The Ricky Javees Show on Guardian Unlimited.

Hello, welcome to the 8th in this series of 12 podcasts, The Ricky Javee Show, with The Guardian.

I'm Ricky Jervais. Hello. With me, Stephen Merchant.

Hello.

And Carl Pilkington.

All right. So, thank you again for all your emails. We're getting thousands. We're up to about a quarter of a million hits a week now, people listening to this show. Blimey. A quarter of a million people bothering to go in and listen to this show. Nothing else in their lives. All around the world. It's unbelievable though. North America, Asia, South America, all over Europe.

And thanks to everyone in England as well, where we do it from in a little room in London.

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So when we finish these 12, we can email you when we come back and start again. We're going to need a little bit of time off to, um, record the second series of extras. Well, I'll tell you more than that, Rick, you're going to need some time off just to have a little breather, because I know how hard you work. Uh, and you, and you, well, thanks, mate, but I mean, you blinking work hard. But Carl's been on holiday again hasn't he? Oh, yeah, that's right, yeah, because Carl, you don't do anything.

And you have weekends off, you take at least five or six weeks holiday a year, even though you haven't got a job now, you're meant to be doing this, and yet you still go...

So your whole life's a holiday, basically.

Yeah, why do you need a holiday to...

You put her around... need a holiday to, you potter around, your big, your big day last week was going to the cobblers. So, why did you need a break so much this week? It's just that, you know, it's good for your brain and that, isn't it? It opens it up a bit. You are not evidence for that. Where did you go? Gran Canary. For a week? Yeah. Just sitting around? Um, well, there isn't much else to do at Grand Canary. I mean, I don't want to go slagging a place off because every time I seem to talk about somewhere, get into trouble for it. But it's just like a big rock. It's just volcanic, isn't it? And you must have looked like a little barnacle on that. Have you been there before? Been near it before to another rock. Which was just... But why did you go back? Because you think, well, they can't have loads of these islands that are the same. Like just a big rock with hotels on. They can't get away with it. So you think... And they obviously are getting away with it. But why do you keep going to these places that are rocks? Why don't you investigate first? Ask your travel agent, is this a giant rock? Because that's what you do, isn't it? You go and find out yourself. I mean, when Armstrong went to the moon, what was he expecting up there? That's a fact, that's a big rock. And he still went all that way. I don't know what that point was. No, so what I'm saying is, though, sometimes...

Tell us about... It's a big rock. And he still went all that way. I don't know what that point was. No, so what I'm saying is, though, sometimes...

Tell us about the moon landing.

As you started, what do you know about that?

Because I mean, so far, you've given us a lot of insight into the moon landing.

So there was Armstrong.

There was Armstrong in that.

Yeah. There was Armstrong and that. Yeah.

There was a fella called Buzz.

Yeah.

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