S13 EP13: I LOVE / HATE the summer holidays
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Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
46 min
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6 chapters
transcribed 19 days ago
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What makes the end of the summer holidays feel so exhausting for parents?
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Maya, can you say Josh Whitakam? Dash Ecket. Can you say Rob Eckett? What? Oh Rob Beckett. Beckett. Becket. Oh leave it out. Well done. And you say have a good show. Have a good shop. I
thought the becket was fine. Aye, that that mum's a hard taskmaster. Can't say the word taskmaster though without thinking about taskmaster, can you? I can.
I didn't think of it until you said it. Didn't we? Because now I after I got cheated out of the victory of the champions of champions with the pedometer that didn't work, I've sort of buried it in a very sort of grown up way, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've taken the
moral high ground. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. A hundred percent, yeah. Hello, you wonderful humans. I'd like to put myself forward for the oldest recorded introduction. This is Maya three years ago. I couldn't remember where I saved it and just found it now. Maya is six point five years old. I've been listening to your podcast from the very beginning. When are your live shows coming back? Oh, give us a break, Amandraf. So busy.
We're gonna do um Josh, we're gonna do some Saturday nights just w about midnight when Strictly finishes and we're gonna do a midnight show. Back to back. And then we just can go straight.
back in the studio Sunday for the results. Exactly. Thank you for making me smile all these years, Amanda from Rutland. Rutland. Sounds like everyone just shags. It does, doesn't it, Rob? You can't hear Rutland without well that's well, we both thought the same thing there. So there we go. You're right, Josh, we sound tired. But it we did choose 8 AM
We did choose 8 a.m. You're away. Um there's you got kids in the house? Kids in the house, kids in the house. Can I ask a question? Why do you record next to a hallway when there's bedrooms?
Uh because the Wi-Fi's uh not strong enough uh upstairs in the bedroom. Southwest. Um we've got a seven minute voice memo from Lou. Oh my god. Seven minutes. So I thought I've listened to it. Yeah. You know, it's good stuff. Do we Do you want to
give me the highlights and then put the full message at the end?
I listened to it two weeks ago when I got it, Rob. I've only just remembered this morning.
We got recorded for a couple of weeks 'cause of Some holiday I've got loads to go through. I've basically Are you just m are you just moving on from there? No, no, no. I was gonna say is I don't I've been Now I don't want to, you know, tempt another voice note out of Lou, but I've been the uh default parent for the last sort of ten days because Lou's been working. I've not been working. I've been taking reins with the kids. So I've got so much to talk about, so much has gone on. Um but um I don't know where to start. We've got this seven minute voice note. You're you are you okay? Or maybe Michael. Or maybe Michael
could edit up the seven minute voice note. We could listen to the seven minute voice note and Michael could put in fast forwards so that it's like three minutes when we record when it is at
That's a nice tease. We're recording again on Monday. If you send it to me, Josh, I'll compress it and we can do a little sort of stop start, like real time response from Rob.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What makes the end of the summer holidays feel so exhausting for parents?
0:00–8:49
2
How do Rob and Josh handle the chaos of daily routines and kids’ activities during the holidays?
8:49–16:40
3
What funny (and stressful) stories do they share about dentist appointments and morning routines?
16:40–25:09
4
Why did the hosts decide to try golf, and what mishaps happened on the course?
25:09–33:16
5
How do they discuss the need for routine versus the constant hustle of parenting?
33:16–41:46
6
What ideas do they explore for new podcast formats and online content?
41:46–46:00