Scott wanted a dog
Scott opened Wednesday with a genuine life question.
Should he get a dog?
Somebody at Radio 1 occasionally borrowed a dog for the day through a service connecting owners with people who wanted canine company.
Scott liked the idea enough to start thinking about owning one full time.
Chris thought he could be a very good dog owner if he genuinely committed.
He also had concerns.
Scott travelled often.
His schedule could be unpredictable.
A dog needed daily care regardless of whether Scott had a DJ booking, holiday or Radio 1 event.
What dog actually looked like a Scott Mills dog?
Listeners were asked to suggest breeds which suited Scott’s personality and lifestyle.
Chris rejected the obvious joke that Scott should simply carry a tiny handbag dog.
He wanted a real answer.
The show became interested in the familiar idea that dogs eventually looked like their owners.
What would Scott’s canine equivalent be?
No definitive answer emerged.
Scott remained serious enough about the idea for the programme to promise it would return.
The red-wine incident returned
Chris then remembered a previous dog-care episode.
Scott and friends had once been looking after a white dog when red wine was spilled on it.
The frantic attempt to clean the staining was not a reassuring piece of evidence for responsible dog ownership.
Scott insisted the incident had been accidental and was not representative of how he would care for his own animal.
Chris still thought it belonged in the risk assessment.
Isabel discovered she was living with a couple
An anonymous caller, given the name Isabel, had another domestic problem.
She shared a house with three other people.
Two of those housemates had quietly been in a relationship for around eight months.
The rest of the household had suspected something might be happening.
They had not realised it was a full relationship.
The couple had been going on dates, spending nights together and even showering together while maintaining the fiction that nothing official was happening.
Now the secret was out.
The sofa suddenly belonged to a couple
Isabel said the house felt different immediately.
She had believed she was living with individual flatmates.
Now she was living with a couple.
The pair occupied the large sofa together.
Their behaviour made more sense in retrospect.
Scott and Chris joked that the secrecy itself may have provided some of the excitement and wondered whether the relationship might change once the hiding stopped.
Isabel was considering moving out.
The fourth housemate was gay, removing Scott’s suggested solution that the remaining two single people simply become another couple.
Showering together was not sexy
The revelation produced a second debate.
Is showering together actually romantic?
Scott and Chris thought the reality was terrible.
In an ordinary shower over a bath, one person stood under the warm water while the other froze.
Then they switched.
The process became constant rotation rather than intimacy.
Listeners who had tried it confirmed the practical problems.
The idea belonged in films.
In an average British bathroom, Scott thought separate showers were much better.
Bamboleo returned
Bamboleo Wednesday collected another set of listener-selected clips, including recent LOLathon moments.
The feature provided the familiar midweek break in a programme which had spent most of the afternoon discussing dogs, secret couples and shared bathrooms.
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