Why was a man wearing a television on his head?
Scott and Chris began with a story from Virginia in the United States.
A man had been leaving old television sets on people’s doorsteps.
That would already have been strange.
Security footage made it considerably stranger.
The person delivering them wore an old television over his own head.
Nobody seemed to know why.
The programme replayed news coverage and tried to invent a motive.
Was it art?
A prank?
An extremely specific recycling scheme?
The mystery itself was the attraction.
Instagram faking became more expensive
Monday’s discussion about fake social-media adventures continued.
The new example was the private-jet photo experience.
People could pay for access to a grounded private aircraft, change outfits, take photographs and then release the pictures slowly enough to imply they regularly flew privately.
One listener knew somebody who had done a shoot of this kind in Milan for roughly a few hundred euros an hour.
Scott admired the production effort while also finding the premise bleak.
The person was paying not to travel anywhere, but to create evidence of a lifestyle which did not exist.
Funny Business reached Bonk & Co
Tuesday meant Funny Business.
One call went to Bonk & Co, a Scottish company connected with wood-burning stoves.
The owner explained that the name came from a family nickname rather than anything rude.
Scott and Chris still struggled with saying it repeatedly.
Another business was Blush and Blow, combining make-up with blow-dry services.
The name sounded exactly questionable enough for the show.
The business itself was perfectly normal.
Scott wanted the full names back
Then Scott announced another unnecessary campaign.
Radio 1 presenters had been shortening their names for too long.
He wanted full names in the station jingles.
Scott became Scott Robert Mills.
Greg became Gregory James.
Grimmy became Nicholas Grimshaw.
Matt and Mollie were reimagined as the more formal-sounding Matthew and Mary, although the conversation itself was playful rather than a reliable guide to Mollie King’s legal name.
Dev and Alice were expanded too, with Scott discovering that guessing somebody’s “full” name was not always straightforward.
The jingles made everybody sound grander
Annie Mac became Annabelle McManus in Scott’s version.
Ricky, Melvin and Charlie became Richard, Melvin and Charlotte.
Dan P Carter was given the full Daniel Philip Carter treatment.
Phil Taggart became Philip.
Scott loved the result.
The presenters sounded like people being called into a headteacher’s office or announced at an awards ceremony.
The production team began slipping the jingles into other shows to see whether the DJs noticed.
The joke would continue all week.
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