The Worst Idea Of All Time

Family Time 20: Heaps in The Tank

11 May 2025

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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 ...

GT34: A Worm with Huge Tits w/ Alice May Connolly

07 May 2025

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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 b...

GT33: Gardening w/ Donna Brookbanks

05 May 2025

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Our fantastic funny friend, Donna Brookbanks joins us on the blower for a sensational conversation about raw-dog gardening. Guy shares an absolutely t...

GT32: Let's Taste Mosh

29 Apr 2025

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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 nig...

Good Times: 31

19 Apr 2025

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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 ...

Good Times: 30 (w/ Kura Forrester)

10 Apr 2025

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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 d...

Good Times: 29

03 Apr 2025

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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, offe...

Family Time 19

31 Mar 2025

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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 ...

Good Times: 28

23 Mar 2025

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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 co...

Family Time: 18

18 Mar 2025

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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 I...

Good Times: 27

13 Mar 2025

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The Family faces their greatest threat yet as adrenaline junkie Tim Batt is unleashed upon the mean streets of Auckland. After passing his restricted ...

Good Times: 26

07 Mar 2025

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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 T...

Good Times: 25 (w/ Michael Hing)

01 Mar 2025

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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 da...

Family Time: 17

22 Feb 2025

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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...

Good Times: 24 (w/ Nish Kumar)

16 Feb 2025

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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 Montgomer...

Family Time: 16

11 Feb 2025

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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 Id...

Good Times: 23

07 Feb 2025

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During this week’s Good Times, the fellas are thinking about relationships of all kinds. What ever did happen to Bennifer? (Lofleck? Jenjamin?) How ...

Family Time 15

01 Feb 2025

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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...

Good Times: 22

27 Jan 2025

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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 bett...

Good Times: 21

18 Jan 2025

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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...

Good Times: 20 (w/ Alice Snedden)

11 Jan 2025

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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 acc...

Good Times: 19

04 Jan 2025

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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 give...

Good Times: 18 (w/ Ray O'Leary)

28 Dec 2024

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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 Ze...

Good Times: 17 (w/ Melanie Bracewell)

21 Dec 2024

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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 Brac...

Good Times: 16

07 Dec 2024

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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 ...

Family Time 14

06 Dec 2024

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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 ...

Good Times: 15

30 Nov 2024

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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 ...

Good Times: 14

23 Nov 2024

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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 O...

Good Times: 13 (w/ David O'Doherty)

09 Nov 2024

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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 t...

Good Times: 12 (w/ Johanna Cosgrove)

02 Nov 2024

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Separated for the first time in a minute, the fellas are at their scrappiest. Tim crusades against voice messages. Guy questions whether his caretakin...

Good Times: 11

26 Oct 2024

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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...

Good Times: 10 (w/ Rose Matafeo)

19 Oct 2024

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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...

Good Times: 09 (w/ Chris Parker)

12 Oct 2024

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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 call...

Good Times: 08

05 Oct 2024

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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 t...

Good Times: 07 (w/ Tim Key)

28 Sep 2024

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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 ret...

Good Times: 06 (w/ Rhys Mathewson)

24 Sep 2024

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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 ...

Good Times: 05 (w/ Abby Howells)

14 Sep 2024

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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...

Good Times: 04

07 Sep 2024

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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...

Good Times: 03

02 Sep 2024

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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 wi...

Good Times: 02 (w/ Eli Matthewson)

24 Aug 2024

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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...

Good Times: 01

18 Aug 2024

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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 podcasti...

Cats 2: Unauthorized (fixed)

09 Aug 2024

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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 Amer...

Family Time 12

31 Jul 2024

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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...

Did Titanic Sink? 06: The Old Switch-a-Roo

19 Jul 2024

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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 won...

Did Titanic Sink? 05: The Wake of Titanic

17 Jul 2024

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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...

Did Titanic Sink? 04: She Was Not Alone

15 Jul 2024

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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 c...

Did Titanic Sink? 03: Fire in the Hull!

13 Jul 2024

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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 pr...

Did Titanic Sink? 02: Meet The Sister

11 Jul 2024

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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 h...

Did Titanic Sink? 01: Titanic - The Sinkable Ship

09 Jul 2024

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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 w...

Family Time 11: An Overlooked and Undercooked Special

08 Jul 2024

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Batten down the hatches. It’s an emergency Overlooked and Undercooked special as Rob Schneider makes landfall in Aotearoa. After years of morbid fas...

Family Time 10

30 Jun 2024

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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 tim...

Podcast in a Tree 2: 06

23 Jun 2024

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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’...

Podcast in a Tree 2: 05

17 Jun 2024

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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 Ze...

Family Time 9

07 Jun 2024

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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 b...

Podcast in a Tree 2: 04

27 May 2024

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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...

Podcast in a Tree 2: 03

16 May 2024

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The boys are feeling refreshed and reflective at the prospect of spending time together without having to watch a terrible movie for the umpteenth tim...

Podcast in a Tree 2: 02

07 May 2024

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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 bo...

Podcast In A Tree 2: 01

27 Apr 2024

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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 nu...

Replay S01E53: The Worst Scripted Event of All Time

25 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E52: Finale?

06 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E51: Coyote

05 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E50: Futon

04 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E49: BirdmanSpoilerMan

03 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E48: Matinée

02 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E47: ThompsonWood

01 Apr 2024

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Replay S01E46: Germans

31 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E45: Cup

30 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E44: 2015

29 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E43: Machetski

28 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E42: PartyShwartzanetor

27 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E41: Tanya?

26 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E40: LoaferCrocStocks

25 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E39.5: DirCom

24 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E39: Farrier

23 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E38: Mea Culpa

22 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E37: Shade

21 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E36: Salmon

20 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E35: Bathroom

19 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E34: Corry

18 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E33: Lambourne

16 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E32: Glamourpuss

16 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E31: Experts

15 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E30: Whaaaaaaaaaaaat!

14 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E29: Prawn Salad

13 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E28: Return

12 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E27: Off-duty

11 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E26: K-Mart

10 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E25: Matafeo

09 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E24: TwitterDrunk

08 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E23: IMDB

07 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E22: Projector

06 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E21: Stye

05 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E20: Echo

05 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E19: Fragility

05 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E18: Production Values

02 Mar 2024

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Replay S01E17: Agent

24 Feb 2024

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Replay S01E16: Knife

23 Feb 2024

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Replay S01E15: Fruit Burst

22 Feb 2024

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Replay S01E14: Matrix

21 Feb 2024

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Replay S01E013: FitzHigham

18 Feb 2024

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