Suggestible - Take in that sea breeze, boys.

Episode Date: April 16, 2020

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Hi, I'm Jessi Cruikshank from the number one comedy podcast, Phone a Friend, which I strongly advise you listen to. You know what else I suggest you look into? Becoming a host on Airbnb. Did you like that segue? Thank you. I recently started putting my guest house on Airbnb when I'm out of town, and I didn't realize how easy it would be until I did it. If you have a spare room, you could Airbnb it, or your whole place could be an Airbnb. It's a great way to make a little extra money by doing not a lot, which frankly is my mantra in 2024. To learn more, go to airbnb.ca slash host. Hello, James. I'm very proud of you. Do you want to know why? No.

Because you're keeping a plant alive for the first time in your life. I can keep a plant alive, get a kid alive. I'll keep anything alive. I'll keep an active volcano alive. I don't mind. For a backstory, my name is Claire. James isames over there we're sitting a bit further apart because isolation podcasting even though we're married this is how it's set up for when i do my more successful podcast so yeah yeah yeah you sound so busy tonight it's so busy you're snapping i am busy i got a lot of recordings and editing today i'm trying to get a whole bunch of videos and stuff in the can because we're about to have a baby in three weeks right we're both about to have a baby both of us have been putting in the hard yards to get a whole bunch of videos and stuff in the can. Because we're about to have a baby in three weeks. That's right. We're both about to have a baby.

Both of us have been putting in the hard yards to get that baby growing. Totally. Anyway, I'm very proud because I don't think you've ever had an indoor plant. And I casually said to you that the plant that I bought for your studio, our studio, was dying. And it's not been dying anymore. Well, the reason why I've never had a plant is because, in all honesty, they're kind of pointless and I don't really need one. But you don't understand.

But this is you. Okay, so if you've never heard this man talk over there before, his hypothesis includes the sky is overrated, beer is a conspiracy, plants are pointless. Yep. So basically. Plants are obviously not pointless. Like they a conspiracy. Yep. Plants are pointless. Yep. So basically. Plants are obviously not pointless. Like they're obviously not pointless.

No, they create ambience. They also freshen the air. Yeah, they freshen the air. They collect bugs. Exactly. Bugs are important for the environment. Classic. But look, the important thing is that I have a plant,

we have a plant, and I've kept the plant alive. Should I get into my first recommendation? Yeah, you should. Just before you do, I also think that you need to address the monkey in the room. You? Gotcha. No, the elephant in the room. The reason why you sound so flat today, what happened?

What happened? What did you do? I hit the car. I smashed the shit out of the side of the car. A brand new car that we bought and I loved it and it was all shiny, shiny. Not anymore. Not one side of it. So I was in one of those where i dropped you off your appointment i'm not allowed to go in for social isolating reasons for the baby and as i was coming out of the car park one of those tower car parks it's really tight and it's a bigger car and i'm like sleep deprived

and i've been working late night editing everything and i just hit all i just turned a quarter and i just hit a pole and i hit it so hard. And a wall. It's like a wall. You hit a wall. Yeah, it was like, yeah, as you go down the ramp. And, yeah, so I hit three out of the four panels on one side of the car and smashed in a door handle. But to be fair, I did do it. What gets me is you would have had to drive.

Like it's all the way along so you had to just keep driving and scratching the car all the way along. By the time I'd realised what I was, like it was done. Like I wasn't like. You just committed. Oh, no, I've hit it. Maybe if I creep out of this. It was like it was done.

Like it was just before I realized what was happening. And I'm just like, oh, my God. And the worst part is like, honestly, the worst part is just like, I don't want to deal with this shit. Like, you know what I mean? Like it was just like just another fucking thing. To be fair, I always do. I always do all that stuff for you.

That's the, yeah, that's true. Or to be fair. The organising of the car. Where are the car? You did smash every side of the car. Yeah, I know, but just in the corners. Yeah, but I'm Prego and my spatial awareness went to shit. Yeah.

That's actually a genuine thing. No, but to be fair, I felt so sorry for you. Initially, I was devastated because it was a brand new car that, like, we've never owned a brand new car before ever in our whole life. And I really love that car. Now we definitely don't because I ruined it. No, it'll be fine. We've only got three weeks to go.

It'll be fine. I'll fix it. I'll fix it. Lucky we're not driving. We bought it because we'd need to be driving places with two kids. No, we're not going nowhere. We're not going nowhere. Anyway, we've got to get into it.

We've got to get into it. All right, get your stuff out. My first recommendation is – Get it out, mate. I'm getting out. I hit the plant. Don't touch that plant. You know how much I care for it.

So the first one is – Planty. Underwater. Planty's fine. Underwater is a movie that came out in February of this year. I know this one. Kevin Costner. No, that's Waterworld.

With a little ball patch that's covered with things. Oh, sorry. That is a fact about Waterworld. Flippity flippity feet. If people were wondering whether Marnie and Laura Lodge. I'm Kevin Costner. I'm bald, but I've got flippity flippity feet. I like to swim in the ocean.

He didn't have flippity feet. He had gills in his neck. Oh, that's right. Didn't he also have flippers on? No, he didn't. Maybe he was wearing flippers, but the idea behind Waterworld, well, the budget blew out. And part of the reason was because

Kevin Costner thought he looked too bald in certain scenes so had him CGI hair into his bald head. Whoa. Yeah. It was worth it because that movie's spectacular. We have discussed before how obsessed men are with their hair. Yes. Would you do that if you only noticed after a giant blockbuster film

was all filmed that you had a bald patch? I mean, I guess if there was the money and you're like a movie star and your whole thing is your image, then, yeah, I guess you would. Okay. Because a lot of them, it's hair plugs and wigs and everything. Like it's crazy. It's like rampant in Hollywood. It's everybody's on human growth hormone and all that kind of stuff.

So, yeah, I guess you would. All right. So we wanted a record that if James ever realises he has a bald patch. And I'm a Hollywood superstar. He's a Hollywood superstar. Wouldn't you? In an average blockbuster movie. Average?

Try the biggest movie of 1990. No, it wasn't. It was a massive bomb. But it made money back eventually. But, no, wouldn't you? If you were in a movie and you had a bald spot, wouldn't you CGI it out? Yeah, but the difference is I have lustrous hair. There's no difference.

Not a grey hair on my head. I would never go bald. So did Kevin Costner. And women do go bald. It happens. We've really rambled. Who's taking us off track? You with your plants and your cars. And your bald patches.

Okay, tell us about your swim, swim underwater film. It's directed by William Eubank and it stars Kristen Stewart, Vincent Castle, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher, TJ Miller, who's currently cancelled for various crimes. But it opened poorly. It was made for between like 50 and 80 million. It was one of the ones that Fox

sold off to Disney and it made about 40 million. It was also, it came out at a bad time just before the pandemic, but far enough ahead of it that it could have still made money, but it didn't. Was it also the soundtrack? Under the Sea. That didn't help because people were like, this is from a different movie.

I had a singing crustacean. So it's heavily reminiscent of like disaster and horror movies from the 80s. I'm not going to name which specifically because there is that kind of reveal in the movie, what is going on. But it's set in an underwater research facility and mining facility at the bottom of the ocean somewhere. I can't remember.

I was kind of half watching it. Oh, like one of those underwater house-y things. Yeah, exactly. Like the television show Ocean Girl. I was just going to say that because I bloody love Ocean Girl. You'd love this. I love her so much. She swims with the whales.

Anyway, so it immediately starts. There's not really any buildup. The thing just explodes and starts sinking and the corridor starts flooding with water. And that's like how it starts. And then it's about the crew members trying to escape this sinking facility uh for the for the length of it it's only like an hour and a half and look there's not many new movies at the moment you probably haven't seen this but it is available on streaming but to be honest it's fairly decent kind of sci-fi adventure horror throwback with a really great lead performance

by Kristen Stewart. And honestly, I think, look, it's, again, I'm not going to say what it's reminiscent of because if you don't know, you probably don't want to know because it would kind of ruin a lot of the movie. But it just does a lot of the things, a lot of the tropes well. It's not very original, but the things that it apes, it does a fairly decent job at replicating them. Do you mean apes as in like replicate?

Yeah, that's what an ape does. Repli-apes. I've never heard that phrase before. And for the listener, James just did an ape dance. I did not. Just to clarify, I absolutely did not. I was stoic and still. You were doing a little dance.

And you can't even see my bald patch from this angle. We have a pact as a married couple that if I ever see that you have a bald patch, I have to tell you. If you're like, your hair's looking real thin, just tell me and I'll just say it. I'll be done. I don't want to be walking around thinking I'm getting away with anything. You do need a haircut. I absolutely do need a haircut.

You do because you've got your silver fox going on, which looks great when it's short. But as it gets longer, it starts to get like old man weird. Yeah, it's no good. Yeah. Lucky I still love you. Yeah. Anyway, you's no good. Yeah. Lucky I still love you. Yeah. Anyway, you should watch it.

Yeah. I mean, should, if that kind of thing appeals to you. I love it. You know how much I love an underwater world kind of movie? Because I don't like horror. I get scared by like things. But for some reason, underwater shit, bloody love it. I saw Megalodon.

Bloody lost my mind. Well, then I think you might be. The Meg. Oh, the Meg. That's what it's called. Bloody love it. I saw Megalodon. Bloody lost my mind. Well, then I think you might be. The Meg. Oh, the Meg. That's what it's called. It was terrible. But there's something that fascinates me about the ocean because, guys, what's in there?

Nobody knows. Bears or bees. Bears. Underwater bears. Underwater bears. Well, there's like, I don't polar bears swim some of the time. They do. They're like, you know what I mean?

Like the ocean, there's more ocean on earth than land. We can't get down there until it's bits. There's a lot of scary things down there. Nobody knows what. Who cares? He looks so tired. Who cares what's down there? In all honesty.

Don't you reckon? And there's all like googly eyed things that like flash in the dark. You know what they should do? They should get rid of the ocean. I don't know. There's a giant. They should siphon off the ocean into a big bucket so we don't have to deal with it anymore. What?

I'm pretty sure like environmentally that wouldn't work. No, because we keep the water. I think that we need the ocean. It's in the bucket. It's in the bucket if we need it. We can pour it back from the bucket. We're like, actually, we need this Pacific Ocean. What is this science by Donald Trump?

No, this is science by a man who knows a lot about science. This is James aping science by Donald Trump. Hey, this is science by a man who knows a lot about science. This is James Aping science by Donald Trump. Hey, that man is a national treasure. He called the virus an antibiotic this week. He knows what he's doing. Don't even worry about him. Oh, boy. Anyway, what's your recommendation?

Moving on from the darky, darky, swimmy, swimmy things that are in the ocean. Guys, we don't know what's in there. What's up in there? Get it all in a bucket. We don't know. There's so much shit in there we don't know. It's like when you're panning for gold. We just do that with all the stuff in the ocean and be like,

what's in here? There is definitely a giant squid somewhere in there. Oh, yeah, they exist. Like a tentacle. Anyway, it terrifies me but also fascinates me, so I'm going to watch that movie. What was it called, the one you recommended? Ocean Girl.

Oh, yes. I love that show. That's why I love that show. No, I'm serious. Tell me the other one. Waterworld one what a world no well yeah that one with the baldy patch it was underwater yes there you go and the funny thing is a lot of it listen to you a lot of it probably almost all is said underwater oh funny tell me where i could get it it's on streaming very streaming so i used used a VPN. I can't remember. Oh, was it possibly ExpressVPN? Yes.

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What is it? Disappointingly. It's called United States of Tara. Everybody knows this. I know it's an old show, but I want to talk about it because all three seasons, there's only three seasons and then it got cancelled, which is a little sad, but still great watching. It's available on Amazon Prime.

And I just thought it was really interesting. It was actually the whole concept of the show was made by Stephen Spielberg and his wife, whose name is Kate Capshaw. My wife, yeah. She was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dome. She's the one who's like, Indy! And he's like, I'm a bloody woman, I'm sick of this shit, quite frankly. All right.

Well, anyway, so she seems really cool too. And so it's based around the idea of the central character played by Toni Collette and that she has a disorder called dissociative identity disorder, which was formerly known as multiple personality disorder. Yes. And I think what's really interesting about it is it's really hard to define. It's one of those shows, James, that's like hilarious, but also moving and confronting and outrageous and a little bit indescribable, much like a dramedy, would we say? All those things you're describing, I imagine you say hilarious.

And what else did you say? Confronting. Hilarious, confronting. Outrageous. Outrageous. Moving. Yeah. Okay, that's – and moving.

I imagine a monster truck with a big smiley face on the front. That fits that description perfectly. But is a monster truck with a smiley face hilarious? That's a good question. Well, comedy is subjective, so I'm going to say yes. All right. You know what is hilarious? Your bald patch.

I dare you, Claire. I'm telling you at this moment in time to tell you that you have a bald patch. Next week I'm going to be completely, I'm going to have a shaved head. Oh, Lord. Anyway, back to the show. It's actually, it's so excellent. And I'm really, I just am in awe of Toni Collette and her acting prowess because she plays Tara, the central character,

who's a suburban artisan mother coping with dissociative identity disorder, but it also looks beautifully at her family. And I think one of the core things about this show is that the writing is so excellent and her family, so her husband is played by John Corbett. Aidan from Sex and the City. Yes, and he's like the rock of the show. He kind of has been with her for 17 years. Can you smell what the rock is cooking?

That's a wrestling reference. Oh, there you go. Let me keep, stop interrupting. Who would do that? But their relationship is so beautiful and he clearly just loves her so much that he's willing to put up with the outrageousness of her embodying kind of all of these different people at the same time. And every time she embodies one of her what she calls alters,

she can't remember anything that they do. So one of them is like this like kind of really blokey hillbilly man and then there's also a 15-year-old girl and then there's Alice who is like a 1950s housewife and then you start to also see other characters unfold through the show, which I won't spoil. But every time she's one of those characters, she can't remember anything that's happened.

Like a fight club. Yeah. They also have two teenage kids. One, Kate, is played by Brie Larson, who we love. Oh, is she? I didn't know that. Yeah. I didn't realise Brie Larson was in it.

Yeah, and she's really funny in it because she's just got a really, you know, her delivery is quite dry and deadpan and she plays it so perfectly as sort of like a troubled teen age daughter. Yeah. And then Marshall, her brother, is played by Keir Gilchrist. Yes. And he's gay and kind of grapples with his sexuality throughout the show, which is kind of really interesting as well.

There's a lot of themes around just being a teenager and how hard that is in relationships. How is it? How hard is it, do you reckon? Bloody hard and high school sucks and all of that kind of stuff. Nah, not if you're the coolest guy in school like I was. All right. And then her sister is played by Rosemary DeWitt. And she is, you would know her as a character in La La Land. She's the sister of, plays the piano in like the main lead, now my brain's gone. Ryan Gosling.

Is Ryan Gosling in Marla? Yeah, yeah, his sister. Yeah. She's also in an episode of Black Mirror and she's in Mad Men. But she's excellent and she's kind of Tara's self-absorbed younger sister in the show. And she's also great and their relationship is really interesting. So what I love about this show is just the dialogue, the relationships between the characters.

And even though it sounds like it does explore mental illness, I think in a really considered way, even though it is also very funny and traumatic and all of those things, I think the strength of the show is in the writing and the dialogue between the characters, which is, you know, what I always love about a show, any premise you can put in place as long as you've got really true and believable characters who have really. You can make anything if you do.

Relationships. Yeah, and it's the relationships between those characters that are so beautiful and oftentimes really heartbreaking. And I think that comes down to the writer of this show, Diablo Cody. Do you know much about her? I've heard that name, definitely. Right, so that's her pen name. Her actual name is Brooke Morio.

She was born in 1978 on June 14th. Yeah, so she is a writer and producer. She started off with a blog and subsequent memoir called Candy Girl, A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. But turns out she wrote Juno, which was her debut feature film script. And that won like, oh, my gosh, so many awards for the best original screenplay, BAFTA award for best original screenplay, just a brilliant film. And I think the dialogue in Juno, you can see hints of that in United States of Tara.

I've watched Juno again. I haven't watched that since it came out. Yeah, me neither. I really like Ellen Page and Michael Cera. Yeah, me too. And I really like her writing style. She just seems like a really interesting person. And Toni Collette in an interview really raved about her too.

Yeah. So her writing is just brilliant and I think it really comes to the fore in United States of Tara and that's why I think she got Toni Collette as the lead because the writing just, as you can tell, kind of jumps out at you out of the page. So it's also just really funny and I just have got really absorbed in it. And at these particular times, I just think it's one of those shows you binge watch.

That started in the mid-2000s or something, didn't it? Yeah, it did. 2007, 2005. What, Juno? Juno was released in 2007. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, United States of Tara is 2009 to 2011. Cool, gotcha.

Oh, really? It was only short. But what I also thought was really interesting about it is that when I was watching it, I was trying to pinpoint why I could identify so much with the character and with the writing and why I loved it so much. And then when I found out it was a woman that was writing it, I could tell. And I know this sounds very, I don't know, ranty or something,

but the reactions, the relationships between the daughter, her mother, her sister, the way that women are portrayed in it, their sexuality is portrayed, their feelings around motherhood and identity and all that kind of stuff just really rang true and that's actually not that common, particularly in shows I think that are written by men. Not that I don't enjoy shows that are written by blokes. I know what you're saying because it's coming from the perspective of somebody who's experienced these things.

Yeah, and it kind of deals with those. I don't think that's outrageous. All right. I know I sort of have to feel, I feel like I need to put caveats around all this stuff. You should. Apologise for all opinions. And I don't want to do that.

But I just, I guess what I'm trying to say is I think that like in a broader sense it deals with the reality that women often face, and I'm sure men do this as well, but that we have to be so many different people in so many different situations and different people for other people in our lives and play all these different roles. Yeah. I think that could be true for a lot of people. But, and play all these different roles. Yeah. I think that could be true for a lot of people, but yeah. Yeah, and so they explore that in general,

but I think for women in particular that can really, particularly as parents and I don't know, yeah, just there's a lot of stuff in it that makes you really think but also makes you laugh and it really hits a true chord, true note. Anyway, I loved it. It's on Amazon Prime. Your turn. Well, I have something equally thought-provoking,

something that I've just gotten back into. They had quite a bit of a hiatus. Don't sound so enthused. No, no, Claire, I'm building up to it. Guys, he doesn't want to be here. It started back up in March and, look, I'm back into it in a big way. It's the Aunty Donna podcast. And, look, I know this is obviously like a podcast on our network,

but this is something I'd happily recommend regardless. Because if you don't know Aunty Donna, they're a comedy sketch group. They've been on a bit of hiatus because they've been working on a project which. Top, top, a secret, secret. It's top secret. I'd love to talk about it, but it has nothing to do with me, quite frankly.

But it's, yeah, you'll see. You'll see. You'll all see. You'll all see. You'll all see. You'll all be sorry. Or your naysayers. That comes in my recommendation next, that phrase. They've just started putting some old sketches up that they hadn't

previously released because they recorded them for when Rove came back last year and then the show was axed like almost immediately so they had these. So they're kind of those starting up on their YouTube channel. So those are there. But the podcast is this funny and silly, surreal, I don't know, maybe variety show. I don't know.

It's different every week. The most recent one was, if you know, there's a few members of Aunty Donna. There's the three front member. There's other people also cycling in and out and also people who are full-time members of the team but also work behind the scenes as well with writing and music and things like that. But in this this particular episode it's mark is just being mark mark's got the beard he's the one they call the little italian kind of guy broden is playing uh the biggest harry potter fan in the world who also hasn't seen the movies or read the books

so he's just making up a lot of harry potter stuff as they go and zach is pretending to be dwayne the rock johnson but he's lacking confidence so he Zach is pretending to be Dwayne the Rock Johnson, but he's lacking confidence. So he's like, huh, I'm Dwayne the Rock. You might know me from my big muscles and all that. I can't do it. I'm not doing any justice. But also the things that he talks about are oddly accurate and specific and real true life things that are true

of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. And also during, of course, the episode you find out that Mark in real life has had too much caffeine and is struggling to kind of right the ship as he feels like he's going to have a heart attack and an existential crisis at the same time. So it's always different every week. You kind of don't know what you're walking into, but it's really fun. And just listen to it because it's lighthearted and fun. And they're still doing them over Zoom now at the moment.

The latest one is actually, the first one I mentioned is actually up on their YouTube channel. They're so clever and great. Their whole YouTube channel in general is just brilliant. I mean, yeah, recently. Every now and then I'll just kind of fall down the rabbit hole and I'll just go through and kind of like watch everything again. Yeah. So yeah, my favorite one I think is the school nurse. It's one of my favorite ones, my recent one.

The sea breeze, boys. Oh, that sea breeze. I can't even do it. He literally does that every day for our house all of the time. Salty air on my lungs. Breathe it in, boys. I'm taking that Seabreeze, boys. You need to go and watch that sketch. And I love Broden Kelly.

We saw Joker together, the movie Joker. Yes, he's so funny and great. He's so fucking funny. He's actually the director of Jess Perkins' comedy show. He is, yeah. Jess Perkins from our other podcast that I love, Do Go On. And she, I mean, I love all that stuff, but, you know, that's one that's awesome.

And Jess is supposed to do a comedy stand-up show in the Melbourne Comedy Festival. It got cancelled. But he was directing a show, which made me really happy because. Hopefully that'll come back. He's hilarious. Yeah, he's great. Anyway, you'll be seeing him real soon.

I will. Is it my turn? It is. I'm done, yeah. Well, speaking of comedy, I have a comedy recommendation too. We've gone from Under the Sea to All Things Funny. I don't know. That doesn't even make sense.

Celia Piccola, who I love, who's a great stand-up comedian from Melbourne, she has a new comedy special that's just been released on Amazon Prime called All Talk. Oh. All Talk. I saw you watching this, yeah. Yeah, it's really funny. I actually saw this show or a version of this show live last year

in the Comedy Festival and it was great then and it's great. It's a great watch and really fun, really funny. But it also kind of explores some dark things about her life as well. But in general, I love Celie's comedy because it's often just so lighthearted and funny and silly and great but also very frank. Yeah, and the reason I was laughing while we were saying that, you'll all see is because every year she chooses a motto for her life and that's her motto from last year was, you'll see, you'll all see is because every year she chooses a motto for her life and that's her motto from last year was you'll see, you'll all see.

And that was like the thing that motivated her for the year, which makes me laugh so much because, you know, people are always like seize the day and all that stuff. No, you'll see, you'll all see. Yeah, so she's just great. I would recommend her in lots of things. She's also just a brilliant actress and she's in Utopia, which is a really hilarious show, kind of in a similar vein to The Office

but about politicians and behind the scenes of politics. She's so funny in that she does a great show, Rosehaven, with Luke McGregor. Silly Bacola. We've talked about that before, I'm sure. Yeah, it's a great show on the ABC. But you can find that. I think it's definitely on streaming services.

But she also does serious drama too. Yes. And I've seen her in that show that was based on a classic. What's that called? I always forget. A Beautiful Lie? A Beautiful Lie. Yeah, but it's based on.

And it's got the girl, the actress that is in the other thing that you love. Succession. Succession. Yes. Yeah, and it's just a. And it's got the girl, the actress that is in the other thing that you love. Succession. Yes. Yeah, and it's just a brilliant drama. I will Google that. Yeah, can you Google that while I keep on rambling? So she's in that and she plays like a mother in that and just really, really well, but it's quite a straight role.

And the other thing that I've been loving about Celia Piccola recently, which has gone on a bit of a deep dive, she just recently finished the season of Dancing with the Stars in Australia and she won it. And what's so amazing is she's actually a brilliant dancer. Turns out, yeah. Turns out. And she's never done any dancing before

and she barely could look her dancing man in the eye because he looks like Cupid but grown up with, like, muscles. And she said she doesn't like to be in the like touched by anyone she doesn't know, let alone by a bloke she doesn't know. And she had to do all these spins and listen to it and she couldn't stop laughing. Like she couldn't even be in the same room with him initially because he's like very handsome, you know, like a dancer.

Anyway, and she just breaks through all that, breaks down her barriers. She's got a lot of like kind of body issues around her weight and stuff and she just had to be sexy and, you know, very serious in these dancing routines. And I know it seems like, you know, it's a reality issue, but I think it's my favourite of all of them because you can't fake it. You can't fake that kind of like they have to do like eight to ten hours. Yeah, it's so.

Of serious, rigorous training every day. I look at that and it gives me heart palpitations because I am a terrible dancer. Because even if you're doing like a singing show, I still, you know, those are challenging but everybody can kind of get up there and make some noise and talk. Make some noise. Make some noise. But, you know, but that kind of skill and that fitness level you have to go to.

Yeah, the physicality of it. And then the amount that they work hard and then these routines they create are just so awesome. My favourite thing is when they get like a very old person with a very young person and the young person does a lot of the like running about and it's John Wood in the middle kind of like shuffling his face. No shade on John Wood. No shade at all.

He's in an Auntie Donna sketch. Yes, he's in Bikey Wallace. He's very funny in that. Anyway, this particular season, and you can go back and watch it online, and if you follow Silly Piccolo on Instagram, you can see her dances. But as an awkward comedian, kind of self-deprecating stand-up, to watch her just do these like incredibly difficult and often quite serious and heartfelt dances.

And she talks a lot about her depression and anxiety and mental health as well. She really champions mental health. She has one or two routines, particularly one week where her depression just kind of took over and she really struggled to get through. And it was, she was just really beautiful the way she talked about it so honestly and openly.

Anyway, it just made me happy and during this time everybody's got to get some happier, happier. By the end they're like dancing to like no crowds. Yeah. Yeah, so you literally see they started before the pandemic kind of took off and then by the end, yeah, they're all social distancing and there's no crowds in the room and she just smashed it. And I just think it's always really cool to see someone do something

outside their comfort zone and rock it and be vulnerable, which I think is really challenging. And often for comedians I think it can be even more challenging to kind of open up in that way and take yourself seriously. Yeah, absolutely. I really respect that. She was great in it and, yeah, so all talk on Amazon Prime plus Dancing with the Stars with Silly Bakula. Silly Bakula. Silly Bak that. She was great in it. And, yeah, so all talk on Amazon Prime plus Dancing with the Stars

with Silly Bakula. Silly Bakula. Silly Bakula. All right. Is that the show? That's the show. Terrific. Well, look.

Terrifico. Ha, ha, ha. While you're bringing up something that people listen to or something. Oh, wait. So what are they doing? I have an email. Cool. Yeah, you can do that now.

Do you want me to do that first? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Okay. So you can email the show with your suggestions. We love to hear them, mainly because we're running out of our own. Not me. So you can email the show at suggestiblepod at gmail.com.

We also just love to hear from you. If you have something you want to say, we'd love to hear it. Not always. I always read them. James does not always read all the emails. I have no idea how to access that email. But Claire tells me the ones, the good ones, the ones that feel true. No, all of them.

I tell you about them. Anyway. You tell me about them. All right. Well, but I read them all. So Julie Reynolds, thank you so much for writing in. Hello there. She says, love your podcast.

My boyfriend turned me on to it shortly after we found out we were pregnant with your parenthood episode. What? You're giving birth to our parenthood episode? What? How awkward. Remember they were using it for lovemaking. Yeah.

Well, everybody does. Everybody does? They call us the lovemakers. No, Colleen's edited that out. That was bad. No, Colleen's leave it in. I think I was going for, it's just a love machine. Is that a song?

No, no, you did it. Everything's a song if you want it to be. I have a baby crammed up against my organs. No judgment. What am I going to do once this baby's out? I'll have no excuse. The problem with my organs is because my torso was so muscular. That's the problem because my organs feel a little bit constricted from my abs.

Oh, God. Do you know the most infuriating thing about me being pregnant? How many chin-ups I can do? Yes. It's just watching James get progressively fitter as the nine months has gone on and now he's bought a bloody chin-up bar to put in the bloody doorway. I got into bed last night and I had to remove a chin-up bar from our bedroom doorway.

I actually haven't had any working out today so I'm feeling pretty rubbish. Oh, the one day. No, thank you for acknowledging that. One day, yes. That's right. Thank you for one day. No, thank you for acknowledging that. One day, yes. That's right. Thank you for empathising with me for once. You stopped making me look at you and talk about your muscles. I go, where am I looking this morning?

Yeah, you would do that like every day forever. And then I got pregnant and like I was becoming like a giant human. And you just at one time I just exploded at you because you were like, Claire, look at my muscles. What do you think? I'm feeling a bit down today. I don't know. I've probably eaten too much.

And I was looking at you and I've just turned into this human, like bloody Michelin woman. And I just lost it. Day one. As soon as that baby is out of you, we're going back to that routine. Oh, great. You telling me how good I look. Okay, great. That'll be exactly what I need to hear. I want you to be routine. Oh, great. You telling me how good I look. Okay, great. That'll be exactly what I need to hear.

I want you to be honest. Because actually, because while you're pregnant, like, you know, fine. Got a baby, you know, you preggo. But then the baby comes out and it's not like you immediately like pop back into the size that you were.

I mean, some women do. I'm not one of those women. That's the whole thing. So I'm going to love that. Just looking at your muscles. I appreciate that. To be fair, I like some eye candy around the house. So keep working out, mate.

One day you'll get there. Yeah, maybe. Anyway, let me finish. Can't work out that bald spot. I've been reading her email and I'm off topic. Shout out to my husband for buying me the cookbook he suggested as a gift shortly afterwards. Oh, I do love it.

And she loves it. Oh, that's Midnight Chicken, chicken a great beautiful recipe book and so for claire she's recommended a murder mystery called caliphate oh i love caliphate on the netflix us which i'll be able to access with my express vpn yes there's also one season but i binge watched it in a day it traces multiple characters beginning with a woman stuck in the isis caliphate in syria who contacts the police officer trying to get out with her baby. It sounds really full of suspense and discovery. It certainly does.

Yes, exactly. Action-packed with a mass attack, suspense of discovery and multiple characters whose lives all tie in together. In the end, it will keep you on the edge of your seat. That sounds so up my alley. Also, all of your pregnancy rants are on point. Thanks, mate. I agree.

I am on point. Well, mate. I agree. I am on point. Well, good, as long as you both agree that you're all right. I like you, Julie. I finally figured out why I wasn't reading as much listening to you. Yeah, your brain just, it's hard. James, sorry, James. Suggestions for you are more my boyfriend's lane,

but he's a dedicated listener to your supposedly more popular podcast, lol. Not supposedly. Supposedly. That is a fact. Julie is my new best friend lol. Not supposedly. Supposedly. That is a fact. Julie is my new best friend and she said supposedly. That is a statistical fact. And we are committed to that hypothesis. Stay safe, you guys. You too.

Best wishes, Julie. You know what I love about Julie? Julie just gave me a recommendation. There was nothing there for you. And often people write in for you. So I like it. Yeah, well, that's because I'm from a more popular podcast. You are a spin-off of my more popular podcast.

You know, like in a motorbike, how there's like a sidecar and then there's the person who runs next to the sidecar. That's you. Okay, look, if you do want to help the show, we would really appreciate this. Both of us can agree on this. You can review it in-app. Like I'm Not Comical says, I'm Not Comical,

and it says Spirit, five stars, says, I love this podcast. You guys are really helping me through this time. I like both your spirits, but I haven't heard James talk about the dog spirit on these much more successful podcasts that we could plan in a long time. Does he still like the dog spirit? Did her spirit change? How is she doing?

I need answers. No, her spirit's great. She's bloody kicking ass. Yeah, she did get trapped in the podcast studio today. She did. I came out. I was upstairs and I looked out the window and I saw the dog just staring at me through the glass in the studio.

I'm like, what the fuck? And I go out there and I'm like, did I leave her? I haven't even been in here today. What happened? And then I'm like, how did this happen? And then my son was like, I did it. I put go out there and I'm like, did I leave her? I haven't even been in here today. What happened? And then I'm like, how did this happen? And then my son was like, I did it. I put her in there. And I'm like, why?

That's not a good thing. Don't do it. No. Yeah. All right. That's the show. That's your show. Next week.

I always do it on the weekend plan. I'm like, next week. And then I might have a topic. But I don't know. This. I'll watch some stuff. We'll watch some stuff and let you know. Come back.

We're actually reading a couple of really good books. But I don't want to talk about it until I finish them. I'm not know, this. I'll watch some stuff. We'll watch some stuff and let you know. Come back. We're actually reading a couple of really good books but I don't want to talk about it until I finish them. I'm not reading any books. I may never finish them though because I might have a baby by next week. Oh, my God, I hope not. Yeah. I mean, the joy. No, you never know.

No, exactly. You know what you will have by next week though? What's that? A bald patch. Maybe. Maybe. What if I work out my head so much it gets muscular and it draws the hair together.

No, if I got bigger it would spread them out a bit more. Oh, my God. It's the most mangman I've learned. Anyways, grab that gem, you guys. We'll see you next week. No. What's wrong? That's not the podcast.

What's the sign up for this show then? James has a bald patch. See you next week. See you next week. See you next week. All right, Claire. You've got to watch me drive off on this motorbike. And I have to run along beside you. I can't even run at the moment.

With that attitude. All right. See you later. Oh, thanks to Rock Hollings for editing as well. Oh, my God, Rock Hollings. You've got a big job this week. Oh, my God. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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