A Decadent Lunch Time Bath - it's the Wrap Up #53

00:00 Hey, welcome. It's that time of the week. Yes, we're back for the wrap-up 53. All the socials are down. What's going on in the world? But no fear. Glenn, a dating dad, and me, Johnny Jensen, founder of Team Superdad and the Hero Academy, are here to entertain and delight you as we get stuck into the wrap-up. Welcome to Team Super Dad. Real dads creating their best lives ever. More time, more money, more fun. You are not alone. You're on Team Super Dad. Hey, Glenn, goodie.

00:41 How are you? Yeah, good. Very good. I am. We're a little bit earlier tonight. So I'm actually, I'm feeling a bit more sprightly, more like already up for it. Just had my dinner. Got a glass of water. We're set. We're absolutely set. I'm on day 103 of my consecutive workout day. So we can talk about that in a bit. Oh, mate, that's amazing. That means between you and me, we've done 103 consecutive days of exercise. I mean, that's pretty damn impressive. I've got to say. Oh, man. I will tell you about a chap I saw swimming in the river.

01:22 Was he meant to be? He was meant to be in the river. I'll tell you all about it in a minute. So if you're here watching, then well done, because half the socials are down. Yes, we are squeezing the show out somehow across the bit of the web that is still working tonight. Maybe there'll be a mad rush, a bit like the petrol picture. That's what it is. I blame Brexit, to be honest. There you've got everyone just sitting there shouting out to Twitter, hey, who up? What are you doing? And moving over to the only social media platform that seems to still be live, except, of course, for TikTok.

02:01 So none of the under 25s actually know that anything's different or anything's wrong because they're all just doing 30-second dances and twerking and that sort of shit on there. Yeah, so it's only us people who are slightly more veteran that actually know that the world is coming to an end. Yeah. Is there, like, are you right? Like, if in a stockpiling panic buy situation, does everyone flock back to Twitter? Is that what happens? Hey, is if you go where it works. And if Twitter's up, then that's where we live. And I've just realized my glass is half off the edge of the table. How has that happened? Stunt man.

02:44 So by the way, those people who are watching, and of course, those people who are listening on the actual podcast, because the heartbeat of the Team Superdad podcast and the wrap-up show, the heartbeat of that audience is on the podcast. So we do love you, everybody on the podcast. You're my favorites. Yeah, you are. Except for the people who listen, like dial in and comment live. You're my favorites. But if you're not around, because obviously you're not, because you're all over on Twitter. Nadine. The rest of you. Where are you, Nadine? No, it's down to both two things. One, she might have the hump because I said we'd get her on. I haven't spoken to her. And two, we're a little bit earlier than normal. But yeah, just like Nadine is regularly popping up in the show, you can comment.

03:28 Well, yeah, you can. If you're seeing this video live somewhere, comment. And with any luck, that comment will appear in front of my very eyes. We'll be able to bring you in on the show. Team Superdad, we are an absolutely epic community of modern men, busy dads creating the best life ever. And I have been pumping out the content this week because we've got a challenge. It's called the Happy Dad Challenge starting on October the 11th. And part of the launch program that I'm in, it's like you need to post six bits of content a day. So I'm literally scratching my head thinking. And it's Jim, it's not so much that I haven't got six things a day to talk about.

04:08 It's just I haven't got six things a day of time to make the bloody things. But that's another story. Define content though, because I mean, I tweet a lot of shit. You do. But I don't do videos and that sort of shit as well. No, so live streams, writing posts, making, you know, kind of quote pics, trying to craft some calls to action that actually work, you know. So if you're a dad and you want to take greater control of your life and basically have an injection of happiness over five simple days, then come to teamsuperdad.com forward slash happy dad and you can join the free challenge that we are running from October the 11th to October the 15th.

04:57 It's coming up to a year since the last time I gave someone. someone an injection of happiness, and I'm not happy about that fact. An injection of happiness. That's a beautiful euphemism, isn't it? It's really loving and sensitive. I think a lot of women would appreciate that kind of sense, though. Once you get into, they enjoy it as well. They enjoy it as well. Newsflash, women do enjoy sex. I mean, there's a lot of people out there who are going to utterly disagree with you. And most of them are incels. Incels. Unhappy long-term relationships.

05:40 It does become a revelation that women actually enjoy sex. Because if you spend multiple years asking and getting denied, then you would be left with the idea that most women don't enjoy having sex or at least have 101 reasons why they might put you off for another month. Honestly, fellas, make the effort, do put the work in, make them feel loved because they enjoy it as much as anybody who loves sex. Trust me. Yeah, we talked about a little bit about this a few weeks ago, didn't we? Having conversations about what you like and actually enjoying your sex life. So yeah, go back a couple of weeks ago.

06:24 And if you, of course, I'm sure you've listened to all the wrap-up podcasts and that would have been one of your favourites. But if you did happen to miss it by chance, then go back and check that out. I just switched over my webcam. You wouldn't have noticed, Johnny. I've got a new HD one. So it's picking me up in a little bit better light now. I can see what's happening. You have gone a bit clearer. We have got quite some bright light. Oh, there we go. It's adjusting. It's adjusting. No, now it's gone back to fully. Oh, whatever. The podcast people are where are the actions at. I know for the podcast listeners, Glenn looks deliciously gorgeous and perfect. Yeah, yeah, they can't see me, so they're going to believe you. I know, loads happening this week, Glenn.

07:07 Loads. I've had, I'll give the listeners a little sort of preview of some of the stuff on the running order, but it's also a rundown of my week that has just been. And that's what we like to do here. The wrap-up is a jaunt through recent news, through the highlights and the lowlights of Glenn and I's life to dads, sorting the world out so you don't have to. If you are listening and you enjoy this, then please share it around with other dads in your world. Mums are welcome too. I get good feedback, Glenn. People tell me we like this. This is funny. I enjoy listening in. I enjoy tuning in. Well, I like them. All of you.

07:46 You're my best friends. Come round for tea. The thing is, we had this conversation. You never listened to the wrap-up. So how do you even know? I listen back. How do I know that it's actually out there? And it's not just you and me chatting. How do you know it's good? Well, I kind of witness it live. And you know, you could just tell. You are tuned into yourself. You're well connected to yourself and your environment. Yeah. Yeah, we'll say that. We'll say that. Other than rather than me just having a massive sense of my own ego and just ridiculous and unworthy amounts of self-belief.

08:30 I get that about you. That is one of the reasons I think we hit it off. You've been having some Glenn time this evening, haven't you? Kind of, it's helped with the title for this week's wrap-up. You've had a family pizza for one, I understand. Every pizza is a pizza for one, depending on how big it is and how much you can eat. I don't believe in this. Like you've got these family meal deals, and then I've realized that I must be a family all in one. Like, you know, when you get kids that sit on top of each other and put a trench coat over them to look like a grown-up, I must have four people sitting inside me because I can just devour an entire family meal from dominoes or something like that. Whatever. I mean, I did skip lunch, so maybe that helped. So you're really on the target for calories today.

09:14 But I also realized, so I didn't eat dinner on Friday night because my kids went off. So I had a packet of crisps and then a bottle of wine or two. Then the Saturday, I know I had like a late lunch. Then I think I didn't eat Saturday. Sunday, I had a sausage roll and I was going to come back and have a pizza, but my daughter stayed around an extra night. So she ate my pizza and so I didn't have anything for then. So I've got a bit of catching up to do, I feel. If you've tuned in for the fitness pillar of the Team Super Dad F5, then I can safely say that Glenn is not offering up nutrition advice this evening.

09:53 Look, life is a about balance. And if everyone just is all healthy and that's all they are, then people like me, we feel like outsiders. I'm your people. You're mine. Let's be family together. Okay, good. This is good. So if you, if you're following the OXCO diet, then good luck to you. So I've been, it only works because I've been training my liver very well for a long, long time. Yeah. Yeah. My boy tonight, I just spoke to him and his mum's at work. His sister is at ballet and the sort of nanny au pair type. It's because my ex is a midwife, so she works nights, right?

10:35 So she's the nanny/slash au pair is with Rose at a ballet. So so my boy says, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I was like, enjoy it. Put something on the TV that you like watching that you get grief for watching when everyone else is there. Scratch your nuts, get a packet of biscuits out of the cupboard, eat way more than you're supposed to eat in one go and enjoy this hour to yourself. It's cherished time, my boy. Savor it. I totally agree. I mean, that's the thing. I've spend so much when my kids are here, they're here and you know, they're busy and all that sort of stuff.

11:19 And then when they're not, I'll be honest, a lot of the time I'm busy myself. I'm going out, learning to fly and dancing and going out to dinner and seeing friends and going off everywhere. So sometimes it is just nice to literally know that I'm going to wake up whenever I want to wake up and I don't even need to get dressed and I can just stay in my house all day doing nothing. And it's something we don't ever get to do very much of. So treasure those moments when you have nothing at all. You know, you know, on Saturday, I must have passed asleep on the sofa about 10 or past 10, something like that. I didn't wake up the next day till half past 11. I had more sleep on Friday night.

12:00 Chris Packets. Oh, yeah. I looked like some one of the scenes out of seven of gluttony. But I had more sleep that night than I do in two, maybe even three nights sometimes. For the first time I woke up on Saturday and Ages, wasn't tired. I mean, is this what people without children feel like normally? Well, quite possibly, unless they're absolutely partying the ass out of life. And then you've got that fine balance between lonely and miserable and chaos party. But the really grounded person, the really tuned in person who is happy on their own, like at peace.

12:44 Self-love, like you know, because then everything else is a bonus. You can go out and you can be with your mates and they bring extra bonus, fun, joy to your life. Then you meet someone. She isn't your whole life and your everything. She's the bonus. She's the cherry on top. So it starts with the foundation of being able to be comfortable and happy on your on your own. A little bit of a serious note in there as well, especially for especially for dads that have separated. That time afterwards when you're like, everyone's gone. I should be near my kids. I'm on my own. Like it is dramatic to start with. But actually, the quicker you can be at peace with that and actually don't say there's something wrong.

13:28 Just be like, no, okay, now I'll get the opportunity to do something different. Whatever that might be, whether you learn to paint, whether you just sit and listen to whale music or some whatever you want to do. I like to draw a decadent day bath. It's quite nice to do. But I always try and sit there and think my life on my own has to be a 10 out of 10. And the right person will make it an 11. But even without them, it's full, it's complete, and it's got light and shade and good times and bad, but it's complete on my own. And that's that's a nice way of being. Yeah, I just wrote one of my multiple pieces of content for the Happy Dad Challenge running, was all about that, was about be more you.

14:11 And inside a relationship, a lot of men get unhappy because they stop being themselves. Which is weird because the thing that the person they are is what attracted the other person to them in the first place. So the less like that they are, the less attracted the other person is, which then makes them change again, makes them less likely that. And so you just end up drifting apart. You've got to be true to who you are at all stages. And that'll change and it'll grow and evolve. But if you're true to yourself, the other person, they loved you for that reason. So give them a gift by maintaining that. Yeah, exactly. And what I said in my post was that doesn't mean you become a selfish bastard any more than you become a needy.

14:49 Oh, please don't. don't ignore me. You know, bastard either. Um, but you got the but to be the best you for other people, you've got to be the best you for yourself first. So, uh, a couple of things that came up there: um, a decadent day bath, uh, and I also saw your tweet about the kind of clothes you do or don't wear at home. So, I'm imagining you walking around naked, eating crisps, swigging wine, uh, having a bath at lunchtime. Mate, your imagination must be on fire right now because uh, you know, that's that's a vision, isn't it? That is a sexy arse. Why don't I not? Yeah, there is, I obviously, when I've got my kids around fully clothed, but they're not here.

15:33 My neighbors, my house isn't overlooked by anyone, so I can just walk around in the start bollock naked, have a nice if you don't, if you're a man who doesn't doesn't really have bubble, have a hot bubble bath, one where you have to lower yourself into it by stages, where you burn your ass and you just just stay in it, just relax for an hour or so, put some music on, take an iPad in with some TikTok or whatever, just chill out and do nothing. Because when you're in the bath, you've got no other distractions, you haven't got to do the washing, you haven't got to do the hoover and you haven't got to go to the show, you're there, relax, and in the daytime, it just hits different.

16:12 I don't know what it is, but it is just glorious. Um, and if you happen to enjoy a beverage at the same time, what's the harm? Just I mean, that was less beverage and uh more certain other substances, allegedly. Yeah, don't smoke, crack, and have a bath. It's not a good combination. So, this is this. We could do like I'm imagining a little mini, a little new little mini course for Inside a Team Super Dad in the training lounge. Um, obviously, um, led by your good self, but you know, the decadent day bath, uh, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a simple 45-minute course, three modules.

16:53 But we need, we need, uh, we don't have like man spas, spas and health retreats and all that, they're dominated by the female market. And yes, guys can go along term, but we don't. So we don't learn how to pamper ourselves. We don't learn how to just relax and sit and just do nothing. We just have to, we're always expected to be productive and busy and working and doing that sort of shit. No, let's just learn to relax. In America, I think that was more of a thing. Remember in Blues Brothers when Jake and L would go and speak to, I guess he must be some part of the local mafia or something. And then he's chatting away and he says to Jake, yeah, yeah, we can help you. And then the camera pans back and the whole band are sat there in the steam room.

17:40 There is nothing more glorious than a steam room. I saw a couple that I was going to thought about buying and investing. I went to last week and I got some free tickets to some home building and renovation show. And they had all these different rooms, these saunas, and there was one sauna thing there that had no steam. And he was trying to give me all this scientific bollocks about how it heats you. Steam money heats you so many millimeters into the skin, whereas this heats you three inches into the skin or something. Mate, you're just describing a microwave cooker. Okay, I don't want to be microwaved, but I just want to sit in the heat and baste myself. That sounds quite nice to me. So this is like a modern like Futurama type show.

18:26 It was everything. So, you know, just bricks and mortar through to people trying to sell bang and autism speakers. Five BO speakers, little hexagons on the wall, four grand. Now, I like, I like my music, but if I'm spending four grand on speakers, that kind of I want Annie Mac to be DJing in the recording. And I don't want them hidden. I want people to say, they look like four grand speakers. I had a set of speakers, yeah. Oh, and did they have like the world's sharpest knife or the Euro? Two fingers, do you know? All this sort of stuff. I'm sure there was some sort of cloth that absorbs 50,000 times its own weight in liquid and stuff like that. It was magic chamois. Yeah, it was a chamois. Chamois.

19:13 It was all right. It was a bit smaller than expected, but to be honest, it was free tickets. And I'd have been pissed off if I'd paid whatever it was, 30 odd quid for them, as they were apparently advertised. But it was nice because obviously one of my things on my list of 50 is to build my own home. So I'm always on the lookout for ideas and inspiration and all that sort of stuff. Dude, you should talk to my mate, Peter, Peter Burke, aka Speedy La. He's got this whole thing, you'll be bob on with him actually, because he's all about this community. You pull together a community build. Yeah, community builds.

19:50 And then you find a piece of land together. And then you decide together: okay, I want to have a shop and a hairdresser. We need a bit of grass where everyone can play in the middle. We want to have it. And then they do things like have a community kitchen. So there's like a cinema room, and you can. So bizarre as this might sound to anybody who's not into this sort of thing, but absolutely amazing if you like the idea of actually having a community spirit is that you would have like big communal meals kind of thing and you have a good mixture of old people and young people and families. And then like you've got ready-made babysitters, old people aren't lonely.

20:33 It's in other parts of the world, Scandinavia, Japan. Where else would he say some? It doesn't matter, does it? But there's many parts of the world where this is actually a really obvious, normal standard thing. And then another, it's only the UK. It's only the UK where we don't do house building, like self-build anywhere near as much as the rest of the planet. Yeah. Kind of getting on with your neighbours and not being a selfish twat is obviously part of that. Yeah. Which of course run out of petrol. Have you, if you if you if you if you're anywhere else in the world, right?

21:12 We have got a slight thing going on in the UK at the moment. It seems to be getting a bit better. But 10 days ago, the news reported that one garage chain had a problem getting petrol to a couple of its garages. Within about 72 hours, the UK had gone into full panic mode, and every motorist with a fart's worth of gap in their petrol tank was queuing up to flip in Mad Max themselves out and not be stopped. That was the embarrassing. It was absolutely embarrassing. I hated it. Even though I actually only had a quarter tank and I said, oh, now I'm down to the last 30 miles or something.

21:53 I've been fucking walking everywhere because I refuse to sit in a fucking queue for petrol that is then just going to sit on the front lawn. It's like, why? Why are you panicking? If it gets to that point, then you're in the shit. And I can work from home. I can work remotely. Almost everyone in those fucking queues didn't need to be in those queues, but they were in the queues because everyone else was in those queues. It makes me furious. So I'd already topped up just as it was starting, right? Just, I just, I, I happened to be topping up, so I filled up, right? Then, then, um, it got to this week. What day were we on? Saturday, picked up the kids. So I was down to about a quarter of a tank. And I use about a quarter of a tank a week doing the school runs and all the other stuff.

22:37 So I was like, oh, well, I know they're opening back up. So I'll go and have a drive around and find one. So went to couple closed. Went to another one, massive queue. So I was headed your way actually because you know, you go Sainsbury's, SO, then you get to Westmorling and there's that kind of BP type one with the supermarket thing there. And they all have big, big queues. So I get to the jet one at Seven Mile Lane. And this was a bit of a sneaks, right? Because I parked, it was about 20 cars. So I park up at the back. And I like this to take about 20 minutes. So, right. Just for those watching, right, don't know about this. There have been people queuing for three or four hours to get petrol.

23:19 And those people that did that, what cracks me up is it's like a game of Russian roulette because you've no idea if you're going to sneak in under the tape Indiana Jones style and be the last person to get some petrol or you will be that person that queued for two hours and are then like shaking the last dribbling. Yeah, because it's not like there's a big line of like a fill point for that whole petrol station and it goes down and down and down so you don't know where you're at. You've got no idea how much petrol is in their tank. No, somebody was the first person to miss out everywhere. It's just horrible. So we get to the jet. Yeah, there's like 25 cars parked. So I sit in the queue and I'm just mulling over.

23:58 Do we stay? Do we whatever? And I look up ahead and I can see other cars coming in to the same petrol station from the other direction. I was like, well, that's that's a bit off. So I was like, well, it depends how many people are queuing that up that end. So hedging my bets, as I like to tell my kids, lean on a door. If it opens, you might just find something inside there, right? So we go up, turn around the roundabout, come back and join the queue coming from the other direction. There's only three cars there. We were in and out within 20 minutes and happy days. So the Team Jensen Mobile is fully juiced and ready to go for next week. So if you were one of those people who weren't like Team Jensen and didn't need to queue, but you.

24:39 you only did it because everybody else did, you're an idiot. I want to be unequivocal about this. I want to be clear. You are an idiot and you've caused so many more problems. There's so many people like I've seen ambulances who have been waiting for traffic. I've seen people who actually need to get places. Nurses nurses, doctors, teachers, people who actually matter, not you, who are just going to sit there with your four by four in your front garden, just in case you need to do an emergency run to the fucking Shetlands or something. No, get back in your box, get back in your house, and dial in from home. Do you know what you reminded me of there, right? There's a bunch of mums on the school run at my kids. Well, not my kids now, at my daughter's primary school.

25:23 Range rovers. And they don't know how to drive. There should surely be a driving test. If you're buying a big car, it should be like a catalogue. Like you go along, they give you a little half-hour test drive on parking, of maneuvering. Well, it's like bikes, innit? You learn on a 125, and then to get up onto the bigger one, you need to do another test. You need to prove that you're able to handle something that big. And I know when you get up to HGVs, which nobody's doing these days, you need another test. But yeah, there feels like something in between that you need to go from your Fiat 500 up to your Range Rover. They're very different.

26:05 Exactly. And they say, I'm sorry, madam. And clearly, there are some bad male drivers as well. I'm sorry, madam. I'm sorry, sir. Or not even, I'm sorry. Thanks for that little spin around the block and a little bit of parking activity out the back there. The Fiat 500, the Chinkicento, the Punto, and the Skoda. The Skoda Flavia is all that's available to you to buy today. No, you can't have a flipping V6 15-foot-wide Range Rover. No. Oh, yeah. And it's definitely not a gender thing. Men and women are both terrible drivers, but in my gut, my opinion is we're both equally bad, but men tend to have crashes at high speed, and women tend to have crashes at lower speed.

26:52 And that's been my experience. All the blokes you talk to about having crashes, they're like, I flipped this and I skidded over there and I smashed into this and wrote the car off. Whereas the women I've known at accents, most of the time, it's fender benders or bumping into posts and all those sort of things. So we're all crap. Let's be honest. Everyone's crap. We're just different types of crap. Like crap drivers are crack drivers, but yes, the width of the car. I did just mention it. Does it amuse you when you see the Skoda Flavia? I can't help but think of the word Labia when I see the Skoda Flavia. No, no, I haven't seen that. This shows how different. I think of Flavia Briatori.

27:35 No, you don't. I absolutely do. I don't think, or Flavia. Who was the dancer from Strictly? I thought that's who Flavia Briattori. Yeah, that was her. Yeah, Flavia Briattori. That's what I think of. No, I just can't believe that whoever named the car Flavia wasn't on the wind up. Well, I guess they check most things, but they never get them all because, of course, you had the Mazda MR2, which they actually marketed in France without realising that MR2 in French is Mardeux, which is basically Melt, which is shit. Ah, I did not know that. Yeah, yeah, I think someone got fired for that.

28:22 Are you working this through? Or have you frozen? No, no, we keep freezing. I think the internet is really broken. The Martians are coming. Watch out. This could be the last time you see Glenn and I. So anybody who's out there, I guess it could be a UK thing mainly, but am I the only one that is amused by the Skoda Labia Flavia? Maybe I'm just weird. Yeah, no, I titter every time. And this is not, I'm 47 now, so I've been laughing about this for five years. Oh, it's easy. It's nice to be so easily amused. I guess so. That says a lot about my capacity of my ability to laugh.

29:05 I tell you what has been tested, what has tested my capacity to laugh over the last six months has been now. Squirrels in my loft, Glenn. Squirrels in my loft. Is that a euphemism? Are you like losing your marbles? That's in the cat evil. Squirrels in your loft. You should search that up to see if it is a well-known, what are they called? Incognito mode. Urban dictionary. Yeah, you better do it. Squirrels in the loft. No, actual squirrels. So about six months ago, I could hear, I could hear stuff in the loft. And I thought it was maybe birds on the roof. So then it kind of progressed, and I'm like, well, that doesn't really sound like birds.

29:48 It sounds more like scratchy, scratchy. So I'm like, well, maybe I've got mice. Maybe I've got mice. And I'm like, well, they sound quite big. Maybe I've got, oh, I can't have rats in the bloody loft. What's going on? So I had to call the pest control. It comes round in an unmarked van, very, very, what do they call it? What, in case the squirrels get sight of it? Lads, lads. He's got pest control. It says no squirrels. No, no, no. Just he just doesn't want to alarm your neighbours or what. Okay. So, and I guess if you are of an animal rights disposition, I guess this could be challenging.

30:30 But squirrels are vermin, right? Grey squirrels killed all the red squirrels. There's no Tufty anymore. Grey squirrels are very bad. They eat everything. They're literally, they chewed through the bathroom light, basically, and then had the audacity. One of the down lights in the bathroom is above the bog. They have then had the audacity to stare down through the glass at me whilst I'm having a crap. I have got videos of the squirrel looking down at me, basically. Are you sure this isn't just the plot for the next Alvin and the Chipmunks movie? I've joked about that as well because there's been multiple multiple with the humans are 3-0 up in the big squirrel.

31:11 What is it about your loft then? Why do they love your loft so much? Just squirrels make braise, apparently. So they have multiple places where they go and like stash food and something. And whatever reason, they've got into the loft. But the traps, like if you imagine the size of a mouse trap, a squirrel trap is like a like, you know, when Wily Coyote rings up the Acme Trading Company and they bring him down. So imagine Wiley Coyote on his mobile to the Acme trading company going, bring me traps, bring me traps. It's like a shoebox with a flipping bar on the end. And so the guy says to me,

31:56 The guy says, Now, this is pretty quick. Comes down, boom, squirrel goes and dead. And I'll come back and get them stuff. He goes, On occasionally, the squirrel will move and it will kind of get its leg or something like that. And then it's a bit unfortunate, but yes, you know, that does happen kind of thing. As he's saying that, in a kind of Ghostbusters moment, stay puff marshmallow. I'm instantly think to myself, ah, yeah, that's definitely happening to me. Right. So I will take responsibility for creating this moment. Yeah. So I don't know, like eight hours later, we're doing, I'm working away, and then wham, you hear the noise. I'm like, oh, blimey, that is that was it. That was that was one of the traps going off.

32:41 And yeah, but sure enough, then every sort of 20 minutes for the next three hours, there's this occasional flailing sound like someone dragging a metal box basically around the loft. Sadly, it turned out that poor Mr. Squirrel, and it was one of the adult one, the big daddy one, Pan Say, of the male male squirrel, sadly, it did get him, but it kind of got him, got him across the shoulders. So he was sort of pinned down. And then the pest control man, he's got an air pistol, like the kind you'd go to the arcade with, and you have to shoot the tin cans off the thing. Yep. So we're chatting away, and he puts the pellet in the thing and he shoots the squirrel.

33:22 I can't see what's going on because he's up in the loft and he's looking down. So I'm thinking this is all kind of quite normal and stuff. And then casually, whilst we're talking, he reloads the gun. I'm like, this is one badass squirrel. Not only has he fought off the trap, but now he's just taken a bullet and he's like, come on, come on. Is that the best you got? But no, the second one, he went down. He went down with the second one. But yeah, since then, so we're now two more, trap two more. So we're three squirrels in the

33:59 team, Team Jensen, three squirrels nil. And I don't know if that's normal, but apparently lots of people have talked to me now, but oh, yeah, we had squirrels, we had squirrels. They're bastards. They've chewed everything up there. Yeah, so far, I've not. I've had pigeons down the chimney. God knows how many. I've got, it must be like a boneyard from some sort of ghoulish novel bit in my chimney at the moment because it's all I've got a fire, but then behind the fire, it's all bricked up. And so I'm not going to rip out a gas fire. I'm not going to then smash loads of. of brick workout every time a fucking pigeon falls down. So, often you'll you'll hear it will fall down and then it'll be flapping, and then for a few more days, like for a day or two, it'll be flapping every few minutes while it's trying.

34:41 Yeah, it's not nice, not ideal, but and so did you not get a dead animal smell or fly. Well, I haven't so far, and it's happened a lot. Um, although it's not like my friend, she's bought just bought a new place and she's got like a wood burner thing. And she opened it up the other day because she keeps getting birds kind of falling down, so she had someone in to get them all out, and then she opened up it to light a fire for the first one of the year. And it's just birds sitting there. I mean, it's shit everywhere, but it just flew straight out and uh flying around the living room for a bit. No fucking fear, his mates are shouting down, just hang in there, shit open eventually, and then you can go for it. They're like dropping down worms, like rat loads,

35:28 Sid, we're chucking down some more worms. Oh, it's such a good thing. Yeah, yeah, I bet you're still laughing, aren't you? Yeah, dare me to come down to coffee. There was a load of worms down here, you bastards. It would have all been there. Um, but yeah, yeah, so uh, yeah, animals trapped in you. I don't know. Thankfully, I've not had squirrels or anything like that yet, which is very lucky because uh, I sleep in a loft conversion, so it would have been a little bit little bit annoying if I'd had squirrels next to me in a bed. I've had some I've had some monsters wake up next to me, but never a squirrel. We're looking forward to you uh getting some more uh conquests.

36:09 You shared um some some hinge updates and stuff uh this week from your dating uh dating world, dating live. Yeah, sadly, it was um a semi-hoax because uh the person who had match with me is one of my closest friends and she lives 20 miles that way. And we're we're just good friends, but um, yeah, so sadly, the first time I've actually had a rose since me and the first time I've actually had someone reply to messages actually just happened to be one of my mates. Hinge, I was on hinge, yeah, yeah. Hinge is no better or worse, they're not, they're all they are all, yeah, but they're the least shit option out there at the moment, so that's that's all I've got available.

36:50 Although I am what I am going to do in the next couple of days, I'm going to book myself a load of things to look forward to: a load of like uh cooking classes, dancing classes, painting, I don't know, fucking pottery, I don't care, just stuff that's out and about because you never know. I'm not going to meet someone sitting in my own living room by myself, am I? You know, that's not going to happen. You've got to put yourself in a situation, see what happens. Drinking rum and Zambooga and eating crisps and having all the heart, the decadent uh decadent lunchtime bath could uh attract a nice woman your way. Good women like that, yeah, yeah, they do, and they're right for that. But I can't imagine them knocking down my door while I'm in the bath and saying, Hey, you, how you doing?

37:29 No, not unless you suds for me, yeah, you gotta find them first, and then you would entice them, entice them with the petals and the candles to the bath. That's the way to do it. Have you ever done that? Of course, I have I'm a romantic bastard, and I um, again, this should have been a sign. I remember the first time I did it, uh, my ex told me off because she was she thought that the candles were a fire risk. Um, that is brilliant, that is brilliant. I'd say there's another e-book there for us, Glenn. 101 red flags you didn't recognize should have.

38:10 So, this is like you can go to all these red pill, blue pill, Twitter dudes, and like they're all like, yeah, man, don't fucking dead single moms. Like, yeah, they'll bleed you dry, like real shocking stuff. They some of those guys put out, but there are some definite red flags that uh both you and I missed. Um, yeah, you do something that romantic, and she's complained. Instead of saying thank you, she points out the fire hazard. Uh, you irresponsible romantic twat, yeah, yeah, but I love a bit of romance, so I'll do that. And ladies, I'm happy for you to do it for me as well. Oh, yeah,

38:53 um, this is good. So, look, look, if you, if the uh, dating gods are out there, notice that we're just putting little, little, what they call little seeds, seeds, yeah. We're just, I'm the thing I was like, I got this idea in my mind of we're floating things down the river, like little opportunities for people to float, right? Right, okay, yeah. But as I said that, it just made me remind me about uh something that happened the other night, so I got totally distracted. So, I am on day 103 of my consecutive workout days, right? This is. This is a Team Super Dad, 30-day Super Dad workout. So if you're a dad who wants to get fit and have tried Glenn's nutrition and fitness program and it didn't work for you, then I also have something that might be more effective.

39:40 It's a 30-day rolling program. It's basically 12 to 15 minutes of exercise. And you just enjoy yourself, like just doing a bit more than what you normally do without having to win the triathlon or create a six-pack, which is great if you want it. But so I've done 103 consecutive days of exercise just because I could. And it's now got to the point where it will take something huge to interrupt that. Most days it's press up sit-ups and burpees, super burpees. But also I say you need to go and do a 5k run, jog, walk, whatever it might be that week.

40:18 If you don't like running, then go for a ride or go for a swim. But you've got to do that long distance thing as well. So I'm out the other night. I'd had a strange day, couldn't really get motivated. I did a post, a video live stream about this the other day, actually. I got to the end of the day and I struggled to really get down to work. And the kids had been with me in the morning. And then I realized I was out on my run. One of the reasons I'd struggled to really focus and get on with things was because it was such a kind of emotional day, like my daughter's 10th birthday, my son's 12th birthday. There was a lot going on. Really, what I should have done that day was just basically chill out, have some time for myself, like we were talking about.

41:03 But anyway, I needed to do my exercise. So I decided, right, trainers on, let's go for a nice long run. I've gone out as far as I wanted to go, just under 5k, and I'm on my way back. And then there's this guy in the river. What, drowning? No, no, he's got one of these. I see them in the sea at Brighton because he's just swimming in the sea there. And you go down there, you see a lot of people swimming in the sea. So it's like a flotation buoy that you attach to your back. And it's more to let people know that you're there rather than save you in the

41:42 if you're drowning or something like that, right? So I'm like, oh my gosh. And it was been raining. So the river is flowing fast. So I'm running, but this guy is zooming down. So now I'm running alongside him like, whoa, man, how are you doing? Like, that is awesome. Do you do that much? He's like, yeah, quite a bit. I was like, how far are you going? Oh, he goes, oh, just down to the beach. I've never seen the beach on the river. I run along this river. I've never seen the beach at all. So I didn't want to burst his bubble or ruin the moment by saying, I'm not sure there's a beach. Clearly, in his mind, there's a beach coming up. But no, it was brilliant. So it was, it was just, do you ever have those kind of something happen and it just punctuates the moment?

42:26 I was, I was sort of in my head a little bit, working through why couldn't I get on work today and got out and I go for a run. I've enjoyed the run. I've processed a lot of information. It's London Marathon Day. So there's people doing marathon people. Two old ladies stopped me whilst I was running. We stopped to chat to two old ladies and they're like, oh, you're doing a marathon? I was like, oh, no, I'm not doing a marathon. I did that once before. I'm not doing that again. And then there's this bloke swimming in the river. And it was such a random thing. I was like, whoa. I am on day 102, as it was then, day 102 of my consecutive days working out.

43:05 And here's a guy like racing down the river in the fast-flowing current of the river Medway. Don't let it stop you. If he can jump in the river and act like it's completely normal, then we can all do a little bit of exercise. Adrian, I took his picture and asked his name, Adrian. So, Adrian, if you're listening, good on you, my fast swimming river swimming buddy job dude. Yeah, yeah, can't see me joining in that one or ever. Oh, don't you think? We could have, you know, like they have those dragon boat races. We could have a team super dad river swim.

43:48 See, I thought you were going to do one of those top gear challenges where you've got different modes of transport to get a certain place. So one person will swim it, one person will run it, and one person will have to go a massive cycle row around a different way to get there. I'll do the driving bit. I haven't got any fucking petrol. Oh, yeah. Nearly scuppered yourself there. I can't finish up today, Glenn, without asking you about your day out with your dad, because obviously we're here talking about Team Super Dad. and dads and you were at the mighty Tottenham Hot Spurs world leading stadium on Sunday. But aside from all that sort of team allegiances, you were there with your dad.

44:33 Yes, indeed. So me and me, old man, or my sister as well. She's got the name on it, but we've got two season tickets for the Spurs. Used to go down there every week, especially when I lived in Walfamstow. I could literally see the stadium from my back garden. So I used to go down all the time. And then obviously over the past, not even counting the year before, where we haven't been able to go at all. But before that, it comes more difficult now that I'm a single dad because half the time I can't go because I've got the kids. And then the other half, I'm trying to fill my life with other bits and pieces. So I don't go as much as I can. Turned out I'd not been to a match with my dad since about 2018, which is a long old time. Wow. And I missed it. You know, it's just when you'd been doing something for so long and then it wasn't there.

45:16 And that was one of the, we used to see each other. That would be when we'd see each other. Now that wasn't happening. I saw him very rarely. So, yeah, last minute got the opportunity. My sister's boy, sadly, has got COVID. So he couldn't go and they were isolating them bits and pieces. So she couldn't make it. And so on the Friday, he just got a call saying, do you want to come to the football? Yeah, all right then. So yeah, headed, jumped on the trains and headed down to Whitehart Lane to watch Spurs beat Villa. And it was just so nice to spend a few hours chatting to me, old man, and then enjoying the football with some beers and chatting again on the way home.

45:57 And you just don't, you don't, you don't normally get that time because very few of us have got really, really good, close, regular contact with our dads. It's just because we're all so busy and they're busy and life is what it is. But I'm lucky enough that he's pretty young. He's 61 now. And so I've got hopefully many, many years left with him. He's only 14 years older than me. Hey, man, I don't want to say that. It's true. So hopefully I've got many years left. But he did have a quadruple heart bypass when he was a year older than I am now. He passed the Oxcove diet and nutrition.

46:40 Oh mate, he makes me look like some sort of yogi. Honestly, he was atrocious. He had all of the things. He had a massively high pressure job in insurance. He smoked 40 or more a day, drank all the time, ate out, no exercise. You know, his version of a treat was after they'd cooked pork chops under the grill, get some bread, wallop up the lard underneath, bit of salt on top of that, and eat that. That was his treat food. You know, every time. Licking the bowl. So licking the bowl for him meant scraping the fat out of the sort of six sugars in his tea. Just the worst diet of everything.

47:24 All of the factors were there, which meant that when he, I think he was 42, 43, and he had a massive heart attack, quadruple bypass. And so, you know, it was touch and go most of the time. But he's better and he's recovered and he's healthy now or healthier than he was. And so I've hopefully got a lot longer with him. But you just don't know. You don't know what's going to happen. And you don't want to regret thinking, oh, I wish I had gone and seen my dad. So yeah, we just took the opportunity whenever I can. Because that, you know, COVID and everything aside, so we're not going to drill you out for being a shit son here, but like time flies.

48:04 2018. And I dare say you've seen him since that time. No, no, I've seen him loads. Just not out, just me and him to go to the football. And doing something that you know that you both love doing. And it's a great afternoon out. No pressure. The only pressure is to have a nice time. Yeah. And I'll be honest, it's the one-on-one nature of it as well. Now, I try and do this with my kids as much as I can. Obviously, I've got four of them, so it becomes a bit more difficult. But I try and make little, little one-on-one moments. They might only be half an hour here or an hour there or something. But those one-on-one times, they make such a difference. I know that some of my best memories of my dad as a kid, in fact, my best memory as a kid was I was visiting him.

48:48 I visit him once every five, six weeks for a weekend. And he said, I've got to go to dry cleaners. Do you want to come? And no one else said yes. I said yes. And so just me and him popped into town, picked up some dry cleaning and had a cheeky McDonald's breakfast. That is one of my favorite memories of him because it was one of the few times in my entire life that was one-on-one with my dad when I was a kid. And it means something. It's just, it's, it's total focus between the two of you and you're chatting and there's. there's no distractions and no competing attention. It's just the two of you spending time together. And that matters more than we realize. So I'm always, I try and do it with him when I can, but I also try and make sure I carve out these little moments where it's just me and one of my kids and just make sure they know that at that moment, they're everything and it's just us two and nothing else.

49:38 Yeah, because in the busyness of life, they do understand. I guess maybe they don't understand, but they do know. They're like, dad's busy, dad's at work, dad's got stuff to do. I'd like him to spend more time with me. But then make the butt, but he does when he can. You know, because that's what they say, they all say, you know, kids spell love, T-I-M-E. Yeah. They just want some quality time, time with you. And then interestingly, when it goes to that certain point in age, our parents in the same boat, they're like, I never get to see them. It'll just be nice to see. They want to hear your news. They want to catch up with you.

50:25 And we see that with certainly myself, when you bring grandchildren into the mix, and I'm sure our parents get fed off it at some point after being having them dumped on them too much, but they come alive because that time they had with us when we were little cheeky, cute kids is suddenly back. And our parents do miss that. They do want to spend time with us and our children. And let's be honest, most grandparents are so much softer and happier and better than they were as parents because they've done the experiences and they've seen what works and what doesn't. And it's funny that the love and the laughter and the support and the encouragement and the, yeah, it's all right to have a little treat every now and then.

51:09 That's the thing that works, not harsh, strict parenting and rules and rigid regulations. So yeah, it's nice to know that the approach they're taking that works is much more aligned to what we're doing these days ourselves. Yeah. I wonder if my ex is listening to that sage advice. There we go. To each their own. We shall find out, yes. We should have brought this up a little bit earlier, Glenn, but I know there's an important petition, a movement that you've been supporting. And it just blew my mind that this isn't such a this isn't just happening. Isn't just like an obvious thing to do. And it's about a sexual harassment button on social media.

51:54 Yeah, this is something that I'm claiming no credit for. I want to be really clear. This is a bunch of women who have got together and basically, amongst yourselves, Rick said, enough is enough. It's not acceptable that constantly, I'm not talking one-offs here. We're not talking about the occasional woman and the occasional man. Almost every woman online on Twitter, on Facebook, on any of the socials has received unsolicited sexual advances, sexual language, sexual harassment, photos, porn, all this sort of shit gets sent constantly. Yet there's no way of flagging that. I've seen some of my friends, they called Tories a bunch of cunts, got banned.

52:36 I'm not exaggerating, got banned from Twitter for life for that offence. Yet you can send Twitter support screenshots of unsolicited dick pics and porn and that men send women. But you can send them all the evidence they possibly need. And they say, sorry, they've not broken any guidelines and rules. How the hell is this possible? It's obscene. And so there's a petition going at the moment. If you go to my Twitter feed, A Dating Dad on Twitter or the other socials or whinge whinge wine blog, Fran wrote a fantastic post on that.

53:18 And have a read of it because it just sets out this is the problem. This is what they're facing and something needs to be done. So go online, sign the petition, show your support and just say, this is what it is. Now, if you're not sure about this sort of thing, you don't know how much of a problem it is, even if you just go to the petition and read some of the comments that have been left below and the stories that people give about how much abuse they get. It's incredible, absolutely incredible. So yeah, it's a change.org

53:59 petition and it's called Twitter and Facebook to provide a specific reporting function for sexual harassment. And we've got nearly 7,500 signatures already. yeah, the more we can get, the better, because we can start creating some sort of movement and attention because something needs to change. It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman, this affects you. Well, I've got a daughter. I mean, I've got female friends. I mean, well, and you're a decent human being. Even if you, it's the wrong thing. It's absurd and obscene that people think they can get away with this sort of stuff. And it isn't a, it's all about the dominance and then forcing women to do to see and view these sorts of things.

54:45 And it's not on. And so sign a petition. And also think about, just think about your friends, any male friends you've got. And you think, you know what, he's a bit of a danger. He's a laugh, but he's a bit of a danger. I wouldn't worry. I wouldn't, I'd be upset if my sister brought him home or my daughter brought him home. Do something about it because we only see the tip of the iceberg. And I use the word tip very carefully. We don't see the tiny bit of behavior they let us see how much more is out there. And we as men have got to step up and sort this shit out because yes, yes, it's not all men, but it's always men. And if we're part of the problem, we also need to be part of the solution.

55:28 Yeah, I mean, it leads into conversations about online porn and how ridiculous some of the categories and themes of porn are. You know, like blows my mind. Other people can get off on my sister shagged my stepdad or something like that. It just blows you, or let alone things that are even worse, like in agro sex and stuff. It's just all wrong and bringing just shit to our world, to our relationships, to people's safe, you know, it's just a sense that you can walk home or turn on your computer or look at a tweet without having to fear what's going to be inside of it.

56:14 So if you are watching, you can see online, I've just shared a link to Winge Winge Wine's blog. I have put in the comments actual full links to the Change Org petition and to the blog post on Winge Winge Wine. Cheers, Johnny. I appreciate it. And we'll put your up there as well. It is bloody important. We'll put this in the Team Super Dad group as well and see if we can get some support behind this. Surely there should be like 100,000 people putting this on there, Blimey. Yeah, well, we started. I didn't do it at all. I'm just trying to help raise awareness. But this was started up the night before last.

56:57 And yeah, gone from 0 to 7,500 already. And you know what? We need 10 times that, 100 times that to sign this because something has to change. Yeah. Yeah. Wowzers. Well, I feel like that's sometimes we do talk about serious things on the podcast. And I think it's important. Like any chit chat in a pub, conversation between blokes, it should be silly and it should be a bit pit-stakey, but there's always the space for important topics. There's always a space for saying things that are awkward and uncomfortable and being there for each other if you need advice.

57:41 So don't step over these things, which was kind of what you were saying at the beginning there, Glenn. It's be a man. Oh my gosh. Do you remember back in the day? My dad would like put his arm around the waitress. Yeah. It wasn't right back then, but now society's got to the point where we're realising that and we're saying we need to be better. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Oh, I'm going to go off. So seeing as we've done this earlier, I don't even know if I'm going to get this published tonight, but I am going to zoom down to my good lady's house.

58:23 I'm going to drop something off at my kids' mothers because they've left it here. And apart from that, as I said at the beginning, we've got the Happy Dad five-day challenge coming up starting on next Monday, October the 11th. So go to teamsuperdad.com forward slash happy dad and get yourself involved in this awesome five-day event where we're literally going to break down some of the most simplest ways to create an injection of happiness into your dad life, both for you, for your family, for your kids, for your friends, which doesn't fit with that euphemism at all. Yeah, but now every time you use that phrase, you're going to think of Flavia

59:09 every next time you pull up behind a Skoda Flavia. I want you to mark that moment in your brain because I think I've changed, I think I've changed driving for you forever now, Glenn. I think we'll see, we'll see. If I'm ever unable to actually have petrol and drive again, I shall seek out a flavia just to test the theory. Do you know what I'd love to know? To all those members of the Skoda Drivers Club, uh, and particularly those fans of the Flavia, did you buy the Flavia and think to yourself, the name is a bit weird, but I like the car? It makes me think of Labias, and now I'm driving one. So,

59:50 yeah, I'm gonna hazard a guess, probably not, but I'm not all people that could just be the way my brain works. You know, it's to play the game where you see the number plate and you have to make up a word based on the number. Yeah, yeah, it's like that: the eyes see Flavia, the brain says Labia, and that's why we love Strictly indeed. Uh, this has been the wrap-up from Team Superdad. Uh, my name's Johnny Jensen, Glenn. Yeah, that's me, that's my name. It's been a pleasure, as always, Johnny. Loved every second. We need to work on our two Ronnies finish, so it's good night,

1:00:31 and it's good night from him. No, it's good night from me, and it's good night from him. That's how it works. Okay, so I say, So it's good night from me, and it's good night from him. Okay, Ronnie, I'll see you next week. Wait, oh, the flipping outro boom, lick. This has been Team Super Dad. Find us at teamsuperdad.com. Join the program and create the best life ever for you and your children. You are not alone. You're on Team Super Dad.