December 3, 2025 • 27 mins
This week on First Look Gnomes… we’re everywhere at once.
From nursery drop-offs to the madness of tradespeople turning a “quick job” into a two-week saga, we dive into the most relatable parts of real life — gnome-style.
Then it’s onto the screen:
💥 The Boys – the characters causing chaos, and why it’s still one of the wildest shows on TV.
🚔 Blue Lights – our first look at one of the most talked-about police dramas in the UK.
Whether you’re a parent, a TV binge machine, or someone who’s still waiting for a tradesperson to “pop back tomorrow,” there’s something here for you.
🎧 First Look Gnomes: discovering life’s firsts one laugh at a time.
Two dads swap a maddening tradesperson no-show story for the simple joy of TV escapes and a proud first look at nursery life. We talk clear communication, childcare costs, Belfast pride via Blue Lights, and the small wins that keep families steady.
• contractor missed appointments
• comfort TV as stress relief and connection
• The Boys, Gen V, Celebrity Traitors, Blue Lights
• Belfast locations and local pride
• nursery settling strategies
• colds, immunity, and realistic expectations
• childcare costs, policy gaps, and work balance
• Mario Kart moments and finding joy in small wins
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to FirstLook Gnomes.
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And of course, the dad jokes andthe bad jokes.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:25):
Ten green bottles sitting on the wall.
Ten green bottles, Williamsdrank the ball.
And if one Hodgkiss gnome shouldaccidentally fall, there'll be
episode ten, season four,sitting on the wall.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Whee.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
Something a bit different.
SPEAKER_02 (00:47):
Beautiful, Waddams.
Beautiful.
SPEAKER_00 (00:49):
How are you, Mr.
Hodgkiss?
How have the last two weeksbeen?
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
The last couple of weeks have been good, Wadams.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
I'm still eating his nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
He's eating some nuts.
Throw back to episode nine.
Nine?
Um the last couple of weeks havebeen we've we've had some, I
tell you, Adams, tradespeople.
I'm gonna get straight into it.
Bloody tradespeople.
We we have had we have had up tohere, up to here with
tradespeople.
Some tradespeople are very good,but if you're a tradespeople for
(01:19):
the listeners, that's up tothere.
Up to there.
We have had some goodtradespeople, but the shit ones
bloody hell, Williams.
So here this right, here's thestory.
On Monday, we we worked ourbutts off trying to get some
stuff done so that on Monday theplasterer could come and start
its work.
So Monday gets to nine o'clock.
(01:40):
I'm there.
Usually they come like eight,nine, ten.
So okay.
Eight o'clock, no, yeah, that'sgood.
It's not that early.
Nine o'clock, ten o'clock,eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock.
Okay, where is he?
So I'll ring him.
Like, are you still comingtoday?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna bedown.
Me and a guy are gonna comedown, we'll start the boarding,
we'll be there soon.
SPEAKER_00 (01:59):
Me and a guy, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:00):
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four
o'clock.
Okay, he's he's clearly notcoming out, it's four o'clock.
I ring him, it's gonna be alittle bit more.
Yeah, well that's it.
I rang him.
He said, It's oh yeah, yeah, tenminutes, I'll be there in ten
minutes.
Comes down at quarter past fouron his own, looks at the job
that he's already quoted before,it's like, oh yeah, how much how
much stuff have we got?
I was like, this stuff, this isthe stuff you tell me to buy.
(02:22):
These are the plaster boardsthat you told me we needed for
the fucking job.
And these are the bags of theseare the bags of stuff we need.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, we might need some more.
Okay.
I'll be uh tomorrow, right?
So I'm gonna come tomorrow, I'mgonna be here, I'm gonna be here
at I'm gonna I'm not gonna gethere till eleven o'clock
tomorrow, and then I'll be hereat nine o'clock the next day,
eleven o'clock the next day.
So the next day comes.
Eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock,one o'clock, two o'clock, three
(02:44):
o'clock, four o'clock, fiveo'clock, rock.
I'll ring him.
And I'm like, uh sorry, no, Ididn't ring him.
I was like, okay, it's done a noshow.
It's done a no-show.
Okay, fine.
Wednesday time is gonna be hereat nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock, ten o'clock,eleven o'clock.
And I'm like, okay, just I'mlike, no, it's fine.
He's you know, whatever.
So it's six o'clock.
(03:05):
I couldn't.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
I rang him, said why why give you a time?
SPEAKER_02 (03:08):
Well, why don't we give me time of the day that
he's coming?
So I ring him.
I ring him at six o'clock.
I'm like, look, dude, you'remeant to be here yesterday,
you're meant to be here today.
Are you actually coming tomorrowor what?
He goes, uh huh.
I said, Lee, you're meant to behere.
Uh the fuck like he's pissed asa fart.
(03:29):
So he'd be bollocks.
He's meant to be here plasteringmy walls, putting pastaboard up,
and he's in the pub gettingbollocks.
So I'm just like, okay, forgetit.
Put the phone down.
SPEAKER_00 (03:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:47):
Next day, he doesn't show up.
Shock.
So I ring him.
At this point, I'm like, I'vehad enough.
I ring him.
He answers the phone.
Hey, Craig, what's going on?
How are things?
I was like, Lee, you meant to behere, Blasphere.
Oh, I had another job and theweather was good, so I had to go
there.
I'm like, he could have told me,he said, Did I ring you
yesterday?
I was in the pub.
(04:08):
And he was like, Did I ring you?
I seem to remember speaking toyou.
SPEAKER_01 (04:10):
I'm like, so I said, Lee, we had your book this week.
SPEAKER_02 (04:15):
This isn't on, yada yada yada.
Um, I'll be there, mate.
I'm come, I'm definitely gonnacome Monday.
So we're gonna we're gonna seeWellems.
I like this about sleep hanger.
Does he come this time?
But when I rang him and he waspissed, I was like, you know, I
was like, oh my goodness.
And this was a guy who wasrecommended to us.
(04:36):
So just yeah, ridiculous,absolutely ridiculous.
But you have to laugh, don'tyou?
So any trades people who arelistening, can I ask you,
please, just communicate withyour customers.
If you're not gonna turn up,most people will be like, okay,
fine.
Don't go to the pub and ifyou're in the pub, don't answer
the phone.
Don't answer the phone, just letsend it to voicemail and text
and say, Really sorry, my nan'sdied.
(04:59):
I don't know, say something, butjust well, I'll I'll do my first
look really quickly, right?
So I've done something, I'vebeen doing something recently
that I don't do very often,which is watching TV.
I am not a TV watcher, I playvideo games and I like to read
and listen to podcasts.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
This is my snooker.
SPEAKER_02 (05:19):
Yeah, I love Snooker, love Star Trek.
Obviously, I'm a geek, a nerd,but there have been there have
been three shows that I've beenwatching recently, and I'm like,
oh.
So the first one is again, Idon't know why I like it so
much.
Celebrity traitors love it.
Uh I don't know if you've beenwatching it, but big fan of
celebrity traitors.
Um anyone who has never watchedtraitors, it's it's a
(05:41):
effectively a game show aboutlying and deceit, and it's all
nonsense, but it's quite it'sreally well made, and some of
the um the celebrity ones arequite good.
Some of the celebrities have gota funny, like they've um Alan
Carr is hilarious.
Alan Carr is hilarious.
So celebrity traitors have beenexcellent.
Um, do you watch The Boys?
Or have you seen The Boys?
(06:02):
So The Boys is flippingbrilliant.
It's so wrong.
It's like it's it's satirical.
So it's about superheroes.
SPEAKER_00 (06:10):
Um, I think I watched a bit of the first
episode, I just couldn't.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (06:14):
Oh, you have to watch it.
It's some of some of it's it'ssome of the scenes in The Boys
have been the most shocked I'veever been watching TV.
It's like, what they they madethat?
I I don't know if I can I I wantto tell you about one of them.
And so one of the superheroes iscalled Termite, and is a bit of
a sexual fetish, is a is a bitof a sexual fiend, shall we say,
(06:36):
and he get he can make himselfreally small, and he is also he
likes other men, and he can govery small, and I'll leave it at
that.
SPEAKER_00 (06:47):
But it's um it doesn't sound like my sort of
show.
SPEAKER_02 (06:50):
I I it's one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
Anyway, the boys has a spin-offseries called Gen V.
Gen V season two is finishednow, and I've finished watching
it, and it's all so brilliant,really liked it.
So, yeah, and I finally gotround to watching the third
Squid Game season because what'sthe first two, and I hadn't got
round to watching the seasonthree, and it's just been wet
(07:12):
and miserable, and I'm like, Ifound time recently to actually
sit down and watch TV, and I'veI've really enjoyed it.
I've just been enjoying it.
Oh, and uh the best one we'veseen out of all of them is Blue
Lights season three.
Which so blue lights is set inBelfast, which is always cool.
The guys who wrote it actuallywrote it in the office above my
office, which is hilarious in inuh City East in Belfast, and
(07:37):
it's just it's like uh it's a uhpolice show about Northern
Ireland, and it's about thesquaddies and young squaddies.
So at the end of uh season one,they were just new.
Season two, they're a bit moreobviously in the second year,
season three now, it's a bitfurther down, and it's just
brilliant.
It's like funny, kind, full ofheart, and beautifully shot,
(08:00):
beautifully acted, beautifullywritten.
It's one of my favourite evershows.
It's just brilliant.
So TV at the mix got reallygood.
Yeah, you do, because it's it'sobviously filmed in Belfast and
it's about Belfast, and it'sjust it does some parts of it
make it look lovely, some partsof it you think I'd never go
there.
It's obviously some of the partsare extreme, and you know, you
(08:21):
know, the troubles of NorthernIreland are well documented, but
it's it's it's anyone who wantseveryone to come to Northern
Ireland, email first looknamesat OLUC.com.
I'll be your tour guide.
Take people around, it's abeautiful place, but it's really
good.
So like TV at the minute's justbeen really good.
I feel like TV's been good.
So Gen V and the boys,excellent.
(08:44):
Celebrity traitors is well wortha watch on the BBC.
Squid Game has been great.
Again, wrong TV, Gen V, the boysSquid Game, all really wrong.
SPEAKER_00 (08:54):
A US version Squid Games, do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (08:57):
I hope not, to be honest.
Like it's just grey as it is,like, don't muck around with it,
it's fabulous.
So that was my first look at ashitload of TV.
All of it is pretty trashy, noneother than blue lights.
Blue lights is actually reallygood and well written.
The rest of it's all justnonsense, but great for putting
your thumb up bum, mind inneutral, escapism.
SPEAKER_01 (09:18):
Which is cold.
SPEAKER_02 (09:20):
Put your thumb up your bum, put your mind in
neutral, and just escape.
Yeah.
You never heard that saying.
SPEAKER_00 (09:27):
No, you don't actually physically put your
thumb up your bum.
Not not.
That would just be veryuncomfortable.
I never know.
SPEAKER_02 (09:34):
It's not no, no, no.
It's uh I've got a final I'vegot an odd-shaped thumb, it
would just end up in it wouldn'tbe very comfortable, Alliams,
for anybody.
Any but my wife's sitting nextto me thinking, why are you
sitting like that?
Nor me.
Um please edit this bit.
I can't believe I just said thaton radio.
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
That bit staying in anyways.
Grab your rod.
Let's go to the fish ponderfeedback.
Fishponder feedback.
New listeners?
One percent one percent of ourlisteners are from Germany.
(10:20):
Well, they were before theepisode nine.
I think I think that uh thatnumber has dropped.
Um but yeah, the fourth mostlisteners are from Germany after
Canada States and the UnitedKingdom.
We've got some new listenersfrom Dallas and Texas.
Nice.
Heiderabad, Telanger.
(10:41):
Where's that then?
I don't know.
Hiderabad, Heederabad,Hederabad.
Ealing and uh Pegnitz inBavaria.
SPEAKER_02 (10:55):
Bavaria?
So more Germans.
SPEAKER_00 (10:57):
Pegnitz, yeah.
Welcome Germany.
SPEAKER_02 (10:59):
Welcome Dallas, welcome Kent, and welcome the
other place that I can't reallysay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
Pegnitz, Ealing, Hederabad.
Hederabad.
Nice.
Welcome, welcome new listeners.
So I did a I did a search forlatest feedback out there from
the feedback.
Yeah, fish bond feedback outthere via chat gibberty as Boris
Johnson.
SPEAKER_02 (11:24):
Have you seen that going round?
I have, yeah.
Chat Gibbert, I love chatity.
SPEAKER_00 (11:27):
Chaty.
Chat Gibberty.
A I uh Chat Gibberity.
I looked at Chat Gibberty, andthis is what it says.
It says, uh, so what peoplelike?
Uh on the podcast listing onApple Podcasts.
One listener writes, I'm notquite sure what I'm listening
to, but it makes me laugh.
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Uh similarly, someone put alisten, it's very random but
very funny.
And it says it suggests peopleenjoy its quirky random humour.
According to the site Refonic,the podcast has a five out of
five star average.
Nice, good, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (12:03):
Only one review, but that's fine, we'll take it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
The description of the show emphasizes quirky
insights, unexpecteddiscoverables, and off-beat
humour that makes learning fun.
A blend of entertainment andlight education.
SPEAKER_02 (12:17):
Unbelievable, Jeff.
SPEAKER_00 (12:19):
The hosts are two dads, Williams from Cornwall and
Mr.
Hodgkiss from Belfast, offeringa friendly chat about life's
hidden wonders.
The humour is described as veryrandom by listeners.
If you prefer tightly structuredor deeply investigative
investigative podcasts, thisfreeform style might feel a bit
loose.
SPEAKER_02 (12:38):
Oh yeah, it's very loose.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
It appears to cover a wide variety of topics, from
parenting and nostalgia to techand culture.
Good for variety, less say ifyou want a strong, consistent
theme.
Example topics, toddlers,YouTube train sets, a hematoma,
niggas nostalgia, and pottytraining.
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So in summary, if you likepodcasts that are light-hearted
and humorous, informalconversations rather than heavy
production, a mix of trivia,parenting antidotes, culture and
random topics, then FirstLookGnome seems to hit that mark.
If you prefer podcasts that aredeeply researched, with narrow
focus and serious tone, this maybe less what you're looking for.
SPEAKER_02 (13:25):
Very good.
SPEAKER_00 (13:27):
I think that's not too bad from chat gibberty.
SPEAKER_02 (13:29):
Chat Gibbert?
No, not at all.
I mean, I'm assuming you'rechecking the junk mail in the
email folder, right?
There must be lots of people whoare in the world.
SPEAKER_00 (13:38):
I imagine I need to write to um Microsoft.
I think there's something wrong.
SPEAKER_02 (13:43):
Someone's straight on the wire, right?
SPEAKER_00 (13:47):
But there we go.
That was that that's it for theuh the feedback.
SPEAKER_02 (13:50):
Very good.
So uh what about you, Well?
What's your first look thisweek?
SPEAKER_00 (13:54):
So my first look, um again, go back a little bit, uh
a couple months.
Um, but um a first look at uhnursery.
So uh Logan started nursery alittle while back.
Oh nice.
Um just uh yeah, just a littlefirst look at that.
So as a um as a uh first timeparent for nursery, a lot of
(14:17):
it's all new, isn't it?
It's all new.
So uh yeah, a bit of insight forothers out there might help, who
knows?
But yeah, so yeah, went tonursery, he loves it.
We're very lucky with the factthat he just runs in.
He doesn't, you know, there's nosort of upset.
He's just like see ya Off hegoes.
(14:40):
So there's there's a bit of thatelement of but uh yeah, the
Wi-Fi has been really good withyou know not making it too much
of a not too much of a thing interms of you know giving them
big hugs and oh gonna miss you,da da da da.
It's like yeah see you latertype thing in a nice way,
obviously.
But yeah, no, he's he's reallyenjoying it.
You get these so you you get alittle app.
(15:03):
So a lot of you know someparents might not know this
before they the first born goesto or only born goes to um goes
to nursery, but you get a littleapp that gives you little photo
updates and things, so you knowyou do get to see what's going
on.
We're very lucky with ournursery.
There's loads of activities ofoutside and inside activities.
(15:24):
They've got a a nursery dog aswell called Honey.
That's cool, and they've got me.
He loves all the sort of trainsets and the blocks, and yeah,
there's all sorts of thingsthere.
And yeah, he comes back withdifferent stories, and it's
difficult because there's somestories and then it's like
you're trying to decipher thestory and what's a real and
(15:46):
what's not, and then somestories you're like you start
panicking, and like because theother day he was telling me
about how he saved he saved oneof the kids because uh they were
locked in a cupboard, whichdidn't happen.
But then my brain's going, hangon, did uh one of the staff just
lock a kid in a cupboard?
(16:08):
Uh yeah, that's concerning.
But they didn't.
They didn't, or did they?
Who knows?
SPEAKER_02 (16:15):
You just can you can't well you let's hope you I
was gonna say you can't be toosafe.
That's scaremongering.
I'm sure it was just anaccident.
SPEAKER_00 (16:21):
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (16:22):
Or a misunderstanding or something.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
Yes, yes.
I might delete that bit just incase.
But yeah, I mean it's they singall these different songs up
there.
He comes home and he alwaystalks about the uh the row roya
boat song they do there, whichis his favourite.
Loves it, he says, loves it.
SPEAKER_02 (16:41):
It's a banger.
SPEAKER_00 (16:42):
But it is, it is.
But I've had uh probably atleast three different colds
since he's been to nursery.
So the stories are true whenthey go to nurse, they do bring
back all sorts of illness.
But it's all all good for theimmune system.
We found for Logan they puttogether like a little sort of a
storybook, uh, storyboard interms of so all the different uh
(17:06):
members of staff and thedifferent rooms and things.
So after his like initialsession and when he went to
nursery, you know, we can lookat this book and go, Oh, this is
safe, you know, what's thatroom?
And he gets to talk about it,and yeah, we found that really
helpful with him sort ofadapting uh adapting to it
because it's they have a littlesession to begin with, but then
(17:27):
it is very much in the deep endtype thing.
But uh yeah, he loves it.
It's great.
SPEAKER_02 (17:34):
How you and how you and Georgie find that because
it's like it is a big it wasfunny as well.
I remember from our I rememberfrom our perspective it was
almost a necessity because atthe time when we had Brady
Bunch, uh we didn't have a lotof Leslie Ann didn't have a lot
of maternity plan, I wasself-employed, so it was like
(17:55):
actually nursery was anessential because we had to go
back to work because we neededthe money.
So, like, how have you found itin terms of like okay, with you
know Logan's been there so much,the house probably felt quite
quiet because obviously likeLogan is post-COVID as well.
You I hope you know why we'resaying this in the podcast, but
(18:16):
you work at home, so you knowyou can you can see him in the
day, and now like when you'regonna say, Oh, he's not here.
Like, how have you have you andGeorgie found that?
SPEAKER_00 (18:23):
Yeah, well, I mean, Georgie's working part-time, so
it's not a full week, so thatthat sort of helps.
Um, so he's not there all week.
And when he started, it was thesame time as she started
part-time work, so for her itwas easier because it wasn't
like he's gone to nursery andsuddenly there's nothing to be
doing.
So she started a new job at thesame time, so she had that
(18:46):
distractions and things likethat.
But yeah, obviously there'salways going to be um you know,
because he's uh he's out ofearshot and eyesight, and you're
like and then you hear theseweird stories and you start
getting paranoid and you're likebut um Yeah, that that nursery
is um pay for government-wise,you know, people pay for the
(19:09):
snacks and food and stuff.
Yeah but you know, we we're verylucky.
We've got sort of you know, wehear stories about people that
they struggle because they'vegot to pay for pay for it
because the household income'sover a hundred grand, and we're
like that's not a problem forus.
SPEAKER_02 (19:27):
No.
See when I it is lucky, like wemissed it.
So when Brain was young enoughfor nursery, there was no free
nursery places, and we missed itagain, and then living in it was
different.
The rules changed in England aswe had moved to Northern
Ireland, and Northern Irelanddidn't catch up.
So by the time Brad Brady was inschool, yeah, they were starting
(19:48):
to bring in like free childcareplaces and stuff for overtos,
and but we missed it all.
So we we f we really struggledbecause it was like, okay, going
to work, one of the salaries isbasically paying for the
nursery, and then you feelguilty about it, but you're
like, especially with Lesliambeing like a skilled worker with
nursing and stuff.
If you don't work, you have youhave to re-register, so you have
(20:09):
to you have to uh what's thewhat's the word?
Oh my goodness, it's uh you haveto revalidate, like so you and
to revalidate, you have to havedone a certain amount of hours
and stuff.
And if you're at home lookingafter your kid, you're not doing
your hours and all that kind ofstuff.
So it's like it's chicken andegg, and it's hard.
It was really difficult.
I'm glad that the law haschanged now because I'm like,
okay, so we've created thissociety where you can't live
(20:34):
like a even a normal life.
I think it's it's hard to liveon one salary.
SPEAKER_00 (20:38):
And obviously, you know, it's seen well not sexist,
but at the time it was very muchthe dad would work and the mum
would be at home.
Yeah.
Which but now it should be acase of that's fine, but also
you know, the dad can stay athome and the mum goes to work.
But it shouldn't be a case ofboth have to go to work.
(21:00):
Exactly.
Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_02 (21:04):
No, I remember like I remember changing because my
mum talking to my parents aboutthat, like my mum had to work
half like part-time.
So my dad worked full-time, mumpart-time.
That when she wasn't at work,she was looking after kids,
which was hard work.
Like, looking after kids is it'sa full-time job, especially
because you want to do it well.
You got like the one sendingfour jobs, I think.
Yeah, that's it, because to paythe bills and stuff.
So it's not it's not that it'slike the man should earn the
(21:27):
money, it can be the man or thewoman should earn the money, but
looking after the kids shouldn'tbe seen as kind of a secondary
job either, and just you know,if if you choose to send your
kid to nursery, it should bekind of okay, it's the choice
and it helps to socialise thechild and stuff, but it should
it should be, I think it feelslike it should be something
(21:48):
that's helped.
I'm glad it is being helped, andpeople are at kids are having
that access to it, and you know,helping working parents be able
to actually get to work even ifit's part-time for a little bit,
so they can for their ownsanity, you know.
A lot of a lot of mums or dadswould be like, No, I actually
want to go to work for a coupleof days a week because I need to
see people, I need to socialise,and you know, so I'm glad that
(22:08):
the things are changing likethat.
Do still wish you we that thesociety was affordable enough
that you could just live on oneperson's salary and one of you
could be a house person.
SPEAKER_00 (22:18):
That would never happen.
SPEAKER_02 (22:20):
No, it's it wouldn't be, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:22):
So we I mean we were very lucky and privilege for the
amount of time we could do, butum everything's going up.
SPEAKER_02 (22:28):
Everything costs blu everything costs so much money.
SPEAKER_00 (22:31):
Cars, dogs, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:32):
Cars, food, like the food shop.
So again, I could I could moanall day about food the cost of
food shopping.
We used to, I remember Iremember it vividly.
When Brain was younger, but thecost of like what we used to
budget for a weekly food shopversus what we have to budget
now, yeah.
It's it it is different.
And it's we're not gettinganything, we're not getting any
more for the money, it's justeverything's very expensive.
(22:54):
It seems to go up a it's gone alot up a lot more than my wages
have.
It is nuts, walliums, nuts.
Blame Boris Johnson.
Nuts chili nuts with cheese.
SPEAKER_00 (23:05):
Chili cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (23:06):
Ask Boris Guts might imagine if Boris Johnson had
Chat GPT when he was in chargeof the country.
SPEAKER_00 (23:11):
Chat GPT?
SPEAKER_02 (23:12):
Chat GPT.
What should I do about theEuropean Union?
Stupid man.
Anyway, we won't get intopolitics, Williams.
Can you imagine?
We'd really we really would syncthe podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (23:24):
It's winter.
The clocks have gone back anhour.
Ooh.
But um at my local or you caneat buffet, the clocks go back
uh four seconds.
SPEAKER_02 (23:37):
At my local or you can eat buffet, the clocks go
back four seconds.
Hey there you four seconds, notfour seconds, four seconds.
Very good.
SPEAKER_01 (23:51):
Alright, alright, alright.
SPEAKER_02 (23:52):
Very good.
When you have to explain it andwork it out, it's it's not very
I'm hoping the listenersunderstood that before I did.
That took me a long time.
It says more about stupid ideas.
Took me more than that.
Thick as thick as champions tosay a beer.
Thick as champions.
SPEAKER_00 (24:07):
Oh dear.
Have a good couple weeks,everyone.
And yes.
Cheers, I'm still drinking mybeer.
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SPEAKER_02 (24:40):
On that note, Wells, peace be with you, peace be the
journey.
There you go.
Do you remember where Peace uhPeace Good Journey?
What is it?
Hang on, hang on.
Peace be the journey.
There's two films.
I've confused two films there.
Do you remember Peace Be theJourney?
SPEAKER_00 (24:56):
This is a bad podcast.
SPEAKER_02 (24:58):
It was a good podcast.
Peace be the journey was fromwhat?
SPEAKER_00 (25:01):
Can you remember?
No, never did it.
SPEAKER_02 (25:04):
Cool Run-ins.
SPEAKER_00 (25:06):
Was it?
SPEAKER_02 (25:07):
Yeah.
Peace be the journey.
And then remember Good Journeywas what the Masters of the
Universe.
SPEAKER_00 (25:17):
Cool Run-ins.
No, the Good Journey.
No?
SPEAKER_02 (25:21):
No, the that was the band journey.
But peace be the journey.
Peace be the journey.
SPEAKER_00 (25:28):
Oh dear.
Peace be the journey.
Peace be the journey.
We've gone on so many tangentsthis episode.
Or episodes.
Peace be the journey.
Gonna see my niece tomorrow,which would be nice.
Oh, very nice.
For her birthday.
And uh but last time I wasthere, I had a little mini first
(25:48):
look.
But had a go on Mario KartSwitch.
Which is uh yeah, so that's fun.
So we'll play that with myniece.
I've been playing Mario Kartsince well, since the GameCube
days at least, if not before.
But yeah, sat there with myniece, playing Mario Kart.
(26:09):
And I was like, wow, the nextgeneration, and I'm here playing
Mario Kart.
And she's you know, well, she'snine this weekend, but she's
eight.
And I still took pride inbeating her at Mario Kart.
And then uh then I played mysister as well, and then she was
she was in the lead, and thenthat that rush you get as you do
(26:33):
a little you take the lastcorner, you do the little sort
of extra boost dash, wiggle,wiggle, wiggle, just pipped her,
pipped her over this line.
SPEAKER_02 (26:43):
Oh, why am I?
SPEAKER_00 (26:44):
She got up her chair, she was about to cheer,
and then just that that momentwhen you expect first place to
turn up, and just turn tosecond.
SPEAKER_01 (26:52):
Brilliant.
SPEAKER_00 (26:53):
Uh you know, I'm in my forties now, but I'm still
it's still enjoyed.
I still enjoyed that.
So, yeah, well after so after Ibeat my sister and my
eight-year-old niece at Maricartat their place.
When I did feel old andmiddle-age, was so when I stood
(27:14):
up, I was in there, I was in oneof my niece's chairs, I stood
up, the chair was stillconnected and moulded around my
back, so brilliant.
Which my niece found hilarious.
There you go.
SPEAKER_02 (27:30):
Uh Uncle Dan's big bottom.
SPEAKER_00 (27:33):
Yes.
Anyways, on that note, have agood couple weeks, everyone.
SPEAKER_02 (27:36):
Bye everybody.
Aye.
But great for m thumb up bomb,mind in neutral, escapism.
Welcome to FirstLook Gnomes.
Your go-to podcast for dadsdoing silly things.
Share tips for dads.
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Ten green bottles sitting on the wall.
Ten green bottles, Williamsdrank the ball.
And if one Hodgkiss gnome shouldaccidentally fall, there'll be
episode ten, season four,sitting on the wall.
SPEAKER_02 (00:42):
Whee.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
Something a bit different.
SPEAKER_02 (00:47):
Beautiful, Waddams.
Beautiful.
SPEAKER_00 (00:49):
How are you, Mr.
Hodgkiss?
How have the last two weeksbeen?
SPEAKER_02 (00:53):
The last couple of weeks have been good, Wadams.
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
I'm still eating his nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
He's eating some nuts.
Throw back to episode nine.
Nine?
Um the last couple of weeks havebeen we've we've had some, I
tell you, Adams, tradespeople.
I'm gonna get straight into it.
Bloody tradespeople.
We we have had we have had up tohere, up to here with
tradespeople.
Some tradespeople are very good,but if you're a tradespeople for
(01:19):
the listeners, that's up tothere.
Up to there.
We have had some goodtradespeople, but the shit ones
bloody hell, Williams.
So here this right, here's thestory.
On Monday, we we worked ourbutts off trying to get some
stuff done so that on Monday theplasterer could come and start
its work.
So Monday gets to nine o'clock.
(01:40):
I'm there.
Usually they come like eight,nine, ten.
So okay.
Eight o'clock, no, yeah, that'sgood.
It's not that early.
Nine o'clock, ten o'clock,eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock.
Okay, where is he?
So I'll ring him.
Like, are you still comingtoday?
Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna bedown.
Me and a guy are gonna comedown, we'll start the boarding,
we'll be there soon.
SPEAKER_00 (01:59):
Me and a guy, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (02:00):
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four
o'clock.
Okay, he's he's clearly notcoming out, it's four o'clock.
I ring him, it's gonna be alittle bit more.
Yeah, well that's it.
I rang him.
He said, It's oh yeah, yeah, tenminutes, I'll be there in ten
minutes.
Comes down at quarter past fouron his own, looks at the job
that he's already quoted before,it's like, oh yeah, how much how
much stuff have we got?
I was like, this stuff, this isthe stuff you tell me to buy.
(02:22):
These are the plaster boardsthat you told me we needed for
the fucking job.
And these are the bags of theseare the bags of stuff we need.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, we might need some more.
Okay.
I'll be uh tomorrow, right?
So I'm gonna come tomorrow, I'mgonna be here, I'm gonna be here
at I'm gonna I'm not gonna gethere till eleven o'clock
tomorrow, and then I'll be hereat nine o'clock the next day,
eleven o'clock the next day.
So the next day comes.
Eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock,one o'clock, two o'clock, three
(02:44):
o'clock, four o'clock, fiveo'clock, rock.
I'll ring him.
And I'm like, uh sorry, no, Ididn't ring him.
I was like, okay, it's done a noshow.
It's done a no-show.
Okay, fine.
Wednesday time is gonna be hereat nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock, ten o'clock,eleven o'clock.
And I'm like, okay, just I'mlike, no, it's fine.
He's you know, whatever.
So it's six o'clock.
(03:05):
I couldn't.
SPEAKER_00 (03:05):
I rang him, said why why give you a time?
SPEAKER_02 (03:08):
Well, why don't we give me time of the day that
he's coming?
So I ring him.
I ring him at six o'clock.
I'm like, look, dude, you'remeant to be here yesterday,
you're meant to be here today.
Are you actually coming tomorrowor what?
He goes, uh huh.
I said, Lee, you're meant to behere.
Uh the fuck like he's pissed asa fart.
(03:29):
So he'd be bollocks.
He's meant to be here plasteringmy walls, putting pastaboard up,
and he's in the pub gettingbollocks.
So I'm just like, okay, forgetit.
Put the phone down.
SPEAKER_00 (03:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:47):
Next day, he doesn't show up.
Shock.
So I ring him.
At this point, I'm like, I'vehad enough.
I ring him.
He answers the phone.
Hey, Craig, what's going on?
How are things?
I was like, Lee, you meant to behere, Blasphere.
Oh, I had another job and theweather was good, so I had to go
there.
I'm like, he could have told me,he said, Did I ring you
yesterday?
I was in the pub.
(04:08):
And he was like, Did I ring you?
I seem to remember speaking toyou.
SPEAKER_01 (04:10):
I'm like, so I said, Lee, we had your book this week.
SPEAKER_02 (04:15):
This isn't on, yada yada yada.
Um, I'll be there, mate.
I'm come, I'm definitely gonnacome Monday.
So we're gonna we're gonna seeWellems.
I like this about sleep hanger.
Does he come this time?
But when I rang him and he waspissed, I was like, you know, I
was like, oh my goodness.
And this was a guy who wasrecommended to us.
(04:36):
So just yeah, ridiculous,absolutely ridiculous.
But you have to laugh, don'tyou?
So any trades people who arelistening, can I ask you,
please, just communicate withyour customers.
If you're not gonna turn up,most people will be like, okay,
fine.
Don't go to the pub and ifyou're in the pub, don't answer
the phone.
Don't answer the phone, just letsend it to voicemail and text
and say, Really sorry, my nan'sdied.
(04:59):
I don't know, say something, butjust well, I'll I'll do my first
look really quickly, right?
So I've done something, I'vebeen doing something recently
that I don't do very often,which is watching TV.
I am not a TV watcher, I playvideo games and I like to read
and listen to podcasts.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
This is my snooker.
SPEAKER_02 (05:19):
Yeah, I love Snooker, love Star Trek.
Obviously, I'm a geek, a nerd,but there have been there have
been three shows that I've beenwatching recently, and I'm like,
oh.
So the first one is again, Idon't know why I like it so
much.
Celebrity traitors love it.
Uh I don't know if you've beenwatching it, but big fan of
celebrity traitors.
Um anyone who has never watchedtraitors, it's it's a
(05:41):
effectively a game show aboutlying and deceit, and it's all
nonsense, but it's quite it'sreally well made, and some of
the um the celebrity ones arequite good.
Some of the celebrities have gota funny, like they've um Alan
Carr is hilarious.
Alan Carr is hilarious.
So celebrity traitors have beenexcellent.
Um, do you watch The Boys?
Or have you seen The Boys?
(06:02):
So The Boys is flippingbrilliant.
It's so wrong.
It's like it's it's satirical.
So it's about superheroes.
SPEAKER_00 (06:10):
Um, I think I watched a bit of the first
episode, I just couldn't.
I don't know.
SPEAKER_02 (06:14):
Oh, you have to watch it.
It's some of some of it's it'ssome of the scenes in The Boys
have been the most shocked I'veever been watching TV.
It's like, what they they madethat?
I I don't know if I can I I wantto tell you about one of them.
And so one of the superheroes iscalled Termite, and is a bit of
a sexual fetish, is a is a bitof a sexual fiend, shall we say,
(06:36):
and he get he can make himselfreally small, and he is also he
likes other men, and he can govery small, and I'll leave it at
that.
SPEAKER_00 (06:47):
But it's um it doesn't sound like my sort of
show.
SPEAKER_02 (06:50):
I I it's one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
Anyway, the boys has a spin-offseries called Gen V.
Gen V season two is finishednow, and I've finished watching
it, and it's all so brilliant,really liked it.
So, yeah, and I finally gotround to watching the third
Squid Game season because what'sthe first two, and I hadn't got
round to watching the seasonthree, and it's just been wet
(07:12):
and miserable, and I'm like, Ifound time recently to actually
sit down and watch TV, and I'veI've really enjoyed it.
I've just been enjoying it.
Oh, and uh the best one we'veseen out of all of them is Blue
Lights season three.
Which so blue lights is set inBelfast, which is always cool.
The guys who wrote it actuallywrote it in the office above my
office, which is hilarious in inuh City East in Belfast, and
(07:37):
it's just it's like uh it's a uhpolice show about Northern
Ireland, and it's about thesquaddies and young squaddies.
So at the end of uh season one,they were just new.
Season two, they're a bit moreobviously in the second year,
season three now, it's a bitfurther down, and it's just
brilliant.
It's like funny, kind, full ofheart, and beautifully shot,
(08:00):
beautifully acted, beautifullywritten.
It's one of my favourite evershows.
It's just brilliant.
So TV at the mix got reallygood.
Yeah, you do, because it's it'sobviously filmed in Belfast and
it's about Belfast, and it'sjust it does some parts of it
make it look lovely, some partsof it you think I'd never go
there.
It's obviously some of the partsare extreme, and you know, you
(08:21):
know, the troubles of NorthernIreland are well documented, but
it's it's it's anyone who wantseveryone to come to Northern
Ireland, email first looknamesat OLUC.com.
I'll be your tour guide.
Take people around, it's abeautiful place, but it's really
good.
So like TV at the minute's justbeen really good.
I feel like TV's been good.
So Gen V and the boys,excellent.
(08:44):
Celebrity traitors is well wortha watch on the BBC.
Squid Game has been great.
Again, wrong TV, Gen V, the boysSquid Game, all really wrong.
SPEAKER_00 (08:54):
A US version Squid Games, do you think?
SPEAKER_02 (08:57):
I hope not, to be honest.
Like it's just grey as it is,like, don't muck around with it,
it's fabulous.
So that was my first look at ashitload of TV.
All of it is pretty trashy, noneother than blue lights.
Blue lights is actually reallygood and well written.
The rest of it's all justnonsense, but great for putting
your thumb up bum, mind inneutral, escapism.
SPEAKER_01 (09:18):
Which is cold.
SPEAKER_02 (09:20):
Put your thumb up your bum, put your mind in
neutral, and just escape.
Yeah.
You never heard that saying.
SPEAKER_00 (09:27):
No, you don't actually physically put your
thumb up your bum.
Not not.
That would just be veryuncomfortable.
I never know.
SPEAKER_02 (09:34):
It's not no, no, no.
It's uh I've got a final I'vegot an odd-shaped thumb, it
would just end up in it wouldn'tbe very comfortable, Alliams,
for anybody.
Any but my wife's sitting nextto me thinking, why are you
sitting like that?
Nor me.
Um please edit this bit.
I can't believe I just said thaton radio.
SPEAKER_00 (09:58):
That bit staying in anyways.
Grab your rod.
Let's go to the fish ponderfeedback.
Fishponder feedback.
New listeners?
One percent one percent of ourlisteners are from Germany.
(10:20):
Well, they were before theepisode nine.
I think I think that uh thatnumber has dropped.
Um but yeah, the fourth mostlisteners are from Germany after
Canada States and the UnitedKingdom.
We've got some new listenersfrom Dallas and Texas.
Nice.
Heiderabad, Telanger.
(10:41):
Where's that then?
I don't know.
Hiderabad, Heederabad,Hederabad.
Ealing and uh Pegnitz inBavaria.
SPEAKER_02 (10:55):
Bavaria?
So more Germans.
SPEAKER_00 (10:57):
Pegnitz, yeah.
Welcome Germany.
SPEAKER_02 (10:59):
Welcome Dallas, welcome Kent, and welcome the
other place that I can't reallysay.
SPEAKER_00 (11:03):
Pegnitz, Ealing, Hederabad.
Hederabad.
Nice.
Welcome, welcome new listeners.
So I did a I did a search forlatest feedback out there from
the feedback.
Yeah, fish bond feedback outthere via chat gibberty as Boris
Johnson.
SPEAKER_02 (11:24):
Have you seen that going round?
I have, yeah.
Chat Gibbert, I love chatity.
SPEAKER_00 (11:27):
Chaty.
Chat Gibberty.
A I uh Chat Gibberity.
I looked at Chat Gibberty, andthis is what it says.
It says, uh, so what peoplelike?
Uh on the podcast listing onApple Podcasts.
One listener writes, I'm notquite sure what I'm listening
to, but it makes me laugh.
(11:48):
Uh similarly, someone put alisten, it's very random but
very funny.
And it says it suggests peopleenjoy its quirky random humour.
According to the site Refonic,the podcast has a five out of
five star average.
Nice, good, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02 (12:03):
Only one review, but that's fine, we'll take it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:06):
The description of the show emphasizes quirky
insights, unexpecteddiscoverables, and off-beat
humour that makes learning fun.
A blend of entertainment andlight education.
SPEAKER_02 (12:17):
Unbelievable, Jeff.
SPEAKER_00 (12:19):
The hosts are two dads, Williams from Cornwall and
Mr.
Hodgkiss from Belfast, offeringa friendly chat about life's
hidden wonders.
The humour is described as veryrandom by listeners.
If you prefer tightly structuredor deeply investigative
investigative podcasts, thisfreeform style might feel a bit
loose.
SPEAKER_02 (12:38):
Oh yeah, it's very loose.
SPEAKER_00 (12:40):
It appears to cover a wide variety of topics, from
parenting and nostalgia to techand culture.
Good for variety, less say ifyou want a strong, consistent
theme.
Example topics, toddlers,YouTube train sets, a hematoma,
niggas nostalgia, and pottytraining.
(13:00):
So in summary, if you likepodcasts that are light-hearted
and humorous, informalconversations rather than heavy
production, a mix of trivia,parenting antidotes, culture and
random topics, then FirstLookGnome seems to hit that mark.
If you prefer podcasts that aredeeply researched, with narrow
focus and serious tone, this maybe less what you're looking for.
SPEAKER_02 (13:25):
Very good.
SPEAKER_00 (13:27):
I think that's not too bad from chat gibberty.
SPEAKER_02 (13:29):
Chat Gibbert?
No, not at all.
I mean, I'm assuming you'rechecking the junk mail in the
email folder, right?
There must be lots of people whoare in the world.
SPEAKER_00 (13:38):
I imagine I need to write to um Microsoft.
I think there's something wrong.
SPEAKER_02 (13:43):
Someone's straight on the wire, right?
SPEAKER_00 (13:47):
But there we go.
That was that that's it for theuh the feedback.
SPEAKER_02 (13:50):
Very good.
So uh what about you, Well?
What's your first look thisweek?
SPEAKER_00 (13:54):
So my first look, um again, go back a little bit, uh
a couple months.
Um, but um a first look at uhnursery.
So uh Logan started nursery alittle while back.
Oh nice.
Um just uh yeah, just a littlefirst look at that.
So as a um as a uh first timeparent for nursery, a lot of
(14:17):
it's all new, isn't it?
It's all new.
So uh yeah, a bit of insight forothers out there might help, who
knows?
But yeah, so yeah, went tonursery, he loves it.
We're very lucky with the factthat he just runs in.
He doesn't, you know, there's nosort of upset.
He's just like see ya Off hegoes.
(14:40):
So there's there's a bit of thatelement of but uh yeah, the
Wi-Fi has been really good withyou know not making it too much
of a not too much of a thing interms of you know giving them
big hugs and oh gonna miss you,da da da da.
It's like yeah see you latertype thing in a nice way,
obviously.
But yeah, no, he's he's reallyenjoying it.
You get these so you you get alittle app.
(15:03):
So a lot of you know someparents might not know this
before they the first born goesto or only born goes to um goes
to nursery, but you get a littleapp that gives you little photo
updates and things, so you knowyou do get to see what's going
on.
We're very lucky with ournursery.
There's loads of activities ofoutside and inside activities.
(15:24):
They've got a a nursery dog aswell called Honey.
That's cool, and they've got me.
He loves all the sort of trainsets and the blocks, and yeah,
there's all sorts of thingsthere.
And yeah, he comes back withdifferent stories, and it's
difficult because there's somestories and then it's like
you're trying to decipher thestory and what's a real and
(15:46):
what's not, and then somestories you're like you start
panicking, and like because theother day he was telling me
about how he saved he saved oneof the kids because uh they were
locked in a cupboard, whichdidn't happen.
But then my brain's going, hangon, did uh one of the staff just
lock a kid in a cupboard?
(16:08):
Uh yeah, that's concerning.
But they didn't.
They didn't, or did they?
Who knows?
SPEAKER_02 (16:15):
You just can you can't well you let's hope you I
was gonna say you can't be toosafe.
That's scaremongering.
I'm sure it was just anaccident.
SPEAKER_00 (16:21):
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02 (16:22):
Or a misunderstanding or something.
SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
Yes, yes.
I might delete that bit just incase.
But yeah, I mean it's they singall these different songs up
there.
He comes home and he alwaystalks about the uh the row roya
boat song they do there, whichis his favourite.
Loves it, he says, loves it.
SPEAKER_02 (16:41):
It's a banger.
SPEAKER_00 (16:42):
But it is, it is.
But I've had uh probably atleast three different colds
since he's been to nursery.
So the stories are true whenthey go to nurse, they do bring
back all sorts of illness.
But it's all all good for theimmune system.
We found for Logan they puttogether like a little sort of a
storybook, uh, storyboard interms of so all the different uh
(17:06):
members of staff and thedifferent rooms and things.
So after his like initialsession and when he went to
nursery, you know, we can lookat this book and go, Oh, this is
safe, you know, what's thatroom?
And he gets to talk about it,and yeah, we found that really
helpful with him sort ofadapting uh adapting to it
because it's they have a littlesession to begin with, but then
(17:27):
it is very much in the deep endtype thing.
But uh yeah, he loves it.
It's great.
SPEAKER_02 (17:34):
How you and how you and Georgie find that because
it's like it is a big it wasfunny as well.
I remember from our I rememberfrom our perspective it was
almost a necessity because atthe time when we had Brady
Bunch, uh we didn't have a lotof Leslie Ann didn't have a lot
of maternity plan, I wasself-employed, so it was like
(17:55):
actually nursery was anessential because we had to go
back to work because we neededthe money.
So, like, how have you found itin terms of like okay, with you
know Logan's been there so much,the house probably felt quite
quiet because obviously likeLogan is post-COVID as well.
You I hope you know why we'resaying this in the podcast, but
(18:16):
you work at home, so you knowyou can you can see him in the
day, and now like when you'regonna say, Oh, he's not here.
Like, how have you have you andGeorgie found that?
SPEAKER_00 (18:23):
Yeah, well, I mean, Georgie's working part-time, so
it's not a full week, so thatthat sort of helps.
Um, so he's not there all week.
And when he started, it was thesame time as she started
part-time work, so for her itwas easier because it wasn't
like he's gone to nursery andsuddenly there's nothing to be
doing.
So she started a new job at thesame time, so she had that
(18:46):
distractions and things likethat.
But yeah, obviously there'salways going to be um you know,
because he's uh he's out ofearshot and eyesight, and you're
like and then you hear theseweird stories and you start
getting paranoid and you're likebut um Yeah, that that nursery
is um pay for government-wise,you know, people pay for the
(19:09):
snacks and food and stuff.
Yeah but you know, we we're verylucky.
We've got sort of you know, wehear stories about people that
they struggle because they'vegot to pay for pay for it
because the household income'sover a hundred grand, and we're
like that's not a problem forus.
SPEAKER_02 (19:27):
No.
See when I it is lucky, like wemissed it.
So when Brain was young enoughfor nursery, there was no free
nursery places, and we missed itagain, and then living in it was
different.
The rules changed in England aswe had moved to Northern
Ireland, and Northern Irelanddidn't catch up.
So by the time Brad Brady was inschool, yeah, they were starting
(19:48):
to bring in like free childcareplaces and stuff for overtos,
and but we missed it all.
So we we f we really struggledbecause it was like, okay, going
to work, one of the salaries isbasically paying for the
nursery, and then you feelguilty about it, but you're
like, especially with Lesliambeing like a skilled worker with
nursing and stuff.
If you don't work, you have youhave to re-register, so you have
(20:09):
to you have to uh what's thewhat's the word?
Oh my goodness, it's uh you haveto revalidate, like so you and
to revalidate, you have to havedone a certain amount of hours
and stuff.
And if you're at home lookingafter your kid, you're not doing
your hours and all that kind ofstuff.
So it's like it's chicken andegg, and it's hard.
It was really difficult.
I'm glad that the law haschanged now because I'm like,
okay, so we've created thissociety where you can't live
(20:34):
like a even a normal life.
I think it's it's hard to liveon one salary.
SPEAKER_00 (20:38):
And obviously, you know, it's seen well not sexist,
but at the time it was very muchthe dad would work and the mum
would be at home.
Yeah.
Which but now it should be acase of that's fine, but also
you know, the dad can stay athome and the mum goes to work.
But it shouldn't be a case ofboth have to go to work.
(21:00):
Exactly.
Yeah, totally.
SPEAKER_02 (21:04):
No, I remember like I remember changing because my
mum talking to my parents aboutthat, like my mum had to work
half like part-time.
So my dad worked full-time, mumpart-time.
That when she wasn't at work,she was looking after kids,
which was hard work.
Like, looking after kids is it'sa full-time job, especially
because you want to do it well.
You got like the one sendingfour jobs, I think.
Yeah, that's it, because to paythe bills and stuff.
So it's not it's not that it'slike the man should earn the
(21:27):
money, it can be the man or thewoman should earn the money, but
looking after the kids shouldn'tbe seen as kind of a secondary
job either, and just you know,if if you choose to send your
kid to nursery, it should bekind of okay, it's the choice
and it helps to socialise thechild and stuff, but it should
it should be, I think it feelslike it should be something
(21:48):
that's helped.
I'm glad it is being helped, andpeople are at kids are having
that access to it, and you know,helping working parents be able
to actually get to work even ifit's part-time for a little bit,
so they can for their ownsanity, you know.
A lot of a lot of mums or dadswould be like, No, I actually
want to go to work for a coupleof days a week because I need to
see people, I need to socialise,and you know, so I'm glad that
(22:08):
the things are changing likethat.
Do still wish you we that thesociety was affordable enough
that you could just live on oneperson's salary and one of you
could be a house person.
SPEAKER_00 (22:18):
That would never happen.
SPEAKER_02 (22:20):
No, it's it wouldn't be, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:22):
So we I mean we were very lucky and privilege for the
amount of time we could do, butum everything's going up.
SPEAKER_02 (22:28):
Everything costs blu everything costs so much money.
SPEAKER_00 (22:31):
Cars, dogs, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (22:32):
Cars, food, like the food shop.
So again, I could I could moanall day about food the cost of
food shopping.
We used to, I remember Iremember it vividly.
When Brain was younger, but thecost of like what we used to
budget for a weekly food shopversus what we have to budget
now, yeah.
It's it it is different.
And it's we're not gettinganything, we're not getting any
more for the money, it's justeverything's very expensive.
(22:54):
It seems to go up a it's gone alot up a lot more than my wages
have.
It is nuts, walliums, nuts.
Blame Boris Johnson.
Nuts chili nuts with cheese.
SPEAKER_00 (23:05):
Chili cheesy nuts.
SPEAKER_02 (23:06):
Ask Boris Guts might imagine if Boris Johnson had
Chat GPT when he was in chargeof the country.
SPEAKER_00 (23:11):
Chat GPT?
SPEAKER_02 (23:12):
Chat GPT.
What should I do about theEuropean Union?
Stupid man.
Anyway, we won't get intopolitics, Williams.
Can you imagine?
We'd really we really would syncthe podcast.
SPEAKER_00 (23:24):
It's winter.
The clocks have gone back anhour.
Ooh.
But um at my local or you caneat buffet, the clocks go back
uh four seconds.
SPEAKER_02 (23:37):
At my local or you can eat buffet, the clocks go
back four seconds.
Hey there you four seconds, notfour seconds, four seconds.
Very good.
SPEAKER_01 (23:51):
Alright, alright, alright.
SPEAKER_02 (23:52):
Very good.
When you have to explain it andwork it out, it's it's not very
I'm hoping the listenersunderstood that before I did.
That took me a long time.
It says more about stupid ideas.
Took me more than that.
Thick as thick as champions tosay a beer.
Thick as champions.
SPEAKER_00 (24:07):
Oh dear.
Have a good couple weeks,everyone.
And yes.
Cheers, I'm still drinking mybeer.
SPEAKER_02 (24:13):
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suggestions or any any jokesthat are funnier than Wanim's to
firstlook gnomes at Outlook.com.
Suggestions for uh the nextweek's song, which will be
eleven, or suggestions for TVshows we should watch, or tips
that we should all take.
SPEAKER_00 (24:33):
Anything we should take a first look at.
SPEAKER_02 (24:34):
Anything at all?
SPEAKER_00 (24:36):
Let us know.
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SPEAKER_02 (24:40):
On that note, Wells, peace be with you, peace be the
journey.
There you go.
Do you remember where Peace uhPeace Good Journey?
What is it?
Hang on, hang on.
Peace be the journey.
There's two films.
I've confused two films there.
Do you remember Peace Be theJourney?
SPEAKER_00 (24:56):
This is a bad podcast.
SPEAKER_02 (24:58):
It was a good podcast.
Peace be the journey was fromwhat?
SPEAKER_00 (25:01):
Can you remember?
No, never did it.
SPEAKER_02 (25:04):
Cool Run-ins.
SPEAKER_00 (25:06):
Was it?
SPEAKER_02 (25:07):
Yeah.
Peace be the journey.
And then remember Good Journeywas what the Masters of the
Universe.
SPEAKER_00 (25:17):
Cool Run-ins.
No, the Good Journey.
No?
SPEAKER_02 (25:21):
No, the that was the band journey.
But peace be the journey.
Peace be the journey.
SPEAKER_00 (25:28):
Oh dear.
Peace be the journey.
Peace be the journey.
We've gone on so many tangentsthis episode.
Or episodes.
Peace be the journey.
Gonna see my niece tomorrow,which would be nice.
Oh, very nice.
For her birthday.
And uh but last time I wasthere, I had a little mini first
(25:48):
look.
But had a go on Mario KartSwitch.
Which is uh yeah, so that's fun.
So we'll play that with myniece.
I've been playing Mario Kartsince well, since the GameCube
days at least, if not before.
But yeah, sat there with myniece, playing Mario Kart.
(26:09):
And I was like, wow, the nextgeneration, and I'm here playing
Mario Kart.
And she's you know, well, she'snine this weekend, but she's
eight.
And I still took pride inbeating her at Mario Kart.
And then uh then I played mysister as well, and then she was
she was in the lead, and thenthat that rush you get as you do
(26:33):
a little you take the lastcorner, you do the little sort
of extra boost dash, wiggle,wiggle, wiggle, just pipped her,
pipped her over this line.
SPEAKER_02 (26:43):
Oh, why am I?
SPEAKER_00 (26:44):
She got up her chair, she was about to cheer,
and then just that that momentwhen you expect first place to
turn up, and just turn tosecond.
SPEAKER_01 (26:52):
Brilliant.
SPEAKER_00 (26:53):
Uh you know, I'm in my forties now, but I'm still
it's still enjoyed.
I still enjoyed that.
So, yeah, well after so after Ibeat my sister and my
eight-year-old niece at Maricartat their place.
When I did feel old andmiddle-age, was so when I stood
(27:14):
up, I was in there, I was in oneof my niece's chairs, I stood
up, the chair was stillconnected and moulded around my
back, so brilliant.
Which my niece found hilarious.
There you go.
SPEAKER_02 (27:30):
Uh Uncle Dan's big bottom.
SPEAKER_00 (27:33):
Yes.
Anyways, on that note, have agood couple weeks, everyone.
SPEAKER_02 (27:36):
Bye everybody.
Aye.
But great for m thumb up bomb,mind in neutral, escapism.
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