The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone One

Episode Date: February 4, 2016

Guy and Tim release a mini episode of the podcast to thank people who have been giving us money and let you know our impending plans! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's moody. It sure is, Tim. Does that feel moody to you? Yeah, my one thought when you suggested this was that it will colour the tone of our conversation quite heavily, I think. I'm okay with that, though. That's not the worst thing in the world. It's quite dark.

I don't have a desire to feel pensive right now. Yeah, fair enough. Wish I had something a little more exciting on hand,. I don't have a desire to feel pensive right now. Yeah fair enough. Wish I had something a little more exciting on hand but I don't so here we are. Hey everyone, how you doing? I'm Tim Batt. I'm Guy Montgomery. And this is the first ever, little mini episode that we're chucking on the stream because we've got in the run up to the final watch of the film now there's a lot happening and it's getting a bit cumbersome to put it all in the

podcast itself the meat and potatoes of the thing so we thought we'd kind of separate some of those things out and put them in a mini episode so if you don't want to hear about I don't know,ny shit uh skip this one to those of you who do want to hear about adminny shit we love you and it's not admin at all it's a bloody joy no it is a joy it's absolutely a joy it's uh so these are the episodes where we haven't

watched the movie so as you what you're so you're actually getting a completely different tim and guy yeah this is just us in everyday in everyday life there's a glimpse behind the curtain so to speak who are we kidding we've been we probably be at all already yeah i think so i think we're at our most vulnerable on the podcast uh after watching the film right now we're more guarded that's right i mean well yeah the music's doing something. Yeah, I almost instantly regret it. Hey, one of the things I wanted to say first off is if you've floated us a couple bucks or more in some cases,

God bless you. God bless you, everyone. And if you don't prescribe in the notion of God, your higher power high power bless you everyone tim and guy we had to tim and guy bless you everyone good vibes to you um we've got a few people that we want to mention did guy i've printed out some of the donation notes that people have sent through yes Yes, you have. Have you had a cursory look over them? I've had a cursory look over them. And one that caught my eye is from Elliot Brooks.

Uh-huh. Back in January 14th. Oh, it's only two weeks ago, isn't it? This one might not be a donation. This might be a message. But either way. Yeah, either way. Elliot's donated his time by getting in touch.

It was good, valuable stuff. Just got done listening to episode 45 of Season 2 of The Potty, and the paper guy mentions about rat machine interfaces were published by the journal I work for. Very enjoyable coincidence. We apologize of our journal's scientific reports in any way causing the apocalypse at the hands of Brady the Rat King. However, our research suggests that Brady will be ultimately triumphant

against sick bots, so we are backing the winning horse. Or rat, in this circumstance, I'd like to correct. You actually have a few followers at Scientific Reports and if you're in the business of giving shout-outs to my colleagues, Jenny and Alice would be very pleased at a mention all hail the rat king, Elliot Brooks. What I love is the number of people who sign off on messages to us now with all hail Brady or all hail the rat king.

That's how Guy and I conclude our conversations these days. So good on you for adopting the parlance. Well, hey, Jenny and Alice and Elliot from Scientific Reports. That's fucking dope, man.

Yeah. What the fuck that you guys are listening? Don't you brainiacs have something better to listen to? Francis Brown gave us some money

and he says, hello, folks. Thanks so much for giving me a shining light through my soul-sucking PhD. Another brainiac. Dude doing a doctorate. You're both awesome.

Hopefully get a chance to see one, both of you in my home country of Scotchland if you do the Fringe in 2016. Are you doing Edinburgh this year, Guy? I'm in two minds actually, Tim. I really don't know. Are you? This could swing you.

I wasn't going to because I couldn't afford it and that hasn't changed. So it's probably not. I'm sorry. I just watched you process the thought and shut it down again. It's in August. I'll think about it. August in Scotland.

The Scottish summer. It's actually miserable. It's raining the whole time in Scotland. Francis continues. I got a new boyfriend a few months ago and introduced him to your work. We now romantically spell things to each other like J-A-A-R-B and send sexy photos of Steve Brady.

He's a sexy man. Good on you. He is a very sexy man. So, thank you, Francis. Thank you very much. Actually, speaking of Brady and Steve, I'd just quite quickly like to jump to another message. Yeah.

I'm just going to sip. I'm going to sip my hands. Do you want me to pad for a few seconds? No, no, I want them to hear it. If you had just sipped. Oh, there you go. Big old swallow from Monty. Nice to the mic.

Hey, guys. This is from Jacob McGee. Hey, guys. Love your work. Somehow, listening to you both never go insane is a really insane experience. Go figure. Anyways, I thought you should know

that I was incredibly bored earlier today and thought I'd Google some of the history of sex in the city. Now, I haven't bothered to do this. Have you, Tim? What? Research? Yeah.

Nope. As we may or may not have mentioned, Guy and I have not seen the first film. We've definitely mentioned it, but not recently. And we've seen little drips and drabs in the series. But I haven't looked it up on, I haven't looked up any of the backstory on it.

I feel like it would be almost an unfair advantage. Yeah. Because, you know, I'm looking at, I'm looking at complete different people from whoever those people were. Totally. Anyway, and also actually I have, I've accidentally seen parts of the first movie

back in 2011. It was on, we were having a night where we were alternating between people who got to choose the movie we were watching. Someone chose Sex and the City, the first movie. Don't remember a thing. Anyway, so the history of Sex and the City from Jacob McGee. Firstly, Steve got testicular cancer. Miranda then had pity sex with him, in parenthesis, due to him complaining that girls wouldn't fuck him because he had one testicle, close parenthesis,

and got pregnant with Brady. To clarify, Steve and Miranda weren't dating at this point. Also, Miranda almost had an abortion. Clusterfuck, I know. Secondly, Steve's last name is Brady. Yep, Steve Brady. If Brady had taken his dad's last name, his name would be Brady Brady. Do with this information what you will, Godspeed, gentlemen.

Yes, good on you. I think the reason why he is called Brady is because they grabbed that last name, flipped it at the front, and then gave Miranda's name to him as the surname. So it would be, I don't know, Charlotte's last name. Miranda's. Or Miranda's. I almost said Nixon, but that's the actor. I was going to say Kerr, but then that's the model.

Interesting. Yeah, so I mean, do you think, first of all, do you think that this is the sort of family where the parents would divulge this information to Brady, where they'd say, you're now at an age where we want to tell you a little bit about? Might be what turned him. Anything's possible. Sure is.

Catherine, how would you pronounce that? Bakley? Yep, going for it. Or Buckle. Buckle. Gave us a ton of money and then went on to- Gave us a shit ton of cash. A shit ton of cash.

50 US dollars, which is about 6 trillion of our New Zealand- Schmeckles. Schmeckles. Whatever. And then goes on to apologise about what a stingy amount it is for the hours of enjoyment. Fuck off, Catherine.

It's huge. But also, stick around, keep listening, by all means. Absolutely. She goes out to say, make some suggestions if we want to do it again. Tell you right now, don't.

Transformers to, uh, honey to the cheerleading films, the street dance films, uh, step up or bring it on to bring it on to. I think I would enjoy too much. I've got a funny feeling.

I've seen that. Bring it on to, I think step up to is the best of those films. I watched step up 3d one night. How was that? I had a really good time. One of the actors was this lady from Home and Away. Oh, really?

Yeah. I used to watch a little bit of Home and Away. He was on it then, and she was in the movie. I don't know if she was a dancer at all. If there's any series from Australia that should be really big in America, it's Home and Away. Home and Away has created some stars. The Hemsworth brothers are both.

Yeah. Or one of them. But I can't tell them apart, to be honest. Liam. Well, he's Thor, isn't he? And who's Chris? Chris is in some stuff. He's in some things.

Lee Omni, give us some cash. Thank you so much. I found out about you guys at the tail end of the first season, so binge listened to it all and caught up for the final few you've provided me with a lot of entertainment

and love since then so I thought it was about time I coughed up for it Lee just have it man we're not you know I appreciate the donation I'm doing business wrong guy thanks not much I'm afraid as I'm saving up for my birthday trip to Amsterdam

yeah boy you are going to get buck fucking wild Not much, I am afraid, as I'm saving up for my birthday trip to Amsterdam. Yeah, boy. You are going to get buck fucking wild in Amsterdam, Lee. Lee says, keep on keeping on. You guys deserve it. Yeah, fuck yeah. Amsterdam. I want to go to Amsterdam.

That's going to be great. Dutch and crazy. From Christine Stiles, having caught up with all of season two so far, I went back and listened to season one. Holy shit. The tone is so much darker now. Are you guys okay? I'm worried. It sounds like you're really struggling.

And to be honest, I'm starting to struggle too. I don't think this experiment is good for anyone. I hope this small token of my appreciation can go somewhere to alleviating your pain. After all, I thankfully don't have to listen to you every week. If I really don't want to, stay strong, I'll be with you in the end. Probably not though.

XOXOX lovely, thank you Christine that is hilarious, I feel like we've turned a corner now that we're almost done yeah I'm feeling a bit, it's like the weight is lifting off a little bit now, I'm just going to name a few people who have chucked in bucks as well and their messages are very appreciated as well

but we'll rip through a few of these Zachary Mullen Bernstein Amy Lawson Patrick Foster, Tony Hannell, Matt Smith, Bianca Daniel. Jackson fucking Ritter. Jackson Ritter. Now, let me tell you about Jackson Ritter. Please. Jackson Ritter gave us a hundy, bro.

And Jackson Ritter is not his real name. What? So this dude got in touch with me on fastbook through my comedians page and said hey dude love the podcast gonna be in new zealand what should i do and i was like go to the classic if you're in wellington go to vks i think i mentioned a couple bars i was like go to cuba street rather than courtney place if you're in the capital and uh he messaged me back going had a fucking great time oh went and saw some comedy and uh he messaged me back going had a fucking great time went and saw some comedy and uh he's i'm chucking 100 bucks in the kitty good day good shit jackson ritter holidaying in

new zealand throwing around hundy bills what do you do where does that even come from you're you're a god send mate you're a tim and guy send did we say oh yeah francis brown's the one doing the phd i think we mentioned here hey maureen Johnson, who's like a legitimate huge deal. She's a young adult novelist. Is that the title we were describing? And also just generally hilarious person on the internet. I've not had the pleasure of meeting Maureen. We'll look at her at a meeting in New York.

She checked us some money as well, for which we're eternally grateful. And you should follow Maureen Johnson on Twitter, because she is bloody great. Hisachi Fuji, big thank you to you. The music stopped. grateful and you should follow maureen johnson on twitter because she is bloody great hisachi fuji uh big thank you to you living stop living that's fine by me living just outside of seattle uh oh actually it does feel kind of i feel uh i'm just gonna hit play on the same track okay that seems appropriate uh also as i just said I heard about you from the NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, and we were recommended by the Welcome to Night Vale creators.

I was genuinely delighted to hear that we got mentioned on a NPR podcast. They're in our neck of the woods. Yes, they are. They're doing a show on Saturday night. They're doing a show. Yeah, we're going to have drinks with them, man. It's going to be great. It's going to be so good.

a show yeah we're gonna have drinks with the man it's gonna be great it's gonna be so good i've been um i have to admit i wasn't listening to welcome to night veil uh like it comes up in every top 10 like everyone whenever they do a favorite podcast list that show is always on there and i hadn't listened to it and the guys who write it have been in touch with us and they're like they listen to our podcast which is incredibly flattering and um so i've started getting into it and fuck it's good but i'm kind of i'm i'm a bit of a um what's the word completionist so i wanted to start from the beginning and it started like four years ago so there's a few episodes i'm wondering if i should just skip to like the most recent teen and listen to them in the lead up to saturday night and that's an interesting question i think uh why don't you just fuck with the timeline a bit?

Like make it your own memento. And watch the first, like listen to the first 20 or whatever, and then jump forward in time and then come way back. And what, does that elaborately put the pieces in place to lead to that exact moment? Liam Pace, and that's in brackets, I guess, and it's P-A-I-S Hill is his name

he's sent us some theme songs he's done some I haven't heard them yet you told me you'd listen to these this morning they're fucking intense do you want to just have a little look and see if there's messages on one of these pages I'll pull up the track

so he sent us two and they're from memory both in the genre of metal i would say one's a little more thrashcore if i know my sub genres correctly is he on there at all or nah uh no he's not he's not on here that was yeah that did sorry just plugging in a different thing to play that okay so here's which one goes first i reckon we'll go this one first that's the first one I couldn't tell if he was saying Ah forget it in character as us Being like as a bit

On the name of the podcast Or if he was just abandoning His idea in the middle of it Here's the second Jesus Jesus Wow So cheers for that bruv Yeah thank you very much That uh

That second one I found quite Confronting Yeah you're not down with the double kicks, eh? I don't mind it. And now back to this moody ass. Yeah. We're going to wrap up, I think. Yeah, I think so too.

But I'll tell you what. Oh my God, there's cobwebs on the mic stand thing. This place is disgusting. We're going to come to New York. There's nothing wrong with cobwebs. They're really strong. It's on my nose now. Oh, God.

That is something wrong there, isn't it? No, I still have no problem with them. They are a miracle. Every cobweb a miracle. Every kiss a gift. So, yeah, the tickets are on sale for the New York event right now. If you go to the facebook.com slash worst idea of all time page, it's on the feed there.

30 bucks, which is steep. I'll grant you. Um, but we've got to travel across multiple oceans to get there. And we're doing a guy and I are going to do half an hour of standup as well, which, um,

will be interesting. I think it'll be great. I'm really excited about that. Good. I'm going to tape together 30 minutes of solid gold. Excellent. That's what I want to hear. And we are kind of trying to cobble together something

a little bit special on the other coast as well. In Los Angeles. Yeah. Yeah. Which we'll be announcing soon if um we can kind of get get it all together and i hope we can because it's uh it'll be very cool it'll be one for for the fans for sure for the people who've been in for a long time this would be i think quite rewarding yeah and it would be on uh it's it will be on february the 23rd oh is that right yeah but beyond that uh

we can't quite if it exists it, it's on February 23rd. The one in New York is definitely on March 3rd at Union Hall. And fuck, man, like, yeah, that one's almost sold out already, which is great, but I feel bad about it because we didn't give you a lot of lead time on that one. Yeah, so get onto it. I would simultaneously love and hate for there to be scalpers for this event. Oh, man, that would be terrible.

But also kind of a minor triumph. I'm not encouraging you if you're listening to scalp. Please don't. But I'm just saying, like, there's a certain amount of lust there an event has if you've got scalpers. I hope none of you are the scalpers. If you're the scalpers, you tune out now. No scalpers allowed, you're free.

If you are susceptible to the idea of scalping and wanting to make a few quick bucks, stop listening now. Yeah, get out of it. Get out of it, you dirty bugger. That's what we'd say in New Zealand. I hope you've enjoyed the brooding tone of our mini episode provided by...

Oh, yeah, okay. So, backstory on this one gaze is who we're listening to right now first of all i'll just say that lotus pool records the dude who runs it kindly got in touch with us and was like hey i love what you guys do um and i've got a a record company so could you give us some shout outs for some money and i was like bro give us access to music we'll play some jams just had this brooding soundtrack on this one um but yeah lotus pool records look it up this yeah this ep that we've been listening to uh if you're into it is hollow body um and yeah it's if you had a it's a it's a good time if you had a rough rough day at your sophomore high school,

maybe you didn't make the football team or you got kicked out of the orchestra because they imported a new flautist from Utah, why not look up, what's it called again, Tim? Hollow Body. Hollow Body. On Lotus Pool Records. Just sit and have a think.

Channel your inner Ryan Atwood. Who's Ryan Atwood? Ryan Atwood is presumably quite a successful architect in uh orange county by now uh but at one point in his life he was just a a young boy from the wrong side of the tracks are you going oc is that what this is you asked me who ryan atwood was i don't know what you want from me. Who is he? I'm fucking telling you. Oh, is he a real dude? Well, yeah. You're a slippery fish. Come on, don't worry.

Look, let's turn these things off. It's been real fun. See you next time when we've watched Sex and the City 2.