The Worst Idea Of All Time - Replay S01E36: Salmon

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

Please enjoy this victory lap of Season One episodes as we celebrate 10 years of The Worst Idea of All Time. New episodes posting on our Substack.Original Description:Oh no, Guy is very upset. First a...t the prospect of seeing Grown Ups 2 36 times since the start of the year, then because Tim is trying to shoehorn dental jokes into the podcast. But it's ok, because there's a lot of questions in this episodes. Questions like, 'How large a town could the frat boys realistically overthrow?' and 'Do Americans really talk like on the phone to each other?' and 'Does Guy's dad listen to this podcast?' You may, or may not get the answers by listened to episode 36 of The Worst Idea of All Time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 it's time for me to tell you it's time for episode 36 there's information you already have but um i suppose this is more an opportunity for me to reflect on the the episode um how it made me feel at the time how it makes me feel listening back i actually had a uh beer with tim last night and we talked about the you know listening back to these and we were reflecting on um on what it's like to relisten to the podcast and it's funny i think the thing we both said is we wish we were uh kinder to each other although certainly that needling is is part of the comedic dna i suppose you know if you hear yourself back with a friend going through not a hard time but a challenging time and you're just being mean to them for sport it's a it's a fine line anyway this is a fun episode i was real tim was actually
Starting point is 00:00:53 very kind to me in this episode i was really down um i remember the feeling of having to what i remember the the feelings i'm articulating in it and uh you know we went grocery shopping he was to his very positive force um the the thing that really jumped out at me is groceries used to be cheap in this country and if we talk about we buy salmon cream cheese croissants two steaks some gummy lollies and a box of beers for 55 i mean two steaks, some gummy lollies and a box of beers for $55. I mean, that's like a $100 shop now. That is actually legitimately crazy.
Starting point is 00:01:37 You know, we talk about our parents. This is the first time I hadn't met Tim's parents at this point in our friendship or the show. He talks about his mum, who's a listener actually, even to this day is still a listener. Tim goes on a nice little bit about Taylor Lautner for the Stevie Semi Mystery Tour. Peter Dante actually top and tails the episode. We say that Peter Dante, who's quite often,
Starting point is 00:02:00 he's one of Sandler's boys, he's quite often arrested for, I don't know if you call them misdemeanors, but being a little bit up to no good. We thank him for radiating positivity. Anyway, there's plenty more where this came from. Go forth and prosper. In this movie, Adam and the other grown-ups move home to their hometown in Stanton, Connecticut, where Shaq and I have been the hometown police officers for a while. And we all grew up together.
Starting point is 00:02:44 So they come home and it's the last day of school and the boys and the boys all get together and have a day together and they run into Shaq and I. Hello and welcome to episode number 36 on this fantastic voyage of the worst idea of all time uh what you just heard was Peter Dante. Hello, my name is Tim Batt. My name is Guy Montgomery. What you just heard was Peter Dante. Sorry, I was swallowing a delicious mouthful of a salmon and cream cheese croissant, but we'll get to that later. What you just heard was Peter Dante explaining the plot of Grown Ups 2 in a promotional video. And I mean, what a delight it is. I feel like nothing really encapsulates
Starting point is 00:03:26 the motivation of the characters in the actual production of the film itself. Nothing encapsulates the motivation for that quite like that soundbite. The amazing thing about that is that Peter Dante, despite the fact that it's a 20... It's like, can you please give us a synopsis of the film
Starting point is 00:03:44 in 30 seconds or less? And he runs out of film at about the 12 or 13 second mark. The guys all get together and they have a day. They come back to the city, reunite in the city and shagging out of the cups and they have a day. It's so good. What more do you want? And then they cut because there is no more of the movie That's the beauty of it
Starting point is 00:04:07 My god My god folks What can you say about Grown Ups 2 at this point? We've seen it literally Three dozen times Guy came into this watch so hot I was Not hot
Starting point is 00:04:19 No hot Hot in a cold way Yeah yeah The coldness of hot I was downcast I text him Just because of hot. I was downcast. I text Tim just because of our schedules. I knew that this was probably going to be the moment to watch the film.
Starting point is 00:04:33 And I sort of had a reasonably good mood on when I text you. And then as soon as I text you, I became really blue, man. You got completely despondent with everything and really like more depressed than I believe I've ever seen you. It just became too real. Just, yeah. more depressed than i believe i've ever seen yeah it just became it became too real uh just yeah and then when we watched it the first sort of 20 minutes it was just it was so jarring hold on let's not shortchange the people who listen to the podcast the first thing that we did is went to the supermarket because you were already so blue going into it that we had to buy croissants and a lovely bit of salmon and cream cheese. You clearly pointed out while we were in the supermarket, Tim, that this is becoming an increasingly expensive project for us.
Starting point is 00:05:15 We bought a box of beers, two bags of gummy lollies, a bag of cookies, two steak fillets, eight croissants and a tub of cream cheese yeah I mean what did it come out at? 55 bucks 55 bucks New Zealand which for our American audience
Starting point is 00:05:32 which I know is vast and wide ranging 70 what? 70 to 80 no it goes the other way mate it's about about 38 dollars
Starting point is 00:05:40 off the top of my head prove me wrong with the exchange rate this is not really a sustainable rate for a stupid project. That's why we need your help once we get this campaign underway to go to LA. But I don't know.
Starting point is 00:05:51 That's for later. It's neither here nor there. Anyway, yeah. So the first 20 minutes of the movie, what was jarring to me is I was watching it and all I could think and notice was just the absurdity of the whole idea was really striking me I was just like you mean of the entire project yeah just
Starting point is 00:06:07 I felt like I was watching the same movie for the 36th time and usually I can block that out and just enjoy something I don't know I don't know
Starting point is 00:06:15 I don't know how I've been dealing with the last few episodes but in this episode when I was watching it I was like this is fucking ridiculous and frankly it's a waste of our time
Starting point is 00:06:23 yeah it's a waste of my god damn time I know I know what you time it's a waste of my god damn time I know what you're saying a few of my own leisure hours it's the end of the sunlight of the day do you know what the difficult thing is going to be as well is that in New Zealand we're heading into summer time
Starting point is 00:06:35 at the moment and nothing because I remember when we started man and we only got the kind of back end of it but even then it was kind of crippling. But we're going to get some beautiful, beautiful, an entire season of gorgeous New Zealand days where we are sitting indoors
Starting point is 00:06:52 watching this fucking Adam Sandler piece of shit. No, let's not. See, I don't know. Yeah. For like the 48th time. I don't want to cuss out the movie. Yeah, I apologise for that. Maybe, I don't know if I'm cussing. And that's, I guess, the other thing is I don't know if cuss out the movie yeah I apologise for that like maybe
Starting point is 00:07:06 I don't know if I'm like and that's I guess the other thing is I don't know if I'm cussing out the movie or the project right now I don't know who I'm angry with I don't know if it's you
Starting point is 00:07:13 Tim I don't know if it's me I don't know if it's Adam Dennis Dugan can I save you some time yeah you're angry at yourself what you're exhibiting
Starting point is 00:07:22 right now is projection you're trying to put the anger that should be aimed at Guy Montgomery onto all and sundry that isn't Guy Montgomery that is untrue
Starting point is 00:07:31 it is I only listed three possible people who I'm directing four including myself possible people that Ang was you would have kept going
Starting point is 00:07:37 if I hadn't cut you off you don't know that you don't even know me I am angry with myself listen to the way I'm talking to you so the watch was grim it was void of hope is how i would describe it if i had three words to describe the watch on
Starting point is 00:07:53 this 36th viewing void of hope it was a despondent wasteland of emotion uh it was just i mean and you said at the start should we do you want to you would you were playing um like spouse you were playing like trying to pick me up kind of you're you're a wonderful caring boyfriend and i'm a needy partner and you're going do you want do you want to you do you want the salmon now i'm gonna have a sermon later because i want i want it when you want it and i said i want it later so I've got something to look forward to. Almost maybe even a father and I'm the sulky teenager. But I was like, meh, meh, meh, meh.
Starting point is 00:08:33 You're not far off from how it went down, but you weren't that bad, guy. But it's important to have things to look forward to during these viewings. Yeah, and so what happened is near the end of the movie, we whipped up the salmon. Movie's still running, obviously, still absorbing all of the great... I mean, while you were cooking the salmon, you noticed one of the...
Starting point is 00:08:52 sort of a really good stage fight punch in the fight scene. Lord almighty. I don't know how to point the... Well, once again, don't watch the movie, but if you've seen the movie, I don't even know how I would reference the point at which it happens.
Starting point is 00:09:03 It's not worth explaining. It's too specific. But simply put, there is a punch that in no way, shape or form connects during one of the stage combat outings which we see happening with the extras. At this point, I feel like,
Starting point is 00:09:16 fair enough, I'm tired in the same way the stunt coordinator on this movie would have been tired by the last day of the shoot. Remembering my theory that this was shot in a linear and chronological fashion so he's just like yeah good enough it's a buy everyone wants to get home to their families or laptops or anything anything anything that isn't
Starting point is 00:09:37 this i feel like those are the main two things people want to go home to now guy montgomery i'm going to pick your mood up because i committed at the start of this i said i'm going come in and i'm gonna be happy i'm gonna be happy with this watch and i've let you down so far so i'm gonna be earnest yeah i said earnest and positive though which in my mind equates to happiness because you're being truly earnest you'd be really honest about how upset you are well that's true that's there's no lie i don't want to bring you down i don't want to bring you down oh now you've made me forget the point I was about to make. You're being positive. You're telling me. I was trying to refresh.
Starting point is 00:10:06 You were just going to lift my mood. No, no, no. What I was going to do is bring up things that we were talking about during when the movie was on, but I've forgotten all of them. The first one was American phone etiquette. Yeah. Because this is a confusing thing. It came up because of when Chris Rock's meant to deliver cable to his mother-in-law,
Starting point is 00:10:21 and the mother-in-law is on the phone to Mayor Rudolph. Obviously her daughter. He's a cable man. He's there to install it. It's his sole job for the day. That's right. And she decides, the mother-in-law decides she has to go to the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:10:34 So she just goes, I got to run to the bathroom. Love with the children. Hangs out the phone. And what do you say you go, she's got bad phone manners. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Because there's a little bit of dialogue, and I'm sorry that I forget it word for word. I should know it by this point, but I forget exactly what she says before then. But she rattles off a bunch of dialogue and then says, I've got to go to the bathroom. Love to the children.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Doesn't wait for a goodbye. Doesn't wait for an acknowledgement that the person on the other end of the phone has heard what she has to say or cares or anything and then just hangs up the phone that the thing with that is it is that is commonplace in american cinema i remember when i was younger i was always absolutely taken aback you'd watch say a high school movie or a teen movie and uh the two the traditionally your female and male romantic interests, the male would pitch to the love interest.
Starting point is 00:11:30 He'd say, hey, so we'll meet. Okay, so I'll meet you for coffee at eight. And she'll go, yep. And then they'll both hang up the phone. And in my head, all I can think about is, how the fuck are they going to wind up at the same coffee shop at eight o'clock? They have not discussed any of the details. Very good point.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Neither of these people know where they're meeting. This is often before the time of text. Like, it's communicating exactly the details of the arrangement. So, here's the question. Because we live in New Zealand. Is this simply a trope that's used in our cultural products which are imported into our country via the medium of film and television? Or is this genuinely how Americans communicate to each other? I feel like on Shortland Street they don't talk like that.
Starting point is 00:12:14 No, do you know what it is though? It's too finicky and fidgety, isn't it? If you had these two characters in a film and then they spent about 10 to 15 seconds of their time with dialogue going okay well how about we meet at bonita's cafe at eight o'clock uh next tuesday is that good for you the other character goes oh actually no i've got a i've got a um a doctor's appointment that tuesday morning could we do wednesday and then they all go hey and then and then the other one goes when's your dental appointment?
Starting point is 00:12:46 2.30? What the fuck, man? I was on a roll. You come in here with your tooth puns. I was building. Why do you want to do me like that, Tim? Sorry, bro. I came in too hot.
Starting point is 00:13:12 I fed a bit to drink. No, you didn't come in too hot. I'm just being cranky. I just don't know why he did the 2.30 joke. You didn't even say dentist. I'm pretty sure you said doctor. Yeah. You were just real keen on the tooth.
Starting point is 00:13:26 You saw an opportunity. Felt like the podcast needed a gag. Shining light. For me, if I'm being honest, it was the point where Brayden Higgins, and we've talked a lot about the moment, and I've actually made a GIF of it myself, which I posted on our Facebook page,
Starting point is 00:13:44 facebook.com slash worst idea of all time. Brayden Higgins is in a, I'm not sure where he got it, but an inflatable solo life raft thing, like a lilo. And he just says, summertime. And he's really enjoying the moment. And the moment that he's enjoying is the two boys, from his point of view urinating on a
Starting point is 00:14:05 cliff andre and greg or boomer and scully thank you good work you guy good work you um so the the context is that they've both been given beers they've decided they don't want to drink the beers because apparently they're too young which is ridiculous but we've talked about that uh and so they decide to just whip the caps off face the other direction and pour them as if they're urinating and brayden loves this fact he loves that the two lads are getting loose whipping out the old trouser snake and draining that bad boy on top of a club if you reflect on our sort of discussions around the character of brayden higgins i think a recurring motif is positivity the man which is ironic because he's only positive when he's in the background if around the character of Braden Higgins, a recurring motif is positivity.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Which is ironic because he's only positive when he's in the background. If ever he's got like dialogue, he's negative and angry. But when he's in the background or in that particular shot, positive as they come. That is interesting. My shining light was...
Starting point is 00:15:03 I wrote it down. Is it the salmon? Because to be honest, we're just taking turns having mouthfuls of the salmon. That's right. How good is it? You've done a great job. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Two delicious fillets of salmon. I believe an Atlantic salmon. I'm just going to go to my notes. This is a South Pacific salmon, I think you'll find. Are you sure? Mm-hmm. Wow. I thought you could taste the difference.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Oh, my Shining Light. I was really excited. It was a costume at the party. I think you'll find are you sure well I thought you could taste the difference oh my shining light I was really excited it was a costume at the party it was a Pee Wee Herman costume at the fancy dress party
Starting point is 00:15:34 you did like that it was really distinct you know it was the red it's a that red bow tie white shirt grey suit
Starting point is 00:15:41 and the enthusiasm I felt like the extra actor so whoever it was we'll call them michael i felt like michael the extra was really committing to the character of peewee herman so reason you picked the name michael no cool i michael's my go-to name michael and margaret if i have to make up a man he's always called michael if i have to make up a lady she's always called margaret interesting what does it say about you i don't know because it's been margaret for a couple of years now i'd alternate the other ones but i'm always saying margaret and it's not even a very
Starting point is 00:16:13 common name and i don't think it's a young name like when my mom's name is margaret truly it is i just can't imagine naming a newborn margaret can't imagine having a brand new baby in my arms. There's actually a wonderful tradition in my maternal line of my family where it goes Catherine, Margaret, Catherine, Margaret. The daughters of Catherine's name their daughters Margaret and vice versa. Did your mum break the chain? No. So my sister is known, fun fact, my sister is known as rosie her legal name is
Starting point is 00:16:46 katherine really yeah it was at this so here's a funny story which no one cares about except for guy who has met my sister a few times so everyone thought her name was katherine rose until she went to get a driver's license and then she went to put katherine rose on the driver's license and they were like we can't put that on and rose was like no don't worry it's just everyone calls me rosie and they're like no no rose appears nowhere in your name and she was like what are you talking about and they said have you ever looked at your birth certificate and she said no and it turns out dad forgot to put the rose bit in so her legal name is just the katherine there's no rose in there but she's known in, so her legal name is just the Catherine. There's no Rose in there. But she's known as Rosie.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Her legal name isn't the Catherine. No. It's Catherine Bat. It's Catherine. There's no middle name. There is a middle name. It is vaguely interesting. Kind of.
Starting point is 00:17:38 It's kind of interesting. It's quite funny. I feel like, because you know how I always used to accuse you of having problems? I thought you were colour blind, and I thought you were deaf in one ear. I feel like, because you know how I always used to accuse you of having problems? I thought you were colour blind and I thought you were deaf in one ear. I feel like it is symptomatic. You may have accused me of having diabetes at one point as well. I don't think I did that. But I think it's symptomatic of the Bat family that you would all just collectively forget your sister's name.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Well, only one of us did it, to be fair, and it was Papa Bear. No, but then you all just i guess you're all misled by his era yeah but we're all i i feel i get what you're saying and i don't mean to be disparaging towards your parents but i'm pretty sure would not listen to this podcast oh do they no no no no i'm not sure they understand i reckon i think my dad checks in like once every handful your dad's a good man. He really liked my work on the TV show you used to host when I used to guest in there. Yeah, he did like that.
Starting point is 00:18:31 He was a big fan of me, right? He's a good man. Yeah, he's never been positive about the podcast. He doesn't understand why we're doing it. But do you? Well, no, but I don't say that to myself. You should, man. You need to question why we're doing this All the time
Starting point is 00:18:48 No So Paddy Schwartz Party Time Is a part of the podcast Where we analyse our favourite bit Of when Patrick Schwarzenegger Son of Arnold Schwarzenegger Who was in the film Our favourite bit of him on screen
Starting point is 00:19:01 And I'll tell you what This week Paddy Schwartz Party Time It. Paddy Schwartz. Party time. It's Paddy Schwartz party time. It's party time. With Paddy Schwartz. With Paddy Schwartz. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:14 It's party time. With Paddy Schwartz. It's party time. I got you to write it down this week. Yeah. There was a bit where he. It was the start of the fight fight scene in most of the movie he doesn't know how to react or act to people around him or the the situation that's occurring
Starting point is 00:19:31 but there was a particular bit where my god he just doesn't know what to do with his face what bit was it it was when he's on the hill the first time they're on the hill and throwing down the challenge to the townies so we're near the end of the movie at this point, folks. The fight's about to begin. The frat boys have just arrived with a ton of people and they're on the hilltop. And Taylor Lautner is delivering a speech. A rousing speech. Which is both unifying and arousing.
Starting point is 00:20:04 Arousing. I was saying rousing. I beg your pardon. I didn't find it arousing. Arousing. I was saying rousing. I beg your pardon. I didn't find it arousing. Well, no, fuck it. It's Taylor Lautner. It is both sexual in nature and gains anger among the punters.
Starting point is 00:20:15 It is arousing. I think Taylor Lautner is a sexual being, but I don't think the speech in the movie is arousing. I think in the world of the movie, it is rousing for the flat boys, or frat boys, who obviously respect him as their leader. I mean, he has full control over a sea
Starting point is 00:20:34 of about 150 grown male and females. Hey, here's a question. Topps, what do you think he could achieve with 150 able-bodied peak fitness men like that who are at his beck and call i think he could take over a small town i think they could or like a medium town maybe even they could do a really lousy spoof of 300 although i think there was already a 300 spoof Oh it was part of one of those Wayan Brothers movies I think
Starting point is 00:21:07 It wasn't the whole movie but it was part of Wasn't it? It was in the vein of those original scary movies I feel like they could take over A town That has a population of like They couldn't even take over a party Of
Starting point is 00:21:23 In the world of the movie But if you remove them from the world of the movie, but if you remove them from the world of the movie, those guys under the lead and strategic command of Taylor Lautner, I think you'll find they can achieve a lot more than you may initially believe. What makes you think Taylor Lautner is a sound strategist when it comes to overthrowing small townships,
Starting point is 00:21:39 leading 150 gladiatorial warriors? I can see it in his eyes. What do you see in his eyes? It's there. What do you see when you see in his eyes? It's there. What do you see when you look in his eyes? Stewardship. What is stewardship? I only know a steward is a male air host.
Starting point is 00:21:56 It's almost the opposite of that in some ways. But that's what a steward is on a flight. Commandment or command ship. Leadership. That's the word I'm looking for. So you didn't mean stewardship. No, stewardship means something different, but not quite the inverse of being a flight attendant.
Starting point is 00:22:17 What does stewardship mean? Like taking command of the situation. It's basically leadership, essentially. So when you tell me when I'm flying on an airplane, the steward is supposedly the leader of the flight. No, because they don't come from the same... No, the pilot is, of course. Well, exactly. So why are we calling the air host a steward?
Starting point is 00:22:39 No, but they're from different kind of root words. What is? Steward and stewardess. What did you say? Stewardship. Stewardship. Steward and stewardship are from different root words. What is? Steward and stewardess. What did you say? Stewardship. Stewardship. Steward and stewardship are from the same word, surely. Right, then I'm going to change my word to steward.
Starting point is 00:22:54 What is that? That's, again, similar to leadership, but a slightly different variant of it. You're not even saying words. I feel like I am. I feel like I am. Stoolet. Stoolwood. Stoolwood.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Stoolwood. Stoolwood sounds like a dumb made up name for a person. Mysterious. Leadery. And strong. Stoolward. Stoolward. No, that's not going to take off.
Starting point is 00:23:24 I don't know exactly how to spell it but i'm pretty sure it's s-t-e-w-a-l-d it sounds wrong coming out of your mouth stewel it looks like it looks like your mouth is melting when you try and say the word steweled i don't know how to pronounce it but don't google the word i'm gonna no it's not it's just not a word just we've completely derailed the point oh yeah the yeah, the podcast. I forgot. Which was Taylor Lautner. You think Taylor Lautner could lead 150 full-blown athletic men into a town and overthrow the town?
Starting point is 00:23:54 I do. In real life? I believe that. And you think that when you look at Taylor Lautner, you see a leader? I do. Absolutely. Without doubt. Without question.
Starting point is 00:24:04 How would they go about overthrowing the town i don't know what word i was thinking of because google's giving me nothing i'm not surprised it wasn't it wasn't the fact you googled it as an insult i told you it wasn't a word i was sure it wasn't a word so where are we at now you're explaining how taylor laughton is going to overthrow town well we're done with that idea Because I got my words wrong So therefore the idea has no merit Okay What about we do the Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour
Starting point is 00:24:32 The Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour Is coming to take you away Coming to take you away Coming today To take you away The Steve Buscemi Mystery Tour Is a segment in the podcast In which we
Starting point is 00:24:49 Speculate as to what caused Steve Buscemi To have his very specific injuries In the world of the film Which of course are 40% feeling his body And two years of having his arms Locked into the touchdown position Now I have reason to believe Tim
Starting point is 00:25:03 That it is your week to speculate Over the ailments of Steve Buscemi. What have you got for me? Here's what I'm thinking, Guy Montgomery. Steve Buscemi has been taken over in the first film by a group of 150 able-bodied post-adolescent young men who are fantastic at lacrosse and belong to a certain fraternity named kappa ada sigma you may know them as the boys of taylor laudner no one knows
Starting point is 00:25:36 them as the boys of taylor laudner the boys of taylor laudner have taken over a small town that steve buscemi lives in and overrun the police force which was small but powerful but they were more powerful and under the leadership and stewardship of Taylor Lautner
Starting point is 00:25:54 they have managed to outpower and out strategize them so we are looking at 80 killed members of the police force of a small town in Arizona USA a small town having 80 police force of a small town in Arizona, USA.
Starting point is 00:26:06 A small town having 80 police... Like, a proper small town would not have 80... This is what I'm saying. It's the upper end of small, but it's still small. But you're saying it's a small police force. A small town for the police force of 80 is... No, it's a small town. You said it was a small...
Starting point is 00:26:22 No, maybe not. It's a small town police force. So, what's happened is the boys of Taylor Lautner, I beg your pardon, as they are known universally, as we all know. Taylor Lautner and the Frat Boys. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:34 They've taken over... It's a good name for a band. If anyone listening is looking for a band name, Taylor Lautner and the Frat Boys is a dope name for a band. It is excellent. I would happily pay 30 human New Zealand dollars for the record As long as it was 12 tracks You'd buy the album?
Starting point is 00:26:53 I'd just go and see them live 12 tracks, I'll buy it So, they've taken over the small town in Arizona And what's happened is Steve Buscemi, who we know jumped in the New York Fire Department in 9-11. He's a law enforcement officer by night and a firefighter by day. So it was nighttime, obviously, when the attack came. And he joined in the police force when the whistle blew in Arizona
Starting point is 00:27:22 and they needed more men. He was actually the only one who crossed state lines to join the police squad. And he got caught in the crossfire. But because he was so damn good, he didn't die. He just sustained a massive injury at the hands of Taylor Lautner and the frat boys. And that massive injury was caused, if you want to get specific. I do. If you just shut up for a moment and let me talk. I if you want to get specific. I do. If you just shut up for a moment and let me talk.
Starting point is 00:27:46 I really do want to get specific. Someone threw a brick at the back of his head. Jesus. Right? That is intense. It would kill a regular man. But not Steve Buscemi. Steve Buscemi simply received nerve damage,
Starting point is 00:28:02 which froze his arms in the position which they ran at the time, which was, don't mess with me. And he put his arms up in a really big confronting kind of way. You know, like when you're facing a grizzly bear and you want to make yourself as big as possible? Yeah, you do want to do that. That was the strategy that Steve Buscemi was coming into Taylor Lautner and the Frat Boys with.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Not the band. The group. The actual Taylor Lautner and the Frat Boys with. Not the band. The group. The actual Taylor Lautner and the Frat Boys. The actual, the gang. There's the band and the gang. This was the gang. The band opened for the gang and then the gang went and did their thing.
Starting point is 00:28:37 So the gang, when the gang were taking over the small town in Arizona, they hired the band, sort of announced their arrival. Yes. Look who's in the neighborhood. Some of the old boys from Taylor Lautner and. They hired the band. Yes. Sort of announced their arrival. Yes. They go, look who's in the neighbourhood. Some of the old boys from Taylor Launder
Starting point is 00:28:48 and the Frat Boys band. And then they did their public announcement to let everyone know on a public information campaign. PR enthusiasts and majors will know this. Graduates will know this.
Starting point is 00:29:00 And then the gang came in who were the same gents. And then the band concluded by celebrating musically the defeat of that small town police force in Arizona Steve Buscemi ran to cover he managed to get back to Connecticut, Santa Connecticut
Starting point is 00:29:16 to be specific and there he lives out to this day, undercover as a driving instructor Okay Yeah, he lives out to this day undercover as a driving instructor. Okay. I like the level of detail and just outright absurdity, but why was Steve Buscemi not reacting in a bigger way
Starting point is 00:29:39 when he realised that Taylor Lautner and the frat boys were in his town? You think I haven't thought about this bit, guy. But I have. Name me one shot where Steve Buscemi is present post the start of the fight. Steve Buscemi is at the end of the driveway, quite literally when Taylor Lautner and the frat boys arrive at the party. Pre-fight. And he does not react in frat boys arrive at the party pre-fight and he does not react in any way shape or form pre-fight but he wouldn't be able to hide it
Starting point is 00:30:11 it's the band at that point though it's not the gang no but it is taylor lautner no but it's the band that's not important he would recognize absolutely important because they as a collective are existing as taylor lautner andat Boys, the band, not the gang. This is too meta. This is just confusing. When there is conflict, they are the gang. When there is none, they are the band. If I can't follow you, I do not know what this experience is like for anyone listening.
Starting point is 00:30:39 There's a few beers on set. There's no lie. Bit of whiskey has gone down with the salmon. Have we, I feel like we've probably, I think we've covered everything. I think we have. We've covered nothing
Starting point is 00:30:52 and in doing so we have run out of time. What I want to do is just give another massive shout out to Peter Dante. He's a positive individual who's bringing
Starting point is 00:31:01 loveliness into the universe. So God bless you. And secondly, we absolutely loved getting those selfies of you. Fuck, they were good. Through Twitter and the Facebook for where you're listening to the podcast. We had people grocery shopping in Northern Ireland. We had people driving down the main motorway in Los Angeles at 10.30 at night.
Starting point is 00:31:19 I think the guy was from Wellington, New Zealand, who was my favorite though. The guy with the like black zip-up turtleneck who had iPod headphones in and was drying a Gladware piece of Tupperware. Yeah, it was pretty out there. The intensity in his fucking eyes, bro. God, it was good. There were three dudes listening to it together on Labor Day.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Anyway, it was interesting to see. So please, once again, I implore you. Or don't. Send them through or don't. It was interesting to see. So please, once again, I implore you. Or don't. Send them through or don't. You know, like, you know. I know, but I mean. We don't want to be uncool about it. The reality of the situation, Tim,
Starting point is 00:31:51 is if you're listening to the podcast, you can't be up to much else. Like, you've probably got your phone or computer around. Like. You might be on public transport. That's when I listen to podcasts. That's fine. I mean, that's an easy place to take a photo and send it online.
Starting point is 00:32:06 Now you're just eating the salmon. The salmon is so good. Thank you so much for listening. We'll be back next week. Remember to live every moment. Love every day. Because before you know it, your salmon swims away. That is so lame.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Bye, everyone. Bye, everyone.

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