Bedroom Boudoir or Messy Pit - The Wrap Up #32

00:00 It's Friday. It's that time of the week. You are in the right place. You're with Team Super Dad, the wrap-up role theme. 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, welcome, welcome. It's Friday. It can only mean one thing, other than comic relief. It is Glenn and Johnny, a dating dad and Team Super Dad here for the Team Super Dad wrap-up. Glenn, good to see you, buddy. Nice to see you back on a Friday and not a Saturday jobby again. You haven't been out on any more dates this week, then?

00:45 That's why we were on a Friday. That's why it did Saturday last week, wasn't it? Well, we could have done it. I could have squeezed one in early, but I was... That's what she said. I was washing my knob. Sorry. Bob of butter, carrots. Getting dinner really. Yeah, yeah. Oh, so we got an update on that date, didn't we? Yeah, because we got together on a Saturday. Did actually go and have a COVID-friendly date on Tuesday with said lady. Yeah, it's very good. Very good. Anything to reveal, or is that just a lovely walk in the park? In a second, well, come on, Fanny Second. What I will say, though, for anyone who's not joined us before, this is the wrap-up.

01:28 We do this on a Friday night, sometimes Saturday, but it's the end of our week. It's a celebration of all things we've done. If you're familiar with Team Super Dad, then you'll know that we work in the F5, which is focused fitness, finance, family, and fun. Fun, fun, fun, the F, the big F at the end. If you don't reward yourself, if you don't celebrate the highs and lows, the good and the bad, then it all just gets a bit heavy. And as my old man said to me, son, I'm just not sure you're having enough fun. Well, he should have come to uni with me. But in other regards, he has been a bit right. And for our friends who are back with us, regular listeners, thank you.

02:11 It's good to have you here. I'll tell you what we would like for regular listeners. Ask us stuff. Send us stuff in. Hot in the 90s is a good one. We do have a couple of regular features on the wrap-up. But if you want to send in your hot in the 90s, Glenn and I will gladly discuss and debate the merits of that hot in the 90s. Have a look how she's looking now and see if there's any chance that she would consider Glenn or I as a suitable date. Don't forget attraction is about being attractive is about more than look. So if you want to do a hot in the 90s that was about, you know what, this is one's sexy brain. Then, and I'm not talking about that, that weird thing that used to be in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the middle of kind of that,

02:52 I can't even remember what that thing was called, but one of the bad guys that wasn't Shredder. As long as it's not that, because I'm never going to accept that as being a hot in the 90s, but yeah, they don't just have to be physically attractive. Although, you know, I'm never going to say no to looking at a beautiful lady. Carol Voldeman. Got it both? Had both? Carol Voldeman or Rachel Riley? Or Rachel Riley. Which one? You know? Yeah, Rachel. Gun to the heads, Rachel Riley. Rachel Riley. I mean, I would never have said that you could. By the way, if anyone has got no idea what we're talking about, countdown. Countdown. How can people not know who these people are? Listeners all over the world. You know, we're huge on the internet, you know.

03:34 Countdown, TV show, numbers, words, clever people, and an incredibly attractive, super brainy, like host-esque woman who crunches the numbers and does magic in her head. And so, yeah, Carol Voldeman was the pin-up for all those values, the geeky hottie. We weren't going to do hot in the 90s, and here we are doing hot in the 90s. And then she retired. I don't know. I'd like to know what that story was. But she moved along and by chance, they found someone even more attractive and certainly as clever.

04:14 Yeah, but Rachel Riley cannot dance. And that matters to me. I would take Carol Voldeman any day of the week over Rachel Wiley. Rachel Wiley, yes, she's stunningly beautiful, very funny, very attractive, all that sort of stuff. But having seen her on Strictly come dancing, no, no, no, no, no. Whereas Carol Voldeman, I reckon she can grind. I reckon she could really heat up a dance floor. Hey, Google, can Carol Voldeman dance? Not got an answer. She was in Strictly. Voldeman took part in the second series of Gladys. Let me see.

05:01 While you fill, I'm going to look up Carol Voldeman and Strictly. If anyone could make their own fantasy wet dream up, you've just made it. Oh, look at that. She was great. Terrible. She was absolutely superb, even though she was the second celebrity eliminated. But still, what we've learned tonight is you can't have everything. Beauty, brain, a great rack, nice legs. Quite witty as well, both of them. Very funny. Present company excluded, Johnny. I think you've got a great rack. Thank you. I've got like quite little nipples, but they do go incredibly hard.

05:44 Okay, brilliant. My daughter's making. What are you making, Rose? A cookie dough and Nutella pie. A cookie dough and Nutella pie. I dare say it'll go where all the other cakes end up. And she walked in at the perfect point while you were talking and stroking you and talking about and stroking your own nipples. No, no, I know, but sometimes, mates, you know, you see, they get swimmers. Have a bath, yeah. They've got massive nipples. Like portobello mushrooms. Yeah. Yeah, I find it weird. I find it weird. I mean, mine are just there and they do a job in terms of just breaking up the chiseled muscle of my pectorals.

06:25 But they're not something I've spent much time looking at, to be fair. Some folks taste like a lunar landing site. I have to say it's something like, dude, that is a massive pair of nipples. What's the same? Are they more sensitive? What are they? I don't know. Anyway, I guess it's nothing like pointing something out and making something to everybody uncomfortable, I suppose. And that's why you're banned from most of the changing rooms in HM. It only happened once, and it wasn't. You fuck one sheep. So I was putting a running order. If you've seen the show notes, then it will look a lot tidier.

07:09 But in terms of getting the running order ready for tonight, I was just, my brain was like full of stuff. And it's been a bit of a crazy week in the UK. In fact, it's crazy in America. We've got the women versus men thing going on here in the UK after a poor situation of a woman getting abducted and murdered. But in America, it's going off sort of violence against Asian Americans and basically anti-Chinese sort of rhetoric, which no surprise after Mr. Trump's fine job in that front. So yeah, a lot of frustration and pent-up energy going on in the world. So I tried to bring some light relief as I prepared the running order for tonight.

07:54 And no surprise, as Glenn as I tiptoed through it before pressing live, loads of banter to talk about. And that is what we do on the Team Super Dad wrap-up. It's like we're in the pub. It's we're having a laugh. So if you want to come on, just drop us a line if you've got a nice microphone. That's why Colin's not back on. I'm going to use my phone. Is that all right? Him being on was far more right than that attempt at an accent, whatever that was. Gin and tonic in a wine glass. That's how uncouth we are. Is that what you're on? So I am using one of my diamond glasses.

08:34 It hasn't got a stem. You just kind of put it down and it kind of just sits like that. It's really quite nice. And I filled it today with some Cardo Gold Reserve single malt whiskey just because I've had a better end to my day than most of my week. So it's been a tough week, I've got to say. Not just at work. Work's been good. Doing loads of stuff, really busy, kicking off multiple projects, agreeing commission plans for my team. So some good stuff, just lots and lots and lots. But had a call on Wednesday from my landlord saying, I've just had the electricians report through.

09:14 Electricians came around to do a standard thing. I thought all they'd do is, I don't know, stick some forks in some plug sockets and lick a light bulb and they'd be able to say, right, this is fine. No one's going to die. But they spent about an hour, hour and a half, walking around the house doing things. And then the report they gave me said, yeah, I've had a look at it. And they've condemned the wiring in one of the loots, which the garage is leaking from the ceiling. And they said, no, you can't have any electricity out there. And we need to redo, rewire every light in the house. And they've probably got to chase in all the other wiring as well. So they're going to have to rip up every floor, pull down every ceiling, rewire the whole lot.

09:54 and so you're gonna, we're gonna have to work out you're gonna have to move out. Um, you're gonna have to move, pack they won't do it with anyone in the house, any furniture in the house. So, we, what we they're saying you need to do is pack up all of your stuff, uh, put it in storage, they'll spend a couple of weeks doing the couple of weeks doing the electrician stuff. Uh, then they don't decorate, they don't make good, so we'll have to get um redecoration done, uh, and then you can move back in. So, what are you talking about? You know, what am I gonna do? I can't, it's not just me on my todd. I've got four kids, I've got a house full of stuff. This is a four-bed house, and I've been living here for nine years, and every nook and cranny is filled with life stuff.

10:40 Um, and so, yeah, it was going to cost not I wouldn't, but he was going to have to pick up the tab, but it would have cost however many thousand to pack it, to move it, to store it, um, and then to move it all back and recover it. And we had, we had, I've got no idea where we're going to stay with me and the kids for because you can't. I don't, you know, I live in Kent, it's not exactly a tourist hotspot, there's no Airbnbs that are within walking distance of my kids' school. So, I've spent most of the week really stressed and worried about it, hiding it from the kids because I didn't want to tell them because they would have been so anxious. Um, but then today, as uh, I was putting some some uh some stuff in recycling, spoke to my neighbour.

11:22 He's a Sparky, um, he's come round, he's had a look at the report, and he said, That's just an advisory. Look, actually, looking at that, um, there's this, there's this C2 thingy, and all this. No, that's fine, and actually, they've said that that's a problem. Look at these regulations, regulations say that's absolutely fine, that would be fine at twice. He's gone through it, and yes, there's a few things that still need doing, but as far as he can see, actually, I'm not gonna have to move out at all, and we can redo it. Fuck me, I'm buying that man a crater beer, definitely. It's been hellish, hellish. So, uh, yeah, a much better end to my week than the start.

12:03 I've got to say, what a relief! What a relief! Yeah, well, funny story. Had it when I bought my flat in Brighton, I'd first time I'd ever done a done it up, done, I've done a project like that. And the plasterer, top job, excellent bloke, knew him from a friend. And so he says to me, Oh, I know it, I know a Sparky, you'll come and do that. So, this random, you know, when you meet someone, you think, oh, this isn't good, this isn't good. But I just kind of trusted that the plasterer knew him, and we were okay. And we met in a pub, and he's showing me through this brochure. And he's got his like, he's got his, he's got his mate with him.

12:46 What do they call them? His little helper, yeah, mate, his mate. Oh, yeah, it's a sparky, yeah. And he, the sparky, the mate didn't clearly have any clue what was going on. And they showed me through this brochure, like fixtures and things. And I'm just completely virgin to all this, basically. So I said yes, gave him a load of money. He did actually do the job, but it was a saga. And then about two years later, it transpired that he'd done a complete bodge job and used random bits of wire. And it was just like you say, condemned.

13:27 And I found, I actually legitimately found a dodgy bloke who said, I will sign it off, but I won't put my name on. Oh, God. Well, that's a weird thing as well. He was saying, look, look, this thing, we can either go around and you can replace all of the lights in this loop, or what someone can, what a proper person could do is they can get this sticker and they can write basically write on it, only this class of replacement can be used, stick that on the fuse box, and that'll do the job. Happy days. Fucking hell, how can a sticker be the equivalent of a rewiring job? I don't get it. I don't think, but they're sitting there. If you came to me and said, look, we're trying to work this out.

14:12 We need a Ruby on Rails dev, some C because we want to do some, we need a basically a sandbox DevOps environment, maybe so we can roll out into some Kubernetes. I know what all that means. Fucking electric bits and plugs and codes and regular. I ain't got a didgery. I do not know what they're talking about. So you just got to find someone you trust. And thankfully, because he lives next door, he's unlikely to screw me over on this one. He's a lovely monk. That's what's going on. No, no, he's just moved in and they've put a planning application in for a double height extension. So yeah. I think you want it also want to keep me sweet, so I don't object to it.

14:53 Oh, yeah, oh no, it's all coming together now. That's good, it's good. Well, people connecting during this tricky time. I fear everyone's kind of gonna get gonna start warring with each other, but that's a relief. That is what it's been recently, hasn't it? Everyone, I've had loads more abuse. It seems to be ramping up online, the abuse I've had for various different things. Like there was this bunch of people in Surrey, I think it was, who basically gathered in a park and did loads of like play it. Like, I'm talking not just talking two or three families, I'm talking about 50 or 60 families got to get up and they're doing the hokey cokey and doing all this stuff together in this enclosed space.

15:36 For me, that's mental. Yeah, it might be fun and all that, but the whole point of the hokey cokey is to hold hands and get really close. Now, what do you not want to do in this COVID environment for an older end to get close? So, I, when they tweeted out at the BBC, I said, Look, how comes this is allowed? How comes no fines were issued? This is a clear case of if they want to do this, then all they're going to do is put if one person had COVID there, then they're going to spread it around and the cases are going to rise, and we could end up back in lockdown with this sort of thing if everyone did this. And the abuse I got, the shit I've been getting all week for this. Yeah, on Twitter, um, for that, and other things as well. People have just been so much more aggressive, uh, and I think it's because we've been away from human contact for so long that people have forgotten that if you say something arsy and you're an absolute dick, you'll probably get a smack.

16:30 And they've forgotten that because they're all doing it via their keyboards now, they've forgotten the impact that things have, and that every person on behind a Twitter account is a real person, and that distance has created this anonymity where people think they can get away with saying what they want to who they want when they want, and there's no consequences to it. And I'm hoping that as we release ourselves from lockdown, people might just start getting back to a world where they realize that they shouldn't be such a dick. Yeah, well, will they just end up fighting? Lamping each other. This lady outside the school today, there's about six different parents, me and five other different parents.

17:14 So, we're kind of scattered and chatting whilst our kids play, right? So, so we're talking in the sunshine, and it was lovely, right? So, then we're on the pavement, so a woman is walking up towards us, she's approaching us, and so she basically shouts in this narcie tone, get out the way, social distancing. So, I said, Yeah, I said, I said, You could just say, Excuse me, we're like, this is fine in the sunshine, and everyone's happy. And she starts absolutely ranting at us about social distancing, and then she says, I've had both my jabs. I've had both my jabs. I don't think anyone's had both their jabs. I don't know. Well,

17:55 she wasn't that young, but um, but but but you know, so I just it's like, well, look, have a lovely day, and I hope that you are, you know, live long and prosper with your jabs. So, so, so on she carried, but this is my fear actually. I thought to myself, there's going to be this divide afterwards where people kind of are done with it and are happy and they got their vaccine and they're pretty chilled out about it. And this other group of population are going to carry on jumping out of the way, being really cold and frosty. And I don't know, I hope not. I hope it is it going to be weird. I think you know, it'll take, I think, I think it's going to take a while to settle back in.

18:32 I think there's it for the for several months and so on. It's going to take some people a lot of time to get back into things, but I am never going to underestimate the ability for people to forget the bad times. We forget lessons and the good and the bad. People in general, the more you when we're talking about big groups of people are stupid. We forget things and we just devolve to the mean. And so, we're all, I reckon within a year or two, we're going to be looking back and think, fuck, that was that was that was hard, weren't it? But most of us are going to forget it. We're going to forget the lessons, the good things about lockdown, the focus on mental health, the way we were all a bit, not all of us, but some people were a bit fitter and a bit kinder and all the good things that happened over the course of the last year will be forgotten as much as all the pain and all the

19:23 bad things have been forgotten. People are just stupid. I hope so. We've talked about the 90s and the good old days before, but I do, you know, just there was so much freedom then, really, until they flipping, brought in the poll tax laws and shut down all the legal raves and stuff like that. We really were just bobbing around having a nice time. And that 1990-91, you know, it bought it's well known that it brought to an end all the hooliganism in football and stuff because instead of drinking beer and fighting, they were doing pills and dancing. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is. It was nothing to do with wider social and economic issues. It was nothing to do with global capitalism overtaking.

20:07 It was nothing to do with so much in the way of geopolitics. It was all to do with ecstasy. I think it was, Glenn. And that says more about your activities in the 90s than it does about anything else, doesn't it? I'm like, that sounds interesting. Tell me more about historical evidence that I know nothing of. Well, very interesting. We'll come back to that. Or maybe you've got a couple of books on this subject. Yeah, links will be in the show notes. What's something else you told me you found out about today today?

20:47 I noticed it was World Sleep Day. A big fan of sleep. Oh, it links nicely into my new watch as well, which I see you. I do indeed. I got mine for my birthday. And because I'm dialed in on a Mac at the moment, I've got an iPad here, iPhone in my pocket, because it's all part of an ecosystem. It works perfectly as a companion piece. It's brilliant. Now, I probably wouldn't have bought it if I didn't have the whole Apple set because it doesn't work quite as well. And it'd be a bit weird to have this and have some sort of Android. How about you? Well, I've had a Fitbit for five years and I loved it. It just was part of my fitness, not transformation. I've always been fit, but it kind of cranked it up to the next level.

21:30 Tracking everything and sleep, tracking my sleep. I love to see how long I've sleep for and what how much. Weirdly, I checked mine this morning. Yeah, I checked mine this morning. My average time in bed. I'm going to get it out because I want to get the sums right because I don't want to actually be exaggerating on this. So you have your sleep targets and so on. My average time in bed, according to my Apple Watch, is five hours and 48 minutes. Yet my average time of sleep is seven hours and three minutes. I don't quite understand.

22:13 Are you frozen? The excitement of what time Glenn goes to bed has killed the internet. He's frozen like a little Jiminy cricket over there. Oh, look at him to be sure. He's going to tell us a joke in a minute. So sleep apps, as Glenn is alluding to, I'm also very interested in and seeing how long I've actually slept for. So if I was on Fitbit, now I'm on Apple Watch because my Fitbit sort of died. It was sort of a convenient excuse to get another watch as well. Glenn's still frozen. Maybe I've frozen. We'll have a little see. Bear with me a second whilst we just see if we can. Oh, Glenn's gone. Now I'm on my own. Now I really am filling.

22:56 So it was what I will tell you about swapping watches, a bit like anything. Oh, he's back now. Look. Fucking fucking shit. Stay wank of a connection. Ah, you're right, Johnny. How's the Tourette's? How's the Tourette's this week? Nice. Oh, annoying. That's okay. So I was trying to fill, but I was also trying to work out whether it was me or you. So it's quite disconcerting. No doubt it was me. Okay, good. I'm normally very good at filling, but that was an awful job.

23:33 Thanks for hanging in there with us, gang. Yeah, so got my Apple Watch. Glenn's been sleeping for seven hours, but only been in bed five, which is skills, mad skills. It's efficient. I'm an efficient sleeper. Have a look at your settings, son. Have a look at your settings. So I got my Apple Watch out, got it on eBay. It's too expensive to buy news. I got it on eBay. To be honest, I got a deal. Why someone would be selling this for that price in this condition? I suspect it was stolen or something. The whole box and everything. Okay, so it had nothing to do with me where it came from. I bought it in proper good faith. But yeah, so, but I turned it on and it downloaded all the apps off my phone. So just

24:17 the battery went flat in about two hours. So I had to go in and start clearing it, clearing it all off. But in terms of the tracking, I just, it has, it's transformed my diet, my sport, my running, and all that side of things. But the Fitbit, the Fitbit's beautiful because it just goes steps, heart rate, calories, sleep. right so it's all just kind of because there's because there's a lot less to see on the fitbit it's just it's just all just kind of there so now i've been trying to learn but where all this stuff can be found um steps calories yeah heart rate it's all them and you just gotta you just gotta zoom a bit you just gotta work

24:59 out which is which it's fine oh yeah i know i have oh thank you but i'm a watch virgin and i'm working on it i'm working on it um um but yeah so today was world sleep day though glenn world sleep day it was it was and uh not only was it world sleep day my workplace we i i work for an amazing company i bloody love my company and today they brought in an actual sleep expert to do an hour-long session over lunch teaching us about sleep about breathing about you know routines you should be getting yourself into and how you can how you can do better sleep and they said look these are all just options these are things you can do if you choose not to do them that's your choice that's a life choice but we're going to give you the information so that you can actually make that choice yourself and they did things like some things they were saying

25:52 i'm never going to do but they said like if you sleep with your mouth open then firstly you're going to snore more secondly you dehydrate better and all this so get this take get some tape take your mouth up under the chin and it means you're age less as well apparently so some of this was a little bit a little bit out there but then other things that the normal stuff of don't have your phone on with you going to bed do you snore me i i'm sure i especially after drinks i i definitely do i know i do i don't snore i wish i didn't i would have surgery if it meant i didn't snore but it's just what can you do i can't do anything about it the odd occasion i've snored i've woken myself up

26:32 and i'm like i'm not doing that because my dad snores like a bear he snores so bad when we go to hotels he he purposely books a a room down the corridor away from out of like decency of course no comp no it can't be so uh uh good for the other people in the hotel but it's certainly away from us it is that loud yeah yeah i i did have a girlfriend who uh used to wake me up uh she'd wake me up and say you need to you've been snoring you need to wait until i've gone to sleep before you go to sleep you know what can i do and then you're laying there thinking oh is she asleep yet is she asleep yet and then i'd get poked in the ribs when i fell asleep again and she's like no i haven't gone to sleep yet

27:13 but yeah but yeah yeah that did not last that's i've added it to my list of dream women very deep sleeper um but one of the things i didn't she was you know the caffeine thing i can understand not having uh four double espresso's at nine o'clock at night i couldn't get that but um she was saying you shouldn't drink you shouldn't not drink shouldn't have caffeine after 2 p.m yes and that that so that includes not just coffee and tea ice cream ice ice cream ice cream's got caffeine oh no no how the fuck does that does caffeine get in ice cream and if that's true then are you only are you meant to have ice cream only with breakfast and lunch is that a lunch thing because ice cream for me is an

27:58 evening and kind of after dinner thing or you know when you're out and about on a hot day the amount of caffeine in a in a flipping what they call those a 99 yeah or anything like i know the ones with my kids yeah yeah all exactly the tubs yeah the tubs caffeine i guess if it's got chocolate in it's got caffeine in yeah um uh uh what about messy bedrooms boudoir versus yeah that's a big big no-no it's a huge huge issue you have to have a tidy room it's a mental health thing which then allows your brain to sort itself when it's in rem sleep um then you actually it if you've got a messy room your brain doesn't switch off in the same way it's caning you can you mess twice

28:48 shut off i'm trying to sleep but it's weird i i i do i do understand what they mean because like if i've if i've got my room and it is a bit messy i've got you know kids birthday presents stored off in one corner and like the washing to be done and then the clothes i've taken off thrown on the floor and whatever it's not a pleasant it's not a nice environment is it whereas if if everything is your bed's made you know with fresh bed sheets which bloody hell that's always a nice thing um and everything's put away your breath it just it feels a bit more serene you know a little bit a little bit smoother and that just helps you drift off boudoir it's a feng shui it's it's icky guy it's it's the kind of making making your

29:28 environment the phrase icky guy has been mentioned in my bedroom more than once Should have lisp. So that's that's flipping amazing. I saw it trending on Twitter today. World sleep day. Sleep is fascinating. So, as well as our watches and sleep tracking, check out Carcadian rhythms if you're listening, if you're into sleep. I think I've mentioned this before. One of my significant relationships, she had insomnia. So I decided to fix her, which didn't go down well. But in the process of me deciding I was going to fix her, I learned a load of stuff about insomnia.

30:08 Carcadian rhythms, fascinating. You go through cycles. So you want to go to bed at the right time. Because if you go to bed on an up part of the cycle, that's ridiculous. You're just going to struggle to get to sleep. And the same when you wake up, you want to wake up on an up part of the cycle because then you, you know, you literally, you won't be groggy. And if your up cycle starts at six o'clock and your down cycle is kind of 6:45, if you get up at six o'clock, you'll be better refreshed than you will be at 6:45. Oh, it's mad, isn't it? But they also, they were saying the world is built for they call them larks and owls. So a lark is someone who will go to bed at 10 p.m., wake up at 6 a.m. Generally, with issues, but you know, they'll go to bed earlier, wake up earlier.

30:50 And an owl guy par things in. It's going like okay, just unplug it. Yeah, go on, sorry, Glenn. Yeah, because actually you've got larks who are early to bed, early to rise, which the universe, the country seems to think are more virtuous for some bloody reason. And then you've got owls who go to bed later. They might go to bed at 1 a.m. and then be up by 9 a.m. Trouble is the world is built for light larks. And everyone thinks larks are the right thing to do when it's just a different mindset. I know I'm an owl. Without any hesitation, I will comfortably go to bed about 1 a.m. and then wake up about half past eight. That gets me seven and a half hours to sleep. All is good. All is right with the world.

31:33 Yet the world is built in a way that means I actually have to try and force myself to go to bed earlier or accept I've got less sleep because I've got to get up in early in order to get into an office for 9 a.m. It's crap. Well, your Carcadian rhythm, your one o'clockage, will be actually around 10. So if you want to catch that way, of course, you're going to miss out on those two and a half, three hours in the evening. But I think only if you're a lark. If you're a lark, your circadian rhythm starts at 10 a.m. Well, your sleep time is at 10 a.m. and then you're up earlier. But me, because I'm an owl, actually, that's just shifted by several hours. And it's a genetically false thing. You can try and change it a little bit, but me, there's no amount of kind of training and so on.

32:18 I will always naturally revert to going to bed later and waking up later. And that's just a natural rhythm that I've Mediterranean blood in you. You do look a bit Roman, a little bit. Yeah. Well, my family's Hungarian, so maybe they migrated from somewhere. Yeah, there we go. There we go. Oh, this is magic. We'll get our DNA sorted. We'll get a sponsored by ancestry.com. Anchestry.com. Yeah, get your affiliate link at the end of the show. Well, on the subject of bedtimes, it's comic relief tonight. Telethons, just being like, have you ever watched a telethon all the way through?

32:55 I have that. Well, I'm actually wearing red today. I'm wearing my, this is my office, the US office Scranton Dunder Mifflin t-shirt because it's red. So I've had to wear some red today for comic relief. But I'll be honest, I know nostalgia is not like, not as good as it used to be, but neither are telephons. Telephons used to be, here's a big chunk of content. So for comic relief, it was here's loads and loads of funny stuff. And then every now and then, Lenny Henry will pop up. This is just my memory of it. I don't know if it was really like this. But then Lenny Henry will pop up and he'll say, by the way, give us, here's the phone numbers.

33:32 Let's do something funny and let's make some money and help these people out. Then every now and then they'd do the cutaway to sad children and this is why we're raising money. Whereas now it seems to be here's sad children, here's sad children, here's sad children, here's sad children, here's presenters. And here's a little bit, here's a little bit of funny. Now here's more sad children. Here's more bad things. Here's why you need to donate. Here's something we're going to have funny that's later on in the show. Here's more sad. It's just fucking boring. I'm not going to watch it. I'm going to wait until the YouTube highlights come out. Yeah, maybe there aren't as many funny people around. Maybe there's, you know, the rich vein of British comedians. Maybe it's a little bit thin on the ground.

34:15 No, it's never been deeper. Never been deeper. Stand-up comedy in this country is booming. And because at the moment, as well, I mean, you need an in order to have edgy comedy, you need center lines. So you've got your Michael McIntyre, your Kevin. Bridges, and your Sarah Milligans, and all the kind of standard things that almost everyone they look at and think, oh, yeah, he's funny. And then you've got your new wave, your edgy comedy of so many different types and sizes. British comedy is at its peak, yet they're still rolling out Lenny Henry. Yeah, Lenny's the anchor tonight, I think. I know

35:00 he's part of it, he's part of his institution. But you know, there's so many more funnier people out there these days. The whole thing should be about comedy. I should be wanting to watch it and by doing that, I don't want to watch it because I know that almost all of it is going to be trying to tug on heartstrings. Yeah, yeah. And I think back in the day, the idea of we're going to stay up all night and there's going to be people ringing on phones. And the technology is going to mean that we can work out how much money's coming in and it's going to be exciting. And, you know, technology's caught up to technology's so far ahead of us.

35:40 Just like, yeah, how much Bitcoin is that, mate? What is that? Yeah. 10 million you've raised. How much is that in Bitcoin? Yeah. I feel like they should find a way of doing this on TikTok. I don't know how. I don't know what. But if they can't do this via TikTok, then they're missing the wave. Yeah, yeah. Or just do it on one NFT. NFT. Right. Comic Leaf's going to be on for 10 minutes this year. We've put all the content in this one NFT and it's a billion. It's a billion pounds.

36:16 Yeah. What are NFTs anyway? I mean, I can tell you, but yeah, it's a bit like the ecstasy in the 90s story. Don't really. It's a thing and it's brilliant and it's loads of money. Yeah, it's going to be good. Well, look, rather more seriously, just on this subject of news and things, we've scheduled on Monday night. This is kind of a message for listeners and watchers. We have scheduled on Monday night, Glenn and I, off the back of the sad Sarah Everard story and the wave of sentiment and news and comment around men and women and sort of attitudes and sexual abuse and just like a whole

37:02 this is just a mess, quite frankly. So so much commentary going on. And I'm thankful to know some pretty awesome women who are both intelligent, successful, opinionated. And you know, I think you put a post out this week, Glenn, about, you know, if anyone's not a feminist and they're a twat or something, basically. They are. Stand by that. And, you know, I did get, again, I got some abuse from that from a few people saying, you know, virtue signaling and feminists are crap and they're offended by everything. Mate, you don't understand feminism. If you think that women want more than men, if you think that feminists want women to be above men and for men to back down and stuff, you don't know what feminism is because feminism is just about equality.

37:51 And that's both the good things and the bad things. For me, feminism is every bit as much of eliminating the pink jobs and the blue jobs in the house as it is about equal pay and equal rights. It's just about equality. And if you can't wrap your head around that, you're a dickhead. Well, no, and it's great that even we're having this conversation on the wrap-up and on the Team Super Dad podcast because, you know, as a dad who had to, you know, go through child court and a lot of stuff and muck being flung. And I could be quite easily triggered about some subjects. And then I have to catch myself because that's not my intent at all.

38:34 But I think inside of some people, they're so caught up in their story that they're unable to appreciate the millions, let alone billions of other stories that there are out there. So I'm really looking forward to this conversation. Yourself and I are going to be on there. Liz Evandon and Joe Baldwin Trot are going to be joining us. Two cool women, two attractive women as well, actually. Very intelligent, funny. It's not going to be a boring conversation. I think I'm really looking forward to it being a fresh conversation, you know, where

39:16 I've got questions to ask, you know, and I want to hear about, is it scary being a woman? that's pretty much where I want to start, you know, like get that out in the open. Like, and it's about being honest because there's going to be questions that guys I'll be honest. I've got a pretty good imagination, and I've uh you know, I've supported um various different forums for various different demographics that I'm not part of. Uh, so I, you know, in various councils, I've been uh facilitating LGBT forums, um, ethnic diversity of BME, BAME forums, and so on.

39:58 Um, but I'm never going to fully appreciate everything that those demographics and groups go for because I'm a straight, middle-class, middle-aged, white, able-bodied man. So, I just no matter how much I can imagine, it's I'm never going to experience that. And so, to speak to women and just get them to share some of the things, because I think a lot of guys, we just don't, they're unknown unknowns. Like, you and I, if we were walking down the street at night, if it's a random thing, we'd look around and at most we'd be looking, thinking, who's gonna attack me, try and mug me, at worst, try and stab me.

40:39 Yeah, I bet you've never had the thought in my head, fuck, there's a guy over there who's gonna try and rape me. Yeah, yeah, that's another level. Yeah, it just they're things that never run through our head, so it's gonna be really interesting. And frankly, sometimes I'm sure it's gonna be a little uncomfortable as men to be hearing this and to be it's gonna be really challenging for me to sit there and remind myself it doesn't matter that it's not me, it doesn't matter, it's not about me. This is about men in general, and I am a man, and it's not she's not saying I'm gonna do these things or I'm thinking these things, but she is saying that men like me will do these things, and she doesn't know-not she, not individuals, but women don't know what's what

41:31 in terms of who's right and who's wrong, who's gonna, who's gonna, and whatever. So, it's gonna be really challenging for me to just accept, just shut up and listen, man, ask some questions. That is the bottom line. And we did it last year. I want to go back and listen to a couple of podcasts we did with uh uh Errol and Tony, two black friends of mine, um, pastors in churches. And we just had a straight conversation about something. I've known these guys 15 years, 20 years, and there's things you just never ask. And it's like, okay, well, let's just let's do this, let's ask the things that haven't been asked. So, we're going to do that on Monday night. So, yeah, if you go over to

42:12 just any of the Team Superdad socials, there's mentions of it. If you go to the teamsuperdad.com forward slash network, you'll get you can sign up there for the network and we'll be sending updates of when the event is. But basically, it's on Monday, which is Monday the 22nd, and it's at six o'clock, seven o'clock. Half past six is when you took your lag, so it'll be around then some point after that. We were just after half past six. There you go, get involved, spread the love, share the word. Um, so um, moving along, let's crank it back up to our show notes.

42:50 By the way, um, sponsors, I hope you notice as I was pouring my whiskey, the label was forward, so I'm very much open to sponsor opportunities, and you can see that placement is natural exactly. And I could say, Glenn, that looks like a nice, fine whisk of single malt whiskey there, isn't it? Oh, this is this is a wonderful single malt. I don't know if I showed it earlier, but this is a Cardoo Gold Reserve. Um, very, very, very nice and perfect way to end a stressful week. I got given a bunch of whiskey, I've never been a whiskey drinker, right? I'm never really much of a drinker, right?

43:27 My one of my first times I ever got drunk was when my dad and stepmum went to a school play, and my best was now one of our best mates, Matt, came over and I just bought an album which was uh some kind of import of Chicago House. Okay, it literally was 1990, and Matt came around and we were babysitting. It's a riffle services on me, uh, we were babysitting like 14, 15, and we decided to have like a couple of little shots of stuff, and then it got a bit carried away.

44:08 So, we were doing like half-tumbler full of spirits, and so I think we did we had we had we had a little sniffle, then one of the bigger drinks, then which I. I'd made, then Matt goes and makes another one. And I said, quite sensibly, I'm not having another one. So Matt necked them both. So shortly after that, he was absolutely paralytic. Then he said, I'm going to cycle home. So I said, no, you're not. No, you're not going to cycle home. I called his mum and I said, Lynn, something's happened. Matt went to the toilet and he's come back drunk.

44:53 And I'm about 40. Now, Matt's mum and dad, Lynn and Pete, pretty straight-laced, pretty straight-laced, fine, upstanding members of the community. You know, if you'd have said that to my dad, he'd have called you a nickhead and sent you to bed with a coffee. But as it was, so I've got, so I know like I've got about 10 minutes. I've got to try and sober Matt up. So I try and maneuver him up the stairs in like a fireman type situation. And I get him up to the top. Sod's door. Our bathroom's on the third floor. It's like an old, old Victorian house, right? So I get him and on the wall, my stepmum has a set of Irish plates handed down through three generations of her family.

45:36 He wipes them out completely, the whole lot, Irish China, boom, 200 years in a pile. Clearly, should have put them in a display cabinet. That's another subject. So I've run a cold bath. This is the best bit. You know, when you've got those pictures in your mind of something that's happened, the picture of my mate, Matt's face, as I tossed him into a bath of cold water. Because at 14, your mind's like, cold shower, cold shower. So I go and I like throw him in like a washed walrus, cold shower. And he goes, fuck, fuck.

46:19 Now he's awake, right? So now he's awake. So I get him back out of the bath, get back out of the bath. I rub him down with a towel, put his clothes back on. As we go back down the stairs, I managed to get him down the first flight, but he swings wildly as we go down the second one, stumbles down the stairs, grabs hold of a lamp that's hanging out the wall to stop his fall, rips that out the wall. And now he's laying at the bottom of the stairs with the lamp in his hand and laughing. So his mum, in her infinite wisdom, decides that he needs to go to hospital. So she goes, seeing that I'm home alone, she calls the police.

47:04 So then my dad comes home about 20 minutes later or whatever, the house full of police. I'm standing in the kitchen, throwing up in the sink. And a policeman's holding my little baby brother. I'm guessing you didn't do much babysitting after that. Oh, very poor. What's that thing? An actor goes, end scene. Brutal. That's amazing. Yeah, really bad. Matt got grounded for like ever. And thankfully, I didn't too much. My dad wasn't really into grounding as a punishment. But no, surprisingly, I was put off booze for quite a while after that.

47:49 See, I know my kids, I don't know what your thing is about kids drinking, but I won't say I let my kids drink because that sounds too much. But if of an evening they say, Dad, can I have a cider? Have a cider. You know, like a little can of Copperberg or something. Or they'll say, can I have a glass of wine when we're having dinner? I'll say, yeah, pour you a glass of wine and so on. I won't let them have spirits until they're a bit older. But I will let, I'll let them, if I'm pouring myself whiskey, I'll let them smell it. And the smell enough is alone alone is enough to kind of put them off. But I have to do this because I've got, and I don't know if you can, you can see, I don't know if I've shown this. I've shown this.

48:29 So that's my whiskey cabinet. So I've got about 15 to 20 different whiskies in there. That's just a whiskey shelf. And I've got the same for gin and vodka and rum and babies and wine. And I've got everything over there. So I need to trust them because when I leave the house, if I can't trust them, how much of that are they going to get through? So I've got to basically put the fear of God into that this is not going to happen. You are not doing this. Otherwise, you're in deep trouble. Otherwise, basically, I don't want my Irish China smashed. Oh, man. Can you imagine? There's no coming back from that. No. Very, very, it just had to go down as one of those things.

49:11 But no, the poor woman. Yeah, definitely. Imagine what those plates. plates have been through, only to be totaled by two modern age twats. Oh, that is an epic story. I love it. Uh, Matt, Matt's one of those mates, right? I forgot if you've got a mate like this. If you I have a drinking limit, I have a there's a point in the night where it's like, oh, I'm gonna have to have a bit, I can't drink any more beer. I'm gonna have black down. In fact, no, I've had enough to drink. I can't, I just need like give us a lemonade or a bottle of water or something because I need to sober up now. Matt is one of those mates that when you get in the taxi at some random point of the night, eventually going home, he'll pull out a can of lager and you go, What on earth is that?

49:58 Where on earth did you find it in your pocket? It's like, I've no idea, he genuinely doesn't. But the fact is to say, he's having when you couldn't think another drop could be drunk, he's having another can of lager. If it's if it's not lager and beer, that's me. I can drink like non-beer, beer just takes up too much space. Um, but I've got a mate called Dan who he used to, we used to go out and you're saying about drinking loads. He would he would just go hard from like second one, and he wasn't, he's not a big guy, he's only five, five, five, six, or something like that, small guy, and so he'd just get absolutely hammered.

50:39 And the next thing you'd know, you'd you'd someone have basically come out in the pub and just say, Was Dan be in the toilet? Yeah, thought so, yeah, someone's someone's uh, someone's ripped the hand dryer off the wall, and that would just be Dan. And you just knew, yeah, yeah, that was that was probably Dan, wasn't it? There was no reason to it. You know, it's bad, but it's also you know, there's nothing you can do about it. And the challenge was, he was also the guy who used to, uh, I probably mentioned it on the show before, um, who could never, he could never shit with his clothes on. Okay, good. So, um, yeah, he would, if we're out on an all-day one, you knew that if he was having a dump in the toilet, he was naked at that moment.

51:20 And uh, you just had to pray that he was uh sober enough that he would put his clothes back on before coming out of the toilet. That's gold. That is, that's there's a few people around who have that. Uh, it's, I guess, it's some kind of either a really chilled outlook on life or an affliction. Uh, but he's better these days, much better these days. Hi, Dan. Hi, Dan. Good to have you on board, Dan. If you want to meet also get to undress to have a crap in public, um, I do know someone, so I'll introduce you. You two can compare notes. Um, yeah, Gina, maybe I should try it. Hang on a minute, we're locking it. Have you ever stripped off and had a dump in a, in a, in a pub toilet in a pub toilet?

52:04 No, no, because that's fucking weird. It is weird. Maybe we should just go two ways about it. That's that's mental. I'll probably go in the disabled one though. There's more space. Oh, look, my daughter has made the this was the Nutella and what cake? Oreo pie. Oh, good. Wow. Well, it's got chocolate. I can't eat that until Easter. I'll eat it. I'll eat it. Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna send it down the wave of the wires to Glenn. Well, Glenn, we're hitting 52 minutes already. Before we move too further on, quick what to watch. I saw Ted Lasso this week. Have you ever seen it? Yeah, no, I've got Apple Plus. And I said to people online, what the point?

52:49 What's the point of Apple, Apple TV or whatever it is? And that was about the only show they said, you know what? That's probably a good one to try. Any good? Very funny. It is very funny. Well, I'll give it a watch. I've just started a series myself. I've just started on Prime The Vikings. It's fighting, shagging, and eating meat. Yeah, it's all right. It's not quite Game of Thrones, but I'm sort of two-thirds of the way through series one. It's good. I won't say it's great. It's good. And that in the moment is enough. At the moment, I rate my TV shows as the same as I do my women.

53:34 Good is good enough. I don't need great. But yeah, I'll definitely happily watch a bit of Ted Lasso at some point. Just so that I can make the most of using this Apple TV because there's so many bloody streaming channels and I've got them all except for BT and I just don't use them enough. So I've got to find some things to watch on them. Well, I can't say how you're mad. I'm your man for comedy-based, irreverent occasional series and stuff. well, we actually sneaked in a hot in the 90s, which we weren't gonna, which I didn't have planned.

54:16 Um, one thing we're gonna start doing, which I don't think I've told you about, I made a because I like to have a little regular when we're stuck for something, it gives us hope to come back to it. Also, people like things that are regular that it's like watching reruns of favorite shows, it gives you an angle. Comforting, yeah, that's exactly it. So, uh, first times first times and best times, I figured we could we could uh okay first times and best times, and I thought of that because I drove past the holiday in Ashford on the way to seeing um the new uh the new uh interesting uh and hopefully very positive uh friend uh and i drove past the holiday in ashford which is where i lost my virginity

55:04 that is it's better than the back of a car but it's a holiday bloody inn come on wow i thought that was i thought that was all right i thought well back then yeah you would have because that's that's gonna pop your cherry then then then let's do it nicely let's let's not feel uncomfortable about someone coming in let's let's let's let's be classy you know if if alan partridge was going to pop his cherry it would have been at a holiday inn you pop your cherry then come on if you're gonna at home yeah yeah yeah she came and stayed over

55:45 oh that's easy i don't it was a mad time my life i didn't really have a i didn't really have a a home well i did but just my dad was was struggling financially we were living in a pub that we were renovating and basically it was derelict um nights i wasn't staying there i was staying at friends houses so the holiday in was was a pretty good shout hey it's there are worse places let's be honest you know what we had an argument about breakfast she said i'm not going to breakfast it's embarrassing and i was just like embarrassing you cheeky bitch

56:27 halfway breakfast um and we just had sex so what you what are you talking about yeah i i'll admit i won't go into detail because i know this is uh he's not the time and place i've i've got a natural aversion to that sort of change chain hotel for popping cherries just because and i'm not this is in no way libelous is it no not libelous scandal uh slander it's not mission because you can't be it can't be slander if it's true uh you'll know that i'm i'm uh divorced uh because my my ex-wife had an affair with a teenage boy uh and she popped his cherry in a premier inn in maidstone so i've got

57:07 i've got a slight aversion to a chain hotel and uh and cherry popping i'm i'm i'm open about that okay that's your counseling that's your like it's a trigger it's a it's a trigger trigger did you say virginity premiering it over here glenn back down back down oh man and how do you know it was his virginity or was that just part of the story she yeah yeah she she was quite open about that like uh like uh lucy in in brockmeyer it's it was uh yeah a very it was a it was a a period of my life i don't wish to repeat oh man a mate of mine his his girlfriend came out after three years of them being in a relationship and it took him about six years

57:58 to get over it his whole masculine identity was just destroyed by the fine with that that would have been great you know if she'd have if if my ex had left me for a woman because i can't be a woman so that's okay if she'd have left me for a rich man that's fine because i'm not gonna be a rich if she'd have left me for a good-looking man fine i'm not gonna be but no anyway there's a whole world of there's a whole episode there just in and of itself okay uh well i guess if you if you're gonna get dumped what she could have done the the lesbian uh friend she could have done like she could have brought her mate over they could have had a threesome and in the morning they could have been like a sting in the tail which was um i hope you had fun but just so you know uh me and sally are off

58:50 you do realize that lesbians aren't always bisexual as well yeah so sally sally might have not liked the cock i don't suppose either of them would have but um but yeah i mean it would have been it would have been in an ideal world world, it would have been a wonderful parting gift. That's what I'm saying. A parting gift, it could have softened the blow for Dave. It could have really helped him out. Because that's the thing. Everyone goes on. And this is one of my annoyances. Everyone who's ever kind of had a threesome goes, oh, it's not as much fun as you think. And it's not as good. Fuck you. I want to find that out for myself. You know, I don't, I'm happy disappointing two women because

59:33 I'll be able to prove it and test the theory because they can't be that bad. Otherwise, you know, porn would have a whole, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be quite the same. Your worst nightmare is there having more fun without you. I'm still here. That's fine. You go crazy, ladies. I'll just sit on the sofa and I'm good with this. You just go to town. I'll check Twitter. It's fine. That's a fair point, actually. That is a fair point. As long as everyone's having fun, that's all it needs to be. That brings us back to the top of the show, Glenn. Perfectly talking. We came in with fun and we've gone out with fun.

1:00:15 That is a beautiful, beautiful end to this week's. Isn't that one of your five F's? It is. It's the best one. It's the end one. Whatever happens, end with fun. Fun. Well, I'm off to watch Comic Relief. Any luck, I'll catch Lenny Henry telling a joke to James Corden as flipping Barry Moore makes a comeback on stage. I'll tell you what, it's been that long in lockdown. If he invited me to a pool party, I would be there. I'd be there in speed-o's. Oh, Barry Moore, pool party.

1:00:58 I have been dying to get an invite. Trouble is, he's been drowning in people trying to get into his parties. He's just gone off the radar since his last big party, anyway. Can't imagine why. No, no, not at all. Glenn, good to see you. If people want to come and take the piss out of you and have a go at you, where can they come and come and find your latest annoying tweet? Oh, go to A Dating Dad on Twitter and just, yeah, you bring it. Bring it, bitches. I've got a thick skin. See what we can do. Just be funny or intelligent when you're insulting me and I'll appreciate it and respect it.

1:01:39 Yeah, exactly. Like a good school's debating society. That was the best. Last Thursday of the month was the best Thursday lunchtime at school with a debating society at school. You want good wit and humor as you absolutely rant and rave at each other. Yeah, brilliant. And yeah, Team Superdad, everyone, come on over to teamsuperdad.com. You can find out all we are doing there for dads, dads who are creating the life they want, not the life they feel stuck in. And we'll see you next week. Subscribe to the podcast, leave us a review, and generally have a great weekend. Take it easy. Bye. This has been Team Super Dad. Find us at TeamSuperDad.com.

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