The Worst Idea Of All Time

Tim and Guy discuss smoking, share their engagement stories (including Tim becoming amazingly ill on a Michelin Star 10-course seafood dinner in Kyoto, Japan) and Guy following up offering his ring to Chelsie followed by some Netflix. It's also probably about the hour to call time on the Bryan Johnson - the man attempting to defy God (and honorary Billionaire). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are once again sponsored by Mosh, and we are once again joined by a brilliant NZ comedian - Josh Thomson, star of stage and screen (both silver and living room), to discuss the absolutely unbelievable smell emanating from the men's changing rooms at the New Lynn Les Mills gym. This is a stench that must be experienced to be believed.See Josh's show during the NZ Int. Comedy Festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome along everyone to a jam-packed Family Time. We've got not one, but TWO different incoming calls to Mr Popular: Guy Montgomery to field. We've got trail running tips from a nipple-bleeding expert for our libertarian listener. We've also got a great call-in joke from a New York-based artist. But most importantly, we've got a tell-all from Taskmaster NZ star Guy Montgomery about exactly what insane stuff went on his season of the beloved TV show that NEVER made the air, nor ever will. It will shock you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode isn't just sponsored by MOSH, it's FUELED BY MOSH. Free yourself from your imagined barriers with MOSH.Today's we're blessed to be joined by Alice May Connolly who has been traveling the familiar Paint-n-Sip to Therapy pipeline recently. We talk familial death, a brilliant forthcoming NZ horror film called Weed Eaters and a worm withSee ‘Alice May Connolly's Box' in the NZ Int. Comedy Festival now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our fantastic funny friend, Donna Brookbanks joins us on the blower for a sensational conversation about raw-dog gardening. Guy shares an absolutely terrifying story about a school of sharks and we are delighted to once again be sponsored by RandomWordGenerator.com.Check out Donna's show in the NZ Int. Comedy Festival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guy and Tim are back together after a month's long abstinence and a lot has happened. Like two glorious ships circling each other in the dead of night, Guy and Patrick Schwarzenegger have circled each other inside the great nation of Australia. Meanwhile, there's exciting And Just Like That announcements and whiskey-fuelled AGM weigh-ins to… weigh in on. But mainly, this is an episode lovingly dedicated to our sponsor - Mosh. The Mother-and-Son protein bar funding Alzheimer's research available in an array of delicious flavours WHICH HAVE BEEN SMUGGLED INTO AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND for your boiz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The studio strains to contain the combined star-power of the guy from all those mayo ads and NZ's one-time family Quordle champion. Heavy are these boys' heads under the yoke of fame. What do your legs think of your back? What instruments do the boys yearn to learn? WHAT is Guy Montgomery's starting Wordle word? Two of these are discussed (the latter turns into more of an interrogation). Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a Thursday in Auckland, and you know what that means: Autumn is upon us. Or maybe Spring. Tim is pioneering a new way of assigning seasons to days of the week, and Guy has some opinions. Kura Forrester, fresh off the release of Bryn & Ku's Singles Club, is gearing up for a living arrangement at MICF that has genuine sitcom potential, which the boys relate to the only way they know how: by trying to figure out which one is the Samantha of the group.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey buddy, we're not gonna give you the runaround: what we got going on here is a cult. Down the hall to the right is gonna be the robe closet, offerings can be made through this Venmo QR code here, the wifi is on the cork board in the kitchen. Director Montgomery will present the Word of the Day after lunch. Unfortunately, Director Batt is currently laid up due to a roller blading injury that no-one could have seen coming.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Check your weather app; it's Family Time! (Unless you're currently in Adelaide, South Australia, in which case check back in half an hour.) In an unprecedented mailbag move, Tim and Guy answer questions asked LESS THAN A WEEK AGO (at time of recording). Make sure to reach out, or else the boys will soon be answering questions that have yet to be asked. Discussed this week are a Groundhog Day challenge, appreciation for Jon Lovitz, going to see the movie Groundhog Day at the cinema, the origins of chess, and a Worst Idea-style marathon centered around the 1993 Bill Murry vehicle, “Groundhog Day.”Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Good Times boys have been rolling the hard six. Guy has been gambling on some new material in front of the Australian masses while Tim has been conducting an unprecedented sweep in his sports-betting league (and has taking away all the wrong lessons). The continuing gamble of having someone who is tattooed on your body re-enter the public spotlight has the fellas feeling all sorts of ways.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listeners are taking matters into their own hands, whether it be taking inspiration from Guy to start a hat embroidery project, embarking on a Worst Idea-style wager of endurance with their mates, or, in the case of Luigi Mangione, producing their own fan-season of Killionaire.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Family faces their greatest threat yet as adrenaline junkie Tim Batt is unleashed upon the mean streets of Auckland. After passing his restricted (on the first go), Tim is raising hell across Aotearoa (between the hours of 5am and 10pm, or past 10pm with a supervisor in the passenger's seat.) Meanwhile, the wily Guy Montgomery, the brains of the operation, furthers his sinister goals of routing the Family's best minds in the colosseum of phone chess. Can anyone stop them? The Word of the Week might hold the answer (91 mins, PG-13.)TWIOAT: Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guy has found New Eden in Adelaide, South Australia. Tim is resting, dragon-like, on his horde of downloaded media in Auckland. On both sides of the Tasman, eyes are turned towards the comeback kid, P. Schwartz, as he takes the screen for S3 of White Lotus (except for Tim, who hasn't gotten around to it yet.) Our eternal sponsor, Random Word Generator, brings us the most kiwi edition of Word of the Week yet.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Settle into your own sensory deprivation tank and let this week's episode of Good Times bounce back at you from its walls. It's a lovely summer day and the boys have just emerged from a swim, coming to sans shirts to talk contests, claims, and cashing in on failed outsider political campaigns. Michael Hing is on the line this week with an upcoming show about dead billionaires and a bold new rebrand for adult diapers. It's a good one.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There's trouble a-brewing in the Schwarzenegger dynasty. The boys wonder this week how their tattoos will fare in the coming months, as Patty is put on the national stage. Tim is called out on his tepid support for the anti-dementia energy bar magnate, and doubles down in response, pending Patty's appearance in the upcoming season of The White Lotus. Guy brought a donut.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After a few days of playing incredibly fast and loose with his eating habits, Tim has come back to the stu to debrief with an infuriated Guy Montgomery and our Friend on the Phone, Nish Kumar. Tim has been challenging the idea that having kids makes you uncool by eating a diet that would kill a mortal man. Nish unpacks his status as a real “baby's baby” and Guy recounts having an out-of-body experience during the tour to (literally) end all tours.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a true family affair this week on FT, with the fellas taking questions on Did Titanic Sink, GMGMSBee and other members of the extended Worst Idea family. Somehow even more listeners are getting PhD; the same cannot be said for Guy, who has yet to be bit by the history bug that seems to eventually catch up with dads the world over. Tim, meanwhile, has undergone a different dad evolution and is ready to #unplug.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During this week's Good Times, the fellas are thinking about relationships of all kinds. What ever did happen to Bennifer? (Lofleck? Jenjamin?) How long is right to spend at the bar with your mates? The ever-honest Guy Williams stops in early to crack into the thorniest relationship question of all: what is it that makes a group of men spontaneously break out into a podcast when spending time together?Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sometimes life just ain't fair. Maybe your groundbreaking YouTube Red pilot doesn't get picked up. Or your favorite podcasters opt for your ex's suggestion of a bafflingly long-running blockbuster series to watch instead of yours. On the other hand, maybe you rushed an essay about Grown-Ups 2 and got an inexplicable grade of 135%. It could even be that you edited an episode of Family Time that was recorded a month and a half ago and just forgot to upload it until now, which isn't relevant to life not being fair but did, in fact, happen.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's stifling in Auckland at the mo' and Tim and Guy are doing a boiler set of their own this week. Guy's been playing sports, Tim's been betting on sports, and both are getting in on the ground floor of New Zealand's burgeoning DJ/stand-up fusion scene, pioneered by the inimitable David Correos. David may have landed on CityFitness's public enemies list, but the beat goes on.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim has survived a brush with airport security on the way back from Welly, and is here to debate the merits of small talk with Guy, which really flies in the face of small talk as a concept. The fellas keep circling back to a very versatile Word of the Day before hoisting their Davy lamps aloft and venturing further down the P-Schwartz rabbit hole.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an episode that may be held against the boys should they ever be implicated in murder most foul, Tim and Guy discuss who they'd come to as an accomplice in hiding a body. Pride of Aotearoa, Alice Snedden, calls in from overseas to remove herself from the list and talk about lesbian artists, giving Guy a chance to flex his sophistication and impeccable allyship. Also, there's a lot of IBS talk.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Like it or not, this year is gonna be all about SAND. Specifically, sand contained within a BOX. The moody set dressing of Good Times: Nights has given Tim a new attitude, and he is ready to declare 2025 the year of the adult sandbox. Guy, meanwhile, has been cowed by the short shrift given to his famously prominent cheekbones in the studio's TWIOAT poster, and begins the year by reflecting on his losses.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Good Times season finale, and Guy and Tim have donned their rarest threads to send out 2024 the only way they know how, by harassing New Zealand treasure Ray O'Leary over the phone. The Mosh saga continues as the boys bang their heads against some of the baffling social media content the Mosh team has been serving up. Thanks for joining us for a year of good times!We'll see ya real soon,xoxoxoGet episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the other side of the Vegas trip, Guy has a lot of thoughts about competitive airline queueing. During the Lost Art of the Phone Call, Melanie Bracewell stops by to recount a truly trying Uber experience, while G&T compete in vain to be as engaging over the phone as Mel's dad plus a bottle of char.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Guy pull off one last job before leaving Las Vegas: stealing an entire podcast episode from the Bellagio Casino under the auspices of playing the pokies. The boys have capped off their pilgrimage to the birthplace of Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 with the Cirque du Soleil show “O” and Guy is not holding back. Apologies to any Quebequois circus freaks who may be listening.Please consider supporting us on Substack if you are able so we can offset the costs of this stupid, stupid adventure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you're reading this, it means you're one of the five or six folks whose relentless Worst Idea relistens are keeping the show at the top of the charts. Tim and Guy tuck into some mail from fans that make me, a TWIOAT editor by trade, feel like a mere hobbyist in comparison. Guy reflects on the smudge on his memory that is the Emmanuelle season, Tim reminisces on the all-knowing presence of Patti Harrison.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim and Guy wake up where the good times never end: sunny Sin City, Nevada! The purpose of their mysterious voyage this past month is finally brought to light, as they look out of their hotel room on the notorious Wynn Casino. Strangers in a strange land, the boys have been reaching for familiar comforts, like posting up at a cozy dive bar and getting super strung out on psychedelics and dancing on stage at The Blue Man Group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're on a plane! They can't complain! Tim and Guy convene over the middle seat of a plane, 35,000 feet (10,668 metric feet) above the Pacific Ocean. Pack your bags, scholars and philosophizers, Tim has figured out which percentage of people are good guys and bad guys, and presents his findings in a series of concise statistics. Guy recounts his campaign of Andy Kaufman-esque comedy sets, performed for the delight of his fellow airplane passengers. Ain't no audience like a captive audience.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the longest Good Times episode yet, Guy and Tim find themselves bouncing from idea to idea with wild abandon. New merch? A screenplay? A BUSINESS that rents MOVIES!? It's too much for the boys to handle on their own, so they enlist the wonderful David O'Doherty, fresh off of a footy win, for an extended edition of Lost Art of the Phone Call. Check out David's fantastic new show, What Did You Do Yesterday?, wherever good podcasts are sold.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.TMG: Get every episode early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Separated for the first time in a minute, the fellas are at their scrappiest. Tim crusades against voice messages. Guy questions whether his caretaking methods have turned him into some kind of soup authoritarian figure. Little Empire's own Johanna Cosgrove brings ~un ti peu~ class to the studio, arriving to settle a score with Monty.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady of podcasting take to the conversational highway in this week's episode of Good Times, learning a little bit about Michelle Pfeiffer and a lot about life. Guy is curious about his own lack of curiosity towards the world. Tim pitches a Worst Idea season surrounding the 1982 film Grease 2: More Grease. Appropriately, a new guest arrives to impart some homespun wisdom on the boys as they roam around looking for wisdom or enlightenment or something (we're not actually sure, Tim could only listen to the audiobook sample)Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim is battling his way back from yet another cold, but the good times persist. Guy gets deep with the Word of the Week. Rose Matafeo, known abroad as Mr. Entertainment, joins via telephone to talk landlines, how to open a comedy special, and the bewildering s***ing habits of friend of the show, Alice Snedden.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bust out those briefcases and gold-toe socks, cause it's business time. Tim is here in a suit jacket and a pink singlet, which Business Insider calls the perfect attire for closing deals. Guy brings in the big guns, phoning up Chris “Mr. Brands” Parker for advice on locking down a partnership with Mosh.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fresh off some branding talk, the boys pen a response to P. Schwartz with an exciting business opportunity. Guy takes a big swing on a joke and pays the price, Tim is ready to take it on the chin for public infrastructure, and the episode wraps with the first ever Good Times cliffhanger.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roll them bones! Let it ride! Hit me baby one more time! This episode of Good Times is all about taking chances, as Guy “Moneybags” Montgomery returns to the scene of the crime after sweeping the table at Tim's poker game. The Word of the Week brings out Tim's devil-may-care attitude. Comedian and poet Tim Key offers a counterpoint, giving the boys an etiquette lesson on asking for your male friend's phone number.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come on down to Guy's Memory Surplus for our September Clearance Sale! Niche details of the 2003 All Blacks lineup, premises for discontinued shows on the WB: Everything Irrelevant Must Go! As Monty explores his mind palace, Tim gets Rhys Mathewson on the blower to talk the merits of voice messages and whether or not you should squash the beef with people you may have wronged as a kid.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Good Times are threatened as Guy poses Tim a question with no satisfactory answer before diving into a despondent edition of Word of the Week. The vibe is rescued by a phone call with Abby Howells, who joins the boys on a stroll down memory lane.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where were you on the morning of Saturday, September 7th (Friday the 6th if you're a Substack member)? Here to serve as your alibi, an interrogative episode of Good Times, The Hon. Guy A.H. Montgomery and Timothy A. Batt presiding. Guy has been reading a lot of detective novels and is in an interrogative mood (also caused in part by another book he's read, Padgett Powell's “The Interrogative Mood.”) Tim, meanwhile, is full of answers, bringing some hot, current pop culture takes on the woke mind virus and the Kendrick v Drake beef.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as time comes for us all, so has it come for this third episode of Good Times. It's an introspective week for Monty, who we find preoccupied with the fate of his hair after an encounter at the barber. Tim puts on his interviewer's hat and tries to get to the bottom of Guy's x-stream lifestyle. In this age of energy drinks and in-flight WiFi, what is it that drives a man like Guy Montgomery to greatness?Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner.Get episodes early and in video on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is bigger than a bread box? Would you find it in a department store? I'll save you the other 18 questions: it's episode 2 of Good Times! It's a sporting episode this week, as Tim and one of Tim's highest-ranked friends crack on about cricket before introducing a new segment. A long-overdue letter to Patty Schwartz is penned, launching what is sure to be a fruitful partnership between TWIOAT and the good people at MOSH (#moshlife).Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The year? 2024. The climate? Fixed. The times? Good.Enter a new era of The Worst Idea of All Time as Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery set off on a podcasting journey towards brighter shores. Somewhere it's always 5:00. Somewhere everybody knows your name.In this inaugural episode, Guy and Tim share some chocolate and talk about meat. The series gets its first sponsor, courtesy of one Party Schwartzenator (#MOSHLIFE #paytheboiz), and Tim, full up on ashwagandha and lion's mane, makes plans to hit the gym.Our intro music, “Los Angeles,” courtesy of Eyeliner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UPDATE: The original audio for this episode was not good. Hopefully it now is good!It has been brought to Tim and Guy's attention that a group of Americans have taken it upon themselves to create a sequel to Cats, a spiritual succession (or at least response) to Tom Hooper's 2019 horror film. The movie is incredible - an artistic marathon that was birthed from the pandemic lockdowns and now exists in all its live-action, animated, puppeted, all-singing and all-dancing glory on YouTube dot com.See Cats 2 in all its wonder at cats2.art Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New Zealand launches an opening salvo in the Comedy Olympics, as Tim and Guy ponder standup's answer to the unrepeatable performance of Simone Biles. The boyz stare down the barrel of their loosening grip on pop culture, their attention taken up instead by questions about the origin of smell and moisture-wicking fabric. Regular Family Time segment, “What Were We Doing 1-3 Years Ago, When This Email Was Sent?” reveals some stunning serendipity.Find more on our Substack! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carlo pulls all the tantalising pieces of the story together to present a compelling alternative narrative of what really happened to Titanic. Tim wonders: Is Carlo out of his mind?With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two large-scale official inquiries took place immediately after the Titanic's sinking. Carlo and Tim discuss what the inquiries revealed to the public and what they concealed.With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over 1500 souls perished the night the ship calling itself "Titanic" sank. But could they have been rescued?With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could an insurance-fuelled switch-a-roo really be at the heart of Titanic's downfall?With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If the Titanic didn't sink, which ship did? Carlo and Tim uncover a tale of jealousy, greed, villainy - and, possibly, nonsense.With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An 'unsinkable' ship is somehow felled by an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Is everything as it seems? Or is Carlo full of it?With the fellas hard at work on the next chapter of TWIOAT, we present the first season of Did Titanic Sink?, the award-winning pod series from the Worst Idea Extended Universe. Join Tim Batt and Carlo Ritchie on their maiden voyage into the unknown.Enjoying DTS? Season two is releasing now on RNZ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.