The Weird Beard
Story Quest – Stories for Kids
Fun Kids
4.2 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Barry Tibbins has a strange problem. His beard keeps changing colour and he doesn't know why. After a particularly embarrassing trip to the supermarket, Barry decides he has to get to the bottom of why his beard is so weird.
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| 0:00.0 | 360 seconds is all that stands between one family and a once in a lifetime experience. |
| 0:07.0 | I've got a stack of questions. They've got 360 seconds. |
| 0:11.0 | Finish the game with any amount of time left on the clock and you win. |
| 0:16.0 | But if you hit zero at any point, sadly, you walk away empty-handed. |
| 0:21.6 | They're in control of the time. How they spend it is up to them. |
| 0:25.6 | Finish with one second left to win. |
| 0:29.6 | Could you do it? |
| 0:31.6 | If it's the correct answer, you have completed. |
| 0:33.6 | 360 seconds, stop your clock. |
| 0:35.6 | You've got a hundred and sixteen remaining, which means you've smashed it. |
| 0:40.0 | And you've won yourself the ultimate family day out at the Pallington Bear Experience in London. |
| 0:46.3 | Brand new game show, 360 seconds. Find it wherever you get your podcasts. Just search 360 seconds. |
| 0:57.0 | This is StoryQuest. Today's story is the weird beard. |
| 1:06.1 | Bob Tibbins was a perfectly ordinary man in almost every way. He wore the same grey jumper every Tuesday, kept all his socks in alphabetical order and owned a small, grumpy tortoise named Sharon. |
| 1:20.6 | But Bob had one big, baffling, beardy problem. |
| 1:26.6 | His beard changed colour every single day. One day it was bright red like |
| 1:33.9 | tomato soup. The next it was sunflower yellow. Then deep blue, toxic green, glowing orange, sassy |
| 1:41.4 | indigo or violent violet. |
| 1:47.4 | Bob had tried everything to stop it. |
| 1:53.7 | He washed it with 17 different types of shambu, rubbed it with anti-beard creams, and even once sat in a bucket of cold custard which helped with the itching that nothing else really. |
| 2:06.6 | He saw scientists, barbers, beard whisperers, and one particularly confused plumber. No one had the answers. |
| 2:08.6 | Oh, I've never even died it, Bob said, wailing, and yet it changes more often than my underpants. |
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