Scott’s long-awaited Hawaii chair arrives at Radio 1, but a dramatic malfunction nearly sends him flying across the studio—and then the team hunt for the most creative excuses people have used to avoid admitting to their mates they’ve been dumped.
The show opens with Scott’s excitement about the arrival of his Hawaii chair, a vibrating seat designed to work your abs while you sit. He’d planned to use it throughout the broadcast, but during filming at a busy office to demonstrate its workplace versatility, things went catastrophically wrong. On level three, the chair began spinning faster and faster, trapping Scott between the desk, moving across the room of its own accord, and generally behaving like “a chair possessed.” He had to bail out, and the chair is now broken. Video footage has been posted online showing the chaos.
The team then shift to testing whether various emotional moments can trigger that involuntary physical response—the hairs standing up on your neck and arms. Sarah from Newcastle joins in, and they run through a series of clips: Band-Aid singing about starving children, Halle Berry’s Oscar speech, Bambi’s mother dying, Jack Vera’s funeral eulogy, and the end of Titanic. Chopper proves stubbornly unmoved by most of them, earning ribbing for being heartless, though he does eventually get a tingle from the Vera clip.
The main feature explores creative excuses people have invented rather than admitting to their mates they’ve been dumped. One caller, Gemma, encountered her ex’s mate who’d been told his friend’s girlfriend had *died*. Other listeners confess to equally absurd lies: one man claimed his ex had been deported for tax evasion, another said she’d landed a role in the West End’s Sound of Music (his family even bought tickets), and another blamed his split on his own bedroom prowess rather than admit he’d been dumped. It’s a funny, relatable feature revealing how far people will go to save face.
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