S13 EP12: Andy Parsons

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**SPEAKER_2** (0:29)
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**Rob Beckett** (0:58)
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**Josh Widdicombe** (1:01)
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**Rob Beckett** (1:36)
Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with Holly.

**Andy Parsons** (1:40)
Can you say Rob? Beckett.
Can you say Josh?

**Rob Beckett** (1:50)
Widdicombe.

**Andy Parsons** (1:53)
Good girl. Good girl.

**Josh Widdicombe** (1:55)
There we go. Camilla says, Dear Rob, Josh and Michael, please find attached an audio introduction from my child, Holly Renton for your podcast, Clip Details.

**Rob Beckett** (2:06)
Is Renton the surname?

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:09)
Well, yes, it is the surname.
Yeah, it's not the name of the... Ewan McGregor, I want to say character in...

**Rob Beckett** (2:17)
Holly Renton.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:18)
Renton is the main character in Trainspotting. Am I right?

**Rob Beckett** (2:22)
Yeah.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:23)
Clip Details, colon.
Name, colon, Holly Renton. Age, 19 months. Location, North Moreton, Oxfordshire. This is an efficient email.

**Rob Beckett** (2:36)
The mom's called Camilla.

**Josh Widdicombe** (2:38)
Listener, since the beginning during lockdown and childlessness, we now have our farm-loving daughter Holly, who was thankfully born on a due date the 8th of December 2024, and not too close to Christmas. My husband often gets told how Josh Widdicombe says this and Rob Beckett says this. Loved seeing Rob at the London Palladium when leaving Holly with their grandparents for the first time.
Sorry, Josh, your tickets were all sold out, so we sadly missed you. Best regards, Camilla Renton. Then she's put a mobile number.

**Rob Beckett** (3:05)
Give her a call.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:06)
Should I give her a call?

**Rob Beckett** (3:07)
Shall we?
She's ringing women called Camilla. Be careful with Camilla's. It's been forwarded to voicemail.

**Andy Parsons** (3:22)
Unlucky Camilla.

**Rob Beckett** (3:24)
At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hear that.

**Andy Parsons** (3:28)
Should we do a message?

**Rob Beckett** (3:28)
Yeah.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:29)
Hi, Camilla, it's Josh Widdicombe.

**Rob Beckett** (3:31)
And Rob Beckett.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:33)
We just read out your e-mail and you'd left your mobile number, so we thought it'd be fun to call you, but you didn't pick up.
And now we've got to bring on Andy Parsons because he's the guest in this episode. So thank you for your support. Good luck with everything. Bye.

**Rob Beckett** (3:48)
Welcome Andy Parsons. Andy Parsons, welcome to the show.

**Andy Parsons** (3:54)
Thank you very much.

**Josh Widdicombe** (3:55)
We were just talking about the Southwest of England.

**Andy Parsons** (3:57)
We were catching up because we haven't seen each other for a little while.

**Rob Beckett** (4:00)
A pre-show Cornwall catch up. Yeah. Do you know what's really weird about that?
Because I've never went to Cornwall, I think only once as a kid, never go as an adult. You guys were chatting away. I literally knew no words.

**Josh Widdicombe** (4:12)
You said what Flambards is.

**Rob Beckett** (4:14)
Flambards, Lizards, something else.

**Andy Parsons** (4:16)
Well, we had an old section on Mock the Week about Trago Mills. Of course.

**Rob Beckett** (4:19)
Yeah, of course. I've heard that. I still don't really know what it is.

**Andy Parsons** (4:22)
It's like, I don't know. It's Southwest institution.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:24)
Are you from Cornwall?

**Andy Parsons** (4:25)
So I was born in Dorset and we moved down to Cornwall. So I had a few years in Cornwall. And then secondary education in Devon. So I've pretty much done. I've got just Somerset to go, really. And then I can tickle boxes.