Suggestible - Block Mr. Peanut

Episode Date: August 12, 2020

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For you and me and everybody else. We are currently recording this from lockdown. That's right. 2.0. Imagine the podcast that you hear every week, but it's recorded in the same spot. From two people who are slowly losing their minds. Yes, we're all passing the days in different ways. Some of us are starting feuds with international peanut companies. You need to explain that to people because not everyone will understand that. But before that, I better introduce ourselves just in case someone is listening to this for the first time. Hello.

My name is Claire. That guy is James. We are married. We produce a podcast company together. We have numerous things. You run Mr. Something. We have numerous children. YouTube channel.

We now have two children. And we currently live in Melbourne, which is under one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. One of, or is it the strict? Oh, now New Zealand are doing a different thing, aren't they? Yeah, no, we're stricter than New Zealand. Well, as long as we're stricter than New Zealand. Anywho, so what happened to us is that we got three weeks into level three and then they were like, you know what, let's start from the start.

But level four, it's like being upped in a terrible video game of which you just showed me. That's right. Yeah, it is. It's like, you know, all that work you were doing, well, not good enough. Yeah. You know, you weren't losing home at all. You weren't leaving home.

You weren't doing it good enough. So now you really can't leave home. No. So, yeah, we're both slowly losing our minds however we're really excited to be bringing this show to you that's fucked mate i'm not james is really losing his mind i've had it man oh mate all right well can i talk about my reco first or do you want to go because this show is all about recommendations for things to watch read listen to and that's all we're bloody doing at the moment other than looking after two children

that's right exactly What have you got? Well, we've got some suggestions from people who wrote in to be like, hey, check it out. These are some things that they like to do to keep things positive, keep things upbeat. This is a global pandemic. No, I'm just saying. I'm saving that for a bit later is what I'm saying.

Oh, okay. Yes, yes, yes. They're coming. But I haven't prepared them. There's nothing but professional in this joint. Exactly. You're just throwing the chaos out there, mate. No, no, I find it's good up the top of the show to be like,

hey, here's what's coming. Get ready. I like to surprise people. I like to jump out from behind bushes. Not that I flash anybody. Good Lord. Get your minds out of the gutter, people. Nobody said that.

You said that. I'm not flashing my patootie to anybody but you. And not often. Let me tell you. Sorry, that was a terrible joke. Sorry to our children in the future. I know. Can I start?

Sure. All right, cool. So this week I'm really excited to talk about a documentary film about the Australian comedian Fiona O'Loughlin, produced by none other than our friend of the pod, Sammy Peterson. Great guy. Lovely man. I'm trying to line up to go on his podcast, but lockdown.

It's a little tricky with his lockdown. He does a podcast called Confession of the Idiots, which I've been on, which is a whole lot of fun where he goes online and reads Reddit forums and finds people confessing things and terrible things that have happened to them. Yeah, I know. And then two people or comedians chat about it. It's a real fun time and I really like it. You can tap into them. Yeah, I know. And then two people or comedians chat about it. It's a real fun time and I really like it. It's a good show.

Anyway, he's produced this very excellent documentary called Lady O'Loughlin. It's currently on SBS if you're in Australia or if you're using a VPN, you'll be able to access it for free. So true. But I'm pretty sure you can get it other places too. Yes. It is on SBS for free currently on the SBS app. Fiona O'Loughlin, if you don't know her is an Australian comedian she's been around for a long time she her shtick

was that she's a mum from Alice Springs she does a lot of kind of jokes about being a mum of five kids and kind of hating it and uh she's hilarious she kind of kind of burst in on the scene. I think around 40. So she'd lived in our streams for a long time. She's like a larger-than-life character but hadn't really done a lot of stand-up. And then you kind of see interviews at the beginning of this documentary where they talk to a lot of very well-known Melbourne comedians like Will Anderson, Denise Scott, who's one of my favourites. Oh, she's great.

Yeah, and also Michelle Lurie. And they talk about how they heard tell of this fantastic comedian that was coming up from Alice Springs and she kind of exploded onto the Australian comedy scene. She said that she'd always been watching the Melbourne Comedy Festival and felt sick in her guts that she wasn't actually on it. Yeah. I remember her saying that like years ago,

like that was the thing that got her motivated. Yeah. She's like, I have to do this. Yeah, exactly. And that's kind of fantastic. So she has this sort of whole backstory that I didn't realise that she struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction. So the documentary kind of starts in 2016 and follows her life story from there

and Sammy's a really good friend of hers. So it's just lots of candid conversations with her and people who know her and her kids. And it just takes a few quite surprising turns, one in which she ends up in a coma and then it kind of tracks her comeback from that and she ends up winning this sort of massive celebrity show I'm a celebrity get me out of here where she has to go to Africa in 2018 with a whole lot of other celebrities and she ends up winning and it's a it's sort of like a voted by the public thing

so yeah she kind of pulls her career back from not having done Senate for two years so it's just it's really funny it's well edited it's very candid it's a really interesting look at the comedy scene will anderson's interviewed and he says some really interesting things about how if you're you know you told me this i was like that is interesting yeah he said that if you're someone who is charming as f then you are going to be given a lot of rope to drink if you're you know a big drinker and a bigier, whereas if you're really annoying when you're drunk, then people are going to step in a lot earlier. Yeah, whereas if you're really charming, people give you a lot of leeway,

which I thought was a really interesting thing to say. And he also had some interesting things to say about people who get into comedy in the first place and why they keep doing it. Right. And also the damage that can be caused by constantly, and Hannah Gadsby talked about this too in her show, Nanette. The idea of constantly getting up and just bearing all your flaws and constantly making fun of yourself can actually do a lot of harm

to you as a person. And Will was sort of entering into that discussion. So it's just a really interesting – That's why you've got to do it like Kevin Hart. You get up and you're like, I'm the greatest, I'm the funniest man in the world. Isn't that your shtick? Yeah, that's me. it's just a really interesting. That's why you've got to do it like Kevin Hart. You get up and you're like, I'm the greatest, I'm the funniest man in the world. Isn't that your shtick? Yeah, that's me.

That's your way of going. Can't you tell from my rock, I was going to say rock hard confidence. Rock hard abs. Yeah. Yeah, who knows? We had fish and chips for dinner. Mate, I'm blown out. Things have really escalated.

One of our beautiful friends delivered this amazing box of like homemade cupcakes and biscuits and chocolate. And we were so grateful. And then also, oh, God, I ate like half a tray of chocolates today. It's real bad. Anyway, we just had a bad day, I think, today. I don't know if anyone else is in lockdown or coping with all this, but some days are bad.

Yeah. And some days are okay. It's weird. Like today, I feel like a rat cooped up in a little maze, you know, just like running on a little wheel. But other days I'm quite resigned to it and quite, you know, I think part of it is I haven't left the house today. Yeah. I was surprised because when I went to take the bins out tonight and I went, I went to unlock the door, I had to unlock the door and I'm like, Claire hasn't been outside today. Oh my God. Cause normally I go for a nice walk and I get out door. I had to unlock the door and I'm like, Claire hasn't been outside today. Oh, my God.

I know because normally I go for a nice walk and I get out there. I even just sometimes sit in the veranda but not today. Not today. Probably why I've had a bad day. Anyway, tomorrow is a new day. So I would highly recommend watching Lady O'Loughlin if you've got some time as we often seem to have at the moment. Okay, over to you, Sonny Jim.

What have I got? Well, this is a movie you can actually get on streaming services. A movie? Get out of town. It's called An American Pickle by Brandon Trost. He is the director. I really like that title. Well, you're going to love this then.

It stars Seth Rogen as a Jewish immigrant who gets preserved in a vat of pickles and wakes up in modern-day New York City. He attempts to fit in with the assistance of his last remaining descendant, who is also played by Seth Rogen. So a man falls into a vat of pickles, wakes up a hundred years later. I feel like pickles wouldn't do that. Well, that's the thing. Are they magic pickles? No, no, you have to just go with it. They're like really hand wave away. They're like, how can a man be perfectly preserved in pickles? And they're like, well, there's actually a rational explanation. And then you don't hear

the explanation. Everyone's like, oh, okay. And you just have to ignore that. All right. So you just have to accept the premise is totally flawed from the start. So it's got these like crazy, like it's a Seth Rogen comedy. So it's got these, like it holds a mirror to the crazy elements of modern society and like app development, social media and hipsters and cancel culture.

And all in all, it's fine. Like it's funny-ish. It's saying some things some of the times, but I liked it. It was like, yeah, this is all right. All right. What's it called? It's called An American Pickle. An American Pickle and you find it on?

HBO. Where did I VPN it through? HBO, I think I got it through. I can't remember. All right. But it's on there. It's on there. So it was supposed to go to cinemas, I believe, and it ended up not.

But Seth Rogen puts in two really good performances as like this Jewish guy from like 100 years ago and he's got these older sensibilities and he's quite racist and backwards obviously, so he's always getting into hot water for like violating health codes and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and outdated, you know, understandings of things and things like that. So, yeah. All right.

Again, it's, yeah. I like Seth Rogen. Yeah, he's great. Honestly, he's really good at it. And, again, it's the thing of like he's playing two people and one of them is like a version of him, you know. Which is pretty much most of the people he plays in movies. Not always, but yeah, but I think why not?

You know, he's good at it and he's charming. Yeah, that is the thing with Seth Rogen. He's got a thing which a lot of funny men have where he's very charismatic and not particularly good looking but can pull the ladies because he's got the it factor. He's been married for like 10 years maybe. He's been married quite a while. I don't know.

Who he's married to? I don't know. Nothing about Seth Rogen's life. He recently said that he would never do a sequel to Superbad. He was like, oh. He's like, it's one of those things that. Is that something people are sad about? Yeah.

Because have you seen Superbad? Yeah. It's hilarious. But because like even like kids come up to it now and they're like, oh, my God, I love that movie and that movie is like 14, 15 years old or whatever it is, you know, but it still resonates with people and it's like I don't want to ever touch that movie.

Yeah, I think that's wise. I think if something is so iconic it's very hard to make, you know, a sequel that will stand up and in some ways it takes away from it. It's such a good movie too. It's really funny. I think I sometimes respect TV shows for that reason too, who finish when they should and they don't go on for like a thousand episodes and kind of destroy themselves.

Are you talking about that one with Claire Danes and she's like, where's all the terrorism? Oh, Homecoming. Where is it? I quite enjoyed the first few seasons of that. I'm talking about like Grey's Anatomy as well. Still going. That's really.

People are loving Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, I know. It's weird. I think maybe it is. I don't know. I feel like I've really got into it maybe 10 years ago. Yeah. And then I don't know now.

I bet it still rates amazingly. Let me check. I bet it does. I'm sure it does. I don't know. I just feel like it's been going for a very long time. It has. It's been going since like 2005.

Yeah, correct. Exactly. Kind of launched Katherine Heigl's career. It did. Speaking of Seth Rogen, yeah. Correct. Exactly. And relaunched Patrick Dempsey.

Ooh, with the hair. Yeah. Remember when that was a massive thing? And there was the hot, hot. McSteamy and McDreamy. Oh, McSteamy and McDreamy. So ABC has the best ratings In Thursday night prime With Grey's Anatomy leading the alphabets

By 0.9 in viewers Between 18 and 49 Per the Nielsen Overnights And a 5 share I don't know how to say any of this That's boring snoring but there we go Alright so watch American Pickle Can I go now?

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look it's in vogue it's a september issue of vogue the reason i'm recommending this is because it's just a bloody lovely oh wait i saw wait, I saw this open on your computer. Is this the one about the conscious uncoupling? Because I opened your computer and that was there and I'm like, what's going on here? Wait a minute. I have something to tell you. I'm using this podcast as a medium to consciously uncouple.

There was a part of me that was like, oh. Oh, really? Like a small part. No, I was oh, really? Like a small part. No, I was reading this because I love Gwyneth Paltrow. And also I don't think you'd bring it up on this. But I think if people are going to split, I think it's like, because I skimmed it. Yeah, anyway, go on.

But yeah. Yeah, so Gwyneth Paltrow looks back on a separation revolution. So she is written from her perspective. It's written quite beautifully. The opening paragraph is all about how her and her then husband, Chris Martin, who they had kids together, we know were drinking Barolo while the last leaves fell from the trees in like Tuscany or somewhere at a lovely, cosy, romantic spot,

and she knew that her marriage was over. Anyway, and then it goes on from there. I hate Chris Martin, she said. Gwyneth talks a lot about how she is the kind of instigator for a lot of cultural revolution, you know, particularly around wellbeing and health, things to do with like yoga practices and free radicals and, you know, eating things with less chemicals and organic food and, you know, all the things and vagina eggs.

Yeah, there's a bunch of bullshit in that website. All that stuff. Anyway, and she runs her company called Goop, sort of based around sort of high-end wellness. Anyway, I really enjoy her Netflix show. Shit for really rich white women essentially. Yeah, you know what though? I will say she cops a lot of shit, right?

She should. Yeah, but then I also, like her Netflix show, women essentially yeah you know what though i will say she cops a lot of shit right as she should yeah but then i also like her netflix show when they look they talked about vaginas and she's a whole episode on it and i really no one of the things that i've been looking at a lot recently after i watched mrs america as well which i wanted to talk about which stars kate blanchett and rose burn and one of the reasons i wanted to talk about that on another podcast, but Mrs. America looks at a lot of women's issues and the history of women and I've been doing a lot of reading about that kind of stuff. My understanding is that women have been around nearly as long as men.

Is that correct? I think so. Maybe they have. If you do the math on it. Maybe. Interesting. Anyway, I do like the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow brings vaginas into the forefront because I feel like we have been doing dick jokes

and talking about dicks and penises and all those things for a very long time. If you look at comedy, if you look at slapstick family primetime shows, chances are there's going to be some dick and ball jokes in there somewhere, right? Yeah. Even implied. It is very rare and maybe it's changing but it's very rare for vaginas to be

made fun of in the same kind of way it's time to bring vaginas into the light no well i just think it's it's indicative of a larger problem right and i want to just talk to you about this i know you're going to get all squeamish too but i've been listening to what am i gonna anyway i like the fact that gwyneth i've been never childbirth claire yeah i know Anyway, I like the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow is pushing. I've been there for childbirth, Claire. Yeah, I know. But I just like the fact that she's pushing the envelope a bit around talking about women's bodies and women's issues in different ways. Some of it obviously is too woo-woo and extreme and also no one has,

you know, $500 to spend on a jaydeg to like pop up your vajaj. Yeah. But, you know, still. For no reason. I know. It kind of links into a podcast that I also wanted to recommend, which is getting me through at the moment called Ladies We Need to Talk. Ooh.

Ooh. And it's just really about women, really, and for women. It's hosted by Yumi Steins, who's a really excellent presenter in Australia. I really enjoy her content too. It's produced by the ABC and they really just deep dive into women's issues, stuff that is kind of taboo to talk about, I guess. So things like the mental load for women, which is all the stuff that we keep in our heads all of the time or workload or I don't know, childbirth. They look at vaginas and just the anatomy of all of that. I keep saying that word,

but I'm shocking it out of people. And the other thing that like the most recent episode they talked about was the clitoris, James. Yes. Yes. And you were like, we shouldn't be talking about that. Well. No, I'm not. You put me like, I bet you're like gross.

I bet you're like, I don't give a shit. Talk about whatever you want. All right. So this is something that I got really passionate about, kind of linked in. I would recommend that Gwyneth Paltrow article just to read. This is not about the clitoris. But Ladies Needed to Talk does a whole episode on this. What I thought was mind blowing was that up until 1998, no one had mapped it. No one actually knew

what the clitoris looked like. And one of the reasons that a woman called, and she's Australian, Dr. Helen O'Connell wrote a book called The Anatomy of Sex, was that she was worried that women during childbirth and things were often coming up a cropper because, or during surgeries, because no one understood the clitoris or knew what it looked like or how it functioned in terms of nerve endings, pleasure for women during sex could be damaged and no one knew why or how. Whereas for men, that has been mapped for centuries. Yes. And in men's procedures, it was a big thing for them to make sure they didn't damage anything that would affect men's ability

to enjoy sex. Like that was something that was just already done all of the time. Right? Whereas for women, no, it wasn't. Was that the dog? It scared the shit out of me. Oh, no. Anyway, and so this episode is called Clitoris 101, really.

Ladies, we need to talk. It's the most recent episode. And I just found it so interesting. She tells you to go and Google an image of it, and I didn't ever even know what it looked like. It looks kind of like a wishbone from a chicken or like a little penguin. You're talking about the internal working force. Yeah, the internal muscle, like everything,

the nerve endings look so different to what I assume. So if you are really, you know, interested and also I think probably we all should be, right, because it's just another part of the body. Go and Google it. It might just blow your mind as to actually what it looks like, because it's actually a lot bigger than you would think it would be. That's right. It's as big as a ham. It is. It's a ham. It is an internal ham. Anyway, I just thought that was really interesting and also kind of made me angry and blew my mind that it wasn't mapped until 1998. Yes. I know, this incredible woman called Dr. Helen O'Connell.

So there you go. Do yourself a favour. Go and Google that. And I just, I don't know. That's why I think Gwyneth Paltrow, as much as there's a lot that, you know, you can say about her, I also like the fact that she's pushing that agenda because I think, why the hell not? It's bloody 2020.

Women should have that equal amount of kind of power and knowledge. That's right. Women can look at as many pictures of vaginas as they want. Well, no, I just think it's not something that's been explored. Yeah, fair enough. Or not until very recently. It is crazy that 1998 was like crazy. Yeah, think about the history of medicine.

Like up until then, no one actually knew what a part of the female anatomy looked like. And it's not like it's a hidden, it's not like an organ that no one knew about. It's right there. And so Dr. Helen said when she started to map it using cadavers, she was shocked. Like she really, because she thought it was just a little button.

Just as big as a ham. It's long though. It's quite large. And actually it starts, like it looks quite like a penis, right? So, you know, it does, which I know is going to freak a lot of people out, but apparently they start off as the same cells. Yeah, in the womb, yeah. Yeah, in the womb and then they split off.

So they come from the exact same bunch of cells. Yes, that's why you can't tell for like a very, very early and for a kid you can't tell for like until the next number of months. Anyway, blew me away. So there you go. The more you know. The more you know. Anyway, I just thought.

Thanks, Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, thanks, Gwyneth Paltrow. I've just shocked everybody. Allow me to bring all the men back to this podcast now. Hey, I think I'm doing everybody, men and women and non-binary, anyone, whoever you are. I think I'm doing people a favor. You're a real Gwyn anyone, whoever you are, I think I'm doing people a favour. You're a real Gwyneth Paltrow.

I'm a real cultural shaker and mover. Everybody should try this game. It's called Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout. You just banged on about the clitoris for 40 minutes. Oh, is this the video game that you made me sit through? Yes, because I needed you to understand it. Okay, can I explain it to you? It's by Mediatonic. Sure, you can explain it to me. Okay. I mean, I know it, so I don you to understand it. So basically. Okay, can I explain it to you? It's by Mediatonic. Sure, you can explain it to me.

Okay. I mean, I know it, so I don't know why you would, but go on. Well, it's a little boogly, woogly man that kind of looks like a jelly bean and you bump around in this colorful world and throw people off and sort of play and that's it. Yes, actually. So it's a multiplayer game. It's free if you've got PlayStation Plus, but you can get other places

you can buy it. So it's up to 60 players in an arena and it's a multiplayer game. It's free if you've got PlayStation Plus, but you can get other places you can buy it. So it's up to 60 players in an arena, and it's a series of mini games until there's – dog, are you in or out? God damn it. Yes, dog. Tell us. Are you in or out? 60 people, and it's one person survives.

So it's a series of mini games, and you go until you get wiped out. So it's kind of like the TV show Wipeout or It's a Knockout or The Floor is Lava or American Ninja. It's like a blend of those things. And you're little oogly boogly people and you're like a chubby little bumbling fellow. And it's either like a mad dash for the finish line or like you have to grab it and grab like a tail and hold on to a tail. Or it's an obstacle course or you get to like gather a bunch of eggs for your team or there's like a little soccer game i can see you like tune it completely out the thing about it is it's brutal and it's incredibly frustrating but

also really rewarding when you do when you do win when you pull something off and my favorite thing in the game is you can grab up grab other people so i just annoy other people like i wait till they're in like their moment to shine or they think that they're safe and then I like shove them off the edge or something like that. So my favourite part of the game. It's true, listeners. I watched you do it.

He made me watch where people were concentrating on a memory game and he was the only one doing it, by the way. He would just suddenly run at them in his little ibbly boogly pink suit and throw them off the edge and you're madly laughing at like an evil for no reason. It's a memory game where you've got to pick a tile because there's a screen and it tells you which tiles are safe because the other ones disappear. And while everyone's concentrating on the screen,

I'm running around the arena throwing people off the edge because once you're out, you're out. But also I've never won because it's 60 people. Yeah, that's really karma right there. No, it's fine. And I've never – I haven't been able to play it enough obviously, but I found it a really good stress relief and also incredibly infuriating at the same time.

It's a weird mix. But just the fun of like messing with other people is my favourite thing in that game. Yeah. But then someone does it to you, you're like, ooh. Is this because you can't do this in real life anymore? No, you can, but not on the scale. You can't like throw people off a cliff.

Because I don't know if anyone, they know this about you, that you love a prank. I do love a prank. You bloody love a prank. You love messing with people. And you don't do it to me anymore. You really don't. Don't I?

For many years of our relationship, you used't do it to me anymore i really don't but for many years of our relationship you used to just mess with me not in a mean way just in like an annoying way i like to think i'm still annoying yeah i mean i'm not saying you're not still annoying i'm just saying you're not on purpose annoying every now and then though you are like you're so annoying and i'm like yeah still got it yeah like a peanut like a mr, my God. Can you explain to everyone what has happened to Mr. Peanut? Okay. So I was on Twitter the other day, twitter.com. What do you mean the other day?

It was last night. I mean by the time this goes out or whatever. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. On Twitter the other day. And what happened was I saw this like viral marketing campaign from the Planters Mr. Peanut company. I don't know if you remember,

but Mr. Peanut was killed at the start of the year, right, in a viral marketing, a forced viral marketing campaign from the Planters Mr. Peanut company. I don't know if you remember, but Mr. Peanut was killed at the start of the year, right, in a forced viral marketing campaign, and then they brought him back as Baby Nut. It's like Baby Yoda. He's a cartoon peanut. A cartoon peanut. And then also I think the weekend he died was the same weekend that Kobe Bryant died, so it kind of stepped

on their whole marketing campaign as well. So now they're like, Mr. Peanut's back and he's 21 and he can drink. And I'm like, no. I'm just like something in me. Look, I do find it incredibly funny, but something in me was just like, fuck this. No, I will not stand for it.

So I just went on this little bit of a tirade with the hashtag block Mr. Peanut so everybody would get behind like blocking this brand to stop with their like branding bullshit right but what ended up happening is it went like a little bit viral like it started to take off beyond like there's a few articles that got written up in like Business Insider and some other some other websites some other minor websites talking about this how this campaign that they're running is like slightly backfired on them. So, look, if anything, I'll probably help them. But it was just this moment of like not the time.

You know what I mean? Like I'm just like I'm not having this. I'm not having this in my feed and I just don't want to see any of this shit. So, like it's a joke, but at the same time, I'm also like obviously hurting in other ways i'm taking it out yeah i saw a couple of tweets that were like uh james are you okay yeah no i'm not obviously obviously i'm not yeah we're really not okay today's been one of those weird days i think it started with you what me waking you up and you saying, Claire, I've made Mr. Peanut go viral.

And it's just gone downhill from there. Yeah, it's good fun, man. Get on board with blocking Mr. Peanut if you can, but you don't have to. I think it's hit its peak. It's on the way down. I don't want to force it. This thing is now out in the universe. But there was like a time last night when I started it,

it was like every few seconds there was like a tweet about it. So it got a fair bit of traction. And then there was the people who, completely unrelated to me, were just like, yeah, fuck this guy. And I'm like, exactly. This is what I want to see. So it has to take a life of its own. But I feel like it's done.

You and me have very different ways of belief about the universe. You should see this peanut, though. I did. I looked it up. Yeah, but also if you watch the viral ad, he holds up his license. He's like, I'm 21 now. And it says he's like 5'4 or whatever. And I'm like, what do you mean he's 5'4?

He's a peanut. What are we talking about here? I'm not having it. At least keep consistency in your world building. Anyway. Also, peanuts are all the same. Is this really because he's stolen? He's a more famous mister than you?

You know how he's your mister some of the movies? I guess he is, yeah. But like that honestly, that doesn't, that has not. You've been trying to take him down. Will you be taking down the mister men series after this? There are a million people more famous than I am. Who else has mister? Well, obviously.

Mister Echo from Lost. Most blokes anyway or people use the mister as a, you know, whatever that thing is that you say. I can't think. It's too late for me. It is too late. Anyway, we've got some things that people have sent in, haven't they? Nice things that they do for good fun times.

For good fun times. To keep themselves from attacking peanut companies. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, exactly. Look, a lot of people, which is so lovely, have just been recommending listening to our podcast to their friends. Which I really, really bloody appreciate it. We know that though because we already do that one.

We do it. I can't listen to this because I'm in it. Yeah, I know, exactly. I mean, like maybe we wouldn't be going so crazy if we had another podcast to listen to with such excellent fans. Good point. Anyway, so I'll just say some things that people have recommended. A lovely man named Wesley has recommended hopping on your bike and going for a ride.

Yeah. I really appreciate that. We've been looking at getting a bike, haven't we? As in like an exercise bike. Yeah, we? As in like an exercise bike. Yeah, we have. But like a regular bike. I've got a regular bike with a basket on the back actually. It's one of those old timey bikes.

I need to get out and use it. I have to pump up the tires. Yeah, right. Exercise is a massive thing though. Totally. Isn't that? That's kind of the only way to get through it. And it's clearly like.

Yeah, it's taken a real toll. Yeah. I reckon. But then getting back in, I was like. Yeah, it's taken a real toll. Yeah. I reckon. But then getting back in, I was like, oh, there's actually a group. It's a great mates, healthy mates group, which is really good, which I'm a part of. Oh, cool. Bad exercise and motivation and fitness and food.

And people post pictures like, look, I've lost this much weight. Oh, look, I've done this deadlift or whatever. It's really cool. Oh, that's so awesome. See, people are great. People are great. People are great. People are great. There's also, and I wanted to read this from Devesh Sud.

Devesh Sud. Sorry, Devesh. Hey, guys. As a big fan of The Week Planet, I was shocked to be introduced to an even more funny couple and a more successful podcast. Yeah, wait. With no exams, I had very little to keep me sane, so the pod has been a great way to remember what day it actually is.

If I may, I'd like to recommend Blinded by the Light, the film but also the book. The film, same director as Bend It Like Beckham, is set in the 80s Britain and focuses on a brown teenager who is entranced by Bruce Springsteen. I bloody love Bruce Springsteen. He's the boss. He is. And so great live while dealing with the struggles of family

and race relations at the time. As a brown kid living in a similar town with similar tastes and with the protests over the last few months, I felt it's important to share individual personal stories like these. Seeing this film The Cinnamon with my dad was a rare experience and one that I can never forget. Thanks for helping me not go absolutely nuts throughout lockdown and keep up the good work. Devesh. Thank you Devesh. That's a lovely email. I know. And I remember seeing the shorts for this and I never got around to watching it.

No, me neither. I'm really excited to see it because I bloody love Bruce. What was the exact title and name? Blinded by the Light. It's a film but also a book. I didn't realise. Apparently it's good. Yeah.

Well, I really enjoyed Bender Light Beckham as well. I thought that was real good. Yes, that was about soccer. Yes, it was about soccer yes it was about soccer it was all right what are we uh what's next my god no your turn no no you had collected these i didn't collect any of them no i didn't collect many i just collected the one about bike riding that's it yeah that's all have. This is the end of the show. No, reviews. Oh, yeah, reviews.

Oh, God, we've really dropped the ball on this one. Hey, man, you can review this show. Why would you? But you can. If you go to, you can do it in-app. Give it a five stars if you want. Obviously, you don't have to. It's from Jonathan Berko. He says, the adventure.

Oh, no, that's from. I've done the wrong one again. Oh, my God. He did that. This is, we've really dropped the ball. I'm so sorry, guys. I copied over everything. I'm like. I've done the wrong one again. Oh, my God. You did that. This is, we've really dropped the ball. I'm so sorry, guys. I copied it over and everything. I'm like, I'm all over this.

Don't worry, I've got my computer on open. Here we go. This one is, just a good time with a happy couple. So I recently signed up for BigSandwich.co and decided to finally give the podcast a whirl. And I'm really glad I did. I'm now, I'm making my way back through the older episodes. Whether they're talking about suggestions for the week, talking about death and what it means, or just plain poking fun at each other.

Listening to James and Claire is like spending time with a couple of friends who just happen to love one another. Highly recommend. Five stars. Thank you, JFrocks2002. Thanks, mate. Yeah. That's so lovely.

Okay, James, before we go, what are you actually doing other than exercise to help you stay sane during this time? I don't know, man. I'm just getting through. There's a few kind of projects that I want to work on but I'm like I don't have like the motivational time to do it. I don't know.

I'm just day to day, man, just day to goddamn day. Well, I'll list some things that we're doing. Today's a bad day for James particularly. But let me'll list some things that we're doing. Today's a bad day for James particularly. But let me list out some things that we are currently doing as a family. You know what? I'm tired from starting a viral sensation. Genuinely. Like my heart was like thumping after I was doing it because I was like watching it all

roll in. I'm like, I don't know if you heard me, but I got into bed and next to me, I was just going, just like laughing at myself. Is that what you were laughing at? Because I was so bloody tired and I look over and you're like, and I said something like, go to bloody sleep. It's one o'clock in the morning. And I was like, oh my God.

Okay, so a couple of things. These are all very obvious, but they're simple. And I think that's the best thing. A bit of dancing, putting some music on and I'm doing some dancing with my son. I know it's not for you. It's for people who aren't giant sad sacks. Well, they're right, Eddie. Everybody's like me.

Or Eeyores. You're an Eeyore. Thank you. I'm a piglet. Yeah. Usually. Today I'm not so piglet-y, but usually I'm a piglet. Anyway, so dancing.

I love it. Bruce Springsteen is actually one of my faves to get a boogie on. But there's loads on Spotify of just like really great dance. That's true. If you go on Spotify, there's literally every song ever. What a great recommendation. No, I just mean like you're so bloody annoying. I'm still annoying.

You still got it. It's so freaking annoying. You're the worst. Okay, so there's a couple of playlists I've been listening to that have really got me going on the old spot of foos okay one of which is called even flow which has kind of like fun uplifting songs on it and it's really nice and i'm enjoying it that's really fun i love this so the song even flow you've remembered that song no okay you guys don't know this but hairdressers are currently shut in melbourne you don't like pearl jam his gray hair's been like flooping around everywhere

yeah you don't like pearl jam you don't like the song Even Flow by Pearl Jam? Yeah, okay. Well, no, I'm not going to be dancing to that. I'll be dancing to September by Earth, Wind and Fire, one of my favourite tracks. Okay, yes. I wish you could see his face right now. Anyway.

It's got a real rattle to it. I don't know what's going on. My speaker's got a bit of a teeny squeak to it. I don't know, maybe it's tired from your viral campaign that you've been tweeting about. Probably. It's probably burnt out from, yeah, from such viral success. It's the genius that you're funneling into it every bloody day. I had a friend message me today and he was like, what the fuck are you doing?

What do you mean? Who messaged you that? About the peanut thing. As in like, are you a, was it an are you okay? No, it was more like, what the fuck's wrong with you? That's how I feel. Well, at least I'm not alone. That's good.

Okay, anyway, that's what I've been doing. Exercise has been a biggie. Getting out for walks, cooking pancakes and currently creating knock-knock jokes with our four-year-old. That's right. He's loving it and he'll tell you if it's not a good joke. He will tell you. He delivered one today that was – he bloody nailed it.

He nailed that. What was that? I can't even remember. And to be fair, the key to a knock-knock joke, it doesn't necessarily have to make sense at all. The delivery. Yes. It's all about the delivery.

It was not even funny. It wasn't, but it was good. It was a laugh. It was about chips. I can't remember. It was chicken chip. That's right. It was like knock-knock.

Who's there? Who's there? Chicken. Chicken chip. Okay, let's do my favourite one and then we'll finish the show. Okay. Knock-knock. Who and then we'll finish the show. Okay. Knock, knock. Who's there?

Interrupting cow. Moo! Moo! You tell that joke like multiple times a day and you still... So good. We've even got into. What about my variation on it? All right, here it goes.

Knock, knock. Who's there? Interrupting shoe. Interrupting shoe. You can't see it, but as she's asking, I put my foot up in the air. With his shoe on. Obviously you have to have a shoe on or it doesn't make any sense. Okay.

All right. Should we finish? Okay. I want to do one more variation. All right. Knock, knock. What? What?

What? Who's there? Interrupting fish. Interrupting fish. That's not an improvement on the shoe. Will I hear that? I don't know, Claire. In audio.

Did you hear my fish? Knock, knock. Who's there? Even. Even who? That's how you end a show. Been doing this since 2013. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

All right, we'll see you guys later. See you. Bye. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network. Visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates. I mean, if you want. It's up to you. Hi, this is Katnett Unfiltered.

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