Still no Baby Stark
The morning after Chris revealed his wife could give birth at any time, listeners wanted an update immediately.
There was none.
Chris remained on air and joked that the situation was beginning to feel like waiting for a royal birth.
Scott pointed out that people could reasonably expect Chris to disappear without warning if things started happening.
For now, though, it was another Breakfast show from his in-laws’ spare room.
Wycombe’s promotion party was still going
Adebayo Akinfenwa — “The Beast” — had been celebrating Wycombe Wanderers’ promotion to the Championship.
He had apparently been messaging Radio 1 from very early in the morning and was still awake after the previous night’s celebrations.
Chris wanted to get him live on the programme.
The problem was that Akinfenwa had enormous amounts of energy and was not necessarily responding in the organised way required for a Breakfast interview.
Scott and Chris kept trying while following his celebratory messages.
The Better Days Quiz went back to Pokémon Go
The day’s quiz returned to July 2016, when Pokémon Go was released in the UK and people briefly seemed to be walking around everywhere hunting virtual creatures.
Teacher Colin took the quiz.
It went very badly.
Despite claiming to have revised, Colin repeatedly reached for the wrong answers and even drifted back to historical events from 1664.
He finished with just one point.
Scott could barely believe that a teacher had produced what was possibly the worst Better Days round they had ever heard.
Should pupils call teachers by their first names?
That led into a discussion about modern classrooms.
Some teachers said pupils now used their first names rather than Mr, Mrs or Miss followed by a surname.
Scott found the idea almost impossible to accept.
To him, a teacher’s title had always been part of the job.
He also remembered the confusion when a teacher returned after getting married with a different surname. As a child he had briefly thought an unpopular teacher had been replaced, only to discover she had simply “rebranded”.
The lockdown edition of “Whooo!” listed everything that had disappeared
The show adapted its game about things from the past into a lockdown special.
The players had to name ordinary activities people had freely done in 2019 but could no longer imagine doing in the same way.
Examples included getting close to strangers on packed trains, one-night stands, office-party kissing and shaking hands.
High fives were off.
And Innuendo Bingo — a feature built around two people sitting opposite each other and repeatedly spraying water into one another’s faces — suddenly seemed less like a radio game and more like a public-health nightmare.
Scott wondered when it could possibly return.
Below Deck became Chris’s new recommendation
Chris had started watching *Below Deck*.
He explained the format to Scott: wealthy guests charter a luxury yacht, the crew has to satisfy increasingly demanding requests, and the eventual tip can depend on how happy everybody is.
Scott was intrigued by Captain Lee and by the sheer amount of money involved.
One charter could apparently produce a tip of around $15,000 for the crew to divide.
Chris said the first episode took a little patience while the cast and format were established, but after that Scott would be completely invested.
Scott actually put watching it in his diary.
Tina Barrett corrected an S Club lyric
The programme had noticed that crowds often sing S Club 7’s *Reach* as:
“Reach up for the stars.”
There is no “up”.
Tina Barrett from S Club called in to settle the matter.
The official lyric is simply:
“Reach for the stars.”
Scott asked why everybody adds the extra word.
Tina did not really know, suggesting people might simply be trying too hard to sing along.
After years of public misquotation, Radio 1 had finally obtained a ruling from someone actually on the record.
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