DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
"DadMode" is a podcast where two gaming-loving dads discuss everything from live streaming to fatherhood in a humorous and relatable way. Join Josh aka Moorph and Bearded Nova as they share gaming adventures and parenting anecdotes, offering a unique blend of entertainment and insight for fellow gamers with kids.
DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
Santa's List and the Magic of Christmas Trees
Ever received a PowerPoint presentation from your kid detailing their Christmas wish list? Well, get ready to chuckle as we recount the hilarious lengths our little ones go to ensure Santa hears them loud and clear. This episode, we embrace the chaos of transitioning from Thanksgiving turkey to the glittery wonderland of Christmas. We explore the fascinating world of Christmas trees, comparing the practical charm of artificial trees in Australia to the cherished tradition of real ones in the U.S. We also can't help but laugh at the staggering price tags on high-tech artificial trees — who knew holiday decor could rival a tech gadget?
Parenting during the holidays is a rollercoaster, and we're here to share the ride. From the ever-changing wishlist of Fortnite skins to the joys and struggles of playing Santa via Amazon’s gift-wrapping service, we reflect on the quirks of modern parenting. We dive into family dynamics, discussing how we sometimes let our partners take the heat for jointly made decisions, all while trying to balance being the fun parent and the enforcer of rules. And yes, we're tackling the age-old stereotype of gift-wrapping roles in a household with our humorous spin.
The show wouldn’t be complete without a nod to our beloved guests and the fun they bring. Reminiscing about our favorites like Moose and companions, we toy with the fun idea of animating stories in a delightfully budget-friendly way. We’re also inviting you, our listeners, to join the conversation by suggesting topics and guests for future episodes. As we sign off, a warm thank you goes out to all our supporters. Stick with us on Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube at DadModePodcast for more laughs, stories, and the joys of balancing parenthood with personal passions. Stay cool, and happy holidays!
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
Turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode With your hosts Bearded, Nova and Morph.
Speaker 2:So here it's, getting almost Christmas. We just passed Thanksgiving here in the US, christmas is less than a month away, like just under four weeks, and my kids have made me the most detailed list of what they want. My younger one even when, as far as writing the name of the thing, the model number, on the flip side of the paper, he wrote the name again, where you can can find it and how much it costs, and then he added all that up at the bottom and said is this the reasonable amount to spend on me?
Speaker 3:yeah, what? Yeah, smash. I just want to say, hi, man, hope you're doing well. So have you got everything? Like you know, has the kids given you details of what they want for christmas. Have you got?
Speaker 2:tree sorted, we got our tree.
Speaker 3:We got our tree today, so so we, we don't do, we don't do real trees in australia. Really, they're all, they're all fake but it's becoming trees and stuff no, we got pine trees, but not that type of punches.
Speaker 3:Our pine trees they, they grow, near. They probably grow about 30 feet tall and then they're chopped down. It's all structural framing. Fake trees has been the way here for years. Okay, but, that being said, you can now get real trees. So we've been thinking about it. Yeah, so I'm looking at doing that rabbit hole this year. Possibly we're going to do it this year, but possibly going to do it more likely next year, just because of dakota, and she's a feral at the moment. She's a wild child. Whatever we get, she's going to wreck. And I got a new bird. So the bird is is just crazy, dakota's crazy. Whatever tree we buy is probably going to be destroyed because of those two. So, like, we'll give it another year for her to settle the bird. So then we'll go down the real path where, yeah, there's a lot. I didn't know. I didn't know you had to like water the trees like I mean watering.
Speaker 2:It helps it not drop all the green stuff? Yeah, I didn't know these things yeah, yeah, we, we have a tradition, so like usually the day after thanksgiving, when everybody else is going shopping, on black friday you go to this tree farm, which is two miles from our house cut down a tree called tree farms and not forest.
Speaker 1:What?
Speaker 3:I like it that they called a tree farm and not a forest, because really, when you, when you got a bunch of trees, that's a forest, isn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah but when you show up, it's a tree farm. Now, now chat saying there's some fake trees here, and I appreciate that, because these real trees I'm buying. There is one price at this farm 78, 78 that I have to spend to keep it. Whoa, it's a goo. Hold on one second. Oh, we got a goo left. Yeah, can you drop it actually, so it doesn't mess up the thing? Sorry, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to ask when is it going?
Speaker 3:to be streaming.
Speaker 2:We'll stop by 9, definitely.
Speaker 1:How long is that?
Speaker 2:Oh, 40, 50 minutes.
Speaker 3:So it'll be there.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:I'm going to call you afterwards.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:Bye.
Speaker 2:Bye, sorry, love you.
Speaker 3:That's not right. That's so good. So we have there, we go, $78 to give a tree and a bunch of critters a high for a month. So, yeah, all our trees are really fake. Yet they just go in a box and you pull them out. But the problem is, after a few years they don't look as full. I guess that's why I was like, oh, we're gonna buy it. I can buy a fake tree for two thousand dollars. That's gonna look fantastic for the rest of its life, probably last us, you know, 10, 15, oh yeah, yeah you so. So kmart is where kmart is, where our tree is, and it cost us like 70 bucks and it's lasted us five years, okay, and then you can spend, you know, upwards of more and more and get like nicer. But then there's this range that goes from like a thousand to two thousand dollars yeah and it's a synthetic tree.
Speaker 3:It's fake but it feels and looks like a real tree. Probably not smash, probably not. It's weird like but that two thousand dollars. It's. Also, you're choosing the type of, the type of pine tree. It is like the color, the season. Do you want to have fake snow on it? Real snow? You can choose to have addressable led colored led lights into the tree branch itself so it comes out on the ends of the leaves. You're talking like you know. It's a, it's what you expect, what you're getting for something that's two thousand dollars for 70 bucks. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like you, you're paying for that luxury, I guess I saw one today on youtube where it not only had all the stuff you mentioned the tree. Could you could control the height of the tree like, yes, go up as high as you want it to, whatever fits in your room yeah, on christmas this year it's going to be very interesting for us okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, I can just tell already, like, just with how things we haven't. One of my child is one of my children is doing a powerpoint presentation for me on what? Um, yeah, because I keep. We keep asking what do the? This is the part. We keep asking what do you want for christmas? And instead of telling us they're like oh yeah, well, this thing it's like 10 bucks or something. So well, I need more than just one gift. That's $10. She's come back and gone oh okay, I'm going to do a PowerPoint presentation. Your kids just did that. That's what I'm thinking. The kids have just learned how. That's what my wife said. She goes oh, she's just learned how to do PowerPoints.
Speaker 2:So know, I want that. Now I'm going to demand that my kids make me PowerPoints, just like work. I want it presented to me. You're going to get a clicker for home.
Speaker 3:Yeah, just give them the clicker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yep, I'll schedule meetings for them, you know, and then we'll go in the living room and we'll have the laptop there and walk it through.
Speaker 3:Bud, convince me why can't they just give me the photos that they're going to put on the presentation? That's what I'm asking. Like it's just. It's just as simple. I get it. They're going to go this beautiful presentation with with animations and sliding and moving. I really hope there's a star effect in there to some some degree, like I want a star swipe. But it's just as simple, just to go. Here's my list, because obviously you've got a list. If you've got, you're going to do a powerpoint presentation.
Speaker 2:You've got the list yeah, I love the formality of it. I I do.
Speaker 3:Oh, I thought she was doing a powerpoint presentation already and she came out last night with her ipad saying hey, what's the printer's name? Because she wanted to print something. I'm like you're not. You're not gonna print your powerpoint presentation, are you just like? No, I'm like, oh god, that's what I thought she was about to do. Well, that's not how we don't. We don't do stuff in powerpoint, just to print right?
Speaker 2:yep, so I was explaining my one. My one kid gives me a very detailed list, all this stuff, not a powerpoint, but still pretty detailed. My other child, who spends most of the year saying I want this, I want that, I want this, Whether it's birthday or Christmas, give me a list. I don't know, I don't think I and he won't. He won't give you a list. He's like just get something and yet all year long he's like I want this, I want that.
Speaker 3:I want this, I want that, you know, and he just refuses to give us a list. So it's, I don't, I don't get it. Would you say that, in a way, your son is similar to you? Because, let's be honest, no, no, no. Like you know, my wife goes what, what's things that you'd like for christmas? You know, I just brought a stream deck yeah, okay yeah, I mean you.
Speaker 3:you were like me. We are very similar in ways where we just buy the things that we like as we go through the year and then it's very limited to what's left. Yeah, so in a way, your son asking for these things through the year is very similar to yourself.
Speaker 2:Right, because all the stuff I want like I buy the more affordable stuff, and so it's birthday, christmas.
Speaker 1:All my list is just like whatever you all the expensive shit.
Speaker 2:You know that I that I couldn't afford to buy myself well, you know, I said I've you.
Speaker 3:I did the shared amazon list with my wife, where I just get her to. You know, I put stuff that I like a favorite into my amazon list and then that's things that I need to buy and she knows what to buy and what to buy. So that's how I got the. The stream deck pedal finally was because that sat in my stream, that sat in my list for the last two years and I was like, oh, there's something that he wants, I'll buy that for him you know what's left in my list at the moment, toby eye tracker.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I want one of those I, I didn't. Oh, that's awesome, I've had that is that is all the only thing that's in my list. I'm really hoping my wife picks up on the hint that I really want that, like I've been hanging off yeah.
Speaker 2:So my wife? She won't do that. She won't look at the list and say, oh, he wants us, let me get this. She says I don't like that, I'm not gonna buy it.
Speaker 3:Yes, really I've done because I can't. Well, the only other thing I could think of that I want at the moment is to upgrade the, the flight stick stuff, but I but I've done that twice this year. So I, I, I don't know. Or there's the you Smash the eye tracking, the double-edged sword, but no, I want it for sim games, because I've been playing so many sim games like the Star Citizen, and then I'm going to go back into driving sim soon. Apparently, the eye track is really good for head tracking, so when you're turning your head in the cockpit view, it shifts the camera for you. That's why I want the eye tracker not to show where I'm looking, but more so to track my head position, I guess.
Speaker 1:Similar to what the camera does.
Speaker 3:I keep saying tracking and the camera keeps turning on and off its tracking at the moment.
Speaker 2:When you get that eye tracker, your wife's going to have you watch some TV and have it on just to see where you're looking. You know that's what's going to have you watch some tv and have it on just to see where you're looking. You know, that's what's going to happen so when I said I was adding an eye tracker to my list, no, I'm not I don't, I don't need that kind of stress well, I did see we bring that up.
Speaker 3:I did see someone do a tiktok the other day of them to setting up the eye tracker and then bringing in their wife to the computer and then showing them different pictures.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I've seen. I've seen some videos like that. You're just asking for trouble.
Speaker 2:You just ask it because you don't think that you looked at something but you did, you did, you did. They know it, you know it. So I think if you get one and somebody like goes to test, like I'm going to look at this and this and this, just so you know I'm going to do that, so yeah, it's bad news. And so the one thing that my kid the older one, who doesn't ever give me lists says he wants every year because he's into Fortnite, I want V-Bucks, that's all he wants V-Bucks.
Speaker 3:I'm the yearly thing. Fortnite pass, vbucks. Oh, I'm the I'm the yearly thing fortnight pass thing. Gives him like vbucks, gives you vbucks the season pass and like it's like a vip status, you can buy a vip stat. Like it's not just a fortnight pass and it's like the fortnight package for a year yeah, you know that's a good idea.
Speaker 2:He asked for that before and I went to set it up, but it was giving me a hard time entering a credit so 20, it's like, I don't know, like 15 bucks a month or something like that.
Speaker 3:But you could set it up. I'm sure you could buy it as a year and probably get it as a discount. You know that's a good idea they get monthly vbucks, the season pass, the battle pass right, yeah, the battle pass. Yep, the exclusive skins and stuff as well. They get other bits and pieces through it that's not in the battle pass and they don't have to buy with vbucks, like fortnight club maybe, I think it's called.
Speaker 2:I don't know yeah, that's it the fortnight crew. The fortnight crew, that's 12 bucks a month. I don't see anything about a annual, but you get. You get a crew pack monthly, which is an exclusive bundle which includes a new outfit, at least one matching accessory. You get battle pass. You get a thousand vbucks every month and a few other, a few, no, more questions for vbucks, that child sort of I don't see anything about a annual one.
Speaker 3:There might be maybe they don't, maybe they don't do annual one um I could. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2:That's a good idea I hadn't, I hadn't thought of that, thank you that's it, that's okay, all right, I gotta mention that kids ask yeah, kids are asking vbucks man for his birthday.
Speaker 3:You know, I gave him like 50 bucks or whatever and I threw it in his microsoft account, you know, so you could buy stupid vbucks you know what I find funny Is the bucks change over the years as the kids get older, like it's at one stage it's all about the road box, yeah. And then they get a little bit older and it's about the V-Bucks, and then I don't know what's after that.
Speaker 2:I haven't found out what's after V-Bucks. And then they get a job and it's about the real bucks.
Speaker 3:And then they ask their parents.
Speaker 2:I don't make enough real bucks. I need some of yours, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, my daughter is still out of bucks.
Speaker 2:She's so Digital versions of Nike shoes, All right.
Speaker 3:So chat's saying my kid's got Nike shoes. What, oh? They can actually buy the oh. What? Oh man, that's crazy smash.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know that was a thing, that's. I hate the world sometimes when I read shit like that.
Speaker 3:I haven't played fortnite in ages, so I wouldn't. I wouldn't have a clue, but that that would make me mad my kids begging me.
Speaker 2:Can you get me the skin? Can you get me this skin? I'm like he's like. You know, when I get it a week later, I don't use that one anymore. I I hate you so oh, wow I don't, I don't, I don't know, man, but yeah, so we got the tree. Yeah, got that all set up.
Speaker 2:Today we started doing chris buying some christmas gifts we got the treats tomorrow and when it comes to gifts, we, like a lot of other people, use amazon religiously. Yeah, if the thing you want isn't an amazon, I'm not gonna buy it. That's just. It's just that simple. If you link me to another site in your amazon list, it's not happening. I'm not gonna go to another site and buy it, I'm buying it on amazon. And the other thing I do because I hate doing this is I always choose the gift wrapped option because I hate wrapping gifts.
Speaker 3:Yes, and the gift wrapped.
Speaker 2:Now it's just a bag. You know what? I don't care.
Speaker 3:Here's your bag. It's a Christmas bag, it's a basic Christmas bag, but that's what my wife gets from me. She doesn't mind wrapping, so I get a nice wrapped gift, but my wife gets whatever the shopping center or Amazon can package.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yep, absolutely. That's how I love giving people. I don't care how many dollars it costs. If I'm in the mall and I brought stuff for Christmas and there's people that are doing the charity wrapping, damn straight, you are wrapping every gift that I have on me because I'm not doing shit.
Speaker 2:I don't know who came up with the concept of wrapping a gift, but I hope they burn in hell it's, is it me, or is it just?
Speaker 2:all males just suck at doing christmas wrapping I think, yeah, like my wife's, like she, like, a week or two before christmas, she's like all right, your kids are wherever we're gonna sit and wrap all their gifts, and you know it's a thing that I, I need to do. But I do such a shit job at it, like and I'm not even like trying to do a shit, shit job I just, I guess I just don't care enough to like make sure it's really, really good. I don't know. Last year I I even went super spiteful mode and we were running out of paper, so I took bits and pieces of different patterns that we had discarded and wrapped a gift in it, so it had like five or six different types of papers on it. So yeah, yeah, yeah my wife.
Speaker 3:My wife always makes a comment about that. She knows what gifts I wrap under the tree, just because they look like like ass yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not my thing. I detest doing it. I don't like anything about it. And there's the people. You see, they do such a beautiful job and they put all the bows and all this shit on and I'm like cool.
Speaker 3:Fuck you. Did you have nothing else to do that?
Speaker 2:day or something.
Speaker 3:What is this? A Hallmark movie.
Speaker 2:Fuck you Disappointed? Yeah, it's natural I was. I was even doing that before. I had kids like that. I realized I might as well just be a dad now, because I'm already yelling at other people's children. You know, I'm walking somewhere. I'm like I can't believe you wore that out of the house. And they're like who are you? You know, so that's what I that's what I do.
Speaker 3:I was amazed. The other day we had something to do with one of my daughters who was going out for dinner or something. She had a friend over and she walked out of the room and she goes is it all right if I wear this to dinner? I was like, as long as you feel comfortable wearing clothes out in public, that's the main point. But I was surprised that a teenage girl asked her father if this is appropriate to wear to dinner. It was just a t-shirt and some shorts. There was nothing inappropriate at all, but I'm like I was so confused. Usually the kids just wear whatever they want and then their mother says it's okay and then I said they're gone. No, you know where's the rest of them? Where's?
Speaker 2:the rest of the pants. I always wanted to have a daughter and is the rest of the pants. I always wanted to have a daughter and I don't. I have two boys, but I'm glad that I don't now, because she would hate me. I would be so strict and yet I'd let the boy do whatever he wants it's not that I'm trying to be mean to her, it's just I probably would be way too overprotective, way too overprotective I am.
Speaker 3:I come down as the you know the big meaning, because I say no to a lot of things, but that's because I'm overprotective yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And there's this dynamic in my house where we like to keep the boys safe, so we do a lot of things, probably give them, have made them develop anxiety because we worry about a lot of things. But there's this dynamic of they think my wife is not, the is not the fun one, but I am the fun one right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how you swindled that true but what they don't realize is usually when she tells them no, you can't do this. Yeah, she and I have already discussed it and she's just the one that delivers the message. And so she, she takes the heat for that. And I'm just sitting there. I can't believe she said that. No, but I don't do that. But it's interesting the way it goes. And then whenever I do have to yell at them for something, they always look at me like they've been betrayed, like you're supposed to be the cool guy, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2:So Chad's saying having two daughters is is frightening. You have four, right? Yeah, yeah. So how are you still sane?
Speaker 3:well, I was gonna say two, that's rookies numbers. You're gonna pump those numbers up. I am barely hanging on, to be honest, barely hanging on. Yes, the youngest is actually scaring me the most. Moose is not increasing their numbers. She's decided that's it. Come on, moose, yeah, but in saying that, talking about talking about boosting numbers though, we'll be talking about that next time we're we're live, I guess I got an interesting, interesting topic to bring up, ben. Yeah, interesting topic indeed yeah, yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2:So, speaking of that, I'm running out of things, by the way.
Speaker 3:No, I'm happy to wrap it up.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you're editing this, so welcome everybody. So, for anybody who wasn't here earlier when we started this, nova and I, for the past 13 months or so, have been doing a podcast, as you can see on the screen, called Dad Mode that's released as 13 months or so, I've been doing a podcast, as you can see on the screen, called Dad Mode that's released, as you can see on the screen, every Tuesday. It's just about any place that you can imagine where you can download a podcast. We also post it to YouTube and we post a lot of clips. Nova does now Posts a lot of clips to.
Speaker 3:I haven't posted any clips in a while. I've just been uploading.
Speaker 2:I haven't either.
Speaker 3:Because we just weren't getting the return on the time investment. Now, now, now we got the app, now we got the app trailer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true, so anyway, so we just decided, two weeks ago, or whatever it was, to start doing our recordings, which are every friday on twitch, and so this is our second time doing it and I think it's going well so far. It's kind of fun having chat here, like giving us more things to kind of talk about and comment on during the course of it. I think it adds a little dimension to it, so that's cool. I want more topics.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know you and I were talking about topics.
Speaker 2:I know we swayed away from topics for a while and then we come back to topics and then we go a bit in and out, but we like starting point topics, I guess yes, we like to have that story or something we can talk about for the first five minutes and then that leads into whatever else. If you guys have ideas on things you would like us to talk questions parenting related, job related, whatever just from a dad's perspective. Yeah, we would love to to hear that, so feel the fear to drop it in chat Now. Do it now.
Speaker 3:Did it now.
Speaker 2:We don't record every Friday, usually it's every other.
Speaker 3:We're trying to do every other.
Speaker 2:Right, because sometimes we get ahead. We have a backlog of edits of episodes, so we're like we don't need to record this week. We haven't recorded since the last week. You know like, no, like we haven't recorded since the last time we were on twitch because we had so many extra episodes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, and it just it makes it hard to keep recording when you've got too much of a backlog, because anything you bring up is not going to be released for so much longer. And I think we did that when we originally started. Yeah, we had lots of guests and then we'd split the guest episodes across multiple weeks and, jumping in One stage, I think we were out for like three months worth of recordings and we were still recording and we're like, okay, we got to pump out more than once a day.
Speaker 2:We stopped like, yeah, we were way ahead at one point, right, so we stopped for like a month and a half of recording because you know it's it was stupid to get to cheat back in on those episodes. I mean, every, whenever we talk about something that's timely, that changes the dynamic, everything goes like oh shit, we got to get this out now, you know, yeah yeah, no, but I I think we will push for this to stay more to the fortnightly schedule yeah, yes, moose. Last time is when we talked about you in the cop car.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, we should do it. We should do an episode when moose calls in and just starts telling us stories, you know, and then we'll just publish that you know a lot of a lot of warnings on the, on the disclaimers on the beginning of the episode, but it just doesn't stop yeah, so also, if you, if anyone, wants to be a guest on the show, we would love to have you on, whether you're on camera or just or just dialing in.
Speaker 2:You know, on discord, no, no video. Whatever you guys want, we'd love to have you. Just let me, or bearded know. Yeah, I want to go back to more guests we have had well, a half dozen guests or so. We've had a great time with the guests. Having guests it adds so such a different dimension to like in, like a feel to the the episode.
Speaker 3:It's been a lot of fun having them smash a few smash was one of the smash was a great one. Yeah yeah, smash was our first and it was around this time of year too.
Speaker 2:It was.
Speaker 3:No, it was earlier, sorry, second time Smash came on was Christmas, yeah, second time he did our Christmas gift buying episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're talking about Christmas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're talking about Christmas gifts Smash and then who else have we had over the time?
Speaker 2:Damn Daniel.
Speaker 3:Damn Daniel. We had Chillin' with Dev we had over the time.
Speaker 2:Damn, daniel, damn daniel. We had chilling with dev, who was probably on now killing it. By the way. Yeah, we had red rose sword, one of my favorite people. And who else have we had? Or am I? I don't want to leave anyone. Oh, we had m west west, didn't we? Um, who else did we have?
Speaker 3:that's it.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's more we did a lot in the beginning. We were like we wanted to have like half episodes with a guest and half without you know but and but we haven't had a guest in in quite some time.
Speaker 3:No, no, we will all organize. I'll start shooting messages out and about to people. Yeah, see what. See what comes back to us it fun.
Speaker 2:I think usually when we have a guest we do try to keep it more of a parenting topic, you know, and kind of comparing notes, but it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 3:It doesn't have to be Damn. Daniel broke that barrier.
Speaker 2:Yes, he did. Oh my god, he was so much fun. He really was. He's a fucking madman.
Speaker 3:He's a loose unit. That guy really was he. He's a fucking madman, he's a loose unit.
Speaker 2:That guy, yes, he's awesome, he's funny and he just takes over it's. It's, it's great britain, and I can sort of sit back and just let him. Just let him go yeah, he just needs.
Speaker 2:He just needs to get his voice out there for a bit it would be chaos if you were here, mo Moose, but I think it'd be a good chaos. Maybe it might get our show banned. I don't know. Maybe I can't wait to hear Moose story time. If you're doing it on Sunday, that's going to be interesting. Yeah, does it have? It's not kids, can you?
Speaker 3:do Moose story time with MS Paint and quickly draw the little scenes, as you just would stick people, but that would be.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine if somebody like animated moose's stories?
Speaker 3:yeah, that would be poorly way like. I want it animated in a poor way, not like a not high-end animation, I want it. I want it like a teamu version of disney, you know.
Speaker 2:I mean like really poorly made ai like, if you posted moose's story, could ai make make a short little animation out of this? Or, you know, like images you could stick figure animation like ms paint animation how do you draw a stick figure pig? I'm like oh wait, no, I get it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you get, you can you can just just fake a toilet, just make a toilet sign.
Speaker 2:People in animation that's all what you do. Yeah, yeah, I want that moose. You gotta, you gotta send me a story of one of yours in text so I can put it in ai that's right, he did too, you did.
Speaker 3:Oh, I did draw that.
Speaker 2:That was in my discord. Oh wait, I can't change. Oh shit, I almost changed scenes, which changes it, because I'm pulling a camera from discord. I have an art gallery section, I think in the discord.
Speaker 3:I think yeah not this discord, though I think it's the other discord oh, is it the other one? Maybe, maybe, no, no, no, no. The other one has all the inappropriate pictures I've requested over times.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:General chat baby.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:There it is. This is what we're talking about.
Speaker 2:So when I used to do my show weekly, a couple times a week, I had a reward that could be redeemed. Where I would draw, it was called Art Show, where I would draw whatever you want me to draw. I am horrible, I would draw. It was called art show, where I would draw whatever you want me to draw. I am horrible, I would draw. Ms paint and moose once asked me to draw a picture of wild moose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, wild moose, a wild moose, it's the best way to put it inappropriate, but I did it because I'm a trooper and obviously the Twitch channel is still okay. Oh, the other moose asked for it. Yeah, okay, wow, asked for it on your behalf, I guess. Okay, I've drawn some stuff. I've drawn some stuff. I'll just put it that way.
Speaker 3:I think one of my favorite ones is you've drawn me like one of those French girls.
Speaker 2:Oh, did I, I don't even know. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:That was one of my first requests when you added art show. Was that one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember Goulet always used to hate it because she actually does art and so she would just get so mad watching me do whatever it is you want to call it I do. It was pretty bad, pretty bad. But all right, I think we're going to wrap up.
Speaker 1:Let's wrap it up. Yeah, we Pretty bad, but I think I think we're going to wrap up there, yeah, I appreciate everybody hanging out.
Speaker 2:You guys are awesome and we're going to try to do this.
Speaker 1:We're going to try to get our shit together and do it every other week. 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.
