The Worst Idea Of All Time - DIRECTOR'S COMMENTARY (FOUR)
Episode Date: August 23, 2017Well this is it. After 3 years, hundreds of episodes, days worth of recording - your two boiz have hit their lowest ebb. Guy continues to discuss his favourite life experiences. Tim analyses the stati...stical probability of forty nine dice all coming up with the same number. There's empty beer cans as far as the eye can see, a bit of salad and too much technology. All capturing a frankly horrific podcast episode. What a trainwreck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Today.
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The hunt for the wildest movie of the summer.
Everybody run!
Ends here.
This is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately.
Borderlands. Now playing.
You gonna play that dastardly intro again?
Try, try, try, try, try, try, try.
Ow!
This movie's still fun.
There's a colleague who passed out
One of them dies, that guy's screw
One of them's a hothead, his name is Jay
One of them looks like Johnny Depp
And his name is Johnny Depp
Classic Maximum Joseph
Agree!
Ah!
You forget that films are supposed to have a point
As the Warner Brothers logo flashes onto screen for the first time today,
and I sit back, relax better,
and enjoy yet another screening
of Maximum Joseph
and Megan Oppenheimer's masterpiece.
Just fucking flick that switch.
It's time.
This is a bonus one.
You weren't even supposed to be here,
you know, for this one.
You know what I'm saying?
Are we still on? Are we still on?
Are we still going?
Studio Canal's indents just come up.
We've watched We Are Your Friends for the fourth time in a sitting.
It's just been on repeat.
It's just been going and we've been in the room.
So welcome, everyone.
It's a pleasure to have you with us.
My name is Timothy Andrew Batt.
My name, for those of you who are wondering, Guy Montgomery.
What a name.
Full name, please.
Guy Alexander Halifax Montgomery.
Yeah.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
Wait, is it that time?
Let me do it.
If you please.
Oh, yeah.
Go for it.
That's the wrong one.
Do what you got to do, man.
It's your thing. Do what you gotta do, man. It's your thing.
Do what you gotta do.
That's a good track.
So we're back in the film,
everybody.
Welcome.
Welcome along.
Five ahead.
Can't believe we're still here.
Fuck you.
There's Tiggy,
Buzz,
and Encino
that pay more than that.
We're gonna pull out on you then.
Sorry about that.
Pause, everybody.
Guy thought it would be an opportune moment to take a bite of his food while we were doing a bloody selfie of some photos.
He's forgotten how audio works
is what's happened there.
It's a classic mix-up.
Just a classic mix-up
is what's happened there.
Sorry, everybody.
Guy's not sorry.
He'll say he is,
but he isn't.
I've got to eat.
Hey, so guess what, everybody?
We're back in the movie.
We're dealing with our fuckboys!
Zac Efron and Jarhead, our first two key characters.
Mum Dad is here, and she's ready to give some cereal to some hungry boys and some OJ.
Is there a glass needed?
I don't think so.
Not for these gentlemen.
Now Squirrel's here with a car.
I fucking love the car they picked as well.
That is a genuine car that a lot of people who I went to high school with had.
It's like a, um, is this a Legacy? Subaru Forester? Or a Volvo? Forester. Fuck yes, it is a genuine card that a lot of people who i went to high school with had it's like a um is this a
legacy forester fuck yes it is a forester that's exactly what that shit is i think
uh i don't like how johnny depp acts around his friends what hour are we up to
six no five no look at the numbers dude
oh so like birthdays where you kind of add one to where you are yeah okay sweet
sorry for ever questioning you guy you're all good dude but i don't like the way johnny dip
acts around his friends you mean to be relaxed and like the best version of yourself with your
friends and i feel like he's still fronting and as pharrell sang and his song fronton which i really liked when it was released um i was just fronting
which doesn't quite tie into the message i was trying to communicate about how johnny depp's
fronting around his boys in this film he's just front what i'm trying to communicate is that
i don't like it i feel like squirrel's probably quite jahid's definitely very
true to himself he's got a fucking pretty jarring personality but he's not he doesn't compromise he
is who he is and you take him or leave him on face value zikoli probably not quite himself in the
same way jahid is for better and worse quite an earnest dude squirrel little softly spoken he's
pretty true to himself.
Johnny Depp,
he doesn't know who he is yet
and I find it disconcerting
that he's hanging out
with these guys.
He's a bad influence.
He wants trouble.
Well, not trouble.
He is trouble.
He is trouble, yeah.
Actually, one thing
about this boy is trouble.
Yeah, friends.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great singing along my friend
Sorry dude
So
I guess
Just getting some photos online eh
Yeah you gotta do it man
The question is
99% of your body is
Is
Oh fuck I've forgotten
Do you know what your biggest organ is Skin You've given away 99% of your body is... Oh, fuck. I've forgotten.
Do you know what your biggest organ is?
Skin.
You've given away the answer before the question even came.
You know what I'm saying, G?
Yeah, I know what you're saying, dog.
I was just saying, getting out there, spreading the good word.
So we're back to flyering.
We're back to scrubbing out the way. The world is yours.
The Scarface.
Incorrect, Scarface out the world is yours the scarface correct scarface the
world is ours fuck my titties what is there left to plumb you know the depths you're looking for a
beer aren't you deep in my i gotta finish this first okay sweet it does make you wonder though
how much of this film genuinely is um stock footage because there's
a lot of opportunities for it and if you check a caligrate over the whole thing you can usually
get away with that shit that's my understanding i ain't never made a movie before yeah i understand
the same thing that you do i just think i mean oh you know there's just no perspective left
we've really we promote social on a Thursday bro
We've met before
We're through the looking glass my dog
Oh that's not this bit
Miles away
Okay do you know what
I'm now at the point where time
Doesn't exist in a linear fashion
And everything is happening simultaneously
And it's up to me to just pick out random shit
Okay
Which of these
Which of these
F boys Yeah Wait we're pairing back pick out random shit. Okay, which of these if boys
Wait, we're
peering back. We used to say fuck
boys and now we don't?
It's not about what we used to say or what we currently say.
It's about what's being said in the moment.
Don't ask questions. Sorry, dog.
Putting our heads down and getting to our work. Sorry, dog.
Which of these boys
would you most like to go on
an eight hour road trip with no bathroom
breaks no stereo no cell phone squirrel no question i like it and what do you think
conversationally speaking some of the highlights that you could look forward to would be if anyone
has studied something at university i can usually like just have a conversation with them finding out what they know
yeah i love like just learning shit tell me what you learned yeah i can respect that you know i
love what about you who would you want to be in a car with it's not a bad point that you made
i feel like in terms of comfort for eight hours of sustained conversation you're probably going
to get the most mileage out of squirrels so i'm with you on that one sure i don't think it's that i love to learn about other people's learning because
i don't really retain the information very well but i do like the idea like i like the idea i like
you like the mood of it yeah i love i love everything about and around it i don't feel
like any of that information that they speak to me i really take with me but i'm always like
fucking awesome you're
out there you're doing your thing you know about a bunch of stuff that i nor most people have any
fucking clue about there's another way to take this though which is that you've got a grand
opportunity to be with a fucking mental lunatic for eight hours which is actually semi-attractive
to me just because it's so different to the life i've built for myself. It's like, you know what? Give me Jarhead.
No windows or toilet stops for eight hours.
Give me him and let's just fucking find out what I'm made of and what is in his head.
Yeah.
I would relish the opportunity in some ways.
Have you hitchhiked before?
I have, certainly have.
A few times.
Have you ever had any hairy experiences?
Not bad ones, no.
I mean, you meet questionable people, of course,
but nothing, you know, I haven't been murdered.
Well, no.
Clearly you haven't been murdered, Tim,
because we're recording this podcast together.
No, I mean, this isn't a...
I like to think if you had been murdered,
I'd be one of the first to know.
Unless you're Bruce Willis,
and I've been dead the whole time, you know?
No, there's no just but there's
no way because i don't see any other ghosts all i'm saying and this isn't a tacit uh carte blanche
for you to go and hitchhike because i don't need that kind of responsibility but i'm just saying
the experience that i've had personally limited experiences they may be um all good all good like
met good people and got from A to B.
Fine.
That's what it's all about.
That's what hitchhiking is about.
But people get murdered doing hitchhiking too.
So, you know, different strokes for different folks.
I don't think anyone sets out.
Courses for courses.
I don't know if those are the right colloquialisms to use.
I think you're right, actually.
Bad idioms.
Idiot idioms for the sitch.
What's your one, Squirrel?
This moment right here, this is my favorite part.
It's the moment before it starts.
What do you think about that as a mantra?
This is my favorite part of the night right here.
It's the moment before it starts.
Disappointing.
Because it means the bit that you're enjoying is never the present.
It's the anticipation of what's to come.
Which means whatever happens is always a letdown.
Like what he's basically saying, you know, if you use what's it called like conductive reasoning,
is that nothing is ever as good as you think it's going to be.
He's fucking pumped.
He's way more pumped before the thing happens than when it happens.
That means the thing is never as good
that's why I
never get too excited about shit
because then the thing is a pleasant surprise
that's
equally defeatist
it's just different means to the same end
it's tempering your expectations
but being
impressed by the present is more
rewarding than being excited about the future.
Just be grateful.
Be humble, bro.
Hey, hashtag be humble.
The fact that Squirrel does wind up dead time after time and here you are week after week alive and kicking suggests that maybe your philosophy is the right one.
Not that there is a right or wrong philosophy.
Time after time.
If you want him, he'll be
there, he'll be sleeping.
Week after
week.
And he's squirreled, he's sleeping
because he is dying.
Week after
week.
Week after
week.
Week after week. Time after time, time after time, time after time, you say, squirrel, have hair this line,
his sinus doesn't wind, and he's dead and he's dying and he's no longer breathing for me.
And he's off and he's where all of our bad goes.
Time after time.
We don't learn anything about what we have done to him.
Time after time.
Man, we're all over the show hey
do you know what people love about this podcast?
our chemistry, do you know what's lacking right now?
us being on the same wavelength
and I love it, I bloody love it
I will say this for why we work so well
together, we're never afraid
to finish each other's sentences
or sandwiches, which I should be
because I have a highly contagious disease
which is spread by saliva.
Pardon?
Nothing.
What a great scene we're watching right now
in this director's commentary
of We Are Your Friends.
We've been watching it four times today
because we thought that'd be a cool idea
for something to do.
Fuck, that is absurd to say out loud.
Here's Somaly.
Welcome to her.
Here's some glitter cannons.
They're confetti cannons, idiot.
Fuck whatever, dude.
That's clearly not glitter.
I've never seen glitter that big in my life before.
Okay, here's...
Have you ever seen a piece of glitter that's three inches long?
No.
Do you know why?
Because that's no longer glitter.
That's confetti.
I'm done.
I shouldn't have signed up to this one.
I've bit off more than I can chew.
Hey, for this to work, you and me, we're going to have to work together.
We are in it.
We are in it.
We are in it.
But I'll tell you what would help us is any kind of coal-powered chimney situation,
a real steam-powered effort to get to the end.
It's going to be nothing but a good thing
do you want
Dick Van Dyke
from the film
Mary Poppins
to stop by
your studio
and clean
your chimney
I need a chimney sweep
what's his character's
name in that
chim chiminy
chim chim
oh
ah
Bilbo Baggins
or something along the lines
no surely not
if I'm not much mistaken
oh my goodness
that'll kill me Bilbo Baggins as I live the lines. No, surely not. If I'm not much mistaken. Oh, my goodness. That'll kill me.
Bilbo Baggins as I live and breathe.
I watched the first episode of the Dick Van Dyke show the other day on Netflix.
Oh, how was that?
Wait, is that on Netflix now?
Yeah, it was good.
Heaps of funny gags.
Dick Van Dyke, what an absolute talent.
Who lives to such a true...
Wait, he's dead now, though, eh?
Nah, dude, he's still kicking it.
Is he fucking for real?
Man.
Holy shit. He's also in though, eh? Nah, dude, he's still kicking it. Is he fucking for real? Man. Holy shit.
He's also in good neck.
Oh, he looks...
He's in his 90s and he doesn't...
He looks like he's in his late 60s.
You thought he was dead 20 seconds ago.
No, I've seen recent footage of him in his 90s.
I know that I've seen him in his 90s, so that point remains.
I did think he died.
I thought he died in the last year.
Maybe not.
Clearly not. I thought he was one of last year. But maybe not. Clearly not.
I thought he was one of those things
that got kind of
overshadowed by Trump
getting in, you know?
How do you think
that the
costumes in this film
are going to age
moving forward?
Say, two decades from now.
A fucking t-shirt?
Probably fine, dude.
They're not very ambitious.
No, there's more to it than that, though.
You see full body shots you
know there's a few statement pieces made that is bernie see what is what i'm saying he's bernie
sanders the sensible alternative to the reality we're living in hey easy now you bernie brother
me well i'm a senator's sister my My brother, he's the senator of Florida.
His name?
Oh, fuck.
Senator Tim Key.
Like, Tim Key is a...
No, I don't know.
I was making up a name.
But Tim Key is a very, very funny comic from Britain.
He's certainly not the senator of Florida.
Hey, guess what?
These guys are smoking drugs.
And guess what the drug is?
Marijuana.
Mixed with tobacco.
Are we about to go to a house party?
Not anymore.
They're going to get into a Chrysler.
Is that a Chrysler?
Yeah, man.
How do you know that?
You can see his logo.
Or a Chevrolet.
Are they the same or different things?
I don't know.
We've both got gold logos.
I understand it.
Yeah, have some of this whiskey that this laced with PCP, dude.
Such a fucking weird, what do you call those things?
Hip flasks as well.
Here, this would be the honest pitch from James Reader the Fearless to Zicoli
to get into this Uber Lux with him.
Hey, dude, do you want to get into the back of a car while I play you with whiskey and PCP
and tell you about all the cities I've visited?
Yes, you're unlike.
That's exactly what I'm about to do to you.
So someone was coming to check on us and it terrified me.
But it turns out it was a reflection of the screen on the window.
It was your own soul.
My bad.
It's just my own soul coming to visit me to say,
Hey, dude, how are you tracking at the moment?
Do you think you're doing everything you could be doing?
And I said, hey, what a wonderful kind of day.
Hey, where we learn to love and play.
And get along with each other.
The paintings in this are pretty cool,
but it sucks that they don't name the artist.
Because I assume that what happened is the filmmaker, Maximum Joseph,
was like, yo, dude, we'll use your paintings and we'll give you a shout out in the movie.
Just like we're giving that Vine dude and whoever else, Instagram lady, whatever.
We'll give them shout outs too.
And then the artist doesn't get a single shout out.
That's all I have to say on the matter.
Feel free to jump in whenever you want, guy.
The Vine artist, this is just idle speculation about nothing very interesting?
I'm so glad you qualified your opinion at this point with this is just idle speculation.
Welcome to our podcast, Guy.
It may as well be called Idle Speculation with Tim and Guy.
But please go on.
Well, because our podcast isn't called idle speculation
with Tim and Guy Tim I thought
it might be useful for people who are tuning
in at this exact point for the first time
to qualify my opinion
as idle speculation
what do you got for me
baby
you've lost it haven't you of course I've lost it
we've spoken so much
between the occurrence of the thought
and me trying to say it out loud.
Well, that's earned me a couple Doritos.
So why don't you tell me about the 29th best experience of your life?
Oh, we're well beyond 29, my friend.
As I recall, we're in the mid-30s of the highlights of my life.
And would that I could relay some of those experiences to you,
but right now they all escape me.
As far as that to say,
I believe, if memory serves,
that the 34th memory already listed by me
in terms of highlights of my life
was a performance by Liza Minnelli,
Beyonce's smash hit single,
All The Single Ladies,
which in turn has triggered a memory
of the 35th highlight of my life which
believe it or not and this is almost becoming embarrassing at this point was when Liza Minnelli
I caught a performance of her performing Beyonce's all the single ladies inside of the film
sex in the city tour and I gotta say that for me was probably the 35th best experience of my life the 36th best
experience of my life where I'd speculate
would also probably be
another time a different instance
when I called Liza Minnelli
performed Beyonce's smash it single
all the single ladies in the film
sex in the city 2
it's so good to know about you dude this is what I love
about spending time with you is that I just
I live and
i learn and i listen and i learn and i love and i learn and i learn you know i now know the top 30
seven seven experiences of your short little life that's pretty cool that's a pretty cool
detail to have you're only a quarter way through your life you know that i reckon you'll live to
120 yeah it's my ambition hashtag 120 blaze it that's
why i keep injecting all these uh growth hormones into my calves no really yeah i'm gonna be immortal
good on you ever wonder why my calves glow like that you're not a big shorts man when i see you
yeah i know but you know how even when I'm wearing pants and my pants are glowing?
Yes.
And I'm always like, oh, these are just glow pants.
They're more expensive.
You do say that often.
Those are my calves.
Shit.
Do you know why they're glowing so much?
Hey, does it...
Why?
Because I've been buying very expensive growth hormones from a mad scientist.
I mean, again, A does not equal B.
But do they hurt?
My calves?
Yeah.
All the time.
Constantly?
It's agony.
It's like having the most intense cramps permanently.
Can I tell you something, though?
Yeah.
They look good.
Thank you.
Because as we know.
I don't know if it is worth it.
As we all know, everything's about looking good.
It doesn't matter if you're in severe pain or suffering from.
I'm in constant agony.
Essentially cancer.
I mean, if it's radiating green, it's probably cancerous.
It's not that.
It's growth hormones.
And they're glowing bright because they're glowing strong.
And I've never before have I been in this much pain.
Can I tell you that?
I wish I could articulate the agony I'm feeling right now.
I wish I could begin to try.
Could you try and select a metaphor involving an animal
that would sort of just give me a ballpark idea?
You know, sooner than trying to articulate the experience I'm having,
I would rather relay to you the 38th best moment in my life,
which would be when I saw Liza Minnelli perform Beyonce's
smash hit single All The Single Ladies
in the film Sex In The City 2.
Tell your story Walken mate.
I have heard this. I wish I could
Tim.
But such is the state of my glowing calves right
now I can barely move for agony.
Jog on mate.
I can't
do you know what i feel like right now i feel like james reed from the feel is from this scene
from we are your friends he is so hung over that he can't bring himself to even leave the house at
this point and it's 12 30 in the afternoon he's made the decision to keep drinking a completely reasonable one considering the context i probably
do the same except that i don't really uh do a lot of drinking anymore apart from right now
where i'm doing a lot yeah man look i gotta say to me it just feels like these people are making
the same mistakes over and over again this This car feels like it's a virtual...
It's like a PlayStation 3...
Something you get in Time Zone.
Yeah.
Hard out, dude.
No one's got seats like this in their actual car, do they?
Look at that goofy as fuck dashboard as well.
It's so stupid.
The whole thing's fucking dumb.
It's like seats that you would expect in a in an arcade when you're playing like
fucking colin mccray or some shit f1 2020 there's not a game i just made that up but you know it's
outlandish they're over the top yeah too garish for anyone to actually use surely what do you
think see that high-rise ish building that they look out over from where
they're standing what sort of business do you think goes on in that building it's just behind
johnny depp right now well we were in a pretty high-rise building and i tell you what we were
doing in there pitching a tv show how'd that go for you not well where do you think the the pitch
fell down um uh well well well well well well i'll tell you one of them was because it it was at the end of the trip before we were about to get on a plane to go to New
Zealand and we were very hungover and burnt out.
Yeah.
And what specifically within that meeting about where you were hungover and burnt out
do you think went wrong?
Uh, the fact that neither of us could properly articulate what we wanted to make as a TV
show.
Interesting.
You know the one I'm talking about.
I really have no recollection of that. wanted to make as a TV show. Interesting. You know the one I'm talking about.
I really have no recollection of that.
My memory of that meeting is I said, hey, do you guys want to see something insane?
I've just started taking these growth hormones and I'm pretty sure my calves are glowing.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
How do you think that played in the room on that day? I remember that it went very, very poorly.
Yeah.
They weren't glowing at all when I bought them out,
so they thought I was insane.
We're at the start of this watch.
That's what I fucking love.
That's what I love about this movie.
The movie will always be the movie, dude.
That's one thing you've got to admire about this. The movie will always be the movie dude that's one thing you've got to admire
about this the movie will always be the film it's got no other choice you know it doesn't have to
decide will i go jeans or chinos today will i go t-shirt or business shirt the movie will always
be the movie we are inside of a hellish loop right now my guy like none of this is
having any
I'm honestly
I'm seeing it pixel by pixel
like nothing makes any sense
that sort of stonewashed shirt
that he wears on his first day
in the office
has always been pretty
fucking confident to me
I would not wear that myself
who are you talking about
Zicoli
I mean Skrill
obviously does not give
one flying
fuck squirrel could give this fuck that shit there no no no dwell on squirrel bro it looks
like zicoli's raided someone's dad's closet and not his own because as we know he doesn't have
parents but squirrel looks like he just didn't even give a shit they're on the blower and squirrel
probably doesn't give a shit he's learned about maths at a university. Can I just... Like, the whole Zicoli buzz.
Like, fuck, man.
I feel bad for him.
But I'm just literally explaining what his costume looks like to me.
It's like going into someone who's roughly the same size as you,
but 20 years older,
and just rifling through and being like,
oh, this isn't a great look,
but I guess it's business and it fits me,
so I'm going to do this.
You know?
That's what his uniform screams to me in this scene.
Skrill is effectively wearing a fucking hoodie with a cap on.
They're working the phones, man.
You can wear what you want.
Put a fucking tie on, dude.
Yeah, good job, buddy.
You hide that money under your Discman.
Bunch of USBs and a Discman.
Because all good DJs have a portable sony disc man in 2015 man they've been trying to get this pool ready for
as long as i've been watching this movie should we talk about mini discs for a bit by way i mean me
i love them and i miss them no you don't no one misses them i miss many you enjoy the idea of
them the novelty of them
but they were flawed technology from the fucking beginning they were here's here okay now we're
talking about them here's the thing about minidiscs the hardware wasn't flawed at all
the thing that fucking killed them was that sony who were the main by a long way the main makers
of those minidisc players required you to use their software to get the
songs on there and their software was beyond horrific it broke multiple computers that i
my family owned kept installing sonic stage on there it would break the computer they were
not good at writing code but very good at building shit.
Minidiscs were awesome.
And then finally they got to the point where they're like, oh, you can put MP3s on now.
It's like, cool. iPods have been out for two years. What up, bowl?
And that's where minidiscs went wrong.
But there will be a time, if it hasn't already happened, where they are ironically cool.
And to the people who are doing that i say stop
unless you're tim bitt who seems to have a genuine emotional investment in the technology
i just i own so many of them i had like i think i had probably like four different
mini disc players when i was in high school I reckon they probably are at the stage now where they've got a bit of bloody
hipster career.
They probably go for thousands.
I haven't seen one in ages.
If you've got four of them kicking around,
you should make yourself some goddamn cash.
They're gone, mate.
I sold them at the time.
They're gone.
I'd always upgrade to the next model.
Okay, so here we are.
Tim and Guy forging ahead. We're in the montage moment of the film
we're understanding what bpms mean to genre and we're understanding what genre means to music
right now we're in a daytime party where these people usually don't party until midnight but
they're going to party right now because zach airfront is a knowledgeable dude on how to cut
through the resistance and get people to boogie and he's looking around because
his advice is you just need one person one person to start he always has quite a nice like wolfish
grin on his face in that uh shot just prior i've always i always enjoy it it's almost like the
bottom half of his face is slightly out of focus but he's got quite a goofy grin on and his green
eyes are glowing shout out to zace fron hey hey hey i'll tell you what guy maybe it's the fact that i've been worn down by three watches
and uh you know had a couple of beers love this movie love it love it love it love it love it
you will not be able to sustain that for the remainder of this movie
um i just want to point out i don't
love it just because of as i said that we had a very slow motion shot of simon lee's chest
anyone watching this film along in time with it right now i shouldn't have made that revelation
but i just want to say the two things we completely disconnected now around the bit we were explaining
that dubstep is 140 beats cut to half speed at 70
And house music sucks massive dick at 110 to 130 BPM
And then there's hardcore and old Captain Red shorts with the stabby stick
Oh fuck man who gives a shit about this shit
So recently you were saying that you like this movie
Let's talk about horoscopes
What's that sign here? I'm a Libra dude What does that entail? So recently you were saying that you like this movie. Let's talk about horoscopes.
What's that sign here?
I'm a Libra, dude.
What does that entail?
The scales of justice.
So you're like even-handed in fear.
No, I'm best known amongst my friends and family for being able to look at any single item
and know its weight exactly.
That huge thing of beer.
That magnum of beer?
Yeah.
Four kilograms.
I actually reckon you're pretty fucking dead on with that.
I know I'm right.
It's my best known ability.
Okay, it's 1.5 litres, which is 1.5 kg, plus whatever the glass is,
which I actually reckon is about 800 grams.
So I think you're not a hundo, but probably pretty close.
Do you want to hold it?
I don't need to hold it to know for certain that I'm correct.
You reckon that's 4.5 kg?
I know, that's 4 kilograms exactly.
It's slightly under that.
Anything you point to, I can tell you it's exact weight.
I'm done.
Just the one and done.
I've always said that.
You're looking longingly at how long we've been recording for.
I'm just scratching my neck.
I've got this itchy on the back of my neck.
But that too too you know
I mean
I mean
here we all are
watching the film again
so we got that going for us
I'm a Leo
myself
born in mid-August
what does that mean?
Leo is the
big show-off
of the
solar system
whatever it's called
the horoscopes you know how each star sign of the solar system, whatever it's called,
the horoscopes.
You know how each star sign has a planet?
Our planet is the sun.
I didn't know that.
Everything orbits around us.
And that is awesome.
Yeah.
And our symbol is the lion,
the king of the jungle.
Yeah. Leos are the shit. the king of the jungle. Yeah. Leos are the
shit. They're basically the best.
But you would say that
as a Leo. Well, I
guess so. It doesn't make it untrue.
It also doesn't make it true.
Fair call. Fair cop.
Ka-bah! That's
very Libra of you to assess. What can
I say? I know the exact weight
of anything you point to.
Oh, fuck.
Who cares about your pentatonic fucking piano anymore, dude?
Look at all those gold records he's got behind him, though.
They care.
Do you know what's impressive?
What?
They really care.
Who?
These two.
Oh.
They're getting along. fron and wes bentley
shit man i'm probably i'm probably losing it right now i know dude i hear you but do you know
what is the only cure for that this thingy
uh yeah dog we must go deeper we must go into another dream is that what leonardo dicaprio said i think in the film titanic just before the iceberg he said we must go into another dream
yeah but he said in a south african accent because he was um working in a diamond mine
i haven't seen that one.
You need to talk if I'm not talking, dog.
That's how this works.
Nah, I think people are okay with a comfortable silence.
If they trust that when it feels comfortable for me,
it's comfortable for them,
then I'm in the clear
I apologise to anyone listening to this
individually on it's own merits
I can't imagine
what you're extracting from it
I mean the merits of this barely exist in context
but by it's own
it doesn't stand up to any kind of
assessment
which is the great irony because any kind of assessment.
Which is the great irony.
Because...
Nah, fuck it.
This movie's supposed to be assessed just in its own context.
Just pick an empty can, mate.
We're surrounded by them.
Just pick one.
Drop it in there.
Fucking hell.
What will become of us, guy?
You don't need to coach me
through my life experiences,
Dad. Hey, I'm here to
help, and I'm trying to help, and you're
not taking the help. So
whose problem is that? Mine still?
Yup.
You know what that was?
You tell me.
It was a kiss.
For a kiss Is always a gift
And
Call back
I gotta say that that
To me is almost
The greatest gift I can think of
Yet it still somehow
Powers in comparison
To my memory of the 39th highlight
In my life
Oh fuck my asshole
Okay here we go
Which is when Liza Minnelli performed Beyonce's Smash It single,
All the Single Ladies, in the film Sex and the City 2.
He's upset about people being in the pool.
Very upset.
I got really barrel-zacolias here reacting to Wiz Bentley shouting at me.
I was looking at both of them.
I feel like I'm moving fast enough now that I can assess the whole scene at
once. I can look at two people's faces
simultaneously.
That's where I'm at.
Just so we're all aware. It's a good spot to be in.
Omnipotent for the film.
Pick a place, man.
Anywhere. And everywhere.
And away they'll go, to the beach
where they indulge in the illegal drug weed while looking over the horizon.
We've been talking a lot about comic book movies in this session.
Have you ever seen The Watchmen?
Nah, man.
Is it good?
Oh, it's mixed day.
I haven't read the comic.
Everyone says the comic is just like the fucking best.
I actually did.
The movie got a bit panned
I enjoyed it more
I think than the reviews
You know
Would lead
Would have led
One to suggest
How much they should enjoy it
But it definitely
Had some weird shit
That wasn't like
You know
Kind of
Explained enough
Or
Whatevs
Is that seagull moving
Real weird
At the bottom of the screen
yeah it was CGI
did you see it
yeah of course I saw it
I got eyes
I've never seen that seagull
before
it's all I see
every week
it shows up in a lot of
other scenes as well
that seagull
that same one
you gotta be looking
pretty close but yeah
bloody hell
I think it gets
it gets credited as
second lead in the credits
second lead
after Zac Efron
the seagull's name is Steve Seagull.
Yeah.
Nothing for that?
Are you serious?
We've been recording for like five hours, man.
It's not bad.
Yeah, but no, it's true.
It's a business owned by Steven Seagull.
It's a technology he developed.
It's a Seagull that he hires out to play the second lead role.
No respect, yeah, no respect.
Hey, Mr. Dangerfield, I give you plenty of respect.
I guess so.
I guess you're right.
Oh, man.
You are a broken man, my friend.
Hey, we're all broken.
It's just a matter of fucking getting that whiskey glass away from my face
because I am a drunk DJ who's fallen asleep
because I'm a big baby and I need someone to look after me.
Grow up, you fuck.
You are like 40 years old or whatever.
Sort your shit, dog.
I kind of agree with you on that one, Tim.
The guy is...
Fuck.
He's got to sort out his own problems.
If you're not loving yourself
How can you make space
To love anyone else
Mr Bentley
What fucks me up
Is this dude is
He's well resourced
He's got a good brain
He's got a good head
On his shoulders
Figure it out
Dude
Disrespects it
Day after day
Stop fucking everyone
Man
I don't know
Hey listen That carpet is awful fucking everyone man I don't know hey listen
the carpet is awful
in the studio
I don't know how else to describe it
it's a bunch of stripes some of them are orange
some of them are the different orange
and a lot of them are black
it's just bad
hey you know what's in the background of
Zay's Fron
Right now
Out of focus
It's a
Record of
Pretense of Eternity
It's the fucking
Album artwork
And album
Of the Pretense of Eternity
Are you sure
Yes
How do you know that
I just read it
But it was out of focus
Yeah but you can still figure it out
There
That is
Detail man That's attention to detail But it was out of focus. Yeah, but you can still figure it out. Yes. That is detail, man.
That's attention to detail.
It's not bad album art either.
I mean, like I've seen worse, you know.
It's just a bunch of lines that are different colors.
I'm down with that.
I love cubism.
That's not so bad.
Fuck, man.
Those seat dresses.
No one would have noticed that, dude.
It took us
even half of us
it took half of us 40 whatever
watches and a bunch of shit
to see that
no one notices this shit
why even bother
you know
it's nice
it's nice for whoever put that
attention to detail
into the mise-en-scene
of the shot
shout out to that person
fuck
we fucking did it man
or lady
or
how much more movie
is there eh
quite a lot eh
an hour
yep yep yep
I did it again, guy.
I've bitten off slightly more than I can chew.
Okay.
What do you guys want to talk about?
Let's talk about Bluetooth headsets.
Yeah, let's.
The year is 2015.
The technology exists for wireless headsets Yeah let's The year is 2015 The technology exists for wireless headsets And yet it's not been brought into
Wide
Did you wear a headset like that
When you used to call people up on the phone
Yeah yeah hard out
Did you used to like rock it
I don't know how one rocks a headset to be honest
Were there people in the office
Who had a higher end headset
Yeah I think there actually was And would they sort of ride that confidence Into their phone calls rocks a headset to be honest were there people in the office who had a higher end headset yeah i
think there actually was and would they sort of ride that confidence they were wireless yeah their
ones were bluetooth i think it was more like they were dealing with their kind of company issued
cell phones or not company because it wasn't a company but their uh you know government department
issued shit and were the people on the Bluetooth headsets the sharks?
They were like the managers.
There were no sharks where I worked.
I worked for the tax department.
There weren't sharks there.
Yeah, the tax sharks.
No, no, no.
Tax sharks are a different thing.
Would you aspire to wear the Bluetooth headset?
Absolutely not.
No one aspired to remain in the department.
It was just like, hey, you know what pays pretty well for an entry-level job?
This bullshit.
So let's get in, get fucked up on a Friday, and keep doing it next week.
You never got to wear the hallowed Bluetooth headset.
No, but do you know what I did?
I learned enough skills to jump around the shit and then buy my own headset later.
And now look at that.
I own no less than six pairs of headphones.
Was the headset you
bought later a bluetooth headset i can't remember mate you're really pushing a particular narrative
which i don't think is gonna like come to fruition on how my life went i get what i get what you're
trying to create here i understand it i respect it but i'm not willing to lie to people just to serve the story.
That doesn't feel like you're respecting it.
I can tell at this point.
I don't give a shit.
But we just burned another minute, so that's positive, right?
It's all a step in the right direction.
Yeah.
All right. So listen if you're watching the film with us which is no one um we're at the point now where uh uh james reed from the feelers and zikoli the crying dj have joined forces to become
an unstoppable dj partnership They're rocking the under...
What are they called?
Underground clubs.
They've got Somaly on a track.
She's laying down some vocals.
They're making some new songs, finally.
They're really tabing together some club music.
And to be honest, they're doing better with it
than they have any right to.
And everyone's getting their dick wet
off the back of these unduly celebrated dance tracks.
The club is doing the song
more than justice.
It couldn't have gone better
for them. I mean, they really just put this thing
together in a rush. I don't think
it's ready for market at all.
They've done no real tests. Probably
didn't even get mastered, you know?
Do the basics, cunts.
Sorry.
didn't even get mastered you know like do the basics cunts sorry oh man we're really in the trenches now
really in the you know where we are we're in the studio mate we're laying down another
fat beat and mean track oh man fuck all this shit off to the mexican restaurant this like that definitely
expendable a there's actually no real reason for this to exist on this timeline this dinner yeah
it's just like okay we're at a party i guess you can't just jut the party up hard against the wine and cheese night.
Yeah.
This is certainly superfluous, but also it's meant to be doing a lot of heavy lifting and plot development.
But it's all very hollow.
There's tension between James Reid from the Feelers and Somerly.
I tell you what, Cole Carter and Somerly, they want to at least spend a little bit more time together.
Maybe have sex sex maybe not maybe
wear his jeans the whole
night who's to say
I don't have anything I
have to say
get out of your hands
into that microphone
microphone
I'm sorry listen here we
are we're in one waka
and we've both got
oars so let's get into
it
cheese thoughts prior against We're in one waka and we've both got oars So let's get into it Cheese, thoughts?
Prior against
Oh, look, if you're asking morally
It's a real quagmire of a situation
But I think ultimately cheese is bad
Explain through why it's morally a quagmire
Well, just that the dairy industry as it stands
It's not good for the environment or the animals
But the thing is is cheese is also
very delicious allow me to push back if i may why is it bad for the animals like cows are meant to
milk for their little little cows there's a very good chance cows wouldn't exist had we not corralled
them up and went you guys are delicious we, we're going to breed more of you.
Yeah, I don't think the cows are like,
okay, yeah, and then just have carp launch in our bodies.
Yeah, but babies also don't give us permission to look after them.
So should we not?
I feel like it's a false equivalent.
Why?
Both can't communicate their appreciation of us looking after them.
And this wonderful paternalistic agreement we have with both our young and Bovine.
We don't farm babies for anything.
Well, maybe we should look at doing that.
We kind of do if you consider adoption.
That's not...
That's not accurate.
This is not.
Now, that is a false equivalence
I'll give you that
Oh my goodness
But we just burned another 60 seconds
Oh my
So we're closer to the finish line than we were
Oh my god
We got through the whole wine and cheese night
At Larissa's
Clarissa's
Whatever
I don't fucking care. I do.
You're right
though. I shouldn't
make little of that. You're dead
right. It's Clarissa's party.
And she'll die if she wants to.
Don't cry.
I got the words wrong.
Oh, I've gone
you know, really over the edge
now.
I'm amazed everything's still going.
There's a lot of machinery in the room that's still going.
One computer is playing the movie,
one computer is recording our voices,
and God, I hope it doesn't crash.
We've got a redundant, like a bit of a backup plan,
another recorder recording our voices
in case the first system fails
we've got a camera happening over there
we've got a screen that's playing the movie
and they're all still going
as far as I can tell
you addressing that out loud
feels like a real prime opportunity
for something to shit the bed
oh fuck you're dead right
assemblage
well good thing I don't believe in miracles Oh, fuck. You're dead right. Okay. Assemblage.
Well, good thing I don't believe in... Miracles.
No, what's the fucking...
Are there fireworks going on out there?
Just keep looking in that direction.
Nah, I think it's the reflection again.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
Something was happening out that window.
I will literally look for anything to take me out of this shit.
Hey, come on, man.
We're all in the car.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Hey, we're all watching We Are Your Friends.
What a great film.
I love it.
You ain't getting any.
What interests you?
Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, bow.
Look, I want to find them aliens.
That's what I want.
I want to get out there.
I want us to explore space to find them aliens. That's what I want. I want to get out there. I want us to explore space and find them aliens.
And then get destroyed by them.
You believe that aliens are out there?
I just keep coming back to that old math problem
of it's pretty impossible to consider they're not.
It's a big old universe out there.
It seems way too unlikely that we you know happen to luck
in in this planet and others haven't don't you think no i think you're right i think you're on
the money now we're at the music festival it's a cool shot that little x-ray shot of how many drugs
the boys are carrying on them i love that we all that. Every week we see it and we love it.
We keep loving the film.
40 times, not enough.
Three times in a day, not enough.
You've got to keep loving it.
Love yourself and love We Are Your Friends.
Because we are your friends and we love you.
I don't think it feels like we're doing either of those things right now.
And now, let's party.
Yeah, boom. We are at the club club now we're dancing to the music now
we're all dancing at the what's the earliest memory that you have of my life yeah uh it's
not the earliest memory but the first one that sprung to mind is uh in a montessori I think it was a running race
that we had around
like a tree at the end of
the playground or whatever
classic flash
and
and we
you had to go and run around the tree and the tree had like
cobbled pavement around it
and I fell, I was winning
and I fell over and I was winning and i fell over when i
was running around the tree and i skinned my knee today you ready okay let's go the hunt for the
wildest movie of the summer everybody and here this is your super friendly and not aggressive
reminder to buy tickets immediately borderlands now playing And I got a little scar on my knee.
So you were in pain?
I guess, but I still have the scar on my knee and I'm like...
Do you really? To this day?
I haven't really checked for it lately, but I'm sure it's out there.
Bloody hell.
What about you?
Do you know, I don't think I first-hand remember much from early on,
but I remember remembering, if that makes sense.
Not really.
I remember at one time in my life being able to remember a lot further back.
Does that make sense?
Barely.
So the memory of the memory that I have,
one of the earliest ones is throwing sycamore seeds up with my granddad in the St. James Park in Christchurch.
Watch them fall down.
Oh, the little helicopters.
You got it.
Those are good fun, huh?
Real good.
Just good childhood stuff, you know?
Good childhood stuff.
And then the other one is, so, I mean, look, we're children of the 90s.
Fresh Prince of Balea must have been on here when I was a young, young, young kid.
And I remember remembering being in kindergarten and emulating
that bit at the end of the intro
sequence of Fresh Prince of Balear
where he whips his head around when he's got the cap on
when he's knocking on the door
you're home to Balear
he's there, finally there
sitting in his throne
as the Prince of Balear
and he whips his head around and I did that on a
a slidey down pole that you
get in the kindergarten when I was about three or four fucking smashed my head at maximum speed
and cracked my skull open during the Will Smith head whip around they had to physically glue my
skull back together gee whiz that's full on and not for the last time. I had three of those
where I cracked my skull open
as a young kid.
I honestly think,
I honestly think to this day
that it does have something to do
with my very bad memory.
Yeah.
And those three quite significant
knocks to the old brain box
as quite a young child, you know.
My poor parents, eh?
I keep just absolutely wasting my head.
Yeah, that would have been a sting for them.
What a bit of bad luck that you just keep banging your head.
Bad luck or bad management, mate.
I tell you, if you'd pulled off that head waggle
on the way down the pole or slide...
You could be dealing with New Zealand's Elon Musk.
Exactly.
Maybe I was destined for greater things.
Who's to say?
But aren't you glad that I got retarded enough to hang out with you?
Hey, look, I would say, Tim, that I think you've had a life well lived.
Hard out.
It really suggests you're about to kill me.
Or that you know something I don't about the end of my life.
No, I don't know anything.
I don't know anything about anything.
There's them having sex.
Don't.
They're having sex.
You don't know that.
God damn it.
He could be still wearing his jeans.
We never see him take them off.
That's all I'm saying.
Are there any more beers?
Oh, we've got the Peronio.
I can't even be bothered getting it, but I will.
It's a gripping narrative.
From start to finish Good morning, my sweet
Good morning, guy
It's about 10 o'clock
Oh no, it's 9pm
Oh, sorry, you're in the film
Biggie button
I knew it was a goof
No worries
I mean
Would it be comfortable laying your head in between
Hey you reckon you'll have kids one day Guy
Who's to say man
It's a big question
Hey Guy
Do you reckon there's
Do you get reborn after you die
What do you think happens?
I don't know that anything
necessarily happens.
Guy, why do bad things happen to good people?
The world is a cruel
and unusual place.
There's no real rhyme or reason to a lot of what happens,
Tim.
Well, I'm out of questions.
Would you rather sweat mayonnaise
or every time you poo
have to do a poo
the size of a baseball
a baseball
I'd do the poo baseball thing
oh wait
hold up
yeah
no I think I would
because I would rather
suffer in private
than suffer in public.
Sweating mayonnaise would be a real point of frustration.
Like, that's bad, man.
But if you're doing a shit the size of a baseball,
I assume you're both, like, I mean, you're not done.
Feels like the first time every time.
Oh.
Oh, shit.
Do you know the thing is, I i don't i'm not a big sweater i don't sweat a lot so maybe mayonnaise for me personally because i don't think it would be obvious well
obviously this is going to be impacting you personally yeah i mean it's my my call right
yeah it's your body fuck it's a tough one, eh? What about you?
I'd rather shit a baseball.
I sweat all the time.
Is this one you've just made up, or is this kind of a popular sort of one?
Someone asked me it before.
I don't know.
It's a goodie.
It feels like the kind of thing comics would ask other comics on a road trip
done it just done it just maybe maybe not tanya romero back in the fray come over tonight big
fight the fucking date stamp on that text message is from 2014 did you see that yeah do you know
what the more oh no they just want me back saying the more I read
that text
come over big fight
and how it's meant
to be ambiguous
the more I'm like
if he was about
to pick a fight with him
he wouldn't send him
a text saying
come over big fight
but then I remembered
the context being specific
to him and
Somaly might have
had a big fight
yeah exactly
god damn it guys
come on
stay with me
I held your hand through my whole process there
and arrived at exactly where the film was trying to take me.
Sorry for attacking you for that.
I'd call that a success.
I won't do that again.
You never attack the process.
You can attack the end result,
never attack the process.
There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm.
I used that the other day on my TV show.
There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm.
Welcome to banter, proving that there are some bad ideas welcome to banter proving that there are
some bad ideas in a brainstorm
that's a funny thing to say
there's a lot of lines out there that I'm throwing out
which are getting no recourse
whatsoever that I'm like nah that one's good
nah fuck you guys that one's funny
oh I'll tell you what the best one was
that Brendan Green
and I thought of together
welcome to banter the shit
hot new show that talks shit about hot news that's not bad that's satisfying but i like
uh the deprecation of there are bad ideas in a brainstorm we also said uh welcome back this is
all brendan greens this wasn't even input from me. Welcome back to banter, a fidget spinner in the...
Oh, no, a chattering in a world of fidget spinners.
That, if you are from New Zealand, is very funny.
Welcome back to the director's commentary of We Are Your Friends,
featuring Tim Beck and Guy Montgomery,
the co-hosts of The Worst Idea of All Time.
We've watched the film three times already today in its entirety,
and we're on to our fourth in a row.
Right now, we are three four getting sentimental with james reed there's been a handover of a
macbook pro box and does it have a macbook pro box uh sorry does it have a macbook pro in it
no not normally absolutely not what has uh occurred in the box this week guy 49 dice or die plural
all on the number six it's in it as a maths problem yeah okay 49 die they all get rolled
like some sort of big back rack table and they all come up six yeah
i'm gonna say to you way to dice dude it's too unlikely yeah do you know what i say to that go
on put your fingers on the table bam i'm putting a hammer on top of them whoa jesus that's right
you lost your fingers oh my god don't ask questions answer the fucking math problem
fuck what if there wasn't even a problem presented. 49 times 6.
Go.
Okay.
Bam!
There go your other fingers.
Your other fingers.
Oh, God.
Kablooey.
There go.
2.94.
Correct. Is it? Yeah, man. Absolutely. Is it really? Kablooey 294 Correct
Is it?
Yeah man absolutely
Is it really?
I got no idea
In fact you just lost all your fingers and one set of toes
Can we check
Okay let me get a thing though
Because I actually want to check that
I want to see what the fuck the actual number is
Oh where's your timer at dog?
Surely it's been another one right?
Or maybe it hasn't actually
Nah it hasn't
That's a shame
We're taking photos every hour
Just to chronicle the journey
Okay so we're getting
6 times 49 die
294 dog
I did it
I did it on my fucking head
Cause you're a smart guy
It took me a few goes though
You've got a big brain
Oh this is heartbreaking to watch again
I just
Oh am I off?
No you're on I think
Am I?
I don't think I am
No actually I can't hear you right now
Hello?
Hello?
You're not registering at all
Oh no
Don't worry I'll carry us
I don't know what's happening My friend and colleague Tim Batt You're not registering at all. Don't worry, I'll carry us.
I don't know what's happening.
My friend and colleague, Tim Batt,
is currently suffering through some technical difficulties,
so I will be coaching you through the scene.
You caught it for a second there, I think.
Keep talking.
I'm on top of it, don't worry.
Paige Harrell is pretty much articulating the moral dilemma that Zicoli's facing. And Zicoli, like the soft boy he is, isn't really picking his side or going either way.
He's just like, oh no, now I'm going to have to take all this money and feel bad about it.
That's the worst possible thing that could happen.
So he just quietly puts the money in the shoebox
and doesn't think about it again.
I think I'm still here, but you can hear me now.
Yeah, you're back, baby.
Oh, cool.
And better than ever.
Sorry about that.
Brief intermission.
Timbo is back.
You're in and out.
I am a bit, aren't I?
You're hot and cold cold as Katy Perry would sing
you're hot and you're cold
you're yes and you're no
you're in and you're out
you're up and you're down
satisfying lyrics
yes
but nothing
in comparison
to the 41st
experience of my life
which I would consider
a highlight
that being a performance by Liza Minnelli of the smash hit song by Beyonce
All the Single Ladies in the film Sex and the City 2.
The 42nd best experience of my life.
Very similar to the 41st and several preceding that.
A performance by Liza Minnelli of the smash single by Beyonce
All the Single Ladies in the film Sex and the City 2.
The 43rd highlight, I cannot recall right now,
but as soon as I do remember, I will relay that memory to you
because I know how interested you are on our journey
to the 52 best experiences of my life.
How about How You Like Me Now? life how about how you like me now I like you the same I did before hey like me now bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam how you like me
now oh it's a birthday cake.
We're back here again.
Feels familiar because it is.
Guy, let me ask you a question.
How many fingers and toes do you have?
20.
Boring.
All the extremities.
How many hair follicles do you think you've got in your head?
Three.
That is not enough.
Yeah, I agree, but
they're quite sparse.
So they wind up looking like
way more. But it's just three main
centres. All the
employees have to report to the three centres at day
and night.
In between it though, they go spread out and do research.
Am I clear?
You're not happy you're drunk this was suddenly just threw at james reed from the feelers and it cuts to the core
truly for you right now no i ain't give a shit
not to me just just oh cool am I back
hello
hello
you're back in the room
it's hard isn't it
sometimes I'm in
sometimes I'm out
yeah
truly
well the good news is
that the
um
conflict stewing
between
Zicole and
James Reuben
the feelers
is about to come to a head
which means that
the plot
of the film
as it is
wont to do
will slowly march on.
Summer fest.
Summit.
Summit.
Summer.
Hello.
We've got all the elements
of the film
almost at play right now.
We're just waiting
for the death
of a close friend
of the group.
Summer fest.
And we'll be on our way
home and hosed to bed
for a hard-earned rest i understand why this isn't working
keep talking guy
keep going i gotta keep talking according to Tim
but there's nothing
in the tank
there's nothing I could possibly say
that would keep you on the hook
other than
James Reid from the feelers
he's always upset
when he finds out that his partner is sleeping
with Zuccoli
and rightly so
hello okay sometimes I'm in sometimes I'm out. And in spite of his silly decision to
save a photo of them together as her profile photo on his phone, Ziccoli
doesn't see it coming ever. Game over bitch the evidence is in your face.
I put that beer down somewhere and I can't figure out where
what's a really afraid of moving anything because my microphone barely appears to be working you
know everybody you know what we don't talk about enough? If you're listening to everybody, then everybody just shake your hands.
What?
The sound effect that James Reardon The Fiddlers does in that scene where he goes,
HATTA!
I do notice it every week and it's weird that we don't talk about it.
It's pretty good stuff.
This feels like my microphone's not on, I've got to be honest.
Don't you think?
Yeah, I really do feel like it's struggling for life
which is frustrating I imagine
oh why don't I change the mic
this is
truly as tense as
things can get in this film
and uh
it's a classic line
where James Reed from the feelers calls Zicoli a weaselly little cunt.
You really feel like that's them putting the full heft of their independent filmmaking experience into the script writing experience.
That's what I love about this shit is it's like we are now, you and I, outlasting the equipment in here.
The microphones won't stand up to fucking four watches in a row of this shit, but we will. You and me, the humans. That's why we're going to beat the robots in here. The microphones won't stand up to fucking four watches in a row of this shit,
but we will.
You and me, the humans.
That's why we're going to
beat the robots, guy.
Because we are adaptable
and the robots are not.
The robots wouldn't be so reckless
as to make a decision like this.
We live in...
Fuck the robots.
Ah, yeah, why did you shave it?
Why'd you shave it, dude?
Multiple necklaces. Neck dude? Multiple necklaces.
Nick-lie?
Nick-laces.
Nick-lacy?
Nick-lace-le?
Nick-lace-ay.
He doesn't want to talk about it, guys, so don't bring it up.
It's so hard not to, though.
He usually never has a mark
on his face from being punched.
I want to know why he got punched.
Don't you think it's weird that Squirrel's
wearing a hat that's got nothing on it?
It's just a plain teal hat.
Like, chuck a fucking
Sonic the Hedgehog or something on that shit, boy.
Nah, dude, there's a man who's familiar
with the teal bucket hat.
It's not a bucket hat though
At least the bucket hat is it's own logo
But that is not what
Screwler's rocking, it's just a tail cap
Charlotte Hornet's colours
True that man
Scotty Pippen
Nah he was a bulls man
Oh fuck my bad
Who was in the Hornets?
Who was like short
For NBA standards
Was it Muggsy Bogues?
Not who I'm thinking of
I don't know
We've always been those guys
Teal and like purple
Yeah
Bold company colours
I love those company colours
I think they're outstanding
melson and associates that's who we're dealing with that's the property management company
what do you think what do you think tim how do you feel about uh recording for this many hours
in a row do you think i'm sick of being self-internalizing,
so let's actually get some content out there.
Listen, the boys are doing a great job,
and frankly, the camera crew are doing a tremendous job
for no one to be picked up on that many mirrors in a room.
We've revealed a whole wall of mirrors,
and there's a mirror behind them as well,
and at no point do I see a boom operator,
a fucking camera op, a director, nothing.
I don't see shit.
And that is hard.
Fair shout to them, you know?
Hey, look at Zac Efron's arms in this scene.
They don't look that impressive.
He's about to go do Baywatch, you know?
That's true.
He also just had them folded and then unfolded very quickly.
Yeah, that's a good point.
He would have been in a real hurry to get them down.
Continuity.
Not really, though.
I mean, it fucking barely matters, barely registers.
No, but they're little wins, and it's these little victories
which barely tied us over.
Just keep you going to the next one.
Oh, my God.
Welcome to the drain, bitches, he says for the umpteenth time.
It's still remarkable to me that he sold the house
before revealing that they had a wonderful pool.
I feel like I'm experiencing all the previous 47 watches
just before this one.
Everything's really stacking up.
It's not a good feeling at all.
I feel terrible.
This is the point in the movie where I usually feel the best.
We've made a grave mistake
yep
do you know what
at this point
I wish
Brady the Rat King
or Dick Bot
would just appear
so that we could look at them
and analyse them
and talk about them
and discover things about them
that we don't already know
but no we're left with these
fucking idiots again.
They really put the brakes on, don't they?
There you go. See?
Oh, I don't know.
That apparently was the bit where Johnny Depp denied
screw-up some jokes. Yeah, it didn't really
stand out like a... It didn't pop like I hoped
it would.
I'm about to just black out. i'm about to just black out i'm about to
just black out this this whole scene's just the whole scenario is ridiculous the whole scenario
of us watching this again is ridiculous and i'm sick of it yeah where are you where are you my two extras where's my male and my female at the
side of the pool that's the last footage of squirrel alive that we've just watched there
last night checking out he makes it as far as the lounge he's gone he's fucking down and out
i tell you what though man like i've i've you know i've been to parties where this definitely
could have happened which is terrifying when you think about it today that is terrifying
someone just goes a bit too fucking hard out chokes on their own vomit but meanwhile you're
too wasted to kind of you know it's registered that that's happening heavy going stuff sorry sorry my bad all right my bad
all right truly noted all right we had bananas we brought bananas in with us
who knows where they are now all i can see is empty beer cans as far as the eye can see
and a salad or two and a lot of technology so much technology capturing like the lowest of the
low just capture nothing set all this up to get what nothing absolutely nothing what did happen
in the bathroom though we didn't give it we should get a tune for that ba da ba ba da ba what happened in the bathroom
what happened in the bathroom
what happened in the bathroom
let's find out this week
that will certainly suffice
it ended better than you thought it was going to
yeah yeah it did work
hearing you sing that
and realising how creatively devoid
I am right now I had nothing but respect
for your ambition and eventually
execution but I certainly
don't have it on me to dig out
well then allow me to both make
up the theme song and intro and also
deliver on the promise of the premise
knock yourself out fill your boots
in that bathroom is I shit you not
the singularity contained to a
single room there is
essentially a black hole in there which is only
observable by johnny depp himself because he was the only person who managed to be in the proximity
of it it is so dense that light itself cannot escape its gravitational pull but it has the
most limited event horizon whereby it stops having any kind of effect on the outside environment at like centimeters away from it it's the strangest thing so jonadip comes out there
to tell everyone about this physical anomaly that's happening in the universe located directly
in their bathroom and even that is not enough to strike off of the top item on the agenda, squirrels death.
And I think that just speaks volumes about how important human life is.
Fragile as it is, it's also still shocking when it leaves us, you know?
More shocking or surprising or affecting
than discovering almost antimatter in your bathroom.
Yeah, you got it.
That's truly telling.
Four times is too much, eh?
I genuinely don't know if this is publishable.
Is this the real life or is it just fantasy?
We're trapped in this room with a film monstrosity.
They're winning up syllables.
I have run out, you see.
Oh my goodness.
I'm just a poor boy
There's no Kevin Systrom
There's no reality
Everything's objective
Nothing is real
There are no consequences
Wake up sheeple
I'm paraphrasing
But that's what Johnny Depp's saying right now, right?
More or less, dude.
More or fucking less.
I'm peppering it with my own slant, but...
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes.
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy
I need no sympathy
Cause it's easy come, easy go
Little high, little low.
Anywhere the wind blows doesn't really matter to me.
To me.
Fucking hell.
Ropey.
So ropey.
So ropey, so blue.
I tell you what, if you shut shut your eyes everything feels so much better than looking at the screen no but there's no escape from it so i shan't try do you know what
i love i feel like my own super villain i've got three screens in front of me in fact four screens
in front of me i'm fucking five screens in front of me I'm down with it a lot of technology facing all on me
this is
this is how it was
portrayed to me
in the 80s
from cartoons
that I'd watch
on the couch
as a young boy
yeah and you're
staring it down
I'm into it
I'm embracing it
I can handle this much
technology
yeah I've done it
bring it on
bring it the fuck on
I find it overwhelming
a lot of empty
beer cans and screens just staring at me.
Now, if anyone's interested to know,
because they're not watching along at home,
the bit of the movie that we're up to is
Somaly spurring the advances of Zac Efron.
And also his reviewing speeches he's had with Skrill,
who is dead and also like the Emily thing
is off I mean the Somaly thing yeah but he's listening to recordings from when they were
horny for each other in Las Vegas yeah basically he's reminiscing and he's gone over to James
from the Fela's house to try and make amends. If this is your first time listening to the worst idea,
welcome to the baddest podcast that ever got made.
And not bad meaning good, but bad meaning fucking terrible.
This is punishing, really.
Good Lord, this is embarrassing.
If this is being listened to by anyone,
we've made a grave mistake.
I will never apologize for ambition okay
you needn't apologize for ambition i think everyone can admire ambition
reaching for the stars is great acknowledging when you don't quite make it to them is also fine
never say die never say die. Never say die.
You ready to dig this baby out?
Yep, absolutely.
With a little bit of poetry, if I may.
Please.
I was watching a film called We Are Your Friends and I was hoping at one point that I'd find some ends.
But I didn't.
It kept going and I kept watching it.
And then I added some more and then
i really started copping it and i was with my friend guy and he was sitting next to me
and before you knew it it became a monstrosity because four times in a day is at least one too much and if i had to guess i'd say we're caught in a clutch
which is another word for a handbag which is a prison you see if you're a mouse and you're tiny
and you're just little and wee but we want to get out and escape from our prison
but unfortunately we won't because we we built it, and we're in it.
Certainly there was a rhythm,
at moments,
which was very convincing to me.
And there's another minute.
That's all the game is at this point, folks.
You can do your own podcast it's just burning
minutes
do you know no shit this is what radio is like
if you work in radio it's just like cool
how do we burn another minute
we've got to do a minute how do we burn it
the initial appeal of podcasting
of course was that it's like radio without
rules
give me the rules bring them on at this
point four times of watching a film in
a day and having to commentate on it is probably two times too many i was wrong two times too many
i was dead wrong i think we did pretty well for two okay okay okay we're closing in so actually
let's add some value here you You are currently listening to two people
who have probably watched We Are Your Friends
more than anyone else in the world,
including film editors, directors, whatever,
like to watch it in its entire cinema release.
We're your experts.
And I'm here to tell you that the movie
is a three and a half out of 10.
It doesn't completely fail to be a film like all the kind of
constituent parts are there there is a plot there is a semblance of kind of an up and down and a
barrier and whatnot it's just everything is really poorly executed the script is very bad the actors
are like kind of fine but no one stands out no one's doing well and it's just the whole like
if you look at the themes and morals and universe that's built here everything's just like i don't
give a shit you know everything's so inconsequential and and um ephemeral and there's no wider point to be made it's just like is this guy going to be a dj no
yes okay like either way who gives a shit yeah i don't fucking care life's gonna keep happening
his friend died i don't know like fucking what ifs dude there's you know good on you
what do you want from me film uh it's hard to say it certainly doesn't offer a lot so i can't ask
for much in return and it's barely warranting our attention i guess this is one of those films where
um film reviewers often will say there wasn't enough depth i didn't like kind of get involved
with the characters i guess that's what we're describing, but just in a slightly different way. It's impossible to give a shit about this movie.
Because, like, if Zac Efron lives or dies, I could care less.
And I've watched the film, as mentioned, about four dozen times now.
Who gives a fuck?
Kill Screw, I don't care.
Kill Johnny Depp.
Kill Jarhead.
Fucking drop an atomic bomb on the universe they created. I don't give a shit. Kill Screw. I don't care. Kill Johnny Depp. Kill Jarhead. Fucking drop an atomic bomb on the universe they created.
I don't give a shit.
There's no consequence.
Kill them all.
Kill them all.
Or don't.
It's the same.
That's the point I'm trying to convey.
Like, either which way, it's the same.
Man, I tell you what.
The fact, I know it still takes a little while, but I just like a very physical feeling of sort of uh endorphins being released that we're at least at the point
of the movie when he's building a track like this in sight then playing this music
suggests to me that we're on our way home which is is such a, like, honestly,
the visceral feeling of relief
that this sound,
this soundtracking
has given me right now
is indescribable.
It's great.
We're not there yet though,
bud.
So just,
you know,
cool your heels a little bit.
I know,
but this isn't,
this is enough a trigger
to know that
there's light at the end of the tunnel.
He's still got to call James Reid,
but I'll tell you what,
if history is anything to go by...
If past is prologue...
He's going to be like,
hey, this song's good to go.
Another shower shot of Zac Efron.
Very important to get your money's worth
when you're throwing half of the production budget
at getting one actor.
You've got to get him with his kit off
as much as possible.
The dude's training for Baywatch.
Cash in on that, you know?
Terrible camera work, though,
in these scenes.
It's got to be said.
The dude's got great running form,
but we've got some bad camera ops,
you know, tracking him.
It's all over the shop.
That's all I have to say on the matter.
So now we're in a phone conversation, which is always the most engaging part of any film
this is the bit
which they definitely cut for time
there's more to this scene that we don't discover
so Zac Efron has just announced to Jahid
I got Summerfest
I got the gig
and Jahid goes oh that's awesome
and then goes back to
doing his carpentry work and it's kind of a wistful return from the camera back onto jahid
and it's like that's the bit where where zikoli comes back in and goes like is everything okay
between us and then they have a big dnm about how shit is not and about how zach is not, and about how Zack is finally making it,
and he's a dude who's just going to be trapped in the valley,
working for his dad till his dying days,
and it's a goddamn train wreck of a situation.
But... Do you know what?
That would actually make this film about something,
because then it's about Ziccoli outliving his friends
and surpassing them,
and it's like the sacrifice you have to take to move
to the next level
you know it's the things you have to say goodbye to
to get up to the next bit
that's a movie I get that
like that's sacrifice that's
a journey that's a learning
learning for him to leave his friends behind
yeah he doesn't have to leave his friends
it's not just about his friends it's about like
there is sacrifice to gain you know like if you want to be selfish and be like this this is what i'm
going to do now there are some trade-offs for that and he just made them his friends fucking
hate him because they can't follow his trajectory but as it stands he is uh not learning anything. Yeah, because they cut their fucking speech.
That duologue.
Fucking play that fucking track, boy.
Play that fucking duologue, white boys.
Yeah.
Release me from this prison, please.
I'm begging you.
I am on hands and knees demanding of you to play the song that you've been preparing for the last hour and a half.
Yeah, I'm barely functional at this point.
Because the sooner you get that thing out of your system...
Do we get a selfie warning at any point?
Where are we with that?
No, you're with you.
Sweetass.
Take a little photo of us.
Take a little snapshot of where we're at.
A little mobile phone there, eh? We him we all love him zicoli is now
wrapping up the film and i couldn't be happier about that
because we've had entirely enough i think of this to last us a goddamn lifetime.
And it's actually insane to think that there is more of these watches to go.
But there is.
You've got your eyes closed in all of the photos, which is good.
Wait, have you had your eyes closed for a bit?
Nah, I knew what I was doing, buddy.
Sweet, bro.
You're the master of comedy, Guy Monk.
Comedy.
Fuck yeah, dog.
Play that helicopter sound effect and round this puppy out.
I've got to tell you, Zocoli.
You're so keen to get out of here, eh?
You're just done.
You're done with the whole project.
I can't imagine sitting in these seats for this long.
It's good for our backs. I love that we outlasted the um microphone though it's always good you gotta love outlasting tech
yeah it's it's a triumph for humanity over technology i mean i'll never work together
we'll always work against each other hey Hey, can I reveal something to you? I definitely regret adding that extra one.
Can I reveal something to you?
I completely agree.
I don't think this is worthy of public consumption.
So, as the global eminent experts,
if we are your friends,
we're here to tell you that we don did it again
um we're not quite at the end yet but we are very much in the parking lot of an american
apparel which is about to shut down because that company couldn't make things work
and uh guy i've sent that over to you so you feel free to do what you do best, which is social media.
And I'll continue to do what I do best,
which is look at We Are Your Friends happening all around me.
I mean, what more do you want?
It's an experiment that Guy and I ventured on three years ago
that we never really anticipated we'd get to this.
I did not want it to arrive here.
At this point.
Never in my life did I imagine this is where it would take us.
But let's do some shout-outs.
I want to do a shout-out to everyone who's ever listened to the podcast.
I want to do a shout-out to Guy Montgomery.
What up, player? I'd like to do a shout out to Guy Montgomery what up player
I'd like to do a shout out to my house
I don't own it
but you know
I'm one of the people who rent to live in it
just temporarily
I'll never own it
it's a very expensive house
shout out to
Zac Efron
who made this film possible in some ways shout out to Zac Efron, who made this film possible in some ways.
Shout out to Megan Oppenheimer for signing on to make this thing actually happen.
Because if there's one thing I know about Maximum Joseph, it's that he's very bad at homework.
So he definitely never handed in any version of the script.
Shout out to Moloick uh which is the lamp
in the shape of an owl that's in the studio um shout out to huawei shout out sony panasonic
um pioneer taz cam microsoft vio um whoever else wants in eddie das le cock just fucking add your own
shout out you know whatever you want it's in there shout out to wreck and morty
shout out to those guys i feel like I got it all wrong.
I put the wrong number on.
I had to delete it.
Just like we can no longer drive the vehicle, folks.
Everyone needs to quickly exit the car at this point.
We've pulled over to the side of the road.
The good thing is we didn't crash, okay?
We're all still safe, but it's very important that everyone exits the vehicle at this point.
And we will just go about our lives like this last one never happened.
This is the drunk driving of podcast defenses.
Let's just pretend like it wasn't a thing.
It never went down.
We'll see you guys.
Just stay safe out there.
Look after each other.
Keep going to music festivals that are held in American apparel car parks.
Paramount.
Keep listening to Zicoli's pseudo-philosophy.
Because these days, you can sell shit online.
You can do whatever you want.
But the thing is, if you've got one track and a dream and a laptop.
I'm so fucking sorry, everybody.
You just do it.
I'm so sorry that we did this
We mean well we're good guys
But this is disrespectful
To everyone
Especially ourselves
What we just put ourselves through
The indignity
Of that
Oh my god
Oh my god oh my god oh my fucking god can you believe that but the good thing is it just shows
you that uh you know humans aren't immortal no one's a bottomless well yeah no we're very much bottom full wells and we found the bottom probably two hours ago and we
decided to just press on there was my bed i know i can be somebody we're just silently dancing away
for real though real quick though what would be a movie that would actually stand up to this many
watches like what would nothing i don't know i think some shit would i think it's the wrong time to ask that question
i can't imagine anything standing up to this amount of fucking exposure and scrutiny what
has been your favorite movie in the past what's been one of your favorite movies that you you
know carried around for a few years being like this is my favorite movie even if it's not your
favorite movie right now i always enjoy watching watching Inglourious Basterds.
Bit of Tarantino, eh?
Hey, the film just ended, everybody.
We are your friends.
Fuck, I'm putting this down.
It's all over.
No, dude, we're still going.
There's credits to go.
For myself, I probably, you know,
and I'm almost embarrassed to say this out loud,
but The Matrix is definitely one of those ones
that I carry around for a few years being like,
this shit's good.
This is a good movie.
I can't express to you how done Guy is.
He's wrapped up the headphones
and he looks like he is just amazed that...
It's a return from a tour of duty.
You know?
It's happy and sad. Stop talking. it's happy and sad it's happy and sad i want to shout out to johnny weston
show fernandez and also my dog alex schaefer because combined with wes bentley and zach
efron they're my boys they are the fuck pure and simple. It took two people to do the casting on this film,
which frankly shocks and amazes me,
because that's usually credit I see with one name
and better people who ended up in the film.
But not this time.
Two people, half the effort,
which means a quarter of the effort for each person.
But listen, I'm just being an asshole.
I've never made a feature film. I don't know how it all works and fits together. Order of the effort for each person. But listen, I'm just being an asshole.
I've never made a feature film.
I don't know how it all works and fits together.
I dare you to try.
You know?
Give Tanya Romero her cash back.
Because that's what I'm watching in front of the screen right now.
Some cosmic justice, y'all.
And there's a house for sale sign in the fucking...
In the foreground. Never noticed that in the fucking, in the foreground.
Never noticed that before.
Well, that's it. I'd like to say thank you very much to our unit production manager, Nathan Kelly.
Great dude.
And that's it.
I'm not going to keep listing people in the credits like I did last time.
Instead, I'm going to give you some life. To round off this episode of the podcast.
If this ever goes online.
And here's the first bit.
The first bit of wisdom is.
Microwaves.
Way safer than people give you credit for.
Just nuke anything man.
Chuck it.
Bang it in there and eat it.
See what you get.
You know. Okay. See what you get. You know?
Okay, number two.
Hey.
Hey.
Flu vaccine is actually a good idea.
Go get it.
Go get it, everybody.
Go get it.
Here's another one.
Just because the food is cheap doesn't make mean that it's bad necessarily
most times that's true but you will get the odd loophole that breaks the rule so just keep
searching is what i'm saying myself i continue to go to mcdonald's to get a filet-o-fish combo
and the secret is instead of getting a soda get yourself a water you don't feel like
shit at the end of it because you've got a ton of salt which you know the body needs to an extent
but you haven't loaded yourself up with an outrageous amount of coca-cola sugar you've
just got like the amount of sugar that's in their chips and burgers which is still a lot
don't get me wrong but you're hydrated with that that uh that water
that you got drink water wherever you can the real killer that we've got in society at the
moment is sody pop i think it's a great treat but don't drink too much of it it's a special treat
and if you're gonna if you're gonna get it get a good brand don't get you know Don't get the stuff that you always get.
Get the good stuff.
Treat yourself.
Get some artisanal shit.
But just get way less of it.
Don't tell me I'm a fucking rich, you know,
latte-sipping asshole from Auckland.
I owe people heaps of money.
There's no way around it. A homeless man is in a better financial position than I am
because he owes no one any money
presumably
but my point is
less cola
but better cola and actually
that's the same with everything anything that's bad for you
do less of it but do better
quality stuff if you can
if you can
I know not everyone can but if you can do If you can. I know not everyone can, but if you can, do it.
You know?
What's another example?
I guess booze.
What else?
Guy's just eating his salad.
He's not even, you know.
There's a mic nowhere near his lip,
so he's not going to be answering the call.
But, I tell you what,
we're in the dying moments of this final fourth go-around.
We're just saying our vote of appreciation
for all of the musical tracks that made this movie what it was.
And I am not exaggerating when I say
that the music really did make this movie any kind of bearable.
when I say that the music really did make this movie any kind of bearable.
A lot of places being shouted out for archival footage provided by,
and as I mentioned last time,
I mean, that's just another fancy word for we got our stock footage from these people.
And there's about a dozen different companies listed.
So up to you, everyone.
To both Joseph's, Maximum and Minimum, up to you everyone. To both Joseph's,
Maximum and Minimum,
thanks for tuning in.
This is
Tim Bat
signing off.
You want to say anything, Guy?
Guy's shaking his head.
Good night, everyone.
Good night.
Ow!
This movie's still fine.
There's a colleague
who passed out.
One of the guys
that goes screw.
One of them's a hottie.
His name is Jay.
One of them looks like Johnny Depp And his name is Johnny Depp
Classic Maximum Joseph
Agree!
Agh!
You forget that films are supposed to have a point
Today
You ready?
Okay, let's go
The hunt for the wildest movie of the summer.
Everybody run!
Ends here.
This is your super friendly and not aggressive reminder to buy tickets immediately.
Borderlands. Now playing.