Suggestible - Healthy Snack Tips

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

Suggestible things to watch, read and listen to. Hosted by James Clement @mrsundaymovies and Claire Tonti @clairetonti.Claire Tonti LIVE at the Wesley Anne on Sunday 7th May! – Use offer code “mothersday” for $10 off tickets – https://wesleyanne.com.au/events/2023/5/7/claire-tontiNew music, merch, live show info and much more available at https://www.clairetonti.com/This week’s Suggestibles:02:37 Women Talking (tw: themes of domestic violence and sexual assault)12:31 Jess Perkins: Almost, Maybe14:25 Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid18:27 James' Healthy Snack Tips - PS Organic - Liberty Kombucha - Smart Sweets - Sneaky WholefoodsSend your recommendations to [e-mail], we’d love to hear them.You can also follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @suggestiblepod and join our ‘Planet Broadcasting Great Mates OFFICIAL’ Facebook Group. So many things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I'm looking at you. I'm the bing bong now. Oh, no. You've really taken my job. Good God. All right, fine. You've done the bing bong, so then we may as well just get started. That's my favorite part.

That's the only reason I do this show. The only. We could just release that as a song on your next album, and then you'll be fine with it. What are you making fun of my album for? I'm not making fun of it, Claire. You're making fun. I'm making fun of you. Well, also, guess what?

There's only four tickets left for my show on Sunday at the Wesleyan. That's right. Three o'clock, 7th of May. You have the comp tickets so I can go? Yeah, you do. And then you have a seat as well. So you get special comp tickets for you and certain peeps. Otherwise, that's it.

So if you still want to come, the link is in the show notes. Try booking. No, no, it's not. Just through the website. Don't try booking. Anyway, also I'm fresh off a little tiny regional tour of two beautiful towns, Yak and Danda. And where else did I go?

Mawela. And it was so beautiful and we laughed and we cried and we ate scones. I had a cob loaf. Do you know, have you, I have not seen a cob loaf for years. What's a cob loaf again? You know how it's like that cob loaf thing and then you dig out the bread and you put dip in and then you toast the bits of bread and then you dip the bread into the dip. No. No. Dip the bread. Dip the dip into the dip. Yeah, that's correct. That's why it's called dip. I've never thought about that before. This is insane. I actually

should have done the whole show without you. Stop this embarrassment. I've never thought about that before. This is insane. I actually have never. I should have done the whole show without you. Stop this embarrassment. I've never thought about that before. That's why dip is called dip because you dip it. Good God. That's incredible that you never put that together. That's fine. We all have blind spots.

What's your first suggestion for this week, Claire? All right. You get a bit of lightness up your bum. That's what I suggest. Okay. Well, I'll start then. No, I want to start. I want to start.

Oh, you start. Oh, my beautiful friend Shana who is helping me with merch is calling me. I better answer it. You can hang on. What do I do? Hang on. Well, you start talking. I'll keep going.

You keep going. Hang on. Hang on. Hello. So basically. Hello. I'm just recording suggestible at the moment. So you're on.

Is that all right? Yeah. Bye. And that's pretty much it. Sorry. I would recommend that if you get the opportunity. Oh, gosh. Sorry, that was really bad.

No, continue. Actually do your thing. I did it. No, you didn't. You just went, ah. No, I just did it. It's not an actual show. Poor Shana.

Anyway. Okay, Claire. Here's something, ah, it's not an actual show. Poor Shana. Anyway. Okay, Claire, here's something I watched. It's called Women Talking. What are you laughing? This is a serious one. It looks like something you've made up. Does it? Okay, I'll tell you this.

It's based on the 2018 book of the same name by Miriam Tewes and it's written and directed by Sarah Polly, who I didn't know Sarah Polly is a director, but she was also the lead in the movie Dawn of the Dead, which Zack Snyder directed back in like 2004-ish. So now she's like this incredible director. Anyway, it stars Claire Foy, you might know from The Crown. She plays the queen sometimes.

Oh, yes, I know. The young queen. I do, yes, I know. She plays Rooney Marr. No, she doesn't play Rooney Marr. Rooney Marr is also in it and Jessie Buckley and Michelle McLeod and Frances McDormand. Ooh.

And who's that guy? He's from bloody, he's in the new Q from James Bond. Ben Whishaw is also in it as well. What are you talking about? In a quiet but pivotal role. Okay, here's the synopsis, this thing that you think is so funny and not real. The woman of an isolated religious colony reveal a shocking secret

about the colony's men. Trigger warning, by the way, for sexual assault for anybody. If you do want to skip ahead, there'll be a time code. For many years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them in their sleep. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation. So this movie, Claire, as mentioned, is based on a book which is based on a true story that really happened in a Mennonite colony

in South America in 2005. This movie is set in 2010. So it's kind of, if you're not familiar with it, it's kind of like an Amish community in terms of like technology and there's also like incredible, and I don't think this is like specific to the amish but it's the way that like women are treated as well as just secondhand there's no education they've got their roles that they're supposed to fulfill and while all those things are happening and they think you know we've been we've been given this

world by god and we're gonna you know this is the way things are and they find out that this terrible thing has been happening to all of them for years. And so as a result of that, the men are taken away to be tried. And then they've got a couple of days before they come back to decide what they're going to do. And the option that they're given initially by the men is you have to forgive them before they return. And one of them's pregnant.

They've all been victims of this, like, women and girls. Like, it's horrendous. It's horrendous, yeah. And they're also told that, you know, because they'd wake up and, like, in distress, bruised, you know, like, disorientated and whatever, and they were told it was, like, ghosts or demons or self-inflicted or imagined or ignored. And so what the movie mostly is is just them held up in a barn

just talking about what they're going to do. And what's really interesting is that they're not, none of them are literate because they're not allowed to, they haven't been allowed to be educated in that way or in a lot of ways. So but they're clearly like highly intelligent, you know, they've just been put in this situation. So they've got one of them, they've got one guy who they trust,

Ben Wishaw, whose mother left the community years before for speaking out and who's come back, who's a teacher and educator, who's just there to like take notes, like to take the minutes and not really involve himself in the conversation. So they're going through like whether they, so their options are that they're going to stay and forgive, fight and stay also, or just leave, take all the kids, take everybody they can, all their possessions and go.

And so it just covers like a range of topics. Again, it's mostly set, not entirely, but it's mostly set in one room and you don't see any of the violence really or sexual assault. Like you hear about it a lot, obviously, because it's, you know, a core part of the movie, but it's just the way it's handled. It's, it covers like rage and equality and inequality, I should say, and gender and literacy and faith. And also what people do like in the name of God, not only for ill, but also for good. Like, cause they're talking about like, well, you know, is it our responsibility to stay at whatever?

And other people are like, well, is that what God would want? You know what I mean? Would God want us to inflict, to have our children like raised in, in this environment? So there's all these conversations that take place over the, over the course of a movie. And I'm not going to get into like all of them, but one of them that's really interesting is they decide like a cut-off point for like what boys they take, like what age and when they become teenagers. Are they then dangerous?

Like is this going to start again? So they have this discussion about like if we take the teenage boys, can they be trusted because they have also been raised in this environment? Like is this just going to start again? And look, it's really like it's heartbreaking and it's really tense and it's so angry like obviously. And it's interesting just watching the different characters and different actors like the way it's beautifully written

and just the way that they all handle it. And again, like all the performances are like just incredible, like Claire Foy, Rooney Mara. Like the names in here are amazing. Like Frances McDormand, she's not in it that much, but, you know, obviously she's always incredible in everything that she does. It's also like funny in moments. Like it's got its lighter moments.

But I just think what's really interesting is that given the opportunity and when like their oppressors are away, you see them how much smarter and braver that they are than they've given the opportunity to be, you know. I mean they always have been those things but having the opportunity to shine and like when it's like, you know, this is the moment where we really need to make this decision. But as mentioned, it's like it's based on a book which is based on a true story.

It's not an easy watch. You're not going to be like, wow, what a great, like I watched it like I think in like three chunks because I'm like, gosh, this is like it's pretty intense. It's pretty intense. So it's a full movie. Yeah. Like an hour and a half. Yeah, probably a bit longer, yeah, but it's.

And it's set mainly in the barn. Yeah, not all because like you see like a bit of the community. You don't really see any of the men, like, outside of Ben Whishaw. And when they talk about, like, the violence inflicted and what children can do to each other and all these kinds of things and when these, like, gender roles kick into gear, you don't see that. You know what I mean? You often will see, like, children playing and, like,

and things like that. It's really innocuous. Yeah, it doesn't go in that direction. So it's more kind of it places in your mind, like, you know, and things like that. They don't. It's really innocuous. Yeah, it doesn't go in that direction. So it's more kind of places in your mind like these ideas and it's all centred around like the different conversations that they have. It's really good. I'd run a bunch of awards.

Nobody saw it. But it's now available on streaming if you are interested. That sounds like the kind of movie that I would recommend to you. Yeah, well, you should watch. I mean, you know, if you want to. Again, it's not like. It's not an easy watch. No.

What's interesting about that too, and thank you for watching that actually. I'm always happy to watch something, Claire. Always happy to watch something. Now you've got your, what is it called? Got my walking treadmill. Your walking treadmill. So you're even more set. Let's go back to the dog episode.

Oh, yeah, great. What I was going to say about that, and I think it's really interesting that they've chosen to do that, is to not depict any of the actual violence. Yeah. Because something I've had a problem with over the last year or so since I've been really watching my nervous system is I've stopped watching TV that has violence against women in it explicitly. Yeah.

And I think once you step out of that and then if you ever see it on screen, you just realise how much of the media we consume is based around that kind of voyeurism. Yeah. Of normalising. It's not saying it's okay at all, you know. It's like all of those murder mystery shows and all of that. It's always like a body on a slab.

The Handmaid's Tale. All of it. Yeah, Game of Thrones, everything. Yeah. It's really, and obviously there's violence between men as well, but to me I just can't watch that anymore. But I still think it's really important to be educated and informed and watching something like that that can show the impact

of sexual violence in that way without having to use it as voyeurism, but it's more centred on their women's stories and voices. Obviously, it's called Women Talking. But I love that that that's been a deliberate choice they've made because also so much of sexual violence, and obviously we've got a trigger warning in this part of the show, is so hidden. So it's very rare that you'll just walk around, well, in my life anyway, and I'm sure it depends on where you're living. But realistically, it's very rare to walk around and openly see violence against women, except that we know that it happens so prevalently, that's a word, in our communities, and that violence against women and family violence is on the rise in Australia. And we're living in an epidemic of it, really. But you don't see it.

It happens behind closed doors so often. And so to kind of depict that and then have women really deep dive into the impact of that, I think that's an incredibly important film to be creating and a really original way of doing it too. So that sounds great. Do you know what's rooming service? It's on everything. I can't remember what I watched it on. Maybe Prime, Apple.

I don't know. Oh, excellent. I'll just have a look. Thank you for sharing that and bringing that in heavy. What did I watch on? Oh, boy. Oh, yeah. I don't remember which one, but it's on.

It says on YouTube, Google Play, Apple, Amazon Prime. So I probably watched it on Prime, but I don't know. Yeah, cool. Yeah. Excellent. Cool. That's a fun one. That's a fun one.

Also, I should say, I know you're like, oh, you know, it's good not to see those things, but, like, it's still, like. Very hard. I mean, it doesn't make it easier. It's just hard and bad in a different way. But I think in a way that I think you could, you know, stomach it as opposed to just watch somebody, like, experiencing that. Yeah, exactly.

Like, there was a movie last year called The Last Duel, and that centers around, like, a sexual assault, and it's also told from three different perspectives. And like you see it like multiple times from multiple people and it's like this feels like maybe we didn't need to show this at all, let alone two or three times however it was. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah. All right. Well, I am going to recommend something now that's a bit lighter and super fun. Is it a balloon? It's a balloon. It is actually probably a very, very light thing. It's Jess Perkins' comedy show.

Oh, my God. I saw that. It was so good. Now it's finished. It's run. But I just wanted to talk and shout out to Jess Perkins in general because she's obviously one third of the comedy show Do Go On that we love.

We're very big fans of their show on this podcast. She also has another podcast as well. Simply the Jest. Simply the Jest. That is correct. Jess is just so funny. And this is the first solo show she's done, I think ever actually. She did one with Naomi Higgins years ago. And so it was a really big step for her to do this. And it was so funny and lighthearted and silly in lots of spots and self-deprecating and just a jolly good time. And so if you get the opportunity to see Jess performing on any kind of live show, you totally should.

There was a very funny bit about how her boyfriend, Aidan, takes a whole roast chicken to work every day and how problematic that is. And then a wonderful story about how she was obsessed with the Seekers as a kid and super nerdy. And then one time she was working for local news. Don't spoil the thing. Oh, yeah, good point. I won't spoil the rest of it, but it was just I loved it.

I loved being reminded of the Seekers. Yeah. Fun times. So I thought it was really great. What did you think? I thought it was great, really fun. I mean, she's great, obviously. It was sold out.

So even if you could have gone, you probably couldn't. Correct, exactly. We saw her on like the second last night. Maybe it was the out. So even if you could have gone, you probably couldn't. Correct, exactly. We saw them like the second last night. Maybe it was the last night of the festival. Yeah, I'm sure she's going to do it around the traps for sure, around other places. And they tour and stuff. Yeah, they do.

So go and follow Jess Perkins on Instagram to find out updates about whether that show will be coming anywhere near you very soon and go and listen to Do Go On podcast because they're really excellent. Really? You're recommending that really popular podcast we always talk about. Are you Claire? No, well, I was mainly just recommending Jess Perkins' solo show, which is really excellent.

All right. I also have another one. Can I just continue on? Just do one. I know. Okay, fine. You go next and then I'll go. That's how the show works.

No, you go. Then I'll go. All right. Okay, fine. So my other recommendation is a book that my friend Dimity recommended to me that is becoming or has just been turned into a TV series that I've also heard is excellent. I haven't watched that yet, but I wanted to read the book first. Okay.

Jurassic Park. No, it's called Daisy Jones and the Six. Oh, I know this. Have you heard this? Yeah. It's written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, who is a New York Times bestselling author of Carrie Soto is Back, Malibu Rising, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as a lot of other novels too. And she lives in Los Angeles, this particular author. The series is based in Los Angeles as

well. And it is kind of, it's an historical fiction book, which follows the band, The Six, and Daisy, the lead singer, as they kind of find each other and their spectacular rise and then their end really. But what's so great about it is it's almost done from different characters' perspectives as kind of a news report almost about their history. It's like old Hollywood glam. Daisy Jones starts off as her as a teenager.

She's almost a little bit like Florence Welch in character. She's really tall and way flack with like glorious red hair. She's very tortured and, you know, has been doing drugs and things since she was like 15. Her parents are both artists. Her mother is spectacularly beautiful as well, but they kind of just don't really pay any attention to her. So even though she is spectacularly talented and has this kind of incredible voice and is gloriously beautiful, she's also deeply alone in her life and, but also has this kind of gift for songwriting. And then you kind of also follow the guys in the band and their trajectory and how they

start off in garages and then playing really dodgy pubs and how they meet their girlfriends and just like this whole kind of back scene. It's kind of seedy and old rock kind of glam and it's written so deliciously and it's really hard to put down once you start it. It's just such a rollicking good read. Do you think it's a better, not better, but it's good that it's a fictional band? So you kind of don't know what kind of direction it's going to go. Yeah. It's based on like. Correct. Yeah. It's good that it's a fictional band. Name a band.

It's 17. Go on then. There you go. The Beatles. The Beatles? Yeah. Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, the magazine. The Seekers, as I mentioned before. Oh, wow. Anyway, it's got a very almost famous kind of vibe to it. Okay, yeah. And it's very warm. Do you mean like the colour palette? Yeah, well, the way that it's written, it's written so warmly and with a lot of comedy. You say it's got warmth to it.

It's so annoying. with a lot of comedy. Would you say it's got warmth to it? Oh, you're so annoying. The comedy in it is just, it's so, it's like slightly self-deprecating. It's like a warmth. Kind of knows what it is. Like a warmth hug. Oh, you're so annoying.

Anyway, it's also really beautifully written and very poignant at the same time. But I wouldn't say it's not like a book that will rip your heart out and stomp on it if that makes sense it's more a case of the author Taylor Jenkins read allowing you into this world that you otherwise would never live in yeah okay and so and that in and of itself this kind of like grimy sort of and then kind of amazing party vibe in LA. It's just such a. It's not really like a lifestyle. It's like a particular era that's gone.

Yeah, it's an era as well. So it's just, it's pure escapism and I just absolutely adore it, adored it. So I can't wait to watch the TV show. Apparently her other books as well, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and her other ones are supposed to be really good too. So there's been rave reviews about the TV show as well, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and her other ones are supposed to be really good too. So there's been rave reviews about the TV show as well. So cannot wait to watch that.

But I would really recommend Daisy Jones and the Six as a rollicking good page turner. Wow. Introducing Uber Teen Accounts, an Uber account for your teen with enhanced safety features. Your teen can request a ride with top-rated drivers. And you can track every trip on the live map in the Uber app. Uber Teen Accounts. Invite your teen to join your Uber account today.

Available in select locations. See app for details. Well, I'm going to recommend something to you that I said I would do, and now I'm finally going to do it. Off he goes. I'm going to talk about all my snacks that I do, but my healthiest snacks, Claire. You did tell me you were going to do this last week.

I just- Oh, God. Everyone's strapping. Strapping. I'll keep it brief. Here he goes. Like now, obviously, you know, low-calorie, eat a lot of vegetables. Cut up your veggie sticks, your carrots, your capsicums, your cucumbers, et cetera.

You'd be surprised, Claire. You might be surprised by how good vegetables taste, actually, when you- Would I be? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a lot of people are like, oh, they are kind of like them. This is you every night at dinner. But actually they're really good for you. Yeah, I've never eaten a vegetable in my life.

Especially when you get used to them. I'm anti-vegetable. I'm the opposite of a vegetarian. But it's definitely like, do you think it is like if it's not really something that you maybe snack on, it's something that you get used to very quickly and you're like, wow, vegetables are actually quite amazing. For real. Yeah, I do think it is.

I think it's like a habit. There's a Christmas to it. A Christmas to it. Do you know what I've also started doing, which is on a side note that I think is a really powerful tool, is eating your veggies first, like above ground veggies. I've talked about this before on the show. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I started doing that since I was going to a naturopath called Freya Lawler and she

taught me that and it's just been life-changing to me. So I always try if I can have like a bowl of salad before I go to eat anything else. And it just, it slows your digestion down and allows the blood sugar to level out. So if you're going to have a big pasta meal, having like a bowl of rocket beforehand lines your gut and just evens everything out. It helps with weight loss as well. And in general, it just makes you feel better. I love it. It's great. And also you get more veggies in because if you top end your meal,

you sort of end up fuller at the end, more satisfied, and it's just better for you. I just thought you were eating a bowl of pasta with no veggies. No, I had a whole massive bowl of greens this morning with my breakfast. That's a lie. She didn't. But listen. You're so annoying.

With olive oil and apple cider vinegar, I will say as well. Sure. Important. Now, listen. Yes. I know, like, I don't necessarily recommend that you even eat, like, low-calorie snacks and whatever because a lot of them are bad. I've run the gamut of this shit, Claire, as you know.

He knows. Let me tell you. The amount of weird shit that turns up at our house. I've ordered stuff from every corner of the globe to see what I can stomach because I like to have like lollies and stuff, do you know what I mean, and sodas, but I just don't want to eat that stuff like right out. So I would also say like you could just eat less of it, you know what I mean, just have it once a week as opposed

to every day or whatever. But anyway, a lot of the times people, Claire, and you know this, a lot of people drink their calories whether it be alcohols or sodas. You know what I mean? Your beers and your wines and whatever. There's a lot of calories in that obviously. So, you know, you can do your Coke no sugars or your Dr. Pepper no sugars which I've been ordering recently because for some reason I'm the only one

in the world in Australia that drinks Dr. Pepper still. Yeah, because I don been ordering recently because for some reason I'm the only one in the world in Australia that drinks Dr. Pepper still. Yeah, because I don't know what's... You've broken your palate with all these weird... Do you know Dr. Pepper once when I was in high school came to my school? Not the guy, but like they came to our school as a promotion. Do you know how I know that? Because we've been together since I was 19 and I know most of your stories. I definitely know that one.

That's a good one. Anyway... Like the time that you got chased by a duck? I got chased by a duck multiple times. The time that your brother got beaten up by a sheep? That did happen. And then your mum beat the sheep up? That's a true story. Then the time that you got chased by a duck i got chased by a duck multiple times the time that your brother got beaten up by his sheep that did happen that's a true story then the mom beat the sheep up yep that's true that's a true story i'll tell another day but basically if you want something a little bit kind of uh more organic i should say because that shit is like probably carcinogenic ps organic soda is really good. They do an orange, they do a ginger beer,

they do a raspberry, they do a cola, they do a lemonade. You like the ginger beer one? I do actually absolutely love the ginger beer. Again, it's like, they're probably a little bit pricey, obviously, for what they are, because it's like a niche kind of drink, you know what I mean? But I order them, not a lot, but you know, we've always seemed to have some, don't we, Claire? The fridge is always full of some of those things. We do, and it's amazing because I don't know how it happens, but it must be like a fridge fairy.

It definitely can't be you. We must have a fridge fairy. It is one of my favourite things about being married to you is that we always have drinks in the fridge. Like a friend in the fridge. What's that? That was like a dairy ad, wasn't it, in Australia? A friend in the fridge.

A friend in the fridge. A friend in the fridge. I really like kombucha also and I've run the gamut of that shit because there's a lot of bad kombucha. But the best one I've found is called Liberty Kombucha, in particular the orange flavour or the black cherry flavour. Again, I've run the gamut of those as well. Not only kombucha but also that specific kombucha and those specific flavours.

When he says he's run the gamut, he has run the gamut with a capital G. Kombucha is bad a lot of the time. But this one, I mean a lot of people also drink it and go, it's an acquired taste I feel. I don't drink coffee, so this is what I'm living on. The other thing I have, which I think they're too pricey, but I do get them occasionally and I actually order them overseas, they're called Smart Sweets.

So you can basically get like your gummy bears or your red licorice or your little Coke bottle snacks or snakes and whatever, but they're like portioned out in little packets and it's like way less calories than if you actually just ate a bunch of those, which I don't mind. I'll have one of them every couple of days or whatever. Also, put them in the freezer. It's like a nice frozen snack and you're like, yum, yum, yum. They last longer and they're frozen.

But I think my favourite thing that I'm into at the moment. Yes, here he goes. Hang on. Hold on to your seats. What are you doing, Marv? I haven't taken them for a walk today, I know. It's our daughter's birthday coming up and I was Googling how to make a unicorn cake.

Did you figure it out? No, because then I was making a poster for a gig that I have coming up. Anyway, these ones I love. I sold that show. Four tickets. There's these bars called Sneaky Whole Foods and they do a bunch of them on their website. I love these, by the way.

They're delicious. There's a bunch of different ones like for different varieties, but the ones that I really like, there's a hazelnut, chalk chip, fudge brownie one, there's a vanilla cookie dough, there's a white choc funfetti, there's a strawberry white chocolate. I think you like the hazelnut, choc chip, fudge brownie one. Is that right? Yeah, the hazelnut one is my favourite.

It's not too sweet, which is what I like. And they're handmade with like dates and cashews and beetroot powder and like white chocolate and stuff. Each bar, they're like 280 calories each and they've got a bunch of protein. So if you're just like, I need a snack, I've got to do something, I need a bit of energy, jam one of these in your gob. I actually eat one every time I'm in the studio because I don't like eating a full thing while I'm making something and creating. It's just like I can – and they're not messy.

No. But they're satisfying. You can eat one and then – So I can come home and eat after. And then you can operate for a few hours. No. But they're satisfying. You can eat one and then. I can come home and eat after. And then you can operate for a few hours. Yeah. Just off that alone. Yeah, because I feel like if you have like a full meal while you're in creative sort

of flow state, it can often just make you sleepy and then you just don't do much great stuff. They're also expensive. They're like four bucks a bar or something when you, even when you bulk buy them. So. What we could do is actually make our own. I'm not going to do that though, am I? No, that's true.

You're too busy making a unicorn cake and I'm doing this. I'm on my walking treadmill watching films about women. Yes, I appreciate you. I'm about Claire. I appreciate you. Anyway, those are some of the snacks which I enjoy if anybody is interested. Again, I also understand that like that is a luxury because they're like expensive or some of them are at least.

But, you know, I don't drink really anymore and I don't really go out or do anything or see anybody. So this to me is like, well, if I'm going to spend my money. That's not true. You went to Jess Perkins' comedy show. That's true. Yes, correct. I'm going to see, yeah, so I'm going to do something.

I'm like, well, I might as well spend my money on this as opposed to going out and blowing like $400 on alcohol. Who would want to go and have some drinks with their friends? I'd still do that. I'd still do that. All right. Yeah. Okay.

I would like to read out an email now. Oh, my God. Because I, yes, it's just a little thing I think will be cool. So let me read it out. Before you do that, Claire. Yes. I've got a review here. Uh-huh.

And you can review just an app just like this person did. It's Drumbug123. It says, my boy Steve, what did I do to Steve? I had a long time listening to James' more successful podcast since late middle school or high school. I am now 23. Cue James pondering his mortality. Not my alma mater forever.

And started listening to this lovely pod whenever I cook this last year. Now, he goes into a story about how listening to when we did the suggestible in the city, the Sex and the City recap or whatever. Which is coming out soon. Oh, my gosh, there's a trailer, James. I saw it. Aidan's in it or whatever. Oh, we have so much to say about that.

Anyway, how he got on board and then went back and went through all of these and whatever and says, much love from LA. Hope you all loved ones are doing well, except little James. I agree. So sorry I didn't read. There's a huge chunk in the middle there, but I have to pick up our son in about four minutes. Right.

So thank you so much for the review and I will read out all the reviews. Correct. Exactly. Well, this is an email. You too can write into successfulpod.gmail.com with your suggestions. This one is actually a giving thanks email from Jordan. Hey, I just want to give my thanks to you guys. I would review an app, but I'm subscribed to Big Sandwich where I

only pay $9 a month for bonus content. Shameless plug. Thank you very much. I was experiencing a heartbreak with a girl I was really into and I was taking advice from guys like my uncle and brother. It was advice that really went against my own character. According to them, I was being too nice with women and had to follow my own character. According to them, I was being too nice with women and had to follow their particular methods. Surprise, surprise, it ultimately failed me because it wasn't my true self. Yeah. Just when I thought perhaps my idea of a partner wasn't real

or perhaps I'm just not meant for anybody, you guys unintentionally went on a topic about being genuine with others and that sometimes people just won't like you because everyone has their own preferences and sometimes you'll just fail. The point is to keep trying. All I have to do is talk, not try to woo them straight off the bat. What I like is what will be drawn to me naturally like a magnet, which is kind of what we were talking about.

Yeah. And I just have to be myself. I see that now and I just wanted to thank you guys. You're a great couple with a great connection that I can't wait to have one day. And thanks again. Insert Claire's album plug here. Thanks so much, Jordan.

That's really great. Thank you so much. I'm glad that, yeah, that you took that advice and, yeah, and are running with it. I am too, yeah. Yeah. Because at the end of the day, I actually really loved that chat we had about this because I agree in the end if you're not going

to be yourself, you're not going to meet someone who matches you and you can't pretend in a relationship. You can only pretend for a certain amount of time. That's right. And you end up attracting someone that actually isn't the right person for you. Yeah, exactly. And look, it's not foolproof and life is complex but we're wishing you lots of love and I'm so glad that you didn't listen to your uncle and brother's advice.

That sounded terrible. I'm sure they're delightful otherwise. Otherwise. Except for treating people badly. Oh, goodness. All right. Which I wouldn't recommend. Me neither.

Well, this has been Suggested Podcast. I'm going to go. A podcast of recommendations. Watch, read, and listen to. I've been Claire Tonti. James Clement is here also. Thank you to Royal Collings for editing this week's episode. Thank you to Maisie for doing the socials.

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