Hello, welcome to this free podcast to promote our upcoming audio book the Ricky Gervais guide to philosophy with me

Ricky Gervais Steven Merchant. Hello there and Karl Pilkinton. All right. Well, we we covered most things didn't we on there on the

Guide to Philosophy the big questions mind body problem meaning of life

got quite existential one point and we touched on the futility of life Karl's favorite subject at the moment

um Karl used a lovely um model an anecdote a story um if you well listen

we had an unproblem in the garden

Suzanne said we've got to get rid of these and I said well he's been out of order the hour outside

he said yeah but there's there's getting a lot of them she went and popped the kettle on

I said I can't underless I went in right why you didn't want to see the answer that's sweet you know

they're there yeah they might be causing a problem but I don't want to see this this mess

now I think is she went out she poured the hot water on it I left it a few minutes I went out

I had a cup of tea I thought it's waste of electrical kills yeah so I took me cup of tea out there

and I'm sat there and then I just saw one come back from wherever it had been one um

you look devastated because that that had been away as far as that was concerned it had been out

to get a leaf or whatever came back devastation and it's that what that's that's the thing

he's summed up death for me that the answer to dead they didn't know anything suddenly they were

there next minute load of water dead it's the people who are still living in life that are

the saddest aren't they after death and that's summed it up what do you think that I would have

been better off being there when it happened how could you tell the answer what do you think

so you saw it I mean they run around in circles anyway don't they but this was just kind of

going what's going on and what did it slow down when it got near the nest it dropped the leaf

and then you see it run the last few inches it just kind of got close and it was like a double take

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