Daniel from the team has been receiving mysterious voicemails from a girl he doesn’t know, and Scott attempts to solve the mystery with listener help — while also reviewing the brilliantly odd MTV show Ice T’s Rap School, featuring a 15-year-old ginger kid named Dodge.
Scott opens the show sitting in for Grimmy on Breakfast, and Daniel presents a peculiar problem: he’s received three voicemails over two days from a girl who sounds “brilliant” but has never left her number, and the calls always come up as withheld. Scott plays all three messages for the audience. The first is upbeat and flirty (“Hi babe, I’m off the side here…”), the second urgent and pleading (“Can you call me ASAP?”), and the third increasingly desperate (“Please, please, please call me. I really want to chat”). Daniel admits he has absolutely no idea who she is. Scott throws it open to listeners, asking anyone who recognises her voice to get in touch — though he notes that “if you’re rich, but really stupid, and you’ve recently gone out with a hot girl,” they should contact the show.
The second half of the show pivots to reviewing Ice T’s new MTV series *Rap School*, described as a spin-off from the original *Rock School* format. Ice T teaches hip-hop at an extremely posh American school, and the show is genuinely hilarious precisely because the students are the most unghettos kids imaginable. The standout character is Dodge, a 15-year-old ginger boy who wears pinstripe blazers by choice, has never owned jeans, and claims to be “75 in my heart.” He exclusively listens to 1940s and 1950s music and dreams of living in a retirement home. When Ice T gives the class a rap exercise, Dodge performs surprisingly well, delivering a genuinely decent rendition that impresses Scott. The episode ends with listener theories about the mystery girl’s identity — some suggesting she sounds like Colleen off Sam Rider, others naming Grace from Big Brother and various other names — though Scott rightly notes the odds of her being a celebrity are slim.
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