Why You Need To Laugh with Pete Cann "Laughter Man"

00:00 In this episode of the Team Super Dad podcast, I talk laughter, raving and being a great dad with the laughter coach, Pete Can. Roll things. 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 gang, it's Johnny, founder and creator of Team Super Dad. It's brilliant to have you here. Of course, if you're new, then welcome. You're going to love this. Team Super Dad is a community and success program for dads. Dads creating their best life ever.

00:43 Real dads, as I like to say. You know, if you go back and listen to some of the older podcasts, or the wrap-up is a great way to catch up on all things happening. But, you know, being a dad is not always that easy. We have our goals and ambitions. It's making them happen that is the challenge. And that's what we do in Team Super Dad. So come on over to the Team Super Dad group on Facebook. That's facebook.com forward slash groups forward slash team superdad. Or the easiest way is to go to teamsuperdad.com forward slash start dash here and you can just get cracking basically. There's quite a good intro to my conversation with Pete Can today. So I'll save you hearing that twice.

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02:45 And if not, you'll have to pick a couple of weeks later. So head over to teamsuperdad.com and go on the contact page and do that. Apart from that, let's get stuck into the episode today with Pete Can. I'll tell you all about it on the other side of the music. I love y'all. Thanks for listening. Catch you on the other side. Hey, welcome to the Team Super Dad Live podcast. This is Johnny Jensen, creator and founder of the Team Super Dad community and success system for dads who want to create their best life ever, fed up with being stuck and actually want to live more fun, have more money, more time, greater relationships,

03:32 and especially laughing more often, which whether it's your kids, whether your partner, with your friends, the core tenant of Team Super Dad is fun. It's fun and laughter. So as you can see from the banner here, oh, and waving, wiggling around in the back, I forgot to hide him away. We've already seen him. The big reveal is ruined. I did hide you away, Pete. Oh, man. I've got the ring walk. And now, live from somewhere southwest, I think it's Bristol, incoming the laughter man, Pete Can. I was just mute then for a second. Was I just like moving things around? Like one of those old kids' cartoons, you know.

04:22 Oh, man. Good to have you here today, Pete. Nice to be here. Thanks for inviting me. Got your brisle twizzle in the accent? Oh, yeah. Well, I'm originally from Taunton, Somerset, so I've got a cider twang, but I've moved up a bit more to the city life, a bit more Bristol, mate. When I was at uni, all the people from Somerset were absolute nutters. I'm just going to move you to the other side because then I can look at the camera better. It was, you know, obviously, I talk quite freely about sort of the 90s and a bit of rave culture and all the things that we got up to there.

04:59 Oh, yeah. yes, the big smiley in the background. If you're watching live, you can see that behind Pete. And if you're listening on the podcast, there is a big 1990s acid rave smiley in Pete's background. This is this, this is our podcast, right? We do this on a pretty regular basis. This is my third podcast conversation this week. I don't like to use the word interview because it sounds a bit boring, and there are so many boring podcasts out there. But the you know, the people that we have on really do, as far as I can, you know, some of the stories are inspiring. Um, some people, it's it's useful and instructional. Like, like yesterday's, we had um Raymond Holt on, uh, financial advisor, business coach.

05:42 We're talking about the importance of managing money, and so that's that's the sort of the practical stuff. But then there is the emotion, emotive stuff, the emotional stuff, the relationship stuff, and having fun. My dad loves to remind me that, like, whatever's going on, as crap as it is, he says to me, Son, you've been through some shit, but the most important thing is to keep having fun. And he goes, That's what I worry about. I worry you're not having enough fun. And he comes from that point that throughout his life, some pretty roller coaster stuff, he's always rinsed it for the most amount of fun. So, getting Pete on today, I did a laughter yoga, as it's now known, um, a laughter session about 10 years ago with some landmark friends.

06:28 I did the landmark forum and a whole bunch of landmark courses, and um, and we did one then, and it was it was ridiculous, it was it was silly and weird and brilliant, all in the same time. Um, and going back to my previous point about Nutters from Somerset, it's no surprise that the laughter man is from Somerset. Um, drinking cider, this is what I knew of people from Somerset, drinking cider and taking acid. Oh, no, you just tarnished me massively, um, right? So, look, I'm on 270 days, no alcohol, right? So, I am, I am cleaning me act up, and uh, when it comes to the smiley, okay, so if you can see over there, there are a set of techniques and there's a lot of vinyl as well.

07:12 So, I used to uh, I used to DJ uh, like Tramps and Hard House, so that's that's that my revival. I used to promote a club night called Revival, and uh, anyone I suppose watching on my feed as well, you know, they'll know me as big Pete. That was my that was my DJ name. So, um, but since the laughter sort of started coming in, I was just like, actually, why not use the yellow smiley face? Because it just makes you smile, I think, personally. And I totally do. There is a great podcast, I think it's more like an audio documentary, I'd call it really on BBC, and it was called Ecstasy, right? And it wasn't just about ecstasy, it was a documentary about rave culture and house music and the drugs that came with it.

07:55 But it was the it was all the good and flipped it around, it was all the bad as well, you know. So, it was just it was really fascinating. And then, what they did as well was they got some um screenwriters to create some short plays that summed up some of the stories that were coming out of all the people they interviewed, and it was brilliant. They talked to um DJs, club promoters, they've got people on there who were like drug dealers, you know, people who've accidentally found themselves in that world. Um, and so you know, for someone who lived through that period, I found it a fascinating, a fascinating listen.

08:37 And I think as a historical reference point now, we're talking like 30 years ago. Um, that's a long time, isn't it? It is, but that as a movement of people across the UK, let alone what a rest of the world, a generation of teens and 20s, maybe more open-minded for what we did, possibly. But there's a lot of conversation about how it solved hooliganism in football instead of turning up pissed, ready for a fight, they all turned up with a with a tablet inside and ready for it, ready for a hug and a sing song. Like, so where are we going with this? I don't know, mum, you're not watching, I hope

09:22 I pretty much consider myself uh a bit of an open book in that regard. And I feel like the more I the more I acknowledge my past, the highs and lows, the more I look at it in an inquisitive fashion and share it, the more value it actually can be to people. So, that's that's my approach. Yeah, no, it's true. I was only joking, mate. I mean, you know, I, yeah, again, I, mate, I did. I lived through that. I used to DJ, I used to promote club nights, you know, everything that came with it. I did have, I, you know, I had, I, I, I. I, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday for a year, went to Ibiza. You know, that's a big bit of my past.

10:01 And, you know, I, my wife, Chloe, helped me sort of dragged me out of that slightly, which, well, and then when the kids came as well. So everything sort of kicking and screaming slightly, but I sort of, you know, I'm so happy that I, you know, I'm happy I had that experience and I met all the people that I met at the time. But also I'm happy where I am now and to sort of look back on that and go, yeah, that was a good time. And I think also what I've realized recently is, because I used to DJ and there'll be some times where there'd be like a thousand people in front of me just dancing to the music. All right, it wasn't my music, but I was putting the record on for them to dance.

10:40 I was having it exactly. And then all of a sudden, you know, I've discovered this other passion that I'm just like, it's igniting the passion that I've got within me, which, you know, she is that I am a showman. I know I am. It's the more I do this, the more I think, you know, so invoking emotion through dance, but now I'm invoking emotion through laughter. And it's just, it's in, in my head, it's the same thing. It's, it's making people happy and feeling good about themselves. Well, you're tapping into their core. A friend of mine called Penny Power, she talks about working in your flame. So, you know, there is, there's an element there to which you're creative, you're entertaining, but you're also, I assert, you're feeling some level of self-gratitude by the joy in others.

11:27 There's, there's some kind of feedback. Yeah. I love it. I love it. So part of my, when I do my, my sessions on Zoom, like that's where I've been, obviously, for the last time. Stop it. Stop it. It's a perfect time to introduce yourself and what you do. Because this is Pete Can the Laughter Man, who I found on LinkedIn when I was thinking to myself about fun and laughter. And a friend of mine said, oh, you should talk to Pete Can the Laughter Man. Amazingly rhymes perfectly. Thanks to your dad and his ancestors. Exactly. It's better than Pete Can the Dustbin Man, which I had at school, mate, to be fair. But then also I used to have at school, if anyone can, Pete Can can. And it's just like, actually, Pete Cann you can.

12:07 And that's another bit I do. You know, it's all about positive mindset. And ultimately, I'm nobody. You know, I've come from nowhere, but I've, because I believe in what I do and believe in the power of attract law of attraction, visualization, manifestation, the whole thing, it's it so. And if I can, you can. And luckily I've got the surname can. So it's a win-win. But back to the laughter. So yeah, my name is Pete Can and I am the laughter man and I'm a laughter yoga leader. And I've been doing it for probably about two and a half years. Discovered laughter yoga and WOMAD back in 2016 when I was walking through the Arboretum and I heard loads of laughter and I thought, what is going on?

12:52 You know, I must be a comedian and I like a bit of fun. Walk around the corner and there's like a hundred people just lying on the floor laughing to themselves. I'm just like, right, I know I'm at a festival, but this is, this is, this looks interesting. So, and there was a sign saying laughter yoga daily at half 11. So I told my wife and the kids and I said, look, tomorrow I'm going to go to laughter yoga. And Chloe's just like, go on then, have fun. Off you go. And I went and did this session with this guy, Curly Steve, and it was amazing. It was just like, I just, you're doing all these exercises and laughing. And then the lying down bit is sort of, you do this sort of grounding meditation, but just before the meditation, you lie on the floor.

13:33 Now you've got all your pressure points on the floor. So when you're laughing, you can't stop laughing because everything's wiggling and jiggling around. And then you've got someone next to you. You think, oh, right, I've calmed myself down. And then someone grunts or snorts or and that just sets you back off again. So you've got this ripple of laughter just flying around the carpet, as it were. And I sort of then, then Steve grounded us and I sort of sat up and I was just like, whoa. And it really felt that I was back in, you know, that adrenaline rush, that the endorphins, everything just made me feel really clean and really just, I was just like, I'm tingling just talking about it because of that feeling that when I first discovered it. And I went back and I saw my saw Chloe and the kids and I've just got this massive grin.

14:17 And they're like, she's like, look, where have you been? What are you on? And I was like, laughter. This is laughter. And so I went back the following year and did every single session. It was a four day, you know, for four days. There was a more intimate one in a TP, really got engaged with it and just had the best festival ever. And anyway, rolled forward in 2019, Steve stepped down from doing the WOMAD sessions and I ended up running it. And I've got 100 people around me just laughing and just bringing this energy up. And I was just like, yeah, just euphoric. And it was just like just having this, yeah, this power within us all that we've all got this laugh. And my power, my passion is to be able to just pull that laugh out of everybody.

15:01 And not everybody, it's deeper for some people, but I don't know. I've got, I've learned this knack to do it, and it's used utilizing the laughter yoga practice that I've been taught because you get taught, you know, I'm a leader, you can be a teacher, you can be an ambassador. There's lots of different levels with laughter yoga. But what I've discovered sort of through the Zoom sessions, there's certain exercises that I know get me quickly to where I need to get to. And if they see me laughing as well, it gets other people going to pushing the boundaries, mate. It's brilliant, like in a because I work with some people who run Zoom training, right?

15:47 The business speakeasy. And yeah, so you're managing a room just like any sort of environment, but you've got the grumpy one, the chatty one, the people who are really up for it. And I'm pretty certain that the experience for everybody is enhanced by them all joining. You don't want that one square not doing it. Yeah, and that happened. Don't get me wrong, that does happen. And what I've decided is I've got sticky notes now. So I'm sort of every, you know, I haven't done it yet, but it's weird because, you know, I think naturally as humans, we, especially if we're like trying to, you know, I don't know, teach someone something or whatever, you can't help but be attracted and drawn to the person that's not in it.

16:31 And rather than like the other 20 loving it, crying, wiping their eyes, laughing, you do, there's the one guy just like that on their phone. And you're just like, and you're just sort of, and maybe I think personally, and I'm going to be honest, I just think it's rude. It's just like, look, I'm giving my time here to give you the tools. And if you don't want to be here, just turn your screen off because I'd rather I'd rather them not be there. And that's maybe just being a bit honest because again, from my past, I've run restaurants. I've done lots of stuff in the past. And, you know, when people aren't engaged in a team meeting, you can tell, and I've got this, I suppose I used to just then dive into them a little bit and just go, like, Johnny, you know, how's it going?

17:15 Are you with me? But you don't want to pick on people on Zoom when you're doing a laughter session because it doesn't, that's not what it's all about. So well, I've done in all my digital marketing training, you know, you talking, I'm going back 10 years now, I was doing all that. And you're talking about social media, and someone's going, well, I'm just not going to do it. Well, it's, it's pointless, it's crap, it's ridiculous. And I'm like, okay, but you are here. So just go with the flow for the day. Just open your mind. Totally. Like, give it a go. Dive in. See what, see what happens. Exactly. It's, you know, it's, I think, I think the one thing I think I want to let the listeners know as well, you know, I have, I have got a serious part of me as well.

17:58 I'm not always laughing like all the time because I've run a business for the last 11 years. So I'm basically a managing director, owner of a chef, chef, listen to that word chef and think about where we are at the moment, recruitment agency. So as you can imagine at the moment, there ain't much need for that. So I've gone from like a seven figure, like last year we turned over one and a half million. So not a bad size business. This year we're on for two to three hundred thousand. And that's after 11 years of our first baby as well. You know, it was our first child, me and Chloe, like I've spent 11 years that, you know, and if I think about it seriously, that's just really, it's not great.

18:41 But ultimately, what I've, I suppose during lockdown, I've managed to put the red hat on and the passions there. So, so I have got that as well. So I think it's just, you know, people are going through a bit of a tough time. And people, you know, maybe sometimes look at me as well and think, oh, well, you're just doing this. Like, no, I've got this other stuff going on. And this is one of the reasons I'm doing what I do on a daily basis because it makes me feel better about myself and makes me, you know, get this thing in check, really. Yeah. Yeah. So you're, so you're a dad? Yep. Yeah, your dad? You're married. Hello, you're married. I've dropped him right in it now. Why did you ask that question? So now I'm talking or standing up in my head.

19:24 11 years. We got married in Thailand when we were traveling. We traveled for 14 months. We got married in Thailand on the way around and then had a nine-month honeymoon on the rest of the thing. So yeah. Every day. And I just got a text saying it's 12 years. just for anyone who's listening right watching uh we are going to do a little bit of a laughter session later on in in this so so hang on in there i'm also going to uh share the screen and bring up one of my favorite movie clips um which which i really thought about when i was when i was getting set up for for pete this morning but um i just i think it's important that that

20:04 point is is just not let just sort of pass on by people um team super dad it's about men about dads you know being confident and and feeling not like they're leading their family in an old school way like i'm the man i'm in charge but by by confidently stepping up and leading their family and having the chops to to to either follow their passion or do what's needed or even better that the two overlap and how nerve-wracking you know has it been to to step out and do something to do something new do you know what the

20:45 it's i don't know it's weird it's because because it's been given i've had i've been given this opportunity to do this right now so it hasn't been nerve-wracking because i'm just like what else what else am i going to do right now am i just going to sit here and go do you need a chef because no one needs a chef no one does and and it is a but it's not for you know there are a lot of chefs out there and you know no one needs us as hospitality as a chef when i've i've chefed in the past as well you'll never be jobless in hospitality you'll never be jobless that's what hospitality was about yeah it's decimated at the moment hospitality is

21:23 it really is and but again luckily for me i had this other project that was bubbling around in the background that now i've i've been given the the the opportunity and and i'm grateful for for the situation i'm grateful to be able to do this and and i and i'm not saying like because covid covered it's crap man it's crap it's messed up so much but again it's the way you frame things in my mind it's like well you could sit there and be all doomy and gloomy about everything that's going on you can watch the news you can just get programmed with everything that's going on or you could step out your comfort zone and you can just do it and give it a go and if what have you got to lose you got to lose a

22:03 few hours a few weeks of your time but at the moment it's just like it yeah so that that's i i i wasn't nervous about stepping into it i just because i knew it was my pull i the pull was there so i've just gone with the flow really yeah and and that's the important message for me um for for dads for mums as well like if anyone's got that entrepreneurial spirit and is sat there going this is rubbish i want to do something different is i've shared this before um team superdad is that for me and it came out of a situation of upset and breakdown and marriage troubles and stuff like that but

22:43 going back about seven years before that um before just before i was i met my met my wife now ex-wife um i was like right i want to be a fitness instructor i'm going to go and take my nutrition things i'm going to go and study about a life coach and i and then when i suddenly had a stepson and we were planning for a marriage i put it all on the back burner and and and went back into the digital marketing nothing wrong with that i'm just just pointing out to people that if if i'd picked up that idea at the time the challenge of working on it for a year getting those qualifications it it was nerve-wracking and i and i and i honestly believe that coming out of

23:24 that what might have been a challenging year making ends meet i would have had these qualifications and skills and and a drive and gone off down that down at that route just as successfully even probably more successfully than i had than i did with the digital marketing so yeah your dreams make them make them real definitely definitely and it's just that it's and like i say what have you got to lose really what have you got to lose you've got to lose a bit of teletime in the evening if you've got to do it on the side you know that's just how it is um i mean what one thing i i know that i have lost and i'll be because it's team dad it's all about obviously you know i am a father must but i've got nila who's nine i've got charlie who's seven and the the first initial lockdown when they weren't at school was really really hard because and it was hard for everybody you know we all had the same challenges but also i think for for me and chloe we run the business together so we were trying to hold onto this this business

24:18 we've got two children that won our attention as well as you know so the stress levels were just really like the spiking and and i'm sure most households were exactly the same um and then throw into the laughter not not that actually like putting me in a good headspace but actually just going well i want to really want to do that so and recently i'm back to that that stage where the kids, you know, I want to spend time with my kids. I do want to, but I also feel it's weird. I'm just torn because I really want to push this. And I'm sort of, I've blocked off some time with the kid. I'm starting to block off time in my calendar to go, right? Let's spend time with the kids. I'm gutted. I can't go swimming. Gutted, I can't go swimming.

25:00 I just, you know, for me, I'm a water baby. I'm a massive water baby. Both children like both of them love the water. And we used to do, so they'd have a swimming lesson half an hour by each other. So Charlie first, then Nila. That half an hour, I'd be the other side of the pool, and we'd just be messing around. And when I say mess it, like, because that's how we swim, we swim underwater. We're talking. We're always under the water and engaging because I haven't got it here. You ain't got your bloody phone, have you, either? So you're like properly engaged because it's so easy to just, and I'm a nightmare for it. And I'm sure many people watching, listening, are a nightmare for it as well. The screens are just sucking away the quality time.

25:41 And it's just like, and yeah, I'm aware of it, but I'm not enough aware of it at the moment to be, you know, to it. Does that make sense? Yeah, no, it totally does. And people should, if they don't do this already, block out a day in their week or certainly the weekend if they're working in the week to say, right, I'm not doing mobile phones on a Saturday. Just put it down, put it, put it on charge, leave it alone, and have that not be something that your kids are looking at you on your phone and almost like sharing your time with them and your phone. It's not you're a bad dad or a bad parent. It's just, it's just this, it's like become a habit. It's just what we do. So if you take your kid to the park, literally leave the phone at home or something like that, go phone free for a day.

26:25 And on the swimming front, we just loved it as well. Where else will your kids happily do the same thing for two hours? Our record is something like three hours at the local swimming bar. But other people go, three hours there. It's filthy. It's just like, what do you do? I was like, well, we at eight o'clock when we get there, we're the only ones there. Yeah. Like a private spa. And then there's other people who do the same thing. There's like friends and stuff. And then when we get out at half 10, you know, that's when all the masses start to start to arrive. Same thing. Me and my boy, we've got a volleyball, like where you butt punch the ball back and forward to each other.

27:05 For years, we were bobbing around. Oh, we did 20. Oh, we did 21. And then our record like 230. Four hours later, just still exactly. Back to the laughter, right? Because you do it for people in their office. You do it at festivals. Do you do it with your family? Do you like, say, guys, we need to laugh? Let's do it. Do you like how fast? I try. Okay. I do try. I think. So they have all laughed. We have all laughed together. We've had a couple and there's been one or two. So and again, you know, so Chloe, my wife, she

27:47 gets it, but she's not as open to it, basically. And which is great because also I've got somebody there that, like, when I go, I'm going to do this and that. And then she's like, and I'm like, okay, well, that's probably one of my hardest objections. So if I can get Chloe to do it, then I'm sort of on to a winner. But there have been times, I mean, so with Chloe, sort of like if we're having sort of a moment where one of us is a bit stressed or anxious or whatever, and it happens. And I'm a big hugger, man. I love cuddles. I'm the first one to, I'm the first one. Chloe, I'm the first one to say sorry. Because I just want to just get rid of everything straight away. I'm sorry. Give me a hug. And then I'll hold. And then we just have a hug.

28:28 And then when it starts, you feel the hug relax. I'll just start chuckling like that. And then it's just nice because it just, if you've ever hugged somebody and just chuckled, you just start wobbling together and it's just a really nice emotion. And you get all the positive from the cuddle. You're releasing all those great emotions. And it's, yeah. And then I suppose with the kids, again, you know, I laugh every morning for 10 minutes. So there are some days where Nila, more so, I was like, look, Nila, come, come and sit in with me and we'll laugh with the like there's usually about 10 of us that will laugh for 10 minutes eight o'clock in the morning and um and and she'll just sit there and she'll laugh and and and i i think ultimately that the the main thing is they they like happy laugh at that laugh the dad

29:14 they don't like shouty dads and and shouty dad didn't exactly the point he's in there me too yeah and so that's that's amazing because i had a conversation with another dad in in the team super lad group the other day about anger and about shouting at his kids so a daily laughter session can really free you up and actually get some of that raw raw emotion emotion, you know, whether it's anger, whether it's laughter, whether it's tears, it's an outlet for raw emotion. Yeah, definitely, definitely. And like I say, you know, so 10 minutes a day, that was something I was doing probably about a year, over a year now. I've been laughing at eight o'clock in the morning. And there's, I'll share the link. We call it the Daily Giggle Channel.

29:55 And it's what's really interesting, it's usually predominantly all females that are there. Hardly any men ever come to the laughter because that's something that I really, really, really want to dive deep into at some point. I'm not ready for it at the moment, but I want to know why men don't want to join in a group and laugh. I don't know. Is it because we don't want to release, you know, we don't want to be vulnerable because when we let the laugh out, we're not in control of ourselves, possibly. You know, there's definitely something there. And it's, I think, being the laughter man, I need to dive deeper. We're going to do with something in a bit, right? I can tell you from 10 years ago when I did the laughter set, it was on mobile phones, then, right? So it was like a chat room. Yeah.

30:38 And someone invited me. And I was like, this is proper flipping weird. And at the same time, having thrown myself into it, not like the guy on the top left of the Zoom call that held back, throwing yourself into it because you don't know what's on the other side. And then just at the end of it, like, oh, that was actually pretty good. I can't, it's ridiculous. And I feel good. That's it. You feel good. Why would you not? Why? Why would you not want to feel good? Yeah. That's that's my question. And that's what I don't understand. It's like, why do you not want to feel good about yourself? And you've got it. It's just here. It's just a

31:30 and that's all it is. It's just laughing. I'm going to bring in my movie clip here, right? Because it's Mary Poppins, right? I love to laugh. It is a quintessentially, you know, quintessential moment in this in this movie. But the thing I love about it most is it is just so silly and funny. We can't play all the because it takes too long, but here we go. So, so, uh, so Bert and Mary take the kids to visit Bert's uncle, right? And they, and he says to them on the way in, don't laugh, right? Because if he, he, don't, don't join in. Because if we all join in, he says, like, last once upon a time, it took us two days to get him down off the ceiling, right? So

32:37 we love to laugh. So, everybody can hear it. So, it goes on, and the kids then all end up on the ceiling. Let's jump forward a bit. They all end up on the ceiling. And, and it is, you can't not, you can't not laugh. That's that's the point you're making, isn't it? Yeah, uh, Pete. You can't, you can't not join in. It's infectious. It's infectious. It's, it's, it's, and, and, you know, there's one thing that I'm going to do, and it's on my bucket list. It's, I'm going to get on a tube in London with a few stooges, just a few, not many. Yeah. Rush hour. And I'm just going to stand there with my phone and I'm just going to start laughing.

33:22 And I'll have a couple of stooges set out. So I'm putting it out for the world. I'm in. When you're doing that, I'm in. Yes. So I'm on love video in it. And let's get that whole carriage laughing on rush hour. You know what? Like, I don't know. I'm a Bristol boy, innit? But I've been to London enough times to see everybody just stood there going and like just chuckling away. And the mission is like within sort of, well, actually, what would be really useful because anybody from Proper London who knows the tube distances, it'll be good to know a distance between maybe where we've got like three minutes, possibly enough time to really make it work. It'll be as you're getting out to the edges, like on the district line. I say, oh, or you're going out on the literal off to or is heathrow?

34:04 You get some good gaps there, basically. Perfect. So that's it then. We'll have to do it up to Wars Heathrow or something. And then try and find, like, if anyone else knows how busy, the busiest dialogue, I'm nailing this down now. You can't go full rush hour because you're like this close to people. You want a little bit of space. So sort of like a lunchtime thing could be quite good because people are less perhaps stressy. There's definitely scope to scope to do it. You can have the laughter carriage, mate. You know what I mean? It could be like every Friday, come to the laughter carriage and get people wearing wigs, hats, and just having fun, man. It would be brilliant. Well, there was, I used to obviously commute up and up and down to London.

34:46 And on the Friday afternoon, there was the drinking carriage, which would basically be. We went to Edinburgh once on a stag do. I organized one of my best mates, Matt, and the train was packed. We had to book the tickets. And anyway, so we sat there. We got flipping ice boxes and cooler bags. And we're fully ready for the party. Yeah. And it's like, welcome to Deserno to Edinburgh. There's a fast train. The buffet carriage is in the thing. And the quiet carriage is Coach D. We look to our left, a big D on the window. And we just all start laughing. And we just go, that ain't happening.

35:30 Just say. And the thing was, by the time we got up to near Edinburgh, like word had got out that because we were pissed into having a proper party, like loads of people had come up and joined us in the quiet carriage and you're having a having a party. Yeah, I love it. Party train, mate. Party carriage. It's brilliant. D for debauchery and drinking. Totally. So, Pete, let's do this, right? So, so you go in, you do this with people in their offices, right? Not or Zoom at the moment, but it can be an office-based thing, right? You go in and do workshop places. Yep. What does that do for teams? Sorry?

36:13 What does that do for teams? Why is that good for teams? So, I mean, yeah, one thing, it lightens everyone's mood. Okay, so it just makes especially totally. So, let's just take Zoom calls at the moment, how it's happening. A lot of businesses are very conscious of well-being in their teams. Massive. It's a massive thing at the moment. So, they need some lightness in there. And that's what laughter does. So, during the session, you start seeing your colleagues that you usually maybe sat in the, well, you are sat in the same office, usually. You're just seeing them laughing. Maybe you've not heard like Johnny laugh for a while. You haven't seen him laugh for a while. That's going to set you off. It's going to trigger some other emotions, maybe where you had that laugh that time over the water cooler. And it just, the connection, it just really does start connecting people at a deeper level as well.

36:58 And sort of in person, it's definitely a deeper level, but definitely on the Zoom. So, you know, I've mentioned again the eight o'clock giggle that I do. The three ladies that we set up this channel together, I've never met them. And I feel like I know them really, really well because we've laughed virtually every day for like over a year. And it's crazy. So, yeah, it does work. It connects you to each other. It releases endorphins, which basically, you know, that's that's your happy hormone. So you can't be stressed or anxious when you're laughing. And you get, there's, there's like this little bit of a come down at the end of it as well. So it just puts you in a real nice, calm state. And it's a good cardio workout as well.

37:37 Because, you know, again, we're sat down most of our time in the day. This is me sat down by the way because I stood up. I didn't just shrink. But we're compressing, you know, our lungs are compressing and we've got this little slither of air at the bottom of our lungs that doesn't come out basically because we're compressing all day until we actually do some real deep breaths. We're not, we're not going to release, you know, get the fresh air in and get it back out again. And again, so that's a cardio. So they say 10 minutes of laughter is about 15 to 20 minutes on a row machine. So, and we can't go to the gym either at the moment. So we may as well laugh for 10 minutes. So yeah, loads of goodness, mate. Loads of goodness. I love it. I love it.

38:22 People are grumpy people as well. You know, like laughter can really pull unless they're really, really steadfast in their grumpiness. A bit like the Mary Poppins clip, right? It's like, thanks for joining me up here. I didn't know you were going to come. And it's like that is, that's the infectious part of it. And you, and also, you just like, I guess, as a boss, it's quite hard to go around the office and go, could you stop being grumpy, please? Could you lighten up? Could you be happier? Like, okay, so no, instead of the massaged lady that's going to come in, we're going to come and do a group laughter session. I love that. Yeah, definitely. And, you know, when we're in person, it's definitely,

39:02 it's like the Zoom sessions on steroids because you get that whole laughing carpet. You get that whole, yeah, it's just magical. But, you know, I suppose my concern when I first started doing the Zoom sessions was, is it going to work? Is it going to be as effective? But I soon found out it was really effective. And just the comments I'm getting. I mean, what's really nice actually this week. and last, and actually, like every session I've run, I've had a comment saying, um, so this week they have a TZoom meeting every day, and they're still doing the laughter set, they're doing like the very good, very good yay, which is one of the things. They're doing the giggle phone, they're just lightening it up. And I'm just like, wow, that's amazing.

39:42 That means so much because I know how that makes you feel. And like, why would you not want to hang out with your group of colleagues again? And then just one of you says something that sparks someone and someone does something. And then you're just all in laughter again for a minute and then back to whatever you were doing, you know? Yeah, yeah. Right. Let's do something. Let's do the I don't know how this will work, right? But let's obviously, I know there's a whole warm-up thing that you do and things which really get how long have we, how long have we got? That's probably the first question I've got. Well, it's all about what's good entertainment as well for a podcast and live stream. Okay, so I think, look, I'm you can see I'm always up for a giggle. Okay, so we can kind of jump straight into a bit of a bit of some kind of laughter, but I'm just letting people know there is a there's a whole warm-up sort of part of it as well and stretching out and things like that.

40:32 But let's do a couple of minutes. Let's just get perfect in at the deep right. Come on, go. We're going to do a couple of minutes, right? And everybody at home, if you're listening to this, or if you're walking the dog or you're running or whatever, but maybe running might be a bit harder to do it, but just get and get engaged with this. Do this, please, because it will make a massive difference to your next few minutes. Okay. So, first of all, Johnny, what I want you to do, I just want you to put your arms out in front of you straight. Yeah. Take a nice deep breath in. And we're going to go. Okay. So we're just going to ground ourselves a little bit. Deep breath in. And

41:14 perfect. So this next exhale, I want you to just let out a long ha. Okay. So take a deep breath in. And ha. We're going to do two now. Okay. So we're going to take a deep breath in. And we're going to go ha ha. This next one, we're just going to let out the longest ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. We can do. And then we're going to breathe at the end of it, right? So take a nice deep breath in. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. And

41:59 breathe in and relax. Okay. So that's got you going a little bit, right? So we're going to do, we'll do two exercises, right? First exercise we're going to do is called the giggle phone. Okay. And this looks like this. Everyone's got a giggle phone. It can look like your mobile phone, okay, as well, but you can do it anytime. And it's going to be the funniest thing that you've heard all day. So you're just going to get the phone and you're just going to go and hold it. And

42:50 perfect. Right. And I'll do one more exercise. And this is something that I've done through the whole of lockdown. Okay. And it's called a worry juice. Now, it's quite complex. It's going to be about a minute of laughing. Okay. But you just got to watch me first. We get all our little worries. Our he he's, then we're going to get our hahas. Then we're going to get the big worries, which are ho ho ho hoes. Okay. We put them in our ear. We do the same on the other hand. He he's the hahas, the ho-hos. Put them in our ear. You can them into our hand. Put them in our hand. Yeah. Explain. It's all right. Explain, gather your giggles into your hand, your worries. We put them into our ear, then we put hold a cup, pretend cup to our ear. Okay. And then we're going to take a deep breath in and pretend we're letting the juice out and then let out the laugh. We swap, do the same. We shake like shaking a cocktail, shake the laugh,

43:34 and then we go, way, we get rid of the laugh. Okay. Right then. Are you ready? So we're going to go. And then put them into your ear. Swap hands, start with your little laughs. okay, so you've got all the giggles in your brain, right? Take a deep breath in, hold your hand in front of your mouth, deep breath in.

44:50 Putting in on it, shake it like a cocktail and ready. Very good, very good. How do you feel? Brilliant. I feel great. I feel great. I feel hot. I mean, you said about it being aerobic exercise, right? I feel hot. I'm like, I'm not sweating buckets, but I can imagine after a longer session than that. I mean, I'm hot. The other day, I did three back-to-back sessions.

45:33 Again, I'm trying to work out what my limit is of how many sessions I do, but I've literally, so obviously it's winter as well. So the heater radiator is just behind my screen here, pumping out the heat. So Chloe's in the other room. She's cold. She's fully jumpered up. And I'm just literally sweating buckets. You come on to your next session. It's like, oh, who is this lunatic? Sweating buckets. Hello. I'm here to do some laughter. Like, eyes wide. Just from a double laughter session. Spiking the endorphins. And that again double out, like, you know, double, double start.

46:16 Just ah, mate. I love it, Johnny. I love it so much. And just everybody needs it. They need it in their lives. Oh, I'm pumped as well. Isn't I didn't realize there's a whole qualification we can go out and get. I'm fully up for this. I'm fully up for this. And, you know, there's so many things I'm bringing into Team Super Dad, right? The fitness, the fitness F5, which is literally just burpees, sit-ups, press-ups. If you do them, you'll get fit. Right. And we've got a couch to 5K type thing in there as well, park run, you know, basically just get off your ass and go running. Walk even is a good start. But they're just basic things that are coming. Yesterday, we talked about cash flow and just managing your finances.

46:58 Basically, we've done some stuff on relationships and literally just finding ways to communicate with your wife or your girlfriend in a way that is non-confrontational. And one of the tips there is like you're going to say what works for you, what doesn't work for you, what you love about the most and what you'd like some more of. The other person's not allowed to talk. You swap and then you live with it for a week before coming back and sharing, right? So like these are things that just they're basic things to cause breakthroughs. And what could be more basic than like, you need to laugh. We need to get some laughter in the house, you know? Very, very powerful.

47:39 Just love it. It's really, really great. So what's next? What's next, Pete? Where's you know, no one knows what's happening with COVID, but hopefully this vaccine's gonna come around the corner. So what's next? Laughing chefs, or is it gonna keep the two things separate? Yeah, so I, you know, my, my game plan, right, and is, you know, the chef industry, the chef business will come back. Luckily, we've got it. And, you know, I mean, there's 11, that was really bad, mate. That was actually.

48:19 I mean, 11 years track record. So it's not as if we're going to, you know, that obviously apart from the companies that have gone under and stuff, but we are fortunate enough to have we've got one on one of our girls on furlough. We've got another one who's sort of manning the phones at the moment when it does ring. So I think the game plan is that I'm just going to keep diving into this rabbit hole and just see where it goes. You know, I've got a vision. I want to, so if anyone can help with this vision, my big, big, big goal is a million people to laugh in total by the end of 2022. That's one thing that came up this morning when I was doing my morning session. So obviously the bigger the exposure, it starts growing.

49:02 And I'd love to go on stage in San Francisco in front of a thousand people. I don't know. Well, I've got a friend, a good friend in San Francisco. So I'd love to go and see him, go and meet him. But I just think also, you know, there's a lot. lot of tech companies and stuff up there. I think I could be a brilliant warm-up for the session. What you want to do is you want to be the warm-up for Tony Robbins' next power session of power or whatever the thing within or yeah, release of power. His weekend thing, he has he does have like warm-up people. Anthony, I'm coming for you, my friend. Introduce you to some people I know who are fully fully in the Tony Robbins world.

49:47 Amazing. Is that yes, it's like Carl? Do you know Carl Purcell? Oh, I do. I don't, I don't know him like really like chummy, but I've been to a few yes, uh, yes, group events. Um, yeah, great car's a great guy, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, again, I only haven't met him since this, but um, yeah, he comes, yeah, yeah. Again, it's we love to meet him face to face. That's the thing, you meet all these people like this, and he's like, I'd like to give you a hug. Does that sound a bit weird? Hugging going back to our raving conversations, like the thing I said to someone else, do you know what the thing about it? The best thing about it was I chatted to so many people, all right, mate. Where are you from? What you had, like, what's your name? What's your name? Where you from? What you had? Like, like it's most ridiculous intro to a conversation.

50:31 Intro to every conversation, and you'd be mates flipping sharing pots of vicks and be like best buddies, you know. Like, it's funny, though. Can you imagine that in a networking event? Now, you go into all right, mate. Uh, what's your name? Where you from? It's Johnny Jensen, Team Super Dad. That would be brilliant. Isn't there? When old ravers go networking, mate, can I swipe that idea? Yeah, yeah. I'll be in the in the in the video, in the video,

51:21 especially in love, some of the posh ones where you get like these little these delicate little bacon rolls, not just a flipping roll with bacon in. It's all been poshed up, yeah. Oh, man, too good. Oh, isn't it? Oh, very amazing. Uh, we're gonna get you into the into the hero academy. We're gonna do some laughter sessions for team super dad crew. Um, that's gonna be absolutely great. So, people should come over to the team super dad page. Well, go to teamsuperdad.com and click start here because that'll put you into the community and get you the podcast and everything like that. What about people who want to work with you and get some of this into their lives, uh, Pete? You've mentioned a few things: the daily giggle, the stuff you do with businesses.

52:05 Where can people come and find you? So, so my playground is probably where it is, LinkedIn. That's where I'm most active now. Um, so I'm Pete Cann the Laughter Man on LinkedIn. Uh, I put a load, I put a daily gig. I'm on a daily giggle challenge at the moment, so I'm doing a minute laugh every day. Um, um, different exercises. I'm on a 30-day challenge, so come and find me. Um, a lot of people are telling me that I'm lightening up their feed, which is fantastic because obviously, you know, people do think LinkedIn's a bit business, a bit corporate, blah, blah, blah. But it doesn't have to be, we can have fun over there. Um, or petecan.com is my website with all my other contact details. Yeah, absolutely brilliant. Love it, love it. Let's bring in our per let's bring in these guys just to finish. Look at them and snows. They're still laughing.

52:59 They're in the sky. Love it. Absolutely love it. Mary Poppins, classic. Hey, that was brilliant. As always, I just loved it. And Pete was so generous in his thanks and acknowledgement of being on the podcast. He sent me an awesome video to encourage other people to come on. We just had a good laugh. And that's what it's all about. I hope you listened to that in the well, I hope you weren't driving when you did the laughter exercise. But I hope you did enjoy it. And we're going to start to try and do some more of that stuff in the Team Super Dad community, either with Pete or we'll just freestyle it and make it happen ourselves.

53:42 The dad call is coming up on Monday. The dad call is every other Monday. It's a drop-in. It's a time for dads to get together. There's no charge. Sometimes we have a laugh. Sometimes it gets a bit serious, but that is okay. It's really about what you need from the call. It's not recorded. It's not streamed, shared, or anything. It's just a private space for the men that are on the call that evening. I really encourage you to come over and get involved. Go to teamsuperdad.com forward slash dad call and just sign up. You know, it's not really a sign up to anything, it's just securing you a place and getting you the link to join us on the Zoom call.

54:25 So that's on Monday nights, every other Monday at 8 p.m. It's generally about an hour, but for example, last week, ran on for two. The wrap-up, as always, is on Friday. And I hope you enjoyed the intro and outro from the Junior Jays last week. I love those guys. It's not always easy, but it is always fun. Well, it's not always fun either. Sometimes, sometimes there's some arguments. But more often than not, we still manage in between times to, well, first of all, get complete makeup. And second of all, just get right back down to having some fun. Baking cakes, making slime, going on bike rides, watching the football, playing FIFA, doing jigsaws.

55:07 They were just some of the things. Old made breakfast burritos. They were just some of the things that we did last week. You'll hear more about all of that on the wrap-up this Friday. Until next time, send me some love on Apple podcasts and a review. Sign up to anything and everything over at teamsuperdad.com. And I'll see you in the community on Facebook. Thanks, y'all. Team Super Dad out. Bye. This has been Team Super Dad. Find us at Team Super Dad.com.