Hottest Employee of the Day became competitive
Scott once again walked the sparse Radio 1 office with the temperature gun.
Kate from Annie Mac’s team came in at 35.8°C.
Emily registered 36.1 and moved ahead.
The feature now had its own language and presentation as though this were a genuine daily workplace honour.
Scott also revealed the official thermal camera at Broadcasting House had sometimes failed to obtain his temperature, forcing him to move backwards and forwards in front of it before eventually using a handheld device himself.
Chris suspected security staff were enjoying making presenters perform the little dance.
The 30,000-follower celebrity rule attracted applicants
After the previous day’s discussion, people started contacting the show partly because appearing on Radio 1 might help them reach the magic social-media number.
Scott and Chris spotted what was happening.
Guests and callers would get into a conversation and then casually mention their Instagram account.
The show began policing obvious attempts to use national radio as a follower-growth service.
Former *Apprentice* contestant Gemma became part of the discussion, with Chris comparing his own follower numbers and television appearances against the supposed threshold.
The more they tried to define who counted as a celebrity, the sillier the rule sounded.
Wrong Answers Only predicted the John Lewis advert
The John Lewis Christmas commercial had not yet appeared.
So the show asked listeners to describe what would be in it — wrong answers only.
One suggestion featured Boris Johnson and Chris Whitty supporting the high street through rock music.
Another imagined a confused golden tiger choosing between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin before Santa carried it to the moon.
Somebody proposed a family Zoom quiz while Joel Corry performed a slow version of *Wonderwall*.
Others offered Margaret Covid and increasingly elaborate pandemic imagery.
The best ideas sounded exactly like the sort of over-emotional Christmas advertising everyone had learned to parody.
Someone had finally identified the great business opportunity
One listener suggested the advert would feature an absurd number of extremely long Christmas crackers.
That set Scott thinking.
Somebody had to manufacture all the crackers used every December.
Perhaps, after years of searching for a side business, they had finally found where the money was.
Scott’s Spice Girls choice went wrong on Bangers
Chris offered a reliably upbeat Bangers track.
Scott had gone down a Spice Girls rabbit hole after the previous show and decided to choose Holler.
In Scott’s memory, it was one of the group’s great later singles.
Then he listened to it properly again.
The problem was that the choice had already been submitted.
Chris barely recognised it despite the song having reached number one.
Scott slowly realised he had selected the track based on nostalgia for what he thought it sounded like rather than what was actually on the record.
Bangers had caught him out.
For once, revisiting an old favourite had made the song worse rather than better.
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