August 21, 2025 • 31 mins
The Gnomes are back with a fresh first look — and this time, we’re diving into two wildly different, but totally relatable, topics.
First, we tackle the hematoma — that mysterious bump or bruise (often on the shin!) that shows up after a knock. Is it dangerous? How long does it last? When should you worry?
Then, we switch gears to something every parent will understand: toddlers who are obsessed with YouTube videos of Brio trains and toy playthroughs. Why are kids so mesmerized by strangers playing with toys online — and what does it mean?
It’s a weird, wonderful, and informative return to regular Gnome programming.
We're back with our usual mix of personal mishaps, parenting adventures, and random facts as we dive into Season Four, Episode Four.
• One host details an impressive home renovation injury - a lemon-sized hematoma from falling onto a fence post while building a wall
• Children's YouTube channels featuring wooden train sets and toy cars emerge as unexpected parenting discussion topics
• Struggles with parents trying to use technology to listen to podcasts provide comedic relief
• Tips shared on finding affordable Brio train sets for toddlers, though they apparently hold their value well
• The podcast is mysteriously ranking for search terms like "children's television" and "historical curiosities"
• Parenting advice: YouTube can be good in moderation, but monitor content carefully
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
all about, all About Episode 4.
All About Episode 4 but that'show it goes.
(00:52):
Millions of people listening.
Maybe it's too late to learnhow to pod episode 4.
How are you mate?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey brother.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Season four, episode four.
It was meant to be all a four,but I thought All a four.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It was very good All a four.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was very, very good.
It was very, very good.
Yeah, 10 out of 10.
Probably insert some, uh, someof your guitar playing or
something how you doing I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm doing all right, williams, I'm doing all right.
I'm a bit um the last fewmonths of, as we talked about in
the last episode and probablythe episode before that.
We're just still in the in thekind of craziness that is house
renovation crazy, crazy, yeah,sorry, uh.
Yeah, everything, everything'sall good.
We're just, we're just in a bitof crazy crazy listeners, uh
(01:58):
listeners, mr hodgkiss.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This is a little uh announcement.
Mr hodgkiss is very tired.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He's been working many hours, so he is a bit crazy
, but that's how it goes.
Volumes, but that's how it goesaren't we all a little crazy?
Is there a song about that?
I think we should all get alittle crazy.
Isn't that a damski and killer,killer and Seal.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is that a Beyonce one , crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's crazy in love.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh,uh-oh.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm just fine.
I'm just fine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh dear, oh dear, we've fallen off the cliff
already, but yes, I'm very wellthank you, adams, how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm good, I'm good.
Let me try to keep this ontrack.
On the train track, grab yourrod, mr Hodgekiss.
Grab your rod whilst you'restill in there, where it is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't think we've got the energy.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, Goon.
I've grabbed it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's the fish pod of feedback Yay.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yay Fish pod of feedback.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Also, 40-odd-year-old Mr Hodgkiss is stinging his
pants at the moment so weapologise.
I apologise for his parents.
You can probably hear throughhis walls.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's about time they listen to one of the podcasts,
so they might as well listen tome recording it, because I
haven't listened to the actualbloody thing I said to Mum once
we bought my mum an Alexa sothat she could listen to the
podcast, Because she's like howdo we listen to these?
Podcasts.
Craig, I want to listen tothese podcasts and I was like
trying to explain it to her andI said do you know what the
easiest thing is?
Let's just borrow Alexa,because then she can do it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But she never has the Alexa plugged in and then she
starts trying to talk to it andit doesn't listen to her.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It just ignores her.
She's like Alexa.
Alexa play my son Play, my sonPlay, my son Play my son Podcast
, podcast, podcast, and then allof a sudden she's listening to,
I don't know, some random kindof Spandau Valley radio station
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My son FM.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It doesn't work.
It was fun.
She was trying to get BBCSounds on recently.
The digital services I'm sureare available, but she's like I
can't get it to work.
What do I do?
It keeps asking me to do things.
I'm like just talk to it, mum,and she's like I do talk to it,
but then it asks me to sign insomewhere.
I said you know you sign in tolisten to the radio.
(04:37):
And she said it asks me forsome money.
I said no, it didn't ask me foranybody.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That was me.
That was me.
I phoned Drap and said can Ihave some money for the download
?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
please.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Play my son.
Play my son.
I want the podcast play my sonTo help our stats for those
listening on a speakerphone.
Alexa play First.
Look Nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Very good, yes, so she can hear me recording it now
, I'm sure, and she's probablythinking what the hell's going
on.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
She actually did the best half of the podcast well,
that's it she made.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
She may make an appearance at some point.
Because I said right, mom, I'mgonna go and I'm gonna take some
beers, I'm gonna go chat to ournames, I'll come and tell you
good night when I go to bed.
So I said, well, I will berecording mom, so you're
probably on air if we call andshe's like oh okay, so my mom
might show up at any moment ofthe podcast and you're special.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Lastly, and she'll go in there, hello, hello.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And then she'll be able to see him.
Because I'm wearing headphones,she won't be able to hear you,
so then she'll be like I can him, because I'm wearing headphones
, she'll be able to hear you.
So then she'll be like I can'thear him.
I can't hear him.
Very cute, very cute, you soundlike you sound like Orville.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Orville the duck, orville the duck.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I wish I could.
I can't, I can't.
I wish I could get my son'spodcast, but I can't.
You can wish I could get myson's podcast, but I can't, you
can't.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's the same.
I can't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ask Alexa to play my son Crazy, crazy, crazy Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Anyways, the wife of my wife emailed in.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh very good.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
She said she enjoyed the postcard segment.
It turns out it was only hisvoice that was cringe, she said.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, that's about the net one name.
Oh, yes, yes, he hasn't sentany voice notes in has he.
No, not yet, Not yet, I think Idid think about him a few weeks
ago and then just I've been ohsorry, he's been busy, he's been
busy clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, maybe he's met all the duck, that'd be a nice
little voice note, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No other name in all for the duck.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
She also said she skipped the Google IO section.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, this is her words .
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It says and didn't tickle her pickle, which I
thought was a bit.
I don't know if that'sappropriate terms.
You can use these days.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If she'd listened to the rest, she'd have learned how
Google can tickle her pickle.
But now she'll never know, canit?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
In 3D, apparently.
For those that missed out,listen back.
New listeners, mr Oshkiss.
New listeners.
We've got new listeners fromRichmond in the Tasman district
in US Richmond, usa or RichmondUK.
Tasman district?
I don't know Tasman district,is it in your?
Sister, not UK that's notTasman, no Richmond, tas, tasman
(07:44):
, tasman, no Richmond, tas,tasman Tasman Al-Mansur in Daki
Hali.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Easy music.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nakano City in Tokyo.
Danang, danang, calgary,alberta, what are you laughing
at?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's the way you were concentrating so hard on saying
that's not that hard to say,but the focus in your eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Listeners appreciate my pronunciation.
Calgary Alberta.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Calgary.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do, do-do-do, phenom
Do-do-do-do.
Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do-do,do-do-do-do-do.
Sorry, phenomenomenomenomenomenlike a WF tag team.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Phenomenon, phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Crazy Oxnard, California.
Very nice and we've had loadsof downloads, new listeners in
North Bergen, new Jersey.
Yeah, maybe my sister, maybe,maybe she can use a smart
speaker to listen to her brotheron a podcast in North Bergen,
new Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, maybe my sister , Maybe maybe she can use a
smart speaker to listen to herbrother on a podcast.
What does she sound like whenshe?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
What does he sound like?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Alexa, play me brother on the podcast.
Would you Come on play mebrother now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Play me brother, play me brother.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Play me brother.
Me mother can't do it.
I want to check it works.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Lots of new listeners , so I've still got more to say
Minya, minya.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The night of the phenomenon of Minya Minya Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And this one you might need to.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Are you making things up?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, I'm not, let me just chat gbt.
I need to I need to make itsound like we've got new
listeners.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What can we say?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
we do.
We do have new listeners.
We do have new listeners.
One.
You need to help me with wherethis one is.
Every night I've been thinking,I've been.
Well, I've been hugging mypillow thinking where it is.
You have to show me the way tothis one.
The listener is.
There's a church bell ringing.
(10:17):
It's amarillo.
Sorry, I should let you carryon there.
It was.
Oh, I was just welcome.
I was too keen, sorry well,well done, well done, yeah.
So welcome to our new listener,maria.
Other news a little news alittle segment which I knew you,
I know you sort of appreciate.
(10:37):
So obviously we're top rankingon apple podcasts and Spotify
rankings.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Goodness knows how, but still.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We come up.
So again, these are searchterms.
So three Top three keywordsthis one, I'm quite chuffed.
We come up for Fascinatingtrivia, mr Hodgkiss, fascinating
trivia.
In July.
If you typed in Spotifyfascinating trivia and you
(11:07):
scroll down to 100, number 156,the list, we would have been
there for fascinating trivia.
How good's that as if anyone'sever getting to page 156.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
like anything, anything On any kind of search.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Alright, alright, alright, I'll higher up the
rankings.
Mr Hodgkiss, if you typed in,if you scroll down to 119, when
you've just typed in wallabies,we would have been 119 on the
list 119 for wallabies?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, but when did we ever talk about wallabies?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't know, but number 25, miss Archie Giss,
which has got to be what page?
I don't really use Spotify Ifyou scroll down to 25.
Probably page 2,.
Yeah, page 2.
If you typed in historicalcuriosities, Historical
curiosities.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, we do talk about some historical places we
visit, so maybe that's not a badone and then this one on apple
podcasts.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
16th, and we've had this before and it's not
tropical fruits.
If you type in children'stelevision, we're number 16 on
the list.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At one point.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What about if people search for things like funny
podcast, dad podcast, goodpodcast, make me laugh.
Where do we come there?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, less than 156.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Work to be done.
Work to be done yes.
Work to be done.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Work to be done yes work to be done, but not much
more work than needs to be doneon children's television there
we go Apart from we don't talkabout children's television.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We should try and get someone from children's
television to come on thepodcast, like Andy Peters or
Derek Griffiths from mychildhood.
I loved his voice.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You know them do you, it's Michaela Strachan.
Swiftly moving on, before welose you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I think it's already happened, william.
I've spilt beer all over thebed.
Never mind, oh no, sticky bed,what?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
are we going to do Back at your parents' base and
you've got a sticky bed.
I we going to do back at yourparents face and you've got a
sticky bed.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I need some tissue, mum.
What's about to create?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
do you want to get onto your first look, christophe
probably should I'm trying toput look at this.
I wasn't a yes-no question.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I've been trying to pull this for you now for the
last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What is?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
that I don't know.
Shit glasses in this house, theheads I'm 50% of the glass I
know, and the rest of it's allon the floor, never mind.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We 50% foam, 50% on the floor nothing inside of me
anyway first look first look.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I thought I would introduce this first look
because it's not a particularlyexciting one, but it seems to be
a topic I talk about often, soI thought I'd introduce it with
a poem oh lovely, so here we go.
Naomi Numpty was building awall, naomi.
Numpty had a great fall.
(14:44):
Naomi Numpty was building awall.
Naomi Numpty had a great fall,oh no.
Naomi Numpty shouted Doe likeHomer, looked down and on his
shin was a fucking massivehematoma.
Oh no has it gone down.
I can actually show you.
Oh no, I can't.
(15:05):
I was able to switch thecameras before.
Yes, you can, I'm recordingthis on my phone.
Ladies and gentlemen, today,because I'm staying at my mum
and dad's house and you can flipcameras, hang on, I can turn it
around, there you go.
Oh, look at that.
Lovely Can you see that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Listeners.
We look at that lovely.
Can you see that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
listeners we've got a nice sexy shot of Miss
Hardrick's leg and there's a abig, a big bump, I suppose, is
the, yeah, the lightest way tocall it.
So I think the doctor thinksI've broken my shin and said you
should get you need to get anx-ray, but I've been too busy so
I haven't gone to get an.
(15:50):
So I actually work for twodoctors, one of whom is a sports
doctor who works with MMAprofessionals, and so here's a
story.
So, yes, the first look is afirst look at hematomas.
I've never had a hematomabefore, and this one is the size
of a lemon.
So I fell over in because we'redoing renovations at the minute
(16:10):
.
I fell over and landed.
We were building a wall and Ifell over and landed first on a
fence post and it was the fencepost cracked.
It was a 4x4 fence post and itcracked and I literally yelped.
I've never yelped before and Iyelped.
I was like ow, proper, like ow,and I was like, oh, I did that
(16:36):
thing, you know, oh, that reallythat's all that is.
I was like, right, get up,because once you've fallen over
so you look like a tit.
And then I was like get up, getup, you're like a tit, start it
out, walk it off, start it out.
And I stood up and.
I had shorts on and I lookeddown and I'm not kidding it had
swollen up.
It was like somebody hadactually put a tennis ball under
(16:57):
my shin just straight away andI was like whoa, that's
frightening what the heck isthat?
and I was 40 minutes away fromdoing a presentation to my two
doctor bosses and I was likeokay, what's it a day now?
Bearing in mind this was a okay, what should I do Now, bearing
in mind this was a Monday, andon the Sunday I had put my
(17:19):
shoulder out?
because I was liftingfloorboards and I had to go next
door because we've got nofreezer.
The house is empty.
So I had to go and knock thenext door neighbours and say you
got any?
Excuse me, I need a bottle ofpeas please.
I need some frozen peas becauseI've hurt my shoulder, so I
borrowed a bag of frozen.
She didn't have any peas, soshe gave me a bag of frozen
(17:39):
sprouts.
So this was on the Sunday andthen on the Monday I did this
and I was like I need to get iceon that quick.
But I thought I can't go andknock the next door neighbour
and ask for more frozenvegetables Me again.
Hello, we've got new broccoli.
We've got some frozen carrots.
Before you know it, I've justemptied the woman's freezer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
of all the frozen vegetables, you've got roast
chicken as well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Any beer.
So I thought better of it and Igot in the car and zoomed to
the shop and bought myself somefrozen peas.
And I got back and I elevatedmy leg and I was like I've got
to do one of the most importantpresentations in about 15
minutes time so.
But I was full of adrenaline,like cause.
I panicked a little bit.
(18:25):
I was a bit like do.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I need to go and?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
do I need to go to the emergency room?
What do I need to do?
Cause it was so big and I waslike, okay, so I started the
present.
I was like, just, you'll befine, stop being a big worrywart
, it's just.
It's obviously just a badswelling, it'll be fine.
So I got the call, I startedthe presentation and because it
was so full of adrenaline, I waslike I feel a bit funny at the
(18:48):
minute because I've just hadthis and I told them what
happened and luckily, the twodoctors so was like, ah, let's
see.
And I showed them and they'relike yes, okay, that's a
hematoma.
And so it's very common withmixed martial artists because
they kick each other.
And their shins go shin to shin.
So I say it's really common,but it's pretty much superficial
(19:12):
, because there's no, it's likebecause I was running like oh
it's quite because I was runninglike, oh, it's quite big.
What about clots and all thiskind of stuff?
No, you're okay, it should be.
It's not in your, like yourknee, or your deep like your
deep veins or anything, theysaid.
But he said, because of thesize of it, in about a week
you're gonna be with black toes.
And I was like, really, blacktoes, black toes.
And I said okay, well, I saidbecause what will happen is as,
as it starts to come down, theblurred face pool now will start
(19:35):
to harden and will need to gosomewhere.
So gravity pulls it down, so allthe bruising will appear in
your foot and a week later I hadblack toes and a black foot.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And I was like wow.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I was like it's really funny.
I don't know if you're ahypochondriac, but I'm a little
bit of a hypochondriac.
If something happens like that,I worry a bit.
I'm like, oh, is it okay, Is ithealing right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
How lucky are you to have MMA doctors just on hand.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, it was, it was incredible.
So I showed them and they toldme to get elevated.
They gave me a treatment plan,my presentation and crushed it.
So that was good and yeah, then, like about a week later I had
to.
I had a talk with them again.
I told them up there and I toldI said you're right, I've got
black toes and they've just beenhelping me all along like
they're like right.
After a while they're like theyneed a tennis ball.
(20:24):
You need to rub the tennis ballon because you're trying to get
it to go down.
You need the.
You need your body to reabsorbthe blood.
That's there and all this kindof stuff.
And they said to me I said, look, I actually went and saw my GP
just to make sure there wasnothing wrong with it because,
my foot went black, but my legwent yellow and I was like and
it was quite warm.
I was like, hmm, I was a bitworried because the actual human
time had got quite warm.
(20:45):
So I went and saw the doctor andshe was like I think you've
broken it.
You need to you go and get itX-rayed.
He said you can, but thetreatment plan won't be any
different.
So you know you can go and getit now for peace of mind that
you've got a hairline fracture,but they won't treat it any
different.
(21:05):
It'll still just be a case ofrest and elevation and you know
heat and all that kind of stuff.
So it's been interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Hematoma, hematoma.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
If you Google it like boxers, get them a lot.
So you know like when you seeboxers get punched in the face
and their face goes all swollenA lot of the time that's
hematoma.
So you'll see them kind of withlike a, like a cold piece of
metal kind of pushing down.
They're trying to push theblood back into the thing thing
to be reabsorbed so it doesn'tswell so much.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I've learned a lot about it,like having to read about it
(21:36):
Good.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'll go on to my first look, shall I?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You can, I could just keep talking.
I've been talking for two hours, so I could just keep talking,
if you want or would you like todo your first look.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I'll do my first look , please.
I'll do my first look.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Please do your first look at the volumes.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My son is two, two and a half now.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Two and a half, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He's crazy, but we've just.
A little tip for Dad as well Becareful with your YouTube and
all that, but we've startedusing some YouTube stuff.
I can't remember how well westarted.
But he wanted somethingspecific, and this channel we
came across is called Jake'sTrains and it's basically, do
(22:23):
you know, brio Brio.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh, yes, yes, B-R-I-O .
Yeah, so it's a wooden trainset.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's got his own wooden train set, which good,
good friends of ours gave gaveLogan and he loves his train set
and and I think it happens to alot of toddlers and and it's
quite captivating watchingsomeone play with toys.
(22:53):
So this channel is basicallysomeone playing with Brio train
sets Okay, relaxing.
And I found myself just sort ofyou've got to be careful
because we were worried first ofall as parents.
Is this just like brain numbing, telly?
Yeah, because it's just likewooden trains being pushed
(23:14):
around and and things.
But we liked it, we, we askedsomeone this.
Now it's fine.
Just, you know, lack ofanything in moderation, you know
, don't watch it all day typething, yeah, um, but yeah, brio
trains.
But yeah, brio is expensive, soexpensive.
So that's something we'vestarted watching.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Have you found the ones where it's like kids
opening eggs or something?
That was a big trend when Brianwas a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, not yet, but the channel led us on to a similar
thing about cars, so he's reallyinto the movie Cars.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh nice, good choice.
A similar thing, but cars.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
So he's really into the movie cars.
Oh nice, good choice.
But there's there's toys ofcars, car toys of the pixar
movie cars, and there's so manyvideos.
There's people playing withthese cars and they have like
actual, just a little bit likescale, electric, but sort of
wind up ones, and then they setup the course and then they have
you know, mcqueen versusJackson and it was called, and
(24:15):
they race around and thesepeople just set up and film them
, set their YouTube channels andjust film these different races
going on and sort of you knowtree in the background.
And it's a YouTube is a weirdworld of nonsense, but some good
stuff out there.
Just be careful, becauseobviously it's not monitored
(24:36):
stuff.
So you've got to be carefulwhat channels you do, and
there's the.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
YouTube kids in there , which is a bit better.
Yeah, it's funny though,because so obviously Logan's two
and a half, brayden's nine, sonearly ten.
There's like nearly eight yearsof difference between the two
kids.
Seven and a half eight yearsdifference.
But when Brayden was about twoand a half he used to watch.
I remember vividly a videocalled Murdoch versus Wobbly
School Bus.
(24:59):
Exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Murdoch versus Wobbly School.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Bus, so Murdoch is a train from Thomas the Tank
Engine.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Scottish train, orange train, and it was Murdoch
versus a.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Wobbly School Bus and it was Murdoch versus a wobbly
school bus, and it was like theyput two a train on the track
and a wobbly school bus on thetrack.
Yeah, and I don't remember themusic.
The music was like do, do, do,do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
do, do, do, do, do, do, which Ithink is used on like every
(25:29):
third YouTube video.
now it's supposed to be like aroyalty free one or something,
but yeah, it is, and you thinknow so if logan's seven and a
half years, there's still videoslike murdoch versus wabbi
school bus, the people who madethose videos now must be on like
hundreds of thousands of viewsjust because of time oh yeah, I
looked at these and they're likewow, and you think if they, if
they monetize those, if theysaid it's a bit like investing.
(25:53):
You know people are likeinvestment in the future, get
money.
The people who were earlyadopters of putting YouTube
videos on are probably coiningit in now and just videos like
that of Lightning McQueen racesand Thomas the Tank Engine races
Hundreds of thousands of viewsper episode.
It's overall for the channelyou need to be able to adopt on
(26:16):
stuff, Don't you?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But it's it's a professional setup that they
have.
You know, someone has a bigtable and they it's like stop
motion photography and videosand you do see that the finger
coming down pointing, pushingthe train around, yeah, but you
know, just whack on a backgroundtrack the artist choo-choo and
all that sort of stuff.
But and there's other littlevoice notes that Logan's picked
(26:55):
up- on like there's go, go, go,go go and stuff like that.
But yes, jake Strains, brio,brio is well worth.
It's expensive.
But if you can get the knockoffversions and quite often we
find ourselves building a briotrack his mum's much better than
me I end up doing like a littlecircle where where's georgie?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
just a whole, you know, sort of like a formula one
circuit type thing you knownice and bridges and yeah well
you know you said about tips fordads, williams, here's a tip
for dads based on train tips.
So brayden, so similar thing,right, all little boys just love
train sets.
So ebay's your friend.
(27:40):
I remember when bray was abouttwo or three for christmas he
wanted.
All he wanted was thomas ortrain, and I ended up going to
like facebook marketplace andall that and you can get just
bags of the of the stuff andthen you can.
I remember on christmas morningwe set up the whole floor and
just connected all this big asstrain set with all the different
things like cranking the craneand the turning circle, whatever
(28:04):
it was, but it was all kind ofsecond hand.
But when you put it all out itlooked epic and I think the
whole thing cost us like 46 quidor something ridiculous.
So for Brio and that's one ofthe books, there's a lot of
parents out there who are justlike, oh, I've just got a bulk
lot of, just like, oh, a bagfull of Brio or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Have a look.
Well, you say that we looked,so the wife-wife uses Vinted,
got a couple bits but brio, theactual brio stuff.
It actually keeps its value.
Oh, does it okay?
So even like secondhand stuff,third hand stuff, is it's.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It can be a little bit cheaper but actually holds
its value okay but um, yeah,there's other non-branded stuff
that you know, yeah, does it allwork with the other non-branded
that works with the brio stuff,yeah, yeah yeah, but the brio
is good, good quality stuff.
But it sounds like you'reenjoying yourself, but you do
need to get.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I am, I do yeah, yeah , yeah, I need to get better
designs, but the noises thoughif george can build the tracks,
you can just do all the noises.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know you're the winner dream team.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But I do worry where this is going because we all say
I mean actually the wife'sworse than me, but we ended up
so we had the, obviously thewooden ones you can push around,
but now we've got some batterypowered ones as well.
Nice battery and it makessounds and it goes around some.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I am worried I'm gonna end up in the loft of a
full train set oh, I wouldn't besurprised, and you love every
minute I can take you to theroom next door and show you my
dad's train set.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You got my mum, who can't use smart speakers, and
you got my dad, who has got atrain set probably worth more
than the house and thecollection of trains.
And it brings him a lot of joy.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Williams, he's a very happy man, it does to a lot of
people.
I can see myself going downthat route.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Well, there was a big train exhibition on Derby this
weekend, or just this week, Ithink and Pete Waterman was
there with his big train set.
Apparently it took two lorriesto move it and shift it there.
Massive train enthusiastsbecause they're celebrating 200
years of British rail andBritish train this week Maybe
have a look at what's going onthere.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
If you're on YouTube, maybe you can have a look at
what's going on there if you'reon YouTube maybe we can have a
look at some of the originalsteam trains and have a look at
some of the model trains thatare on display there tips for
dads.
Tips for dads, tips for dads.
I'll just end on a first lookfact.
First look fact.
I found out that french frieswere actually first weren't well
(30:37):
, they weren't actually made,first made in France okay they
were first cooked in Greece.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's a bad joke, sorry at least I got that one.
I listened back to a couple ofepisodes and I was like god,
you're so dense you don't getany of some of these jokes.
They're so obviously jokes.
I got that one.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That was my level, nice and simple alright,
listeners, see you in a coupleof weeks.
We'll see you in a couple ofweeks.
Bye, crazy there's been a lotof weeks.
We'll see you in a couple ofweeks.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bye, crazy, there's been a lot of trains in this
episode Williams, talking trainsCrazy, but that's how it goes.
Williams, but that's how itgoes.
Don't forget to follow, like,review and share.
all about, all About Episode 4.
All About Episode 4 but that'show it goes.
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Millions of people listening.
Maybe it's too late to learnhow to pod episode 4.
How are you mate?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hey brother.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Season four, episode four.
It was meant to be all a four,but I thought All a four.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It was very good All a four.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It was very, very good.
It was very, very good.
Yeah, 10 out of 10.
Probably insert some, uh, someof your guitar playing or
something how you doing I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm doing all right, williams, I'm doing all right.
I'm a bit um the last fewmonths of, as we talked about in
the last episode and probablythe episode before that.
We're just still in the in thekind of craziness that is house
renovation crazy, crazy, yeah,sorry, uh.
Yeah, everything, everything'sall good.
We're just, we're just in a bitof crazy crazy listeners, uh
(01:58):
listeners, mr hodgkiss.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
This is a little uh announcement.
Mr hodgkiss is very tired.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He's been working many hours, so he is a bit crazy
, but that's how it goes.
Volumes, but that's how it goesaren't we all a little crazy?
Is there a song about that?
I think we should all get alittle crazy.
Isn't that a damski and killer,killer and Seal.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is that a Beyonce one , crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's crazy in love.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh,uh-oh.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm just fine.
I'm just fine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh dear, oh dear, we've fallen off the cliff
already, but yes, I'm very wellthank you, adams, how are you?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm good, I'm good.
Let me try to keep this ontrack.
On the train track, grab yourrod, mr Hodgekiss.
Grab your rod whilst you'restill in there, where it is.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't think we've got the energy.
Hang on, hang on, hang on, Goon.
I've grabbed it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's the fish pod of feedback Yay.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yay Fish pod of feedback.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Also, 40-odd-year-old Mr Hodgkiss is stinging his
pants at the moment so weapologise.
I apologise for his parents.
You can probably hear throughhis walls.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's about time they listen to one of the podcasts,
so they might as well listen tome recording it, because I
haven't listened to the actualbloody thing I said to Mum once
we bought my mum an Alexa sothat she could listen to the
podcast, Because she's like howdo we listen to these?
Podcasts.
Craig, I want to listen tothese podcasts and I was like
trying to explain it to her andI said do you know what the
easiest thing is?
Let's just borrow Alexa,because then she can do it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But she never has the Alexa plugged in and then she
starts trying to talk to it andit doesn't listen to her.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It just ignores her.
She's like Alexa.
Alexa play my son Play, my sonPlay, my son Play my son Podcast
, podcast, podcast, and then allof a sudden she's listening to,
I don't know, some random kindof Spandau Valley radio station
or something.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My son FM.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It doesn't work.
It was fun.
She was trying to get BBCSounds on recently.
The digital services I'm sureare available, but she's like I
can't get it to work.
What do I do?
It keeps asking me to do things.
I'm like just talk to it, mum,and she's like I do talk to it,
but then it asks me to sign insomewhere.
I said you know you sign in tolisten to the radio.
(04:37):
And she said it asks me forsome money.
I said no, it didn't ask me foranybody.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That was me.
That was me.
I phoned Drap and said can Ihave some money for the download
?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
please.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Play my son.
Play my son.
I want the podcast play my sonTo help our stats for those
listening on a speakerphone.
Alexa play First.
Look Nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Very good, yes, so she can hear me recording it now
, I'm sure, and she's probablythinking what the hell's going
on.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
She actually did the best half of the podcast well,
that's it she made.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
She may make an appearance at some point.
Because I said right, mom, I'mgonna go and I'm gonna take some
beers, I'm gonna go chat to ournames, I'll come and tell you
good night when I go to bed.
So I said, well, I will berecording mom, so you're
probably on air if we call andshe's like oh okay, so my mom
might show up at any moment ofthe podcast and you're special.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Lastly, and she'll go in there, hello, hello.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And then she'll be able to see him.
Because I'm wearing headphones,she won't be able to hear you,
so then she'll be like I can him, because I'm wearing headphones
, she'll be able to hear you.
So then she'll be like I can'thear him.
I can't hear him.
Very cute, very cute, you soundlike you sound like Orville.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Orville the duck, orville the duck.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I wish I could.
I can't, I can't.
I wish I could get my son'spodcast, but I can't.
You can wish I could get myson's podcast, but I can't, you
can't.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It's the same.
I can't, you can't.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ask Alexa to play my son Crazy, crazy, crazy Anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Anyways, the wife of my wife emailed in.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh very good.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
She said she enjoyed the postcard segment.
It turns out it was only hisvoice that was cringe, she said.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, that's about the net one name.
Oh, yes, yes, he hasn't sentany voice notes in has he.
No, not yet, Not yet, I think Idid think about him a few weeks
ago and then just I've been ohsorry, he's been busy, he's been
busy clearly.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, maybe he's met all the duck, that'd be a nice
little voice note, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
No other name in all for the duck.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
She also said she skipped the Google IO section.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, this is her words .
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It says and didn't tickle her pickle, which I
thought was a bit.
I don't know if that'sappropriate terms.
You can use these days.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
If she'd listened to the rest, she'd have learned how
Google can tickle her pickle.
But now she'll never know, canit?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
In 3D, apparently.
For those that missed out,listen back.
New listeners, mr Oshkiss.
New listeners.
We've got new listeners fromRichmond in the Tasman district
in US Richmond, usa or RichmondUK.
Tasman district?
I don't know Tasman district,is it in your?
Sister, not UK that's notTasman, no Richmond, tas, tasman
(07:44):
, tasman, no Richmond, tas,tasman Tasman Al-Mansur in Daki
Hali.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Easy music.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Nakano City in Tokyo.
Danang, danang, calgary,alberta, what are you laughing
at?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's the way you were concentrating so hard on saying
that's not that hard to say,but the focus in your eyes.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Listeners appreciate my pronunciation.
Calgary Alberta.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Calgary.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do, do-do-do, phenom
Do-do-do-do.
Phenom phenom Do-do-do-do-do,do-do-do-do-do.
Sorry, phenomenomenomenomenomenlike a WF tag team.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Phenomenon, phenomenon.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Crazy Oxnard, California.
Very nice and we've had loadsof downloads, new listeners in
North Bergen, new Jersey.
Yeah, maybe my sister, maybe,maybe she can use a smart
speaker to listen to her brotheron a podcast in North Bergen,
new Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, maybe my sister , Maybe maybe she can use a
smart speaker to listen to herbrother on a podcast.
What does she sound like whenshe?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
What does he sound like?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Alexa, play me brother on the podcast.
Would you Come on play mebrother now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Play me brother, play me brother.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Play me brother.
Me mother can't do it.
I want to check it works.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Lots of new listeners , so I've still got more to say
Minya, minya.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
The night of the phenomenon of Minya Minya Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And this one you might need to.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Are you making things up?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
No, I'm not, let me just chat gbt.
I need to I need to make itsound like we've got new
listeners.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What can we say?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
we do.
We do have new listeners.
We do have new listeners.
One.
You need to help me with wherethis one is.
Every night I've been thinking,I've been.
Well, I've been hugging mypillow thinking where it is.
You have to show me the way tothis one.
The listener is.
There's a church bell ringing.
(10:17):
It's amarillo.
Sorry, I should let you carryon there.
It was.
Oh, I was just welcome.
I was too keen, sorry well,well done, well done, yeah.
So welcome to our new listener,maria.
Other news a little news alittle segment which I knew you,
I know you sort of appreciate.
(10:37):
So obviously we're top rankingon apple podcasts and Spotify
rankings.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Goodness knows how, but still.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We come up.
So again, these are searchterms.
So three Top three keywordsthis one, I'm quite chuffed.
We come up for Fascinatingtrivia, mr Hodgkiss, fascinating
trivia.
In July.
If you typed in Spotifyfascinating trivia and you
(11:07):
scroll down to 100, number 156,the list, we would have been
there for fascinating trivia.
How good's that as if anyone'sever getting to page 156.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
like anything, anything On any kind of search.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Alright, alright, alright, I'll higher up the
rankings.
Mr Hodgkiss, if you typed in,if you scroll down to 119, when
you've just typed in wallabies,we would have been 119 on the
list 119 for wallabies?
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, but when did we ever talk about wallabies?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't know, but number 25, miss Archie Giss,
which has got to be what page?
I don't really use Spotify Ifyou scroll down to 25.
Probably page 2,.
Yeah, page 2.
If you typed in historicalcuriosities, Historical
curiosities.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, we do talk about some historical places we
visit, so maybe that's not a badone and then this one on apple
podcasts.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
16th, and we've had this before and it's not
tropical fruits.
If you type in children'stelevision, we're number 16 on
the list.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh, that's good.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
At one point.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
What about if people search for things like funny
podcast, dad podcast, goodpodcast, make me laugh.
Where do we come there?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Well, less than 156.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Work to be done.
Work to be done yes.
Work to be done.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Work to be done yes work to be done, but not much
more work than needs to be doneon children's television there
we go Apart from we don't talkabout children's television.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We should try and get someone from children's
television to come on thepodcast, like Andy Peters or
Derek Griffiths from mychildhood.
I loved his voice.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You know them do you, it's Michaela Strachan.
Swiftly moving on, before welose you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I think it's already happened, william.
I've spilt beer all over thebed.
Never mind, oh no, sticky bed,what?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
are we going to do Back at your parents' base and
you've got a sticky bed.
I we going to do back at yourparents face and you've got a
sticky bed.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I need some tissue, mum.
What's about to create?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
do you want to get onto your first look, christophe
probably should I'm trying toput look at this.
I wasn't a yes-no question.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I've been trying to pull this for you now for the
last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
What is?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
that I don't know.
Shit glasses in this house, theheads I'm 50% of the glass I
know, and the rest of it's allon the floor, never mind.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
We 50% foam, 50% on the floor nothing inside of me
anyway first look first look.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I thought I would introduce this first look
because it's not a particularlyexciting one, but it seems to be
a topic I talk about often, soI thought I'd introduce it with
a poem oh lovely, so here we go.
Naomi Numpty was building awall, naomi.
Numpty had a great fall.
(14:44):
Naomi Numpty was building awall.
Naomi Numpty had a great fall,oh no.
Naomi Numpty shouted Doe likeHomer, looked down and on his
shin was a fucking massivehematoma.
Oh no has it gone down.
I can actually show you.
Oh no, I can't.
(15:05):
I was able to switch thecameras before.
Yes, you can, I'm recordingthis on my phone.
Ladies and gentlemen, today,because I'm staying at my mum
and dad's house and you can flipcameras, hang on, I can turn it
around, there you go.
Oh, look at that.
Lovely Can you see that.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Listeners.
We look at that lovely.
Can you see that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
listeners we've got a nice sexy shot of Miss
Hardrick's leg and there's a abig, a big bump, I suppose, is
the, yeah, the lightest way tocall it.
So I think the doctor thinksI've broken my shin and said you
should get you need to get anx-ray, but I've been too busy so
I haven't gone to get an.
(15:50):
So I actually work for twodoctors, one of whom is a sports
doctor who works with MMAprofessionals, and so here's a
story.
So, yes, the first look is afirst look at hematomas.
I've never had a hematomabefore, and this one is the size
of a lemon.
So I fell over in because we'redoing renovations at the minute
(16:10):
.
I fell over and landed.
We were building a wall and Ifell over and landed first on a
fence post and it was the fencepost cracked.
It was a 4x4 fence post and itcracked and I literally yelped.
I've never yelped before and Iyelped.
I was like ow, proper, like ow,and I was like, oh, I did that
(16:36):
thing, you know, oh, that reallythat's all that is.
I was like, right, get up,because once you've fallen over
so you look like a tit.
And then I was like get up, getup, you're like a tit, start it
out, walk it off, start it out.
And I stood up and.
I had shorts on and I lookeddown and I'm not kidding it had
swollen up.
It was like somebody hadactually put a tennis ball under
(16:57):
my shin just straight away andI was like whoa, that's
frightening what the heck isthat?
and I was 40 minutes away fromdoing a presentation to my two
doctor bosses and I was likeokay, what's it a day now?
Bearing in mind this was a okay, what should I do Now, bearing
in mind this was a Monday, andon the Sunday I had put my
(17:19):
shoulder out?
because I was liftingfloorboards and I had to go next
door because we've got nofreezer.
The house is empty.
So I had to go and knock thenext door neighbours and say you
got any?
Excuse me, I need a bottle ofpeas please.
I need some frozen peas becauseI've hurt my shoulder, so I
borrowed a bag of frozen.
She didn't have any peas, soshe gave me a bag of frozen
(17:39):
sprouts.
So this was on the Sunday andthen on the Monday I did this
and I was like I need to get iceon that quick.
But I thought I can't go andknock the next door neighbour
and ask for more frozenvegetables Me again.
Hello, we've got new broccoli.
We've got some frozen carrots.
Before you know it, I've justemptied the woman's freezer.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
of all the frozen vegetables, you've got roast
chicken as well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Any beer.
So I thought better of it and Igot in the car and zoomed to
the shop and bought myself somefrozen peas.
And I got back and I elevatedmy leg and I was like I've got
to do one of the most importantpresentations in about 15
minutes time so.
But I was full of adrenaline,like cause.
I panicked a little bit.
(18:25):
I was a bit like do.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I need to go and?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
do I need to go to the emergency room?
What do I need to do?
Cause it was so big and I waslike, okay, so I started the
present.
I was like, just, you'll befine, stop being a big worrywart
, it's just.
It's obviously just a badswelling, it'll be fine.
So I got the call, I startedthe presentation and because it
was so full of adrenaline, I waslike I feel a bit funny at the
(18:48):
minute because I've just hadthis and I told them what
happened and luckily, the twodoctors so was like, ah, let's
see.
And I showed them and they'relike yes, okay, that's a
hematoma.
And so it's very common withmixed martial artists because
they kick each other.
And their shins go shin to shin.
So I say it's really common,but it's pretty much superficial
(19:12):
, because there's no, it's likebecause I was running like oh
it's quite because I was runninglike, oh, it's quite big.
What about clots and all thiskind of stuff?
No, you're okay, it should be.
It's not in your, like yourknee, or your deep like your
deep veins or anything, theysaid.
But he said, because of thesize of it, in about a week
you're gonna be with black toes.
And I was like, really, blacktoes, black toes.
And I said okay, well, I saidbecause what will happen is as,
as it starts to come down, theblurred face pool now will start
(19:35):
to harden and will need to gosomewhere.
So gravity pulls it down, so allthe bruising will appear in
your foot and a week later I hadblack toes and a black foot.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And I was like wow.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
But I was like it's really funny.
I don't know if you're ahypochondriac, but I'm a little
bit of a hypochondriac.
If something happens like that,I worry a bit.
I'm like, oh, is it okay, Is ithealing right?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
How lucky are you to have MMA doctors just on hand.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, it was, it was incredible.
So I showed them and they toldme to get elevated.
They gave me a treatment plan,my presentation and crushed it.
So that was good and yeah, then, like about a week later I had
to.
I had a talk with them again.
I told them up there and I toldI said you're right, I've got
black toes and they've just beenhelping me all along like
they're like right.
After a while they're like theyneed a tennis ball.
(20:24):
You need to rub the tennis ballon because you're trying to get
it to go down.
You need the.
You need your body to reabsorbthe blood.
That's there and all this kindof stuff.
And they said to me I said, look, I actually went and saw my GP
just to make sure there wasnothing wrong with it because,
my foot went black, but my legwent yellow and I was like and
it was quite warm.
I was like, hmm, I was a bitworried because the actual human
time had got quite warm.
(20:45):
So I went and saw the doctor andshe was like I think you've
broken it.
You need to you go and get itX-rayed.
He said you can, but thetreatment plan won't be any
different.
So you know you can go and getit now for peace of mind that
you've got a hairline fracture,but they won't treat it any
different.
(21:05):
It'll still just be a case ofrest and elevation and you know
heat and all that kind of stuff.
So it's been interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Hematoma, hematoma.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
If you Google it like boxers, get them a lot.
So you know like when you seeboxers get punched in the face
and their face goes all swollenA lot of the time that's
hematoma.
So you'll see them kind of withlike a, like a cold piece of
metal kind of pushing down.
They're trying to push theblood back into the thing thing
to be reabsorbed so it doesn'tswell so much.
Yeah, it's interesting.
I've learned a lot about it,like having to read about it
(21:36):
Good.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'll go on to my first look, shall I?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
You can, I could just keep talking.
I've been talking for two hours, so I could just keep talking,
if you want or would you like todo your first look.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I'll do my first look , please.
I'll do my first look.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Please do your first look at the volumes.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My son is two, two and a half now.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Two and a half, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
He's crazy, but we've just.
A little tip for Dad as well Becareful with your YouTube and
all that, but we've startedusing some YouTube stuff.
I can't remember how well westarted.
But he wanted somethingspecific, and this channel we
came across is called Jake'sTrains and it's basically, do
(22:23):
you know, brio Brio.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh, yes, yes, B-R-I-O .
Yeah, so it's a wooden trainset.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
He's got his own wooden train set, which good,
good friends of ours gave gaveLogan and he loves his train set
and and I think it happens to alot of toddlers and and it's
quite captivating watchingsomeone play with toys.
(22:53):
So this channel is basicallysomeone playing with Brio train
sets Okay, relaxing.
And I found myself just sort ofyou've got to be careful
because we were worried first ofall as parents.
Is this just like brain numbing, telly?
Yeah, because it's just likewooden trains being pushed
(23:14):
around and and things.
But we liked it, we, we askedsomeone this.
Now it's fine.
Just, you know, lack ofanything in moderation, you know
, don't watch it all day typething, yeah, um, but yeah, brio
trains.
But yeah, brio is expensive, soexpensive.
So that's something we'vestarted watching.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Have you found the ones where it's like kids
opening eggs or something?
That was a big trend when Brianwas a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, not yet, but the channel led us on to a similar
thing about cars, so he's reallyinto the movie Cars.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Oh nice, good choice.
A similar thing, but cars.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
So he's really into the movie cars.
Oh nice, good choice.
But there's there's toys ofcars, car toys of the pixar
movie cars, and there's so manyvideos.
There's people playing withthese cars and they have like
actual, just a little bit likescale, electric, but sort of
wind up ones, and then they setup the course and then they have
you know, mcqueen versusJackson and it was called, and
(24:15):
they race around and thesepeople just set up and film them
, set their YouTube channels andjust film these different races
going on and sort of you knowtree in the background.
And it's a YouTube is a weirdworld of nonsense, but some good
stuff out there.
Just be careful, becauseobviously it's not monitored
(24:36):
stuff.
So you've got to be carefulwhat channels you do, and
there's the.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
YouTube kids in there , which is a bit better.
Yeah, it's funny though,because so obviously Logan's two
and a half, brayden's nine, sonearly ten.
There's like nearly eight yearsof difference between the two
kids.
Seven and a half eight yearsdifference.
But when Brayden was about twoand a half he used to watch.
I remember vividly a videocalled Murdoch versus Wobbly
School Bus.
(24:59):
Exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Murdoch versus Wobbly School.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Bus, so Murdoch is a train from Thomas the Tank
Engine.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Scottish train, orange train, and it was Murdoch
versus a.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Wobbly School Bus and it was Murdoch versus a wobbly
school bus, and it was like theyput two a train on the track
and a wobbly school bus on thetrack.
Yeah, and I don't remember themusic.
The music was like do, do, do,do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
do, do, do, do, do, do, which Ithink is used on like every
(25:29):
third YouTube video.
now it's supposed to be like aroyalty free one or something,
but yeah, it is, and you thinknow so if logan's seven and a
half years, there's still videoslike murdoch versus wabbi
school bus, the people who madethose videos now must be on like
hundreds of thousands of viewsjust because of time oh yeah, I
looked at these and they're likewow, and you think if they, if
they monetize those, if theysaid it's a bit like investing.
(25:53):
You know people are likeinvestment in the future, get
money.
The people who were earlyadopters of putting YouTube
videos on are probably coiningit in now and just videos like
that of Lightning McQueen racesand Thomas the Tank Engine races
Hundreds of thousands of viewsper episode.
It's overall for the channelyou need to be able to adopt on
(26:16):
stuff, Don't you?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
But it's it's a professional setup that they
have.
You know, someone has a bigtable and they it's like stop
motion photography and videosand you do see that the finger
coming down pointing, pushingthe train around, yeah, but you
know, just whack on a backgroundtrack the artist choo-choo and
all that sort of stuff.
But and there's other littlevoice notes that Logan's picked
(26:55):
up- on like there's go, go, go,go go and stuff like that.
But yes, jake Strains, brio,brio is well worth.
It's expensive.
But if you can get the knockoffversions and quite often we
find ourselves building a briotrack his mum's much better than
me I end up doing like a littlecircle where where's georgie?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
just a whole, you know, sort of like a formula one
circuit type thing you knownice and bridges and yeah well
you know you said about tips fordads, williams, here's a tip
for dads based on train tips.
So brayden, so similar thing,right, all little boys just love
train sets.
So ebay's your friend.
(27:40):
I remember when bray was abouttwo or three for christmas he
wanted.
All he wanted was thomas ortrain, and I ended up going to
like facebook marketplace andall that and you can get just
bags of the of the stuff andthen you can.
I remember on christmas morningwe set up the whole floor and
just connected all this big asstrain set with all the different
things like cranking the craneand the turning circle, whatever
(28:04):
it was, but it was all kind ofsecond hand.
But when you put it all out itlooked epic and I think the
whole thing cost us like 46 quidor something ridiculous.
So for Brio and that's one ofthe books, there's a lot of
parents out there who are justlike, oh, I've just got a bulk
lot of, just like, oh, a bagfull of Brio or whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Have a look.
Well, you say that we looked,so the wife-wife uses Vinted,
got a couple bits but brio, theactual brio stuff.
It actually keeps its value.
Oh, does it okay?
So even like secondhand stuff,third hand stuff, is it's.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It can be a little bit cheaper but actually holds
its value okay but um, yeah,there's other non-branded stuff
that you know, yeah, does it allwork with the other non-branded
that works with the brio stuff,yeah, yeah yeah, but the brio
is good, good quality stuff.
But it sounds like you'reenjoying yourself, but you do
need to get.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I am, I do yeah, yeah , yeah, I need to get better
designs, but the noises thoughif george can build the tracks,
you can just do all the noises.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
You know you're the winner dream team.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
But I do worry where this is going because we all say
I mean actually the wife'sworse than me, but we ended up
so we had the, obviously thewooden ones you can push around,
but now we've got some batterypowered ones as well.
Nice battery and it makessounds and it goes around some.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I am worried I'm gonna end up in the loft of a
full train set oh, I wouldn't besurprised, and you love every
minute I can take you to theroom next door and show you my
dad's train set.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You got my mum, who can't use smart speakers, and
you got my dad, who has got atrain set probably worth more
than the house and thecollection of trains.
And it brings him a lot of joy.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Williams, he's a very happy man, it does to a lot of
people.
I can see myself going downthat route.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Well, there was a big train exhibition on Derby this
weekend, or just this week, Ithink and Pete Waterman was
there with his big train set.
Apparently it took two lorriesto move it and shift it there.
Massive train enthusiastsbecause they're celebrating 200
years of British rail andBritish train this week Maybe
have a look at what's going onthere.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
If you're on YouTube, maybe you can have a look at
what's going on there if you'reon YouTube maybe we can have a
look at some of the originalsteam trains and have a look at
some of the model trains thatare on display there tips for
dads.
Tips for dads, tips for dads.
I'll just end on a first lookfact.
First look fact.
I found out that french frieswere actually first weren't well
(30:37):
, they weren't actually made,first made in France okay they
were first cooked in Greece.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's a bad joke, sorry at least I got that one.
I listened back to a couple ofepisodes and I was like god,
you're so dense you don't getany of some of these jokes.
They're so obviously jokes.
I got that one.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That was my level, nice and simple alright,
listeners, see you in a coupleof weeks.
We'll see you in a couple ofweeks.
Bye, crazy there's been a lotof weeks.
We'll see you in a couple ofweeks.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Bye, crazy, there's been a lot of trains in this
episode Williams, talking trainsCrazy, but that's how it goes.
Williams, but that's how itgoes.
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