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Rhod Gilbert on BBC Radio Wales

If you are listening to this, you are listening to Rhod Gilbert's Best Bits, the best bits of his Saturday morning show, live on BBC Radio Wales, 11 till 1. This week, it's me, Chris Corcoran in the studio with Eggzy of Goldie Lookin Chain, and a host of unanounced celebrity guests.

lot of energy in the room, Corky. / already / lot of energy / excited / christmas / weather is better, and / music is slightly ... slightly better as well. / And / name the, uh, show today / the summer party show ... this is an audio b__ / fun / I'm the bun. / Ahgg / Get in there. Get in there. / We've gone too much too soon. / Very excited, uh, talking about random stuff, I might even re-create a beach by taking my top during the show. / Brilliant / I may do it / still not fully excited yet, but / I may do it. / conversation / big studio, we do feel a little bit like Radio Wales legend __ __ / normally we are in the equivalent to / block, sort of / listening post / tiny little spy hole / that's right / today, big posh room, uh, __ __ sat here before / yeah / I can feel his energy / legend / I'm absorbing that energy now / channelling / channelling. Bring him into the room / I will, I will. / listeners, you have listened to Rhod Gilbert show for many years now / in / Studio A / one / now / studio 5 / studio 8 is now passed away. / It's gone. / It's gone. / it went / sleep last night / to give it / context, it was never well. / No. / right from the very start / never coped with anything, did it? / I mean, it was one of / did their best to hold it together for a long time, / yeah / it quietly / sleep last night. / It did. / And I think it's ... it's time to move on / L__ / just told me / every / back next week. / I / organize / v__ funeral for it. So, / gutted about that.

We've got some features, Eggs. You __ know nothing about sport, and the world cup is on, so I wanna do something __ trying to get you / able / pub / have / world cup fever / Yeah / we do that / I've got some Ask Eggzy / ask Eggzy, he's like / ask him anything at all / give you an answer / all of the questions, some of the answers / lots to do today. I / cleaning and stuff / cleaning / no, no, it's all fun stuff / OK, good. / I wanna talk / number of things / now, and I'm very aware that you know nothing about sports. / Absolutely nothing at all. / we've tried to guide you through it over the years / You ... yeah, you've done a all-right job / yeah / I know some stuff. / You know some stuff. We've / about / alternative sports / The trouble is, the world cup / is gonna go on now / a few more weeks / I'm a bit worried about you being in public, in places like pubs / yeah / not / able to hold a conversation / how are you getting on? / coping / world cup fever is gone crazy. Everybody / football at the moment, / Huh. / I mean they / mad / people in s__ / telly constantly, / yeah, / people running up and down big __s, you know / "Come on, go team" / yeah, that's the g__, that is. / that's the / I know / recently, the favorite team from the UK, uh, called England / yeah / didn't do / well / looks like / out of the world cup / I know a little bit / here's the deal. That's quite a good conversation / in a pub / down the / no / out / pretty good / if I'm in a cab / yeah / I'm in a pub or something / England / a bit of a nightmare / who was against, mate? / U__ / it was U__ / that's good, isn't it? / you're doing well. / That's good, yeah / so, hang on, what, what ... / name / three other teams / in the world cup / OK / I know this. ... C__ / yeah / because / their national anthem sounds like / should be / war film / really good / Sunday afternoon war film. England, U__ / yeah / and, uh ... / Croatia / yeah / have / just mentioning them / another one / yeah, just one other team / Uh ... ah, I know, I know / team / gone out, and it caused outrage / Yeah? / team Spain / well done, mate / any idea why it caused outrage? / Uh, 'cause apparently they were quite good, and / sad to see them leave, uh, this early in the game. Is that right? / Uh ... they were the world champion / spotted it / Spain / really good / gutted / that sounds a bit better / Early in the t__ / Yeah, t__ / t__, and, just __ __ come in to the end of the era / that's the thing / Spain / great bunch of players / same players / one of / end of the era / As a younger boy during world cup fever, / huh, / um ... I often heard the name Z__ mentioned / who is Z__? Where's he from? / Brazil / -ish, sort of / era. he was / massive heros / of our generation / that's a really good / to throw in / good one / sentence / do you know / No. / __ legs, / yeah / played for Brazil / yeah / translates as little bird, apparently, right, / right, / or something when he was a kid / funny __ shaped legs, which / two things, Eggz / A: You / out / football than me / B: the next track is Arnie __ Little Bird. / Hey, there you go.

Here we go, Eggz, if you could just, uh, / some of the answers / yeah / all the questions, some of the answers / yeah. oh yeah / if / music, I'll be the dancer, sort of. / That's a new one. / sort of works, yeah, sort of / from, uh, somebody / make the name up / hello, Z__ / West Wales at the moment / yeah / says / you would've written / much coverage / OK, that's fine / Dear Eggzy, Everyone agrees / home-made birthday card / nicer than / bought one / can you tell my husband / that's fine / modern society. We / absolutely cool, totally cool, yeah / can you tell my husband / same isn't true for birthday cake if the person cooking is an idiot?" / right / thanks for uh ... uh ... / contact / in life / what you are saying, is the cake ... a home-made cake, is not as good / by an idiot? Is that / there is a ps / the idea of / it's the thought that counts / is rubbish / Yeah. I think, Z__, in this case, you need to be__ it / football, and you / need / with your foot / that way, you are satisfied / destroy the cake / yeah / full purpose / full circle, and make __ __ should be happy / should be used / ask Eggzy / proper good answers / if you've got any questions on anything ... pets, / yeah / uh, finance / yeah, how to prepare, sort of, uh, your washing / yeah / uh ... how to wash your car, uh, how to, uh, ride a bike, / gardening, / gardening ... uh, ... anything really. Absolutely anything. Science, / the cosmos / the cosmos / Are you still in touch with / professor / very excited to be here today, talk about science / just / Hello, thanks for letting me / Brian / machine / a bit crazy / I can talk about science / what are you working on at the moment? What have you been gazing in all-out just recently? / 24-hour / really good. / what / driving around / racing cars / I had the mini-cooper, but it came off track and broke / yeah / so / I've got one of them / M__ F1 / out of it / kind of / lesson of / don't squeeze the handle too hard / track.

We've had, uh ... / Ask Eggzy / flooded in. / All of the questions / some of the answers / yeah, this is from / long way to call from L__ / very excited, L__. OK. Drop it on me / dear you guys," he says / why do clouds float, seeing / full of water / Great question / if both you ... you / professor Brian Cox / as well / be great. / for me, personally, it's all to do with the fact that / gravity / yeah / to cut a long story short, is not what scientists say / gravity is based / die, your job in the after-life as / tables, chairs, they / distant relatives. / but that's how gravity works, / Yeah. / in the room / floating chairs / sometimes / falls off / table / pen falls / by accident / let go / toilet / Exactly. / or something / clouds, I mean / fantastic but they can't fly / stay there, hovering around because / they don't / answer / all be ghost / no one left / all things down / Brian Cox / that was a good enough answer / that was a good enough answer / n't it? you know / I mean, do you wanna give / to / water vapour / whatever / you're better than / You're way better than professor Brian Cox / much, much better, um, answers / you need to work on your, uh, tone of __ / I think ... I think he / his d__ / does it / yeah / we were talking / friend yesterday / who's the guy from / prison movie, uh, / movie "Seven" as well ... old guy ... / realize that he __ never go back to prison again / Morgan / he's got a great voice / he does anything. He'd be brilliant / I / impression / everyone can do one / they are not necessarily good, but / can you / can you drop one for me now / go on. / "The moment that Eggzy walked into the studio, / yeah, yeah, / I realize that it was with him I wanted / spend / my life. / Perfect. "I knew pizza was burned / realized / in the bin and buy McDonald's that night. Other burgers are available. / sound anything like / good / better than mine / blend / those together / we could start our own Morgan Freeman tribute act. / Yeah. / say / here's the deal, right? / a shout out, we will read out anything as long as __ broadcastable, OK? / summer vibe / that is today / and / we / do it in either Morgan Freeman's voice, / yes, / or professor Brian Cox / Brilliant. There you go / you can request it / yes / shout out from Cox or Freeman / they are in the studio / a bit quiet now, but we'll do it. Guaranteed.

Now we're gonna do this quick role play / OK. / All right / next song / Huh huh. / so / Eggzy / world cup fever, and / at least two weeks left of pub conversation / you're gonna need to cope with / experience so far in your life of education / No. / you struggled / you know, I do my best / daytime telvision / absorb as much as I can, / Yeah / playing the game / yeah / I think it's called / wonderful game or something like that, football / good / so, I'm new to this / I'm absorbing everything. / You are mixing up __ beautiful game / what a wonderful life / kids, football, world cup / wonderful. Jimmy Stewart commentator / be good / you / shout out / that's what they do / Jimmy Stewart / Z__, Z__, / be really good / every / all right / quick role play / you are in a pub, uh, we know each other, we are mates / be / Dean, I'll be L__ / all right. Or / I quite like Dean and Lea / next level / OK / who / I / You're Dean. / All right. / what's / Dean / leg / all right / England / that game against U__ ... mate, I can't believe it / played so well. / They played so well / played / what a guy, as well, you know / mate? / seriously, where would you play him? / I'd get him on / obviously, but where / that dot in the middle / Yeah? / bang / on the center spot? / get him there, and if anyone runs past, he / punch / whatever / what are you on about? / Football, mate / strong / we're talking about / massive fellow, innit? / yeah / stocky / really stocky / played so well / sorry for the team. But you know, by the end / all right / it wasn't bad, mate, that wasn't ... / I lost faith in ... in you that you knew the sport that you were talking about / yeah / you knew / who __ was / yeah / put him in the middle of the pitch ... was that good? Or ... / well ... yeah, but not on the center spot / overdid it / let him play in the middle, yes / OK. / make him stand on the center spot / if I was a football manager, / yeah? / in a world cup / this is just a question. This is just a question. / if I was / would I be / for example, to __, / __, get on the middle, __ to stay there / entire game / 100% / I could / there you go. I could be a football manager / easy, easy. __, / stay there / punch / comes past / go / and that's my / the trouble is, / friend, Eggs, / yeah / but if you / to a stranger, / yeah / you're not / get away with that / should I / Now that's good? / that's fine / that's good / yeah / a little bit / all the best sides have / their corner backs / yeah / corner backs / left backs / yeah / and right backs running up the pitch / that's the trouble / The thing is, unless / gonna / break, I / lost it / didn't I?

It is, uh, Corky and Eggzy for, uh, Rhod Gilbert today / professor Brian Cox / flooded in / Coxy is in the room. He's ready / questions / Great show. Here we go. / Here we go. "Hi, Chris and Eggzy," Hi, / question for professor Brian Cox / thank you very much / guy / chiken l__ for tea last night / on of me favorites / do you think that l__ should be beef-only? If / if you are a vegetarian / I'm sorry / meat-based meal. I don't like vegi- l__, burgers, etc., / don't / question / Yeah / if you don't eat meat, don't pretend / by eating vegi-burgers / Huh huh, / All right / from / clearly got issues / professor Brian Cox / "Beef is all around us. Beef exists in fronzen format and fresh / alongside / pasta / l__ / it's all the same to me. Thanks, love." There you go. / wow / Brian / beef is all around us / really great / answer / I wonder / we could / push professor Brian Cox / a little more / and say, is the concept of the burger __ __ exclusively / Good question. Brian, what do you think? / burger / d__ of meat / universally accepted by everyone. Don't be afraid of the burger. Any format will do." Thanks, B__ / Brian / minute

It is summer in Wales / I hope you are having a wonderful time / let us know what you / doing / our feature today / Eggzy / two grown men, sat in a room, reading out / shout out / in a summer style, / Yes / doing poor impressions of celebrities / we've got some great names / Brian Cox in / moment / coffee / yeah / find it all in a c__ / like / sugar melted into water / universe is wonderful / something along those lines / something / once solid now liquid / Behold gas / Things can change. / Don't leave gas on. It might blow out, so ... / behold gas / behold gas but don't leave / you'll have an nightmare / got him / yeah / we've got Morgan / Morgan F__, yeah. / "The first time I was asked to read out email on Radio Wales, ... I realized / do ... for the rest of life. / Yeah. "I never realized before that readig out emails / ever / that's / really bad Morgan / oh, no, hang on ... I don't know who ... I don't know / Paul Daniels / Hehey / ok / 's not / as good / Brian Cox is amazing / my Morgan Freedman is acceptable / I mean / man / my child / that's what he does. / OK. So, here we go. We've got a couple of shout out / people / joining in / Hi, Corky, can you ask Eggzy how / this is / ask Eggzy / all the questions, some of the answers / Ask Eggzy / any / people / in the studio with us / a lot in here / can you ask Eggzy / lampposts / turn themselves on and off / good / thanks / great question. Uh ... who ... who's gonna give the answer? / Well, if you are confident, you can give / answer / if you wanna go / science rock-solid / helpful to this person / professor Brian Cox. If you gonna go / joyous sci-fi, / yeah / go Arnie / ask Arnie, perhaps / Yeah / "The reason turn off the lights is because they're scared / face / by me." There you go / easy as that, you know / and what about, um, / opinion / when / how __ they know? / "They turn themselves on / when I tell them." / there you go. / easy / as / governor of C__ for nothing. Get a grip." / that's right. / That's what he / other / or interpretation of an idea / strange characters / not necessarily be helpful.

This is from G__ __ "Is the sun Brian Cox's nemesis, as it hides the night sky? / very good question. Thanks for asking that. Uh, don't be afraid. It's / daylight / like the moon, but less cheesy. Fantastic / it is a star / we were testing." / Yeah. / There you go. / There you go. Thank you / I knew that. I was testing / thank / Brian / Brian / here's another one / Rhod / Great show, lads / Eggzy / some answers, / you ready for this? / ready / whatever the question is, I will give some kind of response. / OK. And, for this question / give an answer ... / Huh huh, / as all of the characters / All of the characters? / Yeah. Not at the same / OK. / gotta go / important one / do all liguids weigh the same?" from D__ M__ ... / You ... as you, first / great question / liquid / become / gas / great / but, more or less they do / some / heavier / answer / Arnie S__ / OK. "Don't be so stupid. Get a grip. I need to buy Turbo Man / for my child. Get / nothing / for my eyes." / Good. / let off some steam, B__ / you know / from / movie / something I like / good. Uh, Jimmy Stewart / here you go / as Morgan Freeman / the moment I was asked / yeah / same / doesn't really matter. As long as / drink / none of them is any of them. They're just ramdom noises / really good. / it's not bad, it's not bad / look at this / two men / lost the plot

over four emails / three / massive, massive response today / need to get through them, right? / just generic shout-out, 'cause / we are the sausages. This is the b__. Let the feast commence. / yeah. Can you / hot fat in your eyes / myself / only a joke. It's not real. / yeah, it's not real. "Hi / great / corky / little Rhod-sounding / could you give me a shout-out in Rhod style? / work hard / magazine website. / thanks / everything / I heard everything about you / you are an absolutely pointless human being. Literally never contact the show again / good / I'm not giving you a response / along those lines / good / that's one done. Next one / let off some steam / film / probably, uh, this person's favorite / line / love / brilliant impressions, Eggz, / yeah / can you please / get / Arnie / kill it / Predator / yeah / get to the chopper / nice one / classic one / shouldn't burn / at the same time / plenty of films / loads of them / loads of them / to C__ and Eggzy, can I have a shout out from Arnie / currently / by hand with no machine / I had to wash the dishes without a machine / pre-war Britain / machine is charging me down. Get on the back of the bike / big shout out / getting his bike fully lubed up to do the m__ bike ride over / what a great name / that's / what's her husband called? / Jamie / by Arnie, please / over / gone over the / bike / get over / as quickly as you can. I need / for my child / there you go / put / back of the bike. / thank you, B__ / lovely / that drink. Get that isotonic drink I put / I might / got a minute to go / please can you ask Coxy, why is it always windy when / thanks / expanse, resulting in __ wind flow coming through, very much like / solar system, but without stars / some oxgen and no space-ships / hence the creation of winds. / thanks / on the show / thanks very much / great stuff. Thank you very much / wonderful time / that __ an absolute pleasure.

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