Greg James launched Pass The Pasty
Radio 1 Breakfast had begun an unnecessarily ambitious delivery mission.
Listener Sarah in Aberdeenshire had never eaten a Cornish pasty, so Greg James decided to send one all the way from Cornwall using only listeners to move it from person to person.
Scott and Chris spent the afternoon following the relay.
The pasty left Padstow, crossed on the ferry towards Rock and continued through a succession of strangers who had volunteered to help.
By the time Scott and Chris picked up the story, listener Oscar had it in North Devon.
His plan was not simply to drive it somewhere useful.
He took it to The Big Sheep, the family attraction near Bideford.
Scott initially imagined the name might literally refer to an unusually large local sheep. Listeners quickly corrected him and explained that it was an attraction with sheep racing and rides.
That gave Oscar another idea.
The pasty went on a rollercoaster.
Scott loved the fact that the food was receiving a more eventful trip around Britain than most people managed on holiday.
Listeners with cars, lorries and onward journeys began volunteering to continue the route north.
An airline even offered to fly it much closer to Aberdeen, but Scott thought that would defeat the entire point of passing it through listeners.
Donald Trump became a Jax Jones remix
The programme had also found an awkward video of Donald Trump trying to connect a telephone call with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.
The repeated “Hello? Enrique?” and uncertainty over whether the other end could hear him sounded so rhythmic that Scott and Chris placed it over Jax Jones and Mabel’s “Ring Ring”.
The result became the Donald Trump Ring Ring edit.
Scott kept replaying it because each listen seemed to reveal another uncomfortable pause.
The story also led back to Scott’s own long-running objection to time zones.
Reports that Trump sometimes called foreign leaders without fully considering the local time gave Chris the opportunity to point out that Scott had spent years proposing that the entire planet should simply use one clock.
Scott insisted his idea remained completely sensible.
The Birthday Game was still traumatising listeners
The previous week had introduced the show’s new birthday feature.
Instead of giving somebody a routine birthday mention, Scott and Chris offered an enormous Radio 1 shout-out if the listener first sat through one of their parents explaining where and how they had been conceived.
Scott was still trying to settle on a name for the feature.
The basic mechanics were already clear.
The birthday message was deliberately brilliant.
The price was maximum family embarrassment.
After the first victim, the team were already looking for more birthdays and more parents willing to overshare.
Jax Jones was collecting his own farts
The programme also followed up the celebrity-fart challenge.
After struggling to persuade famous people to record every fart for a week, Jax Jones had agreed to take part.
He was now filming them.
Scott and Chris were delighted that an internationally successful producer was treating the assignment with enough seriousness for an eventual montage.
The “fartage” was promised for later in the week.
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