Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S8 EP42: George Lewis

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant comedian, writer, and social media content creating sensation - George Lewis. You can listen to George's fantastic podcast 'Save it for the podcast' HERE His book 'DON'T PANIC!: All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know' is available to buy wherever you get your books. And tour dates tickets and info can be found HERE Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. Please leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xxx 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] NEW ALBUM OF THE SAME NAME IS OUT MAY 10TH - PRE-ORDER HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 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. Everyone's got a thirst, a drive to be the next big thing, to put the world on notice. If you answer when your thirst calls, Sprite's for you.

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Can you say Rub? Rub. Can you say Beckett? Beckett. Can you say Josh? Josh. Can you say Whiddicombe? Whiddicombe. No. Oh. it's a shame. Just tapped out of that. Yeah. Oh, Rob.

Great name. Go on. Am I going to like it or not? Well, shall I give you the shortening, which I think you'll like? The shortening is Barney. Okay. As in Barney... The dinosaur.

Oh, yeah. Or Barney Walsh. Barney Walsh. Barney Walsh. Oh, Barney Walsh. Is Barney short for Bernard? Well, it is in, because I like the name Barney, right? I actually, I pitched it to Rose. Barney's a little bit posh boy for me. I'm sorry. One of our exes is called Barney. Of course Rose went out of a Barney. Of course she did. She's posh. She's not posh. She's bit posh. She went to a comprob. Come on. Barney, I think it's a nice name. But it's short for Bernard in Bernard Sumner, the Leasing and New Order's Barney Sumner, right? So he's authentically working class. But this is Barnabas. Wow. That is bold, isn't it? No wonder he goes quiet when he's asked to talk about names. Barnabas? Where's he going to school? Where's he growing up? Nottingham. Oh, pray. Can everyone pray for Barnabas, please? I've been to Nottingham. If it's in a certain

part of Nottingham, if it's a bit of Nottingham that Karl Froch and Matt Fowler are from, then Barnabas needs it. Or get him to a gym, get him boxing, get him fighting, get him on the pro team. Barnabas is there. It's like a boy named Sue. But if he's going to a posh bit of Nottingham in a private school, he might be all right. Just imagine walking into secondary school. Hello, I'm Barnabas. No, he's Barney.

He's Barney. Yeah, I know, but kids know. There was a kid at my school, his middle name was Frederick. He got absolutely battered for that. It's quite a normal name. Yeah. Do you know what it was? It was, so kids would have the shortening, but then a substitute teacher would come in

and they'd be given the full names and they'd read them out in the register and it would go fucking mental. I know. Well, good luck, Barnabas. There was a girl called Jenna, which was fine. Yeah. And then it was Genevieve. Oh, she didn't stand a chance. Genevieve. That's a national lottery machine. God, I've missed you. God, I've missed you. God I've missed you. Oh it's great stuff. So what's Barnabas

saying? What's Barnabas's mum called? A bit of an avid listener since the beginning and we're a rare night out to see you in Nottingham. Oh well we presume they're near Nottingham. Hopefully your tours will come through our city again soon yes it's Nottingham. I'm originally from Brighton. Oh okay fair enough moved up five years ago thanks i'm doing them i am doing not in them on tour giraffe get tickets now there we go um sign to a mailing list if i do do a tour can't say if i am you're gonna do it all but well you've already told us you've put back the photo shoot because you don't want the body you've got got. I've never picked a comedian's tour on his body or her body. Yeah, but you haven't seen Joel Dommet, have you? I've seen

Joel Dommet more than any other comedian I think. We started together. I did Lunchtime Club within Edinburgh with him, Tom Rosenthal, Liam Williams and Ian Smith. I saw Joel Dommet say out loud, we're missing Hollyoaks for this. Yeah. When we were at the gig, and, and you remember, there was murmurs around the room. Have you heard Joel's doing Russell Howard's good news? And he may as well have been Richard Pryor at that point. But I've seen Joel. I've actually actually been sending this is a bit of a confession.

I've been sending photos to Joel Donnett needs of me topless ones. Have you because he's interested in my fitness you've been sending nudes to well, he wanted to either that I was trying to get fit and he wanted topless photos sent to him. Oh, wow. So I didn't send the just before but I sent him a one month update on my send them a topless photo with no caption? He'd love it. He was here and he asked for it. I know it sounds weird but I'm like a bit of a geek on fitness and stuff and I love body transformations.

So if you... but he kept on bugging me and I was like well I would but nothing's transformed yet. It's just two photos of me with the same body in different shorts. photos of me with the same body in different shorts. And at that point you are just sending nudes. That's just photos of bodies, not bodies transforming. I don't know about transformation there. Yeah, he did that a bit an hour later than he did the last one a month ago. But yeah, so we're doing that. But Barnabas, good luck at school, brother. I saw Joel this week. Did you? Yeah. go. But yeah, so we're doing that. But Barnabas good luck at school, brother. I saw Joel this week. Did you? Yeah. What's he doing? At stiff neck central. What's stiff neck central? The Chelsea flower show. Right. I had a look at you lot that that I saw it.

And don't get me wrong. I like you were there with Susie ruffle, Tom Allen, Joel, Domit. Love all of you. I feel like I've got a lot in common with all of you guys. I saw some of the other people at first of all, why were you so smart? You look like you're in court on a tax evasion scheme. Do you? No, you're what? And a tie like that? What? You have to wear a suit and tie? Yeah, well, you don't have to wear a tie. What do you want to tie to go in a garden? You're going to a garden? Who dresses up to go outside? Monty Don? Do you know what I had a meeting with BBCN, I didn't know Monty Don was.

They literally just couldn't... That's my victim. They couldn't compute and I was like, who's Monty Don? Basically, what they wanted was me to do a gardening show, right? But the problem is working class people don't watch gardening shows because their gardens are normally fucking tiny or just on a balcony. And then when you watch a gardening show, you see some posh bloke wandering around a fucking five acres of garden and you go,

Want to see John? Yeah, whoever it is. You go, well, that's actually annoyed me. Because my garden's tiny. Our garden growing up had a shed in it and decking and patio. That was it. There weren't any grass. You've literally just described my garden.

Well that's because you live in London, there's no space. Move out mate. But anyway, how was the Royal... What was it called? Chelsea Flower Show. Why is it called Chelsea? Because it's in Chelsea. Fair enough. Good decision. I came at that a bit aggy, but I'll retreat. Well done. We had a lovely day. It was good to see. Good to see various people. It was just a lovely catch up. Was it fun though? Because I've always pet Lou wants to go and

I'm tempted to go but I think you might annoy me. I think Lou would love it. Yeah. I think she needs to go as a plus one of Tom Allen. Right. Okay. Do you like Rosé? I don't. I like Rosé, yeah. I think you'd get a bit pissed and have fun. Yeah, but then I don't think me having fun

is what the other people there judge as fun. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha And that kind of vibe don't really get me. I think Lou would love it. Lou would love it. Maybe Lou can go and she can take her mum or something next time, she can go without me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't really see Tom Allen. I literally didn't see him. I saw Alfie. Oh yeah, his partner. His partner.

Not Alfie Allen, that's a different, famous person. But Tom, it's like if you went to the World Cup, but also you brought Palais. Tom Allen, that is perfect place for Tom Allen. It's it's like a hard day's night. Tom Allen there. It's unbelievable. I bet there were older posh women foaming at the mouth to get near him. Oh, my God. It's that guy.

You know, the guy from the Bay Cup. Oh, my God. And I'll just be stood next to him as they're falling over him. Me thinking, I'll walk past a cafe in a minute to get some attention. Just walking past the building. I'll be standing with all the builders at the back that have to bring in all the fucking gardens and get shuffled out in their eye visits

once you lot turn up. All the people that have actually built the garden. Tom got to stay for the king. Wow, what does that mean? Well, we all got shuffled out. So he met the king? Well, I don't know, I'd got shuffled out. So, he met the King? Well, I don't know. I'd gone. Why did he get to stay for the King?

Because I think he's involved now. I think Tom... I didn't see him. I didn't see him. Is he taken over from Prince Harry? He'd be a great Prince and future King. He'd be a wonderful Prince, wouldn't he? He'd be shaking hands and talking to people. Oh my God, he'd be such a good prince.

He would reignite the country's love for the royal family. I'd say to a certain demographic, I'd say it would increase tensions to the old St. George's flag and Twitter brigade. Do you know, in a weird way, it would change who was into the royal family, wouldn't it? Almost 100%. It's like television. Yeah. But that's fine. I'm glad you had a good time. Who was it? Who was if you had to

pick the number one biggest person there? Who would it be? I think that well, excluding Richard Osman. I think Dench is pretty exciting. I think people are quite excited by Dench. Dame as well. Yeah, she's a Dame. She's she's not you don't see her that much. Do you? Me personally? No never actually Never seen her be weird if I had I think right we've got a guest George Lewis He's a bit of a big fish in the I'd say social media. He's a social media dad

Influencer. Yeah, I don't know what the right term is but dad influencer He's a great stand-up comedian as well, but then he's really broken through online as a dad Is it dad influence a sketch? Yeah, I think so. My wife's my wife. It's a classic thing. My wife's a huge fan of his videos. I'm a huge fan of his videos. Oh, does Rose like? Is she there, Rose? So George Lewis is coming up now Where is she? She's in Ibiza

Oh kiddo, she's... No way! Are we still recording? Here's your dress recording. It's George Lewis. George Lewis Hello. Welcome. Hello. So I tried to save you there because you took a slip just as Josh said hello. So I tried to jump in and go Yeah, messed it up on the first word. I was gonna chuck in to the parenting Hill podcast like it

looked like what we do. Oh, yeah, as ever, it wasn't as slick as we planned, Josh. George, you're a man who I would say has built accidentally a career around being a comic and a parent in the same way that we have. You've created a new genre online. You're breaking boundaries here, George. So your online content, how do you describe yourself, George? Obviously, you're a stand-up comedian, that's your main job,

but you've got like a new audience. Well, yeah, exactly. And I think a lot of the people now that will, because I'm going on tour and I think a lot of the people buying tickets are like, have no idea that I did stand-up as well. Yeah, they just thought you videoed yourself in your house on your own.

Exactly. And that's what they're there for. Yeah, so because I mean, like for 10 years doing stand up and obviously not really, no one knew anything about me. And then, um, yeah, started doing the videos and I don't know, then it's hard to decide what you are because Are you an influencer, George? Well, that's a horrible word, isn't it? But, uh, content

creator, content creators a bit more, there's a bit more respect that isn't there. Yeah. This is imp, there's a bit more respect to that isn't there? Yeah, there's at least, in playing there's a bit of art to it. And so what you started doing, we will talk about your kids, but it's such a fascinating thing because you are big with like my wife, I just went downstairs and I said we're doing George Lewis next. And she said, Oh, tell him I'm a fan. And she very rarely does that. Right. Yeah.

Even with me, she's not a fan. You've absolutely nailed the exhausted mums market. Well, you probably know, like on Instagram, you have you can see like who follows you, can't you? And you get an idea of like where they're from and who they are. And mine is it's 80 percent women and almost all of them between 30 and 40 is exactly what you described. You've got Joanne McNally's audience.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think that's what happens now is whenever someone, if someone comes up to me and says that they like, they like my stuff, if it's ever a bloke that comes up to me, he always says, my wife sends me your stuff. Or, my wife likes you. Yeah, exactly. And it's like, no, I'm still one of the lads. I'm, you know.

What about the cup final? What about 10 hard? You still did the lad stuff. Don't worry about that. You should have done your tour at like, sort of about 10 AM after the school drop. Perfect. Two hours hours down by 12. Well that happened like on one of the dates that I've got. I think it's Newcastle. They put on an extra one and they said do you mind doing one at 6 p.m. and I thought

oh that sounds like an absolute horror show. I don't want to do that but I said yes and people love that. Like parents love the opportunity. So I'm thinking maybe that's like something I could really exploit, do all the gigs. You're doing 5pm in Guildford, George. One night. I didn't realise that. 5pm in Guildford. 5pm in Guildford. Then it gets the end of your tour on Bazzarly because we're on the same website. Go straight into Rob. Anyway. George, how does your wife feel about you going on this UK tour that's exclusively going to be attended by women?

Like Zayn Malik. Rob, I haven't shared the analytics with my wife. She's on Instagram. So just to be clear, if people don't follow you, you do videos which are kind of, they're often one side of a conversation or they'll be like told from the child's point of view. So how did you start out doing these? Well, it was.

And they're often based around the travails of parenthood, should we say. Yeah. How many kids you got as well, George, and what ages so we can sort of paint a picture in our minds. Don't have kids. He hasn't got kids. I just saw a gap. That's how we had kids.

I've got a six year old, he's just turned six, and a four year old, but they're close. There's like 14 months between them two. And then we've got a younger one that's one in a bit. 14 months. We should get on to that at some point. Note that down as a question for later 14 months between the two kids yeah it's a surprise yeah yeah it takes about nine months doesn't it to grow after the basically your wife was pregnant when you had a five month old baby

yeah yeah yeah so are you going to take those kind of insatiable shagging skills around the country for the ones that are coming to you? Yeah, we'll probably put you in one of the playground shagger sections of the podcast with those numbers, George. I think you have you down as a player. Oh, thanks guys. And would it, six and five, would it have been during lockdown? No, it wouldn't have been.

Was it before lockdown? It was before lockdown. Yeah, we went into lockdown with two young ones, but it was because I mean, it's a bit stupid this But before we'd started like trying for kids, I wasn't that aware of how everything worked really like biologically I mean, I know that vague outline. Right. Okay. What didn't you know? Well about how you get pregnant, I always just assumed get pregnant. We've never had this issue before. I mean, like, this has never come up in four years. You did know how you got pregnant. Well, I thought that you could just get pregnant anytime. And then it was when I was like researching for the book that I did. And also when you try for a baby, you have these apps and it's like, actually, the window that you can get pregnant is so small. It's only like a few days a month or something. And then we started

using those like fertility tracker apps. And it's like, there really is not much time. So then once we've had the first one, we're like, Oh, we'll just carry on using the fertility tracker. And you just, you know, avoid that time. Oh, you just shag outside the window. So you were shagging without protection outside the fertility window. So using it almost like how to not get pregnant. What happened then? Was the app wrong? Human error, I think it was. Human error.

What a lovely thing for your child to hear in a few years. Human error. I think you've got to keep it updated with all the details and there are not just red and green days, there are orange days as well. So it's a bit it gets a bit vague bit too sexy Yeah, so the bottom line is Johnny on next time. Well, no you had a third same thing happen again. Yeah Great salesman for the app I've had a vasectomy now. So I'll have you. Yeah, I want to have one You're not a great salesman for the app. I've had a vasectomy now, so where are you?

Oh, have you? Yeah. I want to have one. Yeah. How was it? Because I've heard horror stories, but was... Well, I found that the moment that you say that you're going to have one, or not even that, the moment that you've got three kids, every bloke who's had a vasectomy talks to

you about vasectomies. So it was like everyone was telling me about either their horror story or something they've heard. And can you just get it on the NHS? Yeah, but there was like a year waiting list for me. Hence the third child. Yeah, exactly. No, but they, yeah, so I waited for a year on the NHS, but in this build up, I was getting quite nervous about it because I was just hearing like it was horrible and stuff like that and... Do they knock you out? No, no, no, no. Can you talk us through the process, George? Okay, so first thing that happens is you go to your doctor about it and they send you a leaflet and say if you're up for it we'll put you on the waiting list. Right, if you're too up for

it you need to get on the waiting list. Do they ask you any weird questions like... Is someone forcing you to do this? Yeah. Yeah, exactly that. Yeah, yeah, so you get a phone call about a month before you're having it done. Yeah, my wife. And they go, yeah, that's what we... that's the usual answer. You can have it done. So it's all those questions.

And I think I've heard people get turned down for it. Like I know someone at the school playground who they said, sorry, we don't think we're going to give... What? Yeah, I I know it's mad, isn't it? He's not shagging enough. Do you have to tell him? We had a look at you in the afternoon. You're not shagging enough, weren't it? Yeah, I just hand them the diary and they said,

yeah, that's you qualify. You told them about the tour. They were like, you need to get a bloody good set to me, mate. I've looked at analytics. I need to put a fucking stop on this. I need to tie an end in this one. They tell you all about it. And I think on the phone, they said to me, right, I need to put a fucking stop on this. I need to tie an end in this one. They tell you all about it and I think on the phone they said to me, right, do you want to know in detail what we do or do you just want vague terms? And I said

vague as possible please. Oh, did you? Yeah, because I think any other medical thing, I'd want to know exactly what it is. But for some reason that because you're conscious the whole time, I don't want to be thinking about what they were doing. I thought it would just make me feel. Oh, so what is the vague thing that they do? What is it? The vague thing they said is they just numb you. In your accent, that's horrifying. Numb you. Just gonna numb you. Okay.

And then they like slice in a little bit. Oh, slice isn't the word. What are they slicing into, George? The scrotum. Scrotum, yep. Yep. I don't want to get too personal. Do you have to shave the area beforehand?

You're explicitly told not to shave. Right. Also, how airy's your nutsack if you can't even get to a bit of flesh, Josh? They shave everything, don't they, for an operation? No, with an operation. Like in Merlin's beard hanging down your dick. I thought it was a thing in operations, like, get shaving. I've said this before, George, I think he, Josh, has got proper thick, thiccy pubes.

I haven't got thick, thiccy pubes. Your undercarriage is fucking terrible, Bush. It's not, actually. it's pretty under control. Right, so they slice into your nuts or? Your tubes. Your tubes, the tubes from the nuts. So they slice into the sack and then, I think, cut a tube going to each.

Yeah, yeah. And then, I think, then cauterize it. What does that mean? Burn the end of it. Oh, fuck it now. Have you ever had anything cauterized? Could you smell the burning, George? Well, that was what everyone told me would happen. But no, I couldn't. I think on my finger that they cut out and then that to cauterize the wound, like a little lump thing. And I thought I'd be fine with that. And the smell of it burning was absolutely hot. I was bad. But you couldn't smell it on your nuts, no? No. And that's another thing actually. So this place that they sent me when they sent me the name of the clinic, it's called the Lance Burn Centre.

You are. I'm being punked here. And it's this place in, you know where a Salford is don't you? Yeah. In Salford and my Nana lives there and I told her where I was going and she went, I didn't think that place was open. Surely they don't do that. Can't be clean in that place. But I went along and they were really, really lovely. And actually the whole thing, the process was like so much easier than I thought, because

I think I don't know if it's because blokes just want to scare other blokes or and I might be blowing the whole thing here, but we're all involved in this joint lie that it's a lot worse than it is. That we're doing a really good thing. You have to go through hell. And what was the recovery like? Well, it was fine. So it's only like 10 minutes it takes. And then you go into a room and like they give you

a chocolate bar and a cup of tea and stuff. And it's nice. Which one? And then which chocolate bar? Yeah. Well, I have. I'm sorry. We can't do it.

If we're going to interview and we need to do it properly. It can't be two Cadbury's cream eggs, let's take the piss. Give me one and a half. Yeah, I think it's like a blue ribbon or something. Yeah, they do dig out some weird chocolate bars at hospitals and biscuits you don't see if he is. Yeah. Right, so it takes 10 minutes and then you're in Little Wool for a bit, yeah?

Yeah, and then they tell you, because you can't, it's not just you do it and then it's done, you have to send back off a sample to make sure it's worked. So she wrote this date on a card and she went, right, so this is the date for the sample. And I looked at it and I thought, oh yeah, that's it, like two weeks away, cool. And then she went, so just before this, just make sure you've done 20 ejaculations before this point. I was like, what? I've got stuff on.

It'd be all I'd be doing. How long did you have, sorry? Well, I'd misread it. So I thought it was two weeks, but it's actually, and I said to her, Oh, right. Okay. That seems like a... I might as well do one now while we're just... Come on, give me a couple of minutes. It's actually three months. So in fact, I'm in the window now while we're just saying it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, give me a couple of minutes. It's actually three months. So in fact, I'm in the window now where I've sent it off and I've yet to get the results

back. I don't know yet if it's worked. In fact, I went the other day, this is only a couple of days ago, I went to send it off and I went into the post office and handed it to the guy and he said, what's in here? Oh, fuck. Oh no. Did you say medical here? Oh fuck. Oh no. Did you say medical sample? I said semen sample.

Did you? Yeah. Fair play. I wouldn't have. Just because he was like a lad and he's a bit like, and then he just started laughing and stuff like that. And you're trying to be in with the lads. Yeah.

Cup of spunk mate. Little stuff on the shoulder. Yeah, fuck it, hell. Don't believe the analytics. Yeah. Little jar of gizz, mate, stuff around the face. That's that. Stick that in your fucking outro. Yeah.

Anyway, I'm off to watch a Guy Ritchie movie. See you later, mate. Don't leave it in the sun too long, yeah? And how long were you in the walk? What's the recovery from it? Can you go home that day? And are you back to normal straight away near enough? She told me they were doing 19 that day.

So it's quite a quick turnaround. Poor postman. Hiding up in the back. Fucking hell, this sack stinks. Not the only one. I'll tell you what, I'm going to avoid that post office in three months time. Jizz town. So yeah, you go home soon after you're not allowed to drive home, they tell you.

How would people drive? Am I driving wrong? Yeah, no that is nuts on the gear, Diva. Knob on the wheel. You ever cock and balls it on a car, don't you? I don't do 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock all the time. I'm not that much of a nerd, but come on guys. Put the handbrake on with your arsehole, that's how we park.

So you're sort of back to normal quite quickly then really. Well they tell you if you've got like a manual job not to do anything for two weeks or something. And did they ask what your job was and you said well that's actually quite difficult to explain really. I'm kind of influenced but I used to be a stand-up, I'm now a stand-up again. Can I hold an iPhone above my head and pretend I'm talking to someone? I just said I'm a writer. A writer. Yeah, I did do a gig two days later though and I was stood up and they say not to stand up for like

longer than an hour and I did and I think at that point it just feels for a couple of days like say if you play football you get kicked in the balls or something. Feels a bit like that but then it goes black. Everything goes black. Oh my word. What? Your balls go black? Yeah. And did you take a, not for me, but... A picture. There's your knob as well, does that stay? Yeah a bit. It creeps up to the bill. Are you worried about using a urinal at that stage? Uh yes.

Did you worry that people would look down and go, why has he got a black nut sack? A bruised dick. Yeah, yeah. I was strictly cubical for a couple of weeks. Strictly cubical. Wow, what a story. I don't even know why we asked that. I'm thinking about having one.

Rob, for the content, please do. Our live stream. Yeah, live stream. Go live on Insta. It's a lot easier really really, than you think. And I think as long as you do rest up. So the day after I'd had it done, this guy came to deliver some wood at the house.

And I'd said to him, do you mind carrying it in? Because I've just had a vasectomy. And he said, oh yeah, I'll carry it in for you. And I played five aside the same day when I had mine done. I thought he was going to me like, don't be a little bitch, man. But he actually said, that messed it up for months. He said like six months later he was in pain still.

So if you go slow with it, you're fine. And what I'm quite excited about is how much sympathy and care and attention do you get from your wife? I felt like you could really feel special for a few days. How long does that last? Yeah. Well, I got the rest of that day I got, Yeah. And then that was it really. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Because my worry is if we do it, if I get mine done, Josh,

and we obviously will talk about it on here, it is going to end up in me showing Josh my bruised ball sack on the camera. That's what's going to happen, isn't it, Josh? There must be Google image searches of post vasectomy balls. Well, yeah, but imagine they'll show you the bad ones where someone's played football rather than just the normal bit of a, I've just Googled bruise vasectomy balls. Well, yeah, but imagine they'll show you the bad ones where someone's played football

rather than just the normal bit of a, I've just Googled bruised vasectomy. Your scroter may be bruised and swollen this will go away in one to two weeks. You'll probably be able to return to work on normal routine a day after the surgery. Do not go on Image Search. Do not repeat, do not switch to Image Search.

That was a terrible, terrible decision. Oh no. Can I ask a personal question, George? After we've just asked about his fucking nuts. Yeah. What are you going to ask them? How much more personal is this going to be? Are your balls floating untethered? Oh, that's interesting.

What, like a lost dinghy in the sea? Just like reaching up and catching one. Like Homer Simpson when he's in space, they're just like, hey, come back, boy. That's why old men's nuts are so low. There's nothing keeping them there. It's just, they're just in a bag hanging down. I don't know the answers to that.

George, if you want to quickly go to toilet and examine and then report back. We are open for that. Do you know what? When we put the episode out, George, if you just put on your Instagram stories, the words tethered or untethered with the phrase, if you know, you know. Yeah, I presume there's more than just that one because they still without getting too graphic,

it still acts in the same way that it always did. You wouldn't you wouldn't know. It's not like you have a vasectomy and you'd stop ejaculating. It's not just like a puff of air like no one would know except you. So does it look look the same, taste the same? If anything I'd take a small change wouldn't be against that. Yeah I really don't know how it works actually. I assume it's like a mixer system. Yeah, so basically it's just all basically works exactly the same as it would normally, but it just doesn't have the sperm in there to get a woman pregnant. After the operation procedure, let's say procedures, not really an operation, how soon are you

back in the saddle sexually? Or is it too painful, what we're talking? How long you at the game for? There is a bit of lasting pain, but they tell you two weeks is what you've got to wait. So don't do anything with your dick for two weeks. No, they don't say that. I think it's just nothing that I think they say don't have sex for two weeks. But actually, I think they tell you like, as soon as you can sort of get things moving afterwards, then

you do because of the wanker will hold off on the pumping. That's generally okay. That's the way. Let's talk about your kids. George, let's talk about it. So you've got three kids, George. Yeah. Fucking hell. That's a real big day.

Do you want the biggest gear shift in the history of our podcast? Oh, go on, Josh. Oh, God. Can I talk to you about autism? We've gone from wanker Will to autism in one sentence. Is that okay as a topic? Absolutely, yeah, yeah. And so am I right in saying that your son, or is it your first two children, are autistic? Yeah, that's right, yeah, yeah. And so am I right in saying that your son or is it your first two children are autistic?

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, even that, I think anyone else, any other parent in the same situation is probably feels this as well. You feel even strange saying it because they're on having like a diagnosis and stuff takes years. So they have, they go on like pathways and stuff to get diagnosed and they get help with like a working diagnosis. But like

the whole process takes about, well, four years or something. So ours, I've had lots of people, you know, they say a working diagnosis of autism and they, it's written on everything and they have like an EHCP which is like to get them extra help in school and stuff like that so it's all written down but we're still waiting for someone to go right that's it official forever that they're autistic but i mean are they in a mainstream school yeah yeah yeah just additional support basically yes yeah and what was it like i can't believe we're going into another medical kind of situation. What?

Is that Dr. Range on him? Range, not Range, Range. Dr. Range is the guy from Essex. Dr. Range. He's done well. Give up the singing, have you? And so how did you come to the diagnosis or the prospective diagnosis or whatever?

Well, a real journey with our first one because he, so my brother's autistic so it was something, I think early on, I don't know, there are a few like little signs and stuff and I think looking back I was in like denial about it really like my mum would sometimes spot things and go oh you know that reminds me me of what that used to do. And I'd just be like, I just didn't want to hear it. I was just like, no, completely not. It's completely different and stuff. And I think my wife had noticed things as well.

And then it's so hard because as well, my eldest, he's got a speech condition, something called verbal dyspraxia. So it meant he couldn't speak, but we thought it was all that. We thought once we realized that's what it was, and that was its own journey that took a year and a half or something before we realized what that was,

because it's quite an unusual speech condition. But I think when we found out that's what it was, I think I just thought to myself, oh, well, it was all that. It's all communication. And that's- What is that, sorry, that verbal dyspraxia? What does that mean? Oh, it's also known as like a praxia of speech.

And it's actually the thing that Cammie's got. Oh, yeah. But he developed it later in life. You can develop it later in life, like with maybe stress. For Scamara, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Just for people that aren't lads like us.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not sending you any word, George. Come on, mate. Camster. And you said maybe if we had a few pints and shift that was your kind of thing wasn't it? You know me pal, yeah yeah. Basically the condition is it means in the same way that like physical dyspraxia there's something that happens happens between your brain and your mouth, which muddles everything up and your mouth doesn't basically do what it's told. Will Barron Right.

Will Barron So his mouth moved. So it wasn't like a lot of speech difficulties that you can like attempt to word but not get it quite right and stuff. But when Teddy spoke, it was so different. So I always remember like his favorite food when he was younger was quiche. But for quiche, he'd say... Sorry, it's such a left field favorite. It's odd, though, with quiche, all right? Yeah, yeah. And it's quite a difficult word as well, I guess. But he'd just call it baa. He'd call it baa. It's like there's nowhere near quiche. Yeah, yeah. And is he hearing quiche when he's saying it?

I don't know if he's hearing it back, but then when we go, oh, you want back, he'd look at us like, what are you talking about? Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. It felt like that was the big issue. And that was horrible as well at the time, because you sort of felt like as other kids were becoming able to talk, they saw him as somebody who couldn't talk. And without, it just felt like, oh, God, you cash your mind forward, you worry about everything, you think he's never going to be able to make friends and stuff like that. And even family members and friends and stuff, adults, no one

could understand him. So it was only us that could understand it. Yeah. It was like really, really difficult and it was a long time. We thought like he might never speak. And then we ended up getting like this diagnosis of this quite specialized thing and then found some specialists who could give him therapy. So he has quite, for the past couple of years he's had like, he has therapy every week, like speech therapy, but now it's amazing. I mean, you wouldn't even, you wouldn't even know. Everyone can understand him. It's really amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. And that's just done through the sessions of speech therapy. Yeah. And you obviously doing exercises or whatever with him.

But like, that's mad that they can do that. Yeah. And it's retraining your mouth. The speech therapy is not what you'd expect because that was the problem at first. The NHS with treating him for one thing, which actually had the opposite effect, it sort of made it worse if anything, because it was the exact opposite of what he needed to be doing. But once we found out what it was, because all the therapy for this particular thing is like just training your mouth to move in different ways and for your tongue to do a different thing.

It's almost like physical, like moving the muscle of the mouth rather than it is anything in the head. Exactly that, yeah. Because he wants to say quiche, but as he does it, the way his mouth moves will give you bar. Yeah, and it was something that was just obviously so frustrating for him. Oh, I mean, look, having a kid at that age anyway

is exhausting and tiring, and you can't really work out what they want or doing that, but then that on top of it, and then you must feel guilty for being frustrated when there's nothing he can do about it. It is hard. But when we started seeing the progress in it, we were like, this is brilliant.

And my wife was always a teacher as well. So she's just incredible at like taking these things that they learn in therapy and doing it with him and stuff like that. And she, she like fought for everything. And that's the reason you can speak now. But then once he started speaking, then we had our daughter and everything was going as expected with her. Then I think, I don't know if it was about 18 months, maybe it was a bit earlier than that,

she had a regression, which basically just overnight just lost everything. So she went from like, she'd started doing a few things, waving and stuff like that. And then overnight, she just couldn't do anything, couldn't say any of the words she was saying. And almost like it was so upsetting at the time,

because it was like- That must've been terrifying. It's like she'd gone blank and she didn't even notice us anymore. She was just living in a different world and my wife was like so terrified because she thinks what has happened to make this like is the summit gone on in the brain. Was you stood in denial at this point saying to your mom, no I think it's fine. No, no, you just had a bit of bar.

George was looking at his phone going, I think an orange day is alright, you know. So then... Did you that day take her to a doctor? No, because again, I think I was like, sure it's fine and then I'm sure... and I didn't want to worry my wife, which is actually the best way of dealing with it would be to go, we need to find out what this is now and we need to sort it out.

But I think my inclination is to try and alleviate the worry in any way I can, which probably could work very well. But I'd be like, I'm pretty sure it's fine. I've looked at, you know. But actually what we've found out since is that is so common with autistic children is they'll have a regression at some point. It often happens earlier so a parent wouldn't even know it's happened. But basically that happening

with her kind of unlocked the diagnosis with him as well, like the realization that they've both got it. And to be honest, once it had got to the point where we'd accepted it, I mean, obviously it's more difficult, but once we got to the point we accepted it, it was so much easier. And we're in a great time now, I think, where the world is looking to celebrate people whose minds work a bit differently, as opposed to, I think, when my brother was young, it was always like, got to try and make him fit in, got to try and make him see normal. You know, that was the thing. Not in any bad way. That's just the way it was. Whereas I think now it's like, we're always fighting for that. Just like, celebrate the amazing way that their mind works as opposed to trying to change them. And I think that just makes them so much happier as well.

Oh, yeah. 100%. And I think as well, like you said, for your brother, who's what? Imagine what, in his thirties, is he around that age? Yeah, he's nearly 30. Yeah. And he's fairly young, but there must be, like, I don't know an autistic person who's over 50. They must exist. There must be millions upon millions of autistic people over 50. But because no one did diagnosis back then it's just like, oh, yeah, everyone who's autistic is under 30. Oh, yeah, and the more we learn about it now, we're looking like around the family and going, yeah, it's Nana. Well, your Nana has the exact same sandwich every day for the last full year.

She's really into trains. But it is amazing that when you learn more about it, you do start picking people out that you've worked with in the past, or teachers or family or friends that go, oh yeah, there's definitely something happening there. Yeah. And how does it affect your day-to-day life now? Are you living a markedly different life

to other parents of three kids, do you think? Well, it's hard to know that early on. I mean, obviously you haven't got a proper job anymore. You're just filming the odd video and bowling around like you're bruised nuts, giving it life. LAUGHS So, I guess it is. I think, actually, having our third kid,

and, I mean, who knows what will happen? He's still quite young and stuff. But a lot of the things feel so much easier with him than they did with them. So, milestones. Like, sometimes we'd be so worried about the other two hitting the milestones and other parents would go to us, oh don't worry it just happens they'll just get there. And we're thinking does it?

Because it's not happening for us, it's not. And then with our third, because we know he's our last, if anything we're actively trying to stop him from hitting the milestones. We're like, we want to slow it all down a little bit., don't start walking. Just stick to crawling, mate. Nudge him over again when he tries. It does just happen and it feels so much easier. So I think now we've had the third, we think, oh, God, that was really hard. But you don't know it at the time because you're just dealing with what's in front of you, aren't you? But I think a lot of it is just like, you've got to do a lot more prep for things. Like if there's a big change coming up, they need preparing a lot.

There's a lot of fallout if you've with their moods and stuff so you are you worried about the election oh boy i'm so worried because they say it's a 20-point lead but you know are they aware of it are they aware they're different they're just getting to an age now where we try and explain to them, like, why they're feeling a certain way. Like, if they're, like, really hyped up after a day where things have been a bit different or really emotional and stuff, we'll try and explain to them. But I don't think we ever say things like, oh, you're a bit different to anyone else or anything like that. But we say, you know how sometimes if there's been a bit of a bit of a change you start feeling a bit angry and stuff like that we just try and talk them

through it and get them to recognize the feelings. And what kind of change is a change? I think as things have gone on it's it can be bigger stuff so now the school holidays feels like a big change if I'm away a little bit that does but in the past past, it's been like, even the weather's changed. Like, we're going to school and it's chucking it down. And then suddenly that like sets them off in a different way or the food wasn't right that day. Or it can be quite small. Like, like we've put them in school, they've come home and we've been to Ikea that day and bought something new. And my daughter will walk in and be like, what's that? Why is that there? And he was just like, oh no. But I think now that they're better at dealing with those things, because I think things are going to change in your life, aren't you? So you want a bit of resilience. It's finding that balance of you want them to

have the resilience to deal with it, but also not put them in situations where you could avoid it and avoid that stress for them. Oh yeah, it must be so much better now you sort of know what's going on. That's amazing about his speech. And it's got fully complete turnaround. And he's so like, he doesn't stop speaking out when he's so loud. Oh, that's the other thing as well. Like with the two of them, they've both got different things. So a lot of it's like sensory, like, they hear things louder, or they feel things more

or the opposite, like my son doesn't seem to feel any pain at all. Whereas my daughter, like, is the opposite. But they sometimes trigger each other, so he's really loud, whereas she likes things really quiet. So sometimes we're just like, oh, God. Because that's, they say like, every autistic person, like, that's one of the things is like, I can't remember what the joke is,

but like, there's some line, isn't there, about once you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person, they're all completely... That's exactly it, yeah. It's not like you go we've got the same situation like if you've got two people with Covid. Weird things. Covid. Panicked. Dyslexia for example. Yeah dyslexia. There are slight different variations of it with dyslexia but it does form a quite familiar pattern where two or three ways you can have it. And exactly. And that's the time when it gets a bit on top is where one of them does something

to the other one. And then the other one triggers them. Like on Christmas day, they've got someone had quite thoughtfully bought my daughter like a sensory squishy toy, which was like to help her become so she'd got that. But because my son is so like big and physical and stuff like that, so he grabbed that offer on Christmas day to have a go of it and squeezed it so hard it exploded everywhere. And then she, the white stuff come out and she saw a bit of landed on a foot. So then she instantly threw up and then he was like, Oh my God. I was just like, Merry Christmas. So, isn't there a bit more like challenged by change and things like that? Like with kids, they do loads of after school clubs before school clubs.

And I'm a bit like, well, try it, give it a go. And I chuck them in stuff and sometimes I come back and say they do like it, they don't like it or whatever. Are they a bit more structured in the sort of the clubs that they do and stuff and they sort of stick with it? Like, what's your like weekdays and weekends looking like some school clubs and stuff yeah you're right so we've tried them in clubs like we try our eldest in quite a few after school clubs and the problem is if something if one thing like goes wrong because he's very sensitive if

one thing goes wrong it'll just be like he just never wants to do it again i always took him to i think like any dad probably does with the first born son, I was like, let's get him into football early. You know, let's- George Lewis the lad, don't believe the analytics. Get out of the fucking hell boys. Fuck the analytics, out of the fucking boys. So we were taking him along there, pub straight afterwards. Fight after that. So I was taking him along to football and we did that for quite a while, but I sort

of realised it's, I mean, he likes it, but he doesn't fit into that. I think it got to the point where it moved on from the class where the guy's going, oh, let's just play the dragon game. And I'm a big dragon and I'm stealing your eggs. And it was all very, very fun. And my wife was a bit worried because she watches like sports documentaries with me. And she's like, I don't really like that environment like Alex Ferguson, the way he treated David Beckham and stuff like that.

And I'm like, you don't get it. And I'm like, that's not what football is like anymore. It's lovely. It's really caring. And then I went back the next week and they were like, right, we're moving all these lads up a bit now. We're going to have scouts coming around over the next year. So we really need to take this seriously.

And it's just like he's shouting at them and stuff like that. And immediately, that was the end of it for him. So they don't do as much as other kids. And you have that the guilt of thinking we want them to do more. When you see like on Instagram, everyone else is doing stuff. And big day's out. Don't look at Instagram. It's awful. Yeah, not awful.

Rob, there's some good stuff on that. Apart from your great stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think your stuff is a good stuff on that part for your great stuff Yeah, I don't think your stuff's the stuff I'm talking about But yeah, I think we've reassured ourselves we just do like what's best for them and what about holidays and stuff like that Do you go away on holiday or is that a bit of a challenge for them going somewhere new and staying somewhere new? It is a challenge But again, it's one that like we went to Wales last year and I think if we can make the whole thing manageable then the good outweighs the bad but yeah it's definitely. Would you go now we've got this place we go on holiday to so that we can

just do that every year because that's set in would it work like that? That probably would help yeah yeah we've not been doing that but yeah that would help. help. Yeah. Yeah. We've not been doing that. Well, yeah, that would help. Keep going somewhere different every time. Quick couple of questions. Zoe Deschanel, has she ever got back to you? What's the Zoe Deschanel thing? I was geeking with you sometime and she just dropped into your DMs. Well, it was the other way around. It was... Well, you randy bastard, George.

No, no, no, no. Hey, hey, hey, hey. She started following me and I was like instantly like, what the hell? I love the additional. So I thought I've got to just say hello or something. So I just said hello and thanks for following and stuff like that. And but she replied straight away. And you said two weeks and it will be back to its normal color. And then we. And I've got jacked eight eight twenty times just like that.

Medic, medically. So what did she say? She just said, oh yeah, I like your videos, like we laugh at them. Me and my husband, we laugh at them. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Block a report. Block a report. So also as well as your tour, so your tour's on sale now isn't it George? You've got a book as well, you've written a book, Don't Panic, All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know. Yes. Which was a great success, that's available. And you do a podcast called Save It for the Podcast with Jake Lambert, very funny Jake Lambert. You're flying at the moment George, what's next on the list? Oh nothing I hope, that's like full. You're flying at the moment, George. What's next on the list? Oh, nothing. I hope that's like full.

You're done. Yeah. You know, just ask a question on that. It's a podcast. Yeah. When you wrote Expectant Dad, is that because you're worried about your analytics? You're like, sorry for the dads. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So your tour starts in Leeds. Well, that's sold out already. That one September 7th.

And then you go Swindon, Norwich, Bath, Bristol, Bristol, Newcastle, Kendall, Lowsmore, Guildford, five o'clock, Farnham, Guildford, eight o'clock, Dublin, up in Guildford. Yeah. Red in London, you're doing two nights at Leicester Square Theatre, one's already sold out. Oh, Joel, this is amazing. They're all sold out, actually. I don't know if that's it. I think London one's.

Oh, wow. There's not loads left, which is amazing, because I had no idea how this would go, because the last time I tried to sell tickets, I didn't sell any tickets, because it was before all this. So there was no real way of knowing how this had sell. But most of the autumn ones, I've added a few new ones in autumn, but most of the autumn ones are either sold out or almost sold out. But I'm going to do it in spring. I'm going to do another bit in spring.

You're doing Bath, Leeds, Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, and Salford already in spring. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're sold out in Salford? Fucking hell, George. You're flying. Which room in the Larry is that? Middle one.

Oh, I love the middle one. The middle one's a great room. Yeah. Oh, well, congratulations on it all, George. Oh, thank you. We always end with the same question, which is, how many wanks have you... No. Today or?

Is today a orange, a green or a red day? After I get the answer to me, I'm just going to be wanking all the time. And if Lou catches me, I'm going to go, is medical? This is a medical procedure. Give me some space. And she'll say, do you medically need to do it on the sofa in the city? Yeah, you can take the cereal out of the kitchen

and let me medically induce an ejaculate. Thank you. This is no different from doing a COVID test. Yeah, exactly. When we used to do that. Or you taking a paracetamol. That's basically what I'm doing. Grow up, Lou. Grow up.

Yeah, the final question Josh. Yeah. What one thing does your partner do? Well, you kind of said also about how amazing she's applying her teaching skills. So we'll take that but you can change it if you want. But what one thing does she do as a parent that annoys you? That? Yeah. So Oh, well, you've got one. Yeah, I had it ready. Yeah, no, I just by the way on the good thing.

Yeah, she's amazing in every way. And that's too vague for us. No, the way she I think. Yeah, she's so patient with the kids. She has yet fought for things that it's like she takes on so much stress to try and fight for them. But it's worked and it's helped them so much. And stress to try and fight for them, but it's worked and it's helped them so much. And they've just got the perfect mum in her.

The negative thing, she's quite heavy-handed, I think, is the, like, physically heavy-handed. Are your balls still bruised? It's never healing. Like, if you've got something in your eye, you don't want my wife getting it out. Oh, Really? And so would she be like that with the kids? Well, I've noticed that happens. So she always used to do it with me and I'd stop her from doing it. But now she does it like with the kids. And I sort of think, oh, I want to help

you. But while it's happening to you, it's not happening to me. So it's like, we've got one of those things. I mean, this is a bit disgusting, but you know those things, have you seen them on TikTok where it's like you get your ear wax and they've got a camera on the end so you can go inside. And I love all that, but she'll do that on the kids. And I'm thinking, Oh no, like, I don't think you're meant to do it on kids. Luke brushes the girls' hair quite harsh. And they go, ow! And then Lou goes, oh, I'm not doing anything. I'm like, it does look quite hard. Yeah.

I think that would hurt me. That's it. Honestly, I'm like, I've just been thinking, are you brushing hair a bit? Oh. No, it's fine. I'm like, OK. Because when I do it, they don't make a noise. They don't go, ow!

You don't do that when you're brushing your own hair, do you? You're very round again. Oh, fucking hell! Oh! Get off me! They hunched over in the fetal position, Louis, you brushed the hair. Yeah, you've got clumps in your hand. Jules, thank you so much.

It's been brilliant. I'll let you know when I get my nuts done. Oh, I can't wait, yeah. Don't panic is the book, save it for the podcast is the podcast and the tour is the tour. There we go. Thank you, George Lewis. Thank you.

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