Jesse’s ghost hunt was still difficult to forget
The previous Where Do You Think They Were? had given Jesse far more detail than he wanted about his mum Pat’s ghost-hunting weekend.
Scott and Chris replayed enough of it to remind everybody what the feature demanded.
Dark corridors.
A B&B.
A shower.
Red-and-black nightwear.
Jesse’s discomfort had become a warning to the next participant.
Alison, 26, still agreed to continue.
Linda had been waiting to tell the story
Alison’s mum Linda had effectively encouraged her daughter to apply.
That immediately worried Scott.
Parents who volunteered themselves tended to enjoy the feature far more than their children.
Linda said she was running a pub at the time and life was extremely busy.
She and Alison’s dad had nevertheless decided it was time to have a baby.
Linda described the effort less as spontaneous romance and more like a military campaign.
The weekend went to Marwell Zoo
The couple booked a stay connected with Marwell Zoo in Hampshire.
Part of the package included visiting the animals.
They also ended up playing crazy golf.
That was where the romantic weekend briefly became competitive.
Alison’s dad claimed a hole in one.
Linda disputed it.
An argument followed.
Then Linda supplied the line Scott and Chris could not resist.
They were supposed to make love, not war.
The windmill became suspicious
The reconciliation may have happened immediately.
Linda remembered an alfresco moment behind the crazy-golf windmill.
Scott was stunned.
Alison was worse.
The programme tried to establish whether this was definitely the conception or simply one of several possibilities from the weekend.
Linda was not prepared to narrow it down completely.
The hotel still remained part of the story.
The weekend had apparently contained enough opportunities that Alison could not receive the neat single-location answer some other callers had.
She did receive an image of her parents behind a novelty windmill at a zoo.
That was arguably worse.
Kim Petras fans were still everywhere
The show also continued enjoying the response from Kim Petras fans after she thanked Radio 1 for making “Icy” Tune of the Week.
The messages were spectacularly intense.
Scott liked fandoms which did not simply say they enjoyed an artist.
They described the artist as changing their life, saving them or becoming part of their identity.
Kim’s listeners had fully mobilised.
The Who Game went back to Buckaroo
Another Who Game brought back old products and television memories.
Buckaroo appeared among the forgotten references.
So did old diet drinks and cultural objects which once seemed permanent.
Scott and Chris were increasingly aware that the Who Game was effectively measuring how quickly ordinary life dated.
A board game from childhood and a recent internet fad could both end up receiving the same response.
“Who?”
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