Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S04 EP5: Parental Lock Fail

Episode Date: February 8, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Introducing Tim's new Savory Pinwheels, the perfect flaky and flavourful snack for those on the go, like me, who's recording this while snacking. Ooh, delicious. Try the roasted red pepper and Swiss or caramelised onion and parmesan pinwheels only at Tim's at participating restaurants in Canada for a limited time. Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Willicombe. Welcome to Parents in Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent,
Starting point is 00:00:29 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'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also 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 when none of us know what we're doing. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Hamish, can you say Rob Beckett?
Starting point is 00:01:09 Rob, Rob, Bum, Bum. And can you say Josh Whittakin? Josh, Bum, Bum. Course, truth. All right, you drongo. Yes. We've got ourselves a couple of Aussies. You have got yourself a couple of Aussies.
Starting point is 00:01:31 This is my three-year-old Hamish, who currently insists on adding bum-bum to most things he says. So naturally today he added it to your names. Although I think my accent gives it away, I'll include my location at the end of this email for you to guess, Rob. Do they give the location, Australia? They do give the location. Shall I just finish the email? Thank you for both providing so much realism and humour at the end of this email for you to guess rob do they give the location australia they do give the location should i just finish the email thank you for both providing so much realism and humor parenting you truly are relatable guys unbelievable lovely so relatable
Starting point is 00:01:53 and sexy and funny washing dishes whilst listening to you both takes a bit longer as i'm doubled over the laughter most of the time thanks for the last very much appreciated jane mel oh i've given it away melbourne yes got it i was gonna say gold coast for full transparency i don't know what that means so gold coast brisbane up there all right have you ever been australia yeah hated it right so why do you hate it oh too many flies too many flies too hot too many flies where were you there we did a last like travelogue through Australia. Oh, I remember. Yeah, but you didn't see the best part of it. We fucking didn't.
Starting point is 00:02:27 I'm telling you that for free. Got to Melbourne at the end of three weeks. And you're like, this is the bit I wanted to go to. I didn't want to be stood in bloody Darwin, surrounded by flies. Oh, anyway. I mean, I've not done that bit of Australia. I've done the other bit and I quite like it.
Starting point is 00:02:43 Yeah. It's quite chilled, nice weather. I've spent years over there. I did like done that bit of Australia. I've done the other bit and I quite like it. Yeah. It's quite chilled. It's nice weather. I've spent years over there. I did like Adelaide Fringe. I did three years of I'm a Celebrity over there. So yeah. I think I'm going back on tour actually. It's exciting.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Yeah. So I might be able to see Hamish. You might be able to see Hamish. Yeah. Well, why not? A bit young for the show. Yeah. How are you?
Starting point is 00:03:00 I'm all right actually. I'm a bit tired. It's been a very intense work period for me however because of that and because I've got a lot coming up in a few weeks
Starting point is 00:03:09 I'm going to have the children on my own for like four or five nights when Lou goes away woah yeah
Starting point is 00:03:15 big time woah full on full blast she's throwing it straight back at me four to five nights yeah
Starting point is 00:03:23 she's a bit nervous about going away for that long. Oh, yeah. It's her problem, Rob. Yeah, she says that. She'll be absolutely fine when she's away, having the time of her life. So take me through what your plans are for these four or five days.
Starting point is 00:03:34 To be fair, they're going to be in school, so it's not the end of the world. So it's not too bad, to be fair. It's literally just like pick-ups, drop-offs, and then on the Friday, my youngest doesn't go into preschool. So, yeah, it's not too bad. It'll be fine. We haven't sorted out the date. So when we've got the date, my youngest doesn't go into preschool. So, yeah, it's not too bad. It'll be fine. We haven't sorted out the dates.
Starting point is 00:03:46 So when we've got all the dates, we know a bit more, I'll talk you through my plan of action. This week, I've not been at home that much because I've been gigging lots. Yeah. Because we've been doing the Parenting Hell shows and I've been doing my tour shows. So I did seven shows in a row. Oh, Rob.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Which was a lot of entertaining, isn't it, Josh? A lot of entertaining. But you live for it, Rob. You're only truly yourself on stage. That's what they say about you. I just leak energy. You do? I love to inject that into people's ears.
Starting point is 00:04:12 But this has been quite funny, though. One of the most disgusting images I've ever thought of, really, that. That you leak energy and inject it into people's ears. But carry on. I've got a bit of an issue with the gymnastics club the kids go to. They go to gymnastics on a Saturday, right? The kids love it love it right so it's like in the morning we have to one goes in and then the other goes in because they're a different age group so it's a bit annoying you sit in the car basically on your phone for an hour and then do shifts and then one goes in the other
Starting point is 00:04:35 one comes in the car and has their ipad it's fine though we enjoy anyway come home oh good news mom both of us have passed our sort of like first level of like gymnastics. Oh, well done. That's good, isn't it? They've only been going a couple of weeks. What do they have to do? I don't know, but I think I imagine like a forward roll and a star jump. So you're not allowed to go in and watch? No, you don't go in and watch, which is, you know, fine.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I'm sure you're allowed to see if there's a competition or whatever, but they're only young anyway. It's very like just something to do on a Saturday. It's not like the Russian or Chinese government. They're not like a Soviet Union. No, no. She's not on roids. Are you worried they're boosting? I did see a lot of
Starting point is 00:05:07 blood transfusion equipment being moved in and out of the hall just to keep the energy up. But I don't know if that was a spin class next door or something. But they're the bendiest and most energetic they've ever been. So whatever they're on, get me some. That's what I say. And anyway, they come and go, oh, we both
Starting point is 00:05:23 parted. They were like, mum, dad, we passed the first level. Oh, brilliant. And we get a medal. I was like, well done. Show us your medal. They went, oh, no, no, you've got to give us five pounds to take in to get it. What? I know.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Are they part of a pyramid scheme? I don't know what it is. That's a bit cheeky. Because you pay for them to go. I assumed that. They chuck in the medal. Well, how good's the medal? It's normally just a little rubbish plasticky thing, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:05:45 Yeah, yeah. But a medal? So they've got to go in with a fiver for a medal? Is that normal? You're asking the wrong person. I've no experience of gymnastics medals, Rob. You went, though. You just never got the medals?
Starting point is 00:05:55 You just never passed the course? I've been going for six years. They still can't quite get their first medal. You just can't get that forward roll. Exactly. You can star jump all day. It's just really painful to hear that your daughters are doing better than me. It's a real kick in the teeth. Oh, You can star jump all day. It is really painful to hear that your daughters
Starting point is 00:06:06 are doing better than me. It's a real kick in the teeth. Oh, no, it's all right. It's one of those things. But yeah, no, I don't know if that's a thing or not, but then it's a bit unfair if you're a bit tight
Starting point is 00:06:14 on cash that week and you've got a few kids. You can't keep banging out a fiver for a medal, can you? No, but also, you've got to do it, haven't you? You can't say you can't have the medal.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I know, it's brutal. You're absolutely caught in a situation. Well, it feels like absolute prime. If they ever, like, become really successful and they did Desert Island Discs, they would go,
Starting point is 00:06:31 well, yeah, I remember when, you know, I worked really hard and passed my gymnastics and my parents couldn't afford the five pound gold medal. Or even worse, they could afford it, they just didn't want to give it to me.
Starting point is 00:06:39 And it's like some sort of, like, fire in the belly. But what you should say, Rob, is... I'll make my own for them. I'm not getting you a medal until you get it from the Olympics. I don't think that would be a good thing to say. You do not deserve a medal
Starting point is 00:06:50 until you have won the Olympics. Or they come and go, oh, I passed my test. All right, yeah. Show me you didn't. No one. Think about it. No one didn't pass.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Yeah? How convenient. Oh, what's that? The brother of the owner of the club? Oh, what does he do? He makes medals. Think about it. Yeah, he works in Timpsons.
Starting point is 00:07:10 It's not trickling down, it's trickling up, mate. Yeah? Think about it, you sheep. You fucking sheep. I know you're six, but wake up. And then get two £5 notes, Rob, and just throw them in the bin. Yeah, exactly. Sitting there, snivelling, listening to Neil Young. Think about young think about it yeah think about it they're controlling you with their medals
Starting point is 00:07:29 so tell me how that goes when you do it okay yeah let's run next week how that goes how that goes down with them this is me getting old now and on you know when you start to get old and you become a dad and you think i'm still pretty cool i'm still pretty down with the kids i'm good with technology i know what i'm doing but it slowly slips away before you know it you're on FaceTime with your grandkids and all they can see is your ear that's basically where we all end up yeah you know Disney Plus right yeah you got Disney Plus didn't you Encanto and all that yeah I mean I got it for the Beatles documentary but yeah well I wondered why I couldn't find certain things like the Beatles documentary or Dope Sick and all these other things are on Disney Plus do you know why I've been watching it with a child parental lock on it even for me oh no I didn't
Starting point is 00:08:10 know that you have to update it and put their age oh my god I didn't realize all this stuff was on it no honestly we watched Dope Sick last night it was brilliant but I feel like an old nan yeah that is incredible an old nan that's been watching Sky but not been able to watch the films till nine o'clock. Ridiculous. So when did you realise? Someone said, this is on Disney Plus, and you're like, it's not. Well, no, everyone kept on saying watch Dope Sick,
Starting point is 00:08:32 and we couldn't find it. And then Lou worked it out. What is this thing? Dope Sick. Oh, it's a drama about, it was basically a painkiller that was an opioid that was released, and then they said that it's not addictive,
Starting point is 00:08:42 you'll be fine, but it was addictive. And it became like one of the most addictive and powerful drugs in america and those people got addicted to it and then lost their jobs and became homeless and all that but it was marketed as non-addictive and it's just about that basically oh wow to be fair it's not the kind of thing you want your four-year-old watching so i think i'm great it's great yeah all i'd say is the parental control is a top notch on disney to the point that a 36 year old man couldn't watch stuff. Yeah. But I'm just trying to find what have I missed?
Starting point is 00:09:08 So were you logging in as your daughter? Yeah, but then I've been watching loads of sports documentaries on it. Yeah. They've got those really good ESPN 30 for 30 ones. Oh, yeah. And then I was like, there's only a few on here, but then I imagine the ones that got a few swears in. And then, do you know what I watched the other day? I watched a documentary, Josh, about these two NFL owners
Starting point is 00:09:24 that had loads of beef in like the 60s and 70s. And then you see them walking around the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas. And they're like, oh, my God. And it's like they like hated each other. And there was going to be all this beef. And then all of a sudden, they go to talk to each other at the end. And then it was only at the end I realised that it was computer animated versions of them because they both passed away 15 years ago.
Starting point is 00:09:44 But I didn't realise it was computer images. I thought it was the real people. But let's be honest, that is a fucking insane thing to do in a documentary. Why have they done that? I don't know, but you know, like... I don't think that's your fault, Rob. I don't think that's your fault.
Starting point is 00:09:58 I don't think it is either, Josh. Why would you go, oh, yeah, I tell you what they've done here. They've reanimated two corpses. Yeah. Imagine if you watched... Think of an example of a documentary the beatles yeah if at the end of that they played the gig and then an old john lennon and george harrison played with paul mccartney and ringo star yeah that wouldn't be an acceptable way to end no but at least you know that they're dead yeah i've never heard of these people no so. So I assume they might be alive still.
Starting point is 00:10:26 But that's what I'm saying. I'm backing you up here. Okay, sorry. Yeah, thank you. But I just felt so stupid. Then I showed Lou. But once you realise they're computer people, it's so obvious.
Starting point is 00:10:34 Yeah, it just didn't look like Toy Story. Yeah. And then Lou was like, are you all right? I went, no, but they did look like that earlier on. But now we know it's obvious, but I didn't know. What's this documentary called?
Starting point is 00:10:44 It's called al davis versus the nfl al davis was a nfl owner he owned the rate the coach and then owner of the raiders oakland raiders and he wanted to move them but why have they done that bit at the end it wasn't just that bit at the end they were talking all the way through like it was current day they're in the stadium and he's going yeah because we really fell out like, I don't know where they've got this audio from because it's not archive. Well, if they can make him physically, someone could do an impression.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Yeah, well, exactly. I think that's what's happening. But look, they're so computer generated. It's so embarrassing now. I'll send you. Oh my God. I'm just looking at the picture.
Starting point is 00:11:18 It's awful. I can't believe it confused me. This is the picture, right? That I'm looking at. Yeah, I've just sent you that. The guy in the suit. But he looks so much like a computer, doesn't he, now? Yeah, I mean, it does.
Starting point is 00:11:27 It's so embarrassing. I mean, I'm going to watch it now to see what it's like. But at the beginning, honestly, because he's walking around all in new clothes and he looks old and he's talking about, oh, we're so happy to be in the new stadium. But he died before the stadium was built. So when did you find out he died?
Starting point is 00:11:41 At the end, when two little Toy Story men started talking. He didn't say, I'm Dad, did he? No, no, I had to Google it. Because I was like, they look weird. And then all the other images of them were them sat down talking. So a bit like deep fake, you know, deep fake. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How they filmed it was people dressed up as them,
Starting point is 00:11:59 doing impressions of them. And then they put like computer generated images on their faces and made their mouth moves so it was real people then at the end i think it was just i don't know but i was really upset it is a weird way to do a documentary to be fair to you rob yeah it's a strange thing to do in a documentary documentary to watch but i'm watching that because there's not many options when you're under 14 for anything other than cartoons can i ask, how many people under the age of 14 are interested in a documentary
Starting point is 00:12:28 about the way the NFL franchise system works? It's such a nerdy documentary. I don't know, but it's on there. Because I think they should do parental guidance for, like, if they're swearing, but also, you don't want to see this. Yeah, you're not interested in this bullshit. That's why the Beatles one's not there.
Starting point is 00:12:45 No kid wants to watch this load of crap. The good news is now I'm sure there must have been parents watching Disney with the cap on and not realising there's loads of other content on there. So now you know. So with CBeebies though, right? I'm not missing out on anything there. That's just all kids stuff, right?
Starting point is 00:13:00 I haven't got some kind of... That hasn't got some late night stuff that I'm missing out on because I'm logged in in the wrong way. Oh no, you've not seen Hey Dougie Does Dallas? I haven't seen Hey kind of... That hasn't got some late night stuff that I'm missing out on because I'm logged in in the wrong way. Oh, no, you've not seen Hey Dougie Does Dallas? I haven't seen Hey Dougie Does... Oh, mate, he's a fucking dirty bear. It's weird because that's the kind of thing I do. Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:13:15 Not... Go to Dallas and have sex with a bear. He's a dog, isn't he? Is he? Dougie's a bear, isn't he? What the fuck's Dougie? I thought he was a bear. Is he a dog? Yeah, he's a dog.
Starting point is 00:13:24 Oh, my God, is he computer generated Is he? Dougie's a bear, isn't he? What the fuck's Dougie? I thought it was a bear. Is he a dog? Yeah, he's a dog. Oh, my God. Is he computer generated as well? Don't break it to me. Hey, Dougie. He's a dog, isn't he? Yeah. I thought it was a bear. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:13:33 Oh, it's a fucking dog. He looks a bit like a bear, though. I don't know. I always associated an animal that would be a scout leader type figure would be a bear over a dog. I think bears are a bit calmer and better at organising. Yeah. Because they hibernate and stuff.
Starting point is 00:13:45 I don't think a dog would be able to run a class of kids. So that is on the one hand why I see where you're coming from. The other hand, he does woof throughout. Yeah, I'm not really listening though.
Starting point is 00:13:59 Oh my God, have you seen, have you seen these adult men's Hey Dougie pyjamas? What? Oh my God, kill me. If you've got a pair of these, you've got to sort your life out. Look, I'm going to send it to you. First of all, they're
Starting point is 00:14:10 bootcut, which I don't care if it's pyjama or jeans. I don't know why they need to be cut pyjama. He's got a big pair of boots at Father Christmas when he gets in from his shift. Look at these. But weirdly, it says big hug at the top and then it's Dougie but really low around the groin area.
Starting point is 00:14:26 So it is like pedo pyjamas. Yeah. So it's like, come and hug me here around my waist and groin. Yeah. I think if you hug a kid, get on your knees and go face to face. Not dick to face. Of course. Of course.
Starting point is 00:14:37 That's the best way to hug a kid. Yeah. Or pick them up. There's no world in which you hug a kid at your natural height. If Rose brought me them i think well we're never having sex again no that's the end of that then but that does happen a lot i didn't realize how like some people don't just just don't have sex at all now when they have kids but yeah no i don't think if i had big hug dougie pajamas and i don't think lou would want
Starting point is 00:14:57 to no get off i mean to be fair they've been reviewed 33 four star reviews good quality yeah but if you're buying them then you're the kind of person that's into it no one's buying them and going wait a minute they've got a hey dougie on one star oh right
Starting point is 00:15:08 they're matching family ones that makes sense oh right okay how are your sleep trousers going I sort of forget
Starting point is 00:15:14 to put them on but I do put them on sometimes I haven't got trousers I just wear baggy pants oh yeah
Starting point is 00:15:17 baggy pants I told you my mum bought me a nightie what did I tell you about this like a Victorian
Starting point is 00:15:22 like a scrooge it's like you know it's a cartoon know it's a cartoon one it's a silly it's like a little pony nighty yeah basically my mum whenever i do something my mum goes to my kids oh has daddy been naughty and they go yeah he's been doing and they make stuff up that i've been doing yeah so margaret is he's been naughty right i'm gonna tell him off and all that and i went i'm gonna tell him off and she went i'm gonna buy him a night in here
Starting point is 00:15:40 make him wear it and the kids thought that was hilarious. Me wearing a nightie. So then for Christmas, my mum bought me a nightie. This is a weird image. It is. And then they all laughed. And then I was forced on Christmas morning to put a nightie on in front of my entire family. Is there any photographic evidence of this? I know, but I'm sure I can slip it on
Starting point is 00:15:57 and put it on the WhatsApp group if you want. Yeah, why not, Rob? Why not? Let's get the clicks. Get the Instagram up. Can I just ask? When you told me about your Christmas day, why didn't you think to mention the point
Starting point is 00:16:07 where your mum forced you to wear a nightie in front of everyone in the living room? A lot happens on Christmas day. My mum got absolutely battered between the hours of 11am and four o'clock. I've never seen her so drunk in my life. She was so relieved to be negative on the lateral flow.
Starting point is 00:16:22 She got absolutely spangled and was all over the place. We got battered in the mid, and then we sort of recovered in the evening. But yeah, I forgot about the lateral flow. She got absolutely spangled and was all over the place. We got battered in the mid, and then we sort of recovered in the evening. But yeah, I forgot about the 90. Sue me. How long did you wear the 90 for? Only for like a sort of couple of hours in the morning
Starting point is 00:16:33 for the kids. And then I got- A couple of hours? Are you joking? I was doing breakfast and getting everyone ready. I ate a 90? Yeah. And a dressing gown.
Starting point is 00:16:42 And you didn't think to mention this? No, I didn't didn't what have you done with the nightie uh it's in my uh sort of bedtime drawer with my like jogging bottoms and baggy t-shirts i've got stains on draw not bedtime draw that we call them tuesdays have i spoke about this no so basically you know like you know if you're if you're in for the day right say like you've um you're hung over whatever you've done your stuff in the morning and you're in you're not going out again and you put on your big comfy jogging but you don't own jogging but you don't know about this you do now so you know when you put like your comfy clothes on because you're not going out again and that you're all comfy right yeah then we call them
Starting point is 00:17:14 tuesdays because once we when my mate was at university we went out to see my mate on a tuesday birch we knocked on the door went hello mate you're right and he was dressed like we also drank normal clothes to like doing stuff like jeans and tops going to union college and stuff and he was wearing like this massive like pair of like jogging bottoms big thick socks and a rugby top that stains i was like what's wrong with you what you're doing and he went it's tuesday i went what i mean it's tuesday i went so he went i don't have any lectures or work on tuesday i wear my it's my t Tuesday clothes so he just basically doesn't leave the house
Starting point is 00:17:46 on a Tuesday so wears really comfy clothes so now we've always called you know comfy like baggy clothes that you wear in for the day Tuesdays lounge wear I think
Starting point is 00:17:55 is the sort of official term so Tuesdays we call them so my night is in the Tuesday drawer do you know at university in my final
Starting point is 00:18:03 are they called semesters that's what they're called wasn't it yeah terms semesters? That's what they're called, wasn't it? Terms? Semesters is American, isn't it? Yeah, it is, isn't it? Yeah. Tuesday was the only day I worked because I worked out. I was on one of those courses where you don't have to do that many hours.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Yeah. And I worked out if I picked certain modules, I could get all of my lectures on Tuesday. So I picked loads of modules I wasn't that interested in, just so that I then had a six-day weekend. And it was incredible. Oh, wow. That's good. Yeah. So Tuesdays would be a full eight hours. Oh, so your Tuesday is very different to my Tuesday. Very different. I was actually in a suit on Tuesdays. So you could call your comfy clothes Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Mondays.
Starting point is 00:18:38 Exactly. Yeah. Tuesdays is catchier, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. So I'm putting on my Tuesdays. You're putting on your Tuesdays. Josh, I've got one more thing to talk to you about. I wanted to get your opinion on this, right?
Starting point is 00:18:50 Have you heard about this? Parents doing sweepstakes when the baby's born? No. So this is a thing where you could do your friends and family, right? And I've heard about it, but I've never heard it done this way. Where basically what you do is you go, right, the baby's due in February. Say February the 15th, for argument's sake. And then what you do is you get the month of february and then everyone can put like a fiver
Starting point is 00:19:08 in or something yeah or two quid and then you get a day like the length of the speeches at a wedding sweepstake which is always yeah exactly i think you could probably pick your day or you just pick it at random because if it's during the 14th you know it's more chance it's going to be in the middle of it but basically you and then you do that and then they randomly pick a date in february so you pay your five quid you get the seventh and then it's sort of like oh who's going to be in the middle, isn't it? But basically, and then you do that, and then they randomly pick a date in February. So you pay your five quid and you get the seventh. And then it's sort of like, oh, who's going to win? And then normally you get the money for the sweepstake. That's how sweepstakes work.
Starting point is 00:19:34 However, I've heard people, what they're doing is, you pay 20 quid sometimes, and then it's split in half. So if you get it, you get half the money, and then the other half goes to the baby. What? Like baby tax? Yeah, baby tax. But then I don't know if that's a bit cheeky or it's a nice way of getting money for a buggy or something.
Starting point is 00:19:50 What does the baby want to do? No, no, it's not actually going to be baby's pocket money and he's going to go down the shop and get some muslins or something. It's like for the parents, you know, because if it's 30 days, it's 20 quid. It's a lot of money, isn't it? Yeah. So what's your view on this?
Starting point is 00:20:06 I'm a sweepstake purist, Rob. Yeah, I think you should get the full. I don't even like the people that would go first, second, third, and they'd give a bit more. Do you know what I mean? No, I think it's one winner, one. I think as well. Let the baby have, you know, the baby, you're running the sweepstakes, so let the baby have, don't pay, but three dates.
Starting point is 00:20:21 Or the baby gets the due date and the two days either side of it. Exactly, because the baby's got an advantage and the two days either side of it exactly because the baby's got an advantage in many ways they're in charge they should be able to win this and the mother hold it in if you've got 250 quid riding on it hold it in a day oh my god because you imagine it at midnight imagine if you're the dad and you've got the sweet steak for that day and it's 10 to midnight and you're nearly there oh my god and you know come on love when it's 200 quid riding on this get it out yeah but if you're the dad and the mum yeah and you know it's coming out say it comes out at 1am yeah just lie no one's asking to see the birth certificate
Starting point is 00:20:54 yeah but then you can't well you have to have a word with the midwife and go look do you mind but then for the next 18 years you're fabricating a birthday for your child just because you wanted 250 quid and then you know and it's happy birthday and you just look at each other and go it's not it's tomorrow we know it's tomorrow and then on their 17th birthday which they think is their 17th birthday they want a driving lesson on their 17th birthday yeah and you don't want to tell them you've been lying to them about their birthday for 17 years. So you take them out and then the police pull you over
Starting point is 00:21:29 and look at the passport and it turns out you're driving illegally, Rob. No, but they're going to have to forge it from the beginning. Oh yeah, but you can't forge the birth certificate. You can lie to people. You wouldn't be allowed to forge the birth certificate. But then the kid would know earlier on than that holidays, passports.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Yeah, I suppose. You never take them abroad to keep the birth certificate. But then the kid would know earlier on than that holidays, past holidays. Yeah, I suppose past. You never take them abroad to keep the lie going. You have to never take them abroad, Rob. It's got to be full fraud. You've got to doctor the document.
Starting point is 00:21:53 You've got to slip the midwife 50 quid to get her in on it. Yeah. It's the only way. 50 quid to say I was born before midnight. Maybe,
Starting point is 00:21:59 let us know if the sweepstake has worked for you and how it works. If you do that or if it all goes to them, let me know. Any sweepstake stories with kids being born, I want to know if it works or not. Yeah. And how it works. If you do that or if it all goes to them, let me know. Any sweepstake stories with kids being born, I want to know if it works or not.
Starting point is 00:22:08 Yeah. I think it could be a good strategy, especially when you get the kids something to celebrate. Josh, how have you been? Sorry, I've been rabbiting on for ages. That's all right. COVID obviously struck the house. Yes.
Starting point is 00:22:20 How is everyone? All recovered? All out. So five days and they're clear on the lateral flows. Lovely all out so five days and the clear on the lateral flows lovely it's five days and if you're negative
Starting point is 00:22:28 for lateral flows you're out and about so you got out on the Saturday got out on the Saturday absolutely that's good that's the best way
Starting point is 00:22:35 you want it Monday morning the best I think the best time to get COVID Sunday evening Sunday evening and you've done your weekend and you're like
Starting point is 00:22:41 sorry I'm off work for a week or I can't do it and then you're back out again on the weekend I think that's the best way. And your kids can still go to school normally. I know your nursery wouldn't let them, but kids can go to school if the parents got it.
Starting point is 00:22:51 It was a relief. But I'd say COVID was absolute dog shit. Oh, was it bad? Did they get under the weather? Yeah. So my son, who's eight months. Yeah. I mean, babies are always ill, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:23:04 Let's be honest. They're always snotty nose. They're always snotty nose. They're always snotty nose. But proper temperatures, cow pole being thrown around all over the bloody shop, all that kind of stuff. One night of particularly bad sleep where he just was in such a bad way that he was waking up every half an hour. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:23:21 And so we realised the only way to keep him asleep, Rob, was for him to be sleeping on someone. Oh no. So what would you have done? Shifts. Shifts. You do shifts. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:32 So we realised this at... But you can't fall asleep. No. We realised this at 3.30am. So I did 3.30 till 6.30am. Sat in the dark in a chair holding the baby. Heavy. It's a heavy baby now as well a heavy baby now heavy baby heavy so you're
Starting point is 00:23:48 just sat there it's not a newborn no how many months eight eight that's a heavy baby yeah sat in the chair staring ahead had my headphones in obviously i'm not made of stone so i just just sat up while the way the hours listening to podcasts so no you couldn no, you won't watch anything on YouTube too much light. Also the angle of that as well, because I'd have had to hold the phone at an angle to watch stuff. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I would have done? I would have built some sort of miner's helmet
Starting point is 00:24:14 that had a drop-down iPad attached to it for the second night. Yeah, you'd have worn a virtual reality headset so that you could... I'm in the metaverse. I'm not a dad. A metaverse, a strip club. Oh no, I'm in the metaverse. I'm not a dad. I'm in the metaverse. It's strip club. Hold on. I've woken the baby. So I sat there and listened to a series of podcasts
Starting point is 00:24:35 about the aftermath of 9-11. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did actually. It was quite good. I suppose you can't have funny ones. You don't want to wake the baby up laughing. Yeah, exactly. So you go for tragedy. It was pretty laugh-light, I'll be honest. How do you get there? I've not really ventured into that sort of world of podcasts,
Starting point is 00:24:51 of documentaries. Well, I looked at the documentary section, and it was a string of documentaries called 9-12, which were about different stories of things that sprung from 9-11. It was quite interesting. So there's one on The you know, The Onion, the American, like, the fake, the funny fake news website. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:10 So it was about how they dealt with suddenly being in this situation where it was like, and how all the late night talk shows and stuff dealt with doing comedy about 9-11. Josh, how can you make a bad situation worse? You're in the dark. It's an interesting documentary. Is it?
Starting point is 00:25:23 Yeah, fascinating. Oh. And then there was one about um a guy that had made a documentaries about uh how it was uh an inside job 9-11 and how that you know i like that yeah that was send me that one all right i'll send you that one so it was really interesting but i mean i'll be honest, from about 5.45, it was fucking tough. The first two hours, I'd say, once you've realised I'm here and this is it, it's quite calming. Do you know what I mean? A bit like when we talked to Tom Parry and he was in that mad situation
Starting point is 00:25:55 where he was staying up all night with the baby. It's acceptance. The acceptance. And you suddenly go, so this is it. This is my life. And I don't mind at all. I'm just going gonna sit here for two hours three hours and listen to podcasts i can't do anything else there's no point in getting
Starting point is 00:26:11 annoyed or anything that's not gonna help being angry or frustrated or no one's gonna text me or email me or expect me to do anything i'm just sitting here that's good that's very good you're in a very good mental space josh well i was until was until about 5.30 and then it was tough. Well, that's the thing. That's the key to it, isn't it? Because you tie yourself up more getting worked up and stressed, but you can't do anything about it. That is all you can do.
Starting point is 00:26:35 So just accept it. That's the same. You know when I can't get to sleep, sometimes I'll just get up and come downstairs and watch telly for an hour rather than just tossing and turning. I'll get more worked up doing that in bed. You're better off just accepting it and going downstairs. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:48 So it was actually quite a pleasant night in a weird way. Oh. Was that one night you did that? I don't think people want to hear that, though, Josh. Well, you know, I'd say... It is the truth. I wouldn't say I'm bragging about this situation. I don't think anyone's jealous.
Starting point is 00:27:02 I don't think anyone without kids is going, God, I wish I could be up from 3.30 to 6.30am sat in the dark on a chair. situation i don't think anyone's jealous i don't think anyone without kids is going god i wish i could be up from 3 30 till 6 30 a.m sat in the dark on a chair i can't listen to that podcast in there josh bragging about his nights indoors it's a podcast holding a baby for three till six makes me sick i'm just trying to enjoy myself and these people like they're just so detached from reality just don't understand what it's like for normal people yeah Yeah. So, but don't worry. The week was mainly dog shit. But no, that's just a good way of dealing with it, I think.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Just accepting it and getting on with it. Yeah. I think there is something, you know when you've got a child that's generally bad at sleeping? Yeah. Or you've got a child that is ill and so the nights have just gone to total shit.
Starting point is 00:27:42 Yeah. I think that when the child's ill, it's actually not that difficult because you're like, this is just my life for the next three days and there's nothing I can do about it. So I'm just doing this. Whereas when it's like,
Starting point is 00:27:54 is this my life for the next three years? That's when I'm like, oh, I can't deal with this psychologically. No, but you know that they're, yeah. Oh God. Is he all right now? Yeah, he's fine. He's totally fine.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Yeah. He's all right. Crawling? He's desperate to crawl. Yeah. He can't, he's planking. Is he all right now? Yeah, he's fine. He's totally fine, yeah. He's all right. Crawling? He's desperate to crawl. Yeah. He can't. He's planking. Is he near the knick-knacks?
Starting point is 00:28:10 What's he like with the knick-knacks? Well, he's not near the knick-knacks. He can't crawl. So he's just sat in the middle of the room, struggling to crawl. But he's days away. He's days away from crawling. I think it's RIP for their knick-knacks.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Well, you've been saying this for the last three years. I knickknacks. Well, you've been saying this for the last three years. I think boys are different. Well, you've got no experience with them. Well, I know, but I just from the experience of my friends,
Starting point is 00:28:31 but I'm aware of children that are boys. He seems a bit more rough and tumble than my daughter. She's very gentle, your daughter. Very, like, precise. She's not interested
Starting point is 00:28:40 in watching the world burn. But I've got the feeling that he might be. Well, he wasn't listening to the podcast with you, was he? I obviously, I didn't want to be selfish, so I gave him one of my earbuds. Oh, yeah, it's only fair. I mean, if he's not listening to 9-11 podcasts at eight months,
Starting point is 00:28:58 what is he doing? You've got to learn about it. This is history now. We think of it as, you know, something we lived through. For our kids, Rob, that's history. Yeah, if you're not listening to 9-11 podcasts, where the fuck you at? Do you know what I'm referring to there, Josh?
Starting point is 00:29:12 No. No, it's just a TikTok and Instagram reel. Well, this is the problem, Rob. If you ain't at the lake, then where the fuck you at? If you ain't at the Zion Park in Tenerife, where the fuck you at? It's a little thing that people take the piss out of. Yeah, I'm not going to lie to you.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Yeah. It's the kind of thing I'm just not going to get involved in. Fair enough. That's fair enough. It's just not for me. It's just different strokes, isn't it? I just, modern popular culture has passed me by and I've just got to admit that to myself, Rob.
Starting point is 00:29:41 No, I think once you get, once your kids are getting a bit more sleep and you've got time for that, you'll get into it again, mate. There's no way when I get a bit more time to myself, Rob. No, I think once you get, once your kids are getting a bit more sleep and you're out, you've got time for that, you'll get into it again. There's no way when I get a bit more time to myself I'm going to spend my time working on TikTok memes about where the fuck I'm at. Where the fuck you at? Have you not heard it? Do you want me to find it?
Starting point is 00:29:57 No, I've not heard it. I can hear it now, Rob. I can hear it. You're doing it. I think it was quite popular. I don't know if my reference points are off, though, or if it is real or not. You don't want to hear it, do you? I'll I think it was quite popular. I don't know if my reference points are off, though, or if it is real or not. You don't want to hear it, do you? I'll hear it. It's weird the things we swap. You send me, like, 9-11 documentaries,
Starting point is 00:30:11 and then I just send you, like, these memes. If you went at the river, then where the fuck you at? That one. Do you know that? No. And everyone took the mickey out of it and done different versions. See, this is the thing. I don't know any of these things.
Starting point is 00:30:25 Don't you? We were talking about this, that the amount of things, like for the live show, we were talking about this Magic Mike song that you know. Pony. I want it. You got it. That one.
Starting point is 00:30:38 How do you know these things? Well, how do you not know them? It's like the Full Monty song. Yeah, I know the Full Monty song. I feel like you're like a time capsule as a human you sort of like it got to blue peter 2001 and then you got filled with all the information and then that's it it's sealed exactly i'm done i've learned all the things i need to learn but then that's a popular cultural reference that's the strip if you think of the song you must need to know that for stand-up like the famous song for stripping
Starting point is 00:31:02 i'll be honest with you i've never at any point in my stand-up thought, I wish I had more Magic Mike references to call on at this stage. Well, but the people of Grimsby on Tuesday might think that. Yeah, well, they've come to the wrong show in that case. Anyway, genuine, this one. That, that's quite famous. I just don't know these things. So imagine oil, jeans, Air Force Ones.
Starting point is 00:31:32 We get it to the chorus. It does sound like a bloke's burping, though, doesn't it? Yeah. But that's the sexy song now. I just don't know what this is. See, I did watch a four-part documentary about the Chippendales recently. Maybe we could do a thing you could email in.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Does Josh know this? Yeah, all right. Email in things. The most famous thing you can find that I'm totally unaware of. Yeah, exactly. I think genuine... That'd mean that's quite niche,
Starting point is 00:32:03 that where the fuck you at? That's got, you know... Because... Festus fuck, boy fuck boy fast as fuck you know all those ones no no anyway well they're a bit more tick tock that's a bit more niche however genuine pony i think you should know that so things you think josh won't know about but should that's a good one well my agent my agent texted me on friday j your agent's left you 15 years ago. I'm joking. No, you still have an agent. She's younger than me, actually, my agent. She's like an Alan Partridge.
Starting point is 00:32:32 Actually, yeah, my agent, a little funny fact, actually, my agent is younger than me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big time, yeah. I just think being represented by a 10-year-old is doing my career a lot of help. If your agent ain't 10 years old, where the fuck you at? I don't know what that is so what did your um agent say to you josh she texted me and she said um she said all the text said was would you be interested in the hit list what's the hit list i don't know the hit list you
Starting point is 00:33:00 don't know the hit list either thank you is that well i said i i'm sorry i don't know what you're talking about yeah she was like of course you don't like like like as if that is that is typical of me yeah but now you don't know what it is either rob well is it oh is it some sort of like radio thing it's it's hosted by marvin and rochelle oh that i know what that is yeah the hit sorry i thought you meant yeah it was like a radio thing it's their it's their quiz show about music you have to guess the songs. Yeah. You didn't know about it? No, of course I didn't, Rob.
Starting point is 00:33:27 It's popular. It gets millions of viewers. Yeah, I'm sure it does. Everything I'm unaware of is popular, Rob. Marvin and Rochelle are great. We should try and get them on here. I don't think I'm into anything that's popular anymore. Do you know what I love about Marvin is he's actually a bit South London,
Starting point is 00:33:42 but he's got a bit of an ITV smiley face, but he says stuff like bruv to me. He goes, oh, yes, bruv, like that. And Roy face but like he says stuff like bruv like to me yeah he goes oh yes bruv like that and rochelle was like don't say bruv because there's children in need i was like come on marvin let it out he's from woolwich way i think um anyway well yeah well anything you think josh should know about but doesn't is a good one and then i can ask you about it and you can guess what it is maybe or you might know and you prove us all right no i might prove i'm a celebrity. You've never watched that really, had you?
Starting point is 00:34:07 I had to explain that. I watched it when Joel was on. Yeah, but you didn't really know what was going on, did you? No, they kept taking the tops off and showering and I didn't understand why. Just because they've got sexy bods and who don't want to see that? Who doesn't? Where the fuck you at?
Starting point is 00:34:18 If you ain't watching sexy bods and I'm a celebrity, where the fuck you at? Oh, God. Oh God. Anything else you want to talk about, Josh, before we do some emails? I've got some good ones. No. Oh, we went out and got drunk on Saturday.
Starting point is 00:34:34 That was fun. Oh, you went out and got drunk? Yeah. How was that? Yeah, great. I had a lovely time. And then Rose was so hungover, she couldn't get out of bed the whole of the next day.
Starting point is 00:34:43 Oh, that's... But she did have COVID. I mean, if you're not in bed with COVID, if you're not in bed on a Sunday with COVID, yeah! Yeah, really nice. That's it. I think you find that funnier than anything you've ever heard in your life.
Starting point is 00:34:58 It's just that's why it's sort of trending, because it's such an easy one to replicate, isn't it? Yeah. Anyway, so she was in bed all day, hungover. Yeah, but she claims it's because you shouldn't mix alcohol with the after effects of COVID, but I'm not sure if that's the thing. I do think if you've had COVID,
Starting point is 00:35:13 going out and getting smashed on the first day you're allowed out is probably not the best, is it? No, but, you know, you live and learn. You live and learn. Go on. Exactly. It's never going to be repeated, that. Do you want some emails?
Starting point is 00:35:26 Yes. Oh, this one's good, actually. This one's an email. I know I'm nicking this out of yours. You normally do emails, but I'm going to read this one because I've got it up. Morning, guys. Just listen to today's episode about being the most tired and having to work. I used to loan work at an office from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Starting point is 00:35:41 That's a difficult shift. One winter's morning, I finished work at 5am, walked to the car park and put my key in the ignition. Minus one flashes up on the display, so I turn on the heaters, full blast and shut the door. I then proceed to spray all the windows with de-icer, then randomly decided to open the back
Starting point is 00:35:58 door up and turn the wipers on to get rid of the ice. Of course, what happened was, the wipers just splashed the de-icer from the windscreen directly into my face oh my god i hurriedly get into the car half blind with burning skin trying to wipe it off with my coat sleeve after several minutes i can finally see again but there is still ice on the windscreen so i sit in my car half blind state with my skin on fire and mascara all over my face wondering why the de-icer didn't work aha that's why my three-year-old had left the back window slightly open the day before after all that the ice was on the inside of the
Starting point is 00:36:30 car window oh my god that's zowie what a horrible horrible morning oh my god being tired is so shit it's rubbish rob i've got another more tired than Josh. We'll do some more tired than Josh because then I've got a boomer to finish this off on. Okay. Hi, love the podcast. I can't wait to see you live.
Starting point is 00:36:50 We've done it. As you listen, we've done it. It was great. Thank you all for coming. What a night. Who'd have thought it ended that way?
Starting point is 00:36:58 Hi, love the podcast. So, the funniest thing I've ever done on lack of sleep is go to work in odd shoes. I mean, it depends on the shoes, doesn't it? If it's like, you know, two converse, but one's like a bit slightly darker shade.
Starting point is 00:37:12 Yeah. But anyway, you've got one like one running shoe. There's no more details on that. No, I'd like to know what shoes. You've got to give us more on that. Was it a slipper and a shoe? We need to know the shoes. Come on.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Come on. My son was up at 4.30am for 18 months and I went back to work after six months. I had a huge meeting to coordinate and one of my colleagues said,
Starting point is 00:37:30 you look really lovely but you have odd shoes on. Off I rushed to the local shop to buy a new pair. Thinking of it now, I do not know ever how I performed my job to a good standard.
Starting point is 00:37:41 But I think the answer is you probably didn't but they let it slide. Yes. Here's another one about being tired. I have a good entry for tiredness stakes when my youngest was 18 months old he had never really slept and i worked full-time while sitting up every night with my child eventually i suppose this took its toll on one awful day i forgot all my pin numbers and was locked out all of my accounts for a week i stood in the chemist and tapped out random numbers in desperation,
Starting point is 00:38:05 but nothing worked. Oh, God. I had to go home empty-handed. That week, I also lost my hat, my gloves and my coffee mug. Oh, God. Nothing, including the numbers, ever came back to me. Proof, if you need it, that if you never sleep, your brain starts dying. Lindsay Crush.
Starting point is 00:38:22 I don't know. I think that's her surname or it's just how she feels. 38. Norwich. Parent of a 6 and a 10 year old. Lindsay Crush. Poor old Lindsay Crush. So if you never sleep, your brain starts dying. So that's a good message to all of our new parents out there. Well, yeah. It's sleep.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Because if you ain't sleeping... Sorry. Boomer parenting. We'll do this and send some business shout-outs, yeah? Yeah. My mum always threatened my brother and I that if we ever smoked and she found out, she would make us smoke an entire packet of cigs one after the other.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Well, thankfully, I never got caught, but my brother did. He was about 15 or 16 when she caught him with a 20-pack of Lambert and Butler. So she stayed true to her word and she sat him outside in the back garden on a fold out striped garden chair and made him smoke one cigarette after another. He got about five or six down and began to turn green. He didn't
Starting point is 00:39:15 stop there. She didn't stop there. She got him a bucket and he was sick as a dog but she made him smoke every last one in between the bombs. He has never touched a cigarette since. It didn't stop me. I just didn't get caught. Thanks for being so sexy and unrelatable.
Starting point is 00:39:31 Lisa from Chester. That is incredible. I didn't think people actually did that. Do you know what I mean? I knew it was like a myth, but I didn't think it actually happened. I mean, all those people that actually washed their kids' mouth out with soap, that is just fucking child abuse. I'm not having that.
Starting point is 00:39:45 But yeah, the smoking one, I think that's... 15 or 16, I think that's all right, because they're a bit older. I think when a 10 or 11-year-old's got them, I think you need to talk to them, because they're just stupid. But when you're 16, you're making... I don't think you can force a 10-year-old to smoke 20 cigarettes. I think that would be considered... That is bad.
Starting point is 00:40:01 But 16, I think that's still bad. But also, Lisa here, it implies she still smokes so it's done him good yeah exactly you'd rather have 20 at 16 and never smoke again than smoke forever yeah wouldn't you anyway i'm not condoning nothing did you smoke never i tried i smoked i tried when i was a teenager but i just i've got quite weak lungs. If ever I get ill, I always get like a chest infection. That's always what goes first. I just can't hold it in. You know, you take it down.
Starting point is 00:40:32 It was horrible. I just coughed and hated it. I've never... And it stunk. I've never really been... It's so smelly and expensive. Isn't it? Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:40:41 Do you remember when you used to go to pubs and clubs? Oh, yeah, and clubs and how much fucking hell you literally have to strip off at the door and actually put it straight in the wash it was like Covid when Covid first started you thought it was on your clothes and you got in there to wash your clothes
Starting point is 00:40:58 it was like that so smelly but yeah not really been a smoky kind of guy what about you? not really been a smoky kind of guy. No. What about you? Not really. No. You know, occasionally when you're out with friends. Yeah, you have a cheeky bifter.
Starting point is 00:41:13 I think it's dying out. No one smokes as much as they used to, do they? No, no, exactly. The vape? It used to be. I remember when they first brought in, you couldn't smoke in pubs. And I'd go to, it was when I was working at Waterstone. So I'd go to work, I'd go to the pub with all the people that worked there. Yeah. And I was the only one you couldn't smoke in pubs and i'd go to it was when i was working at waterstone so i'd go to work i'd go to the pub with all the people that work there yeah and i was the only one that didn't smoke so they'd all go outside you'd be left to guard the bags inside
Starting point is 00:41:33 and you're like i'm getting punished for being the good guy here oh yeah yeah but your your lungs were out last there's my they weren't you've not seen my asthma. The last time I smoked was when the band came in, because I was with my mate who was a smoker, and it was actually like five to midnight, and it was a thing in the paper, like at midnight everyone had to go outside to smoke, and I had one at five to midnight of him just because it felt like a moment in time,
Starting point is 00:41:58 which was quite fun. I would have taken a photo, but I didn't have a camera phone at that time, so that shows how old I am. We are a couple of old bastards, Rob. However much you watch TikTok, mate, you're an old bastard. Deal with it. I was out in York the other night after the gig,
Starting point is 00:42:14 and there was a table of these 22-year-olds next to us, and they'd brought out a disposable camera. 22-year-olds, not 22-year-olds. No, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was four women that were 22. Right, yeah, just to make sure. Because it was the only place that was open. It was a bit like No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was four women that were 22. Right, yeah. Just to make sure. Because it was the only place that was open.
Starting point is 00:42:27 It was a bit like a studenty hangout. Mate, 18-year-olds look about seven. Men, I can't believe they're allowed out on their own. Never mind off their face on, like, shots. It's disgusting. So weird. I felt like I was at a creche. It felt like it was the tables next to a soft play.
Starting point is 00:42:43 And they had a disposal camera. And they were like, yeah, it's great. They went, oh, it's great. Because what you do is, like, you take next to a soft play. And they had a disposal camera, and they were like, yeah, it's great. They went, oh, it's great, because what you do is you take it to a shop, and then they print them all out, and then you get ones, and it's actually on a bit of paper. I was like, I know what it fucking is. Like, it's new. They were talking to me like it was Bitcoin.
Starting point is 00:43:04 And then basically, they take it, because they like having them. Because I think they have so many photos I've got so many photos on my phone you never look at them but if you take them it's from that night out so I think they're just
Starting point is 00:43:10 you know maybe it was a simpler time back then it was a better time maybe we should bring back smoking indoors and disposable cameras and then he went
Starting point is 00:43:18 it's so funny because I was with my mate who's going for a divorce and she was like she was explaining he goes I know what they are he's from York
Starting point is 00:43:24 he's like I know what they are I had one at my divorce. And she was like, she was explaining to him. He goes, I know what they are. And he's from York. He's like, I know what they are. I had one at my first wedding. And I was like, you sound so old, mate. Oh, dear. Anyway. Small business shout out. Yes, let's do that.
Starting point is 00:43:37 And then we'll finish it for the day. Got an email, Rob, from someone who's at one of our live show previews. Oh, yeah, go on. The email begins, nice I provided some fodder for your live show. Open brackets, the hipster with long socks. Close brackets.
Starting point is 00:43:49 Yeah, he had a pair of DMs on and really long, thick, yellow socks like he was on safari and then rolled up brown trousers and a green jacket like some sort of scout leader. Wow. He's a long-time listener and lover of the pod. I'm also a new lockdown parent firstly
Starting point is 00:44:05 thanks for getting me through those early days when i didn't know what day it was i spent every waking hour just trying to keep my newfound bundle of joy alive i've recently jacked in my job in the city open brackets london close brackets strange decision that really is weird to say london as if like which one winchester yeah like the city it means in the city we get that yeah that is a bit arrogant though isn't it in the city it's like it's the only city that matters in the country's london like but isn't it's a city of london it's different part london where all the banks are basically isn't it yeah he did not look like he worked in the bank you can't wear car key in the bank he wouldn't have fitted in around liverpool street on a friday at
Starting point is 00:44:42 4 p.m no way at all It looks like he's selling bagels. Well, he's not selling bagels. He is selling something, though. To find a better work-life balance, to spend more time with my little life-sucking angel, I've started South Made, based in Crystal Palace. We specialise in wood-based creations for the home. Everything from vintage reclaimed furniture
Starting point is 00:45:00 through to full-room transformations. I'd really appreciate a shout out people can check me out at south made studio on instagram cheers eddie there he goes so basically he's a carpenter yes he is okay i'm just trying to work out the fuck he does but he's a carpenter he's a carpenter yeah it looks nice he basically he takes wood makes things yeah that's carpenter. Yeah, it looks nice. Basically, he takes wood, makes things. Yeah, that's a carpenter. Rob, you saw those socks. He's not a carpenter, mate. He specialises in wood-based creations. Wood-based furniture creations.
Starting point is 00:45:31 Carpenter. He says creative carpentry across London, but he's a carpenter. A trendy carpenter with lovely socks. I tell you what, if you find it awkward, though, because he's not very geezery at all is he yeah no so if you feel a bit awkward if people are a bit too geezery that come in jogging bottoms massive knob poking out bottle of lucasade they're not your guy this is your guy it'll be in it'll come in with a lovely sourdough bit of avocado on toast stuff it does lovely jobs if you like wood
Starting point is 00:46:01 with a soft finish he's your guy yeah wood-based furniture creations and creative carpentry furniture creations you're a carpenter mate um here we go what we got here what we got here i just i do love how people rebrand themselves it's good isn't it what could we call us and sarah and comedians just sort of well we're um audio-based banter providers really audio-based banter enthusiasts well this could be a good one for the for the parents i don't know if it's any good though we don't know if anything's any good but we give a shout out but they're new businesses give them a chance so this is oh this looks quite fun hello i'm a big fan of podcast it's been helping me get hello i hate the podcast but you've got a lot of listeners and i want to shout out i'd respect that
Starting point is 00:46:41 i'd respect that yo yeah i've got no kids. Don't really like it, but I'm aware you're the number one podcast and I want a bit of advertising. Here we go. It's helping me get through the grind of parenting. I have an eight-year-old and a five-year-old, so working full-time and homeschooling was no mean feat in lockdown.
Starting point is 00:46:55 Join the club. I messaged in to hopefully get a shout out for my small business I set up with my sister. We set up the Date Night Box Company. Odd thing to set up with your sister, but that's fine. I've set up this new business with with my mom the dildo company and uh you know we set up the date night box company in lockdown to help people keep that date night going this is a good idea i'm already on board with this yeah and even out of dragon's den i'd be leaning forward at this point and even yeah even out of lockdown it's quite good anyway because you don't get
Starting point is 00:47:31 babysitters and you want to do something special when you're indoors anyway when we were locked in being a parent i realized it's great for people who are unable to get out due to having small children with babysitters so expensive and sometimes having no energy our boxes deliver a date to your door so no need to leave the house the boxes include activities snacks drinks playlists etc and all based around a location so far we have a paris and tokyo box i think they've just added a rome box i'm on the website oh lovely our website is www.thedatenightboxcompany.co.uk instagram is the date night box company don't give me grief for a long name my sister set it up don't blame your sister mate i think i think that's a good name the date night
Starting point is 00:48:10 box company the old dmbc also you know exactly where you are with it dmbc i think just call it the date night box company but dmbc could be like you could have that as the logo i mean just focus on those letters i don't know why i'm giving you this shit. Thanks again for the fun. I'm coming to the Hackney Empire show. So we're looking forward to live performances. Kat Kirstie. Also, it's not as weird because there's two sisters. Two sisters.
Starting point is 00:48:33 Having a date night. Would you get one if it was Bromley? A Bromley one? Yeah. No, there'll be nothing in it. Just an empty box. Bromley date night. Bromley date night.
Starting point is 00:48:43 What would you put in it? It'd probably just be like a gram of Coke. That'll be it for Bromley. That sums up Bromley date night Bromley date night what would you put in it it'd probably just be like a gram of coke that'll be it for Bromley that sums up Bromley a gram of coke and a pair of loafers and no socks
Starting point is 00:48:50 quite good value for 35 quid I think you'd sell loads just deliver door to door right Josh we've banged on for ages now right Josh
Starting point is 00:49:03 I'll see you next week and yeah we'll be back soon with guests we've got loads booked for ages right Josh I'll see you next week and yeah we'll be back soon with guests we've got loads we'll start recording this week yes very excited
Starting point is 00:49:10 or last week because this is recorded this week yes so we've already started recording and let me tell you they were great
Starting point is 00:49:16 yes loving it so they'll be coming soon some of the best interviews we've ever done in my opinion you've said that about every single person
Starting point is 00:49:22 we've ever interviewed so set one it was that. Wow. Okay. You keep that quiet. Go back and listen to every interview.
Starting point is 00:49:28 See which one I didn't say about. Okay. All right. All right. See you later, George. Thanks for listening. Bye. Bye.

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