Dr Alex had developed a mysterious noise
Scott and Chris noticed that Dr Alex George from *Love Island* had started making a recurring noise in Instagram videos.
Posts about perfectly normal activities were interrupted by an excited sequence of “oh, oh, oh, oh”.
Scott could not work out whether Alex knew he was doing it or was deliberately trying to make it a catchphrase.
People suggested he may have picked it up from car vloggers he watched.
Someone at Radio 1 who had dated Alex before *Love Island* was asked whether he had always done it.
Apparently not.
Scott therefore concluded the noise was a recent development.
Will fancied the woman behind the counter
Listener Will called with a story which required patience.
He regularly used a local shop and got to know a Polish employee called Paulina.
Their conversations were not exactly romantic.
They mostly covered the weather and whatever Will happened to be buying.
He might explain that the reduced steak in his basket was going to become steak, chips and onions.
Despite the limited material, Will fancied her.
He decided ordinary conversation was not enough.
He needed magic.
The card trick took too long
Will had previously used card tricks on nights out and thought one could impress Paulina.
He went into the shop when it was quiet and asked her to choose a card.
The problem was that the trick was elaborate.
Customers began arriving while Will was still shuffling and arranging cards at the till.
Under pressure, he rushed the ending, produced the correct card and left.
Somehow, it worked well enough.
Will got Paulina’s number.
They arranged a night out with one of her friends and one of his.
The date had almost nothing to build on
Once they were in a club, Will discovered that months of chatting about groceries had not actually created much conversation.
The music was loud.
They barely knew each other.
Will admitted the date did not really go anywhere.
The story appeared to be over.
Then, around six months later, he moved to a different area.
He went into his new local shop.
Paulina was there.
Scott and Chris could barely believe the coincidence.
Will thought she had transferred or moved.
The reunion was awkward enough that he decided not to attempt another magic trick.
They eventually went their separate ways.
Will found another shop.
Scott and Chris finally allowed the extraordinarily long Polish Paulina saga to end.
Was there really a burp in “Shotgun”?
Hundreds of listeners then told the show there was a burp hidden around 59 seconds into George Ezra’s “Shotgun”.
Scott and Chris repeatedly played the section.
They could not hear it.
Listeners insisted it was obvious.
The debate began to feel like Yanny and Laurel, with people apparently hearing different things in exactly the same recording.
Scott also became convinced he could hear background voices elsewhere in the track.
The more carefully everybody listened to a song they had already heard hundreds of times, the stranger it became.
Brockhampton reached daytime Radio 1
Scott had also become aware of the intense online following around Brockhampton.
He described them as a new kind of boy band, a large creative collective which actively embraced the label rather than avoiding it.
Reports from their London show at KOKO said the venue had been chaotic, with sweat dripping from the walls and fans screaming every lyric.
Listener Charlie had been there for around seven hours.
She said grown men were shouting members’ names and begging to touch their hands with the kind of intensity normally associated with much more traditional pop fandom.
Charlie had first discovered Kevin Abstract and then realised he was part of Brockhampton.
She thought the group challenged assumptions about what a boy band and hip-hop act were supposed to look and sound like.
Scott then played Brockhampton on mainstream daytime Radio 1.
Fans immediately messaged to mark the moment.
What sounded at first like “a rubbish village in Sussex” had suddenly become one of the most talked-about groups on the programme.
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