Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S7 EP32: Kevin Bridges

Episode Date: November 10, 2023

Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant comedian - Kevin Bridges. If you want to find out info for screening and tickets for Kevin's new tour and cinema release head to https://www.kevinbridges.co.uk Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. Please leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello I'm Rob Beckett and I'm Josh Willicombe. Welcome to Parents in 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 your tips advice and of course tales of parenting woe because let's be honest there are plenty of times where none of us know what we're doing hello you're listening to parents in hell with right zeke can you say rob beckett good boy can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. Good boy. Can you say Josh Whittaker? Josh Whittaker.

Good boy. Oh, there we go, Rob. Very cute kid. This is my son Zeke. Zeke. How do you spell Zeke? Z-E-K. There was a Zeke at my primary school.

Short for Ezekiel, if you can pronounce it. Yes, I can pronounce it. I have waited until he could nail the Whittaker. He is the same age as Josh's son,. I have waited until he could nail the Widdicombe. He is the same age as Josh's son, so I have found his anecdotes very relatable. I also grew up on Dartmoor. Oh. So love when he talks about all the weird and wonderful memories of childhood in the middle of nowhere, although I have six siblings,

so mine is probably weirder. Blimey, O'Reilly. What's her name? Daisy. Daisy from Dartmoor. Daisy and Ezekiel Zaman, now living in Wales. Thanks for the podcast. I look forward to every Tuesday and Friday,

as I know cooking dinner these days will be much more enjoyable. Listening to you two. I love a podcast and cooking, Rob. Rob, this is a great guest today, isn't it? Do you know what? I'm very excited about this guest because, well, it's Kevin Bridges. You know that already because it says it on the list on Spotify. But he doesn't do much, does he, Kevin?

He doesn't do much. Doesn't do much promo. And that's because he likes to pick and choose. Also, he's absolutely minted because he sells out the Glasgow Arena for 30 nights at a tour. Josh, if I could do 30 nights at the O2 on my tour, you'd never see or hear from me ever again.

I would be on a beach for two years then back into the arenas. Have I told you about Madonna at the O2, Rob? No. So I went to see Madonna at the O2. Yeah. And by the way, this way this is oh no this is a this is a classic uh you know faux pas with a celebrity so my so i couldn't get tickets to

madonna but uh my lovely agent who listens to this yeah she sorted them out because obviously they book the o2 you know we've got connections they book the o2 for gigs. We've got connections. They book the O2 for gigs. Also as a, as a, as a friend of the O2 as we are now. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. You know, exactly.

And I'd be happy if, if Madonna had wanted a comp to come and watch us, I'd be fine with that as well. So your, your agents sort of found you a ticket for Madonna. Well for, yeah. So in a box,

we're just in someone's box. Yeah. And you go in and it was like i can't remember who it was uh aeg the aeg which is the promo promoters yeah yeah but the promoters and um it was just people you don't know and i thought is it going to be another situation like rob's o2 box situation where cara de la veen kicks off yeah so you're you're anecdote hunting yeah no celebs in the box um so enjoy the gig we'll come back to that I do go for a piss and see Peter Crouch in the hallway that's lovely but anyway and then you must be Dick Hyatt to him

you know like you're in the urinal you look to the side you are dick to eye and so then afterwards I was like oh it's a shame there wasn't like a big celeb in our box like Cara Delevingne and my wife was like

no yeah there was Alex Scott was sat behind us what the footballer yeah the footballer with her girlfriend who is Jess Glynn yeah Jess Glynn.

Yeah. And I thought, oh my God, I've just totally ignored Alex Scott. I've not met her before. Yeah. And then I got into one of my paranoid panics, Rob. Josh, I'm going to tell you now, Alex Scott and Jess Glynn are not leaving that venue thinking, God, it's a bit weird that Josh Widdicombe didn't say hello. I think on the list of things they give a shit about,

I don't think you need to worry about that. Well, that's not what I'm worrying about now, Rob. What are you worrying about now? So I thought, I've got to make amends here. No. What do you mean? You've never met them before. They're not your friends.

I know. I know, Rob. I panicked. So what did you do? I DM'd Alex Scott on Instagram to apologise. Are you friends on Instagram? Does she follow you? No.

The good thing about that is she won't have seen it because she probably doesn't allow messages. No, I know. So she never replied. No, but you request. She never would have seen it. When you've got a blue tick, you can request. I don't have DM messages. I turn them off. But if someone else has got a blue tick, you can request. I don't have DM messages.

I turn them off. But if someone else has got a blue tick, I think they can send in a request. So you've sent in a request message to Alex Scott, which you may or may not see. And what have you put in that, Josh? I don't know. What time was this? Should I find it? Yes.

Should I find it? Yes. Do you know what? I was about to say, I bet this is really unrelatable, but I think it's actually quite relatable.

Someone messaging someone off the TV and getting no reply. I didn't think this is unrelatable. This makes me out to be a complete idiot. So she's got Alex Scott,

MBE. MBE. 1.8 million followers. Follows me. Don't worry about it. I can message her. Don't message her. Hi, Alex. No. Do you want it I can message her don't message her hi Alex no

do you want to hear my message first oh this is embarrassing the last message I sent her was me trying to send her my book as a PR push and she's not replied but it says seen

right I'm like hi Alex I'm going to ignore hi Alex did Josh Whitaker message you what did he say you tell us and then I'll decide

What to send there Alex! No you do Why are you shouting at her I've just been told You were behind me At Madonna last night I didn't see you

And now feel very rude For not saying hello Very sorry Hope you enjoyed the gig As much as me Josh I think that's creepy It's not creepy How is that creepy

I think that's really creepy What is wrong with me What is wrong with me? What is wrong with me? I don't know, but what are you expecting to happen? I don't know, Rob. I don't know why I sent it, and I hadn't remembered it until we started talking about the O2 for some reason. What time did you send it?

7.41 in the evening the next day. Oh, so you've had a long time to think. I think as well, what's happened there is josh like she's it's not like you met you bumped into her and you were like oh hello yeah and so she might not even know who i am rob there's every chance she doesn't know who i am right she doesn't know who i am you think alex scott she's has she been on the No, but she knows you, so maybe she's seen my pictures. She might have seen me somewhere. Yeah, lurking in her DMs.

She'll have seen I've got a blue tick. And what did she say back to that message? She didn't reply, Rob, of course. Did you message Jess Glynn? No, because I... Oh, now that's even weirder. You should message both of them if you're going to message one. Get your messages up, Give her a message.

I'm not messaging Jess Glynn. Three weeks ago, you sat behind me at the door and I didn't say hello. Why am I such a stupid twat? Jess Glynn doesn't follow me either. Not stopped you in the past? Give her a message. Oh, God. What have you learned from this, do you think?

I fear nothing. I respect the hustle. He will not be... You're persistent. You're persistent. He will sniff them out and hunt them down. I do think, though, Jess Glynn deserves a message. Shall I message Jess Glynn? Yeah. We'll talk about it on Tuesday. Yeah, message Jess Glynn deserves a message. Shall I message Jess Glynn?

Yeah. We'll talk about it on Tuesday. Yeah, message Jess Glynn and say, Hi, Jess, I sat in front of you at Madonna and I didn't say hello. It's weird three weeks later. Why is it weird with Jess and not weird with Alex? Because it's three weeks later. Send it as if it was last night and pretend it went through slow.

You know, like I have a New Year's Eve message back in the day on text. Heiglert, Jess, just checked. And this didn't send at the time. But. Do you know what? On your past history, I wouldn't put that past here at the end. Fuck, am I a weirdo? Not a weirdo.

But I'd say you do make some strange choices. But it is very odd to say, sorry, I didn't... How do you answer that? It's so weird. I just felt like me and Scott... Scott Alex. Alex Scott. You're not friends. She's not your friend.

You've never met her. No, she's not. But you'd send that message to someone you knew. Do you know how this ends? That they have a kid and then she comes on here. Perfect. Yeah. Welcome, Kevin Bridges.

That was a weird tangent, wasn't it? But I think you should message Jessica as well and say, hey, can you ask Alex if she got my message? No, I'm not doing that. Right. Back to Kevin Bridges yeah go and see his show at the cinema

he's a very funny man he's got a kid and enjoy the chat because you're not going to get him anywhere else it's an exclusive lovely

you're not going to get Kevin Bridges chatting about fucking Papa Dom's I'll tell you that for nothing Kevin Bridges we are honoured

to have you on the show. An old friend, colleague, you don't do much. What's going on, Kevin? We've managed to get you. You've done me a favour, man. Remember all the two of you signed a book for my wife's book? Oh, yes. I should actually say hello.

I can give you a shout out to Hayley. Big up, Hayley. I think it should be reciprocated, but I don't mean I'm doing you guys a favour coming on. No, I'll be honest with you. You really are. Yeah. I've seen everybody's got a podcast, don't they? Well, yeah.

I think I'm maybe the only comedian that's not got a podcast. You and Limmy should do one. Everyone in Scotland would listen if you and Limmy did a podcast. Aye, that's highly inflammatory content, I would say. Yeah, that's highly cancelable. He could have invented online comedy, though, didn't he? So he's got that in his favour. But no, I never thought I'd be doing

except in a gig at eight in the morning. This is meant to, it's 8am. This is what time it is, we should get that across. Yeah, it's 8am and we started late because my laptop had no charge because I've come back from holiday and i've been working so josh you had something wrong with the nursery or something let's not let it bleed into the interview rob let's not let's keep it upbeat it's 8am

my reason i was i don't know both of you got dogs yes i've got two dogs now yeah i've been 10 years in the dog game and this is the time of the year that when your dog does a shite or whatever you want to call it in the morning in early November in the autumnal, was it foliage, it can be really difficult to locate it, so I was like about 5 minutes, I seen her squat and I never

seen, and I was like where is it you're just trying to find that shit in all these leaves, so that was my excuse for being sick, that was why you was a bit like do you know what, it makes you really appreciate a dog shitting summer, does it, you can just trying to find that shit in all these leaves. So that was my excuse for being silly. That was why you was a bit like, I mean, do you know what? It makes you really appreciate a dog shit in summer. Does it? You can just see it on that green grass

like a beacon of hope. Yeah, that's the shit. Get it in the bin. Let's crack on. That's how I managed to locate it. It's not quite cold enough yet to see the steam. December, January, it's easy to find. This is easily the most difficult month to locate a dog shite is November. Especially after it's easy to find yeah this is the easily the most difficult

month to locate a dog shite is November especially after it's been stormy and windy down south so when the leaves are everywhere

you've got no chance of finding a shit they should actually mention us on the weather shouldn't they yeah I'm just telling you the pollen count

and the humidity so how many weeks have you got where it's bad dog shit weather speaking as someone who's not in the dog game pretty much as soon as the clocks change i would say man right okay yeah you've got a proper dog though you've got like a labrador type dog yeah yes i've got whip it so they're proper dogs but they hate going outside when it's cold and wet and rainy so they'll do

everything they can to hide a shit somewhere in the house do you need to put a jacket on them like cool yeah i know but if you open the door for them to go they will try and get rid of it early doors before they go and they don't want to be outside at all with jacket no jacket so that's the danger of it but yeah they've done a shit outside today which is good so that's one pro let's focus on children rob let's focus on children sean walsh and jack do you do dogs well that's first thing i noticed when my son liam was born is how much your morning is shit innit? You've got the time, you've got a couple of nappies during the night and then you've got by the time like half seven in the morning comes you've probably dealt with like four

shits none of them belong to yourself. That can be the segway into the kids then, a shit segway. How old's your son Kev? He is two, just turned two. It's quite good you can just say two, because I'm getting fed up. That was a difficult, having to say months. Constantly, mums in your head. You've got the year, then you've got 18 months,

but it's the in-between, but oh, he's 19 months, so I'm quite good with just a round number, so you could probably hear him. This is his room, I should mention. I didn't know if it was a kid's room or if he was a Hindu. Elephants everywhere. It's getting changed because this is his baby theme. So we're going to get it kind of put into a more young,

toddler theme. I'm in his room. So I actually get cut into this wee section. This was originally my office kind of room. And then I've just been put in this wee corner. So basically he might rampage in at some point and interrupt this. Yeah yeah I'm in the corner of the house you sort of get pushed to the side once the kid comes along everywhere that was your area slowly slips away so is this your office now this is my office I never thought I'd be a guy who had an office because he even says

daddy office daddy office I don't know if you can call it an office no I'd call it your child's bedroom Kevin I've kind of ceded the land to him so because in my head obviously i mean we were talking before we started that we all slightly feel like we're old now because it doesn't feel that long ago that you were you weren't 17 on mcintyre's roadshow how old were you when you did mcinty's Roadshow? That was 2009, 22. 2009. Yeah, so you broke through because we're the same age. I think Josh, you're a couple of years older, but you're 37, 38, Kev, is that right?

37, that's one thing. We're the same age. I remember starting comedy at like 23 or something like that and you were already like on McIntyre's Roadshow and doing all this stuff. And I was just thinking, how is he dealing with all this at that age because I was struggling to do like five minutes open spots in pubs and you were like your rise was massive I don't know if I could have handled

that if it was to happen right now because you overthink it I think when you're that young you're just enjoying it the pressure side doesn't quite take over doing live at the Apollo but you're not really thinking about it as like a big thing obviously but you're that age you're just kind of going this is amazing you're living the dream almost and then I think if it was to happen right now I'd be like oh my god there's TV execs coming to watch the show tonight and you would start kind of panicking about it I'm grateful that I've done it at that time but it is 20 years I've done stand-up bloody hell February next year will be my comedy birthday it feels mad saying that on stage like 20 years you've done stand-up. Bloody hell. February next year will be my comedy birthday. It feels mad saying that on stage. 20 years. You've been

doing comedy longer than you've not been doing it. That's it. I started just turning 17. Like a kid, like a baby. And it's only when you have kids you're sort of like, it's only 15 years away from Liam. He's such a baby at 17. The proper kid still. At the time you feel grown up but you were a baby. Didn't your parents used to

drive you to and from the gigs and stuff like that my dad took me up to my first gig first open spot and then it just became me and his

kind of thing he would drive me all over Scotland playing these pubs and I would just be trying to get as many gigs

as possible and then there would be some kind of nicer places we would go but we'd kind of peace out of town

and my dad would go I should bring your mum she'd love it here then she'd come then my mum would go the next time we mum she'd love it here then she'd come then my mum would go the

next time we should bring your uncle George and auntie Maureen and it'd

be like jeez how many people am I taking here the gigs are like at the

start single figure audiences and then you've brought half the

audience yourself and then you're performing to your auntie and your

uncle and then a lot of your material when you're 17 is about

the very master buttery so you're I've never heard it called that before you're so rigid and scripty that you don't know how to drop your wanking bit so your auntie and your mum are in the front row

so it was all that kind of learning process is that why you had such a good one on Comedy Roadshow it was just all your family the whole audience it was just pure bridges when did you start Josh

because we I started 2008 my second till you'd done a lot of the supports yeah god that was years ago that's when you

probably would have gone for a drink after the gig yes now have you found your lifestyle has completely changed in the last two years

Kev I had a gig last night my mate got a new material night in Glasgow so I popped up to that, then after the gig as soon as I came off stage, Jeff was like are you fucking nuts

back in the day obviously you'd be staying for a bit you need to kind of readjust your whole is it your circadian clock or whatever, school and then a bullshit college course, and then stand-up. It's the most nocturnal of lifestyles.

Yeah. It's what I've never known as late nights, and having your dinner at one in the morning, and suddenly you're up. It's pretty military. I don't know if it's five, six in the morning or whatever, but my wife, I mean, she does a lot. I should obviously credit her.

Can I just take, this is from nursery. I've just got a call from nursery. Can I take, I know that's bad. I've just got a call from nursery. Can I take... I know that's bad. I'm so sorry. Yeah, no, you can take it. That's the beauty about this podcast is it's the perfect one

if you just have to run off and take a call about your kid's childcare. I think it'd be bad if they just ignored it on the podcast. I've got a call from nursery, but I'm doing a podcast. I think that would be the best one. Well, he's trying to get the kid into nursery.

I imagine if his kid was in nursery and they rang, he'd swerve it and let him have him for another hour. I thought that's what was happening. I think the babysitter is ill, can't turn up, so he's trying to get his boy into nursery for the day.

That's the thing though, your world, when they go to nursery and school, is he in nursery yet, Liam? He's just started going twice a week. He was going on a Friday. Yes! Got him into nursery. He's saying that as if it's Harvard or something.

He's been accepted into nursery, yes. He's got the grades. He's got the grades. He's managed to build a wooden train set. Good stuff. Sorry, Kev.

I'm so sorry. That's the most unprofessional thing I've ever done. We were just saying about being unprofessional as a parent if you just ignored the nursery call.

Just to get put in the nursery. I thought it was actually your nursery calling about something that was up with the kid or whatever. No, no, no. So Liam's in twice a week now. How was that dropping him off? Was he all right with it? Initially.

See, I used to chase. I vaguely remember this, right? When I went to nursery, my mum said I used to chase... I vaguely remember this, right? When I went to nursery, my mum said I used to hate it, like how proper had meltdowns every single morning. And I kind of carried that on into the first few years at school. So when I first took him,

Liam is the only child. My brother has not got any kids. And Kerry's our only child. So Liam's our only child and our only grandchild. So he's not going to be surrounded by any kids growing up

really so we thought we better put him into a nursery at least once when he turned one we put him in once a week

and I was kind of nervous about taking him because I was like what if he was just another me to be he was only one and I think I went

to nursery when I was like three or something he just went right in absolutely no problem at all and then the next few times he gets a. And I think I went to nursery when I was like three or something. He just went right in, absolutely no problem at all. And then the next few times he gets a bit upset. I think if we take him away somewhere, if I'm going down to London and we take him,

or we go on holiday and he misses a few weeks, then he'll be back, you know. Are you taking him to gigs and stuff? Because you've just finished a sort of massive UK tour, haven't you? Because you've done your tour in the UK and you filmed it and you're going off to Australia next week. But are you releasing it in the cinema? We should mention this as well. This is mad. Your tour is going in cinemas in the UK and you filmed it and you're going off to Australia next week, but you released it in the cinema. We should mention this as well.

This is mad. Your tour is going in cinemas in the UK and Ireland. Is that right? Aye, so I finished the UK tour and then I was going to just leave it. Basically, a bit of family stuff happened at the start of the year. So we never got to finish the dates,

but I just thought, right, we'll get back. We'll get it recorded. Yeah. And then I thought every other tour that I've done I've took it to some European cities and I've done

Australia and I thought it would be a shame just to miss it and going to perform with people over there because you build

up a following in these places and you don't want to just skip an entire tour so I actually fly out to New Zealand in the

morning so I'm not going to take Liam there because I think that would just be a bit much man

yeah it's a brutal schedule when you're over there it's amazing but for kids it's not ideal at all every day's a flight I know

but I don't want to be away for too long from him and Kerry so I've just pretty much got a gig every night but I think next time when I go over

I would space it a lot more and take them he's not even going to remember like he's not going to get much out of it it would just be selfish for me to take him but

it's not even the flight it's having to go forward like 12 hours. Yeah, but also when you're there everywhere's a two hour flight, it's like going to Spain every day. It's a continent innit, so it's not as interesting. So I'd be taking him away to see someone and do

a work in progress tour before the big tour because the hotels are always cool, they're always in farms or whatever so I took him to a couple of them last summer and he loved it I think it would just be a bit much to take him that far and obviously it's different when you go away because you've I know you've got the gigs at night but you're still you're not quite yourself you're a bit on edge the whole day I totally agree so I'm due to do Australia again 2025 and the kids will be like you know nine and seven then so it's a nice age to take them but the way we're doing is I'm going to go out and hammer like two weeks of gigs gigging

every night and then they're going to come out and we'll sort of do the last few in Sydney and then finish in Brisbane and then up there's really good for families and stuff and then have a couple of week holiday then fly back and do it that way and that's something for them as well with that exactly and crucially, Rob, you don't have to take them on the flight over there. Lou's got to deal with that. I'll get hammered on the way back. You've done a really good thing there, Rob.

Go over, get the gigs out of the way, have two weeks on your own, and then Lou will turn up with the kids. I would quite like to see everybody else's faces, but just board on a plane like that, carrying a two-year-old. We were chatting to Paris Fury, and obviously they've got seven kids haven't they the furies and she was flies out to vegas a lot to see tyson when he's fighting out there and she flies alone with the six and seven kids and then they basically book out the entirety of like business

class apart from like two seats so imagine getting a flight flight to Vegas and there's like seven kids on there all climbing on the beds. Do you think that's cheaper than getting a private jet? When I look at Tyson Fury in Paris, I'm not sure if sort of budgeting is top of their list. No, they've got any spreadsheets going on before they make it. Yeah, there's no Excel knocking about that house. What kind of parent are you then, Kev? Because you're so laid back as a person.

Jank so man wow it depends on how the gig went before or after definitely man to be serious for a second it does make you become a better person becoming a parent forces you to

really address your flaws 100% yeah I'm a lot more patient for a start I used to lose the shit broadband routers and you just start fucking getting really upset or when you're driving or something so it just forces you to go right do you want to lose the plot in front of your son do you want him to kind of go why is daddy actually you really and the first time I remember I was driving and I snapped at somebody or whatever just like an idiot and then when I

seen his face just seen a new side to his daddy, I just felt horrendous. I was like, no, I really need to be addressing and is this worth getting annoyed about and getting angry?

Then that just manifests itself into everyday life and you just start becoming like, I really need to lose my shit here. So I'm becoming more laid back since he's been born. I think it puts a mirror

in front of you, doesn't it? Especially when you compare, I say to Joshua all the time, it's's sort of like it brings back things from your childhood so like going to nursery you would have forgotten about that because you're successful going to work doing whatever but then you remember you go oh they're going to nursery and then you think about it and then you think and they'll somewhere yeah exactly you never delete the cookies no you never delete the cookies you clear your history on your, you know it's still in there somewhere.

You know Edward Snowden could find it. The kids are unlocking it. They're basically little mini WikiLeaks walking around your house just every now and again. My dad had a temper, man. I remember it was quite like when you seen your dad losing it, it was a bit, well, this is a bit much. It's hard, my dad is the same.

I've very much been in a car where he's had a row and he may or may not have sped up and got out of the car to talk to the other man about his driving, which is the politest way to put it. My dad used to drive me to gigs. I remember I'd done Amuse Mousse. Oh yeah, Hills Jago.

The new comedian competition. Yeah. I was in like the semi-final. It was in Perth in Scotland and my dad was taking me up and he went fucking berserk on the way up this is like 2005 or whatever so you don't have sat-navs

so he's just following the signs for Perth and we get in, diverted traffic and just everything's going against him so I'm in the passenger seat and my stomach's already kind of going about the gig and it's just getting gradually more angry and then it's diverted signs and then there's roads closed you'd actually see him

like getting redder and redder then when we got to the gig I was just like shattered and then I done the gig it went alright

and I went free and then the very next day he kind of wrote me like a wee handwritten note and it was such a lovely thing he's like I realise like how hard you're working

at this and you've got a dream and I'm really sorry I was only trying to help take you to the gig and I realised maybe sorry I was only trying to help take you to bed and I realised maybe that I might have affected that and made it

a more stressful situation than it needed to be I've still got the letter somewhere but just the fact they wrote it down as if it must have been really what they say so

yeah especially for sort of a man of his generation that's a really progressive thing to do I for some days was born and grew up in the shipyards it's amazing.

Do your dad ever write you a note, Rob? I think he has, actually. But the problem is, even if he writes something sweet, he's handwriting. He writes all in capital still.

Like, about three inches apart, you know, when it's like... My handwriting is, like, it's illegible, I think. It's just gradual deterioration. I feel like I've just been used to texting or typing. Yeah.

I see when you write standard or you write ideas for notes, do you handwrite or do you...? Yeah, because I think I used to, so I. Yeah. When you write standards or you write ideas for notes, do you handwrite? Yeah, because I think I used to, so I feel I should now. But really, it's 2023, I could just write it in my phone, couldn't I? But I do sit there and write. It's like when you used to come back from the summer holiday

and your hand didn't work properly. Yeah, that's a good one. I wrote notes in my phone, and then when I do a gig, I'll bullet point them on a bit of paper, so I have a look at it and say I've got my phone out. What I do a gig, I'll like bullet point them on a bit of paper. So I have a look at it and got my phone out. What I did everywhere I go, it was Kerry. She used to be a restaurant manager and she would always write the menus. Was she the one with the good handwriting and chalk?

Oh, she's incredible. People actually ask her, she gets homers and stuff. People go, can you write her wedding invitations? She's amazing. Is it calligraphy or something? I don't know. Yeah, that's it, yeah. But she's the what is it calligraphy or something I don't know yeah but she's the

one that pointed out because everywhere I go I decided since Liam was born anytime I was going to go away wherever I was

going I would go and get a postcard and send it to him so when he's older he's got a wee box of postcards and

I'm just explaining why I'm away and all that kind of stuff like if he was in prison it's lovely. HMP,

yeah, New Malden, the working programme. So I'm sending him all these, but obviously places that are quite cool, you know what I mean? Like Copenhagen and that. And then Kerry,

she's been so nice, but she's just like, just to let you know, I'm trying to read these postcards to Liam, but your handwriting's like, I need to then read my own postcard to him, so I'm trying to work on that. Have you started doing material about being a parent,

or are you quite private about it? Can you hear that? No, I can't, no. Is he kicking off? He's having a meltdown. Everybody said that, the terrible twos. I thought it was just an alliteration or whatever. There's other ones that I've get rhymes, the hateful eights

what I do think happens is my daughter's seven and she still sort of loves me and hugs me but I think eight and nine they start to go I still love you and you're my daddy but I'm actually sort of like nearly a teenager so I'm actually a bit grown up now so you start to be aware that really loving your dad may

not be the coolest thing at school so I think that's what that hateful eight is my daughter's five and she's starting to think that loving me is not the coolest thing obviously it's personality dependent as well josh yeah yeah if you've got a dad you just don't like on a personal level then it doesn't matter how old you are i thought about the terrible twos it was just a kind of hateful eight so he's i wouldn't say they're terrible twos but it was pretty much on's like as soon as he turned two there was like a software update was done

he'd just get the tantrum kind of gene put in he's just kind of running up and down the hallway but just getting hyper it's that way like he's trying to figure out how to open his own baby gate

he's trying to climb over the back of the couch he's trying to run down the stairs it's just a constant kind of you're just hunched over him aren't you the whole time still living with one of the jackass cast

yeah yeah Steve-o running around your house bam Margera in the house have I done

material well it was bomb just as my last tour was about to start so in hindsight I maybe jumped

because of the pandemic and everybody was like oh I better get back on the road everybody thought if I don't go on tour right. And everybody was like, oh, I better get back on the road. Everybody thought if I don't go and tour right away. So it was like an enforced layoff for stand-up. So I signed up to the tour

and then he was born in September, the tour where the kind of warm-up started in the January. So it was that kind of way. I wasn't there as much as I wanted to be at the start. Yeah. I think it takes a little while for stuff to form into stand up anyway you have to reflect on it a bit you know it does it does and it's also

that your whole outlook changes you go like this is no longer the biggest thing in my life I don't know you're all consuming kind of job yeah and you once I get used and settled in to being a dad then you're going to write more organic stuff rather than just the kind of shit I better write stand up about being a dad because the audience know I'm a dad then you're going to write more organic stuff rather than just the kind of

shit I better write stand up about being a dad because the audience know I'm a dad so I better because then you just put the toolbar in and you don't really

think and live it so I think on the next tour I would probably have a lot more to say about being a father I think Josh was like I never want to be that

stand up that just talks about the kids all the time but look at us now look at us now it's all we fucking got it's the same with photographs isn't it you don't have to be the guy sending just talks about the kids all the time and look at us now look at us now, it's all we fucking got it's the same with photographs isn't it you don't have any guys sending it or showing everybody the pictures

you can't help it, you surrender to it I get why people don't get it I was the last one of all my childhood mates to become a dad and I talked a good game I mentioned that on stand up I think I done a bit of stand up about that about how I was a good dad until my son was born

like I talked a good game I think I just said I'm a bit like I was a good pundit but now I feel like it's even Gary Neville moved into management yeah like me in the studio I'll talk any dad through the pitfalls but then my son was born and I've been handed

the Valencia job and I'm just like what's going on here so I think I done that but then it's maybe a bit I've been handed the Valencia job and I'm just like, what's going on here? So I think I've done that, but then it's maybe a bit, you need to be a football fan. I think I spoke about where my son's going to grow up in comparison to where I grew up. That was a rough kind of theme. Because geographically, he's going to grow up in the same city,

but it is a very different kind of situation he's growing up in, isn't it? Are you doing like like trying to keep him grounded and all that i mean not at this stage it doesn't matter but are you thinking about stuff like that his accent is already like mine which is a start because they speak a bit different the kids in my neighborhood yeah i can roll their r's you know yeah that's slow scottish sort of the slower it is the posher they are in it in sc in Scotland and then he heard me on the phone saying something out of order man

I was like that's out of order man and then he just ran about the whole day out of order man so at least he's getting that side yeah because my daughter goes it was a nightmare which is not really what a five year old girl from a nice bit of Kent would say

actual nightmare our school nightmare you're still in glasgow like in glasgow as well obviously you're famous all around the world you sell tours in australia scandinavia and stuff like that but in glasgow you are sort of a level above your arenas for weeks and weeks up there and stuff like that so everyone knows who you are and do you feel like that's going to be such pressure almost on him like because if he's in london and goes oh he's kevin bridges but in glasgow being kevin bridges his son is sort of something different i think he started to notice that when people stop you for pictures or whatever he starts to look at them as if what's going on man and that's only been the last few weeks he's getting a bit kind of curious but i think he knows there's something going on there but i

yeah it's too young people are nice so that's the thing but you don't want them lured into thinking that everybody's just this is how the world is people are so nice and you get tables everywhere and all that so I think as he gets older I'll be like

no some of this is a bit superficial it's only because they want daddy to tag the place on Instagram that's why he will get a free dessert son

a dessert you don't want you just need to take it as dessert son a dessert you don't want you just need to take it as it comes I mean you don't want to be running obviously Will factored in his position it's a little bit

different upbringing you know like I never grew up with people recognising my dad in the street or whatever so maybe that but it's something

you don't want to think about it too much yeah of course it's not an issue or anything now is it so he's got a couple of years off school. So when you're on tour, you're not there at all. Obviously, you're in Australia.

You're going to be away for a couple of weeks. When you're at home, how much of the parenting are you doing? Do you sort of just take the full load because you've been away? How will it work? Or is it split 50-50? Now, Kerry probably will listen to this. Or mate Hayley will. I was going to say, she'll be reporting back.

Remember, I'm getting reformants tuning in. Yeah. There's a lot of scrasses listening to this, Kevin. You won't believe until you do it. I'm actually feeling

a bit smug, right? So, Kerry hardly ever goes out anymore. Basically, she went out at the weekend, right? So, she's like,

Saturday night, my cousin was having some kind of girls' night or whatever, like a Prosecco party or whatever. She called it, that's not me making a kind of girls' night or whatever, like a Prosecco party or whatever. No, actually, she called it, that's not me making a kind of sex...

No, no, no. No, no, yeah, yeah. You know what I like. You know what I like. Women meeting up, they must be having Prosecco, aren't they? The reason I called it is, she said she was having a cocktail party

and then she broke her elbow in my mum's new house. She fell out my mum's moving house and she's just got kind of deck chairs or whatever as furniture and my cousin went and sat on it and leaned over and broke her elbow

so she decided to cancel the cocktail party because she couldn't be shaking cocktails or whatever so she rebranded it as a Prosecco party okay

anyway my wife was invited Saturday night and she's like do you want to go and do something just you and Liam since you're going away

and I said of course man so you go away do the Saturday night and Sunday don't worry if you're hung you want to go and do something just you and Liam since you're going away and I said of course man so you go away do the Saturday night and Sunday don't worry if you're hungover I'll go and do stuff on the Sunday morning and then I realised

the clocks are going back so you've got that extra hour yeah this could be the most wholesome weekend of my life here so she goes to that I took Liam

this light show it's like a Glasgow Halloween thing it was alright and then the next morning won't be tagging it on Instagram in the next morning

I walk into the living room and I can just smell like sick and I'm looking at my dog and she's looking at me and I can tell it's not quite her sick

I looked at the couch and I was like she's come in right she's fell asleep on the couch and she's spewed it she'd proper went for it and then she's in bed

and she's like I can't even move put the lights off, put the lights off so I took Liam to the soft play and then I took him to a museum and then I came back and Kerry's still dying and I was like do you want me to get you a McDonald's, I'm trying to throw everything, I'm trying to

just be the greatest husband I know, I've absolutely nailed it as a father in the morning and I'm trying to move into like, I'm just becoming this great guy in my head. Yeah, yeah. When there's an opening for that, it feels good. You sort of go mad on it. But in my head, I'm just going,

look at the neck that she got herself in. Like, I'm already starting up a WhatsApp group, Berlin 2024 or something. One's maybe, I don't know how long he's fancy, I just know I'm going to get to cash this in at some point it's the smuggest feeling in the world when your wife's the one that's hung over and you're having the day or the

she did have a good night there so that was actually a great Sunday we've done all that stuff so when I'm home and what's good right I know we travel a lot and we work a lot but when you're off you're kind of just you're unemployed basically so you've got that time during the day especially I was swimming yesterday

and as soon as I'm back from Australia I've signed him up to this wee mini kickers thing I don't want to be that dad already oh you do

oh there we go okay you're not going to be that dad but what other clubs have you personally signed your son up to apart from mini kickers my wife done it so my wife's got him in

she signed him up for baby yoga I've actually spoken about this in the new stand up special yeah my dad never took me to fucking baby yoga

that's the stuff he takes it to kinder kinder music yeah kinder what kind of music kinder

like a bueno but music a bueno but music what else has he got man there's a little Spanish you know that he can take it there's all sorts of

I don't want to overwhelm him man he needs some time off how do you feel like you're going to be on the side of little kickers well that's the reason I signed him up again

without being that dad I'd be paw patrol what did you call that down south did you call it a wind floater what the light football what a plastic ball yeah yeah

like a wind floater would be I'd use that what was he so cool he used to play with the foam remember the foam sponge bowl it smelled like plastic What, the light football? A plastic ball. Yeah, like a wind floater would be. We used to play with the foam. Remember the foam sponge ball? It smelled like plastic. Yeah, we had them ones, but we also had the foam ones that would get really heavy when it rained. Do you ever have those? Yeah, they were really satisfying to kick if they were wet, though,

because they'd leave like a trail of water. Like, you know on Sky Sports when they track the shot, you could track the shot through the trail of water. But yeah, then we had the floaty ones when we got a bit older. We were kicking about with the floater in the garden on Sky Sports when they track the shot you could track the shot through the trail of water but yeah then we had the floaty ones when we got a bit older yeah we were kicking about with the floater

in the garden just me and him but every time he addresses the boy he goes with his left foot so I'm like oh my god I might have a lefty here

so the next time I took him out he was just picking it up and trying to take a bite out of it and all that so maybe we need to work on that side of the game so I'll take him to that

and I took him yesterday to get his haircut right my son's got this amazing curly look when it grows remember Carlos Valderrama yeah I think there's pictures of me

as a baby and I've got kind of curly hair and I think my wife had a bit but his Liam's is wild this is like his seventh haircut or something and the guy that I go to is that kind of Turkish style so we get Liam's is wild. This is like his seventh haircut or something. And the guy that I go to,

it's that kind of Turkish style. So we get Liam his haircut first and then just need to entertain him whilst the guy's cutting my hair. But because I'm flying out to New Zealand tomorrow, you try and get an extra bit off the back and sides because you know you're going to have to go for a haircut. And it's somebody that's not your local guy.

So you're like trying to make this last mate because I don't want to go to a stranger yeah and he goes do you want your nose hairs done you ever had that done they put the cotton buds with the flame

no they'd stick it in and pull it out oh god I think it's cotton buds they dip them in wax stuff them up both of your nostrils and then they let it harden

let them close your nose over so it hardens in oh my god in the meantime they get this torch so they light a flame like a torch hang and just put it round your ears and it

singes on your ear hill, so Liam is playing his wee fireman Sam and his Shrek toys and then he just suddenly sees me with these things jammed up wax and getting burned and he starts going mental as if I'm getting tortured as if I owe somebody money or something

I don't know if I've kind of scarred him a wee bit yesterday but he's... Kerry, I'm just talking about your hangover at the weekend. You're evil. He wants to say a wee hello to her pal, Hayley. Oh, do you want to say hello to Hayley? Hi, Hayley. How are you doing? You hear that?

Yeah, we heard it. Hi, Hayley. How are you doing? There we go. It felt like Kerry wasn't totally happy with doing that. She felt a little bit under pressure, I think. I know, she looks a bit annoyed. She's in the cupboard trying to find her jacket or something. Have you got them?

Has he sorted? Can you ask her what she thinks of you as a dad, Kevin? Rob wants to ask you a question. Kerry, what do you think of Kevin as a dad? It's the first one. Oh, he's a great dad. Yeah. He's a great dad.

A bit daft at times, but's good he's good we've got you both here so we always are we will ask kevin this in a bit when you're dropping liam off at nursery but what's the one thing kevin does as a dad that you are like in awe of like oh he's brilliant i'm so lucky to have a child with him and what's the one thing he does that sort of annoys you a bit that if he wasn't here and he listened back he would go yeah that is a fair point i'm not trying to change that is there something he's amazing at accents he's amazing at accents there we go he does a great elvis crippling cripplington from fireman sam and he's great that's what you need no he's actually really protective i like when he gets the big, I'm the da kind of situation going on. And the negative carries at one thing that he could tweak maybe?

Absolutely, I'm sorry, horrific dressing Liam. Even if I leave an outfit, the day that I had this horrific hangover and he took him to the museum, which was amazing, obviously, when he brought him back in, he had an outfit that I would never put on him. So I just keep it in the cupboard but it still tags off it's like a present somebody got him

you get stuff you get clothes as presents and you put them in that don't say what it is don't say what it is was it from Hayley? it wasn't from Hayley it wasn't from Hayley

he had a sky blue green and luminous yellow tracksuit on I mean I think you've given it away now it was a bit Savile-esque the bottoms looked like flares green and luminous yellow tracksuit on. I mean, I think you've given it away now. It was a bit Savile-esque. The bottoms looked like flares. And then he had brown socks with acorns all over them and a green jacket, grey trainers and a yellow hat.

It looked as if he'd maybe got five different plans for the day. I thought it looked cool. It's just yeah don't touch the series what I play with the plugs

I think what Kerry means is when I become the dad I'm having to as soon as he turns two as you know

the discipline comes in I give him a row obviously but the other night we're just sitting having dinner and he

just gets a bit of watermelon and just bounces it right off the window and I'm like it's funny but I don't know how to handle

I've never been in somebody's company who's behaved like that there's this new side we cannae just let that slide so you need to it's like

a balance between the rows I know he threw a fork at Andy's head and all that he threw a fork at my dog's head so that well they're like

little drunk blokes aren't they on stag do's can we go to nicely for the daddy kiss no meltdown coming

daddy kiss daddy kiss one kiss oh my daddy's going to steal one oh bless daddy knows

bye daddy knows bye Kerry thank you I'll see you soon bye as soon as they leave we can

start the podcast be honest no I think that's good what do you admire about Kevin as a dad he's good at accents yeah let's unpack

that I would like to hear your Elvis Preslington from Farmer and Sam do you watch Farmer and Sam I watched it when I was a kid

yeah we still watch it do you the screen time thing you don't know how to approach that yeah

again back when I was a pundit before I became a dad I was like I would never let my kids on any screens and stuff

like that and then I think there's too vague a term in it because there's some stuff that's just poison for their

brains Miss Rachel you ever seen that one? No, what's Miss Rachel? Oh the YouTube, great job Herbie Oh yeah She tries to teach them all how to talk properly but it's maybe quite good for your kids speech

development if you want them to talk like that Yeah The American YouTubers I struggle with and I don't know if it's xenophobia or what but I just Yeah that's the thing I don't like I don't know if it's xenophobia or what, but I just... Or just annoying. Yeah, that's the thing I don't like. I don't even need to label it any kind of phobia.

It's really fucking annoying. That was the first bit of screen time that you got. Yeah, Miss Rachel. There's going to be some phenomenal stuff in there. They sing these songs. There's one, the Brush Your Teeth song, and it's like, you wake up in the morning and it's quarter to two. You just don't know what to do. they brush your teeth on and it's like if you wake up in the morning and it's quarter to two

just don't know what to do you brush your teeth that's just creating serious obsessive compulsive disorders wake up in the morning at quarter to two and then it's quarter to three brush your teeth everything just ends in brushing

your teeth so they're going to have great teeth but terrible sleep. You're good at accents, Kevin, as a dad. That's one of your pro points. I think that comes to the bedtime story, but I really go for it, you know what I mean? Do you? Aye.

If it's me taking them to get them done, we do one story, animated, and keep it alive and a good laugh, and then try and come in with a wee kind of mellow number. You know what I mean? Like we open up a stadium banger and then we go into an acoustic. See, I'm too needy.

I'm just banging out the greatest hits all the time and then they never calm down. I'm buzzing off the reaction. I'm ripping this. Don't get me off. What books would you recommend? I'm always trying to get them

some new ones. It's The Tiger Who Came to Tea. What a disappointment, man. Really? I don't want to spoil it for any of your listeners who have not read it yet, but basically,

they open the door, a tiger comes in and eats all their food and then that's pretty much what happens. And then the dad comes home and goes, oh, where's the food? It's very traditionalist.

The dad comes home looking for his dinner. It's old school. Outdated attitudes that may contain. I should put a wee warning there. Yeah. food that's very traditionalist the dad comes home looking for his dinner it's old school outdated attitudes that make him think I should put a wee warning there so then they go

for the fish and chips and then the moral of the story is the next thing the tiger comes they don't open the door

for how famous that book was when I actually read it it's a weird one to suddenly be a massive hit do you do all the

Julia Donaldson ones the Gruffalo and all that kind of stuff I've got the Gruffalo I've got a couple of them we get one button benny that's your favorite one at the minute the zumzee the aliens of zumzee i mean i don't really retain the information though when i'm doing it but i do do a different accent for each page there's a different sort of character like sort of camp american and then like yorkshireman and all that they like they giggle at that because it's sort of so you don't even do it for the different characters.

You just flip between the pages, Rob. Yeah, each line I'll do a different accent and they just find it. So what should I do for this one? And they'll pick something where that might go silly or crazy or sad or old nan. Chinese. Well, let me hear your Chinese accent, Rob.

Kevin, let's talk about your... You've got a cinema release of your stand-up. That's pretty cool, isn't it? That's like, basically, you're not having to do anything, but people are going to turn up and watch you. I know. The last two, I never got to as many places. There's only so many dates you can handle before.

You don't want to get to the stage, you're just hating the tour and hating going on every night. So I've done like 70 dates in the UK in Ireland which is a lot man yeah it's a lot of time it's released in

the cinemas November the 17th it's coming out it's something different if you put it on one streaming site I just think I don't want people

feeling the need to subscribe to something every month just to see your stand if they're actual fans of you where can they see it or you need to join to something every month just to see your stand. If they're actual fans of you, where can they see it? Or you need to join this. So I don't know if I agree with that way that it's gone.

So I just thought somewhere they can just actually get it. They want to see that. They just need to pay for that pretty much. So the cinema was one that somebody suggested. And I thought there was something quite nice about watching in the age of on-demand streaming. Yeah. Something a bit lonelier. I quite like the age of on demand streaming something a bit lonely there I quite like

the feeling of it when you're watching something you know that there's maybe someday somewhere else watching this at the exact same time

in there at the exact same bit let's say Line of Duty it's excellent and all that stuff but I think that's why it became so popular because it was quite

a communal experience in the streaming age and even like I've seen The Goonies about 100 times, but when it comes on ITV4, I still watch it because it's almost like it's live on the television. Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? You feel a kinship, you just know there's someday somebody else

watching it. Hey, guys! You don't get it, but I've got all these sisters. So it's a nice feeling. Somebody said Richard Pryor done that, their stand-up show, years ago, in the cinema. And I love going to the pictures, and it's a nice feeling somebody said Richard Pryor done that with a stand up show years ago put it in the cinema and I love going

to the pictures and it's good I don't know if you call it the pictures but I like going to the cinemas my dad still calls it the tool keys

it's a good excuse to go to the cinema also go for a couple of beers with some mates and then go and watch the show the next step though

is you can record it and it can be broadcast live in cinema so they can see the gig that's actually happening. That was suggested. I don't know why we've never done that. You should do the ABBA experience in London where we could have a hologram of Kevin Bridges

and then you only have to do it once. You haven't been to this, have you, Rob? No, I haven't. It's like they're in the room. It's a gig where it feels like they're in the room. I've been hungover enough that it looks like a hologram on stage. think we've got a future you know with ai and stuff yeah yeah i think we'll be all right you can't ai a podcast can you even you're saying

about like i live in a nicer area in glasgow i used to have like imposter syndrome because all the neighbors you know were like doctors and lawyers but now I think I'm accepted because I'm a comedian it's like a noble trade because a lot of the neighbours now are like YouTubers and influencers are moving in and like only band models

so now I think that the comedians I'm now like the neurologists are kind of like morning Kevin I'm one of them I've done my time at least in the comedy club so I'm serious of course he deserves to be here they're looking at new money people now we should wrap up and ask the final question

shouldn't we Josh, do you want to ask well you know the question already we've already asked it of Kerry this is about Kerry if there was one thing about her parenting that blows you away, yadda, yadda, yadda, cut to the chase. Also, one thing that when you say it on here,

Hayley can pass it on to Kerry and she can up her game on that bit of parenting. Snatch? Yeah. It works both ways. It works both ways. Well, she's took to it like unbelievably naturally

I don't know how the terms of it the workload that I had on when he was first born she took over massively and I was under a lot of pressure

when I was in it travelling and stuff like that and she was just there the whole time with that especially the first year she was just done everything perfect

and sleepless nights and she handled that so I she was just brilliant for perfect and sleepless nights and she handled that so I she was just brilliant for that and that was me being serious and then

she's too nice man so there's times she'll be like I'll try to get a dummy and I'll try to lure him off the dummy and then you take it away

from him he goes nuts so I always need to be bad cop and I always need to come in and I just take it and put it in my pocket and go that's it

she always caves in she loses the dressing room a lot so he's got these little fireman Sam Figgles and he carries them everywhere

now he wants to run when he's in the park he wants to run about and I'm trying to say to him you need your hands free to run because if you fall you're going face first

right and then it's happened a couple of times but trying to pry, they've got such a strong grip, man, it's like proper weight lifter strength when he's gripping something. This is the biggest thing in his life at the minute, so he's gripping that with everything he's got, so I'm trying

to prize him and then it's a full-on meltdown, like he'll be screaming and he'll care about it, just let him have them, just let him have them and I was like, no, because you need to then commit to like, so that's maybe where we clash a bit with the kind of we don't want him to lose his front teeth Yeah, well, there's no argument

there, you can't run holding figures, can you? No, and I think it's trying to be that united front and like if he knows there is a line that he can cross or if he can scream to a certain decibel, then mum will eventually crack. Yeah. And also it's hard having that conversation

when you're like trying to prize him out of his hand and she's whispering going, but can't you just have them? And you're going, no, you can't be. And then he's just looking and hang on, there's a way out here. He knows, exactly. So that is the only negative.

It's been brilliant. It's tough, man. I don't think there's any getting around. Anybody will say that. There's bits. And I don't know if it's tough man I don't think there's any getting round like anybody will say that there's bits and I don't know if it's maybe having children slightly older

I don't mean they're old but I just mean like a lot of my mates they don't know anything different they're in their 20s about being parents yeah

but I think it's different in all around the country because all my mates are having kids young in South East London but then in different parts of London 30

well we're 35s yeah I was the first person of my mates around here in East London but then in different parts of London 30 or 35. Yeah I was the first person of my mates around here in east London. Yeah but all your mates are massive virgins Josh I've seen them. All my mates are massive virgins. You've seen his mates. Yeah totally you're too used to your freedom. Yeah, but you were grown up young as well, Kevin. You were quite mature for your age, it felt like, when you came through. You had an air of authority

and also you'd done pretty well for yourself early doors. So a lot of people wait to sort of get that, yeah. It was the right time for me, you know what I mean, to become a husband and a father because I was,

your 30s can go either way, man. You could end up in Peru on an ayahuasca retreat or something. Or you can just make it up on the whistle and you're like get in a bit

get in so I'm glad that I just kind of conformed into like this family life you seem to be

absolutely loving it mate I thought everything I wanted to do like in my 20s I mean I don't know my travelling I went to like

Argentina I don't know what's a bucket list shit so I took out a strong insurance policy against a midlife crisis. So it was the right time.

It was the right time to become a dad. So I regret that first year, being on the road so much in the first year of his life and leaving so much of that to carry. But you can't plan it. The way you fall pregnant and how far ahead tours are planned, in a way, you'll probably look back and go,

that was almost the perfect time because you're so more present now when he's more engaged with you and things like that and remembering stuff I spoke to Frankie about it

and he was saying that his son is getting no memories of him being away on tour because he pretty much when his son was born he just tried to

hammer the tour and go and do loads of work so he could and then it's not as if I'm going to be hurt in the next tour

when he's going away you're going daddy or when he's he's even starting to see me leave with a suitcase sometimes he knows I'm going somewhere tomorrow because he sees my case is packed

that's going to be a tough one he's not quite interested in FaceTime yet no I don't know when that comes so what I've found that this is help or not but I've found

sometimes I'd go oh right I've just finished a gig they're awake oh FaceTime but you basically just Kerry might have got

Liam chilled in front of the telly playing and all that and then you burst in and then they just kick off because they're like oh it's daddy and stuff like that

so I always used to message and double check like let me know when it's good to FaceTime or not because you can completely just burst in and fuck up the day

without realising I've done it when he's only when he's only bathed I'll FaceTime or not because you can completely just burst in and fuck up the day without realising I've done it when he's in his when he's in his bath I've FaceTimed Kerry started to set the phone up at the bath the phone falls in the bath

he's screaming and I was like alright I'll phone back I'll call back I'll call back when's the movie out Kev? the movie? I know

so November 17th I think Beyonce's coming out and Taylor Swift and me. Amazing. Do you know what? I wish I worked in a cinema in Glasgow now

just to pick who's in for what. You can see the Beyonce fans, the Bridges fans and the Swifties. There you go, that's a game for the cinema staff. Bridges, Beyonce, Swift, bingo. Who's coming in for who? And Rick said, your agent told me that it's over

200 screens or something 400 I don't think it's shown in my hometown which is it's one of the only cinemas Clybank the Empire Cinema

in Clybank so that's the one I used to go to as a kid it was a different name but I don't know if maybe honestly well if anyone listening

go and see it Kevin when people say to me oh like oh you see all the acts who's the best? Your name's always brought up. You're one of,

if not the best comics Britain's ever produced. Cause well, there's people that do arenas that we, between us, you're not going to suggest to go and see. But we always say Kevin is unbelievable. So go and watch it. You're unbelievable,

Kev. And thanks so much for doing this. Thanks so much for doing it. Not only seeing you with Kerry and Liam. Good luck with Australia, Kev. See you later, mate. Cheers, Kev. Cheers, Gary. Kevin Bridges. I love Kevin Bridges. He's so good.

He's amazing. He's amazing. He's so good live. Rob, I have got 15 minutes until I'm recording a voiceover on a CBB show, and I'm still in shorts. And it's 20 minutes away. Oh, you've got to go somewhere for it? Yeah.

Oh, okay. Right, well, go and do that then. I'm so sorry. Go and see Kevin Bridges in the cinema, everyone. He's brilliant. Oh, you've got a busy day. It's at 9.15am. You're already late.

And I'm still talking to you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Hi, my name's David. Here we go. Can't do it. So we're trying to do an advert for our...

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