S13 EP3: Camera on a yoghurt

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• 2:06Speaker 05

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• 2:09Speaker 07

  Harry, can you say Rob Beckett? Rob Beckett. Okay, you say Josh Widdicombe. Josh Widdicombe. Well done.

• 2:24Speaker 06

  Now we go.

• 2:26Speaker 05

  It's a good one.

• 2:26Speaker 06

  Hi, you sexy, relatable lot. This is my two-year-old Harry saying your names with a little hiccup. I also, I absolutely loved the intro that was sent in with the adorable hiccup. And when Harry started, little hiccup moment, I had to take advantage. I didn't hear it.

• 2:41Speaker 05

  I think it's, it's, you wouldn't, might have thought he just stumbled on the word, but it was a hiccup.

• 2:48Speaker 06

  Oh, there you go.

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• 2:50Speaker 06

  As a child whose parents sent a video in of me to you, you've been framed when I was three and who has relived it almost every year since, I figure that this was my moment to continue that tradition and give him a solid, tell me something interesting about yourself sort of story for future. I don't think it's that interesting, you're afraid, Rachel. Keep being sexy, relatable. Rachel, 34 from Chorley.

• 3:10Speaker 05

  You've got, you've got a re, that is a bold thing to bring up first week of uni when everyone's going around in a circle.

• 3:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, because you've been framed, I would say, is ageless. I'd say most people of any age group know you've been framed. The chances of, um, Harry, was it?

• 3:29Speaker 05

  Harry Hiccup.

• 3:31Speaker 06

  Harry, who's two, in 16, in 16 years, this being a reference that his generation understands, the chance is a long, Rob. No disrespect to either of us.

• 3:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're just going, so who is it again? Rob Beckett and Joshua? I don't know. They're both in prison now, aren't they?

• 3:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 3:49Speaker 05

  But yeah, well, you've been framed as such a classic. But then who knows? Maybe, maybe, maybe it will. We don't give out 250 quid though, do we? Which is a lot of money actually, on reflection. That's decent wedge now.

• 3:59Speaker 06

  I, I wonder how often her family debates whether she should have got the money for whatever she did falling through a plate glass window or whatever she did.

• 4:06Speaker 05

  Well, I think famously, I say famously is quite, quite bold. Um, I've told you the story of when I won a hundred pounds on a fruitini.

• 4:13Speaker 06

  No, I don't know if I remember this story, but I'll take it again.

• 4:17Speaker 05

  At school, my mum used to give me tins of fruit with a ring pull. Yeah.

• 4:20Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 4:20Speaker 05

  And a fruitini it was called. And I pulled it, you've won a hundred pounds.

• 4:25Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 4:25Speaker 05

  Great. I've won a hundred pounds. Take it home. Mum takes it, spends it on all three of the boys. We all got tracksuits.

• 4:32Speaker 06

  We had a very similar thing.

• 4:34Speaker 05

  Plymouth.

• 4:35Speaker 06

  Fifty, fifty draw Plymouth.

• 4:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. We've spoken about this, yeah, four, four or five times probably.

• 4:40Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 4:40Speaker 05

  Anyway, how are you?

• 4:42Speaker 06

  I'm stressed.

• 4:43Speaker 05

  Can I, yeah, you seem stressed. I felt.

• 4:46Speaker 06

  This is, get on the Instagram, guys, because have a look at how my fucking camera's set up here.

• 4:54Speaker 05

  Well, we, we still haven't put the seagolfing up yet. Hopefully we will at the time of writing. We put the pants one up in the spirit of Instagram. But that's not what's stressing you out, is it?

• 5:03Speaker 06

  I'm in a hotel, right?

• 5:05Speaker 05

  So to be fair, can I just say that we, we spent the weekend together filming. You came on an episode of Rob and Ramesh.

• 5:11Speaker 06

  Yeah, we should say, because a lot of people thought we'd gone on holiday as a four with Tom Davis and Ramesh. I, I can't be clear enough how far that would be from the reality of my life. All right, summer holiday started, I'm just off to Paris.

• 5:29Speaker 06

  Are you fucking insane?

• 5:31Speaker 05

  No, we were filming an episode of the Tour de France for Rob and Ramesh versus, and you need a peloton and you came and helped with it. Anyway, you'll see that on the show. So that's why we were out there and we had quite a nice time. It can be quite stressful at points doing that show because there's a lot of weird things you have to do. But you looked left in quite high spirits yesterday, but I feel like now.

• 5:50Speaker 06

  I had a lovely time. I had a lovely time. I had a lovely time in Paris.

• 5:56Speaker 06

  It was a lovely crew. It was a lovely experience. Then I got the train, which was, uh, very pleasant. I mean, we had to, there was so much traffic in Paris. We had to end up jettisoning our car to the station and walking the last, um, the last 10 minutes.

• 6:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:13Speaker 06

  Through quite a rough area, the Garden Lords in.

• 6:16Speaker 05

  Yes, not a nice place to come into. It's no St Pancras International. I don't want to go xenophobic on you, but you know, fucking liven up France. We're giving you an absolute beauty of a station.

• 6:24Speaker 06

  Exactly. So, um, that was nice. Train and then I got a car home and then, um, but the thing is, I got in, the kids had stayed up for me to get back at, I was getting back at 10, but I, they're, they're present, so they wanted to stay up and it's summer holidays.

• 6:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:41Speaker 06

  So they stayed up. So then I got them to bed at like 20 past, half past 10. And then I just went to bed. And then I, well, I had a bowl of all bran because that was all that was in the house.

• 6:55Speaker 05

  Lovely.

• 6:56Speaker 06

  And then you just wake up and then my son wanted me to do Lego with him, which is nice, but it means that then suddenly I had 10 minutes to have a shower, get out the house, come here and suddenly I'm doing this again. So it's, I'm all a bit at sea.

• 7:09Speaker 05

  A bit discombobulated.

• 7:11Speaker 06

  I've got a little camera and yogurt. Well, you'll see, let me just show you, let me show you how this is.

• 7:20Speaker 05

  It's an niche OnlyFans, the old camera and yogurt.

• 7:23Speaker 06

  Well, this is.

• 7:24Speaker 05

  I'm in a hotel room with a camera and yogurt.

• 7:25Speaker 06

  This is how my camera's set up currently. So, so that I've got enough height on my camera.

• 7:31Speaker 05

  Right, that is, yeah, that, that is not a way, that's not a way to operate.

• 7:35Speaker 06

  No, so do you want to talk us through it?

• 7:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, so are you facing a window or is it a drawing on a window?

• 7:40Speaker 06

  It's a window that has kind of, what's that stuff you put on a window? Frosting, but the frosting has got, I presume it's Exeter, though I don't know.

• 7:49Speaker 05

  It's like an illustration of old.

• 7:51Speaker 06

  Medieval, yeah, an medieval map. Or not medieval, but kind of.

• 7:56Speaker 05

  So what's out that window? Can you not see anything?

• 7:57Speaker 06

  Anglo-Saxon map of Exeter.

• 7:59Speaker 05

  What, what's, can you open the window?

• 8:01Speaker 06

  There's a, then a window above.

• 8:03Speaker 05

  I would be, would you be disappointed if you stayed in there for the night with that window set up? Or does it open? Do you get any real light?

• 8:11Speaker 06

  Yeah, you do, you can see.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Okay, cool. So a bit of frosting in the window above. And then you've got your, um, laptops on a massive box of Yorkshire tea. Why have you, why have you got such a big box of Yorkshire tea?

• 8:22Speaker 06

  Well, there's a, there's a two pints of milk behind that also.

• 8:25Speaker 05

  So did you bring two pints of milk and a massive box of 200 tea bags with you to the hotel?

• 8:30Speaker 06

  No, it's 40 tea bags.

• 8:31Speaker 05

  Right, okay.

• 8:32Speaker 06

  So I, I bought some milk and some tea on the way and I bought a yogurt for, because for sustenance, but actually it's proved perfect as a tripod.

• 8:42Speaker 05

  But now the issue here, Josh, you cannot eat that yogurt until the end of the show because if, once you've eaten that, the lid's gone and you've, you've got an empty cup.

• 8:49Speaker 06

  I know. But we're recording two episodes and a couple of, um, ads. And then Michael said we're going through a lot of dates. So once we hit the dates, I can have my yogurt.

• 8:58Speaker 05

  Right, okay, cool. That's good. Okay, so that's another something to look forward to. And then you've got a book, a couple of books on there and an upside down cup.

• 9:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, so because Yorkshire tea, laptop, book, uh, notebook, normal book, upside down cup, yogurt, and then the camera on top of that.

• 9:12Speaker 05

  And obviously the two pint of milk base.

• 9:14Speaker 06

  Two pint of milk base.

• 9:15Speaker 05

  Do, are, are you concerned that the heat of the laptop will warm up the milk?

• 9:19Speaker 06

  I hadn't thought about that and I am now, yeah.

• 9:21Speaker 05

  That is a consideration that you could curdle your, because it's, I would say a milk bottle.

• 9:25Speaker 06

  Surely you can't curdle milk in an hour 40.

• 9:29Speaker 05

  We'll find out.

• 9:30Speaker 06

  We'll find out.

• 9:33Speaker 06

  Jeez, my life, it's so stressful. Oh, just, just stressful.

• 9:38Speaker 05

  What, have you got anything on the, after this?

• 9:40Speaker 06

  Oh, our kitchen, we've got a kitchen now, Rob.

• 9:42Speaker 05

  Oh, right, yeah. Because the reason you're in a hotel is you're still getting building work done, which it seems like the same plot from a sitcom that's got on for four years now because you was getting your kitchen done at your old house.

• 9:51Speaker 06

  I know.

• 9:52Speaker 05

  And you left the.

• 9:53Speaker 06

  Our kitchen's not done, but it's usable now.

• 9:55Speaker 05

  Oh, that's good.

• 9:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, so we've got a cooker, we've got an island.

• 9:58Speaker 05

  And you're still on the floor, so last night you slept on the floor?

• 10:00Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 10:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's, yeah.

• 10:02Speaker 06

  It's no life.

• 10:03Speaker 05

  Do you feel like, because you slept in a hotel room for three nights in a nice hotel bed, that the floor was a hard, harder pill to swallow?

• 10:12Speaker 06

  I take the floor with my family to a hotel room on my own. There's, there's a bit of, um, there's.

• 10:17Speaker 05

  Wow, that's really powerful.

• 10:18Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 10:18Speaker 05

  Um, yeah, there's also, there's also a world where you have a.

• 10:21Speaker 06

  Hotel room on my own.

• 10:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know, but there is also a world where you have a, you know, a bed with your family, which I'd say is obtainable.

• 10:28Speaker 06

  I don't, that, I'd say that's a month away.

• 10:31Speaker 05

  Because I would say for someone who's now like, you know, very successful, landed one of the biggest jobs in TV.

• 10:38Speaker 06

  I'd, I'd say before that it was unacceptable. I wouldn't say strictly should be the hotel room, we should buy a bed.

• 10:43Speaker 05

  No, what, that's what I'm saying is though, what, what, the, the, the way you're living is, you know, almost what your origin story would be about, you could explain your current situation as almost like a sob story from the, the, you know, grown up, sleeping on the floor with no bed, you know, that. But it's, it's actually, you're doing it the other way around.

• 11:01Speaker 06

  Yes, yes.

• 11:03Speaker 05

  This is, yours should be in your, oh, he's rested on his laurels, he's in his silk pyjama era, but you're curled up on the floor like a cat.

• 11:09Speaker 06

  Well, this is how I keep myself hungry, Rob. The other way I keep myself hungry is I, is I put my yogurt underneath my camera so I can't eat it. There are the two ways I keep myself hungry.

• 11:22Speaker 05

  Oh my god.

• 11:24Speaker 06

  What the fuck does this look like now? What is my life?

• 11:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, it's just unfortunate circumstances if you keep redoing kitchens.

• 11:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, I wouldn't be recording this in the fucking kitchen anyway, but yeah.

• 11:38Speaker 05

  Well, no, but I'm just saying that you're doing the house again and it sort of spills into other rooms, doesn't it?

• 11:43Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 11:44Speaker 05

  And that's fine. That's not criticism. I'm just saying that is what's happening.

• 11:48Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, I totally agree. I just, I just want my life back.

• 11:54Speaker 05

  Talk me through your life. What is your life?

• 11:56Speaker 06

  I find it incredibly difficult to go away and come back and just start work straight away. I find that really fucks me up.

• 12:04Speaker 05

  I think the Rob and Ramesh especially episodes are, it's very strange to recall because there's loads of like lulls where you're just hanging out chatting.

• 12:12Speaker 06

  Lots of downtime. So you're like, you know, I should be fine here.

• 12:15Speaker 05

  But then all of a sudden you're dressed in lycra with your belly hanging out and tourists are shouting at you from the street. Which is quite a high level of stress. Then, you know, you're in a race or doing something that's slightly dangerous, which affects your sort of adrenaline. And then you come back and then you know you can fully relax. It's sort of like, you go, ugh, which is, you know.

• 12:33Speaker 06

  Yeah. And it's just, it's just that thing of like getting back and you're like, oh fucking hell, where's my wash bag? Oh god, I've got a suitcase full of clothes and I'm, you know what I mean?

• 12:45Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 12:46Speaker 06

  I just wanted to unpack my suitcase and here I am with a camera on a yogurt.

• 12:54Speaker 05

  Can I ask something as well though? Because it was quite a boozy weekend for me, Tom and Rom. There was a lot of beer being ordered and stuff like that. How did you, because I don't imagine you're in those sort of situations with lads much because obviously you're working or touring alone or at home.

• 13:07Speaker 06

  I've just got to be very clear to you.

• 13:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:09Speaker 06

  That's not a boozy situation, considering my past.

• 13:13Speaker 05

  No, no, no, I know. What I'm saying is.

• 13:14Speaker 06

  I've, I've found it incredibly sedate.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  No, no, not that it was rock and roll, but I'm saying you're, you're away with friends that traditionally you would have been having beers with. Is it any flicker or is it hard or is it fine now?

• 13:27Speaker 06

  Because we had dinner. I actually didn't realise how much people are drunk because we were having dinner.

• 13:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:32Speaker 06

  And actually, um, till Ramesh told me quite kind of earnestly how proud he was of me for doing Strictly. I didn't realise how drunk people were.

• 13:43Speaker 05

  You saw him, you saw him open up to you?

• 13:45Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 13:46Speaker 05

  Yeah. He wasn't that drunk.

• 13:48Speaker 06

  No, it wasn't that much.

• 13:50Speaker 05

  We weren't drunk. It was just like all away on a, like we were abroad in like a French cafe and we had lovely beers and it was all like quite fun and jovial because we just met up. I didn't know for me that would have been a.

• 14:01Speaker 06

  Do you know my main issue, Rob?

• 14:02Speaker 05

  Come on.

• 14:03Speaker 06

  Was the lack of decaf tea in France was absolutely killing me.

• 14:07Speaker 05

  And, and, and the French don't care.

• 14:09Speaker 06

  And they don't give a, do you know what? And fair enough.

• 14:12Speaker 05

  I love it. They just go, no, there isn't.

• 14:13Speaker 06

  We don't serve, we don't serve snails and that's fine. They don't do decaf tea. That's totally acceptable. It's their country. They can do what they fucking want. I made a mistake. I, I filled my, my decaf tea tinderbox thing that I bring, you know, my little, uh, with a number of decaf tea bags, maybe eight.

• 14:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:38Speaker 06

  And then I started using them in London in the day before, because I'd stayed in London to do a gig. Fucking amateur hour. So I arrived in France with only three decaf tea bags for the whole thing.

• 14:52Speaker 05

  It's just, it's not gonna work.

• 14:54Speaker 06

  It's my own fault, Rob.

• 14:55Speaker 05

  You set, you set yourself up for failure.

• 14:57Speaker 06

  I should have bought more decaf tea, but I was in a rush to the King, to King's Cross. And then I couldn't find any and it hit me hard when I got there.

• 15:06Speaker 05

  See, I'm sat there going, poor Josh, he's not drunk for two years now. All his friends are having beers around him. Is he coping? Little did I know, you're sat there panicking about your decaf tea tinderbox.

• 15:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly, exactly. This is probably why I would struggle in a kind of post-nuclear fallout bunker.

• 15:24Speaker 05

  Right.

• 15:25Speaker 06

  Because I'd just be worried about getting through all my decaf tea and what I was gonna do then.

• 15:30Speaker 05

  And trying to unpack your suitcase.

• 15:32Speaker 06

  Trying to unpack my suitcase.

• 15:33Speaker 05

  We're all in bunk beds. Is there any drawers?

• 15:35Speaker 06

  Now, we might as well fucking unpack, guys.

• 15:38Speaker 05

  It was going, no Josh, it'll only be a couple of days. Let's live out the suitcase.

• 15:42Speaker 06

  Live out of a suitcase. Get some fucking hangers out and unpack your stuff.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  Oh, so that was.

• 15:51Speaker 06

  Really fun. Everyone was welcoming. Everyone was nice. It made me realise, um, it is quite a magical show really. What's quite exciting is when you go on a show, there's got a huge amount of history and success and, um, it's just quite normal on there. You, you go on a show and it just works like clockwork. It was just very, very slick. I was very impressed.

• 16:17Speaker 05

  Oh, thank you very much. It's nothing to do with me. It's to do with Lily and Bill.

• 16:21Speaker 06

  It was really fun. I had a lovely time.

• 16:23Speaker 05

  Amy and Jack.

• 16:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, I had a great time and, um, I will be honest. I, I just wish I'd got home earlier, but I live in Exeter. It's my own fault.

• 16:36Speaker 05

  Again, it's your, the tea bags. Yeah, no, you're just a bit tired. It's okay. Look, I'll warm you up. I'll get you going. Have you got any, any stuff you want to talk about your children or do you want me to go first? Because I've spent quite a lot of time with them.

• 16:47Speaker 06

  My son's doing his first ever day in a club. He's only doing one day.

• 16:52Speaker 05

  Right.

• 16:53Speaker 06

  He's doing a club with his two little mates. Uh, and so that's quite interesting. He's very insistent he's only doing one day, which is fair enough, which is fair enough. My daughter's doing a full week with her mates in a club this week.

• 17:08Speaker 05

  I think it's good. We do that. They do one week a, a, a year in a club, like for the, for the summer holidays and they love it and it gives them a bit of structure. And then that, that's when I put all my work into, if there's any little bits and bobs that could be moved, I try and do it all in like one week.

• 17:22Speaker 06

  Yeah. So they are, my daughter's got another week in a different club actually later in the holiday. I mean, it's, it's difficult because I've been away, Rob. I feel, I sound like you.

• 17:32Speaker 05

  But Josh, you have done three days. It's not, you've not done like a sort of a tour of Afghanistan.

• 17:36Speaker 06

  Albans and I went, I went away on Wednesday.

• 17:39Speaker 05

  Oh, so you left, oh, fair enough. Because I left Friday morning.

• 17:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, I left Wednesday. So I've kind of been away all week.

• 17:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. And then you're back.

• 17:47Speaker 06

  Now I'm back.

• 17:48Speaker 05

  You've left again to another hotel room.

• 17:49Speaker 06

  I've left her again to go to another hotel room.

• 17:51Speaker 05

  Have you got a busy week this week?

• 17:53Speaker 06

  Not too bad. It's actually quite not too bad a week. So tell me about your parenting, Rob.

• 17:57Speaker 05

  Um, well, went to, um, well, a couple of things. Went to, um, an escape room. I'm going to give Matcha a small business shout out at the end. I paid, he's not giving me any money. Operation Escape, West Wickham. I'll give you more details later. But have you ever done an escape room with the kids?

• 18:13Speaker 06

  No.

• 18:14Speaker 05

  Have you ever done one?

• 18:15Speaker 06

  No, it's not really my scene. I imagine my daughter would love it.

• 18:20Speaker 05

  I think you'd love it with your kids.

• 18:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 18:23Speaker 05

  So like, I think it is your scene. You love Sherlock Holmes.

• 18:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, but he, he very rarely did an escape room.

• 18:29Speaker 05

  No, but he solved puzzles.

• 18:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, but I like watching him do it. I don't like a Sudoku or a, um, Wordle or something like that.

• 18:38Speaker 05

  It's not, it's not, you don't just go in and do crosswords and then leave.

• 18:41Speaker 06

  No, no, no, but I just mean puzzle wise.

• 18:43Speaker 05

  Everyone in, do this word search. Are you allowed out? But it's, no, but they're like, really, it's really creative. So they, they've actually got a Sherlock Holmes room at this place.

• 18:51Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:52Speaker 05

  Where you go in and it's basically, it's all themed, but it's not for Sherlock Holmes. It's sort of like, so they don't get sued, but.

• 18:57Speaker 06

  Oh, alright, okay.

• 18:58Speaker 05

  Basically a detective one with a brown coat. Um, and you go in and it's, so we did a garden one where you go in, it's like his magical garden. You've got to basically solve these puzzles so that you can release this wizard or something. But he's really interactive. It's a bit like Crystal Maze, but also a bit like using logic to solve things. And the kids loved it and it was great because you're like, you feel like you're actually doing something with them.

• 19:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 19:20Speaker 05

  Because it's quite, quite difficult. So they sort of need you a bit.

• 19:23Speaker 06

  Ahead of the game with it? Were you having to go, were you having to let them do it?

• 19:28Speaker 05

  I, I thought I'd be sitting back like Pirlo and then watching them run around and then sort of go, give me the ball and then play a little through ball. So they could finish. I, actually, I was looking at the camera saying, please, can we have some clues? We're struggling and we're running out of time. So it's, it's, it's actually quite challenging even for adults. So they were good though. And also there's loads of good things that they can do. That is a small little couple of.

• 19:52Speaker 06

  Escape room.

• 19:53Speaker 05

  Depends how good you are at it.

• 19:54Speaker 06

  So how long does it last?

• 19:56Speaker 05

  Well, up to an hour. If you get to an hour, you, you haven't escaped. You just, you're done. You're just like, game over and the door opens, you go. Um, but, um, yeah, we did it in like 57 minutes.

• 20:08Speaker 06

  Oh my word, that's tight.

• 20:09Speaker 05

  It was tight. Yeah. But we had to find one little thing. We couldn't find it. It was dim-witted. But we did have a few. Well, there was something, you needed something to put on something and it was hidden and we could not find it.

• 20:21Speaker 06

  And where was it? Somewhere?

• 20:23Speaker 05

  Yeah. I mean, I don't want to give you spoilers.

• 20:26Speaker 06

  It was somewhere.

• 20:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, I had to find something, but I couldn't find it. And we had to get it and put it somewhere. But I'm not telling you what we had to find, where it was, where we had to put it.

• 20:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. But it's, you know.

• 20:34Speaker 05

  You know what I'm saying?

• 20:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, it hasn't affected the anecdote. That's the main thing.

• 20:36Speaker 05

  No, no, exactly. Everyone's still gripped. But I would say my kids are eight and 10. That was really good fun.

• 20:45Speaker 06

  Now, Rob, it is a special part of today's show.

• 20:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 20:50Speaker 06

  Summer shenanigans. And that's a good sound for summer shenanigans.

• 20:55Speaker 06

  Where we give our best advice for not just surviving, but having an actual blast during the six week holidays.

• 21:02Speaker 05

  And it's brought to you by Monzo, who with their free kids account are helping children become more independent with their money.

• 21:08Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 21:09Speaker 05

  Do you want my tips for the six weeks holiday?

• 21:11Speaker 06

  Go on, hit me.

• 21:12Speaker 05

  Pace yourself.

• 21:13Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:13Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's long, it's hot and it's hard. Sometimes it won't even be hot.

• 21:17Speaker 06

  Here's a little tip.

• 21:18Speaker 05

  Go on.

• 21:18Speaker 06

  Do not take your holiday, if you're doing a holiday away.

• 21:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 21:24Speaker 06

  Don't cash that in week one.

• 21:26Speaker 05

  Unless you.

• 21:27Speaker 06

  You can save money.

• 21:28Speaker 05

  You can save money because of your term date. Say, sometimes kids have like earlier breakups. So if you can fly on that date, but then you're, you're staring down the barrel of a five weeker.

• 21:38Speaker 06

  That's the equivalent of Chesney Hawkes coming on. Opening with I am the one and only and then doing the rest of the set.

• 21:44Speaker 05

  But when I saw Chesney Hulks, he opened with it and closed with it.

• 21:48Speaker 06

  Well, exactly. If you can afford two holidays, have one at each end.

• 21:52Speaker 05

  We like to call that the Chesney.

• 21:53Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:53Speaker 05

  Start with it and end with it. Or what other tips? Just never go camping ever.

• 21:59Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:59Speaker 05

  That's not really a tip. It's sort of a personal mantra of mine.

• 22:02Speaker 06

  What do you do if you need to work and your kids are in the house during the summer holidays?

• 22:06Speaker 05

  I like to give them a little thing called a device.

• 22:10Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 22:10Speaker 05

  Which is slightly frowned upon, but I wouldn't do it every day for six weeks.

• 22:16Speaker 06

  But I watched a lot of TV in the summer, Rob.

• 22:18Speaker 05

  Yes, but I would say you watch too much TV. You've become completely obsessed by it. Your only knowledge base is an eight-year period where all you did was watch TV. And you've since gone on to use that as reference points for a very good career in the media, but also written a book about it. And I would say that's great because it's work for you, but I would say you are the exception, not the rule.

• 22:36Speaker 06

  Yeah, okay, fair. Well, let me put it this way. There's a halfway house. What I would say.

• 22:41Speaker 05

  What's that? 90 TV show?

• 22:45Speaker 06

  What I would say.

• 22:46Speaker 05

  Go on.

• 22:46Speaker 06

  And I'm liable for this, yeah? And Rose has brought me in on it. Don't overplan the summer. It is a holiday for them. You can't just back to back to back to back stuff because you're worried about them being bored.

• 22:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:59Speaker 06

  Sometimes kids have to find their own entertainment.

• 23:02Speaker 05

  Experience buffer. We need buffer. I mean, you're the worst for no buffer.

• 23:06Speaker 06

  Here's another tip, Rob.

• 23:07Speaker 05

  Go on, go on. Tip me off.

• 23:09Speaker 06

  If you're looking for summer clubs.

• 23:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 23:11Speaker 06

  I started a WhatsApp group with the parents of my daughter's friends and said, what summer clubs is everyone doing? So that then they're much easier to sell to your child when you go, your friends are already doing this. Do you want to join them?

• 23:24Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 23:25Speaker 06

  Yeah. I would say kids are more interested in what their friends are doing than what the actual content of the club is. Look what the friends are doing and then offer that to your kids. That would be my tip.

• 23:35Speaker 05

  The other good thing to do is, this is a tip that we've done before. Find friends with the kids and then if there's four of you, you can almost split a week up where you go, I'll take Wednesday off and have all the kids with me on Wednesday and have a day with them. And then if the other two or three people take the Thursday or the Tuesday or the Friday off, and then the same four kids just get moved around from house to house.

• 23:55Speaker 06

  Perfect.

• 23:56Speaker 05

  That's a good system.

• 23:58Speaker 06

  What about days out, Rob? What's your stance? Your stance on days out?

• 24:02Speaker 05

  I'm a big fan of the old trip to the seaside, fish and chips on the coast. But then it's difficult, the British seaside, because you want it warm, but you don't want it too hot.

• 24:11Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 24:12Speaker 05

  You don't want a 30 degree or in dim church.

• 24:14Speaker 06

  What you don't want, Rob, is one of those days that's so hot that a picture of the beach you go to ends up on the tabloid newspaper with what a scorch are written on.

• 24:23Speaker 05

  No, the worst case scenario. What you want is, you go, do you know what? I'm not sure about the weather. I'm going to take a jumper, but that jumper never gets worn.

• 24:31Speaker 06

  Yeah. I'm feeling quite confident for the summer holidays. We've put in enough things, but we haven't overpacked it. We'll see how it plays out, Rob.

• 24:39Speaker 05

  Yes.

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• 24:52Speaker 05

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• 24:56Speaker 06

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• 26:09Speaker 05

  Oh, the other thing, because I've been doing like, we had a couple of days, because we've been so busy where we said to the girls, we are not going out for two days. You can wear your pyjamas all day. You can watch iPads up until 12. And then you can watch TV. You can play in the garden. You can do puzzles. Just do nothing if you want to do nothing. We're not going anywhere, doing anything. And they got quite into it and enjoyed it. And then the third day, I had those errands to run and I had to get my hair cut. And then we went out in the morning. We had to go somewhere. And I said, you can bring your iPads for this, for this little. We had to go to my office to speak to some builders and I said, bring your iPads if you want.

• 26:41Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 26:41Speaker 05

  They brought them. They were on there for like an hour while we were talking to the builders. Come back. I said, put your iPads on charge because we're going out in the afternoon. And I was getting my hair cut. So I was like, I don't mind having an iPad because you don't want to just sit in the hairdressers staring.

• 26:53Speaker 06

  How's that holiday? Went to the builders, went for a haircut with dad. But that's what we used to do.

• 26:58Speaker 05

  Well, exactly. And that's what I've got stuff to do.

• 27:00Speaker 06

  Errands that I used to get taken on.

• 27:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, I can't just start bake the fucking cake every day, looking like some sort of god dad. So, I mean, I've literally never baked a cake with him ever, never mind every day.

• 27:14Speaker 05

  So I said, then I said, um, charge your iPads. Maybe don't have iPads while at home now for a couple of hours because you'll need them later. Charge them. One did, one didn't, right? So once, then we'd leave the house. One's on nine percent. The other one's on like 85, but the other one's now really gloating. So we get in the car. My phone's dying as well. And they said, can you charge? I'm trying to charge your iPad in the car for the five-minute journey to the hairdressers.

• 27:36Speaker 06

  You don't get good charge in a car. You just don't get good charge in a car.

• 27:39Speaker 05

  Also, I need it for my phone. So anyway, I'm charging your iPads. So then we get to the hairdressers. My phone's on like three percent, right?

• 27:46Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:47Speaker 05

  Well, maybe actually about 15%. Theirs, like theirs got like 20%. We're in the hairdressers. Anyway.

• 27:52Speaker 06

  Surely the hairdressers have got a plug.

• 27:55Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, but my phone's now going down like percent, a percent every like 30 seconds. And I look at it, they're both hot spotting me.

• 28:05Speaker 05

  So I'm on 10% and running two iPads internet off this phone, right? And then I'm like, girls, look, you could do this, but because I've been charging your iPad in the car, my phone's dying. You couldn't, your hotspot's going to go.

• 28:18Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 28:19Speaker 05

  You know, but I didn't really want to plug it because I thought like, they've got to learn that if they want something like, you've got to charge it. And then, and then, and it was so funny. One of them went, fine daddy, I'll just go mummies. Lou was eight miles away.

• 28:33Speaker 05

  I was like, yeah, go on then.

• 28:34Speaker 06

  Has the hairdresser got wifi?

• 28:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, the hairdresser does have wifi, but, and I probably could have logged them on to it, but it was just, I felt like.

• 28:42Speaker 06

  What's your feeling? I'm pretty, I'm going to say it. I'm pretty balls out. I don't care about this kind of stuff.

• 28:50Speaker 05

  They're hairdressers. Mine does my eyebrows, but it's never done balls.

• 28:56Speaker 05

  They always go, do you want me to do your eyebrows? I'm like, well, if you're asking, it's yes. No, no hairdresser's ever gone, do you want me to do your eyebrows if they're fine? There's probably some dirty old long one on there.

• 29:05Speaker 06

  Do you want me to shave your earlobes? There's always a lobe for me.

• 29:07Speaker 05

  Oh, I've never had that.

• 29:08Speaker 06

  I've got, I've got downy fluff on my lobes.

• 29:11Speaker 05

  Because your lobes and nose, I think when you get to 80, that's going to be a big challenge for you because you're one of those people that it does start sprouting. You're a big, strong, hairy boy from the south.

• 29:20Speaker 06

  Did I tell you, Rob? I don't think I did because it's since I've been to London. So have I told you you're on statins for my high cholesterol?

• 29:28Speaker 05

  No, I didn't know that. You're on that. Well, you eat well, don't you?

• 29:32Speaker 06

  Well, exactly. So I had high cholesterol on one test and six months later, I still had high cholesterol. And I was like, look, I've literally, everything that you're told to do to keep your cholesterol down, I do. I am, I am the worst case scenario. I've got a boring life and high cholesterol.

• 29:51Speaker 05

  So what do you, what is, what brings, what diet brings on high cholesterol? Is that meat, red meat, fatty stuff?

• 29:57Speaker 06

  You know, fatty stuff, crap like that, alcohol, no exercise, all the things that, you know, I'm pretty.

• 30:06Speaker 05

  I tell you what does it bring on high cholesterol? All bran and the front cover of Runners World.

• 30:10Speaker 06

  A yogurt on a cup, on a book, on a laptop, being consumed at 11.30 is not.

• 30:15Speaker 05

  That's not a cholesterol boy.

• 30:16Speaker 06

  No.

• 30:17Speaker 05

  But you are, you have got it.

• 30:19Speaker 06

  Yeah. So I've just got unlucky with high cholesterol, Rob. Yeah.

• 30:23Speaker 05

  So nothing to put on the list. Nothing's got in your way, is it?

• 30:26Speaker 06

  No.

• 30:27Speaker 05

  You'll get gout soon for no reason other than just it's you.

• 30:30Speaker 06

  But he's like, they did a test. They were like, look, you haven't got any calcified cholesterol. So you're in a really, you've had no.

• 30:38Speaker 05

  You're fucking, you're getting tested for every time I speak to you.

• 30:42Speaker 06

  This was. This is a related thing. This is all related to that.

• 30:47Speaker 05

  A crisis about your health. We've been getting Nico scanned, you're getting statins. Mate, should I be going more to the doctors?

• 30:54Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 30:55Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 30:55Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, you don't know, you shouldn't be. But um, now this is all related to that last one.

• 31:01Speaker 05

  Got you.

• 31:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's like, you're totally fine in terms of calcified cholesterol, which is what the problem is, is when it calcifies around your heart or whatever.

• 31:10Speaker 05

  Right.

• 31:11Speaker 06

  But you want to get it down and there's nothing you can do because you're doing everything. Do these things. Man, my cholesterol has gone down. He he just couldn't believe how fast it had gone down, Rob. He was like.

• 31:25Speaker 05

  So are you bragging?

• 31:27Speaker 06

  Well, no, but this is where it comes to. He said, actually, he said before this, I was looking at your statistics. And you are a um, I can't remember the phrase he used, but he was basically like, you're a super responder to uh medicines.

• 31:48Speaker 05

  Like a first responder, but super.

• 31:50Speaker 06

  So you you get extreme um response to medicines. So if you take something.

• 31:58Speaker 05

  Does that mean that is the same with like caffeine and alcohol then?

• 32:00Speaker 06

  That's what I said to him. That's the first thing I said to him. And he said, yeah, there's every chance the same thing. That's doing the medicines is because your liver isn't breaking these things down quickly enough. You are getting extra response to the average.

• 32:18Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 32:19Speaker 06

  You will get a bigger hit off caffeine, but your statins will kick in much harder.

• 32:24Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 32:25Speaker 06

  So finally, at the age of forty three, I've got to the bottom of it. Why I'm so affected by everything?

• 32:31Speaker 05

  That is because like when you used to drink, it would, you would drink in a sort of.

• 32:37Speaker 06

  I don't think we can take the whole drinking and put it on.

• 32:40Speaker 05

  No, but what I'd say is though, you you would be more affected by alcohol more quickly.

• 32:46Speaker 06

  Yes, totally.

• 32:46Speaker 05

  Which would then lead to bad decision making with more alcohol.

• 32:49Speaker 06

  Well, I don't think it was just that. I think.

• 32:51Speaker 05

  No, but I don't think it's going to help if you're battered after three pints.

• 32:54Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 32:54Speaker 05

  You're not going to go, maybe I shouldn't have the fourth because psychologically you go, I've only had four beers.

• 33:00Speaker 06

  Yes, although I think really, I'll be honest, once I'd had one sip, there was no way I was stopping.

• 33:07Speaker 05

  But what what about sugar though? How does sugar affect you?

• 33:11Speaker 06

  Um, not, I'm not too bad for the old sugar highs and lows. Actually, I I don't. No, I'm all right. I can have a lake of pudding and then go to bed.

• 33:25Speaker 05

  We had, I tell you what, we had in France the first time I've ever read it, floating island.

• 33:28Speaker 06

  Oh, we had two floating islands, didn't we?

• 33:30Speaker 05

  I don't even heard of it before, have you?

• 33:31Speaker 06

  No, I'd never have heard of a floating island, but I liked it.

• 33:34Speaker 05

  Big Tom Davis educated us on floating islands. It was meringue and custard.

• 33:38Speaker 06

  Yeah, so good.

• 33:40Speaker 05

  The first one was better than the second one.

• 33:42Speaker 06

  The second one, I'll be honest, the first one was really good. And then the second one, we're in a restaurant. And we asked if he had a floating island. He hadn't heard of it. And then he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'd do that bit. And then he got it out of a tupperware under the bar.

• 34:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's not how I like, you know, I'm new to floating islands, but that's not how I like to operate with the creme anglaise.

• 34:07Speaker 06

  Is anywhere in the UK do floating islands? Could you write in and let us know, please?

• 34:11Speaker 05

  Also, I went full French. I had snails and I had a steak hashé.

• 34:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, do you know what? You are quite, you're quite the Europhile when it comes to.

• 34:20Speaker 05

  I'm yeah, I'm I'm a full European, me.

• 34:22Speaker 06

  Yeah, you really are. You're a man, you know, you could have.

• 34:25Speaker 05

  You cut me, I bleed blue and gold stars.

• 34:28Speaker 06

  You do, exactly, yeah. Not in Edinburgh, but um.

• 34:31Speaker 05

  I'm I'm painting roundabouts, but they're blue with little specks of golden.

• 34:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly, exactly.

• 34:37Speaker 05

  I do love Europe and I'm I'm I hate, I hated Brexit and I hated the fact that we put a big divide between Europe because I think having access to that many cultures, that many places so effortlessly and that you can just move there and live there and work there. And what I really got the benefit of that when I was young, travelling around Europe, and it was amazing for me, and it really opened up my world from coming from South East London.

• 34:58Speaker 06

  And I'm always gutted when I get to the thing, to the passport thing. And we've got a bigger queue and I think, do you know what? We fucking deserve it.

• 35:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. So no, I'm a big old Euro dude. Can't stop me.

• 35:13Speaker 06

  Do you like Euro Disney?

• 35:14Speaker 05

  Love Euro Disney. It's something called that for twenty years. No, I don't gamble. I'm not a gambling guy.

• 35:20Speaker 06

  You look forward to Euro twenty twenty eight?

• 35:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, more Euro things. Eurovision, no, don't like that. But it isn't anymore, is it? Australia in it.

• 35:27Speaker 06

  Yeah, well, yeah.

• 35:29Speaker 05

  What else? Well, I mean, I've been doing other things. I've got it in my phone. Oh, my ten year old got her ears pierced, Josh.

• 35:36Speaker 06

  Oh, this is good. This is exciting. Tell me all about this.

• 35:40Speaker 05

  So she wanted her ears pierced and we were like, this, she hadn't asked for ages and then we, me and Lou were thinking going, oh, she'd always really wanted it done. And then like, it's the summer holiday, so it's a good time to do it because they need to be in for a bit before they can be removed. And also you need to put like anti back like.

• 35:58Speaker 06

  Is there rules on it at the school?

• 36:00Speaker 05

  So they can have them at school, but they've got to be taken out, I think, for P E. But you can't take them out straight after getting them done. They need to be in for a set amount of time. So because we'd been on our summer holiday where we're going swimming a lot. When we came back, it was like, oh, hang on, we've got quite a few weeks here.

• 36:16Speaker 06

  Be honest, if you've got a stud in your ear.

• 36:18Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 36:19Speaker 06

  What situation in P E is that going to really impact? Unless she's, I get it if she's got a big dangling cir- circular earring.

• 36:31Speaker 05

  Well, I think maybe if like you're doing netball or stuff like that, your arms going around there, if it would just normally go past an ear, it wouldn't scratch. But if there's a bit of metal there.

• 36:39Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, come on, come on.

• 36:41Speaker 05

  Anyway, so but but they've got to be in for like a few weeks before they can be removed so that it doesn't heal back over. So it was a good time to do it. For ten's quite a nice age because she's at the stage now where she wants to be a bit older. There's kids in her class that have phones that message all the time. There's some kids doing other things or dressing in a way or having, and she's like, I sort of feel like, oh, that's a bit too grown up. I don't want them to. I don't want her to be on TikTok and all that, whereas getting your ears pierced for her.

• 37:07Speaker 06

  Well, they're only going to have to be removed in a year as well, these kids.

• 37:11Speaker 05

  What do you mean?

• 37:12Speaker 06

  Well, when that.

• 37:12Speaker 05

  Oh, well, from TikTok. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. So it's a way for her to be really grown up and feel a bit older. But actually, it's quite low impact and stuff. And then the only difficulty was the eight year old wanting hers done. But and we were like, no, you've got to wait till you're ten.

• 37:28Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 37:28Speaker 05

  Just because it's unfair on the older one. And I and I and I think that happens a lot with younger siblings get to do stuff earlier than the older ones did. But I think, no, it's good to hold firm because you feel like you're being mean on the eight year old, but actually you're being mean on the ten year old by letting the eight year old go ahead. So I think um ten's quite a nice age between year five and year six. And she loves them. They look beautiful as well. They're really like sort of. You know, she's so happy and proud of them.

• 37:51Speaker 06

  Yeah, all studs. And how painful, because my daughter, so she's eight, so this has been a long term thing. That when she's nine, her best friend and her from London have got the same birthday.

• 38:04Speaker 05

  I got.

• 38:04Speaker 06

  And Rose is going to take her up to London and they're both going to go and get their ears pierced on the nine, when they turn nine.

• 38:11Speaker 05

  Oh, that's nice.

• 38:12Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 38:12Speaker 05

  So it, well, the apparently Lou said using the needle is better because it's a bit cleaner than a stud gun thing. But the stud gun thing is less painful and quicker because it's basically bang and it's done. Lou sent me a video because I couldn't go unfortunately, but Lou sent me a video of her getting it done and she was like just stony faced. And this was like, yeah, fine, it's fine. And I was like, oh, she smashed it. And then when it was both done, Lou went to her, you're okay, you're okay. And as she did that, you saw her bottom lip go.

• 38:41Speaker 06

  And yeah, yeah.

• 38:42Speaker 05

  Because it was the relief, I think, and like stuff. But no, she, it's been fine since we've been cleaning them out and stuff. Well, Lou's been doing that to be fair. And um, yeah, she's great, but they're like silver with little sparkly, looks a bit diamondy, so it's sparkly. But we probably would have had it done earlier, but she didn't really bring it up. It was only she brought it up and thought, oh, it's a good time to do it. So when's your, when's your daughter's birthday though? Because we'll, is it, she might have to wait till summer.

• 39:07Speaker 06

  Autumn.

• 39:07Speaker 05

  So that's the problem. It depends on the school and because.

• 39:10Speaker 06

  Yeah, I don't know what the rule is. We'll have to look into it. Maybe she'll have to do it at Christmas holidays.

• 39:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, look how long it takes. How long?

• 39:18Speaker 06

  And the other thing with it is.

• 39:20Speaker 05

  Oh, ear pitis needs to stay for six to eight weeks.

• 39:23Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 39:24Speaker 05

  Yeah. So that's why we didn't, that's why.

• 39:26Speaker 06

  That, we'll have to have a look into that.

• 39:27Speaker 05

  The shop, you've got to book, the shop at the first week of the summer holidays was rammed for this very reason.

• 39:33Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 39:34Speaker 05

  Because it's got, you've got to give them the six weeks where it's a hill.

• 39:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, rush hour.

• 39:38Speaker 05

  I reckon, why don't you just do a surprise? Why don't you do it at the start of summer holidays before the, the month before their birthday?

• 39:45Speaker 06

  Because their birthday is this autumn.

• 39:49Speaker 05

  All right, so you need to go, well, let's wrap up here. You drive up to London, get her mate. So I thought it was next year.

• 40:00Speaker 05

  So I've just given you another thing to think about now.

• 40:02Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 40:03Speaker 05

  You've just, I've just dashed your daughter's birthday dream.

• 40:05Speaker 06

  No, but it's good to know. It's good to know. So she went to have her cast off, actually, Rob. I will tell you this. So this was just before I was leaving because I had to, I had my suitcases with me.

• 40:14Speaker 05

  Last Wednesday.

• 40:15Speaker 06

  Last Wednesday.

• 40:16Speaker 05

  Oh, you've got your suitcase at the cast removal at the hospital?

• 40:19Speaker 06

  No, well, she wouldn't let me, so we drove to the hospital. I had to leave my suitcases in the car.

• 40:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:25Speaker 06

  Um, yeah, anyway, so we cast removal, that's the very similar thing. Very scary.

• 40:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:36Speaker 06

  Very, um, she just has to sit there while they kind of cut it.

• 40:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:41Speaker 06

  The kind of.

• 40:43Speaker 05

  But yeah, they they put it on your skin and show you it doesn't cut, don't they?

• 40:46Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 40:47Speaker 05

  But you still think your arm's going to get cut off.

• 40:49Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. Well, and also, actually, the bit she didn't like, she's very stoic. She would like just go through it. But the bit she didn't like was when it opened up. Because I think it suddenly felt like her arm, which had been safe and encased, was suddenly out. Do you know what I mean?

• 41:08Speaker 05

  And they're a bit more feeble, the arm after they've not been, you know.

• 41:11Speaker 06

  Unfortunately, she then had to go for an X-ray and then they were like, you need two more weeks. Fucking brutal.

• 41:18Speaker 06

  Oh my God. But.

• 41:20Speaker 05

  Well, she's not got your super responder gene, has she?

• 41:22Speaker 06

  She's not got my super responder gene, has she?

• 41:24Speaker 05

  No, I'd say what, Rose has not been having an affair with Wolverine.

• 41:29Speaker 06

  So she, um, but she's in a smaller cast now, like a kind of, just not above the elbow, just an arm.

• 41:37Speaker 05

  Oh, that's much better.

• 41:38Speaker 06

  And she can swim in it and it's much better. But um, yeah, what a.

• 41:44Speaker 05

  What a come down.

• 41:46Speaker 06

  What a come down. What a bloody come down. What a saga.

• 41:54Speaker 05

  Okay, time for a special part of the show called What Happens On Tour, brought to you by Monzo.

• 41:59Speaker 06

  We've spent many years as comedians, Rob. We have been on tour or going to and from gigs with many comedians, including each other.

• 42:07Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 42:08Speaker 06

  That includes sharing cars, sharing hotels, sharing dressing rooms, sharing the bills in restaurants, getting on with people and learning how to split your life.

• 42:20Speaker 05

  And petrol costs.

• 42:21Speaker 06

  Petrol costs.

• 42:22Speaker 05

  Fuel cost was a big one.

• 42:23Speaker 06

  Of course. Now, how did you find it?

• 42:26Speaker 05

  I found working out how much everyone owed for petrol very stressful.

• 42:29Speaker 06

  Yeah, I was overly polite and would always come out shortchanged.

• 42:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, and I'd get very frustrated with people that swerved it. I'm not going to name names.

• 42:37Speaker 06

  No.

• 42:37Speaker 05

  And I still think of him and go, you tight, tight.

• 42:40Speaker 06

  If you saw him today, you'd still ask for that £10.

• 42:43Speaker 05

  It weren't even my £10, it was someone else's £10.

• 42:45Speaker 06

  Yeah. Do you know, originally I did a lot of tour support. I did Stephen Merchant, I did Alan Carr. And they paid for everything.

• 42:52Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 42:52Speaker 06

  Because you're the support. And now I try and do the same because you're doing, you're paying it back.

• 42:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, you've got to pay their dinner and.

• 42:59Speaker 06

  Exactly, exactly, Rob. That's how it works.

• 43:02Speaker 05

  You can't be on tour with someone and then you go for a curry after and then they go, we're splitting this 50/50 with a support.

• 43:09Speaker 06

  Exactly, exactly.

• 43:10Speaker 05

  Have you ever done that?

• 43:10Speaker 06

  No, I haven't, no. And I wouldn't do that. Do you know, I once went for a curry with an act after a gig. And he fell asleep.

• 43:19Speaker 05

  During the food?

• 43:19Speaker 06

  During the food. Sometimes in these situations, Rob, you just want to be able to say, just Monzo me.

• 43:25Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 43:25Speaker 06

  Just Monzo me. Because with the Monzo app, Rob, you can split, share, divide, settle. You can do all of those things, even with people that don't have the Monzo app.

• 43:34Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know. And if it's just one thing, like dinner, you can split it and you know who's paid what. But if you're on the road for longer, you can have an ongoing total.

• 43:41Speaker 06

  Exactly, Rob.

• 43:42Speaker 05

  The same with like a group holiday. If you're going away with another couple.

• 43:45Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 43:45Speaker 05

  You know, it doesn't be like, I'll get this one, you get that one. Just do it, Monzo me, sort it all out on the app. And then everyone knows what they've paid and you're not having a row at the end going, oh, we paid for the drinks that night and they didn't pay for drinks. He didn't get around him.

• 43:58Speaker 06

  Monzo me. You can split the costs easily or edit the amount and it sorts all the payments and reminders automatically, Rob.

• 44:05Speaker 05

  And after a long day on the road, you don't have to start doing maths and calculations.

• 44:09Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 44:09Speaker 05

  Leave it to the Monzo app.

• 44:10Speaker 06

  Tell you what I can't help with, though.

• 44:12Speaker 05

  What?

• 44:12Speaker 06

  People falling asleep in a curry.

• 44:13Speaker 05

  No app can help with that.

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• 45:25Speaker 05

  How's, how's Rose getting on? Do we dare ask about driving?

• 45:29Speaker 06

  Yeah, she's got her test booked in.

• 45:31Speaker 05

  Right, no more, no question. We'll wait.

• 45:33Speaker 06

  She's doing her lessons. It's still, there's, someone needs to sort out this test situation. I know it's not.

• 45:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's mental. You can't get a test.

• 45:42Speaker 06

  Obviously. But it's literally almost five years since Covid.

• 45:50Speaker 05

  And they've still got a backlog?

• 45:51Speaker 06

  There's still this insane backlog.

• 45:55Speaker 05

  Then, then.

• 45:56Speaker 06

  So, so it's just like, I was talking to someone, I was driving, talking to someone the other day. And they, he was, he has to go on every Monday at 6am or whatever time it is. It's like Glastonbury tickets to try and get a cancellation. And there's just thousands, tens of thousands.

• 46:15Speaker 05

  We're thinking one in for our kids now.

• 46:16Speaker 06

  It's mental. But it's not, the first one's not the problem. It's if you fail, which I did and which a lot of people did.

• 46:22Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 46:23Speaker 06

  Which is good for a lot of people because you're, you become a better driver. But I probably failed and then did it again in six weeks. Do you know what I mean?

• 46:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, you've got to pay for all those lessons again to keep it in your head.

• 46:34Speaker 06

  But otherwise it's like you fail. All right, see you in nine months and then you've got another chance. It's like mental.

• 46:39Speaker 05

  No, that, yeah. Well, does Rose want to announce the date and then all the parenting hell listeners can go to the test centre and sort of clap her in?

• 46:46Speaker 06

  No, I don't think so.

• 46:47Speaker 05

  No, does that one help? Okay, cool. Just, just throwing it out there.

• 46:50Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. Because most people, I'd say, fail their first test. So you're looking at another nine months. Do you know what I mean?

• 46:56Speaker 05

  I didn't, but I only did automatic and I still think just do automatic. There's no point learning gears.

• 47:01Speaker 06

  To do it in gears now is clinically insane.

• 47:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, mental. Unless you want to drive like classic old cars or that you're into cars. But if you just want to like get a run around, most cars now are automatic. There's loads of secondhand cars are automatic. When you go abroad, there's this fallacy that when you go abroad, manuals, no, there's loads of automatics abroad for higher cars. It's not.

• 47:23Speaker 06

  I mean, it's only five years until the car's driving itself anywhere.

• 47:26Speaker 05

  Exactly. Would you have to do a driving test to be in a car that drove itself?

• 47:30Speaker 06

  Probably, yeah. Because you'd have to be able to take over, wouldn't you?

• 47:35Speaker 06

  You can't just shove a kid in a, in a computerised car and say, take it to Liverpool.

• 47:41Speaker 05

  It, them?

• 47:44Speaker 06

  Them.

• 47:45Speaker 05

  Oh, I've got, I've got two things here. One, we're going away to that Europa, we're going on a little road trip later in the summer holidays. To Europa Park. I mean, the Euro guy. Absolute Euro guy.

• 47:57Speaker 06

  What will you be spending? Euros?

• 47:58Speaker 05

  Weirdly though, I don't, I don't know if I'd like Britain to have the Euro. Now let's dig into that.

• 48:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, I know what you mean. I know what you mean.

• 48:05Speaker 05

  I like, I like being part of the European Union and Europe, but I like having a country's identity. But I do think when you go to France, you really know it's France, whether it's Euro or not.

• 48:16Speaker 06

  They've got a lot, they've got a strong identity.

• 48:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, they don't care. I love it.

• 48:22Speaker 06

  Which country has the strongest identity in Europe? I'd say France is fighting hard.

• 48:27Speaker 05

  So we're sat in a pub and 10 different nationalities come in. Which one's the most obvious? And is this accent or speaking, because that's too much giveaway. But just by looking at them.

• 48:38Speaker 06

  No, I think it's more you are put in 10 different pubs in, in European cities. Which is most obvious that you're.

• 48:49Speaker 05

  Oh, right. So as soon as you open eyes, it's obvious where you are.

• 48:52Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 48:52Speaker 05

  Right, okay.

• 48:53Speaker 06

  Without reading. I'd say.

• 48:56Speaker 05

  I'd say it's probably France, those little bistro. If you're in a beer hall.

• 49:00Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 49:01Speaker 05

  Like those, that's well, and then the little bistros, the French ones.

• 49:04Speaker 06

  I'd say the ones where it's difficult are your, your Scandinavians and your Dutch.

• 49:10Speaker 05

  But when a Dutch bloke walks in, you don't realise that you know a Dutch bloke, too, see a Dutch bloke. They're big shoulders, big long boys, wrecking themselves.

• 49:18Speaker 06

  Yeah. Do you know what? What, everyone's got their own, I don't, we'll come to the end of this, everyone's got their own identity, except perhaps kind of Belgium and Luxembourg and those lot.

• 49:27Speaker 05

  No, those. Do you know what? Those lot, you could only ever say those lot about Belgium and Luxembourg. Anyway, we're going away and we're going with another couple and they're two kids. Everyone really gets on. Then my eldest started a.

• 49:41Speaker 06

  Keys in the box?

• 49:42Speaker 05

  No. I, I message group with all the adults and all the kids.

• 49:46Speaker 06

  Oh, here we go.

• 49:48Speaker 05

  Group chat with my kids. Because we've got one with my kids and Lou. Me and Lou's the kids. An iMessage group.

• 49:55Speaker 06

  So my daughter will iMessage us from, from the iPad.

• 49:59Speaker 05

  Yes, so they've got iPads and then we've got phones, obviously. So it's the first group where, I mean, with other people and my kids and it's great.

• 50:05Speaker 06

  Do you find it funny? Because my daughter will iMessage us. My son's not to that level yet of, of, of tech.

• 50:14Speaker 06

  So my daughter will occasionally message me when I'm away. She's just got no pleasantries about it. Do you know what I mean?

• 50:22Speaker 05

  Quite direct.

• 50:23Speaker 06

  But yeah, because all the, she just doesn't understand the, the years we've spent working out the grammar of texting and how it kind of works. And all that kind of stuff. That's not, she doesn't know that, obviously. So it's just.

• 50:39Speaker 05

  Don't come back, stuff like that.

• 50:40Speaker 06

  Just like, yeah, yeah. Hi. Or you'll just be chatting normally and she'll just like, got to go now. And that's the end. Do you know what I mean?

• 50:47Speaker 05

  I like that. Yeah, gone.

• 50:49Speaker 06

  It's good, it's good. It's, it's, it's simple. So what's your iMessage group like?

• 50:54Speaker 05

  It's great. A lot of banter. I'm taking a lot of flack because we're talking about roller coasters. We keep putting up photos of me looking scared on roller coasters. They're enjoying that. The other dad's saying, who's going to eat snails? Some of them saying, no, because we're going through France and Germany. Who's going to try curry worst? That kind of stuff. But it's good, good stuff.

• 51:11Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 51:11Speaker 05

  And the spelling's all over the place, which I find so, so endearing and cute. And that's just me.

• 51:16Speaker 06

  Oh, here we, here we go.

• 51:18Speaker 05

  Kill me. Someone kill me now.

• 51:20Speaker 06

  I don't mind it. I don't mind it. Do you know what I mean? You've got to put away the easy chances.

• 51:25Speaker 05

  Horrible, easy.

• 51:27Speaker 06

  You've got to convert the penalty, Rob.

• 51:29Speaker 05

  You've got to do the tappings in what do the worldies like, you know, the, the long ranges will come.

• 51:33Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly. How many long ranges have there been in this podcast?

• 51:38Speaker 05

  Um, I'd say the backdrop falling down, halfway line, that's a, that's a halfway line kind of shot that.

• 51:46Speaker 06

  By the way, we've absolutely flown on Instagram this week.

• 51:49Speaker 05

  Oh, we are a couple of influencers, us guys, aren't we?

• 51:52Speaker 06

  Can I ask a question?

• 51:54Speaker 05

  Of course.

• 51:55Speaker 06

  What's your, your cat called Graham or something?

• 51:57Speaker 05

  Alan. Alan, Fred and George.

• 52:00Speaker 06

  Alan, Fred and George. How are you going to feel when Alan dies?

• 52:03Speaker 05

  Sad because he's a cute little cat. And go, oh, that was a shame. He was nice. And probably chat to Lou for, you know, 20 minutes about it. Until she's all right. Then sort him out. Then, uh, crack on.

• 52:18Speaker 05

  And I, I, I could lie if you want.

• 52:20Speaker 06

  No, no.

• 52:21Speaker 05

  But that's, and I'm not, I'm not, I won't be happy. I'm not, there won't be any.

• 52:26Speaker 06

  No, you won't be happy.

• 52:27Speaker 05

  No, but I'm, I'll be upset, but I'm not gonna, I'm not, it's not, I'm not gonna have to book a day. Yeah, I'm not gonna have to book a day off work.

• 52:35Speaker 06

  No, fine. Would you?

• 52:38Speaker 06

  Alan goes missing.

• 52:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:41Speaker 06

  So when we got back and Fluffball was missing for 12 hours.

• 52:44Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 52:46Speaker 06

  I was in a dark place.

• 52:49Speaker 06

  How dark a place would you be if Alan isn't there when you and Lou get back from holiday?

• 52:53Speaker 05

  I'm I'm more concerned and worried about how upset the children will be. And I will proactively hunt him down, try and find him, see what's going on, right? Or shake, no, but shake like, you know, I'll be out there with the dreamies, giving them a shake, saying the name and all that. I'm not just in the house going, well, if you don't come, you don't come. However, now with the dogs, we've got two dogs.

• 53:13Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 53:13Speaker 05

  One really good Fred, just follows you around on a walk, will chase a few animals, always comes back. George, there's something not right with George. He's he ain't got eyes that feel like there's any humanity in there. He's totally off the wall. He feels almost like an AI dog, like he's, he don't really like being petted. He just sort of wanders about and then if he sees animals, he just goes for it. We go for walks. He will just bolt sometimes and I, and I don't know what to do anymore. And I'm at the point now where if he goes, he goes, I'll try and call him back. I don't take him off a lead anywhere dangerous now because he can't be trusted. But if he does something mental, that's, I'm now I'm a bit like, look, all I can do is offer him a good life, a treat and a lead. And if he don't want it, he don't want it.

• 53:57Speaker 05

  I can't, you know, do you know what I mean? And that's because I lost him the other day and he turned up at the house, two miles away. Did I tell you this?

• 54:07Speaker 05

  I was in a walk with them, they saw some deer, they run off, right? Now the deer roam everywhere, so it's very hard to know what walk they're going to be on. So now I'm much more vigilant. Anyway, he chased a deer. The problem is when they chase a squirrel or a fox, normally the hole or tree they go up, a dog can't get through or up. But with a deer, a dog can always fit through the gap a deer's got through.

• 54:25Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 54:26Speaker 05

  If they're going for a hedge or whatever. Anyway, he went, so I spent, I had Fred with me, like 20 minutes in this like field woodland that would fenced off essentially. Because it's like a walking bath, couldn't find him anywhere. Eventually took Fred home, put him in the back door and I was gonna, and I quickly like put him in and I was gonna go back out to find him. As I go out, out to find him back on the walk, because it's like, I've got to go two miles back to where it all was. I hear him in the front garden.

• 54:55Speaker 05

  I've got no idea where he got back. It wasn't even a walk we normally do. They go, oh, they're used to the walk, it ain't the walk. So I don't know what happened, but he's back and I'm just like, look, he knows what's going on. He's a country side dog, let him get on with it.

• 55:07Speaker 06

  Yeah. So you're pretty laissez faire really with your emotions and dogs.

• 55:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, you have to be because I, there's nothing, I'm trying my best here. And if he wants to fuck off, he's going to fuck off, he's a dog. You know, I mean, or what can I, what more can I do?

• 55:20Speaker 06

  No, fair enough.

• 55:21Speaker 05

  And also you can't keep him on a leash forever. He's, I'd rather be off a leash with a little bit of jeopardy and he enjoys being out and running. You can't have a whip it and not let it run.

• 55:31Speaker 06

  I can't have a whip.

• 55:32Speaker 05

  And I've done all the same training I did with the first one who's recalls perfect, comes back. If I go on a walk, he just sits behind me. If anyone comes up, I call his name, he comes back. George is a bit like that, but George occasionally his head will go. He's like Roy Keane.

• 55:45Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 55:46Speaker 05

  If he, once his head's gone, he's gone and there's nothing you can do about it. So, yeah.

• 55:50Speaker 06

  Well, we'll keep an eye on it, we'll keep an eye on it.

• 55:52Speaker 05

  Keep an eye, he'll be all right. He's just, he's just like, yeah, he's just a bit of a loose cannon, but everyone's got these kind of loose cannon dogs, don't they?

• 55:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 56:00Speaker 05

  They're harder work than kids because they're just a toddler forever.

• 56:03Speaker 06

  Well, well, quite. Yeah, exactly.

• 56:07Speaker 05

  Small business shout out.

• 56:08Speaker 06

  I was about to do a small business shout out there, yeah.

• 56:12Speaker 05

  I've got one ready to go if you want. I'll do an escape room one.

• 56:16Speaker 06

  But I haven't got it in my pocket and I do apologize to the person who gave it to me in St Albans, but I will get to it.

• 56:21Speaker 05

  Here we go, I'll do the read out. So this is the, the escape room we went to in West Wickham, which was absolutely brilliant. Great to do. I'd say especially on a rainy, it was, it was good to do in summer, but on a rainy winter's day, it's perfect to get out. Hello, I'm an independent escape room in West Wickham who would love a small business shout out. She, Emily had actually emailed, but we hadn't got to it. Big fan of the podcast and local to Rob.

• 56:44Speaker 06

  And then you showed up.

• 56:46Speaker 05

  But by coincidence.

• 56:47Speaker 06

  Oh, wow. Yeah. Well, I, oh, yeah, that's great.

• 56:50Speaker 05

  My name is Emily and at 30 years old, I own and run Operation Escape off West Wickham High Street. We have been open at our new venue for 18 months.

• 56:58Speaker 06

  Is it related to Wickham, High Wickham?

• 57:00Speaker 05

  Nowhere near, no, it's, it's sort of Bromley, I think it's still, it's Bromley. So it's between Beckenham and Bromley.

• 57:07Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 57:08Speaker 05

  And so it's not where I live, it's near, like 20 minutes away.

• 57:12Speaker 05

  There are three escape rooms, sorry, we've been open 18 months. We have three escape rooms that are suitable for a range of ages from families to children's parties or work events. The, there are three escape rooms to choose from, whether you want to save cats from the evil jealous Lucifer. There you go.

• 57:29Speaker 06

  Josh not going to do that, couldn't give a fuck.

• 57:31Speaker 05

  No, that's not why I said I do care about my animals. And if Lucifer was around the corner, I'd pick my cat up. Or you can lift the curse from our enchanted garden, that's what we did.

• 57:41Speaker 06

  That's what you did.

• 57:42Speaker 05

  Or find the antidote for Sherwin Hones in Victorian London.

• 57:47Speaker 06

  Oh, here we go, here we go.

• 57:49Speaker 05

  We have an escape room for you.

• 57:50Speaker 06

  State of Arthur Conan Doyle.

• 57:53Speaker 05

  I'm also currently writing and building a fourth eighties arcade inspired room.

• 57:57Speaker 06

  Oh, that's my bag.

• 57:59Speaker 05

  You're in there. I hope to open later in the year. The escape rooms are suitable for smaller and larger bookings and we also offer party packages and gift vouchers. You can find out more at operation hyphen escape.co.uk or check out our Instagram at operation underscore escape underscore Bromley. Good luck, Emily, good little business she's running there.

• 58:17Speaker 06

  Very good. Hi, you sexy beasts, OG listener here and absolutely love the pod, especially episodes with just the two of you.

• 58:26Speaker 06

  Sorry, Michael.

• 58:28Speaker 06

  Also, really, she really hates when Michael chips in. Also really appreciate how openly you talk about mental health. It genuinely sets a great example for men and boys. And I'd say, I'm going to add this, women and girls, Rob.

• 58:40Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 58:41Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. I wondered, you can might give a small business shout out to my husband. He was made redundant about 18 months ago from the finance world and despired to back himself and start his own company. Get involved in this, Rob.

• 58:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, fuck those finance nerds.

• 58:57Speaker 06

  There's a gap in the market for golf clothing that isn't a T-shirt with a terrible pun on it.

• 59:02Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 59:03Speaker 06

  So he created 44, the word four as in F O U R, then T as in golf tee, and then four as in golf four. A lifestyle golf brand selling T-shirts, hoodies and trucker caps for people who want to look good on and off the course. Crucially, it works for your kind of golf, Rob. You know, the quick nine holes that turns into four hours, three lost balls and a quiet cry in the car before coming back in, claiming it was just a quick one. Is that you?

• 59:32Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, but let's not get bogged down in that. I'm actually, I'm, I'm improving. Oh, it's nice stuff though.

• 59:37Speaker 06

  44, four F O U R, T, T double E, F O R E.co.uk, Instagram at 44. Get 10% off the code, parenting hell 10, thanks so much and keep doing what you're doing, it's brilliant. Vicky, thank you, Vicky.

• 59:52Speaker 05

  Thank you very much, Vicky, and good luck with the business. Josh, I'll see you next time, mate.

• 59:58Speaker 06

  Can't wait.

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