November 20, 2025 • 43 mins
This week, the Gnomes take a First Look at buying a car .
Then it’s time for a Pints & First Bites segment featuring a Pinter brew test — we find out if this home beer gadget is actually genius or just gnome-shaped chaos. 🍻
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First Look Gnomes – discovering life’s firsts, one pint at a time.
Two dads try chilli cheese peanuts, then tackle the stress of buying a used car without the jargon, from finance traps to pointless add-ons. We ask listeners for parenting advice, defend smart screen time, and celebrate a fresh, no-fuss home brew that actually tastes great.
• admitting zero car expertise and setting simple needs
• PCP versus HP in plain English and total cost thinking
• saying no to add-ons like paint and fabric sealants
• finding reliability with better sources not random lists
• used car test drive basics and avoiding pressure
• candid parenting: body questions and timing answers
• screen time as preparation tool for the opticians
• first look at Pinter home brew: process, cost, taste
• patience, cleaning, and cold-crash tips for fresher pints
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to FirstLook Gnomes, your go-to podcast with
dads doing silly things.
Share tips with dads, and ofcourse the dad jokes and the bad
games.
But most importantly, we're hereto share our first looks.
SPEAKER_02 (00:18):
And share your thoughts, questions, and own
first looks with us atfirstluckgnomes at outlook.com.
SPEAKER_00 (00:25):
And uh over to you, Starchikis.
SPEAKER_02 (00:30):
Is there no intro this week, Williams?
Are you not singing?
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Nein! Nein, das ist die Wirtvlog nuant episode von
First Look Gnomes.
Feinzen Usbussen! Feinsen FirstBenz! Nein! Fines and First
Bates! Nein!
SPEAKER_02 (00:49):
Nein! I I fell into that one, didn't I?
I fell into that one.
So, ladies and gentlemen, aswe're about to start recording
the podcast, there's like alittle countdown timer comes on.
And usually I just sit there andwait for the wonderful lyrics
and songs that come out of Mr.
Williams.
And then he just said over toyou and fell for it.
I should have realised we're onepisode nine.
He's gonna say nine, isn't he?
(01:09):
He's gonna germin me.
He's gonna germin me.
Nine.
SPEAKER_01 (01:12):
Punts of us, bites, pints of us, bites! Pints and
first bites! Yeah, pints andbest bites!
SPEAKER_02 (01:22):
Oh, okay, so it if we follow the rhythm of recent
episodes, this one should be apint.
However, yeah, I'm gonna say Oh,he's trying to give me a clue,
ladies and gentlemen.
I was gonna say, I reckon you'regonna mix it up, and this is
gonna be a first bite.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
It's a first bite!
SPEAKER_01 (01:37):
Wait!
SPEAKER_00 (01:37):
Pints a first bites! Uh I've got fully loaded chili
cheese peanuts.
SPEAKER_02 (01:47):
Fully loaded chili cheese peanuts.
Fully loaded chili cheese.
I love that peanut packet.
That packet is cool.
SPEAKER_00 (01:53):
From Snack Ride, it says in a little green box at
the top, it says I'm new.
It's good to know, isn't it?
It's good to know.
Me and Ms.
Hodge, because before thepodcast, we're literally just
talking about how we should uhlook after ourselves.
And I've got fully loaded chilicheese peanuts.
Um suitable for vegetarians.
Source of protein.
Oh that's something.
(02:13):
Well, on the last episode it wasa high source of protein with
the pork.
SPEAKER_02 (02:18):
How are you not ripped, Wally?
SPEAKER_00 (02:21):
The wife's buying these for me, so maybe it's a
little project she's working on.
SPEAKER_02 (02:25):
I reckon protein.
Wallyams is like Ned Flanders.
So every so often he just takesoff his shirt and he's just
absolutely ripped.
You look a bit like NedFlanders, actually.
I don't know.
But they're saying that.
You show that package, and youknow, so in the United Kingdom
on food they have the package ofthe not your package.
(02:46):
You see your package, Wally'sit's full of protein.
Um the the package has fivelittle things on it.
So it's fat, saturated fat,salt, and they're colour coded
to make it easy to know what'shealthy.
This is red, red, red, amber,amber.
Only amber for salt, though.
That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_00 (03:07):
That's not too bad, yeah.
Uh vegetarian, uh roastedpeanuts with a chili and cheese
seasoning.
SPEAKER_02 (03:15):
Oh, heartburn in a bag, that is.
Heartburn in a bag.
Let's give it a go, shall we?
Let's give it a go.
Let's give it a go, Alves.
Let's see what these are like.
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (03:27):
Can't taste the cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (03:29):
No cheese.
It's good, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (03:32):
Your pack your package shouldn't.
SPEAKER_02 (03:35):
Oh, okay.
You got a cheesy package.
SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
Cheesy nuts.
I've got cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (03:40):
You got cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_00 (03:41):
Hot cheesy nuts.
Yeah, I'm not really a fan ofcheese flavouring.
I like cheese.
But cheese flavouring.
No, you know what that cheesecheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:01):
Mini cheddars?
SPEAKER_00 (04:03):
Mini cheddars, but mini cheddar are made of real
cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:06):
Not cheese flavouring?
SPEAKER_00 (04:08):
No.
SPEAKER_02 (04:09):
How are they made of real cheese?
They're like crackers.
SPEAKER_00 (04:12):
Flavoured with real cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:14):
Okay.
As opposed to other flip cheeseflavours which isn't real
cheese.
Okay.
I think it's quite it's just oneof those ridiculous kind of
quizzes.
Which cheese snacks are actualactually flavoured with cheese
versus which cheese snacks areartificial cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (04:32):
Brands like Jacob's mini cheddars explicitly state
on their packaging and in theirproduct descriptions that they
are baked with real cheese togive them a cheesy flavour.
The process involves mixing realcheese into the dough before
baking.
SPEAKER_02 (04:50):
Are these artificial cheese Williams or are these
flavoured with real cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (04:55):
90% peanut.
SPEAKER_02 (04:58):
Well that's good to know.
SPEAKER_00 (04:59):
For peanuts, yeah.
And then a lot of stuff.
Ground turmeric, ground whitepepper, ground cumin, tomato
powder, smoked paprika, citricaclic powder, calcium lactate.
SPEAKER_02 (05:19):
So I'm gonna ask one of the question here.
So before this podcast, we saidthat the latest episode hasn't
got that many listeners.
And then he reads out theingredients of a packet of
peanuts.
And I'm just sitting herethinking, I wonder why I listen
to this.
Turmeric.
(05:40):
Grand paprika.
Riveting.
Is it real cheese or not cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
Shall we move on to your first look, Matrodskis?
SPEAKER_02 (05:48):
Is it garlic powder?
Or is it artificial?
Nope.
SPEAKER_00 (05:57):
Crack on with your first lip, please, Mitronkis.
SPEAKER_02 (05:59):
With my first look, save us, save us.
Save us.
Okay, so we uh so this is thisis it's a it's a first look.
Um and it it shows a weakness,Wallyam.
It shows weakness, you know.
We've talked recently aboutbarbecues and tours and manly
men and the things that's manlymen and nuts and packages full
(06:22):
of cheese and all sorts of manlymanly things.
SPEAKER_01 (06:25):
Cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (06:27):
One of the things that a stereotypical man would
know about is cars, right?
Like engines, horsepower, fastcars.
I I know eck all about cars, yetwe had to go car shopping.
Oh, so this is I'm gonna is itfun though, Wallyams?
(06:49):
Actually, is it fun?
If you don't know anything aboutcars other than I like red ones,
is it actually a fun experiencewhen you've got people who are
like coming getting you in andsaying, Have a look at this
lovely car?
It's got X, it's got Y, it's gotthe same like, hmm, yeah, hmm,
yeah.
What a hmm.
Has it has it got mats and anair freshener?
(07:10):
And what colour is it?
Like you just you just feel likea fool, Wallyams.
So, yes, I'm gonna uh first lookat car shopping when you know
nothing about cars.
SPEAKER_00 (07:19):
Then you've got the different finance options and I
didn't know anything aboutthese.
SPEAKER_02 (07:23):
I I honestly this this blew my mind.
So we went in and we weretalking to a person about a car,
and they're like, So are youlooking at PCP?
Are you looking at HP?
And HP is literally like thesource.
I was like, what do you mean,hate?
What's HP?
I was like, what's that mean?
Like, are you buying the car?
I'm like, I'm here to buy a car.
(07:45):
What what like can I just dowhen I'll just like give you
some money and like have thecar?
Oh no, no, no, got all thesefinance options.
This one's 13.9%.
Well, what do you mean 13.9%interest?
I'm like, what?
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
I'm buying a car, what all the prices of cars have
shot up now because everyonepays monthly.
SPEAKER_02 (08:05):
It's mad.
And then you know what they hadthe audacity to say.
So we were in a situation wherewe had sold the other car, and
we're like, cool, we're not wewe're not like we're not buying
expensive cars, we're not inthat market.
The guy had the audacity to say,Oh no, no, we don't make any
money from just selling thecars, all the money's in the
finance and stuff.
And I'm like, so uh back in theolden days, like if you could
(08:26):
afford to buy a car in cash, forexample, you'd get a better
deal.
Apparently, no, they want theywant you to be poor and skint
and have to pay all theinterest.
So this this whole experiencehas been very eye-opening and a
little bit terrifying.
I'm like, okay, so that's whythere's so many people driving
40,000 pound cars around,because they're all having them
(08:46):
on bloody tick and spendinggoodness knows how much money
just to drive them.
I was like, can you not justlike yeah, and I'm like I my
expectations were wrong as wellbecause we have again knowing
nothing about cars, usually theonly time we get a new car is if
(09:06):
one of say a parent or a friendis getting rid of a car, and
we're like, Oh yeah, we we coulddo with a new car, we'll buy
that off you.
And it's like you know, you buyit off a from of you buy it for
your mom, like our last car, wepurchased it from my mother
because you know, oh yeah, she'sgot a good car, it's just a high
like a really cheap old Hyundai.
And we're like, Cool, great.
And now we're like, right, we'regonna get another car, but no
(09:28):
one we know is selling a car, sowe had to go to look at car
showrooms, and I'm just like, Idon't like this.
People are asking me questions,and I don't know any of the
answers, and I just there's allthis paperwork that one looks
yeah, and even like the enginesand stuff.
Like, oh, you're looking forelectric, you're looking for
hybrid, you're looking for thisone.
Like, I'm just a car, please,with with the petrol, you go to
(09:50):
the petrol station, you put inthe car.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
You got the different warranty options, the
different service options.
SPEAKER_02 (09:56):
Well, well, what this guy tried to sell us this
thing, it's like, oh, you needthis stuff for your car, so that
if you get any spills and stuff,it's better for your car, and
like it protects the paint frombird poo.
I'm like, okay, should shouldthat not already be on there?
Is that not the whole point?
You buy a car and it's if a birdpoo Oh no, you have to you have
to buy this extra stuff on topof the actual car.
(10:17):
I'm like, so are they makingcars that are not good for bird
poo?
We live in we live in the UnitedKingdom.
There's a lot of bird poo andrain and mud.
Like, so are you saying all carson the road have to have this,
otherwise they're effective?
What are you trying to tell mebasically?
SPEAKER_00 (10:32):
It would just the hole in the roof.
SPEAKER_02 (10:34):
Um that's effectively what he said.
You need to pay£350 more in caseanybody has any spill, anybody,
any bird poo's on your car.
If you bird if a bird poo's onyour car and you don't have this
special form, this magicformula, your car will explode.
SPEAKER_00 (10:48):
There'll be a thing in 10 years where they'll be
like misselled, whatever.
SPEAKER_02 (10:52):
Just bollocks in it, Wellems.
Let's be honest, it's all justbollocks.
But I mean, I know people wholove cars and are really into
cars, one of whom we have talkedabout on this podcast before,
Manly Man.
He actually knows his stuff.
The Manly Man.
The Manly Man.
So I sent him a message and waslike, hmm, okay, we've got the
wife that one of these cars thatshe's looking at has an
automatic gearbox, is and shedoesn't want an automatic
(11:14):
gearbox.
What are they like?
And God bless him, he came backto me and he was like, uh this
gearbox will be and I can'tremember exactly what he said,
but he said it's a FGM.
Something managed manly.
And he said he's good.
He knew exactly what he wastalking about, and like
knowledgeable.
And I'm just like, I just I'mjust like, Can you can you just
buy the car for me?
That's one thing in my head.
(11:35):
I'm like, I don't know anythingabout this, I need to educate
myself.
But it's it's really funnybecause I rem I in a similar
way, you know what you know,don't you?
SPEAKER_00 (11:43):
Yeah, but no, no, you've got hybrid options,
electric options.
SPEAKER_02 (11:46):
Yes, and then they've got charging times and
rapid charges, and you know, I'mjust like, oh, this is I just
want to buy a car.
That's the reason we needed anew car is because the old car
was on its last legs, and thewife wasn't finding it
particularly comfortable todrive, and she wanted something
a bit more comfortable.
(12:07):
That's all what's what what doyou need?
Something comfortable, please.
That doesn't look too bad.
Gets you from A to B.
Gets you from A to B and isreliable, and then you start so
we've ended up watching loads ofthese car wah videos, which are
quite funny, but you're nocloser to actually understanding
anything and knowing anything.
Yeah, and yeah, it's all beenit's all been very stressful.
SPEAKER_00 (12:29):
So we had to buy ours the cause our car basically
broke down just before ourwedding celebration, didn't it?
So we had to buy it literallythe day after.
SPEAKER_02 (12:39):
I remember, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
Yeah, so that was I think they were rubbing their
hands as we walked in.
So yeah, so uh cars broughtdown.
We need one ASAP.
SPEAKER_02 (12:49):
And what have you got for me?
Here's my budget.
Just give me something.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
They loved it.
SPEAKER_02 (12:55):
So hey.
Well, do you know much aboutcars?
No.
No, so okay, so yeah, you knowwhat you know.
So it's funny because I rememberI have to take my own advice
here.
So I remember talking to mymother.
My mum's asking me aboutcomputer or she wants uh she's
trying to use iPads and stuff,and I'm trying to explain to her
about online safety.
(13:16):
Not in kind of like uh um youdon't send anyone any pictures,
mom.
Not that kind of online safety.
More uh, you know, if somebodysends you an email and says
they're a prince of Nigeria,they're not really, don't fall
for it.
And but my mum doesn't want toknow, she wants to use the
thing, but she doesn't actuallywant to, she doesn't necessarily
want to learn too much about it.
(13:37):
It's just like it's toocomplicated.
I just need it to do what Ineeded to do.
I don't necessarily want tolearn about it.
And I'm like, well, mom, you youneed to learn about it to
understand what you're doing,and then at the same time with
cars, I'm like, I don't reallywant to understand all this, I
just want the car.
So I'm like, ah you just you youcan't you can't say one thing
and then do it yourself.
(13:57):
So I've been trying to learn, Ihave been trying to educate
myself and learn a bit more.
And I feel like I do knowsomething, but it's still hard.
You go into like into the carshowroom, I actually said thank
you.
We ended up we did end upgetting a car, and we ended up
meeting a car showroom guy whowas actually very good.
And I kind of said to him, Isaid, it's been quite nice not
to to to meet one car showroomguy who's not sleazy or trying
(14:19):
to bambooz you're just likeokay, cool, I'll meet you where
you're at.
I get it, you don't know muchabout cars, and didn't want to
have a whole dance about priceand everything, and it was uh
that was quite refreshing.
So I'm happy we got there, butit's not I wouldn't say it's
been you know, a lot of peoplelove buying cars and stuff.
It hasn't given me much joy atall.
Hasn't been one of those thingswhere I'm like, oh, this is you
(14:40):
know, if you're spending likeyou know, spending more than a
thousand pounds on something,you think this should be really
enjoyable.
I haven't found it thatenjoyable.
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
Car salespeople have got better, but they've still
got that stigma, haven't they?
Car salespeople.
SPEAKER_02 (14:53):
Yeah, I think so.
I think there's still there'sstill an expectation when you go
in there that you're gonna tryyou someone's gonna try and wipe
your eye a little bit and takeyour naivety.
And it's almost like they'regonna know.
Yeah, I said to I said, You'vegot to go in there and just
gotta, you know, have a bit ofconfidence about yourself, hold
your pause, yeah.
Yeah, I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
They can smell it, they can smell it.
SPEAKER_02 (15:12):
They can.
Like your chili peanuts.
They can tell if it's realcheese or fake cheese, can't
they?
No, no, no, no.
These are not flavoured withreal cheese, it's artificial
cheese.
It's a mug.
Give them the full price.
SPEAKER_00 (15:25):
They do smell funny, actually.
Yeah, they do smell funny.
SPEAKER_02 (15:27):
Do they?
They smell like full pricepeanuts.
SPEAKER_00 (15:30):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (15:31):
So, yeah, that was my first look.
Well in buying a cup.
We've got one.
The wife is very happy with whatshe has chosen.
Good.
I like the colour.
I like the colour, it's lovely.
Uh the the sunshine is veryhappy with it.
Apparently, so we'll find outwhen we pick it up.
Is it reliable?
Yeah, so that's another thing aswell, because we weren't buying
(15:51):
a new car, we're buying a secondhand car.
So it's like, you know, you haveto go on, you go on these again.
Google's terrible as well,because you're like you can't
even trust the internet,Williams.
Can you believe it?
You can't trust the internet.
Like, best most reliable secondhand cars, and you just get hit
with a load of stuff, and like,I don't know who who's written
this.
Do I trust it?
Is it actual?
SPEAKER_00 (16:12):
Yeah, but you know, who knows what will happen.
Paranoid me as well, I wasthinking there's a conspiracy
theory with the um so with ourlast car that was we're paying
that off monthly.
SPEAKER_03 (16:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:23):
And then after I don't know, four years, whatever
it was.
Paid it off, lovely.
Got a car.
That monthly payments are comingout now, so we're actually quids
in.
Lovely.
It's like getting a pay rise.
It was the same month that itbroke down, kaput.
So I'm sure, I'm sure there'ssome sort of like I don't know,
(16:45):
some sort of digital sensor inthe thing, right?
They've paid off now.
All right, someone presses thebutton at the finance place,
boom, blows up.
You have to get a new card, anew 100%.
SPEAKER_02 (16:56):
I I am with you on this one.
I agree with you on thisconspiracy because like Apple
phones are a prime example,aren't they?
Like when whenever the new Applephones released, the ones that
are like five years older justsuddenly start getting a bit
slower.
And they're having to paythey're having to pay out,
aren't they?
Because they're like that it wasproven that they were throttling
older devices, yeah, and notsupporting it.
(17:17):
It it's mad, it's really mad.
So there's a there's a companycalled Back Market.
So we recently purchased LA needa new phone because she was on
like an Android phone that wasabout 97 years old.
And a couple of years ago, whenI need a new phone, I bought
mine from Bat Market becauseagain, I'm not gonna buy a brand
new phone, they're tooexpensive.
But I don't I don't we don't buythe phones with the contract
(17:39):
because you end up just payinglike 40 quid a month, and you're
like, oh, I've actually spentlike this phone was 500 quid and
it's cost me a thousand quidbecause I've been paying it off
of things.
So we we we've we've been in thefor the last I don't know five
years buying kind ofthree-year-old phones
secondhand.
So this company called BatMarket, who are big into kind of
(17:59):
their whole motto is aboutreusing tech and not just
throwing it and landfill and allthat kind of stuff.
They had purchased a load ofDell laptops, and because
Windows Windows were notupdating and supporting Windows
10 anymore, all these systemswhich are good, like the hard
drives were fine, the RAM wasfine, the keyboards were fine,
(18:20):
the screens fine, everything wasfine with the actual computer,
but the operating system wasn'tbeing updated.
So they got a shitload of them,wiped them all, and put Linux
on, which is like a freeoperating system, and then they
were selling them for 99 pounds.
Like, if you need a laptop thatcan do all these things, 99
pounds gets you a really goodpiece of kit.
The same with like our phones.
(18:40):
Like, I bought like an iPhone12, and I think I was I think it
was like 220 quid.
And like I've had it for likethree years now, it's brilliant.
Like, why would I yeah, so it'sit's the same with cars, like my
dad always my dad was alwayslike it's one of the biggest
money picks you can do is buyinga brand new car because of the
depreciation, etc.
So in my head, I'm like, no, I'dI I'm not a car person, it's not
(19:03):
so I will go and buy a day oneNintendo Switch 2.
I will jizz money up the wall onthings like VR and you know
records or stuff that is juststupid.
That's what I like to waste mymoney on.
Cars, I'm not that that don'tother than big shiny red trucks,
which I just like becausethey're cool.
SPEAKER_00 (19:22):
And I hate that whole thing of as soon as you
drive it from the uh the salesgarage, it drops a third in
value.
I hate it.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02 (19:32):
Well, maybe that's why the PCPs and the HPs are so
popular, maybe because that'sjust like you know, I I have a
budget each month that I'mwilling to spend on a car.
Like if it's like I'm happy withfinances working now, it's like
you know, they literally workmonth to month.
SPEAKER_00 (19:45):
This is what I've got.
Yeah.
I haven't got a big load ofcash, I've literally just got my
monthly pay.
SPEAKER_02 (19:50):
Yeah.
What can I get?
So it's been interesting, it'sit's really interesting.
It's and cars just seem soexpensive.
Like I remember when I wasyounger, I was like against the
inflation, of course.
It is it's really ridiculousthing to say.
But looking at the new listprice, uh the new list price of
what like I would seem as likepretty normal car, like to me,
as an example, like a herndicelike it's hern die that's an
(20:13):
that's a normal person's car,that's a that's a family car,
like a Ford Fiesta and stufflike that.
Ford Fiesta, they don't do FordFiesta anymore, Walms, they
don't even exist.
Found that out.
I was like, what?
What's that?
Why don't you do Ford Fiesta's?
Can I have a course, VauxhallCoarser?
But even like you know, a voxel,the list price brand new, it's
like 20 plus thousand.
I'm like, what the bloody hell?
Yeah, he's got 20 odd grandspare to go and buy a car, but
(20:36):
anyway, different worlds,Williams, different worlds.
SPEAKER_00 (20:39):
I mean, down here, as you can imagine, we have
quite a few sort of Volkswagenvans.
And um there's a nice one, oh Ilike that.
So I I looked into it and it waslike 40-50 grand.
SPEAKER_02 (20:50):
It was like that's mad, innit?
SPEAKER_00 (20:54):
Well, that's more than a deposit for a house.
It's you know, it's yeah.
Yeah, it is a house for a carback of the day.
SPEAKER_02 (21:02):
Well, no, that maybe that's it.
Maybe that's the idea.
I'm ten year one in buying acanal boat.
It gets more appealing week byweek.
Just buy a little canal boat,stand up and down the canals.
Lovely.
Grow some plants and some growsome crest on the roof.
Happy days.
I think we've I think this thissection of the podcast may be
like old man podcast withperfect gnomes.
(21:23):
Moaning about the price of cars.
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Pine nuts and cars.
Lovely.
SPEAKER_02 (21:28):
We've talked we've talked about the ingredients of
nuts, about moaned about theprice of cars, moaned about the
sales of cars, moaned about howPCP and HP and all this stuff's
very confusing.
Moan about interest rates,Williams.
SPEAKER_00 (21:41):
I mean we're trying to work out why we've we hit a
peak, it seems, and our audiencegrade sort of dropped.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (21:48):
That's true.
We're turning to grumpy old menwho eat snacks and warble on
about you know, fucking my day.
You could buy a Ford Friesta for50p.
No, you can't even buy a FordFriestra, and if you could it'd
be 50 grand, Sebastian.
Sorry, listeners.
Sorry, listeners.
We'll try and bring you back tohappiness.
(22:08):
Just if you go and car shopping,I suppose this could be a tip
for dad.
SPEAKER_01 (22:11):
If you go and car shopping dads, tips for dad.
SPEAKER_00 (22:14):
Tips for dad with your dad.
Yeah, for dads.
Get your tips out for the dads.
SPEAKER_02 (22:20):
Get them out.
Um this isn't wasn't one tip Iwrit down, but I'm like it was
not a tip I wrote down.
Oh, here we go.
But I'm guess like if you if youare gonna go car shopping, I
don't know.
Take someone who knows aboutcars, or I suppose do some
homework first.
Because I suppose at least Ihave researched it, it did help
me a little bit.
A little bit.
I'd say it did help a littlebit.
(22:42):
So that would be a tips forthat.
SPEAKER_00 (22:43):
Why am I sure that's so I was a as a kid?
The the mindset was a atwo-litre engine would be better
than a 1.5 litre engine, athree-litre engine is better
than a 2.5, whatever.
Yeah, bigger, more litres.
Bigger number, bigger power.
Acceleration.
Yeah, yeah.
Whereas now it's well no,because actually that one litre
(23:07):
is actually a lot faster thanthat 2.5 because it's a hybrid
or whatever, and it's like itdoesn't need as much power to do
what it needs to do.
What what what?
It depends on your priorities,isn't it?
Like bigger numbers, better thebigger the number, the better,
surely.
No, oh depends on the situation,don't it, Wells?
(23:28):
Exactly.
So that's uh yeah, so veryconfusing.
SPEAKER_02 (23:30):
Size is a matter of things.
Very confusing.
Well, speaking of size doesn'tmatter, this was what I was
gonna do about Tips for Dadstoday.
I'm gonna turn tips on Tips forDads on its head because I got
hit with a situation where Icould have done with a tip and I
didn't know what to do.
So I uh so instead of tips fordads, I'm gonna request if any
of our listeners have tips forthis situation.
(23:52):
Okay.
Because I was flummoxed and Ididn't know what to do.
SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
And where did they write in for this uh feedback?
SPEAKER_02 (23:58):
Uh they could they could email us at uh firstlook
gnomes at outlook.com.
That would be a great way to getin touch with us and give us
your tips for dads.
Anyone, it could be a m-itdoesn't have to be a dad who
writes the tip, but any a mummight have some good advice on
this one.
But um my son is uh 10 years oldnow.
And um this morning, in fact, heuh he got out of the shower and
(24:25):
you can see where this is going.
He's gotten to the age where hehe wanted to ask me like when
when k when little boys arelittle, they're like willy
Willie.
Well Logan, you know, he'sgetting to the age nowhere, he's
probably aware of his Willie.
Ten year olds, it's a differentawareness of their Willie.
(24:47):
And it's a bit like Dad, thisthing here.
So what's it for?
Does it say this?
Well, no, I'm not I won't justgo to the exact words, but it's
like is it is it the right size?
And like because obviously he'sdoing he's doing swimming
lessons now at school and stuff,so there's lots of other boys
(25:07):
and they're all seeing things,and you can just see like the
starting of the ideas of pubertyand other boys also have and not
every widdy looks the same, andyou know, curiosity.
So the curiosity is kicking in,and it's not curiosity about
(25:28):
dad.
Well, tell me about the plants.
It's dad, what are testicles?
You know, it's like you know,dad, why why do I have nipples?
You know, think the questions,the questions are changing.
And he asked me, he said, Dad,is my Willie normal?
(25:49):
And I'm just like, Of course itis, son.
Yes, of course it is.
SPEAKER_00 (25:53):
Well, on the on the nipple front, I think I can
partially answer that.
But we as we uh begin ourjourney in the womb.
SPEAKER_02 (26:02):
Imagine imagine you're talking to a 10-year-old
here.
I need I need to know what yousay to a ten-year-old about
this.
SPEAKER_00 (26:06):
Oh no.
So you're beginning your journeyin the womb.
What's a womb?
Yeah, I give up already.
Um yeah, but it's not it's notdefined, it's not defined what
sex you're gonna be at at thatpoint.
So you're sex?
So you your gender, so you'renot your gender's What's gender
(26:28):
these days, Williams?
Wow, that is yeah, yeah, that'strue, actually.
SPEAKER_02 (26:31):
Alright, I'll be quiet, I'll be quiet.
SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
But the the process starts, and your nipples and all
that that element starts beforeyour chromosome, whatever,
decides what gender you are, andthen it's like right.
So that that pit is alreadystarted in the process.
SPEAKER_02 (26:47):
So it's like a fail-safe.
So whether you're a boy or agirl, you know, if you do turn
out to be a girl, you got nips.
If you're a boy, you don'treally need them, but they were
there just in case you ended upbeing a woman.
SPEAKER_00 (26:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (26:58):
Okay, very good.
I don't think a ten-year-old.
Yes, and if you've got any tipson how to talk about or when
when you get blindsided with achat with a question about
biology and your umbiology by a10-year-old, and you can't think
(27:18):
in your feet, because this wasearly, this was like flipping 25
to 7 this morning.
So like you're already a bitlike, I'm just trying to make
porridge.
I haven't got the brain power tothink about this.
What what do you do, listeners?
How do you deal with these kindof things?
Any tips to help us out for thenext inevitable time one of
these conversations comes up?
Because I I really was like, ohcrap, I don't know what to do
(27:41):
here.
There is gonna be more.
And I was like, I was like, ohwell, ask you can't say ask your
mum.
It's yeah, ask your mum aboutyour willing.
Like, no, and it's a lad thing,it's a dad thing.
So anyway, yes, that was thatwas interesting.
So look at looking for more tipsfor dads, please.
SPEAKER_00 (28:01):
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Um I I I wrote a little tip aswell, tip for dads, just saying
that uh so TV isn't isn't allbad for toddlers.
I know a lot of people are veryanti-TV, but we we do he does
have a little bit of a uh bit ofscreen time.
And uh he went to the opticianstoday, actually.
They went to the opticianstoday.
Very good.
A little bit of concern with oneof his one of his eyes.
(28:23):
Something potentially going onthere, so worth worth checking
out.
And he watched this show calledMaddie Maddie Do you know,
Maddie's Do You Know showsomething that's called Maddie.
Maddie used to be one of myfavourites, and uh yeah, watched
an episode where she basicallygoes to goes to the opticians
and uh he went to the opticianshimself and uh he recognised it
(28:45):
all from the show.
And the optician there were youknow, she wasn't gonna get the
machines out and test it and allthat sort of stuff.
But then he he looked out tothis machine and he was looking
at himself whilst the opticianand sort of Georgie were uh were
chatting.
He's like what Maddy does, whatI do.
And he he remembered the sort ofthe balloon picture, hot air
balloon picture thing.
(29:06):
So he wanted to do that, and hedid that and he put on some 3D
glasses and things, and yeah, hehe was he loved it.
He loved it.
So yeah, I think because of theTV episodes, it kind of helped
him get ready for the auditionsand uh that's class.
And yeah, and his eyes are allfine.
In fact, they said he's seeingstuff that uh five-year-olds can
(29:28):
see, so nice.
Yeah, so that's good.
SPEAKER_02 (29:31):
That is good.
So TV's not all bad, Wallyams.
SPEAKER_00 (29:34):
TV isn't all that bad for you.
SPEAKER_02 (29:36):
Who says like TV's bad for toddlers?
Like, because a lot of peopledo.
SPEAKER_00 (29:39):
A lot of people do.
Really?
I think I think like withanything, it's all moderation,
isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (29:45):
It's moderation, sure.
Like if if your child watches inthe night garden or you know,
hey Dougie, for a little forlike 20 minutes or something
while you're making dinner, isthat bad?
Like you can't all what youcan't helicopter parent them all
the time.
Time where you're just like,right, okay, my child is never
going to leave my side.
(30:05):
You know, every time you go ifyou go to the toilet, like TV
TV's fun.
TV is like as an adult, TV'sfun.
As a kid, TV's fun, as long asit's not the only thing you do.
SPEAKER_00 (30:15):
Yeah, no, it's not, it shouldn't be an all-day thing
or anything like that.
But no, even when you're anadult, in this instance, yeah,
Maddy, Maddy's.
I mean, she's aimed at slightlyolder kids, but yeah, he's he's
learning quite a bit.
SPEAKER_02 (30:27):
Um yeah, that that's a really good idea as well.
SPEAKER_00 (30:30):
It's not a replacement, obviously, to you
know, obviously learn stuff fromgoing to opticians themselves.
But because he saw the show, itjust helped with his it was
recognition rather than justbeing fear.
SPEAKER_02 (30:40):
Like it's like, oh okay, I it's it's it's a safe
way to introduce it to him whilehe's not there.
And then when he goes, Oh, cool,I've seen this.
So it straight away takes awaythat anxiety of what is this?
What are these people?
Why is this woman trying to lookinto my eyes?
She's coming right to my face.
SPEAKER_00 (30:54):
Look into my eyes.
SPEAKER_02 (30:57):
Good tip, Wallyams.
Tip.
That was a good tip.
SPEAKER_00 (31:01):
You said tit then, I think.
SPEAKER_02 (31:04):
I think he wanted to hear tit because you've been
talking about nipples.
Or maybe you wanted to hear theword tip because you've been
talking about your package andits cheese.
I don't know, Wallyams.
You're just filth.
You're just filth.
I can't do anything about that.
unknown (31:15):
Tips.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
Um, it's my first look.
Um this episode's been a bit uhbit pint drinking crazy.
Pints and nuts.
Um I had a first look, it wasquite a few weeks ago now.
Um my good friend Pete.
My good friend Pete.
Um he bought me um a pinter.
(31:39):
I don't know if you heard ofthese.
A pinter.
So I've not.
Yeah, so it's it is basicallyyou can create your own fresh
brew at home.
So it's kind of a halfway housebetween your own home brewing
kit and buying a beer.
So it's kind of so you get youryou can buy your your packs of
(32:03):
oh, what's it called?
SPEAKER_02 (32:06):
Hops and flavour?
SPEAKER_00 (32:07):
Yeah, basically.
So you've got your sort of youryour own little brewery kit, and
you basically you have to yougotta have to wash it out, get a
nice, get all clean, put thislike hops flavour stuff in, a
few of the bits, put a load ofwater in it, whack it in the
fridge, about a couple weekslater, and you got a lovely
(32:30):
fresh brew.
So the pack doesn't like so youcan buy different packs.
Usually sort of branded ones,you can get like Guinness ones,
you can get you get all sorts ofones, and you just yeah, fresh,
and it's it's to date.
So I've had quite a few uh atPete's place, and I've only done
one myself with my dad a fewweeks ago.
(32:51):
But other beers that I've hadfive pints of, I usually get I
would get some sort of hangover.
Whereas this stuff no hangoverat all.
Lovely fresh, fresh beer.
Yeah, well recommended.
Obviously, you've got to bakeit, you've got you know you
can't get right a fancy beer,you've got to wait two weeks.
(33:14):
But yeah, about average forabout£20 for sort of ten pints.
Ten pints, yeah, you get tenpints out of it.
Or would you put it in buttonsor something?
No, no, you just pour it, soit's already so the yeah, it's
up, so it's got like a tap, soit looks like a it looks like a
keg in a way.
Okay, you put the stuff in thekeg, about ten pints worth, and
(33:35):
then you can basically attach aa handle to it, and then when
it's when it's ready, you canbasically pour straight from the
straight from the cake.
Incredible.
Um but uh yeah, so you put it.
SPEAKER_02 (33:46):
So you get like you get a little keg to start, and
you just fit you basically fillit with fresh water, fill it
with the ingredients, let it sitthere and just ferment for a
couple of weeks, and then pullthe lever direct from this,
right, and you've got freshbeer.
SPEAKER_00 (34:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:02):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (34:03):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
And does it this is a silly question, but I know
when so we me and my mate Willused to brew well used to, like
as we were such professionals.
We tried it a couple of times,we bought the kits and went the
whole hog.
And obviously, then you have tokind of measure it for the
alcohol and all that kind ofstuff.
So this stuff, does it does ithave the buzz?
Does it get you are you like, ohyeah, there's definitely booze
in there?
SPEAKER_00 (34:24):
Oh yeah, oh definitely, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:26):
And it's no hangovers so far.
That's amazing.
I'm just googling quickly, itlooks brilliant.
SPEAKER_00 (34:34):
You would, I'm sure.
Obviously, people's alcoholtolerance levels are different,
but yeah, for me, yeah, nohangover.
It's just like, yeah, fresh,fresh bit.
There's one particular becausethere's all different brands.
I mean, I'm sure you're on thesite at the moment, and there's
all different brands in there.
There's one that was really,really good.
I can't remember what it'scalled now.
(34:55):
Shadow and cream Irish Stout.
But um, yeah, so you got you gotyou got anything from your
lagas, your Mexican lagos, toyour to your stouts.
So uh Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (35:07):
Wally was this is a whole new world.
Oh new.
So did did you did you make Petedid he buy you the pointer kit,
like the three pointer three?
What a nice guy.
So I didn't get them all brandedas well.
Wow, you can get like a GuinnessGuinness one of Bruno.
SPEAKER_00 (35:25):
Actual beers, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (35:27):
Oh, I know what I'm asking for for Christmas now.
I wanted a new drill, but Ithink that may have changed.
So, how many something's are yougiving us, Wadiums?
Because this looks like an increand which beer has been best so
far?
Are the ones you've made?
What's been your favourite?
SPEAKER_00 (35:42):
Well, I've not made that many, I've only made one
myself.
So Pete, he's got one himself,and he's he's the gentleman that
is, he's invited me over to sortof test them with him.
Um and yeah, most of them arereally good.
I'm trying to remember.
Is there like a Yeastie Boys?
I think it's called The YeastyBoys, nice.
Yeah, I think it's called theYeasty Bruce.
(36:04):
But yeah, really good.
We enjoyed that one.
With my dad, I made uh we made aGuinness Porter.
Nice.
Actually, yeah, I mean I gothim, so yeah, so you put you put
your so you put your cleaningstuff in because with and
similar to your actual homebrewing, you need to make sure,
you know, because you're usingsort of yeast and stuff, any uh
bit of bacteria going, it'lljust ruin the whole process and
(36:25):
just yeah, it won't work.
So you've got to make sure youproperly clean out uh clean out
the keg each time.
SPEAKER_02 (36:32):
And then would you use like bleach or something?
SPEAKER_00 (36:34):
Or no, you just got this special powder stuff, which
probably is the equivalent ofbleach and just kills it all
without uh affecting your beer.
And uh yeah, at the time I gotmy got my dad to uh you've got
to sort of shake it around for30 seconds, so I got him shaking
it, and I just stood therecounting, supervising the
(36:56):
process.
And then yeah, put your waterin, put your your hops flavour
from your from your pack, whichis just yeah, just a like a it
looks like uh the GuinnessPorter is like just putting like
uh licorice syrup into your intoyour keg with the water, and
then just yeah, wait patient thepatience is the key bit.
(37:16):
So that that's your only conagainst uh buying a beer from
the shop is you've got to waittwo weeks, obviously.
But you've got that satisfactionof you made it.
Not to an extent of the homebrew made it, but you made it.
So you obviously it is still a apre-made beer in terms of the
flavourings and hops and allthat cons to stuff.
(37:38):
But you can make it slightlydifferent depending on if you so
if you add an extra stage in thefridge, I think it's called
crashing or something.
I can't remember.
Yeah.
But you can put it in the fridgeand upside down and crash it,
that helps with the freshnessand the flavor as well.
So there's little bits you cando, and you can sort of play
(37:59):
around with the you get an appas well, and you can sort of
make notes in terms of a let itbrew.
So it gives you a recommendedamount of days of brewing, a
recommended amount of days ofcrashing if you want to,
optional, and a recommendedconditioning time.
But you can sort of play aroundwith that if you wanted, so you
could add an extra because Ithink it says usually like 10
(38:20):
days would be recommended, but Ithink if you did like 15 days,
it might taste a bit fresh and abit better if you'd had it
conditioned for a bit longer andstuff like that.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Um this looks like the perfect thing to put in the
garage, especially like if youknow, like I we're doing a
podcast in a couple of weeks,put one on, get one on, or
you're having friends around forthe weekend or something.
Like fresh and did it, and doyou think it tasted fresher?
SPEAKER_00 (38:44):
Definitely.
SPEAKER_02 (38:44):
Yeah.
Definitely better, fresher.
SPEAKER_00 (38:47):
You know, sometimes you go to the pub and you just I
don't know, you got that you gotthat chemical taste, or yeah.
I don't know how to describe it.
Not fresh, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (38:57):
Wally's you should be on commission because I'm
gonna have to get me one ofthese.
So the review on the website,I'm on I'm on Pinter.co.uk.
So some amazing beer tastesbetter than any Pub L.
This is as good or better thanPub Beer, Gavin.
This is as good a better beer.
Oh, that's the same one.
So Gavin S has done a quote andthen the same one is there
again.
Amazing beer tastes Carl, oh mygoodness, some of their some of
(39:20):
their quotes are repeated.
Excellent products and beers, agreat addition to the Pinter
family.
SPEAKER_00 (39:25):
They're getting new ones, they're getting partnered
up with quite a few brands.
You know, you mentioned Guinnessthere and things like that.
I think Shipyard in there andthere.
But there's a few that you wouldget from a shop, whatever, but
they're just um yeah, fresh.
SPEAKER_02 (39:41):
It's a class idea, Wells.
It's a class I spent like withChristmas coming up, that's like
the perfect thing, isn't it?
Like, okay, I'm gonna get I'mgonna get one for Christmas and
you know get it ready so that onChristmas Day we've got some
fresh pints and some firstplace.
SPEAKER_00 (39:53):
Yeah, you say it's a good Christmas present, but
obviously it'd be good to havebefore Christmas, as well.
SPEAKER_02 (39:57):
Before Christmas, yeah.
Like birthdays or like say youhaving a barbecue coming up or
something like that, right?
We're gonna we plan a familybarbecue a couple of weeks'
time, get one of those.
Oh Wallyams, this is this isincredible.
What a great first This might bemy favourite first look you've
ever done.
SPEAKER_00 (40:11):
Oh really?
Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (40:12):
Yeah, that's an incredible kind of thing to kind
of be introduced to.
I've never heard of that.
And as a man who loves his beer,love it.
SPEAKER_00 (40:24):
And I think it's it's probably potentially a sort
of a gateway drug into the homebrewing, but you're no more than
me, but um And that's actuallyyou did you did it once I was
gonna say not that long ago, butprobably ten years ago.
But you actually got bottles,didn't you?
And got labels and you madelabels and sort of actually.
SPEAKER_02 (40:40):
Yeah, we did the we did the whole thing.
We got the whole kit and wewaited for like however many
weeks it was to do it, and webottled everything up and you're
talking probably six weeks ofthat sort of stuff, aren't you?
Or yeah, it wasn't worth it.
I didn't think it was worth itbecause there is there are
certain beers, so obviously,being from Wolverhampton, I love
Banks' beer.
And over here for it, it's likeyou buying beer from the shops,
(41:04):
it's not that expensive.
Like Tesco sell Banks' bitterfor a pound a bowl.
So you think, okay, it's prettygood.
The cost of Brunarone, it waslike it's gonna be cheaper, it
was a little bit cheaper, butall the effort that was involved
and all the kit and stuff,you're like, I don't know, it
didn't taste any better.
Our homebrew, maybe it was justbecause we weren't very good,
but it just didn't it didn'tseem to taste any better.
(41:27):
I think to do it properly,you've got to invest a lot of
time.
And I don't think most of us whoare casual drinkers and like a
beer on a Friday while we'redoing a podcast have got time to
be doing that, and yeah.
I don't know, maybe as we getolder we have more time, maybe.
But with kids and stuff, it'slike I haven't got a whole
weekend to brew beer and youneed space as well.
It's the space to do it thispoint.
SPEAKER_00 (41:47):
I mean, with this, you still see when I did my dad,
it was still fairly hot.
So for the brewing process, youneed to make sure it's sort of
room temperature 15 degrees typething.
SPEAKER_02 (41:58):
Oh okay, so you can't do it in the garage.
SPEAKER_00 (41:59):
So no, probably not.
I don't know.
Well, I don't know, I don't knowyour garage.
But cold.
Yeah, well, then probably not.
Yeah, so you want to sort ofyeah, you want yeah, 15 degrees
brewing, and then and then youwant space in your fridge.
Um you could put in the garage,you know, if it's cold enough.
SPEAKER_02 (42:17):
Put it in the garage when it's cold, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (42:18):
Yeah, but it's yeah, and and yeah, like I said, uh
about 10 days, but yeah, 10pints, and yeah, average price.
Obviously, there's differentones on there are more expensive
ones, um, but I think it's aboutaverage price, 20 quid.
You get 10 points, so that'sreasonable, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (42:34):
2 pounds for a fresh pint.
Yeah.
Very good, Williams.
Pinter, pinter.co.uk if you wantto learn more about it.
SPEAKER_00 (42:42):
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, like I said, thatwas from my friend, uh, my
friend Pete, who um Pete Petethinks he's um reincarnated, he
believes in um reincarnation.
Um, very good.
We call him uh repeat.
(43:03):
See you in a couple weeks, let'sdo.
SPEAKER_02 (43:06):
Bye everybody.
SPEAKER_00 (43:07):
Bye-bye.
Don't forget to subscribe,follow, like, and five star
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Write to us at firstlook gnomesat outlook.com.
SPEAKER_02 (43:30):
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Welcome to FirstLook Gnomes, your go-to podcast with
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Share tips with dads, and ofcourse the dad jokes and the bad
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But most importantly, we're hereto share our first looks.
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And share your thoughts, questions, and own
first looks with us atfirstluckgnomes at outlook.com.
SPEAKER_00 (00:25):
And uh over to you, Starchikis.
SPEAKER_02 (00:30):
Is there no intro this week, Williams?
Are you not singing?
SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Nein! Nein, das ist die Wirtvlog nuant episode von
First Look Gnomes.
Feinzen Usbussen! Feinsen FirstBenz! Nein! Fines and First
Bates! Nein!
SPEAKER_02 (00:49):
Nein! I I fell into that one, didn't I?
I fell into that one.
So, ladies and gentlemen, aswe're about to start recording
the podcast, there's like alittle countdown timer comes on.
And usually I just sit there andwait for the wonderful lyrics
and songs that come out of Mr.
Williams.
And then he just said over toyou and fell for it.
I should have realised we're onepisode nine.
He's gonna say nine, isn't he?
(01:09):
He's gonna germin me.
He's gonna germin me.
Nine.
SPEAKER_01 (01:12):
Punts of us, bites, pints of us, bites! Pints and
first bites! Yeah, pints andbest bites!
SPEAKER_02 (01:22):
Oh, okay, so it if we follow the rhythm of recent
episodes, this one should be apint.
However, yeah, I'm gonna say Oh,he's trying to give me a clue,
ladies and gentlemen.
I was gonna say, I reckon you'regonna mix it up, and this is
gonna be a first bite.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
It's a first bite!
SPEAKER_01 (01:37):
Wait!
SPEAKER_00 (01:37):
Pints a first bites! Uh I've got fully loaded chili
cheese peanuts.
SPEAKER_02 (01:47):
Fully loaded chili cheese peanuts.
Fully loaded chili cheese.
I love that peanut packet.
That packet is cool.
SPEAKER_00 (01:53):
From Snack Ride, it says in a little green box at
the top, it says I'm new.
It's good to know, isn't it?
It's good to know.
Me and Ms.
Hodge, because before thepodcast, we're literally just
talking about how we should uhlook after ourselves.
And I've got fully loaded chilicheese peanuts.
Um suitable for vegetarians.
Source of protein.
Oh that's something.
(02:13):
Well, on the last episode it wasa high source of protein with
the pork.
SPEAKER_02 (02:18):
How are you not ripped, Wally?
SPEAKER_00 (02:21):
The wife's buying these for me, so maybe it's a
little project she's working on.
SPEAKER_02 (02:25):
I reckon protein.
Wallyams is like Ned Flanders.
So every so often he just takesoff his shirt and he's just
absolutely ripped.
You look a bit like NedFlanders, actually.
I don't know.
But they're saying that.
You show that package, and youknow, so in the United Kingdom
on food they have the package ofthe not your package.
(02:46):
You see your package, Wally'sit's full of protein.
Um the the package has fivelittle things on it.
So it's fat, saturated fat,salt, and they're colour coded
to make it easy to know what'shealthy.
This is red, red, red, amber,amber.
Only amber for salt, though.
That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_00 (03:07):
That's not too bad, yeah.
Uh vegetarian, uh roastedpeanuts with a chili and cheese
seasoning.
SPEAKER_02 (03:15):
Oh, heartburn in a bag, that is.
Heartburn in a bag.
Let's give it a go, shall we?
Let's give it a go.
Let's give it a go, Alves.
Let's see what these are like.
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (03:27):
Can't taste the cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (03:29):
No cheese.
It's good, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (03:32):
Your pack your package shouldn't.
SPEAKER_02 (03:35):
Oh, okay.
You got a cheesy package.
SPEAKER_00 (03:39):
Cheesy nuts.
I've got cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (03:40):
You got cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_00 (03:41):
Hot cheesy nuts.
Yeah, I'm not really a fan ofcheese flavouring.
I like cheese.
But cheese flavouring.
No, you know what that cheesecheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:01):
Mini cheddars?
SPEAKER_00 (04:03):
Mini cheddars, but mini cheddar are made of real
cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:06):
Not cheese flavouring?
SPEAKER_00 (04:08):
No.
SPEAKER_02 (04:09):
How are they made of real cheese?
They're like crackers.
SPEAKER_00 (04:12):
Flavoured with real cheese.
SPEAKER_02 (04:14):
Okay.
As opposed to other flip cheeseflavours which isn't real
cheese.
Okay.
I think it's quite it's just oneof those ridiculous kind of
quizzes.
Which cheese snacks are actualactually flavoured with cheese
versus which cheese snacks areartificial cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (04:32):
Brands like Jacob's mini cheddars explicitly state
on their packaging and in theirproduct descriptions that they
are baked with real cheese togive them a cheesy flavour.
The process involves mixing realcheese into the dough before
baking.
SPEAKER_02 (04:50):
Are these artificial cheese Williams or are these
flavoured with real cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (04:55):
90% peanut.
SPEAKER_02 (04:58):
Well that's good to know.
SPEAKER_00 (04:59):
For peanuts, yeah.
And then a lot of stuff.
Ground turmeric, ground whitepepper, ground cumin, tomato
powder, smoked paprika, citricaclic powder, calcium lactate.
SPEAKER_02 (05:19):
So I'm gonna ask one of the question here.
So before this podcast, we saidthat the latest episode hasn't
got that many listeners.
And then he reads out theingredients of a packet of
peanuts.
And I'm just sitting herethinking, I wonder why I listen
to this.
Turmeric.
(05:40):
Grand paprika.
Riveting.
Is it real cheese or not cheese?
SPEAKER_00 (05:46):
Shall we move on to your first look, Matrodskis?
SPEAKER_02 (05:48):
Is it garlic powder?
Or is it artificial?
Nope.
SPEAKER_00 (05:57):
Crack on with your first lip, please, Mitronkis.
SPEAKER_02 (05:59):
With my first look, save us, save us.
Save us.
Okay, so we uh so this is thisis it's a it's a first look.
Um and it it shows a weakness,Wallyam.
It shows weakness, you know.
We've talked recently aboutbarbecues and tours and manly
men and the things that's manlymen and nuts and packages full
(06:22):
of cheese and all sorts of manlymanly things.
SPEAKER_01 (06:25):
Cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (06:27):
One of the things that a stereotypical man would
know about is cars, right?
Like engines, horsepower, fastcars.
I I know eck all about cars, yetwe had to go car shopping.
Oh, so this is I'm gonna is itfun though, Wallyams?
(06:49):
Actually, is it fun?
If you don't know anything aboutcars other than I like red ones,
is it actually a fun experiencewhen you've got people who are
like coming getting you in andsaying, Have a look at this
lovely car?
It's got X, it's got Y, it's gotthe same like, hmm, yeah, hmm,
yeah.
What a hmm.
Has it has it got mats and anair freshener?
(07:10):
And what colour is it?
Like you just you just feel likea fool, Wallyams.
So, yes, I'm gonna uh first lookat car shopping when you know
nothing about cars.
SPEAKER_00 (07:19):
Then you've got the different finance options and I
didn't know anything aboutthese.
SPEAKER_02 (07:23):
I I honestly this this blew my mind.
So we went in and we weretalking to a person about a car,
and they're like, So are youlooking at PCP?
Are you looking at HP?
And HP is literally like thesource.
I was like, what do you mean,hate?
What's HP?
I was like, what's that mean?
Like, are you buying the car?
I'm like, I'm here to buy a car.
(07:45):
What what like can I just dowhen I'll just like give you
some money and like have thecar?
Oh no, no, no, got all thesefinance options.
This one's 13.9%.
Well, what do you mean 13.9%interest?
I'm like, what?
SPEAKER_00 (07:58):
I'm buying a car, what all the prices of cars have
shot up now because everyonepays monthly.
SPEAKER_02 (08:05):
It's mad.
And then you know what they hadthe audacity to say.
So we were in a situation wherewe had sold the other car, and
we're like, cool, we're not wewe're not like we're not buying
expensive cars, we're not inthat market.
The guy had the audacity to say,Oh no, no, we don't make any
money from just selling thecars, all the money's in the
finance and stuff.
And I'm like, so uh back in theolden days, like if you could
(08:26):
afford to buy a car in cash, forexample, you'd get a better
deal.
Apparently, no, they want theywant you to be poor and skint
and have to pay all theinterest.
So this this whole experiencehas been very eye-opening and a
little bit terrifying.
I'm like, okay, so that's whythere's so many people driving
40,000 pound cars around,because they're all having them
(08:46):
on bloody tick and spendinggoodness knows how much money
just to drive them.
I was like, can you not justlike yeah, and I'm like I my
expectations were wrong as wellbecause we have again knowing
nothing about cars, usually theonly time we get a new car is if
(09:06):
one of say a parent or a friendis getting rid of a car, and
we're like, Oh yeah, we we coulddo with a new car, we'll buy
that off you.
And it's like you know, you buyit off a from of you buy it for
your mom, like our last car, wepurchased it from my mother
because you know, oh yeah, she'sgot a good car, it's just a high
like a really cheap old Hyundai.
And we're like, Cool, great.
And now we're like, right, we'regonna get another car, but no
(09:28):
one we know is selling a car, sowe had to go to look at car
showrooms, and I'm just like, Idon't like this.
People are asking me questions,and I don't know any of the
answers, and I just there's allthis paperwork that one looks
yeah, and even like the enginesand stuff.
Like, oh, you're looking forelectric, you're looking for
hybrid, you're looking for thisone.
Like, I'm just a car, please,with with the petrol, you go to
(09:50):
the petrol station, you put inthe car.
SPEAKER_00 (09:53):
You got the different warranty options, the
different service options.
SPEAKER_02 (09:56):
Well, well, what this guy tried to sell us this
thing, it's like, oh, you needthis stuff for your car, so that
if you get any spills and stuff,it's better for your car, and
like it protects the paint frombird poo.
I'm like, okay, should shouldthat not already be on there?
Is that not the whole point?
You buy a car and it's if a birdpoo Oh no, you have to you have
to buy this extra stuff on topof the actual car.
(10:17):
I'm like, so are they makingcars that are not good for bird
poo?
We live in we live in the UnitedKingdom.
There's a lot of bird poo andrain and mud.
Like, so are you saying all carson the road have to have this,
otherwise they're effective?
What are you trying to tell mebasically?
SPEAKER_00 (10:32):
It would just the hole in the roof.
SPEAKER_02 (10:34):
Um that's effectively what he said.
You need to pay£350 more in caseanybody has any spill, anybody,
any bird poo's on your car.
If you bird if a bird poo's onyour car and you don't have this
special form, this magicformula, your car will explode.
SPEAKER_00 (10:48):
There'll be a thing in 10 years where they'll be
like misselled, whatever.
SPEAKER_02 (10:52):
Just bollocks in it, Wellems.
Let's be honest, it's all justbollocks.
But I mean, I know people wholove cars and are really into
cars, one of whom we have talkedabout on this podcast before,
Manly Man.
He actually knows his stuff.
The Manly Man.
The Manly Man.
So I sent him a message and waslike, hmm, okay, we've got the
wife that one of these cars thatshe's looking at has an
automatic gearbox, is and shedoesn't want an automatic
(11:14):
gearbox.
What are they like?
And God bless him, he came backto me and he was like, uh this
gearbox will be and I can'tremember exactly what he said,
but he said it's a FGM.
Something managed manly.
And he said he's good.
He knew exactly what he wastalking about, and like
knowledgeable.
And I'm just like, I just I'mjust like, Can you can you just
buy the car for me?
That's one thing in my head.
(11:35):
I'm like, I don't know anythingabout this, I need to educate
myself.
But it's it's really funnybecause I rem I in a similar
way, you know what you know,don't you?
SPEAKER_00 (11:43):
Yeah, but no, no, you've got hybrid options,
electric options.
SPEAKER_02 (11:46):
Yes, and then they've got charging times and
rapid charges, and you know, I'mjust like, oh, this is I just
want to buy a car.
That's the reason we needed anew car is because the old car
was on its last legs, and thewife wasn't finding it
particularly comfortable todrive, and she wanted something
a bit more comfortable.
(12:07):
That's all what's what what doyou need?
Something comfortable, please.
That doesn't look too bad.
Gets you from A to B.
Gets you from A to B and isreliable, and then you start so
we've ended up watching loads ofthese car wah videos, which are
quite funny, but you're nocloser to actually understanding
anything and knowing anything.
Yeah, and yeah, it's all beenit's all been very stressful.
SPEAKER_00 (12:29):
So we had to buy ours the cause our car basically
broke down just before ourwedding celebration, didn't it?
So we had to buy it literallythe day after.
SPEAKER_02 (12:39):
I remember, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
Yeah, so that was I think they were rubbing their
hands as we walked in.
So yeah, so uh cars broughtdown.
We need one ASAP.
SPEAKER_02 (12:49):
And what have you got for me?
Here's my budget.
Just give me something.
SPEAKER_00 (12:54):
They loved it.
SPEAKER_02 (12:55):
So hey.
Well, do you know much aboutcars?
No.
No, so okay, so yeah, you knowwhat you know.
So it's funny because I rememberI have to take my own advice
here.
So I remember talking to mymother.
My mum's asking me aboutcomputer or she wants uh she's
trying to use iPads and stuff,and I'm trying to explain to her
about online safety.
(13:16):
Not in kind of like uh um youdon't send anyone any pictures,
mom.
Not that kind of online safety.
More uh, you know, if somebodysends you an email and says
they're a prince of Nigeria,they're not really, don't fall
for it.
And but my mum doesn't want toknow, she wants to use the
thing, but she doesn't actuallywant to, she doesn't necessarily
want to learn too much about it.
(13:37):
It's just like it's toocomplicated.
I just need it to do what Ineeded to do.
I don't necessarily want tolearn about it.
And I'm like, well, mom, you youneed to learn about it to
understand what you're doing,and then at the same time with
cars, I'm like, I don't reallywant to understand all this, I
just want the car.
So I'm like, ah you just you youcan't you can't say one thing
and then do it yourself.
(13:57):
So I've been trying to learn, Ihave been trying to educate
myself and learn a bit more.
And I feel like I do knowsomething, but it's still hard.
You go into like into the carshowroom, I actually said thank
you.
We ended up we did end upgetting a car, and we ended up
meeting a car showroom guy whowas actually very good.
And I kind of said to him, Isaid, it's been quite nice not
to to to meet one car showroomguy who's not sleazy or trying
(14:19):
to bambooz you're just likeokay, cool, I'll meet you where
you're at.
I get it, you don't know muchabout cars, and didn't want to
have a whole dance about priceand everything, and it was uh
that was quite refreshing.
So I'm happy we got there, butit's not I wouldn't say it's
been you know, a lot of peoplelove buying cars and stuff.
It hasn't given me much joy atall.
Hasn't been one of those thingswhere I'm like, oh, this is you
(14:40):
know, if you're spending likeyou know, spending more than a
thousand pounds on something,you think this should be really
enjoyable.
I haven't found it thatenjoyable.
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
Car salespeople have got better, but they've still
got that stigma, haven't they?
Car salespeople.
SPEAKER_02 (14:53):
Yeah, I think so.
I think there's still there'sstill an expectation when you go
in there that you're gonna tryyou someone's gonna try and wipe
your eye a little bit and takeyour naivety.
And it's almost like they'regonna know.
Yeah, I said to I said, You'vegot to go in there and just
gotta, you know, have a bit ofconfidence about yourself, hold
your pause, yeah.
Yeah, I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
They can smell it, they can smell it.
SPEAKER_02 (15:12):
They can.
Like your chili peanuts.
They can tell if it's realcheese or fake cheese, can't
they?
No, no, no, no.
These are not flavoured withreal cheese, it's artificial
cheese.
It's a mug.
Give them the full price.
SPEAKER_00 (15:25):
They do smell funny, actually.
Yeah, they do smell funny.
SPEAKER_02 (15:27):
Do they?
They smell like full pricepeanuts.
SPEAKER_00 (15:30):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (15:31):
So, yeah, that was my first look.
Well in buying a cup.
We've got one.
The wife is very happy with whatshe has chosen.
Good.
I like the colour.
I like the colour, it's lovely.
Uh the the sunshine is veryhappy with it.
Apparently, so we'll find outwhen we pick it up.
Is it reliable?
Yeah, so that's another thing aswell, because we weren't buying
(15:51):
a new car, we're buying a secondhand car.
So it's like, you know, you haveto go on, you go on these again.
Google's terrible as well,because you're like you can't
even trust the internet,Williams.
Can you believe it?
You can't trust the internet.
Like, best most reliable secondhand cars, and you just get hit
with a load of stuff, and like,I don't know who who's written
this.
Do I trust it?
Is it actual?
SPEAKER_00 (16:12):
Yeah, but you know, who knows what will happen.
Paranoid me as well, I wasthinking there's a conspiracy
theory with the um so with ourlast car that was we're paying
that off monthly.
SPEAKER_03 (16:23):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:23):
And then after I don't know, four years, whatever
it was.
Paid it off, lovely.
Got a car.
That monthly payments are comingout now, so we're actually quids
in.
Lovely.
It's like getting a pay rise.
It was the same month that itbroke down, kaput.
So I'm sure, I'm sure there'ssome sort of like I don't know,
(16:45):
some sort of digital sensor inthe thing, right?
They've paid off now.
All right, someone presses thebutton at the finance place,
boom, blows up.
You have to get a new card, anew 100%.
SPEAKER_02 (16:56):
I I am with you on this one.
I agree with you on thisconspiracy because like Apple
phones are a prime example,aren't they?
Like when whenever the new Applephones released, the ones that
are like five years older justsuddenly start getting a bit
slower.
And they're having to paythey're having to pay out,
aren't they?
Because they're like that it wasproven that they were throttling
older devices, yeah, and notsupporting it.
(17:17):
It it's mad, it's really mad.
So there's a there's a companycalled Back Market.
So we recently purchased LA needa new phone because she was on
like an Android phone that wasabout 97 years old.
And a couple of years ago, whenI need a new phone, I bought
mine from Bat Market becauseagain, I'm not gonna buy a brand
new phone, they're tooexpensive.
But I don't I don't we don't buythe phones with the contract
(17:39):
because you end up just payinglike 40 quid a month, and you're
like, oh, I've actually spentlike this phone was 500 quid and
it's cost me a thousand quidbecause I've been paying it off
of things.
So we we we've we've been in thefor the last I don't know five
years buying kind ofthree-year-old phones
secondhand.
So this company called BatMarket, who are big into kind of
(17:59):
their whole motto is aboutreusing tech and not just
throwing it and landfill and allthat kind of stuff.
They had purchased a load ofDell laptops, and because
Windows Windows were notupdating and supporting Windows
10 anymore, all these systemswhich are good, like the hard
drives were fine, the RAM wasfine, the keyboards were fine,
(18:20):
the screens fine, everything wasfine with the actual computer,
but the operating system wasn'tbeing updated.
So they got a shitload of them,wiped them all, and put Linux
on, which is like a freeoperating system, and then they
were selling them for 99 pounds.
Like, if you need a laptop thatcan do all these things, 99
pounds gets you a really goodpiece of kit.
The same with like our phones.
(18:40):
Like, I bought like an iPhone12, and I think I was I think it
was like 220 quid.
And like I've had it for likethree years now, it's brilliant.
Like, why would I yeah, so it'sit's the same with cars, like my
dad always my dad was alwayslike it's one of the biggest
money picks you can do is buyinga brand new car because of the
depreciation, etc.
So in my head, I'm like, no, I'dI I'm not a car person, it's not
(19:03):
so I will go and buy a day oneNintendo Switch 2.
I will jizz money up the wall onthings like VR and you know
records or stuff that is juststupid.
That's what I like to waste mymoney on.
Cars, I'm not that that don'tother than big shiny red trucks,
which I just like becausethey're cool.
SPEAKER_00 (19:22):
And I hate that whole thing of as soon as you
drive it from the uh the salesgarage, it drops a third in
value.
I hate it.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02 (19:32):
Well, maybe that's why the PCPs and the HPs are so
popular, maybe because that'sjust like you know, I I have a
budget each month that I'mwilling to spend on a car.
Like if it's like I'm happy withfinances working now, it's like
you know, they literally workmonth to month.
SPEAKER_00 (19:45):
This is what I've got.
Yeah.
I haven't got a big load ofcash, I've literally just got my
monthly pay.
SPEAKER_02 (19:50):
Yeah.
What can I get?
So it's been interesting, it'sit's really interesting.
It's and cars just seem soexpensive.
Like I remember when I wasyounger, I was like against the
inflation, of course.
It is it's really ridiculousthing to say.
But looking at the new listprice, uh the new list price of
what like I would seem as likepretty normal car, like to me,
as an example, like a herndicelike it's hern die that's an
(20:13):
that's a normal person's car,that's a that's a family car,
like a Ford Fiesta and stufflike that.
Ford Fiesta, they don't do FordFiesta anymore, Walms, they
don't even exist.
Found that out.
I was like, what?
What's that?
Why don't you do Ford Fiesta's?
Can I have a course, VauxhallCoarser?
But even like you know, a voxel,the list price brand new, it's
like 20 plus thousand.
I'm like, what the bloody hell?
Yeah, he's got 20 odd grandspare to go and buy a car, but
(20:36):
anyway, different worlds,Williams, different worlds.
SPEAKER_00 (20:39):
I mean, down here, as you can imagine, we have
quite a few sort of Volkswagenvans.
And um there's a nice one, oh Ilike that.
So I I looked into it and it waslike 40-50 grand.
SPEAKER_02 (20:50):
It was like that's mad, innit?
SPEAKER_00 (20:54):
Well, that's more than a deposit for a house.
It's you know, it's yeah.
Yeah, it is a house for a carback of the day.
SPEAKER_02 (21:02):
Well, no, that maybe that's it.
Maybe that's the idea.
I'm ten year one in buying acanal boat.
It gets more appealing week byweek.
Just buy a little canal boat,stand up and down the canals.
Lovely.
Grow some plants and some growsome crest on the roof.
Happy days.
I think we've I think this thissection of the podcast may be
like old man podcast withperfect gnomes.
(21:23):
Moaning about the price of cars.
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Pine nuts and cars.
Lovely.
SPEAKER_02 (21:28):
We've talked we've talked about the ingredients of
nuts, about moaned about theprice of cars, moaned about the
sales of cars, moaned about howPCP and HP and all this stuff's
very confusing.
Moan about interest rates,Williams.
SPEAKER_00 (21:41):
I mean we're trying to work out why we've we hit a
peak, it seems, and our audiencegrade sort of dropped.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (21:48):
That's true.
We're turning to grumpy old menwho eat snacks and warble on
about you know, fucking my day.
You could buy a Ford Friesta for50p.
No, you can't even buy a FordFriestra, and if you could it'd
be 50 grand, Sebastian.
Sorry, listeners.
Sorry, listeners.
We'll try and bring you back tohappiness.
(22:08):
Just if you go and car shopping,I suppose this could be a tip
for dad.
SPEAKER_01 (22:11):
If you go and car shopping dads, tips for dad.
SPEAKER_00 (22:14):
Tips for dad with your dad.
Yeah, for dads.
Get your tips out for the dads.
SPEAKER_02 (22:20):
Get them out.
Um this isn't wasn't one tip Iwrit down, but I'm like it was
not a tip I wrote down.
Oh, here we go.
But I'm guess like if you if youare gonna go car shopping, I
don't know.
Take someone who knows aboutcars, or I suppose do some
homework first.
Because I suppose at least Ihave researched it, it did help
me a little bit.
A little bit.
I'd say it did help a littlebit.
(22:42):
So that would be a tips forthat.
SPEAKER_00 (22:43):
Why am I sure that's so I was a as a kid?
The the mindset was a atwo-litre engine would be better
than a 1.5 litre engine, athree-litre engine is better
than a 2.5, whatever.
Yeah, bigger, more litres.
Bigger number, bigger power.
Acceleration.
Yeah, yeah.
Whereas now it's well no,because actually that one litre
(23:07):
is actually a lot faster thanthat 2.5 because it's a hybrid
or whatever, and it's like itdoesn't need as much power to do
what it needs to do.
What what what?
It depends on your priorities,isn't it?
Like bigger numbers, better thebigger the number, the better,
surely.
No, oh depends on the situation,don't it, Wells?
(23:28):
Exactly.
So that's uh yeah, so veryconfusing.
SPEAKER_02 (23:30):
Size is a matter of things.
Very confusing.
Well, speaking of size doesn'tmatter, this was what I was
gonna do about Tips for Dadstoday.
I'm gonna turn tips on Tips forDads on its head because I got
hit with a situation where Icould have done with a tip and I
didn't know what to do.
So I uh so instead of tips fordads, I'm gonna request if any
of our listeners have tips forthis situation.
(23:52):
Okay.
Because I was flummoxed and Ididn't know what to do.
SPEAKER_00 (23:55):
And where did they write in for this uh feedback?
SPEAKER_02 (23:58):
Uh they could they could email us at uh firstlook
gnomes at outlook.com.
That would be a great way to getin touch with us and give us
your tips for dads.
Anyone, it could be a m-itdoesn't have to be a dad who
writes the tip, but any a mummight have some good advice on
this one.
But um my son is uh 10 years oldnow.
And um this morning, in fact, heuh he got out of the shower and
(24:25):
you can see where this is going.
He's gotten to the age where hehe wanted to ask me like when
when k when little boys arelittle, they're like willy
Willie.
Well Logan, you know, he'sgetting to the age nowhere, he's
probably aware of his Willie.
Ten year olds, it's a differentawareness of their Willie.
(24:47):
And it's a bit like Dad, thisthing here.
So what's it for?
Does it say this?
Well, no, I'm not I won't justgo to the exact words, but it's
like is it is it the right size?
And like because obviously he'sdoing he's doing swimming
lessons now at school and stuff,so there's lots of other boys
(25:07):
and they're all seeing things,and you can just see like the
starting of the ideas of pubertyand other boys also have and not
every widdy looks the same, andyou know, curiosity.
So the curiosity is kicking in,and it's not curiosity about
(25:28):
dad.
Well, tell me about the plants.
It's dad, what are testicles?
You know, it's like you know,dad, why why do I have nipples?
You know, think the questions,the questions are changing.
And he asked me, he said, Dad,is my Willie normal?
(25:49):
And I'm just like, Of course itis, son.
Yes, of course it is.
SPEAKER_00 (25:53):
Well, on the on the nipple front, I think I can
partially answer that.
But we as we uh begin ourjourney in the womb.
SPEAKER_02 (26:02):
Imagine imagine you're talking to a 10-year-old
here.
I need I need to know what yousay to a ten-year-old about
this.
SPEAKER_00 (26:06):
Oh no.
So you're beginning your journeyin the womb.
What's a womb?
Yeah, I give up already.
Um yeah, but it's not it's notdefined, it's not defined what
sex you're gonna be at at thatpoint.
So you're sex?
So you your gender, so you'renot your gender's What's gender
(26:28):
these days, Williams?
Wow, that is yeah, yeah, that'strue, actually.
SPEAKER_02 (26:31):
Alright, I'll be quiet, I'll be quiet.
SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
But the the process starts, and your nipples and all
that that element starts beforeyour chromosome, whatever,
decides what gender you are, andthen it's like right.
So that that pit is alreadystarted in the process.
SPEAKER_02 (26:47):
So it's like a fail-safe.
So whether you're a boy or agirl, you know, if you do turn
out to be a girl, you got nips.
If you're a boy, you don'treally need them, but they were
there just in case you ended upbeing a woman.
SPEAKER_00 (26:57):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (26:58):
Okay, very good.
I don't think a ten-year-old.
Yes, and if you've got any tipson how to talk about or when
when you get blindsided with achat with a question about
biology and your umbiology by a10-year-old, and you can't think
(27:18):
in your feet, because this wasearly, this was like flipping 25
to 7 this morning.
So like you're already a bitlike, I'm just trying to make
porridge.
I haven't got the brain power tothink about this.
What what do you do, listeners?
How do you deal with these kindof things?
Any tips to help us out for thenext inevitable time one of
these conversations comes up?
Because I I really was like, ohcrap, I don't know what to do
(27:41):
here.
There is gonna be more.
And I was like, I was like, ohwell, ask you can't say ask your
mum.
It's yeah, ask your mum aboutyour willing.
Like, no, and it's a lad thing,it's a dad thing.
So anyway, yes, that was thatwas interesting.
So look at looking for more tipsfor dads, please.
SPEAKER_00 (28:01):
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Um I I I wrote a little tip aswell, tip for dads, just saying
that uh so TV isn't isn't allbad for toddlers.
I know a lot of people are veryanti-TV, but we we do he does
have a little bit of a uh bit ofscreen time.
And uh he went to the opticianstoday, actually.
They went to the opticianstoday.
Very good.
A little bit of concern with oneof his one of his eyes.
(28:23):
Something potentially going onthere, so worth worth checking
out.
And he watched this show calledMaddie Maddie Do you know,
Maddie's Do You Know showsomething that's called Maddie.
Maddie used to be one of myfavourites, and uh yeah, watched
an episode where she basicallygoes to goes to the opticians
and uh he went to the opticianshimself and uh he recognised it
(28:45):
all from the show.
And the optician there were youknow, she wasn't gonna get the
machines out and test it and allthat sort of stuff.
But then he he looked out tothis machine and he was looking
at himself whilst the opticianand sort of Georgie were uh were
chatting.
He's like what Maddy does, whatI do.
And he he remembered the sort ofthe balloon picture, hot air
balloon picture thing.
(29:06):
So he wanted to do that, and hedid that and he put on some 3D
glasses and things, and yeah, hehe was he loved it.
He loved it.
So yeah, I think because of theTV episodes, it kind of helped
him get ready for the auditionsand uh that's class.
And yeah, and his eyes are allfine.
In fact, they said he's seeingstuff that uh five-year-olds can
(29:28):
see, so nice.
Yeah, so that's good.
SPEAKER_02 (29:31):
That is good.
So TV's not all bad, Wallyams.
SPEAKER_00 (29:34):
TV isn't all that bad for you.
SPEAKER_02 (29:36):
Who says like TV's bad for toddlers?
Like, because a lot of peopledo.
SPEAKER_00 (29:39):
A lot of people do.
Really?
I think I think like withanything, it's all moderation,
isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (29:45):
It's moderation, sure.
Like if if your child watches inthe night garden or you know,
hey Dougie, for a little forlike 20 minutes or something
while you're making dinner, isthat bad?
Like you can't all what youcan't helicopter parent them all
the time.
Time where you're just like,right, okay, my child is never
going to leave my side.
(30:05):
You know, every time you go ifyou go to the toilet, like TV
TV's fun.
TV is like as an adult, TV'sfun.
As a kid, TV's fun, as long asit's not the only thing you do.
SPEAKER_00 (30:15):
Yeah, no, it's not, it shouldn't be an all-day thing
or anything like that.
But no, even when you're anadult, in this instance, yeah,
Maddy, Maddy's.
I mean, she's aimed at slightlyolder kids, but yeah, he's he's
learning quite a bit.
SPEAKER_02 (30:27):
Um yeah, that that's a really good idea as well.
SPEAKER_00 (30:30):
It's not a replacement, obviously, to you
know, obviously learn stuff fromgoing to opticians themselves.
But because he saw the show, itjust helped with his it was
recognition rather than justbeing fear.
SPEAKER_02 (30:40):
Like it's like, oh okay, I it's it's it's a safe
way to introduce it to him whilehe's not there.
And then when he goes, Oh, cool,I've seen this.
So it straight away takes awaythat anxiety of what is this?
What are these people?
Why is this woman trying to lookinto my eyes?
She's coming right to my face.
SPEAKER_00 (30:54):
Look into my eyes.
SPEAKER_02 (30:57):
Good tip, Wallyams.
Tip.
That was a good tip.
SPEAKER_00 (31:01):
You said tit then, I think.
SPEAKER_02 (31:04):
I think he wanted to hear tit because you've been
talking about nipples.
Or maybe you wanted to hear theword tip because you've been
talking about your package andits cheese.
I don't know, Wallyams.
You're just filth.
You're just filth.
I can't do anything about that.
unknown (31:15):
Tips.
SPEAKER_00 (31:16):
Um, it's my first look.
Um this episode's been a bit uhbit pint drinking crazy.
Pints and nuts.
Um I had a first look, it wasquite a few weeks ago now.
Um my good friend Pete.
My good friend Pete.
Um he bought me um a pinter.
(31:39):
I don't know if you heard ofthese.
A pinter.
So I've not.
Yeah, so it's it is basicallyyou can create your own fresh
brew at home.
So it's kind of a halfway housebetween your own home brewing
kit and buying a beer.
So it's kind of so you get youryou can buy your your packs of
(32:03):
oh, what's it called?
SPEAKER_02 (32:06):
Hops and flavour?
SPEAKER_00 (32:07):
Yeah, basically.
So you've got your sort of youryour own little brewery kit, and
you basically you have to yougotta have to wash it out, get a
nice, get all clean, put thislike hops flavour stuff in, a
few of the bits, put a load ofwater in it, whack it in the
fridge, about a couple weekslater, and you got a lovely
(32:30):
fresh brew.
So the pack doesn't like so youcan buy different packs.
Usually sort of branded ones,you can get like Guinness ones,
you can get you get all sorts ofones, and you just yeah, fresh,
and it's it's to date.
So I've had quite a few uh atPete's place, and I've only done
one myself with my dad a fewweeks ago.
(32:51):
But other beers that I've hadfive pints of, I usually get I
would get some sort of hangover.
Whereas this stuff no hangoverat all.
Lovely fresh, fresh beer.
Yeah, well recommended.
Obviously, you've got to bakeit, you've got you know you
can't get right a fancy beer,you've got to wait two weeks.
(33:14):
But yeah, about average forabout£20 for sort of ten pints.
Ten pints, yeah, you get tenpints out of it.
Or would you put it in buttonsor something?
No, no, you just pour it, soit's already so the yeah, it's
up, so it's got like a tap, soit looks like a it looks like a
keg in a way.
Okay, you put the stuff in thekeg, about ten pints worth, and
(33:35):
then you can basically attach aa handle to it, and then when
it's when it's ready, you canbasically pour straight from the
straight from the cake.
Incredible.
Um but uh yeah, so you put it.
SPEAKER_02 (33:46):
So you get like you get a little keg to start, and
you just fit you basically fillit with fresh water, fill it
with the ingredients, let it sitthere and just ferment for a
couple of weeks, and then pullthe lever direct from this,
right, and you've got freshbeer.
SPEAKER_00 (34:02):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:02):
Wow.
SPEAKER_00 (34:03):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:04):
And does it this is a silly question, but I know
when so we me and my mate Willused to brew well used to, like
as we were such professionals.
We tried it a couple of times,we bought the kits and went the
whole hog.
And obviously, then you have tokind of measure it for the
alcohol and all that kind ofstuff.
So this stuff, does it does ithave the buzz?
Does it get you are you like, ohyeah, there's definitely booze
in there?
SPEAKER_00 (34:24):
Oh yeah, oh definitely, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (34:26):
And it's no hangovers so far.
That's amazing.
I'm just googling quickly, itlooks brilliant.
SPEAKER_00 (34:34):
You would, I'm sure.
Obviously, people's alcoholtolerance levels are different,
but yeah, for me, yeah, nohangover.
It's just like, yeah, fresh,fresh bit.
There's one particular becausethere's all different brands.
I mean, I'm sure you're on thesite at the moment, and there's
all different brands in there.
There's one that was really,really good.
I can't remember what it'scalled now.
(34:55):
Shadow and cream Irish Stout.
But um, yeah, so you got you gotyou got anything from your
lagas, your Mexican lagos, toyour to your stouts.
So uh Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (35:07):
Wally was this is a whole new world.
Oh new.
So did did you did you make Petedid he buy you the pointer kit,
like the three pointer three?
What a nice guy.
So I didn't get them all brandedas well.
Wow, you can get like a GuinnessGuinness one of Bruno.
SPEAKER_00 (35:25):
Actual beers, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (35:27):
Oh, I know what I'm asking for for Christmas now.
I wanted a new drill, but Ithink that may have changed.
So, how many something's are yougiving us, Wadiums?
Because this looks like an increand which beer has been best so
far?
Are the ones you've made?
What's been your favourite?
SPEAKER_00 (35:42):
Well, I've not made that many, I've only made one
myself.
So Pete, he's got one himself,and he's he's the gentleman that
is, he's invited me over to sortof test them with him.
Um and yeah, most of them arereally good.
I'm trying to remember.
Is there like a Yeastie Boys?
I think it's called The YeastyBoys, nice.
Yeah, I think it's called theYeasty Bruce.
(36:04):
But yeah, really good.
We enjoyed that one.
With my dad, I made uh we made aGuinness Porter.
Nice.
Actually, yeah, I mean I gothim, so yeah, so you put you put
your so you put your cleaningstuff in because with and
similar to your actual homebrewing, you need to make sure,
you know, because you're usingsort of yeast and stuff, any uh
bit of bacteria going, it'lljust ruin the whole process and
(36:25):
just yeah, it won't work.
So you've got to make sure youproperly clean out uh clean out
the keg each time.
SPEAKER_02 (36:32):
And then would you use like bleach or something?
SPEAKER_00 (36:34):
Or no, you just got this special powder stuff, which
probably is the equivalent ofbleach and just kills it all
without uh affecting your beer.
And uh yeah, at the time I gotmy got my dad to uh you've got
to sort of shake it around for30 seconds, so I got him shaking
it, and I just stood therecounting, supervising the
(36:56):
process.
And then yeah, put your waterin, put your your hops flavour
from your from your pack, whichis just yeah, just a like a it
looks like uh the GuinnessPorter is like just putting like
uh licorice syrup into your intoyour keg with the water, and
then just yeah, wait patient thepatience is the key bit.
(37:16):
So that that's your only conagainst uh buying a beer from
the shop is you've got to waittwo weeks, obviously.
But you've got that satisfactionof you made it.
Not to an extent of the homebrew made it, but you made it.
So you obviously it is still a apre-made beer in terms of the
flavourings and hops and allthat cons to stuff.
(37:38):
But you can make it slightlydifferent depending on if you so
if you add an extra stage in thefridge, I think it's called
crashing or something.
I can't remember.
Yeah.
But you can put it in the fridgeand upside down and crash it,
that helps with the freshnessand the flavor as well.
So there's little bits you cando, and you can sort of play
(37:59):
around with the you get an appas well, and you can sort of
make notes in terms of a let itbrew.
So it gives you a recommendedamount of days of brewing, a
recommended amount of days ofcrashing if you want to,
optional, and a recommendedconditioning time.
But you can sort of play aroundwith that if you wanted, so you
could add an extra because Ithink it says usually like 10
(38:20):
days would be recommended, but Ithink if you did like 15 days,
it might taste a bit fresh and abit better if you'd had it
conditioned for a bit longer andstuff like that.
SPEAKER_02 (38:29):
Um this looks like the perfect thing to put in the
garage, especially like if youknow, like I we're doing a
podcast in a couple of weeks,put one on, get one on, or
you're having friends around forthe weekend or something.
Like fresh and did it, and doyou think it tasted fresher?
SPEAKER_00 (38:44):
Definitely.
SPEAKER_02 (38:44):
Yeah.
Definitely better, fresher.
SPEAKER_00 (38:47):
You know, sometimes you go to the pub and you just I
don't know, you got that you gotthat chemical taste, or yeah.
I don't know how to describe it.
Not fresh, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (38:57):
Wally's you should be on commission because I'm
gonna have to get me one ofthese.
So the review on the website,I'm on I'm on Pinter.co.uk.
So some amazing beer tastesbetter than any Pub L.
This is as good or better thanPub Beer, Gavin.
This is as good a better beer.
Oh, that's the same one.
So Gavin S has done a quote andthen the same one is there
again.
Amazing beer tastes Carl, oh mygoodness, some of their some of
(39:20):
their quotes are repeated.
Excellent products and beers, agreat addition to the Pinter
family.
SPEAKER_00 (39:25):
They're getting new ones, they're getting partnered
up with quite a few brands.
You know, you mentioned Guinnessthere and things like that.
I think Shipyard in there andthere.
But there's a few that you wouldget from a shop, whatever, but
they're just um yeah, fresh.
SPEAKER_02 (39:41):
It's a class idea, Wells.
It's a class I spent like withChristmas coming up, that's like
the perfect thing, isn't it?
Like, okay, I'm gonna get I'mgonna get one for Christmas and
you know get it ready so that onChristmas Day we've got some
fresh pints and some firstplace.
SPEAKER_00 (39:53):
Yeah, you say it's a good Christmas present, but
obviously it'd be good to havebefore Christmas, as well.
SPEAKER_02 (39:57):
Before Christmas, yeah.
Like birthdays or like say youhaving a barbecue coming up or
something like that, right?
We're gonna we plan a familybarbecue a couple of weeks'
time, get one of those.
Oh Wallyams, this is this isincredible.
What a great first This might bemy favourite first look you've
ever done.
SPEAKER_00 (40:11):
Oh really?
Wow.
SPEAKER_02 (40:12):
Yeah, that's an incredible kind of thing to kind
of be introduced to.
I've never heard of that.
And as a man who loves his beer,love it.
SPEAKER_00 (40:24):
And I think it's it's probably potentially a sort
of a gateway drug into the homebrewing, but you're no more than
me, but um And that's actuallyyou did you did it once I was
gonna say not that long ago, butprobably ten years ago.
But you actually got bottles,didn't you?
And got labels and you madelabels and sort of actually.
SPEAKER_02 (40:40):
Yeah, we did the we did the whole thing.
We got the whole kit and wewaited for like however many
weeks it was to do it, and webottled everything up and you're
talking probably six weeks ofthat sort of stuff, aren't you?
Or yeah, it wasn't worth it.
I didn't think it was worth itbecause there is there are
certain beers, so obviously,being from Wolverhampton, I love
Banks' beer.
And over here for it, it's likeyou buying beer from the shops,
(41:04):
it's not that expensive.
Like Tesco sell Banks' bitterfor a pound a bowl.
So you think, okay, it's prettygood.
The cost of Brunarone, it waslike it's gonna be cheaper, it
was a little bit cheaper, butall the effort that was involved
and all the kit and stuff,you're like, I don't know, it
didn't taste any better.
Our homebrew, maybe it was justbecause we weren't very good,
but it just didn't it didn'tseem to taste any better.
(41:27):
I think to do it properly,you've got to invest a lot of
time.
And I don't think most of us whoare casual drinkers and like a
beer on a Friday while we'redoing a podcast have got time to
be doing that, and yeah.
I don't know, maybe as we getolder we have more time, maybe.
But with kids and stuff, it'slike I haven't got a whole
weekend to brew beer and youneed space as well.
It's the space to do it thispoint.
SPEAKER_00 (41:47):
I mean, with this, you still see when I did my dad,
it was still fairly hot.
So for the brewing process, youneed to make sure it's sort of
room temperature 15 degrees typething.
SPEAKER_02 (41:58):
Oh okay, so you can't do it in the garage.
SPEAKER_00 (41:59):
So no, probably not.
I don't know.
Well, I don't know, I don't knowyour garage.
But cold.
Yeah, well, then probably not.
Yeah, so you want to sort ofyeah, you want yeah, 15 degrees
brewing, and then and then youwant space in your fridge.
Um you could put in the garage,you know, if it's cold enough.
SPEAKER_02 (42:17):
Put it in the garage when it's cold, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (42:18):
Yeah, but it's yeah, and and yeah, like I said, uh
about 10 days, but yeah, 10pints, and yeah, average price.
Obviously, there's differentones on there are more expensive
ones, um, but I think it's aboutaverage price, 20 quid.
You get 10 points, so that'sreasonable, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (42:34):
2 pounds for a fresh pint.
Yeah.
Very good, Williams.
Pinter, pinter.co.uk if you wantto learn more about it.
SPEAKER_00 (42:42):
Yeah.
Um, but yeah, like I said, thatwas from my friend, uh, my
friend Pete, who um Pete Petethinks he's um reincarnated, he
believes in um reincarnation.
Um, very good.
We call him uh repeat.
(43:03):
See you in a couple weeks, let'sdo.
SPEAKER_02 (43:06):
Bye everybody.
SPEAKER_00 (43:07):
Bye-bye.
Don't forget to subscribe,follow, like, and five star
review show.
Write to us at firstlook gnomesat outlook.com.
SPEAKER_02 (43:30):
Turmeric, humin, grand paprika, riveting.
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