Scott’s mum took no prisoners at Chelsea Flower Show
Scott began by apologising to anybody who might have crossed paths with his mum at the Chelsea Flower Show.
She had been using a wheelchair.
The event was busy.
People were not always moving quickly enough.
According to Scott, his mum’s response was basically:
if they will not get out of the way, drive through.
Scott spent much of the day warning her not to run people over.
Chris suggested a cattle prod might have made crowd control even more efficient.
Chris thought children were drinking pints at Harry Potter
Chris had visited the Warner Bros. Studio Tour.
Unlike Scott, he had actually seen the Harry Potter films and appreciated the sets.
Then he reached the café.
Children appeared to be walking around carrying what looked remarkably like pints.
Chris was briefly stunned.
Had Harry Potter World simply decided children could drink beer?
Then he realised the drinks were Butterbeer.
Completely non-alcoholic.
Perfectly safe.
The glasses had simply fooled him.
Memes: Where Are They Now? searched for the actual people
The programme then launched Memes: Where Are They Now?
The internet is full of instantly recognisable faces.
Distracted Boyfriend.
Side Eye Chloe.
Blinking Guy.
Disaster Girl.
The crying woman.
Change My Mind.
People use the images millions of times without necessarily knowing anything about the actual person in the picture.
Scott and Chris wanted to find them.
The first success came almost immediately.
Lisha was the exhausted nightclub woman
Lisha had become a meme after a night out in Edinburgh.
The photograph showed a man leaning towards her and apparently shouting into her ear while she looked profoundly unimpressed.
Scott and Chris instantly recognised it.
Lisha explained the man was Patrick, someone she had known from school.
The photograph was taken late in the night.
She was tired.
There may have been an argument or simply loud club conversation.
She did not even notice the photographer taking the picture.
The expression which became internet-famous was just her being ready to go home.
One club photo became global without her doing anything
The nightclub posted its usual photographs.
Somebody found the image while searching for pictures of friends.
It was put on Twitter with a caption.
Then it spread.
And spread.
Lisha began seeing her own face used by strangers all over the internet.
She later appeared in *Cosmopolitan* in a feature alongside people behind other famous memes, including the Charlie Bit My Finger family.
Yet she did not own the image.
The photographer owned the copyright.
Scott compared her with the Mona Lisa:
the subject of an enormously famous picture without control over what happens to it.
Side Eye Chloe had taken meme ownership into the NFT era
The discussion also reached Side Eye Chloe, another person whose childhood expression had become globally recognisable.
By 2021, the image had entered the NFT conversation, with the family selling the famous meme image digitally.
Scott and Chris were fascinated by the idea that something once reposted endlessly for free could suddenly become an asset worth real money.
Memes had grown up.
So had the people inside them.
Chris discovered he was too old to armpit fart
The Who Game brought back childhood armpit farting.
Chris attempted it.
The skill had gone.
Scott decided there must be an age cut-off somewhere around the teenage years.
Listeners immediately began proving him wrong, setting up the following day’s hunt for Britain’s oldest functioning armpit farter.
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