Rhod Gilbert on BBC Radio Wales.

If you are listening to this, you are listening to Rhod Gilbert's Best Bits, some of the best bits of my Saturday morning radio show, live on BBC Radio Wales. This week, I'm in the studio in Cardiff with Mr. Chris Corcoran.

I, sort of, um ... I've been away for the last week, back, uh, back in London, where I live, and __ __ Six Nations celebration last weekend, so, I / Wales / I came back / and / BBC Wales building today, and I thought, "Can I mention it, or / gone now / week ago / too much / and I just / Western Mailers landed on my desk, and I think there's a 486-page color pull-out of the Six Nations win. / Yeah. / So, uh ... I think, it see ... it seems like __ people in Wales / still celebrating. So, well done / seen you for a week / well done / my chance / boys / last week / tremendous victory, and well done to the whole Wales / celebrating in style. / Awesome / celebrate for a ... a number of years, __ __ we? / imagine / front page of the, uh, one of the newspapers the other day from Danny B__, saying that the Olympic ... the Olympic fever / the glow, the warm, toasty, national celebratory glow that um ... that warmed the land after the Olympics, has completely gone / dead. dead by the austerity / by / yeah / largely through the austerity and the cuts and, you know, and, uh ... broken Britain and so on / come to Wales / still __ __ __ __kids / all of us / tap in / still ... yeah, / kids. ... Anyway, for the rest of you, uh ... __ __ rest of our 25 listeners, 18 of you aren't in Wales ... so, uh, there we are / anyway, just, uh ... / back / we all move on, and / commiseration to England. Uh ... now then, so, today's show / about, Korkey? / Don't know. Don't know. You are in charge / OK. At the moment, there are no features. / I know you should do. / What? / cryptic clue / so long / let's do a cryptic clue / we will do __ cryptic clue feature / weird sort of way , I quite like it / clue / what they / song / give you / do in the second half / that'll be fun. / Well, that's all we've got / two hours show / talk about the features / we / got / actually, I did have a pretty ... / do you know what? I have got a feature / play / it's a __gan / it's probably the biggest ... biggest, meatiest, chunkiest feature we __ __ __ ever have done / Of all time? / it's about god / metaphysic / it's about life / it's about death, / about ... basically, the feature is, ... the title's gonna be "What is it all about?" / Wow. / I've thrown it out there, really.

I can touch the middle of my back with both hands, right? So, / what it was / but that's flexibility. I can't do that / Well ... all right. / I / just / take my hat off / unfair / stripper, you would. / exactly / that's the point ... innit? / I'd be a great stripper. I / rest of your stuff off / hat off / 衣装はひきちぎって脱ぐとして、帽子は？ / how would you get it off? / I just head-bang__ till it f__ off. ... It's polyester __ __ __ __ not wool / Huh ... See? That's the problem / hats / I made a big mistake bying that hat / why / tell / do / about / one after this / to be honest / You'd be blown away after this anyway. / All right. / Uh ... / usually / something I didn't realize / I bought a polyester beanie, thinking, "Huh, that's nice. it's quite ... it's quite cool / not as hot / 涼しそうだし / right / what I realized is, there's no ... there's no grip __ __ polyester beanie. There's no ... there's no tensty ... tensity? / Right? / What's the word? / "grip"'s ... / elasticity / "grip"'s fine. / constantly / hold its position / It doesn't hold it position upon your head. It slips. ... Don't buy / everyone / polyester beanie / it's just loose and baggy / chance that / like / elephant's bottom / just too big? / ただサイズが大きすぎるからじゃないの？ / Huh. It could just be too big / you might / even spend any time looking at the label / would you? / who spends any time looking at the label of a beanie? / Well, normal people wanna buy / correct size / check the label on this / washing instruction / warm iron, I'll leave it / people / right. I'm gonna ... Feature 1, / what / Feagure 1 ... / Yeah? / actually, Feature 2 / Feature 1 is "What is the world all about?" / Yeah. / We __ __ come back to that / emails / I don't know yet / throw / out properly / __ __ __ __. / that's what / the thing I read / just made me think / what is going on in the world? We'll come back to it. / All right / do you read / before / nobody does, Korkey. / Well, you are ... you are a fool. / What? So, if you buy a beanie ... / It's so obvious that most people choose / correct size hat for their head to avoid __ __ __ . That's the whole point / nobody ... if you are buying a beanie / the way / judge whether / right size / put it on / you don't read the label. / 帽子のサイズが自分の頭に合っているか。かぶってみりゃいい。誰もラベルなんか読まない。 / even do that / じゃあ君は、かぶってみることさえもしなかったのか？ / read the label / I imagine you got this beanie by / on the floor / picked it up / didn't / very nice shop / Did you? / a good ... a reputable m__ / Did you try it? / ちゃんとかぶってみたの？ / Yes. / Really? / did you go through __ selection of different types hat, then? / bought two hats / Stetson hat / crushable, fully crushable. You could stuff it in your pocket, into a ball / Yeah? / ping / Right. ... What's the point / John Wayne. John Wayne, all of a sudden. Yeah. ... And it's ... and it's water-proof, completely water-proof / best thing I've ever bought / when do you wear it? / I've got things in my life / do / this / ultimate thing / Yeah? / ultimate bag / yeah, yeah / got / get / ultimate bag / Yeah, yeah. / right bag / not / expensive or anything like that / right one for you / I / well, I do like having __ right thing / something / sometimes / it could be anything / it could just a potato / what __ right potato? What are you talking about? / Well, it could be anything. I'm just saying / just getting / right / something very satisfying about / right. OK. / buy something you like. I understand that. / right hat, a Stetson ... / Yeah? / buying that Stetson is the best thing I ever did in my life. / Why is it so? / I've just told you, because it's comfortable, / Right. / it's water-proof, fully water-proof, __ __ ... wide-brimmed, fully water-proof hat / and it's crushable ... / Yeah? / ... so you can crush / but you look like an American out of context. What / what are you on about? / 何がしたいの？ / I don't care / where do you wear it? / Everywhere. I wore it to ... uh ... / to the rugby? / Well, non-glitter one? / Yeah. / You weirdo. / don't get me wrong / on, right? / normal / attire / normal, brown / Clint Eastwood / what did ... what did anyone say? / Huh, people were shouting at me abuse ... Clint Eastwood, Indiana Jones / all day. Relentless / non-stop / attention-seeker, then? / 人目を惹きたいだけ？ / Why don't you just / umbrella / don't care / umbrella / that's waterproof, wide-brimmed and / yes, you can / umbrella is not crushable. / ... No. But it's fold-uppable. / でもたためるでしょ。 / I bought an umbrella / Huh huh. / on the 23rd of December last year ... / Right. / ... and I thought, / do you know what? I __ __ __ try something / because / under 6 pounds / Right. / usually my thing / first wind blows / on __ tube / pub / get / take / put it down. Forget it. / お、傘立てがあるじゃないか。って、置くと、そのまま忘れちまうんだ。 / fair logic / golf club / I lost it / I take your point / there you go / So, anyway, I bought / 15 quid / because / pouring rain / 15 pound / a bit upset about that / maybe the psychology will work. Maybe I __ keep / umbrella for ages because it's 15 pounds / 23rd of December, that was, / Huh huh / I went home for Christmas, / Huh huh, / that day ... went out / Carmarthen / next day / 24th / December / Christmas Eve / left in the pub. / Yeah. / I had it less than 24 hours. / 24 時間も経たないうちに失くしちまった / OK. ... And your point is / wouldn't / I can walk into that very pub, / Yeah, / put / umbrella stand by the door / as I did / little ball stuffed in my pocket / How ... how small / crush up? / it's ... infinitesimally small. / ... Well, it's not infinitesimally small, is it? / unbelievably small. You wouldn't believe it. ... You wouldn't believe it / show me. Is / big / you see, this, uh ... celo-tape holder / Smaller than that. / No way. / Yeah. / what about __ __ tea bag / open / pyramid tea bag / a bit bigger than that. / It's a bit ... / why / a wide-brimmed Stetson hat ... / Yeah. / ... that you got abuse from Welsh people about / ウェールズのみんなにバカにされているその帽子 / yeah / to / just a bit bigger than a tea bag / realize that / a lot less vocal. ... I almost / check this out ... whoa ! / Indiana, Indiana ... / Yeah. / Amazing. / Right. / you never / Well, don't get me wrong / scrunch / that big / that small / is pretty amazing / I simply don't believe __. / I'll bring it in next week. / Well, I look forward to it. / All right. ... Oh, sorry. I didn't realize / for the last 15 minutes / just completely forgot.

Now, look, today's big feature ... today's big feature ... rustle, rustle ... is ... and this is what is / story / made / OK / "Universe ..." This is from the, um, ... Daily Mirror, Friday, March, the 22nd __ __ a lot of newspapers / universe / done here? / No. / they've captured some light / huh huh / imagine this now, imagine this, right? / Huh / I woke up this morning / this is what I thought / I woke up this morning, / Huh huh. / Right? / I ... got up ... earlier today. ... / ... It still works. / It still works on anything, doesn't it? / Well, just say the next sentence __ ... / さっさと次のセンテンスを読みなよ。 / I can't. / できねーよ。 / This is like __ __ ground __ __ one sentence / I ... I got up this morning I thought ... / Nuh. Too late. ... I ... and I thought, "Oh, heck / gotta go / that stupid radio show / Right. / If I'm honest, that's what I thought. / OK. / Imagine waking up, ... / wake up / you don't think / shoe shop / gotta go / that stupid radio show / you know / normal people / you wake up and you go / god / you are not normal. / I am / compared to these scientists, I am / Really? / Yeah. / different feature / それはまた別のお題だね。 「科学者はロッドよりマトモか？」/ not these ones / much more normal than me? Buzzz. / Rhod? / Some of them are. Some of them aren't. That's the answer. / そうであるやつも、そうでないやつもいる。このお題はこれで終わり。 / All right. / but / you know / go / shop / I've gotta / Stetson / into / size smaller than a tea-bag, you weirdo / just make up / scrumple and un-scrumple / first / my life ... day. ... Imagine waking up in the morning / work in a shoe shop / fish & chips monger's / you are so un-normal. You don't even know / fish-monger's / I do. I / both together / kill two jobs __ one stone. / 知ってるよ。面倒だからまとめて言っただけだ。 / Fair enough. / imagine thinking this / Do you know? Today, I / gonna capture some light from the dawn of time. / Huh. / Imagine thinkng that / 自分がそんなことを考えている様子を想像してみろ。 / That'd get you out of bed / がんばって起きる気になるよね。 / shall / dawn of time / universe / actually / older than everyone thinks / Wow / imagine waking up and thinking that / dawn of time / that / awesome / pretty / enormity / do a couple of emails / oh yeah / make a coffee / delaying / distraction techniques / of corse you would / anything / hard to get into / socks on. / uh ... Facebook first / Facebook / update status / just / tweet about it. / Tweet about it ... uh ... to your one follower, your one geeky s__y science follower. Uh ... "Captured light from the dawn of time / Wow. / shows / million years older than previously thought." Right? / Wow. / An__ imprint of radiation left by the big bang ... / Huh huh. / ... gives a more accurate age for / 13.82 billion years old. / Wow. What did they think it was? / 80 million years younger than that. / Right. / Right? They've got / ten million / Fair enough. / ... Luckily / they / waste of money / it can detect tiny ripples / cosmic microwave background / radiation from the earliest light of the cosmos / this / from the dawn of time / Wow. / That got me thinking ... well ... I ... I wrote it down. This ... this is what I wrote down / my immediate thoughts / Yeah / Wow! What is the world? / what's going on? -- Radio Wales Big Debate. ... That's what I wrote down. My immediate thought / gonna / all time / big ones / Let's do it. / What is going on? / Is there a god? / What's happening? Who are we? / Are we the only ones in this universe? Is it still expanding? / Is this still expanding? / What's the point? / 何の意味があるの？ / what is the point / N__, that's a bit depressing / need to be / let it / innit?

feature today is / what the heck is going on? What's it all about? / Is universe expanding? / a couple of them. It is expanding / what should we call / call it, uh, "What's the point?" / what is going on / What is it? What is it? / Send us your theories on who we are and what is going on. / What's it all about? / Have we been created? / Yeah. / what's going on? / some of these early / confuse everybody. Have we been created? Yeah. / "What the heck?" That's the feature / What's going on, man? / It's the meaning of life / that's exactly what we're after / yeah, / What is it? / Here's one. "Hi, Rhod. ... Life is about enjoying the good times when you can." / Here we go. / This'd better get more sciency / otherwise this is just p__. This isn't the kinds stuff we want. / It's not. It's philosophy. / It's not ... well, all right / life is about / when you can / we saw your mate Lloyd Langford last night on his tour, and / we all enjoyed / really good laugh / brilliant / what is the meaning of life? / Lloyd Langford / his tour last night / meaning / whole black hole of / Lloyd Langford is / if he is, in any way, connected to the meaning of life / we like him / he lives in my flat / he / meaning of life / No. Have you seen his bedroom? He's definitely not connected to the ... everything. ... "Have you heard about the seven-inch ... / tarantula / escaped / heard / I was in London, but I did hear ... uh ... about some tarantula. What was it all about, Korkey? / Well, I don't know. / You don't know? / I had some / of it / escaped / Huh. / what is he like / deadly, or / story / did / something to do with the snow? I think / stories / something to do with the Six Nations? / nothing to do with the rugby / so / just / big spider that got lost / where is he now? / found / I don't expect so. ... I imagine, it's because of the cold weather, / tropical species / really good chance / really / mate / yeah, that's true / does keep you warm / yeah / very good / a little warm nuzzly places / yeah, that is true. __, maybe he's all right / nuzzled / fine / very negative / today / What's the point? / Huh? / what is the point, everyone? / What is the meaning of life? / so far ... so far, the contriutions are, "Hey, / that spider / Lloyd Langford / last night / What's the meaning of life, everyone? ... "Dear Rhod and Korkey. A quick __ / on my way / cake / brilliant / new story / should be allowed to bet bored / as boredom makes children use their imagination / Newcastle / noticed / we are talking about the meaning of life here / but we are talking about the meaning of life / interesting / far / distraction / far too keen / I was bored witless as a child / let them listen to this show / they will soon / cultivating / role-playing before you know it. / Before you know it, there'll / up / sorts / writing poetry / haiku's / imagine / five minutes / this tedius junk. / Yeah.

meaning / everyone. / Huh. / sparked by me reading that story earlier in the week / which / you may have done / scientists have captured / from the dawn of time / established / world / than they thought it was / and I went, "Wow, wow, blimey. ... __ __ __ do that / Radio Wales / What's it all about? / god / who / where / been / what's the point? / be answered / Can they? / Rhod / mean / I'm thinking bigger. / Yeah. ... / thinking ... / You need ... you need to be specific. / Well, all right / do / people / go / I've read / all / here we go. Here's one. / Yeah. / Um ... "The meaning of life is 42 / Douglas Adams, yeah / from / Very good. / chickin / egg / Easy. The meaning / here we go / find / quater past twelve / sorted it. Here it is / Stew suggests / experiment / aliens / Possible. Um ... but who are aliens? / 「我々は宇宙人による実験の産物なのです」 ... そうだとして、その宇宙人はなぜ存在するんだ？ / doing? / who made / about / same position / hello / Newport / "I've no idea what the world is all about / sat / eating Pringles / more salient than you think / life / don't fight it. / 抗っちゃいけない。 / don't fight / go with the flow / in the moment / in the moment there / thinking about / within / that is, maybe / what it is all about / being / moment / go / find / enjoy the journey. / Yeah. / 35 minutes / that email / it is / maybe it is / enjoying the journey / That's it. ... It's done. / easy / meaning of life / from across the border / England / not ... Paris / or America ... or __ / easy. Meaning of life is survival / in case you go there / chicken / need sorted / shout out / b__ the moment / the show, that's understandable, mate / so / but why / what's the point / answer / point / what's the point __ surviving? / 生き残ることが目的だとしよう。では、何のために生き残るのだ？ / unless / spreading the love / greater / what's the point of that? / 'Cause it's nice. / I think you've got it, mate. / おまえ、やっちまったな。とうとう答えをつかんだな。 / what is the meaning of life? / nice / it is nice / do stuff / this is what / need / care about / modern spirituality / do / life is nice / you / like / sort of boring Jesus. / おまえってやつは ... まるでイエス・キリストだ。言うことがくそつまらん。

it's time now / cryptic / feagure / thank you very much / produce / know the stuff / producers / bigger stations / some of you / I'm not joking / proper job in radio / I know / hospital / looking for people / just / let's face it / more listeners / admit __ __ __ __ audience. ... Anyway, __ __ cryptic clue section. This is / I give you / cryptic clue / ... to the next song / Yeah. ... I hate it. I hate this feature / so / masochistic joy. / Everyone hates this feature, mate ... you, me, the listeners ... / looking / never / before / I'm a bit nervous / a bit nervous / cause / never / awful / crossword / to the artist and the track. / Yeah. / Two separate clues, one / guess / coming up / play along at home / it's great / might / clues aren't very cryptic / possible / You can play along at home. ... You don't have to. I don't care. Um ... OK. / right / how / on the scale of 1 to 10 ? / level / easy / hard / "Easy" was 1 to 4. / OK. / words / No, it hasn't. / it has / Easy, Intermediate and Hard / ten / Intermediate / five to seven / eight / rain man / rain man / a little bit more / insisting on / number / cryptic clue / right / Right. ... So, hang on. What is it, then? / what's what? / hard, is it? / 'cause that is the point / obsessed with numbers / haven't done it for ages. / Yeah. / OK / here comes / come on in / here it comes / OK. / Now don't forget / give me some clues / that's how / works / sit / remember / through / give / genuine / if / want / OK / got / answer at home. ... Here's the artist / Yeah. / own writing / oh. ... "Disco Five was actually Six / shut up your face / actually six ... / disco / shut / face / you're on it / you're already ... you're already on it / shut up your face / Joe D__ / to do / shut / very / most promising start / plus one / Disco / was actually Six / really? No way. / do you want __ clue for the song? / yeah / clue for the song is / go / example / comfy / letting it out / for example / Yeah. Uh ... normal human movement / functioning ... human functioning / by Joe D__ / normal human movement by Joe D__ / very different / that song / do next / shut / normal human / I'll just do a song that / everyone / relate to / normal / clue / which one / second one / the song / going to the toilet, for example. / Uhggg ... OK. / just normal / normal / healthy / by Joe D__ / normal, healthy / disco / it's not / artist / but / you need / to find / the artist / J__ D__ / the clue to / Italian / Disco Five was actually / shut up your face / Joe / clue / is it like J__ / I can't answer / who's / Disco Five / Jackson Five / Whoa ! / Whoawww ! ... Joe Jackson / Yes ! / human / let it out / eat / no / toilet, for example / something / you do / regularly / Of course it is. / Regular A__ / say / well, / very little / what can you / generalization about / generalization / if you ... if / yeah / so it's, uh ... / fully hydrated by / Joe Jackson / generalizations ... sweeping generalization / about / everyone does it / sometimes people struggle with it / not the answer / so / generally / there __ other things / this is true about / going to the toilet is one of them / people are shy / for / could be / what / looking for / have to do it / another / going / another one / is it eating / another one / like / sort of / does it keep you alive? / Staying Alive by Joe Jackson / I can't think of another example / alive / Joe Jackson / good logic / cover / think / you can say this about / Joe Jackson / right / flush / uh / how / you / go / how ... what do you mean? / logically / logically / so, you know / largely / sometimes / yeah, OK / there / sit down to / loo / by Joe Jackson. / No. / how do other people / obsessed / come on / toilet / Joe Jackson / who hovers over the toilet? / weirdos / but / you know / don't be so sexist. / people / those / Uh ... hovercraft ... people? / No. ... Well, yes, some people call / call them hovercraft people / aliens / as well / who / babies / Hovering Babies by Joe Jackson. / No ! Who hovers over the toilet? / population / problems with / people / with issues / one / Women by Joe Jackson / no / hovering women by Joe Jackson / Dancing Disco Women by Joe Jackson / what is the generalization about going / queuing women / all / really iritated by it. Irritated Women by Joe Jackson / terms of / how you / sit down / I know, but how / relationship / go / in a general way, sum that up / I / day / worry / at / sum it up in one sentence / for / it is necessary / Necessary Ab__s by Joe Jackson / girls, it is / prerequisite of life / it / what / it / normal / fundamentally / fundamentally / I don't know what to ... / all / don't let me fail on this / It's different / different for girls / Joe Jackson. Yes. / you ... you / you need help / 病院行け。 / first / was / Shut up your face / Joe Jackson, It's Different for Girls / Do you know / thinking / guests / any / yeah / production team / do you know what / all the way through this show / even / this is how slick we are on this show / thing / coming to our ears / say things / b__. Broken / don't even work / now reduced to holding up / some kind of budget Bob Dylan / 安上がりなボブ・ディランか何かのように / message on it / say / can / saying / end the show? Oh, sorry / end / universal production / neck cut / like that / clap / Right / a bit of paper / get off

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