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An award-winning smash hit series hosted by kiwi comedians Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt. The pair have been punishing themselves with movies for your enjoyment since Feb 2014, starting by watching and reviewing Grown Ups 2 once a week, every week, for a full year. They applied the same treatment to Sex and The City 2, Sex and The City, We Are You Friends, the Emmanuelle franchise of softcore adult films and now are taking on The Fast and Furious franchise in reverse order. Hosted on Acast. Se ...
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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 E…
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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 epi…
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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…
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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…
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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 Substa…
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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…
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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, w…
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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 su…
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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 i…
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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…
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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,…
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Did Titanic Sink? 06: The Old Switch-a-Roo
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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 …
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Did Titanic Sink? 05: The Wake of Titanic
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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 Univer…
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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…
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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?…
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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 ma…
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Did Titanic Sink? 01: Titanic - The Sinkable Ship
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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 maide…
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