The Whole Nine Yards Episode 260     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 18th January 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Just Say Yes

Yes Man was a Danny Wallace book and a Jim Carrey film.

Danny Wallace’s memoir begins with a simple challenge: say “yes” to everything for an entire year.

The results are chaotic, hilarious, occasionally disastrous — but also life‑expanding.

The message isn’t blind positivity; it’s about breaking the gravitational pull of habit, fear, and inertia.

The film adaptation exaggerates the comedy, but the heart remains: saying “yes” opens doors you didn’t know existed. Saying yes as rebellion / Saying yes as awakening / Saying yes as messy, chaotic growth / Saying yes as connection / Saying yes as self‑permission / Saying yes as a way of stepping into your own life.

The possibility that yes doesn’t guarantee safety, but it does guarantee movement.

Saying yes doesn’t have to be a doorstop, it can be a door opening.

Hour One

Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes (Up to Now, 2009)

Alkaline Trio – Hell Yes (Remains, 2007)

Frightened Rabbit – Yes I Would (The Winter of Mixed Drinks, 2010)

Gang of Youths – Say Yes to Life (Go Farther in Lightness, 2017)

Tokyo Shoegazer – Missing (Missing 2020)

WhoMadeWho – Yes (Brighter, 2012)

Boy George – Yes We Can (Ordinary Alien, 2010)

Bel and Quinn – Say Yes (Fanm nan dife, 2023)

Johannesen – Yes (Single 2012)

Nujabes – Yes ft. Pase Rock (Spiritual State, 2011)

Iyeoka – Say Yes (Say Yes, 2010)

Hour Two

The Shins – So Says I (Chutes Too Narrow, 2003)

The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)

Joni Mitchell – All I Want (Blue, 1971)

Jane Birkin – Yesterday, Yes A Day (Madame Claude OST, 1977)

Lana Del Rey – Say Yes to Heaven (Original Version) (Single 2023)

Radiohead – Yes I Am (B‑side My Iron Lung, 1994)

Floetry – Say Yes (Floetic, 2002)

Tame Impala – Yes I’m Changing (Currents, 2015)

Diana Vickers – Just Say Yes (Cover of Snow Patrol, 2010)

Kate Bush – The Sensual World (The Sensual World 1989)

The Swell Season – The Answer is Yes (Single 202