Scott returns with a chaotic edition full of deliberately unfunny “sick jokes” designed to test listeners’ sense of humour, plus the return of the posh noise and an ambitious nationwide experiment to disrupt supermarket trolleys using ultrasonic frequencies.
The show opens with the “Sick Jokes” feature, where Scott presents genuinely tragic news stories and asks listeners to text in if they laugh—proving they’re morally questionable. The stories include a fatal truck collision in Nebraska, a circus dwarf swallowed by a hippopotamus in Thailand (apparently a genuine newspaper report), and a Brazilian wine reporter electrocuted in a greenhouse. The running gag is that if you laugh, you’re “sick.”
This leads into the posh noise segment, where Scott clarifies the “posh” sound for listeners who couldn’t hear it properly on previous shows, contrasting it with a “commoners” noise made of science. He then reveals he’s discovered something even more mischievous: a shopping trolley frequency that allegedly locks up the wheels. Scott assembles listeners at supermarkets across the country—including Tony at Tesco in Weekford, Amy in Perth, Martin at Asda, and others at Sainsbury’s in Exeter—and counts down to broadcast the mysterious frequency. The segment captures genuine chaos as people in car parks wait for trolleys to malfunction.
The show also features classic celebrity prank calls from the archives, including a Zippy from Rainbow impersonation phoning a publisher with terrible poetry, and a Tobacco voice calling the BBC switchboard. There’s a lengthy segment with young football fan Lloyd, who attended Liverpool FC and conducted interviews with players including Javier Lanzarote and goalkeeper Pepe Reina, asking wonderfully awkward questions about school nicknames and eating crust bread.
The episode closes with an “Honesty Game” where listeners text questions and the team must answer truthfully—leading to revelations about seeing colleagues naked in football showers and confessions about one-night stands, handled with characteristic irreverent banter from Colin, Scott, and Joe Cole.
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