The best bit of Matt and Mollie's afternoon was entirely self-inflicted: a row over how to pronounce Jake Humphrey's surname. During a game of Initial Reaction, Mollie answered "JH" with "Jake Humphrey's," prompting Matt to insist there's no S on the end. Rather than let it go, Matt left Humphrey a voice note on air asking him to settle it, and the broadcaster himself phoned back from a plane to confirm Matt was right, telling the pair "he does not like it" when people add the S. Mollie still ended up winning the round after Matt, acting as self-appointed referee of his own game, awarded himself a point "suspended for a year" instead of cancelling her win outright, a ruling Mollie called "fantastic."
Listen: Jake Humphrey settles it from a plane
Listen: The Jake Humphrey's row
Earlier the pair clashed over Matt's lateness, with Mollie revealing she'd sent him a smug thumbs-down photo from the studio while he was stuck on a delayed train, only for Matt to flip the picture upside down and send it back as a "thumbs up." He admitted being 20 minutes late for a pre-show meeting, which Mollie insisted had caused a studio "flap" in his absence, a claim he didn't fully buy.
In the Live Lounge, Beabadoobee shared a life lesson from a session with Rick, telling Matt and Mollie that "as long as you love it and you care about it, it doesn't matter what anyone else says." Listener Mackenzie, a taxi driver, also took on the 5-2 Quiz, revealing he can impersonate Conor McGregor and Matthew McConaughey.
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