Rebecca had not fired them
Scott and Chris returned still wondering whether the previous day’s Boss Chicken call had gone too far.
Fortunately, Rebecca had taken the “stupid podcast” line as the joke it was and both presenters still had their jobs.
They nevertheless decided Boss Chicken had probably reached the point where it needed a rest.
Calling increasingly senior BBC managers and insulting their work was not a feature with unlimited room for escalation.
Charlie Puth turned every answer into a song
Charlie Puth joined the programme and accepted a simple challenge: rather than speaking his answers, he would sing them.
Scott and Chris therefore conducted the interview as normal while Charlie improvised melodies around whatever he wanted to say.
He discussed British food and television, his friendships in music and his work with Liam Payne.
Charlie said he had written Liam’s single “Bedroom Floor” and had also contributed vocals and other sounds to the recording.
The pair were genuine friends. Charlie recalled Liam climbing onto the roof of his Los Angeles home and said the former One Direction singer had given him useful advice about fame and dealing with paparazzi.
“See You Again” had started with a musical idea
Charlie also talked about writing “See You Again”, the huge Furious 7 song associated with Paul Walker.
He described beginning with the musical idea before the emotional purpose of the track became clear, including a melody he associated with a bagpipe-like sound.
Scott and Chris were fascinated by how a song now inseparable from a particular film and person had begun as a much smaller piece of music.
Barbara Windsor gave the Google Game plenty to work with
The Google Game returned with Barbara Windsor, whose search suggestions and candid old interviews gave the programme another collection of unexpectedly personal material.
Scott and Chris concluded that some celebrities had spent decades answering questions so openly that Google could assemble an extraordinary biography from autocomplete alone.
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