In this episode, the derailment arrives right on schedule — welcome back to Out of Context Weekly Scenarios, where things unravel quickly and proudly.

This week’s curiosities come in two very different, but equally unnecessary flavours:

Imran opens with his Out of Context Weekly Scenario — Turning Down a Dog. An unexpectedly serious moral dilemma involving an offer he absolutely should have been excited about… but couldn’t say yes to. What follows is a spiral of guilt, overthinking, and the uncomfortable realisation that sometimes doing the sensible thing still feels oddly heartbreaking.

Meanwhile, Shaun brings his own frustration to the table with The Late Chelsea Kick-Off. A weekend plan quietly ruined by scheduling decisions completely out of his control. It’s a story about building your day around football, the slow burn of irritation as the hours drag on, and how something so small can irrationally sour your mood.

Our Topic of the Week is Alcohol. We talk honestly about our relationships with drinking — the social expectations, the good nights, the bad mornings, and how attitudes toward alcohol change as you get older. It’s less about excess and more about reflection, habits, and why saying yes (or no) can sometimes feel like a bigger statement than intended.

In Pop Culture & Current Affairs, we take a surprisingly passionate detour into the build-up of traffic on the M50 in Ireland, and traffic jams in general. Why they feel so personal, how they test patience like nothing else, and the shared misery that somehow bonds everyone stuck in the same unmoving line of cars.

And finally, we close with Your Distance Dilemmas — real listener stories navigating friendship, communication, and the strange emotional space between holding on and letting drift.

As always, it’s just the two of us — chatting nonsense, pulling at loose threads, and trying to make sense of the moments that feel small at the time but somehow end up meaning everything.