23 February 2002
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1. Posh Toffs Coming or 9000 Points to Cut Peter Stringfellow’s Hair (0:00:00)
2. The Twat In the Hat or The Pork Pie Gone Awry (0:03:08)
Suzanne's unaware of Karl's new fame - Little Donkey + drums story / "Knocking" noise sent into space to contact aliens "Oggy, Oggy, Oggy" / Little Donkey 'went down such a storm' - Karl's dad: "film it, but try and avoid getting the twat in the hat in the shot".
3. What were the Things in Gremlins? or Right Van Man (0:09:23)
White Van Man/Karl - "If my girlfriend's listening now, go and have a wash or something" / Kylie vs Dido @ Brits - "doesn't really matter does it?" // Kylie + Jenny Powell = good looking old women // Taxes rising - Karl's Dad in hospital opening to way to Karl's radio debut on hospital radio // Real life Mowgli living in Transylvania - "What were the things in Gremlins called?".
4. Mark and James or Skoe and Belch (0:14:20)
Posh lads doing a scavenger hunt.
- White Van Man/Karl (cont.) - British Olympic Curling Team // World's tallest man living in Neasden - "bit weird they've only just found him" - Jaws from James Bond has an illness which is "called tall" caused by tumor behind the eyes "needs to get it sorted"// Global warming = big spiders, snakes are deaf so you're alright walking behind them, "Saw something in the news in week that a load of sparrows or something were somewhere", "That's an interesting story".
Pretentious song titles, elitist music listeners // the video to Enrique Inglesias' Hero.
- Song For the Lovers - "He's written such brilliant classics with his lovely arse" and "just to tickle him down below"; Jimmy Webb - If These Walls Could Speak.
Karl applying for job at Granada TV - application form, languages = "English, pretty good" On whether he got the job: "I don't think I've got it". Well-known dictator - "Flobbadan Milosevic". Karl never received his GCSE results. Ian Wright programme - snakes don't have ears; creep up and pick them up; "how do you put a snake down?". Day of GCSE results - KP working at printers; when using gold ink, you "have to get your rollers really clean".
The book 'They Died Young' - about people that aren't really dead // Bruce Lee faked his death - working for the government in hong kong as undercover cop "if you're gonna use someone undercover in Hong Kong, I suggest using the most famous Chinaman of all time", "you look a bit like Bruce Lee" - "No I don't, see this moustache?" KP - "Not trying to offend anyone here, but they do all look the sa-" RG - "RIGHT! NO NO NO! ...I'm so sorry".
- Hip Hop Hooray - Dilated Peoples give a shout out to Steve; Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes To Worst.
Is Elvis really dead?
Stars In Their Eyes - Ian Moore aka 'Chris de Burgh' / Steve claims he wrote Lady In Red to a music lawyer.
- Song For the Lovers: Tom Waits - Ol' 55
Quotes
Playlist
- Nirvana - Man Who Sold The World
- Princess Superstar - Bad Babysitter
- Ash - ?
- Starsailor - Poor Misguided Fool
- The Streets - Let's Push Things Forward
- Lostprophets - Fake Sound of Progress
- Gomez - Shot Shot
- Jimmy Webb - If These Walls Could Speak
- The Cure - ?
- PJ Harvey - ?
- Hundred Reasons - If I Could
- Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes To Worst
- The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
- Tom Waits - Ol' 55
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