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Chapter 1: What parenting challenges does Laura Smyth face?
Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Mabel, I know you've got hiccups, but can you say Rob? Rob. Can you say Beckett? Beckett. Can you say Josh?
Josh.
Can you say Widdicombe? Widdicombe. Very good. Well done, Poppet.
The timing of that first hiccup was so perfect. This is perfect comic timing from Mabel.
Mabel, I know you've got hiccups...
can you say one more time that's a bit of you this isn't it i know you've got hiccups but can you say from now on we will prioritize a child with hiccups doing it yeah so if you've got a child with hiccups right with hiccups yeah and if you write with hiccups to get to the top of the list and there's no hiccups it'll be deleted yeah so don't try that one yeah
Good morning, Michael, Rob and Josh.
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Chapter 2: How does Laura balance her comedy career with parenting?
Here's my daughter, Mabel, just turned two, having a go at your names in the intro. Arguably, I should have waited for a time when she didn't have hiccups. Incorrect.
Highlight. Best for mums.
I'm an OG listener. The podcast started at the same time I was making peace with the idea I'd never be a mother after a very difficult couple of years. So sending this in is something of a full circle moment for me. Not only am I a mother, after all, but I'm mother to one of those adorable toddlers that can't pronounce Widdicombe.
thank you for making this wild and wonderful journey to parenthood feel normal and achievable stay sexually relatable rebecca three 433 months i do miss my kids not being able to talk properly yeah was where we yeah my son still has words which he just is too hot in here there's a voice from the back that says take your jacket off you pervert
I'm a top. Take your jacket off. Go tops off if you want. No, I can't. You keep doing that quite a lot.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Laura share about teenage years?
And I saw you dressed as a Chippendale on your other podcast. You're right. I'm tired. The heat has hit me. We are recording this in the heat wave in London and the air con's broken and it is about a thousand. It feels like some sort of nuclear shelter.
fuck my fucking life but we're gonna put a good shift in oh josh we know because it's laura smith and it's a great interview and we've done it already you know when we said we didn't know what to do when we're walking along late at night and there's a lady we don't want them to feel intimidated yeah it's actually a campaign we got sent this by poppy murray yeah and it's called belads.co.uk
B-Lads is an awareness and safety campaign which provides practical advice to men for steps they can take to help women feel safer when they're walking alone. Exactly what we're looking for. So everyone has the right to walk alone safely. Here we go. So B-Lads is basically, it's an acronym.
Yeah, I suppose it is, yeah.
The B is a word or a sort of... No, I never know.
I think an acronym is where it's like BBC.
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Chapter 4: How does Laura address mental health in her comedy?
But if it's like NASA, where it becomes a word in itself, I don't think it's an acronym. I think it's a different thing. What is that, Michael? Do you know what I mean? I'm going to check. He's checking. It's too hot. It's too hot. Anyway, be visible. Yeah. Isn't that the problem, though? Well, no, because someone's more intimidating if you can't see who they are.
So don't be like hidden. Okay. Ease attention by making a phone call.
Chapter 5: What tips does Laura give for managing sibling dynamics?
Yeah. Hi, just on the way home. Maybe make up a nice, normal, family-friendly phone call. Yeah. L for the lads bit. Look away. Don't stare. Yeah. A. Active bystander. I don't know what that means. Well, just be active. Distance yourself. Yeah, I think that's fair. S. Suggest walking your friend home. I don't know what to actually do, though, still.
Chapter 6: How does Laura reflect on her parenting journey?
Well, let me give you an example. Go on. Okay, so I'll play that out with you. Okay, play with me. Okay, so you're walking home. Be visible. So, well, it's slightly weird for you because you live on country lanes, right?
Yeah, and I'm famous.
Oh, yeah, all right. Fucking hell, big shot.
No, but I just think, like... It's weird in itself. I feel like... I think it diffuses the situation instantly. I think it might help. Maybe you should stick that at the end. Be famous.
Chapter 7: What are Laura's thoughts on the impact of social media on kids?
It will help, if passed. If passed.
But a certain type of famous... Is that the bloke I've picked? Like, not a weird famous. Be visible. So, basically... Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. You're walking behind someone. Yeah. How close am I? Too close. Too close. Drop back or whatever the one was that meant drop back. Distance yourself. Distance yourself.
Chapter 8: What can audiences expect from Laura's upcoming tour?
So don't be too close. Got you. So you drop back. Why not go more in the light? Don't walk on, say, the dark bit of the pavement.
Or maybe walk across the road to the other side, away from it. Exactly. Distance yourself under the light rather than in the dark bit. Exactly. Got you.
Make a phone call to Lou.
And just be like normal friendly person.
No, no, make a phone call.
So don't say the normal things I say to Lou because I might be a bit fruity. Pretend that you've got like a lovely relationship. Like that. So I'll pretend I've got a normal relationship. Phone up Lou and go. Hi Lou, what's for dinner? What do you mean what's for dinner? I don't know. I'm trying to make a lady feel safe. Let's not argue about what's in the fridge.
I know it's sort of like trad wife vibes, but I'm just trying to act like a sort of a normal, friendly, non-threatening husband. Because I'm happily married. And look away, don't stare. Because I think sometimes sort of looking and smiling to go, I'm friendly. If anything, that's weirder. So just don't look away. Don't look at them. Very good. There we go. We've done it. There you go.
And also be famous. Because maybe if I'm walking down a country lane and there's a lady there and I'm, you know, I'm trying to keep my distance and stuff and she's like, are you Rebecca of the Telly? Can I have a photo? I'm like, I can't. I'm keeping my distance. I'm keeping my distance. And I'm easing the tension by making a call. Yeah, exactly. But that's good.
Be visible, ease the tension by making a phone call, look away, don't stare, active bystander. Do you know what that means? No. No, that's... Do you think... Do you think that they went with B-Lads first and then went backwards from there?
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