One-Punch Man, Big Bikes & Kids Growing Up Too Fast | First Look

What starts with anime, big bikes and dad jokes quickly turns into one of our most relatable parenting conversations yet.

In this episode, we discover One-Punch Man and discuss why anime is becoming our latest obsession. We also look ahead to the summer cinema season, debate the challenges of creating new stories in the shadow of Star Wars, and share some of our favourite pop culture discoveries.

But the heart of the episode is parenting.

We talk about helping a child move up to their first "big bike", teaching gears for the first time, supporting children through homework and transfer test preparation, and the emotional realisation that our kids are growing up much faster than we'd like.

Along the way we discuss confidence, team sports, resilience, and the challenge every parent faces when trying to balance encouragement with pressure.

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• One-Punch Man and our first steps into anime
• First mountain bikes and teaching children to ride with gears
• School homework and transfer test preparation
• Confidence, team sports and trying your best
• Summer cinema releases and why the big screen still matters
• Star Wars nostalgia and modern storytelling
• Listener messages, voicemails and community updates
• Dad life, parenting milestones and children growing up

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Route 66 Intro And Dad Banter

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I can't remember how the tune goes. Oh, I need one of those barometer things. What's the tune? Oh, see if you can you can guess it then you can help me out. Okay. From St. Louis down to Missouri, get your kicks on episode six. It winds from Chicago to LA, more than 2,000 miles of the way. Get your kicks. On episode six.

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I'm looking at you about it again. Is that I'm guessing it's the get you kicked to Route 66? Yes. The Root 66 fan. I don't know how that goes.

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There's different versions there as well, isn't there? Because there's the Longstones, there's Chuck Berry, there's probably Girls A Loud, I don't know. I'm gonna have to have a listen to it because I couldn't put my finger on the tube. There's lots of different versions, but uh yeah, welcome listeners to uh First At Names, the comedy uh dad life podcast where we try new things and usually regret them. The And sing badly about modern life and pop culture. Get your gigs.

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Episode six. Sorry, I'm just grooving here to a bit of knack and coal. Anyway, I'm back in the room, Rus, back in the room.

The Terrifying Washing Line Baby

SPEAKER_02 1:52

How are you, my man? I'm good, I'm good. Apart from like I was just saying, I just got spooked. I was walking back to the mush office in the moonlight, and I saw a baby hanging from the the clothes dryer. But for the listeners that don't know, my wife's a swim teacher, and she has a fake baby that uh she was using this morning in the swim teacher.

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You need to give the context when you say things like that, don't you? Otherwise it's just a bit creepy, and you'll have people knocking the door saying, We hear there's reports of a baby hanging from your washing line. This is a fake one. Pretty terrifying, but a great way to kind of deter people from robbing you. Just you know. Okay, I'm not gonna go near that house, the handcravers and the washing line.

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We probably should quickly move away. I don't know why I mentioned it. Do you want to dive straight into your first letter?

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Are we not doing fish ponder feedback?

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No, we can do, but it's nice to start with a little first letter.

Big Bike Rites Of Passage

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Alright, well, I'll start with a really simple one. Plus plus plus no one's no one's wrote in. Oh, there you go. Okay, fair enough. Well, the uh I'll start with a nice simple one. Big bike. Big bike. Big bike.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

So again, as in a little pedal bike? Oh, you had uh you spoke about your e-bike, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Yes, no, this is Braden got a big bike. So um my son has outgrown children's bikes. So you you know now you've got Logan, he's three. He'll be probably, I'm guessing, on like a push bike. So not one with pedals, just like a little balance bike.

SPEAKER_02 3:28

Well, yes, we've got uh yeah, we we need to dig it out again because he was just a little bit too short for it. His legs wouldn't really have to touch the ground and he couldn't really fall down and put his feet out. Whereas now he will be ready to get the biggest. Yeah, this will be the summer. So yeah, we'll we're digging out this summer. So very soon, actually.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Balance bike, then you go up to your first butt your bigger bike, then your first like fixy bike with stabilizers. I remember that well. So we had Brain with his stabilizers, then we took the stabilizers off, so we had that whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 3:57

Then from there, about four years ago, you got like a BMX which was bigger still, and now I remember doing circles in the garden on the old stabilizers, that's great fun, and then branching out from there, and then um my favourite Christmas is just walking in and into the Christmas tree, and wow, Christmas tree covered in presents, you know, spoiled. But I ran right past this bike, which was was was obviously a bike, but there's some wrapping paper on the the main part of the frame, on the handles, but you know, you knew it was a bike. But uh it was the BM BMX, blue, blue and white stars, and yeah, one of my favourite classic. No, no gears or anything because it was BMX bikes.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Oh, yeah, it's just one gear, that's all you need.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Yeah, well that that's what Brain has moved on from now. So Brain he had his balance bike, then his bike with stabilizers, then the stabilizer came off that bike, that was a fixing. Then it was BMX. Now he's kind of now he's 10.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

Mountain bike.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

It's the mountain bike, and it's like a small adult mountain bike with gears and everything. So it's just like and he got a new helmet because you know he's cooler now. So you know he's gotta have a better helmet. Yeah, it's like yeah, we've we've been taking Brain out on his new big boy bike and explained to him how the gears work, and he's been working his way up the gears, and yeah, it's uh it's exciting, it's like it's great. I love the fact that he likes riding because he's not he's not very sporty Brain, like he loves climbing, loves climbing trees, loves exploring, yeah, loves riding his bike, loves skateboarding, doesn't particularly like team sports because he doesn't like the pressure of not being good as good as some of the other people on the team. He doesn't like he doesn't want to let his teammates down, and he knows he's not very good, so he's right, he'd rather not play. So we're trying to work that out. Like, it doesn't matter, try hard. And what a terrible parent thing to say as well. It's to try it, just try your best, try your best. It doesn't matter. You remember what it's like if you're sh at sports and and like you you someone throws you a basketball and you drop it, you're like, and you're like, I'm like, yeah, it's yeah, don't worry, don't worry, son. I know these people are shouting at you, but as long as you're trying your best, I'll understand. No, they won't, they're 10. They want to win.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

I remember thank I I thank the Lord for Rocco, bless you. Rocco? Remembering yeah, Rocco. It was a kid at school, and we had to do you know the ridiculous I can't remember how far it was, but ridiculous length running cross-country running. Cross country 10,000 metres or whatever it was. And I was I wasn't the slowest. Rocco was the slowest. I was I was like the next one up, but thank thank the Lord for Rocco. Bless him. Because he got picked on a lot more than I did because he was the slowest and he was struggling and he was but he he was uh he was bringing about lots of memories now, Rocco. But it was like I don't know, imagine those mafia movies. But Rocco he had some sort of mafia background, but it but but he got big time. So you know, God, but yeah, imagine a kid that unfit and came from a mafia family. Yeah, that was Rocco.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

You can imagine with a cigar or something, and everyone's slowing down to let him win the race. Well done, Rocco! Well done! Yeah, you do it, you you're the so fast Rocco. Yeah, you can better be capish.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Yeah, he wasn't he wasn't at school very long and he disappeared, so yeah. I need to ask some friends about that. I can't remember what happened. Yeah, he just yeah. Rocco. The other kids disappeared at the same time, actually.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

And was it was does this coincide with the spate of babies hanging on watery lines? But that's just any any connection. Okay, well, yes, so away from that. So Brain got a new bike.

Exams And Letting Them Grow Up

SPEAKER_01 7:52

It's it's funny, like so it coincides with so Brain got his new bike, and it's like it's it's another rite of passage. You're like, okay, wow, it's onto big boy bike, like big, like adult bikes now. He's also doing his like it's prep they're preparing him now. They have to do over here to another on the school system slightly different to the UK, they have to do a transfer test. Halford's decathlon decathlon, because I my uh we did go to Halford's, but there was none that he really liked, and yeah, decathlon doing good stuff. So I went to Decafflon and got him a bike from there. But is it's so funny now. So in the last episode, I talked about him going away for the night with like his mates for the first time. Now he was on a big bike, and now he's doing like transfer tests for his high school. And he's just like it's mad. Like, do you remember like you remember Brain? He was tiny, he was one, two years old, and now he's like now he's doing his transfer test.

SPEAKER_00 8:50

So, like the Northern Ireland transfer test is managed by the school's entrance assessment group, SEAG. It is a set of common entrance assessments used by grammar schools in Northern Ireland to determine year eight pupil intake.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

And he's got to the point where I'm helping him with homework and his mom's helping homework. I'm like, I don't know the answer. I'm like, I don't know how to work this out. Like, there's a lot of stuff about like proper nouns. I'm like, proper nouns, yes, I know proper nouns and adjectives, and then the maths, some of the maths. Terrible. Well, some of the some of the questions on the paper, you know, like the whole idea he's smarter than a 10-year-old, that show. Some of the questions on the paper are purposefully worded to be a little bit confusing to see how you're probably and a couple of them are like, right, what's the answer to this? They're like, no, that can't be right. And you've got to write your working, yeah. It's tough. So it's he's going through like this. Is a real yeah, he's transitioning, he's transitioning from little boy to kind of all right, like preteen, proper preteen. Like, okay, he wants even today, right? So I went to church this morning, we're walking from church and we're going to the going back to the car, and it was sunny, and I just felt all the love for him, so I put my arm around him, and then I held his hand because some like I like holding my kid's hand. I'm like, yeah, quite and he's just like hmm. I said, wasn't it? I said, I said, you know, I want to hold my hand anymore, you're too big for that. He said, I think so. I was like, oh no, I can't even have another boy's hand anymore. I was like, it's been long time since I get him on my shoulders and all that kind of stuff. And yeah, yeah, like yeah, he's definitely transitioning to kind of like yeah, goodbye, father. Yeah, so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:40

Goodbye, Father.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

I'm gonna ride away on my big bike in gear six.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

So yeah. Remember as a kid, my dad going, change the gear.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Whereas Rocco was like, sell your gear. What do you want? What do you want? I got all the gear. So yeah, those are my first looks, or two of my first looks. The yeah, just the very, very reflective dad ones, but big bikes, bloody exams, meh. And he won't oh man no more rubbish. Just got a message from my sister. So my nephew, who again, one year old, two year old, he's they've been out to Washington looking at universities and stuff, because like he's gonna he's gonna be 18 next year and he's gotta go to university and stuff. You're like, what the heck? It's just nuts. Yeah, wow. My nephew's gonna be 18. That's mental.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

This is this is the season two you said she was gonna be a guest on the stuff.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Yeah, still hasn't. I think she's probably stopped listening. To be fair, I think most people have probably stopped listening. I've stopped listening, and I'm on the bloody thing. I can't even remember what I did three episodes ago. You look I remember what I did last episode.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

You usually alone.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

But yeah, anyway, sorry, Williams. You'll what what you got for us?

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Pop down cookie to the fish pon of feedback.

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No, we said they're already written in. There's no point, is there?

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Yeah, the fishbond's empty.

Voicemails, New Listeners, And Updates

SPEAKER_02 12:05

But news news to listeners, we've got some an exciting new function. Oh, so you can now, so if you look on the little episode description, or if you go on our website, you can there's there's a link on there where you can leave us a voicemail. No way. So you can now leave us a voicemail. So if you click on the episode, there's a link on there.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Now where's this from?

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Like Spotify or what? Um no, this is on well yeah, anywhere actually. Yeah, anywhere. Okay, so Spotify, Amazon Music, whatever. If you look in the description, there should be a link in there that says leave us a message or fan mail or something like that. Leave a comment. You can leave, you can leave send us a text message, apparently, or a voicemail.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Wow. I can't say how to do a do a voicemail on Spotify. Am I being thick?

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Yeah, it might not have updated. Oh, okay. I've recently refreshed it. But uh awesome. That's awesome. That'll be interesting. Well yeah, please, please, please, please, please. Please send us a message or a voicemail, or you know, I mean no one's emailing him, but maybe you'll send a voicemail, so please send us a little voicemail. We'd love to hear from you and uh include it on the pod as well. So yeah, please send us a little voicemail. My mic's dropped again. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Well, he was just saying, he's going like please send us a voice note, maybe send us a dropping.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

What was my mic cabling that? I know it was let's tighten the screen.

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What are you doing there, one? Just tighten it up. You tight one of them up. You toasty bugger, you were unscrewing it. Please send us a voyage. Righty tighty, lefty Lucy. Better, better. Testing, testing.

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But yeah, hopefully you've got the gist of that.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

Oh, there you go, you're talking for that and clear now, Williams.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Now, at the end of episode, the second episode of recording.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Yeah, the sound's gonna the sound's gonna be all over the place.

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Dear.

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Yeah, so we've got that to look forward to.

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Your voicemail is to come through via the link. Also, we we we have had new listeners. Oh uh new listeners from Plymouth. Plymouth? Up the Argyle. Come on. Apologies, didn't say this in Japan. Japan. Nice. Des Moines, Iowa. Oh, America. Columbus, Ohio. Nice. Say, Sachi in Texas. Big in America. Tormelinos and Tormalinos and Malaga, which uh might be you. One of my parents on holiday, bro. So they listen to your parents listen to this podcast? Oh, I think that, yeah, I think so. No way.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Came to send a voice note in Wales.

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Yes, yes, send a voice name. Go on, big time. Click on the link, send a voicemail in. First luck. A random one. This is from a while ago as well,

One Punch Man And Anime Curiosity

SPEAKER_02 15:24

actually. But uh first lux. I've new series. Not a new series, but two two series worth. One I found out there's no more series in it. One Punch Man. One Punch Man. One punch. One punch man. So I'm end I feel like I might be entering my anime, Japanese anime era. But uh One Punch Man is uh it's a Japanese manga, which apparently was uh originally released as a webcomic in early 2009. So it tells the story of Satama, who's an independent superhero, who having trained to the point he can defeat any opponent with a single punch, and he grows extremely bored from the lack of challenge, and he sets out to find stronger opponents, and that's basically the story. So he's on a version of Earth and encounters Genos. I'm turning more geeky than I've ever been before. But Genos, a cybernetic warrior seeking vengeance against the machine that annihilated his hometown. Okay. And then he basically becomes an apprentice to Satama. Geek Radio. Radio for the technologically gifted. Geek radio. And there's a what's called the Hero Association, which has a ranking system of like superheroes, and they get superheroes get paid money or something. Geek Radio. And then but for some reason Satama is C class and then General S. Wells S class. I mean you're losing this. You're losing this.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

You're losing this while you're losing this. Is this worth watching? Have you enjoyed it? Or are you are you sad that there's only two series?

SPEAKER_02 17:12

I don't know. It's random. I want to watch another one. It starts off really heavy metal, so it's called One Punch Man. It goes! Yeah, what is what about this character that can defeat anybody in one?

SPEAKER_01 17:29

Ladies and gentlemen. I can you can rest assured that I am looking after Daniel's psychological needs. Are you glad the microphone's pointing the right way? His microphone is pointing the right way. And it was him shouting it is him shouting one punch. He's not even that drunk. He's the recent heat wave has possibly gotten to him.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

It's been hot. But there's so you've got you've got bots of hero associations. You've got your you've got your S class. And for some there's there's this hero, and I don't know why, but he reminds you of you all the time. I see this hero, and I think, oh you say I'm a hero. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Am I your hero, Williams? Yeah. Is that what you're trying to say?

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Maybe, but he's he's he's he's S-class, rank 13. Okay. So the bottom of the S class, but S class is like the top. Top class. Okay. And he's he's called Puri Purri Prisoner.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Puri Puri Prisoner.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

P-U-R-I-F-N-P-U-R-I prisoner. Yes. And he's at S-class, rank 13. He's a professional hero, and he's the boss of the prisoners held in Smelly Lid Prison.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

And is he he looks how he looks like he's very camp.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

He is. Okay. So he's he's he's very tall and large, muscular man, with a stubbly cleft chin, large lips, and black bushy hair. With a well-defined jawline.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

Very aesthetically like me.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Um but uh but uh yeah, on the site it says Puri Puri Prisoner is a flamboyant, openly homosexual superhero. I mean you can tell just by the anime. He's he's S-class 13, but uh yeah, for some reason he reminds me of it.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Okay, well, I'm I'm glad to know. I I will I will maybe watch some of this. Um probably won't, but I may watch some of it and see if I can see any parallels between Puri Puri Prisoner and myself. Off the bounce, other than the physical physical specimen that he is. I can't see many similarities, but still. You've enjoyed so you've enjoyed the show because it's funny you said like you're you are 40 something entering your magus magna phase. My 10-year-old, who we talked about earlier, got in your bike. He's big into his Magna as well. He he's uh he's into One Piece. So today he has spent all of his Sunday building a One Piece Lego set. And he's like, is he's got all the books and he wants the Netflix show, but he prefers the he prefers the anime cartoons.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

I would love to do that if I had time.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

Yeah, I'd love to do that if I had time.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

You should you should just do but uh yeah, maybe I'm mentioning why yeah, but in the anime they seem to I don't know, they there's a certain style, and then suddenly this like shout a lot and it's like Yeah, it's quite loud.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

But do you remember like Pokemon when we were kids? Like that was always quite like Yeah, what was the what's the famous thing?

SPEAKER_02 20:24

Dragon Ball Z. Dragon Ball Z, yeah. That's a massive thing, and Yu-Gi-Oh! And everyone's like just super muscly, and the women have got huge boots. Yes. It's just like a typical Japanese anime thing. It is, but it's yeah, one punch man. He can one punch man defeat anyone with one punch.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

So there's one punch, there's one piece. Are there any other one something's in Japanese anime? One piece. One piece, it's funny because Brain is not watching it. You're right, there's like lots of boobs and stuff and big boobs, and you're like, Why are these girls all tiny with massive knock knockers and tiny skirts? And I was like, I don't brain wanted to watch, he's like, Oh dad, I want to watch One Piece. I was like, What's One Piece? So I did the research and I was like, I don't think this is gonna be suitable. So we agreed to let to watch the Netflix series with him, like the the out version. There was there was definitely someone's like, but then I was like, when I was his age, and we've talked about this on the podcast before, I was watching Predator and Commando, and you know, I remember there's a scene in Commando where so Arnold Arnie's having a big fight with this bald dude, and the they're in a motel having a fight, and the smash through a wall, and for no reason whatsoever, there's there's two people on the bed, and this woman stands up and she's going, ah, she got her arms in her and her boobs are flying around. It's like completely unnecessary. But it was the 80s, so there just had to be a woman with massive boobs. Yeah, we need someone to sit on the bed. And I was like, I watched that when I was about nine or ten. Uh yeah, Brian can absolutely watch one piece, it's fine. It's mild compared to some of the stuff we saw. Different world in the 80s, though, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Different world in the 80s.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Sorry. It's I'm just thinking about commando now. I'm just thinking, how was I able to watch Commando? What a film. So you enjoy you've enjoyed this show. You've enjoyed this show.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Yeah, I think it's it's it's yeah, it's uh short and sweet. I need something just to watch 20 minutes at the time and then I've watched a few episodes.

SPEAKER_01 22:26

How did you come across it? Was it just were you searching for just on Netflix?

SPEAKER_02 22:30

It just came up and uh yeah, it's like 20 minutes episodes of yeah, give it a go. And yeah, random. It's just yeah, very random show. But you've enjoyed it. Very random show. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:43

I will check it out, Wallyams. Well, it leads me into a very short first look if you'll finish with your one punch man.

Summer Cinema Is Back

SPEAKER_01 22:50

Please, yeah. It's also to do with watching, and for the first time in a long time, I'm excited about the summer of cinema, Wallyams. The summer of cinema? Does cinema still exist? So I am excited about the cinema. I'm I am excited about the cinema again for like the first time in a long time.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

I'm like, yeah, there's some as to actually go to the cinema, not getting your projector out.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

Oh I do oh six screen. I mean, actually go into the cinema. Yeah, so we we have we have our own cinema. Like we we've made a cinema room because you know, for films, because I love the films, but the nothing beats going to the actual cinema. Like, it's not the same. You can't you can have a cinema room with like you know, neither send like hundred-inch TVs and stuff. Big TV, awesome. Our cinema room is specifically made to be loud and dark, and like you know, it's like a cinema, but it's not the same. You go to the cinema, the cinema smells better, there's something about the chairs that are better, the the sounds better, the screens better, and I'm like, we we we can't lose stale popcorn on this, yeah. Man, and watching a film together with like you know, a hundred other people. So this year, there's the Odyssey looks good, disclosure day, a new Spielberg film looks good, there's Toy Story 5, which I'm I'm not I was a bit like oh finish Toy Story now, but I like the the premise of this one with the whole like uh technology taken over from toys because it's so yeah in our age as dads, it's like this age of dads, like yeah, it's so true. The new He-Man film looks good, the new Spider-Man film looks good, the new Supergirl film looks good, there's Acme, they're like Cody versus Acme film looks hilarious. I'm like, that'll be really good. So oh that that got pulled, didn't it?

SPEAKER_02 24:36

And then back again. So they made it and then they lost funding or something like that. Oh, did that in 81? Oh, that's it. It almost never it was one of those films that made it, but because of funding would never see the light of day type of thing.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

I think it's such a good premise, though. I was like, that looks that sounds fun. So this year I'm like, I could see myself and the kid and the wife going to the cinema like a good you know, half a dozen times, which the last few years I've maybe been to the cinema once each summer to see something, but now I'm like, no, there's a few films this year I'm really I'm I'm looking forward to taking them to see He-Man because I'm just like it's He-Man, it's it's gonna be good, right? It's gotta be, it's gotta be. It's like perfect 10-year-old, 11-year-old film. So I'm hoping I'm hoping it's good and it doesn't let me down. But yeah, I'm excited for the summer of cinema again, Williams, for the first time in a long time. The summer of cinema? Spielberg's there, Nolan's there, some big brand, Spider-Man's there. Yeah, honesty should be a big one. Odyssey might be one on is it worth an IMAX?

SPEAKER_02 25:37

I think it's gonna be worth an IMAX.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

It's gonna be it's gonna be worth an IMAX. I think Disclosure Day is gonna be the one though. Like classic, a classic Spielberg. What's the closure day? A new Steven Spielberg film about aliens.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

Oh classic Spielberg.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Yes, yes, yes, Colin First, Emily Blunt. It's got Blunty film, is it Blunty? Yeah, it's gonna be a good one, I reckon. I hope it's gonna be a good one. I hope I'm not too excited and it's gonna be disappointing. But yeah, cinema time. Go to the cinema. Cinema's fun, great way to spend an afternoon. Go to the cinema, people go to the cinema, yeah. What about you? Any more first looks? Or are we uh No, that's it.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

There's a short episode, that one. I mean I've not even edited it. I've got to edit and chop things out as well, so it's gonna be like a ten minutes.

SPEAKER_01 26:24

I've got to think, Wallyams. Like, I mean, considering your first look was an episode was was a new mag anime series called one one punch. One punch. I've I've got a feeling, ladies and gentlemen, that Wallyams uh needs to maybe find some more time for himself because he clearly hasn't done much recently. Because he is a working, uh work hard father, a loving husband, a caring son, and he's always doing things for everybody else. But he needs to do you need to take some time for yourself to get yourself out of there. Go and do something. Stick something else up my nose, don't know. And you didn't I was excited to hear about what you've been shoving up your nose this week. Yeah. Speak to Rocco again. Speak to get something from your nose.

Star Wars Nostalgia And Franchise Fatigue

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Oh, what about The Mandalorian and Grogu? Sorry, did I just think about things? Are you into that one? Would you go and see that?

SPEAKER_02 27:11

I I knew before even the reviews came in that it was basically uh it's it's an it's it's another episode. It's another episode of the show what makes it a movie. It's a episode.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Is it good? That's right. Is it worth watching? I've not watched it. I've I haven't watched much of any Star Wars stuff to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

Yeah, but it's it's all I don't know. I like Star Wars. It's worth watch, but none of it is groundbreaking. Like you know, like the beam. Well, that's a different debate.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Star Trek's better. Geek radio.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

But uh I remember at university when the like the the the first lot of the new Star Wars movies was coming out. We were as excited probably then as the original series people were. But now it's just I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

It just feels like the milk in it.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

Yeah, I still still like it, but a lot of the reviews and things, the news that's coming back is there's a big debate within the studios because they're trying to there's a battle between the people that are trying to create something new and the nostalgia, yeah, and the IP. And it's like and they're and they are struggling to try to get kids into Star Wars, yeah. As much as like the original series, and but the numbers come from the nostalgic element, and that's probably us. I think we're probably we go for the nostalgia bits, yeah. You know, oh yeah, Darth Vader and and uh comes on screen, ooh, great. Whereas someone random are they interested? Yeah, I I would probably like as much as I didn't like the character at the time, if then another move came out and Jar Jar Binks came on, yeah. I'd be like, hey Jarja that's true. Well as much as I hated him at the time, I'm like, where is Jar Joe Binks?

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Well, it's it's funny, the last Star Wars show I watched was the Obi-Wan Kenobi one when it was you McGregor coming back. Because it again it was characters that you know, so I was like, I'll watch him for the nostalgia and the the lightsaber fights were good. Yeah, yeah. All the new all the other stuff, all the new stuff. I've had I've not been bothered. Like I haven't been on Disney Plus in Donkeys actually, even though I know it's got loads of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Recently I watched a bit of and it's a little bit anime. Um that's uh the Darthmall Shadow Lord. Oh, that's meant to be quite good. I saw a review of that. Yeah, and there's Darth Vader in that one. There's a good a good battle battle in that one, Darth Vader and Darthmall and that, which you know Darthmore's meant to be dead. But yeah, it was too good a character, so they brought him back. Yeah, yeah. But uh yeah, but again, nostalgia, you know, that's kind of the oh Darthmall. But Darthmore's new I don't I don't know, we're going off and a master.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

We are going off and a master. But it's alright, because you know it's still only it's still only 32 episodes this minute. Or 32 32 episodes this minute. Still only 32 minutes this episode. My goodness.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

This episode is absolute gold.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Well, short and sweet. Short and sweet. We should finish up and we'll let the listeners go and hopefully go and enjoy a film at the cinema or watch Mob Panch on Netflix, or maybe go and relive some old Star Wars stuff. Who knows?

SPEAKER_02 30:37

But um we know so I think I got I got hit in the head today with uh a can of coke. But uh don't worry, it's a soft.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

I was about to say it explains a lot, really. Until episode seven.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Until episode seven. Bye everybody. Can we can we end can we end the series? Episode seven. End the series.

SPEAKER_01 31:06

Yeah, the the series is getting really short now. There's only one episode a year. To be honest, Williams, with the with the lack of

One Punch Power And Garden Fixes

SPEAKER_01 31:14

content. I mean, I'm not gonna lie. One pan! She was really scraping a barrel for the buttons. Maybe we should only be one a year because we're just in that busy period where the only things we can talk about is I went to work, paid everything I earned, got paid out because the pissing dog and the vet bill and the roof needed fixed, and the lawnmower broke.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Yeah. I sat down, managed to find 20 minutes and watched one punch.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

And why did you watch One Punch? One punch! The only reason I watched it was because I was so exhausted. It was the thing that was recommended to me, so just that'll do. That'll do. It could have been anything. It literally could have been anything. Yeah, whatever. That'll do.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

It's probably psychologically, like some my subconscious just wanted to be that one punch, it's just smack something.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Yeah, there might be something in that, actually. I came back off holiday, I'd I'd unwound, I was stressed again within one day, and then I just suddenly started wanting to be this one punch guy. Or maybe if you were thinking about if if you were if you were one punch man, what would you do with that power?

SPEAKER_02 32:19

With one punch. One punch. One punch, you could destroy anything. Anyone, anything. I would the power of one punch.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

I don't know. I would probably I don't know, find a bad guy. I'd probably go to America. I'd find a bad guy. Just go and just try it on a bad guy. What would you do, Aliams? Would you not find a bad guy? Would you punch something random? Just gonna punch a door.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Just imagine you just I don't are you a bad guy? Yes. Just looking around. I'm just looking for a bad guy. Hello everyone. Any bad guy in here? Anybody?

SPEAKER_01 33:24

Yeah. Anybody seen a rapist? Somebody? Anybody? There's a rapist. Who's gonna go? Yeah, that's me. I'm a lover, not a fighter. I don't believe in violence, Williams. I won't want to punch anybody. What would you do with the power? What would you punch?

SPEAKER_02 33:43

What would I do? Oh yeah, see here when it when the tables turned, it's a difficult question, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 33:50

You have to be very careful because this is gonna get broadcast, and once it's out there, it's on the internet. You know, there's no there's no hiding it. Bad guys, just find the bad guys. I would what what bad guy they I don't know, somebody who's somebody like Lex Luther, somebody naughty, somebody trying to do something bad with bad weapons. Just someone naughty. Rocco. So I just got vision's a year again going. Are you are you a naughty boy? You said I reminded you of this guy Purry Purry, who's like an openly homosexual, muscle bound bad guy.

SPEAKER_02 34:27

No, no, he's a superhero. He's 13th rank in this class. And his oh what's it I've got here? His quote is to embrace all the pain of love as deep as the ocean. That is my ability.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

What the heck? I mean, Wallyams, if you've got 20 minutes spare next time, could I recommend like I don't know go for a bike ride or something like that? A bit of beach growth gardens or something, just something nice and easy. Yeah, maybe a bit of Monty Don. No, Monty Don't once an hour though. I'll tell you what though, oh, this is this is a last minute firstlook.com. Alan Titchmarsh's YouTube channel. This is Alan Titchmarsh's YouTube channel. He set up his own YouTube channel full of like eight-minute videos on tips on how to garden, and they're all brilliant.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

Because it's just like I'll tell you what I want to do, my one punch. I'm getting fed up with my slopey garden. I want to flatten it. Okay. So I'm just gonna one punch. Bosh. Nice.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Flatten it. Yeah, that that's a good that's a good use of a punch power. But what if you over punch it? If it's such a strong punch, maybe you'll just end up with a big crater and you live on a mine, so you might end up just bringing down the hole or cobalt's just gone into a mine because you just punched it. You weren't thinking about that, were you, Adam?

SPEAKER_02 35:41

No great power comes great responsibility.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

Spider-Man guy instead. Or a naughty boy. Or naughty a naughty boy. Um right. On that note, should probably I don't know why you find that so funny. We're losing our tidy lines.

SPEAKER_02 36:08

They're getting so bad.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Do you think we need to uh do you think we need to wrap it up soon and be like, you know what? And just do specials. Just do specials every so often. I suppose, yeah, there's that much good time between them, they're effectively specials anyway. Yeah, that's true.

Quick Wrap And Voicemail Reminder

SPEAKER_01 36:25

Alright, listeners. See you in a couple weeks. Will we though? Will we listen to it? Send us your best point voice notes.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

I'm the voicemail. I'm a lovely voicemail, get the big send us a voicemail.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

I find a bad guy, and just gonna just try on a bad guy.