Suggestible - Mr Peanut Movies

Episode Date: February 26, 2020

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You can get anything you need with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get snowballs on Uber Eats, but meatballs and mozzarella balls. Yes, we can deliver that. Uber Eats. Get almost, almost anything. Order now. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. Hey, dude. Oh my God. Okay. Claire said things all the time. Just in the interest of transparency, we did a previous intro and Claire was like, this one's no good, let's start it again. And her brilliant idea was to do that thing that you just said.

Yeah, that's so good. I say we start it again again. No, I'm not starting it again yet. And then we just have 30 seconds of silence. And then we just launch into it. Anyway, hello, I'm Claire. James is here also. Yep.

We're married. We recommend you stuff that we've been watching, hello, I'm Claire. James is here also. Yep. We're married. We recommend you stuff that we've been watching, reading and listening to. That's right. Sometimes eating and sometimes using. That's right. Yeah, that's our show, James. That is our show. Would you like me to go first in our show?

Well, you didn't let me say gentlemen's first, which is what we say on this show. Would you like to say it now and drag this out even longer? No, I want to get bloody into it. Good God. Okay, well, thanks for derailing that. Just for that split second, I appreciate it. Right, so there's a new show on Amazon. It's called Hunters.

It's set in 1977. You're going to regret that when you know what it's about, Claire. You're going to be a real bloody. I'm hunting with a soundtrack. David Weill is the executive producer. Sorry, created it along with executive producer Jordan Peele, who you would know from comedy stuff, but also he did the movie Get Out. Yes, he's excellent.

He's big in the horror and the movie industry as of now. But anyway, it's set in. He's hot stuff. He's hot stuff. It's set in 1977. Hot to trot. It's loosely based on real events. It stars Al Pacino and various other people.

Al Pacino. Al Pacino, giving actually a pretty understated performance for Al Pacino because normally he's like, who are Al Pacino? Who are? Who's that? Pacino time. Hang on, didn't you do a joke once about him being a planet? Yes, that we wanted, Mason and I wanted him cast as Ego the Living Planet

in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Did it happen? No, it didn't. James Gunn did respond. He ended up casting Kurt Russell in that role. But that being said, James Gunn was really like, thanks for. But he actually responded. Oh, yeah, because we got a lot of people to harass him about it,

which we do every now and then. We've done a few campaigns and they've both had some pretty good success. Wasn't the other one the mustache one? The other one was to harass the lead guy, Ryan from the OC. He was playing Jim Gordon in the Batman prequel series. Is he going to be wearing a mustache or not? That guy, no one knows his name. Everyone just knows him as Ryan from the OC.

But he's named Benjamin McKenzie. Who was, they called him Chino or something? Yeah, because he's from wherever. Yeah, Chino. Anyway, so we just harassed him endlessly about that. He never responded until on television. He was in some interview and he's like, all people wanted to know is whether I'd have a moustache.

And it turns out he didn't. I don't think he did for the entire show because Jim Gordon has a moustache. That's the point of Jim Gordon. Anyway, this show is about Nazi hunting. It's about people who escaped, people who did terrible things during World War II in concentration camps who were either like Nazi scientists or guards or, you know, they'd conduct horrible experiments and torture and maim and all those kinds of things, right? And it's about getting revenge on that. So you'd think it'd be kind of satisfying because it is about like killing and murdering and torturing Nazis, and I guess it is to an extent, but the problem with this show,

as I feel, is that it's not historical enough to be considered very accurate, but it's also not wacky enough to go the other way like an inglorious bastard, so it fits somewhere in the middle of that, and I feel it struggles tonally, and it's copped a bit of flack from that. The Auschwitz Memorial has said it's a dangerous and foolish kind of caricature at times and it also welcomes future deniers of the Holocaust because their aim is to honour the victims by preserving accuracy

because there's scenes like where one of the guards at a camp has a human chessboard where he makes one of the prisoners play against him and the prisoners have to, like, cut each other's throats if the pieces move. It's a thing that didn't happen, right? But the thing is they're saying that, like, there were really horrible things that happened. Yeah. And putting something like that in is odd.

But the creators come out and said, well, he didn't want to put in the actual acts of sadism and torture because he didn't want to depict real specific acts of trauma that happened. But it's strange because there are some moments that are. So I just don't understand why it's this kind of heightened reality because it doesn't quite go far enough to make it kind of a fun Nazi revenge. It's all, it's like this, because like the Nazi.

It's too serious to be comedy. Yes, but it's also kind of wacky and like, here's the wacky team and they're like a group of comic book kind of characters. Yeah, and it's not really the subject matter for it. Yeah, and look, it's not terrible. Like it's definitely interesting. And the historical stuff I find really fascinating because there were Nazis who were rescued by the Americans

to come over and work on the space program. That's why they were able to go to the moon. Like famously they just kind of set up these people in new lives in the US and they got to just kind of. Who'd committed war crimes? Yeah, it was called Project Paperclip or something like that. And they touch on that a lot in it as well, which I think is really interesting.

And I think if they had have done it in like a mind-hunter sort of show where they take the subject matter pretty... Much more seriously and follow it more accurately. Not that it's not taken seriously because it is. Like it's very tragic and it's horrific. Like some of the stuff that they depict, it's really horrible and not inaccurate to what happened, like separating of families and murdering of children and experimenting.

It's really horrible. And I think it kind of meets the trick in going in that direction. And so in falling somewhere in the middle, it's it kind of missed the trick in going in that direction and so in falling somewhere in the middle it's just kind of, it's just not. Murky. Yeah, it's murky. It's just not, I don't know, I don't know how to explain it. I guess it would bother me that they've included scenes that are really historically inaccurate.

Yeah. I think that would bother me. I mean obviously. And there were things like way worse than a human chessboard. Like they killed literally millions of people and not just Jewish people, like gypsies and communists and people who didn't approve and homosexuals and there's a gamut of people. The experiments that they did on women even because they were trying

to breed an ultimate race or something, just all these kind of spooky, terrible things. I read The Tattooist of Auschwitz recently. I think I've already talked about it on a previous episode. But that book is historically as accurate as they could make it. They interview a man who became the tattooist, who did the numbers on his fellow kind of Jewish people that were in the camps and it gave him an elevated status.

And he lived in Melbourne eventually until he died. There is kind of elements of humour in that book too. But, I mean, obviously, yeah, it's just so unbelievable. Yeah, it really is. And you realise it's only really a generation ago. It's not that long ago. No, and there are people whose parents, you know, have living memory of it.

It's just, it's frightening. Or not even parents because there were people there who were kids or young adults who were still alive. Yeah, who were still alive, absolutely. And there are still Nazis in the world now who would, they'd be close to 100 but they exist, they're still out there. A lot of them went to South America, all over the world. So it's this horrific thing that a lot of people kind of got away with

and there is that argument that, you know, a lot of the people who worked in the camps were just following orders and they were just soldiers and all those kinds of things. But, you know, that only takes you so far, you know. Yeah. It's interesting though, isn't it? I don't know enough about this area but what I do think kind of is such a grey area is people who were conscripted into the Nazis

or like the Nazi party. It wasn't just like you opted in, you know, you were, there was, people honestly didn't necessarily have choices, but then in the Tattooist of Auschwitz, what they talk about is that at Auschwitz, they specifically chose guards who had previously been in jail for murder and rape and all kinds of things. So you had people in charge of the camps who were sadistic people anyway and that is kind of terrifying to think about. But then that also makes sense as to why so many of the atrocities happened and were allowed to happen and they almost seemed to revel and enjoy in shooting people.

Yeah, absolutely. And all the things that happened. So, yeah, gosh, super complex. But that's actually interesting. I'd like to watch it. It's actually like I'm still – I'm not finished yet, but it's about this conspiracy of like this resurgence of the original Nazi. They're trying to recreate like create the Fourth Reich essentially,

which is like in modern day US. But it's not real. Real, yeah. Because there is the rise of neo-Nazism and, again, these people really did escape. So why are you doing this weird fictionalised route? I think Taika Waititi did a really good job in Jojo Rabbit of balancing it.

I was wondering where it sits against Jojo Rabbit. And I think also with Inglourious Basterds, there are horrific things in that. But the way it's twisted to this alternate reality it's so heightened so you that kind of feels like it gets away with it because it steps away enough and it is satisfying in the way that this really isn't okay and but also it does things like it's all very well acted and the relationships are really interesting and a lot of the people who are in this kind of squad obviously have a direct connection

to the events of World War II or they even met in the camps in World War II and there's that kind of love story aspect of it which I find really compelling and they've all dealt with great loss and suffering and all that is good. But again, yeah, it's just kind of hard to kind of fully endorse. All right. However, it sounds interesting to check out. Yeah, it's on Amazon.

Amazon. Amazon. It's on Amazon. All right, check out yeah it's on it's on amazon amazon it's on amazon all right moving along let's do it moving along okay so i have a book to recommend my reading is slowed down a little bit being prego had to mention that because i'm old prego over here also side note recommend you go get your iron levels checked peeps because people often complain they're tired everybody does and. And I have been super tired. Turns out iron levels are low. So, you know. Your iron levels are always low. You're like some kind of, you're the anti-iron man.

Yeah, I know. That's why I have to take iron. You're like anti-iron woman. All right. So I'm recommending go get a blood test. Also, your vitamin D. If you don't get out in the sun enough, your vitamin D goes low. Affects even your fertility and virility if you're trying to have kids.

Side note. Well, I never go in the sun and I have excellent you're trying to have kids. Side note. Well, I never go in the sun and I have excellent sperm, some of the best. I won that award. Well, we'll see. I don't know what this baby will be like, a frog. Who knows? Anyway, moving right along, Bruni by Heather Rose. I finally finished this book and I really enjoyed it.

Heather Rose has written eight novels. She's actually a native Australian. She lives on the coast of Tasmania. Like a plant? Yeah. She has written a really popular award-winning book called The Museum of Modern Love, which is next on my reading list. However, Bruni is super cool.

This novel reads like a crime thriller based in the incredibly beautiful Australian island state of Tasmania. The central character, Astrid, grew up on Bruni Island, one of Tasmania's The central character Astrid grew up on Bruny Island, one of Tasmanians' most beautiful, wild and remote places. She returns after a long time away as a UN ambassador as there has been a bombing of, and this is fiction, but a newly built bridge linking Bruny to the mainland. Now Bruny actually only has a population of 600 people

and it's 362 square kilometres off the south-east coast of Tassie. So it's really remote, very wild still, so many natural places, and I think it's becoming increasingly rare in the world to find places like Brunley. This novel explores that. A little unbelievably, one of the things I worry a little bit about in the book is that Astrid, who is the central character, her brother and sister are political rivals,

each leading opposing political parties in Tasmania. So you sort of feel like one is the premier, her brother's the premier and the other is the opposition leader. So it's a little unbelievable. However, putting it aside, I still loved it. And Astrid returns and gets caught in the crossfire between her siblings as she attempts to ascertain who has bombed the bridge and why. Who did it?

Well, while doing so, she uncovers some devastating truths about her family and her country. I would say this is a really gripping novel about family, love, loyalty, but interestingly, it's a novel of our time. That's how it's kind of sold on the cover. A novel of our time. Yeah, how it's kind of sold on the cover. A novel of our time. Yeah, which I know kind of sounds lame, but I really do think it's a really interesting look

at issues including climate change, the dark underbelly of politics and what people have to give up or sell themselves in order to get ahead. What do they have to give up and sell themselves? Well, I'm not telling you you have to read the book. I won't. It also really explores a theme that I find really interesting, the rise of China as the new world superpower

and Australia's relationship with China. We have a very close relationship with China because of trade. Intrinsically linked. Yeah, absolutely. Just even geographically we're very close. Geographically not that far away. Stop repeating what I'm saying. Anyway, so they really explore those themes.

Exploring themes. And as you're reading the book, you start to get quite anxious about the state of the world and the planet and about our wild wilderness and wild places and what we're currently losing. We've only got one. Can you stop? I'm being serious now. Anyway, it's really interesting.

There's also a bit of a love story, sexy love story thrown in there for good measure. You've got to throw it in there. Get those bloody Bored Housewives engaged. Just because you've never read a book since 1996 when you first read the wonderful story of Henry Sugar. It's a good book. Actually, the last book I read was The Haunted Mask.

It was a Goosebumps book and I read it in 1998. I loved R.L. Stine's Goosebumps. I used to have videos, which I don't know if people remember the old VCR. I had a collection of Goosebumps videos because I read all of the novels in the library and I got that for Christmas. You watched the TV show. The Tower of Terror. Anyway.

This is the TV show you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I remember. I loved it. I watched it on VCR. Welcome to Canton Nightmare. Not DVD. Video. Monster Blood potentially. Yeah, Monster Blood. I remember that. Yeah, I remember. I loved it. I watched it on VC. Welcome to Canton Nightmare. Not DVD. Video.

Monster Blood potentially. Yeah, Monster Blood. I remember that. Anyway, I bloody loved Goosebumps. It was one of my faves. Anyway, that aside, I really recommend Bruni by Heather Rose. How do you spell Bruni? Check it out.

B-R-U-N-Y. B-R-U-N-Y. Gotcha. Okay, that makes sense to me. Yeah, it's also just a beautiful part of the world. If you ever get down to Tasmania, definitely go and check it out. Check out the whole of Tassie. It's incredibly extraordinarily beautiful.

Yeah, just walk the border of it. See what's there. It's not this bigger than that. Hobart is brilliant. I went to Hobart, which is their capital city, and they have a really cool museum called Mona there, the Museum of – what is it, MoMA? Mona.

MoMA. Anyway, it's really cool. It's set up by an eccentric billionaire. It's kind of a museum of death, sex, and love. It's some kind of tax dodge, I suspect, also. Probably. Anyway, it's really, really cool. Hobart, more like Hobart.

And the produce in Tassie is stellar. Anyway, that's a recommendation. Introducing Uber Teen Accounts, an Uber account for your teen with always-on enhanced safety features. Thank you. map. Your teen will get assigned a top rated driver. You'll get peace of mind. Uber teen accounts. Invite your teen to join your Uber account today. Available in select locations. See app for details. Over to you, Sonny Bob. What crap thing do you have next? Thank you. I like Tasmania. It's like a worse version of New Zealand. Got them! No, it's great in its own right. It's like a worse version of New Zealand. Got them! No, it's great in its own right. It's cool.

Okay. I'm actually – you know last week how I span out for many minutes? You probably heard. No. What are you talking about? Of course I did. Yeah, that was cool. Today you ranted at your poor mother about her choice of hot beverages at cafes.

You're just ranting. Because boomers are always sending back their flat whites. I'm like, this isn't hot enough. It's like – Anyway. Why am I doing this now? Anyway, you're just ranting. Okay, go back to what you were saying previously that you were ranting. It's supposed to be the temperature that it is, the drink that you get.

All right, okay, let's not go down that rabbit hole of yelling about beverages for an hour. This is a YouTube channel. It's called Some More News. It's hosted by Cody Johnston. Some More News? Some More News, produced by Katie Stoll and co-written by Katie Golden. Some More News. Some More News, produced by Katie Stoll and co-written by Katie Golden. And two of these people at least, Cody and Katie,

used to work for Cracked before it all went under. Ooh, Cracked. So he used to do this similar show. It was essentially the exact same show over at Cracked. And he covers all sorts of topics, which the kind of topics that make me go, am I going insane? And then you watch a video and you're like, oh, no, that is bad. Okay.

Or at least somebody shares somewhat similar opinion of mine. Bearing in mind also. Just on a side note, be aware, James, he's going increasingly mad. He's going increasingly mad and paranoid. But my point is also I was going to say, obviously, this particular channel has an agenda and a perspective, and I agree with a lot of the things, obviously not everything, but it's the things like.

It's an astral flaring. Yeah. I recently watched. It also is a man spiraling as he's reading the news, obviously not everything, but it's the things like. It's an astral flaring. Yeah. I recently watched. It also is a man spiraling as he's reading the news, which I really enjoy. Because that's your whole life. That's my whole thing. So I just watched the Democratic debate, the second one. What a fucking shit show.

Let me just say that straight up. Poorly moderated. Just real sloppy. No good. However, if you're in the US, go and vote. Please go and vote. Please go and vote. Obviously, you can choose whoever you want to vote for,

but at least go and get out there and vote. That's enough. This is one of the few things that I actually agree on in terms of mandatory. I think people should vote. I think you shouldn't be able to opt out. You should have to go regardless. Or do it online. It should be all online.

You shouldn't have to go to a place to vote. It should be, and I'm sorry for people who live here. Because then you have to think about it. Even if you don't have an opinion, you have to at least think about it. Yes, and engage. This is the thing, I think. Australia does well here, regardless of what happens after the election. Are you talking about a barbecue?

I'm talking about a barbecue. But also, we have our election days on a Saturday, on a weekend. So you can turn up on your weekend. You can go and get your sausage from the sausage sizzle. Go to your local primary school or wherever it is. Local primary school and vote and it's awesome. Or you can even do votes early.

You can go into early polling booths and all that stuff. Anyway, I just feel like it's a lot easier than in the US. It can be depending where you are. Correct. We do some things right here but voting is one of them I would say. Even if the outcome is I think it's election day barbecues and Vegemite.

Sure. And our cultural pillars. That's probably true, even though while our democracy is borrowed technically from England, I guess Vegemite is a knockoff of Marmite. Let's not get into it. It's neither here nor there. Lamingtons aren't even ours. Koalas are from Malaysia, Claire.

They're not. They're not even from this country. That's ridiculous. No, they are. No, everything comes from everything else, Claire. They're not. They're not even from this country. Ridiculous. Everything. No, everything comes from everything else, James. Exactly. The world was once one whole piece of land and then in the Gawana period or something.

I can't ever remember the name of it. The land split. Australia dislodged and moved from Asia into its own spot. You'd make a terrible teacher. You'd probably poison some minds here. I know. I'm sorry. Anyway, so watching the Democratic debate,

the recent video was about Bloomberg, how he's buying his way into this election with these billions of dollars. He's already spent $500 million in ad campaigns. There's something like an ad every, I can't remember the statistics, there's like 30,000 ads every minute or something like that playing at any one time. So if you live in the U.S. in particular, you probably can't escape it. Gondwana.

Gondwana. I was close. Yeah, very good. I was close. I'm glad you're listening, Claire, instead of Googling things that you've gotten wrong. But, yeah, so that guy, like honestly I'd be happy with. And by the way, why am I involving myself in the US election?

Yes. It's because I feel these things filter down. I think they set the tone for the world in a lot of cases. And that's why I have a stake. I feel like I have a stake in. And obviously, they have a huge influence on world events. So that's why I involve myself in. Not even.

I don't involve myself in it. That's why I keep abreast of it. So get to your point. Yeah. So there's a recent video about Bloomberg buying his way in. There's a really excellent parody Star Wars video, which goes through the events of Star Wars and parallels them to real-life events, like, again, like the rise of fascism again, et cetera, and so forth. They did one recently on Baby Peanut or Baby Nut.

Are you familiar with this? No. So in America there's a mascot called Mr. Peanut. I really like Peanut Butter. It's one of my favourite spreads. Wow, that's really incredible, Claire. You've got such a wonderful, vibrant personality. But Mr. Peanut, he has

like a monocle and a top hat. Anyway, he died recently in an ad campaign and they... Oh, who gives a shit? He's not a real person. Does he do a dance? Yeah, he does a little dance, but he's dead now. I keep interrupting him because he's mid-rent. He's dead. And he finds it really annoying. I'm the Mr. Peanut dancing.

You don't even know anything about Mr. Peanut. And then I reckon someone does that thing where they get a little, like, walking stick and, like, drag him off the stage, you know, the little hooped sticks. Oh, you want me to help you on this fucking rift you're doing? Whatever's going – Okay, sorry. Continue with your rant. What's the word?

Rift. Rift? It's rift.. Okay, sorry. Continue with your rant. What's the word? Rift. Rift. It's Rift. I'm not helping you on this. I'm just going to let you flail with this thing that you're recording. I'm not flailing. I'm enjoying my own self. There, it got dragged off the stage.

End scene. Continue. Round of applause. She's so funny. Well, if you're not going to talk, I'll go back on to my next recommendation. She's muted me. I was trying to talk the whole time. She's not.

She muted me. She was looking at me. Anyway, so they brought back. I'm leaving. They introduced Baby Nut, which is a baby peanut, right? Or a penis, a baby penis. It looks a bit like a baby penis. I guess you could say that.

This riffing is going really well for you anyway. But they made this fake kind of viral marketing campaign. This fake viral. You've closed your eyes. I can't. Sorry, colleagues, you'll have to cut the coffee. No, colleagues, leave it all in. This is what people have signed up for.

I'm so sorry. It was just so funny because you got in so much pain you had to close your eyes. Sorry, I won't say anything else. Anyway, so it's basically about how this is a manufactured corporate campaign and how they tried to fake their way into like viral marketing and people like, we don't care about this stupid baby pen. Cause I saw baby odor and went,

Oh baby, something let's do a baby peanut. And now like brands are often like, well, your friends and they're just kind of, and brands are chatting with each other online. And like Wendy's will say something and then hungry. And then not going to go to Burger King.

We'll say something in return. And it's like, Oh, it's just brands bantering. And it's fucking horrible. And it takes up too much space is what I'm saying. And there's also an episode on Bill Maher how he's a bit of a prat. Don't worry about it if you don't know who he is. Anyway, again, of course, it's got a gender and perspective and all those things.

But I think it's really interesting and breaking down kind of current things in the world, you know, like you might be concerned about or may not be concerned about. But also it can give a different perspective on things also, which there's a really interesting Ben Shapiro video, which I think if you are a fan or if you're not a fan, you should watch because it's very illuminating. All right. That sounds awesome. What was it called again?

It's called Some More News. And it's on YouTube? It's on YouTube. It's free. Check it out. I've also got a podcast, which I've never listened to, but I will listen to one day. You will one day.

Cool. Excellent. Last thing? Yeah, my turn. Whoop-de-loo. Hey, also, just on a quick side note, I'm real sad about Kobe Bryant. I saw his funeral today or yesterday. I was watching some excerpts of it.

Oh, mate, why do some good people in the world get taken away and others still get taken away? Well, look, without kind of getting into it, there's a checkered past there and whatever and certain allegations. Oh, I know, everyone's got a checkered past. But I know, but it still obviously was you can be two things, you know what I mean? Or even four things.

Whoa. You can even have a baby penis and still get on with your days as a grown man. I'm sorry. She looked right at me when as a grown man. I'm sorry. She looked right at me when she said that too. I'm so sorry. Oh, God, I've got to be silly. I had some more chocolate before we came on air.

All right, my next recommendation is so fun. It's a bit ridiculous. Fun like this? Oh, here he goes. I don't understand etiquette. Look at me. I have no impulse control. Are you finished?

What am I doing? What am I saying? Where am I? We've only got six minutes left. Do we? Yeah, you're really interrupting me. Well, then I'd better wrap this up quick. Someone's brought me off the stage with a big hook.

Oh, no. Why are you dancing with your hips on you, hands on your hips? You know what that was? That was the patriarchy just interrupting women like they've been doing for centuries. Was it, Claire? You pull that card now after your performance on this show? You've got to be kidding me.

All right. Okay. You done? You coming routine time? We'll see, won't we? We'll see. Oh, God. Okay.

This is called The Stranger. It's a TV show, a British mystery thriller series on Netflix, written by Danny Brocklehurst and based on the Harlan Coburn novel of the same name. The miniseries premiered on Netflix on 30th Jan 2020, so it's just out recently. A lot of people have been buzzing and talking about it and I decided to watch it this week and I bloody loved it.

The story pivots on the idea of a stranger turning up in people's lives, divulging their darkest secrets to their loved ones with explosive consequences. Oh, my God, that's terrible. Yeah, I know. It's British and I just love it. Oh, my God, that's terrible. You know how much I love a British murder mystery?

Oh, my God, that's terrible. Siob how much I love a British murder mystery? Oh, my God, that's terrible. Siobhan Finneran plays DC Johanna Griffith. Now, you might recognise her as Miss O'Brien who's like the sour servant from Downton Abbey and she is just so kick-ass in this. I love her. She's kind of like quick-talking and sort of like cynical and great. She's just awesome and she's assigned to investigate the first thing, which is the beheading of an alpaca found in the local town square.

And later it becomes linked to a series or does it? Is it linked to a series of murders? So she's sort of one of the central characters. The main thread is the story of Adam Bryce, who's played by Robbie Armitage, who you might recognise as Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit. I do recognise him from Spook. Oh, my God, it's a terrible film.

Yeah, I'm joking. How dare you? Anyway, he's the central character. That's the worst thing you've ever said to me. And you looked at me when you said baby Peter. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean that. Anyway, so Adam Price, played by Robbie Armitage,

whose seemingly perfect life is thrown into disarray when a secret emerges about his wife, who seems super kick-ass and awesome and is awarded Teacher of the Year, and is played by Dervla Kirwan, who happened to be one of the stars in Balakish Angel, which was an amazing TV series that I loved from the movie. It's where Colin Farrell got his big break. Yeah, and she's just brilliant in this too.

So it's really awesome. The Stranger, so the person who kind of rocks up out of the blue, is actually the actress Hannah John-Kamen who plays Ornella in Game of Thrones and is the ghost in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. She's really good.

I know she's in Game of Thrones. Yeah. I didn't know either. But she's really, really cool. I. Yeah, yeah. She's really good. I know she's in Game of Thrones. Yeah. I didn't know either. But she's really, really cool. I just really enjoyed it. It's a little bit over the top. Like usually it's not, it doesn't have that kind of British downplaying of things. You know, sometimes like British BBC shows tend to be a little bit more melancholy.

Like when something weird happens and someone's like, oi, oi, ease up, eh? Yeah. Ease up. There's a bit of that. But I mean, I just mean there's a lot of events that happen seemingly connected or unconnected. Oh, my God, that's terrible. It's a little bit.

You watched it and were like literally five very dramatic things. I watched five minutes and spun my head. I didn't know what was going on. However, it's a really great watch and I watched it sort of, I ended up staying till 1 a.m. or something finishing it because it was really great. What I love when a TV show comes on that you really enjoy, it ruins everybody's day.

Yeah, I know because I stay up too late watching it. I have no impulse control. Jennifer Saunders from Ab Fab is also in it. Yes. My favourite thing about this show that I said to you the other day was that in the first episode they set up the characters and their relationships beautifully so you're really invested when things start to go to shit basically, excuse my French. That's very rude. you're really invested when things start to go to shit,

basically, excuse my French. You're really invested. It happens very quickly. And I think that's clever writing. I think it's also the actors are really, really great. And Jennifer Saunders is brilliant and funny and just great. And there's a really great kind of chemistry between her and Siobhan Fin finneran and it's just awesome so i would totally recommend it the stranger on netflix all right excellent also i'm recommending overalls bloody love overalls james i love them you know how much i love them i know you you love overalls they fit well they've got great pockets at the front you wore them to the live show of the Sands Pants V.

I did. Something, something. They're the most comfortable thing because I had this problem because, you know, I'm pregos. I do know that. I could not find a bloody thing that would fit me. And I love wearing pants. Not really like a dress.

I'd like a dress, but I prefer a pant. And my maternity jeans were so bloody uncomfortable. But these overalls, I'm wearing them every day. Mine are from Ripe Maternity and I've got a little link that I'll send or send to lovely Royal Collings who edits this show. They're like black denim. Bloody love them. But you can get all types, all kinds.

I just recommend them. They're awesome. Oh, there you go. Overalls. Get it on. Get it up. Get it up, yeah. Get it up, yeah.

Get it round, yeah. Get it on, yeah. Get it over you. Is it time, yeah. Get it round you. Yes, that's right. Get it on you. Get it over you. Is it time to end the show? It is. I've got recommendations, but do you want to read a review of this? I would love to read a review. Listen, reviews.

Because we'd love reviews. They come in hot and fast in this podcast sometimes. Hot and fast, like hot potatoes. Maybe we'll get a few this week. Yeah, a bit like that. You can review it just in-app. It super helps the show. If you could chuck a five stars our way, that would be terrific,

as Tyler James did, brackets brackets native american five out of five podcast i found this podcast to a less successful podcast called the weekly planet or something like that anyways i just want to say this podcast is hilarious and always has a great as great suggestions for me to consume thanks to claire and james i guess lol just kidding both your podcasts are awesome and i listen to them both regularly there you go that's so nice so there you go hey Hey, awesome. What suggestions have you got? Well, hey, guess what?

What? I am so proud of myself. This week I've actually created an email address that you can send your recommendations to. So send your recommendations to suggestiblepod at gmail.com. What a world. We would bloody love to hear them. And it's great because emails, you know, it's great. You put a link in.

It's clear. They're all collated. You can have a bit more free time. You get a bit more space there for things to recommend. You certainly can. Brief is always better, I find. Yeah, but put in a summary of what you're recommending though. Yeah, totally clear.

Also, great catchy headline. Also, get the email address right. Also, don't use Microsoft Outlook. Sometimes it opens by accident. You're like, oh, my God, I hate this program. Okay, right. So if you would like to suggest things, please email suggestiblepod at gmail.com, just like Julia who didn't email because I didn't have an email then

but sent me this through Instagram. Hey, Claire, I cannot for the life of me remember where to send my suggestibles. Well, I've told you now, Julia. My best friend is working on the show The Great Australian Play and it it's honestly fantastic extremely kooky and a lot to take in but if you're a fan of insane plays about australia then you're certainly in for a treat i honestly really recommend it and it's on until the 29th of feb oh we've got a couple more days to go and check it out these guys also live in melbourne thanks so much for the extremely hilarious and endearing banter and chemistry between the two of you.

All the best. Thanks, mate. Really appreciate it, Julia. And I've got one little other cheeky one. This is from Josh Leidy. You guys should really check out Top Boy on Netflix. Excellent show in the vein of The Wire but less cops and more English accents.

Oh, that sounds right up your alley. It totally does. You know, I love a British cop show and High Fidelity on Hulu or maybe Stan. Yeah, High Fidelity is, yeah, they made a new series. Yeah, pretty cool. I don't think I'll watch it. I don't really like the original one anymore. Yeah, you used to tell me when we first started dating,

you were like, this is my favourite book. But now I'm like, this guy sucks, which he's supposed to suck. But now I'm like, yeah, it's a good book. We've talked about this before. I think it's because you used to be a lot more similar to the main character and now you're a father and as a dad you've got responsibilities, mate. You work bloody hard. You don't, you know, you're a bit over the angstiness and kind of like,

who am I? What should I do with myself in the world? I don't have time for any of that shit anymore, Claire. No, you're too busy pumping iron and eating protein. Living my life. I love how we got an email. I'll just quickly tell the story, Claire, because if you don't mind, we're running out of time.

Who cares? So we finally got an email address after however long we've been doing this for. Who's to say? And there's this program that's – this is very specific niche but there's this program in australia called icon which they were rolling out to primary schools which is basically it's an online service right and they announced this in 2009 and they still haven't rolled it out it's been that long because technology keeps changing and people they keep like firing stuff and hiring stuff and it's this thing because i used to go to the it meeting because that was part of my job where they would

explain like the updates to icon and it was like a running gag because me and my brother, because we were both teachers, would sit there together and go, oh, here we fucking go with these guys. There's absolutely nothing. I remember they'd always do a presentation and be like, Icon. Yeah. And then they'd just flash up images with like synergy,

togetherness, technology. And I just want to put my hand up and be like, tell me specifically what this is because I feel like they didn't know. Because you ask them and they're like, well, it's about kind of collating data and making things easier, you know. But specifically what? Name one thing that this thing is supposed to do. I think the problem was they started it before Google Drive.

Yes, they did. And then Google happened. And then they didn't know what to do because they got superseded by technology. Anyway, so last year I was teaching in 2015, six years into this plan they've gone, by the way, if you have any questions about Icon, we now have an email address and they put up the email address and everybody clapped and I'm like,

you must be out of your fucking mind. It's been six years and you get an email address now for this IT program that you've been supposedly implementing. And everybody claps. And I wanted to stand up and be like, no. You don't clap for that. That's day one. You get an email address.

That's like the first thing you do. It's an absolute debacle. And it's still not in. It's still, they haven't done it yet. Yeah, I know. Because all they did was show images of, like, people in a room or in a round table. People get, and there was one year when they were like,

and we've actually, all those desks that we've got now, we've filled them up with staff. And I'm like, what are you even talking about? For what? I know. It's one of the, it's like that show Utopia. It's exactly like that show Utopia. Yeah, it totally is.

That's what government is. It's a lot of pedal pushing and pedal peeling or whatever you call it. Anyway, I know, please don't applaud us for the email address. We're only like 35 episodes in or something. Still. Well, we beat Ico. We beat her by six years. Six years.

Cool. All right. We better finish. We beat Suggestible Pod. You can follow us at Suggestible Pod on Instagram. You can follow me on Instagram too at Claire20. I'm trying real hard to get more busy on there. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, you or MrSundayMovies. I'm everywhere. I'll never stop. On all the platforms. This week me and Mason are talking about The Invisible Man. You should come and see it. It's apparently really good. I can't.

He's invisible. That's a good joke, Claire. Well done. All right, see you later, everybody. This is good when we riff in unison. It's so much better than yelling at each other. All right, I'm turning you off. This is good when we riff in unison. It's so much better than yelling at each other. All right, I'm turning you off. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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