Is your own face a red flag?
One of Scott’s friends had started seeing someone new.
Everything appeared to be going well except for one detail.
The man’s phone lock screen was a photograph of himself, topless, on a beach at sunset.
When challenged, he explained that he liked having a reminder of what he looked like on his better days.
Scott was not convinced.
To him, using your own glamour shot as the first thing you see every time you unlock your phone suggested a level of self-appreciation bordering on narcissism.
Listeners argued over the exceptions.
A picture of yourself with your child was fine.
A motorbike where you happened to be barely visible was probably fine.
A practical identification photo in case the phone was lost had at least some logic.
But a carefully selected topless photograph of only yourself remained difficult to defend.
Where is the worst place to be dumped?
The conversation then moved into considerably more painful territory.
Nadia had travelled to the Isle of Man with a boyfriend and expected to meet his family.
After a day sightseeing, he suddenly told her he no longer wanted to be with her.
She then had to return home by ferry.
Scott recognised the particular confusion of a breakup that arrives when you think everything is going well.
Another listener had been dumped on an aircraft after a holiday with another couple, while the ex had become involved with the other woman.
There was no escape for the duration of the flight.
Reading Festival was not the place for the conversation
Listener Emily admitted she had broken up with a boyfriend on the second day of Reading Festival.
The problem was that neither of them could leave immediately.
They still had to share the small tent afterwards and were in no mood for the rest of the festival.
Another story involved a couple travelling to the Philippines to look at wedding venues.
The groom-to-be panicked after visiting one, said he could not go through with the marriage and then had to spend the rest of the trip surrounded by his former fiancée’s family.
The show had accidentally assembled a guide to almost every location in which a relationship should not be ended.
The Who Game returned
The nostalgia continued with another Who Game.
Old references and habits were thrown in and discarded with the familiar shout.
The approaching Radio 1 departure was clearly making the feature more poignant, but the structure remained gloriously trivial: cultural debris everybody once recognised and had somehow stopped mentioning.
Chris tried to save Busted on Radio 1
Bangers also became a campaign for Busted.
Chris selected “Sleeping with the Light On” and worried that once he left Radio 1 there might be nobody left willing to play it.
Listeners were encouraged to request it during the 10 Minute Takeover.
It did not immediately work.
For Chris, that only strengthened the case that his departure represented a serious threat to Busted’s future on national radio.
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