Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
Rob's future father-in-law challenged him to squash at Center Parcs when Rob was 25 and Lou's dad was around 56. He was wearing shoes that 'looked like they were found on the Titanic.' He absolutely demolished Rob, walked to the bar for half a pint, and declared Rob wasn't good enough for his daughter.
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The episode's central story belongs to Josh, who has become — much to his own surprise — something of a Devon social animal. He catalogues six events across two days: a Saturday that began with art club (where the parents had coffee), continued with a local road craft fair, and climaxed at a 'Long Table' street dinner where the road was closed and families brought their own food from Waitrose. Josh admits the long table was actually two parallel tables, which was 'a bit of a disappointment.' After the event, children discovered that the gazebos (described memorably by Josh as 'the roof of a marquee, but with legs') had been anchored to water-filled wheelie bins. Someone tipped one over, and kids spent the tail end of the evening jumping into the flood on the tarmac, Rob comparing the scene to a New York fire hydrant moment in Harlem. Sunday brought a children's triathlon Josh's daughter watched rather than competed in due to a broken arm, a birthday party, and drinks with new neighbours. At the end of it all, Josh's verdict was simple: 'I am spent.'
A broken pipe turned the Bad Friends studio into a hydrogen sulfide chamber. The crew denied smelling anything — which, as Andrew pointed out, makes their home lives deeply suspicious.
At a childhood sleepover in Sacramento, Bobby Lee's friends drew penises all over his face while he slept. He woke up, cried, and walked 7 miles down a dirt road before Eric Purvis's mom drove out to retrieve him.
On KSI's Make Me Laugh show, Bobby Lee got slapped so hard he fell and briefly blacked out — 5 minutes into the event. The rule was to use a tortilla, but the contestant used his bare hand instead.
What starts as a riff on Amber Alerts turns into an elaborate Speed remake: Bobby is a Hollywood tour guide whose bus shares a route with a kidnapper's identical bus, there's a bomb on board, and Keanu Reeves needs to be called immediately.
Their producer riffs a conspiracy theory about Lindsey Graham's death in Kyiv, which somehow leads to Bobby and Andrew discovering that every lyric of 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin secretly describes 9/11. They are disturbingly convincing.
Bobby Lee woke up Saturday morning to find three children splashing in his pool, along with a professionally hired swimming teacher — all arranged by friends who have keys to his house. His response: 'There's just too much joy here.'
Harold Ramis told a story about Caddyshack's cast doing drugs all day and night during Florida storm delays, with half their pay going to cocaine. Bobby Lee immediately wants to make that exact movie — and offers to relapse to do it.
Robby Hoffman had never heard of 'new towels.' A towel, in her world, was built with the house. When Sarah Silverman announced she'd bought new pool towels, it was a class-gap revelation.
Will Arnett pitched the perfect rich-person home for Robby: seven-hundred-thread-count sheets and brand-new towels — but a tiny, wrecked kitchen with a coil stove, chips, and Sprite. Best of both worlds.
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