Suggestible - Toenail polish, chin ups & human hair.

Episode Date: April 29, 2020

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Hi, this is Katnett Unfiltered. If you know us, then you know that we do almost everything together, so accommodating seven kids and seven adults on vacation can be challenging. So, we Airbnb it. And if you have a spare room in your house, you can Airbnb it. It's that simple. You can even Airbnb your whole house while you are away. You could be sitting on an Airbnb and not even know it.

Whether you could use extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun, your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.ca slash host. I'm too fat to sit in front of this thing anymore, James. Well, I'm trim and terrific. Oh, yeah, but you need a haircut. I look ridiculous. So gray and long.

Look, I've caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I just went, you're a disgrace. You should be ashamed of yourself. No, don't talk to yourself like that. It's too late. I've already done it. You are a precious jewel. Quite frankly, I deserve it. You also look great.

You are also a precious jewel. Are you serious? I'm the size of a bloody house. I'm having a baby in less than a week. Less than a week. Yes. More like less than a week. Less than a week.

All right. Hello. Welcome to Suggestible Podcast. I am Claire. This is the show where we're down on ourselves. No. More like less than a week. Less than a week. All right. Hello. Welcome to Suggestible Podcast. I am Claire. This is the show where we're down on ourselves. No, this is the show where we bring you things to watch, read, and listen to while you are stuck at home in isolation land. I've got to put the goddamn bins out.

It's raining so much. Oh, my God. Okay. You need to get over the fact that you have to put the bloody bins out. It's not the... I like putting the bins out. You always complain about the bloody... No, but I don't like it.

It's bucketing down. I'm going to have to go out there. It's your whole job. My long, wet grey hair will be matted. I'll look like an old sheepdog. See, this is why you'll never live up to that threat that you always give to me, which is that you're going to grow your hair long into an old grey ponytail. It's going to get past the point.

Your ego will never let you. One day my ego will disappear. I'm sure I'll get enough reality checks and I'll just feel no self-worth. One day your ego will die. No, it won't. You have a giant ego. Anywho. We're married and we suggest you things.

It's exciting. I've got lots of things to suggest. We have two things each at least. Actually, I've got three for this episode. The first one is, please go and listen to my rendition of Frozen's For the First Time in Forever. Did you actually post that? No, I didn't. You're a national embarrassment if you do that.

It's so funny though. James's brother is a teacher and he asked me to sing the lyrics to The First Time, but coronavirus way. And all his students are going to mime a line. Yes. If only we could release this online, but we go to jail. And also it's, I'm terrible. This song's so bad.

No, it's me. I'm so bad. I have to sing it to karaoke anyway. I spent a lot of isolation this week making that track. And it was very funny. My favorite line is, but Corona will go away, it will go away, it's agony to wait, it's agony to wait. How about this?

Tell David to open up the gate. If we get enough requests, you have to post a section of it on your. What, the section where I pretend to be two characters yes i pretend to be if we get and anna singing a duet if we get how about this yeah perfect if and and you've you can't sing properly because your diaphragm is crushed by a baby so if we get 10 reviews let's say five stars but you know all. All right. That's a bit ambitious. No, we're going to go for it. You have to post a clip of it on your Instagram.

That's so embarrassing. Yep, we're going to do it. Okay, I have to post that clip of me pretending to be two different characters and singing over the top of one another. Yes, that's right. Fine, fine. If we get 10 bloody reviews, I'll bloody do it. We're doing all right for reviews.

But, you know, we can always do a little bit of a bump. This is for analytics and content. Do you want me to mention my first thing for this week? I do. I do. Yep. Well, this is something you've probably got too. It's called Afterlife, season two.

Oh, what? I already have that on my list. No, we talk about it together. That's how it works. Okay. So I wasn't a huge fan of season one. It felt a bit kind of i don't know uh you just don't like ricky gervais no i do like ricky gervais but that's the thing though i really

like the second season i liked it a lot more and i think part of the reason is i think it's funnier for one but i also think that it addresses some things about grief which the first one kind of didn't because the way it kind of ends you kind kind of like, it's almost like he gets over it and he gets past his grief. And this one, when it starts again, he realizes that there's no really, you don't just get past it. It's still with you. And he does this amazing speech about how he's not, he's not better at all, but he does an impression of some of what, of who he used to be. And that's just what he does now. He remembers what it was like to be okay and he just does that. All the time. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, look, if you haven't watched Afterlife, Ricky Gervais' character loses his wife to cancer. Yes. So the series is kind of peppered with videos from her and their old life when they were together. And he lives in a village in England and it's like he works with like a sort of.

Colourful local characters. Yeah, a collecting mix of colourful local characters and it's very funny. The first series I guess is a lot darker in some ways. Oh, maybe, yeah. You mean like he shoots up heroin at one point or something, doesn't he? Yeah, he does do that because he's got to kill himself. Yeah, I guess.

Yeah, it's kind of darker whereas this series, I enjoyed them both equally in different ways. I feel like in the first one he's really in the throes of grief in that he's just angry and horrible to everyone around him all the time. Kind of has moved into a stage now where he's just thinking more about his wife, I guess, and I guess it's a state of depression. But it's also weirdly very joyful. I mean, he shares a lot about his love for her and there's just lots

of beautiful clips of them together in their life which I really enjoyed in the second season. And she's great as well. She's in other things that they've done together. She is really great. What is her name? I don't know. I can bring it up.

Could you bring that up? Yeah. Because his wife is brilliant. And the other person that's also really good in this is the nurse who – And what's her name? Her name is Ashley Jensen. She's from Extras as well. Yeah, so she's in Extras with Ricky.

And Kerry Godiman is his wife who passed. Yeah, and both of those characters are really great. The character of the postman is great. Yes. His mate who's also a sex worker is hilarious. Yes, she's really great actually. Yeah, she's got a lot of heart to her. Yeah, she really does.

Yeah. And the way that it's kind of like a job, you know, she's a sex worker but she's kind of. She's just going to her job and comes back. Yeah, it's just like she works in a toll booth or in an office or whatever, yeah. Yeah, exactly. What I love about it is, and this is what I think Ricky Gervais

is really good at, is what is so good about The Office. He takes the minutiae of your life, of everyday life, and those ridiculous conversations that happen and pulls them into focus in a way that's really hilarious but poignant. Yeah, right. So you can watch something like that which is ostensibly not that much happens really. It's really more about.

Oh, it's pretty low stakes I guess. Yeah, but it's just more about people coping with life. Yes. And the ordinariness of it all. I watched Ricky Gervais on a part of a podcast. It's on Luminary, which is a subscription podcast service. I haven't actually got that subscription, but Russell Brand interviews him and so I follow him on Instagram.

And he's actually quite a good recommendation for someone to follow on Instagram. Existentially, it's the dichotomy of economics of the system. Yeah, there you go. You want that. Nailed it. And look, I take him in small doses because he can get a little like that, but I'm really enjoying his Instagram at the moment and the part,

the interviews that I've seen with Ricky Gervais where he talks about afterlife but he also talks about riding the office and it's really beautiful. So I'd recommend that discussion as well. But, yeah, I I really enjoyed Afterlife. There's also one of the characters I really like is someone he sits on the bench with in the cemetery. She's played by Penelope Wilton, who people might know.

She's in Doctor Who. She's like the Prime Minister in some earlier seasons of Doctor Who. Oh, she's great. She's also in Downton Abbey. Yes, she is. She's so good. And she's widowed as well, but her husband, she's in a different point because she's older.

I can't remember exactly when that happened to her. It might have been much earlier. I think it was a similar time frame. Oh, maybe it was then, yeah. But maybe it's because she had more time with him than Richard Weiss had with his wife. But I found that really, I find their dynamic really good. The only dynamic I don't really like, there's a girl called Sandy

who he works with, Mandeep Dhillon, and I just feel like she's written a bit one-dimensionally and always looking to Ricky Gervais to be like, Ricky Gervais, what do I do? I feel like she doesn't really – a bit better in the second season, but I feel like she could be fleshed out more as a character. They don't do enough interesting stuff with her. You feel like, though, I think sometimes she plays the character of the audience.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Which I quite like. Because she kind of turns to him and goes hmm when something kind of wacky happens. What you're thinking as the audience sitting and watching, she's kind of that person. She's doing the face of, yeah. She's like the Tim from The Office but she's not.

She's not as out there as a big character. Yeah, but she's. They're just like there's this home life that's implied and you see a little bit of it but it's mostly like, what do I do, Ricky Gervais? And he's like, well, I'll tell you what you do, you bloody get on with it. Yeah.

Look, in some ways I agree with that. I think her character absolutely could be fleshed out more. But I also enjoy that dynamic of feeling solidarity with her. Like she goes to these things like they have a drama performance rehearsal thing which is just full of these larger-than-life characters and you feel like she's the one person in that whole universe who's like kind of just a normal human being. Do you enjoy the psychologist?

I do. Yeah, I do. He's the worst. Yeah, he's the worst. He's completely like unbelievable as a human being but he's the worst. And he's always like just basically espousing all of his views about women and picking up chicks, picking up the chicky babes. And he's clearly not well.

Yeah, he's clearly not well. Yeah. And he's got like long hair. Just a side note, don't grow your hair long. He's in Game of Thrones, that guy. He's got like a top knot. Oh, I see. There you go.

Anyway, it's really great. His brother-in-law's good as well. Yeah, he's the other one that you sort of feel is a bit of the voice of reason too. Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. He's a little bit sad sacky. There is the kind of – it's almost too fantastic. It's good.

I really like it. I should point that out. But it's weird because it's a balance between complete and utter lunacy and really normal people. Yeah, because Ricky Gervais' kind of role is to be a reporter that goes out to report on the things that have happened in the local news basically. But the people that he was reporting on are always like really out there.

But even like the relationship he has with the Postman, which I really love, like it's slightly more fantastical than like The Office, for example, which. Which is good, I'm saying. It's on Netflix. It's all on Netflix. You should watch it. Yeah, after that. I burnt through it in a night.

There's only six episodes. You're a maniac. Oh, I'm a maniac. How do I do it? One night. Holy doly. Anyway, what's another thing? I just cut our show drastically short by choosing the same thing as you, but what's another

thing? Yeah, you did. All right. Okay. I've just realized my prego brain has brought up the suggestible notes from last week. Oh, my God. We've already done that episode.

It's already available on iTunes and Spotify and other platforms. All right. So here we go. Phew, saved it. Nobody even noticed. Okay. So the first thing I wanted to talk about very briefly was a quick goodbye to Levens, Andrew Levens, who is leaving our network, Planet Broadcasting.

Would you recommend a goodbye to Andrew Levens? I would recommend a goodbye to him. But I would also, and his podcast, Serious Issues and HeyFam, have been an awesome part of our network and he's also created our Facebook group, Planet Broadcasting Great Mates. And fostered a really good community. Yeah, and it's an awesome community. So if you haven't already sort of belonged to that one,

I'd highly recommend going over and joining that group. And obviously we've still got lots of great administrators over there, but we just want to say goodbye to Levinson. Yeah, because he did kick it off. He did. He does a lot of great work for us. Yeah, and all these restrictions lift. Yeah, exactly.

He's got that book, obviously, which I talked about recently. Yeah, a kid's book. He's just released it. Issue number one. Not issue, it's talked about recently. Yeah, a kid's book he's just released too. It's issue number one. Not issue, it's book number one. It's a kid's book. It's about a kid who gets superpowers when he eats vegetables. But there is actually, if you go onto his Twitter, he posted something.

There's a couple of chapters that are available online if you do want to check it out. But it's apparently selling very well. Yeah, it's an awesome book. So anyway, so long, Levins. You've been great. Yeah, so that's one thing I wanted to say off the top of the books. The other thing I wanted to recommend is also a Netflix show. Oh, my gosh, it's awesome, called Feel Good with Canadian comedian

and actor Mae Martin. Oh. Yeah, I know. Mae Martin is a stand-up comedian and I kind of learnt about her work from The Guilty Feminist, which was one of my favourite podcasts. She wrote the show. It's very autobiographical. It's ostensibly almost a romantic comedy.

It feels very familiar but really deals with some really kind of unique themes in a way. It's about a relationship and May falls in love in the first episode with a girl. And May kind of talks a little bit later on about how she may identify as trans, though she's queer, like a gay woman, and the girl she falls in love with is heterosexual. But that kind of isn't actually the main thread of the show.

She's also dealing with addiction through it and there's quite a colourful cast of characters. Is that something she's dealt with in real life as well? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. And she's a stand-up comedian in the show, so it begins, it kind of opens with her doing her stand-up and then this girl happens to be in the audience.

Right. It's heartbreaking and poignant. It reminds you how hard it is to be vulnerable in relationships. It deals with kind of those weird relationships you have with your parents and the baggage that they give you. Yeah, take that, parents. And so really, ostensibly, it's just a great TV show that crosses that line of being really hilarious

while also pulling on your heartstrings. It just happens to be that the characters are gay, but that's not kind of the focal point of the show, I really prefer that. I think we're past the point of, you know, that being a big deal in shows. Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying, though?

I know exactly what you mean. Like you said about how it's not the focus, I think that's interesting. Yeah. Sch you know what I'm saying though? I know exactly what you mean. Like you said about how it's not the focus. I think that's interesting. Yeah. Schitt's Creek is the same. They moved to a small town and the son is gay. But it's never like an issue. Everyone in the town is just like.

He's gay. And I know that's not always the case in a lot of places, but I just love that it's not the focus. Yeah. I don't know how this is. It's just an element of a very multifaceted character. Yeah, and all the characters are really complex. What's kind of really interesting about it too is it's just an element of a very multi-faceted character yeah and all the characters that are really complex what's kind of really interesting about it too is it explores may's own experience of what it's like to date someone who's hetero and then her what that sort of plays with her

mind about body issues and and later on like because her girlfriend doesn't introduce her to her friends and she's really there's sort of a party where that kind of happens and it's awkward. But it's all relatable stuff to when you start dating someone, you, James, over there. I never introduce you to anybody. No, but, you know, that everyone, you know, that's such a common experience of maybe dating someone who doesn't introduce you to their friends or is nervous about introducing them to their family

or has commitment issues or doesn't post anything on social media about you and then that plays with your mind and then the other person, why don't they do that? Are they afraid of commitment? All that kind of stuff. Anyway, it's absolutely beautiful. I really hope. She's writing a second season.

It hasn't been picked up by Netflix yet. It hasn't? No. Really? I know. But I'm really hopeful that it will be. I wonder if this – because I remember when this came out and I'm just looking at the release date because it was like late March,

was it, that came out? Yeah, really recently. Yeah, really recently. Yeah, so it's interesting because that was a while ago, but I don't remember hearing much about it since it kind of came out. So I'd forgotten about this. So maybe it's not getting traction. Maybe that's why it hasn't been.

I mean, look. And Lisa Kudrow's in it, yeah. Yeah, Lisa Kudrow plays her mother and plays it so fantastically. Yeah, right. The other character that's really funny is Sindhu V. Sindhu V is a stand-up comedian and she plays this kind of funny character from May's recovery meetings. Right.

Anyway, she's really funny in it too. And I just recommend following Sindhu V actually and looking up her stand-up comedy because I think it's bloody hilarious. It's her girlfriend and it's Charlotte Richmond. She's from Fresh Meat. Yes. Yeah, she's great as well. Yeah, she is.

She's really, really great. And it's written so beautifully. It's the world that you want to stay in. So there's some dark themes but it's also just a beautifully drawn out world to live in. I should watch this. Yeah, you would really enjoy it actually. And it's a great, I think it would be a great show to watch too

with a partner. Yeah, okay. Not that we ever watch anything together. Well, if we both watch things together, we end up recommending the same thing and it ruins the show. Exactly. But it is, anyway, highly recommend it And also just go and follow Mae Martin. She's actually interviewed on The Guilty Feminist.

Debra Francis-White is doing a new podcast. So I'm just going to move on to my second recommendation. Oh, my goodness. I know. Anarchy. That's right. I'm a pregnant woman on the loose. Nobody stop me.

Is that the opposite of The Mask? Somebody stop me? Yeah, I guess so. Have I told you how one of my favourite comedians, Celia Pakola, I've already said this already on the podcast, but it still makes me laugh how last year, maybe it was 2018, she always chooses a motto and her motto for 2018 was, you'll see, you'll see.

You did talk about that, yeah. I don't know why I always think about that. It just makes me laugh so much. I love people driven by spite. I find that. It's a great motivator. Yeah, it's very funny. Is that how you're driven?

Yeah, mostly. Are you driven by spite? No, not really. I don't know what I'm driven by. Lack of haircut, that's what I'm telling you. Yeah, I'm driven by everyone just fuck off, leave me alone. That's what I'm driven by. Yeah, you are just constantly seeking ways in which to not have to go anywhere

or do anything. That is how you've ended up running this bloody YouTube channel so you didn't have to go anywhere or do anything. I am driven by being like quietly successful-ish and not having to like bang on about it. Because most people who we met don't have no idea what any of this is. No, and you actually get mad at me if I tell people. I do a little bit, which I shouldn't.

Because people ask me what you do. And I say he does a YouTube channel and you're like, ugh. I'm like, what are we supposed to say? He works at the local green grocer. Tell them I don't care. They know that you're not working there. Tell them whatever you want. No, of course you can tell them that.

Of course you should. Yeah, but you always get mad. No, I don't feel the need to like be like, and these are the download numbers and this is the whatever. Yeah, but that would make you a total asshole if you walked around being like, my name is James and I run Mr. Sunday Movies and I have this many downloads. I'm better than everybody.

I don't know if you know about this, but a lot of famous YouTubers are absolute sociopaths. Just like you. Look, I probably am. Yeah, I don't know. Who knows? No, you just like to be left alone. That's what I discovered about you.

And this is just like, just because we've been talking about relationships and feel good. One thing I've learned over the years, because what, we've known each other for like, what, 14 years? God, feels like more. No, sorry, go on. I have learned that in conflict situations, and I feel like this applies to a lot of relationships,

and I'm going to stereotype here because this is a heteronormative relationship, but I used to, when we'd have a fight or get mad or something, you would like not talk to me and then I would chase you and be like, tell me what's wrong. What's going on? Tell me, what have I done? Talk to me. What's going on?

And I would like follow you around. Sometimes I would just get mad because you'd like want to be on your own. And I'd be like, well, obviously he's mad at me. He doesn't love me anymore. And I like follow you around. And what I've since learned is actually what I need to do is let you be on your own. It's like how you train a cat. And then you come and find me.

Love you. Yeah. So I just leave you alone. That's true because often like when you go out and like I know where you are, like you go to an appointment or you do whatever, if you're not back within a certain time I'll just ring you just to like make sure that, and I know you're fine obviously, but I'm like she's probably just going to get a coffee or whatever,

but I still like to check to make sure. Yeah. It was like that time I went on holidays and I came back and you like slow cooked me a lamb stew and like delivered flowers and cleaned the whole house. And then I climbed into the roof cabin. And did all the washing and put it away. Like I don't always, sometimes.

And you wrote me this beautiful card. It was like, she's back. And I was like, yeah, that's what I need to do, just not be around you. So you're free to hate me more. That's true. Anyway, but that I feel like though, that is some serious, solid relationship advice there. Yes.

Because some people, like I'm quite extroverted, I like to be around people all the time, and some people like you squirrelly away, Mr. Sunday, don't like to be at all. I don't like it. You don't like it? Do you know what I do like, though? What do you like?

Oh, were you in the middle of a suggestion? No, I've already done it. It's done. Okay, good. Excellent. Hi, this is Katnett Unfiltered. If you know us, then you know that we do almost everything together. So accommodating seven kids and seven adults on vacation can be challenging. So we Airbnb it. And if you have a spare room in your house, you can Airbnb it. It's that simple. You can even airbnb your whole house while you are away you could be sitting on an airbnb and not even know it whether you could use extra money to cover some bills or for something a little more fun your home might

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I'm actually on an episode of it. It's called Confessions of the Idiots where Sammy P finds the best and weirdest online confessions to read out to some really great guests. Yes. So other than me. I love online confessions. Like genuinely, there's a few like Reddit threads that I'm subbed to and also some accounts

that I'm like, ooh, juicy internet gossip. I love it. Oh yeah. Well, he is really good at finding some excellent ones. And we've got a special little clip here. Will Anderson and Marie Carty, two excellent guests. What a lineup. Great comedians.

I know. Discuss this particular one. It's all about a hair salon. So I'll let you hear it now. Let's do it. The only problem is I have, and it is a dark one, is I have an addiction that seemed to have come out of nowhere a few months ago. When you cut somebody's hair, you have an instant connection to them. It's a bond that is difficult to describe. And she's going to go on and describe it. She's going to keep some of their hair, isn't she? You saw it coming.

We've all been there. But once you see their locks fall away, you understand them a little more. That sounds so creepy. So in the heat of the moment one day, I started pocketing a customer's hair. Probably Denise, jokingly. Probably Denise. Firstly, Denise. She's mentioned Denise by name. I Denise, jokingly. Probably Denise. Firstly, Denise. Firstly, Denise.

She's mentioned Denise by name. I'll start with Denise. Get a couple of wines in for Denise. She'll give you her hair. What does she do with the hair? Does she eat it? No, I pocket the customer's hair. I really liked it and thought that I could just take a little bit

and it wouldn't become a problem. Yeah. What started as a very small thing became a very, very big, even huge issue in my life. Okay. I started doing it every day. Yeah. What started as a very small thing became a very, very big, even huge issue in my life. Okay. I started doing it every day. Yeah. One customer here, another there, and worked up to handfuls at a time.

Now I had bagfuls of it at home. I started taking a larger backpack to work, so she's smart. Now, I mean, you know. Yeah. But I'm curious at this point whether we're going to get to, like, are storage methods of this hair going to be mentioned at some stage? Because my main curiosity is how it's been kept and labelled. Yeah. How labelled?

Well, because I want to know. I wasn't expecting labelling. It says Denise June 28th. Oh, right. Or at least the person. Like, I don't want just the, like, if she's saying it's a connection between her and that person, then I just don't want random hair laying around the house.

It's not laying, it's in bags. It might all be mixed together. But it's mixed. It's mixed. Yeah. You don't like that? I don't like that. Well, the labels are getting mixed up for one.

That's not about an individual connection with somebody. No. That's just lots of hair. You can keep it all separate. That would be, like, when we've had pets die in the past, we've often like kept some of their like fur and we have it like as a memento. So I understand the kind of the instinct to a certain thing.

Yeah. And I think as someone who was getting my hair cut, well, it kind of presents itself as feeling a little creepy. If all she really wants is my hair that I was going to let them sweep into a bin anyway, I am literally no longer attached to that hair. If she wants to take it home and have some attachment through it, I have no problem.

But I want to be kept in a separate bag with a label. You want your hair to be respected. Exactly. Would you want to be asked if she was going to take your hair? Would you want her to ask you and say, hey, well, I just want to take it? No, I'd prefer she did it in secret. Because that's an odd conversation to have, don't you think, Marieke? You're just saying, sorry, Will, I don't know you very well,

but can I just take some of your hair? I'm with Will. Just do it. Just do it. Just do it, Megan. And you're fine with it as well? Yeah, take my hair. Well, she says, I started taking a larger backpack to work

to make sure I could take everything home. I'm currently not even. I like to imagine she's wearing one of those backpacks you backpack around Europe. Oh, like they're really weird. Lots of different pockets. It's just everywhere. Lots of different compartments. Currently not even seeing anybody because I'm terrified of them finding huge stashes

of people's hair. Oh, that's an amazing first date. Go home with Megan. What's this? Nothing. Nothing. Just a beanbag. Sit on it. Sit on it. Try and sit. Nothing. Just a beanbag. Sit on it.

Sit on it. Try and sit on it. I'd love you to sit on it. Oh, you couldn't explain that away, could you? No. All the bags of human hair in your house, you couldn't. And so now. I mean, you could, but I don't think the explanation would make the other person feel good.

No. What a great clip. It's such a great clip and it's super gross. We should. Obviously, we should. We will. It's such a great clip and it's super gross. We should. Obviously, we should. We will. It's linked below. Definitely check it out.

He's also on Twitter at MrSammyP. Yes, he is. And on Instagram at Confessions of the Idiots and Facebook, Confessions of the Idiots as well. And you can listen in all good podo apps. I would highly recommend it. He's also just a lovely guy. He's really great.

We've met him at a party. Yeah, we did. Yeah. You've met him more than me because you're on the podcast. I have, but he's very's really great. We've met him at a party. Yeah, we did. You've met him more than me because you're on the podcast. I have, but he's very good friends. I also met him at the party and he was really fun. Very good friends with all the guys at Stupid Old Studios and our lovely mates do go on

their podcast. And yeah, he's an excellent all-round dude and it's a hilarious show. I highly recommend checking out Confessions of Idiots. Yay! Well, this is just a quick thank you to Hollywood Pete, friend of ours, friend of the show. We love Hollywood Pete.

He sent us a children's book called A Die Hard, well, it's not really a children's book, but it's A Die Hard Christmas. It's written by comedian Doogie Horner and illustrated by JJ Harrison. And basically it recontextualises Die Hard, the movie Die Hard from the 80s, the action adventure romp, as like the night before Christmas with like these

wonderful drawings. But it's also terrorists being like shot and blood like flying out of them but it's done in like a lovely kind of Christmas narrative kind of style and I just wanted to say it's really fun and if you've got like slightly older kids or even you're like die hard yeah it's fun it does look really fun I we opened it and I remember you looking at it I was what is this? Who sent you this? And maybe I could read this to our son and then he opened it. I open it and it's Terrace being like, ugh. The art style is great.

It's really good. He's great. We love Hollywood Pete. You're awesome. He's like, it's a few months late because, you know, Christmas was, you know, whatever. Who cares? It doesn't matter.

Die Hard is an all-round movie for all time. It is. It's an awesome movie. One day we'll see Hollywood Pete again, maybe in six months when we resurface after. We're going to have a big drink. Yeah, I can drink too. You're not allowed to drink. It's only me and Hollywood Pete that drink together. No. I used to come when I was fun. That's true. Here's something you will enjoy and I recommend if you've got time, you should watch it even tonight. Alright, because I have something else you'll enjoy.

What does that mean? I'm a surprise. Oh no, it's not a song is it? Bad education. Corona will go me? It's not a song, is it? Bad Education. Corona will go away. It will go away. No, don't give it away here. Bad Education. I got a screener actually from HBO. They reached out and they're giving me screeners for stuff now,

which is awesome because that, I don't know, I just didn't think that would happen. I've never contacted them. But they sent me a copy of Bad Education. It's directed by Corey Finlay and it stars Hugh Jackman, Alison Janney, Ray Romano, Gerardine Vishwanathan, which I'll probably again said wrong. But anyway, it's a really terrific and engrossing movie.

Whoa, guys, he's so animated. He's got both hands up. Oh, you'll love it. So it's about this school superintendent played by Hugh Jackman. We love Hugh Jackman. We love him. We love you Jackman. We love him. We love you, Hugh. He's not listening.

So he's like the best superintendent in the area, right? He's brought this school up in a big way with his assistant, Alison Janney, and basically he's raised the level of education, which in turn raises college applications. So all these kids are getting to really good schools and getting on the fast track to big universities. Housing prices have also gone up in the area because that also is in relation to how well schools do, which I'm sure people may know.

If you're looking for a house often, you have to be like, wait, I have to take into account schools and much of other stuff. And by you, you mean me. I mean you, yes, exactly. I had to look at it all and I was like, we're moving here. And you were like, cool. And he's like this perfect looking Hugh Jackman looking guy. Because he's Hugh Jackman.

Yes, he's Hugh Jackman. I knew you'd just say he's perfect. Though he's looking like a bit older in this because he knows 50. Because he is older. But I think they've done a bit more to kind of make him like. Ah, older. But not older, older, but just, yeah. And it's also, it's weird because he's got this kind of vanity and this like sharpness

and crispness to him, which is, you know, he considers it kind of part of his job and part of his personality and all of these things. And you see him with kids and with parents and other stuff and he's really good with them and there's a reason why obviously it's doing well. But anyway, it's discovered that there's this misallocation of funds at school and then an inquiry happens into spending and it seems like a lot

of this money is missing and there's certain people that are involved in it and people end up being exposed for kind of and the school isn't necessarily what you think it is. And it's all based on a true story that happened in the early 2000s. People went to jail for this thing that happened. Good Lord. But again, I'm not going to spoil it. So it's interesting because the characters that kind of are revealed,

they're not wholly terrible but they also, they obviously are because they're stealing millions of dollars in some cases, but some of them also clearly have education in mind maybe and maybe it's like a hubris that they are doing this for their own selfish reasons. But does that even matter if the school is kind of getting better, you know what I mean? And there's also this idea that the people who work for schools,

some of them see themselves as, you know, all these parents come in with their kids and they've got these six-figure jobs and these cars and these houses, and why should they be missing out on these things, you know, when the parents are the ones who are reaping the benefits of their hard work because it's a public school, you know. And it's just really interesting and it's, like I said, it's well worth a watch and I found it particularly interesting

because being in the educational system, I never felt like that parents thought that they were, you know, better than me in whatever way. But there definitely can be that divide between, you know, parents and teachers often because, you know, for various reasons. Oh, completely. And I think often it depends too on the type of area that you're teaching in as well.

Yes. And I have friends who teach in all different types of settings, but often friends who teach at very kind of expensive, posh, private schools, the parents expect a lot more and treat you more like an employee. Yes. As opposed to maybe teachers from other, who are teaching in other areas. Yeah, that's right.

Possibly lower socioeconomic areas too. And also culturally too, like in China, teachers are, you know, some of the most respected members of society. Whereas here, are they? Who knows? Look, I don't think teachers aren't respected. And look, I loved it. Like I did.

But they're definitely, we've talked about it, but it needs to be addressed. Yeah, different vibe. Just paid, I would say just paid. And just like for a PS, bloody shout out to teachers at the moment who are somehow managing to run a program for kids who are going to school and kids who are homeschooling. Exactly.

And working that through. And I think they're bloody everyday heroes. And that's all levels of education as well because our son's kindergarten has four of her own kids at school. Two of them are like in grade prep. And, you know, she's doing both, you know, which is crazy. My gosh. Just like super mum right there.

So, yeah, I really – and they're on the front line of this crisis too. So our bloody teachers, awesome. And also anyone who is out there working in the community at the moment, you guys are all bloody tops. Is that the show? Have you got another thing? I've got many things. I got really excited this week.

Okay. All right. I did say I had something for you. Oh, no. I know. I got something. That's not a good smile. I got something for you.

You know how last week you said that you were going to paint my toes? And then you didn't paint my toes. I thought I've locked you in here and I've bought you some nail polish remover and also some beautiful pink potato polish and I think that you should try and paint them on air.

You have lost your mind if you think I'm going to do that. I also bought a towel and tissue. I should have known when you came in with the towel. Come over here. There's a chair strategically placed right in front of me. This is absolutely. No, we're going to do it. If it's really shit and it doesn't work, then we can always edit it out.

Come on over, man. I've got to bring my microphone over. This is love. This is love. This is entrapment. Yeah, well, you still haven't done it. I can't reach them and I can't go into hospital with manky ass bloody hairy toes.

So I have to actually get your hairy toes? Yeah, I didn't tell you that bit, did I? I have to get the nail polish off. I haven't seen a waxer for a while. Yeah, you have to take it off first. You're a real piece of work. How can I bloody put the nail polish on and take it off? I can't reach my toes either way.

Put your weird, gross monkey feet up. All right, okay, so first up. I do know how to get nail polish off. Do you? Of course I do. When have you ever done taking nail polish off? I've been to some parties as a teenager. You're hanging out with girls.

You're braiding your hair. You're giving your toes. Okay. So I have to paint a real picture here. We're doing, this is a bit like a breakfast show bit, isn't it? That they would do. So, Jim, I'm going to get my phone and I'm just going to like film you over here with your lovely haircut as well.

God damn. This is strong. This is like paint stripper. Yeah, because it's nail polish remover, you goose. Okay. Here he goes. All right. So he's, uh, currently.

You're a real piece of work. You know that? Embarrassed me in front of my podcast. Your podcast? Yeah, my other podcast. My Boston Churchill podcast. Okay. So you're taking good.

That's one foot done. To be fair, there's not that much nail polish left. There's going to be some people who pay good money for this video. You're going to get some real creeps on there. What, are you taking nail polish from off my toes? Yeah, people, are you kidding me? Feet's like a huge thing. What?

It's a huge like subsection of. What do you mean? What do they get out of it? You don't know like the feet are not like a huge. What do people like to do with them? Like suck the toes or something? Quentin Tarantino, you know him? Oh, yeah, that guy, yeah.

Kill Bill. Kill Bill and various things. If you look at his movies, a lot of it is like people putting like feeted mouths and close-up of feet and all this kind of stuff. He loves feet. He's like notoriously. I'm getting high just smelling this. This is part of my plan to get you high.

Yeah, well. Yeah, well, you've done it now. Well done. So far, so bloody good. We'll put the lid on the nail polisher. Oh, sorry, ma'am. Yeah, it's really hard to get a professional these days. Is it?

Look at my toes. They're all clean now. Okay, here he goes. Bright pink nail polish i'm so impressed look at him go okay can he do it guys i don't know if you're you're able to there's a real i don't there's a real i don't have very steady oh i've clipped the end of your toe there i don't have steady hands either this is gonna be a real disaster isn't it yep i've gone onto the cuticle what's happening yeah this is a real disaster how quickly do it? Yep. I've gone onto the cuticle. What's happening here? This is a real disaster.

How quickly do I have to do this? This is some quality, pretty quickly because it's quickly getting very boring. Is it? I'm sorry that this thing that you sprung on me isn't exciting. Well, I'm getting high now too from the nail polish remover. You probably shouldn't because you've got a baby in your stomach. Yeah, this is true. Well, I really appreciate this.

What I love about this one is absolutely botched. What have you done, Toby? You moved and I got like the top of your toe like a lot. I'm just zooming in a little. Yeah. I don't think you're doing a terrible job. No, you can't see them up close. You've got bad eyesight.

No, I've got my glasses on. Okay. There we go. That one's done. All right. Okay. Here he goes. Now, we don't have any like toenail separator so or anything

did you just paint me yeah i'm gonna do your whole foot are you that's ridiculous don't oh bloody stripe on me now how am i gonna get it off this is gonna be a video in a few years it's gonna be like it's gonna be like mr Sunday Movies is a real cuck. I always knew it. Because he does think. With SJW. Yeah, he does think for his wife that he loves. What an absolute pathetic he would be.

Remember we worked with that guy up north and the bit of advice that he gave me, he'd somehow ended up in his like mid-60s in the middle of nowhere being a terrible teacher. His advice was like and divorce like multiple times. But you know what? People get divorced. He did make a mean scone though. No, he didn't.

He made a terrible scone. People would just have Stockholm Syndrome up there. But this one's buggered. But he was like, if you want advice for a relationship, James, with women, is like never compromise. I'm like, never compromise. Like on anything ever. That feels wrong.

Look, I can understand like standing your ground, but you cannot be in a relationship or know a human being without having compromise like sometimes for some things. That's true. One day I'll compromise. I would say the advice is like stand your ground on things that you're really sure of. But, you know, there's a lot of things you can just let go. Like if you really like it's not a big deal.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I could do this in a salon. I'm dishing out good advice and just going for it. Yeah, see, that's the magic of it. It's kind of lovely. Oh, this one's not as good as the other one. I love the way that does my toes normally.

And I miss her every goddamn day. I need to clean these up around the edges. Yeah, you do. You need to clean up your act. I do. You are. You're dishing out the edges. Yeah, you do. You need to clean up your act. But you are. You're dishing out life. I actually do agree.

One of my lovely friends, Alicia, once said to me, and I do agree with this, like she had an issue because her husband kept putting his toothbrush and toothpaste on the side of the bench. Yeah, but that's what a serial killer does. No, and she had like a cup or thing that she always wanted them to go into. And she used to just like argue about it and every day they'd have this argument and then she would be mad and they'd go to work and she'd be fuming. And her mum said to her, she's like, you have to decide in a relationship

what are the things that you're going to dig your heels in on and what is just going to actually make your life easier. If you care so much about this particular thing then in the end i think that there doesn't need to be cleared also clean my bloody toe stripey thing what have you done there in the end pick your battles and just like the two seconds it would take you to pick that toothpaste and toothbrush up off the bed yeah i know because it's now polish this shit is paint yeah it is well yeah that's what nail polish actually is. Yeah, she just said the two seconds it would take you to just put that toothbrush

and toothpaste back in the bowl, back in the thing and get on with your day. And I've sort of thought about that. So now I just. You never argue on anything. I never complain. I never talk about your socks on the floor. You complain almost constantly. No, I don't.

I let a lot of things slide, including your lack of talent in the now polished department. Done. I'm actually quite impressed. Look, guys. You need to get a closer look. It's not that good. How good is it? All right.

I'm zooming in. Is that the show? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We've got to do some recommendations. Oh, my God. Hang on. I'm taking my mic back to my seat.

All right. He's taking his mic. I'm filming you. All right. Okay. I'm pretty impressed. I'm looking at my toes. They don't I'm taking my mic back to my seat. All right. He's taking his mic. I'm filming you. All right. Okay. I'm pretty impressed. I'm looking at my toes. They don't look too shabby, guys.

They're not great. And I did it really quick. You know you can review the show. Why would you after this debacle? I should have known with that sinister look on your face. What sinister look? So Doroskin says, absolutely charming. Five stars.

You just do this in-app. Although I'm a long-time listener of the Weekly Planet, I'm starting to believe that this is actually James' more successful podcast. I knew I liked this gentleman. Claire might be the most charming person on the planet. I feel like high on fumes. I'm so sorry. Even more than May so.

At Claire's suggestion, my mother and I watched Little Flyers everywhere this past week and we both adored it. Thank you so much for having great suggestibles. You guys rock. Got any suggestions for this week? I bloody love that review. I knew you would. I should have picked some of the meaner ones.

Yeah, now I've made you paint my toys. Anyway, this might be one of the proudest moments of my life. Yeah, you must have. I haven't done very much recently. I am really getting high with this now, Flush River Sheet. All right. So you can also email the show. We would love to hear from you at suggestiblepod at gmail.com.

Yes. And this week with your recommendations. And this week I got an email from a lovely person called Ruben Turner. And I'll just read a bit of it out. I think it's a really important email. I love emails. Yeah, I think it's great. So hello, Claire and James.

First of all, I'd like to say how much I love your podcast. It's very enjoyable to listen to. I'm a long-time listener of the Weekly Planet and I've been listening to the Decibel since it first started. So good. You guys may already know this, but given the discussion about the documentary regarding Hasidic Jews in last week's episode, so that was the show that we talked about, Unorthodox. I just wanted to make sure you guys know that Hasidic Jews are only a subset of Orthodox Judaism as a whole and Satmar is an even smaller subset of Hasidic Jewry. So regular Orthodox Jewish women do not have to shave their heads

and not prevent from education, working and hobbies, and regular Orthodox men do not have to wear the fur hats and et cetera. And I think that's so great and I really appreciated Ruman's email because I think I saw a similar post somewhere on the internet too because I think shows like Unorthodox are awesome because we get to see a window into another kind of culture that we might not know about. Yeah.

But it's important to also know that it's not indicative of an entire religion. No, of course not. Or an entire way of doing things in the Orthodox faith. And it reminds me actually when we talked about, and I can't remember what the book's name was, but we were talking about the Mormon religion, Educated. Yes, right.

Okay, yeah, yeah. Which is a brilliant book. But that book also I got a couple of emails from people who were Mormons who said that it's not reflective of their culture as a whole. So I think it's just really important to stay educated and I really appreciated your email. Well, I think it's important to stay ignorant. All right.

You would. And I do. You've lost some brain cells now from all the fumes. So thank you so much, Ruben, for your email and we always love to get feedback and learn more. So thanks so much, mate. And yeah, you can also recommend stuff to us as well. That's it.

That's the show. It is. Next week we'll be back, won't we? Back, well. And there might be a delay between after that. We'll talk about it next week. Yeah, we're not really sure. We're trying to bank a few extra little episodes.

Yeah, we might be able to. We'll see how we go. Correct. Yeah, there'll be definitely one more show and then we'll kind of see how we go from there but come back next week if you want if you want watch me perform other beauty routines and regimens your favorite type oh my god look as long as you bring more chemicals that i can inhale while i do it i think i'm gonna be all right i'm really impressed you did a good job i was hoping for more hilarity i feel like maybe we should delete it what people don't know about me is i'm a very sensitive soul.

I've got many skills. I can dunk a basketball. I can paint a toenail. I've got soft little hands. Look at these calluses from doing chin-ups all day. Oh, yeah. Well, on your chin-up bar that you attach to the door frame. I love it.

It's my favorite thing in the world. Good Lord. All right. I talk way too much about chin-ups. You talk about chin-ups a bloody lot. I'm also not that good at chin-ups. I think I'm ragged. I'm too good at chin-ups. Okay, about chin-ups a bloody lot. I'm also not that good at chin-ups. I think I'm ragged. Okay, the other thing, Joseph, we've gone way over time,

but the other thing that you like to do that this pandemic has stopped you from doing, it's a tragedy, is that you like to go to the playground and while the other dads are on their phones just hanging out, you like to find a specific little bar and do some chin-ups and show up all the other dads. It's not to show up. It's just you've got to get your fitness in where they are. I don't do it and look over and go, what are you looking at, dickhead?

It's just a thing that I like to do. And then I let all the mums come over and touch my muscles. Look at your butt. I like it. I think it's great. I'm always like, look at my man. Don't look at me. Look at my sexy man don't look at

me all right i'll see you guys later bye this podcast is part of the planet broadcasting network visit planetbroadcasting.com for more podcasts from our great mates i mean if you want it's up to you introducing uber teen accounts an uber account for your teen with enhanced safety features We'll see you next time.