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
Universal Studios in the UK? Season 3 Ends with Big News & Bad Jokes
Season 3 Grand FINALE
Join us at the bottom of the garden for a first look at;
- Universal Studios London
- Beast Games
- Switch 2
- E-Bikes
and the usual , Fishpond of Feedback, Gno-it-all Gnome and.... the bad jokes!
In the grand finale of Season 3, the First Look Gnomes celebrate with a spectacular (and spectacularly bad) Eminem parody that has everyone in stitches. "Lose Your 12th" might just be Williams' magnum opus as we wrap up twelve episodes of gnomish shenanigans!
The Fish Pond of Feedback reveals exciting news – our listeners have spoken, and the Gno-it-all-Gnome has received a resounding 67% vote to stay. But there's a twist! Our beloved gnome announces he's embarking on a worldwide journey in search of companionship and new experiences, dubbing it his "Wisdom is Lonely, Love Yourself" (WILLY) tour. While he won't be a regular fixture in Season 4, he promises postcards and voice notes from exotic locations around the globe.
Technology and entertainment take center stage with our First Looks. The Nintendo Switch 2 has been announced, promising GameCube compatibility that might reunite old friends for online Mario Kart Double Dash sessions. Meanwhile, Universal Studios plans to build a massive theme park in Bedfordshire by 2031, sparking debate about whether British customer service can match the American theme park experience. We also dive into the ethical dilemmas presented on Beast Games – would you take a guaranteed million dollars for yourself or risk it all for your team?
As we close the season with some genuinely terrible jokes, we tease upcoming e-bike adventures and potential format changes for Season 4. Whether you're a longtime listener or just discovering us, there's never been a better time to subscribe and join our gnomish community. Email your first looks and feedback to firstlookgnomes@outlook.com – and if you want to reach our traveling gnome, just put "Willy" in the subject line!
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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 share tips for dads explore thirsty firsts and of course, the dad jokes and the bad jokes. But, most importantly, we're here to share our first looks.
Speaker 2:Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish pond 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. At first look gnomes at outlookcom. Come on, my limbs, compose yourself sorry.
Speaker 2:First look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted one more pod would you capture it or just let it slip? No, it all known. His palms are sweaty. These weak arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already mom's spaghetti. He opens his mouth but words won't come out. He's joking how everybody's joking. Now the clock's run out. Time's up over blah. You better lose 12 in the music the moment you heard it. You better no, no, you only get one episode. Do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime. You better lose your 12th in the music the moment. The episode only comes once in a lifetime. You better listen to it. Lose your 12th episode.
Speaker 1:Bravo, williams, thank you Bravo.
Speaker 2:Oh dear, lose your 12th's. Uh, lose your 12th. That took some. This is the penalty. No, that's right. This is the last episode of season three we have to, we have to unpack that.
Speaker 1:Look, we can't just move on. This is enough.
Speaker 2:That is a man that has just lost all sense of being. 12 episodes into a season of too many embarrassing moments of intros.
Speaker 1:Let's unpack it. So the start of these episodes is always a surprise to me, Walliams. So again for those who don't know well I'm says all the hard work. I just turn up and drink beer. Well I'm, well I'm set this up I drink a beer?
Speaker 1:you do, but you set up the podcast. This was all. This was your brain child. You do all the editing. I just turn up and talk nonsense, um, and every week, when we do this podcast, while I'm performed a song which I have no idea what, it's, which wasn't my idea, by the way was it not?
Speaker 2:it just happened organically it just happened once, and then you just kept saying more ones, more, I want more well, I mean, you've just hit a peak williams, you've taken so in the last episode you took uh, don't just stop believing and made it don't stop 11.
Speaker 1:This time you've taken uh, you better lose yourself and turns into you, better lose your 12th you. You reworked lyrics beautifully, you rapped, I mean nobody did I rap you? You did something, but it was magnificent and we're all the better for hearing it.
Speaker 1:Oh thank you. You even got in some Easter eggs talking about Noah or Noam. But I think from all of us, William, as this is the last episode of the season, I think a heartfelt thank you is in order for your entertainment, the joy you bring with your energy for these songs. That was possibly my favorite, yet Really, I did like well, more than episode 8?. There's been so many highlights, but that one Do you remember? We went to see that film. Do you remember where we?
Speaker 2:saw that film and when we saw that film. That's probably one of your other friends.
Speaker 1:No, it was not in game. It was in Simpsons Halls of Residence. I don't think it was me, was it not? No, it was not in game, it was in. It was in um simpsons halls of residence I don't think it was not you.
Speaker 2:No, some of the, there's only one you. How can I remember this? Well, we were in simpsons halls of residence together. That's yeah, yeah, yeah. And at the time we were in a building together with another 500 people, but yeah but eight mile came out and we saw it, it did, it did.
Speaker 1:We were in the same city together when it came out. Correct, we were, yeah at some cinema.
Speaker 2:It did. I definitely saw it at the cinema. We were in the same city together when it came out.
Speaker 1:Correct. Yeah, we went to the Savoy just at the end of Lenton Road. No, no it wasn't you, okay, someone else.
Speaker 3:I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awkward, I'm going to have to lose my elf Lose your elf.
Speaker 2:Lose my 12th, I'm just going to return where's the Christmas special? Be lose your elf.
Speaker 1:I'm going to. It would be. I'm just going to walk into a bush like Homer Simpson in that viral meme thing there we go bravo how are you doing? Good couple weeks since the last episode well, I'll say we talked about some incidents that have happened. Well, you know how my my previous time has been.
Speaker 2:Badgers and foxes.
Speaker 1:Badgers and foxes, and we will leave that there.
Speaker 2:Badger, badger badger, badger, badger, badger, badger.
Speaker 3:We won't go into that too much.
Speaker 1:That'll be for the I don't know the secret episode that we ever do the secret episode.
Speaker 2:The secret episode, yeah, but you're doing good.
Speaker 1:No complaints, Walliams.
Speaker 2:Yourself. Yeah, my wife, the wife of what I've said, she said I've got two problems One, I don't listen, and something else. I know you said that's a joke, but there's probably an element of truth in that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, doing something else. I know you said that's a joke, but there's probably a lot of truth in that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, grab your rod, mr Hodgekiss.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go For one final time for season three. Grab your rod, how are we at the end of season three already, my goodness time flies Season three, episode 12.
Speaker 2:Will there be a season four? I think there will be a season four, won't there?
Speaker 1:Of course there will be. Yeah, what else are we going to do on a Friday night? We've been booked in.
Speaker 2:Our sponsors have confirmed us.
Speaker 1:We will have our regular end of season conf lab where we decide what features are going to return. We will debate whether a website will ever turn up, because we've still got that cliffhanger from the end of season one. Will the website be ready two years later? No, it's not, um, because we've been busy moving our seo by now would have been I've only got myself to blame yes, you have, yes, you have you gave me one job. Have you grabbed a rocket? Yes, I've got it in my hand. Oh good, well, swing it. Yes.
Speaker 2:I've got it in my hand, oh good, well, swing it. It's the fish pond of feedback fish pond of feedback wife of wife as a retinue and just wanted to. As she does these things, I need to make a correction of a previous episode.
Speaker 3:What did we do this time?
Speaker 2:I think it was episode 8 or 9 or 10. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Previous episode You've done something silly.
Speaker 2:And just wanted to correct that when I was talking about the Formula 1, and I mentioned I'm in the Fantasy Formula 1 league, I said With the stepdad what I meant was the father-in-law. Yes, alright, so it's Georgie's the wifey wife's Dad, my father-in-law, not my stepdad.
Speaker 1:Easy mistake to make Easy mistake to make Easy mistake to make.
Speaker 2:We got that clarified, we got that clarified and corrected On the record For the wifey wife make easy mistake to make, so we've got that clarified we've got that clarified and corrected on the record for the wifey wife.
Speaker 2:Moving on, um, a little bit feedback. Um, a, uh, who's this from? This is from a walliams the gnome from the bottom of the garden. He's written in, okay, and uh, complaint about um, your tips? Um, so mr hodgkiss suggested, you know, go in the garden, have some time on your own. Go in the garden, a bit of peace and quiet, because they won't come out. So, uh, I, I mean the, the person writing um, he said he went into the garden because he had to dig a hole for a fence post as you do they joined.
Speaker 2:They joined me. I was in the garden, son and wife came out and they were in the garden. Whilst I was in the garden, the gnomes were what was in the garden when you was in the garden the gnomes were what.
Speaker 1:What was in the garden when you were there? The wife and son. So you wanted some peace and quiet and they came out.
Speaker 2:Yes, your tip was go in the garden and get a bit of peace and quiet, because they won't come out.
Speaker 1:So that's your own fault for letting them out of the cage, Walliams.
Speaker 2:It wasn't me. This is the writer.
Speaker 1:I beg your pardon. Usually you lock them in, though, don't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you lock the back door.
Speaker 1:You lock the front door. That's how you operate, right.
Speaker 2:And the basement door. Yeah, no, that's not appropriate. That's not appropriate.
Speaker 1:We're only joking.
Speaker 2:Only joking everyone.
Speaker 3:Hello.
Speaker 1:Anyways, see, I was joking. You can get away with no craig. That's not how it's. But then you join in and say I'm the basement yes, yeah, one of us should be the yeah another person has, um, sent us a note.
Speaker 2:uh, I need to a video, but I don't know quite how to do it, so you're just going to have to listen to the audio.
Speaker 1:Okay, do you want to send it to my phone? Could you WhatsApp me or something?
Speaker 2:No, I don't think so. It's an Instagram video, but then you have to go on your computer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, yeah, we tried doing that before.
Speaker 2:So I'll just play it and see if you can get it from, from the audio perhaps. Um, so yeah, someone's written in and it's uh, it's a bit scary massage guess. It's something that you thought you know quite a few years ago. It was done, it was gone, it's. It did some great things, but it's back, it's back, but here we go.
Speaker 3:I'd like to thank my drumline students for nominating me to do the USC. Speak your mind, ice bucket challenge. I'd like to nominate Alyssa Hutchinson, jj Logan and the fine fellows at First Look. Gnomes over in England and Ireland, here we go.
Speaker 1:No it's got to be a decade old right.
Speaker 2:No well, first Look Gnomes wasn't around a decade ago, was it?
Speaker 1:No, but the Ice Bucket Challenge was.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, but yeah, apparently it's back.
Speaker 3:Are we that old? I'd like to thank my Drumline students for nominating me to do the USC?
Speaker 2:Speak your Mind. Ice Bucket Challenge.
Speaker 3:I'd like to nom JJ Logan and the fine fellows at First Look Gnomes.
Speaker 2:First Look Gnomes now.
Speaker 1:We weren't around 10 years ago no, but I mean like, are we that old that you know when things go, you know they say oh, the fashion of the 80s and 90s has come back.
Speaker 2:This can't be coming back. The person here is from Canada Canadian listener.
Speaker 2:Canadian listener. And yeah, they're a teacher. So it's Canadian listener, top fan Canadian listener. And yeah, they're, they're a teacher. So it's from the sounds of it, it's come around again to the youth, the future, and they're picking up on these retro things like the ice bucket challenge. And it's back and we've been nominated. So for season four, we need to think about how we're going to do that. Luckily, we work in the world of podcasting. So so for season four, we need to think about how we're going to do that. Luckily, we work in the world of podcasting, so we could do it by audio and not actually get wet at all. But we should do something.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, we're going to have to debate this for a start. One.
Speaker 2:We have been nominated I mean I'm not.
Speaker 1:They talk about Canadians being slow, but I mean ten years slow after the Ice Bucket Challenge actually passed is maybe too much. I don't want to do an Ice Bucket Challenge. Williams, I'm not going to lie to you.
Speaker 2:We're not in 2017, right now.
Speaker 1:What's going on when?
Speaker 3:did this come back?
Speaker 2:I don't know 2017 right now.
Speaker 3:What's going on, when actually was it? How did this come back? I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's got to be 2016, 2017, something like that. Should we Google?
Speaker 2:it. Have a quick Google.
Speaker 1:Ice Bucket Challenge. Okay, this is live journalism, ladies and gentlemen, oh, hang on. The first thing it says brace yourselves. The ice bucket challenge is back. No, it's back, no that's from the guardian that's the guardian. Oh oh no, what's going on?
Speaker 2:okay, the challenge was co-founded by switch off your social media. If you switch off your social media, you won't get nominated. You won't see it.
Speaker 1:It went viral in 2014. Wow, Like come on now.
Speaker 2:Really 2014?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 11 years ago 2014. We just got back from Canada.
Speaker 3:I'm not going back there now with bloody ice.
Speaker 1:Bloody hellfire.
Speaker 3:I appreciate the listener.
Speaker 1:The listener's a fine fellow. However, it's going to be some work to convince me to do an ice bucket challenge. We could do it now?
Speaker 2:Should we do it now on the podcast Live? Well done. This is a shout out to the people at usc speak your mind.
Speaker 3:Ice bucket challenge usc.
Speaker 2:Speak your mind. Ice bucket challenge. So a nice shout out to them. Um, I would like to nominate. Uh, who should we nominate?
Speaker 1:mr archicus um, for the ice bucket challenge. Okay, I think we should nominate, uh, the wifey.
Speaker 2:The wifey wife.
Speaker 1:Everyone in Laos, everyone in Laos and one more. We'll go for anyone in a place beginning with the letter P.
Speaker 2:And everyone in the place anywhere. What?
Speaker 1:Anyone living in a place beginning with the letter P.
Speaker 2:With the letter P Mm-hmm, Right. Well, there we go. Right, grab your bucket. Grab your bucket.
Speaker 1:I actually do. You know the irony I have a bowl of ice here Because I'm doing this from the shop office at the end of the garden. No, no. Well, I've done all the gin but gin, but I've got a bowl full of ice and most of it's melted, so it's ice and ice water. I could just pour that over my head, do it? No, it's an ice bowl challenge, though. Then Does it really even?
Speaker 2:count? Of course it does.
Speaker 1:No, we'll do it properly. Go on, We'll honour Grant and we'll do it properly If he wants us to do it and he's challenged us to do it. And is he going to raise money? Does it raise money or is it just some?
Speaker 2:nonsense. You should do awareness at least. Okay, all right, now we'll do it.
Speaker 1:Go on then. All right, we'll do it proper. Come on, we can.
Speaker 2:We can do it proper well, also, we could do it now. So grab your bucket of ice and check it in your head and chuck it in your head. Oh, that's cold, oh hey.
Speaker 3:Oh dear. I can confirm that gentlemen Walliams is covered in nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 1:I am soaked, you're soaked, soaked, you're soaked moving on.
Speaker 2:So from previous podcasts you would have listened that we're hitting heavy heights in countries abroad and I've checked and it seems to be pronounced Laos. After all the back and forth, I was calling it leo and laos, you're calling it lao. There's laos apparently. So um, so uh. We were number six and 154 um in laos, so I was thinking we should season four. I think we should set our sights of being the top 100 podcast in Laos.
Speaker 1:Alright, let's try and do that.
Speaker 2:Please support us with that New listeners.
Speaker 1:Oh, can I give some feedback Please? We're in the pond.
Speaker 2:remember we're in the pond, Go for it.
Speaker 1:Well, you told me you were going to do about the, the um, did it, the poll the poll.
Speaker 2:The poll. I mean, I don't know, do you want to hear the power?
Speaker 1:is the poll coming back is as opposed so the poll.
Speaker 2:The poll is, uh, still open and I've still not checked um the postal vote as yet or the email vote um as yet. So please email in to firstsitgnomes at outlookcom to let us know that you do not want the no or Gnome to continue or Thirsty.
Speaker 1:First wasn't it, wasn't it a two?
Speaker 3:I might downsize the Thirsty First I had some feedback about the Thirsty First and the no or no which was basically we love the podcast.
Speaker 1:Maybe those features don't return for season 4. Maybe we'll learn more about that as this episode goes on we shall see but the poll, the poll.
Speaker 2:So the question was um, uh, should the, should the no or no, stay or go? Um, and 67 said stay no way, it said stay. No way 67% said stay 33% said appear on specials only Okay and 0% so far say go. What a win for the no or no.
Speaker 1:Nobody expected that.
Speaker 2:No, so watch his face. But yeah, please do write in.
Speaker 1:It's on today, isn't it?
Speaker 2:We're open to it. He's appearing later on so I'll have a chat with him, but he's getting old so he might want to step back a little bit. But if fans really do want him around, maybe we could convince him back for the odd session 67% at Williams.
Speaker 1:That's pretty overwhelming. You only need a 70% grade to get an A, so 67%, the no or no is getting a B.
Speaker 2:He's got high standards. He's like, if I'm not getting an A+, then what's the point.
Speaker 1:We'll have to talk to him later and see what he thinks about everything.
Speaker 2:We'll talk to him later.
Speaker 1:You can ask him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of feedback today. A lot of feedback. I'll let you do your first look, whilst I just grab a towel.
Speaker 1:So well, uh, my first look. So there has been a lot of um for raw online fights, overnight queues, debate, anger joy. All of this related to something that is very important to geeks like me the Nintendo Switch 2. It's been announced.
Speaker 2:Switch 2. Is it any different than Switch?
Speaker 1:So again, listeners who know me, there's probably a lot of listeners who have just turned off, and understandably so, because we're grown men and we should know better than to play video games. But the Nintendo Switch 2, as a dad, nintendo do a great job of allowing me to play video games whilst also entertaining my son.
Speaker 2:So I'm a big fan of Nintendo. On that note, before we continue, on my birthday I went out for dinner with my niece and nephew. My niece and nephew came round my nephew he's learning Spanish at the moment and they've got a Switch and, uh, this moment it's one of those big moments that you know it's been. You know the big moment of the future. My niece has actually invited me around at some point to play mario kart on the switch and it's like, wow, that's like the next generation you get to play it again without feeling guilty.
Speaker 2:I get to play it again because you know not because I'm an adult on my own playing it, it's you can justify it I can justify it well you are.
Speaker 3:You're one step ahead of me, williams, sorry well no, it's it all.
Speaker 1:all ties into exactly why I decided to make this my first look, because you were not so again, listeners, uh, williams and myself and a friend of ours who was in the, who was mentioned in the previous episode, who makes barbecues and the manly man but he doesn't call himself a manly man. Oh no, he would never refer to himself as a manly man because he's too manly. He doesn't even know how manly he is, but we know, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1:But we used to play a lot of Mario Kart Double Dash on the GameCube. So the Nintendo Switch 2 got announced and I was like, oh, this looks interesting, what's going on? And it comes with GameCube games. Ooh, yeah, so they've got the Nintendo. Yeah, so they've got and you can buy a GameCube controller for the switch to. I was like, oh, that means double-dash is gonna be on there eventually and they're gonna be able to plan a game key controller.
Speaker 1:But it's not just double dash and you know, gamecube, it's all online now, so I'm like we potentially potentially going to be able to play Double Dash from Manly Man's house in London, your house in Cornwall, my house in Northern Ireland, and we could potentially play Double Dash together. And it comes with a camera so you can see each other, so you can chat and you can see each other's faces and, above your character, you see your other. So, like you can chat and you can see each other's faces and, above your character, you see your face and what you're doing. So, if you're, if you're there going, or we can see you go, whilst you are being baby marion, baby louise, you're going around baby so nice.
Speaker 2:So this the speed demon that I am of Rainbow Road and the king of Bowser's Castle, it's potentially coming back and you could play Mario Kart. So that's it 100%.
Speaker 1:And I won't even be able to turn it off, because I won't be able to just get pissed off, reach over and turn off the game cube. So the Nintendo Switch 2 is coming out and it was available for pre-order. So I was like, okay, how do you get about doing this so as a 41 year old man? So anyone who knows me, including said barbecue man, knows that over 20 years I have been mr scar, lead, mr games console, but, williams, I've never had a day one console I've never got a console on the day it came out.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness because, like you, have to pre-order and all that kind of stuff and you know you have to have income and money.
Speaker 2:Are you camping outside a shop like a week before so you get in the queue?
Speaker 1:no, no, I managed to get one on pre-order, so we have one, and so brain's been mad about this. So brain's a nintendo switch boy, yeah, and every day he's been watching these things on his switch. Nintendo director dad can we get one? Can we go? No, son, no, not a chance, not a chance. So little does he know that there is one coming. So it's um, I'm looking forward. So this is this again any, any listeners out there?
Speaker 1:oh, he won't listen to this, the uh. But any listeners out there who are like give me tips for how I want to make this special for him? Right, so it's gonna look to his 10th birthday. So how do we make this like? This is one of those moments that's going to be oh, like. All of all I have done so far is telling him son, you can't get a pre-order, they, they're not going to be available for years. Like, oh, no, no chance we'll get one. He's like, oh, okay, you can see. He's like, okay, but then I'm going to pick him up from school and take him to go and collect this thing. So how do I make this like one of those moments? You know yourself I have moments like this one.
Speaker 1:As a kid I remember getting I'd asked for a Game Boy for Christmas. This was like 1992. I'd asked for a Game Boy with Tetris for Christmas. And it was that time where, like, oh, you get a big present and then a few little presents, and the big present that year was a Scalextrix. And I was like, oh, and I was over the moon, I got a Scalextrix who wouldn't be grateful? But I didn't get the Game Boy. Then, about two o'clock in the afternoon my mom was like what's this, what's this? And I was like what is it? Oh, there's a present behind the tree Like, oh, we missed one. We missed one. Two o'clock in the afternoon after the dinner.
Speaker 1:We've missed one. We've missed one. I said this to Craig so bearing in mind I'd already got over the disappointment of not getting the game boy, but then I have the classic.
Speaker 3:Oh, oh, we missed one.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is this says it's silly ass, opened it up. Game boy tetris, can you I? I was eight years old and I still remember this vividly. It's probably why I love nintendo so much. I was eight years old and got one, so now I'm like, okay, this is my opportunity to give braden that I was more of a sega man myself you're too cool for school. Tickle for school, williams, leslie, I'm with sega as well that goes to show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sega schmager.
Speaker 1:Anyway, like this is an opportunity with nintendo switch 2, to really kind of do something special for my kid and like I'm going to enjoy it too, because there's a new game, maricot world volumes, which looks incredible. Metroid prime 4 looks incredible.
Speaker 3:There's some good games coming um.
Speaker 1:but yeah, I'm excited for the n Switch 2. I'm excited to give Brain this experience and any tips on how to make it extra special welcome. How does it differ. So it's bigger.
Speaker 2:Bigger.
Speaker 1:It's got the controllers. The Joy-Cons can now be used as mice, like as a computer mouse, so for shooting games and stuff that's going to be pretty cool.
Speaker 1:You can chat, so you can now communicate with other people. So my nephew, who's just about to turn 16, it was. We went on holiday last year together, we took a switch and we played Mario Kart and he was like, oh, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to be the best, and there's a couple of races. He beat me, but then it got as the week went on.
Speaker 2:Is this the son of the Forbes listener that was going to be a guest?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it, the son of the Forbes listener is going to be a guest and we got competitive with it and eventually, you know, I was like I'm going to beat your ass at Mario Kart because you know manly man. So there's lots of our family does like a bit of Nintendo and a bit of fun. So it's, it's just, it's just gonna be mario kart world looks very good, I'm not gonna lie, it looks pretty good. The last time nintendo released a new console was the wii u. After, before the switch was the wii u said barbecue man, I took I bought the console, took it down to london to stay with my friend and we spent 24 hours completing every cup.
Speaker 1:So yeah yeah, so yeah, looking forward to this it's. It's good to show as well that, no matter how old you get, you can still get excited about a video game console yeah sorry, I went a bit geeky there didn't I?
Speaker 2:well, I'm not one to ask, but yeah but yeah, nintendo switch 2.
Speaker 1:So first look at the pre-orders in america. It's an absolute shit show.
Speaker 2:You can't get hold of one so when's out, when's uh june the fifth june, the fifth so don't bring me that day so I presume series four we'll get a first look at it. We'll get a first look at it, we will was it worth the hassle, did brain enjoy it.
Speaker 1:Is Mario Kart world better than Mario Kart Double Dash?
Speaker 2:find out in season 4. That's when the listeners come back, isn't it?
Speaker 1:of course it is. Let's have a look at your first look, I guess geeky again, listeners, apologies sorry listeners but we all had a first look.
Speaker 2:Um, and we'll have a further first look, you know, for another six years probably um, but we had the news release and there's rumors about it. But the news released with a first look, that we're gonna get the universal studios in england, which was really exciting. So I saw that and I was like, is this real? Because I've seen so many fake news things. But we are going to get a Universal Studios in England.
Speaker 2:Amazing so it's going to be Universal Studios and it's up there, your Disneyland and all those sort of parks. So you've got Tokyo, know, you've got. You've got tokyo, you've got orlando, um, and you've got, um, you've got things in singapore, sydney and all that, and you got, uh, bedfordshire. So which?
Speaker 1:is where leslian got her wedding dress from random. Well, there you go. So yeah, it's on the map so bedfordshire, there's a.
Speaker 2:You know it's near london, it's about 35 40 minutes um north of london they'll call it london, so they'll call it london, the universal studios london like paris, these lampiruses expected open in 2031 um over 476 acres um and several themed lands. They're not confirmed in it yet, um, but some rumors of the. So you know like how disney has its. Well, you know better than I do. As, like what future land and star wars land, or whatever.
Speaker 1:It is incredible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so Universal Studios, which is already big in America. So there's rumours of like a. So it could be a James Bond land, which I think would suit the London sort of thing. Lord of the Rings, so Lord of the Rings land, that'd be interesting.
Speaker 1:Oh no, that's got to be in New Zealand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you're not going to get the global traffic there, are you, or are you?
Speaker 1:I don't know. Good point. Good point though, yes, sorry.
Speaker 2:Again, these are rumours, so it's not confirmed.
Speaker 1:Oh, just rumours. Okay, I beg your pardon, so there might be Pad bear land that's rumored, uh, which I could see if. Is it gonna be big enough? I think, what do I? It's gotta be harry potter, surely harry potter's?
Speaker 2:gotta be the one. Well, they've already got harry potter over america, but maybe they're gonna have.
Speaker 1:You would have thought so. You would have thought so you've got warner brothers studios.
Speaker 2:It's like but is that? Where is harry potter part universal? Is it part? It is so.
Speaker 1:In america universal studios has Studios has has Harry Potter, but like you've got to have, sure what a force, a or would they want to do something different?
Speaker 2:but he would have thought so. That's true. A random one which is not really British back to the future has been strongly rumored man which, back to the Future, theme man. Which I personally would really love. And I think it still has a global appeal Of course it does. But the youngsters? Are they Back to the Future? Do they, are we? Is it a nostalgic thing? Back to the Future now.
Speaker 1:So we were randomly talking about this, my wifey wife and I.
Speaker 2:It's probably, if I had a name, my favorite trilogy. It could quite possibly be back to future wow, that's a big claim that's. I know it's a big claim. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1:It is up there for me we would talk because because my, the wife of mine is a big, she's into the theme parks, she's into the american theme parks and she went to universal studios in its heyday. She would say, when it was terminated, to jaws back to the future. And when we went it was it all changed, it was all the new things, it was millions and like nonsense, nonsense. Who wants to go mad? I don't want to go on Minions, right.
Speaker 2:Minions is on the list. Minions is on the list.
Speaker 1:There was a lot of. They had like Fast and the Furious and Minions. I was like how can you compare Fast and the Furious and Minions to Back to the Future and Terminator? But I suppose in terms of dollars, fast and the Furious, and Minions are probably worth loads more.
Speaker 1:But, what the probably passive years. It's probably worth loads more, but obviously our age was very much like yeah, I want to see jaws, I want to go on et I don't want to see minions, so it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting, I mean, back to the future. Such an iconic brand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that'd be great uh and then you know one on the on the list of the top sort of rumored ones, uh, which I think, if they do it right, um, you know, and you know universal studios or your Disneyland's, they've got the money to do it. Um is Jurassic park. It's a dress, oh that'd be nice yeah. You know, if they, if they could actually create it into a Jurassic park, then um, back to dinosaurs, then uh, I mean, imagine if you're on Towers right now.
Speaker 1:You're shitting yourself, aren't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So yeah. For our foreign listeners, olin Towers is probably the. You know Olin Towers and Fort Park. They're like the theme parks in England, but compared to your Disneyland's and your Universal's they don't have the money to do the theme as well.
Speaker 1:They're really good rides, but they don't have the brand power that the American brands do. The roller coaster might be as good, but the whole theming, which is a big thing, isn't it? Like you know, this is a roller coaster, but it's the whole theme.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I told you the story about when I went on the first experience because I'd argued hard with the wife that you're just paying for glorified Alton showers. It's going to be no better. And I was like why no, we need a new kitchen, why would we waste money on this? And I fought and fought and fought and lost.
Speaker 2:And then you went.
Speaker 1:And then I went Now you were one of these privileged kids. You went when you were a kid. I was. I went for the first time when I was 40, but I must admit now, the very first ride I went on I was like that's a bit different. That is the whole like from from start to get getting into the place, but it's so different now because, like what, your experience would still be so different than mine, so I'd like to get back over to logan there, because it's so different now.
Speaker 2:So I don't know how, because the things that stand out for me is with disneyland or disney world. Disneyland, disney world, florida florida is disney world.
Speaker 1:I uh, florida is Disney world. Well, there's one of them.
Speaker 2:It's one of them, so I one of the things and with my gran you know she's on crutches and in the wheelchair, but it was great because it meant we could skip the queue and say oh, do you want to splash mountain, gran? Not really. Yeah, question, splash mountain, really. Yeah, question Q jump splash mountain. But back then splash mountain was based on one of the very few films you can actually get on Disney anymore because it's a bit frowned upon racist some songs of the South songs of the time yeah, but now it's not anything.
Speaker 2:Hasn't got anything with that, does it? I don't think't think. I don't know how recently they changed it.
Speaker 1:Smash man is not there anymore.
Speaker 2:But they changed to, I think, a Princess and the Frog. Let's call it something else.
Speaker 1:Princess and the Frog. That's it. It's Tattoo on as something right yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there's obviously a lot of stuff like that. That's very different. But yeah, universal Studios, which is up there in the same league as Disney, I think. But yeah, coming to England, they've got a. What else they've got going on? They've got a massive hotel there, all the usual stuff Retail, dining, entertainment complex Apparently meant to generate nearly 50 billion. 50 billion pounds for the economy by 2055. 20,000 jobs. 50 billion pounds for the economy by 2055. 20,000 jobs. Apparently they're going to sort out rail links to London and the rest of the country. So that'd be great. You know, get a bullet train from Cornwall to Universal Studios in an hour.
Speaker 3:That'd be amazing.
Speaker 2:I doubt that will happen, but you know. But yeah, so it's still the planning approval aspects, even though it's been signed off by Prime Minister, et cetera. It's still the planning approval aspects, even though it's been signed off by prime minister, etc. There's still the planning approval. So, um, but that's meant to start start in 2026 the construction.
Speaker 1:So not to be cynical right oh, here we go but? But if you go to america, to one of these theme parks, yeah, do you know what the reason is? It's so good. What's that? Because of American culture right.
Speaker 1:The culture over there is if we're going to be customer service facing, we're going to work because it's tip based and you you get back what you put in. So if you're a great customer service, people tip you well over here. With the minimal wage you've got Brits Are they going to be able to bring that joy and experience when they're like, do you want fudge with her? It's not gonna be the same is it like that there's, it's not.
Speaker 1:You got the weather. Obviously. If you go to Florida, it's generally sunshine ten months of the year. You can. The light is there all day over. Here it rains, so are going to want to go in February. If you go to Florida in February, it's still going to be fairly warm. And you're going to get there and they're still going to smile at you Like hi. Welcome to Universal.
Speaker 3:Studios. It's amazing have a good day Over here.
Speaker 1:We want. It ain't going to be the same, is it?
Speaker 2:No, because, even as we've touched upon you know, I was a privileged kid, um, and I was very lucky to do the disneyland, florida, uh, but also this school trip to paris, disney no, you posh bugger but very different, different experiences. It was quite grey in France, they were French yeah yeah, it's it. The American vibe does add a lot to it. Yeah, happy people yeah, yeah, the Americans are just.
Speaker 1:OTT, whereas Europeans are not. We're very reserved, aren't we? Yeah, similar to happy people. Yeah yeah, the Americans are just um OTT. Europeans are not, which is very reserved, aren't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, um similar to the French um certain ways, um it will be exciting Cause again.
Speaker 1:If you think, I suppose to to counter argue myself the people who will choose to go and work at universal shooters with the people who want to work there. They'll be the people who are generally like, ah, this is amazing, happy to be here, and universal will kind. I imagine they're not going to pay minimum wage and just hire any old tom dick and harry. It's going to be part of their hiring process that they only hire people with some but yeah, but a customer who want to please customers because it's part of the experience, isn't't it? Because I guarantee this, it won't be cheap.
Speaker 2:No, oh no, it won't. Well, no, it won't, but yeah, so yeah. When Logan's eight, nine, ten, hopefully, we can take him That'll be amazing dude.
Speaker 1:Exciting, what a great first look That'll be class.
Speaker 2:And then it's. I don't know if you watched it or not, but Beast Games. I watched Beast Games recently.
Speaker 1:Okay, I know what it is, but I didn't watch it.
Speaker 2:The concept was the actual show itself. I think could have been a lot better. So, Mr Beast, he's a massive youtuber and made loads and loads of money, um, but beast games are the biggest prize money ever and base just chucking money around like anything, because it was hosted by the youtuber. He just shouts a lot, to be honest, um, and the format could have been a lot better. But, um, there's some interesting stuff on there, so there's a lot of um. There's a thousand contestants stuff on there, so there's a lot of um, there's a thousand contestants, um, and at one point so I'm interested what you would do, because I've, my mindset seemed to be very different than everyone else. So you're down to I don't know, say, 600 people.
Speaker 2:Five get selected. You're up there, you could, and so sorry, the big, the big prize is five million dollars, which actually turned out to be ten million dollars, um, because they flipped a coin. One person flipped a coin. You either out or flip a coin. You can double the prize spot to 10 million. They did that spoiler, wow, to 10 million, um, you don't know this at the time, but so by the time the five million prize, you're up there and you're representing your team of I don't know another hundred contestants or whatever. So you can either keep your team in to win the five million dollars or you and you alone can take a million dollars what would you do so million dollars, if you took the million dollars, the rest of your team.
Speaker 1:They're out there, they're done I'll take a million dollars, yeah I would.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's a british thing or not, but but and all. There's, there's five, there's five teams I don't know these people.
Speaker 1:I'm on a game show. Yeah, there's five five teams.
Speaker 2:sorry, I think I I made the numbers too big, but there's like five people up there say 100, 100 in each team and each and every one of the team captains, whatever they were, they did not take the million dollars they could have took and they kept their team in. Now I'm probably too selfish, but I would have took the million dollars. Sorry, I don't know any of you. I met you yesterday. It's a competition yeah, a million dollars change.
Speaker 2:We're in the game to. Only one person can win the five million. Anyway, I'll take the million, thank you max.
Speaker 1:I don't need an extra four million a million dollars is life-changing amount and you've entered this as a competition. You've not entered this as a charity or as a this is a one for all for one. One for all yeah this is like okay, okay, it's mano a mano, it's a race to see who can get the most money in chance of life.
Speaker 2:And again, spoiler alert none of them won the five million.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, there you go. Someone should have said the one million.
Speaker 2:One of them went home with like 190 grand but they didn't get.
Speaker 1:They could have gone back a few days and just, yeah, I'll have the million, please, thanks yeah, no, I, I get, I get, I do get the moral dilemma of like, okay, share, and all that kind of stuff, but in that scenario, that specific scenario, but you're competing for one person to win five million of course you're not competing.
Speaker 1:It's not a team game like it was. It was that we all get to share. We all get to share five million, or I can take one million. That's different, like actually I could. I could take one million for myself or I could maybe give 20, 20 people, whatever the maths is on that yeah that's different because you're like I'm going to change 20 people's lives here.
Speaker 1:That's not the. That's not what the scenario was, though this was like yeah, that's, that's different. It's different if you're like Garrett, if you could have said right, you, that 1 million, we can guarantee the 20 people in the team will get 200,000 yeah then I'd say, yeah, give everyone 200,000.
Speaker 2:There we all get 200 grand, we all get to change our lives yeah but the scenario that they put up there, no, I'll take it in it was interesting concepts and then later on down the line there ended up being 10, so you're still competing for the 5 million. At the end, 10 left, 10 contestants and you're all still guaranteed to stay in to compete for the 5 million. Sorry, the 10 million at this point because they flipped a coin.
Speaker 2:Yeah 10 houses. 10 of you left. These are your houses you're going to stay in tonight. Number one you once. You go to the house in the first, but you get to choose who goes next. Um, in priority order. Here is a million, a million dollars. Each of you will come out the house one by one and you can take as much of the million dollars as you want and go back into your house. Then the next person goes in, and the next person, the next person and the next person, until all 10 of you have come out of the house.
Speaker 1:Just take the million.
Speaker 2:You'll be great on this show. So they go into the houses. The first one comes out and goes right, there's 10 of us, I'm going to take 100 grand, because we're all going to take 100 grand each. So she goes back into her house and the and the trick was meant to be none of it. Nobody knows what each person's took. Obviously, if you're second, you kind of work it out because you go right, there's a million to begin with, but then, yes, the first person came out $100. And they kind of had an agreement that everyone would take a fair share. So she took $100,000.
Speaker 1:I've had an agreement. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2:Second person comes out meant to have an agreement of $100,000. The second person comes out Right Meant to have an agreement of $100,000. I need this to pay, that to pay, I'll take out $230,000. Right, then the third person comes why?
Speaker 1:$230,000? That's so random.
Speaker 2:There's some sort of reason behind it. Then the third person comes out expecting 800,000 left and they're like, oh, hang on here, they're not sticking to the rules. And he works out his debts and stuff and goes hmm, 650,000. So he just takes 650,000. And the fourth comes out and goes oh, Next up, do we have a little chat or some bad jokes?
Speaker 1:no, we, we can have a little chat to know what we're learning.
Speaker 1:In a minute it's going to come down we have one more little finish on some bad jokes finish on some bad jokes finish on some bad jokes, okay so we have one first look, which is a tease for next time. So I have, I have embraced, so try to get fitter. Well, let's try to get fitter. We live in Northern Ireland. There's a lot of good cycle tracks around, so we have embraced the e-bike revolution. Probably very late to this, but we have one on order. E-bike has a battery and a motor.
Speaker 3:So it helps you go further?
Speaker 1:no, you can't so you still have to cycle, you still have to cycle. Yeah, so legally if you have a bike with a motor and you don't have to cycle, it's classed as a motorbike or a scooter. So you have to get tax and insurance and all that. So e-bikes they have a motor that help your pill, but they don't work unless you pedal so there's, you get, there's eu regulations yeah you can, you can de um, you can effectively break them so you can.
Speaker 1:You can take away all of the things. So the one I've ordered right it's. It's it's um limited to 250 watt output, but it's a 750 watt motor.
Speaker 2:I think it's a 750 miles per hour.
Speaker 1:If you go on YouTube, well, so this is it right, so this is the risk. So if you're on YouTube, you can find a little video which will tell you how to unhinge your e-bike motor and the bike I have has a throttle. And if you unhinge the motor with a 750 watt motor, you can get up to about 54 miles an hour, you know I'm sorry, um. However, that doesn't make it illegal in the uk. You're not meant to do that.
Speaker 2:You can, but you're not meant to so you're like hurting, I'll go, let's see without even pedaling?
Speaker 1:am I losing weight yet? Am I getting fitter? What do you need from the spa? I'm going now, um no, but so they are limited. They are constrained in the uk, but you can, you can unhinge them, but I'm not going to so could you?
Speaker 2:could you legally go to the pub, have 10 pints, get your e-bike and then go 54 miles?
Speaker 1:no, you can't do that legally okay, but you can, you can. You can go to the pub, drink 10 points, get your e-bike and cycle home that is legal, that's fine yeah, if you're trying to get up a big hill because we live up a hill yeah so if you're like I need to go home now, I'm on my bike you got pedal assist, so you pedal and the motor helps you get up the hill.
Speaker 1:That's how it works. But if you yeah, if you want to be a naughty boy, you, um, you can put in the code and then just um. However, if you get caught for that, you could be done and go to prison. So it's not worth it, not worth it um we've, we are, we are embracing e-bike in our house and we're gonna. We'll let you know how it goes. Um yeah, we haven't arrived yet, but they'll arrive by the time we uh do the next episode. So, um yeah, that's a little tease for next season.
Speaker 3:Um, if I don't turn up it's because I have killed myself.
Speaker 1:So, uh, let's hope that doesn't happen and, um, let's hope I don't get arrested. Yeah, I should have said that if I'm not here next, let's said that. If I'm not here next, let's try that again. If I'm not here next season, it's because I've been arrested because I decided to uncouple my bike from the legal road regulations and have been thrown in the nick Don't do it.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm going to. I need a pee, so I know no one wants to come and have a chat. He's got some sad news, like I told you, he's got some sad news, so I'm gonna have a pee and then he's gonna cut. He's gonna come and told you about things okay, well, things all right hello, why are? You. Well, I'm actually not sad, I'm actually rather happy. But I know, yeah, I had some lovely poll news earlier.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, please tell me about that. Oh, over 67% said they want you to stay.
Speaker 1:That means 33% of people don't want you to stay.
Speaker 2:No, 33% said specials, which makes you a very special person.
Speaker 1:Well, that maybe warms the cockles and lets me know the mindset of some of your listeners. That's nice to know. But yes, I'm not sad, I've got new horizons and new opportunities.
Speaker 2:I think one listener separately wrote in and said he should go.
Speaker 1:Yes, but what does that person know? About anything really, he's not even a manly man.
Speaker 2:No, they say stupid things like drop the first year first.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Well, Dan, it's come to my attention. Well, it's not even come to my attention. I've been feeling a bit low recently. Oh no, as you are, well and well, I'm on my own now.
Speaker 2:You would feel low because you're two foot tall.
Speaker 1:Well, that is very true, but apart from that, I'm on my own. I'm on my own and I have you and I have Mr Hodgekiss and I'm very grateful for your friendship and I'm very grateful for the listeners. But it feels like this Part of my life I should go and live while I'm still here, embrace all of what planet Earth has to offer. I am one for living life with the air blowing in my face, so I am going to be off the podcast for a while.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, because.
Speaker 1:I'm going travelling, are you? I'm going travelling around the world. Oh lovely, I'm off and I'm hoping to find love.
Speaker 3:Oh.
Speaker 1:So I won't be a guest next season, but I have decided that I will occasionally send you a postcard oh lovely, yeah, please do. And I might occasionally send you some voice notes, Please.
Speaker 2:And some travel advice.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I will document it. I'm calling it my Wisdom is Lonely, love Yourself. Tour, or Willie for short. I want to find companionship, dan. I want to find companionship and meaning, and I'll be frank withhip, dan. I want to find companionship and meaning, and I'll be frank with you, dan. I want to find some boobs. I'm very lonely.
Speaker 2:It's sad that you're leaving us. I like Spanish gnomes, but Spanish gnomes, but it's nice that you'll still be around in the odd episode.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go and see what the gnomes are like in Laos. I'm going to go and see what the gnomes are like in places like India, and I might even go and see what they're like in Eastern Europe, wow, okay, but I'm most excited about South America Lovely, and Central America, too, lovely, so I will report.
Speaker 2:I will send voice notes and postcards Lovely.
Speaker 1:I will not forget the listeners. They may forget me.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they won't. I'm sure they won't.
Speaker 1:I want to inform the listeners that you will hear from me from afar.
Speaker 3:From afar.
Speaker 1:I will share words of wisdom and hopefully, learn more.
Speaker 2:It's not gone.
Speaker 1:Not gone but for now wish me luck, good luck, and I will.
Speaker 2:Good luck.
Speaker 1:What are you talking about?
Speaker 2:Goodbye, mr Walliams, goodbye, farewell, enjoy your trip, Bon voyage.
Speaker 3:Willy, oh, dear Hello.
Speaker 1:Dan, oh Mr.
Speaker 3:Oshkiss.
Speaker 2:Hello, mate, you just missed him again.
Speaker 1:I heard him.
Speaker 2:He I was talking about. The Wisdom is Low and you Love Yourself tour. Yeah, so he won't be on season four that often, if at all. But listeners are pleased to write in to ask about his journeys. He's abroad. He said he will send us a postcard. I think he's still got his phone number, so I'm sure he'll pick up the odd message.
Speaker 1:Well, write to us.
Speaker 2:If the subject is Willy, we know it's something for the yeah, so send a message. Subject line willy it's a first-look name, it's outlookcom.
Speaker 1:Willy Wisdom is is lonely love yourself willie I don't think he even realized that willie's a rude word no, no, well, it's an acronym, isn't? It wasn't the word no, that's true, it's an acronym.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, um end of the end of the series, end of the series.
Speaker 1:We've had some ups.
Speaker 3:We've had some downs um. End of the end of the series. End of the series.
Speaker 2:My goodness, we've had some ups, we've had some downs.
Speaker 1:More downs.
Speaker 2:I mean, the downs have been flat really, but hopefully season four will be an up. Please write in listeners any feedback. We'll take you on board, any first looks you have what's the address? Firstlooknomes at outlookcom. Any segments you want us to drop, let us know. We'll drop it, the whole podcast just stop recording material, please, yeah should we end on some bad jokes? Sure pun enters the room um should we edit some bad jokes? Sure pun enters the room. 10 people died.
Speaker 1:Pun in 10 dead took me a second put intended what do you call?
Speaker 2:what do you call? He's at a gym, everyone, he's at a gym. What do you call? A factory that makes okay products? I don't know a satisfactory oh dear and then yeah, so that's it, that's it no more jokes, just two well, that's it, and the title name will be back.
Speaker 2:And last episode, if you remember, he was talking about no more jokes, just two. Well, that's it. And the to the nettle name um, we'll be back. And last episode, if you remember, he was talking about his magazine collection. Um, I think that people collect magazines and have a lot of issues. Oh dear, um, I'll leave. I'll leave everyone with this final thought as well there's something shady about trees and on that note, ladies and gentlemen, on that note bid you adieu bid you adieu, see you.
Speaker 2:Season four season four where Mr Hodgekiss will be doing intro, singing each age bye. His palms are sweaty. These weak arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already mom's spaghetti. He opens his mouth but words won't come out. He's choking now. Everybody's choking now. The clock's run out. Time's up Over Blah.
Speaker 1:The gnomes will be back soon for season four.
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