S10 EP45: Is this sleep?

20:16Totally fine Because you don't I've seen you before When you've not slept When you were having like insomnia Yeah And you are like I sort of feel bad for you You're trying But it's a bit sludgy

20:26Josh Widdicombe:I don't feel like I'll probably ever need to sleep again at this moment.

20:33I Googled, I think I spoke about this before. I Googled, I found a man that hadn't slept for like two years. But he just looked fucked up. Did he do Tuesdays on throat steroids? Maybe. I should have asked. But you feel all right though. And when's Rose back tomorrow?

20:46Josh Widdicombe:Oh, Rose back tomorrow. Yeah, I'm fine. Because the other thing is, because there's other grown-ups here and there's kids. Yeah. If I was here with the kids, I'd have been panicking, thinking tomorrow's going to be fucking unbearable. 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. Because 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. I'd prefer it hadn't happened.

21:16Josh Widdicombe:My life since 4.30 a.m. 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 going against Torquay and then Wikipedia-ing all our new signings because I couldn't work out which one was which. That's a bit 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.

21:48And then... That is very... I haven't done any of that.

21:51Josh Widdicombe:No. I don't even know who Plymouth have signed. Well, neither did I until I was Wikipedering 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 year, I'm wondering why Liverpool can afford to buy another striker. And thinking, wow, Josie Gibson's getting some work in the summer, isn't she? You know, who's Steven Mangan on this morning? I don't think Kat Dealey has read the book. She's pretending to. She can't possibly have read the book. She had so many people on in a week.

22:26Yeah, she's knocking out more books than fucking... What else have you been going on there, Josh? 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 Romesh about me and Romesh going on holiday by accident? And I said that he'd be all over me. Because I saw him the other day. Yeah, here we go. Let me find that. Because basically, me and Romesh have booked the same hotel, but we overlap our holidays by about three days and he he's quite keen on separate holidays and i was like sure but i predict he will shall we recap the message i sent to him yeah you're right

23:02Josh Widdicombe:rom uh we're just recording the podcast we're discussing about the fact that your holidays 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

23:39Josh Widdicombe: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 been the first time Normally The bank account's going up Some chairs being delivered at the same time 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 mate He'll have a coverage He goes first He goes first. And then we arrive probably about five, six days into when he's there. When you think he'll be familyed out.

24:21Desperate to see you. Three days of the Beckett and Rangas unleashed on each other. I just think it's too weird if you don't meet up. I think it... Well, we will meet up. It'll be all over. It'll be having gin and tonics at lunch. It'll be there. He'll love it. At lunch?

24:35Josh Widdicombe:Yeah. So, it's 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. 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. And they say, Daddy, do you know what would cheer me up? Could you go and let 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 rosé. Yeah. And then when they're finished lunch, they can have an hour out of the sun with their iPads.

25:12Yeah. in the air con restaurant and then me and Lou have a bottle of rose and then just slowly a bit merry go back to the pool for the afternoon yeah so when you're fitting in Romesh he can join us oh so he's coming to you yeah okay I'm not going to him

25:32Josh Widdicombe:so you're not meeting him half I thought you're meeting him halfway you're just saying that Romesh is allowed to pop his head in on your family holiday. Yeah.

25:44Josh Widdicombe:All the kids are sat on iPads. Rom can come and share a glass of rosé with you and your wife. Yeah, absolutely. And Lisa. She's allowed to. She's allowed to. What about their kids? We modern men, we get pissed with our wives. We don't go off like too many from the 70s. What about their kids? They can bring their iPads too.

26:08I would say... I'll probably end up getting pissed of his eldest son. He's like 17. Do you think it's more...

26:14Josh Widdicombe:Do you more like to meet up with him than Romesh, the way things are going? They'll all be all over me, hanging out of Uncle Rob. Absolute legend. Come on. I think there's going to be a really depressing photo in the tabloids of five kids on iPads while you and Romesh and your wives get hammered. And do 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 um the girls um because i'm going to see oasis tonight okay or wembley this is yeah and um i said to the girls they went what we doing i went oh well um mummies are basically lou's 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 look after them 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 i was 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 mum's with you in the morning then um she's got some chairs being delivered some chairs get delivered um a cat might pop in loads of fun stuff yeah and then i went oh yeah but daddy we're gonna miss you or 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 because i want to shout a delivery man if i want to shout and i just said i said look i'm always yours i'd interview but do know what today is for me my day so i'm gonna 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 gonna 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?

28:02I'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. And 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 pints 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.

28:37That'll wake you up.

28:38Josh Widdicombe:The swimming. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely will. And then you're going to have some kind of, it's going to be interesting at 1 PM tomorrow. Will you have a bigger crash than I have at 1 PM today? That's the real thing. So my plan is to get up and get out early with them and then come back. Probably giving their iPads. 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 of course we went to the boxing together we went to the boxing right so now this is quite good actually I actually met a celebrity that um 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 on your steroids tonsillitis seems to be quite prevalent in the same world going to the toilet to top up his throat steroids i think there might have been something wrong with his nose

29:37Josh Widdicombe:anyway um i was funny my dad come didn't he was 81 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 he is yeah he does look well he's got good genes there do you know what he never he smoked when he was young because 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 really drink but yeah he looks great for 81 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 cruel how many days is he doing on the throw steroids he loves to throw that you don't want him on that he's too much of a loose cannon to have that because we couldn't find our car home he kept going up to these ladies in suits that looked like they were running the event where's the car do you know where the cars are the lady went that is Alexander Usyk's wife I was like dad they're not in charge of the cabs right so people going from Wembley Stadium him 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 you say how you got there well so basically i had my dad and i didn't really my dad is 81 but i didn't really 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 right and i thought we'd do that we i 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 had to sit in my car we didn't have to 1am josh why because 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 on radio one in the mornings but if you if you get parking in the red car park you 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 what or or maybe eat or so what we did halfway go on 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've fully promoted it you can it's called just park you i'm not paid for them by them in fact i paid for two different spots on Saturday.

32:15Josh Widdicombe:But then we couldn't get to this guy's. Because you couldn't reach the first one. Couldn't reach it. 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.

32:52Josh Widdicombe:Which is difficult with boxing. You can't leave the event early if it's a race. What event? 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 in the tubes of the venue, just walking in normally. Fine. Okay. Every man Rob Beckett there. How are you feeling about the atmos on Wembley Way? I predict I will be in a headlock multiple times on Wembley Way. Oi, Beckett, you. C-word. Bang. Headlock. Fowl.

33:31Done. Yeah. Because there's no, do you mind if you have a selfie gobble gobble with the Oasis, lads? There is no fucking gobble anywhere on Wembley Way. They're just getting gobbled up by geezers in anoraks, right? And I can't pop a bucket out on to hide, if anything, more, more attention. Exactly, exactly. So anyway, I'm going up there with my mates on the tube, coming home. This is very unrelatable. Yeah. I've booked a man and a motorcycle. Yes. Like Kate Garroway trying to get to Good Morning Britain.

34:06Holly Willoughby jumping between Pantan adverts. and I've not told my mates either so I'm just going to walk out I'm going to get the tube and I'm like fine 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 I 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 go I'm paying for it all I paid for my ticket I haven't got any freebies it don't come for me No, don't come for me. You're helping the economy. Helping the economy the best way I can.

34:44Yeah. Yeah, so that's what I'm doing. But I would recommend to park on a drive, but about a 25-minute walk away. Yeah, that's what... 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.

35:00Josh Widdicombe: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 sat in front of the Tottenham Hotspur football team yeah I can't believe how close we were Josh in front 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 get them to should I say I'm trying to earn a fucking crust yeah yes please come on

35:41Josh Widdicombe:Guys, can you keep it down? What? Trying to run an effing crust.

35:56Josh Widdicombe:They'd gone. He just sent it to an empty corridor. No, there was adults there, so it felt even weirder. Oh, but they'll know you're joking, won't they? Yeah, they'll know you're joking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I liked most was when you first opened the door, I swear a kid just went, ah, and then ran away. That's what it sounded like. 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 like you're making. 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.

36:32Josh Widdicombe:Did he think he was Martin Freeman?

36:37Josh Winnick and Winnick here, row three. Must be Freeman. Must be one of the Hobbit boys. Elijah?

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38:06Josh Widdicombe:That's embarrassing. That is harsh though, isn't it? When they're forcing you to fucking sleep on the floor or in their room and then moan that you're tired. Well, no, it wasn't the yawn, Rob. It was the old person-ness of the... Oh, yeah, I don't like that either. That is an old man yawn. It's an old man. I'll wait to see you old. You're going to be hilarious old. You're going to be like an old man from a Pixar film. Well, I do look like the guy from Up. Yes.

38:39Talking of bad 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? Oh, no. And one of their kids crawled in it. Oh, no. And they were just floating through the air until the helium, and then it sort of crash-landed, and it just become 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. It's also... What's it called? Perfect for parents. It's like 48 minutes. So you can do that in bed once the kids are asleep.

39:09It's got The Boy in the Balloon, I think. I think Boy in the Balloon.

39:12Josh Widdicombe:I'm watching Wicked this week, Rob. I've not seen it. Oh, it's long, mate. That's what I was going to say. So I'm covering for Romesh while he's on holiday with you, having his lovely long lunch on Radio 2. So I'm interviewing someone who's been in Wicked and the Magic the Greatest Showman. You've been someone who'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? And musicals. 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.

39:50Josh Widdicombe: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 Keala 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're interviewing her. That's great. Send her my love. I will do. I will do. Little thespian bastard. um and i'll say um you won't remember me no um but wicked looks long man i would if it's keala settle i'd been wicked watch great showman again really i know wicked's more recent so mention it but greatest showman she was unreal i'll 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 and it's oh here we go it's the first time they will do it together That'll show I've done my research.

40:51Josh Widdicombe:That'll show I've done my research. Yeah. That might be a sleeplessly Wikipedia-ing Stephen Mangan at 5.30am.

41:03Oh, that's cool, though.

41:05Josh Widdicombe: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? Some magnet tiles. It sounds like he's a baddie from a Fantastic Four film. So it's both the best and worst toy on earth. Okay. Oh, God. Yeah, that's difficult. No, they're really easy until it goes wrong. Okay. They're tiles and they've got magnets. They're massive ones so they can build like houses. They can build really easily because the magnets stick them all together. Oh, no, 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.

41:51Josh Widdicombe:They do do big sets where they can make a full. Yeah, but they can't, Rob, because then they'll stick together and it'll all kind of stick to each other and it'll 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 like a bit of wind, it all sticks together. and my son's we forgot my son found some magnetars and then asked for a full set fair enough because we only had three left it fucking drives him it's his favorite thing in the world yeah and then he's just furious like screaming at it for about 15 minutes it's a living hell it's it's so high and low.

42:35Josh Widdicombe:He's quite young as well, isn't he? He's four. It's exactly the age where magnetars will drive you fucking crackers. But you didn't have it in your house. It's one of the kind of voguing big toys that have happened for this generation. I found a lot of squishmallows upstairs. I found some squishmallows. No, fuck right off. Simmers.

42:58Josh Widdicombe: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 grayscale of no joy. And the highs and lows are fucking mad. Oh, those people that go, we only buy wooden toys for the children secondhand. 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 fucking bit of plastic and some teddies, will you? Fucking killjoy. You know that shit that gets pumped out by factories? I don't think it's going to end the world if your kid's on the old magnetars for 10 minutes.

43:34Josh Widdicombe: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, no, 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 a still focused kind of family Yeah So See if you can find him Oh that's a cool quote Oh I love the kids in normal clothes Because he's still in the Tottenham shirt Tell you what He wouldn't have been wearing that Without the Europa League win Would they No it's No he's not in the front row Tottenham Once again missing out on being Pro three behind a Widdicombe And where's your boy?

44:21Josh Widdicombe:Sat on the green bin on the right Oh he's got little pizza house 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. 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.

45:10Josh Widdicombe: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 a sleepover. So I've been getting quite good sleep, basically, because my eldest daughter sleeps really well. My youngest daughter's 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 until she goes to sleep, but she's been waking up in the night, and basically the easiest option is one of us get in with her.

45:47Josh Widdicombe:Yeah, fine. 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. Have you been brought a coffee? No, no, it's been there her whole time. Oh, I thought Harry Judd's wife had popped in. I just saw a coffee cup come for her. I was like, Rose is away. Who's there?

46:15Even if Rose was here, she's never delivered me a fucking coffee. No, that's why I was shocked that Lou and Rose have never, even we're trying to earn this fucking crust, talking about all the parenting they mainly do.

46:24Josh Widdicombe: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, Catherine Ryan's husband was there. And I thought, the thought of Rose coming to one of my kicks is so divorced from what, I mean, divorced might be the wrong word. Can you imagine? You're saying Rose should come tomorrow? No, I'm not. Take a leg out of his book. I'm just saying it was a surprise for you to you. So it's one of those Will Briggs festival gigs. You know those gigs. What would you do? Would you even offer up to Lou?

47:07If I said, Lou, I'm driving to Bristol at four o 'clock. We've got babysitters. I'm driving to Bristol at four 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 it

47:43She'd go, what? She'd just walk off Rob's been weird I think that's what I'd get and leave. To be fair, in Lou's defence 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, and that was lovely. And then when we got home, we'd been burgled. So that's the... That's a lesson there. That's a lesson there.

48:11Josh Widdicombe:Are you saying that Lou staged the burglary so she never had to come to any more shows? Oh, I don't know. Maybe she didn't draw the fucking curtains on the ice street of hither green um oh i suppose i'll have to buy some more chairs now they've gone it's just do you want some chairs because we've got some chairs 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 30 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 yeah and like the night before that it was like a 12 30 now record day and i went 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 i mean it's 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 lou's with the one that comes in i just was like i was like i was just in a double bed alone with knowing no one will come.

49:15Yeah. And I was like, I don't think this, this used to happen every night before children. It's the first time in like 10 years.

49:21Josh Widdicombe:It's normally by losing the bed that you think no one's going to come, isn't it?

49:26I will. She might not. I definitely will. Don't you worry about that. I'll make sure that happens, but God knows what else is going on in there. She might be pretending good on her. Do it, you know what I mean? Life's hard. Just get through it. Anyway, so then when you 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 and just laid on the floor, holding our daughter's hat. Lou woke up the next day. Honestly, she looked like she'd slept on the street.

50:04She 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 he's like, yeah, to sort of tell the parent, 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.

50:19Josh Widdicombe:It's just unfortunate. Exactly. That's what I've just said to Rose. I texted Rose this morning to say the steroids kept me up. I've had one of the worst nights. 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 but 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 learnt 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.

51:04So it's like, she doesn't care. She has added.

51:07Josh Widdicombe:Yeah, you're tired, whatever. It's shit about the steroids. 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. Hello, give them a miss. Give them a miss. 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 bloody 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?

51:45No, I just turn up and talk and then Michael decides when it goes out. Yeah. Yeah, so Michael tells us there'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,

51:57Josh Widdicombe: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 see how long it is. And then this recording was about 55 minutes. 55 minutes. See what you get. Right. Should we do business shout outs? I've got one here. Hi, Rob and Josh. I would absolutely love a small business shout out, please. I'm a professionally trained actor and mum of one. And in between parenting and the rare bit of acting work, I teach adult beginners. It's a total joy to pass on some of my knowledge and watch my students grow in confidence.

52:30At The Acting Space, we provide comedy improvisation and acting-based workshops to really push your co-workers out of their comfort zone. Think, whose line is it anyway? And the infamous comedy players. Comedy improvisation is not only bad to fun, but also has heaps of benefits. It reignites our imaginations, forces us to think on the spot, encourages self-expression, and helps with our confidence with performing in front of others. Plus, you'll get to laugh about stitching up your mates in the office the next morning. Half-down, full-day workshops are available in London and the surrounding areas.

53:02All sessions are taught by professional actors. Website is theactingspace.co.uk. We'd love to hear from you. Thanks. I appreciate this. And for all the laughs, Catherine. There you go. It sounds like a team bonding thing, doesn't it?

53:15Josh Widdicombe:That's a good one. Before a very good shout-out I'm going to give to Bouncy Bliss Events. 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 a genetic condition. And basically there was 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'll help people do kind of genetic tests and stuff like that to for um let's give the charity a shout out what's it called so it's called creld one go to www.creld c-r-e-l-d-1.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 josh i hope you're both well i'm a big fan another parenting help podcast.

54:21Josh Widdicombe: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 my 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 and Soft Play Hire. Oh, yes. Based in Surrey and surrounding areas. And also not strippers. Maybe they are strippers. We can provide fun, safe and stylish setup for kids parties and events. We're really proud of the feedback we've received so far from local families.

54:55Josh Widdicombe:You can check out what we do on Instagram, which is bouncyblissevents. I really appreciate any support you can give. Even a quick mention would mean the world. 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 sojourn with Romesh. I don't really want to. And Oasis. and your awful hungover swim. I just want to fly. Call me a Beckett, you d***. Can I just listen to the rest of the song? Right, see you later, mate. Bye.