Chris had managed six months without losing the earbuds
Chris had owned wireless earbuds for roughly six months without losing them.
Given his track record, this counted as progress.
Then something fell while he was travelling.
He heard a thud.
The earbuds themselves were still with him.
The charging case was not.
That created a very modern inconvenience.
He technically still owned the headphones.
He simply no longer had the object required to charge and properly pair them.
Listeners Alison and Jason in Sunderland even offered a spare case despite not having the actual headphones.
Scott thought this was remarkably generous.
Granny Tinder returned after choosing real life over Radio 1
Lynette had missed the previous day’s show because she was at the residents’ tea party.
Scott and Chris pretended to be offended.
Lynette did not appear remotely guilty.
After a year of lockdown, she had finally been able to sit with neighbours and socialise.
Radio 1 could wait.
The team accepted this was exactly the sort of reason they wanted her to be unavailable.
Then it was back to business.
A cruise-ship entertainer created a familiar concern
One profile belonged to Joel, a 25-year-old cruise-ship entertainer.
Lynette liked the sound of him in principle.
The difficulty was the job.
If Zofia dated somebody working on cruises, he could be away for long periods.
Scott had enough experience around entertainers to turn the conversation into stories of ship and theatre life.
He even admitted he had dated an entertainer himself for roughly two days.
The relationship was not long enough to provide much useful evidence.
Serena came to Granny Tinder for actual advice
Listener Serena also brought a relationship question to Lynette.
By now the grandmother’s role had expanded beyond swiping.
People genuinely wanted her opinion on dating.
Lynette’s advice remained much less complicated than Scott and Chris often made things.
If somebody’s behaviour is making you unhappy or confused, pay attention to the behaviour rather than inventing explanations on their behalf.
The show had accidentally turned Granny Tinder into an advice column.
Jack Saunders became the most believable fake story of the day
Don’t Look It Up used Real or No Real.
One claim said Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders would be the next cover star of *Car Registration Plate* magazine, showing off personalised plates.
The detail was specific enough to sound real.
It was not.
Another claim — that humans are genetically more closely related to cats than dogs — was presented as real.
A supposed Donald Trump clock with two small hands and no large hand was fake.
The round confirmed that the best fake stories were those which sounded just boringly specific enough to be true.
Metal covers finished the quiz
Familiar pop songs were then transformed into heavy metal.
Scott and Chris had to identify melodies underneath guitars and screaming.
It was another version of the show’s favourite quiz trick:
take something everybody knows and remove the part that normally makes it easy.
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