Danny Wallace

Ray D-O-X

Well, hello, and look,

how are you?

You know?

I know.

It's a weird one.

What a shift of gear you gave them.

Yeah, well, I wanted to kind of give a sense of normality.

The new normal.

The new normal, but then bring it back to the ultra new normal, being like, hey guys, bit weird, isn't it? Weird, everything's fine. Everything's fine, I suppose. It's also sort of not. Not, is it? You can also just, you know, go and do what you need to do, but maybe don't do that. Yeah. You know? Depends which way, you look at it, I suppose, like a coin, you could look on one side and go,

oh, everything's fine because you're looking at the everything fine side. But then the other side of the coin is everything's not fine, isn't it? Well, it's the same coin. From listening to other broadcasters around the country at the moment. Yes. People don't seem interested in the other side of the coin. They just want the everything's fine side of the coin.

Well, yes, did it?

And then they're not going to, they're going to berate you for even implying there's another side. Well, there's a rude awakening coming for those, ladies and gentlemen. And as we know, there's two sides to every coin. There is, there is, there is. So whichever, a, why don't you flip a coin now? And imagine it's landed on everything fine. Yeah, and then we'll go forward. And then we'll move forward. And slowly, as the podcast gets darker and darker, you can very gently flip that coin round and know that it's still your decision. Just have a little peek at it. Yeah. Just have a little peek. And then put it back. Put it back away.

Put it in a drawer.

And a drawer that you don't use very much. Maybe a bedside table that you're going to throw out. An old one. Put the coin in the drawer. Put that entire unit in the back of car. Yeah. Drive it into the seaside. Well, yeah, you could drive into the, I was going to say a tip, a municipal tip, but actually, that's better.

And what you do is you, you could drive into the sea. I was going to say a tip, a municipal tip, but actually, that's better.

And what you do is you, as it floats on the water, you light a fluid. Yeah, that's it. Douse it. Exactly. Stand back, long match. Long match. And gently push it out like a Viking burial. That's right. There's so many warnings that I have to give to be sensible there about not littering, about not playing with matches.

Don't set fire to anything.

Don't throw things. That's right. There's so many warnings that I have to give to be sensible there about not littering, about not playing with matches.

Don't set fire to anything.

Don't throw things in the sea. I don't think don't play with matches is a thing you need to broadcast the adult. It's like that is very much for like five-year-olds. This isn't a children's program. I know, but you still mustn't play with them. I'm done matter if you're 50, you shouldn't play with matches.

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