Amy and Layla had spent the evening watching people eat
Scott had asked the team whether anybody had watched something interesting the night before.
There was plenty of high-budget television available.
New dramas.
Netflix series.
Actual programmes with scripts and actors.
Producer Amy had instead spent much of the evening on YouTube watching people eat Japanese food.
Scott assumed this was simply one person’s weird internet habit.
Then Layla admitted she had effectively done the same thing.
That changed the question.
If two members of the team independently spent their evening watching strangers eat, perhaps this was a proper trend.
Listeners had much stranger specialist searches
The programme opened the question out.
What do people type into YouTube when they want entertainment but cannot decide what to watch?
One listener watched a woman eating pickles extremely close to a microphone.
Another watched cats sitting on bar stools while a man prepared food for them.
Somebody recommended endless fondue clips.
Another watched people eating ice.
The common theme was that the videos did not necessarily have a plot or purpose.
People simply found them satisfying enough to keep watching.
Scott was baffled.
He was also increasingly tempted to watch them himself.
Flat jockey Gemma chose Rihanna on Bangers
Bangers landed with Gemma, a professional flat-racing jockey in North Yorkshire.
Scott had to ask what distinguished a flat jockey from a jump jockey.
Gemma explained the obvious answer more patiently than he probably deserved: flat racing means exactly that — racing without jumps.
Scott then offered Rihanna and Eminem’s Love the Way You Lie.
Chris countered with Kendrick Lamar’s Swimming Pools (Drank).
Gemma chose Rihanna.
Scott immediately claimed the Bangers victory.
Granny Tinder nearly missed keep fit
Lynette joined for Granny Tinder and instantly realised Scott and Chris had reminded her of something important.
She had keep fit.
The feature suddenly had a deadline.
Scott offered to cancel the whole thing so she could go.
Lynette insisted they could continue — but the profiles now needed to be dealt with quickly.
The show also returned to the idea of getting Lynette into gaming.
Scott wanted the full setup:
gaming chair.
Lighting.
Streaming equipment.
A proper Twitch presence.
Lynette remained suspicious that somebody was trying to turn her into a professional gamer.
Does this animal fart?
Don’t Look It Up returned to one of the programme’s most mature scientific categories.
Does this animal fart?
A sloth?
According to the quiz, no in the conventional sense.
A python?
Yes — despite Scott and Chris being unable to picture where the noise would come from.
A sea lion?
Also yes, with the additional claim that their farts can smell particularly fishy.
Chris remembered seeing a seal on holiday in the New Forest and becoming so excited he had started telling complete strangers nearby.
Scott thought this was almost as strange as watching people eat pickles on YouTube.
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