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Feel the festival fever, while taking a nostalgic trip back to our virtual Glastonbury 2024. Picture our dining room transformed into a mini-festival, with highlights like Jessie Ware, Kasabian, Paloma Faith, and Dua Lipa lighting up our screens. Not all acts hit the high notes though, as we share our disappointment in performances by Shania Twain and others. Get ready for a rollercoaster of festival emotions, from standout shows to unforgettable flops.
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little did you know, but I was in germany for the euro semi-finals.
Speaker 2:No, way in game yeah, in germany, that one quiet yeah and uh.
Speaker 1:I was there waiting for the just before the game. I saw this guy walking around with a long pole Strange.
Speaker 2:Really strange.
Speaker 1:So I asked him are you a pole voter? He said nein, I am the German. But tell me, how did you know? My name is Walter, episode 9.
Speaker 2:I didn't go to Germany, unfortunately as soon as you said you went to Germany, I thought this is episode 9. He's going to do a 9 joke, isn't he? I actually, usually I fall for that hook line and sinker, but I mean, there was a split second. I was like, oh nice, you went to germany for the euro semi and I was like they didn't go to euros for the semi-finals. It's got work.
Speaker 1:There's no way I don't know what would you do. So, yeah, tickets to the semifinals, uh-huh. What would you do? Because basically, people could sell their tickets for 16 000 pounds. Wow, would you still go, or would you stick it on ebay for 16 000 pounds?
Speaker 2:no, I don't think it is, because think of the think of the cinema room you could set up for 16 000 pounds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, think of the, the number of games you can watch in the room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly no sick.
Speaker 1:That's ridiculous you probably wouldn't have one ticket. You wouldn't really go on your own. You'd have at least two tickets probably.
Speaker 2:You have a pair of tickets that's 32k. Yeah, I mean absolutely, I would have sold those and yeah, and not even felt bad about it, I'd have sold those and cheered for flipping Holland if that was part of the deal. Come on, holland, I got my 32 grand. F*** you England, yay, anyways. Episode nine Episode nine. Episode nine Episode nine.
Speaker 1:Episode nine it's first to first time. Yay, yay, let's open the first list.
Speaker 2:What have you got this week? Here we go.
Speaker 1:Vault City and it's a blueberry muffin, waffle cone crunch, triple scoop, modern sour beer.
Speaker 2:That sounds bloody horrendous. You don't mix desserts. Sour beer that sounds bloody horrendous. You don't mix desserts and beer.
Speaker 1:You don't try and be like it's not an ice cream flavour it's a beer. It's not ice cream flavoured Crunch.
Speaker 2:Beer should not have a crunch.
Speaker 1:It's a blueberry muffin, something or other.
Speaker 2:That's going to be awful Also the listeners can't see it.
Speaker 1:It's 8.3%.
Speaker 2:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1:Which is, from my standards, is quite a low, but our favourite flavours of ice cream are the inspiration for our new dessert Sours.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sorry your inspiration's flawed, because who wants ice cream and beer to be mixed together like in america, I do.
Speaker 2:I do enjoy ice cream float, but I wouldn't dump an ice cream in a beer apparently in america, in boston, you can get I heard about this this week you can get guinness floats. Um, guinness floats, so they put ice cream into the Guinness. I'm like, okay, that doesn't sound awful. But a blueberry muffin, waffle, cone crunch, 8.3% beer, it will scoop. I'm just not sure, wiles. But you know, you're the one with the can in the hand, you're the one with the drink about to be drunk.
Speaker 1:I imagine it's going to be blue in colour right. Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's red, oh, it's more purple. Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1:It's very Well yeah.
Speaker 2:It definitely contains blueberries, doesn't it? You can see by the colour.
Speaker 1:It definitely contains blueberries, it's not. It's not a Guinness, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:It doesn't look nice.
Speaker 1:Here we go. Let's see I'm diving in Cheers.
Speaker 2:Cheers.
Speaker 1:Before I even get there, it's a very strong smell. Oh.
Speaker 2:That's what you want to see when you drink a beer. Oh, it looks like he's just got one of Logan's nappies.
Speaker 1:No, it's a nice smell. Look at your's nappies. No, it's a nice smell.
Speaker 2:Look at your face, know if it's a nice smell a right blueberry smell so what's the verdict on the taste? And it's oh, oh. His eye just turned in. Ladies and gentlemen, his eye just turned in. I mean, I'll still drink it because I don't waste booze, but I can't. I'm honestly shocked. Oh, his eye just turned in.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, His eye just turned in. I mean I mean I'll still drink it because I don't waste booze.
Speaker 2:But I can't. I'm honestly shocked. A blueberry waffle cone, double crunch, 8.3% beer is wrong. Whoa, who'd have thought it?
Speaker 1:It's too. It hits the sides of your mouth. You know where it hits the sides of your mouth? Uh-huh, the cheeks. It's too sweet, it's too sweet.
Speaker 2:It's a terrible idea. I hope you didn't buy this. I hope this was a gifted beer. Did you actually buy this from the shop? I can't remember. You can't remember it's yeah, it was never going to go well, was it? Let's be honest.
Speaker 1:No, I'll drink it At a no. Uh, I'll drink it um at a protest.
Speaker 2:I apologize for the audio quality when my face goes inside out. As I'm talking, his eye literally turned into the middle of his face.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's like a shot, it's like a really sour. I mean it did say on the tins sour, so it did give me a trigger warning. But the name should have given you a trigger warning the ingredients and the, the inspiration that the people talk to on the can should have given you a trigger warning.
Speaker 2:The ingredients and the inspiration that the people talk to on the can should have given you a trigger warning who buys that and drinks that and thinks that's delicious. How do they make money when they produce this crap?
Speaker 1:People like me, mr Oshkiss, people like me that like a pretty can and go ooh colours, ooh ice cream. I like ice cream. I like beer. I know from experience I don't like ice cream and beer together, but I still bought it okay, well, more for you, williams there might be a, might be a grower. So we'll see, we shall see okay, okay shall we grab our tackles, mr Hushkiss?
Speaker 2:I think it sounds like a. I don't want to grab a blueberry pint of beer, so let's grab the tackle.
Speaker 1:Yes, Grab a tackle to the fish pond of feedback. Whey, whey, whey, whey Whey New listeners in Waltham Forest. I don't know where that is, but Van Buren, arkansas.
Speaker 2:Nice Kup Cooper in Fife, oh, scotland, nice, chingford.
Speaker 1:That's Wolfen Forest yeah.
Speaker 2:Is it Okay, very nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chingford. Yes, two lessons, wolfen Forest, gosh. And what else have we got? Littleton In Colorado, america still loves us and Riyadh, no Riyadh. Who else have we got? Littleton in Colorado, america still loves us and Riyadh, no Riyadh. Riyadh region yeah.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow, no new listeners in Africa, though still.
Speaker 2:Still no Africans listening to our podcast.
Speaker 1:We do have international listeners, so thank you very much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thanks for tuning in guys international listeners.
Speaker 1:So thank you very much. Yeah, thanks for tuning in, guys, please, yeah, please send in your jokes via either text message or email, first little names at outlookcom or insta. Or anonymous listener sent in um. What do you call a moose with no name?
Speaker 2:I don't know well, what do you call a moose with no name?
Speaker 1:anonymous anonymous.
Speaker 2:That's a good one, and it was an anonymous person who sent that, yeah anonymous, anonymous person.
Speaker 1:Um, this, this thing, this, this, this has blown my mind. Mr hodgkins, you might have known this already, but this has blown my mind, hit me and it says after 30 odd years, but 40 years for myself, I've just realized it's a me. A mario is japanese for super mario and not it's me mario no, that can't be true.
Speaker 2:No, I want to fact check that volumes. Where did you hear that from?
Speaker 1:okay, I've not fact checked it. I've not fact checked it it's a me, mario it's a me, a mario for super mario. We are going to fact check you listeners. It could be the spreading false fake news. Who knows?
Speaker 2:It's-a-me Mario. Yeah, okay, so there's a Reddit thing about it. It's-a-me.
Speaker 1:Mario.
Speaker 2:Okay, so rather than saying It's-a-me Mario, Nintendo character Super Mario says It's-a-me Mario, which means Super Mario in Japanese. Wow.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go. Listeners. Character Super Mario says Itsumi Mario, which means Super Mario in Japanese.
Speaker 2:Wow, that is actually mind blowing.
Speaker 1:We should just stop the podcast now how many years have you gone in your Italian accent in your head whilst playing Super Mario?
Speaker 2:it's a me, any more feedback. Williams Walliams.
Speaker 1:No, the listeners have been quiet. The listeners have been quiet this week. Yeah, please send stuff in.
Speaker 2:There's a lot going on, isn't there, with sports and everything that we just talked about. So you know it's understandable.
Speaker 1:Send your voice notes in or whatever.
Speaker 2:Well, you know where I've got a first look, Walliams, if we're happy to jump into that that could explain why people haven't been sending us in messages.
Speaker 1:Maybe Jump in, jump in.
Speaker 2:First look. It's a repeat of last year's first look, although last year's first look was a look at Glastonbury 2023. This one is a look at Glastonbury 2024,.
Speaker 1:Walliams, oh, it's not a second look, it's a first look at 2024.
Speaker 2:It's a first look at 2024. It's a first look at 2024. We are gonna do so just to give a bit of context. Glastonbury will be assuming we're still doing this podcast will probably become a regular feature because it's something we enjoy doing now. This year we were planning to have a glastonbelly festival in our house. We've uh, we had turned our house into a summer. We turned our sorry, our dining room into a summer entertainment room. So we have english bunting up, we have nice flags and we have a big projector screen and speakers, and the plan was to have a festival with some of my wife's work friends coming around to enjoy it. However, the wife got covid again, um, so we were meant to be going For the sixth time Something ridiculous like that.
Speaker 2:So we were meant to be going to see Take that we had Golden Circle tickets to go and see. Take that which I was very much looking forward to. We were going to have a nice date and we couldn't go to that because the wife got COVID and we thought no no, there's no kind of obligation to not go into public places, but you still feel a bit like you don't really want to go and cough on anybody else you never know who there might be, but she didn't feel very well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we missed take that. And then we had to also miss our glastonbelly party so we couldn't have a party. So instead we just got drunk and did it ourselves. So we we always enjoy watching glastonbury for for the, obviously, the bands we know, but also for the random stuff you see.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to talk about the, the good, the bad and the ugly of glastonbury this year okay, I don't know if you watch it no, I caught snippets, but no, I don't know what's going on, but I didn't really catch much of it this year.
Speaker 2:Well, there was a lot of chatter before Glastonbury this year that it wasn't a very good lineup, but I actually think it did all right. From the acts that we saw, I was quite impressed. Now, it could have been because I was drunk, but I really enjoyed the whole thing.
Speaker 2:So we'll start with a good. So yeah, I in order of my favorites walliams. I really enjoyed jesse ware. I thought she was very good. Um, kasabian did a secret set. That was very good. Um, yeah, I quite enjoyed paloma faith, like she's nutty as a fruitcake, but I like paloma. Yeah, I quite like her as well. And then the one that really impressed me was Dua Lipa.
Speaker 1:She did a CBeebies bedtime story from Glastonbury.
Speaker 2:I didn't see that one. Yeah, but I'm not surprised she's that kind of yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, from Glastonbury. She did a CBeebies story and she had what they called the classic Madonna cones. Okay, very appropriate, is that CBee called the the classic madonna cones? Okay, is that cbb's family.
Speaker 2:but there you go, kids aren't looking at those, are they the dads? Probably are the dad's probably looking and yeah, yeah, bedtime story just improved for them. Um, speaking of madonna cones and dads dua lipaua Lipa. So she was very good. She did a lot of outfit changes.
Speaker 1:I like Dua Lipa.
Speaker 2:She has good pop songs. So we enjoyed Dua Lipa and then, I think, the favourite, the one they enjoyed the most, was the Sugar Babes, which Sugar Babes, was it?
Speaker 1:So this is the original line-up of Sugar Babes. The original three but is it the original three? Because wasn't the original one disappeared very early, didn't they?
Speaker 2:Yes, no, it's her again. She's back.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and she can sing quite well. So they did it a couple of years ago and they put them on the second stage or park stage or something and they drew too big of a crowd. So this year you'd have thought they'd have learned from that and put them on the pyramid stage, but they didn't. They put them on another stage and they drew too many people as well, so they had to stop people going in.
Speaker 1:So hopefully next year they'll get to the pyramid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was. It was really good.
Speaker 1:So there were some good ones, but there was also some bad ones, williams.
Speaker 2:So shania twain wasn't very good, was she not? We didn't watch the whole thing, but she was the headline. She was the sunday, she was what they call the legend, um, but she did the legend slot, but oh no she doesn't actually have that many songs that we all know and she's yeah, she wasn't that great she's kept in great shape. Um, james, who were a band I quite like they. They disappointed me. They didn't do many of their big hits. They did a load of other random stuff and there's someone that I heard.
Speaker 1:That was really bad. I can't remember their names, but you'll probably mention them in a bit.
Speaker 2:I'll let you know it was dex's midnight runners were pretty bad. They were like just well past it as a female.
Speaker 1:You know 70 roads in the Loper yeah, was it so Cindy Lauper was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, cindy Lauper wasn't great, but I don't know she was. It looked like she was at a sink or something. So in every unit it looked like she was but the music was slightly delayed, so she was kind of singing just ever so slightly off, like there was a just a slight delay.
Speaker 2:So it was a bit odd, but, you know, fair play to her, she had great hair. And then SZA, who was like the headliner on the Sunday night. We tried to watch for a bit and it was just like I't know any of this. I'm too old, like you know. Clearly talented woman, but just wasn't for us. Um, and then the ugly, which was probably my favorite thing to watch was a band called high long high long high long is it like a german eurovision type thing?
Speaker 2:so I want to talk about high lung. Um, should I have heard of them? Nope, uh, they are. They are amplified history neo-folk, denmark, germany. So that's the genre that's yeah, whatever the hell that is. So I'm going to read you. I'm going to read you about high lung because so when we? When we Heilung it was like a group of Vikings on stage, Some men, some women. The women were all topless, covered in kind of blood and guts. There was a woman at the front with antlers.
Speaker 2:It was like Eurovision, but kind of Eurovision of nightmares. There was no happiness, it was just dark. And all these people jumping around going drums like, look at my boobies bouncing down, I don't do them I presume this wasn't a main stage, was it?
Speaker 1:it was yeah it was a main stage the third main stage on the friday night.
Speaker 2:Um, so I'm going to read you about high lung. They have a new album called seasons of mist first look at high lung so. Since its inception in 2015, the enigmatic ritual collective, like an enigmatic ritual collective, high lung has been paving melodic paths to the past with their unique and mystifying sound, evading all conventional genre tags and the confines of any specific labels. The label I'd give them was it.
Speaker 2:The group aptly self-describes their sound as amplified history I don't know what kind of history, but um, yeah, it was um if you go to season hyphen of hyphen, misscom, forward slash bands, forward slash, high lung, um, you can have a look at them. So I don't know, if I don't know if this will if I play it. No, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna give a screenshot to williams and let's see what his reaction is, because I can't play it because of the way my headphones are set up. But this is high lung there we go so what?
Speaker 2:yeah, so this is a band. This is like so she's actually topless, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't just joking, like she's just, and, but she doesn't look very well it's like some human kind of sacrifice or something. I think. Has she got covid?
Speaker 1:she might have covid probably got it off my wife but like she's not the only person, is he looking down? What is he wearing?
Speaker 2:yeah, she, she wears another one. Oh, here's a. I said you another one here. This is, I mean, you see this this is not um.
Speaker 1:It's not normal, is it?
Speaker 2:I don't, no, but you know they've got an audience. Wow, you can't. You know.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay. I'd be worried they'd make a sacrifice on stage.
Speaker 2:That's what I've just sent you. It looks like they are doing a sacrifice on stage. It's very weird. Wow, high lung.
Speaker 1:And that's a popular genre these days. Is it what High Lung? And that's a popular genre these days.
Speaker 2:Is it what sacrifice? Sacrificial genre.
Speaker 1:Well, no, because the latest, not to keep saying Eurovision, but on the last Eurovision there was a lot of this sort of stuff, wasn't there?
Speaker 2:Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do, walliams, I'm going to press play on this YouTube video and you won't be able to hear it, but I'll sing along to it so you can try and try, and give you an idea of what this is high lung trouse live leave for lunch wrong okay.
Speaker 1:Performed by mr craig hotchkiss no, I couldn't hear myself singing beautiful.
Speaker 2:I'm interested to see how I'll listen back to see how that came along. Um, that's basically what. That's what.
Speaker 1:Hard on god, so yeah okay, well, um, I'll look for them on um amazon music, or you should you should, and there was.
Speaker 2:obviously there's a few randoms that we saw as well. So we watched a band band called Seventeen, who were a K-pop band. So that was interesting K-pop, yeah, yeah, that was interesting. And then our favourite were the Mary Wallopers, who were an Irish band.
Speaker 1:The Mary Wallopers what a name.
Speaker 2:The Mary Wallopers and they were good fun. They were an Irish band and they were just singing songs about random stuff, the virus jig. A bit of virus jig. So you've got to love a bit of Glastonbury. You've got to love the randomness of Shania Twain and Cyndi Lauper mixed with High Lung and the Mary Wallopers, whilst Coldplay are performing to 100,000 people at the same time. You've got to love the whole thing. But yeah, it wasn't quite as good as we expected, because we had to cancel our party and we'd mistake that which was annoying, but yeah, we're gonna do, let's make it better now
Speaker 2:so that's good I seem to have avoided it. So that's good.
Speaker 1:Raiden seems to have avoided it too so good oh good so that was my first after five times you know, I reckon that's exactly it.
Speaker 2:I reckon I've had it. So I'm like I'll probably just get it now and just not even realise. I was like, yeah, I'll do it OK. But, yes, that was Glastonbury 2024. Well worth going and checking back on the iPlayer. I think you might even be able to watch High Lung on the iPlayer. Maybe not, I don't know, but if you can.
Speaker 1:High, lung High.
Speaker 2:Lung.
Speaker 1:The blueberry muffin waffle cone crunch. Trouble scoop is warming on me, by the way.
Speaker 2:Is that because it's 8.3%? Maybe it's literally warming on you.
Speaker 1:It makes you really thirsty. The more you drink, the more thirsty you get.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Your mouth just goes really dry. Got probably a high salt content, maybe Probably so. What about you, Wiles? What's your first look First looks.
Speaker 1:So I've got a first look. Well, multiple first looks. So my first looks are exciting and amazing, but also terrifying and struggles as a parent of that stage of your little baby is no longer a baby. Aww, so little baby Logan. This week he's built a tower on his own. Very good.
Speaker 1:Balancing blocks and a tower. He's walking up steps like a grown-up wow, holding a hand which is way ahead of schedule. He's pointing at things. He's giggling and laughing at things. He's choosing his favorite julia donaldson magic night film on the tv by pressing the screen, thinking, thinking it's touchscreen. He's pointing out animals and books. He's saying animal, he knows what they are Duck, especially ducks. Ducks are favourite. Yeah, it's all kicking off, craig, it's all kicking off. Too many development points are happening. He's grown up too quick and I don't like it craig that's making me feel uncomfortable where's my little baby gone?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh it's, it's nice though it's I mean yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 1:It's amazing. One chapter is the start of the next yeah, it's nice in development, it's nice seeing all these new things. So it's uh, um, yeah, you, you gotta live in the good, live in the present only so you just gotta live in the present and sort of enjoyed the first stages and, um, it's really exciting these next, next stages coming up, but, um, when you see someone able to do something that they didn't do before, yeah so just balancing a block on top of a block.
Speaker 1:You know, if you did that I'd be like well done, greg, well done, but you know, for a little baby. So that's that amazing, that's like wow everything gets celebrated, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah. So it's um, yeah, it's all, it's all kicking off and uh, yeah, lots of first ducks, which are? You know there's gonna be more first ducks. They're happening like every single day at the moment you raise a good point there.
Speaker 2:You know that. Well, when do we stop celebrating everyone being great at everything?
Speaker 1:it's just you slow down, don't you?
Speaker 2:yeah, I suppose we stop doing.
Speaker 1:There's loads of new stuff that we probably could do, but we slow down, we just don't do them. Well, that's true. So I'm sure if I jumped out of a spaceship, yeah you'd be like well done, mate, that's very impressive. I probably would actually right, yeah.
Speaker 2:Congratulations well done, congratulations yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I haven't. I'm doing the same things. I'm drinking a beer. You're like, well done, I'm just drinking a beer again well, I'd maybe celebrate you well done, that's the first. Yeah, well done. It's not quite impressive, is it?
Speaker 2:but no, that's true, that's true. And when, when, yeah, when, when a baby does something, when you clap, they grin. When you drink your blueberry beer and you grimace, it's different. So how are you but like you're enjoying it as much as it making you feel like, oh, he's growing up too quick. Are you in? You enjoying the whole watching all these milestones?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'm very lucky. So I get to work from, uh, from the bottom of the garden and um, yeah, so I get to see him quite a bit, you know, and I have my pee breaks and you know I'm home how old is he 18 months man alive crazy months.
Speaker 1:So, um, yeah, so when you see rex you'll be getting on towards two. Yeah, so uh, yeah, he's. Yeah, he's a little lad now. Yeah, so uh, but, um, yeah, it's nuts and he's really into julie donaldson shows. Yeah, and obviously, obviously the books, because that's where it started from. What's?
Speaker 2:his favorite stick man stick man, yeah, stick man is a classic.
Speaker 1:Stickman yeah, We've watched it 30, 40 times now.
Speaker 2:Wow yeah.
Speaker 1:We've read it about 100 times. Georgie on the last trip we did up to see her mum, we basically recited Stickman without referring to the book.
Speaker 2:Okay, just know it that well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, know the words. Georgie's read it more than I have. So, yeah, she just went through and read it more or less word for word.
Speaker 2:You know what, as well, though they get logged in there. So Brayden's now coming up to nine so he doesn't read the Julie Donaldson ones anymore, but like they are still lodged in there from bedtimes. Like you know, a mouse took a stroll through the deep, dark woods. The mouse saw a nut and the nut looked good.
Speaker 1:Like they just get stuck in there like, yeah they are good, though, but um Graffalo, that's up there, gruffalo's Child, smed's and the Smoothes nice yeah, they're the main ones do you remember you bought Braden a Gruffalo outfit when he was? For the Gruffalo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, long time ago it is a long time ago now. Yeah, now your kids going through it yeah, yeah, strange, very strange.
Speaker 1:I'd have to order him one loads of first looks, loads of first looks, loads of first looks, um, but um yeah, and we're looking forward to the next judah donaldson film that's coming out in christmas what's it gonna be this year? We don't know.
Speaker 2:We don't know, we're hoping for tiddler oh yes I hope for tiddler, tiddler the fish the one that the christmas just gone one, the one with the one that the Christmas Just Gone one, the one with the cat, that was. That was got me right in the feels. That did, yeah, got me in the feels that one did.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's another first look. Ah, ah, get you in the feels get you in the feels. Logan's first singing, singing meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Ah, that gets you in the feels oh, my little boys have run on.
Speaker 2:Oh, that gets you in the feels. Oh, ralph, my little boys have run on you so much.
Speaker 1:Toilet listeners have not watched or read the book, but it's a cat that sings in his busker. But yeah, watch it, Look for it.
Speaker 2:It's Get you in the feels it will Get you in the feels. It't get you in the feels.
Speaker 1:it will get you in the feels it'll get you in the feels oh, that's my first look multiple first looks, yeah, so uh, plenty there to come. But um, well, also you're a man of experience.
Speaker 2:But um, yeah, it's first looks constantly, ever probably well, that segues nicely into the next first look that I've got volumes, which is a look about the boy, so as, as you say, you get all these first look experiences with children, we had one recently and don't think I talked about this on a podcast previously, but I might of but we had to do you get, you get there.
Speaker 1:This is what happens does it need a trigger warning?
Speaker 2:no, no, no, there's no trigger warning.
Speaker 1:One of the feedbacks was I wish there's trigger warning for the uh, the russell segment.
Speaker 2:Sorry about that, guys. Now this one does not need a trigger warning. This one is when your kid comes home and his eyes are lit up because he's the teacher has suggested that something. Some, they do something and he wants to. He, he wants to, he's enthused, he's activated. He wants to do something and you're like, oh okay, how can we say no to him. Look how excited he is. So we recently ended up presenting at our kids' culture day.
Speaker 1:You presented yourselves.
Speaker 2:No, so what happened was got. So my son goes to a school where there's lots of people from lots of different cultures yeah, so to celebrate cultures, they had an evening, so they invite people to do a stall and on that stall you bring things from your culture and you present. And then the school was for everyone.
Speaker 1:From the school comes and they walk around and taste all the food and bring in lovely well that.
Speaker 2:That's it so braden came home he's like I want to do a stall for culture day and I was like, okay, so what? What do you mean? I said, like your mom I'm english, your mom's irish. Like I think this means more for kind of like the italians and the french people and the chinese people at school. No, I want to do it. Well, what do you want to do? He says we'll do the black country. So we ended up doing a culture day stall, all about for our american listeners to define the back country so the black country is.
Speaker 2:It's for, it's for tarrant, or four areas in the west midlands, um in in near birmingham. So think of it for american listeners, if you think of peaky blinders, just to the northwest of where peaky blinders is set, is a black country it consists of. Now I should know this as we just did the bloody presentations it's Wolverhampton, wolverhampton, dudley, wentzfield, and you know what?
Speaker 2:that's really embarrassing and Cotswold no, cotswold's a village in the Black Country, black. How can I not remember this? I should have prepared this. I should have Black Country tunes the Black Country tunes Wolverhampton, dudley, sedgley. Yeah, I tunes. The black country tunes, uh, wolverhampton, dudley, sedgley. Um, yeah, I still can't. What areas make?
Speaker 2:up that country dudley, sanwell, warsaw and wolverhampton, mug there we go. So the black country is called the black country because, uh, it was famous for its coal mines and there was so much kind of dust and soot and smog in the air that it was everyone it was black. So it's not, it's not a racial thing, it's just to do with the industry and of the area. So we did a presentation or a stall I'm sure there were, um, so we did a. We did a stall where we had like a timeline of history of the black country. We had we bought a big black country flag which has got seven links of chains on it. We had chain making because obviously in the 17th century there was a lot of chain making going on. So we had kids make chains um, brave and dressed up as a minor with a pickaxe, um, and there was a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Yeah that's it. Yeah, very good. Um, and we had like people, like famous people from the black country.
Speaker 2:So for our listeners who don't know, there are some actual like famous people from the black country, we had some famous people attend no, we we did like we printed out pictures and we had like a like a screen playing kind of youtube clips of some of the famous people, yeah, like, so like the lead singer, led zeppelin, robert, we printed out pictures and we had a screen playing YouTube clips of some of the famous people, so the lead singer, led Zeppelin, robert Plant and Beverly Knight and Slade and some of the music that's come from the area. So it was very good, but a lot of hard work.
Speaker 1:That must feel really good because obviously Braden lived in England and he's been there, but he's very much northern ireland now oh yeah so it must be really nice and from to you know link to that heritage?
Speaker 2:oh, absolutely yeah well, my mom brought a load of pic like family pictures of like old like her kind of grandparents and stuff, um, who would have obviously, you know, have all been born and raised in the black country. So it was nice for him to look at those old pictures and then we put those on the tabletop so we had people coming looking at these blinders they were.
Speaker 2:I don't believe so. I don't believe so, but they all had the, they all had the flat caps and stuff, so and they all would have sparklogged this might. So it was, it was really good fun. It was, um, I mean, I said it was really good fun. It was hot, bloody hard work. Yeah, because there's a lot of people like really nice for the kids what's the black country? And then you had to explain it to them and stuff.
Speaker 2:So brayden, brayden's concentration, he was just like all over the show so uh, my mom and dad came down so they ended up talking to some random people about the black country. Oh nice, leslie and I talking to strangers about the black country. Yeah, it was fun. So as Logan gets older, he will come home with a look in his eye and he'll be like what's he need? Usually it's a project. So we've had to do the Antarctic project, we had to do a South Africa project, where you have to make things and he has to do presentations.
Speaker 2:And a south africa project where you have to make things and he has to do presentations. And sometimes they'll come back with these look in the look in their little eyes and be like, yeah, can we do this, daddy?
Speaker 2:and you're like ask your mother and your mom's like your mom says ask your dad, and do you really want to do it? I really want to do it. Okay, then let's get the paper and pens and the scissors out and we'll plan this out. So, yes, it's the things you do for love, but yeah, we had to do a culture day for brain, so that was the first time we were doing like that and uh, how many kids, how many kids came yeah I reckon there must have been about 500 people come to the wow, so it was like the whole school was full.
Speaker 1:They had like a big burger van and ice cream van and like it was a really big.
Speaker 2:Thing. So, it was very good because it was funded as well, so the school had won money. You know, like when you get Tesco, where the supermarkets are available, and you get the little blue coins. In fact, I've got to claim the money back. We had £50 budget of expenses and I've not claimed that back yet you just remembered that yeah, little blue tokens and he put them in the things.
Speaker 2:So our kids school was raising to put on a culture day, so the money came. It was a funded thing, so it was well publicised and well advertised. Everyone was very proud. There's lots of nice pictures. I could probably send you a picture, actually well, so if you want to have a look at a picture of culture night, and all these pictures will be added to the website.
Speaker 1:Of course they will absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2:They'll be added to the website that is currently being built. Now see, ladies and gentlemen, of course walliams is now waiting for me to send him a picture. I obviously want to send him a picture of something rude, but I won't, I'll send him an actual one. There you go, walliams.
Speaker 1:There you go, there's, there's, ah that's really good, sir, and you did all that yourself we did all that yeah. Wow, oh, braden looks great. He does I mean, you all look great, but Braden looks special. So yes, wow.
Speaker 2:First look at family culture days and doing things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a lot of work. Actually, we didn't think of it, did we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it did take a bit of time, yeah.
Speaker 1:You've got the black country dialect on the back. Guess the meaning.
Speaker 2:That was a quiz. So that was the kind of arbin yeah, or being your mate, so that was a quiz actually I could have done that as part of the how you been. So if you look on the letter tatters, tatters, tatters, tatters, tatters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what are tatters?
Speaker 2:no, they're men who come around and pick up steel. So you know the people who come around and go. You're only scrap metal. They're called the Tatters.
Speaker 1:Cora, cobbon, cora.
Speaker 2:Cobbon aye Shea.
Speaker 1:That'll be either. Gotta get on like.
Speaker 2:No, it means she's in a bad mood. She's Cora Cobbon.
Speaker 1:Oh, cora, cobbon, Cora.
Speaker 2:Cobbon aye Shea, boston, it's Boston. Is he no good? It means good stuff like Boston.
Speaker 1:It's Good means good stuff, Like most is lovely, brilliant, buzz the buzz.
Speaker 2:I need to catch the buzz, oh the buzz, the buzz. But the size Z is inside of S's, so it's the buzz.
Speaker 1:I could murder a scabios Scabios.
Speaker 2:I'm so hungry I could murder a scabios.
Speaker 1:Sandwich.
Speaker 2:It means I'm hungry.
Speaker 1:I could eat a scabios.
Speaker 2:It means I'm Fair enough oh the answer's on the right. Yeah, so the idea was the black country dialect's on the left and the actual meaning is on the right.
Speaker 1:So people had to link them up.
Speaker 2:Really good. Oh wow, People enjoyed that. People enjoyed the game and we did a thing about the food about how bad the food is.
Speaker 1:That's really nice. It cuz this. Yeah, this is some heritage in it it is.
Speaker 2:It is indeed so. He'll always remember that now. So yes, I think you do for love volumes when you got kids.
Speaker 1:I finished off my blueberry waffle crunch and do you have another? So I'm going into the firsty-first fridge and what's cold, what's wet. Why is it so wet? Oh no, the fridge is wet.
Speaker 2:Maybe you haven't got a leak in the shop at all, it's just your fridge leaking.
Speaker 1:Oh, what is this?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's a black can lid. This is the opposite.
Speaker 1:This is the absolute opposite can to the other one. It's a very black can, it's a Neon Raptor.
Speaker 2:Neon Raptor Abandoned Dragons.
Speaker 1:Imperial Maple and Hazelnut Stout. It's still sweet, but nutty. It's a stout.
Speaker 2:Maple and Hazelnut stout sounds delicious 13% neon neon raptor 13%. What's wrong with you, you animal?
Speaker 1:I shouldn't laugh, but it says alcohol 13%. Please enjoy responsibly.
Speaker 2:Nobody can enjoy a 13% beer I'm doing it again. Okay, I'm lowering my desk.
Speaker 1:Oh, Mr Hardrickus has got a stand-up desk which he sits down on, but just up as oh, that's an interesting noise, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh it's. Oh, that's an interesting noise, ladies and gentlemen, oh it's. I think I need to pull it away from the wall oh, that's like that's like maple syrup the colour of this that is maple syrup in a can wow, our Canadian listeners will be happy or petrol, there we go this is going to blow your socks off, I imagine beautiful can, though beautiful can cheers not much of a smell oh
Speaker 2:oh is that a good one? Oh, that is beautiful yeah, he's got a happy little face on that is a beautiful, beautiful beer. I mean the ingredients or the flavour. The flavour Neon.
Speaker 1:Raptor Brewing Company Abandoned Dragons. Lovely, well done.
Speaker 2:Oh, that is lovely, that's I mean, I can taste their, Do you know where?
Speaker 1:they're from Er.
Speaker 2:I can't remember Nottingham, oh Nottingham.
Speaker 1:Huge, rich, dark, sweet and sticky. A band of dragons is a big hazelnut and maple imperial stout embrace, don't, don't.
Speaker 2:Can you read the description again, because it sounds like you're talking about yourself. What was it? Huge, yeah, rich oh yeah, dark oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Sweet and sticky. Definitely dark oh yeah, sweet and sticky, definitely that could. That's absolutely describing you and not the beer. Okay, that's a lovely drop. I wish I'd started that, because it's a bit late to be drinking at 13.
Speaker 2:But anyway, save the best till last. Neon raptors oh, some of the some of their cans are very good.
Speaker 1:They've got a plant planetoid smash I'm I'm I'm fickle misogynist, as you probably realize, but I'm sold by a can if the can looks good it's the artist in you, yeah so I had a first look at the google voice search oh yeah, so it sounds a bit geeky, a bit boring it is 2024.
Speaker 2:This has been around for a long time, has it? Yes, but yes, go on. Sorry not to piss on you, but yes, I've been around since 2015.
Speaker 1:You're going to, ironically, google now it's been around since 2012. You didn't use google voice search. Did you?
Speaker 2:you typed it I was gonna record a podcast. I use my voice when I'm trying to talk to you. Yeah, so it's been around for 12 years, so it's good okay.
Speaker 1:Well, maybe this function hasn't worked, since I'm sure it's got a bit of AI involved. So Google Voice Search use on the app. So for the last year, but very least since February when we got married, I brought up in conversation that I've got this annoying earworm stuck in my head of this song. So I, um, when I first started brushing Logan's teeth, this song would always come into my head, um, and it goes a little bit something, a little bit like this we're going to brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth. Going to brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth. Do, do, do, do, brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth. Gonna brush, brush, brush your teeth. Gonna brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth.
Speaker 2:And then it goes on to it sounds like the song from ferris.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's a ferris bueller song and uh, maybe I'm wrong, probably I mean maybe, because it might be, it's been used and typically I couldn't quite picture it, but I mentioned it at the wedding and then everyone else was like oh yeah. And everyone else was in the same thing. They couldn't quite what is that song? And it's been, it's been bugging us for ages and ages and ages and then, just on this, go on.
Speaker 2:I'm going to take a guess.
Speaker 1:Go for it, go on.
Speaker 2:Is it? Oh yeah, by Yellow.
Speaker 1:Oh, ooh.
Speaker 2:But I mean the brush your teeth bit. I don't know who I wish I said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, basically, I should have asked you in the first place. So anyways.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 1:Anyways. So I did Google voice search after about at least five, six months, but it's been going on before then for a year. I used google voice search, I signed on the phone gonna brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth. Gonna brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth. And then, boom, yellow the race, but it might be called other other things might come up. And that was. That was the song.
Speaker 1:I was like well yeah, first of all, mind blown in terms of I send you the, the YouTube link of the, the song that came up, um. But first of all mind blown in terms of how can Google search get that for me singing gonna brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth, gonna brush, brush, brush, brush your teeth, which isn't even the song and my poor tone, deaf, rhythm and lyrics. How on earth did Google get that from listening to my voice? How on earth did Google get that from listening to my voice? And then B? Where on earth has that come from in the back of my head to sing that song?
Speaker 2:Well, is it so? This one? So that's the song. I was thinking it was there, cause obviously you've sung that, you got the tone right, but the brush your brush, brush your teeth. I'm like I'm not sure where that comes from.
Speaker 1:Well, that's the song, but I've obviously got that from that tune. It's in the back of my head subconsciously. That I've never heard of for at least God knows how many years from somewhere.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe it was your mom and dad used it when they were teaching you how to brush your teeth, because, obviously, so that was like 1987.
Speaker 1:So you'd have been like three years old, yeah maybe when that song would have come out, so it would have been very popular on the radio, but it's weird how weird little tunes just come out from nowhere and you're subconscious.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was a first look at Google Voice Search, which has been around since 2012. Mm-hmm, but there must be some AI involved in that voice search oh yeah let's find that song, because I know um scott mills and radio tv does a. Uh, what's it called the?
Speaker 2:yeah, the police, like the kind of record place where they're trying to find people who have earworms like yeah they're ph in to certain songs.
Speaker 1:They don't know what they are and work it out. Google search for my little tune. But, that being said, if I just phoned you you would have got it.
Speaker 2:Well, I was like, I can recognise this song. I can recognise this. Google voice search. Well, you got Shazam as well. Shazam was good.
Speaker 1:Shazam was more, for if you hear something on the radio point it and Shazam, I think they went bust in the end, or someone bought them no, shazam's still around, isn't it? It was popular then it wasn't popular, then someone bought them, I think.
Speaker 2:No, Apple bought them.
Speaker 1:Apple bought them.
Speaker 2:Yes, they must have done pretty well. Yeah, very good. Well, there you go. Next time you have an earworm, if Google Search lets you down, just ring me and I'll help you identify what the song is yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who needs Google? Ask for the net or name yeah, he wouldn't.
Speaker 2:He would know, because he knows everything. He's not here today, I don't think.
Speaker 1:No jokes to end on. Really. I know a lot of jokes about retired people, but none of them work Very good. You're an idiot, you're an idiot, you're, you're an idiot, but uh, I've got. I've got a question for the network name.
Speaker 2:If he is around, oh okay, handy. Well, I'm so, I'm at work. Yeah, I'm not drinking and I am in the office. Um, but he's only up the road. Hang on, let me just. Let me just give him a quick call here.
Speaker 1:Any hang out did you go get my neighbor.
Speaker 2:I'll put him on. I put him on loudspeaker on, yeah look at my deluxe over hello, yes, yes, can you bring? Can you bring him down to the bring bring, no, bring, no all known down to the office. Would you quickly please, right, it's gonna be about 10 minutes, so you can cut this next bit, can't you? Oh, he's here. Ladies and gentlemen, right, I just need to go to the toilet. I'm, but all these, all these guinness zeros are making me need to pee.
Speaker 1:I'm going to the toilet.
Speaker 2:All right, I'll see you later now, goodbye, craig.
Speaker 1:Hello, hello, no, oh no. So how are you? You look pissed, I'm good. I'm good, I'm enjoying my beers. It's Friday.
Speaker 2:Are you enjoying?
Speaker 1:them. Really. I am, I don't mind. Let's get back to it actually I'm having a Neon Raptor Brewing Company Abandoned. Dragons Imperial Maple Hazelnut Stout 30%.
Speaker 2:Your eyes appear to have glazed over I've just realized.
Speaker 1:I've read the description already. You did, although I wouldn't know that because I've only just arrived oh, you know, you know, although you know, oh I am wise and stalking you so no or no?
Speaker 1:so this is a difficult question. I'm going to put you on the spot. Okay. So this is something that, for the first time since we've done the podcasts, where everyone, absolutely everyone in the world, aside from us three, know the answer. Okay, and that's because this podcast will be published after the event. My question is who is going to be the winner of euro 2024 football men's tournament?
Speaker 2:well, I think you'll find that you are a little bit glazed and drunk, because I already answered that in the previous episode, remember, and I think I, I think I summarized it. I think I summarized it in three words, to which they have not changed it's coming home, yay.
Speaker 2:Spain emerged victorious, defeating England 2-1 in a thrilling match held at Olympia Stadium Berlin even if we don't lift the trophy, it's still coming home, because you can still lose and win. And what these boys have done together to bring the nation together, in my mind they are already winners the real winner is football. Football's the winner football is the winner. Ok, is there any other questions or can I go?
Speaker 1:that was it. No one's wrote in. But listeners please, if you want to ask a question to no one.
Speaker 2:I will happily answer them as best as I can.
Speaker 1:Write in too.
Speaker 2:Firstlookgnomes at Outlookcom.
Speaker 1:Hey, he knows it all. Thank you, Null or Gnome.
Speaker 2:I think now my last bit of wisdom is to text your wife and ask her to put you to bed. I'm so bad at this, possibly with a book. I don't think you need to drink that half of it.
Speaker 1:It is very nice. It's very strong.
Speaker 2:You don't need to drink the rest of it, it's very nice. I think you've probably had enough. Maybe a bucket will be needed and a kebab.
Speaker 1:And a kebab. Oh, kebab and chips, lovely, lovely.
Speaker 2:And garlic sauce, mmm.
Speaker 1:Mmm, I almost forgot, you almost forgot.
Speaker 2:Tips for dads. Oh Well, this is good because I'm the know-it-all gnomes, so I should probably have some tips for dads.
Speaker 1:Hey Tips for dads.
Speaker 2:Tips for dads. Well, actually I do have one. It's again nice segue from you being drunk.
Speaker 1:Tips for the dads.
Speaker 2:Dads Alcohol-free beer. Don't judge the brands. So I like the odd drink. Don't judge the brands. Okay, let me explain what I mean by that, daniel. So, as you can see, I am drinking or Craig has been drinking 0% Guinness today Because he's driving and he's going to have a drink 0% Guinness.
Speaker 1:I thought you were drinking 0% Guinness, 0%.
Speaker 2:He's not drinking for the podcast today Because too much alcohol is bad for you, but I know from experience Craig does not like Carlsberg Lager, pilsner, danish Lager he's not a fan. However, their alcohol free beer is very, very good really. Same with Corona. Corona is very, very good alcohol free, and there are some that are just not very good. We recently tried Budweiser, which is both bad in the alcoholic form and pretty bad in the non-alcoholic form.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I quite like the alcoholic one.
Speaker 2:Budweiser. Yeah, you have no taste, but yes, that's a tip for Dad, if you don't like actual cold.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you mean, Craig. Still try the Nord Berset Like a blueberry muffin, waffle cone crunch, triple scoop beer.
Speaker 2:That's ridiculous. You're an animal. Also. I have one other piece of advice tips for dads, for anyone moving home get a good solicitor. It's a horrendous thing to have to do. Get a good solicitor. That's all I'll say about that Read into it as you will.
Speaker 1:My tips for dance is so for the for the quarter final, I went out and had a few beers before a morning of having to look after the little one from half seven at the morning. You fool, but it's fine. But it's fine, you know. I know how much to drink. I drank a lot but I know my limits. I was supposed to look after a little one and I did, but I didn't think about his little lungs because Georgie came back and she thought I made an omelette with gone-off eggs because the house was stinking. But We've gone off eggs because the house was stinking but luckily the little one was fine.
Speaker 2:Oh you animal.
Speaker 1:Even though you think you can look after them when they're 50 beers, don't forget their little lungs.
Speaker 2:Poor Logan, and he wouldn't have even been able to kind of like, no, like Dad, for goodness sake.
Speaker 1:No, I say because the final pint I had it was tasting really chemically. Okay, it tastes like there's chemicals through the pipes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was definitely it.
Speaker 1:But apparently Georgie thinks the way. I think it was the multiple beers as opposed to the final beer, but I think it's the final beer.
Speaker 2:No, the wise old gnome is back again and he's going to say this Sorry, Mr Hodgkins is back as well. Yes, we're here together, your wife, hello Greg, hello gnome, the wife is correct, you're an animal and the chemical taste you had was nothing to do with the cleaning fluids of the pipes. That's you trying to find an excuse for why you were so pissed and smell like a barnyard animal? You've got no one to blame but yourself.
Speaker 1:And I don't know if it was because I've not had a few beers in a while out and about, plus a pizza out and about for a while after a few beers, but it was the best pizza I've had in ages was that because you were drunk, maybe?
Speaker 2:yeah, just enhance the flavor but um. Did you enjoy yourself?
Speaker 1:I did, I did, I did that's the biggest tip for all, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Go and enjoy yourself once in a while. Yes, do enjoy yourselves.
Speaker 1:If you're lucky enough to have a lovely wife that will look after the kid, wash it out and about drinking beers, watching the football, having a pizza, then enjoy it Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Make sure the house has windows open for the next day and on that note, oopsie dance, oopsie dance, oopsie dance with special guest, the know-it-all gnome, say goodbye, know-it-all gnome, goodbye, bye, know-it-all gnome, he's off. His voice changes sometimes I think he forgets what he's meant. His voice changes sometimes I think he forgets what he's meant to sound like.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, it does. I'm glad you managed to pop in whilst he was here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, he's stumbling around the place.
Speaker 1:He's getting old that's good, is he?
Speaker 2:yeah, but he's alright, though. He's 307, so you know he's getting on 307. I think that's quite young for a gn actually. But anyway, More about that next episode. What about?
Speaker 1:that next episode. Tell you what next episode is actually one of the. I listened back to some old episodes.
Speaker 2:Oh dear, how was that for an experience.
Speaker 1:It was a mix bag. There were some classics and there was some classics and there was some old dear. But on one of the episodes we were talking about the next season and we promised listeners that we would have a Forbes listed guest. Oh, the next season, there's still two episodes left, but we did promise listeners for a Forbes listed guest. Okay, that was going to attend.
Speaker 2:So just wanted to point that out, just in case the listeners, in case anyone's going on holiday with said Forbes guest.
Speaker 1:Yes. Okay, we'll see what we can do, and also, the next episode is the penultimate episode, with the last episode being in September, until season 3, hopefully well, when does season 3 start?
Speaker 2:November I was going to say we can't have much of a break. Really, I thought we started in September.
Speaker 1:No, we've got an October break because we've got a bit of a bit of an event happening oh yes we do.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's true maybe by then I'll have the website really your final final thoughts? Yes, final thoughts are uh, look after yourselves like it's yeah. Enjoy holidays um enjoy time with families have a break. Work hard, but party hard too, and rest hard we have a holiday coming up now, which is well needed. We're going to go and have a refresh and a recharge, so yeah just look after yourselves. Everybody go to.
Speaker 1:Portugal yeah, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:You know, next time we chat England could be the European champions well, I hope you're right.
Speaker 1:Of course you are.
Speaker 2:I hope so. It's coming home. It's coming home alright. Alright, everybody, we'll see you later see you next month. Bye bye, thank you.
