S11 EP4: I had a dream about Romesh

20:05So the classic sort of hamster mix shit you get. But also there's this like stuff, like little pellets, like porridge, that then you put a bit of water and it turns into little porridge stuff that they gave us. That's what they used to feed them when they were little.

20:16Josh Widdicombe:Oh. Plumping them up. I gave them, yeah, because ours was, it was a bit thin. So we've gone, we're doing a normal food plus a lovely fruit and veg plate. But you can't give them too much. You can't give them too much. You can't give them too much. Fucking cucumber. What a shit animal. Oh, God, I've eaten too much cucumber. Fucking hell. Green and water, mate. Oh, you can't give it two strawberries. Fucking let him live. It's an hamster. And it looks cute when they eat a strawberry, isn't it? They hold it in their little hands. It's great. It's great. I had a dream about Romesh last night. What was the dream about Romesh?

20:50It's quite bleak, actually. Was it like when you stood in for him, the main guest that you went and saw the show cancelled and it made you feel inferior?

20:59Josh Widdicombe:Well, I don't know. You see the symbolism. Go on. So I was in a hotel and the Wi-Fi wasn't working. Yeah. So I came down to reception and I was feeling ill and I just wanted to be in bed with the Wi-Fi working. And then there was a film premiere of Romesh's new movie. Oh, yeah? In the hotel. That you've not been invited to? That I'd not been invited to and I was just trying to get the Wi-Fi code. I don't think it takes a... I think I could do some Michael research to try and work. Josh, I know what this means. Was this before or after you were doing his radio show? Well, I did the radio show Saturday morning and obviously by Sunday evening I'm really processing that experience.

21:48Yeah, and then sort of subconsciously, why did the guest not want to come in?

21:52Josh Widdicombe:Yeah. But, you know, it's human nature to feel like that. human nature exactly how's it going with the summer holidays because i'm finding it quite chaotic so my daughter's at a week's arts school so you know like um like an art summer activity club yeah so we had we've had a little bit of a privileged first week in summer holidays where they went to like a performing arts school for a week being that um italia conti which is amazing they loved it so they did that for a week um and me and lou knit over to lisbon for a couple of nights for a bit of like couples time so that was amazing but now we're back and sunday to get the wi-fi three three birthday parties yesterday what well so my the eldest i took the eldest well they split though yeah so we had to do all three a late some sort of adventure playground tag thing and it was a 10 45 drop off at a leisure center 25 minutes away i went there dropped her off and then you could drop her reliever so i went to the driving range for an hour yeah it was next door then i picked her up then i'm gonna then i brought then i brought brought her back and she had to get a swimming costume because then she was going to a swimming party so that finished at 12 45 back to ours had to get to the swimming party for 1 45 then i had to pick her up at four o 'clock from there and then lou was at another party with my daughter that my daughter wanted her to stay at from two till five three hour parties i think it's an hour too long i don't know about you yeah i mean it's just too much for everyone involved get them in get them out fuck them off here's your party bag done yeah i mean that is intense i also think i feel sorry for the kids we have quite a problem at uh the school for the kids who have the summer holiday parties the attendance is bad so they often bring them earlier understandably but even way so that you can't get everyone's away it must be awful for those kids because not only are they the youngest in the year but when it comes to their birthday in august it's like a third attendance yeah they're not coming why because they're gonna have more fun on holiday yeah exactly yeah they don't really don't worry you can put a party bag aside for them give it to them in september one of the school one of the school mums i was like you're right she went yeah i was like i mean are you doing much when it's my birthday today and i went all right what are you doing she went two party runs and we're having a chinese take i was like it is shit in it yeah but anyway we we've got they're in a they're going to like a two-hour japanese art class today dropping off in a minute and then we're back but yeah it's a bit like the logistics are hard because you can't you're just well the other logistics problem is my son's in nursery which was fine because his nursery is where was the same nursery as my daughter's school but it's not the same nursery as art bash art bash so how far away is art bash it's the it's the other direction so me and rose have got to separately take them one art bash one nursery but at least he'll go to nursery if she's art bashing exactly because Is she there all day?

25:11Josh Widdicombe:No, I've got to pick her up at like quarter past three and two of her friends are there. So I'm bringing them all back to our house. Yeah. Because it's quite good because then for the next two days, it's going to be a, I'm hoping there'll be a circuit situation. So I'm going to take them for pizza tonight. And then another dad or mum's going to do another night. Hopefully that'll give us longer days. Honestly, we're in a very privileged position where I choose not to work as much in August. Yeah. So I'm around. And Lou's got more work to do from September. She's done the main part of her. We'll talk about that more later on, but she can't really talk about it at the moment.

25:49Not with all the controversy around Bonnie Blue.

25:51Josh Widdicombe:It's just difficult, isn't it? It's, you know, anyone trying to launch an OnlyFans at the moment, it's difficult. So, yeah, good luck to her. She's really going for it.

26:02But, like, because I've got mates, obviously, like, working full-time, both in office jobs and it's just like it's that it's so long and there's just no mental

26:11Josh Widdicombe:you can't just have all your holiday i don't understand what our parents because obviously i don't remember being small i remember summer holidays when i was 10 yeah and my parents could like go out because our gran lived in the other side of the house they could go out or whatever i didn't know that cranny yes do you reckon that's why you're quite sort of like older ways because your siblings were older, so you were at home with your nan a lot. I think maybe. You weren't one of those nan kids. I am a nan kid. Yeah, because she was in the house a lot, so you love a biscuit. Because I can imagine little sort of five-year-old Josh.

26:45She wasn't very nanny. She was quite young for her age, but her age was 75.

26:52Josh Widdicombe:Yeah, but I bet she fucking loved a cup of tea and biscuits. So you'd go in and she'd be smoking a silk cut and black coffee. Yeah. because she was like still obsessed with her weight even in her 70s, do you know what I mean? Oh, God. So Silk Cut and Coffee. Silk Cut and Coffee. You what? She doesn't sound like a man. Well, she was an actor in London, so she was absolutely kind of... Oh, so it's in the blood. Well, no, because I can't act. No, Faspy, you can act. I can't act. No, but you've still got that yearning for attention. I can pretend I'm enjoying a panel show. You are one of the best enjoying a panel show.

27:30I can laugh along at people I despise happily. One of the best advice you ever gave me was just laugh at everything and clap and you'll make the edit loads, even if you don't say anything.

27:41Josh Widdicombe:That was the advice I got, but I don't think it's good advice because no one's going, do you know who I want to go and see on tour? That guy that laughs a lot. No one's fucking good at laughing, that guy. But I think it is good advice in another way, in that by laughing along, you do relax. You're like you're part of the gang. Yeah, you relax. And you look, because when you first start, you're so scared because you're like, oh, my God, these are the TV people. And I'm just like this little idiot. So if you laugh along, even if it looks like you're like, oh, yeah, me and Lee Mack or me and Jimmy Carr.

28:12We're mates. We're on the show. The first time you go on, you're like, we're not mates.

28:15Josh Widdicombe:This is fucking mental. The first time you go on, when you first speak, he's fucking awful. Like the whole world stops. Yeah. It's like the Matrix. Do you know when the bullets come out and you can just see them come with your head and you go, you know, everyone's like, bang, bang, bang, bang. And you go like, well, I think. Oh, God. Oh, God. Well, funny you should say that, Dara. Yeah. And in that moment, because you have to have your elbow in line. Well, yeah, it's funny you say that about Eric Pickles and the size of his shilling trunks. But have you ever thought that? Oh, God. Fuck. Shoot me in the head.

29:03Josh Widdicombe:Can I just get up and leave? Oh, God, it's awful. Yeah. And then you're just sat there going, well, the first time I did it, I just did all of my jokes from my set. Yeah. And they were like, and I had a good one, obviously, because I knew they worked and I just basically, everyone else had written that stuff that week. This is stuff that was like two, three years old when it worked. So I had a good one and then like the producers was like, and it felt real shameful because I was like, yeah, next time, could you write some jokes for the show rather than just using your set? And I was like, oh. And I was like, no, I couldn't actually today.

29:32That's all. All I could do was that. Come on, give me a fucking chance. I was so scared. Yeah. That's brutal. That's quite a good thing, actually. Anyone, let us know your job and what is the scariest first moment for you when you first start? Like, is there a moment like in each different industry? It'd be interesting to know.

29:50Josh Widdicombe:Also, have you lied your way into a job? My friend needed a driving license to get his job. Yeah. And he didn't have a driving license. Yeah. And incredibly when they asked his things, they didn't ask for his driving license, but then every time he had to do a site visit, yeah, he'd go, they'd go, um, right. So we'll go. He was like working in, um, town planning and they'd have to go to a site and he'd have to pretend he was going out to drive and then peg it to the public transport. And then pretend he parked around the corner so that they didn't see him. Oh yeah. Lies, lies for a job. and then the worst moment in your job.

30:30When you remember, when you first started your career, what was the moment for us, sat on a panel show, that first word?

30:35Josh Widdicombe:I think that's worse than stand-up because at least in stand-up, you're walking up, you know what you're doing, da-da-da. You're not into – there's always the option in a panel show, I could just sit here. I don't have to speak. Whereas stand-up, you're kind of – the situation just plays out. And there's always another one the next night. So I definitely think your first time on a panel show when you have to interject. But you must be the same. if you're like in an office job and you get a promotion to a senior level and it's like well what do you think and you're like i don't really because especially at the top level of like some jobs if you're like ceo you don't need to know anything about that industry really ceos just jump from like they'll go from like petrol company down to like the fa yeah exactly um also if you if you are really high up you can do it anonymously email it yeah please we'd love this it makes everyone feel better because no one knows what they're doing really yeah everyone's blagging it and hoping for the best yeah um anyway talk to me about summer holidays rob summer holidays so we had the parties i tell you what i bought for the garden a toy bahamas ice box if we're going back to product reviews this is not an advert um i put ice in there if we had a little get together on saturday morning saturday got ice put ice in there on uh 10 a.m Saturday morning.

31:52I speak to you now, Monday morning at 10am, the ice is still in there. Wow. 48 hours. I tell you what, if you wanted a glass of rosé now.

32:03Josh Widdicombe:You could have one. You can have one. You could have one. So that was good. We had a little, we've got a little - Do you have ice in your rosé? That's what my mum does. Oh yeah, so right, me and Lou thought we'd crack the code. We'd been, over the summer, been having bottles of rosé, yeah, with loads of ice. And we said, well, it's great because actually you get a little buzz but there's so much ice in there it's actually hydrating us right yeah yeah anyway we're doing this on a couple of people over on saturday we keep getting absolutely fucked out of our head of course you're drinking rose i know rose is lethal but we thought so the fact it's colder in a way makes it easier to drink exactly but it doesn't feel like wine and it doesn't really taste like wine because it's diluted but we are we would drink and lou was lou was so hung over so funny you know so what we last couple of days we've been um having to sleep like the young our youngest was like being disturbed in a night so i'll keep waking up i'm scared can you come and sleep with me so one of us has basically just been like mainly lou actually i did it last night but mainly lou it's basically at two in the morning rather than trying to reset it it's just got in the bed because that way we all sleep and then we're going to work on it over the summer holidays um anyway so lou was in bed with her and then she woke her and i don't know But she woke up.

33:16So she basically got her kid back to sleep. And then Lou woke up in the night to be sick. And Lou's a loud sicker, right? So she's woke everyone up being sick. And in the end, my daughter that's sort of scared to sleep at her own went, it's okay, mummy, you can go back to your room. That may have. That's good. That's good. May have cracked it. So she. That's a parenting tip. Yeah. It gets so hammered on Rosa. your daughter doesn't want you.

33:45Josh Widdicombe:Exactly. So she sent her back and then she got in with me. And then they were at the party and my daughter was telling everyone, my mummy was sick last night and woke me up because she drank too much wine. Oh no. In front of all the school parents. Oh no. Right now, get up to 15 % off Select Storage Solutions. Put heavy duty HDX totes to good use, protecting what's important to you. The solid, impact resistant design prevents cracking and the clear base and sides make items easy to find even when the totes are stacked. Find select shelving and tote storage up to 15 % off at the Home Depot to organize every room in your home from your garage to your attic.

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35:12The guys delivered the night before. Jumping Jacks, Bouncy Castle guys, pretty good guys. Anyway, we plugged it back in in the morning, but it was a bit wet still, so it blew the fuse.

35:22Josh Widdicombe:Yeah. So I rung my electrician guy, Ryan, big up Ryan. I know I've given grief for lagging tickets a lot, but he's a good guy. Ryan, I mean, the thing is, I would like to give him a shout-out, but all I know is he's called Ryan and he lives in Bromley. So just shout Ryan and you might find an electrician. Anyway, he rang me up and he spoke me through it. He's got LinkedIn. I had to get a, this is really embarrassing because I'm useless, right, at stuff. Yeah. I had to, I went, mate, I think, because I've heard my dad say it before. I think, look, I've checked the fuse board. Nothing's flicked over.

35:55Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one of the ones I do. I think the fuse on the plug has blown.

36:00Josh Widdicombe:Okay. I've not seen that in years. That used to happen all the time when I was a kid. My dad was always changing the fuse on a plug. It doesn't seem to happen anymore. Well, it did for me. Before, it normally trips. That's what they say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It trips. Trips the switch. All these, yeah, it tripped the switch. So I checked the switch. It hadn't tripped. No tripped. So then I went to where sometimes when we have a power cut, there's another little box. I don't know what it does. I've heard the word isolated before. Right. Don't know what that means. Anyway, but normally if my little back gate don't open, if I press this button, the electric's come back on.

36:31I went to press the button, wouldn't come back on. no light no light Josh oh no so I was like I think the fuse is blown I rung Ryan he rung me back Saturday morning 8am we've got people arriving we've got deflated stuff I've still got to do a dog walk he rings me went hey you get a screwdriver stick it in there pop it out change the fuse I

36:50Josh Widdicombe:went okay Ryan I'll do that where did you get your spare fuse well this is the embarrassing part I panicked because I've got the old fuse and I'm like I need a fuse I went to you got any fuses She's like, nah. And then I'm starting to do Josh Widdick and banter about the fuse chocolate bar. Oh, I know what you're doing. I know what I do in this situation. What's that? Get a plug that you're not using. Take the fuse out of there. That's exactly what I should have done. What I did was text all my neighbours and ask them, do you have a fuse? Oh, dear. Yeah. And then they sort of replied, yeah. I've got loads.

37:27I'm still going to need one. But then like, and they're pretty just looking at my house going, he must have so many plugs in there honestly i reckon i've probably got about 500 fuses of course of course and you'll have stuff like definitely on stuff i'm not using yeah you'll have like an old

37:41Josh Widdicombe:for for a plug that goes to a one that'll have a plug on the end that's just in a drawer and you know what i sacrificed the ice cream maker because we've made ice cream once four years ago never again so i actually worked it out and i was like oh yeah there's fuses everywhere It's for you to do it. It's for you to do it. It's for you to do it. It's for you to do it. It's for you to do it everywhere, mate. Yeah, yeah. I was like, then I felt really good about myself because I'd found one in the ice cream maker plug, unscrewed it, got it, and then, like, put it in, and it worked. And it all came back on.

38:12I bet you felt incredible. It felt quite masculine, quite sexy. Yeah. Nearly took my top off and drunk a Diet Coke in front of Lou just to see if it sort of, you know, stirred anything. Yeah. Come on, Lou, get me on the OF. Throwing up again. and then I had really like to sort of semi-apologise and explain that I'm an idiot to the neighbours on the neighbour group because I sent it to the group like they'd make the whole and they're all like the guys are like that. So if someone said you've got loads of fuses in everything No but that was the implication of like yeah of course it's like saying hello anyone has anyone got any walls yeah has anyone got any bricks in their house wall um yeah so but they're really nice but they're all very handy so there's like one guy like races cars and he's always working his car one guy is like a like like a farmer he's got like he does all farming he's got loads of equipment the other guy runs a company and they're already hands on like when we had a wasp nest he came around a big pole and poison and pump me nest yeah all right i don't want to have it right i had a similarly uh pathetic

39:16Josh Widdicombe:thing that I was proud of. Yeah. In the terms of practicality. Oh, one second. Hello. You going now? Do you want to say hello to Josh? Hello. Hello. Oh yeah, have fun. You're going off to art school? Yeah. What are you doing there? Two dogs now as well. Oh, you've had a nightmare. We're doing tooture Japanese art and then maybe in the afternoon, after lunch, we're going to do flower patterns. Oh, wow. Nice. Have a good time. Right, are you going in the car now with Mummy? Yes, she's just going to meet on. That's how I see you. Sorry about this. Bye. Bye. Are you going the other way? Love you, bye.

39:57Absolutely nothing. That's fine. I enjoy it. So are you going in the car now? So are you going to not be here for a bit soon? Because it's quite cute, but I do need to sort of pump out some content contractually. I mean, it's fine for us because we do this, but imagine if you're sacking someone on Zoom or something, or you're having a really important meeting about the company falling apart and then your kids bowl here. They're like... Well, I talk to people that have that for summer holidays.

40:21Josh Widdicombe:Yeah. My friend said she literally had her arm out keeping a child out of shot while she was in a meeting. Yeah. Like, because you just... I don't give a shit. Like, it doesn't matter. Well, for us, it doesn't... Our show is about parenting and how difficult it is to manage. If you were Stephen Bartlett, it might be a bit more difficult. You've just got someone to the verge of tears. Exhausted in being Stephen Bartlett. No dig at him personally. I'm sure he's a great guy. But that kind of professionalism and that kind of ambition, I don't know if there's something wrong with me. I always think this about Gary Neville.

40:59Josh Widdicombe:I think, what are you running from? I love Gary Neville. I love him. I love him. It's non-stop. Chill. Don't attack the day. Have you thought about not attacking the day? Because I feel like me and you attack the day quite hard anyway. Yeah, the day attacks me. And I basically fight back for 12 hours and go to bed. Stick the white flag up, lay on the floor next to your son and have a gift. Exactly. The day attacks me. So I changed the oil in my car, Rob. Oh, go on. Yeah, impressed? Yeah. So I got a message from my car and it said, you're oil, you're dangerously low on oil. Yeah. Or low minimum.

41:45Josh Widdicombe:They don't sell oil at service stations. Yeah, I find it quite hard to find oil. Yeah. What the fuck's going on? Where'd you get oil? I don't even know what AdBlue is, but they've got fuck loads of AdBlue. And they've got fucking antifreeze or whatever it's called. If I've made it to the petrol station, I've not got a problem with freezing. Like if I made it to... But your windscreen washer fluid they have. Windscreen washer fluid. And then logs. And then logs. What the fuck? Come on. Propane gas. A bit less, few less grenade bars, just a few more pots of fucking engine oil. I don't need protein.

42:18Josh Widdicombe:I need oil. Exactly. So where'd you get it? Like a small garage. So I went, I was going down a motorway, in and out every service station failing. And then we got to Lewis where we're going to Rose's dad's. Yeah. And then you just go into the local garage and they've got it. And you're like, why are the big guys not selling oil? I don't know. Do all cars need oil? Not electric cars. Do they need oil? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What does oil do? What's the difference between oil and petrol? I don't know what it does. Does it... Does it... Does it oil the engine? Does it oil the engine?

42:53Does it make it all loosey-goosey? What does oil do? Is it like lube for an engine?

42:56Josh Widdicombe:I think it must be, isn't it? It's lube for cars. Oil do in a car. Because I find this very frustrating because it's assumed in our relationship between me I should know all this because I'm a man, but I don't know. It serves as a crucial lubricant and coolant for the energy's moving parts. Dirty engine. Dirty pistons. It minimizes friction between these parts, preventing wear and tear. And also helps cool the engine by absorbing and dissipating heat. Oh, stop it. Additionally, oil acts as a cleaning agent, carrying away debris. I don't think I need to add to take it away the dirty bitch should I be getting rid of the old oil should I be getting an erection you can't fucking suck out the oil mate just top it up with new stuff surely where's the oil it's getting used up in the end it's getting luked up in it what's it doing coming out the exhaust I don't know where it's going I don't know where it's going I think it's just getting absorbed by the nuts and bolts what happens when you lube your dick It just gets used up in the vagina, doesn't it?

44:05Or arse. Only 25. Stick your dick where you want, mate.

44:14Or hand. Not mouth. You don't need a loop for your mouth, do you? No, it tastes weird.

44:22Josh Widdicombe:So that's what oil does, fair enough. Yeah. So there we go. Lovely. So that's oil for you. That's oil sorted. That's oil sorted. It's been a weird episode. it's been a weird episode what have you got planned with the kids it's time of holidays so my daughter's going to the art thing all week yeah my son is going to nursery yeah I've told you he's having his tonsils out oh yeah you said when's that is that over some holiday yeah and then he's got a 10 day cooling off period cooling off what like he can't hang out with other kids for 10 days so that means he's out when is that because he can't get infected he's got to be away from infection right so he oh that's hot so what are you going to do Well, he doesn't know yet that he's not going to the festival with...

45:05Josh Widdicombe:Now me and my daughter are going to a festival with her friend and the dad. Oh, was he supposed to be going to a festival altogether? The four of us, yeah. We're going to go to Big Feast of them. Oh, so he's going to be at home with Rose? Yeah. Oh. And then... I saw, didn't he? What can you do? What can you do? Well, cinema... Well, it's better now than if it was during the term, is it? I don't know. Yeah, because he'd have to be like off school or what. Yeah. You'd just have to think of... I think you can take him outside. No, of course, but you're just like not into a soft play or stuff like that.

45:37Like a cinema or fun little day dates with Rose or whatever. Oh, God, to the fucking park. Back to the park?

45:43Josh Widdicombe:Back to the fucking park. But then the park's going to be... Yeah, but at least it's ever... It's like... How long has he been in hospital for? I suppose you think, what was it like? Where would you go during COVID? What? How long... Is it overnight in hospital as well? No. It's in and out? Just in, slice them out, come out. It's horrible, isn't it? It's grim. It's going to be fucking rubbish. And are you camping at this festival as well? We've got posh camping. Oh, camping. That'll be fun as well, though, for the older girls and dads. Yeah, it'll be fine. Any other things planned? Well, we're currently, our life is just completely all over the shop, Rob.

46:19As we discussed, you're trying to move house, which we're doing secret episodes on.

46:24Josh Widdicombe:Oh, my God. this morning I was just like I just can't imagine what life would be like if it was I mean does life ever calm down but I'm thinking about this I I don't think life ever calms down I think you get better at managing your reaction to the life yeah so I'm pretty chilled about it generally but occasionally it creeps up on me and I think I literally don't feel like I have a job I feel like I'm just a man doing admin about a house move. Also, I do think it does get easier, though. Tom Hanks looks unbelievable at the moment. He's not dealing with a house move. No, no, it's just what I'm saying.

47:01Let me finish, baby. What he was saying was, someone said to me, you look great. He's super fit, super healthy looking and quite tanned and stuff. And I was like, you look amazing for your age. He's like 60-odd. He went, you look so good. Why do you look so good? What's your secret? He went, my life's easy. he went when i was 35 it was like it is the worst the most difficult part of your life you never get time to yourself you're dealing with kids you're up early you're not sleeping you'll get your your your life is 69 rob yeah but he looks great and he was just saying there's a clip somewhere after trying to find it but basically just says like that 10 year period of your life you are so stretched and it feels like yeah you've got no time to yourself and it'll never get better but it gradually does and it's just you're you're in that zone at the moment of that two really young kids trying to do stuff but then once they get to secondary school and you're in that obviously there'll be challenges and it'll be more emotional or mental but you will you'll be in a new house you won't be being woken up at 6 15 and told to go downstairs and blah blah blah and then you won't be thinking fuck i need to and you'll be in the place you're probably going to spend the next 20 years yeah happily so well let's not fingers crossed let's not bet on happily but we'll be there we'll be there yeah we'll move again i might die i want to die in this house do you yeah um i don't want to move again really yeah can't be bothered the problem with houses is what the way it works is you get to a point where like your house is big enough hopefully for everyone that needs to live in it right yeah then as your life progresses you may get promoted or earn more money as you've got most people as you get older you know earn more money if they're getting promoted and stuff you're the old capitalism devil on your shoulder will go or you've got x amount more a month which means if you go on right move you can get a house worth

48:48Josh Widdicombe:this much if you do that down move are you not planning like that's what i wonder is the the down is yeah but that's a long way off is the rattling around in the house yeah well out we've we've got a nice size house but it's like it's definitely fine for two people to live in is it yeah 100 it wouldn't be too big at all really so that's lovely you wouldn't feel emotional when you're walking past the two kids' bedrooms every morning and they're empty because... Not really, not when it's some sort of like Pilate studio, lose gear in it, which I'm in there. Move it upstairs. But yeah, this is... So don't...

49:25Life gets less busy. You'll be all right. Yeah, yeah. Looking forward to the tour? Before you know it, you'll have a cup of coffee and a silk cut in your daughter's house as granddad lives in the corner. Telling anecdotes about the old days. About laughing at people's jokes on Mock the Week. What's Mock the Week? Exactly. Forget it. Yeah, yeah. Everyone wore a flowery shirt and shouted. Yeah, come on. You must know here.

49:48Josh Widdicombe:A fake microphone at the front. Come on. Oh, right. Let's do some small business shout outs, Josh. Yeah. That was a weird episode. I enjoyed that though. Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. Hi, Rob and Josh. I'm a drum teacher based in Walthamstow, North London, but teach all over North, East and South London, looking to gain more students over 2025. I teach up to any level and have experience teaching in schools and with SCN students offering all Parenting Hell listeners a free first lesson. Jesus, he's going to be a busy boy. If they email drummer and a little dash Fraser. So it's D-R-U-M-M-E-R. Is it a hyphen or a little dash?

50:32What's that? I've never seen that in an email before. Hyphen. That's called a hyphen. drummer-fraser, F-R-A-Z-E-R, at hotmail.com. That's drummer-fraser, F-R-A-Z-E-R, at hotmail.com. You just put Parenting Hell in the subject. I also manage a function band called 4toFloor, and we are experienced in playing all types of events, from corporate parties to weddings. Email us now to get a 20 % discount for your party at fraser at four to floor f-o-u-r-t-o-f-l-o-o-r.com instagram is fraser stanford f-r-a-z-e-r-s-t-a-n-f-o-r-d and the band's insta is four to floor band really appreciate the shout out if this gets to you

51:19Josh Widdicombe:cheers fraser good luck hello i would love a small business shout out for my sister leone Lani, L-E-O-N-I. She's an avid listener with two children, age three and four. She's been putting the business she started in 2013 on the back burner until both her kids start school, which will happen this September. I'm sure a shout out would give her a great boost. She creates gorgeous wedding invitations and stationery, table plan, order and service, save the dates, et cetera. She designs and makes all of the items herself by hand to ensure great love and care goes into each and every one of them. all of her items can be personalized and adapted to suit the wedding she's an amazing mum and a lovely sister her etsy shop is from leone with love l-e-o-n-i is how you spell it many thanks sean 518 months old mother of two feral preteens lovely stuff josh i'll see you next week on the flip side cheers bye