The Best A Dad Can Get - Wrap Up #38

00:00 Welcome, it's Friday. It's the end of the week and that can only mean one thing. Yes, you're on the wrap-up with Team Super Dad. It's great to have you here. Let's get on with the show. 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. Yes, it is Friday. And yes, this is the Team Super Dad wrap-up. If you know us, then great to have you back. If you've just seen me the first time, then welcome.

00:38 Good day. Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. And all that sort of good stuff. This is the thing we do for our Team Super Dad friends, family, and members all around the world. It's a wrap-up to celebrate the end of the week to talk some crap, dad style, bloke style, in a quintessentially British way, chaps. And actually, no, that doesn't mean posh voices. That means ripping the shit out of each other, talking about topical items in a perhaps slightly inappropriate way, and generally having a few laughs about what's gone down this week. And I can't do that on my own. So let's bring in my regular co-host, Mr.

01:17 Glenjamin. I am hurt, absolutely appalled, and I'm distraught. Posh voice. Are you trying to tell me I ain't got a posh voice? Mate, this is my proper talking voice and everything. Well, I said quintessentially British. For a second there, I thought some of our transatlantic friends might have had visions of Harry Potter. Well, no, even worse than that, the crown? The crown or that place with the big house and the old Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey, yeah, Downton Abbey. Yeah, I'm always going to be a below stairs person, let's be honest.

02:00 And that's just because I look like a troll. You're one of the guys that knocked on the door and brought in like the farm stuff. Master, do you want your food, Master? That sort of shit, yeah. Grouse and. Yeah, I'm a beater. I'm a beater. I go out and I, for want of a better phrase, I bash the bush. There's Glenn bashing the bush. Good. Sorry, I've thrown you off your rhythm. Well, I got sent a WhatsApp video today of a lady golfer who was on Sky Sports and

02:43 it said, and it's like, you know, because golf's all kind of quiet and she's approaching the ball. And, oh, and then he goes, oh, she shaved a few too many holes today. Oh, not, mate. Daddy's. I mean, you can't foresee every single line that a commentator might actually say, but someone's got to just have a word. Yeah, but it could be, you know, it's like a checklist, isn't it? So on the one hand, they're playing, you know, golf commentary bingo.

03:20 And on the other hand, he's just come straight over from the men's game with his normal, with his normal, you know, golf-related, you know, oh, nearly missed the putt there. And no, oh, that's not the, she shaved. And the thing that cracked me up most was that me and the, and the and the scallies, the group's called the scallies, by virtue of the four scousers that are in there. And it's just just good, honest tittering as a ridiculous line. Did you ever hear that old, old cricket one? The batsman's holding the bowler's Willie.

04:05 I do love a bit of cricket. See, TMS is going to be one of those things that I just, if ever you want to say what is true Britishness, Test Match Special, being able to talk for five days about cricket and still be able to come up with new stories. Only serve for five tests as well. It's just, it's a work of pure genius. That is one of my dream jobs. Well, and especially that old school one, you know, listening on what it as it was, Radio 4. And just, I didn't even like cricket that much, to be honest, at all, to be fair. But I could always listen to a bit of Test Match special because they're just goofing off, like,

04:47 it's a bit like baseball commentary, isn't it? Like, like Brockmeyer, there's among some chit-chat about cricket, there's just general good time for a few hours about topical matters that pop to mind. So, Glenn, it's well, I'll tell you what, just let's do a little bit more of an intro for people that don't know what the hell we're doing here. This is the wrap-up. This is what we do at the end of the week. As if we're in the pub, Glenn's got a glass of wine there. I've actually got a coffee. I have, I've got one because I'm celebrating, Johnny. I've won another contract today. Um, put it together in four days, and uh, yeah, that's another half million pounds worth of work, which will keep our team going for another little bit. I'm really, really, really pleased. It's a nice, it's a nice way to start a bank holiday weekend, isn't it?

05:31 It is, and I made a note in my running order about uh about bank holiday weekends. Uh, listen, we'll come on to that in one second, right? Because I do want to talk about that. Uh, it's the wrap-up. We talk about stuff from the end of the week. If you're listening, if you're watching, share, uh, click the bell, leave us a review, be nice, you know, and spread the love. Uh, Glenn and I are actually got a, we've got a we're gonna get all serious. We've got a planning session coming up to grow the uh, to grow the wrap-up, to bring more people in. We've realized that actually it does take a fair amount of time, energy, and effort. And if the audience doesn't keep growing and going up, then what the hell is the point of it all, basically?

06:13 So, uh, so yeah, with all seriousness, uh, if you love us, then then give some love by sharing the wrap-up with uh people in your world, it'll be much appreciated. It doesn't make your enjoyment any less either. It's one of those weird things, which is it kind of is compound interest. The more people listen, the more enjoyable it will be for you. And how cool will it be for you to be able to point to other people and say, you know what? I was in there first. You see that show? I introduced you to that. Getting there now at the ground level. This is a pyramid scheme without any payments. Just be the influencer, influence your friends and be a bad, I mean, good influence.

06:52 We could get some car stickers, like you remember back in the 80s, the Chad. Oh, like bumper stickers. The no, yeah, man. Let's get some bumper stickers going. But do you remember the chat? You might not even, I don't even know if you're. Oh, wait. I saw these things with like names above the passenger seat. No, that was like a like furry dice and winner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sort of thing. Remember, I'm from North London, so it counts. Right? Was a grunt was like some kind of 80s graffiti thing with a nice. With the nose. Yeah. Yeah, I remember. I remember

07:30 I read about it on the internet. There it is. Let's bring a little picture in for those people that are watching live. And we love you. You're our favorites. I mean, podcast is, you know, you're great as well. But if you watch live, you're a. I love you. I've got to share the screen. Where the hell did the Chad come from? Glenn, do your normal ask Google whilst I'm doing this and see if we can find out where the Chad came from. Boy, Google! Listeners, watchers, who knows where the flipping Chad came from? Because I can't even see that now. What's going on? Let's move that over there. Well, yeah, what is the bloody Chad? I don't know.

08:10 80s drawings that are a massive part of my life. Blimey, yeah. So we get some get some bumper stickers going, get some Chad going. Where are we? And then we can be like, I was there in the beginning. There he is. There's the Chad. There's the Chad. Yeah, so for those, imagine someone poking their hands over a fence or over a wall with a massive dong of a nose, just kind of leaning over. And yeah, that for some reason was Chad. I don't get it. I don't get it. It's also really innocent. In today's world, it would have a massive like bell end on the end and a pair of bollocks and some swear words. Let's be honest. It had that when we were growing up as well.

08:52 Have you seen that meme, right? It's like a doctor's survey. And the question is something like, do you feel mature? Like, you know, and then in the checkbox, it's someone's drawn a cock and balls. In the no, in the no checkbox. It's just a cock and balls. I'll tell you what about feeling old and mature. I've put my COVID test because I'm over 40. I'm 40 years old, so I'm in that next bracket. And when I was trying, I put it on, we've got a little school class that we all kind of got back in touch with each other.

09:28 And when I was pointing out how old we are so we can do it, I realized the time between now and me leaving school is less than the time between me starting school and the fucking moon landings. So from Neil Armstrong walking on the moon to me being born, no, me starting school, not even being born, me starting school is closer than me leaving school and now. And I don't think a fact has. has made me feel as old in my life. Yeah. Those things just keep hitting us now. Boom, boom, boom. You talk about a song and you go, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That was 30 years ago. Yeah, we're closer to 2050 than 1990.

10:10 I just, I refuse to acknowledge these facts. Yeah. Man, it's Jack Your Body, which you're not into your early house music, but Jack Your Body is like one of the quintessential. I've used that word twice in one show now. What a wanker. That's not wankery. We love a bit of quintessence. In fact, talking about Wankery, I actually asked on Twitter this week, and I won't say Wankery because so I'm aware that I come from working class roots. You know, I come from a world where we didn't have carpet or curtains, where you'd learn which people to open a door to and which people were debt collectors.

10:53 You'd basically negotiate with a corner shop on genuine, you'd negotiate with a corner shop to say, look, mum gets paid next Thursday. Can we have a loaf of bread and we'll pay you back then? That's the world I came from. Now I'm in a world where my kids have got a preferred brand of brioche. You know, we've got like we're so middle class it hurts. And I asked on Twitter, what it's kind of quintessential middle classness. What low-key middle-class thing do you own? What's the most low-key middle class thing that you own is? And the answers are astonishing. So before I go into them, about you, in terms of low-key middle-class thing, what quintessentially middle-class thing do you own?

11:36 Fact, right? Because I could make some up. I've got some ideas of that. But fact, I've got a device that you can cut a pineapple with and it turns it into chunks. Oh, that's nice. Well, you screw it down and then it pulls the middle of the pineapple out and then you put the thing down top of it and it cuts it. Kajunk sort of noise. Well, no, more like a pushy, squelchy. See, it came out of something that I was talking about and I realized, in my mind, having a butter dish and matching tea towels, that's middle class. Because I grew up without that shit. And some of the things that I mean, someone's put, they've got a pestle and mortar,

12:22 homemade crumpet rings, butter knives, coffee makers. I think my favourite was they said, I'm not going to say that my shoehorn makes me middle class, but my travel shoehorn maybe probably does. I love that. Absolutely love it. Because middle, I mean, class for me is one of those, I'm aware, it's a chip on my shoulder. It always will be. But I know I'm middle class. I know I've worked my way into this sort of thing. And so knowing that I've got a ginger grater and some fridge, a particular fridge holder, like a thing for your avocado to go in the...

13:03 And of course it's avocado shaped. And it goes in the fridge. Yeah, good to keep your avocado fresh. Yeah, spiralizers, barber jackets. People think barber jackets. And this, I mean, I'm actually quite worried about how many of these things I've got. But I've genuinely got, I've genuinely got a barber jacket. And I turned up when I was going out with mates. And as we kind of, they saw it and I was like, oh, you've got a new jacket. That must be one of those really good barber rip-offs. Because people can't accept that I'm now not a rip-off person. Yeah, because you're in North London, Wolfer's Hole Geezer, yeah. Or East London, yeah.

13:43 Yeah, but I tell you what, though, if you, if you're from Kent, you're a Kent geezer, then barber is, you know, pretty associated with scary pikeys, basically. Oh, well, that suits me down to the ground then, doesn't it? In fact, I'm pretty sure that right now, if you wanted to buy a dag, I could buy it. I get your dag. I know, but that's that shit's real around here. You know, in where you're driving into Maidstone from your neck of the woods, there's that big roundabout at the motorway junction. Yes, I know it very well with a big fence next to it. And weirdly, there's a sign there that says it's a police sign. And it's somewhat like the police motorway cars kind of hang out before racing down to the motorway.

14:28 But 50 yards further on from that is like an infamous pikey caravan thing, traveler caravan thing. Where you literally take your life into your own hands by going on there. Not only because you're an outsider, right? So there's quite a lot of that around K. Kent, you know? And it's really hard because I'm kind of, I'm, I feel, I feel like I'm a modern man, but having I'm gonna have to fight against the. Did you ever watch that my big fat gypsy wedding? Yeah. And that that that that gave me these these irrational fears that if my daughter came home and said, yeah, or my son came home and said, I'm dating the traveller.

15:13 I would have all these irrational fears about all the things that were kind of insinuated within those series. I've got no reason to believe they're true, but I've also got no reason to believe they're not true. And we've got such an ingrained fear of travelers, which is mad because my family's Hungarian was probably gypsy Roman-y blood in me left, right, and center. Yeah, I've kind of been indoctrinated in this society where travellers are scary and I genuinely feel a little bit scared. Well, yeah, and in fairness, and not at the risk of putting my life in danger by saying anything too negative against them, I know a fair few people who work at the leisure centre, yeah.

15:50 So when you have like what happens as occasionally, a big gang of them turn up and take over a couple of fields around, you know, around Maidstone, then they all go to Moat Park on a Saturday and it is quite scary. And then the women that run there said, yeah, they just literally strip the place, like the coffee bar, the sandwich thing, the machines, the, you know, it just, by the time they're done, a week later, they've got to rebuild the place. And this, this is one of the there's kind of different routes. You've got you've got travellers who actually they're travelers in name and culture, but not they don't travel, they stay in a place. And then you've got the travelers who just go through and go through and go through.

16:32 And no matter how much those travelers who stay there might want to retain their culture and so on and their history and heritage, but also want to be part of a wider society in some way. Then you've got these other people breeze through that just trash it for them. Don't they just know Nick stuff? That's what I want to know. I would love to sit down with some travellers and say, I'm not being funny, right? But you do know unique stuff, right? And then they would go, what are you talking about? Like, no, no, we don't. Or, well, yeah, actually, yeah, sorry about that, but yeah, we do. I don't know. But I guess they're in the same thing of like, kind of, we can say it, but you can't.

17:10 And, you know, we don't, but we know other people do. Just like if I'm as, as a, as a, for what of a better phrase, a cockney, if I went up to Birmingham or Manchester or the north, they would say exactly, you're a fucking, you think you're some sort of geezer, don't you? You're all fucking tea leaves and they send us wannabes. Well, I virtually did it, even though I was only in Stafford for uni. I was the only, there was one other southerner there, right? One. And I mean that, I don't even like taking the piss. I literally passed away. And I've told you this story before about day one when I said, oh, yeah, hello, my name's JJ. And they're like, who the fuck's this? Let me try that again. Johnny, does that work any better? Yeah, okay, good.

17:56 But I find the further away from home I get, the bigger home gets. So when I'm in, when I'm like in Wolframstow, now I know we live in Kent and so on, but I will forever be a Wolframstow boy. And so for me, Wolframstow is home. And so when you're talking about Newham, you had a fucking weird in Newham. When you're talking about, I know Hackney, the fucking weird in Hackney. Yeah, come out of London. If I go up to Manchester, actually, you know what? All of London, they're my people. They're my brothers. And so when they're going on about London, I'll defend London. Go up to Scotland. All of England becomes my people. And I'll defend. Go out into any kind of European country. All of Britain becomes my people.

18:40 Go out to fucking China and so on. Then Europe becomes my country. It's so weird how our sense of ownership and who we are expands or contracts on a constant basis. Yeah. Did you, you know, like the, you know, the European Super League meltdown the other week? Oh, yes. And then they were talking about bringing Celtic and Rangers into the British Super League. Right. So they had this Scottish guy rang up. Yeah. He was brilliant. I'm not going to attempt to do a Scottish accent, right? Oh, please do. Please do. He's like, hello there. Nailed it. It's Chucker here.

19:26 Hello there. He goes, he said, he goes, well, you can come up here if you want. He says, but I go, I've got to be honest. It's like a blood-fipping fest when you've got a load of English dudes turn up in Glasgow. He says, it's just. a field day. We can't help ourselves. And Jim White, he's like, Oh, yeah, well, you know, not everyone is a hooligan. You know, well, you know, football's come a long way. And he goes, Maybe, but we're on it. Well, I can swear, can't I know? He can't swear. He goes, He goes, Maybe, but we love a fight.

20:11 Oh, man. Yeah. Well, in the realms of continental divides and wondering what people get up to, Glenn, it occurred to me this week, and I don't know why this thought popped into my head. What does Donald Trump do now? Like, what is he? What is he up to? Or other, or other former global leaders? Like, how do you suddenly go from having the big red button to destroy the world and a phone you can ring up and abuse Putin on? And, you know, and then he just sat in a hot tub having crumpets at night, got nothing about to do. I tell you what, this has a point. Bear with me. When I moved from London to Kent, after about six months, I just felt myself.

20:58 I stopped. I literally stopped in the street and thought, fuck me. I'm not looking around the corner and wondering if someone's going to jump out on me. I'm not wondering where the bush is. I'm not looking at my exit points. I'm not, I walk differently because I'm not like worrying about if anyone's going to have a go at me and I need to project an error three. I've relaxed. Now, hasn't it felt relaxing on social media and in the media without Donald Trump over the last few months? It's been so nice, so good. But it's also made it so blatantly obvious and weird how he spent four years just pumping, pumping the global Twitter sphere and social media and the media just with random comments throughout the day about what he was up to and

21:49 who he didn't like that day. It's amazing. His last one that I noticed was he had a rant at the Oscars. That's all he's got left out. It's mad. Absolutely mad. So he had a go at them saying, it used to be called the Academy Wards and now it's called the Oscars, a far less important and elegant name. And a go at them, basically said, go back 15 years, change it back to the Academy Awards. Don't be so politically correct. As if politically correct is a fucking bad thing. What he's basically saying in there is, all these giving awards to black filmmakers. Exactly. As fine, be a bit racist, be a bit sexist. Do you know what? We want more people like me.

22:31 Bring back a great host. Hasn't Neil Patrick Harris hosted it a few times? Who is one of the greatest hosts in history? It's just, he's going on about, yeah, all these television people spend all their time thinking about how to promote the Democrat Party. Yeah, because that's what the Oscars is all about. It's all about knocking down conservatives and pro-life people. Fuck you. This cover of film interest is just a wild ruse. It's just, but in some way, it's nice to have him back. I know, but that's all he's got. He's like, I need something big. What's on this week? What's big? Well, the Academy Awards are on, darling.

23:16 Right, I'm going after them. Yeah, let's make them more racist. I mean, great again. All these black people making films as if they're any good. What are you talking about? Christ. But it's so nice. And I hate it. I hate that it exists. But I like the fact that he really is. Do you remember when you went to the dentist and you had to chew that tablet and it showed up all the plaque on your teeth? Donald Trump is the plaque shower-upper of the racist world because it allows, you know, as soon as he says something, it will bring out the racists. It will say that. So you can identify them and you can fucking scrub the shit out of them off your face because you don't want them anywhere near your life, do you?

24:00 It's crazy. But I just imagine, like, what's he doing? This, you know, buttering a piece of toast. You know, he's like, fucking fucking Putin. No, no, he's not fucking Putin. He's like, Putin, tell me how I'm meant to be doing this, please. Oh, my old friend, I miss you. He's just signed himself up for like ever now, hasn't he? Putin? Yeah, they've even stopped even pretending about elections. Let's be honest. He's he's basically king and emperor. He's only a small country, anyway. That's how he gets away with it, because it's such a small country. Yeah, only the bits that count.

24:36 How many people in Russia? 200 million? I don't know. know probably more than there are in bolton probably i don't know how dense it is but in a fight i'd still take anyone from bolton over anyone from russia i mean literally anyone you show me a bolt and housewife she will kill any russian sas equivalent i don't care she'll give her handbag she'll smash the shit out of them that's what they should do the the the new army they should do it by region like so that the bolt and wives you know uh the kent diddekoys you know that it's just battalions of of yeah would you go up against them i wouldn't go up against them bolt and wives versus the kent diddy coys no

25:21 no no no i'm sticking on the sidelines for that one i'm for for to to buy into the american thing i'm i'm metaphorically pleading the fifth he's taking the fifth oh andy arter says there's 170 million in russia oh he believes if you could get the uh confirmation that andy that'd be great we'll take a rough estimate andy thank you very much is that pre or post covid though ah what you're worried about pre or post putin's decision after watching tv tonight yeah yeah i'm saying that because because covid's covet's obviously a big thing and i um unlike some of the uh and you know i'm i'm not a i'll be honest i'm not a

26:01 massive fan of brexit but we've managed to roll out our vaccinations pretty well and we've now reached a stage where over 40s can get their vaccinations and i am 40 so i've booked my vaccination i'm excited for you so it's a good good example to set others i i i had mine done a few weeks ago and uh my my aunt and uncle who are grandma and grandpa figures to my to the junior j's they got theirs done tonight right so they put on the family whatsapp group uh just had our second jabs done uh friday night feels like we're feels like we're lying queuing for a club and uh and and i was like oh

26:42 friday night queuing for a club getting getting some of the latest drugs you're in for a good one i think it went over their head a little bit but uh in my mind i was i was thinking of them just i tell you what if you walked into a covid like vaccination center and there was house music on that no one and they'll be fine everyone would love it because i love when you give blood the music there is so good i don't know what radio stations they choose but it's always so good so they just just keep that going for the vaccination thing because they want the blood to pump oh by the way i got my thriver results back

27:19 thriver is that like grinder hi uh home health test i did a uh i i had to squeeze the blood out of my fingers into a small test tube sent it off to them and they sent me back told whether i was healthy or not are you dead guess what i'm really healthy no mr trenathlon uh oh uh confirmation from andy thank you andy uh latest update on the russian population is looks like it's just uh 146 million wait a minute wasn't it 170 odd million earlier is this are we contributing to the uh decimation and the the the kind of humanitarian crisis in russia are we kidding russians i think putin probably just annexed uh uh or

28:02 nuked another uh small region of of antarctica or somewhere like that but yeah anyway thriver uh i had uh i've been interested in these like home health tests for for a while because we watched the watch the biggest loser usa right the biggest loser usa one of the best tv programs what is that show about tell me it's about really chronically obese people you can't say uh fat in america but they are chronically fat people and then they go on the show and then they train the living shit out of them for about four months and they just shed weight it's like a miracle and uh and and obviously if you're good you get to stay and if you're shit you get sent home like shouldn't it be the other way around you know if you're losing

28:48 weight you don't need them anymore and you know the fat people should be like forced to keep going there there is an at-home prize to keep them motivated but uh so then like kind of week two yeah week two they go and have a test with the doctor and they take the bloods and they and then uh and then they on and then episode three they do this whole dramatized thing where they go in and they individually get their results and they're like sue you're very overweight who's got one leg on each stool you know she's like she's like okay okay what else it's like well you have a metabolic age of 79 and you are actually 28.

29:36 you have got type 2 diabetes and you have risk of a heart attack on early onset you know like she's like so now she's just bawling she's got the kid there the husband stop eating all those burgers So since then, I was like, I want to know, I want to know what's going on in my body. So I had Hamish Grease Grierson on the podcast, and that show is going to go out, going to go out live. The recording is going to go out live. When you say we're on a podcast, what podcast are we talking about?

30:16 The Team Super Dad podcast. Team Super Dad, do you have podcast? Yes. We do a midweek episode of the Team Super Dad podcast, Glenn. Thanks for asking. Where can I get this? You can get it on any of your favorite podcast platforms or you can watch it live on Facebook, Twitter. Well, no longer Twitter. Thanks, Periscope. You can watch on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn. But yeah, Hamish is a dude, right? He is just kind of clever, kind of just kind of clever. I mean, that doesn't sound like a massive. Oh, no, no. It's not like a mega egghead, like, you know,

31:00 health person. Like, it's not a doctor-like type thing. He just creates businesses. And this one's just really going well. When he was younger, him and his brother were like, they had a look at this whole ski thing. He's like, you can go and do a really plush aspen-type mega-luxurious villa, ski lodge, you know, or you can go rough and ready in 18 to 30s and party every night. He's, I was like, where's the middle ground? Where's the nice ski chalet with the party? So him and his brother created a ski company called Ski Neon. And it's basically like young professionals ski popping. Sorry, young. Define young. Because I've got to be able to afford to play.

31:42 Is he like 28 to 35? Oh, man. That sounded cool. I was absolutely going to be googling the shit out of that and booking them. You probably can. Anyway, so he did that for a while. Then he has this idea about starting up this, like, you know, it's a tech business, basically, because it's making health accessible to the masses. And so they send you the kit. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a, so I get the, I get the kit, I've got pictures of it. And you have to prick your finger. So there's Johnny Big Balls all gung-ho. I'm saying to to the girlfriend, oh yeah, it'll be fine. I'll just do it and squeeze. She goes, no, it's hard. In my mind, I'm thinking, well, I cut my finger washing up and the thing bleeds for Britain.

32:22 So I prick the finger and you have to like, you have to kind of milk your finger. You have to squeeze the blood out. Like when you give him blood and they do the prick test at the start for the iron bit. Yeah, but the bloody thing heals up as quick as anything. I was literally milking my hand to get fucking watering. Jesus. I struggled to fill the tiny little vials with blood. We're talking like 600, whatever, not millilitres, obviously, like 600, whatever less than millilitres. It was literally, it was tintsy. I love the idea of your girlfriend, Patricia, coming at you with a knife saying, it's for the test, for the test.

33:03 I'm going to stab you up. Glenn, when I got down to the last finger pricker, I just thought to myself, if this doesn't work, I'm just going to get, you know, that flipping knife that I always cut myself on when I cut the meat? I'm just going to get that one out. Pretend I washed it off and cut my finger. So I got the results back. It's all good. All good. For me, this whole thing, it's not about fat shaming at all. It's about health shaming. And that may totally derail my future political career. But health is a big thing. Health is a huge, huge thing. And those who are massively obese are not as healthy.

33:47 I'm okay to put my kind of name to that statement. Those who are morbidly obese are not as healthy as they could possibly be. If they choose to live that life, that's fine, but they're not going to live as long. They're not going to live as happy, as open lives as those who are more healthy. Yeah, it's a tough one. Because if you give people vouchers for the NHS and they're really unhealthy, or then we're like flipping coupon ration coupons in the war, you'll be trading health vouchers. But I'll be quids in because, well, I still fear that I may, ironically enough, get bowel cancer or something like that after being this healthy for so long.

34:25 But you're doing, you're controlling the things you can control. I always want to control what I can. control, influence what I can't control, and accept what I can't influence. So I can control a few things. I can influence my health. I can accept that I'm never going to be Arnold Schwarzenegger levels of beef swole. It's just not going to happen. It's just, I'm never going to do that. So I can accept that. But I got to, I have to get a little bit better at influencing my health because I don't think I'm... I'm not unhealthy. I know this. My heart rate's okay. I can, I do 5k in about 26 minutes or so. I'm not unhealthy, but I know I could be healthier. I just do. I just can't be asked.

35:08 I like drinking wine and eating jerky too much. Yeah. Well, bad news for you, Glenn. I am going to challenge you into getting a bit fitter. Challenge. I mean, this is where I hate my competitive personality because if you'd said, I'm going to ask you to do this, I'm going to put this forward. That's one thing. But as soon as the word challenge or kind of as soon as someone gets the idea that I can't do something, I want to prove I can. So there are a few remaining places left on the Dirty Rotten Scramblers. It's at Hull Park on June the 26th. What is Dirty Rotten?

35:51 I've literally never heard of Dirty Rotten Scramblers. I've been called Dirty Rotten a lot of stuff, but not a Scrambler. The actual distance is 10K. There is a shorter one, but I might have to mock you if you go for the shorter one. And it's an obstacle course. It's muddy and it's wet and it's runny and it's kind of it's like a tough mudder. It's exactly. It is a tough mudder, except it's run by a tough runner and it's called dirty rotten. No, no, not run by tough runner. It's called dirty rotten scramblers. It's at whole park, which is like which is local to us. So when is it? June 26th? June 26th. I mean, is this something I've got to sign up to do?

36:33 Yes, £28. You're in. And is it a race? Because I feel like I mean, when I did my, I've done one 10K thing in my life. To be honest, I forgot about it until the day before and then kind of turned up and I did my, it was just a run. I'm not talking about the muddy bits, but my run was, I said, look, it'll be embarrassing if I was much more than an owl. I did it in 55 minutes. So Glenn, you're in. You're in. And we're going to do the Dirty Rottens. I'm going to bring up on the screen so our viewers can see. Dirty Rotten. Yeah. The girlfriend is in. Hole Park Estate. Is that it? Yeah.

37:13 I've clicked on interested on Facebook already now. Yeah, but they're going to run out of places. You need to go and book. If you go to active.com, you can book on active.com and book on the Dirty Rotten Scrambler at Hole Park. Right. I've literally clicked on there as we speak. We've got a few Team Super Dads actually doing it. Paul, Athos, now Glenn. Any other Team Super Dad crew who want to come and do it with us? I'm going to post a link on the thing now. Andy, can we get Andy down there? 26th for June. Oh, bollocks.

37:55 Oh, that's really annoying. That really fucking annoys me. You know, I have my kids week on, week off. And so one week, I've got them with me. And I'm on my own, so I've not got anyone to watch him while I've got while I've while I'm a parent. You know, that's the first thing in my life. And really annoyingly, on the 26th of June, I have not got my kids. Oh, so that excuse just fell out of your ass there. Plus, my junior J's are going to be with me anyway. So look, I've just posted the link. If you're watching the live stream, you've just put as if you can copy that down. But if actually, it will be in the chat on YouTube or Facebook or Twitch. It'll be in the chat as well. So click on that and sign up.

38:37 There's a fucking 30K. Now, when I'm seeing the prices, the 5K is £26.50. The 10K is £28.50. And the £30K is £30.50. Now, my stupid brain, for a fraction of a second, said, Wait, it's better value if you go for the £30K. It's only £2 and you get another £20K out of it. And then my real brain said, that's 20K. You've got to run. Yes. £30. I'm going for the 10K. Go for 10K. Good. It's good. And this is why I'm so keen on my new lady friend.

39:16 She's... Oh, Bella. Yeah, Bella, yeah. So she's got pictures of her and her. She's actually in a team. They do these things. having a Jaegermeister before they set off on the last time they did it. That's their thing. They have a Jaegermeister before they go. Oh, good, Glenn. This is going to be epic. So finally, Team Super Dad, friends, family, members all around the world. If you're not in the UK, then it really will be a mega thing to turn up to, particularly with the COVID restrictions. But other than that, come and join us. It'd be brilliant. If you do, I will guarantee I will buy you your beer for the entire day. Yeah. So, oh, funny story. James, my cousin from America, he came and did Tough Guy with us and

40:02 damn nearly killed him. He hadn't really prepped for it. He's quite a fit lad, but he went and bought a pair of trainers that would be suitable to just kill like after one day. And bizarrely, he bought a pair of leather trainers, which, of course, as soon as they got wet, were like two brief leather trainers. I mean, do they still make those? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Not a pair of Hmong shoes. I mean, just, you know, a pair of, they were trainers, but they were leather, you know. Oh, man. I'll tell you, what else have we got here? Um,

40:43 well, in terms of bad trainers, I made a list. I made a little, but I got our running order, got our running order because it was exciting. I didn't realize we were going to get because the reason we're going to challenge you to get fit, we've got loads happening over in the Hero Academy, which is the paid program part of Team Super Dad. Can I just interrupt? I'm on the screen to sign up to this fucking TNK. Team Super Dad, does it have a team on this run that we could do? As of now, yes, because you're doing it, Paul's doing it, Athos is doing it. So, yeah, we do it. Is there a team I can join, or do I have to create it? I don't know.

41:26 I'll ask them. When I booked it on, I don't think that was there. Anyway, this is good chat for you immediately. It's not good clap chat for our this is like doing a painting uh interview with a painter on a radio show, which is not not not not uh not good. Uh, I'll tell you what, though, I'll tell you what's got my goat this week. Um, I don't even talk about the media and what a shithouse it was, but I don't even think I'm that bothered with that anymore. Um, we'll do that another week, we'll do that another week. Oh, I'll tell you, go on, another week which is coming up ahead of us, which doesn't have Star Wars Day in it. Is that what you're saying?

42:09 Because you don't want to be spending time on Star Wars Day doing other things, May the 4th next week, exactly. And so, this is a bank holiday weekend. This is an opportunity that you don't often get to be able to say, you know what, I'm just going to dedicate three days of my bank holiday weekend to the greatest TV or cinema experience in history, and I will die upon that hill. So, that might just be a way of filling these three long and lonely days by watching every Star Wars movie in one go.

42:50 Yeah, yeah, but when you're watching them, there is a very clear order. I don't know how much I've not actually explored. How much of a geek are you, Johnny? I'm I have geek tendencies and geek leanings without actually being a geek. So, for example, I have quite a lot of love for Star Trek, particularly next generation, but I have recently been watching Discovery with the black woman who's absolute badass. So, we can say you're geek curious for some reason. I'm geek curious. Oh, yeah, the Borg, the Borg in the Next Generation, the Borg,

43:28 and being assimilated. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, so yeah, I'm a bit geeky. Because I am, I am, I mean, full-on, ridiculously geeky. I mean, it's hard to it's hard to believe when you look as handsome as I do and you're as cool and as stylish and as charismatic and as sporty and all that sort of stuff. You just think you can't be the complete package, but yes, yes, I am. At some point, you meant to interrupt me because this is all. You tried to set you up this week. You were sorry? I tried to set you up this week. And they did, and they googled me and said, What? No, no, I don't know. No, a friend of mine messaged me on Facebook and said, Are you single asking for a friend?

44:11 And I said, Well, strangely enough, thanks for asking flipping anytime in the last five years. But that's. it happens now you have asked recently no and then she said uh have you got any any uh any uh any any suitable mates and i said yeah glenn my my co-host and then she said does he vote labor right i mean i mean that's a hell of an opener i know i said i've got to be honest as a bloke who was recently looking to date if one of your first questions was who do i vote i might put that as a red flag i've got

44:53 but then maybe not maybe not but the thing is i'm i mean we're i'll park the sci-fi shit at the moment i'm a rainbow voter i will i will try and vote for whichever politician best meets my needs depending on what level of of conversation we're having so i have genuinely voted for almost purple aside almost every spectrum of the rainbow because i'm one of those weird people who actually reads policies who actually reads manifestos and actually tries to understand which of the politicians that are standing for election at this level that i'm they're talking about best meets

45:33 my ideal of what they should be doing and everybody should do that clinic yeah they're not going to do that though are they sure here's the thing this is where this is where you and i overlap just uh i think i think about doing that and go and read some kind of summary but never read the full monty right okay and i might read two out of three and then be like oh well i've generally voted uh conservative and liberal i did vote labor when i was at uni because it was tony blair time plus i was a student so why wouldn't you if you're a student uh

46:13 and have i ever voted i've never voted green i don't think um but yeah yeah it's probably me yeah yeah i've um my first ever vote um i did the standard stupid 18 year old thing and voted for the person with the best name i i voted i voted for william oh what was his full name william edward pontesque smythe uh something something the third brackets known to his friends as bill um that that sold it to me and it was monster raving loony part oh he was right i thought he might be living in putney or something

46:51 like that you know i voted for him and but um i used to be a local politician so i've got an idea of what what locally goes on uh and and nationally as well i've got very now as i get older i'm getting a bit more narrow in my my my bands but they're all center line i i want people who are going to do the right thing regardless of what their party says whether they are i i i refuse to to vote for the extreme left i i refuse to vote for the extreme right the closer to center you are the better it is that's where the action is yeah so is she a lingerie model who votes lib dim that's what i'm saying yeah i know do you know that'd be really good i could go back to them and say well he has voted labor in the past um does she wear

47:37 going for a really specific question as uh what's her thoughts on crotchless knickers how many women actually own crotchless knickers i i wonder i do wonder not enough that's just that's the present that you how many men have bought that present and it's gone woefully bad like almost i'd say 98 of men who have bought that present they did not check with their spouse that the their spouse wanted that present oh i would love to know that the men men are shit at buying lingerie i've got to say we we're really really bad at it not only do most men not know how women's dress sizes and bra sizes and the whole shebang works but we don't actually check what they want to wear and so you can't buy something for someone and expect them to

48:32 dress up and act in a certain way if that's not what they want to do yeah you've got to have that conversation first yeah sex tips 101 guys uh if you're gonna buy your missus some crotchless knickers um uh have the conversation first talking about misses you're all good with yours your uh your your relationship with barbara yeah me and sue are trucking on very nicely uh uh she's just flipping epic i mean i don't want to curse it or something by by saying it but does she know about the podcast

49:09 the funny thing is right she does and uh i don't believe she listens um But obviously, we've talked about in the past how it seems that my ex does listen. So hello to my ex if you're listening. Good to have you with us. And on the flip side, hello to Shaniqua. I really look forward to meeting you at some point soon. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. We're building bridges through the wrap-up. But no, it's funny because I write things for the Hero Academy and different training videos and stuff. So I write stuff about relationships. And it's listen, people could say, who the fuck are you to write stuff about relationships?

49:53 Mr. Failed Marriage and codependency issues previously and all that sort of stuff. But thankfully, I bring other experts in. We have a live training on Tuesday with Matt Albergez, who is a relationship coach. Relationship coach. What if you're not in a relationship? Well, we're going to get on. We'll have some different topics, Glenn. So we, well, to be fair, backpedaling, backfilling, getting some relationship skills, ready to have that relationship. But then there's me writing stuff about saying about communication, being clear about what you want from the relationship, even yourself, so you can tell the other person that.

50:37 Values, getting complete, like saying to someone, you know, is there anything I did this week that really did your head in? Is there anything I did this week that you'd like me to do more of? Like a Friday night check-in. Yeah, I wouldn't do it on a Friday night, but you know. Well, when else are you going to do it? I mean, no one wants to do it on a Wednesday. Wednesdays suck balls. I know, but that's like a safe zone. So Thursday night, good for date night, unless you're going to do a date night at the weekend. It only should only be half an hour. You're not allowed to, it's not a conversation. You just get to say that to the person. It's like gratitude, get complete on things, requests, and tell them you love them. Boom. That sounds lovely. That sounds so, so nice.

51:20 Fresh start, fresh late every week. But fresh start every week on a Wednesday. But how can I say that and then not do it myself? So I've had to bring this up with Cassandra. And she's taking it. Well, it's quite good because she's a PT and she's into, you know, she's coaching people and stuff. So she's actually open to these things rather than looking at me going, are you flipping mental? Who do you think you are? Like, you're not flipping psychologist guru. You're not. Fuck off. My brother and his wife, I can imagine. The idea of them. In fact, he's told me before. The idea of me and her sitting down and having a conversation, like having

52:08 personal goals and development kind of completion conversation. It's like, no, not happening. I guess it's one of those things you either get in from the start or it becomes really challenging to get in there at all. Is that fair? Yeah, well, I think they've been together 24 years, so I think they do. It will never last. It will never last. They do it without realizing they're doing it. And then you've got other people who say, I haven't, what do you mean? I can't cook. Well, I think we married 18. I thought when she had an affair, but I thought you were married 18 years, weren't you? You couldn't understand why she left. No, I don't know. I fucking hate cooking. But you and Shannara are getting it like stuck in from the start.

52:52 She's awesome. I'm massively, I'm massively into her. Yeah. But she's okay to kind of do these cereal. So I work in tech and we have what calls ceremonies. You know, the kind of startup phases and various different check-ins and daily stand-ups and all those sort of things. They're a part of the ceremony cadence. And so you've got a relationship cadence going on. Oh, good. You should have said that a bit posher or a bit more hipster. Well, I guess with your beard and stuff, that was kind of hipster, yeah. Well, Glenn, the relationship cadence. We're at DEF CON 4 on our relationship.

53:35 I don't know what DEF CON is good and which DEF CON is bad. I'm never going to know. This is why I don't. I'm not a spy. I don't know. We're at DEF CON 4. It's like, yeah, that's fine, mate. That's no worries at all. You watched, you know, Matthew, Matthew, what's his name? And game, what's the movie called? You're not narrowing it down here. Oh, come on. But they play born audent. Tic-tac-toe. Oh, games. Some Patriot, not Patriot games. Oh, fuck. Yeah, where the computer's doing tic-tac-toe and they can't. win. Do you want to play thermonuclear war? Uh, yeah, go for it.

54:15 Okay. And then flipping Russia and America. We're at DEF CON 3. We don't even know what's going on. Oh, what's it? War Games! War Games! There we go. It's a great movie. If you've not seen it because you're too young and you grew up with the internet, you've missed out. War Games is a fantastic, fantastic movie. Do you know what to watch it as a double, watch War Games, and then watch pump up the volume with Christian Slater where he does a pirate radio station? I'm not sure where the overlap is there, but I'll kind of, you know, they're both pushing the boundaries of, you know, social, creaking social fabric in society and stuff.

55:00 And then after that, strictly ballroom. Strictly ballroom, the movie. I tell you what, I will fight anyone who says that Strictly Ballroom is not one of the greatest movies of all time. It's stunning. Absolutely amazing. The three movie combo, which brings us neatly back round to Glenn. What is the order that one should watch the Star Wars movie in when doing a Star Wars marathon? Because I think we'll cut that off. If anybody says it's chronological, I will punch them in the face. Chronological only works in terms of order of filming. It is four, five, six. Absolutely, the original trilogy. Then followed by

55:43 Rogue One, because that is the next best movie out there. Then seven, eight, nine, then Han Solo, and then only if you have to, one, two, and three. Yeah, but you're saying that as a 40-something gentleman, if you're introducing your kids to it, how can you have, you have, you have to have four, five, and six first because if you have one, two, and three, you know that Anakin turns into Darth Vader, and that removes the entire father. Yes. And you need that. That is one of the, and not just me saying this, that is in cinema one of the greatest reveals in cinematic history.

56:25 And you lose that if you watch it in one, two, three, four, five, six order. Of course. Four, five, six, huge, it knocks a huge hole out of everything that is Star Wars. It does. It really does. And yes, there's other stuff that goes on, the Clone Wars series and the Rebels series, which is absolutely superb. And Mandalorian, which, my God, is one of the best standalone series of all time. It's superb. But in terms of just the movie canon, 456 has to be, no matter where you go after that, 456 is the first movies you have to do because otherwise you are killing happiness for your children.

57:09 You hate your children. My children, we have watched them all already. And I'm pretty certain we watched 4, 5, and 6 first. I'm pretty certain we did. You have to. That's the science. Otherwise, I'm going to come around and find a lightsaber and kill people. So, Glenn, as we get to the top of the hour, just to let people know, we're going to get together and have a bit of a planning session for the wrap-up. Technology. Which is going to be kind of fun. We're going to work on some ways of a bit like we did with the hot in the 90s, things that carry on on a regular basis. Also, storylines, so to speak, of you and I up to stuff

57:55 in a Team Super Dad-esque way. Part of that is relationship stuff. Part of it is our kids' stuff. Part of it is business and success, which are all things that we pretty much cover. And, you know, for anyone who's listened for an hour, then good to stay tuned in. Thanks for Glenn and I have both been married, both been divorced, both got kids, got experiences of all those things which some of obviously you'd hope to avoid in the future. But other bits, with the passing of time, you get to appreciate them for what they really were, which for me was flipping awesome. Getting married, brilliant. The kids making the kids was fun. There was so much good stuff in there.

58:40 And now I can see that as a chapter and moving on. And so, yeah, whether you're in a relationship, whether you're out of the relationship, whatever stage you're at, I want you to know that this podcast, the serious one we do in the week and everything that Team Super Dad is about, you're in a good place. You're in a place to have some fun and to take ground. I like to keep saying, take ground. And partly it's about being a man and kind of being. being who we are because we dads intrinsically a men and we want to celebrate that and help grow that and kind of make the most of what it means to be a modern man.

59:16 But it is about being a dad as well. And that's a that's its own little niche in there. The one thing that combines us all is at some point we created kids. And because of that, because we're not just the people who have we're not fathers, we're dads. Dads are different. Dads are people who care about their kids. Dads are people who want to make their kids' lives better. And part of that involves sorting themselves out, making sure they're happy, making sure they're thriving and making sure they are the role models for the kids. Not just talking about the boys, the girls as well. We want to be positive, happy, productive people. And we want to inspire our kids. And that's what Team Super Dad's all about. Yeah, absolutely.

1:00:00 Yeah. I saw someone asked a question on the group this week about being a role model. Like, what does a role model mean? It's one of the other dad's groups. And that's a powerful question, which you just did a great job of teeing up, basically. So, yeah, we didn't on our running order today. We had a thing about modern men and alpha males, which we'll bump that through to through to next week. We also were going to have a bit of fun with some 90s adverts, which I did actually tee three of them up, three of them up for us. But yeah, let's end with that, Glenn. Okay.

1:00:41 Let's see. It's quite an easy one, but it is a classic. Let's see if you can. Oh, no, it's going to have the name of the advert on there because it's on YouTube. Yeah, but yeah, but this is only for live viewers. You get to play along with me, but we're talking about podcast people. So, what you're going to do is you're going to play the advert, and then I'm going to have to work out who it is. So, I'm going to look away because otherwise, it defeats the entire purpose. I'm going to turn so you can now see how what the back of my head looks like. Yeah, and then, but will the audio from it come through? Who knows? We're just going to play it anyway, basically, right? Is there audio? I'm not seeing, I'm not hearing anything so far. All I'm hearing is your kids in the background.

1:01:30 Oh, yes, we cry. So, you can't hear it. I've just paused. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, no. Oh, yes. Was that Tango? Oh, yes, we could be in Britain. With the second tango, a tango! A tango! The orange tango man! It totally is. It's your Philip! Oh, school's in our age. They used to, they literally banned the act of running up to someone and slapping both their cheeks at the same time.

1:02:14 I've done it to my kids. I said, You've been tangoed, and they don't know what I'm talking about. And it made me realize that that's 30 years ago. Yes, tangoing someone is a thing classic. So, didn't really do it justice there because we hadn't worked out how to make sure the sound was coming. Next week, I can just about hear it through your microphone. So, yeah, if we can do it so everyone can stream along and play along, and you'll get it before I do, I reckon. Yeah, the advert game. Me and my brother used to play it. It's an advert game. I don't even watch adverts anymore. It's crazy. So, thanks, everyone, for listening. It's been great to have you on board. You know, the wrap-up, it's put it in your ears wherever you are in the car, in the garden, doing the washing up, go off the way to a meeting,

1:03:00 hiding in the staff toilets, pretending to work, listening to the wrap-up. It's been great to have you have an absolutely, at the risk of time-stamping this, have an absolutely epic bank holiday. We didn't talk about the duathlon, we didn't talk about the what you do, why are bank holiday weekends such piss-ups in the UK? We didn't talk about the fucking media and clickbait. So much. So, I didn't even mention I've been to the office. I've seen real people this week. So many things we could talk about. But I want an update on how many dogs actually turned up at the office this week.

1:03:42 I do want to whatever you do, just sign up to this bloody, what is it? The 10k thingy, the mud, mud thingy. Dirty rotten scramblers. It's in Hull Park in Kent. If you're anywhere near us, Team Super Dad listeners in the UK, then get signed up. I do actually know that there are not many places left. So get cracking on that. We actually have a club on Strava. So come and join the Team Super Dad Club on Strava. Sign up for the Dirty Rotten Scramblers. We will have Jaeger Meisters and we get some Team Onesies or something.

1:04:25 What did what did what's that? Mankini. Oh, if you turn up in a Mankini, I'm not even sure I'll. I mean, I'll run faster if you're behind me. That's all I'm saying. There's always one, isn't there? Someone in Manchini. It's hard to screen print a mankini, though. There's only really one page. Jen, good chatting to you, buddy. I'll see you next time. As always, see ya. Yeah. Team Super Dad out. Let's get that funky video going. Catch you later, guys. This has been Team Super Dad. Find us at Team Super Dad.com. Join the program and create the best life ever for you and your children.

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