The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: S02E29 - Altitude

Episode Date: September 28, 2025

THESE EPISODES WERE RECORDED 10 YEARS AGO, PLEASE FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSESThe lads are on a 13 hour flight (in coach, no less) to The States for the 2015 Los Angeles Podcast Festival. But before the big show, they're battling sleeping pills, international date lines and moderate alcohol consumption at 10,000 feet to rejoin their favourite four gals. Tim finds sympathy for Charlotte, Guy finds a opening for Mr Big joining Tenacious D and Karma Cola is bringing the support and love from the homeland.Support the boys on their modern-day adventures at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, friends. As we put the finishing touches on our next exciting adventure for you, we thought it was the perfect time to replay our second season of the podcast where we watch Sex and the City 2 every week for a year, hot off the back of the tragic news that and just like that will not be returning. Please enjoy. It's the worst idea of all time. It's the worst idea of all time. It's the worst idea of all time. Season two. One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock.

Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock. Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, we're going to rock. Hey, buddaboo. Hello, and welcome along to a very aerial edition of the worst idea of all time with me. Tim Bass and myself Guy Montgomery we are currently 11,277

of our metric meters above the God's Ocean That's right, that's our altitude right now We are bearing down on Los Angeles at a rate of knots But one hour and six minutes away From touching down in California We're currently traveling

Almost a thousand kilometres an hour I don't know how many miles that is But it's roughly 800 You hear that gentle hum That we've layered beneath our bassy voice is Yes. Why, that is the hum of an aeroplane. That is the hum of a giant metal bird.

We're in a very big plane, too. It's one of them proper ones. So there are literally people eating breakfast all around us. Yep. It was a full-cooked breakfast for those of you who are curious. Tim was very suspicious about the eggs. Yeah, I'm not keen on eggs on a plane. I'm really not keen on them.

It's just you can't... I think if you think about any food on a plane long enough, like a sausage on a plane, Yeah. That is... A sausage on a plane is fine, though. I mean, a sausage, by definition, is like a preserved meat, so that's okay to be out of the wilderness for a while.

What? What is a cow doing in an airplane? What do you mean? It's crazy. It's predominantly pig, firstly. Okay, or a pig. No, but that's not my issue with the eggs. The eggs are a food that need to be, like, prepared and eaten quickly.

Sausage, by its very nature. Make it, eat it, and mutflayed it. Like, it all throws me off. Fish? Fish in an airplane? Oh, yeah, love it. That's weird, man. Fish you can keep for a bit, and I assume that they just chuck a line down from the plane.

That's what they do from the cockpit. Yeah. I mean, this thing's got nothing to do these days. This thing's flying itself. Exactly. They get so bored. So all of the real commercial pilots have just become fishermen, aerial fisherman. A pilot is a bus driver with an ego.

I know where the plane's going, buddy. I've paid a lot of money. That's going to be on your tombstone, man. Here lies Guy Montgomery, who once quipped. A part as a bus driver with an ego. Yeah. That's how you'll be remembered. Put it up right now.

Hey, we just watched Six in the City, too, for the 29th time. One of the worst. On this plane ride. It was really bad, really, really bad. This guy and I, even though we're back together for the first time in ages. Didn't feel like it. Hey, can I take a moment to say it's great to have your company again, man? Lovely.

Thank you. so much for that. What a special gift. Every kiss is a gift. It's great to be with you. But it was like we were alone because we had our headphones in. We were watching separately on our laptops because I forgot to bring the headphone splitter. And it was very lonesome. And everyone else was asleep on the plane.

It was jet black. I mean, it's... And I'd had two zopper clones. I was pretty tired myself. I had to wake myself up from a deep slumber for this movie. Tim kept waking me up going, shall we watch it now? and Guy would say 30 minutes, mate. Give me 30 minutes, mum.

I'll make it to school on time. You look like you're in a pretty blissful sleep, too. I am a very strong sleeper. Yeah, you're good at it. Any environment I can sleep, although I'm pretty confident because we've blown any chance of sleeping right through this flight that we're going to be all tuck it out

once we arrive at lost angles. Oh, yeah. Nevada. Little Timmy and Guy are going to be weeping the weariness from our eyes. We've got to take an opportunity to thank a few people who made this episode possible. The first... Michael Patrick King. Michael Patrick King.

It wouldn't exist without him. Obviously. I want to say, tip of the hat to you, Michael Patrick King. I'll take off a sweatship for you, Michael Patrick King. More specifically for our show and even more specifically for this episode, a huge round of applause. I'd clap if I could in this plane. Yeah, do it, go. Do a little round of applause.

For Carame Cola. Still on board, ladies and gentlemen. That's right. Carmacola, fantastic company. They were one of the first companies to go back into Sierra Leone after the whole Ebola unpleasantness, which is great. Yeah, and... Someone's got to kick that off.

On a more personal note, after hearing I bathe in this stuff, they've sent me quite literally a vat of it. It's just a mix. It's a blend. Gingerella. Have you got in there? Yeah, yeah, I've gotten in there. How is it feeling?

That's why I haven't got my back off this. It's why I've been flying shit. shirtless, my back sort of fused to the fabrics here. Gotcha. Yeah, I'm very uncomfortable to him. I'm worried what's going to happen where this plane lands. That's the power of Caramacola. I'm actually smuggling some Carmecola into the States as we speak.

That's true. I've got it in my luggage and I forgot to wrap it in any fashion, and it's where all my clothes are. So there's a very good chance that I've just got two smashed bottles of cola, which have stained on my clothes and made everything sticky. But I will be safe in the knowledge that the state. brown mess that's ruined my clothes was 100% fair trade and organic and with sugar not high fructose corn syrup you have very particular sort of specifications yeah if i want to be ruined i want to be ruined right

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The ones here in America are amazing We were rocking that thing around Los Angeles in February We were sleeping up top in the pop-out penthouse We were canning it Without care in the world Same for when the Park Ranger at Joshua Tree came And said you're not allowed to sleep here Yeah

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And now we wait into the very messy business. So this watch, I really sympathised with Charlotte, and I just couldn't help it feel the entire movie that Charlotte has been really fucked on. Nope. Because she didn't even want to come on the trip in the first place. She got bullied into it by the rest of the girl. She was the one who quite rightly was like, listen, I've got two young children at home. We're not 26 anymore.

We can't just go gallivanting around. It's tricky. It's tricky when she makes that pitch to Samantha, because Samantha has no consideration for other people. Other people's children are mere, they're not actual humans. They're just an inconvenience in the life of Samantha Jones. Yeah, like with that great line,

I thought it was just going to be the four of us when Charlotte turns up with your kids. So brutal. Every time I hear that, I crack up just at the ruthlessness of that line. And then when she's pitching to Charlotte to come to the Middle East, she's like, I go to children's birthday parties for you. Yeah. Whoa.

That's, um... Not one wants you there, Samantha. You just get drunk. It's not a correct comparison. It's not the same. So, anyway. You get drunk and hit on the sort of pubescent 12-year-olds. At the party?

Yeah. Do you reckon Samantha's got a little touch of the pedophilia? No. Nothing happens. I'm just saying. Oh, right. She sort of, her moral compass goes askew. Oh, okay.

She's worrying the boys. Yeah. How you worry the chickens. You don't worry the... We've had this conversation before, haven't we? You know how you worry the chickens? You don't worry the chickens. She's worrying the chickens.

the boys. They don't have the capacity to worry. So look, Charlotte gets dragged along on this trip, and then Carrie just proceeds to take every opportunity to shoot him from a great height. So she very rightly questions the whole strange marriage arrangement that her in Mr. Big have proposed, which I'm sure has come straight from Mr. Bigg's big book of ideas. That is classic him. He just rocks in there with an empty coffee cup,

sipping away like there's liquid in there. He goes, hey, Carrie, I've got an idea. I just got this out of my book. What if we aren't married for two days out of every seven? Terrible idea. And Charlotte rightly kicks the tires on that one to see what it's all about.

Yeah. And Carrie goes on the attack instantly. That has always irked me. Like, because Big makes his pitch and it's a tough, it's a tough sell. It's tough to get across the line. And he does well enough that Carrie will, on the proviso that it's only temporary.

And then she can pull the plug at any. She says yes. And then, so when they're flying, not unlike we are right now, only they're at a bar and they've got legroom and they don't have half-eaten eggs sitting in front of them. Although they must have at some point. I don't know. They probably didn't need eggs. Anyway, they, Carrie pitches it back to the gals.

And she's just, it's like a bad rehashed version of what Biggs sold her that morning. Yeah. But she doesn't have as great salesman. Yeah, that's right. And Carrie passes it off as her words. Yeah, right. And then, because when they're at that meal, when Carrie gets really upset when she gets the bad review in the New Yorker

and goes storming off. Yeah. And Charlotte's like, and Carrie's like, oh, well, I've, you know, I got a bad review and Big One's two days off a week. And Charlotte says, I thought you both want two days off a week. Which is what she said. Yeah. She said, we are talking about this idea.

That's right. She bites head off then. Also, Charlotte, in that scene that you just mentioned, Charlotte's like, aren't we going on a spa day? And Carrie is all of a sudden like, oh, I don't feel like it. Carrey's shitting on Charlotte, and obviously the biggest example, which we've talked about time and time again, ruthless when she's getting in the elevator to go visit her ex-boyfriend

who she's about to go cheat on her husband with, and Charlotte quite rightly says you're playing with fire. And we know that Charlotte's in a fragile place. We know that she's worried about the big titty-Irish nanny and what Runkle's going to do to those breasts. The old Runkle-Krunkle, God knows what he's capable of. And yet, in spite of that, instead of being a friend placating her,

Carrie throws it in her face and says, oh, everyone's cheating. More gasoline on the fire. Everyone's cheating because your marriage is in trouble. What a bitch. Yeah, well, and then... I'm going to say, I'll be the first to say it, guy. Carrie Bradshaw was a bitch.

Look, it's not going to say things that can be unsaid to him. But then, so then when Carrie... Put that on my term, saying. I will. You've got the bloody pilot bus driving with an ego, and I've got Carrie Breach. When people reflect on our lives, I feel like right now, as it stands, we're going to let the sex in the city two period colour their memory of us way too strong.

You think it's a bit reductive? Well, I think there will be more to you by that you're, after you're untimely devise, there'll be more to you than going on the record of saying you think Carrie Bradshaw is a bitch. Sorry. Fair enough. Some in-flight amlets. But what I was going to say is, so Carrie's sort of coming to terms. And she calls Aiden about cheating, and then she's talking to...

She calls Mr. Biggie, you man. Yeah, she doesn't call Aidan. She probably does, the secret. And then she's going to Charlotte. I was running around New York. I just hope my past has discreet at my future, which doesn't make any sense because it's not your past. It's you. It's you in the prison day making bad decisions.

Yeah, it's you cheating on your husband. But so she sees all this stuff. She, like, goes on this big rent, carry, carry, carry, carry. It's all about carry, carry, carry, carry. And then she goes, oh, yeah, and by the way, yeah, I'm sorry, I was a real, piece of work vis-à-vis me telling you that your husband's going to cheat on you. It's a complete split-second aside. It's like myriad whining problems about yourself.

She's like, oh yeah, and sorry about what I said about your marriage. And having not seen the show, you've got to wonder whether or not that's where... Is this a dynamic? Well, that's where the heart. No, that's why the movie has no heart. It's because they've all grown apart and they've become more self-centered accordingly. And therefore, the friendship, it's just a friendship out of... not convenience but like

you know you've probably got friends like this friends who you became very close to them at a very formative part of your life over like say a 10 year span when you're maybe 10 to 20 and now I mean you never like you've got nothing in common with them anymore

you would if you met them you can name them guy we can if you didn't know them we can get through and you met them who are you talking about who's this person in your life and what do you want to say to me this is nothing this is personal Let's just say they're here. Like, what would...

It sounds pretty specific. What do you want to say to this person? Let's not go on a holiday to Abu Dhabi. Let's be honest with ourselves and realize we're not that good of friends anymore. Just get on with our lives. Okay, now I'm confused. Because I feel like you might be talking to me.

You might be talking to this friend who you used to have who isn't here. Or you might be the girls talking to the other girls. I'm the girls talking to the other girls. You don't need to worry. So what I think has happened is this friendship, if they met now, they wouldn't strike up a friendship. The only reason they're friends is because of the period of time they've spent together previously. And you can't just back out of that friendship.

But also, you can't forget those formative years and those beautiful relationship moments that we got to witness, which we didn't witness in the TV show. So many memories together, so much heartbreak, so much trials and tribulations, and the girls support. boarding each other. That's a beautiful thing. That binds people. The TV show, there was actually an option on the in-flight entertainment. I watched one of them. Oh, really?

And it had both, Tate was featured. And by the way, I'm so sorry to close the book on this, but TateGate doesn't even exist because Tate is mentioned as one of Aidan's three sons. You're not closing the book on that. If you miss the episode, there was an episode where I got, I read something online that said, there was when Aidan's son was Tate, the eldest, was mentioned in the TV show

and then completely ignored in the movie but he's not ignored he's in the mix. I think what happened is they listened to that episode they being the Sex and the City 2 overlords they're like oh that is a glaring

plot hole and they've gone in the when we're sleeping or whatever they've changed the edit on our versions that we've got on our visions that we've got yeah on our visions shit it's terrifying

so I'm going to say the week that you called out Tategate yeah tape wasn't in the movie suddenly questions have to be asked him this is like that Berenstein's Bears thing

have you read about that no so I can't remember which way around it goes but Berenstein's Bears is spelt in a particular way like Berenstein's Bears Berenstein's Bears whatever

everyone remembers it one particular way but the way that 90% of the population remember it being spelt is incorrect spelt the other way and it has spawned a very popular internet theory that it is proof of some interdimensional fuckery where someone's messed out with our reality that's fun yeah it is fun

it's fun to indulge these things uh but also to rebut your original point that you are sympathizing with charlotte yes she gets a hard time from carrie to a lesser extent the other gals. No, Miranda's actually, Miranda's kind of the glue, really. She is in a weird way. Who would have thought

that Professor Oak would be some sort of savior in this group? Or like, she's the one when, although she's all over the shop

because when Carrie says she's going out for a meal with Aiden. Yeah. And Charles's like, I don't think you should do that. You're going to cheat on your husband.

Miranda's just nodding. Like, yeah, of course you're going to go up. Miranda is on board with everything that said, though. Originally she's just like, yeah, Carrie's like,

I'm going, I'm dressed as a hot pace and I'm going for a meal with me X. Miranda's on board. And then when Charlotte's like, I think you're playing with fire, Miranda also on board with that. Just whatever idea you present in front of her,

she's on board with. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. I can be quite a big... I mean, I go through a whole... I run through the whole gamut of emotions and a watch, but I can be quite a big Miranda fan at times. You wouldn't know what's weird,

which I haven't noticed yet. But if... Miranda is Professor Oak. That then makes Brady the Rat King Gary. Oh, Gary. Yeah. Ash would be, I imagine, Carrie's son that was never born. I see.

Maybe Ash is the surrogate baby that weird Mormon couple are in it. They really got to me this week. That guy, everything is a competition with that guy. Oh my God. This couple that just emerges out of nowhere at the gay wedding at the start of the movie and then just vomit information onto big and carry and then get all outraged like they have any right to when they start offering information back

which is contrary to how they're living their lives it's disgusting we're expecting a baby and get this the due date is our anniversary nobody cares buddy and he's and he totally almost puts his arms out like what are you got for that he floats it out there like it's this gold gilded balloon real fuck wit real piece of work that guy I really, I don't like that woman either. She says, um, pardon me, one too many times in the film.

Yeah. I mentioned this to you before, but they needed to edit one of those out. Look, she says it one too many times. No, because they wanted them to be grating. Anyway, what I was going to say. You met someone, like, for the first time, would you want to hear about their surrogate child they're having and shit? Like, no, but there's this level of familiarity between them because she's such a big fan of Carrie's work. It's false.

There's a foe, but there's a foe, but real. sense of intimacy. It's foe because it's only one-sided. Carrie and Big have never experienced these people before. This woman may have followed Carrie's writing to the letter for many years, but Carrie's never heard of this crazy brawl. It's also foe because that's what they're serving, and it's sort of a brothy noodle dish at the wedding.

If you never really talk about, because it does sound of sort of juts out against the rest of the... I mean, I don't know. Looks like a great spread. I haven't paid enough attention to the food at the... gay wedding, as I'm sure they would love me to call it. They're all just drinking Moet. They're the only people who paid enough money.

I'm so glad you pronounced the tea. What I was going to say, though, is Charlotte, while I understand you sympathising with her and she does get a hard time from the girls, also brings it upon herself somewhat. I just can't get past, like, it just looks impossible to have a conversation with it. Have you watched Archer? Yes. You know when Archer keeps speaking, he's on the pirate island and he can't. keep speaking idioms and they can't understand idioms.

That's what it feels like. Kills me. Squeep up. Yeah. So, my shining light? Yes. Off mic. A yell in the middle of the girls' karaoke.

Someone goes, you're doing great girls? Really? Never heard that. Sounding great, ladies. Some sort of variation. In the middle of the song, like in one of the instrumental bits. Yeah, like in a small singing break. Awesome.

um did you want to elaborate on that or that's you for this i've got no more my shining light is kevin kevin is um the young rookie lawyer who's coming up under miranda who uh you love that boardroom i love that boardroom scene because i love tom so much but tom's already been my shining light yeah but i like his moxie and i just i like his attitude and his approach you like his old school misogyny

he reminds me of um have you have you heard of this guy Chris Christie, he's a governor in the states of New Jersey he's running for president. He's been dogged by a lot of controversy but he just doesn't let him slow him down not an iota and he just continues gunning for it. He reminds

me a lot of him. But anyway, but this isn't about Tom this is about Kevin. Kevin's the guy who, he seems to be like a junior in the firm under Miranda and he's presenting some of the bits from the cat. There's something on my tongue.

weird yeah it's shit is it did you put shit on my time weird thing to do while I was sleeping um he's kind of presenting parts of the case to Tom

and about how great they're doing and then Miranda chums in and says yeah it's a total win-win Tom da da-da-da Tom stops he dead with his hand that he puts out and then he says I want Kevin to take this case and I'm like yeah

Kevin yeah and in fairness to Kevin Kevin does also say He credits Miranda with doing all the work that she'd done. Yeah. That's why he's good. He's like a good version of Tom. Because he gives credit with credits, too.

But he's still, I reckon he's got a forthright and confident attitude. And I think he's going to be a great lawyer one day. Far better than Professor Roke. No, you're... Oh-oh. Bless you. Thank you. Sneezers on the plane.

A bit of a sneeze here at altitude. I never like hearing other people's sneeze or cough on a plane. I don't know where all the germs are going. they just get recirculated in the year. They don't go anywhere. They just get spread around. Yeah, that's right. It's disgusting when you really start to think about it.

Have you felt about the flying experience today? What have I felt about it? Have you been impressed? I have been, yeah, absolutely. Considering that, and to tie it back to the movie, even though I know you're trying to shake us loose of it, the biggest stakes end up being, and sex in the city too, the biggest stakes.

So in every movie there's what's called a time bomb, which is like something's got to happen within a certain amount of time or something terrible will happen. The time bomb in Sex and City 2 is that they have to fly economy class on a 13-hour flight. Guess what? We're at the tail end of a 13-hour economy flight. I couldn't be happier, except for the movie. That's right.

The movie was far and away the worst part. For those of you keeping score at home, the worst part about flying 13 hours in coach as Samantha Jones, like, deridedly, I don't know if that's the word puts it, is if you have to watch Sex and the City, too. Yeah, so eat that. As it stands. it is a joy the rest of it's great

pop a few zoppies have a beer have a wine it is crazy how good they've got flying down now they got they just kept giving us ice creams on the way here me and guy

they were like would you like another ice cream they had too many chock bars they couldn't get rid of all the chock bars it's insane you get a computer with like all the best entertainment lot

I finished watching the jinx don't to mention the fact that we are in a giant flying metal bird that we shouldn't be here we should be in a boat sitting next to a stranger for four months. 11 kilometers in the year.

I take issue when you go somewhere and this is what people say if you're from New Zealand they go oh I'd love to get down there it's just so far It's not

Is it because I woke up there this morning And now I'm in your shitty country So welcome We are 396 kilometres from Santa Barbara everybody Man you didn't take the bait last time But what I want to say to you is Scooby-Bababab Scootaboo-a-bib-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-----d----------sss how to get a roll on up here.

And the red is... What's he doing? What's he doing? That's right. As always. A regular feature here on the worst area of all time in which we speculate as to the diabolical or maybe do-gooding plans of one coffee-drinking maverick.

So I'd sort of put this to you, I met and when I was in I don't know when I was in Sydney I met Show off You were just in Sydney too Yeah I know

You're in Thailand Yeah that's true Show up You don't hear me banging on about it Anyway I do Off mic That's all you talk about I met a lovely lady

By the name of Catherine From Canberra Catherine from Canberra Because whenever you alliterate The first name And the place Look I didn't name this person

I didn't choose in which city she lived. Well, she should move to Perth. Change your name to... Catherine from Perth. Anyway, so Penelope from Perth. Yeah. Hit me with... And I do feel as important to accredit her.

And I do quite like this theory. Oh, we're just having... Oh, we're getting the rubbish. This is great. We're just getting it. Thank you. We're recording a podcast. Yeah, it's fun.

Is that a bit of that? Yes. what's your name he doesn't want to talk we've got a very lovely the most lovely steward he's been giving me water all night truly

oh this is the dude very generous with the hydration yeah generous indeed can't get rid of all this water we're carrying a lot of water on this plane about 1,000 litres is like you've got to drink more water man we're going down

that doesn't change the weight just because it's in your body I'm like, well, what do you want me to do with it? Flush it down the toilet. I didn't back it. How scary. He keeps bringing out cups of water. How scary are aeroplane toilets?

These ones don't have the real scary ones, but the one I was in coming back from Thailand, and they were one of those ones that just periodically would do the suction thing. Yeah. I heard a story once, I think it was an urban legend. I don't know if it was true about a woman who got a prolapse anus, kind of like caught one of those suction. One of those suction toilets and that I sucked her in it's out. No. I think it was true, Guy.

I think it really happened to someone. That is a phenomenal urban. So I had to kind of like hover just above so that there was no way I could create an airtight seal. I was too scared. That's just horrible. Anyway, sorry, coffee guy, you were saying? So Angela from Adelaide. I met her after the show.

No, Catherine from Canberra. Let's be accurate. Credit with credits due. from Melbourne and she said to me, you've got now you've got to meet my friend Caitlin from Cairns who is a sweet angel or Delia from Darwin anyway. She's a big

alliteration fan this lady. Tiffany from Tasmania. That's right. Or it's actually more accurately Harriet from Hobart all right. People don't identify with a whole state territory, whatever you call in Australia. She put it to me and I thought it was so good I couldn't help but want to share it

with everyone. The coffee guy what's happened is there has been you don't need to worry about the detail I'm how it's happening but a freaky Friday type scenario a body swap between coffee guy and Samantha Jones PR agent extraordinaire I'm going to botch this I can't remember vividly enough but pretty much so what's what's happened

is it could have either happened a long long time ago or recently personally I opt for recently and whilst Samantha Jones is devastated by the swap the coffee guy is stoked he's just he's jazzed he's got he hasn't been enjoying his life

whatever he's got a whole new life a whole new group of friends a whole new spectrum of like opportunity and responsibility so he gets hanging out with the gals he's got this great new job and PR that's right he's leading an exciting new life in NYC and that's the first thing you notice happening is he is torpedoing this PR company why do you think it's all going down the tubes this guy's been working in middle management his whole life that got me that like carrie's got a book that's just come out

and I know she writes books fairly often but still I feel like Samantha should kind of be all hands on deck not immediately pursuing a trip overseas that's exactly right and so what's happening is you know I don't quite know how he's managed to absorb and embody the spirit of Samantha so brilliantly but he has and it's gone by unnoticed by all the gals

and so Samantha Jones who's just plotting around in this middle-aged guy's body miserable and like oh how can I overcome this is following the gals around pretty septuously and goes along

so he follows him to the coffee shop parks up behind them here's what coffee guy and Samantha Jones body is plotting re a trip away you know like a trip to OVW and just slamming coffee

and is so just a little cabin announcement from the pilot there. Oh, he's just saying we're coming in. I'd better put the trade table up. It's telling us about the weather. We'll figure it out, mate. We're going to be out there.

Pretty sure it's 30 degrees all the time in California. I'm pretty sure it's 30 degrees and sunny. Anyway, so, so devastated. Is Samantha Jones, by the discovery that Kovie guy in Samantha Jones' body is taking the girls on trip to overdue. It just has the Kobi and can't even handle it anymore. It just storms out. and then this is further supported by,

and this is evidence I noticed today, when Samantha Jones hands over her passport, we're just getting in big trouble in Abu Dhabi. There's a photo of it, and the photo of it is of, like, a regular middle-aged dude in her passport. Because you can change bodies, but you can't change passports.

Do you think that there's some weird, like, black magic element, where it's kind of almost similar to the force, where people see the passport, which is actually accurate, but the body's been swapped, but they kind of, they just, they look at it and they're like, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. We understand Mr. Jones.

Oh, shit. Who names Jones? Mr. Smith? A lot of people are in the, um, a lot of people who work in border control and on a passport detail used to work as bodyguards. And so a lot of the time they'll only check the age and they'll verify that someone's overreaching. They won't even look at the picture or the name.

That's why when you go through airport security, they often go, what's your star sign? Yeah. And you've got to answer instantly. Or else they know to kick you out of the club Because you're 17 or 20 in America Anyway I mean I've done a botched job on Yeah sorry Catherine, didn't do it justice

But I love the concept That is a powerful concept For throwing that at us I think it might be time to Because I'm not sure how much longer We're allowed to keep these things on for Delve into Mr Big's big book of ideas I quite agree sir

Guy Last week We had a reverse pyramid scheme whereby for a memory and my memory is a bit hazy of it Mr Big had decided to start minting his own currency and then just distributing the coins to basically create himself in a leadership position

of a made-up country It was not a, yeah Not his best, not his worst work Yeah I mean the guy is nothing if not Ambitious Well no it's not relentless What's the word for someone?

Tenacious Tenacious known for his tenacity and that's pretty much his big plan this week is he's going to learn he's going to learn

the Descan recorder not a popular instrument certainly but one of the easiest to get off the ground with in terms of learning Is that one you learn in school? It's going to learn in school He's going to learn the Descan recorder

Through a second cousin who used to be friends with Kyle Gass from Tenacious D Mr Big has an inn That is to say a house key for Kyle Gas's house And pretty much

The big plan is Learn the Descartes recorder Open the door Go into the bedroom Play Kyle Gas A self-composed song Just stand and wait for the feedback Yeah

He wants He's... So he's just looking for feedback On his original record composition Mr Big's joining the band Tenacious D Yes Oh I like that a lot

Tenacious Big D Oh, yes, please. That's right. That would be wonderful. Descan't recorder solo. You can imagine Jack Black saying that, can you? Yeah, 100%. And that he could do it on one foot, like the guy from,

oh man, it's going to kill me. You know, thick as a brick. Jeff Rottel, like with the flute. He will just bust out on stage and do solos on one foot hopping around with the recorder. You know, it's not a foolproof plan, but he has looked at popular music. and he's noticed there's a huge gap in the market for bands or solo artists featuring Descan Records, probably because it's a horrible, invasive sound.

Do you think that that would give Tenacious D what is now Tenacious Big D license to re-record every song they've ever released before and just add a recorder solo and fang it out as a new single? I would imagine the first port of call or point of order for the band would be recording a Christmas album featuring special releases Heck yes So regular

Like just Christmas tracks Like cover of Mariah Carey singing a Christmas track A cover of Bing Crosby singing a Christmas track And then the bonus track To all the Tenacious D songs So far recorded and released

Featuring Mr Big on recorder You've lost man And in every album sleeve He puts one of Mr Big's Big pennies Are you talking about It's got a distribution

It's like a compilation It's like a Christmas albums as cash games all the time Yeah just of Misk artists yeah so all manner of covers okay cool so we've got a whole bunch of people on there your famous christmas songs that you know and love yeah and then tenacious big d performed by tenacious big d oh they're covering them all performed in the style of those various artists okay right and then the

bonus album which is all of their songs with the inclusion of mr big on the recorder yeah and he's distributing his we are descending into los angeles now you're the most australian pilot there's no formalities. He just starts cranking into it like he's in the middle of a conversation with you. He's a good bugger. I never trust those pilots who get on the intercom thing and they're all nervous. Well,

it all goes to... We'll be arriving at quarter to one. Life's crazy thing. Anything can happen. Don't ask me what's happening, Mr. Pilot. Tell me. You're in charge, mate. It's your job. Hey, well, fantastic. Good on, Mr. Big.

I can't wait to see this new band. Even if it's not financially beneficial, at least he's learned an instrument. I haven't seen a lot of Jack Black in a while. I reckon he'd be open to this. What's he doing? What's he up to? I think he's doing comedy. Yeah, that would be a safe bet, probably coal gases as well.

Only 218 kilometres from Avalon. I met them. Did you? We had a lovely extended interview in a hotel room when they were in New Zealand. I was just doing kind of sound techy stuff. Oh, you weren't talking? Yeah, when I was working in the radio. All right. Now who's bragging.

I worked in radio. I've been to Thailand. Yeah. I met Tenacious D. Before they were Tenacious Big D. Yeah. Such cool guys. Is that all the admin? Yeah, that's all the admin. While we're in L.A., obviously, you can check us out at the L.A. Podfest,

or if you're not lucky enough to be in the city. That's so important. If you're not lucky enough to be in the city, you can get a live stream of the event and then watch it for, is it three weeks? Yeah. All the video footage of all the podcasts for three weeks afterwards. Use the code word worst to get $5 off. And also while we're here, this coming Tuesday, the 22nd, I believe,

we will be performing at the Lago. Yeah. On Reast Darby's Saying Funny Things Society, which is very exciting. The biggest show I've done. Yeah. The biggest show I've done by multitudes. By some margin.

I'm cacking myself. I'm going to fuck this up, guy. My comedy career is over. Christian Sharla's headlining, you'll know from Bob's Burgers or The Last Man on Earth or Flight of the Concords or her own stand-up comedy career, which is going gangbusters. Yeah, she's really good. I've seen some clips of her online. She's so funny. It's not a contest, right? Oh, they can work YouTube. You're a real piece of work, bat. I would like to say this opportunity again to say thanks to Juicy for making such great vehicles and letting us ride around inside of you. And I would also like to say. And also for understanding what mess you're going to have on your hands when we're

empty my vat of Carmicola into the van and have it right around bath. Look, we've got insurance, I'm pretty sure that's covered. Carmacola, you guys are awesome. Keep fighting the good fight. We'll tell people to keep buying your stuff. If I see any of you ding-dongs eating a blaze pizza,

I'm going to knock it out of your hands and give you a kiss. Yeah, don't you dare be throwing carbonated beverages down your throat that aren't karma, at least you live in the States, in which case you can't get it yet. But I've got two bottles on me, so I'll give you one. It's right in the black market. Seems like we're heading a bit of turbulence now, so this could be our final words on Earth. No, not likely.

Not likely to say... Next time you hear from us, it will be live from LA Podfest. Can't wait to see you there. The last thing I would like to remind people of is a pilot. There's just a bus driver with an ego. Catch you next time. It's the worst idea of all time. It's the worst idea of all time.

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