First Look Gnomes
Two Dads doing Silly Things.
About First Look Gnomes
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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Gnome Vault: Viral Bunny Cup Craze, Funniest Gnome Jokes & Ryder Cup 2025 Real Quotes
In this Gnome Vault mini episode, we revisit the viral sensation Bunnies in Cups—a heart-melting trend that’s taken the UK by storm. Expect laughs with gnome jokes and exclusive bonus content featuring the Top 8 real quotes overheard at Ryder Cup 2025. Whether you’re here for cute bunny content, quirky gnome humour, or golf’s most unexpected soundbites, this episode delivers a perfect mix of charm, comedy, and sport.
We admit a strange late-night scroll, weigh what makes something truly cute, and wander from teacups to Belfast pints before finishing with gnome jokes and a sharp look at Ryder Cup crowd behaviour. It’s humour with a point: context matters, in photos, pubs, and fairways.
• safe space to confess odd internet habits
• why bunnies in cups feel right and other pairings feel wrong
• baby honesty, pet safety, and where humour stops
• Belfast pub recommendation and Christmas market impressions
• price shock versus ambience in seasonal spaces
• Europe’s away win, crowd abuse, and standards in golf
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Face for radio and uh voice for podcasting. Oh yeah, I can assume uh invisible something Yeah, so the idea is a podcast. I don't know what it is, but I was gonna know what it is. Yeah. This is this is Uncle Craig on the phone. Not on the phone. It's a boy's man. Anyway. Um we're on the end, but yeah, it's not not quite uh pod and beer drinking. Uh some food, yeah, you need food. Um so what I'm trying to say is um yes, maybe the 27th What was that? Is it Oh dear, oh dear. Alright, mate, have a nice day.
SPEAKER_03:Usual service will resume soon. Meanwhile, delve into the archives and listen to some bonus rider cup content. At the end of this podcast episode.
SPEAKER_01:Uh I've got I've got one big one and I've got a few little ones. So anyway, so I'd I would actually suggest if you have you got two today. I have. So uh I'd I would like to be the meeting between the Wallyam sandwiches, that's okay. So I'd like you to start today if that's alright.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. This is a safe place. Safe place, safe place. Discuss um discuss matters and sort of things like that. And different, you know, different phenomena. So uh the the first look we're going to look at today, Craig. So this goes back a few years ago, and this is a bit of a problem I have. I have a bit of a problem. Oh dear, share it with the audience. So uh me and me and me and Min France, France, France. A few years ago, we're in bed, just uh on our phones, you know, just scrolling through different different pictures and sort of things like that. And and then uh sort of Georgie looks across and says, What are you looking at? Was it Wookiee erotica? And and then and then I'm more like shy and sheepish, like not showing my phone, and she's like, Are you looking at you know are you looking at boobs and things? What are you looking at? Boobs and things she knows you so well. And then and then let's see if I can send you uh an example. Um but then I uh I I I showed her my screen it's not boob and and these it's not boobs and there you go.
SPEAKER_01:So what what are you seeing there, Craig? So again, this is listeners, this is one of the wonderful things about doing this podcast. I've known Walams for many years, right? Like we've been we've been mates for 20 years, and there are still things that I don't know about the uh about the Enigma that is Walliams. So he was in bed, you know, probably getting himself warmed up to put some moves on Georgie, and uh, as she rightly said, are you looking at boobs and things? No. Walliams was looking at pictures of rabbits in teacups. Bunnies in cups. Bunnies in cups. Okay, put you're gonna have to explain this, mate. You're gonna have to explain this because I don't get it at all. But bunnies in cups.
SPEAKER_02:But um, a bunny in a cup is it is a phenomenon that uh does affect other people out there, and uh and bunnies in cups are quite cute. So yeah, so I have been found I have been known to uh now and again look at a picture of a bunny in a cup. So that's my uh confession. Like you said, it's a safe place to discuss these these sorts of things. I'm glad you brought it to our attention, Williams. Yeah, I yeah. It's um so uh right. Yeah, and Georgie was Georgie was quite concerned with the the images I was I was looking at. But uh yeah, bunnies and cups.
SPEAKER_01:Bunnies in cups. Georgie was concerned, yet she still said yes when she when you asked her to marry you. Yeah, yeah. She knew that you like to look at bunnies and cups instead of boobs. Now listeners, so the pictures he sent. I like to look at boobs as well, but um boobs in cups?
SPEAKER_02:That could be next next episode. Well, maybe, maybe, yeah. But no, a cup, there's nothing about a cup. Bunnies, I don't I'm not bothered about bunnies. But bunnies in cups.
SPEAKER_01:Bunnies and cups are they kidding. Well, it it could lead you down all kinds of paths, couldn't it? Uh when you when you put two random things together, you know, what are the results? So, yes, in this instance, I can concur. The bunny uh the these pictures of bunnies in cups are extremely cute. They make me I know we're nearly nearly at Christmas, but they make me feel like it's almost coming up to Easter. I do, yeah. That I can see them, especially I'm admiring some of the teacups. I know my wife is a big fan of a traditional teacup with a floral pattern. There you go. So put a bunny in it. Put a bunny in it, yeah. We used to have a bunny when we were young. We had we had a little bunny. It killed itself. Well you had cups, I'm sure. We did have some cups, we never put them together. I think I think the bun I think our bunny electric I could be wrong, I was very, very young, but I'm pretty sure it chewed through it got into the house, or we let it loose in the house, and it chewed through a cable behind the TV and electrocuted itself. And I think I think it killed itself. So again, suicidal bunny. This is another another thing. If you were not, I wouldn't say it was suicidal, it just obviously there's probably some crumbs behind the telly or something. But you know, this is this is a reminder that to take bunny safety seriously, Williams. Take a bunny safe if you have a bunny, bunnies are not just for life, you know, and all that jazz.
SPEAKER_02:No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01:So uh yeah, how did you find this phenomenon? Bunny bunnies in cups.
SPEAKER_02:How did you get I don't actually know? I don't actually know, Craig. I think I stumbled across it and I just felt very uh very hoppy afterwards. Very hoppy, fit all warm and fluffy inside. Yeah, no, I'm not I'm not usually one for uh cuteness.
SPEAKER_01:It's uh yeah, but bunnies and cups. Bunnies in cups. I I don't do you think a bunny in cup would be better than say a puppy in a bucket? Or I've not I've not experienced a puppy in a bucket. Or a kitten in a shoe. You know, like a like a tiny kitten in a giant shoe.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not getting any no, that's that's the weird thing. I'm not really getting any any vibes, any cute vibes from a puppy in a bucket or a what is it? A kitten in a shoe.
SPEAKER_01:Puppy in a bucket sounds quite sinister, doesn't it? That sounds like one of those things where you're like a puppy in a I didn't mean it to. So I get a child in a Moses basket. There we go. Which is more common.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. I should do. I've sort of got um uh a little a little sprout on the way.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, um but uh yeah, no, let's be honest, babies are ugly bug, isn't they, anyway? You know, they don't get they don't actually look nice until they're about six months old. I could be wrong. I know they're like, oh, it's a little baby, but they just look like squished up gremlins when they first come out. I remember when Brain first came out, I was like, Fuh no. But you know, do I love him? Clearly, instantly. Do I think he's handsome? No, he's got a squished up face. His head's all f his head's all wonky and he's covered in muconium. You got all this to come, Williams.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well maybe yeah, maybe I'll just look at pictures of bunnies and cups.
SPEAKER_01:Bunnies in cups, yeah. Keep it for bunnies in cups. Think, you know what? I'm gonna give a shout out to them. So I went to a shout out. I went to a pub the other day in Belfast called the Jail House. It was a very classy bar. Me and a friend of mine stood at the bar, and we had a good chillaging bar for classy people. Classy bar for classy people. It was uh we had to go down a little alleyway called Joy's Entry to get in, which I quite enjoyed going into Joy's Entry. And we had it that had good beer on tap, the ambience was good, they had a nice fireplace, and yeah, Jow House in Belfast. I was like, this is great. And this was on a Thursday night. So we've been in and we also had a look at the our first look at the Belfast Christmas market, which again, for anyone of you in Northern Ireland, Christmas markets have been around for I don't know, 15-20 years. I feel like I've been going to a Christmas market every year for a long time, and they get a bit monotonous and they're all a bit samey. But the Belfast one this year, again, I'm gonna it was it was class. Some of the stalls are selling decent stuff and it's not too overpriced, and they've got the the beer is overpriced. We went in, they've got a beer tent there.
SPEAKER_02:Any mould wine?
SPEAKER_01:Yes, they do have mould wine. We went into hear this, Williams. So again, this is hear this. We went into the we went into the Christmas market beer tent. We had a s one pint of cider and one pint of beer served in plastic cups. How much do you think it was for two drinks at a Christmas market? After I've just said it wasn't expensive. This was 18 pounds for two drinks. That was just like, oh, flip me. And it was bong, the place you couldn't move. But no.
SPEAKER_02:What do you call a psychic gnome who escaped from prison?
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. Alias, what do you call a psychic gnome who's escaped from prison? A small medium at large.
SPEAKER_02:That's quite clever for a gnome joke. Very good. Knock knock. Who's there? Gnome. I can't reach the doorbell. Oh dear. Oh dear. Dear, yeah. And why are why are gnome jokes or one-liners? I don't know. They're always short. They're always ha ha.
SPEAKER_00:The 45th Ryder Cup matches was a golf tournament in 2025 for the Ryder Cup, a biennial competition between Europe and the United States. It was held in the United States from September 26, 28 on the Black Course of Beth Page State Park in Farmingdale, New York. Europe beat the United States by a score of 15 to 13, becoming the first away team to win the event since 2012. The behavior of the American crowds during the event was criticized, with Sky News calling it the most abusive Ryder Cup in almost a century of matches, and Roar stating that golf should be held to a higher standard. Here are the gnomes top eight all legitimate things heard shouted at the Ryder Cup.
SPEAKER_03:Release the hands! Grip it hard! Demolish that hole! I felt that one! Ball stink! Keep coming, keep coming! Go, baby, go, baby, go, baby, go, baby, go!
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