Scott and Chris had breakfast and learned too much
Scott and Chris met for breakfast before the show and jokingly allowed producers to think they had been at a bottomless brunch.
They had not.
Their meal included charcoal toast, which Scott thought might simply be burnt toast given a fashionable London name.
The more important consequence of breakfast was that Scott learned a collection of old Chris stories which he immediately wanted to put on air.
Chris complained that the opening days of 2019 were becoming far too revealing.
Yesterday’s desperate Tinder caller was not Ross
The previous afternoon, a supposed listener called Ross had explained that Tinder’s outage prevented him contacting a date.
Scott and Chris had become suspicious.
Small parts of the story did not add up, including the restaurant arrangements.
The caller returned.
He confessed.
His real name was Cody.
Ross was his friend.
Cody had invented the entire story because Ross had previously pranked him and he had been waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.
The hair-smelling date, the Tinder crisis and the romantic details had all been fabricated.
Scott said he felt completely duped.
Cody apologised to everybody whose time he had wasted, while also admitting he had enjoyed getting away with it.
Charlie had created a much more complicated lie
The show then found another dating deception which was actually real.
Listener Charlie had been talking to an older woman and arranged a date.
She had her own place.
Charlie still lived with his parents in a box room with a single bed.
He had decided that admitting this would make him look less impressive.
So he told her he had his own place.
The flat actually belonged to a friend.
That friend was so committed to the deception that he had begun putting photographs of Charlie around the apartment so it would appear genuinely lived in.
Charlie was now facing the possibility of taking his date back to a fake home carefully staged by somebody else.
Scott and Chris were amazed by the amount of infrastructure being created to avoid one straightforward sentence.
The show became a web of lies
The combination of Cody’s fake Tinder call and Charlie’s borrowed apartment made the whole programme feel suspicious.
Scott began questioning every listener story.
Chris pointed out that both deceptions had been motivated by relationships: one to prank a friend, one to impress a potential partner.
The lesson was not reassuring.
Dating in 2019 apparently required verification.
Chris regretted an antique purchase
Chris also described visiting an antique shop and buying a painting because he briefly convinced himself it might become valuable.
Once away from the shop, the confidence disappeared.
The purchase became another example of Chris making a spontaneous decision and then using the show to work out whether he had done something clever or ridiculous.
The evidence was leaning towards the latter.
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