The Who Game had been waiting for months
Scott and Chris brought back the Who Game after a long absence.
The rules were deliberately simple.
Take turns naming something which had once been massive but now belonged firmly enough to the past for everybody else to shout:
“Who?”
Scott and Chris had been banking references for days.
Listeners joined by phone.
The game moved through television, presenters, old products, competitions and bits of pop culture which could instantly transport somebody back several years.
Examples included *Art Attack*, Orange Wednesdays and older television formats which once felt unavoidable.
The game ended only when somebody could not think of another strong “who” or the programme ran out of time.
Jax Jones finally got revenge
Scott and Chris had spent years asking Jax Jones to do strange things for Radio 1.
He had filmed himself farting for a week.
He had played their games.
He had repeatedly allowed the show to build features around him.
Now Jax had asked them for a favour.
Scott and Chris spent part of the morning inside a fake supermarket for something connected with Jax’s YouTube channel.
The exact finished video was not yet available during the show, but both presenters described the filming as suitably bizarre.
Scott accepted the logic.
If Jax could record seven days of flatulence for Radio 1, the least they could do was turn up in his fake shop.
Ian had successfully influenced Radio 1
The programme also checked the numbers for Ian the Ian-fluencer.
He had appeared the previous day with only around 190 Instagram followers while confidently describing himself as an influencer.
After national radio exposure, the figure had risen to roughly 1,782.
Scott immediately suspected they had been used.
Ian had come on to discuss having no audience and left with a considerably larger one.
Chris thought that simply proved Ian understood influencing better than they had given him credit for.
Hastings got the full Stark Guide
Chris then presented another Stark Guide, this time to Hastings in East Sussex.
He said he had put extra effort into this one because Hastings deserved it.
The guide covered the seaside town, local attractions and the sort of historical facts Chris delivered with the same tone whether perfectly respectable or completely ridiculous.
The standout character was a local man known as Goldfinger.
Scott immediately wanted to meet him.
Goldfinger’s love of gold and connection with the pier gave the guide exactly the eccentric local character the feature thrived on.
Listeners demanded more towns
People from around the country immediately requested guides to their own areas.
The Shetland Islands, Isle of Wight and Aberystwyth were among the suggestions.
Scott liked that a feature which began as Chris pretending to be a serious historian was slowly becoming an actual listener travel service.
Accuracy still came second to enthusiasm.
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