Internet rabbit holes became even stranger
The previous day’s discussion of watching people eat had produced a flood of alternatives.
Listener Robin enjoyed videos of cattle hoof trimming.
Scott and Chris watched one and immediately understood the appeal.
A badly overgrown hoof was cleaned and reshaped.
The cow was more comfortable.
The visual transformation was strangely satisfying.
Another listener watched pandas falling out of trees.
Somebody else preferred ear-wax removal videos, particularly the ones using tiny cameras and water.
The programme had established that expensive television drama was in direct competition with extremely close-up footage of bodily maintenance.
Who gets the emergency disposal job?
The show then asked a question people do not normally raise in polite conversation.
If the worst happened to you, which friend would need to get to your possessions before your family?
Scott imagined old phones.
Diaries.
A suspicious drawer beside the bed.
Hidden money.
Anything somebody might prefer a trusted friend to remove before parents or colleagues started clearing the house.
Listeners had already thought about it.
One had explicitly told friend Jess to destroy “the drawer” if anything happened.
Scott regarded that as exactly the level of forward planning the feature required.
Andy King returned from the Fyre Festival archive
The programme also revisited Andy King, one of the breakout figures from Netflix’s *Fyre* documentary.
Scott and Chris had interviewed him during the 2019 Lolathon after his extraordinary willingness to solve a water problem became one of the documentary’s defining moments.
King admitted he had originally assumed the story would never make the final edit.
When he discovered it would, he asked director Chris Smith to remove it.
Smith refused because the moment demonstrated exactly how chaotic Fyre Festival had become.
Scott still considered Andy one of the very few genuine success stories to emerge from the disaster.
The 2–6 slot received a completely disproportionate farewell
The actual emotional centre of the programme was the end of Scott and Chris’s temporary 2–6pm run.
They had been covering the famous afternoon slot for only around three weeks.
The farewell was staged as if they were leaving after decades.
Greg James sent condolences for the end of an era.
Rob Brydon praised their service.
Maya Jama joined the mock tributes.
Listeners sent emotional messages about the “legendary” run.
Scott and Chris repeatedly acknowledged how ridiculous the scale of the goodbye was.
That made it better.
It was not really goodbye at all
The new Radio 1 schedule was beginning the following week.
Scott and Chris were simply moving back to 1pm.
Vick Hope and Jordan North would take over later in the afternoon.
Ricky, Melvin and Charlie were moving.
Clara Amfo would begin her new evening programme.
Nothing about Scott and Chris’s careers was actually ending.
Still, the montage treated three weeks at 2pm as a broadcasting institution.
Scott leaned into the emotion completely.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
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