S11 EP20: Rugged and Ready

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2:29Josh Widdicombe:Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Willicombe. Welcome to Parenting Hill, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern day parenting, each week we'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you, the listener, with your tips, advice and, of course, tales of parenting woe. Because, let's be honest, there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing.

3:03Josh Widdicombe:Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Casper. Can you say Rob? Rob. Beckett. Beckett. Good. Can you say Josh? Yes. Widdicombe? Beckham. Good job. Casper, what are you holding? A book and? Beer. A beer. Casper, it's a bear. Bear. Good job. Beer. That is good. A beer. She sounded a bit Australasian. Well, here we go. Currently sitting in the audience, waiting for Rob to do his show in Christchurch, New Zealand. That was literally two hours ago. Michael has taken off the top. 7.49 UK time. Yes. Thought I'd try my luck and see if this email made it anywhere near the top of Michael's inbox based on the time difference.

3:51Josh Widdicombe:She's nailed it. I literally came off stage about 40 minutes ago and now I'm sat in a conference room in a hotel in Christchurch. You're looking very tanned. I caught the sun yesterday. It was nice here yesterday and it's rained. Can I, first of all, say thank you to people? I can't believe people come to see my shows this far away from home. So thank you to everyone. Neither can I. I'd also like to apologise to the listeners for how tired and ill I was when we did. I don't know when it will go out, but the episode where I was in Melbourne and you basically passed. And I also want to make an apology to Michael.

4:23Josh Widdicombe:Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. When you fell asleep during the show and that was a terrible combination of you being tired. And I think I was coming off the back of COVID. Oh, no. I think I got Stratus. What Stratus? The new COVID where you get a raspy voice. Oh. And it absolutely fucked me. on stage in Melbourne, Josh. Yeah. The day after we did that thing, the sound, Josh, it's two minutes in and you're yawning. Well, yeah, it's not two minutes into my day though. That's what I mean. It's even worse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's two minutes into the podcast and you're yawning. I'll get into it now. I'll get into it.

4:54Josh Widdicombe:We haven't even finished the email. Well, I'm apologising for us being too tired. You've already started yawning again. I might need to start apologising for this week as well. Right, okay, yeah. You're having a cider. I am having a cider. A little post-show drink. It's so weird when I'm sat here at 10.30 in the morning and you're in a dark room having a cider. Tiny little cider. Tiny little 330 milliliter cider. Refreshingly crisp. Yeah, but on stage in Melbourne, the sound was a bit odd. I did the sound check wrong with the speakers and stuff, and it was too loud on stage for me, so I couldn't think properly.

5:27Josh Widdicombe:And I had a moment, Josh. The second half was fine because I sorted the speakers out. But I had a moment on stage in Melbourne where I literally couldn't think of words to say. And I stood there in silence. I went, well, and there was two and a half thousand people looking at me. My head went, there is nothing here to say. And it's the only time in my career. And I think it's because I was ill. I stood there and my brain went, you have nothing to say. And then I went, God, it is really hard to stand up. And as I said that, a geezer from at the back went, well, sit down then. That was like an arrow to the forehead.

6:06Josh Widdicombe:I was like, and I was like, stood there. I was like, yeah, that's funny. He's funnier than me in this moment, and I just have to accept that. Well, that's the thing, isn't it? So often it's proved to be the case. I recovered, but I was exhausted. That's good. So I'm feeling better now, though. I feel good. I'm pumped. I've just done a show. I've finished my New Zealand gigs. You're going to see your kids at the end of the week? It's Monday night. I'm going to see the kids Friday morning. I'm ready to go. I'm pumped. I've had a good sleep. And they're going to be knackered, presumably. Yeah, so I'm going to have to try and manage the jet lag when they arrive.

6:38Josh Widdicombe:And Lou's not very good with jet lag. I told you the story when we came back from Dubai and we argued about jet lag, I think. Yeah, yeah. We argued and I've told you. Don't need to tell you again. Do the rest of the email. Sorry, sorry. This is my son, Kasper. When he was almost two, he has a very Kiwi accent, despite my attempts at teaching him to speak in an English accent. Absolutely love the podcast. Started when Kasper was born and have been listening from the first episode. Not sure what I'll do when I'm all caught up. but it continues. It's not finishing. Stay sexy in relatable, Tanya. 437 months.

7:10Josh Widdicombe:There you go. Teen. The New Zealand accent. I'm teen years old. That's what they speak like. And they don't really give much oomph to vowels. To vowels or vowels? Vowels as in countdown, not voles as in Chris Packard. No, I thought you meant vowels as in you've been shagging a few wives. No marriage vowels. No. So I said, what do you do? Trying to say anisistist in the Kiwi accent. is like, yeah, they can't get it out. And they're quite introverted and quiet. I feel like I'm being really loud everywhere. Yeah, but that happens in the UK. No, they're very polite and quiet New Zealanders. Are they?

7:47Josh Widdicombe:How long are you there for? Just under a week. And then we go to Japan on the way back. At any point, are you going to chill? Japan's going to be busy. I've heard that. Well, it'll be time to chill in Australia because we're based on the Gold Coast of Bondi. So they're like beachy resorts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, so I've got a bit of time off once the tour's done. So I've got two more gigs next week in Sydney and Thrill. And how's Lou feeling about the flights? Her dad's coming with her. Oh, right. Okay. So I brought my parents out last time. Yeah. So we're bringing her dad out. Her mum don't like flying.

8:18Josh Widdicombe:Oh, really? So just her dad's coming and his sister lives over here. And so is he with you for the whole thing? Yes, but he's super, the most chilled man you've ever met. Yeah. Oh, no, I wasn't saying. Baby sitter on the roads. Oh, here we go. You know, if me and Lou want to go out in Tokyo and have two drinks and go, I'm tired. Yeah, a couple of sarkis. A couple of sarkis, if I'm lucky. Oi, oi. Sorry. I'm still in stage mode. That is bad, isn't it? Not too. One after the other. Calm down, Lou. Jesus. I'll have to take you to Tokyo more often. She's crazy in Tokyo. Konichi fucking moi. We're excited.

8:59Josh Widdicombe:That's good. The energy's well off here, isn't it? Because you've just woken up and I'm fucking buzzing and on side. I'm so tired. I can't tell you. I'm worried about you for the next few weeks. Did you see my video of my two days? You did. I loved your video of your two days. It was very funny. Very good video. But I'm worried about your workload, Josh. You feel like you're broken already and you've got weeks to go. It's not my workload so much as... Just your constitution. It's just that I'm weak. So during the day, it's not like I'm going, I've got to do this, I've got to do this, I've got to do this.

9:30Josh Widdicombe:It's more... Well, can't you sleep longer? What's happening with your sleep? Talk me through your sleep. But last night, I worked. Where was you? You must have heard. I mean, it was all over the TV. I did Channel 5's NFL big game night. Right. Oh, yes, because they've got coverage, haven't they? The big games. Yeah, yeah. How was that? It was very pleasant, Rob. Yeah? I just turned up, watched an American football match. Yeah. Most of the time, they were showing the coverage, and I just talked to Sam Quek about American football and learned a bit about it. And then I left. So what are you fucking whinging for, mate?

10:01Josh Widdicombe:You've not even worked. Well, I'm not. That's what I mean. It's not the workload. Oh, right, okay. It's for then, then I get home in a car at half 12. Where was the recording? I don't live in London, remember? No, that's what I'm saying. But where was the recording? I thought it would be later than that. Hammer Smith. Oh, that's not bad. It was almost on the way. Yeah, exactly. So I finished at nine. Nice finish. No, actually, I got back at 12. Got what, back at 12? Finished at nine. Got back the same day. Got back the same day. Might as well be in zone five. I'm just on six hours sleep a night and it catches up with you.

10:31Josh Widdicombe:Fair enough. Right. So you need to try and have naps in the day when the kids are at school. I know I'm napping most days. Good work. But that's not because I'm not well. It's just. Is it possible that you've moved slightly too far away from where you do work? Just thrown out there. No. No. No, it's not. No. Okay. Because now. If you was getting in two hours earlier, you would be getting eight hours sleep potentially. Yeah, but I don't want to live there. No, you don't want to live there. I agree. but what I'm saying is you still have to work there. You might as well go, why don't I move to one of those flats that's next to the BBC?

11:06Josh Widdicombe:Yeah. Because then I could just walk to Last Leg. Yeah, and not everyone can do that. Not everyone can do that. Including two of the other presenters. Well, they can walk there. It's a bit of fun. Anything would be a bit showy for me to go. I got here on foot. I've cartwheeled in from Soho House Hotel. I could live there, but I'd be blissfully unhappy. I know you don't want to live there. I don't want to live in a London satellite town. Listen to me, Josh. I think what I'm saying is maybe you might need to rejig your schedule and think ahead and take into consideration this extra two to three-hour journey to most of your work will have an impact on sleep.

11:44Josh Widdicombe:Yeah, well, there's not much I can do about that because the tour's booked in. Fair enough. Just saying. You go where you go with tour, really, don't you, Rob? Like tonight, I'm in Reading. It's two hours. Well, it's more than two hours. It's two hours to Exeter. It's definitely longer than that. Two and a half. 2.45 min. No way. Let's do it now. Let's do it now. Let's do it now. What drive it? Exeter to Reading on Google Maps. Remember, less traffic at night, so not 20 minutes off that. Yeah, but then there's sometimes road work, so put 20 minutes back on. There's not. There's less road work.

12:14Josh Widdicombe:How do you know? Have you been there yet? How do you know there is going to be road work? We've got to take road work out of the equation. Two hours, 49 minutes at the moment. Exactly. Take 20 minutes off. Two hours, 30. Add 20 on for road works. It actually says this route starts on a road that's now closed. Longbrook Street in Exeter shut, just so you know. But I don't live in the centre of Exeter. Okay, where do you live? I'm not going to say that on the podcast. Yeah, no, you might add two minutes to your journey. I think I live nearer to Reading. Yeah, yeah, you're right. It is two hours to Reading.

12:41Josh Widdicombe:Yeah, yeah, I am right, yeah. No, I don't want to live anywhere else. You need to sleep more, though. I know you don't. You've moved, you've gone to the right place, but I think the extra travel will have an impact, I think. those little gigs like doing the NFL thing you would have been home at about like 10 o 'clock yeah of course you know what I mean but it's just a little thing to be aware of don't overcommit baby look after you invest in you do you know what Rob what if I have to drive an extra two hours to watch be driven sorry Tampa Bay Buccaneers versus where were you reading that off it wasn't them as well it was the Baltimore Ravens versus the LA Rams wasn't there a fight Reds versus Blues and had a fight.

13:22Josh Widdicombe:Well, that wasn't the one we were watching. There was loads of matches on yesterday. Absolutely. Game day, wasn't it? It's game day. It's my beloved gridiron. Game day with Dermot O 'Leary. Game day with Dermot O 'Leary. Have you been doing much parenting then or are you a little bit just, are you doing the school runs? Yeah, so I, because I come back to do, so that's the problem is then I'm waking up at 7am. Yeah, but can't you have a lie-in on, you could have had a lie-in today, couldn't you, and Rose do school run this morning, surely, after. Yeah, but if you're coming back to see your kids and then you're going to the gig in the evening, you want to see your kids for the hour and a quarter.

13:52Josh Widdicombe:It's mad to then stay in bed. You might as well just stayed in Hammersmith and gone to Reading. Yeah, exactly. So you do get up and do the school run because that's actually the bit you want to do. Are you staying in Reading tonight? No. You're coming home? Yeah, because I want to see the kids. I think you've got to have a good night's sleep. I don't sleep well in hotels. What I would do is I would just get a hotel for Reading, have melatonin and just knock myself out for 10 hours. No, it's not that I don't. It's that I wake up really early in hotels. Can't get home to sleep. Okay, fair enough.

14:22Josh Widdicombe:So there's no point. No. Oh, Jesus. That's hard. Because I can sleep in a hotel. Oh, well, that's good. You might as well say to a blind person, well, I can see. That's weird. No, it's not. Because I'm sure there's techniques to sleep longer. There's not techniques to not be blind. Well. Because if there was techniques to not be blind and it was about effort, Chris would call to him and wouldn't have wasted his time on the fucking samba. I can tell you now, sleep is not about effort. That is the one thing you don't want to be putting in to go to sleep. No, but there must be other techniques. It's not just acceptance that you wake up at six every hotel.

14:51Josh Widdicombe:I mean, but that is difficult. Like sometimes I go mad. If you can't sleep in a hotel room, there's nothing. I had a nightmare in Wellington. It's really windy in Wellington. All night I was awake, just scared I was going to get blown away. Even though I was inside, it was so windy. Wait till you meet Lou in Tokyo. She's going to blow you away twice. Trying to be culturally enriched here. I just keep getting noshed up. Oh God, sorry Lou. Sorry. Trying to eat some noodles. Can you try and have a bit of fucking dim sum, eh? Checking out all these weird vending machines. The things they've got in vending machines.

15:21Josh Widdicombe:I can't even concentrate on how mad it is.

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16:04PD can happen when scar tissue builds up under the skin of the penis, causing a curve or the bump during an erection that, for some men, may lead to pain during intimacy and impact mental health. A trusted urology specialist can help diagnose PD and walk you through your options, including non-surgical treatment. Visit talkaboutpd.com.

16:26Josh Widdicombe:Well, this is what I saw in a vendor machine the other day. I was in Adelaide, right? I saw this and I thought, what a wild thing to have in a vendor machine. It was a condom machine, right, which I get in bars, condom machines. People maybe pick someone up in a bar. You don't think about that much anymore, do you? No, no, no. I'm going to send you what's on there. And I just think it's such a mad stock to have when you consider like most people. Exeter station, they've got a books vending machine. Yeah. No one's shagging in Exeter, like. No. It's a Penguin books vending machine. Well, this is what's in an Adelaide sports bar.

17:00Josh Widdicombe:And I thought, if you are having a one night stand. A tingler ring. Glow in the dark tingler ring. Glow in the dark tingler ring. And then a rugged and ready super studded condom. Now, if I'm having a one-night stand, I'm not whipping out a super studded condom with dozens of formed rubber studs on. Just put a normal Johnny on. He's not even known as the fucking weird one-night stand stud dick guy. I don't want to be presumptuous, shall I go and get a tingler ring from the toilets before we leave? Look, look, he's going for it. We've had a couple of schooners. Do you fancy a tingler ringer? I've heard it's a fucking killer.

17:35Josh Widdicombe:It's Ripper, mate. Well, no, but you're presuming it's a one-night stand. it might be a couple who've gone for a drink and then they've gone we've got a hotel that's in the man's one right so they're not seeing if they saw at the same time drunk that's a bit of a laugh but he's got to report back with you know those um tingler rings you like they've only got them and the rugged and also no one said dick rugged you don't want a rugged dick do you you want a rugged man you don't want the dick rugged you want a smooth one but i don't know what kind of I didn't really know what it means by rugged because in my head, rugged implies stubble and a cigarette poking out the end.

18:15Josh Widdicombe:Anyway, how are your kids? Yeah, they're good. I've not seen mine. We have my daughter's birthday. Oh, exciting. Yeah. I'm being waved at by people that came to the gig through the window of the hotel conference room. Oh, gosh, what a life. I know. We did bowling. Oh, yeah, with our friends. This is the Exeter party. Yeah, it went very well, actually. I'd say the only issue is they all wanted to play on the arcade machines and of course I didn't have any cash because it's 2025 yes that is an oversight because you're not getting out do they have cash machines in Exeter here we go here we go bear in mind I've got more facilities here than you have where you live what's that have you got a John Lewis in the middle of the countryside how far is John Lewis from your house 15 minute walk 15-minute walk.

19:06Josh Widdicombe:Lovely. No, I haven't got a John Lewis in 15-minute walk, no. Yeah, well, there we go. There we go. I can get to London in about 40 minutes, which is quite handy. Don't want to. I hate it. Fair enough. I know. They'll live there, but it's quite good to be there when you need to. Yeah, yeah. They're going to fucking Bill's for an anniversary dinner again, an Exeter Ice Street. Well, go there, because you like the carbonara. Before they sponsor us, because I don't think they will. I think Bill's. John Lewis might, so go easy on them. Yeah, I like John Lewis. I like John Lewis. Bills, we can sacrifice them.

19:36Josh Widdicombe:Bills is shit. I don't mind Bills, actually. I hate Bills. I like Bills. The mid-range, mid-range restaurants, I think Bills is the one I don't like. Really? I don't mind Bills. I don't think it knows what it is. It's Bills. What is it? Is it breakfast or is it dinner or is it lunch? You would go for a special special meal there because it's quite relaxed, but then it's too expensive for a quick one, isn't it? What is this? I remember giraffe. You used to like giraffe. No, I didn't. I had the same problem with Giraffe. Pick a cuisine and do it well. That's what Gordon Ramsay would say. What's your favourite in Pizza Express?

20:10Josh Widdicombe:I think Pizza Express is excellent. I think Wagamama's does a good job. I think Nando's does a good job. Yeah. We've got a Comptoir Libanet in Exeter, which I like. Oh, stop it. We've got a Franco Manca. Lovely. We've got a Rosa's tie. The future is here. Absolutely. My problem with Giraffe was if you ever watched Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay would say, do a few things well. And Giraffe was the opposite. So what happened when they wanted to go on the machines? You just said you had no money. That was the only issue. It went swimmingly. And she's eight, or she will be in two days. They've reached the age where they don't even need to be overseen bowling.

20:47Josh Widdicombe:They can read the thing. Okay. So you're just like, this is incredible. You're sat there watching them bowl. Does your daughter include your younger son in, or does she get annoyed of him? He didn't really want to bowl, luckily. Because he sat there for the food. No, she did include him enough. And there was actually an older sister of one of the girls who took him under her wing. Yeah. Maybe because she's older, so she could see that he needed... But also because she obviously probably felt, oh, I don't want to hang around with these slightly younger girls who are a bit square or whatever. So I'll be the one that...

21:22Josh Widdicombe:I'll show how old I am by taking him under my wing. So she did an excellent job. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, that does help that. And we've got the London one next week, Rob. Oh, yes. Can I be honest? You can't be bothered to go back up. Can't be bothered. No. It's too far. How long are you going up for? Just the day or then? No. So we're going up. So I'm going up Friday for last leg. Yeah. But I'm actually going up. Thursday. Thursday. Because I've got Hastings on Thursday. Right. Hastings and then standing in a London hotel or Hastings hotel? Standing in a London hotel. Yep. Dentist. Friday morning.

21:55Josh Widdicombe:Lovely. Do you need to know that? Well, it's good to know that's a lot. You're packing a lot in while you're up there. You need to move your dentist, don't you? Do I have dentists down there? Sorry. It's a good joke. It's a good joke. But you actually live in... Have you got a Franco Manca where you live? I haven't got any 4G where I live. No, exactly. Franco Manca, yes. There's one in Bromley, yeah. Yeah, so not where you live. Right, okay. No, I haven't got one in my garden, no. No, that's embarrassing. But yes, there is a Franco Manca near me in Bromley. What's your milk situation? Me? Well, now the kids have grown up, nothing comes out.