S05 EP7: A Helicopter Ride With The Bishop

**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...

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:48)
Okay, baby, can you say Josh Widdicombe?

**Rob Beckett** (0:53)
And Rob Beckett.
She's a barrel of laughs. She's full of beans.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:59)
There. This is two year old Fionn's efforts at an intro. Apologies for the background noise. She was obviously rustling a Greg's bag. I couldn't even hear it.
Thanks for keeping it real and sexy, Nia and Fionn Miller-Jones, St. Albans.

**Rob Beckett** (1:13)
Oh, St. Albans.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:13)
Fionn's a nice name, isn't it?

**Rob Beckett** (1:15)
Fionn, is that Irish?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:16)
I don't know. William Hague's wife was called Fionn. That's all I've got.

**Rob Beckett** (1:19)
How do you know that?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:20)
Fionn, I don't know, because it's the kind of thing I know.

**Rob Beckett** (1:24)
William Hague's wife.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:25)
When he was leading the Tory party. Well, he still is, I imagine. His wife, I don't know if they're still together.

**Rob Beckett** (1:29)
Oh, Fionn's two F's. Fionn.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:31)
Yeah, Fionn.

**Rob Beckett** (1:33)
Fionn, okay. Yeah, I think he's still married to William Hague.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:37)
Oh, there we go. There we go. He's a keeper.

**Rob Beckett** (1:41)
She went to Oxford.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:42)
We should mention, Rob, the incredible news that we haven't mentioned.

**Rob Beckett** (1:47)
What's that?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:48)
That we have a listener in...

**Rob Beckett** (1:50)
Oh, Pine Bluff.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:51)
Pine Bluff.

**Rob Beckett** (1:52)
Yes. We haven't mentioned that. We mentioned Pine Bluff. We had one person that listened to this show in Pine Bluff in Arkansas.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:00)
The worst place in Arkansas.

**Rob Beckett** (2:01)
Yeah. It's one of the most dangerous cities in America.
And we had... Can you read out the message of the person that listened?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:07)
Yes. This is from Samantha Evans. Read Arkansas. I listened once while I was visiting a friend in Pine Bluff. There we go.
That is the person. I'm British and lived in San Francisco.
There's a British population in Arkansas as Walmart is based there, which bought Asda, so they brought British people over to sort out their online grocery side. There you go.

**Rob Beckett** (2:28)
Imagine that. You work at Asda, right? You're in Asda head office in the UK, probably somewhere like Tamworth, somewhere Midlands-y. Nothing wrong with Tamworth. You go, Walmart have bought Asda.
I'm moving to the American head office. Where are you going? Pine Bluff.
Pine Bluff, everyone in the little town you grew up in, oh, my God, have you heard? They're moving to America. Their job at Asda.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:52)
Yeah.

**Rob Beckett** (2:52)
And then you're like, yeah, it's great. Pretending you're living in New York, sending stock photos of Manhattan, but you're in Pine Bluff.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:59)
I'm in Pine Bluff. Asda's based in Leeds, Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (3:02)
Oh, is it?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:03)
It's a nice place to live as well, Leeds, isn't it?

**Rob Beckett** (3:06)
Leeds is great. I like Leeds. I like York as well. I'd go York over Leeds personally.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:10)
Oh, York for me is my, I'd say my favorite city in the UK.

**Rob Beckett** (3:13)
It's up there, isn't it?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:14)
Oh, it's beautiful.

**Rob Beckett** (3:15)
But no, it's no Pine Bluff, though. No, in Arkansas.
Right, I've got, this is the correspondent special and we have got, I've been going through it, Josh. I've consolidated, I say hi, Michael, and someone that's probably helped Michael, has consolidated these thousands of emails into.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:30)
Hit me.

**Rob Beckett** (3:31)
I'm going to start off with something big.
I laugh so much, I wrote off my car. What? My name's Lydia.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:39)
Richard Hammond. Oh, sorry.

**Rob Beckett** (3:46)
My name's Lydia, and my brother introduced me to the podcast, and this is the only time I'll admit he was right. It's epic. Anyway, I work in a busy A&E department, which is a commute of one hour, 30 minutes away, so a perfect time to listen to episodes. On my way home from work, I was listening to the episode in series one with Jen Brister and laughed so much, I clipped my tire, which sent my car veering down the road and ended up in a tree in a ditch.