¶ Beer Review and Listener Feedback
little did you know , but I was in germany for the euro semi-finals .
No , way in game yeah , in germany , that one quiet yeah and uh .
I was there waiting for the just before the game . I saw this guy walking around with a long pole Strange .
Really strange .
So I asked him are you a pole voter ? He said nein , I am the German . But tell me , how did you know ? My name is Walter , episode 9 .
I didn't go to Germany , unfortunately as soon as you said you went to Germany , I thought this is episode 9 . He's going to do a 9 joke , isn't he ? I actually , usually I fall for that hook line and sinker , but I mean , there was a split second .
I was like , oh nice , you went to germany for the euro semi and I was like they didn't go to euros for the semi-finals . It's got work .
There's no way I don't know what would you do . So , yeah , tickets to the semifinals , uh-huh . What would you do ? Because basically , people could sell their tickets for 16 000 pounds . Wow , would you still go , or would you stick it on ebay for 16 000 pounds ?
no , I don't think it is , because think of the think of the cinema room you could set up for 16 000 pounds .
Yeah , think of the , the number of games you can watch in the room .
Yeah , exactly no sick .
That's ridiculous you probably wouldn't have one ticket . You wouldn't really go on your own . You'd have at least two tickets probably .
You have a pair of tickets that's 32k . Yeah , I mean absolutely , I would have sold those and yeah , and not even felt bad about it , I'd have sold those and cheered for flipping Holland if that was part of the deal . Come on , holland , I got my 32 grand . F*** you England , yay , anyways . Episode nine Episode nine . Episode nine Episode nine .
Episode nine it's first to first time . Yay , yay , let's open the first list .
What have you got this week ? Here we go .
Vault City and it's a blueberry muffin , waffle cone crunch , triple scoop , modern sour beer .
That sounds bloody horrendous . You don't mix desserts . Sour beer that sounds bloody horrendous . You don't mix desserts and beer .
You don't try and be like it's not an ice cream flavour it's a beer . It's not ice cream flavoured Crunch .
Beer should not have a crunch .
It's a blueberry muffin , something or other .
That's going to be awful Also the listeners can't see it .
It's 8.3% .
Oh , my goodness .
Which is , from my standards , is quite a low , but our favourite flavours of ice cream are the inspiration for our new dessert Sours .
Well , I'm sorry your inspiration's flawed , because who wants ice cream and beer to be mixed together like in america , I do . I do enjoy ice cream float , but I wouldn't dump an ice cream in a beer apparently in america , in boston , you can get I heard about this this week you can get guinness floats .
Um , guinness floats , so they put ice cream into the Guinness . I'm like , okay , that doesn't sound awful . But a blueberry muffin , waffle , cone crunch , 8.3% beer , it will scoop . I'm just not sure , wiles . But you know , you're the one with the can in the hand , you're the one with the drink about to be drunk .
I imagine it's going to be blue in colour right . Here we go , here we go .
Oh , it's red , oh , it's more purple . Yeah , sorry .
It's very Well yeah .
It definitely contains blueberries , doesn't it ? You can see by the colour .
It definitely contains blueberries , it's not . It's not a Guinness , that's for sure .
It doesn't look nice .
Here we go . Let's see I'm diving in Cheers .
Cheers .
Before I even get there , it's a very strong smell . Oh .
That's what you want to see when you drink a beer . Oh , it looks like he's just got one of Logan's nappies .
No , it's a nice smell . Look at your's nappies . No , it's a nice smell .
Look at your face , know if it's a nice smell a right blueberry smell so what's the verdict on the taste ? And it's oh , oh . His eye just turned in . Ladies and gentlemen , his eye just turned in . I mean , I'll still drink it because I don't waste booze , but I can't . I'm honestly shocked . Oh , his eye just turned in .
Ladies and gentlemen , His eye just turned in . I mean I mean I'll still drink it because I don't waste booze .
But I can't . I'm honestly shocked . A blueberry waffle cone , double crunch , 8.3% beer is wrong . Whoa , who'd have thought it ?
It's too . It hits the sides of your mouth . You know where it hits the sides of your mouth ? Uh-huh , the cheeks . It's too sweet , it's too sweet .
It's a terrible idea . I hope you didn't buy this . I hope this was a gifted beer . Did you actually buy this from the shop ? I can't remember . You can't remember it's yeah , it was never going to go well , was it ? Let's be honest .
No , I'll drink it At a no . Uh , I'll drink it um at a protest .
I apologize for the audio quality when my face goes inside out . As I'm talking , his eye literally turned into the middle of his face .
I don't know , it's like a shot , it's like a really sour . I mean it did say on the tins sour , so it did give me a trigger warning . But the name should have given you a trigger warning the ingredients and the , the inspiration that the people talk to on the can should have given you a trigger warning .
The ingredients and the inspiration that the people talk to on the can should have given you a trigger warning who buys that and drinks that and thinks that's delicious . How do they make money when they produce this crap ?
People like me , mr Oshkiss , people like me that like a pretty can and go ooh colours , ooh ice cream . I like ice cream . I like beer . I know from experience I don't like ice cream and beer together , but I still bought it okay , well , more for you , williams there might be a , might be a grower .
So we'll see , we shall see okay , okay shall we grab our tackles , mr Hushkiss ?
I think it sounds like a . I don't want to grab a blueberry pint of beer , so let's grab the tackle .
Yes , Grab a tackle to the fish pond of feedback . Whey , whey , whey , whey Whey New listeners in Waltham Forest . I don't know where that is , but Van Buren , arkansas .
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That's Wolfen Forest yeah .
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Wow .
Wow , no new listeners in Africa , though still .
Still no Africans listening to our podcast .
We do have international listeners , so thank you very much .
Yeah , thanks for tuning in guys international listeners .
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anonymous anonymous .
That's a good one , and it was an anonymous person who sent that , yeah anonymous , anonymous person .
Um , this , this thing , this , this , this has blown my mind . Mr hodgkins , you might have known this already , but this has blown my mind , hit me and it says after 30 odd years , but 40 years for myself , I've just realized it's a me . A mario is japanese for super mario and not it's me mario no , that can't be true .
No , I want to fact check that volumes . Where did you hear that from ?
okay , I've not fact checked it . I've not fact checked it it's a me , mario it's a me , a mario for super mario . We are going to fact check you listeners . It could be the spreading false fake news . Who knows ?
It's-a-me Mario . Yeah , okay , so there's a Reddit thing about it . It's-a-me .
Mario .
Okay , so rather than saying It's-a-me Mario , Nintendo character Super Mario says It's-a-me Mario , which means Super Mario in Japanese . Wow .
Well , there you go . Listeners . Character Super Mario says Itsumi Mario , which means Super Mario in Japanese .
Wow , that is actually mind blowing
¶ Glastonbury 2024 Music Review
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We should just stop the podcast now how many years have you gone in your Italian accent in your head whilst playing Super Mario ?
it's a me , any more feedback . Williams Walliams .
No , the listeners have been quiet . The listeners have been quiet this week . Yeah , please send stuff in .
There's a lot going on , isn't there , with sports and everything that we just talked about . So you know it's understandable .
Send your voice notes in or whatever .
Well , you know where I've got a first look , Walliams , if we're happy to jump into that that could explain why people haven't been sending us in messages .
Maybe Jump in , jump in .
First look . It's a repeat of last year's first look , although last year's first look was a look at Glastonbury 2023 . This one is a look at Glastonbury 2024, .
Walliams , oh , it's not a second look , it's a first look at 2024 .
It's a first look at 2024 . It's a first look at 2024 . We are gonna do so just to give a bit of context . Glastonbury will be assuming we're still doing this podcast will probably become a regular feature because it's something we enjoy doing now . This year we were planning to have a glastonbelly festival in our house .
We've uh , we had turned our house into a summer . We turned our sorry , our dining room into a summer entertainment room . So we have english bunting up , we have nice flags and we have a big projector screen and speakers , and the plan was to have a festival with some of my wife's work friends coming around to enjoy it .
However , the wife got covid again , um , so we were meant to be going For the sixth time Something ridiculous like that . So we were meant to be going to see Take that we had Golden Circle tickets to go and see . Take that which I was very much looking forward to .
We were going to have a nice date and we couldn't go to that because the wife got COVID and we thought no no , there's no kind of obligation to not go into public places , but you still feel a bit like you don't really want to go and cough on anybody else you never know who there might be , but she didn't feel very well .
Yeah , so we missed take that . And then we had to also miss our glastonbelly party so we couldn't have a party . So instead we just got drunk and did it ourselves . So we we always enjoy watching glastonbury for for the , obviously , the bands we know , but also for the random stuff you see .
So I'm going to talk about the , the good , the bad and the ugly of glastonbury this year okay , I don't know if you watch it no , I caught snippets , but no , I don't know what's going on , but I didn't really catch much of it this year .
Well , there was a lot of chatter before Glastonbury this year that it wasn't a very good lineup , but I actually think it did all right . From the acts that we saw , I was quite impressed . Now , it could have been because I was drunk , but I really enjoyed the whole thing . So we'll start with a good . So yeah , I in order of my favorites walliams .
I really enjoyed jesse ware . I thought she was very good . Um , kasabian did a secret set . That was very good . Um , yeah , I quite enjoyed paloma faith , like she's nutty as a fruitcake , but I like paloma . Yeah , I quite like her as well . And then the one that really impressed me was Dua Lipa .
She did a CBeebies bedtime story from Glastonbury .
I didn't see that one . Yeah , but I'm not surprised she's that kind of yeah .
Yeah , from Glastonbury . She did a CBeebies story and she had what they called the classic Madonna cones . Okay , very appropriate , is that CBee called the the classic madonna cones ? Okay , is that cbb's family .
but there you go , kids aren't looking at those , are they the dads ? Probably are the dad's probably looking and yeah , yeah , bedtime story just improved for them . Um , speaking of madonna cones and dads dua lipaua Lipa . So she was very good . She did a lot of outfit changes .
I like Dua Lipa .
She has good pop songs . So we enjoyed Dua Lipa and then , I think , the favourite , the one they enjoyed the most , was the Sugar Babes , which Sugar Babes , was it ?
So this is the original line-up of Sugar Babes . The original three but is it the original three ? Because wasn't the original one disappeared very early , didn't they ?
Yes , no , it's her again . She's back .
Is it ?
Yeah , and she can sing quite well . So they did it a couple of years ago and they put them on the second stage or park stage or something and they drew too big of a crowd . So this year you'd have thought they'd have learned from that and put them on the pyramid stage , but they didn't .
They put them on another stage and they drew too many people as well , so they had to stop people going in .
So hopefully next year they'll get to the pyramid .
Yeah , it was . It was really good .
So there were some good ones , but there was also some bad ones , williams .
So shania twain wasn't very good , was she not ? We didn't watch the whole thing , but she was the headline . She was the sunday , she was what they call the legend , um , but she did the legend slot , but oh no she doesn't actually have that many songs that we all know and she's yeah , she wasn't that great she's kept in great shape .
Um , james , who were a band I quite like they . They disappointed me . They didn't do many of their big hits . They did a load of other random stuff and there's someone that I heard .
That was really bad . I can't remember their names , but you'll probably mention them in a bit .
I'll let you know it was dex's midnight runners were pretty bad . They were like just well past it as a female .
You know 70 roads in the Loper yeah , was it so Cindy Lauper was .
Yeah , cindy Lauper wasn't great , but I don't know she was . It looked like she was at a sink or something . So in every unit it looked like she was but the music was slightly delayed , so she was kind of singing just ever so slightly off , like there was a just a slight delay .
So it was a bit odd , but , you know , fair play to her , she had great hair . And then SZA , who was like the headliner on the Sunday night . We tried to watch for a bit and it was just like I't know any of this . I'm too old , like you know . Clearly talented woman , but just wasn't for us .
Um , and then the ugly , which was probably my favorite thing to watch was a band called high long high long high long is it like a german eurovision type thing ? so I want to talk about high lung . Um , should I have heard of them ? Nope , uh , they are . They are amplified history neo-folk , denmark , germany .
So that's the genre that's yeah , whatever the hell that is . So I'm going to read you . I'm going to read you about high lung because so when we ? When we Heilung it was like a group of Vikings on stage , Some men , some women . The women were all topless , covered in kind of blood and guts . There was a woman at the front with antlers .
It was like Eurovision , but kind of Eurovision of nightmares . There was no happiness , it was just dark . And all these people jumping around going drums like , look at my boobies bouncing down , I don't do them I presume this wasn't a main stage , was it ?
it was yeah it was a main stage the third main stage on the friday night .
Um , so I'm going to read you about high lung . They have a new album called seasons of mist first look at high lung so .
Since its inception in 2015 , the enigmatic ritual collective , like an enigmatic ritual collective , high lung has been paving melodic paths to the past with their unique and mystifying sound , evading all conventional genre tags and the confines of any specific labels . The label I'd give them was it .
The group aptly self-describes their sound as amplified history I don't know what kind of history , but um , yeah , it was um if you go to season hyphen of hyphen , misscom , forward slash bands , forward slash , high lung , um , you can have a look at them . So I don't know , if I don't know if this will if I play it .
No , I'm gonna , I'm just gonna give a screenshot to williams and let's see what his reaction is , because I can't play it because of the way my headphones are set up . But this is high lung there we go so what ? yeah , so this is a band . This is like so she's actually topless , yeah .
Yeah , I wasn't just joking , like she's just , and , but she doesn't look very well it's like some human kind of sacrifice or something . I think . Has she got covid ?
she might have covid probably got it off my wife but like she's not the only person , is he looking down ? What is he wearing ?
yeah , she , she wears another one . Oh , here's a . I said you another one here . This is , I mean , you see this this is not um .
It's not normal , is it ?
I don't , no , but you know they've got an audience . Wow , you can't . You know .
Wow , okay . I'd be worried they'd make a sacrifice on stage .
That's what I've just sent you . It looks like they are doing a sacrifice on stage . It's very weird . Wow , high lung .
And that's a popular genre these days . Is it what High Lung ? And that's a popular genre these days .
Is it what sacrifice ? Sacrificial genre .
Well , no , because the latest , not to keep saying Eurovision , but on the last Eurovision there was a lot of this sort of stuff , wasn't there ?
Well , I'll tell you what I'm going to do , walliams , I'm going to press play on this YouTube video and you won't be able to hear it , but I'll sing along to it so you can try and try , and give you an idea of what this is high lung trouse live leave for lunch wrong okay .
Performed by mr craig hotchkiss no , I couldn't hear myself singing beautiful .
I'm interested to see how I'll listen back to see how that came along . Um , that's basically what . That's what .
Hard on god , so yeah okay , well , um , I'll look for them on um amazon music , or you should you should , and there was .
obviously there's a few randoms that we saw as well . So we watched a band band called Seventeen , who were a K-pop band . So that was interesting K-pop , yeah , yeah , that was interesting . And then our favourite were the Mary Wallopers , who were an Irish band .
The Mary Wallopers what a name .
The Mary Wallopers and they were good fun . They were an Irish band and they were just singing songs about random stuff , the virus jig . A bit of virus jig . So you've got to love a bit of Glastonbury .
You've got to love the randomness of Shania Twain and Cyndi Lauper mixed with High Lung and the Mary Wallopers , whilst Coldplay are performing to 100,000 people at the same time . You've got to love the whole thing .
But yeah , it wasn't quite as good as we expected , because we had to cancel our party and we'd mistake that which was annoying , but yeah , we're gonna do , let's make it better now so that's good I seem to have avoided it . So that's good .
Raiden seems to have avoided it too so good oh good so that was my first after five times you know , I reckon that's exactly it .
I reckon I've had it . So I'm like I'll probably just get it now and just not even realise . I was like , yeah , I'll do it OK . But , yes , that was Glastonbury 2024 . Well worth going and checking back on the iPlayer . I think you might even be able to watch High Lung on the iPlayer . Maybe not , I don't know , but if you can .
High , lung High .
Lung .
The blueberry muffin waffle
¶ Celebrating Milestones of Parenthood
cone crunch . Trouble scoop is warming on me , by the way .
Is that because it's 8.3% ? Maybe it's literally warming on you .
It makes you really thirsty . The more you drink , the more thirsty you get .
Oh , okay . Your mouth just goes really dry . Got probably a high salt content , maybe Probably so . What about you , Wiles ? What's your first look First looks .
So I've got a first look . Well , multiple first looks . So my first looks are exciting and amazing , but also terrifying and struggles as a parent of that stage of your little baby is no longer a baby . Aww , so little baby Logan . This week he's built a tower on his own . Very good . Balancing blocks and a tower .
He's walking up steps like a grown-up wow , holding a hand which is way ahead of schedule . He's pointing at things . He's giggling and laughing at things . He's choosing his favorite julia donaldson magic night film on the tv by pressing the screen , thinking , thinking it's touchscreen . He's pointing out animals and books .
He's saying animal , he knows what they are Duck , especially ducks . Ducks are favourite . Yeah , it's all kicking off , craig , it's all kicking off . Too many development points are happening . He's grown up too quick and I don't like it craig that's making me feel uncomfortable where's my little baby gone ?
yeah , oh it's , it's nice though it's I mean yeah , it is nice .
It's amazing . One chapter is the start of the next yeah , it's nice in development , it's nice seeing all these new things .
So it's uh , um , yeah , you , you gotta live in the good , live in the present only so you just gotta live in the present and sort of enjoyed the first stages and , um , it's really exciting these next , next stages coming up , but , um , when you see someone able to do something that they didn't do before , yeah so just balancing a block on top of a block .
You know , if you did that I'd be like well done , greg , well done , but you know , for a little baby . So that's that amazing , that's like wow everything gets celebrated , doesn't it ?
yeah ?
yeah . So it's um , yeah , it's all , it's all kicking off and uh , yeah , lots of first ducks , which are ? You know there's gonna be more first ducks . They're happening like every single day at the moment you raise a good point there .
You know that . Well , when do we stop celebrating everyone being great at everything ?
it's just you slow down , don't you ?
yeah , I suppose we stop doing .
There's loads of new stuff that we probably could do , but we slow down , we just don't do them . Well , that's true . So I'm sure if I jumped out of a spaceship , yeah you'd be like well done , mate , that's very impressive . I probably would actually right , yeah .
Congratulations well done , congratulations yeah .
Well , I haven't . I'm doing the same things . I'm drinking a beer . You're like , well done , I'm just drinking a beer again well , I'd maybe celebrate you well done , that's the first . Yeah , well done . It's not quite impressive , is it ?
but no , that's true , that's true . And when , when , yeah , when , when a baby does something , when you clap , they grin . When you drink your blueberry beer and you grimace , it's different . So how are you but like you're enjoying it as much as it making you feel like , oh , he's growing up too quick . Are you in ?
You enjoying the whole watching all these milestones ?
yeah , I'm very lucky . So I get to work from , uh , from the bottom of the garden and um , yeah , so I get to see him quite a bit , you know , and I have my pee breaks and you know I'm home how old is he 18 months man alive crazy months . So , um , yeah , so when you see rex you'll be getting on towards two . Yeah , so uh , yeah , he's .
Yeah , he's a little lad now . Yeah , so uh , but , um , yeah , it's nuts and he's really into julie donaldson shows . Yeah , and obviously , obviously the books , because that's where it started from . What's ?
his favorite stick man stick man , yeah , stick man is a classic .
Stickman yeah , We've watched it 30 , 40 times now .
Wow yeah .
We've read it about 100 times . Georgie on the last trip we did up to see her mum , we basically recited Stickman without referring to the book .
Okay , just know it that well .
Yeah , know the words . Georgie's read it more than I have . So , yeah , she just went through and read it more or less word for word .
You know what , as well , though they get logged in there . So Brayden's now coming up to nine so he doesn't read the Julie Donaldson ones anymore , but like they are still lodged in there from bedtimes . Like you know , a mouse took a stroll through the deep , dark woods . The mouse saw a nut and the nut looked good .
Like they just get stuck in there like , yeah they are good , though , but um Graffalo , that's up there , gruffalo's Child , smed's and the Smoothes nice yeah , they're the main ones do you remember you bought Braden a Gruffalo outfit when he was ? For the Gruffalo .
Yeah , long time ago it is a long time ago now . Yeah , now your kids going through it yeah , yeah , strange , very strange .
I'd have to order him one loads of first looks , loads of first looks , loads of first looks , um , but um yeah , and we're looking forward to the next judah donaldson film that's coming out in christmas what's it gonna be this year ? We don't know .
We don't know , we're hoping for tiddler oh yes I hope for tiddler , tiddler the fish the one that the christmas just gone one , the one with the one that the Christmas Just Gone one , the one with the cat , that was . That was got me right in the feels . That did , yeah , got me in the feels that one did .
Oh , that's another first look . Ah , ah , get you in the feels get you in the feels . Logan's first singing , singing meow , meow , meow , meow , meow , meow . Ah , that gets you in the feels oh , my little boys have run on .
Oh , that gets you in the feels . Oh , ralph , my little boys have run on you so much .
Toilet listeners have not watched or read the book , but it's a cat that sings in his busker . But yeah , watch it , Look for it .
It's Get you in the feels it will Get you in the feels . It't get you in the feels .
it will get you in the feels it'll get you in the feels oh , that's my first look multiple first looks , yeah , so uh , plenty there to come . But um , well , also you're a man of experience .
But um , yeah , it's first looks constantly , ever probably well , that segues nicely into the next first look that I've got volumes , which is a look about the boy , so as , as you say , you get all these first look experiences with children , we had one recently and don't think I talked about this on a podcast previously , but I might of but we had to do you
get , you get there .
This is what happens does it need a trigger warning ?
no , no , no , there's no trigger warning .
One of the feedbacks was I wish there's trigger warning for the uh , the russell segment .
Sorry about that , guys . Now this one does not need a trigger warning . This one is when your kid comes home and his eyes are lit up because he's the teacher has suggested that something . Some , they do something and he wants to . He , he wants to , he's enthused , he's activated . He wants to do something and you're like , oh okay , how can we say no to him .
Look how excited he is . So we recently ended up presenting at our kids' culture day .
You presented yourselves .
No , so what happened was got . So my son goes to a school where there's lots of people from lots of different cultures yeah , so to celebrate cultures , they had an evening , so they invite people to do a stall and on that stall you bring things from your culture and you present . And then the school was for everyone .
From the school comes and they walk around and taste all the food and bring in lovely well that .
That's it so braden came home he's like I want to do a stall for culture day and I was like , okay , so what ? What do you mean ? I said , like your mom I'm english , your mom's irish . Like I think this means more for kind of like the italians and the french people and the chinese people at school . No , I want to do it .
Well , what do you want to do ? He says we'll do the black country . So we ended up doing a culture day stall , all about for our american listeners to define the back country so the black country is . It's for , it's for tarrant , or four areas in the west midlands , um in in near birmingham .
So think of it for american listeners , if you think of peaky blinders , just to the northwest of where peaky blinders is set , is a black country it consists of . Now I should know this as we just did the bloody presentations it's Wolverhampton , wolverhampton , dudley , wentzfield , and you know what ?
that's really embarrassing and Cotswold no , cotswold's a village in the Black Country , black . How can I not remember this ? I should have prepared this . I should have Black Country tunes the Black Country tunes Wolverhampton , dudley , sedgley . Yeah , I tunes . The black country tunes , uh , wolverhampton , dudley , sedgley . Um , yeah , I still can't . What areas make ?
up that country dudley , sanwell , warsaw and wolverhampton , mug there we go . So the black country is called the black country because , uh , it was famous for its coal mines and there was so much kind of dust and soot and smog in the air that it was everyone it was black .
So it's not , it's not a racial thing , it's just to do with the industry and of the area . So we did a presentation or a stall I'm sure there were , um , so we did a . We did a stall where we had like a timeline of history of the black country . We had we bought a big black country flag which has got seven links of chains on it .
We had chain making because obviously in the 17th century there was a lot of chain making going on . So we had kids make chains um , brave and dressed up as a minor with a pickaxe , um , and there was a lot of people . Yeah that's it . Yeah , very good . Um , and we had like people , like famous people from the black country .
So for our listeners who don't know , there are some actual like famous people from the black country , we had some famous people attend no , we we did like we printed out pictures and we had like a like a screen playing kind of youtube clips of some of the famous people , yeah , like , so like the lead singer , led zeppelin , robert , we printed out pictures and
we had a screen playing YouTube clips of some of the famous people , so the lead singer , led Zeppelin , robert Plant and Beverly Knight and Slade and some of the music that's come from the area . So it was very good , but a lot of hard work .
That must feel really good because obviously Braden lived in England and he's been there , but he's very much northern ireland now oh yeah so it must be really nice and from to you know link to that heritage ?
oh , absolutely yeah well , my mom brought a load of pic like family pictures of like old like her kind of grandparents and stuff , um , who would have obviously , you know , have all been born and raised in the black country .
So it was nice for him to look at those old pictures and then we put those on the tabletop so we had people coming looking at these blinders they were . I don't believe so . I don't believe so , but they all had the , they all had the flat caps and stuff , so and they all would have sparklogged this might . So it was , it was really good fun .
It was , um , I mean , I said it was really good fun . It was hot , bloody hard work . Yeah , because there's a lot of people like really nice for the kids what's the black country ? And then you had to explain it to them and stuff .
So brayden , brayden's concentration , he was just like all over the show so uh , my mom and dad came down so they ended up talking to some random people about the black country . Oh nice , leslie and I talking to strangers about the black country . Yeah , it was fun .
So as Logan gets older , he will come home with a look in his eye and he'll be like what's he need ? Usually it's a project . So we've had to do the Antarctic project , we had to do a South Africa project , where you have to make things and he has to do presentations .
And a south africa project where you have to make things and he has to do presentations . And sometimes they'll come back with these look in the look in their little eyes and be like , yeah , can we do this , daddy ? and you're like ask your mother and your mom's like your mom says ask your dad , and do you really want to do it ? I really want to do it .
Okay , then let's get the paper and pens and the scissors out and we'll plan this out .
So , yes , it's the things you do for love , but yeah , we had to do a culture day for brain , so that was the first time we were doing like that and uh , how many kids , how many kids came yeah I reckon there must have been about 500 people come to the wow , so it was like the whole school was full .
They had like a big burger van and ice cream van and like it was a really big .
Thing . So , it was very good because it was funded as well , so the school had won money . You know , like when you get Tesco , where the supermarkets are available , and you get the little blue coins . In fact , I've got to claim the money back .
We had £50 budget of expenses and I've not claimed that back yet you just remembered that yeah , little blue tokens and he put them in the things . So our kids school was raising to put on a culture day , so the money came . It was a funded thing , so it was well publicised and well advertised .
¶ Black Country Dialect and Beer Review
Everyone was very proud . There's lots of nice pictures . I could probably send you a picture , actually well , so if you want to have a look at a picture of culture night , and all these pictures will be added to the website .
Of course they will absolutely , absolutely .
They'll be added to the website that is currently being built . Now see , ladies and gentlemen , of course walliams is now waiting for me to send him a picture . I obviously want to send him a picture of something rude , but I won't , I'll send him an actual one . There you go , walliams .
There you go , there's , there's , ah that's really good , sir , and you did all that yourself we did all that yeah . Wow , oh , braden looks great . He does I mean , you all look great , but Braden looks special . So yes , wow .
First look at family culture days and doing things .
Yeah , it's a lot of work . Actually , we didn't think of it , did we ?
Yeah , it did take a bit of time , yeah .
You've got the black country dialect on the back . Guess the meaning .
That was a quiz . So that was the kind of arbin yeah , or being your mate , so that was a quiz actually I could have done that as part of the how you been . So if you look on the letter tatters , tatters , tatters , tatters , tatters .
Yeah , what are tatters ?
no , they're men who come around and pick up steel . So you know the people who come around and go . You're only scrap metal . They're called the Tatters .
Cora , cobbon , cora .
Cobbon aye Shea .
That'll be either . Gotta get on like .
No , it means she's in a bad mood . She's Cora Cobbon .
Oh , cora , cobbon , Cora .
Cobbon aye Shea , boston , it's Boston . Is he no good ? It means good stuff like Boston .
It's Good means good stuff , Like most is lovely , brilliant , buzz the buzz .
I need to catch the buzz , oh the buzz , the buzz . But the size Z is inside of S's , so it's the buzz .
I could murder a scabios Scabios .
I'm so hungry I could murder a scabios .
Sandwich .
It means I'm hungry .
I could eat a scabios .
It means I'm Fair enough oh the answer's on the right . Yeah , so the idea was the black country dialect's on the left and the actual meaning is on the right .
So people had to link them up .
Really good . Oh wow , People enjoyed that . People enjoyed the game and we did a thing about the food about how bad the food is .
That's really nice . It cuz this . Yeah , this is some heritage in it it is .
It is indeed so . He'll always remember that now . So yes , I think you do for love volumes when you got kids .
I finished off my blueberry waffle crunch and do you have another ? So I'm going into the firsty-first fridge and what's cold , what's wet . Why is it so wet ? Oh no , the fridge is wet .
Maybe you haven't got a leak in the shop at all , it's just your fridge leaking .
Oh , what is this ?
Oh , it's a black can lid . This is the opposite .
This is the absolute opposite can to the other one . It's a very black can , it's a Neon Raptor .
Neon Raptor Abandoned Dragons .
Imperial Maple and Hazelnut Stout . It's still sweet , but nutty . It's a stout .
Maple and Hazelnut stout sounds delicious 13% neon neon raptor 13% . What's wrong with you , you animal ?
I shouldn't laugh , but it says alcohol 13% . Please enjoy responsibly .
Nobody can enjoy a 13% beer I'm doing it again . Okay , I'm lowering my desk .
Oh , Mr Hardrickus has got a stand-up desk which he sits down on , but just up as oh , that's an interesting noise , ladies and gentlemen .
Oh , oh it's . Oh , that's an interesting noise , ladies and gentlemen , oh it's .
I think I need to pull it away from the wall oh , that's like that's like maple syrup the colour of this that is maple syrup in a can wow , our Canadian listeners will be happy or petrol , there we go this is going to blow your socks off , I imagine beautiful can , though beautiful can cheers not much of a smell oh oh is that a good one ?
Oh , that is beautiful yeah , he's got a happy little face on that is a beautiful , beautiful beer . I mean the ingredients or the flavour . The flavour Neon .
Raptor Brewing Company Abandoned Dragons . Lovely , well done .
Oh , that is lovely , that's I mean , I can taste their , Do you know where ?
they're from Er .
I can't remember Nottingham , oh Nottingham .
Huge , rich , dark , sweet and sticky . A band of dragons is a big hazelnut and maple imperial stout embrace , don't , don't .
Can you read the description again , because it sounds like you're talking about yourself . What was it ? Huge , yeah , rich oh yeah , dark oh yeah .
Sweet and sticky . Definitely dark oh yeah , sweet and sticky , definitely that could . That's absolutely describing you and not the beer . Okay , that's a lovely drop . I wish I'd started that , because it's a bit late to be drinking at 13 .
But anyway , save the best till last . Neon raptors oh , some of the some of their cans are very good .
They've got a plant planetoid smash I'm I'm I'm fickle misogynist , as you probably realize , but I'm sold by a can if the can looks good it's the artist in you , yeah so I had a first look at the google voice search oh yeah , so it sounds a bit geeky , a bit boring it is 2024 .
This has been around for a long time , has it ? Yes , but yes , go on . Sorry not to piss on you , but yes , I've been around since 2015 .
You're going to , ironically , google now it's been around since 2012 . You didn't use google voice search . Did you ?
you typed it I was gonna record a podcast . I use my voice when I'm trying to talk to you . Yeah , so it's been around for 12 years , so it's good okay .
Well , maybe this function hasn't worked , since I'm sure it's got a bit of AI involved . So Google Voice Search use on the app . So for the last year , but very least since February when we got married , I brought up in conversation that I've got this annoying earworm stuck in my head of this song .
So I , um , when I first started brushing Logan's teeth , this song would always come into my head , um , and it goes a little bit something , a little bit like this we're going to brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth . Going to brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth . Do , do , do , do , brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth .
Gonna brush , brush , brush your teeth . Gonna brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth .
And then it goes on to it sounds like the song from ferris .
Yeah , I think that's a ferris bueller song and uh , maybe I'm wrong , probably I mean maybe , because it might be , it's been used and typically I couldn't quite picture it , but I mentioned it at the wedding and then everyone else was like oh yeah . And everyone else was in the same thing . They couldn't quite what is that song ?
And it's been , it's been bugging us for ages and ages and ages and then , just on this , go on .
I'm going to take a guess .
Go for it , go on .
Is it ? Oh yeah , by Yellow .
Oh , ooh .
But I mean the brush your teeth bit . I don't know who I wish I said .
Yeah , basically , I should have asked you in the first place . So anyways .
Sorry .
Anyways . So I did Google voice search after about at least five , six months , but it's been going on before then for a year . I used google voice search , I signed on the phone gonna brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth . Gonna brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth . And then , boom , yellow the race , but it might be called other other things might come up .
And that was . That was the song . I was like well yeah , first of all , mind blown in terms of I send you the , the YouTube link of the , the song that came up , um .
But first of all mind blown in terms of how can Google search get that for me singing gonna brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth , gonna brush , brush , brush , brush your teeth , which isn't even the song and my poor tone , deaf , rhythm and lyrics . How on earth did Google get that from listening to my voice ?
How on earth did Google get that from listening to my voice ? And then B ? Where on earth has that come from in the back of my head to sing that song ?
Well , is it so ? This one ? So that's the song . I was thinking it was there , cause obviously you've sung that , you got the tone right , but the brush your brush , brush your teeth . I'm like I'm not sure where that comes from .
Well , that's the song , but I've obviously got that from that tune . It's in the back of my head subconsciously . That I've never heard of for at least God knows how many years from somewhere .
Well , maybe it was your mom and dad used it when they were teaching you how to brush your teeth , because , obviously , so that was like 1987 .
So you'd have been like three years old , yeah maybe when that song would have come out , so it would have been very popular on the radio , but it's weird how weird little tunes just come out from nowhere and you're subconscious .
Yeah .
Yeah , so it was a first look at Google Voice Search , which has been around since 2012 . Mm-hmm , but there must be some AI involved in that voice search oh yeah let's find that song , because I know um scott mills and radio tv does a . Uh , what's it called the ?
yeah , the police , like the kind of record place where they're trying to find people who have earworms like yeah they're ph in to certain songs .
They don't know what they are and work it out . Google search for my little tune . But , that being said , if I just phoned you you would have got it .
Well , I was like , I can recognise this song . I can recognise this . Google voice search . Well , you got Shazam as well . Shazam was good .
Shazam was more , for if you hear something on the radio point it and Shazam , I think they went bust in the end , or someone bought them no , shazam's still around , isn't it ? It was popular then it wasn't popular , then someone bought them , I think .
No , Apple bought them .
Apple bought them .
Yes , they must have done pretty well . Yeah , very good . Well , there you go . Next time you have an earworm , if Google Search lets you down , just ring me and I'll help you identify what the song is yeah .
Yeah , who needs Google ? Ask for the net or name yeah , he wouldn't .
He would know , because he knows everything . He's not here today , I don't think .
No jokes to end on . Really . I know a lot of jokes about retired people , but none of them work Very good . You're an idiot , you're an idiot , you're , you're an idiot , but uh , I've got . I've got a question for the network name .
If he is around , oh okay , handy . Well , I'm so , I'm at work . Yeah , I'm not drinking and I am in the office . Um , but he's only up the road . Hang on , let me just . Let me just give him a quick call here .
Any hang out did you go get my neighbor .
I'll put him on . I put him on loudspeaker on , yeah look at my deluxe over hello , yes , yes , can you bring ? Can you bring him down to the bring bring , no , bring , no all known down to the office . Would you quickly please , right , it's gonna be about 10 minutes , so you can cut this next bit , can't you ? Oh , he's here .
Ladies and gentlemen , right , I just need to go to the toilet . I'm , but all these , all these guinness zeros are making me need to pee .
I'm going to the toilet .
All right , I'll see you later now , goodbye , craig .
Hello , hello , no , oh no .
¶ Dad Tips and Enjoying Beers
So how are you ? You look pissed , I'm good . I'm good , I'm enjoying my beers . It's Friday .
Are you enjoying ?
them . Really . I am , I don't mind . Let's get back to it actually I'm having a Neon Raptor Brewing Company Abandoned . Dragons Imperial Maple Hazelnut Stout 30% .
Your eyes appear to have glazed over I've just realized .
I've read the description already . You did , although I wouldn't know that because I've only just arrived oh , you know , you know , although you know , oh I am wise and stalking you so no or no ? so this is a difficult question . I'm going to put you on the spot . Okay .
So this is something that , for the first time since we've done the podcasts , where everyone , absolutely everyone in the world , aside from us three , know the answer . Okay , and that's because this podcast will be published after the event . My question is who is going to be the winner of euro 2024 football men's tournament ?
well , I think you'll find that you are a little bit glazed and drunk , because I already answered that in the previous episode , remember , and I think I , I think I summarized it . I think I summarized it in three words , to which they have not changed it's coming home , yay .
Spain emerged victorious , defeating England 2-1 in a thrilling match held at Olympia Stadium Berlin even if we don't lift the trophy , it's still coming home , because you can still lose and win . And what these boys have done together to bring the nation together , in my mind they are already winners the real winner is football .
Football's the winner football is the winner . Ok , is there any other questions or can I go ?
that was it . No one's wrote in . But listeners please , if you want to ask a question to no one .
I will happily answer them as best as I can .
Write in too .
Firstlookgnomes at Outlookcom .
Hey , he knows it all . Thank you , Null or Gnome .
I think now my last bit of wisdom is to text your wife and ask her to put you to bed . I'm so bad at this , possibly with a book . I don't think you need to drink that half of it .
It is very nice . It's very strong .
You don't need to drink the rest of it , it's very nice . I think you've probably had enough . Maybe a bucket will be needed and a kebab .
And a kebab . Oh , kebab and chips , lovely , lovely .
And garlic sauce , mmm .
Mmm , I almost forgot , you almost forgot .
Tips for dads . Oh Well , this is good because I'm the know-it-all gnomes , so I should probably have some tips for dads .
Hey Tips for dads .
Tips for dads . Well , actually I do have one . It's again nice segue from you being drunk .
Tips for the dads .
Dads Alcohol-free beer . Don't judge the brands . So I like the odd drink . Don't judge the brands . Okay , let me explain what I mean by that , daniel . So , as you can see , I am drinking or Craig has been drinking 0% Guinness today Because he's driving and he's going to have a drink 0% Guinness .
I thought you were drinking 0% Guinness , 0% .
He's not drinking for the podcast today Because too much alcohol is bad for you , but I know from experience Craig does not like Carlsberg Lager , pilsner , danish Lager he's not a fan . However , their alcohol free beer is very , very good really . Same with Corona . Corona is very , very good alcohol free , and there are some that are just not very good .
We recently tried Budweiser , which is both bad in the alcoholic form and pretty bad in the non-alcoholic form .
Yeah , I quite like the alcoholic one .
Budweiser . Yeah , you have no taste , but yes , that's a tip for Dad , if you don't like actual cold .
I don't know what you mean , Craig . Still try the Nord Berset Like a blueberry muffin , waffle cone crunch , triple scoop beer .
That's ridiculous . You're an animal . Also . I have one other piece of advice tips for dads , for anyone moving home get a good solicitor . It's a horrendous thing to have to do . Get a good solicitor . That's all I'll say about that Read into it as you will .
My tips for dance is so for the for the quarter final , I went out and had a few beers before a morning of having to look after the little one from half seven at the morning . You fool , but it's fine . But it's fine , you know . I know how much to drink . I drank a lot but I know my limits .
I was supposed to look after a little one and I did , but I didn't think about his little lungs because Georgie came back and she thought I made an omelette with gone-off eggs because the house was stinking . But We've gone off eggs because the house was stinking but luckily the little one was fine .
Oh you animal .
Even though you think you can look after them when they're 50 beers , don't forget their little lungs .
Poor Logan , and he wouldn't have even been able to kind of like , no , like Dad , for goodness sake .
No , I say because the final pint I had it was tasting really chemically . Okay , it tastes like there's chemicals through the pipes .
Yeah , that was definitely it .
But apparently Georgie thinks the way . I think it was the multiple beers as opposed to the final beer , but I think it's the final beer .
No , the wise old gnome is back again and he's going to say this Sorry , Mr Hodgkins is back as well . Yes , we're here together , your wife , hello Greg , hello gnome , the wife is correct , you're an animal and the chemical taste you had was nothing to do with the cleaning fluids of the pipes .
That's you trying to find an excuse for why you were so pissed and smell like a barnyard animal ? You've got no one to blame but yourself .
And I don't know if it was because I've not had a few beers in a while out and about , plus a pizza out and about for a while after a few beers , but it was the best pizza I've had in ages was that because you were drunk , maybe ?
yeah , just enhance the flavor but um . Did you enjoy yourself ?
I did , I did , I did that's the biggest tip for all , isn't it ?
Go and enjoy yourself once in a while . Yes , do enjoy yourselves .
If you're lucky enough to have a lovely wife that will look after the kid , wash it out and about drinking beers , watching the football , having a pizza , then enjoy it Absolutely .
Make sure the house has windows open for the next day and on that note , oopsie dance , oopsie dance , oopsie dance with special guest , the know-it-all gnome , say goodbye , know-it-all gnome , goodbye , bye , know-it-all gnome , he's off . His voice changes sometimes I think he forgets what he's meant .
His voice changes sometimes I think he forgets what he's meant to sound like .
Sometimes , it does . I'm glad you managed to pop in whilst he was here .
Yeah , well , he's stumbling around the place .
He's getting old that's good , is he ?
yeah , but he's alright , though . He's 307 , so you know he's getting on 307 . I think that's quite young for a gn actually . But anyway , More about that next episode . What about ?
that next episode . Tell you what next episode is actually one of the . I listened back to some old episodes .
Oh dear , how was that for an experience .
It was a mix bag . There were some classics and there was some classics and there was some old dear . But on one of the episodes we were talking about the next season and we promised listeners that we would have a Forbes listed guest . Oh , the next season , there's still two episodes left , but we did promise listeners for a Forbes listed guest .
Okay , that was going to attend .
So just wanted to point that out , just in case the listeners , in case anyone's going on holiday with said Forbes guest .
Yes . Okay , we'll see what we can do , and also , the next episode is the penultimate episode , with the last episode being in September , until season 3 , hopefully well , when does season 3 start ?
November I was going to say we can't have much of a break . Really , I thought we started in September .
No , we've got an October break because we've got a bit of a bit of an event happening oh yes we do .
Yes , that's true maybe by then I'll have the website really your final final thoughts ? Yes , final thoughts are uh , look after yourselves like it's yeah . Enjoy holidays um enjoy time with families have a break . Work hard , but party hard too , and rest hard we have a holiday coming up now , which is well needed .
We're going to go and have a refresh and a recharge , so yeah just look after yourselves . Everybody go to .
Portugal yeah , looking forward to it .
You know , next time we chat England could be the European champions well , I hope you're right .
Of course you are .
I hope so . It's coming home . It's coming home alright . Alright , everybody , we'll see you later see you next month . Bye bye , thank you .
