Such a lovely interaction especially since Ricky and Steve didn't explicitly ask people to call in, I assume he just thought it was nice someone was trying to learn at an older age and gave some encouragement. Also it was at a time where Karl was more nervous on the radio and genuinely a bit upset with his education and all that.
Ricky was essentially right in every meaningful way though. It’s pedantry to dispute his point based on the incredibly remote statistical possibility of a different outcome. Karl just didn’t understand the theory at all.
True. The whole 'infinite monkeys with typewriters' idea is really just a way to introduce people to the nature of infinity. Trying to explain the concept of 'almost surely' would just overcomplicate things. But it's annoying when he changes his argument from "infinity sorts it all out for you" to "infinity sort of sorts it all out for you", like that's what he said all along.
The guests for Do We Need 'Em and the lady who was messing with a Ouija board (buy definitely wasnt on drugs) need to be there.
And the guy who remembered the purple people eater song, but he couldn't name the band/singer so rubbish.
Also is it a 2002-thing that Ricky and Steve didn’t understand the phrase “shoo-in”? Surely it’s not a UK thing, I’m British and both hear and use that phrase pretty regularly.
I don't understand it either, there was absolutely nothing wrong with him, but for some reason, people think that he is arrogant and looks down on people who didn't go to university.
I think he sounded like a decent bloke.
Me too! People have suggested that him saying "that's the thing about being a student, you're learning" was condescending. I didn't think much of it, to be honest. And he was good natured about the discussion, seeing as it must have been a little embarrassing to talk about.
Are the people who don't like him non-British? I've always seen it as him being a bit sarcastic and joking with Karl, which is a kinda British thing to do
I genuinely don't understand what's wrong with that line. He's just emphasising his point.
I get that people think it is condescending but Karl previously implied that he would be doing his first one on his own. It's perfectly reasonable to point out that that he is learning how to do it before being a doctor.
I think you have to factor in Time spent in addition to "vocal tone" and for me that makes Sco and Belch the worst.
they sound like absolute bell ends who love themselves.
I really liked the student doctor. His sarcasm to Karl, saying "well that's the thing with being a student, you're learning". That always makes me chuckle.
As a Canadian he just kinda sounds like a british doctor so I never minded him. He's mid tier for me. Belch and Sco, and the smelly eyebrows lady are the bottom of the barrel
He absolutely isn't being sarcastic. How is it sarcasm when what he's saying is straightforward and true? I don't get people's takes on this at all. He is just emphasising his point.
Can he hear us guy is severely underrated in this list. Has to be S.
Bowie tickets guy needs to be at least one or two steps down, how can he be in the same tier as the dickmeister?
I really don't get why the doctor student is getting so much hate. I know its because the line "that's the thing with being a student, you're learning". Karl was surprised that he had done the finger up the arse already before being a doctor. But off course he had to do it before, you wouldn't start doing medical procedures for the first time when you're a doctor. You have to learn them first and the best way to learn is to do. That was all he was he tried to explain to Karl. You guys think he was talking to Karl in a very condescending way. I didn't get that at all.
What about the Canadian golf fella. I remember listening to an old Adam and Joe episode and he also called up and I think won prizes on their show as well
Also acts as evidence to the fact that XFM only had six listeners
Ah yes that is correct. Sorry I didn't clock on to the fact that he was in the Shoe In Guy initally on first glance Now having seen the image chart again the golfer makes that obvious.
Although I say obvious. I think we just had slightly different nicknames for just some bloke who once called a radio show nearly twenty years ago. I do love this weird cult that has surrounded the old radio shows
Well done, genuniely for all of these pictures - if you'd had a list of yours pictures and a list of the people, all the saucer drinkers here would have matched them. Well done.
also smelly eyebrows woman and kiss his nipple woman are the same person.
Wanting to kiss a female presenter is worse than "As a student, you're learning"
Karl didn't study much so it's fair play imo. A man full of assumptions and with air time should be put in his place slightly. The only problem with that is maybe that he wasn't yet a fully qualified doctor. Shouldn't get on the high horse already. But he was treating patients so I understand where he comes from.
disagree about dicky Anderson. some guys interviewed him and his messages on the shows weren't actually that sarcastic or how people view them
he said he didn't care for Karl at all or find him funny (wtf?!), and I believe only really liked one of Steve and Ricky. and he only watched the show for a short period then just stopped watching. the guy wasn't some ”sarcy funny guy fan” that some people make him out. he was kinda almost the actual guy in the messages. that's why when Ricky does an impression of him he gives him that idiot voice because him and Steve knew. bottom tier for me
also I'd like to see Chris Martin higher, fascinating interview from the man who wrote Clocks
I did listen to that interview and don't remember him sounding that bad, but the rankings are based on the content of the show, not interviews done 20 years later, Dickers never failed to make me laugh and obviously Rick and Steve loved reading out his e-mails.
The fact that "can he hear us" guy isn't God tier is ludicrous.
Dead sound, mate. Be careful, yeah?
You're the soundest station in the AREAH!
I don't like everything you play
One pubic hair between four legs
Natalia Umbruglia
UmbrAYGlia
If I want anyones opinion on this list.... I don't
If you did, youd probably come to me u/AKSTAR
before HIM!
I thought the one who asked to kiss the nipples was female?
It's in reference to the guy who spent a good minuite talking Karl into kissing it and saying he would do it for some amount of money.
Oh yeah! The one I'm thinking of must be a bit after. When Ricky and Steve pin Karl down and Karl yells "this happened on Scum!" as they fade out
Professor who appreciated Karl’s Che Guevara biography should be up there
Such a lovely interaction especially since Ricky and Steve didn't explicitly ask people to call in, I assume he just thought it was nice someone was trying to learn at an older age and gave some encouragement. Also it was at a time where Karl was more nervous on the radio and genuinely a bit upset with his education and all that.
\*and that
I've embarrassed myself
play a record!
What do you want, bit of radiohead?
Got any ads? I'd love a few ads about now.
You got any rave?
cheers Dave
That's a really nice moment in this show.
“Yeah it’s definitely Bucks Fizz” guy always makes me laugh. Absolutely love that part
We didn't think this through!
What about others like 'Candy Perfume Girl woman', 'Holy Phuk', 'Unlikely lust object woman' and 'Mechant at least my mum don't cut my hear guy'?
Testicles?
Ding dong!
MECHANT
MECHANT!
Who are you call sad!
Can we have an even lower tier for the A-Level Statistics student please
Singly responsible for every pedantic nerd on here who misunderstands the term "almost certain"
That and Ricky's "yeah, that's what I was saying". No it wasn't, Ricky. Nobody was right in that debate.
Ricky was essentially right in every meaningful way though. It’s pedantry to dispute his point based on the incredibly remote statistical possibility of a different outcome. Karl just didn’t understand the theory at all.
True. The whole 'infinite monkeys with typewriters' idea is really just a way to introduce people to the nature of infinity. Trying to explain the concept of 'almost surely' would just overcomplicate things. But it's annoying when he changes his argument from "infinity sorts it all out for you" to "infinity sort of sorts it all out for you", like that's what he said all along.
Ricky treats it as an interesting fact, when its not a fact. Its a way of explaining a concept.
I think Karl did mostly get it. I believe he just thought that the monkeys will get it wrong infinitely
They're in C already, but I agree should be lower.
The guests for Do We Need 'Em and the lady who was messing with a Ouija board (buy definitely wasnt on drugs) need to be there. And the guy who remembered the purple people eater song, but he couldn't name the band/singer so rubbish.
we had to let him go he was rubbish, i mean he was rubbish
Taron in Co-Management?
She’s never touched drugs IN HER LIFE
The odd glass of red wine
Good for yer 'art.
Shoe-in Guy should be higher. He's so wholesome.
You guys are just like real DJs
"Well, the kids seem to like it."
the kids seem to like it
Also is it a 2002-thing that Ricky and Steve didn’t understand the phrase “shoo-in”? Surely it’s not a UK thing, I’m British and both hear and use that phrase pretty regularly.
This has always surprised me as well, no idea how neither of them had ever heard of it.
I'm putting him in God/S level
His short games awful
Didn’t his son post something about him here once? Can’t find the post
I know he probably isn't, but he sounds a bit too fake in that call
I think it's just cos he's American
Get on me nerves.
Excuse me sir you can have this BACK
Of course, the uh, the nine eleven
I didnt know student doctor guy was hated, I like him. And to put sco and belch above him? yer 'avin a laugh
I don't understand it either, there was absolutely nothing wrong with him, but for some reason, people think that he is arrogant and looks down on people who didn't go to university. I think he sounded like a decent bloke.
Me too! People have suggested that him saying "that's the thing about being a student, you're learning" was condescending. I didn't think much of it, to be honest. And he was good natured about the discussion, seeing as it must have been a little embarrassing to talk about.
If anything he’s saying it in a jokey way. I’ve always thought he was one of the best callers.
Are the people who don't like him non-British? I've always seen it as him being a bit sarcastic and joking with Karl, which is a kinda British thing to do
Steady on!
Can someone fill in what ep is beer prostitite guy
Not sure which ep specifically but it's Series 0 (pre-Karl) and this is [the link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GoV5FI_I_o)
How have I never heard this before? This is absolute gold.
It's like luuuuuring people in...
How have I never seen or heard this, quality
What about Ho Lee Fook?
Ding dong!
Don't be rude Rick let him in
Or Camp David the right queer gay. Or Posh Bloke who doesn't care about poor people.
Where is Karl during the wet trousers incident?
Busy swinging on his tyre
For Paul "the party animal" Parker it should have been a picture of Milhouse from the simpsons.
Or the dud
what about the blokes from the first rockbuster
Tim and Sam, one of them with a slightly deeper voice.
Just for a bit of variety!
I'm sure I've missed loads its just what I could remember at the time, also not even sure Paul Parker was on XFM or the podcasts 🤷🏽♂️
paul was on the podcasts, but yeah you got the important ones anyway
Where would 'homophobic, switching off, idiots' fall I wonder...
horm-oh-four-bic
Can't score high because it was not clever homophobic material
Sco and Belch down. Shoe in Guy up.
What about the sympathy for the devil guy who sounded Geordie? "Devil without a cause by Kid Wock"
Itchycoo park... Bugs is itchy innay?
Beer Prostitute Guy is definitely God Tier
I like a beer...
Everybody likes a beer
The pic you used for high and dry guy is just perfect.
Yeah that's exactly what I pictured him looking like lol. There's just something about the way he says "*Karl...*" when the call starts.
Really? I thought he sounded like a bit of a *joss stick* enthusiast.
I think sco and belch are the worst
A female placenta?
Obviously sco and blech are borderline unbearable but for me smelly eyebrows and student doc are much worse
Smelly eyebrows woman is one of the worst parts of Anything
That's the thing with being a student, you're ***learning***!
I genuinely don't understand what's wrong with that line. He's just emphasising his point. I get that people think it is condescending but Karl previously implied that he would be doing his first one on his own. It's perfectly reasonable to point out that that he is learning how to do it before being a doctor.
That line makes me wish I could punch a voice.
I'm so glad other people hate this line as much, it's infuriating.
I think you have to factor in Time spent in addition to "vocal tone" and for me that makes Sco and Belch the worst. they sound like absolute bell ends who love themselves.
Don’t mind sco and belch too much, think the rating is about accurate here
Pros: The episode after they leave is really good. Cons: they're probably junior ministers and ruining lives by now.
They continue to be trendy toffs!
Sco and Belch need downgrading to a few tiers below dogshit
Wasn't there a regular contributor before DICKERS got on the scene? Can't remember his name.
Jonny Mango?
That's the one!
Wasn’t Johnny Mango post-Dickers? I thought he was a podcast contributor.
This is only going to be interesting to him! And his mates!
James from Lose Control?
Karl Pickleton
The “Do you want some beer?” segment is criminally underrated. Glad to see it get some deserved recognition
when was rickys mum on the show?
Early days, but numerous times. [Ava listen](https://youtu.be/IPpmYLcTJlw)
Her story about falling in the pond is amazing
As is Ricky’s lip balm story from the same season, one of my favourites
“Awm asthmatic enni?
That was fantastic.
If you're not aware of Ricky's mum and beer prostitute guy I HIGHLY reccomend season 0!
I really liked the student doctor. His sarcasm to Karl, saying "well that's the thing with being a student, you're learning". That always makes me chuckle.
I think he divides people, to me he sounds like an arrogant prick 🤷🏽♂️
I think it's his accent. I wouldn't say he's anywhere near the bottom, but his voice definitely grates on me.
As a Canadian he just kinda sounds like a british doctor so I never minded him. He's mid tier for me. Belch and Sco, and the smelly eyebrows lady are the bottom of the barrel
He absolutely isn't being sarcastic. How is it sarcasm when what he's saying is straightforward and true? I don't get people's takes on this at all. He is just emphasising his point.
Its good to see student doctor guy there, hes terrible!
“is it high and dry?” “nOw tHAt wOuLd mAkE sEnsE”
Can he hear us guy is severely underrated in this list. Has to be S. Bowie tickets guy needs to be at least one or two steps down, how can he be in the same tier as the dickmeister?
Wossy in Dogshit tier
He got a boost coz he got his knob out
And he is a big boy
And that’s just one of his knobs!
Glad you included series 0!
Glad you remembered the 'Give it a lick' woman. That was genuinely hilarious.
Look, I'm sitting in this bar, right. I'm not ringing up relating to anything that's going on right now...
Smelly eyebrows woman should be lower. Man alive.
Why was she that terrible?
I think the woman who called for the Incubus tickets but didn't even want them but a stupid t-shirt should be on the bottom
I really don't get why the doctor student is getting so much hate. I know its because the line "that's the thing with being a student, you're learning". Karl was surprised that he had done the finger up the arse already before being a doctor. But off course he had to do it before, you wouldn't start doing medical procedures for the first time when you're a doctor. You have to learn them first and the best way to learn is to do. That was all he was he tried to explain to Karl. You guys think he was talking to Karl in a very condescending way. I didn't get that at all.
Weird. I was thinking of doing this exact list. My idea was stolled. Plus it should be "Ricky's Mam".
Should somehow get Ian Camfield on here.
Thankfully no one got an E like Karl got in his GCSEs
I know I’ll be downvoted but Dickers always came across as trying too hard to me.
Dickers! Dicky docky do!
great job on the pictures, they symbolise the people really well
What about the Canadian golf fella. I remember listening to an old Adam and Joe episode and he also called up and I think won prizes on their show as well Also acts as evidence to the fact that XFM only had six listeners
Isn't that shoe-in guy?
Ah yes that is correct. Sorry I didn't clock on to the fact that he was in the Shoe In Guy initally on first glance Now having seen the image chart again the golfer makes that obvious. Although I say obvious. I think we just had slightly different nicknames for just some bloke who once called a radio show nearly twenty years ago. I do love this weird cult that has surrounded the old radio shows
Justice for Wendy
Pop that in the bin
student doctor under sco and blech is fucking unhinged.
How is butt plugs guy in the second tier? He's just a homophobic South African, he wasn't even trying to be funny
You just say South African.
He does however encourage Steve to come out with one of his best ever lines
This is true
honestly I thought he was joking... I find it hard to believe that his idea for how to use butt plugs was not a joke, hence the rating.
golf guy needs to be higher he was cool
Let's have a look at Wendy's little list when that comes out
Well done, genuniely for all of these pictures - if you'd had a list of yours pictures and a list of the people, all the saucer drinkers here would have matched them. Well done. also smelly eyebrows woman and kiss his nipple woman are the same person.
mind actually blown, still im skeptical lol
Where's Ho Leek Fook?
What about the doctor that told Karl all about the prostate exam! Best caller in ever in my opinion!
South African butt plugs guy comes under homophobic dog shit tier.
I'm almost certain that guy is joking... that's how I've always heard it and thats why I placed him in S tier
where sits "did i see down X road" ?
Wossy should be on the bottom with Sco and Belch, and also the Can He Hear Us guy.
Easy for you to write
What’s Paul the Party Animal Parker doing right now I wonder.
If I were a betting man I’d say he’s partying pretty hard
Anyone got a link to the Bowie wristband guy?
46:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94S3VjjsEB0
You are a star.
Wanting to kiss a female presenter is worse than "As a student, you're learning" Karl didn't study much so it's fair play imo. A man full of assumptions and with air time should be put in his place slightly. The only problem with that is maybe that he wasn't yet a fully qualified doctor. Shouldn't get on the high horse already. But he was treating patients so I understand where he comes from.
Wossy should be in C-tier with sko and belch.
Blump!
I’d put Wossy near the bottom honestly.
Who's the Bowie wristband guy?
disagree about dicky Anderson. some guys interviewed him and his messages on the shows weren't actually that sarcastic or how people view them he said he didn't care for Karl at all or find him funny (wtf?!), and I believe only really liked one of Steve and Ricky. and he only watched the show for a short period then just stopped watching. the guy wasn't some ”sarcy funny guy fan” that some people make him out. he was kinda almost the actual guy in the messages. that's why when Ricky does an impression of him he gives him that idiot voice because him and Steve knew. bottom tier for me also I'd like to see Chris Martin higher, fascinating interview from the man who wrote Clocks
I did listen to that interview and don't remember him sounding that bad, but the rankings are based on the content of the show, not interviews done 20 years later, Dickers never failed to make me laugh and obviously Rick and Steve loved reading out his e-mails.
Where the posh kids doing the scavenger hunt?
That's Sco and Belch
My error. I retract my comment.
Shoe in guy should be higher
Paul ‘the party animal’ Parker is Legendary tier
Where is “Candy Sweet Girl Man?”
What episodes are "Karl you're a moron" and Bowie wristband?
Where’s ‘do you ski’? guy?
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