The Rapping Science Teacher: Making GCSE Revision Fun for Millions | No Parental Guidance

0:00Coming up, known to millions as the wrapping science teacher, the smartest guy on TikTok, Matt Green. Matt! Thank you very much. Do you teach your own kids? Badly. Right, okay. And any parenting fails? Oh, many.

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1:27Matt Green:A participating McDonald's while supplies last. Hannah. Louise. Did you see that sunshine this morning? I did. And I was like, give it to me. Give it to me. It's that time. How can you visualize yourself in the garden, Louise, holding what? A large glass of rosé with ice. It's rosé o 'clock, let's face it. I mean, as soon as that sun comes out, crack on in the garden before pick up. After pick up, paddling pools, don't fall in them. Yeah, that video of you and your sister. Actually hilarious. If people listening haven't watched the video on your Instagram, like how many roses deep? We were a few roses deep.

2:05But the story behind that is we were in the garden drinking rose. There was a paddling pool there and we tried to empty the paddling pool very badly. So you kind of stood behind it to like both of you to lift it up to push the water out. but the weight of the water was too much. You just kept like ricocheting back and then you fell in the paddling board. Or you fell into it a few times. But you didn't give up? No, but the reason I didn't give up, the reason why I found that video is that's from our security cameras in our garden. But because we got soaking wet, we took our clothes off and we hung them outside to dry.

2:41Yeah. And the next morning they were gone. So we were like, well, who's taken our clothes? so I went on the security camera to see who had taken our clothes and it was foxes and then went foxes stole our stuff and then went back again and then saw the calamity of that paddling pool and I just thought maybe people will find that funny so I just put it out and it just went crazy but yeah I'm very much looking forward to the warmer months yeah there's the tunes like summer tunes oh the music music what did you listen to in the car as a child like what did you grow up to oh so i was very much in my bewitched era double denim yeah spice girls era all saints yes uh atomic kitten oh my gosh yes um atomic kitten yeah i used to love them blue my ultimate favorite five oh my god take that i was never a take that fan no i wasn't really um take that on boy zone like the songs but i wasn't like obsessed with them like I was like Leifer and Blue.

3:46No. I loved him. Really loved him. What did you used to listen to? In the car with my mum. In car. In car. We had to listen to her favourite music. There was no choice of like, can I play a song or whatever. I want K-pop demon hunters. As parents were like, okay, let's put your music on. Like here, take my phone and put on your own playlist. It was like my mum would put a cassette tape in and that was that. But yeah, for me, myself, I also listened to a lot of UK Garage. Did you? You don't strike me as a UK garage kind of gal. I love it. I'm such a garage girl. Oh, yeah. We used to have like on a Sunday, we'd go to the shop and we'd be allowed 20 pence each a week as our pocket money and we could get sweets.

4:26I mean, you get 20 penny sweets and that would be like the only sweets we'd have all week. Yeah. When you look at how many sweets our kids have now. And then we all listen to the radio, like the top 40, the charts, the countdown. And we used to have this rug in the middle of the room. and when guests used to come to our house it had like like it was kind of frayed around the edges and if ever we if anyone came to our house my mum and dad were really house proud and they'd be like oh christ ann's coming up the drive and then it'd be like quick brush the rug so then my mum would get her hair brush out and she'd brush the outside of this rug and then like the next day i'd just see my mum like boofing her hair up I'd be like I definitely like put mud and stuff on that rug and mum's like brushing that it was yeah brushes the rug being brought up like in the 90s is very different yeah very different actually talking about music we have a little quiz we do our producer has produced for us and what we have to do is with just one line yeah and I want to see if you can finish it off yeah see my days are cold without you see my days are cold with a shanty yes is it yes because I could sing it in my head but I was like who is it it's a shanty and then my heart can take no more I keep on running back to you such a tune what a tune such a tune oh give me that glass of rose always give me it give me that glass of rose and put on that shanty go a shanty a shanty a shanty you just did that I'm really I'm really rubbing up on you it's because I've been talking to you in a silly Yorkshire accent you're like can you actually can you do your next one in your other Yorkshire accent okay I'll do it in Yorkshire accent then I'm like a bird oh Nelly Furtado I'm like a bird I always fly away I don't know a woman's you've got really nice what I was trying to think what did I say the other day and I went to sing and it was so bad I can't remember what it was oh dear baby brain you have a heavenly voice right okay we go i'm sorry miss jackson oh i am for real yeah outcast yes yes never make sure make your daughter cry yeah i love it's funny how you listen back to a song and you're like oh my god i remember who i was going out with when i first heard that song and where i was same um i'm telling you to loosen up my body's babe but you keep running Say what you can do to me And we did have a pussycat doll We did have a pussycat doll on the show How cool is that?

7:05They're doing their show again My husband was like Do you think she'll be able to get you a free ticket? Oh yeah And I was like Andy I'm not going to message you Oh I am Hello you know you came up podcast Oh I totally am I was like babes How you doing? Yeah Because I think we talked about it didn't we? No we did Are you going to like I think they recreated because of us I think we planted the seed Louise We planted that seed If it wasn't for us It wasn't for us it wouldn't be happening. It wouldn't be happening. And I see there's only three of them. I'm not being funny. Singing's not my strong point or dancing, but we could bring presents.

7:36But we did dance with her when she was here. The three of us did it. We could be on the side of the stage. Yeah, we totally manifested that for her. We did. She's totally down to us. Right. Think you've got to keep me iced? You don't. Think I'm going to spend your cash? I won't. Love don't cost a thing, Jennifer Lopez. Yes. What a tune. I didn't actually know that was the, think you've got to keep me iced, you don't. I didn't know that either. Iced means that we're done. Yes. Didn't she meet Chris? Yeah, her dancer. Husband. That means, think you've got to keep me iced. I know what that means.

8:10That means lots of diamonds. Oh, does it? Yeah, iced as diamonds. Think you've got to keep me iced, you don't. Well, it would be nice though, wouldn't it? I used to try and practice that dance. Do you remember when like sitting in front of the TV and watching MTV? Yeah. And you'd watch the dances. And obviously you couldn't pause it or anything. No. So you'd just watch it and then. And it would come on again, like in about 20 minutes. Yeah, yeah. So you'd just like keep watching it again. Yeah. It's mad, isn't it? I know. Yeah, that's what I used to do. Those are the days. I hope other people are reminiscing like we are, because I'm like reliving my youth of these songs.

8:40I'm like loving it. I'm loving it. Next one. One foot money on the. Free ride, two for the love that you. Two for the love that you. Didn't that all rise? Oh, I love that song. Yeah. Blue. And they've got, they're coming back. they've got back together. I'm all for it. I'm very much for that. If anyone from Blue is listening, we want you on the podcast. I think it'd be really nice exposure for you guys to come on here. We can talk about parenting. Tell us your fails and we can just stare and make sure you're okay. I want Lee to serenade to us. Oh my God, can you imagine? I was at a nightclub once years ago with Anthony.

9:15And his girlfriend at the time was in the toilet and he said to me, can you just see if my girlfriend's okay? And I was like, yes, of course I can, Anthony. come on but I was like but also you are from blue and uh yeah I just I wasn't cool around him at all what a babe what a babe I remember too when I used to swim like constantly and just constantly smelt of chlorine with goggle rings around my eyes um to break a minute for four lengths of front crawl was like to get 59 seconds or break a minute as they call it was like a big deal yeah and that song came out when I was like 12 and I used to listen to I recorded it on a tape off the radio and but I remember at poolside I was just listening to that song rewinding it you know physically pressing rewind and then play did you have a moment um yeah like a little cassette one oh I I didn't have that that's posh yeah I think fast forward I got it from a car boot sale yeah I had to like take the cassette tape out turn it around and then press fast forward to then take it out again put it back in and see if I've got to the right spot these kids today have No idea how lucky they are.

10:15Mine was the size of a briefcase, but like it was Paul's side. And I was like, I'm going to break a minute and then listening to Blue. And I did. I did. Love it. It's getting hot in here. So take off all your clothes. I am getting so hot. I want to. Oh, these are such tunes. I remember being in a nightclub and doing that classic thing of like, you know, almost like pretending to strip off to a prospective snog man later. I would love to see video evidence of us when we're in the club listening to like songs like that. You know, when you think. I'm actually pleased that there isn't any evidence.

10:50I'm very grateful for that part of my life. There's no evidence. The disposable camera era was strong, like towards the end of that. Yes. I mean, we used to have a club in North Allerton. It's called the Amadeus. It's amazing. And there's two podiums. And it's like, you know, when somebody is absolutely hammered after having Blue Wicked's and the Annecy, that aftershock, they've had too many of those. And they're up in that podium thinking that they're Beyonce. But you know what? It's like you do you, hun, because you are embracing life. I remember being in a nightclub. It was called Hammersmith Palais.

11:25It's closed now. But it was like where everyone went. And it was just so much fun. And I loved it. and yeah I was like you know had one too many what's like smirnoff ices yeah um and being on a podium and this guy was watching me and I was like yeah like I just felt like yeah you're here for me and I'm amazing and then the next thing I know is a girl's come over and punched me in the face what yeah I've never been punched before and this girl came over and I and it just came from nothing like and it was her boyfriend and I was like well maybe punch him because he's the one staring at me like I'm just doing my own thing in my podium I may have been who is this woman I never knew who she was what did your sister do she wasn't there she would have kicked off yeah she'd have started a right out wouldn't she she would have done but yeah those days were really fun apart from being punched in the face yeah Christ that's awful yeah our next guest is an inspirational viral sensation who was basically the reason half of the UK's teenagers actually passed their exams.

12:26Thank you very much. He's got a master's in neuroscience and is a father of three, known to millions as the rapping science teacher. Please welcome the smartest guy on TikTok, Matt Green. Matt! Thank you very much. Thank you so much for being here. My head is growing right at the moment. Yeah. Yeah, I was trying to act like I was casual about it, but you know. No, we're so excited you're here and our kids are excited that you're here. Oh, thank you. My son is buzzing that you're here. He's nine and he's like, what the rapper science teacher and i was like yes bradley yeah it's so cool like so cool what you've done to engage amazing what you've done and you know as i just said you've made loads of kids pass there you've made you've made education fun i've tried to i've tried to thank you very much well how did it all start like when did you just go actually i'm really good at science and i'm really good at rapping and the two are actually going to work together From teaching for 10 years and just trying to think of new ideas.

13:22Yeah. And then one day I was just like, oh, what can I try that I haven't tried before? I tried to rap when I was a teenager. Could I try this? And I was a bit scared for a little while. I was like, oh, what happens if kids see it? They're like, oh, what's this guy doing? And I thought you only live once. So you practiced it in front of the kids at school? No, no, no. No, I never did that. I just, I decided that after nine months after the initial idea to make a video. Yeah. Put it online. It failed horribly, but no one cussed it. Yeah. Just had like 11 views. But well done for keep going. Yeah, thank you.

13:49It could have been like, oh no, sod that. Yeah, it's not working. Yeah, I did. I genuinely believed it would get millions. Yeah. But I thought, this is life, isn't it? You know, you start anything new, it's going to fail at the beginning. Yeah. And I persevered for about six months. A grander video and like 20 hours production on each video. But I kept persevering. Instead, I realised they look like adverts. Yeah. And then I thought, let's make it look less well polished. Get rid of my company branding. And then it went viral straight away. Is that right? Yeah, then I kept doing it. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

14:15How funny. It is weird. And how did you feel at that point, knowing when you're a teacher? Because I know I've got friends and my brother's a teacher where you have to be sort of really careful with posting content online. There's a bit of a fine line being a teacher and being online. How did you navigate that? so at that time I was only part time in school so I was two days a week because I was making other income from my business which was growing um and I didn't worry too much I think there was social media policies and not contacting students and not doing silly things on social media but I was only educating and putting these rap videos out and then when they started popping off and kids finding them helpful the kids in my school found them and they just found it exciting they're our teacher is TikTok famous so they liked it and then they asked me to wrap it up legendary status I like yeah I like to think so oh 100 % I think it's really cool when you see a teacher out of school do you remember when you were younger and if you saw your teacher in like Sainsbury's or something you'd be like oh my god there's Mr Green over there and now that you're a rapper as well it's like oh look at this Mr Green he's brilliant yeah I hope so I hope they weren't thinking who's this old guy begging it but let me no and what I love as well is how you have managed to make words rhyme because that's what rapping is but i don't even know how you do it like it's an art you're talking about something scientific and you've managed to even make words rhyme i pride myself on rhyming things that don't rhyme so sometimes you can blur sounds but really every word ends in something and then you can find something basic to rhyme it with so like one of the earliest things i rhymed with which is quite difficult was mitochondria i was like how am i gonna get fit mitochondria in a bar in a sentence it's so difficult it's like let me just break down my toe con drea has a rhythm and then you're just left with ear which i can rhyme with here or idea what is a mitochondria it's the uh i'm being tested here it's the energy powerhouse of the cell it's where respiration takes place yeah yeah you went on the voice i did you on the voice and will i am was like straight in there with that i know i know button i know that must have been amazing that was amazing and i've got to give credit to my wife on this one because when we were practicing and i practiced this song and i forget words like i said i forget words all the time especially for my own songs but i had it i nailed it it's like i know every single word nailed it yeah and she's just like all right we've got to practice this because you might know all the words but unpredictable things can happen all right i'm ready i'm prepared you can't put me off guard you can chuck things i'm ready and she's like okay so she sat facing away from me i was like why are you doing that this is always clever because they're not going to be facing you yeah oh yeah all right so she played the beat and i was like bam bam after a reason and she just randomly just turned around really quickly and i just like oh my god and she's like see what are you gonna do on the day and i was like i i don't know and then she's like right so she we'd practiced where she wouldn't turn she turned really quickly at the beginning or she turned randomly and it until it wouldn't throw me off and that was worth its weight in gold because on the actual day it was just like i've taught reason but never taught rhyming straight away really and it didn't which is kind of for like that's that's the guy who wants to turn around oh my god he's so talented oh he's brilliant I was praying for that I was hoping for it and because of the practice I had it was a weird sensation because when he turned around I couldn't let myself even be emotional about it it's just like carry on then Anne-Marie pressed it and only when I stopped I was like I got every word out correctly I was like oh my god yeah I've actually done it that was amazing yeah any good gossip from Will.i.am behind the scenes of the voice what does he like any good gossip he's a cool guy he's a cool guy we had a very very brief chat What they show on television, it makes it look like we've had long chats, so we've been speaking to each other for weeks, but it's really condensed in reality.

17:49No, I've only got nice things to say. The only bad thing I've got to say is, why didn't you pick me for the second round? But no, we've let that go. What advice did he give you? He was just like on stage presence. I had to sort of like, come on the stage, hold the mic. Like before going on The Voice, I was very, very wooden. I'm still quite wooden now, to be fair. like you've got to express yourself and come on the stage and take up space engage your audience yeah so you've got three kids yes what have you got I've got two boys and a girl that's what we have oh my god nine kids between us that's crazy yeah nine kids between us yeah and are they really into science do they love do they get what you're doing because they're a bit younger they're not secondary school yet are they they do get it they get it more than I give them credit for sometimes sometimes I think they're little and it's too much they won't get it but they've been growing yeah And they understand what's going on.

18:38That's wicked. And they like science. Good. They don't have a choice. They don't have a choice. They like science. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have to. So talk to me about your kids. Okay. And any parenting fails. Oh, many. Oh, bring it on. Like good fails. We want good ones. We want good ones. Okay. So my kids, I've got freedom. Yeah. James, George, Emmy, who are 10, 8 and 6. Yeah. I'll start with my oldest. My oldest, James. Me and my wife, we've got a message from his school. it said could you please bring in um for your child there's a school trip please bring in a cool bag so we're like okay we went to la recently with disney i'm not boasting and we got a yoda bag and we thought he's gonna be cool yeah so we sent him in and uh oh my god he's gonna love us when he goes oh he's gonna be cool this kid in town and then he came back with a face like thunder when we picked him up.

19:33And I was like, James, what's up? What are you saying? He's like, Dad, every kid had a cool bag to cool the food in. And I had this stupid Yoda bag. That's brilliant. I had that, James. I love that. That's one of my favourite fails that we've had. I have a cool bag. I feel like I can just see your face being like, oh, yeah, we've got a cool bag in this. We've got this. Babe, don't get that Yoda bag from the cupboard. That is brilliant. Oh, your poor son. so good yeah did he forgive you eventually he hasn't healed yet but that's just that's just is a way of like how you can misread yeah like a text or something like it is it's just called a cool bag yeah yeah you just thought everyone else was streaming a really cool bag yeah that's brilliant really i love that what about your middle child and he fails middle child oh yeah yeah yeah we got one of him um this is really stupid do you know when you only have a kid and you've obviously got to go and name them officially like i can't remember the office Now he goes to that place And you're at the form So he's like Oh what's he Let's weigh him Let's look at him Sniff him This looks like a Leo We'll call him Leo Leo is his name Actually Maybe not Peter We'll call him Peter Peter Pushing him the buggy It's not really a Peter is he Should we call him George So we went back to the place Like please stop doing this You've got one last chance Your time's on out If you don't do this now Your official name Then you have to rechange it By deed poll is it George yes or no and we're like all right we're gonna stick with George George Green and that's it's stuck since wow so that's his third name oh my god I love that so he could have been a Leo could have been a Peter could have been a Leo could have been a Peter when we tell him that story he does not like it really yeah so we yeah did you find choosing names hard because we we struggled to get a girl's name so we had loads of boys names and then when we had our daughter we didn't choose her name until I was literally pushing her out and my husband was like Annabelle and he was just searching through names for ages while I was in labor for like 12 years um trying to push her out and it was seemed like but when he was like Annabelle at that point I was I was literally I don't give a shit what we call I just want to get her out I was like we can call her what you want so you landed on and you stuck stuck with Annabelle yeah when he was like Annabelle I was like yeah cool I literally didn't care um at all we just didn't have well we did have a name um and i don't know if anybody else has made this mistake before but i love the name bethany rose east so i phoned my friend and i was like oh we're gonna like bethany rose east what beautiful name and she's like yeah but you can't call her bethany rose east how would you spell her initials out and i was like oh breast and i was she's like you can't call you can't call it because she'll just look like breast oh my god yeah so i was like oh well i don't have a name then that's it i couldn't think of a name after that yeah no i had the b i was like b-r-e i was like brah yeah yeah breast breast so that's why otherwise she would have been bethany my um brother-in-law's initials spell out bj's did anyone discover that at school of course everybody and yeah and even like my mother-in-law and father-in-law were a bit like oh yeah we better change this immediately it's not good i didn't think of that one yeah but now I think my brother-in-law I think actually quite likes it he's like yeah BJ's we're in our 40s now mate yeah it'll never not be funny it's still funny it's still funny did you find it tough having a daughter compared to sons because we we've both said so many times like girls are really different to boys uh I prayed for a girl and I don't pray often I prayed massively I was in the car I was like god please please make this last one a girl I'll be good I I swear.

23:14So when the scan came and I was like, thank you. And I always tell that story and she loves that little story. So yeah, she's like,

23:20Matt Green:oh, my angel daddy. Is she an angel? When you're asleep. She's an angel when she's an angel. Yeah. And then when she's not, she's absolutely not. Yeah. As I'm sure you guys both know. Oh my God, hard relate. Yeah. So she's exceptionally sweet when she's sweet and then when she's not, she's just so much worse. Is she a daddy's girl? When she wants something. Yes, my daughter's the same. Yeah. She's exactly the same. like if she wants something from my husband she'll like really like lap him up. And you can see it can you? And I can sit a mile off and then Jesse's just like babe she just wants something from you.

23:58And we don't want to take no no no. She's just like a mother. She knows what she's doing. She wants money. Why did you want a girl so much? Like because boys are crazy or? There was just too much male energy and it was getting crazy so the two boys were boisterous they were young but they were still fighting and I was just like if we've got three boys it's going to be like Malcolm the middle one here and we just we just need some balance um and my poor wife I just thought it's not going to be fair having three boys at the house it's funny because whenever whenever we ask people and we love obviously we love a birth story you always have that moment of hesitation because it's like you choose in your head sometimes to forget those moments because it can be so traumatic and quick and not how everybody plans it and you sort of choose to yeah it's a bit foggy um yeah my firstborn was arriving i was at work it's a monday and i was just trying to get things ready it's like oh he's coming in around two weeks let me get things ready lessons plans these sort of things suddenly the phone rang there's helen and my wife and she's just like oh i'm in hospital because i didn't feel the baby moving um and suddenly blood everywhere oh my gosh uh placental war corruption and we're going into surgery right now and i was like i gotta go uh the baby's coming um drove there like a as quickly as i can see if he's okay i got to the hospital to all the speed limits on the way yeah of course and then when i got there um uh there's like oh mr green oh come come this way and i didn't know what would happen at this point and the next day here you go open the door and it's just this little baby little baby and they're like oh mr green you've got you've got a son your boy's here and i just couldn't believe it just seeing him on this little in a tiny little nappy on with this warm light and i was like can i pick him up so you can pick him up i was just like oh my god i'm no longer some dude now i'm an actual dad this is crazy um yes that was first born wow and so you weren't around when she actually went into surgery no because i was at work i was at work at that point um and it was lucky that she went in because she felt the baby moving on the sunday yeah and then just couldn't feel the baby moving on the monday thought it's probably nothing but just in case it's not let me just go in and when they were in doing the scans they're like oh we can't find anything just suddenly blood everywhere and thank god she was at the hospital yeah and it's just just like from that moment it was like she was on surgery in like six minutes really yeah oh my god yeah because that's um yeah i yeah yeah she was in the right place at the right time yeah i said if it was anywhere else it wouldn't you know within like half an hour from that moment so was she okay she was okay i bet that's quite traumatizing for her though yeah i say she's okay it wasn't me going through it it was yeah definitely very traumatic for her um wow and uh and yeah i mean and then with the with your other with the other births then was it just like i'm just going to go straight into c-section yeah they were booked in early so all of them i think it was eight months for first one like nine maybe eight months in like a week for the yeah so like two weeks early for the other two and yeah they were booked in they were planned so it's a bit more a bit more relaxing yeah nice and how was her recovery with the c-section god it takes months doesn't it because obviously every single layer has been cut into yeah so it's major surgery major major major surgery yeah so I think she recovered fantastically well like maybe like three four months to heal and then you know Yeah, I can't speak for myself I feel like I'm speaking for her Because obviously it's like I remember the painful stages I could see I remember when she came to After the first was born And you know, groggy after Anesthesia and that And when she first saw James She went to move up And she was obviously a heavy painkiller But I could just feel the pain Because she'd obviously been stitched up And the first reaction She just literally was like I was like get back And the doctors pushed her back and I was like, oh God, that's going to cause damage.

28:01So yeah, I remember. It was a recovery. It took a while. Yeah. How did you feel when you first saw James and like, you know, an hour before you're like, oh, I know there's a baby on the way and then you walk into a room and there he is. Yeah. How was that? I couldn't believe it. I was overwhelmed. And just to love this little thing immediately and just pick him up and he's there and he's so tiny. he had a tiny little head with like a like a hat on to keep his head warm yeah he's so small i think we've still got it now um but yeah just i was just overwhelmed yeah very very very happy yeah that to have a little boy and that he was healthy and that mom was okay yeah and in recovery and everything had gone as normally as could be yeah given the circumstances and that the doctor said yeah she's fine she's recovering um so as a neuroscience i have a question for you i can remember every rap or song that I've learned from 30 years ago I know all the lyrics but then if I have to remember my pin number or what I did last week I have no idea what is that about I think it's something called an earworm so like parts of the brain they remember beat patterns and because we enjoy it we store those beat patterns because it's very interesting like if I gave you a sentence to remember right now a random sentence and said you've got 10 seconds it's very unlikely you're going to remember it but if it falls on a rhyme and there's a beat pattern yeah even though there's additional information like because we like rhythms we remember it yeah like jingles like because i remember like like uh auto glass repair like i remember that yeah so there is something yeah there is that when i was at school it was like carrot and cheese every day helps your teeth to fight decay so we'd all be like without like for dinner and we'd be eating carrots and cheese I don't know that one.

29:47I don't know that one. Yeah, I don't even know if that helped. I do think I've ever had carrots and cheese together, but I like it. I mean, I grew up in Yorkshire, so anything goes, really. Do you know what I mean? You've got different adverts there. Also, another question with neuroscience and how our brain works, because it is a fascinating piece of machinery or whatever. Is it a muscle? No. It's an organ. It's an organ made mainly of neurons, nerve cells. Nerve cells. Billions and billions of them all working together with dendrites and communicating. And I think they say the links in the brain is like 10 trillion or something ridiculous.

30:21I find it fascinating. The fact that we actually build brains inside us, I find it mad. Yeah. It's mad. So, okay. So we've all experienced toddlers. So when they have these meltdowns over the smallest things like sandwiches being cut the wrong way. The wrong cup. The wrong spoon. The wrong bowl. Yeah. why do they have these meltdowns? I feel like I'm being forced into a psychologist position now. I don't know the answers to these questions. You need to do a rap with the answer please. I need to leave. I'm being set up. Don't speak it, we want you to rap it. No pressure. If I knew the answers to those questions, I'd be a much happier man.

31:00I'd be a better dad. I'd be a really chilled out guy. I have another science question for you. So, summer's coming rosé o 'clock a bit of rosé in the garden sunshine la la la lovely hangovers and kids are disastrous horrendous yeah is there any science behind i mean apart from don't drink is there any science behind you're not gonna like what i say here but all right um basically beating the hangover no right just just no i mean the best you can do is drink only one thing and have a little less and have some water before bed yeah i think we're talking about like percentages of being better i'll be like one percent better the next day because i just thought that the headache was your brain has was dehydrated and shrunk or something you know i'm not going to be the the world's spokesperson on hangover science but what what i do know is you know your liver's taking a toll it's breaking down the alcohol there's an enzyme there called alcohol dehydrogenase just checking out some information and that breaks down the alcohol i would imagine that whatever byproduct is being made there's probably floating around and in your brain and just not making you feel great for at least 24 hours i think anything in the body that shouldn't be there or gets too high and your body needs to work hard to get rid of it it's going to make you groggy for a little while yeah or just not feel good do you know what i find really fascinating is i think that our kids generation is there's so much more clued up on things like alcohol and vaping and cigarettes It's that they're very, like there's less drinking.

32:32There's less of that. Like when I was my son's age, I was like, you know, raiding or trying to raid like, you know, the alcohol cupboard or, you know, asking someone to buy me alcohol on the street. If I give you money, can you go and get me some B &H or go and get me a diamond white? Yeah, a full of white lightning. Yeah, and then just drink it. Whereas my son is like, he's like, you know, that's poison. He's like, why are you putting poison in your body? And I'm like, because it's delicious. Because it's fun. We used to make shit mixes like that. Yeah, but I do feel like they are more aware.

33:12Like even like the fry up, like the traditional British fry up. Sacred. Sacred. But more people are now having avocado on toast. That's like the new fry up. I can't do that. And it's like they don't drink as much. they don't take like well they obviously got photos to take of themselves like when i just remember being in like my friend nina's field when i was about 14 absolutely hammered and we'd make a shit mix in a little bottle so we'd get like a little shot of each of the spirits out of our parents houses so they wouldn't notice put it into this bottle and we get turned up to the party and be like oh i'm ready yeah and what do you kids say if they see this episode yeah they're not allowed to see this even our husbands aren't allowed to watch this yes i think to be honest our husbands choose not to watch it because they don't need to listen to us for another hour more than they need to.

34:00Jessie's just like, I don't want to have a reason to start an argument. I'm like, okay. Probably best. Probably best. Yeah, don't listen. What advice and stuff would you give to your kids? You know, when they become like teenagers and going out, are you worried about that stage or like going on school trips and stuff? I'm blacking it out because I don't think I'm prepared for them to grow up. I know. They're still in the baby stage apart from my 10 year old, which is making me sad a little bit. I don't have anything because I'm just, I'm not thinking about it yet. I think once he's firmly in secondary school and I know the time's going to go like that.

34:33Yeah. Oh my God, honestly, I swear. So my eldest is in year nine and I genuinely going from year seven to year nine, I don't know where it's gone. Actually this year he's going into year 10 and then he's got one more year and then he's done. I'm like, I don't know how. I don't understand it and it breaks my heart. I'm like, can they all just stop? It's just going too fast. Yeah. Do you miss teaching? I love teaching. I don't miss it though. But, you know, when I do go into schools and I perform in front of kids or I'm in smaller school settings, it's always a weird sensation. Because I'm like, oh man, I love this.

35:08I miss this. I miss this. And then, you know, I continue living my life afterwards. And then I'm like, I don't have to worry about the admin or the marking of pointless politics. And just doing what I like. What do you think of the educational system at the moment? Like, I've read a lot of things that's saying that it needs to be updated. like we're still teaching kids how we taught in the Victorian years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, what's your take on that? I think it's difficult to overhaul anything, especially when everything is entrenched and everything is set up to work off a particular system.

35:37You know, like compare it to cars. If there was a flying car that could be made tomorrow, you have to update everything. You have to change the road, you have to change the infrastructure. We have an infrastructure in place for teaching that exists today. It might be outdated. But if you did overhaul it today, how long until it's going to be outdated? again so you have to sort of make a decision that whatever you change it's going to stick with that for at least 100 years yeah um so it's tricky then it's trickier than it seems and it's not just disease it's like you need to be learning this this and this yeah and even things like exams people argue about exams aren't the best way to test people yes this is true but there's no other practical way of doing it yeah besides like doing practicals if the subject involves it So it's difficult.

36:19I think it's not optimal, but there isn't a fantastic, easy alternative. Yeah. My son said to me the other day, he was like, mum, as an adult, have you ever had to figure out the area of a parallelogram? Every Thursday. No, no. And he was like, then why do I need to know this? I was like, well, because you might need it in whatever you do. Sometimes I think schools about the process of learning how to do things and work things out, regardless of whether you might do it in life. if all of us sitting here now can do a lesson on working out the area of a parallelogram like it it tests us improves our skills and capabilities just learning how to do that yeah and then it might be something else we're doing like organizing the very complex things involved in a podcast but because you were able to work out the area in that parallelogram you then think i could work that out i could work out this logistical issue but if you just if you didn't do that you wouldn't be able to do it sometimes see i like that answer that's brilliant i should have said that to my son no i've never needed that and i probably do use it more than i realize okay good answer do you teach your own kids badly right okay um because it's always a way though isn't it a parent like yeah impossible teaching your own kids because they just don't want to listen yeah um i do teach them we go to reading together they do with their mom they do reading with me we do we've got like math apps that we use and reading apps that we use through the school and of course science we like to do science experiments sometimes science Sundays oh I love that science Sundays that's so cool what do you do on science Sundays we find out something during the week that they'd like to do you've just triggered a memory yes I did the this is during lockdown the Diet Coke and Mentos yeah why does that happen it's just there's something in the coating of the Mentos is that reaction to the carbon dioxide in the Pepsi or whatever you're using.

38:11And it just is a very, very quick reaction. Oh, it was brilliant. Yeah, so I still like doing that. Although I saw the lady on TikTok who, I don't know if you've seen it, and she puts it, she's holding it and she does it and it just goes all over and it's hilarious. I mean, it's just... I remember years ago, there was a video of going viral of someone that drunk it. Yeah, they were like, stuffed their face full of mentals. Oh my God. And then did that. And then they were like, oh, I feel sick now. This is way before the days of AI. It's like, oh, I feel sick. And it's hilarious. I don't think there was even TikTok back then.

38:37Oh my gosh. What a stupid thing to do. I know, I know. Let's talk about these books. I'm going to hold one up for the cameras to see. These are, are these out now? They are out now. So these are Matt Green's Wrapping Up Physics. What have you got there? I've got Biology. And Wrapping Up Chemistry. Amazon, combine now. They've got a little deal on at the minute. You can get them individually or get all three. And it's GCSE revision. So actually this would be great for my son right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've been flicking through it and I've got to say, it's easy on the eye. it's not like oh god here we go actually it looks really interesting bright colours appealing eye catching when we were designing them it was just like we don't want these boring textbooks we want it nice clean simple good images and then just a wrap on every topic and you can just listen to the music thank you so much for coming on loving it thank you so much thank you thanks for tuning in for this week's round up of parenting chaos.

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