Chris wanted a 24-hour amnesty after a night out
The day after mocking Scott for changing around Strictly people, Chris turned up looking considerably worse.
He had gone out for drinks with a football friend.
The evening lasted longer than expected.
His wife had reasonable things she wanted to discuss about that.
Chris’s argument was not that she was wrong.
In fact, he repeatedly admitted she was right.
His argument was that today was a hangover day.
Any serious domestic conversation should therefore be postponed until tomorrow.
Scott found this logic weak but entertaining.
Chris compared it with having a meeting rescheduled at work because somebody was unwell.
Why, he wondered, was a hangover not treated with similar compassion?
Missing Zoom calls did not strengthen his case
Chris had also failed to attend a couple of Zoom calls that morning.
Again, he considered honesty preferable to inventing an excuse.
He was hungover.
That was the reason.
Scott pointed out that telling everybody this might create more problems than simply attending the meetings.
Scott had developed a lockdown delivery habit
The new “gadget” or household obsession was less a single device than the strange reward mechanism created by online shopping.
Scott had started ordering small things surprisingly often.
Not huge deliveries.
Just little items.
A tiny parcel arriving at the door gave him something to look forward to.
He compared each knock to a miniature Christmas present.
Even when the thing inside was completely mundane, the tap at the door created a small moment of excitement in an otherwise repetitive year.
An Amazon delivery driver later joined the programme and Scott thanked delivery workers generally for providing so many of those little lockdown interruptions.
Chocolate audio was the ideal voice
The show also discussed voices which were simply pleasant to listen to.
Pete Tong’s was described as having “chocolate audio” — a smooth voice capable of making almost anything sound appealing.
That led into old clips and announcer voices from Radio 1’s past.
The phrase became an instant description for audio which feels richer than it really needs to be.
England v Wales created divided-household problems
An England-Wales football friendly was coming up.
Scott’s boyfriend was Welsh, which meant ordinary relationship loyalty and international football loyalty were about to collide.
Listeners in mixed English-Welsh relationships reported similar problems.
Supporting your partner’s country during rugby or a tournament is one thing.
Doing it when they are playing your own country is another.
Don’t Look It Up went classical
The quiz transformed contemporary pop songs into classical arrangements.
Removing beats and production forced Scott and Chris to rely on melody alone.
As usual, songs which seemed completely obvious in their original versions became surprisingly hard to recognise once performed in another style.
And because it was Wednesday, *Bamboleo* still found its way into the programme.
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