Another edition of the Flirt Divert feature, where unsuspecting callers leave messages for people they think they’ve dated — only to discover they’ve rung the Scott Mills Show instead. This time around, there are large snakes involved, Big Barry gets a mention, someone’s desperately trying to shift a van full of hoodies, and Scott reminds listeners once again: please stop giving this number to your mums.
The show opens with the familiar Flirt Divert premise: callers think they’re leaving messages for exes, but instead their voicemails go live on air. One caller wants to arrange a secret rendezvous involving something being left “on top of the tyre” — a message so cryptic that Scott worries they’ve accidentally broadcast someone’s dodgy instructions to the nation. Another caller accuses someone called Tracy of stealing CDs from his collection in a “recurring CD stealing frenzy,” leading Scott and the team to speculate about what CD was so valuable it prompted the thief to make a second visit.
There’s a confusing message from Linda, who’s supposedly missing both Barry and “Big Barry” — prompting genuine puzzlement about whether these are two separate people or some sort of nickname situation. A harried-sounding seller needs to offload a van full of hoodies urgently, worried about getting stopped in shopping centres (hoodies being a sensitive subject at the time). One caller leaves a rambling message for someone called Abby (“she’s not too shabby”), managing only minimal information before trailing off. And most bizarrely, a photographer rings to arrange pictures with large snakes, apparently on behalf of someone named Lucy who supposedly wants this done.
Throughout, Scott emphasises the running joke about mums calling in and leaving their own messages, pleading with listeners to stop handing out the Flirt Divert number to their parents.
COMMENTS