“What Santa means to people - that’s definitely real. After that: who can say?”
Tom Price and Stuart Goldsmith return to the show to compare notes with Olly on raising their now seven-and-a-half year-old boys.
Can they now swear freely in front of their kids? How best to deal with ‘8pm extension negotiations’ at bedtime? And how should one answer the ‘Is Santa real?’ question?
Plus, how to use Frozen 2 as a teaching device, the pitfalls of monitoring WhatsApp messages, and the foolproof way to extract young children from softplay…
To catch up on the story so far, visit modernmann.co.uk/Dads.
Check out Tom and Stu’s podcasts, ‘My Mate Bought A Toaster’ and ‘The Comedian’s Comedian’, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Meanwhile, in the Zeitgeist, Ollie Peart is investigating the trend for Looksmaxing.
Stu, Olly and Tom - July 2023
‘How LooksMaxxing Can Improve Your Appearance in 30 Days’… will Ollie Peart rise to the challenge?
After a month of ‘mewing’, jaw-stretching, lip-brushing, face-cleansing, drinking more water, vitamin D, trimming his beard and working out… does Ollie feel any different?
Or, more to the point, in a world where your desirability is numerically ranked on Reddit, and superkeen lookmaxxers even resort to cosmetic surgery, is how you feel even relevant?
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Elsewhere, in the Foxhole, Alix Fox has news of not one but TWO new treatments for erectile dysfunction: topical gel Eroxon and some EMS patches from IN2 Patch. Could they provide an answer for ED sufferers who can’t or won’t take pills?
Batman (1966). Did watching this classic show inspire Chris’ smoking fetish?
In our listener question of the month, Alix advises Mann-fan Chris, who wants to know if the roots of his smokish fetish lie in the 1966 TV version of Batman. To what extent does the telly we watch as children inspire our desires later?
With the help of Calandra Balfour, fetish expert from dating and social app WeAreX, Alix explains that many members of the WAM (Wet and Messy fetishism) community can also trace their interests directly to the gunge-drenched TV of their youth… and asks whether smoking fetish will soon be replaced - by vaping…
CONTENT WARNING: reference to child sexual abuse.
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