The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: S02E44 - Yabbering

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

THESE EPISODES WERE RECORDED 10 YEARS AGO, PLEASE FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSESTim's in Wellington, Guy's in Christchurch. But one thing won't change: These boys are spending the morning with MPK and four lovely ladies travelling to Abu Dhabi. The mood is low but shining lights still find a way to punch through. The movie's structure is discussed at a length it doesn't deserve and Brady's out to play.Shout out to Joshua Peters who provided a brand-new outro on this episode.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 are obsessed. Yoto is a screen-free audio player where kids just pop in a card and listen, hours of stories, music, podcasts, and more, and no screens or ads. With hundreds of options for

ages zero to 12, it's the perfect gift they'll go back to again and again. Check it out at yotoplay.com. Y-O-T-O-P-L-A-Y dot com. Hello and welcome to 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 and welcome to the worst idea of all time Episode number 44 Guy

Hello Hello to you Tim and happy boxing day happy boxing day also to you and yours oh jesus christ um we've both apologies for the sound sound quality on this episode it might be uh quite dicey because we're coming to you live on location i'm in the nation's capital wellington i'm in christ church taking a morning off bargain hunting at the local mall so that i may discuss the uh cinematic offering the latest cinematic offering from what I understand from Michael Patrick King and his band of merry ladies sex in the city too we got up bright and early for this one

7.45 a.m. kickoff I don't know why it's hard to find the time in the holidays isn't it? Yeah it is the thing is like you got to pick a three hour and then some block to fit this in and around the Christmas period it's never never a fun time no I'm very very great I'll paint you a little picture in my morning actually so my parents at the moment they've

sold their places they're living in like a inner city service department style scenario which is lovely very central but very small so I'm kind of sleeping on a couch here and got up bright and early just to crack into sex in the city too and there was just it's filled with a lot of sadness through this watch it was not good

yeah I blue I uh I uh I got up at 7.30 to give myself 15 minutes to fix some toast and a cup of Joe. And this is the first, not the first time, but there's my, there's mum and dad who got some weird new media system installed. And I actually got to watch it on Netflix on a big TV. It's the closest I've come, apart from I think we watch it on a projected to seeing it in cinema. It was quite a, it was good for the audio. It was picking up all sorts of audio. True.

Yeah, I'm actually... I had a good audio run today as well because I was listening in headphones. Yeah. It's right in there. I've got the Netflix sort of the still for the option to watch the movie. It's got one and a half stars out of five, a generous one and a half. The blurb, gal pals, Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha Miranda

embark on a much-needed vacation to exotic Abu Dhabi. What do you think of that as a byline for the film? I'd say it's accurate. yeah they go to Abu Dhabi it all checks out one and a half stars is it

is it is it much needed how do you mean do you mean there needs to be more intel there no I mean the holiday it's described here as much needed

oh I beg your pardon yeah well that's how they present it in the film it's so funny I was googling around just before kickoff about sex in the city

stuff and apparently Michael Patrick King decided to set this in Abu Dhabi because when he was doing all the promotion in Junkets and shit to promote the first movie he became really fascinated by these like foreign lands that he was traveling to and so he decided on shooting it and setting it in Abu Dhabi

based on doing press junkets for the first movie and then eventually as we know Abu Dhabi got wind of just how hedonistic and sexualized this franchise is and banishers and banned them from filming it there, so they had to shift production to Morocco. But I've got this theory on this watch that the ending where the hotel flips out

and starts charging them because they're on a free trip. Everything's just mirroring precisely what Michael Patrick King went through. It's so thinly veiled. The whole reason they're in Abu Dhabi is a press junket, right? Yeah. It's to get Samantha over there.

so she can do some PR, which is, it's just like, Michael Patrick King basically has gotten his journal and inserted the girls into it, and then they get burned by the hotel, just like he gets burned by Abu Dhabi. I don't think that was the original ending on this. And so I think as a result, like there's an extra 30 minutes of this movie that wasn't in the first cut.

So you, I see, so, I'm a bit, I'm not as coherent as normal, I apologize for that guy, but I just, I've been trapped in a cocoon of solitude and loneliness for the last three hours. That's all right. Well, to communicate with you after the watch, I actually went on Facebook to get in touch. And I see that you've, I haven't read them yet, I've just opened it now. So the last thing I sent to you at 7.42 a.m. was I'm going in, and then I'll read now for you and the listener, the list of messages. I'll join you in two minutes. Best of luck out there.

mate this is fucked they only just got on the plane I'm filled with sadness Guy acknowledged me I can see that you can see these messages I hadn't seen them nobody gives a shit about your date confection carry I'm just shouting it to avoid here guy

hey you know how counterfeit shit is counterfeit yeah that's the case here too have a lovely market who was the practice match again said the Aussie team practice to kicking around some fibre side was another foreign team involved in the idiotic friendly I want to know

you're a real piece of shit Montgomery sort of one of Timbats catchphrases if you will I actually did have I'll go straight into it Do you know my shining light this morning Tim? I'd love to, yeah I like that you're barely acknowledging those messages with any kind of emotional response

It's just like they exist, here they are Yeah, well that's, I mean You know, it's part for the course really That Australian rugby team When they get to the pool after the practice match And this comes down to the audio experience I had today I can hear the general jabbering The sort of like

They just obviously got 10 people to go into a room and record what they think Australian people sound like. And if you listen to the audio, it's like, oh, yeah, yab, yeah, yeah, yeah, bloody, oh yeah, bloody sports, living in the city. It's just, it's just nonsense. I love that it's so regionalised.

It's like, I've read that in old Hollywood, they used to get the crowds to say the word walla. That's how they did like blah, blah, blah, blah. And they'd get a room full of people to go walla, walla, walla, walla, walla, walla. To get an Australian crowd. sound like oh that's what an american sounds like but Australians are like yeah yeah nah mate uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i um look so what was your shining light the sound

the background sound of ozies uh yeah the accuracy of the australian atmos the atmos of australian chat uh beautifully done beautifully inserted i mean the whole that whole rugby subplot just gives me the shits every time and it's like i don't know it's partly it's mostly for samantha's storyline you know when samantha's like did they bring their balls you know i always want i always want the hotel manager to say no they somehow forgot the balls it's causing huge problems here at the hotel the whole tournament's been postponed i mean it's we're up shit creek samantha and the last fucking thing i need to deal with right now is you and your innuendo and You're not even paying to be here, Samantha.

Like, leave your shitty jokes at the door. Just be grateful and eat some humble pie, for Christ's sake. Can you imagine? Don't get in there cracking jokes. If you're paying what it's worth, the $22,000 a night, then you get to crack jokes. Not if you're there on a fucking freebie. Can you imagine organizing somehow Abu Dhabi pitching and winning

a trial World Cup tournament, a first of its kind, in Abu Dhabi, and then all the teams arrive, except for the All Blacks, because they're not falling for that shit. All the teams arrive, and they're like, all right, we're ready. Where are the balls? And the hotel manager, I mean, the panic that must have just coursed through his body is he's like, oh, fuck, I knew I fucking forgot something.

Mate, the only issue I've got was what you just said is you didn't address the All Blacks by their full title, The Mighty All Blacks? The Go the Mighty Boys are the Back-to-Back world champions, the All-Blacks. Shit, I bless him. Shit, I love him. Yeah, look, it's, Tim, I didn't have a good time this morning either, but to be honest, it just felt like going into work, punching in my time card, just getting through a day, and coming out at the other end, you know?

It was worse than that for me today. Something uniquely bad about it. It was the worst one I've had in quite some time. I can't remember when it was this bad for the last little life. I worry about you. I feel like you're on a slippery slope. downhill at the moment. Spirits are so low in the bat camp. They're not high. I'm just by the way if you can get a ton of course you're getting a lot of amazes there might be able to

hear a plane that's just gone over me. I'm outside on a balcony just overlooking a beautiful sunshiny day in Wellington in God's own. It's nice out here but it's noisy but I will say this I'm not sure when this episode's going to come out because we really blow our load in terms of bandwidth with that five-hour episode so we've we might have to wait for the new year to click over for it to refresh how much space we got on the thingy. So if this is late, apologies for that, but these

are the technical challenges that we are dealing with on a daily basis. Just battling away, trying to get the show to you. You put a piece of five-hour content out there that no one asked for, and a surprising amount of people listened to, and then you face

all sorts of battles in the fallout from that. I actually took several notes this morning, Tim, some of which I would just love to dive into with you. I took notes too. You'd go for gold, mate. Well, obviously, you know that this television has caused a lot of problems in Big and Carey's relationship, which, you know, if television is what's causing problems, I think you've got

to look deeper inside than that. She's saying to him, I don't want to be one of those boring couples who watch TV and bed and don't talk. Could you imagine? So they got back together, whatever, in 2010. Could you imagine five years later what Netflix has done to this couple? it is completely rewritten the rulebook on watching television in bed. I mean, do you think Carrie's made her piece with that,

or do you think they're just a seriously unhappy couple? I actually suspect that streaming services like Netflix have brought people like Carrie into the fold where they're more understanding, because it's not like previously when the uninitiated would think of television, you just think of this big grey blob of deadliest catch in your head and you write the whole medium off as a whole. but what people have access now is they've got access to niche content

that fits their requirements, what they want to see. Got a little itch that can only be scratched by doco? Mate, tons of them. Tons of them on that. Do you want a bit of light entertainment or some really well-executed drama? Maybe an excellent comic book series, you know, a la Jessica Jones. Fucking flip that on. It's all there waiting for you.

This episode brought to you by Netflix. Yeah, as they all are. Well, you know, that's a fair point, I guess. So maybe it isn't the death now. The other thing around that TV was when he's watching Deadliest Catch, and you know you can hear one of the characters in Deadliest Catch going, Is that all you got? Yeah.

That sounds to me so much like Aiden. It's so weird that you say that, because I think I've got a vague memory of, I thought, I heard that voice to this watch, and I thought something, and I can't remember what my thought was, and it might have been that as well. it's got to be but surely if they have used

the name deadliest catch they're using a real clip from the real show right well you know Aiden or whatever the actor's name is he probably spent a bit of down he could have been shooting a crab fishing movie and he did some research by going on Deadliest Catch for a week could be a celebrity guest episode

oh my god the crossover that'd be so good if Michael Patrick King snuck that in didn't tell anyone that the guy who plays Aiden is in Deadliest Catch and that's the clip that they fished out, don't excuse the pun, and decided to put in the movie. These are the Easter eggs that people don't otherwise know about and that's why what we're doing is so fucking valuable. Yeah, it only takes 44 watches to crack that nut as well. And then when they are in the market, right, so according to this timeline, I think Aiden is actually

the character Aiden is the guy from Deadliest Catch, so I think after Carrey and Aden split, he sort of went on a huge soul searching journey before he met his current wife and wound up on these sort of Alaskan big rigs fishing and what I wanted to happen when you know when they see each other in old Abu Dhabi in the market and the music's playing and they're sort of walking towards one another in slow motion I can't remember if I've particular this before all I want to happen there is to just for them to just keep walking past each other like they've both spotted something just past the other person and they're so absorbed in it.

Just a little red herring. Just something different. It would be a lovely play on that oft-used trope. Yeah. It would be a really nice bit of comedy. And can you imagine how devastating that would be

for the super fans? Because I mean, MKP's already shitting on them with the whole film in the first place. But if you're watching, you're like, oh my God, Carrie and Aiden are going to be reunited in Aby-Dabie.

And then they just keep walking and Aiden just walks out of the movie forever. Whoops. But, yeah, they obviously didn't go with that choice. Guy, I'm going to, if I may, dive into a couple of my nights that I've written here as well. For some reason, I've put time codes in as well. And I've just written comments.

They're kind of like journal entries. I've got a 0 minutes, 30 seconds. The movie appears to be playing slowly, Alicia Keys in slow-mo or something. I'm scared. Yeah, I remember that thought. That was, I actually checked my media player on my laptop to make sure I was playing it at the correct speed. because it felt like everything was playing at about sort of 75% of what it should have been, which was terrifying because then what is already a two-and-a-half-hour movie

could have turned into like three and a quarter. But it wasn't. It was just my mind playing tricks on me. It just felt longer, right from the get-go, right from the first frame. Yeah. Yeah. Terrifying. That is terrifying.

It's also kind of empowering, if you think about what the human brain's doing there and is capable of and you think about you know your your personal mental relationship with this movie i mean this this movie is running ram ram shot is that the word it's running riot rough shot it's just running all over you mate you you just you're sort of this passive um target and the movie's just a big tank you've got a you've got to you've got to stick up for yourself when the movie starts you need to stand up in whatever room you're in and look at the screen and say no not today death quick shout out to uh till death to us blart our sister podcast a lovely enterprise which involves only watching a terrible movie once a year do you call it a sister project

if it's if it's if it's you doing it or is it generally if it's like other people but the spirit connects it you choose i call it a sister it's our sister podcast um you can check it out at deathblart dot com, I think. Did I buy that URL? Definitely at till death do usblart.com. Shout out to the Macquarie brothers, my brother, my brother and me. The next note I had is at the six minute mark. Now, guy, I'm going to paint a picture for you. You're at a wedding that's in Connecticut.

It's two dudes getting married. You're fully dressed. You've done your hair. You're like, you're ready to get out the door. Like a lot of time and energy has been put into getting yourself perfect. You're going to fuck at that point? Someone you married to? I love this line of questioning. Look, you know, you've got to...

I actually admire this about Camberg. They're indulging their sexual whims. It's important for a healthy relationship. I see your point, though. I don't think... Thanks, Dan Savage. I don't know you would have such a strong opinion on it, but I was actually happy to hear that.

You're right. Maybe I'm being unfair. No, no, but yeah, I mean, goes both ways though because you do have to think Carrie is the best man she has obviously spent a lot of time on her hair I mean it's a it's a bloody crow's nest

it's crimp it's crimps city baby it's obviously taken so long to do but it is so shit she also comes because big's like how's my tie and then Carrie comes out and says how's my tie which is classic both of them first of all

they're both self-involved she kind of overrides his question with the fact she's also wearing a tie and he's like you need a little help touches it for 10 seconds and proceeds through absolutely nothing to the bow tie I just think no you know I'm

I like your question but I'm all for them having sex if anything that's a rare bastion of hope for their otherwise doomed relationship I like what you're doing for my dark approach guy you're questioning it you're meeting it

you're coming right up to its face and you're shouting in it and you're going, hey, I'm treating, pull your socks up, mate. I'm treating it like a big, scary dog. And, you know, a dog can smell fair. And you got to, you got a... It's so funny that you use dog as an analogy because my next note came out the seven-minute mark

and I just wrote down, I don't know why, but I want more of Samantha's dog in the movie. And I do. I stand by that comment. Yeah, it's funny. It's wearing a little hat. There's a lot to like there. Tim, before we plough through the rest of your nose,

because I'm curious, I would like to know at what point did your note-taking seriously start to drop off? Because there's no way in hell you kept up this level of note-taking for two-hour, two-and-a-half hours. 20-minute mark. And then what happened?

I had two more notes after that and that's it. And what was happening in your mind? I just kind of surrendered, I guess. Because it's sort of like the notes are almost like you were putting up a battle to the movie. You're like, yeah, I'll think about you, I'll chew over you, I'll try and come up with some angles, you know. I'll think of some thoughts while I'm watching.

And then eventually you just, it's just sheer brute force of the film. You just go, oh, fuck it, fine. You win. You win. I'll just switch off. I'll just let you wash all around me with your. Does it occur to you, the insanity of trying to, um, trying to wrestle with an inanimate object such as this movie? The movie will pay, it's like hitting a tennis ball against a wall.

hoping to win yeah you're right it makes no sense because I I made a few notes throughout I got but yeah it drops off that point I think we flagged it last week

when they have that argument and the whole movie just turns to shit oh I mapped that out actually it's interesting because that happens at the 27 minute mark of the film and Sex and the City episodes on HBO were half an hour and they don't have ads so they would have been

almost exactly that length so it is like yeah that's the level of metric metric pichle king has been able to mattress pikelet sings yeah

he's been able to only do that one trick that he knows how to do of write a half hour episode of sex in the city and then the whole facade crashes down around him and the movie just grinds

to an absolute fucking halt and there's there's nothing anymore there's no point there's no pace there's no pathos the peas are gone it's a possible

episode of Sex and City saddled with a two hour addendum yeah yeah it's not it doesn't make for pretty watching

an epilogue that involves the girls going to Abu Dhabi and one of them passing someone who's not their husband and then actually and this ties in quite nicely

with what I noticed this week and I think I've said it before but like just the clutching its straws so pretty much when they're tying up all the loose ends that they've sort of scattershot put through the movie namely the passport going missing and like when they're trying to get out of Abu Dhabi and they go and get the passport and there's no problem with that and then they go uh they can't get a cab and and carry uses a tip she picked up from a TV actually from uh it happened one night where she reveals reveals her leg And that's such a hamfisted attempt to be like, oh, look, look, the characters have learned something, you know, or anything or anything like that.

And then, as they drive the cab out, they just, for the sake of reminding everyone that, in fact, they are watching the same movie from 12 hours ago, they show you the heart of the desert poster in the background. and it's just Yes It's It's just a It's gratuitous It's just like the Loosest

Most obvious Transparen attempt by Michelle Patricia Kingie To make The make the thing feel whole But you can't put two eggs

In a cup of flour In a mixing bowl And then just You know Leave it for two eggs and come back and tell everyone that you've made a cake. You've made a fucking mess. The perfect analogy for this.

Clean it up. Clean it up. I would like to, if it's right with you, Guy Montgomery, give a shout out to some people who have donated to the cause at Wurst Idea of All Time.com. You click on the merch page. Whatever it takes to make my boy Timbat feel better. I am, I think it's important we keep recognising these people because they're troopers.

And to all the people who bought t-shirts and stuff and posters for like Christmas and whatnot, fucking God bless you, because it really warms the cockles of Guy and I. So there was two friends, two girlfriends on Facebook that flicked us a message. They had got each other the same shirt. Our match is a Christmas present. I would like to speak to. I'd like to speak to that just quickly. Would all you

pussy-ass motherfuckers please buy one of the t-shirts which says love every day? From what I've noticed online no one has bought a t-shirt representing my tattoo and I'm going to go on a limb and say it's probably because

it leads with the Latin word kunktis meaning love. Now I understand that, you know, at a glance, it might appear to be another much more unsavory word, but it's not. I've got it on my body. The least one of you could do is wear it for one day of your goddamn lives.

I treat this as a contest, and Tim is pretty much beating me. I don't know how many to zip. I haven't sold a single fucking t-shirt. Oh, mate. Oh, mate. I don't know what to tell you. You're going to lose, you're going to lose heartily. Annabelle Pirey is the cool person who sent us the photo of her and her mate wearing the t-shirts.

The following people have donated to us, though. They didn't even ask for anything in return guy. They just flicked us money. Alan Dague Green, he gave us $50 US for crying out loud. And he has written a note to us saying, I waited until the director's commentary to watch the movie, and goddam I sat through the entire

five-hour episode and watched the movie twice in a row oh Jesus you two are legends possessing an unreasonable power to entertain also question mark

you demonstrate an alarming familiarity with United States geography I know fuck all about New Zealand geography cheers Alan for saying so I don't know love the states

we're America files just for anyone listening who hasn't listened in the five-hour episode and is thinking about doing it the way Alan did I don't think that's the right right way. I think the right way is to just bite it off in small chunks. I think do it on a

trip. I wholeheartedly recommend getting on a plane and having that downloaded into your iPhone and just shutting your eyes and letting it wash over you. Especially if you've got like some sleeping pills or something just to get you in a bit of a relaxed zone and just let the whole let us be a warm audio blanket that you can wrap yourself. fine on. Nah, no, that's a bad idea, man. Imagine that. You'll have some fucked up dreams.

Yeah, you wake up an hour and just so groggy and dehydrated and there's just two people losing their minds in your ears. That is not a healthy flying situation. There's something very true about it, though, like emotionally true. You're getting really close to where we're at. The following people have also donated Sean Archer, James Roberts, James McNally, who says, I know you guys are suffering for the sake of, well, I don't know why.

Our entertainment, maybe. I just hope that you keep in mind the benefits are worth it. That's a line from the movie. Good on you. Carol, and, oh, wait, did I shut this person out last time? I don't know, Tim. Industries. I don't know how to say the last time, unfortunately.

I feel like you did because you struggled with a last name last week. Yeah, I didn't realize we could leave comments. I'm throwing you guys a dollar because I love that term and because you guys are the balls. Love the show and how it showcases your collective, blah, blah, blah. Love from California. Good on you, Carol. Thank you. at the kind of words. I'm sorry I just skipped over them,

but I'm not here to blow smoke up my ass. California. Jonathan Byr. He knows how to party. Eric Peevy. Joshua Peters, writes, these reparations are only a fraction of what you deserve for your pain and suffering. Thank you, mate. Stuart Hill.

Stuart Hill. It's just 50 bucks to let you know that a dude in Dallas, Texas has listened to every episode and enjoyed every single second. When you did that Southern, even when you did that Southern voice episode, For this $50, I would ask that you please promote one small thing for me in Dallas, Texas. This is in quote marks, guys, so I've got to read it verbatim.

When you visit Dallas, Texas, and you are super thirsty for coffee like coffee, man. Please visit Serge, coffee in downtown to get your fix. Hey, I like that. When you do, tell him Stu sent you. I'm not the owner. I get nothing from this. I work at an ad agency around the corner and trying to get these guys a little publicity because I love them, and they are good humans.

They are no Big Pipe, but if Big Pipe was a coffee business in Dallas, Texas, then Serge would be them, maybe, probably. Go. Love Stu Hill. Stu? I do love you, Stu Hill. Okay, well done.

You bloody Trojan horse and ad for this coffee house into our podcast. But you're in advertising, mate. Fucking do something about it. I know you get given clients, but a little pro bono work for Serge. Yeah. There are other ways to get this done.

Look, I'm humbled and flasker. by all of this, particularly at this time of year when I look forward to blowing these donations on supplies as I ring in 2016 a year full of promise and a very small slate of sex and the two

screenings. It makes me so happy guy, it almost makes me want to squeed up. It makes you want to what? Scooby-da-bapa. Scoop-a-bub-a-bub-a-bub-a-bba. Scoop-a-bba-bba-scribba. Chess-ness. the shed dogs, bit all the he dogs.

Scoop-da-ba-p-pa-pa-pa. And the town never knew such a hullab-a-balloo. What's he drinking? Is it a ceramic mug? That's right. Every week. It's the same question. Only one question to be repeated and nauseam.

I want to be honest with you. I was making a note during this scene pertaining to the narrative advice of Carrie Bradshaw speaking over what happens fucking blinking your misset style cameo and it's easy to forget that didn't see the guy a lot of people write to us they say I've watched the movie coffee guys are not in it and we go look you have our word he's there ever so briefly but he is there yeah frankly the notion that he doesn't exist at all is kind of an affront to our sanity

the guy's in the movie all right the thing is though guy maybe he isn't sometimes and like today as an example of that no you've just sounded more insane by suggesting that some weeks he doesn't show up to work

you're revisiting the helicon days of grown-ups too and I was convinced that different performances were occurring week in week out I still feel like in your heart of hearts you're playing by that game in this as well I do think that yes I think the thing with the coffee guy is He's got a lot on

He's a busy dude And sometimes he can make it To the performance And sometimes he can't That's right Apart from featuring in Sex and the City 2 every week Maybe that's what it is Maybe he only shows up for our screenings

And if a more fair weather fan Dips their toes into the Sex and the City two pool Coffee guy He doesn't always show up Because he's flat tacked with his other stuff featuring in quite literally every other movie or television program known to humanity

he's in everything he's like Superman and Seinfeld except in every cultural product that's ever been produced did I just hear your parents laughing in the background yeah good ears mate I don't know what you're up to

I imagine your dad just explained the concept of the podcast to your mum she listens no no yeah dog Really? Yeah, absolutely. That's crazy.

My little sister... Hold on. Mom, you listen to the podcast, eh? Yeah, she does. Now she's going to be in it. My little sister listens. My older sister doesn't get down with podcasts at all. She broke her arm very severely earlier in the year,

snapped her humorous in two. She's got a 15 centimetre metal rod put in it. And when she was recovering, she'd go to the treadmill, and she would listen to the podcast while running on the treadmill. And I was talking about it with her the other day, because we're both home for the holidays. And she said, yeah, I started listening to it on the treadmill, but then eventually it just made me want to kill myself, so I had to stop. I assume that's happened to a lot of people. They dip their toes in, and I listen to the odd episode or two, and then they'll go like, you know what, fuck this.

And I wish that we had the same ability to choose our own fate. You know, that's what coffee guy is doing every week, guy. He's sometimes deciding to just not pop in that week. He's like, oh, fuck it. I cannot. I'm here most of the time. 90% of the time I'll make it in, but I'm taking a sick day at this day. I cannot deal.

I think that is what happened to him this week as well. I think he's crook. He's too much coffee. He's gotten ill. It's the holidays. He's full of turkey and caffeine. I mean, the toilet is an absolute mess. He's flat tack.

He just can't. He can't dip out to hear those screaming banshees plan their trip to the Middle East. He's got too much on, too much other shit on. He's got to be on the toilet for extended periods at the moment. It's not a good saying. All power to him. I actually respect him more for that, if anything. I would like to just offer my thoughts and prayers to coffee guy during this difficult toilet period for him.

I hope he comes out of this all right. I'd like to offer my thoughts and prayers to the family and end. guests of coffee guy over this difficult period. It would be for the best if you would use maybe the upstairs bathroom. The bathroom on the ground floor is more or less out of order for the foreseeable future. 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.

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What is happening in there is a crime scene. It is a crime scene, that's right. It's been taped off. Even Coffee Guy's not allowed in there. He's got the NYPD over. They've cordoned off the whole area. I mean, no one comes in or out. The entire house is on lockdown,

such as the devastation of what's happening there. So pray for Coffee Guy. Pray for Coffee Guy. Save Coffee Guy. It's like Save Ferris, if you're familiar with John Hughes's career during the late 80s. Anyway, look, guy, I've got one more note that I just want to,

dwell on. I can leave the other ones at the door, but the guy at the bar being Jared from the pretender, I just can't get over this fact. And I noticed something with that information that we got given by a fan on this watch, armed with that context, that guy who could be an assassin or could be hitting on big, we're still not 100% sure which one. It's definitely the same character from the pretender because what he does right is he's at this weird environment, he's at a gay wedding, he's out of sorts, he's found a tux to get into, so he can and blend in and he's just trying to follow everyone's lead and not aroused suspicion so it makes sense that when big goes have a nice night Jared says back to him either seductively or threateningly

depending on what mood you're in he says back to him you have a nice night because he's just parroting lines because that's the best way to blend in just like pick up what you're hearing around you and just repeat it that it's definitely the same character from the pretender he is a genius who's escaped in the institute where he was held as a child and Miss Parker's on his case and he's just trying to get away. There's so much going on if you just scratch a little bit under the service of this film.

I believe the expression is still waters run deep and what was once thought of as an offensive and destructive two and a half hour Middle Eastern romp I'm pretty happy to say we are slowly uncovering is in fact is just littered with characters

and heroes and villains there's a lot going on yeah I actually it's originally I had two shining lights this week time and you still owe me one and we do have to

dig into that big leatherbound book before we can dip out of the conversation and carry on with our lives but I noticed panic is spreading through New York City on account of Brady

and when Miranda rushes to the science fair to watch Brady take up first prize in the second grade science contest, beating, I can't remember her name with what is static electricity, an outrage that is reverberated through the school for years since. There is a parent, a blonde woman, as she looks frenzied and panicked, and she is describing something fearful to another parent, and this is happening exactly as it is being revealed that Brady has won first prize, and I don't know her involvement, but she knows something,

and she's trying to get the word out before it's too late. Wow. I would encourage you to look for her. So when Miranda enters the building, one of the first shots you see is a very frenzied and panicked blonde woman explaining the situation to someone. I certainly, I'll keep my eyes peeled. And then also, while we're talking about Miranda again,

I'd just like to say that while they try and make a happy ending for everyone in this film, I noticed, as she's giving her, a new workplace, a new law firm at the end, while Sydney Lop is True Colour's place. The catering at that lunch is an absolute shambles. There's no cutlerial plates. There's no rhyme or reason to what's happening.

And while I'm very excited that Miranda's got a new job, I mean, there's no arguing the fact that she's downgraded in terms of law firm. This place is an absolute disarray. And frankly, it'll be lucky to make it to the end of the calendar year. I love what this comment communicates to me because it means that you were with the movie right till the end because that is the epilogue of the film that you're describing

and you were still tuned in with enough detail to be able to pick out the lack of cutlery on that table. You deserve a medal for that guy. There's three staff members of the catering team. One of them is tossing a salad. God knows what he's going to serve it into. The other two are reaching back and forth from the table as if there are jobs for them to do.

I mean, these people are going to eat out of a trough from all I understand you can't hire out a premium grade catering service and make your customers eat out of a trough and I'll bloody, I'll talk about that till I'm blue in the face, Tim. That's the horn of truth. Cool. We should get a sound of fixed bank.

I like that. How do you want my shining light? More than anything. It was the music that underscores the moment where the Louis Vuitton reveal comes when the women and burkers take off their burkers. and they're in the new season line and there's just like the music is trying

so hard to imbue a sense of emotion into that otherwise wretched scene the sequence is just happening in front of you you're just going Jesus fucking Christ not only do we all need to pack up our things and go high and we've been in this movie cinema for two hours and ten minutes now

nothing's happened but this is just an affront to good taste and the correct way that I think globalisation should be happening. It's an affront to common sense and movie making in general. And the music is trying so hard to add a bit of delicacy and vulnerability to the moment. Commeritory, it's trying so hard. So I'd like to tip my hat to the composer and good job.

I'd like to tip my hat with you. The amount of work that was left to the, scoring of this film is unfathomable. The fact that the composer and the orchestra who played the music don't get a leading title credit at the start of the film is it's an insult and it's an indicator to the egomaniac that was Michael Pickles Kingston.

Either that or he did a deal where he was like, I'll do the work but there's no way I want my name anywhere near this. So if I'm signing this, I'm getting your money and I will not be mentioned. Give me a pen name if you need to put some title card there for composer. Equally possible. And now, as always, Tim, it's time to head up to the 30th floor of a huge glass building, a room with nothing but screens and the etchings of a madman.

It is, of course, Mr. Biggs, a big book of ideas. What's he brewing? What's he thinking? Guy. Big is known as a man of a lot of thoughts and concepts and ways to make money for himself and for others, and for himself to recommend to others that he charges out those ideas for to make himself money off the back of the company's making money. Now, one of his most recent concepts that he's floated to a airline is instead of the traditional route, to get from New York City to Abu Dhabi in a more direct flight path to go over the plains of Africa

there's no real rhyme or reason to how this would save time certainly would seem to be more expensive because of the jet fuel but I have a big in his head yes I have a theory about I because I I know this and I have a theory about why exactly Big

wants this flight path and that is... Well, we all know Big of course from the popular group Indicallactic GloryHill the world's premier 17 piece, Skar King's cover band

now a lesson on fact is that Bigg's brother is Steve Lukather. Now Steve Lukather of course he's the guitarist, singer and songwriter who pretty much led toto the rock band toto now we all know toto's most popular song of course is africa

a song which is occasionally forgotten and frankly uh africa is steve lucifer big's brother pretty much is only remaining source of serious income and so the logic holds if we can just i mean it would make a lot more sense to just give him some of his money but if we can just get these planes flying over the Plains of Africa. The unfortunate thing is a misunderstood tribute as well. Big thought that the song was talking about aeroplanes over Africa, because he's not familiar with what the word planes means in terms of a stretch of land.

So he thinks that not only is he doing a musical business favour to the band Toto, but he thinks it's some sort of emotional tribute as well, taking the lyrics of the song to put more planes over Africa. And it just doesn't make any fucking sense. No, the whole thing's horribly misguided. I believe, if I'm not much mistaken. And this is why it's such a bizarre gesture. It's so generous, but it's also so misguided.

I bless the rains down in Africa. So unless that airplane is distributing water, I mean, there's no correlation between the song and the new flight path at all. except for in the insane inner sanctum of Mr Big's cranium which is a terrifying place to sit yourself even for half an hour you certainly wouldn't want to spend a lifetime in there

good Lord no Guy that might just about done do it for us this week absolutely what absolutely I agree oh good you can't cut out there

So that would be a good time. Hey, what I'd like to do, though, is in exchange for the very variable sound quality of this episode and its lateness, apologies, for both those things. As Penance, one of our fans by the name of Josh Peters has sent us a cover that he's done of the worst idea of all-time theme song, which, by the way, if you want to do a cover, by all means, do it. send it to us. I'm not going to guarantee that we'll play it. Excuse me. Jesus, those sneezes are coming in so hot on my headphones. But bless you.

I actually, I kind of leaned into the, it doesn't matter. What matters is Josh Peters has sent us a theme song, a take on the original, which is done by Matt Mulholland, who you should look up if for no other reason than his recorder cover of the Titanic. theme. In fact, my heart will go on. We'll post that on the Facebook page. We absolutely will, because we don't talk about the talent of Matt Mulholland enough,

but he's the one who just, like, in a matter of a couple hours after I asked him, just shout out that theme song, which we've been using all season. This, however, is Josh Peters doing a cover to take us home. Guy, any final words or thoughts as we're heading to the new year, 2016, and the home stretch of this season? Look, happy holidays to one and all. I'd like all of you for whatever you're celebrating or not celebrating you secular maniacs

to receive from me, Guy Montgomery, to you, kind listener. A kiss. For a kiss is always a gift. Take a time, Josh. 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.

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