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Hello, I'm Josh Whitacombe.
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And I'm Rob Beckett.
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Welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell. The show in which Rob
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and I discuss what it's like to be a parent
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during lockdown, which I would say can be a little tricky.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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So, in an effort to make some kind of sense
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of the current situation... And to.
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Make me feel better about my increasingly terrible parenting skills.
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Each episode we'll be chatting to a famous parent about
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how well they're coping.
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Or hopefully not.
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And we will be hearing from you, the listener, with
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your tales of lockdown parenting woe.
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Because, let's be honest, none of us know what we're doing.
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Hello, and you are listening to Lockdown Parenting Hell with.
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OK, so Rob Beckett... Rob Beckett.
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And Josh Whittacombe.
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And Josh Whittacombe.
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Close enough.
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Do you know who that is?
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No.
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Is that very well spoken for what is supposed to
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be a child?
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That is Malcolm, who is Agnes' dad.
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No way!
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An actual Malcolm! Oh, no, sorry, sorry.
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That is Gavin, who is Agnes' dad. Uncle Malcolm was unavailable.
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I mean, yeah, I didn't want him to drive for it.
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Imagine that. Guys, you've got to come round here.
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Well, I thought he'd be really Scottish.
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I thought he'd be really....
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So that is Agnes, who obviously sent us the photo
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of Gavin and Malcolm.
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Yes.
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Still listening to the podcast, very much enjoying it. Uncle
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Mal was unavailable, but attached is a voice memo from
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me and Gav. He is dead chuffed about this whole thing.
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A greater achievement than his medical degree.
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Wow. Gav and Malcolm.
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I love that you thought they were posh when they
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just had a completely nondescript voice. Anyone that doesn't sound
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like Ray Winston, you consider to be the queen? Anyway, Rob. Yes, sir.
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That is Gavin and Malcolm.
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Good to have them on.
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Apparently we asked for the names of the rest of
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her family. Her mum is called Gina and her sister
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is called Ellen.
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Ellen.
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So there you go. The good news is that she
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says that she is happy for us to put up
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the photo of Gavin and Malcolm on our Instagram. So
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that can go up.
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Send that over and I'll do that, Josh.
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Yeah.
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Well, that's great. It's great. Also, it's been a, I am,
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I don't know if you're picking this up, guys. I
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am full of beans. I am high on life. Can
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you get that?
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You're getting that, Josh?
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I am.
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I'm just closing down my WhatsApp because it's beeping on
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my laptop. Yes, I am away or full of beans
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and high on life. But that's your calling card, Rob,
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isn't it?
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Well, yes, but.
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But for once, it's not a mask. It's the real you.
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It's the real me.
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It is my calling card, but sometimes, and the last
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two weeks of summer holidays, was having to put on
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that mask, Josh, because things were tough. But my daughter,
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the eldest, Malcolm, started school this week.
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Primary school, five days a week.
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Also, mate, I didn't realise it, but the school run
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can literally make or break your life.
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This is what I've realised.
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If you've got a short school run, your life's just better.
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Our school run is a five-minute walk. Yes. That's a
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10-minute round trip. Some people are driving 20 minutes, Josh.
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Yeah, I am. Are you? Off the nursery, yeah.
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That's a 40-minute round trip there, 40-minute round trip back.
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Yeah. Yeah, that's good for you, isn't it? You're in
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your house at 3.25 and
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then you're at the gate
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or whatever it is.
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Well, the drop-off's mental as well. It's any time, 8.35,
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they have to be there, right?
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Or it's like late, yeah?
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But any time between 8 and 8.35, you can drop
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them off.
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Lovely window.
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So what are they doing in that? What are they
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doing for that 35 minutes?
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Outside play.
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I think it's to be flexible for people working, like
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if you're getting into town or what, so it's a
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bit earlier.
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There is also like preschool clubs.
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Tell you what. 8.35 is an early start.
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Well, yeah, and then they finish at 3.20.
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Blimey, I was at 9 o'clock in high school. Was it?
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They're getting 25 minutes extra learning.
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Well, I think they just sort of stood outside playing.
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But I just would quite like to know, I think
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we should do shortest and longest school runs on it.
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Because I think a five-minute walk is short, but I'm
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sure there's people closer.
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Do you know what? You don't want to be too close,
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do you? There was someone at my school, they lived
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next door to the school. Oh. And it was a
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bit weird. What did? You know what I mean? I
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always thought it was a bit weird that they lived
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next door. So you'd see their parents like coming and
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going and like... I don't want to... When I leave
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my house... see my child over a wall when they're
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at school.
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No, you don't want to be able to see them
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from your window. No. That is too close.
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You want to pretend they don't exist.
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Yes. I had a really, really bad thought, Josh. Can
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I tell you this? I don't want you to judge me.
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I don't want our listeners to judge me.
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Okay.
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So I dropped off the four-year-old at primary school at
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like half eight, 20 past
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a quick cup of tea, and then dropped the other
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one off at preschool at 9 a.m. And I walked back, right?
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And she's 10, 15 minute walk. So quarter past nine,
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I'm back in my house, right? Got to go anywhere
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till three o'clock. And as I was walking back, I
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was like, oh my God, it's finally happened. I've just
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got them out of the house for the day, three o'clock.
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And then I thought to myself, how do you feel
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if indoors was like a three month old baby, right?
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Like we'd gone for the third and I.
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Was nearly physically sick.
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You know that physically, like if someone shows you a
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horrible picture or someone mentioned, you know, some people don't
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like toenails being or whatever or fingers breaking.
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I was like, oh God, the thought now. I'd have
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nothing left to give, Josh.
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Nothing left in the tank. So are you saying that
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three would be almost impossible, Rob? Can I read you
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an email? Yes, please. So, you know, we were talking
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about distances between the children.
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Age gaps, yeah?
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Age gaps. Distance.
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She's downstairs. We've got quite a weird sort of living room.
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So we'll do more of these on Friday because there's
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some astonishing ones. So this is from William Radford. I
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was listening to the Joe Brand episode and thought maybe
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my mum could beat Macy Gray's kids reproduction record. I
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forgot that it's Macy Gray. Maybe we should have a
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bit of Macy Gray underneath these when we discuss them.
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I'm born on the 1st of June 1995. My brother
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was born on the 1st of June 1996. Oh To
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top this off, a year and a half older than me,
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21st December 1993, is my sister. So that is three
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kids in two and a half years.
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Oh, my Lord.
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I was listening to your podcast, and I understand why
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my parents might have been a little stressed while we
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were growing up, Will.
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Do you know what?
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I'd love the picture of the parents before the first
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one was born, and then, like, six times into the
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third one.
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It'd be like, you know when you see Tony Blair
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when he got in?
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And he was like, yeah, I play the guitar. And what?
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Let's go. I want to see a sit down and shit.
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And then after that, the war in Iraq. He just,
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this big grey mess.
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Or just, or just Matt Hancock at the start and
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end of this year.
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Oh, it's just two pieces of a c * *
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t that is.
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I'm sorry.
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Sorry, we shouldn't get political on this programme, but if
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you like... No, I don't think that.
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Bleep the word you said so people can put their
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own judgement on it.
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They can decide. They can make their own mind up.
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There's people at home going, bloody hell, I agree back.
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He's a legend, mate.
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Strange, isn't it, to bleep political legend up there with Mandela?
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What a weird sentence to bleep out.
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Anyway, three kids... Oh, God, that.
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Is good going, though.
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They basically got pregnant when the baby was three months old,
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12 weeks after the birth.
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Well, we've got more from... We'll call the feature I Try,
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because that's the name of the Macy Gross.
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I mean, that must have been the first time they
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had sex after, surely.
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Well, if you think that's mad, Rob... Yeah. Wait till Friday.
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I've got some emails for you.
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Okay, all right. All right, okay.
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So, if you want to get in touch with distance to...
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Also on Friday, I'll tell you about my play date
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that I set up. Yes.
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So.
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If you want to get in touch
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and shortest distances you take your children to school, no
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one who's like sent their children to that Scottish boarding
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school that Prince Charles went to or anything. Like you
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have to take them every day.
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Yeah, like Hong Kong. What a commute that is, 10 hours. Josh,
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I need to say this about the school thing, yeah?
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I've already seen an impact in behaviour from the four-year-old, okay?
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What, she's got better?
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She's got better, right? But just like, To the point, actually,
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almost too polite, yeah? So I was reading a bedtime
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story to the two girls, and you're normally reading, and
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they go, oh, look, the two-year-old's eyes are a dinosaur.
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Look, it's out. And then doing that, and I thought, gosh,
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she's being quiet. And then I turned around. She sat
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there on the bed with her hand in the air,
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waiting to be asked.
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And I just, I literally couldn't, it felt like someone
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had possessed my daughter.
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But this is a thing that happened. My friend, he,
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so his daughter went to nursery. And he thought, she
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was about two and a half, whatever. And he thought,
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she's so well, I'm doing such a good job with
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my daughter. And then he went to the like parents
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evening thing. And suddenly he realized that every good thing
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she did was done by nursery. He's done none of
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the job.
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But he's a facilitator. He picked that place. He's a delegator.
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So as soon as he saw how she behaved and
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how the teachers treated her, he was like, oh, that's
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why she's a nice child.
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Do you know what? I've nailed this parenting when I
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don't spend any time with them. The less I'm with them,
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the better they are as people.
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God, I'm good.
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This is how you get in touch.
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Email us hello at lockdownparenting.co.uk or tweet us at lockdownparents
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Right, Rob, who have we got today?
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We have got Matthew Crosby.
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A comedian member of sketch group Pappies.
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Got Radio X show with Ed Gamble.
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Yep comedy writer he writes on loads of comedy shows he's.
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A good man as well Matt Crosby He's a good man.
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South London. South London, isn't he?
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He's South London massive. Southeast London massive. He's a new dad.
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You'll find out what is through this. It was a
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Very positive. Very positive man.
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Very positive.
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In what is a very sort of Semi-difficult working situation
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at home, isn't it? Which you'll find out in that
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one bed flat of a kid and his wife.
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think is going to be the biggest feature we ever
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do on the show. So that is something to look
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forward to.
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I mean, he basically invented a feature for us, didn't.
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He, really? He invented a feature for us.
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What a man.
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Enjoy.
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This is Matthew Crosby.
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Hello, Crosby.
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All right. How's it going?
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Good. How are you?
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I'm really well, thanks very much. Thanks for having me
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on the show.
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Now, you were just telling us that there's a, There's
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a certain reason why you're very excited to be on this. Well,
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you didn't say you were very excited, actually.
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No, I never said that at all. You put those
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words into my mouth.
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I mean, Crosby, it's assumed. We're doing numbers, Gruff. We're
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doing numbers.
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This is a real Frost-Nixon type scenario. You've painted me
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into a corner here where I said a thing before
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we started recording. You went, oh, let's talk about that.
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And now you've said, oh, Crosby's really excited to be
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on the podcast.
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I've never said any such thing.
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I'll be honest. I've absolutely, yeah. I'm hoping that it
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wasn't recording when you said the thing so that we
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can't trace it back and see quite how badly I misquoted.
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I don't think anyone's ever been excited to do this podcast,
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but I think at the end they go, Joe, that
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was all right.
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That's what I'm hoping for. Yeah.
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To walk away going, I didn't completely waste my time.
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I think the feeling of doing a podcast really is neutral,
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followed by thinking, would I prefer to watch TV? And
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I suppose we'll see how that comes out, Crosby. We'll
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ask at the end. Ask me at the end. Yeah.
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I was going to say, you did say your wife, Charlie,
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and mother of your child?
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Correct. Let's get that all sorted. Is a big fan
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of the show, you said. Huge fan. Huge fan. Yeah, yeah.
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Never misses an episode. Loves it.
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So if you hadn't been on this, would you have
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been sat there while she listened to it? Is that
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basically the.
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Well, if one of us is in the kitchen, then...
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yeah so if she was if she was in the
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kitchen i was gonna say if she was in the
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kitchen cooking which makes it seem like i just sit
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there not in the kitchen while she does all the
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cooking which is not the case at all i do
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lots of the cooking in the house but it's uh
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yeah i definitely hear it while i was sort of
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tidying up the other room or whatever so but i
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have listened to you know i've listened to some episodes
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but i'm not i'm not leaping for joy out the
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window to you know to be on.
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The podcast i'm very delighted.
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I'm very delighted does rose listen to the podcast still.
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Yeah, Rose does listen to the podcast.
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Lou's tapped out.
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Has she tapped out?
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Episode four.
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Four episodes. I mean, that's barely at all, is it? Oh, no, nothing.
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Hardly anything.
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I think last time Rose watched The Last Leg, it
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was still the 2012 Paralympics.
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That's most of the country, though, Josh, to be fair.
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She's also tapped out of my 90s football podcast, which
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I find hard to believe.
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I can tell you now I've not even listened to
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the episode I was on of your 90s football podcast.
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Crosby, do you feel like the pressure's on though now?
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Because obviously, can we talk about your child? And will
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your wife have questions for you and pull you up
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on stuff? Are you worried that what you're going to
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say may be back into your face?
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Yeah, you know, you said you're very excited. I'm actually,
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I'm shitting myself about being on this podcast. I'm the
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same way. You know, I do a radio show with
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Ed Gamble. And Charlie used to listen to the podcast
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of that. But, I mean, that sort of fell away
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during breastfeeding. Once she stopped breastfeeding, I think a lot
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of people must feel this when you stop breastfeeding. The
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amount of podcasts you listen to goes right off, you know,
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just disappears and it just falls off a cliff. So
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she now just listens to like the first bit of
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the radio show.
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So not all of it.
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And it's only a matter of time before, you know,
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she's tuning into Radio 2 on a Sunday morning.
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It really is. Um, Crosby, do you want to give
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us your situation then? What your parenting situation is?
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So parenting situation is, um, well, we have a 13
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and a half month old daughter.
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Oh, you're going the half month? Yeah. She's 13 and
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a half months.
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Wow. I would have gone for about a year, but
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that's impressive. She's 30.
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Well, yeah, it's her, it's her birthday on the 12th.
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so what are we now we're on the first so
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yes and a half yeah yeah i mean why not
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disputing it no no i'm just i'm just making sure
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i was getting it right but um yeah um i
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will tell you now before this is this is amazing
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just before i was giving her a bath and charlie
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did come in and go by the way don't forget
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eight months at the start of lockdown 13 and a
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half months now so she's she's prepped me for this
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I'm not just pulling these figures out of my back pocket.
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Charlie sat me down and gone, right, you're going on
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my favourite podcast.
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I want accuracy.
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So she's like a kind of Alistair Campbell figure to
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your Tony Blair, kind of feeding you the info.
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I'm not going to lie to you, I'm wearing an earpiece.
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either your child is very advanced or very behind, because
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that's the kind of thing a parent says if they're like,
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she's 13 and a half months and she's, like, cooking
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dinner and doing, like, a handstand or something, or is
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still just, like, throwing one ball in the corner.
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Do you know what I mean? So, like, I'm not
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sure what side we're falling on.
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You never, I mean, you don't want to be the
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kind of parent that goes, actually, nursery says she's advanced,
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but nursery have said she's advanced.
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LAUGHTER I am that kind of parent. I knew it.
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Of course you did. Of course you could smell the
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blood in the water there, couldn't you?
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You could tell. I can tell something's up. Something's up here.
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This kid is counting to 15 already and Matt Crosby
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wants people to know about it.
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13 and a half months.
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Actually, you can count higher months than her age. She's advanced. Oh,
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that's good though. It's nice to have an advanced child.
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Well done.
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She's so advanced that when Charlie came in and said
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eight months at the start of lockdown, your daughter corrected
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her and said it was seven and a half.
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Is she walking yet, Crosby? Well, here's the thing. Oh,
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not that. One of them clever sitters. One of them
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clever ones. But you know what? Here's the thing.
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I think with walking, you get to a certain level
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and you stick with it, right?
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With talking, you can get better and better and better,
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you know? Yeah, yeah.
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You could become, you know, she could become a great orator.
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But no one's going to pay money to watch someone
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just walk around a stage.
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They come to my shows. Fair enough. I get what
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you're saying, though. I think there's sometimes people in a
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rush for their kids to walk. I reckon by the
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time you get to seven, eight. you've got walking down, right?
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That's as good as you're ever going to get at walking.
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Unless you become a pro athlete and one of those
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sort of speed walkers or something.
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She could be one of those speed walkers. So you're
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already giving up on her dream of being a speed walker.
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That's the first profession that you've crossed off.
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I think unless you're walking by 10 months, you're never
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becoming a speed walker.
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Speed roller, maybe. Speed crawler, certainly, but never a speed walker.
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I mean, you won't, Cosby, because I know you despise
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football and all of its things, but you'll see footage
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of Lionel Messi at two and he's amazing. Do you
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think there's little kids walking at pace up and down
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the kitchen? Who then go on to be Olympic walkers.
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I think, I just don't, you know, as well, we
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don't have the floor space. Oh, that's the other thing
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I should say about my situation is we are in a,
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because we were just about
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our flat just before lockdown. Lockdown happened. We didn't have
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another place to move into. So we've been in our
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flat since. We're in a one bedroom flat. So that is, yeah,
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it's tough.
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All in the same room.
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All in the same room at 13 and a half months.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you what. And how is that?
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I suppose you don't know any different.
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Yeah, but I do because 30 and a half months ago,
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I didn't have a baby.
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So I do know slightly different. Yeah.
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I don't want to be that guy, but can I
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tell you when my kids started walking?
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I don't have to turn this into Top Trumps. No,
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go on.
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I think it feeds into your thought process about the
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smaller space. because our eldest started walking at 10 months,
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which is quite early. We moved in a smaller flat,
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and then we moved to a bigger house with a garden.
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The second one started walking at nine months.
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So is that science? I think that's an experiment there.
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It's certainly a small sample size.
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What that also suggests, Rob, is that even in your
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small flat, you're still in a bigger flat than me.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's come out a bit braggy.
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I know you're doing all right. I know you're doing
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all right. Look, I don't want to show off, but
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I had a two-bedroom flat once. I've never had a
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two-bedroom flat. That was just part of my life, okay?
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It was a downstairs two-bedroom flat. Sorry. It's all right.
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So what's the plan with moving now then?
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Well, we've bought a place now and we're just going
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through the nightmare of talking to solicitors and all that
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kind of stuff. So hopefully within the month, we're going
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to be moved out. So we've got all that to
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look forward to. It kind of would have been like,
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I sort of wish we'd kind of done some work
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on boxing up the flat during lockdown, but we just
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didn't know what we were going to do. So now,
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you know, obviously work's come back. So Charlie and I
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are now kind of pretty much both working full time.
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a fortnight. And so that's something to look forward to.
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I'm going to say it, Matthew. The best money I've
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ever spent is you could get people to do that whole...
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thing for you for 300 pounds.
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Oh we yeah we called the company today 300 pounds
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you say yeah because we in fact this is bad
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but we had a chat today my wife and i
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as to we asked for a quote and they're going
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to come around have a look and give us a
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quote we were basically saying any amount of money we're
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going to say.
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Yes Whatever the quote is.
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a cutoff point. And Charlie went, what about two grand?
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we'd still spend two grand. To go to a cafe
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for three hours on our own while Cleo's with her grandma.
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And the flat gets completely cleared out. Especially with a kid.
497
00:20:28.700 --> 00:20:30.859
I totally agree. You've got to just get something.
498
00:20:31.099 --> 00:20:33.680
I don't think it would be physically possible with a baby.
499
00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:36.539
I mean, whether it's, you know, got the ability to
500
00:20:36.579 --> 00:20:38.250
walk or not, but certainly she.
501
00:20:38.269 --> 00:20:39.210
Well, it won't be able to carry.
502
00:20:39.349 --> 00:20:40.170
That's all you need, isn't it?
503
00:20:40.190 --> 00:20:42.250
The baby will be sat in the corner giving instructions
504
00:20:42.289 --> 00:20:44.349
on how to pack, judging by her advancement.
505
00:20:45.630 --> 00:20:47.450
She can label the boxes, all right? She can label
506
00:20:47.470 --> 00:20:51.119
the boxes. Just don't expect her to carry anything.
507
00:20:53.259 --> 00:20:55.839
How's the sleeping going though uh crosby obviously you're all
508
00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:57.319
is she is she waking up a lot in the
509
00:20:57.380 --> 00:20:59.779
night is it difficult to be honest she's actually sleeping
510
00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:03.259
pretty well through
the night but she's just she's just
511
00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:06.119
slowly coming out of a phase of waking up way
512
00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.599
too early so like you know she goes to bed
513
00:21:08.740 --> 00:21:10.579
you know she goes to bed about 7 7 30
514
00:21:10.579 --> 00:21:14.039
she falls asleep really quickly she's great like that um.
515
00:21:14.140 --> 00:21:16.339
Reads a few chapters of ulysses before bed.
516
00:21:16.609 --> 00:21:21.920
Absolutely yeah spits on the treadmill absolutely yeah but she
517
00:21:21.940 --> 00:21:25.109
started waking up uh around the kind of you know
518
00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.910
it would usually begin with a five and that's no
519
00:21:27.930 --> 00:21:32.289
good that's no good yeah um yeah it's in fact
520
00:21:32.450 --> 00:21:35.569
it's the other day i was chatting to um ellis
521
00:21:35.609 --> 00:21:40.799
james yeah absolutely very much so oh i was texting
522
00:21:40.920 --> 00:21:43.119
all the time when this was happening yeah what time
523
00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:44.559
is it for you this morning he'd be like oh
524
00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:46.359
4 16 i'm like well fuck that that's fine.
525
00:21:46.180 --> 00:21:49.630
Yeah He's great as a benchmark. He's really, yeah.
526
00:21:50.109 --> 00:21:51.890
You know he'll be up. You know he'll be up
527
00:21:51.930 --> 00:21:52.450
to text.
528
00:21:52.619 --> 00:21:52.880
Yeah.
529
00:21:54.019 --> 00:21:57.819
The one before Ellis is Andrew's ashes. That's the one before.
530
00:21:57.859 --> 00:22:00.920
It's tougher. He has to read that to make himself
531
00:22:00.940 --> 00:22:04.140
feel better. But I was chatting to Ellis.
532
00:22:05.049 --> 00:22:08.130
He came on the show, actually, and I said, what
533
00:22:08.150 --> 00:22:11.750
time did Steph wake up this morning? He said 6.20.
534
00:22:11.750 --> 00:22:15.779
And I went, oh, my God, that's fantastic, 6.20. And Ed,
535
00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:18.440
who obviously doesn't have kids, went, no, thank you. And
536
00:22:18.460 --> 00:22:22.779
you realise how the goalposts move of going, 6.20 is
537
00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:25.680
a dream. I will take 6.20 any day of the week.
538
00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:28.730
I remember back in the day, before I had kids,
539
00:22:29.150 --> 00:22:31.450
you know, if I had to get into work, you know,
540
00:22:31.470 --> 00:22:33.869
and most media starts quite late, I had to get
541
00:22:33.890 --> 00:22:34.809
into work for 10 o'clock.
542
00:22:34.869 --> 00:22:35.970
I think, how am I going to do this?
543
00:22:38.230 --> 00:22:41.140
I'm going to have to mainline coffee on the entire journey.
544
00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.940
If I have to start work at 10.15.
545
00:22:44.950 --> 00:22:46.029
How am i gonna do that.
546
00:22:47.829 --> 00:22:50.769
It's mad isn't it it's it's mad how much your
547
00:22:51.009 --> 00:22:53.750
views change i i think the most galling thing is
548
00:22:53.789 --> 00:22:55.990
when you
get when you because obviously i'll get up
549
00:22:56.009 --> 00:22:58.509
i'll listen to the radio it's when you get to
550
00:22:58.549 --> 00:23:00.450
the breakfast show and you feel like you've had the
551
00:23:00.470 --> 00:23:03.210
morning there'll be people matthew that listen to your 8am
552
00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:06.079
show on xfm and that'll be like hour three of
553
00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.039
their morning yeah oh And there'll be other people that
554
00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:12.569
catch the last hour of it who haven't got kids.
555
00:23:12.890 --> 00:23:15.829
Who are just rolling out of bed hungover. Yeah. Or
556
00:23:16.589 --> 00:23:17.559
getting in from a night out.
557
00:23:17.589 --> 00:23:18.029
Getting in.
558
00:23:18.049 --> 00:23:18.710
Yeah.
559
00:23:18.990 --> 00:23:21.170
That's the thing is when I'm, when I'm, because obviously
560
00:23:21.509 --> 00:23:24.480
I drive in on a Sunday and it's such a delightful,
561
00:23:24.660 --> 00:23:26.680
it's such a delightful drive, you know, especially in lockdown.
562
00:23:26.700 --> 00:23:28.079
Cause I was doing it all the way through lockdown.
563
00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:29.759
It was the only time I wasn't in.
564
00:23:29.700 --> 00:23:31.940
The flat basically. I loved it.
565
00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:35.940
But when lockdown started to ease and, And you'd see
566
00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:38.900
people wandering down the streets with like still with a
567
00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:42.200
plastic pint pot with like half a pint in at 6am.
568
00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:44.200
And it was a real mix of like, how do
569
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.049
I feel about those people? Do I pity them or
570
00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:50.970
do I hugely envy them? I still haven't quite worked
571
00:23:51.029 --> 00:23:51.529
out in my head.
572
00:23:54.410 --> 00:23:58.650
I was out two weeks ago and, uh, You were
573
00:23:58.690 --> 00:24:00.009
getting up for your X of M show, but I
574
00:24:00.009 --> 00:24:02.369
was out with your wife, with other people as well,
575
00:24:02.390 --> 00:24:04.619
just to be clear. She really loves the podcast.
576
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:06.660
There's a reason I brought you on the show. What
577
00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:09.019
a scoop. This is terrible, but great for us.
578
00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:12.779
Imagine all the podcasts we could do, Charlie and Josh's
579
00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:15.529
new life in the box room.
580
00:24:15.589 --> 00:24:17.829
It turns out I am staying in that one-bedroom flat, aren't.
581
00:24:20.829 --> 00:24:24.160
I? Anyway, so... She was, she was out when I
582
00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:26.240
went home at two, she was still there and she
583
00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:28.779
was doing the morning. Cause you had XFM. How did
584
00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:31.880
that go for? Cause I remember leaving thinking she's in
585
00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:34.700
some serious trouble here. Not with you. I mean, with.
586
00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:39.109
Oh, with you, Josh, Josh on the prowl. She's in
587
00:24:39.130 --> 00:24:44.789
some trouble. No, the, I mean, that's, that's fine, isn't it?
588
00:24:44.809 --> 00:24:48.849
Because in that instance, I wake up at five, five 55,
589
00:24:48.829 --> 00:24:52.190
something like that. I, I have a shower, I get
590
00:24:52.230 --> 00:24:54.150
in the car, I leave. I think on that day,
591
00:24:54.269 --> 00:24:56.750
Cleo hadn't woken up by the time, she was just
592
00:24:56.789 --> 00:24:57.309
waking up as.
593
00:24:57.289 --> 00:24:57.910
I was leaving.
594
00:24:58.450 --> 00:25:00.670
Right. And so Charlie's got, you know, Charlie's got a
595
00:25:00.730 --> 00:25:04.529
whole morning of hungover parenting. So that's the trade, isn't it?
596
00:25:04.650 --> 00:25:04.950
Yeah.
597
00:25:05.230 --> 00:25:08.410
If you go out on a Saturday night, then you're
598
00:25:08.549 --> 00:25:11.710
going to have to do some solo parenting, strangely hungover.
599
00:25:12.190 --> 00:25:15.099
You used to be quite a party animal, Matthew.
600
00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:17.640
I used to be an it boy, yes, that's right. Yeah.
601
00:25:23.710 --> 00:25:29.490
I was always getting turfed out the hippodrome with Dean
602
00:25:29.529 --> 00:25:31.089
Gaffney of course I was yeah.
603
00:25:30.930 --> 00:25:36.950
What I would say have you heard from Paul Dinan recently.
604
00:25:35.549 --> 00:25:39.569
Dangerous Dinan of course me Callum I was the fourth
605
00:25:39.609 --> 00:25:41.609
member of Callum Fran and Dangerous Dinan that they don't
606
00:25:41.650 --> 00:25:44.349
talk about Always got cropped out of photos.
607
00:25:45.109 --> 00:25:47.490
So have you had to ease off going out? And
608
00:25:47.750 --> 00:25:49.700
how are you dealing with the hangovers when you, I mean,
609
00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:51.839
I don't think you go out any more than me
610
00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:53.150
or Rob did, but I just, you know.
611
00:25:53.390 --> 00:25:55.579
No, well, obviously we have had to ease off, but
612
00:25:55.619 --> 00:25:58.119
also lockdown has sort of corresponded with that easing off.
613
00:25:58.140 --> 00:26:00.500
So I haven't really been to pubs that much anyway.
614
00:26:00.819 --> 00:26:02.299
In fact, the one time I did go to the pub,
615
00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:07.000
I went to meet a friend and obviously we put
616
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.799
Cleo to bed. So it sort of wasn't really an issue,
617
00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:10.039
you know, and I was only going to go for
618
00:26:10.059 --> 00:26:12.940
a couple of drinks, but the cat escaped.
619
00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:17.829
You've got a cat in this tiny flat as well? Yeah.
620
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:18.609
Oh, my God.
621
00:26:18.619 --> 00:26:20.789
She's doing the lion's share of the babysitting. You've got
622
00:26:20.990 --> 00:26:22.869
a house cat in a flat?
623
00:26:22.910 --> 00:26:23.769
I know.
624
00:26:24.190 --> 00:26:25.730
We got the cat first,
didn't we, as practice?
625
00:26:25.750 --> 00:26:26.450
Where does the cat sleep?
626
00:26:27.230 --> 00:26:31.769
Just wherever she likes, really. Sometimes at the foot of
627
00:26:31.789 --> 00:26:34.569
the bed. So sometimes there's four of us in.
628
00:26:34.750 --> 00:26:36.609
The bedroom, all breathing the same air.
629
00:26:36.890 --> 00:26:37.329
It's bad.
630
00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:40.130
So the night I got a night off, the cat
631
00:26:40.150 --> 00:26:43.829
escaped and I had to come home and find it. But, yeah,
632
00:26:44.369 --> 00:26:48.210
in fact, I was, yeah, I'm sort of, I think
633
00:26:48.230 --> 00:26:51.250
I was probably in lockdown, early lockdown, I was probably
634
00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:54.910
drinking just enough at home. You know, I was probably
635
00:26:54.940 --> 00:26:58.740
going through a bottle of wine most nights. Because just
636
00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:01.119
before lockdown, I had a, I turned 40 and got
637
00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:02.539
lots of, you know, what do you give to a
638
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.539
person who's turning 40? A bottle of red wine. So
639
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:07.000
I had about, you know, 15, 20 bottles of red
640
00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:09.160
wine in the house. And as soon as lockdown started,
641
00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:10.539
I just kind of polished them all off in about
642
00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:11.019
a fortnight.
643
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:16.619
Oh. The text saying how bad a time the partner
644
00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:20.109
who has the baby is having, which you are completely
645
00:27:20.269 --> 00:27:23.410
helpless to do anything about when you're at work, I'd
646
00:27:23.450 --> 00:27:26.049
say is one of the most, obviously it's very stressful
647
00:27:26.069 --> 00:27:27.910
being the partner, but it's also one of the most
648
00:27:27.930 --> 00:27:29.990
stressful things you can receive on a phone.
649
00:27:30.109 --> 00:27:32.529
Yeah, I found going back to work, I found it
650
00:27:32.670 --> 00:27:34.809
harder than I expected to. I thought I was going
651
00:27:34.829 --> 00:27:37.369
to just, you know, get straight back into it. And
652
00:27:37.549 --> 00:27:39.190
sort of almost be glad of the time, but I
653
00:27:39.230 --> 00:27:41.650
felt like I was, you know, still, you know, 50%
654
00:27:41.650 --> 00:27:44.809
of my brain was still at home sort of wanting
655
00:27:44.869 --> 00:27:48.319
to help out. And the other 50% was, you know,
656
00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:50.839
sort of trying to work, but feeling a bit out
657
00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:54.400
of practice through lack of sleep. But yeah, anytime you
658
00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:56.119
got a text, you just thought, well, there's absolutely nothing
659
00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:56.559
I can do.
660
00:27:56.579 --> 00:27:57.880
I'm miles away.
661
00:27:58.200 --> 00:28:01.700
And it's really hard to work out those one or
662
00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:04.049
two words that don't seem like you're brushing somebody off.
663
00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:05.279
Yeah.
664
00:28:05.539 --> 00:28:07.079
I can think of two words that would feel like
665
00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:09.809
you're brushing it off.
666
00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.009
It's weird, though, because you feel like you're quite powerless
667
00:28:13.029 --> 00:28:15.470
to do anything. I remember when our first one was born,
668
00:28:15.549 --> 00:28:18.529
I went back to work because I was filming Taskmaster
669
00:28:18.589 --> 00:28:21.410
and it was minus three degrees in the middle of December.
670
00:28:21.730 --> 00:28:24.680
And I was on this, if anyone's a fan of it,
671
00:28:24.690 --> 00:28:27.299
it was one where I had to get to this
672
00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:31.619
microwave without walking. So I just rolled on the floor,
673
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:35.849
covered in goose shit. And then I jumped over this
674
00:28:35.910 --> 00:28:39.009
fence and was really sick. And then I remember getting
675
00:28:39.049 --> 00:28:41.029
a text off Luke going, oh, I'm really struggling today.
676
00:28:41.049 --> 00:28:44.890
And I was like, fucking same here. I'm running into bullshit.
677
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:46.759
I'm no help. I don't know what to do either.
678
00:28:46.859 --> 00:28:48.759
I'm struggling. I've got no idea. I can't even look
679
00:28:48.859 --> 00:28:50.200
after myself.
680
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:57.759
Obviously, you're on a trendy radio station, Matthew. We spoke
681
00:28:57.779 --> 00:29:02.880
to Chris Stark, who is arguably on a youthier radio station.
682
00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:05.500
But the first time he had a kid, he didn't
683
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.119
really address it on the radio and he didn't really
684
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:08.839
talk about it.
685
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:11.599
Well, I've got fuck all else to talk about. That's
686
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:12.279
the thing.
687
00:29:14.259 --> 00:29:18.400
And my worry is that you like hearing about parenting
688
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.809
in general, but specific stories about your kids are interesting
689
00:29:23.470 --> 00:29:26.470
only to you. That's sort of the case, isn't it?
690
00:29:26.829 --> 00:29:29.369
And so I never know if I'm about to start.
691
00:29:29.390 --> 00:29:31.069
I mean, the good thing is Ed will.
692
00:29:30.950 --> 00:29:31.710
Tell me immediately.
693
00:29:31.750 --> 00:29:34.670
If it's a boring story that's good but you never
694
00:29:34.690 --> 00:29:38.180
know because it's always seemed so delightful um i'm now
695
00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:41.380
going to tell you a story uh when um why
696
00:29:41.460 --> 00:29:43.660
i've said i've set it up um when she was
697
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.920
learning different animals um she's.
698
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.720
Learned them all by now that's advanced.
699
00:29:49.420 --> 00:29:51.720
Isn't it for 13 and a half months she's she's
700
00:29:51.769 --> 00:29:53.650
taken over from
attenborough she's ready to do it um.
701
00:29:57.269 --> 00:29:59.750
She's always like, turn off Mr. Tumble, stick on Blue Planet.
702
00:29:59.789 --> 00:30:00.170
Come on.
703
00:30:01.309 --> 00:30:04.910
Something I could sink my teeth into here. But we
704
00:30:04.950 --> 00:30:06.809
were learning goat. We had a little puzzle of like,
705
00:30:06.829 --> 00:30:08.730
you know, this is a sheep and this is a goat.
706
00:30:09.230 --> 00:30:12.950
And she started singing row, row, row your boat because
707
00:30:12.970 --> 00:30:15.279
it's like row, row, row your goat. And I was like, oh,
708
00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:19.240
that's a fun little pun. And I said to, I
709
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:21.279
actually told my brother, I said, do you think this
710
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.059
is a fun enough story for the radio?
711
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:23.650
And he's like, no.
712
00:30:27.789 --> 00:30:29.130
Well, that's the only thing that's, that's the only thing
713
00:30:29.150 --> 00:30:30.769
that's happened to me in the week is that she
714
00:30:30.789 --> 00:30:31.950
sung row, row, row your goats.
715
00:30:32.549 --> 00:30:36.089
You've mentioned Mr. Tumble, Matthew. You're, I know you're a big,
716
00:30:36.450 --> 00:30:39.210
you're a huge Mr. Tumble fan, aren't you? Yeah.
717
00:30:39.269 --> 00:30:43.009
My wife and I are big, big tumbleheads. We love him.
718
00:30:43.569 --> 00:30:46.970
Justin's house as well? Justin's house. Do you know what?
719
00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:50.599
Justin's house we like, but something special.
720
00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:51.240
We're all friends.
721
00:30:52.009 --> 00:30:54.529
Is the key show for me.
722
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.279
Justin's house is a bit roomy for you, isn't it?
723
00:30:58.410 --> 00:31:00.630
Yeah, I don't want to show Cleo what she's missing.
724
00:31:01.549 --> 00:31:03.690
He's got a robot in there. Look at that.
725
00:31:03.710 --> 00:31:08.019
He's got a robot on an upstairs. But no, I, yeah,
726
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:09.380
we love, love something special.
727
00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:11.240
What about his sketch show one? He's got like a
728
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.420
sketch show. Yeah, Giggle Biz.
729
00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:14.559
We've, we've, we watched an episode of that the other day.
730
00:31:14.579 --> 00:31:17.819
It's a little bit, I mean, basically there's not enough Mr.
731
00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:19.920
Tumble here. It's a bit sophisticated for Cleo. It's not
732
00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:20.240
enough Tumble.
733
00:31:20.259 --> 00:31:22.029
It's like he wanted to leave to do a proper
734
00:31:22.069 --> 00:31:24.650
sketch show and the CBBs were like, look, we've got
735
00:31:24.670 --> 00:31:26.809
to give him something or he's going to take something special.
736
00:31:26.849 --> 00:31:28.869
That's exactly, that's a Exactly how I felt.
737
00:31:28.890 --> 00:31:31.250
It's like Arsenal signing Mustafi to go with Ozil. Do
738
00:31:31.430 -->
00:31:31.990
you know what I mean?
739
00:31:32.009 --> 00:31:33.309
They didn't want him to go, so they got him
740
00:31:33.369 --> 00:31:35.519
in to keep him happy. It's a children's answer to
741
00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:38.400
the fast show. Not my words, the words of Justin Fletcher,
742
00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:42.380
because I have watched interviews of Justin Fletcher.
743
00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:44.819
Do you know what makes me really annoyed? Is when
744
00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:47.180
he watches himself as Mr.
745
00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:47.940
Tumble, right?
746
00:31:47.980 --> 00:31:51.059
And he's being Justin, he goes, oh, wasn't that funny?
747
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:51.539
Mr.
748
00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:52.900
Tumble is funny.
749
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:55.220
Yeah, you've got to do that. He's like NLP.
750
00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:57.819
I'll be the judge of that. Yeah, I know that's you.
751
00:31:58.099 --> 00:32:01.259
Don't tell me you're being funny there. I'll make up
752
00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:01.700
my mind.
753
00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:03.160
You can't come on in the second half of a
754
00:32:03.180 --> 00:32:04.960
tour show and go, that first boat was brilliant, wasn't it?
755
00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:12.230
do you know what that's that's true he does do
756
00:32:12.269 --> 00:32:14.710
that that's that's like one of the only sticking points
757
00:32:14.750 --> 00:32:16.630
i have with mr tumble the rest of it i.
758
00:32:16.609 --> 00:32:18.190
Absolutely love there's some you know and.
759
00:32:19.730 --> 00:32:21.470
We just we plow through it but i do feel
760
00:32:21.750 --> 00:32:23.910
i do feel bad because sometimes i'll just stick you
761
00:32:23.950 --> 00:32:26.559
know i'll stick it on the iplayer and just sort
762
00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:29.480
of let it let it play on the telly three
763
00:32:29.539 --> 00:32:32.680
you know three episodes on the bounce and you know
764
00:32:32.700 --> 00:32:34.079
it's and i while i get with a little bit
765
00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:36.180
of work or something I mean, I say that, I'm
766
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:40.440
watching the episodes myself. There was a point in lockdown
767
00:32:40.589 --> 00:32:43.089
when we were watching an episode of Something Special, the
768
00:32:43.109 --> 00:32:47.650
three of us, and Charlie said, do you think lots
769
00:32:47.710 --> 00:32:50.809
of mums in lockdown are sort of developing sort of
770
00:32:50.869 --> 00:32:52.529
like a real crush on Mr.
771
00:32:52.549 --> 00:32:52.950
Tumble?
772
00:32:53.049 --> 00:32:54.509
And I was like, does that mean you've got a
773
00:32:54.509 --> 00:32:55.430
crush on Mr. Tumble?
774
00:32:55.789 --> 00:33:00.579
LAUGHTER I don't think Tumble. Andy in the Odd Socks.
775
00:33:01.099 --> 00:33:02.299
Andy's a hunk, isn't he?
776
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:04.839
Is he the adventure guy? Yeah, yeah. He's a good
777
00:33:04.859 --> 00:33:05.160
looking guy.
778
00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:07.049
I do sometimes watch those presentations.
779
00:33:07.069 --> 00:33:08.529
You know, they have like a couple in the house,
780
00:33:08.609 --> 00:33:11.990
like introducing all the programs and showing up pictures.
781
00:33:12.009 --> 00:33:13.069
And I just look at them and I.
782
00:33:13.029 --> 00:33:15.170
Think, you're all smiles now, but I bet you've done
783
00:33:15.210 --> 00:33:17.230
some awful stuff in East London on your nights off,
784
00:33:17.250 --> 00:33:17.480
haven't you?
785
00:33:19.170 --> 00:33:21.890
I bet you've lived a life. Yeah, it's all fun now,
786
00:33:21.910 --> 00:33:22.190
isn't it?
787
00:33:22.369 --> 00:33:22.930
I can tell.
788
00:33:23.250 --> 00:33:25.690
I don't think that's true of Tumble, though. No, not
789
00:33:25.829 --> 00:33:28.119
of Tumble. I think Tumble walks it like he talks it.
790
00:33:28.569 --> 00:33:28.970
Do you?
791
00:33:29.069 --> 00:33:32.630
Yeah, I genuinely think he does. I don't think he's got... How.
792
00:33:32.410 --> 00:33:35.359
Many interviews have you watched with him?
793
00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:37.819
I've watched a handful. He's a lovey. He hasn't got kids,
794
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:38.920
has he? He's a lovey.
795
00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:43.000
No, he's not got kids, but he's thespy.
796
00:33:43.019 --> 00:33:44.200
He cares about the craft.
797
00:33:44.579 --> 00:33:46.799
He talks about who he trained, you know, who he
798
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:49.799
trained under at sort of drama school and stuff.
799
00:33:51.740 --> 00:33:52.799
I think he.
800
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.099
Thinks that he'll make a move into Ant and Dec
801
00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:57.700
world from kids TV or that's where he is forever
802
00:33:57.740 --> 00:33:58.599
and he's happy with it.
803
00:33:58.660 --> 00:34:01.529
That ship has sailed, hasn't it? He's 50 and he's
804
00:34:01.549 --> 00:34:03.349
got an MBE. Yeah, exactly.
805
00:34:03.890 --> 00:34:04.109
Yeah.
806
00:34:04.609 --> 00:34:05.970
As himself with Mr. Tumble.
807
00:34:06.230 --> 00:34:08.409
He's in Shung the Sheep as well. This guy is
808
00:34:08.449 --> 00:34:11.309
absolutely minted. He does Wembley Arena shows.
809
00:34:11.630 --> 00:34:16.489
Yeah, he's... I think if Mr. Tumble announced a live show,
810
00:34:17.010 --> 00:34:19.349
I'd definitely get tickets. Again, it would be like moving house.
811
00:34:19.570 --> 00:34:21.230
No amount of money would be too much to get
812
00:34:21.250 --> 00:34:21.829
tickets to see Mr.
813
00:34:21.849 --> 00:34:23.909
Tumble. And I think I would obviously be way more
814
00:34:23.929 --> 00:34:25.429
excited than any kid there.
815
00:34:25.989 --> 00:34:27.469
Yeah.
816
00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:29.070
I just think he's a genius.
817
00:34:29.489 --> 00:34:29.889
Do you?
818
00:34:29.989 --> 00:34:33.329
I think he's the greatest comic working on British television.
819
00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:35.230
No offense to the two of you guys.
820
00:34:36.110 --> 00:34:36.690
Can I ask you.
821
00:34:36.769 --> 00:34:39.150
I've been on television since the pandemic. Right, still working
822
00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:40.190
on television.
823
00:34:40.210 --> 00:34:41.250
Can I ask you a question on Tumble?
824
00:34:41.269 --> 00:34:42.210
Yeah, of course, of course.
825
00:34:42.369 --> 00:34:46.079
So, you know the... Friends, friends.
826
00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.400
What can you do with friends? Yeah, of course.
827
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:52.019
So, there's a line and I don't understand what it says.
828
00:34:52.659 --> 00:34:54.179
And it sounds like balance-y.
829
00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:55.599
Paddle in the sea.
830
00:34:55.989 --> 00:34:57.010
Is it paddle in the sea? Yeah.
831
00:34:57.030 --> 00:34:57.420
Paddle in the sea.
832
00:34:57.769 --> 00:35:01.630
Yeah, it's, is it ride a horse, paddle in the sea?
833
00:35:02.010 --> 00:35:04.449
Maybe you could come and play with me.
834
00:35:04.789 --> 00:35:05.730
He's awful.
835
00:35:05.750 --> 00:35:07.829
We have to pay him for this episode.
836
00:35:08.190 --> 00:35:09.739
He's absolutely cleaning up.
837
00:35:09.780 --> 00:35:11.860
He's got enough money already. You know what?
838
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.059
I love the opening song as well. I've learned all
839
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.320
the signs to it because we've learned a few, a
840
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.940
bit of baby sign language as well. And I just
841
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.340
love singing along to the song and learning all the
842
00:35:24.389 --> 00:35:25.610
Makaton signs and stuff.
843
00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:26.670
It's great. I like it.
844
00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:28.920
Cleo loves it. Yeah, yeah.
845
00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:29.980
Right, just checking.
846
00:35:30.099 --> 00:35:31.980
She can't turn it over, can she? She's not there.
847
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:35.460
She's not seen any other television. Well, that's the thing.
848
00:35:35.539 --> 00:35:37.539
Once they get into Netflix.
849
00:35:37.579 --> 00:35:41.519
With my first one, they literally just watched CBeebies until
850
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.980
she was about two and a half.
851
00:35:43.030 --> 00:35:44.639
And they're like, yeah, it's the best one.
852
00:35:44.949 --> 00:35:48.210
It's the purest one. There's no adverts. Now, my two-year-old
853
00:35:48.250 --> 00:35:49.329
walks in with an iPad and goes.
854
00:35:49.429 --> 00:35:52.150
Netflix, Netflix. And what's she watching on Netflix?
855
00:35:52.190 --> 00:35:52.489
All sorts, mate.
856
00:35:55.659 --> 00:35:56.469
Make it a murderer.
857
00:35:59.789 --> 00:36:01.760
She wanders in and goes, do you think Scottie Pippen
858
00:36:01.780 --> 00:36:04.500
was paid enough? Because I just don't think he was.
859
00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:11.320
Do you reckon Carole Baskin killed her? No, they sort
860
00:36:11.340 --> 00:36:14.289
of watch loads of... Baby Bum, they quite.
861
00:36:14.090 --> 00:36:16.449
Like, which is... Oh, yeah, we've watched Baby Bum as well. Yeah,
862
00:36:16.550 --> 00:36:18.789
they love that. And Mother Goose, do you watch Mother Goose? Yeah,
863
00:36:18.809 --> 00:36:21.010
they've watched all that. What do you.
864
00:36:20.949 --> 00:36:22.849
Think of The Baby Club? I think that was the
865
00:36:22.909 --> 00:36:24.070
one that used to annoy me the most.
866
00:36:24.210 --> 00:36:27.750
Baby Club, I really got into The Baby Club first
867
00:36:27.809 --> 00:36:28.510
half of lockdown.
868
00:36:28.869 --> 00:36:30.389
The Baby Club, yeah.
869
00:36:30.690 --> 00:36:31.510
The Baby Club.
870
00:36:31.789 --> 00:36:32.429
Who's your favourite?
871
00:36:32.449 --> 00:36:34.650
Did you like Nigel or did you like Giovanna?
872
00:36:35.130 --> 00:36:37.489
Well, the one that turned out she was married to
873
00:36:37.530 --> 00:36:38.309
one of them at Fly.
874
00:36:38.389 --> 00:36:39.250
That's right, yeah, yeah.
875
00:36:39.269 --> 00:36:39.630
Yeah.
876
00:36:40.179 --> 00:36:43.019
What are your feelings on Bing, though? Because Bing's... We've
877
00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:43.719
discussed Bing.
878
00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:45.420
I can't stand the kid. Have we talked too much
879
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:45.900
about Bing?
880
00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:48.349
No, I'd love to hear your opinion on Bing.
881
00:36:48.369 --> 00:36:51.409
Well, it blew my mind that Mark Rylance tapped out
882
00:36:51.489 --> 00:36:52.119
after Series 1.
883
00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:52.269
Yeah.
884
00:36:53.449 --> 00:36:56.230
And then they got David Thewlis to do an impression
885
00:36:56.250 --> 00:36:58.769
of Mark Rylance for series two. So now you watch
886
00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:00.469
it and you go, well, this isn't real Bing. It's
887
00:37:00.489 --> 00:37:02.670
not real Rylance, is it? This isn't RSC.
888
00:37:03.110 --> 00:37:04.829
So why is he tapped out and they've done an
889
00:37:04.869 --> 00:37:05.550
impression of him?
890
00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:06.599
I've got no idea.
891
00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:09.139
I guess in an animated thing, you don't have to
892
00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:11.760
write out the characters, do you? You just get somebody
893
00:37:11.820 --> 00:37:15.280
new to do the voice. But I think Rylance brings
894
00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:20.190
a real empathy to Flop. I think there's more tenderness
895
00:37:20.210 --> 00:37:24.360
in him. I feel like Fulis' flop is a little
896
00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:26.699
bit more, it's a bit pass-ag.
897
00:37:28.630 --> 00:37:33.889
What's pass-ag mean? Passive-aggressive. Oh, pass-ag. I've never heard pass-ag.
898
00:37:34.409 --> 00:37:35.630
Have you not heard pass-ag?
899
00:37:35.869 --> 00:37:38.809
I've never heard pass-ag. There's no passive from where I
900
00:37:38.849 --> 00:37:40.510
grew up. Everyone just shouts it.
901
00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:43.030
It's just pure rag. Yeah, it's just pure rag.
902
00:37:43.739 --> 00:37:46.449
Four g's ag but i can't work out when he
903
00:37:46.469 -->
00:37:49.789
squeezed bing in before or after bridge of spies it's quite.
904
00:37:49.610 --> 00:37:52.210
A big um character jump isn't.
905
00:37:52.050 --> 00:37:55.530
It do you think um would you like to get
906
00:37:55.590 --> 00:37:57.260
into children's television.
907
00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:59.480
Matthew i've actually i've googled who does all the writing
908
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:02.139
for um for something special because i'd love to i
909
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:03.960
mean that would be a great job to have writing
910
00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:06.679
the mr tumble sketches i'd love that are.
911
00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:08.320
They written i just presume that was what mr tumble
912
00:38:08.340 --> 00:38:10.309
they just put him in a situation he just riffs.
913
00:38:10.789 --> 00:38:13.000
Like jazz It's just an obdoc, isn't it? It's just a,
914
00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:16.070
it's just a fixed rig obdoc. They just put, set
915
00:38:16.110 --> 00:38:17.769
those cameras up and just say, off you go, Mr.
916
00:38:17.789 --> 00:38:20.719
Tumble, go about your day. Today you're giving Tumble Ted
917
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:21.099
a bath.
918
00:38:21.139 --> 00:38:21.619
That's fine.
919
00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:22.820
Great. We'll, we'll, we'll watch that.
920
00:38:22.860 --> 00:38:26.380
We'll chop it up. What I like to do, I'd
921
00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:28.980
love to, I'd love to write one of those shows.
922
00:38:29.179 --> 00:38:31.420
The great, I think the great thing about it, I mean, yes,
923
00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:35.610
you've got to write 57 episodes a series, but they
924
00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:37.530
get show. I mean, there's, you know, most of them,
925
00:38:37.849 --> 00:38:41.050
what's Bing seven or eight minutes long. And it just
926
00:38:41.070 --> 00:38:42.449
gets shown. They've done two series of it. It just
927
00:38:42.469 --> 00:38:44.889
gets shown over and over again. It's just wall to wall.
928
00:38:44.929 --> 00:38:47.230
It's being on every single day. The repeat fees must
929
00:38:47.250 --> 00:38:47.909
be amazing.
930
00:38:48.250 --> 00:38:50.670
So you're in it purely for the money. I mean,
931
00:38:50.690 --> 00:38:51.590
it's totally acceptable.
932
00:38:52.139 --> 00:38:53.030
What do you do this for?
933
00:38:53.050 --> 00:39:00.980
It's a very good point. So how have all your
934
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.139
conversations become about being a parent?
935
00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:06.360
That's a really good question, actually. Yeah.
936
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.530
Because we haven't really had a lot of time when
937
00:39:09.570 --> 00:39:11.369
we don't feel like we're being parents.
938
00:39:12.269 --> 00:39:12.489
Yeah.
939
00:39:12.630 --> 00:39:14.809
In fact, actually, a lot of our conversations are about
940
00:39:15.329 --> 00:39:16.579
parenting or about work.
941
00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:17.579
It's quite hard.
942
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:19.980
You know, we had a night out.
943
00:39:19.900 --> 00:39:20.320
The other night.
944
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.559
And in fact, we obviously went to meet you guys.
945
00:39:24.059 --> 00:39:28.250
And before that, we went for drinks. And you've got
946
00:39:28.269 --> 00:39:29.380
to really force yourself, haven't you?
947
00:39:29.389 --> 00:39:29.469
Yeah.
948
00:39:30.019 --> 00:39:32.320
Force yourself to not talk about it and then you
949
00:39:32.340 --> 00:39:36.500
go well what else do we have in common we
950
00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:38.449
talk you know we talk about holidays we went on
951
00:39:38.510 --> 00:39:38.900
before she.
952
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.510
Was born yeah that's uh that's a good one.
953
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:48.030
If the iPhone throws up one of those memories, watch
954
00:39:48.050 --> 00:39:50.070
one of those of what we used to do.
955
00:39:50.090 --> 00:39:53.090
I get them and go, oh, is there some sort
956
00:39:53.110 --> 00:39:54.940
of skinny filter on that? No, I'm just a fat
957
00:39:54.980 --> 00:39:57.539
prick now. That's what's happened.
958
00:39:57.579 --> 00:39:58.780
Do you both work full time?
959
00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:03.070
We're both now going into pretty much full-time work yeah
960
00:40:03.250 --> 00:40:05.849
yeah so how do you share the responsibilities do you
961
00:40:05.909 --> 00:40:08.269
have someone come in to help or does your daughter
962
00:40:08.309 --> 00:40:10.429
go to a nurse or anything or are you just
963
00:40:10.449 --> 00:40:13.110
sort of divvying up the stuff in between clever enough
964
00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:15.380
to look after herself yeah yeah she just goes down
965
00:40:15.389 --> 00:40:19.460
the British Library hangs out for a day hops on
966
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:22.840
the tube comes back no she she goes to nursery
967
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:26.000
Monday Tuesday which is great so we just all day
968
00:40:26.019 --> 00:40:28.389
is that yeah that's all day all day at nursery
969
00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:32.960
About 8.30 and pick her up at about 5.00. So
970
00:40:33.019 --> 00:40:35.610
that's a pretty good day at nursery. It was going
971
00:40:35.619 --> 00:40:40.050
to be one set of grandparents on the Wednesday, one
972
00:40:40.070 --> 00:40:43.789
set of grandparents on the Thursday. But both sets of
973
00:40:44.309 --> 00:40:48.190
parents have managed to get ill recently. So they're out
974
00:40:48.230 --> 00:40:48.670
the picture.
975
00:40:48.690 --> 00:40:50.590
Oh, no. Not out of the picture.
976
00:40:55.190 --> 00:40:58.650
So what we've, we've done a few days where it's
977
00:40:58.690 --> 00:41:02.610
been both trying to do full-time work and trying to
978
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:05.099
look after her. And that's when, that's when Mr. Tumble
979
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:08.380
takes over. That's when, you know, you, you know, you
980
00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:09.940
give her, give her a bit of fruit, stick her
981
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:12.099
in front of the telly
and sort of try and
982
00:41:12.139 --> 00:41:13.079
work at the same time.
983
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:15.119
I've never managed that.
984
00:41:15.590 --> 00:41:16.130
Because that's it as well.
985
00:41:16.150 --> 00:41:17.989
We don't have an office as well. So we don't
986
00:41:18.030 --> 00:41:20.480
have an office space. So the way it'll work is
987
00:41:20.739 --> 00:41:22.480
I'll start in the bedroom. She'll play in the front room.
988
00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.300
Then I'll go to the front room. She'll go into
989
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:27.519
the bedroom and have a nap. then, you know, so
990
00:41:27.539 --> 00:41:30.800
it's just, it's constantly moving around. Charlie will be in
991
00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:31.820
the little room.
992
00:41:31.699 --> 00:41:33.699
By the kitchen. It's like, it's tricky.
993
00:41:33.739 --> 00:41:35.280
It's lots of sort of working out who's going to
994
00:41:35.300 --> 00:41:36.440
be in what room.
995
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:38.119
The little room by the kitchen is the toilet, isn't it?
996
00:41:38.630 --> 00:41:40.670
Yeah, that's right. She's zooming from the toilet. What is
997
00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:42.789
the little room by the toilet? What is that room?
998
00:41:43.110 --> 00:41:45.309
Well, it's sort of like a dining room, except it's
999
00:41:45.369 --> 00:41:48.610
not sort of big enough to... have people in, but
1000
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.719
it's like, it's like another, it's like another living space basically,
1001
00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:54.880
but it's not, it's not, it's not an office. So yeah,
1002
00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:57.500
it's just kind of, it's just sort of moving around from,
1003
00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.460
from room to room and trying to work it out.
1004
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:01.500
And then obviously you then put her to bed and
1005
00:42:01.539 --> 00:42:04.460
just carry on working after that. So that's, that's a
1006
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:06.159
bit of a, a bit of a nightmare.
1007
00:42:06.179 --> 00:42:08.219
How are you so chirpy? This sounds really hard.
1008
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:11.429
Because it's not every day, you know, it's not every day.
1009
00:42:11.449 --> 00:42:12.769
And also. Monday and Tuesdays.
1010
00:42:13.190 --> 00:42:15.690
Yeah, it's Monday and Tuesdays. And also it's still, you know,
1011
00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:18.820
it's just, it's writing jokes, isn't it? You know, I'm
1012
00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:20.960
not doing a proper job. I'm still, I'm still able
1013
00:42:20.980 --> 00:42:23.409
to do it from home and I'm still, and it
1014
00:42:23.630 --> 00:42:24.969
is the sort of job where if I need to
1015
00:42:25.010 --> 00:42:26.989
take half an hour out of the day to look
1016
00:42:27.050 --> 00:42:29.309
after and actually sort of spend some proper time with her, that's,
1017
00:42:29.389 --> 00:42:29.949
that's doable.
1018
00:42:30.230 --> 00:42:30.389
Yeah.
1019
00:42:30.409 --> 00:42:32.510
And as long as you've got all your stuff together
1020
00:42:32.550 --> 00:42:34.760
to like submit by the end of the day, it's fine.
1021
00:42:34.780 --> 00:42:36.960
It doesn't have to be done by a certain point.
1022
00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:38.059
Do you know what I mean? It's like, you can
1023
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:39.000
choose your hours.
1024
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:39.119
A bit more.
1025
00:42:39.420 --> 00:42:39.920
Exactly.
1026
00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:42.260
It's not air traffic control or anything, you know, it's fine.
1027
00:42:42.300 --> 00:42:42.699
I can.
1028
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:45.500
Just loop it over it.
1029
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.340
Yeah. Have you guys got, I mean, you're quite a
1030
00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:52.610
chilled out guy. Charlie's quite chilled out. That sounds like
1031
00:42:52.630 --> 00:42:54.309
a situation which could get fraught.
1032
00:42:55.690 --> 00:42:59.409
I mean, yeah. But I think, you know what?
1033
00:42:59.429 --> 00:43:00.190
This is not the podcast.
1034
00:43:00.230 --> 00:43:05.559
No, this is the only podcast. Charlie can come and
1035
00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:07.699
talk and give her side as well. She can have
1036
00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.940
her right to reply. Just unload. This is what we're
1037
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:12.719
here for. Get it off your chest and then Charlie
1038
00:43:12.739 --> 00:43:13.320
can come on later.
1039
00:43:13.849 --> 00:43:17.969
The thing is, I'm not very good necessarily at going,
1040
00:43:18.489 --> 00:43:20.059
this is the thing that's bothering me, so I'm going
1041
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.860
to dress this head on. I'll fixate on a thing
1042
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.760
that's completely not the thing. So, for example, right at
1043
00:43:27.780 --> 00:43:30.719
the start of lockdown, a few weeks into it, what
1044
00:43:30.739 --> 00:43:32.059
didn't seem like the start of lockdown, it seemed like
1045
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:33.360
we were right in the middle of it, but what
1046
00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:36.760
I now realise was the start of lockdown. We saved
1047
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:41.210
up the TV show Quiz to watch about the Major
1048
00:43:41.230 --> 00:43:43.889
Charles Ingram scandal. So we saved it up to watch
1049
00:43:44.860 --> 00:43:47.130
and we're going to watch it over three nights. It's
1050
00:43:47.150 --> 00:43:48.969
the three-parter over three nights. So this is going to
1051
00:43:48.989 --> 00:43:53.550
be fantastic. On the first night, load up the ITV player,
1052
00:43:54.150 --> 00:43:59.949
start watching the first episode. And Charlie says, well, they're
1053
00:43:59.969 --> 00:44:03.039
going in pretty sort of immediately into the story, aren't they?
1054
00:44:03.059 --> 00:44:04.260
Sort of dropping you in it. They're not giving you
1055
00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:05.860
a lot of backstory. They're not sort of walking you
1056
00:44:05.900 --> 00:44:08.590
up to it. And me being a bit of a
1057
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:10.679
prick goes, well, actually, you probably just don't remember the
1058
00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:12.280
story from the time. And I sort of talked her
1059
00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:16.079
through what was happening and we watched the episode. And
1060
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:19.079
we got to the end of the episode and they
1061
00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:21.840
started showing real footage of Major Charles Ingram and his wife.
1062
00:44:22.380 --> 00:44:27.380
And I realized that we'd watched episode three first and
1063
00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:29.860
not episode one. And then looking back on it, I
1064
00:44:29.860 --> 00:44:32.829
was like, of course they're going to start with him
1065
00:44:32.869 --> 00:44:34.409
actually going on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. They're
1066
00:44:34.429 --> 00:44:36.809
not going to start with him getting his dog, you know,
1067
00:44:36.849 --> 00:44:40.739
his dog getting shot. That's not how you start the show.
1068
00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.639
But I just went into such a sort of rage
1069
00:44:45.699 --> 00:44:51.199
about it. And I was so with myself, and Charlie
1070
00:44:51.219 --> 00:44:53.460
had to leave the room, and I was like, right, well, right,
1071
00:44:53.480 --> 00:44:55.519
that's brilliant, isn't it? Because I was looking forward to that.
1072
00:44:55.539 --> 00:44:57.440
I was looking forward to watching that. And now I've
1073
00:44:57.460 --> 00:44:59.059
watched episode three. Right, here's what we're doing.
1074
00:44:59.099 --> 00:44:59.780
Charlie, come back in.
1075
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:04.079
Here's what we're doing, right? We're going to watch episode one, two,
1076
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:06.639
and three back-to-back tomorrow night. We're going to watch three again,
1077
00:45:06.659 --> 00:45:12.230
all right? And then, like, maybe a week or two later,
1078
00:45:12.250 --> 00:45:19.570
I went, it wasn't about quiz. LAUGHTER This wasn't about this.
1079
00:45:19.590 --> 00:45:22.949
You had other stuff going on. You're in a one-bedroom
1080
00:45:23.010 --> 00:45:28.039
flat with a nine-month-old baby. You're not annoyed about some
1081
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:29.179
Michael Sheen drama.
1082
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:33.219
It's not about quiz.
1083
00:45:33.579 --> 00:45:34.360
That's what I'm like.
1084
00:45:34.380 --> 00:45:37.639
The thought of Charlie having to go to that weird
1085
00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:39.139
little room by the kitchen.
1086
00:45:38.780 --> 00:45:42.719
While you had a meltdown, just waiting. Stood there, touching
1087
00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:44.440
both walls. Yeah, poor old Charlie.
1088
00:45:44.460 --> 00:45:45.699
Was that, would you say, I mean, I don't know
1089
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:47.280
if you listened to, Charlie will listen to the Shappie
1090
00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:49.480
Corsandi episode when she had a milk tray moment where
1091
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.320
she just lost it in lockdown. I imagine quiz was
1092
00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:54.400
your moment where it just, it all blew up for you.
1093
00:45:54.619 --> 00:45:56.460
It was definitely, yeah, yeah, definitely.
1094
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:59.150
And also as well, because you're like, now we're trying
1095
00:45:59.170 --> 00:46:00.789
to sort out getting a mortgage and all that kind
1096
00:46:00.829 --> 00:46:02.550
of stuff. So there's loads of, it's like, you know,
1097
00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:06.050
they always say that's a stressful time. You know, it's
1098
00:46:06.070 --> 00:46:07.269
one of the most stressful things you can do is
1099
00:46:07.309 --> 00:46:11.730
move house. So all of that is building up. The
1100
00:46:11.769 --> 00:46:15.409
other day, oh, this is bad as well. This is
1101
00:46:15.429 --> 00:46:15.670
going to.
1102
00:46:15.630 --> 00:46:16.590
Paint me in an awful light.
1103
00:46:16.949 --> 00:46:19.909
But the other day I thought she'd gone to bed
1104
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:24.739
and I was just silently sort of just like feeling
1105
00:46:24.820 --> 00:46:27.360
loads of stress. You know when you can sort of,
1106
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:29.440
it's like in your stomach and it's in your chest
1107
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:30.800
and you're like, right, I've.
1108
00:46:31.059 --> 00:46:32.239
Got to let this out somewhere.
1109
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:33.079
Really angry.
1110
00:46:33.099 --> 00:46:35.670
I'm just sort of like, oh. But it's not even anger,
1111
00:46:35.710 --> 00:46:35.849
is it?
1112
00:46:35.849 --> 00:46:39.190
It's just like a combination of anxiety and stress and
1113
00:46:39.210 --> 00:46:39.570
everything else.
1114
00:46:40.170 --> 00:46:42.710
And so I'm like, right. I'm just going to, without
1115
00:46:42.730 --> 00:46:44.519
even realizing I was, I didn't even think about it.
1116
00:46:44.889 --> 00:46:46.429
I just sort of, I just sort of.
1117
00:46:47.690 --> 00:46:49.949
Took my fist and like slam them really hard down
1118
00:46:49.969 --> 00:46:53.409
on like a kitchen surface. What I didn't realize was
1119
00:46:53.659 --> 00:46:55.519
they like, I'd actually slam them down on like a
1120
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:57.820
chopping board. So it made way more noise than I
1121
00:46:57.820 --> 00:47:03.559
was expecting it to make. So it's like, like just
1122
00:47:03.619 --> 00:47:06.500
suddenly this noise came from the kitchen and not only
1123
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:07.980
had Charlie not gone to bed, so she wasn't sort
1124
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:08.900
of miles away from the kitchen.
1125
00:47:09.179 --> 00:47:10.239
She was sat reading a book.
1126
00:47:10.699 --> 00:47:12.170
And so just, Just came in and was like, is
1127
00:47:12.190 --> 00:47:18.219
everything okay? I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1128
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.099
We're just a bit anxious about the house moving and
1129
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:24.019
all that. You know, it's fine. And she's like, okay.
1130
00:47:25.570 --> 00:47:27.170
She's there hiding all the knives.
1131
00:47:27.269 --> 00:47:29.409
Oh, I thought you were going to say you got
1132
00:47:29.429 --> 00:47:30.650
caught having a wank.
1133
00:47:31.789 --> 00:47:34.889
I went in the kitchen and just slammed it all
1134
00:47:34.929 --> 00:47:36.829
over the chopping board. Do you know what I really
1135
00:47:36.849 --> 00:47:38.670
should have done? But it's hard.
1136
00:47:38.710 --> 00:47:41.280
You're cooped up in that room. When I was a kid,
1137
00:47:41.300 --> 00:47:43.079
I used to have to scream into a pillow to
1138
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:43.639
release energy.
1139
00:47:43.659 --> 00:47:45.880
Have you ever done that? That helps.
1140
00:47:45.900 --> 00:47:47.239
I can't do that because the pillows are in the
1141
00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:53.480
room where she's napping. It's not good when Charlie goes,
1142
00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:54.969
why are you taking that pillow out to the garden?
1143
00:47:57.909 --> 00:47:59.449
Matthew, it's been an absolute pleasure.
1144
00:47:59.849 --> 00:48:01.849
Oh my God. It's been such a delight.
1145
00:48:01.869 --> 00:48:04.949
Do you feel like your wife, who is a fan
1146
00:48:04.989 --> 00:48:08.500
of the show, will feel like you've done a um
1147
00:48:08.860 --> 00:48:12.039
a service to you know summed up the situation do
1148
00:48:12.059 --> 00:48:13.219
you think you've been fair.
1149
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:15.389
Yeah i think so i think so she like she
1150
00:48:15.469 --> 00:48:18.849
she did say just make it make it clear that
1151
00:48:18.929 --> 00:48:22.269
i'm lots of fun and um i don't think at
1152
00:48:22.349 --> 00:48:24.369
any point have i suggested that she's not lots of
1153
00:48:24.389 --> 00:48:26.760
fun i've suggested i'm a bit of a fucking nutcase
1154
00:48:26.780 --> 00:48:29.980
at the times you know especially if i can't operate
1155
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:33.500
itv hub properly but um but i you know we
1156
00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:37.599
and we did the thing is at the Ultimately, it's brilliant.
1157
00:48:37.619 --> 00:48:41.860
I think the privilege I've had of being able to
1158
00:48:41.900 --> 00:48:44.659
watch her go from eight months when she couldn't do anything.
1159
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.380
She literally couldn't.
1160
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.679
She started crawling. This is mad. The first time she
1161
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:51.900
crawled was on the day of the first daily briefing.
1162
00:48:52.219 --> 00:48:57.940
She genuinely crawled away from the television while Boris Johnson
1163
00:48:57.960 --> 00:48:59.510
was giving the first daily briefing. That was the first
1164
00:48:59.530 --> 00:49:01.510
time she'd ever crawled. I've seen all of that. I've
1165
00:49:01.530 --> 00:49:04.829
seen her learning words. I've seen her learning signs. I've
1166
00:49:04.849 --> 00:49:06.980
been there for all of that and it's been an
1167
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:10.460
absolute joy. And, you know, yes, occasionally I snap a
1168
00:49:10.579 --> 00:49:13.780
chopping board in half, but small price to pay to
1169
00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:15.690
get them to be there with your kids, isn't it?
1170
00:49:15.869 --> 00:49:18.309
Now that you know Charlie's listening to this, is there
1171
00:49:18.349 --> 00:49:20.480
anything you'd like to say to her through this? podcast
1172
00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:24.079
that you may not, you know, be able to say face-to-face, Matt?
1173
00:49:24.099 --> 00:49:25.380
Is there anything you want to get off your chest
1174
00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:26.639
now about being cool?
1175
00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:32.570
Charlie writes, the all-over bibs that Cleo wears, you can't
1176
00:49:32.750 --> 00:49:34.389
hang them on the taps to dry.
1177
00:49:34.409 --> 00:49:39.699
For their very nature. The taps are wet.
1178
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:42.219
If I turn the tap on, they run water out
1179
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:44.400
of them, going back all over the all-over bibs. We
1180
00:49:44.420 --> 00:49:47.760
hang them on the oven door. That's where they dry. No,
1181
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:49.679
it's not going to drip on the floor. And even
1182
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:53.809
if it does, it's water. We've got a carpeted.
1183
00:49:53.409 --> 00:49:58.789
Floor in our kitchen. Amazing! That's a hill I'm prepared
1184
00:49:58.829 --> 00:50:01.349
to die on. I think that's a fair comment.
1185
00:50:01.610 --> 00:50:03.219
And I think it's best that you get it out
1186
00:50:03.260 --> 00:50:03.880
the open now.
1187
00:50:03.889 --> 00:50:05.820
I think that could be a new feature.
1188
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:07.800
Yeah, that could be a really good end, new feature
1189
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:08.400
to each one.
1190
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:10.880
Please send in, you know, we'll think of a name,
1191
00:50:10.900 --> 00:50:13.880
but is there something that's annoying you about your partner
1192
00:50:14.139 --> 00:50:17.159
and the way they're parenting? Please send us in an
1193
00:50:17.340 --> 00:50:20.550
email or a voice memo and we will get it
1194
00:50:20.699 --> 00:50:22.010
aired so that you can clear it up.
1195
00:50:22.210 --> 00:50:25.289
Well, I'm privileged to be part of the first parenting amnesty.
1196
00:50:26.909 --> 00:50:34.579
Yeah i think yeah crosby's amnesty crosby's law yeah where
1197
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.260
you're allowed to just say what's bothering you and no
1198
00:50:37.300 --> 00:50:38.260
one could be judged for it.
1199
00:50:38.380 --> 00:50:40.820
Crosby's law is final yeah cheers guys.
1200
00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:43.760
Thanks so much thanks matthew thanks mate cheers bye.
1201
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:48.619
Matthew crosby there um i think um we will come
1202
00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:52.860
to uh A, how much it's a pleasure for Charlie
1203
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:56.059
Crosby to be a fan of the podcast. But we
1204
00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:59.179
should talk about our new feature there that we've stumbled across, Rob.
1205
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:01.539
Also, I think we didn't really mention, Charlie's a producer
1206
00:51:01.579 --> 00:51:04.409
of TV shows, including Game Face with Regine Connery.
1207
00:51:04.429 --> 00:51:04.949
Is that correct?
1208
00:51:04.989 --> 00:51:06.250
Yeah, that is correct.
1209
00:51:06.329 --> 00:51:07.389
I didn't want to bring it up, but I did
1210
00:51:07.409 --> 00:51:10.550
have an audition for that with her, and she didn't
1211
00:51:10.570 --> 00:51:11.170
give me the part.
1212
00:51:11.210 --> 00:51:13.489
But I'm over it now. It's fine. But just so
1213
00:51:13.510 --> 00:51:15.030
we know the full story.
1214
00:51:15.690 --> 00:51:18.030
Um it was to play rashin's brother i mean i've
1215
00:51:18.110 --> 00:51:20.469
met i'm born for that part aren't i josh.
1216
00:51:20.289 --> 00:51:22.949
You're born for it you're absolutely born.
1217
00:51:22.750 --> 00:51:25.050
For it apart from being able to act who got
1218
00:51:25.070 --> 00:51:26.610
it in the end oh fuck no do you think
1219
00:51:26.630 --> 00:51:28.809
i'll watch that after getting turned down um no i
1220
00:51:28.829 --> 00:51:31.090
have actually it's really funny um but i can't remember
1221
00:51:31.110 --> 00:51:33.650
the person's name we've got the job and they were
1222
00:51:33.710 --> 00:51:34.690
great sure.
1223
00:51:34.510 --> 00:51:37.469
Yeah they matthew sent us a text which is charlie's
1224
00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:40.760
phone and when he walks back into the room and
1225
00:51:40.820 --> 00:51:44.030
it is uh She was 19 minutes into listening to
1226
00:51:44.050 --> 00:51:47.369
the Joe Brand episode of this podcast. She's a proper fan, Rob.
1227
00:51:47.670 --> 00:51:49.869
She's a massive fan. She's a mega fan.
1228
00:51:50.170 --> 00:51:52.969
I mean, her phone's also on 6%. She does need
1229
00:51:52.989 --> 00:51:53.929
to do something about that.
1230
00:51:53.929 --> 00:51:56.630
6% is insane to start a podcast on.
1231
00:51:56.710 --> 00:51:57.949
Is it not plugged in?
1232
00:51:58.110 --> 00:52:00.489
No, not from the picture. I couldn't live like that.
1233
00:52:00.510 --> 00:52:03.349
They're like three-wheeling hippies, this family. They're in one little house,
1234
00:52:03.670 --> 00:52:07.369
rolling on 6%. It's like she's gone camping. I'm more
1235
00:52:07.409 --> 00:52:09.690
than that. I've got a bloody car battery.
1236
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:12.440
So, our new feature, Rob.
1237
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.960
Yes. Crosby's Law. Crosby's Law sounds a bit dark, though,
1238
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:16.300
doesn't it?
1239
00:52:16.340 --> 00:52:19.719
Yeah, it does. It does. Let's not call it Crosby's Law.
1240
00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.699
But do send them in. If your partner listens to
1241
00:52:22.739 --> 00:52:26.119
this and you want to pass on a message to them,
1242
00:52:26.139 --> 00:52:28.429
you want us to do it, and we will pass
1243
00:52:28.570 --> 00:52:32.789
on what they are doing wrong about their parenting. Yes. Okay, Rob,
1244
00:52:32.809 --> 00:52:34.750
have you... Have you got one off the top of
1245
00:52:34.789 --> 00:52:35.210
your head?
1246
00:52:35.469 --> 00:52:36.230
Yeah, I've got one.
1247
00:52:36.309 --> 00:52:37.989
I want to just clear the air with him. Luckily,
1248
00:52:38.010 --> 00:52:40.469
he doesn't listen. So she won't hear this. And of course,
1249
00:52:40.489 --> 00:52:42.550
what will happen is this will sort of sit on
1250
00:52:42.590 --> 00:52:45.429
the Internet for three weeks. And then normally her mum's
1251
00:52:45.570 --> 00:52:48.449
mate listens and then tells her mum. And then Lou
1252
00:52:48.489 --> 00:52:50.360
gets a text and she goes to me in four
1253
00:52:50.389 --> 00:52:50.860
months time.
1254
00:52:51.059 --> 00:52:53.079
Did you say that? I don't know. It was four
1255
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:55.019
months ago. But yes, I did.
1256
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:58.090
What I'd like to say is I. In our house,
1257
00:52:58.329 --> 00:53:00.739
sometimes as a parent, your house can get messy, can't it?
1258
00:53:00.869 --> 00:53:02.409
It can just get a bit messy, a bit crazy.
1259
00:53:02.710 --> 00:53:04.510
And it's sort of like an unspoken thing of like,
1260
00:53:04.530 --> 00:53:06.460
let's not tidy it now or tidy it later or whatever.
1261
00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:08.320
But what annoys me is, I don't know if this...
1262
00:53:08.860 --> 00:53:13.340
It's when Lou decides it should be tidy immediately, but
1263
00:53:13.380 --> 00:53:15.820
I've not been brought into the conversation. So it's been
1264
00:53:15.860 --> 00:53:17.409
a shithole for three days.
1265
00:53:17.510 --> 00:53:17.949
I'm Lou.
1266
00:53:18.199 --> 00:53:20.070
And all of a sudden it's like, oh, well, that's everywhere.
1267
00:53:20.090 --> 00:53:23.230
I'm like, whoa, whoa. I thought we were just happy
1268
00:53:23.269 --> 00:53:24.190
living in shit for a bit.
1269
00:53:24.210 --> 00:53:24.710
That's fine.
1270
00:53:24.769 --> 00:53:25.050
Okay.
1271
00:53:25.110 --> 00:53:28.190
I'm happy to tidy, but at least give me forewarning.
1272
00:53:28.550 --> 00:53:29.150
I'm Lou.
1273
00:53:29.210 --> 00:53:30.309
I've realised.
1274
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:34.420
I'm sorry, Rob, that I do that. I absolutely do that.
1275
00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:36.900
Do you know what? You've shown a mirror to me
1276
00:53:36.940 --> 00:53:39.019
and I realised I'm wrong. So I'd like to apologise
1277
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:41.000
to Rose for that, but then have a go at
1278
00:53:41.039 --> 00:53:41.539
her for this.
1279
00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:45.449
Go on. Give if and take if away.
1280
00:53:46.090 --> 00:53:48.630
If I go to get something out of the fridge
1281
00:53:49.329 --> 00:53:52.760
and she tells me, oh no, no, that's out of date, right?
1282
00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:55.039
If she knows it's out of date, why is it
1283
00:53:55.059 --> 00:53:56.159
still in the fucking fridge?
1284
00:53:56.179 -->
00:53:56.280
Oh.
1285
00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.889
Josh, I'm so with you, I'm next to you, this
1286
00:53:59.929 --> 00:54:04.130
is fucking Sparta, and I'm willing to die for this.
1287
00:54:04.309 --> 00:54:05.170
Yes, please.
1288
00:54:05.329 --> 00:54:07.110
How is it in the fridge if you know it's
1289
00:54:07.190 --> 00:54:07.789
out of date?
1290
00:54:07.869 --> 00:54:11.440
You've seen it, because you know.
1291
00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.619
You've seen me, you know it's there.
1292
00:54:14.059 --> 00:54:16.119
There's fucking mould on that tomato, right?
1293
00:54:17.260 --> 00:54:18.940
They were the ones we had for the pizza oven
1294
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:20.449
that we haven't used, aren't they?
1295
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:25.179
Oh, yeah. Put it away. Why wasn't it thrown away
1296
00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:27.030
when you found out? Oh, John.
1297
00:54:27.050 --> 00:54:30.269
Actually, I think that's my new one. Can I get
1298
00:54:30.289 --> 00:54:32.989
my tiny time and take that one as well? By
1299
00:54:33.090 --> 00:54:35.230
the way, immediately, nothing to do with kids.
1300
00:54:35.510 --> 00:54:37.349
Just probably. Yeah.
1301
00:54:37.969 --> 00:54:41.969
So this has been going on eight years. Eight years.
1302
00:54:41.989 --> 00:54:43.670
Actually, it's out of date now. It's been going on
1303
00:54:43.690 --> 00:54:46.090
for so long. Just before.
1304
00:54:46.969 --> 00:54:49.150
So, yeah. Well, we'll see how that plays out when
1305
00:54:49.190 --> 00:54:50.210
this episode goes out. Yeah.
1306
00:54:50.469 --> 00:54:52.190
Yeah, email them in or send them... It'll be quite
1307
00:54:52.230 --> 00:54:53.750
nice to hear a voice note, I think.
1308
00:54:53.809 --> 00:54:54.110
Yeah.
1309
00:54:54.230 --> 00:54:56.389
If you can send those... Yeah, if you just.
1310
00:54:56.409 --> 00:54:57.610
I don't know what the best way to do it is,
1311
00:54:57.610 --> 00:54:58.849
but you can record it on your phone and just
1312
00:54:58.869 --> 00:55:01.309
pop it in an email and do it that way.
1313
00:55:01.469 --> 00:55:03.510
Yep, perfect. Or, yeah, do it that way.
1314
00:55:03.550 --> 00:55:05.300
However you want, but that is a lovely new way
1315
00:55:05.340 --> 00:55:06.900
to add multimedia to the podcast.
1316
00:55:06.980 --> 00:55:08.539
Yeah, I love a bit of multimedia, don't you?
1317
00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:09.719
Absolutely love it.
1318
00:55:09.780 --> 00:55:10.739
What's your favourite multimedia?
1319
00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:13.579
Probably GIFs.
1320
00:55:14.260 --> 00:55:17.099
I tell you what, you cannot beat the humble JPEG.
1321
00:55:18.380 --> 00:55:22.139
Never gets enough respect. Everyone's worried about videos and GIFs
1322
00:55:22.179 --> 00:55:22.940
and boomerangs.
1323
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:25.019
What about pictures, man? Lovely pictures.
1324
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:27.760
What about pictures? What about the old pen and paper?
1325
00:55:27.780 --> 00:55:33.010
That's the original GIF.
1326
00:55:33.090 --> 00:55:38.010
The HB? The king of pencil rankings, isn't it? The HB.
1327
00:55:38.269 --> 00:55:40.320
Everything starts with a HB. HB, isn't it?
1328
00:55:40.570 --> 00:55:42.670
Well, HB's the right one, and then all the others
1329
00:55:42.730 --> 00:55:43.570
are the wrong ones.
1330
00:55:43.809 --> 00:55:45.590
Mad bastard ones, when you've got too much time on
1331
00:55:45.610 --> 00:55:45.909
your hands.
1332
00:55:45.929 --> 00:55:48.389
The soft ones, where you'd write, and then your hand
1333
00:55:48.409 --> 00:55:50.409
would get it on, and it would smite. Fuck that.
1334
00:55:50.489 --> 00:55:52.300
Coal in a tube? Leave it out, mate. Well, yeah,
1335
00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:53.920
give me the HB. I'll do something neat.
1336
00:55:54.500 --> 00:55:57.340
We'll be back with more of this. Great. Absolutely.
1337
00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:59.269
Oh, I've got loads on pens, mate. Whenever you need me,
1338
00:55:59.300 --> 00:55:59.960
I'm ready to go.
1339
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:01.440
Well, how about Friday?
1340
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:04.820
Ink cartridges at a school, the playground. Oh, it was
1341
00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:05.639
like paintball.
1342
00:56:06.059 --> 00:56:06.679
See you on Friday.
1343
00:56:07.119 --> 00:56:08.460
No. No, we're not doing that.
1344
00:56:08.920 --> 00:56:09.559
Friday? Friday?
1345
00:56:10.289 --> 00:56:10.940
See you on Friday