Aval Dor Vodka Review, Distillery Tour & Dad Life Chaos | First Look

In this episode, we visit Colwith Farm Distillery to try Aval Dor vodka and find out if it really deserves the title of one of the world’s best vodkas. From tasting notes to the full distillery tour, we explore how potatoes are turned into premium Cornish vodka — and what makes it stand out.

Alongside our Aval Dor vodka review, we also talk about:

•  Life with a chaotic new puppy and the reality of dog ownership 
•  Dad life, bad backs, and trying to stay mobile (including kids yoga attempts) 
•  The challenge of ageing, flexibility, and whether we can still touch our toes 
•  Craft beer choices, including American IPA and vegan-friendly options 
•  Watching One Piece on Netflix and navigating more grown-up TV with kids 
•  Finding the right balance between protecting kids and giving them freedom 

If you’re interested in vodka tasting, distillery tours, Cornish spirits, parenting life, or TV discussions, this episode mixes real-life experiences with honest reactions and humour.

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Yay!

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Welcome to the body.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Welcome back, Mr. Williams. How are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Uh good. Good. So welcome back, listeners, to uh first at name's podcast. A hopefully funny fatherhood companion podcast. What it raise.

SPEAKER_01 1:09

I love the confidence. Hopefully funny. Considering you write the jokes, you should know if it's going to be funny or not. How are you doing? Are we in for a funny episode, Wallyans?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Are we in for a funny episode? Uh no. Good to know. What have we been up to? What have we been up to?

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Just living life, Wallyans. So living life. And our life has been consumed by this new dog of ours called Major. Major the dog. He we have been trying to teach this dog how to behave with limited successes. Some successes, but limited successes, because he's absolutely nuts. You forget, like our last dogs from other owners. Well, that's true. He's because he's a puppy, because he's got puppy energy. Our last dog was so small, and when he had puppy energy, it was just cute. And he's like, oh, pick him up in one hand, and he's cute. This beast is like 40 kilograms of pure muscle and chaos. So the house has been the house that we've worked so hard to make now is just been destroyed one by one. Currently have I don't know, I have a pair of socks now without holes in it. I found my beanie hat ripped up earlier. Goodness knows how many garden pots this dog is from. I don't know where he finds them from. So like we've we've put everything out of reach that we think, okay, he can't get anything. But nope, he finds something somewhere. And he started to put teeth into it. He does. So he he was wrecking empty pots, and now he started to attack the pots that have stuff in them. So he's just like he's just bowling through the garden, destroying things, and then the whole neighborhood could just hear me go, Niger! Niger, can't even know he's like, you're like, come down here. He's like, okay. It's just his proper doofus. Proper doofus, but uh we do love him. We do love him.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

There's anything you said before, whether it was recorded or not, but yeah, like uh yeah, the Fenton moment at you like Fenton?

Back Pain From Standing Up

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Oh yes. So running down the street on a Sunday morning, disturbing the peas yelling after this dog, who just escaped the house and just went running down the street like Black Beauty, and his face was so happy, and like running in the middle of the road, running around, and there's a guy in the in the um apartment block opposite us who's just coming out and he's just he can obviously see what's going on, and I'm there going, swearing, like and uh he's like, Is done that way, mate? I was like, I see. He said, My dog does that too. I said, and I just looked at him, I said, kids and dogs, why do we have them? And then the dog came back looking all happy with himself because he'd been running around. So yes, we had to we've now had to get new fencing in the back garden to stop him escaping into the neighbour's garden and then escaping down the side of the neighbour's garden down the road towards the playing fields and wherever he wants to go. So yeah, it's been um it's been fun. It's been more fun than it has been chaos because he's like he wants you can see he wants to, he wants to serve, he wants to be a good dog, but at the same time, if there's a squirrel, he will just you know, or a ball or anything, anything yeah, he is literally like that. Squirrel, off he goes. So yeah, we'll keep you posted on what's happening with the dog. But that's that's pretty much all our life has been so far for the last few weeks. Dog this, dog that, dog, dog, dog. How about you, Als?

SPEAKER_00 4:36

What's new? What's new? I've got I'd forgot to tell you, but I'd um my first well, my first standing up off the sofa, just sitting up off the sofa, back, gone. Oh no, strenuous, just literally just sat up off the sofa, owl, couldn't move for about half an hour. I was with Logan. Logan's now a height of opening doors, and he wouldn't come back in, he wouldn't come back in the same room. I was like, Logan, dad, I can't move. Can you please stay stay in this room? And then he was like going towards the front door, and I was like, Logan, and I could just imagine this front door opening, and like I don't know what I'd do. Georgie said I would have, you know, dad instinct adrenaline would just kick in and I would have been able to go get him and then suffered afterwards. But uh it was quite scary because I I I can't I can't move.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

You like actually couldn't move at all? Or was it just so sore?

SPEAKER_00 5:35

Towards half an hour, I just I just couldn't I couldn't get up and straighten myself type thing. My goodness. Yeah, I was yeah, yeah, it took a little while to get going again, and then it's still a little bit now, but that's fine. But uh yeah, 40 something, getting up off the sofa.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

They say, don't they? Like it's it's now obviously being young, agile, and super, super fit me, that kind of thing would never happen. But the same but they sometimes it's the fact that you're just doing nothing, and then suddenly, as you say, get up with a jolt or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 6:11

Just yeah, just did you go up and then just really sharp pain across the lower back. Ow.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

What what's happened to us, Wadiams? So I'm running down the street yelling after this stupid dog, and you can't even get up off the sofa. What's happened to us? We used to be we used to be young, virile, agile. Actually, have we ever been young, virile, agile? We were young. Yeah, we I don't think we ever hurt ourselves getting up. Sometimes we we I don't know, sometimes we hurt ourselves falling over because we drank too much beer. But um just getting off off the sofa. Well be careful. Ladies and gentlemen, be careful. Yeah. Getting up off the sofa can be dangerous.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Dim anchor, didn't I? Because I just stepped to the left. My ankles.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Slide to the left. We do the cha cha slide or something.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Yeah.

Kids Yoga And Toe Touch Talk

SPEAKER_01 7:01

The cha cha ouch. Not to be sound very mean. I I should be sympathetic on your friend, but you're a bit of a mess. Sort yourself out, son. You need to start doing some yoga or something.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

Well, I did I did a little bit of yoga uh a day before last actually. I found on YouTube Yoga Kids. Okay. Um, and there's this lady who we did yoga, but it was so basically we went in a hot air balloon, and then we landed on a tree, and then we ended up in the sea and found a treasure chest, and it was all through yoga movements. Yeah, Logan loved it. Logan did the old Mamas Day nice, and he did all the movements, and yeah, I managed to stretch my back out. So I'm gonna try to do a bit more of that with him. Really enjoyed it, and uh yeah, I think you need to.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

But uh I mean I can imagine if you were 65 or something, stand up made, but like you're only you're only you're 45, you've got you're gonna exercise.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

I should start doing some like weights or something because that helps with the muscle.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

But I think doing anything would probably help. It's just because we have various identity lives.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Yeah, I thought it's actually weights because I left up Logan quite a bit. Yeah, maybe that's what caused it actually before then, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Unless you unless you're doing proper kind of I don't know, 12 squats while you carry him or lift him over your head 12 times. Yeah, I think I think just picking your child up doesn't count as being weight. I could be wrong. But if you speak to Joe Wicks, he'll probably say, Yeah, that helps, but you probably need to do some some other things as well.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

I've logan on one hand and then Mika the the laboratory in the other hand.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Yeah, just curling, didn't boys himself and kidding the dog. Well, I hope you uh get yourself nimble and lean, Marion's about it.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

My three-year-old, they um her foot on the on the screen was uh turned into a mobile phone. And then she was putting her foot and Logan was putting her foot by the ear, okay speaking to it like a phone. I did not do that. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:09

If you tried to put your foot up by your ear, considering you ruined your bloody back getting up off the sofa, can you imagine? Can you imagine the kind of pain you'd be in?

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So I was in the lounge looking at this T this woman on the TV, Logan speaking to his foot and his ear, and then me just sort of like shouting down at my feet, going, ah, it's quite amazing as well, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Like when you watch a kid do it, like I bet Logan did it, no problem at all.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

No, yeah, no problem, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

And you just think, what what happens to us that we lose that kind of thing? I can't touch my toes.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

I can't touch my toes. Keep your legs straight. Can you touch your toes? Yeah, I can't.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

I would imagine no. I would guess probably not. I can I can touch my knee when I'm sat down. Does that count? Close enough. But yeah, I haven't actually I can't remember the last time I tried to touch my toes. I might do that in a bit. You remember the ice booking challenge? If you're over force, we'll try and touch your toes first. Oh yeah, we got asked to do the second one, didn't we? Yeah, that was last year, didn't it? No, we did that one, remember? Oh yes, of course we did. Well, I remember. I remember that we actually did it. We recorded live and actually did it, didn't we? Yes, uh maybe telling Pibs. Um but yeah, let's just do like a touchy toes challenge. And see if you can actually yeah, because I imagine there'd be many people in our situation who probably couldn't touch their toes. Or maybe there is. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Well, touch your toes, right in and tell us you touch your toes.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

I don't think outlook.com. Well, I thought we were gonna do a good podcast from the I thought like season five was gonna be the one. This was gonna be the podcast where we were talking about hurting our backs while we get up off the sofa and touching our toes. What have we become? I'm ashamed of us. I genuinely am. Let's get on to some first looks or bicks.

Beer Choice And Dad Banter

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Go on to a big get out of this, yeah? Well, I will start off with a bit of a combination. It's uh a thirsty first. First look. Oh, okay. Let's go for it. Um points and first bites, because we need points. Actually, well, actually, we're gonna combine it. I'm gonna uh go into the thirsty first fridge and get a beer, because I'm empty. And then I'll get on to uh my first look. Thirsty first. Oh, I'm I'm intrigued, Wallings. I'm intrigued. Well, first off, my first my drink, I've got a baby faced satin. Deceptively drinkable. A 6.1% American IPA. 6.1% this man just drinks the strongest beers ever.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

I do love an American IPA.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

But um That's a lovely can actually. Nice colourful uh a vegan friendly. There we go. Vegan friendly can. Um beer vegan friendly. No, we had this conversation before this target, didn't we? Because uh a lot of beers, especially the the older ones, they used it's like fish cuts or something. Oh yes, I remember. Something.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Yes, not this one though.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Um hops, 100% citra. Whatever that is, citra?

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Citra hops. So it's probably gonna have some kind of citrusy flavour, I would imagine. I don't know. Anyways, season five, back stronger. Back stronger, six point one.

Potato Farm Turned Vodka Distillery

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Cheers. Cheers, Williams. But um beer. Uh no, my firsty first first look today. Um so before my six point one percent beer, I'm actually just got back from going to a distillery. Oh so I went to Colwith Farm uh distillery today as part of a uh Christmas present the uh the wife wife got me. Nice and potatoes, Mr. Hodgkiss. Potatoes is a potato farm which turned into a distillery. So I learned how to turn potatoes into vodka and gin. Nice. So yeah. Uh went there for a bit of lunch and then a bit of a uh bit of a tour and had the I don't know how you pronounce it actually. Uh I should do because it's Cornish, but Abaldor. So I had Aboldor, which won let's have a look, it won three double gold medals at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Making that vodka thing, yeah, making the vodka arguably the world's finest. Wow. So I had the world's finest vodka today, apple door. Very nice. Or otherwise potato. Potato! So apple door potato, apple door.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

Very nice. And what did you think of the the vodka? Did you get to the sample something?

SPEAKER_00 14:19

Lovely, lovely. So yeah, so I sampled so well, first of all, we I had uh so they do gin, so we do gin and vodka. So I had nice gin tonic, double gin tonic, strong one, and then after the tour, I had well, I had Georgie's as well. So I had eight I had eight shots.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

I had eight shots of uh vodka and gin. So I had this all winning one. I had a few moments of Georgia to my eyes and you've gone. And that was probably because I drank him in quite quick succession. But really good, like the as you get older you appreciate good spirits. Yeah. Because I you know, back in our day, we were just Glenn's Volker Chief vodka, and you would just you would drink it, you'd make a weird face, you go, ah that's that's that's weird. Didn't actually enjoy it, did we really?

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Um no, we enjoyed getting hammered.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

Yeah, but we didn't actually enjoy the but this stuff, like and or or it was Volcan Coke or Red Bull, you know, Red Bull, Red Bull, Red Bull, Red Bull.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

There's nothing else swimming in the Red Bull, was it? It wasn't Red Bull, though. We couldn't afford Red Bull. Red Bull. It was Kick Kick and Boost. Kick and Boost.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Everyone goes to the bar and says, Come on, Volca Red Bull. But yeah, you never actually got Red Bull. They never actually corrected us, I don't think. Like like you know, when you go to a restaurant now, you say come a Coke, they go, It's Pepsi, alright? Yes, yeah. But yeah, those are the days where yeah, just literally vodka ribbon. We never we never went, oh, could we have that vodka? Can we have you know, could we have an Avaldo and tonic? Well your red bull. But yeah, it's just literally Ice vodka. We didn't we didn't ask for a particular vodka, did we? But I remember in Friends Wedding in Ukraine and Vodka straight, it was like Russian something, right? Not that you should buy a Russian vodka anymore. Uh well you can, I don't know. Anyways, it's not a political podcast. Um and that one I remember was just glorious, and this Avdor, like neat over ice, you could drink it. Whereas before I always thought vodka you have to have to have a mix because there's something. But this stuff, straight, over some ice cubes design. I've been handsome, beautiful. Very nice.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

Yeah, I remember it it's funny because I've heard I've heard people talk about a good vodka and bad vodka and what you how you're meant to drink good vodka. But I've never been to a vodka distillery. Like you're right in what you're saying. We used to so I remember like my dad went away once. Mum and dad went to somewhere like you know, Saloo or somewhere in the Costa Brava or something, and they said you want to even bring them back. And I said, Can you bring me back some vodka? So they brought me back this. I don't know what it was like, storage night, choke. It was it was a really funny night. It wasn't storage night, it wasn't a good vodka, it was like a rip-off, and it came in like a plastic one litre bottle. And I rem I remember having some of it and just thinking, that is the most disgusting thing ever. And our friend, our manly man Morg sent and said, I'll have it, I'll drink it. And I think he drank like half of the bottle one night. And that's where it's got to be.

How Potatoes Become Vodka

SPEAKER_00 18:12

So you peel the potatoes, mash them, some science stuff in it. And then it's mad, innit? Potato, vodka. Starch, starch to sugar to get the enzymes, and then they ferment it, and then the yeast, the yeast eats the sugar, distill it, and then you basically separate the alcohol from the water, and basically potato lumps are left, whatever. And then you dilute it down from 90 odd percent ABV to 40% ish alcohol. So and then so this place actually so they started in 2018 from just selling potatoes to so they actually provide all the potatoes for Bert's, you know, Bert's Chris.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Oh, oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

So they supply all the potatoes for them, and then basically the sons of like fifth generation was like oh, why don't we get all these potatoes? Start doing rock and 2018, but then COVID kicked in, was it 20 uh 20 or whatever? Yeah, and they ended up doing a lot of because basically part of way through the process, you're basically making uh the hand sanitizer because it's basically what is it? Lethanol is the right word, yeah. Because just basically super high alcohol content, and so they ended up having like a year's worth of orders for just making hand sanitizers. Wow, is that because that was you basically get to that stage before you get to making this nice vlog cutner? So it's crazy that are you are used to hand sanitizer and get handle. I mean, well, you mean there are there are stories about people that have got massive alcohol problems that were using that, you know, just water it down a bit and then just oh wow, because it's got alcohol in it, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so yeah, then get to you basically get to 96% alcohol and then you just dilute it down, and then obviously obviously there's a lot more to it because there's a difference between your your moonshine, your weird vodka that you've got from holiday. College night to your like award-winning sort of stuff, but yeah, this stuff I could uh yeah, I could drink because I bought I bought a bottle, I bought a bottle today, award-winning nice vodka.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

So what was the one what was the one that like kept comes with grass in it? Is it like bison? Grass in it? There's like there was a vodka, I'm sure of this, and it was very popular for a while, and it has like a piece of grass in it, and I think it's called bison. Let me google it. Bison vodka. Uh Zabroka bison grass.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Isn't that what a buffalo said to his son when he left him? Zebrau Zabka? Bison, sorry. Bison.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Ha ha ha, very good. So you were I should laugh at that, that's so bad. Yeah, Zabroka, bison grass, vodka, and it comes with grass in it. Flavored vodka. Uh it I'm I'm sorry, I'm just going down. I don't know much about vodka, but it's this this sounds like you were very impressed.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Yes, Avoldor. Give it a go. There's a good gin as well. A V A L.

unknown 21:35

Space.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

A V A L. Space D-O-R. Avoldor, which is Cornish for Potato.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Avoldor, original vodka. Wow. Cornish vodka. Winner, the world's best vodka. Well, I know it's a Eevee a birth, didn't I? I love how they've got this, they've got this, they have a picture of this beautiful, like grey. Goose style glass bottle surrounded by spuds.

SPEAKER_00 22:05

Potato? Amazing what you can eat in potato. Isn't it really?

SPEAKER_01 22:09

What can you not like? Tell me something to do with potatoes that you don't like. Like, do you like mashed potato?

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Yeah. Roast potato? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, mashed mashed potato wouldn't be my my go-to first potato. But you still eat it though, right? But chips, yeah, chips and uh Sunday roasting. Roast potatoes. Well, roast potatoes gotta be top in it. Roast potato. Roast potato, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Baked potato as well.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Or maybe a jack and potato before mash. Yeah, jack and potatoes.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Yeah. Baked potatoes are just like classic. Yeah. And then vodka, obviously. You know. We have talked about getting I mean we've talked about vodka, which is good, but my goodness, we've talked about getting up off soapers and hurting ourselves. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

No, but we sound fancy because we're using the Cornish for potato. Avaldor. Avaldo.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

I don't know. I think we just I think we've just uh I I think we need to go and do something really wild to get some some new content on himself.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

We need to go on like wild.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

What do we do? No, not no like actual wild. Like we need to go to where do all the young kids go these days? Do we need to like Ionappa? Nando's iron app Nando's is very good actually. But I mean kids kids don't do that anymore. They go actually stuff. No, not anymore. Oh good. Is Iron Apple is Iron Apple still a thing? I think here we go. I'm googling it. That's what I'm beefing. It's a premier Mediterranean. I did not know Iron Apple's on Cypress in Cypress. It's a premier Mediterranean resort now for its stunning blue flow beaches, vibrant legendary nightlife, and top tier scuba diving.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

Right, Williams. Are you trying to switch the conversation from potatoes to something to get down the beginning?

SPEAKER_01 24:00

I just I just think we need to go and I mean we we need to do something to just re-spark us from talking about potatoes and getting up off sofas in painful ways. I just you know when people say you're only years old.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

I'm turning potatoes into vodka.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

I suppose that's true. Could you do that yourself?

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Would you know how to do that yourself? Because I do do those. Can you imagine sort of going back to who was it, Walter Riley? It wasn't it, you know, you discovered a potato. Can you imagine someone sort of then going to your this potato? I can turn it into alcohol.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

As well as my own.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

How mind-blowing is that? Yeah, I can turn this potato into a lovely bits on Jack and Potato. You know, the things you can do with a potato. The things you can do with a potato. I'm jumping at the gin.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

You did the gin as well, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Uh yeah, gin. So add some nice gin as well. So uh, yeah. Even the gin you could just have with the rocks as well.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

Is there nothing Avildo can't do? They are the best pocket in the world. You've heard it here first. In the world, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

And probably the gin's not bad either. Avoldor, go for it. Ignore your Russian stuff. Yeah, definitely ignore your Russian stuff. Get some Cornish instead. Get some Cornish in ya. Get some Cornish in ya.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

And on that note, do you want me to do my first look by you?

SPEAKER_00 25:25

I mean how you can beat a potato.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Well, mine again, I haven't been doing anything particularly exciting recently. So I was thinking about what to talk about, and I thought, well, what have I done recently that's been different? And my kid is nearly 11 years old, and he's transitioning from being a boy to a teenager. So obviously, it's still a couple of years away, technically from being a teenager, but you can see it starting to come. And the biggest giveaway is TV choices. So we have we have kind of transitioned now into more adult TV with it. Pardon me. Excuse me.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Apologies. Apologies. That's the potato card.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

That's all the potatoes, that is. That's because you have eight shots early, you're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Too many potatoes.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

We're like, okay, so he doesn't want to watch, he doesn't want to watch some of the stuff that he would have watched in the past. It's like, oh isn't he's not ready for bay watch yet. I'm looking, I'm looking forward to the day just to see his eyes go, what the heck is this? Why are they all in slow motion? Why have they all got massive haircuts? Um so that'll be fun. But no, we have. We moved on to there's a he came home and he's like, I want to watch this thing called uh One Piece. And I don't know if you've heard of One Piece.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Oh, I think I have, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

It's like about pirates. And I was like, oh, that sounds pretty cool. Yeah, it's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

I've heard of the Netflix series now, but that's based on something else, isn't it? Is it based on this or anime?

SPEAKER_01 27:01

Yeah, anime an anime series from the 90s. And I was like, cool. So I was like, that's a 15. So I was like, okay. Do I think it's okay? And I I went on kind of parents net and all these kind of things. I thought, you know what? I think it'll be alright. Because we a couple of weeks ago, I was going through one of these things where I was like, what old films are good that he can watch? Because he he's getting, you know, he is getting bigger. So when I when I was his age, and I think we may have talked about this before, there was films I watched that were not suitable for my age. No. But I loved them, you know. I was like, ah, terminate is incredible. I'm 11. No, of course I want to watch Terminate.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

And you're drinking vodka from Spain, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

I wasn't well, I was a bit I was 13. I was 13 when me and Walked drinking the vodka. But when we were 11, 10 or 11, I do remember watching films that were probably like 15s or 18s, yeah, but like you said, Total Recall and The Running Man. Great film. Pretty much any Arnie film or any Sylvester Sallone film. Even because I was clusters.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

I think I must have been yeah, I would have been definitely younger in 12 watching The Running Man and my grandparents' place.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Yeah. Thinking it was awesome. Yeah. Well, I remember my nan once, right? So God love my nan. She's sadly past now, so she she won't mind me telling the story. But we went to a house once for like a sleepover, and uh it was the days where you know there were videos, and she was like, Oh, um what do you want to do? I said, Have you got any films? Now Mr. Bean probably about eight.

SPEAKER_03 28:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

And maybe, maybe not even as old as that. And she put on, she's like, Oh, there's a film here. Uh, what banner, what's this? What is it? It was a film called Rita, Sue, and Bob 2. Now, I don't know if you've ever heard of this film, but it's basically about this guy who him and his wife have a child and they invite these girls around to babysit, and then he takes the babysitters home and has his memory with them in the car and start his relationships. So I remember when I'm putting this film on, and there's this scene. Yeah, and I was like, okay, what's going on? So there's a scene where he has a This is your origin story.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

This is why you're the man you are now.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

Possibly. So he he gets into the back of his car with one of them, well, the other one's in the front of the car. He does his thing, and then they're like, my turn now, so then they have to swap, and he has it with the other one. You know Nan hasn't stopped it. Nan didn't stop it. Nan used to let us watch things like prisoner cell blockage and the young ones, and oh, it's fine, it's fine, it's not a problem. She she I remember like I remember so my sister always says, like, when when she was you know early teens or something, well, are you having yeah, yeah, yeah? I'm like, okay. I've just she just asked those kind of questions, and I'm like, you know what? There's something very refreshing about it these days. We're also like prim and proper. So, in a way, I was like, right, okay, so what films did I used to like that are probably not appropriate for Brain, but also really are, because kids are fine. So we ended up watching Gremlins 2. Great film, it was a great one, and Braden loved it. He thought it was brilliant. Like all the all the stupid gremlins and the way they all you know get. No, we'll make a new one. After we watched Gremlins 2, we were like, I'm surprised I haven't done a new Gremlins film because it was a good franchise. So we watched Gremlins 2, and then I was thinking about One Piece. I was like, Yeah, we can watch One Piece. Now there is some swearing in it, and like it gives you a notification of like self-harm. It's not really well, it is self-harm, but not in like kind of the hey man, I'm just gonna kill myself and put myself kind of way.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

It's just I was yeah, again younger younger and twelve when I watched it.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Rita Sue and Bob 2 or oh Gremlins 2.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Gremlin's 2, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

Yeah, Rita Sue and Bob 2 is T double o, not the it wasn't the sequel to Reassue and Bob. It was it was uh Rita Sue and Bob 2. The sequel the sequel. What's that one when you're not? God love my name. So yes, it was just interesting. Bob three, some the sequel. Well that that's a good one. You said this was it wasn't gonna be a funny podcast. That was a good joke. Um so yes, we are getting to the point now where it's just like we're pushing pushing the envelope a little bit on what we can watch, and I love it because like watching One Piece with him has been fun. Because it's quite a good show, which I've enjoyed it, and like, yeah, it is, it's really good. I'd I'd give it I'd give it four out of five something. And then he started to watch the anime of it as well. And then we've been watching a cartoon, which actually is a younger kid's cartoon, but it's one of those cartoons where as an adult there's a lot of humour that is yeah, like it's adult humour, so it's called Adventure Time. Um it's brilliant, it's it's a really good cartoon. And like Brain gets a lot out of it, and I get a lot out of it as well watching it, because I'm just like this ridiculous. So it's it's nice. There is, yes, we're on to kind of the second series. So we use cartoons like old school, we use cartoons as the motivation in the morning. Like, if we are ready before quarter eight, we can have 15 minutes where we can watch a cartoon before school, and I love it because it's kind of me and him time time, let's watch something. Yeah, and it's just nice because it's not all kind of bluey and hey doggy anymore, it's like adventure time and one piece, and I'm starting to.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

I remember watching so much TV before school. Whereas now I'm like, I I don't have time to watch TV before work. No, no. Well, but I remember watching like Power Rangers and The Big Breakfast and like Yeah. But how did I have time? It felt like I I was sat there watching it for like an hour or something, but probably it was only like 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

I think like 10 or 15 minutes, yeah, before uh before you flew off to school. Um yeah, we don't really have that much time in the mornings because we have to we have to leave the house at 8 o'clock to get into school. So it's like right, gotta get up by we've gotta be if we want to watch 14, there's gotta be, you know, dress and everything done by 7.14. Otherwise there's no chance. But yeah, it's just been it's been a lot of fun watching these more adult kind of early teen things. So there's there's probably a few others we want to try and go through. So I was kind of going through the old classic films and thinking, okay, what's what's next? I don't have Rita Sue and Bob 2 on DVD to share with him, and I don't know if it's on any streaming services, so we may have to miss that one.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

But and I'm not sure that'd be a family tradition. You should no, it's probably not, probably not.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

But yeah, watching TV with a child who is transitioning and getting older now and stuff, it's been it's been good. It's been good.

Letting Kids Be A Bit Feral

SPEAKER_00 34:07

Yeah. Yeah, it's uh it's interesting hearing because obviously I'm the other end of the spectrum, but it's interesting uh getting that insight into what's to come.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

Well, it's it's the balance you see, because you don't want to I'm I'm I'm very aware of it.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Because also you think about some some parents if they got their way, it'll be and it never happens, but because you can't have a world where you've got an entire switch off and then 18 they suddenly get flooded with all this information, yeah. Because there's a lot in the world, isn't it? So it's trying to work out how you drip feed stuff things, yeah. Stuff that we made. So how do you well?

SPEAKER_01 34:54

I think we have to be careful because I think we we had a lot of freedom when we were kids, maybe not as much as our parents, but a lot of freedom. And now everything's so controlled and everyone is so wrapped in paper, we're like, oh no, precious, and this is it's everything's so I don't know, what's the word? There is a word. There's not a great deal of freedom, everything's very kind of regimented, and I think we need to let kids be a bit chaotic and go out and hurt themselves a little bit more. I'm gonna sound like I'm really all through the day, but I'm like, no, I don't want to wrap Brandon Cornwall. I said to Lisa, I I kind of want to say to him right, it's a fine line. There is, but like when we were kids, I used to like go around the village on my bike, and we used to go around people's friends, and we used to play, and I'm like, it's cool. There's a lot now, like Brain tonight, he's playing video games, but he's online with someone. I'm kind of want to say to him right, it's 7 pm. Go out of the house. I don't want to see you till 8 pm. I don't want to know where you're going, just go and do something and just like see what happens. Like, don't kill yourself, be safe, but come back and just let them experience just not being at home or with mum and dad and just kind of go and be a bit feral. Like kids aren't feral like they used to be. It's a different kind of feral now.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

It's all attitude and yeah, because some people they they just end up putting their attitude through your social media posts, don't they?

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Do it that way, which is worse anyway.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Yeah. They need to we need that fine balance of like, yeah, go outside, be feral, watch a film you're not meant to watch.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

It will be okay. You've got to learn something because eventually you're gonna be out of the world.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

But I remember this this this one time like me and my friend Steve. Steve little kid Steve. And uh we had these did you have those water pistons which are literally just uh you you pull them back and then push them forward, the the long ones just like yeah the super soakers, what are they called? Yeah, and uh we were just doing that, but we entered from my house and just with an overlooked road, and we're just like squirting water at these cars as they were driving by. Exactly, that's exactly what I'm talking about. But then but then one time this car just stopped, and my heart had just went, oh no. But yeah, even me, yeah, even me, you know, little goody t-shoes boy I was, I was firing water pistols at cars.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

You should do, you've gotta go and do that kind of stuff because once your heart stops, you know you've done something bad, and that's how you learn. Oh, I didn't like that, I won't do that again.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

Yeah, oh, oh, actually they can stop and get out of the car and beat me up if they wanted to. Well, I probably shouldn't do that.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

But because you're a kid, he wouldn't. So you learn, so then when you're adult, you don't do it. So it's like you've got kids have got to learn these things when they're kids, because otherwise they do when they're a bit older. Someone actually will get out and punch them. So it's like, yeah, let the kids let the kids be kids, man. Let them watch Gremlins 2. Let them watch a film that's uh something that's a 15 if they're only 10, as long as it's not, you know, full of games. Yeah, it's always Gremlin's 2 is Gremlin's 2 a 15, is it?

SPEAKER_00 38:06

I think it was a 12, might have been a 15.

SPEAKER_01 38:08

No, I think it was a 15 because it was it was definitely scary.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

But it's it's it's advertised as a horror, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 38:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

A comedy.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

Yeah, there was like giant spiders, and you know, yeah, there was some naughty language in there. So but it was good, it was an enjoyable film.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

Yeah, yeah, Grammy.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

So yeah, that was my first look of himself. First look at old stuff and old stuff, yeah. Grammar's old. Well, it's an old film app. So we've got all kinds of ones to look at.

SPEAKER_00 38:36

Any or or I suppose that was kind of linked to is that tips or dads? Is that a tips or dads and the first in one?

SPEAKER_01 38:43

I might I might save my tips for dads for the next episode, Rams, because we've been recalling for a long time now. But I do have some tips for dads, but yeah. I think I'll save it for next time.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

We'll save it for next time, this isn't it? A little cliffhanger, an old an old school gnome cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

What we'll do.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

I'll end I'll end with some reassuring words then for any of our listeners that that feel like someone is watching you. You're not alone. Oh man. Until next time, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 39:16

Bye everybody. Bye. I can't remember the last time I tried to touch my toes. I might do that in a bit.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

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