Scott admits to wine-fuelled phone book purging after a Heroes screening, and the show dissects the infamous Miss South Carolina beauty pageant answer that’s sweeping the internet.
Scott opens with a funny confession: after bumping into someone at a Heroes event he hadn’t seen for five years, his phone was too full to add her number, so he deleted contacts he no longer wanted to speak to. One deletion led to another, and by the time he got home he’d spring-cleaned about twenty numbers from his phone. He warns listeners that if they text him and their name doesn’t come up, he probably won’t reply—they may well have been part of the cull.
The show then turns to the viral moment dominating the internet: Miss South Carolina’s bewildering answer during the recent Miss Universe pageant. Asked why a fifth of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map, she delivered a rambling non-answer about education and South Africa. The team watches her back on a morning show defending herself, claiming she was overwhelmed, couldn’t hear the question properly, and only caught “one or two words.” Scott and the studio debate whether her excuses hold up, with some sympathy for the pressure of live pageantry, though the answer remains deeply funny. They even attempt a corrected version: emphasizing geography in education so people learn map skills.
The show also gets sidetracked discussing Samantha Janus and Cheryl Ferguson, with a funny anecdote about Big Brother’s Shabnam arriving at Radio 1 with a full paparazzi escort—only to realise the photographers were actually waiting for the Heroes cast.
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