Harry Potter, SNL UK & Dad YouTube Rabbit Holes | First Look

In this episode, we take a first look at the new Harry Potter series trailer, discuss whether the wizarding world still has the same magic, and share our honest reactions to the upcoming reboot.

We also dive into the announcement of Saturday Night Live, what a British version of the legendary sketch show could look like, and whether UK comedy can match the chaos and iconic moments of the original.

Plus, we give our first impressions of Last One Laughing and why this style of comedy challenge makes for brilliant watching.

Alongside the entertainment talk, we also cover:

•  A painful kidney stones update and the reality of getting older 
•  YouTube recommendations every dad should know about 
•  Trying Novaflow red light therapy and whether it actually works 
•  Thoughts on CBeebies “I Can Grow It” and kids TV that parents can survive too 

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We catch up on feedback, surprising listener stats, and the small family moments that make us laugh and keep us grounded. Then we swap first looks on Harry Potter, comedy telly, weirdly satisfying YouTube channels, and one truly wild gadget that involves red lights up the nose.  

• podcast feedback and chart sightings plus listeners across 71 countries  
• kids’ gardening TV and why spring gardening feels like a reset  
• Hogwarts Legacy as a Harry Potter video game recommendation  
• new Harry Potter TV series trailer reactions and hopes for book accuracy  
• SNL UK and what makes sketch comedy land  
• why older TV formats like The X Factor and Big Brother now feel dated  
• kidney stone update, prevention habits, and a medication side effect tease  
• tips for dads on YouTube rabbit holes: HoofGP, Drain Cleaning Australia, Time Travel TV  
• “adult superpowers” toddlers love, like simply reaching things  
• NovaFlow nasal congestion device and the question of what actually works  

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Transcript

Theme Tune Chaos And Dad Banter

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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 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 firstlookgnomes at outlook.com.

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Hodgekiss, Malianist. Is this the real life? Is this just pod fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes. Look up to the skies and see Episode 4 boy. We need no sympathy because we're easy go. Easy go any way this pod goes doesn't really matter to me. To me.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome, everybody. You welcome.

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Welcome you.

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Welcome to listening to a parenting podcast. Dance, dance, dance. A companion podcast. Would you call us a parenting podcast? A parenting podcast? We are parents, but we talk about I mean we have tips for dads this episode. We have tips for dads. We do have tips for dads. Yeah, so a dad podcast.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

A dad lad podcast. Yeah, I I wouldn't get parenting advice from us. After the last episode when we talked about watching movies like Reacher Sue and Bob Two, I'm not sure that anybody could come to us for parenting advice. And and Reach and Bob 3. And three, some, yes. That is probably your finest ever joke. I I giggled about that one after the event.

SPEAKER_06 1:59

A podcast where we take a first look, anything that you probably already looked at.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

We take a look at things that we've done, don't we? Which can sometimes be fantastic. If we're just like in a good purple patch of doing things, and then other times where you're like, oh, I've done nothing in between episodes other than just live. Then sometimes then you think it sometimes with these podcasts, Wadiams, I reflect on myself and think, I don't do very much. I must be quite boring. Other people doing stuff all the time, because sometimes I'm like, What have I done that? I can talk about. And if the Hoovering, and last episode we worked out that thing that Wadiams talked about was getting up off the sofa. Can I ask Wadiums, since then, have you been able to get up off the sofa without bother?

SPEAKER_06 2:41

Well, bother after I I'm very cautious as I get up. But you get stuck. I don't really get stuck again. But before before B before I was trying to come up, BC before before Crocs. But before the uh the event, I would just get off the sofa, whereas now I'm like, slowly get up just in case. Oh dear. You know?

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Make a dad sound like you sound that's like the kind of thing where you're like, I don't trust the fart. Like I used to just fart. Now I'm very cautious when I fart, just in case. Same kind of thing, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_02 3:24

Yeah, yeah, pretty right.

SPEAKER_06 3:27

Do you want to dive in? I'll get to the fish front feedback. Yes, please. Oh fish from the feedback? We can we can dive into fish fund of feedback if you want. Oh, I'm assuming that's what you meant. We need to dive in. No, we we can dive in, suit up. Get your uh fisherman jacket on.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

No, you be careful casting your rod while he ends with your back.

SPEAKER_06 3:47

Well if you you hold hold Homer back, I'll grab your rod.

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Okay. Here we go.

Listener Feedback And Global Stats

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Swinging in. Splish.

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Fishponder fever. Feeback. Uh as always, don't forget to write into uh first at gnomes at outlook.com. First of all, Spotify the other week, gnomes reached number 12. So anybody that searched gnomes for first at gnomes, we came up. Number 12. There you go. It was good. On Apple, yeah, we reached number two. Anyone that typed in dad skills. Wow. That's pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

That actually is, because there'll be a lot of people who are looking for dad skills. Did it did it all click after searching for that? Or did we not know those better markets?

SPEAKER_06 4:46

My downloads are quite high. And so whilst I've been doing so we had a bit of a gap, as as many of you know, between season four and season five. So I was doing some some old old episode sort of clips and some some lone vaults. Looking back at the archives. And in season season one, meaning you were talking about the countries, and we had like we had 17 countries that have downloaded, and we're like all of the 17 countries. 71 countries now. 71 countries listen to officially. I mean yeah, one listen in quite a few different countries. But 71, 71 out of I don't know what the official number is, but 250 countries have listened to First Lit Lohns.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

That's mad. That's a lot of that's a lot of uh that's a lot of hackers listening to our podcasts and bots listen to our podcast possibly. I don't know. I hacking into our still, you know, bots from some countries, I take it. Using our content to power AI probably well. Maybe there are there are probably people now wonder asking questions about what the best book in the world is. And you know, thanks to our podcast and your wonderful recommendation, they are finding the Cornish vodka.

SPEAKER_06 6:06

We're we're causing what they call AI hallucinations.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Is that what it is? We that's what we're causing. I wouldn't be surprised by it.

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AI scan the internet for informative information about potatoes, and it's coming back just everybody.

SPEAKER_01 6:22

And dad skills.

unknown 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:26

No and dad skills. 71 countries now.

SPEAKER_06 6:29

But uh 25% of our listeners are from the States. Okay, 2% Canada, 2% Singapore, 2% Germany, and then the rest is well, 48% the UK, but then the rest all different countries. But yeah, and the latest countries to join the First Lookers. What's the fan base called? The First Lookers? What's a good fan base? Tell the Swift fans are what, Swifties? Yeah, well the nomies. The hominomies.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

But I wouldn't say that, just the gnomies are right.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

The homie gnomies. I mean, I've got nothing against the LGBTQ community. But it very much.

SPEAKER_06 7:14

No, I meant I meant like you know, the gangsters go out. Oh, homie nomies. Okay. Homies. Do gangsters do that? Do I do I start a gangster right now? You might find yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

I might have to cut this bit one in. We could get in trouble for that.

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Swiftly moving.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Slice that one, slice that one.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

Yeah, we've got new well, the latest countries to join our fan base, love the new homies, is uh Portugal, Greece, Georgia, and Saudi Arabia. Very nice. Welcome, welcome, yeah. So please write into Footland at Outlook.com. Not that we don't have a long list of people writing in fan mail.

Kids Gardening Songs And Spring Returns

SPEAKER_06 8:02

I asked Logan if he wanted to uh to say anything to his uncle Craig.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_06 8:08

Yeah, and he said he said bounce bouncing bounce for the blue, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, go for the red.

SPEAKER_05 8:19

Okay, bounce the blue blue. That's what he wanted to say to you.

SPEAKER_06 8:22

Bounce out, bounce for the blue, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle for the red. Which actually I thought was quite apt. So he's got that from a show on C BB's called I Can Grow It. And I Can Grow It's basic uh Kids Gardening Programme. Nice. I mean, I'm sure he knows it, Craig's King Gardener, but but more likely he just likes the song. But uh yeah, so uh bounce up, bounce on the blue, wiggle wiggle wiggle for the red, go go go for the green, put your hands on your head, go up, up, up for the pink, go down, down, down for the brown. If you see purple, move like a turtle. Slow, slow, slow. Nice. Great song. But yeah, it's a song from uh I can grow it, which uh yeah, a little mini first look there.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

But step into the sea babies I can grow it city garden with Aaron and his team of helpful buds to unearth magic, music, and mud while discovering what goes on all year round.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

I'm gonna have to watch that, Sharonai. I mean anything to do with gardening, I'm all over it. I think you enjoy it, yeah. Tell him I will respond once I have thought of a suitable response. I will.

SPEAKER_06 9:46

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

Um first looks like okay, and any more feedback? No other feedback from anybody. That was that was it. Well, I suppose we haven't been online, we haven't been on, we haven't had uh we had a big gap, which was mostly my fault. Um, yeah, I'm gonna I'll do a mini first look first because like on Guardian, Guardian's back. So uh we are recording this on March. And Garden is back, and uh Monty Don's back on the TV, and Beach Girl's coming back soon, and I've I've spent the last few weeks in the garden and he spelled awesome. And I'm very, very happy to be back in the garden. So I am glad Logan is watching I Can Grow It and I'm gonna check that out now, too, as well. So yeah, I should I should definitely, yeah. Um if I was smarter and more aspirational, I'd love to make a gardening show for kids because it is just the best thing ever. Anyway, that wasn't really my first look, but it was just exciting because it's gardening, like yeah, gardening plants. I I sent a picture of a trolley from Little the other day to the family. It was full of plants, and I was like, it begins, the season has started, and it's and there's lots of there's lots of things coming back out. My chamellia is out, Wallyon. My chamellia's looking very strong, and the rhododendrons are all right. You've got a lovely strong chamellia. I do have a lovely strong chamellia, and as well as many other strong, wonderful plants, even some of the French lavenders from last year starting to come back, and it's very exciting. Anyway, I'm going down the route here of people standing up and hurting their backs. Um I'm gonna go off that, Williams, and my first

Harry Potter Game Love And Trailer Doubts

SPEAKER_01 11:25

look. I've kind of got a couple of little ones, really. So by the time this goes out, this will not be new news, but we my son and I, and I think I've probably talked about this before, we are Harry Potter fans in our household. And we have so over the we generally class the winter as video game season. So over Christmas and New Year, my son and I played Hogwarts Legacy, which is a very good Harry Potter game set 70 years before the events in the Harry Potter, and I was like, ah, that'd be alright, and I loved it, like really enjoyed the storyline, really enjoyed all the things, great and absolutely loved it. And we finished this game recently, and then we're like, oh, I miss Harry Potter, but the new trailer for the new Harry Potter TV series dropped. This Christmas. Yeah, coming out at Christmas, which is quite cool. Christmas used to be Harry Potter time, didn't it? It did. I am glad it's coming out. I'm glad it's coming out at Christmas. And I was, how do I well? I was excited to watch it, and then when I did watch it, I was a bit like unexcited.

SPEAKER_06 12:38

Oh, I haven't actually seen it. I've seen some pictures of the trailer. Yeah. Because everyone's overanalyses every single shot.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Of course. It's like, of course they do. It's such a popular thing, isn't it? Everyone's everyone's pouring over any kind of information. And I watched it and I was like, oh, so they just they arbitrary just I was underwhelmed because I loved the film so much and loved the books. And I shouldn't be underwhelmed, really. I don't know what I was expecting, but I was like, oh, it just looks the same as the film. Just like all the clippings. I was like, okay, so the sets all look the same, the outfits all look the same, it's just different people playing the characters. It didn't look any different to the movies.

SPEAKER_06 13:23

Because the key the key thing I'm wanting from them is because the books are so much more in the books, so I'm moving as a series, it will more or less copy the books more than the films could because it was a film format. That's something.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Yeah, I hope so too. The trailer though, it looked like a movie trailer, obviously, because it it's gonna it's gonna look like eight mini movies, isn't it? But all the bits they showed, I was like, oh, it looks the same. Like even like the wallpaper and stuff in the Dirseys house and everything, I was like, that's like the same as the film and the It's the same set. Yeah, I just I didn't know, I didn't know what to expect, but I was a bit underwhelmed. However, I do love the source material, so I am excited for it, and Brain's excited. And Hogwarts' legacy, as I say, is is if you're into Harry Potter and into video games, if you've got those two combinations, he loves the age of Harry Potter in the first film, isn't he? Yeah, he is, yeah. Yeah, it's like 10's 11. Yeah, so Brain is pretty much bang on the age. And Brain Brain loves the Harry Potter films. He's still like he even now he's like, oh, what should we watch? Should we watch Harry Potter film? Yeah, and he's sure shove it on. And his mom, like my wife and myself, we are uh we are we have always been big fans of it. We love that world. So, yes, the new Harry Potter trailer coming out, Hogwarts Legacy is a recommendation for a video game for anybody who's into Harry Potter. Even like listening Ann, some of the she would kind of occasionally sit and watch us play it. And because the story and the dialogue and stuff so good, and there's so much lore, because you obviously you can explore all the grounds and go all of the castle, you can go in Hogs Meeting and all these different plays that are in Harry Potter, talk to all these characters, you learn so much if you are like a Harry Potter geek, like we we are. The lore is just fantastic. So, yeah, I could recommend that to anybody who's into it. If you're not, I've probably just bore the pants off here for 10 minutes. There are plenty of people who are just very anti-Harry Potter and anti-JK Rowling as well. That's like a whole debate now, isn't it? Oh yes. So yeah, we went into that one with a barge pole. But yeah, we watched that and also like SNL

SNL UK And Why Comedy Works

SPEAKER_01 15:26

UK. So by the time this goes out, that might also be kind of wrapped. But we so we are we have always yeah, we've watched we've watched Saturday Live pretty much religiously for probably the last three years. Like we we found it, well, we knew about it, but it was on now TV, and we started watching it because obviously I work for Americans, so some of the conversations would be about it. So we started watching it, like on Monday or Tuesday when it used to come on to Now TV, and it's really funny, like the actual American version is really funny. So when they announced they were doing the UK one, we were quite excited, and so we stayed up and actually watched it live, and I thought it was really good, I was really impressed with it. Yeah, yeah. Tina Fay was the kind of the compare for the evening, and have a for those who don't know, they have a different famous person every week, and for the week running up to the show, they're involved in the sketches, and then on the actual events they get involved as it they play a part in all the different sketches. But I thought the UK should be great at this because like sketch comedy, like I always remember there being so many sketch comedy shows, like The Fast Show and Harry Annfield, and you think, where are like even like Michelin and Webb and stuff, Little Britain, like the UK's always done good sketch shows. And I thought we've got enough, we're we're funny enough as the UK to absolutely do a program like SNL justice. So I was glad that when I watched it.

SPEAKER_06 16:52

We're very different about humour.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Yeah, the American I don't know. I don't know if we are. I think I think because SNL is kind of from New York, I think the coastal America, so kind of West Coast and East Coast, the humour is they get the British humour. I think Central America and the humour's possibly different. But it was it was as I yeah, I did, I enjoyed it. I think the guys who did it, and one of the the guys who's really good is from Wolverhampton, so like, yeah, I bring up Wolverhampton, and he's very funny. And he did a sketch about all the Irish accents, so it was really funny. A guy from Wolverhampton taking the piss out of all the Irish accents, and he did such a good job. Yeah, it was it made me laugh. So yeah, well well done to the SNL UK team. I thought it was fad.

SPEAKER_06 17:33

That's right. Yeah, so yeah, we were watching them with a first look at and still watching because the series is still going, but um uh last one laughing is all on the second one. Oh, it's so good, and yeah, we really enjoy it. But then we've also tried the uh I think on the American one, I can't remember. But there's so many different other sort of nations, and we've tried a couple and we just couldn't get into it as the Irish one, yeah. I think that's one of the ones we tried, but we didn't. I like it. Only like half an episode or something, but we just yeah we didn't have that immediate connection and funniness of the British one. Yes, the Irish one is meant to be better than the the British one, but oh I don't think it was better.

SPEAKER_01 18:18

I think I think it was good, but it wasn't better. The UK one was really funny.

SPEAKER_06 18:22

Yeah, maybe maybe we should give it more time, but yeah, the British one's really funny. Just don't know something about it. The other one seemed a bit more slapstick, I suppose, a bit more like trying too hard, maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Maybe maybe they had I don't know when they were all recorded. So whichever one was first, if then people saw the format and tried to kind of work out okay, how am I gonna actually make myself look good in this and make other people laugh? The UK one, I think, because we are quite self-effacing and disparaging, we can we do it quite well, you know, because we're not they're not really we're not showy-offy as much, are we?

SPEAKER_06 19:01

No, but the the funniest bit was just seeing just looking at people's faces and how they're like trying to swallow the laughter, like the the face, the face is trying to just keep the laugh down, yeah. And when when anyone tries not to laugh and you're told not to laugh, it's even funnier.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

Daisy Make People, I just remember her just like girl and they're face off.

SPEAKER_06 19:22

It was very funny. But the key bits you can be really clever comedy, but it always seems to be like fart brilliated or or something, or something that is not planned or expected. Because like there was the on the first with Bob Mortimer where they just all we did was sat sat on that chair and the chair made like a weird sound sort of clunked down, and then and then then it's the eye contact. So it's that unplanned, unexpected thing, and then eye contact, it just hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

It is far jack, but I mean Farjacks are still funny, but we listen to we listen to Chris Molles in the morning on Radio X. Love the show. Chris Malles has always been I've always liked Chris Malles. I know a lot of people think he's obnoxious, but he's just funny, and Brain loves him as well. So, like in the morning's Brain, like, oh this is the Chris Malles show. Yeah. They were playing Radio Head, a Radiohead song the other day, and I know whenever they play this song, there's a gap, but there's like a build of dun dun dun dun dun dun and then there's a gap. Whenever there's a gal, Chris Mores always puts a fart sound effect in. So I knew this fart I knew there was a fart sound effect coming. We're me and Brain are at the breakfast table, and it is playing and then silence, and then just on the radio, and Brain pisses himself off. What was that, damn it? And it's just like it ne fart fart, the unexpected fart never fails to to raise a uh it can't go wrong, can you?

SPEAKER_06 20:50

It can't go wrong with the fart, don't while they're season two Diane Logan's at all. Oh no spoilers, no spoilers. Oh, sorry, no spoilers, but yeah, there's fart sounds. All she does is speak and then fart sounds, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 21:04

You can't beat a bit of proper good funny telly, can you, Wells? But it's it's a format that you kind of think, well, why haven't they tried that before? Yeah. But that's like anything when it first starts, I suppose.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I suppose it is, yeah.

When Great TV Formats Get Old

unknown 21:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Dealing Ideal, why have they not tried that before?

SPEAKER_06 21:21

What an ideal.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

That's still going, isn't it? That's back now with um somebody else. So it's funny, actually, I'm gonna just go on a tangent here. It's funny when when they bring back shows, so deal and no deal. Obviously, when Deal and Ideal first came out with Noel Edmonds, right? We were at university and it it became like a cool thing, didn't it? We were that old. Deal and no deal was it Noel Edmonds. Let me just find out Deal or no deal, Noel Edmonds.

SPEAKER_06 21:54

But I thought that was like the end of towards the end of Noel Edmonds' career. Well, it was his comeback. Back. That's what I mean. It could be 20 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

2005, yeah. Wow. Yeah. So Deal and Odeal came back in 2005, and it became like a cool thing. So then they bought it back with Stephen Mohairn. And obviously, it's just not the same. So it was funny, right? Do you remember like X Factor with Simon Cowell? So Simon Cowell did a show on Netflix where he tried to put a boy band together. And it was recommended to me. And I started to watch it, and it was just like X Factor, and just a bit, yeah. And I was just like, it's such a dated format now. It's funny. And I I didn't end up watching it, but I was like, oh okay, so what happened to this boy band? And they released a single and stuff just before Christmas, and it didn't do very well. And you're like, and then there was loads of kind of articles about how terrible the show was and how date it was. And I thought it's just I like it was it was must see TV. I loved X Factor, like loved it. Even though my dad shout to me, it's terrible cra load of crap, load of crap. I was like, you've got to watch it. And now the idea of it, I'm just like, oh couldn't know. I don't think I'll want to watch it like that anymore.

SPEAKER_06 23:13

Big brother, like the first one.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Oh yeah. Loved it. Yeah, it was, yeah, it was must see TV, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 23:20

Massive. My mum was watching the 24-7 just cameras just going on and watched them sleep in it.

SPEAKER_01 23:27

What what you just could? It was just strange, right? You just could. To be fair, I would watch Monty Don doing his gardening from Long Meadow 24-7 if I could, just like see what's going on, see how he's tending to his petunias and stuff. Um, but yeah, that's best that they haven't released that yet. Monty Don. Monty Don. Monty the Don. Tangent, or was a tangent from okay. It was because we were talking about all ideas. Have they never done this before? And like sometimes like all ideas are good the first time they do them, but then they don't not all ideas necessarily age that well. Well great idea. When how did this podcast started? Did we start this during COVID?

SPEAKER_06 24:10

How long have we been doing this now? Five well, five seasons. Pretty much one a year, though, isn't it? At least, well, Logan wasn't born yet, but it wasn't too long, so probably three or four years.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

That's mad. So actually, on one of the very first episodes,

Kidney Stones Update And Medicine Side Effects

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I talked about my kidney stones, didn't I? Do you remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I had I had my referral scan recently to check on my kidney stones.

SPEAKER_06 24:36

I was talking about my unborn son, you're talking about your kidneys. Yeah, you're on your kidney stone.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Well, I remember I passed the kidney stone, then I had the scan. I've probably talked about this in season one, but then I had 16 stones, and then I passed 16 stones. Yeah, didn't let me tell you this. I had my CT scan, they're like there's 16 stones. So they put me on this thing called tamulosin. Oh yeah, they put me on this thing called tamulosin to make your pipes flopping. And I'll tell you one of the side effects in a minute of that. Yeah, you well, yes. So they put me on tamulosin uh to make my thing that said, oh, hopefully this will help you pass some of the stones. To make you think flopping. One of them make me thinking flopping. And they said one of the one of the stones is over is like six millimeters, which usually if they're uh if they're bigger than five, they have to go in to get them and go.

SPEAKER_02 25:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

So anyway, I I managed to pass all of them but two. But the big one went. So they're like, oh yeah, there's just two in there.

SPEAKER_06 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

So just my so went from 16 down to two.

SPEAKER_06 25:40

See you past, yeah. See past 16, well, 14.

SPEAKER_01 25:44

Passed 14 stones, yeah. That mass. But I didn't luckily didn't notice that past 14 stones, they just disappeared, which is great. So then it's been like three and a bit years, and they sent me for another scan just to see like what's changed. I was thinking, oh yeah, I've been I've been drinking four litres, I've been drinking four litres of fluid a day, loads of metamin, all the kind of stuff that I've got to do. Um low salt, low red meat. I'm gonna have the these stones are gonna be passed, aren't they? When was this? Uh about I went for the scan about three weeks ago. I got the results on Friday.

SPEAKER_06 26:18

Yeah. Aren't they? No, season five. Season five update. They're back. The Killing stones are back.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Well, they're not. They never went. They just never went. So there's those two stones on that, and they said, and they're like, we won't do anything, they don't seem to be causing any problems. If you uh if if they start to move, go if if you start to notice any pain, go and see GP. But other than that, yeah, we won't ask you back in the ground.

SPEAKER_06 26:45

Can they grow?

SPEAKER_01 26:47

So the trick is now to effectively keep doing what I'm doing so that because they haven't grown. So they haven't grown at all. So yeah, so like make sure they don't get any bigger. But yeah, kidney stones are still there. Kidney stones are not just for Christmas, my friend. They're still there. I know. Well, the only way they can go and get it. Possibly. But they might not. So I I don't I actually I don't want the. I thought they were I thought you got rid of the biggest one, baby. Yes, but I that was on Tammy Losing at the time to make all the things floppy. So, oh yes, do you want to hear? Oh, I don't know if I can say this. No. I'll tell you off air. I can't I can't tell you one of the side effects. You know what?

SPEAKER_06 27:31

Just use the word floppy and then saying I can tell you the side effects, that's enough. I don't think you need to say anymore. Well, it's it's not that's that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

Google it. Just if anybody's interested. Google Craig's floppy. No. If you're interested in the side effects, don't be searching for that, Williams.

SPEAKER_06 27:52

No. Burntina 2, what are they called? Rheisu and Bob 2.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

Rheasu and Bob. Well, let me tell you. The drug is called Tamulosin, and it makes your pipes floppy, and that can have side effects to for men. That's all I'm gonna say. Not floppy pipes, something else very bizarre. And I can confirm it it happens. So there you go. Go and Google that if you are interested. So yes, how do you spell tam?

SPEAKER_06 28:25

I can't remember what you said, Tamilo Lo Sin. Tamilo Sin. Tam Yulosin. Tamulosin. There you go, listeners. Type in Tamulosin. Write in firstlet names. Let us know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

Tamulosin, Tamulosin, male side effects.

SPEAKER_06 28:41

Firstlet names, admin.com. Write it in, please. Last episode it was if you can touch your toes. Write in.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

So, yeah. I'll just Googled it. Uh yeah, probably. Anyway, right, next one. Should we move on, Williams?

SPEAKER_06 28:58

Uh move on. Yeah, let's move on. Oh, is it me? It's me.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Oh, tips

YouTube Addiction And Dad Escapes

SPEAKER_01 29:05

for dads. Are you only tips for dads that we didn't do last year?

SPEAKER_06 29:07

No, tips for dads. Tips for dads.

SPEAKER_05 29:10

So David Tibso.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

So um this kind of follows onto some of the things we've been talking about recently. But one of the things in the news, which is not going to be new news by the time this goes out, is that YouTube is a scary place. The news is a scary place. But there's been a big court battle against Meta and YouTube and uh Google. Because these social media things are addictive. Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have had they are having to pay millions of dollars to a lady who claims these things affecting her mental health because of things like their infinite scroll. Yeah, sorry, our dog's going a bit crazy there. So we know that YouTube is addictive. The courts say so. They say it's because of things like Infinite Scroll. I actually think it's because there's some absolute goal on there. So my top tips for dads this week tips for dads who want to escape into YouTube before it becomes illegal. So we I am probably late to the YouTube game, but I subscribe and I watch I consume a lot of it on our TV now. So I'll go to my channel and it's got my subscriptions and then it's got a feed of all the things that I like. Shockingly, mostly gardening.

SPEAKER_06 30:28

We should probably have a YouTube channel actual video content. We've got our podcast on there.

SPEAKER_01 30:33

On YouTube? Yeah. Oh, very good. I didn't know. I'm not subscribed. So maybe I should maybe subscribe. But uh there are some things that I am subscribed to which are quite boring. Video games, gardening, you know, how to insulate your loft, you know, channels that do that. But there are a few things on there that are just the most perfect waste of time ever. And you can just lose lose hours and you think, I enjoyed that. That is not a waste of time. Like it's like it's good time. So I'm gonna give three top tips for dads who want to go and go on YouTube wallings and enjoy themselves.

SPEAKER_06 31:12

Well, YouTube's for you say about these the the court of battles, etc., but YouTube's actually because YouTube's longer form media, whereas your your your TikToks, Instagram, etc. You've got to get the clickbait the people interested within the first two seconds. Yeah, the first frame is like super important, and then the actual video itself is what 20 seconds? Yeah, if that whereas YouTube you can actually watch 20 minutes, yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

But there's YouTube Shorts, I think, got in trouble, didn't they? Yeah, well, yeah, which is the same as TikTok and Instagram reels and all that kind of nonsense, which yeah, and it's I think it's a narcissistic, it's what it feeds you as well.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

So my algorithm is that I only can well, I don't go on YouTube Shorts, but like when I go on my my own channel, it only shows me kind of mostly videos from the things I've subscribed to and then things it thinks I like, which sometimes are very bad. So I get I can get why they're in trouble because the recommendation recommended videos sometimes. I don't want to watch that, but um these are videos I would recommend you go and watch Waddle's just for fun, and I guarantee when you watch them, you'll be like, I've I've I enjoyed that, and you won't even know why. Okay. Tip number one the hoof GP.

HoofGP And Drain Cleaning Satisfaction

SPEAKER_01 32:34

The hoof GP.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

So this is a doctor for horses' hooves, correct.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

So it's a dude in Scotland, right? And he makes these videos, and he's a great talker, great communicator, very charismatic, and he goes around, right? And he'll get cows. Honestly, though, this is one of like let my wife showed me this, and I was like, What are you doing what a load of crap? And she showed me, and honestly, I was hooked. I was like, This is like this is addictive to watch. So this dude, right, he goes and he'll get a cow, and maybe the cow's got an infection in its hoof, and he'll he's got a machine and he hoists up the leg, and he's got all by he's got these hand tools, like hand blades, and he like shaves the hoof and reshapes it and heals the the like finds where the infections and like they explode a lot of the time on camera, and he helps these cows and stuff heal and get better. But the way he works the hoof hooves explode. Sometimes, yeah, they have like they have um they get infections in them, and then the pressure builds up behind them, so there's a lot of kind of pus and stuff, and then he kind of cuts the hoof away where it needs to to let it come out.

SPEAKER_06 33:52

Oh you're one of those people that like the what's it called? What's that big big temple bumper? Yeah, you're not, aren't you?

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Not really, no. This is this is quite different. It's not like uh it's not like oh we're gonna get to the infection. So not all of them are infected, some of them are just kind of that the hooves are just so caked up in like you know, m muck and crap. It's just the way he's it's like the way he slices them away. I can't I can't do it justice, but the guy is phenomenal, and I think when when you watch a video of it, you'll you'll know what I mean. But it's got like it's it's so weird, it's got like a lovely theme tune, it's all lovely, and it's just it's just like something you would never ever see on TV. But on YouTube, it works really well. So go and check out the HoofGP. That's tip number one. Hoof GP, okay. Tip number two, I got this tip number two from this is a tip of a tip of a tip. So this is I cannot take credit for this one, but it's another one that when you go and watch it, you're like, what am I watching and why is it so good? So Kate McKinnon, who used to be on Saturday Night Live in America, and she was in Ghostbusters' the female cast version, she was in Barbie, she's an American comedian, she was on a talk show, and she was talking about drain cleaning Australia, which is a YouTube channel, and it's this Australian dude who's like so enthusiastic about his job and quite sarcastic, and his job is clean and drained. See where there's like really bad drain blocks, he unblocks them and he films it and he commentates and he talks about it. Is this when you get like fatbergs? Yeah, well, it there is a few fatbergs, but it's just like a lot of the time he'll just go and drive around and you'll see like street blockages and it'll just get his stuff out and just start plunging. And it it's but it's again, it's his charisma. He's like, Bloody hell, who wanna be doing this right now, you know? Just go, bloody hell, strove fella, go out, like, whoa, that's a big one, mate. And it's just it's really, really like it's really addictive to watch. But once you start watching, you want to see how it comes out because you know there's that satisfaction of you know when a drain clears and everything just goes woof and flushes through. It's just addictive. And yeah, so the Hoof GP, drain cleaning Australia, and then last but not least, oh my days. Okay. So in the last episode, ladies and gentlemen, he burped midway for me, me talking. You okay, you feel better? Yes, I do. Okay, um.

SPEAKER_02 36:31

Oh, that's very good.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Professional podcast. Professional podcast. Number two, if you search for dad skills, and that's a dad skill. How do you blow your nose that loudly? And uh, did you give yourself an aneurysm? So tip tip number three, Wally and hurry time travel TV. So this is brilliant. So it's it's all retro retro videos and adverts and stuff that nostalgia put in put into kind of nice categories. So like retro booze adverts, like and it's just like watching adverts of you know, Kestrel and you know, Astie, Martini, and just brilliant. It's just the ways that they've obviously curated the different retro bits of TV is really good. So yeah, I'd I'd just say before YouTube gets banned and we lose access to this wonderful resource, go on what's the Hoof GP, Drain Cleaning Australia, and Time Travel TV. You will not be disappointed. That's some gold there. That's my tips for dads.

SPEAKER_06 37:37

Tips for dads.

Dad Superpowers And Top Shelf Talk

SPEAKER_06 37:40

Haven't we got any tips? Have you got any tips? Well no dad, dad first, tip for dad. Dad first, not sure. But embrace your you don't realise your superpowers. You know, we talked about getting older and you know the back goes and things like that. But little things that toddlers appreciate, and my superpower is I've got long arms. Okay, so when you know something goes under the bear, doesn't mean oh I can't reach it, da da da da, can you get it? And then I just use my superpowers of my super arms. Basic adult length arms, but to a toddler, it's a superpower, isn't it? Wow. Because you've got long arms, yeah, and it's a superpower. So embrace it, embrace that you're an adult, you can reach things, you can get stuff on the top shelf.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

But can with your back volumes, can you reach things carefully? Can you get to the top shelf? And is your top is your top shelf safe these days?

SPEAKER_06 38:37

Well, yeah. Or is there a couple of is there a copy of around? The top shelf of the news agents is a bit different, but Razzle. This is a safe place, isn't it? I'm sure to guess. Is this a safe place? We've only got two listeners, it's a very safe space.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Can I can I trust you? Um I I can say yes. Yes, you can trust me.

SPEAKER_06 39:00

Yeah, can I send you can I send you an image?

SPEAKER_01 39:04

Oh I don't know. Can I trust you for sending me an image? Talking about top shells and then sending me a send you an image.

SPEAKER_06 39:10

Not them. Of myself. Oh dear. I'm gonna try to anyway, these phone contraptions.

NovaFlow Nose Lights First Look

SPEAKER_06 39:19

And how do I do this?

SPEAKER_05 39:21

Oh, it's not gonna happen. How old am I? Too old. Really? I'm gonna send you an image. Off myself.

SPEAKER_06 39:33

Oh my phone's gone really slow. Oh no, this is embarrassing. I have to cut this down. I'm gonna send you an image of myself.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

Got that.

SPEAKER_06 39:41

It's a bit embarrassing.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Got it.

SPEAKER_06 39:44

This is my my first look. Here he comes. Oh gosh, why am I sending this to you? Oh my days.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

Just to let you know, ladies and gentlemen, this is real time. He's being very slow.

SPEAKER_06 40:01

What an image. Here we go. Here we go. I've sent the image across the air. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

What is that? What is that up your nose?

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Okay, okay, interesting. You've got shades on. So what okay, you're gonna have to explain this. It looks like, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like from what I can see, it's it's on his upper lip, it looks like a slug on his upper lip, a slug that is holding two lamps that are shining up his nostrils. But that's just it could actually be something up the nostrils, and it's so bright that you could the light is actually blowing through the skin. I'm not sure. Please explain, Mr. Williams, what's going on in this image?

SPEAKER_06 40:53

So similar to previous episodes. Was it even your snoring? I'm sticking stuff up my nose. So I've a device called a uh a Nova Flow. So I stick up my nose. It's a non-invasive drug-free relief of nasal congestion. So it uses a low-intensity 660 plus 10 nm, a red infrared light, yeah, that penetrates nasal tissue, reduces inflammation, and promotes uh blood circulation. Wow. And it comes with these really cool sunglasses, just in case infrared goes in your eyes and doesn't match your eyes. I don't know. But it works.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

It works.

SPEAKER_06 41:46

Yeah, well, I mean for a short period anyway. But yeah, so I stick up my nose. These bright red lights of radiation from something that probably hasn't been British approved. But yeah, that's my nose, and I can breathe clearly. Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:02

That's incredible. Yeah, so under you. Is your congestion? So I know because me and I both suffer with nose. Because again, we are young, virile, healthy men who both suffer with nasal congestion. So I was doing some reading about it's like you get a collapsed, you do get a bit of collapsedness here. So like if you wear a breathe right nasal strip and it helps you breathe, that's generally a sign of a collapsed, uh collapsed valve. And you can get like effectively a bit of an implant that goes into your nose and just opens your nasal passages permanently. And I was watching one of these things because they did while you're awake and everything, I thought that's quite good. I thought if one image has got a collapsed valve, maybe he can need one of these little bits of plastic shoved up his nose, that's kind of permanent, effectively. But again, it depends. That could be series six. One even's having used rhinoplasty to help him breathe better. But it works. Are you happy with it?

SPEAKER_06 43:02

Yeah, no, it does, it does actually work. Yeah, it uh I don't know the the proper science, and it doesn't work for everyone, but for me, because uh yeah, I get uh in inflamed nasal pastores, yeah. Um and it seems to uh yeah reduce inflammation so it's precise infrared, whatever. So yeah, so every night I stick these bright red lights up my nose, put my shades on. I don't know if you actually need the shades, but I put the shades on and get into bed, go under the covers. Lucky wife. And do you do you sleep in it? No, no, so you put it on, it lasts about ten minutes. Yeah, ten minutes done, take it out. There you go. More than ten dollars, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

And where do you get this thing from? Amazon? Uh no. Just on the interweb. Just on the inter TMU. Did this come from T MU?

SPEAKER_06 43:56

Yeah. And uh no, it wasn't TV. But uh Uh no, it does work. It does work. The wife wife, I said it helps me smell and breathe better. The wife wife said uh does it help you smell BS. But uh no, yeah, it works for me.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

Well, Williams, I think if it works for you, that's the main thing. I do still think you should maybe you know go and see a professional about it rather than just these continually buying things off the internet and shoving them into your face. And you know, when something comes with a pair of glasses, you have to wear them in case they might burn your eyes. I don't I don't know. I don't know the NHS would approve of these things. But well, I mean, I'm only speculating, but they might be able to give you something else that may work better.

SPEAKER_06 44:45

It's just firing infrared radiation in my head.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

You can breathe better and now you can also see dead people. I mean, win-win, right? Win-win. Exactly.

SPEAKER_06 44:58

Exactly. That's my that was my first look.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

Well, it was a good first look. I think again, if we had a website, you could probably share the picture so that people can actually have a look at it. You can share it on our Instagram account if you want. I mean, it sounds like maybe. I think that is because so we are recording this in the housey house because a good wife of mine had to go out unexpectedly. So I'm not recording this in the usual circumstances, I'm recording this with the dog. And the wife is now back. So he was barking there. Like, who are you, intruder? Oh, your mummy there. Not biologically, just to confirm, you know. But uh Yeah. He seemed very happy.

SPEAKER_06 45:39

I can hear him in the hall now. He seems very happy. We'll let you go see the wife wife. I think we're done, aren't we?

SPEAKER_01 45:45

I think I think we are. I think that's that's the end of episode.

Final Dad Joke And Goodbye

SPEAKER_06 45:48

I don't think there was anything else. Oh, I was looking for a um I was looking for a new uh a new tux. A new uh in a tuxedo shop. Ah, special occasion come up. And the well yes, yeah. The um and the owner of the shop, he he came out there and um he was uh he he kept he kept sort of being behind me and sort of yeah, whilst I was browsing. And um, I said you just leave me alone, please. And he said, I'm fine, suit yourself.

SPEAKER_04 46:26

Very good. I'm gonna go and stick something up my nose. You go and stick it up your nose, one of them. You enjoy it, you enjoy it yourself one.

SPEAKER_06 46:36

Uh bye, listeners.

SPEAKER_01 46:38

Bye, everybody.

SPEAKER_06 46:40

Bye. Bye go up, up, up for the pink, go down, down, down for the brown. If you see purple, move like a turtle. Slow, slow, slow.

SPEAKER_01 46:51

Tell him I will respond once I have thought of a uh suitable uh response.