April 30, 2025 • 42 mins
We dive into the world of barbecue season, sharing our experiences of selecting the perfect outdoor cooker and essential tips for successful grilling.
• Choosing the right barbecue – weighing up gas versus charcoal options
• Three essential barbecue hacks: herbs on coals for flavour, lemon and salt for cleaning, and baking soda to prevent rust
• Using your child's comfort toy (like Cecil the dog) as a negotiation tool for bedtime battles
• Experiencing the dreaded "Code Brown" bath time incident
• Visiting Dynamite Brewery, a hidden microbrewery under a viaduct in Cornwall
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- A code brown
- First BBQ of 2025
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
Welcome to First Look Gnomes your go-to podcast for
dads doing silly things.
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Join us as we dive into the whimsical world of the
know-it-all gnome.
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Share tips for dads explore thirsty firsts and, of
course, the dad jokes and thebad jokes.
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But, most importantly , we're here to share our first
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Don't forget to send in your feedback to our fish
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
At first look gnomes at outlookcom I start and I just
look at you with youranticipation in your face, going
oh, what's it gonna be, what'sit gonna be, get what's it going
to be Get the laughter right,Williams.
(00:49):
Just a small town gnome 11episodes in a podcast world.
He took the midnight traingoing anywhere.
Just a city boy Sing alongCraig Born and raised in
Wolverhampton.
He took the midnight traingoing anywhere.
(01:13):
Strangers waiting Up and downthe bottom of the garden, their
shadows parting into the night,street lights, people.
It's still going.
11, just another episode hidingsomewhere in the night.
(01:39):
Don't stop 11.
The ultimate episode.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, hey, bravo.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was longer than I planned.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I love the fact you said join in, but then sang a
new lyric that I'd never haveknown I was about to, and then
I'm glad I didn't, because Idon't think in the original song
they mentioned.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Do you not remember?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Born and Raised in Wolverhampton, I don't think the
original song said Born andRaised in Wolverhampton.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know.
We'll have to fact check that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
We'll have to fact check it.
I love the effort you put inthere.
And, ladies and gentlemen, he'snot even had a drink yet, so we
can only imagine what's goingto come.
Oh, you have.
Okay, I beg your pardon.
Well, maybe that explains a lot, but good effort, williams,
that was a.
That was a good one, I enjoyedthat how are you, mr you good?
I am okay.
Thank you for asking.
I uh, um, a little bit frazzledfrom the week that's just been,
(02:42):
yeah, frazzled.
You know, we get to the end ofthe week and you're like oh, um,
but I'm happy to be here.
I've got a beer, I've got a gin, I've got good company and I'm
looking forward to making thispodcast how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
oh, I'm good, I'm good, uh, I have my birthday
birthday.
Yes, yes many happy turns.
Thank you very much.
And not to brag.
Not to brag, but I have thisincredible talent for predicting
what's inside a wrapped present.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How do you do that, Walliams?
It's a gift Yay, yay, very nice.
Another year older, not anotheryear wiser, clearly.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I had a lovely birthday and Easter break my
birthday was actually theThursday and then I had the
Easter weekend.
Very good For Americanlisteners.
I don't think they get Easterweekend, do they, no?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So I work for an American company.
I work American time, so I didnot get either Good Friday or
Good Easter, easter monday oreaster tuesday so in northern
ireland, williams, I think wemay have mentioned this last
time.
It's been two years since wedid our easter special.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
um, but it's the we should have got braiding on for
an easter special well, maybe hecan come back for a summer
special this year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the over here they celebrate.
They have good friday, eastermonday and easter tuesday.
So, depending on um many things, some people have the friday,
the monday, some people have themonday and tuesday.
I told my american um workcolleagues this while we were
working my wife was off and shehad been for a few days and they
(04:20):
uh, yeah, they question theirlife choices, as did I, to be
honest.
But yeah, happy Easter toeverybody and congratulations on
turning another year older,william.
You look younger, though youlook younger.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Thank you.
Oh, yes, it's the beer Notrecommended for other people.
Yeah, had a nice family weekend.
Spent it with the parents, thewife, the son, my sister and our
kids and my nephew.
So my nephew is four years oldand he's been learning Spanish
(04:59):
all year.
Jack, four years old and hestill can't say the word please,
which I think is poor for four.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That might be your best one, yet I don't like that.
One poor for four.
As soon as you start, it's likeoh Jack, oh, hang on.
No, he's setting up for a jokehere, setting up for a joke.
Can we also mention not a joke,joke jack is possibly the best
four-year-old dancer oh, yes, heis.
Yeah, he's got some moves thatkid can move, like there are
(05:36):
kids who can dance and thenthere's jack it's like there's
some videos from the weddingcelebration, isn't there?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
oh, he was incredible yeah, and can we mention that
our kids.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So our kids uh, my kid and your niece have become
pen pals.
Pen pals isn't?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
it nice that she'd have still have pen pals as a
thing oh, brainer loves it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he's really happy he's.
Yeah, he wants to try and play,cool though he's like yeah,
yeah, I gotta write, got towrite.
Oh, yeah, I've got to write toa girl.
What are you going to talkabout?
I don't want to say somethingstupid, dad.
I'm like well, what do you wantto say?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I don't know, I don't know what are you going to say
about some of the shows?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
you've been watching.
No, I can't possibly tell herabout any of the shows I'm
watching.
It's embarrassing.
Alright, you think about whatyou want to say.
I don't know what to say, butit's hilarious to watch oh,
bless you, but he's uh, that'scool he's put a lot of thought
into it.
It's very cute.
We can recommend any parentswho have got kids.
They should encourage them towrite letters from my birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I asked for, um, I asked my niece to write a story
and, uh, my nephew to draw theillustration.
The story was one page long.
Well, when I say a page, youknow one of those sort of small
kids pages like the size of apostcard sort of thing, this
(06:58):
whole story on this one page.
It's about a cookie, of course,and there's so many plot twists
and turns and you're just leftasking questions at the end.
Really clever, just for like ana a postcard size story.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
really good, um, but the story didn't crumble apart
oh dear, leave the jokes to me Iwill jokes.
You'll want to get angry withthat.
Leave the jokes to him Allright, I'll leave the jokes to
him, sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, my place, yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, I'm glad you had a good time.
The kids are awesome.
I'm glad you were there withyour mum and dad and the wife
and your sister, and everyonehad a good time.
Many happy returns from all ofus.
At first look knows, williams,thank you um.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So yeah, we're um episode 11 um, which I hinted at
in my little song earlier, umcan I just ask, can I go back to
the song?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
yeah, so, journey, don't stop believing what?
How did you get to 11 from that?
Tell us the thought process.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm always interested in this creativity Because it
had the believing the 11.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
11.
, 11.
11.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Merges together, become one.
I struggled.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It was genius.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I was clutching at straws, to be honest, with that
one.
Um, do you want to go straightinto your first?
Look, mitogis, I'm sorry, I wasexplaining.
I was explaining this ourpenultimate episode.
Series 11, episode 11.
Series 11 gosh, can youremember?
Can you imagine one day?
Series 11?
Um, episode 11.
(08:47):
Series 3 um, it's thepenultimate episode, so we're uh
, we're going to finish up nextepisode to have a little refresh
before we come back bigger,stronger, more drunk in series
four did you put any polls out?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
because we were questioning.
If memory serves correct, wewere questioning some of the
features in this podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I did put a poll out, which we'll find out in another
episode, the Fishponderfeedback.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh, very good, I look forward to that next episode
then.
Okay, cool, that's a tease.
A little tease for episode 12.
I can go into my first lookthen, won't I Please?
Yeah, please.
So it's a first look and thenafter it I'm going to follow it
up with some tips for dads.
But this week I'm gonna talkabout because we've had a bit of
(09:42):
a heat wave and we've got.
Well, we did.
Yeah, I don't know if you didover there, but we had a bit of
a.
We had, we had a spell of 22degree weather um, we did yeah,
a prolonged period for about aweek, where it was warm and
sunny, which meant barbecues,even though it's only april, we
(10:02):
got into barbecue season.
So we um, as we've discussed inprevious episodes, have
recently moved house and wedecided this was the year to oh,
maybe we'll get a nice likebarbecue, because we've always
been the kind of disposablebarbecues are like okay.
So this, this, which many ofour listeners will know, yeah,
(10:24):
it's, it's treacherous out there.
What do I go for?
Do I go for a big barrel?
Do I go for a gas burner?
Do I go for one that's gotcharcoal and gas?
How do I use gas?
Am I going to blow the house up?
How do I get those egg ones?
You can get those egg ones now,yeah, and then you're like, oh,
is a barbecue even, is it evenfashionable anymore, or do you
(10:46):
just need, like, outdoor pizzaovens and all this kind of stuff
?
So I actually reached out toone of our regular listeners,
who is a man, who is a goodbarbecuer.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He's a man, he's a proper man.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And he's always been good on the barbecue.
He would take control and youknew your stuff was always going
to be cooked properly.
You weren't going to have pinkin the middle burnt on the
outside.
So I was like, what do you do?
So I reached out to said friendfor advice and he has embraced
gas.
(11:22):
He said he misses the charcoal,he misses the process of getting
the coals ready, but forconvenience, and like quickness
of speed and stuff, he'sembraced gas.
So of course we went forcharcoal.
Our choice Just to be different.
Actually, it wasn't to bedifferent, it was just.
B&q had an offer for B&Qmembers and I just was like, oh,
(11:44):
that'll do, that's nice, butit's been good.
It's been good to.
It was nice to be able to getthe barbecue out Now again, this
is northern ireland, so that'show summer done now.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So it's back in the garage and with a gas barbecue.
Now you can get wood chippings.
Put the wood chippings in soyou can get that sort of smoky
effect.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Best of best, yeah yeah, I saw one of those.
Um, what we actually decidedwas we would like to.
So a couple of years ago wewere very lucky.
We went to um mallorca on afamily holiday and the villa we
stayed in had a big brick builtbarbecue, like a mediterranean
barbecue with a chimney, and Isaw one of these.
(12:26):
When I was researching andlooking, I saw one of these
things.
I thought in the next couple ofyears we're hoping to landscape
the garden.
Let's build something like thatinto our um, our gardens on a
hill, so like we can dig someland away and build a problem.
So, oh, cool.
So I thought you know what?
There's no point me spendingmoney on like a good gas
(12:46):
barbecue that's going to last 20years, when maybe in a few
years time I'm going to want tobuild a brick one.
So we just we just went for thekind of that one's an offer,
charcoal one, uh, but it's, it'sgood.
And I don't know about you,williams, but I do love a
barbecue.
I don't know why, because likeit's a bit of effort, but
there's just something aboutbeing outside having a beer,
(13:08):
cooking food.
That's just fun.
I don't know if it's justtribal or I don't know, just man
food fire meat man food, firemeat beer.
I control this.
This is my domain but yeah wegot a first look at it, and long
(13:28):
.
I hope that you Alliums and allof our listeners get many looks
at barbecues over the nextseveral months.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One of my favourite having a kid.
Now I watch lots of differentshows, and one of them's Bluey.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And one of the early episodes.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
There's an episode about barbecue and bingos, the
playing barbecue whilst theparents are in the barbecue.
Okay, bingo, bingo sort ofkeeps getting all the salad
stuff whilst bluey's at thebarbecue uh-huh and then, um,
bingo gets really stressedbecause she's doing all this
(14:09):
work getting all the differentsalad pieces together, and then,
um, no one.
Then then they have to thefamily barbecue, the parents,
and everyone's like to the dadokay, well done, way well done,
dad, for doing amazing barbecue.
But then the mom's like, oh, ohyou don't make friends with
(14:31):
salad.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You don't make friends with salad.
You don't make friends withsalad.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But then bingo is like someone say thank you for
the salad, something along thoselines.
I haven't seen it for a while,but the people that make the
salad are important as well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
They are.
But also, let's be honest,Walliams Does anybody want salad
at a barbecue?
Like, if you want, if you cometo a barbecue and you're asking
Corn on the cob's, nice with abarbecue.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Corn on the cob's, not salad, though.
Yes well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I'll tell you why.
Corn on the cob isn't salad.
So we would cook corn on thecob and sweet potatoes, but we'd
wrap them in the food and shovethem in the coals yes, actually
, yeah you can't put salad onthe barbecue alliums nobody
wants crispy lettuce you know,nobody's making that kind of
demand.
Um, so lettuce doesn't go on abarbecue.
(15:24):
Lettuce is something that goesin the fridge.
If you're having a barbecue,you know you, you got.
Yeah, I don't know.
You're going for the fish andthe chicken and the burgers and
the sausages.
Well, the good thing aboutbrick ones as well, again.
So said friend, who we'retalking about, when we were
younger, like you know, 17, 18,19, I remember he had a brick
one he's got.
It's just so easy, it's justthere.
(15:46):
You just like you know, you justgo and use it, you don't need
to wheel it out.
You don't need to wheel it out,you don't need to store it
anywhere, it's bricks.
So you just need to, you know.
Yeah, it's a cracking idea,nice, but what do you like on a
barbecue, al?
What's your go-to?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
My go-to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Do you like a steak?
Are you a proper man or do youjust like give me a burger?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
A bit of sausage.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
A sausage.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
My dad.
Most often when we're at abarbecue it's at dad's.
And yeah, chicken sausagethey're the main goatee Like a
chicken, you know just a bitmore primal, isn't it when you
get a bit of chicken.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Chicken on the bone, there's just certain men who are
just made for that kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They're men-men, and then there's us.
Well, you say that when we tryto be, we try to be.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well, listen to this.
This may have helped my causeto pretend.
I mean.
Look at my name on the podcasttoday.
It actually says Manly man.
Manly man, yeah, I mean, Ichristened that myself.
Manny man, I mean, I christenedthat myself, it's not
necessarily true.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's the thing.
So the men that we know in ourlives?
Would they title themselvesManny man?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's true.
Yeah, good point, good pointwell made.
Yeah, you're right, yeah, okay,and I'm going to.
I said this may either help myargument or hinder it I think we
already know the answer to thisone.
I have some tips for dads forbarbecues.
Tips for dads Tips for dadsTips for dads.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Get your tips out for the dads.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
These are things that I would do and I've learned
over the years, and actually thethree that I've written down.
They're not really very manlymanly tips.
They're not like oh, when youhave a barbecue, put your hand
on it and brand yourself becauseyou're so manly.
They're a lot weaker, but theyare genuine.
I find these to be really goodtips.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Hit me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So number one right.
Sometimes you're just in a bitof a rush and sometimes you may
not have time to make your ownburgers and you just have to go
and get burgers or something.
You might think, oh, it's a bitplain to.
I want to be a bit morerazzmatazz, I want to add some
flavor to stuff.
One of the one of the a bit ofa cheap trick burgers before we
before?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
yeah, sorry, just talking about burgers and I've
got burgers in my head now.
Um, don't you?
Don't you love both a good,solid, expensive, premium burger
and a really cheap burger,depending on your mood?
I really like both of them,yeah, or are you just a premium
(18:20):
man?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No, we would generally be for barbecues that
make our own kind of people.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I mean if you're out and about and you find an old
van that's doing just cheapburgers with loads of fried
onions, where there's more oilthan there is onion.
I feel they both have a place.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I love them all.
I just love a burger full stop.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Are you allowed burgers?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I haven't had a burger no joke.
I haven't had a beef burger forprobably three years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's been a long time what you've had it since we
started podcasting.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, probably since before that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
If you remember, episode one was kidney stones,
so kidney stones just as arefresher.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What were the things?
Reduce your salt, drink plentyof water and reduce your red
meat.
What are burgers?
Mostly salt your red meat.
What are burgers?
Mostly salt, mostly mostly redmeat and obviously with
gallstones as well.
It's like the cheap burgerswell, cheap burgers they're like
usually, like maybe 20.
There's some sort of fat maybenot yeah, but yeah I'll probably
(19:27):
not do myself any harm by nothaving beef burgers regularly,
to be honest, but no, anyway,some tips for burgers.
Sorry, tips for burgers.
If you want to add a bit offlavor to all your food without
having to season it and stuff,get some mixed herbs and throw
them on the coals.
Once the coals are hot On thecoals themselves On the coals.
(19:48):
Throw some rosemary, some thymesage, maybe Once you're cooking
I you're like, I don't know,maybe 10 minutes away from
serving throw some on the coalsand it will infuse, infuse the
meat with some of the herbyscent and flavors.
Yeah, that's a good tip, um wehave another tip it's not very
manly.
I don't think that is a verymanly tip.
(20:09):
That's very, it's a.
It's a I don't know.
It's a bit manly tip.
That's very, it's a.
It's a I don't know, it's a bitGordon Ramsay.
It's like most men would be likewhat he wants time, and
Rosemary like that.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He should pour the beef fat on the coals.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, that's it Pour some burgers on the coals.
The blood from the cow pour iton more raw cow, more bone, less
herb, which sounds like itcould be a brand, like a slogan
for a brand more cow, less herbfor men who want real meat.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The next tip is really very manly, Willem, it's
very manly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It's like when you it's hard because you just want
to.
Once you've cooked the barbecue, you just let it sit there, but
don't you want to clean itwhile it's a bit warm.
You want to get the gunk asmuch of the gunk off while it's
warm as you can here's a goodtip for you, williams see, if
you've got like grills and wireracks, a lemon.
Cut a lemon in half wells, dipit in some sea salt I've got a
(21:07):
lemon tree you've got a lemontree, now right to get.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So get one of them.
Lemons, cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But when they're here , when they grow cut the lemon
in half, dip it in some sea saltand just rub it up and down
While it's still warm.
Rub it up and down the grill.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
The lemon.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The lemon, yeah, with the salt on it.
Rub the lemon on the rack onthe grill where you've had the
meat, and stuff.
All the meat will just come offall the like bitty meat so you
use the lemon as like a cloth asa cloth to clean it.
Yeah, ah, that's a good tip witha bit of salt on it, just like
coarse salt, like sea salt.
Rub it once it's still warm.
(21:44):
When it's still warm, rub thatup and down.
All the crappy bits of meatthat would otherwise, just, you
know, bake in they'll come offstraight away and then like when
you actually clean it with somewater all the.
It's a lot easier.
You don't have to use any harshchemicals that's actually two
very good tips okay, well, I'vegot a third one yeah, I mean,
should we stop there?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
don't know.
This is a good one, okay okay,this is probably the most
important one okay when you havelike a good barbecue, like we.
We bought a nice.
It's not the most expensive,but it's nice.
I'm going to look after itbecause I'm going to have to use
it for a good few seasons.
Right, If you keep it under acover outside?
I don't particularly likecovers, but sometimes you have
to keep it under a cover.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No, I hate covers, but there's still, mine keeps
blowing off.
No, mine keeps blowing off andit's all rusted now and it's
like what's the only point?
Putting it back on by puttingit back on?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
well, this is how you do.
When you get a new one right,you can keep a cover on, but to
stop it getting rusted, put abowl of baking soda inside the
barbecue, because that'll absorba lot of the moisture and the
stuff it rusted in another goodtip.
There you go, you see.
Not just a pretty face, notvery tips.
There are three good tips thereyeah, those are tips we've kind
of learned over the years and,you know, help us keep our
(22:54):
barbecues well.
So yeah, tips for dadsbarbecues good so yeah and
here's to barbecue season.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Wells, may there be many sunshiny days ahead, I hope
so I think it was as if lastyear, the year before, but we
had a summer of.
In the week I'm sat at my desk,sun shining 20 odd degrees,
friday five o'clock, rain untillike sunday night, and then
(23:25):
it'll be sunny again for theweek, and that was almost every
week for the summer and it wasso annoying that's depressive
yeah, but could be worse.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It could have ran the whole time, not just when, at
least when you're at work andyou can look outside from your
shop office yeah, yes, that isnice actually, I'm very lucky
from the bottom of the gardenfrom the bottom of the garden
the first nights I tend to putmy boy to bed, but he's just
over two now, so he's well, he'sbeing a two year old.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
every time you learn a trick to get him to sleep, he
changes the rules no differenthere, and we had and he talks.
So it's quite a few words now,but he was very much in charge.
(24:18):
I thought I could negotiatewith him, so I started
negotiations.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
With your two-year-old.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And then quickly found myself and him lying on
the floor together and thenthere's lots of crying that,
because it wasn't the books hewanted, um ended up in his bed
and then out of his bed and theback in his bed and out of his
bed, and then all these storiesthat he's apparently been
telling his mum.
(24:49):
They once no, don't read thoseread.
I'm going to read those of Dada, because there's certain books
no, they're Dada books, yeah,they're Dada books, ones like
the pigeon books.
We call them the train books,the Dada books, and no, dada
books On the day, all right, andthe pigeon books.
(25:12):
They're quite fun to read.
So I'm like cool, right, pigeonbooks, logan.
No, mama, but you want to readthese with me?
No, mama, right, okay, andthings like that went on for
ages and ages.
But the tip is so most kidsthey have like a, their safety
(25:35):
blanket or their, their specialtoy, wherever um logan's is.
Uh, well, to begin with wedidn't think it would be his
go-to toy, but it's become his,his favorite.
Yeah, um, which we we named atthe time Cecil.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So great name for a toy, cecil.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cecil, the little sort of dog blanky thing he's,
you know he's the go-to, youknow, when he's feeling
emotional, cecil's his comfort,um and um.
Yeah, if your child is notdoing um, what you want them to
do, just embrace, embrace theCecil or whatever your, your
kid's got and um, become theCecil, um and um, get Cecil to
(26:22):
tell him what to do.
And if Cecil wants to do it,then you know Logan's like, oh
really, but because Cecil wantsto do it.
So, oh, cecil wants this book.
The book.
You literally were saying no,no, no to, and crying oh, cecil
wants to read it.
Oh, yes, we'll read that then,because Cecil wants to read the
book.
Oh, cecil wants to go to sleep,okay, so yeah.
(26:46):
So the tip is use your Cecil toget your kids to go to bed so
what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
one of them is manipulate your children, that's
really is that is that whatyou're trying to say?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I did try negotiation and then yeah, but he's at such
a lovely age where I don't knowin his world he must.
He's not quite at the got tothat point of oh, dad's tricking
me here.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, he's not quite at the point of oh dad's
tricking me here yes, he's atthat point of Cecil actually
wants to do this.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
He's the best thing ever.
We'll do it.
It's a great tip, you're notalone.
We've all done it as well yeahthat is a great tip, though, and
so often like ever since he wasvery little he'd wake up in the
night or you're watching whenthe monitor he grabs Cecil and
(27:35):
Cecil does all the hard worknice, cecil's there and he
comforts him and then, posh, hegoes back to sleep as a result.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So here's to Cecil yeah, be a Cecil.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Trust in Cecil.
Get yourself a Cecil trust inCecil.
Get yourself a Cecil if youhaven't got one.
That's my tip.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It's a great tip.
There's a lot of parents, Iimagine, who have been in that
situation where they're justtrying to like oh just, it's the
end of the day.
You're knackered anyway, likebedtime's a chore.
I know it's lovely to spendtime with them, especially when
they're well-behaved.
You walk out thinking oh, thatwas just so precious, such a
(28:15):
precious memory.
It's so lovely.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But then there's other times you're like he's
gonna sleep.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So like there there is um, the end of the day is
hard.
So any tips to just make thatmore peaceful for the child, but
also to let you get to kind oflike and I'm off.
Um, I'm sure I'll be wellreceived.
Be the Cecil Great tip Williams.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Be the Cecil.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
First looks.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
First look.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What you got for us, Wells.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
So I said are we recording?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Are we recording?
We have recorded before and notrecorded.
Yeah, I know Usually the onesthat we haven't recorded are
usually the best episodes too.
I mean, in our opinion, we haveno proof because, no one's ever
heard them.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That episode we didn't record was the funniest
episode ever.
We had a good time.
I can't remember what we weredoing apart from just crying and
laughing, yeah, lots oflaughter.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's what it's all about.
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
First look, First look.
So we were quite lucky.
A lot of parents have thisprobably a lot earlier on, but
we only had this fairly recentlyBath time we were both upstairs
(29:26):
and the wife was with Logan inthe bathroom also having the
bath, and we had our first.
Sorry, just check, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Oh no, sorry, I'll be quiet Ifyou say what I think you're
going to say.
I'm like puke I don't know mywhat Puke.
If you tell me what you'regoing to say, I'm hoping it's
not that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh, we had our first Code Brown.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh no, Not the Code Brown.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
We had our first.
Code Brown no thank you, ohshit water.
No thanks, oh Logan, no needfor that son Get water.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
No thanks, Whoa Slogan, no need for that son,
the many years I've known you,the things that you talk about,
and that's something thatcrosses you out.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I could sense that coming.
I was like no, he's going totalk about poop in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Code brown code brown Code brown.
I was just in the other roomnext door to talk about poop in
the bathroom Code brown codebrown Code brown.
And so, yeah, I was just in theother room next door and then I
can't quite remember it now,but the wife just started, oh,
oh, oh, oh.
And I go in and she's got himsort of up and out and I don't
(30:48):
know if it's like what werethose?
I can't remember the cool, butthere's like there's old toys
you'd have that you put in waterand then they expand these bits
of poo.
They were bigger than him, theyjust expanded in the water and
they were like proper proper bighuman size.
(31:10):
Um, yeah, so then, um, so I gothim out, washed and then I
played with him and, uh, georgie, and he had all his toys, so he
had to obviously get rid of thepoo, so a lot of it you could
just chuck in the toilet andyeah, obviously we had sort of
(31:43):
heavily in disaffect all thetoys that were hidden with him,
particles and yeah, we had Showme all the dishwasher.
Yeah, put a lot in thedishwasher and yeah, gave the
bathroom a thorough clean, butalso, at the same time, try to
because you don't want to sortof go.
You don't want him to go.
(32:04):
Oh no, I've had a poo or I'vedone something really bad, so
it's all very, but he knewsomething was going on.
But yeah, we're trying to asmuch as possible go just a
normal day.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's such a bad situation when it happens.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but our first co-brow bless him.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I wonder what Walliams has seen on TV.
I wonder if he's going to talkabout.
You know what Walliams willtalk about this week?
He'll probably talk about whathe did for his birthday, what he
had for food no shit in thebath my main take was how he
expanded in the water.
(32:47):
I don't know.
Does it expand?
Or the main takeaway was how itexpanded in the water?
Yeah, I don't know.
Does?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
it expand, or did he?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
just do a really massive poo.
I don't know, you thought itexpanded because you were
probably thinking there's no waythat could have.
There's no way someone thatsmall can make something that
big out of that tinier hole.
But there it comes.
There it is oh there, it isthere, it is, there, it is shaka
, laka, shaka, laka sorry that'shilarious.
(33:16):
It happens again, much likeCecil.
It happens to us all.
You just have to get on with it, not terrify your child and
traumatise him not fun.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm not quite ready for a thirsty first, but this is
a different thirsty firstsegment today okay so, um, it's
another first look.
Um, I went to link to mybirthday because he said you
know, I thought you know kirkbrown couldn't resist not
talking about kirk brown it wasvery funny but I went to uh
(33:53):
dynamite brewery, so it's alittle microbrewery in cornwall
very nice which I went to um, sothe, the wife and wife dropped
uh, me and my friend pete off umand it's sort of under a
viaduct.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, hang on a sec.
Hang on, you've got otherfriends that aren't me.
What, what.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, just one of them.
Who's?
This Pete who is he Pete?
Pete, he's the I don't like him.
He's the husband of the one inthe book that you bought, the
present for at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Oh no, I do like Pete , he bought you beer, a Santa
present for the?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, yes, yes, all right, fair enough, we like Pete
.
Okay, I'll take that back.
Yeah, so it's, yeah, middle ofnowhere under a viaduct, and
you're going down this sort ofstony that's class Stony, I
wouldn't even say a road just aDown into a Just a path Path,
yeah.
And you get into the bottom andthere's like an abandoned
(34:56):
caravan and things like thatShopping trolley.
Because I'm watching Sopranosat the moment, I'm thinking, oh
no, this is a place where youtake someone and pop them in the
head and bury them.
You're thinking Craig was rightabout that.
No, this is a place where youtake someone and pop them in the
head and bury them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You're thinking Craig was right about that.
Pete, he's going to do me here.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I was like, oh, he's paid him, yeah, wife's
paid him for it, yeah, she'sfound out about the life of
drugs and I hope she's notlistening.
And yeah, then you turn thecorner and it's not much better.
It's just it looks like anabandoned warehouse.
(35:36):
Okay, okay, all right, okay,good recommendation, pete.
Yeah, go, it's all closed upbecause it's not as there's like
some benches outside, but it'sall closed up Because it's not
as there's some benches outside,but it's all closed up.
It's not always even open.
And luckily the wife said I'llstay here to see if you get in.
(35:58):
I'm thinking, oh, she's goingto drive off.
We're just stuck in this random,random abandoned place under a
viaduct.
Then we go in and it is.
It's a micro brewery andthey've got like a a little
makeshift bar there with a fewdifferent beers on tap obviously
what they're brewing, um, and,yeah, various tables and stuff
(36:22):
and a little fridge for stuffthat's not on tap.
If I cans off, and it's great,a proper bearded man like myself
just can sit down have a nicefresh beer in the microbrewery.
Dynamite brewery, good beers,recommend them.
Um, then also I was like, right, I didn't have lunch
(36:43):
microbrewery.
They have this chap calledlucky rod, lucky rod pizzas.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, lucky rod's pizzas.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, Lucky Rod's pizzas.
Lovely.
Have a pizza on down there In abrewery.
When you get there at halftwelve and you're going to stay
there all day, you want somefood.
You need to eat Lucky Rod'spizza.
Oven broke no.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Not so lucky was he.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Unlucky Rod.
Unlucky Rod, no, not so luckywas he.
Oh, unlucky rod, unlucky rod,um also was quite funny that the
section of where his pizza inplace is it's all boarded up.
But it's all boarded up incardboard okay, which I thought
was a bit funny, but you knowluckyammable, but you know,
lucky rod, what can go wrong,but yeah, but I had a lovely day
(37:33):
Managed to actually gettakeaway delivered, so I got
some takeaway there and dranksome beers at the microbrewery.
So that's Dynamite Brewery.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Can I ask two questions?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
And I would recommend any check out your
microbreweries.
You know pubs are dying off butMicah Breweries go straight to
the source.
Lots of Micah Breweries now arehosting and selling their beer
in that actual Micah Brewery.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
So Micah Breweries.
Excellent.
I have a couple of questions.
Sure, With an observation.
This is probably the firstpodcast in a while we haven't
mentioned the White Rock Brewery.
We're still waiting forsponsorship.
Can you please send me somemore magazines?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm having to drink something else today yes, but I
still need my first look at thewhite water raft but yes, it
that does the microbrewery thing.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Is true, we should, we should embrace the
microbreweries.
So two things was yourexperience heightened by once
you got in there you're like I'mnot gonna die so instantly.
It was better because you werelike I've survived getting here
and no one shot me I've gotthrough the car part.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's not a car part, it's yeah so did that add to the
experience?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
or would the experience if there hadn't been
such a treacherous trek to saidmicrobrewery?
Would it still have been asgood?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
well, yeah, I mean well, yeah, it's all part of the
ambience.
Actually it's all part of the,because a lot of pubs are dying,
but a lot of pubs are in placeswhere you know there seems to
be transportation there or youknow you can walk there, whereas
this seems to be literally inthe middle of nowhere.
How on earth, obviously, itmakes money from brewing, but
(39:08):
seems to be literally in themiddle of nowhere.
How on earth, obviously, itmakes money from brewing, but it
was quite busy as a pub, assomewhere to actually sit and
drink as well.
But, yeah, I think it's acertain because a lot of people
like their comfort and a bit ofclass.
(39:29):
Most people should say do Isometimes?
But this was an abandonedwarehouse.
A lot of people like theircomfort and a bit of class, but,
um, what's the worst advicesometimes?
But this was an abandonedwarehouse with a brewery inside
and the pub is literally just um, you know, someone got a few
pallets together and a few bitsof wood and a bit of um, uh,
what's that reefing called?
Uh, because you see,corrugatedrugated steel.
Yeah, that just sort of bunkedon top and turned into a little
(39:52):
pub.
Little pumps, three or fourpumps.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It sounds nice.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah.
And was the beer good, it wasgood beer.
And can we?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
let people into a secret about, because you told
me about this brewery and it'sgood value.
Should we just leave it at that?
It's good value.
Should we just leave out thatit's good value?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
beer as well dynamite yeah yes, yes, well, um, yeah,
what I told you is about theyhad, yeah, 24 cans of 24 pound,
which I thought was quite good apound a can of fresh micro
brewery beer is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I I bought, so we went to the local.
There's a independent beer shopin um on the lisbon road here
and they sell all kind of microbrewery beer and you can
sometimes be paying six pound,fifty for one.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, it's like a can for like yeah, that's not even
am.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah that's a pound.
A can is unbelievable.
What they call Williams, giveme a shout out.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Dynamite Brewery boom .
Boom because?
Because I learnt that under theviaduct that's where they used
to create dynamite for the mines.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
They were called Schmiding well, here we go,
williams, I'm going to come fora field trip to Cornwall and
you're going to take me toDynamite Brewery.
You're going to come for afield trip to Northern Ireland
and I'm going to take you to theWhite Rock Brewery.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Lovely.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That's what we'll do.
This summer, when we're not onair, we'll both have our first
look to report back.
We will, and we'll do this.
Trips booked in hmm, soundsgood.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Let's finish this episode off for the final
episode, shall we?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I don't want to finish it because that means
we're closer to the end and Ilove doing the podcast.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
It means I'm drinking beer and chatting with my mate
well, I'll cheer you up with alittle dad joke, shall I?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
please.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I um well, it's actually not that funny.
So I went to.
I went to the doctors.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Are any of your jokes funny?
I like them.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I went.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
No, I mean, this is a serious topic now oh, beg your
pardon, sorry, I'm not doing badjokes, it's a serious topic.
I'll get serious.
I'll get serious, seriousserious.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I went to.
I went to the doctors oh, flipme okay yeah, and they.
Well, the doctor said to me,I'm afraid to say your, to say
your, um, your dna is, uh, isbackwards.
So I said and see you for thefinal episode in a couple weeks,
(42:20):
everyone bye everybody, bye Bye.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
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It's still going.
11, just another episode hidingsomewhere in the night.
(01:39):
Don't stop 11.
The ultimate episode.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, hey, bravo.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was longer than I planned.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I love the fact you said join in, but then sang a
new lyric that I'd never haveknown I was about to, and then
I'm glad I didn't, because Idon't think in the original song
they mentioned.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Do you not remember?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Born and Raised in Wolverhampton, I don't think the
original song said Born andRaised in Wolverhampton.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I don't know.
We'll have to fact check that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
We'll have to fact check it.
I love the effort you put inthere.
And, ladies and gentlemen, he'snot even had a drink yet, so we
can only imagine what's goingto come.
Oh, you have.
Okay, I beg your pardon.
Well, maybe that explains a lot, but good effort, williams,
that was a.
That was a good one, I enjoyedthat how are you, mr you good?
I am okay.
Thank you for asking.
I uh, um, a little bit frazzledfrom the week that's just been,
(02:42):
yeah, frazzled.
You know, we get to the end ofthe week and you're like oh, um,
but I'm happy to be here.
I've got a beer, I've got a gin, I've got good company and I'm
looking forward to making thispodcast how are you?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
oh, I'm good, I'm good, uh, I have my birthday
birthday.
Yes, yes many happy turns.
Thank you very much.
And not to brag.
Not to brag, but I have thisincredible talent for predicting
what's inside a wrapped present.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
How do you do that, Walliams?
It's a gift Yay, yay, very nice.
Another year older, not anotheryear wiser, clearly.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I had a lovely birthday and Easter break my
birthday was actually theThursday and then I had the
Easter weekend.
Very good For Americanlisteners.
I don't think they get Easterweekend, do they, no?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
So I work for an American company.
I work American time, so I didnot get either Good Friday or
Good Easter, easter monday oreaster tuesday so in northern
ireland, williams, I think wemay have mentioned this last
time.
It's been two years since wedid our easter special.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
um, but it's the we should have got braiding on for
an easter special well, maybe hecan come back for a summer
special this year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the over here they celebrate.
They have good friday, eastermonday and easter tuesday.
So, depending on um many things, some people have the friday,
the monday, some people have themonday and tuesday.
I told my american um workcolleagues this while we were
working my wife was off and shehad been for a few days and they
(04:20):
uh, yeah, they question theirlife choices, as did I, to be
honest.
But yeah, happy Easter toeverybody and congratulations on
turning another year older,william.
You look younger, though youlook younger.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Thank you.
Oh, yes, it's the beer Notrecommended for other people.
Yeah, had a nice family weekend.
Spent it with the parents, thewife, the son, my sister and our
kids and my nephew.
So my nephew is four years oldand he's been learning Spanish
(04:59):
all year.
Jack, four years old and hestill can't say the word please,
which I think is poor for four.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That might be your best one, yet I don't like that.
One poor for four.
As soon as you start, it's likeoh Jack, oh, hang on.
No, he's setting up for a jokehere, setting up for a joke.
Can we also mention not a joke,joke jack is possibly the best
four-year-old dancer oh, yes, heis.
Yeah, he's got some moves thatkid can move, like there are
(05:36):
kids who can dance and thenthere's jack it's like there's
some videos from the weddingcelebration, isn't there?
Speaker 2 (05:41):
oh, he was incredible yeah, and can we mention that
our kids.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So our kids uh, my kid and your niece have become
pen pals.
Pen pals isn't?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
it nice that she'd have still have pen pals as a
thing oh, brainer loves it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, he's really happy he's.
Yeah, he wants to try and play,cool though he's like yeah,
yeah, I gotta write, got towrite.
Oh, yeah, I've got to write toa girl.
What are you going to talkabout?
I don't want to say somethingstupid, dad.
I'm like well, what do you wantto say?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I don't know, I don't know what are you going to say
about some of the shows?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
you've been watching.
No, I can't possibly tell herabout any of the shows I'm
watching.
It's embarrassing.
Alright, you think about whatyou want to say.
I don't know what to say, butit's hilarious to watch oh,
bless you, but he's uh, that'scool he's put a lot of thought
into it.
It's very cute.
We can recommend any parentswho have got kids.
They should encourage them towrite letters from my birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I asked for, um, I asked my niece to write a story
and, uh, my nephew to draw theillustration.
The story was one page long.
Well, when I say a page, youknow one of those sort of small
kids pages like the size of apostcard sort of thing, this
(06:58):
whole story on this one page.
It's about a cookie, of course,and there's so many plot twists
and turns and you're just leftasking questions at the end.
Really clever, just for like ana a postcard size story.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
really good, um, but the story didn't crumble apart
oh dear, leave the jokes to me Iwill jokes.
You'll want to get angry withthat.
Leave the jokes to him Allright, I'll leave the jokes to
him, sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
No, my place, yeah, they're really good.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, I'm glad you had a good time.
The kids are awesome.
I'm glad you were there withyour mum and dad and the wife
and your sister, and everyonehad a good time.
Many happy returns from all ofus.
At first look knows, williams,thank you um.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So yeah, we're um episode 11 um, which I hinted at
in my little song earlier, umcan I just ask, can I go back to
the song?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
yeah, so, journey, don't stop believing what?
How did you get to 11 from that?
Tell us the thought process.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm always interested in this creativity Because it
had the believing the 11.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
11.
, 11.
11.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Merges together, become one.
I struggled.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It was genius.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I was clutching at straws, to be honest, with that
one.
Um, do you want to go straightinto your first?
Look, mitogis, I'm sorry, I wasexplaining.
I was explaining this ourpenultimate episode.
Series 11, episode 11.
Series 11 gosh, can youremember?
Can you imagine one day?
Series 11?
Um, episode 11.
(08:47):
Series 3 um, it's thepenultimate episode, so we're uh
, we're going to finish up nextepisode to have a little refresh
before we come back bigger,stronger, more drunk in series
four did you put any polls out?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
because we were questioning.
If memory serves correct, wewere questioning some of the
features in this podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I did put a poll out, which we'll find out in another
episode, the Fishponderfeedback.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Oh, very good, I look forward to that next episode
then.
Okay, cool, that's a tease.
A little tease for episode 12.
I can go into my first lookthen, won't I Please?
Yeah, please.
So it's a first look and thenafter it I'm going to follow it
up with some tips for dads.
But this week I'm gonna talkabout because we've had a bit of
(09:42):
a heat wave and we've got.
Well, we did.
Yeah, I don't know if you didover there, but we had a bit of
a.
We had, we had a spell of 22degree weather um, we did yeah,
a prolonged period for about aweek, where it was warm and
sunny, which meant barbecues,even though it's only april, we
(10:02):
got into barbecue season.
So we um, as we've discussed inprevious episodes, have
recently moved house and wedecided this was the year to oh,
maybe we'll get a nice likebarbecue, because we've always
been the kind of disposablebarbecues are like okay.
So this, this, which many ofour listeners will know, yeah,
(10:24):
it's, it's treacherous out there.
What do I go for?
Do I go for a big barrel?
Do I go for a gas burner?
Do I go for one that's gotcharcoal and gas?
How do I use gas?
Am I going to blow the house up?
How do I get those egg ones?
You can get those egg ones now,yeah, and then you're like, oh,
is a barbecue even, is it evenfashionable anymore, or do you
(10:46):
just need, like, outdoor pizzaovens and all this kind of stuff
?
So I actually reached out toone of our regular listeners,
who is a man, who is a goodbarbecuer.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
He's a man, he's a proper man.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
And he's always been good on the barbecue.
He would take control and youknew your stuff was always going
to be cooked properly.
You weren't going to have pinkin the middle burnt on the
outside.
So I was like, what do you do?
So I reached out to said friendfor advice and he has embraced
gas.
(11:22):
He said he misses the charcoal,he misses the process of getting
the coals ready, but forconvenience, and like quickness
of speed and stuff, he'sembraced gas.
So of course we went forcharcoal.
Our choice Just to be different.
Actually, it wasn't to bedifferent, it was just.
B&q had an offer for B&Qmembers and I just was like, oh,
(11:44):
that'll do, that's nice, butit's been good.
It's been good to.
It was nice to be able to getthe barbecue out Now again, this
is northern ireland, so that'show summer done now.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
So it's back in the garage and with a gas barbecue.
Now you can get wood chippings.
Put the wood chippings in soyou can get that sort of smoky
effect.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Best of best, yeah yeah, I saw one of those.
Um, what we actually decidedwas we would like to.
So a couple of years ago wewere very lucky.
We went to um mallorca on afamily holiday and the villa we
stayed in had a big brick builtbarbecue, like a mediterranean
barbecue with a chimney, and Isaw one of these.
(12:26):
When I was researching andlooking, I saw one of these
things.
I thought in the next couple ofyears we're hoping to landscape
the garden.
Let's build something like thatinto our um, our gardens on a
hill, so like we can dig someland away and build a problem.
So, oh, cool.
So I thought you know what?
There's no point me spendingmoney on like a good gas
(12:46):
barbecue that's going to last 20years, when maybe in a few
years time I'm going to want tobuild a brick one.
So we just we just went for thekind of that one's an offer,
charcoal one, uh, but it's, it'sgood.
And I don't know about you,williams, but I do love a
barbecue.
I don't know why, because likeit's a bit of effort, but
there's just something aboutbeing outside having a beer,
(13:08):
cooking food.
That's just fun.
I don't know if it's justtribal or I don't know, just man
food fire meat man food, firemeat beer.
I control this.
This is my domain but yeah wegot a first look at it, and long
(13:28):
.
I hope that you Alliums and allof our listeners get many looks
at barbecues over the nextseveral months.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
One of my favourite having a kid.
Now I watch lots of differentshows, and one of them's Bluey.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And one of the early episodes.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
There's an episode about barbecue and bingos, the
playing barbecue whilst theparents are in the barbecue.
Okay, bingo, bingo sort ofkeeps getting all the salad
stuff whilst bluey's at thebarbecue uh-huh and then, um,
bingo gets really stressedbecause she's doing all this
(14:09):
work getting all the differentsalad pieces together, and then,
um, no one.
Then then they have to thefamily barbecue, the parents,
and everyone's like to the dadokay, well done, way well done,
dad, for doing amazing barbecue.
But then the mom's like, oh, ohyou don't make friends with
(14:31):
salad.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
You don't make friends with salad.
You don't make friends withsalad.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
But then bingo is like someone say thank you for
the salad, something along thoselines.
I haven't seen it for a while,but the people that make the
salad are important as well.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
They are.
But also, let's be honest,Walliams Does anybody want salad
at a barbecue?
Like, if you want, if you cometo a barbecue and you're asking
Corn on the cob's, nice with abarbecue.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Corn on the cob's, not salad, though.
Yes well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I'll tell you why.
Corn on the cob isn't salad.
So we would cook corn on thecob and sweet potatoes, but we'd
wrap them in the food and shovethem in the coals yes, actually
, yeah you can't put salad onthe barbecue alliums nobody
wants crispy lettuce you know,nobody's making that kind of
demand.
Um, so lettuce doesn't go on abarbecue.
(15:24):
Lettuce is something that goesin the fridge.
If you're having a barbecue,you know you, you got.
Yeah, I don't know.
You're going for the fish andthe chicken and the burgers and
the sausages.
Well, the good thing aboutbrick ones as well, again.
So said friend, who we'retalking about, when we were
younger, like you know, 17, 18,19, I remember he had a brick
one he's got.
It's just so easy, it's justthere.
(15:46):
You just like you know, you justgo and use it, you don't need
to wheel it out.
You don't need to wheel it out,you don't need to store it
anywhere, it's bricks.
So you just need to, you know.
Yeah, it's a cracking idea,nice, but what do you like on a
barbecue, al?
What's your go-to?
Speaker 2 (15:58):
My go-to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Do you like a steak?
Are you a proper man or do youjust like give me a burger?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
A bit of sausage.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
A sausage.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
My dad.
Most often when we're at abarbecue it's at dad's.
And yeah, chicken sausagethey're the main goatee Like a
chicken, you know just a bitmore primal, isn't it when you
get a bit of chicken.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Chicken on the bone, there's just certain men who are
just made for that kind ofthing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
They're men-men, and then there's us.
Well, you say that when we tryto be, we try to be.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well, listen to this.
This may have helped my causeto pretend.
I mean.
Look at my name on the podcasttoday.
It actually says Manly man.
Manly man, yeah, I mean, Ichristened that myself.
Manny man, I mean, I christenedthat myself, it's not
necessarily true.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's the thing.
So the men that we know in ourlives?
Would they title themselvesManny man?
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's true.
Yeah, good point, good pointwell made.
Yeah, you're right, yeah, okay,and I'm going to.
I said this may either help myargument or hinder it I think we
already know the answer to thisone.
I have some tips for dads forbarbecues.
Tips for dads Tips for dadsTips for dads.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Get your tips out for the dads.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
These are things that I would do and I've learned
over the years, and actually thethree that I've written down.
They're not really very manlymanly tips.
They're not like oh, when youhave a barbecue, put your hand
on it and brand yourself becauseyou're so manly.
They're a lot weaker, but theyare genuine.
I find these to be really goodtips.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Hit me.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So number one right.
Sometimes you're just in a bitof a rush and sometimes you may
not have time to make your ownburgers and you just have to go
and get burgers or something.
You might think, oh, it's a bitplain to.
I want to be a bit morerazzmatazz, I want to add some
flavor to stuff.
One of the one of the a bit ofa cheap trick burgers before we
before?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
yeah, sorry, just talking about burgers and I've
got burgers in my head now.
Um, don't you?
Don't you love both a good,solid, expensive, premium burger
and a really cheap burger,depending on your mood?
I really like both of them,yeah, or are you just a premium
(18:20):
man?
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No, we would generally be for barbecues that
make our own kind of people.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I mean if you're out and about and you find an old
van that's doing just cheapburgers with loads of fried
onions, where there's more oilthan there is onion.
I feel they both have a place.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I love them all.
I just love a burger full stop.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Are you allowed burgers?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I haven't had a burger no joke.
I haven't had a beef burger forprobably three years.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's been a long time what you've had it since we
started podcasting.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, probably since before that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
If you remember, episode one was kidney stones,
so kidney stones just as arefresher.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
What were the things?
Reduce your salt, drink plentyof water and reduce your red
meat.
What are burgers?
Mostly salt your red meat.
What are burgers?
Mostly salt, mostly mostly redmeat and obviously with
gallstones as well.
It's like the cheap burgerswell, cheap burgers they're like
usually, like maybe 20.
There's some sort of fat maybenot yeah, but yeah I'll probably
(19:27):
not do myself any harm by nothaving beef burgers regularly,
to be honest, but no, anyway,some tips for burgers.
Sorry, tips for burgers.
If you want to add a bit offlavor to all your food without
having to season it and stuff,get some mixed herbs and throw
them on the coals.
Once the coals are hot On thecoals themselves On the coals.
(19:48):
Throw some rosemary, some thymesage, maybe Once you're cooking
I you're like, I don't know,maybe 10 minutes away from
serving throw some on the coalsand it will infuse, infuse the
meat with some of the herbyscent and flavors.
Yeah, that's a good tip, um wehave another tip it's not very
manly.
I don't think that is a verymanly tip.
(20:09):
That's very, it's a.
It's a I don't know.
It's a bit manly tip.
That's very, it's a.
It's a I don't know, it's a bitGordon Ramsay.
It's like most men would be likewhat he wants time, and
Rosemary like that.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
He should pour the beef fat on the coals.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, that's it Pour some burgers on the coals.
The blood from the cow pour iton more raw cow, more bone, less
herb, which sounds like itcould be a brand, like a slogan
for a brand more cow, less herbfor men who want real meat.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
The next tip is really very manly, Willem, it's
very manly.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
It's like when you it's hard because you just want
to.
Once you've cooked the barbecue, you just let it sit there, but
don't you want to clean itwhile it's a bit warm.
You want to get the gunk asmuch of the gunk off while it's
warm as you can here's a goodtip for you, williams see, if
you've got like grills and wireracks, a lemon.
Cut a lemon in half wells, dipit in some sea salt I've got a
(21:07):
lemon tree you've got a lemontree, now right to get.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So get one of them.
Lemons, cut it in half.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
But when they're here , when they grow cut the lemon
in half, dip it in some sea saltand just rub it up and down
While it's still warm.
Rub it up and down the grill.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
The lemon.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The lemon, yeah, with the salt on it.
Rub the lemon on the rack onthe grill where you've had the
meat, and stuff.
All the meat will just come offall the like bitty meat so you
use the lemon as like a cloth asa cloth to clean it.
Yeah, ah, that's a good tip witha bit of salt on it, just like
coarse salt, like sea salt.
Rub it once it's still warm.
(21:44):
When it's still warm, rub thatup and down.
All the crappy bits of meatthat would otherwise, just, you
know, bake in they'll come offstraight away and then like when
you actually clean it with somewater all the.
It's a lot easier.
You don't have to use any harshchemicals that's actually two
very good tips okay, well, I'vegot a third one yeah, I mean,
should we stop there?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
don't know.
This is a good one, okay okay,this is probably the most
important one okay when you havelike a good barbecue, like we.
We bought a nice.
It's not the most expensive,but it's nice.
I'm going to look after itbecause I'm going to have to use
it for a good few seasons.
Right, If you keep it under acover outside?
I don't particularly likecovers, but sometimes you have
to keep it under a cover.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
No, I hate covers, but there's still, mine keeps
blowing off.
No, mine keeps blowing off andit's all rusted now and it's
like what's the only point?
Putting it back on by puttingit back on?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
well, this is how you do.
When you get a new one right,you can keep a cover on, but to
stop it getting rusted, put abowl of baking soda inside the
barbecue, because that'll absorba lot of the moisture and the
stuff it rusted in another goodtip.
There you go, you see.
Not just a pretty face, notvery tips.
There are three good tips thereyeah, those are tips we've kind
of learned over the years and,you know, help us keep our
(22:54):
barbecues well.
So yeah, tips for dadsbarbecues good so yeah and
here's to barbecue season.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Wells, may there be many sunshiny days ahead, I hope
so I think it was as if lastyear, the year before, but we
had a summer of.
In the week I'm sat at my desk,sun shining 20 odd degrees,
friday five o'clock, rain untillike sunday night, and then
(23:25):
it'll be sunny again for theweek, and that was almost every
week for the summer and it wasso annoying that's depressive
yeah, but could be worse.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It could have ran the whole time, not just when, at
least when you're at work andyou can look outside from your
shop office yeah, yes, that isnice actually, I'm very lucky
from the bottom of the gardenfrom the bottom of the garden
the first nights I tend to putmy boy to bed, but he's just
over two now, so he's well, he'sbeing a two year old.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
every time you learn a trick to get him to sleep, he
changes the rules no differenthere, and we had and he talks.
So it's quite a few words now,but he was very much in charge.
(24:18):
I thought I could negotiatewith him, so I started
negotiations.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
With your two-year-old.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And then quickly found myself and him lying on
the floor together and thenthere's lots of crying that,
because it wasn't the books hewanted, um ended up in his bed
and then out of his bed and theback in his bed and out of his
bed, and then all these storiesthat he's apparently been
telling his mum.
(24:49):
They once no, don't read thoseread.
I'm going to read those of Dada, because there's certain books
no, they're Dada books, yeah,they're Dada books, ones like
the pigeon books.
We call them the train books,the Dada books, and no, dada
books On the day, all right, andthe pigeon books.
(25:12):
They're quite fun to read.
So I'm like cool, right, pigeonbooks, logan.
No, mama, but you want to readthese with me?
No, mama, right, okay, andthings like that went on for
ages and ages.
But the tip is so most kidsthey have like a, their safety
(25:35):
blanket or their, their specialtoy, wherever um logan's is.
Uh, well, to begin with wedidn't think it would be his
go-to toy, but it's become his,his favorite.
Yeah, um, which we we named atthe time Cecil.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So great name for a toy, cecil.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Cecil, the little sort of dog blanky thing he's,
you know he's the go-to, youknow, when he's feeling
emotional, cecil's his comfort,um and um.
Yeah, if your child is notdoing um, what you want them to
do, just embrace, embrace theCecil or whatever your, your
kid's got and um, become theCecil, um and um, get Cecil to
(26:22):
tell him what to do.
And if Cecil wants to do it,then you know Logan's like, oh
really, but because Cecil wantsto do it.
So, oh, cecil wants this book.
The book.
You literally were saying no,no, no to, and crying oh, cecil
wants to read it.
Oh, yes, we'll read that then,because Cecil wants to read the
book.
Oh, cecil wants to go to sleep,okay, so yeah.
(26:46):
So the tip is use your Cecil toget your kids to go to bed so
what you're saying?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
one of them is manipulate your children, that's
really is that is that whatyou're trying to say?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I did try negotiation and then yeah, but he's at such
a lovely age where I don't knowin his world he must.
He's not quite at the got tothat point of oh, dad's tricking
me here.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yes, he's not quite at the point of oh dad's
tricking me here yes, he's atthat point of Cecil actually
wants to do this.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
He's the best thing ever.
We'll do it.
It's a great tip, you're notalone.
We've all done it as well yeahthat is a great tip, though, and
so often like ever since he wasvery little he'd wake up in the
night or you're watching whenthe monitor he grabs Cecil and
(27:35):
Cecil does all the hard worknice, cecil's there and he
comforts him and then, posh, hegoes back to sleep as a result.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So here's to Cecil yeah, be a Cecil.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Trust in Cecil.
Get yourself a Cecil trust inCecil.
Get yourself a Cecil if youhaven't got one.
That's my tip.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It's a great tip.
There's a lot of parents, Iimagine, who have been in that
situation where they're justtrying to like oh just, it's the
end of the day.
You're knackered anyway, likebedtime's a chore.
I know it's lovely to spendtime with them, especially when
they're well-behaved.
You walk out thinking oh, thatwas just so precious, such a
(28:15):
precious memory.
It's so lovely.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But then there's other times you're like he's
gonna sleep.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
So like there there is um, the end of the day is
hard.
So any tips to just make thatmore peaceful for the child, but
also to let you get to kind oflike and I'm off.
Um, I'm sure I'll be wellreceived.
Be the Cecil Great tip Williams.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Be the Cecil.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
First looks.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
First look.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
What you got for us, Wells.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
So I said are we recording?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Are we recording?
We have recorded before and notrecorded.
Yeah, I know Usually the onesthat we haven't recorded are
usually the best episodes too.
I mean, in our opinion, we haveno proof because, no one's ever
heard them.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That episode we didn't record was the funniest
episode ever.
We had a good time.
I can't remember what we weredoing apart from just crying and
laughing, yeah, lots oflaughter.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's what it's all about.
That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
First look, First look.
So we were quite lucky.
A lot of parents have thisprobably a lot earlier on, but
we only had this fairly recentlyBath time we were both upstairs
(29:26):
and the wife was with Logan inthe bathroom also having the
bath, and we had our first.
Sorry, just check, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Oh no, sorry, I'll be quiet Ifyou say what I think you're
going to say.
I'm like puke I don't know mywhat Puke.
If you tell me what you'regoing to say, I'm hoping it's
not that.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Oh, we had our first Code Brown.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh no, Not the Code Brown.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
No.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
We had our first.
Code Brown no thank you, ohshit water.
No thanks, oh Logan, no needfor that son Get water.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
No thanks, Whoa Slogan, no need for that son,
the many years I've known you,the things that you talk about,
and that's something thatcrosses you out.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
I could sense that coming.
I was like no, he's going totalk about poop in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Code brown code brown Code brown.
I was just in the other roomnext door to talk about poop in
the bathroom Code brown codebrown Code brown.
And so, yeah, I was just in theother room next door and then I
can't quite remember it now,but the wife just started, oh,
oh, oh, oh.
And I go in and she's got himsort of up and out and I don't
(30:48):
know if it's like what werethose?
I can't remember the cool, butthere's like there's old toys
you'd have that you put in waterand then they expand these bits
of poo.
They were bigger than him, theyjust expanded in the water and
they were like proper proper bighuman size.
(31:10):
Um, yeah, so then, um, so I gothim out, washed and then I
played with him and, uh, georgie, and he had all his toys, so he
had to obviously get rid of thepoo, so a lot of it you could
just chuck in the toilet andyeah, obviously we had sort of
(31:43):
heavily in disaffect all thetoys that were hidden with him,
particles and yeah, we had Showme all the dishwasher.
Yeah, put a lot in thedishwasher and yeah, gave the
bathroom a thorough clean, butalso, at the same time, try to
because you don't want to sortof go.
You don't want him to go.
(32:04):
Oh no, I've had a poo or I'vedone something really bad, so
it's all very, but he knewsomething was going on.
But yeah, we're trying to asmuch as possible go just a
normal day.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
It's such a bad situation when it happens.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, but our first co-brow bless him.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I wonder what Walliams has seen on TV.
I wonder if he's going to talkabout.
You know what Walliams willtalk about this week?
He'll probably talk about whathe did for his birthday, what he
had for food no shit in thebath my main take was how he
expanded in the water.
(32:47):
I don't know.
Does it expand?
Or the main takeaway was how itexpanded in the water?
Yeah, I don't know.
Does?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
it expand, or did he?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
just do a really massive poo.
I don't know, you thought itexpanded because you were
probably thinking there's no waythat could have.
There's no way someone thatsmall can make something that
big out of that tinier hole.
But there it comes.
There it is oh there, it isthere, it is, there, it is shaka
, laka, shaka, laka sorry that'shilarious.
(33:16):
It happens again, much likeCecil.
It happens to us all.
You just have to get on with it, not terrify your child and
traumatise him not fun.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm not quite ready for a thirsty first, but this is
a different thirsty firstsegment today okay so, um, it's
another first look.
Um, I went to link to mybirthday because he said you
know, I thought you know kirkbrown couldn't resist not
talking about kirk brown it wasvery funny but I went to uh
(33:53):
dynamite brewery, so it's alittle microbrewery in cornwall
very nice which I went to um, sothe, the wife and wife dropped
uh, me and my friend pete off umand it's sort of under a
viaduct.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Well, hang on a sec.
Hang on, you've got otherfriends that aren't me.
What, what.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, just one of them.
Who's?
This Pete who is he Pete?
Pete, he's the I don't like him.
He's the husband of the one inthe book that you bought, the
present for at Christmas.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Oh no, I do like Pete , he bought you beer, a Santa
present for the?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yes, yes, yes, all right, fair enough, we like Pete
.
Okay, I'll take that back.
Yeah, so it's, yeah, middle ofnowhere under a viaduct, and
you're going down this sort ofstony that's class Stony, I
wouldn't even say a road just aDown into a Just a path Path,
yeah.
And you get into the bottom andthere's like an abandoned
(34:56):
caravan and things like thatShopping trolley.
Because I'm watching Sopranosat the moment, I'm thinking, oh
no, this is a place where youtake someone and pop them in the
head and bury them.
You're thinking Craig was rightabout that.
No, this is a place where youtake someone and pop them in the
head and bury them.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
You're thinking Craig was right about that.
Pete, he's going to do me here.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, I was like, oh, he's paid him, yeah, wife's
paid him for it, yeah, she'sfound out about the life of
drugs and I hope she's notlistening.
And yeah, then you turn thecorner and it's not much better.
It's just it looks like anabandoned warehouse.
(35:36):
Okay, okay, all right, okay,good recommendation, pete.
Yeah, go, it's all closed upbecause it's not as there's like
some benches outside, but it'sall closed up Because it's not
as there's some benches outside,but it's all closed up.
It's not always even open.
And luckily the wife said I'llstay here to see if you get in.
(35:58):
I'm thinking, oh, she's goingto drive off.
We're just stuck in this random,random abandoned place under a
viaduct.
Then we go in and it is.
It's a micro brewery andthey've got like a a little
makeshift bar there with a fewdifferent beers on tap obviously
what they're brewing, um, and,yeah, various tables and stuff
(36:22):
and a little fridge for stuffthat's not on tap.
If I cans off, and it's great,a proper bearded man like myself
just can sit down have a nicefresh beer in the microbrewery.
Dynamite brewery, good beers,recommend them.
Um, then also I was like, right, I didn't have lunch
(36:43):
microbrewery.
They have this chap calledlucky rod, lucky rod pizzas.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Yeah, lucky rod's pizzas.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, Lucky Rod's pizzas.
Lovely.
Have a pizza on down there In abrewery.
When you get there at halftwelve and you're going to stay
there all day, you want somefood.
You need to eat Lucky Rod'spizza.
Oven broke no.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Not so lucky was he.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Unlucky Rod.
Unlucky Rod, no, not so luckywas he.
Oh, unlucky rod, unlucky rod,um also was quite funny that the
section of where his pizza inplace is it's all boarded up.
But it's all boarded up incardboard okay, which I thought
was a bit funny, but you knowluckyammable, but you know,
lucky rod, what can go wrong,but yeah, but I had a lovely day
(37:33):
Managed to actually gettakeaway delivered, so I got
some takeaway there and dranksome beers at the microbrewery.
So that's Dynamite Brewery.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Can I ask two questions?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
And I would recommend any check out your
microbreweries.
You know pubs are dying off butMicah Breweries go straight to
the source.
Lots of Micah Breweries now arehosting and selling their beer
in that actual Micah Brewery.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
So Micah Breweries.
Excellent.
I have a couple of questions.
Sure, With an observation.
This is probably the firstpodcast in a while we haven't
mentioned the White Rock Brewery.
We're still waiting forsponsorship.
Can you please send me somemore magazines?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
I'm having to drink something else today yes, but I
still need my first look at thewhite water raft but yes, it
that does the microbrewery thing.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Is true, we should, we should embrace the
microbreweries.
So two things was yourexperience heightened by once
you got in there you're like I'mnot gonna die so instantly.
It was better because you werelike I've survived getting here
and no one shot me I've gotthrough the car part.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's not a car part, it's yeah so did that add to the
experience?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
or would the experience if there hadn't been
such a treacherous trek to saidmicrobrewery?
Would it still have been asgood?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
well, yeah, I mean well, yeah, it's all part of the
ambience.
Actually it's all part of the,because a lot of pubs are dying,
but a lot of pubs are in placeswhere you know there seems to
be transportation there or youknow you can walk there, whereas
this seems to be literally inthe middle of nowhere.
How on earth, obviously, itmakes money from brewing, but
(39:08):
seems to be literally in themiddle of nowhere.
How on earth, obviously, itmakes money from brewing, but it
was quite busy as a pub, assomewhere to actually sit and
drink as well.
But, yeah, I think it's acertain because a lot of people
like their comfort and a bit ofclass.
(39:29):
Most people should say do Isometimes?
But this was an abandonedwarehouse.
A lot of people like theircomfort and a bit of class, but,
um, what's the worst advicesometimes?
But this was an abandonedwarehouse with a brewery inside
and the pub is literally just um, you know, someone got a few
pallets together and a few bitsof wood and a bit of um, uh,
what's that reefing called?
Uh, because you see,corrugatedrugated steel.
Yeah, that just sort of bunkedon top and turned into a little
(39:52):
pub.
Little pumps, three or fourpumps.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
It sounds nice.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah.
And was the beer good, it wasgood beer.
And can we?
Speaker 1 (40:03):
let people into a secret about, because you told
me about this brewery and it'sgood value.
Should we just leave it at that?
It's good value.
Should we just leave out thatit's good value?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
beer as well dynamite yeah yes, yes, well, um, yeah,
what I told you is about theyhad, yeah, 24 cans of 24 pound,
which I thought was quite good apound a can of fresh micro
brewery beer is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
I I bought, so we went to the local.
There's a independent beer shopin um on the lisbon road here
and they sell all kind of microbrewery beer and you can
sometimes be paying six pound,fifty for one.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, it's like a can for like yeah, that's not even
am.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah that's a pound.
A can is unbelievable.
What they call Williams, giveme a shout out.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Dynamite Brewery boom .
Boom because?
Because I learnt that under theviaduct that's where they used
to create dynamite for the mines.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
They were called Schmiding well, here we go,
williams, I'm going to come fora field trip to Cornwall and
you're going to take me toDynamite Brewery.
You're going to come for afield trip to Northern Ireland
and I'm going to take you to theWhite Rock Brewery.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Lovely.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
That's what we'll do.
This summer, when we're not onair, we'll both have our first
look to report back.
We will, and we'll do this.
Trips booked in hmm, soundsgood.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Let's finish this episode off for the final
episode, shall we?
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I don't want to finish it because that means
we're closer to the end and Ilove doing the podcast.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
It means I'm drinking beer and chatting with my mate
well, I'll cheer you up with alittle dad joke, shall I?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
please.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I um well, it's actually not that funny.
So I went to.
I went to the doctors.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Are any of your jokes funny?
I like them.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
I went.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
No, I mean, this is a serious topic now oh, beg your
pardon, sorry, I'm not doing badjokes, it's a serious topic.
I'll get serious.
I'll get serious, seriousserious.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
I went to.
I went to the doctors oh, flipme okay yeah, and they.
Well, the doctor said to me,I'm afraid to say your, to say
your, um, your dna is, uh, isbackwards.
So I said and see you for thefinal episode in a couple weeks,
(42:20):
everyone bye everybody, bye Bye.
Speaker 1 (42:39):
More bone, less herb.
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