Suggestible - Star Wars Sexy?

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

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Uber Teen Accounts. Invite your teen to join your Uber account today. Available in select locations. See app for details. Bing bong, bing bong, bing bing bong. Suggestible time, everybody. So there he is. Hello, James.

How are you? Love life. How are you? Oh, it's a lie. He's dead inside, guys. He's hit rock bottom this. How are you? Oh, it's a lie. He's dead inside, guys. He's hit rock bottom this week. Have I? No, that's me.

Oh, okay. I was going to say. I'm just projecting. I live down here, mate. I live in the filth of rock bottom. You're like the troll that lives under the bridge in the Billy Goat Gruff story. And everyone's walking across the bridge and you're like, I want to eat you and I'm going to live

under the bridge again. And people are like, excuse me? Like, sorry. This really happened today actually. That's why we bring it up. I hide under a local bridge and I come out and I'm like, rah! The troll!

Sorry, what? And everyone's like up at the shops and you're like a 38-year-old man. Yep. Walk on by and they're like, oh, it's the local troll. Look at this guy. And you're like, ah! Also, I'll just have some apples, please. Just some apples, please, and some fruit.

Thanks. Also, I need a loaf of bread. Oh, don't take a loaf of bread. If you dress as a troll, no judgment. What are we doing this week? Oh, yes. This is just for God. On the show that we do.

First, I have to explain the show to, yes. This is just for God. On the show that we do. First, I have to explain the show to the listeners. This is your first episode. And if it is, I'm so sorry. This intro has been terrible. Never apologize. That's my motto. As the local troll.

Never apologize. We have to distinguish as well. We don't mean troll as in online person that insults everybody. No, no, no. We mean the green goblin-esque character. Is that green? With big ears. Generally green. Yes.

Anyway, enough of this troll nonsense. Listen to Just For Pod, a podcast where we recommend you things to watch, read, and listen to. I am Claire James here also. We are married and that's about it. If you want something else. Sure. Turn off now.

Don't. We need every support, every piece of support that we can get. Every goddamn piece of support. And if you disappear, I will find where you live and I will hide under the bridge near your house. And when you come past, I will demand that you resubscribe to this podcast. I just had this really funny idea of this like troll on holiday

and that's just you. I'm in a Hawaiian shirt. I got a little briefcase or whatever taking yourself photos under all different bridges yeah just not getting sun just sitting under a bridge yeah but in different locations yeah anyways claire what are you suggesting this week on the show suggesting balls all right i'm really excited i've been waiting for this for a while. Oh, my God. This book. So as you know, I am now on a campaign to get the partners of the people

who listen to this show better presents. I understand. Yeah. Correct. So I'm suggesting things that I like as presents in the hope that maybe your partner is similar to me. Can I just say this is unfair because that means that I can't get you these presents.

Oh, no. Mostly they're things that I've already bought myself. Okay. Or you've bought me. I'm no, mostly they're things that I've already bought myself. Okay, good. Or you've bought me. I'm at a massive disadvantage here is all I'm saying. But anyway, sorry, go on. Keep your little trolly ears out. I'll be sending some recommendations for me that I haven't bought yet.

Okay. Just keep it out. Keep a little Spidey feelers out there like little Spider-Man, like your special video that came out this week that did. Not too shabby. It's the amazing Spider-Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone loves a Spider-Man. It's true. Everyone. Not too shabby. It's the amazing Spider-Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone loves a Spider-Man.

It's true. Everyone loves a man in Lycra. It's true. Yeah. I mean, you've got to have the legs for it. It's kind of like some of those things you just throw on, you know what I mean? But sorry, go on.

Do you need slim legs or muscular legs? Slim legs. All right, you'd be fine then. I'd be fine. My legs would be fine, but the rest of you, I don't know, it would work. You'd look great in Lycra. Let's talk about this off show. All right. No, I'm joking. I'm joking, everyone. Calm down. She's not joking. That's yeah. Anyway, can I tell you about my recommendation?

I'm interested. I'm very interested. All right. Okay. So, uh, listeners might be familiar with the author Leanne Moriarty. Yes. Now, she is Australian and super famous for, you know, every book she's ever written basically going a bit bonkers and bananas and everyone adores her writing. She is the author of things like Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, both of which have been turned by Reese Witherspoon into, like, big blockbuster TV shows that everyone bloody loves. With Nicole Kidman.

With Nicole Kidman. Exactly right. So I knew when a new Moriarty book was coming out that it would be right up my alley and I couldn't wait to get my hot little myths on it. You knew it was big business. I did. I did. And, look, it's a page turner.

It's got the same kind of, you know, Moriarty never failed to, like, get you in with, like, a family kind of mystery. Maybe there's a murder. family kind of mystery. Sure. Maybe there's a murder, things kind of twist around. She's always really good at getting into the heads of her characters and she also kind of draws you in in what seems to be quite like a puffy sort of story at the beginning. Yeah.

Often they're kind of suburban stories and you sort of are lulled into thinking, well, this seems a bit frothy and light and boom, she gets you. She gets you with social issues. There you go. And this particular book, the first few chapters I was like, do I like this? I'm not sure. I hope you hit her up in an email.

Liam Moriarty, I'm a few chapters into your book and quite frankly, it's very unimpressive. No, but it does that thing where as you get into it, it suddenly grabs you by the horns and now all I want to do is sit by myself and read it, take it everywhere with me because I'm like into that point in the book. All I want to do is just sit by myself. That's it.

That's your goal in life. Just quickly, we might have an afternoon to ourselves tomorrow without the kids. So one of your options was what if we just drive somewhere and just sleep in the car? I'm like, that sounds pretty good actually. We'll sleep and put the seats back. I was not even joking. Put the seats back, you know what I mean, and then fall asleep in the car. I'm like, this is pretty good actually. You can sleep and put the seats back. I was not even joking.

Put the seats back, you know what I mean, and then fall asleep in the car. No, it was literally. It was fall asleep in the car. It's not a metaphor. No, it wasn't like go put your Spidey suit on and let's get easy. Which, by the way, I just want to clarify, it's just not my thing at all. Like dressing up in a superhero outfit and just like any of that. I think it would ruin both things for me, if I'm honest.

But anyway, sorry, go on. That was like when, and it was a wonderful zine, there was that sponsor reached out to us that you declined for this very reason, who did Star Wars Cabaret, and they put on like big, sexy shows with like the costume designers from the movie. So amazing costume designers. But there would be like dancers dressed as like Boba Fett

or dancers dressed as like Chewbacca. So they'd be like sexy Chewbaccas or whatever, sexy droids. And you were just like, no, I'm not into it. No, I can't look at it. And it was weird. You had this like visceral reaction. I feel like it's because you feel like if you saw it, those two worlds colliding, it just would do something

to your brain. Star Wars is like all those things that are very non-sexual to me. And I know there is like a massive fan element that like. What about Princess Leia in her golden bikini? I don't know. It's just not. I've never seen it that way. I don't see any of it that way.

It's a weird, dirty universe. Not in a good way. Ooh. Yeah. Oh, you mean as in sandy and uncomfortable? Like a grimy, everyone's got a grimy spaceship and like a jumpsuit that's covered in oil. And I'm just like, I don't like this place.

It sucks. It's not for you. Anyway, sorry, go on. No, exactly. You like it. There's a big slug sitting there and I'm like, that's pretty distracting. Like she's in the gold bikini, but there's a giant slug and he's just like,, that's pretty distracting. Like she's in the gold bikini but there's a giant slug

and he's just like. Because that's all I'd be looking at. I'd be like, fuck, that guy's going to swap me with his tail. He's horrendous. Is it because it seems stressful? It's a very stressful universe. It would be quite stressful to get into some business. No, no, just in general it's like it's stressful and confusing

and it's like the units of measurement are strange. Why is that relevant? Because it's like there's this thing about, this is way off topic, there's this thing of like there's this passing line in the first Star Wars where Han Solo says something like my ship did the Kessel Run in less than nine parsecs. And a parsec in our world is like a measurement of distance. But in the Star Wars universe, I'm like, so it did nine parsecs in less than nine measurements of distance?

Like, what do you mean? What does that mean? And it's just, I don't like it. And if you look at a panel panel of a ship there's no like display screens it's just it's just different colored buttons and i'm like what does any of this do none of this is labeled there's no screen like it's just it's very stressful so what you're saying is all of that stuff while not sexual at all also would get you out of the mood because you're too worried about measurements and buttons.

Like when they go to their ship and, like, the door opens of their ship, I'm like, you didn't even press anything. Like, how did it open? He doesn't have a key. Did he put his hand in his pockets and, like, has he got, like, some kind of device on him that it registers when he's close? Can you just walk up to any ship? And when they go to, like, the cockpit, they don't put a key in.

They just hit one of the buttons and it just like fires up and it's confusing. So what you're saying is Princess Leia, and I'm not in this universe, Princess Leia is there in her sexy bikini and she's like, ooh, James, let's go for it. And you're like, no, I'm busy. It's all very confusing. Can't work out the ship.

I can't work out the ship. And she's like, yeah, but come on. It's quiet. You're like, no. You're covered in like slug grease. I'm not interested. This is not my thing. All right.

Good to know. I don't know how we got there. But can we go back to my Moriarty? Okay. So the book. Stupid universe. So go on. So stupid.

Okay. I just find that so funny that like that's how your brain works. Yeah. Stressful. Actually, you know what's quite interesting about this? I was listening to a podcast the other day that was talking about the barriers to sex for women basically. Okay, sure. And one of them is exactly that, the mental load.

Like the comfort. No, it's because that's why hotel rooms are better because for women, and this is such a big generalisation, or for the partner who does the bulk of the domestic stuff, there is nothing less sexy than thinking about your dishes and the floor is dirty and you've got to go and play that thing and you've got to clean the bathroom and, like, all of that stuff, which is why, like, a clean, calm room and someone doing

the dishes is actually, like, foreplay for a lot of women. So if you, like, went into the bedroom and, like, you whipped back the sheets and there was just a pile of dirty dishes in there, that for you would not be, like, appealing. I thought you were genuinely going to say, and the sheets had been changed. No. And I would just fall over. It's just up there. not be like appealing. I thought you were genuinely going to say and the sheets had been changed and I would just fall over. It's just up there.

It's like plates and one of them is like chipped so that like there is a chip in the bed somewhere even if you took the plates out. There'd be just like a bit of ceramic in there that you roll onto. Anyway. Anyway. Liam Moriarty. I don't know how we got onto that. But that's a heads up, a Christmas present for anyone out there.

Bloody do some chores and you never know what might happen. Yeah. All right. So Leanne Moriarty writes this page turner. Now, it centers on a family called the Delaney's who were once the owners of a really successful like tennis coaching business basically. It's both run by former tennis coaches, Joy and Stan, who are the married couple at the center. Now they've retired and they're kind of in their 60s.

And from the outset, they seem like the perfect family. Now there's four siblings who are now in their kind of 40s. And in the very beginning of the book, and this isn't a spoiler, Joy goes missing. So then it kind of starts to unfold like the relationships between the siblings is everything as hunky-dory as it seems. They live in a lovely suburban house, you know, in New South Wales, in Sydney. And it just all seems very picturesque, except as you start to scratch the surface, you see there's a lot of tensions and their suspicion falls to Stan, her husband, and everyone is questioning why that is. And so the story is also written in a lot of different voices. So each chapter.

What do you mean by perspectives as in? As in like it's written like in the voice of, you know, one chapter might be. Different characters. Different characters. I understand what you mean, yes. Yeah. So it might be written from the perspective of Joy herself.

So she's a character that's actually narrating some of the story. But then another chapter might be the detective who's sort of involved in the case. And it also jumps back and forward in time, which Moriarty is also really good at doing too. Yes, yeah. So you kind of are building a picture of the story as you go in the present day and like 20 years ago or, you know, a year ago.

And so it seems really kind of grippy and interesting. I haven't finished it yet. Has it been getting good write-ups so you're not expecting to get to the end? No, it's getting great write-ups. Yeah, it's very classic Moriarty. Do you think that she is in danger of, and bearing in mind I've never read any of her books, I have seen some of her shows, which I really enjoyed,

do you think that it could become like a lean on too many of the things that she's familiar with? Do you think that's a, do you think they're varied enough? No, I think they're very varied. Yeah, even though they're often set in suburbia, they're not always. Yeah, right. And I think the interesting thing about Leanne is that from, you know, maybe 10 years ago even she would have been thought

of as chick lit writer in inverted commas, right? And chick lit for want of a better term is like literature that isn't that serious. Yeah. You know, and it's treated in that way. I mean, what is serious? That's the ridiculous. I know what you're saying. Yeah, it's treated in that way. I mean, what is serious? That's the ridiculous. But that's what I mean.

I see what you're saying. Yeah, it's treated as kind of like soft writing. It's not like big serious books about war and, you know, Oh, I love books about World War II. I love books about Winston Churchill. Yeah, you know, all of that sort of stuff. And I think our thinking, and it still has, I think, there is still an element of it around, but I think our thinking has moved forward now to understand that maybe a story is

set in suburbia and it's about the stories of women's lives, right? Because her main characters are primarily always women, but that doesn't make them soft stories. That makes them stories about relationships and family dynamics and family breakdown and mental illness and mental health and domestic violence. And that kind of stuff that happens intergenerationally amongst families is actually at the very core of our. That's also everything, isn't it? Yeah, it's everything, right?

It's everything. Like no matter where you live and what background you're from, everyone has complex families with complex dynamics because we're human beings. And so they're human stories. It's just they're told from a woman's perspective. And so I think they're being taken more seriously. And you can see that in the weight and success of shows

like Big Little Lies. Yes. Anyway, rant done, but I really recommend it. And heads up, tag Christmas present would be a good Christmas present for someone in your life who likes to read. Chicklet, you mean? Yeah. Am I right, boys?

More like Star Wars, a serious thing. All right. Yeah, exactly. Buttons on a ship don't work, mate. It doesn't even make any sense. It doesn't. I'm so angry for you. Do you know when they filmed the first Star Wars, right,

the original Star Wars, Star Wars 1? Yes. This is interesting, I feel. My brain is flatlined. Harrison Ford's a pilot, right? You know that in real life, right? In real life? Yes.

He's crashed planes like multiple times. Really? Tell me more. Anyway. This is fascinating. This is interesting. Wait. Keep telling me. Anyway, so when interesting. This is fascinating. This is interesting. Wait, keep telling me.

Anyway, so when he got onto the ship because he had an interest in aviation even in 1976. He wanted to have sex but then he said, it's too dirty in here. There's no buttons. He'd do it. He doesn't care. But he'd have each year on his wife on the set of Star Wars

with Carrie Fisher, which he did. Didn't know that. That's true. Anyway, so he gets on. He's like to George Lucas. He's like, how do I, what is any of this? How do I fly the ship? He's like, I don't know.

Just press whatever. It doesn't matter. Just come in and just flick buttons and we'll go. But ever since he did that and he just improvised it, every time anybody gets on that ship, they have to do the thing that he did just on the day. Just like, fuck, I don't know. So like now it's like locked into law, this just random nonsense thing

that he just made up on the spot. But once something's established in Star Wars, you have to like strictly adhere to it, otherwise people get very upset. You know what I mean? It's like he didn't flick the thing. He should have flicked the thing and he didn't flick that. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Anyway, my point is Star Wars is dumb. But you love it. Some of it. And that's okay. teen accounts. Invite your teen to join your Uber account today. Available in select locations. See app for details. I watched finally, and this is a while back, I've been waiting to talk about it a couple of months back, the movie Boy, which is one of the early Taika Waititi movies. It was supposed to be the first movie they ever directed, being the second in 2010. So it's a New Zealand comedy drama. For those people who don't know, Taika Waititi has since gone

on to like more recently he directed The Last Thor movie and like kind of revitalised that character and he's also doing the new one. He also did what's the Nazi Germany one where he plays Hitler in Jojo Rabbit. Brad Pitt, is it? No, different one. Jojo Rabbit, the one with.

Yes, which one am I thinking of? There's another one with Brad Pitt. You might be thinking of Inglourious Bastards or Fury. Correct, I was thinking of that one. But yeah, you know, with the little boy and he's got Hitler as an imaginary friend or whatever. It's terrific. So anyway, this one is set in 1984 in New Zealand

and it's like a large part of it is based on his experiences growing up. So it's about a New Zealand youth played by James R. Rolleston finds out his father who's played by taika watiti so he plays like a version of his own like an exaggerated version of his father it's a far cry from the heroic adventure he always imagined the man to be so he's this this guy like who he doesn't really have any kind of memories of or experiences with or he's very few kind of rolls back into his life and kind of and at first first it's like, oh, this is awesome. My dad's so cool and whatever.

And he's like, he has all these like sequences, like sorry, imaginary moments. You've seen it, right? Where he thinks he's like Michael Jackson or this amazing like street tough kind of gang fighting kind of dude where in reality he's like a very damaged kind of buffoon of a man who's also got his own personal traumas, John. I mean that he's never kind of reallyoon of a man who's also got his own personal traumas, do you know what I mean, that he's never kind of really dealt with. So a large part of it is about the perception of kind of the people

that raise you and how you see them growing up and how that kind of evolves over time. And obviously like one of the big part of growing up is seeing that your parents as human beings and this kind of leans into that quite a bit. This is more in terms of like, what a disappointment, like his dad, like really is to him deep down. But I think, yeah, everybody experiences that on some level, you know what I mean? Like the realization that your parents are flawed and don't know everything. And, you know, and,

you know, and I think it's something that, you know, I kind of dread also happening with our kids grow up as well. But like when they hear this, if they'd ever think it's something that, you know, I kind of dread also happening when our kids grow up as well. Like when they hear this, if they'd ever listen back and be like, oh, my God, he's an idiot. So but I think I loved it. I mean, I can't believe it had taken me this long to see it. Like it was always something I'm like, I need to watch this movie. And it was like it was terrific.

It was as good as I think it's one. I think it's not if it's his best movie, but it's certainly up there. And it's interesting because these movies, they're all so very – so really different. Like if you look at this and then you look at Thor and then you look at like Jojo Rabbit and then he's also done – like he's done what we did in Shadows.

Have you seen that? Yeah, the vampire movie. Which is just like an hysterical movie. It's crazy. All the – So funny. What's the one with Sam Neill? Samuel Neill.

You know Sam Neill? Oh, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Hunt for the – thank you. Oh, my gosh, my brain. Hunt for the Wilderpeople. I love that film. And I guess this movie, like that movie, is a very New Zealand-focused story. And like in particular like the Indigenous kind of culture of New Zealand

and also like the kind of what's beautiful about it and the family element of it and the people but also how that is also coming up against like modern sensibilities and people that have been like same was here and same with a lot of other countries, like the country has been colonised, do you know what I mean, by Europe essentially. So that's like, that's not a main part of it obviously, but it's like it's very much kind of a background.

Set in that world. Yeah, in that context. And I just, look, there's only one movie of his I haven't seen now, which is his first one, Eagle vs Shark, which I should go back and watch also. And also What We Do in the Shadows is now a television series as well, which I saw the first episode of that I really, I don't know if it's on anything here but I need to go back and finish it because it's really good. How well did Boy do?

I feel like it won some awards. It did. It was the highest grossing New Zealand made movie in New Zealand, I believe, like the week it was released. I think it went to Sundance and a bunch of other stuff. Yeah. And also a year after that, he played Ryan Reynolds' best friend in the movie Green Lantern, 2011. And then he was in the movie Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds also, which came out 2021. Gosh, he's so clever and funny. Yeah. And isn't he a character in a film like a robot or something? Is that in Saw?

Yeah, he's Korg. He's like a big – he's also in the Avengers movies, second Avengers movie I think. But anyway, he's like just a big like rock man kind of and he based him off like the giant like really friendly Maori people that he knows, you know what I mean? Like dudes that are just enormous but like really like friendly kind of – And lovely.

Friendly like soft-cut kind of guys but also could crush your head if they wanted to kind of thing. Yeah, he's just what a talent. You know what I mean? Oh, completely. Amazing. And I love his interviews and stuff because if you've ever seen any interview with him, he has come from this world which is so like different

than, you know, anything that I think most people, I mean including myself for that obviously, have experienced. And so he has this huge like depth of character. And he's also incredibly funny. So it's like he can be incredibly poignant and incredibly funny and he can switch between the two like quite easily. And you see that in his movies and you see that with him like in person as well.

He's like he's a very silly man, which I really, really love about him. Yeah, like childlike in a way. Completely. And, you know, that's my favourite type of film, That Walks That Line, which is why I loved Hunt for the Will of People so much because it's immediately hilarious and then also heartbreaking. Yeah. Which I think is life, right?

Totally. Like life is just endlessly hilarious and also will bring you to your knees and heartbreaking or poignant. Beat you around the head with a broken bottle. But, you know, like sometimes in the darkest times I've had in my life, there have also been some of the funniest moments that have happened during that time. So I just love films that work that I think that's a really hard thing to do.

I think Judd Apatow can do that sometimes too with his writing as well. And, yeah, Tiger Matini. That's why I love This Is 40. I think that's my favourite movie of his. Maybe it's not everybody else's. It's just great. Paul Rudd in that movie is basically your spirit animal. One of the greats.

Yeah. I probably already said this on the show, but I was researching something about that film and Judd Apatow said that that moment in the film where Paul Rudd's on the toilet on his phone was, like, Apatow said that that moment in the film where Paul rides on the toilet on his phone was like the first time anyone had that depicted in a film. Yeah.

And it got like some of the most feedback. I think they put it on like all the posters and stuff as well maybe. Yeah, yeah, because it just is like and I get that at the moment in lockdown like going to the bathroom is like a tiny window of alone time. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I don't know what if we're going to the bathroom is like a tiny window of alone time. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I don't know what if we're going to actually go and drive somewhere and fall asleep in our car.

We might. We might. We'll keep you posted. We'll let you know next week. Yeah. Anyway, what's your second thing? So, again, Christmas present recommendations from this moment. Oh, my God, you're getting in the alley.

I know. So this is something that you bought me for my birthday actually, which was awesome. So it's an Instax Fujifilm printer. Oh, my God, you're getting an early. I know. So this is something that you bought me for my birthday actually, which was awesome. So it's an Instax Fujifilm printer. Oh, yeah. Well, that was not even my idea. Yeah, no, it was our son's idea, right? Yeah, who saw it from one of his friends.

From another one of our friends who's so lovely. And she had one in her house and it's just so cool. She gave us this little image. So they're basically like a Polaroid kind of thing that you would see from like a traditional Polaroid except that it's connected to your phone. So often we have all of these photos on our phones but it's very rare for us anyway and I think most people are the same for actually printing those photos out and having them.

And so with this printer you connect it to a little app on your phone. The one I got was called MiniLink and it creates just like little images, prints them out and then kind of creates all these little pictures of your life like I guess an Instagram but something you can hold. And they're gorgeous. They're really awesome. I was Googling ways to present them as well and I found this stuff called washi tape.

I don't know if you know. Of course you don't know what washi tape is. It's like tiny masking tape with beautiful patterns on it. Oh, no, I do know that. Yeah, I think it might be Japanese. And you can just, it's used in crafting and, you know, all of that kind of stuff, scrapbooking. But you can make boards.

This would also be a really good present for a teenager too because you can make boards in your bedroom and be a really good present for a teenager too because you can make boards in your bedroom and pin them up on things. So I just think if someone was like, here's a roll of tape as I was a teenager, I'd be like, absolutely get fucked. No, I meant the printer. Oh yeah, the printer, yes. So the tape would be good as a good gift to go with it. And I also saw on Pinterest that people hung like little strings of lights that you can get from like Typo or whatever and then with little pegs and people have pegged up their photos onto the strings of light which would make a really cool display

in your kid's bedroom, I think. Yeah. Especially for a teenager. Yeah, and you can also buy albums from places like Etsy and I've bought a set of albums actually that you can put them in as well. Oh, cool, okay. They're only like $10 or something. I'm curious though as to because it's a little Polaroid kind of thing,

like it's like half a Polaroid size, the Princess, would you say? Like do they fade like over time? What's the quality of them? Yeah, I don't know. In like 10 years, do you know what I mean? Because I think with some like cheaper Polaroids they can like become like washed out and that over time. Is that?

Yeah. Do you know anything about that? No, I don't know. I don't know. I get a feeling it's very good quality because you do have to buy the film as well. I mean the printing stuff as well. Yeah, like how much it will. Not the device itself.

I mean the film stock that you print on. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea. That's one of the reasons why I bought a little album specifically for them. I'm going to display some in our kitchen but you can also get albums and then slot them into little pockets in the album and that will keep them for longer I think. That's cool because I think and I guess it was always the case like you have

to really make a conscious effort to like print a physical photo now, which is also I guess was the way it used to be as well. You'd always have to do that, you know what I mean? But I feel like it was more kind of the done thing, you know? Yeah. You'd go get your family photo and whatever. But also you'd have to take your film in and you wouldn't even know what photo it was.

And I kind of miss that in a way. I don't miss it at all. I think it's lunacy. Oh, you know, at school I remember doing like the old sort of dark room. Yeah, I did a know, I, at school, I remember doing like the old sort of darkroom. I did a bit of that as well. I loved that, like kind of doing all of the, the way that you dip the photo into the different liquids and all that stuff was so fun. I loved that. Scandal. Did you know my older brother, the one that Mason does like, when he was, when he did photography in one year in high

school, somebody took his photo and presented it as their own. And he was like, that was mine. It was like a big deal. Oh, my God. Stealing art and whatever and whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. What happened?

Did they believe him? The photo looked like shit for months. No, I don't remember. I honestly – no, they did. It was his. Like he had the negative. Like it wasn't – which is how it could be. Oh, you could still – I guess you could still have the image

on your phone now. But, yeah, so it was very clearly his. It's also weird because it's like it's photography. Like just take a photo of fucking anything. Yeah. Maybe it was so good. Take a black and white photo of a park bench or something. I know you hated that stuff.

But I loved it. I remember going around with my little camera on a school excursion taking photos and I took this photo of this elderly woman in a fruit shop, which I was so proud of and she was just so beautifully kind of manicured with this beautiful perm and this beautiful little hat. You know when you see people kind of in their 80s and 90s and you feel like they look exactly like they must have looked in the 40s or 50s when they were just like, you know,

in that fashion and the clothes are so beautifully looked after. I just remember, I've always remembered that photo. I was so proud of it. No. Yes, I do. Somewhere. I think it's in a box somewhere in the roof at my parents' house because she was holding this basket of fruit and it just, I don't know.

Anyway, this is boring. Sorry. But it was just something like just this little flash of memory of this beautiful woman. And I didn't really even know anything about her, but I remember I took it into the dark room and did all the things and you have to wait for a long time to see if it's going to work. And when it appeared, it was so beautiful and I was just really

like thrilled with myself. It was like, yeah. Do you ever wonder what year that woman died? Jesus. Do you ever wonder what year that woman died? Jesus Christ. Right. Because she's definitely dead by now is what I'm saying. Well, lucky I took her photo and now I think it's in my parents' room. Now you've lost it, yeah, of a woman whose name you don't know.

Okay, fine. It's creepy. No, it's great. It's not creepy. It's great. Anyway, I was really proud of it at the know. Okay, fine. It's creepy. It's not creepy. It's great. Anyway, I was really proud of it at the time. At the time. All right.

Should we wrap it up for this week, do you reckon? Yeah, I think so. Oh, we're not wrapping up. We've got a letter. We do have a letter. Would you like a review from me? Yes. While you're looking for the letter?

No, I've got the letter, but go for it. You do your rule. I'll do my thing because I need people to know. I need them to know. I need them to know. I demand that they know that they can review this in-app and I work my way through the reviews. And this week we got one from JaneID12345. It says, five stars, thank you.

I suggest this podcast. This is a nice podcast. I'm not very good at writing reviews. Just try it. So there you go. I think that is as business and professional as a review can get. It can be like that. It can be silly.

It can be blank. It can be whatever. Every review and rating helps because this show does all right, doesn't it? I don't really look at the numbers. It does all right, doesn't it? It does all right. We have the best listeners in the world. Wow.

We do. I don't like to pander. I don't like to pander to listeners because we don't know that for a fact. Well, I do. I can tell. I can tell that you listeners out there are awesome. Joe Rogan has the best listeners in the world because he tells them how it is. Suggestible listeners, I'm telling you.

I read the emails. Suggestible listeners are the best listeners. That is true. They're awesome. And they're always writing lovely things and sending us lovely suggestions and I think they're the best. Well, we don't really get kind of bizarre aggressive emails where every now and then we'll get some like to the weekly planet email,

which to be fair like Mason mostly go through. It's like fucking hell, that was insane. An insane person wrote that. No, we honestly don't. We just get like really lovely emails from people with great suggestions and cool things. I've learnt so much from listeners you're writing. Well, I haven't learnt a damn thing, I'll tell you that much.

So what's next? What have we got? All right. So I have an email this week from Anthony Asila. Anthony says, hi from lockdown in Auckland. Love the podcast even though I find James annoying sometimes. Know what I mean? I do know what you mean. I get told that a lot. I don't find you annoying. Yes, you do. Yeah, of course I do. We're married. That's part of the

deal. I don't find you annoying at all. It's a hell of a deal. It's a hell of a deal. Anyway, let me get back to Anthony. Sorry, Anthony. Last week he spoiled Midnight Mass. I know, James, it's my fault. I said it in the thing. I said very clearly multiple times that I'm going to spoil this. I'm just becoming increasingly aware that I just said how lovely our listeners were. Now Anthony is taking a shot at you. I was very clear. There were time codes in the description. Does he spoil it here? No.

Okay, so yeah. But it actually got me excited to see how the story would unfold knowing what the twist was. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Great suggestion overall. Thanks, James. Still love you but only sometimes. Okay. All right.

That's a bit of fun. Yeah. Keeping in the theme of midnight, have you guys seen Midnight Diner? Have you seen that? What is this? I think I've heard of it. It's centred around this small diner in Tokyo where the main character, the chef, only opens from 12am to 7am.

His policy is that he'll cook anything the customers want if he has the ingredients for the meal. Because of the opening hours, the diner itself attracts a bunch of misfits and most of the time misguided characters who all have pretty normal and relatable problems, just like us. Anyway, it's quite a down-to-earth and heartwarming show sprinkled with some Japanese humour. It has new stories and characters and even a different dish

showcased every episode. My wife and I have been loving the series and we think you will too. This looks cool. Doesn't it sound awesome? Where's it on? It's on Netflix. So it started in 2009. There were three seasons.

They go over 10 episodes each and there's 2009, 2011, 2014. So they don't churn these out. And then there's Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories, which started in 2016 and there's been two seasons and another season in 2019. This sounds really interesting. It does sound great. I'm going to totally going to check this out. Thank you so much. It's got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Oh, it sounds good. Do you know what it reminds me of? We went to Tokyo when I was pregnant and we went to these like,

and I couldn't drink anything, but we went to these like tiny little bars. Do you remember? I do. Where they only fit maybe three or four people in at a time. I love Tokyo. Tokyo's fucking amazing. I thought you just looked so depressed then. It was just because we can't go anywhere.

It was because we can't go back to Tokyo right now. It was so cool, wasn't it? Oh, man, Japan in general. My God. It was awesome. What a place. I know. Also, it was for the biggest Legends wedding as well, which was like awesome.

Who, me? No. Oh. Our friend Dave. Oh, yeah, our friend Dave. Yes. Anyway. Do you reckon he's listening to this?

Possibly. Hey, Dave, you're the best. Hey, Dave, fuck you. That's just for Dave, though. Also, we never call him Dave. No, it's not his name. Anyway. Do you reckon he's listening to this? Possibly. Hey, Dave, you're the best. Hey, Dave, fuck you. That's just for Dave, though. Also, we never call him Dave. No, it's not his name. No. But just so people know, and if your name is Dave or David or any variation,

that's not for you, that's for our friend Dave. We never call Dave. We never call Dave. That was specifically for him. Anyway. Yeah. I miss that guy. Why doesn't he live in Melbourne anymore?

I don't miss him, Claire. I'm glad he's dead. He's not dead. Oh. God, you're in a real mood today. Goodness. I'm with Anthony. Sometimes you're annoying.

Anyway, Anthony says, that's all. Keep up the good banter. P.S., can I be the official police officer of the pod? Hells yeah. Oh, wait. Wrong podcast. That's the other podcast. I think we also have an official police officer of the other podcast.

We totally do. Did I read you the letter from the listener who was in a submarine? No. I forgot to read you that. What? Excuse me? Hello? Okay.

Right. I'm going to save it for next week. Oh, come on. No, it was so bloody awesome. All right. Yeah, because. Yes. Oh, my God. I forgot to read you this. All right. We'll do it next week. I've got a sizzle? All right. Yeah, because – yes. Oh, my God.

I forgot to read you this. All right. We'll do it next week. I'm going to put it in my notes. All right. It was after I finished watching my submarine mystery show. Oh, and they wrote in and were like, I don't live on a submarine. You didn't read that, right?

I don't think you did. I'd remember that. I don't think so. It's such a good email. It's so good. Let me write this in. I'm going to just put it in. Submarine email.

Put it in my notes. All right. It's so good. Cool. Anyway. Finally, something to look forward put in my notes. All right. It's so good. Cool. Anyway. Finally, something to look forward to in my dreariest shit week. Okay. What about our day out tomorrow where we can drive around in our car

and possibly go for a walk in a park? Maybe. Maybe we could bring like a picnic rug and a pillow and I'll just fall asleep in the grass somewhere. Yes. We'll do that. Is that different to the car? Depends on how wet it is.

It's raining tomorrow. It's raining tomorrow. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Maybe we can drive somewhere and sit in silence on our phones. Incredible. With some snacks. Maybe I won't go anywhere.

I'll just lock myself in the toilet. It's your favourite place. Just scroll through my YouTube comments and be like, why do I have this app? I should delete this fucking app. Why is it so terrible? Why do I do this to myself? Because, you know, it's got that thing I've shown you where it's like

it tells me how my latest video is doing. It's really mean. It's like this video sucks. It doesn't give you any advice either. For those people who don't know, if you've got a YouTube channel, it compares your newest video to the last ten videos. So it's like where it ranks. So often it will be like this video is actually performing nine

out of the last ten videos. And it's like fewer people are choosing to click on it. But it doesn't like give you any like suggestion. And if it does, wow, because my latest one, which is on The Amazing Spider-Man, it's like it's number one and it's just like this is really good. More people are enjoying this video. Okay, like great.

What am I even doing with this information? It's awful. I'm so sorry. Your life is a series of challenges. Yeah, it's just like depressing. I don't like it. I should delete it. It ruins my life. You should delete it. It ruins my life.

You should delete it then. Stupid YouTube dashboard. No, because I've got to be on top of things, I guess. I should delete it. Anyway, let's go. What am I doing? All right. Bye.

Have a good week. Bye, everybody. Would I just talk for like five minutes about a YouTube dashboard? Yes, you did. Jesus. I tuned out. Good. But, you know, I'm sure someone appreciated it.

I doubt it. Especially Collings who edits things is probably like, oh, God, I Jesus. I tuned out. Good. But, you know, I'm sure someone appreciated it. I doubt it. Especially Collings who edits these. He's probably like, oh, God, I have to keep this in. Oh, yeah, and thank you as always to all Collings for editing this week's episode. Oh, guys, we'll fill you in on our adventure out of the house tomorrow. We'll let you know. All right, goodbye. What will we do?

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