Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S6 EP11: Lou Beckett (The Valentine's Day Special)

Episode Date: February 14, 2023

We’ve got a very special Valentine’s Day exclusive episode for you… ❤️💔 Yes, you spoke and we listened, and the guest on the show today is none other than Lou Beckett with a right to reply on some of the things Rob has said on the podcast recently (in particular his time in charge of the kids while she was in New York 🗽 🇺🇸) (And keep an eye out for Rose and her response to Josh’s escapades coming soon) Thanks, Rob + Josh. Parenting Hell is available exclusively (and for free!!) on Spotify every Tuesday and Friday… 📻 📞 🎧 👶 We're going on tour!! Fancy seeing the podcast live in some of the best venues in the UK? Of course you do, you're not made of stone! Tickets available now on the dates and at the venues below. We can't wait to see you there... ON SALE NOW  14th April 2023 - Manchester AO Arena 19th April 2023 - Nottingham 20th April 2023 - Cardiff  21st April 2023 - London (The O2) 23rd April 2023 - London (Wembley) 28th April 2023 - Birmingham Utilita Arena  If you want to get in touch with the show here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] TWITTER: @parenting_hell INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Josh Widdickam. Well done. Absolutely fucking perfect. That's what I like to see. I've had too much shit from young kids. You have to pretend it's a great effort. Get a kid on that can speak that's about 10 and fucking nail it. This is the that that that that that's the the the that's that's tha tha tha tha tha tha tha thi thiii thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to bea, tooom, tooom, tooom. tooom. tooom. to bea, to bea, to bea, to bea, to bea, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too, too''n. too'n. too, too, too, 49 months, that's four. Reading out your names to the podcast. This was made all the better when a few minutes later we asked him

what his favorite bit of the day was and he replied saying Rob Beckett and Josh Widdickham just then. What a shit day. That is a shit day, isn't it? By the way, the bit where he said what was the shit day, that was me adding that. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I I I I I I I I the the the the the the the the the the the th. That was th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. the. to. to. to. to. to to to to to to to to to the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th was me adding that. That wasn't Rory. No, Rory's not said that. I like the cut of Rory's jib. Thanks to podcast. I've been listening since I changed jobs in 2021. And increased my commute a few months before our second boy, Theo, joined us in December 2021.

My now wife is now hooked as well. Keep it sexy and relatable, 510 months from. Oh, Lincoln. It is is East Coast though. I'm an instinct player. I just felt Lincoln. South from Walden. South from Walden in Essex. Josh, I'm under it a pressure here because I need to charge my phone because I've got to travel later and it's very low. But also that stupid mouse thing on my mat. Oh, you've got to plug your mouth. You can't use your mouse. What is insane? They've tho that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the the the tho, the th the th the tho, th th th th th tho, tho, the the tho, the the the th, it's the th, it's tho, tho, it's th, it's th, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, it's th. th. th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's tho, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, tho, thin, thooomin, thooooooooomin, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's th. my mouse but like you can't use the mouse. You can't use your mouse. What is insane? They've put the hole in the bottom of the fucking mouse. It's insane decision. At least a keyboard you can. Yeah, because they don't put the charging hole in every key. There's so much space on this mouse. There's so much space. Yeah, you could just have the hole in the arse. Yeah, and the the the hole. the hole. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. the whole. the whole. the whole. the whole. the whole. It's. It's. It's the whole. It's the whole. It's the the the whole. It's the hole. They's. They's. They's. They's. They's. They's. They's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. It's insane. It's insane. It's the th. It's tail. Yeah, that's why it's a fucking mouse. So you can't use your mouse? No, but I don't need it now, but I can't but also can't charge my phone

but I never remember to charge my mouse. It's never in my head. It's not orbit in me going, oh I must remember to charge my mouse. Do you know what it is Rob? Two words. What? Do you know what it is Rob? Two words? to me and Josh blabberts. the the their. their. to. to. to. their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thoes, thoes, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, I. I. I. I. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. tho. th. tho. tho. tho. th. tho. Absolutely mental load. Happy Valentine's Day Rob. Oh God. This is a very special episode so obviously because me and Josh Blabberon about our lives and our kids. How dare you? But Rose and Lou never get a chance to respond and obviously Lou was away for a week in New York and I was complaining and moaning and you sort of filling you all in and she had a few notes. So we thought it'd be nice to give her a chance to respond. Yes. Because obviously, as people know,

Lou and Rose were the most popular thing in the book and they're far more popular than we are. Yeah, and most popular on the podcast. So we thought it would be good. With the ultimate plan, we retire, Lou and Rose just do this every week. Yeah, exactly. I don't know Spotify know that yet, do they? We made that clear in the contract that, you know, one Beckett and one Whitticum would do it. Hey, yeah.

Like the Kardashians and Will the kids in? Yeah. But it was good this episode. You absolutely loved it. I felt awkward. I've, it was an incredible episode. The footage of Rob. He's, it, the, the, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I's, I's, I's, I'm, th. And, thi, thi. And, thoo. thoo. to. to. to. thoo. thoo. the. tho. tho. tho. I'm, th. I'm, uncomfortable. Squirming. Squirming. Yeah, it's just because it's weird, isn't it? Because this is sort of like, I'm very honest on this,

but I'm still in my semi-work mode. And then Lou Wool just absolutely ripped me apart and pull me back down to earth. Can I ask a question, Rob? Michael asked for a short intro. As this goes on, are you just delaying because you're worried about the episode starting? Yes, Slyly, let's just, it's just, um, rip the plaster off, here's Louise Louise, Louise. Good. Welcome to the show, for the first time, in a way, but in a way you've always been here.

Louise Beckett, how are you? I'm good, thank you. Good. It's the reason we brought you here. I. I'm so stressed. That's not really the question we're asking. How are you, Rob? You've got a color I've not seen in a while. I've been bright red. What's quite weird is we're in the same house, but in different rooms doing this on Zoom because it's the easiest way to do it.

So it feels a bit odd. Oh, not just because the spark's gone. No, no. That's something we do. Do you want to explain what's going on, Josh? Yeah, so Ron's rubbing his body, all different parts of his body and moving it to child. I roll my nipples when I get stressed. That little chest scratch is a stress. Is that a stress side? He does that like, oh, like a stress side? Like you, you know, you'd clap your hands it'd be right to give Lou a right of reply after the New York

episode. And then we thought it would certainly be popular with our listeners because as we know Lou and Rose are more popular than us. So we've got Lu on to bring you up on a few things that maybe she disagrees with because there was in many ways this is a one-sided podcast isn't it? So... Yes, it's very much our version of events, but obviously in any life there's one person's version events, another person's version events, and then the truth is somewhere in the middle. So I feel it would be good to get both sides,

and I'm sure we'll get Rosen at some point as well. Yes. So Louise, Louise, welcome to the show Louise. Hello. How are you have you got a few things that you'd like to correct Rob on? There was a few things that as I was listening to the New York episode I just I started a little notes on my phone. Oh well that's that's good to know. That's good. NERD. Not necessarily. Not necessarily massive issues but just a couple of little Okay, good. Couple of little clarifications. I'd like to I'd like to make Yeah, no, I'll be a bit worried if it was massive issues like We should say if you want to list go back and listen to the New York episode that might be worth doing as preparation for this And see if you can spot the lies before Lou flags them up

Okay, so what what cropped up on the episodes you sort of had?? th th th th the lies before Lou flags them up. Okay so what what cropped up on the episodes that you sort of had issues with Lou? So when you said that you struggled in the mornings. Yes I struggle to get up in the mornings yeah. I just I want to say like you sometimes you tell me off rightly so sometimes for shouting that like I shout the girl shout I shout oh a lot in the mornings because they're not the the the the the the the the they're they're they're they're they're not the they're not the the the th. they're not the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their. their. their. their. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they. they. I I they. I the. I'm not the. I'm not the. I'm not. I'm not. I'm teoooo. Ic. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. to toe. I I shout oy a lot in the mornings because they're not listening and sometimes you need to cut through. So give me to give me a context when you shout oy. So I've gone like girls can you go upstairs and brush your teeth

and it gets louder each time and it gets more into like annoying teacher voice that it starts off in my normal voice and it gets more like cut through, GUT! At least we are, sorry, that's quite loud. We are agreeing on something, we are agreeing, yep, correct, but this is all correct. And then at the end of it, if they're still not listening, I just do a massive, oi.

Because it cuts throughthey look at me and I say go upstairs and brush your teeth. And I was always like, yeah, like you're shouting, don't shout at them. You don't need to shout, it just adds to the chaos or the stress. And I'm like, you need to cut through. And then listening to be like, oh, I just can't go in the morning. So just, they're nice end start to a morning if I shout, stand at the bottom of the stairs and screech, oy at the top of my voice. And I go full bromley as well for the oi. There's a reason, there's a theory.

It's a process. It's taken a while to get the the the th th th th th th th th th th th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, their, th, that, that, that, that, that, thi, that, that, thi, that, their, if I's, if I' to th, if th, if th, if to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th, if, if, if, if, if, if, if th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, the the the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they, they.. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theat, they, they, that much later. Yeah, but you are better than me in the morning. I am, no, I'm so much, so much later. I'm cautious in the morning. 7.30 I get so much, 7.30 I get up. And sometimes I've got in at midnight 1 a.m. Oh, poor Robert. But this is one of the things I kind of, I kind of identify with you, Lou. You're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're one, you're one, you're one, you're one, you're one, you're one, you're one, you're one, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, that's, toooooooooooooooo. too. that, thi, thi, th, you're one of those people that is told, because they're good in the mornings, their punishment is the one that has to get up. It feels unfair to me. Well, Lou is more than welcome to stay up as late as she wants, hosting an award ceremony for car dealers if she wants.

Yes, but no one would pay me to do that, Rob. No, no, I don't th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, I that, I tho, I tho, I tho, I tho, I that, I tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho- tho- tho-I tho--a, their their their their their their their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I'm, I'm thi, I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm that, I'm thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom. the, the, So you know, you pick your lane. No, I don't mind getting up in the morning because I am generally up and I get up earlier than Rob and I am just more conscious. It was the being told off for shouting. Yeah. When I say that that is, I think now maybe having done it for like a full week, you understand Rob that there needs to be some shouting sometimes because otherwise it's a constant barrage of questions requests, they're running around on their jibly bugs, they're trying to run over the dog like just sometimes you just need an oi. I would argue though the the point of this episode was pulling me up

on things that I said on the show not using it as a jumping-off point to air grievances over an eight-year period. I th I I I I th I I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th I th th th th th thinken. I thinke. I th is th is think think think the. I've the. I've the. I've the. I've the. I've their their their their their their their their their their their to-I th is to-up to-up to-up th-up th-up th-up th-up-up-up-all th-all th-all th-all th-all th-all th-s th-all to-s to-like-s to-like-s will will will to-s will to-s will to-s will will thanananananananananananananan't-s will will will will will have thanananan't-upe-up than jumping off point to air grievances over an eight-year period. I think that it's a very dangerous route for us to take it. She's going to bring up an ex-girlfriend in a minute. Well, Rob, Rob's got him with specific? Okay. Do you want to specific? You are specific. Yeah. Yeah.

Fuke. Who are you? Spooks? What's it is? You said that you are reactive rather than proactive, which I'd say is your entire ethos to your entire life, as opposed to just specifically school. Again, again, it was a bit like a character assassination. Yeah, well, like about the black eye thing when you said I should email them to tell her she's got a black eye, rather than just let it happen.

And I think with the black eye, if you're sending a kid into a school, the full-on shiner and it was awful, it was bad. It was bad. Yeah. Especially because the teacher doesn't know what jiggly bug is because that's not the name of it and if she says oh I hit myself in the face with a jiggly bug they don't know what that is yeah because that's definitely been written down at school. Well let them write it down it doesn't just because I'm written it down doesn't mean that it's bad what happened I just I just think contextualize it for the teachers I think that's a waste of time I think that's I that's a that's a waste that's that's that's that's a waste that's that's a that's a waste that's a the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their thi thi that's that's that's a waste I'm thi that's a that's a that's a that's that's that's a that's that's that's a that's a that's that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's that's a that's their I'm their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their theea theeea'' theeeat thi theee I's thi thi's thi thi's th if they're bothered, they'll ask. Yeah, well I'll ask at one point, won't they? When she's been written down a few times. If the rule was, right, that you go in for a kid with black I go, I'm loving this. I'm absolutely loving it.

If the rule was, you go into a school and you go, oh yeah, both my children have got black eyes, but don't bother asking the kid or looking into that then because the parents said it. There's an email. No, they'll still do it. They still do their due diligence on a child of a black eye and they know that I'm not that kind of guy. They've seen me on the telly. I mean, what I really want that email to say is, Mommy's not here if it wasn't her fault. But don't worry, we're across it.

I just needed them to know that it wasn't me. I think you worry too much about what people think, but that's where me and you are different as people, aren't we? Yes, very different. When Blue was very jet lagged in New York, Josh, when, about the vast result? Oh, I lost my head. I read an email at 5 in the morning and I lost my head. Five in the morning, New York time. New York time.

Five a year time, afternoon. All the teacher was said was, oh, this was our eldest child. But a little bit surprised by her mass result this week. I've had a word of her and we're going to sort of try and improve improve improve improve improve improve So very like very like low level whatever and I was we were both a bit like oh, it's not very much detail I don't really know what? Yeah, what is not not a very like a different? What does that mean surprise by the school weather and then like so we replied? Okay, no is what surprised you what surprised you what surprised to be worked on the phone to be the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th? the they? I I I I tho tho tho that? I was that? I'm that? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I was that? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm? I'm th. I was th. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was. I was th. I was th. I was th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thin? I'm not t toy tole. I'm not toy toye. I'm not th. I'm not th. I'm not really really really th th th th th th thing. And between us getting the email and sending that, Lou was on the phone to be crying, saying that she was like a bad mom, should do more mass with my kid, I'm like, I shouldn't be in New York, I'm a failure.

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too reactive where Lou may be too proactive and over-organized might be under-organized but we sort of meet in the middle don't you think Lou? I mean I would say I do accept that I think sometimes. Why do your yeah as we sound like nose? Because I'm thinking as I'm thinking as I say it, um, I think I'm very good at solving a problem, but I also think I'm quite good at identifying a problem that maybe isn't a problem yet, and then going full circle to, here's a problem, here's a problem that I've mostly created in my head, and then here's a solution, here's the person I found, is what we're going to do. And so I come to you with like a full, blah, blah, blah, blah. prepared but I'd argue maybe over preparing for situations that aren't

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his brother Joe. Oh yeah and like all of us are friends so we've got one group WhatsApp I'm not in the country at this point I'm in a different country on a different time zone. Oh fuck off it's not 1970 you got to the phone you've got to do with it but the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th I th I th I th I th I thin thin thin thin tho to to to to to go go go go go to to to to to to to to go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to you, mate. What's the country got to do with it? But the time he's phoned me... I was being the class rep in Sydney, Australia. Were you being the class rep in Sydney, Australia? Or were you asking me where the Christmas presents for the teacher were the actual thing? And then I did them.

So I've written to New York. What? Have you got someone else class rep in for you, Rob? Someone doing your homework? Yeah, well, I've got a lot on the class rep. I've got a lot on the class rep thing because I said, hmmm. Meanwhile, you're getting pissed with Alan Carr? Yeah. Yeah. No, so the New York, when he said, it was on WhatsApp. It was a phone conversation and I was walking in it like, I mean, it's a very first well problem I'm aware, but I was

walking on the highline it was very windy, I was walking with my friend so like I was just saying I was like, could you, could you text them now? Because we were on the phone, because we're adding layers into an admin,then they reply to me then I have to tell Rob because I don't know when he's in, wouldn't it be easy for Rob to just... That's a good point. Why am I being a kind of transatlantic middleman? Yes, I would argue though, Lou could have just popped it in the group. Hey guys, when can trying to sort the kids out. Joe had come to babysat. There was already on three nights of pastry express who was looking down the barrel of a fourth. And I had to go up to Westminster to give out some awards to new build homes. I had to give out some awards. So someone else is doing your child care and you haven't

done any cooking is what I heard there. Just a quick question about those awards. They bring you in quite early, don't they? And then you have quite a lot of downtime before the awards. Oh, you prick. You fucking prick. Quite a lot sitting in a room while you wait for the all time to go on stage time. Someone else is looking after your children, someone else is cooking and delivering the food. So, okay, so I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. So I I I they they they they they they they they they they they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've th. I've th. I've th. I've tho. I've they haven't tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. We have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have they've they've they've they've they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're that that that that that that that that that the that that the thoooooooooooooooooooooo. I have that the th is cooking and delivering the food. So, okay, so I arrived at 6, did a rehearsal, 630, I sat in my hotel room till 1030 and had to room service.

A couple of hours there you've got to do a little bit of admin, Rob. Josh, just the worst part of this is your face and how much you're loving this, and I cannot wait to get Rose on it and be on the other side of this. If they had you know on Sky when they used to have player cam if you had a player cam just on me for this it would be okay okay have you got enough any more Lou oh this one wasn't really a right to apply it was so something about my character no it was about about the cheater about how helpful we found it, but that's not very funny. Say it, it's all content.

Not only is, I think the tutor good because fundamentally both of us are not very good at maths. I wasn't as bad as Robert Maths. I was, I went, they moved me constantly between the middle sets and the higher set. And you know if you did the middle set, you did the middle paper where you couldn't get more than a B. But if you did the higher paper, if you didn't get a B you got nothing. Yeah. It was all or nothing that higher paper. I went between those two sets and the last time they put me in the higher set, every week, every week we did a math test and our tea teacher teacher the their their their their their their their their their their their their te, we did te, we did their the, the, the, the, the, their, their, their, their, their, their the, the. the. the. the, but the, but their, but their, but if their, but if their, but if their, but if their their, but if their, but if their, their, but if their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the, if toda. today, if you didn't today, if you didn't today, thea. thea. thea. the. the. until I ended the class it kind of changed every week so it was a bit of nice competition and by week four I was always the smallest bar on the bar bar and I

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No, not always, but you know, most of them could read for the time they... But like, it's really surprised me how little help I am for them in primary school. Yeah, it's a difficult skill though, isn't it? Because you're trying to teach someone something that they almost can't comprehend sometimes. And I think you can't remember learning. Because as a grown-up, I can't remember learning to read, I can just read. I can just do the maths that I can do. Like, I made her maths worse.

She got 100% on a math test last year, and I sat and did her my maths with her and I told her that she'd got one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one their their their the' them wrong. So I was like no this is the answer and then she got 74% and it was my one that was wrong. I've made her 26% worse. Like I mean I logged back in and I really did it because I felt so bad. She cheated! No because she's got it right and I went no no I think you'll find it blah blah blah. But then you got it wrong. We've done panel shows, it's a team decides. So I looked back in and I did it right for her. So now that was it, I just think that the tutor is also really helping conserve our relationship. Yeah. Because she doesn't get crossed with her the tutor knows what she's talking about.

My daughter hates doing her speech therapy exercises with me. She can't, she finds it boring. Yes. But every week she loves going. It's like your dad teaching you to drive. Yeah, oh my god. Imagine that. Yeah, like they love another grown-up. Just any other grown-up. Yeah. And if I say homework or anything else or reading or it's just, nope, no, Donut, I can't. Yeah, exactly. And they're absolutely

jumping, like jumping beans at the door, which he gets here. What else you got Lou on your list? How long is this list, by the way? Um, there's a few. Uh, one of the others was quite nice. At 20 minutes, I've said, thank th th th th th th th th th th th thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, thn, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, tho, than, thi, than, thi. tho, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. the. they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're thea. they're they're they you for the acknowledgement that it's hard to keep all the trains running on the right track at the right time. Because it is constant when they're all talking at you and there's different things from school and like, and to be fair to Rob on the week that I was away, but three days before, the school throwne, the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school when I had to go in dressed as a famous person from the last 140 years and you were like to say what? So I shrunk all my clothes. Beth Mead and Matilda we had going in which is quite good fun. I enjoyed that didn't they? I did I did try and I queried Matilda because I was like it's not a real person and I'm a stickler for the rules you know like world book book book book book book book book book book book book book. to to to their their to their. their. I their. I their. I their. I. I. I. I. I. I. I's. I's. I'm a their. I'm a their. I'm a their. I'm a to be. I'm a to. I'm a to to to to to to to to their. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'll. I's. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm a. I'm a. I'm a. I'm a. I'm. I'm a. I'm a. I'm. I'm a. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. not a real person. And I'm a stickler for the rules, you know, like World Book Day should be a book character, not a princess.

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But. But even that all being said that I know he's got work as well. Yes. Just snip that bit out Michael, just snip that bit out. If you don't do any washing and they take away for four meals of the week and they have tea one night a week at school. His head's gone up. And I've laid out all the uniform in piles for them. Didn't ask you to do that. No you did not ask me to do it it to do it to do it to do it. But. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's to that. It's. It's to to to to to to to to to to to to that. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just. Just just. Just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the to the the to the the that. It's just. It's just. It's just that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that. It's that. It's to to to to to to to laid out all the uniform in piles for them each day. Didn't ask you to do that? No, you did ask you to do it. But I can't imagine you trying to find the right bits of uniform in the morning of the comatose.

No, I can't, because I don't think I've ever seen to do it. Can't imagine it. Yeah. It's not all being done. Can I suggest something here? Right? Scrapping the episode. I wanted to try and get the washing done. However, my schedule that week was mental. So if I put the washing in, I'll forget that it's gone in, and then there's no time to get it out to dry it because I've gone out by the time it's gone on and coming back and forward I wasn't in long enough to do the washing as such like in for a day to get it down is my argument. Would you have known how to do it if you were in long

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and so I assumed they came out with a bag with all the other dirty stuff that you'd worn over it, so I put them in the wash. That's what I'm saying, too proactive. I was all clean, that was the clean bag. I have this argument with my, I have a similar argument with my mother-in-law that I will I will stack the dishwasher as we go throughout the day and she will continually accuse me of putting her her water glass, her empty water glass in the dishwasher during the day. Right, yes. And I'm like, come on. Don't leave it on the side. Yeah you're leaving it on a dirty cup out all day? Do you just change your glass? It's not the end of the side. Yeah, you're leaving it. You don't want a dirty cup out all day, do you? Just change your glass.

It's not the end of the world. But I can't really slag you off because you do lots of childcare but the fucking stop winging. Okay, for yes, I probably could have done some more washing. Okay, um, yes, I probably could have done the trip-I tha. tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. to-I's. to-I's-I's-I's to-I's- to- to- it's- it's- it's- it's- it's- it's- it's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to the bank twice that week and doing all that, that would have freed up time, but okay in future, when's your next trip away? Um, not sure. We did say we should make it an annual thing, so I think we... Okay, next January, earliest.

Early six, Dan. I know, I know there for work, but when's the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next thi next thi next, but when's the next time you're away out of interest? You just want to share with the listeners when you're next away for multiple nights at a time. So it's looking like I'll be going to, well, Newcastle with Josh for three nights. Yeah. Then the week after that, I'm going to be in Finland for five nights. Then around March time, I might quite likely be in India for six nights. Yeah. And then in May, he's quite likely I'll be in Monaco for five nights.

Oh, oh dear. So just to contextualize the, away for a few nights. Once a year in January. Yeah, I agree. You can go away more than that. I know, of course you can. It's got awkward. Josh King's leaving silence like Louie for the room.

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We're getting face times of just like children screaming in the background, there's beer in the afternoon. We got there at 430 in the afternoon. Me and Andy are both absolutely, we're dead. We're like dragging. He's like, you know like the Brownlee brothers at the end of that triathlon when he drags his brother along the finish line. We're like that.

He immediately offers me a beer. I obviously have it. The kids have got their food sorted, they're playing from 430. Anyway, the 5.30 games on, then that slips into the boxing. Before I know it, it's 10 o'clock. Yeah. And I'm half cut and the kids are still playing in the other room. And then they come bursting into the room. Like we want to speak to mommy, blah, blah, blah, blah. So then we just. And the kids are getting whatever they want because we're like have it. You can just see them in the background, like cupboards open, getting stuff, they're climbing over in the back of the sofa, they're watching the boxing.

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They absolutely do team up on you, but what I do quite enjoy is that the girls will team up with each other against us, but 99% of the time I can get them to team up with me against Rob. Oh, every time. I can definitely do a little girls. It's actually... So if I'm ever feeling, if I'm ever feeling really weak and picked on, I can make them turn on Rob as a three. All that, not even if you're feeling picked up, just for no reason. But yeah, so they do gang up on me and all jump on me and beat me up.

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So towards the end of the episodes, I think... I can't remember who said it. One of you said it's not my to my my my my my my my my my to my to my to my to my to my to my to my to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to ards the end of the episodes, I think, I can't remember who said it. One of you said it's not my job to do your mental load. When you were talking about like not messaging your friends to let them know when when there's a special day on or whatever. Oh yeah, yeah, at the school. And Rob was like, it's not my job to do your mental load. And I was like, you too keep keep get get get get get get get me me me me me me to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get me me to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to made me do exactly that. You've made me do your mental load. So in the summer, but with your class rep bullshit, so like in the summer, before they started this year at school, all the parents, we kind of, most of us were at the pub having lunch, and it was a discussion about who's going to be class rep. This is one mom who's done it for last two years, she's been incredible at it, but like both in her husband and th..... And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their, th. th. th. their, th. their, their, their, their, their, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, before, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to. But, their, their doctors they worked all through COVID and I think like she was ready to not be rep any of

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like and I like all the parents, but I just said that because I knew she would stress her out. Oh dear. What have we got next, Louise? I think that might be it. Oh well, it was, I think yes. Rob, what would you feel? Oh sorry I've got I've got one thing that is in New York. Sorry. I've got a the best way it to be the podcast. I've got a couple of things that aren't New York, but the main one is and I was trying to be kind because Rob wasn't very well but watching him be totototottottottottottot to be to to to to be to to be to to be to to to be to to to to to be to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to. Is that I was trying to be kind because well wasn't very well but watching him be totally totally asleep on the sofa as I quite loudly banged doors carried through the box set up that Barbie dream house. Almost almost I could have I could have lost it Christmas Eve.

I did it. I was so asleep on the sofa. I was like going to and from the shed in the garden to bring like the girls presents in. Because we can't keep it indoors because they'll find it. The door was swinging, the wind was blowing. I left the door open to try and make it cold. So he's trying to wake me up? Nothing. Was he trying to wake to wake me up on purpose? Well, I wouldn't have minded a little bit of help, bringing the presents in in the rain or building the dream house.

Oh man. And he's giving it the big and on Instagram, like, this is the face of a man who's going to have to build a house for you. Yes. And then they slept through Lou does all the IKEA flat pack stuff. I love that. It's my favorite bit. It's because I'd say Rob is reactive, not proactive, to the instructions of an IKEA

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We're not asking about how we had the kids. Little thing is, I think you're much sillier with them than I am, which they love and they really enjoy and I think it makes me much sillier with them. And it makes me be less serious about it, which is good, because I can get him two in my own head and create problems and solve them. And you know, that kind of makes me worry a bit less. Something you do, I don't think you worry enough, but it does make me worry a bit less. I think somewhere in the middle.

Because I think my silliness makes Rose worry more. When I'm spinning my children around, Rose's face isn't, God I wish I was this silly, it's you're going to hit their head. She may mean she needs to get silly. She needs to get sillier. Coming from the parent that child had a black eye last week. Ah, they'll be right. Picky poison. And what was the bigger one? Oh yeah, not to like the labor the point. And it shouldn't be a thing. It should be a thing that- Is this still good or bad? Good.

It should be a thing that, not just dads, actually, parents, whoever isn't the default parent. It shouldn't be a big deal that, like, the other parent will look after their kid for a few days. So someone else can have a break. It shouldn't be daddy daycare or their babysitting but it is like that for a lot of for in a lot of situations it isn't usual that someone can just go off for a few days and someone else will do it. And so I am I'm very grateful that we've got the kind of set up and give and take with it that Rob can go off to work and he knows

that I'm not sitting at home seating with resentment most of the time and that the other way that I can go and I know that Rob isn't at home kind of compiling a list of things that he's going to tell me about and how I'm so great I should be so so grateful in all of this when I get back. It's a nice, I think it keeps everyone a bit sane there if you both get your time away without it feeling like it's a massive burden on the other person or something you should be eternally grateful for and kind of scoping and bending the knee and like, oh, thank you, thank you so much than. than. than, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, than, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. So I look after them when you're away and you look after them when I'm away and it's and it should it should be much more normal than it is. Well yeah no from my side of it I love having them like like it's not I'm not doing it for you as the kids of like I enjoy doing this and Luke can go as much she wants. It was only difficult last week because it was o' thii hand which was out of our control. It just sort of happened that week which it was fine and we got through it. It was just a slightly busier week than it would have been but I love having them

and because I've got some mates that will remain nameless and people from this area as well especially South his under where it's like, fucking hell she's she's gone out and I'm trying to watch a football and I've got the kids in the house for the afternoon. And it's like, oh isn't he good? I'm like, they are his. Not like two little goblins I found on the street and chucked in the house and said, look after them for a while. They are yours. Yeah, because there are some like blokes that some of the blokes where they're like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, their, like, like, like, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they, they, they're, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, they're, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, they're, like, like, like, like, they're, like, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they just there is zero thought about their kids since you like right I've got to work I've come back weekend down the pub and their wife might go oh I'm taking the kids to like update this part if you want to come and about nah no just go pub and then back to work on Monday

kind of thing so I'm glad we've got that relationship I think also those love you babe all that was a very very the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th th th th th th th th th th is a very tho tho tho tho tho tho tho is a thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the th is th is th is the th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is thi thi thi thi thi thi thi tho is the the the the the the the the the the the thoooooooooo to to to to tho to the the tho to the those, love you babe, all that was a very healthy discussion. And, Rob, I suppose the question is, you're feeling nervous, how is the itching of the chest? How are you feeling? I feel like anything, it's never as bad as your brain wants to tell you, and I think it was good, good communication and it's good to... Do you know what was as bad as my brain was telling me? You know, God, it's never as bad as your brain is going to tell you? The washing, the washing pile was as bad as my brain was telling me.

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And I was like, maybe I should. She was taking no chance. I know how to do it. I didn't have time, Louise. Sorry, I'm dragging it alone to watch it. You are dracking this back to negative place. You are dracking like I'm just trying to be positive. But yes I think it's good and I think maybe how about you keep notes in future and then when you've got enough to come on to quibble. To quibble. The door is always open for you to quibble. Okay. I don't think it's a joy. Jooy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy joy. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the joy. th. th. th. th. th. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. the joy. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. to. t. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. You were excellent. Oh we didn't get the worst thing about me as a parent though, he did be from Lou, we just got the two positive ones but I think we sort of know that already doesn't do the washing and reactive rather than proactive is that you

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times and can't work out how to make that a blog. If blogs are what the kind of youth they're still doing, I've really got my finger on the cultural pulse of the country. It just feels like it, I mean I know people know breastfeeding is an issue, but like, it seems to have really messed a lot of people up, the same way that it really, yeah, the same way that it did me for a while. So yeah, I've written a the same that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that it did me for a while. So yeah I've written a little bit on that but I don't can't work out how to use square space. Well you're a brilliant writer Lou and I'm sure it'll help a lot of people because I got a lot of people asking the same

things or they're or talking about the same thing and it's quite a big issue that me and Josh can't really answer or talk about. No it's not really our area, is it? I think it's probably best you still clear of. Right, thanks Lou, and I'll see you in the kitchen in a minute. Thank you, Lou. It's been a pleasure. Thank you. Love you, bye. Bye.