Romance with a sales target
Jo described a first date that had begun unusually well. She and the man shared interests, talked about travel and kissed at the end, but his questions gradually moved from former relationships to shared bank accounts, credit cards and financial history.
The reason became clear when he asked whether she had considered reclaiming PPI. He worked in the industry, needed to meet a target and attempted to sign her up during the date. He telephoned the following day to deliver the complete sales pitch and arranged for the paperwork to be sent out.
Only after securing the lead did he send a separate message thanking Jo for the evening and saying that he had not felt any chemistry. Scott and Chris wondered whether he was arranging dates purely to generate commission. Jo had not accepted the PPI offer, but at least acquired a story unlike any of their previous dating calls.
The university road trips begin
With the Student Tour starting on Monday, listeners were already travelling to see partners and friends at university. Scott turned his years of DJ bookings into an accidental travel service, recommending nightspots and late-night food in Cardiff, Bristol and Aberdeen.
Several callers were visiting partners for the first time since freshers’ week. Scott and Chris warned that meeting a boyfriend or girlfriend’s entirely new social group could be uncomfortable, particularly when one apparently threatening flatmate existed mainly in the visitor’s imagination. Their advice was to make the effort, avoid treating the new friends as rivals and save the late-night chips until the relationship reunion was safely under way.
The programme confirmed that the following week’s shows would come from Stirling, Liverpool, Harper Adams, Aberystwyth and Southampton, live on Radio 1 and the BBC Red Button. Scott promised the normal show with much more chaos, while Chris packed emergency hoodies for five very different campuses.
Toxic Cockroaches and Wahlburgers
Nick Grimshaw played Real or No Real. A claim that Tori Kelly’s full name contained “Stoke-on-Trent” was predictably false, although the discussion introduced Scott to the celebrity tactic of saying “nice to see you” when unsure whether two people had met before.
Florence and the Machine really had evolved from the early name Toxic Cockroaches, a fact Grimmy was expected to know as Florence Welch’s friend. Mark Wahlberg also genuinely owned the Wahlburgers restaurant chain with his brothers. The answer led Scott, Chris and Grimmy into a dangerous discussion of an earlier Wahlberg visit to Radio 1, with each trying to make the others responsible for saying that he had seemed reluctant to be there.
The Friday show closed with the Student Tour ready to leave for Stirling and Scott and Chris’s Pointless result still under embargo.
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