A flashing box in the corner put Scott immediately on edge
Scott had noticed something deeply unwelcome in the Radio 1 studio.
A rodent trap tucked away near the wall was flashing.
He assumed there was only one reason a rodent trap would flash.
Something was inside it.
Scott did not want to go anywhere near the box and rapidly began talking as though the studio had become uninhabitable.
Chris found his panic considerably funnier than Scott did.
The mouse had apparently beaten BBC security
The more Scott thought about it, the stranger the possible journey became.
Radio 1 was several floors up inside Broadcasting House.
How had a mouse or rat got into the building?
Had it passed reception?
Used the revolving doors?
Taken the lift?
And in 2020, had it been temperature checked and asked to wear a mask?
Scott jokingly played Joel Corry’s *Sorry* for the suspected intruder and continued keeping as much distance from the trap as possible.
At this stage nobody actually knew whether anything was inside.
That uncertainty was enough for Scott.
Lana could not completely escape her ex’s voice
The day’s relationship discussion was much friendlier than most breakup stories.
Scott and Chris wanted to know whether people had a favourite ex.
Listener Lana did.
Her former boyfriend had later become a voiceover artist.
That meant she could occasionally be listening to another commercial radio station and suddenly hear the voice of somebody she had once gone out with advertising a product.
One of the reasons she liked Radio 1, Lana joked, was that there were no adverts and therefore far less chance of unexpectedly hearing him.
A favourite ex could receive a good TripAdvisor review
Lana made clear there was no bitterness.
He was a nice person.
They were still friendly enough to check in with each other occasionally.
If she had to give the relationship a TripAdvisor-style review, it would be positive.
Scott and Chris loved the concept.
Relationships end for all sorts of reasons, but that does not mean everybody involved needs to become an enemy afterwards.
Listeners sent in their own examples of exes they could still speak about warmly.
Some had genuinely remained friends.
Others simply looked back and thought the relationship had been good even though it clearly was not meant to last forever.
Face ID had become another mask problem
The Who Game and general 2020 conversation moved onto mobile phones.
Face ID was far less convenient when everybody was covering most of their face.
Chris then wondered whether identical twins could unlock one another’s phones.
That sent Scott into increasingly ridiculous comparisons involving people he supposedly resembled.
Could a photograph of somebody who looked vaguely like him fool the phone?
Would a younger image work?
The real question about twins was much more interesting than most of Scott’s proposed experiments, but the show spent plenty of time on both.
The Who Game found more forgotten habits
The Who Game supplied another burst of nostalgia.
MSN Messenger’s old attention-seeking trick of signing out and immediately signing back in resurfaced.
So did former chart names and television programmes including *Sweat the Small Stuff*.
As always, the best entries were not ancient history.
They were things that had been completely normal only a few years earlier and had somehow vanished from everyday conversation.
Live Lounges That Time Forgot prepared the ground for Sam Smith
Don’t Look It Up finished with another dive into forgotten Live Lounge performances.
Le Youth’s 2014 cover of Sam Smith’s *Money on My Mind* appeared, along with other artists Scott and Chris had barely thought about since the performances originally happened.
The timing was neat because Sam Smith was due in the Live Lounge the following day.
Before that, though, Scott still had one concern.
Somewhere in the studio, there might be a mouse.
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