Sophie’s bunny ears returned
The week had begun with Sophie from the team being ghosted before a date, and by Friday Scott and Chris were still trying to understand where the conversation had gone wrong.
One detail kept coming back: the bunny-ear photograph.
Sophie had sent jokey pictures wearing bunny ears and later asked whether they had freaked him out. His reply was essentially that they had, but only “a little”. The exchange then faded rather than recovering.
Scott still refused to accept that a harmless photograph justified disappearing. The team had spent the week dealing with ghosters as a feature, but Sophie’s experience made the whole thing feel much closer to home.
Billy and Sarah fact-checked Craig
Craig’s viral observations about women had been based on living with his girlfriend, Billy, and their housemate, Sarah.
Now they came on the programme themselves.
Billy had even dressed for the phone call, choosing pink leggings, a jumper and trainers because Maya Jama was on the show. That immediately gave Scott more material for the argument that Craig had been accurately documenting the household.
Billy and Sarah confirmed many of the details.
They did show each other messages. They did talk openly about going to the toilet. Hair grips did accumulate around the house. And the long hallway really did become a catwalk while outfits were tried before nights out.
Rather than sounding offended, they treated Craig’s thread as an exaggerated but recognisable account of life in the house.
Maya then revealed that she had her own history with very frank discussion of toilet habits, allowing Scott to dig out an old online clip in which she had once discussed what she described as her “poo stage” while talking about dating.
The secret-menu investigation began
The next mystery was food.
Social media was full of claims that major chains had unofficial or “secret” items which did not appear on the normal menu but could still be ordered if customers knew the correct words.
Scott wanted to know how much of it was real.
A caller in California described ordering an “animal style” burger after hearing about the phrase. It came with extra toppings and sauce, but the reality was messier and less exciting than the internet mythology had suggested.
That did not stop the programme.
Maya was sent out to test whether a high-street coffee shop would acknowledge the existence of anything beyond its standard menu. Scott and Chris treated it like an undercover operation, despite the mission being essentially to ask a barista whether there was something they were not advertising.
The conversation expanded into supposed hidden fast-food combinations and enormous unofficial meals people claimed could be created from existing menu items.
Some were real customisations, some were rumours, and some sounded like the invention of somebody who had simply combined several normal things and given the result a new name.
Does It Fart? refused to go away
The new animal game also survived into Friday.
Listeners were still supplying additional fart facts after the previous day’s questions about chickens, fish, lions and penguins. Scott was delighted that a feature which sounded completely juvenile was attracting actual biological corrections and explanations.
By the end of the week, the programme had managed to combine ghosting, domestic anthropology, hidden burgers and animal digestion, which was probably more useful information than anybody had expected from the first week of April.
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