Scott returns
Scott returned after a week in America, where he had also briefly appeared in an online live stream and been incorrectly suspected of attending Euro 2016. Chris admitted that the team had become concerned when Scott failed to confirm his arrival and considered sending a takeaway driver to his house to check whether he was awake.
The highlight Scott had missed was Matt Edmondson’s granny facing Chris’s Nana Joyce in a rap battle. Nana Joyce’s earlier performance of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” had suggested she possessed genuine ability, and the clash produced enough bars for Chris to regard her as a serious artist.
Scott had also forgotten that his neighbours were holding a street party while he was away. His car was the only vehicle left in the road, so the organisers simply arranged hay bales around it and continued.
Time to adult
Listener Chloe had finished university, returned to Cornwall and discovered that her parents expected her to cook and look after herself. She had managed independent life in Birmingham, but coming home made her want to resume the childhood arrangement in which food appeared without planning.
Scott told her that graduation had placed her in full adult life whether she felt ready or not. Chloe could imitate adulthood by writing “for your perusal” in emails and arranging a fridge so children could not reach inappropriate shelves, but neither stopped her feeling unprepared.
Chris objected to the suggestion that returning graduates expected their mothers to do everything, then admitted he understood the temptation. The discussion became a reassurance that most adults were performing confidence rather than experiencing a clear moment when everything became easy.
No Euro commentary yet
Listeners repeatedly asked whether Scott and Chris would repeat their alternative football commentary from the 2014 World Cup. The red-button broadcasts had been designed for viewers less interested in tactical analysis and had produced the memorable “Fat Ronaldo” apology.
Both wanted to do it again, but BBC Sport had not approached them for the Euros. They replayed clips from the World Cup and concluded that there was still time, although the earlier critical article describing them as insufficiently professional probably had not helped.
Battle of the Bangers returned after the break with Scott claiming the first point. Greg James later played Real or No Real, while Unlucky Gary appeared at the end of the show as the next major problem: he was about to attend his first Glastonbury.
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