Scott tackles a pointless survey on the sexiest jobs, leading to absurd discussions about cowboys and construction workers, while Flirt Divert delivers peculiar voicemails and introduces the miraculous Mr. Microphone—a cordless FM broadcast microphone from the 1980s.
The episode opens with Flirt Divert, the answer phone feature where callers leave messages for people they’ve met. Scott plays back several messages, including one from “Wolfie,” leading to lengthy speculation about whether the name belongs to a man or woman. One memorable caller mentions still having bin bags, prompting confused discussion about why they’d need them. There’s also a first-time Flirt Divert call from someone dressed as Wonder Woman, which sparks a tangent about whether Wonder Woman was actually a decent superhero (the conclusion: probably not, and she ran badly).
The main feature focuses on a pointless survey of the sexiest jobs. Scott reads through the list—which includes TV personality, construction worker, military personnel, artist, nurse, and firefighter—before getting to number five: cowboy. Scott finds this hilarious and genuinely baffled, asking what cowboys actually *do* and urging listeners to tell people they’re cowboys when chatting them up to report back on results. After working through the full list (culminating in astronaut at number one), Scott pivots to introducing Mr. Microphone, a wireless FM broadcast microphone from the early 1980s.
Scott plays the original commercial, which shows young people using Mr. Microphone to broadcast to car radios, most memorably to chat up girls: “Hey good looking, we’ll be back to pick you up later.” Scott is delighted by this device and compares it favorably to previous discoveries like the Fish Pen and Hawaii Chair, though he questions whether it’s still actually available.
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