Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S13 EP11: Other podcast beef

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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UK residents, T's and C's apply. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Jules, can you say Rob? Rob. Can you say Beckett? Rob. And can you say Josh? Josh.

Can you say Whiddycombe? Rickardood. Can you say stay sexy? Oh, let's be. And relatable. Don't nod. Can you say relatable? Close enough. Good boy, Poppet. There we go. I feel about playing a voice note of a child saying to me, stay sexy.

Well, he barely did if that helps. Oh, she picking that. This is my 18-month-old Julian. Having to get to Julia, are you? No, I'm not. I'm saying, I think it's fine for an 18-month-old to say that. She's not going to go on to sexy me. I've been listening since the beginning, and you've always made me laugh. out loud, even if I don't get any of the football references.

Well, I've got good news for you, Rebecca. They are a thing of the past. Reflecting on it now, I probably shouldn't have told my toddler that you were sexy, but it's done now. Becky, 422 months from Reading. Reading. So, Rob, how's life? Life's good. I'm in a rotissory chicken competition with Tom Allen.

Talk to me. So we have a real passion for rotissory chicken. Okay. Lou is a sense of it. Can you tell me what rotissory chicken is just specifically as a, that's from cooked on a spit? Yeah, so the ones that are on a spit that moves around slowly, and it's normally got very salty, peppery, crispy skin.

And how are you, so how do you do that at home, a rotisserie chicken? Well, that's the thing. We love, we love, we love, Lou's favorite restaurant. It's a restaurant in Spain called Campadres that has it. I always love it. was all over the master poole in France. We were there. Of course.

You and Tom Davis loved Master Pule. And when I went to Spain on a holiday, we used to get rotisserie chickens from the market with chips. And he loved the same on holiday, loves it. And he's got a thing for his barbecue. We've got the same barbecue, but I haven't got one yet. But a spit called a Jotisserie, whatever it's called, that goes round.

Right. And it cooks a chicken. So he cooked a rotissory chicken with chips and salad. And the game is who can do the best rotisserie chips. and salad. Yeah. And we went to their house, Tom and Alfie's house, last night to have it. Did you, do you score it?

How does it work? We don't score. I think maybe it felt a bit harsh to be in someone's garden eating a chicken to give it a rating out of 10. Yeah. I'd say, though, the flavour of Tom's was delicious. The meat was succulent and beautifully cooked. But even he would admit this, the skin on certain parts of it was a little bit charred.

Oh. Taste was still there, but it was a little bit charder. So salad was lettuce and tomatoes. Not the presenter of cooking with the stars. Surely he's not going to open the vent a bit too much, so the flame got too big. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Guess where the veg was from? Little. His garden. His garden. We were eating farm to plate. Is that what they call it? Can be. And what's the, what, what veg was it?

So we had lettuce and then tomatoes and basil from his garden. And then the potatoes, get this, right? Yeah. We arrived at his house. We were supposed to be at half four, but we got delayed. So we got there at five. Now, Tom and Alfie. I would say that should affect it too much.

That's only half an hour. Brilliant hosts, I'd say there's sometimes a little bit of weight between a rival and eating. That I'm aware of now to the point where before I left the house, I had too many pots of Philadelphia, some breadsticks and two yoghards. Okay. And, you know, the weight's so much that sometimes the chicken gets chard. Well, no, the chicken had already been cooked. The delay was, and it was very sweet of Tom, he'd grown potatoes in a pot,

and he wanted the kids to pick them and then prepare them and cook them for tea. Yeah, nice. But if you do arrive at someone's house and you want food and you think, oh, when's dinner, if you're picking the potatoes you're going to eat, In your head, do you like, we're looking at a slight delay here. Yeah. Digging up potatoes. We're digging up potatoes.

We're digging the potatoes. I'm washing them, soaking them, chopping them, cooking. But it was absolutely delicious. So they're going to come to ours, and we're going to do a chicken salad and chips in a, what is a very middle class kind of. Yeah, but I like it. I'm going to time. When are you doing it?

Well, I think pretty September time, but I haven't got a rotisserie. And you're going to, well, you can get what? You've got time. Well, I've got time. But I don't know if I want to do the barbecue one that he did because I feel like I'm copying him. It does feel like you need to do something different, doesn't it? It does feel it's not just like here's my version of the same thing. Exactly.

So we are going to do Nando's. No, there are a, well, I've got to do some research. But at the moment, I'm staring down the barrel of buying a countertop rotisserie chicken machine off Amazon. But I looked at the reviews and it said like, it's a high. 120 volt. Like, it's American, so the voltage is all off. So I need, I need, I need, basically I need to buy something that can, like. And how are you going to mix it out with the potatoes on the salad?

Are the chips in the salad? I think he did his own potatoes in the air fryer. I think I'm going to have to just fry them like proper home-cooked fried chip chips. Yeah. So that's what I'm going to do. And then salad, I think really, it's hard the salad because he's really won by growing it. Yeah. You know what I mean?

What was in his salad? Basil, lettuce and tomato. Yeah, and olive oil. And it was nice, very fresh, delicious, but, you know, it's more the chips and the chicken is the key. Exactly. The salad's really. So I'm going to do proper chips, like own-cooked, triple-cooked chips,

but I've got a bar of tissue machine. Anyway, that's what I've been up to. How about you? Oh, wow. That was mental. That was eight minutes of rotissory chickens. I know, but I enjoyed it. I don't think I've been up to anything like that, really.

I can talk about anything forever. to a certain level of, you know, entertaining. Okay, Michael, give us a subject. Let's see how long we can do on it. I would like the topic to be the Academy Awards. The Oscars. The Oscars, otherwise known as the Academy Awards. Where were you for the slap?

In bed, because I think people that get up for the Oscars are pathetic. Me too. Now, don't tell her to heart, Michael, you little fucking film nerd, but it is. What about people that stay up for it? Ah, yeah. Legends, big dogs. Yeah. I thought it was actually a fake skit

because I saw it early in the morning I didn't think it was I couldn't believe it was real Yeah I know it was Looking back It was so mental that that happened Do you want to win one?

No You could play a young Woody Allen You don't look like him You just got the same vibe I can still talk about Oscars Or should we get back to our lives Let's get back to our lives Let's get back to our lives.

Okay. Oh, I've got an update for you, Josh. You know your son really wanted the Lego magazine. Yeah. They do do one. You have to sign up and they send you one. You have to sign up. How do you sign up?

So I've got a link here. Oh, send it over. Okay. I'll send it on email. Okay. I'll reply it all. I've never, do you know what? I don't send emails on a computer.

Everything I do is on a phone. Is it? I don't do it. Is it? Yeah, blood. There we go. I've sent it to your email. Oh, thank you.

And they send your Courtney magazine. Thank you to Christine. Thank you, Christine. So, should we do some emails? Because we have not got much to say. Oh, I've got no safe. Isn't it sad that Bradley Cooper didn't win one and he learned how to be a conductor? Did he not win an Academy Award?

No. No, I don't find it sad. I think it's pathetic. I don't even. If people care. Pathetically prove I could continually talk on about the Oscars. Can't? Yeah.

Right. I've got a what's this really about. Go on. Hi, Robin Josh. I had to write in the second I heard you introduced the feature because it immediately reminded me of something that happened on a family holiday in Kefalonia a couple of years ago. We put one of those medium-sized boat trips that takes you from the marina over to a nearby

island stopping every so often so everyone can jump off for a swim. There are about 30 people on board. So not packed in like sardines, but close enough that everyone was aware of everyone else. It was me, my husband and our 10-month-old star. and stepped at. We ended up sitting next to an lovely older couple who were travelling with the woman's sister. Naturally, they were fussing over our adorable son and in return showed us endless photos of their equally adorable grandson. We spent the whole trip, chatting and getting on brilliantly. Then we reached the final stop. The crew was a bit short-handed and asked my husband,

if you mind helping out by jumping off the side of the boat with the toe rope and tying into a nearby rock. Hang on. That's not helping out. That's doing the job. job? Yeah. Anyway, he happily obliged, but somehow managed to create the biggest splashback known to mankind. A massive wave come crashing back over the side of the bow and absolutely drenched the lovely couple who had been chatting to all afternoon.

My step-down and I immediately started laughing, assuming everyone would see the funny side. Yeah. So sorry, is the husband jumped into the water? To tie a rope around something. I feel like, I don't want to cast aspersions on the husband. I feel like he's probably trying to be one of the lads already on the trip and he's sort of

oh, I'll do that for you if you want, mate. I can't believe they just sprung that on some and it's dangerous, isn't it? I don't know, it's wild. Tying a toe rope to a rock. How do you even tie it to a... Must be a little... There's something on there for purchase.

Just slip off, wouldn't it? You can't tie anything around a wet rock. I don't know. Anyway, he jumped in to tie out the tire... Water? Yes, guys have... No one. would ever ask me to do that.

No. Sarah didn't go, get Josh to jump in. Immediately starts drowning. I'm allergic to salt water. Anyway, he jumped in, splashed back, got the couple wet. Other family don't like it, right?

The other couple won't like this. Completely lost it. They started screaming that their clothes had been ruined and most bizarrely, repeatedly shouting, what a stupid idiot, what's a stupid man, about my husband. Wow. Wow. The same man they'd been laughing and joking with moments earlier.

That is wild. Who had quite obviously done it completely by accident. Also as well, you're on a boat in Kefalon. It's hot. You're going to dry. Yeah. They didn't calm down for the rest of the trip. They complained to the crew over and over that their clothes were ruined because they

weren't meant to get wet. Which did make us wonder why they chose that particular outfit for a boat trip on the water. I don't think you need to add on the water there. No. No one goes on a boat trip on the land. True, true. We did tell them to calm it down, but otherwise spent the rest of the journey sitting there

in complete disbelief at the spectacular overreaction. So Rob and Josh, what was this really about? That is odd. What's that really about, Josh? Well, break it down. Well, they've just got personal problems, haven't they? Well, is there some sort of humiliation shame? Well, the husband's surely the humiliated one.

He's just belly flopped into the water, trying to tie a rope to a rock. Well, yeah, but not for them, because they feel like they've been, everyone's laughing and there's some sort of deep root trauma where they were embarrassed to score and everyone pointed laughing and it feel like they've been transported back. Do you know, Michael will remember this because he was with me actually.

I was in France. We went to the Euro 2024. Was it 24? No, Euro 2016 even. Blindly. Yeah. So this is eight years ago. It's a final.

No. We went to three games. So we went to Northern Ireland v Germany. We're not supposed to be talking about football. Sorry. Anyway, football's inside. We were in a fan park. Sorry, still not allowed.

And a guy, it was wet. You're in a park in France. Yeah. And there was a guy who may or may not have been an England football fan. Doesn't matter. Not on this part. And he was on some wet decking. You know how slippery wet decking?

can get wrong. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Mad. Stood on his own and he slipped over and everyone laughed and a group of people nearby kind of thing, yeah? Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you're going to be at a football fan park, you have to expect that kind of reaction.

They'll be on anything. And he got up and he was like, right, who wants to fight? No. Yeah. Go on then. Who wants... Because he couldn't process at all. He didn't have the emotional ability to process the embarrassment of what had just happened to him.

Oh, right. It must be exhausting being like that. I know. And you know what? It is funny. If someone slips on beer that they've carried... It's really difficult, isn't it, if you've tripped, because you know it's funny. You have to see the funny sides.

You can't be angry. but the problem is A, you might be in pain and B, if you make too much of seeing the funny side, you look like you're trying too hard to see the funny side. There is a balance of like, keep doing it. But you can't have, you can't keep the purchase to stand up, never mind to have a fight.

No, exactly. Have you ever seen people fight on slippy floor with war on it? No, but I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd love to. I'd send you some links. Yeah, thank you. Do you remember that, Michael? Lego cut.

Yeah, I remember it well. Is that a fair description? Well, I think also some of the people, he sort of started a mini brawl in the end. The police and security guards had to get involved. But I think some of the people he ended up fighting were part of his group. He turned on them and he just couldn't deal with it.

It was such an amazing example of toxic masculinity and sort of emotional immaturity. But that must have been building up all week. He might be getting banter for something else and he's just had enough. Yeah, well, maybe. Because I've seen that before in groups of lads where they've just had enough

and they just try and fight someone. It's not a place to be in. You want to be in, is it, Rob? It's not a place. Stag do once where they would put toilet roll into the back of your jean pocket or your shorts. Not for me. And then set fire to it.

Yeah, no. Do you know what? When I used to, and I was a fan of jackass. But when you'd watch the film or the program, which was always enjoyable, but they'd like come up behind someone with a razor, like a, and just shave your head. off, shave your hair off.

And I just thought being, hanging out with them must be absolutely awful. Just terrify. I love what I think I. Yeah, but just to be constantly on your nerves, the whole time must be absolutely awful.

Yeah, and I think it was. I don't think it's turned out well for most of them. No, exactly. I am Jack R3D, and you're not going to like this, Michael, as a film buff. Jack R3D, greatest cinema experience in the history of film. When they shoot the dildo in slow-mo with 3D glasses on.

I couldn't believe that was allowed to happen. There's anything funnier than a dildo being shot out at slow-motion in 3-D? Well, Gordon, do you know? No. Let's get to getting al-Buy and in-law, then, because this sounds... Getting Alphabiner by an in-law, let's do that. Okay. Do you want to do it, Josh? Hello, Josh, Rob, and Michael.

In the early 80s, my dad was a 20-something army officer when he met my mum, who was then a nurse. Meeting your future father-in-law is nerve-wracking at the best of times. My granddad, however, wasn't your average father-in-law. He was in the SAS. Not long after they met, my granddad invited my dad onto a military base for what he described as a friendly game of special forces. Hide and seek, the aim being to avoid being found by the SAS. Right, okay. So like Celebrity haunted? My dad agreed and the game began.

Half an hour passed, then an hour, two hours, four, six, eight hours. He was soaked to the bone, hiding the pouring rain, but by this point he convinced himself he was doing brilliantly. After around ten hours of hiding in the rain, my dad thought, I must have won this. So he came out of hiding, marched into the military base bar, acting all Billy Big Bullocks and proudly declared his victory over one of the world's elite special forces. My granddad looked up and his broad northern accent in front of a packed room full of Britain's hardest men said, Mark, we found you after 30 seconds. I told the lads to leave you there. Turns out the whole thing was a future son-in-law initiation.

Horrible, awful, not here for it. Your granddad is or was a twat. A really hard, strong twat. That's horrible. Sadly, I never got to be. got to meet my granddad, but by all accounts, he was a lovely man with a wicked sense of humour. This story always makes me laugh. Take care all anon. Nah, not for me.

I probably wouldn't get to the point where you, I wouldn't go along to the SAS finding me. I wouldn't go along to it. And also, like, what after, maybe an hour, 10 hours, what kick you get from that? Have you been a change? Is that too harsh about a granddad? I'll say I didn't mean it, but I did mean it. I did mean that, I'm afraid. Sorry about that. I know he's your granddad, but, you know. Hi, Rob and Dewey's skin, Josh.

This is interesting things. Josh, what's on your arm? Have you got a stain on your arm? That? Yeah. Yeah, I've got a stain on it. So it's not wet? That's just a discoloration.

Yeah. Oh. Oh, I know what that is, Rob. Go on. I know what that is. Okay. What is it? That's from Paris.

I think I wore this when we were doing that thing with baby oil. Oh, yes. It's baby oil stains. Yeah. That was fun, that. Show me how to stop and start filming the show. Well,

here we go. But yeah. So now you're checking into hotel rooms alone with baby oil stains. She knew me the woman on the reception this time. She was like, oh, you're in room 703 this time. This time. God,

you're going to be doing some days in this hotel, don't you? Hi, Robin. Dewey Skin Josh. I've been listening to this is kids obsessed with something weird. Pod since COVID days, first time I'm writing in. On your 30th of the 6th 26th app, you said to write him as strange interests your kids are into. My 8-year-old son has been obsessed with English heritage's blue plaques for over a year now. Nice. He first learned about them in school, found one on our road and soon began a full-time hobby. He loves coming

home from school to my computer to go on English Heritage's website and look for new plaques. He knows plaque locations by heart. And if in conversation you mentioned a street or place, he can chime in, there's a plaque there and he'll say the name. We now go plaque hunting around central London, Bloomsbury, Hampstead, Marilla, and even my friends and family send me blue plaque photos when you see one. So is it all around the country or just London blue plaque? Is it everywhere? Well, they're obviously mainly centered in London, aren't they? But I think they're probably all around the country. Yeah.

The creepier side of the story is that he likes to make up plaques for himself or me and will tell us a year of birth and death. Not sure I enjoy him guessing when I may die. I think this is quite a good little, um, is there still more there? At least we'll learn random historical figures thanks to his interest. Now we need to find a way to monetize this interest and his amazing memory skills. keep it sexy and relatable. Love to hear from more parents with SCN and autistic kids.

There's a lot of us and it would be lovely to have more mainstream visibility. Priscilla 474 months and Sebastian 8 years old. Well, let's rename this section in honor of that. Not strange or weird hobbies. What about niche? Niche or what's something a bit more, a nicer word for that? Special interests. Neesh, niche interests.

I don't know. It's not catchy, is it? No. Michael, you think of one. Yeah, that was fine. I think that's quite fun though. If you've got a plaque on your road, if there's someone on your road,

there's a plaque near your house, one, who is it? And two, what impact does that have on the local area? So do you get a load of random tourists that come to visit and take a photo? Is there no interest or, you know? Is there any English, is there any English heritage? plaques

in Exeter. There should be one in Bromley for the David Bowie House. They should. I should, but there isn't. Exeter's got 20. What you got? Oh my God. On the was for a pigeon.

A pigeon? Mary the Pigeon. 82 Longbrook Street commemorating Cecil Brewer and his homing pigeon, Mary, who has awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during World War II. It's not a pigeon. Well, is him and his pigeon.

Bromley's a shame. HG Wells. Yeah, big deal. At 47 High Street, Bromley, in brackets, now Primark. This one. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Yeah.

Recognises the creator of the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures. Oh, yeah. That's an easy, isn't it? Yeah. What are you got to do to get one? I know. They are quite weak, aren't they?

Well, yeah, if there's anyone that is near you, and if it has weird tourists or people turn up, let us know. Like this guy, Sir Thomas Bodley. I mean, maybe this is a bigger deal than I understand. It's not my world. WG Grace is probably. Fair enough. He's a big cricketer.

Yeah. Go on, what was that? What were you got there? This guy commemorating the 1545 birth of the scholar and diplomat who founded the Bodian Library in Oxford. Who gives a flying F? There's a plaque for the last people in England to be executed for witchcraft in Exeter. Oh. Is it?

To be fair with it. In Devon we were executing for witchcraft until the late 80s. Yeah. Except. This episode is brought to you by two clothing. The new school term is right around the corner, meaning it's nearly time to face the nightmare. Is it a nightmare, Rob?

It is. That is school uniform. What's the biggest frustration for you uniform-wise? There's games and there's PE, and they are different kits. My problem is, Josh, the shoes, the insole of the shoe seems to perish. I feel like that is an overlooked part of the shoe.

And then they'll say, my shoes are uncomfortable. I'm like, well, they still fit. And then they show me the insol. And it's an absolute mess. Do you find that kids grow slightly too much in a year for just one uniform? But by the time you're getting to like May, you're like, we can't go new blazer now. I'm willing to restart in September.

Yeah. Kids should grow exactly a size a year. Do you know what I mean? That's what they need to do. Josh, kids are always going to put their uniform through the ringer. All you can do is get them clothes that can keep up. Exactly, Rob. Two school uniforms really perform. There's white polos that stay white and permanently pleated pennies to speed up laundry day,

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Challenge yourself, friends and family to walk 21 kilometers in support of life-saving research. Together, we can carry the fire and help create a world free, from the fear of cancer. Register today at pmcf walk.ca.ca. Weird food confession, Josh. Yeah. As an adult, I like to eat bubbles. It started as a child, but I love a sneaky mouthful still when I run a bath. Oh, yeah. That is awful. Louise from Northampton.

Because we said there were people hiding behind, oh, as a kid. But we want to hear about still doing it now. Yeah, I don't, yeah, still doing it. I don't mind. mind the bubbles one. I don't mind it. I wouldn't enjoy it myself, but it's, I'm not sure. It doesn't really matter. What doesn't matter? It's, it's, it doesn't exist almost. It's so, it barely touched your mouth. It's more of a feeling on the mouth than a, than a real thing. Do you know what I mean? No. It's chemically, it's like eating so.

Yeah, but it's clean, isn't it? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to rub it all over your naked body. They realize you'll be such a bubble apologist. Do you like a bubble? Do you like a bath? Get bored. and get hot. I don't find it very relaxing. It's not for me. Sometimes in a hotel I think I'll have a bath just because I should.

And I'm in there for seconds. Are you? I started showering, getting clean, then getting in the bath. That was nicer. Oh, on that hotel thing. You sound perfect when you're leaning like this.

No, no, I was just going to say I had an evening on my own in a hotel. Oh, yeah. When was this? Last week, I was in London, I had to come up on the Thursday evening. I had to do a couple of things late Thursday. So I had Friday, I got to my hotel at 7.38.

And do you know what? If that's winter, I'm staying in the hotel. But the problem is the sun's streaming in through the windows. Yeah, you've got to get out and about for a walk. You've got to get out and about. You can just get cozy in the winter. Yeah. That'll be quite good because when you're up for doing strictly,

it's going to start turning into autumn winter. Oh, yeah. Happy winter. Yeah, it'll be nice. That'll be fun. I've got another food confession here. Yeah. Love the new food confession segment and recently laughed listening to Amelia and her Bisto story. When I was younger and back before they cost a fortune, my mom would buy me both chocolate and strawberry nesquit powder to make my own milkshakes at home. Or so she thought.

At a young age, I discovered the milk was surplus to requirements who would eat the lovely sugary powder straight from the tub of a spoon. Oh, word, that must have been dry. I know, but I get that more than bubbles. Yeah, of course. Would you rather read that or bubbles? Well, have you ever done that cinnamon thing where you try and have a spoonful of cinnamon and then you can't do it?

I haven't, but I feel like we should do that. Just for a laugh. Well, Michael, I'll add it to the list tomorrow. We're going to do challenges from 12 years ago. We're do a quick ice bucket challenge, eat some cinnamon, and then do the Harlem shake. Welcome to the new show. We are Trailblazers.

Look, me and Josh are moving. That is a funny idea, though. Just do all the old classic challenges, yeah. Yeah. We're going retro. We might as well, because no one else is doing. I'll nominate Rory Stewart. Also, by the way, can I contract,

nominate the other podcasters? I nominate Roy Keane. Jake Humphrey, Stephen Bartlett. Oh, by the way, I want to congratulate myself. How quick was I to get to the Harlem? I was desperately trying to find Harlem Shake. I kind of remember even what it was. Yeah, but you were right, though.

It was that thing where everyone would stop, except one person, and then would that person, like, start dancing? I don't know. I nearly said flash mob, but that was a bit different. That would be a lot bigger scale, weren't there? Well, should we do Cinnamon Challenge

and, um, ice bucket, trying to do the Ice Bucket Challenge in the Spotify studio? Oh, my God. What are they doing down there? Louis Verroot, G.K. Barry and Jay Chetty. Do three more, just do random. It's fun. Just think of three random ones. John McGole.

Paul C. Branson. Paul C. Brunson. Mike Bubbins. Luana. Both together. Oh, God. Elizabeth Dave. Fern Cotton.

Let's get back to this queen. Oh, God, got hot. I've got really hot. I could do have a bloody ice bucket challenge at the moment. I'm sweating. Have you seen Mike Perry do the cinnamon challenge before? Is it Mike Perry? The talk sport presenter.

Have you not seen it? Mike Perry. Mike Perry. Have you never seen it? No. He basically goes, I'm going to do a cinnamon challenge. I'm sorry. I'm going to have to make you watch it during the pot.

And if anyone... Michael sent us... A blue plaque that got put on the slide. Did someone put it on there, Michael? I got that made because in the early days of the podcast, I was trying to do some guerrilla marketing, social media marketing for the show. So I had that made,

and I was going to sneak into Victoria Park to put it up on one. And I did, and a guy, a sort of security guard slash workman, saw me, so I ran away scared, and then it's been in my storage ever since. Amazing. Oh, wow. Locked down. hands in hell. Oh, you've got to try and get that.

We'll put it up in the studio. Yeah. Right, Josh. And listeners, if you search Mike Parry attempt cinnamon challenge, please just watch that. It's on YouTube. It basically goes,

I've seen all these idiots trying to do it and they can't do it. It's pathetic. I'm going to show you how a real person does it, and he basically dies. It's the high watermark of those challenges. Have you not seen it? Have you seen it, Michael?

They're all on Facebook. We should watch it, Josh. And I'll put the video up. As Josh Watch is it live, it's worth it. It's 3 minutes 22. When you press, Okay, everybody, now you see what this is. This is a bottle of cinnamon.

Cinnamon is some sort of a powder that you put into cakes and it makes them taste nice. That's fine. This is a tablespoonful of cinnamon. Now, somebody's tried to tell me that putting a full spoonful, and this is not a full spoonful, it's a tablespoonful of cinnamon

in your mouth at once is impossible. I've seen all these younger people than me who's shoving this stuff in the, their mouth and then they're all over the plate because they can't take it. Well, believe me, I've faced worse than tablespoonfuls of cinnamon during my life. People have thrown things at me all my life and all my life. I've headbutted them away or taken the challenge. I'm going to take the challenge now. This is one of the fullest. Can I just pause it now? Could you just give me a background on Mike Paul? Is he being funny here or does he mean it? I think he means it. I think he's basically,

I don't want to show you how to do it. Don't worry about it. I didn't know whether he was knew that this was going to go role. I think he thinks people are performatively coughing it out. Boom falls of cinema I've seen in the various challenges that I've seen recorded. Mine's going to be the best of all. I bet you I won't even ball, okay? I won't even ball because I've been trained to take pain. Okay, I've taken pain all my life. Here we go. I'm told there should be an explosive reaction that won't be from me. I'm going to count you down. Three, two, one. He's good at it, though, isn't he? It looks like you're going to blow it in black when he turns into a cockroach.

Oh my God. Oh, God. Look how red his ball patch goes. It's going. I'm in my throat I've been great difficulty in breathing perhaps it wasn't a good idea to do this

for a man who's got such a dodgy heart and only works at one third in your heart because I've got acute heart failure What's going on? I'm three minutes time I'm about total heart failure

Believe me I wasn't pleasant but I'm glad I did the better than sort of people I've seen I'm going to keep throwing my mouth Excuse me. Oh my God, that is funny. That is funny.

I can't believe you've never seen that before. It's one of my favorite videos. Anyway, that was funny. So we'll do that tomorrow. No. That would be awful. Right. Another email.

Another email. I won't finish the next quick one. Oh, go on. Finish the next quick one. Jesus. Bit of a diversion. Oh, so. basically she was just spooning in this week.

That's a bit of the momentum of the email, I think, but I'll try and get it back up. Anyway, my mum did find out, though, that I wasn't mixing it with milk, but was powerless to stop it as it become just shot of an addiction. Unfortunately, I also told the kids in my coldestack about this, and a few of us would happily spoon pure raw sugar straight into our mouths. If I ever did add milk instead of the suggested two to three spoons of powder,

it would be roughly about six to ten. So it was too much powder for the milk And I could eat the bubbles of powder that formed I hope I wasn't the cause of too many young cavities But at least it's a habit I've kicked I'm not sure if that's because I've grown out of it Or I genuinely can't afford it now. Thanks to the pod.

She was next quick. So I never plan on having, Jasmine never plans and having kids listens every week. She's really nailing this thing about Nescwick being expensive now. How much it keeps coming back to it? It's really hit her hard. I tell you what one thing, she used to, Louis doesn't do it anymore, but she used to get like, you know, spray cream.

You know, the foam, spray foam? Yeah, yeah, yeah, spray cream. Like squirty cream. Squirty cream. And we'd have it in there, and she'd have it on like strawberries or a bit of ice cream sometimes, but sometimes, especially when the kids were little, she'd just go and just have a little squirt of it as a little sugar boost, and a little, straight in the mouth. And then the kids started wanting to do it.

And she was like, no, you can't do that. It should be in a bowl of a spoon. And they were like, well, you do it. You do it. So in the end, we just got to the point. they'd sometimes waddle up to the thing and we'd just go in their mouths and they'd waddle off. Right, ready?

Nesquicks, about three quid. Yes, I mean, that is expensive if you're spooning it in like cereal, though, isn't it? Yeah. It feels alright if you're just making the odd milkshake. It seems like, yeah, if you're using it for its actual purpose, it's a fairly good value. And now it's a special part of today's show,

stories that make you feel, and it's brought to you by Hulu on Disney Plus. Last time we talked about rivals the bear and we asked our wonderful listeners to let us know what stories and shows got them right in the fields Right Rob what have we got then? So I've got it here Yep The big census Yes Anna in Leeds this is her on the bear

It's my favourite new TV show of the last decade To be fair she wouldn't be alone in that No the episode from series two episode six is one of the most tense and stressful experiences of my life Yes that is the one one where it's all in one long, like one time frame. In brackets, in a brilliant way. Yeah. So it's positive.

It's a positive stress. It's essentially a disastrous family Christmas dinner that slowly spirals into complete chaos. Now, I'm scared to watch this because I actually feel like it will affect me too much. Do you know what, Rob? It's fun. The first series is really fun. The first series isn't stressful. She also said, the tension is unbearable, but impossible to look away from.

I loved it. Totally agree. Okay. I'm going to give the bear a go just to get to that point. Next one. Another one. Simon from the Isle of Sheppey. He said this about the TV show

Only Murders in the Building. Don't know it. I love Only Murders. It's funny, cozy and genuinely moving. Yes, please. Yes, please. What starts the murder mystery?

You like that, a bit of Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, yeah. Becomes a surprisingly heartfelt story. You love heartfelt. I am heartfelt. You get upset a lot, don't you? We're not upset.

You're just in touch your emotions. Of course. Emot your emotions are sad. Yeah. Heartfelt story about three very different people. You love people. Me and Michael, finding friendship, purpose and a sense of belonging. Oh, there we go.

Here we go. It's parenting hell the movie. The chemistry between Steve Martin, Martin, Martin Short and Selima Gomez. Right, Oozoo. Let's start that. The chemistry between Steve Martin, Martin, Martin, Schult and Celina Gomez is the heart of the show. And I watch and re-watch my favourite episodes. They're like a warm hug or a comfort, no matter how I'm feeling.

I want to give that a go because I love them two together. Yeah, yeah. They had to be a murder mystery and comedy. Yeah, yeah. When I found out they were in it. They admit cozy. Finally, we got this from Darmesh in London. If you haven't seen it already,

Alien Earth is one of the best TV shows of recent years and a great extension of that alien universe. Dark, tense and visually striking. That's my type on paper. It delivers plenty of visceral horror and dread, but its real strength is in the emotional and philosophical side. Wow. The feeling that stays with you is a mixture of fear,

fascination and existential unease. Wow. You're not just scared of the creatures. Your left question, what it actually means to be human. Oh, are we the creatures? This guy. Are we the creatures?

This guy should be writing for a living. Yeah. Wow. So for me, in order, I'm going to give them all a go. I just don't think I can start my viewing with existential unease. Let's build to that once. Or I've got an idea. Start with a bear.

Yeah. Then go to Alien and then finish off of the comedy. Yeah, so you can chill out. And what a day that will be. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you to the listeners. and the viewers and Rob for reading them out and for sharing their suggestions and recommendations with us. I love some of those suggestions. I'll definitely check a few of them out. See what will get you

feeling happy, sad or laughing hard. Check out a lifetime of great stories with Hulu on Disney Plus. Copyright 2026 Disney and its related entities. 18 plus subscription required. Two and five Canadians will hear the words you have cancer. That's why every step and dollar raised matters. On September 19th, join thousands in Toronto for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Walk. Challenge yourself, friends, and family to walk 21 kilometers in support of life-saving research. Together, we can carry the fire and help create a world free from the fear of cancer. Register today at pmcfwalk.ca.ca. We've got loads of boomer parenting.

Let's knock a couple of them out. Hi, Rob, Josh and Michael. Just listening to one of your boomer parenting stories from listeners, and it reminded me of something that happened to me when I was 14 in 1995. I just had open heart surgery and London Hospital to fix a hole in my heart. It's not an escuit woman, isn't it? Mike Perry. It's got dodgy heart.

This was serious bipal surgery that required my whole chest to be opened up, stitches to be applied to the tissue between the chambers of my heart. On my last day in hospital, after my recovery period, My parents packed up my belongings where he left to drive home to our house on the coast of East Sussex. I had to walk slowly to the car as too much exertion was painful

and could cause bleeding through my stitches. Jeez, which ran the entire length of my chest. Now this was the time when IKEA had just opened in the UK and it was a very exciting place to visit. As we drove Pos Croydon, my parents decided they would pop in and have a look and pick a few bits and pieces. Guys.

They helped me hold me. hobble into the kids play area where I sat on small chairs for a couple of hours, or once they picked up their items before we go home. It can't be a couple of hours. She's had open heart surgery. Well, they've got to go all the way around the one-way system and then come back to get her, I suppose. Not sure about you.

That's good stuff, Andrew. It is fun, isn't it? But if my child had just had major heart surgery, I'm not sure IKEA would be the top my priorities, but it was a different time. Thanks for the last Georgina. Do you know what I love about that IKEA joke you did there? Yeah. Where everyone knows now, like, if you talk about okay, you go bloody one-way system joke, that observation, everyone knows.

Yeah. I just feel really sorry for the comedian that first thought of that. Yeah. And got excited. And then it was such a good observation that it becomes the universe and it wasn't theirs anymore. Oh, it's just, you know, you feel for the first person that did unexpected item in the bagging area, really, don't you as well? That was you, wouldn't it? It was, yeah.

You didn't come to be really, really demolished. contentless payment. Yeah. You took an absolute surgeon's scalpel to that. Surgeon's scaffold. Nothing left. Nothing left on contactless payment. Can't really use any of that anymore.

So she's got to have a minor ops to take a mole off my back, Josh. Oh no, have you? How come? Well, I was at the hairdressers. We'll talk about off your, your scan thing. By the way, I think I should get a NICO scan just so we can compare photos. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you've got your massive paint of it.

Yeah, do it. Anyway, my hairdresser said, oh, there's a mole on your neckline that looks a bit like it's changed. You should get it checked. I thought, I'm quite mole-y. Do you know what? I should get that checked. Anyway, so I went and got checked. And they said, that one's fine.

However, there's one on the back that looks a bit funky. So then I've got referred to go and see someone. And they'd take, well, they say it looks a bit dodged. So they're going to take it out and then send it off a test. And if it's anything, canterous, they basically just cut more out your back. Yeah. So I've got rather... Well, my word.

It's not open heart surgery, but I'd still be annoyed if you'd meet at me Costco after. Actually, I'd probably quite like it. Little reward. So it's weird. They're not going to put you under, are they? No, not for it. It's a tiny little...

I think they'd just numb the air and cut it out, then they? Yeah, it got it, haven't they? Sure. I'd tell you about the time I had a weird lump on my finger that I'd removed. Yeah. And I was like, it was a tiny little lump. And I can't remember what it was called. It had a name for it.

It's more like, it was... wasn't dodgy, but it got in the way because it was on the side of my finger. So I couldn't wear rings and it rub and get sore on my other finger. So we can just whip that out for you and oh, let's do that then. So I went in, I drove myself down there and then I put my hand out. Then it was like, yeah, cool. And then I was like, all right, and I didn't really thought about what was going on. And then they ejected my finger so I couldn't feel nothing.

And then basically, I was just watching, it just got this massive, like, cut it out. I was like, I don't know what, I just imagined there's something sort of like calm. It is basically, of course. Make them not feel it, cut it out. That's basically most surgery in it. Yeah. I'm like, oh, there's just someone cutting my finger open it. And then I thought, oh, God, like that.

And then I started to feel a bit like, and I was like, oh, God, I think I'm a pussy, actually. Because you only see, like, war films when they're still dead getting like a bullet wound. So, because I remember seeing Mel Gibson. How are you giving blood? All right, oh, with needles. Well, I got better than afterwards.

But I just wasn't prepared. Because I remember seeing Mel Gibson in a, leave a weapon or bird on a wire where he got shot and he took his bullets out himself and sent yourself up. So I sort of thought I'd be like that. I wasn't. I'd completely went and then I'm like, oh God and they cut it out and it's all blood and they're like wiping it and sorting it and then

I was like, and then I panicked, started trying to watch it on my phone to try and distract me and then I was like, are we just going to quarter, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, yeah, I don't know, quarters all? No, couldn't it? Quarter-or-rise. And I'm like, I should, be at this stage

Googling what that means. Burn it, basically. Did they burn it off? No, no, they cut it off, they burn the, the hole, so I don't know why.

So it sticks back to go like? Maybe, don't know, but burn it. And then I'm, oh, the smell was absolutely horrendous. And then I was packed, so I've Googled quartered it up, and basically I can smell the burning

as I'm trying to learn how to spell quarterized, oh my God. And then I started pan it, so I went on YouTube, and I watched a car chase on YouTube. You know, was that random comes up.

It was like when police interceptors. And then I was all shaking. I just big bands on me hand. And I remember driving home with one hand and me hand up in the air like that. Oh, God. But this is not a fact. I will look at,

I'll say to them when they do needles. I'm like, I'm fine with it, but can I look at my phone? Yeah. Well, no, I actually look at it going in now. Do you? Because I found, for me, you stare at out.

Yeah, no, accepting it and go, that is just a metal going in my skin. The thought of it is more painful and horrific than it actually is. Yeah. So I looked at inject Lou ever. What's that? No, I've never injected,

I've never injected Lou. I've seen her injects herself. Yeah, when we got through that period. When Rose, it was after the, it must have been both because you have to do various stuff after a cesareum.

Oh. So I had to inject her. Actually, I enjoyed it. It's quite satisfying. What? thought you did it well or her being upset and in pain. It was quite enjoyable to like take the skin and shh.

Now, I'd rather have it done to me than do it. Would you? Yeah. I don't like doing it. Yeah. But Louie had to stab herself in the stomach with these injections for when she was on her medication for colitis. Yeah. That was quite brutal.

That looked hard. Yeah. Well. Anyway, see you next week. Small business shout out. small B-S-O small B-S-O Hi Rob, Josh and Michael

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