Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
Rob Beckett's elderly parents turned down a bank holiday barbecue with their famous son to instead go to a pub function room and watch their GP play drums in a band. Rob's conclusion: when your parents are over 80, the kids are the only reason they want to see you anyway.
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Laura Smyth joins the studio and Josh immediately clocks her Chanel necklace — which she confirms is fake, bought at a festival in Kilkenny. She also has fake Chanel from boot sales and a 'really good' fake handbag from Istanbul (real leather, unlike the plastic ones at the same price). Laura lays out her rule: you cannot justify an eight-thousand-pound Chanel bag or a couple-of-grand necklace until you own bricks and mortar. The conversation spirals into a shared rant about captive-market price inflation — minibars, airport water, service station petrol, cinema snacks — all things where you know you're being ripped off and buy anyway. Rob recounts arriving at Tenerife Airport needing water for a four-and-a-half-hour flight and paying €5 per bottle, €15 for three — 'an absolute liberty'. Laura's attempt to guess the price goes comically wrong. The segment is warm and fast, establishing Laura as a natural fit with the hosts before Rob asks for the formal 'family recap' — kids, husband, setup — like the opening of a drama.
Rob Beckett's elderly parents turned down plans to see him in favour of watching their local GP play drums in a pub function room.
Separate one child from the sibling group and a completely different personality emerges. Laura took her 23-year-old to Morocco for a spa break. With her younger kids, she and her husband 'divide and conquer'. The first time a kid is in the front seat without their sibling, you realise who they actually are.
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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