Adele had apparently discovered a loophole in ageing
A friend of Scott’s had changed his age on Grindr.
His justification:
if Adele could do it, so could he.
Adele’s new album was called 30.
Adele herself was 33.
Scott understood why.
The album was associated with the age and period in her life when it had been written, and its release had been delayed through the pandemic.
Still, the title created an attractive idea.
Could everybody simply remove the pandemic years from their official age?
Scott and Chris had both experienced birthdays when ordinary celebration was restricted.
Perhaps those years should not count.
Scott used a magic wand to remove three years
Scott decided to make the policy official.
He produced a magic wand and began shaving three years from callers.
A 33-year-old could become 30.
A 27-year-old could become 24.
One listener asked whether losing three years also meant regaining the hair he had at the younger age.
Scott refused.
The wand affected the number only.
Another caller wanted three years removed plus the weight they had gained since then.
Again:
age only.
Scott’s power had strict limits.
PinkPantheress still had some mystery left
The programme also discussed PinkPantheress, whose rise through TikTok had happened rapidly while she still maintained more anonymity than many modern pop artists.
Scott liked that the public did not know absolutely everything about her.
Social media often turns musicians into constant documentary subjects.
PinkPantheress still had a little distance between the person and the songs.
That felt unusually intriguing.
Blinking Guy joined from Chicago
The day’s Memes: Where Are They Now? success was enormous.
The programme found Drew Scanlon — better known online as the Blinking Guy.
His brief reaction clip has been used millions of times to communicate disbelief.
Scott and Chris were almost star-struck.
Drew confirmed he was, in fact, a real person rather than merely a few looping frames.
The reaction was never meant to become a meme
Drew’s facial expression came from an ordinary piece of video content.
A colleague said something surprising.
Drew blinked in disbelief.
That tiny reaction was isolated, turned into a GIF and eventually became one of the internet’s default responses.
As with Paul earlier in the month, the strange part was how the internet froze one completely ordinary moment and kept reusing it for years.
Scott found himself doing the Blinking Guy expression while speaking to the actual Blinking Guy.
The meme had looped all the way back to its source.
The Who Game continued the nostalgia cycle
The Who Game returned too.
The programme had spent much of October recovering old memes and forgotten habits.
Scott and Chris were increasingly proving their own theory:
today’s omnipresent internet moment is tomorrow’s Who Game answer.
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