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Episode Date: June 18, 2020

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We're back. We're here. We didn't really take a break because it's been non-stop, hasn't it, Claire? It's been a wild ride. We've taken a break from this particular podcast. We do. We have a four-week-old little girl which has been an adventure and a ride. But if you thought that we weren't going to be back with the hottest content going around. You would be correct.

I haven't watched it. I'm looking at this and I'm like, this stuff's like old. Yeah, I know. I actually did make some notes. Actually, no, I've got some relevant suggestions. Oh, wow. You sound very cool, like a cool young mum. I'm still with it.

I like rap music. I don't really know what day it is or what time it is, but I'm still here. Yeah, sure. I'm still living my life. Anyway, I'm Claire. You're James. Did I already say this? We're married.

We recommend stuff to watch, read and listen to. And, mate, have we not needed – is there not a time to put sentences in words? What day is it? Now more than ever, we must put sentences in words. What day is it? Now more than ever we must put sentences in words. Oh, God. Shout out to any new parents out there because on top of global pandemic impending climate crisis and now rioting in the US. And protests.

And protests. Just a whole lot of things that are happening that are super important and in a way indicative of change and good and baby sneezing over there. A shout out to new parents because, wow, never has there been a time to be a parent than now. What? I'm sorry. So she sneezed her dummy out.

Anyway, we've got some recommendations just up top from some people, some voices that you might want to listen to. Yeah. Because James and I were talking about just all of this because our little baby girl had a little bit of an episode and we've been in hospital with her for a couple of days. So I missed a lot of what was happening in the news. And you came in and mentioned to me some things that were happening.

I was like, the world's on fire. Didn't you hear, Claire? Yeah. And you're like, what? And I was like, well, yeah't you hear, Claire? Yeah. And you're like, what? And I was like, well, yeah, I already knew that, James. And you were like, no. No, it's a different fire. It's water.

I mean, it's a different fire from the literal fire at the start of the year and then we had a medical fire, like metaphorically. And it's sort of, I mean, there's some fires in this new thing as well, but it's not fire-based. It's more race-based, if anything. Yes, correct. Exactly. And so then I kind of deep deep dived into the issues that are

happening um in the US at the moment and globally wow and I think as two privileged white people who live in Australia I feel like ours are not the voices and I said this to you too that need to be heard now I want we want to stand in solidarity with the black community and with Black Lives Matter movement and everything that's happening. But I also think there's a movement called hashtag Amplify Melanated Voices created by at Black Embodied and at JessicaWilson.msrd. And to me that makes sense because this is not our story to tell. No.

And so we both decided that we wanted to share and elevate voices who are authorities in this case. And the biggest thing we wanted to do is encourage people to listen. Yes. Right? Not more minor like authorities on anything. It's like there's a couple of you are like, this is just a fun person you should follow as well.

Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, I don't think it's a – Or like a variation on – Yeah, I think it's just about listening to each other and listening to communities that are different from ours who have different experiences. Totally. And creatives as well. I think that's what it comes down to as well in general. If you don't mind me speaking, Claire, on behalf of the whole community. No, I think it's about, it's listening. People feel like they're not being listened to. And gosh, the history of this, it obviously began in the US with George Floyd, but it's

got huge implications in our Australian culture as well and within our Indigenous people. And it goes back hundreds of years, thousands of years. Yeah. And we've worked in Indigenous communities as well. So in that, we are encouraging you and we are as well trying to educate ourselves. We're trying to listen. We're trying to watch and look at things by creators of people of colour and of different communities who have perspectives that are heartbreaking

and I think in some cases shocking and make you think very differently when the world is set up for us because the world at the moment is set up for white people really. I'm loving it. Yeah, you would, you white little over there with your white man. Anyway, all I wanted to say was we're very sleep deprived. We're not expected on this at all. And here are some people.

I'd encourage you to follow this incredible advocate called Latasha Morrison. She's a writer and an advocate and you can follow her on Instagram. Yes. And you have got some people too. I do. Let's just go. Should we go back and forth?

Yeah, yeah. So Nakia Louie is a writer, a leader, comedian, an actor. She's a black comedy show on the ABC Australia. It's like a sketch show that's really good. It's brilliant and super funny. Now you go. Now I go. I'd say Lizzo.

Follow Lizzo. She recently just did a really great – I know she's not an advocate per se. No, I'm not saying. I'm just like she's got a following already, Claire. I know, but she just released this awesome video just about voting because in the US at the moment there's some really important voting happening. Voting anywhere. Yeah, exactly.

So make your voice count. Briggs is an Australian rapper, actor. He also writes on Disenchantment, which is a show I very much enjoyed. It was another show from the creators of The Simpsons. But also I think it was Tonightly or The Weekly was one of those as well. So, yeah. Who else, Claire? Oh, I have also got Amanda A.S.C.

Gorman. So I would follow her. She's an inaugural youth poet and laureate of the U.S. And she is studying at Harvard as well and just has some really interesting perspectives on what it's like to be a black woman in America. Terrific. I'm going to say Danielle Radford. She works over at Screen Junkies, which is now called Fandom.

She's a writer on Honest Trailers and a presenter and comedian there as well. You go again as well. I'm going to say Tabitha Brown. This is someone I found on Twitter. Oh, I love her. She's on my list too. Yeah, she just had the story that she told. She told us about her dad with all those rings and tells her a joke

and that's kind of how when I started following her and she's had some really positive and kind of calming messages during this time, which is I think she's great. She's terrific. Yeah, she is. My last one is at Austin Channing. She's a writer, speaker for Black Womanhood. She's author of a book called I'm Still Here, Black Dignity

and a World Made for Whiteness. So I'd encourage you to follow her too. That's right. I've got Jeff right now who, as I mentioned on my Twitter, he's got this incredibly funny video about alien invasions. Oh, I love that so much. It's so funny. It's so great.

I watch it like every day. It's so genuinely. Yeah, because that's the thing, right? It's so funny. He did one actually also about a guy heading off to one of the protests. Did you see that on his Twitter account? It's really funny. Okay, cool.

And the last one is Sammy Shah who's an Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter. He's got a podcast called – or he had a podcast called Shut Up, A Free Speech Investigation, which is a look into free speech and kind of the stories behind that and how – because it's not as simple as you can say whatever you want. I mean, that is free speech, but, you know. Yeah. It's not free of ramifications necessarily.

Anyways, also, please don't think this is us being like trying to guilt you or anything like that. Or talk down to you or like be patronising. And we've probably got this wrong too. But anyway, we're sending out a whole lot of love to everybody out there today and this week particularly and this year. Just give yourselves a big hug. Be kind to each other.

Try and listen to each other. Try and be compassionate. I think in general everyone means well. Social distance. Distance. Wear a mask. Yeah, exactly. Give those social hugs.

Okay, let's go to do some fun stuff. We mentioned some fun stuff in there, Claire. To cheer everybody up to their boots. Well, I've got something that's depressing and bleak and from a dystopian future because that's what we're living in, James. Yeah, well, that's not wrong. But actually, I guess this is that. I watch Space Force.

Of course you do. Which is a 10-episode Netflix series. It's created by Steve Carell and Greg Daniels of The Office, the American Office. Oh, they're actually in it. Oh, well, he is. And it's one of those things where you're like, everything about this show should work. Because if you look at the cast, it's got, as mentioned, Steve Carell, Lisa Kudrow, John Malkovich, Tawny Newsome, Ben Schwartz, Jimmy O. Yang, Diana Silvers. So

it's basically people taken from The Office, Parks and Rec, Silicon Valley, all coming together in this show, in this new comedy. And the idea is that the recently promoted general, four-star general played by Steve Carell, is put in charge of Space Force, which is, of course, the space fighting force that Donald Trump launched a year or so ago when he mentioned that, basically the army in space, which, to be honest, I don't think is a wholly unnecessary idea because I think

space is a frontier that is going. Are you telling me that not only do I have to worry about bushfires and climate change and COVID-19 and all the other things, but now we're also having to think about the aliens that are coming to invade us? No, no, this is just about exploration and resources in space and controlling technology in space like satellites and things like that so these are things that you know if you shoot down somebody else's satellites and you could wipe out their phones essentially that's what i'm saying okay all right excellent

anyways so it's about a kind of a new space race between china and america and it's set in the modern day and it's sort of political but not really. So you don't really need to go in being like, I'm going to be hammering over the head with political messages. Not really. But there is obviously an element of that because it's set kind of loosely within the current government and such. But the thing is, Claire, it's. It's what?

This. Terrible? I watched an episode and I was bored. No, this. This. Oh, it's meh. It's totally. If you're doing the meh thing. Yeah, I guess I am., this, this. Oh, it's meh. It's totally meh. If you're doing the meh, then.

Yeah, I guess I am. It's fine and, like, it's easy to watch. Yeah. As in, like, if you're looking for a distraction and something that will just kind of wash over you and it's totally fine and everyone's pretty good in it. John Malkovich is particularly great if there's a high point for me. It's him because he's really fantastic. He's a fantastic actor and also a very good comedic actor.

It turns out, though, that he's done comedy before this. But I guess also you've got to look from the lens of if you've seen the first season of The American Office and if you've seen the first season of Parks and Rec, they're not very good. So this definitely has the opportunity to – it's got all the talent on board that it could become something great down the line, but at the moment it's just like – Kind of terrible.

I wouldn't even say terrible because it's. The land. If I'd have seen this 10 years ago, I would have been like, this is kind of cutting edge and interesting. But now it's like, yeah. The world's on fire. Not even that the world's on fire. It's just the TV and comedy have kind of moved along.

Moved on. And there's like this particularly funny moments. There's a moment where they're trying to repair a satellite because it's, it's been kind of, I guess, for lack of a better term, it's had its wings clipped by a rival satellite. So what they have to do, they have to instruct a monkey that they've launched into space to go out there and repair it and they have to do that using sign language. And it's just quite a tense and funny kind of interaction and moment.

Yeah. It looks really good. I love a moment. Yeah. It looks really good. I love a monkey. Yeah. Monkeys are cool. There are moments, but it's very, you know what I mean? I know what you mean. All right.

What have you got? All right. So that was Space Force. Okay. I have got, because I'm hanging out with a new baby, so I've got a list of stuff that I've loved for using for the new baby. I know. Okay. I've got that and also a comedy baby. So I've got a list of stuff that I've loved for using for the new baby. I know. Okay.

I've got that and also a comedy special. Relax. All right. Can we just speed through this? Okay. Okay. The stuff I love for the new baby, a cocoon, a baby mattress, this mattress thing. It's so bloody good.

It does look really comfortable. It hugs her. It hugs her like she's in a womb. I wish there was a big one that I could sleep in. Yeah. James has been eyeing it off. It's just really great. I wish I'd known about it for my son.

It helps her to sleep and I love it. Also, Dr. Brown's Baby Bottles, Natural Flow. This is so interesting, isn't it? Yeah, it's really great. Start rolling your eyes. Love to dream sleep suits. It's so good. There's a brand called Comfort Mama who is this Instagrammer

who has created these dresses for pregnant women and women who have just given birth. They're just like dresses with buttons and pockets and I sent one to my friend who's having a baby sleep because they're the most bloody comfortable things in the whole world and they're so great and they cover everything and they're really soft and I love them. So I'm recommending those. I'm also recommending letting your husband crush a can of kombucha into the microphone.

With my bare hands. Is this episode not going terribly enough as it is? Dear God. No, quite frankly. Okay, excellent. Did you know I think I watered this plant the other day? Yeah. It's clearly not a real plant.

James is holding up a fake plant that I bought for the studio. It's not even close to being a real plant. Why did you actually water it? And I can't remember drinking it. I just like splashed it. I came back from the hospital and you'd forgotten to pour to my peace lily and it had completely like just drooped. It was so droopy.

And I watered it and it popped right back up. Those peace lily plants, amazing. Just a pain in the ass. All right. Okay. So. I've got enough shit to look after. Okay.

Here we go. So the fun thing. Okay. So they're the things I'm using for the baby girl moment. Bloody love them. Okay. Skip right on to something fun. We can wait for clean water solutions.

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the trailer is my favourite thing I've seen recently. Yeah, forget the rest of the show. Just watch the trailer. I mean, the show's good too, but, like, I only have a short attention span. And so just like – I watched that trailer a couple of times that made me giggle. The first episode is out.

I think they've released another one now too. There's a few. I think there's three now. Oh, yeah. There are four maybe. That's right. I've been in the baby bubble. You don't know what you're doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. Anyway, the first one is on the whole Hollywood sign, and it's so fun. It's just really fun to see podcasters actually in real life on footage. And be like, oh, they're not completely ugly. And the set's really great too. I really like it. It's really high quality production. I've been thinking about doing that for some Caravan of Garbages.

We've been thinking about doing it for the Weekly Planet for forever. We started a set. We haven't finished it. I need like a person to film it because I don't want to set it up. But also I don't want to have to bring a person here every week and like bring a we haven't finished it. Yeah, I need like a person to film it because I don't want to set it up. But also I don't want to have to bring a person here every week and like bring a third person involved in it. And I kind of bought all this stuff and thought I could do it and then I never finished setting it up for you.

Well, the important thing is that we never did it. Okay. Anyway, so that's the thing. So, yeah, I recommend going to watch that and it's really, really fun. What's another one from you there, Sunny Pop? This is a show that's been out for a while because it's in five, it's had five seasons. It's called Better Call Saul.

Oh, that's a spin-off from, what's the show? The drug dealer. The Wire. No, it's not The Wire. You know the one. Don't be annoying. No, I hate him. I hate him.

I'm telling you on this one. Bird on the Wire. No, the hate him. I hate him. I'm telling you on this one. Bird on the wire. No, the one at the end where they sing Blue Eyes and it's a bald guy with glasses and he's in his trailer and he was a regular dude and then he makes drugs and he sells the drugs. Thin blue line. He sells the drugs and everyone was like, this is the best show that's ever been. Breaking Bad.

There. Wow. I got there. You shouldn't be proud of yourself. It's like the most popular show of all time. I'm so proud of myself i got there in the end it is that's right it's a prequel to that and it stars bob odenkirk reish seahorn jonathan banks among others it's probably set eight years before i would say give

or take and you don't really need to have seen breaking bad to watch this because it definitely stands on its own but i would say if you would say if you're going to, probably watch Breaking Bad first. But it's focused on Jimmy McGill, who later becomes Saul Goodman, the lawyer that pops up in Breaking Bad. And the idea is that he's just kind of, he's this guy just trying to have a go at it. You know what I mean? He's a kind of, he's a shonky lawyer running various scams and schemes at any one time. You know, sometimes he'll lose his lawyer's license, so then he has to start selling mobile phones instead. And he's got a real knack for business and conning people.

But also he's not a completely terrible person because he won't con somebody with nothing. Does that make sense? I guess so. But he also does do really terrible things at the same time. He's not like a Walter White turned to to complete from breaking bad the show cultural reference i nailed cultural reference that's correct like he has he has good intentions a lot of the time he just makes selfish or stupid decisions and the good thing about it also is that it does

intertwine with breaking bad and some of the characters that show up again you don't need to know that it's also obviously law focused and and some of the characters that show up. Again, you don't need to know that. It's also obviously law-focused and I think there's less existential dread than there is in Breaking Bad, though there still is a little bit of that. Yeah, I stopped watching Breaking Bad and then I did finish it, but it just made me feel icky. Did you watch the new movie? What movie? There's a Breaking Bad movie that came out?

No, no. It's really good. It's set just after and it's about Jesse Pinkman, like Walter Whitey. Oh, his story. Jesse's storyline with the drug addiction made me so terribly sad. So he's on his own and it's about him escaping. And it's like two hours and it's fantastic. It's amazing.

Really? I didn't know that. It's on Netflix, yeah. Oh, he's a great character. But his storyline made me heartbroken. Yeah, well, then you should watch it because I think if you like him, then you will like it. And does it end well?

I couldn't say, Claire. I can't watch it if it doesn't end well. I can't handle endings that don't end well. Anyway, you should watch it. It'll be fine. Anyway, it's Better Call Saul. Look, it's very well regarded, but it's brilliantly shot. It's complicated but easy to follow.

The setup of things that happen, it's done in a very subtle way, but enough that you can follow it along without it hitting you over the head with it or missing things. He's also funny. He's a very funny kind of larrikin kind of character and the situations that he puts himself in or gets put in, they range from like absurd to just dire. There's one more season that's going to probably air next year depending

because everything's delayed. But, yeah, I'm recommending a show that everybody loves because I just finished it. Yeah, it's so fun. You've always been banging on about it for years and I've never had any desire to watch it. And I'd watch an episode and I was like, I never liked this character. Why do I care about this?

Because you do like the character and it's also not – I'm not saying you like the character. I'm saying you grow to like the character. And also he's – I guess for lack of a better word, which I feel like is something I say a lot, like his love interest character in it is also really great. She's a new character for this series. Ah, yeah.

And Mike from Breaking Bad comes over as well and he's really good. Sounds good. Won't watch it. Okay, my turn. You should watch it. It's great. It's all on Stan. My turn.

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oh, how are they going to do like stand-up comedy without an audience? That sounds boring. Spoiler alert, they don't. They don't. No, what they've done, what they sort of do, no, what they've done is they give cameras to comedians, like local Australian comedians, they give them, and then the comedians just do what they will with it.

It's really fun. And because of the limitations, and we talk about this a lot, that when you get limitations with creativity, actually sometimes you get better stuff because there's kind of a limit to what, like even like with resources and things. I often think that you end up with something more interesting in a way when there's like a limit. And so each comedian does something slightly different.

The first episode is hosted by a local Australian comedian called Dave Hughes and he does a comedy set for his kids, which actually is really hilarious because they don't find him funny at all and they don't get his jokes and it's kind of awkward and great. And he kind of like, you know, hides out in his bathroom and all that stuff. Will Anderson is on an episode as well. Terrific. He's really cool.

The standout for me, though, was a comedian called Zoe Coombs-Ma, who's on the second episode. And I just really enjoyed her set. It's really, really funny. She's queer. And she has a great YouTube video called Upfront 2018, where she does a stand-up set. Her jokes are just, oh, God, they're self-deprecating but really also not

and kind of celebrating her identity but not bashing you over the head with it. And she grew up in the country so she's got this like really dry. In a way the people are like, well, I don't mind gay people, but why don't they just bloody shut up about it? Yeah, but it's not like that at all. She kind of does some really funny bits about making fun of the straight girl voice. He's quite Australians, you know what I mean? Yeah.

No, not like that. I'm quiet. She has a really funny joke about straight couples, about couples who like the dude is like massive, like really fit, and the girl is like as small as she could possibly be. She describes the boyfriend, he looks like a brioche bun. No, but I was watching this couple. She's fucking tiny and he was massive.

Like he was one of those proper, like proper bodybuilder. You know when they get like so lumpy and muscled and oiled up and brown and glazed, they're like a brioche? How much do those guys look like a brioche? They look exactly like a brioche. It's crazy. Every time she looks at him, she must be like, mmm, brioche. And you know she can't eat carbs.

It's torture. Why are you doing it to yourself, Rochelle? Which I just think is so funny because he's just like brown and shiny. I know, a lot of people are like that. Like bulgy muscles. I'm not doing it justice. It's terrible to retell other people's jokes. Maybe Collins can put a bit of her upfront sketch in.

But I would highly recommend watching her because each comedian kind of does maybe like a ten-minute set. It's kind of like YouTube vlogs, I would say. Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah. I think it's weird because sometimes that doesn't translate when you give it to people who don't do that for a living because a lot of people who I do follow, like they're so good at it.

But a lot of these are really great. Yeah, yeah. I haven't seen all of them, but I don't think I've seen a bad one. No, they're really good. Tom Ballard does a really – He talks about how he had sex with a witch. Yeah, who we've talked about before because he did that really funny bit about boomers.

Yeah, he has – yeah, and he just – he's like doing his washing and just pottering around his house and all the different camera angles are really clever. Randy Feltface. Yes. He's really cool. He's a puppet. He's a puppet.

And his one is just really, really funny. And I always find it so interesting how the comedian behind it, is it Sammy J? Yes. Yeah, Sammy J is the voice of Randy Feltface. And it's just so clever how Sammy J manages to like create each setup in his house to make it look like the puppet is kind of just like going about his day like doing his like hair and having a shower

and making toast. Yeah, it's really clever. Becky Lucas does a really funny one too that's just all about bridesmaid speeches and it is really, really funny. Nikki Britton and Oliver Twist. Oh, there's just lots of them. And they just made me giggle. That's what you want at the moment.

You want a bloody giggle, mate. I love a giggle. You want a giggle. Is that the show? Yeah, that's it. So that's the Australian Lockdown Comedy Festival. Check that out. Look, you know it's easy, Claire, if people, like, say,

like this show and might enjoy it. You can actually subscribe and rate on iTunes. This is what Mr Ben B has done. Oh, Ben B. Five stars. Awesome show. Said, wonderful podcast. Highly recommend.

Thanks for putting that song out, Claire. You did great. Oh, God. Remember when you put You did great. Oh, God. Remember when you put out that song? Oh, God, I'd forgotten about it already. And it was so awful. It's so bad. Like, I know people are being nice about it, but, guys,

I know how bad it was. You also need to remember, you need to be more easy on yourself because, yes, it's terrible, but also you didn't have a diaphragm at that point. I was like eight and a half months pregnant. And I was trapped in my house trying to – and the key was too high for me. So it's really like I'm taking so long and it's really bad. If it was me, because you know me, I'm a good singer,

I would have brought the key down to something that I was more comfortable with. That's what I would have done. Why didn't you do that? Why are you saying I should have done it and that it's really bad? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. My feelings are so hurt. The other thing is even if you deleted it, it's still up there. Someone's got it. You made me do that. You I'm telling you. My feelings are so hurt. The other thing is even if you deleted it, it's still up there. Someone's got it.

You made me do that. You put it out there. You did. You said that I had to do it if people rated it and reviewed us, and people did, and we appreciate them. So please put some more ratings and reviews out so that I don't feel so terribly sad. No, I am not doing any more of the song.

Maybe I could transpose it down low and then maybe try and sing it again. Yeah, cool. That's a good use of your time. All right. Next week, this, I guess, if we're back. Oh, and hey, email. Oh, yeah. It's my job.

I'm on to things. Okay, so if you would like to send us a suggestion, we would love that because we need all the help we can get at the moment, that you can email your suggestion to suggestiblepod at gmail.com um emily pinna thank you so much she writes hi clara james congratulations on your new baby thanks mate i wanted to email to say i love the show i found it through my husband listening to james's pod and can i say i enjoy james and mace's witty banter but suggestiblegestible is definitely the pod for me. I'm in both of these shows. What do you mean in my face?

I'll do both of them. Just continue. I really enjoy Claire's hilarious silliness, especially as it drives James further into his surreal descent into madness in your face. It's just madness descending, man. I want to recommend a book I've just finished reading called The Rosie Project. I love this book.

I've read it. It's so good. You mentioned that here, I think. I love it. Yeah, it's hilarious and heartfelt exposure of a man who doesn't fit the usual social norms, finding and falling in love. Maybe you haven't. We've definitely talked about it, but maybe you haven't talked about it.

Yeah, I might not have talked about it on this podcast because it's from a fair few years ago. And there's three books now in the series. But it's really, I just, it's gorgeous. Yeah, so lastly, Emily says, I wanted to ask what the Australian reaction is to keeping your maiden name when you get married. As an English person, I seriously never thought it was an issue.

When I tell an American, you'd think I just told them I spend my spare time murdering kittens. Oh, God, don't do that. I've always thought Aussies and Brits was more similar. So curious to know if there's any negative attitude towards this kind of thing. Sorry for the long email. Keep up the good work. Also love the recipes.

Keep sharing. Best wishes, Emily. Thanks, mate. Just on the maiden name thing. Yeah. Interesting. No, there's really no blowback in Australia. I think there would be for some people, but it wasn't really.

I don't think anybody asked us about it. No one ever talks about it. The only thing people, the only difficult part of it is that our son has a different surname to me and our daughter now too. And that's kind of annoying. But I don't mind. Yeah, I know.

But I just decided that would be confusing if everyone had a different surname. So, yeah, so that's kind of annoying. So whenever I'm doing medical appointments and things, I sort of have to give them a different surname. But they never say anything. They don't look at me funny or anything. And sometimes I have to say things like my husband so they know we're married because I haven't changed my name.

People assume that I'm married because they're like, of course he is. Look out. What a catch. Oh, that's the wedding ring on your finger. And the wedding ring helps when I wave in front of my face. Yeah, exactly. For me, it wasn't really a – it was a bit of a discussion no no but i'm saying for you i'm saying from my perspective i don't care i was like no keep your name you should

it's your name like i wouldn't want to change my name why should you change your name yeah we briefly talked about like combining us you said that you were like what if we combine them and i'm like that's actually the line for me like which in a way you can. You can call yourself whatever you want, but I'm not changing my name. Which again, why should you change your name then? Yeah, I know. And that's what I was, I genuinely was actually going to change my name. And then when it came to it. But also people want to change it.

I think that's also great because you're like, you can. You're a family unit. That's exactly right. I think you do what you want. But for me, I think also I realized like that's my name. I've had my name for like 30 years. And also you were teaching at the time. Yeah.

And sometimes teachers change their names. Yeah, and it was also a connection to my family history and I lost my dad and it was my dad's name and I felt just really connected to it. And people often call me Tonts, Tont Dog, Tonto, El Tonti. You know, it's a good surname. It's a bloody good surname. And people often call me Tonts, Tont Dog, Tonto, El Tonti, you know. It's a good surname. It's a bloody good surname.

Much more unique than Clement. It's a great name and I will not hear a bad word against it. It's an okay name. It's an all right name. No, it's all good. Anyway, so do what you want. Good for you. Good for other people. Good for your soul.

Yeah, do what is right for you. However, yeah, I haven't had any blowback So it's interesting That you've experienced that Emily Thank you for sharing And you can email the show Yeah just tell them to fuck off Like frankly

Just be like How about it's none of your fucking business Well it's just like I always just think Good for me Not for you That's fine Good for you

Not for me That's fine As long as you're not hurting anybody Exactly Now stay safe out there peeps We're really thinking about Everybody out there We're thinking of literally're really thinking about everybody out there. We're thinking of literally every person on the planet.

I am. I've got a big heart. No, no, I'm thinking of individually. You're thinking of the whole. I'm actually thinking of the individual people because that's the kind of person I am. I see. You're like Darren who lives in Queens. I don't like him.

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