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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. It's the best bits of this morning's show, no cap.

We started with a very exciting moment. Tuesday morning, Greg James here, Callum Leslie over there. Morning. I was just about to fall asleep last night. I did a cursory check of Instagram. Okay. Just, you know, just to see what's going on in the world. And you know how people say that's a bad thing to get into, that bad habit?

But I disagree. Because I looked at my phone last night and I laughed out loud and I felt so joyful because Ross Kemp had followed me. Actual Grant Mitchell from EastEnders had just, out of nowhere, had not even mentioned him this week. What's going on? What a week as well. Big EastEnders week. I know. He's back on the square. He's back for the 40th anniversary. What does he want? What?

I'm excited. Maybe there's going to be a DM today. It's also... There might be. There might be one now. I've not checked. Is there a DM? Is there a DM from Ross Kemp? Hang on a second. No. Okay. There's not.

Not yet. Not yet. Well, that's the other thing, is that, yeah, Ross Kemp, lovely man, followed me, but there's also something sinister about Grant Mitchell following you late at night. That's immediately where I thought, oh, is this threatening or a nice thing? The next link, I left this voice note for him. Oh, no, it's not called Grant. Just search for Grant. Yeah.

Should I call him Grant? No, that would be... No, that was Dan's mood. That hits his whole life, isn't it? Hey, Grant. Er, Ross. What should I do? Should I do a little voice note? OK. What should I say? Get some spoilers. He won't give us spoilers. Get a motivational message for everyone. Oh, good idea. Good idea. I'll start going, I panicked. Stop laughing. Ross can't friend. No, shut up.

I'm getting nervous. Hey Ross. How do I start it? How do I start it? Just say hey Ross. I can't say, I don't say hey. Hey Ross. No, I don't say hey normally. Morning Ross. Morning, good morning. Morning Ross. No, morning's too formal. Hang on. Alright Ross. Hi Ross. Too cheerful, too cheery, too cheery, too cheery. Too cheerful. Too cheerful. Sup. Not sup. Hey man. What? What?

Hi Ross, it's Greg. We're live on the Radio and Breakfast Show. We're very excited that you followed me last night. It was the perfect thing to send me off to sleep.

Could you give the listeners a motivational message, please? We need something to lift our spirits on Tuesday morning. So what would your message be to the listeners? OK, good luck with the 40th episode, the live one. Don't forget your lines. Bye. And as of 10.34, he hasn't read it. He hasn't even looked. So that's bad.

But there's no activity on the account. He hasn't put anything up on story. It's not like he's seen it and ignored it. So, you know, something might happen.

Embarrassing. The rest of the stuff in today's podcast, we've got all the latest things. We've got a great quiz with Alice. We dive into school things. You know, we do mum things, dad things, nan things, whatever. School things today was really, really fun. So that is coming up. Plus, we talked to a man about some goats after the quiz, which we'll chat about in a second. In fact, let's do the quiz, shall we? Let's go in order. Alice, good morning. Hiya, morning. Welcome to The Breakfast Show. Welcome to yesterday's quiz. How are you?

Fine, thank you. Pretty nervous. I was going to say, are you slightly panicking about the quiz? You sounded slightly hesitant there.

Yeah, I am. I had no idea about this. And I had so many texts yesterday saying, oh my God, I didn't know you were going to be on the radio tomorrow. And I sort of replied saying, yeah, we're fine now at the same time because we had no idea that Harriet sorted this out. Yeah, this is the thing. Harriet did mention to me yesterday that you were a, I was going to say control freak, but she said you were the boss of things. So you normally sort things out. So you must feel quite uneasy that someone sorted something out for you.

Yeah, I do. I don't know how I'm going to regain my control yet, but that will come. I think you're going to be absolutely fine. I've got an amazing fact file about you. It's that apparently you were rescued by a lifeguard twice. And once, one of the times, you weren't even in the pool.

Yeah, that is a very true fact about me. Yeah, first time was on one of those flumes with a drop at the end and didn't realise the drop was going to be quite as deep as it was. And I got stuck and had to be rescued. Oh. Yeah, yeah, I know. One of those space bars. And then the second time I literally fell down the stairs at a splash mark.

These are not funny stories. Harriet, let me just say, if she's listening, those are not funny stories. Those are actual emergencies. In my head, I assume that you just fancied the lifeguard and you just pretended to be injured. It's like, oh, I can't swim. You must come and help me. No. No, I wish I was that clever for thinking. All right. Well, are you safe and dry now? Where are you? Absolutely safe and very much dry. Okay.

90 seconds on the clock. Do we have some dingers? We should have some dingers. Dingers! There we go. Your time will start when you give me your first answer. Here we go, Alice. 15 is your score to beat from yesterday. Here we go with question number one. Which Shape of You and Shivers singer celebrated his birthday yesterday? Ed Sheeran. It is Ed Sheeran. Listener Lucy won tickets to see which football team in our Mega Massive Monday competition yesterday?

Lionesses. It was the Lionesses. Thank You, Next by Ariana Grande has reached two billion streams on Spotify. But which musical was she recently in? Wicked. Correct. It was National Random Act of Kindness Day. Say something kind about me. Your smile is like sunshine. Oh, thanks so much. Selena Gomez posted a cryptic video with which That's So True singer?

No idea. It's Gracie Abrams. A deadly beetle was found in the UK, but what does it kill? Trees or my sense of hope? Trees. It is trees. Which Yorkshire-based football team beat Sunderland 2-0 yesterday? I don't know. I was supposed to check this. Name a big city in Yorkshire. Sheffield. No, Leeds. Leeds United. Scientists revealed alien life may be more common than previously thought. Which alien famously wanted to go home?

Which former Little Mixer and Angel of My Dreams singer has been trying to convince her boyfriend Jordan Stevens to go and see Wicked with her? Is it Jade? It is Jade. The goat milk market reported strong growth year on year. Give me your best impression of a goat being milked. Very good noise, two for that. Kate Middleton shared a self-portrait she'd drawn, but who is she famously married to?

Prince William. Yes. The White Lotus Season 3 was released yesterday, but what's the location of this season's hotel? Is it Thailand or is it Bogna? Thailand. It is Thailand, and that's good. Although Season 4, not a bad idea to move it. That was good.

Not as good. Not as good, correct, but still good. You got 11 points today. I feel like I'm going to give you an extra point just because of the harrowing lifeguard situation. Oh, thank you. Some sympathy, finally. Yeah, so 12 points today. And it wasn't awful at all. There was nothing to be worried about. We had a nice time, Alice, didn't we? What are you doing today? What's going on?

Well, my 18-month-old is still asleep for the first time in about two weeks. She's kind of lying. So I'm going to enjoy my peace and quiet while I can. You do that. Well, thank you for interrupting your morning routine when you've got a handful. But have a good day. And we might well be getting you back on later in the week. We'll see how the rest of the week pans out, OK? Yeah, perfect. Thank you. Thanks, Alice. Yeah, so the first half hour was quite sort of goat-centred and we spoke to Jessie. How many goats you got?

We've got just over 1,000, Greg. 1,000 goats! Bloody hell. What did you make of the goat noise from Alice, then? Absolutely 10 out of 10. Oh, really? It's like hearing out my window. Do you think I was being a bit too stingy with the points? I think you were, Greg. I think she needs another one. Hmm. Let's review the evidence. Do you think that's good?

Absolutely. What noise do goats make when they are being milked? That. Oh, so they do do a little bit of that, do they? Absolutely, yeah. All right, well, give her another point. I mean, she's basically... What's she on now? Is she in the lead? She's got 14. Okay, great. Well, she's gone from 11 to 14, which feels like we've given her maybe a couple to make. But anyway...

Who am I talking to? I'm not going to argue with you, Jesse. Definitely not going to argue with you. He's got a thousand goats. I'm not going to argue with him. You could turn them on me, couldn't you? Absolutely. Your little army of goats, send them down to London. Where are you, Jesse? Where are you speaking to? We're in Herefordshire. Oh, okay. West Midlands. Oh, it's going to be a little while for you to get here with those goats. I reckon, if you were to march your goats to the BBC, how long would it take? Oh. It's a day, isn't it? 48 hours? Yeah, it's a day. I think it's a day. It's a long old... Anyway...

Don't do that, but have a great day and thanks for being on The Breakfast Show.

Thank you very much. So we were off and running. I'm just going to keep it in chronological order. How about that? Why not? It's time now for all the latest things. And last night on Radio 1's new music show with Jack Saunders, he had Dochi, real life Dochi, the woman of the moment, really. Talked all about the Grammys and her upcoming album. So Jack asked about potential features. I mean, in terms of features and things like that, are you going to enlist people to be alongside you on the record?

Tell you. And decided to do an English accent. I think that's quite good. I tell you. I can't tell you. It's a little bit Dick Van Dyke. Jiminy, Jim, Jiminy, Jim, Jim, Jerome. I tell you. That sort of rhymes as well. She did eventually go on to answer the question. I will say this album will have features. That's exactly it. That's all I asked.

So there will be features. Jack also spoke to Dochi about her experience at the Super Bowl and seeing Kendrick live. Incredible. I feel like it's a moment in history. I'll tell my kids one day, like, I'll be like, you know, I was at the Super Bowl and I saw Kendrick Lamar and they're going to be like, no, you didn't. And I'm going to be like, yes, I did. Here's my Instagram archive picture.

Next up, we go to Jade, who is currently tormenting her boyfriend, Jordan Stevens. They've both been on The Breakfast Show recently, and we got an insight into their relationship when they were on. It's very supportive. They were bigging up each other's albums and stuff. But actually, it's nice to know that the reality of living with each other is much like it is living with anyone. You do spend a lot of the time trying to annoy each other. No! I can't! I can't!

So Jade is trying to... She's got that high note. She's trying to convince Jordan to go and watch Wicked with her. And here's response. He was just standing there bewildered in the kitchen saying... Am I supposed to be here? Am I supposed to be here? Very chaotic household. And finally we get some...

Some insight into Oscar-winning director and very important Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese. He's directed some of the greatest films of all time. He appeared in a video with his daughter Francesca on TikTok, and together they've gone viral. Francesca is asking him about lots of lady things and whether he knows what they are. He does sort of do well. What's a kitten heel? A tiny heel for a black patent leather shoe.

Or a kitten. Full marks for that one. Next question is good. What does it mean to get a blowout? Excuse me? What does it mean to get a blowout? Oh, yes, no, I do know this one. No giggling, Tom. No giggling. Or they take your head and do something to it. Those things that are terrifying. Like the...

The helmet thing? They put a helmet on you. Blowout to basically what American newsreaders have, isn't it? That big sort of American wavy hair. Is that what it is, Amy? I've got a blowout today. You never appreciate it. I think it needs more blowing. And he does go a bit mad at this bit. It makes the hair...

Manageable, is that it? And then they take it and they make it into all these different, like, topiaries, like a giant duck or whatever, right? I mean, yeah. Whatever, Grandad. And with that, you're up to date with all the latest things. After 8.15, I decided to try and return everyone to nature. Question for you. Yes. Do you ever hug a tree? I don't know if I ever have hugged a tree. Have you not?

I don't think so. I can't believe it. I'm not against the principle. I thought this was a thing that people just, you just did. So we talked about this before the show today in the breakfast show meeting and

And there was this really nice thing that popped up on Instagram that says, hugging a tree for 21 seconds has scientifically proven benefits for our health. Trees transfer oxytocin, the feel-good hormone, through touch, which improves immunity and lowers stress. Oh, and there you go. You're saying stressful things all morning. I know, maybe I should be hugging more trees. You should. Between your news bulletins, you should be popping out and hugging a birch. I don't know, isn't the nearest tree to this office? Oh, it's probably quite a long way away.

There'll be some trees near the mailbox in Birmingham, surely? Famously, the concrete jungle. Yes, I was going to say that tree place. There'll be a tree near you, surely? How about at the back? There's a canal. That's not the same thing.

Anyway, so everyone on the breakfast team was like, do you seriously hug trees? And I do. Every now and then when I'm out for a walk with Barney. But do you properly hug one? Yeah, I give it a hug. And do you assess the tree before you do it? Big, big, big, big girthy boy. You want one that you can't get your arms fully around. It's just like, I can't quite do this, but you feel like you might. Okay. It's like hugging a dog. You get the oxytocin. This is...

If you've never done it, if you're sitting there going, he's weird, this guy on the radio, you try it. You try it. And don't worry about what people are thinking about you. Yeah, they think you're weird. Who cares? You'll never see him again. Okay, fair enough. Go and hug a tree. Hug a tree? Why not? Can you go and find one? I'll go and find a tree for you. Yeah, I might not manage it before half past eight. I'd like you to. But the gap between maybe half eight and half nine. All right.

It's a long way for a tree deer. You're getting stressed about hugging a tree, which means you need to go and hug a tree. Steve, why wouldn't you hug a tree? I've got no idea, Greg. Right, are you there now? I am there, yeah, yeah. I've got no idea why you wouldn't hug a tree, Greg. No idea. Yeah, exactly. Is this your first time or have you done it before?

Yeah, I'm a tree-hugging virgin, yeah. Okay, so what's stressful today? Because I feel like this time of year particularly, people are stressed. A Tuesday is not a great day. It's cold. It's a bit gloomy. It's all those things. It's February. You know, we need some nice things. So, Steve, what's happening in your life today?

I've got to take the kids to the Tower of London today. Have they been naughty? But yeah, the thing is, though, the Tower of London is, if you're worried about them being, like, acting up at the Tower of London, there's quite a good threat there. Historically, that was not a great place for people to end up.

Well, I've said that multiple people got, you know, got, you know, so yeah, they should keep them in line. Okay, but you're stressed because, you know, you've got to get to, where are you travelling from? Wokenham. So yeah, trains and crowds and stuff. Get into London, it's half term, it's going to be busy, there's going to be kids everywhere, it's going to be a nightly tourist, it's going to be a night, it's going to be tough, isn't it? It's going to be a nightmare. It's going to be horrendous, yeah, I'm not looking forward to it at all. Okay, what time do you set off?

We're leaving about nine o'clock, half nine. OK, look. Now, Steve, have you found a nice tree? I have found a nice tree, yeah. It's got some daffodils growing around the bottom at the moment. It's lovely. Lovely. Really nice. Let's just have a look at some messages that have come in. Adam's in Chippenham and says, Greg, I just stopped my truck in a lay-by and hugged a tree and I can confirm I feel better. There's a lot of overthinking going on as well, particularly in this studio.

producer amy just said to me do you name the tree i mean you you can name the tree but whatever whatever works for you someone is just texting saying greg have you ever done a little bum squeeze of the tree yeah i've squeezed its bum i'm not afraid to say lynd is in kent and says i've got a massive oak tree in the garden someone's doing very well happy to help out and i'll go and hug mine so steve please approach the tree do you want to name it um

Yeah, Fred. Fred. All right. Give Fred a little hug. Oh, my dog just had a poo by the tree. Okay. The dog obviously feels comfortable by that tree. Maybe that's your dog's tree. Maybe go and find another tree. Maybe leave the dog to Fred because he's put his scent down. That's a territorial thing, that. You could also decide to do your own deposit next to the tree if you like to. Okay, so are you going to go for Fred still?

Yeah, I'll just have to dodge when my dog's just done its business, but yeah. Okay, be careful. Okay, and just go in there, just 21 seconds. So here we go. Okay. And... Die now? Now. How do you feel? It's quite relaxing, actually. It's nice, isn't it? Your stress has been lowered. It's like the tree hugs you back. Right? Right?

I'm being silly about it, but there's something nice. There is something nice going on there, isn't there, Steve? Yeah, that's cool. That's lifted my mood a little bit. That's just lovely. And that is what we wanted. So look, if you did it then, if you did your 21 seconds, 21 seconds, then let me know if it felt good to you. On 03700100100, Liam in the Highlands says, do you then have to take the tree out for dinner? You can do.

But remember, you touch nature and you feel clean. Steve, have a great day. So we'll come back later because Callum and producer Amy did go out and hug a tree and you'll hear the responses in a second.

First, though, let's do school things. A celebration of all the madness we remember from school, which was completely normal at the time. But looking back, what? Josh? Stick to the left-hand side when you're walking through the corridors and up and down the stairs. So strict. Stand on the left.

What about this old good school bag one? I forgot about this. I think the biggest school thing is when you had food tech and PE on the same day, so you had to take two massive bags in. Oh, just lumbering around on the bus trying to get all your bags in like a pack horse. Kat! Hi, Greg. Good morning. Welcome to School Things. Go on then, what's your school thing? So my school thing is dressing up for World Book Day.

Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, this is... Well, it's an annual event, and it's obviously to encourage reading, which is a good thing. But it's an effort. It can be an effort, can't it? It can be an effort, yeah, absolutely. Go on then, what are your memories of it? So my best friend really didn't like dressing up for World Book Day, but it was World Book Day one year, and she was really, really happy that her mum had forgotten until it got to lunchtime, and...

Her mum turned up at school with a homemade bear outfit made from some old, like, corduroy curtain. Do you remember that? And all the kids spent their lunch break throwing conkers at her. Oh! A very specific...

school thing? A very specific school thing, yeah. Were you throwing conkers at the bear? No, I wasn't throwing conkers at the bear, unfortunately. But if anything ridiculous is going to happen, it's going to happen to my friend. Are you still friends with her? Yeah, she's my best friend, yeah. Does she talk to you about this much? Have you made her dress up similar? Sorry, what bear was it supposed to be? Maybe a brown bear? I don't know.

Just a brown bear. I'm not sure. Okay, just a bear. Just a bear. It's usually a specific literary character, so I was thinking like sort of a Winnie the Pooh thing or a Paddington. No, I remember it being brown, so maybe... I'm not sure what I sort of... Right. Maybe it wasn't Bob at the time. Maybe it was just throw conkers at the bear day. Could have been. That sounds about right. It's the sort of thing that you'd get. Let's hear from David. What's David saying? Nothing. Nothing.

Beats the excitement of a dog being loose in the school field. Oh, yeah, dog in the playground. Do you ever have dog in the playground? Kat, did that ever happen? No, I don't think so, unfortunately. Very exciting. If you happen to be in a sort of, you know, when schools that aren't big enough, state schools aren't big enough, they put porter cabins out in the car park.

Often, if the car park is near one of the exits, well, you know, it's near the exit, obviously, you often see a dog, a rogue dog, just running into the car park. That is incredibly exciting. That happened during English a few times. That would be the most exciting thing ever. Spending well over an hour in WH Smiths trying to convince my mum I needed all this kooky stationery and that I just had to have all these different coloured pens that I definitely would have been able to use.

The ruler that snaps in half. You know, the one, the clicky ruler that goes at that. When I first saw that, I genuinely thought that was the most incredible invention ever. As a kid, you see your first ruler that snaps in half and then, hang on a second, I'm going to fold it over and it gives a perfectly straight line and I can put it in my pocket. My God, who invented that? Katie, good morning. Hello, good morning. Welcome to School Things. What have you got for me?

Well, do you remember being in year six and feeling absolutely superior sitting on all the wooden benches at the back of assembly compared to everyone else sat on the floor? Do you know what's so funny? Yes, I do remember that. But when we go and do kids books, events and stuff at school, I'm reminded of that hierarchy. And it's so interesting to see the attitude of kids who are only four years older than the ones at the front.

And they are so, they act like actual adults when they're walking in. The year sixes are so high and mighty. You're so spot on. It's an amazing school thing. Because obviously you're running around like a little loon, aren't you, when you're like four or five. But when you get to nine or ten, you think you rule the world. Yeah.

But then you soon get brought down a peg or two when you're sat on the end on like two little knobbly bits on the bench. Sitting on the knobbly bits is a great school thing as well. And then also the world changes again when you get to big school. My God, and then suddenly you see the year 11s and then you see the sixth formers and you think, oh my God, I've got a lot of work to do here. Yeah, like back to square one again. Great one from Katie. Let's have this voice note next. The level of excitement that you had when you got into the big hall and that...

piece of apparatus that's normally tied up against the wall was out, uh,

and ready to climb all over. - So good. It was like unveiling, I don't know, it was like launching the Titanic when that thing came out of the wall. Oh my God, I've never seen anything so mighty. - Having to try and climb a vertical thick rope hanging from the ceiling like a Royal Marine when you're eight years old. - Yeah, why is, why? We could do a whole show of all these. The bleep test, a lot of people have texted about the bleep test.

I was so unfit at school, the bleep test. I would limp around doing that thing. Oh, my God, it felt... That was such a horrible memory. The start of assemblies when the teacher would say, good morning, and everyone would go, good morning, Mr Smith. Good morning, everybody. Similarly, when I go into schools and do things like that, I insist that all the kids do, good morning, Mr James. There's also... Do you know about this thing that happens? You might not have been to many primary schools recently. This, right? They do...

They do a thing where they go, and then all the other kids go, it's to get them to shut up. It's amazing. That would have resonated with so many teachers. They do like two claps, and then the kids clap back, and they go, so if I go like that, and then you go, the power of that. My God. Lucien Preston says, my school thing is the bells for me, not for you. Oh, yeah. The classic as well.

If you're not listening in a lesson, a maths lesson with Mr. Meredith, then you'll get the classic, I know this stuff. This isn't for me. Mr. Meredith, he used to go, I've done my GCSEs. I don't need to do this. Sorry, Mr. Meredith, can we talk about your motorbike instead?

Wheeling the TV in. I don't think the TV's wheeled in anymore, is it? The big brown TV. And now let's cross live to London and also Birmingham. Callum Leslie, good morning. Good morning again. Where are you, dear? So I'm standing beside a tree.

in central Birmingham. Outside a little pub and ready to try the tree-hugging thing. What pub are you in here? Give it a bit of location. It's by the canal. It's one we go to sometimes after work here. It's a nice sunny day. There's a little view over the canal. The sun's out. There's a little... The tree's cordoned off with a little barrier, but I can lean over the barrier. It's all good.

Yeah, that's a shame, isn't it? It's like they're anti-hug barriers. I know, it does feel like it. It does feel like they've got out in time. Yeah, we should get on to the council about that. Obviously, they're just protecting them from hooligans, from kicking them down. Are they still growing? Are they little ones? Yeah, it's... No, do you know what? It looks like it's been here for a while, you know? It's pretty sturdy. I think it's not that new. Could you identify it?

Oh goodness, no, probably not. I'd just guess and get it wrong and someone would tell me. I don't know. It's not got any leaves on it right now and I would only know to go with the leaves, right? Yeah, classic winter. Producer Amy, hi. Hi Greg. Where are you?

I'm on a secluded back street in London hoping no one sees me do this. Don't be embarrassed. I've told you about this. Don't be embarrassed about hugging the tree. Embrace it. You're confident. You're outgoing. You don't mind what people think. It's okay. I do mind. Okay, maybe you do mind. Look, this is a moment to embrace that discomfort. And you'll feel that tree hugging you back. I promise you. Okay. Okay.

Callum, have you ever hugged a tree before? I have not. I was thinking long and hard about it, and I have never hugged a tree before. This is quite a busy street. Amy's played this better than me. There's lots of people. Don't worry about the embarrassment. So that's fine. Don't worry about the embarrassment. No, it's all good. Science is telling us that hugging trees is a wonderful thing to do. It transfers oxytocin to you, it improves your immunity, and it lowers stress. 21 seconds. Are you ready? Yes.

Yes. Just clear your mind and give that tree a big old hug. Oh, like our caller earlier, like Steve, have you named your tree, Amy? I've called him Daz. He's a skinny little thing. I think it suits him. All right, Callum, what's your tree called? I think Dave. It's Dave the tree. Dove and Daz. Okay. It's Dave the tree. Amy, are you going to go for a little bum squeeze? I will indeed, but a bunch of builders have just walked down the road, so that's fine. That's fine.

Everyone is welcome to hug trees. Builders are stressed out, man. There's a lot of stuff to do. Go and hug a tree on your lunch break today. Okay, 21 seconds. Your time starts now. Hug it good. No laughing, no laughing. Sorry. Be at one with nature. And stop the hug. How did it feel? Oh.

A lady has asked me if I'm okay. It's too much to explain. Reply to her this. I'm more okay than I've ever been. Yeah, I'm all good. She's gone. She's away with her suitcase. What did you feel? What did you feel from the train? I liked that. That was quite relaxing. Yes. I think I could get on board. Good. As I said earlier, touch nature. You feel clean. Amy, what about you?

I'm going to level with you. It hasn't done a lot for me, but two tourists just took a picture of me doing it. So that's good. Did you not feel anything from Daz? I feel nothing. Sorry, I even touched his bum.

OK, well, look, it's not for everyone. Leave the trees to those that want to hug them. There's nothing worse than a hug that someone doesn't mean, I guess. You know when you're going for a hug and they don't quite mean it? It's fine. The tree can tell, I think. But anyway, we got one. You win some, you lose some. Amy, thank you.

Thanks, Greg. And Callum, thank you. Thanks for embracing it and the tree. Thank you, Dave. Thank you. Most importantly, thank you to Dave and also apologies to Gaz. And a little chat with Ricky, Melvin and Charlie. What do you want with us anyway today? What do I want? What do you want? What do you want? Well, actually, it's school things. We did school things today. Okay.

And we had some amazing ones come in. We had things like, just people just, you know, we do mum things, dad things, nan things, whatever. We thought school things, because it's half term, it's quite a good one. And there's so many little memories that get unlocked. My mum, she didn't want to spend money on school bags. So she got petrol from the petrol station and got a free Esso bag.

I love it. I used that as my school bag. That is smart. And probably, actually, you'd find that in some vintage shop now. Yeah, it's true. That'd be worth a few quid. Yeah. People are like, oh my God, I've just been down to Spitalfields and there's this amazing Esso bag. It's so cool. You should bring it back now. I should actually. And it was little Melb's.

What about stationery? Ricky, were you into your stationery? Were you sort of like... Yeah, I used to have one of those pencil cases that was kind of like triple layered. Yes! It opened like a book. Do you remember? Yes! You got one for your protractor and stuff and then one for your colouring pens and your pencils. What a baller! He was a baller. He was. What a baller.

about the button ones? Did you have one with a button? I didn't have those but I used to really want one like really badly. It's nice. Mel Baddy's S.O. Bag. In my school my friend Eddies used to clean your rubbers as like a little service. What? Yeah so if you had an eraser in your pencil case he would take it home over the weekend and then clean your rubber put a little deodorant spray on it so you had a fresh rubbery. Yeah.

Yeah, I did that on Would I Lie To You. What? That's my life. To be fair, his mate is now loaded. Yeah, he is. Businessman at school. Yeah, he's making money doing that. Why is he taking it home? It was like an extra service. It felt like he was getting a detailed...

rubber at the end of it. He charged me. Yeah, we'll charge you like a pound or 10p or something. Do you want the ceramic coating on that? Yeah, yeah. We'll refurbish your alloys while we're at it. Yeah, that sort of thing. That's so good. The pencil case one made me think of the first time that I got a pencil case that was a big, it was a big can of Sprite.

Oh, my gosh! Yeah, I do remember those. That was the most exciting day. And the zip was around the top. Oh, yeah, gosh. Do you remember those ones? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were class. Someone had a Pepsi Max one, a Sprite one. Some of them were like a big bag of crisps. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A Skittles one. It was a Skittles one. Do you know what reminds me of school? Getting peanut-ed. I was always like kids who used to get peanut-ed. So someone grabs your tie and pulls it really hard. It's horrible. And also...

Another one for me, traumatic school was for me. Never sit, well, I could never sit at the front of the bus. Always had to be at the back because if you sat at the front, you was a goner. You'd get fingers thrown at your head. Oh. Yeah. I didn't take a bus to school. I hated it. I wasn't allowed. Hated it. Mum was like, you have to walk. You lived five minutes from your school, Mel. My mum got all these rubberster carryings. My mate's going to clean them. I've got to put them in the outside bag.

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