Cuffing season met the people refusing to cuff
The programme had discovered the American phrase cuffing season.
As summer ended and colder weather approached, the idea was that single people began searching for somebody to settle down with for autumn and winter.
Scott and Chris wanted the opposite perspective.
Who was perfectly happy being single?
Jim, 29, said he had spent most of his adult life in relationships and was now enjoying being responsible only for himself.
He could choose what to eat, where to go and how to spend his time without having to negotiate everything with another person.
Another caller had deliberately imposed a two-year man ban after repeatedly moving straight from one relationship into another.
The aim was to learn how to enjoy her own life rather than immediately filling the space with somebody new.
Scott and Chris, both in relationships, tried to explain the benefits of being coupled up.
When the callers challenged them to name those benefits immediately, both presenters stalled.
The following day they were still insisting they had only struggled because there were so many advantages that choosing one had been impossible.
Scott admitted the conversation had become slightly risky once he got home.
Chris and Trump apparently shared a time-zone problem
The Trump telephone remix returned.
A report suggested the US president sometimes called foreign leaders without fully accounting for the time difference.
Chris pointed out that this sounded remarkably similar to Scott’s own position.
Scott had long argued that time zones were needlessly complicated and the world should simply agree to one universal time.
Chris tried again to explain that this would leave different countries experiencing daylight at apparently strange hours.
Scott remained unmoved.
He was willing to compromise slightly on what the global clock should be.
He was not willing to concede that the idea itself was ridiculous.
The pasty went snowboarding
Pass The Pasty had reached day two.
After its rollercoaster ride in Devon, the pasty continued north.
One listener got it to Tamworth SnowDome, where it was taken onto the indoor slope.
Scott and Chris were now less concerned with efficiency than with the pasty having a good trip.
Offers continued from people who could drive sections of the route or move it through airports.
The central problem remained preserving enough of the original pasty for Sarah in Aberdeenshire to eventually eat.
The mission had somehow become a relay, a tourist itinerary and a food-safety experiment at the same time.
Reality TV homework expanded
Scott also recommended *UnREAL*, the fictional drama about the manipulation behind a dating programme, after discovering it years later than everybody else.
That led into more clips from *Don’t Tell The Bride*, which Scott thought had become even more extreme since moving away from BBC Three.
He was particularly interested in episodes where brides described very traditional dream weddings moments before viewers learned the groom had planned almost the complete opposite.
The programme’s week was becoming heavily relationship-focused.
The only people sounding entirely relaxed about romance were the listeners refusing to participate in cuffing season at all.
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