Thirty thousand followers apparently made somebody a celebrity
Scott had seen a ruling from the UK advertising watchdog which used 30,000 followers as a threshold for considering an influencer a celebrity in an advertising context.
The show immediately treated this as a far more literal social classification.
If somebody had 30,001 followers, were they a celebrity?
If they dropped back to 29,999, were they suddenly ordinary again?
Scott admitted he used to look at Instagram analytics and wonder why followers disappeared on particular days.
He had largely stopped worrying because obsessing over the number made social media miserable.
Chris then considered the darker potential of fake followers.
Could somebody deliberately buy a huge number for an enemy and make their account look suspicious?
The whole conversation demonstrated why neither wanted to take the “celebrity at 30,000” line too seriously.
Lockdown laziness had reached dangerous levels
The show asked how lazy people had become while spending more time at home.
Molly supplied an immediate warning.
She needed to iron a jumper before walking the dog.
Taking it off first felt like too much work.
So she tried steaming it while still wearing it.
Unfortunately she was not wearing a bra underneath.
The heat went straight through the fabric and badly burned her chest.
Her mum’s response when Molly complained during the walk was not especially sympathetic.
Scott and Chris agreed that ironing clothes while wearing them should not be promoted as a lockdown life hack.
Maisie Peters heard the Radio 1 version of her own song
Maisie joined the programme after Scott and Chris’s attempt to perform *Maybe Don’t*.
They explained that they had been trying to recreate the chemistry between Maisie and JP Saxe.
Maisie was impressed by one thing in particular.
Scott and Chris had somehow taken their clearly platonic real-life relationship and made the performance sound like something much more complicated.
She joked that this was a genuine skill.
Scott had expected her to tell them it was awful.
Instead she seemed entertained by what they had done.
Maisie explained the actual dynamic with JP
Maisie said the song with JP did not come from the sort of secret romantic relationship listeners might imagine when hearing the performance.
The chemistry was part of the record.
Scott and Chris had therefore managed to invent their own version of it without ever having the relationship they appeared to be singing about.
The official song then played as Tune of the Week.
Wednesday still belonged to Bamboleo
Halfway through another difficult week, Scott said he genuinely looked forward to the few minutes of silliness created by *Bamboleo*.
Listeners sent names, locations and requests.
The feature did not solve anything.
That was not the point.
For a moment everybody could simply have the Wednesday dance together.
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