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The Ricky Gervais Guide To ...Society is the first audiobook in the second season of the Guide To... series.

According to the Week Eighty-eight update of Ricky's blog, 'The Ricky Gervais Guide To ...Society' will be released on November 3rd, 2009. From Ricky:

"The Ricky Gervais Guide to Society will be available from the 3rd of November by the way. I'll try to post a little taster next week. I think it's my second favourite behind Philosophy. Just my opinion. Calm down. "

The audiobook was released on 3 November 2009, as promised.

Track Listing

1. Introductions (0:00)

Ricky introduces this new series of audiobooks by demonstrating what fellow people throughout history have said about Society before welcoming himself, Steve Merchant - Award Winning Writer - and Karl Pilkington "Round headed little twat"

2. Ancient Greek (1:05)

Steve starts off the audiobook by talking about times in Ancient Greek when people would be selected to present new laws, new ideas which their fellows would then decide upon keeping or not keeping. Ricky says he would ask for peace and such noble ideas. Karl reckons he was worked as a slave himself when actually he had a normal job, although he was determined he was a slave, as he had no choice for another job. Steve throws forward an Ancient Proverb "A society grows great when old men plant trees who shade they know they shall never sit in". Once again the metaphor brings forward problems for Karl.

3. GERANIUMS (3:59)

Karl mentions when he went to Ibiza, where a lot of deaths occurred on the roads. To Karl because all these deaths have happened people have planted flowers and made the place beautiful, whereas in somewhere like London it's very safe and as such very grey and boring. Ricky and Steve ridicule him. Karl says that sometimes people have to die, and even though this fella outside his house had a helmet on, when he hit a lamppost his head came off.

4. President Pilkington (7:10)

Karl reckons that people should not have to wear crash helmets if they don't want to. Ricky puts forward to him a role-play in which a person didn't wear a helmet and did crash and unfortunately die. But this man wasn't the only victim and Karl has to deal with his children. Karls answer is to put the kids in a home, who fails to see how it's his fault for not making him wear a helmet. He says he is defenceless to stop it. He believes that the idiots who won't wear helmets will kill themselves off, getting rid of the idiots who don't have any common sense.

5. The Tidy Police (13:15)

Ricky asks Karl what would happen if Karl enforced rules about simply being tidy and being nice and how this would work. Ricky identifies a problem where Ricky can see how about a person who doesn't like to clean and likes a simplistic life and how Karls rules wouldn't be fair at people who like to live there lives like that.

6. Who Can Have Children? (15:31)

Steve brings up how people in China can only have one child but Karl thinks it would be better to decide about who can have children rather then how many they can have.

Quotes

Karl: "There was a fella outside our house who hit a lamppost; he had a helmet on, but his head come off."

Ricky: "Look at this Suzanne... fella who lost 'ead here... Geraniums? GERANIUMS?? For fella who lost bloody 'ead?"

Steve: "People are fucking idiots!"

Free Preview

The free preview was released on 28 October 2009 and can be downloaded at http://rapidshare.com/files/298737123/Coming_3_November_2009_-_The_Ricky_G.mp3 and can also be downloaded from iTunes.