Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
The debate: can a white man wear an LA Lakers vest to a friend's barbecue? Rob and Josh work through Romesh Ranganathan (yes, tattoos help), Tom Davis (too tall, invites questions), Joel Dommett (too lean and pale), Tiny Tempah (absolutely yes, jiu-jitsu body), and finally Josh himself (Teen Wolf background dweeb energy).
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The Glades lift story is short but perfectly observed: one lift working, one broken, escalator cordoned off despite being technically functional ('a broken escalator is just stairs'). The renegade who tore down the sign — a man in a sleeveless LA Lakers vest — becomes the springboard for an extended digression about who can actually pull off wearing a basketball jersey to a social event. Rob and Josh work through five candidates from their real-life social circle: Michael (the podcast producer, no), John Richardson (absolutely not), Romesh Ranganathan (probably yes, tattoos help), Tom Davis (too tall, invites basketball questions), Joel Dommett (too pale and lean), and Tiny Tempah (yes, immediately). The discussion gradually circles a question neither of them wants to ask directly: is it essentially a racial thing? Rob acknowledges it plainly. The final candidate, Josh himself, is given the verdict of 'background dweeb in Teen Wolf energy,' which he accepts without visible distress.
At the Glades shopping centre, one working lift was full and a broken escalator was cordoned off. Rob noted that a broken escalator is just stairs — and someone else in a sleeveless basketball shirt ripped the sign down and walked everyone through. Rob's daughter thought it was the coolest thing she'd ever seen.
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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