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The Ricky Gervais Podcast

Out Now - The Ricky Gervais Guide To... Natural History

The Ricky Gervais Podcast

Glyn Hughes

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4.24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2009

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The second topic for discussion in the new series of Ricky Gervais Guides To... is NATURAL HISTORY. Here's a brief sample in which Karl engages in a little bestial cherry-picking.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well everyone's getting excited Steve because coming soon is the second in the

0:06.1

series of Ricky Gervais Guide 2 and it's natural history. Natural history is a

0:12.3

big topic Rick. It is a big topic but I think we proved we're up to the

0:15.6

task. We just recorded it. It's great. It's a wonderful guide to anyone. I should

0:20.6

just make it clear in case people are worried about what your credentials are.

0:23.9

Of course you've been a big fan and you've studied natural history for many

0:27.5

many many years. Yeah it was my first love from science and natural history from

0:31.2

from early age 4, 5, 6. I did biology, chemistry and physics at A-Level and I

0:36.3

went actually went to university to study biology and I gave up after two

0:41.0

weeks because it was too many lectures and I swapped to philosophy which was

0:45.7

seven hours a week. I shall in hope be arbitrating the conversation between

0:49.6

yourself. A man who you know by no means mission knows a lot about the subject.

0:52.8

Who else will you be talking with? I'll be talking to you Stephen and Carl

0:57.6

Wilkton who is our ace in the whole world because a lot of people their

1:01.8

professors they've studied this, they've studied the apes. We've got an ape.

1:07.0

Yeah it's essentially the words you know straight from the donkey's

1:10.9

mouth as it were. No he's definitely more of a donkey. Yeah let's play him a

1:16.2

little clip. This clip starts at a point in the discussion where I was talking

1:22.0

about how perfect animals are by definition and we ask Carl if he could

1:28.0

improve on that to design the best animal ever. This is what the fool said.

1:34.1

Had I've like an armadillo's body. Right okay so that's as big as you can be

1:42.1

now then. So you can't really pop on a lion's head because it just lay

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