Chris suddenly realised it was Tuesday
The Easter bank holiday had distorted everybody’s sense of time.
Chris reached part of the show before fully processing that it was already Tuesday.
That mattered because he and friends had plans which normally depended on the weekday.
The realisation turned into the kind of minor scheduling crisis which only existed because Monday had felt like Sunday.
Scott was more interested in Chris’s appearance.
He had turned up considerably more tanned than the previous day and was already behaving like somebody preparing aggressively for summer.
What counted as ID when the real ID was missing?
A discussion from Monday continued with listeners describing the things they had used to convince door staff they were old enough to enter a venue.
People had produced Boots Advantage cards, car keys and other objects which contained no official proof of age at all.
One man had apparently shown a bald patch on the top of his head.
The bouncer accepted that nobody underage was likely to have one quite like it.
Scott and Chris loved the improvised logic.
Official identification was clearly preferable.
Human beings became remarkably inventive once already standing outside the club.
Jenny had invented Tinder holidays
Then listener Jenny explained a version of Tinder Scott had never considered.
She travelled frequently and opened the app around airports and other places full of international travellers.
A normal Tinder radius might be geographically small.
At an airport, everybody inside that radius could be about to fly somewhere completely different.
Jenny started matching, talking and occasionally accepting invitations to travel.
The result was what the show called Tinder holidays.
Dubai, Mauritius and a yacht
Jenny described trips including Dubai, Mauritius, Abu Dhabi and Jersey.
One match involved joining a man sailing a roughly 50-foot yacht from Italy to Monaco.
Another trip to Thailand was planned.
Scott immediately understood why the idea fascinated him.
Most people using Tinder were fishing in the same local pond.
Jenny had effectively placed the app over the entire world.
The show called it Global Tinder.
She still checked people out first
Jenny stressed that she did not simply get onto aircraft with complete strangers without preparation.
She researched people, particularly if they had a business or professional presence, and left information with family.
She described the meetings as friendships with the possibility of something more if they got on.
So far, she said, the trips had largely remained friendships.
Scott and Chris still regarded the arrangement as one of the most extravagant uses of a dating app they had heard.
Jenny promised to keep them updated.
Funny Business returned too
Tuesday also brought another pair of Funny Business calls.
The premise remained unchanged.
Real companies.
Excellent names.
Scott and Chris attempting, usually unsuccessfully, not to laugh while making an ordinary enquiry.
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