In Part Two of our conversation with Ollie, we go deeper — into parenting teenage boys in a digital age, the slow creep of manosphere nonsense, and how to talk to your kids without triggering the “opposite of whatever Dad wants” instinct.

Then the episode shifts. Rich and Marc open up about losing their friend Frank young, and Ollie shares the story of his best friend Doug, who died from Motor Neurone Disease at 32. What follows is a raw, honest look at grief, guilt, the ways men avoid emotion, and how losing someone in your 30s radically reshapes your midlife.

It’s heavy, funny, warm, painful, and very real — exactly the kind of conversation men rarely have, but desperately need.

00:00 – Raising Sons in the Digital Age

07:00 – Bullying, Neurodiversity & Responsibility Too Early

12:00 – Losing Friends Young: Frank

20:00 – Losing Friends Young: Doug

29:00 – The Midlife Crisis Trigger

33:00 – Marc’s Own Unfinished Business

36:00 – Designing a Midlife You Actually Want

39:00 – Golf, Sustainability & Accidentally Manifesting a Dream Career

42:00 – Relationships, Cabs & Selective Inconvenience

• Ollie explains why his wife can absolutely walk home
• The boys descend into full farce

44:30 – Ollie’s Podcast Plug

The Scope 3 Podcast — sustainability, supply chains, and two blokes winging it and hoping no one notices.

• How fathers can navigate the manosphere without becoming preachy
• Male grief: the bits no one talks about
• The guilt of coping “wrong”
• What losing a friend young does to your sense of time
• Why midlife crisis is often midlife clarity
• Building a life on your terms — no bosses, no teams, no nonsense
• Friendship as survival

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