The royal baby arrived
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had welcomed their third child, giving Radio 1 a day of rolling royal-baby coverage to react to.
Scott and Chris were particularly interested in the dedicated royal superfans who had spent days waiting outside the hospital.
Clips of Kay Burley interviewing them became part of the show.
One fan had been camping for around 15 days and had arrived with flags, predictions and preferred names. Scott admired Kay’s ability to keep finding questions for people whose main activity was standing outside a hospital waiting for something to happen.
The broader television coverage also gave them another chance to enjoy the contrast between huge national excitement and presenters having to fill enormous stretches of time while very little changed.
Sophie had moved from ghosting to voice notes
Sophie’s dating life continued to produce updates.
After the original ghosting story earlier in the month, she had moved on and was talking to somebody new.
Now the team had discovered another habit: voice notes.
Rather than exchanging ordinary texts, Sophie and the man were sending spoken messages back and forth.
Scott was baffled by the practice.
He had noticed people in countries including Spain and Italy using voice messages constantly, but he could not understand why two people who wanted to hear each other’s voices did not simply make a phone call.
Sophie thought voice notes were easier because neither person had to commit to a live conversation.
The frequency of them still gave the team plenty to analyse.
Cameron recognised the same woman every morning
Monday’s Ghostbusters involved a different kind of meeting.
Cameron regularly travelled on the Northern Line from Balham to Bank.
Like many commuters, he tended to use the same part of the train because it lined up conveniently with his route at the other end.
He began noticing the same woman in the same carriage.
There was repeated eye contact.
After several mornings, Cameron decided to do something most London commuters would avoid: he spoke to her.
He waited until they were getting off the train and tried to start with small talk.
His first question was the time, despite the station having a large clock which made it obvious that neither of them genuinely needed the information.
Then he moved to the weather.
Finally he abandoned the awkward preamble and told her he thought she was cute.
He asked her name, got her number and suggested going for a drink.
It had worked.
Then she vanished from the carriage
Cameron and the woman messaged afterwards.
He thought things were progressing well.
Then the replies stopped.
The awkward part was that this was not somebody from an app who could disappear into the internet. Cameron expected to see her on the train.
Instead, she seemed to disappear from the commute too.
He began altering his own routine because he did not know whether he was about to run into somebody who had deliberately stopped talking to him.
Ghostbusters tried the number.
On the first attempt there appeared to be a faint voice before the call ended.
Another attempt went to voicemail.
A further call sounded as though it had been actively declined.
Then Cameron noticed something on WhatsApp: the profile picture showed the woman with another man.
That seemed like a possible explanation, but Scott and Chris could not establish whether he was a boyfriend or simply somebody in an old photograph.
For the moment, Cameron had no answer and no comfortable commute.
By Tuesday, that would change.
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