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Hello, welcome to the third in this new series of the Ricky Jave show with me, Ricky Javais, Stephen Merch.

Hello, and Carl Pilkington.

All right.

We've had loads of emails. Thank you for those. Sorry we can't reply to them all personally,

but keep them coming, some interesting ones. There's one in particular here from a guy who says,

I see there is less swearing now you're charging for the podcast. Dumbing down already, question mark. Yeah. Well, interesting. I don't know how that's dumbing down. Well, no, no, not swearing. That's interesting. Not swearing is dumbing down. And also the fact that he's complaining that we're not swearing enough. What sort of a cunt would bother writing that email?

I don't know, mate. I don't know. But I know he's just some kind of fucking cuck, I go. What have you got, any? Well, um, now of course, a couple of weeks back, you gave the rather long-winded, but fascinating, um, sort of brain teaser, conundrum, philosophical question about the, uh, heaven and hell doors. And there's been a number of responses to that.

I know, I know.

Explain your error.

Well, I've got it, I know, I realized as soon as we put it out there, that I should have said, assume no prior knowledge. Otherwise, you can just say, hold up a cat and say, is this a dog? Or you can say, what's my name? But they don't know anything about you. That's the thing. only know about themselves and I should have said that. Yeah. So are you willing to just now say that you embarrass yourself on them? I've embarrassed enough. I should have said, yeah, it's got to be about, it's only about the, you can ask questions. Well, do you know what? It's a bigger man than many that can admit that mistake. Or a man that's banged to write and obviously caught out and has no choice. Well, it's quite interesting to wait through through the emails and find out the kind of people that are listening, get a sense of the different listeners. And I know you, Rick, have met some of the big celebrity names that have listened to the show and it's sort of, because you've actually met them. But now we've got celebrities who are just emailing themselves, emailing in, just letting us know. This one is from a guy called Aaron. He says, my name's Aaron Douglas, and I play Chief Tyrol on TV's Battlestar Galactica.

Oh, right.

And he listens to the... emailing in, just letting us know. This one is from a guy called Aaron. He says, my name's Aaron Douglas, and I play Chief Tyrol on TV's Battlestar Galactica.

And he listens to the show in his trailer.

Now, I don't watch Battlestar Galactica. I hear it's very good. Yeah, I don't watch any of those things, but that's... But it's nice that Chief Tyrol, and for those of you that the watch balance, I'm going out to come sure that means something.

But it's nice that he got in touch.

But I'm just thinking, who would you, in an ideal world, Rick, who would be your ideal listener, a celebrity listener? Well, there's not so much celebrities for me. I like the idea that are captains of industry or scientists or people actually doing something worthwhile are listening. That's what excites me because they hear, you know, we've had a couple of emails from people are doing, you know, PhDs and psychologists and that, and that excites me more that these

academics are listening.

Or so, or I mean, who's the weirdest person you can think that?

Who's got, who should have more time on their hands, you know, um, uh, you know, Stephen Hawking. Imagine Stephen Hawking listen to this show. You know, he's putting together the, you know, the formulation for the universe, but he's going to listen to a little bit of monkey news from Carl Filkington. Imagine Stephen Hawking emailing us at podcast at Ricky Javayson. I mean, that would just would just blow our minds, wouldn't it? Oh, that he's got time to do that? That he's got the inclination to bother doing that. He's always online, though, isn't he? He's always hooked up. Is he? He always got that little computer on. Why not? Sure, that's one of the perks. You can just bung it and email out whenever.

I'm not having a go. I just meet, that's what I'm thinking, he's sat there with his little

computer. Out of all the people in the world to have a chat with, I'd probably like to

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