The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: S02E32 - Tokyo Drift
Episode Date: September 30, 2025THESE EPISODES WERE RECORDED 10 YEARS AGO, PLEASE FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSESGuy and Tim are in LA doing a live record during the #Audible LA Podcast Festival 2015. AND WHAT AN EPISODE! Guy talks mastur...bating to Lizzie McGuire, Tim's theory on where cheese comes from (again), the Grown Ups/Sex and The City cross over, random audience member's opinion on whether or not we're comedy geniuses (spoiler: we are) and all the Brady-loving, Mr Big Idea-ing, Shining Lighting, Coffee Guying updates you know and love.Support the boys on their modern-day adventures at twioat.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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
Hello
Holy smokes, people arrived
You know this isn't Greg Proops' one, eh?
That's right.
This is our one.
Nor never, you are aware of what room you are in
room that is indisputably a fire hazard
So welcome along.
How's everyone doing?
How you doing out in the crowd there tonight, live audience?
I would like to welcome you all to the worst idea of all time
a podcast in which myself Timbat
and that's when you chime in.
And myself, Guy Montgomery.
We watch and review sex in the city two every week for a calendar year
and we just watch sex in the city two for the 30th time.
Hey all.
That's right.
It's a lot
More than is necessary
It's also obviously we're in a room
With live human beings
And arguably a few Androids
Very well disguised
As it stands
But if you are listening to this in audio
This would fall I think 30 second
In the canon of episodes
So it's the 30th watch
But it's the 32nd episode
Because of certain contractual
Nonsense is going on
So this is sort of, it's the Tokyo Drift
of worst idea of all time.
Yeah, exactly.
It's the perfect analogy.
This episode, actually, I'm going to name it
Tokyo Drift now.
So this is the one that comes
two after, and you guys in this room right now
are the first people to know this,
two after the Paul F. Tompkins episode,
which we're recording tomorrow night.
Which is it, while exciting,
we appreciate the applause, does mean
we'll be watching this two consecutive days.
But we should be talking
about this in the past tense,
because this is being released in the future.
So we need to like...
Much like back to the future,
we need to keep our timelines in check.
So PFT, wasn't he great?
Yeah?
Wasn't he the best guest we've had so far?
Presumably, he could tank it.
It's confusing.
Statistically, it's unlikely,
but the guy could really have a bomb.
He's due, right?
Six years of hits,
the guy is due to fuck one up.
Sounds like you want old PFT
to take a bit of a tumble, man.
I would like, it would make, just didn't know he's model.
It would feel good.
Find the chink in the armour of sex in the city.
So, as it stands, obviously, one of my first points of order is to address the circumstance in which we have watched and are discussing the film.
Oh, yeah.
We're in Los Angeles.
We're in Los Angeles.
I forgot to mention that.
We're in L.A. for the audible, hashtag audible, audible, L.A. podfest.
Hashtag audible.
Hashtag, can you hear me?
hashtag am iaudible.com
and this is the first
and I'm going to go out in a limb
and assume last time that Audible
have helped us bring this episode to you
because they're a big fish
and we are using tiny rods.
Do you know what service I've heard a lot of good things about
but I'm yet to experience?
Mr. Biggs jiscusis limited?
Yeah, yeah.
I've had a lot of good things about Mr. Big's jiscusis.
What have you heard?
Well, secondably, I've heard
if you really want to enhance your Mr.
if you want to enhance the experience
of sitting in room temperature, semen runoff,
for an hour.
The best way to do that is to accompany it
with a lovely
audiobook provided by
audible.com. I'll bet
Amazon spin-off audiobook services
never had a more spicy
run-in than that. That's right.
Seamen runoff in a spark
at room temperature, transitioning
nicely into a family-friendly
product that everyone can enjoy in the household.
For whatever reason, if you find yourself
in one of Mr. Biggs jiscusis
against your will,
But you still have access to some sort of internet or device.
A good way to enhance what is otherwise a pretty bleak mood, presumably.
Hold on.
Would be to listen to an audiobook as provided by the great people at audible.com.
I don't want to dwell on this for too long,
but why do they have to be in the jascuzzi against their will?
I'm just saying, such is the power of audible,
that you might find yourself held in a spa
filled with whatever against your will.
Very well.
But such as the brilliance of the service provided,
by the good people at audible.com
hashtag blaze pizza
that you very
may well find yourself enjoying
Asparagins you will on account of the great
range of over 180,000 audiobooks
You got it, you got it buddy
I don't even have the screen in front of me I know this stuff
There's leading audiobook publishers
broadcasters, entertainers
such as ourselves we've actually read an audio book
Why don't you try talking like a human instead of a word document
Why don't you see what that feels like?
Nah
It makes me feel glamorous
if I'm reading it like a robot, you know?
Glamorous.
I like the show's really got a bit of sparkle to it.
Glamorous sounds suspiciously like glamor puss,
which is a word I'm trying to get off the ground at the moment.
Like a glamorous pussycat, you know?
I'm not shut up about it.
Like a pussy cat with a diamonte collar.
Go to audible.orgible.com slash L.A. Podfest.
This is a custom hashtag.
Custom 4 slash L.A. Podfest.
You know, we're heavy hitters.
Yeah.
You could get a great book like Julia Cameron's Reflections on the
artist's way. Yeah, what do you think of that book, Tim, that you are familiar with and have
even read the blurb of. It's in my to-do, that's for sure. And you get a 30-day free trial,
and I'm pretty sure a free book. Yeah, one free audio book. So get that in you. That was a good
plug. Was it? Yeah, to all the, to the quality control people are, what is it, audible?
Audible.com. Yeah. Well, we're off script now, bud. All right. There's no safety net anymore. So,
let's get into it
sex in the city too
what did you think
you know I'm still waiting
for the tide change Tim
but I'm still not a big
sex in the city too guy
it'll happen for you
you got to have the faith
like the logic
logic would suggest
there has to be some moment
at which it becomes more tolerable
but
do you mean within one watch
or within our journey of
multiple-wise.
Yeah, I think, yeah, either, both potato, tomato.
What I'm saying is, like, with grown-ups too, there was some point, like, along
the way in which we wound up thinking, hey, you know what, this isn't the worst way to
spend an hour and 40 minutes.
And I think accordingly, like, it hasn't happened yet, but I do think that we are due to
actually enjoy ourselves at some point.
I think the relationship with grown-ups too is complicated, though, because we
recognized that what Adam Sandler had done was
create a business.
He was a jobs creator.
The dude's making movies and he's just a jobs creator.
So you meant to tell me the only time you enjoyed
grown-ups too when you thought of the good that Adam
Sandler was sewing in the world.
I feel like that coloured a lot of it because
we kind of contented on to the fact
a bit later in the piece that this was
basically him just helping out his friends and his family
be paid.
And charging everyday humans for the
privilege. But that's okay because if you charge
a million people, what do you pay
for tickets here for the flicks.
Twelve bucks. Is it about right?
You charge a million people
12 bucks. You know how many bucks that is?
12 million. You got it.
So you're only inconveniencing
people a little bit, but what he gets to
give to, you know,
David Spade. Yeah.
We'll, I mean,
I would like to think I'm not alone in waking up
in a cold sweat around 3 a.m.
worrying about David Spade's financial
stability. I'm clever
on the same page with that. But sex
in the city, too.
Sex and the Titty Tee.
There's a spin-off in the making.
Michael Patrick King
he's in it for himself.
And then, SJP,
there's a lot of cynicism that this film's been built with,
you know? At least S&LOW is helping people out,
but I don't think old SJP
was having anyone. No, you've got to, like, look at the people
who are on the Foley, who are dressing
the Mizon scene.
That is a
diamond on the CV, this film.
You've got a lot of active audio
work and you've got a lot of great set dressing
and I did things as I was watching
you know a lot of the sedrette they treated
this thing like a salad and they were putting
all of the sauces on
right you know what I'm saying? Yeah
this balsamic ranch
those don't go together
whatever just plug it in
no there's a good analogy because much like a salad
this meal of a film has no
substance is that you're waiting for the steak
and it never arrives it's just like oh fuck
okay another leaf of lettuce
or spinach or whatever
We are going to create this meal metaphor, which we are doing.
And Michael Patrick King is the hilariously discombobulated chef in the kitchen,
just grabbing disparate contents going, no, we can do this, we can pull it off.
Trading on reputation in a restaurant which has been past its use by date for over 10 years.
Still holding on to the Mitchell and Stars, though.
Digging up Parmesan from the back of the fridge, just putting it on in the hope that someone won't think,
Wow, this Parmesan.
I mean, you know, even new Parmesan
tastes a little bit like vomit.
Yeah.
That's the funny thing about Parmesan, though.
If it's new and fresh, it tastes like vomit,
but if it's old, it tastes like cheese.
You don't have a great track record
with knowing what cheeses taste like or are what.
Whatever, man.
Whatever.
Strong comeback.
Strong speculative comeback.
Is this because of the Hulumi incident?
because you're not convinced
that Hulumi comes from really old
Feta.
Feta. No. Goat's milk.
I'm not. And I put it to the esteemed
cheese eaters of the room.
Of whom there are at least ten.
Here's the timeline of milk though.
It's milk and then you leave
it on the bench and it's cream
and then you leave it on the bench and it's
curdles and you get the way that you use
and some stuff and then you leave it a little more
and it becomes a soft cheese.
When you go to the supermarket, Tim, they sell
these things individually.
Yeah.
So you don't need to buy milk and wait.
You can go on and buy all of these different things.
I know, because the supermarket's done it for me.
Yeah.
I don't need to buy and wait for it to turn into Hulumi.
That's what I'm paying for.
What do you think the business model of a supermarket is?
They get a lot of milk.
They get a lot of milk.
We're in the dairy aisle, for sure.
They get a lot of milk.
And then they just have various staging areas where it's been lying around
for six months, nine months, 12 months.
You think a supermarket is like a science fair
where they are selling
products as they finish.
Yeah. Okay.
It's a commercial enterprise
and what you're paying for is that you don't have to wait around
on your own time to like wait for your fetter
to turn into Hulumi.
I'm amazed that for such a fan of cheese
I'm having to explain this to you right now.
I'm a little...
I was...
I came in confident I'm leaving uncertain.
I took notes this watch,
guy.
Can I kick off
with my shining light
just to put us on
a positive little
hop in our step.
I really like
the structural integrity
of the wedding cake
because the wedding cake
looks like
it's been created
by some sort of
architect where
it's multi-tech
there's about
six tiers on it
that you can see
and one tier
is they're all
kind of off-cented
and it's got the
sticks that hold them up
which traditionally
would go through
the middle of a cake
it's like
one's right here
on the left and then the one on the next
is way on the right and it just evens
out it's a masterpiece
and I know we've talked about the wedding cake before
because you suggested that it's got real diamonds in that people
are constantly breaking their
insides yeah
but they're too fancy to like kind of put the hand
up and go hey I am
what yeah and when I said that I would like to clarify
I was critiquing the diamond as a digestible
not as part of a structurally
sound cake
at your wedding
at my wedding
when you get married
You glamorous pussy cat.
You know how to talk me into a wedding.
Ask me as a classy cat.
So your ideal would be to have diamonds on the cake
and just have everyone know how to deal with them,
which has put them on the side.
You're not eating.
Is that what I'm getting?
In a land of fantasy, yeah.
The whole thing is diamonds.
Really?
Diamond floors, chairs.
It's a very physically uncomfortable,
visually striking wedding.
economically unsustainable as well.
How many people have you got at this wedding of yours?
I don't know if you've heard of a little company called audible.com.
But I've recently been talking to them as a sponsor.
On the proviso, I don't talk about Jiz.
We don't talk about their brand, yeah.
You scratch my back, I won't talk about Jiz.
I know how it goes.
It's an old saying.
Hey, do you want to check your shining light in here?
Do you have one?
No, no.
Oh, no, I've got regular notes
I could try and reappropriate
It's up to you
I have written here
This is not a shining light
I would like to kick off the potty
With a kiss
And then in parenthesis I've written a gift
Which is the new thing I'm trying
I think a kiss is always a gift, Tim
And accordingly I'll give you a little
I'll give one on mic
It's very tender
Not a shining light
I'm just trying to do that
At the start of your episode now
To boost
Moral
I won't say I don't appreciate it because I do
and I appreciate you
I know I do have a shining light
Hit me
You want to hear about it
Of course
Yeah you're on luck
Because I guess who has one
This guy
And guess
Have we had too many beers before this?
Yes absolutely
We've been there
I don't know
I feel like
Because we've had since we got to Los Angeles
From our
The Shire
In the South Pacific
Tending to our sheep and lambs
We've like
We've been out every night
And we keep saying
Yeah, tonight we'll take it easy
We won't go out tonight
Because we've got to kind of like
You know
Keep it together
Yeah, we've got to not kill ourselves
Before we get back to New Zealand
But consistently every night
That has been thrown into the wind
You know what the thing is
It's just too warm in this town
Yeah, big time
It's like the whole
Los Angeles is built behind
An extractive fan
Coming out of a kitchen
Oh yeah, when you walk behind
You're like, oh
Yeah, it's too hot
I can't wait for this sweet release
sort of cool air
and then you keep walking
and it's just more hot
it's all kitchen
and there are people jogging
and you think you are aware
we're right next to a kitchen
we saw Amy Schumer
we saw Amy Schumer jogging today
blew my fucking
she was walking
she was in jogging gear though
so it counts
if you're in like
if you're in the gym equipment
but you're walking it's jogging
look you don't hear this
great shagland
does you don't know what temperature
it was in Fahrenheit today
can anyone
92
I don't even think that's impressive
to Ameri Cans
Maybe an Ameri Kant would complain about 92
Sure, but this is a room full of AmeriCans
Oh, you think 92's hot
You should go to the valley in the middle of summer
Now, we're looking at 13, 1.30, 140, all right?
You're going to lose the loved one out there.
You know what you want to do?
You want to book yourself a nice beachfront home
At the beach. That's a melladu.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That is a melodoo.
A melladon is not doing that.
Dung on the water
It's contaminated with sea lice
Anyway
I don't know if you have sea lice here
I'm assuming you do
I'd a bad spell with them at an estuary in New Zealand
I think you briefly told me about this one
Brug got in a full body rash for a couple of hours
Not cool
Disgusting
Anyway
The shining light
Hey hold on hold on
How similar to that is Skabies
Because Skabies is like a day
Very different
Equally annoying
Scabies last longer
I don't know
Can you get scabies as well
No no but I've been around people with scabies
What's going on with your skin man
It's cool
I like young
Not doing its job
You got scales
The Dorian gay
Of the pod gay
You are the Dorian gay of the gay
Correct
Very good
Recently I have just discovered
I am an ageless gay
I thought I was an aging hetero
But you know you live and you learn
You do
Anyway
The shining light
As promised
But two hours ago
Is the mug
from which Charlotte drinks
near the conclusion of the film
so you know remember
they're very rapidly
The teacup
Yeah they're very rapidly tying up
All of the story threads
Which they did not feed
Throughout sex in the city too
And in Carrie's old apartment
Which her and Big couldn't sell
On account of
What the
The financial
Market was down
The market didn't lend itself
To selling a home in New York
A multi-million dollar apartment
So instead they just held onto it
as one does
as one does when the market experiences
a downturn Mr Montgomery
As the audience surrogate
Which Big and Carrey and all of the characters
in Sex and 32 are
They thought you know what
The people will relate to
Is sitting on your second property
In the Upper East Side
I want to try and remember
I feel like you were sidetracking yourself
So much already from where you're headed
I need to just butt out until you get to where you're coming
The thing of it is
So there's a cutaway
As all the other story threads are being
neatly tied up
So, obviously, Samantha gets to have sex with Dick Bot, the Android.
And Miranda gets a new job where her, familiar with the Pokedex, is rewarded.
And Carrie and Big just keep having sex and not watching TV.
And Charlotte, it's not really addressed.
She's obviously going through huge relationship and problems with Runkle from Californication.
And she defers one day to the apartment.
the unsold old apartment from the television series
and she's sitting on the couch there and drinking from a teacup or a mug
which is way too big for her hand
big as her fucking head
if you saw this teacup you would think that it's some weird
Alice in Wonderland situation
because it's completely disproportionate
to the woman you're seeing carrying it.
Absolutely.
And it's something which I've enjoyed and laughed about
with you during the film
but it's never sort of occurred to it's so downcasted am I by this point in the film
it's never occurred to me to say it out loud on Mike.
So in a two-and-a-half-hour film
about a myriad of issues
they attempt to bring up and never resolve.
This week, a teacup.
And you'll notice from the notes I took this week
at the top of this page
it just says Charlotte's mug,
which I think could be an okay sequel
to obviously the more well-known
Charlotte's web.
A spider finds a home in a mug.
Across the top of one.
Charlotte doesn't want to drink from it
on account of feeling empathy towards a spider
Charlotte the human and Charlotte the spider
befriend one another
and
Runkle is the pig
Yeah well and finally adopt a fully kosher diet
On account of being married to Runkle
for overlong Runkle and Charlotte
have been married in sex in the city too
I mean how many people in this room
have seen sex in the city too just so we know
You can make noise we can't see
Okay a few people I'm going to say six
or maybe seven
well God bless you
keep your hand up
hold on
decision making
hold on
keep clapping if you saw it
as a result of this podcast
let
so now
please please applaud
if you just watched it
off your own bat
for whatever reason at the time
cool
does this conclude
the market research portion
of our podcast this way
yeah we still haven't figured out
how to process
the data, but it's nice to have
on the table.
You know who I loved this week, though?
And we talked to him out a little while ago,
and then he blipped off the radar.
His old pink jacket.
Not you.
Guy Montgomery.
Pink jacket. Oh, yeah.
We love pink jacket.
A lot of good...
So there's an extra near the start of the...
And it's obviously now this...
And you've even if you saw it. I mean,
I'd be impressed if you remembered.
But there's an extra near the top of the film
who dresses himself
or is probably dressed by the costume
department who are having a great time.
They're having a ball in this movie. Along with the set dresses and
folly people.
He wears a pink jacket and he's
obviously his
only direction from Michael
MKP as
he's known to the inner circle of friends he keeps
of whom Tim and I are esteemed members.
His only direction was you just put on the
thickest generic Spanish accent possible
and find your light.
Yeah. Find your light pal.
Hey Kwan.
I've named your character, Juan.
Find your life.
Hey, yeah.
Anybody says, like, hey, Juan, because he's
American, hey Juan, just
find your light. We'll pay you by the
second that you managed to get on
screen. And accordingly, who
is otherwise a bit part extra is
literally leaning in to
every shot.
He does a, like, stupendously
phenomenal job of fucking up every
take to the point where the editors would have got this
steaming turd of takes. And I'm like,
this fucking guy is everywhere.
Like we can't get rid of it.
And MKP walks in the editor.
Oh, you're talking about Juan.
Just cut around him.
It's literally impossible, Michael.
It's a wallpaper of a character
and he has no lines.
The guy is like sea lice.
He's just, like, it's amazing.
He's like a Wears Waldo in reverse
where it's like he's always there
and he shouldn't be.
You don't have to look hard.
He was only cast in the wedding scene.
You can find him in desert scenes
in the Middle East.
Try and find the fucking scene
around her, let alone him
in the scene. It's just a kind of pink jacket
and they're at the wedding and they're walking down the eye
so there's a Liza Manali reveal. It's announced that Liza Minnelli is
emceeing or
you know the religious term. Comparing?
Priesting.
The wedding.
Aren't you an officiator of weddings? Are you qualified for that?
I am a celebrant, yeah.
Yeah, that's the word. Celebrate.
I got ordained by the Church of Life online
as a 14-year-old.
does anyone want to get married in the room
I've got the piece of papers printed out
it's in my parents' house in a clear file somewhere
like there's something printed off erotic fiction
about something very embarrassing to masturbate to I'm sure
like what?
There's like I know like okay
it's never kidding to me to say this
first of all think this or say it out loud before
but there's a clear file somewhere in my parents' house
which has like it's got stuff like
the printed out sort of ordained
minister of the church of life or whatever
that means I can marry people I like the thing
but also in that I printed
out because you know you didn't we weren't
we were young we were just
before everyone had smartphones in the
internet in their bedrooms all the time
okay and so
this is getting very
we need to get to the end very frank and personal
yeah but what else is in that file
man just like some like a printed
out a little story
yeah like it's a little story that you wrote
a little I didn't write it
Sexy-in-old story?
Presumably some sweaty
60-year-old dude hunched over
a computer.
It was a big illegal fan of...
What the fuck are you talking about?
Hold on.
It's just an erotic...
It's an erotic celebrity fan fiction.
That you've found.
That I located online, printed
and had an acclifile
which I still don't know where it is.
At your fucking parents' house.
I was 14.
That's where I lived.
Who were the celebrities in the...
It's Hillary Duff.
It was Lizzie McGuire.
Hey, let me tell you something
You lost me five minutes ago with this story
And you just found me again, free
Because that is a fan fiction I can get behind
It's out, look, well, not even, anyway
Hillary Duff, gorgeous
What do you think she's doing right now?
It's something more productive and enjoyable
I reckon she could be in sex in the city three
Grownups in the city
As like Samantha's long-lost daughter
Oh wait, you can't do that with a woman
It's easily, eh?
With dudes, it's easy to be like, surprise you've got to give it.
But with women, it's like, wait.
What?
Yeah, I know.
I can categorically say, that is not mine.
I think I'd remember.
Anyway, so yeah, and there's a cliff while floating around somewhere in a family home in Christchurch, New Zealand,
which has all of the most embarrassing memories of my teenage and pubescent years.
Good to know.
If I ever need to hold some dirt on you
That's where I'll go
Your dad and me get along
Great too
So he'll get to me
You do get along swimmingly
Here's a question I want to throw at you though
In honour of the Rugby World Cup
Kicking off today
Which I know no one in America
Will care about
Which is why I'm bringing it up
You could feel that announcement
Galvanise the room
Absolutely
And well done to Japan
And that huge upset against South Africa
I love it
I can tell you people anything
You would whoop
At least a couple.
Who's a rugby fan in the room?
Oh shit.
Okay, apologies.
Those are different whoops from the people who whoops Japan.
There was a roomful of people who like rugby and not the Japanese rugby team.
And it's the room there a room full of people who love Japan and know nothing of rugby.
Well, look, I hate to bring this up, but we're an American now, Pearl Harbor.
We, you know.
Oh, hey.
Well, you have bought it up.
So anyway, the question I wanted to ask you was, the Rugby World Cup trials are apparently being held at the hotel.
where our four sassy ladies
are staying in Abu Dhabi.
What the fuck is the ruse?
Because there's no such thing as World Cup trials
and if there was, they would definitely
they wouldn't be held in the Middle East
in scorching heat.
Yeah, and previously
we've prodded at this sort of
plot detail, if you will,
which you must.
In which there's a rugby World Cup trial
happening in Abu Dhabi, which obviously is insane.
It's too warm.
There is no such thing.
thing is a rugby world cup trial where they
draw on the best rugby playing nations in the
world to go and play rugby in
140 degrees Fahrenheit
or whatever
clearly we don't understand Fahrenheit
but as
more information is bled out with
each watch and that's obviously how movie
watching works if you watch it more and more
you get more information from it it's not the same
movie it's always it's an ever
changing and adapting
living breathing being
the logic would be surely Tim
yes and esteem people of the room
and internet
whenever you may be listening to this
you're awfully close to that communal might
I'm kissing it
for a kiss
is always a gift
and occasionally a disease
I'll find out about later
but what I am saying to you
is that so that whoever's in charge
presumably someone
at the Pentagon or involved
in sort of the UN's international
defense
you know
they've pretty much assembled a group
of highly trained athletes
okay
um
the cough is not for comic effect
it's a cough
thank you for that stipulation
why have people laugh at a cough here
I don't get it anyway
I'm dying
so they're pretty much
been like okay we've got
we've got this supports you
fuck
Dickbot theory from the previous week.
I think you can see where this is going if you come to me.
It's like someone's trying to stop you getting this theory out.
I'm getting a very 24 vibe.
Like someone has injected some gas into the room
that's causing you to fuck up.
I'm back, baby!
Suddenly Jack Bowers got first through the door.
Pretty much what's happening is someone
who's in charge of international defence
and is aware of the threat posed by Dickbot.
Yeah, you're back on Max 93.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, welcome back.
So pretty much what's happening here is you've got the defense
for us who are gathering a whole bunch of, say,
Over 100, highly trained physical specimen to combat this one robot, aka a dick butt.
Oh, they had to take down dickbutt.
That's right.
The only reason the World Cup trial ruse exists is to counter the threat posed by this cyborg sent from, you know, wherever.
Yeah.
I was postulating Japan, funnily enough, so that all arcs back, doesn't it?
I see what you've done there.
Holy shit.
What if it's like, oh.
This is an international relations.
man. I feel like single-handedly we may be
creating some trouble here, but what about all the
ill feeling that was created from Pearl Harbor
has now translated to a payback
Pearl Harbor 2 in the form of
Dick Bot. Dickbot is Pearl Harbor 2.
So Dickbot is
been built by the Japanese Army
who have yet to release the
ill will that they feel, and fair enough
over... About the backlash
over their initial action
so this is round three.
Yeah. Thoughts?
I have no reason to
refute what you're saying
to me. Well, in the spirit of
both our friendship
and the energy of the room
right now, it would be
in my best interests to support
what you are
suggesting.
Here's another question I'd like to throw at you, guy.
I want to discuss
what you think, because
it occurred to me during watching the film
this day,
this day,
that we might be on slightly different
frequencies about Brady
the Rat King and what his motivations
are and like
kind of his moral compass.
No one asks to be a rat king
for a start. What I would
like to do first is just ask you
can you talk to me a bit about
what you interpret Brady the Rat King as being
in terms of like a dude and then I'll
see if you're on the same page.
Bog standard
eight year old kid
you know whatever the number is we'll call it eight
it goes about a pretty haphazard
science project
slaps it together
whatever I mean you know the detail
aesthetically very satisfying
scientifically there is no
there's no merit to it nothing
nothing in what he's doing it's a salad of a
science project there's no substance the kid is
mailing it in absolutely and there are obviously
there are big problems at home
I mean dad you know he's
he's around he's a stay at home dad but he's an absentee
father he's trying to get his spelling bee business
off the ground mom
a lawyer
and so he's just slapped together
a science project, taking it to school
for whatever reason he's won
obviously this is the teachers ever to placate
the discovery that Brady's walking
into. Brady is pretty much passive
the whole way through his ascent to being
the rat king. Can I just hit pause on that?
Do you think Brady doesn't deserve to win at the
Science Festival? I think I'm on the
record of saying I do not think that a mouse
maze
a science project makes.
I think, yeah,
I think it's a reflective defensive
decision from the teacher to say this kid
is on the cusp of harboring the power of
Vermin. We will placate him by awarding
a science prize to him and accordingly
hope that he doesn't wind up. Maybe
I don't know, harnessing the underworld
that is the rat kingdom
and taking over New York
and eventually the world. Let me pause you there
because the fine's going off and it might
be mine, I'm not sure, but it might be
if it's someone in the audience... Take it.
Yeah. Or give it to us
it'll be more fun. But equal
It might be me.
So, yeah, my understanding of it is that Brady is, he's, he sort of, it was thrust upon him.
Some people are born heroes, others, some people are born great, others have greatness
thrust upon them.
I believe Matt Damon said that in the Titanic.
Sounds right?
I believe that the saying applies again.
Okay, that's good.
So we're on the same page with Brady, I think.
I hadn't kind of gone that in depth about...
Look, I take it, but don't let it ring out.
Yeah, it's definitely a...
phone going off.
Make a decision on the phone call.
Let's all figure it out.
Oh, it's me.
It's my phone.
They did it play the intro from.
This is what I love about America.
No one can understand how to operate an Android device.
It's like giving it to someone here.
Although I don't know how to turn this off.
There you go.
They're like, what is this alien technology you've brought into our country that's going
to take over?
It's just an Android, man.
They're very popular now.
Just look at Samsung.
Killing it in the Android space.
No, I will not look at Samsung.
Anyway.
Tell me, what do you think of Brady?
It's hilarious that there was my phone though, huh?
That is funny, I do agree.
Brady, so yeah, no, absolutely.
We're on the same page with this.
So Brady, I've always interpreted as being sort of,
I don't want to say Batman-esque,
but he's like kind of an anti-hero is what he is.
So he's a guy who we can actually trust to do the right thing,
but very dubious methodology of getting there
and you've got to break a few eggs to make some omelets
or to capitate people using your army of rats
to take out of villain.
I don't think they're saying is you have to break a few eggs
to make some omelets.
You make one omelette at a time.
Well, not if you're getting shit done,
which Brady clearly is.
He's an ambitious dude, you know?
Multiple eggs, multiple omelets,
a lot of ovens involved.
Like, not just the one stove top.
He's cooking up at a feast.
there are four stove jobs on one oven
so there are multiple ovens involved
this guy's making at least arguably
five to eight omelets
while harnessing the power
of the entire vermin kingdom
the guy's busy
he's getting shit done so but my point being
like I'm glad that we're both on the same page with him
he's an ethically dubious guy
who I think ultimately did
I didn't say any of this
I'm trying to think of like an example
in film where it's it's kind of
when you see the villain who just does kind of
petty bad shit but then redeems himself
at the end by sacrificing himself for the hero.
That's who I think Brady the Rack King
is. Dissimilar to Dickbott
who is pure evil.
But Dickbott did not
ask to be pure evil. That was programmed by the
Japanese. That's the beauty of his character.
That's why he's such a rich character
because, like, you're right, he's a
total victim of his own circumstance.
He didn't ask to be an evil
artificial intelligence unleashed by the Japanese
onto America. He just was. He
was born that way and that opens up
a lot of discussions on the nature versus nurture
thing. It's just a better
movie than sex in the city too. It's
waiting to be made.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree. That's when
Dennis Duggan, Adam Sandler and Michael Patrick
King getting a roundtable
start throwing ideas around.
Big time. And probably, I would
like to think, just cuss us out for several
hours.
It's a satisfying thought. Imagine Michael
Patrick King and Adam Sandlin met at some red
carpet event and they're like
these fucking guys
that alone would make this worthwhile
yeah we can come back to Brady
there are other points because you know
obviously we're liable to get
distracted there are other points during the
we're liable to get distracted from what
like what
whatever is what is this
just out of curiosity once again who in the room
has never heard an episode of our podcast
before and don't be shy applaud applaud
Cool
What are you even watch?
Are you Drew?
Drew Davenport's here
He's a podcast superstar
Yeah you give it
You give it up for Drew Davenport
Ladies and General
You give it up for him
But so the thing of it is though
I appreciate the curiosity
Thank you
And I appreciate anyone who would pick up a pen
I happen to drop
And I appreciate the fact
That there are people in here
I'm familiar with what we do
Who are taking a punt on a grunt
So to speak
But what
I don't
like if my friends said to me
do you want to come watch these guys
discuss sex and say two for the 30th time
and you've got no context
in the lead up to that
that is not a strong offer
yeah let's look at that schedule
pretty sure Greg Proops is on at the same
fucking time
I think I'll give that one a pass
I'm pretty sure there's like not such a context
specific discussion I could take part
and maybe understand
anyway I what I'm trying to say
well hold on because now we're back into the market research
portion of the podcast, which I love.
But, like, why did you come here?
You're an Aussie.
Fantastic. So when you said you're a fan of rugby,
you weren't kidding. For real.
Cool. And how about you? Are you guys
friends?
Love it.
All aboard the friendship, as Montgomery Burns would say.
We definitely should have miced you up for this.
You came here because you heard we were going to be here.
we've met you but yesterday evening
you're a sweet angel sent from on high
to placate our insecurities
it's funny when you don't mic up the audience as well
because for the purpose of 99% of the people
who will hear this who are not in the room right now
any other side of the conversation could be happening
we're just going to blanks
so I could be like hey so why'd you come here
oh you heard we were comedy geniuses
well that's very I mean it's a strong strong term
It's not undue, but I'm a little embarrassed
to accept it as a Kiwi.
We're very shy. We're bashful people.
That's right. Anyway, the original point
I was trying to make was...
All right.
I don't think we should be watching...
No.
At the wedding, at the big gay wedding,
which pretty much...
If you are curious, as a listener
of the podcast, it's how long
we can be interested in or engage with the film,
I'm pretty much taking notes
and interested in what's happening all the way to the end
of the wedding, which is 20 minutes out of the
two and a half hours
like there's action
and there's like cuts and there are different
characters and there's stuff to look at in the
background of frame it's pretty much
from there forward that it's just the four
leads just having
huge problems with their great lives
and what I noticed this week
and you did too and we talked about it but I wrote it down
is that the wedding is the direct
and this is much like the party scene
and grown-ups too this is obviously a big
long time spent on set and they're just telling
people to do something to make it like
you know, just for an interest level
on the off chance,
anyone decides to watch this movie repeatedly.
Is the only direction giving to all of the extras at the wedding
is to keep dancing.
It is honestly like Job from the Bluth family
was in charge of wrangling extras during the wedding
and he just said, everybody dance.
Everybody dance now.
And there's no
Like because there's no music playing
In terms of the
The lineage of the
Like in the order of the film
There's no music playing for a lot of the wedding
But anyone you look at in the background of the frame
Is dancing the whole time
But dancing in a way
Like the movements of very much
The movements of a person who has been told to dance
With a fucking gun to their face
Who've been dancing for too long
No one's finding or feeling the beat
They're just wriggling with nerves
For their life
because there's not dancing at that point
that's just like
worm movement
oh my god I'm so sorry Michael Patrick King
I'll do better
I'll do better next take
sure survival
it's just a bunch of people wriggling
to not be prodded or shot
yeah and you can tell that when you watch the movie
30 times the fear
in their eyes
is real
it's visceral
hits me
and I wanted to broach that topic this week
I wanted to bring up something
and that is the treatment
at the top of the film leading into the movie
or the wedding rather
which basically is the movie for me
that wedding scene or nothing
when they're in what's the name
of the rest of the jewellery store again
Bergdorf Goodman
Does that sound like a familiar brand
Americans? Bergdorf Goodman
Does that sound like a familiar name to it?
Bergdorf Goodman
from Bergdorf Goodman Incorporated
Let me tell you
A little bit about Bergdorf Goodman.
father, diamond maker.
I'm Mr. Bergdorf.
This is my associate, Mr. Goodman.
It is mighty fine to me,
jaw.
Yeah. Big fans of jewelry, we would
presume.
Anyhow.
You was saying.
I can't remember what I was saying. Oh, yeah.
What I was saying is
I really detest the manner
and nice one. Way to get me back
for that chip gag.
What I detest,
hashtag escalation
well done
what I really detest is the fact
that Charlotte goes
her best gay friend is marrying Mike
best gay friend
as if it's like two fucking pet dogs
that they're doing a faux wedding for
it's detestable
I hate that shit
they are human fucking beings
you do not own them
it's so awful
that's like
I think you could feel
even in the performance
presumably as all movies are
this one was shot in chronological order
and like this is the first
we understand the film industry now
we've been in LA for four days
we get it
it's confusing otherwise
how do you know what goes where
so and this is the first scene
so all of the actors getting together on set
and they're about to hoe in
to the meaty script
provided by MKP
and they get given it
and they go oh well equal line distribution
this is going to be great
because they all get given one zinger
which is I understand as someone
who hasn't really seen it properly
was what a lot of the joy
from the television series was built around
was that you know you finally got to watch
four women frankly discussing their lives
and all the aspects they're in
and six finally
and so the four of them
they all get given one line or whatever
and they all like go boom
bomb bomb bomb and in between
every one of them delivering a line
someone drives a bus
in between the lines
and there's no connective tissue
between their zingers as well.
It's just like MKP was contractually obligated
to get all the women across the line to sign up.
But you can feel the hope in them
and the energy in them in that scene
is like, wow, yeah, yeah.
Now might check this one out.
Check out this little pop and zinger.
All the deep-seated doubts I had about doing
the sequel for the last five years
were misplaced.
Maybe we'll have fun together.
And I feel like that that is present
even in the deplorable lines that they deliver.
And so they aren't really.
even paying attention to the detail of the script
they're just so excited to be back on
like they're sort of just trying to
rallying against the tour
you've got to catch up with a friend or you've got to do something
like you've got to go and do something which you feel like
you should be excited about but you aren't necessarily excited to do
and you convince yourself on route
and even in the opening throws or whatever that activity
is you're like wait so hold on let me
just plug a personal example out of the air
so for example you live in New Zealand your whole
life and you go to America for a podcast festival
which is all predicated on you
watching sex in the city too
and you can't even look forward to that.
Would that be a sort of sound example?
Yeah.
And so in spite of the huge backlog of information you have
about how you're definitely not going to enjoy yourself,
you start watching sex in the city too.
Yeah.
Just with the blind hope that maybe this time
you'll push through and wind up enjoying yourself,
this is what's happening on set
between on the first day that they're on set
when they're at Brugdorf Goodman.
the four of them
are all doing this
and I think by the end of the scene
is they're delivering
the sort of
vaguely homophobic lines
they're all coming to terms
with the fact that
they're in for a very long time on set
and a very long time in Morocco
because they're not going to go
travel and shoot in Abu Dhabi
because Abu Dhabi
want nothing to do with the film
to sit in Abu Dhabi
in spite of it being paid for
by the RBW Tourism Board
as we understand it
I feel like
we should be wearing tinfoil hats right
There's only one thing that I can throw in the mix at this point
because I see time's ticking, ticking away.
Screwva.
Scootabababababababba.
Scootababba.
Scribidababba.
Hobababab.
Skibidabee.
Scoot.
Ho!
Ho!
Ho!
Scoot!
Bo!
Bo!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Ho!
Hey-oh!
That lady's playing the saxophone.
Skibib to be ba-p-p-p-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-d-b-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d.
Where is he going?
What is he wearing?
Frankly.
That's the question.
And the answer this week will be delivered by both of us in tandem
because we both know exactly what all coffee guys up to.
We know both of the questions.
We know the answer to both questions.
And they marry up very nicely.
This is going to blow you away.
He is wearing a suit.
you go
I'm showing off mic
to help you
oh okay
yeah
that's how you
help someone
by eating
he's wearing a suit
made of titanium
you may be familiar
with the Jackie Chan
career
revitalizing
the tuxedo
yeah the Jackie Chan
Jennifer Love
Hewitt franchise
which gone off the ground
like a plane
genuinely surprised
you do know
what movie I'm talking about
yeah
I can't say I've seen it
but I remember the poster.
Of course, I haven't seen it either.
No one did.
I think the basic premise of that movie is Jackie Chan is sort of hapless
and he's given a tuxedo which is a sort of robot as programmed to know.
I'm getting a thumbs up from a member of the audience.
I'm on the nose.
So the guy is wearing a titanium suit,
a suit provided presumably by the US government
in anticipation of any upcoming attacks.
That is exactly what the movie leads you to believe.
until it is revealed that said suit
has been made by one John Big
from a big old book of ideas
you don't mean Mr. Big from Big's big book of ideas
do you?
The very same, the very same man.
Mr. Big while wondering on his office one day,
colorblind, aimlessly looking at the stock market,
trying to figure out if it was up or down.
We've never said this before.
not only is Mr. Big Colorblind
he suffers from awful vertigo
I mean
The stock market
The 60th level office was a real
fucking dick mode
The stock market
Could not be a worse place
For this guy to be working
I mean
The man's got no built in compass
Or sense of colour
He is literally
Just in rotation
Every day
Just his whole life
His guess work
Bad time
So he's in there
And his mind wanders a lot
and to help his crippling anxiety from being put up in the 60th floor
while suffering from vertigo,
is he often will flick on the TV,
and lo and behold, what trailer did he watch?
The tuxedo, and that gave him an idea.
I'm going to rip off the tuxedo.
So he just decided he was going to build the suit,
and then he teamed up with a noted science legend, André Agassi.
You'll remember Andre Agassi from his book,
the tales of Andre Agassi.
This works perfectly because big, in terms of the chronology of the film,
the point at which we meet coffee guy, aka Jackie Chan, in Whiteface, is...
I forgot about that, but...
Yeah, yeah.
So this is when Carrie has...
She's gone off the grid, so to speak, to finish that article she's writing for Vogue
to promote her upcoming...
book, I Do I, a first
year guide to marriage.
So, he might project
a confident air,
but the guy is paranoid.
He thinks Carrie's onto his vertigo,
his color blindness,
the fact he's been losing their money
for over 10 years.
He pours what remains of their
savings into the suit and into
Agent Chan,
who then, he's tasked
with following Carrie around
New York. So Carrie thinks she's out
gas bagging with the gals, guess
what? Bigg's got a mole
right next door. You dig
what I'm saying? I absolutely do.
The audience might be confused
by the fact
of course I know the plot of this
this story, but
the audience might be a little confused
that it seems like
Mr Bigg's chief
character
point is that he's losing a lot of money
and the way he solves that is by following his
girlfriend around with a gyna titanium suit.
which doesn't seem to solve any of those problems.
You know, the thing is, when you're in the depths of despair,
you're not thinking straight.
Exactly.
You're not processing each problem individually.
They all meld into one sort of hellscape,
and you're just trying to fix things as they occur to you.
And accordingly, you don't get anything done
because you're just in a panic.
And this is the circumstance in which Mr. Big finds himself.
But, I mean, yeah.
Beautifully, we both know the ending of this tale.
Well, which is the most obvious setup for a sequel in the history of cinema.
Correct.
Michael Bay would do well to learn from the end of sex in the city too,
which there is the nationwide power surge,
obviously from the Pentagon, the source of all-American power.
Because Brady the Rat King has found a way to just throw his armies.
He's actually, not a lot of people know this, Americans,
but all of the power in your country is generated from the Pentagon.
That's right.
There's one, two hundred.
what plug.
There's just been daisy chained
on a bunch of multi-plugs.
There's a multi-plug and then an
extension cord. And if you look, actually
I don't know if you guys have looked at America from
satellite before, but you can actually
trace the state lines from
the extension cords running across
the land. It's like the Great Wall of China
but a lot more dangerous. Yeah.
And thinner because, you know, they're only
this, I mean, they're not water, it's risky.
What are you guys are doing?
This whole room.
Brady has figured out
that the economic powerhouse of the free world,
the United States of America, has one chink in its armor,
and that is the power grid,
which seems haphazardly put together at best.
And he's just thrown his armies concurrently,
all of those rodents together, focused on the Pentagon,
and who's going to save them?
Interestingly, Mr. Bigg,
and his Agent Chan, titanium, soup man,
but we don't find out how it goes
because it's a franchise and you don't milk that shit.
You can't just set up.
something that interesting
I say as people
leave the room
and some people would say it's an anti-climax
which dangerously seems like something
weird teetering over the edge of
creating
I beg to differ
I beg of you
to have a different opinion from you
me too find it
the origin of that colloquialism
begging to differ
to be honest
I grovel to ye
on my knees
to have an alternative opinion.
We've got to call it off, mate.
This has gone too long.
This conversation?
Yeah.
Absolutely not.
No, it's gone too long.
I've got to stuff written down.
Sorry, what did you just say?
I'm from where you're from
and I didn't understand what you were saying.
I can only imagine what other people were hearing.
I've got stuff written down.
I'm going to, in all seriousness,
I'm going to give you 90 seconds to wrap up.
You're like three different points.
Okay, first of all, Tim, do you think
we will be friends A forever?
B.
A while from now, or C,
not after February.
February 2016?
Yeah.
I reckon forever.
That's very sweet. Thank you.
Next.
Okay, secondably.
I know the clue is in the title
and then in parenthesis
I've written the word sex
but if I know I'm surrounded
I do not have the confidence
to have sex like that
now the context
is obviously everything
I know what you're talking about
and no one else does
yeah
no so the thing of it is
Samantha and this is the issue
with watching the movie
and not having seen the
television series
is like but I understand
Samantha's character
she's sort of
she's rambunctious
she's confident
She enjoys herself as in when she pleases sexually.
But in the film, she winds up having sex at the big gay wedding, trademark Michael Patrick King,
with like a concrete layer called Nicky, right?
And they're having sex, and they are sandwiched in between two rooms,
one in which her friend Charlotte and husband, Runkle,
are sleeping with their two children, the other one which Big and Carrier.
And they are fucking so loudly.
20 seconds.
It is shaking the very foundations of the wooden,
New Hampshire House.
What I'd like to say to you, Tim, is,
I don't know, I don't know, I think that, I think...
Sorry, I'll stop the clock,
it's a really mean thing to do you, but...
When I'm sort of bearing my section of soul to you.
So, what you're saying is...
I could not...
What they're doing is...
I shouldn't have a bit of chips on stage.
What you're saying is you couldn't have sex with someone that loudly
at a wedding when you know that there's heaps of people,
you know are around.
Is that the gist of
we're headed with this thing?
You know, when you boil it down to
its composite parts, it doesn't feel like it was worth
bringing up.
What was your third point?
Yeah.
Yeah, what I'm trying to say
is I don't really love having loud
sex when I know people can hear.
I just needed a room full
of people to know that.
It's not relating to sex in the
city to at all. I just want
that to be on the record.
What's your third?
third point.
Fuck you.
Come on, buddy. Bring it home.
Bring it home. Let's do this.
I just brought it so far home.
I have given
two deeply personal details.
I had no intention of sharing.
I literally can't remember the first one.
I know it happened like four minutes ago.
I don't know what you said.
It won't be on record.
Look, you know, man, I like you so much.
I really do.
Oh, that's right, friends forever.
Yeah.
How ironic.
So, no, see, hey, no, I want to hear the third one, come on.
The other thing I've written down, I've got,
I don't know why they really hone in on Carey's eye-make-up purchase and subsequent use.
Yeah, you remove context.
These sound like the ramblings of a madman.
No, listen.
Hey.
You give Montgomery 20 seconds in counting down.
Suddenly they make perfect sense.
How do you?
how dare you because you're right
how dare you in you attacking yourself
not how dare you by coming up with the original point
I was trying to attack you
let me tell you something folks
the carry eye makeup thing
makes no fucking sense she's gone to
Abu Dhabi this is a chick who brought with her
like 80 pieces
of luggage she has got ample amounts
of makeup that she's brought with her even if they're on a
PR trip there's no doubting this lady had to pay
for extra baggage totally but the film pays
special attention to the fact that Carrie
when she is in the souk
buys special eye makeup
like mascara right
that's just there in Abu Dhabi
which she doesn't need
and you see her buying it
you see her paying for it
you see you're talking about it you see putting it on
tearing an off brand
mascara from like a
whole sort of there's like a laid
out like this long sort of there's just
it's all just individual
tubes of mascara and you see a close up
of her pulling it off there's no brand name
recognized like this movie is all
advertising. There's nothing to tell you what
this product actually is. But there's still a
very intense shot of exactly what
she's tearing off. It makes no sense
then. And then later in the movie, when
she's preparing for her date with Aidan so she can
cheat on who she's discovering
as a pretty unreliable financially and
emotionally husband.
There's another shot of
the same off-brand mascara.
Neither of them amount
to any... Do you know what?
In saying it out loud, though, to
people who don't know it like
we know it.
Yeah.
And it sounds
condescending,
but you will never
know this movie
like we do.
That is a fact!
Finish your sentence,
Bovey.
What were you saying?
This is the red herring
of the film
from the advertising department.
They're like,
if we chuck in a couple
of off-brand,
because Sobu,
we had Mr. Big works in
with So-Boo.
Yeah.
So-Bu fusion.
Yeah.
And there's a very gratuitous shot
of So-Boo.
I've Googled So-Bu.
I want to eat it.
So-boo has either
never existed.
like Charlie Kelly and it's always
sunny thought of here.
There is no Carol from HR!
No, there is
the best episode of television
ever made. Absolutely.
Fuck that is good. Get rid of that pen. I'm sick of it.
There is no
Sobu Fusion from New York.
Really? So this is the people
who sold brand space and this
lends itself also to that huge billboard
with nothing advertised when they're driving through.
the planes of the Middle East.
Just got a dude's face.
They've got at least three things in which
there's no actual advertisement
brand. There's nothing they're selling because it's like
well if we put in a few things that don't exist
it will distract from the fact that
Bergdorf Goodman and Louis Vee
and all these other boogey brands
have paid a shit ton of cash to get this thing done in the first place.
I've lost it.
Suzanne Summers, probably the best example.
But I get what you're saying. You're saying that
if you put enough fake brands in you can't see the wood from the
trees of what's paid advertisement and what's just there
for the universe of the film.
Word economy, baby.
I'm going to wrap up on this
because I theorise what has happened
is they've tried to sell the ad space
having got the figure they were looking for
and are so fucking vindictive
that they're like, we're keeping in the slot
and we're not filling it,
just to fucking show them what could have been.
So they went to Max or whoever makes makeup
and they were like, you know,
there's a bit of a talk,
they said we can make something happen,
doesn't get across the line.
Fuck you, all the screen time you could have had
is remaining in the cinema
that cut of this film
so you can see
what you could have
and you didn't
that is exactly correct
and do you know
what I noticed
for the first time
this week
who I thought
had an absolutely
fantastic spot
actually
of paid advertising
in the film
is this great
new sort of
crowdfunded
startup called
kick
no no what's it called
audible
audible.com
um
and
audible dot com
over 180,000
over 180,000
would you believe that
what are you can't even count
that high
Um, over 180,000 books.
Now, a book, imagine a movie, but it's hard work and boring.
You are now thinking of a book.
You know that movie The Martian? It's got, what's his name?
Matt Damon. Thank you.
From the Titanic.
You go.
You sure know your movies.
That was a book first, apparently, and the audio book is available from audioaudible.com.
So just use the code
audible.com slash
LAPodfest
That's right
And what you'll get
is a free book
And a 30 day trial
For this great service
Which frankly
I can say
I can't get enough of
And I say that in the same way
Like I can't get enough
Of sort of gold bars
Because I've never had a gold bar
Oh baby
We've got to close these threads off
We can't start chucking new threads in
But what I'm saying is
While
I might not know
audible, I've never kissed
audible
and every kiss is a gift
I understand
it to be an outstanding product
and I'm good
ladies and gentlemen
Guy Montgomery. Ladies and gentlemen
Tim Bat
thank you so much for coming out
have a wonderful evening
you're the real stars
now I'm not sure how long we've got this
room for but I'll bet there's a lot of
bladders out there that need emptying so if you want to
Like, do it now and freedom.
Free from, you know, scorn or embarrassment.
So do we finish and you're still talking to the room like they're a captive audience?
Yeah, absolutely.
Because aren't we going to do like a Q&A if anyone had any...
Oh, yeah, yeah.
To get some things.
How long do we have the room for?
Hello.
Okay.
Okay.
That's a decisive female voice.
I like that.
Anyone with any questions or theories pertaining to either of the two,
films with which we're familiar.
Predominantly, if someone can
give us a good coffee guy. If you're waving...
I'll come around. Are you going to go...
No, come out, no, come out. No, come out. He's already on his way.
Oh my goodness. Ladies and gentlemen. It's Travels
McElroy. My brother, my brother and me.
Hello.
I had a question, and we were talking a little bit about it the other day.
Is this... I haven't watched it, and I will not.
You brave and hard.
solve. Does it ever hit the point of
good bad, like the room or
that kind of idea of like, oh my God, if I got a group of people
together, it would be so bad, it'd be good. Sex in the City
too? Yes. So, if I may? Yes, please. Luckily, it
doesn't. And we were really, no, we were fucking worried about that when we picked our
second film. So, grown-ups too, with both
films, they're so slickly produced, and there's so much money that's been poured
into them that they don't achieve that level of enjoyable bad
the room's the perfect example of that
where it's just like
whose hands are on the wheel here
just one dude and he's insane
right and he's funded the whole thing himself
and it's just a glory project for him
but luckily the studio had enough involvement
to polish that turd to the point where you're like
a shiny turd-looking rock
interesting so you kind of you can't
grab onto the badness of it
because the only reason we picked sex
in the city too is when we were making
this little video to say
thank you to our fans and we did the
reveal that it was like, and we're going to do it all again for season two.
We experimented with a couple images.
In that movie poster of Carrie in the desert.
Hilarious.
Fucking dynamite.
And sort of running concurrently with the runtime, we laughed at it just maniacly.
As an idea, not as something we would pursue, but just as like, it's no consideration
for what it meant.
But I'd go even further and say, grown-ups too, eventually.
like we were lucky enough when we watched it for the last time
we were in a cinema full of people who had heard the podcast
and sort of knew the trigger moments which we'd enjoyed
and there was in watching that the satisfaction of like something
say the room wherein you can all grab onto these moments
and say yeah I remember that I remember that
Sex and City 2 it's so long
that like it's I do not fucks you up
if we were to watch it like it's it's just a competently made
terrible film if we were to watch it with a room full of people
have listened to
even every episode
of this season
of the podcast
I don't think
I think everyone
would walk out
you're like tired
and broken
I don't think
there'd be that
sort of
like
sort of
galvanizing
energy across the room
of like yeah
because
all the things
we talk about
they like
cumulatively
they make up
less than 20 minutes
of the film
so you've got
another two hours
and 10 minutes
of movie
which you're just
waiting through
to get to
the trigger
Like, does this answer
your question at all, Travis?
Perfect.
Yeah, okay.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Travis McElroy.
Travis McElroy.
And if you, if you,
if you people out there
don't listen to my brother,
my brother and me yet,
you goddamn shooks.
It's the best podcast around.
Is anyone else got to...
Hello.
Come up.
We want to see you.
Come on up.
We'll see them.
It's okay.
Thank you very much, though.
Why, if it's not...
Stuart Goldsmith!
Ladies and gentlemen
from the Comedians' Comedian podcast.
Hello, you remain the
only other podcast that I've advertised from
my own podcast. Thanks man. Thank you.
Happy to be on the... What was the other one though?
What was that? What was the other one?
No, I said you were the only one.
Oh, we're the only one. Oh, we're the only one and our one.
Fantastic. Such generosity of spirit.
I had... Get in the light street so people can see you.
I'd first like to point out
the irony of the fact that it is Guy Montgomery
who is currently battered when
it is actually Tim Batten that stayed up
all night the other night. And actually, my
question is which of the two of you is the biggest
Lush.
Fuck, that's a good question.
Could you please give us a working definition
of Lush?
Drunkard.
There we are.
Oh, now, I like
I like a tipple
as much as the next guy.
I like a bear as much as the next guy.
No, I'd like to say on balance that we sort of
we take turns.
I think that the... You sort of do take
turns. You're not both battered
at the same time. Just
so we don't completely tune out the audience.
that's so lovely to come and watch this.
Yeah, I didn't sleep for like 40 hours
and then I definitely have to go to sleep tonight
and then I just didn't again.
So I just got drunk again and...
But it's sort of...
Someone is applauding Tim's...
Terrible disrespect for his body.
Lovely of thought.
I think our approach to drinking
is similar to the podcast in which
we tend to...
There's like some sort of weird counterbalance.
A seesore.
We're like, if I see Tim sort of really...
having a crack and, you know, sink in a few bruise, so to speak.
The amber nectar.
If Tim thinks it's bare a clock, I'll pull back.
So I will get to, A, enjoy Tim in all of his drunken glory, and B, clean up after the mess.
That is Tim.
And vice versa.
Absolutely.
We've got each other's backs, Cheap.
Friends forever.
First equal, friends forever.
Thank you, Stu.
I have a follow-up question.
Please.
Given that you've got tattoos regarding...
Have you shown those tattoos to this audience?
Have you been in the room the whole time?
I have not been in the room the whole time.
I don't know.
I don't know what underwear I'm wearing.
I'll do it.
I don't know, man.
Yeah, we've got tattoos.
So you've got tattoos.
So my question, you've got the tattoos.
Get your kid off while he's talking.
As I understand it.
Look at that, ladies and gentlemen.
In all his glory.
Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Happy birthday, Patty.
Party machine!
I believe, as I understand it, you got these tattoos in order to,
they were an incentive that on a crowdfunding website, Indiegogo,
you've got enough money to take yourself to America for the thing.
Presumably you're going to try it again this year to come back to America
for the finale of this season.
Or the United Bar Merey Emirates.
And all Morocco.
Or as you say.
Or as you say, the UAE or Morocco.
My question then is presumably the fans are going to be hungry for you to do something even more extreme and permanent.
Give us $4,000 and we'll both get lobotomies.
What the fuck do you want, man?
Mic drop.
Thank you very much.
Stuart Goldsman, everybody.
Does anyone else have any questions?
Yep, please come up.
Alternatively, if it's not a question you have, and you may have a theory about what.
He is doing all where he is off to you're allowed to share that as well.
Okay, what's your name, sorry?
George.
Everybody around and applause for George. He's an angel.
Handsome guy.
George Zimmerman.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw you remember the moon.
Yeah, that is unfortunately my name.
It's cool.
It's a fine name.
Don't let some douchebag get you down, man.
Thank you.
That means a lot.
I actually have a question about the tuxedo theory.
Yes.
So you were talking about...
You know, it's very honed.
Yeah, yeah.
So let me just open with that.
I can't remember if you landed on Pearl Harbor 2 or Pearl Harbor 3.
for when Dickbot invades the United States
and I was just curious about when
inevitably civilian technology gets
repurposed by the government to defend the country
and Tuxedo guy and DickBot have to battle
what's going to happen during that battle?
Look, a round of applause was such a fantastic
flesh out question.
A tremendous question.
I would love to answer it but I just don't think
we've got enough time.
Sure.
But I mean...
Rest assured, we will be digging into this
and subsequent...
it will be uncovered over the coming weeks
but what you have asked
for is essentially an improvised
fan fiction
and we are
pressed
it's just so dense I would normally
detailed and smart was the question
I literally did not understand the second half of it
let me say this though
the battle is long and
we lose a lot of souls along the way
but we just unfortunately
within this format in this room we don't have enough time
to explore the entire thing but we will
I'd like to borrow a quote from Jeff Gobloom
in a little non-film
called Dead Poets Society.
I believe he said,
O'Captain,
life
finds away.
There's anyone else.
Is there nobody else?
Yeah, come on up.
Hey, we've met before.
Yeah.
Introduce yourself.
stage. Introduce yourself?
Gage. Gage. A talk glass of water, everybody.
Gage, come up on stage so we can see you.
And hit us with your question, my friend.
I incidentally regret giving you stage instructions.
What's your question, man?
I apologize. I apologize.
It's okay.
So, I have another tuxedo-related question.
We literally made this up.
Let the mentor.
I've seen the movie back in 2002-200.
2003 and Jackie Chan was a ballet and the tuxedo was a government issued weapon that
that's right I don't know why I ever we'll remember yeah did very well at the box
office it did I don't think it did okay but I didn't see us I don't know I'm sorry I agree to
disagree finish your question they gauge anyways um so is it possible that mr big is Jackie
Chan just in white face uh so mr big is not who we're attributing a
Agent Chan too. It is in fact
coffee man. Yeah, coffee guy is
un-deny. Loath as I am to correct you, Gage, because
you've really, you've grabbed onto a thread
we've just created.
But this is, we did, we did, no, no, no.
I was thinking of T.F. Chang's the whole time.
Yeah, fair enough. It's a common mistake.
It's a common mistake. But no, no, no.
As a racist.
Categorogically.
Is it?
I thought George Simpson had already got off stuff.
Am I right?
Oh!
Hey.
I know, there was more of an A-O, not like,
I wasn't trying to terrify my friend Tim.
Look, no one here wants to offend anyone.
We're probably always already.
What I'm trying to say is that Jackie Chan is in Whiteface's coffee guy
and Mr. Big is Chris Knoth or Knoweth, as he's known on the Bible Belt.
Pretty much, we appreciate the theory, but it is inaccurate as it stands.
Go ahead and a post for Gage everybody.
What is our time at?
Ten minutes?
I'm going to see you. Down the back, you put your hand up a few times. Please, please come on up.
Address the room.
Wonderful.
Thank you.
What's your name, sir?
Nick.
A few episodes back you went into, what's his face?
Steve really deeply and got into his interview with his manager.
Did he speak to you at all today?
Steve.
Steve.
Is he around?
You mean in terms of watching the movie, did Steve maybe come out?
out of his shell.
Did anything come out to you?
You know, Steve, he's a flaky guy.
He's got a lot on.
And he didn't really have a lot of time to come out
and say, how you doing?
D-O-O-O-O, and the word in doing.
The answer is no.
Was that more lines that he had?
Yeah.
Thank you, Nick.
Thank you, Nick.
Great question.
Ian, everybody.
Welcome to stage, Ian.
A sweet angel.
Another sweet angel.
Head us with the rhythm stick, Ian.
All right.
So, serious business.
Hold on.
Let me get their mic out of the stand.
Okay.
I'm having some problems with my girlfriend.
I've got this.
this rash.
The problem is I haven't got one.
All right, so the...
Believe in yourself.
Yeah.
Never.
Round of applause, no, no, no, no.
Season three, I have a pitch
for season three.
You're going, you're not going to like it.
You're not going to like it.
But, but do you
actually say streets ahead?
Streaks.
Oh, I say streets. I don't have this to say.
Lead the man talk.
Okay.
Very sidetracked.
Season three, you've watched grown-up
and sex in the city too,
and I think it would be hilarious
if for every week for a year
you watched Citizen Kane
and grew to hate that.
That is my pitch.
I would like you to react.
Beautifully phrased,
everybody round of applause.
Thanks, Ian.
You know Ian's on his way to becoming a congressman,
and the thing that's going to get him there is his
directness?
I haven't seen Citizen
Kane, so it does
it means that criteria.
I'll tell you two reasons where it's not going to happen.
The first is Citizen Kane
is a beloved film
and I have...
Yeah, I get it.
The second reason, though, is I
know where it weighs out at the moment.
I'm pretty convinced there
will not be a season three of them.
Yeah, just for clarity,
in a dream world,
Tim and I would find an alternative
podcast concept that we both are
mutually enthused by
which would not involve
quite literally jumping into a blender
every week
really been hung by our own patards on this one
yeah like
yeah
is that the word patard
patard
no one knows what it means or what a patad is
but we all just so yeah yeah yeah no one's
to be hoisted on a patad
what's a patad that's terrifying
and that is our reaction Ian
thank you for the question
Do Joe Dirt 2.
Pardon?
Joe Dirt 2.
I thought he's a
Citizen Kane 2, to which I would say,
yes, sir.
I've got a lot of fondness in my heart
for Joe Dirt 1, though.
I haven't seen it in a cool decade and change,
but I loved it when I first saw it.
We've probably got time.
Yep.
What's your name, sir?
David.
David.
David, ladies of generous.
It's goddamn superstar.
I'm going to keep this real brief,
but as obvious experts on
both of these movies that you guys have done,
which lady from Sex and the City
ends up with which grown-up?
Fucking excellent question, David.
You legend.
I think we've speculated
but we've never really...
And it might change, actually, from our original answers,
but here's how it calves up.
Okay, do you know what we should do?
We should both shut our eyes.
Yeah?
And one of us should...
So I'll do growing up
characters. Okay. You do sex and city two characters.
We'll both shut our eyes. Yep. And at the same time
we'll say out loud one of the characters. We'll take
turns and we'll alternate who goes first.
Exactly at the same time. We'll pair them off.
But then how will they hear what we're saying?
Because it's the same time. We'll say it at the same time.
No, we'll say them at different times.
No. We'll say at the same time, then we can discuss
what we say out loud. Okay.
So we shut your eyes.
No, wait, no. Hold on. That doesn't make any... That doesn't make any
fucking sense. It works perfectly.
We both shut our eyes. You say a character
from sex in the city. Five!
Four, three, two, one, Miranda.
There you go, Miranda and Lamensoff.
That would work.
That's a relationship, that would work.
What Lamansoff needs in his life is a strong female presence.
That's why he's always gravitating towards his mum.
Sally isn't strong enough to keep him on the porch.
That came out weird.
Miranda is a lawyer.
She is a strong, independent woman who knows what she wants,
and she is very articulate with her needs.
Five, four.
Three, two, one,
Carrey.
McKenzie, is his character's name.
So what we've got here obviously is McKenzie,
the layabout cable installer and Carrie Bradshaw.
Both of them have a lot of time on their hands.
They both skyve off of work regularly.
It's not a financially sustainable relationship.
But it's certainly a good time, baby.
Five, four, three, three, two,
one
Samanth
Well that is
actually a match made in
relationship in heaven
Samantha Higgins
Their main character trait
Across grown-ups to
and Sex and City 2
is a desire to fuck
anything that moves
Too true
Accordingly they could
Hold up
You know wherever
Preferably
Samantha's office or apartment
As opposed to
Higgins' run-down
apartment in New Hampshire
But frankly
I think that
While neither of them
You've been saying
New Hampshire a lot
But I think Connecticut
or is Connecticut in New Hampshire and New Hampshire and Connecticut?
Neither of those things are in each other and it's not important.
Are they, where does the Venn diagram sit with New Hampshire and Connecticut?
Pretty much.
Higgins and Samantha are what each other need to sustain a long-term relationship,
which of course leaves Lamansoff and Charlotte.
Tim, could you please unpack why this relationship?
We did Lampensoff at the top.
Yeah, and by Lamansoff, I mean Lennie Fader.
If you'd listen for one goddamn second in your life.
You did well.
You tested me and I passed the test and I appreciate it.
So, Lenny Fader and Charlotte.
this is the most neurotic
interestingly she's still wound up
with a Jewish man so I think that was just
destined to happen which is cool
the stars of a line just throwing cultural
aspersions on all Jews there
they're all neurotic
no separate
separately he is
neurotic and then my mind wandered
maybe there is something like that he is not neurotic
the guy is confident
and relaxed he's a talent agent
from Hollywood who's moved back to his hometown
with his family it's an interesting movie
idea. The moral is they both
have strokes on their fifth
wedding anniversary and it ends terribly.
One of them dies and inherits the other one's fortune.
That is the ultimate conclusion to
not only any movie involving these characters
but probably the conversation
we have had in front of you and into
your airs today. Once again
thank you so much everybody. I'm Guy Montgomery.
I'm Tim Back. Big thanks to
LA Podfest for having us. Thanks for all of you for coming. Truly
it means a lot. Live every
moment. And love every day.
Goodbye.
And get out of here.
God damn animals.