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Danny Wallace.

Radio X.

Well, hello and welcome to another important broadcast podcast for you.

I'm spending most of my time trying not to cough.

Yeah.

Poor soldier.

I'm sorry about that. I seem to be on the men yesterday. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come in to inflict this upon you. I think it's nerves. Can you hear the slight weakness in my voice there? It's a real shame. I don't think it sounds like weakness. What you've done is now that it's a very jubilant show we do today. the listener's got a lot to look forward to in the next hour absolutely but what you've done is you you've introduced the subtext to the show

which is one of pain and sadness yes so the listeners now gonna be like oh look that he doesn't he

sound happy but I know underneath it all yeah he's struggling. Yeah? Yeah.

Well, I don't like to show vulnerabilities because I have none.

And I don't like to show weakness because there is none.

But maybe.

But a little, a little bit of, you know, am I telling the truth about this?

Surely not.

Danny can't have a cold.

He's too... He would simply will it away.

Yes.

Yes.

He gone.

That's what I usually do.

If I get a slight...

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