The Worst Idea Of All Time

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 frien...

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 m...

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 m...

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....

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...

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 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 Schwartzen...

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 exist...

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 Emai...

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...

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 maide...

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 no...

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 Aca...

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? S...

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 tw...

Batten down the hatches. It’s an emergency Overlooked and Undercooked special as Rob Schneider makes landfall in Aotearoa. After years of morbid fascination, Tim has finally witnessed Rob’s particular brand of bitterness in the flesh and, 90 unflinching minutes later, is bringing his findings back to Guy Montgomery, who was conveniently out of town on a “comedy tour.” Has seeing Rob perform live a...

Battling through some very dodgy audio, Tim and Guy pop open the perpetual time capsule that is the TWIOAT mailbag. The episode becomes a bit of a time capsule itself, with potential ideas for the future of TWIOAT around every corner. The Twilight series? An unauthorized Cats sequel? An Andy Batt spinoff series? And, of course, what’s to be done about the approaching storm that is Rob Schneider’s...

Throw on your loudest shirt and hoof it down to Pukekawa; it’s the last episode of PIAT Season 2 and the boys are clocking in for a BIG finale. We’re talking BIG trees. BIG interior decorating. BIG plans for 2024. Tim and Guy, along with Guest on the Ground (Guest on the Roots?) Abby Howells, cover all their bases for the new year with a combination of western medicine, magic crystals and a whoppi...

It’s a sentimental episode of Podcast in a Tree as Tim and Guy consider, among others, the bygone era of reversible clothing, halcyon days of New Zealand radio, and lessons in fatherhood from the Supernanny. The prolific Matt Heath, under fire for his choice in wines, shows up to reminisce about his time at Radio Hauraki, getting death threats on commercial radio and shooting Tim in the face with...

Papa Monty returns from a very busy few months hawkin’ comedy hither and thither, bringing with him a big ol’ sack of mail from YOU. Tim and Guy break in the new TWIOAT recording studio with a sampling of topics from seasons past, including Rob Schneider’s impending Auckland show, a star-studded Emmanuelle reboot, and the ever-looming presence of PB:MC2. Find video episodes and more on our Substac...

A beautiful day in Aotearoa finds Tim and Guy pondering some heavy questions. Can Pope Francis redeem the Catholic church? How is AI impacting primary education? What are those crystals that you get in certain kinds of honey? Thankfully, a delightful Guest on the Ground, Courtney Dawson, and an equally delightful edition of Drugs in a Tree help lift the mood. Plans are laid for a house band, Tim k...

The boys are feeling refreshed and reflective at the prospect of spending time together without having to watch a terrible movie for the umpteenth time. Guest on the Ground and notorious rowdy boy Ben MacGougan joins to discuss the merits of shoelessness, doing raunchy stand-up for an audience of nans and being drunk at the gym. Tim debuts a new segment called A Little Something for You. Guy prese...

Peter Jackson. Interviews with comedians. The very premise of Podcast in a Tree. It’s episode 2 and everything is on the chopping block. With the boys content to rest on their laurels, it falls upon Guest on the Ground, Guy Williams, to shake things up. Tim, living up to his reputation as the holiest guy around, has A Little Something For You, while Guy drops a hot remix of a classic segment, Sand...

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 take down his local licensing board, while Guy prese...

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 Idea of All Time podcast, in which the New Zealand...