Sophie became Ghostbusters’ latest victim
Ghostbusters had normally involved listeners asking Scott and Chris to contact somebody who had suddenly disappeared from their dating life, but this time the problem had reached the team itself.
Sophie, who worked on the programme, had arranged a Tuesday date with somebody she had met on an app. She had already gone to the effort of having her eyebrows threaded and had considered booking a spray tan. Scott had been receiving updates as the date approached, including voice notes from the man and a goodnight message which made it seem as though everything was still on.
Then the messages stopped.
Sophie texted Scott: “OMG, I got ghosted. I’m absolutely furious.” She was particularly annoyed that she had done the pre-date preparation for somebody who had vanished before they had even met.
There had also been an exchange involving a photograph of Sophie wearing bunny ears. She wondered whether it had somehow scared him off, although the team could not see how a jokey photograph could reasonably explain disappearing altogether. Scott and Chris were more protective than usual because the person being ghosted was one of their own.
Craig had learned the “truth about girls”
A man called Craig had gone viral after writing about the things he had learned from living with his girlfriend, Billy, and their female housemate, Sarah.
His first discovery was just how much information they shared with each other. Craig said messages were routinely shown around, including conversations with men and even texts from family. Scott and Chris compared it with their own habits and realised Craig had stumbled into a world where very little remained private for long.
Craig had also discovered that phrases about needing a poo were far more common in everyday conversation than he had expected. He said that living with two women had destroyed any idea that this was a subject women politely avoided.
Then there were hair grips and clips.
Craig said they appeared absolutely everywhere. He found so many around the house that he joked he could practically have a bath in the week’s collection. He had sat on them and even woken up to find one attached to him. Nicola from the Radio 1 team immediately recognised the description, which only encouraged Scott and Chris to believe Craig’s observations had wider support.
The next part of Craig’s thread concerned the process of getting ready for a night out, including the number of outfits that could be tried before leaving the house. Scott decided they needed him back to explain that properly.
Scott’s White House press briefing obsession continued
Scott also admitted that one of his stranger habits while travelling was catching up with White House press briefings. He had become fascinated by the press secretary’s daily appearances and would sometimes return to a hotel room specifically to watch them.
Over Easter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders had been given a different task at the White House Easter Egg Roll: reading an Easter story to children.
Scott played clips of the reading because he was amused by the contrast between a children’s event and the very formal delivery associated with a White House briefing. The story ended with a brisk “The end”, followed by the children being encouraged to celebrate it.
The combination of Sophie’s very modern dating problem, Craig’s domestic observations and Scott’s inexplicable fascination with White House communications gave the first show back after Easter a fairly unusual range of subjects.
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