Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S10 EP45: Is this sleep?

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

More misadventures in parenting, life, and beyond with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe... in this episode Josh has been unwell and the medicine may or may not have made him very manic. And Romesh gets back to the guys about going on holiday to the same place at the same time as Rob. This is the last episode of the current series. We'll be back soon after a very short break. And look out for an exciting new addition to the PH eco-system... ;) If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available free everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. Please follow and leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx MAILING LIST: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the mailing list to be first to hear about live show dates and tickets, Parenting Hell merch and any other exciting news... A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Willicombe. Welcome to Parenting Hell, 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'll be 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 when none of us know what we're doing. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Finlay, can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. And can you say Josh Widicombe?

Josh Widicombe. Good job mate, well done. There we go. You like the name Finlay? Yeah, it's under the username Finlay. There's a lot of, I was about to say there's a lot, I don't think there was any Finlays when I was a kid. My nephew's called Finlay.

Yeah. With an E. With an E. Well this is with an EY. No F weirdly. It's called Eric. I think it's Irish. Just want to thank you both. Some relatable relief over the last few years. Certainly brightens our commute on those miserable mornings. This is our three year old Finley currently running me and his mum into the floor with sleep deprivation as the sun's awake so I'm awake dominates are upstairs at 4am. Oh dear. So can you hear that in the background of the shouting? I might tell them to be slightly respectful that I'm actually recording a podcast, my family in the background.

Say the words I'm earning a fucking crust. Okay I'm gonna shout that and see how that goes. Okay. Can you still hear me? Yeah. Do you mind keeping it down guys? I'm trying to earn an effing crust in here. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Oh, I don't normally get embarrassed but I've gone bright red. I thought it was weird because Lou would normally go fuck or something. Rob, because Lou gets a bit socially anxious. Quite rightly. Anyone would if the delivery man was

there. He said, you're trying to earn a fucking crust. So what's happened there is I heard the kids running. So what's happened is a delivery man's come. So the girls have run upstairs because they're probably in their pajamas still to get out of the way. So yeah, I've opened the door. Do you mind? It still counts. Oh, God. I don't remember ordering chairs. What should you ordered? Have you got enough chairs? Neat chairs, got loads of chairs. Honestly, I can't believe how many chairs I own. Money's going in, money's coming out during this podcast Rob. That's the way that... When I was growing up, there was about three places to sit. Yeah, and you have four brothers, three brothers. There's a Pilates bed over there, I could have a

little crouch on it for one. Sometimes I do Zoom calls on that little Pilates thing and I forget and move to the side. With the screen on? No, no, no. I just, you know, sometimes you just, if you're busy, you just do a Teams or Zoom meeting on your phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I sit on a Pilates bed with a sad frog picture behind me.

You know when someone says, we're using Teams, I always think, who the fuck do you think you are? Do you know what I want to start with? What kind of scorn? Just won okay? The war is over. Hi guys, we'd be good to have a catch up. I'm gonna use house party. We all go house party, have I got that downloaded? Thank you. That was embarrassing embarrassing. Oh, great start to the board. Great, great, great organic. We've even got to the end of the email.

Oh yeah, sorry, come on, feed me. Pios, Josh's ludicrous wearing a watch. Pios. Pios. Josh's ludicrous wearing a watch in bed still haunts me. Haunts me, she's a bit harsh. I've had to take my watch off, Rob. Why's that? Because, all the best Adam harsh. I've had to take my watch off Rob. Why is that?

Because all the best Adam, because I've had so let me take you through this. So you text me this last night, you text and said, can we do a little bit earlier? We were supposed to start at nine. I said, not a problem. 8.45 I can do. Maybe even 8.30. Then you text again at 7am saying you've had a horrendous day, hours. And now we're recording 20 past 8. Tell you what, that delivery drivers early, ain't he? Fuck it. Fuck it. Get the job done.

Can't wait to get those chairs off his van. But he's seen your name, he's gone. Well, he hasn't seen your name, because it'll be Lou's name, presumably. You didn't even know they were coming. But he's known it's your house. He's gone, I want to see back here. I need you more. Are you more than fucking delivered? I tell you that he's got a good at it. He came out in a pair of pyjama shorts and an H&M black t shirt and sat in cap. It looks like Bobby Cholton's first England cap. And he shouted, you're not keeping it down. We're trying to earn an F in Crusty. Oh God. Anyway, so what's

happened to you then? What's the story starts? Um, we recorded our last step. I was a bit under the weather. I don't know if you remember that. You were and I need to apologize to the listeners. I've been, I feel like I've been really miserable last few weeks Josh. I've just been under the cosh. You've been under the cosh but you're on some holidays now. I think that doesn't bring the best out of me. Doesn't bring the best out of me. So apologies and I'm back to full pelt. I'm just going to be positive from now on. Yeah. So the good news Rob is this will cheer you up. I think I'd had a bad night's sleep when we, I was at an ill night, hadn't I? But I thought I'm, I'm rallying here. Yeah. It'll probably be fine.

Are you in your bed or still on the floor? So we're away. We're in Cornwall. So I'm, well, that first night cause it was just us four, my son was in with Rose and I was with my daughter on single beds. Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. The second night in that bed, Rob, was one of the illest nights I've ever had. Oh, what's wrong with you? I was so sweaty. It was so horrific. Just flew. This is the last.

That's what I thought. And I was like, I'm getting much worse here. I can't tell you how much I sweated in that bed. It was unbelievable full shivers. You are big. Under these top five sweaty comics. No, no, no, no, no. You, Lee Evans. Yeah. Alan Carr can pump out. Not really a comedian, but Joe Swash. He actually uses sanitary towel like products under his armpits and then there's an opening. I tell you what, I'm gonna put myself in for when I hosted Live at the Apollo in September in a wool jacket when it was 31 degrees and the record was 5 p.m. That's a horror show.

I had to do whatever the video version of Photoshop is to edit out the sweat on my head. Oh my God. When they do those records in September, if it's a hot day, and it's a four o'clock, 3,000 people. It's the most terrifying gig of your fucking life. Exactly, so you're panicking, it's 30 degrees outside,

there's 4,000 people in there, it's five o'clock. And you can't wipe your face even before going on, because it's covered in makeup. Exactly, it's not like you can have a quick towel down before you go out. Anyway, you're not well. So I'm like, this is getting much worse. Like my throat was my tonsils were in bad in a bad way. Phone doctor, there's no appointments.'s it of course yeah this will back up your view about the Southwest Rob end up having to do a phone consultation with my doctor in London absolute kick in the Jeffers tonsillitis oh through the phone well that was the gym face mouth open? I could smell it coming down the line.

Lou got tonsillitis bad and had to go to hospital on a drip. When you run down tonsillitis is terrible. Yeah, so tonsillitis, got some antibiotics, some steroids for the throat, three days of steroids. I thought your shoulders looked bigger and your dick looked smaller. Two things that you wouldn't have thought possible. The shoulders on him and the nuts on him. Six steroid pills day one. So when was this? A few days ago.

I started the pills not yesterday, the day before. Last night, much better already. Yesterday I'm like, I'm not just feeling good, I'm feeling great. So then last night, oh by the way, this is the thing, Rose, we're in Cornwall, Rose was going home for 48 hours because she's going to a wedding. Even in Cornwall she's away.

I know, exactly. Yesterday at lunchtime The was there any pressure for you to go to the wedding? Well, it would have been difficult I was invited as a plus one. It would have been difficult to kids kids to leave them here So I'm gonna get out of a way didn't it kids? Yeah, not to get out of it because you really wanted it Well, let's see how it goes Rob. Let's see how you feel my times going So everyone isn't with you at the moment and you're on steroids for tonsillitis. And yeah, antibiotics.

Antibiotics, yeah. So you're down there alone? No, no. There's some other people with kids. So the kids kind of self-policed. So you're hosting friends? I'm hosting. Don't get me wrong, I like a good host, but for about three days maximum and not with tonsillitis. Yeah. Well, don't worry, because as I've told you, I feel fucking incredible. So you're flying, you're loving you're loving that. And you're a host. I wasn't even shaken when yesterday, next door, the son of the woman that normally feeds the cat. He's feeding the cat because she's on holiday. He's 19. This is back in London. Yeah. He texts me, he goes, the key just doesn't work in the lock today. The key has stopped working. What? I've never, that's...

Yeah. I've never had a key, a metal key. It's difficult when someone texts you that to not think that's their fault. Yeah. That's not, you can't blame the key. No, or the lock. Well, the lock has been a bit dodgy. Right. Okay. But the cats in the house but then we're like well Rose is back at half nine half 10. Sorry, she was getting back. I'm not going to call out a locksmith when Rose can get there at half 10. And his barrels a barrels kidneys. All right, the moment she can do to

often she hasn't been flushed. Yeah, she's fine. She's fine. She's had a good flush recently, so she's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's getting flushed regularly. Thank you to Petplan for financing Beryl's later years. I reference Beryl in my show. Do you? There's like a little Easter egg for parenting health. Oh, thank you. Where I talk about...

I still love that. I talk about going to the vet and paying for vet bills and I go don't worry kids, Beryl's got an, Beryl's and I just say Beryl's like, well I change it most nights like, got a new hip or Beryl, I use Beryl as the name of the kid. Does it get anything? Any kind of woo? Sort of, but not really. So, but in my head I'm like, hey no. It's a deep Easter egg. It's a deep Easter egg. It's a deep dive. Yeah.

So then I'm feeling great. Do bedtime. I'm like, this is a, this is fun. I mean, yeah, it's late, but do you know what? I'm gonna do, I've got a couple of tasks done. The dishwasher was blocked. We unlocked the dishwasher, moved a big green egg. You know, the big green egg.

I'll hold the barbecue, yeah. Yeah, moved that, I was thinking I'm getting stuff done, done bedtime, 10.30, Rose calls. Is that? Her key's not working. Oh, her key's not working either, half 10 at night. The lock's broken. So you've had four or five hours warning to maybe get a locksmith there,

but you've left it and now it's 10.30 at night and she's homeless. Well, the thing is, you can't book a locksmith and say, could you possibly come at 10.30 if the key doesn't work? True. And you can't just let him break in with no one there with him. You can't let him. And we were like, are we going to... Fair play to emergency locksmiths. I got one to arrive within 30 minutes.

Lovely. Lovely. 45 quid minimum if they can pick the lock. He's not picking that lock. Drills it straight through for 190 quid. Fine. They know that. Drills that before he's even had a peek.

Yeah, he's never gone, do you know what? I can pick this. Also, how easy is it to fake not being able to pick a lock? I know. I know. But it's not working. I'll give it a quick pick. It's not like you could go, I don't think you've picked that. Come on mate, put in some fucking effort and pay you 45 quid for this.

At least pretend not to pick it mate, because let's all play the game. Give it a bit of theatre. Come on. If I'm going to pay 190 quid, let's go for the picking. Oh, it's a tough one. Give it a bit of hope. No Frills delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express. Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca.

on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. So she gets in, barrels shat everywhere, fair enough. She was distressed. The man had been picking a lot for 13 seconds. Do you know what I felt fine about it? It was water off a duck's back by that point. You didn't have to pick up the shit, did you? No, and I was like, do you know what?

One thing weird about this, I don't feel very tired. It is 11 PM. And then I, so I went to bed. This is last night? Yeah. I was like, I don't think I've ever been less tired in my life. Oh God.

What's in these steroids? So I think, well, I'll just lie here. For about four hours, I was kind of, I'm definitely not asleep. I was having kind of quite weird hallucinations as I lay in the dark. Quite kind of fantasy, sci-fi space things I was just seeing going through my head. I'm thinking, is this sleep? I don't know whether this is. When they're so vivid, it's like, is this sleep or am I running down the street being

attacked by a man with a knife? So I don't think I slept, but I might have slept for some of that time. Can you hear the dogs barking? Yeah, yeah, tell them to shut up. You're trying to earn a fucking crust. That's a weird one. I better go check on her, don't you? Okay, so I can explain what happened there and we'll get back to your hallucinations. Go on, explain. Cheers, it's lovely.

I mean, I'll always complain, always question Lou, but never question Lou. She knows best. I've just learned I haven't got very good opinions. I don't have any opinions on interiors. I don't think it is a committee decision. No, no, no, I think it's very much. You elect the leader and they decide. What are in those tiny little, you've got little drawers behind you, what are in all those loads of nothing? Is it just for show, the Little drawers? There's nothing in them. They're just for show. The cat, the dogs are making a weird noise they don't normally make. And they

were going psycho. Or basically, they're whippets. And they love chasing stuff. Yeah, the neighbor's cat, who I don't know if the cat's very confident, or is going through a tough time and doesn't really want to live anymore, keeps trying to just walk into my house where our dogs live. So I don't know if he's up for a route or he just had enough and wants it to end. Yeah, but he's literally trying to get in the house as we will move the dogs into another room and then they'll go nuts because I can see that there's a cat in that. You know what I mean? So that's what was going on there.

Have you ever heard? Talking about animals with a death wish. Animals with a death wish? Have you ever heard Alice James' story about when his dog got into next door's garden and they had a goose and it just stuck its head in the water and drowned itself, just topped itself. The goose did? Yeah, because it was so afraid of the dog. No. So it just fell. Anyway, because I'm so afraid of the dog. No. Anyway, let's

talk. It was in the middle of the water and just went right. I'm just gonna give it up. You'd have a go when your goose has got a bit of power. What kind of dog was it? If I'm a goose, I'm going out on my shield. Yeah. I got 430am. Sorry. You sure this wasn't one of your steroid dreams? By the way, I should say, just in case you're worried, this isn't a long story to cover up a relapse. Lou's got away, you've had five bottles of gin, now you're blatant, a ton of cilitis. And then at 4.30, I just woke totally up.

Oh, so you've been up since 4.30? Well, I don't think I was awake. I don't think I was asleep from 4.30. So I think I might have been up all night. And so at 4.30, I thought I'll go and have a look at those side effects in the little piece of paper you get in there. Mania and feeling high was one of them. Yep. So that's what you've had, isn't it? Yeah. And being unable to sleep was another one. Oh, what? How long have you got them for? One more day. I'm not going to take them. My throat is totally fine.

I don't think there's any point in taking them anymore. I'm going to carry on with the antibiotics obviously because you have to. You have to carry on with them. That's the rules. I imagine if you're really depleted like Lou was, the steroids are just getting you back to normal. But if you're getting better already, it's pumping you up to a level you don't need to be at. No, I tell you what, Hulk Hogan RIP and how I felt for the 80s and 90s. You thought why didn't you save the steroids and take them to Glastonbury next year? I genuinely, I don't know what speed, you know when people talk

about taking speed and it just keeps you up, I've never taken speed but I could imagine it's like this. Yeah. How do you feel now? Totally fine. Cause you don't, I've seen you before when you've not slept, when you were having like insomnia and you are like, it's, I sort of feel bad for you. You're trying, but it's a bit slushy. I don't feel like I'll probably ever need to sleep again at this moment. I Googled, I think I spoke about this before. I Googled that I found a man that hadn't slept for like two years, but he just looked fucked up.

Did he do two days on throat steroids? Maybe, I should have asked, but you feel all right though. And when's Rose back tomorrow? Rose back tomorrow. Yeah, I'm fine. Because the other thing is, because there's other grownups here and there's kids. Yeah. If I was here with the kids, I'd have been panicking thinking tomorrow is going to be fucking

of course. At least you can go, if you have a massive dip this afternoon, you can go, do you mind if I go and have an hour upstairs? Yeah. here with the kids, I'd been panicking thinking tomorrow is going to be fucking. Of course. If you have a massive dip this afternoon, you can go, do you mind if I go and have an hour upstairs? Yeah. Cause I don't think anyone's going to go, come on, mate. I know you didn't slap, but push through you fucking loser. Oh, that's good. So it's worked out quite well.

Well, I wouldn't go that far off. My life since 4.30am this morning has been watching the highlights of data of the test match on my phone, silently because my son was sleeping next to me in bed. Yeah. Reading the match report of Plymouth's pre-season game against Torquay and then Wikipedia and all our new signings because I couldn't work out which one was which. That's a bit productive then. Yeah. And then reading Steve O'Mahangan's Wikipedia because we're interviewing him. Yes, we are aren't we? productive then. Yeah and then reading Stephen Mangan's Wikipedia because we're interviewing him. Yes we are aren't we, later on. I'm very prepared. Reading

a bit of his children's book, watching his interview on This Morning about his children's book and then... I haven't done any of that. No and then... I didn't even know who Plymouth have signed. Neither did I until I was Wikipedia-ing those people. I mean, I was reading transfer gossip. I don't ever get time to do these things. Josh, you're high. I'm high. And you just know this is why you can't do drugs because you'll end up... Five a.m. I'm wondering why Liverpool can afford to buy another striker. And thinking, well, Josie Gibson's getting some work in the summer, isn't she?

You know, doing Stephen Mangan on this one. I don't think Cat Deeley has read the book she's pretending to. She can't possibly have read the book she has so many people on in a week. Yeah she's knocking out more books than fucking. What else has been going on though Josh? So you're back in the game slightly? So I'm back in the game Rob. I've written down. Oh you didn't ever read out the response from Ramesh about me and Ramesh going on holiday by accident?

Oh yeah! And I said that he'd be all over me. You didn't? Because I saw him the other day. Yeah, here we go. Let me find that. Because basically me and Ramesh have booked the same hotel, but we overlap our holidays by about three days. And he's quite keen on separate holidays. And I like sure but I predict you... Sure you'll recap the message I sent to him? Yeah.

You're right Ron, we're just recording the podcast and we're discussing about the fact that your holidays are overlapping with Rob's and he says while you say that you don't want to see him he thinks that you'll be absolutely thirsty for his company because you'll be bored of your holiday and excited to see him and you want to go for walks and drinks with him. Do you believe that to be true? Okay, he's answered with an honest three words. He is delusional. He is delusional. Maybe so. Maybe so. Okay. He adds, I associate seeing Rob with a fee. I don't think we've ever been together and lost money before. It's going to be the first

time. Normally the bank account going up. And there's some chairs being delivered at the same time, I don't know if you realise. Some chairs being delivered. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see if the friendship holds up if we're not employed to be there together at the same time. Are you still hopeful of seeing him? Oh, definitely. He'll be all over it. He'll have a couple of units.

When does he... He goes first. He goes first. We arrive probably about five, six days into when he's there. When you think he'll be found out. There'll be three days of the Beckett and Rangers unleashed on each other. I just think it's too weird if you don't meet up. I think it will be all over it. We'll be having gin and tonics at lunch. We love it at lunch. So such a I think the problem

with lunch. So you're gonna such a, I think the problem with lunch, so you're going to leave your kids in the middle of the day to go and have a gin and tonic with the guy. No, no, no, no, no. So this is what we'll do. We'll do stuff with the kids in the morning. This is what me and Lou have been doing. The kids get a little bit bored of the pool and get a bit hot in the middle of the day. So they say, daddy, do you know what would cheer me up? Because you go and get your workmate for a drink. No, no, no, no, no. We as a family go for a lunch, a sit down lunch. Me and Lou get a nice bottle of rose. Yeah. And then

when they're finished lunch, they can have an hour out of the sun with their iPads. Yeah, in the air con. Yeah, strong. And then me and Lou have a bottle of rose. And then just slowly a bit Mary go back to the pool for the afternoon Yeah, so when you're fitting in Ramesh, he can join us. Oh, so he's coming to you So you're not meeting him half I thought you're meeting him halfway You're just saying that Ramesh is allowed to pop his head in on your family holiday. Yeah. The kids are sat on iPads, Ron can come and share a glass of rose with you and your wife. Yeah, absolutely. And Lisa, she's allowed to.

Oh, she's allowed to. What about their kids? This is, we're modern men. We get pissed with our wives. We don't go off like two men from the 70s. What about their kids? They can bring their iPads too. I would say... I'll probably end up getting pissed at his eldest son. He's like 70. Do you think it's more like to meet up with him than Ramesh, the way things are going. They'll all be all over me, hanging out with Uncle Rob, absolute legend. I think there's going to be a really depressing photo in the tabloids of five kids on iPads

while you and Ramesh and your wives get hammered. And you know what, people will look at that and go, what a pair of fucking legends. Because there's some, you know, look, we've got to be good parents, yeah? And I think we are good parents. You've got to draw a line. Everything that's wrong with Britain in the 21st century. That'll be the headline. I said to the girls, because I'm going to see Oasis tonight. Okay,

or Wimberley. And I said to the girls, what we're doing? I went well, mummies are basically lose got to do something this afternoon. So they're the lady that gets them from child minor babysitter that gets from school. Yeah. Um, sometimes she's coming to the classroom for the afternoon. They love, they do like craft games and stuff. And obviously it's summer holidays. So, um, anyway, so she's coming to do that and it's like, what are you doing? Oh, well, I mean, daddy's doing some podcasts in the morning. Then he's going off with his friends for lunch and then going to watch Oasis.

Mom's with me in the morning, then he's going off with his friends for lunch and then going to watch Oasis. Mum's with me in the morning then. She's got some chairs being delivered. Some chairs getting delivered. A cat might pop in. Loads of fun stuff. Yeah. And then I went, oh yeah, but dad, we're gonna miss you. I went, look girls, Saturday, I'm yours all day. We're gonna do whatever we want.

But do you know what today is? My day. I'm gonna do whatever I fucking want today. Okay? If I want to shout at delivery, man. If I want to shout at delivery. And I just said, I said, look, I'm going to do whatever I fucking want today. Okay. Because I want to shout a delivery man. If I want to shout a delivery. And I just said, I said, look, I'm always yours. I don't have you, but you know what today is for me?

My day. So I'm going to go for lunch. I watch Oasis and not be dad for a day. But then tomorrow I'm back in the game. Let's do what you want. Swimming at 9am. I'll be there tomorrow. I'm going to do some of the most half-hearted hungover parenting you've ever

seen in the world. Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to be full of beans after a coffee early doors, try and convince myself I'm not hungover or go swimming in the changing rooms. I'll probably do a fart that might kill you because I've had eight pints of unfiltered Stella. You're not used to me doing that because I eat and drink quite well at the moment. But when daddy's had a bucket of KFC and eight

points of Stella and he drops one, you won't fucking know about it. Okay. But then you'll let me off. We'll have a lovely day in the pool. Okay. Yeah. Swimming is going to be a bit ambitious for tomorrow. We're trying out snorkels. Well, that'll wake you up. That'll wake you up. The swimming, yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely will. And then you're gonna have some kind of, it's gonna be interesting. At 1 p.m. tomorrow, will you have a bigger crash

than I have at 1 p.m. today? That's the real thing. So my plan is to get up and get out early with them and then come back. Probably give them their iPad to sleep with. This is such a boring question, such a dad's question. How are you getting to and from Wembley Stadium? Because I think it's just the biggest decision of all time.

So can I explain, because we went to the boxing together. So now this is quite good actually. Actually met a celebrity that I think might have been on the same steroids I'm on at the moment, didn't we? There's a couple of celebrities there that might have been on the same steroids I'm on at the moment, didn't we? There's a couple of celebrities there that might have been on your steroids. Tonxelycer seems to be quite prevalent in the cellar world. Katakine going to the toilet today to top up his throat steroids. I think it might have been something wrong with his nose. Can you get Tonxelycer in your nose as well?

Anyway, that was funny because my dad come to news 81. Oh, when I put the video up of us, um, the boxing, can we just say the amount of comments about how good, good your dad looks for 80. So if he's 81, 81 years, yeah, he's doing, he's got, do you know what he never, he, he, he smoked when he was young cause everyone did, but he's not smoked or really drunk much alcohol. And I definitely think that's helped. He's not a boozer at all. He never doesn't re drink. Um, but yeah, he looks great for anyone. And he's quite belligerent in a good way where if there's something wrong with

him, he will just be like, he'll go to the doctor and get checked. But like, if he needs a walking stick or like a crutch, he will have it for the minimum time possible. He would rather crawl. How many days is he doing on the tray steroids? He loves to throw that. You don't want him on that. It's too much of a loose cannon to have that.

He went, cause we couldn't get, we couldn't find our car home. He kept on going up to these ladies in suits that looked like they're running the event because they're quite smart. Just went, where's, where's the car? Do you know where the cars are like that. The lady went, that is all Alexander Usyk's wife. So that they're not in charge of calves. Right. So people go for Wembley stadium. This is, it is a nightmare.

And you, I got, you couldn't, you had to abandon your car driving. I got, I came with Michael. Yeah. And you say how you got that? Well, so basically I had my dad and I didn't read my dad is 81 but I didn't want to I couldn't really do the tube and the train with him and it's too much of a long thing. So what I got is my tour manager to drive us up, wait and then drive us back. And I thought we'd do that. We got parking in the red car park. Never ever get parking in the red car park. Because if you do

the car park, no one tells you this is shut until 1am. So we have to sit in my car. We didn't have to 1am Josh. Why? Because it's all the roads are shut. So you can't get out the car park. Oh my fucking God. GK Barry had to abandon her car and get a taxi home because she was already I won in the morning. But if you if you get parked in the red car park, you basically are trapped there until the roads reopen at 1am. That is mental.

So my advice would be get the tube up because you can do it leisurely or or maybe eat or so what we did halfway gone me and Michael so me and Michael came up. It took us a long time to get there. We'd booked a parking space in someone's driveway. This is a great thing. I fully promote it. You can, it's called Just Park. You are not paid for them, buy them. In fact, I paid for two different spots on Saturday. But then we couldn't get to this guy's spot. Saturday. But then we couldn't get to this guy's. There was so much traffic. So while we were moving, we just found the nearest parking space in someone's driveway to where we were paid 30 quid, dropped up, abandoned our car there, and then walked the last mile.

Yeah, well, I paid I think about 75 to park at a car park till 1am. Yeah. And then when we left, we were so far from Wembley Stadium, there was no traffic. Oh, really? That's the way to do it. Basically, park further away and walk in or get the tube up. And then if you're trying to get the tube home, you've just got to leave the event early if you want to get on the tube before anyone else. Which is difficult with boxing. You can't leave the event early

if it's a race. I don't think there's any event you can leave early. I'm going to tell you something I've done in the full transparency and honesty of this podcast, and it's very unrelatable. Yeah. I'm getting the tube up there meeting friends for lunch in Central and then the tube to the venue, just walking in normally. Fine. Okay. Every man Rob Beckett there. Just living his life. How are you feeling about the At atmosphere on Wembley word?

I will be in a headlock multiple times on Wembley way See word bang headlock photo. Yeah, cuz there's no do you mind if you have a selfie gobble gobble? No, I just like there is no fucking me anywhere selfie gobble gobble with the races lads. There is no fucking meat anywhere. Oh my god, they're just getting gobbled up by geezers in anoraks, right? And I can't pop a bucket out onto hide if anything, more more attention. Exactly. So anyway, I'm going up there with my mate on the tube, coming home. This is very unrelated one. Yeah, I've booked a man and a motorcycle. Yes. Like Kate Garroway trying to get to good morning Britain.

Holly Willoughby jumping between pants and adverts. And I've not told my mates either. So I'm just going to walk out. I'm going to get the tube. I'm like, oh yeah. I'm just getting me. I'm just going to walk out and then I'm going to get the tube on fire and I'm just getting me. But I'm only getting him to go from Wembley to Victoria train station and then I'll just get the train home. You don't really want to be on a motorbike on country lanes. So very unrelatable.

Well that I'm looking forward to hearing how our aces goes. I'm paying for it all. I paid for my ticket. I haven't got any freebies. It doesn't come for me. No, don't come for me. You're helping the economy. I'm helping the economy the best way I can.

Yeah, so that's what I'm doing. But I would recommend like to park on a drive, but about 25 minute walk away. Yeah, that's why. The only reason I bought the parking so close to the stadium was because my dad is older. Yes. And he might not have been able to make that. It's a long night otherwise. I should say, God, I had a lovely time at the boxing. A lot of people were wondering if I'd go after Frank Warren had offered. I had a great night. Yeah, we sat together. That was nice. We

sat together full of celebs. Yeah, lots of celebrities. Jake Paul. We were sat in front of the Tottenham Hotspur football team. Yeah. I can't believe how close we were, Josh lots of celebrities. We were sat in front of the Tottenham Hotspur football team. Yeah. I can't believe how close you were, Josh. In front. I was surprised how far forward they were, if I'm honest. Bit of fun. Can you hear those kids in the background? Should I say I'm trying to earn a fucking crust? Yeah. Yes, please. Yes, please.

Guys, can you keep it down? What? Trying to earn an fn cross. They'd gone. He just sent it to an empty corridor. No, there was adults there, so it felt even weirder. But they'll know you're joking, won't they? Yeah, they'll know I'm joking. What I liked most was when you first opened the door, I swear a kid just went,

BAAA! Fending for an away. I don't think it's had any effect. I wouldn't say you delivered that with the authority of Sir Alex Ferguson. No, I didn't. I didn't, no. That's not in your makeup. Or my new friend Gordon Ramsay, who I met at the boxing. Oh, yeah.

Who approached me to congratulate me on how well things are going. Did he think you was Martin Freeman? Joshua Deacon wouldn't be here. Row through. Must be Freeman Freeman must be one of the Hobbit boys. Elijah. I did a really bad parenting thing the other day Rob. Come on. Or just a sign of being old. I did we're in the car and I did this one mean this won't happen again So don't think I'll ever you on again, but um, I did a yawn so loud

That my daughter said could you not do that again, that's embarrassing that is harsh though, isn't it? We're never forcing you to fucking sleep on the floor or in their room and then moan that you're tired But no, it wasn't the yawn Rob, it was the old personess of the... Oh yeah, I don't like that either. That is an old man yawn. I can't wait to see you old. You're gonna be hilarious old. You're gonna be like an old man from a Pixar film. Well I do look like the guy from ARP. Well, I do look like the guy from up. Yes.

Talking about parenting, have you seen the documentary on Netflix about the boy in the balloon where this crazy family from Colorado built a flying saucer that went up in the air and one of their kids crawled in it. Oh no, it's the last thing that happened. And then just flew through the air into the helium and then it sort of crash landed and it just became a massive American news story. Fucking hell. You've got to watch it. I won't say any more than that because there's a few

twists and turns, but it's really good. Also, what's it called? Perfect for parents. It's at 48 minutes. So you can do that in bed. Once the kids are asleep, it's got the boy in the balloon. I think, I think boy in the balloon. I'm watching wicked this week, Rob. I've not seen it. That's what I was going gonna say. So I'm doing covering for Romesh while he's on holiday with you. He having his lovely

long lunch on radio to so I'm interviewing someone who's been in wicked and the magic, the magic, the greatest showman. You mean somebody's been in wicked and the greatest showman? Yeah. Who are they? I don't know about this world, but she's a big deal. About this world? What world? Musicals.

Oh, what? I don't know what's going on. Why are you watching Wicked to interview someone about a musical? Because these are why she's famous. So it's like if you interviewed... Gary Lineker. Gary Lineker. You'd watch the goals he scored in World Cup 1986.

So I'm interviewing Kiara Settle, right? Oh, she's amazing. Yeah, I know. It's a great booking. I met her on Graham Norton. Did you? And she's lovely. She's really nice.

Oh, good. She's got an amazing voice as well. Yeah, so I'm interviewing her. So you interviewed her. That's great. Send her my love. I will do. I will do. Look at me, little...

...thespian bastard. ...and I'll say... You won't remember me. No. But Wicked looks long, man. I would, if it's Keala Settle, I'd been Wicked, watch Greatest Showman again. Really? I know Wicked's more recent, so I've mentioned it, but

Greatest Showman, she was unreal. I tell you what to watch which is really good. The YouTube video of when she first sings that song, This Is Me but in the rehearsal space with like Hugh Jackman. Oh, here we go. It's the first time they will do it together. That'll show I've done my research. That's not me. Asleep-ly Wikipediaing Stephen Mangan at 5.30am. Oh, that's cool though. So I've got to watch those Rob.

Yeah, watch those. Also, on a parenting thing. Did you do magnetiles in your house? Magnetiles? What's magnetiles? So magnetiles, it sounds like he's a baddie from a fantastic forefool. He's both the best and worst toy on Earth. Okay. Oh God. Yeah, that's difficult.

They're no, they're really easy until it goes wrong. Okay, so they're tiles and they've got magnets. Massive ones so they can build like houses. They can build really easily because the magnets stick them all together. Oh, I know. But they can't climb in it. They're small. No, no, they're small. So it's like the size of, I don't know, duplo or whatever. They do do big sets where they can make a fault. Yeah, but they can't, Rob, because then they'll stick

together and it'll all kind of stick to each other and it will all go wrong. And we had it with my daughter and it used to send her fucking crackers because it's so easy and then it all goes wrong every time. Just a bit of wind. Yeah. And my son's, we forgot. My son found some magnetiles and then asked for a full set, enough because there'd be only three left. It fucking drives him. It's his favorite thing in the world. And then he's just furious, like screaming at it for about 15 minutes. It's a living

hell. It's so high and low. It's unbelievable young as well, isn't he? He's four. It's exactly the age when magnetiles will drive you fucking crackers. But you didn't have it in your house. It's one of the kind of vogie big toys that have happened for this generation. I found a lot of squishmallows upstairs though. I found some squishmallows. No, fuck right off. Simmers.

Everything good causes too much excitement for the kids, but you can't just go, so I want you to live your childhood in a total mundane gray scale of no joy. And the highs and lows are fucking mad. Oh, those people that go, we only buy wooden toys for the children second hand. Oh, fucking well done, you. Congratulations, you've saved the planet. We're all going to live for another 20 years. Just get the kid a bit of plastic and some teddies, will you? Killjoy. That shit that gets pumped out by factories. I don't think it's going to end the world if your kids on the old magnetiles for 10 minutes.

My son had his nursery photo, Rob. Did I tell you about this at the time that he asked for a specific hairstyle for the day? No. And we were like, I don't know whether this is like stealing... Oh, I've mentioned, did you want it like, did you want pigtails or something? Yeah. So we got the nursery photo through. I said to them, look, if you feel like he's trying to steal focus by doing this, You can take them off him. But unfortunately, we're a we're still focused kind of family. Yeah. So see if you can find him.

I love the kids in normal clothes because he's still in the nurturing Tottenham shirt. Tell you what he wouldn't have been wearing that about the Europa League when we were there. No, it's not. He's not in the front row. Tottenham once again missing out on being probably three behind a Widdicombe. And where's your boy? Sat on the green bin on the right. Oh he's got little pigtails, yeah. Little green bin.

I mean, to be fair, he has stole focus because they put him on a massive green bin. I know, it's quite a weird decision, the two green bins. There's absolutely no need for the two green bins. They could just be stood like everyone else is stood. Why have they done that? I don't know. It's a lovely photo though, but he's a great, that's a great kid's photo.

But he is really, He looks so much like you. I know, poor little fucker. He's got the exact same head shape. Oh God, he fell out of bed last night, Rob. Oh yeah. I came upstairs, put him to bed, came downstairs, had a manic hour on my own and then went to bed and lied to stare into the

darkness and imagine I was going down a space tunnel. And then, but before that he woke up and I came up because he was screaming, he was on the floor under the bed and I was like have you fallen out of bed? Yeah, and he was like he climbed out. He's like no no he was obviously Half asleep put him back to bed woke up this morning. He's got a massive fat lip. He had fallen out of bed We had we had a sleepover, right? So I've been getting quite good sleep basically because my eldest daughter sleeps really well. My youngest daughter has had a bit of a regression in her sleep and sort of wants one of us to be, so we sort of sit with her till she goes to sleep, but she's been waking up in the night and basically, the easiest option is one of us getting with her. Because if you keep trying to reset her,

she gets more worked up. And she'll get through it. And the thing is, she's getting more anxious about it because she's not sleeping enough. So it was like, right, if we just get her enough sleep, she'll be more calm yeah yeah you know have you been brought brought a coffee no no it's been there her whole time oh I thought thought harry judd's wife had popped in just for a coffee cup come for us like roses away is there um anyway even if rose was here she's never delivered me a fucking coffee that's why I was shocked at lu and Rose. And now even we're trying to earn this fucking crust talking about all the parenting they

mainly do. I was talking to my friend who did a gig with Catherine Ryan yesterday, last night, because he was up at five. So I was like, I need to chat to someone. And he was like, Bobby, Katherine Ryan's husband was there. And I thought the thought of Rose coming to one of my kicks is so divorced from what I've been divorced might be the wrong word. Can you imagine? You're saying Rose should come to more. I'm just saying it was a surprise for you to you.

If it's one of those Wilbriggs festival gigs, you know those gigs, what would you do if, would you even offer up to Lou? If I said, Lou, I'm driving to Bristol at 4 o'clock. We've got babysitters. I'm driving to Bristol at 4 o'clock. We'll sit backstage with some comedians you half know. Then I'll perform to huge applause and cheers. You can go out and watch.

You can watch if you want or just sit on the uncomfortable, dirty, flea-ridden sofa at the back and have a warm glass of wine. And then we'll jump back in the car and we'll drive back for another three hours getting about 2am fancy. She'd go, what? She'd just walk off. I think that's what I'd get. To be fair in Lou's defense though, years ago before we had kids I was really in a bad

place right mentally not great. And then she did come on. She came with me to two shows, right? To support me and she'd come and say, that was lovely. And then when we got home, we'd been burgled. So that's the lesson there. Are you saying that Lou staged the burglary so she never had to come to any more shows? Well, I don't know.

Maybe she didn't draw the fucking curtains on the ice street if I have agreed. I suppose I'll have to buy some more chairs now they've gone. Do you want some chairs? Because we've got some chairs. I don't think we've got rid of the chairs, the new ones are replaced. Anyway, going to bed. So I'm getting some sleep because one of us needs to get into the bed with our daughter at the moment and then I've been working loads last week and I've been like literally, I did like

a 13 hour day the other day where I was filming all morning then I was rehearsing because I had to do Shakespeare at night at the Globe. And like the night before that it was like a 12, 13 hour record day and I wasn't on stage till like half 10 at night, even though I was getting picked up at eight in the morning to film all morning. So Lou was like, look, you've got to literally do Shakespeare. I mean, it was quite an easy win for me to find out who sleeps with the kids. She was like, you need a proper sleeper. Tell you what, no kids are

coming in to wake you up. Because lose with the one that comes in. I just was like, I was like, I was just in a double bed alone with the knowing no one will come. Yeah. And I was like, I don't think this this used to happen every night before children so you think no one's gonna come isn't it I definitely will I'll make sure that happens but God knows what else is going on in there. She might be pretending, good on her, do what you ought to do. Life's hard, just get through it. Anyway, so, but then when she had a sleepover, Lou was like, it's a bit awkward because I can't get in the bed.

The sleepover girl was in the bed with our daughter. So in the middle of the night, our daughter came in, so Lou went in just laid on the floor holding our daughter's hand. Lou woke up the next day, honestly, she looked like she'd slept on the street. She came in and was like, my back hurts so much. And then the girl was having a sleepover, rolled out of bed and banged her nose and got nosebleed. Fucking hell. So it's like, you had to sort of tell the parents, yeah, she's all right, little nosebleed,

but apart from that. Oh, Jesus. But you know, it's not our fault if the kid rolls out of bed. It's just unfortunate. Exactly. That's what I've just said to Rose. I just, I texted Rose this morning to say, the steroids kept me up. I've had one of the worst night. I've had no sleep at all. Yeah. And what she said?

And then I said, Oh, that's a shame. I said, feel wide awake, and I'm ready to interview Stephen Mangan, to be fair. And then I also said that our son fell out of bed and has got a fat lip. And then she said, I just got a text come through saying, oh, no, poor thing.

And I thought, that's nice. She was talking about her fucking son, wasn't she? Yeah, she doesn't care about you. She doesn't care about me. But what I've learned is when you're married and you've got children, your she doesn't care about you. But what I've learned is when you're married and you've got children your wife doesn't care about you because she's got to care about the kids. Yeah. So it's like she doesn't care. She has added. Yeah you're tired whatever. It's shit. How's the kids? Yeah she has added that but you know. What has she added? She has added

it's shit about the steroids definitely give them a miss. Oh, that's nice. So she does care. Yeah. Yeah. Give him a miss. Give him a miss. Um, Rob, we've got, well, it's not an announcement. We should drop in that we're having a couple of weeks where you're going on your romantic holiday with Romesh with your family. Well, it's not really a break because we put out some... It's the end of the series. It's the end of the series. Can we be honest? We never really see it as a series, do we? We don't.

No, I just turn up and talk and then Michael decides when it goes out. Yeah. Yeah. So Michael tells us it's going to be a couple of weeks of Best Ofs or a week of Best Ofs and then we're back again. Yeah, someone here last night who listens to the pod said to me, how much of it is like how much of an edit is it given? And I said, I don't know, because I've never listened to it. But I can tell you that we record each episode for six hours. So just

just see how long it is. And then this recording was about 55 minutes. 55 minutes. Let's see what you get. Right. Should we do a business shout out? I've got one here. Hi, Robin Josh, I would absolutely love a small business shout out please. I'm a professionally. Hi, Rob and Josh. I would absolutely love a small business shout out, please. I'm a professionally trained actor and mom of one and in between parenting and the rare bit of acting work, I teach adult beginners.

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Quite good to trail it. I just, I met someone very inspiring or someone who's got a very inspiring friend. I met a makeup artist called Jen, who I was working with and her friend lost her daughter Lola at three years old to genetic condition. And basically there's no research into this, Rob. And so Lola's parents basically turned this kind of awful experience, tried to turn it into a positive

and set up a charity to do research into this. There's no research available. It will help people do kind of genetic tests and stuff like that for unborn. Let's give the charity a shout out. What's it called? So it's called Creled One. Go to www.crelled.com if you want to find out more. But I wanted to give a shout out. Their slogan, alone we are rare, together we are strong. Lovely. Good luck to them. More than Josh. I hope you're both well. I'm a big fan of the Parenting Health podcast.

It always gives me a much-leaded laugh and some great perspective on the chaos of parenting. I'm reaching out to see if you consider giving me a small business shout out on the podcast. I recently started Bouncy Bliss Events. Do you want to have a guess at what they do, Rob? Strippers? Yes. Bouncy Bliss Events and also Bouncy Castles are soft play higher, based in Surrey and surrounding areas.

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Thanks so much for the laughs and great content every week. All the best, Ash. There we go. Josh, I'll see you next time. Oh, enjoy your romantic social with Romesh. I don't really wanna go. Oh yeah, and Oasis. And your oilful hungover swim. Enjoy your romantic sojourn with Ramesh. I don't really wanna go.

And Oasis. And your oil-full hungover swim. I just wanna fly. Call me a Beckett, you d***. Can I just listen to the rest of the song? Right, see you later, mate. Bye.