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He tried to cut in seven times on the trot saying “ooh it’s getting a bit personal” and then adding in the “and our faces” when talking about the poster 😂
@@INGLEBOP Yeah I'd like to do that as well👍 They could never have foreseen it, but KP and co have helped a lot of people with these shows. And Mrs Matthews said he'd never be a high-flyer...
Mrs Mathews was a terrible fool!... Thank Heaven for the K man!! He's made So Many people smile and laugh even at our darkest moments... I think he's saved more people then penicillin! He Truly is a gift to humanity!... It's almost 20 years ago now, but it's STILL fresh and entertaining!... It's like Nothing else Ever! A True legend! He's my favorite thing in the world!! I HOPE he knows how much we all love him and how much he has helped and affected people... It's sad he's not doing any new stuff, but at the same time, like I said, even after All This Time, this old stuff is STILL so marvelously fresh and brilliant! I Know I'm not the only 1, but I Really love him!
@@eligluck5290 He did acting recently! Had a go at that. Check. Lol... but seriously he had a part in the TV show Rain dogs and also in the movie the chief, his wife and the canoe.
I had the thought the other day … no one listens to past radio show episodes that won a Gold or Bronze at the Sonys … yet here we are, 20 years later and RGS has a cult following and most listeners know every story Karl and Steve have ever told. I literally listen to them 8 hours a day while I’m working
Especially as they just said not to say anything controversial this episode and within 2 minutes they've said one of the most offensive stories so far lol
I've always wondered if that was the voiceover work they were talking about :) even though the timing *really* doesn't add up. For a game that came out in 2011.
Jesse Miles given how long valve takes to develop games after they fucked HL it probably was. they say that the HL3 script is written and recorded and who knows how long they have been working on it
Probably took Steve that long to call up ALL the media companies, desperate to get in touch with them. He loves money for old rope. Better still, it was a woman on the phone ;P
I’ve been listening to these for about 10 years at bedtime and they never get old. The more I listen the more I appreciate Steve merchant. He gets overlooked but he is so witty and funny. I love how funny and intelligent ricky is and karl for just being his funny manc self with a head like a fuckin orange 🍊
There’s a great moment on one of these where Ricky is telling Karl not to swear on the radio or he will. So Ricky starts saying swear words and then Steve throws ‘tits’ in there like an excited teenager.
Interesting for me it’s the other way round, as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed more and more how desperate he seems around women and how sensitive he is when he’s the butt of the joke especially in the early seasons
@@DumboSanchez Steve being desperate around women is literally part of his schtick. He even has a stand up special called "Hello, ladies" that centers around it. I dunno how people can listen to these and not pick up on how self aware Steve is.
This is a belting episode. There are so many iconic moments from compilations etc on this one episode. I’ve been looking for “is ‘craptic’ a word?” for months and months and months. There’s at least 6 moments I’ve heard that are pure comedy gold!
"You know if you're good looking or not! ...c'mon Steve, what do you think?" 😂 Love it when Karl and Steve go at it and Rickey just splutters laughter in the background
I swear to God, Steve talks about the crouching tiger hidden dragon woman on every other show. 10 years I’ve been falling asleep to these and I skip that anecdote almost 4 times weekly!
KARL IS SO CHEEKY AHAHHA "You were with your mam and your dad" I love his cheekiness- I don't really think he has a big ego or is arrogant, it's just who he is
He told his girlfriend how lucky she was that he hasn't got bored with her yet and he expects her to be still be with him if he was in a coma for 40 years but would immediately leave her when he woke up because she would have lost her looks. Hmm. That's just two of many examples, Karl is lovable and hilarious to laugh at but let's not pretend he isn't arrogant and rude.
I listen to these so often that I think my baby's first words will be either "don't. talk. shit." "Alright?" Or "arbitrary" Edit/Update : I flipping love these comments 😅- when he was born he had eyes bulging with imagined riches, the bald head of a Manc and the squark of Johnny Vegas... I mean Ricky Gervais
Limespecs That, also the one when Karl said there was a cruise liner with rough areas on it. But for me number one was the white van Karl when meatballs were in square tins.
Owen doesn't change that Karl should have passed on the message and then continued to belittle Steve, who for once was actually in the right against Karl haha
"haha God, didn't hurt" classic. Reminds me of what I once did as a kid; my stomach was acting up, light spasms or whatever, so I decided to teach it a lesson by punching it :P Probably for the best I didn't go into medicine...
15:23 R : "Have we got Monkey News for this week?" K : "Uhhhhh.. Dunno if I wanna do it this week.. so.. just cause breakfast do it 'n that, 'n ehh just leave it maybe this week, see what happens.. Just see if we need it!" XD From Karl's own mouth : ROCKBUSTERS ~ Do we need it?! ;D
That story about Crouching Tiger that Steve was telling, and when he said her and her husband were laughing, and then Ricky said "if he doesn't laugh she BITES him" I thought I was gonna die from laughing 😂 my head hurt after that.
Psychologically it’s fascinating how similar the details are of the stories they tell more than once. I guess it goes back to their stand up days of memorising material, but the level of detail from ‘unless it’s Hong Kong calling’ to their reactions and counter reactions is extraordinary
I completely disagree. The differences in their retold versions of stories has always made me cringe and even made me angry sometimes because i realise that at least one version was rubbish.
How can Ricky say that Karl ‘doesn’t have a malicious bone in his body’?? Especially after how unbelievably rude Karl was to Robin in the pub! That was the height of bad manners.
Ricky shamelessly 'borrowed' a lot of stuff that Karl said, in one of his stand-ups, Ricky recites Karl's views on the gift of a goat for a poor African family almost word for word.
@@gibbs7444 It's like a story that your friend keeps telling over and over again. You've heard it before, but it's still fun to listen to every once in while
Recently read "Time and Time Again" by Ben Elton. Pretty much exactly what Ricky talks about around the 16:30 mark. I wonder if he recently listened to this and decided to write the book... Great read btw
this comment spooked me right out, not only is that book just like that 10 second comment by Ricky, but what's crazier is that Rick actually suggested Elton would write a novel like that over a decade before it was released, fascinating.
Nah. These were in the couple of years following their first major success with the original "The Office" (2002/2003). The original Portal didn't come out until 2007 and Portal 2 came out in 2011. At this point in time, beyond XFM Steven Merchant wasn't really known to the public like Ricky was. Ricky gained celebrity status for starring in their show, Steve had a few years of comfortable anonymity comparatively speaking due to staying behind the camera.
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Hey guys, sorry for pinning this comment on all videos but I want to give you an update on the channel. I've been slowly adding a show archive to the videos including a full transcript added as sub titles and a full track listing (with links to RUclips videos for each track). Pilkipedia archive link has been added as well and I've been having fun illustrating some of KP's best bits, I'm adding these to a shop incase anyone is interested: www.man-moth.com/ It's taking me a while to update the archives, especially as I don't work Mondays so please bear with me as I chip away at it. Lots of love, Man Moth.
You're a legend
4th listen through. thanks for your work!
The first twenty times I listened to this I thought "that sony's ours" was "that's sewn his arse"
ME TOO!
Ricky 'the Stirrer' Gervais was having so much fun in this episode
He tried to cut in seven times on the trot saying “ooh it’s getting a bit personal” and then adding in the “and our faces” when talking about the poster 😂
Stephen talking about X-Men years before he knew he'd be on the big screen with Wolverine himself hahaha.
Is he in an X-Men film
@@shrimpanzee001 he's in Logan
@@BizzleBizzle321 what is his role
@@shrimpanzee001 he plays a mutant who can't go in the sun and looks after professor X
@@BizzleBizzle321 oh so not a lanky goggle eyed freak? odd
"Cause ya were at home with ya mam and ya dad" 10:00
One of my favourite Karl Vs. Steve moments
so venomous haha i love it
Absolutely devastating for Steve that. Massive L
Then the nail in the coffin with the “why didn’t you get your mam and yer dad to clean your house”😂
This episode has got me through so many bleak days 😂 I doubt radio will ever get this good again, the chemistry is on another level
For me as well
I wish I could Personally thank them for how much they have gotten me through
@@INGLEBOP Yeah I'd like to do that as well👍 They could never have foreseen it, but KP and co have helped a lot of people with these shows.
And Mrs Matthews said he'd never be a high-flyer...
Mrs Mathews was a terrible fool!... Thank Heaven for the K man!! He's made So Many people smile and laugh even at our darkest moments... I think he's saved more people then penicillin! He Truly is a gift to humanity!... It's almost 20 years ago now, but it's STILL fresh and entertaining!... It's like Nothing else Ever! A True legend! He's my favorite thing in the world!! I HOPE he knows how much we all love him and how much he has helped and affected people... It's sad he's not doing any new stuff, but at the same time, like I said, even after All This Time, this old stuff is STILL so marvelously fresh and brilliant! I Know I'm not the only 1, but I Really love him!
@@eligluck5290 He did acting recently! Had a go at that. Check. Lol... but seriously he had a part in the TV show Rain dogs and also in the movie the chief, his wife and the canoe.
“We’re up for a Sony”
Show goes into utter chaos🤣 Karl vs. Steve is just the best!
I had the thought the other day … no one listens to past radio show episodes that won a Gold or Bronze at the Sonys … yet here we are, 20 years later and RGS has a cult following and most listeners know every story Karl and Steve have ever told.
I literally listen to them 8 hours a day while I’m working
And years later, Karl is doing his own voiceover work 👏
“What a load of malarkey”
You can have fish and chips n all
Less malarkey, more smarty.
The silence after Karl's story about the dj mistaking a callers daughter for a parrot kills me every time
Definitely where they got the idea for extras with the down syndrome kid lol
Especially as they just said not to say anything controversial this episode and within 2 minutes they've said one of the most offensive stories so far lol
Awards don't matter 🤣
He never said it was a daughter.
I'm pretty certain this bit was agreed upon off air, almost too good
We now all know why it took so long for Portal 2 to come out XD
lel i was actually playing portal while listening to this
I've always wondered if that was the voiceover work they were talking about :) even though the timing *really* doesn't add up. For a game that came out in 2011.
Jesse Miles given how long valve takes to develop games after they fucked HL it probably was. they say that the HL3 script is written and recorded and who knows how long they have been working on it
@@mpdb42 Just a joke, innit.
Probably took Steve that long to call up ALL the media companies, desperate to get in touch with them. He loves money for old rope. Better still, it was a woman on the phone ;P
I’ve been listening to these for about 10 years at bedtime and they never get old. The more I listen the more I appreciate Steve merchant. He gets overlooked but he is so witty and funny. I love how funny and intelligent ricky is and karl for just being his funny manc self with a head like a fuckin orange 🍊
There’s a great moment on one of these where Ricky is telling Karl not to swear on the radio or he will. So Ricky starts saying swear words and then Steve throws ‘tits’ in there like an excited teenager.
Interesting for me it’s the other way round, as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed more and more how desperate he seems around women and how sensitive he is when he’s the butt of the joke especially in the early seasons
@@DumboSanchez Steve being desperate around women is literally part of his schtick. He even has a stand up special called "Hello, ladies" that centers around it. I dunno how people can listen to these and not pick up on how self aware Steve is.
come on mate, thats so clearly just self deprecation as part of his humour, he knows what he looks like lol@@DumboSanchez
Still listening?
This is a belting episode. There are so many iconic moments from compilations etc on this one episode. I’ve been looking for “is ‘craptic’ a word?” for months and months and months. There’s at least 6 moments I’ve heard that are pure comedy gold!
"are you gonna eat that"
"we-well i w-was thinking-"
"give it ta me"
This show planted the seed for Brian as Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
With Ted Dansen 😁
As soon as he said that I thought of Brian
18:43 yes, Steve tells the cinema anecdote again, but this time we get this brilliant impression by Ricky hahaha
10:05 the venom in Karl's delivery is absolutely spectacular, supplemented tenfold by Ricky's perfect reaction.
Jane: "Why did you show off?"
Ricky: "I had to"
He's such a big kid
😂
Just found out this was broadcast the day my dad passed away, thanks for these man moth, youre the best.
haha
+uyy7uhy shut the fuck up
iamamassivedickhead haha
+uyy7uhy oh please no one is impressed.
***** haha
can't sleep without these, thanks for uploading!
Dorothy W same, for years, and i'm 28 :/
Chris Barron i'm getting there i'm 21!! haha
Yeh they help My anxiety
Yea they really help my anxiety too. I listen every night
+Mina F they help me switch off each night
"..................................thing is, awards don't matter!"
So, we're not out to offend, or annoy..
I love how they bollocks it up within 3 minutes, haha.
Haha its amazing how quiet it gets
No one likes to pick on an invalid
He couldn't of fuct up worse
12:30 "I'll bung a song on"
"You know if you're good looking or not! ...c'mon Steve, what do you think?" 😂 Love it when Karl and Steve go at it and Rickey just splutters laughter in the background
Talking about taking Tom Cruise's face. Planting the seeds for Karl's second film idea.
"No, I'm Bryan!"
@@williamsmith666 hahaha
I find if you just start talking, your mouth comes up with stuff..
"Who's Bryan..."
"Oh, they did that thing.."
"Tourettes Trent Darby"... I just spat beer on my screen laughing. Fucking hilarious.
You never spat beer
25 years of age and these podcasts are the only thing that allow me sleep, anxiety’s a bitch
Nearly 30 now pal
Still listening?
"Either that or a wide parting."
"your as bad as my agent" makes me laugh everytime i hear this episode
* you're
"Kenny Loggins" I thought I was gonna die from laughter for a second
I swear to God, Steve talks about the crouching tiger hidden dragon woman on every other show. 10 years I’ve been falling asleep to these and I skip that anecdote almost 4 times weekly!
About 3 or 4 times I think he's said it. I love Steve but it's such a shit story!
I think he's only told that anecdote twice in 10 years...not bad going
He’s told it twice ya cretins
@@dsl218 let’s not turn on each other an that. Actually, turns out, little monkey fella in the cinema as well.
What a hard life you have.
KARL IS SO CHEEKY AHAHHA "You were with your mam and your dad"
I love his cheekiness- I don't really think he has a big ego or is arrogant, it's just who he is
Ricky's laugh that follows is musical hahaha
He told his girlfriend how lucky she was that he hasn't got bored with her yet and he expects her to be still be with him if he was in a coma for 40 years but would immediately leave her when he woke up because she would have lost her looks. Hmm. That's just two of many examples, Karl is lovable and hilarious to laugh at but let's not pretend he isn't arrogant and rude.
I listen to these so often that I think my baby's first words will be either "don't. talk. shit." "Alright?" Or "arbitrary"
Edit/Update : I flipping love these comments 😅- when he was born he had eyes bulging with imagined riches, the bald head of a Manc and the squark of Johnny Vegas... I mean Ricky Gervais
Pudding Brain I reckon it’ll be a tall baby.
Is it a real baby?
Her name is simply "Dearest Rose"
I hope your baby doesn't have a baby.
Hope you and your partner aren't body builders.
43:25 Steve's snorting laugh whilst Ricky butts into to tell Karl that's the last time they do Rockbusters always cracks me up! XD
Ricky's slurring from 52:19 to 52:30 is incredible
What did he say 🤣
Right well someone who I don't let down right, are the listeners of this show *cue a top 10 ricky laugh*
Limespecs That, also the one when Karl said there was a cruise liner with rough areas on it. But for me number one was the white van Karl when meatballs were in square tins.
spreadthelove77 For me, it was ‘foodage’. I thought Ricky was going to burst! 😂
ruclips.net/video/f8JnlkgSIWQ/видео.html
2:13
Yeah Manhole cover and Square Tins are my top 2 Ricky laughs
Also when the bloke with two heads got run over
'I thought someone must be having a tractor sale' Im dying
So much beef in this episode...
Almost as much as a 50 cent record!
not suitable for vegetarians
"we gotta remind you who's show it is" + the immediate bit after the song is real beef.
@@CDbiggen Yeah, there's some proper behind the scenes tension in some episodes.
Merchant really loved the rockbuster "Kenny Loggins" 😂
lol KP's early idea for his film with Tom Cruise/facial surgery at 37:00
the origins of BRIAN
"with the body of tom cruise with the voice of BRIAN!!! some cunt ive never heard of!"
"The face and bones and stuff of Tom Cruise....with BRIAN'S BRAIN!!!"
You want to go where everybody knows your name- it's Brian!
Looks like it could become reality: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40953419 😲
10:38
‘Right, well someone who I don’t let down, are the listeners of this show!’
Brilliant
29:54 had me crying laughing. This has got to be one of the funniest episodes
It was so immature but it also had me in stitches 😅
there's nowt as gridlin' as gravy
Crn Dffy Cow heels and tripe
Can tell Ricky gives Karl a Royal Rollicking when he asks to talk to him off air for a moment. Karl doesnt say a word for ages after that
43:23 The sharp, immediate "right" after Karl drops the Kenny Loggins Rockbuster is priceless
The first 5 minutes are comedy gold. Perfect set up.
The thing is, Steve had a sore throat the week before, presumably when the voiceover was needed. So he wouldn't have been able to do it anyway!
Owen doesn't change that Karl should have passed on the message and then continued to belittle Steve, who for once was actually in the right against Karl haha
Good point.
Some say, to this day, Karl still believes he didn't nothing wrong
It was for a tractor sale anyway.
Not only did he not pass it on, he deleted the message so Steve couldn’t even find out who it was
"Oh he's done you again mate"
+Dickie2shoes love it when ricky shit stirs
Yeah, he's so good at it too. Knows exactly which buttons to press.
How has he done me?
I dont know who's laughing at who here...
Play a record
Listen to these at work, thanks for uploading!
work?
yeah, just stick them on my ipod
Yeah me to
'Cannae' Loggins
Definitely one of his best! *
Iconic Rockbuster.
"I'll bung a song on, tripe and cow heels tonight" hahaa
36:46 Starring.. Ted Dansen as Brian as Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
"Nice of her to clean up her bad language" makes me laugh every time
I love the fact he was taking the piss outta your voice. "I'll bung a sung on"
I love there's always a little pause before Ricky does the monkey news jingle, like he's remembering it
This should actually be sub-titled "The origin of Karl's second film proposal".
Thanks for these, MM.
But that's not funny. x
Yeah that isn't funny.
it's awesome that stephen talked about xmen 2 and now he has a big role in an xmen movie
Surely the best opening 5 minutes of the whole run.
love rickys shit stiring at 9.10 "oh...its getting a bit....oh hes got you there"
what? what debate? i don't understand what you are on about sorry.
Tom Oliver plonker
Kenny Logins is one of my favourite Rockbusters
"cause you were at home with yer man n' yer dad"
Said with such venom 😂
36:00 is when Karl discovered the idea for his film featuring Clive warren and Rebeca demorney 🤣
They wouldn't be as lovable if they were perfect.
My favourite rockbuster of all time. Kenny Loggins
52:14 to 52:29 is some of the most inarticulate mumbles Ricky has ever done
"haha God, didn't hurt" classic.
Reminds me of what I once did as a kid; my stomach was acting up, light spasms or whatever, so I decided to teach it a lesson by punching it :P
Probably for the best I didn't go into medicine...
15:23 R : "Have we got Monkey News for this week?"
K : "Uhhhhh.. Dunno if I wanna do it this week.. so.. just cause breakfast do it 'n that, 'n ehh just leave it maybe this week, see what happens.. Just see if we need it!" XD
From Karl's own mouth : ROCKBUSTERS ~ Do we need it?! ;D
That story about Crouching Tiger that Steve was telling, and when he said her and her husband were laughing, and then Ricky said "if he doesn't laugh she BITES him" I thought I was gonna die from laughing 😂 my head hurt after that.
Psychologically it’s fascinating how similar the details are of the stories they tell more than once. I guess it goes back to their stand up days of memorising material, but the level of detail from ‘unless it’s Hong Kong calling’ to their reactions and counter reactions is extraordinary
I completely disagree. The differences in their retold versions of stories has always made me cringe and even made me angry sometimes because i realise that at least one version was rubbish.
Got to love it when Karl moves above Steve in the pecking order.
steve and karl's fight during the second link is one of the best pieces of radio ever
"Awards don't matter" hahaha
"Yeah, the joke's on you- he couldn't get 'em to clean the flat."
"Haa!" ;p
How can Ricky say that Karl ‘doesn’t have a malicious bone in his body’?? Especially after how unbelievably rude Karl was to Robin in the pub! That was the height of bad manners.
Lol. My thoughts exactly.
And many other instances where he was a prick...
@@Scallion_D ✊
he wasnt angry at robin he was angry at ricky for lying about robin being there, so he was rightly angry after his friend lied to his face
@@enosiseclipse4951 Nah, mate.
@@thepontiacbandit7874they got on quite well didn't they afterwards. Poor robin tho
44:25
Steve : "I'm not looking forward to the future, Rick... all my feelings and emotions will be banned"
Ill bung us up a song n that.
One of the best episodes
The whole incident with Karl in the beginning reminds of Darren Lamb from extras
LiquidShaman maybe that’s where they got the idea.
Ricky shamelessly 'borrowed' a lot of stuff that Karl said, in one of his stand-ups, Ricky recites Karl's views on the gift of a goat for a poor African family almost word for word.
Ricky: "I want lots of policing of social occasions" - Be careful what you wish for!
I feel like you don't get enough respect for your channel name choice. You had enough to go on but couldn't have picked a better one, well done!
I love when Karl hypes up what he wants to tell Steve at 12:53 and 13:20 and finally reveals it at 31:35
"Nice of her to clean up her bad language."
stephen's cinema anecdotes, interminable.
Arbitrary
He literally told the exact same lame story twice during these shows.
He told it twice on XFM and once on Radio 2, and Ricky reacted every time as if he'd never heard it.
Let it go, everyone gets wound up by someone. People who ruin experiences like the cinema for everyone deserve everything they get.
There's a few jokes that get repeated. You can't blame them for not remembering if they told a story or if they've forgotten it over the years.
Best episode “I’ll bung a song on”. When Karl says no monkey news and Ricky calls him up on it. He looks alright with hair then? OoOoh.
Great to hear (@ 36:45ish!) the genesis of the script for "Bryan's Brain"! 🤣🤣🤣
Arrrgghhh Steve tells the cinema story again! I'm surprised I don't know that off by heart
What i don't get yet love is that Ricky and Karl pretend to of never heard it
+jethro gibbs Man, that story is such a drag when you've heard it scores of times😴x
@@gibbs7444 It's like a story that your friend keeps telling over and over again. You've heard it before, but it's still fun to listen to every once in while
HOW OLD WAS HE AGAIN?!
"Nice of her to clean up her bad language" hahahaha
Family pub
Recently read "Time and Time Again" by Ben Elton. Pretty much exactly what Ricky talks about around the 16:30 mark. I wonder if he recently listened to this and decided to write the book...
Great read btw
this comment spooked me right out, not only is that book just like that 10 second comment by Ricky, but what's crazier is that Rick actually suggested Elton would write a novel like that over a decade before it was released, fascinating.
"Awards don't matter" always cracks me up.
That golf simulator anecdote is my favourite of Ricky's. That and the three criminals gone straight in the pub.
These make me so happy. 🙃😁☺️
It's interesting to hear Ricky and Karl rip Steve's accent. To my American ears, Steve's accent sounds much more intelligent than Karl's Manc whine.
That’s a farmer accent in the uk
I mean, Steve now has the proof that he is a great voice artist (Portal 2)
@@MrOasis316 And, recently revealed to be the closest sounding modern accent to that spoken in Shakespeare's time.
@@vividhkothari1 Money for old rope.
@@thespamdance311 I thought that was proved to be the midlands accent?
“I’m not looking forward to the future, where feelings and emotions are banned” is ageing well 😬
i swear that the first time karl tells the ken dodd story he tells it from his pov but in this episode he says it was his dad
This is one of their best endings to a show ever. Good ol' Karl
I like how Karl says the game they were playing on the radio was what have I got in my pocket which is even more cryptic than rock busters lol
Ricky really does babble and mumble from 50:58 onwards. Man alive!
“what about you steve” 😂😂😂
funny listening to the Steve voice over conversation looking back. I wonder if that call was for Portal 2?
Nah.
These were in the couple of years following their first major success with the original "The Office" (2002/2003).
The original Portal didn't come out until 2007 and Portal 2 came out in 2011.
At this point in time, beyond XFM Steven Merchant wasn't really known to the public like Ricky was. Ricky gained celebrity status for starring in their show, Steve had a few years of comfortable anonymity comparatively speaking due to staying behind the camera.
Benjamoose other than his show-stealing performance as Oggy
Lol at Ricky's chat with Karl off-air haha.
This is probably my favourite show of the lot.
Imagine Dr Fox listening to this for the Sony's.