The Best of Things According to BDBD - Part Two

We journey through the realms of pop culture, discussing everything from the best takeout options to the intricacies of cinematic universes. With stories spanning across films, TV shows, and even childhood memories, we offer listeners an engaging exploration of connections formed through shared experiences in life and entertainment.

• Vibrant discussion on top takeaway options 
• Details the allure of the 'Jersey' Cinematic Universe 
• Reflects on comfort TV shows and personal connections 
• Explores cultural phenomena like Star Wars and Taylor Swift 
• Appreciates simplicity in everyday moments 
• Light-hearted fun about modern gadgets and quirky pet names 
• Engaging the audience with shared laughter and relatable stories

Transcript

Father-Daughter Podcast

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio.

Speaker 2 0:24

Hello and welcome to part two of the best of the best.

Speaker 1 0:29

Indeed, I was just looking at my phone. Sorry, hannah. There was one thing actually just before we delve into this episode. Obviously we won't do a life update because we've just done a massive life update in the previous episode.

Speaker 2 0:43

Yes.

Speaker 1 0:44

And that we recorded 10 minutes ago. Yes, so, but there was one thing when we stopped recording, you said to me that you forgot to mention, didn't?

Speaker 2 0:51

you, yes, yeah. So if you hadn't already noticed, from our last episode we actually now have an outro. So I don't have to come up on the fly saying about all of our socials and rubbish, because we have something that does it already.

Speaker 1 1:10

Do you know what previous me previously recorded me? Yeah, yeah, so we actually thank you past me so we have a yeah, a pre-recorded outro, because when you used to do the outros now, uh, actually pierre did say this to me when I spoke to him on the phone. He said to me he said I've taken constructive apparently.

Speaker 1 1:22

Apparently I've taken a little bit of the magic away from him oh because I told him something about the podcast oh the fact that I do edit it right and that, uh, because he thought he's like my god, you just flow so well. I said, well, I take out a lot of the ums and the rs, yeah, and a lot of those. He went, I've never noticed it. He said because it just flows, really. I said but you should listen to hannah's when she does the outro. The outros are generally about a minute long because it's hannah just going check all of our um, yeah, socials, and uh, we're on tiktok and uh, we're not on tiktok, we're on the.

Speaker 2 1:59

So I have do you know why I do that why do? You, I I mean you know this fun fact about our listeners might not is that I only fairly recently discovered by recent, I mean in the last, maybe like five or six years, so not that recent actually. Uh, I was watching scrubs one day with jd who talks in his mind. That's kind of like. The whole thing is that he like looks up to the left and he starts talking in his in his head.

Speaker 1 2:23

But you can hear in monologue you could hear his thoughts right yeah, the inner monologue and I was like ha, this is really funny.

Speaker 2 2:29

It's, you know. To me that's not like normal people, though, but it's fun to hear what he thinks about in his head, and everyone told me that I was crazy that I don't have an internal monologue.

Speaker 1 2:40

I don't have an internal monologue. No, I don't have an internal monologue.

Speaker 2 2:43

No, but apparently it's a thing, yeah. Yeah, I don't JD's a thing. Yeah, and I didn't know that you experienced this as well. But yeah, I don't have an internal monologue and I just see things as like almost like a film. Yeah, it's all scene by scene in my head. Yeah, it is mine. When I'm recalling information, I'm recalling how it looked and how it where I was at the time of hearing that information and why I can recall things randomly.

Speaker 2 3:09

And, yeah, sometimes my memory like deceives me a little bit, because I misremember a lot of things and it's because my mind works in that way, I think, rather than mine works very visually, like the word laugh in the previous one.

Speaker 1 3:18

That's a visual.

Speaker 2 3:19

Thing but yeah, this apparently people do have an internal monologue and that justgles my brain, so you hear yourself talking in your head. I don't know how that works, because a lot of people say to me well, how do you read? But when I read, I'm picturing the scene that is being described.

Speaker 1 3:34

Me too.

Speaker 2 3:35

Even if it's just talking. I'm picturing two people talking, but now that I think about it, I don't hear them actually saying the words.

Speaker 1 3:42

No, bizarre, isn't it? That is quite bizarre. Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:45

Yeah, I can see why people think that's bizarre now.

Speaker 1 3:47

So I wonder if that's a genetic thing or if it's a taught behavior.

Speaker 2 3:50

We're not genetically, I know, but I'm just saying, I'm just saying because you've got the whole thing it's a genetic thing.

Speaker 1 3:56

We're not technically share the same, but it's the whole thing about coriander, isn't it? Yes, some people like coriander and think it tastes like soap.

Speaker 2 4:08

I like coriander, but I do think it tastes like soap, but I don't mind that taste.

Speaker 1 4:12

Do you like to have imperial leather on toast?

Speaker 2 4:14

then yeah, yeah okay. That was such a weird, I know. I thought that is such a ghetto reference.

Speaker 1 4:21

Yeah, ghetto, Ghetto. Yeah, what imperial leather.

Speaker 2 4:27

That's such a ghetto reference. Yeah, ghetto, ghetto. Yeah, imperial leather like that's just so obscure. Imperial leather is not even like a thing anymore is it, I know, but you even get imperial ever like shower gel anymore, I don't know, but you used to get soap, imperial leather, so, oh yeah, the actual bar.

Speaker 1 4:36

They used to have a little sticker on the top which used to never like deteriorate yeah, and the dove, little bird symbol yeah, yeah, pearsars, pears soap was a thing as well. Do people actually still?

Speaker 2 4:48

use soap. What bar soap? Yeah, I think people use bar soap now more than they used to back when I was maybe younger, just because it's more economical, because there's no packaging.

Speaker 1 5:00

It's like baths. You know baths, you don't bath, I don't bath. I haven't had a bath in years. I bath I had this discussion the other day at work.

Speaker 2 5:08

Yeah, I'm a shower gal too, but I do enjoy a bath, particularly like pain.

Speaker 1 5:13

Yeah, to me baths. It just seems like you're sitting in your own filth.

Speaker 2 5:16

And I totally get that Now that I have my gym membership place the heating and the water.

Speaker 1 5:27

so yeah, your mum doesn't. Your mum doesn't really bath either we generally, what we use the bathroom for is to clean the wet suits yeah, ironically yeah, yeah, bizarrely enough, um, anyway, yeah best of the best.

Speaker 2 5:39

Best of the best. Yeah, so we? Uh, what's your favorite soap? We finished the last episode on our best takeout option. Uh, so we're gonna start right back in with the best cinematic universe.

Speaker 1 5:52

Go on, father okay, so mine is a little bit obscure yes so I there's.

Speaker 1 5:58

It's technically a universe, but it kind of isn't. At the same time it's a series of films, but they're all kind of connected in some way and it's, uh, kevin smith and it's called the jersey um cinematic universe because kevin smith's from new jersey and he, uh, he did a film when he was a film student called clarks. Now it's black and white because he got his friends to star in it because, you know, they basically had no money and he filmed the whole film in this one shop and it's about one person who goes to work. He's not even supposed to be at work that day. He gets called in and it's just the day in the life of this guy at a shop. Right, it's very dialogue based, it's very dialogue heavy and it was the first time Jay and Silent Bob got got introduced.

Speaker 1 6:44

Okay, now, when clarks came out, it was an, it was a cult hit and it is an amazing film. Then he did, he did a film called mall rats. Now when you watch mall rats and you listen to the dialogue in that and you listen to the dialogue in clarks, a lot of the stories cross over and they mention people in those ones. Then he did a film called chasing amy, which the same thing happened, and they connected the three films together. Then dogma came out and you know, and I won't go on to another anti-religion rant, I really won't, but dogma is yeah, dogma is quite an anti quite an anti, not an anti-religion film.

Speaker 1 7:25

It just pokes fun at religion, right. But again, jay and Silent Bob were in it. Jay and Silent Bob were in all of the films. Gotcha, kevin Smith plays Silent Bob. He is Silent Bob.

Speaker 2 7:35

All of the films are connected and is he silent, like he has no dialogue.

Speaker 1 7:39

He says nothing right. Silent bob is silent. He says, he says one word in one film and everyone looks at him. It's like like silent bob speaks. But then he did jane, silent bob strike back. Clark's two is out now as well, but they're all connected. They're all connected. Do you know what? Do you know what the bet? The funniest story and this is why I've got so much respect for kevin smith right as a director, as an actor, he is just and just as a person. Do you know what his daughter's name is?

Speaker 2 8:08

Is it Hannah?

Speaker 1 8:09

No, it's Harley Quinn. Oh, it's Harley Quinn, he's called. His daughter is Harley, yeah, and he's a proper comic book nerd and he's just a really, really lovely guy. Now, when Dogma came out, because of America and they don't like things that go, that poke fun at religion- Right.

Speaker 1 8:26

Certain areas of America. Sure, and outside one of the cinemas there was a protest that Dogma was being shown. Kevin Smith turned up to the protest to protest his own film as a laugh, and he was even interviewed by the news channel saying about dogma and but and saying, oh yeah, it's just, it's just brilliant. I'm gonna send him more than that. Look up kevin smith dogma interview. Okay, and it's just absolutely brilliant. So it's just really cleverly written. Okay, it's that whole universe is. I mean, when you hear the stories and they do cross over. The stories are told from their different characters' perspectives. So you know what they're talking about, but it's a slightly different thing.

Speaker 2 9:11

Is there an order to watch these in?

Speaker 1 9:12

Yes, Clark's Mallrats Chasing Amy, dogma Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Speaker 2 9:21

Right, okay.

Speaker 1 9:21

Yeah, definitely watch.

Speaker 1 9:22

And then Clark's too, so in the order that you've written them in, in the order that you've written them in in the order. In the order that I've written them in. Yeah, in the order I've written them, but they're just. I'm gonna give you one example quickly. It's like they talk there's, there's one story about a funeral where it all goes wrong, and that story is told in three films, but from the perspective, from the perspectives of different people, and they're totally different stories. But you can see where why it came out like that it's it's just genius writing, absolute genius writing nice.

Speaker 2 9:51

So what's yours, hannah? Yeah, I was a bit cheeky with mine okay because mine is a cinematic but also a gaming universe as well I I'll say this is a cinematic universe, okay, cool. Yeah, I We'll accept it, then I'll allow it. So, because of the versatility of the universe, I picked Resident Evil.

Speaker 1 10:13

Okay, milojevovic.

Speaker 2 10:15

Yeah, it's gaming. Milojevovic, need I say more?

Speaker 1 10:20

No.

Speaker 2 10:21

Crushing so hard on Miloševović. And then also I just find that Resident Evil. There is so much lore.

Speaker 1 10:30

Yeah, with the Umbrella Corporation.

Speaker 2 10:31

With the Umbrella Corporation. All the games, all the animations that they do Like. Damnation was amazing, the animations are amazing.

Speaker 1 10:39

What a cracking animation, that was yeah.

Speaker 2 10:41

And I just I know it's got a little bit silly towards the end, particularly with Miljewovic's like.

Speaker 1 10:45

Alice story. The last film was diabolical. The last film was diabolical.

Speaker 2 10:50

But there are definitely worse zombie movies.

Speaker 1 10:53

There are.

Speaker 2 10:53

So I'm going to pick Resident Evil. Okay, I mean, when people think of cinematic universe, dc, right. But so I went. I went a bit which stands for detective comics did you know DC? We discovered that last time because I said Detroit comics yeah, I went Dark Castle.

Speaker 1 11:09

I thought it was, but it wasn't.

Speaker 2 11:10

It was you said Dark Comics. Dark Comics, yeah, but it's Detective Comics DC stands for so yeah, resident Evil is my, I think, is the best cinematic.

Speaker 1 11:20

Yeah, I mean just because it stretches between so many mediums game, cinema and animation yeah, I mean the latest um resident evil film that was out which has got a thingy from skins fe from skins in it. It got slated but I actually quite liked it. I think I've seen it, you know, have you not? No?

Speaker 2 11:39

it's actually on a streaming service uh, yeah, I think so yeah I'll give it a shot.

Speaker 1 11:43

it's actually quite close to the game. Some of the images in the game, but again, I like the characters.

Speaker 2 11:48

Yeah, see, like you know, Leon Kennedy, ada Wong yeah. The Redfields, yeah yeah, ada Wong Ada.

Speaker 1 11:54

Wong, she's my favourite character. Ada Wong yeah, theoretically in it.

Speaker 2 12:02

Really she's kind of more. She was definitely made more for cinema.

Speaker 1 12:05

Jill Valentine, jill Valentine, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 12:07

Yeah, what a character. Yeah, she went blonde and that's just weird. She looks weird blonde. I'm just going to put it out there.

Speaker 1 12:12

She always reminds me of Trinity at the Matrix.

Speaker 2 12:15

Yeah, yeah, she's got that kind of look to her, that look and kind, I guess, as well.

Speaker 1 12:20

Yeah, oh. But actually, while we're talking about Miller Jovovich, you disappointed me the other day. Hannah Fifth Element, you proper disappointed me, I'm going to disappoint you further.

TV and Film Favorites

Speaker 2 12:30

Go on. Do you know that I've never seen that movie from start to finish? What I've only ever seen? Clips of it, multipass. Yeah, I've only ever seen clips.

Speaker 1 12:45

You.

Speaker 2 12:45

You've never seen the full film of the fifth element no, it's, I've failed as a father. I've just never sat down to watch it. It's the same thing with Lion King. I've never seen that all the way through either. I get the premise of the story. I've never seen it all the way through.

Speaker 1 12:56

I've never seen Frozen you've never seen Frozen never seen Frozen.

Speaker 2 13:00

I have how have you avoided that?

Speaker 1 13:02

I have avoided the Frozen train. I have not. How have you avoided that?

Speaker 2 13:03

I have avoided the Frozen train. I'm so proud of myself. You have a young niece and you've avoided that.

Speaker 1 13:06

I know I avoided it, Mad, so yeah, so yours, mine is Kevin Smith and yours is Resident Evil. So from film and cinematic universes sitting across from Elsa TV universe, TV universe, this is going to be obvious. This was obvious. I mean.

Speaker 2 13:24

This was obvious for both of us I obviously chose Gilmore Girls. That small town. Autumn feel all year round, get in my basket. Yeah, I just can't say any more than that. It's just so. Gilmore Girls is like a hug.

Speaker 1 13:39

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:40

It's there for you at the end of the day.

Speaker 1 13:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:42

When you need, need it when you're feeling down. Pop on gilmore girls. It's, it's, yeah I must admit it's a comfort blanket when, when.

Speaker 1 13:50

I don't know if I've said this before, but when you and your mom started watching gilmore girls, I was like, oh really, what is this? It sucks you in it's so dialogue heavy.

Speaker 2 13:59

You love dialogue heavy things as well, like, I think, um. So the the creator of gilmore girls um is amy, a shaman paladino, I believe her name is um she said like a normal script for a show is, like you would say, like I don't know, maybe 40 to 60 pages max. Every gilmore girls episode, 80 pages worth scripts yeah for the episode. So that just shows you how much dialogue that they actually had I mean just her sarcasm her sarcasm is very british sarcasm it is.

Speaker 2 14:29

It's very british humor, yeah, yeah and no, and amy isn't british either, so no just taking that style, very, very cool, very very cool so you obviously said supernatural, yeah, yeah supernatural, uh, and I agree with you. I think it's one of one of the best tv universes, just because of how sorry you can talk about your own. But for me personally, yeah, supernatural is such a good one because they play into the fact that they've got a fan base yeah, it's, it's just genius, it's absolutely genius it breaks the fourth wall without breaking the fourth wall yeah it like hits a hammer on the fourth wall but doesn't go through.

Speaker 1 15:04

Yeah, it's just like yeah, and again I think it's the characters characters make it because you know Sam and Dean obviously is Sam and Dean.

Speaker 2 15:13

Jared, no, sorry, jensen Ackles. What an incredible actor he is.

Speaker 1 15:17

By the way, do you know he might be the new Batman?

Speaker 2 15:19

I hope so, god. I'd watch that. I don't even like Batman, but I'd watch it for Jensen Ackles, for more than one reason, of course.

Speaker 1 15:25

Yeah, you've seen the Boys, haven't you? I have seen the Boys. He was good in that too, soldier Boy.

Speaker 2 15:29

The only thing I didn't like him in was my Bloody Valentine, but I think it's just because I didn't like the film.

Speaker 1 15:37

Yeah, it was a bit cheesy.

Speaker 2 15:38

It was Exactly. Yeah, Papa Slash.

Speaker 1 15:40

But you know the characters, like Castiel.

Speaker 2 15:43

Yeah.

Speaker 1 15:44

Cas and Rowena the pizza man.

Speaker 2 15:47

Yeah, the pizza man, the obsession with pie, yeah, the obsession with the Chevrolet and not going anything modern in it. I remember when, like Jared's character, so Sam put like an iPod in there. And he was like what is this?

Speaker 1 16:02

Yeah, it's just brilliant, it's so funny, but my favorite character is Crowley.

Speaker 2 16:08

Crowley, yes. Crowley is so good, I quite like Chuck myself.

Speaker 1 16:13

Yeah, but when it turned out that Chuck was the prophet, yeah, but Spoiler yeah, I'm not going to say, in case anyone does start watching it.

Speaker 2 16:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 16:21

But I did, because, did you know, chuck and Rowena were married.

Speaker 2 16:25

I told you that.

Speaker 1 16:26

I told you that, and also did you know that Garth the guy who plays Garth and the guy who played Benny have recently got married, as well, yeah, yeah, they're a couple. Yeah, yeah, very cool.

Speaker 2 16:46

And Jared and Jensen both met their wives on supernatural.

Speaker 1 16:47

So it must have been a very non-toxic.

Speaker 2 16:48

It's a sea um like a working place, I imagine oh it, well, I mean you can, you can tell they're all having fun, they're all friends yeah, they're all having loads of fun, they're all having, they're all friends.

Speaker 1 16:53

I mean even the episode where they go to the other universe and they find themselves as actors acting in supernatural yeah, see, that's just.

Speaker 2 17:02

That is so breaking that fourth wall without breaking the fourth one.

Speaker 1 17:05

When he says what's a jared paddawacki? Padaduki, what's that name?

Speaker 2 17:11

I just love it when they reference like they're going through, they're doing like a warner brothers studio tour or something, and they go oh, and this is the set of gilmore girls if you're lucky you'll see one of the actors and then it just like looks to j and he's like looks down at his shoes. It's just like the most oh, so, good that's the funny thing because he plays Dean in. Gilmore Girls. Yeah, dean, in Gilmore Girls. But then Sam in yeah and his brother's Dean. Yeah, brilliant, the OG Dean.

Speaker 1 17:36

Yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 2 17:38

Never was supposed to be Jared Padalecki Dean in Gilmore Girls, was it not? There was a Canadian boy that had filled in the part. A Canadian boy, a Canadian boy.

Speaker 1 17:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:46

And Melissa McCarthy was not going to be Suki, it was going to be the person that plays the harp. Oh, really, was going to be Suki. And there's a pilot episode of her playing Suki's character.

Speaker 1 17:57

Really.

Speaker 2 17:58

Yeah, but I'm very glad they went with Melissa.

Speaker 1 17:59

McCarthy, she's brilliant, isn't it? She's brilliant, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 18:02

I actually I know there's a lot of I don't know hate for Melissa McCarthy. For some reason I really like her. I'm just going to say she will always be my Suki.

Speaker 1 18:11

Yeah, I mean Gilmore Girls. She's brilliant. I must admit, a lot of her comedy films I don't like because I don she was quite good in.

Speaker 2 18:20

Bridesmaids though.

Speaker 1 18:21

Yeah.

Speaker 2 18:21

Yeah, she played a good. I'm not confident of what end that came out of. That was very funny, anyway, moving on Best worldwide phenomenon. Phenomenon. Yeah, do you want to go first?

Speaker 1 18:32

Star Wars.

Speaker 2 18:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:33

Star Wars. I grew up with Star Wars, you know from the 70s all the way up till now.

Speaker 2 18:39

And you're right. It is loved globally Like people. Comic Con.

Speaker 1 18:43

Fanbase is a bit toxic though. Oh yeah, well, a lot of fanbase is now yeah, because they're bloody idiots.

Speaker 2 18:48

I mean like, Just enjoy it. Just enjoy it for what it is. I think there's so much content for Star Wars. And then you've got like Comic Con as well and Star Wars kind of brought, I think, the nerd to the forefront. It's kind of brought I think the nerd to the front, the forefront, yeah, like it's kind of almost cool to, you know, be interested in that, and I just think like star wars kind of opened up the world it was magical in that sense.

Speaker 2 19:12

Yeah, you know the special effects back in the very first episode it was magical, I mean the use of mirrors and the use of uh yeah, just incredible effort.

Speaker 1 19:22

One of the reasons why I love star Wars so much as well is because my mum and dad got divorced when I was very young, very young.

Speaker 2 19:31

Same bro.

Speaker 1 19:32

Yeah, and I was. My dad used to come pick me up at the weekends. We used to go around his and do stuff and we used to watch Star Wars.

Speaker 2 19:40

Yeah, so it's sentimental to you as well.

Speaker 1 19:46

Yeah, that's one of the first kind of films that I really remember is sitting there with dad watching Star Wars at the age of like four yeah, cute, you know, and yeah, so he's got that, and then, of course, as kind of as it's got on, yeah, I do agree with some of it that some of it is quite childlike and, yes, george Lucas may not have thought the story all the way throughout and he's had. There are lots of plot holes, but it happens. Yeah, you can't get away from that.

Speaker 2 20:06

So does Marvel, but no one talks about that Exactly.

Speaker 1 20:09

But just enjoy the films for what they are. Yeah, Just because you know what Star Wars actually is. A it's actually about the Vietnam war, Star Wars, oh it's.

Speaker 2 20:18

It's George Lucas wrote it Like a play on. Yeah, George Lucas wrote it In a galaxy far, far away With the Vietnam War in his mind. Wow, isn't that? Yeah, it was a muse.

Speaker 1 20:29

Yeah, yeah, it wasn't based off of. It's not based off of it, but it was yeah, so, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 20:34

I went with Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 20:37

Yeah, why?

Speaker 2 20:38

Right, explain this. I am not a swifty, but I have nothing against someone making their fortune or their billions. Whatever she is with what she does, she's music.

Speaker 2 20:52

For one, I love music as, as the listeners know, as you know, I love music and I think she does it in a way that she is just a global, she's made herself a global icon and you've and you've got people that really love her music. And I, you know I I'm not a massive fan, it's just not my thing, not not because of any reason, but it's just not what I listen to. But I do like the odd song of hers and I think you know she has these tours and and she seems very kind to her staff, like you never hear anything bad, like uh, like one of her security guards left uh for for whatever reason, and she you know she's done a lot of things to help him out and I can't remember exactly, it was like a personal reason.

Speaker 2 21:33

She helped him out with that and everyone on tour apparently has a really good time. You know, and she, she is a perfectly choreographed, choreographed artist she goes on stage, she actually gives a show, and I just think that, and her fan base with, like, sharing the bracelets and and all that side of things as well, like it's, she has built a community and I just think, and she's she, I mean she's, she's top artist on spotify, like yeah there's, there's a reason she is and she is, and I just think it's one of the best worldwide phenomenal ones, because who was it hurting?

Speaker 2 22:09

Is what I want to say. Apparently, she has quite a bad carbon footprint. A bit of a negative. I understand that and that is a problem, but with someone that's so high profile as her, I understand why she's taking a private jet and not taking economy class at a ryanair flight yeah, you know she can't do that she hasn't got the luxury of doing that.

Speaker 2 22:27

You know, I don't know, I'm not, I'm not defending her, I'm just saying that, like I don't really see the hate. Yeah, I don't see a reason for the hate and I think she does a good job of what she does. Okay, even if it's not my cup of tea.

Speaker 1 22:38

Yeah, yeah, so I'm not, I'm not a fan of her music. I'll be honest, I don't really know that much about her. I know what I see in the news or what I see, yeah.

Speaker 2 22:48

But her songs I don't really.

Speaker 1 22:51

Oh yeah, I don't believe she's a good writer. I believe none.

Speaker 2 22:54

None, none. She's a good writer. I think she's a really good writer, it's just not my cup of tea.

Speaker 1 22:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:07

That is is yeah, okay, moving on, uh, best low budget shopping app you put, I put timu timu. Why timu timu is better than wish. It's better than sheen, in my opinion.

Speaker 2 23:10

Uh, timu is very good for crafty things okay I buy stickers and other craft things that I need at the time. Yeah, I fast shipping. I can't. You know the people say about the descriptions of the items and I've been caught out a couple of times by not reading the description properly. But I think, all in all, as a budget app, I think it's the best one. Yeah, best of the bad bunch.

Speaker 1 23:35

Best of the bad. Yeah, I don't really like them if.

Speaker 2 23:37

I'm honest, I know you don't.

Speaker 1 23:38

I'm not really a fan Fast fashion. Yeah and all of that. I'm not really a fan of that. But if I had to choose one, it would be Vinted. Yeah, the only reason being is because that's probably the one I know most about Mm-hmm, and your mum is on it quite a lot. She's actually sending some of my stuff on Vinted as well.

Speaker 2 23:56

These Doc Martens Vinted.

Speaker 1 23:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 24:06

My other pair of Doc Martens also Vinted. Martins also vented. Um, I don't, yeah, all of my clothes are pretty much, yeah, someone else's prior to mine also. I like the idea of that.

Speaker 1 24:10

Yeah, you know I do not. You're done with it, or?

Speaker 2 24:11

yeah, I recently bought a brand new pair of walking boots, yeah, and they cost me probably like 20 of the actual yeah price and they're brand new with tags.

Speaker 1 24:22

Exactly Incredible.

Speaker 2 24:23

Yeah, very happy with that. So what's your best?

Speaker 1 24:26

smell.

Speaker 2 24:27

The best smell for me is fresh cut grass.

Speaker 1 24:30

I love that. I just love those three words.

Speaker 2 24:32

In the summer, fresh cut grass.

Speaker 1 24:35

Fresh cut grass.

Speaker 2 24:36

Grass. In the summer you're laying on your lawn.

Speaker 1 24:40

Someone's cutting their grass you can hear an airplane going over the top and your face is being warmed by the sun. That is what fresh the smell of fresh cut grass makes me think of. Uh, I mean, it's to me when I hear those three words, I think of dungeons and dragons and critical role, because there is a character called fresh cut grass. Yeah, and it's to do with. He's an automaton, and when they ask him why he's called Fresh Cut Grass and he says that his creator named all of the automatrons after their favorite smells, right? So there's one called Apple Pie, right. There's one called Fresh Cut Grass and there's another one, which I'm not going to say on air, which when he said it in the D&D session, everyone just burst out laughing. It just came out of left field and came out of nowhere, but so much so they even reference it in the film, the latest film, dungeons Dragons.

Speaker 2 25:29

It was. If I recall it was Lady Garden smell. It was Lady Garden smell yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, but that wasn't what he was called.

Speaker 1 25:36

It's not what he said. No, no favorite smell. I love the smell of petrol I completely agree with you.

Speaker 2 25:43

I don't understand why people don't like the smell of petrol. Oh god, that's such a good smell again summer. Yeah, tarmac melting a little bit in the sun, you get that sort of smell, and then the smell of petrol, just like that four quart smell. Oh, get in my basket another one I know I love that.

Speaker 1 26:00

I love the smell of petrol yeah, this is such a good one, such a me, such a good one, yeah.

Speaker 2 26:04

And you're not even a mechanic.

Speaker 1 26:06

I'm not even. I don't know how things work.

Speaker 2 26:09

Speaking of things at work. What is the best modern day invention slash gadget.

Speaker 1 26:16

Now I had to think of the first one that popped into my head. Sure, that's how I've done a lot of these. It's the first one that popped into my head.

Speaker 2 26:22

I feel like that's a good way of doing this.

Speaker 1 26:23

I'd say and this is such a simple thing. It's a guitar string, winder. Oh yeah, what a saviour. It saves me so much time.

Speaker 2 26:34

If you own a guitar and you know you have to even restring something, that just oh, just taken away, just oh yeah, just taken away, just oh yeah it does?

Favorite Gadget and Best Feeling

Speaker 1 26:43

it makes the guitar string go round the head, so like perfectly whoever invented that? Yeah, and it's so easy to use chef's kiss, absolute chef's kiss. I love it. And the one that I've got as well has got a little pincer on it so I can cut the string oh ha ha although, although I buggered up, did you cut your finger once? No, no, no, I buggered up. Did you cut your finger once? No, no, no. I buggered up when I did my, when I restrung my Strat.

Speaker 2 27:08

Okay, restrung your Strat.

Speaker 1 27:10

Restrung my Strat so I've got a whammy bar on my Strat.

Speaker 2 27:13

Sure.

Speaker 1 27:14

And when I cut all the strings off, the tension went and the ping, oh and yeah, I buggered it. Final mistake yeah, absolutely buggered it. So I had to take it back to the guitar shop and they fixed it for me. But yeah, just because I cut all the strings at the same time and I'm doing one by one. Yeah, I just thought, oh, I'll just cut them.

Speaker 2 27:30

Same as a tennis racket it'll warp it.

Speaker 1 27:32

Yeah, as soon as I did it, I was like oh you, absolute dickhead.

Speaker 2 27:38

Yeah, popsocket. Now, if you don't know what PopSocket is, basically it is a round, or it could be a hook actually, but most of them are round and they stick to the back of your phone or phone case and they pop out so that you can then hold your phone effectively between your fingers rather than having your little finger balancing the phone at the bottom. Now, I was pretty against PopSockets when they first came out. I thought they were a bit of a gimmick and I was like, oh, I'd never use that in a million years. And then I was holding a friend's phone and I was like using popsocket, and I was like actually, oh my gosh, like it's not going to fall from my hand. Like you know, iphones or phones in general are really expensive. They are, yeah, yeah, getting a smash screen or I could ever go back. I could not have a PopSocket. I could not not have a PopSocket on my phone. Now.

Speaker 1 28:26

Double negative yeah.

Speaker 2 28:28

It is incredible bit of engineering that's so simple.

Speaker 1 28:33

It is amazing, it's sometimes the smallest things.

Speaker 2 28:36

Changed my life honestly. And I can like stand up my phone on a table if I wanted to. Oh yeah, how cool is that? Yeah, I know, this is not. This is not a visual podcast, but I have just the eyebrows went up for you yeah, I just demonstration demonstration demo, demo, demo so yeah, popsocket is my best modern day gadget. What is, davey the best feeling?

Speaker 1 29:00

The best feeling, the best feeling, the best feeling. Now it is that moment I can pinpoint the exact second of the best feeling in the world. Go on, ask, can I that second? I walk out on stage and everyone cheers and we're about to start the gig.

Speaker 2 29:21

That's pretty solid, solid feeling.

Speaker 1 29:23

And then when Joe hits the drum for the first time and the everyone just goes nuts, that is the best feeling in the world. Hands down, beats everything, absolutely everything other than seeing you, of course oh yeah on my wedding day or just in general? Just in general okay, just in general, knowing that you exist is just probably the best thing in the world.

Speaker 2 29:45

That's really nice of you. That's really nice of you.

Speaker 1 29:47

But that second, that one second. When that happens, it is euphoric. I cannot explain it. No drug, no, nothing can touch that feeling. That is by far. It's just. It's otherworldly, it's pretty good, it's amazing, it's otherworldly, it's pretty good, it's amazing yeah.

Speaker 2 30:05

For me. What are we 20, 30 minutes into this episode? So I am well and truly allowed to say it's the top, front row seat, top of a lift hill, on a roller coaster. I was just wondering how long it would take me to mention roller coasters, but, yes, top of a lift hill, front row. I had the absolute pleasure of riding hyperia, which is the new, uh, tallest, uh roller coaster in the uk currently standing, and I had the absolute pleasure of being front row first time riding that. It was incredible, it was so good, uh, huge fan, huge fan.

Speaker 1 30:44

I knew it'd be a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 30:46

Yeah.

Speaker 1 30:46

Even when I saw the question, before you even wrote it, I knew yours would be a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 30:50

Best weather.

Speaker 1 30:52

Thunderstorms. I love a thunderstorm. Yeah, pretty solid Love a thunderstorm, don't you know that? Especially a summer thunderstorm, when it's warm, it's night.

Speaker 2 30:59

I mean, they scare the shit out of me. I'm not going to lie, I love them, absolutely love them.

Speaker 1 31:03

Yeah, she gets forked lightning coming down. I mean, I don't like them for Archie because Archie is terrified of them terrified yeah but me.

Speaker 2 31:12

I agree.

Speaker 1 31:12

I would love to be. I'd love to be out camping in a thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 31:16

Oh, love it, absolutely love it said by someone that's probably never been camping in a thunderstorm right.

Speaker 1 31:20

Yeah, yeah, the sound of rain on the tent. Oh, heavenly.

Speaker 2 31:26

I jokingly put cloudy with a chance of meatballs, but my actual answer is probably I actually quite like a tepid overcast A tepid overcast yeah like I like a not too hot, not too cold t-shirt, whether you feel warm enough, but not so hot that you've got boob sweat.

Speaker 1 31:48

Okay, yeah, that's where I fall. Fall. I don't suffer from that, thankfully. Or boob sweat, boob sweat. Not yet they're starting to, they're starting to droop are they in your old age? Yeah, they're starting to same.

Speaker 2 31:55

Yeah, yeah I'm, I'm, uh, no well, I'm not approaching 30 this year, I'm approaching 30 next year and I'm noticing the droop yeah I've got crow's feet on my eyes now as well. I need to start my skin routine. I'm getting old.

Speaker 1 32:09

You are getting old.

Speaker 2 32:10

Isn't.

Speaker 1 32:11

Mitchell 30 this year.

Speaker 2 32:12

Yes, he is. Aren't you 50 this year?

Speaker 1 32:15

I'm 50 this year 50. Oh God.

Speaker 2 32:20

That's just depressing me, sorry. Best public interaction. Well, mine's obvious being on stage yeah I've got a funny story about the best public interaction. I don't know if mum remembers this, but we were in the middle of co-op in windham. We were buying some uh, dog food for donnie, probably at the time oh okay, it was quite a while ago, quite a while ago on the box of Bonio is a brand.

Speaker 2 32:45

Their kind of tagline is keep tails wagging, which mum said very enthusiastically in the middle of co-op. This guy who was working for co-op he was stacking the shelf or doing something he just pissed himself because of her delivery of that line. He just could not contain his laughter. I thought it was the funniest thing. So his laughter made us laugh and I just think that was just one of the funniest, like wholesome interactions of mum basically just being really enthusiastic about something and then someone finding that incredibly hilarious.

Speaker 1 33:15

I suppose if she says it completely out of context and random, out of context, like keep tails wagging Just in the middle of like co-op.

Speaker 2 33:21

Yeah, he lost his shit. Oh brilliant of like co-op yeah, he, uh, he, he lost his shit, oh brilliant and we lost our shit.

Speaker 1 33:28

Very funny. Uh, best package design. Yeah, it's a mine again, again. It's very much the first thing that kind of popped into my head and back in. There used to be a program called the professionals back in what year? Oh early 80s 70s and 80s pre-hannah. Yeah, two guys called Bodie and Doyle and they worked for CI5. Right, which was a kind of like secret agent firm.

Speaker 2 33:50

MI5, cia combined, a bit like that. Yeah, a bit like that.

Speaker 1 33:53

Yeah, a bit sort of government kind of firm, but bizarrely enough it was one of those programs that really kids shouldn't watch. Right, it was quite violent. But back in the 80s we did, and they actually brought some toys out, the professionals' toys and I always wanted it and I can just remember just seeing the packaging and the design of this like CI5 set, so that's the first thing that popped into my head. I mean I'm sure you can. I mean I don't know if they're still around.

Speaker 2 34:24

No, we into my head was that. I mean I'm sure you can.

Speaker 1 34:26

I mean I don't know if they're still around, but no, we did have a look on ebay, didn't we when we first?

Speaker 2 34:28

recorded. Yes, yeah, um, and there was something on there but it was quite expensive. It looks quite cheap, you know, it's just cheap plastic really, but you thought that was the cool, you thought that was the shit I really did at the time when I was a kid yeah, 100 package design for me is innocent smoothies, just because they have little funny puns on them.

Speaker 1 34:47

Okay.

Speaker 2 34:47

They've got a funny little marketing. I think it's because I'm in marketing, so I just find it a little bit interesting, but yeah, they're just super kind of not very professional, very blasé, very funny. Yeah, yeah, innocent Smoothies. They've got the package design for me. But yeah, what about best advice?

Speaker 1 35:07

So the best advice that I give to people, and also that I think that I've ever had, is that you cannot control what other people think of you. You will always be the villain in someone's story. So just be true to yourself and do you.

Speaker 2 35:23

That is very, very solid advice. Yeah, mine is you can't remember people's embarrassing moments and they can't remember yours. They genuinely can't. So don't let them make you cringe because they can't remember. There is something that happened to me when I was I know I was in year two because I know exactly what teacher I had and I was on stage. We were doing some little school production and the hall was the opposite way around.

Speaker 2 35:46

so instead of being at the front of the hall, we were at the side of the hall and everyone sat like lengthways as opposed to long ways yeah any sense to anyone, and I remember missing my cue and not going on stage when I should have done, and then I was like coaxed forward and I was so mad at myself that I'd forgotten to go at that time and I'd forgotten what, when to come on stage and who I was with, so, um, so yeah, I still think about that now that makes me cringe, and I don't know why, because there is not one person in year two that could probably remember. In fact, ellie, if you remember that, I think I might die because, um, then, then they embarrass me with things, but I doubt she does, I doubt she remembers people don don't.

Speaker 1 36:25

I mean, do you ever replay conversations in your head All the time?

Speaker 2 36:28

Why did I say that?

Speaker 1 36:29

Do you know what? Sometimes as well, I'll sit there at home.

Speaker 2 36:32

It's because I've got an internal monologue. That's why.

Speaker 1 36:34

I'll be thinking, I'll be replaying the conversation over in my head, and sometimes I'll then say something out loud and and? Then your mum will go. What did you just say?

Speaker 2 36:42

Yeah, Because I've just realised that she said that out loud and I've replayed a conversation, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 36:49

But I know as well that where I think I've said something embarrassing, that person hasn't even phased them.

Speaker 2 36:56

No, I know, They've not even noticed it. No, it's amazing what people don't notice.

Speaker 1 37:00

I think as well yeah, what about the best accident or lie that no one knows? See, I I would have to be careful here. I didn't actually write anything. I'm just now thinking here of not not lies, but things that I might have done, that no one knows, you know like. But I think I'm thinking back when I was a teenager, okay, and one of the things that I mean obviously I was a teenager in mind as well.

Speaker 1 37:30

Yeah, obviously my mum was is dead now, so obviously she would never have known this. But uh, I you know, going out saying that, staying at a friend's house, but then really going down to a field and drinking alcohol all night, yeah, like the age of 14, 15, yeah, that that type of thing.

Speaker 2 37:48

But I'm sure she knew yeah, I'm sure she knew, I'm sure she did. Yeah, uh, so I've put the lampshade, yes, so I actually.

Speaker 1 37:59

So you said this on the on the first podcast the first recording we tried of this yeah, and I, I'm going to have to say it again now. I went home and I had a little look at said lampshade. I can't see it.

Speaker 2 38:12

No.

Speaker 1 38:13

I can't see it.

Speaker 2 38:14

Unless it's a second lampshade Maybe it's a different one.

Speaker 1 38:16

I genuinely cannot see it. Okay, okay, so now you're going to fess up to your mum. I haven't told her, by the way.

Speaker 2 38:22

Have you not? No, that's very nice of you.

Speaker 1 38:24

We're just going to find out now I thought like while she's walking the dog, she's now stopped in a field. Yeah, and she's like, what is she going to say? And she's now listening intently as you make your confession.

Speaker 2 38:36

So I'm going to approach my mum directly here. So, hi, mum. Now how many months has it been since your last confession? Well, none, because I confessed this when we first fricking recorded this episode. So, mum, yeah, I'm really sorry, and I just want to preface that I'm sorry and that I didn't do it maliciously, and I want you to know that I was cleaning at the time. Don't try and justify it. No, I am justifying it because I did not mean to do this. It was a complete accident. You are quite klutzy though.

Confessions, Useless Superpowers, and Pet Names

Speaker 2 39:10

I am quite klutzy, so I was unwell or something More justification. Yeah, I was cleaning the downstairs loo and I was mopping the floor and in my kind of I guess vigour of cleaning the room, in my kind of I guess vigor of cleaning the room, uh, I hit the mop handle on the lampshade so hard that it hit the roof and it cracked.

Speaker 1 39:32

So what? What type of lampshade?

Speaker 2 39:34

it's glass, it's glass um, and I thought it's expensive as well, honey, you know shit and it was just after davy and I had broken one of the lights in the lounge by chucking something. Well, you actually broke it, but we were chucking like a little ball socks or something in the lounge and we'd smash one of those. So I didn't feel like it was the adequate time to tell you that I'd also broken something else. Anyway, it's in the downstairs loo and the crack is so large that what I did was, instead of telling you, I just moved the lampshade a little bit so you didn't see it.

Speaker 2 40:07

Um, and apparently you've looked at it and you can't see it. So it's either second lampshade or I don't know. Um, but yeah, that was me and I'm really sorry and I don't really know why I didn't tell you. But then so much time passed that I just felt like I couldn't tell you. And now, uh, and now the moment is here, so I'm really sorry, mom, and I was cleaning, and I'm really sorry, um, but yeah, I, um, I hit the lampshade and I cracked it so for your penance, hannah, four hail, marys, yeah, and six our fathers yes, I will.

Speaker 2 40:38

I will religiously do that. Uh, so, yes, um, moving on, uh, davy, what's the most useless or the best useless superpower?

Speaker 1 40:47

so as soon as you put this in, I thought what is the most ridiculous super hooch, super person there is, and there is a character called soft serve right in the marvel universe, and they have the ability to poo ice cream.

Speaker 2 41:05

Now, I did look into this. Any flavor on demand Because, as we keep saying, we have technical difficulties and we have to re-record this podcast. So I've already heard this once already. But I actually looked this up and I'm like who, why is this a thing? Yeah, I know Just why is this a thing. I want to know the anatomy. I want to know if they can shit normally, Apparently. I just why is this a thing? I want to know the anatomy. I want to know if they can shit normally, Like apparently it tastes really good as well, Like the characters are saying it tastes good and any flavor, apparently.

Speaker 1 41:32

Any flavor On demand. On demand. So yeah, the ability to peel ice cream, I think, is probably not that great.

Speaker 2 41:38

And pretty useless.

Speaker 1 41:38

Pretty useless.

Speaker 2 41:39

I mean, what can you use ice cream for Other than chucking it at people? Yeah, oh no. Now they've got a cold face. I'm not suggesting that they're shitting on people's faces, by the way, I was thinking they shit in their hands.

Speaker 1 41:51

That's a different set of films. Yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 2 41:55

I went with the Deep. Now the reason I said the Deep the Deep is a character in the scenario.

Speaker 1 42:05

He has sex with octopuses as well.

Speaker 2 42:07

Yeah, but what good is that to humanity in the world? Is it octopuses or is it octopi?

Speaker 1 42:14

Octopi, octopi.

Speaker 2 42:17

I like the Deep. Well, no, I don't like the Deep. I think he's an arsehole.

Speaker 1 42:22

I like the way they portray the character of the Deep. I don't like the Deep. I think he's an arsehole. Oh no, I mean, I like the way they portray the character of the Deep. Oh, okay, fair, I don't like his character.

Speaker 2 42:26

No, he's an absolute dickhead. Yeah, he's a dickhead. I was like, if you like him, that's a win.

Speaker 1 42:31

But as an actor playing that character he's brilliant. You know he was in Gilmore.

Speaker 2 42:39

No, he, yeah. I think that's a useless superpower Like. What good to humanity is that?

Speaker 1 42:45

Talk to fish.

Speaker 2 42:46

Yeah, it's good to the fish, I guess.

Speaker 1 42:48

Yeah.

Speaker 2 42:52

Anyway.

Speaker 1 42:52

I just think it's stupid. One more, we're going to end on the best pet name.

Speaker 2 42:55

Go on Archie.

Speaker 1 42:57

It has to be Archie. I know he's my boy.

Speaker 2 42:59

I know he's your boy, he's my little boy I. He's my little boy, I know he's your little boy. So a friend of a friend, I think I know. Or mum, maybe it's one of mum's clients. Anyway, I can't remember whose chicken is called this, but it's a chicken. It's called Cluck Norris and I just think that's just the funniest chicken name. It's so good. I love punny names, didn't Ellie?

Speaker 1 43:18

have some.

Speaker 2 43:20

Yeah, I know that Ellie had a chicken called Czechoslovakia and the other one had a really normal name, but it was just because Like what, Brian? Something like that. Yeah, well, I assume it was a lady because it was a hen. But yeah, susan, susan, yeah, susan, ellie.

Speaker 1 43:32

Reiter.

Speaker 2 43:33

Susan and Czechoslovakia. I'm sure it's Czechoslovakia or Slovakia or something like that. That's what the chicken was called. She had quite a few pets growing up. I remember an African land snail. She had boxes and boxes full of snails in general, general garden variety snails, chicks, loads of stuff going on, cool. But yeah, czechoslovakia was a chicken. That I do remember. She might correct me, it might have been another country name, but I'm sure it was called Czechoslovakia. But yeah, cluck Norris.

Speaker 1 44:02

That is a great name, such a good name, great name.

Speaker 2 44:05

I think if I had a chicken I'd probably call it Nugget, just because it's funny. But Cluck Norris, yeah, it's a good one. Brilliant, it's a good one so there you go. We hope you liked that episode and I guess I should say, cue the outro. Thanks for joining us on Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. Don't forget to follow us on all our socials and share the podcast with someone who'd love it. We are available on all streaming platforms. See you next time. Bye-bye, outro Music.