04 May 2002/Transcript
Transcription
1. Queen Mum
Steve Merchant: absolutely
Ricky Gervais: Stone Roses on Xfm 104.9, I'm Ricky Gervais with me Steve Merchant
Steve: Hello there
Ricky: And Karl Pilkington for the last time...
Steve: Indeed
Ricky: I'm afraid. So um, you know we're gonna have a little bit of a chat with sowing up some things with Karl, we're giving away that prize with that BAFTA bag and you know
Steve: Playing some great music
Ricky: And we'll just, i mean i'm bringing in my favourite tunes, I'm bringing in The Smiths, Radiohead, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Neil Young, the classics. Steve's doing the same
Steve: Indeed
Ricky: erm, well Karl, last time for er yeah, apparently erm someone's got it a bit wrong, we're not actually away for 6 weeks, we're away for about 2 months, we'll be back in August won' we?
Karl Pilkington: Bloody hell
Ricky: yeah...don't swear
Steve: yeah that's outrageous
Ricky: on the last show you have to say that
Steve: Already bought the tone down
Ricky: Yeah
Steve: Cheapened it
Ricky: And i think it's blasphemous as well
Steve: yeah
Ricky: No it's not 'hell' isn't is it?
Steve: Isn't it?
Ricky: No, don't think-that's not blasphemy is it
Steve: Taking hell's name in vain?
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: Yeah but what was it you were saying the other week about how the queen mum used to have a right mouth on her?
Ricky: What?
Karl: No-
Steve: I don't we said that on air Karl,
Ricky: What?
Karl: No but, last week you
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: Were saying about that bad language, and i was saying 'ar, it, they'll, you know there'll come a time when bad language isn't, doesn't, you know matter anymore, you can eff and jeff and stuff
Ricky: Ow, I know what he's talking about Steve
Steve: really
Ricky: Right, let me explain to you, the listener at home, erm Karl was worried about swearing and As a Joke, off-air, it was last week, we were saying that, erm, the qu-, in the 1940s and 50s the Queen mum used to say things like that, and we were quoting things which she'd said
Steve: Yeah
Ricky: But but putting f's and c's in there, and you believed us
Steve: What? So this whole week, you've believed that we somehow, somehow had knowledge that the
Ricky: Quen mum
Steve: Used to swear like a trooper?
Ricky: We were doing fake quotes from her in her voice, but putting in f's and c's and you believed us. I mean i didn't even think, i mean i thought you were going along with the joke but it obviously made an impac-
Steve: Karl! We've said this, you've got to question and query everything, you can't take things at face value, certainly if they come out of the mouths of Ricky Gervais
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: orr right
Ricky: Yeah, sorry about that Karl, that was a little, a little trick
Karl: O
Steve: Is there any other things now that as you look back over this time we've
Ricky: Is there anything we've said that as you think about i can tell you now that was a lie
Steve: Anything you've maybe thought and queried or questioned, and though that doesn't sound right, that maybe Ricky's told you?
Karl: Something might come to me
Steve: k
Karl: Later on but,
Ricky: Ok, but what about, Karl, i mean, we love you, right obviously we know that, and we've got great affection for you we look forward to this, i'm gonna miss you really, but and i'll tell you what, you've got a heart of gold, now wait till you see what the record is Steve...what i've done
Steve: Is it Heart of Gold?
Ricky: yep
Steve: Brilliant, brilliant. Alright, that's why he's a bronze award winner at the Sony's
Ricky: I don't get up for bronze, i don't get out of bed for bronze
Steve: That was a waste of our time
Heart of Gold plays
2. Sony Awards
Ricky: Karl Pilkington of there on Xfm 104.9, winner of a bronze award at the Sony's, the radio Oscar's as Phil Jupitus said
Steve: Man alive
Ricky: That's what he called them on liquid news
Steve: I'll tell you this Rick, i'm not used to being on a table with losers, at an awards ceremony
Ricky: No, i u u, i didn't want to come in to do the final show
Steve: Nah
Ricky: You know, i went straight over and sat with Pete and Jeff, didn't i? heh heh, from radio4, went over with Paul Gambourchini
Steve: I went over to BBC World Service
Ricky: Yeah
Steve: You know it's lot funkier, lot cooler
Ricky: Yeah, won an award
Steve: Yeah, they swept the boards
Ricky: Yeah, i don't, bronze is nowhere
Steve: What was the mood er over here
Ricky: Silvers, silvers...what was the mood here?
Karl: The mood, err
Steve: Cos the day after, cos people, well let me tell you now i think Xfm deserve an award, and i thought it was criminal actually
Ricky: But what i did like about, we certaintly had the room, cos Pete and Jeff said good luck to us and Christian, that was really nice, and then someone else mentioned us
Karl: James Nesbitt
Ricky: James Nesbitt said 'oh er Xfm and stuff' so we certaintly had the
Karl: Paul Gambourchini said something about it
Ricky: Yeah so
Steve: Did he really? What Gambo?
Karl: Yeah
Ricky: Certaintly had the room, and for a local, you've gotta realise it's a local radio station, you know and err, you can't compete really with Radio2 and Radio4
Steve: But what was the mood the day after, here at Xfm?
Karl: Erm, it was alright, i mean, i think we expected a few more but
Ricky: But you shouldn't take these things seriously anyway
Karl: Nah but
Ricky: Never take awards...seriously
Steve: But what i didn't realise Rick, what i didn't realise is you have to pay thousands of pounds just to nominate
Ricky: You're joking
Steve: Just to get into the running for an award so you've already you know, they squandered thousands of pounds
Ricky: Nah, it's not thousands
Steve: It is!
Karl: Well, it mounts up because you pay to enter right
Ricky: And then the table
Karl: And you've gotta buy like minidiscs and that, to send you're stuff in on
Ricky: Sure
Karl: which are Sony Minidiscs
Steve: M
Ricky: Oarr, i see what you're saying Karl
Karl: I'm not saying anything
Ricky: No
Karl: Erm, and also then, and you've gotta pay for the table
Ricky: Right
Karl: And the food and the drink, i mean it's a few grand
Ricky: I swore on live television as well that night
Steve: Yeah
Ricky: But i've never done that before, i mean i've never, i've sworn before but never acidentally, and we were being interviewed for erm, and Christian was sort of like quite, you know, being a bit boisterious and he must have brought out the worst in me, and i acc-, must of accidentally said the f-word, and i apologised straight away, i didn't want to embarrass Phil Jupitus
Steve: Ha...does that himself here
Ricky: He was doing a good job...pff ha
Karl: But i was thinking about yesterday and your saying a bronze isn't worth having right?
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: But, say like
Ricky: We were only joking, none of them are worth having, but they're very nice, and it's
Steve: No a bronze is pointless
Ricky: Hahaha
Karl: But you say that cos like bronze is like coming last innit
Steve: yeah
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: Right, can you tell me the name of the person who won the marathon this year? No?
Steve: Yeah but that's because we're not sporty, I'm sure there's lots who can.
Karl: But then, the guy who came last, who was in the swinsuit
Ricky: Akffhehe
Karl: People remember him, and he
Steve: No i don't remember his name either
Ricky: No what was his name?
Karl: No, but he was 6 days late i mean he was really bad
Ricky: Yeah but what's his name then?
Karl:...err
Steve: you see?, No one's remembering either
Karl: No, but if someone who won the marathon, i'd go 'i dunno but there's that guy in the swinsuit'
Ricky: Well i'd say 'I don't know, it was a woman'
Steve: Yeah
Ricky: She had shorts on and trainers,
Karl: I'm just trying to make you feel-
Steve: My point is what they will remember is that we were losers, that's what they'll remember
Ricky: Hahaha
Steve: They may not remember our names
Ricky: They'll just point and shout 'Losers'
Ricky: We're all winners though arn't we, we're all winners really
Steve: For taking part sure
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: And it's all subjective as well innit
Ricky: Go on
Karl: I mean i'm not going to moan about awards because you've won a lot of them, it's like saying they don't mean jack, but at the end of the day, right, there's some shows that won awards, and you go 'Yeah that's, that's worth an award'
Ricky: I think you've got to treat it, i mean some awards actually boost your profile or career, or your cache or whatever like that, some it's just a nice night out and it's nice to win, but, i don't think you should really take any award that seriously
Steve: What worries my though Rick, as i mentioned on the night is that i, when i was at school, was, i mean you look at me now, you probably think 'he an athletic kinda guy, he's a sporty dude' you know, but at school bizzarly that was not the case
Ricky: No? What were you a bit of an lanky beanpole?
Steve: As it turns out
Ricky: You joking?
Steve: Yeahyeayea
Ricky: Oh right ok
Steve: So err, but i got silver err in the high jump
Ricky: yeah..
Steve: And i've done better in the high jump right? did no traning whatsoever, no practice, just turned up
Ricky: You were about 2 and a half foot taller than everybody else
Steve: Well keep, well yeah but wait a minute, people think that if you're tall that makes you easier, it makes it easier for you to do the high jump, surely not because i have got all that leg to get over the pole, that makes it hider, harder
Ricky: But, Don't talk rubbish
Steve: What are you talking about?
Ricky: Well of course the taller you are the more chance you've got at the high jump
Steve: What, explain it to me
Ricky: Everyone else, w..wot? Right ok then, so is it harder a six foot man to step over a matchbox or a baby midget?
Steve: A Baby midget?..that Is tiny Rick
Karl: Hang on, here's something i've learnt remember, after like show 4 or whatever
Ricky: Go on..Show 4!
Karl: The flea can jump over the, London Eye?
Ricky: Nooo! No it can jump the equivalent of if it was a 6 foot man, it can't jump about 6 ye high, a flea can not jump over the London Eye
Steve: Ye, Yes it can, ye it can
Karl: And
Ricky: Hahaha! Karl
Steve: Tell your kids that
Ricky: Karl! ooh
Karl: Remember
Ricky: A flea can jump over the London Eye, and an ant can lift three Volvo's
Steve: Hahaha Ricky: Pfsssha
Karl: But you were talking about fitness people and that
Ricky: Go on
Karl: Remember when we were in the pub right? And your mate Johnny was in there
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: I think it was
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: And he was talking about that guy who got done right, cos he entered a wheelchair race
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: And he shouln't, and there was nothing wrong with him, his legs were alright
Ricky: Yeah
Karl: Now he got done because he shoudn't have been involved in it but don't you think, that really, he really good for doing that because he's not normally in a wheelchair
Steve: Sure
Karl: So he's not used to how they move about
Steve: Yeah
Karl: His arms arn't as strong as the other fellas, who are always in the wheelchair
Steve: Yeah, sure
Ricky: He
Steve: Had his mate pushing him, that was the problem
Ricky: h-and it was motorized
Steve: Heh
Karl: I'd give him a Gold Plus, just, i, i you know, you're taking a bloke, who's not used to doing something, he does it the first time, and beats the people who're at it
Ricky: What about that woman though that was disqualified in the shooting, she was in a wheelchair, and she was just doing the normal, able-bodied olympics, right, but, she wasn't allowed to rest her elbow on the arm of her chair, cos they were saying that's an advantage. She was in a wheelchair, and she was shooting, but she was getting unfair advantage, and they said 'You cannot put your elbow on the arm of your wheelchair,'
Steve: Sneaky arn't they
Ricky: Hehaha
Steve: No, they are, you've gotta be careful, you've gotta be careful
Ricky: Do you want to play a
Steve: Some of them arn't even disabled it turns out
Ricky: Hold on though, we're talking about athletes arn't we? What record should we play next?
Steve: I'd love to that that single that was out a couple of months back, by Athlete
Steve: Let's have +Ricky: Athlete
Steve: Man alive
Athlete Plays
Quotes
Steve: Walk like an Egypt bloke!
Ricky: I dont want a complaint on our last show!
Karl: This really tarty girl that did Madonna "Like a Virgin" and I though "Yeah right!"
Playlist
Neil Young - Heart of Gold
Athlete - Westside
Radiohead - Black Star
David Bowie - Rock & Roll With Me
Cat Stevens - Silent Sunlight
Tom McCrae - End of the World News
Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around the Block
Matt Pond PA - Night End
Suede - Stay Together
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out