The Day After the Away Day that Wasn't a Day Away
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BBC Radio 1 Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James. Hello and welcome to the Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast with me, Greg James, and it's the best bits of Friday's show, which was very, very silly. Very silly. We started off in this mood. MUSIC

It's time to drop a big one. Yes, it is. Good morning. Welcome to Friday. We've made it to the weekend or nearly the weekend. And you're all very welcome to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. We're going to have a good one. I can feel it. Callum Leslie, hello. Morning. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, hang on. Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend. There we go. Yes, and breathe. Yeah, we can just relax into it. I really love that lady on the news beat just then.

This is a classic. I love that she's passionate about things and loves sci-fi and loves sort of, what was she talking about, post-apocalyptic things. Yes. But this phrase or this sort of level of detail is definitely something you wouldn't say on a first date. You'd maybe wait till you knew them a bit more. So what sort of thing is you into then? I'm really into your post-apocalyptic nuclear disaster type stuff, especially that it's based around the Chernobyl of Cumbria, I think it's been called by quite a few people. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Lovely Hannah. Yeah, I was just sort of thinking more like walks or, you know. It's great. That Hannah, is it? It is. Lovely Hannah. Love Hannah with her passions. So here we are then. The day after the Radio 1 away day. Spoiler, it wasn't like Taskmaster. No, he didn't build a raft. No. No. No.

However, there is a Taskmaster link because what did happen was it was just loads of presentations and data and stuff and audience feedback. They played videos of people that had been played bits of Radio 1 or listened to Radio 1. And so the only bit that came out of it was that we saw some audience focus groups and one of them thought I was called Greg Davis. LAUGHTER That's it. LAUGHTER

That was the away day. Just to sort of pick me up we all needed. And then very quickly turned into this mood after all the latest things. One! Two!

I'm just going to warn you that I've only truly prepared half of all the latest things because I was... I got distracted by finding new versions of the name Pen Badgley because he's my favourite celebrity name. And I haven't actually got anything really prepared for the second half of it. But the first bit of this with Pen Badgley news is so good. Radio One Breakfast.

So let's start with the world of TV and good luck for the rest of it. So there's a new trailer for you on Netflix, which stars Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. They spend so much time making trailers. I hope the show is good. Most of the, surely most of the people that work on that show just make the trailers. I've always believed in the world. That there's someone out there for me. A soul. Every day there's a new trailer about this show. I'm just a normal guy.

Are you following me? If he loves you, that's the most dangerous thing. Right, so it's going to be spooky, it's scary, it's going to be creepy. It's out on the 24th of April. Everyone will be very, very excited. It's a huge TV show, Is You, starring Penn Badgley, as I said. And so all I was doing was just, we were just coming up with names, other names for him. So we've got Penn Badgley, Badge Penley, Ding Dongley, Bing Bongley,

If you've got any more, please let me know. Another good one. Thank you.

So next up, let's talk about Doctor Who. This is a new season of it on the way. Shuti Gatwa plays the Doctor currently. It was on Jimmy Fallon to talk about it yesterday. He told Jimmy about the announcement day and that he was sworn to secrecy. I was filming Barbie when the announcement came out. And what a mad day that was. I was supposed to not have told anyone. And I told everyone. I told everyone.

That's good news. Why not? Why not? Well, if you can't trust the cast of Barbie, who can you trust? We had a cast dinner in like the first week. I sat beside Margot and she was like, what are you doing next? And I was like, I'm Doctor Who. That's what I'm doing. Yeah, I bragged to Barbie about that as well. Little Sims was on the new music show last night with Jack Saunders. Her new song Free was hottest record. Little Sims and Jack had a really good chat actually and Jack asked the big question. Sims, did you hear the clip of Dochi talking about you?

Yeah. Yes, she did. Dochi said last month that she'd love to work with Little Sims and it's mutual. Shout out Dochi, man. She's wicked. It's so beautiful to watch her blossom. And I think what she's doing within music is amazing. And I think it'll be a wicked link up. So, yeah, man, we soon make that happen. Can you imagine how good the Little Sims and Dochi track would be?

You can listen back to that full chat on Jack's show. The hottest record was last night on BBC Sounds. Six o'clock was that show and you can find it right now. I'm just, I'm so distracted. I'm sorry. I'm distracted by all your stupid names coming in for Penn Badgley. Radio One Breakfast with Greg James. All right, what have we got then? What's your favourite one, Tom? What's tickled you? Duck quackly. Popcornly.

Handbagly, someone's put a text in. Nosepickly, poppaply. How about ringwrongly? Aaron in Huddersfield says hedge trimly. Stupid. Too stupid. Popcornly, itch crotchly, bedpanly, fridge pantry. Sunsetly. Thank you, all of you. You're stupid and you're up to date with all the latest things.

We are crying in the studio, Callum, with how stupid everyone's been with Ben Badgley variations. We're just getting... We've got hundreds of them and we're just... We've got Duck Quackley from Emily and the Isle of Wight, Bin Bagley, Jam Spreadley... Someone just texted in, the car won't start-ly, which means I'm going to be late for work-ly. Tom Rumbly... Bum Fartley...

Oh, God. Blue Peter Badgley. Jetlagley. Gooch Scratchley. Bumwipely. Yeah, OK. Oh, dear. Top Hatley. OK, let's... Someone's just texted in Ben Behaving Badgley. I'm sorry.

Yeah, so that really, that first hour of the show, we're going to get to yesterday's quiz in a second, but that first bit really set the tone for the day and we thought, you know what, we're just going to have a laugh, aren't we? What did you just come up with? Podcastly. Podcastly. Yeah, nice. Anyone's favourite, what was your favourite, Susanna? Either Eggs Grambly or Blue Peter Badgley.

Pen behaving Badgley is very clever. So good. But I think my favourite is fart bumbley. The stupid... I mean, I like it when you just start going meat moppley, beat bopley. Oh, yeah, my list of them here, which we came up with in the studio earlier. I'm surprised you were allowed to say gooch scratchley. Probably wasn't allowed to say gooch scratchley, actually.

Ding bongly, ding dongly, bop. You did bop looply. Or clock moply. Clock moply feels good. I don't know why. Teacuply? Teacuply. Duck quackly was good. Duck quackly. Bin bagly. I saw a ball bagly at one point. That's so good. I just love that song.

Anyway... I've got a good one for off it. Oh, do it now. See if you can put it in. No. Try it. No, we can't. Okay, well, I'll fade the mics down then. You can't do that one, can you? Just trust us that we couldn't put that on there. Anyway, so next up on The Breakfast Show Podcast, let's have a quiz. And here comes Emily and Evil Lynn. Evil Lynn. BBC Radio. Emily, welcome back. Morning, everybody.

Very good. Thank you, Emily. I love it when the Yesterday's Quiz addresses the nation. That's exactly what you should be doing. You've got to grab this radio station by the horns and go for it. Evelyn, good morning. Welcome back. This has been such a fun week this week. It's been a great reaction to all four of you, actually. We don't have favourites over here, but we do have people that are in the lead. Evelyn smashed it yesterday. 15 points. You must be still on a high. I know. I can't believe it. I'm buzzing.

Emily, what did you make of me docking a point yesterday? You know, I'm not bitter. I'm not going to hold anyone, you against it or anyone else. But I did answer the question correctly. I did say two wings. I just added three on for comedic effect. Yeah.

Yeah, I think we took, I was in serious quiz mode, so I took that seriously and then we sort of investigated it and then we challenged Evelyn yesterday and it felt like you were lying and that's why I took a point off. But anyway, it's all fine. It adds to the drama. Let's see how the final goes. So, Emily, tell me about your winning choice if you pull off a victory today.

Well, back in the day, I'll show my age, was obsessed with Girls Aloud, another one of my passions. And I've chosen their debut single, Sound of the Underground, because it is a corker. It's a great one. And Evelyn, what about you? I've chosen Superstar by Luke Fiasco because that song just gets me in my feels. It's just great. I just love it. I just feel like I need a bit of that energy in me.

The listeners will win either way today because those are two really, really great choices. And if you have just switched on for the first time this week, then this team, our four sisters from Somerset, we've got about, was it 10 years between the eldest and the youngest? It's been such a fun competitive week this week. And loads of, there's been loads of bus throwing, which I've really enjoyed. Like out of nowhere yesterday, Evelyn's nickname being Wookiee Hulk because she's got a big belly button. That's the sort of, that is the sort of loyalty you have within a family and within the family unit. And I really love that.

It's really the battle of the generations today, Greg, because there is those 10 years and between that I am a millennial and Eva is Gen Z. So, oh, I see it's oldest versus youngest today. Yeah, that's what you got on the radio. This is good. Oldest versus youngest on yesterday's quiz. The final is happening next. And let's do the final of yesterday's quiz. The two sisters. It's oldest versus youngest. 31 plays 21.

This is good. It's nice. There's 10 years between me and my big sister, Evelyn, so it's been quite fun. Did you realise how much that Emily would have hated you when you were a very, very cute kid and she was a teenager? Yeah. My sister still reminds me about that. She's like, oh, God, everyone just loved you so much. It was so annoying because I was 15 and you were five and you were really cute and it was really annoying.

That rivalry never leaves you. So here we go with the final. If Evelyn wins, we get Superstar by Lupe Fiasco. If Emily wins, we get Girls Aloud, Sound of the Underground. Let's go with the final. It's first to five. Evelyn, you're in the lead. So you get to go first. Here we go with question number one. Which artist known for Say So and Paint the Town Red shared artwork for her upcoming album V? Paint the Town Red. Doja Cat. Correct. Correct.

Ariana Grande. Correct. Evelyn. Luke Littler. Correct. Emily. Chelsea played Man City in the Women's Champions League, but who won the match? Go to... They did. They did. Evelyn. Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo!

That's amazing, because that was a cow maybe bee pig, wasn't it? Yeah. Really appreciated it. Emily, it was reported that archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh. But what would a mummy who's been dead for 2,000 years sound like? Oh, leave me alone, babe. Evelyn, question four.

It was Born Again singer Lisa's birthday. But what huge K-pop group did she start out in? I don't know. It was Blackpink. Emily, Dua Lipa posted about the remix of her song Physical. But what singer of Rush and One of Your Girls did she collaborate with on the track? Tricevann. Correct. Evelyn, Halle Bailey celebrated her 25th birthday. But who did she play in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid?

Oh, um, Ariel. Yeah, The Little Mermaid. Emily, this for the win. A new trailer was released for the upcoming fourth season of You on Netflix. But who stars in that show as Joe Goldberg? Penn Badgley? Yeah, I would have accepted Penn Badgley or Badge Penley. Any name with badge in it, I would have accepted. That is the correct answer. You have just won yesterday's quiz. Emily! Emily!

Age and wisdom has done it. Oh, well, you know.

And also, I nearly completely lost it with your mummy voice. So I feel like I might have had to let you win anyway, even if you didn't win, because that was just too good. Evelyn, thanks for being on this morning. Very good performance. It wasn't to be this morning, but we got a good choice anyway out of Emily. And congratulations. Let's play it. Girls Aloud, Sound of the Underground is the winning choice this morning. Oh, leave me alone, babe.

Woo, woo, woo. Such great sounds today. Evelyn, Emily, thank you so much. You've made a lot of people's day this morning on The Breakfast Show. The messages have gone mad for you both. It's been a really fun week. Have you enjoyed it?

Oh, we loved it. It was fantastic. It's been good. And Emily, congratulations on the win. But really, the whole team, you should feel proud of your performance this week. We'd love to get you all back on The Breakfast Show at some point. The listeners are calling for it. They say you must get these four back on at some point. Would you be up for something else? Have you planned something else fun in the future?

Yes, definitely. We'd also be up to go into Liverpool, you know. There's apparently something big happening there soon. Oh, you're just asking for big weekend tickets now, are you? Or, you know, just a slight cameo. Right, OK, great. So, what, main stage? Is that what you want? No, I'll do, yeah. All right, well, I'll see what I can do. Yeah, absolutely. If you don't ask, you don't get. Exactly. Thank you for being on. And just one more time, Emily, this. Oh, leave me alone, babe. She does as well.

Yeah, and I don't know what's better than moo. Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo! You both deserve to win, really, today. Anyway, have a great weekend. Thanks for being on this week. And send my best to Rachel and Lily, the losers from this week. And we'll speak to you very soon, all right? Cheers! Have a good one! Nice one, thanks. Greg, you should be giving those tickets away to Big Weekend. They've been the best guests ever.

I wish I could. I wish I just had a big backpack full of tickets and go, yes, well done, you're funny, you can have a ticket. It's not quite like that. Someone get them their own reality show, please, says someone on text. And Helena says, I bet it's an absolute blast at Christmas dinner.

I sort of want to go and I sort of want to be invited to their house for Christmas dinner. Also this morning, we had Meg and Maisie on. Friday morning on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and a special treat. Meg! Oh!

Morning! Welcome back, how are you? I'm good, thank you, you okay? Pretty good, yeah, how's Charlie? Yeah, he's good, he's working hard, he's all good. And how's Maisie? Yeah, she's lovely, she's lush as always. I can't believe it's been over a year now since we came to your house to babysit Maisie and you came to the Brits.

I know, it's crazy. Time's absolutely flown by. Maisie was in, particularly Maisie, was in my thoughts on the Night of the Brits this year. Did she enjoy watching it? Yeah, she did. She did. She loves Miles, so she absolutely loved it. She's a Miles Smith fan, is she? Yeah, she is indeed, yeah. Wow.

Well, send her my love when she's back from school. But I'm glad everything's going well. And we've not had you on the show for ages, so we thought it'd be quite good to get you back on because we miss you. Oh my God, thank you. No, honestly, we were privileged to be asked to come back on. We're going to do a game which we've sort of, this is what we did with you in the old days and when we got to know you and Charlie, but we're going to change it. So we used to do a game called How Well Do You Know Your House?

And today, we're not doing How Well Do You Know Your House, but welcome to How Well Do You Know Your Mum? I love it. Just a little twist on the format. And this thing could go for years. So, as it's Mother's Day on Sunday, or as some people say, Mothering Sunday, we're going to celebrate mums by getting Meg on. And we're doing a round of How Well Do You Know Your Mum? So...

Charlie has been sneaky and Charlie, your other half, has been asking Maisie some questions about you. We've got Maisie's answers and let's see if Maisie knows her mum really well. You and her are obviously incredibly close. Yes, yeah. I wonder how well she knows you. Let's get into round one. First question that Charlie asked Maisie was, what's mum's favourite meal?

Mmm, tricky one, tricky. Meg, what's your answer? Oh, I don't know if she's going to know this. Sausage and mash, let's go sausage and mash. I don't know. You're saying sausage and mash. Let's find out what Maisie thinks. Mummy's favourite food to cook is curry. Oh, curry. Curry.

I'm actually doing curry this week. It's okay. That's just one question. There's several more to come. Oh, God. Maisie was then asked what she thinks her mum's favourite smell is. So, Meg, what's your favourite smell?

Right, basically, Maisie has this little patch on her head... ..which smells exactly the same as, like, her newborn smell. She's eight, but it's just not gone. So I smell it all the time, so I think she knows it's gonna be, like, Maisie's patch.

It's just at the top of her head. And anyone that has a baby with a newborn smile, it's that, but she's eight and it's just never gone. So basically your answer is Maisie's head. Yeah. Okay. Your answer is Maisie's head. Let's cross to Maisie for the answer. Mummy's favourite smile is the top of my head and she calls it the baby smile. Yay! She got it!

She calls it the baby smell. Excellent. Yeah, it is. It's just so lush. You've clawed it back. You got yourself a point. You got one wrong, one right. Let's even get another one right. Question number three that we put to Maisie is... Oh. When are you most embarrassed? Oh. Oh, gosh, she's going to do me dirty here and she...

Show your workings. What do you think it might be? Go on. I just don't want to say it on the radio. What do you... If I'm wrong, then I've humiliated myself. So we've just got to go for it, haven't we? Go on. I think she's going to say I'm most embarrassed when I fart. OK, let's hear Maisie's answer. Mummy's most embarrassed.

where she's in public and she farts really loud. - Hey! The really loud is a good extra detail. - Yeah, I mean, I'm only human, you know?

You got it. Look, you got to mean it, haven't you? So it's going well. It's going very, very well. Okay, so you got the baby patch. We got the when you're most embarrassed. Should we go again with another? It's going well, this. We're on a roll here, Meg. Yeah, let's do it. Final question from Maisie.

What's your favourite thing to do together as a family? That's the question that Maisie was asked. OK. Oh, gosh. I mean, we do lots as a three. One of my favourite things is to go down the beach and have fish and chips. I think she would know that. Or she's going to say something about, like, going out for food. We go out for food quite a bit.

So yeah, going down the beach and getting some chips and something to eat. That's my favourite thing. It's very specific. Let's find out what Maisie says. Mummy's favourite thing to do as a family is go

go out, have food and she also loves kutching all together. Oh, bless her. Does that count? That does count, of course. She is so sweet and so brilliant, isn't she? Oh, she is. She's so nice. The bit at the end, what does she say? Kutching? Yeah, to have a kutch. I love a kutch on the sofa. So nice. Bless her. She didn't mention the beach, but I think with the kutching thing...

I think we need to give you the point for that. Yes! You only got one wrong. That's amazing, Meg. That said, there is actually a bonus question. Is there? Would you like the bonus question? I mean, yeah, I feel like we're on a roll, so let's go for it. Maisie was asked who she thinks your celebrity crush is. OK, um...

I listen to his podcast, which I do not let her listen to because it's not suitable for children. OK. But it is an ongoing joke in the house between Charlie and I. You know, he's an East London boy. She might hear his name, but basically it's Danny Dyer. I think that's a great celebrity crush. She may know, she may not. I don't know. Mummy's secret celebrity crush is Danny Dyer.

And she thinks he's really, really handsome. Oh, God, she's doing me right here, isn't she? That's what Mother's Day is all about, isn't it? Oh, I know.

Meg, thanks so much for being back on The Breakfast Show and a really good round of how well do you know your mum? And Maisie knows her mum really, really well. You know Maisie really, really well. That was a great little round of it. Thanks for being on and have a good Mother's Day and enjoy kutching on the sofa, maybe a little walk to the seaside. Is that the plan? That is the plan, yeah.

We'll catch up soon. Send my best to Charlie and send my love to Maisie as well. And we'll speak to you in a bit. Okay, Meg? Yeah, I will too. Thanks so much for having me, guys. Thank you. Thanks so much. It's been a pleasure. Speak to you soon. Bye, guys. And a brilliant edition of Wrong-Uns incoming. James, welcome back. Hello. Hi. How are we doing? I'm all right. You wonderful, wonderful, brilliant man. What a week we've had. My God, you're so good.

Thank you. Did you see the reaction? Because we put a little video up on socials of you doing your bit earlier this week. So just for those that weren't listening, James was on a little bit we were doing where we were asking you when you make up scenarios in your head or play little games on your own to get you through the day. And James, remind everyone what yours was. I will turn the FIFA commentary down and run my own commentary team

whilst I'm playing the game. So I've got my three characters, Stuart, Alan and Felix, who will commentate on my games and my made-up football world that I'm in. So did you see the video that went up? Yeah, the reaction was crazy, like...

The amount of people commenting and liking it was, yeah, it was a bit insane, to be honest. It's funny, isn't it? Because, look, I can say it a million times and say, oh, the listeners loved it. Because only I can see all the messages, really, that come into Radio 1. But when you see it on a social media post, you're like, oh, yeah, people did actually really find that funny on their morning the other day. That was Monday morning, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was a bit of a surreal, like the people liked the surreal mind that I'm working with on a day-to-day basis was the frightening part of it, I think. I'm just going back to my notes from Monday's show. And I've got, my notes are, because I was right, as you were telling me, I wrote down Stuart,

who is Aussie, Alan, who is the gruff one, and Felix was the tactical transfer kind of guy, the German guy. So the big question is, you're about to do wrong-uns, James. Yeah. Are you going to pick one of your alter egos? Are you going to pick, in your words, one of your football commentating team?

I feel like it would be a bit of a letdown if Felix didn't do it, to be honest. I think that would be the right thing for the nation to hear. I think lots and lots of people have just cheered with that idea. We were all hoping. I didn't want to push you towards Felix, but I'm glad that you've...

I'm glad you're going to give the people what they want. I didn't realise he was such a fan favourite. He's my favourite character as well, to be fair. So you've got to trust it. In the creative process, what you think is the best often will be what the audience thinks the best as well. True. All right. Well, James, goodbye. And we're going to say hello to Felix Perongans. Radio One's All Day Breakfast. We should have Felix, the football commentator. Felix, good morning. Good morning.

Good morning, Gregory. We love you, darling. Oh, thank you so much, Felix. Lovely to have you back on. I was wondering if, I know the commentary team sort of hang around together usually, so can I just have a quick word with Alan before we continue? Yeah, let me just hand the phone to him. Hello, Greg. How are we doing? Yeah, pretty good. Thank you, Alan. I actually had a football question for you. I wondered what you thought about inverted fullbacks.

Not a fan, to be honest, Greg. I prefer my fullbacks high and wide like a flagpole waving in the breeze, ready to make a cross into the box. Right, OK. So you don't like where the game's going, I guess? No, it's woke, it's nonsense, it's artificial terribleness is what it is. OK, and just a quick word with Stuart, if he's around, actually. G'day. G'day, Greg. How's it all going? Got a busy weekend ahead?

A busy weekend with the FA Cup coming up, mate. Yeah, we've got a few games that we're going to be down to and prepping the notes that we've got. Looking forward to a busy weekend of great football in the FA Cup and hopefully we'll spring a few surprises in there and have a good one. Fantastic. Well, I hope you get all your notes together and get your prep done for the weekend. And if you could pass the phone back to Felix, that would be brilliant because we're going to do a little game called wrong-ins, if that's all right. Yeah, sure. Hello, Gregory. LAUGHTER

Felix, shall we do wrong-uns? 60 seconds on the clock. A load of wrong answers I need from you, please. Wrong answers only on wrong-uns. Let's go. And your time will start now. No passing, no swearing and no repetition, please. And the answer has to be related to the question. Here we go with question number one. Name me any member of the band Haim. I love the band Haim. Jeremy Clarkson. Question two. What do you like to pretend to commentate on?

Tennis matches. Who was added to the Red Bull Formula One team this week as a driver? Gunter Steiner. What colour is the sky? Green. Name any flavour of doughnut. Berliner Randeuter. What noise does a horse make, Felix? Moo. What is my name? Jonathan. Sir name? Pierce. LAUGHTER

What's your full name? Alan McDonald. And yesterday was the Radio 1 Away Day. Where did we go away? Obviously, you went to Hamburg, no? Felix, a great performance on wrong hands. Gets quite stressful, doesn't it, that game? It certainly does. The pressure to answer wrong questions is not something that is in the inherent nature of a German person. Yeah.

Yeah. And also, you know, your commentary is very precise and you love, you know, you love the tactical nature of things. I like to present factual facts 100% of the time. Well, today, I know that was a stretch for you, but thank you for being on. Let's just go through some of your answers. Jeremy Clarkson has joined Haim. We had Gunter Steiner, who's driving for Red Bull now. Might as well. What colour is the sky? It's green. Um,

The flavour of doughnut, the Berliner. What noise does a horse make? You mood. My name is Jonathan Pearce. You're called Alan MacDonald. And yesterday, the Radio On Away day, of course, was in Hamburg. What a wonderful, if only. Felix, thank you. Would you mind passing the phone back to Alan so I can just wish him a nice weekend? Yeah, sure. Alan, you need to come back. Hello, Greg. Alan, sorry for breaking up the team this morning, but you all did a brilliant job together and Felix did excellently. Did you think it was good?

I think, again, knowing Felix, he'll be disappointed that he got wrong answers instead of the right answers. But pride is not an emotion that I tend to feel day to day. But if there was, I would feel semi-proud of him right now. And Alan, what we're going to do now is we're going to play one of your fellow countrymen. We're going to play Lewis Capaldi, who's a proud Scot as well. You're a fan of him? Excellent. I love Lewis Capaldi. We need a new album soon.

Alan, Felix and Stuart, of course, thank you for being on The Breakfast Show and we wish you a good weekend. Have a good one. Cheers. Thank you. Bye. And we also had a really nice chat with Nat O'Leary. Good morning. Hello, Gregory. How are you? Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good, actually. It's Friday. It's Friday. What's going on in your show today, Nat? Well, Greg, actually, it's funny you ask that because I wanted to ask you an important question. Please. I think you can help us with this. What was the last thing that you did cause free will?

Okay, I love seeing these videos. When I say this, it's just like going and doing things because we're adults and we can. Like, who's going to stop us? It's like going to pets at home to stroke the rabbits. Yeah. Cause free will. Absolutely. Well, sort of living life like a dog, really, because that's what my dog does every day. He takes me to pets at home every day. Honestly, he walks me there because that's his best place in the world, obviously.

Because there's loads of treats spilt on the floor and bits of food and all the rest of it smells like dogs. And the balls, the little tennis balls, does it go for them? Yeah, always. It goes for everything. Yeah. So this is basically like, even though you're growing up, you don't have to go and grow old. Yes, exactly. That sort of thing. Okay, so recently bought myself a telescope because I fancied it and wanted to look at the stars. So I bought a telescope. I have cheese in the bath regularly.

Sometimes just eat dinner in the bath. Sometimes I play catch. I bought a catching net for the garden. And so I'll go outside and just play catch against the sort of springy, it's like a little trampoline thing. It just bounces back at you. So you're playing catch on your own? Nice. Okay. Cause for you will. That's what I did as a kid. I loved it. I'm sort of happiest probably when I'm playing catch. Yeah.

So just like playing catch as an adult, you don't do it often enough. So yeah, I've got loads of these things. I bought a train set. Oh, that's nice. Does it move? Yeah, of course it moves. It's electric. And can I just ask, sorry, the telescope, have you looked at the stars yet? Have you looked at the solar system? Yeah, of course. What's been your favourite thing that you've seen? I've seen Mars.

How about that? Yeah. That's so interesting. No, it's proper. I don't think I've ever actually looked through a telescope properly. Changed your life, honestly. Apart from at the beach. You know those ones at the beach that you kind of stare out? Yeah, they count. That counts. You can sort of see a distant battleship or something. Or a ship.

Or a little ferry going across from Southampton or something. But yeah, that's the thing. I mean, it's one of those things. If you look up into space, I think there's two types of people. There's the first type of person that just goes, wow, God, we're so small and insignificant. Isn't that amazing that there's things that are just so much bigger than us we can't ever understand? And then the other person will go,

I feel tiny. I hate this. It makes me feel sad and I feel scared that everything's so massive and I'm so insignificant. So I think it's whatever. I don't know what camp you'd be in that. Do you know what? I think because I'm five foot one, Greg, I'd probably be in the second camp. I think I would be the one that's terrified. Like, oh my God, the world is so large and unbearable.

and i'm so small and i don't know about insignificant um what about your free will then what's the last thing you did do you know what the last free will thing that i did was well this is kind of bad actually it's though it's one of those things where i pretend to be on the phone when i'm in my headphones and i have full-blown conversations whilst i'm walking about and i'm literally like yeah babe i'm just walking down through the street oh i might get a coffee i don't even drink coffee but

I'm having a full-blown conversation because I'm in my own world and for that moment, I just want to be in it alone. Yeah, lovely. With my pretend friend. This is actually what happened with James who was on the show earlier today. His thing is that he creates, he's created three commentators that he uses when he's playing FIFA.

He turns the commentary down and commentates himself, but he has a whole commentary team with three different people. Greg, I heard it. Yeah, he's amazing, isn't he? His accent, honestly, someone give that man a job in Hollywood. Right, but that's him exercising free will. Exactly.

And just living his life and loving life. We all had Daniel P. Carter from The Rock Show. He bought us all a Guinness yesterday, halfway through the away day, just to keep us going. I did notice that and I was a bit jealous because I had it like a fizzy drink and I was like, wow, where did the Guinness come from? How did I miss this round? That was great because Daniel P. Carter is like the naughty kid at school. I'm easily led and he just went, yeah, great, do you want a Guinness? And I looked at producer Tom and Tom went,

I went, yeah, I'll have one. And then he went to Tom, he went, yeah, Tom, do you want one? I went,

Yeah, I love one as well, yeah. So us three naughty boys had a Guinness at lunchtime. Did you sit at the back then as well? Because on the way back in, I'd sat at the front for the first half of it and I was like, this is just not me. This is not my personality. I need to go to the back of the room. And then I still got dragged to the front halfway through again. I really wanted to sit at the back with the naughty kids. We just sat at the back heckling. Yeah. And boozing and heckling and just farting. Guinness farts. Oh, I'm glad I wasn't there. Take that, take that, Aled. Oh, no.

Anyway, so, yeah, good. Well, I'm looking forward to that because I know the listeners will have some amazing bits of free will, so that'll get involved after 10.30 today. Thank you. And that is the end of today's Breakfast Show podcast, the show bits. Anyway, shall we do some Friday grievances? Yeah. Has anyone got any? I don't have one, but Henry's got an amazing one. He's just not here. Let's call him. Get him on the phone. Get him on the old blower. Get him on the blower. I hope that's the right Henry. Hello? Hello?

Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Wrong Henry. Oh my God. Who was that? Who was that? Where were they? Who was that Henry? I think we just dialed into an alternate universe. Nice. Did I get his number wrong? Oh yeah, it's a different one. It's a different Henry. I saved our Henry as Henry Henry. That was a different person. I don't know who that was.

They were listening to The Cure. Yeah. Nice. The Cure from Crawley. Are they? Yeah. From Curely. Crawley. Should be called The Craw. The Craw. Hello? I just called a different Henry and it was really awful. You're in my phone as... Oh, he's calling back. He's calling back. Oh, God. Answer, answer. No, I sent a voice. Being a coward. Anyway, hi, Henry.

Hi. We're doing Friday grievances. What have you got? So I've been aggrieved by the BBC's entire expenses system. Right. Yeah. So obviously, as everyone I'm sure is aware, you were running with Jamie last week in a wedding dress. Yes. And a garter that was kind of tongued off your leg at one point. We had to purchase that quite last minute, which entailed me going out

to an actual lingerie shop to buy it, which point obviously I now have to expense it through the BBC, which I put into the system.

called Greg's Garta. And then, you know, inputted all the Radio 1 stuff and sent it off. At which point last week I got it sent back to me and it was apparent I had not put it through the correct Radio 1 bit. And me and Amy believe it went to the CFO of the BBC to push through

But he didn't, obviously. It's been sent back because they believe I am trying to expense personal wedding lingerie through the BBC. So it's your grievance with me.

Well, I think it's, yeah, probably, realistically, because I now have to go away and explain that, obviously. We're neither getting married nor is the expense for my own personal wedding. Right. So, and it actually said the words Greg's garter on the thing. It is labelled Greg's garter, yeah. Mm, mm, mm.

Well, I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry that I can't really help you much with that. Just to say sorry. Yeah, that's fine. Quite like sending it up the chain, though, that far. It's pretty good. Yeah, I mean, you know, this is someone who I imagine is dealing with

really high-profile things probably goes on select committees and then they get a ping into their inbox. Yeah, they'll be talking about licence fee renewal and, like, proper serious stuff and they're like, this has come in for you, it's a garter. Yeah. Well... Exactly. I hope you get reimbursed. We'll see, we'll see what happens. I'm sure I will. If not, Amy will pay me for it. Is that right, Amy? Yeah. They also...

quoted Henry's spelling mistakes in the comments. Oh yeah, they did. They got very passive aggressive in the comments. They kind of like quoted all the spelling errors that I put in there. That feels unnecessary. Yeah, that's really sassy. That bit does feel bad. It's quite savage to be honest. Well, have a nice rest of your day off. I will do. I'm imagining that you are wearing the garter.

Yes, obviously. And we'll see you next week. See you next week. Cheers, dear. Bye. Do you think Henry was in bed? Are you in bed? No, I'm not in bed. I'm downstairs with the dog. Oh, that's OK. All right, see you. Bye. Bye. Bye.

No, no, I'm in bed with the dog. All right. See you later, everyone. That's the end of the week. That's the end of The Breakfast Show podcast today. Have a good one. We're back on Monday. Goodbye.

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