Chris had lost the dressing room
The week began after one of the strangest weekends of Premier League results in years.
Liverpool had lost 7–2 to Aston Villa.
Manchester United had lost 6–1 to Tottenham.
Chris’s fantasy team was also having another dreadful week.
Scott decided this could no longer be treated as ordinary bad luck.
In football-manager language, Chris had lost the dressing room.
Mock pundits and listeners started demanding answers.
Was he going to resign?
Did the board still have confidence in him?
Chris pointed out that he had already used his wildcard and made drastic changes to the team, but even that had created extra points penalties.
Scott encouraged anybody spotting Chris later that day to shout the sort of question a struggling Premier League manager might hear outside a stadium:
“Are you going to resign, Mr Stark?”
A breakup can leave an extraordinary amount of digital admin
The main listener problem came from somebody who had split up with an ex but was still occasionally finding herself logged into his Netflix.
More significantly, she still had his Xbox.
She did not particularly want to contact him.
Scott and Chris felt the Xbox probably crossed the line between awkward digital loose end and property which genuinely needed returning.
That prompted a public-service idea.
When a relationship ends, people remember the emotional part.
They do not necessarily remember every account, password, subscription and device which has become tangled together.
Radio 1 created the Get Out and Log Out list
The pair began compiling the things somebody should check after a breakup.
Netflix was the obvious one.
Other streaming services followed.
Shared Amazon accounts mattered because somebody else’s payment details could still be sitting there.
Music subscriptions, passwords, shopping accounts and anything else a couple had casually logged into on one another’s devices all belonged on the list.
Then there were physical items.
Games consoles.
Clothes.
Chargers.
Keys.
Scott even suggested the show could act as a friendly recovery service for listeners who wanted something back but did not want to make the first contact themselves.
It would not be *Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!*.
It would simply be Radio 1 asking very politely whether somebody could return an Xbox.
The Who Game dusted off more forgotten culture
The Who Game returned with its usual rule: name something from the recent past capable of making everyone respond with a nostalgic “Whooo!”
Old BlackBerry Messenger pins, forgotten pop acts, internet habits and television names all came back into circulation.
One of the strongest examples was simply remembering the period when asking somebody for their BBM PIN was completely normal social behaviour.
QR codes also came up as something which had strangely moved from “who remembers those?” to everyday necessity again in 2020.
Live Lounges That Time Forgot completed the quiz
Don’t Look It Up continued raiding the huge Radio 1 archive.
Scott and Chris had to identify old Live Lounge performances they had technically lived through but barely remembered.
The feature remained especially good at showing how much music Radio 1 had accumulated over the years.
A performance could once have felt important enough to be live on national radio and still almost entirely disappear from memory a few years later.
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