Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S9 EP7: How many podcast hosts does it take to change a lightbulb?

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

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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.

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Josh Widicombe. Okay, that was Amelia she took over. Annika, can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. Can you say Josh Widdicombe? Josh Widdicombe. Good girl. Okay.

Annika and Amelia? Hello you slaggy street dogs. You slaggy street dogs. Can I guess where they're from? Yeah. I feel like they're North or West London, but British Asian. Fucking hell, yes. Did I get it?

Yeah. There was the twang of what felt like sort of second generation children of immigrants kind of accent. There you go. So this is her auntie, Sital. I've absolutely smashed that, Josh. Get this from Wembley. Ah, bad old North West London, British Asia. Actually, I'm presuming that because the surname is Patel. I'm presuming that.

I think that's fine. That's all right, isn't it? Yes, I think that is. That's okay. That's like a O'Shea or Irish. Yeah, yeah, right. These are two and a half year old twin nieces, Annika and Amelia Patel from Can You Guess Rob?

As you can hear, Amelia decided she wanted to go first, even though I asked Annika to. Even though I'm not a parent, I've been a listener from day one, you guys. Give me jokes. Keep up the slaggy work, love, Satel from Wembley, and Annika and Amelia from Leicester.

Yeah, I mean, I couldn't guess the kids, but from the... Superb work, Rob. Superb. Oh, Joe, I'm actually really proud of that. And do you know what? As a white guy, I think I'd walk that tightrope well. I think we've... As far as I know, at the time of recording, our careers are intact.

As things stand. It's tough trying to guess someone's ethnicity from their accent without getting cancelled. Particularly when you're not even asked to. When you've decided to do it off your own back. No, but I guess where people are from, I could guess that accent was sort of west or north London, but also as well there's a slight twang of British Asian there and I think I dealt with that well. So what we're going to do from now on to really up the stakes is Rob's going to guess your race and your sexual orientation from your voice. Gay seek! Next one.

How are you Josh? I'm alright, I'm home. You're home from Paris. I'm home from Paris. I feel a bit shaken. It was just quite an intense two weeks. Yeah, that's a lot of TV you had to do, to be fair. Yeah. Have you missed your children and Rosie's muscles?

Yeah, obviously I've had an argument with my daughter this morning already. And I thought, how have I done that within 12 hours? But that's just life, isn't it? That's just having children. What have you argued about? Well, she's just going through a bit of a phase of unremitting negativity right okay okay sorry and who's this again that's your your daughter this is my

daughter Rose sent me some article about this kind of a lot of kids between 3 and 8 go through this phase, but it's like dealing with a teenager. This is what Ike Lube has mentioned before, but everyone I speak to, I was told it was from nine to 11. Well, there's six to eight in this article. But I don't know if people are just lying to themselves and moving the age, but there are different hormones and different developmental stages.

Yeah, this is Adrena Carney or something. Adrenocani. I'm having a bit of trouble here, Josh, if I'm going to say that. I've got, I want to do streaming, yeah, and gaming. Oh yeah. I like playing computer games. I've got like a PC where I can play games on, right? And also I want to maybe do like streams where we do watch alongs of football and sport and stuff. Anyway, I've got this gaming headset, but I can't really hear you properly. I've got like a stupid, you see that little, that like work at a call center. Yeah, you do look like a total wanker. Yeah.

So I'm struggling these headphones because I've got a new setup and I feel like a knob at the moment. So I feel a bit nervous. Yeah. I don't feel as full pal in your face as normal, but I think I might change the headphone setup for the next one. But all I want you to know is I feel vulnerable today so can you look after me? I'm also, can I just say if Michael wants to take a screen grab of this our rooms both of ours I've got yours is a dusty Henry Hoover. Nothing that dirty can

clean. No that's a Henry Hoover owned by a builder. That's what that is. That's a builder's Hoover, right, okay. And you've got various, presumably clothes to go to a charity shop. That's a charity shop hall, and also there's a bike that's not going to a charity shop. That's just a kid's bike. That's just a bike in the living room.

That's just a bike in the living room. That is. It's just a bike in the living room. It's just a bike. That is just your classic bike in the living room. And then I've got, over there I've got some car seats that are the backs portions of the car seats that the kids don't really like. It's actually a bit dangerous because they've just got boosters now. And then over there I've got a tall bag and a fan facing the wall that hasn't got a controller

for and a pair of crotch on the floor. So that's my setup at the moment. It's been very busy as well getting like getting back into the swing of school. The initial excitement's died down. Talk to me about the return of school. The return of school, it's actually been well received and very well welcomed, I'd say. In both sides of the house. Couldn't care about the other side. Right, yeah.

But I don't know how they feel about it, but they're there. No, they're actually quite enjoying it. They were a bit like, oh, I'm a bit nervous, don't want to go, but they're quite enjoying it. But we're just getting into the rhythm of it, of different clubs before and after school. And obviously they're in a different year now, so there's different pick up times and drop off times and all that malarkey. So it's just sort of sorting that out. So it's good though, but I've been, cause I had a lot of time off in the summer holidays with the kids. I'm sort of straight back into work. I've looked at the last nine days, I've done eight TV shows, four podcasts and

two tour previews, as well as meetings in the day. Bloody hell Rob, what TV shows? There aren't any left. I did two episodes of You Bet. Oh yeah. One of which finished at 1am. I didn't fucking bet on that. It overrun because they're bringing it back and they have such massive sounds. It's mental. There's like two cars on a seesaw and a JC. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't give away too much here, but I mean, as if that's a spoiler. Wow. I'm not going to watch it now. I know there's two cars on the seesaw.

I was only tuning in to see whether they do that. No, I know they do. I'm not going to bother. Yeah. So I was doing that. And then I did another show for Amazon, which I'm not allowed to talk about yet. I don't think. Yeah. And just, just busy with life. And then I had the kids at the weekend, because I'm trying to have Lou's working at the moment. But the way she's doing it, she's trying to work the weekends. And then I don't work the weekends.

So I have the kids at the weekends, because I'm doing my previews in the week. So we had a fun day out. Oh God, you're starting your tour soon? Yeah, but I got in from you better at 2.30am, because they film it in Reading. What? So I finished. What? There's a big new studio in Reading.

Have you not been there? You're going to be absolutely livid when you start doing shows there. No, I'm not Rob. It's so far from your house. It's the other end of the Elizabeth line for me. I bomb it straight to Reading. Oh, as if you're going to get the train. I get the train.

Oh yeah. So you're going to get the Elizabeth line to Reading? Yeah. How long does that take? It goes to Reading? Yeah! How long does that take? It goes to Reading? Yeah! No it doesn't! I did a gig in Reading a month ago and I was like how do I get there?

Put it into my phone and it said Elizabeth Lion all the way. But I'm not too far from the Elizabeth Lion. Yeah. I could get it from South East London. It's a fucking game changer Rob. I tell you what, the legacy of old Queen, I'm not a massive royalist, but Queen Elizabeth II. I know she built it herself. She built the whole thing by hand.

Right, Elizabeth II, where does it go? Right, let's have a look at this. Why don't you believe me? Because you're saying you can get a train from your house to Reading on one line. That is an extreme train line, isn't it? Yeah, true. Do you know you can get a trained from Miami to Orlando now? You remember that?

I didn't know that, no. Not that you'll need to, but... But do you know what? I'm going to take that as a fact because I trust you as a friend, rather than Google it like some people would. So hang on, it goes all the way. It goes to Redding. It goes to Redding.

Yeah, that's what I said. You've got to be shitting me. I'm going to do that then next time. How long does that take from Liverpool Street, where you got it? I don't know, 45 minutes, something like that. You've just made that up completely, haven't you? It's not long enough.

No, no, no, no, no, no, don't lie to me, right? I've been proven to be true already. Yes, I know, but now what you're doing is you're lying about it. I'm estimating. That wasn't a lie, that was an estimate. Reading to, so I don't know this is interesting to people, but... That's never stopped us before. But if you get a car, right, Liverpool Street to Reading, right?

Sorry, sorry about this everyone, but I just, I can't believe... Right, so, oh my fucking God, it's 49 minutes. Right, once again, I've been proven right. All I can do is apologize. All I can do... Oh no, that's if you get off the Elizabeth Line and then get a Pallinton train. Oh. Oh, here we go. It all starts falling apart. Oh, actually, it's not too bad. If you stay on Liverpool Street, it's an hour.

Yeah. Jesus. Why are you getting off to save 11 minutes? Just stay on, chill out. See the bear. Enjoy the Lizzie line. That is outright... I'm gonna do that then. Yeah.

Fuck. It's been taking me so long in a car. And I can save the planet. But you will have to, from Redding, go to Schimfield. Okay, I reckon we should stop this feature going wrong. Because I saw you. I saw you leaning into Google. This is a step too far.

Oh, I'm such an old bastard, Dad. Yes, well, you will have to get to Shinfield Studios from there, I'm afraid. Oh, my word. Right, anyway, it took me ages. We finished at 1 a.m. Well, no, train at 1 a.m., Josh. You have to get a car. Yeah Yeah, exactly. And then what were you doing the next day a preview in Schimfield again? No the next day

I was up at 6.30 with the kids obviously and then we went to some Some new classes they went to acting they wanted to act in oh Acting classes so I've got cut Joe was oh my god. This is disgusting Well the route back for you if you can't get the train because it's not on because it's 1 a.m Yeah, you've got it's a horrible two hours for you, mate. Fuck it out. That's horrible right there on the m25 cut through them for it What for? Anyway, anyway, it's a long old commute. No, it's like in the next day that took them to their classes They did musical theater. They didn't really like that as much and then acting every light to my youngest acrobatic, acro, I don't know

something to do with hands that you drop and run or did you sit and watch? So the way I had to sit for half an hour, you don't sit and watch you just drop and run and then I dropped to run and on for our sleep went to be in Q2, fine by light bulbs. They still don't work like my daughter's got no bulbs in her room at the moment. However, we believe it's so low on our list of Yeah, I know. But she's in complete darkness. Oh, no, I get it. I know. I totally get my list. Yeah. But no, what I mean is they just go too often. And then I don't have bought it. But then also as well as that ship of sale drop, that ship was sale. Even if you get one that works, it's not the same kind of light. It's either like too bright or not bright enough.

It's either I'm like in some sort of Gothic museum or operating table. The lumen situation. So I dropped them there. Then I went to B&Q to get some light bulbs while I was there. Also got some bird feed and some indoor plants because I'm quite into indoor plants at the moment, Josh. Are you? It really brings something to the house.

Well, I can see behind you, Rob. Don't judge this, really. Do not judge. The way they're offsetting the bike and the charity shop clothes is really... It's lovely, isn't it? And the blind pulled down in the middle of the morning. Yeah, that's for the light in for this, Josh. I know, I'm just... But I'm supposed to be going to Indonesia, but that's been cancelled.

So I've got a few days off where I'm going to do a dump run because I ordered something and the box came. And obviously I can fold down all the cardboard for the recycling. But when it comes in that white polystyrene stuff, how do you get rid of that? Oh, I despise the white polystyrene. It's disgusting. It's so like kill the world stuff. Put a bit of paper in there. Yeah, it's just the worst.

And also if it starts breaking, the kids love it. Yep. And also the static means it sticks to everything, the little balls. But no, no, it's not balls. It's like when it breaks apart. No, no, no, but when it breaks into the tiny balls. If you know what I mean, it breaks into the tiny little bits.

Yeah, also, we've had a few things where Rosa's got deliveries of like lights from Europe. Yeah. They don't give a fuck about the environment, Rob. Oh, okay, fraud. Let's go. Get it off your chest. You've been in Paris a couple of weeks. What don't you like about the Europeans? No, I'm going to say you receive a box of lights from Italy. Right. They, I'd say, do you know what? Global warming, the world's over. The moment you see how much

polystyrene is in that box, well, it could be rolled up. But how do you get rid of it? Can you recycle it? No, you've just got to bin it. You've just got to bin it. But it's so big. I've got, anyway, I've got... I know. You've just got all these fucking bin bags and the stuff. I've got a charity shop run to do and a dump run. Well this will cheer you. Go on, cheer me. I'll take you through my next three days. Yeah, cheer me up or cheer me down.

Can you cheer someone down? Yeah, I know I'm gonna cheer you up I hope. Yeah, but if you could cheer someone up, surely there is a way to cheer them down. I've never heard of it. Boo them down, wouldn't it? You used to do a Peter in out thing, didn't you? I know you always bring that out.

I loved your Peter in out and your lap bit. Yeah, you liked that, didn't you? I loved your little lap bit and I used to watch you and go, you know what, he just gets things that other people don't get. Where is he getting, how's that little brain ticking over the little bastard? You still haven't worked out how that brain's ticking over really have you? No, neither have you and I think that'll always be the intrigue of Josh Whitaker. Yeah, I got home from Paris yesterday. Which shocked me because you had quite a stressful time in Paris trying to find your headphones and been away from home and then you said you were sad to leave because you enjoyed it so much.

So the mixed emotions when I got home were insane. You've been at this amazing event, you've been living in an amazing city. It's not a huge amount of work in the day. So it's not like you amount of work in the day. So it's not like you're like, fucking hell, I'm working 18 hour days. But there's something like maddening about doing a show from 1030 till 1130, French time every night, then getting back to your hotel room at half 12 and being unable to sleep because you've just done live TV. You're all wired.

Yeah. Four 11 nights on the bounce. Talking about the same subject. Yeah, talking about the same subject. So I was just totally, I basically burst out in tears when I got home. Sorry. Because I didn't know what to feel. Welcome to the family. Yeah, I didn't know what to feel. Daddy's home! No, no, I didn't live to walk in the door. I walked in the door door, I held it together and after about an hour I was just like, to Rose, I've just got to have a...

Have I ever told you this? Like when I was, for years, when I was just kind of holding it all together. When you was really like stressed and... Yeah, but before like, I used to occasionally just have like a burst of emotion or I'd just start crying. I didn't know. Because would you have normally then just had a few drinks when you got home last night and not cried and got it out, you would just got really drunk

and then felt hungover the next day? Yeah, probably. Rather than release it, is that what you used to do? But like in the old days, I'd occasionally just, so I'd hold it together for months on end, the pressure of doing everything, and then I just burst into tears. And me and Rosie used to call it my trademark freak outs.

But it would come out of nowhere. It would just come out of nowhere. Yeah. Right, OK. Trademark freak out. Oh, Josh is having a trademark. Yeah. So I basically had a trademark.

But then it was just because I didn't know what to feel, because it was so amazing, but it was so I was so desperate to be home. I think it's trademark, but then it was just because I didn't know what to feel because it was so amazing, but it was so I was so desperate to be home. I think it's exhaustion, isn't it? Yes, exhaustion. It's everything. Anyway, today. It must have been really hard to have 11 lions in a row. Well, see, that's the problem.

I'm joking. I know, but that's what I was thinking. Why am I exhausted? Because I was getting up without kids every day. But conversely, I don't know, there's just something about doing TV every day, isn't there, it's quite tiring, it's not a proper job, et cetera. Well, live is more stressful than other TV

because you can completely cancel your career in one sentence every second. The temptation's always there. Yeah, a little trademark. I'd love to see a trademark Josh Freak out on air. Oh my God. Just burst into tears. Welcome to the show. Do you know what, I think Josh freak out on air. Oh my god. Just burst into tears. Welcome to the show. Do you know what? I think it would probably be quite good for my career.

Well if you burst into tears. I think people are going to go. Alex Brooker cried didn't he on the last show? No, he almost did. All right. So anyway, come home. Yesterday did pick up from school. That was great. My daughter had just been the new club VIP club where they learn about different celebrities, famous people. No way. Really? No, like people from history. Oh, it's called the VIP club. So each week saying that Florence Nightingale not like Kylie Jenner. Well, week one, Taylor Swift. She was absolutely fucking buzzing. You've got to get them in with it. Yeah, exactly. They know what they're doing. Start off with Joan of Arc. Yeah, exactly. They know what they're doing. You can't start off with Joan of Arc. Yeah, exactly.

Get them on board with Taylor Swift and drop some dry ones. Actually. Louis Pasteur. What? That is a lot of milk. Anyway, today, get the kids off to school. Rose is away.

Where's Rose? Fair play, to be honest. I've been away for two weeks. Where's the rope? Fair play to be honest. I've been away for two weeks. Where's she gone? Straight out? Mike Drop gone? She's working. So they're looking at a house, like got a meeting at a house. You're going to love this Rob.

In Exeter. For her to sort of interior design for someone. That'll be good, because that'll mean obviously that she's away a lot more. So that'll be it. Yeah, that'd be great, wouldn't it, that she's got the first project done, the next one's again 400 miles from your house,

round trip. Yeah. I said Andy. Anyway. It's a shame, because there's just not enough, not many houses in London. There is a London one she's got a meeting with, I know which one I want her to do.

Let's put it that way. Exit her. The London one, negotiation now, I know which one I want her to do. Let's put it that way. Exit her. The London one negotiation now. Just be like, oh yeah, because, yeah, I suppose that price is it, but it'd be what you'd be saving on travel expenses to here. So I've got this till 12. Yeah. Is this your day? Kids dropped off.

Kids dropped off. Got osteopath that was booked in before I went just to see it because my neck's actually in a very good state now. Oh that's good. Because I was going to the hotel gym every day. Looking lean. I've got a thank you I've got a Zoom meeting from so that's 12.30 to 1.30 the osteopath. Yeah. No 12.30 to 1.15 run back Zoom meeting 1.30 to 3 then I've got 10 minutes for a shower. I might not even be able to have a shower. And then I've got to get on a train to Birmingham

to go and host a corporate. That is a self-entry back into. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, oh yeah, you've got a couple of meetings, you're not that busy. Oh no, this is not- Energy and Utility Skills Conference Awards.

Absolutely, all of those at once, yes please. And you've got to do stand up. Got to do stand up, yeah. And when was the last time you did stand up? Middle of August, early August. How do you feel about doing stand up? I actually feel better about it tonight because it's 10 to 15 minutes

than I do tomorrow night where I'm doing half an hour. Right. At Greenwich Comedy Festival. Okay. and you've got to get back from Birmingham tonight? Back from Birmingham tonight, school run in the morning. Cheering up, yeah. Yeah. Zoom meeting in the morning and then I've got the afternoon off. Oh that's nice, let's do a quick burst of tears. Quick burst of tears. Greenwich Comedy Festival. Yeah. And then straight in a car.

Oh, after Greenwich? Yeah. Home? No, to Birmingham. No, why? Why are you going back? Because I've got the Paralympics homecoming. Oh, fuck, I'm off.

Surely they've had enough coverage. It's been on every night. Give us a break. Do it next Saturday. It's been on every night. Give us a break. Do it next Saturday. It's on TV on the weekend. Oh, okay. So the Paralympics homecoming, which is the next day.

So you're hosting that in an arena? Yeah. Lovely. Okay, that'd be nice and chilled. Yeah. That'd be nice and chilled. The rehearsal was on the Wednesday. With people you work with every day for two weeks.

Yeah, the rehearsal was on the Wednesday, but I couldn't't go obviously because I've got Greenwich was in first and so I've got to start at like 8am to do my own little rehearsal and then get back in the car. So you'll be leaving Greenwich at like a half 10 at night to get to Birmingham at like one in the morning? Yeah. To be up at 8am to rehearse the ceremony thing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just confirmation there of, yeah. Can't you cover someone cover you for Grinage and then you just have a rest in Birmingham? No, because it's just, it's tomorrow.

It is tomorrow. Well, yeah, I'm in Colchester tomorrow so I can't do that. I would do it for you though. Also it's booked by my friend and I was with him at the moment when one of his headliners for his other festivals pulled out. Yeah. And I've seen how horrific it is for him.

Yeah, cause people are allowed refunds if the headline changes sort of. Yeah, and it's difficult cause it's sold on your name. Do you know what I mean? And in what you're doing when you come back from the Birmingham Paralympics. I'm getting cast straight back. Perfect, so. So I can do school run on Friday, but I don't want to stay in a fucking hotel again. Do you know what I mean? It's like, you wouldn't

want to go to sleep, would you? I've just spent two weeks in a hotel. I want to be able to do the school. You spent eight hours in a car so far and it's only first day afternoon. And then I've got a couple of meetings on the Friday. Yeah, that'd be all right with it. Children's birthday. Yeah, that'd be nice. And then night off. Night off. Night off. Right to that. Probably get the kids asleep by about nine,

go downstairs, flick through Netflix, not watching anything, quick curry bed. Yeah, well Rob, last night, first night back. Curry. My daughter couldn't sleep. So it got to 20 past nine and she was winding herself up that she couldn't sleep. I've not really seen her do that before.

She's definitely going through something where she's got a load of, it's not hormones, but whatever it is. Do you know what I mean? I totally agree because they go for it. When my youngest, she is actually getting over it now slightly, but at a period of just like her imagination was so intense. I'll tell you what she said about going on the, she was a bit nervous about going on the climbing thing at Centre Park.

She did it and enjoyed it. I said to her, well, what is it you're worried about? Because we've been watching a lot of Inside Out 2. Have you seen it yet? No, I've not seen it yet. And it's amazing with anxiety and stuff because we were watching, because one of my daughters doesn't go, was struggling to get sleep. She's better now.

And she was like, oh, that's like me at bedtime. It's my anxiety that's running the control panel, not joy. And I was like, Yes. And she understood it and stuff. And then she was saying, Oh, I don't want to go to here or there about I don't know what it was. She I think she was just inventing something. I said, Well, you know, sometimes at work, people are mean to me, as well. They'll try and get me to do things that I want to do. So I have to say, I don't want to do them. And sometimes a bit back and forward. And then I try to not work with them again or try to avoid being in their company she's like what that happens to you too I was like yeah and I

think with kids them just realizing that they're not the only one in the world worrying yeah I mean yeah that sort of helped anyway so I was trying to get into her head a little bit and I went so what is it a worried about the zip line and I thought she'd be like oh it's really high and it's windy she went I just don't want to fall off break my brain open so I can never think of anything again. Oh my fucking God. Oh my God. It was a bit like, yeah, I think that's what I'm worried about too actually. Let me tell you about the eliminator on gladiators.

Cause I was worried about that. So she's, you're saying she's a bit upset by stuff or something, or a bit maudlin? No, she's not maudlin. She flips very easily at the moment. Like out of nowhere, she's just got anger. And she doesn't like it because it would take her over, you know, like anger does.

And then afterwards she's like, I feel like I can't control it. Both of my daughters are having that where they just like, you go, well, no, let her play with that bit and then they go out of nowhere but I want to and storm off. Yeah oh that's good I know that sounds weird but that's really good to hear because you're like. It's like a character. Yeah. I think that might just be children but they go absolutely skits where they're blood-bred and screaming

and just getting angry. And you're like this this is scary. Do you know what I mean? And the reactions not, it's not like I've said, you've got to go to room for your Wiki or never allowed an iPad ever again. And you're not going on holiday with us. I literally have gone, cause she play with that ball for a bit. But she reacts. Like I said, the first one. Yeah, exactly. And you feel slightly like you're on eggshells the whole time because it could happen. Do you know what I mean? We found though, that was with our youngest, that was more hunger.

Her blood sugar levels dropped massively where in the morning she'd be like, don't want that, hate that. You're like, everything you say. She's like, no, hate it, don't want it. No. And then she'll go up to Lou and go, it's more fun when dad's here. And then when Lou's not there, she'll come up to me and go, it's more fun when mum's here. You'll be in evil. But then you give her like two rounds of toast and she's like hi daddy love you you're like f***ing hell bread no wonder they said the best thing since last bread but it's good to be back we're going away at the weekend with some parents for a night oh where you going? someone we know has got like a house where they've invited lots of parents. So we're quite excited about that. There we go. Yeah. Just parents or parents and kids? No, with kids, with kids.

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not like a sex place? No, it's not like a sex place. Because I was thinking about this, this happens. I don't know any of these sex people or these swinger people, but it happens. Who's up to it? And I don't want to join in, but I just want to hear the gossip about it well send it in send it in for playground shaggers well I've playground swingers as well we're fine with that playground shaggers subcategory sex people they're sex people in I don't know if I was into that kind of sex which each their own yeah I Yeah, yeah, well, swinging. Yeah. How I would- I find it so stressful.

Identify and approach people. Yes. Do you know what I mean? Well, I think it's the pineapples, the giveaway, isn't it? What's that? Well, I've heard that an upside down pineapple- Up the?

No. All right, sorry. They don't not to be used. But an upside down pineapple, like in the shopping trolley in the shops is a sign. So whenever you see an upside down pineapple, that's a sign. What in your shopping trolley in Sainsbury? Yeah, or on cruise ships, I've seen it where they put a little upside, a sticker of a pineapple upside down. On the door?

On the door. Oh my God, because I've heard pampas grass. Yes, I've heard that too. But I think that's a little bit more of a countryside thing when you've got space. Because if you live in central London, it's easier to get a pineapple sticker. If we were to put, which we're not going to, because we're not, just to be very clear. But if we were to just put an upside down,

should I go and leave an upside down pineapple outside people's houses and see how it plays out? Get a sticker of an upside down pineapple and put it on Tom Crane's front door and just see if he reports anything back. Because he lives around the corner and you work with him. Josh, someone's put their erect penis through my letterbox. Great day, I loved it. What else has been going on Josh? I mean you've not really seen your kids. Well I was in Paris so it was kind of like you'd FaceTime mmm but it's been tough for Rose yeah that is a brutal shift that is at the end of the summer holidays it's not what you need or like trying to get the shoes get them all ready for school

you're not there just I wondered I forgot what I basically don't even remember recording the last one cuz I was so mad. Did I mention the bracelet my daughter got given up Taylor Swift? No. I can't believe I didn't mention this. So you know they swapped bracelets? Yeah. Yeah. She had like 10 bracelets or whatever and she was swapping away with, often with adults, like because there was lots of adults. And then we were about 10 seats or so down a row, and the woman at the end of the row, like a woman in her 20s, is shouting down to get my attention, like pointing at her, and I'm like, I don't know what's going on here.

And she wouldn't leave it at all. I was like, just pass the message down. Oh, so people pass a whisper down? Yeah, like the end of Crocodile Dundee. Have you seen the end of that where they're showing down the station? Yeah. He said he loves you. Yeah.

And she's like, your daughter's got an inappropriate bracelet on. Oh. And one of her bracelets had been swapped, and then she'd seen it swapped onto my daughter's wrist. Oh, OK. And I was like, oh, OK. I looked onto my daughter's wrist. Oh, okay. And I was like, oh, okay. I looked at my daughter's wrist and there was a bracelet that said slut on it.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. That is a bad one actually, isn't it? That is a bad one. It's not ideal. I thought it was gonna be like crazy bitch

or stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. Or like shit happens. Yeah's not ideal. I thought it was going to be like crazy bitch or something like that, or like shit happens. Yeah. Slut. Slut? I haven't heard anyone say the word slut or call anyone a slut for years. I don't know enough about Taylor Swift. Is that something she's like reclaimed or something? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I'm tempted to Google it, but I don't know if I really want to Google that. Taylor Swift slut. Yeah, just to see what the context is. I mean, it's a real jump

from Shinfield Studios to Hackney. Yeah. Root planner Taylor Swift slot. It hasn't come up. Oh, there's a song called slot. She's you know what? She's a little bit wrong. She isn't a she takes she doesn't give a shit Rob. She doesn't play by the rules. She creates the rules. So did your daughter want to keep the bracelet? No, we managed to get it off her. She didn't really care. We kind of just went, oh, do you want to swap that one? Yeah. Taylor Swift wrote it with producer Jack Antonoff, who she wrote all of her songs, and Patrick Berger. That can't be the former Liverpool wing, okay? No, it can't be the Czech Republic International Patrick Berger. Is it spelled the same? Oh yeah, I suppose it is it can't be the Czech Republic International Patrick Berger. Is it spelled the same?

Oh yeah, I suppose it is, yeah. I don't know how Patrick Berger used to be spelled. B-E-R-G-E-R. Yeah, it's the same Patrick Berger, yeah. What a career he's had. He's a good player, wasn't he? He was, and then he wrote Slut with Taylor Swift. What a career journey!

No, it's a different Patrick Berger. Oh, okay. Shockingly. He must be worth a few quid if he's written all of them with Taylor Swift. Jack Antonoff, he writes with Taylor Swift and he writes with Lana Del Rey. He must have a billion pounds.

Have you seen the old man on TikTok that sings Lana Del Rey songs? No, but I'd like to. It's like little old geezer in his own little recording studio in his like living room. It goes, video game, it's you, it's you, it's all for you, everything I do.

It's quite sweet in a way. I'll send it to you. Yes, yes please. How has your parenting been Rob? Well I dropped an absolute bomb here. When I was doing the light bulbs, and basically when I was doing the light bulbs, the new ones I got weren't working in my daughter's room, then they were working, we got the same fittings, were working in ours and then at one point I took the bulb out and it didn't work in the little socket thing for it and when I took it out, holding it in the air,

it came on. What? Like a magician? Yeah exactly and it was on and then it went off and I was like and then I tried to put it in and then at one point no lights were working in my daughter's room. Now the telly's not working. I think it might be the wiring. So we've got to get an electrician to have a look.

There's something wrong with the wiring. And it was so stressful. I didn't realize the kids are there. And Lou was watching and Lou was laughing at me getting more and more stressed and stuff. Yeah. We had to get their bikes. So their bikes, they're too big for their bikes.

They've got these little toddler bikes. So it went to really good bike shop in Bromley. I paid for all the bikes. This is not like a freebie plug. It's on like opposite the glades, boots in the glades, called like Bromley Bike Shop or something. Really nice guy in there. He sold us these bikes about three years ago.

They're too big for them now. And he said like, oh, when they're too big, bring them in. We'll trade them in. I'll give you some money for the old ones. And then we can take that off the price of the new ones. Anyway, so I dragged it out too long and they are so, it looks like an adult on a clown bike, the little one. Yeah, that's actually quite good because they've jumped up a level so they are

only just tall enough for this like 24 inch bike that should do them to about 11 or 12. So I've done quite well to miss a middle point bike. Or the other way of looking at it is they've been on two smaller bikes the last three years. Yeah, they've probably damaged their spine Anyways, I was chatting to about it and then I was like, okay, cool You will do it for this price to for that price I wonder how much will you give us for the old bikes like that? He went all well, they sort of sell at this or do it that and it's all I'm not I find when you're on the telly, it's hard to be a negotiator

Yeah, I sort of feel like they just sort of actually assume that like, you don't want to be like breaking some geezers balls for a bike. Yeah, exactly. And then he was like, Oh, it was like that. And then my daughter, I know I went this bike here, this beautiful bike, how much are you going to give us for this wonderful bike, this brilliant bike and all stuff like that. She started negotiating with him. I was like, this is unbelievable. I didn't even ask her to, she just, from our conversation of she was clocking that oh obviously We need to get more money. Yeah, this one to pay for that one

And she said just look at the gift of the gab Rob gift of the gab and she was a negotiate I've got to try to jump off Guy Football show what's that Red Star Belgrade? I think it's Prague, Slavia Prague. Oh, very nice. Yeah, so that was a bike negotiation was doing. Got the bike. Also, by the way, I'm at the stage now,

the bike's so big, I'm gonna need one of them little nerd virgin racks for the back of the car if we go anywhere. Oh no. Do you ride with them, Rob? No. I just sort of stand in the middle of the park as they do laps.

Right. So where we live now, there's no really for them to safely cycle because it's all country lanes and there's no sidewalks, no pavement. So what we're gonna do is leave them at the Nan and Granddad's house that live next door to a park.

So that whenever they go around there, they can use the bikes. And also because where the Nan and Granddad live is like near their school and more in Bromley, whenever we're over that, well, that's where we normally need to go if we need to get shoes or whatever, like we can then go, do you want to have a quick bike ride?

And then we just go and get them out of the garage and do that. So, but I can't get them in the car now. It's a sad day when your kids' bikes can't fit in the boot. Cause it's like, I could get away with their bike. It's like if they're proper little grownups now, it's actually mental. Oh God.

Do you feel the time passing, Rob? Slightly. Any thoughts of a third? No, no, no, no, absolutely, no. I'm loving life. Well, I told her I took after my brother's 18 month, but it's impossible. So difficult.

The thought of having like a baby that can't communicate with you, that's got like acid reflux and is crying, and then has got colic. All these words that dominate your life for two years. I don't hear colic. And also like, at the time, when your your kids got colic, it's like horrific. It's horrendous.

It feels like it will never end. And then you read a thing and it says should pass within three to six months. And you're like, you fucking kidding me. It's like a prison sentence. Yeah. Now I hear people go, oh, baby's got colic. I'm like, can't give a shit, mate. And what?

But for the people, it's horrific. Be like, oh, I've got to, what's that? Like you sort of forget. Muscling, I said muscling for ages. No, exactly. We've still got to draw them. I found them the other day. What, are you going to go for a third? No. No.

Do you know what? I thought this when I was in Paris that, because I was getting to bed so late and then I'd still wake up early. So I'd be having like five or six hours sleep some nights. Yeah. And then I'd have to have a nap or whatever'd be having like five or six hours sleep some nights. Yeah. And then I'd have a nap or whatever.

And you'd go, I just feel sad because I'm so tired. Do you know what I mean? When you're tired, you're just like, when you get used to not being tired. I've accepted though, that I will always wake up at about 7 a.m. Oh yeah. And then I have to try and get a nap.

If I'm gigging in the evening, I have to have a sleep for an hour at the venue. So I try and get there earlier just to sleep in the dressing room. And then that sorts me out because I've been getting in at like midnight at most nights and getting up at 7 a.m. and working all day and then hanging around to do a gig. And it's just an absolute killer. But it's like, I've got to have that hour and the after because it's so, that's how I think it's so bleak. Last night I got in at half 11 because the gig was quite close. And it's quite depressing, but there's always a, I know got to have that hour and the after because it's so, that's how I think it's so bleak. Last night I got in at half 11 because the gig was quite close. And it's quite depressing, but there's always a,

I know the kids will be asleep. There's always like a little hope that, oh, maybe Lou stayed up a little bit to watch something and she'll be in. And then I just like, as I get to my house, I was like, no, every light's off. I'll just creep around in the dark and slide into bed, scare the shit out of Lou. Cause she sort of knows it's me, but isn't 100% sure. She goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Because my son's in my bed. When I went away to America for 10 days, this was a period where one of my daughters wasn't

sleeping very well. Yeah. And because Lou was so tired and just couldn't cope and keep trying to get her to bed and then not sleeping all night, walking her back, walking her back. She just let her daughter sleep in her bed for 10 days. It was the worst thing we did in years. Well, my son this morning, he said, I'm just going to go and get something from my room. Yeah.

He went to our room, Rob. You're in trouble. I think the only thing you can do now is you and Rose need to move into his room. So he's just my room. I was like, where are you? He's like, I'm in my room. And he was in our room. What was he getting?

Just a drawing that Rose had done of a digger. Of course, he's fucking obsessed with diggers, Rob. Have you done diggerland? No, we've got to do diggerland. Yeah, before he gets too old because he'll be so amazed by it. I bought him three diggers, like little diggers, like a pack of three diggers from a toy shop in France. He fucking loved it. He's so weird with boys and girls and stuff like that. No he's got one other passion. Yeah. Makeup. He loves makeup. Really? Yeah he straddles. That's really too extreme. The gender extremes. He loves diggers and he's obsessed with Rose's makeup and setting up a shop to sell his makeup. Rose's makeup. Because I say to girls in the shops remember like now they've got into their

they don't really have toys anymore either really. They're a bit over toy. They play a bit with Barbies or whatever, but they're not like, they don't want toys like they used to. It's more like books or I'll say, let's go out and do something or whatever. When I remember when I was about four or five and I was like, oh, there's a pack of diggers there. Do you want that?

And they'd look at me going like, what? Pardon? I was like, pack of diggers, some cars. And I was like, it's equivalent. I was like, if I went, do you want to play with this frying pan? They were just like, no. It was like, it's equivalent. I was like, if I went to play with his frying pan, no, it's like, it's insane. He's such a petrolhead. It's mental.

He just loves every vehicle. It's just like, he just loves it. Yeah, just absolutely obsessed with vehicles. So is he still in your room? Yeah, and so is my daughter. Is that my bucket hat from my book, A Class Act? No, that's the Paralympics bucket hat. I have got your bucket hat in my memory straw because I think it's going to be worth something in about 10 years.

Really, in memory straw? Fair enough. When you die, yeah. When I die? Tragic death. That's going straight on eBay. Gout. So what's the plan to get him out of your room? So you're actually on the floor, you're not in the bed with him? I'm on the futon with my daughter. Sorry, so where's the plan to get him out of your room? So you're actually on the floor, you're not in the bed with him? I'm on the futon with my daughter.

Sorry, so where's the futon? On the floor of our bedroom. You're all in one room? Yeah. Because I suppose if you've been away for like 10 days, Rosie's there on his own, and then your son's got in bed with her. She can't say to my son, you're in our room, but you can say to my daughter. Yeah, of course.

So she's on the floor on the futon, so you just sleep on a futon on the floor? With my daughter. And when you get back from like Birmingham at like 2am? Yeah, yeah, tonight I'll get back from Birmingham at 2am. Before you have to get up to go back to Birmingham again? Yeah, I'll get on a futon. Futons are so shit as well, is it like a big, really heavy? That's the other thing

Every day like oh, it's easier for them to sleep in again than have to move the food on Do you know I mean like we store it in the loft and you're like fucking oh god 7 p.m. Could I be bothered to carry the food to upstairs fucking and one more? Dusty food on from the loft. Oh God You're sleeping on this dusty futon from the loft. Oh, God. So, because of the next three nights... And then you're alone for the next few nights as well. No, no, Rose is back to do it. No, but I'm saying though, when she goes away,

then it's like you and then it's exhausting trying to do bedtime on your own when you're like in double teams and then like, but I want to be in bed with you like with mum and then they're crying. Exactly. Then if they all just get in, they all go to sleep. So this weekend, this Friday, they're back in their own rooms. Aren't you going away this weekend?

We're going away Saturday. Yeah, but then that's going to disrupt it again. They'll be in bed with you again. No. Yeah, I don't know what the score is. Can I get a guess? Yeah. They'll have a room that they can go in with some of their mates

and then they'll just end up getting with you and Rose in a strange way. Yeah, of course. Of course, you have to play that hour out where they failed to get to sleep with their friends. Yep. And they really want to. They really want to. And you've got to entertain it.

You can't be enough of a fun sponge to say, no, this isn't going to work. This is pointless. You're just going to bottle it and cry and be in bed with me within 10 minutes. You might as well get in there now, you pathetic loser. Yeah, you've got to play it out for that. No, no, no, no, no. Get in that bed now, because that's where you're going to end up, you fucking piece of shit.

Yeah, you can't do that. Not with other parents there, at least. No, no, no. Wait till they've got a bed. Yeah. So we'll play that out, and then we'll put them to bed at about 10 p.m. Our time, probably. Yep. And then you'll be on the floor.

And then I'll be on the floor with my daughter, and my son will be in the bed. Yeah, it'll be a nice little break. Have you got a quiet week next week? I think I have actually. And do your kids do weekend clubs yet or not really? Well my daughter did. Used to do gymnastics. She wants to do it again, but not really. No.

We tend to just try and see their friends by their friends. I mean, my daughter's friends, let's be honest. My poor son. It just gets dragged to all their mates. You're friendly with her mates parents as well. Yeah. And also it's a terrible thing, but the first time out, you really care about your kids' friendships. So you really push for them. And now you're like, Oh, he has got mates at nursery, but we haven't got in touch with them.

No, to organise a play date. Where we definitely would have if he was our first kid, which is bad, and I know it's bad, but he doesn't care. Often we'll do ones that have got younger siblings. That's the problem. If you have to find ones where the siblings get on both sides, because otherwise one's got the other one's loving it.

Yes, exactly. You don't want to be at that play date where like your sisters are, oh my god, is my best friend here. It was like staring at this kid. You've got nothing in common with. Yes, exactly. You don't want to be at that play date where like your sisters are, oh my god he's my best friend. You're just like staring at this kid you've got nothing in common with. Yeah, no no. You're the same age, play. That's not how it works. Imagine if I just found a random 41 year old man and went right you're gonna have a coffee with him. Why? You're the same age, enjoy. What we got in common? Couldn't tell you, don't know him. So did you enjoy Euro 96 when you were a kid? That'd be it, wouldn't it? No, not into football.

Alright, fine. What are you into? Rap music. Oh yeah? Yeah. What was the first rap album you bought? Also, he wouldn't say rap music. Rap music? He'd say hip hop, wouldn't he? No, no, but like gangster rap.

Gangster rap. Don't come out of the roleplay. Gangster rap. Okay, cool. Do you think Tupac Shukor was murdered by Shug Knight? You're not going to let me answer the first question. Why are you being like... Am I not allowed to... It was Dr Dre 2001. Well, you bought that quite late, didn't you? Yeah. Another latte?

LAUGHTER Oh god. Oh two other things quickly. One, I was weighing out my food because I'm still trying to do this calorie counting thing. Oh yeah. In front of my kids. I was like, what are you doing dad? I was like, I'm weighing out my food and then it's difficult because you don't want it to make it a thing. So I don't know if this is the best way to deal with it. I was just like saying, I want to get stronger and fitter. And if you eat a balanced diet, that can help you be stronger at the gym and run fast. Cause I want to be better at football.

When if I weigh a little bit less and I'm a bit stronger and I've got better stamina, then I can play for longer. And I don't get injured. And there was a food. I went, well, what you need is you need carbs. You need fat, you need protein, and you need like vegetables and fiber and things like that. So all I'm doing is just making sure that I'm just not eating too

much of one thing. So I'm making sure that I get all my fats, proteins, carbs and whatever, but enough of each so that is the best way. And I'm trying to do that without, I don't want to give them like some sort of like way out food complex. You know what I mean? Did it work? Sort of. You won't know till they're 25. Yeah. And then you said nothing tastes as good as skinny feels, didn't you? Yeah. Just remember. Oh, the other tip Lou nailed it the other day. They keep making a mess in their rooms. They're not really tired in it. So when we go, you've got to tidy your rooms. It takes forever until eventually we sort of help, but then basically do it near them. So what Lou did was she went, right, you need to tidy room in 20 minutes, you've got 20 minutes to do it because it only takes 20 minutes if they

do it at normal speed. Yeah, I've got 20 minutes to tidy room any minute that goes over 20 minutes will be taken off your iPad time at the weekend. Oh my word. So if you get it done in 20 minutes, you can have all the iPad time. However, if it takes longer than that every minute it goes will take off your iPad time on a Saturday. Nice. They've got it done well quick. Yeah, I bet they bloody did. Extra 10 minutes of iPad time.

And you can just make up the figures, can't you? Make up the numbers. They don't know, they don't know. Right, a small business shout out. Yes, my mouse is not working. Oh, I'll do it on my phone. All right, let's shout out to mice out there that aren't working.

Oh, I've got one here. This is a charity one. It's a charity that I'm sort of slightly involved with because it was set up in honor of my friend. They've been going a little while and it's just a little reminder because they do a really good first aid volunteering thing. Let me do this one.

The Matt Palmer Trust, this is. It's a mental health charity helping men with mental health issues. Set up for a friend who's happened to take his own life, Matt Palmer. Now, MPT, Matt Palmer Trust, is looking for volunteers who want to gain the skills and confidence to support someone experiencing a mental health challenge. Whether a colleague, neighbour,

family member or random you've met down the pub, you will gain insights on how to spot someone having a hard time and point them in the direction of help. Now through fundraising and donations, whenever I do TV stuff with charities, I normally give it to the MPT, they fully fund people. Now this is really interesting, my friends have done this and it's a really good thing to do. They fully fund people to take an official mental health first aid course that makes you a qualified mental health first aid, a bit like a medical first aid, but for the mind.

So you know you have like first aid in an office. This is a qualification for mental health first aid so that if someone's struggling, not that you will treat them, you can spot it and you can send them to the right place for whatever they need. Now the MPT has proudly trained over 400 people and looking for more kind and supportive volunteers to get trained up. The courses are virtual and take place over four different mornings.

Now they are particularly keen to have more men join the courses and we've seen the numbers dwindle a bit over recent months and worry a bit about why that is. All the course dates are from September onwards. General info and a link to sign up to the course waiting list can be found on the Matt Palmer Trust website. So basically it's totally free, they're funding them, they just need people to take the places and you sign up, it's four mornings and you're a qualified mental health first aider and you can use that in the workplace, and obviously in your personal life, your friends and family.

But go onto the mattpalmertrust.org.uk, and you can find the MHFA First Aid Training Course, which they will pay for, you just have to sign up and do. And more men, please. I haven't done it yet, I should do it. That is something I should do. More men, it's always more men, isn't it? Yeah.

Rob, shall we make things the other end of the spectrum? Yeah. Should we talk fudge? Oh, yes, talk fudge. Fudge me up. Hello, you lovely bunch. I hope you're all well. I've been a huge fan of the podcast since I bumped into Josh at Lapland UK in 2022. But did you play at some of the podcasts? I wasn't promoting the podcast at Lapland UK.

I've got no idea. You had a boombox to get on. Yeah. This is is perfect Rose. This is perfect. It's all our audience. Get it out. Put the boombox up. I was just flaring. I was hoping to get a small business shout out for my funnily enough small business, Lovett Fudge. Oh, is that a surname? Yes, it's Catherine Lovett. L-O-V-E-E-T-T fudge. This is a very recent venture, although I've been making fudge for friends and family for a while now. I'm based in Kettering, North Hans, but composed all over the country. All my fudge is gluten-free, as I'm a celiac myself, and I have a couple of vegan flavors as well. I'm always trying

to come up with new flavors and ways to improve. At the moment, I have a delicious flavors such as chocolate hazelnut, lemon meringue, mint chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, as well as many more. I've started to get orders to cater for gifts, birthdays and party bags and it's exciting. I'd like to offer all parenting hell listeners, as well as Rob, Josh and Michael, of course, a 20% discount. Oh, yes, please love it. Yeah, that is a proper discount of any orders made using the code parenting fudge. That sounds like one of our textins. Parenting fudge. My Facebook is loveitfudge.com. My website is loveitfudge.sumupstore.com. Thank you so much. Huge fan of the pod and both of you. Hopefully I can get to see you live one day. Catherine love it. There we

go. Thank you very much love it. Thank you everyone for sending your stuff in. We'll do some more correspondence next time, but we haven't had a proper catch up, so. Rob, I should just mention also, if you didn't listen to the episode on Friday, special treat for listeners of Parenting How, I'm going on tour. Who knew?

Not My Cup of Tea, that's the name of it. That's the name of it, but yeah. Not My Cup of Tea is on sale on Friday to the general public, but to people on this podcast, you can buy your tickets on Thursday. If you signed up to the mailing list, joshwiddicom.com, sign up to mailing list and then there's a pre sale on Thursday. I'm not doing dynamic pricing because I'm not a knob, but what? You're a legend.

In my sellout. So get in ahead, get in ahead. I want all the podcast people to be there rather than the other people. Lovely stuff. Good luck with it, Josh. Thanks, mate. Glad you're feeling refreshed, ready to take on... Good to be back and ready to take on the next 72 hours. Enjoy. I look forward to hearing how it went.

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