Tom Hardy’s Myspace past
An old Myspace profile belonging to Tom Hardy had resurfaced, giving the internet a much less polished version of the actor than his later publicity material. Scott and Chris were fascinated by the intensely personal biography and the confidence with which people had described themselves online.
Listeners were sent back into accounts they had not opened for years. Their old bios, dramatic quotations and carefully ranked friends became a reminder that Myspace had preserved an unusually revealing stage of everybody’s life.
What company is that?
Scott and Chris created a deliberately stupid telephone game. Each found a real company with an entertaining name, but concealed it from the other person. The player then had to call, ask what the business did and keep prompting the employee to repeat its name without laughing.
Ordinary questions about services, addresses and appointments became increasingly difficult once the person on the phone calmly supplied the missing information. The caller could not explain why the business name mattered, while the other sat in the studio waiting for the exact moment it became impossible to continue.
The game required almost no rules and offered no meaningful prize. That made it ideally suited to the show, particularly once listeners began suggesting more businesses that could be called in future.
Alice wins Real or No Real
Alice Levine arrived after a night out and still managed to beat Scott in Real or No Real. One claim said Adrian Chiles had hired a builder’s cherry picker after failing to obtain tickets for a West Bromwich Albion match, allowing him to watch over the stadium wall.
Alice finished with 40 points to Scott’s 30. Her condition had not prevented another victory, leaving Scott to concentrate on the far less demanding challenge of saying company names with a straight face.
Bamboleo Wednesday
The programme observed Bamboleo Wednesday while students used it as a break from biology, maths and French revision. The midweek ritual now functioned as both a celebration and a warning that several more days of exams remained.
Wednesday’s show had turned three pieces of old-fashioned internet culture into entertainment: forgotten Myspace pages, real businesses found through online searches and a song that had become the programme’s fixed marker for the middle of the week.
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