Suggestible - Steve in the City

Episode Date: July 13, 2023

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We can wait for clean water solutions, or we can engineer access to clean water. We can acknowledge indigenous cultures, or we can learn from indigenous voices. We can demand more from the earth, or we can demand more from ourselves. At York University, we work together to create positive change for a better tomorrow. Join us at yorku.ca slash write the future. But before we do that, we've got to do our recaps of it just like that. This week, we're up to episode four. And let me tell you, bit of a dull episode. I would have loved to come in hot like I have the previous weeks and been like, bam, here's some cutting insights.

Ooh, I think this character sucks for these reasons. But not this week, because the bad stuff I forgot and the good stuff I wrote down. So let's do the good stuff. First of all, as I suspected, Steve is back. David Eigenberg's Steve. He has returned as a bitter divorcee. But what might surprise you about the character of Steve and the actor David Eigenberg is that he's in incredible shape.

In the episode, we hear like a thumping noise, like a ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba kind of situation. And the door opens, and it's Steve there. And he's doing some boxing. He's doing some speed bagging and he's shirtless. And let me tell you for a man who is 57 ish, excellent work on keeping it up. We could all be so lucky as to look like this or to be married to somebody who looks like this. Am I right? Everybody. What I do like is that they seem to be slowly kind of unpacking

the relationship that he has with Miranda. Cause remember she's like, ah, I don't love you, Steve. You're not sexy enough. I'm going to go with Shane. I'm going to live in LA and live a Hollywood lifestyle. Typical, you know, bloody ruining everything, bloody Hollywood. Am I right? So that's good. I'm glad they're coming back around to that. Because I feel like Steve has some things to say, you know? I hope the writers actually write some lines, which he'll end up saying in the show that's like relevant to his situation. I think that would be like a clever bit of storytelling right there. And my second note is just that Billy Dee Williams was in this episode, who if you don't know, is the actor who plays Lando Calrissian. Comes in a room,

he's all cool. He's like, hey, I'm cool. And he was cool. He's 900 years old, but he's so cool. No other notes. Pretty boring. What a boring show. I wish this episode was more fun to talk about, but lo and behold, it is not. Now, Claire will be back at the end of next week, eight days after this goes out, which is very exciting for me. I'll tell you that much. I found that parenting by myself for an extended period of time is, some would even say, 50% more difficult. But I got to say, there's been a lot of people in the community that have helped me, which I appreciate. Friends and family and whatnot checking in on me. I actually had this idea, but I feel like I don't have the energy to commit to this.

But the idea is that every day at school pickup when I turn up, between now and when Claire gets back, I appear slightly more and more disheveled so that like the concern for me and my family grows. So on the first day, it might be like, oh, my shoe's untied. Next day, it's like, oh, I've done my buttons up wrong, you know? And then by day like nine or 10, I rock up like completely barefoot or one barefoot in a sock and my hair's all askew and ratty. And I got a bit of cheese stuck to the side of my face. And look, the thing about that is it is obviously more effort than

just living normally and being clean and normal. But at the same time, I feel like, God, I wish I had the guts to pull that off. But I know what the outcome would be. One, people would be genuinely concerned, as they would have the right to be, and child protective services would be called. Or two, they would realize that I was doing this thing as a joke and then be like, why are you doing this? And I wouldn't really have a good answer to that, would I? I just have to say, I don't know. This is what I'm like, I guess.

I wish I was so brave as to pull off a stunt like that. I know that Tom Cruise would be. Oh man, I saw that new Mission Impossible. I tell you what, we're going to be talking about that this week at a weekly planet podcast, my more successful podcast. It's probably even more, more successful. Seeing as this podcast has become even more less successful when 50% of the people in it are no longer in it for these few weeks.

But unfortunately, I have to do one more of these next week, you know, because Claire won't be back in time. But hey, for people who love a man going insane slowly and talking to himself, that's probably ideal for you, you know. Anyways, there's two shows left that Claire are doing, public shows. She's doing like some like conferences and whatever, which you can't go to, I don't think. So on July 13th, which is when this is out,

there's one in Petersfield in Hampshire at the Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. That's at 7.30 p.m. Then there's one on July 16th, which is an intimate afternoon about matrescence, which is becoming a mother and maternal well-being with author Lucy Jones and singer-songwriter Claire Tonti. She's the other half of this podcast. That's in Bassingstoke at Willow's Coffeehouse at 3 p.m. A nice, That's in Bassingstoke at Willow's Coffeehouse at 3 p.m. A nice, lovely afternoon if you are interested in some wonderful pop folk music. And Lucy Jones is just a fantastic writer. If you are interested, just head over to claretonte.com slash events.

Thank you to everybody who has been attending her shows. The feedback has just been incredible. So, oh, sorry, there's a dog in here. The feedback has just been really incredible. So I appreciate all those people who are going out of their ways to go and then go up and say such kind of things. Because you don't have to do that. You could just be like, that sucks.

I'm going to sneak out the back door. But people don't. They come up and they say, hey, good thing that you did. And that's cool. Anyways, I'll be back next week. But also, of course, other podcasts and whatever. Right now I got to go, I don't know, do something. I think I'm going to watch Secret Invasion.

You know, that kind of okay Marvel show that's on at the moment about everybody's a secret Skrull or whatever. I'm really into it, as you can probably tell. So I can't wait to see who is or isn't an alien. You know, that's, oh, it's okay. You can watch Secret Invasion with me. You might've heard that. The dog was concerned, which is weird because I thought

she had the same kind of apathy for Secret Invasion than I have. But you never know what dogs are going to like. They're different than people. They're different. All right. See you next week.