Adam Lambert is the current vocalist for Queen, so yes, you're quite right to say he went somewhere after Idol.

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. He's doing great.

Thanks for sharing your reaction to these Mandy! You really enhance them 😂 and good news is series 2 has 51 episodes!!

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reminder, haha :)

@Ldn1993

2 ай бұрын

Haha 😂 good luck mr rusty dog! Although there are a few compilation episodes which should bring the number down a bit 🤏

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

@@Ldn1993 That's right. 4 of them. So only 47 eps, yay!

@Ldn1993

2 ай бұрын

@@CMDRRustyDog you know how Mandy likes to see the ad-break teaser in cats does countdown, will you do something similar for rockbusters?

"A duck is going to wander around and go 'oh I don't feel well' and what have you." Karl at his best this episode

@user-kf6mi5fz2y

2 ай бұрын

Series 2 or I’ll unsubscribe immediately

Last ep of the series! Roll on series 2 💪

@laurenceroberts1

2 ай бұрын

That's when the show really begins

@arsenewenger49

2 ай бұрын

@@laurenceroberts1especially when Karl introduces his new features 😂

@laurenceroberts1

2 ай бұрын

@@arsenewenger49 shhhhhh

@matthale6563

2 ай бұрын

2 is the best series!

@stingersplash

2 ай бұрын

I wonder if she skips the recap episodes? I hope so. But not skipping Clair episodes.

A wolf does not run for fun. It expends too much energy. A cat lays in a sunbeam because they are mostly asleep between hunts and it helps regulate their body temp. You and Ricky are technically both correct. ANimals "like" certain things, because it is hardwirted into them. THe human animal is the same to an extent but we do things for fun that make zero sense biologically. Like jumping out of plans and crap.

The highlight of my Fridays! I got a feeling the regular XFM shows that I fall asleep to every night will be replaced by your videos once you get into the seasons. Next time I start over again at S1 it'll be your content! Also thank you Rusty for not including a picture of the Huntsman Spider when they were talking about that. If you don't know what it is you don't need to know and if you do you never want to see one again! Harmless, sure, but so damn terrifying. The size of those things and the things they do. The jumping (LONG jumps) and clinging on is right out of the Alien movies!

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

I stay away from real insect images to not freak Mandy out.

@laupstad

2 ай бұрын

@@CMDRRustyDog Excellent work! You got off to a little bit of a rocky start with the whole E1/E8 debacle but you have redeemed yourself 100x over! Thanks for doing these!

When Karl said there are so many spiders we can’t name them all my brains first thought was “George, Brian, Gary” then I realised he meant species 🤣

Tether ball is basically swing ball, yes. Though swing ball normally uses a tennis ball

46:35 Animals "like" to do those things because it activates their instincts. There's no conscious thought process behind it, they do them because millions of years of evolution has made them inclined towards doing those things for a variety of reasons. Example: dogs like playing catch because it activates their chase instinct. They don't do it because they "like" to do it. Reptiles "like" to bath in the sun and under artificial lights because they need external sources of heat to maintain their body temperature. "Liking" is a concept that requires higher brain functions that most animals do not have.

@CommissionerSleer

2 ай бұрын

Mammals, birds and reptiles all have cerebral cortexes. Is there anything in the human brain that those animals don't have that leads you to think we have higher brain functions that they don't have? A reptile sunbathing is probably indeed an example of a need rather than a like. However, a dog lying on its back enjoying a belly rub.... Where is the evolutionary need there? I suggest dogs and cats many other animals do indeed like being stroked (whether they've evolved to like it or not) - by another species no less - and for the same reason we do: it feels good. And if higher brain function is required to like things then that's evidence those animals have higher brain functions (as suspected by their almost identical brains and nervous systems).

@DistractedArachnid

2 ай бұрын

​​@@CommissionerSleerAgreed. Animals also enjoy drugs and alcohol, just like humans do. The most plausible reason being that they just like it.

@CommissionerSleer

2 ай бұрын

@@DistractedArachnid Yes. Great example. Even bees have been known to deliberately get drunk to the detriment of themselves and the hive. Anybody that's ever known an animal knows they like things and dislike others and will seek out and do things just for pleasure. The only 'higher brain function' I see humans having that no other animals do is that we've developed complex languages that allow us to philosophise. As far as I can tell, apes, crows, dolphins, elephants, octopuses, etc, haven't done that. But everything else our brains do (think, feel, hope, fear, pleasure, pain, plan, predict. etc)... animal brains do too to some extent or other.

@CommissionerSleer

2 ай бұрын

@@bleepbloop6234 All the same components. Different sizes but same design and origin. Do you think humans have some brain component(s) that reptiles don't? A component that causes some sort of higher brain function? If so, what?

@CommissionerSleer

2 ай бұрын

@@bleepbloop6234 You're the one playing games. You've turned "almost identical" into "identical". You're also setting aside birds and mammals for now for no reason, which are even more almost identical to humans than reptiles. "Do you really believe that, for example, a snake's brain is "almost identical" to a human brain? " Yes, within any practical sense. They only things more identical in the entire universe are the brains of even more closely related animals. Apart from size and shape, they have all the same components. That's what I meant (and you know it, you're just trying to be clever by splitting hairs and arguing with a strawman). And that's what matters. "I could show both brains to a child of 5 and they would understand that the two structures are quite obviously different in many ways." Apart from the size and shape... then you would be as wrong as a child of 5. It speaks volumes that, even in your imagination, you need to stoop to a child of 5 to find someone to agree with your assessment based on colours and shapes rather than functions and interfaces. Anyway, now that I've answered your puerile question (yes is and always was the answer), you answer mine: what has a human brain got that an iguana's brain hasn't?

The first few episodes of series 2 will be a bit rocky, if I recall within the first 7 episodes, Karl isn't there twice and 1 episode is a "best of" that can be skipped. But when he gets back THATS when things really get going

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

There are 4 "Best Of's" scattered throughout the series. The first one is EP4. Claire is then Eps 6 and 7. The other 3 "Best Of's" are sometime later. My guess is we will be skipping those.

@wildwine6400

2 ай бұрын

@@CMDRRustyDog best ofs should be skipped, but ones without Karl are still good as they often discuss either him or things that are later brought up again

Priceless entertainment,thanks to both of you

9:44 I think he's on the front row, centre left. I know Steve liked a bow tie in his school days and I doubt they'd have him standing next to the norma.... other students. Edit - wasn't expecting the answer... also, poor Steve is slouching a little.

🎉 🎂🎁 Happy birthday, Mandy

1:37 And in fact, I think he even got the cough drop, in Ricky's mouth. Good with the details, Rusty.

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Indeed, thank you. :)

"Not in an American way". Everyone over here would know what Karl means by that (notice how they didn't even query what he meant). "Have a nice day" with a big grin that's so part of American culture in shops/stores; the insincerity and performative nature of this grates on UK/Irish sensibilities, and generally results in them grimacing (at least internally)

You might want to Google “swing ball” as it goes on to be a hilarious part of Karl’s lore. And you might not get the reference when it happens…😂

@dannwe123

2 ай бұрын

Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why...

@AdamDawson1984

2 ай бұрын

Doooon't they...

@dannwe123

2 ай бұрын

@@AdamDawson1984 play the game of...

Mandy Quote of the Video: "Peak humans competing with other peak humans to see who the peakiest human is." 😏

@MandyCaneLane

13 күн бұрын

I mean, who doesn't want to be the peakiest human?

@quench100

13 күн бұрын

@@MandyCaneLane Right? I'm off to the gym to get peaky 😁

21:44. Like “Schrodinger‘s cat”, 😆🌿🌸

Wonder if Steve ever used that book of chat up lines.

The door face is a door knocker they often have odd designs holding the ring, lions, faces hands ect, think of the labyrinth and if you haven’t seen that… then you need to start a film reaction channel lol

25:55 "a relatively unknown had won the entertainment award that we were up for"

Hi. I’m just going to offer a comment about the funnel web spiders if I may as I’m a Sydney resident. The male funnel web spider is far more “venomous” than the female but is not aggressive. The larger female is far more aggressive but they do not possess venom strong enough to cause problems to humans. I hope nobody thinks I’m being a smart ass… I just want to be factual. ❤️

That school photo with Steve makes me think Karl was right when he said people looked strange in the 70's, half of them look like spuds, almost looks AI generated

@marryof995

2 ай бұрын

ofc they looked strange, bell-bottom jeans were a thing then :D

@hecticfreeze

2 ай бұрын

To be fair any school photo of a bunch of teenagers from any decade and they look weird. A lot of teenagers go through an awkward faze where their features are growing at different rates and they look a bit odd

@VColossalV

2 ай бұрын

@@hecticfreeze I think Karl's theories need more credit than they get, this oddness is one of the many observations Karl has made.

They can "breath" under water too, their hairs trap air bubbles. So yes once again somehow Karl was in the ballpark with the story

Stephen IS wearing that bracelet, Mandy! Rusty Dog is clearly a man of integrity and I refuse to believe that he would knowingly falsify evidence. It’s all just an incredible, mind-blowing coincidence.

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Haha! Yes it's Mandy's. Not some cheap Internet imitation. :)

@EnglishRalph

2 ай бұрын

@@CMDRRustyDog semi-tangent: In an early episode, Steve was talking about things people don’t do any more and cited “snuff” as an example. You put up a Hedges snuff tin and I have one! I bought it probably in the early ‘80s - horrible stuff. Many years later it turned up during a house move and I started using it to stash small objects. The paint has long since departed and it’s pitted and looks a bit like the moon but it is a cheap, 40yr-old tin that has remained functional and stood the test of time.

I like the idea of having an average Joe in athletic events with top-tier athletes as a comparison. It'd provide perspective for everyone, and you could give the average guy a prize for destroying himself, lol

American Idol is still going (for some reason)

Adam Lambert tours with Queen now

Ricky is implying that unlike humans animals do not have our level of cognition - to 'like' something conveys an emotive reason for doing something - animals do not have that even if it appears to you that it does, there's always an evolutionary reason, a trace, why animals behave the way they do

I'm with Karl on the money thing. It's not money, in itself, that makes people happy. It's that life would be a whole lot worse without money. He's right about that. Nobody wants to be homeless, and it takes money to have a home. That idea. I'm with Karl on that. Rusty did a good job editing. Mandy made the Karl show the best show of all. Thanks to both of you for this series.

hey we have the same birthday! que lo pases re lindooo

hearing someones reaction to learning our UK phrases reaction to "bumfluff" is always hilarious

Bumfluff is absolutely the default term in the UK. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone ever call it anything else.

If I had been listening to Ricky Gervais in the day saying "and Karl Pilkington, for the last time, I'm afraid" I would have been somewhat anxious. Until he said they'd all be back. Anyway, here's some random Karl quotes (are there any other kind?) - "I'm not comfortable with myself", "Even my inner self sounds like this" and "Everyone's normal until you get to know them."

@MandyCaneLane

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Series 2 is, imo, the best. Episodes 29 onwards (Karl calls in sick) are gold.

best episode by far

@MandyCaneLane

2 ай бұрын

🙌🏻✨️

45:42. He was talking about wild animals, and more specifically arachnids and insects. You do have a point in this context, tho. Many mammals and birds have fun, however, there are very few other species that do. Birds and mammals are far superior to any other species. Still, there are a lot of outlying types, and I fully agree with you, I just think it’s so few out of the millions, it’s a valid point by Ricky. Edit: especially to this particular conversation, this spider.🌿🌸

1:15:41 I think he meant to say "boil-in-the bag-food".

I think what Ricky means is that animals don't have any conception of liking something. It's instinct. But... I suppose the concept of liking stems from biology and instinct.

51:00

I've heard more to that story, can't remember where but definitely they talk about it more.

Mandy - Don't you remember Stephen doing Will Smith's Boom Shake The Room on that lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon? Can clearly do the rapping no probs! 😂

1:04:28 😂 congratulations you unintentionally just told everyone to F off😂😂 that hand gesture means F off in the uk and i believe it means peace on in the US

Happy birthday Mandy!!! Woooohooo!! 🥳🥳🥳

@robg1151

2 ай бұрын

@ReimaginedbySteve 🙂

@EnglishRalph

2 ай бұрын

I remember wishing Mandy a happy birthday but I’ve just checked and that was in September?!

@SaintPhoenixx

2 ай бұрын

@@EnglishRalph It's her birthday every day, she turns 30 every day.

@EnglishRalph

2 ай бұрын

@@SaintPhoenixx @Reimagined by Steve Cool, cheers. Surely she would want to be turning 29 each day though.

@robg1151

2 ай бұрын

In one of her videos she explained how someone wished her happy 30th birthday when it had already passed and although some people think it’s a running joke she is in fact 30 every single day, honestly. 🥳🥳🥳

You laugh but the guy doing these for you is creeping me out with the level of detail.

Adam Lambert has been touring with Queen for years.

Yes!

Yeah Ricky does say a lot of things sometimes that makes Karl look like the smart one. I know Karl has intelligence but you know what I mean

Karl looks like Dax Shepherd with hair IMO.🤔

I wonder if the public knew what Karl looked like when the radio show was first broadcast. He probably hadn't been on TV yet., so that might explain why the wig or toupe didn't come up as a suggestion from anyone. I think "head like a ...orange" was still to be coined.

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

When I first heard Karl on XFM, I had no idea what he looked like. It was a while before I found out.

@arsenewenger49

2 ай бұрын

We didn’t find out until Ricky got Xfm to put Karl’s pic on the website 😂

13:33 "Peakiest"!!!! 👏 👏 🙌 😄 ❤️ 😘 love it!

@MandyCaneLane

2 ай бұрын

🤭🤭

@SillyUncleAndy

2 ай бұрын

@@MandyCaneLane *giggles* 😊 it was cool 😎 very creative

Bring on rockbusters!

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Assuming Mandy omits the compilation episode, you'll have to wait 7 more weeks (October 12th)

Roll on season 2!

I agree 1000% on having “normal” people compete along top athletes to illustrate how super-human they are. I’ve preached this for decades. Did you see the untrained Somalian lady competing in a championship? It was fabulous. Her 100 m needed twice the time of the second slowest athlete.

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

That was a cool idea of Mandy's. It would really highlight the differences.

And then Ricky went on to torment Nigel for the next 3 months 😅

I vote for adding Karl to athletics events to see the comparison. Let's take this to Channel 5, Mandy.

46:50. Yea, but animals, especially insects and arachnids mostly only do what they need to do. Still, this really brings up a question in my mind. If an ant is fully full, and content will she look around for a second to take it all in, or just keep working? I follow a couple people on TT that deal mostly in jumping spiders, and it’s clear they are intelligent. Ok, you have won me over, Rick was demonstrably wrong!🌿🌸

its been 12 days

Is she releasing an XFM reaction next week, or is she gonna take a break since it's a new season

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Next week as far as I know.

I'm sorry I'm seven hours late.... You're not going to put me in detention, are you? Also my chihuahua ate my homework. He said he’s had better.

Thanks Mandy ☺️ (thankyou also rusty dog) 😋

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Yr welcome ;)

My "if-I-was" crush was always Gerard Butler. I guess that makes me weird.

No episode this week?

@MandyCaneLane

2 ай бұрын

Next week 🙌🏻✨️

Great job Rusty!

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

Thank you sir.

Ryan Reynolds is the right answer 😊

When are you gonna react to series 2?

thtere not playing

"Posh" (en siginificado negativo) significa basicamente gente con mucho dinero que son orgullosos y comemierda. Que tratan a los demás diferente porque se sienten mejor que los demás.

Yes! Time to boogie with Mandy and Karl. Can't wait for series 2. Have you ever reacted to Karl vs Steve: The Insults yet?

@stingersplash

2 ай бұрын

Why would she react to that? She's doing the whole series she will hear the insults in that.

@scotriani

2 ай бұрын

​@@stingersplashsaves time 'n' that.

I like the pictures etc but feel like it takes mandy away from what's being said on the show

@Silver_Specter

2 ай бұрын

Well no because it's giving her context she wouldn't have a clue about half the bs these 3 are babbling about

@xxtimmycahillxx

2 ай бұрын

@Silver_Specter alot of that yes, but some is needless in my opinion

@sara-jayn

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree. The ones that provide context are great. But lots of vital context isn’t there whilst silly jokes are. Like we don’t need information on what spider it was. That context adds nothing. But Steve made a Duncan goodhew reference in the same conversation and hoe is Mandy supposed to know who that is?

@Silver_Specter

2 ай бұрын

@@sara-jayn but the main reason Mandy is watching this is 1 to laugh 2 to learn about Karl and the other two, rusty knows what she cares about there's no point in him spending hours making something that Mandy doesn't care about and isn't going to remember if she did want the context of something she can always Google it

@pretsakaise

2 ай бұрын

@@sara-jayn I agree that context stuff is fine, but him trying to get a laugh of his own every 5 minutes is annoying

1:23:40. Seriously! This person is an absolute beast! So much incredible variations and context and really funny inserts! Crazy great!🌿🌸

1:04:13. I’m pretty sure that’s how Jesus got his followers!😆🌿🌸

Well, quite the journey of which I have been honoured to share in some small way, so thank you for that Mandy. And it's just getting started. Yeah 51 eps in S2 so...yeah :) Loved this reaction along with your stories. Your niece's magic story was precious. And so much Karl in this one, so expect this to be the norm now. Steve was wearing your exact bracelet btw, I grabbed it through the magic of freeze-frame. I dunno if Ricky has the right cough drop though :) Might be a different flavour. I guess I'd better get started on S2EP1 then eh? Kettle on....

@slimpixie2404

2 ай бұрын

@CMDRRustyDog I can't figure out where Karl's hair is from? With the stuble he almost looks like Nick Heyward - Haircut 100 😁 Top job on these recordings as always 😎

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

@@slimpixie2404 The wig is one Karl got on one of The Moaning of Life episodes. He really liked it too, a shame Suzanne didn't. I wonder if she did like it, he'd still be wearing it? I doubt it. I remember Nick Heyword, jeez - nostalgia, hehe. Thanks btw.

@slimpixie2404

2 ай бұрын

@@CMDRRustyDog Oh yes! I remember. Thanks.

I think Mandy should start Rockbusters after this... who's with me?! 😌 👍

@liamdudeeee

2 ай бұрын

What would be the point when it starts in 8 episodes anyway.

@Silver_Specter

2 ай бұрын

Be patient

47:47. This information is completely wrong. There is a spider that lives underwater, has an air bubble around it’s abdomen(cus they stick it out of the water to collect new air in its hairs), eats little fish. There are thousands of funnel web spiders all over the world. It’s in the name, the web is shaped like a funnel. An other kind is an orb weaving spider, the ones you walk through on a hike, like a dream catcher shape, which is where the humans got the idea. No shade, that’s what is on Google, but it’s not what Karl is misrepresenting talking about.🌿🌸

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

The information is not wrong. I stated nowhere that this was the exact type of spider that Karl was talking about. This was merely a genus of arachnid that was said to enter swimming pools, so I used it as an example. The information supplied about that genus is spider is correct.

@Gabriel_Moline

2 ай бұрын

@CMDRRustyDog OK, that's valid. Unfortunately, it was in the context. It seems as though she thought that. Would you like me to delete, or let this stand as discourse? You do great work, and I said no shade.Edit.🌿🌸

@CMDRRustyDog

2 ай бұрын

@@Gabriel_Moline Up to you. :)

Mandy and Rusty sitting in a tree….

Hurray it's beautiful Mandy time🤗😘

Carrie underwood