How Long Could You Bed Rot for $100,000?

Summary

The Nightly – "How Long Could You Bed Rot for $100,000?"

Hosted by: Matt Bragg & KP Parker
Date: June 21, 2026

Episode Overview

This episode blends the warm, late-night banter The Nightly is known for with a playful exploration of absurd news and reality TV hijinks. Matt and KP dive into a bizarre insurance scam involving a bear costume and then pivot to discuss the new "Bedrot Challenge"—a reality show that dares contestants, including celebrities, to stay in bed the longest for a $100,000 prize. The tone is friendly, wry, and full of laugh-out-loud moments as the hosts riff on human weirdness, pop culture, and the lengths people will go for attention or money.

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1. Bear Costume Insurance Scam (00:24–06:39)

Main Story:

• Matt shares a favorite recent news story from Lake Arrowhead: Three people were jailed for insurance fraud after claiming a bear damaged their luxury cars—a claim supported by deliberately faked "evidence."
• Instead of a real bear, the footage showed someone in a bear costume damaging a Rolls Royce Ghost, all caught on their own home surveillance camera.

Key Insights & Discussion Points:

• The conspirators went to absurd lengths, lightly scratching the car interiors and even placing a leaf "for realism."
• Both hosts lampoon the incompetence of the scam: "It's as if they took just a big fork from a kitchen and then lightly just rubbed it on the leather. And then they put one leaf next to it. They put a leaf just to be like, eh, the bear dropped that…" —KP (03:53)
• Propriety and class: “If you have a Rolls Royce, do you need to be pulling little, little bear costume pranks? Don’t you have Rolls Royce money?” —KP (02:25)
• Investigation involved an actual wildlife biologist who immediately called out the ruse: “Upon reviewing the footage, the biologist concluded, it's clearly a human in a bear suit. The biologist was like, this is the craziest day of work. That is a human in a bear suit.” —KP (05:10)
• All three were ordered to pay hefty restitution—over $52,000 each.

Memorable Quotes:

• “A bear wouldn’t fit in the passenger seat of a car.” —Matt (05:02)
• “I have eyes. I don’t need to be a biologist to show you that that is a man.” —KP (05:29)
• “If any listeners are thinking of committing some insurance fraud, get in touch with The Nightly for attention of K.P. Parker.” —Matt (06:08) (in jest)

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2. Reality TV: The Bedrot Challenge (06:39–16:48)

Main Discussion:

• KP introduces a new YouTube reality series, "The Bedrot Challenge," where the last celebrity remaining in bed wins $100,000—without touching the ground.
• The show is organized by Cozy Earth, a bedding company, and features a quirky celebrity cast: Survivor stars, a Love Island alum, and even someone from the un-aired Bachelorette season.
• KP highlights Natalie from Survivor as her favorite—discovering a personal connection: “She’s from the town that I’m from… I go, oh, she went to the high school next door to me.” (08:29)

Celebrity & Cast Commentary:

• Celebrity participation includes a mix of fitness-obsessed types (which KP questions: are they suited for inactivity?) and a few "random" contestants, which both hosts agree adds flavor: “Just a random guy. It’s like winners of Survivor, Millionaires, and then two random guys.” —KP (12:35)
• Matt jokes all reality shows and even sporting events should toss in a genuine wild card: “That goes for everything, by the way. The Olympics, you know, the grand Slams of tennis. Just a random.” (12:48)

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Crossover:

• KP unpacks the background controversy tying together The Bedrot Challenge’s cast and the recent “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” TikTok drama, emphasizing the surreal interconnectedness of reality TV world today.

Memorable Quotes:

• “It’s not gripping TV, is it?” —Matt, on literally watching people lie in bed (07:30)
• “This is a lot less work. Bedrot. Sitting in bed.” —KP (13:41)
• “How long do you think you could go? I assume food is being served in the bed because that’s going to impact it all.” —KP (13:48)

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3. How Long Could You Bed Rot for $100,000? (13:48–16:59)

The Hosts' Takes:

• Matt claims he could last a week if food and water are provided: “For 100 grand, I reckon I could do a week. It’s just like having the flu, isn’t it?” (14:10)
• KP confesses she’d struggle with boredom and cabin fever: “I need to walk around. I need to go see a different view. I get cabin fever.” (14:19)
• The show adds hardships through physical discomforts—spinning a wheel to dump sand, water, or toys in the bed to hasten elimination; previous winners lasted 5–6 days.

Notable Quotes:

• “It’s a mental game, but actually learning now that it is a bit physical as well.” —Matt (14:56)
• “If it was bed challenge floating down a river, I could do that for a long time.” —KP (16:33)
• “Bed challenge where you get sort of wheeled about. I could do that…” —Matt (16:44)

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4. Childhood Nostalgia: Crutches, Braces, and Fitting In (16:59–17:59)

Discussion Point:

• Lighthearted look back at childhood desires to stand out or fit in—wishing for crutches, braces, or even an inhaler to be “interesting.”
• “I’m a social inhaler. Just when I’m out in the playground with the boys, I might have an inhaler.” —Matt (17:52)

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5. Cozy Sign Off (17:59–18:44)

• KP signs off, wishing both the former bear-costumed scammer and the Bedrot contestants a good night’s sleep.
• Matt gives a whimsical shoutout: “I’d just like to say goodnight to all the asthmatics out there. You were inspirations to me growing up…” (18:32)

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Important Timestamps

• Bear Insurance Scam Story: 00:24–06:39
• Bedrot Challenge Introduction and Cast Discussion: 06:39–13:45
• Bedrot Rules, Endurance, and Personal Takes: 13:45–16:48
• Childhood Nostalgia Segment: 16:59–17:59
• Final Sign Offs: 17:59–18:44

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Summary in a Nutshell

This episode captures The Nightly’s signature blend of absurd news, pop culture banter, and wistful nostalgia. With tongue-in-cheek humor and cozy vibes, Matt and KP invite listeners to ponder just how long they’d stay in bed for life-changing money, while poking fun at the cheating ways of would-be fraudsters in bear costumes. The hosts’ chemistry, quick wit, and gentle, self-deprecating comedy make for a perfect bedtime listen, whether you’re drifting off or wide awake with late-night curiosity.

Transcript

[K.P.]

Audio for sleep by hatch.

[Matt]

Alright, I'm Matt.

[K.P.]

And I'm kp. Welcome to the nightly from Hatch, where your late night thoughts go to Max. I. Oh, I would love for you to talk first. That's what I was gonna say.

[Matt]

Oh, that's lucky. Mm, that is lucky. I was just gonna bring something to the table here, kp, because you're. Please, you're LA based, aren't you?

[K.P.]

I am.

[Matt]

How far is Lake Arrowhead?

[K.P.]

Oh, that's like an hour and a half maybe, but it's. It's quite close. That's where people go to vacation. Yeah, just take a little weekend trip.

[Matt]

Mm, interesting. I actually saw a news story all the way over here from Lake Arrowhead and it's one of my favorite stories that I've seen this year.

[K.P.]

Lake. Lake Arrowhead. It's a beautiful place. Please tell me what's going on there.

[Matt]

It's. I'm assuming it's quite a scenic spot. Is it?

[K.P.]

Very gorgeous. Yep.

[Matt]

Cool. Well, it's nothing to do with that.

[K.P.]

Oh, good. Okay, great. Phew. Because how much can you say about a beautiful tree? Enough.

[Matt]

Yeah, boring. How's this? Trio sentenced over bare costume Insurance fraud scam.

[K.P.]

Oh my goodness. Okay. Insurance scam. Okay, what's going on?

[Matt]

So three people have been jailed for insurance fraud after claiming their cars were damaged by a bear.

[K.P.]

Oh my God.

[Matt]

So you might be thinking, right, so they phoned the insurance company and said, oh, my car's been damaged. I think it was a bear. Look at the state it's been left in.

[K.P.]

Yeah, right, right.

[Matt]

They went one step further. The assailant was actually somebody dressed in a bear costume. So they did it in front of home surveillance cameras and they've got video of a guy in a bear suit getting into a Rolls Royce ghost.

[K.P.]

If you have a Rolls Royce, do you need to be pulling little, little bear costume pranks? Do you need to. Don't you have Rolls Royce money?

[Matt]

That's what I don't. I mean, it was a 2010 Rolls Royce, but nevertheless.

[K.P.]

Well, my goodness. I mean, have some, have some propriety. Don't be buying bear costumes.

[Matt]

But also, would you not just. If you needed the cash, could you not just sell? I suppose, because you can still keep. Yeah, but still. So. But they wanted $141,000.

[K.P.]

Oh, please.

[Matt]

It was this Rolls Royce. Owned a two Mercedes as well.

[K.P.]

Well, again, I mean, cry me a river, folks. You gotta just admit that if you've got those rich cars, you might have to put a little more money into them. When they get damaged and you can't create bare footage.

[Matt]

But I also don't understand because they've tried to recreate what it might look like if a bear got into a car.

[K.P.]

Right, Right.

[Matt]

This is absolutely not what it would look like if a bear got into a car. I'm not kidding. The scratch marks are like if you lightly brushed your fingernails across the leather of a car seat. It's not a bear claw.

[K.P.]

This is incredible. I mean, well, so they just got scratched and they said, how can we get out of it? This is so funny. It's as if they took. The scratch marks on the inside of the scar are as if they took just a big fork from a kitchen and then lightly just rubbed it on the leather. And then they put one leaf next to it. They put a leaf just to be like, eh, the bear dropped that bear's got.

[Matt]

It's got mucky feet. Of course. I think it's a bear.

[K.P.]

Yeah. They left Paddington's hat, too, that I found on.

[Matt]

There was a jam sandwich in the glove box.

[K.P.]

It had to be him. There's just marmalade everywhere.

[Matt]

Oh, wait, marmalade sandwich. Jam. What am I talking about? Jam sandwich.

[K.P.]

It's all the same. It's all the same. I mean, it's notably. He's a marmalade. Yeah. Now, this is amazing. These are. Three people came up with this together.

[Matt]

Yeah. So between three people, they still. They looked at that and they went, yeah, that's. That'll. That'll pass.

[K.P.]

And they're each ordered to pay more than $52,000 in restitution. That is a lot. That did not go their way.

[Matt]

It's not a bad bear costume.

[K.P.]

The bear costume's honestly very funny. It is.

[Matt]

I bet that would have cost a few quid. Yeah.

[K.P.]

But bears are just huge, so putting a guy in this little costume is just never going to look exactly right.

[Matt]

That is the thing with the home surveillance footage. It's fairly cut and dry because a bear wouldn't fit in the passenger seat of a car.

[K.P.]

They just wouldn't do stuff like that. I love the end of this article where it says, investigators showed the videos to a biologist from the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Upon reviewing the footage, the biologist concluded, it's clearly a human in a bear suit. The biologist was like, this is the craziest day of work. That is a human in a bear suit.

[Matt]

Duh.

[K.P.]

I have eyes. I don't need to be a biologist to show you that that is a man.

[Matt]

Yeah. You didn't need someone with a Ph.D.

[K.P.]

no, but glad they did their due diligence there.

[Matt]

Absolutely bizarre. But there you go. So I assumed, I thought, I wonder if KP had anything to do with that.

[K.P.]

No, I wish they called me. I mean, I know some actors. We could have gotten like more bears in other places. We could have really sold it a little bit, had some intentions. What's my motivation as a bear?

[Matt]

That's exactly it. Yeah. You would have brought more to it, I think.

[K.P.]

Yes, well, I would have done some analysis of other famous Hollywood bears. I just would have. I would have sold it, I think.

[Matt]

Yeah. So going forward, just to any listeners out there who are thinking of committing some sort of insurance fraud, get in touch the Nightlyatch Co for attention of K.P. parker.

[K.P.]

In less serious news, there's a show that I believe just premiered this week. We're recording this before this premieres. A little peek behind the curtain here. But I did want to speak about it because it's got a really interesting idea and a really interesting cast and I think it fits Hatch quite well. Have you heard of this Bedrot challenge?

[Matt]

I have not heard anything about that, but it already. It sounds like something that you would be watching. Yeah, I know.

[K.P.]

Unfortunately, I may have to take a peek because it's got some names I recognize and like. So this is a challenge for $100,000 and it's got a bunch of celebrities to be a part of it. And the challenge is whichever person stays in bed the longest wins. If you can stay in bed the longest without coming into contact with the ground.

[Matt]

Right. Yes. It's not, it's not gripping tv, is it?

[K.P.]

There's apparently like contests and little games within that that'll like try and lure people out of the bed or to lose comfort. What I find really interesting, this is all being put on. It's on YouTube. So this isn't NBC or anything, you know, but maybe they'll buy it if it does really well. But this is on YouTube and it's cozy earth. Who is a bedding company, question mark.

[Matt]

That's so interesting.

[K.P.]

I know. Okay, so that makes sense now. There are so interesting three Survivor players that I do like. Natalie, who is, I believe she's. She's in my top five all time survivor players because there's just something about her I like and I looked into it because sometimes I get. I don't know, I don't. There's sometimes I get a vibe from someone and I'm like, ah, I feel like I like you. There's something about you. That I really am. I enjoy. I see your perspective. I look it up. She's from the town that I'm from.

[Matt]

Weird.

[K.P.]

Isn't that interesting? I go, oh, she went to the high school next door to me. So I was like, okay, there's something that I picked up on. We have the same.

[Matt]

Are you kidding?

[K.P.]

We're raised in the same spot.

[Matt]

That is interesting. Yeah. Okay, so presumably you're going to be backing Natalie for this Bedrock chat. Although, is it a good thing? Is it a good thing to win that?

[K.P.]

She's quite athletic. I wonder if she can do it. I mean, she's so athletic. I think she'd want to get out of that bed. She's ripped.

[Matt]

Who would be best?

[K.P.]

I know because I'm looking at this cast list. They have a lot of really, really athletic. One of these guys is a professional bodybuilder. One is Beast Games.

[Matt]

Vanna Einarsson isn't. Yeah, she is presumably reasonably active.

[K.P.]

You'd assume she is active. She was short lived on a season of Love island, but she made a big impression.

[Matt]

Okay, yeah. What about Chase? Chase McWhorter from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which is a great title for a show.

[K.P.]

Have you checked in on that show? It's interesting. No, I watched. I watched a few episodes. They. Utah is an interesting place. Yeah, there's a lot of reality. It's kind of the hotbed these days for reality shows. You have some drama that goes down in Utah. So I don't know this guy. I don't remember him. He's not one of the wives, but I assume he's one of the husbands.

[Matt]

So is this like the Housewives of.

[K.P.]

Oh, Real Housewives.

[Matt]

Real Housewives, yeah.

[K.P.]

Yeah. This is similar. Well, I'll give you a little intro to the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. This all came out as a reality show because on TikTok there they were like a little Mormon friend group that was making videos all together. And then this woman says, I gotta tell the truth. All of these. I'm in, I'm a part of this friend group. And they're all swinging. So they're saying like husbands are swapping, et cetera, et cetera.

[Matt]

Right.

[K.P.]

And then it really blew up. The whole friend group on TikTok, everybody was watching, it was eye opening, it was drama. And then the fallout of that friendship is what this reality show is covering. And a lot of these, A lot of these people are very specific personalities. They. They have a lot to say and it's a. It's. I'D say it's an interesting, fascinating little thing.

[Matt]

Okay. I wouldn't have expected that.

[K.P.]

I know. Cause now I do think I don't watch the Real Housewives very much. As I've said, I'm like, more of a competition show. I like when, of course, the drama comes from the games, not just the sitting around, but.

[Matt]

Well, what would you class the Bachelorette as a game show? Cause Aaron Kang, he's from that. He's on Bedrock.

[K.P.]

You'll see. He's from a season of the Bachelorette which never aired. And that is because the Bachelorette was a woman from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and she got into a little bit of trouble, and so they canned the whole season after it already filmed. Oh, so this all ties in.

[Matt]

That does all tie in. Wow. Okay. So does nobody really know who Aaron Kang is then?

[K.P.]

No. Cause the season never aired. It was supposed to air last month or a month and a half ago. And the woman from Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was supposed to be dating on this show, and she got into some trouble, and the network said, we're gonn gonna pull that.

[Matt]

Oh.

[K.P.]

And so all of these boys that were on men. Sorry. All these men that were on this show didn't get their time in the sun. They filmed for weeks and weeks and weeks and nothing out of it.

[Matt]

That is. That is showbiz in a nutshell. That, isn't it? It's never done until it's done.

[K.P.]

And especially some people, I'm sure, quit their jobs to go on these shows. Cause they're like, well, this is gonna be. Change everything for me. You know, I'm not gonna keep my old job, and I'll be an influencer now, and I'll meet the love of my life. And now the show.

[Matt]

That's awful. What about Felicia Pilkington? Do you know anything about that?

[K.P.]

This appears to not be a celebrity at all. This appears to be a just a random person also participating in this bedrot challenge.

[Matt]

Oh, okay. Same goes for Sam Curtis.

[K.P.]

Just a random guy. It's like winners of Survivors, Millionaires, and then two random guys.

[Matt]

I quite like that. I think maybe in the show they should just have a wild card. And that goes for everything, by the way.

[K.P.]

Yes. Like the Olympics.

[Matt]

The Olympics, you know, the grand Slams of tennis. Just have one. Just a random. Yeah, yeah. That'd really spice things up.

[K.P.]

I like that. Cozy earth the betting company is seeing that the Bachelorette season didn't go and giving these guys one last chance to get their hands on some fame. I Don't know if it'll happen from a Bedrot challenge on a YouTube video of a bedding company, but maybe he'll get famous from this.

[Matt]

You never know. I do feel like it's already sort of been done. I swear from my limited knowledge of YouTubers that MrBeast has done fairly similar things before. Like a, you know, like hold or touch the car or something.

[K.P.]

Yeah, he does a lot of rats in a little cage often.

[Matt]

Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't feel great, actually.

[K.P.]

I don't know. Yeah, I have. I had a friend that went on beast games or whatever and it is. Seemed like a lot of work.

[Matt]

Did it. Yeah.

[K.P.]

Yeah. This. This is a lot less work. Bedrock sitting in bed.

[Matt]

How long do we. Do we know how long the whole competition is?

[K.P.]

I'm not sure. How long do you think? Okay, if it's $100,000 on the line, how long do you think you could go? I assume food is being served in the bed because that's gonna impact it all.

[Matt]

We've got to assume food and water is. Yeah.

[K.P.]

Mm.

[Matt]

And presumably you can. You can sleep.

[K.P.]

I think it's encouraged. Yeah, I hope so.

[Matt]

Based on that, I reckon. I reckon I could do a week. Really? For 100 grand, I reckon I could do it a week. It's just like having the flu, isn't it?

[K.P.]

It's true. That is true. I get so bored. I'm quite. I need to walk around. I need to go see a different view. I get cabin fever.

[Matt]

I don't think you would be bored. No, kp, because presumably you would have your hatch nearby and you could listen to 7 days non stop of us.

[K.P.]

Talking of us. I would last 10 minutes. Get me out of here. Get me out.

[Matt]

I do it for free. Wow.

[K.P.]

I could maybe for 100,000. I really think after three days I would go a little cuckoo.

[Matt]

Okay. So interestingly, just.

[K.P.]

It's a mental game.

[Matt]

It's sort of a mental game, but actually learning now that it is a bit physical as well. So there's different challenges like bedrock, roulette, where on the last one they spun a wheel to pick what weird thing. So sand water toys would be dumped into the bed and you got to stay in the bed the whole time. And it was five to six days.

[K.P.]

So you're spinning a wheel and you could get sand dumped in the bed you're supposed to be staying on.

[Matt]

Yeah, that'd be rough, wouldn't it? Especially if that happened. Like, imagine doing that, like the first 15 minutes.

[K.P.]

The toys is interesting. I almost wouldn't hate that. Something to play with, I guess.

[Matt]

Yeah. I mean, probably better than sand and water, I'd say. Yeah.

[K.P.]

Yeah. I could get something going with that water and then I'm wet for a few days on the bed. That would really suck. That would be the worst of it.

[Matt]

Yeah, that would be awful. I guess that's what's gonna happen though, because you gotta shift them out somehow, haven't you? Otherwise it'd go on forever.

[K.P.]

And apparently in the last time they did this, the winner was five to six days.

[Matt]

Yeah.

[K.P.]

So you would win. If you really think you could go a week, you should sign up for season three.

[Matt]

That was a week with no other variables. I'm now learning about the water. I would maybe. I think five to six days is actually. That's quite admirable actually.

[K.P.]

Yeah. This isn't my challenge. I don't know. I get. I gotta take a walk. I gotta. Yeah, I can't. I can't look at the same four walls that long. And this all takes place in a corporate office for Cozy Earth. I mean, that's. I can't be put in an office.

[Matt]

Yeah. Actually that's where I draw the line.

[K.P.]

The bed's nice, but get me out of an office. If I was like, okay, bed challenge floating down a river, I could do that for a long time. Cause I get to see different things.

[Matt]

Yes. Or bed challenge where you get sort of wheeled about. I could do that. Yeah.

[K.P.]

That's nice.

[Matt]

So you go about your sort of day to day life. I used to have sort of daydream about that when I was in school. I thought, God, how great would that be if you just stay in bed? But you could just get wheeled.

[K.P.]

Sure.

[Matt]

Around the school, going to classes and stuff. But you're still in bed. Be lovely that.

[K.P.]

Did you ever have to be on crutches or like fake an ankle injury to get attention?

[Matt]

No, no, no.

[K.P.]

I think some. I think it happens. It happens with.

[Matt]

Oh, really?

[K.P.]

Yeah. I think there was something cool in general about like, I didn't feel this, but people wanted braces. It's like, oh, it's kind of cool to have braces. And then I did want glasses because like that's a little something extra. I wanted crutches. Like you get a little. What's it like to do to have a different thing going on? So you could have been the guy that has mattress on a dolly. On a moving dolly.

[Matt]

Yeah, that is true. That would certainly be more preferable than like. I remember everyone around me seemed to have inhalers when I was a kid and I thought I wouldn't mind one of them.

[K.P.]

Yeah, just a recreational inhaler.

[Matt]

Yeah, I'm a social inhaler. Just when I'm out in the playground with the boys, I might have a inhaler.

[K.P.]

Just want to fit in. Well, the Bedrock challenge sounds interesting. It's not my challenge, but I am willing to go for eight to 10 hours and I'm gonna do that right now. I'm saying goodnight to the bear costume. I mean, I have to. The one in the bear costume, he deserves a good night's sleep. He might not get one for a while because he's got a lot of bills now to pay.

[Matt]

Wait, he is? He's in jail?

[K.P.]

Yes. He needs a good night's sleep. I don't think they're giving him a hatch in there. I hope so, but I don't think so.

[Matt]

I'd just like to say goodnight to all the asthmatics out there. You were. You were inspirations to me growing up. Never quite joined your ranks, but, yeah. Good night to you. And good night to you, kp.

[K.P.]

Good night to you. I'll talk to you next time.

[Matt]

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