December arrived with a daily little “Whooo!”
Scott and Chris decided an ordinary advent calendar was not enough for the show.
Instead, every day in December would open another door on the Who-Vent Calendar.
Behind each door would be a small piece of recent nostalgia: a person, sound or moment designed to trigger the same “Whooo!” response as The Who Game.
Scott liked the idea partly because 2020 had made even very small treats feel valuable.
If there was something harmless to look forward to each day, he was taking it.
Door one delivered an old Radio 1 memory involving MistaJam spelling out his name over dance music — exactly the sort of tiny audio fragment the feature had been invented to revive.
Brother or Lover found a much trickier pair
The new Brother or Lover game returned after the previous day’s first edition.
This time Emily introduced Joe.
The team could ask questions but could not directly ask how the pair were related.
Joe was an accountant.
Emily was at college and working part-time with jewellery.
They played Xbox together, including *GTA* and *Warzone*.
Joe had nicknamed Emily “Danny Howard”, partly because he thought she had a moon-shaped face and because she loved Radio 1.
For Emily’s birthday, Joe had arranged a personalised video from Jack Saunders and bought her Jaffa Cakes.
So far, almost everything could plausibly fit either a close sibling relationship or a couple.
Holding hands and nudity did not make it any clearer
The questions became more intrusive.
Had they ever held hands in public?
Yes — at a busy train station.
Had Joe ever got his kit off in front of Emily?
Also yes.
Scott and Chris thought those answers should have made the game obvious, but they actually split the team further.
Some decided the train-station hand-holding sounded sibling-like.
Others thought seeing somebody naked made “lover” much more likely.
When the votes were counted, the majority went for lovers.
They were right.
Emily and Joe had been together since April.
Scott was instantly invested in the relationship and demanded reassurance that distance between Bristol and Kent was not about to destroy it.
Tuesday’s trumpet celebrated restraint, education and oven cleaning
Blow Your Own Trumpet returned for listeners pleased with achievements nobody else was likely to applaud.
Vicky had eaten only half a Ripple and saved the rest for later.
Scott regarded this as astonishing self-control.
Dan had re-enrolled for his maths GCSE as an adult to improve his grade.
Fran had cleaned an oven for the first time in her life.
That prompted Scott to talk about Oven Pride and Chris to briefly misunderstand it as though Scott were discussing an actual “oven pride” march.
Every achievement got the same trumpet fanfare.
Bangers considered the dangerous half-and-half option
The show also continued experimenting with half-and-half Bangers.
If a caller genuinely could not choose between Scott’s track and Chris’s, perhaps Radio 1 could play half of each.
The idea sounded generous.
In practice, the transition between two completely unrelated songs could be terrible.
Even Chris, who had originally pushed the idea, was beginning to realise there was a reason Bangers traditionally required an actual decision.
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