The Worst Idea Of All Time - Friendzone Fourteen
Episode Date: July 10, 2016Well it's the Friendzone, with Tim and Guy. Come to the Frienzone, and have a good time. Yes, it's the Friendzone, with Tim and Guy. Cause making friends is the best idea of all time!Taxes, letters o...f love, people named Alasdair - this Friendzone truly has it all. Tim needs to warm up before launching into the mailbag, Guy is happy as Larry due to running, a slice from Alice and not having just watched We Are Your Friends. We learn the German for 'punchable face' and a dope potential sequel for WAYF is submitted from a listener. Also, Guy does more accents! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Well it's the friend zone, with Tim and Guy, come to the friend zone, and have a good time, yes it's the friend zone, with Tim and Guy, cause making friends is the best idea of all time.
Correct! Welcome along to the friend zone.
I'll never get tired of that one, I like that one.
I believe you, I believe you. And that's what friendship's about, it's about belief.
It sounded like you didn't.
Yeah, I was deciding if I was going or not, but I did.
Hey, everybody.
If you're a masochistic son of a bitch who's tuned in to hear Guy and I
smashing ourselves around the face and brain with the Max Joseph 2015
Zac Efron attempted a vehicle but absolutely a bomb at the box office,
we are your friends, you are going to
be disappointed, all of that
was in parenthesis, yeah we regretfully
inform you this is a discussion about friendship
our friendship with one another
but more importantly our friendship
with you and right at the gates if I may
I'd like to say a huge thank you, I just saw this
on Twitter, to Colin
or at lol in
ruffle in whose twitter bio is purely the words science
bitch that's good that's good strong has tweeted out saying a wild minimum joseph appeared and
then included a gif of uh his cameo or his friend's cameo i'm not quite clear if it's
minimum joseph or it can't be maximum joseph it's his friend yeah Minimum Joseph yeah at the party
he's a good looking
enthusiastic dude
he gives James Reed
a high five
so big thank you
for you for digging that up
Colin saving us
trying to spot it
every week in the
goddamn movie
and they've time coded
it and everything
yeah
1530
thank you
thank you so much
to us
to us
no I don't even it's too early for me to read a letter out it's too early it's
too early in the day i just want to say hello to you guys it's 5 a.m in the morning we're up at
sparrows fart doing this i want to address you yeah mano emano yeah here here i am doing it. Hello. Here I am. Rock you like a
hurricane. And talk to you like a
gentleman. Yeah.
Are you good? Yeah, I'm good, man. Good.
I'm good. I'm in
a good mood.
Yeah.
I've been running a lot lately and I think that
helps. I think that I'm generally
I try to be in a good mood, but I think that
does that regular exercise thing. I always forget to do it. And then when I remember, I always feel a in a good mood, but I think that regular exercise thing,
I always forget to do it,
and then when I remember, I always feel a little bit better.
Matthew Hatfield writes,
Hi, boys.
Love the podcast and your rapid descent into madness.
You've inspired me to watch We Are Your Friends twice,
and I expect to watch it several more times by the year's end.
One of the main problems I have with the film,
other than Johnny Depp being without his moustache in the
lad's intro montage,
months before
he brutally murders Skrill, timecode
people were sending us timecodes,
good on you, 347,
is that our boy
Brocolli,
haven't heard that before, that's good, Brocolli
never seems to pay his taxes.
Normally this
wouldn't annoy me or even stand out in a movie but he receives large amounts of cash
in hand and stashes it in his bed for no real reason maybe to hide it from the government
maybe he doesn't have the cognitive capacity to pay it another problem born due to the absence
of his father uh or that i'm trying to read through the pop shield.
It's so hard.
Or that he thinks himself a god.
And that his one banging track
is his ticket out of Texas.
Regardless of his intentions
and in keeping with Tim's dreams of a sequel,
the next film starts out with Broccoli
being audited by the IRS,
interrupting the aptly named Summerfest
and the aptly named...fest and the aptly named.
Good on you for taking the time
to think of an adjective to put before Summerfest.
You know what Summerfest is?
It's aptly named.
It's a festival in summer.
God bless them for pointing that out.
Good on you, Matthew.
Let me finish this email, though.
Where was I?
Summerfest, dragging him off to prison
where he has to deal with numerous gangs
and French EDM clubs
dissatisfied with being there.
With his being there.
The movie?
We are out of friends.
So named for the huge hulking man
that tells Broccoli
this in the prison showers
moments before an unflinching
and traumatic portrayal of prison rape.
Wow.
Somehow Paige and James Reid get together in an amazing duo to break him out.
Something involving sentimental diamonds.
Thanks for reading.
Matt H. from Scotland.
Took a real turn there at the end.
Yeah, but it was a powerfully well-considered sequel
and much more heavy-handed than We Are Your Friends,
which I think is probably what it needs to push it over the edge from just another sequel to a movie that people are going to talk
about uh so thank you for that contribution yeah i totally our friend uh i'd actually this is a big
one for me tim uh in the weekend i did a show in wellington yeah uh and it was really good fun so
thanks to everyone who came along uh but especially thank you to someone by
the name of else joel if so imagine this i'm i'm going to the venue to to check in say hey i'm here
i'm excited and this is before the doors were open and the owner vaughn uh vks it's a great
comic if you've been willing to check it out came out and said oh look hey man before you go someone came uh someone came by here earlier
with this bag for you and i was like i don't remember needing a bag or requesting a bag from
anyone and he gave me this plastic bag and inside the bag was a a home like a tupperware like a
plastic tupperware container with home-baked louise slice and a lovely card and written upon the card were the following words. Guy
I am sure
of very few things but here are a couple of them
The latest season of Game of Thrones
has been surprisingly adequate
Hamilton is a
dope piece of historiography
Eggs should not be
eaten in tube form. These aren't healthy
though they are gluten free but they have the
good sense to be rectangular.
That was in reference
to the slices.
Have a good show
and thanks again for suffering
for our amusement.
Else Jolliffe.
Now, as I understand it,
Else Jolliffe didn't come
to the show
because she said
she didn't have her ID
and she was too young.
Or not too young,
but she didn't have her ID.
Perceivably too young.
Oh, that's so brutal.
But a huge huge
thank you to you for the lovely slice i actually made my friend praki a piece first just to make
sure you hadn't done anything weird to it yeah it's called listener food i'm used to that in
radio when you get sent stuff you get the intern to eat it first and give it a couple of hours
uh but thank you so much that was honestly it really made my it really made my day
so thank you
that's fantastic
god that's nice
isn't it
you should go do a show
in Wellington
see if you can
outdo my Louise slice
maybe I will
this is from Tom
Tom writes
dear spindly
windily
timbly
and guy brush
threepwood
guy brush
threepwood
threepwood
I think it's supposed
to be three wood
nah I like threepwood guy brush threepwood it think it's supposed to be Threewood? Nah, I like Threepwood
Guybrush Threepwood's the name
I'm an architect
I started listening to your dumb dumb podcast
on the back of my
Mabim Bam Marathon
when it came around to
Till Death Do Us Blart, at which point
I listened and thought, hey, this is cool
Is that the guy from Flight of the Conchords
and Yes Man? And I quickly realised
Tim wasn't. I've been
hooked on ever since.
After embarking on the
worst binge listen of all time, I just wanted
to say you chaps are absolute
legends. Ease added
to mimic the New Zealand dialect.
And I bloody love your podcast. Keep it up, gents.
You are greatly appreciated.
Please come and do a UK show. Most importantly, live every moment, love every day. Keep it up, gents. You are greatly appreciated. Please come and do a UK show.
Most importantly, live every moment, love every day.
Keep pounding that Java or hail the Rat King.
Oh, wow.
Lovely.
God, these are really...
He also, in a new message moments afterwards,
he also said, P.S.
I plan to sling you blokes some dosh,
but I've put that on hold until the pound pulls out of its Brexit
and juice a nosedive
can you please read that again in a british accent just the the extra bit p.s i plan to
sling you blokes some dosh but i've put that on hold i don't know what british dialect this is
till the pound pulls out of its Brexit-induced nosedive.
Very good.
We travelled through so many counties in that one sentence.
That was probably the best British accent
in that it was so broad it covered every single part of the British Empire.
Piss week.
Week T.
Actually, this isn't Rebecca.
Rubecker, spelt with an ru at the start writes
hey timbo and geyser i couldn't ever think of a better way to spend my lunch breaks than sitting
in the brisbane botanical garden and listening to the lovely ramblings of you two bloody kiwis
when i binge listen to twioat i start thinking in the new zealand accent i'm not sure if i should
be worried my boyfriend who has also sent a message to you guys and you had to bleep his name
out on the friend zone.
And I may be
heading to New Zealand in Feb 2017.
Any chance either of you have
some tour dates lined up, we'd love
to spend some
bulk dollaroos on your gigs.
Anyway, thank you so much for the hours of entertainment making me laugh.
On public transport, much appreciated.
With love, from Brizzy.
Oh, wow.
God, the good people of Brisbane, they just keep on giving.
They sure do.
But anonymously.
And that's to your question.
No, we don't have any plans because we don't make plans that far out.
I don't know where I'll be in February.
No, yeah, February is a long time from now.
It's really hard to know.
But through the medium of this conversation yeah we will keep
you posted i've tagged one more as an important one to read and it's from someone called will
but i feel like i've done enough reading do you want to read it yeah sure man i love reading if
you go i've always prided myself on being a very good sight reader you are good at it bloody good
thank you uh so if you if you go on the the facebooky facebooky i don't like saying people's
last names on this podcast for privacy reasons so his name is will jay in the messages and he's
seen it on uh june the 30th all right i'm i'm digging through the archives while guys doing
that i'd just like to say his name again please Will, and the initial is J for the last name.
Yep.
I'm on it.
It's weird that I've been very particular about Will
because I say last names all the time.
Yeah, I like arbitrarily drawing a line
in privacy protection every once in a while.
Only a few people get it.
To hell with you.
So this is from Will Jeffery, an Australian.
Accordingly, I'll read it as such.
G'day, Spindly, Timbly, Wimbly, and Guy Guy.
Australian here, living in Germany.
Was on the bus on the way to work listening to Natalatown this morning,
and you mentioned the bloke with the punchable face,
which prompted me to pull out my phone in order to get in touch.
Something I thought you two might find interesting is that in the German language,
there is a word for that type of person.
The word is
The etymology of the word is a little strange.
Back is the word for cheek, and pfeifen is to whistle, and gissicht is face.
Back pfeifen gissicht is a northern German term popularized in the 19th century
as a term for a slap,
possibly meaning a slap
that whistles towards the cheek.
So the full word,
Jesus,
how many times are you making me say this,
motherfucker?
Backpfeifengischicht
means a slappable face.
Close enough, I thought.
Also, a mate of mine
got me onto the podcast
about four months ago.
I've barreled through the first two seasons
and now I'm up to date.
It's been a crazy few months for me as I
have faced defilitation notices, have had multiple
scares at border control, and have been knocked back
by the visa office a couple of times.
It's all starting to settle down now, thankfully, but
through all the madness, two things remain
constant. My girlfriend's support, new
boys talking absolute fucking rubbish.
I thank you for it. By the way,
the addition to the
Friendzone episode Is a welcome change
Good luck with this last season
If you boys are ever
In the neighbourhood
Hamburg, Germany
Hit me up for somewhere to crash
Free drinking
Tour included
Cheers
Will
Will
Who is who I am
I'm a good guy
And I'd like to thank myself
In character as myself
For being such a
A keen listener
And a fine writer
And
Quite the linguist i've
studied languages at university before presumably because i sure seem to know a lot about the
etymology of german words presumably i speak two languages which is great this is insane
and character is a fan who sent us a letter that's that's something else um those are my
favorite kind of messages to get though guys like guy who's like, oh, good day.
I'm a guy here who had a whole lot of shit go wrong.
And I was listening to your podcast while it was happening.
Yeah.
It sounds like you might have been doing some vaguely illegal stuff.
Oh, absolutely.
It sounds like you are really just ignoring immigration laws.
At no point did you say, which was bullshit because I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Anyway.
I'm going to read some emails that have come through this one's from valerie hey timbo and flash you guys are my
please you guys are my favorite f boys in episode six you guys had a long discussion about money
laundering a few years ago i was watching a TV program called The Marriage Ref.
This brought on comedians and had them adjudicate like marital disputes.
That's a fucking dynamite concept.
Holy shit, I would watch that.
Oh, that's so good.
Well-known germaphobe Howie Mendel was on the program.
He spoke in length about how his wife launders
all of his money, speaking of washing it
not hiding it from the government, oh so literally
laundering it, zero of the people on
the show, brackets
five other people, made any kind of comment
as to how that is commonly
used phrase for a criminal act
and all behaved like
using it to mean cleaning money was not
at all weird or unusual.
I've not been able to forget this conversation since.
You guys reminded me of it with your talk of money washing.
I was so excited to have a reason to share this bonkers situation with someone.
It was a real win for me.
I don't often have a reason to bring up
a really bad cancelled show from five years ago.
Have an amazing day.
Valerie Austin.
Valerie, wow, I'm so happy for you as well that's great that's just you guys were talking about something you're reminding me
something else it's fucking awesome uh this person i read out the next email please yeah
oh it's just fucking hard because the cables and shit this one's a well i'll do this one
because it's short and then i'll find a big one and give it to you this person says have you ever
seen or heard of the movie end of days with arnold schwarzenegger that movie is absolutely
ridiculous i think it would be prime material for your next movie so sorry to tell you first name
last name which is what you've got in your email address um not gonna happen You shouldn't say their full name Tim Not gonna happen
This is the last season
This is the limp victory lap
As we drag ourselves around the stadium
To our emptying fans
Oh god
It's all hard isn't it
No it's okay
People love this stuff
What you just heard
Was Guy and I passing a laptop
Between each other without
trying to like disconnect that's right that's the content you want uh so from amelie in phoenix
arizona okay sure you can't see but guy and i just both shrugged at each other as if to say
yeah that'll do for phoenix dear friends phoenix via text edit dear friends writing to
see that my boyfriend brock and i emily are in fact your friends thank you so much for continuing
the effort for being friends to each other and being friends to us brock sends you tweets and
i like instas that's how we stay in touch we started listening from the beginning while you
guys were already in season two while we were on vacation in new york city little Little did we know at that point you had begun suffering through sex in the city too.
Fun story with that.
My girlfriends and I sort in theaters.
My quirky friend wore a turban.
There's a bit to unpack just out of that one idea.
First of all, I love that you've assigned one friend to be the quirky friend in your group.
I like that.
That's their role.
The quirky friend sounds more like the racist friend.
Potentially.
Yeah.
She's got a fun and interesting take on situations.
She'll go to a dress-up party in blackface and won't see the problem with it.
You know?
She's that one.
She's quirky.
She's stoking the conversational fire.
She's just quirky.
Nevertheless, we did so much binge listening that we began talking to each other in Kiwi accents.
Sometimes I do that too. Until a true kiwi asked us for directions on the metro we introduced him
to the podcast don't know if he started listening and i can't remember what his name is but it was
a nice icing on the cake to the experience anyway brock and i are big time fans there must be pretty
good kiwi accents of some new zealand i thought they were in new zealand yeah but did they get
away with it that's right it's not that's that it's deliberately ambiguous
tim uh anyways brock and i are big time fans we live in phoenix arizona where it's hotter than
haiti's june to august and we're almost able to drive out to la while you were here i'll be
supporting the troops hashtag never change and we'll continue being friends on twitter instagram
etc if you could please shout out to brian ambrosius as we're working hard on getting brock's
bfffl best friend forever for life, it goes on
but I won't bore you to listen in
thank you friends, neither of you are really
sons of bitches, Brian you
fucking plebeian, if you're not listening
to this podcast by now, you've got
some serious splaining to do to Emily and Brock
I'm not fucking happy
and I will not take this for much longer
happy if not unstable people
who are willing to drive around extended periods
speaking in different accents.
They're freaky people.
Your friendship is on the line here.
I would not get on the wrong side of this couple.
Brian, if you think that Emily's got a friend
who she's coined as quirky because she's clearly a racist,
can you imagine what the friend she calls racist is capable of?
Because she's got one of those.
She's got a quirky friend and what she has deemed a racist friend.
This is a public safety announcement
for Brian Ambrosius.
Start listening to the podcast
before it's too late.
For the love of God.
I'm glad that we could clear that up
for them, to be honest.
Yeah.
Should I get you another one?
Get you another email?
I feel like we've had plenty of friendship.
There's been a lot.
There's been a lot.
But we get a few emails
and, you know,
people like hearing them. Do they? the people who write them i mean holy shit what is this i'm stumbled onto someone send us an email i don't think i should read this one out i'm gonna start
reading it and we'll see how far we get i'll make it i'll make an alarm noise if i think it's
becoming oh okay i think what they've done is they've got an imdb pro page and they've taken a screenshot of zach efron's actual contact information like his agent
and stuff oh i that's why i like i saw a lot of phone numbers and things i was like oh this
a lot of details um i'll just start reading it it's from alice dear oh don't know if i should
have said that hi tim i listened to the show and heard the pair of you mentioned recently that
you'd love to meet up
with Zac Efron
for a grand finale of the season.
I know you both shrugged it off
as way out of your league,
but honestly,
I think you're
underestimating yourselves.
I'll beat Efron
and his managers
with a bloody loving opportunity
to do some original publicity
with a popular podcast,
especially since he's trying
to distance himself
from that high school
musical nonsense.
I use IMDB Pro for my work
and have pulled the
relevant people's contacts off it for you guys to approach zach efron's people call up his publicist
i'm not gonna give the rest of the email off uh but he says good luck hope it comes off love the
show al and there we go we've got his it wasn't the name Alice? Alistair. Oh.
Which is a guy's name.
Alistair.
Alistair.
A-L-A-S-T-A-I-R.
Alistair.
Have you not met an Alistair before?
They're very particular about it.
No, I can imagine they would be.
I've met a few Alistairs in my time.
I haven't met a single Alistair.
Good people.
Good people.
Alistair.
It's so many names in a name.
Gee whiz.
You've got it going on.
Hey, thanks for sending us that, Al.
Yeah.
Really appreciate it.
Capital work.
And you know what?
Maybe we will get in touch with him.
You also kind of put out a blueprint for how to approach the people with the pitch.
So thank you for that.
You did half the work for us.
True that.
For what?
A sequel? No, for saying you could pitch it like for us true that for what a sequel uh no for saying
you could pitch it like this oh i see what you're saying gotcha gotcha gotcha we've got a roadmap
yeah to that not a roadmap we've got like a menu no no no no no let me rethink this we've got a uh
a brochure it doesn't no. Not a blueprint per se.
A bus timetable?
Like an advert for it.
Like a shiny...
We've got a trailer.
No, no, no.
You can't really use that
because it's a film word.
We've got a...
I'm going to work on this
and we'll see you guys later.
Yeah, we will.
When we watch
We Are Your Friends
For the 11th time
Well it's the friend zone
With Tim and Guy
Come to the friend zone
And have a good time
Yes it's the friend zone
With Tim and Guy
Cause making friends is the best idea of all time