The ghost did not want to go on air
The previous day, Brogan had told Ghostbusters about being abandoned after around eight dates, including IKEA and afternoon tea.
Radio 1 had tried calling the man.
He did not answer.
On Tuesday, somebody else did.
Liam was the ghost’s best friend and had heard the programme. The man himself did not want to speak on air, so Liam had effectively arrived as his representative.
It was the first time Ghostbusters had needed a spokesman.
Liam said it had fizzled out
Liam insisted that his friend had not entered the relationship intending to disappear.
At the beginning he had genuinely been interested in Brogan. They had gone on several dates and done increasingly date-like things.
As time went on, Liam said his friend decided he did not see it becoming a relationship.
Scott’s objection was simple: deciding that was fine, disappearing without saying it was the problem.
Liam understood the point, although he thought some of Brogan’s comments about his friend on the previous day had been a little harsh.
He also explained that the first dates had not all been lavish romantic occasions. Brogan had joked that he kept taking her to the same pub, while later dates such as IKEA and afternoon tea had made the whole thing look more serious.
Then the story changed direction.
Liam had liked Brogan before his friend did
Liam revealed that, before his best mate started seeing Brogan, he had been interested in her himself.
At the time, Liam had been seeing somebody else. When his friend asked about Brogan, Liam had effectively told him to go for it.
Now Liam was single.
Brogan was single.
And the friend who had dated her had ghosted her.
Scott immediately noticed the potential complication.
Ghostbusters was no longer simply trying to establish why somebody had disappeared. The ghost’s own best mate had unexpectedly become part of the dating story.
Profession Confessions went inside private jets
The programme also heard from an anonymous worker in the private-jet industry.
Using a disguised identity, he described a world in which wealthy passengers could arrive much closer to departure, avoid the normal airport experience and expect a level of flexibility most travellers never saw.
That flexibility still had limits.
He described clients becoming frustrated when operational restrictions or airport curfews meant a flight could not simply leave whenever they wanted.
Scott and Chris were fascinated by the idea that somebody rich enough to use a private jet could still be told “no”.
Diana Vickers had tour-prank form
Diana Vickers also came up as somebody with a strong history of tour pranks.
The conversation involved the kind of practical jokes that happened between acts living together on the road, with the final performance of a run often becoming the moment support acts and crews tried to catch each other out.
It was a lighter ending to a show in which the supposedly absent man from Ghostbusters had somehow managed to create an entirely new character without ever speaking himself.
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