Scott’s burp had somehow survived the edit
Listener Bethany got in touch after hearing something unexpected in the previous podcast.
Scott had recorded the usual closing line.
Then he produced an enormous burp.
The moment was supposed to disappear because he immediately did another clean take.
It did not disappear.
Somebody had left the burp in.
Scott was genuinely embarrassed and blamed a minty mouth spray he had been using while not smoking, saying it had been giving him horrible acid indigestion.
Chris found the whole mistake much funnier than Scott did.
The fact there was already a perfectly usable replacement line made it even harder to understand why the bodily-noise version had survived.
Jess had become a FIFA Widow
Listener Jess was isolating at home with boyfriend Gary.
Gary had coronavirus.
That should theoretically have meant plenty of time together.
Instead, Jess felt she had lost him almost completely to FIFA.
She could hear him shouting at the game while she worked from home and had developed the habit of keeping herself muted on work calls so colleagues did not hear whatever was happening next door.
What particularly baffled her was Career Mode.
Gary was not even simply playing football.
He was holding virtual press conferences, managing squads and selecting dialogue options.
Jess loved real football herself but could not understand why anybody wanted to simulate the administrative parts.
Scott and Chris tried to rescue the relationship
Jess said what she really wanted was attention.
A cuddle.
A programme watched together on Netflix.
Anything which suggested Gary was still aware another human being lived in the house.
Scott and Chris offered distraction techniques.
Scott demonstrated a trick from his mum: say something very quietly and quickly to see whether the supposedly distracted person is secretly listening.
His mum used to mutter offers of ice cream.
Scott suggested Jess escalate the method into increasingly surprising statements from another room.
Chris considered whether more obvious romantic distraction might work.
The show asked other “FIFA Widows” what lengths they had gone to in order to get somebody away from the game.
Hottest Employee of the Day returned
Scott’s temperature gun continued touring the Radio 1 office.
The feature now included asking each employee what they actually did at the BBC before taking the reading.
Partly this gave listeners context.
Partly Chris thought it was useful because Scott did not always know.
The competition remained deliberately absurd: everybody needed a safe normal temperature, but within that range somebody could still claim to be the hottest employee.
The Who Game and Live Lounges finished the day
The Who Game again collected old references from callers, moving quickly until somebody ran out or the timer ended.
Don’t Look It Up then returned to Live Lounges That Time Forgot.
It was becoming a recurring reminder that even people who had worked at Radio 1 through the performances could hear an old session and react as though it came from somebody else’s archive.
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