Chris returns from France
Chris returned after V Festival, a family holiday in France and a painful dental abscess. He had used the trip to broaden his tastes, trying powerful-smelling French cheeses and joining a wine tasting despite previously showing little interest in either.
The tasting was led by Monsieur Leboeuf, a family acquaintance who listened to the podcast and supplied his own enthusiastic audio introduction. Scott and Chris sat in uncertain silence afterwards, unsure whether the long contribution was usable but impressed that the show had acquired a listener in the French wine trade.
Bieber’s longest countdown
Justin Bieber had spent 30 days promoting What Do You Mean? through famous friends holding countdown cards. By release day, Scott felt he had been instructed to become excited whether he wanted to or not.
The strategy worked. Scott gave the song its first play on his programme and accepted that Bieber’s public image had improved considerably since the period of London gas masks and other strange behaviour. The track also reminded him of Bieber’s American comedy roast, in which comedians and friends attacked his music, behaviour and personal life while he sat in front of them.
Scott planned to watch the roast again with his mum. Chris compared it with ITV2’s SafeWord, but clips of British celebrities exchanging mild insults sounded like primary-school arguments beside the American version. The comparison left Chris even less certain why anybody would volunteer for an hour of professionally written humiliation.
Films with better foreign titles
Scott presented translated titles used for familiar films abroad. In France, The Matrix became “The Young People Who Traverse Dimensions While Wearing Sunglasses”, while The Hangover was the much more direct “Very Bad Trip”. In China, Knocked Up became “One Night, Big Belly”.
Chris repeatedly guessed The Inbetweeners Movie because his film knowledge gave him few other options. He eventually identified Knocked Up, but Scott concluded that the game was not designed to reveal Chris as a cinema expert.
Clara Amfo joined Real or No Real. A claim that Ashton Irwin listened to 5 Seconds of Summer on his own MP3 player was real, while Clara looked ahead to the forthcoming Live Lounge Month. The programme ended by confirming that Scott and Chris would cover Breakfast again on the bank holiday Monday.
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