Suggestible - The M*A*S*H Effect with Nick Mason

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

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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 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. Bing and a bong, bing, bing, bing. Welcome to Suggestible, everybody.

Surprise episode of Suggestible for Mason. What does that mean? Because this is the episode of Suggestible for this week, Mason. Claire is still away and you've been ambushed to be in a podcast briefly. That's incredible. I knew something was up when you were like, let's do a movie commentary for the movie Deep Blue Sea. We are going to do that too.

That will be after this. How fast is this going to go? Which is a short thing to say. We'll be back for real next week. Me and you. I'm taking over from Claire next week for the full episode. You will not be welcome back. Claire is going to be...

We'll see about that, won't we? We'll take a vote. Claire will be back from Europe at the end of the week. And so, just to let everybody know that thank you so much for coming to all the different shows. Do you think she'll be extra European? Absolutely. Big long moustache.

Is that a European thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clogs. Penny farthing. Big jar mustache. That's exactly right. Is that a European thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Clogs. Penny farthing. Big jar of olives. She's just eating from a big jar of olives. Sure. Yeah.

All of these different things. Now, people often also, they want to know what I'm thinking of the latest episode and just like that much. Oh, yes. I would love to hear your thoughts. I just, I don't know, man. I've heard nothing but bad things. I heard mostly bad things about season one.

Yep. And I've definitely heard nothing but bad things about season two. Well, you have heard the correct things, Mason. I've heard Shea Diaz's just incredible stand-up set. Oh, my God, yeah. Well, look, it's not a fault of the actor. I mean, maybe it is. Sure, maybe they wrote it.

They don't write proper stand-up. I played a clip a couple of weeks back. It's dreadful. I took an Uber from my kitchen in my bedroom or whatever. Because I'm so lazy or whatever. And it was expensive. Yeah, that's right. And boy, that is fun. What a fun observation.

I mean, that suggests that the rest of... Because they say in stand-up, start with your second best joke and end with your best joke. So I cannot imagine what the rest of the set was like. But just a really enthusiastic crowd. Have you mixed it up? Maybe all the good stuff is like reversing it, flipping it.

Unexpected. Okay, so second worst joke to start off with worst joke at the end. Yeah. Intriguing. They've also replaced Samantha with somebody who's just like, you know, a little bit older and doing sexy stuff. Oh, there's a new fourth member of the sexy – There's like five or –

Of the SATC crew. No, it feels like they're trialling like three or four at a time. Oh, for Backdoor Pilots. Yeah. Or just to be like permanent members. Wow. And I don't even – You know, they call Charlotte the Backdoor Pilot.

Why is that? I don't know. Was it a particular episode you were referring to? Yeah. Anyway. I know the one. Yeah. I've seen them all.

Yes. But, yeah, so they're all fine like in themselves, but they're clearly looking to like. And that's what you want. You want to watch a TV show with a cast that's fine. Yeah. So you're still watching this show though. Still watching it.

You're going to watch it until the end. You know how limited my time is and I'm still watching it. Now this isn't, now Kim Cattrall isn't on it yet. Yet. She's in the last episode, right? Yeah. We all know that. That's what they're leading up to.

Well, because they didn't, because my reasoning is that they wanted to tell everybody up top that kim cattrall is returning but don't expect anything above like her filming her scene that's 100 miles away from everybody else yeah on a phone call with nobody she's in the oppenheimer uh nuclear bunker exactly yeah but uh it's yeah so they've replaced kind of samantha with a woman who gets up to like similar hijinks exactly is that a tote your toady dancer impression i think so yeah he's in he's in the show actually what yeah toady dancers in it wow yeah angela yeah i just had a that reference is so specific I just had a tickle in my brain. I'm like, well, I should say it.

But they should have gone with the mash effect. Are you familiar with this? Yes, of course I'm familiar with the mash effect. So the mash effect, for those people who don't know, is when you take an existing character and then you- You remove them. You remove- You cancel them.

And you replace them with somebody who's like the polar opposite. And whereas this person is just- It's different. It's the spooks effect, James. It's the spooks effect, exactly. Well, they take a character and they replace them with the exact same character. Yeah. Nobody noticed.

Not exactly the same. Because I like the character of Seema and it's like an interesting perspective and all that. And, you know, it's a different kind of lifestyle and all those kinds of things. But the kind of the sexy stuff is like, this is the stuff you would have given to Samantha. Oh, hell yeah. You know what I mean? And I just, I'm just not feeling it, Mason, you know, but I am watching it and we're talking about it and that's media.

That's right. Yeah. I want somebody to be given some stuff to Samantha. Exactly. Yeah. My goodness. So, uh, any final thoughts on this episode of Suggestible, Mason? Did you have a good time?

I had a great time. I mean, it was an ambush and I feel betrayed. But after you got over the initial shock of the ambush, how do you feel it? Loving it. Great. That's really good. So, yeah, we'll be back next week.

Not Mason, just to be clear. This was his test and obviously he didn't do very well. But why don't you listen to me on the Weekly Planet podcast? Well, that's right. We've got a big episode this week because we're doing Oppenheimer and Barbie. That's right. Yeah.

One for the gals and one is Barbie. I did it again. I twisted it. I turned it around. I don't know how you keep that joke fresh. Well, I don't. That's the twist. You just have a bad memory.

I do the same joke every time and you just don't remember. All right. We do actually have to do a commentary for the movie Deep Blue Sea, which will be out in a few weeks. But, yeah, thank you, everybody, for your patience because I can understand, like me, you're probably frustrated that Claire is not appearing in this show. That's right.

It's because every week I go to record. Yeah. And there's nobody I can ambush. That's true. Except for this week, obviously. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what the one good thing about Claire being away is? Well, two things.

No Claire. No Claire. Well, three things. I get kudos for no reason. Just people being like, you're doing a great job. You're so brave. I'm so brave. Look at me.

Dad of the year. Yeah. And look, that's true. I am brave. You've kept your kids alive for nearly a month without your own mum being here, your mum Claire. And the other one is that the bath mat is bone dry. Claire goes into the bathroom, just leaves with a sopping wet bath mat. Wow.

And it upsets me. Because she brings it in the shower. I assume that she does. So it's just been an incredible time for not changing the bath mat, not having to dry it out. If there's one thing I've realized that I'm really good at is just bath mat etiquette. I might be one of the best.

Yeah. If there was an Olympics or a Commonwealth Games, Mason, for example, which is cancelled in Australia, unfortunately, because otherwise I could have done my bath mat, dry bath mat sport. I'd win 100% of the time. Yeah. James is here and his bath mat's still dry. It's been 17 hours.

Still so dry. He's had a shower too. It's dry. All right. Thanks, everyone. What's your sign off on this show? Get lost. Smell you later, nerds. It's hockey season and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well,

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