All language subtitles for The Ricky Gervais Show s02e10 Leg Rubber.eng

For the past few years
Ricky Gervais,

Stephen Merchant,
and Karl Pilkington

have been meeting regularly

for a series
of pointless conversations.

This is one of them.

- Testing.
- Is that all right?

Hello and welcome
to "The Ricky Gervais Show"

with me, Ricky Gervais,
Stephen Merchant...

- Hello.
- ...And t little round-headed buffoon

that is Karl Pilkington.

Hi.

Karl, when was the last time
you reminisced?

Well, my mom and dad have
been around, haven't they?

- So been reminiscing a lot.
- Yeah yeah.

- Um...
- What were you thinking about?

We're just chatting
about tic tacs.

One of the great memories, yeah.

- Happy memories.
- Now, I used to love them

when I was younger.

- Me dad got a load of them.
- What, this year?

No no, years ago.
Years ago when I loved them.

I said I loved tic tacs, me.

- Yeah.
- He met one of his mates.

- He didn't Nick them from the sweetshop?
- No no.

No, he knew some mate who
could get his hand on a load.

Right.
Thief... He was a thief.

He must have got about
30 crates of tic tacs.

30 crates of tic tacs?!

Honestly.
About 24 in each crate.

We got them stuck in a cupboard
under the...

Just in the kitchen
in the corner.

Yeah.

Now I worked my way
through about six crates.

- I was quite happy.
- When... in how long?

I don't know, in about two weeks,
three weeks, or something.

And then after that,
I'm getting sick of these.

- Right.
- Yeah, you were minty fresh.

Oh, lovely fresh breath.

Yeah, but I haven't got that
much more to tell you about it.

- It's just...
- I'm sorry. Whoa whoa whoa.

Bear in mind, this was
something he was

recently reminiscing with his parents about.
They were sat round

and we've already learned up to
an hour could go by reminiscing.

So for an hour talking
about the great tic tac saga.

I've already
run out of responses.

I've got nothing
to say about that.

- No opinion, eh?
- I was nearly gonna say

what'd you do with the empty
little flicky tic tac boxes,

then you realized that that's utterly
dull and boring and not very interesting.

I was struggling.
I don't know what this anecdote is

other than a bloke... other than you
said to your dad, "I like tic tacs, me."

He went, "All right, I'll talk to Albert.
Albert, you got tic tacs?"

"I've got 30 crates
if that'll do you."

"Bring them around.
Put them under the cupboard."

"He's gone through 12 crates."
"What's his breath like?"

"Fucking lovely, but he's being
sick all over the cunting place."

"Oh, do you want some more?"
"No, of course we fucking don't."

"You'll talk about that in a few years' time."
"Of course we will,

for about a fucking hour.
Then we'll bring it up in an audiobook."

That's... I think that's
how we got on to it.

Because even though...
I tried to get rid of a load.

I used to give them to mates,
take them to school,

say, "Have some tic tacs.
You can have them for free."

We used a load
in the cat litter tray.

- No! No, you didn't.
- We did.

- No, you didn't.
- It was just ways of getting rid of them.

Jesus Christ!

Sort of freshy... sort of
freshy smell, isn't it?

- That's amazing.
- It's the same sort of condensity in that.

Condensity?
It's the same condensity.

- Similar condensity.
- Yeah, so I got rid of them like that.

And then the weird thing was even
though I'd got shut of them all,

um, you'd be vaccing up
and you'd always hear one

tinging its way up the tube.

It's tinging
its way up the tube.

That sounds like something
from "Willy Wonka."

- Oh God.
- No, I'm just demonstrating that.

Because that's how many there
were around the house.

You'd drop them and they'd
go in every corner,

like Pac-Man or something.
They'd be everywhere.

- You'd be vaccing up, tinging it up.
- Amazing.

"Sheila's getting married.
I'm gonna get some confetti."

"Don't buy any confetti.
Go to cupboard under stairs."

So, um, so that's a little
memory there, isn't it?

- It is a little memory.
- It's a really little memory.

The strange tic tac house
in Salford

where everything
is made of tic tacs.

Wow, that must have been a helluva
time you had with your parents

there in your
tic tac reminiscence.

No, but it's better.
You see, you're saying,

"Oh, what a boring
story that is"...

"You've regraveled the drive."

"Yes, smell it.

Suck... suck the drive
if you want."

- Fucking hell.
- No, but it's different.

When me mom and dad are there
and they can remember that,

they're going, "Oh yeah yeah,
the tic tac incident."

- The tic tac...
- What's known as the tic tac incident.

The tic tac incident.

"Let us never speak
of the tic tac incident."

I just imagine the clock ticking.
It's Christmas day.

"What are you smiling at?"

"Oh, remember it used
to ting up the tube."

You should think about
sending this to Hollywood.

Listen, what do you
remember then?

- What do I remember?
- What do you remember?

That's an amazing thing to say.

- That's a difficult question to answer.
- Nothing. Nothing at all.

Karl, I know you like
to be kept abreast

of all the latest-breaking
science news.

Did you read recently
about the blind mice

that they have been able
to make see again?

And hopefully they're...
they're... whatever they did

which allowed these mice
to be able to see again,

they're hoping to be able
to do with humans

in maybe about 10 years' time
or at least begin tests.

Extraordinary,
isn't it, to be able...

I mean, to be able
to cure blindness

would be a remarkable
achievement in science.

It is, but it's just that thing how
they say they've done it on mice

- and what have you.
- Yeah.

If I was blind and I went in
for the meeting...

the doctor...
and they said,

"Do you want
yours doing?"

And then they said, like,

"We've done it on mice."
That wouldn't be good enough for me.

I'd say, "Look, when the blind fellow gets
in, don't say 'we've done it on mice.'

just say,
'we've done this on eyes.'"

Because...

"If he goes, 'What eyes?'
Say, 'Just a pair of eyes.'"

as soon as you say mouse's eyes,
it's like, well, it's not the same

and it sort of... it would
make me go, "I'll leave it."

Yeah, and then you wake up
and you can see,

but you've got very tiny eyes.
"You've put in mice eyes!

I'm scared of cats."

It's just eyes.
I don't like havin' me eyes messed with.

Even if I was blind,
I wouldn't like it.

- Right.
- Uh...

And I think that mine are
more active than most,

- my eyes.
- What do you mean?

Um...

Well, I went for
a what's-her-name.

Steve, you don't know.
I've had problems with me legs.

Oh, Christ almighty.

He's the same...
What are you, 33?

- He's a hypochondriac.
- And you talk like you're a 70-year-old man.

Honestly,
the slightest thing...

He's got time off work
for this.

Oh, he went to the dentist
three times in one week.

He goes and has his legs
rubbed two times a week

- for some reason.
- No, I don't, I don't.

In and out of the kidney
hospital and they're going,

"There's no kidney stone,
Mr. Pilkington."

He's going, "All right."
Christ almighty.

Do some fucking work.

No, the thing is I've been...
in the last, like,

30-odd years I've been
working hard

and I've let my body
get rundown a bit.

How have you... you're 30...
what are you?

30... 33.

Right, 33. Sorry to start off
with such a hard question.

But how have you been
working for 30 years?

Well, I just have.

- I've got on with it.
- At three, at three?

- No, I'm just saying.
- You didn't get on with anything at school.

- You were just pissing about.
- Yeah.

You weren't working out there.

What was the first job you got?

- How old were you?
- Uh, I was 15.

Right okay, so you've been working
for 15 years then, okay good.

But I had me paper route when I
was 10 and that was hard graft.

That's why I'm bald and
that... getting up at half 4:00.

It all adds up, doesn't it?
It all adds up.

- So anyway...
- Mmm.

I kicked my height
when I was a kid.

He always says this like it's a
classic story that everyone should know.

- Everyone knows, right.
- And also the phrase "kicking my height,"

explain what you mean.

I just kicked my height
when I was...

Kick your...
No one understands, Karl.

You kicked your leg up to the
height you were at that time.

- Yeah. - "I kicked my height,"
it's not a well-known phrase.

You can't just go,
"I kicked my height."

So you were...
so you were 4 1/2'

and you've put your toe up
into the air 4 1/2' by kicking.

Yeah, but I landed on me back.

Right, okay. Imagine seeing
that in the playground.

They go, "Get Karl Pilkington
to kick his height."

"I bet he falls over
like a fucking penguin."

It wasn't in the playground.
Me dad got me to do it in the garden.

- Brilliant. They sell tickets.
- Why did you fall?

The neighbors were cracking up.

Why did you fall over?
Did you hit yourself in the head?

I kicked me height.
I mean, me leg got high up,

but I was that chuffed
that I got that high

I didn't think of putting
me leg down again.

Everyone said, "Look, like, what
the fuck did that little bloke... "

he's got to think it all through.
I thought it was automatic.

- It stayed there.
- You sort of stay balanced.

- Christ almighty.
- "Oh, I'm loving this. This is brilliant.

What should I do now?
I've got me leg up.

I'll just keep it up.
Whoa!"

"Like a Hitler salute
with his leg."

- What were you doing?
- So anyway, I landed on me back.

And, uh, and I did
some damage, I think.

- And it's because of that.
- Are you sure you didn't land on your head?

And it's because of that, like all
them years and what have you,

- I've had like a trapped nerve in me leg.
- Right.

So I thought, "Right, now's
the time to have it done,"

because when you get older... I mean
it was the kidney stone thing.

Once you've seen... once you've
sort of looked at, you know,

death and what have you,

it just makes you think, "Gotta
start looking after the body."

Do you think you could die
of the slightly bad leg

that you've had for 15 years?
Think that'll eventually kill you?

Well, it could do if I can't run
away from danger quick enough.

Right.
Again, you're thinking

of "Jurassic Park" coming true.

Whatever though. I'm just saying
you've gotta look after yourself.

- You could always hop.
- If there's anyone listening

- who's got a problem, get it sorted.
- I'll tell you what:

If you have to fight off danger
and you kick them,

put the leg back down
immediately after.

So anyway, so I went to see this fella...

to a professional leg rubber.

- A professional leg rubber?
- Yeah.

And he's...
he sort of said

a few things that were
quite interesting.

Remember that time
when we had the chat

on the last lot
of, like, podcasts?

I said, "Am I
in charge of me brain?

Or is me brain
in charge of me?"

Yes, you remember what I said?
That's the most stupid thing you've ever said.

Yeah well, listen to this then.

So I go and see this leg rubber.

Professional leg rubber, yeah.

Right, and he is professional.

Remember, a leg rubber. You haven't said
doctor at any point in this conversation.

- He's a leg rubber.
- So however profound this is,

it came from a man who is self-confessed
professionally leg rubbing.

- Not just legs.
- Did he do left and right?

Back rubbing as well.
He does it all.

- Professional rubber. - So I'm in there,
and I didn't mention about how I thought

me brain was you know, was
in charge of me and stuff.

Uh, I'm lying there. He's bending
me about and what have you.

The first problem
he came across

is that me nerves aren't
long enough for me body.

Me nerves aren't long
enough for your body?

He was lifting me legs up, and I was going,
"Right, whoa, stop that a minute.

That's hurting, that."
"What do you mean?

I've only got them like...
like just about... "

- that's your tendons. - No no,
but your nerves are in your legs as well.

And your tendons don't hurt.
It's your nerves that kick in.

It's your nerves that make
you go, "that hurts."

But they hurt because your
tendons are being overstretched.

I'm just telling you
what he said.

So he lifted the leg up and I
went "right, stop doing that."

Was this above a launderette, this surgery?

No, it's a proper place.
He had like towels and all that.

- Oh, he's got towels.
- Oh okay, yeah.

- So, um...
- Definitely a launderette.

- ...So I'm lying there...
- Other people's towels.

He's got towels,
underpants, bras.

Halfway through he said, "you haven't
got 20p, have you, for the dryer?"

So I'm lying there
and he lifts the leg up,

and I'm like
"oh, that hurts a lot."

So he said, "oh yeah, short nerves."
"What do you mean?"

He said,
"Your outside of the body

is longer
than your insides."

He doesn't sound like a doctor.
He does not.

The outside of your body
is longer than the inside.

So he had me lying on me front

and he was sort of
crushing me back.

And he was going, "Does that hurt?"
I said, "Yeah."

It was like 48 quid,
this, as well.

Put me through all this
pain and what have you.

You got some
good advice though.

He said, "You're pretty stressed."
And I said, "Yeah,

I have quite a bit
of stress in me life."

I explained to him about
the kidney stones and that. So...

He went
"Oh, shut the fuck up."

He said, "That's why you probably
got a lot of tenseness."

A lot of tenseness?
Is that the phrase he used

as a trained
professional rubber?

He's a doctor.
He's definitely a doctor.

So anyway, he said,
"Do you relax much?"

"You haven't got
any Lenor, have you?

I want these sheets
to come out nice and soft."

He said, "You should learn
to meditate or something

because you know,
you're all tensed up.

We're living in a stressful world."
I said, "Tell me about it."

So when I was telling him that
I have problems relaxing,

he said, "Oh, you're obviously
the sort of person... "

"... who's colorful enough
to spend 46 quid for this hokum."

He said, "You're the sort of person

whose brain is
in charge of them,

rather than them being
in charge of the brain."

So all you did was you met
a person as stupid as you.

No, but I thought it's interesting that
this is what he does for a living,

and he picked up... that was the first visit.
I'd only been there about 22 minutes.

You get half an hour
for 48 quid.

But he picked up on that
within, like, 15 minutes.

No, he saw a right
fucking sucker coming.

No, he did pick up on that, yeah.
Don't go to him again.

The reason...
Oh well, I am doing it.

I've got locked into it.
I've gotta go at least another three times.

- Why?
- I tried to get out of it.

I didn't realize that you have
a minimum amount of things.

I can't wait. What's the wisdom
he's gonna come up with next week?

That'll be brilliant.
I will kind of, yeah.

- No, but what I'm saying is...
- "Your blood's paranoid.

You've got jealous bones.
You're the sort of person

whose stomach's
hungrier than you."

What absolute fucking nonsense.

Do you know, like, how we were
talking about eyes, weren't we?

He said, he said,
"The thing is, you know,

you've gotta be able to relax,

and the way to do it
is to focus."

I said "What do you mean?"
"When you go to sleep... "

"You're the sort of person whose
eyes can see further than you can."

He said,
"When you go to sleep... "

"Close your eyes... "

"... Instead of just leaving them
open staring at the ceiling."

"But, Karl,
keep breathing."

Yeah, "Keep breathing. Close your eyes.
You're not dead.

It may seem like it, but you're not.
You're just asleep."

- So he said, uh...
- Oh, fuck me.

... He said "What you've gotta
do when you go to sleep,

focus on your toe, right?"

Okay.

He said, "And just think
about nothing else."

I still think he's a witch.
Did he say to put a toad under the bed?

No, he just said, "Focus on the toe and
see how you go on and what have you.

Next time you come in,
let me know."

Anyway, I gave this a go,
focusing on the toe.

So what does this mean?
You mean you sat in bed staring at your toes?

"No this is it. He said like lie
down, shut your eyes and..."

- Visualize.
- "... And sort of look at it," sort of thing.

So I was lying there.
It just wasn't working because...

Oh, Karl, this isn't medicine!

- Because even though...
- You were thinking of a finger?

He found out he was thinking
of someone else's toe.

Next day someone called up and
said,< "Karl, my toe's better."

No, the problem was, I was still using
me eyes even though I had them shut.

Oh God, oh God,
just when I think

he could never come up
with something that stupid,

he pulls that one
out of the bag.

- Right. So what does that mean?
- Oh God!

You were using your eyes even though
they were shut? What does that mean?

I was straining them.

I had them shut, but I was sort
of looking down at my foot.

You were trying to see through
your eyelids at your toe?

I was looking down at something,
and that's where the foot is.

Because of that,
I was straining them.

They were stinging.
So I had to pack it in.

I'm gonna die.
I am going to die.

Why... out of interest though,
and this will sound naive...

Why don't we remember the very
early moments of our lives?

Why is it? Is it... is it because
it would be too harrowing

to remember the point at which
we, uh, were sort of born?

I don't really remember anything
from those first few years.

Why is it? Is it because the
brain's not fully formed?

- I don't know.
- The memory is not sufficiently developed?

It's gotta be trauma, isn't it?

It's the things... Again we were
talking about me being younger

and the youngest I could
remember back to was 1978.

How old were you then?

- Uh...
- When were you born?

- '72.
- You couldn't remember earlier than six?

You can remember back to about
two or three, most people.

No.
No way, no way.

Me mom and dad don't even
remember me then.

Because you're not doing anything.
This is what I'm saying.

My mom and dad
don't even remember me then.

That's amazing.

Because they... they...
they pinpoint things...

They remember all the tic
tacs they've ever eaten.

"Do you remember when Karl was six."
"Of course I do."

"Five?" "Yeah."
"Four?" "Yeah."

"Three?" "No."
"Two?" "No!"

Because you're not doing
anything, are you?

Me mom and dad don't
even remember me then.

- So... and it's weird...
- I remember I must have been about two,

sitting on a potty
surrounded by LEGO.

I remember that. Very strong
image I have of that.

No, I don't remember that.

You wouldn't remember that, would you?
No, you weren't there.

What do you mean? You don't remember Steve
sitting on the potty surrounded by LEGO?

No, I mean, I can't remember having a potty.
I remember having one...

I'm not suggesting
you'd have the same memory.

No, you used to go in a fucking litter tray.
Now I know why...

To eat a tic tac
while you're having a shit.

Okay, so what is your
very first memory?

The one that cropped up
the other day

was having me eyes sort
of glued together by, um...

Gangsters?

"Where's the fucking tic tacs?

- We lost a whole truckful."
- No, when I was on holiday

and I slept near the window
and the window was open,

I used to wake up in the
morning with me eyes shut.

Me mom and dad thought I was
having a lovely lie in.

I just couldn't open me eyes.

Why were they glued?
What do you mean they were glued?

Wait wait, but why didn't
you say "Mom, dad,

I'm not asleep. My eyes
are glued together?"

It's just that you get a
buildup on the eyelashes.

Yeah yeah, when they came in

and you could sense them
looking at you...

I don't know they were there.

I went to what's-her-name?
Harley street.

I went for a checkup

and, like, a medical.

Posh... you know Harley Street.
It's, like,

it's the top doctors and that.
I've never been before.

All posh buildings and that.
I went up to the counter.

I said, "Here to see the doctor."
They said, "Name? Yeah right.

Give us 10 minutes. Go and
wait in the waiting room."

Dead posh waiting room.
Dead fancy.

Big leather furniture and that.

Loads of magazines.

I mean like a newsagent's

in the middle of the room
on the table, loads of 'em.

So I'm looking through
and there's, you know,

there's the top-quality
ones, your "Esquire,"

you know, "GQ"... classy...

"Yacht Weekly," all that...
"Country Life,"

uh, "Boyz."

- "Boyz"?
- There's one there, yeah... "Boyz."

What's that? I lifted up,
like, the one on top of it

and it's like "Boyz"
with a zed.

Two fellows stood there
looking, uh...

sort of Italian-looking.

- Uh-huh yeah.
- Right.

Uh, dungarees on.

- No shirt then?
- No shirt, just dungarees,

sort of unbuttoned,
hanging down a bit.

No one else is about. I'm never
gonna buy a magazine like that.

I can't believe you're gonna
tell us you looked

through a gay magazine?

I had a little...
little look just because

I thought, you know,
like I say, it's one chance.

You're always looking
to learn, aren't you?

I open it. There might have
been something in there

that I go, "I get it now.
I understand why they like doing that."

So she said I was gonna...
you know, 10-minute wait.

I can have a quick
flick through.

Picked it up, had a look.

Um, still none the wiser.

- Why?
- What did you see when you opened it up?

Um, just loads of, uh...

I mean, like I've said to you
before about I don't know why

they like looking at knobs when
they've got one of their own.

- Right right.
- There's no surprises there.

- You're not gonna go, "Oh, all right."
- Sure, yeah.

Some had like
car oil on the face,

uh, knob out.

There was someone sat
on a... like, uh,

one of them
square things of hay.

- Oh yeah, a bale.
- Sat there like sort of sat on it straddling it.

- Yeah, that must have been uncomfortable.
- Again, knob out?

Yeah yeah, just looking... just
looking like it's normal.

That's crazy. No farmer
walks around like that.

What's the other one?
There was, uh...

You know, a motorbike.
They always like them.

I'm going through
and then the content

is all puns.

- Right.
- It all... everything was to do with knob.

- Right.
- That's the only bit they're interested in

- on the male body.
- "Look at this bloke

straddling this huge
throbbing thing.

The bike's not bad, either."

Yeah, all that.
Loads of them.

It was just...

Just all... just cock.

Just 100% like... let's just
talk about the knob.

- That's a good name for a gay magazine...
- "100% Cock."

Did it not at any moment sort
of maybe slightly unnerve you

that you might...
the doctor might come in

and see you reading "Boyz"?

- No, 'cause I wasn't...
- Or what if I walked through?

'Cause I remember once when you were
in hospital, about to have a tube

going down your knob and you were
sitting in your pants with stockings on

and I walked through
and you were horrified.

So what if I had walked in then and
went, "Karl, what are you doing?"

I would just said,
"Look at this.

Look at this. It's free."

And I would've said, "Why did
you bring that with you?"

No, I would've just said, "Look, does
it look like I brought it with me?"

Yes, yes it does because I've
never... I would never see...

You would never see a gay magazine
in a doctor's waiting room

so I think you bought that and
then pretended that it was there.

That's the thing.
That's... I was amazed by that.

'Cause there was no... like, you know,
there was no "Mayfair" or anything.

They just catered for like if you
wanted a bit of knob action.

It was really... I mean, really
I could have complained.

"If you are gonna have this,
where's a bit of the other?

You have a bit of this.
Where's a bit of the other?"

Another one of the things
that they had and I thought

they're really struggling with ideas.
They had a suckcocko.

- As in sudoku?
- Yeah.

- "Suckcocko."
- Surely sudicko is better.

No, 'cause it was
like suck-cocko.

- Yeah, but it's dick as well.
- Suckdicko?

- Yeah.
- What, and it was still a sudoku-style puzzle

- but it just had that name?
- Yeah yeah.

- It was everything.
- It was just sudoku, but called suckcocko?

That's amazing.

That is amazing.

Now if I was gay,
do you know, like...

"Let's have a game of lubo."

"Let's have a game of knobopoly."

"Knob-bration."

Knob-bration.

Let's have a game of chess...

Cock.

"Let's have a game of fuckaroo."

- That works for either sex.
- Yeah, that's true.

- That's how we spend our Christmases.
- Okay then... fuckapoo.

Oh God.

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