The Worst Idea Of All Time - GT34: A Worm with Huge Tits w/ Alice May Connolly

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

This episode isn’t just sponsored by MOSH, it’s FUELED BY MOSH. Free yourself from your imagined barriers with MOSH.Today’s we’re blessed to be joined by Alice May Connolly who has been traveling the familiar Paint-n-Sip to Therapy pipeline recently. We talk familial death, a brilliant forthcoming NZ horror film called Weed Eaters and a worm withSee ‘Alice May Connolly’s Box’ in the NZ Int. Comedy Festival now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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we have permission to tell. New light mode, activate. New light mode mode activate further. If you are experiencing this orally, A U R A L L Y, you won't know what I'm talking about. If you're experiencing this visually on our sub stack, you'll realize that we have activated sicko mode. We've just gone to sicko mode everyone. Yeah, Defcon sicko It's a treat to be with you. This is fucking way nicer. It's a treat to be eating mosh It's so good to have turned down the studio lights every now and then it's a treat to be alive. Yeah, fuck. It's good

I feel strong because of mosh. Gee whiz you've got energy because I feel really good My brain feels strong. Taking on a lot of protein. Yeah. My brain feels so strong, it's actually flooding me with memories I've buried. My brain's too strong. It's traumatizing me. Oh no.

That's how powerful the mosh bars are. Damn, what you want is to enfeeble your brain to a point where you can trap those memories, sequester them into a little, uh, a little place that you don't have the mental energy to retrieve them easily. Can I talk about the word enfeebled? If you, Oh, are you going to correct me on my usage of it? No, I'm going to say that my first and lasting memory of it harkens back to Jim Margolis, who was the director, stroke show runner in many ways of, um, our, our unsuccessful pilot filmed in the sewers,

where I believe he was a lion. He fed to either you or me to describe someone who's mentally an infebled. Yeah. And, um, I'd not heard it before then. And I've barely heard it since. Man, we have talked about the shooting of that pilot quite a lot, but that was like one of the various moments where I really struggled

to just not crack up at everything you said. It was so funny down there, man. Oh, no. You're fucking me up. Killed a lot of takes. Timbo killed a lot of takes. Well, we were both killing takes. You were being crack up. I was being crack up. We were laughing. I watched this show, Last one laughing. Do you know this format? Yeah. Ten comedians chatting a room, trying to make each other laugh. Not allowed to laugh. I would flame out on that so fast. Same man. I'm a laffer. For all my sins, Tim, I'm a laffer. If you're a comedian, you should be generous with your laughter. I think. Then I watched like improv.

I watched the bear pack. OK, I watched Steve Raskopoulos and Carlo Ricci, one of the great two handers of all time and their ability to hold a stern face. Unbelievable. Carlo is so good, he barely breaks. And when he breaks, he admonishes himself. In conversation, the man's an easy laugh. It's a delight to be around. Yeah. On stage.

He's a professional. You don't have that switch. I don't I've gotten, I've got, I've got Jimmy felon disease. Yeah. Oh, sorry. I'm having a good time hanging out with all these people being funny. Yeah. Fuck it.

I didn't realize that was a frigging crime. I didn't realize that was a frigging crime. Lock me up with the memories that I've been trying to suppress for years. That thanks to Mosh have come flooding back to the fore. Lock me up and keep the key because I'm going to want to get out of here. Exactly. That's what always blows me away. People say throw away the key.

Actually hang on to that please. I've got a life to live. You fucking idiot. We're going to need the key later to get out. Yeah. Give it to this. Throw away the key. For our audio listeners, guy has just

made a mime of closing his mouth, locking his mouth, and throwing the key to his mouth away. Now he is gesturing wildly for me to fish and put a fish in his mouth. He's pointing at what I imagine is fish. In this mime act out, I imagine what he's, what, a little fish? A fish in your mouth?

I got the fish in your, I've got that. We're all good on the fish in your mouth. He's getting more and more frustrated, everyone. Jesus Christ, he's gonna stab me with a small metal thing that he's got. Oh, you want me to get the key that you threw out of your mouth? Okay, there we go. That's why. Great commitment there, guy. me to get the key that you threw out of your mouth? OK, there we go.

That's why great commitment there, guy. And to you. That's why you've got to keep your hands on the key. Yeah. What I did was reckless. It was to prove a point. The point was prove in. And the prove in is in the pudding.

And thanks to our other sponsor, Random Word Generator. Our word for this episode of Good Times on the We're Studier of All Time is killer. Queen. That's what I think. Yeah, I just think that you were just saying that we were, oh, you didn't say killing. In the name of.

I feel like Joe Rogan has ruined any kind of usage of that word. Nah, man. He's actually bringing it back along with a lot of other words that we thought were off the menu. It's crazy. Better or worse. I actually send you a video. I there's a YouTube channel that has been your algorithms been juicing up for you. And you resist called drunken elephant, which has made some very like.

Dense detailed kind of video essays, video essays about the Rogan's Sphere. Yeah. Put a little something on it. Uh, about the Rogan's Sphere. And I find them fascinating. Yeah. I guess it's worth doing cause they are genuinely so influential now. He chooses anything that big.

I find boring. He chooses the, um, he chooses things now. He chooses anything that big. I find boring. He chooses the, um, he chooses things now. It's crazy that like the least funny comedian in the world gets to choose things that have global ramifications. Yeah. Fuck him though. Here's the beautiful thing. We can just forget he exists. I do constantly. Yeah, same Until like I'm curious and I watch one video and then YouTube's like, oh, you're ready to join the alt-right. Have you tried everything else? Thanks algorithms. There used to be a blue sky version of YouTube.

I want to bring our guest in, in record time and at record pace. I wish you would. And I've forgotten how the number has been delivered to me. I'd text it to you as an attachment. Like an SMS text message. Well, because we're on different, you know, not cell phone providers, but yeah, I guess so. I'm hooked up to a system.

Here it is. I'll call it today. I'll call it today. For the forgotten out of the phone call is Alice Mae Connolly. And Guy and I were discussing before we got you on the phone, because neither of us know, but we've both got competing vague ideas about which way this goes. The Mae and Alice Mae, middle name, part of first name or part of surname? Yeah. Mystery.

Yeah. Big mystery. Even you don't know. No, it's, um, it's technically just my middle name. Wow. But you- People call me Alice, people call me Alice May. I really do like it when people call me Alice May.

Is that why- But most of the time I would say just what is. Is that why you've sort of let it hang around the whole time? Because people exercise agency over their middle names whereby they prioritize it, they bury it. And not a lot of people leave it in the middle as an open-ended question mark through their childhood into adulthood. Yeah, totally.

There's no hyphen there. It's really like swimming. To me, it's like, well, firstly, it's kind of embarrassing because it is a little bit wanky, I think, you know, like, but at the same time, it's like my mum's, it's like part of my mom's kind of name. We have this, um, we've got this funny, um, rhyming middle name thing with all the women in my family that goes like, Oh, and may Julie gay Linda Ray, Sandra Faye, Linda Kay, Alice Merman. That is so charming. So then it's like, well, my mother name rhymes with my mum's name. And, you know, but I have to have my stinky dad's last name.

So it's a bit. It's what you're telling us. It's a bit. It's a bit. It's totally a bit. I love that. I feel like in the face of, you know, centuries of oppression, women were really having fun with naming their daughters. There's a recurring, there's a Catherine Margaret thing that happens through my maternal lineage for generations.

It's like, you know what, the men are owning everything else. Here's a little spot for us to have a little fun. We'll kick this around. Yeah, another Catherine. Your family. Your four spot for us to have a little fun. We'll kick this around. Yeah, I know. They can't. Your family, your four beers have taken it to a hilariously yeah, hiding in plain sight and isolation. You think, how about all these sensible women together? You think I can't get a handle on these broads.

Alice, how the fuck are you? How's your day going today? Sorry, let me start that again. Let me start that again. Alice May, how the fuck are you? How's your day going today? Sorry. Let me start that again. Let me start that again. Alice May, how the fuck are you? How's your day going? Thoughtful. Oh, that's so nice.

Thank you for asking, Tim. I'm really good today. Really good today. Sun is shining. Come back hot from seeing Miles, my lovely therapist. We had a bang in time. Yeah. Was it one where you went in and you thought, well, we're going to get through

it today, or did you go on being like, this is just a tune up, I don't even need this right now. Yeah, more of that. I was just like, don't do, don't do. And yeah, lovely. How long have you been in therapy for Alice Mae? I asked. Well, actually really like a few, only really a few months of this guy, but it

actually came about because I went to a, um, a paint and sick last August. It's the funnel for therapists. For my infant, um my five year anniversary. Congratulations. So do paint and sit, which is, uh, you drink a wine and you paint a painting. And, um, the ladies like, the ladies like by the end of this, I'm going to be able to, uh, know like who you are through your painting I'm going to be able to tell you something about your personality and you know I'm all about

that I was like that's so cool. So I took my painting up to her afterwards and she looks at it she goes looks at it she goes, oh no. Oh no. And then she goes, just cause you come over here for a second and then she kind of leads me away and she goes, look, you've got, I can see, you know, you're really creative, but you have a lot of issues and you're gonna have to sort them out really quickly. Alice, you took Finn to a scam for your five year anniversary.

Is this the therapist who's saying this to you? This is a woman who runs a paint and sip. Yeah, but in my mind, this is just the how they get them in the door. Yeah, no, this is just this one woman. And then I was like, you're so right. Did she happen to give you the number of a suggested therapist that she knows? Oh, my God. You've been had. Yeah.

I've been had. I've been had. Did you? Can I ask? Honestly, I'm always getting scammed. Oh no. I've been hit. Did you like, can I ask? Honestly, I'm always getting scammed. Before you took the painting out.

Guys, I heard it. Oh yeah, go. Did you feel proud of it? Oh, it's really good. It's really good. It's like a bucolic, beautiful sort of forest pastoral landscape scene. And what's lovely is- Guy's allergic to the heft and sincerity of this moment.

No, that's not true. Is he? Is he skewing this? He sneezed. He had a physiological reaction to you shewing this tale on the podcast. I'm so sorry, guys. It's okay. Don't worry about it.

on the podcast. I'm so sorry guys. It's okay. Don't worry about it. Finn's looks like beautiful, like Marlborough sounds, you know, height of summer. Did she have anything to say to Finn? No, he's all good.

Oh, fuck this. Just me. I'm just fucked. I'm fucked. Okay. Mine looks honestly like it's cold. It's like Ireland Ireland winter time. You're not getting in that water for sure.

Can I ask, I mean, this is an unbelievable sort of anniversary to therapy pipeline you've taken, but are we experiencing the benefits of seeing, what was your guys name, Evan? Miles. Miles and Evan are actually energetically the same similar guys. Same, same dude. Yeah. Yeah.

Miles is yeah. I reckon, I reckon, I reckon it's good to do. Have you spoken, have you spoken to the woman from paint and sip? No, but I should. She's next on our list. Good. Like it's like dad. And then her.

Paint and sip. The big two. Stinky with your dad with a stinking surname that you took. So unless I'm missing something, Alice May, you've got miles now, but that's not who the first therapist was. The first therapist was no good. The one who you got as a direct connection from the paint and sip woman. No, this was him.

This was him. I just, he is the first one. Okay. Oh, so it's worked out. The scam worked out. The scam worked. Yeah. Oh, that's great.

That's crazy. I just went to Finn's. I was like, I love what you've done with Finn. Give me some of that. Oh, so Finn sees the same guy. Well, he used to. That's, that's, he's still good. That's clocked it.

That's yeah. Well, he got the credits. He got the credit sequence, which is just all of the therapists, um, university tutors and like lecturers roll up in your eyes and then you're allowed to walk out and you never have to go back. What was I going to say? I got so caught up in the bit. That's crazy actually, the cross pollination.

I didn't know that was above the table. I didn't know that was allowed. Oh, they're two people who were together could share a therapist? You can do anything, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

It's putting a lot of trust in. As I said at the start of this episode, any barrier you think you, it's miles sorry, that you think you have is invented by yourself. You have your potential is limitless. You've been reading the secret again, haven't you? I've been reading the back of all these mosh bars. Alice Mae, we've struck up a fantastic sponsorship opportunity with Mosh, which is a protein bar made by Patrick Schwarzenegger, who...

And his mum, Maria Shriver. Thank you, Guy. Who's a Kennedy. Guy and I both have him tattooed on our butts. And he started a company that makes protein bars that solve Alzheimer's indirectly through funding. Or, you know, yeah, exactly. And I'm glad you asked. It's actually, it's 12 grams of protein per bar. Yeah.

And it just fits right there in your pockets. And if you go on the website, moshlife.com and use the code Connonelly you'll get a 25% you might get a 25% discount anything can happen oh amazing you might get a bounce back too uh well can you can you hear how yeah yeah preemptively and can you hear how energized we are right now yeah you are that's because we've been eating protein bars. Congratulations. Hey, thank you. Now, Alice, I've got to say something to you. I'm very excited because one of my first memories of seeing you as a performer was you

and fantastic Wellington author, Amon Mara, hosted a show together. It was sort of a storytelling show of sorts, wasn't it? Yeah, it was called What We Talk About, and it was named after that Raymond Carver short story, What We Talk About When We Talk About, and it was just, we were really into listening to other people talk about stuff they really like or something they're obsessed with. Yes. So we just always got, yeah.

And you were both so funny and so charismatic. I got to do the show and I actually talked about someone. Yeah, what did you do? I was, I talked about someone whose Facebook I was very consumed by. A guy was a few years younger than me at school who I became addicted to tracking his life. Oh my god. That man's name? Patrick Schwartz.

Yeah. And since then, I feel I've seen you as an actor consistently, but you are doing a comedy show or a performance show of sorts in the New Zealand Comedy Festival coming up called Box. And it is, again, it feels like it's, it will be comedic, but it's a storytelling style show where you recount a challenging period in your life. Is this all true? More or less. It's actually quite hard to define, um, what exactly it is. I would call it like,

it's more like an absurd hour, an absurd romp, an absurd sequence of, uh, romp an absurd sequence of little bits and bobs about my relationship with a box. And then there are like, guys, so many things. But in the end it is really about my relationship with my mum who passed away in 2016. But it's not really about that moment, like when she dies or whatever. It's more about having grief, having loss, and having it forever and ever. And then I guess having fun with it. So it is actually quite crass in some ways.

I'd be disappointed if it wasn't. I would feel shortchanged if I came to see you doing anything. And it wasn't a little bit crass. Yes. see you doing anything and it wasn't a little bit crass. Yes. Yeah, I kind of came to this thing where I didn't want to talk about the moment of it happening and the feelings all around that. It's more like, well, shit, now I'm 34 and am I going gonna do parenthood and all of that stuff and ah you know and

then along with that comes a lot of like thoughts about you know my own mom and then you just kind of think about your own life and I think about all this like psycho little stuff I did as a kid I've always been kind of obsessed with like evil things and dark things and like macabre things. And then I remembered my mum was a lot like that as well. So I do talk about, I have little stories of like me being a psycho and then my mum being a bit of a psycho. But I also do like some dancing

and you know, I'm in relationship with a literal box on stage. It's, it's my playmate, it's my friend. So it's like alternative theatre comedy. Yeah. Funny, what do you say? Funny alternative theatre, or do you have to use the word comedy as it's bracketed inside of the umbrella term of a comedy festival?

Yeah, I would say what you said first, that sounds pretty good. It sounds pretty good. What's exciting? Yeah, it is exciting. It's exciting because it feels really like experimental. And you can't spell experimental without mental. Or experiment for that matter. Or X.

Which is one of the more experimental letters. Yeah. Sorry Alice as you were. Sorry. Yeah. No, I do as you were. Sorry. Yeah, no, I do know that you love spelling, guys. Um. And Alice, without revealing when we're recording this too much,

because I like to keep it a mystery for no reason in particular. I tell you what. What's your favorite news story today? At this point in the lead up to the festival, this is like this is what I would consider crunch time for a lot of people when you're really you're really fucking going alright I've spent a lot of time sort of thinking about this thing and now it needs to be beaten into shape is that

what you're doing at the moment is it stressing you out? Are you stressed? I hope you're not stressed. Should I stop saying the word stressed? Should I be stressed? I've been stressed like since the moment I decided to do this. I'm in a good place with it in that I know what all the bits are and the order they're in. I'm just kind of learning it and refining them and yeah, adding funny, some funnier bits in and extra funny bits in and also just kind of like layering it up. Yeah. Can I say the instinct to add some bits that are extra funny is sound. I think that's really going to pay dividends when you're performing.

As a fan of yours, and of comedy, I've got to say I'm so excited. I remember seeing the program come out. It's a great program, I thought, for the Comedy Festival. But Alice, I'm pumped up. Have you pored over the pages that don't exist of the physical booklet that no longer gets sent out? I've pored over a website mate. It's different.

It's different with your little scroll wheel on your mouth. It's not the same. I like to get the little pen out and put like asterisks on everyone. Yeah. Yeah. I love to circle people and then not make it, but still have them circled. I would go through the booklet and cross everyone out. I didn't want to see and leave the rest of it.

Anyone whose, anyone whose eyes you could still see. You were allowed to watch. It was like a dead list. Because the other thing that you, I mean, I know that you've got a prodigious output and I'm across such a small percentage of it, but the other thing that I was really pumped up for, that I got to watch a teaser for for is you and Finn and Annabelle and Callum of sports team put together a full on feature. Yeah, that's the coolest thing I've ever done in my whole goddamn life. And you've done a lot of cool shit.

I'm so excited by it. I thought it looked so beautiful and funny and engaging. It's unbelievable. What was that like? and funny and engaging. It's unbelievable. What was that like? Yeah, so we, um, we did it. We did a 48 hour film, which is where you, you go and make a short film over 48 hours. And we had such a good time. Oh, you were in that too. Yeah, I didn't get invited to the feature film experience.

That's kind of interesting. We had such a good time and we worked really well together. So we were like, screw it. I thought there was quite a lot of division in the group when we were doing that 48 hour film. It's kind of weird that that's your memory of it. But sorry, continue. We thought we'd just make a feature really fast. And the cool thing about Calum and Annabel is that they just go out and do shit.

And we didn't want to go through the traditional route that you go through to get money and funding and blah blah blah in New Zealand. Because also our idea is like it's a stoner comedy horror. So we were like, I don't know to what degree anyone is gonna want to fund us. So in November 23, we all like moved down to South Canterbury and like hold up together on like a little lifestyle block and I wrote the film together and then shot it in three months. Yeah. With like a team of like 10 people, four of whom are lead characters.

This is how you make movies these days. You call in a lot of favors, clear the calendar, and you just go, we're going to do it right now. We're going to write the thing, we're going to shoot the thing real quick. So I'd be like shooting my scene and then they'd be like, cool, so you're done and I'd go, I better go to Pack and Save an hour away and in Christchurch to go get us our food. Because I'm also the caterer and then come back and like cook dinner. Sally South Shortley, Crafts Services.

Yeah, Crafts Services. Keep everyone alive. And can you give us the title? Hold on, before we get into that, do you think it was a better experience for Guy Montgomery not being involved in the feature length version? Great question. I'm interested in that. Oh yeah, really hard to say. Really hard to say. Feels like a yes.

Very tactful sort of diplomatic response. I don't really think so at all. That is the most, considering how New Zealanders talk to each other, I think that was the most damning version of an answer. I weaseled into post-production. How so? I'm the voice of a worm. Yes, you are, Guy. Yes, you are. Guy, I have some really, really bad news.

Don't tell me the worm's been cut. The worm has not made it. Oh, no, no, no. Double D, the worm with double D's. Huge tits. Double D, the worm with double D's. Huge tits. Yeah.

I was one of the most strong advocates for the worm. I must say I, worm was double D. Yeah. I was a big fan of him, but we've got these, yeah, we've got some fantastic executive producers and Causeway films. They do, they did the Babatok and Talk to Me. Yeah. So they're like incredible and- And then they heard the Worm Talk

and they went, that's gotta go. Can it just tell me a little bit more about these executive producers you've got? Did you get one? Cause sometimes they're really great, but sometimes you get ones that are really fucking stupid. Don't tell me you got some that are really fucking stupid. It sounds like you've got good instincts to me. No, we've got the most incredible, that is so stunning.

And that just, yeah, they're giving us a lot of attention and a lot of feedback. Sounds like they're giving a lot of rash notes. Sounds like they're just, sounds to me like they're making very sound decisions on ensuring that this movie is as successful as humanly possible. And that is by jettisoning every part of Deadweight and Deadwood from the flick. We've had to kill a lot of darlings.

So you're not the only one that's gone, I'm afraid. No, no, no, no, that's fine, it's fine. It's actually fine. What I also enjoy about this is that it is not possible to erase my contribution to this film, because it was shot on one of these cameras, the whole thing. That's true. Can't take that away from me. Also, David Kraus is in it as well. He didn't get cut.

Why would you tell us that? It doesn't feel relevant to the conversation we're having. What a crazy thing to bring up. Oh my God, is that the time? Now, Alice, can you give us the title and sort of the top line of it? Because what I watched was so intriguing and it's really funny. It's got the great sort of stoner comedy components of like, you're like, oh, these people are having a good time and it's a laugh and you wish you were there with them.

And then when the flip happens, you think, oh, no, this is sinister. I don't like the way this feels. Yeah. Okay. So title of the movie, the weed eaters. I've got the log line here. I'll just read it out. On a secluded New Year's Eve getaway, four stoners find themselves guests of a reclusive farmer with a deadly stash, a strain of weed that makes you crave human flesh.

Yes. That's a great premise. The original log line had four friends and a worm. So it's interesting that it's not made up. This is the iterative process of filming. Four friends and a worm with massive tits. You move forward, you improve, you get rid of stuff that didn't work. Can we talk about Callum Annabelle just for a moment?

Because I think they've sort of tangentially been measured on this podcast a bit, actually. My introduction to Callum, I think, was through a segment that he did. When the lockdowns happened, I started doing a live streaming show called Happening. It was a fantastic show. Yeah, I loved it. And Callum sent in a... I think Annabelle cajoled him from memory into actually sending it in to me. Called Loud Cooking.

Where he would make up every part of a meal that he was preparing. And it was fantastic. I, it was like the Lou review of happening. Yeah. It was the best segment. Yeah. It was unbelievable. I used to look forward to lad cooking.

It's all on YouTube. I'm, I'm fairly confident. It'll be hiding on there somewhere. It's so good. And, um, and that was my first interaction. And that was so long ago now. That was, that that was locked down five, six years, five years. That's when you and Finn met. That's also, um, I'm just thinking about YouTube now. Actually, there's a great short film on there, uh, called, uh, blood packed that

you guys made in the foot at our film festival that if I'm, if I'm remembering correctly, I haven't been cut out of. Oh, you haven't seen the YouTube version. The YouTube, what's happening on YouTube version? That's a man moving on. Yeah. But Callan and Annabel since have sort of like just gone from strengths to strengths, have done music videos for like some of the biggest acts in New Zealand.

And there are a lot of the music videos for the best. They actually they're the art department for Taskmaster New Zealand now. Huge. And parts of Taskmaster Australia, I even believe. So take that. Yeah, that's great. Callan Annabelle, we love yous. Oh my god. We love you.

You're sweet. They can do anything. They can do, well you can do anything too, because you're doing this show Box in Auckland during the Comedy Festival. Yeah. And I'm encouraging whoever's listening to this in Auckland during the Comedy Festival. Yeah. And I'm encouraging whoever's listening to this in Auckland during the Comedy Festival to look up Alice May Connolly. Box. I'll be there.

I'm not going to tell you which night. So you have to go to every night if you want to see me there and go with me. I have to go to all of them until I'm there. I'm actually going to be in Perth, but Tim's live streaming it for me. And then I'm going to take the footage and I'm going to cut your, cut your role from the show. So it's just going to be the box. And that's what we call direction.

Yeah, great. That's right. Box would love that actually. Um, Alice mate, it's actually fucking killer works. There's a weird of the day, which I immediately forgot as soon as I'd said it. We do a weird of the day on the podcast, Alice, and our word today is killer, which fits very neatly in with weed eaters.

Is there anything that you would like to say or share with the audience as we start to land the plane on this beautiful conversation? About killing? They did feel like they were connected thoughts, but they were just two thoughts that happened one after another. But yeah, I actually would like to get your thoughts on the word killer.

The word killer. Well, look, it reminds me of, it reminds me of, this is sort of connected to the show of an experience that I had with my mum. I used to, I used to be really into God as a kid. Yeah, like I was a real Godhead. I was really like interested in God. So I was like to my dad, can we go to church please? And my mum was like, oh, what the hell? what do we want to do that for? Your father will take you. Our cat gets sick as well around this time. Me and dad go to church on a Sunday,

come home from church, mum says, hey Alice, I have a surprise for you. Look in the box. And I, uh, it's a cardboard box. I go, Oh my gosh, a surprise. I could treat this is so exciting. I look in the box and it's my cat, dead body corpse with a little bit of wheeze coming out while I was at church. She'd taken it to the vet to get put down.

Okay. What? So, yeah. So that's killed, killed I guess, reminds me of my mom. Yeah. Do you think your mom killed your cat? No, she definitely did,

the vet did with a lovely drug overdose. But yeah, that's a good way to go out for the cat. I would say probably not. I mean, it isn't how I personally would want to be presented with my pet, Diane, you know, but how did you receive it at the time, Alice? You've given us the context that you and your mum shared a love of the macabre. Was that something that you were like, oh. Well, that's the thing.

That's the thing. At the time I was like, holy shit, what the fuck? That's so intense, my first dead thing. And now I go, oh yeah, that's where I get it from. I get it. Do you know, Joseph and Miriam Moore have a similar memory of, I think they'd come home from somewhere and their mum had euthanized their cat and it was in a box. But Miriam was still young enough to think it represented a gift or something. The context hadn't been provided on returning.

It was like so pumped up to open the box. Oh no. And Joey, I think Joey was old enough, I think to try and run creative interference to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want to get into the book. I can't remember the resolution of that, but it's, it's a remarkably similar story where there's a lot of people in Wellington getting cats and boxes. It's these felines and boxes. Well, I was in Christchurch, but yes.

The Wellington of the South Island in many ways. That's right. In many ways. Um, yeah. What are you going to do this afternoon? I'm actually going to Senna's and IMAX. Oh, fun. That's a fucking awesome afternoon. And I'm going to work on my show. I reckon you're mostly going to do one of those things. Well going to the movie is work.

You absorb the art. Art spills around in your brain. No, that's a dangerous lie we tell ourselves to qualify procrastination. It's horse shit. You read the artist's way, you tell me I'm making it up. Just go on an artist date with yourself to the art, which is Sinners and IMAX. Well, I'm excited for you. Yeah. And thank you for your time and good luck for your show. Thanks for having me, guys.

See you, Alice May. And also good luck. You know, I say this with nothing but positivity and goodwill. Good luck for the release of the movie. but positivity and goodwill. Good luck for the release of the movie. Oh guys, it's gonna be so cool and so fun. And all we wanna do is just make more movies together. Yeah, but specifically without Guy. When you say together, not with Guy in the name.

I'm gonna write a pretty scathing letterboxed review when it comes out about some of the characters that I perceive to be missing from the story. It's going to be the most confusing review. We'll release it on the DVD extras. Yeah, give people what they want. It's a good idea. Alright, well enjoy IMAX.

Hey, thanks for having me. Movies are relevant, formats are everything. I will see you at your show. Guy will luckily not be here. I'll be boycotting by performing my own show in a different city. Bye. Bye. And that's it.

Right. Bye. Sorry about her. She can be a real bitch. Bye everybody. about her. She can be a real bitch. Bye.