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Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe

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From S12 EP48: Stop me if you've heard this one beforeJun 19, 2026

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Hello you're listening to Parent in Hell with. Can you say Josh Whittakan Yes there is a k. I'm glad you say Rob Becket.. No There you go. It's a good one, with it? Yeah Molly Ruth aged four from both Worlds In Mid Wales? I've been Bil Wales. Yeah. They I'm arging about Morrisons' being built or something. Did you there? I think I've done a gig in Bil Wells. I've done a Walmart gig there but years ago Bef whirs. iss like the bottom of like the brick and beacons, I think Mid Wales, Yeah, repeating your names as her morma nan Leaves to go to see Josh is not my cuver tea talk or it was a while ago. My mum, Mormum, Morma Noember. Mormmore? Mormma. H has been a long time fan and tells everyone that will listen about the podcast. We both came to see the parenting hell tour and Mum met Rob Beckett outside his Liverpool Tour show. Secretly hoping to meet Josh Whittdakam tonight as well. She's an Uber Kin super fan and has forced me to s tonight Oh she's going to your show tonight. It was may the tenth,ent It was in Cardiff Do I remember if I met her? I have no idea. Is there a fight of her I don't remember Leaving Cardiff. We're just looking at notable people from Billf Wells. Cesar Jenkins Played for Wales between eighteen sixty six and nineteen forty one U eight caps. Percy Benzy Abervery No N Greonville Morris All time record goals scorer for Notham Forest. Yeah He retired in nineteen fifty nine. David Milwyn Dugan. Yeah Do you know him Hill Dvorne Hilda Vaugh Novelista Kevin Sheedy. Yes, played for Everton and the Republic of Ireland in the eighties and early eighties. Lolo Williams No, TV presenter. Alice Hart Davis. Noope Jack Harris That's the notable people to the the one notable person I'd heard of Ped for Ireland. Where you from?as it your town again? Hayor Ale. Hayork, that's what village. Oh no, I was born in London But but you brought up in Hate or Vil. Yeah, but you're not going to get anyone from that. How do you spell that? HAY TO R. H R I've literally spoke HAY. TO R. space Veil like port veil, V A L E. What is a veil? I think it's like a Valley, presumeably. Hate a v. doesn't I go search. Ilington comes up. Ilsington, Isington, Rob. What's Ilsington? It's a village three miles from Hatorvale Yeah, you've got nothing here,ate? working now. It's just like a road like a road with two houses on No, there's at least ten chances. Ten Let me send you a picture of it. Should I do Bromley notable people? Yeah, well, I can tell you the notable people from Bromley. I'm actually from Mottingham is where I'm actually from. Okay, that's more like it, That's more like it. E the notable people from Mottingham. Notable residents. W G Grace Big bigiggy cricker Eric Liddle Scottish sprinting a ruby player? No Christian missionary born in Taijin, China to Scottish missionary parents. Is Jesus Dennis Haley. Labour shadow Chancellor or Chance Rob Becket Yeah the ph of me is me shit faced on drunk history Oh no God Sir John Bertram Adams? No Jeffrey Laell Balligan No, Runner Charles Folkhard No. Fair enough. Oh, Dis Healle's quite a big name Big, big nine B dog of the seventies political scene Yeah just I'm going to say it that's the most boring four minutes of p coffing we've ever done audacity to criticize Stephen Marlow in the last episode. Shehedy, whatever that fucking player's name was. You know it was. I can't remember it now. I was just thinking Hevin Shey Yeah, I know who Kvichini is. I was just thinking the Everton team that won the Cup winnererss Cup and the league in the same year. All I'm saying is Is that opinion of it being boring at all influenced by the fact in the last episode that we recorded and I don't know how it goes out in transmission We talked about Baldmen And you said, you've got absolutely no problem with your hairline whatsoever, but you've come in hot after what I thought was quite a kooky little start. Michael Were trumps Wh you from this to you go You're the Ia way, aren't you? I'm from the I was born on the Iaw way. No I was born in Newport but grew up in Shanklin. Here we go to Shanklin you're gonna start getting into this now. here we go. H we go. which do you want? Shanklin or Newport? Which you feel more energy? I'll put a bit of energy into it this time. Yeah Well, I can tell you the most famous people from the A of White because wet leg. Who's that? Anthony Mgella, I think is that's good. That's good.'? He's Academy Award winning director. Oh just fucking retire from us and go into the film, Michael. We know that a heart's not in it. Just fuck off and make a film, yeah. A'd you like that for boring Right? The English patient that he directed. Oh, as of respect, actually great fil, great fil Wet Lg, obviously a new edition He's not from there, but he lived there a long time. bless you It feels like free old cloaks and old peoplezough Arguing, sneezing shitting The guy from level forty two. Mark King. Yeah, I think the guy Yeah he's the main one. Mark King had his thumbs ins short for a million pounds What does he doing with his Tps Because he played bass, he played slap bass. Right. Okay, so do you want me to liver this up then D Ella MacArthur, Michael? Well, come on.'s Michael tinch Marshall. It a oil of white. Michael tried to stop this and now he's poured petroel Right, I've got what are you looking on your phone now, Josh? People famous people from the Isle of White. Right, okay There was quite a few there in Parkhurst. Lord Tennerson lived there for a long time? Who's in Parkhurst at the moment? Well, they've downgraded it as a security, so there's not all the same as well' going right for the Isle of White anymore B Right, okay, there's less change tacked I've just done a bit of badner around the school WhatsApp group. Oh no, but by accident, right? So the kids have got a swimming lesson, well not lesson, swimming club And they've been asked to bring in clothes. You know about this? where you basically wear your for jles shorts and t shirts, so you practice Get in and out of the water if you falling in close. yeah. What I've said in them email is 've said I've sent them in divers' outfits. No, no, no, well, no something in a minute, I'll tell you what's happened and you guess what I've said? Okay. They said, during your daughter's Monday S swimming lesson, we willll be moving onto personal survival life saving from the eighth for June. so can she' been to school shorts and a t shirt that she's happy to wear over a costume in the swimming pool She will need to bring in her costume goggles hat and tow still. Best wishes And someone said What kind of shorts and t shirts should we send? just coton or swim ining shorts and t shirt What does happappy to wear mean in this case My daughter's happy to wear all her clothes but doesn't go swimming in them. I'm sure they won't be comfortable when they're wet. I think this person's overthinking it, Ral. Yeah, I think I think maybe she's not realized it's a personal safy. It's not supposed to be like they need extra clothes to swim in The idea is their normal clothes, right. So I think she's Miss Reddit someone said they' supposed to give me the idea what would it be like to fall in by accident and have to save themselves Jesus wiped jump to rescue someone else, saying they would feel like likeed to panic if it happens So they might have to practice taking off the extra layers that might hinder them in the water hold. Just so normal clothes This Timing one I w So just normal clothes, not specialles But she doesn't need prescription lenses How much region are they doing down there fish, but I think the lady is probably in a busy flat caught the wrong under the stick. And so this nicer lady who's not take the piss out of bgast has written about Spaceesan. So just normal clothes, not special swimming shirs or anything I remember doing this at school Also, in defense of the lady, I don't think she went to school in England, so maybe this ist they elsehere.. So that's, you know, fair enough, right? Yeahah. And someone said, I think I'll do cycling shorts and a baggy t shirt. you know, just chiving. Oh to be fair, the lady has gone, Oh, wow, that's really cool. I'll just send anything in then That's fine. So she didn't know that you do this. you' good Then she did say she would more likely be wearing a dress in real life. She doesn't have many shorts other than school shorts Good point Good boy, M maybe P send in address I think We also had to trap in air in wet t shirt. but everyone's just talking about what they did at school now obviously And then someone said, I'm going I saidnd have in this. so I said and I regret it now because I've read it back and it's a miscommunication Do you wantan to guess So so are you trying to be funny? I was I had been funny just to try because you know So you've you've come up with like a funny outfit. I need send them in dressed as an Elizabethan or whatever. Yeah. Yeah I'm going to send them in dress Elizabethan iss not very amazing. No dressed as What's for you What GK Parry. I'll give you a clue. I'm not saying as, I'm saying in dressed in Lingerie ro No, that would be reental So is to tell you? dressed in full arsenal kit I've got weirre goingungares and a turtleneck jumper bit of fun Yeah. Bifer. And is anyone impplied? No Proably won't either. I actually saw that someone's typing exceptional buoyancy, tick, a bit of fun, a bit of back and forth fun. But I now reading it in reflection, I understand that the ladies now understood what they want you going to reply to exceptional boyancy Nothing. How about boys will be boyancy? Just reply that will be buoyancy. Yeah. Well at the moment I'm on a it's a school group but I'm probably How many men are on him The sixty seven members, I'd say I'd say seventy percent women and the other thirty percent men do not speak. Boys will be born see with three of those emojis. right there's a wink with the tongue out. Absolutely not May we go itch I never write on there anyway, and if I need actually tell a bit I take the piss out of the WhatsApp groups really, but I'm absolutely like a desperate thirsty, dehydrated man in a desert if I need information on a presentation then someone swoops in. I'm not far off not writing on it, but I do a bit I do try I try and inject humor and I just Yeah I got rid of Carsley on there the other day actually Yeah is injecting humor into a WhatsApp group when you're a comedian a bit tragic? It's like someone singing that can sing at a karaoke? Yeah ye, yeah yeah. Yeah. I mean that's a danger in a Whatspp group. There's you know, you don't want to be that guy who's constantly like trying to pump out laughs You know, as you heard in the first four minutes of this partod. Exactly. Do you know what I've gotten into Rob I've on. So you and I listen to the Cedians Comedian podcast. Yes, I do. yeah. Not as much as I used to, but it's there's not a dig in it. I've been really busy but I do love it when I' get a chance. Yeah. So this is Stuart Goldsmith, the comedian interviewing other comedians, right? aboutb comedy. It's a brilliant podcast if you are into comedy and the work into comedy A on also To a certain degree, if you like hearing mad, people be mad ' comedians are mad. Exactly. Let's cut to the chase. Let's cut to the chase. Let's be honest. It's quite handy to listen about stuff to do with the psychology of it and techniques, but also it's more fun listening to someone who's an absolute lunatic, being an absolute lunatic. Yeah. he quoted me and I had to text him ago, I don't think I ever said that What quote? was if it was a good quote, why didn't you just let people think that is what you said? Because I didn't understand that It meant what the qu Yeah. He was interviewing Sarah Pasco on the most recent one, E excellent episode Lo Sarah Pask. and And he said, I remember Josh Whittdakom's view on this is he said If a joke reveals a wider truth, then it is true and only thought I don't think that sounds like something I'd say. Yeah, but it sounds quite good. I would just have not said anything I don't know what it means. I know, but it feels good. If people are quoting you on podcasts as something that's like Josh, look, if someone's quoting you with a quote that sounds really intelligent and worldly and wise, will that current output fucking cling onto that I thought's not that's not' been a lot anywhere else. I thought it was damaging my brand, Rob just like this. This isn' not the kind of stuff I'm putting out into the world There's like a weird AI fake Instagram account, right and it was about brothers or something and it's like every year celebrates like brother there's a day where you celebrate brothers and it gets quotes from people that have said stuff about having brothers And then Like some AI thing has gone for a lot my book. whereere in my book I say, I had four brothers. it was a lot of fun and then I go into stories about my brothers. but they just every get quite up. R Becket on brothers. I had four brothers, it was a lot f. And I'm like, what a waste of a fucking quote. what is every I'm like, that' mental. And it's the quote, It's the start of a bit Yeah. It was a lot of fun. D and it goes into a whole chapter, right? But it's just that and I'm like, whyy quote that? So you said if a joke reveals a truth, Wh a truth I don't even I can't even remember it because it doesn't make sense to me. And you're like, yeah, If a joke reveals a wider truth, then it is true. What wider truth were you trying to? I don't think I've ever revealed a wider truth You do reveal things that people don't realise they've thought. I'd say my truths I reveal are pretty narrow I tell the way you do comedy is, right You Find a subject that people are unaware that they've got a fairly strong opinion or experience with. in their mind, like someone that' actually affected them day to day and they thought the same thing You find it You highlight it and everyone goes, Oh yeah, that. And then a good comedian can do that. Average comedians can't do that. A good comed, really good comedian can do that. But then what makes you a great comedian is you will bend them over and slap their ass on every conceivable bit of ass cheek around that subject with unslapped Yeah stage afterwards. Well, absolutely fully assault that thing that they've just discovered that they've got a connection with and And that you say things that I didn't even know I thought, but then I'm like, Yeahah, maybe you are revealing wild of truths. Maybe I'm revealing wild of truth. I just don't know. Youre a whistlebower on life I'm a whistle blower on life Let's lock me up put me in Guantanamo Bay. Oh dear. Is Grnd Tanamoay still going? tell you that, I'm loathhe to Google it in case fucking corporal Michael sends you back to the slammer. Job PC podcast. T fairy does have to edit Are you looking for support in your weight management journey? Zepbound terzepotide may be able to help. ZBound is a prescription medicine used with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity to help adults with obesity, or some adults with overweight who also have weight related medical problems to lose excess body weight and keep the weight off. 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You could say that again. Critics are calling it Pixar's funniest movie ever, and a wildly entertaining ride. Blizzard Potato, is certified fresh and verified hot.. Now we party This is I am clear in the rest of the day. Disney and Pixar's hoppers is now available on Disney plus, rated PG Right, Rob, Shall we do some correspondence? Yeah, let's do some correspondence. People are loving our new feature. Oh imagine this. What was that feature? Just explain it again For those of us that can't remember. Michael immagine this when you actually imagine it, wasasn't it? Yeah. so someone says a sort of a broad description of a thing. So I think it was like an Aadger riding a cycle And then we had to describe in detail what we were picturing, you know, what was it weing? whereere was it the ty you like. imagine this remember It was good that. I like the feature. Here we go. Okaykay. Hello Rob Josh Hello Robin Josh from Sunny Wallf from the Stow. Right? let's quickly find the notable People jobase something Thanks for the Ace podcast. I seriously need to stop listening while I'm cycling around town. grrinninging, giggling and all our Goring is starting to make me look a little crazy. How you pict that Imagine that? I watch Right, is that a penny farmid? top of us? That's a g. Nothing's made me laugh quite as much just imagine this in the recent episode. I feel compelled to send mine in The scenario is as follows Please imagine I Okay Close my eyes A field mouse rocking out to the band Queen. I like it. I don't mind it. I don't mind it y. You ready? I'm ready? Yep Do you want to go or do you want to go You can go. Right. So we've got a field mouse that's on our birdfeder a lot. so I'm actually looking at it through my phone on the app my work phone And he's there and all the lights from the house are up behind him. and he's got the musics just playing for the speaker of the bird feeder and hes stood there and he's holding a sunflower seed in his arm with a little yellow jacket on and a wh white vest. And he's dancing to quQeen. that's what I've got. That's what you're imaging. I'm imaging a cartoon mouse. Yeah in a field. he's the only one in the field, but then there's like stage with Queen on in the field. Brian May's there. Well, Freddie's still with us. Right, So always just watching them. It's the field mouse in Brian May's hair Now, this fieldmaster stood in the field and he stood on his hind legs like a human being in my head. What is I? Just rocking out Yeah Lovely And actually he's got one arm in the air. I can pe to that. yeah. Yeah, he's definitely got one arm in there. Michael, did you want to imagine it Yeah yes, mine was . What's funny is how genuinely vivid it is. L it really came to life in my m option. It's a good option. Yeah. My mine was he was in his home, but his home was like like anthropomorphosized like Wind in the Willows. It's like an actual house.. And he was listening to Queen on, you know, like his vinyl always record But he was dancing around like Hugh Grant in love action. as if no one was watching. And then he turned around and there was like another like a vole or someone that caught it Yeah ye There's shaving your on there, Markare. I imagine that. Imagine that. We just imagined it. Thanks guys. Yeah. seending you more imagine this is thans to the gigs every week. that's from Joe, Mum to Daniel Wfature Ben Tom Ruben. I hope people enjoy it as much as I enjoy doing it. Yeah. She's got twenty two year play at home. Yeah P twenty two year old, twenty year old, nineteen year old, seventeen year old. I've got another one here from Rosa Okay on Yeah. Iagine this, a pair of talalking slippers. She hasn't done anything She's just literally written imagine this She hasn't said He guys. Rosa said, imagine this, a p air of a pair of talkking slippers on an old man's feet Okay, okay That's so c. It's a tough one if. So in my head he's in a rocking chair, he's kind of snoozing in a rocking chair. Yeah And he's got the classic tartan slippers that have got the small piece of elastic at the side. You know those ones? Yeah. And they're ripped at the end for overuse and that's the mouth and they're talking to each other and his legs are crossed and they're talking to each other Right, so my one is sat on a chair in the corner of someone's front room at Christmas, but it's not where a chair normally is It's like an extra chair And he's falling asleep and he's got a Christmas hat on, a cardigan on, he's got a bit of grave on his beny. Oh nice, yeah. He's fully seat and he's wearing a big pair of novelty football snippers that these kids have got them and they've got a little face on them and they're just chatting about just, I don't know what they're chatting about but they're chat nooice m asleep Love it. right, love it Michael, did you wantanna do one?. Is three too many I don't know. it's funny., I like it Mo My mind was like, do you remember the old Arderman Creature Comfort adt? Yeah. It was a sort of kind of a claymation style, a really tired old man face on a slipper he wasn't saying anything But he looked like He wasn't long for this world. leaker ones. Yeah He's got the shave of being caught dancing by a vl. and now it's got fucking deadman slippers L' I'm five being bold right guys Apart from the worry about shame and death. Yeah Thankks, Michael. Was that was that the interest Ied to cut your off. Is there anything else she was imagining or was that It was the only the only context is it was sort of Like a sort of early nineteen eighties cououncil house vibe and decoration Yeah Sal cheaters I think probably have asbestos in them. Yeah. Gotcha. rightight?. Okay. What a feature. Solidarity or solid Karen. This was a new feature where if what I gave you a scenario where someone's child had sun on their face in a car park And I told the nan that was looking after him and wasas that solidarity as a parent? or was I being a solid thought it was solidarity. Yes, so. We asked for some of there. We've had a lot of messages from thisist saying they like the feature, but please can you rename it Oh o, and a lot of these are from people called Karen. Yeah, fair enough, fair enough It's not ideal, is it? No, but just you just have to accept that. you know, peopleople called Adolf, they deal with it day to day. You you can't help them what popular culture is decided for your name? True. Anyway, send in your suggestions for new names. Until we get a better one, it's Solidarity or solid Karen. Yeah. Hello, you sexy relatable people. You recently spoke about Rob safving a baby from certain sunburn and it reminded me of an experience I had last summer. My wife was away for work, so I took our kids to the beach with another couple and their children. Between us, we had four kids in total Three of the kids were down by the sea with the other dad Well I sat on a wall chatting with a mum as she looked after the baby While we were talking, another family arrived and set themselves up right at the top of the beach It didn't take long for their roughly five year old child to wander down to the sea alone, or with no parent ins sire A few moments later, the child hurt themselves and started crying My friend and I looked up at the parents who had noticed but simply encouraged a child to talk back to them At that moment, an elderly couple walking past looked at us with obvious disapproval and sarcastically said I suppose you just let them cry out then, do you I replied That's not our kid And she's not even my wife couple sudlyed rather sheepish and hurried off, presumably in search of the next strangers to judge. Thankks through all the laughs Pete aged forty. So are we judging whether the old couple? I think what hass happened there is Pete wanted to make that all about him. See you Are we judging the old couple? because I yeah Yeah, I think yeah, I'm judging. I think are we judging the old couple B I think that is solid Karen because Yeah, because they're not helping. they're not helping and that's not solidarity because you just have to accept that those parents are ats because they're aware of what's going on and they' not doing anything about it But yeah, but then did I need to go But that's not how you approach the situation, is it? No If you're trying to help. Yeah, maybe if they got got on to pee. Oh I Is that your child over there? because there's a child upset over there? Yeah That's a better way to approach it, isn't it? So I think you' put in solid Karen. I think we do as well. So the way to do that would be say, oh excuse me, don't know if you know it's that Ch' Crye over, is that your child Yeah, Pete would go no and then they could go to the other family. So there's a child crying over there. Is that your child shhout in the distance to the other family? Yeah. And then that's sort of like subtle shaming Exactly. That's what you want to do is subtle shaming. Subtle shame by looking like you're heling. Excuse me, but I don't know if you realize that your child's getting sunburn Exactly You lazy fucking pig But don't say the second part. No There you go. So yeah, if you've got a better name for that one, let us know that at the moment it' solidarity or solid Karen So Karen's, get your thinking caps on if you're panicking about that name, okay? Oh we've got loads of playground and workplace shaggers. We'll do a special on that But to get you excited. My friend sent in a voice note of one. Do you want to hear it? Yeah Listen to this Josh Robber Michael, big fan of the podcast, donon't have any kids, just tuning for the chat and lose voice notes mostly. my playground and shagper story. So for context, I grew up in All right, we'real Scotland. So let's be clear you know, to give these out as a slight benefit of the diet The Dayton Po small Okay, there was probably not a lot of options for them. but basically there was one male teacher in my school Mr. Simpson. and we used to all talk about how like he had been divorced a few times, kind of this like mysterious guy sort of vibe And he basically started going out with this boy in my class called James He started going out with James's mom That was a relief. That was too long aause. That was a relief, wasn't it? I've never He started going out with his boy James Is mom That was three seconds. That was a three second. That was horrible. That was horrible I survive And he basically started going out this boy in my class called James She' that's Thanks to your voice though, Ches. Let's play it's James's m. let's play the rest U and they would walk James to school in the morning and then when we were all queing to get into school My teacher and James's mom, who was in Mr. Simpson's class with me They would just snog just o my god. was whole class. Oh my Godd.atch I'd say probably quite traumatic for James. and sometimes she would come back at lunch and they would snog some more Apples come on That's that's what happens in rural Scotland, I guess in Ss Wow Oh. Oh hang on. What's up b And word on the street is that they got married and they got divorced again.. He's player, Mr.imps That is can you imagine lining up for school? Oh my God Like My kids don't even let me have the music too loud when I drop it off If I say bye loudly, they're like shar dad, imagine just gobbling off with the teacher. I know. My son's just upgraded to a booster seat from a full car seat, right? Yes. So I put it on the WhatsApp group. Do anyone want this se? Because we don't need it anymore Someone takes us say, I'll bring it into to school. My daughter's like, you just simply can't do that. I'm afraid too embarrassing for you to turn up with a car seat a drop off Yeah it's mad, isn't it? If you and Lou were doing drop off. Yeah, we kiss. And you tried to snogger A the school gates, how would that go down? She'd like, What the fuck you doing Get out. what are you what are you doing No Ch mean th It would Its wouldn't have any of it. If I was stooding like people are cuttingly interested in private This city is quite funny,oughn't? It's intimate kissing, isn't it? It could be actually more intimate than other things. Kissing Yeah Ohck I just find it it's quite funny isn't it? Yeah. quite It's quite weird, isn't it? It's quite you think about kissing. It's fucking weird. It look so close to someone's face, yeah you can't be closer to someone's face than kissing. Do you like kissing A't It's weird though, isn't it But I don't want to do it at the school gates. No. I'd only do it just to make Lou feel awkward and I' would find that funny Yeah. I wouldn't actually enjoy kissing. Do you think she'd push you away? Bea if Lou actually doubled down and kiss me and the school gates and such trying to snock me, I'd like get off. You know what I mean Not now Later What about? A the school, concert or something A att the end, if you just le in and tried to snowlow. No I'diss you' on the cheek or something but like snke Its first time you snogged your tongues rose Prob about six AM this morning Yeah Choose to sleep. Just before you feed Beryl It quest G morning, I might say that to. Lou, which she's back to say. Lou We're on the sof watching a documentary. I know to say, wouldould you like to kiss with tongues Would you like to French kiss me Shall we snope Do you want to smoke for a bit? puse the documentary and then say, Shall we just have a bit of a snug? Doh I have a snug for a bit? nothing more. I'm not doing that to lead to anything, just like proper just snuggle like the old days If you just snog Sparate to anything that further bases. let us know if you just will just snob on the sofa and that'll be it. And it doesn' doesn' doesn't go any further if you're a couple or like if you would like J But we need information how long you've been together, if you're married, if you have kids or you're just snuging on the sofa for nothing else. Or just like you're walking down the street and then you just have a big old snogg Yeah out there Oh, de snuogy e whenever I see people in public snogging. Well it'sort like if they're young and it's a night out or just start. No I think they're new to this gy. They're new to that mouth. That mouse's new to them But that's such a shame, isn't it This is so much fun What snogging him. Think about how exciting snogging was back in the day. Yeah, I know You've just s too much, that's the problem Yeah, my lips have seen too much action. Your hips have If you've got any more workplace or playground shaggers, please send them in. A food confessions. Oh yeah. This is where We I confessed about my breadsticks dipping in butter and dipping it in cheese and then in the sale episode called people that have sugar and hot chocolate, something like fat slags. I was like Here we go. Here are food proficiions Hi, I have vanilla ice cream, the quality stuff with the little bits of vanilla in it. I think they're pods aren't they Oh my God, I have it on cold garlic bread that I have vanill ice cream, the quality stuff with the little bits of vanilla on it. on cold garlic bread. Oh my word. Well it cold garlic bread is that bread that's been cooked and then cooled now. Yeah ye not the I'm presuming that imagine this. F I'm assuming. Gally's going. maging if you go to the supermarket, you get the two French stick style loaves you put in the oven. Do you know what I mean? They've already sliced And they've been in the oven And I imagine they've been in the oven and they're now cold. Yes. And she's got one slice and she's putting a piece of's Seaan. It's a vanilla ice cream on it. Sean. Hey. It's the kind of sick shit a man would do. Yeah. I presumed it was she because I presumed She's pregnant. Trust me, it's one of those, you've got to try it before passing judgment. I don't think it is. There's loads of stuff that you can just not try and pass judgment. Yeah. Wow, Sean, that'. For play Seaan, how did he discover it Yeah, and also about, you know, imagineing that much, you know Lack of shame to tell a whole world. Exactly. 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So you can spend less time worrying about insurance and more time enjoying the ride. Download the State Farm app or go online at statefarm dot comot like a good neighbor State Farm is there Tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now. How about a creamy moocha Fappuccino drink? or a sweet vanilla? Smooth caramel maybe, orr white chocolate mocha. Whichever you choose, delicious coffee awaits. Find Starbucks Fappucino drinks wherever you buy your groceries Okay, so notable people from Mottingham. There is WG. Grace, Robecca that That is healy gizer, done River agi Then Michael could just snip that in. Yeah, yeah, lovely. Hi, Robin Josh. Just listen to your latest episode where Rob talks about his breadstick cheese treat at the fridge and it made me think of recent time in our house As a treat, we give our boys who are three and six hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows.ass. That's fine. Recently, my three year old saw me squirting cream directly into my mouth from the fridge classic because sometimes it's just what you need. Unfortunately, he now thinks this is a thing and regularly comes to the kitchen asking for a snack He will list off items he would like but now includes Just some mouth cream As's one of his options as if it's an actual thing A mouth cream. Can ask a mouth cream? we've got jelly, we've got yogghurt we've got mouth cream I love the pod I thank you for making us feel normal about the crazy world of parenting in Veronica. Veronica. what a name? Veronica. crazy world of parenting. The next correspondence comes in a bit bit sharp. G on then Heallo, you slutty leegends There you go. Tseton Blumental second version. He banged it out that's from Tom in Congleton. That's near you at it? Congleton? No it's the north, isn't it? Sounds like you Noth near Morcam or somewhere like that, I think. Overweight consumer of the electric spinach here. What Let'll say a at the electric spinach An overweight consumer of the electric spinach. He said Hello you slutty this is Tom from Congleton. How this this guy's lively. Hello you Slutty leegends, Oweight consumer of the electric spinach here. What's going on? With a fat fuck confession or two? What doo One, eating a whole trifle like a big yogurt. Oh Eating Milky bar yogurs using a white chocolate cookie is an edible spoon. Oh my word. Don't you dare fucking judge me? I'm disgusting. Oh my Godd. Stay slutty and relatable. Tom from Congle to Alan Garn, the famous fancy author Elizabeth Wston Tome. Amay An Packer It's this people from Congle because it is not it's not a great run. and Robbie Brightwell, the husband of Anne Packer, the British Olympic that's not good enough Listen at this What does he do, Robby Brightwell? He's just listed as the husband of Anne Packer, British Olympic athlete. That's out of order. He must have done something. He won silver in the four by four hundred meters in nineteen eighty four. Oh know he was an athlete as well How was he Yeah Robby Riper was a British track athlete as well. ye. He was born in the British Raj, now part Pakistan, but moved to N L, that wentn' there in that year, that era. There we go. Hongleton died in Congleton, born in the British Raj, which is Rout Roo Pindi show what we really took the piss of the Empire, didn't we We really did Rob. Imagine that turning up, what we called is the British Raj. Okay, Dregon we should have a little bit of a fucking meeting before we just agree to that. Maybe speakaking to a couple of the people from here, maybe from a few I nana, British Rajge or do. You know British heart. Anyway. Do you want some more correspondence? Yep Do you want more food ones or different ones where we got? Ito different. Let's move it around. Seeing other people on holiday. Oh yeah So hi, Robin, Josh. offff the back of a recent episode where you were talking about bumping into people you don't want to see on holiday, I had to email as I think this one might win. About fifteen years ago, I was eighteen and in my first year of Uni. Me and my boyfriend had planned our first big exploring holiday together and we were going to Asia for Christmas eighteen fifteen years ago In the airport, I clocked my university tutor Who, me and my flatmates had already decided was a bit of a monster I explained who it was to my boyfriend and he thought nothing of it. I then saw her on the fly and panicked her in We made awkward glances, but neither of us said anything. Oh, you've got to say something then. Yeah, you've got to Oh hi, you're right. When we got to the airport on the other side, we were meeting our tour guide who would be taking us up part of the Tian Shan. Oh no for the first part of our trip, staying in a small tent within a small community to see how the locals live When we got to him, he said he was waiting for two others who'd book the same experience. Oh no. Oh no Yes, it was my uniecturer and her husband. Oh no. Cuts are spending the next six hours in a car together, just as for me having to sit next to them and my boyfriend in the front. Oh, he's told a bullet. He's toge a bullet. I always try and get in the front in those situations. Then the next three nights in a tent on top of a mountain together. We obviously had to break the ice but it was only made more awkward by her thinking I was a different person Oh no. posted about it on our Cs Facebook group but got a stern telling off when I got back to Uni for posting about her private life. Wh! and was then known as a girl who went on holiday with her tutor for whole of the first year. S You can't get in trouble with that. That's not a private life. You're living it with her True but then you know, people have got a right for their private life not to be shared You know In public, cut to me reading out my WhatsApp groups The trip was a beautiful experience and the thing I remember the most was my teacher. It still hauntks me to this day. Thanks for the laugh.on. Anonymous. How scared is she of this person? surely fifteen years on? Do you know what I think the thing with that is peoplee that you don't want to be on holiday with aren't the people you hate, They're the people that you have to talk to. Yeah out of politeness. Yeah. So the worst person to bump into on holiday at your resort would pay without naming names, but say someomeone who worked on a TV program that you were on. O someomeone who worked agency because they would be like, oh for fuck sake. Ifave I told about a time on here, Michael stop me if you've heard this one before, which should get their jingle from the Smith song When I went to South Africa to do a comedy gig as part of a package show with Simon Evans and Marlon Davis Oh of course Basically, the offer was a fee, accommodation and premium economy flights They'd lost an act last minute. So they' booed me to do the middle slot And I said, I was really busy. I've been doing a lot of Robin Rish flying about it I'll do it But for that fee, I want to go business class because I'm working before it, working on when I get back I need restress and that was my negotiation becausecause it was last minute and they went, yep, that's fine So not a problem flying out, but I knew everyone else was on premium economy. Yeah, you have told me this, you have but I love it. Tell me again. Have I told you on the podcast as well?. Okay I don't remember this for God. I think I've just told you anyway, Anyway, on the way out there, I go straight to the lounge and just hide out because they're in premium, notot allowed in the lounge And also I'm the middle act. so normally the headliner might get business, but not the middle act I arrive and in Don't see him on the plane, get off, go for immigration, bump into immigration. They' go, I didn't see you on the flight Rott. Oh yeah, I was you know, yeah,, No m we're here. No we go do the gigs. We're there for three days, right D. Forget about it On the way back to the airport I'm being dropped off at the airport with them Oh God, you were suddenly re out Ive realized that I should sugar g is of food and drinks so I go Oh, I'm just gonna to go and get some presents from the kids. If I don't see in the airport, I see it at the gate This is sorry You did that before going through security. Bassy, I don't do fast past security Yeah, of course. And you just And when you're checking and you kind of check in slightly so they can't say. Yeah. I just queued up with them in the normal queue and then went through at a fast but. So at the moment I'm technically still travelling premium economy because I'm not making any use of the extras. But the main thing you want it for is obviously the full fully flat bed. Of course, of course. So I go for his career. I go, I'm going to go get stuff for the kids, but what I actually do is I go to the lounge then of weirdly, Tim Sherbert was there. Oh yeah. He was doing commentary in a football match in South Africa for the Premier League anyway, so Sherwood's there, She lay on. He was going, this is a fucking nightmare. David Bat's in economy. He thinks we're tralling together I basically leave it and I go, you know what I do is? I'm just to get on the plane last. Be if you're in business, you get put on it at first, but you get put on it first in front of all the other people waiting to go on. you know what I'll just spe long in the lounge and I'll just go in last minute. And also, Tim Sherw's really relaxed. I'll go when Sherwood goes because also you talking Sherwward? If I walk behind Sherwood peopleople are against Tim Sherwood and then I ned. because I don't know if you've ever been at I went to the football with Darl O'Brien the Arsenal Champions Zague final walking around the stadium. Normally me and Romish get lots of abuse, but when you were him, he's so massive Yeah He's getting pelted. he's not walking alongside a lighthouse. Yeah, yeah of course. He's getting pelted So anyway I get on the plan I've actually nowed this because there's no one at the gate. Everyone's on, right? And I get on and obviously the business is at the front of the plane. so I don't have to downwk the rest of the plane So I get to my seat, I'm at the back of business and I go brillant They've not seen me. I'm put all my stuff in the seat like that. and then I turn round and the front row of premium economy Simon Evans, Marl and Davis and someone else from the promotion all sat there staring at me and they go Rob. But I literally could touch them, right And that's like over Rob. the steward just goes With the curtains. From then on, I treated that curtain like it was the Berling wall You can't get over it, you can't get through it. just I' just shut down. But the timing, I'll put the head up Rob, But to be fair though, they've all got che. Did you see them when you landed? N, you get off quicker on business. Straight up. Gone. Is that the last time you've seen Simon Evans? Potentially, yeah. But that was the one was at the casino. We went to Cape Town and Johannesburg, but I was saying like people saying South Africa's dangerous then Was it this casino complex where you sort of go through a gate and then there's a car park, hotel, swimmingall, casino And I said, is it dangerous around here? The guy from South Arica, it's not dangerous. you'reine, you'll be good as golder. right it's only certain places dangerous. I what places? You went outside went out So as long as you don't leave the casino complex, you're ri. Okay, I won't. I by the pool was ever five days, but every two days there was a big group of like thirty women aged between like eighteen and fifty with a couple of like gay guys, and c guys And there was like thirty of them. I was like, I mental Hindu. This one, you know, just all and like thirty of you coming to a casino in. And then they went And then another lot come went And then it works out, it's where B a put the cabin crew Great fun, greatreat times One quick one before we do A smallall business, Michael? Or have you've got you've done some Wikipedia stuff. Wikip. Yeah. One more email and a small business. H we go. World's oldest helelium balloon. So Josh, remember we had that helium balloon Yes someone said in that it was I think it was a Sesame Street B and the had it since she was born Someone's coming with an older balloon. I can't remember how old that balloon was. Was that twenty five years, I so, Michael? S like that? twenty thir years. I think that I think that first one might have been older than this one It's still worth listening to this. It's still worth listening to here we. Hi Rob, Josha Michel. After listening to today's episode I feel compelled to send this. The balloon in the photo that they sent in was brought into hospital by my uncle when I was born in august nineteen ninety almost thirty six years ago and was to announce the birth of my own son thirty four years later. Oh yes, please. Is this the first multi generationalational balloon? This isn't a family heirloom. It's gonna to be passed down Not sure if it will survive to be passed to any grandchildren, but we can only hope thanks to the laughs, or the best Ben Again, if you've got any of the world old world's oldest helelium balloons Let us know. let us know. What kind of metal plastic bastard were they using to trap helium in back in the day? Wh exactly? Oh, God my arms gone I set of the podlock I think it might be. Should just is a shout out Let's do small business show up H we go. Hello, my name's Louisa and I've been listening from the beginning makes me feel so good about my parenting. With both my babies being born in lockdown seventeen months apart, it was not for the fainhearted. I'd like to shout out my best friends, Rose and a small business Plum and Pigeon She makes beautiful dresses by hand from her studio in Manchester, from sewing the dresses to the social media and websitees she does it all. She ships all over the world and can make the dress made to measure, which is great for those nice occasions postpartum where nothing off the rail fits

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