Beccy terrifies Scott’s flatmate with £12,782 of Olympic tickets
The programme began with Beccy sharing an apparently irresistible piece of gossip: a friend had kissed a member of a band at a major music event. Rather than naming him, she sent Scott a video and directed him to the performer at one minute 50. The team promptly put the clip on Danny Howard’s Facebook page, where listeners could inspect the dance and decide whether Beccy’s unnamed friend had done rather well for herself.
Beccy had to repeatedly insist that the friend was not her. The denial became less straightforward after listeners remembered that she had admitted kissing someone in a band in the past, and wondered whether the carefully anonymous story was another attempt to conceal her own involvement. Scott enjoyed the ambiguity, while Beccy held firm that the story really belonged to somebody else.
The day’s main victim was Scott’s flatmate Fraser, who had applied for up to £12,000 worth of London 2012 Olympic tickets without expecting to receive every one. Fraser was already anxious that the money might disappear from his account, despite having little interest in most sport. Beccy rang him as a supposedly official London 2012 representative to confirm his spectacular success.
Her list included genuine sports alongside increasingly implausible events, from archery, athletics and badminton to beer pong, cow tipping, hopscotch, speed eating and zebra painting. She announced a total of £12,782.65 and told Fraser the payment would be taken the next day. His increasingly desperate request to keep just one archery seat made it hard to tell exactly when he realised it was a prank, particularly once a second “official” voice entered the call.
Scott and Beccy also revived the show’s Jeremy Kyle-style guessing game, asking listeners to predict the results of DNA tests from the evidence in the clips. Later they admired an 81-year-old man who had been told Twitter was a search engine and was therefore using it for queries such as “soft food and soft snacks”, “remote control leash” and “what does email cost?” It was an episode built around people taking a system rather more literally than intended, whether that was Olympic ticketing, Twitter or a prank phone call.
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