Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S9 EP3: Rob 'The Beaver' Beckett goes on Gladiators

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

In this episode Rob and Josh discuss the before and after of Rob appearing as a contestant on the hit TV show Gladiators. All that and and even more misadventures in parenting, life, and beyond... Please follow and leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available free everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com Join the mailing list to be first to hear about live show dates and tickets, Parenting Hell merch and any other exciting news... A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Winnockham. Welcome to Parenting Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week we're chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're they're tha be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice and of course, tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times where none of us know what we're doing.

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Join for just $4.99 a month. Savings may vary, eligibility and member terms apply. Hello, you're listening to Parents in Hell with. Can you say Rob Beckett? Can you say Josh Whittakum? Good job, Bebber. Oh, nice. Bristle. Oh nice, Bristol? Uh, yes. Yes.

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The professional operation we're operating here. The full team. The full team's here though, isn't it? That's three. The full team! The start of Facebook, just us three. I've been a long-time listener since 2022. Just a while after I had my first kid and fine. I don't know if that is a long-time listener. We've been going four years, the world's changed. Hocalypse comes, it'll be this cockroaches and last legs still going. Oh God, this this this a long time listener since 2022, just a while after I had my first kid and finally thought I'd have a go at the intro with him now. Here is Finley.

Popular name Finley, isn't it? My niece, my nephew's called Finley. With an A or an E? With an E. Ah, he's a thee, with an E, with an E, with an E, with an E, with an E, with an E, with an E, with, with, with an E, with, with, with, with, with an E, with, with an E, with, with, with, with, with, and a, and a, with, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a, and a., and a., and a. With, and a. With, th. With, th. With, th. With, th. With a th. With, th. With a th. With a th. With a th. With a, and a, and a, and a, and a fun, a bit of fun. I really enjoyed that. Now he's L.E. Why? They're L.E? Why? He's 30 months old and has a sister Freya? Another popular, I like the name Freya. To an half. I love the name Freya. I love the name Freya. Fiddly and Freya is lovely. It's great do you know much about Bristol? Big fan of Bristol. I didn't really like the massive buffet that Lloyd took me to. It's like the world's biggest buffet restaurant. Have you ever been there? Oh right, no. She's too overwhelming. It's like being at an airport. Yeah. It's like going to another gate to go and get dessert. Yeah, I? I love a breakfast buffet but I need my eggs cooked to order Josh. Of course you do. Do you know what you want Rob? You want an omelette station? That's what you want? I don't want

an ala carte to order from but I just want an egg station Josh. Zarsa Bazaar! Bristol's finest fixed price buffet. Did you used to do pizza out buffet? I used to Pizza Hut Buffet? I used to think it was the fucking best thing in the world. Oh my god, it still is really. It's gone Rob. Is it? I read recently that the Pizza Hut Buffet, it might still be going but it was certainly ending. Oh, it's a real shame. And I thought, should I go one more I was a kid, I saw someone getting chucked out for stealing slices, putting in a Tupperware in a bag. It's hardcore in it. Good on them. Good on them. Good on them.

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exclamation mark. Yeah you've told me that. Yeah I love it. I love it. What starts with an exclamation mark? What? In Spanish they put an upside-down one. Yeah I know because it translate when I'm texting my cleaner it translates my exclamation marks. What are you exclaiming to her? Well more and more because I like it when it does that, so I tend to do it after each sentence. Hi! We're on holiday next week! Please pick up the keys from next door.

Are you coming? Exclamation mark and question mark, upside down and the right way up. Our way up, our way up. Who cares? It's all language. Pop pop pop pop pop pop pop. Who cares? Just people. We're all people, doing different things. Not wrong, not strange, not weird, just different. I've got a question for you, Rob. Yeah. Can we talk about gladias? Oh yes.

So if you haven't been following the news, it was released, I can't imagine how many text you got because I got a lot. Yeah a lot of people worried about my physical mental health quite rightly. And then it came out that you were doing gladiators. It's a bit of funny. Really lovely. Yeah so I did gladiators Joel Dommet, me and then Louise Minchin, the BBC News presents Ellie Taylor, comedian, friend of the show. And Louise Minchin, is she a fitness fanatic? She used to swim for the county to 15 and it's quite, but then she stopped doing it because you get really self-conscious about having quite mussely arms and shoulders. Oh, that's a shame. And then she completely stopped doing any sport.

And then she sort of cracked tell of her life 20 years on BBC News. I think at the edge of like 40, maybe 45, she started doing triphonsonsonsons again. Fuck it! And she qualified for Team G being ultra-triathlons in her age group. Wow! And she's super like, super fit and active and stuff like that. Good booking. Great booking. She really wanted to show people that you can get into sport in later life. And also, like, I think it's, hopefully it's changed slightly now

now that it's a different world where you can have musty shoulders and not be embarrassed by it. You should be proud of it as a woman. I thought this about the gladiators Rob because I think I think they're excellent role models you know you know but like the gladiators in our day the female ones they certainly weren't as musly and now they're a lot more musly and I thought that was a good thing for showing that. Do you know what I mean? They're more like weightlifters and stuff and rugby players. Athletes rather than just, you know, yeah, like a sort of fembot version of what an athletic woman should look like. They actually look like an athletic woman.

Yeah, but yeah, they're all so lovely. Josh, when you said to me, because we're called in this, you spoke to me about about, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, you, you, you, you, you, you, you're, to, to, to, to, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, to, you, you, to, to, you, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, to, the, th..... threat, to, threat, threat, threat, threat, threat, threat, threat, threat, to, threat, to, to, threath. threat, and I can't tell exactly what the result was but I can talk about my experience on it. We can confirm you survived though. I'm alive right? Yeah right with a few cuts of bruises but hey chicks dig scars. I genuinely my balls disappeared inside my body when you said that. Perfect. So I like that. I don't want your balls out when I'm doing what I'm doing. I want you balls in. What are you doing? Whatever you want. Okay, thank you. Just chatting for 50 minutes to an hour and then we leave each other. And then we leave each other for a week. Yeah, when you said it is so much more intense and terrifying than you thought it was going to be, and I thought you were laying that on

to sort of for a bit of like wind it up. Should I stop you there and shall we play our discussion before you did gladiators? That's a good decision, yes. Let's play that now. Okay, here it is. This is going back in time to when I'd been to watch Gladiators, but Rob hadn't been to do his trial day but had committed to do the show. Okay, Rob, I've got to address the elephant in the room. Yep. What I would describe as probably the single greatest piece of news since, well probably ever, since man landed on the moon. Yeah, yeah. Which was actually more likely than what's happening, which is you're doing gladiators.

Yes, I am a contestant on gladiators. As we're recording this, I'm recording Gladiators on Wednesday. It's currently Monday. Because we wanted to record this, just to be clear, before you did it. Yes. Because I'm worried you, you'll be dead, so it'll be difficult to record. Well, you've just watched it last week, which you spoke about a little bit on a previous episode. I was under the impression that a soap star, and it is it was, I was under the impression that a soap star, and it isn't, but let's say for argument's sake, let's say, Kane Dingle. Yeah, Ken Barlow, that ilk of kind, Sonja Jackson, a big huge name from the world of soap, was supposed to be going up against me, but they've pulled out, I don't want to name. Apparently, I. I. I. I, I. I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, I'm a name, to name, to name, to name, to name, let's, let's, let's, let's to say, let's to say, let's the to say, let's to say, let's to say, let's to say, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's. Let's. Let's, let's. Let's, let's. Let, let's. Let, let's, let's. Let, let's. Let, let's. the argument, let's. the argument, let's. the argument. to say, let's the the the the their. their. to say, let's their. their. their. the their. the the the. least he'll be a laugh. I'm very happy Joel Dommet's doing it because the pressure's off

because if I lose to Joel that's fine but if you lose to Ken Barlow it's embarrassing. Josh can I say something I'm scared. I'm scared and I'm worried and I've been getting anxious all week because I feel like the fat kid at school in PE again, there is a point that I have a panic attack and cry stood at the top of the zip wire. That's where I'm most worried, Rob. Okay, well good, it's good to know my answer is correct sometimes. Why is that bad? How are you with heights? I'm all right of heights as long as I'm not jumping off it. Right, okay. Because there's a lot more heights than I'd anticipated when I'd the height, the height, thananananananananananananananananan an the height, right, right, the height, than't, than't, the height, right, thight, right, right, right, right, right, the height, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right. Right, right, right, right. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, thight, thight, thight, thight, thight, thight, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, th. Right, because, th. with the production okay? Yeah they can't short on the wall surely. The net wall? I mean the good thing about the wall is. What's the wall? Well you have to climb up a huge

wall? Oh so the wall? So the wall, I don't mind the wall because I'm clipped on, right? So I was like, okay well I'm gonna have to clipped, I'm clipped, I'm clipped, I'm clipped, I'm clipped, I'm clipped on, the the the the the the the the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, sure, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the the wall, the the the the the wall, the the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall, the wall not clipped on for the zip wire oh I am oh are you clipping on they went you're not clipped on for that I went well I'm gonna have to be they went but you're not I went okay how far's a drop they went I'm like. I'm gonna thrown I went I've already got rid of the monkey bars because I can't do they're gonna die they're gonna do it I'm gonna do a crash I they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they're they're the monkey bars, because I can't do them. They went, how are you in monkey bars? I was like, I can't do them. I went, well, do you want to do a couple? And they got rid of the monkey bars? What are you doing instead of that? Because you know to get up to the monkey bars, Rob? You have to climb a rope so I can help me up and then I don't think I could get up the rope walnet so no you can do the rope walnut not clipped on it's so high

you know it's a slight argument with production because I've look I've been around the block Josh I've done a lot of these kind of things where yeah I've done legal or that where you're chucked off stuff but what I've I've learned is there are some producers out there like like like like like like like like like like the the the the the th th th the th the th their their their their their the producers out their their their their their their their their their th th th the. that that the. their their the. I's that that that that their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the. the. I's the. I's the. I's the. I's theeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooo. that's that's that's the. the. the. the. the, that will tell you one thing and it's a lie or they bend the truth and you get there and it's not what they said it was but they think because you're there and it's telly and normally because you're a bit new to it all you'll just go okay then I'll just do it because I don't want to let everyone down and I'm going to stop you there. How high is that then? And now he went, because it looks about 20 foot. They went, oh, now it's only about six meters, right? I'm gonna stop me there. What's that?

The rope? Well, something, I can't remember what, some part of it. I went, I'm gonna stop me there. Six meters is 20 foot. So don't just say the lower one. So don't say, I said, the, I, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, the, tho, tho, tho, the, tho, tho, the, tho, tho, the, the, the, tho, tho, I's, I'm, I'm, I'm, tho, tho, tho, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I's. t, I's. t, I's. t, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, t t too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, t too, t t t ttoo. ttoo. to. to. t said, I said so, look, because this is our work of Robert Romish, because, you know, they set us on fire on that. We do all sorts of challenges. I say, if you're honest for me, I'll be honest with you.

So if you tell me, I'll be honest with you, and I can't do it, yeah. I'm happy for you to book someone else and I not do it, and you have someone someone someone someone that someone that someone that someone to be someone to be and I get there, I promise you now, I will go home. Because don't get me wrong, I need to earn a pound note, but I'm mainly doing this because my kids love gladiators, right? So I'm willing to deal with that fallout later down the line, but I'm not. If you've lied to you about this height, I will fuck off. And before you know it, you've got Joel Dombo it some. to, you, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to me, to me, to, to, to, to, to to, to to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the the the the the the the the the their, their, their, their, they.o, the the toldld me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to to to to the to the to the the to to the to me, told doing it solo and Ken Barlow being chopped in. Turning up with your meter stick. Double checking there. Anyway, so I don't know how it will,

because I'll get there on the Tuesday tomorrow to do a run-through of it all where they show me everything and then there's the actual event is on the Wednesday and, yeah. Could I give you my top five concerns having seen it live? I'd quite like some tips, rather thanthan just concerns if you could do a bit of both. Yeah. Okay, Rob, tips. Let me run you through some tips. So concerns and tips is what we're on to.

Okay, tip number one. Don't do this. Do what? One of the guys, yeah. Yeah. Which you'd think you're meant to do, yeah? He dislocated his finger, Rob. He just dislocated his finger on the wall. This is horrible, okay, immediately horrible. Luckily he worked for air ambulance himself so he could just pop it back into the socket. Right, okay, that's good. I can't even put a light bulb in a socket.

Right, maybe have a think about, just watch a couple of YouTube videos about dislocated fingers. Okay. Number two, Powerball. Are you doing Powerball? Yep. Yeah, that looks hard. Okay, cool. Is that where they just rugby tackle you? Yeah.

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the wall. I've been balls that you run around in like a hamster? No, I don't feel we're doing that. So what are you doing? The wall? Obviously the eliminator at the end, which is proven to be the most difficult. So the travelator will be all right, I think. Yeah, they'll do it for me. They'll let you have a cut. Yeah. Can't it go forward. Yeah, yeah. Can't the the the the the the they go go go go go go go go go go the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't go. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't. Can't the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. Yeah. Can't. Can't. the go by the end. I might need it just to go forward rather and back. Can't even do it stationary. The things that would concern me are just heights really. Same with me, because I've done go-ape and I've done zip lines and I find it quite stressful, but if I'm clipped on, I'm all right, but I haven't got confidence in my body weight to hold on that zip while all the way down. No, because it's it it it it's it's it's it's basically the ceiling. I know. It's mad! Of an arena? Oh no, I'm getting really worried

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Yeah, yeah, of course. This could be you. This could be your thing. And for certain things, this really helped me because I've got a slight better talent for that. However, even I have to have zero talent that I still have that, but I'll think I've got it when I'm up there. You might, you might. My last tip is, have you ever been to a football match and you're maybe like in the front five to ten rows? Yeah. You know when you do that and suddenly you go, fucking hell this is fast and hard compared to what it looks like on TV? Yeah. Well just leave. So what's that's it's a point. the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the th. th. the th. th. th. t. t. t. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tip. tip. tip. tip. the tip. the tip. Well just leave. So how was that? That's a point about football. Just be ready. It's harder and more difficult than you could ever imagine. The first time there was an event in the room, people were like, whoa! I didn't realize it was like this. Whoa! Fuck it out. Do you know what? It's good on TV. But actually live, this is something else. How am I going to play this, Josh. Anyway, good luck with it? th. Just. th. th. th. th. the th. the th. th. the the th. th. th. the th. the th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It's th. It's th. It's. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's the the the the the th. It's hard. It's hard. the th. the to. the tod. the today. the the the th. the the th. the the th. It's harder. It's hard. is something else. How am I going to play this, Josh?

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Because they love his show. But Joel's been training for this for a decade. You've been training for, what, six weeks? But the problem is now, the girls are going, well, all the gladiators. If I'm running fast and low, I might be able to get underneath them. Because what I would say is strength, you think it's all about strength but actually when you watch it you go most of these things are about just being more nippy than a muscle. Agile. Yeah. And I know you're good at football, so maybe actually, Joel will be so musly. He's actually just going to be just like slow and he's going to be...

Complete opposite. He showed me a photo of him, topless, because we share photos. And he is ripped to fucking shreds, but not, he's been running a lot, not doing weight, so he's actually quite lean, so I think he's in perfect shape for gladiators because you're never going to compete to him through math. Could you ask to be up against Ehrlichie? I still think she's the odds on fave. Oh yeah, she beat you? Yeah, yeah. Not by as much.

No, I'd rather be absolutely trounced and just be dragged through and just be dragged this. It's horrible for me. No, no, no, this is a positive. This is a positive. You struggle through. Yeah. Obviously, Joel finishes about a minute ahead of you. And he's gone. He's off, up the eliminator. Yeah, he's gone. But have you seen those high, low bars at the start of the eliminator? Even they look quite tough. Yeah, I think they've changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed changed their the low one. He just walked through. There's a real possibility, Josh, I walk underneath the bar and then I can't get up the rope and I just have to go home.

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Which will be by a distance, the biggest cheer of the night and you will come home a hero it will be an absolute like Eddie the Eagle call running's situation where it's like the absolute and people will go did you see Rob on gladiators he is so brave he is a man. Joel who's impressed by that? Who cares? Anyone can do that if they work out? But Rob he is what makes Britain great? Or they go. See them, that, uh, that Christmas the Christmas thing? the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their things. tre. true. true. true. true. true. their their their their their their their their their their the? Anyone can do that if they work out. But Rob, here's what makes Britain great. Or, there go, Coach, see, um, that Christmas special gladdairs, yeah, the geese with a teeth, that he had a panic attack, something crying in front of his children and faded. Strange, isn't it?

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I can do heights if I've got something to focus on, but if it's throw yourself into the nothingness. Yeah, exactly. I'll just jump it up. So Josh, I've been sent some trash talk from Joel Dommet. Oh, yes, please. I've not played it yet. Should I play on here? Yeah, yeah.

My gladiator's opponent. I feel like maybe we should do some trash talk. I'm not very good at the trash talk stuff, but I'll give it go. Morning Rob. And... Oh, I'm gonna beat you so bad. I'm gonna beat you so bad on the blood ears. I'm gonna trash you. I'm gonna trash you.

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Yeah. What I'm gonna do is I'mto put you in the rubbish bin. At all. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put you in the boot of my car. I'm going to take you to the tip and they're going to decide which, which bit to put you in. This is still going, Rob, Roe, the today. Because it gets really busy there. And so, if any other day, I'm going to trash you. Bob Beckett, watch out. I think that was pretty cool.

Oh, he's still going. It physically can't do trash talk, can he? No, do you know what that is? That's someone who knows that he's already won, but is embarrassed by it. Well, Josh, we'll see shall we? Oh, imagine. Imagine. Who knows? If I beat Joel Dommet, it will be the worst moment of his life. Yeah, and mine. Yeah, you'd hate me walking around, cook on a walk. Anyway, well, I'll let you know how we get on. All right, cheers. Okay, so take up the story of, Rob. I actually think, even with with that warning, you were underplaying it.

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Looks like the most easy, it is, what, four meters up? It's like chapeasing off your roof. We can't believe this because Gladiators is, you know, I think we can both agree up there possibly the best TV show on at the moment, right? Yeah, yeah, family TV is probably the best. Yeah, and I don't think it is captured. It doesn't do injustice, even though it's the best TV show, it's totally failing to do justice to what's fucking going on there. So basically, I get there, I walk into the arena, immediately ship myself. Was it all set up? Yeah, it was all set up.

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No, clearly. I'm having to work so hard to not lose my mind. So taught me through, not the day, but what you do on a training, because I think a lot of people will be interested in the same way that they do on the popular podcast with Richard Osmond and Marina Hyde, they'll give you but the backstage of a TV show. Okay. I think people would be really interested in knowing what happens on the training day of Gladiators. So right we all are right. I got there a bit late because try because Bromley's a long way from Sheffield a long way and when you've got two children in the back of a van that at that point are... Just to be clear, that's a brown where you're all sitting in the back of the back,

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we did and I've been up since five and I'm a massive lad you have to get up and it is high, Josh. Oh my God, and obviously Joel Dom is like walking it, piece of piss. Joel was brilliant off that. Me and Ellie Taylor struggled with it a bit. Louise Minchin, just didn't give a shit, jumped off all of it. Yeah, Louis machine, that's what they call her. Absolute machine. So this absolutely threw me because I can't jump off big heights like that. And what are you jumping backwards? You basically have to kick your legs in the air, almost like you're kicking a football.

So sort of like, say you're doing the can can, you kick your legs up and then that way, the momentum's makes you jump on your back with your arms out. So you're not stepping backwards off it, you're kind of jumping off it but to the side until you land on it. Let me send you a photo. So that's Ellie at the top of it. Oh my fucking God. Right and you just have to jump off it. Look at Joel callers and fucking Q. God, he's good looking.

He is so fit. It's lovely guy. Such a nice guy. Ellie does not look like she's having a laugh with that. No, no, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Ellie, Lelie did not like it. She is looking down as if to say fucking out what am I doing with my life. Yeah, so I went up there and I got there and I went to jump off, couldn't, physically couldn't do it. Yeah, then I started crying. I was coming to panic attack. I basically was like and it came out of nowhere Josh. It didn't come out of nowhere Rob. It was obvious where it was come from. And I got up there and I just couldn't do it. And in the end, I was like, it was like the start of a panic attack and I couldn't control my breathing.

But I've done lots of breathing stuff and my therapy is what's in the way is the way. If this is causing you stress pain and worry, if you do it, it's done. Because I'll be safe. It's high. It's a bit scary. It's a scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary. It's a scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary. It's a scary scary. It's a scary scary. It's a scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's a scary. It's a scary. It's a scary. It's a scary. It's a scary. It's a scary. It's a scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary scary. It's a scary scary scary. It's a scary scary scary scary scary scary. It's a scary. It's a to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to keep me safe. And also worst case scenario Rob. Yeah. You break your ankle and you've got the lamest anecdote of all time. Anyway in then I said I can't do it I'm not doing it I'm not doing it I'm going. I'm going. It wasn't like me speaking it was just like pure anxiety. I'm going up. And then in then Jenny who was brilliant sat down with me and helped me do the breathing. And I breathed about five, ten minutes and I calmed my head down and then I just did it. And it was terrifying, but it was like... And what did it feel like when you did it? Because that is my fear is heights.

A real rush of, oh my god, I'm doing it. So 15 minutes I sat up there breathing when the whole production crew and the whole arena stopped. Oh my God, it was all safety crew and everyone wants to get you to do this before you can get on. So you're holding up like 200 people's lunch, finish of the day. So I did this breathing, but she helped me, really helped me, Jenny. And I've sort of through my sort of therapy and sort of my meditation, I'm better at that, but but I couldn't have that because I was so overwhelmed. And then for about 15 minutes, I'm sort of there getting a bit upset, but then I'd breathing, calm down, got to the point where I was calm, and then just did it and then

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And then basically couldn't keep up. You're good at football. Football I'm confident in, but anything, even then I tell myself, you haven't got enough fitness, and that's why I couldn't run at the gym, but me going to the gym now and do an exercise, it's way more of a mental battle than physical. these things and my lack of self-confidence is so like snakes belly low I'm telling myself you are weak you are unfit you are heavy you are shit you will let go you hurt yourself because you are weak. Only like half of that's true. Yeah exactly but if that's what you're telling you won't be able to achieve

anything. Yeah of course but my confidence in myself as like a not a business such, but someone who's good at talking and can make money from talking and knows how to run their career. And how to run my career and run my finances and I'm confident in that, but physically there's zero, which is why I've started going to the gym. My head went because I won't be able to hold my weight and I completely drop and and hurt myself. And then again I'd to do 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15. I, I to to to do to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to breathe with Jenny and then I did it. And what does it feel like doing that trapeze? Peter piss, so easy. Yeah. Because I saw Ellie do it before me and you don't have to do much. You just lean back and it's so weighted that it just gets you there.

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I needed to achieve mentally. Yeah. mentally, whether it goes on the tell or not, but having doing those things was a real big moment for me kind of thing. I went and met the kids in Shephel. But our kids had Pizza Express four nights in a row, John. They had it when we was in London on Monday, they had it because it was by the station. And on the Sunday night, Lou had got it from a taugh then Tuesday night they had it in Sheffield the night before because they were in town and then when we left gladiators I said can

get any food I went do you want a pizza or something to have in the car home so I've got us all pizzas and when my oldest was eating each other that pizza that expressed four days in a row it's a great company so that so that training day was hard and then I went and I went and to met and to met and to met and to met and to met and to meet and to meet and to meet and to meet and to meet and to meet and to me me me me me me to to to meet and the the to the to the the the to meet and the to meet and the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. true. the the true. they they the the the the the the town and I'm so tired I just slept really well in the hotel and then yeah it's weird though and next day you're all in the hotel so I'm having like breakfast of all the gladiators. I really and then Joel came in a poor Joel though he got asked to do it last minute and his child's so young he's like not one or something to they son so he was there to theyn't some so so so he's so he's so he's so he's so he's so he's so he's so he's so he so he so he so he so he so he was so he so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was the the the he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he was so he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he was he was he was he was he was he was in in in a to to to to to to to to the to to the to the to the to to the to to the the to to to there and husband cheer Louis Wynchon's kids were there and I think husband cheer and then and Joel's family it's like nothing so they're in the end the girls had written signs could go they had signs saying go Rob

and then signs saying go Joel yeah and stuff on it that was nice but I was just gonna ask when it's on New Year's Day or just after Christmas. Great time. But it's what is so funny. It's really good because the gladiators really went for it with me and Joel really went for us. I didn't see much of Ellie and Louise because I was either getting ready or just come out when they went on. They were properly trying to do us. In a fun way, like they were horrible. They were really horrible. They were really kind of ones. to be quick, and I was really good at ones where you had to be strong, because I'm quite heavy and I'm low center of gravity and I'm quite fast. So anything will have to be strong, I was all right,

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but Bradley's one of the nicest people in TV. He's so generous. Whatever you do, whatever he's saying, he's so supportive and he laughs. He's like, he, Rob, you're looking forward to it. I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do it for all the overweight dad's out there, blah, blah, blah, and he went, I'm what's your gladiane? And ain't gonna be. And I just look right, it got really close to him and looked in the eye and went,

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like that in front of my mouth like their inds like their thinne their mouth like the index finger like the big beaver teeth and they're all going beaver so I'm dancing around going beaver beaver and then because they're all northern most of the crowd because it's in Sheffield this is like eight year old kid going come on the beaver come on the beaver beaver Beaver the beaver so I think they were tempted to try and cut it out but when you can't cut it out and in the crowd of shouting beaver in many ways that's worse there's a lot worse we had a brilliant time the youngest found it a bit difficult but then once I did

pineapple coconut she'd calm down gladiators were all lovely production were all brilliant but it's a such a brilliant show and if you can get up there to get a ticket you eat on the day were you like wa to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their try is toy is toy is toy is toy. toy is toy. toy is toy. toy. toy is toy te is try one one one one one one one try is try and then you have loads of sugar to keep you going, they said. So between each games Jenny and Stuart would warm you up, give you some tips and go right, you need a Mars bar, you need this, you need some Harry Boe, have some stuff. This is weird, the breakfasts, have some stuff. This is weird, the breakfast, we're having breakfast was so weird, right? We're all sat down. I'm a bit like stressed because I'm about to do gladiators. There was this old Asian man next to us, right? Probably in his 60s.

And he had his phone watching YouTube on loud, really loud, no headphones, just out of this phone, propped up on his like cup of juice, watching GB News on full blast in a tiny breakfast thing. Little old Asia man, right? And I say to him, can you turn that off? So it's really loud. It went, oh, as long as you don't mind GB News, I went, mate, I don't want to hear anything. I'm not getting involved in. Also, this was like the week of, you know when there was all those riots. Yeah, it was all it was all quite tens. Not the best week to watch GB News. No. And there's never a good week to watch CB News.

I didn't get involved in that because he's trying to get into it. That's not the time. I went, mate. the truth mate I don't know enough it right but and I was like this is an old Asian man watching this sort of like right wing news about the riots I like mate if GB news are talking the truth I wouldn't think you'd want to hear it out of anyone I don't think you're that demographic fuck it was mental he wouldn't turn it down yeah so I had porridge at the morning I'm actually getting into porridge Josh, they all come flooding back. Here we go.

I'm on this protein porridge and it does fill you up and get you going in the morning, to be fair. There you go, Rob. Just enjoy your porridge. No, I don'ttill it's winter. Oh no every time I'm satisfied with my porridge I'm going to think of you gobbling it. I'm I'm the new gobbler. Yeah. By the end of this podcast I'll be the stiff net, you'll be the lose debt, you'll be off your face on, you'll be smoking dubies and I'll be stuck in the countryside reading books eating porridge like a fucking waste man. Rob, I can't wait to watch it. We'll do a proper debrief after it.

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on one that's absolutely sensational but I'm thinking if we get a few more and we could do a playground shagggge's special. My friend, he's not got kids and he only listened to the Jeff Innocent episode because he likes Jeff Innocent. Yeah, and he said playground shagggots is the favorite thing he's ever heard on a podcast and he's constantly talking to me about. Yeah, so we want playground shacking stories, affairs, one night stands, all of it, just we've got one, so we're going to do a special, but we need a few more to build that through, and then we're going to finish on the greatest one of all time. Yeah. Right. I would love to shout out my husband's small business. They're called Two Vintage.

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got me through the tough days during lockdown with two under two. That one looked, that was so awful. I think we forget sometimes it's fucking crap. It was crap. I would love a small business shout out. I'm an independent travel agent and have a small business called Happily Ever Travel. I'm a Disney and Universal Specialist Travel agent. I run my business on the side of my regular job as a nurse and my two young children. It's hard work but I love it. I have a huge passion for booking once and lifetime holidays for families and taking the stress out of it for them. I do all the hard work so they don't have to and use my experiences to ensure they have the most amazing holiday. As well as Disney, I can also book anywhere else. You ask I can do it. I would love to you to give me a shout out and maybe even put your next

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