Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S01 EP27: Dara Ó Briain

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

ROB BECKETT & JOSH WIDDICOMBE'S 'LOCKDOWN PARENTING HELL' - S01 EP27: Dara Ó BriainJoining us in the studio this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) during the lock down and beyond is the brilliant comedian and presenter, Dara Ó Briain.Find out more about the great range of school uniform available from F&F at Tesco here: https://bit.ly/BackToSchoolPC Available in selected larger stores. Subject to availability. Excludes Next.Enjoy. Rate and Review. Thanks. xxx If you want to get in touch with the show here's how:EMAIL: [e-mail]: @lockdownparent INSTAGRAM: @lockdown_parenting(And the NikNak account is @penrosehouse #niknaksafety)A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, I'm Josh Riddickham. And I'm Robb. Welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell. The show in which Rob and I discuss what it's like to be a parent during lockdown, which I would say can be a little tricky. So in an effort to make some kind of sense of the current situation. And to make me feel better about my increasingly terrible parenting skills. Each episode will be chatting to a famous parent about how well they're coping. Or hopefully not. And we will be hearing from you the listener with your tales of lockdown parenting woe. Because let's be honest, none of us know what we're doing.

Hello and welcome to lockdown parenting hell with... Can you say the following things? Hello and welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hale with Can You Say The Following Things? Following things. Rob Beckett? Josh Widdickham. There we go. That is a special one that I recorded earlier because we are at my house. Yeah, that's your daughter.

That's my daughter. And this is the first time we've ever done this in a room together. It feels weird looking at each other. It is odd. You don't know where to look, do you? Yeah. You know what? I haven't been catfished. You are, as I imagine. Turned up, and it's James Acast all the time. Yeah. But yeah, so it's been weird actually because I'm normally just on my own. now we're looking each other. How do you feel? I've just realized that because we're at the opposite ends of a table normally on a panel show yeah you're not facing people this is like Frost Nixon yeah it's quite combative yeah how are you? Yeah good I mean you've got to ask oh yeah Did you see the coin that your daughter swallowed? No, so the penny is still in the stomach and I know this because I've got a metal detector.

Oh does it work? Well yeah so we I found an area of the garden that was no like beeping. And then I got the eldest to lie down, no noise, youngest to lie down. It's been like a week now. And it should go between 48 hours in five days. It should have th. down. It's been like a week now and it should go between 48 hours in five days it should have gone through. So Lou's ringing the GP today to try and get an x-ray to make sure it's not lodged. Blamey. Can you do the beep and then draw across where it is and then you go back the next day and see if it's moved. It looks like we could do that, but he's still in her. But what... What? How much is it? Loo's been going through the poo by hand, obviously with gloves. But I said, stop doing that. Leave the poo in the potty. Then, well, metal detector.

Oh, of course. Going down that route first, she was in with a glove and a bag, straight, and no leave that come out, or we may have to take it for a little extra or something to see where it is, but yeah, fingers crossed. Imagine if it came out, but then she was still beeping. Oh God, yeah. There might be more in there than you think. Like little Terminator baby. She's actually made of metal. They're actually made. thing. Thank you for coming to East London. Yes, you know what, East London, I forget

how East London, East London is. The price difference in shops for the same thing is mental. When I got here, I was, I got here early and I was starving. Like, you know, when you're so hungry, you need something, you're having like a try and a bag of crisp, just something, just something to keep me going, right? So I tried to get a diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet diet, I to to to to to to to to to to to keep kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind, to to to to to to to to to to the the the the to to to to the to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I the the the the the the the the the their, I, I, I, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip. tip. tip. tip. tip. tip. tip. the the the tip. the the tip the the the tip.? So I tried to get a Diet Coke in a packet of walkers. Absolutely no, John. Come on, man. Not in. Who do you think you are? I've felt like Nicholas Lindhurst on the Goodnight, sweetheart. That was filmed in the, I can show you the street that was filmed. Really? Okay, well that's good to it? Yeah, so I went into a delicatessen, right?

Anyway, so I went in there and I couldn't find a dark coat, doesn't exist in there. The biggest selling drink of all time doesn't exist. So I got lemony, lemonade from the karma company. I don't know what it is. That sounds like I've made it up. That does sound like you're trying to trying to kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind of riff on it. And you've done quite a bad job. Lemon Lemon Carmel, I think that's actually the name. Yeah. Couldn't get crisps.

I could get potato chip slabs for £2.25. Guess what flavor? Ready salted? Pateate. Pate. Pate-Aardine's flavor for $2.25. In the end, I found something I wanted and I picked it up went to pay and you can't buy that yet. What? What would you mean? It's down there? Do you know what I got it out of?

The food bank box. It was the food donation box. It was the food donation box. That was the only thing there that I wanted. It's a packet of what's it? But it was the box for the food bank, I mean it's a lovely gesture but that's the only thing I wanted. You have said, look, I'll pay for a bag of slabs to go in the food bank box and I'll take the... You can't be on the tele, and take stuff out of a food bank box. That's just the rule of life. But that's the only thing in there that was aimed that that that that that that that that tha that that tha that was that that the that the that the the the that was the that was the the the the the the the the only that was that was that was that was that was that was the only that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that was that that that that that that that that that that that that that the that that the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thea thea thea thea that that that that that was aimed slabs? I just had a lemony lemonade from the Carmer Company. You should have a patio slabs? It's both would have fete in my mouth. But you've got a lovely house though. I don't want to criticize though. I would say your house, it's beautiful your house. It's very cool, loads of cool interesting stuff, right?

But I would say one of the least child-friendly houses. It is I't it? It's a if I came around if you were looking to adopt or foster I would go you could have to rethink this it's not suitable for a child how is how is your child not slashed into stuff? Well so I did I did say to Rose last night I said Rob's going to a hundred percent this will be the discussion on the podcast is how dangerous our house is. So when we had our daughter we switched from a glass table with sharp corners for our coffee table to a glass table with rounded corners. And that... We tried to like do some allowance to the fact we're having daughter. But to be honest, there's a lot of knickknacks. Yeah, do you know what though? This house is amazing, but if you don't stop the knickknack buying now, you're going

to have the mad cat house in about 40 years. Yeah. Whether there's no...you love a knickknack. But you've got to stop to buy knickknacks. Nice and spider. But no, it's beautiful, there's really cool stuff, and it's the stuff we used to have in our flat in our house, but that we had to get rid of it and then not buy new stuff

because you've got a brass palm tree with like spiky leaves from the base to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. top. Do you know this is bad but my wife has started a an Instagram feed of her knickknacks. Oh really? That sounded the right sound. I think it's called Only Fans. That's what the kids call it. So she started I'll give it Penrose House is the Instagram, all the different things she's got. So it would be an awful timeto say, I'm afraid we're going to have to replace everything. And suddenly she's like... Yeah, right, you're yours, everything's got a bit of character to it. There's a lot of character going right. There's a lot of character things to take an eye out.

Yeah, yeah. If your nicknacks were a typac-like the type the type thirty person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person person they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're got something up their sleeve, but if you look at it long enough, you'll find. But I love it, I don't feel like, I don't be disparaging, but there's a lot of corners. There's not intricate stuff. There's a lot of corners. But, but if you, you know, your daughter's three, if she doesn't broke it now, she's you know, she's able to play yet? No. As I walked in, I didn't even have my daughters. I had a panicked anxiety attack of imagining them being in there.

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Eligibility and member terms apply. Do you have stairgates? We've got a gate on her bedroom. Oh right so yeah okay so she can't get out of the bed she's still in the cot of course yeah I got a bit of advice that that you basically don't take them out of the cot until they've climbed out of the cot which sounds like a very dangerous dangerous way she's been in there two and a half years so so she's still in the cair gate so the the the the the their their their their their their. their. there. there. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So. So, there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's. So. So. So. there's. So. there's. So. So. So, there's. So, there's. So, there's. So, there's. So, there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's. So, there's. So, there's there's. So, there's there's there's there's there's there's there's the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. thi's th. thi's thi's thi's the. So. the there's there's cot, so she's kind of, she's pending that. But yeah, we don't have a stair gate on the main stairs because there's one on her room. Yeah, you don't want to rush, don't rush the bed. No.

Because if you can get away from the cot and she's sleeping well, there's no need because she's only going to get out in the night, I don't want to want her to be to door. And also you've got lovely, beautiful, old, sort of traditional doors. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? It's not a tight handle on there. A breeze would open that? Because you've got character here. Do you think? I really don't build a compound in my house. Mine's like a shutter island. What's your most dangerous item that you've got? Because what happens with us is we bought an old house that needed loads of it And the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, their, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thight, it, it, it, it's not, it's not, thight, thight, thight, there's, there's, there's, there's, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, there, th. There, th. There, th. There, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It's not, th. It's not, thi's not, thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not thi's not,? Well, because what happens with us is we bought an old house that needed loads doing to it And we were getting the refurbishment done as the kids were at peak break stuff age

Yeah, so we were all getting it done with a view of No, they can't do that so ours is very sort of safe and is that's not padded cell. You know, sure. I've got a couple of nicknaps. A the ta' their their th. their tapapapapapapu. their their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thin. their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their the refurn. the refurn. the refurn. the refurn. the refurn. the refurn. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. the ref. their their their their their their th. th. th. We. We. We're tha. We're thauu. We're thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. theau. theau. theau. theau. We're theau. We're their had to move and we had to move it into a room the kids don't go into my office, which is too big for my office, but it's the only safe place. They're not allowed in my office really because they go over else. It's like a, it is literally this a glass coffee table with sharp coffi table with sharp edges. The worst of all, they lean on it. Every time the time. Every they've. Every they've. Every they've. Every they've. I I I I I I I I they've. they've. they've. they've. they've. they've. they've. they've. their. their their their. their their. their. their. their. their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their their. their. their. their. their. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only only. It's the only only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the only. It's the glass coffee table. Is it in our shed? The sharp glass coffee table that we're selling it? You'd be able to get that out when they're what 1822? I've had this discussion right? That I don't think it's worth holding onto a coffee table for a good decade. No. However good the coffee table is you don't need it for a decade. Also as well I just think dangerous him like death dagger, like the child's. I mean, how crap is our life that really we're worried about when we can reintroduce

a coffee table to our life? That's what children do. And it's something we're quite passionate about. This conversation has gone for five minutes, and we've both got more to say, about a coffee table that we don't even care about. The thought that when my daughter goes to university, I think, the first thing I'm going to do is get that coffee table out there. You'll put a big pot of squash on in, it will smash. I bet you'd be at the end of a sitcom episode.

So what do you think the Instagram account should be changed to? Just pictures of very safe furniture. Well no no I mean maybe our listeners could go on to Rose's Instagram account and then suggest ways to make that nic-knack safe. Oh that would be good yeah. Safety. Yeah. Safety. Hasn't hashtag nicenac safety. Why don't you please send us photos of your knick-knacks or coffee tables you've had to hide away. You have to decommissioned knickknacks. Decommissioned knicknacks. But children, you know, that's all that's the other thing we've got to set up is Instagram

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The doomed to the podcast, trying to stop you going to Spain on holiday. Yeah, I think he heard all them sort of absolutely like zingers we did about it when he was in intensive care. So, if you want to get in touch with us, you can follow us on Instagram, handle to follow, and also you can get in toumest with emails with your knickknacks this way. Email us, hello at lockdownparentin.co.uk. Or we're on Twitter at lockdown parents. Now, Dara O'Brien. He's like how sort of, he sort of groomed us in a way, didn't he?

He did, Rob, but we're not allowed to talk about that legally. We've signed those non-disclosure agreements. He took us under his wing on what the week? He did. He taught us about how to, you know, make jokes out of big or small numbers. Always for me, the number was never big enough or small enough to be a funny number. There's nothing funny funny about 50. Now he needs to be no point 0 0 0 0 0 00.0.0.0. or 10 trillion. I make a trillion up. That wasn't a number. It's a funny number. Did you do the one where Andy Murray was there? No I didn't actually. But I did a league of their own with him the other day. Oh yeah. And it sounds out Andy Murray has got a massive knob. What? I saw it on an X-ray he he's has got he's has got he's has got that he's has got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that he's got that's got that's got that's got that's got. that's got that's got. that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got. that's got. that. that. that. that's got. that's got. that. that's got a that. that. that. that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's was. that's. that's got. that's. that's. that's got. that's got. that's got a that's got a that's got a that's got a that's that's that's that's that's that's that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's that's that's knot. You saw it on an extra, has he swallowed a coin? Yeah. But no, they put an extra up. I didn't realize it.

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I was going to say I'd have a lot of faith in you being a great home schooler, Dar. I think people would, you know, if people had to pick a celebrity to do a home school and I think you'd be high up there. There is, I've heard a lot of other parents say this to me. Oh God, they must be great, they must love it, you know, all that energy and stuff that's, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, I. their, I. their, I, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, I. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. th. th. th. th. tho. the. th. thoooo. the. the. the. thooooo. the. the. tha know I'm all that energy and stuff they you know that like an episode of stargazing live every day for three hours with images being caught and look we got calling some things and oh look now let's go to this incredible no they I found with my own kids that that I do the things of going I am and how but this is another example of it and they go I don't want to to do another example of it. I don't care if this teaches it better. Ah, you're just putting more work into this. And I'm going, no, no, no, I'm embedding the knowledge

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Oh, that's a perfect description. Dara, have you had a moment in particular where you sort of lost it with the kids? It was Shappy Corsandi had a moment where she flipped out over some milk tray and it was called the milk tray moment within the family? Have you ever had a moment thrown theirifier when they bring the back up and I get angry again. No, I told the, yeah. The, just the stubbornness of it, the cheer, there has been, yeah, there's been certain topics on which I guess very kind of, yeah, that I've said this to a million times, could you not do that this way? You know, it's been like, you know, get your feet off the table, we are eating our table, you know, that kind of stuff. Like how often do we have to say that to you?

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much of my childhood. I've had this. It was a lovely time, but it wasn't a thing thing I remember like the TV and the computer games more than I remember the actual experience of being a child if that makes sense. It makes perfect sense. I think there's a lot spoken with it. Whereas I remember everything from 16 on vividly because it was like at 16 I got to choose everything from here and in, so therefore 16 was the thi the, that was, you th, you, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, the, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thethat was the containment of me. So no, I don't remember specifically how it was in that regard. I don't, my father was a thing where he had a no raised voice thing, which I've completely fucking adored.

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Yeah, with some 23-year-old dancer that he's pawing. Like everything is wrong about it. That's amazing though. What a threat. I don't think there's a bit of threat. Oh, look, see now I'm going to imagine if you went on and you did that stupid thing where you fell in love with your dance partner, right? and then, and then, and then, and then, and th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, thi, threat, thi, thi, with, with, with, with, with, with, with, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, thi.. thi-a, thi-a, thi-a, thi-a, thi-a, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thooma, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th with your dance partner, right? And then, but midway through this process, you've brought this woman to the child's school and introduced her. Oh, there's your rear over that is, that was the front page splash.

Here's your new mom. You better learn Russian because she's... And Darrow, you've written two books for children. Three kids books, three kids books now, yeah. Sorry, the one I just finished is a third. And so what's the first one, there's one about astronomy in the sky space? The first one was about the very, very big, and the second one was about the very, very small. Things, you know, you can't see with your eyes that around you fields and electrons and whatever things, right, the case. So the first one was, first one was really good.

Second was okay, but the first one was really good. Like really, you know, first one was, second to, a bit too much, a bit, a too ms, it's so funny and nice, and it was nice and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was nice, and it was really, and it was really, and it was really, and it was really, and it was really, and it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really a really, it was really, it was really a really, it was really, it was really really, it was really a really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really a really a really a really, it was really, it was really a really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was a really, it was a really, it was a really, it was a really.................................. It was a, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was really, it was a really, it was a really, it was a really, it was a really, it was kids, it's a great space. What age group is it aimed at? It's 7 to 12, 8 to 13, that kind of age, like the top of primary school, really curious, very, very head of themselves kids at the bottom and to the top of primary school, maybe into the first year. And how do you kind of write for children? And how do you kind of, like, have, no, they never come back and this is Scholastic who do tons of these kind of books like whatever, they never come back and said, hey, maybe you should make it more idiomatic or you should make it.

Say groovy more. Yeah, kids don't go that. Here's a, here's a funky thing to do. Isn't it, isn't the space groovy kids? I'd be so paranoid the whole time doing anything like that they're trying to make it not sound too old or too young. I know. Wowser I say, kids, this is it's pretty amaze balls. No, no, no. Hello, Bay, I said. Have your kids read the books? Dar, have your daughter, the 12th? 12 would enjoy the second one more than the first one actually because she's a more biology read the books, Dara, is your daughter, the 12 year old read your books. 12 would, yeah, enjoy the second one more than the first one actually because she's there more biology and the nine-year-old loved the first one. Have you signed them? Weirdly, the nine-year-old asked and you go, well I'm in the house, you don't have to, you know.

You know, it's not so different now they're older and they're learning and and they're almost proper adult from like 12. Yeah, yeah, there is. I mean, it was grand. I mean, the bit I remember the bit I remember vivid with the number three for example was changing was was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was changing was a number. the number. the number. the number the number. the number. the number. the number. the number. the number. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that I was changing th. I was changing th. I was changing I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was changing. I was. I was. I was a and I was, I had this thing of, this isn't tough, why is this not tough? This used to be really tough. You know that getting up and doing the thing, bleary eyed and all that I said, oh wait, I have no, I've sacrificed everything that this is no longer a sacrifice. When I got to the third one I read that I'm up anyway all the time with them so I'm just this is just another stop in this punctuated sleep.

So yeah, I mean, I've forgotten about happiness. Yeah, that's gone. You forgot what it was like to be happy so then you don't miss it? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, it was more the sleep really I was focusing on. But yeah, there is a, there was a do you remember, you were there when Andy Murray came into Mock the Week? Yeah, yeah, and he was just out, he just had, whatever, they just had their first kit. And you know, we're doing that thing where you go, oh, when the thing, and he said, oh, and he six months still still not sleeping and I

was there and I did two-month-old who had just decided yeah and immediately down eight o'clock seven or whatever time we put him down bang and I'm going I can tell Andy Murray that but it sounds like I'm being a big Andy Murray like no really no sleep is it oh mine great. Mine's already got it. Doing fine. There was a, actually the coolest thing we did was, it was on number one, terrible, wasn't working it at all. Wasn't, number two, I think it was, wasn't working at all. Awful.

Had to be, had to be, had heat eventually conked them out. That happened, that's what we got through the first thing just doing that. That's called suffocation, Dara. That's... I basically did, choke-holded my poetry every night, right? But then maybe two we're going, we can't take this, and we're talking to somebody who said, no, no, this is what you do. and gave us a phone number of a sleep expert woman who you hire for a couple of weeks. And this woman phones you. Like at 11 in the morning, phones you and you pick up the phone and they say,

and she just says, put the child down now. And you go, okay, and then no matter what the child is doing, you pick them up, and you put them into a darkened room and you close the door. And then an hour later she rings she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she rings she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, she says, the the the the the th, th, the the the th, the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the their, the the the the the the the the the the the the you close the door and then an hour later she rings you says get the child up right and you go when you do this and now I'm making it sound like it's like a hostage situation hostage like exactly like is that Mel Gibson movie with a ransom and that she's on some voice changing software put the child down now and it's like it's all robotic like you go okay fine we're watching everything do not do not contact the child down now. And I'm like, it's all robotic. I can go, okay, fine. We're watching

everything you do. Do not, do not contact the police. But you do this five, six times a day and she basically goes, no, do that bang. And within three days. Because I think what people do, and I'm saying this just with this tiny amount of experience I have is, they want the child to be, to get tired, tired, their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, do their, their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do their, 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 their, do their, do their, do their, do their, do tie. tie. the. the. the. the. the. the. to, do not, do not, do not, do not, do not, do not, do not, do not, do not, do their. tiny amount of experience I have is they want their child to be to get tired and then fall asleep and they don't kids don't do that I don't get tired and fall asleep they get tired and they get tired and they get cranky and they stay awake longer so you just basically go no this door closes it's you go to sleep it's door closed and that you give them more sleep and sothen like after a couple hours put the child down and then we put the child down again. We had the cold. Yeah, it never got to the point where you know the phone would ring in the childhood on the Pavlovian response just go, just go thrown.

But it was amazing, it was genuinely amazing. And we would do it from a very early age as well. Did that just hold then after those three days? The pattern got set very very quickly. We kept on to her for a little while just to make sure, but after a couple of weeks it's working, or three weeks, every other and that's what she does. But she never met her. We did this tooge and we never met the woman. Yeah, and so she was somewhere in, You know, I look, the number would pop up and it's like an 01504 or something, you know, some random ten. Like, so I'd know, to this day, no idea where she was, who she was.

It's a bit, there's a bit of, you know, cat fishing about us. We don't know who the person is. How, how was you at the births as well? Because you're such a confident composed individual. Did it, would you calm or did it freak you out? The whole... It was all very, it was, it was all very, you know, it was a fine controlled environment, it was all lovely. And there's a photograph of one of the first things arriving, first one coming out and I had the camera out and said here you go, John took a picture and I took this picture which I think doesn't exist on any because we lost a computer and we lost a hard drive of a computer once and I think it got lost and it's probably as well because she was backlit and covered in Vernix and the hands were out like and I was like oh Jesus I remember going to never marry

that one off that's going to be a problem. We um when so when my daughter was born so we were having a natural birth and then we had to have an emergency of Caesarean and you go in and it's really scary because it's like an operation, but one of the nurses she was like, oh do you want me to take photos on your camera? And the photos she's taken are some of the most intense bloody photos I've ever seen in my life. Oh Jesus. They're properly like, like an alien coming out of a kind of like, oh sweet Jesus.

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I would narrow it up a bit I think, yeah, but then after an hour, time for another wink. So yeah. Thanks Dara O'Brien. Thanks, Dara O'Brien. Dara O'Brien. Wonderful, ma'am. Lovely fellow, isn't he? Joe what, for someone who's so massive and intimidating,

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then he'd walk in you'd realize you'd the thau fighting thau thau thau to realize th to realize th the to realize you'd the to to to the to to the the to their to their their their to their to their to to to their to to the other room fighting you. Oh yeah, that could happen, couldn't it? But they all know, didn't they? But I'd love to play computer games with my kids. But I've actually been playing Caller Duty War Zone, Josh. Oh yeah. And I'm, and I, but there are children on it. I did a stream the other day, and his name on call a duty was Jihadi John. Oh no. I know. Did you think you found him? Thank you to Dara, absolute pleasure to talk to.

We'll be back on Friday with some of your correspondence and a update on our weeks. Thank you very much, Rob. It's been a pleasure. Cheers, mate. Bye. Bye.