02 November 2002/Transcript
This is a transcription of the 02 November 2002 episode, from Xfm Series 2
Ladies Boobs
Song: Foo Fighters - All My Life
Ricky: Foo Fighters "All My Life" on Xfm 104.9. I'm Ricky Gervais with me Steve Merchant…
Steve: Hello.
Ricky: …and of course Karl Pilkington. Oooooo have we got a show for you today.
Steve laughs
Ricky: Haven't we?
Steve: What have we got planned, what have we got planned?
Ricky: Oh we've got loads, awwww
Steve: Come on.
Ricky: Loads of stuff and it- two hours of it.
Steve: Right.
Ricky: And all the records.
Steve: Specifically what sort of stuff have you planned for us? Cause I know you've been working hard.
Ricky: What have you done what have you done?
Steve: Cause I see oh you know I've been busy this week I've been house hunting I've had various things but I know you've had the whole week off.
Ricky: Right.
Steve: So what have you been up to?
Ricky: Go on then, Karl. Karl, tell him what we've got. Tell him what you've- what we've planned and all the stuff you've done.
Karl: What have you got?
Steve: But Rick, Specifically what have you come up with?
Ricky: I've uh-
Steve: Quick quick quick quick cause people are gettin' bored. Tell us what you've-
Ricky: Ok, I've come up with um the music.
Steve: Right, I c- obviously that- we've already planned that. We planned that last week, so that's all done. But what have you yourself contributed to today's show?
Ricky: I got uh- I got uh… um… uh… a text message today from Ross Noble. You know, Ross Noble the comedian.
Steve: M-hm.
Ricky: Who's on- who's on Have I Got News For You.
Steve: Right
Ricky: Alright? He says, "Ask Karl, if he woke up with ladies' boobs would he just put a dress on and live as a lady or would he just be a man but with these boobs?"
Steve: Karl it's a good question.
Karl: Oooo
Steve: I know, I know that happened to Ross.
Ricky laughs
Steve: So he's throwing that one out at ya.
Ricky: He did in a way cause he ate pizzas for a year, didn't he?
Steve: Yes he did.
Ricky: He got a lovely pair of breasts.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Go on.
Steve: Or man boobs.
Karl: Probably just find a loose fitting jumper and go to the doctors
Ricky laughs
Ricky: What would you say to the doctor? How would you explain this phenomenon to the doctor? See you'd be- you'd be happy with this cause you believe in um- shite like you know-
Karl: No no no no no
Ricky: Go on. What?
Karl: But it can happen cos I told ya a couple of weeks ago how that can happen.
Ricky: What? What ha-
Karl: How you can wake up with breasts if you're a fella. I told ya.
Ricky: Go on.
Karl: Haven't ya remembered?
Ricky: No I I I funny that, innit? Go on.
Karl: Have you, Steve?
Steve: No I I don't remember this. Wh- did you tell us on air?
Karl: Yeah. Um it can happen if you go to Argentina and have a steak…
Ricky sniggers
Karl: … you can wake up with breasts. Because-
Steve laughs
Karl: Because they-
Steve: I'm sure I would have remembered that.
Ricky: Karl, pull the udder one.
Ricky sniggers
Ricky: Look'it he likes that he likes that!
Steve: Is that what you’ve come up with for this week, that joke?
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Brilliant play a record it's gonna be a dynamite show.
Karl: What song do ya want?
Ricky: Oh right listen, look we're gonna play- I'm gonna play some classic tunes today I'm gonna educate the youngsters, Steve.
Steve: Uh-huh.
Ricky: Right, now you've all heard of Lou Reed, you've all heard of Velvet Underground but, you know, have you heard of "Venus in Furs", Karl?
Steve sings "Shiny shiny…"
Ricky and Steve sing "Shiny boots of leather"
Song: The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
Selling a Futon
Ricky: "Venus in Furs" Velvet Underground. What a great start. A classic song.
Steve: I mean they continue to sound fresh and different.
Ricky: Yeah. Is this- do you know what that s-song's about, Karl?
Karl: No.
Ricky: M&S. M&S
Steve: It's about M&S
Ricky: You know that?
Karl: Is it?
Ricky: You know, the shop.
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: It's all about that.
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: Bout plush and all that, all the things you can get at Marks and Spencers.
Steve: Shiny boots of leather.
Ricky: Yeah, being whipped.
Steve: Yeah, I think that's a new division they've opened.
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Yeah. But we have got a great show lined up.
Steve: Have we? No, go on.
Ricky: No no we have cause we've got um- uh- Rockbusters, coming up the great quiz.
Steve: Really looking forward to that.
Ricky: And that- that's- that's made the press.
Steve: Has it?
Ricky: Um Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah
Steve laughs
Ricky: Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah, um- uh- Friendly Tearooms Newsletter mentioned it.
Steve laughs
Ricky: Um- we've also got-
Steve: That's Karl's local isn't it?
Ricky: Yeah, yeah we've also got uh Educating Ricky where Karl educates me. The one last week, (in a Manc accent) A girl, right, she was deaf and she's had an argument with her mum, she pushed her and she hit her head and then she could hear again.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Don't know what I learned from that.
Steve: No.
Ricky: It might be- it might be subliminal- summat might be going- it might be a metaphor that I will learn from.
Steve: Yeah it's like a parable.
Ricky: Yeah yeah so uh- look at his face.
Steve: So um-
Ricky: We might as well have been talking Dutch. Mightn't we, Karl?
Pause
Ricky: Say something, quick, it's radio.
Karl: D-d- I don't understand what you want from me.
Ricky: Awww, we're only joking.
Karl: Alright so… Educating Ricky, I've worked a bit harder this week, got some good stuff.
Steve: Ok.
Karl: Uh- I'll give you the- the- the-
Steve: The teaser headlines later.
Karl: The headlines in a bit.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: We have got-
Steve: So you've got- you've got Rockbusters as well.
Ricky: Karl's having a bit of a stressful week cause he thinks he's not appreciated, cause he- he- he gets in at- what time you gettin' in, about 8 or 9 don't ya?
Karl: About… well last w- well yeah I've been busy this week, I've been in about half past 8 in the morning.
Ricky: Yeah and been leaving when?
Karl: About half past 8 or 9:00 at night.
Ricky: Yeah, and in Saturday.
Karl: Yeah, I'm in now.
Ricky: You get paid, don't ya?
Karl: I'm busy at home at the moment.
Ricky: A lot of people work late, Karl. A lot of people work 12 hour days.
Steve: Why are you busy at home, Karl? What you up to?
Karl: Cos we're tryin' to sort out a move.
Steve: Uh-huh.
Karl: I've been tryin' to call around this morning to get someone to buy a futon and a table from me.
Steve: Yes.
Karl: Um.
Steve: Well we could put that appeal out now, couldn't we, if anyone wants to buy a futon or a table?
Ricky: Just think a futon that Karl Pilkington slept on.
Steve: Exactly. How much are you uh- you asking?
Karl: Whatever, uh-
Steve: Well you need to be more specific.
Karl: You gotta take the two, I don't want, like, different people coming round an' that.
Steve: Sure.
Karl: Gotta buy futon and a table, um-
Steve: It's quite specific, isn't it? If someone has to want a futon the-
Ricky: Exactly.
Steve: The specific futon you're selling and the table.
Ricky: And the tea mate, isn't it. Alarm clock and teamaker this is futon and table.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Um-
Karl: Lookin' for about- about a hundred quid.
Ricky: And it's good to- it's good condition, the futon?
Karl: Yeah, yeah.
Ricky: Right less aged you haven't pissed yourself in the- no.
Steve: No, nothing? And what kind of table, what sort of table is it we're talking? Are we talking like a table for a lounge, a d- dining table?
Karl: No, f- for uh- like a computer and uh- uh just uh- you know something-
Steve: Have you got any drawers? Are there any drawers?
Karl: No.
Steve: There's no drawers.
Karl: No it's just a nice wooden table and uh- solid-
Steve: Is it- is it kind of oak or is it sort of an Ikea sort of thing?
Karl: No it's like oakish.
Steve: It's oakish.
Karl: Yeah.
Steve: Ok.
Karl: So, a hundred quid.
Ricky: The futon is just- is just a mattress and the- and the- the- the pallets, yeah?
Karl: Yeah but it's not- you see, you get cheap futons don't you.
Ricky: So not this one is it-
Karl: This is a good one it's- it's uh-
Steve: How much would that have retailed for when you purchased it?
Karl: I think I paid about 250 for it.
Steve: So it's a bargain for people?
Karl: Well, if you look at it, if you-
Steve: Now how long have you had it, how old- how old is it?
Ricky: This is a whole new strand, isn't it?
Steve: Well, I think it- I this is-
Ricky: I don't thing it's legal, I think- I don't think we should use-
Steve: I'll tell you what I'm interested in, Rick is-
Ricky: What?
Steve: -just finding out a little bit about the sort of thing that Karl's got in his home, you know?
Ricky: I- I'm interested in if people will phone up to spend a hundred pounds just to go round-
Steve: Karl's house, yeah.
Karl: No no I won't be, no.
Ricky: What?
Karl: No no they come here I'll bring it to work and they can pick it up here.
Steve: You're gonna bring a futon and a table to work? Don't you ride a bike to work?
Ricky: So hold on we need someone with a van, now.
Steve laughs
Ricky: So we need- is- is anyone who wants to- they're not allowed round your house, can they meet you next door, someone with a van who will-
Steve: Can they meet you in your street somewhere?
Ricky: Hold on, could they meet you, hold on what about the little Chinese fella that lives across the road, on the 2 houses and the old woman who's dead reading a book? Could- could you meet him somewhere-
Steve: I've got an idea, what about if you meet them at the end of your street, you blindfold them-
Ricky sniggers.
Steve: Like they do when- when terrorists take the negotiator to the uh-
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: The hideout.
Ricky: The big cheese.
Steve: And um- and so you can do that and in- and so, you know they- they could piece together, maybe where you live.
Ricky: With sounds.
Steve: By sounds and stuff.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah.
Steve: But, uh- what about that, Karl? That’s- that's just a great idea.
Karl: Yeah.
Steve: And would you sign the futon for people, d'you think? Would you uh- would you give 'em a little signature? Or maybe you could-
Ricky: Or maybe you could sign the pallet, you could sign the pallet.
Karl: Yeah, or I could try and get work to buy it off me and then we give it away for Rockbusters.
Ricky: Do you think they'd do that? You think they'd do that? They'd probably do it for Foxy with his- with his big hog.
Steve: Imagine how big that would be.
Ricky: Imagine if he wanted to sell his hog.
Steve: Yeah. That is a motorbike isn't it? I-
Ricky: Yeah.
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Yeah, he's been selling his hog for money for years doesn't he?
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Oh dear.
Karl: So, but we'll see about that if people are interested.
Steve: So uh- if people are interested then maybe email um- [email protected] if you're interested in a futon.
Ricky: Buy- buy Karl's futon.
Steve: And uh-
Ricky: Competition, one hundred pounds O-N-O.
Steve laughs
Ricky: Yeah? Yeah?
Karl: What gear have we got in here?
Steve: I never knew what that meant, O-N-O, I don't- I thought it meant sort of on the nose, on the noooose.
Ricky: Oh that's good, yeah. Um- what have we got well tell 'em what we've got we've got to give away Steve.
Steve: Actually I have to say you've excelled yourself this week.
Ricky: And we got Richard Ashcroft's single coming up soon after this, go on.
Steve: When have you- since when have you taken to talking like that?
Ricky laughs
Steve: It does amuse me.
Ricky: Go on.
Steve: Um- this is actually- this is a nice little collection here, this is a 3 DVD set uh- David Attenborough's uh- The Life of Birds: Trials of Life and Life in the Free Zone.
Ricky: That's a good one, innit? Go on.
Steve: That's a selection of- uh- animal-based documentaries.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Um- we've got.
Ricky: That's what he's best at.
Steve: Well, absolutely.
Ricky: I hate when he goes off for boar and he does like uh- fast cars.
Steve: This is uh- a very very good indeed, this is uh- uh- a best of David Bowie compilation
Ricky: It is a very good- it's a top one-
Steve: It's uh-
Ricky: Not the rubbish ones that no one else wanted this is a brilliant compilation of Bowie.
Steve: Yes it's got an excellent selection on there. Uh- we've got- what's this? Now this looks like a Madness… oh no, no no no no no, no it's far worse than we could have possibly imagined, it seems to be some kind of-
Ricky: Is it Our House?
Steve: -tie in with the Our House Madness musical.
Ricky: And it's sort of what a cast of 20 people who wanted to be singers?
Steve: Uh- I ca- it's tricky to find out I can't figure out if it's the originals or not but needless to say if you're a Madness fan I'm sure that will be an absolute treat.
Ricky: Yeahyeahyeah, you'll love that you'll love that.
Steve: Uh- now I know that uh-
Ricky: Steve, I wouldn't mind that DVD collection meself.
Steve laughs
Ricky: I can't- we can't give it away, no we can't.
Steve: Talking of great compilations what about this is Country Legends
Ricky: Oh that's alright.
Steve: I'm seeing on there Glen Campbell we've got Dolly Parton we've got um- whatchamacallit on the- on the cover.
Ricky: Whatchamacallit?
Steve laughs
Ricky: From from-
Steve: A great performer.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Steve: Jake um- Whatchamacallit.
Ricky: Oh excellent.
Steve: Great hits from him so uh- that's there-
Ricky: Well uh- what a collection
Steve: That's uh some Xfm compilation again easy to get hold of if you-
Ricky: But the big one, the big one the film that Karl uh- picks every week.
Steve: The DVD movie.
Ricky: The big one.
Steve: This week.
Ricky: Don't go out tonight if you've got a DVD player and a television set cause you'll be staying in and watching this fantastic film.
Steve: It will tear your soul apart. It's Hellraiser.
Ricky laughs
Steve: The original Hellraiser, bear in mind it has been on Channel 4 and Channel 5 and on most cable channels since it came out. But if you haven't seen it- if you are one of the only people who has not seen it and of course you have to be over 18 to play, then you can win Hellraiser.
Ricky: That is fantastic well uh- play a- play a song, Karl and we'll come back to that, more- more great stuff.
Steve: Indeed the competition coming up later. Email only isn't it, Karl?
Karl: Yeah, yeah
Ricky: Futon.
Steve: Haha, a futon's still available.
Song: Richard Ashcroft - Check The Meaning
Selling an Orthopedic Chair
Ricky: Richard Ashcroft "Check the Meaning." Well, Karl you're chuffed aren't ya? What's happened? What's just happened? Tell the listeners what's happened.
Steve: This has sparked you up a bit.
Karl: Steve's just called up, he's uh- put in an offer for the futon and the table.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Um- I think he wanted to- he definitely wanted it but I said, "Look, now think about it over the weekend."
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Give us a call.
Steve: Well you're not a hustler.
Karl: No well I'm no- I'm not gonna rush him into it because once he's got it he- he can't bring it back. I'm not messin' about.
Steve: No.
Karl: Um- so-
Ricky: The bloke said uh- "What sort of wood is it?" Karl said, "Sort of uh- sort of like a light brown color." He went, "What, beech colored?" Karl went, "Depends what beach you're on."
Steve laughs
Ricky: Which was nice.
Steve: You do understand there's a wood that's called beech.
Ricky: Called beech.
Karl: Uh- well- well he's- he's happy he likes the sound of it and I had a plum cover.
Ricky laughs
Karl: So it's gonna be uh-
Ricky: Yeah. Is Karl going, "That will go with (mumbles)" he's just going, "I'll tell you what'll look nice in your spare bedroom…" It was like a-
Steve: Well he did- he-
Ricky: -an episode of Changing Rooms it was like listening to a representative Karl
Steve: He did the deal in under 3 minutes wasn't it?
Ricky: He's pretty good innit he?
Steve: You phoned him about half way through in that song so-
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: You work pretty quick, Karl, I've gotta say.
Ricky: Yeah. Yeah.
Steve: It's your Manc scally ways.
Ricky: I'm sure we're not allowed to do this, though.
Steve: No I think it's highly criminal.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: But have you got anything?
Ricky laughs
Steve: Well I tell you I am moving shortly so I mean I might- I might come in next week I could have a couple of things.
Ricky: I threw away a desk the other day.
Steve: I've gotta get rid of a bed, um- a chair, cause you know I'm pretty tall. This is so pathetic. When I- when I moved up to London my dad said, "Well you wanna be careful cause I mean the seating in a lot of these London pads it's a bad scene, very low backs. Fashionable isn't it, fashionable chairs and stuff you're a big guy, 6 foot 7 you need, like, a decent chair." We went into a shop, it was, like, a second hand furniture shop, right? We bought this chair, very high backed.
Ricky laughs
Ricky: What did you buy? The fact that you bought so low I love that.
Steve: It was just a chair so I could sit in my room and watch TV.
Ricky: But was it a soft chair or was it a wooden chair?
Steve: It was kind of like a sort of uh- it was gr- lemme explain cause it's kind of like an armchair but it's kind of got wooden arms. So I get this chair I bring it up to London I'm-
Ricky: Imagine that.
Steve: This is a wonderful chair.
Ricky: I love it!
Steve: And I'd be watching TV everyone else is in agony-
Ricky: Right, yeah so
Steve: But I've got this lovely chair, right? And someone went- and they looked at it and they went, "Isn't that an orthopedic chair?"
Ricky chuckles
Steve: And I looked at it again, right? And I realized it's kind of wipe cleanable.
Ricky laughs
Steve: It's made of some kind of fabric that allows you to just mop it down with a wet cloth.
Ricky: Why?
Steve: Cause I think it came from an old people's home.
Ricky: Oooooh
Steve: You know when you see, like, old people-
Ricky: Oh no.
Steve: -in some kind of social room, it- at old people's homes just sat watching a little-
Ricky: Yeah, everything's dry wipe.
Steve: -cruddy old TV and they can- and you can wipe everything clean, it was- it's one of those chairs.
Ricky: Ah that's fantastic.
Steve: So if anyone's- maybe they've got an elderly relative.
Ricky: Did you keep slipping off?
Steve: (laughing) I just kept sliding off and it's also the most uncomfortable chair I've ever- cause unless you've got chronic back pain…
Ricky laughs
Steve: It just is pre- it's just the most uncomfortable chair. It makes you sit all upright-
Ricky: Well you've-
Steve: -if not slightly forward.
Ricky: You’ve done a good sell on it. I think uh- are the phones aren't going mental how much do you want for that, Steve?
Steve: If you've had a recent accident or you've got a disabled or- or um- or someone in the house who's just uh- elderly then um- maybe you might wanna get in touch. I'm happy to- you can tell that I'm out for 25 quid.
Ricky: This is so wrong.
Steve: 25 quid I'll take that.
Ricky: Awww no.
Steve: If you're setting up an old people's home
Ricky laughs
Steve: You know, it's a little pet project.
Ricky: Yeah you don't get a lot of grant, you can have-
Steve: Exactly.
Ricky: I mean um- because though Steve's such a high flier, I mean, if it really is a good cause he'll just give it to ya.
Steve: (high pitched) Well
Ricky laughs
Steve: Let's not rush into anything, Rick. I like to assess each case individually.
Ricky: Yeah
Steve: Certainly, certainly if you are a charity then- then I might go for 20 quid, I can- you can take it off my hands for 20 quid.
Ricky chuckles
Steve: Um- but otherwise 25 and I'll tell you-
Ricky laughs
Steve: -it is in good condition cause I haven't really sat on it.
Ricky: 5 quid off if you really are infirmed.
Steve: And there were some stains, I've wiped them clean.
Ricky: Uh (laughing) yeah, yeah, uh- oh dear. Well that's fantastic so we've uh- we've uh-
Steve: Well let's- I'll tell you what we should resuscitate next week, Swap Shop, The Multicolored Swap Shop.
Ricky: Well I uh- honestly-
Steve: That's a great format.
Ricky: But there's a couple of things I've always wanted to get, Swap Shop is one of them and the other one is Superstars.
Steve: I don't remember Superstars.
Ricky: Superstars was great cause it was, like, the people of their time. So you'd have, like, people like- nowadays you'd have- you'd have Beckham and uh- uh- um- Whatshisname- uh- who's the tennis player? Who's it?
Steve: Rusedski
Ricky: Yeah, (mumbles) and they- they have to compete. So all these people have to compete at each other's sports and they have to choose 7 out of 10 sports. And there's a leaderboard and there's a big final, oh Keegan came off his bike.
Steve: Uh- it's not- it's not-
Ricky: Jacks always used to win it
Steve: it's not…
Ricky: No no it's real sports
Steve: It's real proper sports.
Ricky: It's proper sports, it's 100 meters, tennis, weightlifting, all the real sports you- you can't do your own sport.
Steve: Well I know you're a pretty big uh- guy now in- in British TV. You're a bit of a big shot. What d'ya reckon, pull some strings?
Ricky: Let's get it back on air.
Steve: (laughing) Let's get back in there.
Ricky: Superstars.
Steve: Superstars, sounds fantastic.
Ricky: Me, Johnny Vegas, Peter Kay- (high pitched) for the- for the- a bigger fella I think, maybe. The comedy- comedy superstars. Um- what we got next? We got a bit of Springsteen haven't we?
Steve: Let's play Springsteen. This is a track from his current album The Rise. A lot of people think…
Ricky: Brilliant.
Steve: …Bruce is a bit M-O-R, bit middle of the road or whatever, but, you know, I just think, piss off.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: I just think, screw you. Just play it.
Ricky: I just think- yeah. Get lost you.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Imagine this you're open top Caddy
Steve: Yeah right
Ricky: You're just going around Route 66, you just, you goin' home maybe for Thanksgiving.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: See your folks. Just turn up the radio if you are.
Steve: Play the tune, Karl.
Ricky: Probably not, though.
Steve: That just reminded me when I brought a- just stop it for a second. I just realized.
Ricky laughs
Steve: -I brought- when I brought-
Ricky: Shambles. Absolute shambles.
Steve: When I brought a girl back and she saw the orthopedic chair
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Did you?
Steve: When you bring a woman back to your pad, oh it's embarrassing.
Ricky: and the harness.
Steve: Yeah. (laughing) and the-
Ricky: Yeah and the (laughs). "Can you give me those two splints?" "I'm sorry?" "Those two splints, there." "Well I've got to go." "Have you?"
Steve: Is this a potty under the bed?
Ricky laughs
Song: Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
I'm Not a Doctor or Anything
Steve: "The Rising" title track from Bruce Springsteen's current album, The Rising.
Ricky: Great track.
Steve: Yeah. Good tune.
Ricky: Great th- that feeling of s- it's melancholy and uplifting. We've had quite an interactive show so far cause we've got uh- a call that Superstars is coming back. It's due to come back in the BBC schedules, which is great new. Apparently Steve Redgrave is one of 'em. I just think will professional footballers be allowed to take part these days, though? Well not on 50 grand a week, you can't really have 'em falling off bikes and their… ankles.
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: McCaskill last night.
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Yeah a slippery thing.
Steve: Ian McCaskill?
Ricky: Oh he fell over 3 times didn't he? Oh if it had- did you see Celebrity Fit Club?
Steve: No, I haven't seen it.
Ricky: There was a great moment where they had to go into the thing called a Bod Pod. And you sit in it, it looks quite space-age, and it- and it…
Ricky makes sound effect
Ricky: …analyzes you and it tells you percentage body fat. Now, I think um- men are meant to be about… sort of uh… 15-25% body fat. Women are meant to be like about 20-30 body fat. And they all went in there and um- they went in there and it said uh- Ian McCaskill came up…
Ricky makes sound effect
Ricky: uh… 34% body fat, or whatever: slightly overweight.
Ricky makes sound effect
Ricky: 38%: overweight. Then it went um- that other one…
Ricky makes sound effect
Ricky: …um- uh- 45% body fat: obese. Then it went, Jono uh…
Steve: Did it say I don't want to tell you?
Ricky: (laughing) yeah, yeah yeah and then it went uh-
Karl: One at a time.
Ricky: 50% body fat, um- uh- very obese. Then Rik Waller was sat in there and it came up 60% body fat and I wanted it to come up: slug.
Steve laughs
Steve: Oh God.
Ricky: and it came up morbidly- 60- you are 60% fat.
Steve: So- so 60% of him is fat?
Ricky: Yeah. Yeah, yeah 60% of his entire makeup
Steve: That's extraordinary.
Ricky: It is, yeah.
Steve: Well, you know my feelings about Waller.
Ricky: Well don't let's go on…
Steve: Well that's the reason I don't watch the show, actually.
Ricky: I do feel a bit sorry for him and he is- he is tr- I think he is trying, although the fella there um- thinks he's not trying. So I don't know who to believe, Steve.
Steve: Sure, yeah, yeah.
Ricky: Do I believe Waller, and he does get pains an' that and he is a bit… you know.
Karl: The problem is, right, he does like his food.
Ricky: Yeah. We- we all like our food.
Karl: But if he didn't do the exercise he wouldn't be as hungry… and he might not get fat.
Ricky: This is a whole new nutritional outlook.
Steve laughs
Steve: Absolutely.
Ricky: So you're saying, don't exercise and carry on eating and- that's interesting. Can I- no no no let me write that one down and we'll send that to the British-
Steve: The nutritional organization.
Ricky: Yeah, no that's good. Karl Pilkington, ok well- no no it's a- it's a good-
Karl: No, I'm no doctor or anything.
Steve laughs
Steve: Woah! Wait wait wait wait.
Ricky: Oh come off it. Stop being so bloody modest.
Steve: Please.
Ricky: You are a doctor.
Steve: You're just-
Ricky: Aren't ya? Aren't you a doctor, seriously? You- you didn't qualify? That's interesting.
Steve: You dropped out early or-
Ricky: That's mad. That is mad.
Steve: I mean you- you're as good as a doctor you just- you just didn't get the paperwork or whatever. You just didn't turn up for the exam.
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: He was just saying that Bruce Springsteen um- uh- depressed him a little bit.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Cause it reminds him of when he worked in the supermarket and I went, "It's funny how a song can do that, take you right back there," and he went, "Yeah and nothing else can do that." I said, "Well actually smell is the most evocative sense cause smell is linked to memory in the brain." And he went, "Yeah, they probably said that before music though."
Steve laughs
Ricky: And now science is going, "Oh, we better revisit this, there's music now."
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: We've got this theory knocking around for, ya know, 10,000-
Steve: I went to see Bruce, you'll be pleased to know. I just want the fans of the show to know that I did make it to Bruce Springsteen's concert last week.
Ricky: He made it.
Steve: And uh- he started with that song we just played. And it was dynamite. I mean he never let up. Almost 3 hours, he rocked the joint. He's 53 he was sliding across- it was pure rock and roll. Pumping our fist, sliding across the floor on his knees, he was jumping on the piano. It was real Jerry Lee Lewis rock and roll and uh- it was dynamite. And um- I just was looking around though and when I am the trendiest person at a gig…
Ricky: Oh dear.
Steve: … then I'm in trouble. D'you know what I mean? And there was- some of the people there- I imagined, you know on Amazon.com um- it says like, "People who bought X also bought Y."
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: And I think people who bought tickets to Bruce probably bought tickets for Mark Knopfler.
Ricky: Yeah, I-
Steve: Dave Gilmour.
Ricky: Yeah, I might-
Steve: Of Pink Floyd without Pink Floyd.
Ricky: No, but they're the-
Steve: Stevie Nicks
Ricky: But there's also- yeah, but then there's also, you know, all the monsters of rock. They probably buy Stones when they visit, you know.
Steve: Yeah, yeah.
Ricky: And probably Tina Turner.
Steve: It's the blue washed jeans.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah.
Steve: You know, it's the small waistcoats.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Over a denim shirt.
Ricky: Plaid- plaid shirt maybe sort of like Timberlands. Nothing wrong with Timberlands. Oh that's libelous.
Steve: Sure.
Ricky: No, see I've done it again.
Steve: But uh- it was hell getting out, I couldn't fi- I mean I went to the tube and it was a nightmare cause some of the tubes weren't running. I just said to my friend, "Oh sod this," you know dadadada, stormed off trying to find a cab. Couldn't find a cab, wandering around Wembley just livid. I mean, fuming cause I couldn't find a cab. Just- I was screaming cause I was going, "I've got money, I'm on the radio, I've had a TV show. I've got the cash, I'm willing to spend it. There's no one who can help me get home."
Ricky: I've seen- I've seen him shout this in Brewer Street.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Just standing in the middle. Go on.
Steve: And I was thinking to myself, what would you have done there? Because in the end I just sat in a little café and had something to eat. But you, I mean if you couldn't get a cab what would you have done? Just cause there's a couple of- I was looking there was a couple of hotels near Wembley. I was thinking you'd have just checked in.
Ricky: Yeah and just have-
Steve: And stayed until-
Ricky: Yeah. When there's a cab, let me know.
Steve: I was thinking, cause you were thinking of going, would you have booked a cab beforehand?
Ricky: Uh- yeah.
Steve: Would you have- would you have thought to do that?
Ricky: Yeah, I'd have got a cab there and I'd have booked a cab somewhere.
Steve: Genius.
Karl: Wouldn't the helicopters just took you back home?
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Oh he's having a dig, innit he?
Ricky: He's having a laugh. Innit he?
Steve: Blimey.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah.
Steve: Play the ads.
Karl: (sounding dejected) Yeah.
Ads begin to play
Meet Richard Anderson
Song: Death in Vegas - Scorpio Rising
Ricky: Death in Vegas, "Scorpio Rising"
Steve: Featuring the voice of, is it Noel Gallagher?
Ricky: Liam, innit?
Steve: Is it Liam?
Ricky: Sounds a bit like him.
Karl: Liam, yeah.
Ricky: Yeah, yeah.
Karl: It's alright, innit?
Ricky: Excellent, yeah. Right, ok, let's uh- let's get this show well and truly on the road. Um- we better start what Educating Ricky, next? Karl, what have you got for me? I can't wait for learning, I need learning, I need education.
Steve: We should just explain-
Ricky: Teach me something.
Steve: -obviously, for those that have just tuned in. Karl, uh- tries to teach Ricky 3 things each week.
Ricky: Based on the pun title.
Steve: Each of them- just to tantalize Ricky, is um- abbreviated into some kind of headline.
Ricky: A- a cryptic clue involved in a- involving a pun.
Steve: So what have you got for us this week?
Karl: Alright, they are really cryptic this week.
Steve: Ok.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Um… first story, little headline is um… Don't worry about him, he candle it.
Ricky sniggers
Steve: He candle it?
Karl: Yeah.
Steve: Sounds a bit like he can handle it but it's not. Brilliant.
Karl: Uh… second one…
Ricky and Steve laugh softly
Ricky: I'm sorry.
Karl: Uh…
Ricky: Oh, Get a lobe of this.
Karl: I- I'm-
Steve: (laughing) Get a lobe of this.
Ricky laughs
Ricky: Some classics.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Get a lobe of this.
Steve: Coming soon.
Ricky: And stark naked in Waterman's. Go on.
Karl: Second one. I'm Kermitted to this treatment.
Steve: I'm committed to this treatment.
Karl: Yeah.
Steve: Alright, sounds fine.
Karl: Yeah. And the last one um… uh- the police are causing a bit of a stare.
Steve laughs
Ricky: (laughing) It's the way he looks when he says it. Oh I wish you could see it. Oh can't we get Karl on telly?
Steve: There's gotta be a way.
Ricky: The- the- all the cable channels, anyone can get on telly these days. Let's get- let's-
Karl: Alright, so…
Ricky: -let's phone up. Let's get you on Choice or summat. Just a little- just Karl.
Karl: Wh- wh- wh- what you going for like?
Ricky: Oh, he candle it. I think.
Karl: Don’t worry about him he candle it.
Steve: He candle it. Ok let's- let's hear this one.
Karl: Alright you familiar with the uh- the phrase burning the candle at both ends?
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: D'ya know how it's come about?
Steve: I know a man who does.
Ricky: I- I assumed that it was to get more light… in the room.
Karl: How would that work?
Ricky: Well, they'd put it sideways and light both wicks out of one candle they could get two-
Karl: No.
Ricky: No? Go on.
Karl: No, what it is- it's uh-
Ricky: I know what it means. It means you- you're staying- you're doing too much, you're staying up too much. You're not getting enough sleep and you're-
Karl: Well, years ago
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Um- when they didn't have light bulbs an' that.
Ricky: Oh yeah, what year is this? Literally, literally ages ago, specifically.
Karl: Yeah, quite a bit back.
Steve: Mhm.
Ricky: Ok.
Karl: Uh… didn't have light bulbs an' that so they used to have candles everywhere-
Ricky: When did the light bulb come in cause I can't remember at the moment?
Karl: Uh- oooo, dunno.
Ricky: Ok go on.
Karl: So um… yeah so there's no light bulb.
Ricky: Well you wouldn't know anyway, you're a- you're a doctor you're not a historian. Go on.
Karl: Uh- and people who worked a lot of hours, yeah.
Ricky: How many? Literally lots?
Karl: They get up early in the morning, cos they have to be up early.
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: And it's dark outside so they light the candle.
Steve: Sure.
Karl: And they wear it out a bit. And then they- they're gettin' in late as well.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: And like, they be like, "Oh, it's dark, we'll have to light the candle again." And they're burning candle at both ends of the day. So that's where the saying comes from burning the candle at both ends… So…
Steve: Alright.
Karl: That's uh- a little lesson.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: Let's go on.
Ricky: Uh…
Steve laughs
Ricky: Can I have-
Karl: No, no you can't have another one yet.
Steve: You can't rush into them, Rick. You've got to-
Ricky: I've got to
Steve: You've gotta soak that one in. Any questions for Karl off the back of that?
Pause
Karl: What'd ya think?
Ricky: So… so people were- I mean basically where this comes from is people have-
Steve: Literally burning the candle at both ends of the day.
Ricky: -at both ends of the day, sure.
Steve laughs
Karl: So we've still got
Ricky: Go on.
Karl: I'm Kermitted to this treatment and-
Ricky: I can't wait, this is like- this is like Christmas Eve for me-
Steve: Rick, I should just say-
Ricky: It's like I've got to open another present now.
Steve: No, I'm afraid we've gotta save it. But Rick, listen um- we often get a lot of email correspondence during the show, Rick uh- which I don't- I don’t sort of pass onto you cause I mean, you're busy, you're planning the show and stuff-
Ricky: Sure, sure.
Steve: You've got lots of ideas-
Ricky: Sure, yeah
Steve: And you've got music and stuff to worry about
Ricky: Yeah yeah yeah.
Steve: So I checked the emails and, we get a lot of response, a lot of people obviously- you know- wanna give us feedback. Uh- just a sample one um- from Richard Anderson, he's just uh- emailed us in here, Rick cause uh- he's been listening to the show. He says, "Ricky, your show is appalling-"
Ricky laughs softly
Steve: Um- "Are you actually aware you're on the radio or has someone just secretly stuck a microphone on you?" That's from Richard Anderson.
Ricky laughs
Steve: That's typical of the kind of feedback, Rick, we're getting.
Ricky: Really?
Steve: Today. So…
Ricky: It's that good, is it?
Steve: So that's- that's the kind of- yeah, high positive praise that we're getting so uh-
Ricky: I'm going- I'm plan down cause I wanted him-
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: I was- I was gunning for him as a fan.
Steve: I was worried that
Ricky: -early on in our career, so uh I think- I think he's hooked now though.
Steve: But thanks Anders for uh-
Ricky laughs
Steve: -getting in touch. Good work.
Karl: He's sitting through though for Hellraiser, innit he?
Steve: Yeah, well that's still to come.
Karl: That's Still to come.
Ricky: With Rockbusters.
Karl: What we playing?
Steve: Uh- a bit of Ol' Dirty… bleh I can't- I can't say the word it's offensive. Old- ODB
Ricky: Is it bollocks? Is it Ol' Dirty Bollocks?
Steve: No no no no no no no… Ol' Dirty…
Ricky: Ol' Dirty… Big cock?
Steve laughs
Ricky: What is it? What is it?
Steve: I can't tell you, Ricky.
Let's Look Through This Rubbish
Song:Old Dirty Bastard - Baby I Gotcha Money
Steve: Brilliant.
Ricky: Yeah?
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Funny word, innit?
Steve laughs
Ricky: Funny words…
Steve: What other funny words are there?
Ricky: Oh though, Xfm's a funny word and I just say the letters out 'cause the word doesn't make sense.
Steve: Just uh- lemme just check Richard Anderson's email again, just remind myself of…
Ricky: Go on.
Steve: Uh- "Ricky, your show is appalling." Richard Anderson, thanks. What I like about uh- Dicky- Dicky Anders is that he's obviously so angry, he's so annoyed by the show…
Ricky chuckles
Steve: … that he's bothered to email just to get the venom out. Cause otherwise he'd just switch over. He's obviously so annoyed he's started up the computer…
Ricky: He knows how to- he knows how to hurt someone as well.
Steve: … and logged on. Exactly, he's really taken the time out to um- to show his disapproval.
Ricky: Cause I'm thinking of giving up.
Karl: I'll tell you what though, it can- it is pretty hard to listen to.
Ricky: What, this?
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: I've listened back to the tape that- when you were making that thing for the Best of…
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: …and I- I mean I sounded like Albert Tatlock. I s- I really sounded like some sort of punch drunk stroke victim. And- uh- oh there you go. Let's just say I don't remember myself like that.
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: Um- so uh- yeah, I do apologize. It's- it's not a great planned show slick word of articulate.
Steve: No no no no.
Ricky: Is it? But I mean then who is?
Steve: But I think there's so many shows that are, you know, nowadays on radio and I think there's- there's a lot of stuff that's heavily formatted, you know, and there's well- you know- I don't know, presenters who are professional and got some sort of degree of talent.
Ricky: Yeah.
Steve: And ability to sort of sting a sentence together.
Ricky: Bored.
Steve: You know I'm thinking Chris Moyles.
Ricky: Yeah. But I mean I'm bored with those- those people who-
Steve: Yeah, exactly.
Ricky: -you know, uh- I think we need a little bit of- a little bit of Karl.
Steve: Hey.
Ricky: … in our lives.
Steve: I was just thinking actually, it just suddenly struck me, if you wanna get rid of your um- your furniture.
Karl: Gotta buyer.
Steve: You've already got a buyer?
Karl: Already got a buyer.
Steve: Cause if there's any other stuff, what I really- uh- we were clearing some stuff out of our place recently and we just dumped some stuff outside on the street cause we were gonna take it and take it to the tip later. Just dumped some stuff outside and I have never seen so many people come out of the woodwork scavenging through our garbage. It was incredible, they were like zombies.
Karl: Well that's what I was saying.
Steve: They were like flies on shit. It was amazing.
Ricky: When I said to Karl- when I said to Karl uh-
Steve: That's what you should just do just dump it outside-
Ricky: Well he went-
Steve: -cause it will get taken.
Ricky: When he went he's- he said, "D'you think I asked enough, a hundred?" I went, "Yes definitely." He went, "Aw I could have asked more." I said, "No, don't do that." I said, "because you'll end up having to pay the council to take it away." He said, "I wouldn't," he said, "I'd rather just dump it and let a little homeless fella have it."
Steve laughs
Ricky: And then he went- imagine a little homeless fella sitting at the desk.
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: Imagine, alright, that I walked past, he's sat outside Hearts, right? A little ol' 24 hour shop.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Sat outside there and he goes, "Have you got any change?" And I go, "I can do better than that."
Steve: Yeah, here's a chair and table.
Karl: Here's a futon.
Ricky: And a futon. A futon no less. Not your boring bed but a trendy, yeah.
Steve: Well, but the thing is I- the amazing number of people that would stop to look at our junk. What- there was a car driving by with a family and kids, perfectly respectable, just driving past, you know, on the way to somewhere. Stopped, got out, got the kids out the car, "Come on, kids, let's just look through this junk." But I love the idea that-
Ricky: "You said we were going to Alton Towers, Dad."
Steve: Yeah, "No, no sorry no time. We're not going to the zoo let's look through this rubbish."
Ricky: "We're not going to look through other people's rubbish again are we?"
Steve: "Put these gloves on and look through this shit."
Ricky: "Ow! That's a needle."
Steve: It was the- I mean, who does that? Well, it was like a Saturday afternoon. Kids were just gonna go and look through some rubbish. And one guy, this is the most incredible- one guy, I caught him going through the bins as I came- as I came in. I said, "Alright, what you doing?" He was one of those homeless guys who likes to remain dignified.
Ricky: Why did you say what are you doing?
Steve: Well, because it was my house, I had to go pa- I had to squeeze past-
Ricky: It wasn't in your kitchen.
Steve: He was in our front garden.
Ricky: Oh was he?
Steve: Yeah, going through everything. He'd torn the bags open, he was going through it. I said to him, "What you up to?" He went, "Oh yeah, just looking… stuff. Don't worry I just- I'll clean it all up afterwards just looking for a few odds and ends…" I said, "Oh yeah, take what you want, you know, it's all going away." "Yeah, yeah, thanks very much, thanks, yeah." So he went off, I didn't think anything of it. I was walking past the shops the following day, the little sort of uh- kind of 7-11, right. I was walking past, I thought, "Oh that's interesting a Gil Scott Heron album for sale." And I looked, I thought, "Wait a minute, this is all our rubbish." And the guy had set up like a little car boot sale outside the 7-11 on the pavement, he'd taken our junk, he'd marked on prices. There's like an old RAC book from 1976 that had been lying in the house, a yellow pages. You know, and he'd marked up the-
Ricky: How much was the yellow pages?
Steve: Well I'm glad you asked.
Ricky: What year was that from?
Steve: 50p, I snapped it up
Ricky laughs
Steve: I thought that was a bargain. And um- it was incredible he had- the cheek of just selling our junk outside.
Ricky: Enterprise, Karl, you did that. What did you used to do? You used to sell flowers.
Karl: I sold flowers.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: I sold uh- sold fizzy drinks at school.
Ricky: Did ya?
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: What that you'd made?
Karl: It was soda string, yeah.
Ricky: Yeah.
Karl: Made some uh-
Ricky: Well, of course when you were doing your Pilkies Makin Music, your disco…
Karl: Yeah.
Ricky: … you used to go into your mum's bedroom and find a pair of tights and a cigar?
Karl: Yeah they- yeah. They'd be prizes uh-
Ricky: Did your dad used to smoke cigars in tights or- or your mum? No which one of 'em used to sm- go on.
Karl: Alright. Look, let's- let's uh-
Ricky: Yeah Educating Ricky.
Karl: No no no, that's- we're teasing that. Uh- Rockbusters.
Steve: Well I think we should play a tune and come back with Rockbusters.
Ricky: Aw, the show's falling down and going so well. It's just the energy isn't it? The first hour we got through.
Steve: I'm still in good spirits.
Ricky: Is this- this still good is it, this show?
Steve: I'm enjoying it, yeah.
Ricky: Yeah?
Steve: I'm having a good time.
Ricky: It's still good, is it?
Steve: I just- lemme just check cause uh- just check what Richard Anderson thinks.
Ricky: Did he email again?
Steve: No, he said it's appalling.
Ricky laughs
Steve: No no the Dickster thinks it's appalling. So uh- we should.
Ricky: No but, what's this? What's this?
Karl: Bit of Aqualung.
Steve: Uhhh
Ricky: (in Manc accent) Aqualung, Aqualungggg.
Steve: Rockbusters next.