Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
A listener asks Rob, Josh, and Michael to picture a field mouse rocking out to Queen. Rob sees it on his bird feeder camera wearing a yellow jacket. Josh imagines a cartoon mouse alone in a field with the full band playing onstage. Michael pictures a Wind in the Willows house with a record player and Hugh Grant dance moves interrupted by a surprised vole.
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The 'Imagine This' feature invites listeners to submit a brief vivid scenario and hear Rob, Josh, and Michael each describe the specific image their mind produces. Listener Joe from Walthamstow submits a field mouse rocking out to the band Queen. Rob's version is grounded in reality — he actually has a bird feeder camera app and pictures the mouse standing on it at night, holding a sunflower seed in a yellow jacket, dancing to music from the feeder's speaker. Josh goes full cartoon: a lone mouse in a field on its hind legs, one arm in the air, watching the full band play on a stage — with a notably alive Freddie Mercury. Michael's is the most elaborate: a Wind in the Willows-style anthropomorphised house, a record player, and a Hugh Grant Love Actually dance, until the mouse turns around to find a surprised vole watching. Rob identifies a subtext of shame in Michael's version.
Listener Rosa submitted the scenario of talking slippers on an old man's feet. Josh sees tartan slippers with elastic, ripped at the toes to form a mouth, chatting on crossed legs. Rob places his old man asleep with a Christmas hat, gravy on his belly, and novelty football slippers with faces having a full conversation.
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