This radio show was by far the greatest thing to ever be on live airways. Whenever I hit a rough patch I just open up any episode and these three save me.
What’s even funnier is it’s true. The United States did put a 2 ton “manhole cover” over the shaft they lowered a nuclear bomb into and got it in one frame of video for a high speed camera. I did the math one time and figured out the cover hit orbital altitude in 2 SECONDS, which makes it the fastest man made object ever. Scientists aren’t sure if it survived or if it burned up in the atmosphere, but I also did the math assuming it survived and in the +70 years it’s been traveling it would be 1/3 of a light year from Earth!
@@kidindacardboardmask what's a light year though? How many lights in a year or how many years in a light? I know it takes roughly 8 minutes for the light from the sun to hit the earth.. But I don't know how it's measured. How is light measured? How fast is the speed of light? Do we know?
@@kidindacardboardmask a lightyear is 5,865,696,000,000 miles. 5.8 trillion miles. Going off Googles speed of light 186,000 miles a second. Times. By 60 for the minute is 11,160,000. Minutes in a year is 525,600. So, 11,160,000 (speed of light per minute, in miles) x 525,600 (minutes in a year, so how far the light will travel in a year) is 5,865,696,000,000 miles per year. That's how fast Nasa needs to be aiming for in the spaceships to even begin to conquer space and see what's really out there. We're just getting to a thousand miles an hour... Weve bit way to go yet, finding the right fuel first. Back to the man hole cover. 5,865,696,000,000÷3 = 1,955,232,000,000 miles ( 3rd of a light year) Yeh.. They ain't getting it back.. But instead of blowing countries up.. Maybe Nasa should harness it to power the space ships.. Without blowing up the space craft obviously. The answer is there if it's true that a manhole cover has travelled that distance. But how do they know cos as of yet.. Nothing travels that fast to capture the manhole cover.. Except light.. Light definitely can catch it. Thank you.. I'll take my cut. Cheers Nasa.
It’s not a Carl moment but after Steve says “he never forgets Rick” as Karl is discussing having a meal with the elephant man is my favourite. “Every boy’s fantasy” is also a good one
The funniest thing I've heard Karl say was: "He was wearing a helmet, but he's head come off" followed by "His head was in perfect condition, it just wasn't attached to his body"
Interestingly, Karl himself laughed quite hard in the build up to the one about the monkey prostitute charging bananas. You can probably find the video of the whole segment somewhere on RU-vid, something along the lines of "Karl laughs during monkey news".
What made these so funny was Karl always wanted to be professional on air and Ricky drove him insane on purpose. The best lines Karl ever came out with usually came out of Karls frustration. Absolute gold.
This is brilliant but a wee bit more build up to the punch would be handy for people that haven't already listened to all the stories like most of us have haha 👍
"Let's do some business with the bananas" is my personal absolute favorite. The monkey news where Karl describes the bartering skills of a group of well-off monkeys who were challenged by some from the "rough bit."
Funniest thing about this is that it's actually true. It happened in 1957 and the manhole cover became the fastest man made object ever and reached a speed of 125,000mph
The end of the Leg Rubber story would have been great too. Also, “Mr Dilkington” is one of Ricky’s funniest laughs. I know it was technically Steve that said it, but he was reading something Karl wrote so it still sort of counts.
Ricky and Steve are cracking up trying to read out "that would be interesting for meatballs" from the 'white van man' questions, brilliant. I think that's one of the times you actually here Ricky hit the floor with laughter 😂
Hilarious, but all of these need more of a set up. "I've always wanted to kick a duck up the ass." Was Karl's answer to 'What would you do if it was the last day on Earth?' Steve wanted to fight in a bar, Ricky was all great albums and wine, then Karl says... "I've always wanted to kick a duck up the ass." Funniest thing I've ever heard. More set up pls!
It's probably not understood by many, but "just the way it looked" refers to an astronaut monkey wanting to get back into space again. It's not about a monkey just being "sad" or whatever.
The manhole cover story is that in 1957 they were doing nuclear tests underground to minimise nuclear fallout, the bomb was detonated in a tube, and a manhole cover was part of this tube system. It was never found
I would be so happy if they decided to return to do these podcasts, i understand people move on but these three literally have nothing to do with each other now which saddens me. If the three of them got back into a room and talked, it would be funny. The chemistry is there whenever they are together, which we haven't seen for a long time. They need to do something again, if not the podcasts, but ideally, i want new XFM stuff 😂 i am well aware it won't happen
@@theorangetriangle9468 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NSeL5c65v-g.html he's not completely far off. The manhole cover was seperated from the nuclear detonation by a huge concrete plug, which became gas from the heat of the nuclear explosion, basically turning the cover into a bullet fired from a gun. The cover itself wasn't touched by the nuclear bomb.
I get the philosophy of always leaving them wanting more, and going out on top. But moments like these make me think there is still so much more joy to be had. I highly doubt it, but i live in hope that one day the three of them get abck together again and rekindle these chats.
Yes!!! Burger and grape stuffing is easily one of the best moments ever. Karl spitting out grapes because of Steve and Ricky making him laugh during the challenge.
Absolutely loved this, had some of my favourite clips in it but seriously... how did you miss Harry?! No he wasnt like that, he wasnt like that. Straight too the point, he was like, “Get your knickers off” 😂 Ricky literally falls off his chair its brilliant
I’ve watched and listened to many hours of Karl.. I really, truly don’t think any of it is scripted. If it is, he’s one of the best actors in the world IMO.
I think the best one I've heard is when he asks him if he'd feel guilty wanking if he got a body transplant and without even thinking Karl says "well.. no.. cause they aren't my hand's either"
This must be the most ridiculously effective thing to get people laughing. You could play this at a funeral and everyone would burst, even though WE DON'T EVEN REALLY GET THE PUNCH LINE because the clips are so short.
Any stand up comedian would do anything to be able to naturally phrase things the way karl does, the funniest people sometimes are the people not trying to be funny at all. i love karls way with words.
These are only funny if you have been listening to these non stop every night for years and already know what they said 5 minutes before Ricky starts to laugh but fortunately the majority of us have lmfaoo
How do you NOT have...Eyes that pop out of their head...Steve. And the best one is Karl's predictions for the future; an apple a day keeps the doctor away...Ricky almost falls out of his chair
The kick a duck up the arse came out so dry after their 'end of world' conversation, I rarely ever laughed that hard when I heard it for the first time.
