The green light does not arrive
Scott and Chris have spent days promising that Will Smith and Margot Robbie’s Playground Insults will be heard at 13:45. Scott has promoted it on Greg James and Nick Grimshaw’s programmes and Chris has told all his friends, but one final approval remains outstanding in Los Angeles.
They personify the missing decision-maker as “Hollywood”, imagining a powerful figure asleep in an enormous office. The time difference means the approval cannot arrive before transmission. Scott apologises and sets a new deadline of the following day, while Chris demands that Hollywood wake up and press the green button.
The dentist remakes the hits
Chris discovers a singing dentist who rewrites familiar songs around dental care. His version of “This Is How We Do It” becomes “This Is How We Tooth It”, one of several videos combining music production with his professional work.
The discovery begins another discussion of dentists, hygienists and patients who fancy them. Far from being a novelty act, the performer is a genuine dentist whose listed interests include DJing and sleep dentistry, and he has already appeared on television.
Evidence that the tunes are disappearing
Scott returns to his theory that popular music is running out of new combinations. Listeners send recent tracks that resemble older records, while Chris argues that a limited collection of notes does not mean every possible song will soon have been written.
Several examples are convincing enough to concern Scott about Radio 1’s future as a new-music station. The running Bangers score also has to be reconstructed after neither presenter can remember the week’s results, a smaller sign that keeping track of all the music has become difficult.
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