Ricky makes a half hearted attempt at chasing some muggers and Steve goes down a storm DJ’ing at an XFM party. Karl likes a song with a story especially Rod Stewart’s “The Killing of Georgie” and repeats his “gays go out late” theory.

Karl was very disappointed at his night out at the BAFTA’s for which he forked out £600 for a suit. Steve reckons he has a good chance of getting off with Dido if he ever met her.

The guys chat about urban myths most of which Karl believes as fact. Ricky and Steve question Anastasia’s age as a joke although Karl doesn’t see the funny side.

Georgie Boy

Ricky: I was just telling Karl, I've lined up a Simon & Garfunkel track "Only living boy in New York", he went why is he the only living boy in New York? I went what? He went what does that mean then? I went I don't know. He went what's it about? I said I don't care, I said it's a lovely sentiment. He said I like a story, I said like what? He said "Killing of Georgie", no trickery. Steve: (laughs) Ricky: Killing of Georgie, I think we should play that. Steve: It's good, I heard it on Radio 2, it was cracking. Karl: It's really good. Ricky: Tell them what it's about again. Karl: It's about a little gay fella. Steve: A little what? A little gay fella. Karl: Yeah. Steve: Right. Karl: I haven't heard it for a bit so it's all off memory this, but gay bloke, is he from Scotland? Ricky: I have no idea. Karl: But he's from somewhere where gays aren't liked. Ricky: No, no, no, no, "Georgie boy was gay I guess nothing more or nothing less, he was the kindest guy I ever knew", right now all he did was his father said how can my son not be straight, kicked him out, goes to America. Karl: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but you can handle all that, you can handle your dad not getting along with you if other people around you are into the same scene, but he was left on his own, he didn't know what to do, he was getting stressed out. Steve: This was before, when did this record come out? Ricky: 78, 77, somethin like that. During punk. Steve: Right, oh I see yeah, so the Village People had come along and made gay cool, that had already happened. Karl: But he was watchin the tele or somethin and he saw that New York had loads of 'em over there and they're all havin a good time. Steve: Sure. Ricky: No, sorry, at no point in the song does Rod Stewart say little gay Georgie was watchin tele and so loads of gays in New York, at no point in that song. Karl: No, but this is what I like about that song, you sort of picture what's going on. Ricky: You make it up. Karl: Yeah. Ricky: Okay, so the little gay fella was watchin tele there was presumably "and now from New York, The Gay Show". Karl: Or whatever coz there was a big scene over there weren't they, in the seventies. Ricky: Yeah. Karl: So he goes over there and he's havin a great time 'n that. Ricky: "Went to New York town, very quickly settled down, soon became the toast of the great white way, all the old queens blew a fuse". Karl: Yeah, they loved him, and then I dunno he was out late one night and he was walkin home and he gets attacked, gets killed and he was lying in the road. Ricky: Yep, they didn't intend to take his life they just pushed their luck a little bit too far that night, yeah you see. Karl: So but what's good there, is it good that he had a bit of a good life and was able to be himself or should he have stayed in Scotland. Ricky: He didn't come from Scotland Steve: Is there anyway we can get this song before the end of the show and play it, coz I've heard it recently, a lot of people listening would never have heard this song, they won't have any idea what you're talking about. Ricky: Can I say what you said when we were talking about that song once before? Karl: Is it bad? Ricky: It might be, I don't know. It's when you said... Karl: Well it's a fact Ricky: Right he said, so it's the Killing of Georgie, he goes out right, he dies, he goes "well, they do go out late". Steve: (laughs) Karl: I know a few gay people and they start to party late on, in Soho right, girlfriend got in a cab, Suzanne was in a cab and the cab driver was takin her to an early start right, she works at the BBC, early start 4 in the morning, it was going down, it was goin mental in Soho at about 4 in the morning, they were all like starting the night out. Ricky: How did you know they were gay? Karl: It's Soho innit. Steve: Fair enough.

Microwave

Karl: Here's one that I read in the week about this woman, she's a bit of a punk and to get her hair done like she wanted it... Ricky: Superglue? Karl: No, she got lard, apparently it's a popular thing you might know, put lard on your 'ead and you put it in the oven, now apparently the heat that you get from the oven is different from the sort of heat you get from a hair dryer, right and she had to do that to get the style that she wanted, but anyway she comes into money or whatever, treats herself to a microwave... Ricky: It's not true Karl. Karl: Opens the door, jams the thing, you know the little catch so the microwave works, she jams it with a screwdriver or a knife or something, puts the microwave on, sticks her 'ead in, boils her brain. Ricky: (laughs) Steve: Don't be ridiculous. Karl: Well why's that ridiculous? Ricky: Boils her brain. Karl: She boiled her brain. Ricky: (laughs out loud) She boiled her brain.