Vaccination centres had become mini social events
Messages continued arriving from listeners receiving their first or second COVID vaccines.
Holly had been thousands deep in an online booking queue and was delighted simply to secure an appointment.
Luke in Cambridge had received his first dose and a sticker.
Scott and Chris discovered some vaccination centres were playing music and creating surprisingly cheerful atmospheres.
After months without clubs, Scott joked that the closest thing some people had seen to a rave was a pharmacy with background music.
He had tried to take a photograph at his own vaccine appointment and been politely discouraged by the busy pharmacist.
Blow Your Own Trumpet returned
Tuesday meant the usual fanfare for listeners proud of themselves.
The rules remained deliberately generous.
A major achievement counted.
So did something nobody else would consider important.
The feature had become one of the show’s easiest ways to manufacture a little bit of celebration every week.
Charlotte chose the poo story over the wrong funeral
The premium-listener inbox offered two promising headlines:
Wrong funeral.
Or:
Poo rolls under cubicle door.
Scott and Chris chose the second.
Charlotte came on to tell a story which she insisted had happened to a friend rather than herself.
The friend had a strong dislike of using public toilets.
Instead of simply using the toilet normally, she tried to avoid a splash by wrapping toilet paper around her hand and attempting to catch the poo.
The plan failed.
It escaped into the communal area
The poo dropped.
Then rolled.
Then travelled underneath the cubicle door.
It ended up outside, in the shared part of the toilet where other people were washing their hands or waiting.
Scott and Chris were horrified by every stage.
Charlotte repeatedly maintained that the story belonged to a friend.
The presenters heard the denial as exactly the kind of disclaimer somebody might give before telling a story about themselves.
Whether it was Charlotte or the mysterious friend, the anecdote earned premium status.
Shredded songs finally made the quiz
The day’s Don’t Look It Up included Shreds — famous songs deliberately recreated so they sound like a disastrously bad live performance.
Scott had apparently been asking for the round for years.
The distorted performances turned familiar songs into comic wrecks.
One used a famous Paramore track.
Another mangled a three-artist collaboration.
Scott cared far less about the score than about finally getting Shreds onto the programme.
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