Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S6 EP22: Rose Hanson
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Hello, I'm Rob Beckett.
And I'm Josh Whittacombe.
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'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 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 hello you're listening
to parenting hell with oh shit we've got another one of these michael
i'll leave that in leave it in it's all good oh fuck it we don't
need one today no people like them i wasn't recording as well so you'd have to get that
bit off the zoom should we start again let's carry on welcome how are you rob um yeah not too bad
um we were we left on tuesday with you talking about bo Bobby Castle where it's called Bobby Tracy
is there a Bobby Castle?
that is a
very nice hotel
that people stay in
in Devon
right okay
Bobby Castle
and I can't remember
what we were talking about
I was just discovering
where you lived
which is the most
Devon thing I've ever seen
oh no you asked me
about the rock in
the pub
yes you worked there
and that was like
crazy days for you
was it Josh?
so I used to do two hours a week separate from each other.
Why?
I think you told us about this.
You put the wood in the.
Yeah.
So that's where I did the woodshed.
Yeah.
And then you might be able to see in that picture.
There was a post office called Evelyn's.
Well, it wasn't called Evelyn's, but the woman around it was called Evelyn.
Okay.
And so you call it Evelyn's rather than the post office.
Yeah. Rather than the post office. Okay. And that she used to sell some fucking good you know sweets in jars yes
yeah yeah so you'd get like a bomb by the quarter yeah bonbons oh my god i'd love to go back there
so there you go rob yes hate or veil hate or veil what what a place to grow up. Yeah, so if we needed anything,
obviously the post office is now closed down because of cuts.
And so now if you live in Hay Tor Vale, you need a pint of milk.
It's a good three-mile drive to get a pint of milk.
Or a two-hour walk to Bovey.
Two-hour walk to Bovey Tracy.
Well, we go to the spa every Sunday night.
God.
Did you just go there every Sunday night?
God, I love the past.
Yeah, get all the stuff for the week.
So you do your weekly shop in a spa?
Yeah. Isn't that mental?
How big's this spa? Not very
big. By the time I got to secondary school,
we had graduated to Tottenham
Sainsbury's, actually, I think. No wonder you're so
excited to be in London. Mate,
when I moved to Manchester,
it was insane.
I couldn't believe that there was... What shops were the most?
I could walk from my door to a newsagent.
On pavement?
On pavement.
So now the post office is shut in Haytel Vale,
what shops have you got?
None.
There's the Rock Inn, which doesn't like locals.
It's kind of a tourist-based pub.
And that's it.
Why live there?
Because it's very picturesque and lovely.
Yeah, but there's nothing there.
People like that, Rob.
But no, no.
People don't like the hubbub.
People don't like nothing.
People do like nothing. No, they don't like nothing. People do like nothing.
No, they don't like nothing.
They do like nothing.
No, they can't like nothing, surely.
People do like nothing, Rob.
No, I don't.
I like something.
I like something going on, Josh.
I know, but I don't think it's for you.
No, not that.
You know, we're moving a bit more out to the
country but not like that that's that's beyond that's that's too far straight edge so tell me
something that you do with your so so for school yeah bob so let me tell you about sick form because
i'm sick from 20 miles away that's that is a three-hour drive through london 20 miles yeah exactly how far was it for you so
you'd go two hour walk to bovie tracy well no no no so i get the lift from my parents okay
but normally i wouldn't get the the quicker bus went from drum bridges roundabout which is a
roundabout on the uh a38 so if you google drum bridges roundabout what is this
drum bridges roundabout yeah i'm googling it so you that's the quicker bus how long's that
then is it to your school so that would be 40 minutes to exeter but also that bus went every
two hours so if you missed it you were in serious trouble and the the bus went at 7.25am. So it's a 20 minute drive for my parents probably.
So we were leaving the house before 7.
And then I was standing on the side of a roundabout.
Hoping that I hadn't missed the bus.
Pre-mobile phones again.
So if I'd missed the bus, I'd then have to walk to a phone box to phone my parents and say I'd missed the bus.
Because when was the next bus?
9.25.
This is fucking awful. Is like a bear's grill episode
bear's grill what's he saying about grills
i know i said that word oh that is brutal yeah so it's mad to look back on it really so if from
my house i could go like walk 30 seconds to a bus stop and that bus would take me to the o2 arena if i wanted
well there was a bus that went to um the o2 yeah no to newton abbott which was the local town
from haytel vale uh but the bus came once a week Did anyone miss it and wait?
No, but my gran, before she passed the driving test,
she used to have to get it.
And it was, HLV was like down on the bottom of a hill.
And the bus only went to the top of the hill,
but she was the only person who was getting it.
And so she wrote to the local MP to ask for him to get the bus
to go down to the bottom of the hill
and he did.
He managed to...
Well, not managed.
And the bus then went down to the bottom of the hill
to pick her up.
Oh, look at that.
The good old days.
You had a direct line to your MP.
Yeah, exactly.
Jesus Christ.
She's still a great friend, but...
Yeah.
But, um...
So there you go.
Right.
Hate or Veil.
That is a real in-depth look at Hate or Ve veil there that, you know, no one asked for, but
we all love.
Maybe you should go and live there for a week and we'll do an episode, Rob.
Um, you know, okay.
So I don't think that's a good idea.
When you're a kid, you don't think this is quite an odd place to grow up at all.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Also, we get about a week off school a year due to snow because the bus just could never get through.
It was brilliant.
Fair enough.
Yeah, that was proper countryside.
Great times.
So, this guest, after the huge success of Lou appearing to have her say,
Rose is having her say.
And I'd say Lou was a 12-round boxing contest.
I'd say this was more an MMA annih annihilation from rose on you yeah it was
recorded before i nailed her 40th yeah this was recorded before josh had nailed her 40th birthday
what was interesting was lou had a list of things that she sort of semi disagreed with from the
podcast rose just sort of mentioned stuff she didn't like about you yeah a mention's a strong
word it wasn't very like oh
then this happened and that wasn't quite accurate which is the idea was this was lou and rose's
right of reply to talk about things that had happened on the show and i'd say it was a little
bit more of just like what's rose's problems with josh as opposed to episodes i've got some great
photos of your body language as well josh i'm going to send these
to you now and then we can put these up on the podcast instagram page so everyone can see how
uncomfortable you were your your body language is like this is the order i send them is the
how you relaxed during the episode look at your little curled up like a scared cat yeah that's
not ideal is it but, but it is quite...
I found it quite stressful when Lou was doing...
Yeah, that's not great.
Was doing me.
Oh, God, I'm actually dreading this episode going out now.
Oh, God.
Here we go.
I've just seen the body language.
This is special guest Rose Hanson.
I've just got to text the cab to say that...
The who?
The car. The who? The car.
The club?
The car, because we've mistimed it.
Okay.
Send message.
Are you aware that we're recording a podcast now?
Yeah, but it's real, isn't it?
This is real stuff.
Oh, fuck it.
I'll get Flo to do it.
This is a little bit what it's like being married to Josh.
He's put the mic down
and he's texting his agent to book him a cab no not to book it to say that
i'm going to be late to get there so don't leave don't to leave oh i'm panicking he's panicking
he can't speak i think he's a bit nervous about this chat rose this is your chance forward to it
he's not looking at me he's he's i know because i'm trying to make sure this car doesn't leave
since we've been in this room,
basically we've been at my house filming some content for the arena shows
with Rose and Lou.
And now we're all sat together.
We're not doing this on Zoom.
We're all sat together in my front room.
And it is your Right to Reply episode, Rose,
that Josh did with me and Lou.
We did that recently, Lou's episode.
And I was quite anxious about it.
And I'd say, since you've been in this room,
Josh hasn't looked you directly in the eye once.
No.
He's also sat like he's a little mermaid.
Like his little feet are tucked under him.
There is a definite...
Can I take a photo of how he's sat?
I like sitting like that on a sofa.
It's quite defensive.
He's going quite fetal.
I'm spread out like a fat walrus
splayed across a
scunthorpe dockyard. Right, let's get
on with it.
Okay, so
I've got a few questions for you, Rose, at the
end about Josh. Where did that
come from? Just some things I've picked
up over the episodes. Right, I didn't know that
was an option. No, well it is. It's all an option. We're the episodes. Right, I didn't know that was an option.
No, well, it is.
It's all an option.
We're all sort of creative, aren't we? Life's an option.
Okay, that's bleak.
Rob's got quibbles as well.
Not quibbles, but concerns.
If you were picking him up from school,
I'd pull you to the side and go,
can I have a word about Josh?
It's basically an intervention.
No, no, it's not bad.
Do you think he should be put up a year?
No, not that.
No, not that.
That's separate.
But we can get to that later.
This is Rose's opportunity.
I'm going to shut up now.
It's your opportunity to basically anything that Josh has spoken about in the podcast
that you slightly disagree with or the story got twisted in the telling or anything you
want to get off your chest.
This is your opportunity to sort of do that, Rose.
Lou was mainly just stuff she wanted to get off her chest for the last decade yeah pretty much it's quite therapeutic it's been
great for our relationship she's been all over me since first and foremost you've got to stop
calling my things knickknacks oh it's about me it's about you okay okay sure let's work through
this actually there's been a quite a removal of knickknacks actually
since having a boy i'd say actually your house does make me sound like i live in a charity shop
no okay so maybe i've said that for comic effect however i'd say there's lots of antique i don't
know if you know if it is antique or looks antique really beautiful oh shit no no but like nice lamps
tables and stuff like that however there are also lots of
little plates cups and saucers yeah yeah you're right dotted around they're not they're not
anymore but i'd say if anyone walks into your house go what a beautiful house what amazing
furniture yes there are a few knickknacks knocking about but i don't think the knickknacks the
headline however knickknacks a fun word to say i know so i think one of my favorite episodes well favorites
are interesting word but is the day when i went to cornwall and basically josh peston seemed to
have like just an absolute meltdown over nakado order what i would say is that whereas there's
things that just happen in a day when you're looking after children like
getting their teeth cleaned or getting them dressed that kind of thing
when you were doing it it was very much like they were oh my god and then i had to get them dressed
you're like well that's just a thing that happens that's just a day that's a day
yeah but i had to get them dressed with Peston in the evening.
Yeah.
Looming.
Peston looming.
Peston loomed over the day.
I could tell that he was fucked off with me.
Peston.
Peston.
Yeah, Peston fucking hates me.
No, Josh was.
Because there was a real, you know, when you're texting and there's a real lack of response.
I barely had time to reply.
Oh, yeah.
I was doing so much stuff.
But there was a real. I'm sorry I wasn was doing so much stuff but there was a real i'm sorry
i wasn't responding to a text there was a real you know like you send a text or you send a picture
and there's like absolutely tumbleweed and you think he's not happy always busy also i got accused
of ordering a mirror to arrive on this day that wasn't't my... You get given a slot?
Yeah, the guy texted me,
he was like,
this is when it's arriving.
And I was like,
this is when the mirror's arriving.
Yeah.
So that's a quibble.
Are you saying that essentially
what Josh was moaning about
and turning into
the end of the world scenario
of, oh my God,
there's food arriving,
there's a mirror,
there's children.
Well, I think the Ocado
was, it was an unfortunate day.
That was bad.
To be fair,
I fucked up on the Ocado.
Did you over-order?
I'd forgotten.
But also, you ordered it on a day when I was...
But I checked that with you.
I said to you...
Yeah, but I wasn't listening.
Well, that's the problem, Josh.
Can I interject?
There is the problem.
On my days, never been knocked off a kilter
because food's been delivered to my house. Yeah, but there's an Ocado. You didn't have to go to the problem. On my days, never been knocked off a kilter because food's been delivered to my house.
Yeah, but there's a Ricardo.
You didn't have to go to the shop.
No, but I didn't need to.
That was the key.
There was like some mental things
that had been put in the freezer as well
that just didn't need to go in the freezer.
And when I...
They were in the freezer bag.
You put like smoked salmon in the freezer.
I didn't put smoked salmon in the freezer.
Why are you freezing smoked salmon? He doesn't... He understand fish he won't get it he doesn't understand fish
but there there was like who does i mean to be fair when i saw the picture i was like oh shit
we do have loads of cook meals in the freezer and i have ordered quite a few chicken pies because
our daughter loves them yeah and then you sent me the picture of the table
and I thought,
oh fuck,
that's not going in.
But I just suggested,
why don't you just throw
some stuff away in the freezer?
There's loads of old shit in there.
Because that's such a big job.
When you're already behind
to go,
okay,
let's root through the freezer
and see what's old.
I do that with the fridge.
Yeah,
you love, you love you
i don't i hate it i know i'm joking oh yeah but i'm the one who's great to see people with such
a good connection just finish each other's sentences i hate the cleaning out of the fridge
job i don't mind if i've got time it's quite a saga with you when you're cleaning out the fridge
as well there's what about when you're cleaning out the fridge how's that go down oh there's a couple of things i get constantly ribbed for on the podcast
one is that i can't drive absolutely fair it is really annoying and the second is me like
leaving things in the fridge and then stand by it saying oh that's gone off. You're doubling down. But I also think there's so many.
Yes, all the pestos.
But Josh loves buying olives,
piccalillies,
those jalapeno things,
eating about four of them
and then leaving them.
The whole top of the fridge
is just half mouldy.
I know what you're going to say.
The artichoke hearts.
I'm never eating them.
I mean, I didn't even know they were in there, but I didn't know. I bet you'd have a vine leave, didn't you? Do you know what you're going to say the artichoke hearts I'm never eating them I mean I didn't even know
they were in there
but I didn't know
I bet you'd have a vine leave
didn't you
do you know what
I think they're overrated
but they're exactly
in my wheelhouse
before we had kids
if ever we went on
a mini break
in the UK
if there was a shop
that sold
jams and piccalillies
he was there
like a rat up a drainpipe
he loves that homemade chutney absolutely loves picker lily yeah a chutney yeah so many of them
so yeah that they're pickled that's what i get slagged off for and it's all right yeah i'll
accept i think the cardo is just unfortunate timing. Also, I would argue you are telling a story for comedic effect
and you wasn't probably as stressed.
I don't know.
I think you were.
I'm stopping myself.
Sometimes you could accuse me of some anecdotes of
juicing them up a bit.
But I would say that day.
You spoke for an hour.
I had the shits.
It's such a common theme in these stories isn't it
you've always got the shits
no
I wish
oh you bunged up
are you
well
let's not go into it
well why not
it's a lot
there are stomach issues
though
remember before
the palladium
yeah but I had
I had the norovirus
and I actually
had it as well
and I think
I'm pretty sure
I gave it to you i'm pretty sure
that was my you have got skin issues it's called chicken pox
i've actually found something that when you admitted to how long that a cardo order had been
on the floor which has got underfloor heating i was slightly concerned about some of the meatish
things that had just been left there.
Well, I put all the meat inside, in.
And then I found those yoghurt lollies
and I opened one the other day
and I was like, what the fuck has happened to this?
And then I thought, oh, it was in that Ocado order
that Josh left on the floor for eight hours.
On the heating.
On the heating, yeah.
There was nothing I could do.
I literally was going from one thing to the other all day.
Oh, and the Rice Krispies.
So, you know, there was that massive huge box of Rice Krispies.
Yeah, 1kg.
We were making Rice Krispie cakes.
Yeah.
And I often look at what the weight is for things,
for like the best cost.
Yeah.
And the 1kg was the same price as 500 grams.
So I thought, let's go with i also think but i genuinely
hadn't really thought about how many rice krispies but in your defense on that also i don't think
you should probably see the biggest and you think well that's the biggest rice krispies box i've ever
seen like that'll be the size of what i consider a big rice krispies box that one kg was bigger
than i'd ever seen i've never've never seen them get that big.
So you wouldn't presume that that was an option.
I don't.
If I was in a shop, I would never have bought that.
I don't think it's available.
When you're online, you're like, well, it's the same size.
I've never seen it in a shop.
They wouldn't have it.
Limited release.
I would never have thought we would have made that many Rice Krispie cakes.
A pair of Travis Scott trainers.
Is there anything else, Rose, that's cropped up that you would like to bring up?
Because he's looking a bit too relaxed for my liking.
I was really trying to be organised about it
and get time codes,
but I'm a bit more of the Rob Beckett, I think,
in our relationship.
Shoot from the hip.
Order a mirror on a whim.
Let it arrive whenever.
Order a mirror on a whim.
Order too many things in the Ocado order.
There was something about wanting to talk to
me about my coffee routine oh you didn't you get fucked off with me about the journey into school
and you decided to go my way basically just to teach me a lesson no that's that's you've
absolutely you've absolutely show you who's boss yeah no it was when we you overruled ways i didn't overrule
it i just said that my problem with ways is that it gives you it's a computer and it will say
oh it's three minutes quicker and it just goes up as well like i think i don't like sitting in
traffic and ways will send us the sitting in
traffic way for some reason well what josh said was he knew that way was going to be longer
and he was getting a sick kick out of you yeah i know i didn't say that that's where he gets his
kiss absolutely he was gleeful about the thought that we would go the way that i wanted to go
and that we would get stuck for like hours what i meant was actually it's wrong and i think we all do this in situations
i think it's much easier to be the person whose way is not chosen so it wasn't that i wanted it
to go wrong it's that i didn't want to choose my way and then that go wrong because then you're in the wrong. But you enjoyed it going wrong.
No, I didn't say that.
That says a lot about our relationship.
No, but I do that.
It's for instance...
One nil widder,
you said under your breath.
You went one nil widders.
Let's put you in a situation, yeah?
You and Lou can't decide
over which restaurant to go to.
They could both be shit.
Or you'd prefer to go to Lou's option
because then you're in a win-win
because either it's a good restaurant
or if it's bad.
Lou has never chosen a restaurant in her life.
She would refuse to choose
because she can't handle the pressure.
Exactly.
Doesn't want the ball in the centre of the pitch.
Yeah, I don't want...
I don't want the pressure of choosing the route
to be on my shoulders.
Yeah.
When Rose has already decided it's the wrong route.
Yeah.
Because I'm in a no-win there. Yeah. I don't think i decided that it was the wrong route i just thought oh we're
gonna sit in that traffic again and i hate i just hate based on the one time you got caught in
traffic in one spot which means you now avoid that spot forever well no i mean that one time
was like a bit of a weird situation.
It is.
I mean, I can't believe we're getting really, really bogged down by the traffic issues on the Hackney Road.
Personally, I'm loving it.
The more detail, the better for me.
It's that bit at the end of Victoria Park Road where it joins Cambridge Heath Road.
If you want detail.
No, full details.
Okay.
What's your problem with the way
Rose drinks coffee
I haven't got a problem
with the way Rose drinks coffee
have I
yeah you said
that she sort of just
indulges in it
and just sort of sits there
drinking it
rather than just getting it
down her neck
and cracking on you said
that is absolutely fair
like I have one coffee a day
and I want to sit
and enjoy it
yeah
and Josh gets to
go upstairs and get changed for the second time in the day
or go to the toilet for about 20 minutes.
I put on shorts and a t-shirt to go down and make you a cup of tea in the morning.
Am I not allowed to then get changed into normal clothes?
So what's your issue with the clothes, Rosie?
Josh will often just get up and put on shorts.
Because I've got to go
make the tea
you make that sound like
I'm like
get up
make me tea
you
what's the reason
that you stay in bed
you're not making the tea
what's the reason
you stay in bed
tell Rob
what's the reason
because the cat
is asleep on my back
I mean
that cat would be
picked up
thrown out the front door
I go alright then I'll get rid of the cat.
It's genuinely my favourite part of the day.
With the cat sleeping on your back.
The cat comes in and sits on my back and it's really relaxing.
Oh, I'd hate that.
It's so nice.
You said he goes down in a shorts and t-shirt and he's downstairs.
You go downstairs and then when you're getting the kids ready,
he has to go back up to get dressed.
So I need to dress.
I need to, when we to i need to when we're
going down to make the tea dress for my one outfit of the day that's not allowed to change
you're on qr later you're getting your qi out yeah i need to get a steamer out do my shirt
i think just something that you could like trousers maybe that you could leave the house
in rather than like oh i just gotta go upstairs and get changed and you're like trousers maybe that you could leave the house in rather than like oh i just got
to go upstairs and get changed and you're like right okay does it take long to get changed when
he goes up is he a slow dresser i have to brush my teeth and stuff because i'm not doing any of
that can i just say that that is a classic there isn't it it's like i have to brush my teeth that
that's just a thing that happens that's not a thing to mention I've got to brush my teeth I've got to wipe my arse now
when am I meant to do it
so busy
when am I meant to do it
straight after you have a shit
no but I mean
I can't do all of this
before going downstairs
for the first time
I get up
and I go into the bathroom
and I brush my teeth
and I put on
all of my clothes
like I don't go
oh my god
I've got to brush my teeth
I've got to get up
maybe you haven't got someone
with a cat on their back
working for a cup of tea you're just jealous because she won't sit on your back
that's not the reason oh dear i'm enjoying this yeah what's the next one oh i just thought of
one then no notes that's the worrying thing do you know what i mean this does show me not in a
great lot either is that. I now can't...
Oh, no, I have.
I wrote them down in my actual notes.
What do they say?
Yeah, even I, even as the Rob Beckett of the Rob Beckett relationship,
I still write down notes for the podcast.
I'm not that loose.
I don't normally do podcasts, so...
Oh, no, that wasn't a criticism, but I'm saying,
even I can't remember.
I forget what's happened.
I mean, maybe I'm now just drifting
into... Slacking him off.
Not a problem for me. Or anyone else.
So going back, I mean, we are essentially going back
to Waze and the Hackney Road.
But if we're ever, I'm so sorry,
if we're ever running late...
Hang on.
This was meant to be things that he
said that maybe factually,
you're just going, this is what I don't like about you.
Because to be fair, I actually think that Josh, it was quite difficult because you are pretty accurate about stuff.
But I think what happens is that, like I was saying, is that things that are quite small become, because you're doing a podcast, they become quite massive.
So what's the ways thing so if we're running late for school you'll be like you need to call the school and this could
be because ways yeah that's fine but this could be like because ways is clocking up its minutes
so i every single time i've had to call the school to say we're going to be late
we then arrive and you go oh we're three minutes early so like every time what was the damage though well i'm on rose's side
here where if they're going to be late let them be late you don't need to call it early when you're
definitely not going to be late if it's drop them off at nine and it's one minute past nine
ring them up and go sorry we're still in traffic but calling it early and it's fine if you call it
early and you're doing it but rose basically has to go we're gonna be late and then ring back and
go no we weren't and it makes rose that's clear when we turn up we don't need to my view is it's
better to get the phone call done when we're sat stationary in traffic then that's in the bag
rather than when we're rushing at the other end anyway yeah but i'm saying that's fine if you want to do it i can't legally you can it's free
i can't work out how to get my phone to log up okay well how about next time rose just presses
a button on the car for you and i think there's also an element that josh knows i'm really bad
train you to be good at phone yeah well that's it i don't need you to train me like i'm really bad train you to be good at phone yeah well that's it i don't need you to train me
i'm really bad at making phone calls i hate terrible making phone calls or picking up the
phone so i know that when he does that there's an element of like go on then make no that's
training her next rose doesn't like making official phone calls I'd say Lou doesn't either yeah so Rose would say
should we just email them that's not yeah just how's that the option
or if like Rose doesn't want a phone say say someone was coming around say someone had gone
to the shop to get some beers yeah and we wanted some crisps
we hadn't asked them yeah but rose didn't want to call them yeah she'd go well we'll text them
it's exactly the same and you go it's not it's not it's time sensitive you've just got to pick
that phone up and go yeah how has this happened no no no these are two separate things but that's something that winds me up with Lou
that she never rings anyone
and would do that
and then I'm like
well they're not going to see the phone
because if the phone rings
they can answer it
however
making someone do a phone call
about being late
when you're definitely not even going to be late
do you know what
I'll take that
I'm never going to do that again
oh okay
alright
this has gone well for you Rose
that was easy
but it shows the other things are
things i stand by and i imagine also next time when we don't call and then we are actually late
there'll be a small victory for you exactly when when when when teach your lesson train her
i'm trying to train her to be good at phone calls that was nice to be good at phone calls that was crazy
to be good at phone calls
what would you train
Josh to do
oh just like
remember things
and like not leave
things everywhere
yeah I'm bad at that
I don't know what
I can do about that
your wallet
just pay attention more
I haven't had my wallet
in about two months
we went to
we spent
we had quite a flappy
Sunday morning
getting children to gymnastics.
And there was a real classic, I'm going to go and get dressed during that bit.
I was in shorts and a t-shirt.
Yeah, exactly.
And it was one degree.
What am I going to do?
Why are you putting on shorts and a t-shirt when it's one degree?
Because I'm going downstairs to make a cup of tea.
I can't.
I love the way you're blaming it on my tea.
Do you know what he needs? Some David Gandy loungewear. No, because I don't want to make a cup of tea. I can't. I love the way you're blaming it on my tea. Do you know what he needs?
Some David Gandy loungewear.
No, because I don't want to wear that to gymnastics.
That's the perfect outfit.
I tell you what, though, since doing the podcast.
I don't know if you're doing gymnastics.
No, but you're watching it.
You're lounging.
He has really got into the tracksuit bottom since doing the podcast.
I went out to gymnastics.
I didn't come back till 6pm.
I know, it's a lot of gymnastics, isn't it?
Well, no, we went to a friend's house.
Did you watch another children as well?
No, we spent quite a lot of gymnastics, isn't it? No, we went to a friend's house. Did you watch another children as well? No,
we spent quite a lot of time getting snacks and all that kind of stuff together.
And it was quite stressful.
And then we get to the gymnastics and I've been carrying quite a lot of stuff because there's both children.
Oh,
physically,
I thought you were talking like.
The mental load. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah and then i say have you got the snack box just that one thing
but i haven't been told to bring this but why do i need to tell you
i've been carrying we've been carrying half the stuff each no you were carrying your tea
and then you pondered things and you were looking into
space and you know you got into the car but then i was so annoyed about the snack box that you said
should i go and get it and i was like yeah go and get it yeah but actually it was quite nice going
to get it so i i didn't know i did that's why you gave him a nice little walk in the choir and then oh no it was the 20 minutes
in the car there
and packed
so do you need to
train Rose
to remind you
about the snack box
no I need to
training
training
I'm going to
train her up
oh my god
it's really difficult
to learn how to be
if you don't remember
things like keys
it's like if you're
bad at something can I take a photo stay exactly still when I like keys, it's like if you're bad at something,
like imagine someone,
Can I take a photo?
Stay exactly still,
and I put it back there,
where you think,
we're warming my hand up on the radiator.
What are you doing?
Look,
this is how a man has a conversation.
I'll put that on Instagram,
the awkward body shapes of Josh.
I was just enjoying the radiator.
It's really difficult,
if your mind doesn't work in a way,
to try and train it the other way you're
permanently surprised as well when these things happen you're like do you remember there was a
time when you basically you left your phone in a taxi in a black cab and then you did find my iphone
and got another black cab i found it on liverpool road yeah and you could see your phone in the cab
and then you had to come home again.
Yeah, I went to Liverpool Road, you know, off Upper Street.
Yeah.
Where my iPhone was.
There was a black cab parked locked up and I could see my phone on the back seat.
But you couldn't find the driver.
We didn't know which house he was in.
I didn't know where he lived.
I'll put his note on his...
I had to go into a pub and say, can I have a pen and paper?
This is quite normal in our house,
that kind of thing.
Like, you're just permanently surprised by,
oh my God, where's my wallet gone?
Yeah, I can't do it.
I just, my mind doesn't work like that.
And it's really difficult.
Do you think though,
this may be going a bit more deep,
where like when you're like,
you've calmed down now
and you're a bit more present,
you're aware of the moment rather than like, I've do this got to do that i think that's a really
good point you're probably a lot of the time you're thinking about other stuff like what you've
got coming up or whatever that you're not thinking in the moment do i need the snack box yeah yeah
you're like well i have to go there do the gymnastics get back go to the gig and all that
stuff but now because you do seem a bit calmer now.
Yeah, but I'm still losing stuff.
Okay.
Yeah.
So it's not helped, annoyingly.
It's really annoying.
Because you feel relaxed about losing it.
Because I'm both really organised.
Yeah, I was about to say, you are very organised.
It's a really weird personality type.
You're really organised.
Like, you're very...
All my letters are in folders and stuff.
Really?
Yeah, he's much better
at that kind of
like before I went out
with Josh
I would not open
bank statements
or letters
lose in charge of filing
okay
there are
five boxes
of paper
what do you mean
I'll sort that out
there's just
all that
she says that
so basically
nothing's in order
nothing's in the right place
and then when the fifth box gets full there'll be a sixth that's how finally right
well mine's filed by month and all that kind of stuff really so i'm really good so you haven't
just got the look you are a bit nerdy as well yeah exactly but by rights i shouldn't be the
kind of person that leaves my keys places yes but my head's in the clouds a bit yeah when you
were planning tom crane stag do you had i've never known the organization like it you had an excel
document and you had like all the places all the possible bars and restaurants but then the backup
bars and restaurants and like there was like a note about we didn't go to any of them
but i'm fully aware of it but went to A&E didn't you
yeah
but I'm fully aware of it
but I don't know
what to do about it
it's like saying
to someone who's
bad at
mental arithmetic
get better
at mental arithmetic
get better at maths
I leave
every cupboard
drawer and door open
that I've been through
doing stuff
yeah
Lou's been very clear about that
yeah
and that's her biggest thing
but she can't really tell me off
because I'm oblivious that I'm doing it if lou rung me and said what have you done that's
annoying me in the house i'd think of like 15 other things and i and she'll say there's seven
cupboards open but i don't see them open they've just they're gone because that does my head in as
well like we're both quite similar in our level of like you can put up with so much untidiness and then one of us we can tell
no you definitely there's like an occasional time when you're like can we we just need to
tidy this area like or they'll be like you'll never directly say yeah you are right it's more
like i'm about 25 of those freak outs freak outs oh it's a freak out is it it is yeah
and what's difficult
about that
is when the other one
goes over the top
yeah
the person who
hasn't gone over the top
has got no warning
but suddenly
you're being messy
yeah
suddenly you're in the wrong
yeah
Lou's just decided
it's tidy time
yeah
and you're like
what now
I'm like
yeah she'll go
why all these bags
I thought we were just leaving bags in the corner at the moment but i i do think there is a tendency
like you could probably put something in a weird place like there'll be something on like the
shelf in the hallway and then it's almost like it just disappears and then it just will stay there
there's like some things that go places that you just don't even ever notice.
Or the worst one is the washing
that absolutely does my head in.
What's that?
You know, we were talking about how we,
we've kind of fallen into these,
like I do the washing,
you do the bins.
God, I mean, how's that happen?
I'll do the washing
and then I'll put my washing away
and Josh will just leave his clean washing
in a basket.
Not intentionally.
It's a time thing.
Oh, but it's so low down on your list of priorities, but it just means that we constantly have.
But it is so annoying.
It's like, why am I bothering to do it?
Like it just sits there in a basket.
It's still washed.
Just have some respect for
the washing that's been done and put it away it's not a tiger like respect the effort of me
a really difficult thing to get done and what episode was that in i think we're coming to the end of our time aren't we no we've got a bit longer haven't we i think
how long have we done michael 33 minutes i think the thing is is you're not like a bad person you
know you don't really like exaggerate on things there's not much i just say on the washing thing oh god i'm never
good luck i'm never sitting having a cup of tea and watching homes under the hammer rather than
doing the washing it's because i'm when the washing doesn't go it's because i'm going through
one of those periods where i feel like i'm just shuttle cocking between things i'd say that's
fair wouldn't you yeah yeah sometimes I don't know
I think that also
comes down to
it's a bit like
bit of an excuse
the mad thing is
I quite like it
because
you can
just put on a podcast
and put the washing away
it's actually
it's not a task
I have a problem with
I'd much rather
so you're saying Rose is lucky
that you've left it to her to do
no
I've never left it to her to do
no
no I think I did used to put your washing away No, I've never left it to her to do. No.
No, I think I did used to put your washing away and then I was like, why?
Why am I doing this?
Yeah, I put my washing away.
Oh, well done.
Eventually.
I think a good bit of training won't sort.
Yeah, I can train you to put your washing away.
When did I turn into a wife
whinging at somebody to put their pants away.
The pandemic really brought us to this point.
Evolve or die.
But I think you're, I don't have like a long list of inaccuracies.
I've got one thing.
Yeah.
Was the, I thought I'd love to hear your side of it,
was when Josh came home and realised there was an email in the outbox
for the science museum trip.
And he woke you up at 1am to tell you that he hadn't sent the email.
Yeah, so that is a little bit what it's like being married to you.
That was just unfortunate.
Well, he always puts it in the outbox.
Sorry, sorry, that was bad.
I wish. For fuck's sake nothing a bit of training
i'm trying to train you that was so weird i'm trying to train you to make you better at phone
calls oh my god I stand by it train
help you get better
it would have been
such a better choice
of words
trying to build your confidence
that's a bit patronising
trying to train you
you
Josh does this thing
where when
he comes back
in the middle of the night
maybe you don't do it
as much as you used to
but you will talk to me
like I'm awake
and it's one in the morning
and I'm fast asleep
and you came in and there was
not even a like hello or anything wake up before I've spoken you tell me that no actually yeah I
have like a weird Pavlovian dog thing where on the last leg Fridays I will normally wake up maybe
like 30 seconds before the car pulls up at the house.
Really? You just know, yeah.
Like a cat, like sitting outside waiting for its owner to get off the train or something.
Can you hear him being sick, walking to the front door?
I get asked to do a circuit, beeping the horn first.
But you do talk to me like I'm awake and I was fast asleep and you just came in and you went,
the email hasn't sent, the email about the science trip.
And I was like, oh, all right, hello.
And then I was like, okay, well, maybe there'll be space,
thinking there's not going to be space, but we'll try in the morning.
The thing is, you'd already told me that that email was in the outbox.
Had I?
Yeah.
Why?
Because I'd asked you, I'd said to you you because to be fair to josh he's very
good at doing admin josh loves to set up a play date he likes to be involved with the school so
before we doubled up i said have you let the school know about what days she's going to do
play i didn't say the outbox you know you didn't even know the outbox existed i swear you said oh
i sent it but it's not hasn't. Because I remember being pissed off at you,
thinking you knew that that hadn't sent.
Why didn't you just check it?
No, once previously, a different school email had got stuck in the outbox.
So you did know the outbox exists.
Do you do know how outbox exists?
Is that interview with Boris Johnson?
No, I honestly, I...
Honestly?
I hadn't engaged
I did know the outbox
exists I've got that wrong
but I
never think to
check the outbox
sorry I didn't know
the outbox
existed
and then he's just
sorry I didn't know
when was the last time
you used the email outbox
well you don't
but you know it's there
it's normally there
if it's a big file
or it goes there
when you haven't got a signal
yeah I found one
there was the email
there was also a file I tried to send to Michael
that never got sent as well.
But I swear that one,
I didn't know it was stuck in the outbox.
Otherwise, I would have re-sent it.
It was a different school email.
There's something going on
between my email and the school's email.
Yeah, okay.
Let's forget about that.
I don't care about that.
I'm not your IT team.
Yeah.
But should I turn it off and on again?
But what are you getting by waking
rose up at that point because i hate unresolved things that i worry about right okay yeah you
wouldn't have been able to go to sleep with that in your head a problem shared in this case is a
problem doubled yeah exactly anxiety breeds anxiety yeah but then what yeah we couldn't get her on the
trip and then i had moved and cancelled quite a lot of things.
A couple of things, not quite a lot of things.
That sounds overly dramatic.
And then suddenly there was a space
and we had five minutes to get her to the school.
And obviously she was like completely paralysed by indecision.
But then we went to the school, she got on the trip.
So I could have done the things that I was,
had cancelled.
Did he make you ring up and cancel it all?
A little bit of training?
A little bit of training.
No,
I sent a text.
Training's not paying off.
Double sessions next week.
Oh God.
What a theme that that is running through the podcast.
The training josh likes
everything to work smoothly and efficiently in both areas of his life but then you did afterwards
to be fair say to me oh god i'm really sorry this is kind of what it's like isn't it being with me
and i was like oh yeah yeah but that's fine it's just but it all worked out it did work out yeah it did but I had cancelled
two things
but
what can you do
that genuinely wasn't my fault
that outbox thing
unless
every email I send
I now check the outbox
for the record
did you know the outbox
is this
before the sciences
I never think about the outbox
that's not what you said
no I was wrong
I misposted on that
you misled parliament
you misled parliament yeah well let's wait for the full outcome of the inquiry before we
comment the other thing i want to talk to you about is about this is what i mentioned at the
start i feel like josh is potentially a little bit worried about turning 40 there's a lot of
stress in his face when i mentioned his 40th yeah There's also been a lot of chat that he's going to have a complete overhaul of image.
And I've heard blazers and chinos be mentioned.
Yeah.
We've,
there's a lot of talk about.
Image.
Yeah.
Smartening up.
Smartening up.
Smartening up.
Yeah.
Well,
I bought Josh a jacket for Valentine's day.
Just a very nice Mac from Uniqlo.
Yeah. A Navy Mac. I actually stopped a man in the street asking where he got his jacket from nice very confident yeah i think the training
is paying off i'm very face to face i'm very good thank god i didn't phone him um i did i do
i was chatting him up as well because i kept staring him and then i thought oh this is i've
got to ask about the jacket now because otherwise he thinks I'm checking him out I bought you a jacket and
I think it's kind of given you a bit of inspiration really for your wardrobe and yeah it sort of
pushed you into a new direction yeah so how smart do you want him Rose or is this a very Josh project
it's not just going to be just smart it's just just to give more range. We went away and we did spend quite a lot of time talking about this
because Josh loves a project.
If there's something...
He's not got enough on his plate at the moment.
He's got so much free time.
Yeah, he's got...
He needs something else to do when he's brushing his teeth,
putting the shopping away, going on Peston.
He really loves to hypothesise about how something's going to go.
So he'll be like, so how do you think... go so he'll be like so how do you think
what do you think about that how do you think that's gonna go like he'll ask you a lot of times
yeah and we talked a lot about project wardrobe it's got a name project wardrobe i didn't know
that no i just made that up i like it i just made it up i don't know when this will go out but
you're gonna wear one of your smart outfits on last leg aren't you yeah by this point yeah yeah
it's a gradual evolution or revolution
do you know what from an outsider's point of view yeah i would get rid of the converse and get maybe
a nicer trainer or a shoe like sort of semi smart casual the reason we're in the converse today
it's okay you don't have to apologize but go on is because i've got some nicer nikes but I really like them
but they've stopped
making them
so you don't want to
waste them on Broadway
I don't want to waste them
on
same five
something where my feet
would be out of shot
okay so they're going to
save them for your next
stand up appearance
or
whatever yeah
yeah whatever that be
whenever he stood up
I'm convinced that
Josh buys Converse
with like
extra long laces
as well
I know you've talked about this before,
but it is mad how long those laces are.
Or pulls them tight and he has them for so long.
My mum's always found his footwear disgusting.
I know, it really makes me laugh.
Yeah, I think there may be a shoe.
I think a shoe or a smart trainer.
And I think potentially stripy t-shirts out, block colour.
I like the range.
I like to have the range.
Yeah, but I think stripy t-shirt is more younger person children and women i'm still young and happening i feel like a stripy
t-shirt is old sailor i'm still young and happening you're 40 and i'm fine you look like a pizza
express chef it's a good chain it is a great chain i love that we've just turned this into like a josh styling session but perhaps different colors that maybe he hadn't really gone near before green a green
he wore a lovely orange jacket the other day and i was like oh you look good in an orange
but it's almost like he's come out of a breakup and he's like you know when you've split up with
someone and you get your hair cut well i think maybe you were in a bit of a rut of work
where you didn't have time to think about it.
Yeah, exactly.
Put on a blue jacket, white stripy top, I'm going to do telly.
That is totally it.
I think there's also, because you get a lot of your clothes bought
for wardrobe for The Last Leg,
you don't have the joy of going out and choosing your own clothes.
Whereas, I think you talked about it,
we both gave each other an afternoon off and Josh went out and just did a little bit of like
gentle shopping lovely sent me a picture of himself in a blazer and i thought good for him
and i said go on hush puppies just the blazer i don't think i'm having a reaction to being 40
yeah i think i've hit a point in my life but it's a coincidence that I'm turning
40 in the middle of it
however that's fine can I ask
because you mentioned about a date
ages ago you literally said save the date
I'm going to have a party
you can't mention the actual party he's going to get
flippers on you
I didn't even ask I went oh are you turning 40
you went yeah me and Rose both are
you've quite grown up and just gone,
I'm having a little drinks or whatever
and sent a text.
You told me to save a date, which I did.
I'll be coming straight after.
I've been on Saturday night takeaway of Ant and Dec.
Yeah, I don't think you will be.
No, because you're not doing anything.
But when I asked,
before you went on and did a gig the other day,
2,000 people in the theatre on a Saturday night,
calm as a cucumber.
I said, are you still doing that on the first?
He went bright red, started sweating and clapping his hands.
Yeah, I don't know.
I just can't engage with it.
But it's partly because I'm trying to stop drinking.
Yeah.
So it's really difficult to go,
do I really want to pay to rent a bar,
pay to put money behind a bar,
to put myself in a tricky situation where I'm like,
oh God, am I going to get through this without drinking
yeah there's been recently as well like when you stop drinking there's been a lot of like times
where you're like their first times where you're not drinking or where you would initially feel
like oh i want to drink and then you kind of work through it and you're like oh that moment has
passed yeah and i think maybe a big party yeah it's a lot of anxiety it's quite a big
challenge to go in when you've kind of just started doing it everyone's gonna be like why
don't you drink yeah there's a lot and also you're in a process of calming down being more mindful
more present yeah that might trigger those sort of old behaviors yeah totally why don't you just
spend it on a big holiday for you and the family any money you're gonna spend on that and that'll
be your fault if that's what i do now i don't really have we it on a big holiday for you and the family? Any money you're going to spend on that, and that'll be your 40. If that's what I'd do now, I don't really have parties.
We could just go away for Easter, couldn't we?
Yeah.
As a four.
That'd be lovely.
Yeah, that would be nice.
I could see on Rose's eyes the first thing she thought
was that her mum would be livid if we didn't spend Easter with her.
Would she?
That was the first thing that went across Rose's face.
Easter's a strange one.
Are you religious?
No. She fucking loves eggs. Egg rolling a strange one. Are you religious? No.
She fucking loves eggs.
Egg rolling.
Have you ever done egg rolling?
What's an egg rolling?
No, it's the thing no one's ever done except their family.
Oh, okay.
Let's get into this.
So you boil the eggs and you wrap them in...
Can't do that.
Lou will fuck that up.
That's over.
You wrap them in onion leaves and J-cloths and basically...
You must know this tradition.
What the fuck is this?
Like Jesus used to. And I'll give you the Hob know this tradition. What the fuck is this? Like Jesus used to.
And I'll give you the Hobbit back now.
What the fuck's this shy nonsense?
And it basically gives the eggs
like all these amazing patterns
from the dye of the onion leaves.
The dye of the onion leaves?
This is like nothing...
They boil them in onion leaves.
Yeah.
And it creates like
kind of almost like a tie-dye effect
on the outside.
On an egg.
Okay, that's a bit of fun.
Okay, and then what you do
is they're hard-boiled. So there's two of you. Not just two of you. There's more of you. Everyone has an egg okay that's a bit of fun okay and then what you do is they're hard
boiled so there's two of you not just two of you there's more of you everyone's has an egg and then
you roll eggs at each other and whoever's egg doesn't smash like conquers gets into the next
round round but the problem with it is is that essentially you forget whose egg is whose
and everyone's egg just smashes sure and there's only like my mum that really eats hard-boiled
eggs so there's just fuck loads of hard-boiled eggs that my mum has to eat and then what's the
prize no that's just it there's no prize no you just smash it you get to eat your egg your hard boiled egg
on a day
whenever I've got chocolate eggs
this is the worst game ever
yeah
so basically
the winner gets a hard boiled egg
and everyone else has to have
and so do the losers
and the losers
so everyone gets a hard boiled egg
yeah
this is
bros
this is one of the most
mental
things I've ever heard
it's fucking bananas
Michael's really
Michael's gone Michael's gone
Michael's lost it
I think he's lost
feeling in his arse
he's sat on the floor
for an hour
my mum
you wouldn't want to
miss that would you
and have a holiday
my mum
gets so annoyed
if we don't do
the egg rolling as well
if the eggs get boiled
with the onion skins
and we don't make
a fuss out of them
we know about it
I'd say for her 40th
could she not roll a boiled egg the weekend later?
No, that's a no, isn't it, Josh?
That's a no.
Enjoy your egg roll in your 40th.
There you go.
There you go.
That's where he'll be.
That's my life.
Rolling his fucking egg in his new canvas shoes.
You don't even eat eggs.
I don't eat eggs.
It's a lose-lose for Josh. god what a life could you go away somewhere your mum goes as well and then wait and then she looks after the kids while you
go out it's the evening no my mum is amazing but she is just her so Pearl and
nearly two year old is quite a lot
even if they're put into bed
she could do with our daughter but
I think
we made a bit of a
this is what I wanted to do
is go well Rose is 40 this year
so we'll have a party for that and then I'm going to have a big
41st
do that then
and then I said this to our friend.
Our friend who listens.
Oh, yeah.
And she absolutely.
She wanted a party.
Yeah.
All right.
Charlie Crosby.
She wants a party for hers?
No, for mine.
She was like.
Tell her to get her fucking nose out.
It's your birthday.
She got stupid.
I was like, don't worry.
I've got this great plan.
I'm going to do a 41st.
And she acted like I'd just taken a shit in the middle of the ABBA voyage.
A hologram shit.
Yeah.
Well, maybe do that then.
That could be a good shout and do it separate.
I just don't feel like a 40th is what I need at the moment.
I think that's really good as well,
because I think old you would have absolutely just pushed through that
and done it because you were like this is what I'm supposed to do when I hit 40 and you wouldn't
have stopped to think is this actually what I need at the moment is this the right thing to do
what am I going to enjoy so I have wrenched you on this a bit on this podcast but I will say that
you're becoming a lot more aware of what's good for you.
You're training me.
I'm training you.
Life's training you baby.
Life's training me.
I think that's quite a sweet ending actually.
Yeah,
that was quite good.
That was funny.
Did you enjoy that?
There was a point where I was like,
Oh,
maybe I should have more things to batter you with.
I think you've got enough. Yeah. I don't think there's any worry about that. I wouldn't say. was a point where i was like oh maybe i should have more things to batter you with but i think
you've got enough yeah i don't think there's any worry about that i wouldn't say my take home i
wouldn't say that was light on views i feel like there was quite a lot of chat about ways yeah
yeah there was a lot of ways chat we didn't really get to the bottom of who was nobody yeah
who was it i don't think it's all about who's to blame it's about how you move on afterwards i also feel that i which direction you move on afterwards exactly which route you take
afterwards i do get a bit stressed i get overly stressed sitting in traffic as well i will
take that which is rich when you're not even the driver oh yeah of course we had to get one
little you can't drive slamming oh we had to i tried to end it positively but you are gonna
learn to drive this year that's exciting yeah yeah that is exciting i'm 40 quick there was a
point where you were i mean it was probably years ago you were like you should learn to drive on a
manual no and then now you're like no no just don't worry about it yeah not worth it that shows
how long we've been having this i know i can't tell you how many times my dad said i'll get you
driving lessons for your birthday yeah and i just never cashed them in yeah i did it one year as
well yeah for christmas yeah oh yeah you bought me a little book yeah little training no there was like an antique book about cars it was an antique
for knick knack
nice little knick knack
book for the side
it was a knick knack book
for the parcel shelf
oh
thank you so much Rose
you are welcome on
any time obviously
to air any views
as long as it's not
during book promo season
in which case
we don't have any guest gaps
then
right
it was like that time
when I got caught
in the snow
and I had to get the
bus and push the buggy and stuff when i was texting josh in the back of my mind was this is the
podcast this me texting i know that i am now content you are content content yeah oh god you
know what's worrying though it's not going to be long until our children are going to be sat where you're sat,
telling us off for saying things.
Yeah.
Oh God.
That could be problematic.
Still, the listener amounts will be through the roof.
Yeah, exactly.
It's all content, isn't it?
Content.
Well, thank you for doing it.
Pleasure.
Thanks, Rose.
It's been amazing.
Thanks for coming on.
Cheers.
And we'll see you in a couple of months.
Oh, wait. Hold up. Do you not do those final questions? Oh, if you want. thanks Rose it's been amazing thanks for coming on cheers and we'll see you in a couple of months oh wait
hold up
do you not do those
final questions
oh if you want
if you've got something
you want to say
what
it feels like we've
covered those
oh yeah
no to be fair
you've probably
covered them
no no
you've said
nothing positive
what's the nice
thing that just
I did think about
this this morning
and I think you are
and actually I think
I already said it
so maybe this is a bit
boring but
you are really good at being involved as you should be as they're both our children but
you do play dates you're really organized with that kind of stuff whereas i'm find that quite
nerve-wracking that kind of stuff so you're really good at kind of putting yourself out there and
i am i'll send a text you'd
answer a phone call in a heartbeat oh i love it i love ringing people but i'll text a mom i don't
really know to organize a play it's a bit weird that is a bit weird he's in his shorts 7 a.m
making a tea i make a good tea you know fancy a play date babe anyone need training just send that send to all training i do think though by being a stand-up
we have gone through so much social humiliation learning to do stand-up yeah that someone
ignoring my text that's a school parent i could not give a less of a shit about i did a corporate
gig last night and it didn't get a laugh and then the bloke who works for the company went that
didn't get laughed rob went i know it didn't but i'm technically dead inside so i didn't get a laugh and then the bloke who works for the company went that didn't get a laugh Rob went I know it didn't but I'm technically dead inside
so I didn't really hear it
and it still got a laugh
but then everyone realised
I was being honest
and he'd say
oh stop laughing
well I mean
we could dig further
into why
Lou and I
probably don't like
answering phone calls
but we'll leave that
to another episode
yeah leave that to another episode
I think this has been brilliant
and thank you very much for sharing.
Thanks, Rose.
Bye.
That was Rose.
Yeah.
How did you find it, Josh?
I think I took points on board,
which I think is positive.
Yeah, I'd say as well,
you stood your ground on a couple of them,
which I liked.
Yeah, exactly.
Good back and forth exactly i think it showed
i thought it showed a healthy relationship with both parties having respect for the other
yes it feels a bit like how i imagine two politicians would analyze their appearance
on good morning britain yeah exactly pretty good bit of back and forth suzanne is a good woman
good journalist respect respect the work there yeah and, you know, it's a great time for a democracy that we can do these kind of things.
Yes.
You wouldn't get that in other regimes.
You would not get that, yeah.
Let's not name them.
Let's not piss off the regimes.
Yes.
But, I mean, I think it's good.
I enjoyed when Lou did it.
I enjoyed it when Rose did it more.
It's always less stressful when you're on the other side of it.
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
And yours was face-to-face, which made it different because it was when we're on the other side of it yeah definitely and yours was face to face which made it different
because it was when we were filming
due to the success
I think we'll lose it back on next
really isn't it
the success of this we mean we'll get them both back on
so lose up next
we'll get them on
intermittently to complain about what we've said
in the podcast
and just us generally.
And just us generally.
So that's something to look forward to.
Right.
Um,
I'll see you on Tuesday,
Josh.
See you on Tuesday.
Bye.
Bye.