S05 EP8: Martin Lewis

**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.

**Rob Beckett** (0:30)
Or hopefully how they're not coping.

**Josh Widdicombe** (0:32)
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_1** (0:48)
Rex, can you say Rob Beckett? And can you say Josh Widdicombe?

**Martin Lewis** (0:59)
And can you say, we love you, Rob and Josh.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:05)
Oh, that's nice. That is a winner, isn't it?

**Rob Beckett** (1:08)
That is a good one.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:09)
Hello, sexy Rob and sexy Josh. This is my son, Rex Rainey.

**Rob Beckett** (1:12)
That's a cool name.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:13)
Introducing your brilliant podcast. Rex Rainey, private detective.

**Rob Beckett** (1:17)
Rex Rainey investigates.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:20)
What a great name.
Rex is two and a quarter and was born during the first week of the first lockdown on March 25th, 2020 Rex lives with mom, Kim, dad, Josh and Fergus the dog.

**Rob Beckett** (1:31)
That is an absolute anxiety bomb, that, innit?
We're going into a national lockdown. I'm just having contractions. Can we do it one thing at a time, please? Have you bought enough rice? Have you got some toilet roll?

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:42)
Oh my word. Cause people would be like, do you know what? It'd actually be quite a good time to have a kid this first lockdown cause you're stuck in your house anyway.

**Rob Beckett** (1:51)
But then also anxiety in your brain, you'll always find the worst thing about that. The good thing about that is you can just focus on your baby. You're both at home, you're indoors, yadda, yadda, yadda. You can't go on holiday, but actually holiday's hard work. But your brain goes, they're not going to socialise.
They won't have seen anyone. They won't have seen anyone's mouth. It'll only be their eyes.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:07)
I was in labour for such a long time when I had Rex that we weren't in lockdown when I went into labour. But we were by the time he was born five days later.
Oh my God.

**Rob Beckett** (2:16)
You asked you to be in the lane having contractions going, they've shut theaters.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:20)
Well, she says, my husband had a nightmare trying to pick the right moment to break the news.
Oh man. That is incredible. Thank you for being so sexually relatable. Kim Rainey, Horsham.

**Rob Beckett** (2:36)
How are you Josh? All right?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:37)
I'm all right, yeah.

**Rob Beckett** (2:39)
Good, good.
Any news? Anything you want to report?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:41)
Not really, no. It's, you know, it's all trucking along all right. I should clear up because you, there was a, my TV works with iPlayer Rob.

**Rob Beckett** (2:55)
Oh, sorry, yeah, so basically we spoke last week about your telly not working and you're not knowing how to watch the football. Then we spoke about you watching the football and those people have said, how did he get his telly working? What was going on?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:05)
What are all those wires doing? So I tried to get the garden TV working.

**Rob Beckett** (3:09)
Yeah.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:09)
Didn't work.
Didn't work. Gave up.

**Rob Beckett** (3:12)
Just doesn't work?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:13)
Well, I need to, I just couldn't work out to tune it in and I realised whenever I've done it before, someone else has tuned in for me.

**Rob Beckett** (3:20)
Because like someone else had been round.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:21)
Yeah, like big boys that come to watch the football. Do you know what I mean?

**Rob Beckett** (3:24)
Yeah.
And so are you really like, is it you can't be bothered and you're busy or like if you had an hour and a half with no one in the house, could you do that? Do you think or is it just so out of the sky?

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:36)
Yeah, I think if I had an hour and a half in the house, yeah, I could easily do that.

**Rob Beckett** (3:40)
Oh, so you're not like completely.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:43)