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Welcome to First Look Gnomes – your all-access pass to quirky insights, unexpected discoverables, and offbeat humour that makes learning fun. Hosted by "Walliams" (broadcasting from the bottom of his garden in Cornwall, England) and Mr Hodgkiss (sharing stories straight from his Garden in Belfast, Northern Ireland), this podcast blends random yet fascinating trivia with genuine, heart-warming dad-jokes and thought-provoking conversation.
Twice a month, these two dads dive into topics that range from historical oddities and bizarre cultural titbits to contemporary curiosities and everyday marvels.
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Toddler Brio Train Obsession & What Is a Hematoma? | First Look Gnomes
The Gnomes are back with a fresh first look — and this time, we’re diving into two wildly different, but totally relatable, topics.
First, we tackle the hematoma — that mysterious bump or bruise (often on the shin!) that shows up after a knock. Is it dangerous? How long does it last? When should you worry?
Then, we switch gears to something every parent will understand: toddlers who are obsessed with YouTube videos of Brio trains and toy playthroughs. Why are kids so mesmerized by strangers playing with toys online — and what does it mean?
It’s a weird, wonderful, and informative return to regular Gnome programming.
We're back with our usual mix of personal mishaps, parenting adventures, and random facts as we dive into Season Four, Episode Four.
• One host details an impressive home renovation injury - a lemon-sized hematoma from falling onto a fence post while building a wall
• Children's YouTube channels featuring wooden train sets and toy cars emerge as unexpected parenting discussion topics
• Struggles with parents trying to use technology to listen to podcasts provide comedic relief
• Tips shared on finding affordable Brio train sets for toddlers, though they apparently hold their value well
• The podcast is mysteriously ranking for search terms like "children's television" and "historical curiosities"
• Parenting advice: YouTube can be good in moderation, but monitor content carefully
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all about, all About Episode 4. All About Episode 4 but that's how it goes. Millions of people listening. Maybe it's too late to learn how to pod episode 4. How are you mate?
Speaker 2:Hey brother.
Speaker 1:Season four, episode four. It was meant to be all a four, but I thought All a four.
Speaker 2:It was very good All a four.
Speaker 1:It was very, very good. It was very, very good. Yeah, 10 out of 10. Probably insert some, uh, some of your guitar playing or something how you doing I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm doing all right, williams, I'm doing all right. I'm a bit um the last few months of, as we talked about in the last episode and probably the episode before that. We're just still in the in the kind of craziness that is house renovation crazy, crazy, yeah, sorry, uh. Yeah, everything, everything's all good. We're just, we're just in a bit of crazy crazy listeners, uh listeners, mr hodgkiss.
Speaker 1:This is a little uh announcement. Mr hodgkiss is very tired.
Speaker 2:He's been working many hours, so he is a bit crazy, but that's how it goes. Volumes, but that's how it goes aren't we all a little crazy? Is there a song about that? I think we should all get a little crazy. Isn't that a damski and killer, killer and Seal.
Speaker 1:Is that a Beyonce one, crazy?
Speaker 2:That's crazy in love. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
Speaker 1:I'm just fine. I'm just fine.
Speaker 2:Oh dear, oh dear, we've fallen off the cliff already, but yes, I'm very well thank you, adams, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm good, I'm good. Let me try to keep this on track. On the train track, grab your rod, mr Hodgekiss. Grab your rod whilst you're still in there, where it is.
Speaker 2:I don't think we've got the energy. Hang on, hang on, hang on, Go on. I've grabbed it.
Speaker 1:It's the fish pod of feedback Yay.
Speaker 2:Yay Fish pod of feedback.
Speaker 1:Also, 40-odd-year-old Mr Hodgkiss is stinging his pants at the moment so we apologise. I apologise for his parents. You can probably hear through his walls.
Speaker 2:It's about time they listen to one of the podcasts, so they might as well listen to me recording it, because I haven't listened to the actual bloody thing I said to Mum once we bought my mum an Alexa so that she could listen to the podcast, Because she's like how do we listen to these? Podcasts. Craig, I want to listen to these podcasts and I was like trying to explain it to her and I said do you know what the easiest thing is? Let's just borrow Alexa, because then she can do it.
Speaker 1:But she never has the Alexa plugged in and then she starts trying to talk to it and it doesn't listen to her.
Speaker 2:It just ignores her. She's like Alexa. Alexa play my son Play, my son Play, my son Play my son Podcast, podcast, podcast, and then all of a sudden she's listening to, I don't know, some random kind of Spandau Valley radio station or something.
Speaker 1:My son FM.
Speaker 2:It doesn't work. It was fun. She was trying to get BBC Sounds on recently. The digital services I'm sure are available, but she's like I can't get it to work. What do I do? It keeps asking me to do things. I'm like just talk to it, mum, and she's like I do talk to it, but then it asks me to sign in somewhere. I said you know you sign in to listen to the radio. And she said it asks me for some money. I said no, it didn't ask me for anybody.
Speaker 1:That was me. That was me. I phoned Drap and said can I have some money for the download?
Speaker 2:please.
Speaker 1:Play my son. Play my son. I want the podcast play my son To help our stats for those listening on a speakerphone. Alexa play First. Look Nervous.
Speaker 2:Very good, yes, so she can hear me recording it now, I'm sure, and she's probably thinking what the hell's going on.
Speaker 1:She actually did the best half of the podcast well, that's it she made.
Speaker 2:She may make an appearance at some point. Because I said right, mom, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna take some beers, I'm gonna go chat to our names, I'll come and tell you good night when I go to bed. So I said, well, I will be recording mom, so you're probably on air if we call and she's like oh okay, so my mom might show up at any moment of the podcast and you're special.
Speaker 1:Lastly, and she'll go in there, hello, hello.
Speaker 2:And then she'll be able to see him. Because I'm wearing headphones, she won't be able to hear you, so then she'll be like I can him, because I'm wearing headphones, she'll be able to hear you. So then she'll be like I can't hear him. I can't hear him. Very cute, very cute, you sound like you sound like Orville.
Speaker 1:Orville the duck, orville the duck.
Speaker 2:I wish I could. I can't, I can't. I wish I could get my son's podcast, but I can't. You can wish I could get my son's podcast, but I can't, you can't.
Speaker 1:It's the same. I can't, you can't.
Speaker 2:Ask Alexa to play my son Crazy, crazy, crazy Anyway.
Speaker 1:Anyways, the wife of my wife emailed in.
Speaker 2:Oh very good.
Speaker 1:She said she enjoyed the postcard segment. It turns out it was only his voice that was cringe, she said.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's about the net one name. Oh, yes, yes, he hasn't sent any voice notes in has he. No, not yet, Not yet, I think I did think about him a few weeks ago and then just I've been oh sorry, he's been busy, he's been busy clearly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe he's met all the duck, that'd be a nice little voice note, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2:No other name in all for the duck.
Speaker 1:She also said she skipped the Google IO section.
Speaker 2:Oh, this is her words.
Speaker 1:It says and didn't tickle her pickle, which I thought was a bit. I don't know if that's appropriate terms. You can use these days.
Speaker 2:If she'd listened to the rest, she'd have learned how Google can tickle her pickle. But now she'll never know, can it?
Speaker 1:In 3D, apparently. For those that missed out, listen back. New listeners, mr Oshkiss. New listeners. We've got new listeners from Richmond in the Tasman district in US Richmond, usa or Richmond UK. Tasman district? I don't know Tasman district, is it in your? Sister, not UK that's not Tasman, no Richmond, tas, tasman, tasman, no Richmond, tas, tasman Tasman Al-Mansur in Daki Hali.
Speaker 2:Easy music.
Speaker 1:Nakano City in Tokyo. Danang, danang, calgary, alberta, what are you laughing at?
Speaker 2:It's the way you were concentrating so hard on saying that's not that hard to say, but the focus in your eyes.
Speaker 1:Listeners appreciate my pronunciation. Calgary Alberta.
Speaker 2:Calgary.
Speaker 1:Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do, do-do-do, phenom Do-do-do-do. Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do-do. Sorry, phenomenomenomenomenomen like a WF tag team.
Speaker 2:Phenomenon, phenomenon.
Speaker 1:Crazy Oxnard, California. Very nice and we've had loads of downloads, new listeners in North Bergen, new Jersey. Yeah, maybe my sister, maybe, maybe she can use a smart speaker to listen to her brother on a podcast in North Bergen, new Jersey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe my sister, Maybe maybe she can use a smart speaker to listen to her brother on a podcast. What does she sound like when she?
Speaker 1:What does he sound like?
Speaker 2:Alexa, play me brother on the podcast. Would you Come on play me brother now.
Speaker 1:Play me brother, play me brother.
Speaker 2:Play me brother. Me mother can't do it. I want to check it works.
Speaker 1:Lots of new listeners, so I've still got more to say Minya, minya.
Speaker 2:The night of the phenomenon of Minya Minya Yep.
Speaker 1:And this one you might need to.
Speaker 2:Are you making things up?
Speaker 1:No, I'm not, let me just chat gbt. I need to I need to make it sound like we've got new listeners.
Speaker 2:What can we say?
Speaker 1:we do. We do have new listeners. We do have new listeners. One. You need to help me with where this one is. Every night I've been thinking, I've been. Well, I've been hugging my pillow thinking where it is. You have to show me the way to this one. The listener is. There's a church bell ringing. It's amarillo. Sorry, I should let you carry on there. It was. Oh, I was just welcome. I was too keen, sorry well, well done, well done, yeah. So welcome to our new listener, maria.
Speaker 1:Other news a little news a little segment which I knew you, I know you sort of appreciate. So obviously we're top ranking on apple podcasts and Spotify rankings.
Speaker 2:Goodness knows how, but still.
Speaker 1:We come up. So again, these are search terms. So three Top three keywords this one, I'm quite chuffed. We come up for Fascinating trivia, mr Hodgkiss, fascinating trivia. In July. If you typed in Spotify fascinating trivia and you scroll down to 100, number 156, the list, we would have been there for fascinating trivia. How good's that as if anyone's ever getting to page 156.
Speaker 2:like anything, anything On any kind of search.
Speaker 1:Alright, alright, alright, I'll higher up the rankings. Mr Hodgkiss, if you typed in, if you scroll down to 119, when you've just typed in wallabies, we would have been 119 on the list 119 for wallabies?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but when did we ever talk about wallabies?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but number 25, miss Archie Giss, which has got to be what page? I don't really use Spotify If you scroll down to 25. Probably page 2,. Yeah, page 2. If you typed in historical curiosities, Historical curiosities.
Speaker 2:Well, we do talk about some historical places we visit, so maybe that's not a bad one and then this one on apple podcasts.
Speaker 1:16th, and we've had this before and it's not tropical fruits. If you type in children's television, we're number 16 on the list.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1:At one point.
Speaker 2:What about if people search for things like funny podcast, dad podcast, good podcast, make me laugh. Where do we come there?
Speaker 1:Well, less than 156.
Speaker 2:Work to be done. Work to be done yes. Work to be done.
Speaker 1:Work to be done yes work to be done, but not much more work than needs to be done on children's television there we go Apart from we don't talk about children's television.
Speaker 2:We should try and get someone from children's television to come on the podcast, like Andy Peters or Derek Griffiths from my childhood. I loved his voice.
Speaker 1:You know them do you, it's Michaela Strachan. Swiftly moving on, before we lose you.
Speaker 2:I think it's already happened, william. I've spilt beer all over the bed. Never mind, oh no, sticky bed, what?
Speaker 1:are we going to do Back at your parents' base and you've got a sticky bed. I we going to do back at your parents face and you've got a sticky bed.
Speaker 2:I need some tissue, mum. What's about to create?
Speaker 1:do you want to get onto your first look, christophe probably should I'm trying to put look at this. I wasn't a yes-no question.
Speaker 2:I've been trying to pull this for you now for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1:What is?
Speaker 2:that I don't know. Shit glasses in this house, the heads I'm 50% of the glass I know, and the rest of it's all on the floor, never mind.
Speaker 1:We 50% foam, 50% on the floor nothing inside of me anyway first look first look.
Speaker 2:I thought I would introduce this first look because it's not a particularly exciting one, but it seems to be a topic I talk about often, so I thought I'd introduce it with a poem oh lovely, so here we go. Naomi Numpty was building a wall, naomi. Numpty had a great fall. Naomi Numpty was building a wall. Naomi Numpty had a great fall, oh no. Naomi Numpty shouted Doe like Homer, looked down and on his shin was a fucking massive hematoma. Oh no has it gone down.
Speaker 2:I can actually show you. Oh no, I can't. I was able to switch the cameras before. Yes, you can, I'm recording this on my phone. Ladies and gentlemen, today, because I'm staying at my mum and dad's house and you can flip cameras, hang on, I can turn it around, there you go. Oh, look at that. Lovely Can you see that.
Speaker 1:Listeners. We look at that lovely. Can you see that?
Speaker 2:listeners we've got a nice sexy shot of Miss Hardrick's leg and there's a a big, a big bump, I suppose, is the, yeah, the lightest way to call it. So I think the doctor thinks I've broken my shin and said you should get you need to get an x-ray, but I've been too busy so I haven't gone to get an.
Speaker 2:So I actually work for two doctors, one of whom is a sports doctor who works with MMA professionals, and so here's a story. So, yes, the first look is a first look at hematomas. I've never had a hematoma before, and this one is the size of a lemon. So I fell over in because we're doing renovations at the minute. I fell over and landed. We were building a wall and I fell over and landed first on a fence post and it was the fence post cracked. It was a 4x4 fence post and it cracked and I literally yelped. I've never yelped before and I yelped. I was like ow, proper, like ow, and I was like, oh, I did that thing, you know, oh, that really that's all that is.
Speaker 2:I was like, right, get up, because once you've fallen over so you look like a tit. And then I was like get up, get up, you're like a tit, start it out, walk it off, start it out. And I stood up and. I had shorts on and I looked down and I'm not kidding it had swollen up. It was like somebody had actually put a tennis ball under my shin just straight away and I was like whoa, that's frightening what the heck is that?
Speaker 2:and I was 40 minutes away from doing a presentation to my two doctor bosses and I was like okay, what's it a day now? Bearing in mind this was a okay, what should I do Now, bearing in mind this was a Monday, and on the Sunday I had put my shoulder out?
Speaker 2:because I was lifting floorboards and I had to go next door because we've got no freezer. The house is empty. So I had to go and knock the next door neighbours and say you got any? Excuse me, I need a bottle of peas please. I need some frozen peas because I've hurt my shoulder, so I borrowed a bag of frozen. She didn't have any peas, so she gave me a bag of frozen sprouts. So this was on the Sunday and then on the Monday I did this and I was like I need to get ice on that quick. But I thought I can't go and knock the next door neighbour and ask for more frozen vegetables Me again. Hello, we've got new broccoli.
Speaker 2:We've got some frozen carrots. Before you know it, I've just emptied the woman's freezer.
Speaker 1:of all the frozen vegetables, you've got roast chicken as well.
Speaker 2:Any beer. So I thought better of it and I got in the car and zoomed to the shop and bought myself some frozen peas. And I got back and I elevated my leg and I was like I've got to do one of the most important presentations in about 15 minutes time so. But I was full of adrenaline, like cause. I panicked a little bit. I was a bit like do.
Speaker 1:I need to go and?
Speaker 2:do I need to go to the emergency room? What do I need to do? Cause it was so big and I was like, okay, so I started the present. I was like, just, you'll be fine, stop being a big worrywart, it's just. It's obviously just a bad swelling, it'll be fine. So I got the call, I started the presentation and because it was so full of adrenaline, I was like I feel a bit funny at the minute because I've just had this and I told them what happened and luckily, the two doctors so was like, ah, let's see. And I showed them and they're like yes, okay, that's a hematoma. And so it's very common with mixed martial artists because they kick each other.
Speaker 2:And their shins go shin to shin. So I say it's really common, but it's pretty much superficial, because there's no, it's like because I was running like oh it's quite because I was running like, oh, it's quite big.
Speaker 2:What about clots and all this kind of stuff? No, you're okay, it should be. It's not in your, like your knee, or your deep like your deep veins or anything, they said. But he said, because of the size of it, in about a week you're gonna be with black toes. And I was like, really, black toes, black toes. And I said okay, well, I said because what will happen is as, as it starts to come down, the blurred face pool now will start to harden and will need to go somewhere.
Speaker 2:So gravity pulls it down, so all the bruising will appear in your foot and a week later I had black toes and a black foot.
Speaker 1:And I was like wow.
Speaker 2:But I was like it's really funny. I don't know if you're a hypochondriac, but I'm a little bit of a hypochondriac. If something happens like that, I worry a bit. I'm like, oh, is it okay, Is it healing right?
Speaker 1:How lucky are you to have MMA doctors just on hand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was, it was incredible. So I showed them and they told me to get elevated. They gave me a treatment plan, my presentation and crushed it. So that was good and yeah, then, like about a week later I had to. I had a talk with them again. I told them up there and I told I said you're right, I've got black toes and they've just been helping me all along like they're like right. After a while they're like they need a tennis ball. You need to rub the tennis ball on because you're trying to get it to go down. You need the. You need your body to reabsorb the blood. That's there and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:And they said to me I said, look, I actually went and saw my GP just to make sure there was nothing wrong with it because, my foot went black, but my leg went yellow and I was like and it was quite warm. I was like, hmm, I was a bit worried because the actual human time had got quite warm.
Speaker 2:So I went and saw the doctor and she was like I think you've broken it. You need to you go and get it X-rayed. He said you can, but the treatment plan won't be any different. So you know you can go and get it now for peace of mind that you've got a hairline fracture, but they won't treat it any different. It'll still just be a case of rest and elevation and you know heat and all that kind of stuff. So it's been interesting.
Speaker 1:Hematoma, hematoma.
Speaker 2:If you Google it like boxers, get them a lot. So you know like when you see boxers get punched in the face and their face goes all swollen A lot of the time that's hematoma. So you'll see them kind of with like a, like a cold piece of metal kind of pushing down. They're trying to push the blood back into the thing thing to be reabsorbed so it doesn't swell so much. Yeah, it's interesting. I've learned a lot about it, like having to read about it Good.
Speaker 1:I'll go on to my first look, shall I?
Speaker 2:You can, I could just keep talking. I've been talking for two hours, so I could just keep talking, if you want or would you like to do your first look.
Speaker 1:I'll do my first look, please. I'll do my first look.
Speaker 2:Please do your first look at the volumes.
Speaker 1:My son is two, two and a half now.
Speaker 2:Two and a half, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:He's crazy, but we've just. A little tip for Dad as well Be careful with your YouTube and all that, but we've started using some YouTube stuff. I can't remember how well we started. But he wanted something specific, and this channel we came across is called Jake's Trains and it's basically, do you know, brio Brio.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, yes, B-R-I-O. Yeah, so it's a wooden train set.
Speaker 1:He's got his own wooden train set, which good, good friends of ours gave gave Logan and he loves his train set and and I think it happens to a lot of toddlers and and it's quite captivating watching someone play with toys. So this channel is basically someone playing with Brio train sets Okay, relaxing. And I found myself just sort of you've got to be careful because we were worried first of all as parents. Is this just like brain numbing, telly? Yeah, because it's just like wooden trains being pushed around and and things. But we liked it, we, we asked someone this. Now it's fine. Just, you know, lack of anything in moderation, you know, don't watch it all day type thing, yeah, um, but yeah, brio trains. But yeah, brio is expensive, so expensive. So that's something we've started watching.
Speaker 2:Have you found the ones where it's like kids opening eggs or something? That was a big trend when Brian was a kid.
Speaker 1:No, not yet, but the channel led us on to a similar thing about cars, so he's really into the movie Cars.
Speaker 2:Oh nice, good choice. A similar thing, but cars.
Speaker 1:So he's really into the movie cars. Oh nice, good choice. But there's there's toys of cars, car toys of the pixar movie cars, and there's so many videos. There's people playing with these cars and they have like actual, just a little bit like scale, electric, but sort of wind up ones, and then they set up the course and then they have you know, mcqueen versus Jackson and it was called, and they race around and these people just set up and film them, set their YouTube channels and just film these different races going on and sort of you know tree in the background. And it's a YouTube is a weird world of nonsense, but some good stuff out there. Just be careful, because obviously it's not monitored stuff. So you've got to be careful what channels you do, and there's the.
Speaker 2:YouTube kids in there, which is a bit better. Yeah, it's funny though, because so obviously Logan's two and a half, brayden's nine, so nearly ten. There's like nearly eight years of difference between the two kids. Seven and a half eight years difference. But when Brayden was about two and a half he used to watch. I remember vividly a video called Murdoch versus Wobbly School Bus. Exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Murdoch versus Wobbly School.
Speaker 2:Bus, so Murdoch is a train from Thomas the Tank Engine.
Speaker 1:Scottish train, orange train, and it was Murdoch versus a.
Speaker 2:Wobbly School Bus and it was Murdoch versus a wobbly school bus, and it was like they put two a train on the track and a wobbly school bus on the track. Yeah, and I don't remember the music. The music was like do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, which I think is used on like every third YouTube video.
Speaker 2:now it's supposed to be like a royalty free one or something, but yeah, it is, and you think now so if logan's seven and a half years, there's still videos like murdoch versus wabbi school bus, the people who made those videos now must be on like hundreds of thousands of views just because of time oh yeah, I looked at these and they're like wow, and you think if they, if they monetize those, if they said it's a bit like investing.
Speaker 2:You know people are like investment in the future, get money. The people who were early adopters of putting YouTube videos on are probably coining it in now and just videos like that of Lightning McQueen races and Thomas the Tank Engine races Hundreds of thousands of views per episode. It's overall for the channel you need to be able to adopt on stuff, Don't you?
Speaker 1:But it's it's a professional setup that they have. You know, someone has a big table and they it's like stop motion photography and videos and you do see that the finger coming down pointing, pushing the train around, yeah, but you know, just whack on a background track the artist choo-choo and all that sort of stuff. But and there's other little voice notes that Logan's picked up- on like there's go, go, go, go go and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:But yes, jake Strains, brio, brio is well worth. It's expensive. But if you can get the knockoff versions and quite often we find ourselves building a brio track his mum's much better than me I end up doing like a little circle where where's georgie?
Speaker 2:just a whole, you know, sort of like a formula one circuit type thing you know nice and bridges and yeah well you know you said about tips for dads, williams, here's a tip for dads based on train tips. So brayden, so similar thing, right, all little boys just love train sets. So ebay's your friend. I remember when bray was about two or three for christmas he wanted. All he wanted was thomas or train, and I ended up going to like facebook marketplace and all that and you can get just bags of the of the stuff and then you can.
Speaker 2:I remember on christmas morning we set up the whole floor and just connected all this big ass train set with all the different things like cranking the crane and the turning circle, whatever it was, but it was all kind of second hand. But when you put it all out it looked epic and I think the whole thing cost us like 46 quid or something ridiculous. So for Brio and that's one of the books, there's a lot of parents out there who are just like, oh, I've just got a bulk lot of, just like, oh, a bag full of Brio or whatever.
Speaker 1:Have a look. Well, you say that we looked, so the wife-wife uses Vinted, got a couple bits but brio, the actual brio stuff. It actually keeps its value. Oh, does it okay? So even like secondhand stuff, third hand stuff, is it's.
Speaker 2:It can be a little bit cheaper but actually holds its value okay but um, yeah, there's other non-branded stuff that you know, yeah, does it all work with the other non-branded that works with the brio stuff, yeah, yeah yeah, but the brio is good, good quality stuff. But it sounds like you're enjoying yourself, but you do need to get.
Speaker 1:I am, I do yeah, yeah, yeah, I need to get better designs, but the noises though if george can build the tracks, you can just do all the noises.
Speaker 2:You know you're the winner dream team.
Speaker 1:But I do worry where this is going because we all say I mean actually the wife's worse than me, but we ended up so we had the, obviously the wooden ones you can push around, but now we've got some battery powered ones as well. Nice battery and it makes sounds and it goes around some.
Speaker 2:I am worried I'm gonna end up in the loft of a full train set oh, I wouldn't be surprised, and you love every minute I can take you to the room next door and show you my dad's train set.
Speaker 1:Well, there you go.
Speaker 2:You got my mum, who can't use smart speakers, and you got my dad, who has got a train set probably worth more than the house and the collection of trains. And it brings him a lot of joy.
Speaker 1:Williams, he's a very happy man, it does to a lot of people. I can see myself going down that route.
Speaker 2:Well, there was a big train exhibition on Derby this weekend, or just this week, I think and Pete Waterman was there with his big train set. Apparently it took two lorries to move it and shift it there. Massive train enthusiasts because they're celebrating 200 years of British rail and British train this week Maybe have a look at what's going on there.
Speaker 1:If you're on YouTube, maybe you can have a look at what's going on there if you're on YouTube maybe we can have a look at some of the original steam trains and have a look at some of the model trains that are on display there tips for dads. Tips for dads, tips for dads. I'll just end on a first look fact. First look fact. I found out that french fries were actually first weren't well, they weren't actually made, first made in France okay they were first cooked in Greece.
Speaker 2:That's a bad joke, sorry at least I got that one. I listened back to a couple of episodes and I was like god, you're so dense you don't get any of some of these jokes. They're so obviously jokes. I got that one.
Speaker 1:That was my level, nice and simple alright, listeners, see you in a couple of weeks. We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Bye, crazy there's been a lot of weeks. We'll see you in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:Bye, crazy, there's been a lot of trains in this episode Williams, talking trains Crazy, but that's how it goes. Williams, but that's how it goes. Don't forget to follow, like, review and share.
