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Tramphya for Crohn's and Colitis

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Brief overview

Rob plots a Friday-matinee tour while listener stories deliver conch shells, crazy-golf rage and toast theft.

  1. Rob wants stand-up as play, not as a tourHe describes being on stage as feeling like a child handed a big box of Lego, and does small gigs as a release.
  2. Matinee Man: one Friday afternoon gig a weekStart at one o'clock, add a half four and an eight only if it sells, and be home for dinner.
  3. Crazy-golf rage is never about the crazy golfRob reads the Rolex dad as frustrated he cannot yet connect with a three- and five-year-old.
Executive Summary AI
  • Rob says he loves not travelling but is getting itchy for stand-up, so he has booked a sold-out 100-seat pub gig in London where he does 40 minutes and two guests do 10 each, to shake the rust off before a 40-minute festival set at the Great Fete Festival in Hatfield.5:48
  • He announces the plan for a tour called Matinee Man: Friday afternoon gigs, one a week, starting at one o'clock with a half four and an eight o'clock only added if it sells out, because he does not want to be away from home.9:19
  • Under a new "Beyond Boomer" heading, Rob tells how his mum at 11 was sent alone on the bus with a neighbour's dying cat in a leaking fishing basket to the vet and back, which Josh calls the saddest thing he has ever heard.12:51
  • A listener's "what is this really about" story from St Ives has a dad in a Rolex and Ralph Lauren, playing crazy golf with children of about three and five, aggressively telling her partner they were holding up all the families when 15 of the 18 holes were free; Rob reads it as a man frustrated that his day out is not working.22:09
  • A workplace confession closes the episode: at an early-2000s family-business Christmas party a staff member brought an escort as his plus-one, a warehouse worker in his early 60s took her up on the offer in the disabled toilet, they set off the emergency alarm, and half the party was asked to leave.47:40
Key Quote
“I feel like a child that's been given a big box of Lego”
— Rob Beckett8:55
Key Quote
“Saddest thing I've ever heard in my life.”
— Josh Widdicombe13:39
Key Quote
“He aggressively said, excuse me, could you be any slower?”
— Rob Beckett22:51