Troy Hawke arrived to explain the Greeters Guild
After days of watching his videos, Scott and Chris finally had Troy Hawke on the programme.
Troy explained the thinking behind his Greeters Guild character.
Modern high streets could feel increasingly impersonal.
People entered a chain shop, bought what they needed and left without any real interaction.
His answer was to stand outside in a velvet jacket and greet customers with spectacular enthusiasm, giving strangers compliments and treating their arrival as something worth celebrating.
The shops themselves had not necessarily asked him to do it.
That uncertainty was part of the performance.
Broadcasting House got its own unofficial greeter
Naturally, Scott and Chris wanted to see what happened if Troy applied the same technique to the BBC.
He went outside Broadcasting House and began welcoming staff, visitors and passers-by.
Ordinary arrivals were transformed into ceremonial occasions.
Some people accepted the compliment immediately.
Others had the expression of somebody trying to work out whether the man in the unusual jacket genuinely worked for the building.
Scott and Chris listened from the studio, delighted that the Greeters Guild had expanded into public-service broadcasting.
Scott found a song he could not eat to
The programme had also become obsessed with LF SYSTEM’s “Afraid to Feel”.
The record repeatedly changes pace, moving between slower and faster sections.
Scott discovered this made it strangely difficult to eat while it was playing.
Listener Vicky tested the theory with spaghetti bolognese and found herself speeding up her chewing when the track accelerated.
The show started imagining which foods would be most dangerous if somebody unconsciously matched the tempo.
A fish finger seemed a safer experiment than a forkful of pasta.
Becky Hill soundtracked a fake Love Island break-up
The Golden Moment came from a 2019 stunt involving Arielle Free, Chris and Becky Hill.
Arielle and Chris staged a melodramatic Love Island-style relationship break-up in the BBC canteen while Becky provided a live musical soundtrack nearby.
The joke depended on the other people in the canteen not knowing that the scene had been arranged.
As the pretend relationship collapsed in public, the perfectly timed singing made an already awkward scene feel like a full television finale.
It was exactly the kind of elaborate public nonsense the show loved recovering from its own archive.
June ended with a man greeting strangers outside the BBC, a dance record dictating the speed of lunch and one of the show’s old canteen stunts getting another outing.
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