Suggestible - Most Shrektacular Suggestibles of 2022

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

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Welcome to Suggested Podcast, a podcast where we recommend you things to watch, read and listen to. This is the last episode for 2022. And thank God I say. And thank goodness for that. I am feeling optimistic about 2023. Are you? Yes, I really am. You shouldn't say that.

I feel like we said that about 2022. You shouldn't say that because then I'll die or something. All right. Oh, yeah, don't say that. Which is fine for you, I guess. Anyway. Oh, yeah. You get to be a cool single woman in the city.

Like all your favorite shows. Yeah. It'd be like Claire in Paris or something. Exactly. Except for like the two dogs and two children. We've been watching some Emily in Paris. It's been on the TV. Oh, it's not good.

Boy, isn't it something else? It's not good. But I watch it. It's the one thing. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why I watch it. I think it's so colorful. So colorful and sexy.

Yeah, it is certainly colorful. Yeah. But I just like, I don't like any of these fucking people. Especially, whoa, sorry. What is happening here? Nothing. It's not a clip from the movie Babylon that I'm editing. All right.

You are complaining about the editing. I'm doing a lot of editing in the moment. You're doing a lot of editing, which is old James. Old James is back. You used to do nothing but edit and complain about editing. Anyway, who are we? I'm Claire Tonti. James Clement is here also.

We are married. We recommend you things to watch, read, and listen to. And this is the episode where we talk about all of our favorite things throughout the year. Sometimes we tell you secrets, but you can't tell anybody. Correct. Don't tell a soul. That's right.

You're the only person that listens to this show. Are you? You. Me? Yes. Oh, good. I know. Thank God, because this is an embarrassing show.

It's not embarrassing. Well, sometimes it's embarrassing. It is. It's a great show, Claire. These are a few of my favorite things. I don't know. I tried to do the Sound of Music song. It didn't work either.

No, that was amazing. Claire, what have you got? So we've broken this up into sort of categories. What are your categories that you've sorted for this year? Okay. So my first category is Auld Lang Syne, singing bing bongs. Yeah, we've been there. We've done that part of it. What else? Okay. So my first category is our TV series.

Would you like to do that? Yeah, let's do TV series. What were your favorites? My favorites? Of 2022. I have to say all of these. I'm re-watching the Shrek movies for Caravan and Garbage, getting ready for the new year. Right. That is a movie, not a TV series. And I'm having a Shrek-ingly good time with it, I must say, Claire.

Are you really? Well, the first one's good and I remember the second one being good and then I remember the third one being terrible and the fourth one being fine. I do. But who knows how terrible and the fourth one being fine. I do. But who knows how much of that ends up being true. Those are movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're in the TV series category. Didn't you say how do you rank the Shrek movies? No. What is happening? I'm so confused. No, I said what are your favourite TV series? I would probably say Shrek 1, Shrek 2, Shrek 4, Shrek 3 in terms of – a lot of people say Shrek 2 is better than Shrek 1, Shrek 2, Shrek 4, Shrek 3 in terms of –

a lot of people say Shrek 2 is better than Shrek 1, and it probably is, but Shrek 1 was so fresh, full of ideas. Do you know what I find so funny? Our son hates it, hates Shrek. No, well, he's gross. He said he's gross. He's so gross. He burps and farts and, like, lives in a swamp.

He's all muddy and gross. I'm like, yes. He came out of nowhere once. We were just driving. And he turns to me. No context I'm like, yeah. He came out of nowhere once. We were just driving. Oh, yeah. And he turns to me. No context. No context.

Dad. Yeah. I hate Shrek. What? You mean, like, the movie? No, the guy. Oh, yeah. What?

He's gross. He's eating eyeballs and pulling wax out of his ears and brushing his teeth with bugs. And I'm like, yeah, good point. He sucks. No, you're right. He's awful. And I'm like, yeah, good point. He sucks. No, you're right. He's awful. And that was it.

Yeah, and that was it. There's just so much. I just, there is so much things that like circle our son's head. Yeah. I have no idea what's happening in there. Yeah. And then he would just pop out with that. I just look at it and I'm like, I hate Shrek.

Excuse me, what? He's just, he's a mini version of your brain. Yeah. Just like confused and irritated by a mini version of your brain. Yeah. Just like confused and irritated by most things other people like. Yep. Including dry hot dogs. Anyway, I can come and bring him around on Shrek. Anyway, how do you rank the Shrek movies?

No. We're talking about TV series. I refuse. I'm boycotting the Shrek conversation. I understand. I like the first one. The rest I'm indifferent to. Wow.

Yeah, I know. Wow. Not my gumdrop buttons. I don. I like the first one. The rest I'm indifferent to. Wow. Yeah, I know. Wow. Not my gumdrop buttons. I don't care, little gingerbread man. Wow, that's incredible. Can we move along? I'm ready.

Eddie Murphy's donkey was fun. I agree. I like the parfait comments. Now you're stuck in the Shrek. I also like Princess Fiona. Yeah, sure. Actually, I do really love that first movie.

I get really touched. I cry every time. Okay. I like it. And they have that little thing where they fall in love and they're walking around with the balloons. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have that little thing where they fall in love and they're walking around with the balloons. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's a great soundtrack. It's a great soundtrack. I agree. Actually, it's really excellent. It's a good movie. Lord Farquaad. Yep. All of the double entendres. A lot of double entendres. The adults in the room with the giant kind of penile-shaped castle. Yeah. Funny times. You remember a lot about Shrek. I've watched it a lot.

You don't remember anything. I love Shrek. I've watched it a lot. Actually, now I'm remembering. Do you know what else? I love Will Smith in I Am Legend. Oh, yeah. When he watches Shrek a lot and he knows every word to it. He does.

Yeah, and I really resonated with Will. I liked the scene. With Will. Yeah, that was a good movie. Remember the bit where he strangled his dog to death? That was a good bit. Why do you have to bring it down? The dog had the zombie virus. Can we talk about our favorite TV series? Yeah, that was a good movie. Remember the bit where he strangled his dog to death? That was a good bit. Why do you have to bring it down? The dog had the zombie virus.

Can we talk about our favorite TV series? You really Shrek-railed this whole conversation. Thank you. Good use of the word, Shrek. Thank you. Anyway, what are your favorite TV Shreks? Shows. I asked you first.

Oh, sorry. Okay, Severance. I'm going to quickly. We've talked about most of these all year, if not all of them. Well, that's the whole point. We're doing a recap. Yeah, exactly. We, severance. I'm going to quickly, we've talked about most of these all year, if not all of them. Well, that's the whole point. We're doing a recap. Yeah, exactly. We're doing a recap.

Severance was a great kind of exploration of workplace environments and the toxicity perhaps that comes with working in an office environment. But the interesting thing about severance was they split your brain so you only remember when you've got one personality at work and a different personality, your normal personality at home. So you don't ever feel like you go to work because that's a separate person. Maybe that's happening to us. I never feel like I'm going to work.

That's true. Just endless. Endless. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, it's chores and Shrek conversations. But that was great. I really enjoyed it. It's just a really interesting concept but also executed immensely well.

Which, you know, those two things don't always come together or often come together, I should say. What's one of yours then? Well, I have a few actually. Yeah, well, why don't we go one for one? All right, okay. So I don't know if you remember earlier in the year Star Trek. Star Trek.

Star Trek. Star Trek. Season two came out. What was that one again? Rose Mattafeo plays Jessie. Oh, yeah. She falls in love with a famous actor. Yeah, and so it's kind of a spin on Notting Hill.

Yeah. And it's the second season that came out this year, and I loved it just as much as the first. Ooh. Yeah, it's really good. I haven't watched that yet. I should watch it. It's super funny.

It's, like, really refreshing. Rose Matafayo's comedy is just bloody great. Would you say it's on point? It's very on point. So that was one of my favourites. It's a season two, but I just really loved it so much. They're bringing it back, I assume? Yeah, they are.

There's a season three in the works, which I'm really excited by. It's got references to Love Actually and Bridget Jones' Diaries. Are they like, this is just like the movie Love Actually and whatever, do they say stuff like that? This is just like that problematic movie Love Actually where 17-year-old Keira Knightley got married. And that dude edited together a tape of just her from his wedding. It's so creepy.

It's so – I saw a feminist write-up of it. It just gets worse every year. Every year I watch it, I think, God, it's even worse than I thought. That's why I love it, though, because it's so awful. It's clearly just like an excuse for him to masturbate over her face or something. Yeah, that's what he's doing. It's so weird. That's what he's doing. He's got a lovely face. But still, also Minnie Driver, going back to Starstruck,

plays a little cameo as Tom's agent, her boyfriend in this, and it's great. I love her. I love Minnie Driver. She's fantastic. So that's that one. What's another one that you loved? Another one that I love, Claire, I think one of my favourite, if not favourite, shows of the year, and this is interesting because i watched it at the start of the year it was an australian series called mr in between which is a guy who's kind of he's in he's basically

a hit man but he does other things but he's also like a suburban dad and he's like divorced people love a divorce in a show you know and he's got like a daughter and he's kind of doing you know like school runs and making sandwiches and all of that and he's got his own love life. But also he's got this like one foot in this terrible underworld and it's just, again, it's just beautifully executed. It's really like it highlights like the best I feel like of Australian like writing and film production and lots of TV show, but you know what I mean, and, and performances and he's terrific.

The lead in that. And it's, it's probably the best thing I watched this year. And also like every episode is like half an hour. I think there's only like maybe 25, 30 episodes. I can't remember, but you maybe not even that,

but you never, I think it's maybe even like 18, but you never know what you're going to get. So sometimes like the episode will open and it will just be like he's like his daughter is started like hanging out with her friends so he like follows her like from a distance and like parks nearby and like is and she doesn't like him anymore because she's turning into a teenager and it's that and then it will sometimes start where he's at a shopping center and then somebody like a kid gets like kidnapped and then he just spends the rest of

the episode like trying to track down this person and murder them and whatever. And you just don't know. It's really like tense. Again, it's like it's the surprise of it as well and the execution, excuse the pun, as well. But also he's so like it's written so smartly and you watch the things that he does and he's not like the strongest guy or even the smartest guy, but he's obviously just seen a lot of stuff

and been a lot of places. So every time a scene like happens and he like gets out of it or he's in a fight or like shootout, you see why he survives. Like it's not just like, oh, yeah, because he's fucking John Wick and he can like kill 30 people. It's like, oh, no, he's sick because he planned for that like potentially months in advance because, you know, or whatever. Because he's experienced all of that before. It's like, oh, no, he's sick because he planned for that like potentially months in advance because, you know, or whatever.

Because he's experienced all of that before. He's experienced and, yeah, and it's just great. If you haven't seen the show, I cannot recommend it highly enough. Yeah, I remember you raved about it at the time and actually your mates even were talking about it. Well, my mates recommended it to me. My mates are idiots. So I'm just like, I'm not going to watch this show.

But then actually we were on holidays in January earlier in the year. And I'm like, sure, I'll watch this. And I'm like, holy hell, this is amazing. Yeah. And I hope it's going to come back. I heard he's maybe thinking about doing more. But also he probably shouldn't. But it's really good.

Sometimes it's something, if something is so perfect, you kind of don't want to ruin it. It sounds a little bit like Two Hands in a way. It's definitely, I might have even said it at the time, but definitely got that Two Hands kind of underbelly vibe. And is he a little bit Jason Statham-y? Yeah, but he's like little. He's not like a buff guy.

Yeah, yeah. He's like, you know, he's like my size or whatever, you know. I'm a huge person. I mean, Justin Statham is a little bit. Jason Statham. Yeah, but Jason Statham's like built. Oh, yes, yes, yes. And he's not like, he's not built like that.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Tiny little man like you. Yeah. There's a great moment. And I guess this is sort of a spoiler if you haven't seen it. And I just, it's one of the scenes that they're trying to get a bunch of money out of him, right? And so they take, they find the box like where he's got this stash of cash.

And then they take him out to shoot him. And they're like, dig your grave. And he's like, all right. And he's digging his grave. And when they finally cut the box open, he planted an explosive in there so he couldn't. And so when the bomb goes off, you can see that he's piled the dirt in front of him so it doesn't like, he's digging his grave,

but he's dug it so like he's on the other side of basically a wall. And it's just stuff like that where it's like, that's just clever. It's been really well extrapolated. In a less bad show, he would have looked over and then dived into the grave and then it would have gone off or whatever. But it's just really clever. Little things like that. Makes a massive difference.

That's what we always talk about with really great writing, right? That's right. We say writing is good and it should be good. Because you can make whatever happen happen as long as the character, what they're doing really makes a lot of sense. And it's really satisfying in that way. I love that. I probably won't watch it because, you know, me and my nervous system.

I wouldn't say it's like super gory, but yeah, it's not not gory. He's also got like an interesting story about his relationship with his father and his family. Oh, his brother. His brother's in it. His brother plays it. Oh, no, I won't get into it. But it's amazing.

Amazing. Okay, great.. I won't get into it. But it's amazing. Amazing. Okay, great. Can I go now? Yeah. One of my favorite TV series of the year, and it didn't just come out this year, is called Better Things. Do you remember it stars Pamela Adlin, and it was produced with, unfortunately, Louis C.K.

But it is utterly brilliant. Her writing in this, she's so clever and so funny. It's kind of based on her own real life. So she plays Sam Fox, a divorced Hollywood actress who juggles raising her three daughters and her professional commitments with her mum who has dementia, who lives across the road, and it's kind of about her dysfunctional family but in a way these like really incredibly strong bonds

she has with their daughters and the mess of growing up with that kind of family context and the way her girls kind of talk to her and like exploring their sexuality and their identity and all of that stuff but it's got so much heart and what's so beautiful about it is the way that she's raising her girls in this really honest, open way. And so she talks about, you know, sex and is very open with identity with them as well. And it's so funny and fresh. And every character in there, like she's got this beautiful best friend

who's kind of been – because their father is a real dropkick and has just not shown up for them at all, which I think is actually based on real life in Pamela Adler's real life. Is he a French guy or something? No, no, no. He's just got some mental health issues, I think, and left the family. So she's kind of supporting him still financially because of her career as an actor as well as supporting her girls.

But she also has that kind of tension where she wants them to still have him in their lives in some capacity but also kind of really hates him. And like her love life is kind of funny and complex as well. And then you see her just doing these incredible, like throwing these massive parties and like just smoking and drinking and being like hilarious and great. She's just awesome and I love it and it's got so much heart. It's searingly funny and it's a really raw examination

of working motherhood and feminism as well. And they deal with themes like of death as well and how you talk to your kids about that kind of stuff. And I just, I can't recommend it enough. It won a Peabody Award in 2017. Then Adeline was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Not surprised, Claire.

Not surprising at all. I just think the writing is brilliant and the acting is superb. What do you give it out of 100? 110. Wow. It was really excellent. Better than perfect. Better things.

Do you know Bump is back? Yes, I have seen that. I haven't started watching it yet, but I'm really excited to watch that because I loved that show. That was a really excellent one. Just quickly, I know we're going tit for tat. I agree. But I just wanted to lump two shows in the one little thing.

Bridget and Season 2 came out this year. Oh, yeah. Loved it. Just as great, if not even better than Season 1. Better than Bridget in Season 2 came out this year. Oh, yeah. Loved it. Just as great, if not even better than Season 1. Better than Bridget in Season 1 despite the lead cast not being involved. I know. I loved it. It was awesome.

And it's just real escapism. So these two are really escapist, obviously. And the other one I loved was And Just Like That. Oh, yes. Remember, James, we talked about you had a whole podcast. I remember. We did a whole series on it. And even though it was so problematic in spots, I just thoroughly about it. We had a whole podcast on this. I remember. We did a whole series on it. And even though it was so problematic in spots,

I just thoroughly enjoyed it. It was like the Super Bowl for me. It was just, I loved, it was an event. It was good to return to the world of Sex and the City, even though it didn't quite come together. No, but there were some episodes that were brilliant. Yeah, there were some really good moments, but they did our boy Steve dirty.

Oh, our poor boy Steve. We were so upset. Miranda. Miranda. I'm suddenly a thousand years old. Miranda. Miranda, why are you leaving me, Miranda? I don't even know who you are anymore. Miranda. I'm washing my hands. Miranda, why are you making out with the person in Kerry's

kitchen? Miranda. Miranda. Miranda. Miranda, you're cheating on me and I don't have any strong feelings about that. And Kerry's peeing into a bottle. Miranda. Now I'm getting a ring out of the sick Miranda. Anyway, I still thoroughly enjoyed it as a TV event. Did you enjoy

that? Yeah, I did, but it also like... It started to get bad. I was like, when it started, I'm like, oh, this is going to be bad. And then I'm like, oh, this is better than bad. Oh, there's some interesting stuff in here. Oh, boy, Carrie's podcast sure does suck. It's a bad podcast. Yeah.

And then at the end, it was just, I feel like it walked back so much to the stuff that was interesting about it. And like, and what's her name? The redhead who wasn't a redhead. I'll close the door because the dog's barking. Was just like, I dyed my hair again. I'm back. I really hated that.

And it's like, what are you doing? Wasn't that the point that like you're all getting older? Yeah, it just, it did get, it got weird towards the end. But anyway, I still really enjoyed analyzing every minute of it. Yeah, totally. And the costuming and outfits and the new characters I really enjoyed. And Big died and that was great. I fucking loved that.

They really handled that well. I feel like the first few episodes with the death of Big were handled excellently. And all the Peloton thing and perfect timing exactly with everything that came out as well. So anyway, that was a highlight for me. They couldn't have planned that better. No, they couldn't.

So, yeah, love to hate that. Here's two that I'm going to mash together. It's people getting stuck in the woods, the wilds, and Yellowjackets. Two completely different stories, but it's about a bunch of people being stuck in remote places and then spooky and strange stuff happens. Yeah, and it's kind of got like Yellow Jackets is a bit magical, right? Yeah, Yellow Jackets has the older cast as well who are amazing.

It's got a really good, it's just they're both really good. I probably prefer Yellow Jackets, I think. I do get them confused. But no, Yellow Jackets is the one in the woods and the other one's on the beach or whatever. The Wilds is more kind of lost and like secret mysteries and Yellow Jackets is more like this is spooky and I don't like it. And it's a bit Lord of the Flies-esque.

Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I heard that. Oh, so that was a quick ones. But Heartstopper, which was a Netflix series about just two young men falling in love with great hair and discovering sexuality and, you know, and all of these different kinds of things. And it was nice and I liked it. And I'm like, I like these boys. I wish them all the best.

I love that too. Even though they're fictional. I actually also really liked Heartbreak High. Oh, I didn't watch that. The reboot of that. No, you liked it. It had a similar vibe of Heartstopper. It was way more explicit and I'm sure if I had teenagers,

I would be terrified. You'd be like, no, thank you. But it was a really diverse cast. It had some really excellent breakout stars in it and I just loved Heartbreak High. I've heard nothing but good things. Yeah, it was really, really funny. From everybody. To me, though, the highlight of my year with TV,

which I know not everyone will agree with, but I just loved it so much, was the Everything I Know About Love TV series. What was that one again? So do you remember Dolly Alderton, who I adore from the pilot podcast with an orphan's written book, everything about love and ghosts? Yeah. This TV series, I was waiting so long for it to come out.

It did not disappoint. Isn't that crazy that it did not disappoint also? It all came together for you. It really did. It was just, I just loved it. 2018 memoir that she wrote. So the actual story, it's kind of based on her life. Well, the book is based on Dolly Odomson's life. So she's adapted it for the screen and it's Maggie and Bertie, besties since school, finally land in London to live at large. When the unexpected happens and dependable best friend Birdie gets a steady boyfriend, it's a generous, funny, warm-hearted and uplifting sex in the city for millennials, which covers bad dates and squalid flat shares, heartaches

and humiliations and most importantly, unbreakable female friendships. And that's what I loved. The love story in it is actually not about the guys that they date. It's about the friendship that breaks down and the kind of examination of female friendship, which I just loved. Emma Appleton plays Maggie, who is really Dolly Allerton, and she's from The Witch Ad, Traders and Pistol, and she does a brilliant job in the lead role.

And Belle Powley from The Morning Show Informer and Diary of a Teenage Girl plays her best friend Birdie really excellently. Marlee Sue plays Alex Ryder who is one of their friends in the flat share now. Jordan Peters plays Neil. And then there's all the other on-screen debuts with Aliyah Adolphin playing Amara, Connor Finch playing Street who is like the bad musician boyfriend that Dolly dates.

And that is one of the reasons why I wrote Fear to Feel because I watched this series. Oh, your song. Now, Claire, it'd be funny you should bring that up because one of my favourite things of the year was listening to your album. Oh, thanks. Which will be released soon. But also people need to know the live show is coming up on February 11th.

Yes, so I would really love for you to buy a ticket. I will. I booked a bigger venue because we sold out the first one and I thought, why not? And now I think I've overreached. So I would love you so much to come. Don't make Claire look like a fool. Please come.

It's on the 11th of Feb at 1 o'clock at the Brunswick Ballroom. There's an amazing support act. Grab a drink. Yes, my cousin Woody Sampson is playing who is excellent as well. He's amazing. It's going to be so fun. You can get a meal there too. So it's a sit-down event which means you can like have a little relax,

have a lovely meal, have some drinks and bring some friends with you. It will be such a fun afternoon. James is coming as well. I'll be there. It's going to be great. It's the first time I'm playing all of my songs live and after that the whole album will be available on Spotify. Currently my first single, Fear to Feel, is on Spotify.

Thank you so much to everyone who has been listening and following and liking it. It makes so much difference if you follow me as an artist on Spotify and if you also add it to one of your playlists. I already have, Claire. I actually also, a wonderful listener, Sarah, shout out to you, messaged me today to say that she added Fear to Feel to her work playlist in the shop she works in and, like, left out to you, messaged me today to say that she added Theatrefield to her

work playlist in the shop she works in and like left it playing all day. Hells yes. And I'm like overnight and I really appreciate that. So if you work in a workplace where they have a soundtrack and you feel like adding it to that playlist, I would just, that would mean the world to me. It makes so much difference because I don't have a PR team or a record label or anything. So the way I'm getting my music out there is you guys. That's right. So I would so love you to come.

I'm going to try and do some more shows. I will be doing some more shows. If you can't make it on the 11th, I'll be doing more shows in Australia, definitely, regional and maybe in some states. And I might try and do a live stream maybe for those people who live overseas. That'd be cool. Or maybe you could visit.

Correct. And I've also got a video coming out too, hopefully in the middle of January. He's like putting my face up on his phone. There it is. It is so well. I got some photos taken by Brett Brogan who's this amazing photographer and it is really strange seeing your face.

But what do you think of the photos? Do you like them? Of your face? Yeah. I love your face, Claire. Oh, that's nice. I have no complaints or compliments. All right.

Yeah, you just think bog standard. Bog standard, regular. Correct. Stuff. Anyway, the reason I wrote Fear to Feel is because in one of the scenes in Dolly Arden's TV series, there is a song called Brass in Pocket by The Pretenders that is covered by one of my favourite music artists, Self Esteem, who I'm going to talk about in the music section.

So maybe we can segue to that in a minute. Wow. And the cover is so cool that I thought, oh, I really want to see if I can write something like that. And so I went away and wrote Fear to Feel. Yeah, which is it's literally beat to beat the same song. It's definitely got the same kind of snare drum in it. That was kind of the basis of why I used the snare drum

and then it kind of like extrapolated from there. So if you haven't listened to my single, I would love you to. All right, that's enough shameless self-promotion from me. I agree. Are we away from TV series and on to music or are we still there? Well, I'm just going to keep just doing whatever. So you know what I mean. I mentioned For All Mankind.

It's great. It's on Apple. It's about the space race. Is that a movie or a TV series? No, no, a different timeline. I loved The Bear. Yes, I liked The Bear too, actually. Did you finish The Bear?

I didn't finish it. But that's my brain at the moment. Yeah, so you don't know what happened to The Bear. I don't know what happened to The Bear. They killed it. They hit it with a meat cleaver. In the kitchen? Yes.

Because it's about a bear that runs a kitchen, right? But guess what? What? It was the second bear. What? That's what the second season is going to be about. Two bears? Two bears.

Of the bears. Two bears. One hundred bears. Two bears. One bear. One bear's dead. Two bears. Another bear's a living.

Yes. And also, if you're interested in movies about bears next year, watch Cocaine Bear, which is loosely based off a true story about a cocaine shipment that dropped out of a plane and then a bear ate it. Gosh. Now, in real life, the bear just ate a bunch of cocaine and its heart exploded and it died. In the movie, the bear goes on a cocaine-fuelled rampage

and kills a bunch of people. That sounds a little bit like violent Santa or whatever. Yeah, it looks incredible and I hope it's as good as it looks. I never understand why you say, you usually use the phrase murder rampage and then say it looks awesome. It does, Claire. It looks really good. And bear CGI technology has come a long way.

You know how I feel about animal CGI. No, it's better now. We can thank the Revenant for that, that time the bear attacked Leonardo DiCaprio. Didn't he live inside a bear or something? Yeah, he cut open a moose or something. I never saw it. I wanted to see it in cinemas and then I didn't

and now I have to watch it on TV, I guess. And I'll just quickly mention the TV series From, which is about like they go to a small town and you're trapped in the town and there's like vampire people everywhere. Oh, jeez. They come out at night and they go, boo, we're vampires. And everyone's like, oh, this place sucks because of all the vampires. And no pun intended, everybody.

And it's amazing. I was like, oh, yeah, I'll watch a spooky show. And then I was like, huh, this is really good. And also when I started it, it said on Stan, I don't know whether they still have this thing, Stan is a streaming service in Australia. When you click on it, it's like, this has a season two. It's confirmed.

They're going to make it. Because, you know, sometimes you watch a thing and they're like yeah they canceled that like three years ago yes hey folks it's mark maron from wtf i travel all over north america doing stand-up and it's always good to know airbnb is an option when i'm away from home but if you're away from home why not take your own place and airbnb it airbnb your whole home to make some extra cash or if you're away from home, why not take your own place and Airbnb it? Airbnb your whole home to make some extra cash. Or if you have a spare room that's not in use, just Airbnb that. 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. Anyway, what else you got, Claire? All right, so I wanted to segue to music. So I just, I briefly mentioned self-esteem. Sure. Her Prioritized Pleasure album has just had so many critical acclaims, James. Oh. She's wonderful.

All right, so self-esteem. Her real name is Rebecca Taylor and she's been an artist for a really long time, but this album is fresh and funny. It's got this incredible kind of vocal aesthetic as well, a lot of sampling. She uses kind of voice memos that she's recorded into her phone and little snippets of really great language. It's really powerful.

It's about coming into your own, into yourself and caring for yourself and it's about being abroad who's big and broad and big boned. Oh, you mean like not being abroad as in overseas? You mean like being abroad? I do. And I think because she writes about not looking the way that maybe the culture at the time wanted women to look, which is like tiny and fragile, a little bit like Emily in Paris.

Yeah. And she's not like that at all. And it's been so exciting to see her career kind of explode at the age that she is as well. And I just love seeing women come into their own, particularly artists, and for obvious reasons, I just find her so inspiring. So I love her so much.

It's honest and her choreography is like really cool and she's just excellent. Another musician I really loved this year was Martha Marlowe. Her writing is completely different to Self-Esteem. Self-Esteem is almost like dance record and like lots of kind of big heavy kind of beats and vocal layering and like drum machine. And Martha Marlowe is the complete opposite. It's like beautiful, fragile, incredibly beautiful strings, a lot of jazz kind of connotations with folk. She's just utterly delightful.

And she also deals with an ongoing illness too. Oh, okay. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, so I went and saw her perform live and she's sort of ethereal almost. Her songwriting is just exquisite. So Martha Marlowe is really wonderful. And then the other artist I discovered this year, and she doesn't make music anymore, she's now a pig farmer,

but her name's Kathy Davey and she is brilliant. She's Irish and her album is called, to be sure, my favourite album of hers is called The Nameless and my favourite song from hers is called Lay Your Hand. And I used the string section in that as inspiration for one of the songs on my album too. So I know I've talked a lot about music this year because I've just been listening to a lot. You love music.

I really do. And she's also kind of weird. Her lyrics are like off-kilter and surprising in her songwriting, which is something I really love as well and I'm trying to aspire to. So that's it. That's my music recommendations. What else have you got? Wow. Well, I'm trying to aspire to. So that's it. That's my music recommendations. What else have you got? Wow.

Well, I will do a few movies. Now, I've talked about movies on my regular and more successful podcast all week. There's a few that I've mentioned here, which I'm going to circle back around to. Weird, I spoke about this a few weeks ago, Weird, the Al Yankovic story is a music bio. You loved that.

It's absolutely nonsense, and it's just really funny. And it's just, it's also weirdly cast with like Daniel Radcliffe in the lead like miming his way through like I assume he was anyway like Weird Al songs. It's so bizarre. It's like why would you get Daniel Radcliffe for this but it's it it works. Everything about it works. It's so silly. Emily the criminal I talked about as well which had uh what's her name from Parks and Rec and she's in the White Lotus more recently. What is her name? She's so great.

Audrey Plaza. Yes, Audrey Plaza. Really harrowing, kind of like Uncut Gems, but with credit card fraud. Really terrific. Really, really enjoyed that one. And there was a movie called The Power of the Dog, which starred Cody Smith-McPhee and Benedict Cumberbatch about like,

it's a Western, but it's not like shootouts and it's about like gay cowboys essentially. It's sort of about that. It's not really what it's about. But it's about masculinity and toxic masculinity and culture. My favourite topic. And how to like and what people do to fit in and all of these different things. It's absolutely delightful and harrowing.

No, it's not delightful, but it's good. In terms of it, like commentary. Really good. Commentary on Toxic Masculinity. Actually, I did a whole podcast episode this year with Tim Loveday, the poet. I remember. I listened to it probably, I think.

I really enjoyed it, actually. I thought it was a really, really interesting conversation. Tim's poetry has a lot of commentary around that kind of stuff. Very interesting. He was really cool. It was fun to meet him too. Yeah. Oh, I also did I watch MacGruber this year? Or was that last year I watched that? I don't know what MacGruber is. MacGruber is like a MacGyver

knockoff, spin-off show starring Will Forte. It was like a movie in like 2009 and literally nobody watched it. It's got Kristen Wiig in it as well and Ryan Felipe and Billy Zane. It's like MacGyver but just a fucking silly show about an idiot who's an action hero. Watch the movie and then watch the show.

It's really good. Nobody watches it. I don't know why they fucking made this show because literally no one will watch it but it's good. Cool. Except for you. It's just really silly. It came out the end of last year so I'll probably watch it this year.

What else, Claire? So I watched a documentary called The Rescue about the Thai cave rescue and it was utterly amazing. It's on Apple and it's just, it was so good. And I know I thought before I watched it that I knew a lot about that rescue of the boys in the cave and I really did not know anywhere near as much as what I learned afterwards. And I was just in awe of it.

An embarrassingly small amount about that. No, not embarrassing. I followed it. No, I mean. But just when the whole world kind of stopped. I remember. And then, you know, breath in their throat, just heart, breath in their throat, heart in their throat.

Heart's beating through time. Oh, that's a song lyric from one of my songs. I would never say that. Anyway, yeah, just it was so amazing. And the way they did the reenactments too really made you understand just how risky it was what they achieved with those boys. And the whole time they were sure that they wouldn't be able to get them all out alive.

So just a miracle. And in all of the terrible news that has kind of come out of the world this year, it's just really heartwarming and uplifting. So I'd recommend The Rescue. That's the documentary. Other movies I've really enjoyed this year, Catherine Colberti, Lena Dunham's story. It's just really great. It's set in, I think it's like the 17th century or even earlier

it's about the lead character katherine who is basically stuck having to be wed at the age of like 14 and it's and she gets her period and it's about all that awkward time in women's lives when they're like transitioning into adulthood and teenagehood and it's really feminist and funny. And her character is so kind of gross and in spots and hilarious and it's just so wonderful. And her dad is played by the hot priest. Oh, yeah, that's right. Andrew Scott from Fleabag.

And he's also excellent and kind of has this like redemptive arc in the end even though you kind of hate him through a lot of it. And he's just always so great to watch. So just love that. And also Billy Piper. Yeah, okay. He plays her mother. And there's this scene where Billy Piper, her mother, gives birth

and she's just had, she lost so many babies before it. And that's kind of the redemptive arc that made me cry because Andrew Scott's character, as much as he's trying to sell Bertie off to save the family fortune or whatever to some horrible old guy, you see the love between them and he kind of gets her through and encourages her to give birth and she ends up like keeping the baby and it's just, it just so moving and so beautifully done and you can just tell it's written by a woman and I just loved it.

So that was that. I also really enjoyed Tick, Tick, Boom as well. I still haven't watched Tick, Tick, Boom. Oh, it's so good. What am I doing with my life, Claire? I do not know what you're doing with your life. God damn it. It's so good.

It's just so good. I still haven't watched Matilda the musical. I'm waiting to watch it with our son. Yeah, we'll just wait for that. We'll wait for that. Yeah. We'll watch it over the summer. We'll watch it together.

Yeah, so Tick, Tick, Broom, for those who don't remember, you might remember the musical Rent. I do. So it's based on the autobiographical musical by playwright Jonathan Larson. It's the story of an aspiring composer in New York City who was actually Jonathan Larson, so who is worried he made the wrong career choice while navigating the pressures of love and friendship.

And it was directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. And it's just so clever. The music is amazing. I actually think the music is better than Rent. Yeah, I care. That's interesting. And it's just, I hadn't ever watched it before. And I didn't realize, and you find out early on in the film, so it's not a spoiler,

that Johnny dies before he ever gets success. Yeah. So Rent becomes this massive. He doesn't even, didn't even realise. No, he doesn't get to see what Rent becomes. How do you think he'd feel by you saying that this musical is better than his musical? No, he wrote all of those musicals.

He wrote the musical that he's in about the musical Rent? Yes. Wait a minute. So he wrote the musical. It's about him. So this is an autobiographical musical. That he wrote about him writing Rent. Yes.

Goddamn. Wow. Yes. That's really impressive. It's really impressive. I'd forgotten that. Well, I take back every bad thing I've ever thought about that guy. It's really, really amazing.

Yeah. It's really amazing because also he dies. So it's actually about the time in his life. He's writing this like really obscure musical that he's spent like, it's like his opus. Yes. And he's living in this like tiny little flat in New York City. This I remember.

Yeah. And it's got a really strange premise that I can't remember now, but it's odd and weird and it's his opus. And it just, no one buys it. Yeah it and it just falls flat on its face. And so then this is about, he wrote Tick, Tick, Boom with the idea of, you know, about that experience basically. Yeah. And then he goes on to write Rent and then before Rent comes out,

he dies and then he never gets to see the success that Rent becomes. I mean, Tick, Tick, Boom also becomes successful too, but Rent obviously got his great guns. And Andrew Garfield, amazing, right? Amazing. He's so good in this, honestly. It's just amazing. He's a real talent.

I don't care what you say. I think it is too. You should watch that Spider-Man movie that is in any of them. What? You did try to watch a new Spider-Man. You couldn't get through it. No, I couldn't. My brain's just broken.

I feel like after 10 years of like incessant movies about Spider-Man. You should watch at least the scene where they're just all standing together. I don't care. No, it's just this one scene. There's too many Spider-Mans. I agree. It's the best scene in the movie and there's just the three of them and it feels really improv and they're not punching anybody and they're just talking about like weird Spider-Mans. I agree. It's the best scene in the movie and there's just the three of them and it feels really improv and they're not punching anybody

and they're just talking about like weird Spider-Man stuff that happened to them. Like one of them's like, I fought an alien, and then regular Peter Parker is like, I fought an alien in space. And Andrew Garfield's like, I'm lame. I haven't fought any aliens. I fought like a Russian guy in a rhinoceros costume and what. It's just like a fucking, it's just silly.

I remember just watching in the theories and going, this is very bizarre to see this fucking happen. Movie's all right, but that bit's great. It's more nostalgia than anything else, Claire, but I think it does nostalgia well. But I feel like maybe you have to care a lot about Spider-Man and I like Spider-Man, don't get me wrong, but you know. Yeah.

I'm not that invested. Here's some books that I like, Claire. Gustav and Henry, written by Andy Matthews, who's a friend of ours. But I've talked about this as a kid's book, and the second one is out. He said he was going to send me a copy, so I'm like, okay, I won't buy it.

But he hasn't sent it to me, so I'm just going to go and buy it. Which is fine. I'm happy to buy it. It's good. So it's about, like, they're two little friends, two little animal friends, and they go on weird adventures. And it's got a whole lot of like fun, like humor and like little jokes. And it's just really like densely packed with like little funny moments.

It's terrific. Really good. I hope he keeps writing them because they're a lot of fun. And there's one review online that was on some website where it's like, thank you so much for this review because it said it was written by James and I'm like, I didn't write that. But you're welcome, I guess. Really good.

Loved it. I read a few books this year when we were away, when we had a big holiday. I can't believe we're having a second holiday. Can you believe it? I know. I can't believe it. You guys are lucky who are complaining, which is most people.

Most people don't care. We're not doing 12 weeks of teacher holidays like we used to do. Exactly. We're doing very little holidays, really. Children of Time. Amazing book about the evolution of a planet of spiders and now their society is built and functioning. Hang on.

This sounds very like Project How Merry, which I still am yet to read. I know you haven't read it. Yeah, no, I think I read that. I can't remember this year, last year. I think I read it last year because I went through my notes and it wasn't there. I recommend that book though. So it's while this spider planet is evolving with its own civilization

and language and technology, there's a ship of the last humans left in the galaxy barrelling towards the planet because they need somewhere to live because their ship's falling apart. And you're like, huh, how's this going to collide? Spiders and people crashing into each other. How does that even work? Very interesting. Well worth it.

What else have you got? I've got one more recommendation. All right. Do you want me to just do it? No, I've got a book. I've got a book. Is this your last recommendation? Yes, this is my last recommendation.

This is my favourite book of the year, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. Didn't I buy you a hard copy version of this?, Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason. Didn't I buy you a hard copy version of this? You did and it was so thoughtful. Jess, my beautiful friend, recommended this book to me. She said you have to read it immediately and I immediately loved it. Meg Mason, the author, began her career at the Financial Times and the Times of London and her work has appeared in the Sunday Times and the Sunday Morning Herald, lots of different places.

Her first book, Say It Again in a Nice Voice, was okay and it's about early motherhood. But this book, it's so dark and so funny and unforgettable. I just, it's amazing. It's about a woman called Martha who knows there is something wrong with her, but she doesn't know what it is. And her husband, Patrick, thinks she's fine. He says everyone has something. The thing is just to keep going.

Oh, that sounds like bad advice. Yeah, it does. So it's really, I think you get the feeling that she comes from a family of creatives, right, and quite dysfunctional but every character painted in the book is so vivid and eccentric and quirky and complex and nothing much happens really other than that. She's dealing with her mental health issues, the breakdown of her marriage, her difficult relationship with her mother and her father,

and there's a relationship with her sister that is just so funny. There's this little text exchange where they're just communicating in pictures of Kate Moss. Oh, I do remember that. I love that. There's so many little vignettes in here. I remember telling me that. Do you see in pictures of Kate Moss. Oh, I do remember that, yeah. I love that. There's so many little vignettes in here where the language is so excellent. Do you see the pictures of Kate Moss? No, but just the language is so excellent and funny and dark

and it's just, it's one of those books that makes you remember what really, really good writing is. And I just, I enjoyed it so much and it made me cry and laugh in like, you know, the same breath really. So, um, Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason. It's, it's so good. I'll read you just a little snippet cause I read this on the show, but I just, it's so funny. Martha, this is Patrick, her husband. He said afterwards lying next to me, everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. And that is what life is. It's the only, it's only the ratios that change, usually on their own. As soon as you think that's it, it's going to be like this forever. They change again. That is what life was

and how it continued for three years after that. The ratios changing on their own, broken, completely fine, a holiday, a leaking pipe, new sheets, happy birthday, a technician between nine and three, a bird flew into the window, I want to die, please, I can't breathe, I think it's a lunch thing, I love you, I can't do this anymore. Both of us thinking it would be like that forever. Very good. Just like such great writing. I mean, honestly, so, so beautiful.

What would you give it out of 110? 110. Wow. Anyway, I just loved it. That's lower than. What would you give it out of 110? 110. Wow. Anyway, I just loved it. That's lower than the other show you gave 110 out of 100. You're right, exactly. I'm very, yeah, anyway, I loved that book. It was really good.

One of my favourite books of the year was the current Batman run where he's fighting a villain that he created called Failsafe, which is basically a robot that he created. If he ever kills somebody, the robot gets activated and then the robot kills him because the robot is built with all the Batman knowledge and beyond. Wowza. Batman beyond, if you will.

Yes, if you will. Yes. If you won't. If we will. And so he thinks Batman's killed somebody and if Batman's killed somebody, that means something's wrong. And if Batman's turned evil, that's somebody who could literally destroy the world because Batman is so intelligent, Claire.

I don't know if you know that about Batman. So he has to basically destroy a robot that he created to destroy him that knows literally everything about him. And there's a sequence where he's stranded on the moon and this chip is in him, whatever, spaceship explodes, and he basically free falls from the moon to earth. And there are people like this is stupid, I hate this. And I'm like, no, this is good.

This is good Batman actually. This is well done. Yeah, actually. Actually, didn't you know it was great? It is great. It's my favourite. It's great. It's a really good run. I think, yeah, Chip Sad didn't you know it was great? It is great. It was my favourite. It's great. It's a really good run.

I think, yeah, Chip Sadarsky's writing it is one of my favourite comic book writers. Ah, cool. I think it's Chip Sadarsky. I'm pretty sure it is. Anyway, and my favourite video game of the year, I think, was Shredder's Revenge. Wowza. Which was, it's a multiplayer side-scrolling. Classic Ninja Turtles beat him up, except it's better than every other Ninja Turtles beat-em-up.

And I should know that because I played the Cowabunga Collection this year. You certainly did. Which is severely lacking compared to this incredible game, which is just an amalgamation of all the good things of modern-day beat-em-ups with, like, the sheen of something which was maybe of 20 years, 20 or 40, 30 years ago. Oh, I see. Loved it.

Really good. If you've got kids and they are obsessed with Ninja Turtles, like maybe someone we know. Oh, my gosh, so obsessed. Then this is the perfect game for you. It's really awesome. And it's got a lot of like if you grew up in like the 80s and 90s, there's a lot of like little stuff in there.

You're like, I know that from the other thing. Do you know we got our son that music player, which I would also recommend. Oh, yeah. We're trying to steer away from iPads at the moment. I'm sure we'll eventually. They'll eventually enter our lives. Yeah, but we're just trying to keep them out of our lives

as long as possible. So we're getting devices that are all separate to do the same thing an iPad would do. And we got him a music player, or James really researched it, which he just, the joy on this kid's face, watching him be able to choose the music that he wants to listen to and then occasionally choose it for us and like play us a song. Yep.

It's just so gorgeous. I put a bunch of like audio books on there as well. He loves it. He was up in his room. He's listening to his like music or whatever and he's drawing Ninja Turtles on a secret shoe box with all of his comics inside it. Yeah, I gave him a shoe. He's like, he was keeping his comics on the floor because he's, and I'm like, put it, here's a shoe box. This is how comics inside it. Yeah, I gave him a shoe. He was keeping his comics on the floor and I'm like,

put it in his shoe box. This is how you do it. And he's been decorating that box. He was drawing Ninja Turtles while listening to Ninja Turtles. Yeah. It was just peak happiness on that kid's face. There is nobody in the world who loves holidays as much as that kid. Oh, my God.

He just loves being at home. Just loves being at home. Doing his little dance. He's so happy Oh, my God. He just loves being at home. Just loves being at home. Doing his little dance. He's so happy singing around the house. He just never wants to leave. I love it. It's so gorgeous. It's great.

He's basically you. Anyway, no, he's not. He's his own person. Exactly. Our daughter who is exactly like you. She gets so annoyed by being at home. She just wants to get out and about. Yeah, exactly.

She's like, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? I'm like, I know. These dudes just wants to get out and about. Yeah, exactly. She's like, what are we going to do? What are we going to do? I'm like, I know. These dudes just want to do nothing. It's so freaking boring. It's staring at the bloody four walls of this house. God damn it. And we're like, let's watch Shrek.

Oh, so boring. Anyway, yeah, so that's it. Is that the roundup? It is. Now, it's not the only thing that we do on this show, Claire. We also have reviews. We certainly do have reviews. And people, it is the the only thing that we do on this show, Claire. We also have reviews. We certainly do have reviews. And people, it is the last episode of the year.

There might be a Best Of going up in January, but Collings is absolutely swamped. By the way, happy birthday, Collings. It's your birthday this week. Probably even the day that he sends this over, but Collings, don't edit this on your birthday. Just wait. It's fine.

Yes. And first of all, he's done an amazing job all year. He edits this, but he also edits multiple other things. He edits videos and he edits other podcasts and he edits also the stuff behind the paywall. And my taunts. And your taunts episode and a bunch of social media stuff and he coordinates with a bunch of other people

and the Facebook group and everything else. He's just the best person. I agree. And we don't know what we would do without him. This is not what I was talking about in reviews. But while we're here, why not? But he's not the only person who helps on the show, Claire. Don't we have some kind of social media situation?

We do. Maisie, the wonderful Maisie, runs our social media for Suggestible and does an excellent job. She's so lovely. And so thank you so much to Maisie who's been doing all of that work. You can go and follow at SuggestiblePod. She is. She runs the Facebook admin as well.

She also does the social media for Tons, and she's been helping me out with video content and things throughout the year. Sarabi as well does lots of amazing things as well for our team. Fidel as well. Excellent. Does lots of stuff. All of those admins in the Facebook group, so great.

We're so grateful to everyone, actually, and all your editors as well who work tirelessly behind the scenes. I've already thanked them, and they don't do anything for Suggestible. But no, Ben, Lawrence, that's it. No, Matt. And I think Mitch was also working earlier in this year, but Mitch has moved on. I think it's because he hates me.

He sent me an email that said he hates me. But that's fair enough. You are very hateful. He sent that and I'm like, you're right. And we should also thank the king himself. Me? King George II. Who are you talking about? No, I'm talking about Mason also thank the king himself. Me? King George II. Who are you talking about?

No, I'm talking about Mason. You should thank Mason too. Why? Mason's great. I thanked him in person. He always turns up everywhere. And he didn't even give me an equal compliment. Oh, no.

Would you like me to give you an equal compliment? No, because that doesn't count. Oh, you look sad. No, it's all right. I should tell him. But anyway. He's your only friend. It's true.

But I want to thank also people who review the show, including Metroid Killer, who just did it in app. It's incredible. And they've given it five stars and it says, whoa, Claire will say anything. And that's true. She's outrageous. I will. She's often outrageous.

I'm outrageous. She's outrageous. I'm out of control. I agree. I'm a woman on the edge. I agree. I don't know why my voice is doing that. That's true. I thought that was your regular voice. It's the end of the year. She's outrageous. I'm out of control. I agree. I'm a woman on the edge. I agree. I don't know why my voice is doing that. That's true.

I thought that was a regular voice. It's the end of the year. Oh, yeah. Woo! Yeah! Pop the champagne. What's next, Claire? Oh, you can also review the show with suggestions or letters

or whatever you'd like to say to us. We would love to hear from you. Specialpod.gmail.com. Just like Scott has. Suggestions. You said review the show, but this is for letters, right? This is letters, yeah. This is like writing in to say I have a recommendation

and we always love to get them from listeners. Is this about the movie Morbius? No, it's not. Oh, okay. But it could be. Got some for you both, says Scott. Okay. For Mr. Sunday James, Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared,

both the web series and the new series all together. I haven't seen the new series, but I have watched that web series. You wouldn't like it. It would make your brain spiral. Yeah, it says this series takes a childlike puppetry and very quickly turns the episode into some very visually impressive existential horror dread that is still quite comical. It's an absolute nightmare to watch, but it's incredible.

Oh, my God. Also, check out the Dragon Ball Super. I haven't done that yet. I will. You've never seen it. I will say I'm way behind them on Dragon Ball, so I apologise for that, but it's not my fault. I don't know what you're talking about with any of this stuff.

Don't worry about it. I'm glad that you enjoy it. For Claire, yes, hello. Since you've been in Music World, that's where I've been living. What? I don't know if anyone can tell my reviews have really gone downhill because my brain is living in music world with the spider. Oh.

Some musicians you may enjoy are The A's, Girl in Red, Maddie Diaz, and Biba Doobie. Biba Doobie. Oh, I like saying it. Bia Badoobie. Bia Badoobie. That's a cool name. Such a cool name.

It was so fun to say. Bia Badoobie. You can just check out their most recent singles to see if they connect with you. I certainly will be doing that. Thank you, Scott. Thanks for a chill, playful podcast that lightly touches on a range of different media and genres. I like to think we get in depth.

Scott, Zantano, they, them. I like to think we get into depth. I think so too. Scott. I think we do sometimes, Scott. No, no. I think that's a very accurate description, Scott. I actually do.

Thank you so much for writing in. Yeah, correct. Exactly. And thank you so much for writing in. Yeah, correct, exactly. And thank you so much to the listeners who have supported us all year. It makes so much difference. It means we can keep doing what we're doing. This community continually blows me away with how kind and funny and thoughtful and smart and just overall awesome it is. I think it does the bare minimum and that's fine too.

No, I really, I've been so grateful to everyone and especially putting out all this music that I've been to. Well, the one single, but the music. There's more though. It's all done. Yeah, it's coming out in February and my next single is coming out on January 28th. It's called Free.

Yeah. And I do a lot of features in it. Yeah. And it's kind of like a feminist anthem pop song and I love it. Oh, boo, feminism. You told me today it was one of your favourites. No, I was lying. No, it's good.

It is a good song. Anyway, I'm really excited to share it. I think people mistake and people probably here probably don't but like they mistake feminism for like, well, I want to be, I want to destroy all men and whatever and I hate men, which isn't, well, you can explain this better than me. Ah, from the truth. That's not what it is at all.

It's simply about equality. But it goes further than that. So intersectional feminism, it's equality for everyone. So it's not just equality for men and women. It's equality for people of all races and genders and sexualities and overall better for everyone. And people are like, well, everybody's going to get a participation award and everyone's going to have the same outcome or whatever.

No, it's not about equality of outcome. It's about equality of opportunity. Claire. I know. Are you like, are you mansplaining feminism to me? I'm explaining this to you, yeah, in an aggressive way. Excellent, yeah. And it all kind of feeds into each other because it's also,

you can extend into the way we treat our planet and our earth as well. It's about the economy and the injustice of that too. So yeah. Anyway, I think it's great. I also think it's great. Let's get out of here, Claire. Thank you so much, everyone. This has been Stressful Podcast. We'll be back on. Have a very happy, happy New Year's. Merry Christmas, happy New Year's. Maybe the week of the 23rd. Yeah, I reckon. I reckon we'll come back the week my single's coming out.

What week's that? 28th. Yeah, we'll come back on the 26th then. How about that? Yeah, I think we will. We'll see you there. Yeah. Be square.

Enjoy your break. Have a rest. If you're having a break. Be the best. Anything else? That's it. That's all I got. That's really good advice. Oh, and buy a ticket to my show Be the best. Anything else? That's it. That's all I got. That's really good advice.

Oh, and buy a ticket to my show on the 11th of Feb, 1 p.m. in the Brunswick Forum. I'd love to see you there if you're in Melbourne. I already have a ticket. Yeah, I know. You've got your tics. But not everyone else does yet. All right.

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