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BBC Radio 1. Radio 1's All Day Breakfast. With Greg James. Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast. What a fun morning we had. We talked more about the asteroid. We launched Jamie Lang's epic comic relief ultra marathon man challenge. We talked about a bit of internet nonsense featuring Montoya Por Favor.

We'll get into that in a bit. All the latest things, another firefighter on the quiz. And we started the show with more chat about Callum Leslie. No cap. Or in this case, with cap. Good morning! Welcome to Wednesday. Thank you, Dean McCulloch for earlies. Callum Leslie, hello. Morning. Ready for the show? Oh, absolutely, yeah. I'm ready to tackle this. I'm going to grab it with all the clichés. Grab it with both hands. Yep.

We're going to hit it for six. Seize the day. We're going to seize the day. But you're wearing a cap for the second day running. I know, I decided to double down on it. You look good. Thanks. As I said yesterday, the listeners, I don't know, maybe they're okay with it. Maybe we need to just loosen up. It's Radio 1, man. Let's be cool with the news. I think so. Let's pop a cap on. We do music under it anyway, so... Let's take our trousers off, do the news, why not? What are even other rules for? They're for breaking.

Let's take our trousers off, put a cap on, get a pina colada on the go. It's Radio 1, it's Newsbeat. Maybe that's what we need. Fully clothed for the records. So you look nice in your cap. Thank you. Lovely insight from Vanuri, who works in the show. She said...

Oh, it's annoying when I have to wear a cap because I have to take my glasses off because they hit each other. It's incredibly sweet, but incredibly dorky. I'd love to wear more baseball caps, but it does hit my glasses a touch.

So maybe we should all wear caps on The Breakfast Show tomorrow. Maybe, yeah. Because you won't be able to see if she takes her glasses off. Walking around looking cool but into things. Shall we start The Breakfast Show then? So there you go, we're off and running. And I was really so up for today's show. And I ended the show still up for it. And now I feel depressed that it's over. There's always a bit of a lull after the show. I feel like, oh, I've just...

I've just done the most exciting bit of my day. But that's okay. We get to do it again tomorrow, don't we? All being well. Next up, should we talk about asteroids? Because actually we might not be here tomorrow if one of them falls on our heads. It's time for some asteroid chat. I was talking on Monday about this with Callum Leslie. He sort of casually informed us that an asteroid might hit Earth and then moved on to the sports news. No, no, no, hang on. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. We'll hear about Plymouth Argyle in a minute. We'll talk more about the asteroid tomorrow.

So the asteroid's called 2024 YR4. Lame name, lame asteroid. But it has got NASA mildly, maybe not concerned, but interested. It's on their radar. The odds of it smashing into Earth, it's small, but not nothing. It's between about 150 and 300 feet wide, and it's the most hazardous space rock detected in more than 20 years.

We need to get to the bottom of this. Sean Moondez, good morning. Good morning. We've gutted about Saturday, by the way. It was too cloudy for the telescope. It was, it was. Couldn't even see down the street. It was pointless. It was ridiculous. Anyway, we'll maybe try again this weekend. How about that? Yeah. So welcome back to The Breakfast Show. Our resident space expert, Sean Moondez. Sean, are we all going to die?

If we don't do anything, there is a one in 50 chance that this asteroid will hit us. I don't like that at all. One in 50? I know. I read that and I was quite alarmed as well. I was just like, ooh, that's quite likely. No, no, no. I don't want you to be alarmed. This is when your mum and dad start panicking. The first time that you're a kid and you see your mum and dad panicking, you go, mum, are we panicking? Yes, we're panicking. You need to keep your calm. So one in 50. Come on, talk to us about this thing.

Well, I'm not panicking because do you remember ages ago there was that mission called the DART mission where they slammed a satellite into an asteroid to try and knock it off course? Yeah. Which feels like the sort of thing that Vin Diesel might do in a film. Yeah, exactly. Although they would have cooler names. The asteroid moon that it was smashed into was called Diddy Moon. Yeah.

named after Diamorphous because it has two different... It's a Greek god with two different faces and it has two different orbits. Right. One before the crash and one afterwards. Okay. But the results are in and the test was a success. So by smashing a satellite into it, you give it enough momentum to change its trajectory. I remember that. So hopefully...

It'll work. Oh, so they're doing that again? Hopefully. I mean, if it becomes more of a threat, astronomers are going to study its orbit, its trajectory, and figure out, is it actually going to hit us? And then, because it's got seven years for it to hit us, that's a long time for us to actually study it more, figure out where it's going to go, and then act on it. Seven years? It's not going to be around, but it's seven years' time it could hit us? Yeah.

Oh, I don't know what I'm worried about that for. There's no point worrying about that now, is there? But don't need to worry. That's absolutely fine. Okay, well, the thing is, it's big though, isn't it? Statue of Liberty, or the size of Big Ben. And a lot of people have been on, and I know you'll probably be a stickler for this as well. Big Ben is the bell.

and the Elizabeth Tower is the actual tower. So, yeah, people are like, oh, it's Big Ben. But people know it as Big Ben, don't they, Andy? Yeah, exactly. So we're OK for now? For now, yes. Right now it's like the plot of Don't Look Up. We'll see what happens. Oh, God. That does not end well, that film.

Yeah, but, you know, we've got another presidential term after this one, so hopefully I'll be fine, right? Right. So we've got seven. OK, seven years. Right. Well, thank you. And what can I see this weekend if I use my telescope? Let's get back onto happier things. Probably Mars. And is it going to be clear? Do you think? Didn't you say there was going to be another parade soon?

Yeah, yes. So Mars, start with the moon, then hopefully Mars, and then if it's really clear, see Saturn's rings. Fantastic. And will I be able to see Uranus? Not today. Okay, keep the curtains closed. Sean, have a great day. You too, babe. Scarlet in Malvern says, Sean Moondez is my absolute favourite bit of The Breakfast Show. I adore him. He's a lovely man. Real name Andy.

Oh yeah, Sarah in Newcastle says, I'm assuming I've missed some law here. Why Shawn Mendes? Well, the quick story is, years ago, Shawn Mendes was booked on the show. He didn't wake up in time. So he said, we've got half an hour to fill. Come and do some stuff on the breakfast show. A lovely man called Andy turned up and said, I can talk about space for a bit if you want. We went, all right. Therefore, Shawn Mendes was born. Now you're up to date.

Rachel Newcastle says, "I'm not sure if that's filled me with a lot of hope or reassurance, Greg. I feel slightly panicked still." Ah, don't worry. You're not supposed to put this breakfast show on and feel panicked. Well, I'll let you know. You know what? I'll let you know if an asteroid's coming. I think we're fine for now. Although the other side of this is someone says, "I feel quite sorry for the asteroid. Just floating around up there, minding its own business. Little does it know that there's a load of weirdos on Earth planning to throw things at it." That's true.

Throw things just to get it off course, not to destroy it, but yeah. Toby H7 has messaged saying, is it just me or is this song quite spacey? It is quite spacey. Lost in yesterday, Tame Impala. Where was that one about their boyfriend? Oh, this is good. April in Bristol says, hi Greg, my boyfriend Alex said, don't worry about the asteroid, I'll just volley it back up there.

I love Alex's confidence. April says, how many men think they would win against the asteroid? I would also back myself. And now, let's do all the latest things. Radio 1 got a shout-out on last night's EastEnders. Huge week for EastEnders next week. It's the 40th anniversary. It all leads up to the live episode on Thursday. I'm so excited to watch the live episode. It's going to be so stressful to watch, but great.

And they keep saying it's going to be explosive. And all the sort of imaging around the show is fireballs and stuff. Sorry, is it literally just going to be an explosion? Is that what's going to happen? I'm quite scared. Anyway, in the episode last night, Martin Fowler finds an old video of his dad, Arthur. Arthur Fowler.

One of the original cast members on a game show and plays it for everyone in the Queen Vic. Here's the question. Which DJ hosted the first ever programme on Radio 1? Oh, we ain't going to get that. We will, we will. If any of you are thinking about texting in my name now, then I will throw you towards an asteroid. Billy Mitchell has a guess. First DJ on Radio 1. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Jimmy Young. The one who did Love Stories. That's him? Yeah. But does Arthur Fowler get it? Tony Blackburn. You have won tonight! There you go, it's Tony Blackburn.

Next up, let's bring things slightly more up to date with Jade from Little Mix, formerly of Little Mix. Lovely bit of kit. Yeah, Jade. We love Jade. She was recently on Sit Down Stand Up where she called her boyfriend and rizzle kicker, Jordan Stephens. We also recently had her latest song, It Girl, as my tune of the week. Yesterday, Jade posted a very sweet video of herself when she was a kid covering this banger. ♪

And when that rainbow's shining over you That's when your dreams will all come true And those dreams did come true. She became a pop girlie. And from Jade to an indie boy, an indie sad boy. Sam Fender has been teasing new music recently. The new album comes out in a matter of days and there's a song called Remember My Name, which...

Sounds like it's going to make everybody cry. Wow, that is a lot.

That's going to be quite the moment at our big weekend in Liverpool when he plays that. Excited for the new album. That is in a few days' time. 22nd of February that comes out. And with that, you're now up to date with all the latest things. Jamie Lang joined me today for a big announcement. Greg! It's Jamie!

And you're bounded through. Oh, yeah, yeah. Like an actual Labrador. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well, you'll know why I bounded through in just a second because everywhere I go, I'm clue running. Okay. Okay.

Jamie, this is very, very, very exciting. I don't think you know what you've signed up for. I don't really think before I say yes to things. So I got asked to do this challenge. I didn't really think too much about it, but I thought, what an honour, what an amazing thing. You've done it, Molly done it, so many people have done it. So I thought, I'm going to sign up to do it and I want to make it big. I want to make it huge. I want to make it really tough. So I really went for it. Okay, you ready for this? Mm-hmm.

So my challenge is to become Radio 1's ultra marathon man for Red Nose Day. So I'm going to be attempting to run five ultra marathons in five days between London and Salford. Right. So, okay, don't give me that look. Five ultra marathons in five days. I have never run a marathon in my entire life. Seven miles is my top. Okay.

Yeah, look, I know you'll be able to do it. But I also know this is going to be incredibly difficult. It's a lot. Look, there's lots to talk about with this. I want to play a song. I want to let that news just settle. It's going to be really exciting.

It will be a life-changing experience for you. You will surprise yourself with some of the things that you can do. You'll be surprised at some of the thoughts that go through your head. How tough was yours? Unbelievable. Unbelievable? I would never do it again. That one. I wouldn't repeat that again. Are you serious? That's filled me with hope. I believe in you, by the way. This is going to be for Red Nose Day, for Comet Relief. All the money's going to go to Comet Relief. And I believe that you can do this, but I don't think you quite understand how difficult it's going to be. You know what?

I thought I was going to come in here, right? And everyone's like, it's going to be great. We're going to talk about the challenge and it's going to be fun. And good thing is I feel now even more nervous than I did before. Well, I think you need a bit of that because I think you need to take it seriously. This is not an easy thing, but you definitely can do it. I'm here to motivate you to tell you you can do this. Have you ever done a marathon? I've done marathons, Emma. Don't ask me how they were because it was some of the lowest I've ever felt. Oh, God.

Greg. But I wasn't ready for it. I wasn't ready. I didn't take it seriously enough. This is why, with my wisdom now, is that if I was to do a marathon again, you take it seriously.

I'm doing five ultramarathons in five days. One of the hard bits about this is the endurance. And also you get up the next day, you've got to do it again. You go, oh, I did the first one. The next, the next. And the cumulative effect on your legs and your head. Yeah, the big thing which I've been told about now is I have to eat while I run. Didn't know about that. So I thought you would stop and have like a picnic along the way or something like that. I'd like stop halfway up the M1 and, you know, stop off and have a sausage roll in the service station.

Apparently, no, that's not what you just have to eat while you're running. Yeah, take little gels and things and little snacks and stuff. Just keep little jelly babies, just pop them in. I'm sure you've got access to some sweets that you can take along with you. Yeah, I've got access to some sweets, so they'll be fueling me for sure. I want to talk a little bit about why you said yes to this, because there's the proving to yourself that you can do something extraordinary, but also the money rates will go to current relief. So, Jamie, what's the reason you've done this?

Well, okay, to be serious for a second, right? So comic relief is an amazing thing, right? I've watched it my entire life. And to be part of the Radio 1 team and to do it, what an honour. So firstly, there's that, which is incredible. And look, I suppose my sort of personal motivation is this, is that I haven't really spoken about a huge amount, but in my 20s, I suffered really badly with anxiety. Really awful, to be honest. And...

I felt pretty lonely as well in that sort of place. And I never spoke about it. I didn't speak about it because I was nervous about what people would think of me. I thought I was alien. I thought something was wrong with me. I didn't understand it. No one was telling me about it. So I just suffered.

And as I got older and understood it and understood myself and got the sort of self-awareness and accepted who I am, I realized how important it is to talk about it, but not just talk about it and say, let's get over the stigma of mental health or loneliness or whatever it is, but actually label yourself and say, look, I have suffered with this. So I'm running to raise money for people who are affected with loneliness, anxiety, depression, OCD, insomnia, whatever it may be.

And the big thing that really helped me was I started training. I went on a run when I was feeling really bad. Again, I was by myself, but I went on a run and it made me feel a little bit better. And that whole idea of just putting one foot in front of the other, you just got to keep moving. So for me, it's going to be an amazing journey. It's going to be an incredible thing. But it's for all of those people who have suffered, who have suffered, who have had family, friends, neighbours who have suffered.

I'm doing it for all those people. Great words and a great reason to do it. It will be life-changing because you'll feel the support of the listeners in a completely new way. And it is happening quite soon. Yeah. It's happening on Monday the 17th of March. All right. Where are you in your training now then? Did a 5K. All right. Step it up.

Just a little before you have to taper down. I ran into the studio just now. It's an amazing challenge. It's going to be brilliant. The listeners will absolutely get behind you. All the presenters behind you as well. There is, of course, and I have to say this, the chance that you might not do it. Don't say it. But I don't want to put that in your head, but this is a real... That's why we all want to listen to it and we'll all be so behind you because it will be difficult. In your head, have you got to terms with that?

No, if I'm totally honest, I haven't. Everyone keeps saying to me, you know, this is tough, you might not actually be able to do this. And I'm sort of not really reasoning with that. My theory is, is if everything goes, my legs go, my feet go, my knees go, whatever happens, I will crawl to that finish line. I'm going to give it everything. I don't know about that, you know. I've been thinking, I've been thinking more this morning. I...

It's hard. That's really, really hard. Between us, do you think he's going to do it? I'm worried about that. Because I think... We want to will him to do it, but if your body's going, I can't... He did say he'll crawl. Yeah. We haven't got a month, have we? It's a week.

We could all crawl it. Jamie Lang crawls across the country. Jamie Lang's ultra-crawled. Guys, we need a tight narrative over five days. He's got to finish on the Friday to hit the weekend press. You can't come back on Monday and do it. Or maybe he can. Maybe that's it. Maybe that'll be the story that he has to keep going. Either way, he's very determined. And we will him on to do it. But the problem is that if you...

If your body's unable to move and run, you can't do it.

So there's good jeopardy. Big problem here, right? If he doesn't make it and it goes on longer and longer and longer, you'll have to stay in Manchester waiting for him at the finish line. Oh, no. So you'll be stuck there for three, four days. No, I can't do that, I'm afraid. Could be four weeks. No, afraid not. You'll get like a cardboard cut. It might go on so long that everyone just forgets about it. You know, like in the marathon, there's always a person at the back of the marathon, the person who finishes last,

And they're running as they're collecting the barriers up. So that's... I mean, but it's still amazing that they managed to complete it, but there's always someone who's last and they're always like a truck behind them being like, just gathering the gates in as they're trying to run. Anyway, I'm sure it won't come to that. I do think he can do it mentally. I just worry about... We've all seen what our feet get like after a long run. Imagine 30 miles, 30 miles, 30 miles, 30 miles, another 30 miles. I mean...

Good luck to him. Next up. Shall we talk about something stupid from television? Charlotte, now, you have an issue. Now, the issue is related to popular culture, which is something that we deal in. That is our currency here. We deal in it. We take it in. We give it out. Like, this is... That is what we... That's our exchange. So, yeah, this show is sort of...

aimed at people who don't want to be chronically online. So we're chronically online, so you don't have to be. What have you seen, Charlotte? So I'm very self-righteously doing a self-media cleanse at the moment. And although there's a positive from it, like peace of mind, calm, you know, all of that lovely stuff,

There's also some negatives. Sometimes you find somebody saying something and you have no idea what is going on. I am absolutely clueless to this. And you guys being, you know, the hub of pop culture and all that, I was hoping you could tell me what is Paul Favore Montoya and why is everybody saying it? Yeah, sorry.

This is the thing, isn't it? If you do have a little cleanse from social media, yes, there are benefits, obviously. You get your life back. You get your friends back. You might read a book. You might learn something. You might just not rot your brain for a bit. I touched some grass earlier. It was amazing. However...

You do remove yourself from the conversation. Now, we're here to help you get back into that conversation. We can give you, we'll just give you a load of stuff that we can arm you with when you're in the pub next time being like, oh, have you heard this? So, yeah, this is Montoya Por Favor. Montoya Por Favor. So, this is a video that has been, that has gone, done the rounds is an understatement. This has been seen hundreds of millions of times. Montoya.

Yeah, this guy has become a global sensation. And it's from Temptation Island. Okay, that's what it's from. But I think there's someone better qualified than me to talk you through this. I'm going to call Radio 1's Nat O'Leary. She is the go-to girlie for anything to do with La Isla de las Tentaciones. That's right. I think that's the correct pronunciation. Yeah, beautiful.

We'll play a song. We'll call Nat O'Leary next. And we're going to call Nat O'Leary.

so she can tell you all about it. Hey, Greg. Hiya, love. You're on live with Charlotte. Hello, Charlotte, babe. You all right? Yeah, thanks, Dave. So, Nat, as the pop culture GP, I've referred Charlotte to a specialist, and that specialist is you. You're the specialist sort of love, dating, trashy TV expert. And can you tell us a little bit about...

So what does Charlotte need to know so that she's up to date with this, she's having a social media cleanse, what are the key things she needs? As the social media pop culture trashy TV specialist, Charlotte, what you need to know here is Montoya is sat on a beach, he's stood on a beach, the ocean's next to him and he's watching this big TV of his girlfriend essentially going to cheat on him. It's building up to it. The tension is rising. So he is in one side of the villa, one side of the...

and his girlfriend is on the other side of the beach in a different villa, okay? He's watching this TV screen of his girlfriend climb into bed.

with another man. No, Charlotte, honestly. As the tension's getting higher, because he's literally watching his missus, his girlfriend, climb into bed with this man, they are kissing. They are leading up to a big moment, okay? He falls to his knees and then decides, "Do you know what? I'm going after her." He pelts down the beach, but what's really bad, Charlotte, is as he's running down the beach in slow-mo, and the host hasn't even got up to chase him yet, she's like, "Let's let this unfold."

You know when I said it's like Love Island when it first started in like 2015 or whatever it was? You know when you got to see a little bit more than you do nowadays? It's that. Because it's very mean but amazing telly to make him watch that on an enormous flat screen TV. It's a huge sort of cinema screen. Almost IMAX. You know, 4K...

dolby surround sound he's watching the love of his life uh have a great time with someone else can i ask a supplementary question um doctor that what what happened next because i don't know what happened next when when do we find out is there a resolution did it what happened he runs into the villa to be met with several naked people in swimming pools which is absolutely hilarious um to as some guys grab him and the girlfriend here so the hanky-panky kind of stops it's

It's rudely stopped and the girlfriend hears him. She's like, oh my God, it's Montoya. Well, that's what I imagine she's saying. It's honestly probably one of the best. I feel bad for Montoya, but I think it's the best clip of 2025 so far. Nat O'Leary, sorry, Dr. Natalie O'Leary. Thank you. Thank you so much for being on The Breakfast Show. Charlotte, any more questions for Nat while she's still here? No, I'm...

I'm feeling pretty cured. Thank you. So you think you could relay that to someone else in the pub if they said, oh, my God, have you seen them on Toya stuff? You'd be able to have that conversation now with them. Oh, absolutely. I feel like I'm an expert now. Great. We're just doing our job now. Thanks so much for being on. That's what I'm here to do, Greg. Thank you, Charlotte. Thanks, Greg. And now let's do a quiz. Here comes Ed. Good morning. I'm pretty good, thank you. Welcome to The Brave Show. Welcome to yesterday's quiz. Another one of our heroic firefighters.

This week we are chatting to the Devon and Somerset Fire Service. They're all working together. You're on call, but what's your other job? What else do you do? So I'm the same as Ollie. I'm a construction site manager as well. Okay. How long have you been in the fire service for? Six, seven years. Okay. Yeah. And do you love it? Are you a driver? Yeah.

No, I don't get to drive, unfortunately. Not yet. Maybe one day. Okay. And do you love it? Do you love it? It must be quite exciting. Yeah, it is good. It is good. You know when it says you're on call? This might be a stupid question, but how on call are you? Are you like at home and they're like, we need to get you in? How on call are you? What's going on here? Yeah, so you're just at home when I'm not at work, at home on weekends. You've got a little alert on your pocket when that goes off.

And it's on when you're asleep? Yes. Okay. I get woken up very often. Right, okay. I just wanted to check. I mean, it was a stupid question, but I just wanted to check. Now, tell me about the 2012 Champions League final and who you watched it with. This is an amazing fact about you, Ed. Yeah, it's quite a random one. We were at a festival slightly north of where I live, where I do, and Chesley Hawks was the headliner. And, yeah, his set finished just about time for kickoff, so someone, I don't know if it was him, popped out with a...

little telly, an antenna aerial that you had to hold up in the air and we all managed to hold our own and watch it. And you watched it with Chesney Hawks from One and Only fame. That's the one. I imagine quite a nice man though. It was actually, yeah, really nice. Big football fan apparently. Well clearly.

That was, this is the thing, because a lot of, in the summer, obviously, big acts are performing on festival stages and doing headline slots. That tends to be the time when football is on. I remember Calvin Harris watching, I think it was a Champions League final, while he was doing a big weekend set. Like he had his phone basically on the decks. So he's doing a Chesney. Should we do a quiz? We've got a load of questions about stuff that happened yesterday. 14 is the score to beat, Ed. Are you ready for it? We'll have a go. Here we go. Here we go.

You get a point, of course, for being a firefighter, so you're already on one. Here we go with your questions, and your time will start when you give me a first answer. Anthony Mackie joined me on The Breakfast Show yesterday for Unpopular Opinion. Which superhero role has he taken over from Chris Evans? Captain America. Yes. Which pop star revealed that Please, Please, Please was meant to be the first single off her album rather than Espresso? Spring Carpenter. Correct. Scientists revealed the Earth's inner core may have changed shape. Name me any exercise you could do to work on your core.

Or sit up. Friends. Sorry, I thought you stuffed your toe. I need a bit more from you. I think the phone's giving up on him, but we'll give him two points for that. It was revealed that which chicken shop date star will host the 50th anniversary red carpet for Saturday Night Live?

Pass. Her name is Amelia de Moldenberg. Nottingham Forest beat which Devon-based club on penalties? Exeter. It was Exeter City, yes. What time was it this time yesterday? 7.19. I'll give you that. We're one second away, yeah. What time was it? I've done that one. The public were asked to keep a lookout for what in parks across the UK? Paul Mescal running away from people or a rare daffodil species? A rare daffodil. Yes. What day was it yesterday?

Wednesday. No, no, it was Tuesday. Oh, Tuesday. It was revealed that 200 big baps were given away by a cafe in Blackburn. Name me something you could put in a nice big breakfast bap. Sausage. Yes. Dog Man was top of the UK box office. Name me any type of dog. Cockapoo. And Callum Leslie casually revealed that an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. But what's the chance of it hitting us? 2.3% or 23%?

2.3. 2.3. Still a little high, I think, that number. I don't love that. We might need you all on call if an asteroid hits, Ed, if that's OK. Make sure that beeper's fully charged.

Do you know what you got today? You got 13 points, which is very good. That means that you are nestled between Dylan and Ollie, which is probably quite a nice place to be. Wonderful place to be, yeah. So you're just ahead of Dylan, so you're on course of being in the final on Friday. Ed, thanks for being on this morning. Good performance on the quiz, and we'll catch up with you maybe later on as the week progresses. That's great, thank you. Can I say a quick hello to my kids? Of course you can. Say hello to whoever you like.

Hello there. Brooke and Taylor. Brooke and Taylor. Will they be listening this morning? Yes, they will. Right, okay. Brooke and Taylor. They must be mega impressed with your job. I got the day wrong yesterday as well. Yeah, you did get the day wrong, but that's fine. Brooke and Taylor, you have a great day today. And Ed, we'll catch up later in the week. Have a good one this morning. Thank you very much. Cheers, boys!

And now, let's cross to producer Vinuri for an Is It Just Us. Good morning, Greg. You've got an Is It Just Us for us. I have. Okay, so for a bit of context, Vinuri is going off on an amazing adventure very soon. You're leaving us for a whole year. I know, I'm sorry. Vinuri!

Yeah, it's my gap year. It's your gap year, darling. Oh, my God. You're going to come back wearing, like, little wooden beads around your neck and stuff, aren't you? And, like, loads of bracelets and things. And I'm like, oh, my God, I've just found this amazing guy called Jack Johnson. Oh, my God. Have you heard about Jack Johnson? He's so good with a guitar.

Anyway, Sue V, tell us about Gapyard. So I'm moving to Australia for a year. I'm so jealous. So jealous. Yeah. What's been going on? Because obviously a lot of preparation, like your friends and your family have all got, you know, things, advice and places to go and all the rest of it. What's the thing you want to talk about today? So...

I think my parents maybe aren't taking it the best. Like, bless them, of course they're going to miss me, but... Of course they're going to miss you. You're Vanuri, you're amazing. No, so my mum's been doing this thing. She's a warrior. She's a warrior, but she's been sending me articles about shark attacks in Sydney. LAUGHTER

No, we get it, mum. You don't want me to go is basically the thing. So how many articles is she sending you? I've had three now. There's no context either. She'll just put the link in the family group.

Yeah. Like, still sure? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's a strange approach. And what does it make you feel? Are you reading all the articles or are you just missing them? I mean, my partner sent a gift back of a man jumping into a shark's mouth. So that's how, well, he's taken it. So he's fine with it. He's not worried. Right. So what's the, is it just us today then? So is it just my mum that sends me articles and videos of everything that could potentially go wrong when you go on a holiday? Yeah.

Just to warn you, but also maybe to dissuade you from going. OK, great, is it just us? Let's get some voice notes. Here we go. Tell Vanuri she's got more to be worried about than the sharks. There's stuff on land that should be bothering her more than that. Yeah, a lot of people are talking about the spiders. I know. You OK with that? No, not really. The spiders are more an issue than the sharks for me, I think, yeah. I think so, yeah. I was going on holiday to Turkey. I was younger. It was when all the Taken films come out.

And my nan proceeded to show me the film where she goes to Istanbul and she's kidnapped. It was a very funny comedian. I can't remember his name now, which is bad. But he basically said in that film, Taken, he's like, the weirdest bit about that film is that teenagers would be travelling around to see you too.

It lost me at that point. Yeah, that's right. Alex, good morning! Hi. Welcome to The Breakfast Show. Welcome to Is It Just Us? The music's quite daunting, isn't it? It is. Let's keep the tension up. So go on then, do we have a match with you? What's your story? So basically, every time I'll tell my family that I'm going on holiday to a destination they think is remotely risky, my dad will send me articles, he'll send me the Foreign and Commonwealth Office advice.

And at least twice he's threatened to come with me. I mean, he hasn't. Oh, thank God. But he'll say, oh, you know, I should really accompany you. I've had a similar thing with my dad before, definitely. In fact, me and my mum and my dad have both been guilty of sending me... They'll be like, well, I've checked the foreign office. I love that. Checked with the foreign office, but that's what they mean by that. They haven't called the foreign office, they've just had a look at the website, the gov.uk website.

It's a good one. But it's good because they care. It's because they care, Alex. Exactly. And I always take it in the best way. And he never has, like I said. But it's kind of a running joke now. Well, he'll just turn up one day. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past him. But so far. It's comforting. Voice notes. Will.

when we went to South America for six weeks, she made me and my wife do our wills because she thought we were going to die in a dodgy Amazon jungle plane. Oh, that wasn't a person called Will. It was a man talking about wills. Sorry, I got confused there. I saw the name Will and thought, oh, it's Will, but no, he's just talking about wills. Okay. Yeah, that's, but it's good to have a will.

It's very useful to have a will, I guess, to be sorted out yours. No, I haven't. Well, you need to get on it and go to Sydney. There's spiders and sharks and all sorts of things out there. I lived in Australia for two and a half years and my mum used to love sending me that landmine.

Her favourite one was more crocodiles than sharks. But then she came to visit me there and absolutely loved it. And we went on a trip to see the crocodiles. This is the thing. A few people, including Mark in Sydney, have messaged saying, the thing about Sydney is, yes, Radio 1's loss is our gain. Welcome to Sydney. You probably won't want to leave, but don't tell your parents that. I've heard that a lot, actually. A lot of people have said that to me. Yeah, I think you'll go there and be like,

Oh, yeah. I actually quite like it here. See what happens. Please come back, V. Another Alex now. Hi, Alex. Yeah, morning, Greg. Good morning. Go on then, what would you like to add? So basically, whenever we do a long trip, that's like longer than half an hour, my father-in-law, if there's any bad weather, will send screenshots of the weather on the route. So like if there's any wind or ice, he'll send a screenshot of the temperature and the wind conditions and then constantly send them to the group.

It's so nice. My dad does a similar thing. If I'm going away somewhere, he'll always be like, I've checked the weather. It's looking pretty good. Or if I'm going on a drive, he'll always check the route. But this is nice. I guess it's the eternal panic and worry of being a parent. Alex, thank you. I was going to say it's endearing and annoying at the same time.

But that's fine. That's humans. We're endearing and annoying at the same time. Next voice note. I can confirm that anything to do with that country or place will be sent to our group chat two months in advance. My mum will be checking news everywhere. Do you know what? Now I'm worried about you, Vy.

No. I'm going to look for all the articles and do the same thing. You'll get updates. I'll check the weather when you arrive. I'm going to make sure your flight's on time. I'm going to do all that kind of stuff. Thanks, Greg. V, a great one. Really good. Is it just us today? That is the end of today's Breakfast Show podcast. Thanks for listening. I'll be back with you tomorrow where we're going to be joined by Roisin Hasty. We're going to do the fact controller with Roisin Hasty. Plus, we're going to speak to internet sensation Max Foch.

as he's doing something very fun. We're going to find out all about that. And, you know, there'll be loads of other fun as well. So just come back for more, please. Thank you. Goodbye.