Ten seconds was a very long handshake
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un had met in Singapore for their historic summit.
Scott and Chris were interested in one tiny detail from the television coverage.
The first handshake lasted around ten seconds.
That did not sound especially long until they tried it themselves.
They clasped hands and counted.
The first few seconds felt normal.
Then the handshake continued.
By the time they reached ten seconds, both understood why the footage looked so unusual. A routine greeting had crossed into a length of physical contact which felt deliberately staged.
They then looked at some of the summit details being reported, including the menu, and treated the tightly choreographed meeting as a source of oddly specific Breakfast Show observations.
Post Malone could become Justin Bieber
The programme also returned to one of Scott’s favourite kinds of audio experiment: changing the speed of a song until the singer appeared to turn into somebody else.
This time the subject was Post Malone.
By increasing the speed to around 114%, Scott and Chris became convinced that the vocal suddenly sounded much more like Justin Bieber.
The effect was strong enough that they kept replaying it, switching between the original and altered versions.
It joined the show’s growing archive of records which seemed to contain another celebrity once played at the wrong speed.
A fake Ozzy had once toured universities
Scott and Chris also revisited one of the stranger stories from their student-tour days.
At a university event, the previous evening had featured a genuine celebrity guest.
That created an unfortunate level of expectation for what came next.
An Ozzy Osbourne lookalike from Bournemouth appeared.
The students had not all understood that he was a lookalike.
He then attempted to DJ.
That did not go particularly well.
According to Scott’s memory, the performance involved a very small number of Ozzy-related records before the act effectively ended.
The gap between “actual famous person” and “tribute version who cannot really DJ” had left a lasting impression.
First-kiss memories kept arriving
The first-kiss horror stories from Monday continued as listeners remembered moments which were romantic only in retrospect.
Scott and Chris had already heard about a nosebleed, a fart and a peanut-allergy hospital visit.
The continued messages proved how many people could remember their first kiss in extraordinary detail, particularly when something had gone wrong.
The Singapore summit gave the show a very different kind of first physical contact to analyse.
After performing the ten-second handshake themselves, Scott and Chris were confident of one thing: nobody needed their own first greeting to last that long.
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