December 17, 2024 • 29 mins
Ever received a PowerPoint presentation from your kid detailing their Christmas wish list? Well, get ready to chuckle as we recount the hilarious lengths our little ones go to ensure Santa hears them loud and clear. This episode, we embrace the chaos of transitioning from Thanksgiving turkey to the glittery wonderland of Christmas. We explore the fascinating world of Christmas trees, comparing the practical charm of artificial trees in Australia to the cherished tradition of real ones in the U.S. We also can't help but laugh at the staggering price tags on high-tech artificial trees — who knew holiday decor could rival a tech gadget?
Parenting during the holidays is a rollercoaster, and we're here to share the ride. From the ever-changing wishlist of Fortnite skins to the joys and struggles of playing Santa via Amazon’s gift-wrapping service, we reflect on the quirks of modern parenting. We dive into family dynamics, discussing how we sometimes let our partners take the heat for jointly made decisions, all while trying to balance being the fun parent and the enforcer of rules. And yes, we're tackling the age-old stereotype of gift-wrapping roles in a household with our humorous spin.
The show wouldn’t be complete without a nod to our beloved guests and the fun they bring. Reminiscing about our favorites like Moose and companions, we toy with the fun idea of animating stories in a delightfully budget-friendly way. We’re also inviting you, our listeners, to join the conversation by suggesting topics and guests for future episodes. As we sign off, a warm thank you goes out to all our supporters. Stick with us on Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube at DadModePodcast for more laughs, stories, and the joys of balancing parenthood with personal passions. Stay cool, and happy holidays!
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Turning off normal human male mode.
Switching to dad mode.
Welcome in to dad mode Withyour hosts Bearded, Nova and
Morph.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So here it's, getting almost Christmas.
We just passed Thanksgivinghere in the US, christmas is
less than a month away, likejust under four weeks, and my
kids have made me the mostdetailed list of what they want.
My younger one even when, asfar as writing the name of the
thing, the model number, on theflip side of the paper, he wrote
(00:41):
the name again, where you cancan find it and how much it
costs, and then he added allthat up at the bottom and said
is this the reasonable amount tospend on me?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
yeah, what?
Yeah, smash.
I just want to say, hi, man,hope you're doing well.
So have you got everything?
Like you know, has the kidsgiven you details of what they
want for christmas.
Have you got?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
tree sorted, we got our tree.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We got our tree today , so so we, we don't do, we
don't do real trees in australia.
Really, they're all, they'reall fake but it's becoming trees
and stuff no, we got pine trees, but not that type of punches.
Our pine trees they, they grow,near.
They probably grow about 30feet tall and then they're
(01:28):
chopped down.
It's all structural framing.
Fake trees has been the wayhere for years.
Okay, but, that being said, youcan now get real trees.
So we've been thinking about it.
Yeah, so I'm looking at doingthat rabbit hole this year.
Possibly we're going to do itthis year, but possibly going to
do it more likely next year,just because of dakota, and
(01:50):
she's a feral at the moment.
She's a wild child.
Whatever we get, she's going towreck.
And I got a new bird.
So the bird is is just crazy,dakota's crazy.
Whatever tree we buy isprobably going to be destroyed
because of those two.
So, like, we'll give it anotheryear for her to settle the bird
.
So then we'll go down the realpath where, yeah, there's a lot.
(02:12):
I didn't know.
I didn't know you had to likewater the trees like I mean
watering.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It helps it not drop all the green stuff?
Yeah, I didn't know thesethings yeah, yeah, we, we have a
tradition, so like usually theday after thanksgiving, when
everybody else is going shopping, on black friday you go to this
tree farm, which is two milesfrom our house cut down a tree
called tree farms and not forest.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I like it that they called a tree farm and not a
forest, because really, when you, when you got a bunch of trees,
that's a forest, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
yeah, yeah but when you show up, it's a tree farm.
Now, now chat saying there'ssome fake trees here, and I
appreciate that, because thesereal trees I'm buying.
There is one price at this farm78, 78 that I have to spend to
keep it.
Whoa, it's a goo.
Hold on one second.
(03:06):
Oh, we got a goo left.
Yeah, can you drop it actually,so it doesn't mess up the thing
?
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
I just wanted to ask when is itgoing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
to be streaming.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We'll stop by 9, definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How long is that?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh, 40, 50 minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So it'll be there.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm going to call you afterwards.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Bye, sorry, love you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's not right.
That's so good.
So we have there, we go, $78 togive a tree and a bunch of
critters a high for a month.
So, yeah, all our trees arereally fake.
Yet they just go in a box andyou pull them out.
But the problem is, after a fewyears they don't look as full.
I guess that's why I was like,oh, we're gonna buy it.
I can buy a fake tree for twothousand dollars.
(03:57):
That's gonna look fantastic forthe rest of its life, probably
last us, you know, 10, 15, ohyeah, yeah you so.
So kmart is where kmart is,where our tree is, and it cost
us like 70 bucks and it's lastedus five years, okay, and then
you can spend, you know, upwardsof more and more and get like
nicer.
But then there's this rangethat goes from like a thousand
(04:20):
to two thousand dollars yeah andit's a synthetic tree.
It's fake but it feels and lookslike a real tree.
Probably not smash, probablynot.
It's weird like but that twothousand dollars.
It's.
Also, you're choosing the typeof, the type of pine tree.
It is like the color, theseason.
(04:41):
Do you want to have fake snowon it?
Real snow?
You can choose to haveaddressable led colored led
lights into the tree branchitself so it comes out on the
ends of the leaves.
You're talking like you know.
It's a, it's what you expect,what you're getting for
something that's two thousanddollars for 70 bucks.
(05:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like you, you're paying for that luxury, I guess
I saw one today on youtube whereit not only had all the stuff
you mentioned the tree.
Could you could control theheight of the tree like, yes, go
up as high as you want it to,whatever fits in your room yeah,
on christmas this year it'sgoing to be very interesting for
us okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Okay, I can just tell already, like, just with how
things we haven't.
One of my child is one of mychildren is doing a powerpoint
presentation for me on what?
Um, yeah, because I keep.
We keep asking what do the?
This is the part.
We keep asking what do you wantfor christmas?
And instead of telling usthey're like oh yeah, well, this
thing it's like 10 bucks orsomething.
(05:44):
So well, I need more than justone gift.
That's $10.
She's come back and gone ohokay, I'm going to do a
PowerPoint presentation.
Your kids just did that.
That's what I'm thinking.
The kids have just learned how.
That's what my wife said.
She goes oh, she's just learnedhow to do PowerPoints.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So know, I want that.
Now I'm going to demand that mykids make me PowerPoints, just
like work.
I want it presented to me.
You're going to get a clickerfor home.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, just give them the clicker.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, yep, I'll schedule meetings for them, you
know, and then we'll go in theliving room and we'll have the
laptop there and walk it through.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Bud, convince me why can't they just give me the
photos that they're going to puton the presentation?
That's what I'm asking.
Like it's just.
It's just as simple.
I get it.
They're going to go thisbeautiful presentation with with
animations and sliding andmoving.
I really hope there's a stareffect in there to some some
degree, like I want a star swipe.
(06:43):
But it's just as simple, justto go.
Here's my list, becauseobviously you've got a list.
If you've got, you're going todo a powerpoint presentation.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You've got the list yeah, I love the formality of it
.
I I do.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh, I thought she was doing a powerpoint presentation
already and she came out lastnight with her ipad saying hey,
what's the printer's name?
Because she wanted to printsomething.
I'm like you're not.
You're not gonna print yourpowerpoint presentation, are you
just like?
No, I'm like, oh god, that'swhat I thought she was about to
do.
Well, that's not how we don't.
We don't do stuff in powerpoint, just to print right?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
yep, so I was explaining my one.
My one kid gives me a verydetailed list, all this stuff,
not a powerpoint, but stillpretty detailed.
My other child, who spends mostof the year saying I want this,
I want that, I want this,Whether it's birthday or
Christmas, give me a list.
I don't know, I don't think Iand he won't.
He won't give you a list.
He's like just get somethingand yet all year long he's like
(07:38):
I want this, I want that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I want this, I want that, you know, and he just
refuses to give us a list.
So it's, I don't, I don't getit.
Would you say that, in a way,your son is similar to you?
Because, let's be honest, no,no, no.
Like you know, my wife goeswhat, what's things that you'd
like for christmas?
You know, I just brought astream deck yeah, okay yeah, I
mean you.
you were like me.
We are very similar in wayswhere we just buy the things
that we like as we go throughthe year and then it's very
(08:07):
limited to what's left.
Yeah, so in a way, your sonasking for these things through
the year is very similar toyourself.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Right, because all the stuff I want like I buy the
more affordable stuff, and soit's birthday, christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All my list is just like whatever you all the
expensive shit.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You know that I that I couldn't afford to buy myself
well, you know, I said I've you.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I did the shared amazon list with my wife, where
I just get her to.
You know, I put stuff that Ilike a favorite into my amazon
list and then that's things thatI need to buy and she knows
what to buy and what to buy.
So that's how I got the.
The stream deck pedal finallywas because that sat in my
stream, that sat in my list forthe last two years and I was
(08:50):
like, oh, there's something thathe wants, I'll buy that for him
you know what's left in my listat the moment, toby eye tracker
.
Oh my god, I want one of those I, I didn't.
Oh, that's awesome, I've hadthat is that is all the only
thing that's in my list.
I'm really hoping my wife picksup on the hint that I really
want that, like I've beenhanging off yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So my wife?
She won't do that.
She won't look at the list andsay, oh, he wants us, let me get
this.
She says I don't like that, I'mnot gonna buy it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yes, really I've done because I can't.
Well, the only other thing Icould think of that I want at
the moment is to upgrade the,the flight stick stuff, but I
but I've done that twice thisyear.
So I, I, I don't know.
Or there's the you Smash theeye tracking, the double-edged
sword, but no, I want it for simgames, because I've been
(09:47):
playing so many sim games likethe Star Citizen, and then I'm
going to go back into drivingsim soon.
Apparently, the eye track isreally good for head tracking,
so when you're turning your headin the cockpit view, it shifts
the camera for you.
That's why I want the eyetracker not to show where I'm
looking, but more so to track myhead position, I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Similar to what the camera does.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I keep saying tracking and the camera keeps
turning on and off its trackingat the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
When you get that eye tracker, your wife's going to
have you watch some TV and haveit on just to see where you're
looking.
You know that's what's going tohave you watch some tv and have
it on just to see where you'relooking.
You know, that's what's goingto happen so when I said I was
adding an eye tracker to my list, no, I'm not I don't, I don't
need that kind of stress well, Idid see we bring that up.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I did see someone do a tiktok the other day of them
to setting up the eye trackerand then bringing in their wife
to the computer and then showingthem different pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen .
I've seen some videos like that.
You're just asking for trouble.
You just ask it because youdon't think that you looked at
something but you did, you did,you did.
They know it, you know it.
So I think if you get one andsomebody like goes to test, like
I'm going to look at this andthis and this, just so you know
(11:02):
I'm going to do that, so yeah,it's bad news.
And so the one thing that mykid the older one, who doesn't
ever give me lists says he wantsevery year because he's into
Fortnite, I want V-Bucks, that'sall he wants V-Bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm the yearly thing.
Fortnite pass, vbucks.
Oh, I'm the I'm the yearlything fortnight pass thing.
Gives him like vbucks, givesyou vbucks the season pass and
like it's like a vip status, youcan buy a vip stat.
Like it's not just a fortnightpass and it's like the fortnight
package for a year yeah, youknow that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He asked for that before and I went to set it up,
but it was giving me a hard timeentering a credit so 20, it's
like, I don't know, like 15bucks a month or something like
that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But you could set it up.
I'm sure you could buy it as ayear and probably get it as a
discount.
You know that's a good ideathey get monthly vbucks, the
season pass, the battle passright, yeah, the battle pass.
Yep, the exclusive skins andstuff as well.
They get other bits and piecesthrough it that's not in the
battle pass and they don't haveto buy with vbucks, like
(12:03):
fortnight club maybe, I thinkit's called.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't know yeah, that's it the fortnight crew.
The fortnight crew, that's 12bucks a month.
I don't see anything about aannual, but you get.
You get a crew pack monthly,which is an exclusive bundle
which includes a new outfit, atleast one matching accessory.
You get battle pass.
You get a thousand vbucks everymonth and a few other, a few,
(12:28):
no, more questions for vbucks,that child sort of I don't see
anything about a annual one.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
There might be maybe they don't, maybe they don't do
annual one um I could.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's a good idea I hadn't, I hadn't thought of that
, thank you that's it, that'sokay, all right, I gotta mention
that kids ask yeah, kids areasking vbucks man for his
birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, I gave him like 50 bucks or whatever and I
threw it in his microsoftaccount, you know, so you could
buy stupid vbucks you know whatI find funny Is the bucks change
over the years as the kids getolder, like it's at one stage
it's all about the road box,yeah.
And then they get a little bitolder and it's about the V-Bucks
, and then I don't know what'safter that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I haven't found out what's after V-Bucks.
And then they get a job andit's about the real bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And then they ask their parents.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't make enough real bucks.
I need some of yours, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my daughter is still out of bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
She's so Digital versions of Nike shoes, All
right.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So chat's saying my kid's got Nike shoes.
What, oh?
They can actually buy the oh.
What?
Oh man, that's crazy smash.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I didn't even know that was a thing, that's.
I hate the world sometimes whenI read shit like that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I haven't played fortnite in ages, so I wouldn't.
I wouldn't have a clue, butthat that would make me mad my
kids begging me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Can you get me the skin?
Can you get me this skin?
I'm like he's like.
You know, when I get it a weeklater, I don't use that one
anymore.
I I hate you so oh, wow I don't, I don't, I don't know, man,
but yeah, so we got the tree.
Yeah, got that all set up.
Today we started doing chrisbuying some christmas gifts we
(14:13):
got the treats tomorrow and whenit comes to gifts, we, like a
lot of other people, use amazonreligiously.
Yeah, if the thing you wantisn't an amazon, I'm not gonna
buy it.
That's just.
It's just that simple.
If you link me to another sitein your amazon list, it's not
happening.
I'm not gonna go to anothersite and buy it, I'm buying it
(14:36):
on amazon.
And the other thing I dobecause I hate doing this is I
always choose the gift wrappedoption because I hate wrapping
gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yes, and the gift wrapped.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now it's just a bag.
You know what?
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Here's your bag.
It's a Christmas bag, it's abasic Christmas bag, but that's
what my wife gets from me.
She doesn't mind wrapping, so Iget a nice wrapped gift, but my
wife gets whatever the shoppingcenter or Amazon can package.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yep, absolutely.
That's how I love giving people.
I don't care how many dollarsit costs.
If I'm in the mall and Ibrought stuff for Christmas and
there's people that are doingthe charity wrapping, damn
straight, you are wrapping everygift that I have on me because
I'm not doing shit.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I don't know who came up with the concept of wrapping
a gift, but I hope they burn inhell it's, is it me, or is it
just?
all males just suck at doingchristmas wrapping I think, yeah
, like my wife's, like she, like, a week or two before christmas
, she's like all right, yourkids are wherever we're gonna
sit and wrap all their gifts,and you know it's a thing that I
(15:39):
, I need to do.
But I do such a shit job at it,like and I'm not even like
trying to do a shit, shit job Ijust, I guess I just don't care
enough to like make sure it'sreally, really good.
I don't know.
Last year I I even went superspiteful mode and we were
running out of paper, so I tookbits and pieces of different
(15:59):
patterns that we had discardedand wrapped a gift in it, so it
had like five or six differenttypes of papers on it.
So yeah, yeah, yeah my wife.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
My wife always makes a comment about that.
She knows what gifts I wrapunder the tree, just because
they look like like ass yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, it's not my thing.
I detest doing it.
I don't like anything about it.
And there's the people.
You see, they do such abeautiful job and they put all
the bows and all this shit onand I'm like cool.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Fuck you.
Did you have nothing else to dothat?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
day or something.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What is this?
A Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Fuck you Disappointed ?
Yeah, it's natural I was.
I was even doing that before.
I had kids like that.
I realized I might as well justbe a dad now, because I'm
already yelling at otherpeople's children.
You know, I'm walking somewhere.
I'm like I can't believe youwore that out of the house.
(17:00):
And they're like who are you?
You know, so that's what Ithat's what I do.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I was amazed.
The other day we had somethingto do with one of my daughters
who was going out for dinner orsomething.
She had a friend over and shewalked out of the room and she
goes is it all right if I wearthis to dinner?
I was like, as long as you feelcomfortable wearing clothes out
in public, that's the mainpoint.
But I was surprised that ateenage girl asked her father if
(17:28):
this is appropriate to wear todinner.
It was just a t-shirt and someshorts.
There was nothing inappropriateat all, but I'm like I was so
confused.
Usually the kids just wearwhatever they want and then
their mother says it's okay andthen I said they're gone.
No, you know where's the restof them?
Where's?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
the rest of the pants .
I always wanted to have adaughter and is the rest of the
pants.
I always wanted to have adaughter and I don't.
I have two boys, but I'm gladthat I don't now, because she
would hate me.
I would be so strict and yetI'd let the boy do whatever he
wants it's not that I'm tryingto be mean to her, it's just I
probably would be way toooverprotective, way too
(18:04):
overprotective I am.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I come down as the you know the big meaning,
because I say no to a lot ofthings, but that's because I'm
overprotective yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And there's this dynamic in my house where we
like to keep the boys safe, sowe do a lot of things, probably
give them, have made themdevelop anxiety because we worry
about a lot of things.
But there's this dynamic ofthey think my wife is not, the
is not the fun one, but I am thefun one right.
Yeah, I don't know how youswindled that true but what they
(18:35):
don't realize is usually whenshe tells them no, you can't do
this.
Yeah, she and I have alreadydiscussed it and she's just the
one that delivers the message.
And so she, she takes the heatfor that.
And I'm just sitting there.
I can't believe she said that.
No, but I don't do that.
But it's interesting the way itgoes.
And then whenever I do have toyell at them for something, they
(18:57):
always look at me like they'vebeen betrayed, like you're
supposed to be the cool guy,yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So Chad's saying having two daughters is is
frightening.
You have four, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So how are you still sane?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
well, I was gonna say two, that's rookies numbers.
You're gonna pump those numbersup.
I am barely hanging on, to behonest, barely hanging on.
Yes, the youngest is actuallyscaring me the most.
Moose is not increasing theirnumbers.
She's decided that's it.
Come on, moose, yeah, but insaying that, talking about
talking about boosting numbersthough, we'll be talking about
(19:37):
that next time we're we're live,I guess I got an interesting,
interesting topic to bring up,ben.
Yeah, interesting topic indeedyeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So, speaking of that, I'm running out of things, by
the way.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, I'm happy to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm glad you're editing this, so welcome
everybody.
So, for anybody who wasn't hereearlier when we started this,
nova and I, for the past 13months or so, have been doing a
podcast, as you can see on thescreen, called Dad Mode that's
released as 13 months or so,I've been doing a podcast, as
you can see on the screen,called Dad Mode that's released,
as you can see on the screen,every Tuesday.
It's just about any place thatyou can imagine where you can
download a podcast.
We also post it to YouTube andwe post a lot of clips.
(20:19):
Nova does now Posts a lot ofclips to.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I haven't posted any clips in a while.
I've just been uploading.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I haven't either.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Because we just weren't getting the return on
the time investment.
Now, now, now we got the app,now we got the app trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, that's true, so anyway, so we just decided, two
weeks ago, or whatever it was,to start doing our recordings,
which are every friday on twitch, and so this is our second time
doing it and I think it's goingwell so far.
It's kind of fun having chathere, like giving us more things
to kind of talk about andcomment on during the course of
(20:53):
it.
I think it adds a littledimension to it, so that's cool.
I want more topics.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, I know you and I were talking about topics.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I know we swayed away from topics for a while and
then we come back to topics andthen we go a bit in and out, but
we like starting point topics,I guess yes, we like to have
that story or something we cantalk about for the first five
minutes and then that leads intowhatever else.
If you guys have ideas onthings you would like us to talk
questions parenting related,job related, whatever just from
(21:22):
a dad's perspective.
Yeah, we would love to to hearthat, so feel the fear to drop
it in chat Now.
Do it now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Did it now.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We don't record every Friday, usually it's every
other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
We're trying to do every other.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right, because sometimes we get ahead.
We have a backlog of edits ofepisodes, so we're like we don't
need to record this week.
We haven't recorded since thelast week.
You know like, no, like wehaven't recorded since the last
time we were on twitch becausewe had so many extra episodes.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, you know, and it just it makes it hard to keep
recording when you've got toomuch of a backlog, because
anything you bring up is notgoing to be released for so much
longer.
And I think we did that when weoriginally started.
Yeah, we had lots of guests andthen we'd split the guest
episodes across multiple weeksand, jumping in One stage, I
think we were out for like threemonths worth of recordings and
(22:15):
we were still recording andwe're like, okay, we got to pump
out more than once a day.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We stopped like, yeah , we were way ahead at one point
, right, so we stopped for likea month and a half of recording
because you know it's it wasstupid to get to cheat back in
on those episodes.
I mean, every, whenever we talkabout something that's timely,
that changes the dynamic,everything goes like oh shit, we
got to get this out now, youknow, yeah yeah, no, but I I
think we will push for this tostay more to the fortnightly
(22:44):
schedule yeah, yes, moose.
Last time is when we talkedabout you in the cop car.
Um, you know, we should do it.
We should do an episode whenmoose calls in and just starts
telling us stories, you know,and then we'll just publish that
you know a lot of a lot ofwarnings on the, on the
(23:06):
disclaimers on the beginning ofthe episode, but it just doesn't
stop yeah, so also, if you, ifanyone, wants to be a guest on
the show, we would love to haveyou on, whether you're on camera
or just or just dialing in.
You know, on discord, no, novideo.
Whatever you guys want, we'dlove to have you.
Just let me, or bearded know.
(23:26):
Yeah, I want to go back to moreguests we have had well, a half
dozen guests or so.
We've had a great time with theguests.
Having guests it adds so such adifferent dimension to like in,
like a feel to the the episode.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's been a lot of fun having them smash a few
smash was one of the smash was agreat one.
Yeah yeah, smash was our firstand it was around this time of
year too.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It was.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No, it was earlier, sorry, second time Smash came on
was Christmas, yeah, secondtime he did our Christmas gift
buying episode.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, we're talking about Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, we're talking about Christmas gifts Smash and
then who else have we had overthe time?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Damn Daniel.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Damn Daniel.
We had Chillin' with Dev we hadover the time.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Damn, daniel, damn daniel.
We had chilling with dev, whowas probably on now killing it.
By the way.
Yeah, we had red rose sword,one of my favorite people.
And who else have we had?
Or am I?
I don't want to leave anyone.
Oh, we had m west west, didn'twe?
Um, who else did we have?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I feel like it's more we did a lot in the beginning.
We were like we wanted to havelike half episodes with a guest
and half without you know butand but we haven't had a guest
in in quite some time.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
No, no, we will all organize.
I'll start shooting messagesout and about to people.
Yeah, see what.
See what comes back to us itfun.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think usually when we have a guest we do try to
keep it more of a parentingtopic, you know, and kind of
comparing notes, but it doesn'thave to be.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It doesn't have to be Damn.
Daniel broke that barrier.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, he did.
Oh my god, he was so much fun.
He really was.
He's a fucking madman.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He's a loose unit.
That guy really was he.
He's a fucking madman, he's aloose unit.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That guy, yes, he's awesome, he's funny and he just
takes over it's.
It's, it's great britain, and Ican sort of sit back and just
let him.
Just let him go yeah, he justneeds.
He just needs to get his voiceout there for a bit it would be
chaos if you were here, mo Moose, but I think it'd be a good
chaos.
Maybe it might get our showbanned.
I don't know.
(25:32):
Maybe I can't wait to hearMoose story time.
If you're doing it on Sunday,that's going to be interesting.
Yeah, does it have?
It's not kids, can you?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
do Moose story time with MS Paint and quickly draw
the little scenes, as you justwould stick people, but that
would be.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Could you imagine if somebody like animated moose's
stories?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
yeah, that would be poorly way like.
I want it animated in a poorway, not like a not high-end
animation, I want it.
I want it like a teamu versionof disney, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I mean like really poorly made ai like, if you
posted moose's story, could aimake make a short little
animation out of this?
Or, you know, like images youcould stick figure animation
like ms paint animation how doyou draw a stick figure pig?
I'm like oh wait, no, I get it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, you get, you can you can just just fake a
toilet, just make a toilet sign.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
People in animation that's all what you do.
Yeah, yeah, I want that moose.
You gotta, you gotta send me astory of one of yours in text so
I can put it in ai that's right, he did too, you did.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh, I did draw that.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That was in my discord.
Oh wait, I can't change.
Oh shit, I almost changedscenes, which changes it,
because I'm pulling a camerafrom discord.
I have an art gallery section,I think in the discord.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think yeah not this discord, though I think it's
the other discord oh, is it theother one?
Maybe, maybe, no, no, no, no.
The other one has all theinappropriate pictures I've
requested over times.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
General chat baby.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
There it is.
This is what we're talkingabout.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So when I used to do my show weekly, a couple times a
week, I had a reward that couldbe redeemed.
Where I would draw, it wascalled Art Show, where I would
draw whatever you want me todraw.
I am horrible, I would draw.
It was called art show, where Iwould draw whatever you want me
to draw.
I am horrible, I would draw.
Ms paint and moose once askedme to draw a picture of wild
(27:38):
moose.
Yeah, yeah, wild moose, a wildmoose, it's the best way to put
it inappropriate, but I did itbecause I'm a trooper and
obviously the Twitch channel isstill okay.
Oh, the other moose asked forit.
Yeah, okay, wow, asked for iton your behalf, I guess.
Okay, I've drawn some stuff.
I've drawn some stuff.
I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I think one of my favorite ones is you've drawn me
like one of those French girls.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, did I, I don't even know.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That was one of my first requests when you added
art show.
Was that one?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I remember Goulet always used to hate it
because she actually does artand so she would just get so mad
watching me do whatever it isyou want to call it I do.
It was pretty bad, pretty bad.
But all right, I think we'regoing to wrap up.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Let's wrap it up.
Yeah, we Pretty bad, but Ithink I think we're going to
wrap up there, yeah, Iappreciate everybody hanging out
.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You guys are awesome and we're going to try to do
this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We're going to try to get our shit together and do it
every other week.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
So here it's, getting almost Christmas.
We just passed Thanksgivinghere in the US, christmas is
less than a month away, likejust under four weeks, and my
kids have made me the mostdetailed list of what they want.
My younger one even when, asfar as writing the name of the
thing, the model number, on theflip side of the paper, he wrote
(00:41):
the name again, where you cancan find it and how much it
costs, and then he added allthat up at the bottom and said
is this the reasonable amount tospend on me?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
yeah, what?
Yeah, smash.
I just want to say, hi, man,hope you're doing well.
So have you got everything?
Like you know, has the kidsgiven you details of what they
want for christmas.
Have you got?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
tree sorted, we got our tree.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We got our tree today , so so we, we don't do, we
don't do real trees in australia.
Really, they're all, they'reall fake but it's becoming trees
and stuff no, we got pine trees, but not that type of punches.
Our pine trees they, they grow,near.
They probably grow about 30feet tall and then they're
(01:28):
chopped down.
It's all structural framing.
Fake trees has been the wayhere for years.
Okay, but, that being said, youcan now get real trees.
So we've been thinking about it.
Yeah, so I'm looking at doingthat rabbit hole this year.
Possibly we're going to do itthis year, but possibly going to
do it more likely next year,just because of dakota, and
(01:50):
she's a feral at the moment.
She's a wild child.
Whatever we get, she's going towreck.
And I got a new bird.
So the bird is is just crazy,dakota's crazy.
Whatever tree we buy isprobably going to be destroyed
because of those two.
So, like, we'll give it anotheryear for her to settle the bird
.
So then we'll go down the realpath where, yeah, there's a lot.
(02:12):
I didn't know.
I didn't know you had to likewater the trees like I mean
watering.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It helps it not drop all the green stuff?
Yeah, I didn't know thesethings yeah, yeah, we, we have a
tradition, so like usually theday after thanksgiving, when
everybody else is going shopping, on black friday you go to this
tree farm, which is two milesfrom our house cut down a tree
called tree farms and not forest.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I like it that they called a tree farm and not a
forest, because really, when you, when you got a bunch of trees,
that's a forest, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
yeah, yeah but when you show up, it's a tree farm.
Now, now chat saying there'ssome fake trees here, and I
appreciate that, because thesereal trees I'm buying.
There is one price at this farm78, 78 that I have to spend to
keep it.
Whoa, it's a goo.
Hold on one second.
(03:06):
Oh, we got a goo left.
Yeah, can you drop it actually,so it doesn't mess up the thing
?
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
I just wanted to ask when is itgoing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
to be streaming.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
We'll stop by 9, definitely.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How long is that?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Oh, 40, 50 minutes.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So it'll be there.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I'm going to call you afterwards.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Bye, sorry, love you.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's not right.
That's so good.
So we have there, we go, $78 togive a tree and a bunch of
critters a high for a month.
So, yeah, all our trees arereally fake.
Yet they just go in a box andyou pull them out.
But the problem is, after a fewyears they don't look as full.
I guess that's why I was like,oh, we're gonna buy it.
I can buy a fake tree for twothousand dollars.
(03:57):
That's gonna look fantastic forthe rest of its life, probably
last us, you know, 10, 15, ohyeah, yeah you so.
So kmart is where kmart is,where our tree is, and it cost
us like 70 bucks and it's lastedus five years, okay, and then
you can spend, you know, upwardsof more and more and get like
nicer.
But then there's this rangethat goes from like a thousand
(04:20):
to two thousand dollars yeah andit's a synthetic tree.
It's fake but it feels and lookslike a real tree.
Probably not smash, probablynot.
It's weird like but that twothousand dollars.
It's.
Also, you're choosing the typeof, the type of pine tree.
It is like the color, theseason.
(04:41):
Do you want to have fake snowon it?
Real snow?
You can choose to haveaddressable led colored led
lights into the tree branchitself so it comes out on the
ends of the leaves.
You're talking like you know.
It's a, it's what you expect,what you're getting for
something that's two thousanddollars for 70 bucks.
(05:01):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Like you, you're paying for that luxury, I guess
I saw one today on youtube whereit not only had all the stuff
you mentioned the tree.
Could you could control theheight of the tree like, yes, go
up as high as you want it to,whatever fits in your room yeah,
on christmas this year it'sgoing to be very interesting for
us okay.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Okay, I can just tell already, like, just with how
things we haven't.
One of my child is one of mychildren is doing a powerpoint
presentation for me on what?
Um, yeah, because I keep.
We keep asking what do the?
This is the part.
We keep asking what do you wantfor christmas?
And instead of telling usthey're like oh yeah, well, this
thing it's like 10 bucks orsomething.
(05:44):
So well, I need more than justone gift.
That's $10.
She's come back and gone ohokay, I'm going to do a
PowerPoint presentation.
Your kids just did that.
That's what I'm thinking.
The kids have just learned how.
That's what my wife said.
She goes oh, she's just learnedhow to do PowerPoints.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So know, I want that.
Now I'm going to demand that mykids make me PowerPoints, just
like work.
I want it presented to me.
You're going to get a clickerfor home.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, just give them the clicker.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, yep, I'll schedule meetings for them, you
know, and then we'll go in theliving room and we'll have the
laptop there and walk it through.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Bud, convince me why can't they just give me the
photos that they're going to puton the presentation?
That's what I'm asking.
Like it's just.
It's just as simple.
I get it.
They're going to go thisbeautiful presentation with with
animations and sliding andmoving.
I really hope there's a stareffect in there to some some
degree, like I want a star swipe.
(06:43):
But it's just as simple, justto go.
Here's my list, becauseobviously you've got a list.
If you've got, you're going todo a powerpoint presentation.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
You've got the list yeah, I love the formality of it
.
I I do.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Oh, I thought she was doing a powerpoint presentation
already and she came out lastnight with her ipad saying hey,
what's the printer's name?
Because she wanted to printsomething.
I'm like you're not.
You're not gonna print yourpowerpoint presentation, are you
just like?
No, I'm like, oh god, that'swhat I thought she was about to
do.
Well, that's not how we don't.
We don't do stuff in powerpoint, just to print right?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
yep, so I was explaining my one.
My one kid gives me a verydetailed list, all this stuff,
not a powerpoint, but stillpretty detailed.
My other child, who spends mostof the year saying I want this,
I want that, I want this,Whether it's birthday or
Christmas, give me a list.
I don't know, I don't think Iand he won't.
He won't give you a list.
He's like just get somethingand yet all year long he's like
(07:38):
I want this, I want that.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I want this, I want that, you know, and he just
refuses to give us a list.
So it's, I don't, I don't getit.
Would you say that, in a way,your son is similar to you?
Because, let's be honest, no,no, no.
Like you know, my wife goeswhat, what's things that you'd
like for christmas?
You know, I just brought astream deck yeah, okay yeah, I
mean you.
you were like me.
We are very similar in wayswhere we just buy the things
that we like as we go throughthe year and then it's very
(08:07):
limited to what's left.
Yeah, so in a way, your sonasking for these things through
the year is very similar toyourself.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Right, because all the stuff I want like I buy the
more affordable stuff, and soit's birthday, christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
All my list is just like whatever you all the
expensive shit.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You know that I that I couldn't afford to buy myself
well, you know, I said I've you.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I did the shared amazon list with my wife, where
I just get her to.
You know, I put stuff that Ilike a favorite into my amazon
list and then that's things thatI need to buy and she knows
what to buy and what to buy.
So that's how I got the.
The stream deck pedal finallywas because that sat in my
stream, that sat in my list forthe last two years and I was
(08:50):
like, oh, there's something thathe wants, I'll buy that for him
you know what's left in my listat the moment, toby eye tracker
.
Oh my god, I want one of those I, I didn't.
Oh, that's awesome, I've hadthat is that is all the only
thing that's in my list.
I'm really hoping my wife picksup on the hint that I really
want that, like I've beenhanging off yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So my wife?
She won't do that.
She won't look at the list andsay, oh, he wants us, let me get
this.
She says I don't like that, I'mnot gonna buy it.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yes, really I've done because I can't.
Well, the only other thing Icould think of that I want at
the moment is to upgrade the,the flight stick stuff, but I
but I've done that twice thisyear.
So I, I, I don't know.
Or there's the you Smash theeye tracking, the double-edged
sword, but no, I want it for simgames, because I've been
(09:47):
playing so many sim games likethe Star Citizen, and then I'm
going to go back into drivingsim soon.
Apparently, the eye track isreally good for head tracking,
so when you're turning your headin the cockpit view, it shifts
the camera for you.
That's why I want the eyetracker not to show where I'm
looking, but more so to track myhead position, I guess.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Similar to what the camera does.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I keep saying tracking and the camera keeps
turning on and off its trackingat the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
When you get that eye tracker, your wife's going to
have you watch some TV and haveit on just to see where you're
looking.
You know that's what's going tohave you watch some tv and have
it on just to see where you'relooking.
You know, that's what's goingto happen so when I said I was
adding an eye tracker to my list, no, I'm not I don't, I don't
need that kind of stress well, Idid see we bring that up.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I did see someone do a tiktok the other day of them
to setting up the eye trackerand then bringing in their wife
to the computer and then showingthem different pictures.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, I've seen .
I've seen some videos like that.
You're just asking for trouble.
You just ask it because youdon't think that you looked at
something but you did, you did,you did.
They know it, you know it.
So I think if you get one andsomebody like goes to test, like
I'm going to look at this andthis and this, just so you know
(11:02):
I'm going to do that, so yeah,it's bad news.
And so the one thing that mykid the older one, who doesn't
ever give me lists says he wantsevery year because he's into
Fortnite, I want V-Bucks, that'sall he wants V-Bucks.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I'm the yearly thing.
Fortnite pass, vbucks.
Oh, I'm the I'm the yearlything fortnight pass thing.
Gives him like vbucks, givesyou vbucks the season pass and
like it's like a vip status, youcan buy a vip stat.
Like it's not just a fortnightpass and it's like the fortnight
package for a year yeah, youknow that's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He asked for that before and I went to set it up,
but it was giving me a hard timeentering a credit so 20, it's
like, I don't know, like 15bucks a month or something like
that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
But you could set it up.
I'm sure you could buy it as ayear and probably get it as a
discount.
You know that's a good ideathey get monthly vbucks, the
season pass, the battle passright, yeah, the battle pass.
Yep, the exclusive skins andstuff as well.
They get other bits and piecesthrough it that's not in the
battle pass and they don't haveto buy with vbucks, like
(12:03):
fortnight club maybe, I thinkit's called.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I don't know yeah, that's it the fortnight crew.
The fortnight crew, that's 12bucks a month.
I don't see anything about aannual, but you get.
You get a crew pack monthly,which is an exclusive bundle
which includes a new outfit, atleast one matching accessory.
You get battle pass.
You get a thousand vbucks everymonth and a few other, a few,
(12:28):
no, more questions for vbucks,that child sort of I don't see
anything about a annual one.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
There might be maybe they don't, maybe they don't do
annual one um I could.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's a good idea I hadn't, I hadn't thought of that
, thank you that's it, that'sokay, all right, I gotta mention
that kids ask yeah, kids areasking vbucks man for his
birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, I gave him like 50 bucks or whatever and I
threw it in his microsoftaccount, you know, so you could
buy stupid vbucks you know whatI find funny Is the bucks change
over the years as the kids getolder, like it's at one stage
it's all about the road box,yeah.
And then they get a little bitolder and it's about the V-Bucks
, and then I don't know what'safter that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I haven't found out what's after V-Bucks.
And then they get a job andit's about the real bucks.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
And then they ask their parents.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I don't make enough real bucks.
I need some of yours, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, my daughter is still out of bucks.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
She's so Digital versions of Nike shoes, All
right.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
So chat's saying my kid's got Nike shoes.
What, oh?
They can actually buy the oh.
What?
Oh man, that's crazy smash.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I didn't even know that was a thing, that's.
I hate the world sometimes whenI read shit like that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I haven't played fortnite in ages, so I wouldn't.
I wouldn't have a clue, butthat that would make me mad my
kids begging me.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Can you get me the skin?
Can you get me this skin?
I'm like he's like.
You know, when I get it a weeklater, I don't use that one
anymore.
I I hate you so oh, wow I don't, I don't, I don't know, man,
but yeah, so we got the tree.
Yeah, got that all set up.
Today we started doing chrisbuying some christmas gifts we
(14:13):
got the treats tomorrow and whenit comes to gifts, we, like a
lot of other people, use amazonreligiously.
Yeah, if the thing you wantisn't an amazon, I'm not gonna
buy it.
That's just.
It's just that simple.
If you link me to another sitein your amazon list, it's not
happening.
I'm not gonna go to anothersite and buy it, I'm buying it
(14:36):
on amazon.
And the other thing I dobecause I hate doing this is I
always choose the gift wrappedoption because I hate wrapping
gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yes, and the gift wrapped.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Now it's just a bag.
You know what?
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Here's your bag.
It's a Christmas bag, it's abasic Christmas bag, but that's
what my wife gets from me.
She doesn't mind wrapping, so Iget a nice wrapped gift, but my
wife gets whatever the shoppingcenter or Amazon can package.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yep, absolutely.
That's how I love giving people.
I don't care how many dollarsit costs.
If I'm in the mall and Ibrought stuff for Christmas and
there's people that are doingthe charity wrapping, damn
straight, you are wrapping everygift that I have on me because
I'm not doing shit.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I don't know who came up with the concept of wrapping
a gift, but I hope they burn inhell it's, is it me, or is it
just?
all males just suck at doingchristmas wrapping I think, yeah
, like my wife's, like she, like, a week or two before christmas
, she's like all right, yourkids are wherever we're gonna
sit and wrap all their gifts,and you know it's a thing that I
(15:39):
, I need to do.
But I do such a shit job at it,like and I'm not even like
trying to do a shit, shit job Ijust, I guess I just don't care
enough to like make sure it'sreally, really good.
I don't know.
Last year I I even went superspiteful mode and we were
running out of paper, so I tookbits and pieces of different
(15:59):
patterns that we had discardedand wrapped a gift in it, so it
had like five or six differenttypes of papers on it.
So yeah, yeah, yeah my wife.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
My wife always makes a comment about that.
She knows what gifts I wrapunder the tree, just because
they look like like ass yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, it's not my thing.
I detest doing it.
I don't like anything about it.
And there's the people.
You see, they do such abeautiful job and they put all
the bows and all this shit onand I'm like cool.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Fuck you.
Did you have nothing else to dothat?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
day or something.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
What is this?
A Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Fuck you Disappointed ?
Yeah, it's natural I was.
I was even doing that before.
I had kids like that.
I realized I might as well justbe a dad now, because I'm
already yelling at otherpeople's children.
You know, I'm walking somewhere.
I'm like I can't believe youwore that out of the house.
(17:00):
And they're like who are you?
You know, so that's what Ithat's what I do.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I was amazed.
The other day we had somethingto do with one of my daughters
who was going out for dinner orsomething.
She had a friend over and shewalked out of the room and she
goes is it all right if I wearthis to dinner?
I was like, as long as you feelcomfortable wearing clothes out
in public, that's the mainpoint.
But I was surprised that ateenage girl asked her father if
(17:28):
this is appropriate to wear todinner.
It was just a t-shirt and someshorts.
There was nothing inappropriateat all, but I'm like I was so
confused.
Usually the kids just wearwhatever they want and then
their mother says it's okay andthen I said they're gone.
No, you know where's the restof them?
Where's?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
the rest of the pants .
I always wanted to have adaughter and is the rest of the
pants.
I always wanted to have adaughter and I don't.
I have two boys, but I'm gladthat I don't now, because she
would hate me.
I would be so strict and yetI'd let the boy do whatever he
wants it's not that I'm tryingto be mean to her, it's just I
probably would be way toooverprotective, way too
(18:04):
overprotective I am.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I come down as the you know the big meaning,
because I say no to a lot ofthings, but that's because I'm
overprotective yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And there's this dynamic in my house where we
like to keep the boys safe, sowe do a lot of things, probably
give them, have made themdevelop anxiety because we worry
about a lot of things.
But there's this dynamic ofthey think my wife is not, the
is not the fun one, but I am thefun one right.
Yeah, I don't know how youswindled that true but what they
(18:35):
don't realize is usually whenshe tells them no, you can't do
this.
Yeah, she and I have alreadydiscussed it and she's just the
one that delivers the message.
And so she, she takes the heatfor that.
And I'm just sitting there.
I can't believe she said that.
No, but I don't do that.
But it's interesting the way itgoes.
And then whenever I do have toyell at them for something, they
(18:57):
always look at me like they'vebeen betrayed, like you're
supposed to be the cool guy,yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So Chad's saying having two daughters is is
frightening.
You have four, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So how are you still sane?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
well, I was gonna say two, that's rookies numbers.
You're gonna pump those numbersup.
I am barely hanging on, to behonest, barely hanging on.
Yes, the youngest is actuallyscaring me the most.
Moose is not increasing theirnumbers.
She's decided that's it.
Come on, moose, yeah, but insaying that, talking about
talking about boosting numbersthough, we'll be talking about
(19:37):
that next time we're we're live,I guess I got an interesting,
interesting topic to bring up,ben.
Yeah, interesting topic indeedyeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So, speaking of that, I'm running out of things, by
the way.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, I'm happy to wrap it up.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm glad you're editing this, so welcome
everybody.
So, for anybody who wasn't hereearlier when we started this,
nova and I, for the past 13months or so, have been doing a
podcast, as you can see on thescreen, called Dad Mode that's
released as 13 months or so,I've been doing a podcast, as
you can see on the screen,called Dad Mode that's released,
as you can see on the screen,every Tuesday.
It's just about any place thatyou can imagine where you can
download a podcast.
We also post it to YouTube andwe post a lot of clips.
(20:19):
Nova does now Posts a lot ofclips to.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I haven't posted any clips in a while.
I've just been uploading.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I haven't either.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Because we just weren't getting the return on
the time investment.
Now, now, now we got the app,now we got the app trailer.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Yeah, that's true, so anyway, so we just decided, two
weeks ago, or whatever it was,to start doing our recordings,
which are every friday on twitch, and so this is our second time
doing it and I think it's goingwell so far.
It's kind of fun having chathere, like giving us more things
to kind of talk about andcomment on during the course of
(20:53):
it.
I think it adds a littledimension to it, so that's cool.
I want more topics.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, I know you and I were talking about topics.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I know we swayed away from topics for a while and
then we come back to topics andthen we go a bit in and out, but
we like starting point topics,I guess yes, we like to have
that story or something we cantalk about for the first five
minutes and then that leads intowhatever else.
If you guys have ideas onthings you would like us to talk
questions parenting related,job related, whatever just from
(21:22):
a dad's perspective.
Yeah, we would love to to hearthat, so feel the fear to drop
it in chat Now.
Do it now.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Did it now.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We don't record every Friday, usually it's every
other.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
We're trying to do every other.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Right, because sometimes we get ahead.
We have a backlog of edits ofepisodes, so we're like we don't
need to record this week.
We haven't recorded since thelast week.
You know like, no, like wehaven't recorded since the last
time we were on twitch becausewe had so many extra episodes.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, you know, and it just it makes it hard to keep
recording when you've got toomuch of a backlog, because
anything you bring up is notgoing to be released for so much
longer.
And I think we did that when weoriginally started.
Yeah, we had lots of guests andthen we'd split the guest
episodes across multiple weeksand, jumping in One stage, I
think we were out for like threemonths worth of recordings and
(22:15):
we were still recording andwe're like, okay, we got to pump
out more than once a day.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We stopped like, yeah , we were way ahead at one point
, right, so we stopped for likea month and a half of recording
because you know it's it wasstupid to get to cheat back in
on those episodes.
I mean, every, whenever we talkabout something that's timely,
that changes the dynamic,everything goes like oh shit, we
got to get this out now, youknow, yeah yeah, no, but I I
think we will push for this tostay more to the fortnightly
(22:44):
schedule yeah, yes, moose.
Last time is when we talkedabout you in the cop car.
Um, you know, we should do it.
We should do an episode whenmoose calls in and just starts
telling us stories, you know,and then we'll just publish that
you know a lot of a lot ofwarnings on the, on the
(23:06):
disclaimers on the beginning ofthe episode, but it just doesn't
stop yeah, so also, if you, ifanyone, wants to be a guest on
the show, we would love to haveyou on, whether you're on camera
or just or just dialing in.
You know, on discord, no, novideo.
Whatever you guys want, we'dlove to have you.
Just let me, or bearded know.
(23:26):
Yeah, I want to go back to moreguests we have had well, a half
dozen guests or so.
We've had a great time with theguests.
Having guests it adds so such adifferent dimension to like in,
like a feel to the the episode.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
It's been a lot of fun having them smash a few
smash was one of the smash was agreat one.
Yeah yeah, smash was our firstand it was around this time of
year too.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It was.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
No, it was earlier, sorry, second time Smash came on
was Christmas, yeah, secondtime he did our Christmas gift
buying episode.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, we're talking about Christmas.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah, we're talking about Christmas gifts Smash and
then who else have we had overthe time?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Damn Daniel.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Damn Daniel.
We had Chillin' with Dev we hadover the time.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Damn, daniel, damn daniel.
We had chilling with dev, whowas probably on now killing it.
By the way.
Yeah, we had red rose sword,one of my favorite people.
And who else have we had?
Or am I?
I don't want to leave anyone.
Oh, we had m west west, didn'twe?
Um, who else did we have?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I feel like it's more we did a lot in the beginning.
We were like we wanted to havelike half episodes with a guest
and half without you know butand but we haven't had a guest
in in quite some time.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
No, no, we will all organize.
I'll start shooting messagesout and about to people.
Yeah, see what.
See what comes back to us itfun.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I think usually when we have a guest we do try to
keep it more of a parentingtopic, you know, and kind of
comparing notes, but it doesn'thave to be.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
It doesn't have to be Damn.
Daniel broke that barrier.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yes, he did.
Oh my god, he was so much fun.
He really was.
He's a fucking madman.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
He's a loose unit.
That guy really was he.
He's a fucking madman, he's aloose unit.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
That guy, yes, he's awesome, he's funny and he just
takes over it's.
It's, it's great britain, and Ican sort of sit back and just
let him.
Just let him go yeah, he justneeds.
He just needs to get his voiceout there for a bit it would be
chaos if you were here, mo Moose, but I think it'd be a good
chaos.
Maybe it might get our showbanned.
I don't know.
(25:32):
Maybe I can't wait to hearMoose story time.
If you're doing it on Sunday,that's going to be interesting.
Yeah, does it have?
It's not kids, can you?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
do Moose story time with MS Paint and quickly draw
the little scenes, as you justwould stick people, but that
would be.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Could you imagine if somebody like animated moose's
stories?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
yeah, that would be poorly way like.
I want it animated in a poorway, not like a not high-end
animation, I want it.
I want it like a teamu versionof disney, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
I mean like really poorly made ai like, if you
posted moose's story, could aimake make a short little
animation out of this?
Or, you know, like images youcould stick figure animation
like ms paint animation how doyou draw a stick figure pig?
I'm like oh wait, no, I get it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, you get, you can you can just just fake a
toilet, just make a toilet sign.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
People in animation that's all what you do.
Yeah, yeah, I want that moose.
You gotta, you gotta send me astory of one of yours in text so
I can put it in ai that's right, he did too, you did.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh, I did draw that.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
That was in my discord.
Oh wait, I can't change.
Oh shit, I almost changedscenes, which changes it,
because I'm pulling a camerafrom discord.
I have an art gallery section,I think in the discord.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think yeah not this discord, though I think it's
the other discord oh, is it theother one?
Maybe, maybe, no, no, no, no.
The other one has all theinappropriate pictures I've
requested over times.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
General chat baby.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
There it is.
This is what we're talkingabout.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
So when I used to do my show weekly, a couple times a
week, I had a reward that couldbe redeemed.
Where I would draw, it wascalled Art Show, where I would
draw whatever you want me todraw.
I am horrible, I would draw.
It was called art show, where Iwould draw whatever you want me
to draw.
I am horrible, I would draw.
Ms paint and moose once askedme to draw a picture of wild
(27:38):
moose.
Yeah, yeah, wild moose, a wildmoose, it's the best way to put
it inappropriate, but I did itbecause I'm a trooper and
obviously the Twitch channel isstill okay.
Oh, the other moose asked forit.
Yeah, okay, wow, asked for iton your behalf, I guess.
Okay, I've drawn some stuff.
I've drawn some stuff.
I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I think one of my favorite ones is you've drawn me
like one of those French girls.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Oh, did I, I don't even know.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
That was one of my first requests when you added
art show.
Was that one?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, I remember Goulet always used to hate it
because she actually does artand so she would just get so mad
watching me do whatever it isyou want to call it I do.
It was pretty bad, pretty bad.
But all right, I think we'regoing to wrap up.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Let's wrap it up.
Yeah, we Pretty bad, but Ithink I think we're going to
wrap up there, yeah, Iappreciate everybody hanging out
.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
You guys are awesome and we're going to try to do
this.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We're going to try to get our shit together and do it
every other week.
You've been listening to DadMode.
Our passion is navigating thiswild journey of parenthood and
modern life, from balancingfamily time to managing your
career and still squeezing insome gaming and content creation
.
And no matter what the womensay, they will never be able to
(29:00):
pry the controller out of ourcold dead hands.
Anyway, we hope you enjoyed theshow.
If you did, find us on Twitter,tiktok and YouTube at
DadModePodcast and we can befound on every podcast site at
DadModePodcast.
(29:20):
Y'all be cool.
See you next time.
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