Woe is me.

The sun is shining, Ian, but there is, I feel, a dark storm cloud over your head.

You are in your own little cloudy, dark zone.

So my job today is to cheer you up. Is that going to be possible?

Possibly. I'm told it's, I'm told it's

brino weather. I didn't even know what that flipping meant when you were tweeting it yesterday.

I had to do some research. Brinos, doesn't it stand for Brexit in name only? Yeah, because that's

what we're heading for, isn't it? We will discuss at length today.

Oh, by the way, can you call me Dr. Smith throughout this podcast?

No Jackie or anything informal like that.

Didn't you look so ridiculous in those robes?

I looked gorgeous.

I looked gorgeous in my blue and red doctoral robes when I received my honorary doctorate from Birmingham University on Thursday.

Seriously, it was a really, really lovely day. My mum enjoyed it.

But what is the point of an honorary doctorate because you haven't had to do anything for it?

I've had to be a contributor to the good of Birmingham I'll have you know

and the partnership with the with the university but you're right I genuinely I'm not going to

expect to be called doctor because I do think it's a bit of a cheek against all those people

who've actually had to work really hard to get their doctor well as you know I'm a visiting

professor and I sometimes get

emails from UEA students calling me a professor. Dear Professor Dale, and it just makes me laugh

every time I see it. I think I'm the world's most unlikely professor, but there we go. Let's just

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