How are you? I'm feeling friendly, dude. I'm feeling pretty friendly as well.

Give me some context. Okay, here we go. It is a drizzly Saturday morning. It's 10am. Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt have just recorded a Patreon episode where we're slamming out shitty Christmas films for y'all enjoyment. And so that's a thing to come off the back of. And I'm quite hungry.

I didn't drink a lot last night, but I drank a little bit, but I did a lot of other things, but I didn't get a ton of sleep is the main thing. So I feel like that's the big fog in my brain. Do you know though? I'm operating on very little sleep. It's a Saturday, which to my mind might mean that my boy Tim cranks through a conversation about friendship,

the highs and lows contained therein, and then maybe, maybe if you're lucky peels off for a bit of kip not even necessarily going under into REM sort of sleep but just you lie there you take a moment to yourself you say this is my body

this is how I feel I can get up or I can lie down you know and you restore energy and positive feeling that way. What do you reckon? It's a heavenly vision that you're putting out there, but I'm actually, and I'm not disappointed whatsoever,

but I got to hightail it after we stopped recording because I'm going on a road trip. Oh. Getting out of town. To Gisborne? Nah, nah. Well, maybe road trip's a strong word, but I'm going out of town To Gisborne? Nah nah Well maybe road trip's a strong word But I'm going out of town

With lovely Zoe And our friends And we're gonna go on a boat And maybe do some fishing You're going up to Northland? Yeah Oh man That's gonna be really awesome

I'm excited for you We're going to an island Which I hope I'm remembering the name right, is called Urapukapuka. And it's like a protected bird sanctuary. Dude. Predator free. Until I get there.

Ha ha. I actually did a poll on my Instagram story recently based on a conversation I was having with my friend Ken, which is when you're watching a nature documentary and there's a chase sequence between a predator and a prey who do you root for? It's very good

It's always the prey right? Well yeah I mean I do too Ken was different and over something like 500 votes were tallied. Yeah. And the prey won in a landslide, 75% to 25%.

Do you get to find out who voted the other way? You do. You see the names. And I actually meant to screenshot all the names of people who voted for predator so that i could um read them out loud and out them fantastic but i forgot the poll ended and if you don't archive your stories whatever all the information goes i just remember the the final numbers but aaron do you remember a couple people on that list though do you know some people you got to avoid in the future aaron chen who voted on the poll but then sent me a direct message

saying i always root for the predator and you can use that as a quote for anything aaron chen no one ally yeah if you want to give him a piece of your mind uh find him at chenny lifestyle on uh instagram the man is so damn funny but um it's interesting because i think in nature documentaries i'm always rooting for the prey even though the context provided is always that the predator needs to catch the prey as much as the prey needs to escape. Like both of their livelihoods depend on this. As soon as I said always the prey, yeah, the prey, I do remember that there's a bunch of like David Attenborough ones where he's setting up that this is the last jaguar on the Getty Plains or whatever.

And so then you're definitely rooting for the, and it's usually kind of slow and shit and em emaciated it's just this bag of bones trying to chase down something even then my instinct still skews prey is there's something to be said for like it's almost like you're you're you're uh sweeping the demise of whatever the predator is under the carpet because you don't like the the cameras don't then keep rolling as you watch this apex predator starve to death. They sort of end with the prey getting away. And he goes, it'll be a long and hungry winter for the jaguar.

And you think, oh no. But then in nature, I don't give a, I never want to see any of the prey. Like I all, if I got to see a chase sequence in real life, I would absolutely want to watch a predator fucking get theirs.

Yeah, man. There's something, I don't know, deeply human about that, I think, because it's what the process is. It's what it's supposed to be. A predator is supposed to get its prey, and it's like, I want to watch a bit of that. It's quite, yeah, it's very visceral a predator is supposed to get its prey and it's like i want to i want to watch a bit of that it's quite um yeah it's very visceral isn't it because what we're talking about is something you know killing another thing yeah in front of you weird vibe weird vibe bro all good

well it's the sort of thing that you'll cover tim i am uh eight days into a cross-country road trip as I make my way from New York to Los Angeles and then eventually returning to Auckland, New Zealand. I am so looking forward to you coming back to me, Tim. I am excited. I won. Well, you'll be there. And, you know, you being inuckland is certainly a bonus um we had a challenge going for a long time guy tried to stick it out in new york city and he went are you going

to come here and i went no you're going to come here and he went no and he's finally caved he's coming to live with tim well i've been meaning to talk to you about that i'll be living in the same city as you tim but not specifically with you. When is a when? I have other friends and personal situations to attend to in Auckland City. I won't hear that kind of talk on the friend zone. Yeah, I don't want to catch you off guard when I get back, but I will not be moving straight in with you.

But yeah, so I've covered a lot of ground and we're having a really good time. America is a fascinating country. What car are you driving? We are in a brand spanking new Chevy Suburban. One of the largest SUVs on the open market. Oh my God. How's that?

It's incredible. We we're transferring you know i've packed up my life into this uh vehicle essentially so there's a lot we're hauling us with a lot of stuff in the boot or the trunk but um it's really it's really fun we've we've covered a lot of ground we've driven through dc virginia north, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, the Mississippi, Alabama. We didn't even stop in Alabama. We just drove straight across state. Yeah, people do that. Yeah.

And, yeah, so that's just a little bit of, you know, if we're providing mental framework for where we're at and what's going on. I'm in the middle of two nights in New Orleans. Can you share that this is highly unorthodox because we normally do all of our catching up on a microphone in the friend zone, but can you reshare that story about your friend or not? I can, I guess, yeah. I don't see why not.

It's just there was a third friend who was meant to be joining Ken and I, a close friend of both of us who was flying over from New Zealand to travel across America with us in this car. It is essentially, I don't know, you know, I don't like to think of anything as once in a lifetime, but the opportunity to drive across America does not present itself with a huge amount of frequency in life i don't think absolutely this is once in a lifetime stuff and so yeah this friend travels to america previously in years gone by uh they had

visited afghanistan and iraq to take photos and um yeah they so anyway they'd and they'd since been to america under obama's administration to uh holiday but on this trip they came they got they got off the plane at lax and they cleared customs when they were clearing customs they said oh just so you know i've previously been to these countries uh in 2000 and whatever the year was 14 uh and they're like oh that's interesting where'd you go therefore he goes i'll just take some photos they go okay cool come on in he gets through he makes it all the way to the boarding gate for his connecting flight from lax to jfk and then a stern man comes up and says to him uh mr blogs you're coming with me and they take mr blogs into a holding facility at customs

where he was they took his shoelaces out of his dang shoes and he spent um 18 hours being told he's a bad boy he'd filled out a question on his ester visa incorrectly not deliberately but accordingly he became treated as a highly suspect person he was afforded one phone call to us to say i'm not going to make it and then after 18 hours of sitting in a room by himself and being told that there was a glimmer of hope he would stay, they said, get on the plane, you're going home. And he's currently in New Zealand. I imagine with both of us muted on Instagram, it was very upsetting and not a great way to start the trip, of course. The worst of it is, of course, not even ours.

It's with our friend. But eventually, if you are driving across America with one of your very close friends in a brand new Chevy Suburban, you are going to start enjoying yourself. It is inevitable. And so if I was this person, I imagine I would have absolutely, unless he's got better processes than me and

has moved on from the frustration that i i would speculate he'd be feeling i would have muted both ken and myself because i wouldn't want to watch the trip that i had been looking forward to and planning on taking part in unfold in my absence but yeah that is probably the only minor blip on what has otherwise been truly like an incredibly enjoyable experience. An experience so enjoyable, sometimes we'll stop and we'll turn to each other and we'll say, aren't we having fun? And I feel like usually you realize after the fact that you've had fun.

Yeah. It's very rare to continually realize how much fun you're having within the moment. So it's been a delight. And the people of America have been so friendly and so American. It's a great country. In saying that, though, should we turn to some positive news? We should. um and saying that though should we turn to some positive news in the form of correspondence with you our friends uh the first one i'd like to get to is uh i received a message on the 1st of december 2019 saying hey i think you missed my message

and sure enough we probably have so i'm going to go back and read correspondence dated from the middle of September 2019. So this will be quite a Sex and the City specific piece of correspondence. Cool, man. I'm ready for it. I'm there. Hello, Chardine, Scott's Gaelic for hello, friends. I cannot imagine how many different ways I pronounce that incorrectly. I hope you boys are still tuning out Friendzones, as I have an unimportant but tepidly interesting anecdote to impart.

I went to school with the daughter of Myrie Campbell, a renowned Scottish folk singer whose recording of Auld Lang Syne can be heard at the end of the Sex and the City movie. I remember there was some confusion about this amongst my class's parents when the movie came out, and I think, although it was nine at the time, so maybe misremembering, that it may have been the case that the song was used without her permission. Huh. In other song-related factoids, I remember my granny singing a song called 76 Trombones

led the big parade when I started learning the trombone. Forgive me if someone else has already brought this up. I've only just passed that episode. This may be the answer to your confusion about the line. Although why anyone would want to be in the presence of 76 trombones remains a mystery. On a non-song-related note, I've to toronto and there is a blaze pizza right next to my uni i've been tempted to sample their wares but i shall stand by my boycott in solidarity hashtag pay the boys fund the fellas this is the point where i should say you are brave boys keep

up the noble work but now that the party is finished i honestly think that it's best if you move on to new less punishing yet equally entertaining endeavors you may say my name callum bl also old lang syne isn't gaelic it's scots yes there's a difference and no i'm not going to explain it so thank you callum for corresponding and also for following us up sorry to miss this the first go aroundround, but, I mean, it seems unlikely a song would be used in such a heavily budgeted film without permission. I suppose oversights happen, you know, in all walks of life, but I hope. I guess it depends whose permission we're talking about. Like, maybe the rights rest with the publisher or something,

and they didn't get her permission. with the publisher or something, and they didn't get her permission. What are the... This person, Callum, is like uniquely some sort of worst idea nexus in their life, where they're next to a Blaze Pizza, they're connected to this very prominently used song, like the actual recording itself.

And they've got the 76 trombones gag floating around in the recesses of their memory. Someone told me that was uh or you know people on the friend zone have informed us that that's from the music man right yeah which i have not seen it doesn't excuse the joke though like retaining information and saying it as a witty aside does not qualify it as a quip yeah this feels like a good time to bring this up you can't just reference something and then as a writer put your pen down. It's got to have some sort of ironic twist

or another layer to it. You can't just say, oh yeah, that's like that musical. That's not anything. You're not doing anything there. Well, yeah, because it's just like, it's almost a brag at that point. It's just sharing the notion that a it's almost a brag at that point it's just

sharing the notion that you've consumed culture in your life i guess that is literally what it is isn't it like insects in the city it's just going hey hey you know that musical good on you good on you absolutely uh you got have you got anything on your end i'll bet you do i'll bet you're fucking swimming in correspondence mate i'll bet you're drowning in the stuff over at your email. Well, let me answer your assertion with a date, and that is the 25th of June, 2019. My God. About six months ago.

And this is from our good friend from Twitter, Tom Katsumi, who I think you hung out with at some point in the last year. Am I remembering that right? IRL? Sorry, I thought you were just going to read the letter and I started eating some nuts off mic. Very good. You asked me a question.

Oh, Ken's home. Come on in, Ken. Hey, man. I'll read the letter while you sort out the nuts and Ken's business. Dear Batman and Guy Wonder, just wanted to say huge congratulations and thank you for season four. Your training is almost complete,

and by now I truly believe you are both more than ready. Your podcast has been my favorite for years and has introduced me to a ton of other gems on the Little Empire Network. Although it's true I may have had some trouble getting my head around the concept at the start, by now I'm paying proper attention and am fully on board. Off topic, I have a movie recommendation for you both. Have either of you ever seen Sex and the City, the movie? It's a feature film about four gals and their adventures in New York.

Sound familiar? It's just like those four women Guy befriended since moving to new york and you boys occasionally mention on the pod this is very esoteric i don't want to give any spoilers away but i think it might be right up your street if so you could even review it on the pod for a special patreon episode tom i'm sorry katsumi thank you tom um i've not heard of that film but i will give it a look at the next available opportunity i suppose have you tim no no i haven't tangoed with that what sex in the city is it called What a tantalizing name for a movie. Yeah, two things I'm interested in. I wonder if it's pornography.

And Life in the City. Got a quick question for the frosty fellas. What are your favorite films to watch while stoned? Also, at one point you referred to me as Friend of the Pod on a friend zone, and that is still the proudest moment of my life. That is from Harry. Friend of the Pod, Harry. Friend of the Pod, Harry.

The best movie to watch while stoned is Ants, Nature's Super Soldier, I think it's called, and I'm pretty sure you can just find it on YouTube. Oh, really? Sure, yeah. Is it uh how full-on ants are yeah man they're full-on they're real full-on ants are fucking wild i um yeah i haven't done a lot of research into ants so i appreciate that the best you need to watch you need to watch this fucking movie it's incredible they're real strong they're hyper social they form these complex colony thing in the movie they pour this is weird that i remember because i haven't seen it in a long time

they pour concrete down a um like an ant colony which is a bit of a dick move really maybe the ants are bailed out of there ahead of time and then they clear all the dirt away so they can see how complicated the tunnel system is so all that's left is just the concrete cast and it's amazing it's like this huge um super complicated series of caves that they've dug under the earth for themselves and it's kind of like semi-geometric and so these crazy reasons for the different chambers and stuff far out they're goodies they're cool man gotta gotta keep your eye on the ants because um they will fuck us up at some point and i don't want to be around from the day when they do i for one welcome uh new overlords i would say i'm i usually watch um it's punishing but i usually watch tv or uh replays of old sports

matches if i want to sort of enjoy uh the experience of being stoned but in terms of movies my recommendation would be book smart which is a relatively new movie to be recommending but it's got a fucking banging soundtrack it rips along it's very funny and it's like an hour and a half which is you know it's i'm pretty sure that movie is directed by susanna fogel am i right in saying that i haven't seen the flick you are wrong and i would never write it not that i know of it was straight by olivia wild i'm gonna retract this uh track that I'm on then. Was the track that you once tried to recommend a movie by Susanna Fogel on the podcast and I blocked you?

You wouldn't allow it. You wouldn't allow it. We are talking about books now. Have you got a go-to match that you pull up? Susanna Fogel wrote one quarter of the screenplay. Okay. I'm in the zone. I have watched the New Zealand-India Cricket World Cup semi-final from 2019 recently.

I usually dig up cricket matches against Australia where we were meant to get absolutely pantsed and we upset them. And I love listening to this. This is fucking absurd to me. You get stoned and watch old cricket matches. What a thing. I cannot wrap my fucking head around that.

What a waste of, like, an altered state. What are you talking about? It's, like, the most relaxed i can feel true okay right so it's more like treating the cricket as part of is part of the drug in a way the entire experience is like a cool balm for my entire body and mind okay i can fuck with that i mean i couldn't do it yeah i think it's pretty unusual i i wouldn't recommend it to any like there are only a few other people who i can even talk to about that um but yeah that's that's what i like meditative game isn't it crooked it really really is would you believe that uh on

the 25th of june someone gave us a huge amount of money and attached a message to it i believe that there was a big pause i don't know if it was you or the internet connection uh dear timbo and guy alexander halifax montgomery i just in alexander halifax is in quotations guy just so you know he's he's onto my secret it's not my real middle name quote unquote i discovered the podcast midway through season two and since then i've spent countless subway rides crying silently with laughter while listening to your escapades i like that word i'll keep reading escapades and avoiding the concerned looks of fellow commuters season four has uh has been one of your best oh that's good but no one not even the frosty fellas could have

prepared me for the sheer magic of episode 40 the musical it was simply transformative to listen to you boys outline what could one day be a truly legitimate Broadway show in real time. The inspired casting choices of Matthew Broderick, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Zendaya. Zendaya? Zendaya, yeah. Zendaya is Michi. And Cynthia Nixon as our gals. The organic way you brought the characters together in the first act. You even managed to incorporate New York City herself into the open air set.

I googled the average price of a Broadway ticket and learned it was $113. So please accept this payment as a sign of my gratitude for the greatest theater experience of my life. I can say that honestly because I still haven't seen Hamilton. If you read this note on the friend zone, please give a shout out to my dearest friend and future mate of honor, Thea. Oh, sorry, Taya.

It's got an H, but that's not how you say it. I was wrong. Who introduced me to your true art and insanity that is your podcast. She's moving from New York City to Los Angeles later this summer. And I think she'd love some well wishes from the boys. As she sets out on this big transition. Thanks again for the laughs. Stay strong through your final watches.

And feel free to say my name. Which is. Aaron Jaeger. Aaron Jaeger. That's a familiar name. And I just realized. I totally misgendered and assumed. That the author of that email was

going to be a dude so i apologize for that erin thank you so much for that lovely email um i wonder if erin's married already what do you reckon june to december a wedding in the fall sounds like it's a yes an american dream i hope that went well. Hey, marriage is a wonderful thing. And holy smokes, thank you for the generosity. That's incredible, Sack of Cash. Do you know, I totally forgot that we built a musical out of the ashes of the Sex and the City franchise. And I love us for that.

It's pretty good, and it's obviously resonated as well with erin so fucking jobless to us i guess take a victory lap i got a big juicy one here you like juice tim i love that we've just got a thing that is a victory lap and it is the friend zone yeah go ahead i love juice hey tim and guy Just a quick message to let you know, I'm still loving listening to the podcast. Even after multiple reruns, it's still my preferred company on my daily commute to work, about an hour each way.

You never fail to brighten my day and lift my spirit. Anyway, I do have a nagging unanswered question I need to ask. In one of the final live shows, Guy mentioned that the actor who played Squirrel had contacted him out of the blue to let him know that he had listened to the show. Have you even contacted him back? Before this is all in the past now, I would genuinely love to hear you interview him to find out what it was like for him to listen to the show. Throughout that season, I think it's fair to say that Squirrel was the character whose presence irritated you the least. It must have been amazing for him to hear you delve so deeply into every detail of the movie. Perhaps he even knows what really was in the MacBook Pro box. And then an addendum which says,

P.S. Another missing piece of the puzzle, which which i sometimes ponder is what did guy study at uni in a number of episodes it is mentioned that he went to uni but i haven't heard what he studied did you complete the degree i'm not sure why i need to know probably none of my business really but i thought i'd ask anyway this person's a real completionist i like it yeah i am a big fan. They asked multiple questions. I studied theatre, film, and media. A Bachelor of Arts. It was fine. A sterling recommendation for the wonderful institution that is victoria university

and called that they change it victoria university of wellington there's a comedian called dan saint germain who had a very funny joke i saw recently uh which was that they need to start uh doing scared scared straight for high school students enrolling in liberal arts universities. What, like sending in people with BAs to say, this is my life, avoid at all costs, taking this qualification on. Exactly. And in support of that,

I will be at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival next year with my new show. Visiting high schools is a cautionary tale for no one to pursue a liberal arts tertiary education. You're darn right. Are you doing Melbourne next year, Tim? I cut you off on your promo. I'm so sorry.

I am, but what's your show? That's so exciting. Tim and Guy. Yeah, it's good, eh? Together again. I don't even know if the tickets are on sale, but the show is called Well, Well, Well. If it isn't the man she told you not to worry about. You really have a knack for titling your comedy shows. That's a fucking good one.

Oh, thank you. They are always too long, and no one can remember them except me. Yeah. It's so sadly long, and no one can remember them except me. Yeah. It's so sadly long. It won't fit in any, because I know how many forms you've got to fill out for that shit, and there's always a massive, like, a massive,

there's always a hard character limit on those things. Yeah, well. There's no way you're getting that in any of them. You can just reduce the title to Well, Well, Well. It's a very open-ended title for a comedy show you can put anything in well well well oh don't you love that i tried i did a themed show this year i worked hard on it but my god i'm so happy to be free of it what's your show called yeah that uh that. What is it? Oh, it's called Classy Warfare. Hey, I like that.

That is clever and short. An impossible combination, I thought. This is why we are truly a dynamic duo, guys, because we're different, and we like hanging out with each other. I'd like to read some correspondence from David now. David has gifted us the gift of 20 United States dollars, which is

great because the currency is still worth something because the country still exists. David writes, Here's the email I just sent to your Gmail. Tim, I'm writing with a bit of a backstory to ask a favor. Tomorrow... Uh-oh. Oh no.

Well. Well. Hmm. I mean, okay, I guess I'll keep reading. Oh, boy. We can still do it. This is from June, guy. Believe in yourself. This is from the 26th of June.

This is what I was worried about before we started recording i said to guy i'm nervous because i'm i'm a little bit hung over and haven't had enough sleep and i'm a little bit mentally fragile i don't know if i can deal with the complexity of very quickly scanning pre-reading the emails to determine which ones are going to like bum me out or be quite technical to navigate here we go david right tomorrow is my wife kate cavill's birthday and she is an enormous fan of your podcast it gets worse she listens to every episode faithful oh boy he's really twisted the knife uh Often chuckling as she moves about the house on her headphones. In fact, she often listens to it in the shower, so I'm used to hearing the two of you shouting over the running water.

That's cool. Last year, she asked for a birthday present to be a donation to your show, so her name would be read aloud. And then my dad died that week. I forgot to donate, and it has been a hard year for both of us i just donated 20 through the website could you read her name on the podcast and maybe wish her a happy birthday and good luck with her phd program in higher education at boston college our name is pronounced the way it looks carvel it rhymes with swell I've mispronounced. I've done everything I could do wrong, wrong in this.

It rhymes with swell, which I guess means it's, yeah, Carvel. I think I'm getting it. Thanks so much for bringing us so much laughter and joy during an especially hard time. David Carvel, Boston, MA. David, wow. A thousand apologies. Let's kick off with that you know this is the thing we're lovable rogues we fuck shit up and often we'll open a mailbag that is marked six months

ago so it's ambitious flicking us a mail um when it's someone's birthday the next day but i think it's in the spirit of the thing that kate is going to hear this at a completely different time in her life and go, hey, I didn't see that coming. What a delight. Also, I mean, while we might have been the last to wish Kate a happy birthday for 2019, I will say this. We've got to be close to the first to wish her a happy birthday for 2020. Big time. No one's putting us to the post on that so you're not late we're early yeah take that everyone else trying to get in on this sweet sweet action happy fucking birthday kate uh many happy returns what you're hearing right now is aggression to mirror two embarrassed men.

Uh, it's not aggression. It's nothing but the best of wishes. Um, we are sorry to miss the correspondence at the appropriate time, but only too happy to get around to it, as we always do. Do you reckon if we compared, um, the ratio of people listening to our podcast who are doing or have completed a PhD, it's way higher than other podcasts. Because we seem to get a lot of PhDs. Yeah.

I think per capita, we're probably at the top. We're the greatest. I reckon we are. I'm going to run with that, and I never want to have it disputed by anyone I'm just going to lock that in in my head as a fact and I never want it challenged

that's how the world works man do not let anyone challenge your opinions or the information you carry because you will only face disappointment and frustration dear wonderful friends didn't someone say on a previous friendzone

that you were starting a podcast inspired by yours And they charged you with picking the movie They would watch over and over I seem to remember Tim picking something with penguins Possibly a sequel So I'm thinking like Happy Feet 2 Or March of the Penguins 2 Anyways I was hoping you'd use your platform

To echo my question of Whatever happened to that Because I googled podcast penguin movie podcast and couldn't find it and when i googled podcasts where they watch penguin movie over and over it just brings up worst idea of all time all the best tom lando oh you sweet dear man um i can't remember here's what i remember i remember answering really quickly but not what my answer was which is deeply unhelpful i can't remember. Here's what I remember. I remember answering really quickly, but not what my answer was, which is deeply unhelpful. I can't remember when this friend zone was either.

This is going to be one we're going to need to pull the community together. Maybe the people who are making that podcast could get in touch and we can close this loop. Here's hoping. Who is it again? For Tom. For Tom.

It's worth saying, though yeah i mean i feel like what people would often discover if they do embark on the same journey not unlike a hero who actually did it on the reddit but it is a long and thankless task yeah it's not for the faint of heart but actually surprisingly a few people have done it and i think they've done like a whole year of this um they're just you know they're out there fighting the good fight um it's a crazy thing to do don't do it it is it's silly we should i've got i've got one more have you got one more? We should wrap up soon, we've been talking a while We should, we've been talking too long Let me give you this

Okay Dear Sly Guy McFly and Slim Tim And the Lanky Limbs My dudes, I've been listening Since the beginning and I gotta tell ya I've made some mistakes Not only have I watched all four of the movies But in some case, I've watched them more than once for example i listened to five hour energy and i watched the

film both times in a row i didn't do it sober but alcohol just couldn't provide sufficient respite as you both understand all too well my wise boyfriend who refused to disrespect his sanity and finite time on this earth shunned me for the entire evening he popped in once to check on me saw the resignation and commitment in my eyes and just mouthed the words psychopath at me before wordlessly exiting the room i'm a glutton for punishment when it comes to terrible films case in point i have seen tiptoes over six times oh if you don't know it i suggest you treat yourself to the trailer it's bananas uh i'll just pop out of the email for a second we did a patreon episode on tiptoes about maybe two months ago and that movie is fucking cool very strange one of the oddest films i've ever seen yeah it was uh super outside the box however

I'm back in the email now I could never attempt what you boys have it's like you've climbed Everest if Everest was an enormous pile of trash with Coffee Guy, Brady the Rat King, Patty Schwartz and the mysteriously injured Steve Buscemi as your heroic sherpers

one final note over the past 5 years I've most recently listened to your podcast whilst trimming up hundreds of pounds of recreational marijuana. You have indirectly contributed to the thriving North California cannabis industry as well. Good on you, boys. You are brave

boys. I'll say it's true even if it isn't. I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in the States. Cheers bozos and say my name. Michelle Dubois from Humboldt County, California. The coolest name I've ever

heard. I kicked down a little pay the boys cash. Please only spend it on celebratory beers now that your journey is over. That's so nice. It is nice. Thank's so nice it is nice thank you so much michelle what was that surname dubois i mean that's where i've gone with it let me spell it for you d-u-b-o-i-s you got it you nailed it in one i think that's do what this is the last one i've

got thank you so much for that mich Michelle. Thank you for all of it. Thank you to everyone ever. My God. Yeah. Our hearts are open. Dear Tim and Guy, I'll cut to the chase. Will one of you please marry me?

I'm fun, a great listener, and I'd love that sweet Kiwi visa to escape what can only be described as the colossal fuck-up that is UK politics. And give me some of that good old Jacinda. This is from today.

Ah, yep. That'll do it. On to lighter subject matter, I'd like to say I've just finished the potty and I'm going to send over some Patreon pounds, since the hours of entertainment provided by you gents is beyond ridiculous, and I am very, very grateful. Seeing that the London podcast was the highlight of the summer and you both sharing my Insta story was the cherry on top of the pavlova.

I was a bit starstruck when I met you and probably said something incoherent, but I'd like to say now I respect you both massively and you're doing God's work. Keep up the fine work and share this in the friend zone if that's still a thing. Please do share my name. I'm going to binge Bones of the Heart until the next episode. Hashtag Matterfan Will Emberton. please do share my name I'm going to binge bonus at the heart until the next episode hashtag matterfan Will Emberton so

thank you Will gets it Will does get it thank you so much if I remember correctly actually this is an odd thing to remember Will posted a photo of us after the podcast festival

in which he incorrectly tagged you as Guy Montgomery and me as Tim Batt. Tremendous. You wouldn't be the first, and I doubt you'll be the last. Ain't that the truth. It's just a good bit of comedy, isn't it? It's fun for the whole family. We've been bloody prattling on for 40 minutes now, Tim,

and truth be told, these people have got lives to live. They don't want to listen to us. Yeah, and also, I'm just going to go ahead and say it. We're in the middle of a monster record with you on the road, so we've already recorded one Patreon of this Christmas shit fest episode. Extreme regards to be doing. And we're about to record another. So let's get into that.

Thank you to all of our friends so much. You guys are so great. And you bet your sweet patooties that Guy Montgomery coming back to New Zealand, you know, brings tidings of glad joy for the podcast as well. So stay tuned. Also, this episode is brought to you by podfaves.com. You love podcasts,

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