Rescue Dog Adoption, Kill Bill 4K & Dad Firsts | First Look at the 6’7 Craze

In this episode, we take a first look at rescue dog adoption, what to expect when bringing a rescue dog home, and the reality of adjusting to life with a new pet.

We also dive into the Kill Bill 4K remaster, revisiting the iconic film. 

Alongside that, we share relatable and funny dad firsts — those unexpected parenting moments that no one properly prepares you for.

And finally, we try to make sense of what was the “6’7 craze”, breaking down what it is, why it’s everywhere, and whether it actually deserved the hype.

If you’re interested in adopting a rescue dog, parenting stories, film discussions, or trending topics explained, this episode brings humour, honest reactions, and real-life experiences.

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Season Five Returns

Speaker 1 0:00

Lords, ladies and gentlemen, it's back series five of First Look Gnomes. Episode Wonder for the season five. Episode Wonder for the Times You Cried. One Nov's got a series five. It's season five. Woo! Welcome back to the first look gnomes podcast. Season five. We've had a little break where we uh we try to do some fascinating trivia. Chat about family matters and dad jokes and banter that makes us go.

Speaker 4 0:41

You sound so bloody hell, Walliams. You sound so bloody miserable. We haven't done a podcast for a while, and you come on, and straight away you sound like you've reading an obitary. We do some things sad. I'm tired. I'm dad tired. Bloody hell, put some energy into it, Wadams. It's been four months or something since we've done one of these things. I've got to say though, Wells, I think. I think you missed a trick. Season five. You missed a trick. Because you told me you were gonna sing, so I assumed as it's season five, you'd have started with a five song, not a blue song. Wrong bloody boy band, Wallyams. Still, good effort. And blue, we heard blue were touring, aren't they?

Speaker 1 1:24

And get episode one and season five in the same sentence, you know.

Speaker 4 1:29

You well, um I think you could have done better. I'm not I'm not saying you started poorly with this season five Walliams, but you sounded very unhappy about being. Yeah, that's true. But you know, you had time.

Speaker 1 1:44

Uh we do apologize that we uh we didn't say that we were ending the season. Shit happened, didn't it, Wally? Let's be honest. It did, it did. There was lots of stuff happened. We are back.

Speaker 4 1:55

Uh should we tell the listers all about what happened in that four those four months? I can't remember, to be honest. No, neither can I. There was so much that happened, but basically we just were so busy just trying to fend off this thing called life from kicking our asses. We couldn't find a time where either you weren't being walloped or I wasn't being walloped, or somebody else we knew wasn't being walloped, or anything. So, like, this is actually a real privilege to be back on the mic with you.

Speaker 1 2:22

Lots of walloping going on. I I read a good book about glue. Oh, yes. I couldn't put it down.

Speaker 4 2:29

He's back, ladies and gentlemen. He's starting slowly, but he's back. There we go. Kiss, kiss, bang, bang.

Speaker 1 2:35

Kiss, kiss, kiss, bang, bang. I watched Kill Bill for the second time recently. So sorry, anyways. How'd you find it? Good. Really good film, actually. Yeah. Isn't it? It's a classic. Is it a classic? Is it? It is. I uh not. Yeah, you should watch it. It's up, it's up there. It's better than I thought. It's yeah. Should we watch Kill Bill 1 and 2 in one sitting?

Speaker 4 3:04

Yeah. Didn't is there a new version coming out? Or didn't a new version come out? Oh yeah, remastered something.

Speaker 1 3:14

Oh, 4K. Listen to him, ladies and gentlemen. 4K surround sound, 4K. Wow.

Speaker 4 3:19

Where was this? Oh, you've got another friends!

Speaker 1 3:24

Yeah.

Speaker 4 3:25

Pete friend. You don't have other friends other than me, do youams? No. Friends.

Speaker 3 3:33

Cinema friends, 4K surround sound friends.

Speaker 4 3:38

Or you just don't marry Pete Williams. What's that? You were just talking about your best friend Pete and his lovely cinema screen and how good Kill Bill was and how you enjoyed it more because you mean Pete.

Speaker 1 3:48

Yeah, Pete. Love Pete.

Speaker 4 3:50

We're just saying there was a lot of shit. There's a lot of stuff happened over the last four months.

Speaker 1 3:55

Yeah.

Speaker 4 3:56

His brain still hasn't recovered, ladies and gentlemen, from the last four months of having been walloped. Oh, it's because we said the word walloped. Walloped. No, it wasn't. We keep getting walked.

Speaker 1 4:06

Why would Wallop go on to kill Bill? Because she wallops a lot of people. Slicing people's heads off.

Speaker 4 4:13

Because when she doesn't when she kills people and bang, you said for some reason. I did, yes. Yes.

Speaker 1 4:18

From Peter K from Phoenix Nice.

Speaker 4 4:24

There's a film called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Val Kilmer and the works in mysterious ways.

Speaker 1 4:31

It does. I um I had to recall my multimedia degree experience from 20 years. The last the last time I RAM into a PC to desktop was over 20 years ago, probably. That's not euphemism, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. And yeah, I had to open up my my desktop PC and insert some RAM. And it's a whole new world. They're compact now, Craig.

Speaker 4 4:57

They're very small, aren't they? Little RAM sticks. Not like big RAM sticks like that. You really do. You have to wiggle them. You've got to win.

Speaker 1 5:04

I'd have wiggle and I'd get the uh the screws out, but I did it. And again, why am I going down that route? Oh, because I mentioned it to uh the wifey wife. Yeah. And she just said there's like moments that she forgets I'm a geek sometime, and I come out with talking about Ram.

Speaker 4 5:24

Okay. She forgets that you're a geek. Yeah, I know. What do you give that woman in her tea in the morning if she forgets you're a geek?

Speaker 1 5:33

But then she was saying my nickname should be the Ram. But Wallyam's the Ram. Because of random access memory. But then I said you probably shouldn't get around saying that you come with the Ram.

Speaker 4 5:49

I certainly didn't assume she meant random access memory when she said you should call you the Ram. I thought she was just being filth. I mean, random access memory, how we've got onto this from Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Speaker 1 6:02

I mean Which which came from Wallop.

Speaker 4 6:05

Which came from Wallop after you talked about your friend Pete and his 4K surround sand cinema thing.

Speaker 1 6:12

But anyways, welcome back. Welcome back, listeners. Thank you for retuning in.

Speaker 4 6:16

I don't know why you are, but uh because of the because of great stories like we've just started. The first how many how far are we in? The first six minutes and thirty-seven seconds palms. Pure gold. Who wouldn't want to listen to you sing about blue? Pure gold and just call nonsense.

Speaker 1 6:32

To the listener that fed in that we should try harder. This is it.

Speaker 4 6:35

This is it. We're here, we've turned up. We are trying harder.

Speaker 1 6:40

And we're going to have a pint.

Pretzel First Bite And ASMR Hate

Speaker 4 6:46

Oh yeah, I've already got one. And we also get hang on, hang on. You're giving away the game there, Walliams. Because are we meant to guess if it's a pint or if it's a first bite? Isn't that the whole idea? The tension.

Speaker 1 6:59

Oh. Alright, tension, please. Rum run. Oh points of first bites, pints of first bites. Pints of first bites! Pints of first bites! It's a bite! I thought you said you were gonna have a pint! No? See? Okay, see? I thought you. Okay, I kept us guessing. I see. Put the suspension there. We've got a bite. And today we've got uh Ollie's salted original oven baked pretzel fins. Under 120 calories. Lights and BSB. The wife bought it. Vegan light under 120 grand calories.

Speaker 4 7:34

Well, let's get into it, Well. Tell us what you think.

Speaker 1 7:38

Oh, to the ASMR lesson.

Speaker 4 7:42

Bloody hate ASMR.

Speaker 1 7:45

We've not dropped first bites.

Speaker 4 7:50

We probably should have, to be honest. I mean it's it's a very visual thing, and this is a podcast. You opening a packet and everything and then eating. It's what everyone tunes in to listen for. A pretzel. Oh. It's ladies and gentlemen, he's going to eat a pretzel for your audio pleasure. Wow. I mean, so Sony podcast of the year, content popper.

Speaker 1 8:22

There was um I saw You know how when you like go on your homepage now and you get all these random stories popping up. On your homepage, yeah. Well yeah, yeah. But I don't watch it, but on GB News, I think it's called.

Speaker 4 8:36

Yes.

Speaker 1 8:37

With uh Eamon Holmes and so on. And they had they had a massive amount of complaints come through because Eamon Holmes and the co-presenter who just got back from the honeymoon, they basically sat there during the news programme. Like a good morning news type thing, it's called GB News. Yeah. And they just they got out like snacks and things, and they just sat there talking, eating snacks like pretzels, munching away, looking at holida looking at honeymoon photos. Okay. And they got loads of complaints.

Speaker 4 9:09

Well, I mean, if you're watching GB News I mean, I'm all for everybody being everything, but GB News, really? Like you're watching that and complaining?

Speaker 1 9:21

Like, what do you expect? It's not exactly how I don't know. Yeah, we we don't want to listen to you eating your snacks.

Speaker 4 9:28

No, I don't think many people really want to listen to people eating snacks unless you're some kind of OnlyFans weirdo. Oh, I like his toes and I love the way he crunches a pretzel. Oh like it's I mean maybe maybe now's the time to decide, Williams. Should we just can all food and drink things?

Speaker 1 9:48

I had uh an ex-girlfriend that left me because I only had nine toes. She was uh lactose intolerant.

Speaker 4 9:55

Oh my days, oh dear.

Speaker 1 10:02

Dear Oh dear, so yes, how'd you? Oh dear the ODA podcast.

Speaker 4 10:07

The jokes can stay, but maybe the food and drink reviews we just started the season five.

Speaker 1 10:15

Yeah, we're gonna be a good one. We should have a pre-season five meeting, but we didn't.

Speaker 4 10:18

Well we did. We talked for about ten minutes and we talked about and put a potential new feature. I mean, we didn't really talk about it in depth, we just thought, you know, there we go. He's opening a drink now, ladies and gentlemen. This is the only reason this is this podcast. He just wants to eat and drink, really, and he just needs an excuse.

What First Look Gnomes Means

Speaker 1 10:35

But anyways, moving on. Uh moving on. Shall Richard do what this podcast is. What is this podcast about, Craig? I think they're quite a few minor start.

Speaker 4 10:43

So we we do it's called First Look Gnomes, which for anybody who wants to know the law of this series, is because of a business Wallems and me once decided not to set up, which sounded something like First Look Gnomes. So terrible name for a podcast. The original business was a good idea for a business. We'd have been millionaires by now, Wells. This podcast is about two dads talking nonsense and sharing some of the first things they have done, be it a new experience or something they've seen on TV or something they've done with their kids. And basically it's just two dads talking silliness, eating pretzels. I mean the reason why Names asked me to talk about this because he knew you could probably get four pretzels in by the time I've war bought on. So yeah, that's what we did.

Speaker 1 11:28

That was my first look at uh my first look at Ollie's pretzels. And yeah, they're good. How many somethings? Under 120 calories. Five somethings. Out of but a higher out of whatever you want. But it's definitely higher rated if you want to keep those calories down but enjoy a little snack.

Speaker 4 11:50

Well, it was had three bags of them. Undoing the calorie calorific benefits.

Speaker 1 11:56

Let's get on to your first look, Sherry Ms. Hodgkin.

Adopting Major The Golden Retriever

The Dog Who Fears Cars

Chewing, Barking, Digging, Escaping

Off-Lead Practice Goes Sideways

Speaker 4 11:59

Okay, well, yeah, first I've got a few things I want to talk about today. Um, because it's been it has been a few months since we uh have recorded this lovely show. So I was racking my brain and thinking, what's the most significant things that have happened? And I thought I can't talk about those. So what should I talk about instead? And one of the uh happiest and also worst things that we've done is we have adopted a new dog. We have adopted ourselves a new dog and wonderful and brilliant, but then also a wolf is right. Also, we've adopted a new dog. So, what the hell were we thinking? What an earth went through our tiny little brains that made us think, yeah, this is a good idea. Then you say you're not gonna be able to do that. Oh, yeah, he got so yeah. Oh, where do we start? So, as of as we're recording this, then we've had this dog with us. His name's Major. He is a one-year-old golden retriever, beautiful, magnificent creature, massive, 40 kilograms of pure muscle. And we adopted him because his owners could no longer take care of him, but he is full of puppy energy because there's only one, and he is not comfortable doing anything. He's just constantly, he's just highly strong, highly strong dog. So we're having to put a lot of effort into him. And yes, he woke me up very early this morning, he came in wagging his tail, his massive, massive whip-like tail, bashing it on the radiator, jumping all over us, licking my face, going, Come on, dad, come on. It's half past five in the morning. Surely that's enough sleep you've had. Come and take me out for a walk. So, yes, I've been up for a long time, but we are he is amazing. He is like, there's no doubt, he's such a loving, beautiful beast of a dog. But when we picked him up, so we got it from mid-yeah. Well, we we we wanted to rescue a dog because we're like, there's so many dogs who obviously don't have homes. We've always had dogs, so like my mum and dad, when I was young, we had a gold retriever, then we had a collie, that collie was pregnant, we kept one of the puppies, we rehomed the others, we obviously had a pug and we've rescued a gold retriever now. So it took a while because our pug died a couple of years ago. He had hit dysplasia so we had to have him put to sleep. So it's taken a long time for us to get to the point where we're like, Yeah, we need a dog again. And Leslie Ann and Brain have both been like, What a dog, want to get a dog, and eventually I thought, you know what? Let's get a dog. We we're we've settled in our new home now, we're ready to bring a dog in. Or so I thought. So we went and picked him up, and he doesn't like the car. Like, and I say he doesn't like the car, he's absolutely terrified of the car. So we tried to get him into the car, and it took four of us, four adults, to wrestle this dog into the car. And once we got him in, all he tried to do was jump out the window, and he ended up kind of sitting on me, um, cutting off all blood flow to my legs for about 40 minute drive from where we picked him up to getting him home. And since then, we've tried to get him to the car a few times. Yeah, he it's not happening. He we're not getting this dog in the car at all. So we're having we're having to try and we're having to try and get him to associate the car with good things. So we keep opening the car and throwing in a load of cake. Get in the car and eat the cake. Well, that's it. Well, we're very lucky because where we live, there's a vet's we can walk to there's okay, everything's in walking distance, which is good. That's the joys of living in like a little town. There's like there's there is there's a groomers, there's a vet, there's places to walk in. But obviously, you can't just stay where we are forever. We want to we want to take him to the beach and things like that. So we're gonna have to work on him. And he just he's chews things. So I've so far lost a pair of crocs, a pair of slippers, a television remote control. He almost got a PlayStation 5 remote. Oh, yeah. Um, numerous socks, a couple of beds, dog beds, not our beds. Yeah, and yeah, it's just it's the most wonderful thing in the world having this dog here, but also you do have to question his sanity, a new level of chaos. Oh, 100%, 100%, and he's hairy, but he doesn't half love you, like he just wants to be he wants to he thinks he's a small puppy, and he's not fucking massive, and he just wants to get on top of you, and he barks as well, he's a barker, and that like and it's such a big bark, it's a proper, like yeah, it really is it's heavy, but then when he gets on one, it's consistent, so it's just oh like can he be quiet, please. And he's loud, so it's just like and the mess is everywhere, like oh when he digs, he goes in the garden and digs, oh and he escapes, yes. Oh, it's a digger as well. Oh no, he's a digger and he escaped the garden. So we got into he got into next door's garden, and we've had to we had to block this like this entryway. So I was like, right, I built a wall out of pots, plant pots, and stuff. And then he's like, okay, I can get around that. So he found a new way, so then we had to build a second wall, and then you know what he did? He took a running jump like Black Beauty and jumped over the wall and got into the next garden anyway. So with three walls high now, three walls in and three walls high. And then the other day, he got out the front of the house on a Sunday morning, about half past half past seven Sunday morning. He got out of the house and he ran across the road. It was that's exactly what happened. So I I'm wearing this kind of Yoda woman running down the street going, Major, Major, fucking dog, major, major, and he's not listening, and he's running around with his tail wagging. Uh we live on a hill, so he runs down this hill and across the road, and he's just having the time of his life. And then I eventually we eventually comes up near me, and I'm like, You major? And he's like, Oh, he looks angry. So, of course, he can sense I'm angry. Does he come to me and say, Oh, I'm sorry, Papa. I I do apologize for the stress I've caused. Does he bollocks? He runs up the other way of the road and just keeps going. I'm like, what am I gonna do here? And there's a guy, so uh opposite our house, there's a guy on like a balcony, an apartment block. And he's just like, he's gone that way, and he says, Don't worry, mate, my dog does it well. I said, I said, and I literally just said, Why the hell do we get dogs? and had to go and get the dog. And then this week I took him for a walk down by a brook, and I I thought the brook looks secure, he can't get well, he does apparently he does. Didn't know this, but he does. So I was like, he can't get down there, fantastic. I was like, this is a nice enclosed space, let's let's practice his off lead. So I let him off, and he's like, Okay, I'm free. Starts running around like doing laps of this place, like in for Christie, round and round and round, and then after a while, I'm like, Oh, this this has been fat, this has been brilliant. Time to go home. Major, come on, it's time to go. Come on, let's go home now. Major, where's it going? Where's it going? Uh oh, where's he going? Don't no major, don't go down he's going down this bank. This bank, Major, there's this bank which is steep as anything, and he's gone, he's gone down it. I wouldn't, it's up we're up in the air. So, like, this bank is with maybe 12 feet up. Are you going down? He's gone down this bank and he's got into the river. And like, oh flip me, he's going to the river. And what what's he doing? Instead of kind of swimming up towards back to where he can get out. No, no, I'm just gonna go down, I'm gonna go down river with the with I'm just gonna go with the current and away he goes down the river. And I'm like, what am I gonna do here? I can't, I literally couldn't do anything. I was like, if I try and get down into that river, I'm gonna get pneumonia, I'm gonna break my neck, and I'm probably gonna die. So I thought, alright, just wait, wait a bit more. Okay, he's gonna come back eventually, surely. And about seven minutes later, it came back. For those seven minutes, I was thinking, okay, what do I do here? Where does this river go? Where does it stop? He looked like he could switch he could handle himself, so I was like, he's not gonna die, he's just gonna end up somewhere, and I'm gonna have to try and find him, or someone's gonna someone else is gonna find him and ring me and say, We've got your dog here, mate. He's a bit wet. Yeah, but he came back.

Speaker 1 20:37

Was he sort of chipped in that by that point?

Settling In Without Losing Your Mind

Speaker 4 20:40

Yeah, yeah, he's he's chipped, and we've had to tell he was chipped when we got him, so we just had to tell them other updated stuff. Yeah, and he's got his tag and everything, so it's just it's just been an adventure, Wallyams. So, what's this space? Yeah, I'm trying not to let it stress me out. I'm just just being like, oh, it is what it is, it's a dog. Back in the 80s, Wallyams. Everyone used to just let the dogs go run around and there'd be white dog poo everywhere, and yeah, you know, people just oh he's Bernie. Yeah, the dogs would just be around, wouldn't they? There'd just be random dogs everywhere. So I'm like, you know what? It'll be alright, Wallyam. There's there's no point stress. There's no point stressing. I'm starting season five. In like, there's no point stressing anymore, Wells. There isn't. Is there? What what's the stress?

Speaker 1 21:27

Yeah. Let's see how stressed we were. Probably very stressed. We're probably less stress actually, I don't know.

Speaker 4 21:33

Maybe we were. But yeah, if we had enough time to do a podcast then, we'll probably have less going on. We'll probably we'll probably just uh yeah. What's our work for?

Speaker 1 21:41

Oh yeah, just do a podcast, shall we?

Speaker 4 21:43

I know I want to go back and listen to the energy and hear if the energy's the same as it was at the start of season five. Yes, this is Mr. Walliams. I'm gonna talk about what we do on this podcast. So, yes, that's my first look. Uh new dog in the house. Watch this space. I am sure there will be more puppy updates as time goes on. And I mean there may just be one update. Yeah, he went back. Well just be we took him home. We took him back to the mount. Someone else has a problem there.

Speaker 1 22:14

Can can you return dogs? How does it work?

Speaker 4 22:16

Oh, you can, yeah. If it's if the dog is not well, there's there was definitely an element of so what we knew about the previous signal was they had a field and the dog was allowed to just the dog was free, he was an outside dog in a field. So there's certainly an element of do you really think this is a suitable dog for us? Yeah, look, he loves you. Okay, okay, we'll take this dog then. So we'll probably just think get rid of him. And they told us, Oh, he's very vocal. He's very vocal. I was like, Yeah, he could have you could have told us what that really meant was like he barks like a motherfucker just all the time. He's very vocal. So you mean he barks a lot? Yeah, okay. Fine. We should have gathered that. But uh if if the dog's stressed out, because there's definitely like some settling in anxiety for the dog, like if he he's definitely showing signs of calming down now and being very happy, and I think we'll be very happy with him. We are very happy with him. But if he if the stress continued, there was definitely a period after a couple of weeks where it's like, I don't want it's not fair on the dog if like he can't settle being inside more than he is outside, because all it's done in Northern Ireland for the last four months is rain as well. So it's like every time we go out, it's raining, and that's okay because we've got him like dog coats and stuff, but going in the back garden to you know be outside. We do have a garden, but it's not there's not much shelter for him, so it's like he can't be outside all the time like he wants to. So we thought if he can't settle, we may have to consider taking him back. But what's his space William? So far it's okay. But uh yeah, the adventures of Major will probably be a feature of season five, I would imagine.

Speaker 1 23:48

Yeah, because we had uh Mika was uh rescued of Chuck and Labrador, but he was the opposite in terms of because we've had you know drugs before and you know their bark, but we've got Mika and he just like has he got a voice in the bark, and then but then once it got settled, then you had the first and people like walking by the house, like right, this is my territory now, and then he barked. But it was weird, like for the first sort of couple weeks, like not a sound, nothing, so quiet.

Speaker 4 24:18

Just while they get settled in. Yeah, but Mika's lovely, isn't he, as well? Like he's got a big boy bark, hasn't he? So he's ten now though, he's he's a big boy.

Speaker 1 24:28

He's ten, but he uh yeah, he bounces like he's two.

Speaker 4 24:32

He's lovely as well with with uh Logan, isn't he?

Speaker 1 24:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Labrador's labor, they're always yeah, they're great with uh great with kids.

Dad Firsts With An Older Kid

Speaker 4 24:41

Tips for dads. Well, I forgot that we had a section called Tips for Dads. I haven't prep prepared anything for Tips for Dads, so we're gonna do something slightly different called Dad Firsts. Dad Firsts.

Speaker 1 24:52

Oh, what's the ringtone? What's the ringtone? What's the jingle for that?

Speaker 3 24:56

What's the dad's first dad first?

Speaker 4 25:03

Something like that. We'll we'll we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out as it goes. Uh so this is just a few things that probably not worth a a whole five to ten minute talk on, but firsts that have happened as a dad that I've never done before. So most of these involve taking the kid to do something or something I've had to do with the kid. First one being go-karting. So we're at the age now where I can take the kid go-karting, which is pretty fun. Wow. So we had our first oh he loved it. He was it was it was so weird. I was terrified for him. I was like, okay, is he gonna? He's got a friend who's massively into Formula One. So my boy is 10 years old at the minute, and we're like, okay, cool. His dad was like, should we take the kid's go-kart? And I was like, Sam, let's do it, let's go for it. So we went to Eddie Irvine's in Bangor.

Speaker 1 25:57

Eddie Irvine, he was my favourite F1 driver back in the day.

Speaker 4 26:00

Oh, was he? Um well I don't think it's actually his. I'm not sure. Well, maybe it is, maybe he owns it, who knows?

Speaker 26:07

Uh for adrenaline-packed go-karting and more, Eddie Irvine Sports in Bangor, Northern Ireland, is your ultimate destination, just 15-25 minutes from Belfast. Owned by Formula One legend Eddie Irvine, offers thrilling competitive experiences, ideal for team building, stag parties, and hen parties in Northern Ireland.

Speaker 4 26:30

But it's this it's this kind of go-kart in an other sporting p warehouse effectively in Banger. We took the kids there. And uh, yeah, I was like, brain likes Mario Kart, but I thought this the noise of this and stuff might be a bit overwhelming. But he he took to it and he was brave and he did it, and yeah, it was fantastic. So don't that was a good one because there was like that was the first time I've taken him somewhere. I was like, okay, this could be dangerous, he might not like it. How do we cope with it? His mates there, yeah, and the pair of them they did fantastically. So yeah, dad first, go and go car in. And then because Brain is also getting too older now, he wants to try do things, he has started to have skateboard lessons. So I had to take him to the local skate park um for his first skateboarding lesson. And that was kids differentiate. It was, yeah. So got to I mean, obviously, I mean I'm down with the kids, wows. You know, I'm a cool, cool hip happening, trendy dude. Yeah, with your rips. I mean, if I if I'm if I'm not somewhere, I'm probably down at the skate park, you know. Yeah, grinding, doing some board stuff, grinding, yeah.

Speaker 1 27:38

Probably a different kind of grinding, just you know you've got that skateboard app grinder, haven't you?

Speaker 4 27:42

I've got it's the I I I I go on grinder all the time. And yeah, so we had to take brain skateboarding, which was another one of these ones where I'm like, okay, his balance isn't great. How's he gonna take to it? But he did really well again. He did really well, and I learned a lot as well because I didn't I didn't hang around because it was one of those things, Dad, don't stand there, dad. Go away, dad. Come back an hour and pick me up, dad. I was like, cool. So I left him there, and then I came back and the dude was telling us what they're done, he was telling me about the boards, and I was like, Oh, this is actually really interesting, and he loved it, so that was pretty good. And then last but not least, dad first, we went to a place called Prison Island. Prison Island, which is like an Alcatraz, I think. It's like an Alcatraz, so there's like there's 60 rooms, and there's it's like the Crystal Mace, so there's all different experiences in the rooms. So you go into the room, you've got like three minutes to solve the room, and there's like physical ones, there's mental ones, there's strategy ones, and that sounds fun. It was brilliant. Like we took Brain and his cousin, and we had a crack in time. Sounds great. That's another that's another thing in Belfast. So like they do stagdos and hen dudes and stuff, but we we were again, we're like, Oh, is this gonna be too old for the kids? But the kids loved it, absolutely loved it, got really involved, and then the because there's like football ones and stuff where you have to you know score as many goals as you can in the time, and yeah, prison island in Belfast is actually a really good afternoon with the kids. So, yeah, go-karting, skateboard lessons, prison island. There's been a lot of fun stuff happening with the boy. And if you're in Northern Ireland at any time, yeah, go to Prison Island, it's great. So go to prison. Yeah, dadf, go to prison, dad first, dad, dad, dad, dad first, dadfirsts. Any first things you've been doing with the boy or the wife recently that you would like to as a dad?

Speaker 1 29:36

Logan said to go to doctors. And he's really sort of taken on the we got him like a little doctor sort of playset type thing. So you've got the what's it called, the stereoscope. Stethoscope, and you've got the the blood pressure sort of thing, and the the little you know, knocking the knee, what's that called? Knocking the knee reflex sort of tester, and then pretend cream and stuff, and the thing that you look in your ears and your eyes and stuff. And I think my my tip was you know well recommended to get get one of those because when he actually goes to the doctors and stuff, he's so good, he's so good at the doctor, and he kind of he he knows what's going on, like how they go they they check this and look at your eyes, look at your ears, check your temperature, check your blood pressure, and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, that was my my tip was basically yeah, get them involved with the the play side of doctors, because when they do go to the doctors, I found it's a lot a lot easier.

Speaker 4 30:31

Oh, that's a that's a really good idea, actually.

Speaker 1 30:34

Yeah, and if if anything, they let doctors do what they would never let parents do.

Speaker 4 30:40

Do you remember? Did you ever used to go when you used to go to the doctors? You'd always ask for like want one of the anti syringes so you could fire water. No. No? Oh, like the syringe panisters, because they used to make the best water. You had the doctors, we used to take the syringes. Well, you used to ask them for like, can I have one of the syringe panisters?

The 6-7 Meme And Gen Alpha

Speaker 1 30:58

I was a country boy, you know. Well, that's true. Pick up syringes and start. I had a first look at 6-7, which oh my days. Which I I never heard of a few months ago, even though it's been around for a while. Um but uh yeah, 6-7, that weird thing, which I still don't understand, but you as a uh father. It's a craze, isn't it? Maybe you you do, but yeah, my niece who's uh nine, yeah, we went we were out somewhere, can't remember where now. Lappa family, I think. And something came up and she said six seven, and then she did the six seven the the motion that most people shouldn't know about by now. And it was just like oh what I I knew about it like very recently, but that was my first like look at it, and it was like what I didn't ask her because you know I wanted to be a cool, cool uncle, but I joined in with the way succeed. And I was yeah, just I'm just curious as to what your thoughts uh what it what it means. What is it? Well, firstly, I've I've had a Google, but I don't know if that actually tells you what it is. But okay. What would what what is it? You probably know more than I do.

Speaker 4 32:17

Well, first he asked me for what my thoughts, and my first thought is watching you do six seven, there is no way you are classed as the call on call. Like I don't know if you can do six seven out of sync in time, but you somehow managed it. Six seven it also it looks like you're shining a bowling ball when you're doing it faster. Six seven is oh dear. See, we should do this as a video podcast because that looks ridiculous. It's very funny though. Six seven it's it's like he's I don't even yeah, imagine him imagine him vigorously drawing a bowling ball really fast whilst he wobbles a little bit. Polishing a bowling ball, yeah. Six seven. So yeah, I I don't know what it means. I know all the so uh again, because my child is a little bit older than a boy, all the kids that he hangs around with, they decided it would be funnier or got more of a reaction if they did 6'9. So I was like, I was like, okay. And there was of course one or two kids who thought they knew what that was, and I was like, right, I because obviously I came down, I was like, what the heck? Where have you heard that? What's going on? But I have no idea what it is. But it it's more, I think it's just about not missing out, isn't it? It's like everyone's doing it, I'm gonna do it because everyone else is.

Speaker 1 33:49

It's like uh I must have had some sort of because obviously it's in the the media culture, but just before my niece did it, I think I saw it, it was on a niece thing, and sort of our uh our prime minister was going into schools, but then he he sort of did it, and then he was like getting all the kids to go six seven, six seven, and then like one of the teachers like yeah, no, I think the head teacher was like, Yeah, we we try not to uh we try not to encourage that. Like told told told off the prime minister. Oh dear. We had a I mean a few Google points. So the the 6-7 trend is a 2025 Gen Alpha meme, often described as nonsensical brain rot slang nonsense.

Speaker 4 34:30

That's what it is.

Speaker 1 34:33

6x7 serves as a hidden social language for young people. I mean, it's so hidden I don't know what's what's going on. Do you say Gen Alpha? Gen Alpha, yeah. My goodness, Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha. I don't know what what are we? Are we are we millennials?

Speaker 4 34:52

We are millennials, yeah.

Speaker 1 34:54

I think of course we are. Hang on. I do also apparently the song originates from the 24-25 song Duke Doot 67 by Philadelphia rapper Skrilla. Skrilla? Skrilla? Skrilla. No, Skrilla. Skrilla, okay, very no. Otherwise, basketball connection, the phrase went viral on TikTok and Instagram wheels when using video edits of NBA star Lamello Ball, who is six feet seven inches tall, the six seven kid, and a viral video of a boy shouting 6'7 at a basketball game.

unknown 35:31

Okay.

Speaker 1 35:34

I think so. I don't know if anyone knows actually where it came from. And also cultural significance, the dictionary.com named 67, it's 2025 word of the year. Okay. It's well it's and it's a number. And it's a number, yeah. If you do 67, but it's 67. But uh and it also says the trend has become a nuisance in schools with teachers reporting, kids shouting it constantly, sometimes forcing bands. We would never have done that while it was, would we? We were good boys at school. No. And because the meme has been doctored by adults and mainstream media, it is considered on its way out or uncooled by many young users.

Speaker 4 36:20

Yeah, you could. I mean, when you when you brought it on, I was like, oh wow, that was a while ago. No. Six, seven, bowling ball rubbing. The uh the generations, Williams, so generation X, so you've got baby boomers. People always know about the baby boomers from 1946 to 1964, then it was Gen X up to 1980, then millennials, so we're millennials, 1981 to 1996, then generation. No, no, baby boomers, 64, then 64, 65 to 80 was Gen X, then millennials, then Gen Z, the 97 to 2012, Generation Alpha, so anyone born between 2013 and 2024, and then generation beta or yeah, is emerging, so 2025 onwards. So yeah, our kids are generation alpha. My goodness. And we're millennials.

Speaker 1 37:16

Beta, wouldn't you? Because beta's like always known as that the test model.

Speaker 4 37:21

Yeah, I don't know. I've met a lot of alphas and they're arseholes, so I don't know. There's some there's power in the beta, Wally. I'm just power in the beta.

Speaker 1 37:30

But um six seven. Six seven as as as as always, this this series continues the trend of hot off the press, first look news. So our listeners can take a first look at something that's uh trending. Six months old.

Speaker 4 37:49

But I mean, to be fair, to be fair, we have been away for a long time, haven't we? I mean, we've age like a fine wine. We've uh we've we've got we've been away, but we've been. Did we do any planning for this podcast? We didn't even know it was just no, not at all, not at all. I was gonna try and season, actually, but no, it's just been so long between other ones, so yeah. But we're here now, Waddam, so that's amazing.

Year Vibes, Old Games, And Goodbye

Speaker 1 38:17

We're here now, and we'll be back for an episode two. Maybe it might be six months' time. Another actually, another first look trend, again, that's pretty a bit outdated now. Um, apparently everyone was going on about 2016 for some reason. Oh, yes. So it was like the best year ever. Yeah.

Speaker 4 38:37

Oh, we wish it was just like 2016 again. We need 2016 vibes, yeah. Yeah, yeah. What vibes would you want, Walsh? What year vibes would you want? What year vibes would I want? If you're like, oh, I just want to go back to then. It was so much better back then.

Speaker 1 38:52

Oh, probably something like 1995 or something. Oh, good time, yeah. Michael Jackson was in the charts. 95, yeah, more innocent times, aren't they?

Speaker 4 39:02

More innocent times, yeah. More innocent times. Playing Street Fighter 2 on a Super Nintendo.

Speaker 1 39:08

Yeah.

Speaker 4 39:09

Good times.

Speaker 1 39:10

Which everyone's doing now, anyway. Everyone's bringing back their Red Show consoles and playing old games. That's true. Yeah, because it was simple.

Speaker 4 39:16

You now you try and play games, right? So I've had a over the winter, I have had some good gaming sessions. But every time you put a game in, you have to download like 72 gigabytes worth of updates. You know, I just want to play the bloody game. And three and a half inch floppy's Valiums. Wow, yeah. Which could just which could just come out. No comment. No comment, yeah. Six event. Uh six seven. Yeah. Six seven. I was gonna start ranting, so you look like you were doing like chopping wood really quick.

Speaker 1 39:58

Yeah, you idiot. Anyways, yeah, I'm gonna uh yeah. We'll come back uh for episode two soon-ish, maybe who knows?

Speaker 4 40:07

We're probably talking about more recent things that have happened, like Charles and Dana's wedding. Yes. Other other current trending things.

Speaker 1 40:20

Uh but anyways, this week I'm um I'm gonna try to. That's great. The the buttons are for that, great.

Speaker 3 40:31

Yeah, we can talk about what other trending things.

Speaker 1 40:35

But anyways, I'm gonna try to finish a uh a book I'm reading about uh and gravity at the moment. It's a picture.

Speaker 4 41:03

No, I don't think many people really want to listen to Peeble Eat and Snacks unless you're some kind of OnlyFans weirdo. Oh, I like his toes and I love the way he crunches a pretzel. Oh