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Performance storyteller Tanya Batt and Musician Peter Forster share a collection of musical stories for young children from the Batt Cave.Tall tales of friendships, food and fun that are guaranteed to delight and have you singing along with their catchy refrains. Quirky, wholesome stories that fill you with hope that perseverance will be rewarded, friendship is paramount, vegetables can save your life and even great sadness passes. A story and a song - because words and music they belong!
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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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The Batt Cave kicks off tonight with a song about air and then Tanya and Pete share a Gluscabi story that comes from the Abenaki first nations of America people. In this story Gluscabi's curiosity and frustration with the wind lead him to meet Wouchowsen, the mighty wind eagle where he learns that what often frustrates us, can also make us strong. …
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As summer descends on Auckland, the local fauna shed their winter coats, pick up their lapel mics and return to the trees to record Season 2 of the number one podcast in a tree, Podcast in a Tree. Classic segments, like Drugs in a Tree, are joined by new favorites, like meditating on the aging process and its impact on butt tattoos. Tim plots to ta…
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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. WorkJuice Presents: The Worst Scripted Event of All Time Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, creators of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, teamed up with Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery, the creators/hosts of The Worst I…
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Another of the Batt Caves's harvest stories: Tanya tells a story from Russia about a farmer and his struggles to harvest a Giant Turnip from his land. You can find our audios and books to purchase at https://imagined-worlds.net/story-shop Or join the live monthly Batt Cave storytelling club at https://ko-fi.com/tanyabatt0027/tiers Or if you are an …
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Still on the theme of Harvest time: Tanya tells an English story about a Farmer and his dealings with the boggart... an old mischievous spirit set on causing trouble. Then they follow up with another old harvest song... Oats, peas, beans and barley grow... except Tanya substitutes produce thats ready to harvest in our garden... Apples, Feijoas and …
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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: Guy and Tim have finally made it. It's the last viewing of Grown Ups 2, exactly one year after they started. Recorded live in front of a soldout CineFamily crowd on Sunset in Los An…
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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: Guy and Tim have taken their camper (thanks Jucy Rentals!) to Joshua National Park, California. It's late, it's isolated and the boys are getting a little freaky. In this episode, t…
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Its Easter in the Batt Cave and in New Zealand that means Harvest time in the garden. Tanya, Batt Lamb and Pete have fun with the Batt cave participants identifying produce fresh from the garden and singing a Harvest song... Hip Hip Hip the harvest home!! You can find our audios and books to purchase at https://imagined-worlds.net/story-shop Or joi…
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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: Against the odds, Guy and Tim have made it to LA. They've eaten some Blaze Pizza and now it's time to tick some other bucket list items off the list; Namely, watching Grown Ups 2 in…
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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: ATTN: DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BIRDMAN YET Fresh from the table read of the script Guy and Tim wrote from memory being performed in front of 150 people in their hom…
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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: Just what comes of two men when you sit them in front of Grown Ups 2 for the forth dozen time inside a year? Apparently, it's sour relationships, lots of singing, lots more swearing…
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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: Guy and Tim are joined by their friends and NZ comedy people Dai Henwood and Josh Thompson for an extended guest episode. In the Grown Ups 2 arena this week, the boys hit some famil…
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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: Guy and Tim are on the road again, the road to watching Grown Ups 2. With just 5 epsiodes to go - the boys' mental sanity appears to be at an all time low. The boys momentarily beco…
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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: Guy and Tim are back and they're suprisingly upbeat! Far from the nightmare depression the pair experienced in the last episode, both lads are back in action and armed with notes ap…
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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: It's the first day of 2015 and in New Zealand, a wonderful summer day has gripped the whole country. But Guy and Tim aren't at the beach! Or even a park! They're indoors, watching t…
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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: Twas the morn before Christmas And all through Tim's flat Nobody was home And he was down with that. He drunk beer after beer while he watched Grown Ups 2 While his friend Guy Montg…
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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: Guy and Tim attempt a new method of 'reverse-advertising', Paddy Shwartz has a new name! Most importantly however, Tim has drunken entirely too much gin the night prior and is suffe…
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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: Tim is distracted by a blackbird, Guy's had enough. But picking up the ball and running for the try line, the lads bring back the chat. Critical analysis of Adam Sandler's latest ma…
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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: Guy and Tim have watched the movie 40 times now and this time, they've recorded an audio commentary. This isn't that audio, it's the episode they decided to record AFTER the comment…
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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: Guy and Tim are joined by beloved kiwi journalist David Farrier. This week: Tim has to buy a $250 T-shirt; enthusiastic letters from fans, some Insane Clown Posse, rampant capitalis…
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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: Guy's back and more awake than ever. He didn't go to sleep for the whole movie this time! And he's bringing the Paddy Shwartz noise! Facts on where Paddy works out, where Paddy eats…
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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: This epsiode the podcast has taken a turn. The boys decided to record during the last half hour of the film, while they watch the remainder of the party scene play out. Plus Guy has…
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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 at 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…
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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: Penny Farthings, got em. Hypothetical yet lengthy discussion about a deer dying in the front yard of the main character? Yup. Appreciation for Stone Cold Steve Austin's pronunciatio…
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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: Guy and Tim are joined by New Zealand's greatest film reviewer and connoisseur of terrible comedies, Dominic Corry. In an authoratitive and wide-ranging conversation the three lads …
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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: Tim Lambourne, New Zealand television and radio personality joins Guy and Tim for a lovely wee watch of the pearl of a film, Grown Ups 2. Lambo shares his stories of American frat b…
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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: It's 1:30 in the morning, do you know where your children are? Guy Montgomery is asleep on the couch at Tim Batt's flat. Tim is watching Grown Ups 2 again, trying not to cry. What e…
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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: Guy and Tim engage in an adventerous and barely conprehensible watch of the film. Welcome and apologies to all the new listners. There is a Clint Eastwood impression to look forward…
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Tanya tells this story from Andalusia in Spain to the Batt Cave about a young girl who looses her necklace. Be warned that it is a bit of a scary story with a mean Ogre with a bad attitude in it!! You can find our audios and books to purchase at https://imagined-worlds.net/story-shop Or join the live monthly Batt Cave storytelling club at https://k…
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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: Guy and Tim have descended from the giddy heights of last week's episode to analyze the film in brutal detail. There's singing, there's a new segment and there's questions about wha…
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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: In this episode of the podcast, bare audio witness to the complete breaking down of Guy and Tim's mental function. This is the first epsiode of the podcast which had its hosts askin…
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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: Guy has triumphiantly returned from Europe and guess what? He hasn't slept. Not barely a wink. But he's joined by a pretty positive Tim Batt and together they've ripped up another w…
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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: The second podcast recorded in one night, Tim's 27th birthday but this time AFTER watching the movie. And boy has it put the aforementioned podcast co-host in a shitty mood. While T…
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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: We're back and catching up. Due to internet issues (discussed on the podcast) Guy and Tim have recorded this ep a week after our last watch. In this ep, Guy and Tim discuss the natu…
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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: Rose Matafeo joins Guy and a whisper quiet Tim on the 25th watch of Grown Ups 2, throwing some much needed positive perspective on the project. That positivity though, stops well sh…
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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: The lads have now clocked up two dozen watches of the film and the mood is high. Tim is punchy after several beers on a Friday night (NZ local time) watch and Guy is still enjoying …
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Aesop is credited with several hundred fables: hot from the Batt Cave comes this tale of the ant who is industrious and hard working, and the grasshopper who takes a more laid back approach. In a first for Pete he not only plays the music but also plays the part of the grasshopper! Tanya takes on the role of the ant with her usual mastery of unusua…
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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: It's the middle of the night in New Zealand and Tim has to keep his voice down for fear of waking his flatmate, because Tim is one of two men who has to watch Grown Ups 2 again. The…
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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: The boys are back. Monty in Berlin, Timbo in his new abode. The stakes have never been higher. The boys are on the cusp of world records here (probably). And who just bought a proje…
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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: Guy continues his march through Europe. Tim is moving house. Nobody is happy. But the boys have been brought together by that gem of a comedy flick Grown Ups 2 one more time (and wi…
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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: Plauged by technical errors and conflicting time schedules the boys finally found time to watch the movie simultaneously on Skype with each other and record the podcast. Guy is comi…
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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: It's the last episode before Guy goes to Europe and the mood is low. Guy and Tim have watched the film at night in bed together after a couple drinks. Observations this week range f…
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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: Guy and Tim are back with beers, pizza and a new lease on the movie they're putting themselves through watching 52 times. After four weeks, the lads have resorted to counting up eve…
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Its still hot and summery here in NewZealand and the Cicadas are in full song. Here is a story from the Andaman Islands about the Cicada who loves to play his drum; and how this affects the whole balance of nature! You can find our audios and books to purchase at https://imagined-worlds.net/story-shop Or join the live monthly Batt Cave storytelling…
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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: In this edition of the podcast, Guy and Tim do a little role-play. Guns are discussed. The delicate subject of necrophilia is apporached and the question is finially asked: How many…
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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: It's Winter, it's Queens Birthday Weekend. The stage is set. A roaring fire. A glass of red. An apple crumble (made from scratch by Tim). The lads have set in to discuss Grown Ups 2…
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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: Guy and Tim have watched Grown Ups 2 again. They drunk- beers. They've eaten Shewsburys. They've been thinking about the film and lots about things that aren't the film. During this…
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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: Guy and Tim are back at it again and there's no guest to hide behind, no special format to break up the monotony, just a straight, back-to-basics watch of the movie. The vibe is a l…
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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: Guy and Tim are struggling to hold on so they've brought another special guest into the fold: This week, British Comedian, multiple world record holder and Commodore of the Royal Na…
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