The Worst Idea Of All Time - Good Times: 30 (w/ Kura Forrester)

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

It’s a Thursday in Auckland, and you know what that means: Autumn is upon us. Or maybe Spring. Tim is pioneering a new way of assigning seasons to days of the week, and Guy has some opinions. Kura Forrester, fresh off the release of Bryn & Ku's Singles Club, is gearing up for a living arrangement at MICF that has genuine sitcom potential, which the boys relate to the only way they know how: by trying to figure out which one is the Samantha of the group.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our way to waiter there's a spoon in my coffee. Hey, not every episode we listen to the music, sometimes it's added in post. I needed this this morning, so this is great. Never misses. Los Angeles by Eyeliner. Fantastic man named Luke who lives in Christchurch, New Zealand now Previously was living in Hong Kong I understand Do I imagine that it's a Hong Kong I thought it was so and I should know that there's I don't know where it was

You told me summer in Southeast Asia or South Asia. All right. Well get ready to get pumped up and then get ready to get pumped in How you get pumped out? Because it ready to get pumped in. Hell yeah. Get pumped out. Because it's good times with Tim Batten, Guy Montgomery. Look, it's a couple of friends. I'm not going to say the date, but I'm going to tell you, it's a it's a Thursday morning. It's an autumnal Thursday morning. And there are leaves on the street now. How does that make you feel?

I reckon autumn is a Thursday season. OK. Because the big, your marquees are summer, which to me is either a Friday or a Saturday, and winter, which could be, to me, it feels like a Sunday. I think winter is the Sunday. But like, before you get to it. Can I just poke some holes in your distribution of seasons over days?

Go on. I can already spot a problem in which there's going to be at least three days which are completely left off your seasonal calendar week. Okay, sure. So you've got autumn on Thursday. And look, as an opening statement I thought Tim's cooking this morning. He's online. This is perfect. Then all of a sudden we got summer on Friday. Yeah. Now this cannot be because summer must proceed. Autumn. You're thinking too literally, though.

OK. Energetically, you're allocating vibes of weekdays and seasons. And I think it would be very hard to argue with me that I've cracked this. I'm looking forward to having a fucking go. I could concede that winter could be a Wednesday, actually. There's something, you're in the middle of everything and it's, you're sort of, you're sort of working your way to burst through. But also- You're putting winter on Wednesday. I know you're going to tell me I'm too literal. And I'm like a dog sound there. Totally involuntary expulsion of air.

I thought you were inhaling. You were getting you were gaining ammunition to come at me hard and fast. No, no, that was my body trying to tell me to slow down. Okay. So if you've got winter on Wednesday, which I kind of like, then you've got spring on Thursday. And isn't that right? Cause you're springing towards the weekend, which is summer, which is Friday. Yep. But unfortunately, autumn is a Thursday. I hear what you're saying, but sadly, tragically, not to be. Hey, look at this assembly. If you're on the, um, if you're on the sub-stack, you can see this assembly of small items. I'm going to line them up here. If you're on the, um, if you're on the sub stack, you can see this assembly of small items.

Yes. I'm going to line them up here. Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm not going to tell people who are listening what they are. Only people who can see them. Oh, in that case, would you like to just present them a little bit for the camera in turn? Which camera? My camera? Your one, your one I think. Okay. Mystery tube. This is for people who have something going on in their mouth. Horrible sentence.

This is for people who like to stir something into their drink. And actually, you would have heard a teaser for this item in our intro when I did a waiter-waiter style joke. I did a joke about a fly about flies and then I tried to do like a waiter waiter there's a fly in my set style joke and it was and you know I think I reflect often on stand-up in this and how it's going it was one of the worst I've done it was one of the worst I just couldn't get the logic across and everything ground to it this is like

in the middle of performing an hour. This this is what I'm interested about you guys. You are we still, no, no, no. You, you can talk while I present. Um, what do I want to say about this? Is what it's interesting. Where do you find the line yourself between what you would like to do on stage and what you think an audience would like you to do on stage? We're generally, uh, in agreement.

you think an audience would like you to do on stage? I think we're generally in agreement. And I... Do you think there was a fork in the road where you two left for the flying... No, I owe it to myself and our future audiences to follow that impulse. And the audience owe it to me to tell me it's not funny. Like we are both fulfilling our obligations, I think. Nice. And I look forward to repeating the same mistake tonight.

I was at a comedy show last night and I saw someone crash out. Oh no. And it happens sometimes when you don't, you generally get it with sort of newer comedians, but it can't happen with seasoned professionals as well. You get people who come to the, to the show sometimes who sort of don't know how to be an audience and they yell out, they think in support. So this is not someone who's trying to derail the show with like sort of what is traditional heckling. But they are injecting too much of themselves into the show.

And that's what happened last night and it absolutely threw the act on stage, who ground to the show to a halt. Oh, to try and stop this person. Wow. Talking. It's tough. Yeah. It's a real, it's magic though, isn't it? That's what, that's why you want to be in the room.

It's a high, it's magic though isn't it? That's what, that's why you want to be in the room, it's a high wire act. Exactly. But just circling back to the seasons because I feel like, I, I know actually we got, we got to the end of it didn't we? We didn't, I thought. I don't know if we did get to the end of it, so what are we, so energetically, well autumn, thursday, yeah keep going, winter, up for grabs, Wednesday, Sunday Sunday, but you reckon Wednesday tending towards Wednesday. No, no you do yours some Winters Sunday then okay, great We've got summer happening on Friday. Yeah, which leaves spring. Yeah, you've got to know and you've left some funny options for it It's spring hardly feels like a Saturday. It's Tuesday.

Spring is Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah. I don't hate it. Tuesday at all. S spring is Tuesday. Autumn is Thursday. Summer is Friday.

Winter is Sunday. Yeah. It's a fucking mess. How would you do it? I look like you do it. Clever clogs. I, well, I, How would you do it? I'd look like- How'd you do it? Clever clogs? Well, I think I lined it up earlier, and with your help, basically.

Autumn Tuesday, winter Wednesday, spring Thursday, summer Friday. But mine is boring. It makes no sense. It's straightforward. It doesn't make sense. It's down the line. I like that they don't have to connect the way

that they do in a calendar year. I like the way that you're approaching the seasons. Then can I offer you some advice? Yeah. Stop attacking me for the thing you've enjoyed that I've created. Never. That is the hallmark of our relationship. The attacking is a vital part of what we're doing.

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Can I tell you this? Mm-hmm. They are sort of the glue of the show, which is our word of the day, it's glue. Yeah. They do hold it down for us in that we get a word, we reflect on it, sometimes well, sometimes not as well, and then we skate on through to the other side.

What I wanna get back to, which we've sort of done previously in the season of Good Times on the worst idea of all time, is getting more into things like the mouth feel. More, how I was treating the season, sort of how the word feels in the hand and in the mouth. Was it glue? Glue, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah. Oh, you were so good at just picking it up and weaving it into the show, I didn't even realise. It's fantastic. It's a fun game to try and obscure it into the show. I didn't even realize it's fantastic It's a fun game to try and obscure it and then you have to pick it out of a sentence It's a nice play that next time we will glue it's got it's got a few Galoo if you put an extra syllable between the G and the L it actually creates the mouthfeel of the word which is galoo It's like you got stuck between Two of the letters when you get the L, a glottal, oh no, that's something else.

But a glottal stop is a thing when you get to the L, you just breeze on through the end of the word. So Lou is straightforward. There's no opportunity to stumble. You can't get your foot stuck anywhere. Gil Lou, glue. So what I'm saying is sort of a. It's like a it's like a double ramp. It's kind of like two half pipes put together.

You go, you go down, go and then Lou, you got to kind of like put some air for that. I'm sort of imagining. And then you coast down again. Yeah. I go go Lou. Yeah. I'm going up. Yep. G to, G to L I'm going up.

Yep. I get to the L and then Lou I'm going right, but it's a long run down. Like a lowercase N, just a hill. Yeah I guess. I think so. There was a the first thing that came into my mind is there was a club which I never went to because it was before my time called the glue pot. Was that in Auckland? Yeah it was on Ponsonby Road. I think it was up.

It was like a it was a the place to see and be seen. 100 percent. Yeah I missed that. I never got to enjoy that part of life in Auckland. Auckland's heyday? I remember when I first moved to Auckland, I went out one night and I saw some of the stars of our soap, Shortland Street,

lining up to go into a nightclub. And I saw them get ushered around a line and into the nightclub. And I remember thinking, two thoughts, I think, which is probably still a reflection of how people feel about celebrity, which was like, fuck them. And also that's awesome. That is. Yeah.

You're very well articulated. I think the dichotomy. I think speaking of, I actually, I I guess I guess today is someone who has appeared on said soap was a long-running character Yeah, also on taskmaster New Zealand genuinely one of our country's Finest and funniest 100% was recently start an outstanding web series the spin-off made have you watched this not all of it Brin and coo single club. Yeah, I'm Not all of it. Bryn and Coos single club. Yeah. I'm going to call up one of Bryn or Coos right now.

This is so good. Oh, you're not going to say which. No. Boy do I hope she picks up. Or she. Kia ora. Kia ora. Hey, Coota. she picks up or she hey Kura what's up what the heck heck what the heck is up with you what the heck is up with me is do you know Chris Parker's photo comes up when you call me oh yeah I do know about that that was not my idea, to be fair. That was it. It wasn't Chris's idea either.

Is it the wa- Haiku? It's Tim. Darling, how are ya? Oh, it's so nice to hear your voice. It was- Was that when Chris dressed up as you? No. To present an award or something?

No, that was a- Except an award. That was a different thing as well. He's done that actually twice. Yes. He's dressed up as me twice. And the picture on my phone, which represents Guy Montgomery and everyone's contact,

is just a picture of Chris Parker being Chris Parker, which my phone, when I got this new phone like two years ago, suggested I set as my profile photo. And I thought, my phone is smart and I am bit of a man. So I set it and no one likes it. It irritates every single person I get in touch with. It irritates my mum. It irritates Chris, although I think it's crossing over now because I've been doing it for so long. I genuinely think it's good for business for Chris.

It's hard to get kura offside and that wasn't the happiest I've heard you pick up a phone before, Kura. I'm a bit confused, but also it's kind of like the substance, isn't it? Like old you, young you becoming one person. Wow. Yeah. I really want to know which one is which, you and Chris. I know who spends more time and money on their skincare routine. That's for sure.

Yeah. You're looking at him. I haven't seen the substance. Should Demi Moore have won the Oscar? No. Oh! Traitor to your gender. Do you care? It was good, but it's not that good. Yeah, yeah. Do you care about awards like the Oscars and whatnot?

Not at all. Not until I'm nominated. When will that be? What did you say? I was just like, well, obviously it's going to happen, but I'm like, when do you think, you know, when do you think that will happen? Because I think it could happen. Oh, when? Thanks mate. 15 years time.

Dang. Can I tell you what Monty was saying before we sort of brought you on? Yes please. So he was talking about this experience he saw as a younger man where he saw a bunch of Shortland Street stars being able to shoot past the line into a nightclub. I'm going to give you an I want to give you an era, which is sort of 2010. Don't you getting bogged down. This isn't where I was going with this. You're bogging me down.

No, I think it's important. Kura, you were on Shortland street for a long time, central character. Um, don't ask me to name her. Desi? Yes. Well done. Yeah. Um, you would have me to name her. Desi? Yes. Well done. Yeah. Um, you would have got recognized quite a lot.

Did you, did you enjoy that rolling around New Zealand, like royalty to a very sort of specific part of our country? Yes. Great question. Um, yes, I did. Uh, I loved it and I, and I stand by that. And I think people that don't like being recognized lying to themselves. However, there were a couple of times when I was like hungover in

the supermarket, buying tampons, and those are the times you don't really want to be recognized, right? But I would still sort of be like, hi, how are you going? Maybe not a photo at this time. But tell you what, it never happened to me. I never got to go into a nightclub earlier than anyone else. So that must've been a different time. Did you give it a try? Did you ever try it on? Were you ever in line to a nightclub and you say, do you have any idea who I am

between the hours of 7 and 7.30? No, oh my God. And if you ever see me behaving like that, punch me in the face. How embarrassing would that be? In 15 years when you're carrying an Oscar, I don't think that you're, you know, I think all grace is going to be gone. That's true. In 15 years I'm going to be a completely different person because I would have won an Oscar and I definitely won't be on your podcast.

I didn't know we were talking about Oscars when we were mentioning what awards you were up for. Oscar and I definitely won't be on your podcast. I didn't know we were talking about Oscars when we were mentioning what awards you were up for. Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Great. I, this is why I wanted to specify the era because 2010, uh, I feel as though not just Jordan Street, but terrestrial television held a different place in our society. And I think, uh, there was still, I mean, you're, you're, you're actually better appointed to, to reflect on this than either of us are Koo and that you were on, on Shortland Street, which is like, you know, it's a fixture on our screens. But do you, I think there's been a, I suppose this celebrity that is appointed to people who are acting on it has morphed. I remember when Chels, I met someone, I was watching, Chels had a very small part on Shortland

Street. Only small parts, only small actors. Okay. While you were doing it, I think, and I watched some episodes while she was on just because it was fun, because I hadn't watched it since I was much younger. And I remember getting sort of swept up in all the Multiple storylines and whatnot and then I ran into Someone who just worked with it like I can't remember the guy or the characters name

But I ran into someone who I've been watching on Shortland Street and got totally starstruck I Mean, yeah, it's just a did you have that as a kid? Okay, like did you watch shorty or something else? Yeah, I loved it in its heyday. Timueta Morrison, Nancy Brunning, all those guys, you know, Robin Malcolm. Remember when the uniforms were kind of off-white, green and yellow? Yes. That era. Teresa Healy, like brilliant. Ollie Driver was in it at that stage, eh? Because he's been directing it for a long time.

He was playing Mike. He was the funny nurse. Very tall. And kind of the heart. He was sort of the heartthrob. Yeah. He's a tall drink of water. What is he like six, five or something? Yeah. I think so.

Yeah. He's a big guy. You know what though? I think what's happened is celebrity in New Zealand's changed because back in the day, like when Blair Strang was on it as Rangi, the ambulance driver, he was probably one of those people getting into the nightclubs, right? Yeah. But I think now anyone can kind of be on telly.

Yeah. So you're, you're recognized for being on Shortland Street, maybe, but people don't buzz out as much and also you're not rich, you know, like people think because you're on TV, you're rich or whatever. But I don't know if, Actors have never been rich. They were... Well, it's all relative. They must have been...

They were rich then, weren't they? Were they? They were really rich. Like, there are some buzzy stories about Shortland Street fans in the 90s who used to like hire limos to go into the city and stuff. Oh my god. It was a different economy, wasn't it? It was a different time.

It's such a... It really was. Yeah. Yeah. It's so exciting. And remember Spy magazine and like they'd get paparazzi and stuff. Like no one's paparazzi in me. Because Blair String was part of a New Zealand power couple of celebrities because he was with, married to, I've forgotten her name, Minnie. Yeah. Katrina Devine, I believe. Katrina?

Katrina Devine. Who went on to start a magazine 14 years ago. I've forgotten her name, Minnie. Yeah, Christina Devine, I believe. Katrina? Katrina Devine, who went on to start a magazine, 14 Girls in New Zealand, which ran for a while and then went under. But they were like, they were a power couple. I had no idea about that backstory. She was one of my first crushes. So say it's all right.

Really? Yeah, of course. Right, Eric. So say it's a word. Really? Yeah, of course. Right Aaron. But I think you're right. I think now influencers get ushered to the front of a nightclub because they show them how many followers they have. Is that happening? I think so. I also think influencers are more gauche and have less resistance as you were saying, Kerea,

like, this is great. This is great. This is great because that means that we've sort of drawn a direct line between Shortland Street stars of yesteryear and modern influences in terms of the level of cache and celebrity that you can throw around to curry minor favours. I don't like the direction this conversation is taken in terms of what it means for Coo's appearance on Shorty Street sort of during its less bright era. I think, I think, with respect, Kira, you're phenomenal, you're funny,

you're a brilliant actor, but your turn on Shortland Street, which is outstanding, has nothing to do with the fact that all shows broadcast on terrestrial TV, predominantly, are massively on the way. And it's nothing to do with you. It's just the timing. How do you feel about this? Well, I hope not. Yeah, I don't think I have any direct like impact on what's happening there. But I did just have an image of myself and I do hope that one day I do become so famous that I

don't like getting recognized and you guys will see a shift in me. I'll start wearing baseball caps and my hood will be up. I look forward to that era, you know? There's definitely a line, right, where it becomes annoying. If you see people wearing baseball caps at night, it's either a celebrity or a balding man. Or someone crazy. Yes.

It's kind of also a crazy thing to be wearing a hat at night. I've seen a few men with full heads of hair wearing hats at night recently. And I think- Fuck you. Come come on man. It's fucking rude, bro. It's so nice because we live in a similar part of Auckland. I can say, am I doxing you if I say we're both Westies? Absolutely not. Avondale for life life baby. You're a b****.

Don't say that. But we're both West. I love to dox Tim on the podcast. Guy has said my credit card number before, Guy's said my phone number before. And what sucks is that I hate editing the podcast. I have to sift through and find out where he set it and bleep it out. But have you, have you always been a Westie?

No, never. I bought my little unit out here about three years ago. And before that I lived in Kingsland and flats. And then before that I lived in Wellington. So it's my first kind of go at being a Westie, but I'm, I'm getting into it. Do you miss flat life? Yeah, sometimes. That's not a yes.

That's a no. Yeah. Not. It's a soft no. Yeah. I did it well. I did it hard. And I think going back now would be no, not fun.

I guess that's healthy. Healthy way of looking at it. Yeah. Do you, do you, do you guys, do either of you yearn for, are you sort of... A little bit. Yearn for any part of the past. I had such a great run of flats. Pretty much everyone I lived with and it was in a lot of different houses, was awesome.

With scant exceptions, not zero, but scant. Scant doesn't mean zero, does it? No, scant means few. Scant, it's a lovely use of scant. Okay, great. There are people cheering you on from the sidelines. So there is- Excited to see what semi obscure word you pluck from the atmosphere next.

There is a lovely baked in social aspect of flatting where you're just, ideally, you got some great people you live with, you know, you run into in the kitchen all the time and see how they're going and then you run fucks off to work and it's great. I think most of my flats were with pre-established friends and so it was always, and you know, younger, so it was always assumed that it wasn't like running into someone in the kitchen, it was always, and you know, younger. So it was always assumed that it wasn't like running into someone in the kitchen. It was like deliberately hanging out in the kitchen.

So I never truly experienced the height of like, oh fuck, Greg's in the kitchen. And I want to go to the kitchen, but that means I'm going to have to deal with Greg. I never lived through Greg. Have you had any nightmares, Co, that you've lived with? I've had loads of Gregs and also friends as well. But yeah, the Greg era is the one I think back to of like, I could not go back to that kind of like, I'm just going to stay in my room for five more minutes until he's finished making his cup of tea.

Please spill. Absolutely not. Give me some juice. Give me some details on this. One time I looked, my first sort of flat in Kingsland, I was quite passive, if you can imagine. Like I was Switzerland within the flat, but this girl in the sky. Lots of thatsy gold in your room. If I could just find a place to sell this, I could be living alone.

There's a chocolate in there. Anyway, my flatmates had such a passive aggressive fight about the dishes, one of the girls grabbed all the pots and pans, dirty pots and pans and put them on my flatmates bed. And I sort of was like, Hey, like there was so much tension in that flat, but we weren't pre friends. We were total strangers. And that kind of shit was happening. So good. So long. It's um, it's, it's real, you know, spice of life stuff though. I'd say that's most common. Yeah. You know, you're thrown in with things like that.

Can I tell you guys about the flat I'm about to go into in Melbourne? Love to hear it. I'm going to drop some names, okay? These are who I'm flatting with in Melbourne. Brunelie Stent. Oh, massive. Brianna McCall. Oh, fuck.

And Abby Howells. I can see why you're dreading Flatting Again. You've got an absolutely lousy crew. Exactly. Look at that dynamic. How awkward is that kitchen going to be? You must be so delirious with excitement. And sorry, just for context, this is during the duration of you going to Melbourne for the Comedy Festival.

So you live together for sort of a month doing your shows and whatnot. We'll be there all month together. If you're listening the important thing to know is that Kura is doing her show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival here if you need from the 29th of March to the 19th of April and while you're doing it you're going to be cracking people up by night and living with your best friends by day. I mean, that must have you absolutely dizzy with excitement. Yeah. And I think hopefully the flat will bring some content that I'll be able to do

some new bags every night of like, you won't believe what Abby did last night. Can you keep building that out? What sort of stuff do you think Abby's going to do last night that will Warren mention? Just super cute things, actually. I reckon she'll be like, does anyone mind if I breathe? She'll be knitting you all scarves or something like that. She will. She's the sweetest thing.

Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm not sure how the dynamics going to unfold actually, but I think it'll be beautiful. Brandon will get you some good content. Can you as a favour to us cast the four of you as characters from Sex and the City? Absolutely. Rhiannon has to be Miranda because of the red hair. That's such a borderline piece of casting, but okay. Why, because of the red hair? Yeah. And actually no, because of the red hair and her go-getter attitude.

I would actually say that. Absolutely just tack that on at the back end. That's kind of fair. Um, I think, I think this is wild, but I think Brynley's going to be the cementer of the group, this, this trip. Oh, okay. That's exciting. Not where I would have gone with that. Well, you, I mean, you and, uh, I suppose Bryn have been on a journey in the

singles club of, you know. Uh. Exactly. Shout out. Yeah. because Bryn have been on a journey in the singles club of, you know. Exactly. Shout out. Yeah. There's a show that Kura and Bryn have just made for the spin off, which is available now. It may be everywhere, but definitely in New Zealand. Yeah, everywhere. It's on YouTube. Fuck yeah. That's so good. YouTube's the world's TV channel. So Bryn Samantha, you think there's a sort of...

I think you're... I'm just going to say it. I think you're Samantha, Co. Wow. I knew you guys were going to say that. I didn't say that. It's because I'm the oldest, isn't it? I didn't actually know who the oldest was.

To not know who the oldest was in the group. Speaking of Samantha, I did recently say, Apropos of nothing to Chelsea, I am 50 fucking two and I will rock this dress. And it's just one of these lines that if you've got it floating around, sometimes you got to get it out. But if other people don't have context, it's just mad. There's some people should put in the Tesla's bumper stickers to cover up. I don't think of you.

I think honestly, it's difficult. We've got a couple characters left, so I do want Kuu to round out the list. But you've cast Kuu. I think I want to have it turned to, where I think you are, I think you're Carrie Bradshaw. And that is with no shade, that's not meant to be disrespectful.

But I think you are the protagonist of the flat. Thank you very much. I'm honoured. And I was also going to cast myself as Carrie, but I did have the underlying thing of maybe I am the Samantha. But I think for this version, let's go me Carrie, Abby is Charlotte, Bryn Samantha and Rhiannon is Miranda. Yeah, that's pretty, yeah. It's hard to argue with that. It does feel good. I'm happy with that, Carson.

But I will now argue with that. Well, I think no, Abby is Charlotte, fair. I was actually gonna put Abby as Carrie because they're both, they spend a lot of time like thinking about style and fashion and putting together really fantastic outfits and stuff. Fuck are you saying about Kura?

The fuck are you saying about the way my friend dresses herself? Mate. It's true though. I really don't think about outfits, but I do. I smoked darts. Well, I used to. They all did. But none of them were smokers.

I think they all used to though. More real lights. I think Charlotte used to, didn't she sneak away and smoke on the TV show? How many darts do you smoke a week? Well I'm on the vape these days, but I reckon if I really want to pull up my cariness, I'd probably go, I don't know. I used to be able to do a packet in a night, but it'd have to be Saturday night kind of life. You should take up smoking in Melbourne and buy a typewriter.

I think just be punching away at some new guys. I don't know how much cigarettes are in New Zealand, but someone was telling me they're like $50 for a pack in Australia now. Yeah, that sounds about right. Maybe I'll just vape out the window with my typewriter and say, as I looked up to the sky, I couldn't help but wonder, am I Carrie? There's something so grim about Carrie Bradshaw vaping, you know?

Yeah. I wonder if they will do that in the new series that's coming through. And just like that. It will feel like the death of her a bit if she is vaping. Great casting though. I think that is, that's pretty dead on. Can I ask, I saw Kura performing standup comedy last night. She's so crack up, but can I ask how pumped up are you?

Is this going to be the most consecutive standup performances you've done? Is that the most consecutive? Is this going to be Melbourne? When you go to Melbourne? Oh, yes. Yes, absolutely. It will be. It's the longest run I've ever done.

I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait to like, is it true that you get really good at your show by the end of it? Yeah, I think we take it on a case by case basis. It's true that it's possible. No, no, no. The question true that it's possible. No, no, no. The question was, do you get good at your show?

Whatever your show is, you do get good at that by the end of a three or four week. Yeah, yeah. But there's, you know, yes, of course you get so much better. But I mean, yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. It's exciting as well that you're going to be mining your flat to unearth new things every day. I think what happens, I get trapped in just saying the show is I remember it eventually. And you forget to breathe new life into it every night.

Yeah, I'm going to try that. And even though I'm taking over an old-ish show, I'm really trying to make it. I'm sort of hopefully going to try and be brave and make some stuff up on the spot. Yeah. Is that recommended? Mate, of course, you're Kurt O'Forrester, of course you will, and it'll be hilarious and delightful. Come on, come on mate, what are we talking about? I want to talk a little bit about Singles Club, because that's quite a cool and crazy thing that you've just made that's been put out into the world. Can you like describe it for one listener who is a libertarian? I do need to warn you.

Oh, okay. So, okay. I'll keep that in mind. So the spin-off is a great place and they both wanted Brittany and I to have our own TV shows. And we pitched separate shows and both got denied funding. And then the very clever Sophie Dawson producer said, you two need to get together and make a show together with your powers combined. So we sat in a boardroom for about 20 minutes and wrote down all the things we have in common. And up the very top was we're both in our 30s and single. And we were like, do you think there's anything in that? And that was kind of the idea was born. And then along with the spin-off, we sort of came up with this idea to have like a buddy,

like a road trip buddy quest kind of a vibe. And we travel the country and we interview people about being single. And we also interview each other about being single. We go on some dates. We're genuinely trying to find love on this trip, but we also sort of find ourselves. That is a beautiful and satisfying resolution, isn't it? Can I ask, did you feel like it was at any point when you start making it, like it's quite a vulnerable show to make. Is there any moment when you're on camera where you could really feel yourself having to reconcile that you feel like, oh there's a bit more of me in this than maybe I realized? Yes, absolutely. And the more we went on, the easier that feeling got.

But I did have a little argument with our producer when we were in Stuart Island. She was sort of like, you need to go and talk to that guy. And I was like, no, like, and I don't usually, I don't usually get to that level. You're usually in the bedroom with your gold while someone's shoving dishes in someone else's bed. Yeah, exactly. But Brynley and I were so good at sort of looking after each other through that process. And eventually, you just sort of forget the cameras are there.

So the vulnerability stuff towards the end of the series was kind of easy to do, to be honest. Yeah, we're looking at, yeah, we're looking towards season two and Bryn and I have both agreed that we could be much more adventurous now that we know what the show needs. Does that make sense?

Well, of course, because you know, the show lives or dies by how vulnerable you're willing to be. But the only way to learn to be that vulnerable is to like basically penetrate your nerves on camera, which is absolutely one of the more uncomfortable things you have to do. It's hard being single. I this is a crazy sentence. I don't have a ton of experience. Man has been married for like 10 years. Yeah, exactly. I do. I did find myself going from, I mean, he's been married for like 10 years. Yeah, exactly.

I do, I did find myself going from, I am obviously super happily married now. And even prior to that sort of long term relationships between each other. But like it is, it's, it's hard to be single. I think like it's, it's a, it's, it's a lot of fun obviously to be had with it and answering only to yourself and doing exactly what you want to do but it's like yeah it's a it's a it's a hard thing and this way it was such a good idea for you guys to explore as a show because it's I kind of get this I don't know the stats or anything but it feels like it's never been more prevalent like it's harder to partner up now it seems

than ever before. Yeah it feels like that from where I'm standing too, but it has been a wild ride. And I did sort of discover how much I did identify as being single all the time. And I'm really working on not having that as like a top three thing I think about about myself. Right. So you feel like that's part of who you are rather than sort of a state you're currently in? Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's so stressful worrying about it all the time. So through that process with Bryn, I've sort of been like, how about we just flip the script a bit and just

be like, it's actually just a fun, it's like a little tidbit about yourself as opposed to like this deep problem. Yeah, because it also becomes, the longer it goes the more entrenched that you, you know, you bid that idea in about yourself. And then also it makes, I imagine there's more apprehension about sacrificing the autonomy or having to let someone else in. Exactly, exactly. So yes, I mean, the older you get, the harder it is to be single. I reckon that's very true in terms of like, you do get that set in your ways, don't you?

But also I'm like, how lucky that I get to find out what it's like to be set in my ways. Oh, totally. And also I reckon there's a crossover period where, you know, there's a period where the older you get, the harder it is to be single. And then you break through that. period where the older you get, the harder it is to be single. And then you break through that and then the older you get, the better it is to be single. Fucking hell.

Absolutely, right? Because I'm like, I've got this kick-ass life now and all that somebody, if they want to come into my life, they've either got to make it better or not. So it's a very easy kind of marker these days. Whereas I think when you get together with somebody young, you shouldn't really know what you're doing. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Well, no one knows. It's the magic of it. Yeah, no one knows. No one knows in something is this vision of it happening to everyone.

This is true. But I will say this. I'm very excited for the two stars of the Singles Club to be living in Melbourne for a month together and finding out what high drinks ensue? It's gonna be wild. Could romance be on the cards in Australia? Do you think so? Any what, sorry? Romance could be on the cards. Oh, absolutely. So Brindleine last night at this gig we were at says I'm sort of compiling a list of all the single people that will be in Melbourne, all the comedians. And I was like, fuck yeah, fuck yeah girl, yes you are. And then I was like, don't tell me. Probably a spreadsheet, knowing Brynn, most likely a spreadsheet, colour coordinated. And I was like, don't tell me any of them. She was like, why not? And I was like, because if you tell me who the single people are in Melbourne

and then we're at those parties and I meet them, I'll go all weird. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Great. Great approach. So I'd, yeah, I'd rather just sort of be like going in blind, I think.

I think that's so sensible. I think like doing your research and then being like, oh, you know, eligible prospect. It changes the whole, there was a quote that I read this morning. I think it was Miles Davis and he said, never bring your girl to the show. It makes you play different. And I feel like it's energetically a similar thing of like, I don't want to see the list because it'll, it'll just fuck up the vibe. I never want to see the list because it'll just fuck up the vibe. I never want to know.

I feel like that, yeah, with stand up, when there's someone I respect or someone whose opinion is sort of, you know, I have on a pedestal for whatever reason, I never want to know that they're in until after the fact. And I'm happy to like see them afterwards. Yeah. Although if it goes poorly, not really, you know, like, I remember actually talking to Tim Key specifically about this very thing, because he told me when he was coming to my show, I was like, I don't like that, Tim. And he said, no, it's going to be great. He's like,

I love it when someone, I love it when there's someone coming in that I don't want to impress, because either you do it and you feel fantastic, or it goes wrong. And that's awesome, too. fantastic or it goes wrong and that's awesome too. Oh God. I'm so excited for you. I'm excited to be in Melbourne with you Kura and I'm so excited for you to be in Melbourne both as a comedian and as a person. I think it's going to be a fantastic time and to everyone listening, anyone in Australia, Kura is genuinely, she is a national taonga, she is one of our funniest people

and you've got to get out to her shows. Like, yeah, the woman simply doesn't miss. So go and see Kura Forrester. Go forth and prosper. And in the meantime you can whet your whistle with the singles club. And then you get a big old taste of brin as well. Singles club is so good, it's on YouTube. It's been a big hit. Isn't it? I think so. Yeah, I think they're really pleased with it.

I don't really know how many counts count as good, but we've had like 30,000 views of the first episode. It's awesome. Which feels pretty good to me. Hell yeah. Yeah. It's a big number. It's fantastic. And you'd think I'd have all these like single eligible bachelors sliding into my DMs,

but I've mainly had woman being like, thank you for making this. I feel so sad. You're welcome, you're welcome. It's like hearing you're so brave after a comedy show. It's exactly the same. Thanks. All right, Coop, we'll let you get on with the rest of your Avondale day.

Lovely to talk to you. Can I ask you a question before you go? Sorry, I know that we're wrapping up, but what do you think about phone calls? Oh, well, I was wondering about that. I was thinking about that. I was like, I actually am starting to not mind them. It's almost like they're coming back for me. Oh man, I reckon phone calls are so back.

Guy's bringing them back. I'm, I'm- I think they might be back. I can't believe I'm saying that because I used to hate them, but this has been delightful. Do you have a go, do you have any AirPods, do you have like headphones, Bluetooth headphones?

No, well, I mean, this is going to get us into a whole other thing, but I wear hearing aids, right? So I'm quite hard of hearing. Yes. So my hearing aids are usually hooked up to the Bluetooth and my God, when your cell phone rings in hearing aids, it's a whole other ball game, my friend. Yeah, it's full on. So, um, I have to be sort of, I have to be quite intentional about phone calls.

Like I can't just take them on a whim. I've got to be somewhere quite, yeah. You're very, very, um, gently telling me to check my phone call privilege. And, uh, for that, I think, yeah. Educate yourself, Guy. And I also have another final question, Cooper, before we let you go. And that's how you feel about the word glue. Glue?

Yeah, G-L-U-E. It's our word of the day on the podcast today. I feel good about glue. Glue just brings horribly to mind like glue sniffers. I'm going down glue huffing ways which is pretty dark. Yeah. But I used to play a character that would always be like, God, me glue. Which is not good. You know what Kou, whether it comes to glue or the singles club, the heart wants what the heart wants. Makes me think about, you know, PVA glue, you cover your fingers and you'd peel it off

like it's a layer of skin. I used to love that. Any further questions? I used to love, or you know, like I used to love just fucking tranquilizing a horse and melting them down. Any further questions for Kuro? No, no, no. That's plenty. Thank you so much Kuro. We'll catch you on the other side. See you guys! Bye! Oh! That's never happened before. What a cool thing. Tuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttuttutt We should have just ended it there, I think. Nah, nah, nah. It's good to do it now. Yeah. Bye!