Radio 1 jingles had become dance routines
Scott and Chris began with a group of friends and relatives who had turned Radio 1’s production jingles into choreography.
Listener Jake explained that the idea had grown from a birthday dance video.
What started as a bit of family silliness suddenly travelled online.
One clip attracted around 30,000 views overnight.
The routines used Radio 1 intros and jingles as though they were chart records.
Even the family dog became part of the performance.
Scott and Chris immediately wanted more.
Joining the family apparently required choreography
Jake revealed that his sister’s boyfriend had effectively been initiated into the family through one of the videos.
If he wanted to join in, he had to commit.
Scott imagined increasingly elaborate routines, including somebody popping out of a wheelie bin.
He even wondered whether the dancers could be booked for Scott’s birthday or sent towards *Britain’s Got Talent*.
The whole thing had the perfect lockdown-era quality of an ordinary family joke unexpectedly becoming content for thousands of strangers.
Toby had developed a theory about feet
The more serious — if only just — investigation came from *Love Island*.
Toby Aromolaran had apparently said he had always wanted size-ten feet when he was younger.
He grew up.
His feet became size ten.
Toby’s conclusion was that perhaps thinking about or wishing for a certain shoe size had helped make it happen.
Chris recognised something in the theory.
He too remembered wanting bigger feet as a child.
Scott did not believe the mind had any meaningful control over adult shoe size.
That did not stop the show asking listeners for evidence.
Listeners supplied completely unscientific proof
One caller said they had desperately wanted unusually large feet while growing up and ended up around size 11 or 12.
Another remembered having size-seven feet at school, wanting them to become smaller and later ending up around size five.
Scott pointed out that none of this proved anything.
Chris treated the anecdotes as though a scientific paper were beginning to form.
The conversation naturally moved towards whether other body parts could also be “manifested” into different sizes.
The show would return to that question the following day.
The Who Game remembered Facebook airport check-ins
Monday’s Who Game produced another sweep of recently forgotten culture.
Old *X Factor* deadlock moments.
Public-address announcements such as Inspector Sands.
Hard Rock Cafe.
Running upstairs on all fours as a child.
Checking into the airport on Facebook so everybody knew you were going away.
The feature remained strongest when something had not actually been gone very long.
All it needed was one person to say the name and everybody suddenly remembered doing it constantly.
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