Freshers Week needed parental verification
Scott and Chris had spent enough time around universities to know that students rarely gave parents the complete version of Freshers Week.
Max was starting at Exeter University and admitted he had been giving his mum selective updates.
So Radio 1 called his mother, Louise.
She had already cried when leaving him at university and admitted she missed him.
Scott then told her she was about to hear information Max had not necessarily planned to volunteer.
The Freshers Game used three multiple-choice questions.
One answer in each round was true.
The others had been invented by the programme to make the conversation as awkward as possible.
Louise knew him surprisingly well
Question one asked what Max had been voted most likely to do during a drinking game.
The options included contracting an STI, sleeping with a lecturer or throwing up that week.
Louise correctly chose throwing up.
Max explained that everybody had pointed at him during the game, forcing him to finish his drink.
Scott immediately began giving him responsible Freshers Week advice about not surrendering to peer pressure.
Question two asked what Max had dressed as the previous night.
Louise guessed Meghan Markle’s dad.
The real answer was a sex panther with whiskers.
Max then revealed people on his floor had already started calling him a ladies’ man.
Louise was not entirely surprised.
She had seen photographs on Instagram.
The final question asked what Max had done which would annoy his mum most.
The invented answers included paying for an adult website and being arrested for urinating on the wall of Exeter Prison.
Louise correctly chose the much less dramatic truth: getting kicked out of the Co-op.
She finished with two correct answers out of three.
Scott thought that proved Max had not managed to reinvent himself at university quite as completely as he imagined.
His mum still knew him.
Nicole had never been on a plane
The programme also met Nicole, 19, from Pontypridd.
Her boyfriend Liam had booked a trip to Amsterdam for her birthday.
Nicole had never been on a plane before.
She had never flown anywhere.
Scott and Chris immediately turned themselves into unreliable aviation advisers.
Scott initially gave sensible reassurance about flying and told her to pay attention to the safety announcement.
Then the advice became less trustworthy.
Nicole was told that clapping when the plane landed was important etiquette.
The pair began promising to talk her through the entire flying experience before her trip on the 28th.
Nicole trusted them.
This was going to become a problem.
Could Harry Styles pull off the pig?
A new Harry Styles fashion campaign showed him in deliberately eccentric clothes and posing with farm animals.
Chris liked the bold styling.
Scott questioned whether even Harry could genuinely pull off the pig.
The phrase became more amusing than the original fashion debate.
Young Farmer listeners meant the programme had no shortage of people capable of sourcing an actual pig if Scott and Chris decided to recreate the shoot.
Arguments were still arriving
The previous day’s discussion about terrible places to have relationship rows continued.
Listeners added more stories from public spaces and events.
Freshers Week had already supplied Scott and Chris with enough awkward public behaviour.
The arguments proved students did not have a monopoly on it.
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