Danny Wallace

Radio X

Oh hi!

It's me, Danny. How are you? You weren't expecting that, were you? No, it's like you just bumped into them in all of the listeners in a corridor. You get it, yeah? Radio is about connecting. It is. Making friends. It's got to be natural. It's got to be like, hey, oh hi, how are you? What's going? And then you do two or three minutes of sort of bumbling small talk and chit-chat. Yep. And then you, as I do, when I meet people in corridors, when I've had enough, I just hold up my phone and I play them some music. Do you? Yeah. Well, your outro music. Yeah, so I'll go, hey, how are you? Let's try it now.

Hey, uh, how you been, Joe?

You're right.

Hello, mate.

Yeah, not too bad.

Yeah.

How are you in a while? Very good. Very good. Um, here's no Gallagher's high flying birds. I'll just do that for a bit. And then I bring in, I'll open a side door because I'll plot it all out.

All my interactions with civilians are plotted out to the nth degree. I bring in, I'll open a side door because I'll plot it all out.

All my interactions with civilians are plotted out to the nth degree.

Always make sure I'm next to a side door.

No, not just for a speedy escape.

But so that, if we're at the top of an hour, I can push the door open and bring in someone like Sunter Templeton who will just update the civilian on the latest

happenings. She's very good to follow you around and be available for those bulletins.

Well, it's hard as well because she's got to find like cavities in walls wherever I am.

You know, they say in London and New York you're only ever like two

meters away from a rat because, and I'm not saying she's a rat, she's, if anything,

she'd be a wonderful dormouse. But she also has to share the cavities of walls and sewers

with our rat friends because she's got to track me constantly in case I need a bulletin.

Yeah.

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