Danny Wallace

Brady OX

Well, hello.

How are you?

Not you, the listener.

Steve, not every time you hear something.

Is it aimed at you?

Right, okay.

Do you walk through streets or parties and you hear chit chat and small talk and just start joining in.

So someone, you'll be at a party, one of your cocktail parties. And you'll hear someone go, well, of course, that's what Marjorie told me. And you, of course, know that she's married to Ben now. You don't just walk in and go, which Ben is it? Do I know? Sorry, hi. He does do that. Yeah, I do do that. yeah you do

why wouldn't you do that

that's how you become

the life and soul of the party

you go speak to everyone. You get to know a little bit about their stories and what they find interesting. And then you kind of bring it all together like a Tarantino film at the end. It all kind of connects up. Every time Steve hears police sirens, he runs. He just assumes they're for him. If I hear a paramedic, I'm like, oh, it must be ill. We're going to have to redesign the cocktail party, though, aren't we thinking about it in this strange new world? I think, you know those things, lazy susans?

Love them.

That's sort of like a little thing that you spin around on.

I think you can have almost like the way little dolls turn around on a cake,

like a mechanical cake or like a sort of a model village or something like that.

You'll have an allotted time where we all are slowly

rotating at a distance of around two metres. And you have enough time to begin and end

a conversation before moving on to the next person.

Perhaps it never stops. Perhaps it just moves at a very slow speed like the London Eye.

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