This is Paul Hawksby.

And Charlie Baker.

And this is the H&J Daily with some of the best bits of this afternoon show. Great show, Paul. Great show. We were joined by Mike Pickering. Mike is a bit of a Manchester music legend. He signed lots of great bands, the factory, including the Happy Mondays. He was a house music DJ. Well, he was a kind of pioneer house music at the Hacienda. He's worked with Calvin Harris. He's a massive city fan.

You'll have heard a kind of pioneer house music at the Hacienda. He's worked with

Calvin Harris. He's a massive city fan. You'll have heard a lot of his work, basically.

So yeah, and then people, that's not forget. So Mike joined us in the studio,

chat about his new book. Katerina Johnson Thompson, star Heptathlete joined us and gave us some

real insight. She's a Liverpool fan.

And she'd had an Achilles injury, much like, sadly, Hugo Hick, a TK picked up on Tuesday.

And was really interesting on the rehab and coming back from it and gave us some real insight.

So we enjoy chatting to her. And we often have a rugby league chat on a Thursday.

And Toulouse, Olympique are back in the Super League. And they're not doing too bad currently. Rob Butler is a southerner, but not a cockney, as you're discovered. And he's playing rugby league, and he's living out in Toulouse. He's living his best life, Rob. We learned a bit more about that experience. And we, of course, had a birthday spread as it's Thursday.

So here it all is.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Good afternoon, Charlie.

The birthday spread, actually, such a waste of time.

We just had a 20-minute conversation with Chris Evans about it.

Yeah, that's right. He listens on the school r school runners, Chris. He wants it to be longer. He thinks we really should commit to it more. Really go in for it. But yeah, we're trying to twist Chris's arm to be part of a celebrity special at some point. During the World Cup, Paul, maybe, maybe. I won't be smashing my head against the desk like Paolo de Canio during this, during the birthday spread or any other time during the show. I don't, I'm not an Italian speaker, but I'm not Tancredi Palmyar, he put out a clip. He was doing some telly. If people are watching on Connect TV on YouTube, thanks in now. And now. And he was displaying. He was sort of illustrating a point, I think, maybe about an old manager or player. Maybe you can clear this up. And he was in a TV studio, like I'm doing a punditry thing. And started to bang his head on the table to prove the point. And out popped the claret, didn't he?

He had to go and get a cloth.

They're all laughing at him. No one was that bothered. It's not a massive surprise, really, for some of them. Committing to the bit, Paul. Yeah, he certainly did commit to the... It was like that bloke used to go on Tizwas and stuff back in the day. Uncle Bob used to do mule train and smash... Oh, yeah, that was good.

Can we get that?

Can we get some footage of that?

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