Chris was off sick
Scott presented alone after Chris called in ill.
The illness had followed a conversation the previous day where both of them had said they felt as though something might be coming on.
Chris had been taking Lemsip and had spent much of the night awake.
Scott rang him live.
Rather than simply wish him well, Scott replayed a clip of a Swedish television presenter vomiting on air because he thought hearing it might encourage Chris to be sick and get the illness out of his system.
Chris was not grateful.
He said the sound actually did make him feel a little worse.
Scott also noticed that, despite being too ill for work, Chris was still liking things on social media.
Chris did not appreciate the surveillance.
“Sending my best” became the new relationship irritant
Scott returned to the phrases people deliberately used because they knew their partner hated them.
One listener intentionally pronounced Doritos, Frijj milkshake and Matalan incorrectly.
Another woman said her partner had started signing off ordinary messages with “sending my best”.
He used it instead of something affectionate even when they were together on holiday.
Scott thought it sounded more like the end of a formal letter than a message between partners.
It was compared with “kind regards” and people who signed texts with their own initial even though the recipient could already see who had sent the message.
The title phrase became another tiny piece of language which could drive somebody mad purely because their partner knew it did.
Geoff Payne checked back in
Liam Payne’s dad Geoff had previously become an occasional listener contact.
He sent another message during the show, claiming he had pulled over specifically to send it.
Scott was sceptical about the dramatic effort involved and jokingly told him to pipe down, but was pleased to hear from him again.
The message had barely been discussed before the phone rang with another unexpected name.
Isaac from Slaves explained the vomit
Isaac Holman from Slaves called after Scott mentioned a tweet from the band.
They had played two Rough Trade shows in Nottingham.
During the earlier performance, at around 6pm, one particularly enthusiastic fan became so excited that he vomited over the stage and onto Isaac’s microphone.
Scott initially assumed alcohol had been involved.
Isaac said no.
The fan appeared simply to have become sick while throwing himself into the show.
Remarkably, he still queued for the signing afterwards.
When he reached the band, he admitted he was the person who had done it and apologised.
Isaac also issued a different request to fans.
Stop bringing flapjacks.
He had previously asked for them and people had taken the instruction seriously.
With Reading and Leeds approaching and a televised festival performance ahead, he was trying to get into shape and had been given far too many buttery supermarket flapjacks.
Scott’s Reading Festival choir was suddenly real
Months earlier, Scott and Chris had heard Deaf Havana’s “Sinner” and offered to join the gospel-style backing singers at Reading Festival.
The date had finally arrived.
Scott had assumed the suggestion might quietly disappear.
Instead, the band’s record company emailed to confirm they were definitely doing it.
A member of London Contemporary Voices called to explain what Scott needed to do.
There were proper vocal parts.
There was choreography.
Scott immediately clarified that he was not a professional singer.
He had apparently been oversold.
The plan was for him and Chris to wear gospel robes, stay with the choir and contribute to “Sinner” without destroying the actual performance.
Scott also decided that, as an official festival performer, he wanted an artist lanyard, full access and preferably a golf buggy to the stage.
Gangster Nan went viral
The show also continued asking listeners whose relatives or partners had unexpectedly gone viral.
Ella described receiving her wedding photographs and zooming into a big group shot.
Her nan was not smiling and waving like everybody else.
She was sticking two fingers up at the camera.
Ella FaceTimed her to reveal what she had discovered and recorded the reaction.
That video went viral with around 1.5 million views.
Her nan became known online as Gangster Nan.
A carefully staged family wedding photograph had accidentally created the internet star of the week.
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