Greg Drains Strikes Again!
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BBC Radio 1 Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James. Hello and welcome to Tuesday's Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast. Loads of fun today, including Abby on Everyone's Rubbish. We gave away some tickets to Radio 1's Big Weekend to a really fun man called Sam. We had a quiz with Lauren. We got you up to date with all the latest things. What else did we do? Oh yeah, we talked about Greg Drains, my alter ego friend.

Drainage specialist. And, yeah, I think that was it. We had a nice time. Really nice time. Played the Arctic Monkeys game. Oh, played the Arctic Monkeys game. That was good. We'll get to that in a second. Let's start off, I think, with Abby and Everyone's Rubbish. BBC Radio 1.

Abby, good morning. Morning, Greg. Welcome to The Breakfast Show. Very nice to chat to you again. We bumped into each other over the weekend and you basically said, I've got a great everyone's rubbish. I think you could do it on the radio. And I said, all right, let me hear it. And here we are. It is next week. Tell everybody what your everyone's rubbish is, please, Abby, because I think people will relate to it.

So I have a slight thing with shaking people's hands. It seems to be, for me, a sort of reaction when I'm feeling a bit anxious. So it's happened three times. First time was following a GCSE French speaking exam. And I was having a lovely chat with the examiner.

and he was just asking me about where I'd been in France. And then he reached over the table to pick up his pen, and for some reason I thought he wanted to shake my hand. So I shook his hand. And there was quite a lot of resistance, which is when I realised that he didn't actually want to shake my hand. So you just styled it out and you just were clasping his hand tightly? Yeah, so that was handshake number one. Right. Handshake number two...

I was doing a shift on a hospital ward and one of the service users asked me to set the Wi-Fi on his phone and he handed me his phone along with a piece of paper which had his passcode on it.

I set up the Wi-Fi, all good. I gave him back his phone and he reached out to pick up the piece of paper which had his package on it. And again, I thought he wanted to shake my hand, but he looked completely confused. It's so good. And then the final one, this is probably the worst one for me. It happened last year. I was in Australia on a, I did a nursing placement and I was doing a little bit of travel and it was my first day of the solo travel bit.

And I was quite nervous. I thought, right, I'll go out for brunch. It was a really nice cafe. The waiter was lovely. He sort of bounced up to me, gave me a menu. I ordered my food and then he reached out to pick up the menu. And I thought he wanted to shake my hand. So I shook his hand and yeah, he was very confused. Yeah. It's so good. Stop shaking everyone's hands, Abby.

I know. I need to stop this. I'm annoyed that I didn't shake your hand when we said goodbye. I know. I was thinking that after, but there we go. Let's celebrate you today, Abby, because, you know, we all sometimes overthink these social interactions and things do get a bit awkward sometimes and you have to style them out. But look, this stuff happens. We're all...

fallible human beings and our brains malfunction. Let's have handshake disasters, please, on 03-700-100-100. Make Abby feel better about her sort of addiction to shaking hands, really. Yeah, you could call it that. Now, if I was face-to-face with you, I would now offer to shake your hand.

So many brilliant voice notes coming in, loads of amazing messages. We're going to collate them all for Abby and make her feel a lot better about her being rubbish and accidentally shaking people's hands the whole time. This has totally happened to me, collecting my car from the garage. The guy reached his hand out, obviously to give me my keys back, and I thought he was wanting to shake my hand, so I shook his hand back. Maybe it was both. You don't know.

This is from Amy, who says, here we go, Greg, everyone's rubbish. My mum took my little boy to Peppa Pig World, and while my little boy was meeting Peppa and George, George came over to my mum to take a toy dinosaur out of her hand, and my mum thought that he wanted to shake her hand, so started shaking his hand. And there she was, shaking George from Peppa Pig's hand.

I have exactly the same thing, but it's not handshakes, it's hugs. People often raise their hands up and I think, oh, they're going in for a hug. So then I go and hug them and, oh, look, they didn't mean to hug me. And now we're in an awkward embrace. Yeah, but I bet they feel better. Radio One's All Day Breakfast. Abby, there's such a great reaction to your Everyone's Rubbish today.

Yeah, it's amazing. I love the khaki one. I think a lot of people, yeah, at the garage, I think a lot of people would want to shake your hand for bringing this to everyone's attention because it's probably something we all live with internally and we don't talk about it enough that these awkward moments happen to everybody. So that's why we wanted to celebrate you today on Everyone's Rubbish. Shall we get some more calls? Yeah. Tamlyn, good morning. Hi, morning. So, you're on with Abby. Make her feel better. What's your Everyone's Rubbish story?

Okay, so I've started a new job and last week I was meeting the big boss and everyone was like, you've got to make a good impression, you know, it's just the big boss coming in, so I'm like already psyched up. So she comes in, she comes out, the hand comes out, I think she's going in for a hug. She wasn't. It was a handshake. So then I embrace her, the hand is stuck in between us and then she's going, oh, are we hugging? Hello.

And I was like, oh, yes, we are. Do you know what? I hate... It's done in horror. I hate are we hugging more than anything. And I hadn't realised how much I hate it until you just said it. I've never said it out loud. I hate it when people go, are we hugging, are we? Ah!

I know, it made it worse. She could have just pretended it was, you know, brush under the carpet, but no. Yeah, just do it. Just do the hug. It's worse, Greg. I'm not a hugger. I recoil at hugs. So everyone was like, what are you doing? It's a good one, Tamlyn. Thank you. Jodie, good morning. Morning, Greg. What have you got for Abby then? Make her feel better. Oh, Abby, I can hardly relate. So it was my wedding day. I was...

obviously a little bit nervous and as I'm walking down the aisle I whisper to my dad don't forget to shake Matt's hand when we get to the top of the aisle and he shakes hands absolutely fine and then I get a tap on the shoulder and my bridesmaid is holding out her hand so I just shook it and she shook

She said, no, you idiot. Pass me your bouquet. It's really good. It's good. Well, because also I understand how that happens because you're wrapped up in formality on a wedding day. So you feel suddenly you start acting in a way that you wouldn't normally act elsewhere in your life. That's a really good one. I was sort of half thinking that you were going to shake the hand of whoever you married. LAUGHTER

You may now shake the bride's hand. Even better. Jodie, thank you. Natalie's next. Good morning. Good morning. How are you? I'm pretty good, thank you. We've got some really good Everyone's Rubbish stories. I'm enjoying them a lot. What have you got for us? So I once kissed my daughter's primary school teacher on the cheek because I thought she was as excited to see me as I was to see her. LAUGHTER

And it turned out that they weren't excited. No, no, no, no. I had a real girl crush on this particular teacher. She was amazing. We were just in a very busy corridor and she was actually just trying to manoeuvre past some small children. That's even better. It wasn't even any sort of embrace. No, no, no, no. Absolutely wasn't her intention at all. I just took the opportunity. So you just thought she was coming towards you for a kiss? I did. I thought she was loony.

in and I laughed at her so I kissed her. I shouldn't have admitted that on national radio, should I? No, it's totally fine. Get it all out in the open. It's because we don't go to that school anymore. Yeah, what was it? You've been banned. What was the... Yes, I'm terribly sorry. Telling your kids that your mummy's not allowed in the school. She keeps kissing the teachers. Weird stalker. Yeah, so what was the reaction from the teacher? Oh, she just carried on.

Carried on kissing. Yeah. Carried on walking. Carried on maneuvering around small children. That was her intention in the first place. It's great. It's a great way to round off today's Everyone's Rubbish. Natalie, thank you for bearing your soul. Thank you. And Abby, I hope you feel better now.

I do, yeah. I feel, yeah, it's very refreshing to hear that I'm not the only one. It's totally not just you. This happens to basically everybody and in most cases it's way worse than just a little handshake. So anyway, you keep handshaking your way around the world, Abby, and we'll catch up with you soon, okay? Yeah, thanks so much, Greg. Have a nice day. Thanks, and you.

Radio One's All Day Breakfast. With Greg James. Amazing from Abby and your stories are still streaming in. Greg, how about this? My sister once high-fived the priest who was trying to do a blessing on her at communion. High-fiving a priest is good. Up top, down below, you're too slow.

Lizzie in Sunderland. I did that exact same thing while walking up the aisle. I got to the top of the aisle, panicked, and went to shake my now husband's hand. Lovely to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yes, lovely to meet you too. He muttered under his breath, what are you doing? And the entire family and congregation were staring at us.

Oh, my God, I did the kiss thing, says somebody else. I went in for a kiss on the cheek when it was just a guy who was reaching behind me for something on the shelf. LAUGHTER Can he just pass me the...? No! LAUGHTER

What's Dave up to? I went to shake someone's hand. They went to give me a fist bump. It was too late for me to back down. So I ended up just getting hold of their fist and shaking it. Almost died on the spot. Yeah, it's a classic of the genre, that is.

Once when I was in work, somebody held their hand out in a fist and I thought, oh, what are you going to give to me? I put my hand underneath. His face was an absolute picture when I realised that I'd actually missed a fist bump. Yeah. You were expecting some sweets. LAUGHTER Oh, what's in your fist? No, no, it's a fist bump. I thought you were going to give me a mint humbug. LAUGHTER

All right, then. That's enough of that. Great stuff from Abby. Really fun callers as well. Loved it. We were having a hoot today. Next up, you might have seen it on socials. Greg Drains strikes again. One! Callum Leslie, hello. You all right?

Stormy day yesterday. Wasn't it? Stormy day in certain parts of the UK. Lots of heavy rainfall. In fact, at one point, hail. Yeah, I know. Actual hail. I actually saw a thunderbolt of lightning at one point walking through Birmingham above the sky. Yeah, I know. Was it very, very frightening? It was a little, yeah. Do love a thunderstorm. But I got caught out in it because I thought it had cleared and I thought I'll go for a quick dog walk and I got caught in it.

And it's that sort of rain you know it's immediately going to soak you. And immediately cause flash flooding. It was proper flash floods everywhere. So I got back home and the road was flooded. Always. Flooded. And I thought I was absolutely drenched. Completely drenched. In fact, I'd taken my top off to drive home. Yeah.

because I'd taken Barney for a little drive and a walk. So you drove topless back home? Well, I was trying to get away from the storm, so I drove away, like I was in Twister. So I'm Glenn Powell in this situation. That's a nice comparison for yourself to give. So, anyway, I got

back absolutely drenched and the road was flooded and I thought, oh my god, I've done this before. I've become Greg Drains before and the video had been picked up and had been put on drain unblocking meme sites and stuff. So I thought, I could do this again. I could...

Well, I was successful the first time. So I got going on the drain on our road. Right. The storm drain. And my gob was that thing blocked. Really? People just walking past, sort of checking that I was okay. Because all I had was a bamboo stick. And I was just jamming it into the drain. So you didn't have the tools for the job, really? I did not have the tools for the job. Or the skills. Or the skills required.

One very kind passerby said, would you like some help? Most people. In fact, a couple of absolute goons walked past and went, have you caught anything yet? And under my breath, I muttered, yes, two. Actually, I can't say that. No. Yeah. Well done. Here we go. Yeah. Um...

Anyway, so those two walked past. It's not a funny joke, that one, is it? It's not very funny. It's not good. They were very pleased for themselves. But anyway, so I was there just trying to do a good thing, a good community act of making sure people could actually walk on the path and drive on the road. And I was just there for ages with Jan from up the road. Good. Well done, Jan. Lovely Jan. I'd never met her before. Very nice lady.

And then for about 45 minutes... Oh, my goodness, this was commitment. I thought you were going to say for 10 minutes. No, no, no. I nearly gave up a couple of times. But this is a good lesson in perseverance. OK. If you think... Because there was movement in there. There was a lot of mud. There was a lot of, like, London gunk. A lot of stuff in there. But the storm drain eventually was cleared. Here we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. LAUGHTER

The madness. I had gone mad. Yeah, the manic laugh has definitely arrived. Yeah. So all in all, that was probably two and a half, maybe three hours of my afternoon just soaking wet. That is a lot. Yeah. But I've got to say, incredibly satisfying. Was it when it all washed away, drained away? Was it very good? Yeah. It's an amazing feeling.

I wonder... You're recommending we go out and find a blocked drain and... Well, I'm not not recommending it. Okay. It's something good for your brain. Because I was feeling quite tired, sad and anxious yesterday. Oh. And then after the drain unblocking, I felt like actually everything had been cleared. I've done a physical thing. Yeah, I've cleared the blockage in my brain. I've cleared the blockage in the street.

Is it bad if I now go to a shop later, a DIY shop, and buy a set of tools? I feel like I should just have them in the car. You want the full kit ready to go. I think I need to be a full kit.

person. I do. I think I need it. That's twice now. I need all the gear. Yeah, I think you should. So if I'm going to take this seriously, and the other thing, the reaction to the Greg Drainz videos, it's like nothing else I ever do. I could do an interview with the biggest Hollywood star in the world. Nah, you want Drainz. That's what you want. Or whatever it is, post it online. It doesn't get half the chat that a thing about stupid unblocking Drainz does. BBC One are missing a trick here. They

There is not, to my knowledge, a daytime TV show where people unblock drains. I'm pretty sure there isn't. And look at the numbers on YouTube for drain unblocking videos. Listen, if they're listening, if the bosses are listening...

What I'm saying is, I'm less the Glenn Powell of drains, I want to be the Martin Roberts from Homes Under the Hammer of drains. Give me a nice little daytime TV show where I just go around the UK, just unblocking drains, chatting to the locals, chatting to the neighbours that, you know, cross about the water and all the rest. I'd love that. What is in a toolkit for unblocking drains? What would you need to get? You need a big poker. Big stick. You need a big poker.

You need a big poker. Okay. Big metal poker. And ideally, one of those things, you only see them picking the drain up. There's like a rod that goes in. They turn it. It hooks under. You can lift it up. That's what I need. Okay. I need a drain lifter. As it's definitely called. Yeah. Yeah, Greg drains the drain lifter. And that was my day yesterday. So look, if there's a drain near you that needs unblocking, I'm your guy. Bye.

BBC Radio. Radio One Breakfast. Next up, let's get you up to date with all the latest things. Radio One Breakfast. All the latest things. We start with Jennifer Coolidge. Great actress, very funny. She loves the gays, the gays loved her. She's a gay icon.

She really shot to fame again. I mean, back in the day, she was Stifler's mom from the American Pie films. She shot to fame again in The White Lotus with classic lines like, Please, these gays, they're trying to murder me. Now, she was giving a speech at the graduation ceremony at Emerson College in Boston in America this week. And this is how she addressed the crowd and the students. I just want you to know that I'm not.

She's excited that she's chatting to some very exciting gay students, but who else? And in true Jennifer Cornish style, less excited about the hetero students. Next up, we go to the amazing invention of the video doorbell.

What would we do without... We wouldn't have anything to watch on TikTok if there weren't doorbells recording everything we do.

Nicole Young on TikTok has posted this and it's amazing. You may well have seen this. In fact, I want to, I actually want to hand over to producer Susanna who, I mean, I love this video, but not seemingly as much as you do. Now this is Nicole's house. It was a Sunday morning, just chilling out and a delivery driver shows up with the weekly shop.

Now, what is it about this, Susanna, that you love so much? Is it because it's your fellow countrymen and women? No, it's not that. I've seen it so many times this morning. I've sat here watching it again and again since the show started. I'm not listening to a word you've said. Thank you. You're welcome. It's just layered. It gets better the more you watch it. Like...

Go on, go on. So the magpie is in the hallway. So it's a block of flats and the magpie's in the hallway and Nicole's standing in the doorway and the guy's about to deliver all the shopping but the magpie is just sort of, is waiting for his moment. They come

So she's aware. Nicole's aware of the magpie in the hallway. And then what happens is she bends down to pick up her shopping bag. And as she does, the magpie swoops in over her head into the house. The delivery driver saw it, but Nicole was none the wiser because she was looking at the bags. What? Shut up. Is it? You all saw it's bags?

Right, so what's the screaming now? It's the comedic timing of the magpie, for starters. It's the way she's like, oh God, not again. This happens all the time. Not today. And then the second she looks away, it flies in her head. That's great. And then play the next bit and then the kids all start screaming. Poppy, I'm going to get her.

There's four kids in the house, right? Oh my God. She pulls one little boy out of this room that the magpie has flown into and then literally about three more little kids. None of them have got a top on. They come out basically in height order. It's amazing. Another and another. Thank you. No problem.

Oh, what a woman. And she just gets it dealt with. She gets the shoebox out. She puts the kids into a little safe room, magpie-free safe room. Everyone to the safe room, now! It's the way that they're so scared. They're so scared of a magpie. I'd be scared of a magpie flapping around my head. Would you be that scared? Yeah, I think I would. I think I would be exactly this scared. Sophie, I'm going to get her.

If Nicole was my mum, I wouldn't be scared because I'd know I was in such safe hands. It's a strong contender for the new... Catch him! Catch him, Derry! Derry, catch him! It's the closest, I think it's the closest we've ever got to getting a better one than... Catch him! Catch him, Derry! Derry, catch him! And one final thing, Lola Young has new music out this Friday. Break your best over, I want...

It's called One Thing. She's performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool. And let's play this. And once you've heard it, you're up to date with all the latest things. BBC. Radio 1. I just really don't want to hear it.

And now let's quiz with Lauren. Lauren!

Good morning. Hello. Good morning and hello. Welcome to yesterday's quiz. It is on the Radio Unbreakable show. Feeling good? Excited? Yeah, feeling all right. Excited. So this is the team from, well, originally from the University of Winchester, but you're all now doing physiotherapy in the real world. You all moved in together after being such good friends at university. So this is, as I said yesterday to Beth, you're having a great life.

Yeah, we're doing all right, to be fair, yeah. So Beth did well yesterday. By the beach, it's great. And life by the beach, and you're doing a job that you presumably love. Yeah, it's going well so far. And Beth got 15 points yesterday on the quiz. It's all looking pretty good. Nice weather today down where you are, is it, I guess? Yeah, it's nice and sunny, blue skies. So yeah, looking good. I wonder if it's going to get competitive this week. I think it will. Yeah, we're very competitive as a house, so...

It's going to be interesting. What was the mood yesterday after Beth had done 15 points? What was the mood when you all got back from work last night? She was quite chuffed with herself, I have to say. She set the bar high, I think. And have you been preparing for today? I have. I've been reading the news, you know, doing my research. So hopefully it goes to plan. I wouldn't say there's so much news as stupid showbiz stuff, but hopefully you've got a little bit of that there.

So let's do yesterday's quiz. 15 points yesterday from Beth. Lauren, all you have to do is get 15 or more and you'll be in the lead. Here we go. Let's have a ding. That is a ding for working for the NHS. So you get your bonus point for that anyway. Lovely. Thank you very much. And here comes question number one. Thank you very much for your service. And here comes question number one. What music festival did I give away VIP tickets to on The Breakfast Show yesterday?

BBC Big Weekend. Yes. Emma Raducani. Correct. Yellow. Yes. Charlie Axe, yes. Correct. Oh, yes.

Oh, my God. Just do a bunny noise. Yeah, good. Two points for that. It was World Topiary Day yesterday. Is topiary the art of shaping bushes or shaping young lives? Bushes. Bushes is correct. Sheffield United played Bristol City in the Championship Playoffs, but who won? Sheffield United. They did. Which singer of Messy and Conceited released a visual for her upcoming new song, One Thing?

Lola Young. Correct. Harry Styles was spotted by fans out and about in London. But what boy band was he in? One Direction. Yes. It was National Nutty Fudge Day. God's sake. Name any type of nut. Cashews. Bless you. Jennifer Coolidge spoke at a graduation ceremony. Finish her iconic quote from The White Lotus. These gays, they're trying to...

Oh, I have no idea. Murder Me is the correct answer. Essex played Yorkshire in the Canada Championship yesterday. Name anyone famous from Essex. Danny Dyer? Yes. East London Essex? Yeah, just about. Listener Chloe was on the phone to talk about her family's big feud, but what was it based on? Cutlery or dressing gowns?

Dressing gowns. No, it was cutlery. And with that, that is the end of your quiz. Oh my goodness. How did you feel that went? I think it went okay.

I think it was pretty good. I don't know if I beat Beth, though. I don't know. There was a panic around the rabbit question. Yeah, I couldn't think of what a rabbit sounds like. It was a classic overthink, wasn't it? OK, so, yeah, I think I will... I'll accept the Danny Dyer Essex, because he's East London-y, Essex-y. Oh, OK. Thanks, Greg. LAUGHTER

I watched that. I watched the... Because you know we won a BAFTA the other night. Yeah. That's what came into my head. I watched Mr Big Shot, the comedy that you won it for. I watched an episode last night. Really funny. Really. I would highly recommend. Anyway, what are we talking about? Yeah, I'll put it on my list. 13 points. 13 points. Yeah. 13 is good, but it's not good enough to get in the lead. Not good enough. No. But we'll see how Maisie and Anya get on the next couple of days. You might well be in the final, Lauren. Thanks for being on this morning. Have a good day. Thank you very much, guys.

And from a quiz to a competition. Here comes Sam. Hello, Sam. Hi, Greg. How are we doing? Pretty good, thank you. Where are you calling from, Sam? I'm calling from Blackburn at the moment. Lovely Blackburn. What do you do? What's going on this morning?

It's a funny old job. I work with everyone. Poo, really. It comes from everywhere. Oh, are you... Were you talking... Well, I was unblocking some drains of my own yesterday. Do you do the unblocking or do you do the building or the construction of? In what way are you doing drains, Sam? Well, what's weird is we call it cake, but really it's just a funny word for it.

The poo. It goes in the back of a wagon. I can't believe it. It's worse. It's basically what you're unblocking. All the stuff that comes out of it gets turned into a cake. I think the word cake is bad. I think we should avoid the word cake. I think just call it poo. I'd rather just call it turds than cake because cake is a nice thing, Sam, usually, but not in your line of work. So, yeah, you're a better man than me because I said earlier that...

I think my skill set is purely for rainwater and storm drains. I can't be doing with sewage. I think that's where I get a bit... That's where I can't do that. It's a smelly old job, but what's annoying is when it rains for me, the job becomes annoying. So I prefer no rain. I like it dry. Today is beautiful. But also, do you relate to the thought that I had yesterday, which is when the storm drain was unblocked, finally, after 45 minutes of shoving a stick into the drain, that feeling, the relief...

And the satisfaction of seeing it turn into a little whirlpool and disappear. That's what gets you out of bed in the morning, Sam, isn't it?

Greg, there's thousands on my phone, mountains of stacks I've made and wagons I've loaded. Yeah, it's quite sad. No, it's not sad at all. You should enjoy those bits of your job. I mean, really, you could be TikTok famous if you put all those videos online. I've always thought about it. People love drain and blocking videos, honestly. Anyway, so that's you, Sam. But we'd love to send you to Radio 1's big weekend in Liverpool. What day tickets do you want?

Probably Friday. Is it Charlie Hedges on Friday? Charlie Hedges will be there on Friday. Yes, she will. I love all her shows. Annoyingly, I kind of want to see Ariel Free as well, but that's, I think, yeah, I don't know. I'll pick her.

What day is Arielle on? I think she's somewhere. She'll be around. She's busy. She will be busy. Okay. But yeah, Friday looked the best day. All right, so you want to do Friday tickets. All right, so here's what's going to happen. I'm going to play you a clip of a song from an artist that has played at Radio 1's Big Weekend in years gone by. And all you have to do is tell me who the artist is. If you get it right, you get two tickets to the Friday. Okay.

And then it's up to you, really, if you want me to answer a question on your behalf to make those tickets into VIP tickets. So here we go then with the first bit. We'll focus on the first bit now and we'll do the risk bit later. So tell me. It's all good. Just think of it. Just clear the mind. Clear that drain. And we can get this right. So who is this? Oh, my God. It's Gary Perry. We're going to see him in September. Yeah.

Oh my God, it's Katy Perry. Of course it is. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. The world's favourite astronaut, Katy Perry. And did you say you're going to go and see her in September? Well, literally, me and my sister, we booked tickets the other month to go see her. As soon as she put it, she was coming to the UK. Nice. Well, that was a bit of luck then. So Katy Perry, she played a big weekend in, I don't know when it was, a few years ago now.

That was correct. It was Raw by Katy Perry. And that means you've got those two tickets to the Friday, Sam. Ooh, let's go. Yeah, really good. So you've got to decide whether you want me to answer another question. And if I get it right, then you get VIP tickets. And if I get it wrong, you leave with nothing and you don't get any tickets at all. So where's your brain going at the minute then? So what do you want to do? Well done, by the way, on getting the Friday tickets. Let's show you're working. What are you thinking?

I'm happy, but I feel like it was a sign that Katy Perry was on, if that makes sense. Sorry.

I think Katy Perry was on. That was her sign. Obviously, she went to space. She was almost looking down. And she's saying, yeah, risk it all. I'm sorry for the pressure, Greg. Oh, is that what she was saying, was it? That was her message, was it? It was, I'm here in space and I want Greg James on Tuesday the 13th of May to risk everything for Sam from Blackburn, who cleans drains, to get tickets to the big weekend. Maybe that was the hidden message that she was saying.

It was, it was. It was a sign and I feel like you've got it as well. You said you're feeling lucky so we'll go for that. Well, I feel... Optimistic, sorry you said. Sorry. Yeah, this is... During that song, Sam said to me... Have you not listened to the show live today? But...

I usually listen on BBC Sound, so I don't miss it. But obviously VIP tickets were going, I listened to it live all day, so I missed bits. Okay. So basically Sam said to me during that song, he was like, how are you feeling today? I haven't listened today yet, but how are you feeling? I said, well, I always feel optimistic, but I did not say I'm feeling lucky. Oh, well. I will try my very best. These questions have been quite mad over the last few weeks. So...

Look, there might be a slip up, but we'll see how we go. Are you going to risk? I'm risking it, Greg. Go for it. Katy Perry wanted you to do so. She did. So let's see how we go. Today's question. And just to be clear, if I don't get it right, you don't get any of the tickets, Sam. Okay? I know.

But if I do get it right, then you get VIP tickets, which means you get to go to the backstage bar. There's nice toilets. There's a little backstage tour of Big Weekend, which is, to be fair, a really good prize just to see how it all works. So this is the one that's worth it. OK, here's the question. We're so excited to have Jade on the new music stage at Big Weekend on the Sunday. But in what year did Little Mix form and compete on X Factor? Was it 2011 or 2012? Oh, God, no.

Okay, 2012 was... Before she said the options, 2012 was what I would have guessed. But it was an Olympic year. What year were One Direction? I think they were the year after 1D. Oh, damn this competition. I think they were 2011. Because if 1D were 2010... So I'm just scribbling down my show. I'm showing my workings. Do I get a point for showing my workings?

I think it's 2011. Sam, I'm going for 2011. I'm sorry if it's wrong. I'm happy with that, Greg. Don't worry. I like your working out. Let's find out. The answer is 2011. Yes! Yes! Sam, we did it. Thank you, Greg. Thank you very much. Good. See, that's sometimes... Sometimes it's good to have pop culture brain rot because those things are in your head. And, yeah, 2011.

And it's good to be a Katy Perry fan. Good to be a Katy Perry fan. Good to know stupid X Factor facts like that. But to be honest, I would have gone for 2012 if I hadn't have really given that some thought because I don't know why it's in my head. Anyway, it doesn't matter now. We've done it. 2011...

was when Little Mix formed on X Factor. And yes, Joe in rugby says, Greg, are we doing a VIPOO joke here? If you get it wrong. Didn't need to. No need for that, Joe. But anyway, Sam, congratulations. We'll see you in Liverpool. Greg, thank you so much. You're amazing. And so are you. And we'll make sure that Charlie Hedges can come and say hello to you. Maybe we can get her to do the backstage tour if her schedule allows. How about that?

Oh, if she's free, that'd be amazing. If she's free. Charlie Edges will move mountains to make sure that she can meet you because she's a lovely person. Well, so are you, Greg. Thank you so much. Love you, Sam. Enjoy your day in the drains and we'll catch up with you soon. Thank you. I hope so. Take care. Ten Minute Takeover was good today. We had Arctic Monkeys, don't sit down because I've moved your chair.

and I resurrected a game from 2011. And actually, I genuinely do think it sounded fresh. Radio One's All Day Breakfast. Arty Monkeys! One of their best. Don't sit down because I've moved your chair. Nice one, Gary. Good choice on the ten-minute takeover. Producer Tom, do you want to do the game? I'll play the game. This is a game from when this song came out, which I can't remember when. 2011. 2011, maybe. Yeah.

I think it's around then, wasn't it? 2011. 11, hey! Arctic Monkeys, nerd. So, yeah, don't sit down because I moved the chair. The game is just do the next lyric. Rhyme it with... Go into business with a grizzly bear. And then come up with something here that rhymes with don't sit down because I moved your chair. Go into business with a grizzly bear.

My dad wears a hat because he's got no hair. OK? Let's do another one. Do you want to do one? I'll give it a go. I've got cream on my face because I ate an eclair. LAUGHTER

Very nice. Lovely. I've got cream on my face because I ate an eclair. It's a really good one. Henry, have you got one? Yeah, I do. Have you got one? OK. My train was late and I've had a mare. OK, we've had eclair, we've had mare, we've had hair. Excellent.

Susanna, have you got one? Yeah, of course. Only want an apple because I don't like pears. Very nice. If you want to send one in, why not? Let's do it on 03700100100.

Well, we're resurrecting the don't sit down because I moved your chair game. You know what? It stood the test of time. It's still good. There you go. Silly is silly. Funny is funny. And I think that's the end of today's Breakfast Show podcast. I'll be back with you tomorrow morning with loads more things. So come back then. I'm off to go and unblock some drains. Bye.