S04 EP46: The Fact Monster Has Arrived

**Rob Beckett** (0:03)
Hello, I'm Rob Beckett.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:04)
Hello, I'm Josh Widdicombe.

**Rob Beckett** (0:05)
Welcome to Parenting Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:21)
So to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern day parenting, each week we'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping, or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you, the listener, with your tips, advice, and of course, tales of parenting woe.

**Rob Beckett** (0:37)
Because let's be honest, there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with...

**SPEAKER_3** (0:48)
Hey, Emmy, can you say Rob Beckett? And can you say Josh Widdicombe?
Well done.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:58)
That is Imogen.
She's from Tooting, South West London. She'll be two in August, but where's her mum from, Rob?

**Rob Beckett** (1:04)
I don't know, but I can tell from that name and the way she's speaking, I reckon they're in a little flat in Tooting. They're moving out soon. A bit more space.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:12)
Her mum's a Kiwi.

**Rob Beckett** (1:13)
Oh, classic New Zealanders. New Zealanders, Australians, South Africans love it, South West London.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:19)
They've been living in London for the past seven years. They've been listening to your podcast since it started. Initially on long lockdown walks with a newborn and now my commute to the office. Thank you for all the lols and being so relatable. That's from Miriam 396 months, whatever that is.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:35)
What?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:36)
35, something like that.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:37)
Yeah.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:39)
Miriam Schumacher.

**Rob Beckett** (1:40)
Miriam Schumacher?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:41)
Miriam Schumacher. What a name.

**Rob Beckett** (1:43)
Oh, is that her name?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:45)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:46)
Oh, wow.

**Rob Beckett** (1:46)
I didn't know. I thought there was only one Schumacher.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:49)
Well, there's the brother as well.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:50)
There's two from the office.

**Rob Beckett** (1:51)
I know, but I'm saying that with that family, I don't think Michael Schumacher just arrived on his own.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:55)
Like, actually, the Plymouth manager is called Stephen Schumacher and he's from...

**SPEAKER_4** (1:59)
Okay, well, you know what?

**Rob Beckett** (2:00)
I'll take you back and I'm wrong.
You've had some truth juiciness, haven't you? The Fact Monsters arrived.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:07)
I'm just trying to help out. I'm just trying to help out, Rob.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:11)
I'm just trying to help out, Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (2:12)
Well, I bet you don't help, okay? I just... It was a little thing about the name.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:18)
No one cared.

**Rob Beckett** (2:19)
I was really trying my best not to say anything offensive around the whole shoot back of name, but now we're back on track.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:25)
How are you?
Oh, man. Well...

**Rob Beckett** (2:28)
Not good. We've had a bit of a struggle trying to get this... Yeah. Because basically we're going to have a couple of weeks off because it's very busy for us at the moment, and we have to have a little break at some point in the year for some sort of boring podcast reason. However, we're having a couple of weeks where it will be best of episodes. So this is us, and we've been struggling. We're very busy at the moment. We've been struggling to catch up, and you've not been well, Josh. Is that correct?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:48)
No, I've been ill, Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (2:50)
You get ill quite a lot. Is that sort of a thing you do, isn't it?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:53)
Yeah, I think I've got a weak immune system. Also, when you have kids, I think I'm getting all the young kids bugs again, because I've got a second young kid.

**Rob Beckett** (3:01)
You're getting a young kid bug, are you?
I've just got a bug again. I can't. No, Josh. I've just got a bug.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:10)
I'm not a Tory Whip, Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (3:15)
Great stuff. Boris might be gone by the time you listen to this.
So we've been struggling to meet up and you're feeling ill. But Glasto kind of helps, can't it?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:24)
No, Glasto. We've got to have a Glasto. I'll be honest with you. I've had a bad run. So I had my two weeks of sleeping pills to induce anxiety before Glasto, and then my one week of Glasto-induced anxiety after Glasto, and then I got well, and then I just got ill.
And now, on Sunday, Rob, so all day I felt nauseous, like I wasn't able to...