Scott had assumed the Postcode Lottery song was just a jingle
The line was instantly familiar:
“Someone’s knocking at the door, somebody’s ringing the bell.”
Scott knew it from the People’s Postcode Lottery adverts.
He had always assumed the company had commissioned a cheerful little jingle specifically for people arriving at front doors with giant cheques.
Then he learned the truth.
It was a real song.
Let ‘Em In, by Paul McCartney and Wings.
Chris initially reacted with the same disbelief.
The pair had heard the fragment so often in advertising that the original context had effectively disappeared.
Paul McCartney briefly became famous for the advert
Scott jokingly introduced McCartney as though his principal cultural achievement were being responsible for the Postcode Lottery song.
Listeners immediately objected on behalf of The Beatles.
The joke continued.
In the show universe, Paul McCartney was now the man behind the advert who had also apparently done a few other things.
Hearing the full song made the familiar advertising line sound completely different.
Granny Tinder discovered foam parties
Lynette returned and somehow the conversation reached holidays and clubbing.
Scott and Chris discovered she had never been to a foam party.
They attempted to explain the experience:
large machines fire foam across the club.
Everybody gets covered.
Clothes become soaked and sticky.
For some reason this is considered fun.
Lynette remained unconvinced.
The pair then wondered whether there was a business opportunity in creating foam parties and bar crawls aimed specifically at older people.
Lynette, who barely drank, did not sound like their first customer.
Nude candles had taken over social media
Bangers caller Chloe also introduced Scott and Chris to another lockdown craft trend.
People were making candles shaped like naked bodies.
Scott had seen them all over Instagram but had never properly processed what he was looking at.
The show discussed the strange experience of lighting, holding or smelling a wax version of somebody’s nude body.
Scott mentioned already owning a Donald Trump-shaped candle, proving that candle design had been moving away from normal cylinders for some time.
Chris was more interested in whether the bodies were based on real people.
The question remained unresolved.
Education really had become everywhere
The podcast title fitted the whole episode.
Paul McCartney taught Scott music history.
Lynette received nightclub education.
Chloe supplied a lesson in candle trends.
Radio 1 had become an unusually broad adult-learning service.
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