Hello and welcome to Shardens It Down, the podcast, the podcast which is embroiled in a

front line war against people who don't play games. Does that sound threatening? I don't

know. My name's Quentin Smith and I'm joined today by my first Colonel in chief, Mr.

Matt Lease. Hello. And the army doctor, Mr. Paul Dean. What? I don't know, honestly,

where that intro came from, but can I be like Dr. McCoy and just be really grumpy?

Yes. I'm a Dr. Jim, not an army man.

I'm Paul. Where are you? Where have you been? I've been in my bedroom after several weeks that you

weren't in my flat anymore. That's because I'm in my bedroom, but by some kind of accident, my

bedroom is in Canada. Oh my God. Yeah. And let me get this straight. It's been about

it's been only a couple of weeks and you've already almost been killed by a man trying to run you

over. This is not true. This is not quite true. I did, I'm confused. You know, there's the bit in

Alan Partridge where he drives a car into something and he gets really confused really quickly.

That was me because I was walking outside where I live at night to pick up something from the petrol

station or the gas station as we call it here. And I walked by an intersection right outside my house

and two cars came at each other at a right angle at like car speed 30 miles per hour.

They made a very big noise as they hit one of them spun off and crashed into a barrier and I ran

over to it and checked if the man inside was okay. I think people at home probably are expecting a

punchline here, but this is not a joke. This was like a group. It's okay. Everyone was fine. There are

two slightly funny elements, which is that because the man in the car was okay and both the people

were okay or three funny elements. One was me going, what's the number for the police in Canada?

What do I do? Which was fine because a police car was right behind the car that crashed.

This police officer came out and she just looked stunned that they'd crashed right in front of her

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