First Look Gnomes
Two Dad's doing Silly Things.
Everyone wants to learn something new, but only some people want to sit down and read a bunch of nonsense - so why not listen to some instead? Chuck in some random facts and a couple of Dad jokes, and you'll be full of (potentially useless) knowledge in no time.
Whether all of it is true is part of the gnomery.
Join Cornishman "Walliams" in the shed at the bottom of his garden in Cornwall and Wulfrunian (a man from Wolverhampton apparently) "Mr Hodgkiss" from Belfast as they take a "first look" at the relatively unknown, learn some stuff and chat about life as Parents.
Dive into the First Look Gnome Universe every month and learn about random things you didn't even know you wanted to learn about! Fill some of your day with something interesting, engaging, and funny.
Welcome to the bottom of the garden.......'But what about the Gnomes?' I hear you cry!
Good things come to gnomes who wait. And ones that rate, review and subscribe :)
First Look Gnomes
Dads, Grills, and Dad Skills
We dive into the world of barbecue season, sharing our experiences of selecting the perfect outdoor cooker and essential tips for successful grilling.
• Choosing the right barbecue – weighing up gas versus charcoal options
• Three essential barbecue hacks: herbs on coals for flavour, lemon and salt for cleaning, and baking soda to prevent rust
• Using your child's comfort toy (like Cecil the dog) as a negotiation tool for bedtime battles
• Experiencing the dreaded "Code Brown" bath time incident
• Visiting Dynamite Brewery, a hidden microbrewery under a viaduct in Cornwall
Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish pond of feedback and share your thoughts, questions, and own first looks with us at firstlookgnomes@outlook.com.
Join us at the bottom of the garden for a first look at;
- Dynamite Valley Brewery
- A code brown
- First BBQ of 2025
And our...Tips for Dads!
And of course...the Dad jokes (sorry, not sorry)
Click here via your Mobile Device to send us a message!
Please Subscribe , leave a 5* Review, Follow, Like and Share this Podcast to show your support for more episodes.
Help grow the show !
Welcome to First Look Gnomes your go-to podcast for dads doing silly things.
Speaker 1:Join us as we dive into the whimsical world of the know-it-all gnome.
Speaker 2:Share tips for dads explore thirsty firsts and, of course, the dad jokes and the bad jokes.
Speaker 1:But, most importantly, we're here to share our first looks.
Speaker 2:Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish bond of feedback our first looks.
Speaker 1:Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish bond of feedback and share your thoughts, questions and own first looks with us.
Speaker 2:At first look gnomes at outlookcom I start and I just look at you with your anticipation in your face, going oh, what's it gonna be, what's it gonna be, get what's it going to be Get the laughter right, Williams.
Speaker 2:Just a small town gnome 11 episodes in a podcast world. He took the midnight train going anywhere. Just a city boy Sing along Craig Born and raised in Wolverhampton. He took the midnight train going anywhere. Strangers waiting Up and down the bottom of the garden, their shadows parting into the night, street lights, people. It's still going. 11, just another episode hiding somewhere in the night. Don't stop 11. The ultimate episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, bravo.
Speaker 2:That was longer than I planned.
Speaker 1:I love the fact you said join in, but then sang a new lyric that I'd never have known I was about to, and then I'm glad I didn't, because I don't think in the original song they mentioned.
Speaker 2:Do you not remember?
Speaker 1:Born and Raised in Wolverhampton, I don't think the original song said Born and Raised in Wolverhampton. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2:I don't know. We'll have to fact check that.
Speaker 1:We'll have to fact check it. I love the effort you put in there. And, ladies and gentlemen, he's not even had a drink yet, so we can only imagine what's going to come. Oh, you have. Okay, I beg your pardon. Well, maybe that explains a lot, but good effort, williams, that was a. That was a good one, I enjoyed that how are you, mr you good?
Speaker 1:I am okay. Thank you for asking. I uh, um, a little bit frazzled from the week that's just been, yeah, frazzled. You know, we get to the end of the week and you're like oh, um, but I'm happy to be here. I've got a beer, I've got a gin, I've got good company and I'm looking forward to making this podcast how are you?
Speaker 2:oh, I'm good, I'm good, uh, I have my birthday birthday. Yes, yes many happy turns. Thank you very much. And not to brag. Not to brag, but I have this incredible talent for predicting what's inside a wrapped present.
Speaker 1:How do you do that, Walliams? It's a gift Yay, yay, very nice. Another year older, not another year wiser, clearly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had a lovely birthday and Easter break my birthday was actually the Thursday and then I had the Easter weekend. Very good For American listeners. I don't think they get Easter weekend, do they, no?
Speaker 1:So I work for an American company. I work American time, so I did not get either Good Friday or Good Easter, easter monday or easter tuesday so in northern ireland, williams, I think we may have mentioned this last time. It's been two years since we did our easter special. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2:um, but it's the we should have got braiding on for an easter special well, maybe he can come back for a summer special this year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the over here they celebrate. They have good friday, easter monday and easter tuesday. So, depending on um many things, some people have the friday, the monday, some people have the monday and tuesday. I told my american um work colleagues this while we were working my wife was off and she had been for a few days and they uh, yeah, they question their life choices, as did I, to be honest. But yeah, happy Easter to everybody and congratulations on turning another year older, william. You look younger, though you look younger.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Oh, yes, it's the beer Not recommended for other people. Yeah, had a nice family weekend. Spent it with the parents, the wife, the son, my sister and our kids and my nephew. So my nephew is four years old and he's been learning Spanish all year. Jack, four years old and he still can't say the word please, which I think is poor for four.
Speaker 1:That might be your best one, yet I don't like that. One poor for four. As soon as you start, it's like oh Jack, oh, hang on. No, he's setting up for a joke here, setting up for a joke. Can we also mention not a joke, joke jack is possibly the best four-year-old dancer oh, yes, he is. Yeah, he's got some moves that kid can move, like there are kids who can dance and then there's jack it's like there's some videos from the wedding celebration, isn't there?
Speaker 2:oh, he was incredible yeah, and can we mention that our kids.
Speaker 1:So our kids uh, my kid and your niece have become pen pals. Pen pals isn't?
Speaker 2:it nice that she'd have still have pen pals as a thing oh, brainer loves it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's really happy he's. Yeah, he wants to try and play, cool though he's like yeah, yeah, I gotta write, got to write. Oh, yeah, I've got to write to a girl. What are you going to talk about? I don't want to say something stupid, dad. I'm like well, what do you want to say?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I don't know what are you going to say about some of the shows?
Speaker 1:you've been watching. No, I can't possibly tell her about any of the shows I'm watching. It's embarrassing. Alright, you think about what you want to say. I don't know what to say, but it's hilarious to watch oh, bless you, but he's uh, that's cool he's put a lot of thought into it. It's very cute. We can recommend any parents who have got kids. They should encourage them to write letters from my birthday.
Speaker 2:I asked for, um, I asked my niece to write a story and, uh, my nephew to draw the illustration. The story was one page long. Well, when I say a page, you know one of those sort of small kids pages like the size of a postcard sort of thing, this whole story on this one page. It's about a cookie, of course, and there's so many plot twists and turns and you're just left asking questions at the end. Really clever, just for like an a a postcard size story.
Speaker 1:really good, um, but the story didn't crumble apart oh dear, leave the jokes to me I will jokes. You'll want to get angry with that. Leave the jokes to him All right, I'll leave the jokes to him, sorry.
Speaker 2:No, my place, yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad you had a good time. The kids are awesome. I'm glad you were there with your mum and dad and the wife and your sister, and everyone had a good time. Many happy returns from all of us. At first look knows, williams, thank you um.
Speaker 2:So yeah, we're um episode 11 um, which I hinted at in my little song earlier, um can I just ask, can I go back to the song?
Speaker 1:yeah, so, journey, don't stop believing what? How did you get to 11 from that? Tell us the thought process.
Speaker 2:I'm always interested in this creativity Because it had the believing the 11.
Speaker 1:11., 11. 11.
Speaker 2:Merges together, become one. I struggled.
Speaker 1:It was genius.
Speaker 2:I was clutching at straws, to be honest, with that one. Um, do you want to go straight into your first? Look, mitogis, I'm sorry, I was explaining. I was explaining this our penultimate episode. Series 11, episode 11. Series 11 gosh, can you remember? Can you imagine one day? Series 11? Um, episode 11. Series 3 um, it's the penultimate episode, so we're uh, we're going to finish up next episode to have a little refresh before we come back bigger, stronger, more drunk in series four did you put any polls out?
Speaker 1:because we were questioning. If memory serves correct, we were questioning some of the features in this podcast.
Speaker 2:I did put a poll out, which we'll find out in another episode, the Fishponder feedback.
Speaker 1:Oh, very good, I look forward to that next episode then. Okay, cool, that's a tease. A little tease for episode 12. I can go into my first look then, won't I Please? Yeah, please. So it's a first look and then after it I'm going to follow it up with some tips for dads. But this week I'm gonna talk about because we've had a bit of a heat wave and we've got. Well, we did. Yeah, I don't know if you did over there, but we had a bit of a.
Speaker 1:We had, we had a spell of 22 degree weather um, we did yeah, a prolonged period for about a week, where it was warm and sunny, which meant barbecues, even though it's only april, we got into barbecue season. So we um, as we've discussed in previous episodes, have recently moved house and we decided this was the year to oh, maybe we'll get a nice like barbecue, because we've always been the kind of disposable barbecues are like okay. So this, this, which many of our listeners will know, yeah, it's, it's treacherous out there.
Speaker 1:What do I go for? Do I go for a big barrel? Do I go for a gas burner? Do I go for one that's got charcoal and gas? How do I use gas? Am I going to blow the house up? How do I get those egg ones? You can get those egg ones now, yeah, and then you're like, oh, is a barbecue even, is it even fashionable anymore, or do you just need, like, outdoor pizza ovens and all this kind of stuff? So I actually reached out to one of our regular listeners, who is a man, who is a good barbecuer.
Speaker 2:He's a man, he's a proper man.
Speaker 1:And he's always been good on the barbecue. He would take control and you knew your stuff was always going to be cooked properly. You weren't going to have pink in the middle burnt on the outside. So I was like, what do you do? So I reached out to said friend for advice and he has embraced gas.
Speaker 1:He said he misses the charcoal, he misses the process of getting the coals ready, but for convenience, and like quickness of speed and stuff, he's embraced gas. So of course we went for charcoal. Our choice Just to be different. Actually, it wasn't to be different, it was just. B&q had an offer for B&Q members and I just was like, oh, that'll do, that's nice, but it's been good. It's been good to. It was nice to be able to get the barbecue out Now again, this is northern ireland, so that's how summer done now.
Speaker 2:So it's back in the garage and with a gas barbecue. Now you can get wood chippings. Put the wood chippings in so you can get that sort of smoky effect.
Speaker 1:Best of best, yeah yeah, I saw one of those. Um, what we actually decided was we would like to. So a couple of years ago we were very lucky. We went to um mallorca on a family holiday and the villa we stayed in had a big brick built barbecue, like a mediterranean barbecue with a chimney, and I saw one of these. When I was researching and looking, I saw one of these things.
Speaker 1:I thought in the next couple of years we're hoping to landscape the garden. Let's build something like that into our um, our gardens on a hill, so like we can dig some land away and build a problem. So, oh, cool. So I thought you know what? There's no point me spending money on like a good gas barbecue that's going to last 20 years, when maybe in a few years time I'm going to want to build a brick one. So we just we just went for the kind of that one's an offer, charcoal one, uh, but it's, it's good. And I don't know about you, williams, but I do love a barbecue. I don't know why, because like it's a bit of effort, but there's just something about being outside having a beer, cooking food. That's just fun. I don't know if it's just tribal or I don't know, just man food fire meat man food, fire meat beer.
Speaker 1:I control this. This is my domain but yeah we got a first look at it, and long. I hope that you Alliums and all of our listeners get many looks at barbecues over the next several months.
Speaker 2:One of my favourite having a kid. Now I watch lots of different shows, and one of them's Bluey.
Speaker 1:And one of the early episodes.
Speaker 2:There's an episode about barbecue and bingos, the playing barbecue whilst the parents are in the barbecue. Okay, bingo, bingo sort of keeps getting all the salad stuff whilst bluey's at the barbecue uh-huh and then, um, bingo gets really stressed because she's doing all this work getting all the different salad pieces together, and then, um, no one. Then then they have to the family barbecue, the parents, and everyone's like to the dad okay, well done, way well done, dad, for doing amazing barbecue. But then the mom's like, oh, oh you don't make friends with salad.
Speaker 1:You don't make friends with salad. You don't make friends with salad.
Speaker 2:But then bingo is like someone say thank you for the salad, something along those lines. I haven't seen it for a while, but the people that make the salad are important as well.
Speaker 1:They are. But also, let's be honest, Walliams Does anybody want salad at a barbecue? Like, if you want, if you come to a barbecue and you're asking Corn on the cob's, nice with a barbecue.
Speaker 2:Corn on the cob's, not salad, though. Yes well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you why. Corn on the cob isn't salad. So we would cook corn on the cob and sweet potatoes, but we'd wrap them in the food and shove them in the coals yes, actually, yeah you can't put salad on the barbecue alliums nobody wants crispy lettuce you know, nobody's making that kind of demand.
Speaker 1:Um, so lettuce doesn't go on a barbecue. Lettuce is something that goes in the fridge. If you're having a barbecue, you know you, you got. Yeah, I don't know. You're going for the fish and the chicken and the burgers and the sausages. Well, the good thing about brick ones as well, again. So said friend, who we're talking about, when we were younger, like you know, 17, 18, 19, I remember he had a brick one he's got. It's just so easy, it's just there.
Speaker 1:You just like you know, you just go and use it, you don't need to wheel it out. You don't need to wheel it out, you don't need to store it anywhere, it's bricks. So you just need to, you know. Yeah, it's a cracking idea, nice, but what do you like on a barbecue, al? What's your go-to?
Speaker 2:My go-to.
Speaker 1:Do you like a steak? Are you a proper man or do you just like give me a burger?
Speaker 2:A bit of sausage.
Speaker 1:A sausage.
Speaker 2:My dad. Most often when we're at a barbecue it's at dad's. And yeah, chicken sausage they're the main goatee Like a chicken, you know just a bit more primal, isn't it when you get a bit of chicken.
Speaker 1:Chicken on the bone, there's just certain men who are just made for that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:They're men-men, and then there's us. Well, you say that when we try to be, we try to be.
Speaker 1:Well, listen to this. This may have helped my cause to pretend. I mean. Look at my name on the podcast today. It actually says Manly man. Manly man, yeah, I mean, I christened that myself. Manny man, I mean, I christened that myself, it's not necessarily true.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. So the men that we know in our lives? Would they title themselves Manny man?
Speaker 1:That's true. Yeah, good point, good point well made. Yeah, you're right, yeah, okay, and I'm going to. I said this may either help my argument or hinder it I think we already know the answer to this one. I have some tips for dads for barbecues. Tips for dads Tips for dads Tips for dads.
Speaker 2:Get your tips out for the dads.
Speaker 1:These are things that I would do and I've learned over the years, and actually the three that I've written down. They're not really very manly manly tips. They're not like oh, when you have a barbecue, put your hand on it and brand yourself because you're so manly. They're a lot weaker, but they are genuine. I find these to be really good tips.
Speaker 2:Hit me.
Speaker 1:So number one right. Sometimes you're just in a bit of a rush and sometimes you may not have time to make your own burgers and you just have to go and get burgers or something. You might think, oh, it's a bit plain to. I want to be a bit more razzmatazz, I want to add some flavor to stuff. One of the one of the a bit of a cheap trick burgers before we before?
Speaker 2:yeah, sorry, just talking about burgers and I've got burgers in my head now. Um, don't you? Don't you love both a good, solid, expensive, premium burger and a really cheap burger, depending on your mood? I really like both of them, yeah, or are you just a premium man?
Speaker 1:No, we would generally be for barbecues that make our own kind of people.
Speaker 2:I mean if you're out and about and you find an old van that's doing just cheap burgers with loads of fried onions, where there's more oil than there is onion. I feel they both have a place.
Speaker 1:I love them all. I just love a burger full stop.
Speaker 2:Are you allowed burgers?
Speaker 1:I haven't had a burger no joke. I haven't had a beef burger for probably three years.
Speaker 2:It's been a long time what you've had it since we started podcasting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably since before that.
Speaker 2:If you remember, episode one was kidney stones, so kidney stones just as a refresher.
Speaker 1:What were the things? Reduce your salt, drink plenty of water and reduce your red meat. What are burgers? Mostly salt your red meat. What are burgers? Mostly salt, mostly mostly red meat and obviously with gallstones as well. It's like the cheap burgers well, cheap burgers they're like usually, like maybe 20.
Speaker 1:There's some sort of fat maybe not yeah, but yeah I'll probably not do myself any harm by not having beef burgers regularly, to be honest, but no, anyway, some tips for burgers. Sorry, tips for burgers. If you want to add a bit of flavor to all your food without having to season it and stuff, get some mixed herbs and throw them on the coals. Once the coals are hot On the coals themselves On the coals.
Speaker 1:Throw some rosemary, some thyme sage, maybe Once you're cooking I you're like, I don't know, maybe 10 minutes away from serving throw some on the coals and it will infuse, infuse the meat with some of the herby scent and flavors. Yeah, that's a good tip, um we have another tip it's not very manly. I don't think that is a very manly tip. That's very, it's a. It's a I don't know. It's a bit manly tip. That's very, it's a. It's a I don't know, it's a bit Gordon Ramsay.
Speaker 1:It's like most men would be like what he wants time, and Rosemary like that.
Speaker 2:He should pour the beef fat on the coals.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it Pour some burgers on the coals. The blood from the cow pour it on more raw cow, more bone, less herb, which sounds like it could be a brand, like a slogan for a brand more cow, less herb for men who want real meat.
Speaker 2:The next tip is really very manly, Willem, it's very manly.
Speaker 1:It's like when you it's hard because you just want to. Once you've cooked the barbecue, you just let it sit there, but don't you want to clean it while it's a bit warm. You want to get the gunk as much of the gunk off while it's warm as you can here's a good tip for you, williams see, if you've got like grills and wire racks, a lemon. Cut a lemon in half wells, dip it in some sea salt I've got a lemon tree you've got a lemon tree, now right to get.
Speaker 2:So get one of them. Lemons, cut it in half.
Speaker 1:But when they're here, when they grow cut the lemon in half, dip it in some sea salt and just rub it up and down While it's still warm. Rub it up and down the grill.
Speaker 2:The lemon.
Speaker 1:The lemon, yeah, with the salt on it. Rub the lemon on the rack on the grill where you've had the meat, and stuff. All the meat will just come off all the like bitty meat so you use the lemon as like a cloth as a cloth to clean it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ah, that's a good tip with a bit of salt on it, just like coarse salt, like sea salt. Rub it once it's still warm. When it's still warm, rub that up and down. All the crappy bits of meat that would otherwise, just, you know, bake in they'll come off straight away and then like when you actually clean it with some water all the. It's a lot easier. You don't have to use any harsh chemicals that's actually two very good tips okay, well, I've got a third one yeah, I mean, should we stop there?
Speaker 2:I?
Speaker 1:don't know. This is a good one, okay okay, this is probably the most important one okay when you have like a good barbecue, like we. We bought a nice. It's not the most expensive, but it's nice. I'm going to look after it because I'm going to have to use it for a good few seasons. Right, If you keep it under a cover outside? I don't particularly like covers, but sometimes you have to keep it under a cover.
Speaker 2:No, I hate covers, but there's still, mine keeps blowing off. No, mine keeps blowing off and it's all rusted now and it's like what's the only point? Putting it back on by putting it back on?
Speaker 1:well, this is how you do. When you get a new one right, you can keep a cover on, but to stop it getting rusted, put a bowl of baking soda inside the barbecue, because that'll absorb a lot of the moisture and the stuff it rusted in another good tip. There you go, you see. Not just a pretty face, not very tips. There are three good tips there yeah, those are tips we've kind of learned over the years and, you know, help us keep our barbecues well. So yeah, tips for dads barbecues good so yeah and here's to barbecue season.
Speaker 2:Wells, may there be many sunshiny days ahead, I hope so I think it was as if last year, the year before, but we had a summer of. In the week I'm sat at my desk, sun shining 20 odd degrees, friday five o'clock, rain until like sunday night, and then it'll be sunny again for the week, and that was almost every week for the summer and it was so annoying that's depressive yeah, but could be worse.
Speaker 1:It could have ran the whole time, not just when, at least when you're at work and you can look outside from your shop office yeah, yes, that is nice actually, I'm very lucky from the bottom of the garden from the bottom of the garden the first nights I tend to put my boy to bed, but he's just over two now, so he's well, he's being a two year old.
Speaker 2:every time you learn a trick to get him to sleep, he changes the rules no different here, and we had and he talks. So it's quite a few words now, but he was very much in charge. I thought I could negotiate with him, so I started negotiations.
Speaker 1:With your two-year-old.
Speaker 2:And then quickly found myself and him lying on the floor together and then there's lots of crying that, because it wasn't the books he wanted, um ended up in his bed and then out of his bed and the back in his bed and out of his bed, and then all these stories that he's apparently been telling his mum. They once no, don't read those read. I'm going to read those of Dada, because there's certain books no, they're Dada books, yeah, they're Dada books, ones like the pigeon books. We call them the train books, the Dada books, and no, dada books On the day, all right, and the pigeon books. They're quite fun to read.
Speaker 2:So I'm like cool, right, pigeon books, logan. No, mama, but you want to read these with me? No, mama, right, okay, and things like that went on for ages and ages. But the tip is so most kids they have like a, their safety blanket or their, their special toy, wherever um logan's is. Uh, well, to begin with we didn't think it would be his go-to toy, but it's become his, his favorite. Yeah, um, which we we named at the time Cecil.
Speaker 1:So great name for a toy, cecil.
Speaker 2:Cecil, the little sort of dog blanky thing he's, you know he's the go-to, you know, when he's feeling emotional, cecil's his comfort, um and um. Yeah, if your child is not doing um, what you want them to do, just embrace, embrace the Cecil or whatever your, your kid's got and um, become the Cecil, um and um, get Cecil to tell him what to do. And if Cecil wants to do it, then you know Logan's like, oh really, but because Cecil wants to do it.
Speaker 2:So, oh, cecil wants this book. The book. You literally were saying no, no, no to, and crying oh, cecil wants to read it. Oh, yes, we'll read that then, because Cecil wants to read the book. Oh, cecil wants to go to sleep, okay, so yeah. So the tip is use your Cecil to get your kids to go to bed so what you're saying?
Speaker 1:one of them is manipulate your children, that's really is that is that what you're trying to say?
Speaker 2:I did try negotiation and then yeah, but he's at such a lovely age where I don't know in his world he must. He's not quite at the got to that point of oh, dad's tricking me here.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's not quite at the point of oh dad's tricking me here yes, he's at that point of Cecil actually wants to do this.
Speaker 2:He's the best thing ever. We'll do it. It's a great tip, you're not alone. We've all done it as well yeah that is a great tip, though, and so often like ever since he was very little he'd wake up in the night or you're watching when the monitor he grabs Cecil and Cecil does all the hard work nice, cecil's there and he comforts him and then, posh, he goes back to sleep as a result.
Speaker 1:So here's to Cecil yeah, be a Cecil.
Speaker 2:Trust in Cecil. Get yourself a Cecil trust in Cecil. Get yourself a Cecil if you haven't got one. That's my tip.
Speaker 1:It's a great tip. There's a lot of parents, I imagine, who have been in that situation where they're just trying to like oh just, it's the end of the day. You're knackered anyway, like bedtime's a chore. I know it's lovely to spend time with them, especially when they're well-behaved. You walk out thinking oh, that was just so precious, such a precious memory. It's so lovely.
Speaker 2:But then there's other times you're like he's gonna sleep.
Speaker 1:So like there there is um, the end of the day is hard. So any tips to just make that more peaceful for the child, but also to let you get to kind of like and I'm off. Um, I'm sure I'll be well received. Be the Cecil Great tip Williams.
Speaker 2:Be the Cecil.
Speaker 1:First looks.
Speaker 2:First look.
Speaker 1:What you got for us, Wells.
Speaker 2:So I said are we recording?
Speaker 1:Are we recording? We have recorded before and not recorded. Yeah, I know Usually the ones that we haven't recorded are usually the best episodes too. I mean, in our opinion, we have no proof because, no one's ever heard them.
Speaker 2:That episode we didn't record was the funniest episode ever. We had a good time. I can't remember what we were doing apart from just crying and laughing, yeah, lots of laughter.
Speaker 1:That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2:First look, First look. So we were quite lucky. A lot of parents have this probably a lot earlier on, but we only had this fairly recently Bath time we were both upstairs and the wife was with Logan in the bathroom also having the bath, and we had our first. Sorry, just check, don't worry.
Speaker 1:Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on. Oh no, sorry, I'll be quiet If you say what I think you're going to say. I'm like puke I don't know my what Puke. If you tell me what you're going to say, I'm hoping it's not that.
Speaker 2:Oh, we had our first Code Brown.
Speaker 1:Oh no, Not the Code Brown.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:We had our first. Code Brown no thank you, oh shit water. No thanks, oh Logan, no need for that son Get water.
Speaker 2:No thanks, Whoa Slogan, no need for that son, the many years I've known you, the things that you talk about, and that's something that crosses you out.
Speaker 1:I could sense that coming. I was like no, he's going to talk about poop in the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Code brown code brown Code brown. I was just in the other room next door to talk about poop in the bathroom Code brown code brown Code brown. And so, yeah, I was just in the other room next door and then I can't quite remember it now, but the wife just started, oh, oh, oh, oh. And I go in and she's got him sort of up and out and I don't know if it's like what were those?
Speaker 2:I can't remember the cool, but there's like there's old toys you'd have that you put in water and then they expand these bits of poo. They were bigger than him, they just expanded in the water and they were like proper proper big human size. Um, yeah, so then, um, so I got him out, washed and then I played with him and, uh, georgie, and he had all his toys, so he had to obviously get rid of the poo, so a lot of it you could just chuck in the toilet and yeah, obviously we had sort of heavily in disaffect all the toys that were hidden with him, particles and yeah, we had Show me all the dishwasher.
Speaker 2:Yeah, put a lot in the dishwasher and yeah, gave the bathroom a thorough clean, but also, at the same time, try to because you don't want to sort of go. You don't want him to go. Oh no, I've had a poo or I've done something really bad, so it's all very, but he knew something was going on. But yeah, we're trying to as much as possible go just a normal day.
Speaker 1:It's such a bad situation when it happens.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but our first co-brow bless him.
Speaker 1:I wonder what Walliams has seen on TV. I wonder if he's going to talk about. You know what Walliams will talk about this week? He'll probably talk about what he did for his birthday, what he had for food no shit in the bath my main take was how he expanded in the water. I don't know. Does it expand? Or the main takeaway was how it expanded in the water? Yeah, I don't know. Does?
Speaker 2:it expand, or did he?
Speaker 1:just do a really massive poo. I don't know, you thought it expanded because you were probably thinking there's no way that could have. There's no way someone that small can make something that big out of that tinier hole. But there it comes. There it is oh there, it is there, it is, there, it is shaka, laka, shaka, laka sorry that's hilarious. It happens again, much like Cecil. It happens to us all. You just have to get on with it, not terrify your child and traumatise him not fun.
Speaker 2:I'm not quite ready for a thirsty first, but this is a different thirsty first segment today okay so, um, it's another first look. Um, I went to link to my birthday because he said you know, I thought you know kirk brown couldn't resist not talking about kirk brown it was very funny but I went to uh dynamite brewery, so it's a little microbrewery in cornwall very nice which I went to um, so the, the wife and wife dropped uh, me and my friend pete off um and it's sort of under a viaduct.
Speaker 1:Well, hang on a sec. Hang on, you've got other friends that aren't me. What, what.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just one of them. Who's? This Pete who is he Pete? Pete, he's the I don't like him. He's the husband of the one in the book that you bought, the present for at Christmas.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I do like Pete, he bought you beer, a Santa present for the?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, yes, all right, fair enough, we like Pete. Okay, I'll take that back. Yeah, so it's, yeah, middle of nowhere under a viaduct, and you're going down this sort of stony that's class Stony, I wouldn't even say a road just a Down into a Just a path Path, yeah. And you get into the bottom and there's like an abandoned caravan and things like that Shopping trolley. Because I'm watching Sopranos at the moment, I'm thinking, oh no, this is a place where you take someone and pop them in the head and bury them. You're thinking Craig was right about that. No, this is a place where you take someone and pop them in the head and bury them.
Speaker 1:You're thinking Craig was right about that. Pete, he's going to do me here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like, oh, he's paid him, yeah, wife's paid him for it, yeah, she's found out about the life of drugs and I hope she's not listening.
Speaker 2:And yeah, then you turn the corner and it's not much better. It's just it looks like an abandoned warehouse. Okay, okay, all right, okay, good recommendation, pete. Yeah, go, it's all closed up because it's not as there's like some benches outside, but it's all closed up Because it's not as there's some benches outside, but it's all closed up. It's not always even open. And luckily the wife said I'll stay here to see if you get in. I'm thinking, oh, she's going to drive off.
Speaker 2:We're just stuck in this random, random abandoned place under a viaduct. Then we go in and it is. It's a micro brewery and they've got like a a little makeshift bar there with a few different beers on tap obviously what they're brewing, um, and, yeah, various tables and stuff and a little fridge for stuff that's not on tap. If I cans off, and it's great, a proper bearded man like myself just can sit down have a nice fresh beer in the microbrewery. Dynamite brewery, good beers, recommend them. Um, then also I was like, right, I didn't have lunch microbrewery. They have this chap called lucky rod, lucky rod pizzas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lucky rod's pizzas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Lucky Rod's pizzas. Lovely. Have a pizza on down there In a brewery. When you get there at half twelve and you're going to stay there all day, you want some food. You need to eat Lucky Rod's pizza. Oven broke no.
Speaker 1:Not so lucky was he.
Speaker 2:Unlucky Rod. Unlucky Rod, no, not so lucky was he. Oh, unlucky rod, unlucky rod, um also was quite funny that the section of where his pizza in place is it's all boarded up. But it's all boarded up in cardboard okay, which I thought was a bit funny, but you know luckyammable, but you know, lucky rod, what can go wrong, but yeah, but I had a lovely day Managed to actually get takeaway delivered, so I got some takeaway there and drank some beers at the microbrewery. So that's Dynamite Brewery.
Speaker 1:Can I ask two questions?
Speaker 2:And I would recommend any check out your microbreweries. You know pubs are dying off but Micah Breweries go straight to the source. Lots of Micah Breweries now are hosting and selling their beer in that actual Micah Brewery.
Speaker 1:So Micah Breweries. Excellent. I have a couple of questions. Sure, With an observation. This is probably the first podcast in a while we haven't mentioned the White Rock Brewery. We're still waiting for sponsorship. Can you please send me some more magazines?
Speaker 2:I'm having to drink something else today yes, but I still need my first look at the white water raft but yes, it that does the microbrewery thing.
Speaker 1:Is true, we should, we should embrace the microbreweries. So two things was your experience heightened by once you got in there you're like I'm not gonna die so instantly. It was better because you were like I've survived getting here and no one shot me I've got through the car part.
Speaker 2:It's not a car part, it's yeah so did that add to the experience?
Speaker 1:or would the experience if there hadn't been such a treacherous trek to said microbrewery? Would it still have been as good?
Speaker 2:well, yeah, I mean well, yeah, it's all part of the ambience. Actually it's all part of the, because a lot of pubs are dying, but a lot of pubs are in places where you know there seems to be transportation there or you know you can walk there, whereas this seems to be literally in the middle of nowhere. How on earth, obviously, it makes money from brewing, but seems to be literally in the middle of nowhere. How on earth, obviously, it makes money from brewing, but it was quite busy as a pub, as somewhere to actually sit and drink as well. But, yeah, I think it's a certain because a lot of people like their comfort and a bit of class.
Speaker 2:Most people should say do I sometimes? But this was an abandoned warehouse. A lot of people like their comfort and a bit of class, but, um, what's the worst advice sometimes? But this was an abandoned warehouse with a brewery inside and the pub is literally just um, you know, someone got a few pallets together and a few bits of wood and a bit of um, uh, what's that reefing called? Uh, because you see, corrugatedrugated steel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that just sort of bunked on top and turned into a little pub. Little pumps, three or four pumps.
Speaker 1:It sounds nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And was the beer good, it was good beer. And can we?
Speaker 1:let people into a secret about, because you told me about this brewery and it's good value. Should we just leave it at that? It's good value. Should we just leave out that it's good value?
Speaker 2:beer as well dynamite yeah yes, yes, well, um, yeah, what I told you is about they had, yeah, 24 cans of 24 pound, which I thought was quite good a pound a can of fresh micro brewery beer is unbelievable.
Speaker 1:I I bought, so we went to the local. There's a independent beer shop in um on the lisbon road here and they sell all kind of micro brewery beer and you can sometimes be paying six pound, fifty for one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like a can for like yeah, that's not even am.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's a pound. A can is unbelievable. What they call Williams, give me a shout out.
Speaker 2:Dynamite Brewery boom. Boom because? Because I learnt that under the viaduct that's where they used to create dynamite for the mines.
Speaker 1:They were called Schmiding well, here we go, williams, I'm going to come for a field trip to Cornwall and you're going to take me to Dynamite Brewery. You're going to come for a field trip to Northern Ireland and I'm going to take you to the White Rock Brewery.
Speaker 2:Lovely.
Speaker 1:That's what we'll do. This summer, when we're not on air, we'll both have our first look to report back. We will, and we'll do this. Trips booked in hmm, sounds good.
Speaker 2:Let's finish this episode off for the final episode, shall we?
Speaker 1:I don't want to finish it because that means we're closer to the end and I love doing the podcast.
Speaker 2:It means I'm drinking beer and chatting with my mate well, I'll cheer you up with a little dad joke, shall I?
Speaker 1:please.
Speaker 2:I um well, it's actually not that funny. So I went to. I went to the doctors.
Speaker 1:Are any of your jokes funny? I like them.
Speaker 2:I went.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, this is a serious topic now oh, beg your pardon, sorry, I'm not doing bad jokes, it's a serious topic. I'll get serious. I'll get serious, serious serious.
Speaker 2:I went to. I went to the doctors oh, flip me okay yeah, and they. Well, the doctor said to me, I'm afraid to say your, to say your, um, your dna is, uh, is backwards. So I said and see you for the final episode in a couple weeks, everyone bye everybody, bye Bye.
Speaker 1:More bone, less herb.
