Another confession
Listener Scott heard Tuesday’s hairdresser call and realised that he had committed a similar offence. He normally trained with his gym buddy Shelley, who had worked with him for six or seven months and was stronger than him. When she was unavailable, he went to another gym with another woman.
He knew the choice was disloyal because he deliberately changed location to avoid being seen. The second woman then tagged him in a Facebook post about the session, meaning Shelley could discover everything online.
“You’ve literally cheated on me”
Scott called Shelley before the post reached her. He praised their bond and regular training, then admitted that he had gone elsewhere and trained legs with somebody else. Shelley said she would not train with him again and hung up.
The programme called back. Shelley described both elements as a betrayal: he had used a different gym and a different partner. She threatened to arrive at their usual gym with another man so everybody would see him replaced.
Scott Mills joined the conversation, explained why the confession was live on Radio 1 and asked her to forgive him. He proposed punishing the listener with a much harder workout instead of ending the partnership. Shelley eventually agreed, provided he promised never to cheat again.
The resolution was less comfortable than Jane the hairdresser’s easy forgiveness. It also convinced the programme not to become a daily service for people apologising to everybody they had wronged.
Retro Bamboleo Wednesday
Listeners wanted archive material placed inside the expanding gap in Bamboleo Wednesday. Suggestions reached back to the swanee-whistle version of Usher’s Climax, Felicia’s singing lessons and other noises that had disappeared from the regular programme.
Scott resisted turning the feature into a full 30-minute production. Its attraction was the brief moment when builders, drivers and office workers stopped what they were doing, not an entire half-hour in which the country could achieve nothing.
Pun-based band names
Alice Levine played Real or No Real and struggled to continue after the subject turned to a separate Twitter account used by Jack Garratt and a friend for pun-based band names. The studio supplied examples including Taylor Cod and Lana Del Krill, while the real account contained names such as “Juan Direction”.
The fact was true. Scott won the round, and Jack Garratt’s modest collection of puns gained a much more enthusiastic workshop than it had probably requested.
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