Forget what sounds romantic
Scott and Chris wanted people to stop designing first dates around what they thought another person expected.
The question was selfish on purpose.
If the entire date could be built around what you genuinely wanted, what would it involve?
Scott’s answer was uncomplicated: a couple of glasses of wine, pizza and home.
Chris also wanted pizza, but ideally followed by a Watford match and possibly a club.
Neither was pretending a candlelit restaurant was essential simply because first dates were supposed to sound romantic.
Beach walks, beers and Adventure Island
Listeners then supplied their own honest plans.
Catherine wanted a walk on the beach and a drink, partly because she hoped the alcohol would help the other person make the first move.
Katie wanted a picnic with beers beside a lake and, if everything went well, a “cheeky kiss” at the end.
Nick wanted pizza, the cinema and Adventure Island in Southend.
His reasoning was practical.
Pizza provided food.
The cinema gave him a break from constant conversation.
Then the rides added something fun afterwards.
Scott liked that each answer revealed much more about the caller than a generic “nice meal and drinks”.
A sweaty back became “swag”
The heatwave was still producing language.
Catherine described having a “swag”.
In this context, it was not confidence or style.
It meant a sweaty back.
Scott and Chris immediately started trying to create equivalent terms for other parts of the body, building a minor heatwave dictionary from combinations of sweat and anatomy.
The temperature had reached the stage where having a concise word for a soaked back actually felt useful.
Deaf Havana said yes
Scott had also been playing “Sinner” by Deaf Havana and became obsessed with the gospel-style backing vocals near the end.
Rather than contact the band’s PR team, he went directly to the source.
He publicly asked whether he and Chris could join the backing singers at a future performance.
James from Deaf Havana rang the programme.
He said he could make it happen.
The idea involved finding robes and placing Scott and Chris among the proper backing vocalists.
Scott and Chris were upfront about the obvious difficulty.
They were not especially useful singers.
James seemed happy to work around that.
The pair could look enthusiastic while the actual singers carried the music.
Money Kicks brought serious cash
The programme also spoke to Money Kicks, the wealthy Dubai teenager known online for an extraordinary lifestyle.
Scott and Chris asked him for money.
He initially treated the request as ridiculous.
Then the conversation moved to how much cash he and the people around him were carrying.
Thousands of pounds’ worth of notes appeared on the table.
Scott and Chris were briefly surrounded by the kind of money most guests did not casually remove from their pockets during a radio interview.
They did not get to keep it.
The exercise nevertheless established that asking one of the richest teenagers on the internet for cash was at least more productive than asking most celebrities.
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