Pete Mills did not want the funky restaurant
Scott had spent part of the weekend with his dad Pete and admitted he needed to stop taking him to restaurants which were far outside his comfort zone.
This time the choice had been an Austrian-themed place.
Scott assumed sausages or schnitzel would provide something familiar enough.
Pete was not interested.
Chris thought the problem was obvious: Scott was trying to broaden his dad’s horizons when Pete would probably have been much happier somewhere straightforward and recognisable.
Their nightclub photographs were terrible
Chris had also become increasingly irritated by the publicity photographs used outside student unions and nightclubs when the pair were booked to DJ.
Other artists appeared on posters looking polished and current.
Scott and Chris repeatedly saw the same old photographs of themselves.
Chris said his made him look like an out-of-work magician.
Scott’s expression and hair were not helping either.
The pair decided the problem needed actual market research.
Scott printed Chris’s photograph and went into the street asking strangers what job they thought the man in the picture did.
The point was to prove that nobody looking at the image would naturally think “Radio 1 DJ”.
The exercise would be reversed on Tuesday.
A neighbour’s enormous bush became Radio 1 business
Listener Liv then asked the programme for help with a neighbour dispute.
The neighbour’s hedge or bush had grown far enough across the boundary to obstruct Liv’s view.
The entire conversation became impossible once Scott and Chris realised how often they could use the word “bush” while technically discussing gardening.
The practical advice was much more sensible than the language around it.
Speak to the neighbour first.
Do not simply cut everything back without warning.
Check the rules about overhanging branches and clippings.
Scott and Chris admitted they were not the ideal legal authority.
They still enjoyed being the first people Liv had apparently thought to call.
Ask Me Anything introduced an equine cleaner
Then Ask Me Anything produced one of the strangest occupations the feature had found.
A woman working in equine care explained that part of her business involved cleaning horses’ sheaths and penises.
Scott and Chris repeatedly reduced the job description to “horse willy washer”.
The actual reason was health and hygiene.
Domesticated horses could develop a build-up which sometimes needed cleaning and removal.
The caller said she could deal with anything from a couple of horses to around 10 or 15 in a day depending on the work.
She wore gloves and used appropriate cleaning products.
The business had originally developed almost by accident after dealing with a problem on her own horse and then helping other owners.
Scott was amazed that a genuine specialist service existed for something no school careers adviser had ever mentioned.
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