Fortnite for Parents – Center Parcs Chaos & First-Time E-Bikes

 A candid chat on keeping kids safe (and sane) in Fortnite, our Center Parcs getaway, plus what we learned test-riding electric bikes 

We're back for series four with a packed episode covering digital parenting challenges, family holiday adventures, and hilarious mishaps with new technology.

• Navigating Fortnite as a parent – understanding parental controls, monitoring online interactions, and setting boundaries
• A 10-year-old's perspective on Fortnite gaming, including insights on different game modes and social dynamics
• Center Parcs Longleat review – swimming adventures, wildlife encounters, and tips for getting the best value
• The safari park experience, including monkeys stealing car parts and 110 registration plates collected in one week
• First time on an e-bike resulting in a crash into nettles, but proving worth the adventure despite the mishap
• Japanese matcha Kit Kats tasting in the new "Pints and First Bites" segment

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Transcript

Welcome to Season Four

Speaker 1 0:00

Fortnite for parents Center Park's chaos and first-time e-bikes. Welcome to First Look Gnomes, where curiosity about what's new meets the chaos of two dads.

Speaker 2 0:16

I'm Mr Hodgkiss and that's Mr Walliams.

Speaker 1 0:18

From first-time finds to dad fails and listener laughs.

Speaker 2 0:22

So grab a beer or pop the kettle on and let's take a first look at pretty much anything.

Speaker 1 0:33

Series four, episode One more part along the world, I go. One more part along the world. I go From the first looks to the new. Keep me partying along with you. And it's from the old I travel to the new, to the new. Keep me partying along with you. New series, fourth series. We are back.

Speaker 2 1:04

We are back, we are back thank you, what a great little intro. That just takes me right back to my kind of primary school days and singing in assembly in the morning. I thought I'd take it.

Speaker 1 1:18

I thought I'd take it down. Take it down a note from the. You know I hate you right now and lose yourself and all that stuff. So yeah, yeah yeah, bring it down a bit so can I ask?

Speaker 2 1:30

can I make one comment about the lyrics, though? He said from the first looks to the new, the first looks, not the new well, the the old first look.

Speaker 1 1:42

So our series one to three the old first looks. These are the new first looks oh, got you.

Speaker 2 1:47

So from the old first looks to the new first looks is what you meant. Yes, I'm just stupid. I didn't get that.

Speaker 1 1:52

Sorry, I just thought you made a boo-boo no, not at all, and I got the rhythm wrong.

Speaker 2 1:57

I was like I know, for somebody who has such natural rhythm like you, I was surprised at that but you know, yeah, not not my best, you don't use this, it was excellent. Thank you, it brought a smile to my face anyway, how are you, mr Archkiss? But no, we've been good. Yeah, we've had a lot going on, so we had my dad rank yesterday. Oh, hang on, someone's just interrupted the part. Hello Ray, we're in the middle of recording.

Speaker 3 2:26

I the hello right where the Miller record I was coming to get you.

Speaker 2 2:29

We literally recorded it. We're just in the middle record. We're just talking about things that would lie.

Speaker 1 2:36

I could. You can start now you can.

Speaker 2 2:41

We're going to have to cut this bit out.

Speaker 1 2:43

Oh no, this is gold.

Speaker 2 2:45

Hang on, I'm going to have to unplug the headphones. Ah, brady Bunch, I said I was coming to get you from the house when it was time. Yeah, but like you couldn't hold your water, could you? Are you recording? The podcast yes, we're recording the podcast.

Speaker 1 3:00

Testing, testing can you hear us Testing testing. Can you hear us Testing testing One, two, three. I can hear you loud and clear. Hello Walliams.

Speaker 2 3:10

It was your fault, I agree.

Speaker 1 3:12

Oh no.

Speaker 2 3:16

Sorry I thought you would still be chatting. So we were at the point where you'd said, and I said, oh, may, summer has gone. Oh yes, I was about to tell you Okay. So here's the cut. Okay, ready three two, one.

Speaker 2 3:30

So yeah, and then last night we had my, we had my dad around for dinner. Him and my mom came around for dinner and he opened the door and he looked like he'd been beaten up by mike tyson. So his face was all smashed and I'm like, dad, what have you done? It's fallen over a plant pot in the garden, right?

Speaker 3 3:45

so we had all these balls on.

Speaker 2 3:47

I was like you, okay, have you hurt yourself? He's like I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm just gonna have to have an extra whiskey tonight, so yeah there was that going on so we're, it was fine. Look, I mean, he's very lucky really um and obviously, with la being a nurse, she kept when she got home she checked him over and I was like no, no, it's all super clean.

Speaker 2 4:04

But he looked really sore. He'd moved a pot in the garden, turned around, moved a pot got another pot, forgot where it was turned around, tripped over the pot that he had, and landed on his face, I was like oh, bloody hell. Dad, but he's all right. What else have we been doing? We've just been very busy, williams, very busy with work and life, but it's it's all good, how about you?

Speaker 1 4:28

how's things with you? Good, good and well. I'd uh, I thought I'd treat myself over the break oh, yeah, I bought a first aid kit. Yeah, nice always good to have.

Speaker 2 4:38

Uh, yeah, very successful. I got actually I got called up.

Speaker 1 4:41

I got called up to be a small speaking part in the uh, the c-quarter. Always good to have, yeah, very successful. I got, actually I got called up. I got called up to be a small speaking part in the sequel to Cocaine Bear no way. I only have one line very good no, I've not actually seen that film, though me neither. I tried to watch Neverending Story, but I couldn't finish it.

Speaker 2 5:06

Oh dear. So, Brayden, just to remind you, your godfather makes terrible jokes during this podcast. He just spends most of his time doing dad jokes, really bad ones, which always make me laugh, though, and groan and sometimes groan. Mostly laugh, though. The listeners do love them, that's for sure. That is true.

Speaker 1 5:26

Yeah, well, we get some good things, those in Laos anyway that's true that is true apparently he laughed on the last episode apparently he laughed he did.

Speaker 2 5:37

If you're going to talk, you have to come up to the microphone, so this is going to be a great editing job for you to do, walliams and that's why the next episode isn't released until next month it's like two months to edit the podcast, um, but oh well, so, um so one of the new things which goes straight into first looks yeah, okay, compose yourself, we do have I do have a first look.

Speaker 2 6:08

This is today's first look is one that we have a guest. So, um, my son is joining us today because we're going to talk about something. That was a first look as a parent, which gave me nightmares. So we're trying to. We are kind of combining a first look, a guest and tips for dad today.

Fortnite for Parents: A First Look

Speaker 2 6:27

Wow so we are series opener special series over special, but I think it's something that a lot of parents which tends to be most people listening to our podcast will either come across or have come across, so I thought we'd talk about it. So my first look was allowing my son to play fortnight, which is probably a lot of parents worst nightmare. Like, okay, the kids want to play fortnight. What is fortnight? Should I let my kids play fortnight? There's a lot of people talking about fortnight. Why do they want to spend all my money? Have the kids just spent 500 pounds on my?

Speaker 3 7:04

credit card.

Speaker 2 7:04

I thought it was free. So I said this is it.

Speaker 1 7:07

You see, it is free, so I'm gonna start the beginning well.

Speaker 2 7:11

So fortnite right for those who don't know, it's a. It's a game that you play with all kinds of people across the globe. You get a map and there's like 100 odd people or so in this game and they're all trying to survive and you build stuff and you go looting and you can fight with people. Um, and it's yeah, it's controversial because it's massive, everybody wants to play it and it is free. But it's not really free because once you're in it, you have to pay for things like skins, and they have their own currency called vbooks. So all the parents around the world are probably sick of being asked oh, I need some vbooks, I want to buy this new skin, I need a new emote, give me some money, and it's one of those things that you're like it's, it's a bit of a minefield.

Speaker 1 8:01

So a lot of parents are just, um, I don't know, they want to avoid it or they just say yes, if you want your character to dress like darth vader I think I saw that then you pay extra for being darth vader yeah, and it's not.

Speaker 2 8:14

It's a bit like it's one of these games where it's not just one game. There's a load of other games as well in it. So when you open up fortnight, it's not just like, oh, we're just playing this one version of the game. There's loads of other games in it that, and some of them are just created by people who play fortnight. So there are people are allowed to. If you play fortnight, you can go in and create your own versions of games, and some of them are just not like. It's like you and me creating a game and inviting people to play to it, but it's not necessarily monitored that well either. So there's all kinds of characters, can you?

Speaker 2 8:49

well you can.

Speaker 2 8:49

So that that's why a lot of parents are kind of terrified about it, and I must admit I was definitely one of those parents who was like no chance, you're far too young, I'm not getting, I'm not letting you go into that kind of world because I can't really monitor that well, no, so we got to the point where, in our circumstances, that the peer pressure was getting kicked in all the kids at school playing fortnight, my best friend to play at fortnight, I want to play fortnight.

Speaker 2 9:13

And I was like nope, nope, nope, nope, to the point where I was like, all right, I better actually properly engage in what this game is. And is it safe for brain to play fortnight? What should I be worried about? So I then was like, right, I've got to spend hours now researching, you know, playing it myself, seeing what it's like and making a parental decision. Um, so yeah, I'm here to kind of today to talk about what I decided and what I found and try and help other parents maybe decide whether they want to let their kids play fortnight or not. And we've brought Brayden in, who is playing Fortnite, to give a kid's perspective on what it actually is what is the verdict.

Speaker 2 9:53

So, in a nutshell, allow them to play it with massive parental controls. You have to spend some time in it yourself, as a parent.

Speaker 2 10:02

Don't let them go in blind. Don't just say yes and let them go free roaming in it, because there is a lot of stuff that you don't want them seeing. There's an age restriction on a lot of it for a for good reason. Um, for example, the daf. They've released a thing called darth vader ai where you can talk to darth vader, so the first thing they did was try and get darth vader to swear and all this kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 10:22

Yeah, I think I read about that.

Speaker 2 10:24

Yeah. So there's a lot of people on there you have to control, I think, who your kids play with. So the parental control. Now this is where one thing Fortnite is really good at the parental controls are really thorough. You can really control what your kids are allowed to play, what they're allowed to do, who they're allowed to talk to, where they're allowed to talk to anybody at all. So there are options where you can just block all communication so the kids can't talk to anybody and they can't add friends themselves. So I have a pin blocker. So if anyone sends Brayden a friend request, it's me.

Speaker 1 11:01

You have to accept it or decline it.

Speaker 2 11:02

So you can be like okay, so I know that that's his friend, james or dave or whoever, and I can accept those. And then I know that one that's like jimmy saville. No, I don't want that, I don't want that guy on. So, no, say no to him, um, and yeah, so, and then you can control the money as well. So obviously, the things you can purchase on there, but you as a parent you have, you can add funds or you know, so you can't, you can't just effectively spend everything that's on your credit card that's linked to your playstation, um, so it's pretty, it's pretty good. You can set times, so like screen times and stuff, so you can like say, right, only you can have it for an hour. And then there's like age levels as well, so like they can only see content that's for seven and under or 12 and under so you have do have quite a lot of control.

Speaker 2 11:47

Plus, they have a newsletter that they send every week to parents to explain to them what the new features are. So they do a good job of actually helping parents understand why. Now, why do they do such a good job? Because they're going to make an absolute bucket load of money. So the tactics of the game, the scarcity tactics to try and get you to buy things quickly like, oh, this skin's only gonna be here for another two days. You must buy it now.

Speaker 3 12:10

It's all the kids coming in.

Speaker 2 12:12

Mom, I need to buy it now. It's gonna disappear in two days. Ah, my friends will call me a loser if I don't, and I detest that. I detest the micro transactions. I detest the scarcity tactics with kids, like you know, saying oh, you want this, do you?

Speaker 2 12:27

Well, okay, you can't really encourage they know what they're doing, because you can't then encourage kind of like all right, well, if you want it, let's save for it. They're like, well, I can't save for it. If it's going to be gone in two days, it's now or never. So then it puts pressure. Um, so I don't agree with that part of it.

Speaker 2 12:45

And we've got, um, we've got some agreements with brain about how many skins he can buy each month and how much he's allowed to add to his wallet, which is basically a fiver a month to buy a skin. That's got to come out of his pocket money and things. Um, but yeah, it's not too bloody and gory, um, it's. I was thinking about like the games we used to play in the early 90s when we were about brain's age. So just for listeners, brains nearly 10 and I was like, okay, when I was nearly 10 I'm pretty sure I was playing mortal kombat, yeah, so I'm like okay and I remember like some of the films I used to watch in the early 90s streets of rage yeah, just beating people up.

Speaker 1 13:18

You know, street fighter, you know, I'm just gonna fight.

Speaker 2 13:20

Yeah, so I'm like okay and I remember some of the films I used to watch in the early 90s. Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage, yeah, just beating people up. You know, Street Fighter, I'm just going to fight this guy.

Speaker 1 13:30

Because it's more cartoonish. It's not necessarily the violence, it's more who you're talking to and that side of things isn't it really?

Speaker 2 13:38

It's that side of things, and it's guns, you guns, you are using guns so like if last time brain was on a podcast which was season one, episode seven. He talked about splatoon, which was like you use these kind of like paintball guns effectively to cover people in ink. This is like the next step up.

Speaker 2 13:53

So it's like, okay, there are some of the guns are fake, but there are like you can get machine guns and stuff, so that's straight away like I don't really want my kid running around with a machine gun in a game um, so there's, there's that kind of you know, you're like I'm just not sure if I like the idea of that, um. So yeah, we've spent a lot of time talking with brain about what's real, what's not real, what's imagination, yeah, and I got to the point where I was like, okay, I'll play it with him and trust him, and we've been playing it together, so now he's got a bit more freedom, um, and it was all right.

Speaker 1 14:25

So we started off just playing lego fortnight have you enjoyed it with such kiss, though as a player yourself?

Speaker 2 14:29

no, I think it's nonsense. Like I like video games, well, I think the game's kind of nonsensey. Personally, I'm like, yeah, but I'm also not not really the target age group for it, am I, to be honest? Um, but like, the lego fortnight is quite a good soft entry point into it. Lego fortnight you play as lego characters and you can build forts and towns and it's a bit like minecraft mixed with the indiana gems. So I think if any parents are worried about proper minecraft or full sorry, a full um fortnight, lego fortnight it's a good one to start with. Um, just to kind of see the world. But I think my advice is like, again, tips for parents, tips for dads, you're gonna have to kind of, you're gonna have to spend some time understanding what it is and then making a judgment call for yourself. Um, I don't think it's one of those things you can just say yes. If you just say yes and let them at it.

Speaker 2 15:19

There's a lot of stuff on there that is not cool, um, and there's a lot of people on there who are like just horrible people yeah, you know you've got it, you've got to be, you've got to be like in the real world.

Speaker 2 15:29

So yeah, like in the real world. So just be diligent, um. But yeah, we, we have now let brain planet. He plays on it with his cousin. He's over in england and he plays on it with a couple of friends from school, so after school they might go on it for an hour and do a little squad game and, um, they built they. They spend a lot of time in the actual lego fortnite stuff building rather than the shooty bit because, again, you're, in the shooty bit there's people who are quite good, so you know, there's not that many 10 year olds are actually really that good at it. So I think we get a lot more enjoyment from just running around building, building layers and stuff. But that's my perspective on it as a parent.

Brayden's Perspective on Fortnite

Speaker 2 16:02

So be, be careful, but don't be scared of it. Just be aware of what it is. There's a lot of good websites out there, like Mumsnet and stuff, who have got good articles about it, and it is free to kind of have a go. It just takes a lot of brain power. I spend a lot of time trying to familiarise myself with what it is.

Speaker 1 16:17

Just chuck them in, yeah.

Speaker 2 16:20

Yeah, just really familiarise yourself before we chuck him in, but as a 10-year-old, brayden or nearly 10-year-old come and say hello and tell us what you think of playing the game. Hello, hi, hello, brayden, hi.

Speaker 3 16:34

So unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know about the Making Millions games for me, as my dad already said.

Speaker 3 16:51

So, yeah, games fortnight, as my dad already said so yeah, actually it is quite fun to play with my friends after school, like for like so long. The questions that like all the boys in my class just ask all the other boys in my class is literally just will you be online today? Like that's literally the only question that the boys asked my dad only let me play LEGO Fortnite for like a year, and that frustrated me. I pestered him every single day. It wasn't a year.

Speaker 2 17:28

It was about a couple of months since I let you play LEGO Fortnite.

Speaker 3 17:32

It was a year I remember because Fortnite has collabed with Star Wars, obviously for Star Wars Day. When I started playing it was collabed with star wars, obviously for star wars day.

Speaker 2 17:45

when I started playing it was collabed with star wars, so it's about a year ago.

Speaker 3 17:48

Uh no, that's not really true but it was collabed with star wars it was okay, it genuinely was so tell us what?

Speaker 2 17:52

so? Obviously there's a peer pressure from all. Your mates want to play it, yeah, um, what do you enjoy playing like? Why do you enjoy it? Is it a social thing or is it the actual game?

Speaker 3 18:02

it's the game and the social thing. I love playing with my friend brax shout out to brax there and I just love playing with all my other friends, like my cousin and just like everybody really can I add?

Speaker 2 18:19

so they do talk to each other. So brain and his cousin talk and his mate brax talks and these, the, these, the. On the playstation there's a microphone and a speaker in the joy in the control pad and you know, we we hear some of the conversations and some of the things 10 year old-old boys talk about is quite funny.

Speaker 3 18:46

One time my friend Isaac just started swearing like F word him out and just started chanting that as soon as my mom came in the room and that was just cringe.

Speaker 2 18:54

And this is why parents are terrified of Fortnite, because you have to hear your kids F-ing and Jeff-ing If brain Fs and Jeffs.

Speaker 1 19:03

F-ing and Jeff-ing.

Speaker 2 19:04

It gets it taken away. There is no F-ing and Jeff-ing allowed, but there are other kids. You can't control other kids, unfortunately. That's half of the battle. I think You're like if your son is playing Mario World, he's unlikely to encounter anybody saying the f word. Uh, on fortnight it might be, but I'm like okay, well, if you say it on fortnight, he's probably saying in the playground as well, which isn't good.

Speaker 2 19:24

But you know, they don't say in the playground, they say on fortnight oh well, that's another reason to be quite nervous, because if you're not saying the playground, but you feel you can get away with saying it on fortnight, it's another reason that it's just. It encourages bad behavior, doesn't it? So we have to be careful yeah.

Speaker 3 19:40

So let's talk about probably one of the most famous games in the world battle royale. So first, about the guns that dad was talking about. None of the guns in battle royale are real guns like there. I have two words to describe battle royale laser tag, that's literally all. It is just people running around with these laser guns and trying to be the last one standing. That's literally the main aspect of battle royale. Okay, there are some machine guns, right? No, there's no machine guns. Okay, there is like kind of a machine gun Like. There's a thing called an ACP scatter blaster. It shoots like a machine gun. It shoots like yeah, and it does quite a lot of damage. And then there's like other guns that shoot like Like insanely fast, yeah. So the first time I got a Victory Royale was with my friends. I didn't have a mic then. What is a Victory?

Speaker 2 20:54

Royale.

Speaker 3 20:54

A Victory Royale is basically when you're the last one standing on a battle royale. Okay, so the first time I got a victory royale I was with my friends and we were just the kings of the map. We were just grinding, okay. And do you know what I love about the Star Wars updates? Sometimes on the map in battle royale are these like jedi or sith, like holograms, and then you can like go on to it and do like sith or jedi training, and then you can literally get a lightsaber my, my favorite, mace windu's lightsaber.

Speaker 2 21:33

He's just we're having a stream of consciousness from brain so in, so we don't have to listen to that. We will ask brain some very specific questions, rather than going off in a tangent and just talk about everything that's on your mind and just answer the question, because people don't want to hear just two hours of just rah.

Speaker 1 21:55

Maybe they do, I don't know On this podcast they do.

Speaker 2 22:00

So, out of all of the games on forecast, try again. Of all the different options there are to play on Fortnite, what's your favourite one to play?

Speaker 3 22:13

Either Battle Royale or Lego Fortnite Odyssey. Yeah, lego Fortnite Odyssey is insanely fun. My friend brax like never, never would have played it before. But then I showed survival mode to him and then me and him just like created this giant world.

Speaker 2 22:35

Just like, yeah what would you say if you were playing fortnite for the first time? Would you say leggo, fortnite.

Speaker 3 22:42

Lego is a pretty good one to play first maybe if, if you're, if you're young and it's the well like, it doesn't really matter. If you want to get into like real fortnite, the best one to start off with is probably Fortnite Reload, because you can respawn in Fortnite Reload and there's not as many people so like. But on Battle Royale it's laser guns and you have infinite ammo. But on Reload it's like real guns and you do run out of ammo. So, yeah, the guns like aren't real, like real guns and you do run out of ammo. So yeah, the guns like aren't real, real guns, like they're like shotguns and stuff, but they're not real names, okay well, that's what a lot of parents are worried about.

Speaker 3 23:30

They don't really they don't want kids running around with guns at all and also there is literally no gore at all and it literally there's a little health bar at the bottom of your screen that goes down to tell you you're losing health. And when you die it doesn't have blood or anything, it's literally just a drone comes and you pixelate up and that's literally it.

Speaker 2 23:52

So the more I hear Brain talk about it, the more I do question whether I should really let my child go to Fortnite or not, let me play it.

Speaker 3 23:59

It my child or?

Speaker 2 24:00

not, yeah, but there's plenty of other things that are fun as well, so I don't really know if this has been helpful, williams, to any parents out there that may. It may actually even have been more confusing, but you like, you love playing it, don't?

Speaker 3 24:11

you? Yeah, it is, it is fun.

Speaker 2 24:13

That's all I can say I do think there's an element of it's kind of fomo it's. I'm playing it because everyone keeps talking about it and I just want to be part of it because I'm 10 and on the playground all the lads are talking about it is.

Speaker 1 24:26

Is your dad any good at it, braden? Is your dad a good player a fortnight?

Speaker 2 24:30

I haven't actually seen him play before oh no, because it's not like a split screen where you can be on the the same time.

Speaker 3 24:37

Well you can be on the split screen, Me and Hannah from church. Me and her played it once and Hannah went onto your profile and I went onto my profile and we could split screen and we were playing parkour games together.

Speaker 2 24:56

Oh See, I still don't know everything, williams. I just I just don't know everything, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna finish and conclude that it's, it's horrendous. I wish fortnite wasn't a thing I actually just wish it was old school where you just got like a um, a cartridge and put it in the console and you played with the person sat next to you. Because it's a nightmare, it's too much combat sub-zero versus scorpion yeah, at least you knew where you stood.

Speaker 2 25:23

It was going to be vicious and violent and, you know, annoy you, but that was it. There was no, I didn't get. Nobody asked me for my credit card details there was.

Speaker 1 25:34

There was no connectivity, isn't it?

Speaker 2 25:35

it is hard. It's a whole new world. I have a lot of empathy for a lot of parents out there, but hopefully you can hear in Brain's voice he enjoys it Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing and whether I'm a terrible parent and going to hell by letting him play it two years before Because the age limit on some of it is 12. It's like Peggy 12.

Speaker 3 26:01

So be like okay, like the reason they're all 12s is because of violence. Like the reason they're all 12s is because other players can like kill other players. That's literally the one. Is that a good thing, I don't know? Like, well, if you do parental controls, you can't talk to them. It can be annoying if, like, one person just targets you and kills you over and over again. But that's like that has happened to me like twice. It is quite annoying. Then I just crashed out, but then yeah, so there you go, ladies and gentlemen, uh the one, the one game that isn't a 12 for violence is called four night festival.

Speaker 3 26:39

It is like one of them games where, like, like, music comes down, you have to hit the buttons on the right thing, do you know? Like them? Piano games? Yeah, it's like that, but there is swear words in that and there's also sex in it. See, yeah, see, no, you know what? I'm gonna change everything I said, right, you play. Just don't play that.

Speaker 2 26:57

You know what I'm going to change everything I said. Right, you know Fortnite.

Speaker 1 27:00

Don't let your kids play it, don't let your kids play it, especially Fortnite Festival from the sound of it. Let your kids play Lego.

Speaker 2 27:05

it's a server and it's fine. Yeah, let your kids play Lego, fortnite, everything else. Don't Don't even talk to their. Always happens, right, pull the plug on the internet, pull the plug on all of it. Pull the plug on the internet, let them play. Get your old atari out the loft. Let them play the atari missile command and yeah, bloody, bloody fortnight. So there we go, ladies and gentlemen. I've in the. In the process, I've decided that brain is no longer able to play it and it's a load of rubbish, and yeah.

Speaker 2 27:40

Fortnite should be banned everywhere.

Speaker 3 27:42

So I have a question for you Fly away. From all the way back two years ago on season one, the Easter special at the end.

Speaker 1 27:54

I asked you. I don't remember any of the seasons.

Speaker 3 27:58

I asked you a riddle but then started going crazy and then you had to cut a short he did a poo, didn't he? Yeah, he did. He also vomited, oh yes, yeah, yeah, just like baby logan has been sick all over, all over his mom. She's cleaning herself like a pro. So the riddle was what travels around the world but stays in one corner?

Speaker 1 28:35

and the answer is I want you to remember it was.

Speaker 3 28:39

You've got to do it. A stamp, yeah, yay.

Speaker 2 28:44

Yay.

Speaker 3 28:47

I can remember the whole music off by heart. It literally is one like this Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Very good.

Speaker 2 28:59

Right, it's very late. It's five to ten on a Saturday night. Brayden should be in bed.

Speaker 3 29:06

He's clearly lost his marbles. I drank like two cokes today. I am caffeinated and I am ready to go.

Speaker 2 29:11

Why have you?

Speaker 3 29:11

drank two cokes today. I didn't let you drink any coke. I had a water, mama, and I got a coke, and then you just let me drink any Coke. I had a water. Mama and I got a Coke and then you just let me drink a Coke, but that's not two Cokes.

Speaker 2 29:23

That was a small bottle of Coke Zero. No, it's like Right, Braden, Braden, we're going to Walliams. I'm going to go and take Braden inside, get him to his mother get a beer and try and recover from this right back in two minutes.

Speaker 1 29:48

Tips for dads, so dad. So that was yeah, great tips for dads there.

Center Parks Adventure and Safari

Speaker 2 29:54

Uh, mr archicus yeah, it's, it's that. That is the. That's the only tip now. Try and avoid letting your kids play Fortnite for as long as possible.

Speaker 1 30:01

A first look and a tip and a guest appearance on the first episode.

Speaker 2 30:05

And a bit of a headache.

Speaker 1 30:06

And a bit of a headache.

Speaker 2 30:08

I'm hoping the chaos of that kind of highlights to people. Well, I mean, there'll be people who'll be able to kind of appreciate that because they'll be like yep, they had this and for the for the listeners. That are about 10 minutes into the podcast. Uh, we have been recording for about 50 minutes. There's a few sideways challenges.

Speaker 1 30:28

There wasn't there. Yeah, another. Another tip for dad, tips for dads, tips for dads get your tips out for the dads. Um, trips with your parents or your in-laws is cool again. Oh, is that, I recommend it. I recommend it. Um, you get through. So obviously you know as a kid again, your parents, great. And then you get to a certain age, perhaps not um, but then you get to our age with hodgkiss and the extra hands, the extra eyes, um is, uh, is great when you've got a little toddler. Oh, yeah, um, it might go into my first look. So my first look at um, center parks, center parks, longleat, yes, I was always Someone's doing well for themselves.

Speaker 1 31:22

So I was always yeah, I'm not going to, never going to go to Center Parks. It's overpriced, ridiculous People paying loads of money to go to a forest. I live in Cornwall.

Speaker 2 31:38

There's lots of forests.

Speaker 1 31:39

We've got a countryside, it's, there's lots of forests. We've got countryside, it's fine. Um, but um, no, we've got actually got a really good deal. I don't know how, um, so we went up on the bank holiday, uh monday, so I think most people were sort of leaving, uh, but yeah, got got a really good price to send parks in longleat, um, so it was the wife and wife stad's um surprise 75th birthday nice um.

Speaker 1 32:04

So, yes, we've got a week and a week there. When I say a week monday, monday, friday uh, arrived on the monday and she realized I was a bit first of all. So we got there and you're literally mile long traffic just like crawling into this place. Oh wow, oh no. And then you get there and there's thousands of people, or hundreds maybe I'm exaggerating the thousands, but a lot of people, yeah.

Speaker 1 32:43

But it turns out that with these you change over days, which I think are Mondays and Fridays, and so obviously you've got people checking out, but they stay for the day as well as the people arriving that day. So you kind of got double the bubble with the people. So initially I was like this is too many people for me. But yeah, obviously people left, um, so it wasn't as busy and um, yeah, really enjoyed it, really recommend it. Um, yeah, you're in a big forest, um, but there's um different, um, different areas, lots of restaurants and all that sort of stuff. And um with logan because, um, you know, with a wife's wife being a swim teacher, you know he's been swimming since he was probably three weeks or something like that. Uh, he can swim two meters now and he's just turned two. That's incredible. So yeah, so yeah. They've got a huge swimming area there. Um um, the pool was.

Speaker 1 33:41

I've never I don't think I've ever been to a pool that's actually warm okay uh, maybe so the kids peeing in it, I don't know, but it was really really warm. Um and um, there's plenty. Yeah, it's big enough to to have a splash in, but it's also got um, you know those, those wave, there's wave things oh, the wave machines yeah and there's like a little light that flashes green. There's like a tarzan and the wave machine goes and all everyone dives into the pool to go on these waves. But logan logan loved it, had his little noodle float and he was he was loving it and drinking all the water.

Speaker 1 34:22

Um, and there's a little area which you could sort of go into and then, um, um, basically there's a current and takes you around in the circles, so it takes you for a tunnel you just basically float along with it and it takes you around.

Speaker 1 34:35

He loved that yeah um, apart from so, we're going around. And then and the wife I was asking him do you want to get off yet? Do you want to get off yet? I'll go around again. But then she would decide last minute right, we're getting off, but obviously you've got the current, so I'm trying to hard brake turn left as the current's taking me right, I crashed into the wall.

Speaker 2 34:59

Oh, flip Okay.

Speaker 1 35:02

Knocked my head, saw a few birds flying on my head, but oh, flip, okay, not my head Saw a few birds flying on my head, but I was all right. Wow, but yeah, and then, obviously, with the indoors there, we managed to leave Logan of his granddad in the splash pad area and then we went up on the I don't know what it's called. I think it's called Lazy River, but it wasn't that lazy, it was like rapids.

Speaker 2 35:23

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:24

And everyone else was. It was like rapids, yeah, and everyone else is going down these rapids.

Speaker 3 35:28

You know, splash around the corners, but I don't know if I've got a heavy bottom massage, kiss or my center of gravity or what, but I'm like you know, when sometimes dogs scoot on the carpet.

Speaker 2 35:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:44

That was me on the rapids. I'm like, you know, when sometimes dogs scoot on the carpet. Yeah, that was me on the rapids. I'm like I thought I was just sliding down really fast and I'm like With my knees just shuffling trying to get down this water slide.

Speaker 2 35:57

Were you in front of a ring.

Speaker 1 35:59

No no.

Speaker 2 36:00

Okay.

Speaker 1 36:01

No, literally yeah, just out the ring.

Speaker 2 36:03

Maybe it's because you're a hairy beast. Maybe you're just like Okay, no, literally yeah, just out of the ring. Maybe it's because you're a hairy beast. Maybe you're just like Maybe. Maybe it's just your hair was working as friction.

Speaker 1 36:09

But you know there's a lot of water, so I just don't know why I just wouldn't move. So Georgie, the wife of mine, would like fly down there. Woo-hoo, smiling, laughing, and down scoot, scoot.

Speaker 2 36:24

Like a dog rubbing its ass on a carpet. You've stuck up this bloody thing.

Speaker 1 36:27

Yeah, and I've got these other people behind me. Whoa, After I tried to dodge out of the way I almost got smacked, oh dear, but yeah. So then we got to the end of it and then the wife was like, oh, can we go again? Can we go again, Can we go again? And she's like I'm going to go again and I'm like I don't want to.

Speaker 2 36:50

I'll stay down here. I don't want to.

Speaker 1 36:52

And because you go, you end up going outside.

Speaker 2 36:55

There's an outside swim area as well as an inside swim area, yeah, and there's like a whole like viewing platform as people walk by and they can look down and see people go around these yeah, rapids and things and that. No, I don't want to do that again because people just watch you get you want to be a watcher, not another one being watched.

Speaker 1 37:14

Oh yeah, I mean, you see some, you see some sites there's, uh, there's one lady we saw that was um, um a lot up front, shall we say, and um, yeah, you did see, I think things did fall out. Yes, uh, but uh yeah no, yeah, cinder parks, good fun. Uh, there's a pancake house um it's had, you know, really nice pancakes. Uh, lots of good food, um lots of nice little wildlife.

Speaker 1 37:45

You know, we saw the first day we got there's a deer, just you know oh no, out in the back garden to areas having a chomp, um, but um, yeah, no, really good. Yes, my first look at center parks, uh, in longley and uh, and yeah, well recommended and did your father-in-law not your step stepdad, your father-in-law have a good birthday surprise?

Speaker 2 38:05

He did.

Speaker 1 38:06

He did very good yes, obviously so the clues and the names, the Cineparks, longleat, and we went to Longleat, the Sapphire Park, so we went there.

Speaker 2 38:15

So that's good fun, and Logan saw the rah-rahs oh, the rah-rahs um the raras, um the raras, and he saw the, uh, the splash raras. Do you know what a splash? My rise? A splash rara. So, uh, a lion in the water would be, um, what would be that? A hippo, I don't know? Sea lion, oh, sea lion. Of course, yeah, of course um. He also saw a red bear do you know what a red bear is a red bear, uh a monkey, a ranger tank a red panda an actual red panda.

Speaker 1 38:54

Yeah, red panda, wow class and he saw a night bear. Do you know what a night bear is? The teddy bear these are actual animals, actual animals a night night bear.

Speaker 2 39:06

Uh, I do not know what a night night bear is. A koala a koala? Why is that a night night bear?

Speaker 1 39:12

just because it sleeps a lot well, they, just they were all sleeping, yeah yeah, that's very sweet yeah yeah, so that sounds like an awesome little trick then.

Speaker 1 39:20

So yeah, really good, yeah really good fun center parks and the safari park yeah, so longleat safari park is literally on the same road, sort of thing, so you know you could leave longleat, you're there in two minutes. And we got there as soon as it opened, which I would tips for dads get there as soon as it opens. Um, and we went for the, went for the um, the safari bus. Um, originally we were going to use our old car, um, we thought you know, would have that for another year and then just use that. And then we've got a new car because you go in the, the monkey area and the monkeys but, um, so yeah, but also, before you know, on the bus.

Speaker 1 40:02

At least all of us can be there together with Logan and not get our car wrecked. But, on that week. He said they collected 110 car registration plates from these monkeys. Whilst we were there, we saw a monkey rip off a parking sensor of a car at the back. And yeah, they just.

Speaker 2 40:27

So you're there going around saying oh, here's the night night bears, there's the oh, look at that, that's the rah-rahs, and then you see these things here.

Speaker 1 40:34

They're the shitheads, they're the shitheads but yeah, good fun. And the Cinder Park itself. It's so big you need to get a down train, which Logan called car choo-choos, so you just get the car choo-choos around. But yeah, very good, Very recommended.

Speaker 1 41:04

But only go when there's some good deals going on because it's check out and also and also, I think, we. It's quite good for us because logan's at an age where he's quite happy just to wander around the playgrounds there, the swimming pool, that's included, and all that sort of stuff, whereas if you've got your older kids um, your, your 10 year olds, nine year olds plus there's loads of activities and that's where they make all the money, because you just keep paying for the and the go ape stuff and the climbing walls and the. You know there's all sorts of activities going on.

Speaker 1 41:37

And they're all you know, 30, 40, 50 quid you know, yeah, before you know it, yeah. Yeah, you can spend a lot yeah, yeah, yeah, because they're all about you're there, you spend loads of money to get there and then you spend loads of money whilst you're there captive audience type thing, yeah. So it's um, yeah, it's a, it's a good business model, but um, yeah, good, fun, good fun.

Speaker 2 42:04

It sounds excellent. That's a good one. I've never same reasons as you. The kind of center parks are like that's a lot of money for what you get. Um, so to hear that it's actually pretty good.

Speaker 1 42:13

I've always liked the look of the swim pools but what I've heard is um, and this is if you don't get like a good deal, like like we did, a lot of people actually, because I think it started in belgium or holland yeah um, and actually people say it's it's more cost effective to actually especially like, if you live in london or somewhere, just go to the center parks in belgium or holland, because the cost of traveling there and staying there is actually cheaper than that's cheaper than ones in england so and that's a good tip for that.

Speaker 2 42:43

But like, know that whole, like you've got a kid who's like Sir Logan's age, you think, oh, you still need to bring quite a few things with you. The idea of going abroad can be terrifying. So you think we'll do something like centre parks, but it's quite unaffordable. So, like you can still do like caravan holidays like Haven and stuff, which are not bad, but it's still, it's quite expensive compared to going like on an easy jet or a jet two holiday to you know cost a brava or something. Well, why does it cost so much to to stay here, can it? What? Where's the affordable uk holidays for parents who are like?

Speaker 1 43:14

yeah, just stay close by. And also logan's age, you know not, not school holidays or anything like that to worry about oh, school holidays are a pain, williams, like really are but, like you said before, you make the most of the the difference in holidays. So northern ireland compared to england and try to yeah yeah, try.

Speaker 2 43:36

Yeah, we're quite lucky over here because we like it all. The kids are on half term coming, but ours aren't. And then, as finish school, before the english kids go on their six weeks holiday so there's like a bit of time before where you can kind of get some good deals still, but it's like it's not fair. It feels like parents get penalized because they want to send their kids to school and all that it's yeah yeah, I don't like.

Speaker 2 43:57

Yeah, I'd shake the angry fists. I'm like these people surge pricing and charging people more when it's busy. It it's like you should charge people less when it's busy because there's more people there so you don't need to charge as much. But I don't know, that would probably be unfair somewhere else. I don't know, walliams, but I'm glad you had a good time in Centre Parcs. Anyway, it sounds lovely. I may well check it out in the future.

Speaker 1 44:19

It's a different extreme than killing people on Fortnite.

Speaker 2 44:24

Fortnite. It's yeah a different extreme than uh killing people fortnight, fortnight. You know what I kind?

Speaker 1 44:26

of. I've got the world to come, and I'm probably scarier because who knows in you know the five years time, what the world is going to be like well, like you were saying that about like logan playing on parks and stuff, and it genuinely just made me feel a bit sad because we tried to take brain to a few parks and he's like it's too big now for them.

Speaker 2 44:46

And it's like, oh, I don't want to go to park and like he, he's interested changing um like the parties that he's going to now with changing and um, it's different and I kind of like oh. I want him to go to the park and go on the slide when the slide's the most exciting thing.

Speaker 1 45:04

Yeah, you just gotta try to enjoy the moment where you are, because we're we're doing the same now, but like, oh, when he was one, you know when he was a baby because he's not a baby now and he knows he's not a baby now he goes no, dad, big, you know he's not a baby. But uh, our playgrounds and things, like he looks at the bigger kids and he's got no fear. You know he just wants to go on these. You know the bridges but like the steps are like wider than he's long, sort of thing and he's gonna fall through those and then he's going up up into bits where, dad, I can't quite get up there.

Speaker 1 45:45

You're trying to like, try to protect him, but you're like I can't fit through that gap, I can't I know it's uh I can't climb that being a parent williams, it's just.

Speaker 2 45:57

It's just terrifying. Regardless of their age, it's just terrifying yeah.

E-Bike First Look and Mishaps

Speaker 1 46:00

And then there's slides in the splash pad in center parks, but he just ended up just chucking himself down them. No fear, um. And then at one point again, it's part of learning. But he just there's a kid in front of him and he wanted to go on the slide, so he just pushed it down the slide. You shouldn't do that, reagan. But um, blessing. But yeah, good fun, good fun. Uh, recommend it, but make sure you do it when you can afford it, and if you can't afford it, look at belgium or holland and do it that way instead very nice.

Speaker 2 46:38

Um, I have, if you remember, while it was at the end of season three, there was a cliffhanger, was there? There was a tease of a first look.

Speaker 1 46:45

I don't remember it.

Speaker 2 46:46

No, do you remember I said I was gonna tease, I was getting an e-bike, yes, so uh, yeah, I can give you an update on the e-bike, if you want, please do.

Speaker 2 46:55

Yes, you've got it and you've made it go 50 miles an hour I did not make it go 50 miles an hour and good job too, because I got the bike built. The bike was a bit exciting for the bike got the gear, got the gear. Williams watched all the videos. I was like, right, I'm ready, I'm ready for this, went out on the bike, living my best life yeah it was incredible having the best time now the wind flowing through your hair wind throwing flowing through my hair this, I was revving it.

Speaker 2 47:24

I went pedalling as well, obviously did you pedal I?

Speaker 2 47:29

did some pedalling going on this thing and I set myself up where I was going to go and there's a bike path. So about two and a half miles from us by our road. We are very lucky we have something called the Cumber Greenway which is just a bike path, like an eight mile bike path, and I thought I'm going to cycle to a place called the Cumber Greenway, which is just a bike path like an eight mile bike path, and I thought I'm going to cycle to a place called Billy Neal um playing fields, cause there's like a bike track there. So I thought I'm going to go try it out. So I cycled there having the time I'll have to go to these things and I was like, oh, this looks fun, right I? I go down and say, oh no, this isn't kind of the bike track I wanted. This is like a BMX thing. So I'm on it and I'm still getting used to the bike and it's trying to go fast and I think, oh no, I better stop.

Speaker 3 48:10

So I try to put my foot down.

Speaker 2 48:12

There's no ground there, so I absolutely stack it.

Speaker 1 48:16

First time on the bike.

Speaker 2 48:17

I end up in a bush swimming in the nettles landed on my ass. But most but most importantly, is the bike all right. The bike was all right. Land up on top makes it's a heavy bike. Like it's, it's we're talking like yeah, it's a big ass bike. Um, so I ended up in a bush with a bike on top of me, with a sore ass and I'm not the smallest of guys. So when I fell off this bike I landed smack on my bum did anyone see you?

Speaker 2 48:45

no, nobody saw me. It put shockwaves through my system. So for about 2 weeks I had a wrecked back. So I managed to get myself home embarrassed, went upstairs, I got stung to buggery as well. I was wearing shorts and stuff, so all of my legs were stung after about 24 hours did it all come out in bumps it did, and but like my, my leg was tingling like at one point I thought, oh I've, I might have to go and see something about this, because my whole leg was tingling and I was like this ain't good.

Speaker 2 49:16

Um. So yeah, it was. I was having the greatest of times until I decided to stack it. So another tip for dads just be careful. You know the irony as well before I went out on this bike. It said e-bikes are quite dangerous, and they are they can be, but not as not as dangerous as an invalid who can't use the bike the bloody thing properly.

Speaker 2 49:37

So anyway, I have, I have dusted myself off and we've had several times of course I was, yeah good, good good, so I've been out several times on it now and it is genuinely the most fun, um so because of the e-bike, like I can go further, because you can use it just as a normal bike, so you can cycle until you're effectively knackered, which is great.

Speaker 1 49:57

But you're also. Does it charge from your cycling?

Speaker 2 50:00

no, no you just have to charge it up on the thing, but this one's got like a range of about 50 miles, so it's pretty good yeah um, so this, this, like this greenway is about eight miles. So like I've cycled as far down, as kind of oh, I'm getting pretty tired now, because you want to put effort, you've got to, you want to make yourself, I'm trying to, I'm trying to get better. So like I want to make myself sweat, I don't just want to rely on it.

Speaker 2 50:20

But then when you do get like coming back, you're like okay, I've cycled away from my house for seven miles. I don't think I'm going to be able to do seven miles back. So you can rely on the, you can rely on the motor. So because of the throttle, this you can cheat. You can literally cheat. So I can literally just hold the throttle down and get up to about 16 miles an hour and just cruise. And it's quite funny because, like, that's fast enough, you can overtake people. So there's other people on bikes.

Speaker 1 50:48

They're pedaling like crazy.

Speaker 2 50:49

They're pedaling like crazy and you're like so it's quite funny, and like up hills and stuff, it just pulls you up the hill. So I'm just like this is I said I said this on the last podcast we live at the top of a hill. So I said this on the last podcast we live at the top of a hill. So that was one of the reasons I was like I'm never going to be able to cycle up that hill.

Speaker 2 51:06

I can barely walk up it, never mind cycle up it and I just pull the throttle and just up the hill. So it is brilliant, so I've only fallen off it once. Thankfully it was the first time I was using it, but it hasn't put me off, but it did definitely make me more cautious. I was like, right, you've got to be careful on these things. So I would first look at e-bikes. I would recommend them. They are everything I expected them to be, and more, and they are fun.

Pints and First Bites: Japanese KitKat

Speaker 1 51:33

But just be careful, they are fun, be careful, be careful Moving on to. So at the bottom of the fish pond, mr Hodgkiss. Yeah, it's so at the bottom of the fish pond, mr Hodgkiss. It's sunk to the bottom of the fish pond. Are the firsty firsts? No, they're down there in the deep. They're still there, but they're way down deep in the pond waiting for someone to write in and go bring them back. I miss them and bring them back.

Speaker 2 52:07

I miss the joy on your face from them.

Speaker 1 52:08

So well, this is it. So I've created a new segment called Pints and First Bites. So have you just changed the name of the same thing, so this is where I take a first look at not only pints but snacks and nibbles as well. So I can still have a pint now and again, but I can also have a little nibble and a little snack, okay, so as usual, please write in to Fishbowl and the feedback at firstlook. What's that email address? Firstlook, I thought your address could be called.

Speaker 2 52:44

FirstLookNomes at Outlookcom.

Speaker 1 52:46

FirstLookNomes at Outlookcom. That's the one If you don't want to hear any more. But yeah, so Pints and First Bites. It's a new segment.

Speaker 2 52:55

Oh right, and are we going to introduce this now or in the next episode? Why not? Okay, go for it, wally, just go for it.

Speaker 1 53:06

So I haven't got a tune yet. Pints and First Bites.

Speaker 2 53:09

We'll think of that for the next episode.

Speaker 1 53:11

Pints and First Bites.

Speaker 2 53:15

We'll think of it next episode. How about we?

Speaker 1 53:18

do a like, give me a P.

Speaker 2 53:20

P, give me an Einz and First Bites.

Speaker 1 53:22

Einz and First Bites. Put it all together, this is the German episode Einst and first bites. Einst and first bites, Einst pints and bites, pints, and first bites. No offence to our German listeners. So this week, this week, this episode. Let's go. Are pints and first bites.

Speaker 2 53:43

We've got a first bite this week. Can I just comment?

Speaker 1 53:44

on this.

Speaker 2 53:46

You've decided to kill a feature and then bring it back. I listen to feedback.

Speaker 1 53:52

So what you've done instead of?

Speaker 2 53:53

killing the feature. You've extended it because, now it's food and beer. So you've basically said to the listeners screw you, you know nothing. I'm going to drink what I want to drink and also just to annoy nothing. I'm going to drink what I want to drink and also just to annoy you, I'm going to add some food into it as well. So not only am I going to talk about beer, I'm also going to talk about pork pies and scotch eggs and scratchings.

Speaker 1 54:14

Series 5,. I'm going to start his main course and just say it. Listen to Walliams have his dinner.

Speaker 2 54:20

It's your podcast. You drive the ship.

Speaker 1 54:22

Hey cheers.

Speaker 2 54:23

Let's go, so you've already got a pint. Yeah, just listen, he's drinking a pint already.

Speaker 1 54:27

So we've got our first pint. Let's go Our first pint. So you can describe it. If you can see it, Mr Archibald, this is our first pint.

Speaker 2 54:36

Oh, that's like a matchy-match.

Speaker 1 54:40

So this is from our listener, one of our listeners, catherine. Oh yes, and she sent in a green box Kit Kat, kit.

Speaker 3 54:53

Kat, so it's.

Speaker 1 54:54

Kit Kat. It's all in Japanese, apart from a bit that says Uji Matcha. Matcha yeah, there is a little bowl with a green liquid on it. Nice and I'm not going to read any of the back because it's all in Japanese Looks lovely, so here we go. So I'm going to open the box and I'm Take a picture of the box for the website.

Speaker 2 55:21

I am for the website, yes, so I'll put the website.

Speaker 1 55:22

Take a picture of the box for the website. I am for the website. Yes, I'll put the website. Ooh, it's a tiny little packages.

Speaker 2 55:32

Ooh, that's very cute.

Speaker 1 55:33

Tiny, tiny little packages, but I'm reliably informed. Well, that's good, so I can actually keep two of these behind if I don't like it, and perhaps I can save you one, mr Oshkiss.

Speaker 2 55:46

So I'm reliably informed what chocolate. Yeah, I can't do any chocolate anymore.

Speaker 1 55:54

I haven't eaten chocolate for about three years. Okay, so I'm reliably informed. These are very small. This is KitKat, but I expected a in for this race. What I expected, so this is. This is KitKat by spit, to know KitKat size and chocolate fingers. No, no, it's just really tiny. This is what you say, like a little fingers worth.

Speaker 2 56:14

Yeah, yeah it's like a kick up half a normal kick up.

Speaker 1 56:18

So let's have a look. Oh, it's green. It is definitely green. Okay, we've got a little green.

Speaker 2 56:25

Beautiful.

Speaker 1 56:26

A little green Kit Kat fingers, but I'm reliably informed these are wasabi Kit Kats, so let's give it a go.

Speaker 2 56:36

It reminds me of a very bad joke this does. Can I tell you that joke, Williams?

Speaker 1 56:44

Please.

Speaker 2 56:47

What's green? And smells like bacon kermit's fingers, maybe quite that one from the podcast. They're nice, nice they look lovely, there's.

Speaker 1 57:03

No, I don't taste any spice.

Speaker 2 57:06

No, matcha's not spicy, it's green tea.

Speaker 1 57:11

It's green tea. Oh Well, there you go, a chimacha Wild drum, sorghum, that's green tea, is it? Did you not know that? No, brilliant Mmm, nice, that nostalgic, that's green tea, is it, did you not know? That no, brilliant nice. It's a little bit of kick sort of in there. Very nice, very nice. I will say one of those, the wife of life, because they're not spicy.

Speaker 2 57:40

I don't know they're spicy you may be confusing it with wasabi, because wasabi is green and that is very hot, that's like mustardy and that's not.

Speaker 1 57:48

That's not spicy at all, that's um that matches green tea that's quite nice. There's two little packets there, so I'll save one for the wifey wife so she can have a sample and thank you, thank you for sending those in yeah, that's amazing there's two fingers two fingers, no, but I mean out of five.

Speaker 2 58:04

How many fingers have you given it?

Speaker 1 58:06

oh, we're still doing that at the website, aren't we?

Speaker 2 58:08

yeah, you can't introduce a snack feature.

Speaker 1 58:11

Not tell us if it's good well, I was three and a half fingers, because it's, it's nice. It's not like, oh wow, but nice, yeah, there you go. I've had that's from Japan, kit Kat Uji Matchi.

Speaker 2 58:26

Did Catherine actually go to Japan and get that?

Speaker 1 58:28

Catherine actually went to Japan and sent it in to First Let Names Amazing. So thank you to our top listener, Catherine. Thank you.

Speaker 2 58:36

So are you just doing snacks or pints?

Speaker 1 58:39

I'm keeping it flexible. I'm keeping it flexible.

Speaker 2 58:41

But for now, have you got a pint? It's called pints and first bites. Um, see where it goes. Yeah, pints, pints and food, lovely, nice, well, I think. Um, this episode has been so recording. We'll give the listeners another look behind the curtain. Sometimes these episodes go swimmingly. Sometimes it started with us for about 45 minutes trying to be able to hear each other.

Speaker 1 59:05

I've not finished yet.

Speaker 2 59:05

I've got my dad joke to do oh, flip me, I'm okay, sorry, I still have dad just right, right, yeah, sorry, carry on just carry on, explain.

Speaker 1 59:15

I've just probably added to what you're gonna say. But explain, and then I'll do my dad joke and we'll finish this episode sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, these podcasts, just they're like smooth, like butter.

Speaker 2 59:28

Other times they're lumpy like two-day-old porridge, and we you know we came in from our own fault, I don't know, but sometimes magic happens and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes magic happens and sometimes it doesn't, but it's been fun to. It's still been fun to record it.

Speaker 1 59:52

It's always nice spending time with you, Mr Walliams. Yes.

Speaker 2 59:55

Go on, then dad jokes please, dad, joke.

Speaker 1 59:57

And then we've got episode two to record.

Speaker 2 1:00:00

No, we don't record that back to.

Speaker 1 1:00:03

I mean it's your time Anyways. I've got a question for you, Mr Archicus.

Speaker 2 1:00:09

Oh yes.

Speaker 1 1:00:10

Have you ever tried blindfolded archery?

Speaker 2 1:00:15

I have not.

Speaker 1 1:00:15

Have you not? You don't know what you're missing. Hey, oh dear. Anyways, I love my furniture, Mr Archkiss.

Speaker 2 1:00:24

I'm sure you do.

Speaker 1 1:00:26

Me and my recliner go way back. Oh dearie me See you in a couple of weeks, listeners. Bye everybody, Bye, Bye.

Speaker 2 1:00:33

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.

Speaker 1 1:00:50

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