Who Stole Summer? - The Wrap Up #43

00:01 We're live. It's the wrap-up. It is the start of a week, which is the end of another week, which is utterly confusing me because I've had to change our little intro. But to be sure, you are here with Johnny and Glenn. The wrap-up from Team Super Dad, 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. Hello, Glenn. Boy, how the devil are you? I'm very well. I'm very well.

00:41 Here on a Monday night, still confusing me. I haven't quite worked out how I introduce the pod now because we're talking about the end of the week. We're wrapping up the week, but it's actually the start of the week. But it is a reflection on the last week and the fun that we've just had over the weekend. So I'm going to move you across because that's confusing me. And Dick, you can only work mentally if one of us is on the right side. Oh, yeah, but it's where my camera is. And then I've got the light here. And there it's sort of, you know, yes, it's a bit like what pocket you put your wallet in or you when you go out the front door. That's true. It has to go in the same pocket. It doesn't mentally work any other way, shape, or form.

01:21 You have to have to, for me, it's wallet and keys, and that's it. If they're going in the wrong way round, or no, phone and wallet, that's what it is. Phone's in my right pocket. And do you have a tapping routine as you go out the house? Yeah. Normally, if I've got the coat on. Yeah. I don't mean like a Gaza, a Gaza tapping routine. Apparently, it used to be a nightmare. Paul Gascoyne, footballer, one of the legends of British or English football, world football, even. Yeah, but nightmare. He's a flipping 10 times on the doors, 50, light on, light off, light on, light off. Yeah, no, I still haven't got a fishing rod, and I'm not going to be going down anywhere with some fried chicken in a bucket.

02:03 If you want to know what that reference was, you'll have to send GNA stamps dressed envelope. What did they call that? Were you sending a stamps-dressed envelope so you can get something sent back to you? What was that flipping old envelope? I don't know if it had a thing, but it was anything. If you wanted like competition entry or photos or whatever, send a sign, yeah, a self-addressed envelope to blah, blah, blah. They would fill it with whatever it was and then send it back to you. Yeah, magic. Yeah. That's bloody genius when you're a kid. Kids today don't know they've lived. They don't know who you've lived. Dad, can I have a stamp? Dad, can I have an envelope? Yeah. In it goes. Two weeks later, Bosch, come back some toot.

02:44 Oh, yeah. The mobile phones have done us. Where would we be? Like the Romans. What have mobile phones done for us? Yeah, bloody Rome. Team Super Dad is an awesome community of men, of dads creating their best lives ever. We work in the areas of focus, fitness, finance, family, and fun to help you literally create the life you want rather than the life you feel stuck in. And I've been working on some stuff. I keep finding notes that I've been writing myself over the last year. It's brilliant. People are weak when you write them. You don't just wake up and find yourself you've written a few new notes, Tyler Durden style. I wish I had, yeah. Or done some landing pages or writing some written some emails. Being super dad is about being your best, creating a life where you show up as yourself, your family, and the person you know you can be.

03:30 Excited, energized, healthy. Your superpowers are already in you. See, this is good stuff, Glenn. This is good stuff. If you want some of that, then come on over to the Team Superdad community, teamsuperdad.com forward slash group, and you'll be welcomed in. Dads just like you, dads creating stuff they want. You know, it's not about successful or unsuccessful. This is about accountability, momentum, upping your skills in areas where perhaps you don't have a great grasp on things, planning. I've had to tell one of myself this week, Glenn, about my planning.

04:10 In what way? Well, I'm like a flipping rookie. I've got stabilizers. My diary's got stabilizers. That's how poor my planning skills are. Doesn't that just mean you're spontaneous and you just go with the flow like some sort of weird 21st century hippie? Yeah, I know, but if you look at, if you speak to like super successful people, people that are on their game, they've got it up. They've got their time managed out. They delegate effectively. When they say they're going to take an hour, they take an hour. They don't sit there going, oh, let me type that. But are they happy? Yes, of course they're happy. They're very successful people. They're very good delegators as well.

04:53 That's something I've learned as well. Be a good delegator. So. if people are wondering what the hell is our show title about today, Glenn, summer has officially been stolen, it would seem. Or the two days of sun we had last month actually were our summer because those of you well, apart from people who are in Canada, obviously, who are literally being sizzled. I've seen videos. There's one guy who's been cooking food, steaks, and stuff just in a frying pan on the sidewalk. Literally, Tracy Poisner, the lady who runs Essential Mums and Undeletable Dads, she did a Team Super Dad training session with me.

05:37 She's in Canada, so it's going to go out tomorrow, Tuesday at 12:30. It always is on Tuesday, 12:30. And we're talking about helping teenagers or talking to teenagers after divorce. And not their divorce, your divorce, right? Which kind of became a conversation about talking to your teenagers. And yeah, so she's just like, they've had like 49-degree literally, people have been dying of the heat, literally. Yeah, because that's their Celsius. None of this weird, fucking weird Fahrenheit bullshit. It's Celsius, proper temperature. It's 120 degrees, man. It sounds a bit more impressive, doesn't it? If you're going to go on holiday and he's like, it's 100 degrees.

06:16 It's always a broader. But it doesn't, because it's just that's like saying, oh, it's 12 smarties or a thousand Beetle juices. It makes no sense. I mean, you can have whatever number you want before it. Fahrenheit makes no sense. There is no way in which Fahrenheit is an acceptable, let alone a better scale than either Celsius. Hell, I'll even accept fucking Kelvin, but that's not Fahrenheit. It's bullshit. See, I don't have enough of a science background. I did single combined science where we learned how to wire a plug and things like that. Which I did really well in single combined single combined science GCC. But what is what is this like Betamax versus VHS? Is this just a French bloke versus an American guy?

07:00 Or is that what happened with Celsius and Fahrenheit? Do we know? No, I don't actually. I'm going to Google it because it's one of those things where I kind of read it and it was in the back of my head. But I don't know. It's not stuck in my head, QI style. Is it like the Canaudi brothers? Apparently, they don't. You know, like they're supposed to hate each other. I say, oh, they were brothers and then it all went wrong. Now one's Audi, one's Liddle. Apparently, it came from some German guy. Where are we? What was his name? Mr. Fahrenheit. It was Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German scientist born in Poland in 1686.

07:38 And he just came up with a thing where he put something out, measured it that marked different temperatures, and that was it. He used a roughly average body temperature as about 96 degrees. Why 96? It makes no sense. And then it means that boiling is 212 degrees and freezing is 32 degrees. I mean, why? Please, someone, some American or someone who uses this, why is that acceptable? There is no logic to it. He literally turned up at some science show, took out a small box, stood on it, and said, This is what I think.

08:22 Yeah, it makes I named it after myself. It is called the Fahrenheit rule. Yeah, I think I might start saying, Yeah, actual boiling point is 7,319 ochcores. I mean, that makes as much logical sense as Fahrenheit. And it's just these goddamn Americans. Yes, yes, you had your colonial treason day yesterday, whatever. Until you go over to Celsius, then you don't even class as a former colony to me. You're dead to me. Independence Day, yeah. Massive hello to my American family and friends on Independence Day. I've copped some serious grief in America on Independence Day. Like,

09:06 they are like, you don't have to be black to get racist abuse in America, right? Isn't it xenophobic if it's nationality-wise? Oh, yeah, okay. Xenophobia. Okay, yeah. Okay. Well, look at me. I'm learning stuff constantly. No, I'll tell you what it is. I think I'm forgetting stuff constantly. That is what it is. I'll say, like, every day, every day is an adventure where you just wake up and you learn every morning. What is this? Coffee. I'm literally forgetting stuff and then having to be told it. So, yeah, so in America, they'd be like, Yeah,

09:46 we beat you, man. We put the tea in the beef, put the tea back in the river we showed you. It's just it. it makes no sense to me it's like you're celebrating something that no one in your relatives living like memories that there is no like like i can understand to a degree i don't i don't agree with all of the the fetishization of world war ii i hate it but our grandparents or our grandparents parents and grandparents so it was kind of one degree of separation from the people who were there how many people do you think is it would have been alive during the war of independence rock all so just get over it move on people well no it's not all americans clearly it it's uh uh

10:34 probably people leaning to the right a little i'd imagine yes some of some of mr trump's friends and uh although that being said um when we're talking about kind of uh histories did you know that the uh the 17th president of the us is what trump was 50 45 and i think what is it biden's 46 the 46th president biden is um the 17th president has got two uh living grandchildren whoa well because he was really young or something and they are really old now he i mean he was a little bit young when he did it but but he was really really old when he had children and then his children were really really old as well they're they're um one of them is uh 89 at the moment um and his granddad was born in

11:26 1790 what bloody amazing innit i mean i just love how history works like that oh yeah wow and then we've got chavs over here who pip and pop one out the moment they can uh conceive my my first i was 23 with my first and i was the oldest first generational parent in sort of living memory all of my my mum had me when she was 20 my nan had my dad when she was 19 um and god knows how young we were before that yeah so that's what happens when you're poor you're poor people you have kids young so you have plenty of them keep warm keep busy have fun have spares when they die

12:10 someone said to me oh yeah i was talking i was doing uh outreach and connecting with dad to come and join team super dad the other day and this uh this guy because i'm not a dad i'm not a dad i said oh well i said have fun practicing it'll happen uh and he goes no i don't want any kids and he then he started talking about i'm not a catholic i'm not a catholic okay mate that's all right and then we got into into a monty python uh uh kind of banter and i i said no no no neither's my wife and in uh what's it in the meaning of life

12:53 and then she drops one out as she's washing up pick that up for us dear see now that is a multi-per multitasking woman a woman who can handle doing two different things who can who can do uh do all the jobs and then do every job in the house and then some that's that's skills it is but i did see a picture today on youtube a guy shared it and it wasn't even like lad buyable it was just a guy uh shared a picture of his of his wife mowing the lawn and this isn't a sexism thing okay this is just skills you know there's things that we're good at and things that we're not good at but it did kind of fall into some gender uh gender what's that not gender bias gender norms gender norms gender gender cliches and so he's laughing as she's trying to work like surely

13:44 if you've ever walked on a lawn or or or seen a lawn you kind of imagine that to mow stripes you go up and down i mean yeah that's fairly obvious you just back and forward back and forward keep one wheel over so that it stays nice and straight she was hoovering the lawn basically well you can you can get hover mowers but no if you want stripes i saw a glorious i mean i mean this this is this is proper dad porn this is um i saw this glorious one where a guy had his lawn and i don't know it where he was um changing the the height of the mower as he was going but he went back and forward that way made the stripes that way um

14:22 then did stripes uh diagonals and diamond uh things he had these multiple different layers of stripes and stuff oh mate i was i i wanted to put a hat on so i could take it off for him it was genius amazing was this someone in the uh microdosing community or what was it god knows god knows but i i have lawn envy in a way that i've never ever thought i would ever have or he's got a really bad relationship relationship with his thing. He puts all his focus and time. Yeah, I'm just going to be out there. I'm just going to keep roaming in random directions. Whenever I mow my lawn, the only thing I get is fucking fox shit flown everywhere.

15:01 I haven't even got a pet, and my garden is full of fox shit. Nice, nice. And then whenever, and then when you go out, loads of dogs run after you. Just before we go on, I missed this actually. Ghost Hand 246. Thanks for messaging. That means he's on Twitch. We've got our first Twitch comment tonight, Glenn. This is epic groundbreaking. Because of conformity with the Imperial system, people got used to Fahrenheit. Oh, but it doesn't make it right, though, does it? I know, but I've still got pictures of

15:41 Fur. Is it Fuhrer? Mine, Meinfuer. What's Mad? Fahrenheit. Yeah, Dr. Fahrenheit. Mine hair, mine hair. Mine hair, Fahrenheit. They will accept it. I'm going to go there. I'm going to take on the world. Yeah, so this woman mowing the lawn and he's laughing. We often comment about men, you know, men, if you're not ironing your shirt, then get out there and iron your shirt. Summertime, isn't it? So there is a good sharing of gender by breaking down of gender biases in these summer months.

16:19 So other than getting really wet, as it is in the UK right now, or dying of heat in Canada. But yeah, I wonder what else would be a good summer gender bias cliche. Putting up a tent. Yeah, yeah, or barbecuing. You know, this becomes a thing. The man does the meat, the woman does the veg. That's one of those gender-biased bullshit things that always bites me. Oh, salad. Yeah. No one can knock up a salad like a woman. No one can cook a sausage like a bloke. It's true, isn't it? It's like, if you see a woman by the barbecue holding the tongs, it's quite disconcerting. My aunt is generally the one doing the barbecuing at her. To be fair, she doesn't.

17:05 And I bet she doesn't fucking burn it. No, she doesn't burn anything ever. Make the fucking burgers like hockey pucks or some bullshit like that. Well, yes, of course. Anyone is prone to a bit of barbecue burnage. I'm quite proud of my barbecue skills as well, actually. Pancakes. I have honed my skills at pancakes now. I thought you were going to say that's what you did on barbecues. I was thinking, how the fuck are you doing a barbecue with a pan, like just through the grill, weren't it? No, if you've got a skillet, if you've got a flat plate hot plate, you can actually do a whole breakfast on a barbecue. You heard it here first. You heard it here first. I'll tell you something that I'm sure women can do, but I haven't seen it.

17:50 Certainly not on Facebook. Did you see the baseball clip on again? This is a bit of a like a, we're like goggle box, are we, Glenn? But did you see it? It is worth a mention. If you haven't seen it, search Facebook for man catches ball, throws baby. Oh no, baseball, catch ball, throw baby, right? So he's standing there. Have you seen it, Glenn? Have you seen it? I've seen the clip. It is absolutely glorious. Talk me through it. So it's quite short, right? Because it's just a clip from the live footage. So there's a foul ball, which in baseball means that the pitcher's thrown it, the guy swung it, and instead of it flying out forwards, it's kind of ricocheted off backwards.

18:32 So it's gone out as a, it's gone out of play. It's gone out as a foul ball. But the crowd can still catch it, right? So if you're sat in that area, then you can be have the opportunity to catch a ball flying towards your head at 100 miles an hour, which is someone who never really understood cricket is quite a terrifying thing. Their gloves on and stuff. So you've got people there ready to catch the ball with a baseball mitt. It's all so there's a guy standing there. He's holding a beer in one hand and his daughter in the other hand. Truly, truly amazing. He throws as the ball comes towards him, he does this kind of upward motion, which propels his daughter into the air.

19:12 His arm continues upwards. He catches the ball. He then brings his arm back down around in front of him, catches his daughter. He's now holding the ball and his daughter and doesn't really drop any of his beer. I mean, that's the most important thing. Yes, yes, it's great that he didn't drop his daughter as well, but to not drop a beer? Yeah, yeah. Oh, mad skills. That is proper dad's skills priority. Go on. If you are a baseball fan and you do want to, you do want to see if you can. could do that, first of all, take your kid and grab a beer. But have a look on Ideal Seat. It's an app you can download and

19:52 it's for most major baseball stadiums. And it tells you which seats statistically are most likely to have a ball, a foul ball hit into them. So you can book yourself to sit in those seats and be much more likely to catch one, especially in a pandemic type thing when there are fewer people around, you've got a bit more space around you. Yeah, ideal seat. Have a look at that app. So you see, oh, brilliant. Wow, brilliant. I love baseball. Of course, been spending a lot of time in America. I can enjoy it. I can enjoy being there, the spectacle. It's mainly about drinking and eating. That's the thing. I think I'd go for the drinking and just to say I've done it, but it's not cricket, is it?

20:38 Cricket is the superior sport of the two. Well, I don't know enough about either, to be honest. I've been to very few cricket games. I got introduced to cricket, but I went to a private school for a couple of years. So, but prior to that, I was at a little village school. So when we rocked up at the private school, they had a couple of problems I had. One was they'd been speaking French for years and I had not. And the other was they'd been playing cricket for years and I had not. So all the sort of get used to the hard ball flying towards your head or someone throwing the, you know, all that had passed me by.

21:16 So now I'm just ill-prepared, standing there, waiting for a ball either to be thrown at me to hit or standing there, bored out my brain for ages on the off chance that the ball was going to come thundering towards me and I'd have to catch it. The whole thing seemed weird and painful and important to me. Yeah, there was a reason I was wicked. I mean, I was, I'm not saying I was some sort of sporting prodigy. I'm sure it was just because I was the only one who turned up. But as well as being on the football team and the AFLX team and stuff like that, I was the captain of our cricket team. But I was, as well as like opening back, I was a wicket keeper because I realized cricket balls are really hard and they really hurt.

21:56 And a wicketkeeper is the only one who can wear gloves. And so it was a lot easier to be the wicket keeper, take the glory of the catches and the stumpings and stuff. But yeah, I've got pads and I've got gloves. So if the ball hit me, it wasn't going to hurt so much. Good skills there, but there is only one wicket keeper. So if the position's already been taken, then you're kind of stumped. So any sledging? Because you can do that. That's like the John Candy kind of position in Brewster's Millions. You can stand there and what do they call it? Slate it sledging. You can stay. Yeah, sledging. It is sledging. Yeah, yeah. No, I was too young for all that.

22:32 You know, it was very much a gentleman's game at that age group. And I was never serious enough, or let's be honest, good enough to step up to the big leagues. And yeah, as you get older, the bowling gets faster. And I went to Nets once and they had a bowling machine. And my God, a cricket ball coming at you at 95 miles an hour, you don't see it. It's 0.24 of a second. How can your brain? I don't understand how a batsman can see the bowler, release the ball, see where the ball's going, decide where to hit it, move quick enough to hit it into that.

23:11 How do they do it in 0.2 of a second? It blows my mind, which is why it's just so incredible. Well, I do enjoy the 2020. So again, for our non-cricket fan listeners, the 2020 is a short version of the game played at much faster pace because they're going to catch it in a few hours. So people really just a bit like baseball, they're just swinging hard to hit it as far as they can as often as they can. And some of those trick shots are, I mean, you're talking about how can they see the ball in that quick to just hit it, but then seeing it, making their mind up about doing some funky reverse hand shot over the shoulder and then pulling it off.

23:53 It's absolutely incredible. It's glory. Like you say, 2020 is the perfect gateway. Yes, test match is the pinnacle, you know, five days of cricket. But when you're grinding it out, sort of one and a half runs and over, it can get besides the drinking in the stands, which is wonderful, it can get a bit dull for the uninitiated. So 2020, there's literally fireballs that come out of the stands and cheerleaders and music and booze and singing. And it's over in, I don't know, about what, 30, three out of three hours, less than three hours, about two and a half hours, something like that. It's so much fun. I recommend it highly when we're all allowed to go again. Yeah, which will be a couple of weeks.

24:36 Because apparently, do anything now. Yeah. Going full ball. It's like, off, sanitizer away. It's mad. Yeah, I shan't be doing that. I will. Go snogging. But I will be going out to some sporting events because my son plays football, so I go and watch him every other week. And I love it, but it's not quite Premier League quality. It's kids' football and it's wonderful, but it's a little bit lower level. Is this 7 or 13? This one's a 14-year-old, 14. Okay, so under 40s, under 15s. Oh, they're 11 aside now.

25:19 Yeah, they are. They are. They're at that age where it's 11 aside. It's decent, starting to get decent tactics, and you can see the good kids who are kind of actually athletic and so on, but they all give it some and they're really, really good, which is a far cry from when I started as their coach when they were under eights. And that was a very, very different world. Okay. Any girls, any girls in the team? Not at the moment. No, they've played against teams with girls in. And I remember one girl, she was obviously girls develop physically a lot quicker than boys. And when I say she was heads and shoulders above the boys in skill, she was also literally heads and shoulders above them in terms of height. And for the because they used to play in quarters, first quarter, she was a forward. She must have scored a hat-trick and just danced around our players.

26:04 And so for the set from the second game, second half on second quarter onwards, I basically, one of our better players was one of our smallest players. He came up to kind of just above her navel in terms of height, but he was like a ball terrier. And I just said, I don't care what happens. Wherever she goes, you go. Ignore the ball. Just be wherever she is. Whenever the ball comes near her, try and tackle her. Wherever she is, just try and tackle her. Because she was so good. And it was brilliant to see the fact that it didn't matter about none of them said, oh, she's just a girl. It was just she's a footballer. And so she's really good. And so let's try and get her. Yeah. Well, there's a girl. My boy played in the tournament on Saturday, so he's under 11s.

26:46 And there was, you know, the groups, you know, table, whatever, you know, the knockout competition, six, six, seven teams. There were two teams in our section who had a girl in each team. And both of them were exceptional. I mean, there's never been a better time to be a good female footballer. Because still, not all girls are playing it. Oh, no, it's not. You must be on a fast track to apparently. One of the girls, because we've been playing against her since she was since she was same with my boy, since she was six or seven. So same thing now. She's the captain. She's like midfielder. And

27:30 yeah, she gives as good as she gets and then gets out and tiptoes around and does killer passes. And it's amazing. It's brilliant. Well, the FA have now said a few years ago that they've extended mixed football, the ability to, they don't impose it or anything, but the ability to do mixed football is up to 18 under 18s, which I think is amazing. And to be honest, as far as I'm concerned, there should be no split. I mean, if you want different leagues and so on, that's fine. But if a woman is good enough to play against the men and compete equally, she's good enough. There's no two ways about it. Why are we trying to separate them out when actually, yes, you can have different leagues if you want to focus on that.

28:15 But fuck it. If women are good enough, let them play. Yeah, I wonder when that first match will be the first female Premier League appearance. Yeah, it will be a while. And let's be because a lot of it is down to the coaching. And there is a clear split. The reason the girls aren't as good isn't because they're not as good. It's because they don't get into it until later. They don't do those players that play from a young age. We'll be one of this generation of people that we talk about life in the weekend. Oh, I hope so. I really hope so. Because, yeah, I don't follow it as much as the men's game because the media coverage isn't there. But I've been to see England women play. I've not yet been to see Spurs women play, and I really want to because I really wanted to see Alex Morgan last when we had her for a year or so.

29:00 She's one of like the messy, or not messy, but you know, one of the stars. Yeah, American captain, World Cup winner. I'd say the David Beckham. So she might not be the absolute best player, but she's certainly one of the most high-profile players. And she is still bloody good. And she was a Spurs for a year. We've just signed Chu Su Hyun, I think it's pronounced, who's the South Korean captain. So we've got the South Korean men's captain and the South Korean women's captain both playing for Spurs at the same time. South Koreans come and watch them buy our shirts. Honestly, mate, it absolutely. is worth so much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, and women's football's getting there, but it's got a long way to go.

29:43 And I'm hoping, like you say, that it's going to be some of these young female players who are coming through the ranks that should be fighting for places in the higher leagues. If we get past this proper football man's mentality, of, oh, well, you know, girls are all right, but they're only girls. They should play in a girls' league. Fuck off. Yeah, well, it won't go that way, though, will it? You won't have like good but fat blokes playing in the Women's Premier League. Like, I would have, I could have been, I could have been good enough if I'd have not at so much. Like, no. How will you do that reverse kind of gender thing? I don't, I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, it's a tough, it's a tough old, tough old thing, but luckily it's for people above my pay grade.

30:28 Yeah, me too. Yeah, we're talking about like mind-bending things where we just don't know what's going to happen in the future. We don't know what's going to happen in the future. We do know what's happening at Spurs, though. Spurs have signed a new manager. Now, not everyone's a football fan on this, but he's a guy called Nuno Santos. Spirito, Nuno Spirito Santos, NES. We signed him after Quick Wolves. And football's a big part of my life. You know, when you're just a bit underwhelmed by someone, well, yeah, look, and this isn't, this isn't a Spurs podcast, right? But people who listen regularly will know that coincidentally, Glenn and I both are Spurs fans.

31:12 But no, to be honest, he has Premier League experience, and I quite liked how Wolves played the first two seasons they come up. So that's a positive. And also, I hope a lot of other football fans can relate to this. I'm sure people who support lower league teams can relate to this. I remember being a Spurs fan in the 90s when we were really bad. I had like one or two amazing players that everyone just mercurial talents, Eric. Or Mercurial, sort of David Ginolas. Yeah, yeah. And then someone that was really rubbish but tried hard, like the Ginger Pele.

31:53 Oh, Gary Doherty. Gary Doherty. He's a great defender. But if we're losing, stick him up front and lump the ball up. I mean, that's just a brilliant tactic. Can you imagine them working away late at night, Jerry Francis and Chris Houghton? Like, oh, we need, we need a we need something different. We need something special. Our big scary, he can hit one, can't he? Oh, yeah. Oh, I got it. I got it. I got it. If we're losing and we've got five minutes to go, take him out of defence and put him up front. I mean, it's hardly Pep Guardiola, is it? You know, or Jurgen Kotz Gergen Press.

32:31 It's just lump it up to the big man. I wonder, talking to baseball earlier, I wonder if there is other tactics, isn't there? You see it in movies, like when the fat guy smoking a cigar crawls off the bench to come out for the last ball and then because he's got all the power in the world and he can hit one or American football, they're going to send out the has-been quarterback to do the one last throw of the game. I guess maybe all sports have that. Well, yeah, because in football, it's the sending the goalie up in the 90th minute to see what's going to go on and just to try and score a goal. And that's happened a few times in the Euros recently. And I know this isn't a football podcast.

33:15 Is it coming home, Johnny? It's coming home, definitely. Well, I don't know, definitely. No, no, no. We've got that clip now. We're going to cut that. And that's going to be a little soundbite. Yeah. Blimey. I mean, it's so typical. It will be so typical of England to foobar it against a very good Danish team. It'll also be quite atypical of a Spurs fan to see something like that happen. But I mean, oh, blimey, did some of them, some of the play against the Ukraines, if that had been any other, if that had been a Brazil team, they'd have been like, oh, yeah, playing Coco Cabana down, you know, as a soundtrack to the background of it, just little passes.

33:58 Absolutely brilliant. As an aside, I have played football on the Copacabana against a bunch of Brazilians. Hey, that's the stuff dreams are made. That's a tick list of kind of life things. But yeah, we've got Denmark. It's Monday night as we're recording and we've got Denmark on Wednesday night. Where are you watching the game, Johnny? I'll be home, basically. The Junior Jays are here. So Jaygo and I will be watching the match together. Quite father-son football watching the match together. together is as has been actually

34:35 a thing that's got us through some tricky times. Over the divorce and the separation, and you know, he was five when we separated, and he'd started watching football about a year before that. So, since he was about four, I've got a video of him when we beat Chelsea. I think it was 4-1 or 5. No, we beat them 4-1. And I've got a video of him dancing in the lounge going, We want five, we want five. Good lad. And the first games I took both him to, and then I took a few months later, or start the next season, I took Rosie to her first match. So I kind of indoctrinated my kids into

35:17 not just Spurs, but just the match day experience as well. And then over the divorce and some quite tricky times, the Spurs were good, and we had the whole Positino day as well. And simply being able to sit there and enjoy him playing football at the weekend and then enjoy watching football together, it's become something that him and I love doing. My daughter, she's less interested as she's got older. She'll say, Who's playing? And then she'll be like, Then she'll pretend to be and stuff. But yeah, the England thing. I spoke to my dad and said, Dad, so like we might get to the final.

35:59 It's next Sunday, eight o'clock. And he goes, I hear you, and I would love to watch it with you, but there's no way I'll be awake at eight o'clock. Oh, God, bless him. I guess you'll be surprised how much TV I watch at four o'clock in the morning. Oh, right, okay. You can have it on catch-up. He goes to sleep when he's tired and gets up when he's awake. And he's just to hell with the whole what time it is for the rest of us. He just goes with the flow. He's he's he's decided he's at that level. So, so no, he won't be a nice life. Well, that's kind of what I think as well. Yeah, but um, so I'll be watching, yeah, I'll be watching it with definitely this Wednesday. We'll be watching just sort of probably casual.

36:44 Um, um, my girlfriend, I think, is going to come watch it with us. But Sunday, we're making we are starting to make some plans for the for the we might make it like it's coming home, we might make it. It's that it's that balancing act, in it, between not wanting to jinx it, but you've got to have you've got to have something in place just in case. But then also, you've, I'm not superstitious at all, I don't believe in all that sort of shit, but absolutely, I've got the right shirt to wear and the right socks and the right pants and the right order for doing everything because it's worked so far. The one time I didn't do it was against Scotland, and what happened there? We nearly fucked up. So, um, I'm not saying it's down all down to me, but

37:27 we'll let the facts speak for themselves. Yeah, yeah, if there's a big star over you know, over uh, west west of Maidstone this weekend. The other thing is the amount of people that have kind of crawled out the woodwork to be messaging me about me looking like Gareth Southgate. King, incredible. I've had old friends, I've had family, I've had women who have been interested in me at various stages getting back in touch. It's it's bizarre. And I know there's a passing resemblance and so on, but fucking hell, my nephew still believes we're the same person.

38:05 I am bringing up for those people watching, uh, in the not work on the uh podcast, but for those watching the live stream, give us a share, say hello, give us a give us a hashtag live. I'm gonna bring this up because this picture in particular. I mean, there are some perfect. I mean, Glenn, you should be making money from you should literally be making money for lookalike's. I'm definitely gonna be wearing my waistcoat on Wednesday, that's what I'm saying. But there are people making money as lookalikes, yeah. And he is a middle-aged woman's sex dream. You need to trim your beard a little bit shorter.

38:45 Okay, yeah, I can do that. I need my nose to be a little bit wonkier and a bit more of the lips. He was a central defender. You need to have your nose broken two or three times. That's what it is. Here he comes. Here he comes. Come on, Gareth. Yeah. There's enough there. There really is. And 10 years ago, I'd have felt insulted. Look, look, look, look whimsically towards the sky. I've got to take glasses off. I've got to take. Okay, let me just push you across this if I can. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Is that. pretty close? You've got to go. I mean, I'm.

39:27 You've got a slightly bigger spam than he has. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely have. He's got glorious hair. People get paid for looky-likey gigs. I might have to put this on my Tinder profile. You might actually get some messages that way. You could say, what? If you've got like a wonder what that is. A Gareth Southgate fetish. So that gets classified as fetish, does it? Yeah, okay. That's like people that do the whole nappy thing. Like, I want to dress me up as a dress me up as a baby. And I don't know what they do. I've only ever seen it like on sketch shows. What is it? Yeah.

40:12 There are things that can be done and clubs and certain websites that can be visited that are. You're going to be standing on the edge of the room. Yeah. And then you're going to be shouting orders at her. Like, do this. Get up front. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I want a little bit more at the back. A little bit more at the back. Not one over the top. God, and she'll be like, tell me more, tell me more. Well, you know, stream come true. I just want to thank the boys for giving me this opportunity. And yeah,

40:56 we'll just go again. Give me 20 minutes and give me 20 minutes and we will. Half an orange. Perfect. I've not messaged women like that for too long. I'm telling you, it's a lost art and one that I'm worried I'm forgetting how to do. Like flirting. Flirting, bans for all that sort of stuff. Because, you know, when I'm in relationships, obviously cut all that contact with random women out. But when I'm not in relationships, there's no one to do it with. So where do you go? Oh, you need like a flirting buddy. Like a like a friend with benefit.

41:42 Yeah, yeah, a friend with text benefits. Yeah, okay. Okay. And then I wonder what the etiquette is for that. There was a woman in one of the single parent groups. Interestingly, I'm not a single parent really anymore. Or a co-parent with a girlfriend. The thing is, you are a single parent who, because you'd always be a parent of your kids and you look after them, but you have a partner. So that's a lovely position to be in. Yeah. And that's where the whole single parent label falls down anyway. I know I really like single parent label. So yeah, I'm a co-parent and I have a relationship.

42:23 So this woman, she was in one of the groups, you know, so she's she's saying, been out with a guy, nice guy, I've been out a few times. I've been doing it for a few months. I get the idea that they'd sealed a deal somewhere in what she was saying. Because she then says, he said he loves me. Then I caught him texting or messaging another woman. And then she was saying, like, what's the deal? Why are men like this? Yeah, that's not cool. I think there's a couple of elements in this. And this is because I'm in the kind of dating and romance world. This gets thrown at me all the time in terms of like, what stage are you exclusive? And how do you have that chat?

43:03 And what's cheating? What's not. As far as I'm concerned, just because you've started seeing someone doesn't make you exclusive. Each of you, and you go into it knowing they're likely the other person is. Unless you have a conversation or, you know, you absolutely know. Realistically, they could be. And so as long as you're okay with that, that's fine. As even once you've sealed a deal and had sex with them, then still for a while, it's still for some people, that's it. That's the moment. As soon as you have sex, that's it. You cut off everything with everyone else. But other people, very much, until we've had that chat, we could be seeing each other for quite some time.

43:41 But the L-word, for me, if you haven't had that chat before now, as soon as you say that, that is committing you to that. And that is saying the societal norms say, as soon as you say you love you to someone, I love you, then that's it. That's a monogamous relationship. For me, that's a line in the sand. No matter what else has gone on before or hasn't, that's it for me. You cut all that other shit out. What do you reckon? Is that too late? No, well, because I did say what I said, so all these women were loading up on this guy. It wasn't even there, clearly. He wasn't even part of the conversation. They were just validating her.

44:22 annoyance, frustration, dislike of men, upset, you know, betrayal, all these kind of like that, like she felt wronged and they were kind of loading in on him. So I said, I said, yes, but notice no other men have commented here could be a knobhead and it's out of order. Or he could be a decent guy who's kind of freaking out. And so I kind of listed some of the various things that he could be up to, as in he's said he loves you and he didn't really know whether he did or not, but he said he did because he thought you wanted to hear it.

44:58 And or he said he did because he thought he would put you in bed if he did say that. Or he said it after you were in bed because having sealed a deal, he felt like if he didn't say it, you were going to be upset. So he said it to keep you happy. I put in loads of different scenarios, which I think were all were all valid, including one of them, which was he's a knobhead and ditching. But you've got to have the conversation to know what I love you means to that person because you could even be friends with benefits and feel love for that person, but not actually be attracted enough to them to want to carry on. You can love them as a friend that you sleep with, but not be in love with them.

45:39 Yeah, that's the old, I love you. I'm just not in love with you. Yeah, yeah. And it's so frustrating because men are generally speaking shit at communicating about this sort of thing. Now, I'm not someone who goes down the gender norms of men are from Miles, women from Venus, all that sort of crap. But generally speaking, men have not been trained to talk about their feelings and emotions and thoughts and feelings like that. So we don't, we might say something, but not quite know what we're saying. And we certainly won't appreciate the impact of our words and actions when it comes to that sort of thing. And so, yes, like you say, absolutely. Odds are he's a dickhead who was just saying we could get into bed.

46:23 But that's not, it's not as cut and dried as that. There could be a scenario whereby, like you say, he just doesn't appreciate that saying I love you to someone means something more than, oh, yeah, yeah, I love you too. Yeah. But for him, it's like, yeah, yeah, no, I like you. I appreciate you. I like having sex with you. It doesn't have the same connotations. And so men need to get much better at having those conversations up front with themselves, let alone with their potential or prospective partners. Yeah. And women, not that we have many women listeners, but women need to realize that men, not wishing to do myself or the rest of the whole male population a disservice, but quite often we're just a bit thick, really.

47:08 Like a big dog, like a big dog just barking. What are you barking at? Just barking because just the moon's up there in the sky. Yeah, okay. So yeah, ask men what's actually going on before you decide to load in on him. Interestingly, I got lots of lovely compliments from women for sharing a wonderful perspective on what was actually going on. Yeah. Hopefully they'll say that is super dad. Could you go and hang out with Johnny? Because I want you to be more like

47:48 more like me, but at least a bit more, a bit less of a knobhead. We need to meet more of these people in person. We need to throw some sort of team super dad house party. I'm up for that. I'm up for that. I used to have this idea that we could have a house that could be hired out for house parties. But that's just kind of like a nightclub, basically. Yeah, it is. And I bet the neighbours would bloody love it. But I love house party. I haven't been to a proper house party in years upon years upon years. Certainly, I think maybe even pre-kids. And I used to love a house party, going into a place, you don't know everyone, and there's loads of people in the kitchen, and random fucking, someone's bought Lemoncello.

48:34 And you got it's not like the American parties where everyone's playing beer pong. And I have been to American parties, as you have, where beer pong is a real thing. Most of the time, when I went to them, it was just, you know, a bunch of people sitting on sofas, some standing in the kitchen, and a few people having a fag in the garden. I want to go to a proper house party with adults, which is just a lot more fun than that. That's what I want. So if we're not throwing one soon, then I feel like we're missing the chance for Hot Guy Summer. Do you know, I love, let's say, we do actually need to milk the wrap-up a little bit more, don't we? So we need to say something like, so if you're having a house party and you think like, yes, Johnny and Glenn would enjoy this and it's going to be wild.

49:15 Then, then, yeah, send us an invite. I was actually at a house party at the weekend. Joe had a housewarming, and so we were there. We were there. And we were kind of following the rules. It was the majority of people were outside. I know the rules are changed next week. You can have 30 people there. That's fine, I think. I think that's outdoors. Is it outdoors? I don't know, to be honest. I just tend to blur my eyes when everything's easy. I'm just kind of covering my ass anyway now. But there was, you know, there was, there was beer and there was champagne, and then there was food, and

50:02 then later on, there were shots. And yeah, and so then at like one o'clock, it reached a point where I was not like blazingly drunk because I don't actually enjoy being that drunk. Not like when I were a kid. But yeah, a couple of the guys were just like, they were blasting back shot after shot, and they're going, right, another one. And I was like, I'm going to bend the minute. I'm probably going to bed in a minute. Do I need another shot? Do I want another shot? Two different questions. They are two different questions. Yeah. The amount of times I've had another shot when I didn't want another shot was,

50:44 and did I need no, definitely didn't need it. Need things you want and things you need. I need, I want a million pounds. I need to manage money better. I want, I need to go to bed. Do I want another shot? It doesn't work quite right, does it? But there's, there's, yeah, well, how do you get out of how do you get out of someone offering you shots without looking at personally? You drink it. That's all there is to it. I never know what to take in terms of boost to a house party because generally speaking, there's usually often there's only one toilet.

51:21 Sometimes there's two, which is great. But if you just take like a massive crate of beer and you're kind of drinking beer all night, I don't know about you, but I haven't got a five-gallon bladder. So I'll just be standing having a piss all night. Yet, do I want to take an entire bottle of vodka knowing that I'm probably not going to drink an entire bottle of vodka in one night? It's like, where's that happy balance? Is it like a bottle or two of wine, maybe? But then I don't really, I'm not some sort of wine snob, but I don't want to be ending up with someone else's fucking Lambrini. No. And if you do take a bottle of vodka, you'll then find yourself in a situation where you want to kind of stash the vodka in between going and getting another top-up so that some ed from Essex doesn't turn up and drink all your vodka.

52:08 Yeah, and they and they do. So you can't take something really, really nice either. You know, because otherwise you know they're going to spot it. They'll go, oh, a bit of grey goose. I'll have a bit of that. Bosch, wash, bosh, and before you know, it's gone. They don't do it subtly either. They go, hey, look what I found, Geezer. And they come into the level with like as many shot glasses as they can find, line them all up, and absolutely blast the bottle of grey goose you bought in one round. And you're just a dead guy. Yeah, I'll take a bottle of aviation gin and it'll be July, Tonic. And it's like, fucking hell, man. I mean, I know I'm not one of these people who says, right, I bought this.

52:47 I'm the only one who can drink this. This is mine. This is my precious. But equally, you've got to have some sort of balance with it. If you've brought some drink, you want to have enough of that drink. And as long as I, my rule is as long as I bring more than I consume, I feel that's fair. There's balance. But there are definitely people who turn up to these things. Basically, they'll bring a four-pack of beer and then they'll be the ones who are there at three o'clock in the morning, still knocking back with Jack Daniels. Yeah. So there's a party etiquette. Party. Do you take what you're drinking? For me, I think it's a bit, it's a bit like a barber's. Now, you know, you're a bloke.

53:30 So unlike female hairdressers or any hairdressers, you know, whatever, but hairdressers, you make your appointment, you turn up when your appointment is, and you're seen and it takes hours and it costs a thousand pounds, but whatever. It's all appointments. Blokes don't book a barber's. Now, this is one of those things that a lot of women don't really kind of, they never really think about. But you turn up at the barber's, you look around, you know who's ahead of you. They go and get their thing. No one says anything. There's no ticketing system. There's no queue. There's no appointments. You just know you're ahead of me. You're ahead of me. You're ahead of me. When you're done, I don't have to worry about who's behind me. I'm next. No one says, oh, I was next. I was. I'm fucking. no, this is the barbers.

54:11 And I feel like there's that unwritten rule of things. And it should be the same at a party. It should be that you turn up and you've got your sort of amount of booze you've bought, whether you've bought a load of beer or a load of this or a load of that, and you should know roughly what's appropriate. And after that, then you should be feeling a bit guilty. Yeah. But there'll always be that group of lads from Essex there who will be who will just take over after party, be rude to you as they're drinking your beer or beef, and then probably cop off with your girlfriend as well. So from personal experience,

54:54 any NLP people out there, as I look to my left, down, to my left, you'll know that. What on earth? What type of party was this? No. That was a horrible flashback to. It didn't all go wrong, but yeah, different parties, different things. I mashed them up into one miserable vision in my mind there. Yes. That's what happens when you dig into your memory banks. Crazy stuff comes up. Yeah, I try and avoid that as much as possible. I didn't mean it. It just happened. I just had three or four relatively associated thoughts and they car crashed into each other in one almighty flashback.

55:37 I think, did I ever say on the show about the favourite house party that I ever threw when I was much, much younger, that I tell that story? You had the bouncers from a local club in the bouncers at your house. Yeah, we had proper lighting rigs and DJ sets and bouncy castles and fireworks and shit. Now that, that is a house party. Now, as much as I'd love that house party, now I don't need that. Just get a house with neighbours who either are in attendance or don't mind or are deaf and loads of people, bit of food, loads of booze, and maybe the odd, attractive lady. And I'm there. I'm there. Just I'll just turn up. That's fine.

56:17 Yeah, I think for it to be like that, I think you either have to go full bore, post it on the internet so that you get randoms coming up. Because if it's friends, then you'll have a mix of people. Some have got to get home for the babysitter, others who don't on tablets, whatever. Like, you know, I've got to all got to work in the morning like this. So before you know it, the idea that the 20 or 30 people who've come, as when we were younger, they're all there to get blind drunk no matter what happens. They don't care how we get home or who with. Everyone's now got a plan whereby, you know, it will be over by kind of midnight.

56:53 And so, yes, you've got to post it online, basically. We've got to go full out and expect loads of randoms to turn up. And oh man, it could get out of control. But could be so much fun as well. Yeah, all I'm hearing here is party round Johnny's. We could have it as a team super dad event. I think that's what we should do. But we'll kind of let people pre-vet people so that they're coming on the condition of this is a flashback house party and you're coming with a mindset of being 24. Love it.

57:35 But not from Essex. And bring more booze than you drink, you cheek bastards. Oh man, that's good stuff. Good stuff. Well, this is what we do on the wrap-up. I can't say that any of it's scripted. We have a little chat beforehand about some stuff we've seen online or in our lives over the week. And Glenn and I are twisted and both clever and dumb enough to be able to chit-chat for. And that's what it was always intended to be. It was always intended to be. But one of my original intentions for the wrap-up was born out of my early love of podcasts, which was actually a bit of a dark time where I was either working late into the night wishing my marriage was going better or I was putting the pieces back together of my laugh after my separation.

58:29 And so podcasts were like my buddies. They kept me going through so much. And it was and still is and will always be my intention that the wrap-up is exactly that thing for dads and maybe some mums out there. Mums, if you listen, then be sure to message us, leave us a comment, send us a text message or a Valentine's Day card, whatever. To a dating dad, I'm off the mark. But I hope we bring some light and love into other people's lives. beautiful way to end it. Um, now if people do want to uh get in touch and send their Valentine's cards, how can they find you?

59:13 Well, teamsuperdad.com forward slash group will put you into the team super dad community. Uh, like I said, we we have the training session, open coaching session on a Tuesday. Uh, last week's was last week's was all about making money, I think. It was about making money. Uh, we've had sex coaches on, we've had uh parenting coaches, we've had fitness coaches. Oh, we had, it'll tell you what last week's was. It was Martin Sharp, the guy who went from 24 stone down to 15 stone.

59:51 And tomorrow, I've got Tracy Poisoner on, as I mentioned, and we're talking about teenagers, uh, how to communicate and keep your teenagers happy, mainly after a divorce. But actually, when we got to the end of it, we realized how so much of it was just about how the hell did you deal with a teenager? How do you communicate with a teenager? And do you know what? I'm really excited about some events that we got planned. Uh, I've been chatting to some guys in where in Wales, and um, uh, as well as doing some kayaking and cliff jumping and that sort of stuff. We're gonna do some fire walking and um have some just men time, literally blazing saddles, sit around the fire, eat beans, and fart.

1:00:36 We should do a watch party. Well, no, we don't need to do a watch party. What we'll do, Glenn, is when was the last time you watched Blazing Saddles? Uh, no, yeah, a long, long time ago. It's so long ago that I haven't even rated it on IMDb yet. Okay, I don't we should what we should do is you and me will have some beers and watch watch uh watch uh blazing saddles and we'll we'll do like a director's cut. We'll do a do a do a pod along as as we watch um blazing saddles until next week, guys, gals out there. I'll see you next week. Glenn, I'll see you next week. Looking forward to it. Thanks for being here, everyone. Take care. Team Super Dad out. Bye.

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