Season 3 Episode 6 - 6th December 2003
Episode Description
Karl talks about his early days in Hospital Radio and discusses pulling out ingrown hairs with Ricky. The pair also chat about testicles and the universe. Ricky gets angry about Karl’s story of an unfortunate mishap involving a man going to the doctor with earache.

The earache story is confirmed and apparently Karl’s story about Donna Air is also apparently true. Steve and Ricky give their take on the recent Gulf War and discuss the recent Elephant Polo Championships.

Karl gives his thoughts on Salvador Dali, warns us not to go out with German women and appears in the film “Rain Man”.



Selected Quotes & Passages
Earache
Karl: I was talking about this the other day, oh what was it now.
Ricky: (laughs out loud)
Steve: Play a record
Karl: Listen, a fella...
Steve: Alright, he's got it now.
Ricky: Go on, go on.
Karl: This fella goes to the doctor's...
Ricky: Alright, okay, right, if this is in any way apocryphal, stupid, illogical, impossible, right, you are never ever speaking again on radio, so make sure this is at least possible, i'll tell you what, i'll even give you improbable but possible, so anything that breaks the laws of the universe or logic, okay that's all you have to avoid, on you go.
Karl: Right, so this fella, right, he goes to the doctor's coz he's got earache.
Ricky: Right, if a chimp's living in his brain.
Steve: (laughs) Go on.
Karl: So he's got earache, he's sat in the waiting room and his ear's all bunged up, it's hurting a lot, what have you, so the doctor comes out and he goes "(muffled noise)", right, and because his ear's all bunged up he doesn't hear it that well, right, so he thinks "it must've been me", right, so he wanders in...
Steve: Keep going, keep going.
Ricky: I tell ya, I'm gonna hate this, I can just feel it in my bones, Steve I'm gonna let you take over okay.
Steve: Let's hear it.
Karl: So the doctor says "sit yourself down there", right, so he sits himself down, he goes "right, take your pants off", so he's thinking "that's a bit odd", anyway...
Ricky: He heard that though.
Karl: He, apparently he took his tackle off, the doctor did some operation.
Ricky: What there in the waiting room?
Steve: (laughs)
Karl: No, in his office.
Ricky: In his office yeah.
Steve: What!
Ricky: So he removed what? His genitals?
Karl: Yeah.
Steve: In his office?
Ricky: Why Karl, why Karl?
Karl: Because he hadn't called him in.
Ricky: Oh he called in the bloke who wanted his testicles taken off and he didn't hear it, YOU...
Steve: (laughs) What!
Ricky: So the doctor went out and said "Mr Jones, who'se hear for me to whip off your cock and balls, just hear and now" right, bloke didn't hear it, "must've been me", so the bloke who wanted his balls taken off didn't say "oh I think he said me", so he didn't interrupt then, so the bloke goes in, he starts taking his testicles off and he doesn't say "I'm hear for me ears".