The Worst Idea Of All Time - Episode Ten - 420Fuccboiz
Episode Date: July 4, 2016SPONSORED BY BIGPIPE.CO.NZ - they're the internetOh boy, what a stinker. Bring on the drinks cause this episode is just a sad little convo between two sad little boys. Why are we all still here doing... this? It's unconscionable. The only way this would be any sadder is if you weren't here listening. ANYWAY.Guybo and Timbley Wimbley are back at again, praising Page  - everyone's favourite 2D character. The stars are engaged in a talent quest with backflips, whistling and cry-DJing. Mayor Steve from NYC makes a breif appearence. It's all a bit of a mess really. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome along to the Worst Idea of All Time, Episode 10.
Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery have just watched We Are Your Friends
for a record setting, at least in their books, 10th time.
Hello, everybody.
We are boys becoming men.
We are acquaintances becoming friends.
We are in the pocket and ready to cook you up some thoughts.
Here they are, all in a row.
The movie's done.
Do you know what the thing is about the watch this week could have had
more could have had less just didn't really care about anything anymore i was watching it i was
like i i don't give a shit like give me another hour of this or end it an hour ago like fucking
whatever just real nihilistic yeah sort of comfortably numb yeah That could have gone on for another, like two hours,
and you just would have been like, this, of course.
Yeah, okay.
Of course this.
Now this.
Sure.
Just accepting it, you know?
Just taking it.
How's that going for you?
Well, it's better than getting frustrated, I think.
There's less energy expended, and you just don't get as upset.
It's just like, I imagine it's what being on lithium is like.
This movie is like lithium?
It was just this watch this week.
It's just like, ugh, I'm fine.
What's lithium used for?
Like intense depression.
It's like a mood stabilizer in very extreme wow I'm probably being a little melodramatic
about the effect of the film this week
in retrospect
why don't you make me explain myself like that
oh that was an accident
well sure guys if I've got to justify things I say
they do sound ridiculous
I was just curious as to what lithium does
I didn't know you said it was like lithium.
I think...
I'm not sure I've known anyone who used lithium.
It's depicted quite well, I think,
in the second season of House of Cards.
That woman that Claire Underwood's trying to get to testify.
I haven't seen any of that.
It's a good show.
That's what the people say.
People are telling me all sorts of stuff is good,
and I just don't have time.
I know.
Well, you do, but it's just like, at this point,
it's like, oh, fuck it all.
Throw it on the massive flaming pile of shit you like
that I haven't seen yet.
Hey, I've got a question,
which I shouldn't ask you on the podcast,
but I'm going to forget to ask you later.
And this is going to turn into a nice shout-out.
Where did you watch paul f
tompkins latest special on because i looked on netflix it wasn't there i watched it on a legal
it's easy did you easy to find in new zealand i definitely watched it legally oh no guy
oh yeah this is why i don't ask you these yeah this is why exactly why anyway it was good it
was good to pay him for what was a very good professional service yeah that what that joke
that you showed me though that's on uh youtube because i was able to show someone else that
that great dad joke we don't need to get into it anyway watch that special um so we are your
friends there we were back again two plucky young gents just trying to
round off a third and final season of a podcast that potentially has already been going on too
long um and and there we were for another week just us glued to a screen uh during the watch
this week we had musical accompaniment at at times on the bongo drums,
which we shared between us.
We passed it back and forward.
I had a harmonica mouth organ for a bit,
so just blowing on that,
hoping for a note.
And there was a bit of riffing,
bit of scatting,
bit of freestyle rapping
in the middle of it
when we got really bored.
It was all kind of plot-driven
freestyle scatting though
yeah it was it was commentary on what was unfolding on screen we were singing what we what we felt or
what we wanted to see happen yeah and what it turns out we wanted to see happen this week
unsurprisingly just different offers from the performers uh i feel like they're really trapped
in their ways now and uh it hasn't been working for a while So I don't know what makes them think
It's suddenly going to come right now
Real stick in the mud
Yeah preferably maybe
Or sticks in the mud
Is it like attorneys general?
Stick is always plural
Stick is plural and singular
Yeah anyway
Nightmare
Yeah just different offers like maybe stuff going wrong
more maybe more stuff going wrong you thought there was or there needs to be uh there needed
to be yeah yeah just people reacting to stuff differently yeah what we uh targeted onto really
locked onto very early into the film is that page undeniably our favorite character.
And I think that will be the case for quite some time.
If not ad infinitum for the duration of the season,
he brings a lot to the table,
a lot of baggage.
He's sort of,
he's just an immediately identifiable character.
All he's what we were,
I was saying,
like,
I think the reason why he's so lovable is because you get him instantly.
He's a little bit two-dimensional,
but you learn everything you need to know about a character, about him,
within fucking 15 seconds of seeing the dude.
He fucks minerals.
He likes fucking diamonds.
That's how obsessed with money he is and getting rich.
He cuts costs in the office by only using concrete.
Yeah.
But beyond that, he's just motivated by money.
And he likes looking flashy.
And he's older and therefore more interesting than like 423 or 4-year-old boys
who are just sort of like all...
420?
Yeah, that's right.
Who are just pretty much out there going down to the beach and smoking weed
to talk about their problems.
The 420 fuckboys.
420 fuckboys in a room vaping on weed pens.
Good God.
It's disgusting.
But it's a surefire hit at the cinema.
Imagine if the movie was just that.
You saw these four dudes riffing and scatting inside of a room.
Getting baked.
That sounds like a... For a web series yeah but this doesn't really sound like a movie either you know the
actual movie that got made doesn't sound like a movie the four for one boy trying to become a dj
three guys along for the ride one bright boy our man from high school musical Sokole trying to become a DJ in the
crazy, hedonistic, drug-fueled
sexy world of Los Angeles, California
You've just made it sound like a movie
You've got the green light, absolutely
Let's make this thing, I'm really excited
to see how it comes out. Yeah, true, so am I
You came up
with a pretty funny nickname
and also
good sort of observation towards the end of the film
when you notice that the character of Ziccoli
is known as the crying DJ.
The crying DJ, yeah.
Because he's, like at that party,
which we'll get back into as well.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
That idea we had?
About how to amp up a party
oh yeah absolutely let's just bookmark that for a second but um when he's at that party he's having
a good time he's he's he's just been hired by james reed from the feelers to play a weekend
gig earn a bit of pocket money he's doing a little afternoon pool party and it's all going well and
he's fucking rocks the D floor.
He gets them.
He gets them.
He absolutely gets them on the hook.
The party is going ballistic.
And he's having a good time.
Everyone's having fun.
Until he sees James Reid get into it, rightly, with his girlfriend, Emily.
Sophie?
Sophie.
What's her name?
Emily in real life.
Oh, Emily's her actual name.
Gotcha.
And they're dancing all close,
like you do when you're a couple.
And he looks like he's going to fucking cry about it.
It's like, jeez, man.
Pull yourself together.
And then he kind of does it like a few times.
There's another time as well that isn't just in the end,
but there's another time when he looks fucking intense.
Oh, it's when he's bloody wigging out at the music festival.
He's not DJing.
But when he pashes old Emily.
He feels a lot of emotions.
But he feels it all by looking like he's going to cry.
That's how he expresses any emotion.
He does it at the end.
But it is a pretty good gimmick to go around the club scene and be like,
oh, fuck, I heard of that dude.
He's the crying DJ.
Yeah, it's really interesting.
You're on uppers and you're dancing real hard to his music,
but he's just crying.
He's supposed to be kind of like the whole instigator and leader
of this good time, but he's the one crying the most.
It's like he's sacrificing his happiness for us to dance.
He's the club scene Jesus.
There hasn't been a real party in downtown LA
unless a DJ cries for the last year.
It's emotional.
It's human.
It's tribal.
That's what Maximum Joseph and Zac Efron thought they were creating
when they introduced Zicole, the crying DJ.
Maximum Joseph was not sold initially on this idea either
because he had written a whole damn movie with Oppenheimer
that was based around a different character.
And Ziccoli's like, you know what?
A happier DJ.
I can cry pretty much at the drop of a hat.
He's showing off his acting skills.
And all of the 420 fuckboys get an opportunity
to show off their acting skills in this film.
You've got...
Talent quest, guys.
Johnny Depp can whistle.
Yes.
They use it to great effect twice.
Have you seen the toilet?
It's...
And then Jarhead can do backflips,
which they kind of stiff Jarhead across the board
because they give him really uh ruthless cuts
to make his character like an absolute fucking idiot like early in the movie when he's like
uh you know 90 people want to be at the party 10 are the party you got to freaking be that and
then immediately the next he's like my body's 80 water and i'm thirsty it's like why is he obsessed
with numbers is this russell crowe in a beautiful mind and the other thing he can do is backflips
into a pool and so when he rents
the house
and they get the pool
he's like
backflip into the pool
and then the next shot
it's like we're at the party
and he's trying to impress
some girls
backflip into the pool
it makes him look like
such a weak
he's just a two dimensional
character
all he can do is backflip
he's like those toy dogs
that you press the back
and a spring loaded
mechanism fires
and he does a backflip
and lands on his legs
all he can do is backflips
and then talk about
exactly the number
of backflips he's done I've done 300 backflip and lands on his legs. All he can do is backflips and then talk about exactly the number of backflips he's done.
I've done 300 backflips and I've
landed 200 of them. That's a
success rate of 66%. You've got to be that.
I've done 300
backflips and I've slipped a vertebrae
and I am in pain.
What is
Skrill bringing to the talent quest?
He's a maths whiz.
He's always talking about numbers he's
talking about numbers when they're trying to render place in the booth he's talking about
numbers when they're getting hired quick fucking math do fucking math good fucking math kid i'm
page the only interesting character in this movie how we doing i'm loosely related to steve
former mayor of new york entrepreneur extraordinaire, made some dictionaries.
Maybe you heard of him.
Made a big name for himself in New York.
He's not allowed in the California state right now
on account of some of the underhanded shit he did.
Got turfed out.
Didn't like it.
Didn't like it none.
There I was minding my own business,
getting my rocks off on tour rock, if you know what I'm saying.
I fuck diamonds.
Yeah. He's obsessed with minerals concrete diamonds it's all he's about it's concrete and mineral tim no it's not
really it's a compound of sort of minerals though a rock like just stones like rocks and stones
gravel that's that's a mineral isn't it everything if every if i've learned one thing About the format of 20 questions
It's that everything
Is a vegetable or an animal
Or a mineral
And between those three things
Stones and rocks and concrete
Definitely mineral
I see, so there's three types of things
In this world
There's three things in the world I believe in
Animals, minerals, vegetables everything else is
an abstract constructive human mind one i fuck one i eat and one i make friends with and it's not
the order you think oh that's good stuff like fuck marry kill but he's kind of got it all confused
so we've got the colleague the crying dj and the other thing that occurred at the pool party
when he's earning a bit of pocket money
to get out of the goddamn San Fernando Valley
and stop eating so much raw, poisoned fish.
That's why these boys' fingers are getting webbed.
They're not eating healthy fish, all right?
The boys' fingers are getting webbed?
Yeah, absolutely.
Dang.
Missed that.
Yeah, you've got to look closely.
All of them are getting slightly,
as the movie goes on,
they get like
slightly webbed fingers
I don't know why
but I trust you're
completely right
about
Jarhead
having webbed
hands
I feel like I've seen that
in the back of my head
but not as a coalhead
he's perfect
he's a perfect human specimen
no
they start getting
webbed fingers
and they start getting
scales
on their fingertips
it's weird stuff but that's an all-in
aside to what i'm trying to get to well hold on because generally poison fish doesn't turn you
into a fish it's like teenage mutant ninja turtle style or spider-man style exactly radioactive fish
from uh fukushima no they don't import their fish
on the west coast of California, do they?
No, but it's all that shared Pacific Ocean
with the Japanese reactor.
The nuclear leaks finally reached the Pacific Ocean.
Yeah, dog.
On the Californian coastline.
And now we've got to deal with 420 fuckboys
turning into fish all of a sudden.
Only in the San Fernando Valley,
which is why they think it's the best sushi in the western hemisphere and everyone else is like no one goes
to eat sushi in the valley that stuff's poisonous it'll fucking ruin you and they're like the same
guy is like hey this heroin it's the best stuff it's so yum yeah it's delicious heroin's right
everyone's like you guys your entire suburb is turning into fish people
and you keep eating so much sushi
anyway that is all an aside
to the point I'm trying to get to
which is at the party
when
Emily or Sophie sorry
we've got to come up
with a name for her we're sort of straddling
between the two options and it's a disaster
zone
when Somaly comes up to
Zach and is like
this party's looking a little stiff Cole
and Cole looks around and he's like
what are you telling me? I need to amp it up
and she never confirms it, he just takes
that idea and puts it upon himself
she pouts
that's her default
setting and so he's like
You'd say I need to amp it up
Question unanswered
He doesn't give an opportunity
For that question to be answered
Because he just brings out something
So massive
So unspeakably huge
That you cannot argue with the fact
That this categorically
Amps up the party
What does he bring out Tim?
He brings out
A chainsaw and a hockey mask.
A la Halloween, I think.
Oh, no, yeah, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
And he raves the chainsaw.
This is a lovely afternoon's party.
Yeah, and it's not an electric one.
It's a proper petrol one from days of old.
It's got the big old ripcord and you've got to get it started.
And he's just totally,
he's totally lost perspective on how weird this is and how jarring this would
be for everyone else at the party.
And he starts quoting Job from Arrested Development,
running up to them with the chainsaw going, everybody dance,
everybody dance now.
And someone's like, dude, I think you should put down the chainsaw.
And he's like, oh, oh, okay.
Oh, the guy with the chainsaw is going to listen to the guy who doesn't have a chainsaw.
Yeah, yeah.
And then Emily.
Come on!
Somaly is like, uh, Zicoli, that's not what I meant when I said to amp up the party.
And he's like, oh, so suddenly this is too much for you, is it?
And then you know what happens after that?
He starts fucking crying as his goddamn trademark at the decks and everyone's
happy for it because uh the crying dj's here all of a sudden like before it was some crazy
murderous dude and now like some soulful teary dj it's an extension of his crying dj persona
where he also hires out different improvisational characters yeah so you get the crying dj and you
also get one mystery character who he breaks out
into in the middle of his DJing set.
And to be fair, he did amp
up that party. Mission accomplished.
You can't argue with facts.
It did fuck the energy
completely. There's a lot of uncomfortable people.
That's what he's all about as a DJ.
It's the push and pull.
It's about locking onto people's
heart rate
With getting a song
That's 128 BPM
And then amping that shit up
Add a chainsaw to the mix, have a cry
Jizz on them, whatever
It's an emotional clusterfuck
He's legally safeguarded himself
Because on his website he advertises his DJing skills
As unforgettable
And I mean you can argue with whether or not
People enjoy it but no one
soon forgets the experience you have when you get to coley the crying dj yeah at your at your party
fuck yeah good shit i'd hire him just to laugh at him but yeah i guess the thing is the only way to
escalate it because if everyone knows that he's not going to do anything that's actually going
to fuck with you it's kind of like oh well it's obviously scary but it's not terrifying
because you know he's not going to touch you so the only logical answer is he has to start like
you know taking fingers and stuff what do you mean like actually taking them off
chainsawing fingers off yeah like every one every 10 parties nah. I don't reckon that's what's up. You know how...
It's like if you go to those
like nightmare maze things
where the spookers,
where they hire, you know,
struggling actors to dress up like scarecrows
and freak you out.
But there's like rules.
Have you been there?
No, I haven't.
I've heard mixed things about those.
I've heard that some of the actors are like,
they go too far.
I could believe that. If you were doing that are like they go too far i could believe that
if you were doing that you'd i'd go too far would you you're like if i'm trying to freak people out
i'd be like i'm gonna do what i can to freak these these people paid for an experience i'm
gonna give them experience someone might be a big hollywood producer they might hire me
for my work at spookers but i guess the one parameter is working the haunted house at
universal studios you know i put my head down and work hard enough.
I could work my way up this thing.
That's how Matt Damon got his first gig.
Is it?
He was a dressed-up scarecrow, and he went too far.
But luckily, the person who was in there who he was touching up
was Jerry Brockheimer.
Started hiring him for shit.
Is that what you mean when you say they've gone too far?
They start grabbing the... I think that's you mean when you say they've gone too far they start grabbing
the
I think that's the
only way you can
go too far
well there's a
couple of
things you probably
could scream at them
I was thinking more
psychologically
well psychological
is all good
but if you just
start yelling like
racial abuse
or something
that's not in the
that's not in the
handbook
that's not in the
spirit of it
you're not going to
impress any big
Hollywood producers
with your bigoted world views that's not scary either itbook. That's not in the spirit of it. You're not going to impress any big Hollywood producers with your bigoted world views.
That's not scary either.
It's just hateful.
But it's kind of an interesting wrinkle
to throw into one of those Halloween-style things.
Just blind fury.
Just like, what the fuck, man?
What is this guy doing?
Jesus Christ.
You can't be offended.
I'm haunted by it
I'm haunted
but anyway
I think the big
sort of no go zone is touching
people you know I just think
I just think no matter how scary you want to be
in one of those environments
I think the key rule is don't touch anyone and that's
from what I've heard from mates
where people go too far when they actually start grabbing people and it's like no no no no you're not allowed to do
that well of course you're not yeah but they do because they go too far is that why you haven't
been to spookers no it's not because you're a little chicken i just don't like um
anyone in this family even seen a chicken um i don't even i don't know oh come on i don't even
have a massive desire to go to theme parks just in general you know do you like roller coasters
yeah i haven't been on that many you don't love it on a few i i don't know i used to like them they're fun man
are they though yes i guess so i guess they are i told you about when i briefly developed a fear
of flying eh no i went to the royal sydney easter show which is like the um amp show or for our
american listeners it's like a it's like a county fair nailed it that is what it's
like so um i went there with my mate nick and we've been on one of these rides that's like
a whole bunch of kind of octopus arms out from a central pole and they've got a couple of points
of articulation so it's kind of like a hand with like a wrist if you think about it like that and
there's about 10 or so of them and then at the end of it is a harness um a similar kind that you get on a roller coaster where it just
comes down over your shoulders and locks you in right but your legs are free there's no chair
so they they strap you into this thing and then they like press the button and it just throws you
round and round and round but it like, this thing was fucking terrifying
because it can do all this crazy shit
because everyone's roughly the same size as a human
where it will get your harness
and move the arm in a particular way
where it starts throwing you at the ground.
So you see the ground coming at you at a really fast velocity
and then pull out at the very last moment and the whole
time because your legs are just wiggling around you feel like you're gonna hit the central pole
when you're like screwing around anyway i went with my mate nick who was a he's a tough dude
like the guy decided to buy a whole bunch of really expensive camping gear so he could just
go bush for like three months by himself i bought him a hunting knife for his birthday once he used to be in the army briefly you know he's a tough biscuit and he was like you know that hysterical kind of
laugh screaming you do when you think you're legit gonna die he was doing that and we got off the
ride and we were very shaken both of us and then the next thing we went on was a um like a ferris
wheel like a slow moving like the eye like the Eye of London kind of thing,
but way smaller, obviously.
And on that, I was wigging out.
That's supposed to be a nice little ride that we went on
to kind of just be like, okay, time to chill out.
We were on that wheel.
I was like, fuck this.
We are so high off the ground.
This would have been cool 20 minutes ago,
and I can't handle it.
And for about two years after that,
I got real nervous flying. And only recently it sort of left me. I'm glad you't handle it. And for about two years after that, I got real nervous flying.
And only recently it sort of left me.
I'm glad you overcame it.
It's a terrible thing, a fear of flying.
It's no good.
But you've got to appreciate I found that highly comical.
That reminds me also of a time my friend Oscar and I,
it's a similar story but different.
We went to the A&P show
in Christchurch
which is the same
county fair sort of thing
and we went on a ride
called the Gravitron
which is
this like
it looks like a
you know
stereotypical
space
ship
oh fuck I know this one
and it spins you around
really fast
to the point
that you can sort of
flip
like you can move around
the centripetal force
pins you to the wall yeah and we were on it uh and we were both sort of pinned
and upside down or whatever i was upside down and oscar was facing up and he wasn't really enjoying
it poor bugger so this this experience is done for some people and he's uh he's up against the
wall and he's lying against it and he's not really having a very good time and then
this metal bar that's
loose on the metal unit
or console comes flying
off and hits him on the head.
Oh my god, are you serious?
Holy shit!
And he throws up
across his own body.
Oh my god!
So he's bent against the wall with vomit on his shirt.
Having just been duped in the head.
So he's freaked out in the ride, then gets duped on the head, then vomits on himself.
That is brutal.
Oh, you poor boy.
Oscar, you poor boy.
The shirt he was wearing was a brand new Shirt By Rusty
A very popular surf brand
It had dragons on it
And he'd been bragging about it
The whole morning
This can't be the Oscar I know
This is exactly
The same Oscar you know
Boy he's come along
In his life
Yeah
Good on him
Fuck
Shit man
How proper did he get
Diffed by that bar
Like
Not concussed
Cause that's the kind of
If that happened in America
There's like a multi
Multi
We were like 11 We were like whoa what a crazy ride and then we got candy yeah just
another wrinkle in the day oh god i forgot about that that was funny fucking hell um
so anyway back to the film there was a bit that you said at the time back to the film. There was a bit that you said at the time.
Back to the film, my darling.
Remember this bit because this is going to be my no but today,
which is the bit in the podcast where we guess where in the movie
they improvised a scene.
And there's many of them.
Did you remember the one that you were thinking of or is that gone?
That's gone until I see it again. But when when you see it it's unmistakable yeah but the one i did find
uh is when zicole finally he's he goes for a big run he gets lost he finds way back home he makes
a track about his experience of getting lost while going for a run in your neighborhood
he tells james reed from the feelers about it james reed says all right you're back on and then he goes and he tells jarhead who
sort of just resigned himself to working on his parents house yeah like that's his life he's
working on a bit of four by two yeah sam and zikali walks up to him and says i'm playing summerfest
and then steps back and he's like okay this is great this is the opening of an improvisation
between me and Jarhead
wherein
we can talk about
what this means for us
as characters in the movie
and he goes
I'm playing this
and he takes a step back
and there's like
a second silence
and then two seconds silence
and you can see
in Zicoli's eyes
he's devastated
that this improvisational scene
is not
he's letting it hang
yeah
this offer has not been accepted
yeah and then eventually Jarhead says that's great not he's letting it hang this yeah this offer has not been accepted yeah
and then eventually jahid says that's great man i was like congratulations and then they both just
stand around and they're like saying yeah i can understand why maximum joseph would make the
decision to impro that scene as well because these boys as we all know like every other hollywood
film this film has been shot chronologically this comes near the end always these guys are very familiar with their characters and he's like you
know what i know my limitations as a writer i think i've given you enough to enough clay to
work with here i want you to mold the scene and i will breathe life into it by filming the thing
go and fucking zikoli gets in there hard and fast with a good old offer
and Jarhead blocks it
it's devastating
yeah
it's sad
not all of these improvised scenes are going to work
not everything can be
an acapella version of Santa Ria by the pool
that's right, not everything can be
a shared breakfast
of room service after you
banged all night on the hotel bed or so we led to believe i mean we never actually see it happening
there's a that scene really sticks out because there's a lot of this film where actually
to the editor's credit a lot kind of gets done in a short amount of time in terms of communicating
what the fuck is up especially the opening of this film it's like boom boom pacey that scene lasts for like 30 seconds of screen
time or something and it's just you get you get literally nothing from it they you don't get
further plot development you don't get any additional character no but they kind of undo
they need it they need it because it's like it because it's an emotional handle that they can hang.
It's meant to be an emotional key point for the movie
because there's nothing else happening.
It's like the fact that these two people care about each other.
We don't know what it means,
but let's just sit in it for as long as possible
because it means we don't have to worry about all the other scenes
not making perfect emotional sense.
What Maximum Joseph has done
is he has rented a copy
of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet
starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio.
And he's mirrored that scene where,
I think it's when they first meet
and they're kind of like
playing little games across the aquarium,
you know, while that beautiful song's playing.
I've only seen the trailer,
but I know what you're talking about you still know the you know the shot this the the scene the sequence um and he's just trying to emulate that and that bit where they're like
running all over town and then booking into a hotel set to that dance track that's all
fucking talking about love and stuff you don't like that's a fine capable whatever job of of
creating some emotion simply by relying on the music to do all the heavy lifting and then just
shooting a bunch of bullshit like a music video you don't then need to lay on top of that this
fucking unaccounted see this is the thing, you take away music at any point in this movie
and the scene fucking falls apart
that bit is just like this
not underwritten but not written at all
improvised bullshit
scene where you actually not only
add to the film but you undo
characterization and
emotional, like the emotional
crescendo that you've built up
through this musical montage
I'm saying the editors should have cut it out to quote uncle joey from full house
uh yeah look i'm not saying that they made the right choice by leaving it also like i'm painting
you into a corner for defending this terrible bit of the movie so So go, guy. Defend it.
All I'm saying is,
you know,
you reach a point when you're making a movie like this
where you're like,
well, we've got to leave some stuff in.
That's true, actually.
The duration is not huge.
Which is great.
Which was,
I'm going to be honest with you,
the main draw,
the main draw card of watching this movie
is that fucking gorgeous little runtime
oh that sweet little runtime beautiful sexy tight little runtime uh measuring it at a what like 96
a whopping 96 minutes or something yeah something like that it's a boy and what a boy that's the
umbilical cord uh do you have a shining light tim yeah i do actually and i've
seen it in the movie lots of times but it hasn't been my shining light yet but i love it every time
when um when our boy zicoli is at the pcp party and he's going into the drug-fueled
like kind of dream sequence just before the rotoscope is fully kicking in.
There's like,
you know how there's those flashes of him and like,
and one he's passionate girl and he's drinking and he's got like his arm around James Reed from the fearless.
And it's kind of a POV of someone else who's at the party.
Cause it looks like they used a steady cam or something.
So it's sort of like quite a cool trippy thing.
There's this particular expression this face that zach efron pulls off and it is just so recognizable of of like
drunk good times yeah he's kind of got almost he's almost like got his tongue hanging out of
his mouth like a dog kind of biting it a little bit and just waving his head along to the music
totally inebriated totally removed
from being concerned about what other people think he looks like and i'm like i fucking have
been there man i know i know that feeling he he captured it for you yeah it's there for like a
just a split second a few frames but it's um i reckon he did a great job of that micro-expression.
Tip of the hat to you, Ziccoli.
Well done, Ziccoli.
You're a bright boy, you're a brave boy, you're a clever boy.
Introducing a second emotion to his...
Drunk.
...considerable range.
Yeah, it's a hell of a repertoire, crying and drunk.
They're two good ones to have Up your sleeve On any movie set
Oh yeah, oh sure
Have you got a shining light?
I'm going to be honest with you Tim
I gave you a while to pad for time
I did not
Most of the shining lights were just things that we
Like moments we grabbed out of the movie
And made our own
Like for instance when Paige
They're at Tanya Romero's house,
and she shows them the papers.
She goes, I got sent this from the bank the other day.
I found this on my doorstep the other day
and handed it to Paige, and Paige was like,
oh, no.
This is covered in raccoon blood.
Oh, you're in big trouble now, lady.
He says, oh, no, brilliantly,
and then there's a silence where you could insert
anything that's on the paper.
Because there was more to that.
When you said that while the movie was playing,
you were suggesting that the raccoon blood-soaked note was a sign
that a gang had targeted your house.
Yeah.
That's what they do.
They're using raccoons as quills.
Yeah.
Or is the, what is it? The ink pod?
What are they called?
Well, the ink well.
It is well.
Pod is such a modern word.
Well is old timey.
Yeah.
Well, well, well.
Well and quill.
So your favorite bit of the movie was a bit that did not happen in the movie.
No, it was Paige saying, uh-oh saying oh okay but only because of what you could
add to that and you're here yeah well it was the moment i probably enjoyed the movie most so yes
that's a shining light jesus christ that is bleak considering we're gonna watch this thing
40 hey no man double digits oh yeah here's to that it's a big birthday yeah it is there's no cake
i'm keen it's just you and i
i said this to you during the watch today but i'll say it for everyone here i feel like we need to
start throwing a little more toppings on this thing at this point i think we're we're pretty
we're pretty in there with the movie so i think we need to like get out in the field and do some
some weird shit gladly for some watches let's watch it at a nightclub
yeah that's a depressing idea i'll do it yeah and we'll record in the nightclub too it'll sound
terrible yeah yeah yeah i love that okay done excellent good shit okay well there you go that's
how you make something you can't back out of You put it on a podcast and let everyone hear it.
Good shit.
I'm pretty happy to round this up.
Well, I've got fucking heartbreaking news for you, Timbly Wimbly.
What?
Old Spindly Timbly Wimbly and his Spindly memory banks.
You've got no money in the memory bank, mate.
We've got to go all the way back to Los Angeles, California.
We've got to get inside James Reid's beautiful apartment. It's actually a house. We've got to go all the way back to Los Angeles, California. We've got to get inside James Reed's beautiful apartment.
It's actually a house.
We've got to go into his fucking living room.
He's got to come out of his back room or cupboard under the stairs
with a bag with a MacBook Pro box inside of it and say,
Getting sentimental with James Reed.
Remember how loose we used to get when we'd sing Patty Schwartz Party Time?
Yeah, people miss it.
I'm getting a lot of listener feedback coming and going,
just give me one more, man.
Give me one more of those.
It's not going to happen here.
Maybe on the friend zone, but not here.
We're siloing that shit off.
In fact, we already did one. We did one a few weeks ago on the friend zone but not here we're siloing that shit off in fact we already did one we did one a few weeks ago on the friend zone yeah but i was in the i was it was a skype one
yeah it's trickier um okay well guy seeing as how you i feel like really copped out of your um
shining yeah gladly man i'll tell you exactly what's in that fucking box
shining yeah gladly man i'll tell you exactly what's in that fucking box may have gotten a little sentimental they said i get an opener for summerfest what's inside that box tim a very very
expensive bottle opener he says to zicole you got a job i'm gonna be crushing bears and crushing
chicks at summerfest and you're gonna be opening all of them for me. Only the bears. Only the bears.
The phrasing came out way wrong.
Phrasing.
Yeah.
It's just so pretty much he gives him a very expensive can or bottle opener
and he's like,
I want you to bring a backpack full of chilled bears.
I'm going to be fucking caning it on the main stage
and you're going to be plying me with booze.
Oh, that is how you destroy an apprentice.
He's like, this is my version of
sentimentality i'm a fucking alcoholic i've got a real problem with emotional you're my you're my
connections yeah and you are my bottle bitch i think that's what friendship is dang so he's
making him a glassy for summer fest that's his version of getting sentimental that sucks um and that was garden sentimental with james reed you didn't come with me on that one
i was thinking about how i could insert the words patty schwartz but it wasn't possible
nah it's not gonna happen not this week get out of it hey everyone thanks for listening
this episode was brought to you by big pipe presumably yeah i just go i that occurred to
me halfway through well if we do it now it's sort of burying the spot isn't it unless we say that
we're going to do a petty schwartz party time at the end of the read which we're not but if we say
we will and even say we're not you'll still stick around to maybe hear it
I'm confused
by what you've just said
I can't imagine
what the casual listener
of this podcast
would be thinking right about
can't imagine what the head
of advertising at Big Pipe
is thinking right now
oh okay
we'll do one then eh
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Agree!
You forget that films are supposed to have a point