26 October 2002
26 October 2002 Steve wants tickets for Bruce Spingsteen. Karl explains how to escape from anacondas.
Track Listing
"We've got Rockbusters - I thought it went all right last week"/"you taught me about tomatoes last week"/"we should never refer to stuff Karl has said in the past - it'll just take too long to explain."
"What do you think about Ricky's boxing match?"
"Police in smart cars"
Can Steve get a ticket for Springsteen tomorrow? Could Steve see as well as an owl?
"How To Escape An Anaconda" - we started a feature last week - or the week before Educating Ricky 3: "stocking aitken and waterman", "it's not his volt", "Get a lobe of this"
Educating Ricky - last week: tomatoes and worms/worms get stressed/what do sealions do? Educating Ricky 3a: "Get a lobe of this" (girl was deaf for about four years, hit her head and could hear)/"bees are deaf!"/Educating Ricky 3b: "It's not his volt" (electric boy)/"electric eels have 400 volts in 'em!"
Educating Ricky 3c: "stocking aitken and waterman" (origin of "put a sock in it")/Karl choking on a Freezepop/earliest memories
Rockbusters 3 (prizes: xfm compilation, arbitrary compilation, "Stigmata" - "last weekend it was 'Children Of The Corn'")
Rockbusters answers / That Song's Got A Good Story: Gene Pitney - "24 Hours From Tulsa"
The story of the song/"Two Little Boys"/"That's it"
Playlist
Doves - Caught By The River
Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Turin Brakes - Long Distance
Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone
Coldplay - The Scientist
REM - The One I Love
U2 - Electrical Storm
New Order - Vanishing Point
Foo Fighters - All My Life
The Coral - Dreaming Of You
Tupac Shakur - California Love
Ryan Adams - Nuclear
Richard Ashcroft - Check The Meaning
Gene Pitney - 24 Hours From Tulsa
Quotes
Rockbusters
At the moment, I'm in a river full of logs. JT
That lad's got bad asthma. W
I saw that Mousetrap the other night, but the heating in the theatre was knackered. C