The First Minister of Wales finally answered the cheese question
Scott and Chris had both repeatedly received tweets from a man asking celebrities for their favourite cheese.
They had mostly ignored him.
Then the same question somehow made it into a Welsh Government coronavirus briefing.
First Minister Mark Drakeford took it seriously, explaining that he had loved cheese since childhood and eventually choosing Caerphilly while admitting there were plenty of others he liked too.
Scott and Chris were astonished that the man who had been tweeting them for months had successfully taken his question all the way to the First Minister.
Better Days reopened the Yanny/Laurel argument
The day’s Better Days Quiz went back to May 2018 and the audio illusion that divided the internet.
Some people heard “Yanny”.
Others heard “Laurel”.
Scott and Chris both heard Laurel, while discussing the explanation that age and sensitivity to different frequencies can affect which version people perceive.
The family battle from the Highlands continued, with another member taking questions about stories from that date.
One man beat a fish-and-chip challenge too many times
“Booted out of the buffet” returned with a listener telling the story of his uncle.
A fish-and-chip shop offered a challenge involving four large pieces of fish, four portions of chips and four portions of mushy peas. It cost money upfront, but anybody who finished the lot ate for free.
The uncle completed it.
Then he came back the next week and completed it again.
He carried on for around six weeks, even asking for extra bread and butter.
Eventually the manager quietly told him he was no longer allowed to do the challenge because he was costing the restaurant too much money.
For Scott and Chris this was exactly the kind of heroic buffet behaviour they wanted: someone being banned not for failing to understand the rules, but for understanding them far too well.
A Pilates instructor called Radio 1 while teaching a class
The previous day’s fly-deterrent discussion produced a spectacular follow-up.
A Pilates instructor rang to say Scott’s water-and-coins idea had actually worked for her.
The difficulty was that she was currently in the middle of teaching a Zoom class.
Scott and Chris could hear her correcting participants named Helen and Harriet while simultaneously trying to explain what she had done about the flies.
Rather than letting her get back to work, they told her to make the class hold a plank while she continued the call.
The result was part consumer feedback, part live fitness session and entirely unfair on the two people trying to exercise.
Reopening businesses had made their own safety films
As pubs and restaurants reopened, owners around the country were making homemade videos explaining the new rules.
Scott and Chris became fascinated by how unintentionally entertaining they were.
Some managers delivered social-distancing instructions with the solemnity of government broadcasts; others were far more relaxed.
One pub video produced the phrase that gave the podcast its title: customers were encouraged to “keep a pig apart, my lovelies” — a rural way of explaining the required distance.
The show treated these clips as a new form of Funny Business: local owners becoming accidental broadcasters while trying to explain one-way systems, table service and distancing.
Lockdown etiquette had become its own language
The whole programme captured a very specific point in reopening.
People were learning how far apart to stand, how restaurants would work and whether homemade anti-fly tricks had any scientific basis at all.
Scott and Chris were simply collecting the strangest examples and turning them into breakfast radio.
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