Suggestible - The Great Lego Debate

Episode Date: September 16, 2021

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Wow. That must be your biggest bong, bong. It certainly is that time of day again. I guess I'll do another bong for you. Bong. Wow. That must be your biggest bong you've done as of so far. Oh, no, I could do bigger. Ready? Bong. You've really risen to the challenge. Edit that, Collings. Yeah, Collings, put up with this.

I'm sorry, mate. God, he's had to put up with so much, our editor, Collings. That's a lot. Things that people don't even know how much stuff that guy does. I know, mate. God, he's had to put up with so much, our editor colleagues. That's a lot. Things that people don't even know how much stuff that guy does. I know, exactly. Farts, burps, coughs, sneezes. I just meant in general. Snorts.

General nonsense that he has to deal with and us. Look, he's a god among men. Editing. And we respect him and he is great. So how are you over there, Jim Bob? We are suggestible. I should ask you first, how are you? I'm double vaxxed, baby.

Yeah, baby. How are you feeling? It's all right. We are suggestible. I should ask you first. How are you? I'm double vaxxed, baby. Yeah, baby. How are you feeling? It's all right. It just happened today. So I think I feel tired, but I'm like, that should just be regular. It's going to be regular stuff, you know what I mean? It's very hard to tell. I feel relieved, though.

I'm just happy to have it done. I know. To be honest, yeah. Lucky, right? You feel lucky. But I can bloody, I'll tell you this much, I can bloody pick up bloody wireless with my bloody teeth now or something, you know? Yeah, you've got the 5G in there.

Bloody 5G something, Bill Gates something, you know, that joke or whatever. Anyway, we recommend things and what are you recommending this week? Well, before that, I'll introduce the show. We're suggestible. We are married. I'm Claire. James is here also. He's double vaxxed.

I'm single vaxxed, soon to be double vaxxed. That's right. And we are currently in Melbourne lockdown still. It's like week seven I think now. Who knows? Who even knows? We've been in a million different lockdowns. It may continue to November.

So, guys, I know we say this every week but I'll say it again, the descent into madness is going well. It's going very well, I would say. You know what I mean? On a scale of one to just an absolute scream into the void, it's probably like right up there. What are you recommending this week, Claire? Oh, I'm so excited about this.

So my fellow listeners who, like me, love a good crime drama, possibly of the British persuasion, you know how much I love it. True. Also, we should mention we're going to get to your Lego messages. Avalanche. Avalanche of Lego content we have this week. Oh, goodness. Yeah.

Correct. Maybe we should pivot. I feel like if we just pivoted into pure Lego, we'd probably do really well. Yeah, I know. We have never had so many emails ever. So I thought we'll start up top with the Reckos and then we can just like revel in the Lego world.

I think that's a good way. We should do it every week and like talk about what we're going to talk about. You know what I mean? That's what we're doing with the planet. We're like upcoming. Here we go. We should do it every week and, like, talk about what we're going to talk about, you know what I mean? That's what we're doing with the planet. We're like, upcoming, here we go, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah, yeah, like signalling. All right, yeah, I should because your podcast is the more popular one. That's probably why this show is not as popular.

And that's because that podcast has Mesa. This podcast doesn't have Mesa, so it's lacking something, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Anyway. I could grow a beard. I could get shorter. That's true.

I could make funny quips. You could make funny quips. Are you tall? You're not taller than me. I could say, hmm, chef's kiss. Are you taller than me, sir? Yes. I don't know.

Actually, I'm not sure. You've got an inflated sense of height. I do. I always think I'm taller than I am. Why is that? But I actually think it's connected into my giant ego. Probably is. No, and also my very terrible lack of spatial awareness and time.

I read an article about how some people are really bad with spatial stuff, like getting around corners and like estimating. Getting around corners. Yeah, I'm always bumping into people with random bruises. And distances, like they're really bad at kind of estimating distances and it's the same people who are also bad at time management and they are constantly late. And I always hate being late except I always am late

and it's always because I don't give enough time for how long it will take to be somewhere. Yeah, yeah. And so I always have to run past you and say, can this be done? We've talked about this, I'm sure. We have, but I just was reminding you that's why I'm always late. Also, that's why I lose keys. Which you have currently done.

Our house keys are missing. But anyway, what's your recommendation for this week? So, oh, it's so good. Yum, yum. It is by the same people who created one of my other favourite shows of all time on the BBC, Line of Duty. Oh, yeah. Ooh, I love that show so much.

It's still going, isn't it? Yeah, it is. I mean, it's not as good. I think it kind of went off slightly off the boil, but still. It's pretty consistent though, right? It's great. Oh, God, you can't fault it. Well, you can, the last series.

Anyway, moving on. This one is called Vigil. Now, it is available in Australia on Binge, but it is a BBC show, so I'm sure you can get it in lots and lots of places. There's six episodes. They're currently dropping one a week here, which is driving me bonkers because I just want to binge it. Do you want me to just steal it off the internet?

No, don't tell people we do that. No, I said, do you want me to? And you say no. I say, definitely not, James. And then I wink and I go, I will. I'll steal it. I will. No, you wouldn't do that.

You're not a pirate of the internet waves. It's true. But anyway, sorry. Go on. Okay, so Suran Jones. I think that's how you say her name of the internet waves. It's true. But anyway, sorry. Go on. Go on. So, Suran Jones. I think that's how you say her name. Suran Jones.

It stars Suran Jones. She plays DCI Amy Silver, a detective given the task in investigating the death of a naval officer on board, and stay with me with this, a British submarine carrying nuclear weapons. Oh, my God. So, on the outset, I heard the premise and I thought, I definitely don't want to watch this because I'm not that into submarine stuff. I love underwater things, but submarines I find boring because they look the same inside, right? Do you enjoy the mid-'90s Kelsey Grammar-led comedy

Down Periscope? Always. I love Kelsey Grammar. I love Kramer. Not Kramer. You love Kramer? You love the guy who plays Kramer, that famously racist man? No, I don't love him.

I love Frasier. Frasier. I love Frasier. To Micah Richard's credit, he's very good as Kramer. I mean, he's also an excellent racist. Maybe he's changed. Anyway, so go on. He's got such strange vertical hair.

Yes, back to Vigil. So it's set on a submarine and I started watching it because I got recommended to me by another podcast and also it's the makers of The Line of Duty. So come on, it's going to be good. So it becomes clear very quickly that DCI Amy has experienced trauma herself and is still dealing with her past while stuck deep underwater with a very hostile crew and a captain who doesn't want her

to unearth the secrets of the submarine. I'm sorry, so did she come on board after the murder or she's there for the murder? No, no, after the murder. So someone is murdered. Now, they are carrying nuclear weapons on this submarine and so they have to remain completely hidden. So the submarine is kind of circling the ocean and it's just,

its whole idea is that it doesn't exist. So because it's carrying like the nuclear weapons for the UK basically. She gets like somebody come to her house and go, Mum, we have a special assignment. She goes, can't you see that it's my day off or whatever? And they're like, you don't understand. This is the most secret thing. Have you seen this?

And she's like, why don't you just tell me? And she's like, you'd better come down to the station or whatever. When she gets down there, there's a guy and he's like, listen, here's the situation. Obviously this is very classified information, but we have a secret submarine that's got nuclear coats on it. We need you to go down to the submarine, find out what you can. You've only got 24 hours or something.

Is that right? He nailed it. I could write television. I was just really enjoying that bit. I was going to interrupt and I thought I'm just going to see, to make this a natural conclusion. I could do the whole show. You probably could actually now you know the premise.

I'll just clarify your question after you did that hilarious bit. Was there a question in there? Yeah. Okay. So one of the stars of Line of Duty is actually the guy that gets murdered within the first like five minutes. Like the main guy? So you think that he's going to be like starring in the show

and I was like, ooh, excellent, I love this dude, and then he gets murdered. Yeah. And initially it's like he just is found dead in his cabin and so then it's suspicious and they can't. Yeah, bed. Yeah, exactly. And so they send the detective down and they can only send her down

because there's not a lot of room in the submarine. It's very tight quarters and obviously there's not many beds and they only want her to be there for three days so she can sign off to figure out what happened and then head back up to land or whatever. But then it quickly becomes apparent that there is a lot more to this submarine and all of the kind of hostile stuff that's happening on there. And her partner in crime and also romantic partner, Kirsten Longacre, who is played by Rose Leslie,

who people will recognise from Game of Thrones. You know nothing, John. She's real life also married to Kit Harington. Yeah, she is. I know. Gosh, she's great. Well, she plays, so they're actually romantically involved as well with DCI Amy, but they're also like partners investigating.

And so she's doing all the investigating on land and uncovers a series of cover-ups by the Navy and MI5, which become really difficult to manage and she starts getting threatened. And I won't go into too much detail because I don't want to do spoilers, but there's espionage and intrigue and mysterious deaths and it's just,'s just really gripping. And if you want something that is like super far from being stuck in your goddamn house with your goddamn kids,

with your goddamn husband. Stuck underwater. Yeah, I know, but it's also on land as well. Okay. And it's just a really great story and it gets far-fetched and ridiculous in points. Do you reckon they're going to do more than one sozin'? It's kind of your great story and it gets far-fetched and ridiculous in points. Do you reckon they're going to do more than one season? It's kind of your run out of like are they going to go

to a different enclosed space for the next murder? Look, I feel like Saran Jones is so excellent as the DCI in this that I feel like I would watch her in anything, like investigate anything. And they've got a really good dynamic, the two of them together, so I would love it if they made another series. It sounds good, honestly. You could just change the setting, like completely. Yeah, totally. Set it in space, whatever. Yeah, exactly. You got to go to a secret space station. You got three days. I can't believe I said 24 hours. I nearly didn't say 24 hours

because that's too short for a show. Yes. I got caught up. You did. Well, it actually turns out that this is a little spoiler. She ends up having to stay longer than three days and she gets stuck down there and she suffers from claustrophobia because of an incident that happened in her past. Yeah. And she's stuck in a submarine where a murder happened. That's why you're the best person for the job.

I swore I'd never do another submarine murder investigation. Sorry, God. So funny. It sounds good, honestly. It sounds good. It's really good. And I think you would like it because you love like stuck in space dramas, right?

And the submarine is kind of the same thing. It's not gravitation but it's very close quarters with the same people that are stuck there for a set period of time and they can't leave. And because there's kind of the military involved and there's power structures and obviously also it's quite dangerous, the ship is often nearly sinking all the time for some reason. So there's always these kind of this undercurrent of like the captain

of the ship being like, no, don't come here and investigate the murder. We're about to explode. And she's like, you need to give me time. I have to interview my suspects. And he's like, your suspects are saving the ship. And they're like, get her out of here. Didn't you hear me? Combine it to her quarters.

The submarine's about to explode. Get out of here. Wow, incredible. Yeah, it's great. It's ridiculous. That's great. Anyway, so that's it. Sounds great.

Everybody enjoy Murder Submarine on BBC iPlayer or whatever it's on. Cool. All right, your turn. I watched Modern Love Season 2. I don't know if you watched Modern Love Season 1, but basically it's developed yet again by John Carney and it's based on the weekly column of the same name published by the New York Times.

Again, it consists of eight episodes and the idea is that there's eight stories based on real-life events or stories that get published that they've then fleshed out into, like, a short story that then you can watch and enjoy and be like, oh, love stories. What's love stories about? So I'm just going to give a very quick breakdown of the ones that I enjoyed. But in general, really good, right? There's one, I'll also mention it's love in its multitude of forms, including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self-love,

which are presented in eight half-hour episodes. So one of them that I really like was the first one with Mimi Driver, and she's, you find out pretty quickly. Is that Mimi Driver? Mimi. Mommy, it's Mimi. It's Mimi. It's definitely Mimi Driver. It's M-I-M-I, isn't it. Mummy, it's Mimi. It's Minnie. It's definitely Minnie Driver.

It's M-I-M-I, isn't it? No, it's Minnie Driver, isn't it? It's Minnie. Do you think it's Minnie? Yes. I don't think it's Minnie. It's definitely Minnie Driver. Minnie.

That's what it says on Wikipedia. Her name is Minnie. Minnie. How do you spell that? Her name is actually Amelia Fiona Jessica. How do you spell it? Minnie Driver. M-I-N-N-I-E.

Oh, my God, really? Mini Driver. He called her Mimi. Mimi Driver. I don't know. That does make more sense. I don't know why that makes me laugh so much. Mimi Driver sounds made up.

It sounds like a car. But that's her name, mate. That's her name. I'm sorry. Don't make fun of her name. I actually did watch part of this episode. Yeah, so basically she's clearly in her second marriage and it seems to be going rather well,

but she also has this old car from her first marriage from her husband who passed away, and that's the only kind of connection that she still has to him and what she does, even though it's this kind of old piece of crap that, not even, but it's just like it breaks down. It's like it's got old parts and whatever. When she wants to talk to him, she goes in this car and drives and just talks kind of like it's like he's there with her because the smell and the setting and all this kind of thing it's just a kind of way up with her new marriage and whether she needs to let go of her old

relationship and also and she's kind of struggling with that it's also like there's a financial incentive to get rid of the car also because, you know, money and whatever. So I really enjoyed that one. There's kind of a more fun, lighthearted one with Kit Harington. Ooh, you know nothing, John Snow. I don't know anything, you're correct. So with Lucy Boynton, and it's called Strangers on a Train or something like that, where they meet on a train and they hit it off really well and they're like, we'll meet back here. Let's not exchange numbers.

Who cares for social media? And then they split up and she goes to live with her mum and he goes to live with his brother, played by Jack Raynor, who I really like. He's in Sing Street. Have you ever seen Sing Street? He's the older brother in Sing Street. I love Sing Street.

It's such a good soundtrack too. Anyway, then COVID happens. So they are locked down and they can't get back to the station because they can't go anywhere and there's no way of getting in contact. But I think my favourite one was my last one, which was it's called Second Embrace with Hearts and Open Eyes and it stars Sophie Okonado and Van Tobias Menzies, who you might know as the bad guy in Outlander.

Yes, correct. Yes, yes, yes. And she's from a bunch of stuff as well that I cannot remember, probably Doctor Who episodes and a bunch of other things. Anyway, they play, they're a divorced couple and he was kind of like a fuck-up and didn't do much and so they've been split up and they've got kids together and it's about them kind of trying to, well, he wants to reconcile but she's like, you're much better than you used to be.

But at the same time, this is something, you know, I want to get into again. And that's how that relationship develops and how much it's kind of changed over the years also and how they've both kind of grown into like different people. And it's great. That one was, I think it's the last one, and that one was like by far my favourite.

But they're all really good and they've all, like, got different levels of, like, depth and humour and do you know what I mean? They're all completely different in a good way. So you kind of don't know what you're walking into, but they're really good at establishing, like, characters you've never seen before and you'll never see again and kind of packing a lot of story into it. There's one also about this couple who have this kind of,

this couple, these two guys, they have this one date and then like tragedy strikes for one of them and it's kind of a flashback in how they both remember the situation like slightly differently. Oh, cool. It's really good. It's a really well-written show and it's on Prime Video. I'm pretty sure it's on Prime. I loved the first series. It's just as good, I would say. I thought it was so good. It's a really well-written show and it's on Prime Video. I'm pretty sure it's on Prime.

I loved the first series. It's just as good, I would say. I thought it was so good. Yeah. Yeah, I started watching that first episode with Mimi Driver. I think it's Mimi Driver. Mimi? Oh, Mimi Driver.

I think that's her name. Mimi. Mimi. Don't know why. Miniature Driver. Anyway, go on. Anyway, with Mimi. I'll say her name now. So it's Mini. It's Mini. Anyway, go on. Anyway, with a mini. I'm going to say your name now.

So it's mini. It's mini. M-I-N-N-I-E. It's mini. We're going to get emails now about mini driver. No, Claire. Don't try and deflect from what we really get emails for. And something happened with the kids and I had to turn it off, I think,

and I didn't go back to it. So I'm so excited to do that. After I get off my submarine, I'm going to go and launch into one of them. It was also like when it finished, I was like, oh, that sucks. Like I was really kind of got into a rhythm with it. Yeah, I just, I loved that one. I loved the mini Modern Love with Anne Hathaway. Did you say that episode?

That was the one where she has bipolar. Yeah, that one was great. And it's about friendship and it was just beautiful. This one I feel is like more British. I don't know whether it had something to do with the, maybe not, maybe I'm misremembering, something to do with the lockdowns and whatever, but it felt more British.

It could have been actually, yeah. Just from memory. So interesting, isn't it? It might not actually be the case. Introducing Uber Teen Accounts, an Uber account for your teen with always-on enhanced safety features. Your teen can request a ride when you can't take them. Thank you. operated 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. Anyway. Anywho. What's next? All right. So after last week's episode, if you haven't listened to

last week's episode, we had an argument about Lego. And I've been told by the many, many emails that I have received, I got more emails this last week than I have in the entire, like, I don't know, time we've been doing Suggestible. Really? No, as in like more in one week than I ever had. Yeah, correct. I reckon, yeah, we got so many. Well, what was the basis of this?

All right. many. Well, what was the basis of this? All right. So the basis of the argument was that I had been organising our stuff by IKEA Trofast drawers, which apparently are also a thing because people emailed me about it and they were just, like, telling me how much they loved Trofast and I was just right there with them. Nobody's arguing about the drawers, Claire.

Nobody's emailing about drawers. Anyway, we also got many photos. I can show you many photos of different people and the way that they've set up their Lego. But the main thing was that I wanted to sort our Lego by colour into these Trofas drawers and James thought that was lunacy. It is lunacy. And you decided it was because at the moment our Lego is

in just one big tub all mixed in. You said it's busy work. Kids just need to sort through it. Yep. Right. So there need to sort through it. Yep. Right. So there are people in many camps. Also, to clarify, it is not Legos.

It is called Lego. As a lovely listener. Nobody said Legos. Who said Legos? One of us must have. I would never. Okay. Can I just for fun, because this has made me giggle so much, can I read you some of the titles of the emails?

Absolutely you can. It's so funny. All right. Sorting so funny. All right. Sorting Legos, Lego alternative, Lego debacle, recommending a masterpiece of Lego. Wow. Lego with an exclamation mark. The great Lego debate, how I sort my Lego in capital letters,

trofast trofurious. Both of you are right about Lego. No. Thanks, Noah. That was from our listener, Noah, and I appreciate that, mate. Okay, so some people are in the camp that I'm an absolute Lego novice. I don't know what I'm talking about. I got quite a few tweets and all of them agreed with me, every single one.

All right, isn't that just very convenient for you? They tagged you in it as well. They tagged it in you as well. I ignored them. I didn't reply to any of them. Actually, to be fair, most people who are emailing you did say that sorting them by colour and shape, if you are going to sort them, is the way to sort them.

A very, I think. What? Yes. Colour and shape. Yeah, like if you're going to sort them, you sort them by both. No, and if you really need to sort them, you sort them by both. No, and if you really need to sort them, you sort them by type first and then by colour. So you're also right.

Why do you need to sort them though? Because they're messy, James. That's the point. All right, okay, so I wanted to show you Ken's epic Lego room. I'd love to see it. We'll put it on Twitter or somewhere because it's like. If Ken gives us permission. Yeah, because it's so awesome.

So this is a letter from Ken. Claire, James, long-time listener, love all your shows and all your suggestions. You guys recently mentioned Lego and Ikea Trofast, two of my life passions. Oh, Ken, I'm with you, mate. I completely agree with Claire that they're a great solution for organising all the kids' junk.

We use them in our toy room and our Lego room. Here's Ken's Lego room here. So look, Ken. It is a masterpiece. Look at this thing. Look. Look. Holy shit.

Look at all the drawers. Look at all the, mate. We have to put this onto it. It's just. It's got a Lego sign and all. Yeah, it's so awesome. James is correct that the proper way to sort Lego bricks is by type, not color. I'm seeing some colored bricks in there, though.

Am I incorrect in those drawers? Yeah, but listen. But the easier method is sorting by colour. Something to consider is how often the kids will mix them up, which is always. So we just went by colour. I thought I'd share a quick pic of our Lego room, which uses all Trofast to sort our Lego collection.

Thanks for the entertainment, Kenny from Chicago. I love that. What a ledge. I'm a big fan. I know. So he actually, and he looks like a Lego aficionado, sorts them by colour, mate. Yeah.

And that's it. That's all I wanted to say. Is that just that one? No, I'm going to share some more. I could read five right now. All right. Okay. Sorry.

This is from David. Sorry, Claire, but James is 100% right about Lego. You should just dump it all in one bun or if you must sort it, by size, shape, not colour. Dominic says, Lego was organised in order of preference. No organisation, number two, organised by Lego type, number three, colour. Earthbender of Sector 2814 says, just listen to your latest

suggestible episode and Lego absolutely should not be organised. I hope you've taken a hard stance on this and are being really stubborn about it and it causes a lot of fights. KP Murphy says, sorry, but the idea of separating and storing Legos by colour seems literally insane to me. You'd have to redo it every time your kids play with them. If anything, by kind of Legos makes more sense, but honestly also pointless.

Big smiley laughing face. Gabe says, Legos should not be sorted. But like James says, if you're going to sort them in the least helpful way possible, sort them by colour because when you're looking for a specific Lego piece, you're looking for the size and not the colour. All right. Can I play you something now?

Yes. All right. Here is some recording from the wonderful Wyatt who has sent us in and his title is The Great Lego Debate. Are you listening? Let's hear it. Here is some recording from the wonderful Wyatt, who has sent us in, and his title is The Great Lego Debate. Are you listening? Let's go. Here we go. Hey, Claire and James.

This is Wyatt from Alberta, Canada, and I am here to really drive a wedge in between you two and to weigh in on The Great Lego Debate. weigh in on the great lego debate james is quite frankly very wrong so wrong and sorting by color is absolutely the superior method when i sorted all my legos i tried to go by type but it's just impossible to determine like where you draw the line on certain types of Lego. And then you don't know what you put in what bin, and it's just a nightmare. But by color,

you know, you want to build a castle, here's my tub of gray pieces. And it's all there, and it's all ready to go. So, Claire, you are right. James, you are wrong. But that said, I just want to thank you guys so much for all of your excellent content. I love tuning in with you guys.

And I look forward to it every week. So keep up the good work. And thanks a lot. Oh, Wyatt. I appreciate that. What a legend. Thank you for handpicking the one. Look at his beautiful Lego that he sorted by color in a beautiful tub.

He also said, he used the word Legos. He said Legos. So I think that absolutely wipes any opinion. Oh, no. Yeah. Wyatt sounded wonderful and like a real Lego aficionado. No, he sounds like a guy who you agree with. Fine.

I'll read you another one from the wonderful Georgia Day. Let's mix it up. Look, they are amazing. Georgia, you're a legend. You are of lemony egg fame. Do you remember that? I do remember that. I love that.

That was one of my favourite emails. I know. What a superstar. What a superstar they are. Okay. Hey, Claire and James, it's Georgia of lemony egg infamy. I've got some more cheeky suggestibles for you. Claire, I know how much you love a British murder mystery,

so I have a three-part show for you to watch, ordeal by innocence. And, James, for you I recommend having a nap. You won't regret it. Oh, man, I would love that. Thank you. And also a graphic novel called Miles Morales, Shockwaves by Justina Reynolds.

I have not read that. I'm going to put that in. It's short and sweet and by gum it's adorable. All right, let's do it. As are you, Georgia. Okay, now I have to weigh in. I'm going to put that in. It's short and sweet and by gum, it's adorable. Alright, let's do it. As are you, Georgia. Okay, now I have to weigh in on the Lego debate. Okay. Miles Marley's Shockwave, right? Yes.

Yep, cool. Okay, this is breaking my heart to read this because Georgia, come on. Well, you've already let them down. So is it really surprise thing? Okay. Claire, are you out of your mind? If you must sort Lego, if, that's in capital letters,

it's got to be done by the type of piece, not this colours nonsense. Sure, it'll look satisfying, but at what cost? What a legend. Anyway, keep up the great work and I hope you're doing okay in year-old lockdown. Please can I get a quick shout-out to my partner Lottie? She went to stay with her parents for the summer but soon we will be reunited.

Oh, that's nice. I love her and miss her and also she's the best. Okay, bye legends, Georgia. Save Georgia. Yes, I am out of my goddamn mind, Georgia. You say you like Georgia but you've done nothing but criticise your work. I know.

Which I'm all here for, by the way. I'm 100%. Are we done with Lego? Can we have a few more? I've got another voice memo if you want to hear one. Sure. Is there another one criticising me that you've handpicked because quite frankly I'm not here for that.

No, to be fair, en masse, if I'm being honest, most people agreed with you. Most. Let's say like nine out of ten. Actually, there was a really good one that wrote in to say, and I think I'm trying to remember who it was, that for kids they should all just be in one big container. Yeah.

But then for adults, then you sort it by colour and type. I can't argue with that, honestly. I think that's right, yeah. Because if you're an adult, like who's doing like Lego stuff, then, yeah, you're probably, you. If you're an adult, like, who's doing, like, Lego stuff, then, yeah, you're probably, you know, you're well into it. You've established a pattern. You know what you're looking for. You know what I mean?

Correct, yeah, exactly. So I totally agree with that. I found that graphic novel, by the way. Good. Oh, fantastic. Excellent. Okay, so I'll read you one more from Josh. So this is from Joshua.

First, this podcast is so amazing and funny. Your relationship reminds me a lot of me and my wife. Thank you so much, Joshua. All right, on to the Legos. Anyways, I'm a Lego fan. They were my favorite toy growing up and I still get Lego sets today. Claire, you're great, but you are wrong on your sorting pick. When building with Lego, the key is to be able to find the right shape piece to construct what you were trying to create. The color comes second. It doesn't matter if you can find all the same colour pieces, if you can't find the right shaped pieces to build whatever you're trying to make. Also, picking out the right colour from all the shaped pieces is so much easier

than picking out the right shape from all pieces of the same colour. Think about trying to find a white postcard out of a huge box of white cardstock versus a white postcard out of a box of different coloured postcards. Order of sorting preference. I love this. I love this level of detail. I'm into it. It's so good.

Number one, if you want to go all out by shape and colour. Number two, by shape for sure. If you don't have the time or organisation space to do both. Number three, I guess if you wanted to sort, you could do by colour, but I would even do a basic shape sort before colour of flat pieces, bricks, miscellaneous and mini figs together before colour sorting. Finally, a recommendation, and you mentioned this as well, watch Lego Masters.

We don't have kids yet. Our first kid is set to arrive in November 3rd, but the show is so good. What can they build? What they build is incredible regardless of whether you played with Lego or not, and Will Arnett really makes the show work. Keep up the good work. Joss from Milwaukee. The American one's Will Arnett.

I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that either. We'll talk about that. We're probably running – I want to talk about it properly. So maybe I'll watch that one this week as well and we'll get back to it. Yeah, I think that's a really good idea. So for all those massive Lego people that have climbed out of the plastic brick works, we'll be back.

Check out this comic. How good does it look? Oh, wow, Georgia. This is cool. That's incredible. It's beautiful. Oh, James, you've just nailed what James loves. But it's also like the style of it's amazing.

Yeah, it's like a different style, which I like. Yeah, it's really, really cool. Cool. Thanks so much. Thanks for everyone who wrote in. And it's been such a joy. So if you would love to write into the show, we would love you to. If it's about Lego, love it.

We love photos too. I loved all the photos that I got from people's Lego rooms. It would be cool if people, like, are making things or enjoying things or whatever. I mean, if they want to, it's like send it through. It would be really cool. Totally. It really made my day watching all of this.

Like, oh, okay, I have to show you one more on the show. This one is from Emmett Flaherty. Flaherty, yes. Oh, my gosh. Flaherty. It's so cool. So my name is Emmett. Just want to give you the lowdown on Lego from my perspective.

For adults, it should be sorted by type. For kids, it shouldn't be sorted at all. It's Emmett who gave me that recommendation. Thank you. Gotcha. All right, exactly. Also, he asked me to do more singing, which is excellent. Disagree.

Okay, I'm just going to show you his Lego. I mean, you can explain. You can have a look. Look at this level of detail. He is a Lego aficionado. He's got his, it's not Tupperware, is it? It's bigger than Tupperware. It's plastic.

How is it sorted? Yeah, so it's sorted by colour but I think also by shape as well. I mean, look at this Lego room. It's got a, I'm taking this. Give me this. He's got all his Star Wars stuff up the top. He's got the Razor Crest from, what's it called? He's got like wooden shelving all over his walls with just like incredible

Lego creations. He's got some vintage He-Man toys on here as well. He's got that Daily Bugle Spider-Man set. This is good stuff, Claire. This is some good stuff. Emmett, you've really outdone yourself. Wait till you hear Emmett's story as well. Please.

I need to read you the story about his mum. Okay. So, Emmett, we will have to put these up. Maybe we'll put them on Twitter, I think would be really great. Also, this is Emmett. What a legend. Oh, he's wearing the Rob Batten baton. He is. Love it. I know. He's so great. Okay. So this is the last letter I promise I'll read, but it's so good. I listen to your show every week and your other one, what's it called, Office Ladies or something. I'm Irish and live in Germany.

I remember one time you were talking about James having an Irish belly, just wants spuds, and I can confirm personally that before I moved to Germany I only ever got spuds for dinner. It was great. I liked it. The last time my parents visited we went to an Italian restaurant and my mother ordered spaghetti and ended up leaving most of it because she didn't know how to get the food from the plate to her mouth.

Back home it was always potato, veg and a piece of meat. That's so funny because it's not even like you can get spaghetti in a can. Like the fact that you would have gone your entire life without figuring it out. Like chopsticks I get, you know what I mean? Like you don't know chopsticks. Like I fact that you would have gone your entire life without figuring it out. Like chopsticks I get, you know what I mean? Like you don't know chopsticks. Like I understand that. But just like that's incredible.

That's very Irish. Anyway, sorry. Damn it. So good. Also, you were talking about The Matrix on that other podcast. Yeah, yeah. And the German synchronisation. And I have The Matrix on Blu-ray and they do indeed say Sex Crispies.

They do. Although the subtitles say Tasty Wheat. Interesting. You don't know what I'm talking about. No, but it sounds very funny. You should watch The Matrix again. I love The Matrix. I do.

I really loved it. And the other ones are good too. Like we recently did a great watch. Excellent. And Kate, the last little bit, he says, thanks for passing the time for me every week on the way to work. Also, more singing, Claire. What?

What is going on here? No one ever says that to me. I feel like you just add these to the end of the emails. Oh, and by the way, Claire, you're an amazing singer and we want to hear more from you. I feel like people are just placating me because I don't know everything about all the things you know about. This isn't a show about how many things I know about Spider-Man, Claire.

There's enough of that going on in the other show. There is. Anyway, as always, I was reminded this week of how wonderful our listeners are and I think you're all bloody legends and I would love to hear from more of you and send us your photos. It bloody made my day. Yeah. It was awesome. I think

it just shows like honestly the universal appeal of Lego where even if you like don't use Lego anymore and like I didn't for years because, you know, we didn't have kids and now I'm like fully back like involved in it. Like it just everybody has used it at some point, you know what I mean? Yeah. You know?

And it's just I really. Except this dude's mum probably. Oh, what a sweetheart. That sounds very something like someone from my family who would be like, what's this? It's an egg. A what? Yeah, sorry, guys.

So funny. Anyway, yeah, so thank you so much to everyone who wrote in about Lego and, yeah, we'll save the chat about Lego Masters for next week. Yep. I think. All right, so you can email the show Lego Masters for next week. Yep. I think. All right, so you can email the show at tdespapod.gmail.com. Do you have a review over there, Tim Barth? I actually do, Claire.

Thank you for asking because I do have a review and I just need to open it in my phone machine. Here we go, my portable telephone. This is from Tyrion the Cat. This podcast makes me happy. Oh, wait, that's an old one. Or is it a new one? I don't know.

Yeah, I already read that one. But thank you, Tyrion, the cat. This is from Around the Twist. Remember Around the Twist of the show? Correct, I do. Charlie Clawson, who you did a podcast with this week actually on Tons. I have a podcast with Charlie Clawson this week on Tons, and I also went and did his podcast, Faux Fop.

Yes, Faux Fop. Faux Fop. Oh, yes, Faux Fop. And the artwork was great by James Fosdyke, but also my gums are huge. Yeah, I look 57 years old in mine. He really takes the feature that you're most... Embarrassed about and like really exaggerates it.

I look like shriveled and old. I look like I've been just in the sun my entire life. Anyway, this is a critical review and you can just do this in app. It's so helpful to the show. This podcast is so good. It's almost as good as the more popular and successful podcast, Taunts from Around the Twist. Yeah, Charlie Clawson auditioned for Bronson, I think,

in the 90s for Around the Twist and he's got a story how he just like bombed hard. He was never Bronson. Oh, I love it. Have you ever, ever felt like this? No. Have strange things happened where you're going around the twist? All right, Emmett, that was just for you, mate.

Yeah. Just a cheeky little song. Cool. Let's get out of here. Okay, bye. Bye, everyone. Thank you. This podcast is part of the Planet Broadcasting Network.

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