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Danny Wallace.

Well, hello, how are you? And welcome to your important broadcast. podcast. Danny Wallace. Radio X.

Well, hello, how are you, and welcome to your important broadcast in podcast form?

That's right.

We have compressed it down into a little bouncy ball, packed with energy.

That's what a bouncy ball is, you know.

It's just a big ball that someone's crushed down, and the energy remains are so tightly packed that that ball just can't stop jumping like a Mexican jumping bean.

Founcy ball, it's got to be one of the best kids toys.

Absolutely. So good. I'd be thrilled if I got one now.

Agreed. So much fun. Along with those things you've thrown in the air and the helicopter back down. Yeah, not as good. No, it is good. Do you remember the Mexican jumping bean? Yes. As in, no. It's a little bean and you pop it in the palm of your hands. Oh, of course, of course. Did it have a bug in it? No, it didn't have a bug in it, no. Someone told me once it had a bug in it. No, and you believe them until you're 33. Has it an insect? Oh dear. No, no, people weren't selling insects in plastic beans. I would have seen them in the 90s. It was a different time. How would you keep it alive? Yes. These things have come over at a cargo ship from China. I just assume that they stopped working eventually because the bug died. There's a man going from bean to bean with a little pipette of sustenance. Did you believe those little aliens actually reproduced? Yeah. Who? What aliens? The little rubber slime aliens. You may have missed this because you're quite older than us. An early 2000s phenomenon. I don't think it's come back into fashion with your children. No. Do you remember the hoop and the stick? Wonderful days. That's all we needed. Just running in the fields. When we were at school, you could buy these little aliens that came in a pot of goo. A little toy aliens, and the rumours around the playground,

if you put two next to each other,

back to back, they would have sex.

No.

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