Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S8 EP41: My Garage Stinks

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

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Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Willicombe. 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 when none of us know what we're doing. Introducing the first ever Mazda CX-70. Our largest two- row SUV available as a mild hybrid inline six turbo or as a plug-in hybrid. Crafted to move every part of you. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Funny, can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Widdecombe?

Josh Widdeombe? Josh Widicombe. Good girl. I didn't even listen to that. It's alright. I just zoned out. That's okay Rob. You've got to really bring it for the next fifty and a half minutes. So take the half minute while you can.

Yeah, let's start. Oh, that was sweet, wasn't it? One of my favourites. Do you know what? It's a good name. Could we play it again? I feel bad. No, this is unfair. Everyone else has listened to it. Just because you haven't, Rob, I don't think that the nation should have to listen to it twice. I feel like it's unfair on the people that have sent it in that I didn't listen. OK.

Can I hear it again, please? Sorry. We can always edit this bit out. No, we're not. Funny. Can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Widicombe? Josh Widicombe.

Good girl. Oh, I like that. That was good. Sonny, was it Sonny? No, it's Vonne. Vonne. V-O-N-N-I-E, named after her amazing nan, Yvonne. So it's short for Yvonne. But the child's called Yvonne. I don't know about Yvonne. They've obviously gone, we can't call them that. We can't call a child Yvonne in 2022.

I mean, obviously, we love the sentiment. Everyone, people love other family members. It's nice to sort of respect them with naming your children. But it is a tough sell calling a child Yvonne, even just from spelling it. I'm 38 and can't spell Yvonne. They've also got a five-year-old Hector. Strangely, they were both born on the same day, the 9th of April, which is the day after my birthday. Your birthday or the mum? Mine. Right. What's mum called? The mum is called Megan. Megan. See now, Vonne, I quite like Vony, V-O-W-N-I-E, is it? But like, have they gone

Vony surname or is it Yvonne but everyone calls her Vony? We don't know what the surname is. Hector. Now that is hard, isn't it? That's a hard name to pull off, Hector. There's a lot of them in the East London area at the moment, Rob. Really? Hector's? Yeah. Okay. There was one an area at the moment, Rob. Really? Hector's? Yeah. Okay. There was one at my daughter's nursery when she was at nursery. I don't think I'm speaking out of school to three years later, say.

They did not get on. Oh, your daughter didn't get on with Hector. That's fine. Some kids don't get on. Some kids don't get on. Some kids don't get on. Exactly. You're not saying all Hector's? Not saying all Hector's.

Hector Bellerin, of course. Oh, wonderful guy. No, wasn't planned. Hector was five weeks early and Vonnnie was on her due date. The best birthday present for Hector as it was his second birthday, where we woke him up at 3am due to contractions, dropped him at a parents and we were back at lunch from the hospital with Vonnnie. Fuck it.

Oh, you knocked her out quick. Well done, mate. She does not mess about, does she? Fair enough. Vonn and Vonn out. They're going to hate that when they get older, don knocked her out quick. Well done, mate. She does not mess about, does she? Fair enough. Vonna Vant out. They're going to hate that when they get older, don't they? Sorry to shit on your parade. It's probably cute now.

Yeah, well, the same birthday. Siblings. Famously love sharing stuff. Yeah, well, interesting, Rob, because I was going to bring up my main talking point this week is that we've had my son's birthday weekend. Oh, lovely. That's fine. You can talk about that. Oh no, I'm going to talk about that. Yeah, no, I'm not. Why would that be an issue? No, no, no, no. I said interesting, not an issue.

Oh, I thought you meant, well, now you said that. I'm not, I'm not. Oh no, there is an issue related to it, which is obviously what they won't have as an issue is the other siblings' feelings of struggling with their sibling, getting loads of presence and being the centre of attention and all that kind of thing. But then you don't get bothered by that when you get older because you know that your day's coming. You know your day's coming. There's no coffee in the house.

Yeah. At all. And it's actually feeds into, you know the question we asked, the thing that if your partner was listening, that maybe they'd say that's a fair point, but you don't want to bring it up because it calls an argument. Yeah. So this is one of my little gripes with me and Lou is if Lou's indoors and I'm at the shop and I text or ring and say, do we need anything? Yeah.

And Lou just goes, Oh, just get whatever. I like just get a few bits. What I'm saying when I need to think he's like, do you mind having a look in the fridge? Yeah. Yeah. Like quickly scan. And I'm not saying write a full list and get a big shot, but quickly scan, I'd say the key five.

What are the big five? Milk, bread, coffee, and then the other two are miscellaneous for what the children might need for dinner. Well, the one I struggle with, which I wish, if someone said to me, what are the things that do your head in most? Not being there. Milk or oat milk, depending on mood, is definitely top. Eggs is the other one actually. Eggs is a nightmare.

Bread products for children's breakfast. Yes. Oh, disaster. And then the other one is snacks for school pickup. Yeah. If I'm leaving the house, I'm already late for pickup and then there's nothing and I know it's gonna kick off when I get there.

So yesterday I said, Lou, I'm in the shop, do you need anything? She went, no, not really. And then we have no coffee. But she could have just looked at the coffee. Here's a little tip of what I like to do, Rob. What do you like to do with the coffee? Well not with the coffee, but general.

I like to do this particularly with cleaning products. Yeah, sure. When it's finished, don't put it in the bin. Put it in full view on the side to remind yourself that it needs replacing. Okay. Now that is messy though, isn't it? It's not like a big line of things. It's just-

Did you do that with a dirty baking tray that Rose hadn't cleaned out for a few days? No, I didn't do that. He left it at- Yeah, I did. Yeah, I'll wear it. Also, in lose defense, I did force her to get up off the sofa and go into the garage to find out if it's airglade or air wick that we've got a plug in. Josh, I'm going to go see that. My garage stinks.ick, right? That we've got a plug in Josh. I'm going to say my garage stinks.

What is your garage? I've got a stinky garage. What's so what's in your garage? A car? Car, but then obviously it's a bit muddy where we actually drives in a bit of mud. It gets just a bit musty, a bit wet. A wet car comes in with mud on the wheel and stuff like that. So it gets a bit musty, a bit of a stinky garage. Yeah.

But with this plugin I've got, actually one of our friends came around for drinks and they were left through the garage. They said, doesn't your garage smell nice? And I said, thank you. Honestly, thank you. And you know what that meant a lot because I've been thinking, I've got a right old stinky garage on me, Anzie. And I don't know if I can turn this around. Is anyone else feeling like this is an innuendo? I don't think I could turn it round. But this is just a little plug in and I don't know if we've got air wig or a glade or

whatever. Yeah, but once you plug it in your garage smells lovely. Oh, man, it's our field. Well, that was the problem, wasn't it? Because they did that on the adverts, didn't they? When they hang the washing out smells Smells like a beautiful summer, fresh, filled and it smells like horseshit. What if horseshit gets in your clothes? No, so back to the coffee. I'm now drinking hazelnut flavored coffee.

Oh. From a container that the best before days actually perished. Oh my word. Why have you got hazelnut flavored coffee? I don't know. I think Lou might have got that. We both like Why have you got hazelnut flavored coffee? I don't know. I think Lou, Lou might've got that. I'm the word. We both like coffee, both like hazelnut.

Yeah. So I'm going to drink it. So I'm on on survive the episode, but let's see how it goes. Is absolutely disgusting. Yep. But you're going to plow on. Yep. Yep.

Yep. Need it. Need it. The medically need it. It's an addiction. Yeah. I'm addicted to coffee actually. Yeah.

I'm addicted to tea. I love you Lou, but please check the coffee next time. Yep. It's a long day without it. This is the thing with the country. How, if I said to you now, just nip out and get some coffee, what's that going to take you? Oh, you're looking at a 10 minute drive there, 10 minute drive back.

Fuck off! Yeah. Wow! Do you know what I mean? No wonder it's so perilous when you're in the shop. Yeah, yeah. Because this morning I needed yogurt. Mm.

And I just went out and got yogurt. Exactly. We can't do that, Josh. So that's why I did ring and say, is there anything we need? Yeah. Sure. Lou and I, we don't want to be driving for 10 minutes in the morning to get coffee.

It's not going to happen. We haven't got enough time. We're doing the scoring. However, I would suggest the 10 second walk from the sofa to the coffee. Yeah. Maybe yesterday. Yeah. It's even shorter than going out of the house, isn't it? However, I would suggest the 10 second walk from the sofa to the coffee. Yeah. Maybe yesterday.

Yeah. It's even shorter than going out of the house. Isn't it? Well, here's one more. She's going to go fucking mental when she hears this. But that's fine. I'll defend you by having a go at Rose. Do you want me to have a go at Rose? Yeah.

So in Cornwall. Have a go at Lou if you want. I'm more over that. I like that. Oh, it's a bit of fun. Oh, it's a bit of fun. I'm so hot. Oh, Rob, my radiator, talking about so hot, it's still on. Even though our heating's off. No.

And I think it's linked up to a hot water supply rather than our heating supply. It's on a different loop. And is that the only one? I don't know. So what's broken? The little knob you twizzle on the side. Yeah.

Can't just get that fixed. I know, it's on the list. Right, okay, so if you've got that fixed, you could just turn it off. Yeah. But at the moment, it's not gone off with like all the other ones know it's on the list. Right, okay. So if you've got that fixed, you could just turn it off. Yeah. But at the moment it's not gone off with like all the other ones because it's not part of the... Do you want my list of things that need fixing?

Please, because my day is awful today. How much have I got to do? My radiator that's next to me where I work that's on full blast throughout the summer. Yeah. I mean we're looking at May, you've got to get on top of that. I know. And same with looking at May, you've got to get on top of that. I know. And same with looking at May, we got a thing, put in our garden, because I find every day, I like to water the plants, but every day

it becomes stressful for me. It's not relaxing. No. So we've got things in the flower bed that are on timers. I love it. Yes. And it's quite cheap actually, once you set it up. It is. Yeah. But we've attached it to the tap. Yeah. The attachment to the tap has broken so that if you turn the tap on, it just sprays water at all angles, like you're putting your finger on a hose pipe.

So you've got it all set up, you just need the little attachment. And because it's attached to the tap, I now can't use the hose. So by getting this thing, I'm now- Oh no. I'm going to water the plants with a watering can. Yeah.

Yeah. I've gone backwards. I need an app called Dad Can You Help? And what it is is for pathetic people like me and you, we can just message them on it and a bloke that comes around that's like a real man. Well, I did that with my printer on Air Tasker, Rob. Yeah, I know. And he told me I'd broken it. them on it and a bloke that comes around that's like a real man. Well I did that with my printer on airtasker Rob.

Yeah I know. And he told me I'd broken it. So what's it you need to get an attachment for your hose thing. Yeah. Radiator. Yeah I've got an alert every time I get in my car saying that I need to do something to do with checking the oil. I think the thing you've got to do is check it. And also my experiences of oil, the reason is there's never too much.

No, but my dad got in and I said, what do I do about this? And he said, because he knows all about cars, because he's of a different generation to you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he said that it looks like one of those timed automated ones. It doesn't look like it's in relationship to the oil. Right. The one where every six months you need to check kind of thing. So is it orange or red on the dashboard? The little.

No, it comes up on the digital display. It comes up as like a message, like if you got a text on your phone. Right. But it's not like a little warning sign. No, no. I'd ignore that until the car stopped running. So what happens with me now is because it takes five to 10 seconds for that message to come up. Yeah. Right.

So what happens every time I get in the car is I get in the car. Yeah. I put it into reverse to move out. Obviously, yeah. I've got a reversing camera screen thing. Yeah, you know those things? In reverse to move out. No one's wondering why you put it in reverse. I put the car into

reverse. Why just because I can. And then I put in drive. Want to get unrelatable for my car's got forwards and backwards. Hey guys, I still want to be pretty relatable. Garnier. Yeah, my car does go forward and back. And it's got a digital display. Yeah. So you know, those, it's got a display. It says on it, don't do all your reversing by the video screen. Fucking hell, of course I'm doing all my reversing by the video screen. Not even with your neck.

Exactly. That's why I'm here mate. Sorry, you've got a projected screen in front of me or I can turn around and look through a seat like I'm peering through a window box. Window box, window, what's a good letter box? Fuckin' hell. Anyway, this is so boring. I didn't mean to talk about this.

The moment I start reversing, the oil automated thing overrides the video screen. It overrides it, so I can no longer see where I'm reversing. And you're relying on the screen. I'm relying on the screen, which I shouldn't be. And then I have to take it out of reverse and put it back into reverse to override, Rob.

Right, okay, yeah. It's so minor, but that's another thing I've got to get fixed. You've got to check your oil, basically. Got to check my oil. So what else is on the list? Anything else? The main ones? There's a door hanging off a hinge in the kitchen.

Do you know what I was thinking about the other day? They had a good invention, didn't they? Doors. My life without doors, it would be impossible. I don't think it wouldn't work, would it? Yeah, I wonder who invented the door? Or did they like do the door and then go, now we can build houses. Because otherwise, what's the point?

They would have had a hut with like a drape, would they have had back in the day? Before old doors? Or just a hole, like a cave. They're basically building a cave. They must have invented doors by this point, so I'm going to sound stupid. But you know, like in a cowboy film. Yeah, saloon doors, the ones that... Yeah, well, they don't do the full door.

Yeah, what's the point of that? What's going on there? Yeah, why did the cowboys need that? It's like naked attraction. You can just see the feet. What? Just feet of that? What's going on there? Yeah, why did the cowboys need that? It's like naked attraction. You can just see the feet. Just feet and hat? Feet and hat. Boots and hat.

Check he's a cowboy before he comes in. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's see the bottom and top. Ha, ha, ha. Were you going to slug off Rose, or didn't you in the end then? To make me feel better? Did I? The moment's gone now, isn't it?

I don't know. I can't remember what we were talking about. Just to make you feel better really. Well, I thought about doors because I was in my daughter's assembly today. They were doing something about castles. She was the jester. Oh, y'all. She had a couple of jokes to do. How did it go down? Do you know when she was practicing?

Did you hit her Brad bit? I used to love that bit. No, she did a, why are there so many silly people in the castle? Because it's a kingdom. Oh yeah, not bad at all. The other one was, why is there no sun in the castle? Because it's full of nights. That's solid. That's good stuff. But yeah, she delivered it really well.

Oh. I was doing it really silly at home and it was quite funny, but it was absolutely deranged. And I think, oh, and just do that in assembly. She went, oh no, I can't do it. That's silly. Oh no. Phone? Oh, fuck. Carol's here.. She went, oh, no, I can't do it. That's silly. Oh, no. Phone.

Oh, fuck. Carol's here. Who? Oh, Carol. Oh, can I? Is that Lou's mum? No, can I have a second? I've just got to let Carol in.

Yeah, of course. I forgot about Carol. Please be vaudevment. Please. Who the fuck's Carol? Carol's got to be a 50 year old or a minimum. Should we have a bet, Michael, for the podcast? Who do you think Carol is?

I think it's something to do with either gardening or cleaning or something around that. It's got to be, isn't it? It's a domestic service of some kind. Yeah, delivering flowers. Do you know, are you on first name terms with your florist? No, that's true. Yeah, I think you're right. I think Carol is the cleaner or the gardener.

Sorry, I forgot that. What's happening? We just had a bet on who Carol is and we think cleaner or gardener. You'll never get it. No. OK, dog groomer. Dog walker. No. I said florist. First of all, guest agenda. Oh, Carol is a Czech builder.

Oh, close. Yes. He is, I've got a little fireplace that's broken. Ah. So he's removing it and putting a new one in. Ah, exactly. Carol's in Poborsky. Yeah, yeah, of course. England flag on Facebook.

Tough news. Oh, God. Well, we've got this fire. One of them ones like sort of, it's a flame, but it's done bio-ephanel. I think I spoke to you about it, didn't I? No. You pour like liquid fuel in and then it sort of lights and it's sort of a flame, but it comes out, it's quite modern. So it's like a flat plate that has a flame coming out.

It was freezing cold and we was watching the telly, and I was like, oh, let's put the fire on, that'd be nicer. I'm putting the heating on in the room. Put it on. Hey, it fucking went mental. It was just like about eight foot high. It's like, it's coming out. It's like saying from stranger things. So I was like, oh, I'll just turn it off from the wall. Turn it off from the wall. Still burning. I was like, oh my God. Well, let's just open every window and all the doors. And I just watched it stand watching it, hoping that it didn't, but it was fine because Carol knows what he's doing. It's really good fireplace. Basically, it was a faulty thing on it that was letting too much fluid out.

Ah. So the flame was high and it wasn't too bad, but it was quite high. But once I turned the, uh, off from the, it stopped releasing. Yeah. Anyway, they've swapped it for me. Good guy. On that, I used one of our small businesses. Oh yeah, go on.

The guy I phoned. He came around and fixed my fish tank. So what's wrong with the fish tank? Did you pay him? Yeah, I paid him 100 beans. He come around and he saw it. Is it all good? This is the problem. I've just got so much contrasting advice. He turned up. I just wanted someone to tell me what to do and get it back to year zero. He looked at it because obviously go into a shop and they don't

really he was like your pumps too small. Yeah. What about the fish tank? Yeah. You should pump too small and you need to get out of the fish tank. I wonder it's covered in algae. Your cup's tiny and it's green. Sorry. I'll carry the light. The fish keep getting sucked towards it. I'm not very good at eating you, Eddard. No, exactly. So he said, the

pump's too small. He got rid of all the algae and I used to, here's a tip, I used to change the fish tank stuff with jugs. So five litres out and then five litres in of new stuff. Yeah. But he said, you need to use a a it's a bit like a kind of hose. It's a bit like, you know, when I've never done it, obviously, because I am who I am. But my dad used to have to do it in the 80s and 90s. You know, when you'd suck from a petrol tank to get the hose going. Yeah, I've got vivid memories of my dad doing that.

And thinking, what the fuck is wrong with this lunatic? Why was he doing that? Sorry. Are we in the film Mad Max? Is there some sort of pathetic shortage that we have to suck at? Why did you need to do that? I don't know, but I've got images of us on a forecourt where there's loads of petrol. Had he put the wrong stuff in? I think people could do it if they were stealing it from you.

Yeah, or if, say, for instance, someone broke down, they had run out of petrol, you could get a bit out of yours and give it to them. Is that what they were doing? That doesn't feel right. As we get Covid and they didn't, they're sucking off petrol tanks. That generation did whatever they fucking wanted. Anyway, he says use one of them because it will suck out the stuff from the bottom. Right. So anyway, and he got rid of all the algae and he's also recommended the right plants

that won't create algae. Yeah. And that's given me loads of things to buy and I'm back to normal. So shout out to those guys. Thanks for that. Do you know what? Our small business shout out really is a winner. Anyway, that was off you saying about Carol. Carol, yeah, Carol. He's doing a good job down there. Good man. And it wasn't it wasn't his product either. He just installs them, but he sorted out the replacement and he's doing it now.

Good on him. Can I talk to you about parenting, Rob? Absolutely. Yeah. YouTube. I need your advice because you've got older kids. Yeah. My daughter can now write search terms into YouTube.

Yeah. OK. So her and her friend were watching YouTube on the iPad. Right. YouTube Kids or YouTube Fool? YouTube Fool. I need to change it to Kids. You might as well just send them to Amsterdam in the Red Light District. Do you know what they'd written in, Rob? What? Mad people.

people. That is so, so mental. Well, exactly. That's the thing. They just want to see mad people. I just want to see mad. Angry mad or just like... Well, no, because then they either think they had a specific thing they wanted to see, because then it didn't come up and they changed it to crazy people. Do you know what I think it is? I think kids at school, it's so like, sit there, do that, no, now's the time to, my kids go mental when they come home from school. I think it's so, even jobs aren't as formal and as strict as school. I hated school. Yeah. I think they just want to let loose a bit maybe. Wow, you're still kicking out.

Oh God. The BAFTAs was the closest I've had to go to school. Talk to me about the BAFTAs. Congratulations. Sorry. Congratulations on winning a BAFTA. Oh, thanks, mate. It's just very serious, isn't it? You know what I mean?

It's like just a bit of fucking telly, lads. People take it really seriously. I really struggle because I'm sort of- It's not the Pride of Britain Awards, guys. No. Yeah, so that was all good. It was a long, old night. But yeah, I struggle with anything when we have to be serious tonight. You see, Judy loves eyes. Yeah, Judy loves eye rolls. Amazing, wasn't it?

Yeah. I tell you what, though, I was very tired because it was quite long. Also, BAFTAs are really heavy. They're like, it's up, walk around with a fucking kettlebell. Well, wouldn't that bloody really heavy. They're like it's up walking around with a fucking kettlebell. Well, wouldn't they? Bloody no, Rob. Four nominations still are yet to hold a fucking kettlebell. That's unfair. Four nominations. You should get away with that, Craig David, innit? Jimmy White, my agent said when you came off, you said you had a bad back because you'd

been standing up so long. Oh my God, my back was fucked. Basically, we were left on the whole time where last year when someone comes out to do two awards, you come off and wait and then you can go through your notes a little bit. So that was a bit. And you're worried you're always in shot, I suppose. Exactly. So you're always on and like three hours of that.

I felt like, you know, them guards that faint when they're waiting for the Queen. All stream guards or whatever. Yeah, whatever. They're like that. So yeah, no, it was good. It was just a long old night and it's just loads of serious bitch after the sale seriously and stuff like that.

Did they have like people who they've lost and all that kind of stuff? They have a bit of a bit trees section and stuff like that. So yeah, no, it's good. It's just a long old night and it's just loads of serious bits you have to tell seriously and stuff like that. They have like people who they've lost and all that kind of stuff. They have a bit tre section and stuff like that. And then they have like fellowship awards and there's people make really political points or that. So then you come off the bat and you might have a joke and people have made political points. And also because it involves the BBC and BAFTA and it's a huge deal for the BBC. There's so many people watching. It's like jokes were getting taken out and changed like on the Saturday, you're doing it on the Sunday. And it's like, I'm not going to name names. My friend said his joke, one of the words got changed six times. He can change six times before they accepted it.

There's a lot of people involved in all the decision making. So it's like, it's almost like where is this like, it is so us. There couldn't be less people involved. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if there was one less person involved, it couldn't exist. When after there is about 3000 people there, it is like, you're part of this massive sort of thing. But now everyone's lovely and it's a great event. But it is a long, long old evening. And also as well, they did, if it was doing the monologue that I think they were cutting to shots of the crowd. So the audience could see, but we couldn't. So they were laughing at bits.

But we had no idea what they were laughing at because they were laughing at stuff like Judy Love's Eye Roll because we couldn't see what they were seeing. F**king hell. And really well, everyone's really happy. But in the sort of most difficult gigs you do, I'd say this is probably more of the lower end. Yeah. When you're in your daughter's bedroom moaning about coffee. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when you're

hosting baths, but I was great. And it's really like, you know, always great to win one and things like that. So anyway, I was exhausted and I was in a hotel the next day. I've been like, eating really healthily and stuff last few weeks. Yeah, fitness, you look very good for it. I ordered this like back this hotel is like bacon roll back for it. And it took like literally 40 minutes to come. And I was like, Oh, excuse me, I'm still waiting for this back. I went I know. I immediately and then he walks off one fucking I know, which it was happening.

Oh, the fucking BAFTAs last night. Yeah, also as well when I ordered it was like a sausage and egg back or bacon and egg back. Oh, can I get sausage and bacon with the egg in the back went people don't normally have both Was that all right? So I'm getting fat shamed now, huh? Mate, do you want me to show you my fitness pal? What I've been eating for the last three weeks Are you aware of chicken because I've eaten 400 of the fuckers in the last three weeks. That's your shortage Chris packings doing a fucking petition to save the lives of chickens and our meeting We'll talk about parenting right so I'll tell you about my day, right?

And then I'll tell you, I've got a big old parenting story we've got as well. So let's do that. Right. So today's very busy. So the BAFTAs on Sunday, today's Tuesday after the BAFTAs, we're a little bit sort of because I've been busy with the BAFTAs. Yeah, you're on catch up. We're on catch up.

We were a little exhausted yesterday, knackered yesterday, and then we're doing this today. Too tired to look for coffee in a way. Far too tired to look for coffee. Anyway, we dropped our kids off at school this morning. Lou went ahead of me. I went after we watched their assembly. I've come back now to do this with you. We've got a couple of episodes of recording interviews, whatever. Then I've got to build my daughter's bed because at the moment you can see behind me, there is no bed.

Oh, so I've got to build a bed. Then I've got to go back to the school to watch my other daughter's assembly. Oh, and then I'm getting picked up from there to So I've got to build a bed. Then I've got to go back to the school to watch my other daughter's assembly. Oh, and then I'm getting picked up from there to go to Cambly to do a work in progress gig. Where's Cambly? Oh, like sort of near Ascot way. Fucking hell. Over that way. So it's a busy old day. Yeah. On the way back

from school, I saw a hitchhiker. Fum out. Hitchhiker. You didn't pick them up? No, they look quite normal. It was just like in a blue rain jacket of a bag. And I think there are some roadworks going on at the moment. So I think some buses are on diversions and where I live, if a bus is on diversion and doesn't turn up because it's like one every 40 minutes. Yeah,

if it doesn't turn up or you miss one. Yeah, you might as well just get in a bush curl up and wait to die or be discovered. Yeah, yeah, yeah wait to die or be discovered. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. Yeah. It's over. You can't even walk because it's so narrow, the roads and the bushes are out now because

it's so I don't know if he was just like, I'm stuck here, but there's only one way that this person could be going. But I was like, any positive hitchhiker stories people have got? It feels like from the days of taking the petrol out of the tank with a hose. Yeah. Like, I'm sure there was more hitchhikers when I was a kid. My dad would pick up a hitchhiker. I've never seen a hitchhiker in my life.

I lived in London. That is the first hitchhiker. I'll tell you where you'd see them. Yeah. Service stations. When you leave a service station, there's often a hitchhiker with like leads on a piece of cardboard. There's not, but that's what I'm picturing.

Maybe when I was a teenager, I saw them on the way to festivals and people have been dropped off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually just day to day. Where are they going? Like, then you just live in the middle of nowhere. It was actually at a bus stop though, but maybe to the next little town. Yeah.

I felt like he maybe like gets a bus to the next little town and goes to work. Oh, I see. Were you tempted Rob? If I weren't so busy and had to get back for this, I probably would have for the story. Yeah. Bit of content, innit? Yeah, exactly. Oh, Josh, you never guess what?

Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Just look what Carol can bring us. Do you know what I mean? Red hot stuff. Well, I live for me. You're on fire. You're on machine. You're on fire. I'm on machine, you're on fire. You're on fire. Not the only thing. You know, the closest thing we got to hitchhikers in Southeast London was down by at Catford,

there's an industrial estate by the home base. You get people that hang around hoping that builders need laborers for the day. Oh wow. And then they get in the back of the van and taken to a site to carry stuff out and then get dropped back at the own base. Yeah. You seen those guys? No, I've never seen that.

You sort of see a group of guys that look like they may not have all the full documentation to maybe apply to become a partner at Waitrose, aka work at Waitrose. Clever way they've done that Waitrose and John Lewis. Ask one of the partners. Did they get shares? I don't know. But I went and asked one of the partners. They can't get much shares because there's quite a lot of them.

I went and asked one of the partners, which was a 16 year old boy in the yoga aisle. And I said to him, do you have protein yogurt? He went, couldn't tell you mate. And I just said, who could? Who could? That's the thing. If you're spending your whole time in charge of the whole company You're not gonna know if he's a one of the part of one of the partners doesn't know whether Protein yogurts are also embarrassed asking for the gallon sugar knows where the screws are in his factories He can't even find them in his bloody head. He's got a

This is good. Yeah, here we go. I think it's paid off actually I think the coffee's worn off. On that, people like trying to just ask you like that kind of thing. So when I was a student in Manchester, so Man City still played at Main Road, the old ground that was in the middle of Moss Side, that was like a really rough area, I think that's fair to say. Like, it had an edge. And I'd go to the games occasionally. And I remember Scallies. Is that the wrong word these days? Jason Vale Scallies. I think Scallies is fine. You can call someone a Scallie, can't you? Yeah, like a Scallywag.

Jason Vale Yeah, Scallies is fine. Jason Vale Yeah, these Scallie, like teenagers would come up to you and go, you know, if I could come through the turnstile with you. Jason Vale Oh, yeah. Jason Vale And you're like, I'm just a guy from Devon and I'm 18 and I'm scared. I wouldn't say that out loud, but that's how your eyes would say. That's what my eyes would say. Did they like go in with you then?

No, I'd go, I'm not sure actually. And then they just think, fuck this guy, this guy's a loser. He'll get us both arrested. Give me 20 quid and you can, mate. That's what you should have said. Oh yeah, should have said that. The real Scallies wouldn't ask, they'd just do it. Exactly. These kids, they thought they were Liam and Noel, but they weren't really.

Do you know what I mean? Losers. Want me to tell you about the birthday weekend? Yes, please. Sorry. Yes, I've braveted on. No, it's all right. So it was my son's third birthday on Saturday morning. Yeah. No, Saturday day birthday on Saturday morning. Yeah. No, Saturday day, the whole day. Yeah. All 24 hours of it.

Traditional house, we go for the full 24 hours. What do you actually think about cutting back birthdays issues sustainability wise? On Friday night, we went for dinner, me and Rose with some friends, which was very nice. I still have a lovely time, but find socializing drains me without alcohol. Do you know what it is? It's not draining you any more than with alcohol.

You're just aware of it because you're not drunk. So even if you're sober, like the next day, if you're only going to drink, the next day you're exhausted because you're like, oh my God, that's so great. That is energy. And especially when you've got kids and you're tired and busy, you've only got a certain amount of social battery in you. Yeah, totally.

So I woke up, I was quite tired socially. Then this landed on our lap, Rob. One of his friends from nursery was having their birthday party on his birthday. But was it their birthday? Yeah, yeah, it's their birthday as well. The same day? Yeah.

I think that's allowed. You were sort of saying that like his birthday was like two weeks before and he just snuck in. Oh no, no, no, I'm not saying it bad. I'm saying it's good. This is our life. Sounds like you got beef. This is Hector again. No, no, no, I was saying we basically got to go watch a magician.

Yeah. Go and get all these things that you want, but we didn't have to do any of the organizing. Oh, love it. So it's a joint party? No, but he's three. so he gets to go to a party on his birthday. Right, okay, yeah. He gets the thrill.

Can he do a birthday cake or anything like that? Well, we did, on the Sunday, we had a smaller gathering for just people we know with kids. Yeah, you can, at that age, you can shift it round a bit, can't you? I just think, we went to this birthday on Saturday morning, lovely, could I just say? Yeah say, the mum who is Swedish, the spread, a Swedish birthday pie is lovely. Some Swedish open sandwiches.

Oh, and told me through a Swedish spread. Well, you get all the rye bread, like the nice bread. No, not that shit without a lid. Yeah, that shit without a lid, Rob. Oh, fuck that. Dry, horrible bread. Listen, look, can I say something about this bread, right? There is better bread.

The reason why this is traditional is because it's fucking, there's no sun up there in the winter. It's got the right ingredients. It's fucking shit. Ha ha ha ha ha. Rye bread is shit. Oh, I love rye bread. Herring?

Do you think they eat herring because they like herring? No, they don't. It's all they fucking add. Millions of years ago, whatever it was, hundreds of years ago. So they could get their fucking hands on. Well, glad I taught you through the Swedish. Meatballs? No meatballs, no.

It was 10.30 in the morning. 35 p.o. dog, you know, the idea does look like. Dime bar? Oh, do you like that rye bread? Well, I don't like the really hard one. Yeah, the hard one's mental. But it was good, that rye bread? Well, I don't like the really hard one. Yeah, the hard ones mental. But it was good soft rye bread. Okay, fair enough.

You had cream cheeses. Yep. And you had cured meats. Oh, really? What was wrong with the meats? Ah, that's good stuff. That is good stuff. Give that to your daughter for assembly. A lot of cured meats.

We've got cured meats in the castle. What is the entire celebratory of it. Yeah, they had COVID, but they ate the jab, so. They're all good. Tasted negative, they're cured. Yeah. Sorry, that was a shit joke. Oh, I enjoyed it.

It's a good bit of fun, innit? So that was two hours. Yeah. So by this time I am running on low bat. Yeah. Low battery. Then, because it was his party the next day. He really fucking loves a big shop. My kids love a big shop. Nice. Like doing the supermarket shop. Yeah. So he did that

in the afternoon on his birthday. Yeah, because if you can just place him in the trolley. No, they stand on the side of the trolley. They hold on to the side, feet on and then you push it along and they fucking love it. Perfect. We used to put them in the trolley when they get tired. Oh, did you? You know the scanner ones? Yeah. I'd give them the food and then they hold it up, I scan it and then they put it down but they slowly start covering them.

Oh, that is good. I'll do that next time. I'll do that next time. So we did a big shop. By this point, I'm absolutely exhausted. I collapsed sleep on the sofa. Yeah. And then Sunday morning, we went to Hamleys. Oh, yeah. It was a sort of a PR event type thing. There was a Hamleys PR event. Right. I don't know what it was, but they said, Hamleys is opening early, would you like to bring a kiss? Okay. I'd say the lineup was eclectic. Let me guess, can I guess?

Well, you might have seen one picture I put on Instagram, although you were probably doing the BAFTAs, so you probably weren't looking at your Instagram stories. No, I wasn't on my phone, I just stood up, you know, because the ceremony's three hours long. Yeah, no, I know, I've needed a piss during it before. We had to do the dress rehearsal for three hours. Oh my God. An hour rehearsal. That's seven hours.

Ramesh said to me his legs hurt more after that than the marathon. No wonder Ramesh has been training. It's for the BAFTAs. Who was there? Was there Samantha and Billy Fares from TOWIE? There was some people from TOWIE but I didn't recognise them. Amy Charles? No, Amy Charles wasn't there. Ellie Taylor? No, Noel Fielding. Oh, didn't expect that. Yeah, that was nice. Lovely to see Noel. Yeah. Bradley from S Club. Yeah, of course. Absolutely. With his kids or just on his own? With S Club Juniors. Arlene Phillips. Arlene Phillips? Who's Arlene Phillips? She used to be the judge on Strictly.

Oh yeah, and she got the heave-ho and everyone said it was for ageism. Yeah. Right. She's 80. She was there with her grandkids. Good on her. One of the Dragons. Sarah Davies, I think. Sarah Davies? Yeah. Oh yeah, Sarah Davies. She was there with her grandkids. Good on her. One of the dragons, Sarah Davies, I think. Sarah Davies. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Sarah Davies.

She was there. Yeah. It's a real mix. So we took them. They fucking love, never been to Hamleys before, Rob. I know my kids want to go to Hamleys. I might take them at something. The kids love it.

I think we were going to go, but obviously it was at the Bafters. We were inside. Did I mention that it was at the Bafters? Ha! I think you still are mentally. Can I just say at the BAFTAs? You still are mentally. Can we just say something about the BAFTAs? Yeah, we can edit it out when you text us an hour. So the actual thing was fine, but with like any industry, there's always full of different people, isn't there?

Yeah. Some of the people in TV, there's a lot of ego in that room. Oh my God. There's a lot of ego in that, and a lot of taking themselves seriously as well, Josh. A lot of people that think what they're doing matters. Oh, you'll love this, right? So we were on waiting to have a photo to take with the red carpet. Jeff Goldblum was there.

Now, talk about someone not taking themselves serious. He just does not give a fuck. He's a legend or anyway. Me and Ramesh just stood there. He's getting interviewed by Michelle Visage, who's doing the red carpet thing with Tom Allen. He comes along. Then he says to me, he goes, hey.

To you or to them? To me. I'm still with Romesh, but directly to me, full on Jeff Goldblum. Yeah. I feel like I'm in a scene with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God. And like, beautiful, beautiful. Like, I know, head to toe, beautiful. Oh my God, look at this guy.

I'm like, oh, it's just Goldblum. And like, you know, proper Jeff Goldblum. Amazing. And he goes, you look like Richard Attenborough from the film. And he said a film, I mean, God, beautiful. I love it. And I said to Romesh, does he look like Richard Attenborough from the film. And he said a film, I mean, God, beautiful. I love it. And I said to Robert, does he look like David Attenborough? Jeff Goldwyn said, no, I do David Attenborough.

He knows Richard from film. He don't know David Attenborough from Blue Planet. When you said you look like Richard Attenborough, I thought he was going to say from the film Jurassic Park. I was going to go, I'm a fucking Dale. No, he said from an early film. And other people have said that to you before like that. And then eventually goes, so guys, what are we filming here?

I was like, nothing. We're waiting to be interviewed. Oh, and then she walked off. He was like a media interview. I'm off to Hollywood now. This guy fucking loves me. This guy fucking loves me. Fucking loves me. Have I ever told you about and stop me or edit this out if I have? Yeah.

About when we had Caitlyn Jenner on the last leg. I think I remember her being on it. But I don't remember you talking about it. She was lovely. Just to be clear. I walk into the makeup room and Caitlyn Jenner's talking to someone. Yeah. And I go up to her and she says, could I have a bottle of water please? To you? To me. Yeah.

And I thought, I can't. Four time Baftan on my itch ass Shweddocker. Okay. If I must. Four times loser. I've lost everything. Yeah. What have I lost to? League of their own twice. Oh, you're kidding me. What else have you lost to? Charlie Brooker. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. That Tom Davis thing where it was improvised. Oh, they're good shows

to be fair. They're all good shows. Someone say better than the last leg. Officially. But anyway, we lost to Big Nasty one year, I think. Yeah. So that's that's hard to swallow. He goes to sleep some shows. I remember going to awards with The Last Leg. I don't know what it was. Maybe RTS or something. Yeah. We lost to release the hounds. That was a low night. Well, the hounds there. Yeah, the hounds ran on stage. So, I got the bottle of water because I thought you can't. But then obviously, when she walks out onto the set as a guest, she's like, what the fuck's that guy doing set hour?

Who the fuck is he? Is it still the rehearsal? No, this is on the show. She didn't do it. Oh, you're separate. How was the rest of the birthday weekend then on Sunday? Oh, yeah, yeah. so then we had a party. Yes. It was very nice. He got lots of presents, but I've learned the lessons.

Any new time, first time parents, when you're kids in the first three years, you don't actually need to buy them loads because they'll get it from other people and they don't realize. Yeah. So all he wanted was a stuffed avocado, not the food. Also, how do you fucking stuff an avocado?

Take out the stone. No, you cannot stuff an avocado. It's built to be taken out. What I mean is, do you know those teddies that are food? Oh, what's that? They've got a name for them. They're like... Jelly Cat or something? Are they called? I can't remember. No, Jelly Cats. They're really good Jelly Cat, as teddies go. If you want to buy a teddy for something, Jelly Cat, they're called... Food teddies. What are they called? I can't remember. No, Jelly Cats, they're really good Jelly Cat, as Teddies go. If you want to buy a Teddy for something, Jelly Cat, they're called... Food Teddies, what are they called?

Plush. Are they called Plush? Oh no. Anyway, there's a toy shop around the corner and their window's full of them. So he wanted the avocado. Yeah, it might be Jelly Cat. Jelly Cat are good. We're not being sponsored by them.

They're Plush, we're not being sponsored by these. Do tell us which one it is. They do a fake versions of them now because they got so popular what the squish mellows right? Okay, it's squish mellow This is avocado. Anyway, he wanted that and he wanted a umbrella. That's all he wanted Blessing and he would love your umbrella a bit. Yeah, and he was insistent. I go out and buy it in advance Oh good on him. Oh, is it this one? Yeah, Google Squishmallow avocado. It's not that one, the Squishmallow avocado, but I think

there's loads of them because when we went to Hamley's, they had their own version. It's just a big thing, isn't it? Yeah, just a big thing. No, we've got the Jelly Cat one. You got the Jelly Cat avocado. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I think they're a premium. Yeah, my mate bought my daughter a stife bear when she was born, but I didn't realise they're quite expensive. What's a Stief bear?

Stief bear are like the original bear, like they're German, but they're like 100 quid. Fucking hell. But then you're supposed to have them for years, but she wants to cut it. I'm like, no, don't cut it, leave it in the box, it might be worth money. And I was like, oh my god, what pathetic. You can get a Del Boy Stief bear, 300 quid. Fucking hell, it's mental. It's quite cool, I quite like it actually.

It's got a little D-neck. Add to basket. Anyone from Stif's listening, send me a bear. Don't actually want a bear, please don't do that. Anyway, halfway through the party, Rob, I was gripped with a deep depression. Oh no. Because I've obviously just over gone. Too much that weekend.

Too much that weekend. It was quite good because I identified, I was like, this gone. Too much that weekend, yeah. Too much that weekend. It was quite good, because I identified, I was like, this is just burnout from a weekend of- Yes. Rose said, it was a real nostalgia trip for her seeing my eyes. She said, this is what you were like 18 months ago. Yeah, all the day, every day for weeks.

All day, every day. I had a bit of that last week as well, just the pressure of the BAFTAs coming up, trying to juggle lots of plates, work, the kids, it's, but also it doesn't have to even have to be, the BAFTAs may, for me, drain a bit quicker because there's a lot more going on, but just, I have that before when it is like, I'm going out for seeing uni friends I've not seen for ages, seeing schoolmates, going out with Lou for a couple's night and then a dinner, then the kids, this, that, and it is just, you do need to make sure that you're

having time to yourself to recover and rest. Totally. And then you become Aggie to be around. Totally. That's, and myself included as I'm not just saying you, like anyone. No, no, no, I do. So how did you recover from that, Josh? I went out on my own. I just was like, I'm going to just go out for a bit in the evening, went for a nice walk. Yeah. And it just drained slowly over time and just going, just knowing that it's going to drain. And by the evening, went for a nice walk. Yeah. And it just drained slowly over time and just going, just knowing that it's gonna drain. And by the evening I was all right, but, gosh, you just sat at the pie going, oh my God.

But it's knowing it's chemical is really helpful. Do you know what I mean? Well, yeah, it's just sort of the dopamine levels and all that and the cortisol that's going up and down. It, it tires you. So like yesterday I was knackered and exhausted and then I went, I dropped Lou at home after we had to go and get the dogs because they stayed overnight when we were away. We went and got the dogs brought them back and I went, oh, I'm just going to go and get

the car cleaned and go to the shops. And I just went really slowly and I find, and I think it depends on what your job is or what your lifestyle is like. There's a lot expected from a parent and also someone that does our job. Cause it's like giving energy out the whole time. If it's doing a podcast or hosting an awards or doing stand up, you're giving, giving, giving, and then, oh, woe is us. But sometimes when you aren't about it, more than expect for you from

conversation, you can't just sit on a bench and because someone will come up and be like, Oh, so I have to find little moments where I can be totally on my own. So when I went to the shops, I just sat in the car for half an hour, did a bit of meditating before I went in the shop, just to, I need to be on my own. And the more I'm on my own, it also gives time to look for the coffee. She's gonna fuck me up after this. Oh, God.

Yeah, I need to be on my own and then that recharges my batteries a little bit, you know? And then you're a better parent and husband and worker and performer, whatever it is you do after that. But yeah, you have to put yourself first in order to be good for everyone else, I think sometimes. Totally. It's amazing you recognise that, Joshua. You wouldn't.

I know it is good, isn't it? Whereas previously you'd be like oh god the world's awful and I hate it. Or what I would do is book a gig in to distract from it. I feel like shit if I do a gig at least I'm earning money or getting better at comedy and at least I'll be distracted from feeling like shit because I can't actually process trying to not feel like shit. I'm not earning money at the moment for my gigs Rob. Yeah I know but like that's how I would do it in the park. Well, you will be once you do a tour. I know but at the moment the freedom of knowing that I'm not getting paid and I can be shit is incredible. He's mental that like if you want to jump on a gig you basically

don't get paid for six months doing those little gigs but Yeah I love it. But we enjoy doing it and it's worth it in the end. That's how you started off doing it for no money. I know. But also as well if you do do the gigs that pay you, then you can't really express yourself and try what you want to do because there is a job to be done. Totally agree.

I don't know how to do that. I won't name the gig, but it was a Friday night gig. There was a hen do's in and I was in the middle trying some new stuff. And I started talking about it. And obviously some of it's just ideas, some of it works. And then I said something that woman went, why are you telling us that? I went, pardon? Why are you telling us that? I went, I think it might be quite funny. At some point, I'm sort of I

think it's a funny angle. And I think it makes me laugh. I think I just got to work out an example and then get a joke on the instrument. Oh, I didn't like it. Okay, that's fine. But if for this to proceed, maybe just be silent at the end of the joke and I'll take that as read. I can't go around the room and do one each, whether you like to joke or not, you know what I mean? It'll take forever. Well, you say that. I once did a gig and I turned up, this was in the days when, you know, you're doing bad, bad gigs. And the guy was like, so it's a pub and there's no

stage and people having dinner. And he was like, so it's a pub and there's no stage and people having dinner. And he was like, the landlord has booked this. And he was like, is the mic? I just thought you could go table to table and do a bit for each of them. Yeah. Mate, I actually had to do that at a corporate cricket ground one. Oh my God, like a fucking magician. Edgbaston. Oh yeah, nice ground. In Birmingham. Yeah.

Basically, it was a thing that the cricket board were doing to try and bring younger people to 2020 and they were booking comedians to go to each ground. So I did one down in Hampshire and I commentated with the pitch side reporter and I was commentating on it and stuff like that and basically just being there doing a few photos and whatnot. And I did one where I went there and it was basically up to the ground, what they wanted you to do. So he went, maybe in between batting,

can you just go out to the wicket with a mic and just do stand up there? Fuck off, that garden. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And in comedy, you want to be the front row to be as close as possible. It's fucking, I've got to hit a six to see someone. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

And I went, mate, I don't think that's going to work. Like, I'm so far away, and there's no camera. It's just gonna be mental. It's gonna be me. Like, anyway, oh, okay. Well, what about this then? There's a big drink at like, you know, like the big concourse. Yeah, cricket grounds. There's like a big area strength. So that's what they make a lot of massive area to drink bars rammed 10 deep to the side. There's a couple of like tables

in the middle. Holding pints all watching Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final. I go, how's that going to work then? He went, we'll just turn the screen off and send you on. You said, how's that? Like a cricket? He went, yeah, we'll just turn it off and you can go up. I went, mate, these are all sports fans. They're all stood watching the Wimbledon fight. It's got the first British winner of fucking 100 million years or whatever. I'll get beaten up. All right, then we've got to do something. Oh, yeah, no, mate. So let's go to the hospitality area.

So who booked you? Why had you been booked? I was getting about 750 quid at the time, that's the most I've ever been paid for a gig ever. Yeah. I've done about 200 quid on petrol to wedge bastard. Anyway, the hospitality people were in seats watching the cricket and then like in hospitality, you come in and there's some tables inside with food on. Yeah. He went, oh, here's a mic, just stand in the middle and do stand up when they come in for

tea. Right? Anyway, so I'm stood in the middle, they all come in and I'm like, oh, sit down everyone, do some stand up. They all sit down, grab their tea and cut it. And then the screens around the edge of this bit all get from the tables and just go and stand and watch the screens. Now I'm sitting in the middle of a

seating area with people's backs to me as they're watching Andy Murray on the screens. And I'm doing stand up and the rest go come on. What is he making? I don't know. Did you do it? Yeah. How long 20 minutes?

Yeah. Fucking hell. I just commentated on the tennis at the end. Did anyone turn around? Couple but then that was worse. I was like, I can't look at you. Don't look at me, don't look at me. Don't look at me, don't look at me. Right, I love it, do I?

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