Radio 1 celebrated Clara Amfo’s Strictly breakthrough
Scott wanted to begin Tuesday’s Blow Your Own Trumpet by blowing the trumpet for somebody else.
Clara Amfo.
After a difficult previous week on *Strictly*, Clara had returned with a much stronger performance and finally received tens from the judges.
Scott had even seen her practising the routine around Radio 1.
He loved the confidence boost.
Chris admired it for another reason.
Clara now had official proof she was a 10 at something.
He wanted the same.
Chris could not identify his own perfect score
Scott asked what Chris would genuinely rate himself ten out of ten at.
Not seven.
Not eight.
Ten.
Chris struggled.
Radio presenting?
Probably not ten.
Football knowledge?
Very good, but not perfect.
Throwing a teabag into a mug from a distance was one of the few things he thought he might genuinely excel at.
Even that sounded suspiciously like luck.
Scott found the exercise unexpectedly difficult too.
The programme invited listeners to identify the tiny skill where they could confidently award themselves full marks.
A Disney honeymoon slideshow went terribly wrong
One listener supplied a story which quickly gave the podcast its title.
Her parents had gone on honeymoon somewhere connected with her mum’s great love of Disney, particularly Tigger.
When they returned, the family sat down to look through the photographs.
The slideshow moved through perfectly normal holiday pictures.
The Magic Kingdom.
Minnie.
Mickey.
Then suddenly there was an intimate photograph of her dad which had clearly not been intended for the family slideshow.
The caller said the image had never left her memory.
Scott and Chris, naturally, demanded enough detail to make the situation much worse.
Was that Mickey or Tigger?
The Disney setting made the accidental photograph impossible to discuss without references to the characters surrounding it.
Scott wanted to know whether the most memorable image from the honeymoon involved Mickey, Tigger or something significantly less suitable for children.
The listener regretted giving them material to work with almost immediately.
It was the classic Scott Mills escalation.
A family photo mishap became several minutes of entirely unnecessary Disney imagery.
Blow Your Own Trumpet returned to ordinary listeners
After celebrating Clara, the feature returned to listeners’ own small wins.
People had sorted phones, completed delayed jobs and managed the kind of tiny piece of life admin which can feel disproportionately satisfying.
The trumpet made no distinction between a television judge awarding a ten and somebody finally fixing something that had annoyed them for weeks.
That was the whole appeal.
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