Scott plays a Christmas song in September and asks Harry Styles about shampoo
Scott was covering Grimmy’s Breakfast Show and began by discovering that Matt Fincham had become a Radio 1 fire warden. Fincham had already been filmed practising before his high-vis jacket had even arrived, leaving Scott and Beccy to wonder whether everybody was really supposed to rely on him in an emergency. Greg James dancing on the webcam supplied a more reassuring distraction from the station’s fire-safety arrangements.
Dear Scott brought a message from a cruise-ship worker whose job included teaching guests to turn towels into animals. Scott liked the idea of towel art, but the conversation turned darker when listeners recalled returning to hotel rooms to find towels dressed in their own clothes. A swan was one thing; a towel person wearing a guest’s sunglasses and shorts felt, to Scott, like a step too far.
The programme’s biggest argument concerned Christmas. A listener admitted to feeling festive with 88 days still to go, and Scott revealed he had asked permission to play the first Christmas song of the year. The answer from “upstairs” had been no, but Scott decided that a tweet apparently from Santa gave him sufficient authority to ignore it. On one of the hottest days of September, he played a Christmas record anyway and delighted in the needless rebellion.
Beccy’s train journey prompted another public experiment. She had considered asking a stranger for a chip after smelling his burger and chips, but was put off when she saw him lining every chip up on a napkin. Chris went into the street to test whether people would share food as freely as smokers share cigarettes. Most people protected their sandwiches, tuna and burritos, although one man generously allowed him a sip of Pepsi Max.
Scott also answered a One Direction fan’s vital question by calling Harry Styles and asking, without any explanation, what shampoo he used. Harry answered “Tigi” before Scott thanked him and ended the call. Later, the team considered an American service that sends texts and calls from a fake girlfriend or boyfriend, so people can pretend to have a relationship in the pub. Between the premature Christmas song, chip research and Harry’s hair-care recommendation, it was a very Scott Mills way to finish the month.
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