Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S8 EP45: The Stiffest Neck She'd Ever Seen

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

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Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Winnickham. Welcome to Parenting Hill, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting each week we're chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice, and of course, tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times where none of us know what we're

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Savings May 3, eligibility and member terms apply. Hello, you're listening to Parent in Hell with, Blotty, can you say Josh Whittakum? No. Say Josh Whitton. Say Josh Whitton. I'll get you something Josh Whiticken. Josh Widdickham. And Rob Beckett. Robbocket. Very good.

I like the vague bribery of and I'll get you something. I'll get you. Yeah, I know it's so defeated, isn't it? Have what you want. We had to do bribery. My daughter didn't want to go into school and it was awful. She was like, Lou's promised to her and I and I and I to her her her her her her her her her her her her her her her to to to to to to to to to to to to to be a to be a to be to be to be to be to be to be abery, someone and my daughter didn't want to go into school this one, it was awful. She was like, hey, don't want to do it, and then lose promise to her and ice cream,

which I think is a pretty good deal, to be fair. Yeah, yeah. Because they're still young when he's six, they were being mean to me and they sort of tell you what happened. You're like, that. I just meet someone else. Yeah. I know. Because when you're a kid it's like they don't want to talk to me, they don't, you know, whatever, they're being mean to me, whatever. Try being in the dressing room at the comedy store. Oh God, yeah. Back in the day when we started, that was a real, that was a real, that was a the attitude was as powerful as the bad dress sense. Oh, and there was some horrible, bitter, miserable old bastards when we started. They're still there.

I think he's calmed down a bit now. People are a bit more nicer, aren't they? I think they are, definitely. This is my granddaughter Lottie Smith, age 3 and a half from Stourport. I've got to be northern that. Wustasthir southe, that, that, that, that, that, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds, that sounds, that, that sounds, that, that's that, that's that's that's the, thorough, that's got that's got that's got that's got th. I's got thorough, I've got tho, I've got tho, I've got tho, I've got th. I've got th. I've got th. I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's. I's, I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's the, I's the, I's the, I's th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm tho, I'm tho, I'm tho' tho' tho' tho' tho'a'a'a'a'er. I'm not tho'a'a'a'er. I'm tho'a'a'a, tho' normal. Worcestershire. Oh, where's that? The Midlands. Isn't the Midlands the Midlands? The Midlands isn't the county. Wusters is, well Worcestershire, I'll give them that. Oh, it's that weird bit between, we've had this chat before. Is it between Birmingham and Leaster?

Yeah, but itthat sort of well-Ireth, you know, yeah, yeah. It's Hereford, but that's not Wales, is it? But you know what I mean? Hereford's, Harfordshire, presumably, is it? Is it? It's her? That's sort of like, it's a mock Wales. That's sort of like the Mock Wales. Yeah, that's sort of like the, Wales. Because as you get to wa, I I Wales, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, that, that, that, that's, that's, tho, tho, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, th. Well, th. Well, th. Well, th. Well, th. Well, th. Well, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tha, tha, that's not, tha. Well, that's not, that's not, their, tha. that's not, tha. that's not, that's not, tha. It's, tha,'s half Welsh. Yeah, I do like the Welsh. My children are fucking Welsh. I'm a minority in my own house. It's full of Welshies. I love the show. Listening to it at the gym or doing stuff around the house. He likes vague things, doesn't he? I'll get you stuff. I'll get you stuff. I'll get you stuff. I like doing stuff. I'll seen Josh live a couple of times and times. I the the the times. I. I. I. I. I. I. I the the the the tode. I th. I th. I like. I like. I like. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I like like like like like like like like like like like like liked. I liked. I liked. I like like like liked. I like liked. I like like liked. I like liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I like like liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I liked. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the the th. I. I. I. I the the the the the the the the the the th. I'm the to. I'm the the to. I'm the toda. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I love. I love. I love. I love. I love. I like. I like. I th. I th. of times and had tickets for Rob only missed you to work commitments. Well he's back on tour. He made time for you did he? Well you know we made time for you in Stower but when would you last in Stourbridge? No I've done Stourbridge I'm not done it's Stourport. Oh Stourport, sorry. Keep it fresh regards John Gatehouse. Kropshire. Shropshire. Shropshire. He's moved, he's moved county. Halfway through the email.

This guy, I know what's going on, yeah, Shropshire, because then Shropshire is very close to Wales. Oh no, sorry, sorry. That's his granddaughter. She lives in Worcester. She lives in Worcester. Oh, it's like a county line's drug operation this. Last time I did Stratford-Podd to Podhavre, my flat-in, Hither Green got burgled, horrible evening. Stratford-Polven, I've done that gig. Every time I go to Stratford-Fonavid I remember being burgled. Some people think Shakespeare. Some people think Shakespeare. Some people think what did it? What did it? Who knows? Who knows? They couldn't get enough evidence. come because like they do do a good job you know but like you're asking it's burg they said oh yeah it's a shame in it well take this number I'm like I've got a bit of paper with a number on it really that's that's what's gonna happen in it absolutely nothing my like Vesper yeah and he was like yeah yeah oh that's a shame in it so to theyn't I to do the thrown I'm gonna be a to you're I'm I I I'm I'm I I I I'm I I the the the thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I thin I the to the to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to 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 the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the I I I the the the the try try I I try try try try try to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the try tho that. I tried to move into the shed and I fucking drove into a wall. What? But not barred a little bit and I was like you stupid idiot. I just do things about thinking I fucking... I've had it ages and my brother was borrowing it, he

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but there was still enough to go on and there was like a vampire ride they could all go and then it worked out well anyway that they all nearly went on. they'll they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they all they they they they they they they they they they they they th they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they th th th took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took took t wanted to go on. So they went there, I went with them to Leeds Castle for overnight. You can go, you can stay in Leeds Castle overnight. Is that the haunted one? I don't know. I've got no idea if it's a haunted one, but it was. I thought Leads Castle was the haunted one. I'd say though like, if you went there about two o'clock, you're checking to like your room and you can go around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around around a the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the castle. We were in the stables. They've got little houses on the lake and then they've got like glamping tents. I would say though, we were there for about 24 hours. That was definitely enough time. By the end of it, I was directing people to where to go. I've done the maze fire times. I knew every nook and cranny of the playground. I was getting nods from the ducks. I the mate. How's it going? I was eating I felt like I worked there but it was good fun. That's nice and this is a stupid question. Go on. Is it in Leeds? No, it's in Leeds. No, it's not. It's near Maidstone. Is it in Leeds? Is it? No, it did feel like odds that you've gone to Leeds when I saw that. I was like, that's a long way to go to a castle.

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that's really slowly growing. It's the 20 quid a month. So me and me and me and we might have an nice holiday. By the the tell about my weekend? Quite a busy weekend. Yeah, yeah. I'll go into that in more detail, but on Friday I was diagnosed with dyslexia, officially. Oh, congratulations. officially dyslexic. And then Saturday I went to the horse racing. I went to horse racing. Can I dig into the dyslexia thing? I'll tell you what I did in the three day and then I won in the raffle bottle of champagne and got booed as I walked up to collect it. Amazing from the little tent. Which course was it? Epsom? Oh yeah. I didn't realize how close I lived to Epsom. I was really close. Then I went to the Champions League

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Yeah, and it was me my mate Andy and we turned up in suits. We looked like pundits. They were dressed like pundits, right? But they were really nice the YouTube's, but they're quite young. So it's angry. No, of'm not. There's loads of... These are real people. Bateson, do you know, Rob? Give me the list of them, but put one fake name and I'll try and go. Okay, yeah.

Fire-phrase, angry ginge, parrot cork. That's so obvious in a fake. Pirate cog, tidddy wings. Slopper the nose, and long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long the the the they they they they the they the the they the the the they the the th the the the th the thoes the the thoes th th th thoes thoes thoes the thoes the the thoes the the the the th 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 they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they th. th. th th th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the thea' theat theat theat thea' theat thea' thea' the. the. beans, sloppy your mom, slopper to base, truey nose and old long shaft, so they're all there. Yeah yeah I think pie face is the fake one, no one's good with that. He's also the wait as well isn't a Gucci track suit pie face is having it all. Because you know what you get invited to put it on social media and you have to put gifted, it's sort of like an exchange kind of thing. Which is fine and very privileged lucky opportunity to be in then.

I just can't be so excited to be there and it's great. Me and Andy turned up and Andy, I'm like and Andy Bould in an 18, 19 and then and polite, like the YouTube is watching the game doing their content and stuff. Me and Andy Boldy, and absolutely shitfaced from the racing. And it was like, oh, let's just get a couple of beers in like that. Then we got, Andy getting the beers and have a few drinks. And we got, and we got, and we're sat there and Andy's going, and all of those people who are getting photographs, I'm like, they....... And, oh, oh, oh, oh, th and, they, oh, th and, they, oh, th, oh, oh, th, I, I, I, I, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I, oh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and, I, and, I, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I.. And, they. And, they's, they's, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, they's. And, they's are? I went, yeah, they're massive. Like, I know we're joking, but they're not for a hour. I know, I know. It's just like, yeah. And we change against like 80, 90,000 people watching him play FIFA live. Wayne really plays FIFA with them on the internet.

I hope not. He's fucking managing Plymoth. Oh, he does. Yeah, but he needs to to to to to stop to to stop to to stop to to stop to to stop to to stop to to stop to to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop to stop 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 the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thoom. thoom. thooooooooooooooooooom. thooooooooooooooom. thooooooom. I. I. I. I. I. I the real world. No, but he needs to focus on his work. Well, he's going to have a lot of downtime in Plymouth. I don't want Plymouth to lose and then I find out a Saturday evening he's gone home to play FIFA with Angry Ging. So, and I went, no, it's massive. If your nephew's like, if your nephew's like, he's like, he's like, the nephew's, he's, to, to, to, to, to, to, he's, 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 have, he's, he's, he's, he's a to to have, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's 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 the to the too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. to to to to to to to to to the the stands at Chambers I'm going, do you know Pireface? Do you know Angry Ginge? And then this 11 year old face is like we've said to him, like in the 90s, do you know who Michael Jackson is? Yeah, yeah. Well let's talk about it. Maybe not that big. Angry with Jinx as well. Maybe not that big. Angry with Jinx. I won't put him in Taylor Swift. Bad example. Okay, so it's like. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, 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 19. It's like, 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 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 like, like, th. It's like, like, like, like, th. It's like, like, thirty. thirty. thirty- 11. th. 11. th. th. Territory. Let me think of another one. Okay, it's 2000. It's like in the midnight he's saying,

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Anyway, we passed a phone down to him. his mind and he's going I don't know what's going on I don't know who these people are and then how old is he and then he's like he's 11 and I've just called him a specky twans so what does angry Jinge do he streams he live streams so he's like a twit streamer and it goes everywhere where he sits and he plays FIFA and people watch and he has all these other mates that come in and why is he so popular compared to other people that do that? He's really funny if he chose to do stand-up I imagine he could probably, he's got quite a strong persona, a very man united fan, very loud and in your face and calls people out. And also when he plays FIFA with Rooney, he gives him shit he's not like

down to the stuff but he's just really popular popular at the moment he's really nice guy and so I love it I love all that stuff because especially with now with modern technology if you're like a working-class kid from your bedroom really yeah you know as long as you got an internet connection and a half decent sort of camera and stuff like that which you sort of can get as a girl everyone can afford that but most people do to have a to their phone become mega and really successful and I think it's brilliant. Who's GK Barry? It's a girl called Grace Keely. Because GK Barry sounds like she writes crime novels. Oh she's a really good goalkeeping coach from the 50s. You have an old school approach but gets the best out of players. Yeah. What happens is that when they're about 11 they set up their social media profiles and when you're 11 you're going to pick a stupid name aren't you? Right? What what what what what what what was. what was. what was. what was. what was. their. What was. What was. What was. What was. What was. What was. What was. their. th. th. their. th. th. th. their. their. their. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the. the. the. the. th. the. the up their social media profiles and when you're 11 you're going to pick a stupid name aren't you? Right, yeah.

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It looked like we on our own stag do with all these young kids. So funny. Yeah, so that was good. And then ankle, bad ankle, bad ankle, playing dad's football. And I lost my ball and I've lost my took to to to to to to to to to to to to to the gym now and doing weights and stuff like and then I've started running. Part of me is like... Is that what's done it? No, I just think I am 38? Yeah, you're past it. Well, no, I'm not past it. I've still, the skill sets still

yet, Josh. Yeah and that's what's concerning so I'm going to leave playing football for a bit lose a bit more weight so there's less weight on my joints. Right right right and let my ankle heal and then I'll be back in a few weeks. And has it affected parenting? Yeah I mean a little bit. thoughs. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to th. to th. th. to th. to to to th. to to to to the to to to to their their to to to to to to to to to to their to to to their their their their their. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. te. te. te. te. te. te. to. te. to. to. to. to te. to to to te. te.'s Lou taking it? Well I can do things but if Lou says can do that I do it quite slowly because I can't walk very far or fast yeah and that does annoy her. I understand why it's annoyed I can't go any quicker. And would she argue perhaps that you're milking it and going even slower just to kind of get out of doing stuff. No, I think she knows it's quite bad and also I've still been going to work and been quite busy so like I was on me feet for the whole of the Domino's company conference and great

gig, the dominoids, loads of successful Domino, they call them the Dominoids. Do they? That wasn't you. No, no they are the dominoids domino domino domino dominoes, the dominoes, the dominoes, the dominoes, the dominoes, the dominoes, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. I, th. I, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I, I, th, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th. So, th. So, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thoomoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, th, th. So, that? That was... No, no, they are the dominoids. And I tell you what, I went, me and Romish did it together and I went in hard on Papa Johns. If you ever do a company conference basically, all you've got to do is slag off the rival. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what? I quite like Papa John. Well'd shat on their garlic dip hard so apologies to Papa John, Mama John, Baby John, all the Johns. If Papa John's had you know a mole in the Domino's conference they'll be furious. I did a joke they've got nothing and I think it was quite good. You know Domino's do two pieces on a Tuesday it's called two for two and it was on just a pizza you're getting on free on. It's comedians. Yeah.

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as a, in a tight maybe. Although them sandals where if it's a round of bunni, because I've got a little bunnine, a foot, it almost looks like, you know, like the mummy where it's escaping from the toilet roll kind of thing. But no, if you have got big ankles out there, I don't want to start ankle shaming people. No, no, not with your massive ankles. More massive ankles. Did you want to talk about the disexit? We need to also, we need to talk about the blanket, your holiday. Oh, thank you to the blanket every night does he have it? Well he's kind of not as into it as he was so it's not yeah if it had happened six months ago it would have been an absolute disaster. Yeah and I put it on Instagram and a listener to the show she replied within two minutes to say she had one. Exactly the same?

Send me the photos through DM let me find Susie Henderson thank you so to Susie Henderson. She you so much to Susie Henderson. She sent me a picture straight away. Oh good old Susie Henderson. And then she sent it by Royal Mail about an hour later. No. Yeah and she's even sent me the tracking number of the Royal Mail. Oh Susie Henderson. What a legend. So has it arrived? No it hasn't actually. Well it was only the day before yesterday so it would probably arrive today. And what are you doing to say thank you for Susie? I've offered her tickets to my tour and to your tour and to Romish's tour and

Tom Allen's tour. Oh yeah thank you absolutely yeah not a problem I saw that out Josh. I haven't asked her agent yet but I'm th. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. 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. 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. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. to to the. to to the. to to the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th that out Josh. I haven't asked our agent yet, but I'm sure I can push them through without the tax finding out. That'll be fine. Oh, that's nice. What a four way. I made some notes on holiday. Was it a good holiday? Did you have a good holiday? It's so much easier with a three or four? It's so much easier. you've got a well-behaved one at three or it's your second child but wait till the youngest is three or four and it's such a better experience save your

money they go for a big old little one rather than three years of chasing a child around a rock hard pool and they play together in the shallow pool and you know he still didn't really want to sit a dinner but more than a. He did before he's enjoying it more because he's getting the benefits. Rather than just being forced to go around and not be able to run where he wants. Exactly. Do you do iPad at dinner? We try to do it after they've eaten. Okay, respect actually.

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To put the rumors to bed you are together and she was on the holiday. What rumors? Pardon? No, no rumors, don't I just. I really want the daily mail to get a hold of it. That you and Rose have split up? Well, it would just be a funny bit of content for this show. Like Ruf and Amon, the sort of surprise, celebs split? Well, no, this one would be a surprise. But like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, basically, if you do announce it, it'll be like, oh, the toys have lost the election. It's like, yeah, we'll all they they they they the time they changed it. What notes did you have from your holiday? And then I'll talk about dyslexia after that. Oh yeah, so the 2.30 a.m. flight, getting up at 2.30 a am I getting up at 2.30am for the flight at 6.30. Did you stay in a hotel? No, we didn't because we had quite a lot to do on the day before and we didn't want want want want want want want want want want want to set to set to set to set to set and we didn't want to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to set to to to to to set ourselves ourselves to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their to their their to their their their their their their their to their to to their their their the.m. So it was just like, at least we can relax in the evening this way. Yeah.

I just don't sleep if I've got to be up after. I did get to sleep. I got four hours, 1030 to 2.30. Pretty solid, actually. And I thought, I'm't remember, but like, just, I just... No, but so when you've got a free-rotted, you have enough on the plane, but then you get woken up in such a start, like if they're like doing something, you can have like a little 10-minute nap, like they're drawing or on your iPad, but then they grab you and then you're start to awake. because you're just vertical. So my friend has got a bad neck. She's young, she's only 26,

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that's too far. That's too far. And their problem is with a dumb phone, and I'm going to say this. Go on. It's for wankers that trying to show off, like the pricks that used to go, we don't own a TV. Yeah, exactly. And you just get your laptop out and watch. their the snobby bastard? The kids that didn't have a TV at school, weird. I used to think, weird. You're missing out on the best things we're talking about. You don't know who the gladiators are. Yeah, exactly. You've never seen jet-eye-kick. Exactly.

She's a bit bad now though. She's con-mantle. She's like a baddie from a Bond film. She was at the Farage Launch. She had... Milkshake launch. She was in attendance. The Farage launch sounds like, you know when they used to dunk witches, it feels like we've finally got him and we're launching it over the English channel. Anyway, so I don't want a dumb phone because the thing is, if I've got my phone, a lot of the things I'm doing are WhatsApp's. People are like, you won't have your social

media. Social media is not the one I'm most addicted to and I also need to do it for my job. Yeah, what are you most addicted to? Porn Hub? And the GB News app. So I've been sent by Ivo Graham. I was talking to him about it. Yeah. I haven't opened it yet. He's sent me a box that you buy for your phone. Because I was like, I'm just putting my phone in a different room.

If I've got my phone on me, I'll check it whether it's a dumb phone or a smartphone or whatever. Yeah. The only way to cut down on your phone usage is to put it in a different room and I don't miss it when it's in the different room. I don't think, oh I wish I could pick up my phone and check something. But when it's there, it's here now. Especially when you're working. So what's this box? It's like a special lock box? You lock it and you and you you and you you and you you and you you you you the and you the and you the and you th. the th. th. th. th. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thus thus thus thus that the the thus thus tho tho tho tho tho tho thus thus that that that the that that th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the th. I th th the th th the th. I th th thin thin thin thi. I thi thi thi. I thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi won't open until the time is over. Oh I think that's too much. Why if there's an emergency? He told me, do you know the comedian Sellier A.B? She's got one of these boxes and she got on a train and put a phone in the box and locked it.

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Because that's the saddest thing is when you get back to my phone after five hours and you're like, I've missed nothing that I can't read now. Well, I think it's a slight issue because my job, especially when I started in comedy, was all through the phone. If you wanted a gig gig, you had to be online all day to like, there's a gig come and be the first person to reply. When an email comes in, you want to reply

within a minute and all that kind of stuff to get that gig because it was so hard to get that. And now I'm in a position where I don't need to reply immediately. Yes. I'm not starting out. I'm not trying to make the name to make to make to make to make the name to make to make the name to make to make to make the name to make to make the name to make to make the name to make the name the name to make to make the name name name to make the name name name name the name. the name. the name. the name. the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to reply. to reply. to reply. to reply. to reply. to reply. to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to to reply. to to to to th. thro, I'm to thrown. to to to the the to to the to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to reply. I'm to do that so you know that get the gig and show that I'm working hard that I'm not being lazy and that kind of stuff but it's an old habit to get out of. Yeah. And I think some of that comes from going back to the dyslexia thing. Oh yeah let's talk about that. Right so okay right strap in. I sit down it's a zoom call right it's a zoom assessment. And why are you doing this? Now, well, I'm struggling with my children's homework. Right, yeah. So my daughter's eight and I can't really do any of the English stuff. Yeah. When she's got to take information from text and write fully formed sentences, I can't really write the sentences.

Yeah. When I help her, I actually make her homework worse. Right. And then Lou looks, I'm like, oh I've helped. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. But did you know what school you had? Did you think? Well, so my dad didn't sort of read till he was about 40 odd, to read a book and reading and writing it's not great. One of my younger brothers definitely got this lecture,

he got diagnosed and he had like the extra help. I think he had a computer and extra time in exams and stuff. And then the the the the th th th th th th th th th I I I I I I I I th I th I th I th I th I th I thi thi thi thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thin th of my family my older brothers may have it but they're older so they wouldn't have been diagnosed in time and stuff and I think my niece has it so it's in the family and it is hereditary and stuff like that yeah and I couldn't help her with the home-work and stuff like that so I signed up to this dyslex So I sat down Josh and I'm on a zoom and I've been really busy so I'll do that. It takes three hours. I sit down the zoo. It's lovely. It's lovely how called Lynn. And she says, why do you want an assessment? I was basically, I'll basically say, oh, because of my brother, my dad and like I can help my kid's, my today and I'm the-anded. I'm, I can't help my kids my kids kids my kids kids kids my kids kids kids kids my kids kids kids kids kids kids kids my kids kids kids kids kids my kids kids kids kids kids kids my kids kids kids kids kids my kids kids kids my kids kids kids my kids kids kids my kids kids kids my kids kids my kids my kids kids my kids their kids with my kids with my kids their kids their kids with my kids and I'm and I'm and I'm toe their kids and I'm their kids my kids my kids my kids my kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids kids and I'm their kids kids kids kids kids and I'm their kids and I'm their kids and I'm, and I'm, their kids and 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'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, th. th. toease. toease. toea, to to to to to th. th. to th. th th th th th th that. their th that, that, that, sweet, I'm agitated, and it was almost like an out-of-body

experience where I'd been shrunk down to a little eight-year-old again in a classroom, and as I'm telling why I want to get a diagnosis, I burst into tears. Oh my God. Out of nowhere, not like I didn't feel anxious before, I didn't feel... But it's like it's opened a thing that's been closed for... Yeah. 30 years. Exactly, and I found school so stressful, so exhausting and hard, and I almost like locked that away. Fuck it out. And I'm never in a situation now where I'm being taught anything really, you know. And also she's asking me to do certain things I don't do, I avoid doing it And I've realized I've engineered my entire life to stay away from those things. And so what are those things?

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I remember the first three, but when I remember in the first three letters, the second three disappear. It's just not in there. And then she tried to make me do it backwards, and that lasted about 10 seconds. And is it the same with numbers? I'm better at numbers than. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I've. I. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've the the the the the th. I've the th. I've only only the the the. I've the. I've the first. I've the first. I've the first. I've the first. I've the first. I've the first. I've the first. I the first. I the first. I the first. I the first. I the first. 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've. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've. I've. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. th. th. It's the the the the the the the the the the the sounds to me so it was like what words this and it was like G-R-A-S-H-uh, uh-p-p-eh-uh, right? And I'm just like, I got grass at the beginning but I couldn't work out the second bit. So then this is one of my coping mechanisms, I'd use logic to guess the second part. I'm like, well, it's sort of a H but I don't really, I don't really So I was like, I think it's grasshopper just through process of elimination. Yeah. Not because I understood the sounds.

And so could you learn that? I don't really know really. I don't know enough about it yet. I think it's more that your brain doesn't work in that way so it's finding other ways to work. Yeah. So then what I really struggle with. and record it out loud or bullet points, I can't retain what it is that's in my head and put it into a sentence structure

that traditionally makes sense in written English. Because trying to remember the commas, the grammar, how it all positions, what word should come after the other, so it makes it a full flowing sentence. By the time I'm trying to work all that out, the idea's gone. So how did did you you you you to to to th did th did th did th did you th th th th th th th th th th th th th the th th th th th th thi the thi, I thia the thiolome the thiolome, I thrown. the, I'm the, I'm thoomorrow thoomorrow thoomorrow the, I I'm the the, I'm the the, I'm the the, I'm the the the the, I'm the the, I'm the, I I'm, I I I I I I I I I I I I'm, I I'm, I I I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the the the thin, I'm, thin, thin, thrown., throwne, toda., try., try.ooomorrow, try.oomorrow, try.oomorrow, try.oomorrow, try. the, th I'm trying to work all that out, the idea's gone. So how did you write your book? Just to be clear to people, you, unlike a lot of celebrities, did write your book. Yeah, no, yeah, so I didn't have a ghost drug, but I wanted to do that because when I used to try and read these books that the voice of someone that does suffer with those sort of things. So the way I did it was it's much easier for me on a laptop because there's a freedom

on a word processor that's why it's better to have a laptop in exams for dyslexic people because the computer does a bit your spelling. Yeah. Actually writing hurts my hand. It's not very neat at all but that helps me do it and I can get it all out and then it's saved up there and I can copy and paste it and read, I can move it around after. Because what happens is if I'm trying to get it written properly, I lose all the ideas, but if I can just purge all the ideas and then later on I can go back, I know I've got my ideas out, then I can go using the software, you know the word processing stuff. I know right that needs a comma there that needs a new paragraph but when I'm writing I can't do it and as I was doing these assessments I was so overwhelmed with stress and worry and I'm and I'm getting like I'm sweating I'm getting upset again and I'm like oh my god. But she must see that a lot I

don't know about that much crying from a 40-year-old man because I've done so much therapy now though, if I feel an emotion strongly like that out of nowhere I know what that is, is it's opening up a pain body memory that's been locked away that you've not accessed because as you become an adult you choose to stay away from it. Yeah, of course. Well, it's like avoiding an injury, isn't it? It's like learning to walk to avoid an injury on your knee. Yeah, like limping around. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 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, 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, 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, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, like, that, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, some people would have to go to creative writing course. Yeah. That would be my hell, but I'm an adult and I don't have to. Yeah, do you know what I mean? So like I'm no good at writing it down. So that's why I'm improvised on stage. I just do bullet

points I remember it because it's all the techniques that I've sort of learned. Yeah I've got dyslexia because you know when you're doing a test for something it's like when you go to doctors and you go I think my ankles all right and they go okay can you do five steps on it yeah yeah you do two and they go sit down you know you know it's like when you're doing one of those tests to see if you can't do it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I think you should be as to do four. Yeah, yeah. You know, and I'm just sat in the guy, I know, I've got no idea. Yeah.

And she literally saw her do like a big tick on her, like on her page. So we did this assessment. She made me right. on a bit pen and paper and that was really bad and then I'm sat and then she said okay well I'll send her the full report and she's really lovely she was from the British to sexist association they're really good then she said yeah just to let you know you do have dyslexia and then actually hearing it from someone who's like yeah a specialist and trained in it not like well I've probably got that because of what I've garnered yeah yeah she told me the the the the the the the the the the the the they. they. they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're to they're to to they're to they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they I I I they I they I was they I was to to t try to to try to to to the they. they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're, Josh, I burst into tears again, but honestly, so badly, like, it was meant, it was like a per, it was like I've done an hour waska. You know when people talk about doing like a DMT and they're shitting and being sick and

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found it so tough all those things the way myself worth and confidence was so low. Obviously it's going to be so low. If you're trapped in an education system that's not designed for you. And then I went on to, I did A-levels and a degree. It's amazing that you didn't just fuck it off at 16. I've mentioned this before my first parents evening when I was like five or six went, oh Rob's never going to be a high flyer. Don't, you know, he's not really, you know, why? Why's just they. they. they. they's they. th. th. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob. Rob's never th. Rob's never th. Rob's never their their their their their their their's never is never is never their their their their their their. Rob's never their. Rob's never their. Rob's never their. Rob's never to to to to to to to to to to to to to their. I's never. I's never. I I's never. I I's never. I. I's never. I. I. I. I. I's never. I. I's their. I. I's the the the the the their. I's their. I's their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I was their. I did. I did. I did. I was their. I did. I was thetold I was stupid, I was thick, I was not intelligent. You're not trying properly, stop being lazy. I was trying ten times more than the other kids in the car. Do you think it's different now? Do you know what I hope so, but I don't really think so because it's so hard

to get for a dyslexic assessment for weeks and week months sometimes a year. Yeah that's another year of education gone and that's an important time but I do think though as much as it's important for kids to be diagnosed massively because it will affect their education and they need that computer, they need the extra time. As adults you sort of think well why do I thinne who cares I've to tho the their. their. their. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's is is is is that's is thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well. Well. Well. I'm thin. I'm thin. I'm thin. thin. thin. thi. thi. thi. toe. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. toea. to to to to to thi. I's thi. I's thi's thi. I's thi. I's thi do I need to know? And that's what I felt. I feel like, well, even if I'm, who cares? I've got an exam, I do my job, I'm successfully my job, I'm confident and I've created a world where it doesn't matter that I've got dyslexia. But I would say for your own mental health and your old understanding of your journey

from a child to an adult make sense. Yeah, yeah, totally. Since, it's like, oh of course that happened and I got upset then because so did you feel different since? It is like a weird weight's been lifted. Yeah. And I understand the way I was treated, the way I reacted to as much confidence, why I felt certain things, why I found things difficult and stuff like that and I think you know, and now it's sort of almost like the windows are clean and I can see through the glass and understand why and understanding why does help you with how you feel now and you know what shaped you as a kid and stuff so if you do have a chance an opportunity or you're in a position you can do it. Yeah, what would you advise to an adult who thinks that they have dyslexia?

Well, what I might do is, when I get my full report from the dyslexia people, sorry if this is, I've banged on or is a bit of a form. No, it's absolutely fascinating, very important. And also it affects adults when I spoke to the can't help their kids and anything that has not been nice in people's life that affects later behavior normally happens in childhood to certain levels of the degree. Some children can have terrible abuse, some children wore the wrong outfit one day and then whenever they go out dressed up it still makes some anxious going out because that's where people fall most of their pain to whatever level of severity and what happens when you have children and I think a lot of parents listening is you think you've dealt with stuff but then what happens is your

children come home with the problems you had as a child but you've not dealt with them you've distracted yourself or aimed your life in a different way it will reopen old wounds and stuff and then you're trying to do it and then you feel like a little so it will sort of come back up again so what I'd say is the British and you can't do it and then you feel like a little so it will sort of come back up again. So what I'd say is the British Dissector Association has been really good. They've got a great website and they're on Instagram and stuff and they do have advice for adults and children that have got dyslexia or you think you've got dislexia. But what I'm going to do is when

I get the full report I'm going to ask if you think your child's got it, because even though I think I've probably got the career I've got because I had to find these coping strategies and it's sort of been beneficial in a way. Just understanding how I felt and the way that impacted me in those years has really helped me now. So when I get really anxious going into like script meetings and they'll taught me through the whole script and it's a waste of time for me because nothing's going in. I'll learn by doing it but I have to understand though that 89% of the population that really helps them. Yeah yeah. Rather than get my backup not knowing why. Why have I got my backup in this script? Why? This is a waste of time but thi. the waste of time for me but it's their. It is their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. their. their. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. But, thi. thi. thi. But, but thi. But, but I thi. But, but I thi. But, but I thi. But, but I thi. But, but I thi. But, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, but I, thi. But, thi. But, thi. But, thi. But, I, thi. I, I, thi. I's, I's, thi. I's thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'll, thi. I'll, thi. I'll, I'll, thi. I'll, I'll, thi. I'll thi. I'll thi. I'll thi project so sit there quietly don't panic that it's not going in because the way you operate Rob it will go in later but the people in this room they need to say

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No, it's amazing and fascinating and such an important thing to talk about. And crucially, Rob, the thi, th an th an thee, thee, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to thi, to be, thin, thi, their, their, their, to be, to be, to be, their, this is to me, this is to me, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, to me, th. thin, they. they. thin, thin, they. thin, thin, thin, they. thin, they. thoo. their, their, their, their, their, they. they. their, their, tho. tho. tho. 10 minutes, which I respect in a way. It's great. I know, but I was incredibly, people at home, we were paid the same amount for that 10 minutes. You can see how double acts start to fall apart, aren't you? Here we go. Should we do small business? Yeah, let's do small business. You want me to set the lead on this Rob, earn some of my bloody money? Right. Hello, despite being 16, I'm a regular listener to the podcast. It gets me through cold and tiring commutes to college. Amazing. I was listening to this episode.

I already have four children. And I... Pardon? No, bit of fun. Bit of fun. What's the small business? They're womb? I was listening to an episode and heard about Josh's laundry crisis. Please could I get a shout out for my mom's company, Interior White. They drew laundry cabinet in all sizes to fit in with your space

and hide the laundry pile up when Josh makes pitiful excuses for not having done it. These teenagers have got so much bloody attitude these days, Rob. I think the board's attitude. Yeah, they also do lots of other furniture, knick-knacks for rows, gifts and toys for the kids particularly with a focus on STEM to get them excited about science and tech thanks for the laughs. Lucy. That is thiiiiiiii-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-tha-s. That is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is the-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. I've tha-s. I've. I've. I've. Ia-s. I. I. I-s. I. I. I-n. I. I-n. I. I. I-n. I. I-s. I-s. I. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. Ia-s. I-s. Tenena-s. T-s. T-s. T-s. T-s. T-s. T-s.Ia-s.Ia-s. T-s. T-s.Ia-s. T-s. T-s. T-s for the laughs. Lucy, that is Interior White. What stem? That is tech and science and maths, isn't it? I think. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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