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Chapter 1: What parenting challenges does Briony May Williams discuss?
Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Lily, can you say Rob Beckett?
Rob Beckett. And you say Josh Widdicombe. Josh Widdicombe.
No need for that. No need for that. That's been set up. I don't like that. I think she set that up on purpose, the mum. That's a shame, isn't it? Hello, this is my just-turned-five-year-old, potty-mouthed, my words, daughter Lily, saying your names in the intro. I think she did quite well. Sorry, Josh. I've listened to your podcast since lockdown era when I was pregnant and on my daily walks.
Massive thanks for all the laughs from Laura, aged 421 months, in Mold in North Wales. Mold. Did you used to get Willy bum at school? It's not the first time I've heard it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like triggering me. I didn't think it would be.
It feels like it is.
I'm fine.
Okay. Did you get called Willy bum at school? Yeah. A bit. Yeah. But I just, I'm fine with it.
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Chapter 2: How did Briony transition from teaching to baking?
I used to get robbed the knob. Yeah. Because of your massive dick. No, just, just cause it rhymed. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Just cause it rhymed. Yeah. Robbed the gob? No, robbed the knob. I think I said, I used to be called Beck's until Beckham come along. So I played football. Everyone used to call me Beck's. And then we're back on this, that sort of stuff. You must have been quite young in 1996.
How old were you? 10. 10. But I played from like the age of like eight. Oh, right, yeah. So he came, broke through in 96, 97, didn't he? He did, yeah.
Yeah.
Briony May Williams today. Here we go. Fresh from the tent and escaped from the country, escaped to the country.
Escape to the Country. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You just get that right.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Briony share about her experience on Bake Off?
Series 9 of The Bake Off. Yep, semi-finalist. She was a force of nature. I loved that episode. So much energy. I thought she was going to come in and be quite twee, and I'm a baker, and I do a bit of telly, very middle class, but no, she was... She was a great laugh. Do you know what? She put her foot on our throats.
Absolutely. Do you know what? There's some people at home, that's how you do it. What do you mean? If you're coming on a podcast, any podcast, not just us... You fucking deliver like that. You get on them.
You don't let the fuckers breathe.
Exactly. You smother them. Exactly. That was perfect podcast guest. It was, wasn't it? It was great. If you're at home and you want to be a guest on a podcast, enjoy the next 50 minutes because this is how you do it.
You get in right in the face. Yeah. It's like playing a Premier League club from the lower leagues. Exactly. You've got to fucking muscle them off the ball. Do you know what it reminded me of?
Go on.
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Chapter 4: How does Briony manage the balance between work and parenting?
Amol Rajan. When he came at us and we liked it. Yeah. Well, it's a bit like Amarajan. Yeah. Bring it. Bring on Bryony.
She's absolutely brilliant. We love this. Anyway, here's Bryony Mae Williams. Enjoy. Are you excited?
I'm excited.
I'm excited. But we are so unprofessional and lax. That's a start. So you're excited?
I am excited.
This has started.
Yeah, this has started. Are we going? Oh, yeah. We've gone. We've gone.
I always think it's weird when you're like the star of it and you're sat there and you're like, this is absolutely mental. Because we do an intro. Yeah. So you don't need to hear that rubbish.
But then even in the intro, we don't actually go through the whole sort of Wikipedia. I'll read your whole Wikipedia out.
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Chapter 5: What are Briony's thoughts on modern parenting pressures?
I did a talk at a school yesterday, a school I used to teach in, and they'd forced this kid to introduce me. 17-year-old boy. Oh, no. So he basically just went on Wikipedia and he was stood there going, and she came to the public's attention. Oh, no. All kid. All kid. I was like, oh, forced to. I was like, you found the Wikipedia page. Well done.
Well, basically, the classic route, gave up teaching, bit of bake-off, then you got in on telly.
Bosh.
Here we are.
Did you give up teaching before bake-off?
I gave up teaching, so I taught French and Spanish for seven years at secondary school. Sí, muy bien. Ah, blase español.
Sí, sí, yeah.
¿Qué tal? A star. Muy bien, gracias. ¿Y tú?
Sí. ¿Cuántos es? ¿Cuánto es? How much? How much is it? Isn't that the Australian airline? ¿Cuántas? ¿Cuántas?
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Chapter 6: How does Briony handle her daughter's education and expectations?
Pretty close, pretty close. I'll stop doing Spanish now.
No, I enjoyed it.
This could really surge the Hispanic sort of charts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a big market to tap into.
Yeah, I can imagine. Oh, it's not even an A star anymore, is it?
Grande Mercado. Grande Mercado.
To tap into.
Someone's been on Duolingo. What's your streak? Mercadona. sorry I'm functioning what's that Mercadona what's that that's a shop in Spain it's a shop yeah I was going to say it's like Tesco but in Spain Spanish Tesco yeah so are you still a fluent speaker many pasta not as fluent as Rob clearly no no no Butter and Butterfly I just did there Butter and Butterfly that was nice yeah
God, you've got really random knowledge of words. Is that a GCSE that you're digging out there?
No, he's not. He played football for Valencia. I don't recognise that term. And Middlesbrough. And Middlesbrough, but yeah, more Valencia. Sorry. After these, coffee's quite strong. You've come out the absolute blocks.
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Chapter 7: What experiences does Briony share about her podcast?
What? You know, obviously there's very little sleep you get when you've got a three-month-old. I was like, I don't want to go back to work. And he went, and you're telling me this now? And I went, yeah. And I felt great because I'd got it off my chest. So I went back to sleep. He was awake most of the night.
And what does he do?
He's a software engineer. So by the time I'd woken up in the morning, he'd done a spreadsheet.
And he was like, we can do it.
We're working out a budget. Yeah, working out a budget. And he was like, yeah, we can do it. So I stopped teaching when I had Nora because I wanted to be a stay at home mum with her. And that's when I applied to Bake Off when she was just over one.
Wow. It was more that you weren't a happy teacher as opposed to you just didn't want to do anything.
I love teaching. I love teaching. I still love it now. Like, I really enjoyed it and I loved the kids. Didn't like all the report writing and all that rubbish. Yeah, it's too much.
I think I'd be more into the report. I always think that's the bit. With the parents, I just... I quite like the report writing, actually. Children! The admin, the admin.
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Chapter 8: How does Briony reflect on her journey in the public eye?
And the parents, I quite like the parents.
Yeah.
I just couldn't deal with the parents, I think. And we don't, it's rare we get, we've had, I suppose we've had Lou, obviously, we've had Romesh. Greg Davis was a teacher. Yeah. But we've never had a mum, but he hasn't got a kid. But like, it's rare we've had people that have come from teaching. Yeah. To do teaching, do you feel like you've got an affinity with children as it is?
Well, now, I think there's a big difference between people who want to be primary school teachers and people who want to be secondary school teachers. Primary school teachers, I genuinely don't know how they do it. The patience they have with other people's children, it's beyond me. Secondary, they're teenagers, so it's a little bit better.
So you think secondary is more a love of your subject than a love of the children? Or a love of attention.
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Can it be all three? No offense to you. Probably not. But teachers on a work night out are the biggest hecklers going because they're not used to being told to sit down and shut up.
Yeah, no, that's so true.
There's a lot of teachers that go into comedy and performing because it is a performance, isn't it?
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