We have taken the show LIVE

Ever wondered how a cheeky AI bot might add a dash of unexpected sass to your day? Join us as we transition from streaming to podcasting, complete with all the humorous technical hiccups you'd expect along the way, and a slightly creepy encounter with a follower who claims to live just across the street. Our conversation takes a heartfelt and entertaining turn as we dive into the rollercoaster ride of parenting, sharing relatable tales of our kids' brace-filled smiles. Bearded Nova opens up about his son's dietary struggles and the looming Halloween candy dilemma, while Morph brings a dose of reassurance and humor from his own daughter's brace saga.

As Halloween creeps closer, we reminisce about the beloved tradition of the 'parent tax' on Halloween candy—a hilarious negotiation ploy that's evolved as our kids have gotten older and wiser. We chat about the joy of bonding over grocery trips and the guilty pleasure of sharing treats with our children. Our reflections extend to how our personal routines, including the occasional indulgence in a Slurpee or a shift in alcohol consumption, have evolved since our streaming days. Wrapping up with a lively debate about gaming devices, we offer a behind-the-scenes peek at our podcast journey and our amusing gadget obsessions, like the Steam Deck versus the G Cloud. Tune in for a delightful mix of humor, relatable stories, and behind-the-scenes insights that capture the essence of our podcasting adventure.

Chapters

• 0:01 Dad Mode With Bearded Nova
• 7:06 Parenting, Candy, Braces and Rewards
• 12:52 Gaming Device Comparison and Family Time

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode with your hosts bearded nova and morph all right, so I think that we're set up then this is.

Speaker 3: 0:19

I'm just putting out that this is taking us a long time. I don't know how many months we have. We have contemplated all of this awesome thanks space it's. It's. It's been months of us said we should just click live and do it easier that way.

Speaker 2: 0:33

This is why yeah, because and I know that we've talked about in many episodes past well, we're streamers. In fact, it says it in our bio on whatever site you listen to a podcast on. But and you so you think that we don't know what we're doing, even though we said that we clearly do so. To an extent, it's embarrassing.

Speaker 3: 0:52

Blightly. How do you think it was the first few weeks of me actually going live again? Here and there? Just every stream just crashed and burned. It was like I'd never done this before. It was horrible. Last night was unhitched perfect. It went smooth. Not one. Yeah, not wang. Yeah, the bot, though the bot is still ridiculously abusive to people.

Speaker 2: 1:15

Yeah, oh yeah, you, you have so for any reason. No, he has added a bot, like an AI bot, to his streaming setup and it's basically a very rude Australian version of Bearded.

Speaker 3: 1:37

Look, he just, yeah, he just. I didn't realize he's still playing because he just thanked Moose for hitting follow. I was like, oh shit, the cunt's talking. Don't need this guy in my life at the moment. All right, let's see. I think last night he told Average that he hopes he. When Average said he needed to go to bed, that he hopes the bed bugs bite his balls. He really doesn't like Average.

Speaker 2: 2:01

Average. Is he going to start taking that personally at some point? I don't know the moment average appears in my chat, it instantly greets him with cheeky cunt and that's what it calls him. So your bot greets average the same way that I greet most of scientists.

Speaker 3: 2:16

Yeah, basically, basically, yeah, surprisingly though, and I don't mean it must have respect for the man, but m west came by, didn't abuse M West.

Speaker 2: 2:25

It's because M West is awesome. Exactly Not that average is it, but.

Speaker 3: 2:29

Yeah, like I mean he swore, but not directly at him. Yeah, swore about the topic, so I'm paying for chat, gpt, for Turbo or whatever you know the one that puts them basically online. Yeah, so he's topical now and I finally got to see that last night because someone was asking me about the game and was able to look up parts of the game online and the community, so I was able to comment about what the community thinks about the game, what most people think about the game. You know it was like it actually knew the game and had played the game. Most people think about the game. You know it. It's like it was like it actually knew the game and I played the game how it was talking, so it was actually really cool. There was so one fucking creepy moment last night while I was streaming because I had the window open last night. It was late, I don't care, I just left the blind up and I had a new follower join. Yeah, and they go hey, I live across the road.

Speaker 2: 3:25

they said that yeah, oh yeah, that is creepy because the windows open.

Speaker 3: 3:29

I got such a big monitor because I'm old and can't see. Yeah, they were outside doing stuff on cars or whatever and they could see through the front window then see what I was playing. They're like, oh, we play that game.

Speaker 2: 3:41

So then they've jumped on twitch to find what stream to tell me that I was like this is just weird yeah, I I'm wondering if we should rename we've said talk about being old a couple times if we should name the podcast, just like two old men yell at their kids.

Speaker 3: 3:54

Exactly, I mean it doesn't roll off the tongue, but you know it's accurate going back to the kids, though we were talking before we click live and we had, like, all the technical problems and trying to work out life braces you were talking about.

Speaker 2: 4:07

Your son hates life because he's got braces yes, my, my just turned 13 year old got braces today and he doesn't seem happy, like they don't hurt him as much as they thought they would, but he's struggling with, like, the things he can and cannot eat. So, like I do, before the show, I took him to this. Like really, this house near us that really goes all out with decorations like they're in the newspaper and stuff, and at the end of it you can, you can grab a handful of candy, yeah, and he's like, oh, I'm gonna grab this. I'm like you know you can't eat that or that or that or that. He's like what? So, yeah, and halloween is just around the corner and you know mom and dad are gonna have to eat all his candy for him, out of love, out of love he will be fine because we've got, we've gone through the braces stage already.

Speaker 3: 5:06

Okay, we're at the end. The 12-year-old is at the end of at the point of taking them off. She actually was all for braces and getting them, yeah. So it'll hurt like a few days and then it'll settle down. I don't think she stopped eating anything. Hey, there was probably much that stopped her, like I'm pretty sure he will be. You know he'll be fine eating candy and chocolate. He just has to clean. What he has to do is just clean the teeth. That's all they asked for. You might have to take the the things off. Did your son go invisible or visible at the? No?

Speaker 2: 5:42

he, so he he wanted that, but he needed regular braces.

Speaker 3: 5:47

So it seems to be like it doesn't really matter what, but it seemed like they both perform the same here nowadays, like regular and that and, and the only difference between the two is it's like a 300 difference. To go to go and visit me, thinking kids etc. Like, okay, she's obviously going to want the invisible ones because she's a girl and appearances and don't want to go to school with braces and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, she wanted the metal. Really, she's just hell-bent on going in there and getting metal. We have to keep telling her hey, don't worry, you can hide this stuff, we can put you. You know, you don't have to shoot. No, she wanted the middle. She wanted the colored bands, and every time I go I can change the colors, that type of thing.

Speaker 2: 6:31

I was like, oh, okay yeah, so I just real quick, if you didn't catch the beginning of the episode. We're live right now and we have people who have joined us live and they're saying things and it's distracting. It's distracting but it's hilarious. It is hilarious. You know, bearded, this is going to give us extra content to talk about.

Speaker 3: 6:53

Yeah, that's exactly that's why I thought this was worth it. We can pluck ideas, take what we need.

Speaker 2: 7:00

Oh, my god Moose. Anyway, so we have my moderator. Well, somebody who has mod privileges in the chat here is mentioning about Halloween, how they go through their kid's Halloween candy. Yeah, because we're coming up on Halloween and they say they have to inspect it. Now, I don't really go through my kids halloween candy bullshit. I ask for a tribute and because there's a tax, as if I'm like the lord of the land, I'm the lord of their land, that's all they need to know. So do you? What do you? What do you do?

Speaker 3: 7:40

you know, let them have it yeah, I think this is one of the first topics we ever talked about. To be honest, this is, this is like we're just on a year now. This is holy shit. You're right. Yeah, yeah, and we talked about this. Yeah, parent tax is a hundred percent of thing. We didn't do, though the tax last year because none of the kids really went, because the car was such newborn, so we didn't do anything and they didn't do anything, so it never, it never went anywhere. But this year the baby can't eat that much candy so I'm taking her out and tax. You know it may sway towards like the 95 side effects yeah, and she won't.

Speaker 2: 8:19

She won't know that. So when we first started taking them, we did the same thing. We got a good 90 95 percent. Right now we're down to about 30, because they're older and they're smarter and they're not having it and we're like that's cool. Plus, I know, like I'm an adult, I can go to the grocery store the next week and buy all the discounted candy anyway.

Speaker 3: 8:38

Yeah and then you can also just buy the ones that you want. You know what I mean? You don't have to ramp, you don't have to sift through shit going. I know I don't need this, I don't need that, and just trying to find the ones you want.

Speaker 3: 8:48

I recently have taught the baby, though, that shopping centers like the grocery store you know when you're going out to the checkout and that they have, like the concession there so you can get, like you you know, cheap bars and mints and whatnot. She now knows that the best chocolate is on there for us. So we may have a situation now where I buy chocolate every time that we end up going to the groceries For her, for her, right, right. I had to pick her up early from daycare yesterday because she wasn't herself and our daycare's three minutes, you know, around the corner from our house. I rock up, okay, oh, she's not herself, she's not eating. I went don't worry, I've got this drove down the road to the shopping center. Our coals, yeah, brought the chocolate she ate the chocolate on the way home made the child that's great, I'm a god, that is top-notch parenting right there yeah, that hasn't wonderful.

Speaker 3: 9:43

Hasn't had anything to eat all day. But you know what? Chocolate doesn't matter. What you just said you can't eat.

Speaker 2: 9:48

I'll make you eat something, yeah because you sounds like you've got a gift bearded. You've got a gift for this skill.

Speaker 2: 9:55

The skill is not needed my younger one likes to help out a lot and recently he's like he wants to help pump gas when I have to fill up my car and he just volunteers. So I'm like you know what? I'm going to do something nice for you. I'm going to get you. We'll go in the store after you get some, pump in it and pick out a candy, and then, of course, as the manager, I should also get.

Speaker 3: 10:17

Yeah, you get it. Yeah, it's an excuse for yourself.

Speaker 2: 10:25

My employees do good things and they get rewarded, but I get rewarded for being an amazing leader, yeah, so he gets m&ms and I get reese's, you know, and so I think it's fair that's, that's the.

Speaker 3: 10:32

That's how I and my wife and I are totally different. She knows that if I'm taking the kids somewhere and and all of a sudden I am rewarding the kids for a great effort with chocolate, yeah that I myself must get chocolate. Of course, it's very similar to driving past a 7-Eleven. He's driving past a 7-Eleven. I am going to stop and get Slurpee. Yeah, but it's a given, they're a dollar.

Speaker 2: 11:00

Yeah, why not? You're helping to support the local economy.

Speaker 3: 11:03

I mean, I get it Everyone's happy, everyone's happy yeah, wait, wait.

Speaker 2: 11:07

Can you have slurpees and chocolate, my friend? No, I shouldn't. But you know what? You only live once, I only live once, so who cares doesn't really matter. You know, what is funny is when we record these podcasts. I sorry, when I used to stream, all the time I would have I would enjoy a drink during the stream.

Speaker 3: 11:26

When we started our podcast, I stopped that and I noticed that, out of habit, I am pouring a drink and I realized.

Speaker 2: 11:37

I need to stop that, because if we try to record more than one episode, Is this from the bleeding, the bleeding uterus, the bleeding, oh no, okay, that one's that one's empty.

Speaker 3: 11:44

No, okay, that more than one episode is this from the bleeding, the bleeding uterus, bottle the bleeding? Oh no, okay, that one's that one's empty, no okay, that one is empty all right, then that's fine. Yeah, I actually it's funny.

Speaker 2: 11:51

So since I, since I stopped streaming, my alcohol consumption has dropped way down, yeah, yeah, but anyway.

Speaker 2: 11:58

So we were talking about the kids getting braces. He's like I can't get them off till may 2026. I'm like, yeah, it's a year and a half to him. It seems like a long time to me. It's like that's one budget away my job terms, you know like it's not that big of a deal, it's not, and it'll be interesting to see how how it goes. So first thing, I said I'm like hey, you're cutting up the inside of your, your gums yet, yeah, he's like, no, why? I'm like, oh, never mind, because you will it will.

Speaker 3: 12:25

No, I think, I think it's all come a long way, like that doesn't really happen and I give him I don't know the hours, gave our one lots of stuff to put in her mouth and whatnot, if she needs it. I don't know what happened there yeah, you're did.

Speaker 2: 12:39

Did I stop it or did you stop it I?

Speaker 3: 12:40

know it just dropped away, so I have a technical difficulty.

Speaker 2: 12:44

We'll edit. This part will be edited out? I imagine probably not. What do I look like a wizard? So, in case nobody, you guys are seeing this. So what happened is we're live on twitch. Uh, I'm live on twitch at it's morph, by the way and I added bearded in. I've added his cam so people in the live stream could see him, not just hear him, and and then it just disappeared. So we're working through this. Apologies, it's our first day. I'm apologizing to people who are listening to this. We didn't even know he was there in the first place. So you know what? I wish I had remembered that it's been about a year, because we could have been reflecting on all the episodes.

Speaker 3: 13:23

We could have done something.

Speaker 2: 13:25

So if I can't even remember our own show anniversary, I'm screwed when it comes to my wife's anniversary, my kids' birthdays, all that stuff possibly.

Speaker 3: 13:36

you know, I I don't do well with remembering that stuff I don't think you get a choice when it comes to this stuff. You know what I mean. Like you're, you're going to know about it, whether you want to or not. I think the days of people hiding anniversaries and special events on others this isn't a thing anymore. Everyone's too. You get too many hints coming up to it or too much conversation coming up to it for you to forget it. I guess it's the best way to put it. Yeah, I have just brought up the list of a list of episodes actually. Oh yeah, so I can actually see that but we've published.

Speaker 2: 14:12

If anyone's not aware, we've published almost one episode every week for the past year. We had a little bit of a break, during this past summer, you know, because we wanted to enjoy the nice weather.

Speaker 3: 14:22

Well, my summer, his winter, but we wanted to enjoy the nice weather, or the shitty weather in your case, but yeah, I know it's more shittier now than it was then, but yeah, so I think it's about 50 50 episodes to be precise. I think it's about four weeks. We missed in total, bad, total halloween episodes halloween we did a halloween episode last year.

Speaker 2: 14:42

Yeah, it was the fifth episode oh, okay the first episode was we started at the beginning of october last year.

Speaker 3: 14:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah, because we were having multiple week at one stage and then we kind of pushed it out right to a week or something like that.

Speaker 2: 14:55

Then we pushed it out sorry because we've we've got very efficient at recording these and editing them besides a few stuff ups recently I.

Speaker 3: 15:04

I've had some mic issues, surprise, surprise I, I, I forgot to record all audio one week yeah, it hasn't been smooth.

Speaker 2: 15:14

Every every episode isn't smooth, like I know what you hear out there on on spotify. Wherever you listen to it like butter, it's generally pretty good. But yeah, I mean, we've gone through some issues, but for the most part, especially the last few months, it's been pretty smooth. I deleted all episodes format of just talking yeah you know, way record 30 35 minutes stop. Record another 35 minutes stop. He does minor editing. Good to go, yeah pretty much.

Speaker 3: 15:45

I pretty much look for the word like because I because I answered by word I definitely look for let's edit that out. Is is one usually because we've said something that we don't want the other wife to hear about.

Speaker 2: 15:58

So I don't know what you're talking about. Let's edit that out.

Speaker 3: 16:01

Let's edit that out, and that's usually around stupid purchases or doing something stupid. It's nothing. It's nothing horrible, never anything. No, never everything horrible.

Speaker 2: 16:10

I think there's been more.

Speaker 3: 16:11

I don't want my job to hear this edits yeah yeah, for a while there was a bunch of that did I tell you my recent purchase, though that was spontaneous and then I had to think, you know, the money came out of my bank account and then, before I know, it was in someone else's hand, and then I had to comprehend about how I was going to deliver this. Yeah, just gotta lean for this one. We were talking about it, the other way.

Speaker 2: 16:37

Oh, you got. Is that the? Is that the steam deck? Yeah so it's funny you show that I had got the Backbone, which is like a device. You put your phone into it and I'm like, oh it sucks. So I was looking at the Steam Deck but then I got turned on to the G Cloud and I cannot decide between the two of them.

Speaker 3: 16:55

So I would do Steam Deck, would you yeah?

Speaker 2: 17:00

Far better. Can it connect to Xbox, or is it just Steam? So?

Speaker 3: 17:03

it can't do Xbox. It can do every game launcher, but the Xbox Game Pass. However, it can do cloud. It can do the Xbox cloud, so it can't natively run the Xbox games through the Xbox app, but it can do cloud, so you can still do the cloud streaming for those exclusives that you really wanted to can it connect to your to do the xbox live thing from your current xbox?

Speaker 3: 17:32

yeah, you'd be able to do that. Okay, I'll just stream. I'll just stream it for straight from the cloud. Yeah, but like ea launch gog epic, you can sideload them in. So it does just use the steam thing you can use, because you know everyone clicks. Oh no, I'm a horrible person for clicking the free downloads on epic, like I don't. I don't think I own any games. I've played any game on epic ever, but I but I have a library of 200 and something games on there yeah so, yeah, I can launch them.

Speaker 3: 18:03

The other thing that is surprisingly well emulation. Yeah, really, it can run a switch game better than the switch really yeah, that's fascinating. So yeah, twitch the switch. Might be getting 30 frames a second on average. This can run at 60.

Speaker 2: 18:19

All right, nice, let me ask you. My one issue with the g cloud was that it was wi-fi only is how does the, how does the steam deck work?

Speaker 3: 18:30

it's apu. So it's like like a switch, just a way more powerful. Switch, okay, four core, eight, fred, amd cpu it's good wi-fi. It doesn't have, like, any internal cell no, no selfie connection so you can hot you'd hotspot it, I guess, would be the best way to put it okay, so if I'm in the car on a long car ride, I'm not obviously not driving.

Speaker 3: 18:52

I can hotspot it from my phone and yeah, you can hotspot if you need to do the xbox stuff or if it's steam related or epic or you own the game already. You just install it and it just plays offline. As long as the game doesn't need online services, you're fine, right, which is almost no games.

Speaker 2: 19:08

Now, surprisingly, a lot of steam games don't single player ones, so you know, what kills me is, like you know, I was playing starfield for a while and that was online. I'm like it's a single player game. Why? Why is this online?

Speaker 3: 19:20

Yeah, but I've been using it to get through a lot of the indies that I have. Yeah, because there's lots of indie games that I've picked up over the years that I haven't really got into playing, or I've said I'm going to but I haven't. So this has been happening way more, tackling my library that I haven't got to my dirty laundry, as it were, when it comes to the Steam world. So far, everything I've thrown out has played. Well, I know it can play Cyberpunk. So if I give you an idea of performance, the game the handheld can play Cyberpunk, not high settings, it's just low, but it plays it at a smooth frame rate. You can't be wrong. And it puts you in with the family more often. Just think of that. That's all I have to say. That's my selling point. It puts you back in the room with your family when you need it.

Speaker 2: 20:10

Yeah, right now I have an Xbox in my bedroom and so I'm playing games a lot. At night, she'll be reading a book. I'm playing games. I don't think she loves that. At night, like you know, she'll be reading a book. I'm playing games and I don't think she loves that. So I'm thinking, to save arguments, I should get a device where I can play on a device and she can watch whatever she wants on the screen. Yeah it, I think that sounds like a great relationship advice.

Speaker 3: 20:37

Yeah yeah, then it comes with a nice little case, it comes as standard, comes with a little hard case.

Speaker 2: 20:44

So you have to travel. Yeah, it connected. Did you get the one? Whether the 128 256?

Speaker 3: 20:51

or 512, you got 12, one terabyte did you.

Speaker 2: 20:54

I got a one terabyte I brought. You went, all you went, you went big. No, I brought used.

Speaker 3: 20:58

Oh, did you? Yeah, I ended up buying it used because I wasn't sure how I was going to like it or whatnot, so I went used for that reason, so I wasn't investing too much into it. Yeah, I was trying to buy an ROG Ally actually another version of it but I was having a hard time meeting that person but to arranging a pickup and to get there and every time I was free they weren't. They weren't around. In the end I was just like stuff it, I'll see what else is out there. Saw the steam deck jumped on it right away. Yeah, yeah, but it's probably the best purchase I've made in a very long time. I don't have to come down here. You know, I can lay on the couch. I've used that a lot where I've just laid on the couch at night playing a game that I have not got to and I probably wouldn't have got to unless I had it, because some of my, some of my games that I've been given to over the years of streaming and making content that I haven't actually touched Right.

Speaker 2: 21:55

So like the one that you you bought me in Goulet.

Speaker 3: 21:58

Yeah. Yeah that you, you bought me in gulet. Yeah, yeah, average average finished, it did he I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure he's finished. I haven't even I haven't done anything with it, so yeah, that's a one day of playing that.

Speaker 2: 22:08

So one of my, one of my friends, acquito, has twisted my arm. I don't know how I agree to it to play outlast trials because it's halloween time. I don't know why I agreed to it. I don't. I don't know why I'm going to hate it. But and I'm I was like, oh, we're not going to stream it because I'm not really streaming much. But now that I'm back here streaming, I'm like maybe I should stream it, just so people can laugh at me. What's wrong with you? I don't know. I don't. I don't know why I agreed. It was stupid. You know how I get. I get so anxious with these games that I start to physically not feel well. Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. I really don't.

Speaker 3: 22:50

Oh man.

Speaker 2: 22:52

I don't know, nice, you miss being able to. So okay, so average bearded, I got to figure this part out. Do I read comments or do I not? I think I don't, because I think it'll confuse everybody. We can, we can read comments. I think yeah, If anyone's listened. The people that listen to our podcast every week they're used to. At this point, they got to be used to the randomness. So exactly yeah.

Speaker 3: 23:22

And if you are listening to this and you want, to be able to make fun of us or ask us questions.

Speaker 2: 23:24

You can go by their name or so we're probably going to usually do it on friday evenings, east coast time or yeah, around this time, basically australian time, saturday morning and I think that sometimes bearded will also be on. It will also be on tiktok, I think, at some point.

Speaker 3: 23:40

I'll work that out.

Speaker 2: 23:41

I'll work at some point and, who knows, maybe I'll even figure out how to get stream labs to dual. Allow me to dual stream to tiktok and twitch moose.

Speaker 3: 23:50

You can I'm just gonna moose this comment here about 100% dad mode. When you're yelling at a kid and not knowing what their correct name is average, no moose, no bearded. It's all fine to do that to the kids, but never do that to your significant other.

Speaker 2: 24:02

Yeah, it definitely gets you into hot water like like, hey, hey, jamie, my name is amy.

Speaker 3: 24:08

That's what I meant, that's what I said, that's what I said, and then you get the questions asked who is that person? And yeah, that person doesn't exist, you've just fucked up a name. And then you, then you put yeah, you put yourself into a position that you have no answers for.

Speaker 2: 24:23

Yeah, yeah, it's so the less talking that you can do, the less trouble you'll get in.

Speaker 3: 24:33

As a husband, that's the best advice I can give you. Shut up, Just say minimum words, that's fine.

Speaker 2: 24:38

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:39

You've been called moose so long that people with the government name. When people government name you, it takes time Really.

Speaker 2: 24:45

I actually don't believe that Moose is not your government name. No, I know I see what your government name is like in other apps, but I don't believe it. I think that is the handle that is fake. I think your name is Moose, middle name the Last name Scientist. Yeah, that's what I think. But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of complete randomness and have a great day. For everyone else who's here, we're not ending we're just going to record the next episode.

Speaker 3: 25:18

Now I don't even know if we need to do that, I'll just cut it. I can just cut straight to the bumper.

Speaker 1: 25:25

You've been listening to Dad Mode. Our passion is navigating this wild journey of parenthood and modern life, from balancing family time to managing your career and still squeezing in some gaming and content creation. And no matter what the women say, they will never be able to pry the controller out of our cold dead hands. Anyway, we hope you enjoyed the show. If you did, find us on Twitter, tiktok and YouTube at DadModePodcast and we can be found on every podcast site at DadModePodcast. Y'all be cool. See you next time.