Suggestible - The Kid Detective

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

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The theme song is a very loose. Welcome to Suggestible Pods. I am Claire. James is here also. We are married and we recommend you things. I was right. Well done. He's a fluffy pink kind of elephant that was the imaginary friend

of the main character. It's a sad movie. It is. Yeah. It is a sad movie. It's about emotions. It's about emotions. Have you seen Soul yet?

I tried it. I tried watching it with our son and he just looked at me and was like. It's not for kids. No. It's good. It's really good. I really liked it with our son and he just looked at me and was like. It's not for kids. No. It's good. It's really good. I really liked it but it's not a kid's movie. No, see, because I had to stop it.

It's an older kid's movie, I would say, if you're like 10 to 14. I was really enjoying it. Oh, that's great. But I just had to turn it off because he wasn't into it. No one's punching anybody. And it's very like ethereal and existential. It is, yeah. But do you know what I've discovered this week?

Do you know who John Batiste is? Yeah, I know John Batiste. He's Stephen Colbert's band leader. Yeah. On The Late Show. I'm like, how do I know this guy? Also, but the main character in Soul is based on him. Is it?

Yeah. And so obviously it's not his story. Yeah. But I've recently gone into a massive deep dive of John Batiste. He's so young, that guy, as well. Oh, he's incredibly talented. He's incredibly. Incredible musician.

It turns out he's from New Orleans and he's from a very old, well, the Baptiste family who are just these musicians and Stephen Colbert does these gorgeous videos with him on YouTube where he just takes, John takes Stephen to his hometown of New Orleans and they just go through all this kind of cultural stuff. And I just, I fall in love with his music. He's fun, man. I love that guy.

Yeah, but he's just like, he's got this really cool energy that's like, hey, man, enjoy the music. You know, he's just clearly there for the joy of it all. And he has this philosophy about life called social music. Yeah. And so he gets interviewed because he's released a single recently called I Need You, which is also really fun, and the video clip's got a whole lot of swing dancing in it.

It's just really cool. But he, yeah, his whole philosophy on life is that for thousands of years, music was used as a way to communicate, as a part of the fabric of everyday life, like people made it together because they didn't have streaming services or anything. So that musical talent was necessary to have music in your life and we've kind of lost that because it's become commodified and now it's on streaming services and available on the radio.

And we listen to it but we don't make it in the same way that we used to. People used to use it for sacred music and for thousands of years in rituals and at celebrations. People would stand around the piano or whatever and do a song. Yeah, sing along and, and you know... I remember as a kid, cause my family used to, not my family, my grandma used to play and like stand around and like, and I'm like, I fucking hate this. Oh, I love it. But I know, I recognize now that like, I would love that now. Like, yeah. Yeah, it's so gorgeous. As a kid, I'm just like, I want to watch Ninja Turtles. I can totally see our son roll. He rolls his eyes. Every time I start to Like, yeah. Yeah, it's so gorgeous. As a kid I'm just like, I want to watch Ninja Turtles. I want to stare at a piano.

I can totally see our son. He rolls his eyes. Every time I start to sing he's like, stop. Yeah. But it has to be like you've got to also realise that the people who played that music, that was their music growing up. But it's not our music, you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. So I guess that's the difference, yeah.

But that's the thing though. Like their music was a part of the social fabric. And so you'd go to a party and in order for people and it reminds me of, you know, even I was watching something recently on a family from Chile and the way they celebrate at their parties, they have like their rallies come and play music and then they're all dancing and doing all this stuff and it's just part of their every day. And there's a deep part of me I I think, that really longs for that.

Because I used to go to church all the time. And then at school, I was teaching, I would have singing and music and choir as part of my every day. And so I sing all the time. But it's really, anyway, it just was so, he articulated so well, that idea of social music that like, and while he's in New Orleans walking down the street, he just like has got this little mouth keyboard and he just like goes doobly-doobly-doobly-do to this like homeless man. This homeless man has a tambourine and just starts playing the tambourine. Yeah, right. And it's just this like gorgeous little moment and then he just cruises on.

Me too. We should go. Oh, we don't. Yeah. Maybe not this year. No, maybe not this year or next year or the year after. I would love if anyone lives in New Orleans, email us in. Just go to potterjerry.com.

We'd love to hear from you. What if they emailed in and they're like, nah, that sucks actually. Also, I just want to point out, you've got music in your life because once a week you take our infant daughter to a very sad music class. This is what I was trying to get at. Oh, my God, I hate that music class. It's not for you though, is it? No, it's not. But she doesn't really like hate that music class. It's not for you though, is it? Is it?

No, it's not. But she doesn't really like it that much either. She's warming up to it. It's like a little tots music class. It's so weird because she fucking loves everything and yet. We gave her a lemon this week to try a lemon thinking it would be hilarious. And she was just like, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. She just is not fazed by any foods of any description.

So funny. She's totally my daughter. Yeah. Anyway, I do have that music class. It made me realise I need to start playing guitar more again. I completely agree. And I need to learn songs because my dream is to have people over having beers and then someone plays the guitar and we all do sing along.

Yeah, yeah. Like I really love that. And anyway, John Baptiste, everybody, go and check him out. We've got a few musical friends that are. Yeah, we do, but no one does that anymore, like brings out their guitar. My cousin Dan does. I mean, he's so talented. See, this is the thing.

I want to say his last name. Andrew, he does it. Oh, yeah, he does too. Yeah, he's big on that, yeah. Yeah, bloody awesome. I love it. Yeah, he's great. So good. Anyway, yeah, he does too. Yeah, he's big on that. Yeah. Bloody awesome. I love it. Yeah, he's great. So good.

Anyway, yeah, so moving right along. Yeah. As my first recommendation off the bat, John Batiste. Music. And deep dive into his back catalogue of just incredible. He does this version of Blackbird by the Beatles. Oh, really? On the Stephen Colbert show.

And it's just mesmerising. You know when you watch someone that's so incredibly talented and there's something about the piano that I just love and just watching him kind of, he's got his like in soul. He has his eyes closed while he plays because he's so in the music. I didn't know that. That's really fascinating. You can totally say it.

You should finish that movie. Yeah, I really need to finish it. But the way in soul where when he starts, the main character starts playing the piano and he's just transported into a whole other world. It does a really good job of, because it's a world that I don't fully understand or appreciate. Like I recognise that, but it does a really good job of like visualising

how somebody, how you feel with music. And once you've watched Soul and then you watch John Batiste play, you can see him. It's like conjuring up this kind of magic around you. And that's sort of when I've been singing in big choirs or when I really am doing music in the way that I love to do it, you do kind of disappear into it. And I close my eyes sometimes while I'm singing too,

which is a bit embarrassing. Some people have made fun of me. But it's because it's like you sink into another place. Yeah. And I just, anyway, I miss having that in my life. So I need to find some way of doing that. I went surfing instead. That's cool.

It is, man. I'm rad. Anyway, I've done my recommendation now. Hats off to you, my friend. Well, speaking of music, I watched Framing Britney Spears, the documentary about how Britney Spears' life is terrible and has always been terrible in a way. So I know you haven't watched this yet, so I'm not going to. I've read a lot about it. I mean, you know, people know the story of her life, but essentially it follows her from like a very young age when

she was like, you know, as a performer, this is even before like the Mickey Mouse Club. And as she came up and, you know, became, you know, is even before like the Mickey Mouse Club and how she came up and, you know, became, you know, with the Oops I Did It Again and then that whole thing and then her very public breakdown and now where she is now where she might be trapped and controlled by her father up until very recently. So it covers all of that. But it's just like it's so sad.

Like you just see the life just get squeezed out of her. Do you know what I mean? Because you see her as a kid and she's all like bubbly and like obviously very talented. And one of the first shows she does, you know, she does a song of whatever it is and she's great. And then like the very old guy who's like hosting the show is like, so have you got a boyfriend yet or whatever?

And it's like, what are you fucking, what are you doing? And then from that she, you know, becomes a teen idol and then it's all like just constant questions about, is she a virgin? Who's she dating? And then when her and Justin Timberlake broke up and then she's kind of thrown under the bus by him. And kind of painted as like a promiscuous girl, I guess.

Exactly. Or a heart grace or something. Or a heartbreaker, exactly. And then it goes up through when she starts having kids and you see like the paparazzi just like wear her down. Because at first she's like happy to smile and she'll sign things and whatever, but then it's just like all the time. Like she cannot literally go over it.

People are just screaming at her. There's like always like ten cameramen around her at one time. They even interview one in particular particular the guy who captured the moment where remember she like attacked him with the umbrella after she'd shaved her head and it's crazy because like there's a complete like lack of self-awareness from this person he's just like i thought we were like helping it was like a relationship where we both like we both benefit from this and whatever. But it's like what are you talking about? Like that's clearly not what this is or maybe you just don't want to see it. I don't know.

But it's horrifying, like the way that she's being treated over these. And it's for no reason. Like she hasn't really – I know she's made like some poor life choices. I'm very much aware of that. But a lot of these things are a result of the way that, you know, she's been. She was hounded. Totally. It's so devastating in so many ways. I think this reminds me so much of Amy Winehouse, the Amy Winehouse documentary and just the trajectory even of like Lindsay Lohan. Yep. I mean, she was, Lindsay Lohan, for instance, was lauded as like

this incredible actress that was this up-and-coming child star. Amazing. And then I think she sort of fell off the rails and a lot of it has to do with just how much she was hounded by the paparazzi. And it's the same, Princess Diana, there's a story about that too. When you look at the way, when you really step back from it, having men, and it's always men, with huge cameras following your every move and men you don't know, like faceless men, as a woman particularly, that would be frightening.

Yeah. Like really, really scary. And you see like it's often like people like shoving and like to get a better picture or like you're trying to get through. Yeah, it's not a couple of guys. It's like it's 50 surrounding you. Or like you're trying to drive out but your car is like surrounded, like every time you go anywhere you go to a drive-through at the window

and somebody runs up and gets a photo. Like it's fucking insanity. It is. I mean it's really devastating because you take this kind of bright spark of talent in someone and Amy Winehouse was the same and you just slowly crush it out of them because I think what also is obvious is the same thing that happened with Amy Winehouse was the same. And you just slowly crush it out of them because I think what also is obvious is the same thing that happened with Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears' family were not on her side in lots of ways.

And so when you've got people who are surrounding you who aren't on your side either and are corrupt and are trying to sell you out and make a buck from you as well, you don't have anyone to protect you. And if you're a child star that then goes through your teenage years on the like world stage, like she was the most famous woman in the world for so long for that particular period. She still like is one of the most famous. Yeah, absolutely.

And you're kind of put on a pedestal and kind of sexualised, sexualising a student, like a high school student. Yeah, that's exactly what it was. Do you remember how huge, because we were in high school. Yeah, she was. Massive, like the most famous person in the world. Yeah, absolutely. And if you don't have strong family, I think,

around you to protect you and people you can really trust, I think, of course she's damaged, of course, of course. Because you see like the people that she turns to as well are often, but not always, but like the wrong people. Yeah. Just taking advantage of it. Totally. And I follow her on Instagram and it's really disturbing.

It's so weird. It's something very strange. Yeah. It does delve. She's clearly not mentally completely well. No, of course she's not. How could you be? Yeah, exactly.

And that's exactly right. So it's interesting, Jennifer Garner, you know, who I love, and Halle Berry and a few other actresses or actors actually went to the courts in America to talk about and try and get legislation put in place for paparazzi following their children. Yeah. And they won. Yeah.

Over a long period of time, which is, I think, incredible because the effect that that would have on your kids as well and having just men that you don't know follow you and follow you like at high speeds in cars and like while you're on holidays and at the park and in all different situations. The flip side of it is obviously that if you are a celebrity, there are a lot of great things that come with being a celebrity, including wealth and I guess power.

Yeah, and opportunities. And opportunities, credit opportunities, all of those things. And so the downside I guess is that then a part of your life is available publicly. I don't think that should be, like that shouldn't be a trade-off though. If you want to do this thing and you love it. For your personal safety. Yes, that's what I'm talking about.

Yeah. Like Daft Punk retired this week. I don't know if you saw. And they did it for 28 years. And like there's a few photos of those guys, what they really look like, but they just were very famous and very anonymous like the entire time. But like she's not going to wear a helmet. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah. Like it doesn't – surely there's like a way to do this properly. But it's interesting the way it even frames her in comparison to like Justin Timberlake who just like walked away from it and is, you know, I'm not saying he's a terrible guy. I don't know anything about him but he definitely did like throw her under the bus at the start. Yeah.

Probably with some prompting because it helped sell albums, you know, Crimey River and all that. He's recently come out with one of those statements that you have to come out with. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also apologising. It was a good statement. Yeah, of course.

Apologising because it was a different world at that time. It totally was. Not that that's excusing him at all. Yeah. But it is interesting. But people left him alone though. That's the difference also. Exactly.

Yeah. Exactly. And I think there is a deep sort of ingrained misogyny in this because that idea of like really sexy girl sells a lot of magazines, sells a lot of front covers, and we often treat, and by we I mean the collective we, often treat really famous women very differently to famous men and hold them up to a much higher standard in lots of different ways.

And I think they do. Like photos of Justin Timberlake will sell some magazines, but they wouldn't sell as many as a photo of Britney Spears with 10 kilos extra weight on or a shaved head or whatever it is. And it's the same with Princess Diana. I mean Prince Charles didn't get half the like crazy paparazzi following him. But all I'm saying is I think that there is a special kind of,

I mean look at Meghan Markle and how she was treated by the tabloids. There's definitely a very nasty streak that runs underneath so much of this media coverage and women just cop it in a way that men don't, I think. And I'm not saying men don't cop it. Of course they do. Yes. But, yeah, it's devastating.

It's different. I have to watch that documentary. It's not fun but it's certainly very enlightening and insightful and sad. Yeah. It's interesting, isn't it, being in our like mid to late 30s. Yeah. Me being mid, you being late. I'll always be younger even when I'm old.

No, my plan is to die and then you overtake me in age. No. Yes. No. What will I do? I'll have no one to make fun of. You can marry somebody even older and then if they die. Oh, a sugar daddy.

That's right, yeah. No, I like it too much. Good luck finding an even more famous podcaster, Claire. There's heaps actually. Now you're thinking about it. You could marry Joe Rogan. Oh, God. I couldn't think of anything worse.

He'd be doing too many push-ups all the time. It's all kettlebells with that guy. Oh, kettlebells. Probably hit me in the head with one. He probably would. I might hit him in the head with one. Stop talking, Joe Rogan. And take the bloody vaccine, mate.

What are you doing? That's the second Joe Rogan appearance. Well, he is like the male Gwyneth Paltrow in a way. Yeah, that's so funny, isn't it? Yeah. I was going to say like it's Oprah, but he's not really because it's all like pseudoscience fucking nonsense kind of. Yeah.

Look, I don't really know. I know quite a bit about Gwyneth Paltrow. I love a bit of GP, bit of goop. Yeah. Love it. She's come out this week. Just some absolute dog shit opinions on things. I love it.

She's come out this week to talk about fasting or something and everyone's a bit like aghast. Yeah. Joe Rogan loves it a minute fasting. He's all about that shit. Well, there you go. Anyway, what's your next thing? Anyway, all right.

So this is because I watched I May Destroy You and It's a Sin and you were watching the Britney Spears docker and I was walking in and out of that. I went to a dark place. So I needed to go to a less dark place and so I decided to watch Firefly Lane. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

There's some dark stuff though I saw. Yeah, no. I was hoping for more fluff and it was a little dark. That's pretty dark. But I still enjoyed it. So it's an American drama streaming television series created by Maggie Friedman for Netflix. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Kristen Hanna

and it premiered on Feb 3rd. So it navigates the lives of two teenage girls in the 1970s all the way through to their adulthood in the early 2000s. Oh, my God, what an era. I know, I know. So Katherine Heigl plays Tully Hart, who's a famous host of a daytime talk show known as The Girlfriend Hour, kind of like an Oprah-esque kind of show.

Yeah. And Sarah Chalk, who we know, who plays Kate Malacki, but who we would know as Elliot from Scrubs. And also the mother in Rick and Morty. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, there you go. And she plays Tully's best friend and they've been friends since they were 14

and she is now a housewife who is trying to get back in the workforce while going through a divorce. She has a teenage daughter as well. So Ben Lawson plays Johnny Ryan who is Kate's husband and a producer on The Girlfriend Hour, tell his show. For people who don't know, Ben Lawson is the brother of Josh Lawson, who's playing Kano in the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot. There you go.

Don't give a rat's bahootie about that. Australian. Batootie? Batootie. Yeah, he's an Aussie fella. Oh, an Aussie fella. Yeah, he is an Aussie fella. He also plays another Hemsworth brother in The Good Place, but he's like the least famous one, so he's an Aussie fella. Oh, an Aussie fella. Yeah, he is an Aussie fella. He also plays another Hemsworth brother in The Good Place,

but he's like the least famous one, so he's all like, oh. He's like the saddest Hemsworth. He's funny. Both those guys are funny. Anyway, sorry, go on. Yeah, he's quite good. He's got like nice little eyelashes and luxurious hair that you love. Anyway, he's very tall.

That's got nothing to do with how funny he is. I don't know why you brought that up. Anyway, lucky you're funny, mate. Yeah, ish. Funny looking. Funny looking. I'm like not funny for a comedian, but I guess I'm slightly funnier than a really boring guy.

So just like a useless kind of funny. It's really great. What are you talking about? People always, do you know this happens, listeners? You will probably find this entertaining. I don't know. James tends to go to parties and people kind of just fall in love with him. This is not true, by the way.

No. But not like women in like a romantic way. Oh, no, definitely not. That happened once. No, I mean like blokes, like just some blokes, like just think that he is the funniest guy they've ever met. And multiple men have come up to me who I haven't known and said, oh, mate, oh, James, he's like the funniest guy I've ever met. And multiple men have come up to me who I haven't known and said, oh, mate, oh, James, he's like the funniest guy I've ever met.

He's bloody hilarious. Yeah, that's because they don't know actual funny people. That's the difference. But what is hilarious to me is that I don't see you really talking to them very much and I know you, you don't like talking to people. You just want to sit in a corner with like one person you like. I do like talking to people. I think you're selling me as this like this fucking Grinch or whatever.

No, you do like talking to people. I do. You're right. For a short period of time. For a very short period of time. Yeah. Anyway, I just find that funny to me because like you don't reciprocate almost ever with any of these guys that are like,

James is like the funniest guy I've ever met. I make friends, Claire. Yeah, I'm not saying no. There's this guy at the gym that I gym with, whatever his fucking name is. Daryl or Daryl. I don't fucking know. No, just great. No, I'm not saying you don't have friends.

You have very close friends that you really love. That I've known for multiple years. Yeah, correct, exactly. I just find it funny that you often fall in. And people also often tell you, like, really deep, dark secrets. They do. I know a lot of deep secrets. I don't like it.

And it happens like maybe the first time they meet you. Yeah, that happened to me the other day. I was telling you. I got like, yeah, like a real download of like, whoa. Anyway, I'm not going to talk about that. I think you have like one of those faces. Maybe I do. It's just like really friendly.

Why can't I have a punchable face? I'll punch your face. I would love that. Will that help? And then it'll be a punchable face Thank you Anywho Anyway

Back to this Enough about how funny I am What are we doing? Anyway Firefly Lane I'm enjoying it What I'm really enjoying it for Is the conversations between Tali and Kate

Because it's written by Maggie Friedman And obviously based on a novel by Christian Hanna Both who are women And so It's just the way women talk to each other and it makes sense and it's funny and it's like a little bit of a ridiculous storyline but there's something lovely about also seeing two women in their 40s and Katherine Heigl has had a lot of work done clearly but still looks 40

and Kate Malarkey, who's played by Sarah Chalk, she obviously has not had much work done at all, and she just looks like a person who has aged normally into their 40s. Yes. She looks like 43, and it's like really refreshing, but slightly strange because I was watching Scrubs while I was breastfeeding and saw her at that age, and now I'm watching this show. Yeah, when she was like 22 or whatever.

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, that's like slightly sobering. But anyway, I just really appreciate that and I love a good script that's written by a woman and obviously not all women are good script writers, but I will say that I appreciate the dialogue in this particular show. All right. Hello, Claire here.

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Shall we go to the next thing? Yes. I've got one that I do that Mason brought up, and I was like, oh, I was saving this for this, so I kind of didn't say much. I was like, I agree, I did enjoy that, but I'll talk about that on Suggestible. It's called The Kid Detective. It's directed by Evan Morgan. It stars Adam Brody. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Is it about a baby goat that is a detective? Yeah, yeah. Dressed in like a little Sherlock Holmes hat with a little monocle and he goes investigating little goatee crimes. Do you mean microscope? I've got it wrong too. Microscope. What's it called?

Isn't it a monocle? Oh, magnifying glass. Magnifying glass. Oh, yes. I thought Sherlock Holmes had a monocle. No, he's got a magnifying glass. Oh, is it tied to his face with a chain? It's not tied to your face.

It's tied to your coat so if it falls off it doesn't hit the ground. Oh, is that what you do with your magnifying glass? Do you think it's tied to your face? Do you think it's like pinned into your head? I've never thought about it, but yes, I think so. I think you might know. I thought it was tied to like your ear. Okay, that would make sense, I guess. Like around

your ear? When you think about it though, they're pretty dumb. Like you can see why they went out of fashion. Yeah, if you really dig it. They're so stupid. How does it, do you have to hold it up to your eye? Like, could you kind of squ. Like you can see why they went out of fashion. Yeah, if you really dig it. They're so stupid. How does it, do you have to hold it up to your eye? No, because you kind of squint and you can like, which is, I know, it's ridiculous.

What, you squint and hold it in place and have to keep your face, I'm like doing the face at the moment. Yeah, exactly. I wish you could see it. But it's mostly just like if you just quickly need to read something or whatever, I'd imagine. But it reminds me of like the penny farthing. It's just like fucking get rid of this.

Whenever I see someone on a penny farthing, I just want to kick the fucking front wheel out of it. Just like I just hate them. And anyone on a penny farthing wants to be like, look, it's me. I'm on a penny farthing. I'm like, not if I kick the fucking wheel out, you won't be. Anyway, I hate it. I hate the penny farthing.

What has it done to you? It's dead for a reason. Would you rather ride a penny farthing or stick a duck in your bum? Don't take the duck in the bum if you don't mind. What about wear a monocle or have a bionicle? Like a Lego bionicle? Like a bionic leg. I'd wear a monocle.

Leg technology isn't there yet, if I'm honest. Okay, I've thought about this. So Kid Detective, directed by Evan Morgan, stars Adam Brody from The O.C. Do you remember him? Oh, yes, yes, yes. It was recently in Promising Young Woman. And Sophie Nellis, I think it's pronounced. Anyway, so the story is that Adam Brody, who's like in his early 30s,

when he was a kid, when he was a child, he was like a super sleuth, like promising detective kind of guy and like the kids would bring cases to him and be like, who put bees in my locker or whatever and he'd solve it or that's not even one that happens. Or like some money goes, so like a jar goes missing of money and he has to find it or whatever. Anyway, then he grows up and he's still this kind of detective, like so he's not like a proper detective.

He's just like, he solves like minor things and it's mostly following people's husbands and wives to see if they're cheating or whatever. Then this girl visits him, a 16 year old, and is like, my boyfriend was murdered. And he's like, huh, this isn't like really my area, but whatever. Like, I'm not really doing anything. So it just follows him kind of sleuthing around, detecting, if you will. Trotting around in his little goatee trotters. With this girl.

Is that the sound of a goat? That's how they sound, yes. You know what that reminded me of? The Taylor Swift video clip of the goat. The goat, yes. Ah, yes, hilarious. I used to play that in my classroom. I loved it.

Except for some of the boys who were like, I hate Taylor Swift. It's like, shut up. You just don't like fun. Shut the fuck up. Oh, the pot calling the kettle black. Yes, I recognise my bad traits. On a side note, today our son called me babe again and I'm on a mission to get him to stop calling me babe.

Why is he calling you babe? I don't call you babe. No one calls me babe. I hate being called babe. I have no judgment if you call your partner babe or anyone else babe. Cool, go for it. I just don't particularly enjoy it myself. Yeah.

And now I think I've made a thing of it because he knows it annoys me now so he's always like, hey, babe. And so then I sang back at him, hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side. And he was like, you better not play that song in the car, mum. And I'm like, what? I was just trying to educate you about some excellent music. He just wants to insult you. That's what it comes down to.

Yeah. But anyway, so like it's a detective story. Do you remember Brick, Rian Johnson's Brick with Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Correct. It's kind of like that except it's funny. So, yeah, it's like they've got great recurring gags. There's one about hiding in cupboards, like when you break into someone's house to do some detective and hiding in cupboards and what the difference

between that is if somebody finds you when you're a 10-year-old and someone finds you when you're 32, the difference. There's another great recurring gag about like you wake up and he's like he doesn't know what day it is and you'd be like, come on, it's Monday, and people are like it's Thursday or whatever. Like it happens. It's very very funny it's a great mystery movie it's also the ending is excellent it's like really satisfying and cathartic and like deeply depressing in a way but also really funny like just throughout and not like gags and tripping

over and whatever just like deadpan, dark, funny, good. Yeah. That sounds great. I should point out to you as well, a lot of the female roles aren't as big as you probably would like. I just want to point that out to you. All right. I appreciate that.

I appreciate you warning me. But it is very good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, because this is the thing, right? A lot of very good film and TV have shitty roles for women in it. That being said, though, the 16-year-old girl in it who he has his little adventures with, she's very good as well.

So, yeah, she does play a role in it. But, you know, it's about him. Yeah. So the kid detective, the movie is named that because it's about that thing. I get it. I get it. I loved it. Yeah, you know what I like to do sometimes when I go and watch something?

Just see whether if you made the main character a woman but did not change the script whether it would work. And so often it just totally would. Yeah. Or just make them like, I don't know, in a wheelchair or from a different background. Definitely. Or, you know, anyway.

I just do that in my head. With most things it would be fine. Yeah, exactly. I was listening to a really interesting interview with Claudia Carbon about Bump and she was talking about how the casting director for Bump, the TV show that I watched the other day, which is brilliant, you should totally watch it if you haven't already, on Stan, is really great at sourcing actors who are really inexperienced

and from diverse backgrounds. Yeah, right. And I thought that was really great too. And it is about having casting directors who are willing to kind of go that extra mile and think laterally about who they cast in their TV shows and films. And a lot of the actors in Bump were Bump, were first-time actors too. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, a lot of fresh faces in that, which I appreciate. Yeah, yeah, I really do too. Can I go now? Yeah. Are you done? No, I'm done, yeah. Okay, cool, excellent. Where was Kid Detective?

I can't remember. I bought it on something. All right, okay, excellent. Probably on Google Play. All right, okay, so my last recommendation is a poetry book, James. Don't call it poetry. I'll be disappointed. I brought it in for you too.

The Lungs, Joanna Bennett. It's really cool. It's called Tiny Lungs by Joanna Bennett. It's this glorious little poetry book that I got recommended from the high low, which has finished now. Dolly Alderman and Pandora's like such a great, great podcast. People love that show. Oh, my God. It was so good and so sad that it finished. But, great podcast. People love that show. Oh, my God.

It was so good and so sad that it finished. But also great to end on a high also. Great. Anyway, so this particular poetry book is just glorious. She's British, so I got it sent over from the old Britannia and it's illustrated by her son. The poems take in the inhalations and exhalations of the last few years in her life, the oxygen, the carbon dioxide,

the unexpected things, the different narratives, the dark rooms, the light rooms, the joy of the everyday, the loss of dear family members, the incredible children, the changing political landscapes, the giving birth and raising of children in a pandemic, the yearning for loved ones we are desperate to see, and the deep love, kindness, and laughter that she has gratitude for. we are desperate to see, and the deep love, kindness, and laughter that she has gratitude for. It's just a gorgeous look at new motherhood and parenthood, at grief, at raising kids while trying to work,

while also doing homeschooling, all of those bits and bobs of life. And it's just, it's really uplifting and sweet. And I've gifted it to a few friends who have had babies recently. Because I think it's like when you're a new mother or new parents in general, you have very little room in your head to do anything other than like cry and just like walk around in a daze. But these are really short and they're not particularly good. Oh, they're good. You're recommending a good thing you like. Sorry, I apologise.

They're not like complicated or like super in depth in that you have to spend a lot of time like pondering about them or anything. They're just like little snippets that I think help you to treasure and remind you of why parenthood is actually an incredible joy when you're in the pits of despair. Yeah, if you want to. I mean some people don't have kids if you don't want to. Correct.

Exactly. Anyway, so I'm just going to read you two little ones. This one I really loved called Replay Rewind. These are the small things that if I don't collect, I worry in time I might just forget. An exact turn of phrase, hand reaching out for mine, the characters and favourites all laid out in a line. The finger that points to a tower in a book,

your hair wet, defiance, that laughter, a look. I study you in moments, the quiet times, my muse, the creating slideshow, the rose-tinted views. Very good. I know. And I just wanted to read you this last little one, Bones. Bones. Friend.

You've seen that show. If you're someone that's had Bones. Bones. Friend. I've seen that show. If you're someone that's had something terrible happen to you. Ever. I'm sorry. Keep going. Okay, I'm not going to read that one. No, read it. I want to hear it.

It's called Bones. What's wrong? Come on, man. I'm going to read you a different one. I'm going to read you a light on a sequin instead because you're being rude. I'm sorry. I know you hate poetry. No, I love poetry.

It's so annoying. So go on. Anyway, this is called The Light on a Sequin. I am the light on a sequin, the swirl as you're stirring your tea. I am the bit in that favorite song and toes running away from the sea. I am the first flash of spring, the warmth of the sun on your skin. I am the mischief that catches your cheeks and the twinkling laughter within. I am the love all around you, the pattern,

the color, the form. I am the voice that spurs you on, the quiet and calm in the storm. I like that, Claire. Can you read Bones now? No. Come on. Man, all right, fine. Three poems. Let me read three, mate. Let you. I'll sing a whole song for you one day. I'll do that.

Okay, Bones. Friend, let me sit beside you. Let me take those sorrow stones. I'd like to ease the burden that's been weighing down your bones. We don't have to speak and I'll just keep them here with me. So let your shoulders fall. I'll take this watch and oversee. I was trying to. I was good.

I was enjoying that. Leave that in, colleagues. No. I have to. No. I've got to cough. Can I read that last bit? It's not finished.

Of course you can. I know it's not finished because you had a coughing fit. Oh, this is like the most touching one. You should leave. I was really enjoying it, genuinely. Please continue. All right. We don't have to speak and I'll just keep them here with me.

So let your shoulders fall. I'll take this, watch and oversee. And if you want them back, they are yours, save one or two. We'll walk this path together and I will carry them for you. That was lovely. Thank you. Oh, I can't ever tell with you. Wait for it.

I'm coming, coming. No, it was good. I liked it, genuinely. Thank you. Anyway, Joanna Bennett and she's great. You can follow her on Instagram where she reads her own poetry much better than me without a coughing fit in the middle. Well, then I'm not interested.

And thank you for enjoying them. You're growing as a human. Or are you just pretending? I'm pretending, Claire. All right. Fair enough. Fake it till you make it, though. This is the dream.

Totally. All right. Off you go. Review of time. Yeah, review of time. So, look, if you do want to review the show, it super, super helps out. And maybe if you're lucky, you'll get this bloody thing happening. You'll get it read out.

Read out. This is from Matt from New Jersey, USA. Five stars. Revenge for you, Claire. Great job, you two. Great chemistry. First episode I listened to, someone wrote in and told Claire to shut up. No way. Love her perspective. My wife listening to it now. Love the back and forth. It may one day be a more successful podcast if you bring in Nick. Lol. And now for Claire's Revenge. Shut up, James. Just kidding. You guys are great. Official listener from New Jersey. Aw,

thanks, mate. And on that, thanks for getting your wife to listen. We would love that if you have a friend or a partner or a wife or a person in your life that you think would like this show, please make them listen to it in the car, wherever you're going.

We would love that. It really helps us out. And also we just love to, like, get more people to listen and watch this stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be great. And also we've had genuinely a lot of people writing as couples to say they listen to it together because it's really hard

to find something to listen to that you both want to listen to because I don't want to listen to anything you listen to. You probably pick something else other than this, but give it a go at least. Give it a go, Cheryl. All right. Also, we love getting letters into the show. We bloody love it. And you can also send us a voice memo just on your phone.

You can click the little voice memo app, record a little message for us right on your phone and then email it to us. There's a little square with an arrow in the corner. You can shoot right off to us. You can figure it out. We don't need to tell you how to do it. Figure it out. No, I'm trying to support our listeners.

No. I support you. Figure it out. I love you guys. You're awesome. I don't love you. Figure it out. It's a hard year this year.

Give people some slack. Fine. Figure it out. Read them a poem called Bones. I was trying to read it as like a comforting thing and then I coughed all the way through it. I was about to die. It wasn't as comforting when you started coughing. No, it wasn't.

Anyway, tried. So you can just email your voice memo to suggestiblepod at gmail.com just like Johan's clown has. I hope I pronounced that correctly. Hey, James. Hey, Claire. Attached to this mail, you'll find a little audio. All right. Shall we click on it?

We shall. All right. Here we go. Hey, James. Hey, Claire. Johannes here from Rostock in northern Germany, and I have a suggestible for you. It's the movie Colossal from 2016. It's really bizarre about a kaiju attack in Korea and how that's connected to Anne Hathaway

in a small US town dealing with substance abuse and toxic relationships. It's truly something special. Also, I wanted to send over a heartfelt thank you from Germany to Australia. You're always a joy to listen to and help keeping me sane. We're in statewide lockdown since last November. So you guys stay healthy and stay safe. Thank you very much. I've been meaning to watch Colossal.

He sounds so lovely. Is it Johan? Johan. You said it. Yeah, I think that's right. He's so lovely. Oh, my goodness. A little bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe.

Well, yeah, he's Austrian though. Oh, so maybe not. Anyway. Well, they're not dissimilar I guess because they border each other. It's so lovely to hear from people from all over the world who are listening. It's so special. So thank you so much. I over the world who are listening. It's so special. So thank you so much. I only like people who are from places that are near me,

but I still appreciate it regardless. That's only because you don't like to leave your area slash house, whereas I cannot wait to get out of town. If you're in lockdown, I am so sorry and I'm really feeling for you. We're out again in Melbourne. We only had five days of it, but, oh, boy, it's a real time. So we're really thinking of you guys and- Off the back of the five months we did last year just to clarify.

Yeah, correct. Yeah, exactly. So we totally understand where you're coming from. So, yeah, look after yourselves. Stay safe. Please do. Stay safe. See you next week.

We'll see them next week. See them next week. They'll hear us next week. That's very true actually. I'm so you next week. We'll see them next week. They'll hear us next week. That's very true, actually. I'm so sorry, everybody. Oh, no. I've got a real comment. Oh, God, I don't.

Oh, no. Should I get a test? Maybe I should. Anyway, as always, thank you to Roar Collings for editing this show. He's done it again. I know. And, hey, Roar Collings, just as a special treat, at the end of the show could you put a little bit of music from the old John Batiste?

Very good. I think that'll be a good way to end the show. I agree. Okay, let's go and goodbye. Okay, bye. James, what are you doing? I'm trying to get these headphones out, Claire. You don't know what you're doing.

Night. Hello, internet. I would like to invite you to take some time close your eyes meditate with us on the beauty and grandeur of the celestial ball in the middle of space that we live on called the earth

it's a beautiful place to be and though we cover a range of topics on the show we also want you to remember to take time to reflect and love yourself so without further ado Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life

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