It’s September, and Sinéad and Mel are zipping up their new backpacks and heading straight back into that 2000s back-to-school feeling. From the scent of fresh homework diaries to the big reveal of pencil cases and the belief that this would be the year of total reinvention, teenage Septembers were a mix of anxiety, excitement and chaos. Between frantic catch-ups on who kissed who, surprise maths tests, and the politics of the lunch table, the school year felt like an entire new social season. And even now, the shift from summer to autumn takes us right back to those corridors.

But have we really changed? These days it’s less about school uniforms and box hair dye, and more about office wear and covering greys. We’ve swapped essays and MSN gossip for Slack notifications and trying to pin down a dinner date with your bestie sometime before Christmas. Turns out, once you’ve had that back-to-school feeling, it never really leaves.

This is If Destroyed Still True: the podcast where millennial best friends Sinéad Kennedy Sklar and Melissa Murdock rewind the mixtape of their teenage years and press play on the moments that shaped who they are today. We ask ourselves: how does this show up in our lives now? And if you could talk to your teenage self: what would you tell her?

Hit follow, share your own teen chaos memories with us @IDSTpod, and get ready to laugh, cringe, and remember your back to school essentials.

If Destroyed Still True is a Morley Radio and The Imposters Club production. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to If Destroyed Still True and a whole host of exciting shows.