S9 EP43: A rat ran up my leg
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January 28, 2025
TLDR: Comedians Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe discuss parenting, life, and more in their weekly podcast 'Parenting Hell', available on Spotify every Tuesday and Friday. You can email them at [Hello@lockdownparenting.co.uk](mailto:Hello@lockdownparenting.co.uk), connect with them on Instagram @parentinghell, or join their mailing list for updates at parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com

In Season 9, Episode 43 of the Parenting Hell podcast, hosts Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe delve into the often chaotic realities of parenting. Through engaging banter, relatable anecdotes, and listener interactions, they navigate the ups and downs of raising children in modern society. This episode explores themes of stress, humor in parenting, and relatable mishaps that highlight the struggle of managing family life while maintaining sanity.
Key Conversations and Insights
Balancing Parenting and Daily Life
Last-Minute Interruptions: The hosts discuss managing their commitments while juggling unexpected occurrences, such as the arrival of a cleaner during their recording sessions. Beckett emphasizes the need for better coordination to prevent interruptions. This scenario serves as a humorous yet realistic illustration of the unpredictability of parenthood.
Weekend Gigging Stress: Josh shares the stress of being a parent and a performer over the weekend, illustrating how challenging it can be to balance work and family life. Beckett relates to this struggle, discussing the pressure of parenting while being away from home for gigs. This points to a broader commentary on how working parents navigate their professional responsibilities alongside their parenting duties.
Rat Encounter and Parenting Realities
The Rat Incident: One of the episode's highlights is Beckett's comical yet terrifying experience of having a rat run up his leg while taking out the trash at night. He recounts the incident, which showcases the unpredictability of life in the countryside and serves as a metaphor for unexpected challenges in parenting.
Parental Fatigue: Beckett discusses the exhaustion that comes with being a parent, especially after late-night gigs. This fatigue leads to challenges like being disturbed by energetic children in the morning, leading to humorous and relatable moments that many parents can understand.
Parenting Challenges in the Digital Age
Communication with Children: The hosts explore how technology influences their children’s behavior and their family life, including children’s access to messaging services. Beckett discusses the emotional weight of receiving "I miss you" texts from his children while he is away.
Coping with Modern Parenting: The discussion turns to the complexities of handling modern-day parenting concerns, including managing emotional responses from their children and expectations set by schools, further emphasizing the delicate balance parents must maintain.
Reflections on Career and Parent Identity
Career Worries: Both Beckett and Widdicombe openly share their career anxieties, discussing feelings of being on the scrap heap as they navigate their entertainment careers while also being fathers. They reflect on how parenting impacts their professional lives and vice versa.
Personal Fulfillment: The conversation touches on how both hosts try to find joy in their work and balance it with the demands of family life. Beckett emphasizes the importance of focusing on present moments to alleviate the stress of overwhelming responsibilities.
Conclusion: Embracing the Chaos
In this episode, S9 EP43 of Parenting Hell captures the heart of parenting—filled with challenges, humor, and unpredictability.
Key Takeaways:
- Expect the Unexpected: Parenting is often filled with unforeseen events—embracing the chaos can lead to funny stories and deeper connections.
- Manage Your Time: Coordination and planning can help navigate the hectic realities of parenting, but flexibility is essential.
- Keep Communication Open: Establishing clear and open communication with partners and children helps manage parenting dynamics.
- Focus on the Present: Instead of getting overwhelmed by future worries, focusing on present moments can help alleviate stress.
Through their candid discussions, Beckett and Widdicombe provide listeners with not just laughs but also practical insights into the trials of parenting.
Following this engaging episode, it becomes clear that while parenting often feels like a chaotic journey, it’s the shared experiences and laughter that truly define the adventure.
Make sure to catch the next episodes for more relatable parenting anecdotes!
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Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Willicom. Welcome to Parent in Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week we'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you, the listener, with your tips, advice and, of course, tales of parenting woe. Because, let's be honest, there are plenty of times where none of us know what we're doing.
Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with? Can you say Bob Beckett? What about it? Could you say Josh Widdickham? That's a kid. Bigger! Bigger! Bigger! Bigger! Bigger! Say back to Josh Widdickham. That's just a kid like that.
Absolutely, that's one of my faves. That's Paul Burson, trying to pronounce the name of a new foreign footballer. Hi, Michael. We've been sent the intro of... Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair enough. This person... Sorry, you're having your own conversation in your edit. I was reading, oh, fuck, the door's gone, Rob. What do you mean, the door's gone? I mean, on my own. And the cleanest arrived. Right, OK. That I... Don't trust a cleaner with a key. Interesting.
Oh, I'll just go downstairs. Fucking. Michael, what week? Look, this is all we asked through. It's three hours a month. Yeah. Well, let's, we have this conversation off here most weeks. Let's have it on there. Yes. Every Monday for three, five years. Well, five years, but two and a half years, like rigidly has to do is not schedule in a builder, a cleaner, a delivery. And if he does, just have someone else in the house.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or go, I've left the key under the mat to let yourself in, because I'm recording, can you not hoover till later? Just a little bit of prep. It's not much work, this podcast. I mean, you know what? Two hours, 20 minutes, not even three hours. I'm shaved as soon as I can possibly can. Just don't let someone turn up. Once he gets his headphones in, we'll talk about it. Do you think I should give her a key?
No, I think, no, Josh, but Michael wants to say something. We need to sort this out, okay? Well, two and a half hours a week, Monday morning, 10 till one. You've just got to prioritise us, Josh. Isn't that right, Michael? Everyone swing the door. Every week there's someone there, Josh. Adrian, how can you do about answering the door? I'm starting to think Adrian doesn't exist, but you're having a psychotic episode and you've invented someone that's in your house. You can't still be doing stuff there, Josh.
I don't know how I can not answer the door. What about plan ahead? She's meant to come at nine, Rob. But then leave, if she's not here by ten, leave a key under the mat. I haven't got a mat. I live in Hackney. Right. Okay. Plant pot. There's no one outside the front of your house. You could pop a key for a cleaner for forty-five minutes. Yeah, I could do that. I'll do that next week. I'll do that next week. What about Amazon?
parcel box, parcel box. I think Michael, what would you say, Michael? Michael wasn't quite animated actually. It was like, it's just for two and a half years, we know 10 a.m. to one is locked up. I can't, I can't not answer the door. No, no, I know you can't, but what we could say is you could plan around that so that we can do this. What, say no one's allowed to come to the door in between 10 and 12.30? Well, no, no, but if you know that they're coming, you can prepare for their arrival. She was late.
Yeah, but then a quarter to 10, you go, I'm going to be on the podcast at 10. I'll put the key in at the front. Okay, I'll do that next week. Okay. All right, well, I don't really think we've all gotten out. Michael's gone silent. He was giving it a right fucking rabbit in earlier. Where are you? Where are you, right, Michael? We're talking about me.
You listen back, Josh. He was more than me. I probably won't. I'm not a fucking Roy Kean on MU-TV. The good news is, the guy hasn't used his lathe yet. What's the lathe? I was bandsaw. Oh, axal grinder. Oh, axal grinder. Axal grinder. Axal on the grinders. He hasn't started yet. He starts about half-ten. Half-ten. Right, okay, yeah. One bit of axal grinder that he finishes for the week. Well, the moment we get a studio, the moment we get a studio. Let's not do this now. Let's not do this now. You're not gonna leave your ass, are you? Oh, I'd love to leave my fucking house.
Anyway, what was we doing? You started doing the email, but it's got a bit of off the curb. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. So this is from Rachel. Rachel called me at a gig rob and asked how to get on. Pardon? She said, how do I get my children's voices on? Oh, no, you didn't go old school, did you? This way, casting couch. Come on to my office. I told you.
I told her to email my agent. Sorry, I've had people asking me, why is agent still at your house? What is it possibly left to do? Well, he's tiling the shower. He's been there months. Yeah, but he's on his own, Rob. I know he's like, when does he end?
Midfeb. So he will be available. He's asked me to do a shout out on the podcast for his availability. Yeah, if you want to build it, it'll be in your ass for three years. He didn't do the cupboards.
So I bumped into Rachel. Right, sorry, Rachel, you gave her an agent's email. Totally forgot. And then it's actually made it through, unbelievable. Oh, that's good. I don't know. She said she tried everything. Well, the only way is emailing Michael, isn't it? Yeah, but she was like, I've tried all the different times of that. She's tried all the things. You know, like those people who try and get on who wants to be millionaire through, they like trying to game the system. But now is there a danger that everyone's just going to email your agents? Well, I'm accepting no more from my agent. Michael, that draw bridges up.
That drawbridge is up. Rachel's taken that drawbridge. So here it is. Hello, Robin Josh. Here is my youngest son, Ethan, to open your show. He was two-ish at the time. Apologies for his freestyle at the end. Those were great days when I could listen to the pod without worrying about him picking up any choice words. A few months ago, he went through a phase of saying, not the man's talking. Every time I turned it on in the car, demanding the Mr. Tumble podcast instead. I didn't even know Mr. Tumble had a podcast.
I've got a fucking podcast that he says in my hand. I don't know what he's doing in it. Mr. Tumble doesn't have anywhere near as many mental breakdowns on his podcast therefore isn't anywhere near as fun. Not in public.
I have two boys aged five and nine. Thanks for the last. You make commuting and parenting them much more enjoyable, lots of love. Rachel in... Oh, Perthshire. How does field? Ah! North. North. Not bad. North. How are you, Josh? I'm very good, actually. Yeah. You seemed a little bit stressed because your hair was big.
No, I'm fine. Before we come on, you were having thoughts about your career. Oh, that's always... No, it's not. Actually, I was just... Do you know when you have an occasional worry about your career? Yeah, it depends on... Oh, for fuck's sake, Adrian's making noise. Can you hear that? I'm just going to phone him. Agent Builder. Any thoughts, Michael? No, he's still got his headphones in, so I'm going to keep quiet. Are you gutless little fucking rat?
It was sniffling turd. Why the fuck is this? Producers like you that let TV presenters run wild, is it? It starts like this.
I'll let you just ring your builder that's in your house first. Where is it? I'll picture us. He's a fraud down, but I didn't want to go and let you and Michael be able to talk to each other about me. I'll go so he can bitch. It's funny when he bitches, but he won't do it in front of you. What gun to agent to be quiet? That Michael, this is escalating, isn't it? He keeps going when we get a studio. He's allowed to find another room to do it, isn't he? Off his own back, like I do. No, come on, don't just do that now. Well, I would say.
What do you think? I was just, I was putting myself in Josh's shoes in terms of like what he's done for his life. It's tiny. I was like, why did you think maybe? And I guess if he's got kids, you know, I'm a producer with no children. And this is my only responsibility. So maybe it's easy to see him say. However, you see outside of Lou occasionally walking past in the background, it seems okay for you.
What did Michael say? Nothing, actually. He just said, well, you're doing under really difficult circumstances. I'm really happy that you're putting the graft in in difficult circumstances, the totally only. Yeah, is that what I'm assuming? I'm so excited. He was, though, he tried to not engage. I've come in with what he said. He was saying that I imagine it is very difficult when you're in a house and you've got kids and stuff going on that needs to produce without kids. And he couldn't stand. It's trickier for you than him. But then he said,
I'm in exactly the same position. It doesn't seem to be happening. No. Well, of course. But... Do you know what you need? Bigger ass, more space. Too late. Too late. You've done a roof. So, what was you saying before, Adrian, started making noise? Are you asking me about career worry? The thing is, so, Josh, if I had a builder in the house... No, that's not what we were talking about. No, but I'm going back to it. If I had a builder in the house, I would go, I don't think I'm going to be able to record a podcast for a builder in the house. So, for example, I'm getting my... Well, I've mentioned for the last three months,
I'd say that's debatable. For example, I've got my boiler being serviced. I've asked them to come between 8 and 10 and they need to be done by 10 so I can record. Well, you're more professional than me. That's a worry. That's a huge concern. I'm gone, actually, you're Rashford.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Sorry, back to it. Let's sort of fall out. Let's not end it like this. I do think we were. I'm only winding you up. Is anyone else planned to come today? And have you done ages parking? He's not driven today. What? No, I presume public transport. Right, OK, fair enough. Anyway, what was you saying?
I can't remember, to be honest. How's your week been? I've been out of eight. The weather has been so bad. I was touring down in Cornwall. I did the quad of Truro Talkie Talkie-O-Ville. Didn't do Exeter? No, I stayed in Exeter for the talkies. Oh, nice. That was your recommendation, actually. Good tip. Yes. I don't mind talkie. Talkie in January.
Not the one. It's not the place it's twice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it was quicker to get back. But you recommend, I've got the train down to Truro, which is a city. It's Cornwall's only city. Yeah, I mean, and they were very quick to tell me that. What were they? Yeah, I feel like the cathedral's doing a lot of heavy lifting there as cities goes. Yeah, yeah. Because when I arrived, there was absolutely no one there, then a man come out of a bell and rang a bell telling me pasties were off price.
Yeah, well, I mean, sometimes you've got to say people from the Southwest, they don't help themselves. Exactly, it was, you know, but they were lovely people and then on the train down. So where were you when the pasty bell was wrong? I was walking through the completely desolate, I'd call it a town centre, sorry. Yeah, city centre. The cobbled city centre. Yeah. And it's the only city I've been in where you have to drive 10 miles to find a KFC.
Yeah, well, maybe it's not worth it. What, the KFC or the city? The KFC. All right. Well, no, I'm just saying, though, in most cities, yeah, yeah. It's not a 10-mile drive to KFC. No, no, no. Where was the KFC? Well, I was just trying to find some fucking something to eat, Josh. Right, yeah. No, no, no, but I mean, where was the KFC? Campbell.
All right, because the last time I did call, I did Red Roof, which is a bit lively, Red Roof. Yeah. I did the cinema there. But I went down on the train as you requested, and I was... It's quite a nice project. It's quite a request. I recommend it. I recommend it. Sorry, that is different. It's quite a bit of a weird regret. Just for me, could you get the train now? I know you want to drive. It's quite a big power, play.
Yeah. Because not many people go down to Cornwall to gig, do they? No. Then we were on the train, but then the train got delayed and then that stops are getting cancelled. There's people on buses and stuff like that. Oh, no. And then it was like a weather. Yeah. And then it was like, oh, where's everyone going to? And it'd been quite a quiet train journey at that point. But then at that point, people were all just chatting to each other about what they were getting off. And where have you got to by this point?
No idea that some of the names of places look like they've been made up en route to be fair part. List card and all this shit. Yeah. Yeah. And I, I was on there and then like there was all chatting and then someone was like, Oh, you like Rebecca, you doing a gig? And I was like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I am. And someone from the back end of the carriage was like, he's doing the hole for Cornwall. Like that shouted. And I was like, yeah, we're going away. Don't want people come down. Why? It's so easy to get down. It's your fault.
Well, and I know, I'm... Don't blame the guy that's fucking made the journey. I know, I was like, no, I haven't come in. And I was like, well, it's quite a long way, and the travel's quite tricky. What's the thing wrong with it? It's so quick for London, as we were on a council train. And I was like, I know, but like, you know, you can't redefate it. It's not so quick for like, it's four and a half hours. That is a long time. So long. Anyway, they were lovely. Did Shuro, which was really nice, stayed over one more. What's that one like? I haven't done that before, I'm doing it on tour.
Hall for Cornwall. Amazing. Beautiful theatre. It's all been done up. It's really, really nice. Because last time I did red roof, I was in a converted cinema and got heckled quite badly. And it wasn't the greatest hour. So I did that. Lou, when me and Lou went away to a hotel, Lou bought us matching silk pajamas to wear, because we were just going to lay in bed watching films, right? Right. I'm not a pajama wearer. I've taken them on tour. Absolute game changer. Especially if you were trying to do a car? Not a pack.
Not back in the car, that's some sort of Dickensian assie. But back in the, because after a gig, sometimes... After the gig, you get a change in your silk pyjamas, then walk out to the car. So all the selfies you're doing, you're in your silk pyjamas around it. Hold it like a water bowl, like Molly and I.
in the side by a shame, Molly may cradles hot water bottle following split from Tommy. But no, but when I get back to the room, sometimes I've got loads of adrenaline and I'm excited, none. I don't end up getting pissed.
So, if I put on the silky, you can't get any work. You can't get piston silk pyjamas. You can't, if you slide on silk pyjamas and get into a bed, then you're not getting anywhere, mate. And what's the heat situation with a silk pyjama? Is it warm? Very cool. That's my, I normally get to, what, in pyjamas? And they lose, love it, big fan of that. So I was doing that. And what does it feel like on the skin? Is it like very smooth? So smooth. Oh, this is lovely. So I take them off to sleep. All right. But they're just there for,
moochie around the hotel room, so that's been quite nice. Did you get out of bed to take them off? Or do you kind of just undress under the duvet and then kind of just leave them? Bit of both, actually. I've not really thought it through. Sometimes if I'm like, no, I've not got them on. And then I go, right, it's bed bedtime now. I'm not bedtime, it's bed bedtime. So I'll get out of a bropper teeth, then I'll strip. So it looks like a man's been evaporating next to a bed and getting naked. Yeah.
Is this too much information? No, I think it's like, I'm picturing it nicely. Did you just hear like a saucepan being dropped there? Oh, well, that's a tale. There we go. Well, the reason I'm recording from here is because I got home late last. I had an awful joke. So basically, I did the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night gigs.
I think as a family man are a bit of a fucking weak killer because you've got no time to sort of, like, you know, you need Sunday to sort of rebalance your lives, don't you? To get everything sorted, see Lou and the kids. And now the kids checkbook. Exactly before Monday hits again. So I was in Yoville last night. Have you done the Westlands leisure centre? I seem to do Yoville on Sunday every time.
Because it's a going home from the south west. Because it's a bit too far to drive home from Exeter. So you do like. I bet if you ask the people of the Oval, almost every gig they watch is on a Sunday night. Because it's your I'll do Thursday to Saturday in the south west and then I'll do Yoval on the way home. And then, you know, is that the same as Yoval?
No, that's a smaller theatre that's shut down. I was like a strange leisure centre next to an airport in a suburban cul-de-sac. I used to like the octagon. What happened to that? I think they're redoing it. But that is a good theatre. Anyway, so I was getting quite stressed on Sunday because the girls have got iPads, right? And they can eye message me.
Oh, that's interesting. Which I think that would be nice. No, it's absolutely fucking heart wrenching every day because they just go, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. Please come home, daddy, please. Look, can I FaceTime now? And you're like, oh, what time are you coming home? And you're just like, oh my God, and you're replying.
So that's quite hard work that you feel the guilt of doing that. And then we're trying to drive home from yoga last night, Josh. The rain meant the roads were flooded about five times like the whole windscreen, which is covered in warm water. Oh my God. We've got home at 1 a.m. Are you in the back? Who are you in the front at this point? I sit in the back, but I'm having a silkie. No silkies, just show clothes because I've basically come off stage, jumped straight in the car and started driving. Yeah. Like straight out. And I'm sat there and I'm doing that sort of
Normally I'll just try and get a bit of rest and chill, but I'm doing that sort of leaning forward. We worried. Not worried, but I wanted to sort of give some moral support because Nick was driving and it was like, he was nose to the windscreen concentrating, having to change lanes because of flooding and stuff like that. Oh, fucking hell. And it was really horrible. It rained constantly. The window wipers were on full blast deal journey. Windscreen, yeah. What do I call window? Yeah. Windscreen, right? OK.
It didn't need to do that. It feels a bit niggly this. Yeah, it did. That says, anyway, that's fine. Keep me on. Andy Cohen Sheridan never spoke to each other off the pitch, did they? No, but the difference is, yeah, you know, they worked well together. Yeah, and every time that Andy Cole tried to, you know, head your goal in Teddy Sheridan's cleaner or builder would turn up just to flick the shot. That's what the falling out was about.
Anyway, I got back 1 a.m. and then Lou had done the bins, so I had to do the bins at 1 a.m. in torrential rain, did that, it was too dark, trod in two potholes, completely went up to my ankles in water. And then, as I moved a bin, a wrap run up my leg.
Well, that's the countryside for you. A rat run up my leg. Inside or outside? I don't know if it's a rat or a mouse or what it was. That's his mental. No, not inside, on top of my leg. And I did that thing. That's still mental. Right, so I did that thing with... Are you still pajamas? Not me pajamas. I was very attractive, but I climbed onto my shoe, run up to my leg, and I flipped my leg, and I basically volleyed it into a field. Yeah, of course. I'm not volleyed. No, no, no, but you literally said... Whoa, what's going on?
like hurling or what's that American lacrosse? That's American, yeah, yeah. That's American, yeah. But I sort of, it was like, it was in the cup of my foot and I'll... Yeah, yeah, you should just kind of flipped it off. That is mad. I hope that's all right. I don't want Chris Packham. I don't, well, I think the thing is that was a, I literally a knee jerk reaction. It's a knee jerk reaction. It was a knee jerk reaction. Like, you're not, you're not, you haven't decided to do that. No, I'm not. That's just an end. And they are vermin.
It might've been a squirrel. I don't know what it was, but it was small. You're scared. Yes. It was like a horror film. I felt like Jurassic Park, you know, when the big chap is trying to get to the ferry and he's eating the cream, the guy with glasses, larger chap, and then he crashes the car when it's all rainy and he's got his coat on and he's all wet. And then that big dinosaur with the big face to get the velociraptor.
No, not the rest of the one that it's got, like, sort of a weird thing that flips out. Yeah, what's in that one made up to make it more scary? Potentially. But that is Hollywood. That's Hollywood. Well, actually... The whole thing was made up. Apparently, but the real monsters were probably bloody producing it. Oh! Fincorn. Fincorn. Fincorn. Yeah. That was really good stuff, actually. Thank you, actually. Yeah, let's turn on producers. That's what good TV host is doing. Let's turn on my producer's turn on me.
these producers not for turning these all right. Yeah, so then we're cutting and then obviously the girls have missed me and I've not seen them at all. Whereas if you finish on a Saturday,
like and get on land. You've got the Sunday to sort of see the kids. So then I got in, I fling the rat and I'm all pumped up at this point. So I watched a bit of football. Thank God Tottenham are losing because that's really got me through yesterday. I was watching them on my match of the day and eventually I went up to go bed about two. And then when I went up there, my my daughters couldn't sleep. So that like she was
trying to get in bed with us. By getting up there, right? No, no, no, she's just not, when I'm not in the house, she doesn't sleep very well. So she gets here with Lou and then I'm back and then she can't get in with Lou and then Lou's out. I shouldn't let her in, but I don't know what to do. I'm so tired. So then I went and laid next to her for an hour and then I was awake till three and then I left her because she was fast asleep and then I come back in, went to bed at three a.m. and then the other one that I've been going, oh, wait me up in the morning before school and I'll see her. She wakes me up at six.
So three hours since she's jumped on me and then she, I am like so not with it. And in such a family, she's laughing and giggling and like trying to tickle me and all that. And I'm just, and I'm sort of like, but part of me is just going, I can get off me. You know, you're like stimulated in stress. And I was like, Oh yeah. And then the youngest one comes in with the um, because she's been up all night and not sleeping.
We check our phones, you get an email from the school saying the school's heating system's not working. So it's going to be freezing cold, but they've got enough electric heaters, send them in, but with layers. So we've got all their like thermals and their fleecy leggings that they're allowed to wear on the trowels and gamble, isn't it? Because
Not everyone's going to check their email that morning. No, so you might have kids that are freezing or ones that get layered up and then the heating comes back on and then they're sweating. Yeah. So we were trying to tell them what they need to do that. Then the youngest has got the arm. She's going, I don't want to wear these leggings. Hold on to wear them. Why are you making them? Wear them while they're... And they're having a go at me. And then I'm just like, fucking...
At the one point, I lost to our temperature. I was like, we have not made up an email from the school. They have said it'll be so hot in school. And then I was like, the radiator's on working. And yeah, but it's always hot in school. And yeah, but it won't be because I don't know. I'm like, you know, in the mornings, when we get in the car and it's cold, like, yeah, I went, that's normally hot, isn't it? Once we get driving, like, yeah, I went, but imagine that cold as soon as you get in doing, yeah, I went, that's what it's going to be like.
No, it's not, though, because the school's always hot. It was like the heat. That's because there's a radiator. And I was like, oh, my God. And then she's kicking off. And then she had the right fucking dump. And then I'm just sat there with Free Azaleek. And I don't know what to do or say. No. And then I'm just so mean answering the door hit you so hard.
And then they left at half seven. I went back to sleep for about an hour and a half. Oh, that's good. So I had a bit more sleep to do this, but I'm just like, and now I'm like straight back into this week of work. So I'm all lost. Are you working tonight? Not working. So you just reminded me, I'm working next Sunday night. I forgot that. But I don't mind working Saturday night for my home, but it's just, it's very difficult to balance family life and do. I've noticed this this week because I've got, I'm doing,
I've got a run in January of previews on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Yeah, perfect. It's like in London, right? But I've got last leg on Friday as well. And I suddenly realized that if anything else goes in,
is just so difficult for Rose. And I, cause I'm just doing, I'm out so many evenings in the week. Yeah. Cause if it went, if it went in on like a Wednesday morning, it wouldn't matter at all, but it's everything we do is so like, it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, like, ah, ah. And now it's so busy with the kid. Everything's, I'm so hard. And so on basically, I literally was like, I think when Rose was taking bullets, yeah. I don't think I can put,
I just don't think I can put anything in until this sounds mental, until the end of the tour in June 2025. But I don't think like during gigging time, I can be putting in like social stuff. Do you want to go for dinner on a Friday night? May 26th.
But also, even if I did find it free, that would be one of my only Fridays, one of my only evenings free. So it's really difficult to go, you know, I've been touring for that. I've been gigging for the last four nights. Yeah. Well, now I'm going to meet someone because it's I'm going to someone's birthday. And you're going to lose a board because they're about to be in all those four nights. They're like, well, let's go do something. You're like, I can't or I don't want to.
Yeah. Oh, God, is this a divorce era of this podcast? No, I don't think so. I think it's just... Oh, I don't think we're the ones don't know. I just think we've got to admit that our social life is now going to you over Westlands on a Sunday evening. For the next year and a half.
That's it, Rob. That is your treat. Oh my God, I'm just going to leave that. Well, whose message? The reindoorbell. I can't. Here we go. What is it? I don't know. We have to go and check, Mark, as well. And then you tell me about your week. Go on. No, I'm not going to get it. I'm not going to get it. I'm going to leave around there. Surely two of the other people in the house could get it. Won't the cleaning get it? Yeah, it will. The cleaning will get it. OK. Amazon? Yeah, but it's apparently Amazon, isn't it? Or another. I've started buying sticker albums on eBay.
Right, okay, so now this is interesting. What's prompted that? Something in your head's change where you're like, I'll need to treat myself. Do you feel like you're working a lot and what's the point? And I like that, I never do it. I'm gonna do something for me. Do you know what? It was the intensity of last autumn and winter, which we've all been through. And then you had that illness at the start of the year. And I was just like, do you know what? And it's also, because I've got rid of so many things from my phone that are distractions.
I was like, when I look at my phone, I can at least go on eBay.
This is addict behavior, isn't it? Yeah. It's like a gambler would like to start like saying to someone, I bet your quid the next bus is a 161. Yeah, yeah. I bet you that fly jumps off the table first, that kind of thing. No, so I'm... It's a good hobby. Yeah, it's a good hobby. I'm buying completed sticker albums for me. What you got coming? I just got the 1983 Football League Panini sticker album, and it is a thing of beauty.
That's why I don't get about you. You go that far back where you weren't even around that era. You're too young for that. Yeah, but I just find these things, it's not even, I just, I'm actually, I've become quite obsessed with the 80s.
Ooh, you're going backwards. You're going further back, rather. Well, I am going forward as well. Can I ask you this about parenting, Rob? Go on. So, one of the things I love is introducing my daughter to pop music. I mean, a great age for pop music, particularly female acts. So it's really... Current pop music, not stuff from the 90s. She loves girls allowed, which is their her favourite band who aren't. Well, they're kind of current, but they're not.
We were listening to Sabrina Carpenter. Yeah. Fucking brilliant. I think pop music is so good these days. It's such high quality. Yeah. The songs are so much more interesting than when we were kids and the production is incredible.
I think what you're getting is you're getting pop stars that are writing the songs from the heart as opposed to the people like Simon Cowell creating songs for them. Totally. Lyrically as well. Yes. But this is how we come to it. Like Lola Young. Messy. I'm done with Lola Young. Yeah, that's a big massive song, that messy song. I think it's Lola Young.
I'll put that all on the way home. I'll put that all on the way home. Clean. So we're doing Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, et cetera. Kim Marsh. Kim Marsh. Rick Astley. And it's very blue. Gina G. So it's incredibly blue, Rob.
What their lyrics? Lyrically, yeah. Have you gotten to Chapel Rone yet? That gets very blue. She doesn't like Chapel Rone. Oh, really? She finds her a bit... I don't... She wouldn't go with Hot to Go, because I thought she would. Really? That is a... I think this is going to be an absolute win. The casual one, talking about casual sex and being licked out in a car seat, maybe a bit full on for her, but Hot to Go. Yeah, I think she found it a bit...
between a bit kind of novelty-y, if you know what I mean. Do you know what I mean? I think she was like, this is a bit childish for me. Do you know what I mean? But Sabrina Carpenter, man, is effing and jeffing all over the shops.
There's a bit where the chorus is motherfucker. No. My daughter's favourite song is called Taste, which is about... Come. No, it's about... She's got together with a guy who's got back together with someone else and you can still taste me on him. Oh God, that's worse than come, isn't it?
And there's one, which is just about fucking. And she says the temperature's up to 69 at one point, which obviously my daughter doesn't understand. You've got to go to A&E for that, surely. Exactly. I'll tell you where it's not up to 69. I know your daughter's school.
Oh, she bet she's talking about the sex move. I think she must be, Rob. I don't think it's a coincidence. No, but I don't think she's chosen a random number. No boy, she's saying that we're shagging so aggressively. No, I think... Our body tense got 69. I think she's hinting at both things, Rob. Right, they're hot and upside down. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Right.
I'm always overrated for either 69, I've always said me. Too much going on, too much out of men. Suck an Ikea build. It's rubbish. Anyway, nothing wrong with a bit. Oh, my God! Surely he just grown adults still don't do that. Fair enough at the start when you're young, but they are still to do that. No job. We've talked about this before, I think. Yes, sir. And then the living Rodrigo vampire, which obviously a massive song. Yeah.
That says star fame fucker right in the main bit of the chorus. Anyway, my point is I love this music and she loves it and it's really good that she's listening to this really good music. So does that outweigh the effing and Jeffing all over the shop?
I think Effin' and Jeffin's fine. I struggle with like, if I like rap music, but then sometimes there's like completely unacceptable words in there where it's just like, no, that is beyond the power. So, yeah, I think a few Fs and Jess, but then if it's too much, I turn it off like that.
that messy song, she says fucking lows in it. So I tried to, like a couple of them are all right, but not too much. But they know now and I just say, you know, that's the music and you can't say that word. Yeah, exactly. But I think I think the positives outweigh the negatives. Does that make me a bad parent? Fine. I think in the long term, you're better off your child is into that than Mr. Tumble nonstop or like Miss Rachel or whatever. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if you like, you've got to put, you've got to draw a line at some point when they're like seven, eight, nine. Exactly. Yeah.
Before you tell us about your week, there was another meltdown I forgot to mention. My daughter basically was like, oh, nine on the weekend at nine. Are we okay to do it? Are we okay to do it? I was like,
Well, and then they go to a like a class on a Mutsack Day morning around nine. I went, oh, I'll take you to your class. I went, no, not that on Sunday. I went, okay, what happens on Sunday? And nine, she went, the Accro, the Accro. And just that person, did you forgot? Is that what? And basically, last week, she said, on a weekend, can me and Nancy be your Accro teachers and teach you a mommy Accro, with Accro bag stuff that they do? I was like, yeah, all right.
And that was a week ago. She's not mentioned it since. And because I've not remembered a class we've never done before, she's like, on the floor and tears. And then, anyway, but then recovery from that to being complete normal is seconds. Like, I feel like I'm working in some sort of like maximum security prison. And they've got these inmates that just flip and then turn back. And I'm free out of sleep and I've flung a rat off me foot. I haven't got the minerals for it. No, no, it's tough. It's tough, Rob. It's tough.
Should I tell you about potty training? Oh yes, it's over. The game's over. So how old your son? I will not be changing a shitty nappy.
So you've done it. How quickly did you do it? You've not mentioned it at all. Wow. How long has it been? It's been a long journey. Right. So he's three. Is he three? He's three. So it's been a journey for a few months in that we got rid of nappies. He's doing wheeze. Yeah. He does stand up wheeze. Right. Into his potty or the toilet? No, into the toilet or toilet. Yeah.
Yeah, although for some reason he's decided he doesn't want, he wants to show me his stand-up ways, his stand-up way on his fourth birthday. So I'm not allowed to watch him stand-up way, he'll do a sit-down way in front of me. I don't know why that's that way. Right, and then when he's four, he's gonna show you how it's done. Yeah, exactly. Is it nearly his birthday? May. Quite a long time for that. I know, but you know. You might overthink your reaction to it, because you're gonna have to give it yourself. Yeah, I know, and I'll be honest, I've seen it.
I saw it through a crack in the door. Is it good? Yeah, I mean, it's how you'd imagine. Right, okay. Well, I've not imagined it. Well, no, but, you know, don't imagine it. But if you did imagine it... Because imagine you're sun-pissing. Well, I didn't... I'm gone with that. I would. Would you? Yeah. Come in here. What you've been out to is just been thinking about your daughter's piss.
That's a bit weird, Josh. It's weirder if it's door for some reason, because if it just blokes on, we're having a piss. Yeah, it is. But still not OK. No, still not OK. I've been sitting down to way more. I'll get the morning glory. Oh, yeah. Do you get morning glory? No, as much as I used to. Every morning I wake up as a fucking scaffold pole. I can't hear it's mental. And it's like, I have to sort of hide like that. Because you need a piss.
Because that's the body's way of stopping a piss during the night. Is it? That's what I've heard. It just goes up to the brim. But it's a way of kind of sealing it more. Right. Well, I don't know, but I'm like, it's to the point where I wake up the morning and then I sit down and then just like hook it underneath the toilet, like a toilet dark and piss. I'm so sorry to talk about your dick. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention my dick last week.
and I'm meant to do it. Okay. Well, when I was about mine and then I'll tell you, you can tell about yours. Okay. What do you want to know about my dick? Is it going on the porcelain? Well, yes, because if I sit down with it, I'm just sat down and it's just like almost doing an Elon Musk salute.
And that's so good, because then I've just been pissing into the baths, into the air. Absolutely don't. Absolutely don't. No, you dig for us. No idea. I can't walk out the morning, but my dick's got right leading views. Yeah, so then I sort of push it through the hole and hold it down. And so is it touching the dirty porcelain, the clean porcelain?
Well, there's germs around there. Yeah, maybe it is touching the dirty porcelain, but what do we say about it? Because if it dirty, then I have a shower and it's clean again. That's the point of a shower. So I have to do that or otherwise it's just wheezing. And because I can't do it, stood up or I have to hunt my back and point it down. It stood up from a distance, couldn't you? It's too risky. So that's what I do. Anyway, what do you want to tell me about your penis? Oh, just when I was ill. Really, really little. It was pathetic.
Why does it go so little when you're real? It's so small when you're real, isn't it? Well, I'd covid it if I'd see it went away. I could barely piss over my balls. It was like just trickled down like a water feature. It was just like a tiny little gooseberry on top of a pair of bollocks. I could nan's little toe bin put on your groin.
It's horrible, isn't it, that tiny, ill dick? Yeah, awful. Sometimes when I do sport, it goes small as well. Do you ever get that? Yeah, that is a thing, isn't it? Yeah. Sports dick. I can't remember what I was saying. I was in the middle of that. But you really went really small. It's pathetic, isn't it? No, I tried to add toilet training. Oh, yeah. We got into this situation where he did the wheeze easily, and then he wanted to just keep pulling in an appie. Right. And then basically, for some reason,
He got blocked up. Right. Right. And he got the fear of doing a shit. Right. It was so difficult, isn't it, being three? And then like, so basically he got like compacted poos. So we had to give him all this medicine to get it out. Yeah. To get it out. And then it's just kept on coming. And we started giving him, we started rewarding him with chocolate for doing a poo in the toilet. Right. Okay.
He's now on three or four a day. Brock, he's loved it. He's like, right. Okay. Yeah. He's like, this is a basically like a vending machine every time I have a shit. I get it. Perfect. Yeah. But how do you ease out the chocolate? Not to. I do feel like when your son's about 26 and he's probably under a bit of pressure at work, he might go to the pool and subconsciously walks the shop and buy some chocolate and not understand why he does it. Luckily.
And it'll be a thing at work, and he's out of shit, I reckon, he's just more whispering. And he's like, oh, he's doing that. I'm sure they'll just forget eventually. Yeah, it'll become more mundane. I'll just do less chocolate. Yeah, just eat it out, like a little chocolate chip at the end, that's it. And then what about night, nappy at night? Yeah, so still nappy at night for
ways. I don't know how you really get rid of that. That's just a kind of... Well, we used to say that my doors would go, I don't want to wear it anymore. And we'd go, well, if you do five nights in a row, it would have a dry nappy. Yeah. And then in the morning, just sort of reward... Yeah, you've got to dry nappy and say if you need to wear it in the night, wake us and I'll take you to the toilet or go yourself. But if you get to dry nappy, then you won't have to wear it, wear it. Yeah, it's great. It's a really... Because I say get older when they're like, wearing it, it's so...
It's like working in a care room. It's like a big black bin liner full of piss. It stinks a piss, doesn't it? Well, that's it now. It's weird when you go through these periods where you're like, oh, that's that done. No nappies. You're not going to wipe an arse again. Puff and young. You never know what'll happen with, you know? I bet you wipe your arse weird. Both hands sat down. I don't actually. I'm not one of those weirdos. Do you sit down and do it or stand up?
Kind of pop up down. I'd say a bit off the toilet. Lean to the left, arc your arse up. I don't know. I can't picture it now because I've never seen it. Fill it. I'll put it on Instagram. Stick it in, stick it in, stick it in. How do you think it would do for traction?
Do you think it would do well or do you think? I think if there was no graphic actual poo or bar more naked this and we just saw sort of like jeans and pants around your knees and just a bit of thigh but no rude bits. By the way, this isn't going to happen. Wow, they're still rolling out. You know, content's content, baby. I think they're doing really well. Do you? Yeah. Huge numbers.
because a lot of people wouldn't have heard the podcast and that would be problematic. Yeah, but then we saw you on the nebulizer last week. I know that caused all kinds of fucking issues. Why? Oh, just loads of people texting me to see if I'm all right because they hadn't listened to the podcast. So they thought that was a live feed of me in a hospital. So now I don't know if this is me as a bad person or knowing you really well. But if I see you on a nebulizer,
and I hadn't heard the story, I just assume, I just assume you might just need it, it wouldn't be a big thing. No, I know, but people are like, people care about people, some people have got like everything and stuff. Or actually a bit fucking busy, wanna look like they're caring, you know what I mean? Well, he's alright, he's on an equalizer. What I wanna worry is you lying on a floor on Instagram, struggling for breath, then our text. If you were in a field,
I'd text, but in an hospital, in an epilogue, I was like, well, what am I going to contribute many to it? He's in good hands. He's in good hands. He sat there with his tiny little cock, breathing freely. Do you know what that was when I noticed it? When I went to the toilet at the hospital, I was like, this is sad. It's also, every time you take photo next time, I'm going to do that. Every time you've met Ned, you had a tiny knob. True. True. I blame Ned, Dr. Ned. No, I wouldn't have when I had my appendix out.
No? I don't know. You're packing. Do write in. If you've had your appendix out, how did it affect your penis? Why don't you tell us when your penis has been the smallest?
Top three times you've had a tiny penis. Send them in. Now, obviously, we'll open this up to, um, women too. Yeah. Top three times you've had a massive or tiny, but it doesn't work like that. It doesn't really work like that. No. Oh, dear. What an episode. Yeah. What an episode. I do apologize for answering the door. No, it's all right. Do you know what else, Rob? Hold on. So I was talking to you before about, um, just, uh, career worry. Yeah. What's your career? What's going on? What's going on? It's all kind of nebulous.
What's that, Nick? It's kind of... It's kind of nothing, eh? But like, do you ever just get that thing where you're like, oh God, I'm on the scrap heap. It's all over. Do you know what it was? It was like, I watched the traitors on Friday and I was like, I love this show. It's really good.
And then I was like, what do I want to do? I don't like anything I do as much as that. What is watching the traitors? As the traitors, yeah.
And then I was like, Oh, what do I want to do with my career? And then I suddenly went into a couple of days where I was like, I don't know what I'm doing in my life anymore. Do I want to be on TV? Do I not want to be on TV? Do I want to do a podcast? Does anyone listen? Do you ever have that?
Yeah, that's totally normal. And I think that's something around, especially people in their 40s, where most people in their 40s, if they've gone for like a certain career, will like maybe have got it. And then what you wanted becomes quite normal, where like, I mean, something to say before, like, yes.
Oh, that yesterday's dreams are today's problems kind of thing where it's like the thing you wanted to get like come. But I think that is everyone at this stage of life where if you've bought a house and you have children and have a job and in a very lucky position like you're in, but you're allowed to go, so is this it now then?
I sort of just do this until I retire and die. I've got a slight addict, and I think for my job, I've got an addiction to the new, if that makes sense. 100%, and I think we're venturing near plateau territory.
Yes, where you get to a point where, right, this is what I do in my career and I'm, am I happy with this? I could try and push for another thing or another level, but then that's going to impact my family life and my own stress levels. And then, so that's totally normal, I think, and understandable. And I think, because I was looking at it as well, it's like,
So it's almost like your brain will constantly be telling you, everyone's got like on the desk of like your life has got a dossier of all the stuff that well, that's not very good. You're not very good at that. This is, you know, all the negativity and stuff. And sometimes you try and like counteract it and your ego gets involved. You go, well, actually, I don't really make a big impact.
on the world with what I do. I just do a lot of podcast and a bit of telly. What is it even I'm doing? And then you really go, I've got to do something. So then you start doing like mad charity work, which is a positive thing, but you can get swept up in it where you're like, I do this and this is my identity and stuff like that. Or you're not very good at that. That's not very good. And then you spend your life trying to prove that thought wrong and stuff like that.
I'd find you're better off just not engaging with that dossier and really hyper focusing on what's happening now and go, it's Monday morning. You've managed to sort of get up. The kids have gone off to school. You sat here chatting to a mate in your job at 10 a.m. In this moment, right now, it's quite a nice little gig here. It is. But if you just focus on this, it's so easy to forget. Yeah. It's so easy to forget.
particularly in this job, because everyone's obsessed with the new, including ourselves. Everything that you do becomes so second nature that you kind of don't even, it just feels mundane, if that makes sense. Yeah, because if you go on another podcast or a TV show 10 years ago, you'd be like,
Oh my God, I've got that, and that means it's laughing, then you're getting a pump of adrenaline through your body. That actually comes to point out, well, that is just my job now, and that's what I do. And you end up dressing up as a fucking penguin to get a hit.
Yeah. To just feel something. So the way I deal with it is because my mind races like that as well. I try and I don't always succeed, try to hyper focus on what I'm doing in the exact moment and see how I feel about it. Like for example today, I'm very tired and a stressful night last night, stressful morning. But actually right this second, I'm having a really good time and I'm having a laugh doing this with you and Michael and it's fun, right?
Whereas later on in the week, I might be doing another job that I don't necessarily like, but if I'm hyper focused on that and I'm not allowing the past or the future to get in there, I can go, I don't like doing this. Yeah, this isn't enjoyable. This is shit. It's OK. It's not like.
You've got to love everything you're doing. And then at the end of the day, I sort of look back and go, right, I've really enjoyed doing that with Josh. I didn't really enjoy getting home really late. So maybe in future, I'm going to ask the promoter to not book in as many Sunday gigs because that imbalances my week. That wasn't enjoyable. Part of that, that's gone now. Monday morning. Love doing that with Josh. Really good fun. Love Michael. Love it. Do that. Recall that fun. He's a bit chippy these days, Michael.
Josh is dropping the ball a little bit, but he's had a stressful time when he's stressed the show's good. But then, later in the week, if I'm doing something I don't want to do, I can go, you're not feeding this Rob. This isn't bringing joy to your life. And then just like, actually, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to stop doing that. And I think if you hyper focus on each little step, it's a lot easier than doing a big, massive blanket.
Well, it's even the point of all this. What is going on? Because what there is, there'll be one thing that's your problem that, rather than you hyper focusing on to find, it just puts a dark cloud over it all. Which isn't actually what it is. So if you're, I try and get right in the minutiae of what I'm doing in that moment, and then I can feel if I'm digging it or not. That is great. That is great, Rob. That's what I try and do anyway. If I go for a wait.
I don't really base off that last week. I need a fucking pair of tweezers to unwind last week. Right, should we do a small business shout out? This one here is, this is for Josh when it comes to cock from last week. Oh, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do,
Because that's when you get tracked in the cycle. I am. I am. I'm going to read all the comments to show that I am worthwhile. Look, people like it. Michael, Michael, send me the listing figures. Look, look how many people listen and it's going up, which means I'm better than I was. But if they go down, these numbers go down, I'll be worse than I was. Seriously, Michael, we're doing all right.
Oh, I saw business where we are. For Josh's Christmas tree problem. Oh, by the way, I should say I saw it by Christmas tree problem. Do you give Paul Leaderfiver? No, I, I... You did something, Doug. E-mailed Hackney and I said, I've got to join the rubbish collection. They said, no, what you need to do, you can get a, you can get a big item taken away. Just 23 quids to get your item taken away. Oh, that's all right.
Yeah. Yeah. So if you live in Hackney, you just need to do like fill in a big item collection form. It's not called that. It can't be called that item. Yeah. You don't have to do the year-long green recycling, but you've got a big item to be taken. 23 pick up that. Yes. Or do this, Rob. For Josh's Christmas tree problem, I recommend you re-listen to the Small Business Shoutout you did on season three, episode 24, 845.
I only started listening to your podcast about six months ago, so I'm listening to all the old podcasts in between the new podcasts. Co-instantly, I've just listened to this week's podcast where Josh complained that the council wouldn't take his tree. And then one from three years ago, where you promote a charity that will collect and chip your tree for free. Oh, God. Christmas tree collection.com. Keep up the good work, work, Becky. I mean, if you've still got the tree now, what is it, Feb? I've still got the deer out the front, lit up.
Chris Paul Reindeer, yeah. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's been too fucking windy and rainy and I wasn't in Yeoville. But thank you very much to everyone that came to the shows and I enjoyed the show, Yeoville, but the three-out drive home in the rain on a Sunday and I hope you all got home safe. Where does Nick stay, Rob? Where does Nick live? He lives in Essex, so it's quite good actually, sort of, he's on the way through. Is it Nick Jenkins?
No, different Nick. Oh, different Nick. Erm, shout out to Nick Jenkins who did my last tour. No, shout out to Nick who's doing my current tour, actually. Erm... Hi, I'm Josh and Rob. It would be great if you... It would be great if you could shout out my girlfriend Amy's small business, the dress carousel. That's really very laugh, I'll give over Nick.
Has Ali still got your duvet for the tour in a year's time? No, because I've still got it here because we've got it. OK. The dress carousel. The dress carousel is based in the Midlands of Ireland. It allows people the choice to avoid fast fashion and save wardrobe space by renting stylish high quality dresses for a range of events such as weddings, parties, hen, doos, bridal wear and many more.
She is so hard working and has started something amazing for people locally in rural Ireland that can't or won't want to travel to bigger cities to take the chance of ordering something online about trying it on. A shout out would be great for her growing business and I just think she would love more that is coming from Yee. That was in Irish you, not Kanye.
I'm very proud of all she's achieving. I can't wait to see what's coming down the road. The website is thedresscarousel.ie and the dress carousel on Insta. Thanks for your time. David and Josh on sale Friday. Friday's a big one. Is it? I don't know. Bye.
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More misadventures in parenting, life, and beyond with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe... In this episode we discuss pros and cons of potential future pet ownership, and Lou sends Josh a fun voicenote to play to Rob in response to the Harry Judd episode last week Please follow and leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... here's how: EMAIL: Hello@lockdownparenting.co.uk INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available free everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com Join the mailing list to be first to hear about live show dates and tickets, Parenting Hell merch and any other exciting news... A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
February 04, 2025
S9 EP44: Harry Judd

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell
Discusses parenting and life experiences with musician and author Harry Judd on Parenting Hell podcast. Subscribe via email for updates and follow on Instagram.
January 31, 2025

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