S13 EP5: You seem really unhinged

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• 2:07Speaker 04

  Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with...

• 2:09Speaker 05

  Raffi, can you say Rob Beckett? Oh, baby. Can you say Josh Widdicombe?

• 2:18Speaker 05

  Josh.

• 2:21Speaker 05

  Widdicombe. D.

• 2:25Speaker 05

  Well said.

• 2:27Speaker 05

  Very good.

• 2:30Speaker 05

  There we go.

• 2:31Speaker 04

  Very good.

• 2:33Speaker 05

  Very good.

• 2:34Speaker 04

  Was he doing that from a crisp packet?

• 2:36Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was a weird sound. Sorry, I was just thrown by the fact.

• 2:39Speaker 04

  It took you off your stride of it, didn't it?

• 2:41Speaker 05

  Sorry, it's because I just read that this person's from Exeter.

• 2:44Speaker 04

  I wanted an alternative.

• 2:46Speaker 05

  Could you ever do whimsy, Rob?

• 2:48Speaker 04

  I've had a go.

• 2:49Speaker 05

  I've had a go.

• 2:50Speaker 04

  Do you know what? I prefer being funny.

• 2:54Speaker 04

  The dog's barking. Just wrestle that out.

• 2:56Speaker 05

  I thought you preferred being funny. Fucking hell. What a start.

• 3:04Speaker 05

  The dog's barking. It'll come back.

• 3:07Speaker 04

  Imagine if he didn't.

• 3:08Speaker 05

  Imagine if that's it. Imagine if that's the end of the pod.

• 3:11Speaker 04

  Rob never comes back. There's no tragedy. He just disappeared forever. Who are you ringing in?

• 3:16Speaker 05

  That is a tragedy. That would be weird.

• 3:19Speaker 04

  Obviously, yeah, we'd be sad to lose him, et cetera, et cetera, but...

• 3:22Speaker 05

  I don't think the pod would recover if Rob Beckett went missing now.

• 3:26Speaker 04

  I think it would become the world's greatest true crime podcast.

• 3:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, it would be incredible. But I don't think we could go back to me and Ramesh talking about our kids, and it would be Ramesh.

• 3:37Speaker 04

  I think you probably could in about four to six weeks.

• 3:40Speaker 05

  Do you think? I think that might make me a suspect. Do you know what I mean? I think, I think that would make, I think people would go, oh, he moved on very quickly, and he seems to have wanted to do it with Ramesh. So has he bumped Josh or bumped Rob off?

• 3:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, people are looking at the new deal structure and what split's going where.

• 4:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly. Ramesh's on a slightly worse split than Rob was.

• 4:04Speaker 04

  What?

• 4:05Speaker 05

  We just had quite an interesting chat.

• 4:07Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 4:07Speaker 05

  If you'd never come back, and you just disappeared, and that was the last ever people heard of Rob Beckett.

• 4:14Speaker 04

  Oh, wow.

• 4:16Speaker 05

  Whether, A, obviously it would become such a huge news story.

• 4:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 4:21Speaker 05

  But whether I would then be able to continue the pod with Ramesh in four to six weeks, or whether that would make me a suspect.

• 4:27Speaker 04

  If I was you, I'd continue the podcast and you just leave my computer on, connected to this meeting, in the hope I come back.

• 4:37Speaker 05

  Do you know what? People would listen every time, and we do kind of clickbaity headlines.

• 4:42Speaker 04

  Well, I think people would, for a few weeks, just skip through the video.

• 4:46Speaker 05

  Is he back?

• 4:47Speaker 04

  Is he back? No, no, I just shut the front door. He was barking at the noise of someone doing a leaf blower.

• 4:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 4:55Speaker 04

  Shall we get back to the opening message?

• 4:57Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 4:57Speaker 04

  I'm quite stressed, Josh, to be honest. Have you got a headache?

• 4:59Speaker 05

  Really fucking stressed.

• 5:00Speaker 04

  Busy. No buffer.

• 5:03Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm living a no buffer, not an unintentional no buffer life.

• 5:07Speaker 04

  But I think summer holidays is the king of the, and queen of the unintentional no buffer, where stuff, because you're out of your normal routine of kids being in school, you get, things get scuppered. Tensions get high. Stuff's going on.

• 5:22Speaker 05

  Yeah. Hi, Rob, Josh and Michael. I was just listening to latest episode while out on for a run around Exeter Key. Disappointed not to Josh bump into top runner Josh Widdicombe. I have run on the key.

• 5:34Speaker 04

  Of course, yes.

• 5:35Speaker 05

  Had to write in to answer the question, do we want the podcast to be more professional? The answer is absolutely not. We love the chaos. More guest-free episodes, too, please. I've attached my son Rafferty reading your names. This was recorded when he was 19 months old. Now he's two weeks from turning three. Time is a thief. Anyway, keep staying sexy and relatable. Hannah Fowles from Exeter.

• 5:57Speaker 04

  Hannah Fowles. It is mad that we've basically, because we've been busy, just stopped doing guest interviews, but have never decided that was going to happen. It's a bit like turning like...

• 6:06Speaker 05

  It's not a decision we've made. It's a decision that's been made for us by circumstance.

• 6:11Speaker 04

  Well, it's a bit like turning on Match of the Day, and all of a sudden, there's just no pundits. It's just commentators in the game, which I don't mind it.

• 6:19Speaker 05

  It's like if Match of the Day lost the, lost the rights to the Premier League, but continued broadcasting. I mean, it's essentially what we are, is the rest is football. We're Match of the Day without the clips.

• 6:33Speaker 04

  It's mad they don't have any clips. Anyway, how are you, Josh? You said you was very stressed. You have a stressful...

• 6:38Speaker 05

  Oh, let me take you through yesterday, Rob. Fucking hell, this light is bright, isn't it? I look like I'm under interrogation.

• 6:45Speaker 04

  Maybe you are.

• 6:46Speaker 05

  So, yesterday, Rob.

• 6:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 6:50Speaker 05

  What a fucking day. It was, it was queuing up to be a great one.

• 6:55Speaker 05

  So, both my kids were in, were in clubs.

• 6:59Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 7:01Speaker 05

  My son had only wanted to go in on the Monday, but he'd enjoyed it, so he wanted to go back in on the Wednesday.

• 7:05Speaker 04

  Lovely.

• 7:07Speaker 05

  My daughter, we took her around to a friend's house, where they were doing this trinket swapping thing. They'd all made boxes to put in trinkets, and then they were going to swap them.

• 7:18Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 7:19Speaker 05

  So, we went around to a friend's house. We had pancakes, and they swapped their trinkets. And then they went off to club.

• 7:25Speaker 04

  Lovely. I love how wholesome.

• 7:28Speaker 05

  It was so wholesome.

• 7:29Speaker 04

  Pancakes and a quick trinket swap.

• 7:31Speaker 05

  Pancakes. Welcome to Exeter.

• 7:33Speaker 04

  You seem really, like, unhinged, but not in a mad way, just sort of very, like, chaotic.

• 7:40Speaker 05

  I'm in a bad place. I'm in a bad place. So I had the whole day free. I was like, this is great.

• 7:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:46Speaker 05

  I've got a few things to do, some emails. Fine. I went out, did some photography, because I love doing that to relax.

• 7:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, you do. Whereas in Paris, you want for a little walk to take photos?

• 7:58Speaker 05

  Yeah. That was my morning. Then I went back. I had osteopath. She's like, this is a great day. This is a great day. Then Rose is like, Rose has got the afternoon off as well. She's like, shall we, shall we go for lunch on the coast? Yeah, why not? It's a half-hour drive. So we're driving out of Exeter.

• 8:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, thinking life is good.

• 8:26Speaker 05

  Two lanes go into one. Yeah, you know a classic, two lanes go into one. That's not a euphemism or a kind of reference, but... And then a lorry just cuts across us.

• 8:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:39Speaker 05

  Doesn't stop. You know, you know when you're like, oh, this is going to hit me?

• 8:43Speaker 04

  Oh, no.

• 8:43Speaker 05

  This is going to hit me, and there's nothing I can do about this situation. I was slowing down, but I was like, even if I jam on the brake, like, I'm, he's cutting across.

• 8:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:55Speaker 05

  I'm getting less and less space here. His back is just coming across, and I've got no choice. I'm just stuck. I can't do anything. Rips off my wing mirror.

• 9:03Speaker 04

  No.

• 9:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:06Speaker 04

  Are you still in the old Beamer?

• 9:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:09Speaker 04

  The old, the old...

• 9:11Speaker 05

  I mean, I know so little about cars, Rob, that I said to Rose,

• 9:17Speaker 05

  oh, could you Google a Mercedes garage? And she was like, we've got a BMW. I'm like, I just don't know anything about my car.

• 9:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, but you are looking at the steering wheel with it on it.

• 9:28Speaker 05

  I know, but I'm just not interested in cars. It's just not, I just, I can't keep any information in. Then when I was on the phone to them, they said, what model is it? I said, it's an X3.

• 9:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:40Speaker 05

  And they said, what's the number plate? I read it, and they said, it's an X1. I was like, okay, it's an X1. I don't know.

• 9:51Speaker 05

  So the lorry just cuts across, takes off our wing mirror.

• 9:55Speaker 04

  But just a wing mirror, nothing else?

• 9:57Speaker 05

  Nothing else, thank God. And then you're like, well, I didn't.

• 10:00Speaker 04

  Did he stop or did he carry on going?

• 10:02Speaker 05

  No, he carried on. Right in front of us. So we could see his number plate.

• 10:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:07Speaker 05

  We could see also that it was a lorry driver's learning company.

• 10:15Speaker 04

  Oh, right, okay.

• 10:16Speaker 05

  And he had an L plate on.

• 10:20Speaker 05

  So we take a photo of the number plate.

• 10:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:22Speaker 05

  He had, he doesn't stop or anything. I'm still sure he doesn't even know this has happened.

• 10:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:28Speaker 05

  Phone the number on the back of the lorry. We're like, you've just ripped our, this guy's just ripped off our wing mirror on Tops from Road.

• 10:40Speaker 05

  You blah, blah, blah. They're like, okay, we'll look into it and get back to you. They still haven't got back to us. So that's a fucking thing I'll have to chase up today.

• 10:46Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:48Speaker 05

  Then we phone the garage.

• 10:50Speaker 04

  Yep. Do you continue with your lunch?

• 10:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, we do.

• 10:53Speaker 04

  But lunch is ringing in the garage.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, we do. Rose does it while we're driving, you know, on speakerphone, kind of both of us. And, oh, man.

• 11:04Speaker 04

  And also now you're having to, you've just been to the Ostia Park, now you're having to turn your neck to look all the time.

• 11:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:10Speaker 04

  So that good work's gone. And your neck was hurting from cycling.

• 11:15Speaker 05

  Exactly. It was the cycling. It was so painful.

• 11:18Speaker 04

  I told you not to use your neck on the pedals, but you wouldn't listen.

• 11:22Speaker 05

  It's just, it's got more turn, it's got more power, bigger muscle than my guys.

• 11:29Speaker 05

  So speak to BMW, right?

• 11:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:34Speaker 05

  There's no wing mirrors in the UK. They have to be imported from Germany.

• 11:39Speaker 04

  Right.

• 11:40Speaker 05

  For fu, I mean, car, surely we're not the first people in the UK that need a wing mirror. It's a popular model. I've seen other people driving this.

• 11:47Speaker 04

  Is this a Brexit thing?

• 11:49Speaker 05

  If it is, add it to the list. Just add it to the bloody list.

• 11:55Speaker 04

  So how long do you have to wait to get a wing mirror?

• 11:58Speaker 05

  Well, we're going to Cornwall tomorrow as well.

• 12:00Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 12:03Speaker 05

  Yeah. So you're like, this is such a fu, it's, it's the cost, but it's not the cost, it's the fucking faff now. Do you know what I mean? The cost is annoying and we'll have to, you know, presuming these, I'm not going to say what the company was that caught us, but I will be naming them if they won't.

• 12:23Speaker 04

  Happily.

• 12:25Speaker 05

  I will happily name them if they won't cough up to cover this fucking up. Now we're going to have to rent a car for a week. Before going tomorrow, I've got to find a garage that will be able to get the parts.

• 12:38Speaker 04

  So you can't drive it in a wing mirror? Is it illegal?

• 12:42Speaker 05

  Are you allowed to drive it to the garage, I think?

• 12:43Speaker 04

  Right. Do you want me to find out? Or do you feel unsafe about it?

• 12:49Speaker 05

  Oh, man.

• 12:50Speaker 04

  Driver's side mirror must be present, steady and intact. Driving without it is illegal.

• 12:55Speaker 05

  It's the other side.

• 12:57Speaker 04

  So it's not your driver's side?

• 12:59Speaker 05

  It's the passenger side.

• 13:00Speaker 04

  Passenger side? Here we go. In brackets, near side. Can be missing as long as the other two rear mirrors work.

• 13:09Speaker 05

  Great.

• 13:10Speaker 04

  You're in.

• 13:10Speaker 05

  Great. So theoretically I could drive to Cornwall.

• 13:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:16Speaker 04

  It's good news.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  Wow, that's per. You can buy temporary suction ones from Amazon.

• 13:25Speaker 04

  We'll get a little temporary, have a little temporary suck.

• 13:29Speaker 05

  I can't tell you yesterday how far I was from having a temporary suck.

• 13:36Speaker 04

  Did it was a, um, but yeah, I think you'd be okay. Yeah. Get, get one. There'll, there'll be a temporary one in the garage as well, won't there? If you can't, one won't come in time online.

• 13:44Speaker 05

  Just got text from Rose saying the garage can't keep the car for the week.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Can't keep it for the week?

• 13:51Speaker 05

  No, so I can't drive it off.

• 13:52Speaker 04

  No space?

• 13:53Speaker 05

  Oh, we'll get into it. I'll deal with it after this.

• 13:56Speaker 04

  Okay. Has anything else gone on? You seem.

• 13:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:58Speaker 04

  Okay, I was gonna say, cause you seem really stressed.

• 14:01Speaker 05

  That's really frustrating. I was fine with that at the time.

• 14:03Speaker 04

  I felt that was the only thing.

• 14:04Speaker 05

  You're like.

• 14:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:05Speaker 05

  You're just like, oh, fucking hell, we're going. So my daughter's doing this theatre week.

• 14:10Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:10Speaker 05

  Right. It's good though, because she hates performing, my daughter, which I see as the biggest vote of confidence for my parenting in history.

• 14:19Speaker 05

  But they, they've got two options. So her and like five of her friends or six of her friends are doing it.

• 14:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:24Speaker 05

  And you can either be performing or you can be backstage, which is making the props.

• 14:28Speaker 04

  Oh, that's cool.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  Doing the sound effects, all that kind of stuff. So she's like loving it. She's like building an elephant that she says is elephant sized.

• 14:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:37Speaker 05

  For this Phileas Fogg theatre thing. And so we're going to watch the play at 4pm and then we're driving down to Cornwall.

• 14:44Speaker 04

  Right.

• 14:45Speaker 05

  So it's like, Jesus fucking Christ. We've got, now that's the deadline. I've got to have a car and I've got to have this car in the garage. And then last night.

• 14:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:55Speaker 05

  So like yesterday was nice. Kids came home, daughter needs the lunchbox, Smiggle's closing up half five. It's 5.06.

• 15:04Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 15:05Speaker 05

  We'll just drive into town. Oh no, I can't drive. I totally forgot. I can't drive. Right?

• 15:09Speaker 04

  Well, you can, you can drive. So is it car?

• 15:12Speaker 05

  Cause I've only just found out that I legally can drive without it.

• 15:15Speaker 04

  Yeah, right. Okay. So you could, yeah, you're not.

• 15:17Speaker 05

  So I get a tax. Also, it does feel weird. You don't realise how often you check your passenger wing mirror until it's a, you know, when you, you know, when you're not wearing a watch and you suddenly realise you're looking at your wrist a lot.

• 15:27Speaker 04

  You wouldn't know about that.

• 15:30Speaker 05

  I don't, I don't, I don't tell you.

• 15:32Speaker 04

  Where's your watch on?

• 15:34Speaker 05

  Oh, Rob.

• 15:37Speaker 05

  My watch, I dropped it in a bathroom and it just stopped working.

• 15:41Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 15:42Speaker 05

  Right.

• 15:42Speaker 04

  It's your nice birthday watch.

• 15:44Speaker 05

  I took it to the watch repair and they were like, this will need a special part. Cause it's, you know, it's a fancy watch, right? World's smallest violin, et cetera. I get it. So I give it to, go back to the people I bought it from in London. They're like, okay, we'll see what we can do. They don't get back to me. I contact them. They're like, yeah, it's got to go back to Switzerland. It'll be 25 to 30 days until it's got to Switzerland and then we, they can quote you. So it's got to go to Switzerland for me to get a quote.

• 16:12Speaker 04

  How fancy is this watch?

• 16:15Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's fancy, but it's just the bit. They've got the bit because along with fucking wing mirrors, we haven't got fucking watch best.

• 16:25Speaker 05

  Everything is on mainland Europe.

• 16:28Speaker 04

  Okay. So the watch is broken.

• 16:31Speaker 05

  So then I bought a Casio because I had a gig.

• 16:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:35Speaker 05

  I actually, I had a corporate gig and I needed to be able to time my gig. So off the curb, my agency were like.

• 16:44Speaker 04

  When you do corporate gigs, you, you keep an eye on time. You're not just sort of freewheeling and embracing the moment and just however long you do, you do, because you're up there loving it.

• 16:52Speaker 05

  Well, I know because I want to fill my contractual hours. I, because once I came off five minutes too early because I looked at my watch and it was wrong.

• 16:59Speaker 04

  Right.

• 16:59Speaker 05

  I felt terrible and it had been going well.

• 17:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:02Speaker 05

  And actually it was fine. No one cared, but I was, I felt awful for it. Cause I thought, yeah.

• 17:07Speaker 04

  You've not given them what they, you know.

• 17:08Speaker 05

  Yeah. So.

• 17:10Speaker 04

  But just remember, there'll be some people in that crowd that are absolutely delighted you finished early.

• 17:13Speaker 05

  Exactly.

• 17:14Speaker 04

  There's always that.

• 17:15Speaker 05

  Also, I was on before Claudia Winkleman, so it was an upgrade. Get me off.

• 17:19Speaker 04

  Winkleman on.

• 17:21Speaker 05

  Get me off, get Winkleman on. That's what people are here for.

• 17:24Speaker 04

  I'm a fast starter at a corporate. You have to re, you have to put it, it's like being like playing a big club, you know, as a lower league team. You've really got to put a few reduces in early to let them know you're there.

• 17:32Speaker 05

  Could I say something for the listeners?

• 17:34Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:35Speaker 05

  As of August, we can't, I can't say what this is and Michael might edit this out. We're going to cut all of the football references on this. But if you do like the football references, they will remain in existence.

• 17:47Speaker 04

  Okay, I'll stop doing football references. It's a bit like when, um, Emma Raducanu is hitting a volley serve. I've already tried to get into Wimbledon because there's a new English guy that did well.

• 17:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, he was fit as well, wasn't he?

• 18:01Speaker 04

  I Googled him. Not my, no, not a bit of me.

• 18:04Speaker 05

  Not, no.

• 18:05Speaker 04

  Nah, he was French born.

• 18:06Speaker 05

  Different side of the tracks?

• 18:07Speaker 04

  French born, mum's French, dad runs.

• 18:10Speaker 05

  Fucking tennis players. We can't get any bits over it.

• 18:15Speaker 04

  Well, no, but and I think he's like, his dad's like a billionaire hedge fund manager and he went to internationals. So it's hard to get behind him like.

• 18:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 18:23Speaker 04

  Someone.

• 18:23Speaker 05

  Raducanu's from Bromley, isn't she?

• 18:25Speaker 04

  She's from Bromley. I've never seen her since. She's absolutely been this off. Do you know what I mean? So, you know.

• 18:30Speaker 05

  Andy Murray and Jamie Murray were proper.

• 18:34Speaker 04

  Yeah, love them too.

• 18:36Speaker 05

  Love them, love them.

• 18:38Speaker 04

  Struggled with Henman. I quite like Rosetsky actually. Um, guys, if you're worried, don't worry. We'll be doing a tennis show.

• 18:47Speaker 04

  Hey, we're just two young butts that love sport.

• 18:50Speaker 05

  Yeah. So, um, so then what happens? Yeah, we have to rush to Smiggle. Oh, no. Yeah, I get a second watch. I get a Casia.

• 19:00Speaker 04

  Got your Casia.

• 19:02Speaker 05

  And then I, I was struggling with the strap and it fell down a floorboard in my house and I couldn't reach it. I got my daughter, she's got smaller arms, but she couldn't reach it either. So it's.

• 19:12Speaker 04

  You're like, you are like, it is like, I've said this before, that comedians don't really, you, you don't really want to be a comedian. Your life is just a farce and then you report back on stage or on a podcast like. Shaun Walsh is the same. Everywhere he goes, something wrong, something goes wrong.

• 19:26Speaker 05

  I know. I know.

• 19:28Speaker 04

  But is that because we're too manic and we're stressing and running around?

• 19:32Speaker 05

  Same. A cast's life is just these wild, wild events. Do you know what I mean? It's just, it's because we're weirdos. It's because we're weirdos.

• 19:39Speaker 04

  I got in a car after, this is ruined me this week. So I was in Manchester doing eight, ten cats. But I got a car back, like driven back. It's such a long way and just I got in at four AM and it just ruined you for the like few days. Like now I'm old, I can't do, you know, you should go out drinking till four and go work the next day. Like I'm dead. So funny. I got in the car and it was a local car company, Manchester. He went, what have you been filming? And I went, uh, oh, eight, ten cats countdown. He went, I've stopped watching that since the great man Shaun Locke passed. And I was like, oh, you know, oh, yeah, no, you know, he was absolutely amazing. You're, yeah, it's brilliant. It's not the same since. I was like, okay.

• 20:20Speaker 04

  And I, he was like, what did you do on it? I was like, that's sort of, it's sort of his job actually.

• 20:27Speaker 04

  Anyway, let's, uh, sit in awkward silence for four hours.

• 20:31Speaker 05

  Thankfully I've killed the conversation.

• 20:36Speaker 05

  So then we rushed to Smiggle.

• 20:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:40Speaker 05

  Get a taxi to Smiggle, right? Cause I've promised my daughter we'll go to Smiggle before the car thing happened. We run to Smiggle, get there six minutes before closing.

• 20:51Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:52Speaker 05

  Turns out it's wrong on Google. It's six PM.

• 20:54Speaker 04

  Ah, lovely.

• 20:56Speaker 05

  Lovely. So we then stand in Smiggle for ever. Cause children can't choose anything in Smiggle.

• 21:03Speaker 04

  I'm not, I don't know if I love Smiggle.

• 21:06Speaker 05

  They were so nice. They were such a nice.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  I'm not saying the people.

• 21:09Speaker 05

  Do you know what? I'm gonna say this, Rob. The difference, I know, I'm, I know I'm boring about, about like X of E London. And I know it's unbearable.

• 21:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:18Speaker 05

  The difference in the level of service is out of this world.

• 21:23Speaker 04

  Do you think people are calmer and nicer?

• 21:25Speaker 05

  They're just more, they're not fucked off. They're like, oh, you're someone from the area and you're. So Smiggle were really nice and we went to Waterstones.

• 21:36Speaker 04

  Up in London is the kind of place where like a lorry will just smash into your car and drive off. Where Exeter, it's about caring for your fellow man.

• 21:46Speaker 04

  Isn't it? Down there in that little wonderland.

• 21:49Speaker 05

  Well, look, I don't want to tell you, I wasn't surprised when we phoned the lorry company that they didn't have a local code on their, uh.

• 21:56Speaker 04

  Oh, here he goes. You're, you've become racist to anyone that's not from Exeter. What is, what is, you're a xenophobic, Extonian. Are you an Extonian?

• 22:07Speaker 05

  And I am an Ex- well, no, an Extonian would be someone I think that went to Exeter school. Um, so.

• 22:13Speaker 04

  But if you're from Exeter, what's your name? Devonian, Devonian is Devon.

• 22:16Speaker 05

  I suppose. I don't think, yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 05

  Yeah. Um, anyway, I.

• 22:23Speaker 04

  Smiggle.

• 22:24Speaker 05

  We do Smiggle. We do Waterstones. We do Nando's.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, the big three. Then, um, got to go to.

• 22:33Speaker 04

  We're, we're actually, we're more of a, we're more of a hunky dory Pizza Express Waterstones crew. That's our top three. If, if you had to pin me to all and say, where are the three places the kids want to go, it's there.

• 22:47Speaker 05

  Yeah. Yeah. Um, also after Waterstones, it turns out my son needs a lunchbox. But he hasn't wanted to say that because he wanted to get a car from Waterstones instead. But then when I got my daughter a book and him a car, he suddenly remembered he wanted a lunchbox. So we ran back to Smiggle and made it with five minutes to spare for the six PM deadline as well. Then we go to Nando's.

• 23:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:11Speaker 05

  Lovely.

• 23:14Speaker 05

  And then we go, and then we have to go to Waitrose. He wants to get the bus to Waitrose. Two pounds fifty.

• 23:21Speaker 04

  So did you get the bus to the shops in, in the first place?

• 23:24Speaker 05

  No, we got a car because we didn't have time to get the bus, but we promised.

• 23:27Speaker 04

  Just because of the Smiggle deadline.

• 23:29Speaker 05

  We needed a load of cleaning stuff, so I did that.

• 23:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:32Speaker 05

  Then warped home, get home, Fluffball's walking funny. You've got to be fucking kidding me. This fucking cat.

• 23:42Speaker 04

  Is this the one that was panting in the heat?

• 23:44Speaker 05

  Fucking kidding me. This is her fourth trip.

• 23:48Speaker 04

  So what's, what's she been for so far?

• 23:51Speaker 05

  Panting.

• 23:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:54Speaker 05

  Uh, fight with another cat.

• 23:58Speaker 05

  And now this, plus she was returned to the vets by someone else because she was in their house while we were on holiday. And then the vets phoned us and said they got Fluffball.

• 24:09Speaker 04

  Right. Okay. So it's fourth time.

• 24:10Speaker 05

  Plus, plus she's been spayed. So that, that was a, another.

• 24:15Speaker 04

  Another trip. Yeah.

• 24:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  Well, I, I would say though, you do love a trip to an emergency room, even with your children. You loved it down there.

• 24:21Speaker 05

  We haven't been since we went to Exeter. I think it's because it's a friendly, yeah. Yeah. It's a London thing.

• 24:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

• 24:28Speaker 05

  People don't get hurt in Exeter.

• 24:30Speaker 04

  Was there any injuries in the, um, um, the, the crash?

• 24:34Speaker 05

  Get this.

• 24:35Speaker 04

  The hit and run with the lorry. No injuries.

• 24:37Speaker 05

  There's no injuries. There's no injuries. Yeah. It's quite visceral when you get hit. When a bit flies off your car, it's loud and scary.

• 24:44Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 24:47Speaker 04

  I'm not saying it's not, it is.

• 24:48Speaker 05

  No, no, no. I was just saying it, it shocks you. It's like when you fall over and it suddenly feels weird.

• 24:54Speaker 04

  Oh, I felt my hand really bad. Oh, I see that in there.

• 24:57Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Oh, what? Bloody hell.

• 24:59Speaker 04

  I was trying to do a flat pack and rather than get the right thing I needed, I was stabbing at it with a screwdriver. Snipped off, trapped in my hand.

• 25:07Speaker 05

  Oh, God. It looks like Stigmata.

• 25:10Speaker 04

  It does, doesn't it? I know I've got, it's really hard to play golf with it actually.

• 25:13Speaker 05

  Oh, no.

• 25:14Speaker 04

  So just, if you see me shanking a few out there, guys and gals.

• 25:19Speaker 04

  I'm coming back from injury. It's like Tiger Woods after one of his car crashes.

• 25:23Speaker 05

  You've not got a little glove, Rob?

• 25:24Speaker 04

  Yeah. So I had a plaster on it and a glove and it gave it a bit of protection, but I'd have a little glove. Yeah. And I wear the little glove. Always wear the little glove. I wear it for putting, which they tell me off for, the golfer boys. Yeah.

• 25:36Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, just tell them that you're a fucking renegade. You're a happy moron here.

• 25:40Speaker 04

  Anyone that's really into sport, apart from football, is a pervert. I find.

• 25:44Speaker 05

  You are.

• 25:45Speaker 04

  No, anyone that's into sport that has equipment, get a bit perverted with it. Where it's like, oh, you've got to have a real feel for it, the glove off. Or that encyclical, oh, you've got to have that lycra on you.

• 25:54Speaker 05

  I'm not a gear guy.

• 25:56Speaker 04

  No. Um, Fluffball's leg.

• 25:59Speaker 05

  So then we're like, oh, fuck, it's, it's out of hours. So our local vet, they, they don't do out of hours. So you've got to go to Crediton, which is.

• 26:09Speaker 04

  How bad's the leg at this point? Cause I'd probably.

• 26:11Speaker 05

  Well, Eddie died when her legs went.

• 26:14Speaker 04

  Right.

• 26:14Speaker 05

  Cause it shows that.

• 26:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 26:16Speaker 05

  Something's gone wrong in the thing. So we phoned them up and they're like, you should bring her in.

• 26:20Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 26:21Speaker 05

  She's unable to spring. She's walking like she's dragging her back legs.

• 26:25Speaker 04

  Okay. That's not good.

• 26:26Speaker 05

  Not good. So then I'm like, fuck, I haven't got a car. You've got to be fucking kidding me.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  Oh, my only criticism, I'd say of this story so far is it took me seven seconds to find out it was legal.

• 26:41Speaker 05

  And I, I tell you who I won't be telling. I tell you who I won't be telling. Um, my friend Lucy, who drove me to Crediton back.

• 26:49Speaker 04

  Wait, how far is that?

• 26:51Speaker 05

  Twenty five minutes each way.

• 26:52Speaker 04

  Oh, and you could have done it. Pick up Lucy.

• 26:56Speaker 05

  Yeah. So she drives me to Crediton. Fluffball's okay.

• 27:00Speaker 04

  Is it a real place? Crediton?

• 27:01Speaker 05

  What?

• 27:02Speaker 04

  So that's a real place. Yeah. So I'll just check it.

• 27:04Speaker 05

  Of course, checking. They think it's soft tissue. They're not sure. She's got, she has painkillers. She's got to have them at nine PM every evening for a week. Which makes obviously the fact that we've got people coming in to feed our cats a lot more difficult because they were going to do it at nine and five thirty. So now we've got to find someone who can come and deliver a painkiller at nine PM every evening.

• 27:26Speaker 04

  Why can't it be a bit earlier?

• 27:28Speaker 05

  We're allowed to move it forward half an hour a day. So by the end of the week.

• 27:31Speaker 04

  Oh, is that because when they got the first dose?

• 27:34Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 27:34Speaker 04

  Oh, fuck. Oh, mate, um, you could bring it forward.

• 27:40Speaker 05

  Well, not with Fluffball. It was a fucking sick note from the start. Fluffball's still dragging her legs a little bit today. And they were like, maybe if she is tomorrow, you need to bring her in. You're like, oh my God.

• 27:51Speaker 04

  So tomorrow you're going to Coolmore?

• 27:54Speaker 05

  Well, I don't know whether we will.

• 27:58Speaker 04

  Just a lay.

• 27:59Speaker 05

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

• 28:09Speaker 04

  Josh, it's time to get real. Can I tell you about some shows I've been enjoying recently?

• 28:14Speaker 05

  Please do, Rob. Hit me hard between the eyes.

• 28:17Speaker 04

  I've been watching Rivals.

• 28:20Speaker 05

  Of course you have. It's brilliant, Rob. It is absolutely brilliant.

• 28:23Speaker 04

  Well, I hadn't seen it because I started it when season two came out.

• 28:26Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:27Speaker 04

  I didn't know what to expect. Love it.

• 28:29Speaker 05

  The thing about Rivals, right, is it, you know, when it starts and there's a scene on the plane and it's like really eighties and it's funny and it's kind of camp and it's kind of kitsch.

• 28:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:40Speaker 05

  And you're like, oh, this is a bit of fun. Oh, there's some naked tennis. Do you know what I mean?

• 28:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 28:46Speaker 05

  And then it actually, because obviously Jilly Cooper is an incredible writer. It's got deep heart to it, Rob.

• 28:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, it shocked me because I thought this is just silly fun. But then I was like, why do I care so much? I'm in, they've got me.

• 29:00Speaker 05

  Well, Rob, if you're, if you're struggling with your overly emotional involvement in shows. The bear might not be for you because it's brilliant. It's emotionally involving.

• 29:11Speaker 04

  It's quite intense, isn't it?

• 29:12Speaker 05

  It captures the intensity of the kitchen so well. It's also, it's a brilliant family saga. It's soundtrack as well, absolutely hits me in the heart to the point where you know, when you watch a show.

• 29:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 29:27Speaker 05

  And I don't think I've downloaded more songs from a show, Rob, because the, the songs hit you emotionally and you're like, I'm going to listen to that again because then I'll get that emotional effect again. Do you know what I mean?

• 29:39Speaker 04

  Really?

• 29:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:40Speaker 04

  Isn't it like someone, I've not seen it yet. It's on my list, but me and Lou doing Rivals first and then doing that. Because we love, the exciting thing is me and Lou haven't watched a series for ages together because I've been touring. But I, I watched Rivals and I watched three episodes and I said, Lou, you're going to love this. I'm going to stop watching.

• 29:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:57Speaker 04

  Wait for you to catch up. We're in this together.

• 30:00Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:00Speaker 04

  Someone said though, that I'm a bit worried the bear, have you seen the Christmas, is it the Christmas episode?

• 30:05Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:06Speaker 04

  Christmas dinner episode where it's like, people say it's something stressful, bit of like intense TV.

• 30:11Speaker 05

  Well, there's an intensity, there's a breathless intensity.

• 30:13Speaker 04

  There's a bit of that in Rivals as well at points.

• 30:19Speaker 05

  It's so, it's going to be stressful. It can be tense like that. And also then some episodes are really funny. So then when you're hit with the stressful and tense ones, Rob.

• 30:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:28Speaker 05

  Maybe your guard is down. It just stays with you for, oh, man, I feel like I'm in that kitchen in Chicago right now.

• 30:35Speaker 04

  It feels like it's affected you, Josh, because you're still downloading the songs to revisit that emotion.

• 30:40Speaker 05

  Exactly, exactly. So that I can feel something more.

• 30:43Speaker 04

  You're an emotional dude, you know that?

• 30:44Speaker 05

  What I don't want people to think is that we're just looking for, you know, you know, extreme emotion. Because A, the bear's funny, but B, if you want pure laughter.

• 30:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:54Speaker 05

  Modern Family, Rob. Modern Family.

• 30:56Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:57Speaker 05

  Is the most you will laugh in whatever the length of it is, you know, those kind of 22 minute episodes or whatever they are.

• 31:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:03Speaker 05

  They are so tightly written, tightly packed. Every character is perfect.

• 31:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:07Speaker 05

  Very few shows ever made that you will laugh as much as Modern Family.

• 31:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:12Speaker 05

  Well, Rob, these are the moments that made us feel something and that's what TV is for, isn't it, Rob? And now it's your turn, listeners. What's going to get you teary? What's going to get you laughing? What's going to get you full of joy? Let us know what you've been watching on Hulu on Disney Plus in the comment section below and we could be discussing it next time, Rob.

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• 32:43Speaker 05

  We might delay it because we were meant to be picking up, cost of car hires just come in 849 pounds. Fuck my fucking life.

• 32:50Speaker 04

  Why are you getting a car from a coffee shop?

• 32:53Speaker 05

  What?

• 32:54Speaker 04

  Cost of car, con, cost of car.

• 32:55Speaker 05

  Oh no, cost of.

• 32:57Speaker 04

  Oh, I thought it was cost of cars.

• 33:01Speaker 04

  Just drive, you can drive, you'll be fine, just drive it.

• 33:06Speaker 05

  Can you drive?

• 33:08Speaker 04

  I, this is so disrespectful, Michael. He's ignoring me.

• 33:12Speaker 05

  I know, but what if I got done?

• 33:14Speaker 04

  And you just say, Rob Beckett told me on a podcast, that's your only backup.

• 33:18Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:20Speaker 05

  All right, fine, you can. I can buy, I'm going to buy one of these temporary wing mirrors now.

• 33:24Speaker 04

  Yes, do that now, so it comes in time.

• 33:26Speaker 05

  Guess what, my son, my son, we've got a new cleaner.

• 33:30Speaker 04

  Quick bit of ADHD here. Nearly got a task done.

• 33:34Speaker 05

  It's because I went on Amazon and it showed my last search.

• 33:38Speaker 04

  Go on.

• 33:39Speaker 05

  He wants a wet floor sign.

• 33:41Speaker 04

  He, he wants a wet floor sign?

• 33:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, because he's been helping our cleaner.

• 33:45Speaker 04

  Oh, and he wants to put that up once he's mopped.

• 33:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 33:48Speaker 04

  That's nice.

• 33:49Speaker 05

  He wants a mop and a wet floor sign.

• 33:50Speaker 04

  He's got, his kid's got very chilled. He likes vans and, and cleaning signs.

• 33:57Speaker 05

  I know, he's got into Lego, he's really into Lego.

• 33:59Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, he loves Lego. And all he wants to do is browse the Lego City options on, on my phone. And he's, he's like, I'm going to buy all of these. There's 74 of them. He doesn't realise how long that's going to take.

• 34:13Speaker 04

  Or the money, that's probably, that's about 200 grand, isn't it? 74 sets.

• 34:17Speaker 05

  Yeah. So there we go.

• 34:19Speaker 04

  Yeah. Anyway.

• 34:20Speaker 05

  So that's where I am.

• 34:22Speaker 04

  Older wing mirror, you're going to run out of time.

• 34:24Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I need to order it now, don't I?

• 34:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, older, why don't you just get it from a shop? And you just get it today.

• 34:31Speaker 05

  Because I can't, oh, I can drive there, yeah.

• 34:35Speaker 05

  Do you know what? I'm going to London today.

• 34:37Speaker 04

  You're going to London?

• 34:38Speaker 05

  Oh, that's the other thing.

• 34:39Speaker 04

  What? Yeah, you're going to Cornwall tomorrow?

• 34:42Speaker 05

  I know, Rob.

• 34:43Speaker 04

  Why are you going to London today?

• 34:45Speaker 05

  I'm doing one of Will Briggs's gigs.

• 34:46Speaker 04

  Right, oh, well, a festival gigs?

• 34:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 34:49Speaker 04

  Right, okay.

• 34:49Speaker 05

  I'm doing Somerset House for Will Briggs and then I'm getting a car back. So I'll get back at about half two in the morning.

• 34:57Speaker 04

  And right.

• 34:57Speaker 05

  Oh, guess what arrived?

• 34:59Speaker 04

  So I can't keep up, this is, it's an absolute rollercoaster, this.

• 35:02Speaker 05

  My head's gone, my head's gone.

• 35:05Speaker 04

  Right, so what's arrived?

• 35:07Speaker 05

  I lied to you on the last podcast because I was embarrassed, Rob.

• 35:10Speaker 04

  Go on.

• 35:12Speaker 05

  I wasn't sleeping on a mattress, I was still on the floor floor, but I just felt it was too shameful.

• 35:20Speaker 04

  So you haven't bought a mattress, you're still just on the top.

• 35:22Speaker 05

  It's arrived, it arrived yesterday.

• 35:23Speaker 04

  It arrived yesterday, so, right. And did you sleep on it last night?

• 35:27Speaker 05

  No, because I was too tired to get it out of the box.

• 35:32Speaker 04

  I, Josh, I don't think, you getting some sleep is such a big priority for you.

• 35:38Speaker 05

  I know.

• 35:39Speaker 04

  It has to be, you can't live like, this is mental. And also the irony, if you keep rent, someone said Josh keeps renting a room to do a podcast from, then goes home to sleep on the floor.

• 35:53Speaker 04

  So you're, so you're not going to get it out tonight either, are you? Because by the time you get back.

• 35:57Speaker 05

  I'll try and do it when I get home.

• 35:59Speaker 04

  You can't, you get home at three in the morning.

• 36:01Speaker 05

  No, no, when I get home from this, I've got three or four hours downtime. Yeah, but I, I wonder whether I can do that on my way to Will Briggs's gig.

• 36:09Speaker 04

  No. You can't get in a, how, you're getting the train there?

• 36:14Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:14Speaker 04

  Well, there'll be more, you're better off going to like an exit out of town Halfords place than you are in London.

• 36:20Speaker 05

  I'm in town for this.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, but no one, yeah, but you, you can go and buy.

• 36:24Speaker 05

  Halfords not do the high street?

• 36:25Speaker 04

  No, but you.

• 36:26Speaker 05

  That makes sense.

• 36:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, but Josh.

• 36:27Speaker 05

  You need to get a car there.

• 36:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, but you're, the, the, the main bits of London don't have car spares. It'll have tracksuits and handbags and watches and.

• 36:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. John Lewis won't do a wing mirror, will he?

• 36:40Speaker 04

  Nah, no. And if they did, that would be a lovely one, wouldn't it?

• 36:44Speaker 05

  Oh, it would be great. I love John Lewis.

• 36:48Speaker 05

  That was free.

• 36:48Speaker 04

  So, God, you have got a bit of a busy one. And then we've got this, what are you doing this afternoon, just travelling up?

• 36:54Speaker 04

  What are you doing now? You reading messages?

• 36:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 36:59Speaker 05

  My head's gone. My head's gone. Let's, let's deal with the wing mirror afterwards. Tell me about your stressful.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  Well, just, just order it now quickly if you want, and then it's done.

• 37:09Speaker 05

  Well, no, because I think I should go to health.

• 37:11Speaker 04

  It's definitely not going to come in time.

• 37:12Speaker 05

  Sorry. Yeah.

• 37:14Speaker 04

  Um, can I say?

• 37:14Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, because it's got to come by four P M tomorrow.

• 37:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, I've got a bit of a busy few day because the kids are in clubs today and tomorrow.

• 37:21Speaker 05

  I've got bad news for you on clubs.

• 37:23Speaker 04

  Go on.

• 37:24Speaker 05

  I've been talking to some people who've got eleven and twelve year olds, Rob.

• 37:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:28Speaker 05

  They don't do clubs anymore.

• 37:29Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 37:31Speaker 05

  So this is your last summer of clubs.

• 37:33Speaker 04

  I've got a ten and a half year old and she's loving it.

• 37:36Speaker 05

  Give it a year. She'll be too cool for clubs.

• 37:38Speaker 04

  Well, it, it depends on the clubs. They don't like ones where it's like loads of different things and random kids, but they like ones that are like, if it's one thing they're really into.

• 37:48Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 37:48Speaker 04

  And they've got mates that are slightly different. But those, I, I never liked those. I think they were called buzz camps when I was a kid, where you basically turn up and it's like, right, we're doing rounders now. Oh, now we're doing painting. You know, they're trying to.

• 37:59Speaker 05

  I didn't get put in those and I would have hated it.

• 38:01Speaker 04

  We only did it once and I didn't like it, so.

• 38:03Speaker 05

  I'm a lone wolf, really.

• 38:05Speaker 04

  You're a lone wolf?

• 38:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, Lone Ranger.

• 38:09Speaker 05

  I'm a lone, yeah, I'm a gun for hire.

• 38:11Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, but I wouldn't say you present as a lone wolf, like the, the jobs you do.

• 38:18Speaker 04

  Like, you like, everything you do is like an ensemble.

• 38:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, I do like that.

• 38:22Speaker 04

  Yeah, like last leg, this.

• 38:24Speaker 05

  I'm a lone wolf that likes working with other people.

• 38:27Speaker 04

  But even when, yeah, yes, yeah. And then strictly, I wouldn't say that's a lone wolf kind of presenter job.

• 38:31Speaker 05

  That's not a lone wolf job. Also, when I'm poor, I like to have a support, otherwise I feel too lonely. But apart from that, I'm a lone wolf.

• 38:37Speaker 04

  Oh, can I say something that makes me sound like a boomer?

• 38:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:41Speaker 04

  I'm a little bit annoyed about the sort of heatwave stuff, like.

• 38:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:46Speaker 04

  I know it's a very hot summer and there's been heatwaves and I accept this climate change. This is not a climate change denier. But I'm.

• 38:52Speaker 05

  Thank God for that.

• 38:52Speaker 04

  I'm at the point of going, well, look, it's getting too hot. It's an absolute nightmare. It looks like there's nothing we can do. Let's just put aircon everywhere.

• 39:01Speaker 05

  Right.

• 39:02Speaker 04

  That's my, my, my, my answer to that is accept your fate. It's well too hot. Let's just at least make our eventual demise cooler on the way out.

• 39:10Speaker 05

  Right, okay.

• 39:11Speaker 04

  And even if it cuts off twenty years of the world's life, at least we won't be sweating for the next hundred or eighty years.

• 39:17Speaker 05

  The Acast, I remember Acast saying to me, the world will be fine. It's humanity that will die. The world will recover once we all die.

• 39:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. So that's a good way to look at it.

• 39:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:28Speaker 04

  So I think sort of aircon, because the news.

• 39:30Speaker 05

  I disagree with you, but it's not worth getting into.

• 39:33Speaker 04

  What, what, you disagree with what? Putting aircon in everywhere?

• 39:35Speaker 05

  I do think we should try and fight climate change.

• 39:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, but how do you do that?

• 39:40Speaker 05

  Well, I don't think this is the format.

• 39:43Speaker 04

  Why not?

• 39:45Speaker 04

  Well, it's the way to do it. No, but I'm genuinely interested. Is that recycling helping?

• 39:49Speaker 05

  Well, I think it has to, my view.

• 39:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, go on.

• 39:53Speaker 05

  It has to be.

• 39:53Speaker 04

  Because I need a view. I haven't got one so far. If yours is good, I'll. But if yours is better than the one I just had, I'll have your view.

• 40:00Speaker 05

  Well, I think it has to be done at a, a higher governmental level.

• 40:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, me too.

• 40:05Speaker 05

  It's, it's not, it's not down to Rob Beckett.

• 40:09Speaker 04

  No.

• 40:10Speaker 05

  Do you know, Sean Lott used to have a good routine. If you don't remember Sean Lott.

• 40:14Speaker 04

  I'll tell you who'd you like, my cab driver.

• 40:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, he used to be so good on eight out of ten cabs before it went downhill. But anyway, right?

• 40:25Speaker 05

  About washing up his marmite jar while China's factories are just pumping stuff into the sky, you know what I mean? So I think it's, the guilt is not on me or you or us.

• 40:37Speaker 04

  No.

• 40:37Speaker 05

  The guilt is on governments who need to all come together to fight this thing together. And maybe we need to pressure them to do so.

• 40:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 40:45Speaker 05

  But, um, I think.

• 40:47Speaker 04

  We shouldn't worry. But then in the meantime, in the meantime, can the government put some more aircon in places?

• 40:54Speaker 05

  Where, where are you looking?

• 40:55Speaker 04

  Um, public schools, um.

• 40:57Speaker 05

  Yes, I think that'd be good.

• 40:58Speaker 04

  Public buildings, hospitals.

• 41:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think that'd be good.

• 41:01Speaker 04

  Stuff like that would be nice, wouldn't it?

• 41:03Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:03Speaker 04

  Anyway.

• 41:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 41:05Speaker 04

  But no, but it just annoyed me because on the news, there was, they went, the fourth heatwave will hit next week. And I was like, oh, blimey, okay, right. So I looked at my phone.

• 41:12Speaker 05

  Fourth?

• 41:13Speaker 04

  That's, yeah, yeah, but Josh.

• 41:14Speaker 05

  It seems to have gone the whole way through.

• 41:16Speaker 04

  But Josh, I looked at it. It was twenty five all week, but Wednesday was thirty two. That's not a heatwave. That's one hot day.

• 41:23Speaker 05

  How's your grass?

• 41:24Speaker 04

  Fucked.

• 41:25Speaker 05

  My grass is, uh, right off.

• 41:28Speaker 04

  My, it, it honestly looks like someone's.

• 41:30Speaker 05

  Will it ever come back from this? It's actually raining outside at the moment.

• 41:34Speaker 04

  It looks like someone set fire to Harland's pubes, my grass. Sorry, apologies for the foot.

• 41:44Speaker 04

  But yeah, um.

• 41:45Speaker 05

  So tell me what's happening.

• 41:46Speaker 04

  So the kids, the kids are in clubs. Who's gone away working overnight? She's at, uh, festival. To do a talk. Yeah. And then when she's come back from festival, we are going to France and Germany for a little road trip.

• 42:01Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  Um, so she's away. So today, the kids have been dropped off, but I've got filming this afternoon. I booked in a golf filming day with Tom Davis. And.

• 42:11Speaker 05

  Right.

• 42:11Speaker 04

  There's a babysitter coming to pick the girls up to bring them back home because I'll be home about sevenish. So I won't be able to get them from the club. Then tomorrow's a big day because I'm not working, but I've got to get the kids to their club thing and they've got a performance in the evening. So I've got to drop them off in the morning, but I've got to drop them off with packed lunches made and also two outfits. One needs to be dressed as someone from Star Trek. One needs to be dressed as a builder. The other one also needs to be dressed as a scientist and the other one is just in sort of black leggings.

• 42:40Speaker 05

  So what the fuck? No, no disrespect to the club. What the fuck is the club?

• 42:44Speaker 04

  Uh, it's like a musical theatre club. So it's like, they're doing some sort of performance.

• 42:48Speaker 05

  How are you getting these outfits?

• 42:50Speaker 04

  Well, there's some in the bedrooms that we can repurpose. Also, coming from Amazon is a lab coat and a builder's helmet and a cape because one's got to be Star Wars, one's got to be Ray from Star Wars. Anyway. So tomorrow morning, I've got to make sure they've got all their costumes, all the packed lunches done, take them to the club. I've also got to take the dogs to the kennels for when we go on holiday. Then I've got my.

• 43:10Speaker 05

  They're so much more trouble than cats.

• 43:11Speaker 04

  They are. Um, and then I've got my, I've got a dentist and then I've got to speak, go and speak to a builder. Then I've got to get the car cleaned and.

• 43:18Speaker 05

  Do you not delay the dentist, Rob?

• 43:20Speaker 04

  I've delayed the dentist like two years, but I, I, I accept that. What is it? Is, I could, ah, I just don't know when I'm going to go again and I just think I've got, I just want to get checked out. But that, that is where the buffer could be created. And I'm actually considering it now.

• 43:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:39Speaker 04

  I don't want to be that guy that moves it last minute.

• 43:41Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:42Speaker 04

  Anyway, um, but should I move it?

• 43:45Speaker 05

  Dentists, I'll be honest, they always fill those slots because people are desperate to go to the dentist.

• 43:52Speaker 04

  Oh, God, now I'm looking at my phone during a podcast.

• 43:54Speaker 05

  That's all right.

• 43:55Speaker 04

  Because that would be really helpful because I could drop the dogs and I could come back, do all that. I could, because I need to.

• 43:59Speaker 05

  Don't do the dentist. The dentist.

• 44:00Speaker 04

  No, because I've got a pack.

• 44:01Speaker 05

  You're not in pain.

• 44:02Speaker 04

  Yeah. No.

• 44:04Speaker 05

  You can just.

• 44:04Speaker 04

  Lose going away. So lose away. So I'm packing all the stuff for holiday.

• 44:09Speaker 05

  Don't, don't go to the dentist.

• 44:10Speaker 04

  No, I need to cancel the dentist. Don't I move it? If you're listening, dentist, I apologize, but I've overcommitted.

• 44:16Speaker 05

  That counts as cancelling it if you're listening.

• 44:17Speaker 04

  Yeah. Okay, yeah. So I'm going to, I'm going to reschedule that. I'm going to, you know what? I'm, I'm sorry. I'm going to do that now. Just quickly.

• 44:25Speaker 05

  What?

• 44:25Speaker 04

  What?

• 44:26Speaker 05

  You're going to phone the dentist?

• 44:27Speaker 04

  I'm not going to phone the dentist. I was going to email the dentist back. I says, unmand automated email. Oh, my God. I'll ring them up.

• 44:33Speaker 05

  You might need to phone the dentist.

• 44:36Speaker 04

  Uh, uh, shall I ring them now?

• 44:38Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:38Speaker 04

  Okay. It's just not a good podcast. I'll do it in a minute.

• 44:41Speaker 05

  It's all right because I'm putting on a, um.

• 44:44Speaker 04

  I, I'll, I'll call them after this recall because we're nearly done. Remind me to do that, guys. Yeah, I'm going to do that because that's what that gives me. If I can drop the kids off and the dogs, then, because also, Josh, after I see the builder in the afternoon, I've then got to get back to the, to the club to watch their show at half four and then I've got to bring them back. Um, yeah, so I think the dentist has got to go to free up some buffer.

• 45:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:06Speaker 04

  And reschedule it.

• 45:08Speaker 05

  It's.

• 45:08Speaker 04

  Unnecessary.

• 45:09Speaker 05

  Summer holiday, right? A, you know, I don't know how people do it that have a proper job, that they can't shunt around. Because we're shunting stuff around. We're recording extra podcasts this week. We're doing stuff like, you know, we're not having guests or whatever.

• 45:26Speaker 04

  We're lucky that we've got a bit of control over the right amount of times of stuff or what we're doing.

• 45:30Speaker 05

  I'm doing stuff like I'm doing this gig and then I'm just getting back and then it's, you know. But like yesterday I was free, but like it's when you go on holiday, you have to get so much done. It's like, my agent's going on holiday next week and she's just so like, having to like go, Josh, would you want a car for this thing on August the thirteenth or whatever now? Do you know what I mean? Because you have to get all of your work done.

• 45:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 45:59Speaker 05

  Before you go on holiday. And so it's not just that you've got the kids, but you're trying to do twice the work in half the time.

• 46:07Speaker 04

  Well, I, that's why I booked it all in this week because they were in clubs. I've over, I've overbooked myself really. So I'm going to move the dentist and then that'll free me up so that I know that once they're dropped off, I can come home, get all their stuff packed before I come back out again.

• 46:20Speaker 05

  The next episode, which is about Rob's toothache in Germany when he had to pay to have a tooth removed by a German dentist.

• 46:28Speaker 04

  I'm going to move it to next, the, the week after, whenever, oh, fuck, I don't know. But yeah.

• 46:33Speaker 05

  How about now?

• 46:34Speaker 04

  No, I'll phone him at the end because we're doing this.

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• 48:13Speaker 04

  Oh, this is a funny, do you want to hear this? This is a funny message from my mum. Yeah. So I said, do they want to come up and see the show that we did? The kids doing, sorry.

• 48:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 48:25Speaker 04

  And I said, do you want to come and watch this during the end of, end of club show? And my mum replied, this really made me laugh. Do you want to, I say, girls are in a show at four o'clock on Friday. If you want to come and watch. She says, would love to, but going out with Karen and Paul for dinner and Elvis impersonator at the casino, definitely next time.

• 48:48Speaker 05

  She's really knocking out the big, big impersonator. She did Sheeran last week. She's doing the absolute.

• 48:55Speaker 04

  She loves to.

• 48:55Speaker 05

  The streamers, one impersonator at a time.

• 48:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, she loves, she absolutely loves it.

• 49:02Speaker 05

  Go sit, Taylor Swift impersonator, the weekend impersonator.

• 49:06Speaker 04

  The weekend. I don't think she's a weekend fan, my, my mum.

• 49:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, but she's not.

• 49:11Speaker 04

  So doing that, what else have we got? That's it, really?

• 49:14Speaker 05

  You sent me a picture I haven't been allowed to look at.

• 49:16Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, have a look at it now. Basically, I'll tell you what it is first.

• 49:19Speaker 05

  It's one of our socials.

• 49:20Speaker 04

  Weirdly, on my computer, it changes the back, the backdrop, the wallpaper with like a random photos. Normally it's like a beautiful scenery scene, but I didn't know it had done this. And I looked up and I shat my pants because it's right by my window.

• 49:36Speaker 04

  And it's a giant budgie on a cactus, but it's been zoomed in, but I shit myself because it looks like a giant bird's about to attack me.

• 49:45Speaker 05

  Oh, my God.

• 49:47Speaker 04

  Oh, my Lord.

• 49:47Speaker 05

  This is a lovely image of my chin as well.

• 49:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, just you setting up your camera.

• 49:52Speaker 05

  Did you see, have you seen my camera set up for today, Rob?

• 49:55Speaker 04

  No.

• 49:55Speaker 05

  I'll pop that on the Instagram.

• 49:56Speaker 04

  Have you, we've done well with putting stuff on Instagram, actually.

• 49:59Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 49:59Speaker 04

  Are you enjoying the summer? Yogurt again.

• 50:03Speaker 05

  Yogurt upside down, cup.

• 50:04Speaker 04

  How was the yogurt and the milk after they were cold and it got hot?

• 50:09Speaker 05

  So the milk was all right, but then, full disclosure, when I came to come to pack my bag for today.

• 50:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 50:17Speaker 05

  I did find two pints of milk in my bag that had been sat there for three days. So I had to pour them.

• 50:22Speaker 04

  It's good to set that to your camera.

• 50:25Speaker 05

  Do you want to see what our wing mirror looks like, Rob?

• 50:29Speaker 05

  And it, and it will give you a feeling for how, how dirty our car is as well. Because that's something I haven't got around to doing.

• 50:36Speaker 04

  I need, I need to get my car's disgusting, it's actually disgusting. To the point where people are commenting on it.

• 50:41Speaker 05

  These are all great things for the socials. Get on the socials.

• 50:43Speaker 04

  Oh, that's your wing mirror. Oh, no, that is really gone, that, isn't it? Oh, and it's like an electrical one as well, so they're more expensive.

• 50:49Speaker 05

  No wonder they're fucking coming from Germany.

• 50:51Speaker 04

  Your car's horrendous. It looks like it's been abandoned.

• 50:53Speaker 05

  I know. I know. Do you know the worst thing about the wing mirror?

• 50:56Speaker 04

  What's that?

• 50:58Speaker 05

  I looked at it and before taking the photo, I had to clear the cobwebs off the wing mirror.

• 51:01Speaker 04

  You should have left it a couple, mate. You know who you are.

• 51:05Speaker 04

  Will you ever get another car, do you think?

• 51:06Speaker 05

  Michael, here's an idea.

• 51:08Speaker 04

  Okay. You are real ADHD vibes today. I've enjoyed it.

• 51:13Speaker 05

  Michael, you there?

• 51:13Speaker 07

  I'm, I'm ready, I'm braced.

• 51:15Speaker 05

  When we do those pictures, should we be flashing them up on the, on the video version?

• 51:22Speaker 07

  I can tell someone doesn't watch the show back.

• 51:26Speaker 04

  Has that happened already?

• 51:27Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 51:30Speaker 05

  Great work, great work.

• 51:31Speaker 04

  Oh, so basically, well done, Michael.

• 51:33Speaker 05

  Well done, Michael. Step ahead.

• 51:37Speaker 04

  Michael, that, that, how do you feel about how little we know what's going on?

• 51:41Speaker 07

  I love the level of trust that we have in each other.

• 51:44Speaker 04

  Yes, that's what it is.

• 51:45Speaker 05

  But it would be weird if I was watching the show back.

• 51:48Speaker 04

  Oh, God. Yes, to a small business. What we got, what we got? Hi, Rob, Josh and Sexy Michael. I love to nominate my father-in-law Brendan for a small business shout out. He's opening Anytime Golf Limited in Chad, South Somerset.

• 52:03Speaker 05

  Somerset.

• 52:04Speaker 04

  Yep. On the first of August. It's a two bay Trackman Virtual Golf Suite, giving golfers a chance to play and practise whatever the weather. You can find him at Facebook at Anytime Golf Limited. Rob, this has your name written all over it. If you're ever down visiting Josh and Exeter, you're more than welcome to pop over and give it a go. Thanks for all the laughs. Keep it sexy, relatable.

• 52:24Speaker 05

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• 53:25Speaker 04

  What, what was it you said? Flexology?

• 53:27Speaker 05

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• 53:29Speaker 04

  Flexo logy. Flexology.

• 53:33Speaker 05

  Flexo logy.

• 53:35Speaker 04

  Josh, I'll see you next time. Hopefully you get your wing mirror sorted and apologies bit all over the place. It's just, yeah, stretched when you've got the kids.

• 53:42Speaker 05

  Apology.

• 53:44Speaker 04

  Oh, sorry. That 4am has fucked me up this week.

• 53:48Speaker 05

  Still catching up with you.

• 53:49Speaker 04

  Still catching me up. Right, Josh, I'll see you next time.

• 53:52Speaker 05

  See you next time.