Ricky talks about his upcoming boxing match which gives Steve a lot of ammunition to take the piss. Karl has some advice if you ever get attacked by an anaconda and apparently there’s a deaf girl who can hear again.

Karl talks about the woes of an electric man and reveals his earliest memories. This week’s Rockbusters gets a huge response from the listeners possibly down to the star prize, the movie Stigmata.

Surprisingly Ricky gets annoyed at one of Karl’s Rockbuster clues and this weeks Song with a Story is “24 hours from Tulsa”.

Anaconda

Ricky: Karl, I want you to tell Steve what you told me in the week, about the snake, about the anaconda, how to, right this is Karl's method, he's not scared of the anaconda, the 30 foot long, biggest, scariest snake in the world. Karl: No you were talking about stuff weren't you about jungles n' that and animals. Ricky: (laughs) As we do. Karl: And I remember reading about, say if your in the jungle and you get tired and you go to sleep right, and you sort of wake up and you feel somethin on your leg, and you look down and it's an anaconda, right, and it's swallowing your feet, coz apparently they always go from the feet up, they never eat you from the head, so um... Ricky: Okay, shall I save these points to the end, coz that's wrong, these will always eat you head first coz the way the fur goes, if they take a capybara or even a rat they'd take it from the head first. Steve: Make some notes, we'll come back to those later. Ricky: Ok next go on, they always eat you from the feet, go on. Karl: So, so they're swallowing your feet and it said on the website if you wake up and you see this anaconda doing that, sort of eating away at your feet, dont panic. Ricky: Don't panic, I'm just writing this down, don't panic, well done, okay go on. Karl: Don't try and kick it off, just let it sort of swallow you but only up to your knees. Ricky: Why not kick it off straight away. Karl: I think it sort of gets a bit angry, it starts thrashing about and it can swallow faster, I think. Ricky: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Karl: I'm guessin that bit. Steve: Just put a question mark by that Rick. Ricky: Pop a question mark next to "eat knees", so let it eat up to your knees yeah? Karl: It's up to your knees and what you do is you get a knife and you cut... Steve: Okay, and how do you get a knife, do you walk over to the kitchen? Ricky: I'm just gonna pop over, get knife, where's that come from? Karl: Well you always have a knife. Ricky: Always have a knife, of course you do, otherwise you're a fool, always have a knife. Karl: C'mon, if you're gonna go into the jungle. Steve: Always have a knife, ok. Ricky: Always have a knife, yeah. Karl: Simple. Ricky: Can I just suggest somethin, supposing you're wearing combat trousers and the knife is actually in the trousers by the knee, the sort of pocket by the knee, what happens then? I suppose you could still reach in, into the mouth couldn't ya? So anyway you've got a knife, let's say you've fallen asleep, the anaconda's chewin your feet, you let it eat up to the knees, you've got a knife, what do you do then Karl? Karl: Right so it's up to your knees and what you do you get your knife that you got out your pocket earlier and you cut it at the mouth right, d'you know like either side of the lips, so you're sort of cuttin it in half. Steve: Right, like a Chelsea smile. Karl: Yeah that's right, and it can't do anything, it wasn't ready for that, it can't move about coz it's got like your legs in its mouth. Steve: Uhuh. Karl: And peel it off and walk away. Steve: (laughs) Ricky: Ok, my main point really is this Karl, never will an anaconda or any constrictor, python, boa constrictor, just start eating a sleeping man, he will crush you to death first, that's why they're called constrictors, they're not called gobblers are they or wholly swallowers, they're called constrictors, why would he start eating something, is that how they take down antelope, just start chewing at their leg, "oh he's gone off, I tell you what lads", they get together, "I tell you what we're losing a lot of prey by just knibbling at their ankles, they're running away, let's crush them to death first so they can't move, then we can swallow them". You're a fool. Karl: So anyway right, so I was telling him this bit of information because we started a feature last week, well week before. Ricky: Sorry Karl, can we just go back to the crushing you to death first. Karl: Yeah but well, I read it. Steve: He's won there, he beaten you there Rick. Ricky: Ok, did it say what to do, say if it had this meeting and it started crushing you and you woke up and it was actully round the chest, and every time you tried to take a breath and breathed out a little bit it just tightened its grip coz it can feel that, what would you do then? Karl: You sort of tighten yourself up anyway, coz I've read about that, if one does start wrapping around you, you sort of make yourself into a ball, first of all, and it'll wrap around you but it's alright coz you're protecting your lungs so it can't crush ya, and then you just sort of shout for help. Ricky: Shout for help with this 30 foot snake wrapped around you? D'you know how it works, it gets as tight as it can with these huge, huge muscles, right when you leave a bit of breath out it tightens again. Karl: You wouldn't be that out of breath, you haven't been running anywhere, so you can just go... Ricky: And where do you get the new mouthful of oxygen? Karl: Just breathe very slowly like you do. Ricky: How? Do you know what breathing is, it's extending your ribcage, intercostal muscles between the ribs, contract like that, ok making the ribcage expand which pulls air into, it's like a bellow, you can't just breathe via the mind, it's a physical process. Karl: Maybe I'm special but I can do little breaths without my ribcage going in and out. Ricky: Play a record Steve, play a record! No, no, no, no, you can't take little breaths without moving your ribcage. Steve: Ok, alright let's just leave the anaconda discussion, why don't you agree to disagree and we'll see who survives if you crash land in the jungle. Ricky: (laughs)

Flashback

Steve: What do you think you'd see if your life flashed past you, which elements would stand out for you do you think? Ricky: Start now go back, what do you remember, what's the first thing you remember? Karl: As a kid? Ricky: Yeah, just anything, NOW! Karl: Being in the hall and havin our dog lickin me face. Ricky & Steve: (laugh out loud)