Naming the gap
The period between Christmas and New Year still lacked a satisfactory name. People lost track of the weekday, nurses and other essential workers watched partners remain asleep, and almost everybody returning to work had made less effort than usual.
Chris then became trapped in time-zone calculations. New Year’s Eve would begin in New Zealand hours before Britain even reached the date, and distinguishing the day called New Year’s Eve from the midnight celebration made his head fizz.
Despite the shortened and disrupted working week, the show held Bamboleo Wednesday. Listeners on tractors, at manicures, at work and even in Australia supplied enough responses to prove the ritual still applied.
That’s fantastic
After replaying the Eddie Redmayne interview, Chris noticed that Scott unconsciously became posher around well-spoken guests. He did not exactly imitate Eddie’s accent, but adopted his phrasing and repeatedly used “fantastic”, a word rarely heard in ordinary links.
The examples became grander each time: Eddie’s avoidance of social media was “fantastic”, his Oscar remaining in the living room was “fantastic”, and almost every answer earned another polished response. Once identified, the verbal habit changed the entire interview for Scott and spread into the rest of the show.
Amy Schumer and tomorrow’s Jennifer Lawrence
The day’s major 2015 highlight was Amy Schumer’s visit. She discussed Trainwreck, European interviews, sudden fame and her friendship with Jennifer Lawrence. Scott had been intensely excited to meet her, while Chris’s nervous contribution involved repeatedly apologising.
The replay led directly into the next morning’s new Jennifer Lawrence interview. Jennifer would explain why using the toilet at major awards ceremonies required putting up a hand like a pupil, what she really thought about New Year’s Eve and why she was always travelling to see Amy rather than the other way around.
The show also revisited strange menu telephone calls, debated whether feeding bread to ducks was now forbidden and played Real or No Real using memorable facts from 2015. It ended with Britain preparing for New Year’s Eve while New Zealand was already approaching it.
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