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Danny Wallace.

Radio X.

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

And my goodness me, what a lot there is.

There is the grand final of dinner winner.

We open a package live, well, on the podcast anyway.

And I was a little bit disturbed because it arrived this morning

and there was nothing on it.

It just had handwriting on that said, The Great Leader,

and then the address, and it was all wrapped up.

And I noticed, Joe, that you had not checked it for anthrax. No, I know. That's what I said. That's the protocol that I should open all packages on the off chance that it's anthrax. And I ask you, don't I? Just to make sure it's not anthrax. Yeah. To lick the entire package. Yeah, which I'm not a huge fan of doing, because even if it's not got anthrax on or in, it's not that nice to do. No, we've never had any before. No. But I'm very specific, I say, as you go layer by layer, just give it a little lick. Yeah, and then we wait 20 minutes to... And wait 20 minutes. And if you're still standing...

You appear to be okay?

Let's carry on.

We carry on, so that's what we did. We bought you one of those anthrax testing kits, but you didn't... You rather use train, didn't you? Yeah. You were like, no. Yeah. Why are we wasting money on that? Bloody anthrax. Being getting on a producer anywhere.

What is anthrax?

I think it's a mixture of Andrex.

Yeah. Go on. Yeah. No, that's it. I think it's a mixture of Andrex. Oh, right. It went wrong one day in the lab. And the thorax of a ant. Yeah, of a ant. It's not that. It's just poison, I think, mate. Yeah, it's just poison, mate. A bit of poison. There's that. There's also a lovely dedication and a moment where I play a trick on everyone. Oh, yeah, no, yeah. You really got us there. By purposefully misunderstanding something very simple. Very clever. Very clever. Deep, deep learning. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I hope you're ready for that. And of course, there's Steve's dalliance with a portal in Explain that. Well, let's not, you know, let's not jump a head. Sounds like a portal, doesn't it? Yeah, I think it sounds like a portal. So why don't you begin? Begin. Ray D-O-X. Well, hello, how are you? Just after 11 on a Sunday, and that means one thing your weekend starts here, and it starts with your important broadcast. I'm here, D-dubs, Danny Wallace, old Steve Fulandando, also present. Here. And Joe Adiwell joins us today as well.

I wouldn't miss it for the world. Good lad. What news? Are you well, Steve? I'm extremely well. That sounds very well indeed. Yeah, I'm about as good as I can be. And what are you looking forward to in today's broadcast? I'm looking forward to one Christmas song an hour. Yes. And I might be able to do more than that. Oh, I think I might be able to do a little bit more than that. On the same day, we learn that Brussels sprouts are going to be 25% bigger. Everyone's favourite vegetable. It's the Christmas that keeps on Christmasing. Well, we've got music coming out from you to Kings and Leon as well. Let's kick things off with Casabian Empire. Radio.

Danny Wallace.

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