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• 1:37Speaker 04

  Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with.

• 1:40Speaker 06

  Jules, can you say Rob? Rob. Can you say Beckett? Robert. And can you say Josh? Josh. Can you say with dick come? Rick and daddy. Can you say stay sexy? Relatable. And relatable.

• 2:01Speaker 06

  Don't nod, can you say relatable? Relatable. Close enough, good boy, Bop it.

• 2:08Speaker 05

  There we go.

• 2:09Speaker 04

  I feel about playing a voice note of a child saying to me, stay sexy.

• 2:13Speaker 05

  Well, he barely did, if that helps.

• 2:15Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 2:17Speaker 05

  No, I think that's. It's my 18-month-old Julian.

• 2:20Speaker 04

  Having a go at Julian, are you?

• 2:22Speaker 05

  No, I'm not. I'm saying I think it's fine for an 18-month-old to say that. She's not going to go, what does sexy mean? Been listening since the beginning and you've always made me laugh out loud, even if I don't get any of the football references. Well, I've got good news for you, Rebecca.

• 2:36Speaker 04

  They are a thing of the past.

• 2:38Speaker 05

  Reflecting on it now, I probably shouldn't have told my toddler that you were sexy, but it's done now. Becky, 422 months from Reading.

• 2:46Speaker 04

  Reading.

• 2:47Speaker 05

  Reading. So, Rob, how's life?

• 2:51Speaker 04

  Life's good. I'm in a rotisserie chicken competition with Tom Allen.

• 2:58Speaker 05

  Talk to me.

• 2:59Speaker 04

  So we have a real passion for rotisserie chicken.

• 3:03Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 3:04Speaker 04

  Lou is obsessed with it.

• 3:05Speaker 05

  Can you tell me what rotisserie chicken is just specifically as a, that's from a kick cooked on a spit?

• 3:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, so the ones that are on a spit that moves around slowly. And it's normally got a very salty, peppery, crispy skin.

• 3:19Speaker 05

  And how are you, so how do you do that at home, a rotisserie chicken?

• 3:22Speaker 04

  Well, that's the thing. We love Lou, we love Lou's favorite restaurant is a restaurant in Spain called Campadres that has it. I always love it. I was all over the Master Poulé in France when we were there.

• 3:32Speaker 05

  Of course, you and Tom Davis loved Master Poulé.

• 3:35Speaker 04

  And when I went to Spain on holiday, we used to get rotisserie chickens from the market with chips. And he loved the same on holiday, loves it. And he's got a thing for his barbecue. We've got the same barbecue, but I haven't got one yet, but a spit called a Joe Tissery, whatever it's called, that goes round. And it cooks a chicken. So he cooked us rotisserie chicken with chips and salad. And the game is who can do the best rotisserie chips and salad?

• 4:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:01Speaker 04

  And we went to their house, Tom and Alfie's house last night to have it.

• 4:05Speaker 05

  Did you do score it? How does it work?

• 4:08Speaker 04

  We don't score. I think maybe it felt a bit harsh to be in someone's garden eating a chicken to give it a rating out of 10.

• 4:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:15Speaker 04

  I'd say though, the flavour of Tom's was delicious. The meat was succulent and beautifully cooked. But even he would admit this, the skin on certain parts, it was a little bit charred.

• 4:27Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 4:28Speaker 04

  Taste was still there, but it was a little bit charred. So salad was, it was lettuce and tomatoes.

• 4:35Speaker 05

  Not the presenter of Cooking with the Stars. Surely he's not playing foot wrong.

• 4:39Speaker 04

  He'd opened the vent a bit too much, so the flame got too big.

• 4:41Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 4:42Speaker 04

  Anyway.

• 4:43Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 4:43Speaker 04

  Guess where the veg was from?

• 4:46Speaker 05

  Little.

• 4:47Speaker 04

  His garden. His garden. We were eating farm-to-plate, is that what they call it?

• 4:53Speaker 05

  Can be. And what's, and what's the, what veg was it?

• 4:58Speaker 04

  So we had lettuce and then tomatoes and basil from his garden. And then the potatoes, get this, right?

• 5:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:05Speaker 04

  We arrived at his house, we were supposed to be there at half four, but we got delayed. So got there at five. Now, Tom and Alfie are brilliant hosts.

• 5:13Speaker 05

  Should affect it too much. That's only half an hour.

• 5:16Speaker 04

  Brilliant hosts. I'd say there's sometimes a little bit of wait between arrival and eating. But I'm aware of now to the point where before I left the house, I had too many pots of Philadelphia, some breadsticks and two yogurts.

• 5:30Speaker 05

  Okay. And, you know, the wait so much that sometimes the chicken gets charred.

• 5:34Speaker 04

  Well, no, the chicken had already been cooked. The delay was, and it was very sweet of Tom, he'd grown potatoes in a pot and he wanted the kids to pick them. And then prepare them and cook them for tea.

• 5:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, nice.

• 5:47Speaker 04

  But if you do arrive at someone's house and you want food and you, and you think, oh, when's dinner? If you're picking the potatoes you're going to eat in your head, you're like, we're looking at a slight delay here.

• 5:59Speaker 05

  Yeah. Digging up the potatoes, digging up the potatoes.

• 6:02Speaker 04

  We're digging the potatoes and washing them, soaking them, chopping them, cooking them. But it was absolutely delicious. So they're going to come to ours and we're going to do a chicken salad and chips in a, what is it? Very middle-class kind of.

• 6:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I like it.

• 6:17Speaker 04

  Come dine with me, chicken off. Well, I think probably September time, but I haven't got a rotisserie.

• 6:22Speaker 05

  And you going to, well, you can get one, you've got time.

• 6:25Speaker 04

  Well, I've got time, but I don't know if I want to do the barbecue one that he did because I feel like I'm copying him.

• 6:31Speaker 05

  It does feel like you need to do something different, doesn't it? It does feel, it's not just like, here's my version of the same thing.

• 6:37Speaker 04

  Exactly. So we are going to do.

• 6:42Speaker 05

  Nandos.

• 6:43Speaker 04

  No, there are, well, I've got to do some research, but at the moment I'm staring down the barrel of, barrel of buying a countertop rotisserie chicken machine off Amazon. But I looked at the reviews and it said like, it's 120 volt, like it's American, so the voltage is all off. So I need, I need, I need, basically I need to buy something that can.

• 7:05Speaker 05

  How are you going to mix it up with the potatoes and the salad? Are the chips and the salad?

• 7:08Speaker 04

  I think he did his own potatoes in the air fryer. I think I'm going to have to just fry them like proper home-cooked fried chip chips.

• 7:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 7:17Speaker 04

  So that's what I'm going to do. And then salad, I think really it's hard, the salad, because he's really won by growing it.

• 7:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 7:24Speaker 04

  You know what I mean?

• 7:25Speaker 05

  What was in his salad? Basil, lettuce and tomato.

• 7:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, and olive oil. And it was nice, very fresh, delicious, but you know, it's more the chips and the chicken is the key.

• 7:35Speaker 05

  Exactly, the salad's really.

• 7:36Speaker 04

  So I'm going to do proper chips, like own cooked, triple cooked chips. But I've got to buy a rotisserie machine. Anyway, that's what I've been up to. How about you?

• 7:44Speaker 05

  Oh, wow.

• 7:46Speaker 04

  That was mental. That was eight minutes on rotisserie chickens.

• 7:49Speaker 05

  I know, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I don't think I've been up to anything like that, really.

• 7:53Speaker 04

  I can talk about anything forever to a certain level of, you know.

• 7:56Speaker 05

  Okay, Michael, give us a subject. Let's see how long we can do on it.

• 8:01Speaker 07

  I would like the topic to be the Academy Awards.

• 8:04Speaker 04

  The Oscars.

• 8:05Speaker 05

  The Oscars, otherwise known as the Academy Awards.

• 8:08Speaker 04

  Where were you for the slap?

• 8:10Speaker 05

  In bed, because I think people that get up for the Oscars are pathetic.

• 8:13Speaker 04

  Me too. Now, don't tell it to heart, Michael, you little fucking film nerd, but it is.

• 8:18Speaker 07

  What about people that stay up for it?

• 8:21Speaker 04

  Legends, big dogs.

• 8:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 8:24Speaker 04

  I, I thought it was actually a fake skit because I watched, saw it in like early in the morning. I didn't think it was, I thought, I couldn't believe it was real.

• 8:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know. It was, looking back, it was so mental that that happened.

• 8:38Speaker 04

  Do you want to win one?

• 8:40Speaker 05

  Um, no.

• 8:41Speaker 04

  You could play young Woody Allen. You don't look like him, you've just got the same vibe.

• 8:51Speaker 04

  I can still talk about Oscars, or shall we get back to our lives?

• 8:53Speaker 05

  Let's get back to our lives. Let's get back to our lives. Okay.

• 8:57Speaker 04

  Oh, I've got an update for you, Josh. You know, your son really wanted the Lego magazine?

• 9:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:02Speaker 04

  They do do one. You have to sign up and they send you one.

• 9:04Speaker 05

  You have to sign up? How do you sign up?

• 9:06Speaker 04

  So I've got a link here.

• 9:08Speaker 05

  Oh, send it over.

• 9:10Speaker 04

  Okay. I'll send it on email.

• 9:14Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 9:15Speaker 04

  Reply all. I've never, do you know what? I don't send emails on a computer. Everything I do is on a phone.

• 9:21Speaker 05

  Is it?

• 9:22Speaker 04

  I don't do, is it? Yeah, blood. There we go. I've sent it to you on email.

• 9:25Speaker 05

  Oh, thank you.

• 9:26Speaker 04

  Not yourself, and they send you a quarterly magazine. Thank you to Christine. Thank you, Christine.

• 9:32Speaker 05

  Christine. So, shall we do some emails? Because we have not got much to say.

• 9:37Speaker 04

  Isn't it sad that Bradley Cooper didn't win one and he learnt how to be a conductor?

• 9:43Speaker 05

  Did he not win an Academy Award?

• 9:45Speaker 04

  No.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  No, I don't find it sad. I think it's pathetic that people care.

• 9:51Speaker 04

  Pathetically proved I could continually talk about the Oscars, but come on. Right. I've got a, what's this really about?

• 9:58Speaker 05

  Go on.

• 9:59Speaker 04

  Hi, Rob and Josh. I had to write in the second I heard you introduced a feature because it immediately reminded me of something that happened on a family holiday in Cefalonia a couple of years ago. We booked one of those medium sized boat trips that takes you from the marina over to a nearby island, stopping every so often so everyone can jump off for a swim. There were about 30 people on board. So not packed in like sardines, but close enough that everyone was aware of everyone else. It was me, my husband and our 10 month old son and stepdad. We ended up sitting next to a lovely older couple who were travelling with the woman's sister. Naturally, they were fussing over our adorable son and in return showed us endless photos of their equally adorable grandson. We spent the whole trip chatting and getting on brilliantly. Then we reached the final stop.

• 10:43Speaker 04

  The crew was a bit shorthanded and asked my husband if he mind helping out by jumping off the side of the boat with the tow rope and turning it to a nearby rock. Hang on. That's not helping out. That's doing the job?

• 10:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 10:56Speaker 04

  Anyway, he happily obliged, but somehow managed to create the biggest splashback known to mankind. A massive wave come crashing back over the side of the boat and absolutely drenched the lovely couple we'd been chatting to all afternoon. My stepdad and I immediately started laughing, assuming everyone would see the funny side instead.

• 11:13Speaker 05

  So sorry, has the husband jumped into the water?

• 11:16Speaker 04

  To tie a rope around something. I feel like, I don't want to cast aspersions on the husband. I feel like he's probably trying to be one of the lads already on the trip. And he's sort of, I'll do that for you if you want, mate. I can't believe they just sprung that on someone. It's dangerous, isn't it?

• 11:33Speaker 05

  I don't know. It's wild.

• 11:34Speaker 04

  Tying a tow rope to a rock? How do you even tie it? It must be a little, there's something on there for purchase. Just slip off, wouldn't it? You can't tie anything around a wet rock.

• 11:45Speaker 05

  I don't know. I don't know.

• 11:47Speaker 04

  He jumped in to tie up the tie.

• 11:48Speaker 05

  Treading water?

• 11:50Speaker 04

  Yeah, this guy's, no one would ever ask me to do that.

• 11:53Speaker 05

  No.

• 11:55Speaker 04

  Sarah didn't go to get Josh to jump in. Immediately started drowning.

• 12:02Speaker 04

  I'm allergic to salt water. Anyway, he jumped in, splashed back, got the couple wet.

• 12:07Speaker 05

  Other family don't like it, right? The other couple aren't going to like this.

• 12:10Speaker 04

  Completely lost it. They started screaming that their clothes had been ruined. And most bizarrely, repeatedly shouting, what a stupid idiot, what a stupid man about my husband.

• 12:21Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 12:22Speaker 04

  The very same man they'd been laughing and joking with moments earlier.

• 12:25Speaker 05

  That is wild.

• 12:26Speaker 04

  Who had quite obviously done it completely by accident. Also as well, you're on a boat in Cefalonia. It's hot. You're going to dry.

• 12:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 12:34Speaker 04

  They didn't calm down for the rest of the trip. They complained to the crew over and over that their clothes were ruined because they weren't meant to get wet. Which did make us wonder why they chose that particular outfit for a boat trip on the water. I don't think you need to add on the water there.

• 12:50Speaker 05

  No.

• 12:50Speaker 04

  No one goes on a boat trip on the land.

• 12:53Speaker 05

  True, true.

• 12:54Speaker 04

  We did tell them to calm it down, but otherwise spent the rest of the journey sitting there in complete disbelief at the spectacular overreaction. So Rob and Josh, what was this really about?

• 13:02Speaker 05

  That is, that is odd.

• 13:04Speaker 04

  What's that really about, Josh? Come on, break it down.

• 13:07Speaker 05

  Well, they've just got personal problems, haven't they?

• 13:09Speaker 04

  Well, is there some sort of humiliation, shame?

• 13:12Speaker 05

  Well, the husband's surely the humiliated one. He's just belly flopped into the water trying to tie a rope to a rock.

• 13:19Speaker 04

  Well, yeah, but not for them because they feel like they've been, everyone's laughing and there's some, there's some sort of deep rooted trauma where they were embarrassed to score and everyone pointed laughing and then it feel like they've been transported back.

• 13:29Speaker 05

  Do you know, and Michael will remember this because he was with me actually. I was in France. We went to the Euro 2024. Was it 2024? No, Euro 2016 even.

• 13:42Speaker 04

  Blimey.

• 13:43Speaker 05

  Yeah. So this is eight years ago, 10 years ago. No, we went to three games. We went to Northern Ireland v Germany.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  We're not supposed to be talking about football.

• 13:54Speaker 05

  So, no, but sorry. Anyway, so football's an aside. We were in a fan park. Yeah.

• 14:01Speaker 04

  Sorry, still not allowed.

• 14:03Speaker 05

  And a guy, it was, it was wet.

• 14:06Speaker 04

  You're in a park in France?

• 14:07Speaker 05

  Yeah. And there was a guy who may or may not have been an England football fan.

• 14:12Speaker 04

  Doesn't matter. Not in this pod.

• 14:13Speaker 05

  Doesn't matter. And he was on some wet decking. You know how, how slippy wet decking can get?

• 14:20Speaker 04

  Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Mad.

• 14:22Speaker 05

  Stood on his own and he slipped over.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  And everyone laughed and a group of people nearby kind of, that kind of thing. Yeah.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Yeah. I mean, if you're going to be at a football fan park, that you, you, you have to expect that kind of reaction. They'll, they'll be on anything.

• 14:44Speaker 05

  And he got up and he was like, right, who wants to fight?

• 14:50Speaker 04

  No.

• 14:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, go on then. Who wants to, because he couldn't process at all. He didn't have the emotional ability to process the embarrassment of what had just happened to him.

• 15:03Speaker 04

  Oh, right. It must be exhausting being like that.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  I know. And do you know what?

• 15:08Speaker 04

  It is funny if someone slips on beer that they've carried.

• 15:11Speaker 05

  It's really difficult, isn't it, if you've tripped? Because you, you know it's funny. You have to see the funny sides. You can't be angry. But the problem is A, you might be in pain and B, if you make too much of seeing the funny side, you look like you're trying too hard to see the funny side.

• 15:30Speaker 04

  There is a balance of like, oh, keep doing it. Also, but you can't, you can't keep the purchase to stand up. Never mind having a fight.

• 15:36Speaker 05

  No, exactly.

• 15:38Speaker 04

  Have you ever seen people fight on slippy floor with war on it?

• 15:40Speaker 05

  No, I wouldn't. Yeah, I'd love to.

• 15:43Speaker 04

  I'll send you some links.

• 15:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, thank you.

• 15:46Speaker 04

  Do you remember that, Michael?

• 15:47Speaker 05

  Lego cut.

• 15:48Speaker 07

  Yeah, I remember it well. I remember it very well.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  Fair description.

• 15:51Speaker 07

  Well, I think also some of the people, he sort of started a mini brawl in the end. The police and the security guards had to get involved. But I think some of the people he ended up fighting were part of his group. He sort of turned, he turned on them and he just couldn't, he couldn't deal with it. It was such a sort of an amazing example of toxic masculinity and sort of emotional immaturity.

• 16:09Speaker 04

  But that must have been building up all week. He might be getting banter for something else and he's just had enough.

• 16:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, maybe.

• 16:15Speaker 04

  Because I've seen that before in groups of lads where they've just had enough and they're just trying to fight someone.

• 16:19Speaker 05

  It's not a place to be in, you want to be in, is it, Rob? It's not a place.

• 16:22Speaker 04

  Stag do once where they would put toilet roll into like the back of your jean pocket or your shorts.

• 16:28Speaker 05

  Not for me.

• 16:28Speaker 04

  And then set fire to it.

• 16:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, no. Do you know what? When I used to, and I like, I was a fan of Jackass.

• 16:37Speaker 05

  But when you'd watch the film and all the programme, which was always enjoyable, but they'd like come up behind someone with a razor, like a, and just shave your head off, shave your hair off.

• 16:49Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:50Speaker 05

  And I just thought, being, hanging out with them must be absolutely awful. Just terrifying.

• 16:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, but the, just to be constantly on your nerves the whole time must be absolutely awful.

• 17:06Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I think it was. I don't think it's turned out well for most of them.

• 17:09Speaker 05

  No, exactly.

• 17:11Speaker 04

  I am Jackass 3D, and you're not going to like this, Michael, as a film buff. Jackass 3D, greatest cinema experience in the history of film.

• 17:22Speaker 04

  When they shoot the dildo in slow mo with 3D glasses on.

• 17:28Speaker 04

  I couldn't believe that was allowed to happen.

• 17:31Speaker 05

  I'm not sure.

• 17:32Speaker 04

  Is there anything funnier than a dildo being shot out at slow motion in 3D?

• 17:36Speaker 05

  Well, according to you know.

• 17:38Speaker 04

  No.

• 17:39Speaker 05

  Let's get to getting out for by an in-law then, because this sounds.

• 17:42Speaker 04

  Getting out for by an in-law. Let's do that. Okay. Do you want to do it, Josh?

• 17:44Speaker 05

  Hello, Josh, Rob and Michael. In the early eighties, my dad was a 20 something army officer. When he met my mum, who was then a nurse, meeting your future father in law is nerve wracking at the best of times. My grandad, however, wasn't your other average father in law. He was in the SAS. Not long after they met, my grandad invited my dad onto a military base for what he described as a friendly game of special forces. Hide and seek. The aim being to avoid being found by the SAS.

• 18:17Speaker 04

  Right, okay. So like celebrity haunted.

• 18:21Speaker 05

  My dad agreed and the game began. Half an hour passed, then an hour, two hours, four, six, eight hours. He was soaked to the bone, hiding in the pouring rain. But by this point, he'd convinced himself he was doing brilliantly. After around 10 hours of hiding in the rain, my dad thought I must have won this. So he came out of hiding, marched into the military base bar, acting all Billy Big Bollocks and proudly declared his victory over one of the world's elite special forces. My grandad looked up in his broad northern accent in front of a packed room full of Britain's hardest men, said, Mark, we found you after 30 seconds. I told the lads to leave you there. Turns out the whole thing was a future son in law initiation.

• 19:00Speaker 04

  Horrible, awful, not here for it. Your grandad is or was a twat. A really hard, strong twat. That's horrible.

• 19:13Speaker 05

  Sadly, I never got to meet my grandad, but by all accounts, he was a lovely man with a wicked sense of humour. This story always makes me laugh. Take care all anon.

• 19:22Speaker 04

  Nah, not for they.

• 19:23Speaker 05

  I probably wouldn't get to the point where you, I wouldn't go along to the SAS finding me.

• 19:31Speaker 04

  I wouldn't go along to it. And also like, what, after maybe an hour, 10 hours, what kick you get from that?

• 19:37Speaker 05

  Have you been taken?

• 19:38Speaker 04

  Grandad, because I, I, I'll say I didn't mean it, but I did, I did mean it.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  I did mean that, I'm afraid. Sorry about that. I know he's your grandad, but you know.

• 19:52Speaker 05

  Hi, Rob and Dewey Skin Josh. This is interesting.

• 19:56Speaker 04

  Josh, what you've got, what's on your arm? Have you got a stain on your arm?

• 20:01Speaker 05

  That?

• 20:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:03Speaker 05

  Yeah, I've got a stain on it.

• 20:05Speaker 04

  So it's not wet, that's just a discoloration?

• 20:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 20:09Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 20:10Speaker 05

  Oh, I know what that is, Rob.

• 20:12Speaker 04

  Go on.

• 20:14Speaker 05

  I know what that is.

• 20:15Speaker 04

  Okay, what is it?

• 20:17Speaker 05

  That's, that's from Paris. I think I wore this when we were doing that thing with baby oil.

• 20:22Speaker 04

  Oh, yes. It's baby oil stains.

• 20:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 20:25Speaker 04

  That was fun, that. Shame we had to stop and start filming the show.

• 20:28Speaker 05

  Well, here we go.

• 20:31Speaker 05

  But yeah.

• 20:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, you've got baby, so now you're checking into hotel rooms alone with baby oil stains.

• 20:35Speaker 05

  She knew me, the woman on the reception this time. She was like, I was not, she was like, oh, you're in room seven, 703 this time.

• 20:41Speaker 04

  This time, God. You're gonna be doing some days in this hotel, aren't you?

• 20:46Speaker 05

  Hi, Rob and Dewey Skin Josh. I've been listening to this. This is Kids Obsessed with Something Weird. Pod since Covid days. First time writing in. On your 30th of the 626 app, uh, you said to write in a strange interest your kids are into. My eight-year-old son has been obsessed with English Heritage's blue plaques for over a year now.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  Nice.

• 21:09Speaker 05

  He first learned about them in school, found one on our road and soon began a full-time hobby. He loves coming home from school to my computer to go on English Heritage's website and look for new plaques. He knows plaque locations by heart, and if in conversation you mention a street or place, he can chime in, there's a plaque there and he'll say the name. We now go plaque hunting around central London, Bloomsbury, Hampstead, Marylebone, and even my friends and family send me blue plaque photos when you see one.

• 21:38Speaker 04

  So is it all around the country or just London blue plaque? Is it everywhere?

• 21:41Speaker 05

  Well, they're obviously mainly centered in London, aren't they? But I think they're probably all around the country. Yeah. The creepiest side of the story is that he likes to make up plaques for himself or me and will tell us our year of birth and death. Not sure I enjoy him guessing when I may die.

• 21:59Speaker 04

  But this, I think this is quite a good little, um, you still, is there still more there?

• 22:02Speaker 05

  Oh, at least we will learn random historical figures thanks to his interest. Now we need to find a way to monetize this interest and his amazing memory skills. Keep it sexy and relatable. Love to hear from more parents, uh, with SEN and autistic kids. There's a lot of us and it would be lovely to have more mainstream visibility. Priscilla, 474 months and Sebastian, eight years old.

• 22:22Speaker 04

  Well, let's, let's rename this section in honour of that. Not strange or weird hobbies. What about niche? Niche or what's a bit more, a nicer word for that?

• 22:33Speaker 05

  Special interests.

• 22:34Speaker 04

  Niche, niche, niche interests? I don't know. It's not catchy, is it?

• 22:38Speaker 05

  No.

• 22:39Speaker 04

  Um, Michael, you think of one.

• 22:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, that'll be fine.

• 22:43Speaker 04

  Um, I, I think that's quite fun though. If you've got a plaque on your road, if there's someone on your road, there's a, there's a plaque near your house. One, who is it? And two, what impact does that have on the local area? So do you get a load of random tourists that come to visit and take a photo? Is there no interest or, you know?

• 23:04Speaker 05

  Is there any English, is there any English heritage plaques?

• 23:10Speaker 04

  Cause I don't.

• 23:11Speaker 05

  Exeter.

• 23:12Speaker 04

  There should be one in Bromley for the David Bowie house.

• 23:14Speaker 05

  There should.

• 23:16Speaker 04

  There should, but there isn't.

• 23:16Speaker 05

  Exeter's got 20.

• 23:19Speaker 04

  What you got?

• 23:20Speaker 05

  Oh my God, one of them's for a pigeon.

• 23:22Speaker 04

  A pigeon?

• 23:23Speaker 05

  Mary the pigeon. 82 Longbrook Street commemorating Cecil Brewer and his homing pigeon Mary, who was awarded the Dickens Medal Medal for bravery during World War Two.

• 23:34Speaker 04

  It's not a pigeon.

• 23:35Speaker 05

  Well, it's him and his pigeon.

• 23:38Speaker 04

  Bromley's a shame. HG Wells.

• 23:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, big deal.

• 23:42Speaker 04

  At 47 High Street, Bromley, in brackets, now Primark.

• 23:52Speaker 04

  This one. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins.

• 23:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 23:55Speaker 04

  Recognizes the creator of the Crystal Palace dinosaur sculptures.

• 23:58Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 23:59Speaker 04

  That's an easy, isn't it?

• 24:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 24:01Speaker 04

  What you gotta do to get one?

• 24:03Speaker 05

  I know. They, they are quite weak, aren't they?

• 24:05Speaker 04

  Well, yeah, if, if there's anyone that is near you and if it has weird tourists or people turning up, let us know.

• 24:11Speaker 05

  It's like this guy, Sir Thomas Bodley. I mean, maybe this is a bigger deal than I understand. It's not my world.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  WG Grace is in Bromley.

• 24:19Speaker 05

  Fair enough.

• 24:20Speaker 04

  He's a big crooked.

• 24:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 24:22Speaker 04

  Go on, what was that? What have you got there?

• 24:23Speaker 05

  This guy commemorating the 1545 birth of the scholar and diplomat who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Who gives a flying F?

• 24:35Speaker 05

  There's a plaque for the last people in England to be executed for witchcraft in Exeter.

• 24:40Speaker 04

  Oh, is it?

• 24:42Speaker 05

  To be fair, in Devon, we're executing for witchcraft until the late eighties.

• 24:52Speaker 05

  Et cetera.

• 24:56Speaker 04

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• 25:07Speaker 04

  What's the biggest frustration for you, uniform wise?

• 25:10Speaker 05

  There's games and there's PE and they are different kits.

• 25:16Speaker 04

  My problem is, Josh, the shoes, the insole of the shoe seems to perish. I feel like that is an overlooked part of the shoe.

• 25:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 25:24Speaker 04

  And then they'll say, my shoes are uncomfortable. I'm like, will they still fit? And then they show me the insole and it's an absolute mess.

• 25:30Speaker 05

  Do you find that kids grow slightly too much in a year for just one uniform? But by the time you're getting to like May, you're like, we can't go new blazer now. I'm willing to restart in September.

• 25:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:45Speaker 05

  Kids should grow exactly a size a year. Do you know what I mean? That's what they need to do.

• 25:49Speaker 04

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• 27:26Speaker 04

  Weird food confession, Josh.

• 27:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 04

  As an adult, I like to eat bubbles. It started as a child, but I love a sneaky mouthful still when I run a bath.

• 27:36Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 27:38Speaker 04

  That is awful. Louise from Northampton. Cause we said there was people hiding behind, oh, as a kid. But we wanna hear about still doing it now.

• 27:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't, yeah, still do it. I don't mind, I don't mind the bubbles one. I don't mind it. I wouldn't enjoy it myself, but it's.

• 27:53Speaker 04

  I'm not sure.

• 27:54Speaker 05

  It's, it doesn't really matter.

• 27:57Speaker 04

  What doesn't matter?

• 27:58Speaker 05

  It's, it's, it doesn't exist almost. It's so, it barely touched your mouth. It's more a feeling in the mouth than a, than a real thing. Do you know what I mean? No.

• 28:07Speaker 04

  It's chemically, it's like eating so.

• 28:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, but it's clean, isn't it? Otherwise you wouldn't be able to rub it on a naked body.

• 28:14Speaker 04

  You'll be such a bubble apologist?

• 28:16Speaker 05

  Do you like a bubble? Do you like a bath?

• 28:18Speaker 04

  Get bored and get hot. I don't feel it, I don't find it very relaxing.

• 28:23Speaker 05

  It's not for me. Sometimes in a hotel, I think I'll have a bath just because I should.

• 28:27Speaker 04

  And I'm in there for seconds.

• 28:29Speaker 05

  Are you?

• 28:30Speaker 04

  I started showering, getting clean, then getting in the bath. That was nicer.

• 28:35Speaker 05

  Oh, on the, on the hotel thing.

• 28:38Speaker 04

  Why? You sound pervy when you're leaning like this.

• 28:41Speaker 05

  No, no, I was just gonna say I, um, I hadn't even on my own in a hotel.

• 28:46Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah. When was this?

• 28:48Speaker 05

  Last week when I was in London, I had to come up on the Thursday evening. I had to do a couple of things late Thursday. So I had Friday, I, I got to my hotel at 7:38.

• 29:03Speaker 05

  And do you know what? If that's winter, I'm staying in the hotel. But the problem is the sun streaming in through the windows.

• 29:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, you've got to get out and about for a walk.

• 29:10Speaker 05

  Gotta get out and about.

• 29:11Speaker 04

  You can just get cosy in the winter.

• 29:13Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:14Speaker 04

  Oh, that'd be quite good when you, because when you're up for doing strictly, it's gonna start turning into autumn, winter.

• 29:18Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, it'd be winter. Yeah, it'd be nice. That'd be fun.

• 29:21Speaker 04

  Um, I've got another food confession here.

• 29:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:23Speaker 04

  Love the new food confession segment and recently laughed listening to Amelia and her Bisto story. When I was younger and back before they cost a fortune, my mum would buy me both chocolate and strawberry Nesquik powder to make my own milkshakes at home, or so she thought. At a young age, I discovered the milk was surplus to requirements, would eat the lovely sugary powder straight from the tub with a spoon.

• 29:43Speaker 05

  That must have been dry.

• 29:45Speaker 04

  I know, but I get that more than bubbles.

• 29:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, of course.

• 29:49Speaker 04

  Would you rather eat that or bubbles?

• 29:52Speaker 05

  Well, have you ever done that cinnamon thing where you try and have a spoonful of cinnamon and then you can't do it?

• 29:57Speaker 04

  I haven't, but I feel like we should do that for, just for a laugh.

• 30:01Speaker 05

  Well, Michael, add it to the list tomorrow.

• 30:05Speaker 04

  We're gonna do, we're gonna do challenges from 12 years ago. We'll do a quick ice bucket challenge, eat some cinnamon and then do the Harlem Shake. Well, welcome to the new show. We are trailblazers.

• 30:21Speaker 04

  Look, me and Josh are moving.

• 30:24Speaker 07

  That is a funny idea though.

• 30:27Speaker 07

  Let's do all the old classic challenges, yeah.

• 30:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, we'll go retro. We might as well because no one else is doing it.

• 30:34Speaker 05

  I nominate Rory Stewart.

• 30:36Speaker 04

  Also, by the way, can I contract, contract? Nominate the other podcasters.

• 30:51Speaker 04

  Oh, I nominate Roy Keane, Jake Humphries, Stephen Bartlett.

• 30:59Speaker 04

  Oh, by the way, I want to congratulate myself. How quick was I to get to the Harlem? I was desperately trying to find Harlem Shake. I can't remember what it was.

• 31:09Speaker 05

  Yeah, but you were right, though. It was that thing where everyone would stop except one person and then would that person like start dancing?

• 31:15Speaker 04

  I don't know. I nearly said flash mob, but that was a bit different. That was a bit more bigger scale, wasn't it? Well, should we do cinnamon challenge and um ice bucket? Trying to do the ice bucket challenge in the Spotify studio?

• 31:25Speaker 05

  Oh my god.

• 31:27Speaker 04

  What are they doing down there? Louis Varou, G K Barry and Jay Shetty.

• 31:42Speaker 05

  Do three more. Just do random ones. Three random ones.

• 31:53Speaker 05

  Davina McCall.

• 31:56Speaker 04

  Paul C Branson.

• 31:58Speaker 05

  Paul C Branson. Mike Poppins.

• 32:01Speaker 04

  Luana. Both together.

• 32:06Speaker 04

  Oh, God. Elizabeth Dave.

• 32:09Speaker 05

  Fern Cotton.

• 32:18Speaker 04

  Let's get back to Nesquik. Oh, God, I've got really hot. I could do with a bloody ice bucket challenge at the moment. I'm sweating. Have you seen Mike Perry do the cinnamon challenge before? Is it Mike Perry? The Talksport presenter. Have you seen? You've not seen it, Josh?

• 32:32Speaker 05

  Mike Perry?

• 32:33Speaker 04

  Mike Perry. Have you never seen it?

• 32:35Speaker 05

  No.

• 32:36Speaker 04

  He basically goes, I'm gonna do cinnamon challenge. I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to make you watch it during the pod and if anyone's listening.

• 32:43Speaker 05

  Sent us.

• 32:47Speaker 05

  A blue plaque that got put on the slide. Did someone put it on there, Michael?

• 32:53Speaker 07

  I got that made because in the early days of the podcast, I was trying to do some guerrilla marketing, social media marketing for the show. So I had that made. And I was gonna sneak into Victoria Park to put it up on one. And I did. And a guy, a sort of security guard slash workman saw me, so I ran away scared. And then it's been in my storage ever since.

• 33:10Speaker 05

  Amazing.

• 33:11Speaker 04

  Oh, wow. Lockdown parents in hell. Oh, you've got to try and get that up.

• 33:14Speaker 07

  Put it up in the studio.

• 33:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:16Speaker 04

  Right, Josh, and listeners, if you search Mike Perry attempts cinnamon challenge.

• 33:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:22Speaker 04

  Please just watch that. It's on YouTube. He basically goes, I've seen all these idiots trying to do it and they can't do it. It's pathetic. I'm gonna show you how a real person does it. And he basically dies.

• 33:34Speaker 07

  It's the high watermark of those challenges.

• 33:36Speaker 04

  Have you not seen it? Have you seen it, Michael?

• 33:38Speaker 05

  Oh, it's incredible. Facebook.

• 33:40Speaker 07

  Well, you should watch it, Josh. And I'll put the video up as Josh watches it live. It's worth it.

• 33:45Speaker 05

  It's three minutes twenty-two.

• 33:47Speaker 04

  When you press.

• 33:48Speaker 03

  Okay, everybody. Now, you see what this is? This is a bottle of cinnamon. Cinnamon is some sort of powder you put into cakes and it makes them taste nice. That's fine. This is a tablespoonful of cinnamon. Now, somebody's tried to tell me that putting a full spoonful, and this is not a full spoonful, it's a tablespoonful of cinnamon in your mouth at once is impossible. And I've seen all these younger people than me who're shoving this stuff in their mouth and then they're all over the place because they can't take it. Well, believe me, I faced worse than tablespoonfuls of cinnamon during my life. People have thrown things at me all my life and all my life I've headbutted them away or taken the challenge. I'm gonna take the challenge now. This is one of the fullest.

• 34:28Speaker 05

  Can I just pause it now? Could you just give me a background on Mike? Is how? Is he being funny here or does he mean it?

• 34:36Speaker 04

  I think he means it. I think he's basically got, I'm gonna show you how to do it. Don't worry about it.

• 34:39Speaker 05

  I didn't know whether he was, knew that this was gonna go wrong.

• 34:42Speaker 04

  I think he thinks people were performative, performatively coughing it out.

• 34:47Speaker 03

  Spoonfuls of cinnamon I've seen in the various challenges that I've seen recorded. Mine's gonna be the best of all. And I bet you I won't even balk, okay? I won't even balk because I've been trained to take pain. Okay, I've taken pain all my life. Here we go. I'm told there should be an explosive reaction that won't be from me. I'm gonna count you down. Three, two, one.

• 35:08Speaker 05

  He's good at it, though, isn't he?

• 35:25Speaker 04

  He looks like he's in a blanket men in black when he turns into a cockroach.

• 35:42Speaker 04

  Oh my God.

• 35:49Speaker 04

  Oh my God.

• 35:57Speaker 04

  Look how red his ball punch goes.

• 36:01Speaker 05

  It's still going.

• 36:08Speaker 05

  Taking his glass.

• 36:12Speaker 04

  Fuck.

• 36:15Speaker 04

  Oh my God.

• 36:32Speaker 03

  It's like, as I drink your cement, which then mixes with the saliva in your mouth, it hardens up.

• 36:41Speaker 03

  It's forming a barrier across my throat. I'm having great difficulty breathing. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to do this for a man who's got such a dodgy heart. It only works at one third of your heart because I've got acute heart failure.

• 37:00Speaker 04

  What's going on?

• 37:01Speaker 03

  Three minutes time, I'm gonna have total heart failure, believe me. It wasn't pleasant, but I'm glad I did the challenge. I thought I brought the better sort of people I've seen. I'm gonna keep throwing my mouth. Excuse me.

• 37:13Speaker 05

  Oh my God, that is funny. That is funny.

• 37:16Speaker 04

  I can't believe you've never seen that before. It's one of my favourite videos.

• 37:20Speaker 05

  Anyway, that was funny. So we'll do that tomorrow. No, um.

• 37:28Speaker 04

  That'll be awful.

• 37:31Speaker 05

  Right, another email. Another email.

• 37:34Speaker 04

  Oh, I haven't finished the Nesquik one.

• 37:35Speaker 05

  Oh, go on, finish the Nesquik one.

• 37:48Speaker 05

  Bit of a diversion.

• 37:49Speaker 04

  Oh, so basically she was just spooning in Nesquik. That's a bit of the momentum of the email, I think. But I'll try and get it back up.

• 37:58Speaker 04

  Anyway, my mum did find out, though, that I wasn't mixing it with milk, but was powerless to stop it as it become just shy of an addiction. Unfortunately, I also told the kids in my cul-de-sac about this and a few of us would happily spoon pure raw sugar straight into our mouths. If I ever did add milk instead of the suggested two to three spoons of powder, it would be roughly about six to 10. So it was too much powder for the milk and I could eat the bubbles of powder that formed. I hope I wasn't the cause of too many young cavities, but at least it's a habit I've kicked. I'm not sure if that's because I've grown out of it or I genuinely can't afford it now. Thanks to the pod, I tune every week.

• 38:35Speaker 05

  She's.

• 38:36Speaker 04

  That I never planned on having. Jasmine, never plans on having kids, listens every week.

• 38:40Speaker 05

  She's, she's really nailing this thing about Nesquik being expensive now.

• 38:45Speaker 04

  How much has it gone up?

• 38:46Speaker 05

  Keeps coming back to it. It's really hit her hard.

• 38:49Speaker 04

  I tell you one thing, Lou doesn't do it anymore, but she used to get like, you know, spray cream, you know, the foam spray foam.

• 38:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 38:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, spray cream.

• 38:59Speaker 05

  Like squirty cream.

• 38:59Speaker 04

  Squirty cream. And we'd have it in there and she'd have it on like strawberries or a bit of ice cream sometimes. But sometimes, especially when the kids are little, she'd just go and just have a little squirt of it as a little sugar boost, a little straight in her mouth. And then the kids started wanting to do it. And she was like, no, you can't do that. It should be in a bowl with a spoon. And they were like, well, you do it.

• 39:17Speaker 05

  You do it.

• 39:18Speaker 04

  So in the end, we just got to the point, they'd sometimes waddle up to the thing and we'd just go tch in their mouths and then waddle off.

• 39:27Speaker 05

  Right, ready? Nesquik's about three quid.

• 39:31Speaker 04

  Yes, I mean, that is expensive if you're spooning it in like cereal, though, isn't it?

• 39:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, it feels all right if you're just making the odd milkshake.

• 39:39Speaker 04

  It seems like, yeah, if you're using it for its actual purpose, it's a good, fairly good value.

• 39:47Speaker 05

  And now it's a special part of today's show, stories that make you feel. And it's brought to you by Hulu on Disney Plus.

• 39:53Speaker 04

  Last time we talked about Rivals the Bear and we asked our wonderful listeners to let. Know what stories and shows got them right in the feels.

• 40:00Speaker 05

  Right, Rob. What have we got then?

• 40:03Speaker 04

  So I've got it here.

• 40:04Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 40:05Speaker 04

  The big census.

• 40:06Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 40:07Speaker 04

  Anna in Leeds. This is her on the bear. It's my favourite new TV show of the last decade.

• 40:12Speaker 05

  Uh, to do, to be fair, she wouldn't be alone in that.

• 40:14Speaker 04

  No. The episode from series two, episode six is one of the most tense and stressful experiences of my life.

• 40:21Speaker 05

  Yes, that is the one where it's all in one long, like one timeframe.

• 40:26Speaker 04

  Um, in brackets, in a brilliant way.

• 40:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:27Speaker 04

  So it's, it's positive.

• 40:29Speaker 05

  It's a positive stress.

• 40:30Speaker 04

  It's essentially a disastrous family Christmas dinner that slowly spirals into complete chaos. Now, I'm, I'm scared to watch this because I actually feel like it will affect me too much.

• 40:38Speaker 05

  Do you know what, Rob? It's fun. The first series is really fun. The first series isn't stressful.

• 40:44Speaker 04

  She also said, the tension is unbearable, but impossible to look away from. I loved it.

• 40:49Speaker 05

  Totally agree.

• 40:50Speaker 04

  Okay, I'm gonna give the bear a go just to get to that point. Um, next one.

• 40:53Speaker 05

  Another one.

• 40:53Speaker 04

  Simon from the Isle of Sheppes, he said this about the TV show Only Murders in the Building.

• 40:59Speaker 05

  Don't know it.

• 41:00Speaker 04

  I love Only Murders. It's funny, cosy and genuinely moving.

• 41:04Speaker 05

  Yes, please.

• 41:04Speaker 04

  What starts a murder mystery, you like that bit of Sherlock Holmes?

• 41:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 04

  Becomes a surprisingly heartfelt story. You love heartfelt.

• 41:11Speaker 05

  Love heartfelt. I am heartfelt.

• 41:12Speaker 04

  You get upset a lot, don't you? We know you're upset. You're just in touch with your emotions.

• 41:15Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 41:16Speaker 04

  Emotional emotions are sad.

• 41:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:18Speaker 04

  Heartfelt story about three very different people.

• 41:22Speaker 05

  Me, you and Michael.

• 41:23Speaker 04

  Me, you and Michael. Finding friendship, purpose and a sense of belonging.

• 41:27Speaker 05

  Oh, there we go. Here we go. It's parenting hell, the movie.

• 41:31Speaker 04

  Oh, the chemistry between Steve Martin, Martin Short and Salima Gomez. Right, Uzu. Let's start that. Anyway, the chemistry between Steve Martin, Martin Short and Salima Gomez is the heart of the show and I watch and re-watch my favourite episodes. They're like a warm hug or a comfort no matter how I'm feeling. I, I wanna give that a go because I love them two together.

• 41:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:49Speaker 04

  They had me at murder mystery and comedy when I found out they were in it.

• 41:53Speaker 05

  They had me at cosy.

• 41:54Speaker 04

  Finally, we got this from Darmesh in London. If you haven't seen it already, Alien Earth is one of the best TV shows of recent years and a great extension of that alien universe.

• 42:03Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 42:04Speaker 04

  Dark, tense and visually striking. That's my type on paper.

• 42:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:08Speaker 04

  It delivers plenty of visceral horror and dread, but its real strength is in the emotional philosophical side.

• 42:14Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 42:15Speaker 04

  The feeling that stays with you is a mixture of fear, fascination and existential unease.

• 42:21Speaker 05

  Wow.

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  You're not just scared of the creatures. Your left question, what it actually means to be human.

• 42:28Speaker 05

  Oh, are we the creatures?

• 42:30Speaker 04

  This guy.

• 42:31Speaker 05

  Are we the creatures?

• 42:32Speaker 04

  This guy should be writing for a living.

• 42:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:34Speaker 04

  Wow. I tell you what, uh, so for me, in order, I'm gonna give them all a go. I just don't think I can start my viewing with existential unease. Let's build to that once. Oh, I've got an idea. Start with the bear.

• 42:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:45Speaker 04

  Then go to Alien and then finish off with the comedy.

• 42:48Speaker 05

  Yeah, so you can chill out. And what a day that'll be.

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  Yeah, thank you very much.

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  Thank you to the listeners and the viewers and Rob for reading them out and for sharing their suggestions and recommendations with us.

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  I love some of those suggestions. I'll definitely check a few of them out.

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• 44:17Speaker 05

  We've got loads of boomer parenting. Let's, let's knock a couple of them out. Hi, Rob, Josh and Michael. Just listening to one of your boomer parenting stories from listeners and it reminded me of something that happened to me when I was fourteen in nineteen ninety-five. I just had open heart surgery at London Hospital to fix a hole in my heart.

• 44:36Speaker 04

  It's not an escrit woman, is it?

• 44:38Speaker 05

  Mike Parry, he's got dodgy heart. This was serious bypass surgery that required my whole chest to be opened up. Stitches to be applied to the tissue between the chambers of my heart. On my last day in hospital after my recovery period, my parents packed up my belongings. We left to drive home to our house on the coast of East Sussex. I talked slowly to the car as too much exertion was painful and could cause bleeding through my stitches. Jeez. Which ran the entire length of my chest. Now, this was the time when Ikea had just opened in the UK and it was a very exciting place to visit. As we drove past Croydon, my parents decided they would pop in and have a look and pick a few bits and pieces.

• 45:22Speaker 05

  They helped me hobble into the kids' play area where I sat on small chairs for a couple of hours whilst they picked up their items before we drove home.

• 45:29Speaker 04

  Couple of hours. She's had open heart surgery.

• 45:32Speaker 05

  Well, they've got to go all the way around the one-way system and then come back to get her, I suppose. Not sure about you.

• 45:37Speaker 04

  Good stuff, actually.

• 45:38Speaker 05

  It is fun, isn't it? But if my child had just had major heart surgery, I'm not sure Ikea would be the top of my priorities, but it was a different time. Thanks for the last Georgina.

• 45:48Speaker 04

  Do you know what I love about that Ikea joke you did there?

• 45:51Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:52Speaker 04

  Where everyone knows now, like, if you talk about Ikea, go bloody one-way system joke. That observation, everyone knows.

• 45:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:58Speaker 04

  I just feel really sorry for the comedian that first thought of that.

• 46:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 46:02Speaker 04

  And got excited. And then it was such a good observation that it becomes a universal and it wasn't theirs anymore.

• 46:07Speaker 05

  Oh, it's just, you know, you feel for the, the first person that did unexpected item in the bagging area, really, don't you as well?

• 46:18Speaker 04

  That was you, wasn't it?

• 46:19Speaker 05

  It was, yeah.

• 46:20Speaker 04

  You did a really, really demolished contactless payment.

• 46:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 46:25Speaker 04

  You, you took an absolute surgeon's scalpel to that.

• 46:31Speaker 05

  Nothing left on contactless payment. Can't really use any of that anymore.

• 46:34Speaker 04

  So she's had an open heart surgery. Um, I've got, I have a, a minor op to take a mole off my back, Josh.

• 46:40Speaker 05

  Oh, no, have you? How come?

• 46:41Speaker 04

  Well, I was at the hairdressers. We're talking about off the back of your, uh, your scam thing. By the way, I think, I think I should get an ECO scan just so we can compare photos.

• 46:49Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 46:51Speaker 04

  Because you've got your massive penta.

• 46:52Speaker 05

  Do it.

• 46:52Speaker 04

  Um, anyway, my hairdresser said, oh, there's a mole on your neckline that looks a bit, like it's changed. You should get it checked. I'm quite moley. Do you know what? I should get that checked. Anyway, so I went and got checked. And, um, they said that one's fine. However, there's one on the back that looks a bit funky. Um, so then I got referred to go and see someone and they're taking, they think it's, well, they say it looks a bit dodged. So they're gonna take it out and then send it off for tests. If it's anything

• 47:19Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 47:19Speaker 04

  cancerous, they basically just cut more out your back.

• 47:22Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 47:23Speaker 04

  So I've got to have a.

• 47:24Speaker 05

  One more word.

• 47:25Speaker 04

  It's not open heart surgery, but I'd still be annoyed if you took me to Costco after. Actually, I probably quite like it.

• 47:31Speaker 05

  Little reward.

• 47:33Speaker 04

  So it's weird though.

• 47:33Speaker 05

  They're not gonna put you under, are they?

• 47:36Speaker 04

  No, not for it. It's a tiny little one. I think they just numb the air and cut it out, don't they?

• 47:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, got it, haven't they?

• 47:42Speaker 04

  Surely. I, I tell you about the time I had a, had a weird lump on my finger that I'd removed.

• 47:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 47:47Speaker 04

  And I was like, it was a tiny little lump and I can't remember what it was called. It had a name for it and it's more like, it could, it wasn't dodgy, but it got in the way because it was on the side of my finger. So I couldn't wear rings and it'd rub and get sore on my other finger. So, oh, we can just whip that out for you. And oh, let's do that then. So I went in, I drove myself down there. And then I put my hand out. Then it was like, yeah, cool. And then I was like, all right. And I hadn't really thought about what was going on. And then they ejected my finger so I couldn't feel nothing. And then basically, I was just watching. It just got this massive, like, just like, cut it out. I was like, I don't know, I just imagined there's some sort of like karma. It is, it's basically.

• 48:22Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 48:23Speaker 04

  Make them not feel it, cut it out. That's basically most surgery, isn't it?

• 48:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:28Speaker 04

  I'm like, oh, this is someone cutting my finger open here. And then I thought, oh, God, like that. And then I started feeling a bit like, and I was like, oh, God. Think I'm a pussy, actually. Because you only see like war films when they're stood there getting like a bullet wound. So, because I remember seeing, um.

• 48:41Speaker 05

  How are you giving blood?

• 48:44Speaker 04

  Uh, all right, with needles. Well, I got better afterwards. Because I, but I just wasn't prepared. Because I remember seeing Mel Gibson in A Lethal Weapon or Bird on a Wire where he got shot and he took his bullets out himself and said, oh, yeah, that's not for me. So I sort of thought I'd be like that. I wasn't.

• 48:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 48:59Speaker 04

  Head completely went and then I'm like, oh, God. And they cut it out and it's all blood and still like wiping it and sorting it. And then I thought, oh, and then I panicked, started trying to watch it on my phone to try and distract me. And then, and then I was like, are we just gonna cauterize it? Cauterize, cauterize it?

• 49:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, I don't know. Cauterize? Cauterize.

• 49:20Speaker 04

  And I'm like, I shouldn't be at this stage Googling what that means.

• 49:25Speaker 04

  Burn it, basically.

• 49:27Speaker 05

  Did they burn it out? Off?

• 49:28Speaker 04

  No, no, they cut it off and they burn the, the, the hole. So it, I don't know why.

• 49:33Speaker 05

  So he, so it sticks back together?

• 49:35Speaker 04

  Maybe, don't know, but burn it. And then I'm like, oh, the smell was absolutely horrendous. And then I was panicked. So I've Googled cauterize and then basically I can smell the burning as I'm trying to learn how to spell cauterize.

• 49:45Speaker 05

  Oh, my God.

• 49:47Speaker 04

  And then I started panicking. So I went on YouTube and I watched a car chase on YouTube. You know, it's that random comes up. It was like when them police interceptors. And, um, and then I was all shaking. I had a big pan on my hand and I remember driving home with one hand and my hand up in the air like that.

• 50:00Speaker 05

  Oh, God.

• 50:01Speaker 04

  This is on the back, it'll be fine.

• 50:02Speaker 05

  I will look at, I'll say to them when they do needles, I'm like, I'm fine with it, but can I look at my phone?

• 50:08Speaker 04

  Yeah. Well, no, I actually look at it going in now.

• 50:10Speaker 05

  Do you?

• 50:11Speaker 04

  Because I found for me.

• 50:13Speaker 05

  You stare it out.

• 50:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, accepting it and go, that is just metal going in my skin. The thought of it is more painful and horrific than it actually is.

• 50:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:21Speaker 04

  So I look at it and that's helped.

• 50:23Speaker 05

  Ever?

• 50:24Speaker 04

  What's that?

• 50:26Speaker 05

  Have you ever injected?

• 50:27Speaker 04

  No, I've never injected Lou. I've seen her inject herself.

• 50:30Speaker 05

  Yeah, when?

• 50:31Speaker 04

  Got through that period.

• 50:33Speaker 05

  When Rose, it was after the, must have been both. Because you have to do various stuff after a cesarean.

• 50:43Speaker 04

  Ah.

• 50:45Speaker 05

  So I had to inject her. Actually, I quite enjoyed it. It's quite satisfying.

• 50:51Speaker 04

  What? That you did it well or her being upset and in pain?

• 50:54Speaker 05

  It was quite enjoyable to like take the skin and

• 50:58Speaker 04

  Now, I'd rather have it done to me than do it.

• 51:00Speaker 05

  Would you?

• 51:01Speaker 04

  Yeah. I don't like doing it.

• 51:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:04Speaker 04

  But Lou had to stab herself in the stomach with these injections for when she was on her medication for colitis.

• 51:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:11Speaker 04

  That was quite brutal. That looked hard.

• 51:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, well.

• 51:15Speaker 04

  Anyway, see you next week.

• 51:20Speaker 04

  Small business shout out.

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  Small B S O.

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  Small B S O.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  Hi Rob, Josh and Michael. After having my little boy in 2022, I went back to the beginning of the pod and now bang up to date. Rob's studio disaster and Josh's close encounter with a seagull last week had me in stitches. I would love it if you could give a small business shout out to my friend Zoe's wonderful business Baby Swim School. Zoe is a fully qualified baby and preschool swim instructor and runs her lessons in Derby and Barton, Barton Under Needwood in Burton.

• 51:54Speaker 05

  Not, not Barton upon Humber.

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  No, it's Barton Under Needwood in Burton. That's unfair.

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  Oh no.

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  To the dyslexic out there. You can't have a Barton and a Burton, one at the start, one at the end with an Under Needwood in the middle. She's passionate about the importance and benefits of learning to swim, but also keeps the kiddies engaged by making her lessons fun. No two weeks are the same and her bear hunt is legendary. She also does termly photo sessions with an underwater camera, which give you some fabulous memories to look back on. My little boy has been going since he was four months old, is now four years old and has developed into a confident and happy swimmer. If you could give a little business a shout out, it would mean the world to her. You can find her at babieswimsschool.co.uk or on Facebook at Baby Swim School. Stay sexy and relatable, please don't go all professional and please do another tour. Sarah in Derby.

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  Don't go all professional. Can you imagine us trying? Hi Rob, Josh and Michael. I'd like to give a small business shout out to my hubby Mike and his business partner MTE Pallets. Mike took a break from the business over last year to look after his dad, who he sadly lost in March, and now wants to get the business up and running again. Mike can make bespoke nursery play equipment like mud kitchens or water walls or even beds, et cetera, out of pallets and reclaimed wood. His Instagram is at MTE underscore pallets and is based in Waterlooville, in a workshop he built himself. Stay sexy and unpolished. Sonia from Portsmouth.

• 53:16Speaker 04

  See you next week. Bye.

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  From the studio that brought you WandaVision.

• 53:25Speaker 02

  I was an Avenger, but I'm not a hero anymore.

• 53:30Speaker 01

  The Vision returns for the final chapter of the groundbreaking trilogy. That family wasn't real.

• 53:36Speaker 03

  You sure about that? I had a father called Vision. How is this possible?

• 53:41Speaker 01

  Don't miss the two-episode premiere of Marvel Television's Vision Quest. Nothing bonds a family together quite like Mortal Jeopardy. Now streaming on Disney+.