Scott had missed a supposedly universal childhood ritual
The previous day’s nursery-rhyme discussion had uncovered something Chris could barely believe.
Scott had never had his toes wiggled to This Little Piggy as a child.
Chris regarded this as a serious cultural gap.
The normal routine ends with the final little piggy going all the way home and a tickle travelling up the body.
Scott had somehow missed the entire thing.
Chris therefore offered to correct the problem live on Radio 1.
COVID required a socially distanced solution
There was one obvious problem.
Chris was not supposed to sit beside Scott and individually handle his toes.
So he found a litter picker.
Scott would receive the rhyme from several feet away, one toe at a time, using the grabbing tool.
Scott had another condition.
His socks were staying on.
He had no interest in putting his bare feet on the internet.
Chris complained this would reduce the authenticity.
Scott preferred reduced authenticity to foot content.
The whole scene turned one of the gentlest nursery traditions imaginable into something resembling a remote industrial procedure.
Jura and Aaron returned Brother or Lover with a shock
Later, Jura and Aaron joined for Brother or Lover.
Their answers confused nearly everybody.
Aaron had bought Jura more than five birthday presents on one occasion.
Jura knew Aaron’s previous girlfriends.
They had spent weekends away together.
Their voices even sounded similar enough to support the sibling theory.
Scott, Chris and most of the team eventually chose lovers.
They were wrong.
Jura and Aaron were brothers.
The reveal produced one of the stronger reactions the game had managed because the pair had deliberately supplied details which made their closeness sound romantic.
The G7 summit had Scott tracking planes
The G7 summit in Cornwall was also beginning.
Scott and Chris were now following arrivals with extraordinary enthusiasm.
Chris had been sending flight updates.
Scott had FlightRadar open and was monitoring aircraft carrying world leaders.
They even discussed the enormous fish-and-chip order reportedly being prepared locally.
International diplomacy had somehow become another piece of Radio 1 event television.
Real or No Real tested strange British laws
Don’t Look It Up included supposed laws and long-running myths.
Could pregnant women legally urinate in a police officer’s helmet?
Was eating mince pies on Christmas Day technically illegal?
Scott and Chris discovered several famous “laws” were actually myths repeated so often that everybody had stopped questioning them.
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