The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: S02E43 - Magda

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

THESE EPISODES WERE RECORDED 10 YEARS AGO, PLEASE FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSESThis ep features an all too overlooked character - Magda, the housekeeper. Is she a competing robot vying with Dickbot for domination? Is she a Russian spy? Miranda's importance to the Rat King arc is drawn out. Mr Big is splitting his focus between deadliest catch and a new idea: retractable, blendable knives in a pack the size of a deck of cards.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. Hey friends, it's Nikaela from the podcast Side Hustle Pro. I'm always looking for ways to keep my kids entertained without screens. And the Yoto Mini has been a total lifesaver. My kids started using it right away and haven't stopped since. Hours of stories, music, podcasts, and more, and no screens or ads. Yoto is a screen-free audio player

where kids just pop in a card and listen. With hundreds of options for ages zero to 12, it's the perfect gift they'll go back to again and again. 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 Oh baby, oh mama That was very nearly

An absolute disaster Could have been pretty bad Hey dude Hey dude Ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the worst idea of all time episode number forty three is it or four no it's definitely not four hey who's tallying this um but it is also um episode in total number 100 yeah go us this is well it's the

100 thing that we've released on the stream on the um on the feed that's how you measure it though yeah isn't it that's how you telly it so 100 deep how about that doesn't feel that good no it certainly doesn't I feel like I've been beaten into a bloody pulp mentally a bloody mental pulp I'm imagining a brain

just like smashed on the concrete just bleeding out some pink mess with this blood just going to the drain pretty dark Tim that's how I feel

at the moment it's bad I just couldn't each time yeah I kind of came to and realised the movie was still going

I was just shocked because it was it felt like it was about six hours today that was in real like emotional terms that's how long the film took to run that's true at the very top of this episode we should flag that we didn't pay the movie the most attention but not in the regular like normally when we've done that in the past and we've had to penalise ourselves or whatever we haven't been present but we were like it was on and we were there and we were in front of it and we were looking at it i would argue i would argue that

it is scientifically and i don't think this is just us i think it would be impossible for any person and to sit down and watch that movie from start to finish and be completely absorbed in the story and not have a sink like... It's fucked up, man. The whole way. I think it's an impossibility and one that we're confronted with every week.

I'm just going to have to hit pause real quick on this and say a big fat. Thank you to our sponsor this episode, which is Big Pipe Internet. If you're in New Zealand, you should be using Big Pipe because they don't have contracts or data caps, but we do now in our merch store.

That's right. How good is that? They didn't want it in their business plan. We said... I don't know if that's true. I think if we went to them and we said, hey, Big Pipe, we've thought of this amazing joke. You know how you don't do data caps.

You should start producing caps that have the word data on them. I think they would have taken that wrong with it. But we didn't even offer it to them because it was too good. We'll never know. Find these keepsies. Well, I feel like if the business brands itself is not having data caps, for them to start distributing data caps. is very...

You're right. That's on... We've got to do it for them. Contrarian. Yeah. So we've got the data caps. They don't have them. That's right.

It's actually a burden. It's our responsibility now. All of the data caps that internet providers, like the wonderful big pipe, have no longer imposed. We take a physical cap for every data cap released. It's a weird system. It's an agreement. I'm not hugely excited to be a part of, but... It's like when fairies die and you've got to clap to bring them back to life.

It's that whole thing. When does it, when does that happen? When does a fairy die? If you say that they're not real, if you say you don't believe in them. Really? Yeah. Every time you say a fairy isn't real, one of them dies. You'd be the bloody, pucky, palky, mate.

And what happens if you clap? Well, I think because like the way that it's been depicted on film, in particular, I'm referencing a hook. Dustin Hoffman's hook. Robin Williams. Was Julia Roberts tinkerbell in that? I think she was. And she starts to fade when someone mentions that.

fairies aren't real. And so when the fairy fades, that's when you clap and you bring them back to life. It's kind of like a resus. It's like the paddles, you know, the defibrillator. The applause. Yeah. That is what it's like for fairies. That is a biological fault that is absolutely

I mean, you could destroy legions of fairies. Yeah. Just by chanting. Do you know what it is? Maybe fairies were around before us and like no animal had language. They couldn't construct out loud the idea that fairies might not be real and so they didn't have a natural predator

in fact if anything they were impenetrable because all the applause would just empower them more yeah all animals could do was applaud but they could never say fairies aren't real i feel like it's a metaphor for an argument as old as time which is what is more powerful between applause and chanting i mean you know i think it was in the book of genesis the snake said the person who answers this question one will have an always powerful tom did you say applause and cheering or applause and chanting chanting yeah I'm gonna

I'm gonna go with chanting actually why because there's so much the human voice is more powerful than it's just you know when you're like you get into that zone the chanting zone yeah the chanting zone to really tap into shit it you get a little bit when you're cheering for something but not as much it's a very primal

thing chanting isn't it you really tap into some deep stuff the it's always sunny and philadelphia crew are very good at chanting yeah and that's like the most primal that characters get really absolutely absolutely oh by the way this show um would like to remind you to watch f is for family bill burr's new animated series on netflix no one paid us to say that it's not a We just thought it would be a good idea to tell you because Bill Burst the shit and he's got his own cartoon show now. And we can say cartoon because guess what? No one's provided us with copy pointers because they're not paying us to say it.

So we'll call it whatever we want. If it's for family. It's cartooned and a derogatory word to animators. I think it is now. Yeah. That seems silly. Anyhow, look, cartoons of the kids. The thing with sex in the city too is, as I was saying, we struggled to focus entirely throughout it.

and we had like I haven't really seen Tim for the week so it was sort of we frankly to be honest with you dear listener we took the first half hour of the movie as an opportunity to catch up you know it was like we were catching up at the table next to us the gals were also catching up and we were just sitting in the cafe with them

at a parallel table while they were nattering away that's right there's some pretty abrasive characters with not very interesting lives it's probably best to just leave them be and then when eventually there was like a natural lull or break in conversation

and we turned back in the movie it was like barely any time they were still at the wedding or something insane like that like barely any time had passed and it sort of felt like it could have been going forever

I feel like we've been in this room for days yeah quite likely the way I feel at the moment it's so weird isn't it so weird that a movie can make you feel like it's held

a prisoner for as long as this one has been. It's bloody madness. So, I don't know what to say about the film, really. I want to express that Magda probably hasn't had the old worst idea of treatment as much as she's deserved

through her performances. She turns in attuitive force week and week out. Now Magda... God bless her soul. Just to remind you folks who haven't seen the film over three dozen times she is the housemaid who works for miranda and steve at the house and very weird she gives the best barreling the camera moment at the science um prize giving at brady school the only barreling the camera moment at the prize giving at brady's told me there's another one but i'm

sure we would have seen it by now you'd think so although there's a lot of people on camera at different points yeah but we've seen the movie so much at one point i thought brady almost did it in the coffee shop. He looked very close to camera, but he was actually looking to his mum. Because he was bored. Nah. But she was talking with the gals about maybe potentially going to Abu Dhabi.

And she said yes, actually, in the end. She said that she would go to Abu Dhabi. And then all of them, all four of them. So it was Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda. They all go on holiday to Abu Dhabi and they fly in this wonderful jet plane. It's beautiful. It's lavish.

They're pretty much sleeping office cubicles. but they've been sort of kitted out with gold trim sort of not paunchy but soft looking furniture and they get to Abu Dhabi

and it's different it's different from New York but people everywhere are people people are the same and they like they learn they learn some lessons and oh

don't give it up yet yeah and then eventually they get kicked out of the country because Miranda she went into a peep show and she watched a man fuck a sheep. No.

Yeah. No. And it was a sting operation set up by the coppers, the bloody coffers and they all got deported because Miranda was periscoping it and the girls were watching it by the pool. Your mind's drifted.

It's not this one. It's a different one. I think the one I'm talking about is what I just watch I don't think it is your brain's trying to create an escape for itself when you talk it feels like you're inflatable like you're an inflatable pool toy or something

and when you talk it's like the air is just being released sort of like it's it's uh it looks to look at you while you speak it looks physically drain yeah that's a a summation. Hey, but let's talk about Magda.

B, let's talk about Magda, seriously. My theory, you want to hear it, I'll give it to you. Magda was the first artificial intelligence bot or like Android off the assembly line. USSR Russian 68.

It was sort of like a side source from the great space race as they started putting a lot of time and money into researching artificial intelligence in human models and they turned her on before she was ready and she wandered off the plant and off the property and got on a boat and moved to New York. It's like Chapy. And she wasn't really, I haven't seen Chappy, but she wasn't, so I can't speak to the

similarities or differences, but she couldn't, she was, she was programmed obviously to go and infiltrate and relay Intel back to back to the USSR but she was set to instead being set at international which is for when you go off your own country

into research different places she was set a domestic and a domestic setting made her domesticated oh no so they really fifted the code yeah the whole thing well I mean it was the first one it was a prototype it wasn't fit for the public

so the the AI that's running that shell of a woman misinterpreted what domestic meant instead of meaning like intranational it interpreted as being home-based tasks and chores vis-a-vis a very simple language

oversight but you've got to remember this is in 1968 they didn't have Google translate she's just the two-bit English language Russian bot outlawed in the USSR as we all know now I can't agree with you

I think I don't think I don't think she's robot But I think she's a spy from the USSR, from the old Soviet Union. It's a regular old human being. Yeah. Something's happened to her. What was her mission statement? I think she was just out there like all the spies were just to find out about the West and where they're up to with everything.

Because you wouldn't build an android that looked that old, would you? No, you would. Why? No one would suspect that. obviously it would be pretty suspicious when the when the bot wasn't aging uh no but okay here's here's no because here it is is she's growing like a human they just model they modeled the the programming on a real life human being so when she was uh walked off the factory plant she was a baby no she was like you know

teenager. Right. 69 to 2000, when's the set, 10? So talking 41 years. Wait, 51, 41, 41 years. So, 41 years, she's a teenager. See, she looks too old. Here's what I reckon. So if you were going to be a spy, right? You would want access to high-level meetings and people. And no one's going to invite an old woman to some, you know, bureaucrat party. We're all the president. are hanging out. It's the swing in 60s. You want your JFKs and stuff. You want to look like a

foxy, early 20 year old. You don't want an aging bot. Yes. People want conversation. That's what people like. But if the robot's not even smart enough to determine that domestic means stay within the country rather than do a bunch of dishes. You're dealing with a lot of world leaders, a lot of egos. They just want a sounding board so that they can talk about themselves. And that was what they wrote. And that's what... that's what Magda's up to. Well, it would have been, had it not been for the domestic snafu,

didn't really make it along to a lot of those suiaries. There's a competing third theory about Magda, and the evidence I bring to the fore is that she insists that Miranda have some breakfast before she goes out for the day. And I reckon maybe the food's been tampered with slightly, and Magda's got advanced inside a knowledge of Brady's future. and she is feeding Miranda with rat poison incrementally to build up her tolerance for it.

Oh, so like she's working in conjunction with Brady secretly from Miranda. I don't know if she's on Brady's side. I think there's some external force. Wow. That is a, and what is Miranda's value in this situation? Why is she being? I think Miranda is a hell of an asset being the mother of the future rat king. because she kind of knows his weaknesses and stuff,

so it's very important that she gets kept around. So, like, if you were... Crusts left on is a big Brady weakness. Yeah, there you go. So, like, if you were a... You were an actor in this war, and you wanted to take down Brady, you would think probably the way to do it

would be, like, a mass distribution of rat poison because it's going to kill all the rats instantly and try to get to Brady that way. But if you can kind of just, like, blanket the house with rat poison, but you know Miranda's going to survive, So just in case Brady survives, you've still got this key intelligence asset on how to take him down later. Yeah. You know, she's a very valuable asset.

I understand that. So Brady is, in spite of his sort of maniacal plans for global domination, he's also still vulnerable to the fact that he's an eight-year-old boy. Yeah. And he does, he needs that support in sort of boogeal. leg up from mum. It's not even that the absence of a mother figure would be the weakness itself. It's that Miranda would know

what the weaknesses are. The crusts sort of thing. The crusts of the issue. Or the bread in this circumstance. Good point. You should see it. It leads Steve a bit up in the year as well in this diagram, this Cold War, as to where he kind of slots in. I think this is why it's so fascinating.

They're all working across purposes. But, I mean, that house is just a hive of activity. It really is. I mean, you've got someone running for mayor while launching a interstate, you know, reformed spelling bee and packaging that and trying to get that sold to NBC for that 630 Tuesday slot, which has been a huge weak point in the NBC slate of shows, I think, since 78, when they took off the original spelling bee, which was a bee that could spell. Anyway, I mean, what I'm saying is there's a lot of action happening in that part of New York City.

And it almost seems like, you know, after that Linn-Skinner plane crash, you shouldn't have that many people living in one place. They have to fly on separate planes, although the fact that they're all doing their biddings in secret means that... Do you think the Lenned-Skinid incident is like the first time that they've figured out that you shouldn't put all your eggs into one basket? I've read the history books. I know what I'm talking about. Like up until then, just they didn't... It wasn't even a concept that was around. No, no one had thought about it.

That was the first plane crash on record. It's amazing. Because I know nowadays, like, they'd never fly the president and the vice president in the same plane. And it's just incredible to remember that the reason why is a bunch of rednecks who wrote a couple of one good tune. They wrote more than one good tune. Freebird's pretty good as well, actually. I've given that. Sweet Home Alabama is done.

Yeah, I know. That's the, that's like, that's the governor. Was that the good tune? Yeah. It's not, yeah. Free birds, bloody good too, though. It's difficult, because when it came out, I'll tell you what, I reckon if I had been alive when Sweet Home Alabama came out,

fuck, I would have been getting down. Oh, of course. It's a bloody charm. But now it's just, it has been just devastated. I think the fact that the sample of it features in Werewolves of London, which I was in Grownups, too. But wait a minute, which way around does that go? Weirwolves of London.

I feel like it's... Sweet Home Alabama's got to be first. You would think so, right? You definitely think so. The fact we, I don't know the name of the band or artist who sings worlds of London speaks to that. Because if that was the first one, surely you'd know that artist. Look. You would hope we would.

A couple of boys doing anything they can to avoid talking about sex in the city too. You've stumbled in on us. There's Magda. There she is. We'll put her on the shelf. She's done for a bit. I had a shining light this week. I'm trying to remember what it was.

The characters in these movies play things to be picked up and discussed. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. What was my shining light? I got you to write it down. It was big. It was Biggs acting. A look from Big.

Pastor Chris Noeth, channeling his character of Mr. Big. Yeah. During the bedroom, what bit was it? It's when they're having an argument and in the middle of it, when there hasn't even been a resolution. Oh, yeah. Okay, so the argument's really been ramping up between he and Carrie, and Carrie's really given it to him verbally, saying, you know, you're being a dick. Stop being a dick.

And he just looks, like, with minimal physical movement of his head, just looks past her to get back to the eyeline of the TV. And there's something sensationally brutal about that. It's always funny when you can have a massive effect with very little output. And, like, he only used a few jewels just to move his neck muscles a tiny bit. But what it's said to carry is... This conversation is completely meaningless to me and I just want to get back to Deadliest Catch.

I won't even entertain the fact that you're angry with me with some sort of placating response. I just got to get back to this enormous fish. Did you not hear the teaser in the ads? This is the most dangerous situation they've been in in the seven seasons of filming. I can't miss this. I can definitely miss what you're talking about

because I'm sure this conversation is going to happen again tomorrow as it did yesterday and the day prior. But right now, just need to see this catfish. That's all I need to see. And he communicates that solely with just a bloody jerk of the head, a minimal jerk of the head. Just for clarity, the motivation was exactly as Tim described it, but the term, some of them are a bit confusing now, as we record this in 2015.

Catfish was, of course, the actual species catfish and not the internet trickery. And the reason he had to watch it so urgently is there weren't any good streaming platforms. And so if he did miss that episode, it's fall back on that. Fish pun, love it. He'd fall back on the, you know, he'd be one short in the canon of Deadliest Catch episodes. And you just couldn't take that chance back in the day

because Netflix wasn't around. So if you missed an episode of telling, you didn't have your DVR set, you were fucked. There's no way to get back up on, involved with it. Yeah, you've gravitated that moment a few times. I would put it to you that, um, pastor Chris Knoweth is a, he's like,

he's just a very direct guy. And accordingly, I think he misses a few social cues Because he's a TV addict When he's trying to talk himself out Of having to go to the movie premiere with Carrie She says No, what happens? He doesn't want to go to the movie premiere

And then she's like, okay, I'll go with Stanford And then he just immediately picks up the remote And turns the TV on it's like, that's just so antagonistic You know you're going to get called up on that All he needed to do to be smooth sailing on that was wait about a second and a half before picking up the right control. He goes to the movie premiere. I mean, they start having these huge relationship problems which just keep servicing week after week.

In fact, we've plotted it today perfectly. The moment at which the movie goes from being just a bad movie to actually unbearable to be in a room with is when, it's the anniversary dinner between Big and Carrie. Yeah, because up until then you've been hit with, you've got a big gay wedding, we've got a lot of people dressed up, we've got a lot of color, we've got a lot of life, we've got Lise, Manali. We've got songs and dances and people making gay jokes for whatever it's worth. At least that kind of keeps you engaged with the film. And then, but you go back to New York and it's all

sort of just, it's just fun character stuff. Like, I mean, Charlotte takes charge of her not Charlotte, sorry, Marin takes charge of her career. Charlotte's a little bit worried about the nanny and Samantha's just being Samantha, creaming it. Fuck, she's good. Charlotte really fucked me off this week. Her response to

the nanny's busy is getting whetted. while she was in a white top by her kid because there's the same where wrinkles bathing the baby with the nanny which you know I never really thought about it before but that's kind of a weird slightly weird scenario

I guess Charlotte had shit to do that happens so rankles in there with the nanny cupcakes to make yeah got to make them cupcakes and yeah her top gets wet and they'll have a giggle about it and the baby's loving it Rose Rosa

you keep saying Rosa it's just rose because they're both flowers, Rose and Lily. Rosa. So Rose is giggling, runcles laughing, the nanny is also giggling away, and Charlotte just appears in the doorway

and sees the scene unfold and looks fucking horrified. Is this sort of terrifying and terrified specter? Puritanical, ethereal being who just appears at the doorway gets outraged and then fucks off and then harbors that resentment for the whole rest of the movie

as some sort of half attempted a sea plot designed to keep us in our seats. What I'm saying is the movie until the anniversary dinner is, it's not good, but it's watchable and it's not grating to be around. Yeah. But then it's when they start dealing with, like when they introduce conflict, like real central conflict to the movie, it just becomes so grating because none of the conflict is, it's meaningful. It's just all trivial, bougie, bloody, live in Lovita Loka in New York City. crap it's dumb stuff

it's dumb unrelated to it's nice to know that to have finally figured out the moment where it goes from

just a bad thing to be doing to just like literally unwatchable scientifically unwatchable what I'd like to do at this juncture

University of New South Wales 2008 before the movie was released is I'd just like to read out as a shout out some people who have donated money to our selves

I can say cause I can't use that kind of grandiose language with what we're doing but um if you go to west idea of all time dot com and you click on the merch button or you or you just go rest idea of all time dot com slash merch it'll take you to a page where up the top there's a PayPal button where you can just flick us a dollar or however many dollars you want some people flick us fifty dollars which i find outrageous and very heartening so thank you so much

and you can also buy merchandise there like t-shirts and data caps and posters. You can buy the original album cover for the 17-piece Kinks Scar cover band Indeclactic Glory Hole. Led by none other than Mr. Big. Yeah.

And you could also buy the... Join by fan favourite Tyrone, Wishbone. Fishbone. If you like the name so much, you should know it. And the poster of the grown-ups two drinking game rules. It's all there. It's all there.

So the donations that have come through firstly from Patrick Sessions who added a note saying think of this as recompense for pain and suffering for my continued entertainment thank you Patrick this episode certainly serves as a testament to that

I think because it sucked Kyle this is a fine conversation No sorry I mean the watch Precocious young minds I just mean the watch of it I don't mean the episode chill out Kyle McKenzie says Tim and Guy thank you so much for the hours of

entertainment you've provided you have no idea how bigger part of my life the podcast has become Kyle truly thank you you have no idea how thank you for the money a bigger part of that message of support you you've become we've printed that out

in A-Zero and it's up on the walls here so it's huge it takes up the entire studio it's massive Carol now the pronunciation of her surname it's thrown me just to have an

God's honest go of it. Undreadses. Undreads. No message there, but thank you so much, Carol, for flicking some money our way. Lily Reid has said, to my boys, Tim and Guy, I don't know what to say. I'm drunken alone on a Friday night. I'm listening to Warren and Stevenson and crying my eyes out from laughter. The last six months have been shitty for me, but your ridiculous podcast has been a small shining light.

I know you'll be happy when you finish, but I'll be a little sad. You inspire me to live every moment, love every day. Merry Christmas. Thank you, Lily. Wow, Lily. That was a touching message. Don't let my soberingly, what's the adjective for monotone?

Syllabic? No, what's the, like, how do you make monotone? Monotonous. Monot, that is, yeah. Don't let the lack of emotion in my voice fall you, Lily. That's a dope fucking message, and thank you. Tim's straight up welling from every poor right now. The boy is crying and sweating up his storm.

He is sodden. And last light. It looks like he's walked in from the ocean. Hey friends, it's Nikaela from the podcast Side Hustle Pro. I'm always looking for ways to keep my kids entertained without screens. And the Yoto Mini has been a total lifesaver. My kids started using it right away and haven't stopped since. Hours of stories, music, podcasts, and more.

And no screens or ads. Yoto is a screen-free audio. player, where kids just pop in a card and listen. With hundreds of options for ages 0 to 12, it's the perfect gift they'll go back to again and again. Catherine is Meslin. He's got gills and fins. The boy is a fish.

I can't tell you what to do with... Fish! Fish, a talking fish! With my donation, but Tim, maybe you'll put this towards the credit card bill situation you mentioned on the show. My bad. Where you're hard on your sleeve. It continues.

I worry about you. Anyway, do whatever you want. Thanks for everything. You guys are the best. You're the best, Catherine. I think that's a great message. Thank you to all of those people. And anyone who's bought the merch, please, when you get it, let us know either through Twitter or the Facebook.

Because it's still. Send us a photo. It's very, fucking awesome. It's very exciting and novel for us. The t-shirts look so cool. And we give the artists who came up with the designs 20% of whatever we make as well. because it seems fair. It's hard to say.

I think that's fair. I don't know what the cut-up should be, but 20% seems in the mix. Look, we're not here to talk business. Well, we are how to talk business, actually. We're here to talk about a pretty big business idea. It's been propositioned in a leather-bound book. Dusty, covered in cobwebs because it's still got its Halloween decorations left on it,

found in a sort of a fishbowl without any sort of keyboards or mouse, no touch screens. It's Mr. Big's big book of ideas. Whoa. I'm sorry. Why did you feel the need to point out that there... Why have you got a measuring tape that you're just mucking around with, too? People are going to be wondering what that weird noise is. Too many questions from you, not enough ideas. Well, I just want to know, like, why do you have to specify...

The noise is the spirit of Brady. When is a fishbowl accompanied generally by a keyboard and mouse? An office. Correct. Nice. You nailed it. Now, let's talk about the measuring tape. Stop playing with it because it's odd. It's freaking me out.

It's coming very close to my face. You once just played with a knife for a whole episode, and you're telling me I can't toy around with it. Tate measure. Another fine point, Mr. Montgomery. Point conceded. You're fucking with the best boy. Now tell me, for the love of God, what Mr. Big is plotting.

It's a business idea, as you said, and it's a beautiful business idea, which involves the same technology that's used for retractable measuring tapes, but applied to knives. So you can hide. a bunch of knives inside of something that's essentially the size of a deck of cards

semi-flexible materials the metal that the daggers are made out of but very very sharp very hard to dull so these are not like novelty those magic knives there's nothing novelty about about this retractable knife device so it's not at all

and it's not so you see how tape measure works where it's one continuous item it's like multiple knives instead so you take them you take them all out you can put them all back in but if you take them all out from something that's about the size of a deck of cards, you get two dozen knives, two dozen flexible metal knives, very sharp. Card-sized?

Yeah. Sounds like a pretty, is it impressive what they've built here? It's like unlikely, eh, it's a pretty, it's a feat of engineering. Sure it is. It's a premium product. I mean, we've seen the price plans and they are through the roof. It's a subscription service too. you've got to sign up to be involved

you can't just buy it you've got to be in the program because they provide you with training and certification and again in the program first of all what will happen is you'll be given you know several sets of the knives to then sell

and for every set of knives you sell you'll get a percentage of the you know it's a fair business 20% I think that's fair yeah so what we've kind of recommended to people is that they get friends and family on board first

you could sort of throw some knife parties which are always fun and just really try and peak people's interest with that let them see the device touch the device muck around with the knives a bit and you say look we've got a package where you start you off $5,000 is the only

outlay we're looking for at the initial and then you're a small business owner guess what welcome to the club club entrepreneurship that's right so it's frankly of all of the business propositions he's written in that crazy book of his one of the strongest.

I, for one, I'm very excited to be involved. I, you know, I've made, and this isn't even a paid-for testimony, this is just me talking here. This is like the F for Family Plugged.

I mean, in the last two weeks from selling these knives, I've made over $6,000. $6,000? Just on commission. That's huge. That's huge.

So, come on callers, join the knife party. Yeah. And get on board. Yeah. If you are interested, send us an email it. Big's Knives are big.

Just kidding. They're little at Knives.com. Um, I guess that... Sorry, I think I stumbled with my... You get something in your thrift... Something of... Scribidable. Scootible.

Scrobitable. Spoobba. Spoobba. Spoobba. Scobidabraba. Skibibraba. She got a car. She's got a car.

She's got to come. Well, you bet all the he dogs and looked at all the she dogs And the crowd never knew such a hullabaloo Bap-to-but-to-to-to-pap-to-t Take it again What's he doing? What is he doing again? That's the question. We ask it every week. We've still yet to definitively find out the answer

But we'll keep looking till the day we carc it at the hands of Mr. Biggs' knives. Is there an answer? Or is it, does he just represent? a parallel universe with each watch. I mean, the thing about coffee guy is that he represents the best and worst in all of us. So he's sort of like

just pure potential. That's the thing. He's a blank canvas that we project ourselves onto. And the only thing that we know about humanity is that it loves coffee. Doesn't matter. We are from here in our native New Zealand

to Kenya. We all remember to Chicago. The famous Greg's coffee campaign with Borat. Love it the job! I don't remember that. No?

Really? Did he do a campaign for instant coffee? Yeah. Christ on a stick. Oh, I'm lying. I am lying. I'll put down the tape measure. I only lie when I'm holding it.

There you go. We're good now. No, he's got it back. He's picked it up first. He's back down. sorry to cut you off there all I was saying is that much like

have you seen all of the Matrix movies no because I'm not an idiot yep valid so in the second one I think it's kind of explained with the Oracle I think it must be the third one

no it's the second one thing that kind of what Neo is is the Matrix trying to balance itself out he is the other half of an equation that's become imbalanced so it's kind of like his power is drawn from the fact

that the Matrix is a little bit broken, right? So it's kind of, that's what Coffee Guy is, essentially. He's like the one. He's like Neo. He's this pure humanized potential, this kind of energy being who can make

anything happen at well. Similar to Dr. Manhattan from the watchman. That actually makes excellent sense because Mr. Coffeyer himself, Tom Stoddard. You looked up

the guy who portrays him. Yeah, I was cruising through his I'm, I was cruising through his IMDB page late at night, down IMDB Boulevard, tooting my horn, flashing my lights. Whoopoop. Trying to get him over the door. But he wouldn't. He's been, he's like, has so many uncredited in roles in all sorts of great programs. Namely, I'm pretty confident he has like six different uncredited roles in Boardwalk Empire.

All of them for different, like. It's the Busemi connection, isn't it? It's that, and it's also, you know, he's just... Isn't that incredible, because... Populating all of these worlds... We spent so long on the Steve Bussemi Mystery Tour, and I'd hasten to add that coffee guy has sort of become the version 2.0 of that experience, and they are inextricably linked through Bullwark Empire.

We didn't know that going. Through coffee, well, more through Coffee Guy being Neo, yeah. Isn't that crazy? How it just all comes together, you know? Isn't life just a crazy journey? Isn't life a wild horse, a brumbie, if you will, will standing by your bed, urinating in your mouth on a Saturday morning, tearing around the place, freaking out the kids, freaking out the dog, eating the dog food,

running out on the front porch, scaring the fat postman. Getting a brass stuck on its antlers. That's right, this horse has antlers. and you're watching grown-ups too That's what life is sometimes Hey I'm pretty happy to fucking put a pin In this little morsel of information I'd like to wish everyone

A really Merry Christmas And there's something that we keep forgetting To bring up on the podcast And that is that we are involved in another podcast With some very talented gentlemen In America It's also a holiday season tradition Yes it is

It's a Thanksgiving tradition and it's called Till Death to Us Blatt. It happens every American Thanksgiving from now until the end of linear time. It is Guy Montgomery, myself Tim Bat, Travis McElroy, Justin McElroy, Griffin McElroy of my brother, my brother and me, the podcast. And you absolutely should be listening to. Hordes of other podcasts as well. So we get involved with those dudes on Thanksgiving now and we watch Paul Blatt,

more cop two, and we record a little review of it. And it got featured in a top 10 Like podcast episodes of the year For the whole world By Vulture So cheers Vulture Thank you Vulture To the staff writer who's listening in right now

You can follow the There's a Twitter at Death Blart But I don't know if we're posting much stuff on there We should get some more stuff on there eh Well I mean you know 51 weeks of the year It's not a super active stream That's true

Anyway look I would like to And just to know One of us dies if one of the hosts dies, then the other four remaining hosts have to find a replacement for that. Well, how does that work? Because my understanding is that we, it's kind of our responsibility to find a person.

Well, that's true, actually. I've had a close personal friend ask it to be written into my will. Really? Why don't know if it can you ask to be part of the deathguard pact? I think it's something that has to be bestowed on you. Yeah, it is, it is bestowed upon you. But, you know, I respect the guy. I respect the guy who asked.

He doesn't ask for much. Okay. He's sort of been. saving up his favours, hoarding him. Going on him. I've got a guy in mine too, who I think it'd be good. Look, it's not important. What's important is you have a very happy holidays.

Live every moment and love every day, friends. And for the love of God, do not watch this movie ever in your life. Yeah, we don't warn people enough on that because they go like, people say to us, they say, hey, you warned us all the time with grown-ups to do not watch the movie. But what do you think about this one? Jesus Christ, I thought it went without saying. I really thought it was assumed by this point. once when I wanted you guys to watch it.

Yeah, and I retracted it in the very next episode. Yeah. So I couldn't make this more... Oh, hey, that's another thing. Fuck it. I'll tag this on the end as well while we're here. To the fucking troopers who were still running the T-W-I-O-A-T subreddit. I love you crazy assholes, and I'm delighted that you exist.

I drop in there every now and then, and it's just... It's great. What is it? Just tumbleweed. No. They've like, periodically it'll go a bit quiet and dry for a bit And then they'll pick up another convoy But there's, it's essentially four people talking to themselves online on Reddit

And I just fucking love that it exists So good on you guys, thank you very much And thank you very much to BigPipe this episode sponsor If you're in New Zealand, either get it yourself or convince a mate to do it Go to bigpipe.com.nz and use the code worst And they'll give us some money for that And you get a month's free internet, more importantly.

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