Quote · Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe
S12 EP52: I am spent
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Phone Addiction, Deleting TikTok, and Social Media Strategy
At 27:19 · chapter starts 26:10
The 4:30 AM phone-scrolling admission triggers a broader confessional about phone addiction. Rob has taken two concrete steps: deleting TikTok entirely and leaving his phone charging downstairs from early evening. He immediately undermines the second measure by admitting he uploaded a video about the World Cup directly to Instagram — something that did well — without thinking to put it on TikTok too, and is now quietly grieving the lost reach. Josh's pragmatic solution is to hand passwords to an agent and let them do the posting — a much less romantic approach to Rob's preferred 'in the moment, organic' posting style. Rob agrees in theory but clearly isn't ready to implement it. His core observation about his own content is bracingly honest: thinking about it ruins it. The best stuff is purely reactive.
Rob took one of his daughters for an unplanned floating day at the Glades — no agenda, just doing whatever. After an hour and a half of wandering, she admitted it was actually good to have plans. They ended up in an arcade, bowling in 34-degree heat, then Miller and Carter for a steak. She got a new top from M&S mid-afternoon.
