The Worst Idea Of All Time - REPLAY: S02E53 - Friendzone 3

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

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Hello and welcome to the Friend Zone. Which number are we up to with these, Guy, Guy. This is the third time we've been on the record as Friends Zone. Tim, and probably not the last. It's commitment. Commitment to friendship. That's what we're all about. We're coming to you.

I always want to say live and it never is because it's a podcast. We're coming to you recorded from New York City live. At the time. On Saturday night, it's New York. No, wait. It's backwards. It's not Saturday either. Guys, we've had such a thrilling adventure.

Pre-recorded on a Monday morning in New York City. It's the friend zone. So, if you are hoping. You're hoping to hear us talk about watching Sex and the City, too. Oh, yes. Piss off. Download another podcast. That's not available on this one.

That's not what this one's all about. Good disclosure guy. I'm glad you pointed that out. Just bring it up up front, because you don't want someone sitting around for, what, 10, 15 minutes going, when are they going to talk about it? We've already got your download, too. This is what I love about that little scam. It's a binary thing.

It's a one or a zero, you know? I can't tell if you listen to five minutes and skipped off. It's a Ponzi. Hey, guys, we want to tell you a short tale of how little old Timbo and Guy Guy came from New Zealand to this land of opportunity and freedom. Just deal with it, man. Guy Guy's a good name and it's really starting to catch on. I don't think it is. We left New Zealand a while ago now.

It feels like maybe 10 days or so. And we got to the airport bright and early, about 20 to 6 from memory. And the first thing that happened is they said. said gentlemen your plane is two hours late and we said you know frustrating yes okay also yes that's fine the only thing is we do have a connecting flight to los angles california uh is through sydney through sydney is there any way you could rearrange that and the lady said yes but of course gentlemen but of course gentlemen we are quondas we are professional airline this is what we do this is you know we deal with us every day so then we

Got on said two-hour delayed plane. Well, no, no, no, before that, she said, this is the flight that you will be booked on from Sydney to Los Angeles now. And we said, that flight looks very early. Like, the plane that we're traveling to Sydney on will need to set a land speed record, an air speed record, sorry, if we are to catch that flight.

And she said, yeah, I know, but I know what I'm doing, gentlemen. I work here. Do you work here? I don't think you work here. Yeah, and we said, no, you're right. We don't work here. And she said, and even, even in the unlikely scenario, this plane doesn't set an airspeed record and you can't board this connecting flight. The good news is, at Qantas, the airline that I work for, we have all sorts of flights going from Sydney to Los Angeles.

It's insane. And we have to put you on one. It's incumbent on us to make sure that you get on that flight. At this point, we did not push back. So we're like, that's fine, this is great, this is groovy. Let's go to America, we said. So we jumped on the plane and we got on there and then we got down to Sydney. And lo and behold, that flight that we thought was impossible to catch.

was impossible to catch. It had, I think, already left by the time we touched down. Absolutely. It had left by about half an hour. So we get there, and they're like, gentlemen, please come with us. Yeah, we got our names read out on the whole plane. They said, would passengers batten Montgomery, please report to the customer service desk at the end of the airway?

And we said, yes. Normally, I don't respond to anything other than Timbo and Guy Guy, guy, when I'm traveling with my companion, but this time I'll make an exception. So we went with them, and they said, bad news. You've missed that flight. Good news. Let's fix it up right now for you. Let's get you on another flight.

We said, cool. And they said, hey, here's something. There's no more flights today going to Los Angeles. And we said, that seems unlikely. And they said, well, look, do you work at Qantas? And we said, no. They said, do I work at Qantas? And we said, I don't know.

And they said, they tap the name badge. Maureen. Moraine said, this is a Qantas name badge. Read it and weep. And so then she said, do you know what I'm going to? to do for you gentlemen today is i'm going to put you on a flight to san francisco it's not los angeles but it's close by and then that will connect back up to l a and we said that's not perfect but it's okay it's at least okay and she said okay well if you just give me a moment i'll sort

out all of this booking and you'll be up and running and away and laughing and then we went and we sat down and we had a coffee and then we came back up to the desk and she said gentlemen i've something's gone awry i've booked you on a flight that goes to new york City. Yeah, she said the flight to San Francisco, all good. But someone along the line, here at Qantas, this professional airline, running a very tight ship, has booked the connecting flight all the way to New York City, but you don't want to go New York City yet.

You're not ready for that, which we replied, correct. That's why we never told you to send us to New York City. She said, we'll go, if you can just go away and sit down, please. Could you please just go and sit down and stop watching me while I work? And we said, certainly, Maureen, we apologize for standing here while you work. And we went away and sat down, and we came back 10 minutes later. And she said, gentlemen, I have some news. The plane that was set to fly to San Francisco this very day.

That's not a plane you want to fly on. That plane's not looking so crash hot. Our engineers have just got back to us, and that plane is essentially the world's heaviest paperweight right now. She's not fit to fly. And we said, okay, well, that's an interesting development. What can you do for us? And she said, good news.

Good news, ye gentlemen. the plane I can put you on will fly from Sydney to Dallas What she failed to mention is that it's the longest possible commercial flight You can go on as a passenger On the planet On planet Earth

In fact she built it as quite convenient Because then we'd only be in Dallas airport For three to four hours Before connecting to our flight to Los Angeles And we said Okay Maureen It's not perfect But I understand you're under duress

We're under duress too We'll just make it work so we've already been delayed in Sydney for a couple hours we've been delayed for a couple hours at the top we're now going to Dallas which is a 15 hour flight and so that's a pretty juicy nugget then we get down we touch down at the airport there what is it called again Fort Worth

Fort Worth Texas and we go to the information desk and we say hey we would love to see some of your beautiful city what are the chances of a couple of fellas like us getting out there for a few hours then coming back and they said whoa no you don't want to do that you will not get back to the airport in time and we said well we do want to see Dallas but we do want to get to Los Angeles so instead why don't we sit in the airport

and watch sex in the city too one of my favorite ways to while away the hours and that is the episode that you just heard the last one and it was very sad and made me sad and we let so we landed because I've always wanted to go to Texas

I always want to see the cowboys and the big stakes and the guns not this time and the cool hats but it wasn't for us this time So we land in Los Angeles. It is now sort of 9.30, 10 p.m. And we go to luggage carousel number four, and we stand there. And we watch the bags come falling, tumbling down,

tumbling down onto the carousel, and they go round and round. We watches every other passenger on a flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to L-A-X, collects their bag and leaves the airport. And we think, this is getting a little bit weird because our bags were on that flight. We were on that flight, and our bags were on that flight as far as we know. and after about 40 minutes when we're the only ones left standing there Tim says

and we are unsurprisingly a touch exhausted at this point we're probably not making the best decisions possible I think we're probably like we'd left time about 30 hours ago or something more something similar to that yeah probably was more so I said I'm going to go to baggage claim

find out what the situation is here oh God I don't worry Timbo's on the case you did you said it exactly like that and so I rocked up there and I was in a line for an awfully long amount of time, befriended some locals, had a good chit-chat to a nice lady. Good on you. And the queue. And she was pissed off as well. I think everyone in that queue really has a reason to be angry. Tough job. Tough job working the baggage desk. Eventually, I come to the front of the line

and I say, hello, I am looking for my luggage. I don't know where it is. And they say, give me your text, please. And I do. And she says, can you describe the luggage? And I did. And she said, Oh, it's just over here. Oh, that luggage, that luggage you've been waiting for for 45 minutes. Yeah, I don't know why you were waiting for it so long. It's been here the whole time. In fact, you know what we did with that luggage? We put it on a plane that was flying, you know, earlier than the one you caught from Dallas to L.A.

We didn't think to either put you on the flight or tell you that we did that with your luggage. It's just what we do here. So at that point, we grab our luggage. We walk out of L.A.X. by some metric defeated but by other metrics victorious because we are now in Los Angeles we've done it time to go collect our rental car

and rest our weary heads ready for an exciting adventure in LA but unfortunately ladies and gentlemen that was not to be in the immediate future for the time that we had sorted our bags got the luggage got out at LAX we're now we're steering down the barrel of about half past 12 at night

local time So our rental car company has closed for the day They've gone home to rest their weary heads And you know fair enough too You got to get your sleep LA is a busy town You got to be well rested You've got to stay on top of things

It's not good for us but it's good for them We go to Avis Avis quote us a rental car for the week At 500 American dollars And we said Avis We feel like we can do better That's pretty expensive It's quite a lot for the kind of car we're after

Which is your shittest car And they just said can we please have one of you shut his cars for a few days and then the lady said okay well look now there's a guy i know a guy he uh he's about 15 minutes from here i'm going to call him up i'm going to get him over here he's name's bruce he's going to press is a good guy bruce is going to come and pick you up he's got a great deal for you it's going to be i think it was three two hundred ninety five dollars for everything and we said that is cheaper we'll do that and then uh she leaves she goes on her lunch break at midnight and we just stand in avis buy ourselves for 15 minutes and then

Bruce shows up and Bruce is a good guy. He's not in a rush but he's a good guy and we drive to Bruce's lot and we get a Toyota Corolla and it is in very good condition it's 2016. I hasten to add I actually did think we were getting kidnapped at one point during that

there was a moment there was a moment It was about half an hour. Yeah quite a long way from Avis and LAX and we were just in a car with a guy called Bruce Yeah so we sort all that out and we think well we'd better get to the Airbnb post haste otherwise God forbid.

You know, we don't want to put our host Brian out. We'd hate to put Brian out. So we get to the Airbnb. And we do as he says, which is to dial up apartment number 317. And we dial up at 317. And there's no response. And I think, well, that's not good.

That's not perfect. But I'll tell you what. I'll give Brian a text. I'll give Brian a call. We give Brian a text. We give Brian a call. Brian doesn't appear to be receiving the texts or the calls. And we think ourselves, okay, let's regroup for a second here.

It's late. It's been a big day. A big day. Let's get some food in our time. It's about three days. It feels, I think it's about two. Two or three days, the day is. So we go.

The day is multiple days. We go to Mel's diner, fantastic place, late night joint. I order an omelette. Tim orders a burger. And we're sitting there. And Brian's not getting back to us and we're thinking, well, this is getting a little dire. So, Tim, always one to take control. gets out his iPhone downloads an app called booking which facilitates cheap hotel bookings

and uh you know your last minute kind of stuff those sorts of accommodation situations where it's like hey guess what we've got a hotel room available you've got a situation where you need to rest your wear a head somewhere let's get together and cut price and so that's what i did so i added the little credit card into there i found us a beautiful beautiful little hotel and uh pushed pushed in pushed in the buttons, pushed in the buttons and solidified a little purchase. And it was quite a lot of money, quite a lot. But I thought, you know what, this just, we need to end this.

We need to pull the rip cord on the night and we need to solve this. And not 30 seconds after I had confirmed the purchase that I figure out, ah, yes, absolutely, that is true. I have booked the wrong day. It had defaulted to a 3pm check-in time that day, of which we were at the very beginning of in the middle of the night. It was not going to work out for us. The good thing about third-party apps is you can't get that money back.

And by good, guy means terrible. So at that point, I'm at Males. I'm on my phone. I'm trying to figure out how to get this transaction cancelled. And the only thing I can think to do is ring the bank, cancel the credit card. I do in the nick of time. And that's that problem solved. That's right.

So that's all I problem to solve. In the meantime, I had called a hotel and said, look, I don't like these third-party booking apps. I'm coming to stay here. I'm going to pay you the appropriate amount of money. and they said, okay, that's actually fine. So it's about 1 o'clock now, but we've resolved 132. God, I actually don't know, but we've resolved the issue. We've got a place to stay.

We go to the hotel. We pay the bill. We're pretty much like Joseph and Mary at this point. We're just looking for any kind of manger situation, anything with the roof. We had picked up a baby along the way also. And some donkeys were just sniffing around our room as well. So we get into the hotel room, exhausted, but not defeated. Not triumphant, I wouldn't use that word to describe our travels.

At least a 40-hour journey from woe to go, from waking up to being able to lie down the next time. And before we rest our weary heads, Tim, you said to me, Guy, guy, I've got some emails I've got to send, they're important, they're business emails, I've got to get to these emails. I've got to tuck into a couple emails and then I'll be able to sleep. And that'll be fine. And then I open up my bag, and yes, that's right. That's right. I have left my laptop on the plane. What, but I'ma-na-ba-na-ba-a-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-bow-pow!

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You were very unhelpful. Good fortune, directed by Aziz Ansari. But we're here now. It was a good time. We're here now and it's fine. It's so good being here. I love this country. Los Angeles was great.

New York City is great. Yesterday, facilitated by Gillian Anthony from Time Out New York City, we went on a fantastic sex-in-the-city tour of New York. Yeah, it was so fun, you guys. You've got to do it if you're here. It's a little pricey. Yeah. I'll tell you that.

But it's a great way to see the city, even divorced from the series. Because I'll give you a little hot tip here. I haven't seen the series or the first movie. I didn't seen a lot of this. I haven't seen really any, like none of it was in my memory. But we're driving around and there's this great tour guide called Elise. We should get her last name.

I'll get it. And she was very funny and she had the right amount of cynicism for her job. Because you would go insane. You're saying the same thing to a different group of people every day. And we had a really good time. And what they do is she'll describe a place and it's role in sex in the city and sometimes in the city and the broadest season. of New York and then she'd play down a clip that was set there so you were sort of watching you

were matching up the real life location with the scenes from the TV show and the TV show looked funny and fun and very different from what we've been watching yeah it looked like it was pushing boundaries and making good jokes and excellent character decisions super divorced uh we got to go we I my girlfriend and I ate a cupcake from Magnolia bakery like a couple of ballers nice fun we hung out on the front stoop of Carrie Bradshaw was Brownstone apartment. We had some

Cosmos at the bar that Stephen Aden owned in the TV series. Nice one. We even saw the cafe or the facade

of a building. We were in a little known man by the name of coffee guy is known to pound Java by the kilo. It's not a real

cafe. It's not. And we, I'm so sorry to say this to report this to you guys, but we don't even

get to set foot in it. We will, though. We will. We're going to try again. The bus sailed right past it and so what is it it's not a coffee shop it's a gallery maybe something something weird um elise is elise spelt with an e brand do elise brandu she did a fucking

fantastic job shit she's good she's very good a job it was a really it was a really good time and it was very interesting to see um they had the die hard fans that the show has yeah that's true that is surprisingly high hit rate for um locations from sex in the city too i was very happy with that. Yeah. There was a good amount of locale was from there. And also,

hey, Cosmos are pretty delicious. Not a bad drink. I didn't know that. You can see why they took off. Pretty good. It was a good... The whole thing was... It was long.

It was three and a half hours. It was too long. I got real sleepy. By the end of it. I don't know what that was about. You're on a bus. You're looking at a screen. It was quite exhausting, to be honest.

The most hilarious bit for me, though, was right at the top. You've got Stanford. gives you a little video introduction to the tour and holy shit he was finding it in i think possibly literally because it looked like his little intro was filmed on a phone yeah it was pretty funny apart from that though top notch entertainment it was a hell of a time uh and after that we immediately came back to our apartment here in williamsburg and watch sex in the city too for the 51st and penultimate time and discussed it and uh that will be available for your consumption in the not too

distant future. Yeah, and maybe a day, day and a half, that kind of a thing. Right now, though, what I'd like to do... Oh, and holy shit, guys, that table read in L.A. Yeah, thank you very much to everyone who came out and everyone who read and expressly also to the good folks at Cineafamily and Ben's Acker and Blacker from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, very funny and lovely guys. If you haven't heard their podcast, you should!

We will find a way to release that somehow, someday, because it was taped and it is it's just too good to not share. God, that was a fun event. Busy Phillips did the most committed Adam Sandler impression. And if that name doesn't mean a lot to you, freaks and geeks, the mean one, the one is always mean to Lindsay.

The cool blonde one. That's her. We had her reading for Adam Sandler. It was bloody. It was such a good time. And we've got another event coming up. This seems like a good time to, I'll just chuck that in quickly.

New York City, we're here for you. The 3rd of March is when we're going to be doing our final ever go around the traps. and that is at the Bell House. So you can get tickets for that. If you go to Facebook.com slash worst idea of all time, there'll be an event pinned to the top there. And more than that,

I might piggyback on this announcement, Tim. I'm doing a stand-up show in Montreal. This coming Sunday, the, I don't know what Sunday is. Sunday the somethingth of March. Okay, third four. Is it after our event? The sixth. Sunday the 6th.

Sunday, the 6th of March, I'm doing a show at Montreal. I will release details on the Worst Saturday of All-time. Facebook page. It's at Loweck, the show will be at 8pm. It will cost you $5. Two local comedians are also doing. It's going to be a good time.

But Tim, dive into that word document you got cooking over there. What I've got is some of the donations that have come through. Again, thank you so much. If you ever,

if you check a few bucks our way, I can't thank you enough. If you buy a T-shirt or whatever, thank you so much. I try to grab the ones where people have added a little note, but my heart is with all of you. Thank you so much.

Crosby Cook gave us some money and said I recently rented sex in the city too to watch alongside the director's commentary and it just struck me how fucked up it is that I've paid money that supported a movie I hated and has given nothing to support

and I have given nothing to support a podcast I love well there's a surefire way to fix that if I've done the math correctly this should come out to about 55.5 human New Zealand dollars the $55 should be enough to cover your salmon expenditure from season one, the five senses

because of inflation. You guys are doing a great thing and I'll be sad to see it end. Thank you for picking up the tab on that salmon. We never paid the supermarket. Didn't you? Nah. Got those self-checkouts.

Bill Burt it. Guy, guy on the run. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-to-do-to-do-go-gai on the run. Onwards, Tim. Ryad Mavlazad. Probably fuck that one up. Gavis some money and said,

you guys make me laugh at the supermarket. it and people look at me like I'm a serial killer. Thanks for the show. Thank you. Our pleasure. For the money. Brooks Child, which is just such a good name. Very American to me.

It says, Oi, boyos, thanks so much for the podcast. It has brought me endless hours of laughter. When the Ogle Wars begin, I hope you die painlessly. You deserve that. Mucho love, Brooks. Katie Top has said, Timbo and Guy. Guy.

Having finally caught up with all your episodes, I thought chucking a little bit of money your way was the least I could do with the hours of entertainment you provided me. Have you both known how truly funny, creative and brilliant you are? Oh, that was kind. God almighty, I felt uncomfortable with that amount of kindness. You should. Your fans love you.

Time to start season one from the beginning again. Good on you, Katie. Get back in there. I don't know about that. I'm trying to screen some of these other ones. Ian? It's Ian, but I think it's spelled the Gaelic way. Would you call that an Irish spelling?

Is it E-O-I-N? Yeah, that's Ian. Edwards. Hey guys, love the show. I tuned in your direction. I tuned in your direction by my brother, Rory, which is spelt Gaelic as well. A couple of weeks back and have now started going backwards through the episodes. I'm now on the five-hour epic. As a filmmaker, I commend you for your dedication to this noble cause. After listening to the first two, TWIOAT episodes, I tried to sit down and watch the movie when I noticed it would be on terrestrial TV. I could literally only manage 30 seconds. You are stronger than I will ever be. Could you give a shout out to my brother Rory and tell him I love is balls? Consider it done. That's quite interesting.

It sounds like you're sort of mementoing that one. You start with the most recent episode and work backwards. It would be the story of two people going sane through watching sex in the city too? I guess. You're a good man, Rory. I mean, Aaron. You're both good. Rory's balls are good.

I would like to say that a lot of people have sent us a note. to listen to the most recent episode of Reply All. It's a podcast. It's a very good podcast, which I haven't quite delved into deeply yet. But I think it's on Gimlet, which is a very good network that a guy from Planet Money.

You know, I don't need to get into the backstory. I haven't listened to it yet. Apparently, it's very close to Brady the Rat King. It's very rat heavy, but factual. And we haven't delved in yet, but we will.

We're going to try and carve out some time. Keep sending all that rat-based news to us as well. It looks like rats are becoming very altruistic, or not altruistic, because humans are making them do it. But rats aren't all bad. I would like to acknowledge Justin McElroy who gave us a truckload of money

donation and bought a t-shirt as well. Huge amount of pennies. From my brother, my brother and me. Big old truck filled with copper. If you don't listen to that podcast. You're a real piece of work, Justin. I don't know what to do with all this stuff. You shit.

And I'd also just like there are a few other people on this list, but I want to skip to Sarah Vigiano is the last one because her message is clean, simple, precise and I think just really gets to the essence of the mood. Guy, are you ready for it? Yes. This is our swan song.

Sarah says, just take my money and finish it. Clean shot through the head. You get it. And accordingly, I'm going to put a clean shot through the head of this friend zone. It's been great hanging out with you, friends. It's been really fun. And we'll catch you on the next watch of Sex and the City, too, which is number 51. See you soon.

Bye-bye. Hey friends, it's Nikaela from the podcast SideHustle 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. I-O-T-O-P-L-A-Y dot com. This Friday, I'm an angel. See the wings? Don't miss the new comedy Good Fortune, starring Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, and Keanu Reeves. Critics rave.

It's having sent. Don't you have a budget, guardian angel? Kind of. You were very unhelpful. Good Fortune, directed by Aziz Ansari.