Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S13 EP3: Camera on a yoghurt

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

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Search Monzo. For children aged 6 to 15, parent or guardian account needed first, UK residents only, T's and Cs apply. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with Harry, can you say Rob Beckett And can you say Josh Whittaker

Now we go That's a good one Hi you sexy and relatable a lot This is my two-year-old Harry saying your names with a little hiccup I absolutely loved the intro That was sent in with the adorable hiccup And when Harry started

A little hiccup moment I had to take advantage I didn't hear it I think it's, it's, you might have thought he just stumbled on the word, but it was a hiccup. Oh, there you go, yeah, yeah, there you go. As a child whose parents sent a video in of me to you've been framed when I was three and who has relived it almost every year since I figured that this was my moment to continue that tradition and give him a solid, tell me something interesting about yourself,

sort of story for future. I don't think it's that interesting. You're afraid, Rachel. He'd being sexually relatable, Rachel 34 from Chorley. You've got a re, that is a, that is a, a bold thing to bring up first week of uni when everyone's going around in a circle. Yeah, because you've been framed, I would say, is ageless. I'd say most people of any age group know you've been framed. The chances of Harry was it? Harry Hickup.

Harry, who's two. In 16 years, this being a reference that his generation understands the chances are longer of. disrespect to eat of us. So who is it again? Rob Beckett and Joshua are they? They're both in prison now, aren't they?

Yeah, yeah. But yeah, well, you've been framed as such a classic. But then, who knows? Maybe, maybe, maybe it will. We don't give out 250 quid though, do we? Which is a lot of money actually on reflection. That's decent wedge now. I wonder how often her family debate

whether she should have got the money for whatever she did falling through a plate glass window or whatever she did. Well, I think famously, I say famously is quite bold. I've told you the story of when I won £100,000. on a frutini. No, I don't know if I remember this story, but I'll take it again.

My mum used to give me tins of fruit at a ring pull, yeah? Yeah. And a frutini, it was called. And I pulled it, you've won hundred pounds. Yeah. Great. I've won £100. Take it home.

Mum takes it, spends it in all three of the boys. We all got track suits. We had a very similar thing. Plymouth. When we've, 50-50 draw up Plymouth. Yeah, yeah. We've spoken about this, yeah, four or five times probably. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, how are you? I'm stressed. Can I, yeah, you seem stressed. I felt, I'm, this is, get on the Instagram, guys, because have a look at how my fucking camera's set up here. Well, we still haven't put the sea golfing up yet. Hopefully we will at the time of writing. We put the pants one up in the spirit of Instagram.

But that's not what's stressing you out, is it? I'm in a hotel, right? So to be fair, can I just say that we, we spent the weekend together filming, you came on an episode of Robin Ramesh? Yeah, we should say, because a lot of people thought we'd gone on holiday as a fall with Tom Davis and Romash. I can't be clear enough how far that would be from the reality of my life. Oh, Rose, some holiday started. I'm just off to Paris. Are you fucking insane?

No, we were filming an episode of the Tour de France for Robin Romash versus, and you need a Peloton and you came and helped with it. Anyway, you'll see that on the show. So that's why we were out there, and we had quite nice time. It can be quite stressful at points. doing that show, because there's a lot of weird things you have to do. But you look left in quite high spirits yesterday, but I feel like now... I had a lovely time.

I had a lovely time in Paris. It was a lovely crew. It was a lovely experience. Then I got the train, which was very pleasant. I mean, there was so much traffic in Paris. We had to end up jettisoning our car to the station and walking the last 10 minutes. Yeah. through quite a rough area of the garden orton.

Yes, not a nice place to come into. It's no St. Pancras International. I don't want to go all xenophobic on you, but, you know, fucking liven up, France. We're giving you an absolute beauty of a station. Exactly. So that was nice. Train and they got a car home.

And then, but the thing is, I got in, the kids had stayed up for me to get back at, I was getting back at 10, but they're present. So they wanted to stay up and it's summer holidays. Yeah. So they stayed up. So then I got them to bed at like 20 past, half past 10. And then I just went to bed.

And then I had a bowl of Albrand because that was all that was in the house. Lovely. And then you just wake up and then my son wanted me to do Lego with him, which is nice. But it means that then suddenly I had 10 minutes to have a shower, get out the house, come here and suddenly I'm doing this again. So I'm all a bit at sea. A bit discombobulated. I've got a little camera and... Yogurt.

You'll see, let me just show you. Let me show you how this is... It's a niche only fan, the old camera and yoghurt. Well, this is how my hotel room with a camera and yogurt. This is how my camera's set up currently. So I've got enough height on my camera. Right, that is, yeah, that's not a way, that's not a way to operate. No, so do you want to talk us through it?

Yeah, so are you facing a window or is it a drawing on a window? It's a window that has kind of, what's that stuff you put on a window? window frosting, but the frosting has got, I presume it's Exeter, though I don't know. It's like an illustration of old. Yeah, an medieval map. Or not medieval, but kind of. So what's that about window? Can you see anything?

Anxon map of Exeter. What's, can you open the window? There's a, then a window above. I would be, would you be disappointed if you stayed in there for the night with that window set up? Do you get any real light? Yeah, you do. You can see.

Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. So a bit of frost in a window. above and then you've got your laptops on a massive box of Yorkshire tea why have you got such a big box of yorkshire tea no there's a there's a two points of milk behind that also so did you bring two points of milk at a massive box of 200 tea bags with you to that hotel it's 40 tea bags right okay so i bought some milk and some tea on the way and i bought a yogurt for because for sustenance but actually it's proved perfect as a tripod but now the issue here josh you cannot eat that

yogurt until the end of the show because if once you've eaten that, the lid's gone and you've got an empty cup. I know, but we're recording two episodes and a couple of ads. And then Michael said we're going through a lot of dates. So once we hit the date, I can have my yogurt. Right. Okay, cool. That's good.

Okay. So that's something to look forward to it. And then you've got a couple of books on there in an upside down cup. Yeah. So because Yorkshire tea, laptop, book, notebook, notebook, normal book, upside down cup, yoga, and then the camera on top of that. And obviously the two pint of milk base. Two-pine milk base.

Are you concerned that the heat of the laptop will warm up the milk? I hadn't thought about that, and I am now, yeah. That is a consideration that you could have curdle your, because it's, I would say, a milk bottle out. Sure, you can't curdle milk in an hour 40. We'll find out. We'll find out. Jeez, my life, it's so stressful.

Oh, just stressful. What, you've got anything after this? Oh, our kitchen, we've got a kitchen now, or all. Oh, right, yeah, because the reason you're in a hotel is you're still getting building work done, which it seems like the same plot from a sitcom that's got on for four years now because you was getting your kitchen done at your old house. I know, but you left there. Our kitchen's not done, but it's usable now.

Oh, that's good. Yeah, so we've got a cooker, we've got an island. And you're still on the floor? So last night you slept on the floor? Yeah. Yeah, it's no life. Do you feel like, because you slept in a hotel room for three nights, in a nice hotel bed, that the floor was a harder pill to sleep.

I'll take the floor with my family to a hotel room on my own. There's a bit of, there's a... Wow, that's really powerful. Yeah, it's pretty powerful. There's also a world where you have... I hate being a hotel room on my own. Yeah, I know, but there is also a world where you have a, you know, a bed with your family, which I'd say is obtainable.

I don't... I'd say that's a month away. Because I would say, for someone who's now, like, you know, very successful, landed one of the biggest jobs in TV. I'd say before that it was unacceptable. I wouldn't say strictly should be... No, no. What I was saying is, yeah.

No, what I'm saying is, though, the way you're living is, you know, almost what your origin story would be about, you could explain your current situation as almost like a sob story from the, you know, grown up, sleep on the floor with no, you know, that. But it's actually, you're doing it the other way round. Yes. Yes. This is, you're, you should be in your, oh, he's rested on his laurels. He's in his silk pajama era, but you're curled up on the floor like a cat. Well, this is how I keep myself hungry, Rob. The other way I keep myself hungry is I put my yoghut underneath my camera so I can't eat.

They're the two ways I keep myself hungry. Oh my God. What the fuck does this look like now? What is my life? Yeah, well, it's just unfortunate circumstances of you keep redoing kitchens. Yeah, I wouldn't be recording this in the fucking kitchen anyway, but yeah. No, but I'm just saying that you're doing the house again and it sort of spills into other rooms, doesn't it? Yeah, and that's fine.

I know something that's subtle criticism. I'm just saying that is just that is what's happening. Yeah. No, I totally agree. I just want my life back. I find it. So what are your life back? I find it incredibly difficult to go away and come back and just start work straight away.

I find that really fucks me up. I think the Rob and Ramesh especially episodes are, it's very strange to record because there's loads of like lulls where you're just hanging out chatting. What's a downtime? So you're like, you know, I should be fine. here. But then all of a sudden you're dressed in lycra of your belly hanging out and tourists are shouting at you from the street, which is quite a high level of stress. Then, you know, you're in a race or doing something that's slightly dangerous, which affects your sort of adrenaline. And then you

come back and then you know you can fully relax. It's sort of like you go, ugh, which is, you know. Yeah. And it's just, it's just that thing of like getting back and you're like, oh, fucking out, where's my wash bag? Oh, God, I've got a suitcase full of clothes and I'm, you know what? mean. Yes. I just wanted to unpack my suitcase. And here I am on the fucking camera on a yogurt. Can I ask something as well, though? Because it was quite a boozy weekend for me, Tom, and Rom. There was a lot of beer being old and stuff like that. How did you, because I don't imagine you're in those sort of situations with lads much, because obviously you're working or touring alone or home. I've just got to be very clear to you. Yeah. That's not a boozy situation, considering my

past. No, no, no. I know. But what I'm saying is, I've found it incredibly sedate. No, no, not that it was rock and roll, but I'm saying you're away with friends that traditionally you would have been having beers. Is it any flicker or is it hard or is it fine now? No, because we had dinner. I actually didn't realize how much people are drunk because we were having dinner. Yeah. And actually, Till Ramesh told me quite kind of earnestly how proud he was of me for doing strictly. I didn't realize how drunk people were.

You saw him open up to you? Yeah. Yeah. He wasn't that drunk, you know. No, it wasn't that. We weren't drunk. It was just like all away, like we were abroad, in like a French cafe and we had lovely beers,

and it was all like quite fun and jovial because we just met. I didn't know for me that would have been a... Do you know my main issue, Rob? Come on. Was the lack of decaf tea in France was absolutely killing me. And the French don't care. And they don't give a... Do you know what?

And fair enough. I love it. They just go, no, there isn't. We don't serve, we don't serve snails. And that's fine. They don't do decaf tea. That's totally acceptable. It's their country.

They could do what they fucking want. I made a mistake. I filled my decaf tea tinderbox thing that I'd bring. You know, my little with a number of decaf tea bags, maybe eight. Yeah. And then I started using them in London in the day before, because I'd stayed in London to do a gig, fucking amateur hour.

I arrived in France with only three decaf tea bags and the whole thing. It's just, it's not my own fault. It's my own fault, Rob. You set yourself up for failure. I should have bought more decaf tea, but I was in a rush to the King to Kings Cross, and then I couldn't find any, and it hit me hard when I got there.

See, I'm sat there going, poor Josh, he's not drunk for two years now, all his friends are having beers around him, Izzy Cobin, little did I know. You're sat there panicking about your decaf tea tinderbox. Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly. This is probably why I would struggle in a kind of post-nuclear fallout bunker. Right.

Because I'd just be worried about getting through all my decaf tea and what I was going to do then. And trying to unpack your suitcase. We're all in bunk beds. We're all in front of doors. Now, we might as well fucking unpack, guys. If I was going to know, Josh, it'll only be a couple of days. Let's live out the suitcase. I live out of the suitcase.

Get some fucking hangers out and unpack your stuff. Oh dear. It was really fun. Everyone was welcoming. Everyone was nice. It made me realize it is quite a magical show really. What's quite exciting is when you go on a show, there's got a huge amount of history and success and it's just quite normal on there. You go on a show and it just works like clockwork. It was just very, very slick. I was very impressed. Oh, thank you very much. It's nice to do with Lily and Bill. It was really fun. I had a lovely time. Amy and Jack. I had a great time.

And I will be honest, I just wish I'd got home earlier, but I live in Exeter. It's my own fault. Again, sure the tea bags. Yeah, now you're just a bit tired. It's okay. Look, I'll warm you up. I'll get you going. Have you got any stuff you want to talk about your children?

Or do you want me to go first? because I spent quite a lot time of them. My son's doing his first ever day in a club. He's only doing one day. Right. He's doing a club

with his two little mates. Yeah. And so that's quite interesting. He's very insistent he's only doing one day, which is fair enough. Which is fair enough. My daughter's doing a full week with her mates in a club this week.

I think it's good. We do that. They do one week a year in a club, like for the summer holidays. And they love it. And it gives them a bit of structure. And then that's when I put all my work into, if there's any little bits and bobs that can be moved, I try and do it all in like one week. Yeah.

So they are, my daughter's got another week in a different club, actually, later in the holiday. I mean, it's difficult because I've been away, Rob. I feel, I sound like you. But Josh, you have done three days. It's not, you've not done like a sort of Afghanistan. No, I went to Auburn's and I went to, I went away on Wednesday. Oh, so you left. Oh, fair enough.

Because I left Friday morning. Yeah, no, I left Wednesday. So I've kind of been away all week. Yeah, and then you're back. Now I'm back. You've left again to another hotel room. I've left her again to go to another hotel room. Have you got a busy week this week?

Not too bad. It's actually quite not too bad a week. So tell me about your parenting, Rob. Well, went to, well, a couple of things. Went to an escape room. I'm going to give you matches, small business shout out at the end. I paid, he's not giving me any money. Operation Escape, West Wickham.

I'll give you more details like you. But have you ever done an escape room with the kids? No. Have you ever done one? No, it's not really my scene. I imagine my daughter would love it. I think you'd love it with your kids. Yeah.

So, like, I think it is your scene. You love Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, but he very rarely did an escape room. No, but he solved puzzles. Yeah, but I like watching him do it. I don't like a Sudoku or a word or something like that. It's not a Sudoku. You don't just go in and do crosswords and then leave.

No, no, no, but I just mean puzzle. Right, everyone in, do this word search. You're allowed out. But it's really creative. So they've actually got a Sherlock Holmes room at this place. Oh, yeah. Where you go in and it's basically, it's all themed. But it's not called Sherlock Holmes.

It's sort of like so they don't get sued. Oh, right. Okay. So it's basically a detective one with a brown coat. And you go in and it's so we did a garden one where you go in, it's like his magical garden, you've got to basically solve these puzzles so that you can release this wizard or something. But it's really interactive.

It's a bit like Crystal Mays, but also a bit like using logic to solve things. and the kids loved it and it was great because you're like, you feel like you're actually doing something with them.

Yeah. And it's quite difficult so they need you a bit. And weren't you ahead of the game with it? Were you having to go, were you having to let them do it? I thought I'd be sitting back like Pierlo

and then watching them run around and then sort of go, give me the ball and then play a little through ball so they could finish. Actually, I was looking at the camera saying, please,

can we have some clues, we're struggling and we're running out of time. So it's, It's actually quite challenging even for adults. So they were good though. And also there's those of good things that they can do. How long have you an escape room?

Depends how good you are at it. So how long does it last? When up to an hour. If you get to an hour, you haven't escaped. You just, you're done. You're just like game over and the door opens you go. Yeah. But yeah, we did it in like 57 minutes.

Oh my word. That's tight. It was tight, yeah. But we had to find one little thing we couldn't find it was doing my head in. But we did have a few. Well, there was something, you needed something to put on something, and it was hidden, and we could not find it. And where was it? Somewhere.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know if they needed something to put it was somewhere. Yeah, I had to find something, but I couldn't find it, and we had to get it and put it somewhere, but I'm not telling you what, we had to find where it was, where we had to put it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I have an effect of the anecdote. That's the main thing. No, no, exactly. Everyone's still gripped. Yeah, exactly. I would say my kids at 8 and 10, that was really good fun. Now, Rob, it is a... special part of today's show.

Yeah. Summer shenanigans, and that's a good sound for summer shenanigans. Where we give our best advice for not just surviving, but having an actual blast during the six-week holidays. And it's brought to by Monzo, who with their free kids account, helping children become more independent with their money. Yeah.

Drop my tips for the six weeks holiday. Go on, hit me. Pace yourself. Yeah. Yeah. It's long. It's hot and it's hard. Sometimes it won't even be.

hot. Here's a little tip. Go on. Do not take your holiday. If you're doing a holiday away, yeah, don't cash that in week one. Unless you can save money. You can save money because of your term date. Say sometimes kids have like earlier breakups. So if you can fly on that date, but then you're staring down the barrel of a five weeker. That's the equivalent of Chesney Hawks coming on opening with I am the one and only and then doing the rest of the set. But when I saw Chesney Hawks. He opened with it and closed with it. Exactly. If you can afford two holidays, have one at each end. We like to call that the Chesney.

Yeah. Start with it and end with it. Or what other tips? Just never go camping ever. Yeah. That's not really a tip. It's sort of a personal mantra of mine. What do you do if you need to work and your kids are in the house during the summer holidays?

I like to give them a little thing called a device. Yeah. Which is slightly frowned upon. But I wouldn't do it every day for six. weeks. But I watched a lot of TV in the summer, Rob. Yes, but I would say you watch too much TV. You've become completely obsessed by it. Your only knowledge base is an eight-year period where all you did was watch TV, and you've since gone on to use that as reference points for a very good career in the media, but also written a book about it. And I would say that's great

because it's work for you, but I would say you are the exception, not the rule. Yeah, okay, fair. Well, let me put it this way. There's a halfway house. What I would say... What's that, 19 TV show? What I would say, and I'm liable for this, yeah, and Rose has brought me in on it, don't overplan the summer. It is a holiday for them. You can't just back to back to back to back stuff because you're worried about them being bored. Yeah. Sometimes kids have to find their own entertainment.

Experience buffer. We need buffer. I mean you're the worst for no buffer. Here's another tip, Rob. Go on, go on. Tip me off. If you're looking for summer clubs, I started a WhatsApp group with the, the parents of my daughter's friends and said what summer clubs is everyone doing so that then

they're much easier to sell to your child when you go, your friends are already doing this. So and so is going. Yes. Yes. I would say kids are more interested in what their friends are doing than what the actual content of the club is. Look what the friends are doing and then offer that to your kids. That would be my tip. The other good thing to do is this is a tip that we've done before. Find friends with the kids and then if there's four of you, you can almost split a week up. where you go, like, I'll take Wednesday off and have all the kids with me on Wednesday and have a day with them. And then the other two or three people take the Thursday or the Friday off and then the same four kids just get moved around from house to house. Perfect.

That's a good system. What about days out, Rob? What's your stance? Your stance on days out. I'm a big fan of the old trip to the seaside, fish and chips on the coast. But then it's difficult at the British seaside because you want it warm but you don't want it too hot. Yeah, yeah. You don't want a 30 degree are in Dim Church.

What you don't want, Rob, is one of those days that it's so hot that a picture of the beach you go to ends up on a tabloid newspaper with what a scorch are written on. No, the worst case scenario. What you want is, you go, do you know what? I'm not sure about whether I'm going to take a jumper, but that jumper never gets worn. Yeah. I'm feeling quite confident for the summer holidays.

We've put in enough things, but we haven't overpacked it. We'll see how it plays out, Rob. Yes. The holidays are a great chance to teach your kids about money as well. aren't they? A Monzo Kids account lets you schedule pocket money, gives the kids their own card, a child-friendly app view, and gives them fee-free spending abroad. With the added security of parents' see and spending notifications in their app too. Monzo's award-winning kids account, search Monzo. For children aged 6 to 15,

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hair cut and we went out in the morning we had to go somewhere and i said you can bring your iPads for this for this little we had to go to my office to speak to some builders and i said bring your iPads if you want yeah they brought them they're on there for like an hour while we were talking to the builders come back i said put your iPads on charge because we're going out in the afternoon and I was getting my haircuts. I don't mind having an iPad because you don't want to just sit in the hairdresser staring. How's that holiday? Wrens,

the builders went for a haircut with Dad. But that's what we used to do. Well, exactly. And that's what I've got stuff to do. Erans that I used to get taken on. Yeah, I can't just like I make the fucking cake every day looking like some sort of god dad. So, I mean, I've literally never baked a cake with him ever, never mind every day. So I said, then I said,

charge your iPads. Maybe don't have iPads while at home now for a couple of hours because you'll need them later. Charge them. One did. One didn't. Right? So then we'd leave the house.

One's on 9%. The other one's on like 85, but the other one's now really gloating. So we get in the car. My phone's dying as well. And they said, can you charge? I'm trying to charge your iPad in the car for the five-minute journey to the hairdressers. You don't get good charge in a car.

You just don't get good charging a car. Also, I need it for my phone. So anyway, I'm charging her iPads. So then we get to the hairdressers. My phone's on our 3%. Right. Yeah. Well, maybe, actually, about 15%.

There's, like, there's got like 20%. We're in their hairdressers. Anyway. Surely the hairdresser has got a plug. Well, yeah, but my phone's now going down like a percent every like 30 seconds. And I look at it, they're both hotspotting me. So I'm on 10% and running two iPads internet off this phone. Right.

And then I'm like, girls, look, you could do this. But because I've been charging your iPad in the car, my phone's dying. and your hotspot's going to go. Yeah. But I didn't really want to plug it in because I thought like, they've got to learn that if they want something like, you've got to charge it.

And then, and it was so funny, right of him went, fine, daddy, I'll just go mummies. Lou was eight miles away. I was like, yeah, go on then. Has the hairdresser got Wi-Fi? Yeah, the hairdresser does have Wi-Fi,

and I probably could have logged them onto it, but it was just, I felt like that. What's your feeling? I'm pretty, I'm going to say, say it, I'm pretty balls out. I don't care about this kind of stuff. Are they hairdressers? Mine does my eyebrows, but it's never done balls. They always go, do you want me to do your eyebrows? I'm like, well, if you're asking, it's yes, isn't it? No, no hairdressers have ever gone. Do you want me to see your eyebrows

if they're fine? There's probably some dirty old long one on there. Do you want me to shade your ear lobes is always a lobe for me? Oh, I've never had that. I've got, I've got downy fluff on my lobes. Because your lobes and nose, I think when you get to right ear, that's going to be a big challenge for you because you're one of those people that it does start sprouting. You're a big, strong hairy boy from the South. You know, I tell you, Rob, I don't think I did because it's since I've been to London. So have I told you're on statins for my high cholesterol? No, I didn't know that. You want that. Well, you got high you eat well, don't you? Well, exactly. So I had high cholesterol

on one test, and six months later, I still had high cholesterol. And I was like, look, I've literally, everything that you're told to do to keep your cholesterol down, I do. I am the worst case scenario. I've got a boring life and high cholesterol. So what is what diet brings on high cholesterol? Is that meat, red meat? Fatty stuff? You know, fatty stuff, crap like that. Alcohol, no exercise, all the things that, you know, I'm pretty good. I'll tell you what does it bring on high cholesterol, all brand and the front cover of runners' world. A yoghugat on a cup, on a book, on a laptop, being consumed at 1130 is not. Not a cholesterol boy.

No. But you are, you have got it? Yeah. So I've just got, unlucky with high cholesterol, Rob. Yeah?

So if I know to put the list, nothing's going your way, is it? No, you'll get gout soon for no reason other than just it's you.

But he's like, they did a test, they were like, look, you haven't got any calcified cholesterol. So you're in a really, you've had no problems.

You're getting tested for every time of speech you're getting tested. This was, this was, this is a related, thing. This is all related to that.

You have a crisis about your health. You've been getting Nico scanned. You're getting statins. Should I be going more to the doctors? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you don't know. You shouldn't be.

But this is all related to that last one. Got you. Yeah. Yeah. So he's like, you're totally fine in terms of calcified cholesterol, which is what the problem is, is when it calcifies around your heart or whatever. I don't know.

But you want to get it down. And there's nothing you've got to. can do, you're doing everything, do these tannes. Man, my cholesterol has gone down. He just couldn't believe how fast it had gone down, Rob. He was like, so are you bragging? Well, no, but this is where it comes to it. He said, actually, he said before this, I was looking at your statistics, and you are a, I can't remember the phrase he used, but he was basically like, you're a super responder to medicines. That first responder, but super.

So you get extreme response to medicines. So if you take something. Does that thing that's the same with like caffeine and alcohol then? That's what I said to him. That's the first thing I said to him. And he said, yeah, there's every chance. The same thing that's doing the medicines is because your liver isn't breaking these things down quickly enough, you are getting extra response to the average.

Yes. You will get a bigger hit off caffeine, but your statins will kick in much harder. Oh, okay. So finally, at the age of 43, I've caught to the bottom for it. Why I'm so affected by everything. Because when you used to drink, you would drink in a sort of unhap- I don't think we can take the whole drinking and put it on my super-respon. No, but what I'd say is, though, you.

you would be more affected by alcohol more quickly. Yes, totally. Which would then lead to bad decision-making with more alcohol? Well, I don't think it was just that. No, but I don't think it's going to help. If you're battered after three pints. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not going to go, maybe I shouldn't have the fourth.

Yeah, exactly. So psychologically, you go, I've only had four beers. Yes. Although, I think really, I'll be honest, once I'd had one sip, there was no way I was stopping. But what about sugar, though? How does sugar affect you? I'm not too bad for the old sugar highs and lows

Actually I don't No I'm all right I can have a lake of pudding and then go to bed But I did what we had in France the first time I've ever read it floating island Oh we had two floating islands didn't we I don't even heard of it before have you I'd never have heard of a floating island but I liked it

Big Tom Davis educated us on floating islands It was meringue in custard Yeah so good The first one was better than the second one. The second one, I'll be honest, the first one was really good. And then the second one, we're in a restaurant. And we asked if he had a floating island. He hadn't heard of it.

And then he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'd do that bit. And then he got it out of a tupperware under the bar. Yeah, that's not how I like, you know, I'm new to floating islands, but that's not how I like to operate with the Cremonglo. Does anywhere in the UK do floating islands? Could you write in and let us know, please? Also, I went full French. I had snails and I had a steak hashay.

Yeah, do you know what? You're quite the Europhile when it comes to... Oh, I'm a full of European, me. Yeah, you really are. You are a man, you know, you could have... You cut me, I bleed blue and gold stars. You do, exactly, yeah. Not in Edinburgh.

Yeah. I'm painting roundabouts, but they're blue with little specks of golden. Yeah, exactly, exactly. I do love Europe, and I'm... I have... I hated Brexit and I hated the fact that we put a big divide between Europe because I think having access to that many cultures and that many places so effortlessly and that you can just move there and live there and work there.

And what I really got the benefit of that when I was young, travelling around Europe and it was amazing for me. And it really opened up my world from coming from South East London. And I'm always gutted when I get to the thing, to the passport thing. And we've got a bigger cue. And I think, do you know what, we fucking deserve it. Yeah. Yeah. So, no, I'm a big old Euro dude.

Do you like Euro Disney? Love Euro Disney. Do you like Euro-Millons? No, I don't gamble. I'm not a gambling guy. You look forward to Euro 2028? Yeah, more Euro things. Eurovision? No, don't like that. No, but it isn't anymore. Is it? Australia are in it.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've been doing other things. I've got quite a bit in my phone. Oh, my 10-year-old got ears pierce, Josh. Oh, this is good. This is exciting. Tell me all about this. So she wanted her ears pierced and we were like, she hadn't asked for ages

and then we in lieu of thinking going, oh, she'd always really wanted it done and then like, it's the summer holiday so it's a good time to do it because they need to be in for a bit before they can be removed. And also you need to put like anti-back, like... Is there rules on it at the school?

So they can have them at school, but they've got to be taken out, I think, for PE, but you can't take them out straight after getting them done. They need to be in for a, set up amount of time. So because we'd been on our summer holiday, where we're going swimming a lot, when we came back was like, oh, hang on, we've got quite a few weeks here. Can I be honest, if you've got a stud in your ear, what situation in PE is that going to really impact?

I get it if she's got a big dangly circle earring. Well, I think maybe if like you're doing netball or stuff like that, your arms going around there, if it would just normally go past an ear, it wouldn't scratch. But if there's a bit of metal there... Yeah, I mean, come on. Anyway, so, but they've got to be in for like a few weeks before they can be removed so that it doesn't heal back over. So if it was a good time to do it, I thought 10's quite a nice age

because she's at the station now where she wants to be a bit older. There's kids in her class that have phones that message all the time. There's some kids doing other things or dressing in a way or having... And I sort of feel like, oh, that's a bit too grown up. I don't want them to... I don't want to be on TikTok and all that. Whereas getting your ears, pierce, for her. Well, they're only going to have to be removed in a year as well, these kids.

What do you mean? Well, from TikTok. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. So it's a way for her to be really grown up and fill a bit older, but actually it's quite low impact and stuff. And the only difficulty was the eight-year-old one in hers done. And we were like, no, you've got away to your 10. Just because it's unfair on the older one.

And I think that happens a lot with younger siblings get to do stuff earlier than the older ones did. But I think, no, it's good to hold full. firm because you feel like you're being mean on the eight-year-old, but actually you're being mean on the 10-year-old by letting the eight-year-old go ahead. So I think 10's quite a nice age between year five and year six. And she loves them. They look beautiful as well. They're really like sort of, you know, she's so happy and proud of them.

Yeah, all little studs. And how paperwork is my daughter, so she's eight, so this has been a long-term thing that when she's nine, her best friend and her from London have got the same birthday. Okay. And Rose is going to take her up to London. and they're both going to go and get their ears pierced on the 9, when they turn 9.

Oh, that's nice. Yeah. So, well, Lou said using the needle is better because it's a bit cleaner than a stud gun thing, but the stud gun thing is less painful and quicker because it's basically bang, and it's done. Lou sent me a video, because I couldn't go, unfortunately, but Lou sent me a video of her getting it done,

and she was like, just stony-faced and just was like, yeah, fine, it's fine. And I was like, oh, she smashed it. And then when it was both done, Lou went to her, you're okay, you're okay. And as she did that, you saw her bottom lip go, woo, woo, woo, and she, because it was the relief, I think, and like stuff. But no, she, it's been fine since we've been cleaning them out and stuff. Well, Lou's been doing that, to be fair. And, yeah, she's great.

But they're like silver with little sparkly, looks a bit diamondy. It's a bit sparkly. But we probably would have had it done earlier, but she didn't really bring it up. It was only she brought it up and thought, oh, it's a good time to do it. So when's your daughter's birthday, though? because we'll, is it, she might have to wait for summer. Autumn.

So that's the problem. It depends on the school. Yeah. Because, yeah, I don't know what the rule is. We'll have to look into it. Maybe she'll have to do it at Christmas holidays.

Yeah, let me look how long it takes. How long? The other thing with it is. Oh. It's staying for six to eight weeks. Oh. Yeah.

So that's why we didn't. That's what I'm looking into that. We'll have to have a look. The shop, you've got a book. The shop at the first week of the summer holidays was rammed for this very reason. Yeah.

Because you've got to give them the six weeks for it's a hill. Yeah, rush out. Or I reckon, why don't you just do a surprise? Why don't you do it at the start of some holidays before their month before their birthday? Because their birthday is this autumn. Oh, right. So you need to go, well, let's wrap up here.

You drive up to London. Get her mate. So I thought it was next year. So I've just given you another thing to think about it now. Yeah. I've just dashed your daughter's birthday dream. No, but it's good to know. It's good to know.

She went to have a cast off, actually, Rob. I will tell you this. So this was just before I was leaving, because I had to, I had my suitcases with me. Last Wednesday. No, last Wednesday. Oh, you got your suitcase at the car's removal at the hospital? No, well, she wouldn't let me. So we drove to the hospital.

I had to leave my suitcases in the car. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so we cast removal. That's the very similar thing. Very scary. Yeah. very she just has to sit there while they kind of cut it yeah the kind of

but they put it on your skin and show you it doesn't cut don't they yeah yeah but you still think your arm's going to get cut off yeah yeah well and also actually the bit she didn't like she's very stoic she would like just go through it but the bit she didn't like was when it opened up because I think it suddenly felt like her arm which had been safe and encased was suddenly out. Do you know what I mean? And they're a bit more feeble the arm after they've not been, you know.

Unfortunately, she then had to go for an x-ray and then they were like, you need two more weeks. Fucking brutal. Oh my God. Well, she's not got your super responder, Jean, has she? He's not got my super responder, Jean, has she? No, I'd say, like, Rose's not been having an affair with Wolverine. So she, but she's in a smaller cast now,

like a kind of just not above the elbow, just an arm. Oh, that's much better. And she can swim in it and it's much better. But yeah, what a... What a come down. What a come down. What a bloody come down. What a saga.

Okay, time for a special part of the show called What Happens On Tour, brought to you by Monzo. We've spent many years as comedians, Rob. We have been on tour or going to and from gigs with many comedians including each other. Yes. That includes sharing cars. Sharing hotels.

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I found working out how much everyone owed for petrol, very stressful. Yeah. I was overly polite and would always come out shortchanged. Yeah, and I'd get very frustrated with people. that swerved it. I'm not going to name names. No. And I still think of him and go, you tight, tight. And if you saw him today, you'd still ask for that £10. It weren't even my £10. It was someone else's £10.

Yeah. You know, originally I did a lot of tour support. I did Stephen Merch. I did out of the car. And they paid for everything because you're the support. And now I try and do the same because you're doing, you're paying it back. Yeah, you've got paid their dinner and drink. Exactly. Exactly, Rob. That's how it works. You can't be on tour with someone.

and then you go for a curry after and then they go, we're splitting this 50-50 with a support. No, exactly. Have you ever done that? No, I haven't, no, and I wouldn't do that. Do you know, I once went for a curry with an act after a gig and he fell asleep. During the food?

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Yeah, I know. And if it's just one thing, like dinner, you can split it and you know who's paid what. But if you're on the road for longer, you can have an ongoing total. Exactly, Rob. The same with like a group holiday. If you're going to have another couple.

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She's doing her lessons. He's still, someone needs to sort of, out this test situation. I know it's not. Yeah, it's been to. You can't get a test. But it's literally

almost five years since COVID. And they're still got a backlog. There's still this insane backlog. So it's just like, I was talking to someone over I was driving,

talking to someone the other day. And they, he has to go on every Monday at 6 a.m. or whatever time it is. It's like Glastonbury tickets to try and get a cancellation. And there's just thousands of... So we're working one in for our kids now? It's mental. But it's not... The first one's not the problem.

It's if you fail, which I did and which a lot of people... Oh, yeah. Which is good for a lot of people, because you become a better driver. But I probably failed and then did it again in six weeks. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean you've got to pay for all those lessons again to keep it in your head. But otherwise, it's like you fail. All right. nine months and then you've got another chance it's like mental no that yeah well does rose want to

announce the day and then all the parent and hell listeners can go to the test center and sort of clap her in no I don't think so no is that one help okay cool just just throwing it out there yeah yeah because most people I'd say fail their first test so you're looking at another nine months do you know what I mean I didn't but I only did automatic and I still think just do automatic there's no point to do it in gears now is clinically insane mental is I don't I don't know I don't unless you want to drive like classic old cars or that you're into cars. But if you just want to like get a run around, most cars now are automatic.

There's loads of secondhand cars are automatic. When you go abroad, there's this fallacy that when you go abroad, manuals, no, there's loads of automatics abroad for higher cars. It's not, I mean,

it's only five years until the car's drawing its fucking self. Anyway, that's honest. Would you have to do a driving test to be in a car that drove itself? Probably, yeah, because you'd have to be able to take over, wouldn't you? I don't know.

You can't shove a kick. in a computerised car and say, take it to Liverpool. It? Them? Them. Oh, I've got two things here. One, we're going away to that Europa. We're going a little road trip later in the summer holidays.

You love Europe. To Europa Park. I mean, the Euro guy. Absolutely Euro guy. What would you be spending? Euro. Weirdly, though. I don't know if I'd like Britain to have the Euro.

Now, let's dig into that. Yeah, no, I know what you mean. I know what you mean. I know what you like. I like being. part of the European Union and Europe, but I like having a country's identity. But I do think when you go to France, you really know it's France, whether it's Euro or not. They've got a strong identity. Yeah. They don't care. I love it. Which country has the strongest identity in Europe?

I'd say France is fighting hard. So we're sat in a pub and 10 different nationalities come in. Which one's the most obvious? And is this accent or speak it? Because I'm a lot. Because I That's too much giveaway. No, I think it's more. You are putting 10 different pubs in European cities, which is most obvious that you're... Oh, right, so as soon as you open eyes, it's obvious where you are.

Yeah. Right, okay. I'd say... I'd say, it's probably France, those little bistro. If you're in a beer hall, yeah. Like those, that's well...

And then the little bistro is the French ones. I'd say the ones where it's difficult, are you, you're Scandalavians and your Dutch. But when a Dutch bloke walks in, you don't realise that you know a Dutch bloke too, you see a Dutch bloke, they're big shoulders, big long boys, wrecking themselves. Yeah, do you know what?

Everyone's got their own identity. Well, we come to the end of this, everyone's got their own identity, except perhaps kind of Belgium and Luxembourg and those lot. No, those, those lot, you can only ever say those lot about Belgium and Luxembourg. Anyway, we're going away,

going with another couple and their two kids, everyone really gets on. Then my eldest started a... No. I message group with all the adults and all the kids. Oh, here we go. It's my first group chat with my kids, because we've got one with my kids and Lou, me and Liz and the kids. And our message group.

So my daughter will I message us from the iPad. Yes, so they've got iPads and then we've got phones, obviously. So it's the first group where I mean with other people and my kids. And it's great. Do you find it funny? Because my daughter will I message us. My son's not to that level yet of tech. So my daughter will occasionally message me when I'm away.

She's just got no pleasantries about it. Do you know what I mean? Quite direct. Yeah, because all the, she just doesn't understand the years we've spent working out the grammar of texting and how it kind of works and all that kind of stuff. That's not, she doesn't know that, obviously. So it's just... Don't come back, stuff like that.

Just like, yeah, yeah. Hi. Or you'll just be chatting normally and she'll just like, got to go now, and that's the end. Do you know what I mean? I like that. Yeah, gone. It's good.

It's good. It's simple. So what's your eye message group like? It's great, a lot of banter. I'm taking a lot of flack because we're talking about roller coasters. We keep putting up photos of me looking scared and roller coasters.

They're enjoying that. The other dad's saying, who's going to eat snails. Some of them saying, no because we're going through France and Germany. Who's going to try curry worst? That kind of stuff. Nice.

Good stuff. Yeah. And the spelling's all over the place, which I find so endearing and cute. And that's just me. Oh, here we. Here we go. Someone kill me now.

I don't mind it. I don't mind it. I do what I mean. You've got to put away the easy chances. It's a horrible, easy. It's got to convert the penalty, Rob. You've got to do the tapings in what do the world.

He's like, you know, the long ranges will come. Yeah, exactly. How many long ranges have there been in this podcast? I'd say the backdrop falling down, halfway line. That's a halfway line kind of shot. By the way, we've absolutely flown on Instagram this week. Oh, we are a couple of influencers, us guys, haven't we? Can I ask a question?

Of course. What's your cat called? Graham or something? Alan. Alan Fred and George. Alan Friend George. How are you going to feel when Alan dies? Sad.

because he's cute little cat and go, oh, that was a shame. He was nice and probably chat to Lou for 20 minutes about it until she's all right. Then sort him out.

Then crack on. I could lie if you want. No. No, I won't be happy. I'm not, there won't be any... No, you won't be happy.

No, but I'll be upset, but I'm not going to... It's not, I'm not going to have to book a... Yeah. I'm not going to have to book a doubt. work.

No, fine. Would you, Alan goes missing? Yeah. So when we got back and Fluffball was missing for 12 hours. Yeah. I was in a dark place. How dark a place would you be if Alan isn't there when you and let Lou get back from holiday?

I'm more concerned and worried about how upset the children will be. And I will proactively hunt him down, try and find him see what's going on. Right. No, but shake like, you know, I'll be out there with a dreamies, giving him a shake, saying the name and all that. I'm not just in the house going, well, if you don't come, you don't come. However, now with the dogs, we've got two dogs. Yeah.

One really good, Fred, just follows you around on a walk. We'll chase a few animals, always comes back. George, there's something not right with George. He ain't got eyes that feel like there's any humanity in there. Right, yeah, yeah. He's totally off the wall. He feels almost like an AI dog. Like, he don't really like being petted.

He just sort of wanders about. and then if he sees animals, he just goes for it. We go for walks. He will just bolt sometimes. And I don't know what to do anymore. And I'm at the point now where if he goes, he goes. I'll try and call him back. I don't take him off a lead anywhere dangerous now because he can't be trusted.

But if he does something mental that's like, now I'm a bit like, look, all I can do is offer him a good life for treating a lead. And if he don't want it, he don't want it. I can't, you know, do I mean? And that's because I lost him the other day and he turned up at the house two miles away. Do I tell you this? No. I was in a walk with them.

They saw some deer, they run off, right? Now the deer roam everywhere, so it's very hard to know what walk they're going to be on. So now I'm much more vigilant. Anyway, he chased a deer. The problem is when they chase a squirrel or fox, normally the hole or tree they go up, a dog can't get through or up. But with a deer, a dog can always fit through the gap of deer's got through. Yeah.

If they're going for a hedge or whatever. Anyway, he went. So I spent, I had a friend with me, like, 20 minutes in this, like, field, wood, wood, that would fenced off essentially, because it's like a walking bar, couldn't find him anywhere. Eventually, took Fred Ome, put him in the back door,

and I was going to, and I quickly put him in, and I was going to go back out to find him. As I go out to find him back on the walk, because it's like, I've got to go two miles back to where it all was, I hear him in the front garden. I've got no idea how he got back.

It wasn't even a walk we normally do. They go, oh, they're used to the walk. It ain't the walk. So I don't know what happened, but he's back. And I'm just like, look, he knows what's going on. He's a country. He's a dog.

Let him get on with it. Yeah. So you're pretty laissez-faire, really, with your emotions and dogs. You have to be because there's nothing. I'm trying my best here. And if he wants to fuck off, he's going to fuck off. He's a dog. You know what more can I do?

No, fair enough. And also, you can't keep him on a leash forever. I'd rather him be off a leash with a little bit of jeopardy. And he enjoys being out and running. You can't have a whip it and not let it run. I can't have a whip it. And I've done all the same. training I did with the first one who's recalls perfect comes back. If I go on a walk, he just sits

behind me. If anyone comes up, I call his name, he comes back. George is a bit like that, but George occasionally his head will go. He's like Roy Keen. Yeah. If he, once his head's gone, he's gone. And there's something you can do about it. So, yeah. Well, we'll keep an eye on it. Keep an eye on it. It'll be all right. It's just, it's just like, yeah, it's just a bit of a loose cannon. But everyone's got these kind of loose cannon dogs, don't they? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They're harder work than kids because they're just a toddler forever. well quite um yeah exactly i was about to do a small business shout out there yeah

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Good luck, Emily. Good little business. She's running there. Very good. How you sexy beasts? OG listener here and absolutely love the pod, especially episodes with just the two of you. Sorry, Michael. Also, really, she really hates him and Michael Chipson.

also really appreciate how openly you talk about mental health. It genuinely sets a great example for men and boys. And I'd say, I'm going to add this. Women and Girls, Rob. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I wondered if you might give a small business shout out to my husband.

He was made redundant about 18 months ago from the finance world and despider to back himself and start his own company. Get involved in this, Rob. Yeah, fuck those finance nerds. There's a gap in the market for golf clothing that isn't at a team. shirt with a terrible pun on it. Yes. So he created 4T4.

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You know, the quick nine holes that turns into four hours, three lost balls, and a quiet crying in the car before coming back in, claiming it just a quick one. Is that you? Well, yeah, yeah, but let's not get bogged down in that. I'm actually, I'm improving. Oh, it's nice stuff, though. 44, 4-F-O-U-R-T-T-W-E-E-O-U-K, Instagram, at 44.

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