Podbit · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
After 50 minutes discussing whether parents worry about grown-up children, Rob tries to call his mum and dad live at the end of the episode. Neither answers. The working theory: they are French-kissing outside the school gates waiting to pick up Rob's daughters.
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As Laura Smyth departs for her 3:36 Euston train to the Ricky May Comedy Festival, Rob and Josh wrap up with a live attempt to call Rob's parents — the very parents who turned down a bank holiday barbecue with their famous son to watch their GP play drums at the pub. Rob rings his mum: no answer. He rings his dad's phone, knowing his dad will simply pass it to his mum: also no answer. This lands as perfect comic payoff to the episode's running thread — parents stop worrying about you and start ignoring you once you're grown up. Josh suggests they might be asleep in the car outside the school, or possibly 'making out'. Rob is genuinely scandalised. The episode closes with Rob unable to believe his 82-year-old parents are 'shagging', a Mint Mobile ad read from Ryan Reynolds, and a brief legal disclaimer. The running BLADS phone call tip from the opening gets a lovely callback: Rob is essentially on a phone call with nobody, which is exactly what the campaign recommends.
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