First Look Gnomes

First Look at Buying a Car, Dad Hacks, the Pinter Beer Gadget & Pints and First Bites

• First Look Gnomes • Season 4 • Episode 9

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 This week, the Gnomes take a First Look at buying a car .

Then it’s time for a Pints & First Bites segment featuring a Pinter brew test — we find out if this home beer gadget is actually genius or just gnome-shaped chaos. 🍻

🎧 Tune in for relatable parenting moments, honest reviews, and the kind of pub chat that somehow always ends up about snacks.

First Look Gnomes – discovering life’s firsts, one pint at a time.


Two dads try chilli cheese peanuts, then tackle the stress of buying a used car without the jargon, from finance traps to pointless add-ons. We ask listeners for parenting advice, defend smart screen time, and celebrate a fresh, no-fuss home brew that actually tastes great.

• admitting zero car expertise and setting simple needs
• PCP versus HP in plain English and total cost thinking
• saying no to add-ons like paint and fabric sealants
• finding reliability with better sources not random lists
• used car test drive basics and avoiding pressure
• candid parenting: body questions and timing answers
• screen time as preparation tool for the opticians
• first look at Pinter home brew: process, cost, taste
• patience, cleaning, and cold-crash tips for fresher pints

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SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to FirstLook Gnomes, your go-to podcast with dads doing silly things. Share tips with dads, and of course the dad jokes and the bad games. But most importantly, we're here to share our first looks.

SPEAKER_02:

And share your thoughts, questions, and own first looks with us at firstluckgnomes at outlook.com.

SPEAKER_00:

And uh over to you, Starchikis.

SPEAKER_02:

Is there no intro this week, Williams? Are you not singing?

SPEAKER_01:

Nein! Nein, das ist die Wirtvlog nuant episode von First Look Gnomes. Feinzen Usbussen! Feinsen First Benz! Nein! Fines and First Bates! Nein!

SPEAKER_02:

Nein! I I fell into that one, didn't I? I fell into that one. So, ladies and gentlemen, as we're about to start recording the podcast, there's like a little countdown timer comes on. And usually I just sit there and wait for the wonderful lyrics and songs that come out of Mr. Williams. And then he just said over to you and fell for it. I should have realised we're on episode nine. He's gonna say nine, isn't he? He's gonna germin me. He's gonna germin me. Nine.

SPEAKER_01:

Punts of us, bites, pints of us, bites! Pints and first bites! Yeah, pints and best bites!

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, okay, so it if we follow the rhythm of recent episodes, this one should be a pint. However, yeah, I'm gonna say Oh, he's trying to give me a clue, ladies and gentlemen. I was gonna say, I reckon you're gonna mix it up, and this is gonna be a first bite.

SPEAKER_00:

It's a first bite!

SPEAKER_01:

Wait!

SPEAKER_00:

Pints a first bites! Uh I've got fully loaded chili cheese peanuts.

SPEAKER_02:

Fully loaded chili cheese peanuts. Fully loaded chili cheese. I love that peanut packet. That packet is cool.

SPEAKER_00:

From Snack Ride, it says in a little green box at the top, it says I'm new. It's good to know, isn't it? It's good to know. Me and Ms. Hodge, because before the podcast, we're literally just talking about how we should uh look after ourselves. And I've got fully loaded chili cheese peanuts. Um suitable for vegetarians. Source of protein. Oh that's something. Well, on the last episode it was a high source of protein with the pork.

SPEAKER_02:

How are you not ripped, Wally?

SPEAKER_00:

The wife's buying these for me, so maybe it's a little project she's working on.

SPEAKER_02:

I reckon protein. Wallyams is like Ned Flanders. So every so often he just takes off his shirt and he's just absolutely ripped. You look a bit like Ned Flanders, actually. I don't know. But they're saying that. You show that package, and you know, so in the United Kingdom on food they have the package of the not your package. You see your package, Wally's it's full of protein. Um the the package has five little things on it. So it's fat, saturated fat, salt, and they're colour coded to make it easy to know what's healthy. This is red, red, red, amber, amber. Only amber for salt, though. That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00:

That's not too bad, yeah. Uh vegetarian, uh roasted peanuts with a chili and cheese seasoning.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, heartburn in a bag, that is. Heartburn in a bag. Let's give it a go, shall we? Let's give it a go. Let's give it a go, Alves. Let's see what these are like. Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Can't taste the cheese.

SPEAKER_02:

No cheese. It's good, you know?

SPEAKER_00:

Your pack your package shouldn't.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, okay. You got a cheesy package.

SPEAKER_00:

Cheesy nuts. I've got cheesy nuts.

SPEAKER_02:

You got cheesy nuts.

SPEAKER_00:

Hot cheesy nuts. Yeah, I'm not really a fan of cheese flavouring. I like cheese. But cheese flavouring. No, you know what that cheese cheese.

SPEAKER_02:

Mini cheddars?

SPEAKER_00:

Mini cheddars, but mini cheddar are made of real cheese.

SPEAKER_02:

Not cheese flavouring?

SPEAKER_00:

No.

SPEAKER_02:

How are they made of real cheese? They're like crackers.

SPEAKER_00:

Flavoured with real cheese.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. As opposed to other flip cheese flavours which isn't real cheese. Okay. I think it's quite it's just one of those ridiculous kind of quizzes. Which cheese snacks are actual actually flavoured with cheese versus which cheese snacks are artificial cheese?

SPEAKER_00:

Brands like Jacob's mini cheddars explicitly state on their packaging and in their product descriptions that they are baked with real cheese to give them a cheesy flavour. The process involves mixing real cheese into the dough before baking.

SPEAKER_02:

Are these artificial cheese Williams or are these flavoured with real cheese?

SPEAKER_00:

90% peanut.

SPEAKER_02:

Well that's good to know.

SPEAKER_00:

For peanuts, yeah. And then a lot of stuff. Ground turmeric, ground white pepper, ground cumin, tomato powder, smoked paprika, citric aclic powder, calcium lactate.

SPEAKER_02:

So I'm gonna ask one of the question here. So before this podcast, we said that the latest episode hasn't got that many listeners. And then he reads out the ingredients of a packet of peanuts. And I'm just sitting here thinking, I wonder why I listen to this. Turmeric. Grand paprika. Riveting. Is it real cheese or not cheese?

SPEAKER_00:

Shall we move on to your first look, Matrodskis?

SPEAKER_02:

Is it garlic powder? Or is it artificial? Nope.

SPEAKER_00:

Crack on with your first lip, please, Mitronkis.

SPEAKER_02:

With my first look, save us, save us. Save us. Okay, so we uh so this is this is it's a it's a first look. Um and it it shows a weakness, Wallyam. It shows weakness, you know. We've talked recently about barbecues and tours and manly men and the things that's manly men and nuts and packages full of cheese and all sorts of manly manly things.

SPEAKER_01:

Cheesy nuts.

SPEAKER_02:

One of the things that a stereotypical man would know about is cars, right? Like engines, horsepower, fast cars. I I know eck all about cars, yet we had to go car shopping. Oh, so this is I'm gonna is it fun though, Wallyams? Actually, is it fun? If you don't know anything about cars other than I like red ones, is it actually a fun experience when you've got people who are like coming getting you in and saying, Have a look at this lovely car? It's got X, it's got Y, it's got the same like, hmm, yeah, hmm, yeah. What a hmm. Has it has it got mats and an air freshener? And what colour is it? Like you just you just feel like a fool, Wallyams. So, yes, I'm gonna uh first look at car shopping when you know nothing about cars.

SPEAKER_00:

Then you've got the different finance options and I didn't know anything about these.

SPEAKER_02:

I I honestly this this blew my mind. So we went in and we were talking to a person about a car, and they're like, So are you looking at PCP? Are you looking at HP? And HP is literally like the source. I was like, what do you mean, hate? What's HP? I was like, what's that mean? Like, are you buying the car? I'm like, I'm here to buy a car. What what like can I just do when I'll just like give you some money and like have the car? Oh no, no, no, got all these finance options. This one's 13.9%. Well, what do you mean 13.9% interest? I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_00:

I'm buying a car, what all the prices of cars have shot up now because everyone pays monthly.

SPEAKER_02:

It's mad. And then you know what they had the audacity to say. So we were in a situation where we had sold the other car, and we're like, cool, we're not we we're not like we're not buying expensive cars, we're not in that market. The guy had the audacity to say, Oh no, no, we don't make any money from just selling the cars, all the money's in the finance and stuff. And I'm like, so uh back in the olden days, like if you could afford to buy a car in cash, for example, you'd get a better deal. Apparently, no, they want they want you to be poor and skint and have to pay all the interest. So this this whole experience has been very eye-opening and a little bit terrifying. I'm like, okay, so that's why there's so many people driving 40,000 pound cars around, because they're all having them on bloody tick and spending goodness knows how much money just to drive them. I was like, can you not just like yeah, and I'm like I my expectations were wrong as well because we have again knowing nothing about cars, usually the only time we get a new car is if one of say a parent or a friend is getting rid of a car, and we're like, Oh yeah, we we could do with a new car, we'll buy that off you. And it's like you know, you buy it off a from of you buy it for your mom, like our last car, we purchased it from my mother because you know, oh yeah, she's got a good car, it's just a high like a really cheap old Hyundai. And we're like, Cool, great. And now we're like, right, we're gonna get another car, but no one we know is selling a car, so we had to go to look at car showrooms, and I'm just like, I don't like this. People are asking me questions, and I don't know any of the answers, and I just there's all this paperwork that one looks yeah, and even like the engines and stuff. Like, oh, you're looking for electric, you're looking for hybrid, you're looking for this one. Like, I'm just a car, please, with with the petrol, you go to the petrol station, you put in the car.

SPEAKER_00:

You got the different warranty options, the different service options.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, well, what this guy tried to sell us this thing, it's like, oh, you need this stuff for your car, so that if you get any spills and stuff, it's better for your car, and like it protects the paint from bird poo. I'm like, okay, should should that not already be on there? Is that not the whole point? You buy a car and it's if a bird poo Oh no, you have to you have to buy this extra stuff on top of the actual car. I'm like, so are they making cars that are not good for bird poo? We live in we live in the United Kingdom. There's a lot of bird poo and rain and mud. Like, so are you saying all cars on the road have to have this, otherwise they're effective? What are you trying to tell me basically?

SPEAKER_00:

It would just the hole in the roof.

SPEAKER_02:

Um that's effectively what he said. You need to pay£350 more in case anybody has any spill, anybody, any bird poo's on your car. If you bird if a bird poo's on your car and you don't have this special form, this magic formula, your car will explode.

SPEAKER_00:

There'll be a thing in 10 years where they'll be like misselled, whatever.

SPEAKER_02:

Just bollocks in it, Wellems. Let's be honest, it's all just bollocks. But I mean, I know people who love cars and are really into cars, one of whom we have talked about on this podcast before, Manly Man. He actually knows his stuff. The Manly Man. The Manly Man. So I sent him a message and was like, hmm, okay, we've got the wife that one of these cars that she's looking at has an automatic gearbox, is and she doesn't want an automatic gearbox. What are they like? And God bless him, he came back to me and he was like, uh this gearbox will be and I can't remember exactly what he said, but he said it's a FGM. Something managed manly. And he said he's good. He knew exactly what he was talking about, and like knowledgeable. And I'm just like, I just I'm just like, Can you can you just buy the car for me? That's one thing in my head. I'm like, I don't know anything about this, I need to educate myself. But it's it's really funny because I rem I in a similar way, you know what you know, don't you?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but no, no, you've got hybrid options, electric options.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, and then they've got charging times and rapid charges, and you know, I'm just like, oh, this is I just want to buy a car. That's the reason we needed a new car is because the old car was on its last legs, and the wife wasn't finding it particularly comfortable to drive, and she wanted something a bit more comfortable. That's all what's what what do you need? Something comfortable, please. That doesn't look too bad. Gets you from A to B. Gets you from A to B and is reliable, and then you start so we've ended up watching loads of these car wah videos, which are quite funny, but you're no closer to actually understanding anything and knowing anything. Yeah, and yeah, it's all been it's all been very stressful.

SPEAKER_00:

So we had to buy ours the cause our car basically broke down just before our wedding celebration, didn't it? So we had to buy it literally the day after.

SPEAKER_02:

I remember, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so that was I think they were rubbing their hands as we walked in. So yeah, so uh cars brought down. We need one ASAP.

SPEAKER_02:

And what have you got for me? Here's my budget. Just give me something.

SPEAKER_00:

They loved it.

SPEAKER_02:

So hey. Well, do you know much about cars? No. No, so okay, so yeah, you know what you know. So it's funny because I remember I have to take my own advice here. So I remember talking to my mother. My mum's asking me about computer or she wants uh she's trying to use iPads and stuff, and I'm trying to explain to her about online safety. Not in kind of like uh um you don't send anyone any pictures, mom. Not that kind of online safety. More uh, you know, if somebody sends you an email and says they're a prince of Nigeria, they're not really, don't fall for it. And but my mum doesn't want to know, she wants to use the thing, but she doesn't actually want to, she doesn't necessarily want to learn too much about it. It's just like it's too complicated. I just need it to do what I needed to do. I don't necessarily want to learn about it. And I'm like, well, mom, you you need to learn about it to understand what you're doing, and then at the same time with cars, I'm like, I don't really want to understand all this, I just want the car. So I'm like, ah you just you you can't you can't say one thing and then do it yourself. So I've been trying to learn, I have been trying to educate myself and learn a bit more. And I feel like I do know something, but it's still hard. You go into like into the car showroom, I actually said thank you. We ended up we did end up getting a car, and we ended up meeting a car showroom guy who was actually very good. And I kind of said to him, I said, it's been quite nice not to to to meet one car showroom guy who's not sleazy or trying to bambooz you're just like okay, cool, I'll meet you where you're at. I get it, you don't know much about cars, and didn't want to have a whole dance about price and everything, and it was uh that was quite refreshing. So I'm happy we got there, but it's not I wouldn't say it's been you know, a lot of people love buying cars and stuff. It hasn't given me much joy at all. Hasn't been one of those things where I'm like, oh, this is you know, if you're spending like you know, spending more than a thousand pounds on something, you think this should be really enjoyable. I haven't found it that enjoyable.

SPEAKER_00:

Car salespeople have got better, but they've still got that stigma, haven't they? Car salespeople.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I think so. I think there's still there's still an expectation when you go in there that you're gonna try you someone's gonna try and wipe your eye a little bit and take your naivety. And it's almost like they're gonna know. Yeah, I said to I said, You've got to go in there and just gotta, you know, have a bit of confidence about yourself, hold your pause, yeah. Yeah, I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_00:

They can smell it, they can smell it.

SPEAKER_02:

They can. Like your chili peanuts. They can tell if it's real cheese or fake cheese, can't they? No, no, no, no. These are not flavoured with real cheese, it's artificial cheese. It's a mug. Give them the full price.

SPEAKER_00:

They do smell funny, actually. Yeah, they do smell funny.

SPEAKER_02:

Do they? They smell like full price peanuts.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So, yeah, that was my first look. Well in buying a cup. We've got one. The wife is very happy with what she has chosen. Good. I like the colour. I like the colour, it's lovely. Uh the the sunshine is very happy with it. Apparently, so we'll find out when we pick it up. Is it reliable? Yeah, so that's another thing as well, because we weren't buying a new car, we're buying a second hand car. So it's like, you know, you have to go on, you go on these again. Google's terrible as well, because you're like you can't even trust the internet, Williams. Can you believe it? You can't trust the internet. Like, best most reliable second hand cars, and you just get hit with a load of stuff, and like, I don't know who who's written this. Do I trust it? Is it actual?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but you know, who knows what will happen. Paranoid me as well, I was thinking there's a conspiracy theory with the um so with our last car that was we're paying that off monthly.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And then after I don't know, four years, whatever it was. Paid it off, lovely. Got a car. That monthly payments are coming out now, so we're actually quids in. Lovely. It's like getting a pay rise. It was the same month that it broke down, kaput. So I'm sure, I'm sure there's some sort of like I don't know, some sort of digital sensor in the thing, right? They've paid off now. All right, someone presses the button at the finance place, boom, blows up. You have to get a new card, a new 100%.

SPEAKER_02:

I I am with you on this one. I agree with you on this conspiracy because like Apple phones are a prime example, aren't they? Like when whenever the new Apple phones released, the ones that are like five years older just suddenly start getting a bit slower. And they're having to pay they're having to pay out, aren't they? Because they're like that it was proven that they were throttling older devices, yeah, and not supporting it. It it's mad, it's really mad. So there's a there's a company called Back Market. So we recently purchased LA need a new phone because she was on like an Android phone that was about 97 years old. And a couple of years ago, when I need a new phone, I bought mine from Bat Market because again, I'm not gonna buy a brand new phone, they're too expensive. But I don't I don't we don't buy the phones with the contract because you end up just paying like 40 quid a month, and you're like, oh, I've actually spent like this phone was 500 quid and it's cost me a thousand quid because I've been paying it off of things. So we we we've we've been in the for the last I don't know five years buying kind of three-year-old phones secondhand. So this company called Bat Market, who are big into kind of their whole motto is about reusing tech and not just throwing it and landfill and all that kind of stuff. They had purchased a load of Dell laptops, and because Windows Windows were not updating and supporting Windows 10 anymore, all these systems which are good, like the hard drives were fine, the RAM was fine, the keyboards were fine, the screens fine, everything was fine with the actual computer, but the operating system wasn't being updated. So they got a shitload of them, wiped them all, and put Linux on, which is like a free operating system, and then they were selling them for 99 pounds. Like, if you need a laptop that can do all these things, 99 pounds gets you a really good piece of kit. The same with like our phones. Like, I bought like an iPhone 12, and I think I was I think it was like 220 quid. And like I've had it for like three years now, it's brilliant. Like, why would I yeah, so it's it's the same with cars, like my dad always my dad was always like it's one of the biggest money picks you can do is buying a brand new car because of the depreciation, etc. So in my head, I'm like, no, I'd I I'm not a car person, it's not so I will go and buy a day one Nintendo Switch 2. I will jizz money up the wall on things like VR and you know records or stuff that is just stupid. That's what I like to waste my money on. Cars, I'm not that that don't other than big shiny red trucks, which I just like because they're cool.

SPEAKER_00:

And I hate that whole thing of as soon as you drive it from the uh the sales garage, it drops a third in value. I hate it. Yeah. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_02:

Well, maybe that's why the PCPs and the HPs are so popular, maybe because that's just like you know, I I have a budget each month that I'm willing to spend on a car. Like if it's like I'm happy with finances working now, it's like you know, they literally work month to month.

SPEAKER_00:

This is what I've got. Yeah. I haven't got a big load of cash, I've literally just got my monthly pay.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. What can I get? So it's been interesting, it's it's really interesting. It's and cars just seem so expensive. Like I remember when I was younger, I was like against the inflation, of course. It is it's really ridiculous thing to say. But looking at the new list price, uh the new list price of what like I would seem as like pretty normal car, like to me, as an example, like a herndice like it's hern die that's an that's a normal person's car, that's a that's a family car, like a Ford Fiesta and stuff like that. Ford Fiesta, they don't do Ford Fiesta anymore, Walms, they don't even exist. Found that out. I was like, what? What's that? Why don't you do Ford Fiesta's? Can I have a course, Vauxhall Coarser? But even like you know, a voxel, the list price brand new, it's like 20 plus thousand. I'm like, what the bloody hell? Yeah, he's got 20 odd grand spare to go and buy a car, but anyway, different worlds, Williams, different worlds.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, down here, as you can imagine, we have quite a few sort of Volkswagen vans. And um there's a nice one, oh I like that. So I I looked into it and it was like 40-50 grand.

SPEAKER_02:

It was like that's mad, innit?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, that's more than a deposit for a house. It's you know, it's yeah. Yeah, it is a house for a car back of the day.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, no, that maybe that's it. Maybe that's the idea. I'm ten year one in buying a canal boat. It gets more appealing week by week. Just buy a little canal boat, stand up and down the canals. Lovely. Grow some plants and some grow some crest on the roof. Happy days. I think we've I think this this section of the podcast may be like old man podcast with perfect gnomes. Moaning about the price of cars.

SPEAKER_00:

Pine nuts and cars. Lovely.

SPEAKER_02:

We've talked we've talked about the ingredients of nuts, about moaned about the price of cars, moaned about the sales of cars, moaned about how PCP and HP and all this stuff's very confusing. Moan about interest rates, Williams.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean we're trying to work out why we've we hit a peak, it seems, and our audience grade sort of dropped. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

That's true. We're turning to grumpy old men who eat snacks and warble on about you know, fucking my day. You could buy a Ford Friesta for 50p. No, you can't even buy a Ford Friestra, and if you could it'd be 50 grand, Sebastian. Sorry, listeners. Sorry, listeners. We'll try and bring you back to happiness. Just if you go and car shopping, I suppose this could be a tip for dad.

SPEAKER_01:

If you go and car shopping dads, tips for dad.

SPEAKER_00:

Tips for dad with your dad. Yeah, for dads. Get your tips out for the dads.

SPEAKER_02:

Get them out. Um this isn't wasn't one tip I writ down, but I'm like it was not a tip I wrote down. Oh, here we go. But I'm guess like if you if you are gonna go car shopping, I don't know. Take someone who knows about cars, or I suppose do some homework first. Because I suppose at least I have researched it, it did help me a little bit. A little bit. I'd say it did help a little bit. So that would be a tips for that.

SPEAKER_00:

Why am I sure that's so I was a as a kid? The the mindset was a a two-litre engine would be better than a 1.5 litre engine, a three-litre engine is better than a 2.5, whatever. Yeah, bigger, more litres. Bigger number, bigger power. Acceleration. Yeah, yeah. Whereas now it's well no, because actually that one litre is actually a lot faster than that 2.5 because it's a hybrid or whatever, and it's like it doesn't need as much power to do what it needs to do. What what what? It depends on your priorities, isn't it? Like bigger numbers, better the bigger the number, the better, surely. No, oh depends on the situation, don't it, Wells? Exactly. So that's uh yeah, so very confusing.

SPEAKER_02:

Size is a matter of things. Very confusing. Well, speaking of size doesn't matter, this was what I was gonna do about Tips for Dads today. I'm gonna turn tips on Tips for Dads on its head because I got hit with a situation where I could have done with a tip and I didn't know what to do. So I uh so instead of tips for dads, I'm gonna request if any of our listeners have tips for this situation. Okay. Because I was flummoxed and I didn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_00:

And where did they write in for this uh feedback?

SPEAKER_02:

Uh they could they could email us at uh firstlook gnomes at outlook.com. That would be a great way to get in touch with us and give us your tips for dads. Anyone, it could be a m-it doesn't have to be a dad who writes the tip, but any a mum might have some good advice on this one. But um my son is uh 10 years old now. And um this morning, in fact, he uh he got out of the shower and you can see where this is going. He's gotten to the age where he he wanted to ask me like when when k when little boys are little, they're like willy Willie. Well Logan, you know, he's getting to the age nowhere, he's probably aware of his Willie. Ten year olds, it's a different awareness of their Willie. And it's a bit like Dad, this thing here. So what's it for? Does it say this? Well, no, I'm not I won't just go to the exact words, but it's like is it is it the right size? And like because obviously he's doing he's doing swimming lessons now at school and stuff, so there's lots of other boys and they're all seeing things, and you can just see like the starting of the ideas of puberty and other boys also have and not every widdy looks the same, and you know, curiosity. So the curiosity is kicking in, and it's not curiosity about dad. Well, tell me about the plants. It's dad, what are testicles? You know, it's like you know, dad, why why do I have nipples? You know, think the questions, the questions are changing. And he asked me, he said, Dad, is my Willie normal? And I'm just like, Of course it is, son. Yes, of course it is.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, on the on the nipple front, I think I can partially answer that. But we as we uh begin our journey in the womb.

SPEAKER_02:

Imagine imagine you're talking to a 10-year-old here. I need I need to know what you say to a ten-year-old about this.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh no. So you're beginning your journey in the womb. What's a womb? Yeah, I give up already. Um yeah, but it's not it's not defined, it's not defined what sex you're gonna be at at that point. So you're sex? So you your gender, so you're not your gender's What's gender these days, Williams? Wow, that is yeah, yeah, that's true, actually.

SPEAKER_02:

Alright, I'll be quiet, I'll be quiet.

SPEAKER_00:

But the the process starts, and your nipples and all that that element starts before your chromosome, whatever, decides what gender you are, and then it's like right. So that that pit is already started in the process.

SPEAKER_02:

So it's like a fail-safe. So whether you're a boy or a girl, you know, if you do turn out to be a girl, you got nips. If you're a boy, you don't really need them, but they were there just in case you ended up being a woman.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, very good. I don't think a ten-year-old. Yes, and if you've got any tips on how to talk about or when when you get blindsided with a chat with a question about biology and your umbiology by a 10-year-old, and you can't think in your feet, because this was early, this was like flipping 25 to 7 this morning. So like you're already a bit like, I'm just trying to make porridge. I haven't got the brain power to think about this. What what do you do, listeners? How do you deal with these kind of things? Any tips to help us out for the next inevitable time one of these conversations comes up? Because I I really was like, oh crap, I don't know what to do here. There is gonna be more. And I was like, I was like, oh well, ask you can't say ask your mum. It's yeah, ask your mum about your willing. Like, no, and it's a lad thing, it's a dad thing. So anyway, yes, that was that was interesting. So look at looking for more tips for dads, please.

SPEAKER_00:

That's a good one. That's a good one. Um I I I wrote a little tip as well, tip for dads, just saying that uh so TV isn't isn't all bad for toddlers. I know a lot of people are very anti-TV, but we we do he does have a little bit of a uh bit of screen time. And uh he went to the opticians today, actually. They went to the opticians today. Very good. A little bit of concern with one of his one of his eyes. Something potentially going on there, so worth worth checking out. And he watched this show called Maddie Maddie Do you know, Maddie's Do You Know show something that's called Maddie. Maddie used to be one of my favourites, and uh yeah, watched an episode where she basically goes to goes to the opticians and uh he went to the opticians himself and uh he recognised it all from the show. And the optician there were you know, she wasn't gonna get the machines out and test it and all that sort of stuff. But then he he looked out to this machine and he was looking at himself whilst the optician and sort of Georgie were uh were chatting. He's like what Maddy does, what I do. And he he remembered the sort of the balloon picture, hot air balloon picture thing. So he wanted to do that, and he did that and he put on some 3D glasses and things, and yeah, he he was he loved it. He loved it. So yeah, I think because of the TV episodes, it kind of helped him get ready for the auditions and uh that's class. And yeah, and his eyes are all fine. In fact, they said he's seeing stuff that uh five-year-olds can see, so nice. Yeah, so that's good.

SPEAKER_02:

That is good. So TV's not all bad, Wallyams.

SPEAKER_00:

TV isn't all that bad for you.

SPEAKER_02:

Who says like TV's bad for toddlers? Like, because a lot of people do.

SPEAKER_00:

A lot of people do. Really? I think I think like with anything, it's all moderation, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02:

It's moderation, sure. Like if if your child watches in the night garden or you know, hey Dougie, for a little for like 20 minutes or something while you're making dinner, is that bad? Like you can't all what you can't helicopter parent them all the time. Time where you're just like, right, okay, my child is never going to leave my side. You know, every time you go if you go to the toilet, like TV TV's fun. TV is like as an adult, TV's fun. As a kid, TV's fun, as long as it's not the only thing you do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, no, it's not, it shouldn't be an all-day thing or anything like that. But no, even when you're an adult, in this instance, yeah, Maddy, Maddy's. I mean, she's aimed at slightly older kids, but yeah, he's he's learning quite a bit.

SPEAKER_02:

Um yeah, that that's a really good idea as well.

SPEAKER_00:

It's not a replacement, obviously, to you know, obviously learn stuff from going to opticians themselves. But because he saw the show, it just helped with his it was recognition rather than just being fear.

SPEAKER_02:

Like it's like, oh okay, I it's it's it's a safe way to introduce it to him while he's not there. And then when he goes, Oh, cool, I've seen this. So it straight away takes away that anxiety of what is this? What are these people? Why is this woman trying to look into my eyes? She's coming right to my face.

SPEAKER_00:

Look into my eyes.

SPEAKER_02:

Good tip, Wallyams. Tip. That was a good tip.

SPEAKER_00:

You said tit then, I think.

SPEAKER_02:

I think he wanted to hear tit because you've been talking about nipples. Or maybe you wanted to hear the word tip because you've been talking about your package and its cheese. I don't know, Wallyams. You're just filth. You're just filth. I can't do anything about that.

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Tips.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, it's my first look. Um this episode's been a bit uh bit pint drinking crazy. Pints and nuts. Um I had a first look, it was quite a few weeks ago now. Um my good friend Pete. My good friend Pete. Um he bought me um a pinter. I don't know if you heard of these. A pinter. So I've not. Yeah, so it's it is basically you can create your own fresh brew at home. So it's kind of a halfway house between your own home brewing kit and buying a beer. So it's kind of so you get your you can buy your your packs of oh, what's it called?

SPEAKER_02:

Hops and flavour?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, basically. So you've got your sort of your your own little brewery kit, and you basically you have to you gotta have to wash it out, get a nice, get all clean, put this like hops flavour stuff in, a few of the bits, put a load of water in it, whack it in the fridge, about a couple weeks later, and you got a lovely fresh brew. So the pack doesn't like so you can buy different packs. Usually sort of branded ones, you can get like Guinness ones, you can get you get all sorts of ones, and you just yeah, fresh, and it's it's to date. So I've had quite a few uh at Pete's place, and I've only done one myself with my dad a few weeks ago. But other beers that I've had five pints of, I usually get I would get some sort of hangover. Whereas this stuff no hangover at all. Lovely fresh, fresh beer. Yeah, well recommended. Obviously, you've got to bake it, you've got you know you can't get right a fancy beer, you've got to wait two weeks. But yeah, about average for about£20 for sort of ten pints. Ten pints, yeah, you get ten pints out of it. Or would you put it in buttons or something? No, no, you just pour it, so it's already so the yeah, it's up, so it's got like a tap, so it looks like a it looks like a keg in a way. Okay, you put the stuff in the keg, about ten pints worth, and then you can basically attach a a handle to it, and then when it's when it's ready, you can basically pour straight from the straight from the cake. Incredible. Um but uh yeah, so you put it.

SPEAKER_02:

So you get like you get a little keg to start, and you just fit you basically fill it with fresh water, fill it with the ingredients, let it sit there and just ferment for a couple of weeks, and then pull the lever direct from this, right, and you've got fresh beer.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And does it this is a silly question, but I know when so we me and my mate Will used to brew well used to, like as we were such professionals. We tried it a couple of times, we bought the kits and went the whole hog. And obviously, then you have to kind of measure it for the alcohol and all that kind of stuff. So this stuff, does it does it have the buzz? Does it get you are you like, oh yeah, there's definitely booze in there?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah, oh definitely, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And it's no hangovers so far. That's amazing. I'm just googling quickly, it looks brilliant.

SPEAKER_00:

You would, I'm sure. Obviously, people's alcohol tolerance levels are different, but yeah, for me, yeah, no hangover. It's just like, yeah, fresh, fresh bit. There's one particular because there's all different brands. I mean, I'm sure you're on the site at the moment, and there's all different brands in there. There's one that was really, really good. I can't remember what it's called now. Shadow and cream Irish Stout. But um, yeah, so you got you got you got anything from your lagas, your Mexican lagos, to your to your stouts. So uh Wow.

SPEAKER_02:

Wally was this is a whole new world. Oh new. So did did you did you make Pete did he buy you the pointer kit, like the three pointer three? What a nice guy. So I didn't get them all branded as well. Wow, you can get like a Guinness Guinness one of Bruno.

SPEAKER_00:

Actual beers, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I know what I'm asking for for Christmas now. I wanted a new drill, but I think that may have changed. So, how many something's are you giving us, Wadiums? Because this looks like an incre and which beer has been best so far? Are the ones you've made? What's been your favourite?

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I've not made that many, I've only made one myself. So Pete, he's got one himself, and he's he's the gentleman that is, he's invited me over to sort of test them with him. Um and yeah, most of them are really good. I'm trying to remember. Is there like a Yeastie Boys? I think it's called The Yeasty Boys, nice. Yeah, I think it's called the Yeasty Bruce. But yeah, really good. We enjoyed that one. With my dad, I made uh we made a Guinness Porter. Nice. Actually, yeah, I mean I got him, so yeah, so you put you put your so you put your cleaning stuff in because with and similar to your actual home brewing, you need to make sure, you know, because you're using sort of yeast and stuff, any uh bit of bacteria going, it'll just ruin the whole process and just yeah, it won't work. So you've got to make sure you properly clean out uh clean out the keg each time.

SPEAKER_02:

And then would you use like bleach or something?

SPEAKER_00:

Or no, you just got this special powder stuff, which probably is the equivalent of bleach and just kills it all without uh affecting your beer. And uh yeah, at the time I got my got my dad to uh you've got to sort of shake it around for 30 seconds, so I got him shaking it, and I just stood there counting, supervising the process. And then yeah, put your water in, put your your hops flavour from your from your pack, which is just yeah, just a like a it looks like uh the Guinness Porter is like just putting like uh licorice syrup into your into your keg with the water, and then just yeah, wait patient the patience is the key bit. So that that's your only con against uh buying a beer from the shop is you've got to wait two weeks, obviously. But you've got that satisfaction of you made it. Not to an extent of the home brew made it, but you made it. So you obviously it is still a a pre-made beer in terms of the flavourings and hops and all that cons to stuff. But you can make it slightly different depending on if you so if you add an extra stage in the fridge, I think it's called crashing or something. I can't remember. Yeah. But you can put it in the fridge and upside down and crash it, that helps with the freshness and the flavor as well. So there's little bits you can do, and you can sort of play around with the you get an app as well, and you can sort of make notes in terms of a let it brew. So it gives you a recommended amount of days of brewing, a recommended amount of days of crashing if you want to, optional, and a recommended conditioning time. But you can sort of play around with that if you wanted, so you could add an extra because I think it says usually like 10 days would be recommended, but I think if you did like 15 days, it might taste a bit fresh and a bit better if you'd had it conditioned for a bit longer and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02:

Um this looks like the perfect thing to put in the garage, especially like if you know, like I we're doing a podcast in a couple of weeks, put one on, get one on, or you're having friends around for the weekend or something. Like fresh and did it, and do you think it tasted fresher?

SPEAKER_00:

Definitely.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Definitely better, fresher.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, sometimes you go to the pub and you just I don't know, you got that you got that chemical taste, or yeah. I don't know how to describe it. Not fresh, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Wally's you should be on commission because I'm gonna have to get me one of these. So the review on the website, I'm on I'm on Pinter.co.uk. So some amazing beer tastes better than any Pub L. This is as good or better than Pub Beer, Gavin. This is as good a better beer. Oh, that's the same one. So Gavin S has done a quote and then the same one is there again. Amazing beer tastes Carl, oh my goodness, some of their some of their quotes are repeated. Excellent products and beers, a great addition to the Pinter family.

SPEAKER_00:

They're getting new ones, they're getting partnered up with quite a few brands. You know, you mentioned Guinness there and things like that. I think Shipyard in there and there. But there's a few that you would get from a shop, whatever, but they're just um yeah, fresh.

SPEAKER_02:

It's a class idea, Wells. It's a class I spent like with Christmas coming up, that's like the perfect thing, isn't it? Like, okay, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get one for Christmas and you know get it ready so that on Christmas Day we've got some fresh pints and some first place.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you say it's a good Christmas present, but obviously it'd be good to have before Christmas, as well.

SPEAKER_02:

Before Christmas, yeah. Like birthdays or like say you having a barbecue coming up or something like that, right? We're gonna we plan a family barbecue a couple of weeks' time, get one of those. Oh Wallyams, this is this is incredible. What a great first This might be my favourite first look you've ever done.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh really? Wow.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's an incredible kind of thing to kind of be introduced to. I've never heard of that. And as a man who loves his beer, love it.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think it's it's probably potentially a sort of a gateway drug into the home brewing, but you're no more than me, but um And that's actually you did you did it once I was gonna say not that long ago, but probably ten years ago. But you actually got bottles, didn't you? And got labels and you made labels and sort of actually.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, we did the we did the whole thing. We got the whole kit and we waited for like however many weeks it was to do it, and we bottled everything up and you're talking probably six weeks of that sort of stuff, aren't you? Or yeah, it wasn't worth it. I didn't think it was worth it because there is there are certain beers, so obviously, being from Wolverhampton, I love Banks' beer. And over here for it, it's like you buying beer from the shops, it's not that expensive. Like Tesco sell Banks' bitter for a pound a bowl. So you think, okay, it's pretty good. The cost of Brunarone, it was like it's gonna be cheaper, it was a little bit cheaper, but all the effort that was involved and all the kit and stuff, you're like, I don't know, it didn't taste any better. Our homebrew, maybe it was just because we weren't very good, but it just didn't it didn't seem to taste any better. I think to do it properly, you've got to invest a lot of time. And I don't think most of us who are casual drinkers and like a beer on a Friday while we're doing a podcast have got time to be doing that, and yeah. I don't know, maybe as we get older we have more time, maybe. But with kids and stuff, it's like I haven't got a whole weekend to brew beer and you need space as well. It's the space to do it this point.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, with this, you still see when I did my dad, it was still fairly hot. So for the brewing process, you need to make sure it's sort of room temperature 15 degrees type thing.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh okay, so you can't do it in the garage.

SPEAKER_00:

So no, probably not. I don't know. Well, I don't know, I don't know your garage. But cold. Yeah, well, then probably not. Yeah, so you want to sort of yeah, you want yeah, 15 degrees brewing, and then and then you want space in your fridge. Um you could put in the garage, you know, if it's cold enough.

SPEAKER_02:

Put it in the garage when it's cold, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but it's yeah, and and yeah, like I said, uh about 10 days, but yeah, 10 pints, and yeah, average price. Obviously, there's different ones on there are more expensive ones, um, but I think it's about average price, 20 quid. You get 10 points, so that's reasonable, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02:

2 pounds for a fresh pint. Yeah. Very good, Williams. Pinter, pinter.co.uk if you want to learn more about it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Um, but yeah, like I said, that was from my friend, uh, my friend Pete, who um Pete Pete thinks he's um reincarnated, he believes in um reincarnation. Um, very good. We call him uh repeat. See you in a couple weeks, let's do.

SPEAKER_02:

Bye everybody.

SPEAKER_00:

Bye-bye. Don't forget to subscribe, follow, like, and five star review show. Write to us at firstlook gnomes at outlook.com.

SPEAKER_02:

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