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Ever found yourself laughing uncontrollably over something as simple as a dairy mishap or a quirky TV show? We also talk about our predictable McDonald's cravings, which Google Maps seems to know all too well, and Hannah describes the voting process amidst a changing UK political scene.

Get ready to laugh out loud as we challenge each other to a side-splitting game of Mad Libs. Discover the unexpected ways this simple game can bring families closer together, as Hannah shares how it added a creative twist to her wedding vows.  Whether you're here for the heartfelt stories or the belly laughs, this episode promises a delightful blend of humor, family bonding, and genuine moments that will leave you smiling. Tune in and let's make some memories together!

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Davey:

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok links in bio.

Hannah:

Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter podcast Life update. I just saw you shake your shoulders, like I was supposed to do that Life update your shoulders gave like the signal.

Davey:

They've kind of been a little bit hit and miss lately and I thought you know we wanted to make this a bit of a regular feature, so I thought I'd just give myself a little shoulder shake.

Hannah:

To remind me to say it yeah, the shoulder shake for the life update. Shoulder shake for the like update.

Davey:

Like update.

Hannah:

Life update. What have we done? What have we done? Nothing. The last update we gave was we went to Alt Towers.

Davey:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, which we've already discussed. Did you not just say to me in the car, though you started to tell me a story and then you went oh no, no, I'm not going to tell you. Oh, I just wanted to let you know that I started to watch Castle from the beginning.

Hannah:

Oh, nathan Fillion, yes, yeah. I love him so much. I like his father-daughter relationship as well.

Davey:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, very good with Alexis.

Hannah:

Yeah, watching that, that's good, isn't it?

Davey:

Yeah, I really enjoy it. I'm really enjoying it. Have you seen the Rookie with him in it?

Hannah:

No, that's good. No, is that the police one?

Davey:

That's the police one that's the police one. Because, yeah, nathan Fillion is awesome, he's great. Well, he's Captain Mal, isn't he? He's Captain Phil, phil's great.

Hannah:

Oh, phil, I thought you'd love Phil.

Davey:

Yeah, Phil's awesome, Phil's great. Yeah, because he's I mean, he's the same actor that's in Dawn of the Dead, isn't he? Yes, yeah, so it's weird to see him in a role that I hated him in Dawn of the Dead but then seeing him in this mum.

Hannah:

She was also in Lost.

Davey:

Was she.

Hannah:

She was. You know, the doctor Can't remember his name in it.

Davey:

The doctor.

Hannah:

Yeah, the main guy, literally the main guy in Lost.

Davey:

Oh what Jack Jack.

Hannah:

His wife in Lost. Oh, in the real world.

Davey:

Well, blow me down with a feather. There you go. Oh, what in realsies? No, not in realsies, no, but in the show. In the show, his wife in the show. Yeah, right, okay, who fixed her?

Hannah:

back and, yeah, that whole storyline, yeah, yeah.

Davey:

So yeah, so you started watching Castle I did, I did.

Hannah:

Yeah, I thought you'd be excited to know this. Where are you going tomorrow? I'm going to Thought Park tomorrow and what are? I'm stoked. Are you excited? I'm very excited.

Davey:

Excellent.

Hannah:

Yeah, woke up this morning shitting through the eye of a needle that was fun.

Davey:

Yeah, I know, I got to the car this morning or drove to your house this morning. You opened the door and then you went look how beautiful your daughter is. And I thought this is odd. Where's this going? Because, yes, she knows I think she's beautiful, but why are we making an actual point of this now? And she just went. I'm shitting through the eye of a needle, nice, nice.

Hannah:

I rolled the dairy intolerant dice last night.

Davey:

And you rolled a one.

Hannah:

I rolled a D1. You rolled a one Natural one. Yeah, yeah, I've been a bit poorly this morning, yeah.

Davey:

How are you feeling?

Hannah:

I feel okay, I feel okay, I feel okay. I just emptied another contents of my stomach out. Excellent, nice, just before we start recording, nice, so fun times.

Davey:

Went to McDonald's this morning, didn't we again?

Hannah:

We did, we did.

Davey:

And my phone now knows that we go to McDonald's every two weeks because I got in my phone or got in my phone car this morning, put the phone on, put Spotify on and immediately Google Maps gives me a little banner. That comes down. Didn't ask for it, it just decided it was going to tell me that it was 12 minutes to McDonald's. And if I took the A11, traffic was light and it was like thank you, google Maps, for that little bit of insightful information. But it does make me worry now that my phone even knows that I go to McDonald's every kind of two weeks.

Hannah:

Two weeks, yeah, yeah, I mean, there are probably people that go to McDonald's a lot more than that.

Davey:

I know, but it's quite scary, isn't it, when you look at what your phone actually does.

Hannah:

When it knows, when it knows, when it knows.

Davey:

Actually, have you seen that? I don't know why my mind suddenly went to this. Have you seen that?

Hannah:

new.

Davey:

No, just look it up. It is quite funny, especially when the filter comes off and someone's sitting on the toilet. That's even funnier.

Hannah:

I guess there's another UK life update. What's that? I mean we've got another party in political power.

Davey:

We have.

Hannah:

And that's all we're going to say about that.

Davey:

Yeah, let's not start talking about it.

Hannah:

No, we're not going to because I'm not very politically minded anyway.

Davey:

But yeah, no, people tend to get a little bit when it comes to politics. Yeah, but yeah, I mean I've always said as well yes, I do have my political opinions, but just because someone else has got a different political opinion to me doesn't mean I don't like them.

Hannah:

Exactly.

Davey:

You know everybody's different.

Hannah:

I enjoyed the voting process. Can we talk about that? I actually enjoyed it.

Davey:

What going to vote and put an X in a box.

Hannah:

Yeah, Like I got to the polling station. Yeah, I got in there, gave them my name. They asked me for my street. They said, oh yeah, that's the queue for you.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Which wasn't a queue, it was just me, and then my husband was behind me he gave me a bit of paper went inside a booth but it was like made a cardboard booth.

Davey:

I know yeah, no expenses spared.

Hannah:

No expenses spared at all. A little cardboard booth and that was that really. Yeah, but you enjoyed it. I did. You enjoyed it. Yeah, I liked posting it through the little box.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Jobs are good and took me two minutes if that. Yeah, I had a nice to the station.

Davey:

Yeah, I drove around Thunderbar. Yeah, I drove around after work and I think your mum jogged around.

Hannah:

Yes.

Davey:

She ran around. Yours is quite close yeah ours is just over the road.

Hannah:

Yeah, yours is close enough.

Davey:

Yeah, I just swung around after work.

Hannah:

No one's got really, I guess, an excuse to be like, oh, it's too far.

Davey:

Well, yeah, I mean, everyone should really vote.

Hannah:

Well, I think that's up to the individual, really it doesn't really matter, but you know, it's up to them.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

I mean, there's no excuse. You can't use the excuse of one's not too like, oh, it's too far away. Yeah, exactly, you either choose not to vote because you choose not to vote or you vote and then you've got one on your doorstep, pretty much in most places.

Davey:

Yeah, yeah, it's not that hard to Hard to find one. Hard to find one. Google's a thing as well. Google is a thing If you need to find one. Anyway, yes, anyway, should we get on to our episodes yeah so we were actually. I like how all of our life updates, though, were kind of around telly there, did you notice?

Hannah:

that no, not lounge lizard.

Davey:

Anyway, we've just been sitting. Couch potatoes, Couch potatoes. Yeah, we've just been sitting.

Hannah:

What the heck is a lounge lizard. I don't know A lounge lizard. Change approved, that's it.

Davey:

Yeah, there we go, you've watched Cougar Town, haven't you?

Hannah:

I've started watching some of it, yeah. It's good Change approved.

Davey:

Yeah, sometimes me and your mum will start watching something and then we stop and forget.

Hannah:

Just fall out of love.

Davey:

Oh, it's so good, no, just kind of forget that we were watching it. It's so good, I need to finish it, but it is very difficult, though, especially watching something with your mum, because obviously we're not always together in the same room.

Hannah:

No.

Davey:

So I think that's what probably happens, is it gets to a point because Should we carry on watching this and then it just falls off by the wayside and we forget about it?

Hannah:

You need dedicated TV time.

Davey:

We do need dedicated TV. We need dedicated time to spend with each other. That would be nice. Yeah that too. Yeah, because you even said that about Mitchell, didn't you in the car?

Hannah:

I did, yeah. Yeah, we actually had a chill night last night because we haven't really seen each other properly, I guess because the football's been kind of very occupied with the Euros at the moment.

Davey:

so yeah, I didn't even know it was on yeah, we're doing quite well. We actually won last night oh, what did England play last night? Yeah, did they. Who are they playing Switzerland?

Hannah:

Okay, we won on penalties as well.

Davey:

Really yeah. Okay, I think I know what that means.

Hannah:

You do. You know what that means.

Davey:

We're quite good at penalties apparently. Are we yeah, okay.

Hannah:

Anyway, this episode is.

Davey:

I know we're like 10 minutes in and we haven't even started the episode. We've just been talking shite.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

That, normally, is the first of came up with, is it not?

Hannah:

Yeah, I thought we would. We usually have a topic and we talk about how it's different in your childhood versus my childhood, or we do some random episodes here and there. Well, this is one of those other random episodes that I come up with, so I thought we'd actually play a little game today. Ooh Well, game might be a loose term. Yeah, for anyone that hasn't heard of Mad Libs before. Basically, I've got a template in front of me and I am going to ask father for some words to fill out that template, and then I will read the whole thing out afterwards.

Hannah:

I've chosen a father-daughter adventure. I don't know if you want to keep that in the back of your mind.

Davey:

What are you saying? Keep it clean.

Hannah:

Keep it clean, because otherwise it might be a bit weird, but yeah, basically I you saying keep it clean, keep it clean, keep it clean. Okay, a bit weird, yeah, but yeah, basically I'm just going to ask you for adjectives, nouns, places, plural nouns, etc. Etc. And then we'll just see what we come up with okay, okay I think you've got one for me I have got one for you.

Davey:

Yeah, I did write a little while I didn't write that was that you saying you use chat gbt? Yes, same here, yeah cool right.

Hannah:

So to start off mad libs, I would like you to give me an adjective an adjective yeah eccentric, you gotta type this in.

Davey:

I'm not gonna make this easy for you a noun please a noun yeah car cool another adjective big. Okay, I know I'm trying to and and a place name please. A place name. When you say place name, what do you mean? Place name?

Hannah:

I mean a location.

Davey:

Oh, a location.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Norwich Okay.

Hannah:

Our first. Sorry, no, I don't need to read that bit out loud.

Davey:

Okay.

Hannah:

Adjective, please again.

Davey:

Adjective yeah, quiet.

Hannah:

And a type of landmark.

Davey:

A type of landmark.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Okay, nelson's column.

Hannah:

Don't know if this is going to work out.

Davey:

Oh, really have I been too obscure.

Hannah:

No, no, no. If anything you're being too specific, but it doesn't matter. A past tense adjective, please. A past tense adjective, please.

Davey:

A past tense adjective.

Hannah:

Yeah, no, sorry, past tense verb.

Davey:

Past tense verb yeah, okay, oh my God, my mind's gone blank.

Hannah:

A verb in the past tense, any verb, and I'll make a past tense for you.

Davey:

Ran yeah that works, sorry.

Hannah:

A plural noun. A A plural noun.

Davey:

A plural noun. Yeah, okay, cats.

Hannah:

Okay, adjective.

Davey:

Adjective Happy. It's not easy to think of these things on the spot.

Hannah:

Another adjective please.

Davey:

Another adjective Adjective, adjective Pale.

Hannah:

And then an animal, please.

Davey:

An animal, yeah Pale. And then an animal, please. An animal, yeah Horse. How long is yours?

Hannah:

Past tense verb please.

Davey:

Past tense verb Eaten.

Hannah:

Adjective please.

Davey:

Small.

Hannah:

Okay, a past tense verb and an adverb. A past tense verb and an adverb.

Davey:

A past tense, verb Slept.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Adverb, adverb, adverb.

Hannah:

Ending in L-Y.

Davey:

Yeah, slowly.

Hannah:

Another adjective please.

Davey:

Another adjective.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Smile.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

No, that doesn't.

Hannah:

I can change it.

Davey:

Yeah, it's not theoretically. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.

Hannah:

A verb please.

Davey:

A verb. A verb I've said run, haven't I?

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Yeah, okay, sleep.

Hannah:

Adjective.

Davey:

Monstrous.

Hannah:

Yeah, okay, A past tense verb please.

Davey:

A past tense, verb Eight.

Hannah:

An adjective.

Davey:

Oh my god, how many of these are there, angry.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

That's what I'm getting. Oh, there's not more Tree. Okay, that's what I'm getting. Oh, there's not more.

Hannah:

No, I can cut some of this out if you like.

Davey:

Okay.

Hannah:

Okay, a noun.

Davey:

A noun yeah Okay tree.

Hannah:

Okay, a plural noun.

Davey:

Bushes.

Hannah:

Another noun. Lake, I'm just looking out the window now. Plural noun.

Davey:

Lakes.

Hannah:

No, we're taking it Past tense verb. Oh my god, there's two left.

Davey:

There's two left. There's two left. Okay, written Any more.

Hannah:

Yeah, one last one Okay Plural noun. A plural noun Okay written.

Davey:

Any more?

Hannah:

Yeah one last one, okay. Plural noun.

Davey:

A plural noun Apples.

Hannah:

Okay, one sunny morning, my dad and I decided to go on an eccentric adventure. We packed our car and set off to explore the big Norwich. Our first stop was quiet Nelson Column, where we ran and took lots of cats. While hiking through the happy forest, we stumbled upon a pale horse. My dad ate and said it was the most smallest creature he'd ever seen. We watched as it slept slowly away. Next we found a smiley river. My dad suggested we sleep across it. It was a bit monstrous, but my dad ate me. And soon we were on the other side feeling angry. What?

Hannah:

The next morning we woke up to the sound of trees. We packed our bushes and continued our journey. We discovered a hidden lake that was filled with lakes. My dad and I written and collected some apples as souvenirs. That's it. That's it All of that. For that, yeah, I think that my highlight was my dad's. We found a smiley river. My dad suggested we sleep across it. It was a bit monstrous, oh dear god. And you took a nibble out of me and apparently we were feeling angry about it.

Davey:

Oh, dear lord, okay, did you enjoy that?

Hannah:

I did that was I hope our listeners enjoyed there was.

Davey:

There was a lot of stuff in there.

Hannah:

Well, maybe yours is the same. Okay, I cut out some of it as well, did you yeah?

Davey:

Okay, so now I've got one for you. Yes, all right, okay.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

So adjective.

Hannah:

Ah, describing word Green.

Davey:

Green Name.

Hannah:

Like a girl's name, boy's name.

Davey:

Any name, any name.

Hannah:

Claire.

Davey:

Claire Adjective. It's not easy, is it?

Hannah:

An adjective, yeah, adjective Tall.

Davey:

Tall Okay Adverb.

Hannah:

Swimmingly, all right.

Davey:

Okay, noun.

Hannah:

Chair.

Davey:

Chair.

Hannah:

Chair. I also don't know the theme of yours. I don't know if that I know this yeah. Okay.

Davey:

Well, this is it, noun.

Hannah:

Okay.

Davey:

Noun.

Hannah:

A noun.

Davey:

A noun.

Hannah:

A table.

Davey:

Table Okay Adjective.

Hannah:

Large.

Davey:

Large Plural noun.

Hannah:

Baseball hats Okay Plural noun Baseball hats.

Davey:

Okay, I can't spell Adjectives.

Hannah:

Adjectives.

Davey:

Adjectives, yeah, adjectives, what? Just one adjective, one adjective, one adjective yeah, I'm going to go with mossy. Mossy, okay, emotion, feel that emotion angry. Okay, all right, um, uh, noun radiator okay, this might actually be better.

Hannah:

Plural noun plural noun shelving, shelves, shelves.

Davey:

Sorry shelves, okay, noun.

Hannah:

Mouses.

Davey:

Mouses Mouse.

Hannah:

I'm going to put mouses. Okay, you can put mouses.

Davey:

That's what you said. Give me a number 729. Specific. Well then, I suppose most numbers are specific. Plural noun Posters Posters Adjective, adjective, Adjective Describing word Sleep, sleepy. Sleepy posters posters adjective adjective describing word sleepy sleepy, sleepy, yeah animal giraffe type of food spaghetti bolognese spag bol a type of beverage. A type of beverage.

Hannah:

A type of beverage A type of beverage. Does it mean like?

Davey:

A drink.

Hannah:

Oh, okay, right, I'll go with rum and coke.

Davey:

Okay, rum and and coke, yeah, okay Game.

Hannah:

Cluedo.

Davey:

Cluedo, that's auto corrected. To what Clyde Clyde, clyde Noun.

Hannah:

Noun A what's it called A seesaw.

Davey:

A seesaw.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Davey:

Okay, adjective.

Hannah:

Tipsy.

Davey:

Tipsy Noun.

Hannah:

Brain.

Davey:

Brain Okay, plural noun.

Hannah:

Feet.

Davey:

And last one, adjective.

Hannah:

Small. The adjectives are probably the hardest things to come up with. The nouns are easy. I'm like oh right, I could just think of random objects, it's really difficult, isn't it?

Davey:

It is surprisingly difficult. It is really difficult. It's a difficult game.

Davey:

Okay. So this is a day at the beach, oh God, okay. Today I went to the beach with my green friend, claire. The weather was tall and the sun was shining swimmingly. We brought a chair to sit on and a big table for shade. First, we put on our large baseball cats and ran to the water. The waves were mossy and made us feel angry, so we decided to build a radiator out of shelves. It looked like a mouse's. Afterwards we collected 729 posters and found a sleepy giraffe hiding under a rock. For lunch we had spag, bol and drank rum and cum. What Rum and coke, rum and coke that's the daughter created. I was going to say that's definitely notcorrected.

Hannah:

I was going to say there's definitely no Y side.

Davey:

Mum and Coke. That's auto-corrected to C-O-M-E. That's the funniest thing you've read so confidently.

Hannah:

Oh my God, just reading it.

Davey:

In the afternoon afternoon we played Cluedo and went for a long walk along the seesaw. We saw a tipsy brain and took a lot of feet. By the end of the day, we were both small, oh dear god. So yeah, so that's.

Hannah:

That's Mad Libs, that's Mad Libs.

Davey:

So how did you come across this game, hannah?

Hannah:

I actually used it as one of my table games at my wedding, but it was about writing vowels.

Davey:

Oh, right, okay.

Hannah:

So yeah, thought it would be a funny podcast idea.

Davey:

I don't know, or to just do a couple of Mad Libs. Just thought it would be random, yeah podcast idea.

Hannah:

I don't know, what did you just do? A couple of mad libs, just thought it'd be random yeah. We hope you listeners liked it.

Davey:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Probably yeah, enjoy, oh my God, rum and cum. Oh, a lovely day at the beach, that would be oh.

Davey:

God, oh, dear Lord, okay.

Hannah:

Well, we'll leave you on that note. Have a good day, everyone. Bye-bye, bye.