Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
Josh's daughter has broken her arm, and their upcoming swimming-pool holiday is suddenly a disaster. Moving to August costs £2,000 extra; next year is refused; October has 21-degree weather. Rob's solution: buy a waterproof cast cover and go anyway.
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A substantial mid-roll advertisement block covers five separate sponsors: Carvana's 7-day vehicle return policy, a second Peyronie's disease awareness read, Home Depot's storage sale, Choice Hotels' Comfort Inn direct-booking offer, and State Farm's home-and-auto bundle pitch. This block runs for approximately 15 minutes of total runtime before the hosts return with the Park Run segment.
Rob bought what he thought was a big paddling pool for £500. It is 12 feet across, comes with a ladder, requires chlorine and a filter, and holds 20,000 litres. He now owns a swimming pool. He has no plan for draining it.
Rob's inadvertent garden swimming pool holds approximately 20,000 litres of chlorinated water, which he plans to drain by siphoning onto his lawn over two days.
Moving Josh's pre-booked summer holiday from July to mid-August would cost an extra £2,000 in flights alone, making it financially unviable.
Josh's single best summer holiday tip: don't take your big holiday in week one, or you're Chesney Hawkes opening and closing with I Am the One and Only. Rob's tip: never go camping. Also, pool your childcare with other parents and split the week.
Robby Hoffman has never bought a depreciating car. She flipped a $3,600 Toyota Corolla into a $6,000 sale, used that for a Cayman, flipped it for $18,000, and bought her dream 2001 Porsche 911 for a net $10,000.
Ryan carries the Sig P365 for daily carry and a suppressed .300 Blackout rifle at home — specifically because green-tip .223 flies through human bodies and walls, risking his kids' rooms. Strickland carries the Sig P365 AXG and a PSA AR-15 in .223. They debate why .300 Blackout matters for home defense and mock Staccato owners in equal measure.
Bobby never checks a bag — for any trip, including Australia. His secret: one pair of raw denim jeans (to develop a fade), sardine cans as in-flight snacks, and a Klingon hunting knife on his keychain. Andrew questions everything. Jimmy suggests he just check a bag for two weeks.
The crew drafts their Mount Rushmore of spoon foods. Ice cream goes first overall, soup goes second, and PFT shockingly passes on cereal to take gelato (then mashed potatoes), letting Hank and Zach steal cereal in the third round — a mistake PFT immediately regrets.
At 14, Achatz's father bought a disassembled 1970 GTO for $1,400 and spent two years rebuilding it with his son using the factory manual. The project taught Grant hands-on problem-solving — the same obsessive attention to how things are put together that would later define his kitchen.
A brief promo for Points North, an NPR Network podcast from Interlochen Public Radio featuring immersive stories about the natural world around the Great Lakes.
Sony stopping physical disc production sounds alarming, but Patrick Beja points to PC gaming as the test case: the platform went fully digital via Steam, the used game market disappeared, and yet games are cheaper in real terms than they were 20 years ago thanks to constant sales. The real fight should be for digital consumer rights, not physical media.
Richard recommends Monopoly Deal (the card game version of Monopoly, faster and nastier) and Wilkie Collins's Victorian novel 'No Name', which he says is ripe for a TV adaptation. Marina recommends live tournament football — the only thing on her mind after 1 hour's sleep.
The Campaign for North Africa board game takes roughly 20 years to complete at a reasonable pace, and no one has ever actually finished it. Pierre already knows the Italian forces need extra water for pasta, which is technically accurate to the rules.
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