JP Cooper had heard the Baby Shark joke
Earlier in the week, a listener had pointed out that JP Cooper’s “Sing It With Me” could be made to sound a little like an adult version of “Baby Shark”.
Scott and Chris immediately regretted repeating the comparison because they genuinely liked the record.
JP was due on the show.
They wondered whether to pretend the whole thing had never happened.
JP had already heard it.
Fortunately, he found the joke funny.
He even suggested that if Baby Shark had billions of streams, perhaps resembling it slightly was not the worst commercial strategy imaginable.
Scott wanted a terrace anthem
The chorus was so simple that Scott developed a second plan.
Could “Sing It With Me” become a football chant?
JP agreed to help test the idea.
The programme tried launching the song in the BBC canteen, imagining the room as a football terrace.
Scott wanted to understand how chants actually began.
Did one person simply sing loudly until everybody else joined in?
Chris loved the image of Scott standing among football supporters attempting to start a JP Cooper chorus.
The result was not enough to transform British football overnight.
It did make the song even more associated with the show.
Greg James had left himself logged in
Scott also noticed Greg James had left a computer session open.
Radio 1 staff regarded this as a dangerous mistake.
Leaving a charger unattended already meant somebody would probably take it.
Leaving yourself logged in opened a much larger range of possibilities.
Scott was visibly tempted to interfere.
The programme used the moment to discuss office behaviour everybody knew was wrong but still found difficult to resist.
Daddy Ralph volunteered himself
Where Do You Think They Were? introduced Megan, 25, and her dad Ralph.
Ralph was one of the most enthusiastic parents the feature had ever booked.
He was proud of Megan and immediately joked about using the story in a future father-of-the-bride speech.
Megan had not even got engaged.
Ralph was already developing material.
The story went back to 1993, when the family visited Ralph’s parents in Morecambe.
Megan’s older brothers were three and five.
The day involved walking on the promenade, the beach, lunch and enough activity to exhaust the children.
That night, Ralph and wife Tracy finally had some time together.
The children interrupted attempt one
The first attempt did not go to plan.
The boys woke up.
Privacy disappeared.
The following morning, Ralph’s mother offered to take the children downstairs for breakfast.
Ralph and Tracy suddenly had somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes.
Ralph described it as the moment to strike.
Music went on to cover any noise.
The soundtrack may have included Kris Kross’s “Jump”.
Scott could barely cope with the image.
The contraception mishap became Megan
The couple had been using a contraceptive cap.
Ralph explained that Tracy had accidentally left it in from the night before rather than dealing with it as intended.
The morning’s “Ralph and Tracy time” therefore had an unexpected result.
Megan.
Ralph told the whole story with such enthusiasm that Scott repeatedly asked whether he was enjoying the overshare too much.
Megan was less sure.
Ralph remained thrilled by the idea that one day he might repeat it at her wedding.
Scott advised her to consider eloping.
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