Jason is presented with his diploma in front of a sold-out crowd at the University of Cincinnati

To all my fellow students… before we make this thing official, I thought I’d give you guys some advice,” Travis said before breaking into song. ‘You gotta fight. For your right. To PAAAAARRRTTY!’

They had first emerged hours earlier, amid fire and smoke and deafening screams. They had soon sent two students swimming in tubs of chili. They ended the evening flanked by their parents and the school president.

It was a surreal, emotional end to a wild night – part podcast, part gameshow, part marathon, part cringe and calamity. The brothers put on a spelling bee and a rodeo. They chatted with Joe Burrow and Desmond Ridder. What was billed as the first live show of their weekly chin-wag, New Heights, turned into nearly four hours of bedlam.

It was probably fortunate that she didn’t turn up. Local police had prepared for the possible arrival of Taylor Swift. In the end, they need not have worried – she didn’t show.