31 August 2002/Transcript
This is a transcription of the 31 August 2002 episode, from Xfm Series 2
In the Beginning
Ricky: Back to form there - Oasis and Little By Little. This is Xfm 104.9, I'm Ricky Gervais, who are you?
Steve: Er, my name's Steve Merchant, good to see you.
Ricky: Thanks. Er, with us, er, the producer in the studio is Karl Pilkington. And he'll be doing the m-buttons...
Steve: Yeah? You made a good effort there...
Ricky laughs
Steve: But er, once again...
Ricky: Got bored.
Steve: Words are your enemy Rick, and they defeated you once again.
Ricky laughs
Steve: Just ran out of steam with the sentences.
Ricky: Ohh, every week I think right, I'm really gonna make an effort now.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: I'm gonna, I've, I've chosen some records...
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: That's it.
Steve: That's it. That's as far as it goes isn't it?
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Maybe you should write out what you're gonna say at the top of the show?
Ricky laughs
Steve: Write that out. Get a nice big crayon.
Ricky: No, I like to keep a little bit of...
Ricky clicks his fingers
Ricky: You know.
Steve: Little bit of sumin'. Little bit of spark. Little bit of liveliness to it, sure.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Steve: Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: How are you? Good, good to see you
Ricky: Yeah, great. It's great to be er...
Steve: It's great to be out
Ricky laughs
Steve: Out of the house again.
Ricky: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Just, erm, I was going to say because we've been doing this for a long time now with a little break, erm, but XFM are bringing new listeners all the time. I've heard four or five a week.
Steve: Really?
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Wow, man alive.
Ricky: New listeners tune in to XFM 104.9.
Steve: Radio 1 beware!
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Yeah, yeah. And, uh, we might take it for granted that people that know who we are, know who you are, know who Karl is.
Steve: Sure.
Ricky: Erm.
Steve: Old listeners, certainly.
Ricky: Now, if, if, if you, you know, if you're a regular then you know exactly who we are. But, erm, for those of you who don't, uh, I'll say I'm, I'm Ricky Gervais.
Steve: Ricky Gervais, BAFTA-award winning actor and, uh--
Ricky: Yeah, yeah.
Steve: And writer.
Ricky: Steve Merchant, erm, all those.
Steve: Friend of yours.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah. And, this is the important thing, Karl Pilkington.
Steve: Absolutely.
Ricky: Our, erm, produ-- I say producer. He was the bloke who was lumbered with the job. When I said, "Listen--" See I used to run the desk in the old days when I was working for XFM, I used to press the buttons and run the desk and everything. And then I said, "Listen, I've been on the telly, I do not press my own buttons." And Karl said, "Well, I don't really work weekends." And they went, "Well, you do if you want to keep your job."
Steve: Absolutely.
Ricky: And we were lumbered with him. And then we discovered that he's not just a, a little, like a little dork. A little Manc-y, sort of, idiot.
Steve: Sure. Sure.
Ricky: He's got, he's got a nice shirt. He's got, you know what I mean? He's got something else.
Steve: Absolutely. He brings another dimension, yeah.
Ricky: Yeah. And, uh, he, he started having a little chat and we discovered--
Steve: We both love him.
Ricky: That he had quite a lot to say.
Steve: Mm. Well I, I think you're absolutely right and I think, um- I was wondering maybe we should maybe play another tune. But after that, I just think we should refamiliarize our radio audience with Karl.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: And any new listeners, just get- let, somehow, kind of let them get to know the real Karl again.
Ricky: Well if you are new, you'll, you'll find that we like some old songs, some new songs, some chitter-chat. Uh, we get serious sometimes.
Steve: Oh yeah.
Ricky: There's some tears and some laughter.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: We kicked off with Oasis's new one, "Little by Little". We're going to go back in time now to Iggy Pop and his Stooges with "I'm Bored."
Song: Iggy Pop - I'm Bored