The team WhatsApp had reopened an old argument
Someone wanted to send Scott and Chris slippers and asked for their shoe sizes.
Scott answered for both of them.
He described himself as roughly a 10, sometimes 11, and Chris as an 8.
Chris immediately objected.
He said he was closer to a nine and a half or 10.
Scott accused him of increasing the number because men sometimes treated shoe size like height.
Chris accused Scott of spreading misinformation in the group chat.
The argument had happened before.
Thursday finally attempted to settle it physically.
Rulers came out
The presenters measured their actual feet rather than relying on what was printed inside shoes.
Scott expected the result to prove his long-standing claim.
Chris insisted the comparison was more complicated because brands and styles fitted differently.
The measuring produced enough ambiguity for both men to continue feeling correct.
What it definitely established was how seriously two adults could argue about a difference of roughly one shoe size.
The title Act Your Age, Not… fitted the afternoon perfectly.
Bombay Bicycle Club reviewed themselves
Bombay Bicycle Club joined after their Radio 1 Live Lounge.
Scott and Chris again used the self-assessment format which had become common in January.
Rather than simply tell the band the performance was brilliant, they asked the artists what they themselves heard when listening back.
Small timing, vocal or instrumental details could matter enormously to the people who had just performed them even when listeners heard only a polished session.
The feature continued demonstrating that artists were often their own toughest reviewers.
Steve upgraded the food experiment
The programme also found Steve, a former MasterChef professional, to continue the food-description feature.
This time Scott had somebody who could bring genuine culinary vocabulary rather than Ben’s enthusiastic home cooking.
Steve described food with professional precision.
Chris reacted exactly as Scott hoped.
The more specific the textures and flavours became, the more interested he was.
The joke worked because there was nothing inherently rude in the ingredients.
The production, voice and Chris’s reaction supplied everything else.
The Who Game completed the package
Thursday also brought another Who Game.
Scott, Chris and listeners offered up cultural references which had once been huge and now felt dated enough for the ritual shout.
The show had spent the week turning missing hummus, stolen biscuits and ordinary meals into features.
An argument about feet was therefore a perfectly appropriate way to end this run.
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