Cristiano Ronaldo produced almost no reaction from Scott
Chris wanted Scott to appreciate Cristiano Ronaldo’s spectacular overhead kick for Real Madrid in the Champions League.
Scott accepted that it was clearly an impressive goal. The problem was that he did not feel the emotional reaction Chris expected from a football fan.
Chris tried to explain why the athleticism, timing and occasion made it extraordinary. Scott watched it, agreed it was good and still felt essentially nothing. It became another example of the pair having completely different reference points, Chris seeing a moment of sporting brilliance while Scott treated it as something he could intellectually acknowledge without actually caring about football.
Does It Fart? arrived
The programme then discovered a book which had grown from an online project cataloguing a question science did not always appear to prioritise: which animals fart?
That was enough to create a new Radio 1 game.
Listeners were given an animal and had to decide whether it could fart. Chickens, fish, lions and penguins all became part of the quiz, with Scott and Chris trying to combine genuine facts with the childish pleasure of repeatedly saying “fart” on daytime Radio 1.
Chickens produced a yes, although a later message added more complicated biological context. Lions could fart too. Fish became more difficult because different species behaved differently, and one fact introduced the idea that herring could produce gas as a form of communication.
A blue whale briefly caused confusion until the obvious point was made that a whale was a mammal rather than a fish.
Then came penguins, the animal that gave the episode its title. The show’s verdict was that they could fart, accompanied by exactly the sort of audio treatment expected from a Radio 1 feature called Does It Fart?
Scott and Chris were delighted that something with a real scientific basis could also function as one of the stupidest games on the programme.
Craig explained the pre-night-out catwalk
Craig returned after his “truth about girls” thread had gone viral.
This time he described what happened when his girlfriend and housemate prepared for a night out. He said it was not unusual for eight or nine outfits to be considered, with dresses sometimes requiring another person’s help just to get into them.
The hallway effectively became a catwalk. An outfit would be put on, displayed, assessed and potentially rejected before the process began again.
Craig’s girlfriend worked in fashion, so Scott wondered whether his experience might be unusually intense. Craig insisted the broader pattern was real, and once again women listening to the programme sent messages recognising versions of the same ritual.
For Craig, this was not criticism. His thread had worked because it described the tiny domestic things he had noticed after living closely with two women, from the messages they shared to the amount of preparation involved before a night out.
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