The Van Accident Story

Well hello everyone. Well hello everyone. I'm doing a podcast day with a bit of sourdough in my hand. And I've got a little waffling kit in my hand. This sourdough has more personality than my wife. I'm joking. I thought that Zitty was an old man when I was walking him to sleep. That is coming up in the episode. My mum also gets hit by a van. I tell that story. And Jamie's lots of tooth. And also I have a saggy face. Ladies and gentlemen, that is coming up in the show. If you haven't subscribed already, click that subscribe button and join the amazing community. Get ready for an episode of Newly Parents. Have some sourdough . Enjoy. Hello I'm Jamie Lang. And I'm Sophie Lang. And now we're newly paris! Oh yeah we are baby . You're entitled. Yes, you heard me. Entitled entitled entitled. And before you go all I, am not entitled . Just relax. I'm not talking about never buying you around or never giving a little thank you wave in the car. 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Head to hertilityhealth.com slash podcast and select newly parents to claim twenty pounds off your test . Well start your bloody engines. Brum broom broom. Hey honey, put it in. Put it in I don't drive a manual put it in neutral. Well that's when you 're gonna ruin You're gonna ruin the clutch if you do that. You're gonna you're gonna ruin the clutch. You like to coast. That's what you do. What do you mean like toast? Oh sorry, you don't because you not qualify to drive a manual . That's wild that you're not. No one uses an annual now. What was your first car again? A blue mini? Yeah. It was wasn't it? And what? I'm just curious. Jamie always makes fun of me because I had a blue mini. I had the duckhead mini. No, uh while what I make fun of you about your mini is this is Sophie didn't understand the concept of parking fines. So what Sophie did with her blue mini is she just parked it anywhere. No, no, no. Yeah, you did. No, I went to Newcastle University. Shout out. And I lived in Jasmine. You know, I had a ho use and it said resident parking and I was a resident. So I didn't have to apply for resident parking. So every day for two years I parked on resident parking, thinking I live in this house, I'm a resident, I can park here. Every day there was a ticket, and I was like, this fucking guy, why is he doing that? Chucking them away. Chucking them away. Chucking them. Okay, everyone's gonna come at me and think why would you chucking them away? I will not let my son be brought out like this, I promise. At any rate, after two years I then got my license taken off me because I I it You had too many parking tickets. I just yeah. Well how many how what did the fines get up to? I don't know, Dave. Yeah you do, you remember. I don't remember actually.. Yeah, you do All I know is it caused for both my parents to stop speaking to me for a whole month. Radio silo. Sophie Haboo had to go to court. No, that was for a different thing. Wait, what was that for? I've said this story. I can but just remind you that was for you know the amber eye that you always tell me to go through. Don't go through the amberye. It was for going through an ambery. You can go through an amber . You shouldn't go through an amber light, because if they get you in the nick of time, then you lose your licence. They asked me to send my driving licence off to put some points on it, and again I didn't open the post. I went shh so I I never sent my driving licence off. So two years later, I got lots of letters saying your driving license been revoked. So I appealed for it. And my mum had just had a a face pill and she came to court with me and I had to stand on that little oath and I was like, all right I, Sophie B solemnly swear. And I look out to the audience, my mum looking so upset and worried, and her whole face was just peeling off like a snake. And I was like, Well, listen, everybody, welcome back to newly parents ! Hey, by the way, before we start the show, I just want to say one thing. If you haven't subscribed, okay, if you haven't done it, you just click that button. It takes one second. It's completely for free. It's free. It's free. You just go click and subscribe. I subscribe to everyone. Okay, like who? I subscribe to everyone I watch on YouTube. If I watch their YouTube once, subscribe. Because I don't want to be going onto YouTube and searching on that search bar. That's the most annoying thing in the world. This is a great you're selling without selling without subscribe . I don't understand why people don't subscribe. Why am I saying this ? I don't want you, but I like it. Subscribe. Subscribe. Sub. Is it two words subscribe? Because I feel like it is. By the way, so subscribe as Sophie said because then our little show will pop up straight away for you. Listen, I know we start off newlyparents like this, but we are newly parents and we have to do it. It's it's a heat wave at the moment. And I don't know about you, but it's absolutely roasty toasty. It's so hot. It's roasty toasty. And you are in trousers, socks, by the way, walking socks and a top. I'm in a beach dress. What's the difference? What's the difference? What do you mean walking socks? Well they're like walking socks, I can tell, because they're not n running socks. I'm really confused. Yeah, I know I get ski socks. There's like walking socks are the same. Yours are thick, girthy socks. These are not thick, girthy socks. Yes, they are. Everyone in this room is thinking, what are you doing? But I will say you don't have a summer wardrobe. I I do need a change. It's absolutely roasting, and our poor little son is just not sleeping in this toasty toasty room. And last night I had to go and I had to go and put a f don't you roll your eyes at me. I'm just gonna put it out here. Okay, go on then put it out. When the men and the dads, and I'm saying this to all dads and men, go, aren't you so grateful that I do the nights? No, I'm not fucking grateful because we're in 2026 and it should be equal. We say this is what honestly happened last night. I I He thinks he's God. He's like, you know no other dads would be doing the nights. And I'm like, well, they're fucking shit. Fair enough. But I'm with you, honey. I'm so with you. And by the way, I've just solo parented for three days on three nights in a heat wave. Didn't get one complaint out of me, did you? No, what I get is s slightlyort of passive aggressive ones. That's what I get, which I totally understand. You looked after our baby in a heat wave all weekend by yourself for for two . And we had the best time. Okay. But I well, I missed you. I missed you very much. We missed you too. I missed you very much. You were all alone in our big old house. And you were having the time of your life at a festival. I was working. All weekend. I was working very hard. Okay. And it's true though, I did come back and I did the nights last night. Night. Yeah, find the night. I was up from eleven till two thirty doing guys, can I just say And he was just staring at me. Yeah I know. He just stares at me. Trust me, he was he didn't sleep the last two nights either. I haven't had any sleep. He does this thing where he does just stare. And at one point I held a little boy and I walked into the room and I was like, I was doing this. I was coming up to you and I was going, can I just say this is eleven pm at night? Like I had just got into a deep sleep and I so tired. Yeah, I really don't understand what happens to me. If I fall asleep at like nine, yeah, ten p.m. I it you can't wake me up. No, no, no. Two a.m. can't go back to sleep. But 11, you were you were in a deep, deep sleep. You woke up and I've never seen you so tired in all your life. Are you you you said you looked at me and said, What are you doing? And I said, I'm trying to trying to get him to sleep. Do I put the fan on him? And you were like, What? What are you talking about? You didn't understand what was going on. That's called sleep deprivation from Soda . Yeah, you were very, very, very tired. I was away for the weekend, and you were in the house by yourself, and you were so sleep-prideved, you started to rock because he could sleep. What happened? I walked him. He's doing this thing where he wakes up at 11 p.m. on the dot and he's you know not crying, he's just ready to go. And so I picked him up. I was rockinging him, bounc him on this ball, and I was closing my eyes because it was now about midnight and then it was midnight half. We've closed because I I'm like sleeping like and I don't want to get eye contact because then he thinks it's playtime and he starts smiling and laughing at me. So I was rock, rock, rock. And I just looked down at him and he was staring back at me. But I convinced myself it was an old man staring back at me. Like I was so tired it didn't look like his face. And I was like, oh my God, some old man, you know, like the orphan, where it's an old girl, an old woman who pretends she's like a little orphan. I thought there's an old Benjamin Busson who's swap places with my son, and I'm rocking this old man. So I had to go turn on all the lights and many was awake for hours. Wait, you did not tell me that I did, I turned on all the lights. I was so scared. I was alone in our house and I was rocking an old man to sleep . It wasn't ziggy. It's making you sound really weird, but when you thought of us when me and my sister were younger, we had two cats. Yeah. My papa, my granddad, lived in a coach house like with us basically. So when we would go away for the whole seventh, the two cats would be looked after by him. And one summer we came back and we knew that our black cat Max had been replaced by another black cat. There's no way. I am telling you to this day. Who do you think it wasn't Max? It wasn't the same cat. And I was so scared of this cat and he like changed his he only was set outside this window. He did all these really strange things. And I convinced myself it was a similar thing. I I couldn't in my sleep defy straight state. I was like, oh my god, my son has been replaced by an old man that I'm now gonna grow up and a mother. And I don't know where Ziggy is, but it's not this guy. Also it's two hundred degrees in here. Jamie, it's not that hot, we're all saying it. How do you feel my back? Sorry, I just had to take a quick break there because I was actually roasting. Yeah, but you've still got your walking socks on and there's no need. You also have lovely feet. The w when I was first dating you, I asked you what your favourite thing about you was and you said your feet. So whip those puppies out and get a foot fetish going. Let's just move on. Let's just get back to our lovely little parenting shenanigans. I'm very proud of you this weekend because you were parenting completely solo and you did really well with it while I was up having hosting fun time. I was working on Radio One, I was doing big weekend and it was just very hot and it was loads of things were happening. By the way, I know this is a little bit chaotic, but I've actually taken off the headphones because I'm far too hot. I'm roasting over here. I'm fine. Okay. I am getting a little bit hot. Secondly, I just need to explain this. I don't know what's happened, but maybe it's sleep deprivation, but I feel like my whole body and face and everything is sagging at the moment. I don't understand why you're saying this, but I will say I do think you don't need any greens . And I do think that contributes to like tiredness under the eyes. Look how tired you're I don't think jelly and yogurt and grape nuts is a sustainable diet. I don't think you're gonna get your nutrients in with from that. I don't think that you're getting any vegetables in or any vitamins. I'm eating loads of vegetables. And you refuse to take a vitamin? No, I take my vitamins. What? Uh oh omega . You don't and that that will contribute to a less saggy face though I will say. So do you think I have a little bit of a saggy face? I think that no, I don't think I have a little bit. I think you look fantastic. Okay. I think you look d a little bit tired under the eyes, as do I and trust me, if anyone's sagging over it here, it's me. My stomach is so saggy when I do Pilates it literally touches the floor. It's upsetting me that I'm slowly getting old. I don't really like it anymore. I really don't think it sucks. I've got to that stage. I think what happens when you become a parent is that you suddenly just realize that you get no sleep, you get nothing, no nutrients, nothing at all in you, and slowly by slowly it just all starts to like fade away. And I'm just this is what aging is gonna happen I'm gonna start to this is what aging's really starting to Because you're exhausted Because you either sink or swim in this world now like you either age gracefully and we all enjoy aging and like the privilege of getting older, or we have to have five facelifts and a body graph. And I don't know which one I'm at yet. I don't know if I'm A or I'm B. So would you be upset if I went and had a facelift at some point. 'C Iause see that like all these people out there are having facelifts. No, we'd have to communally agree we're either gonna go down the face-if route and both get facelifts. I'm not or just me. There's no way that's happening. It'll be the other way round or we both age gracefully together. I don't know whether that's gonna happen with how much you love Botox, but so when I was aware at big weekend, what were you doing? Give it to me. Looking after our child. I went in the heat. Yeah, but you weren't just what did you get up to? Come on. We would go on walks. Well, I couldn't really do much because it was so hot, but I I took him in a paddling pool. He was naked all weekend. I'm not even a nappy. Just naked, enjoying life. I sang to him. What I like to do, and if any new mums are out there, and like you know, that point of the day where like it's nearly bedtime, they're a bit bored, like you've done everything, you don't want to take them on another walk. I get on songs like rapping songs, and I put them on my phone on Spotify. And did you know the lyrics come up? You just swipe down, and then I rapped him for hours. He fucking loves it. Give me an example. I'm not going to give you an example. No, I won't. I will not. Well what to what artist? All of them. All the rappers. So you're you like like who? Like I don't know their names 'cause I just put in rap music and then I just sing the lyrics. Why do you rap ? Because it's not fun to sing like Jolene, Jolene, because I know those words. Like it's more interesting to me if I can rap and because then he thinks I'm talking to him and he laughs. He loves it when I rap. So you do so you do like MM, Jay-Z? Yeah. Like Biggie. No, I didn't do anything Biggie. You but you do so like mocking about MM, you do that to our son. Hayley, I know you miss your mum, and I know you miss your dad, but I'm gone, but I'm trying to give you the life that I never had. I could keep going, honey. That's really impressive. I know you're not. I can see you're sad even when you One thing that did happen, my teeth chipped. Same as me. I know, but you know, remember when I was pregnant and the tooth chipped on cottage cheese and then I had it like filled with bonding? Fucking chipped again. Let's have a look at it. Is it yours is to mine is completely chipped at the moment. Yeah, yours is not right. Okay, talk to me about your weekend then. What did you do? Alright, I'll tell you about my weekend. You tell me. Saw Zara Larson. So yeah. Saw Sabrina Carpenter? No, she was not there. Louis Tomlinson. Everyone was raving about her and what happened there. Louis Tomlinson was there. Um what happened? He sang a song, he got on stage and sang a song. I also can I tell you, I went to one of those little portalous right? Don't know if you've ever done this. I went obviously I've been to a portaloo. Okay, you mean to a portaloo, how vile they are. They have that little like thing that opens up in the bottom, right? And they stink. They stink. I dropped my phone in it. That's vile. And and my and my I didn't even think about my immediate reaction just goes straight in. And do you know the worst part about it? You done a poo. No, I hadn't done a poo, but but it Well the Pas and 40 had. You know how it ha has like it's not it's not a hole, it's like got a lever. I would just say bye, see uh clothes flush. My phone. That's vile on every level. Shocking. On every level. Yeah. Do you not remember when we went to Glastonbury weren't that fast yeah that we were dating . And our friend dropped his phone in down the thing and it went out of the portal and he had to f get into the shit and grab his phone out. And he did it and I watched him with my own eyes and was like, Your friends are fucking wild. Can I also just say I I don't know if it's like sleep deprivation, but I know that you thought Ziggy was Benjamin Button old man. I'm like scared at night at the moment. I don't really know why. I'm like I know why? Why? Because all you do is sit up and watch horror movies and by the way, they are horrendous ones. They're not horrendous ones. Yes, they are. You last night made me watch one and it was going Ba ba black sheep have you any wool. And it was it looked like me in our in our promo video, a very old lady dying in bed, sadly, and it was just the sound of bar bar black sheep. And guess what it was about? Podcast hosts . And I was like, I'd rather not, you know. You only started the first five minutes. That was the scary what was it called? I don't even know what it was. I'm told or something. But I really wanted to watch it and you didn't watch it. But I'm That's why you're scared. No, I'm terrified going to like like last night when I was awake with Ziggy, rocking him. I know, clapped me very much. I had to go up and down the stairs to check that no one was in the house. That's how like scary it was last night. I don't know why I'm really freaked out. I do know what you mean because when you were away this weekend I sleep with an eye mask and every time I put it on I was like I just pitched that was a man standing across my face like that. It's absolutely terrifying. Also everyone we did a f uh a TikTok and everyone's been commenting saying that I and their sleep paralysis. You know when you need foot clip when I do the running thing. Yeah. Everyone's like, Sophie is up my sleep press. People sending it to me as DMs and I'm like, oh my god, it is. That is exactly what my sleeper has. Honestly, if you came into the room at night, right? With my lanky limbs. You're you you're you're so like you're like the slender man. If you ran into the bedroom when I was trying to sleep on all fours, I don't know what I it would be the scariest thing. I can't wait, but no, please don't do it to me. Jamie and I do do this really weird thing where like the lights will go off and then I'll just be like this on the day. No way, do it and then he just try just try just try and do this is what Sophie will do to me at at night time to try and scare me. And uh and what happens is she'll do it in a second and after a while I go, ha ha Sophie, stop it. Ha ha Sophie stop it. And she'll still go Try and scare me. Here we go. Just do it once. Here we go. No, I just said it . Absolutely terrifying. Listen, it's been a wild, chaotic morning again on the podcast, because we've had zero sleep, and I know we keep banging on a bell, but as you know, it's a newly parents podcast, so of course we're gonna have no sleep, but it does mean it's time for listeners messages . This episode of Newly Parents Guys is sponsored by Lego Duplo, where learning and play go hand in hand as toddlers create, imagine, and explore. Okay, by the way, I bet no one knew this. Did you know that 90% of a child's brain develops before the age of five? Totally wild, isn't it? So probably comes as no surprise that play actually aged so much of that early development. Well actually, did you know that Lego Duplo is all about helping preschool kids build up a range of skills through play? So it could be cognitive skills, emotional skills, social skills, there's so many. Yeah, it's incredible, isn't it? So big question for me to you. What skills have you learned as a new parent? I'm fantastic at burping. I you are no not fantastic at burping myself. I I'm fantastic at burping my son. Okay. I'm fantastic at getting a little burp out of the book Alright, well I'm gonna come over to you now, all right, and you're gonna have to show me the burping technique that you've learned if you think you're that good at it. On you. Yeah, you're gonna do it on me. Okay. So I would sit you on my knee. Alright, so Oh my god, you lump of a man. And just leaning forward, b ha pat patterway, patakate, patakate, paticate, paticate, uh, but off you go. Oh my gosh, you're so happy. And then and then what? And then you push me off. And no, and then I hold Diggy. Well you didn't angel him around. Okay, what have you learned? Tell you what I've learned. How to maneuver a pram in any situation. I can get a pram into the back of a taxi. Damn straight, you can. Thank you very much. I can fold up a pram and put it on a plane in the luggage place. Down straight you can. Because I can tell you what what's embarrassing is when you're trying to fold a pram in the aisle of a plane and everyone is behind you huffing and puffing. And it doesn't fold. And it does not fold. I've mastered that skill. You are the master of the pram folder. Well now that our baby is six months old, I know the facial expressions he makes. Oh me too. I can tell you exactly when he's hungry. I can tell you when he's a poo. I can tell you when he's pooing. That one you can tell for sure. What does he do when he's pooing? It's like a bit of a flared nostril. I think he looks as cutest when he's pushing out a poo. Really? Like that is when he looks as cutest. He goes very rare to like stares you right in the e ye and just flares his nostrils. Yeah, he does. He And like it's poo time. Do you say that too? Imagine if I said to you every single time you did a poo, it's poo time . You would hate it. Hey honey. I can tell you. Do you know what I'll talk to him how I talk to you? Like, oh god, do you want some dinner? That's how you're gonna start talking to him. And think over about that . Are you thirsty? Get yourself some milk. Bedtime, put yourself to bed. It's very good. It's very good. I want to say one more skill that I've learned. What I've learnt as a new parent is to be kind to each other. This is true. Because parent is exhausting. It's hard. It's tiring at times. But you know what? We're always good to each other. You've got to pull through and those three AM wake ups, you've just got to brush away all the nasty things you say to each other and start afresh the next day. Exactly. Okay, so if it's clear that every little skill we're learning now is laying the groundwork for what's to come and it's the same for Ziggy2, by the way. That is so right, Jamie. That's why we've been loving Lego Duke Plu. Honestly, it's amazing, which is all about helping little ones start their building journey from as early as one and a half. What's really nice, okay, is that it grows with them from those bigger bricks designed for tiny little hands all the way up to more advanced play as they get older. Exactly, because play isn't just about play. It's actually really important for helping build so many important life skills early on, from creativity to problem solving. I mean, especially in those first early years when so much development happens. So even though Ziggy's not quite there yet, we're already getting so excited about introducing him to Lego Duplo. And I mean, let's be honest, probably playing with it ourselves too. I honestly can't wait. I'm like so excited. Okay, honey, let's start building. Visit Lego.com forward slash preschool to find out more. You're entitled. Yes, you heard me. 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Pick up a copy today and cast your own judgment. Guilty or not guilty. You decide. Dissection of a murder by Joe Murray. Out now in Hardback, ebook and audiobook. I'm Jill Scott and this week I'm taking on the challenge of a lifetime. I'm coming home for sport relief. Over five days I'll run and cycle 395 miles through the places I call home. From London, through the Midlands and the north all the way back to Sunderland every mile helps fund projects that build confidence connection and belonging for people through sport donate now at sportrelief.com to support communities across the UK. This message was brought to you by ECAS. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to Lizen's Messages. I love you guys so much. Thank you so much for sending these in. They completely make the podcast and they make our days that little bit brighter. Okay, I've got a wild story. You ready for this, honey? From Sarah. Hey Sophie and Jamie, I'm loving hearing you you're back on the podcast, all with the hilarious listeners' message, so I thought I'd share my embarrassing story with you. Last summer I was camping just out side Edinburgh with some friends. On the last night it was good weather, so we built a campfire, and sat around it all night drinking and chatting. When it came time for bed I wanted to be responsible and put the fire out just in c ase. I also happened to need a Wii and couldn't be bothered trekking to the campsite's toilets, so my slightly drunken state, it seemed like a win-win. As I squatted over what I thought were the fire's dying embers, a g ust of wind came and blew one of the embers directly upwards and hit just above the worst place possible. I screamed. And when my friend came running over, I had to explain that I'd burnt my fanny trying to put out the fire . I woke up the next morning quite hungover and it was still really painful, so I made a stop off at a pharmacy where I whispered over the counter what had happened. The pharmacist had to take me to one side to have a look and give me some burn cream. Absolutely mortifying. Thanks for brightening up my Mondays and I hope my embarrassing story might at least give someone else a laugh. Loads of love. That's agony. Have you ever burnt your family? No . I've never burnt my family, but that sounds agonizing. Okay, give me one, go. Okay, I've got a wild story from Alice. Hey Sophie and Jamie. It's so good to hear you guys back in my ears every Monday. Come on, let's go guys. I wanted to share a story. I'm just about ready to laugh at again from Valentine's Day. It was me and my boyfriend's second year together, so I bought a really sexy little latex bar to wear in the bedroom. I tried it on and when it arrived to check it fit and it was a bit tight but looked great so I thought I'd go for it on the night. We went out for a nice meal and a few drinks and when we got back I snuck into the bathroom to change. It's not the stretchiest and what was a bit tight before became extremely tight after a three-course romantic meal, but I felt great and my boyfriend absolutely loved it . That was until a few minutes later when suddenly the seam at the back gave way an overstretched rubber came whipping round and slapped him straight in the eye. He let out a huge scream as I ran after the freezer to grab him some frozen peas, which did absolutely nothing to stop his eye swelling up all blue the next morning. He had to tell everyone at work he'd walked into a door. If only they knew the true story. I hope you guys can at least get a laugh out of my embarrassment, and thanks for putting a smile on my face every week. Now we're back . Well so the latex thing snap. So the bra strapped and like the latex it's straight in the eye. That would be awful. See that's something that I would like get annoyed at in the moment and then I would have a fight . Okay, I've got one. A birth story. You ready for this from Jed? Hi Jamie and Sophie. I've been listening to your podcast for a while now. My partner Scarlett was pregnant with our first child at the same time as Sophie. I was so scared of becoming a dad and not knowing what to expect. Listening to your podcast and your stories made me feel so much better, and it made me happy knowing you guys were going through the exact same thing. In March, after complicated labour, we were introduced to our beautiful boy Ziggy , born via emergency C section . Oh my god. I was so shocked and psyched when I saw you also named your baby boy Ziggy too. It's been the most special few months and I never knew that I could love someone so much. I hope you're cherishing these moments as much as we are. Much love. Ziggy! Ziggy time too. I love that. And the emergency C section like us, honey. Oh my god, guys, love you so much, and I love your little boys . Jed . Jed . Jed and Scarlet. Jed, Scarlet, and Ziggy and Scarlet. What is Jed short for do you think? Jedward . Honey, give it to me, go. Love story from Emma. Hi Jamie and Sophia. I'm loving having the podcast back. It soundtracks my commute every Monday and often has I wanted to share the story of my amazing husband Tom with you. Not long after we got together, I had some pretty serious health problems, and he was so there for me every single step of the way. I'm so, so grateful. Thankfully I'm fully recovered now, and since then we've welcomed two amazing young girls into the world and he's been the best dad they could hope for. Come on. Then out of the blue last year, Tom lost his job. It wasn't through any fault of his own, but it completely destroyed his confidence and sent him to a really tough space. He couldn't face getting back on the job pants, so just withdrew completely. Even though he was a complete rock bottom, he would still always shout for me and the kids, cooking dinners, planning days out and generally putting on a brave face. He's been making great progress in therapy too, and I'm so proud to say that he starts a brand new job next week. It's so amazing to see his old smile come back. Going through hard times as a couple is horrible, but it definitely brings you closer and I, can barely put into words the love and admiration I have for Tom. I feel so lucky that I get to wake up to him every single day. Loads of love. Let's go. That's amazing . What is that? You're like showing a little circle at me. I'm doing a circle. You're doing the like heart like that, are you? Emma and Tom. Guys, we adore you. Guys, love you so much. That's amazing and well done for you. Love you so much. Listen, guys, we want to say thank you so much for constantly sending in your message. We absolutely love them. Keep sending them in, voice notes, anything and tool. Send them to newlyparents podcasts on Instagram, sign their DMs, or send us an email, newlyparents at jampoproductions.co dot uk or you can send in a voice note, everything is anonymous our number is our show description anything at all we want to hear from you okay that's the end of listeners messages one thing we need to discuss right school. School. What we're gonna do with school? Well we've got quite a few years off until that's school. Listen, I'm preparing myself for the father-son race. I'm in training. I'm gonna fuck up the other dads. And I'm not even fucking joking. I'm sure you wouldn't. It's actually the funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Spencer Matthews, right? He I can't wait. He did a father and son's race. Father and son's race is just like a group of dads, right? Who like come up, one's probably wearing a rugby shirt and other one's wearing a suit, other one is like wearing whatever. Spencer turned up to the father's son's race in chin kit and spikes. And like he scoggled after that. When he raced, he raced it. And at the end he did the dip. No, he didn't. I swear my life. I've got a video. I've got a video. Show me the video. I'll get the video. He did a dip at the end. What's a dip? I don't understand what dip is. Oh they go like the head goes first, you're fucking kidding me. So I'm gonna get I listen to this, I I need you to understand this, right? When Ziggy goes to school, we're gonna be competitive. No, we're we're uh Honey, we're gonna be fine. Ziggy Ziggy might be like me. Don't have a competitive bone in my body. You couldn't pay me. Even if you said you could get a million pounds, I'd be like, can't be bothered to raise. Are you joking? Are you joking? You can't get that. Can't be bothered to win. I don't have it in me. I'm a but I'm very talented cat cher, aren't I? I'm most unbelievable catcher I've ever seen in my life. Sophie has such good coordination, she doesn't use it. It's so upsetting. I'm gonna start paddled lessons. Anyway. I'm gonna show you actually. Go to our social media channel. I'm gonna show you how good Sophie is at catching. She's like a fucking There's nothing on there that's a good whippet. I don't care if I'm bad at or I'm good at someone it's uh no competitiveness. And he's gonna know you don't have to win. You can be happy like my mum and she doesn't need to win anything at life. She's happy just being. No. She's happy letting everyone else win. No. You've got to win. So when we go to school, you you you're gonna have to do it. Okay. Like I'm gonna tell you one of the saddest moments of my life. Saddest? Yeah, one of the saddest moments of my life. It's actually no word of life. When I was at school, right. Did your dad do a father-son race with you? Yes he did. And did you win? Yes, he of course he did. Did you? Go on, what? Yeah, of course he won. You think my dad's gonna lose in front of me? And if he had lost, I mean like what a loser. Oh sorry, right, a father-son race is just the Daz. I pitched it as like a reday with the sons. Sometimes you can do that as well. Because that I'm thinking like you can't be forcing Ziggy to be as fast as you. Like if he's not a good runner, you have to cheer him on anyway. I don't want any of that like, come on. Okay. Anyway, I'm gonna tell you what happened at school. When I was at school, it was the mother and son's tennis. What school has a mother and son's tennis? My school did mother and son's tennis. Mother and son's tennis. I will be opting out of the mother and son's tennis. Well no, so what what what mum we gonna get if he's gonna play tennis and there's a mother and son's tennis, who's gonna play tennis? Granny's both my my mum plays tennis and your mum does. Your mum will be in that. My mum will be in there. She'll be in that. My mum actually and she will be winning. And she'll be telling Zikyov if he's not winning. Hundred percent. Love that. Anyway, I'm not no word of a lie. I was at my school, Summerfields, shout out, okay. And imagine this, me sweet little boy, okay, I was twelve years old. I was waiting 'cause I went to a boarding school, you know I went to boarding school. And I was waiting at the the gates, waiting for my mum to arrive. I'd wait in my entire school career for this moment. The mother and son's tennis game. Why? Because it was a prestigious event to win. That and the Victorodorum. And I won the Victolodorum. The Victorodorum I won every single year. It's the best athlete in the year. I don't know, don't roll your eyes at me. Oh my god, I feel so sorry for Arsan. Anyway, I was waiting at the g ates and my mum never turned up. That's very unlikely. And I'll tell you why. She got hit by a van . A van . A van. I've never had this track. She was packing the car up. Tennis rack is in. This was her moment. And the van reversed into her and hit her and she got knocked out. And she had to go to hospital. I she missed those mother and son's tennis game. Your mum got hit by a van. I'm I kid you listen. Why have we never heard the story? I'm just gonna quickly phone my mum just to prove I'm not even kidding you, just one second. I'm gonna put her on my guys never said the story. Here we go. Just to prove to you . She'll tell the story of being hit by a van. Hello, my lovely little boy. Hello. Um, quick question. Do you remember that story when you got hit by the van? Yeah. Tell the story quickly. Well I was coming to play in the Summerfield's end f end of year tennis tournament and win it with you. And how important was it for us? Huge to win this tennis tournament. I waited five years to win it because your brother couldn't play tennis. And I was crossing the road to get into my car with my basket and the meat delivery van to the pub reversed backwards and took me with him. And then he drove over my legs. There were tar marks over both my legs. And they didn't even break. They're so heavy. Solid. Strong. Sturdy legs. They're basically like one of those road, like to slow people down. I am New Zealand farming stock. They just went and then came back up again. And I was knocked out. Woke up in hospital and Alexander was leaning over me. He was very excited because they uh he had a counsellor with him because he had to find me on the road, and there was so much blood apparently. Dad was getting married two days later, and I looked at Zan and I said, Oh God, Dad's gonna think I did this on purpose. You had hired, you had hired, you had hired the delivery man to make a hit on you. Yeah, to make dad feel really bad about doing that. Alright, okay. Love you. Bye-bye. Bye, babe. That is fucking hilarious. How have I never heard that story? We never heard that story, yeah. Yeah, 100%