The meeting after Phone Chicken
Chris returned from his meeting with Joe after calling him a terrible boss. He could not say much about the conversation, but remained employed and insisted that Radio 1’s managers understood the joke.
Listeners had shown very little patience before asking for his job, which concerned him almost as much as the meeting itself. Scott briefly pretended that Chris was absent to test the audience’s reaction, but the sympathy remained limited.
Petty reasons to stop dating
Scott’s friend Unlucky Gary liked his new boyfriend but had discovered an enthusiasm for coleslaw. Photographs of it appeared in their messages, and Gary now chose restaurants partly according to whether the side dish might arrive.
Other listeners supplied their own immediate reasons for refusing another date. One woman had enjoyed an evening until the man ordered a well-done steak. Somebody obsessed with collecting likes, a badly timed Star Wars T-shirt and mayonnaise could all be enough to end a promising match.
The show proposed adding a deal-breaker section to dating profiles so people could declare these apparently minor incompatibilities before meeting. Dev was particularly excited by Real or No Real’s claim about an app matching people through smell: users wore a T-shirt for three days and returned it to help identify compatible partners.
Chris’s leather jacket
After watching Sons of Anarchy, Chris decided that a leather jacket might make him instantly cooler. Scott believed the look required a particular face and attitude that Chris did not possess.
A jacket was borrowed for an on-air photograph. The studio response was unenthusiastic, with several people suggesting that Chris’s baby face worked against the tough image. He nevertheless wanted an Usher-style version and considered wearing one to the Brit Awards, where a leather jacket would receive its most demanding possible test.
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