Suggestible - Super Mario 3D World: Claire's Fury

Episode Date: March 25, 2021

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I feel like this is worse because we seem to be facing the certain death of humankind. Potentially. It's going to be fun. I don't know. But then who knows? Maybe not. I think you're only thinking that because we have sick children in the house at the moment. And we haven't had any sleep. and it's just ruining our lives.

God, I'm so tired. I literally had an hour and a half sleep last night. And I just don't, some people can, okay, before we get into this dilly dallying, hello, I'm James. Hello James. There's Claire over there. We're married and we do Suggestible Pod where we recommend you things and sometimes we like to also air our grievances about our general lives. We love it. And you don't, but we do it anyway. We do.

I know. So I only had an hour and a half sleep last night and some people can function on like a whiff of a fart of sleep. I need a good solid eight hours or I'll become a crazy person. Yeah, no, I'm exactly the same. I'm terrible with no sleep. You know, there are very few people that exist that can do like two or three hours and it is like a four-night sleep.

They just don't have to sleep. I had an old boss who was like that. I love that. And also my friend Laura is also like that. I would pay for that. I would pay a lot of money to like do that to my brain. But you'd also have like four or five hours of extra time. So much more time.

Just over your lifespan, that is a lot of time. I need at least eight hours and like quality sleep. I need 12. I'm like the opposite. You need even more sleep than me. Though you can handle broken sleep it seems to me. A little bit more, yeah. To a point. And then it sleep than me. Though you can handle broken sleep it seems to me. A little bit more, yeah. Yeah.

To a point and then it just breaks me. It completely breaks me in half. Oh, that explains the white hair. It does. I mean that's genetic but it's probably a combination of both. Yeah. If you look at me like the year before we had kids and the year after, there's a significant difference in the way that I look.

I'll tell you that much. Yeah. Well, your face is slowly crumpling. Pretty much, yeah. It's like a raisin. It was a smooth grape. Now it's a raisin. Well, my skin still looks radiant.

You do have good skin. I do have good skin, mate. I mean, look, not much else going for me, but the skin should. Exactly. I sometimes think it is really strange that we're just like skin sacks of bone and meat. Yeah, and just water. Walking around in water.

And like what else? And this really struck me when I had a baby. I've had two babies, guys, just to brag. Oh, God. Anyway. Just to humble brag, yeah. Just to humble brag or you can commiserate with me. No, I'm very lucky.

I know how lucky I am. They're gorgeous. However, it really struck me when I was pregnant just how lucky. I know how lucky I am. They're gorgeous. However, I really struck me when I was pregnant, just how little control I have over my own body because so many of the function your body does. It's not like you're going, okay, lungs now inflate. Okay, heart, keep on pumping. Exactly. It just does it. It just does it. Like most of the functions in our body just happen without us, without our control. I read something really. So strange.

I read something kind of like that kind of fucked me up a bit where it's like if your body is sick and there's something wrong with it, like it won't tell you often. Like it's like, do you know what I mean? It's not like you've got like a brain tumor and you can remove it. Do you know what I mean? It's just like it doesn't, like it knows that there's something there, but it doesn't tell you.

Well, it's what, like it doesn't say, James, James, there's some things going haywire in here. You should be able to have like a weekly meeting with your brain where you discuss all the functions that you don't have direct control over. That would be good. Like inside out, except it's your body. Yeah, your health. Or whatever.

I think that's why you really have to tap into your like intuition around that kind of stuff. Or visit a doctor. Yeah, exactly. But also I've had friends who've diagnosed themselves or at least not necessarily like exactly what they have but kind of picked up very early that there's something not right. Yeah, absolutely.

And I think you can definitely tune into your body more and notice when things are slightly skewed. Yeah, and then going in and just getting it checked. And sometimes it's nothing but usually there's something going on. It's why a bunch of people die as well. They're just like, I was sick for 20 years and I died all of a sudden. It's like, no, because you were sick for 20 years. Why a bunch of people do you often mean men?

It's men. It's like old men. I mean women live a lot longer. And I think some of that reason and obviously hashtag not all men, hashtag not all women, hashtag people of all different genders and persuasions and all the things, I do think that there is something in listening into your body, you know? Sure.

Like really and then picking up on things very quickly. And then not really telling you. Yes. It's like, it's up the top but I don't want to spoil it. Anyway, speaking of listening to your body. Yes. It's like top to top, but I don't want to spoil it. Anyway, speaking of listening to your body. Yes. People should listen to our bodies with their bodies as we tell them about the things that we recommend this way.

Yeah, that's crazy. I know your ears are just drumming away with their drums. That's right, yeah. And they're ba-dum-ba-dum. May I start with my first recommendation? You certainly can. Thank you for asking so kindly and sweetly. It's the sci-fi original series Resident Alien. It stars Alan Tudyk.

Just for something different, am I right? For one time I would like you to suddenly recommend an Elizabethan period drama. Fine. Actually, my second suggestion, you're going to be like, wow, that's actually well out of your wheelhouse and I'm very impressed. I thought you were going to say wee house. That's well out of your wheelhouse. Imagine'm very impressed. I thought you were going to say wee house. That's well out of your wheelhouse. Imagine if you just had a wee house. People did have a wee house. It's called an outhouse.

It's not a convent. What are you talking about? We had like a holiday house. You know, this wasn't really a holiday house. It was a shack that we'd go to and I'd scream the entire time how much I hated it. That wasn't an outhouse. I hated it.

I'm like, why are we here? They're like, because that's country. And I'm like, country fucking sucks. Straight up. That's why you'll never go camping with us. No, don't worry. Because you just spend so much time in the bush throwing rocks at kookaburras. Why would I sit in the dirt when I could sit in a chair?

Anyway, it stars Alan Tudyk as the resident alien. I dropped this picture because I know you won't remember him. Yes, correct. I know exactly. I remember him from A Knight's Tale. He is from A Knight's Tale. Yeah, that's one of my fave moves. I couldn't, you know what, I should have picked that one

because I couldn't think of a movie that you would have seen him in because he's the robot in Rogue One and he's in Firefly. I've seen Firefly. I know, but you don't. I won't remember it. I wouldn't be like he's the pilot Wash from Firefly. Look, I have a very small window of memory. Yeah, exactly. So that's why I brought it up. But I should have be like, he's the pilot Wash from Firefly. Look, I have a very small window of memory. Yeah, exactly.

So that's why I brought it up. But I should have. Things you know, Heath Ledger movies, I should have known that. Yeah. Yeah, I know Heath Ledger movies. I think that was the first Paul Bettany movie or the mainstream one at least. No, he's Vision. No, he's Vision.

I know. He's so excellent. He's great. He's great in that too. It turns out, spoiler, imaginary friend or something in The Knight's Tale, isn't he? No. Oh, no.

I've mixed two movies together. Not at all. No, he's really not. You're thinking of A Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe. Those, like, aren't even close. But he's in that, right, and he's an imaginary friend. Yeah, I think so. Maybe, yeah.

Maybe not a friend but, like, an imaginary figment of his mind. Yeah, I think so. Maybe, yeah. Maybe not a friend but like an imaginary figment of his mind. Because, you know, it does that whole thing where you never see him in Kate Winslet or whoever's in that movie. But you know what's interesting about that movie? That pioneered something that I love. It's writing math on glass. You know who I see in shows? Yeah.

I think that movie started writing math on glass. Is that in The Mentalist? Probably. It's in the show Numbers. Anyway, I've got to tell you this. Ah, yes, yes. Alan Tudyk, Sarah Tomko, Alice Wetterland. And it's based on the comic of the same name,

created by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse. So it's about an alien who crashes in remote Colorado. He's stranded. His ship is scattered, right? He kills a doctor who's played by Alan Tudyk and takes his place, like morphs his body into him. And then he becomes a doctor who's played by Alan Tudyk and takes his place, like morphs his body into him and then he becomes a resident of this town and a murder draws him out and they think he's like a regular doctor

so he becomes like the town doctor but he's an alien. He doesn't know what he's doing. And Alan Tudyk is like excellent at this, playing like a weird mishmash of like an alien pretending to be a man. Like he's a man playing an alien pretending to be a man. Does that make sense? Yes, it does. And just the mannerisms and the facial expressions

and like the cadence which he adopts of this, it's really quite funny. So it ends up being like he's kind of solving crimes and he's learning humanity and he's trying to like repair his ship and build this doomsday device which could like wipe out everybody on the planet. He's like incredibly intelligent but he's also like a massive idiot. So it's like it walks the line.

He would be excellent at playing robots. Oh, he's fantastic because he also played the robot in iRobot. Have you ever saw the movie iRobot? Yes, I have seen the movie iRobot. See, it's also got a little bit of depth to it, Claire, a little bit because it talks about like there's adoption and there's a bit of heart to it, you know what I mean? It's about finding humanity.

And the other thing is, and this is kind of something that seems like it's borrowed from Invader Zim, a show that I talked about like a while ago that you definitely don't remember. He's transformed into a human but one in a million people can see him in his real alien form, which you do like get flashes of like quite a bit. What is his alien form? I'll have to find a picture. Oh, I see.

He looks like, yeah. It's quite terrifying. But anyway, yeah, so one in a million people can see him as is, yeah, because he's a monster. And there's a boy in town who can see him. Who knows? And he's like, he's an alien. And everyone's like, you're crazy.

Calm down, little man. Yeah, don't be silly. You're being ridiculous. But he's the only one who can see him, which is like an Invader Zim storyline. He's got like a little boy nemesis in it. But, yeah, it's good. Bloody grab a hold of it, mate. Where can you grab it from?

On Syfy. So if you're in Australia, you'll need a VPN. But wherever else you are. But, hey, you can get an ExpressVPN. Exactly. Works a treat. That's right. We can wait for clean water solutions.

Or we can engineer access to clean water. We can acknowledge Indigenous cultures. Or we can learn from Indigenous voices. We can demand more from the earth. Or we can demand more from ourselves. At York University, we work together to create positive change for a better tomorrow. Join us at yorku.ca slash write the future. What are you recommending? All right. Okay. So I just, just before I recommend the fun,

what's not fun? Well, it's a, it's, you know, it's a good page turner of a book that I'm going to recommend. I love books. I also wanted to just say what I'm actually consumed with at the moment in the last week. Fear, anger. Fear, sadness, rage, actually rage. Because most of what I've been consuming this week is just media around what's happening in our parliament house currently at the moment. And I should preface this by saying that some of the stuff I'm about to say, again, references sexual assault and misconduct. So if you find that difficult, please skip over this little section. Basically, I want to say that the

reporting that is being done by so many incredible female journalists in Australia at the moment, Louise Mulligan is one of them, particularly in there's an ABC show called Four Corners. I think people don't know what, you have to name the specific incident, I think. Yeah, I know, I'm getting to it. Oh, I thought you had this. But I just wanted to recommend Four Corners as a really excellent piece

of Australian journalism if you're interested in what's happening politically. And the news of this is actually going across the world now. Right. Well, that's good. We've discussed briefly, I think, and I wrote about this in my newsletter, there's a woman called Brittany Higgins who was a staffer in Parliament House who was raped.

And she came out over the last or about a month ago to disclose what happened to her publicly because it was just basically covered up and it or about a month ago to disclose what happened to her publicly because it was just basically covered up and it happened about two years ago. Yeah. And the Prime Minister has just made a whole lot of false steps around this and claims he had no idea that this even happened. And it's clear that they wanted it swept under the rug because it happened

just around the time of when the PM was about to call the next election. Yes. Anyway, it started there and it's just escalated. And what's clear, and I won't go into all the horrible details of all the things that have been uncovered, one of which is that our Attorney General, who is like the highest lawmaker in our parliament, has been accused of a rape when he was at university.

Yes. No, at high school actually. I should correct that, in high school. And that's just a horrible story in and of itself. And he's taken the time off and now it's come out that he's trying to sue the national broadcaster for defamation. Shock. Anyway, and there's been so much rumour and speculation

and also really great journalism. So they didn't make the allegations. They weren't like. No, they didn't. No, no. The Friends of the Woman Who Has Since Passed Away sent a letter into the Parliament House outlining what had happened to her allegedly. Anyway, I don't want to get too much into the nitty-gritty,

but what it's slowly uncovering is this horrible culture in Parliament House. It's so hard to watch and it's so enraging and I think the women of Australia at the moment are just so sick of seeing report after report of staffer after staffer, PM, minister after minister, coming out to say that the culture in Parliament House is toxic for women and that there's just so much misogyny and sexist behaviour, lewd behaviour that's come out. And it's just so, I can't even explain how enraging it is.

There's a hashtag now going around called enough is enough. And I just, maybe this makes me naive, but I just cannot believe what a toxic environment that place is for women at our highest echelons of power in this country. And it just, it infuriates me that we are where we're at with climate change and with the way that so many sectors have been disregarded. You know, we have a major problem with aged care facilities and the problems with the pandemic. And I know we're a very, very lucky country in so many ways, particularly in the way that the pandemic has been handled.

Not from the federal level, but yeah. Yeah, not from the federal level. And this is talking about the federal level of parliament. But I just, I can't, every time I try and watch something else, I end up just going into this spiral of like reading and watching and listening to more and more women voicing what's happened to them at Parliament House while they're, like I was listening to Tanya Plibersek who is the shadow minister for women

because the minister for women called Brittany Higgins a lying cow. Yes. So, and refused to come out. So I went to the March for Justice. That was a march for women across Australia. Over a hundred thousand people showed up, men and women for that. Survivors and just like these incredible people standing up. Grace Tame, who is our Australian of the Year, was a sexual abuse survivor. And she is just speaking out so clearly and her voice is just resonating and I'm so incredibly in awe of her as well as Brittany Higgins and these incredibly brave young women who were standing up and saying enough is enough and

this isn't okay. I'm still so shocked by all of it though. Like I just, I hadn't realised how horrible it was really because I've grown up in a, you know, private girls' school and then I worked as a teacher. So that was a predominantly female profession. So I just really, and I had glimpses of this behaviour. Of course, yeah. But I hadn't really seen the kind of toxic environment that some workplaces can be for women.

But I listened to Tanya Pliberczyk, the shadow minister of women, talking today on a podcast, and she has been working in politics since the 1990s and she's just such an incredibly calm, wonderful advocate who seems like a genuinely lovely person. You know how often you see politicians and you think, oh, they might be. It feels disingenuous. It feels disingenuous. She just seems like a really intelligent, wonderful, warm person who's been working

her whole life in public service. And she was saying how sad she is that she's been working in parliament since 1990 when Julie Bishop and other members of parliament, there was kind of an influx. Julie Gillard, who was our first female prime minister, all came in at the same kind of time. And she's just so devastated that we're still no further. No, it feels the same as it always has been. Yeah, she says like the environment for women in parliament house

has got to the point where every day of the election campaign, all of the women, like MPs, just expect that the signs up for them will be graffitied, that they will receive rape and death threats in the post, online. You know, that just blew me away in itself, that like literally every day in the morning when they get to Parliament House, they have people going around cleaning off the signs that they've put up for their ministry, you know, for their next election. I didn't know that, yeah. Because they're just defaced basically with like, and, you know,

there's a report of an MP pushing over a pregnant woman. Who did that, sorry? A pregnant MP. There was a pregnant MP. She didn't disclose who, but she said there's a pregnant MP who was pushed over by a male politician in Parliament House and she sees that guy every day. She knows who he is and it occurs.

What the fuck? Yeah, that kind of stuff is like so rife. Like, I mean, the stuff that's come out recently. Anyway, I didn't want to end up this in a massive rant I actually have a book to recommend but it's just that's all I'm thinking about at the moment and so many women that I know in my life are thinking about as well it's just such bullshit like why do we have to put up with this it's not that we want special treatment we just don't want to have like for example and this isn't for little, someone jizzle over a female MP's desk, which is what came out yesterday,

and film it and send it to his mates. Or Julia Bishop and say whatever you want. She's a conservative politician in Australia, but she is a bloody good politician and very skilled. She could have easily been the next PM, but she was thwarted and basically pushed out of politics by a group of WhatsApp guys called the Big Swinging Dicks. Like that's genuinely a WhatsApp group of like the best

and brightest that we have in Australian politics. Are you fucking serious? I bet they don't have big swinging dicks either. Yes, I know. Exactly. I've grossly overestimated their own abilities. Anyway, okay, rant done. I just, it's just, is it not enough?

Don't you think? Like isn't it time that that kind of bullshit just. Yes, it is. It's the same culture that it's always been. It hasn't changed. There's like the illusion of change and they'll get in like the occasional person like you'll see like a Julia Gillard or somebody pop up, but there's the same culture that it's always been. It hasn't changed. There's like the illusion of change and they'll get in like the occasional person like you'll see like a Julia Gillard or somebody pop up, but there's no actual change.

But the way Julia Gillard was treated was just absolutely horrendous. And Tanya Blibisek was saying there was the media then did this whole thing where whenever the Labor women stood up to try and speak out about the behaviour that Julia Gillard, our first female prime minister and only female prime minister and the way she was treated, they called them the handbag brigade or something and like set, so they, because the media loves to pitch women against women, right? Yeah.

And make it a cat fight whereas like men argue and are on different, you know, have different opinions all the time and it's never called that. I know someone at the Herald Sun that I haven't spoken to for a while. But, yeah, he told me at the time that, like, their boss said, like, we're just going to go after it. We're just going to, like, unrelenting. Why? Because what, the papers will sell?

It's all linked. And it's all Murdoch run. It's just a bit. And that's kind of, I had, I'm so, I guess I'm naive. I just didn't think that there was a big contingent of men that didn't want women in leadership. Well, it makes sense when you look at the numbers. You look at the numbers alone.

Yeah. What's interesting is quotas were brought in, so, you know, like a mandatory or a target for how many women they want in the party, right? And for Labor, they brought in those quotas and it's incredible. It's almost at 50% now. And Tanya Plibersek was saying it really has, there's still problems. Of course. But it's definitely changed the culture.

You just see there's way more women there. Yeah. It just makes so much difference and people of more diverse backgrounds and, you know, it makes so much difference. I think like things like this happening is what pushes people for change. Yeah, because she was saying back when she got into politics, the Liberal Party, which is our Conservative Party, and the Labor Party both had a quarter of the like number of MPs or women.

Now it's almost half Labor or women. And because the coalition still doesn't have quotas in place, there's still only a quarter of women. It hasn't changed. Of course. Anyway, okay. Good stuff. Anyway, you got a book to recommend, Claire? I do.

It's called The Wife and the Widow. It's by Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a mystery thriller told from two perspectives, Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband's secret life, and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside down when she's forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer.

But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Oh, my goodness. It's a page turner. Look, it's not going to change your life. Well, I want something that's going to change my life, Claire. Why are you bringing this up?

My next one's going to change your life. I'm really going to do it. But I really enjoyed it and it's just really gripping and it's great escapism, particularly from my ranty, ranty anger that I'm feeling currently. Aren't you enraged? Yes, Claire, and I feel your rage every day when you yell at me for at least an hour. You take an hour of my day to yell at me.

You could yell at our children. He doesn't understand. I'm not going to yell at our children. I don't understand. No, of course I am. But it's like, and I don't mean to be like it's just the way it is, but it's just always been like this and there's more things coming out.

But things are changing though. Things are changing. I agree. I don't think it's enough to say, like, society is progressing. I agree. Society is progressing, but these people are not. It's only been 100 years since the first woman was elected into Australian Parliament, Edith Cowan.

Yeah, and how many have there been? I don't know. What, in total? Yeah. I don't know. What, in total? Yeah. I don't know. But, I mean, that's incredible. 100 years is not that long. No, it's really not.

Anyway, all right, over to you. What's your next recommendation? How many have there been? And, like, this wouldn't be a lot. Not like, yeah, but how many are there now? I mean, like, there haven't been many. What, over the 100 years? Yeah.

I mean, there's a lot of women. Comparatively? Not comparatively, obviously. I think the other problem is it's just one type of man in there as well. It's the same fucking dude every fucking time. Yeah, I think a lot of, like I think the UK has this problem too. It's this upper echelon of private school boy that's been in the same privileged kind of environment.

Push my buttons now, Claire, because I fucking hate this fucking person that you see them everywhere. They're fucking everywhere and they run everything and they're the worst. And that's not to say if you go to a private school. And this is a massive generalisation. Yeah, of course, because I'm friends with people who went to, like, very nice private schools. And I'm usually always about empathy, but I'm just in a very big rage spiral today. There is this sense of, like, privilege and, like, I deserve this kind of – and you see it.

Like, Scott Morrison is an absolute fuck-up and he's always been a massive fuck-up and he's just fucked his way up the chain of command. Like, and remember that We're the Bloody How Are You campaign that completely tanked our fucking tourism industry? He did that. He made that. Yeah. That's the –

But that's, like, that's the whole Boris Johnson effect. Yeah, failing upwards. It's failing up. And that's why this whole idea of women not doing quotas for the amount of people in Parliament because of merit and it should only be based on merit, and I think I used to think it should just be based on merit. Well, like that is a total farce because clearly there's unconscious bias. People hire people that remind them of themselves.

So if it's all old school boys up there, they're going to hire a young bloke that reminds them of them when they were coming up through the ranks. Yeah, cool. Love it. You know, it's not on merit and that's why you get people failing up. Of course it's not. And people make the excuse of like, well, it's really the best person for the job and whatever.

And that's not how it's framed at all. It's exactly what you said. It's people hiring mates or people. Like it's like your dad, you know, you know someone whose dad knows somebody or whatever the fuck. That's like the Attorney General Christian Porter could say when he was 17 that he was going to one day be Prime Minister and with certainty. And he was almost right.

He really was. Because the Attorney General is like one of the most powerful people in the country. So he probably, I say probably because he probably won't be now, And he was almost right. He really was. Because the attorney general is like one of the most powerful people in the country. He probably, I say probably because he probably won't be now, but if this didn't come out, there's a very good chance he would have. Yeah, totally. Anyway, what are we doing?

It's all allegedly, by the way. I don't want to get sued. However, all right, so if you've got another recommendation. I mean we say allegedly, but there's a lot of things. So I would say some of that would probably be true, wouldn't it? Oh, God, don't get us sued. I didn't say which parts. All right. Anyway. Anyway, you're going to love this, Claire. I did this just for you.

All right. My son and I have finished Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury, which I may have talked about on this show before, but we finished it today. I just want to talk us through this game, okay? So for those who don't know, Super Mario 3D World is a re-release of an old game from the Wii U era. And because the Wii U wasn't a massive selling platform, not a lot of people play this game, including me. So they just re-released this game recently with an additional bonus content, that being Bowser's Fury. If you've got kids, if you've got young kids and you want to get

into the video games, this is the perfect game for you to play with them because it's something you can kind of guide them through and teach them and get their skills better while you kind of mostly run things. Because it plays like a traditional Mario game but it's four player. You've played as well, Claire. And you make your way through a level through fairly linear stages and because there's more than one of you on screen, you can kind of drag a person along while they burn through all your lives and power-ups

and ruin the experience for you. That's essentially how it works. But it's basically, it's good at hand-holding somebody and getting their skills up in video games and playing stuff together. And then after you finish the game, we don't have to, you can play it at any time. There's also Bowser's Fury, which is a small open world section of the game which is a little bit more unforgiving. The second player is like you're floating around in a little thing and you're hitting things with a paintbrush and there's not as much control. But, yeah, it's a great – we've just finished it. It's a great game to play with kids if you've got kids.

Or even if you don't, it's just a really good game. I agree. It's beautiful. The graphics are really great. It's really fun. It's fun. I worry it's a. It's really fun. It's fun. I worry it's a gateway drug into like video game addiction. But we're now on the train.

Yeah. Look, video game addiction is real. But it's just about managing your time with it. Okay. It's what it is. It is. Our son has just bloody loved every single second of it because he's basically you as a child. It's also good for not endurance, what's the word?

Persistence. Persistence, that's true. Resilience and persistence. You're absolutely right. Because it's quite difficult. And he has a lot of persistence. Yeah, and teamwork actually. Yeah, teamwork as well.

There's a lot of teamwork and, you know, dexterity with the thumbs. And we use a lot of encouraging language and stuff. Like we don't yell at each other. It's all right, you know, which is very tempting to do. It's just like just do it like I did it. But it's great. Anyway, what have you got? Is that it?

All right. I knew you'd love that. That one was just for you. Oh, thank you so much. It was great. It calmed down my nervous system. Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury. Also, if you want to get Super Mario All-Stars, that's going to be the 3D one.

That's going to be removed from the Nintendo eShop on March 31st along with Super Mario. All right. Okay. Don't push it, mate. Don't push it. You don't push it. Can I go on now?

I've got a recipe. Oh, a recipe. I know. Okay. Is it for hate and bile? I know. So my recommendation was like a fun sort of gripping book to read and then a recipe for hummus and instead I went on a political rant.

I think you should do the book again next week because I have no idea what that was about. You're just like, yeah, it's good, a guess, whatever, and I've got no sense of what it was like at all. I think you can bring it back next week. I know, it's just because like I, I've watched Q&A as well, which, QANDA, which if you're in Australia, you know, it's on ABC iView and if you have an express VPN you can watch,

but there was a really great discussion about all the things that are happening, particularly for women at the moment and consent and a whole lot of things. Yep. Anyway, and if you're a woman out there like me, and I know there's like a lot of stuff that's been happening in the UK as well with the death of Sarah Everard. Just a lot of things. I also, our hearts go out to people in the US at the moment because there are a couple of shootings over there recently. Just like the world just

feels kind of scary. So let's all make some hummus. Let's all make some hummus. This is my recipe for hummus. My recipe for hummus is buy some hummus. I've written that here. All right. Okay. So two cans of chickpeas and you drain them and then keep a little bit of the liquid. A third of a cup of tahini. Tahini. And three cloves of fresh garlic. Fresh garlic. Two lemons juiced.

Parsley. Twin lemons. Two spring onions. Black pepper, just a dash. Just a swish. And cayenne pepper, just a dash. Then you put it all into a blender and you blend it up and you pop in a little bit of olive oil until it's kind of smooth.

A smooth consistency, would you say? Yes, correct. Now, the level of parsley ratio is controversial. My friend Jane gave me this recipe and she puts in like a whole bunch because she likes her hummus to look green. That's crazy. Jane, if you're listening, which you're not, that's crazy. I know.

Correct. Exactly. I like a little bit of parsley. So I would say like maybe half a bunch of parsley and some salt. Don't forget the salt. I agree. That's key. And that's it.

Sometimes you can also sprinkle a little bit of paprika on at the end or what have you. But it's a delight and I love it. I haven't made it in a while because we have kids and who has time for anything, but it's delicious and you can have it with your veggie sticks. You can spread it on your toast. Whenever I buy hummus, you're like, you know, I could just make hummus. I'm like, we don't have time to make it hummus. Stop kidding yourself. I'm going to buy this big bucket of hummus. I'm going to eat it over a month and a half. I love my homemade hummus.

It's good. It's very good. I never have time to make it. You probably use a bit more salt. All right. Who's ringing your phone? Oh, it's my mother. All right.

That's it for me this week. All right, James. Did you know that you can email Suggestible with your suggestions? I actually didn't know that. That's interesting. You absolutely can. What have you got for us this week? So? I actually didn't know that. That's interesting. You absolutely can. What have you got for us this week? So this week I have a voice recommendation.

A voice recommendation? I know, from Dafid Kata. I recommend the voice James Earl Jones. I recommend not listening to your voice. Oh, come on, mate. I love your voice. I hear it all the time. We live together.

So, yes, if you too would like to send in a voice recommendation, just record it in the VoiceMember app on your phone and then send it on over. Ba-choo. Ba-choo. All right, are you ready to listen? I love it. I just love hearing voices from people all over the world.

It's like it's so cool. Our listeners are the best. Look at this, Claire. It's so cool. They cancelled the bunning sausage sizzle thing for our son's school, which is such a relief because now I don't feel bad for not wanting to do it. Is that the... All right.

No, Claire, I'm trying to be community... I'm sure our listeners are really invested in that. I'm trying to be community minded. Great. James, who are you kidding? Who are you kidding? Very community minded nowadays. You're trying.

I care about things and issues. It's not true, but you do. Do you? Who knows? Okay, let's listen to Duffy. Yes. From iClear and James from currently sunny Wales true, but you do. Do you? Who knows? Okay, let's listen to Duffy. Yes. From iClear and James from currently sunny Wales. Oh my God.

I'd like to recommend Hinterland. It's a murder mystery detective series set in Wales, featuring characters speaking both Welsh and English. And I love it because it's a properly positive portrayal of the language.

No hack jokes about, oh, is that where you speak to your sheep and all that. It also features some stunning scenery of Aberystwyth, where the series is set, and is a properly good thriller. I think it's on Netflix. It definitely is in the UK, but if it isn't, get on the good old Express VPN. And I'd also recommend not spilling tea on a white jumper.

Anyway, thank you very much for all your support and recommendations, really. Throughout the time of the podcast, it's really helped me, what with leaving university, starting a job, my dad's chemotherapy, all that good stuff. So, yeah, a massive diok. What was that last word? Diok. Diok.

What does that mean? Which means thank you very much. I love that. Thank you. I know. I? Which means thank you very much. I love that. Thank you. I know. I hope your dad gets better as well. I've seen Hinterland pop up. I've watched it actually.

And? It's right up my alley. Yeah, I was going to say, you love this murder mystery situation. Yeah, yeah, I love it. And it's sort of quite gloomy and, yeah, set in Wales and it's beautifully. The landscape is just incredible. It's absolutely beautiful. Update on the sausage sizzle.

Great email, by the way. Voicemail. I loved it. I know, by the way. I've voiced my love to it. I know, wasn't it? Also, sorry about your white jumper. That sucks. I hate when that happens. That was the saddest thing from that email, obviously. That's what I took away from it.

No, I'm also thinking about your dad too. Yeah, absolutely. Hope he's fine. You're right. Sending you lots of love. The sausage sizzle was cancelled due to lack of family support. Now I feel really terrible. Oh, no.

I'm going to email and say I will, if it's back on, I'll do it. Oh, no. We really should have done it. And now I have to do it because I said I would. I know. And we didn't go to the, I was going to say the busy, the bumblebee, the working bee. We were going to.

Both our kids got sick. I know. We've had the worst four days. I'd get there and they'd be like, what trades do you have? And I'd be like, nothing. Yeah, you got really nervous. Point me at some soil and I'll roll in it. I even missed our son's parent-teacher interview today. You are crushing it.

We are on fire at the moment. Oh, God, the last four days, what a nightmare. Okay, anyway, obviously we are very lucky to have a nice, safe, warm home to be staying in at the moment. And I'm sending love out to anyone, especially if any of our listeners are in Sydney in the flash flooding that's happening. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah, there's another terrible thing going on.

Oh, my goodness gracious. Guys. Do you know you can – Just make some hummus. It'll make you feel better. Just buy some. Just buy some, it says here. Did you know – because you're going to have to go to the store

and buy a bunch of ingredients anyway, so just buy like a natural hummus. But you don't understand – Listen to me, listen to me, Claire. No, stop. You stop. You've forgotten the point of cooking is about the making. Can you stop repeating? Oh, my God.

Okay. I can't handle it anymore. I'm going to explode in a ball of rage and it's going to be the news headlines tomorrow will be like everyone's really angry for Parliament House, but did you hear the woman that actually imploded for rage? Suburban wife goes supernova engulfing the entire planet. Maybe I'll create some kind of new energy force field and then we can power everything via supernova

and we don't have to use any more fossil fuels. Not a bad idea. And then we'll stop having mass disasters and pandemics. And then Elon Musk can take credit for that. He'd be like, I actually drove that woman insane. It was actually me. Yeah, that is absolutely what would happen. A woman would self-implode, killing herself while also saving the planet,

and then some dickhead bloke would walk in and be like, well, actually, I've invented something that will definitely save everything and it was all for me. I did it, yeah. Anyway, here's my hint for hummus. Also, not all men, I love men. I'm sorry. I feel like I've got very angry.

No, I think people know that. I think if you write it and say not all men, it's probably you. Like people know that. I know because most blokes I know are really great. Of course they are. Most people I think are genuinely good people. It's just that a lot of people who run shit are terrible. It just seems that way at the moment, doesn't it?

Yeah. And I don't think that's true either. There are some really lovely people in Leashy. Of course. But I just feel like. But look, if you want to do a fancy hummus, you know what you do. You get a pretty good hummus and when you put it in a separate dish, put a little bit of olive oil in it so you can see it on the top

and then sprinkle on some paprika and just be like, I made this. And people won't even know, mate. They're going to be like, this is incredible. And you're like, yeah, I made this. And they're not going to know. They're not going to know you faked it and you've made it. You know who will know? Your wife.

Because I know. She'll rap me out and be like, you didn't make this. You do that sometimes. You surprise. Whenever we have guests over, you, like, you didn't make this? You do that sometimes. You surprise. Whenever we have guests over, you like vanish into the kitchen and appear with like fancy-up hummus and cheese and crackers. Fancy it up, mate. And then people are like, oh, my God.

And even some veggie sticks. Yeah, and like the trick is minimal effort. That's my trick. Anyway. And I also think then you feel like you can just vanish. That's right. Then I'm like, I've done my duty. Now I'm going to sit in a cupboard on my phone.

Don't play Mario 3D World. Plus That's right. Then I'm like, I've done my duty. Now I'm going to sit in a cupboard on my phone. Go and play Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury. My God, the amount of times I hear our son just singing that song. It's driving me insane. And I say, are you going to play Super Mario 3D World plus Bowser's Fury? Oh, my God. Hey, man, review the show. It's easy as this. You open your app on your phone and you review it.

You can do it in an app. It's as easy as that. It's like faking a hummus recipe. Like Maddie Tyree says. No, it's what I would do. This is the most successful show, Maddie says. Claire and James never cease to bring silly stories, relational banter and amazing reviews.

Claire has expanded my views on many topics. Thanks for the amazing podcast to walk to, Maddie T. Brackets, official dog walker of the pod? Totally. You can be the official dog walker. Thanks, Maddie T. What a ledge. What a ledge.

All right, next week, same show. Same place. Maybe Angria. Maybe. Maybe. And if you've got recommendations, send them in, mate. Voice memos, regular things, whatever you've got going on. Let us know what you thought of the Snyder Cut of Justice League.

Let us know. God, why would we even? Why? I don't even. Why? You going to watch it? No. It's only four hours.

If you've got time to make comments, you've got time to watch this. My favourite commentator, Annabelle Krabs, tweeted this funny thing about the guy that, like, did the business all over someone's desk, which is just so awful. And I haven't figured out a way. People are calling it the desk incident because there's some really horrible ways of, like, saying what happened. Anyway, she just tweeted this whole thing about how, like, any women have time in their lives to, like,

just stand and film themselves doing that over someone's desk? Hell no. That is true, yeah. Women just don't know. Who has the bloody time to do that, let alone like yes, the inclination, but also the time? There's no time. Everyone knows that.

That's true. There's no time for anything. There's no time for nothing ever. Particularly if you're a woman. You're too busy like taking on the mental load and looking after everybody and caring for your sick parents as well as like trying to like fight the patriarchy. No one has time to bloody wank on a desk. That's what they should call it, the wank on the desk incident.

It's so awful. Anyway. All right. We'll see you next week where hopefully nobody's wanked on a desk. Goodbye. Sorry. I know. I feel like I need to preface this by saying I'm sorry for my rage.

But also I'm not. You don't say I'm sorry. You shouldn't be sorry. We've been to Jess for a podcast. Please come back and listen next week. Sick. Okay. Bye.

Thanks to Collings for editing. Bye, Collings. 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. Hey, folks, it's Mark Maron from WTF.

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