First Look: Whitewater Brewery, Newcastle (NI), Spelga Dam Magic Road, Power Hungry Pets & Grace’s Amazing Machines

Join the First Look Gnomes for another week of hilarious and unexpected discoveries! We kick things off with a first look at Whitewater Brewery — one of Northern Ireland’s most loved craft breweries — before heading to the beautiful seaside town of Newcastle, County Down for some family-friendly exploring.

Things get weird (in the best way) when we drive the famous “Magic Road” at Spelga Dam, where your car appears to roll uphill. Optical illusion? Witchcraft? Gnome mischief? We investigate.

Back home, we dive into the chaotic fun of Power Hungry Pets, the card game currently taking families by storm, and then switch gears with a look at the hugely popular kids’ show Grace’s Amazing Machines.

If you’re into Northern Ireland travel, quirky road trip spots, craft breweries, family games, or kids’ TV reviews, this episode is packed with first looks worth checking out. Grab a cuppa (or a pint) and join the adventure!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Lost Files
• 1:11 Stranger Things News And Speculation
• 3:20 Listener Shoutouts And Emails
• 5:10 The “Say Potato” Guest Challenge
• 6:49 Tough Feedback And Waffling Woes
• 9:15 Pints And First Bites Setup
• 10:45 Whitewater Brewery Deep Dive
• 14:20 Whiskey Stout And Glassware Tales
• 16:30 Family Trip To Newcastle, County Down
• 19:40 Cranfield Alpacas And Magic Road
• 22:15 Arcades, VR Rides, And Ticket Rant
• 25:05 Power Hungry Pets And Party Games
• 27:05 Grace’s Amazing Machines Inspiration
• 29:05 Theme Tune Dreams And AI Music

Transcript

SPEAKER_04: 0:00

Welcome to First Look Gnomes. Your go-to podcast for dads doing silly things. Share tips for dads. And of course, the dad jokes and the bad jokes.

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But most importantly, we're here to share our first looks.

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Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish bond of feedback.

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And share your thoughts, questions, and own first looks with us at firstlook gnomes at outlook.com. Are we? Looks like it. I think so. I've got 10 seconds on the clock.

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95%, isn't it?

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Anyways. After last time, Williams.

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What do you mean?

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With all the we've lost the show. Where's the show?

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Oh yeah. It's gone!

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I can see these things. I can see these things called blocks. There's 26 blocks and I can't download it. And you said it'd be chat GPT messages. Try this!

SPEAKER_04: 0:55

You delved into the matrix and you need to find it. Yeah. We got it. Well, with help.

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Yeah, you got it. I didn't know what was going on. Anyway, we start the show. We start the recording.

SPEAKER_04: 1:05

Yeah, we'll start the recording. I'm gonna start around an announcement. Oh, it's an important announcement. So as it's the the anniversary of Will Beyer's disappearance approaching, it's only right to mention that in the autumn of 1987, the military arrives in Hawkins and begins hunting Eleven. It's episode 11, season four, and yes, that's about the new series of Stranger Things.

SPEAKER_03: 1:34

I'm very excited for it. Character Eleven. She's doing all the rounds at the minute, isn't she? Millie Bobby Brown to round it. She's doing the rounds. I saw she was on Jonathan Ross.

SPEAKER_04: 1:46

They're all like in the 20s now and had kids.

SPEAKER_03: 1:51

No, what I what I mean, not doing their rounds like that. I mean doing the rounds like doing No, I didn't mean they have that. What are you trying to say about these young folk Walliams? Um doing the rounds. Oh doing the rounds. Slags, a lot of them, slags. No, they're all on the on the promotion trail, aren't they? Kind of promoting the new season of Stranger Things.

SPEAKER_04: 2:10

Last uh yeah, last Adventure of Stranger Things 5 and Linda Hampton's in it, as aren't she, apparently.

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Yes, so Sarah Clark.

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She of Terminator Fame, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 2:21

That's a good casting. I think she'll be great.

SPEAKER_04: 2:24

Yeah. So last season should be out already for listeners listening to it, but they're splitting it into three, aren't they? So upcoming end of this month, November. Or last month, depending on when you're listening to this. Uh the first part, and then Christmas and New Year's.

SPEAKER_03: 2:41

Yes, Christmas Day and then New Year's Day, isn't it? For the final episode.

SPEAKER_04: 2:46

Yeah, so we look forward to that. Episode 11.

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11 Season 4, my goodness. Will she survive? Will she survive? I think she will, yes. Or she'll do some great sacrifice. And yeah, who knows? I don't know. It's 50-50 way. She may survive, she may not. Or maybe a third option that we don't even know about. Either way, I am excited.

SPEAKER_04: 3:11

Fish pond our feedback. Feedback. Splish blush splish blush splish. Splish blush splish. We've got some new listeners. New listeners from Uita. A new listener. Walnut Creek in California.

SPEAKER_03: 3:35

Oh, that sounds nice. I bet it's warm there.

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Walnut Creek? Walnut Creek. Walnut Creek in Walnut Creek. You're thinking of Wolf Creek, I think.

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Maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 3:46

Walnut Creek sounds lovely though. Yeah. Kazugai Achi. Bless you. Oh, in Japan?

SPEAKER_03: 3:54

I presume so again. Should reset your thing so can't tell what your your pronunciation there, one is. It could be something completely different. Achi.

SPEAKER_04: 4:02

And uh new listener in uh Torumolinos, Malaga. Oh, very nice. Beautiful part of the world. Welcome, new listeners. We also had someone write in, didn't we? Oh they did. And they said, and they said, it's clear first lit gnomes, champions, fresh thinking, and practical impact. So I wanted to introduce myself as a potential guest, as founder and CEO of Gigabyte, Gigabit IQ. And it goes on and on and on. But uh yeah, and uh someone might in wants to be a guest as well.

SPEAKER_03: 4:35

What uh what would we ask them, Wallyams? If you had the CEO of Gigabit IQ, what kind of intellectual question would you ask them? I'd tell them a dad joke. You tell them a dad joke about computers, about the internet. Yeah, just do that for 15 minutes. I wonder why one is coming on this podcast. I mean, because what did he say at the start?

SPEAKER_04: 4:57

We are clearly what is it's clear, fresh look first look gnomes, champions, fresh thinking and practical impact. See, I mean, do we do we really as as you said yeah, I don't think we were the only ones they emailed, unfortunately. But if you are being on the if you if you're listening, write to us again, and perhaps we'll get you on board. Ah but we'll need you to write in to prove that you've actually listened to the episode.

SPEAKER_03: 5:26

There is a uh so I'm gonna have to find this for you. It's a this is a first. So Leslie Ann, uh my good wife, introduced me to this YouTube Shorts guy. He does he is like day 28 of turning Tinder messages into songs, and there's one of them, and it's like it's a guy, and he does it he himself as a woman with like a wig on, he's got a big beard, and then he sings to her and he makes all these original songs of these weird, creepy conversations that people have on Tinder. Right, and there's one of them which is like, hey, and then the reply is like, Hey, how are you doing? They're having this conversation says, I don't think you're real, say potato, and then the reply is something random, and then he just starts shouting, say potato, and the girl's called Elizabeth, so it's like say say potato, Elizabeth, clearly because it's a bot responding to the the messages. It's very funny. I'll have to find him. Hang on, let me let me find it.

SPEAKER_04: 6:20

Just so uh CEO and and of uh Gigabit IQ.

SPEAKER_03: 6:25

Yeah, send us an email saying potato. Say potato. I'm gonna have to find him now. Hang on, let me open. He's probably he's probably right there on like one of the first videos. Say potato, stay potato and we'll get you on board.

SPEAKER_04: 6:43

Actually, anybody, anybody listening out there, if you write in and say potato, we will get you on the show.

SPEAKER_03: 6:51

Yeah, he's found obviously on the internet people kind of share their creepy Tinder messages. So, like some of them are just hilarious, and he turns them into original songs. So his his uh handle is at Lukey, L-E-W-K-Y 9945. And yeah, he's just very funny. Comedy songs and videos just for you. Yeah, he's he went like from doing a few and then he just took off and he's getting millions of views now. Yeah, it's yeah, Luki, Luki, say potato, and it gets stuck in your head. His songs do get stuck in your head, anyway.

SPEAKER_04: 7:25

That was a bit of a tangent. That was it, a bit, but yeah, right, and we'll yeah, say potato, and we'll get you on the podcast. Um I have some feedback, Williams. You do? Oh god, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 7:35

This is and it it's probably it's it's valid considering I just went on a random tangent about Lukey. The feed the feedback was that season four hasn't been as good and we need to up our games. This was face-to-face feedback from a listener. I know it was it's crit it was critical, but I think it was fair. I think this year, Williams, we have been busy. I have been extremely busy with the house and all that kind of stuff, and there's been things going on, so I I I could I didn't take the feedback.

SPEAKER_04: 8:06

So what's it missing? Well, we dropped 31st and we dropped uh the no-known, so that's the only difference.

SPEAKER_03: 8:12

Yeah, and and this was one of the people who didn't want the no-known there. Maybe he just doesn't know what he wants.

SPEAKER_04: 8:16

Maybe he has no clue what he wants. Oh, and maybe we we do waffle a lot more now. We do waffle, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 8:23

The the I said, like I I he said, Oh, this is I was catching up on your podcast, and I said, Yeah, I said, What do you think? And he didn't actually have to say anything, just the look on his face said it all. It was one of those. I was like, Is it is it not as good? He said, uh it's you need you need to try harder. And I was like, fair, fair assessment. So while it the feedback is try harder.

SPEAKER_04: 8:44

Is this not trying harder? No, it's not, is it?

SPEAKER_03: 8:47

I don't know. I just went on a random tangent to share a video on a podcast on a on an audio channel where watch this, how can I? It's listening of us have dipped, by the way. Oh, have they? Well, there you go then. The the stats don't lie, do they, Wallyams?

SPEAKER_04: 9:03

The female in the last episode I was reading out the ingredients to uh to be clean out.

SPEAKER_03: 9:09

Yeah, maybe that's why we dropped the the um the first points and but then you replaced it with points and first bites. Well that I suppose that does segue us in to the points and first bites section quite nicely. Should we jump straight into it? To the what? The points and first bites! Pints and first bites. And we should say if anybody does have any other feedback, maybe not as harsh or maybe just as harsh, send it to uh firstlook gnomes at outlook.com and we will take it on board and um potentially try harder. But also potentially forget what happened and just keep going as we do.

SPEAKER_04: 9:52

Season four is the first season with pints and first bites as well.

SPEAKER_03: 9:56

Maybe just it's just bedding in, isn't it, Williams? That's what it is. It's just bedding in.

SPEAKER_04: 9:59

Yeah, it is. So take it up. Yeah, maybe we need to do pints and first bites and takeaways.

SPEAKER_03: 10:04

Maybe. Maybe maybe maybe yeah. We'll have a debrief at the end of the season and decide what we're going to do with things. So um, so I'm taking the first look the first bite today. So look behind the curtain. I got a message ten minutes before recording this. I've not got a pint or first bite. Can you do it? So I'm like, alright, fine.

SPEAKER_04: 10:24

The wifey wife today. I'm gonna uh I'm gonna embarrass her, but she's gonna throw it in the bus. I'll get you I'll get you a first bite or uh first pint today.

SPEAKER_03: 10:33

Forgot.

SPEAKER_04: 10:34

Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03: 10:35

She was too busy looking after your child or at work. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. You'll just have to go and get yourself a first bite next time, Wallyams.

SPEAKER_01: 10:43

Yeah, have to.

SPEAKER_03: 10:44

Okay, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna show you, Wallyams, what I'm gonna have as my first. Oh Ango, you've got a guess, haven't you? What is it? Is it a pint or is it a first pint?

SPEAKER_04: 10:54

I think you're gonna tell me it's our first bite.

SPEAKER_03: 10:57

No.

SPEAKER_01: 10:57

No first pint!

SPEAKER_03: 11:04

This is from Whitewater Brewing Company. You know, heard me talk about them. That's a different beer. This is not actually a first pint. However, I'm gonna talk about the White Water Brewing Company again because two weeks ago we did have a first pint. We went to the Whitewater Brewing Company and we bought one of everything. Me and the fr said friend who gave us feedback, which is we need to try harder, went to the brewery. Is this the manly man as well? It is the manly man, yes. We've talked about on many many occasions. We drove to the brewery, and the lovely gentleman who runs the brewery and has done so for 30 years talked to us about the beer, and we we purchased two of everything, and then over the course of a weekend, we tried every single one of them. So we tried, well, I'm about to open a Belfast Lager, but while we're there, we tried the Maggie's Leap, which you know I love. We had a U Rebel, we had Belfast Lager, which I'm about to have a yeah, we had Bees Endeavour, Hopple Hammer, Hancock and Pigeon, Hopple Hammer, Halle and Red, Murado Pale Ale, Murado Red Ale. We had a whiskey stout. I mean, we were pretty much hammered for three days. It was fantastic, and they were all lovely. Did you say whiskey stout? A whiskey stout. And you know what? When we had this, I was like, we need to get some of these for Walliams. We need to order some of these and get them. Nine percent Hinch whiskey barrel age stout. And Morg's the Manly Man is not a fan of that of stout at all. He can do a Guinness, but that's about it. So I ended up drinking both of those scans and they knocked me for six. I was like, nine per oh, they were nice, but you could I don't think I could drink that many of them because I'm not into whiskey, but it was still lovely.

SPEAKER_04: 12:52

But I can send you a couple of it's a stout there, but is so is it a stout in a whiskey cake? In a whiskey barrel.

SPEAKER_03: 12:59

Yeah, all right. So it's all infused with it, and it's quite nice. So yeah, I enjoyed it. So all of the so basically the the first pint is all of the white water brew and co beer, and it's all delicious. Um, our favourite, uh, uh consensus was the Murado, both the Murada pale and the Murado Red. Fantastic. So you recommend it, is it? Oh, yeah, I'm gonna take you next time we'll come over. We talked about it. I actually told the owner as well that we talk about his beer a lot on the podcast. He didn't give a monkeys, he wasn't, he wasn't fussed. He was a big thing.

SPEAKER_04: 13:28

He's not gonna give you free beer. No, he's not gonna give you free beers.

SPEAKER_03: 13:31

No, no, so no nope. But here we go. I'm gonna open a can of the Belfast Lager from the White Water Brewing Coat. Ready? And I can tell you, it smells like beer, it's 4.5%. And I also oh look, I'm drinking it, Williams. I also purchased a new glass.

SPEAKER_04: 13:50

Of course you did, of course you did because you got it right.

SPEAKER_03: 13:53

A white water brewing coat glass since 1996. Yeah, you could they it it gave us a story about these glasses and about how they used to sell them in Belfast, but then people using them to hit people over the head with them and all sorts of things.

SPEAKER_04: 14:06

So the owner was this basically just pose for a photo on a podcast.

SPEAKER_03: 14:11

So I've shared a I've talked about a video that I've seen and tried to share, and now I'm posing for a photo on a podcast. Maybe we'll just need to start making these video podcasts.

SPEAKER_04: 14:21

Do you well yeah, maybe. Do you think um the manly man doesn't think it's manly enough this podcast? I mean, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03: 14:30

I'm not sure what I'm not sure. Maybe maybe it's just that we waffle and we are not focused enough sometimes. And maybe we just need more focus, Williams.

SPEAKER_04: 14:38

We'll ask him for I thought the highlight will waffle.

SPEAKER_03: 14:42

Well, possibly. So if you are listening, many man and you want to give us more detailed. I think he should write in.

SPEAKER_04: 14:48

I think he should write in. Write in first looking at the tips if he's still listening.

SPEAKER_03: 14:54

He might give it up by now.

SPEAKER_04: 14:56

What's the address? First look names at outlook.com. Which is our temporary address until the website is like it might do.

SPEAKER_03: 15:05

So, yes, that's the first point, and it's delicious. Well done, White Water Brew and Co.

SPEAKER_04: 15:10

Whee, and is that uh is that your first look as well?

SPEAKER_03: 15:14

No, it's it actually leads into the first look. So uh my first look this week, Wallams, is a first look at a little family weekend away trip to Newcastle. Way am I? Newcastle? Oh no, I'm not Newcastle upon Tyne. No, not Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle County Down. All right County Down in the great city, the great country of Northern Ireland. But Newcastle County Down, it's a lovely little place to located just at the foot of the Moorne Mountains. We had a lovely little family vacation away for for a couple of nights in Newcastle County Down. So the Manly Man, his lovely wife, his kids, and me, my wife, and obviously Brady Bunch, and we went and we had some fun in Newcastle, County Down. We rented a little Airbnb and we went and did some nice things with the kids. Obviously, you know that we we had some time to stop at the brewery and get some beer and drink it slowly, like responsible adults. We did not let the drinking overall our ability to parent the children well, but we had a crack in time. Newcastle County Down. It's such a good little place, it's like it's like a traditional seaside town, but it's just it's clean and it's right at the foot of the mountain. So you kind of you got this beautiful view wherever you are. You've got beaches, you've got loads of eateries, loads of pubs, arcades, ice cream shops. When you say mountain independent shops. So it's the Moorne Mountains, yeah. So they are mountains. Now they're not the biggest mountain range in the world, but this it's the sleeve Donard is the biggest one, which is I'll tell you how high it is, William, with a quick search. It's 2,789 feet, making it the highest mountain in Northern Ireland and the seventh highest peak on the island of Ireland. It's part of the Moor Mountains in County and is a popular hiking destination. So they are they're lovely. The Moor Mountains are really cool.

SPEAKER_04: 17:02

Equivalent of like Snowdonia in Wales.

SPEAKER_03: 17:05

Oh, nowhere near as big. Yeah, no, no, Snowdonia be you know, stupidly a lot bigger, but it's still really pretty, it's just very pretty because you're just it's just very scenic and just very nice, especially because you're right on the seaside as well, so you're right on the coast, which is lovely, and you can see from it, you can see across to the south of Ireland, and it's just really nice. So we went there and we got we hit lucky with the weather, which was obviously a bonus because when it's bright, it was cold because it's you know end of autumn, but it's it was beautiful and we did some wonderful things. So I think in season one, I talked about the Cranfield Alpacas, and obviously we know I definitely have, yeah. I think in the past I've done Cranfield Alpacas. Season one's a long time ago. Yeah, it is a long time ago. But we went back to see our old friends at Cranford Alpacas, still a fantastic experience. So we got to walk all the alpacas, the kids love that. That was a nice surprise for them. We did the magic road at Spelga Dam, which is was the highlight of the whole weekend for me. The magic road, the magic road at Spelga Dam. So it's a magic road where it's a downhill road, but because of the fairies that live there, you roll uphill. So it's a downhill road. No, this is a genuine thing, Williams. The whiskey stout it's it's at spell it's the foot of Spelga Dam, and you go there and you turn your car off, you put it in neutral, and you roll uphill. You roll backwards uphill. You get carried by the fairies. I'm not kidding you. The manly man can vouch for this. You roll uphill. So the fairies roll your car up the hill. It's the most insane thing, Wallyams. The magic road at Spelker Dam, where the fairies roll your car up a hill. That's what I'm on about, Williams. You'll have to come and experience it. I'll do a fact check on that one. Yep. You'll I will share, I will share with you videos of it so you can have a look. But that's what happens. And then obviously, we did all the classic things that you do with kids. So we took them to the arcades, we got them ice cream, we did sit like stupid photos on the beach, and we played lots of games. So it was it was wonderful. We had some good food, went to a place called the Dundrum Inn in Dundrum, we do cracking food and the Evoker, which was really good. Uh, Morgu's and me got to go to a little bar called Quinn's, so we had a proper Guinness, beautiful pub, like proper traditional pub, massive, loads of screens, great beer. So we stayed there for a beer, which was nice. One of the things I do want to talk about, Wally, is arcades, like arcades with kids. So arcades, oh love an arcade, but what the bloody hell are all these tickets about? Like you can't go into an arcade now, to get prizes for them. Yeah, like it's a good thing. It takes a thousand tickets to get like a keyring. Yeah, 1,000 tickets gets you a keyring or a bag of flipping haribo. And all the kids are going mad for these tickets, and I'm just I I just I hate it. Tickets, it makes it too noisy. There's all these people crowded to try and see what they can. It's like cracker cane for kids. Get rid of them. Arcade people, get rid of them. Like, I know it's probably very profitable and it drives kids putting pound coins into the machines, but oh, Wallyams, tickets at arcade machines. What's it all about? I don't like it. There's quite a few hacks.

SPEAKER_04: 20:18

I've seen some hacks, these videos of these kids, and they you sort of you can load your tickets that you've won through a machine to get your prize, but you can sort of like you can grab the ticket and then kind of just like 20,000 tickets. Yeah, you can just put it in and out for a bit, and it will like register extra tickets. So that's stealing, William.

SPEAKER_03: 20:44

So you're advocating stealing, is that what you're you're saying?

SPEAKER_04: 20:47

Uh no, no, I'm not saying it's right.

SPEAKER_03: 20:48

I'm just you know what though? If those tickets weren't there, they won't be able to do it. So just get rid of bloody tickets.

SPEAKER_04: 20:54

Yes, yeah. Ridiculous, ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03: 20:57

But the two there is still fun to be had with the TP machines, which is good.

SPEAKER_04: 21:01

I do like a TP machine.

SPEAKER_03: 21:03

Yeah. The arcades are good, and we actually went on like a VR ride in the arcade. So you remember like you're back in our day, you'd have like you know, Pac-Man. Uh this one machine, it was a five or a go, but it's like a full-on fare ride. So it's like a massive cube about the same size as this shed. They've got four bikes on it, and you get strapped in. You have to wear something, or not? There are five of it, it was a five or a go. But me, the Manly Man and Brayden got on it, and you put this VR headset on, and you're sitting on it, and you get strapped in, and it you you're in space. So this one it was in space, and you it you f you're on a spaceship, and the the seat moves and flings you around like there's no to tomorrow. It was quite good, but I was like, it's arcades have come a long way, baby. But uh still, if it wasn't if it wasn't if they didn't have tickets, I'd have given that experience 10 out of 10. But the tickets let it down. All the tickets, too many tickets. 10 something, 10 tickets, too many tickets. And also, one thing we did enjoy on this this little breakaway was playing a game called Power Hungry Pets. Um, I think I've talked about this before on the podcast, but it's worth a shout-out because obviously we had three kids with us. We had a four-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a ten-year-old. So trying to think, trying to obviously there's quite it's quite a different age, like six years different. You've got you got one who's like, Oh, I want to go do this, and then you've got younger kids still. So doing stuff that we could all do together. Power Hungry Pets, it it was a god, it was really good. We had a lot of fun, and the adults liked it too. So that's the game by Exploding Kittens. It's like it's quite a simple game, but it's just good for teaching kids a bit of strategy. But they make like the the company behind it, Exploding Kittens, they make loads of card games. Like, we've got Happy Salmon, which is fun. There's a game called That Escalate Quickly, which we're like, yeah, Happy Salmon's a funny one. You have cards and you stand around a table, and then you you you put cards down and you have to do various moves like a salmon. It's just silly, but it's just great fun with kids. So, like, obviously, we all we've we've as Logan gets a bit bigger and with Lewenna and stuff around, those kind of games that are just silly, they're so much fun because the kids love them, the parents love them. There's there's not much thinking.

SPEAKER_04: 23:08

First look, um so it doesn't take much, but um I think my son is perhaps manly than me already. Already, yeah, and yeah, and and to be honest, I'd I've been working out where the where the our many man friend was perhaps nine months before uh my son was born. But um the buttons he's discovered a new a new favourite show. Oh and it's it's got a presenter, the presenter of it is was a presenter of Fifth Gear and Motors UK, apparently, and ESBN, and the show's about planes, trains, giant construction vehicles, demolition machines, like manly stuff. Manly stuff! And it's not even three yet.

SPEAKER_01: 23:58

And then and then it's got uh a great theme tune as well, which I'll try to uh try to show you a quick one.

SPEAKER_03: 24:20

Oh, I I know I remember this show well. I remember written by Justin and Daniel Hawkins. It's a hell of a show, one of us is Logan loving it.

SPEAKER_04: 24:31

Yeah, yeah. Grace's Amazing Machines. Yes, Grace's Amazing Machines. So Grace Webb, she bases a show where she talks about her amazing machines. Um great show. There's a little remote control car called Speedy. Speedy. Well you you've seen it before. You know about it.

SPEAKER_03: 24:49

Oh, I remember it a long time ago, but I remember it, yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 24:52

Yeah, well, it's still still on uh the BBC iPlair, CB's iPlayer. And yeah, so Speedy comes along and says we're gonna talk about demolition machines or something. And then she reviews three demolition machines and picks the best one. Great show. Simple. Simple Maybe Darkness, you know. How many TV shows have the darkness?

SPEAKER_03: 25:14

Is the maybe this is where we're going wrong, Williams. We need the darkness to do our theme music, and we need to keep this more simple. Like three things, three first looks, and we just pick our favourite.

SPEAKER_04: 25:26

Three first looks and have the darkness to our first look, first look now.

SPEAKER_03: 25:32

Yeah, you know what? Maybe instead of here's what we could do, Wallyams. Here's what we could do. We could follow Gracie's Amazing Machines thing. We'll do it, we'll do two first looks, and then the the listeners can go on the website or the Instagram channel or whatever and vote for their favourite, and then the next episode will say what the favourite was.

SPEAKER_04: 25:51

Um on Amazing Machines, the kids they get to uh say their favourites and they will talk about machines as well.

SPEAKER_03: 25:59

Yeah, so instead of us doing all the pints and first bites and waffle, we just get straight to it, keep it simple, put a vote out there, get a rock song for the theme tune. Yeah, we'll be doing it. Well, this is the week where AI have just had its first number one hit on the country billboard top 100.

SPEAKER_04: 26:18

So AI's on the show again.

SPEAKER_03: 26:20

AI's on the show. So AI have written a song that is our number one in the country billboard charts in America, and it's the first time it's happened. And it's quite a banger, to be fair. So we don't need a rock band, we can just have an AI rock band. In fact, you know what? Forget I said we should use AI to make a theme chain. Screw that. We want an old school battle of the band.

SPEAKER_04: 26:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:38

No, you and I can't sing. I mean, you try at the start of every episode, to be fair to you.

SPEAKER_04: 26:43

Contact our old university friend Wes from 20 years ago. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 26:49

No, we've got to give it to the youth, Williams. We need the youth to come out. So we need we need if you can make us a theme tune, a rock and roll theme tune, send it in and we'll use it. Because you know we will. We we will. So if you're in a band and you're listening to this in Japan or wherever, make us a theme tune and maybe we'll use it.

SPEAKER_04: 27:08

Yeah. Yeah. Sounds good. Season five, maybe it's gonna be better already, bigger, better.

SPEAKER_03: 27:14

We had Steve Dog season three. Madlia. Madly, yeah. Maybe I'll get back onto Dave Benson Phillips, he'll have some connections, right? Alright, Dave. Do you know any rock bands who want to do a theme tune for a podcast listened to by six people? Come on.

SPEAKER_04: 27:29

So with a rock, a rock or excuse me, with a rock or heavy metal uh theme tune, followed up by Dave Benson Phillips of Yes. Gunge Tech, what it's called.

SPEAKER_03: 27:43

Get your parents back, get your own back. Sorry, I beg your pardon. Yeah, we're just stealing all the ideas from C BBC basically. We're ripping off Gracie's amazing machines, ripping off all of her ideas. Have you enjoyed it, Wallyams?

SPEAKER_04: 27:58

I have, I have. I saw Skip mentioned on TV. No. This might blow the speakers again, but this was this was on TV on Sky Sports the other day.

SPEAKER_03: 28:12

Not for the podcast.

SPEAKER_04: 28:32

I think he said he loves the podcast, especially Mr. Williams. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03: 28:36

Yes, that's exactly what he said. He said he listens to personal norms and uh he loves the podcast, especially Mr. Williams. Um wait for the joke, Williams. There's bound to be a joke.

SPEAKER_04: 28:48

Uh no, well, yeah, I suppose there should be a joke, shouldn't there? There should be. I mean that's that's what the listeners tune in for, really. I'm not trying to find um Monate.

SPEAKER_03: 28:57

Walliams did you hear did you hear me? Heard the feedback must try harder.

SPEAKER_04: 29:04

That's what I says called. I don't know what you're doing about. Did you hear that? No, it's his CS no. Okay. Um did you hear did you hear that chap that um he drank uh Invisible Ink?

SPEAKER_03: 29:20

I did not know.

SPEAKER_04: 29:21

Yeah, he's he's at the hospital waiting to be seen.

SPEAKER_03: 29:26

It was worth the wait. I'm glad you found your notes. Is that why you couldn't find your notes? Because it was written on Invis Twin. I wrote it down in this week. Hey.

SPEAKER_04: 29:41

See you next week, listeners. Next week.

SPEAKER_03: 29:43

We folks keep listening. I know, I know, we will try harder, we'll take the feedback on board.

SPEAKER_04: 29:47

We will try harder Christmas episode, the last one of 2025. Oh, excellent. Looking forward to that. See you soon.

SPEAKER_03: 29:55

Bye everybody. Say potato.

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