Granny Tinder had missed a week for very good reasons
Lynette had been absent.
Scott and Chris initially assumed she was simply enjoying a busier social life.
The actual explanation involved both illness and a genuine emergency.
She had developed a heavy cold and cough.
Importantly, it was not COVID.
Then the residential complex where she lived was flooded.
Residents had to be evacuated because nobody knew whether more rain was coming.
Firefighters arrived with a float
Lynette described the rescue with extraordinary calm.
The fire brigade brought what the transcript calls a float — effectively a floating rescue mat.
Lynette had to climb onto it on all fours.
Firefighters stood either side and moved her towards higher ground.
Scott and Chris were stunned.
Lynette talked about the first part as though somebody had organised an unusual day out.
“What fun.”
Getting off the wobbling mat at the other end was much less enjoyable.
At 80, climbing up from the ground was already not especially easy.
Doing it from a floating surface added another level.
Lynette called the whole thing an adventure
Scott could not believe she was laughing.
The experience sounded frightening.
Lynette accepted she would not want to repeat it.
She still framed it as a new experience rather than a disaster.
Scott began imagining footage of Granny Tinder being floated away from her home and immediately wanted to add music to it.
Lynette was more concerned that she must have looked ridiculous crawling on all fours.
The important thing was that everybody was safe and her bungalow was okay.
Olympic dating apps entered Granny Tinder territory
With the Tokyo Olympics underway, another dating trend was spreading.
Users with premium app features could change their virtual location and search around the Olympic Village even while sitting thousands of miles away.
Scott and Chris wanted to know whether this was clever, desperate or both.
The idea sounded like exactly the sort of modern dating behaviour Granny Tinder was qualified to judge.
Lynette had spent much of the last year learning how apps worked.
Now users did not even need to be in the same country as the people they were swiping.
Old X Factor auditions returned to the quiz
Don’t Look It Up revisited early *X Factor* appearances.
Artists who later became familiar stars sounded much less polished at the point when they first walked into an audition room.
Scott and Chris again had to identify careers from their beginnings rather than from the finished celebrity image everybody now recognised.
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