Suggestible - Best Suggestibles of the Year (Part Two)

Episode Date: January 1, 2020

Suggestible things to watch, read and listen to hosted by James Clement @mrsundaymovies and Claire Tonti @clairetonti.FleabagWatchmenChernobylRussian DollThe Good PlaceBarryEuphoriaLine of DutyTotal ControlDirty JohnLove on the SpectrumOld People's Home for 4 Year OldsLizzo - Cuz I Love YouClare Bowditch - WomanCome From Away SoundtrackBoy Swallows UniverseThe Lost ManShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment StoryFleishman Is in TroubleThe TestamentsMidnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living ForIT Crowd Computer ClipSpencer & Locke Volume 2Spider-Man: Life StoryCriminalDolly Parton's America

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Yahoo, I hope you're having a wondrous New Year. If you missed last week's episode, we talked about the best movies and comedy specials and documentaries that we watched in 2019. And this week we're following on from that. My name is James and with me is Claire. We are married and we berate each other with things that we watched in 2019. And this week we're following on from that. My name is James and with me is Claire. We are married and we berate each other with things that we watched even though we're not really interested in each other's opinions. So if you have never listened to the show before, which I highly –

Well done. Yes, exactly. Keep continuing living your life. Usually how this works is that James recommends the most depressing thing of all time. Correct. Something where people get murdered or like stabbed or they're like it's post-apocalyptic and the world is a burning war. I'm just looking through this list and I'm like, yep, that's it. Yeah all time. Correct. Something where people get murdered or like stabbed or they're like, it's post-apocalyptic and the world is a burning orb.

I'm just looking through this list and I'm like, yep, that's it. Yeah, correct. Exactly. And I recommend funny, lighthearted, great things, but also some smart serious things too. I mean, and that's basically how it works. Someone put a GIF on the Great Mates group, which is our Planet Broadcasting Network group,

which you should have joined, by the way, because that group is amazing. It's private, though. But you can join. But you can join. Yeah, you can join. And there's literally just like that one where there's a character just like stomping along and then there's a tiny character like skipping around it.

Oh, like that Warner Brothers? Yeah. Those two dogs? Yeah, correct. Sounds about right. Exactly. And they said that's what this show is. Pretty much.

Accurate. So we're launching with TV shows now. Are we? Can I just say we are living in the golden age of television. Man, TV is so much better than everything else in the world. I was going to say movies, but I think it just kind of encompasses all things. James proposed to his television before he proposed to me. He certainly did.

But to be fair, I got rid of that television and got a new one. It doesn't bode well for you though, does it? Anyway, what were you saying? What? Dear God. I don't know what you choose. The podcast dog is barking. Yeah, she's barking at you for being so mean.

Okay, television. Yeah, what have you got? Okay, so my favourite of all time of the year was Fleabag. I got Fleabag, yeah. Oh, so good. If only there was more Fleabag. I got Fleabag, yeah. Oh, so good. If only there was more Fleabag. I think the second season is better. Yes, correct.

And the first season is incredible. Correct. And it just gets better from there, honestly. This television show, if you have not seen it, is just, oh, magic. And clever and dark and it's comedic, it's British, it's how would you describe it? Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the writer and also the star actor, I guess. But the cast itself is excellent.

I saw an interview where they asked, because it seems like some of the scenes could be improvised, and they asked the acting team whether that was the case. And they said, you don't want to improvise because the script is that good. I was going to say, yeah. Yeah, and you can tell. Because often people do, they attribute it to a lot of shows, like to improvisation, but the best shows are normally just very tightly written.

Yeah, and this is extremely tightly written. Andrew Scott plays her love interest as the sexy priest in the second season and it works so well. Okay, break it down for me because I think people don't understand what is sexy about that guy. I think I know. Okay, here we go. I want to hear you say it. What I think about, I don people don't understand what is sexy about that guy. I think I know. Okay, here we go. I want to hear you say it.

What I think about, I don't think it's necessarily like his physicality. Not that he's not a good looking guy, because he is. And he's got great arms, as she talks about, right? He's got a good head of hair, whatever. He can look kind of sinister at the same time. He can. Like in Doctor Who? In Sherlock or whatever.

Oh, Sherlock. But I think, maybe I saw somebody explain this on Twitter, but I think the reason you like him is because of his sense of humour and that he listens. When you talk, he listens and he responds. Like he doesn't just kind of be receptive. He really looks at her. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He really looks at her.

He does really look at her when she talks. And he thinks about when he's – he doesn't just talk for the sake of talking, like say I do. Like, you know, does that make sense? Yeah, it does. Is that explaining that right? No, that's why – like this this is a bit of an ocean, but that's one of the reasons why I liked you so much when I met you

because you just, you looked at me and listened and asked questions. That's a trick out there. You don't even have to listen. You just have to pretend you're listening, all right? I still use it to this day. Okay, on me, 13 years later. Everybody, Claire. I know, but no, genuinely, and it sounds so small, doesn't it?

But I think for women, we are obviously visual creatures as well, but I think women, sexuality is deeper than that. Because he's not like Chris Hemsworth is what I'm saying. No, but I would say he's much, I would say he's more attractive than Chris Hemsworth. And I think part of it, but also part of it is his physicality too. 100%. But it is, and he's quite funny, but he listens and really looks

at her when she talks, you know, and that I think is something that is rare in blokes because I think sometimes men think that they need to tell us how wonderful they are and therefore then we will think they're excellent. Well, otherwise how would you know how wonderful we are, Claire? I can't tell you the amount of times that guys do that though. They like tell you or even like friends of mine, it's not like they're interested in me but it's kind of like a thing

that they think they have to do is like talk about all the things they're really good at. Yeah, I think that goes both ways though for anybody who's like, well, I'm great because of this and this. Oh, yeah, I know, both people. But I noticed it like back in the, you know, I don't know, Stone Age when I was dating that men would do that a lot to you. I love a guy who at a party who will stop to do chin-ups as well.

Exactly. Yeah, that happened to me. Oh, my God. I got to a party and some guy just decided to jump and do chin-ups of the bar in the garage. That is not. Anyway, no, and I love it. It's actually so simple.

And I think for men too, I think they just want to be looked at. And I'm also really good at chin-ups. So that's my point also. Anyway, but, yeah, you're right. That's definitely part of it. I don't think I explained that very well. No, you did. But that's definitely part of it because he really sees her.

Yeah. He really looks and sees her and asks the questions. And there's a compatibility there, obviously. And a very amazing chemistry. Because it was like he was coming at her like that and she was not interested. Yeah. That's a whole different thing.

Now, if you haven't watched Fleabag, you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But anyway, it's won all these awards. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is so clever. There's a Netflix sort of show called Crashing that she wrote where you can see the beginnings of Fleabag. Yeah, I don't love Crashing. I still really enjoy it.

Yeah, I like it but it's not, but I do want to watch Killing Eight which she also wrote. Yeah, and she also wrote the first couple of seasons of that which is brilliant. It starts to go downhill when she's off the writing team. And she's helping to finish or create the James Bond. We'll see to what extent though. Yeah, anyway.

Because she's one of the other writers. Yeah, but for me, Fleabag, hands down, winner of TV for this year of all time. So clever and great. Well, I've got Watchmen, which I talked about recently on the Weekly Planet, which people should check out. I think it's terrific. It's easily the best Watchmen sequel and spin-off of the many things that there's been of this thing that should never have been extended upon it's really good uh chernobyl i quite liked it's not

like an easy recommendation but it's kind of i really think about like the perils of like bureaucracy and shit like that yeah and nuclear fallout and all of that kind of russian doll i really liked uh about the woman who's stuck in the time, the Grand Hotel time loop. Yeah, I tried to get into that and I couldn't get into it. I really like that, yeah. Don't know why. The Good Place is terrific.

It's still going. It's still wrapping up, but that was always consistently good and consistently funny. Barry, which I've only seen the first season of, which is about Bill Hader who's a hitman who then becomes an actor, an acting class. I haven't watched season two yet, which is apparently also very good, but it's great.

It's really good and really darkly funny and, like, twisted. And he's really convincing as this guy who doesn't really want to be a hitman, but he's an excellent hitman. But he's also trying to hide that up, but he's also trying to get into acting. It's bizarre. And Euphoria, which I've talked about before, which stars, oh, what the hell's her name, Zendaya, who's like a teen who's struggling with addiction in high school.

Yeah, and you said the way they filmed that show specifically is like really amazing. Yeah, it's just really well written and acted. Yeah. I should have mentioned this in last week's episode, but I've kind of rushed over kind of the more mainstreamy kind of comic book and blockbuster stuff because I'm saving that because we do it on the weekly planet.

That's not to say I didn't enjoy Avengers Endgame because I very much did. That's not to say I didn't love Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker because it was an incredible movie. Oh, no. My God. I was saying to you that film, and I know you're going to talk about it with Macy so we won't have fun about it, but I felt like it was was saying to you that film, and I know you're going to talk about it with Macy,

so we won't harp on about it, but I felt like it was like a bad Indiana Jones film. Sure. Like it made sense. I could follow it. And if I can follow all of it, that means that it's not that great. I don't think that's the case. I think you can follow any of the Star Wars movies. Actually, that's true.

But look, I love The Last Jedi, and I just felt like this was too predictable. I agree. Anyway, yeah, so interesting, that one. Now I've got here for music unless you've got more TV. No, I still want more TV. Dear God. All right, so my other favourite one was Line of Duty, which I loved. It's created by Ted Mercurio. It's a BBC cop show basically and was first released in 2012

and it's about the anti-corruption unit set within the fictional Central Police Force. It kind of sounds boring but I bloody loved this and the latest season was released this year. Every time I recommend it to someone, they lose like three days of their life and they're up till 2 o'clock in the morning because you just can't not watch it. I mean you don't really love those kind of BBC pop shows.

I'm busy doing chin-ups but I do. Yeah. I think a lot of them are the morning because you just can't not watch it. I mean, you don't really love those kind of BBC pop shows. I'm busy doing chin-ups, but I do. Yeah. I think a lot of them are the same because I watched a lot of that growing up. Yeah, yeah. Because my parents love it. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Exactly. Yeah, I did too.

But I still love a good one. Yeah, and look, this one, and like Midsomer Murders and all that stuff, it's just, you know, that's gone off the boil. But this is, I think it's interesting because it's different because it's not so much about the, you know, that's gone off the boil. But this is, I think it's interesting because it's different because it's not so much about the, you know, criminals as it is about the police force itself and the corruption kind of embedded within the force. And there's a team of policemen who have to investigate their own and the kind of dynamics

between the, you know, the police who are working their regular job and then these other anti-corruption agents coming in, how that all affects everything and then how far up the corruption can go. How far up does it go? Yeah, and there's just like a really great Irish cop called Inspector, Chief Inspector called Ted. Brilliant. I just loved it.

An Australian TV show I loved was Total Control. I talked about that the other day. That was with Deborah Mailman. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, exactly. Claudia Carvin and day. That was with Deborah Mailman. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, exactly. Claudia Carvin or something. No, not Claudia Carvin. My brain has gone because it's so late.

Rachel Griffiths stars in that too. Oh, okay. Oh, they're the politicians. Yeah, it's basically Australian politics. It talks a lot about indigenous land rights. It's brilliant and quite funny in parts, quite dark. Great. Dirty John, which was released in 2018 when I watched.

I like Dirty John, yeah. And I really enjoyed that. The documentary or the – because there's a documentary and then there's a – Yeah, there's a podcast. No, this is just like – No, and there's a documentary and there's the Eric Banner. Oh, no, this is the Eric Banner. Yeah, that's it, yeah.

And what's the – I have to choose his name with the red hair, who I love. She's the best. You just – anyway, you look it up. I will. While I talk about the last one I loved, which was Love on the Spectrum, which is an ABC. Oh, I know that, yeah, Connie Britton. Connie Britton.

Oh, she's amazing in so many things. Friday Night Lights, she's just brilliant. Anyway, but Dirty John, I enjoyed that and I watched that this year even though it was released in 2018. And Love on the Spectrum, which is an ABC kind of doco. It's not really a doco. It's like a reality TV show, I guess, about people who are living on the autistic spectrum, young people kind of in their early

to mid-20s who are looking for love. Yeah, right. And my friend said to me it was her favourite show of the year and I kind of thought, I don't like reality TV. That's a big call. Then I watched it and I watched all the episodes back to back. I could not stop laughing and sort of getting emotional. It was beautiful.

It was a look at what it's like to be different, I guess, and when you're different how to find people that are similar to you and also families and how families have raised their kids. I mean navigating dating is like an absolute crapshoot. It's a nightmare anyway. And what they said was if you're autistic, it's even harder because dating apps and things you can't, do you disclose that you're autistic? How does that even work?

Especially when you're high-functioning autistic. Yes. And also because of the nature of autism, the honesty and the stuff that they come out with is just so adorable and true and kind of how everyone feels. And they also look at some couples who are autistic, who are both autistic, who are married or, you know, been together a long time.

Sure. And that's beautiful too. Yeah. And it just makes you realise that we're all different, you know, and people, we shouldn't be judging books by their cover and you can't just because someone's autistic doesn't mean they are one way or another. Yeah, anyway, it's a beautiful show.

And just funny, oh, my God, I just could not stop. I was crying with laughter. Gorgeous. How many episodes is it? I think it's four. What was that documentary about the kids who come into the old people's home? Oh, that was beautiful. That was really good as well. Yeah, that documentary about the kids who come into the old people's home? Oh, that was beautiful. That was really good as well.

Yeah, that was on the ABC too and I can't remember the name of it now. But yeah, it was a nursing home and they had kids coming in to visit and I just loved that as well. It was very moving and they've just formed this beautiful bond with these little four-year-olds. Is it called Old People's Home? Yeah, Old People's Home. Yeah.

That sounds right. Or like Old People's Home for kindergartners. Yeah, Old People's Home for four-year-olds. Four-year-olds, there you go. And it's just, it's beautiful. And then, oh, it makes you cry. Introducing Uber Teen Accounts, an Uber account for your teen with always-on enhanced safety features.

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See app for details. Gorgeous. Okay, books. I love books. No, music. I was going to do first. Oh, music. Okay.

I've just written here, none. I know no music anymore. What do you got for music? I bought you two records, Green Day. Yeah, they're not new. And Powderfinger. No, that was Internationalist. I liked my favourite Powderfinger.

But you bought me Ben Folds. I did buy Ben Folds too, but, you know, they're all pretty old. Nothing new. Nothing new. Okay, for me, my favourite album, no surprise here, Music of the Year, was Cause I Love You by Lizzo. Oh, yeah. Smash out of the park.

Actually, because our son enjoys that, so we have listened to that in the car actually. Amazing. My favourite song of this year was Woman by Claire Bowditch. It's just a great song and I loved it. She just released it as a single. Her book also I really enjoyed this year. Well, it's not a song, is it?

Move on. And the other music that I loved, I went and saw Come From Away, which you were supposed to see I know and it just didn't eventuate and you would love that I know I would so much

I gotta go and the soundtrack is spectacular even just the soundtrack I think you should listen to the soundtrack because it's so good it's a show

really about what happened at September 11 and the planes that were then diverted into Canada yes and what kind of happened from there.

And I had no idea about the story. Blew me away. The music is absolutely heart-wrenchingly beautiful and gorgeous. Terrific. Yeah, so that's music. Well, should we do podcasts then? All right, and then can we do books? Oh, man, we're running out of time, Claire.

We can do it. Let's wrap it. We're not really. Do you want to do – no, let's do books. Okay, let's do books. The one book that I remember reading this year, and maybe I read another thing but I worry that I haven't, is Boy Swallows Universe.

It's by Trent Dalton. It's about – he was a true crime writer. He does this story about this kid growing up, I think, in the western suburbs of Sydney and he gets embroiled in corruption and gang violence and drugs and et cetera and so forth. And it's great. And hopefully I'll read a book this summer, which is my plan for, which I think was the last time I read this.

You read that in January when we went. Yeah, I think I did. I'm trying to think about, I've read it because I've got a pile of books next to my bed, but I'm trying to think of which ones I've actually read. You've read a lot of comics though. Oh, no, I've got so many comics here to talk about, yeah. Yeah, yeah, cool. Comics are so like easily digestible as well, like for bed as well.

It's like – Yeah. Because I get caught in the book. It's also what you love. No, I love books but I get caught in – well, obviously I don't that much, but I get caught in it and then – Yeah, you get – you can't stop reading it. Anyway, what have you got?

All right. So look, I read, you know, a fair few books this year, probably not as much as I would have liked to. Probably not as many as me. Oh, well, yeah, I read, you know, a fair few books this year, probably not as much as I would have liked to. Probably as many as me. Oh, well, yeah, exactly. But I still think I keep going back to my favourite find author of the year is Jane Harper. The Lost Man, her third novel, came out this year,

which is sort of a story on its own, which I've already talked about in previous episodes. But The Dry and Force of Nature were her two first novels and they're the same Inspector Cop character in those. They're really just great old-fashioned true crime sort of murder mystery detective novels. Nothing wrong with that. But I just loved them.

I thought they were great and really page turnery. Really great for summer reading if you haven't already read those, but they've been everywhere. Another book I really enjoyed this year was She Said by Jodie Cantor and Megan Toohey, and that was really following the whole kind of rise of the Me Too movement and Harvey Weinstein case and kind of on the background of, you know, Trump and all those things. I just found that really, really interesting and I enjoyed it.

It was kind of almost a thriller, page turner, even though you knew how it ended. It just gave me a real insight into how much work goes into really good quality journalism. How much work does go into it? A few hours. Okay. So I thought you were going to say not that much. Yeah. I don't know, maybe 20 minutes. 20 minutes is, that's the reason we want to sign. Great. No, I mean, it was the combination of just so much work anyway. And most of the the time these kinds of cases you could be researching and doing all of that work and follow-up and interviews and then they can't publish for legal reasons.

So the fact that that story even got published and the fact that the world cared is just kind of mind-boggling. I mean the bloody media news cycle, am I right? Bloody 24-hour news cycle, mate. I mean I'm saying it sarcastically, but I believe that. Yeah, correct. Anyway, so that was a good one. Fleshman is in Trouble by Taffy Bredesa.

Anna was one that people kind of went mad for this year, and I really enjoyed it. It's about kind of a couple divorcing and how that all goes down in New York City, and they have two kids and how that all interplays with itself. But, yeah, I just really enjoyed it it and it was really hard to put down. And then The Testaments by Margaret Atwood came out, which was a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

Very sort of everyone was waiting with bated breath to read this book and it didn't disappoint. I thought it was a really great read. It was a really kind of. Different perspective, right? Yeah, different perspective from the first one, which I thought was a couple of different voices, which I thought was good.

Margaret said that she couldn't find the voice of June, the main character from The Hammer Towers, so she didn't try and force it. And so she wrote it from two perspectives. Really enjoyed it. I recommend that. And my last one is a recipe book. Oh, my God.

Midnight Chicken by Ella Westbridge. You know how much I loved that book. I know. And a listener from Planet Broadcasting messaged me to say that he has followed her for ages and he was so excited to hear that she had come out.

She is kind of touted now as the next Nigella Lawson really. It's a recipe book but it reads almost like a novel because it really just is celebrating my computer's dying, celebrating the ability of food but it reads almost like a novel because it really just is celebrating, my computer's dying, celebrating the ability of food. Well, no, it's, okay, so you know that episode of the IT Crowd where the, what's the character, her computer?

Jan June. Female lead. I can't remember, yeah. What's her name in the IT Crowd? Anyway, they go to look at her laptop and there's just like a thousand things flashing all the time and it's like beep, beep, bloop, bloop, blah, yeah. What's her name in the IT crowd? Anyway, they go to look at her laptop and there's just like a thousand things flashing all the time and it's like beep, beep, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. That's what my computer was doing because it does that all the time every time I open it and I should fix it, but I won't.

Anyway. Jen. There you go. Hilarious. Jen. Love the IT crowd. So amazing. What a great show.

Anyway, back to Midnight Chicken. It really celebrates the ability of cooking and food to pull you back from the brink really. And I've heard quite a few people who are suffering from depression or anxiety or trauma or grief find their way back into the world through cooking or it might be through painting, it might be through gardening, something where you're creating with your hands. Yeah.

And Ella, yeah, really writes beautifully and in a really funny way about her life and her family, her friends who are her family really and living in London and her memories of her childhood. And then also her partner, her boyfriend features, the tall man features in it a lot, which you kind of find out at the very end that he passed away of cancer. And it's just heartbreaking. He's obviously like such a larger than life kind of comedian

who also really loved cooking and they share that together. So anyway, beautiful. That's it. That's it? For me, yeah. You got me right as I poured water badly. In your heart, Street. No, I swallowed water and went down the wrong way.

Oh, Lord. He's really struggling. This is him crawling over the line. I talked about Spencer and Locke, which is basically Calvin and Hobbes, except he grows up and he keeps his imaginary friend and they solve murders together. It's terrific. I loved it.

The second volume of that came out this year, last year. Spider-Man Life Story, which I talked about on the Weekly Planet, I think is my favourite comic from the year, but it's basically it condenses all the history of Spider-Man into like six issues but it jumps ahead a decade every time. But also every time it jumps a decade it touches on like the major points from that story at that time. So like the 60s is a fun swinging 60s kind of college kid

and then like 70s it's like the Vietnam War and like it goes through like all his adventures but like shortened until, so he ages in real time. So by the end he's like 75 or whatever. But Criminal I haven't talked about which is an ongoing series by Ed Brubaker and it's sort of a series of interconnected stories about detective noir kind of hard-nosed criminal kind of activities and murders and following people around and being like,

what are you doing here and give me one of those cigarettes. That's basically what you do all around the house. Yeah, give me one of those cigarettes. What are you doing, give me one of those cigarettes. Give me one of those cigarettes. Because I'm constantly smoking. Yeah, that me my cigarettes. What are you doing? Give me one of those cigarettes. Give me one of those cigarettes. Because I'm constantly smoking. Yeah, that's right. But give me one.

You know what I mean? Anyway, those are the things I've been reading. Excellent. Podcasting before we wrap it up. Pod, a podcasting. Okay. So my favorite podcast of the year, Dolly Parton's America. Love that.

Talked about that recently, just about Dolly Parton. I had really no idea about her history and why she was so iconic and I respect that woman a thousand times more after listening to that podcast as a musician. But you respected her negative before, so that means even if you times that by a thousand, it's not quite enough, is it? All right. Anyway, she's brilliant and it was a great podcast.

Snowball is an Australian podcast. The series is Snowball. The whole podcast is actually called Unravel. This is from the ABC and it was just addictive listening. Yeah, right. Ollie Ward is the host and it really just is about his sister-in-law who turned out to be a fraudster and took basically all his family's money. I listened to that.

Yeah. It was terrific. It was, wasn his family's money. I listened to that. Yeah. It was terrific. It was, wasn't it? I forgot I listened to that. Yeah, you very rarely listen to something I recommend, but you were just walking around the house being like, I can't believe it. Can you believe this?

Yeah, it was so good. I saw him talk about it. My PC battery's also running low. Oh, no. Oh, no. Chat 10 Looks 3 was my other favourite pod of the year. I always talk about that. That's like my staple.

That's my bread and butter podcast I go to. I love it. Lisa Ells Animal Crab, just great, hilarious, awesome. And I talked about this earlier but Heavyweight, it's Gimlet Media podcast, really, really good, and episode 2, Gregor, which was about Moby. I did listen to that. Yeah, so good.

And I remember the time being like, isn't Moby terrible? And then the episode I'm like, maybe Moby's not terrible. But then since then, it turns out Moby, terrible. So as I always suspected, Moby is terrible. Full circle, full circle. Yeah. Because you know what? The other reason I didn't think he was as terrible in that episode as well is because

the guy who was like accusing Moby of like, because he kind of built Moby's career was, like, equally terrible. And I'm like, what do I care if this guy does well? This guy sucks. It's a really interesting story, though. Yeah. Excellent. For me, I've talked about creative processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I'm going to mention some stuff outside of the Planet Broadcasting Network, Claire, if you don't mind.

I know, controversial. I know. Actually, I didn't mention any from the podcasting anyway. Oh, good. Let's keep it that way. But it's kind of assumed, right, that we love all those guys and those shows. Help grow whatever the fucking thing is we do. But one of the ones I really like is with Charlie Clawson

and Osher Gunsberg. It's called Dad Pod. And Charlie Clawson people would know from like Home and Away and the TV series, what the hell is it called? It's the murder one with the crocodile Dundee guy, but it's about what the hell is it called? Wolf Creek. Wolf Creek.

Thank you. Jesus. And also Toe Fop. I was getting to that, Toe Fop and et cetera and so forth. But it's basically it's about Anosha Goonsburg, people know from like Australian television having terrific hair. So it's about they've both had new kids, newborn kids, and it chronicles kind of before that kind of happens

and as they're kind of going through the journey of having kids and how it's terrible. So it's also got a bunch of fun guests. Merrick Watts is in one point. Grant Denyer pops up. People from Australia would know those two, I'd imagine. I might be going on an episode in the future, which would be really cool

because I really like that show. And I have a lot to say about other dads and how I hate them. I got so much to say. You just had it all. I think I'm easing up on that a little bit. I think you are. I think you're having more compassion. Also, I think what's happening, he's starting to make friends

with other dads, like for realsies. You need to back up. No, you really are. I noticed we had beers the other night with our neighbours and you stayed and you drank four beers. That is like you are sort of undermining your whole beer is a conspiracy theory, my friend. Yeah, I know.

I really was. I was drinking that. I'm like I bet Claire's going to throw this in my face at some point. Sitting under the stars with your neighbours. Who are you? Who even are you, James? That was great though. I had a lot of fun.

Yeah, it was really good. So what are we – we've got to wrap this up because Stars with your neighbours. Who are you? Who even are you, James? That was great, though. I had a lot of fun. Yeah, it was really good. So what do we – we've got to wrap this up because my computer has got like a minute left of battery. Which is kind of like a symbol of your year. Yes, Claire. Keep talking, please. So if you do want to review the show, it helps out massively. We would really appreciate if you could do that.

If there's one thing you could do for us in the new year cash, money, if you see us in the street the second thing, reviews please, review us, please this is from Swag53 on iTunes you can do it in app, it says big sandwich just do it right in app, it's easy as let's do it, absolutely amazing and love each other, their suggestions each week

close and wonderful reads and shows James touches on comic books and movies each episode I come away with at least one thing to check out, five out of five for sure. Also, James makes a big sandwich. It's true. It's true. That's from the Weekly Plan.

It's my more successful podcast. What about you? Have you got some listener suggestions? I don't know, but we're not very successful, so why should I suggest anything? Success isn't measured by the incredible awards and download numbers you get, Claire. All right.

Success is in your heart. Yeah, but also numbers. All right. You didn't talk about succession, wasn't your fave? I like it. TV show? It's good. All right.

Anyway, so you can recommend us stuff at SuggestiblePod on Twitter and Instagram and Facebook as well. We always love to hear from you. And this is from Shattered the Skies, Richard McDarmon. That's a cool name, Richard McDarmon. I like saying your name. He is recommending The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders. Cool.

Hey, guys, I highly recommend this book of short stories. Each story in it is completely different, and I think it has something for both of you, some really heartwarming stuff, absolutely hilarious stuff and kind of sci-fi stuff. It's genuinely brilliant. That sounds good. It does.

Thank you, Richard. I always love a suggestion that crosses both tastes. That's right. Correct, exactly. And thank you to everybody who has listened to the show this year. This year, but it's the first episode of the year, Claire. Oh, last year. Have you just had a stroke? I think I have.

Oh, you're okay. He's got a vein bursting out of his head. I just wanted to say a really big thank you. I know this is the second part of the show, but anyway, we really have appreciated, particularly me. James has a giant audience, but I have appreciated it. No, I really like doing this, and it does have a nice audience, but I've appreciated it. No, I really like doing this. And it does have a nice audience, a nice committed audience,

all four of us. All in a room together. That's me, you, Colin, who edits this every week, I really appreciate, and some other guy. Great. No, but seriously, everyone that's written in, we really, really appreciate it and we love to hear from you. So keep it coming.

And, yeah, here's to 2020. What? We're in the future. Yeah, but it sucks. All right yeah, here's to 2020. What? We're in the future. Yeah, but it sucks. All right, see you guys next week. We're taking a break. I don't know how long for. Life, it's every day.

I'm worth to drink pina coladas and I have to hang out with this guy for two weeks. You wish. I don't know. No. I mean, yes, I love you. Yeah, you too, I guess. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates.

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