Cockermouth had reached the newspapers
The programme was still enjoying the fallout from Tuesday’s Funny Business call.
The local report about the Cockermouth bike shop described Radio 1’s presenters as Chris Pratt and Danny Howard.
Scott and Chris tried to work out how those names had possibly been chosen.
Perhaps somebody had remembered that one presenter was called Chris and simply supplied the first famous Chris surname which came to mind.
Chris Stark decided being confused with Chris Pratt was not the worst insult he had ever received.
“Father’s Day is on Sunday” became permanent
The show then heard from listener Ali, who had made an extraordinary commitment to a recurring clip.
For years, Scott and Chris had replayed audio from a New Zealand radio quiz where a woman repeatedly answered questions with the same phrase in a Kiwi accent:
“Father’s Day is on Sunday.”
Ali liked the clip so much that he had it tattooed on himself.
Scott initially assumed the photograph had to be fake.
It was fresh enough to have protective film over it.
Chris immediately wondered whether the listener would eventually need the show’s old tattoo-fix service.
The tattoo had not even come from the original New Zealand programme.
Ali knew the clip because Scott and Chris had played it so often.
Listeners identified their “hot points”
The programme also returned to the idea of small, oddly specific things which made a partner unexpectedly attractive.
Scott’s example had been someone driving particularly well.
Listeners understood immediately.
One person liked watching a partner confidently reverse into a difficult parking space.
Another found it attractive when a boyfriend removed his glasses to clean them and squinted because he could not see.
A caller liked the way a partner put an arm behind the passenger headrest while reversing.
Scott liked the phrase hot point because none of these were obvious features such as eyes, smiles or bodies.
They were tiny behaviours which somehow added several points to somebody’s attractiveness.
Julie needed a Manchester guide
Listener Julie was heading to Manchester for a hen weekend and wanted help avoiding the fear of the unknown.
That meant another Stark Guide to Britain.
Chris began with Roman Manchester and the name Mamucium, moved through the Industrial Revolution and described the city as the first industrialised city.
He celebrated Manchester as the birthplace or home of a range of innovations and institutions, including the vegetarian movement and Marks & Spencer.
The guide also took the hen-party requirement seriously, mixing local history with places and activities useful for a weekend away.
Julie admitted she felt much better prepared.
Scott mainly wanted to know whether anybody in Manchester would fact-check Chris’s increasingly confident historical claims.
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