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Parenting Hell - Episode Summary: S11 EP34: A Buffer Free Life
Podcast Overview Title: Parenting Hell Hosts: Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe Release Schedule: Twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays Description: A comedic take on parenting woes and experiences. The hosts share personal anecdotes and engage with celebrity parents about their parenting journeys.
Episode Description
In this episode, Rob and Josh delve into more parenting misadventures, tackling everything from their chaotic schedules to the concept of "buffer" time in their lives. They also feature small business shout-outs that highlight local enterprises.
Key Topics Discussed
Parenting Misadventures
- Bedtime Rituals:
- Rob and Josh discuss strategies for calming children during bath time, traditionally a space for unwinding before bed.
- Reflect on the chaos of children delaying bedtime and the subsequent parenting decisions that lead to more chaos.
Email Interaction
- Listener Contributions:
- Read an email from a listener's three-year-old who introduces herself and the hosts in a cute manner.
- Highlights the everyday humor and challenges parents face when their children attempt to engage with media.
The Nature of Buffering
- "Buffer" Concept:
- Explores the idea of "buffer" time—time parents create for themselves to avoid chaos, such as preemptively leaving for school pickups.
- Rob shares his relaxed approach, while Josh expresses a desire to create more buffer in his life, sparking discussions about balancing parenting duties with personal time.
Daily Life and Work
- Work-Life Balance:
- Rob shares his experiences of balancing gigs and family life, highlighting his frequent travel and the impact it has on his relationship with his children.
- Josh discusses his need for a "buffer" and how he manages to juggle work commitments with family responsibilities.
Humorous Anecdotes
- Engaging Stories:
- The hosts share humorous experiences from their gigs and the peculiarities of hotel stays, providing a light-hearted look at the challenges of being traveling parents.
- They joke about the absurdity of their situations, such as communicating telepathically when overly tired.
Small Business Highlights
- Shout-Outs:
- Arden Forest Honey: A local honey business that aims to help with hay fever.
- The Orienteering Company: Provides educational resources for schools to promote outdoor learning through orienteering.
Key Takeaways
- Parenting Chaos is Universal: Rob and Josh's discussions resonate with many parents, showcasing that confusion and chaos are common experiences.
- Importance of Buffer Time: Buffering, or creating time for oneself, is crucial for maintaining sanity amidst parenting chaos.
- Community Connection: Engaging with small businesses helps build community and encourages listeners to support local endeavors.
Final Thoughts This episode of Parenting Hell captures the essence of parenting—filled with unpredictability, humor, and the necessity of creating breathing space amidst chaos. The camaraderie between Rob and Josh provides a relatable and entertaining look into their lives as they navigate parenting challenges together.
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Contact Information
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Production Information
- A 'Keep It Light Media' Production
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:28Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing.
0:36Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... What can I see? Sees, can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. Can you say Josh Whittaker? Josh Whittaker. Good job. Anything else? No. Nice. No. What did he say no to? Anything else? I'd say the best names we've had for both of us in a long time, that. Yeah, I thought it was very strong, actually. Eight out of ten. And I also thought, pound for pound, I think the bath might be the most popular location for the intro. You're killing time. You're killing time and they're stuck. And they can't get away from you. They can't get away from you. They're trying to delay bedtime.
1:18They're trying to delay bedtime. They don't freak out that much in the bath compared to, say, the car, maybe. What do you mean? Well, they're often calm in the bath. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's calm down time. Yeah. But then me and Lou are a bit over the top, so sometimes we're like, calm down from bedtime, and me or Lou will do something mental, and then one of us will go, why are we doing that? We're making it worse. Well, that's life. We're egging them on. We're egging them on. How are you, Josh? Well, shall I read the email? Oh, yeah. Shall I read the fucking email? Sorry. Hello, Rob.
1:50Josh. Sexy Michael. This is my three-year-old Cece, Cecilia, saying your names. Cece's a good name. I think you need to be Cecilia and call her Cece. If you're just going for Cece off the bat, you sound like an 80s pop star. Yeah, Cece. Yeah, Cece Penniston you're thinking of is the pop star. You can't put that in the passport, can you? What was the song that Cece Penniston did? One for Michael and the team. Obviously, she's in the bath, but it's basically the only time she sits still. What we were just saying, we should have just read the fucking email. What a waste of all of our time. And Michael's just come back to you with the information.
2:23Oh, what was it? Isn't it Finally? Finally, yeah, it is Finally, yeah. I don't know what this song is, but I forget you guys are older than me. Finally it has happened to me. Oh, yeah, if you know that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Sorry, apologies. Retract. Retract. I think it must be buried in your head. Finally it. Yeah, definitely. You must have known the name Cece Penniston was an 80s pop star. I was thinking Cece Penniston, and then you said Cece sounds like an 80s pop star. Yes. That does feel like there's something going on. Maybe. Maybe I'm a witch. Maybe I knew her in my head. I've never heard that name out loud before.
2:58You did it with Andy Goldstein as well, didn't you? Yes, I did do that. What's going on? I don't know. What's happening? You've reached a level of tiredness where you can communicate using your mind. I'm so tired of speaking. I'm trialling telecommunication. Not telecommunications. What's it called? Telekinetic. I don't know. I don't know, but we know what you're talking about. I never know what I need to say if I have to think about it. If I don't think I'll say the right thing. Exactly. I said Cece. When I think of Cece, I think of the blonde woman from First Dates, the hostess, waitress. I think she's called Cece.
3:32I don't know, the French bloke. And the woman with the red hair. Oh, what's her name? That was on I'm a Celebrity once, and she was like an 80s star, but I forget what she's called. She was like Rocco, Rocco something. Oh, who worked with Kenny Everett. Yeah. What's her name? Cleo Roccus. Cleo Roccus. Yes. Yeah, I thought of her, weirdly. That was in my head. Anyway, so great to have all the 17, 18-year-olds listening to this show. I really enjoyed all these references. Are we skewing younger, guys? Oh, you sick fuck. Oh, that's a shame. Skewing younger sounds perverted. They're obsessed with it in TV.
4:09Not as much as they were in the 70s, am I right? I've been listening to your podcast since she was born. It got me through numerous buggy walks in the dark and rain trying to get her to sleep. Those were the days. Thanks so much for all you do. Listening to the constant panic from Josh Watt really makes me appreciate my constant need for a buffer at all times. That seems a shame. You're becoming the buffer, the porridge buffer boy. I buffered today. I buffered. Again, you don't like buffering. You tried to eat into your buffer. I tried to give myself some buffer on the other side. Right, OK, so you were trying to pre-proof the buffer.
4:42Because otherwise we're getting dangerously close to school pickup time. What time do you need to leave the house for school pickup time? 3.40. Are you aware? Now, this isn't a dig because I'm a quite relaxed guy. This session. Are you saying I'm quite a relaxed guy? It doesn't make you a relaxed guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this session. Can I just finish this email? No, no, no, no. Because this is important. This is important. Otherwise, this is really important, Josh. You're trying to create buffer the other side. Yeah. This is booked in from 1pm to 4pm. I know. And I'm happy not to do school pickup, but now I've been given the opportunity.
5:14Well, yeah, by creating that buffer. But I'm just saying, but then you haven't really, you've got to leave at 3.40. So the buffer now, this finishes officially at 3.45. We've never done the three hours. That's because you normally speak really fast and run away. Michael? No comment.
5:32Anyway, good. Big love from St. Neots. It can't be pronounced Neots. Cambridgeshire. Yeah, is that how you pronounce it? Cams, Cams. And you just write Cams, C-A-M-B-S. But I was born just down the road in Blackheath. Ooh. Becky and Toby and Cece. She's 40 months. 40 months? No idea. Three. Four, three. And a half. Three and a bit. Yeah, no, we should be done in time to do school runs. Oh, that'd be fine. So you're in a crate second buffer. Well, how would you have played this, Rob? You dealt my hand. Well, first of all... You wouldn't have moved to Exeter. No, no. No, no, no. Where did you wake up this...
6:06Where were you last night? Where'd you wake up this morning? I don't know how to kiss and tell, Rob. You just like to wank and moan. Yeah, yeah. Last night, I did a gig in Liverpool. Oh, blimey. Where was you? The Philharmonic? It's nice there, isn't it? It is lovely. You go in there and you think this might not be a good room for comedy. Yeah. Because it's so big. Yeah. Like tall. But then it is. Yes, great. Good crowd in Liverpool. Great anecdote.
6:41Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry about putting anything funny or interesting in that anecdote. Just leave it as is. Just go fact-based. Behind the cloak, behind the cloak. Behind the cloak. Oh, listen to that Rob and Josh podcast. It was really good insights. Apparently the Philharmonic's quite big and it's fine to do comedy in. It's only been a comedy venue for 20 years. You know what, it's not like you're doing a gig at Cheddar Gorge. It's just a slightly bigger room. So you woke up in Liverpool. No, you didn't wake up in Liverpool. You gigged in Liverpool. It was at 8pm, Rob, annoyingly. Yeah, 8pm's too late, isn't it?
7:12Well, they were doing a classical concert in the afternoon. they were doing they had no buffer oh straight into Josh they'd had to move me half an hour later because they had no buffer yeah I told them look I live a buffer free life here you're an advocate for the buffer free yeah do you know what would be really fun we should go on to promote this podcast go on Good Morning Britain and have a debate you know when they do it when someone comes on and says like oh they love this they hate that you hate buffer I love buffer I mean to be fair I'm not exactly swimming in buffer no exactly I'm wafer thin on buffer I'm trying to put in more buffer so if anything We're kind of meeting in the middle.
7:46Do you know what? Quick handshake and then just tell them about the podcast. No debate needed. I always think that's so tiring. It must be so tiring to hire two people to have opposing views on a breakfast TV show and then just listen to them. Most of the time, they haven't got opposing views. They just want to be on telly. Yeah, exactly. They have to pretend. I heard quite a good thing on. It doesn't matter. It does. If it's coming to your head, it matters. Okay. Allow yourself to express yourself. I was reading a thing about American sport. Yes. Here you go. You're on board. yeah definitely and it was something that they'd done so you know like if a transfer fee if two people are negotiating on something right yeah and then someone gets brought in and they have to go is this that's the middle ground yeah yeah they used to do this thing in american sport i don't know which one because i wasn't that interested where you'd go for the discussion both teams and then you'd both name your price right but to stop people going for just a negotiating place yeah they wouldn't then pick one a price in the middle they would pick the person's price that they felt was most realistic oh it's clever that isn't it so it drags you to actually be towards the middle yourself because you need to be the closest to it while also in your own favour cut the crap basically cut the crap and what we agree on is enough buffer not too much enough buffer not too much if we both sat down on good morning britain we'd both go life's difficult so you're not gonna have loads of buffer because sometimes you want buffer but you just can't create time you can't create time plan for buffer but accept sometimes there won't be buffer so i went to the radisson in birmingham so you drove from liverpool last night to birmingham the radisson is attached to the station or not attached but more or less next to the station Yeah, respect.
9:35Absolute home game for me. I've been there two Sundays in a row. Well, this is so weird. I've been at the Leicester Marriott on the M1 two nights in a row. Have you? Two weeks in a row. And I tell you what, waking up at the Leicester Marriott on the M1 two weeks in a row on a Monday morning is fucking depressing. Yeah. It's really, really depressing. No offence, lovely hotel. It's great. But just being driven from the north to Leicester on a Sunday. Where were you? I was in Hull. Oh, my word. Lovely gig, lovely place. Just four and a half hours from my house. Fine. So then I did the 9.12 train, got in at 11.44.
10:14And we were called in at one o 'clock. Lovely buffer. Lovely buffer. What time did you leave your hotel? About 10 to nine. Oh, buffer, buffer, buffer. I tell you when I do buffer, Rob, I give myself a lot of buffer for trains or anything. I don't want to get caught in a, if there's a problem, because I've left my toothbrush rush back in my room and have to go and get it then yeah i'm not that guy no because ivo graham has zero buffer for trains yeah i'm not that guy i can't be that guy you'd love to be that guy i want to be on the platform 10 minutes before the train i think your lack of buffers not like i'm a pretty cool guy and i'm like really relaxed and i'll just make it on time no sorry to deliver this news i feel like your lack of buffer is that you're trying to do too much in a time period to please everyone else sometimes not even yourself you're a very unselfish guy so then that can lead to the buffer problem.
11:03But you want to turn around in a week. Or is it my desperation to be liked is in itself desperately selfish? Yeah, I mean, if you look at it that way, it's really horrible. Because then that's the worst of both. You're not even selfish getting your own way. You're selfish in a horrible, shallow little rabbit person, but also bending over to get rogered up the arse every second of every day. Come on, Josh. That's a buffer-free life for you. Stand up straight and pull your trousers up and buffer. Do you want some parenting? news oh i'd quite like to see my children at some point as well but um yeah go on give me some because i've not got much hamster still in the freezer no that's tipped that's too long isn't it that's too long so how long that's a week now so it's a week but you know you're gonna have to start defrosting it for the party food i'm probably gonna do it after this i've got my spade you've got a school run as well though so you're gonna do it after the school run in the dark yeah i can't and do it without the kids.
12:01What, dig the hole? Bury the hamster. Yeah, no, but I think you could dig the hole and prepare it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to have time for that. No, no, fair enough. Just buffer for it. That's too much. That's not enough buffer. Michael, we might have to get rid of an episode this week because Josh needs more buffer. Yeah. Okay, well, yeah, so I think if you do it today, that's okay. I can understand you've got a busy... Maybe we should just occasionally do one episode and then we'll put something out that says, use this hour for buffer, guys. And it's just an hour of... But also, please listen through it all as well so we get the downloads.
12:30Yes, we'll have to leave the ads in. Yes.
12:38The buffer hour. The buffer hour. Yeah, the buffer hour. We'll just put out total silence. Yeah. But every 20 minutes it'll still go to the ads because contractually we've got to do that. Yeah, as much as we'd love to. We'd rather not, but that's life. Like I say, buffer's never perfect. What do you think of that idea, Michael? Would we get in legal trouble? It's quite avant-garde, isn't it? I think that could be quite cool. We might really make a stand in the industry. What do you think, Michael? I think technically we're probably okay from a legal standpoint. We could call it The Rest is Buffer.
13:07Why don't we do that and just release an hour of silence every week and see what happens? Did you know that when he was, this would be in the 70s, between The Beatles and Death, during John Lennon's solo career... Oh, God. A horrible way to call that period. He put out a record and it got mispressed with silence. All right. And sent to the reviewers. A reviewer gave it an amazing review saying that what a statement this is. No. Yeah. That could be us. That could be us. As long as we just don't get murdered. These guys are saying, isn't podcast nothing? Isn't there enough chat? It's time to buffer.
13:47Exactly. Not all the time, just a one-off. Exactly. A little quick buffer. Or when we're busy.
13:56i think it's a good time actually from an artistic point of view to get everyone to buffer because rob mr train and there's no episode sorry what's your parents so you've got to bury the hamster went to a birthday oh nice okay is it a new school friend it's my son's friend well you know classmate exit a friend extra friend we've been to quite a few now have you got adult friends yet well we've already got adult friends here. I just shared a taxi with one of them, actually. Oh, who's that? A man called Will. How do you know Will? We just do, from before. He's a comedian. Will Adamsdale, Edinburgh.
14:34You wouldn't really have crossed over with him before our time. Oh, OK. A bit more alternative kind of guy. He works a lot with Tom Parry, who you know very well. Oh, I know him. I've seen him. Yeah. Did he do a character? I think so. So you shared the capsule. He's your friend, is he? Yeah. He was at the taxi, and then there's Mike Wozniak. He's 51. He is 51. You're hanging out with older men down there. Do you know what? I don't think I've made friends with anyone younger than me yet. Yeah. Do I? I don't know. It's weird, isn't it? How old are your friends? I've got a couple of 50s, knocking around.
15:05Have you got anyone in their 20s? A friend. A friend. A friend. Not really. There's a couple of comments I've been chatting to online. I think Maisie Adams was in her 20s at one point. I've not socialised at all this year because it's been so ridiculous. It depends what a friend is, doesn't it? Like, I'd say 98 % of my friendships are done via WhatsApp. Do you know what? I've got a few pals in their 20s. Yeah? That I may message with, but actually meeting up with a friend, I'm not meeting up with many friends at the moment. But anyway, so you've got adult friends down there. Have you got any adult friends not from before?
15:44Not people that you know that moved to Exeter, that they're your friends with? We had a cup of tea with a couple who my daughter was playing with, and I'd say we're friends with them. That's nice. Okay. You been messaging? Yep. About art classes and stuff. No spinoff. Because that's the key, the spinoff from the child. I don't want spinoff, even with my actual friends. You just don't want to talk to all your friends about your daughters? No. No. I just don't want to, like... Talk to anyone. I don't want to be invited to dinner. No? Okay. By people I like, let alone people I don't know very well.
16:18Why not? why don't you want to go for dinner because i'm out too much when i'm not working i want to be in yeah fair enough do you know what i mean like well i think we're at very same stages of our jobs at the moment where it's feast or famine where you're away all the time or at home all the time and i'm in the middle of like i'm basically away for like 12 days in 14 days i'm away overnight over the next two weeks and it finishes i'm at home from next saturday yeah but it's so intense so yeah like i say as soon as i get home the last thing i'll do is go down the pub or go because i'm having to eat out in restaurants or eat out in cafes all the time when i'm just kicking around hull so i've got no interest you know when someone's going we should go for a drink you're like at the moment no you're a great guy but i'm not looking for someone at the moment no you're happily single even the people i've got i'm not looking for them fair enough how's your friendship game going weak really weak i'd say don't see him at all really get quite lonely actually i've actually um lloyd's been coming on tour with me lloyd griffith yeah so coming to the gigs.
17:16It's been great fun. Like Jimmy Five Bellies with Gazza, just like a kind of hired friend. No, he's doing a slot, a support slot. Oh, right, he's doing a support slot. Oh, that makes sense. But he's not doing the support. I'll go out first. And he's basically, I'm still doing my whole show, but he's coming out and doing a little surprise guest slot. Yeah. Which is not much of a surprise now for the people of Bristol next week. When's this going out? But no, he's doing a Leicester and a couple of gigs in Bristol. He's not doing all the tour. It's just over these couple of weeks. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking to basically get my friendship game up because you can't just pay Lloyd to be your friend forever I can't just answer someone oh our kids get on at school you busy this week do you fancy coming to Bristol for a couple of hundred quid maybe to you don't even have to do the gig if you could stay round and near me but then when I get bored of you go to your room you'll be able to pick up the vibes you get a vibe yeah it's very clear yeah if I go and sit in the dressing room and lay down my coat on and shut my eyes probably go if I whip my laptop out and put the football on, kick back and chill.
18:17Yeah. That's the kind of guy I am. But if I whip my laptop out and put something else on, get out fast. Yeah, yeah. Or we're on the road. What goes on Tuesday is on tour. I read an article by someone that said you don't have many proper friends when you're a man. I disagree. I agree. I disagree. You're either working or with the kids in your family and then you'd like to say, you'd think, I can't be bothered. Because dads have no mates. I've got loads of mates. They're dying embers. They're all WhatsApp. Give it another 10 years, you won't see anyone. This is a problem, so I need to engage your friends again.
18:54I think we are in an age when people stay in touch more than they ever did before. Yeah, but you're not actually with them. I don't want to be with them. This is perfect. No, you don't. Human connection with no human connection. Yeah, but we don't in this moment right now, because we're out every night with 1 ,000, 2 ,000 people in front of us going, love me, love me, listen to me, listen to me. Yeah, and I'm going, guys, chill out. Strange heckle. So when you're not working so much, and especially in our job, imagine if you did a job where you worked on your own all day, right? Yeah. And didn't see anyone.
19:27Yeah. You'd be really lonely. And I think there's a lot of lonely people out there, Josh. And I think men of a certain age should try to see their friends more. Okay. I do. When I was a kid, like, Dad had no mates. No, dads don't have mates, do they? Not like mums. I think I've got more mates than the generation of dads above me because I will see a clip of Wayne Lineker and I'll think of six different people to send it to. Oh, that's good. Is that friendship? Well, exactly. I mean, is that real friendship? That's not a deep connection with someone where you're hanging out and chatting. It's a bit of fun.
20:01It's a bit, oh, love me. I'm Josh. I'm the funny one in this group. I hope you all like this video. You know, that's coming out again. You know. Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah, fine.
20:13When did being liked become such a fucking crime? I'm the same, Josh. I know. I'm the same. What do you think were comedians? Desperate. I know. I'm the same stink of it. Desperate figures. Sad little nutcases. Oh, did they like it? Did that joke go okay? Did they laugh enough? Or fucking losers. Anyway. Losers. Anyway. Can't change who we are. No.
20:39So I went to a birthday party. That's a bit of a detour, wasn't it? Yes. Who turned up? Who turned up at the birthday party? Right, okay. Let me guess. You're never going to guess. Are we playing the game or not? Okay. Elsa. Not far off. Spider-Man. Moana. Close. Rapunzel. No. Mowry. Who? You know, the rock from, is it called Mowry? He's not called Maori. What's he called? Maui. Oh, come on. That's good. Come on. Maori is his race. At least I got that right, didn't I? Yeah, he did. Thank God. Fucking minefield, isn't it? Anyway, there's a bloke in Exeter, Rob. Yeah. Who just goes around. I didn't know this.
21:22Well, I'll show you. He just goes around. He's not like an entertainer. He just drives around like this. What's the name of our group? Are you going to send it to me on WhatsApp? Yeah, I will send it to you on WhatsApp because I'm your friend. The name of the group is called Lockdown Dad's Pod still. Yeah, it is. Oh, this is depressing as well. I'm getting driven from Manchester to a Leicester industrial estate for two... You need to stop staying on these industrial estates. No, I'm not. Just stay in town. That's no one's fault but your own. Listen, I'm coming from Manchester because I'm filming up there and then I've got a gig on Wednesday in Leicester.
21:56I've got to be out there until 12. So the only thing to do is go to the industrial estate before the gig. No, it's not. It is. What do I do? Book a hotel room the next night and just stay in the hotel. I'm leaving Leicester to go to Bristol straight after. So there's no hotel. How much are you going to spend on the industrial estate? Well, Nando's in cinema. I can't go in one of them spunk-covered salesman fucking wank pits. I can't do it. I can't do it anymore, Josh. I can't go in there on my own. It's mental. I've been in so many hotels Why have you chosen industrial estate over the centre of Leicester?
22:36Easy parking Less people Easy parking Rob, your life is better than easy parking It's not It's not How is easy parking coming into this? I've got a suggestion How nice is the car you get driven around in? It's quite a nice car Is it one where the seats are facing each other? One of those No, it's not It's like a sort of saloon car I like, but nice one. Why don't you just go for a nice lunch? I'm not paying the man to sit there where I sit behind him for four hours. What do you mean? Well, are you suggesting that we arrive in Leicester, we park in the industrial estate, and he just sits in the car where I sit behind him?
23:13No, he can go and do what he wants. He's not going to have the problem with getting recognised like you. Oh, that's what I say. Drive into the industrial estate. You go and watch a film and I'll sit in your car. No, he doesn't need to drive in. Now I'm driving him. You're obsessed with an industrial estate. Where else are we going in Leicester? Leicester itself. Fuck Leicester itself. No offence, Leicester. I don't want to walk around the centre of fucking Leicester. No, you're sitting in the car. I'm not sitting in a multi-story car park in someone else's car while he goes Christmas shopping.
23:38They'll be street parking somewhere. I'm not watching Wicked on my own. Best things to do in Leicester. You're not watching Wicked, surely? No, but there's Dominate in the cinema screenings. Why don't you go on the Leicester scavenger hunt? What's that? I don't know. There's a ghost tour. Shall we book you a ghost tour? I'll have a wheelie case and a super carrier. You can leave in your car. I can't leave in the car because he drops me off. What do you mean? Oh, sorry. It's not my tour manager. I told you it was your tour manager. No, it's just a taxi car to Leicester. Oh, the one that Zepatron have paid for.
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24:12Your production company. Sorry, yeah, I've gone too specific. You've gone really TV there. But the TV production company that I'm working for paid to get me home. But I'm not going home. I'm going to Leicester. So they're going to put on a car for me to Leicester. But I have to be at the hotel at 12. It's a two-hour journey. I get to Leicester at two, shows at eight. What am I doing for six hours on my own with a wheelie suitcase and a suit bag? Okay, I've got a better plan. I've got a better plan. Go on. What I would do? By the way, what great buffer I've got. You are swimming in buffers. Sometimes it's too much.
24:40I'd rebrand that buffer to afternoon. Yeah, to a kind of... Whole afternoon. I'd describe that buffer as an eternal nothingness. Yeah, I'd say it's excessive buffer. Like floating through space, cut off from your craft. Yeah.
24:58why don't you I might go and chat to the geese with the wheelchair again and see if he's on shift I'm fucking Alan Bartred you I'm gonna go for a drink sorry mate I've got to finish my shift at the cinema no worries what time's it finished he's gonna be here for six hours he's gonna not believe his eyes he's not gonna believe his eyes I'll come back and watch Running Man again just for the banter just for the banter just to feel something we had a bit of a connection didn't we two weeks ago I feel like Lester's got me in a fucking show cold and I love Lester why don't you right You've had enough time in Leicester.
25:28Oh, yeah. Yeah? Well, I've never actually been in it, to be honest. I've just been on the M1. No, because you're obsessed with this fucking industrial estate. I went to sleep when it was dark. I woke up when it was dark looking at the fucking bins out of my room. By the way, nice hotel. Nothing wrong with the hotel. Good that it's using its bins. Good that it's got enough bin storage so there's no rubbish. Yeah, so I like that hotel. Why don't you do this, Rob? Yeah. Stay in Manchester overnight. Yeah. Enjoy Manchester. We haven't really been killing thousands of hours. There's a huge Christmas market.
25:57Manchester's nice. So leave my bags at the hotel and say, actually, rather than being picked up at 12, can I be picked up at... Two. ...4 or whatever, and I go for a walk around Manchester? Yeah. Yeah, I could do that and go shopping maybe. Yeah. Yeah. It wouldn't seem as bleak. And it'll be a Tuesday, so it'll be a bit like... It'll be fine. It'll be fine. Christmas night? Yeah. Should I do that? Do that. There is a... I go to the David Lloyd gym. There is a David Lloyd gym at the industrial... You should go to the gym. No, but I could go to... That's what I was going to go and do. There'll be a gym in your hotel.
26:27Yeah, true. The other thing with hotels, Rob, is you can leave your bags after the checkout. So you've still got that time bag free. Yeah, maybe I do that. And then just go straight to the venue and keep morale up. Exactly. But then I think I'm just going to be wandering around Manchester waiting for a taxi to Leicester. And I don't want to go shop. I don't want to go shop. No, I know. You don't want to do any of these things. I don't want to walk around Manchester alone. I've done nearly 219 hotels this year. All right, yeah. That's an affair for you. That's mental, isn't it? Yeah, that is mad.
26:59That's insane. It can't happen again. No. Lying in the sand. As much as I love hotels. Anyway, well, maybe I think about that because at the moment, I've looked at the industrial estate in Leicester cinema listings. There's not a lot on. It's Wicked or Zootropolis. And I think if I watch Zootropolis alone without my children, I'm going to get into a very dark place. The other thing is you might have more cinema options in Manchester than on a Leicester industrial estate. You're not wrong. There might be, I'm going to say it, a, why not, a matinee of Jason Manford in panto. I don't mind it, you know.
27:34I don't mind that little single seat at the back. Oh, no, he's not.
27:43Yeah, the Opera House, maybe I could do that. I mean, yeah, again, going to a pantomime without my children lead up to Christmas. Would you tell Jason Manford or is that weirder? Is it weirder to then go, by the way, I saw you when you might have been doing six months, I watched you in panto when I was killing an afternoon in Manchester. I don't know. If I was in a panto and Jason Manford was in town, I might pop in and see. It's a bit mad, isn't it? It is a bit weird, isn't it? I don't think he would. I think he'd probably just sit in a hotel room quite calmly and enjoy his own mind, which is something I can't do at the moment.
28:16No, yeah, fine. Well, let me tell you, have a look at this photo. of who turned up. Oh, yeah, sorry. Really went on a tangent there, didn't we? Oh, Batman. Batman, right? But he does it for a charity donation. Do you want to see his vehicle? Is this someone's birthday party? Yeah. Batman's just turned up. He's been asked. £50 charity donation. Oh, so he turns up dressed as Batman in like a sort of motorbike thing that he's turned into a Batmobile car. He's got a Batmobile, like with the two wheels at the front and the one at the back. Yes, like a truck. He's roadworthy. Yeah, he looks amazing.
28:49So he just, for 50 quid charity donation, he just, like, pretends to be Batman for a bit. Apparently, he's like a local character. Here he is leaving, Rob. Yeah, he is a local character in Gotham. But he'll drive around. People will spot him driving around dressed as Batman in that. Oh, wow. I mean, it's nice that he's doing that little charity donation, but, yeah, if that's what he likes to do. Exactly. I'm not paying 50 quid to meet me in Leicester. Ride around in the Batmobile. I'll dress up as Robin. Go for a spin. Rob Beckett's absolutely lost the plot. He's dressed as Robin. I'm just trying to kill some time.
29:25Where is he? Well, he's still on the Leicester Industrial Estate. Where else could he be? They need to rename that after me. How many times have you been to that industrial estate in the last month? Well, at the moment, I'm doing Leicester once a week. Right. Either industrial estate or M1. Oh, so at least you're mixing it up. Yeah, do you know what I mean? Also, I want to stress, I'm a big fan of the Marriott M1. Yeah. hotel it's excellent some of the ones right on the motorway are dodgy as f this one's lovely really clean rooms comfy beds comfy so no grief there it's just the location being far from home and how much sleep are you getting got in at about midnight last night thankfully it wasn't the same guy in reception because i couldn't look him in the eye if he was checking me in two weeks running yeah got in about midnight fell asleep about half one woke up at six oh no never needed I needed a piss more in my life.
30:15Oh. Honestly. How come? I don't know. I just needed a piss so bad. What do you have after the gig, Rob? What do you consume after the gig? Normally a bit of a drink of water, normally nothing, but sometimes if I'm a bit peckish, a protein yoghurt. Right, yeah. It was one of them where this might be too much for the pod, but do you ever really need a wee and you wake up and you have like a completely 100 % full erection? Yeah, that's just totally natural. That's just normal, right? Like complete, full, the hardest your dick's ever been. well i don't think there's gradations of that really no but it's like it anyway but then i find it i don't know if we've discussed this i find it really hard to wee when i'm going to the toilet because you can't stand up because it's directly yeah yeah out so you stand on the bed and shoot from there right no no but i've you sort of have to sit on the toilet and then poke it aim it down like push it down you're not worried it'll go into the water or is that just me am I right oh the end of it yeah well and the middle a little bit of the bass a little bit of the bass if we're going to do the joke let's do the fucking joke and a little bit of balls a little bit of balls I'm a bum anyway so yeah I can't remember what I was talking about yeah well that actually I might do that and see I want to see the Bruce Springsteen film so I might see if that's on in Manchester and do it that way so how is prep for the two birthdays well Lou's doing all of it like Lou has been amazing i've been away so much it's ridiculous living her book isn't she at the moment yeah if there was ever a time i think you could lose the word default she's just a parent
31:49yeah she's basically doing all of it i just feel a little bit out of control because i'm bouncing around from so many things i just feel like i haven't really got a handle on anything i'm sort of spinning plates all the gigs are going well and all my work's going well i just feel like am i actually doing any of it properly kind of thing which i am but it's like the bits in between oh my god we got their birthday i've got to do some presents for lou and it was the first of december so it's the elf on the shelf is back are you doing that no we're doing advent calendars so no elf is shelfy no so that came back then i feel bad because i'm missing out because i'm not like seeing the girls see it because i'm not there and lou's having to do it also and then i'm trying to sort up christmas present out josh lose yeah we bleeped it right because i didn't want her yeah the surprise to be ruined full disclosure i can't remember what it was it doesn't matter now you can leave this unbleed it's a therabody eye mask thing that basically heats up and it's a like a sleeping mask and it's full blackout and it massages your face yeah yeah so i've bought that sounds great got it from argos and i'm a big fan of argos actually from nostalgia and also i think they provide a really good service it's great got a bit of beef got a bit of beef of them today and it's feedback that i think they should implement great service ordered it was the lowest price came when it said it was coming arrived not in a box what do you mean it was just in the normal box no brown cardboard box around it oh so lu saw just the address stuck on it so lu got given a christmas present by the postman oh no and lu was just like is this my christmas present should i just hide it and try and forget about it oh no you can't deliver anything without a box near christmas very good point very good point so Argos stick your stuff in boxes please so she knows what she's got now so that are you going to change it you've got to change it well I don't have to you've got to get something else I'm going to get something else maybe I'll just go shopping in Manchester she'll be saying no you don't have to but you do have to a million percent she'll be like no it'll be fine don't worry about it I'll just pretend I know you can't give someone something they know they've got so I think I might do that and change my car and go shopping in Manchester because they don't have shops in Leicester not on the industrial estate anyway well they do a few but it's not loads Should I tell you what's there?
33:56You can tell me if it's worth going. Don't go to the industrial estate, Rob. Just go to Leicester. They'll have a John Lewis. I just quite like it. It's nice and quiet. It doesn't feel like you like it. I don't. There's a John Lewis in Leicester. The industrial estate I go to is the Meridian Business Park. Oh, my word. It's a great two-fair. It's a lovely parking. It's in a sort of hexagon shape. There's a harvester. There's a David Lloyd. There's a Chiquito. A Pizza Hut. Rob, what are you doing? A Frankie and Benny's. a Hollywood Bowl a Nando's and a Bella Asalia Rob you can't live like this I am I know well maybe I should go shopping in Manchester for Lou's Christmas present that's what I'm going to do I'm going to change it it'll feel festive in Manchester it'll feel festive I'll go shopping and then get something for Lou there because they've got nice shops haven't they and then get in the car later they've got all the shops that's what I'm doing okay you've made me feel better about this Josh good well let's see how it plays out oh god I don't know what to get why not what do you get a woman that's got everything right guys So other things, Rob, parenting-wise.
34:58Got Barry the Hamster. Yep. Batman at the birthday. What I've done, it might not be best for you to do this, Rob. Go on. But I've realised in the last bit of the tour, because my kids are like, when you're here, when you're not here, I've made a chart with green ticks and red crosses, morning and evening for each day. Oh, God. Yeah, I can't put pen to paper on that at the moment. It might be too depressing for you. if i'd done it in november it would have been it'd been sent off big red card yeah it would have been mad but luckily december's about 60 40 green to red well you finished your tour for the year so you still got to london and do bits but you're not london tomorrow but i'm i finished my last one's 13th for december and then after that that's i've got no more sort of like all the other tour dates in the new year are in london or near london so i can just drive there and back so it's the last push now so you're doing a no hotel year apart from robin romesh yeah trying to when i can and but no tour shows none of that sort of going away far so i don't know this might be boring to people they'll tell me to shut up but this is what horse has bolted about three or four years oh fuck it yeah you're you've come this far so i basically went up to newcastle on thursday and i did thursday friday saturday newcastle industrial estate no industrial states to be seen then sunday leicester stayed overnight to this morning so i'm at home now i'll see the kids tonight when they're home from school but then tomorrow morning i go up to manchester then i'm doing manchester then leicester then bristol bristol bristol and then i'm home sunday of next week so i'll be at home one night in two weeks basically are you staying in bristol i don't want to stay on here in case i get what i'm getting some nutcases but please tell me you're staying in town with any hot Chikas, I'll be in the Radisson Blu.
36:41I just don't know.
36:46Room 69? Yeah, Room 69. For any hot Chikas out there. Where are my hot Chikas at? There's going to be some poor bloke in the Radisson Blu in Room 69. Getting a string of knocks on the door from people saying, gobble, gobble. I don't know.
37:30I don't know how to pay. Pay for it. Save. With Visa, now test it.
37:38I feel better about that. If I go to Manchester, then I've been productive because I'm getting something done for Lou. That'd be nice. Get her a nice present. She deserves it. Oh, my daughter. I put it on Instagram. My daughter wrote a letter to Netflix. All right, yeah. Have you seen it? No. She wrote this. Dear Netflix, why are you taking away Happy Gilmore? It's so good and it's one of my favorite films. Here's a few reasons why. it's why you should keep it it's great it's my dad's favorite i didn't know this new story sorry happy gilmore basically they just after a while they go leaving net because they buy it for about a year don't they it tells you it's leaving yeah so she said it's good it's my dad's favorite you can't get rid of the first one because no one will understand the second one clever i don't know if you've seen happy gilmore but you can get your head around the second i hope i've convinced you to keep happy gilmore yours sincerely and then a name in age seven amazing i've tagged adam Sandler in nothing yet.
38:30Oh, for fuck's sake. Absolutely be. Living in a different world, don't they? He's probably in an industrial estate outside San Diego. Yeah, probably playing Beeble. Yeah. Shooting some hoops. Yeah, exactly. Have you got much festive stuff planned though for the kids? So you know Elf on the Shelf, just normal advent. So we are going out for Christmas dinner. Oh, are you? Yeah. You'd have to take the place, but is it like a restaurant type place or someone's house? Rosambleu in Bristol for any... For any hot chicas, fancy some stuffing? Hot chicas for... Fancy...
39:02yeah so we're going out because we just thought it'd be nice yeah also as well you're not fully in in do you know i mean you're still getting that it's not our kitchen rob it's not our kitchen are you getting your kitchen done yeah oh are you redone yeah another new kitchen well yeah yeah no fine just absolutely that it's fine yeah yeah something for you to look forward to in the new year well 2027 by the time it's finished i know how you do kitchen so you've got much work to do on it then you've got to get the kitchen down the rest is cosmetic yeah apart from the whole kitchen no everything's being done everything's being done but cosmetic you're not knocking any walls or building apart from the kitchen oh that's good yeah how does it feel though doing the the last kitchen so soon after not moving it feels like that was about 10 years ago so it's all right actually you've added you added value you've added value yeah exactly so that'd be nice to go and i know who you're having dinner with rose's parents oh nice are they nearby they're not nearby are they no so rose's mum and her dad they're not together but they get on very well and his partner and our kids obviously yeah that's nice when they can do that because you know it makes you feel confident about you and lou in 10 years no well because i've got half brothers haven't i yeah so we're a blended family i do material about this in my show so we're blended where before it used to be broken home you're from you're broken but we're blended and stuff like that and that wasn't always the easiest transition between without me saying too much so i think that is nice when you can do that and it's all good yes so that's what we're doing that's our plans for christmas day we've got quite a lot of christmas stuff the old lapland uk oh you're We're doing that.
40:46Yeah. Always good. The old Lapland UK. Well, Lou's doing Panto, but I'm not going to that. Well, you're catching the Jason Manfield one next week. Yeah, obviously. I'll be watching anyway in Manny. Apparently the one in Newcastle is supposed to be amazing. Which one's Lou going to? She's going to one at Bromley. So she's not going to the Palladian one that's got that mad cast? No, no, no. Let's have a see what's at Bromley. Are you not going to an Exeter one? No, because we're really tight on nights and we're doing quite a lot of stuff. So Panto. You can overbook yourself, can't you, slightly?
41:19Well, you've got Samantha Womack and Sue Pollard. Who's Samantha Womack? Samantha Janis. So she's married to someone called Womack? She's changed her name, so that's what I'm guessing. It looks like someone's AI'd the poster. Oh, yeah, Samantha Janis. I used to love Samantha Janis. And what was actually not going out? Game on. Game on. Is that where he didn't leave his flat? Yeah. That was a great series, wasn't it? Yeah, it was good. What happened to him? because he was amazing in it, the main character, wasn't he? Which one? The one that wouldn't go out. It was a bit like an early peep show almost, wasn't it?
41:49Yeah, it was good, that. I thought it was brilliant. It was directed by John Stroud. Samantha Janis. Yeah, we all know that. Matthew Cottle, Ben Chaplin, Neil Stuke. He used to love Game On. So, yeah, we've got Samantha Wimack, Sue Pollard. It's a good lineup. She'll be great. Sue Pollard's brilliant. She'll be great. I don't think there is a big Exeter panto. You haven't really got a big theatre, have you, as such, like a traditional one? Oh, no, because you do the uni, what is the big venue. Did you do Westerns, Yeovil? That's Yeovil, though, isn't it? Yeah, don't talk to me about that one. Plymouth Panto.
42:19That's the industrial estate venue. Of course, it's where you live and breathe. It's where you live and breathe. So he's Robin Hood. Manford's Robin Hood. Plymouth, I've got Shane Ritchie. Oh, go to that. He'll be unbelievable. That might be quite good, actually. Brian Connolly's the best one, I think. He's amazing. When I see that, I think, what the fuck is Shane Ritchie's Christmas like? Have a look at the dates. But then if he lives nearby, it's, oh, we don't live by, doesn't it? Because it's Plymouth, that's what I mean. He might have grown up kids, though. Yeah, I think he probably does. But, Rob, he's doing 1pm and 5.30 on Christmas Eve and 1pm and 5.30 on Boxing Day.
42:54So is Manford. He's got Christmas Day off. But he lives in Manchester. True, so it'll be 20, you can leave his house probably about midday, half 11, do the one o 'clock. Yeah, I mean, you could work, if you lived, like, I could do the Bromley Churchill one and it wouldn't really impact me too much. Cut to Rob. You'd be going fucking mental. Hang on. Right. So what day is it today, Josh? It's the first. Fucking hell. I can't even go and see Manford. He's not on today. Oh, no. It would have been perfect. On the 10th, he's doing 2.30 and his ticket's available. Would you have gone? Yeah, defo, because he's me mate.
43:26And also he's Robin Hood. He's doing all of it. Oh, yeah. That would have been good. Where'd you sit, though? As a solo man at a panto, where'd you sit? as a solo famous man. Yeah, yeah, let's just add. But then I think you get away with it, Rob, because everyone's going to presume you're there as a friend of Jason Manford. Oh, you had to see Jason? I go, who? Who? No, no, no. Do you know what would be mental? If I went to see it and I didn't message Jason Manford or say, can I come and say hello to you backstage? If I just bought a ticket and watched it and didn't go and speak to him, that, if I'm Manford, I'm worried about that.
44:02you know what i mean so when are you messaging him before i would now go manford jason i'm in manchester on uh wednesday he's so manchunian even half his name's fucking manchester isn't it i'd say i'm in town i've got a killing afternoon i might come and watch you do panto at 2 30 any chance to sort me a ticket no worries if not but if you fancy a drink before or after let me know although not after because i'm going yeah but not after unless you want to have a drink at the Chiquito Leicester Meridian Business Park. I don't think you'd have time, Rob. You're not getting to Leicester from Manchester at 4.30.
44:35This is depressing. I just Googled Leicester Panto. Yeah, here we go. And it's in the room arming. Oh, great line up here. Richie Anderson, Suzanne Shaw and Jared Christmas. Have you ever done a tour show on a Panto set? Yes. It's really weird. It's really weird. It's really difficult. Could you try and reference it? What's weird is before you come on, because you know they've come into the room. Yeah. and they've thought fucking hell this is a bit bit weird that he's decided to pay all this money for this huge set like a gingerbread house just for one gig in leicester what the fuck is this show gonna be i thought i might be doing that tonight they'd have told you well this is what happened to me before though when i did it i thought i'll be great wouldn't it if i sort of like go up and start like doing the gig from like the tower it doesn't start till december the 12th it'd be great if i go up to the tower and do the gig out the balcony like where like the princess with the thing anyway i tried it once and i was doing the gig and i went up there and it took me ages to get up there then when i got up there i'm just like i'm just stood up here and it's not funnier and i actually basically had to go oh this wasn't a very good idea what it and then just all you could hear was me walking down the stairs in silence oh man i once did one where it wasn't even a panto it was i don't know what the play was but it was a full working kitchen with different entrances.
45:54There's dinner there. You know when you have, you know when you have like different entrances, like a kind of farce where they're going out in and out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was like four different entrances to stage that. Did you try and do banter going through the doors? Yeah, I was working the tap. I was pouring someone a glass of water. I knew what I was fucking doing. That's Sunday brunch. Yeah. Right, should we do some small business, Josh? I enjoyed catching up with you actually. I felt good. Yeah, do you feel a bit cleared of your Leicester Groundhog Day? You know what? It's fine.
46:22Everything's fine. It's just, I can see the finish line, but it's still quite far away. Yeah. I've got eight more tour shows. I've got a few more TV bits and it's just that like, I can't sort of, you know, like whenever you like the end, it gets near Christmas when you work in an office, you like the last couple of days, no one does any work. But when you're on stage on your own, you're like, I do still have to do this gig properly or otherwise I'm going to be really angry. You know what I mean? But no, I feel excited about the last few. and I've only got four more. This week, when I get back home from Bristol, I don't have to stay overnight anywhere else until end of January.
46:53Nice. I need to be at home with the kids, really. Well, the good thing, Rob, is this small business shout-out will help you. Okay. Do you get hay fever? No, the industrial estate's pretty grey, actually, a lot of buildings. Because what you're meant to do with hay fever is get local honey. Did you know that? Oh, right, yeah, I didn't know that. So is this a shout-out for local honey? Well, it's based in the Midlands where you spend a lot of your life, Rob. Do you know what? I'll have a big spoonful of that at the M1 Marriott. I would like to suggest my husband's honey business for a, oh, this is good, S-B-S-O.
47:23We haven't called it. Oh, S-B-S-O. Yeah. S-B-S-O on PH with RB and J-dubs. Yeah. Based in the Midlands, something to help with Josh's porridge addiction and to make that gobble-gobble all the more tasty. He is Arden Forest Honey, A-R-D-E-N. Single-handedly produces some of the, well, not single-handedly. Got to give the B some credit here, haven't you? They've got six hands, haven't they? If this is him single-handedly producing it, I'm not sure about it. He's rubbing his guts all over some pollen and taking it back to his hive. No, he is Arden Forest Honey and single-handedly produces some of the most awarded honey in the county and some help from me when I'm not being a paramedic and the in-laws doing the labelling and deliveries.
48:06His Instagram is Arden Forest Honey and his website is ArdenForestHoney.co.uk. we would love a shout out to bring a little joy and try to make the fact he is none existent in our house from march to october more worthwhile while we manage having a teenager with all the attitude a four-year-old about to start primary school with all the emotions and a very free spirited two-year-old at home thank you so so so so much thank you for genuinely being so relatable making this parenting carousel seem a little more manageable being able to see the funny side of things we have needed it esme browning lovely okay good luck with your honey mate here we go here's another one hello i wanted to shout out my mom's small business looking for a fun and educational way to get kids outdoors orienteering is the answer oh yeah my mom provides schools with orienteering maps permanent markers and teacher training orienteering not only boosts map reading skills builds confidence teamwork and get students moving but also supports the curriculum with bespoke schemes of work linking in with pe geography math science and languages for any teachers or pta members listening developing orienteering in schools is also a great way to spend sports premium funding and the excellent resources my mum provides make the delivery of orienteering in schools as convenient as possible for the teacher reducing planning and preparation time to virtually nothing i don't know if that's ai or linkedin that but that was fucking well corporate i'm like i feel like i've got a real job saying that my mum provides orienteering packages for schools from ks1 to ks4 but can also provide maps and markers for almost any area such as parks nature reserves or visitor attractions she is based in the northwest but travels across the uk website is the orienteeringcompany.com facebook the orienteering company love the podcast as does my mum.
49:56Keep up the good work. Lily and mum Michelle. Good luck with the orienteering. There we go, Josh. Another episode. Brilliant. Full of buffer. Full of fun. Great advice from you. Let's keep going. Fire on. See you next week. Bye. Or Friday. Depends where this goes out, doesn't it? Yeah, we won't know. Michael can just edit it in the right word.
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