Jo wanted Radio 1 to find her a husband
Listener Jo got in touch with a fairly direct request.
She wanted a husband.
She worked for the NHS, was not interested in becoming famous and had already kissed what she described as a considerable number of frogs.
Scott and Chris decided this sounded less like an ordinary dating-app problem and more like something the show could get involved in.
If Jo was willing, perhaps Radio 1 could actually help find somebody.
Scott immediately started imagining a feature built around the search.
The working title practically wrote itself:
Plenty of Frogs.
Granny Tinder inspired another dating spin-off
The conversation then returned to the success of Zofia’s grandmother judging Tinder profiles.
If a grandparent’s experience could filter out weak Tinder options, why not use the same idea elsewhere?
That produced Granny Grindr.
The show asked listeners using Grindr whether they would be willing to let a grandparent inspect their profiles and potential matches on air.
Chris liked the principle.
With age came wisdom.
Or, at the very least, much less patience for terrible bios.
The Who Game returned with elite nostalgia
Monday meant another round of The Who Game.
Scott and Chris fired through things from the recent past which deserved the collective nostalgic response of “Whooo!”
Office cubicles, old television names, internet habits and forgotten pop-culture references all returned for a few seconds before disappearing again.
Regular caller Mike once again contributed so intensely that listeners continued to suspect he might secretly be Greg James doing a voice.
Scott insisted he was real.
Could adults still perform an armpit fart?
A separate conversation asked whether the ability to make a convincing armpit-fart noise disappears with age.
Chris remembered being able to do it easily at school.
Now, he felt the power had faded.
The show started testing a theory that younger people could produce much louder results.
Twenty-four-year-old Ryan could still do it.
Other listeners began trying immediately wherever they happened to be.
It was exactly the kind of experiment which made more sense on Radio 1 than anywhere else.
The seven-second nipple trick became “science”
Then came another bodily theory.
Apparently, if a nipple was not already hard, flicking it would make it hard in roughly seven seconds.
Scott and Chris tested the claim.
So did listeners.
Messages arrived confirming — with varying levels of embarrassment — that it seemed to work.
One person only realised after trying it that the curtains were open and somebody could see.
Scott treated the seven-second result as if the show had just completed a serious scientific trial.
Live Lounges That Time Forgot ended the quiz
Don’t Look It Up returned to old Live Lounge sessions.
Frances covered Twenty One Pilots’ *Stressed Out*.
Another round involved *Chained to the Rhythm*.
John Martin, whose voice was more familiar from Swedish House Mafia records, appeared in a performance neither Scott nor Chris particularly remembered.
The whole point remained that these things had genuinely happened on Radio 1.
Time had simply deleted them from everybody’s memory.
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