CheapShow - Ep 108: Dick-A-Lot Bear
Episode Date: January 4, 2019We're back for an episode full of laughs, random tangents, quality tat and a lot of gagging and coughing. Paul has a pretty rough time this week! After a long absence The League of Snacks (and crisps)... returns to tackle the mystery of the Doritos. Where will they rank? There is also an overdue return to Silverman's Platter to listen to some unusual charity shop finds. If you care about your childhood, you may want to brace yourself. Finally, Paul and Eli eat some disgusting bug gummies. It's not going to be pleasant! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Photos and the full live show on YouTube can be found at... www.thecheapshow.co.uk If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!
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How many fingers can you get in your mouth?
That's how we're starting the show, yeah.
I can get five fingers in my mouth if I want.
Oh, I feel very deflated all of a sudden.
Come on, mate.
Another successful year at Cheap Show HQ.
Better known in the common parlance is the House of Pickles.
Hello, this is Cheap Show.
It's an economy comedy podcast.
I'm your host, Paul Gannon.
And joining me, as ever, is my good friend,
Eli Silverman.
Hello again, everybody.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles, alright?
It's a fact of cheap so you're gonna have to fucking reset.
Noodle time.
Tales from the dance floor.
How's the bit going?
The price of the site This is for a gun and saying hello
Eli Silver
Welcome to Geek Show
How many fingers can you get in though? No, I'm not talking about that How many fingers can you get in though?
I'm not talking about that.
How many fingers can you get in your mouth?
Can I have a nap?
Now?
You can, but you know what will happen if you have a nap?
The little teeth gremlin will come.
The tooth gremlin made up.
The tooth gremlin will come.
It wasn't a real thing that that person was told.
We'll get your teeth.
Don't start. Don't start.
Don't start with the Tooth Gremlin.
Well, the Tooth Gremlin will get you.
It's true.
Yeah, but...
I heard about it somehow.
The Tooth Gremlin's not real.
I heard it on a podcast.
It must be real.
Tooth Gremlin's not real, but you know what could really happen?
You, for example.
You've been struck by a Tooth Gremlin.
Paul, do you know what's real, though? Do you know been struck by a tooth gremlin. Num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num.
Paul, do you know what's real, though? Do you know what's real, though?
Yeah.
Leaky Norman.
Leaky Norman?
Leaky Ken.
Leaky Ken.
Get your characters right.
Come on, mate.
No, come on.
There is a leaky Norman.
Get your characters right.
No, I just got confused because his brother's called Norman.
And he's also leaky.
Is it a leaky family?
Yes. What's his mum's name? She and he's also Leaky. Is it a Leaky family? Yes.
What's his mum's name? She's called Leaky Leaky.
You know what? I can see racist material coming based on
that name. Really? Yeah. Because Leaky
could be a Chinese name. No, no. They're not
Chinese. Well, what's the name then? What's Leaky
then? It refers to his
compulsion. Whose compulsion?
Mate, your story's falling apart.
It refers to the compulsion. His wife's name. It refers to the genetic compulsion in the whole family
to quietly go into people's rooms when they're asleep
and sort of flaccidly excrete.
How does the lady do that, then?
I don't have to ask me that.
You should try.
She just stoops.
Oh, you know what?
I don't fucking want to know.
I just don't. I just don't want to know. I just don't.
I just don't want to know.
Leaky Ken is real.
Anyway.
And he's really visited you.
I can tell you that.
Welcome to Cheap Show, ladies and gentlemen.
It's the economy comedy podcast.
Leaky Ken is real.
Leaky Norman is real as well.
Mate.
They work as a tag team.
Yeah, do they?
Yeah.
They're great.
What?
He goes,
I love this.
Norman.
Norman.
It's time for you to be leaky.
And then he comes in, you know, and they pass like strangers in the night.
How do they pick their victims?
It's you.
It's just you.
It's just me.
It's only you.
Leaky Ken and Leaky Norman pick on me directly.
They exist to flaccidly spuff on you.
You're Leaky Ken and Leaky Norman, so that you do it.
I'm Leaky Ken. Are you saying I'm
Leaky Ken? Yeah.
I'm not Leaky Ken, mate. You are Leaky Ken.
I'm not Leaky Ken, mate. I am.
You are. It's like you're Batman.
By day, he's Eli Silverman,
but by night, he's Leaky Ken.
Look after your foreheads, gents.
He'll be plopping his flaccid todger down
on it and excreting a weak piss jism.
So, Paul, what have we got coming up on the show today?
We have a lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely trip to your platter.
A trip down platters.
A trip down the platter avenue.
Now, not to be honest, this week they are not, strictly speaking, Silverman's Platters, are they?
No.
But it's the platter section of the show when we talk about vinyl.
We talk all things vinyl.
All things.
All things.
All things Mahogany.
We work them all in.
We talk all things teak.
I talk all things.
I can't do this anymore
you mean tonight or ever again
I don't know
I don't know Paul
I don't know
is this you quitting the show
no
he says mulling over his other options
just give me something
oh by the way
now that we're on the topic yeah
haven't you mentioned this on the topic, yeah.
Haven't you mentioned this on the show before while I was reading this? Yeah, but we haven't tasted it.
Do you know what?
We never will.
Okay.
I bought this Kenyan-style chuda, chevda, which is like a Bombay mix style thing.
Yeah, African Bombay mix.
And I checked it, and I checked the ingredients, and I couldn't see it said raisins.
Look at that.
It's got fucking swimming with blonde sultanas.
That's unacceptable.
It's unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
Unacceptable.
Not wanted.
But maybe that's just how they have it, though.
It is how they have it, and they're wrong about food.
So we will not be tasting that on cheapies.
Is it a cultural thing?
It's a disgustingness thing, Paul.
Oh, well.
The League Against Fruits With Meats
shall rear its head and defend celery
and iceberg lettuce.
Is that it?
In your weird niche protection racket?
Well, it's not a protection racket.
Well, whatever.
It's a protest movement.
I'll show you a protest movement
when I take a shit right on your nose.
Yeah.
The big stink, they call it.
I'm running out of insults for you.
I can hear one of our superheroes approaching.
I'm Pondstopper.
Gagstopper.
Pondstopper.
Is it?
Gagstopper Incorporated got in touch with me
and said I had to change my name.
Well, you're going to have to stop your own avatar, Paul Gannon.
It's going to be tricky.
Yes.
Because I love him.
Right, okay.
I love Paul.
Do you love me?
I love you.
Okay.
That's great.
Why don't you two kiss?
Let's kiss.
Ooh.
And a bit more.
Yeah.
A bit more.
Stop my pun.
Right. Stop my puns. Oh, stop your more. Yeah. A bit more. Stop my pun. Right.
Stop my puns.
Stop your pun.
Paul, Paul.
Paul, no.
Why has it got mouth noises?
It's just gone mouth noises.
All you do is mouth noises, man.
Oh, right.
I am off now.
Goodbye, pun stopper.
You certainly stopped his puns. Going home to my wife. All right. I am off now. Goodbye, pun stopper. You certainly stopped his puns.
Going home to my wife.
All right.
He's secretly hot for you.
You lead more than one double life, don't you, pun stopper?
He certainly does.
You hypocritical bastard heartbreaker.
It's always the same.
Paul, now Paul.
He does this a lot.
He flies into my life.
He says, don't do that, pun.
And then he goes, can I have one more little kiss, please?
What pun did you do?
And then I go, all right, but it's the last time, pun stopper.
And I kiss him on the lips.
And it all gets heated for a moment.
And he leads me up the garden path.
And then he goes, oh, I can hear a pun happening.
And he flies off.
It didn't get heated enough for me.
No.
No.
No, not at all. We'll do a pun then, and maybe you'll come back. I don't get heated enough for me. No. No. No, not at all.
Well, do a pun then
and maybe he'll come back.
I don't want him to come back.
Do a pun.
I want him to come back.
What's that stuff called again?
Chevda.
Chevda.
Chevda what?
Chevda puke after eating it.
No, he's not coming back.
He's not coming back.
That's fine.
He's gone.
Didn't he qualify as a pun? He's gone's gone. Didn't he qualify as a pun?
He's gone. No, didn't qualify as comedy.
Because you have to.
I can't think of a pun on you have to.
No, because you have to.
Because you have to vomit because of the sultanas.
Because you have to.
Because you have to.
We're not making this work.
We're literally trying to
squeeze a round peg through a square hole right now.
Oh, yeah.
No.
How square?
Describe the hole.
It's a round one.
It's a round one.
And how square?
Is it square?
What are you doing?
Coming up on the show today, we have...
What have we got?
What have we got?
What have we got?
We've got the platter. Oh, we've got the platters. We've got a league of what we got we've got we've got the platter
oh we've got the platters
we've got a league of snacks
and we've got
it's a very serious
league of snacks and crisps
and we're going to end
with a
a nut busher
challenge
a nut booker challenge
nut butter challenge
that sounds like
what is it
I found it in a shop
bush tucker
bush tucker bush tucker
bush tucker challenge
it's called
the bug tucker challenge
oh bug tucker challenge
spin the wheel
to see which bug
you will eat
but these are sweet
I'll explain in more detail
later
what else
that's it
bush
we've had
that's it
that's all
bug tucker
pun stopper
heartbreaker
love maker
salt shaker right that's the they would do Pugtucker Punstopper Heartbreaker Lovemaker Saltshaker
right
that's the show
good good
bless you
what's that you're drinking
it's green
that is
tea
okay fair enough
good point
it's milky matcha
like a latte
like a tea latte
a pre-made matcha latte
oh
is that cheap?
No.
We're frauds, aren't we?
Ladies and gentlemen.
I just want to taste it.
But matcha's very sort of this high end anyway, isn't it?
It's expensive stuff.
It's quite nice.
Ladies and gentlemen.
You don't like the taste of green tea, do you?
I do.
I do.
Yeah, just carry on drinking it, mate, in the show.
They're fucking Sultanas.
What about this as well?
Stop talking like my dad. Complaining about Sultanas and tea. I, mate, in the show. They're fucking Sultanas. What about this as well? Stop talking like my dad.
Complaining about Sultanas and tea.
I'm not complaining about the tea.
I said it was nice.
Well, you just have a face of a complainer.
Sultanas.
Right.
What about this?
Ramu Bottle Grape.
It's a grape drink that tastes like Ramune.
Now, Ramu Bottle.
Do you think the translation is Marble Bottle?
I don't know.
Because everyone must be familiar with those.
Yeah, the little Japanese soft drinks.
Soft drinks that have a marble in the neck.
Yeah.
And then you do something with the lid.
You pop it down.
Yeah, you pop it down, the marble drops out.
And it releases the marble.
I'm really interested to know what the history of that is.
Because a lot of these Japanese things are things that go back years and years and years.
Do you know what I mean?
But this is a Ramu bottle, great,
but it's just a normal bottle. And they've got a picture
of that bottle on this normal bottle
as if they're saying, this is the type
of stuff that you'd put in that bottle with a marble,
but we're not going to do that. Why are they going to do that?
Because it's terrible for the environment
probably. Probably, so they have to now just
affect it by the
iconography on the bottle.
Having a picture of it.
Yeah.
Well, the bottle itself is reasonably nondescript.
This stuff is evil, man.
Is it?
So sweet.
Yeah.
So artificial.
Great.
So, yes.
And what did that cost?
Was it expensive?
Yeah.
Stop buying expensive stuff.
It's called cheap show.
Oh, well.
It's not that much, is it?
Stop showing it off.
Look at my Ramu bottle style, Greg.
Maybe it's to do with the containers.
Maybe in the past,
they used to have jars of balls in
so it wouldn't spill
if you tipped it upside down.
The marble would roll to the top.
Well, it must be something like that.
I'm going to look that up.
Well, not now.
Oh, all right.
Not now.
I don't want to do it now.
I want to do Cheap Show. You don't have to do it now.
Can we carry on with the show?
I'm just trying to...
I'm going to do League of Snacks now.
That's exciting.
We haven't done that in a while.
Let's fucking do that then.
Right, come on.
Let's kiss.
No kissing.
Well, that's a good one.
You've already had a snog.
Pun stopper not doing his job.
No.
And not getting me hard.
Because it was so weak
nearly livid well right let's do stop making noises hello
yeah no i'm gonna stop it and then the link and then the sound effect and then the spit. Good. It's time for the League
of Snacks.
And crisps.
What have we got? What have you chosen for the...
And crisps.
What have you chosen today for League of Snacks?
Doritos. Why did you pick Doritos?
Well, they've been ubiquitous for a number
of years in the crisps scene in Britain.
I'd say
the 1990s in Britain. I'd say the 1990s in Britain.
I could do some research.
Do some fucking research.
It's a serious part of the show.
The League of Snacks and Crisps.
Doritos.
Let's find out about Doritos.
Yes.
Is an American brand of flavoured
tortilla chips produced since
1964? By Frito-Lay.
Yes, Frito-Lay, obviously the huge company.
The original Doritos were not flavoured.
The first flavour was taco, released in 1967,
although other flavours have since debuted for the company.
Doritos originated in a restaurant at Disneyland.
Ah.
Didn't know that.
This is actually quite fascinating.
In Disneyland?
So they're always a sort of pretend.
And then nationwide, 66, they released in America.
They're like a pretend sort of authentic item, aren't they?
They are like a kind of theme park snack when you think about it.
It makes sense that that would be its history.
But what I want to know is when they were introduced to the UK, Paul.
Because I believe that was no earlier than like 1990.
No, you're probably right,
but this particular Wikipedia page does not say anything about it.
It just merely focuses on the American market.
Do you remember them?
They came in in the 90s, didn't they?
I think you would have been right,
because Mexican food was not big in the 80s,
and it was starting to become a bit more popular in the 90s.
They haven't been here since the 60s
in this country. No, no, no. I don't think they have.
I think you're right. I don't think they have.
So, you have... We're going to taste
all three. Talk into the mic.
How hard is it though?
Do we have to have another episode where we
talk about this? No.
Let's not have another episode
where we talk about it. Yeah?
Behave yourself.
Just looking at some crisps.
All right, then.
So, anyway, Doritos.
So, what was the first flavour that came out?
It was probably Cool Original, wasn't it?
Cool Original.
That's what it's original, isn't it?
What does Cool Original flavour mean?
What does it taste like?
It's cool.
Yeah, but what does it taste of?
What does it taste of?
I always think it's sort of like a ranch sort of style flavour, isn't it?
Oh, do you think?
That's us.
Yes.
Let me look for flavours and see what it says.
Here we go.
But it's a strange non-flavour, isn't it?
Usually a flavour says something like cheese or...
Yeah, it's like...
It's just called original.
What's the ingredients say?
It's just new, new hot.
Let's have a look.
The ingredients don't say anything.
They've got cheese. There's cheese in look. They've got cheese.
There's cheese in them.
I've noticed that.
Vegetable oil.
Cool original flavouring.
Contains milk.
It says flavourings contains milk.
It's ranchy.
It's like garlic, cheese, garlic sort of.
Herbie cheese garlic, isn't it?
Made in a factory that also handles wheat, gluten, barley, soya, celery, mustard.
And giant squid.
Ah, thumbs up or thumb.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, so sit back, relax,
and slay your Christmas party with this seriously cool snack.
You might be right, it might be a ranch-style thing,
but for me, it's always been a bit cheesy.
It is cheese.
It's a cheese ranch.
Well, let's open the bag up.
No, no, we've got three flavours.
We can do it one at a time. All right, shall we start with the original? Keep the bag up. No, no we've got three flavours. We can do it one at a time.
Alright, shall we start with the original? Yeah, keep the mystery going.
Otherwise we blow our load. Oh he's having a huff. I like the huff on that.
Have a look. I have to say I like the huff on that. It's almost tangy. Tangy salt and vinegary.
Yes. So they are just, you've seen one tortilla chip, you've seen them all.
That's what the shape is.
Let's have a little taste.
It's really hard to describe.
There is a sort of vinegary-ness to it, isn't there?
Yeah, there really is a vinegary-ness.
Yeah.
God damn it.
Are you okay?
No, I've got a headache.
He's still hungover, everybody.
Shut up.
Okay.
It says, welcome to the website.
What is Cool Flavour?
It says the flavour in the US is called Cool Ranch.
Thank you very much.
It's a forum on Digital Spy, so they had a forum.
Cool Original Doritos.
And then someone says, donno. Sour cream.
Yes, there's definitely a sour cream sort of flavour to it.
Yeah, there is.
The flavour in the US is called Cool Ranch,
but nobody over here knows what ranch is.
It comes from one of the most popular salad dressings
called Hidden Valley Ranch.
It's a very nice dressing.
You can also make a ranch dip for Doritos.
There you go.
So basically, it's kind of a ranch dressing.
Oh, God.
It's gone bad. I'm going home.
I think I'm going to die.
Paul.
I'm going to go home.
It's tickling my throat and it won't go away.
It's a cough.
I had it.
It's not.
It's a tickle from this thing.
You're getting a cough. I had it. It's not. It's a tickle from this thing. You're getting a cough.
It's a little bit of Dorito.
I can feel it in my throat.
All right.
Stay in the podcast.
This is all real.
No, don't keep that in the podcast.
It's disgusting.
I'm eating another crisp.
Oh, God.
Oh, you made me cry.
That was so funny.
Right, what do you think of Cool Doritos, then?
I've never gotten on with the flavour.
Really?
There's something about it. I'd rather just have a plain tortilla chip.
So would I.
I don't like all the flavouring,
because there's also quite a kind of thick flavouring to it.
It is.
And it's almost,
it's very kind of chemically.
Yeah.
It's a chemically flavour.
I would,
if I was really hungry,
just eat a pack though.
No,
that's the thing though.
It's like you get stoned
or you're drunk
and you come home,
you can't be arsed to cook
and you open one up
and half an hour,
it's all gone.
But it is ranch
because they're called ranch in the States
and that's obviously
because ranch has no meaning
in our culture, does it?
No.
It's not a thing that is known about at all.
You know what I mean?
Mate, I feel like shit today.
I feel like shit doing this episode.
I know, Paul.
I'm sorry.
I'm bunged up.
You have to do it, though.
We don't have to do it.
We could just stop.
We could do it some other time.
No.
We have to carry on we could just stop we could do it some other time no we have to carry on okay now so we need to rate it in the four categories and the first category is flavor flavor uh i don't
know i've never really liked that flavor so um i'm is out of 10 certainly is i'm gonna go for six
it's not unpleasant but i don't care for it. Now, remember, we have to agree on this.
I know, but that's why I'm saying six.
I want to push it up to 6.5.
All right, 6.5.
Are we going to agree on that?
I'm happy with that.
That's fine.
It's not very good.
No.
It's not very good.
Okay.
Next.
Texture.
Texture.
Oh, it's got a nice texture.
Good texture.
Oh, it's great.
They're quite thin, aren't they?
But still quite corny. Yeah, and there's still a lot of crunch to them and bite. So texture's good. They're crispy. Veryxture. Oh, it's got a nice texture. Good texture. Oh, it's great. They're quite thin, aren't they? But still quite corny.
Yeah, and there's still a lot of crunch to them and bite.
So texture's good.
They're crispy.
Very good.
Eight?
Yeah.
Eight.
You can't really go wrong with a...
It's a solid cunt with a corn chip.
Not really.
You can.
You can.
They can taste a little bit stale, but these don't.
I think that's...
Doritos, one thing they try and get spot on is the crunch.
And they've worked on that since the 60s.
And they've done it.
They've done it.
They've achieved crunch. They've rock and rolled it. So we worked on that since the 60s. And they've done it. They've done it. They've achieved crunch.
They've rock and rolled it.
So we're giving eight for texture.
Yeah, next.
Nostalgia.
No, not nostalgia's not next.
Value for money.
Oh, value for money.
So this is a multi-big bag thing, isn't it?
These were all a quid, and these are the Christmas...
So they're on probably a promotion.
These are Christmas promotion packs, but these are 180 gram big packs.
Yeah, they're huge big bags.
That's good value for money.
But on average, they tend to be about 80p for smaller bags.
They're the same as an equivalent bag of potato chips, aren't they?
And if you're in that mood, you get a bit more value for money for a Dorito bag than a Walker's.
Do you think so?
Why?
They're heavier.
The corn chips are heavier.
I mean, you probably get less in, but it's more kind of a...
It feels more like food
for some reason
than a potato chip
doesn't it
yeah
it's a bit more legit
when it comes to
corn based snacks
these have got like
fake snow on them
I don't think we need
to take that into consideration
I just think
it says deck the halls
with boughs of holly
is crossed out
and Doritos is said
yeah
you wouldn't want to deck
your halls with Doritos
no
it'd be a nip
not unless you're very
poor this Christmas it'd be very cheesyip, wouldn't it? Not unless you're very poor this Christmas. It'd be very
cheesy. Oh, Mummy, why does the
hall smell of cheese? Because we've
used Doritos.
Mummy, why are you the
prostitute from the old other
episode? Because Paul can only do
a few voices. And
Mummy, why are there crisps up on
the ceiling? I haven't got an answer for that.
Why have you decked the halls with Doritos?
What does the other one say?
Report.
All I want for Christmas is you.
You is crossed out.
Yeah, and it says Doritos.
Doritos.
Imagine being that lonely.
You have a Dorito Christmas.
All I want for Christmas is Doritos.
Just sit in my room, eat a bag, and another bag.
People do get into them.
And then another bag, and then another bag, and then another bag, and then another bag.
And then I'll have a sleep, and then I'll have another bag, and then another bag.
We've reached a level of mediocrity now on this podcast.
And then another bag, and then another bag.
Okay, right, value for money.
What are we going to rate it then out of that?
We need to come up with a number.
Value for money I think is high.
I'm going to go for 7.5, pushing out there yeah no 7.5 i'll go with
it's a little bit costly still especially if you compare it to say a space invader snack whatever
they call them because you know get a nice little bit of snack there for your money with a space
vader what are they called space space invader oh they call that the snacks yeah space raiders
space raiders thank you yeah they're more value for money did we cover those yeah we have covered them i hope we're biffo oh yes now
moving on to the most controversial of the categories but we stand by it we stand by this
yeah i stand by it i stand by you oh please i stand by you Please don't sing that Nostalgia everybody
I stay by you
Nostalgia
What do you reckon?
What's your nostalgia associated with Doritos?
To me Doritos reminds me of that mid 90s extreme
Whoa dude
Oh radical kind of thing
They've got a very 90s feel the brand still
Even though they're a 60s snack and blah, blah, blah.
For me, they are the 90s cool, rad, extreme snack.
And the lettering that they use is totally like that as well, hasn't it?
It hasn't changed.
It's got a very 90s feel to it, the font and the design.
It's got a big extreme heat sort of triangle.
Put it this way, it means less to me
as a snack than a Monster Munch would from the
same period. Because this is an
American snack primarily. It
entered the UK reasonably. It came into
my life like at least 10 years later
than Monster Munch. At least.
It was the cool trendy kid on the block
who wanted to be cool and edgy like you.
It really was though and perhaps that gives it a
nostalgic thing.
Because, Paul, we were just like,
oh, there's corn-based maize snacks,
such as Space Invaders.
There's crisps.
There's Golden Wonder.
Salt and Shake.
There's Square Crisp.
There's Discos.
But where is the corn-based thing?
Well, we didn't have that in our culture.
It was an exotic thing.
It was very exotic.
It was like, ooh, this is a bit different.
Hey, hey, hey, Bob.
It was less based on...
Hey, Bob, have you seen these?
Have you seen these crisps?
They're a bit different, aren't they?
I'm trying to sleep.
All right, sorry.
I'll send Leaky Ken round.
So I don't know.
For me, the nostalgia is kind of feeling like they're imposters, like trying to... Yeah. You know what I mean? They've got an American-ness about them, don't know for me the nostalgia is kind of feeling like they're imposters
like trying to
yeah
you know what I mean
and they've got an American-ness
about them don't they
yeah a brashness
a brashness yes
it's like the Pepsi Max
of snacks
they so are
they so are
and I think Frito-Lay
are actually own PepsiCo
as well
yeah they are
oh that's a good point
they are
that's probably why
I made the association
yes
they're behind the scenes
of our lives
that's the 90s isn't it skateboard scenes of our lives. That's the 90s, isn't it? Skateboarding,
Doritos, Pepsi Max.
That's the 90s summed up
in three words. So what we're saying is they are,
they do cause nostalgia, but for quite a specific
period of time. So they are quite a good nostalgic
snack, but in a kind of interloper,
ooh, you Doritos,
but they're still around. So we're going to go for 8.5
on nostalgia. I would just go with 8.
Okay. Fair enough. I'd just like to keep that one simple. Fair nostalgia. I would just go with 8. Okay.
Fair enough.
I'd just like to keep that one simple.
Fair enough.
So, all together, what does that give us?
And then we'll quickly do the other two.
For the other two, we just have to change the flavour score.
That's it, yeah.
And that's how we do things around here.
That's how we do it.
It's a scientific method.
If the crisp is the same crisp, essentially, but just with different flavours,
we come up with a score for texture, flavour, and
value for money. And unless there's a
great discrepancy between the two flavours in
that crisp, we only change the flavour
one. That keeps things spick and span,
all squared off,
all spickety
spookety. All the I's are dotted
and all the T's are crossed. And I've got it all
straight. I've got it right straight, all straight up.
Straight up there.
Right, good.
So can you now sum up what the score is overall now
for the cool original Dorito snack on the League of Snacks board
before we move on to the other two flavours?
He's working it out, ladies and gentlemen.
While he's doing that, Raquel, you with my latest hit single. No, no, please. You know working it out lately. Let me, while he's doing that, regale you with my latest hit single.
No, no, please. You know you've got it.
Where'd you put it?
I know you got it. Where'd you
put it? That's really unoriginal. I saw it the other day.
Where'd you put it?
I know you took it. 30!
Say you didn't. I'll slap you
away because I know
where my badges went
and they aren't on my
bedroom bench and I thought
you said you were quite
hench when I found them in
the sock drawer
and you said that you had swore
that you'd not seen them
before, well you're a liar
too, but dude, dude
please, please fool
please
you really Please. Please, Paul. Please.
You really... This is a different song now.
It's different.
Yes.
It's different.
Paul, finished?
Yeah.
Good.
What's the score?
Honestly, good.
Right, good. I've said Good. What's the score? Honestly, good. Right, good.
I've said it.
What did you say?
You literally weren't listening.
31.
It's 30.
You're trying to sneak at my scorecard.
Yeah.
Don't be sneaking a peek at my scorecard.
That's how I get through.
I saw you sneaking at my scorecard.
I saw you sneaking.
I saw you peeking.
You thought I was cheating, but I wasn't.
I just looked. Come in here. I've got to speak to you peeking. You thought I was cheating, but I wasn't. I just looked.
Come in here. I've got to
speak to you. Yeah.
Hello. I saw you
sneaking a look at my
scorecard. I didn't. It got me fucking
frothing. Frothing in the
pantos. You're the worst teacher
ever. My pantos are frothed up.
Why have you got those canes, sir?
Oh, they've been up my arse.
Right. Right.
Let's get the other two open. If you want to go sneak
and look at my winky hole,
if you want to look at my winky hole,
I'll come round. Eli, I do not
want to look at
your winky hole.
I was playing a character.
Yeah, but I'm talking to you, Eli.
Now, next, Dorito. The next flavour of Dorito is the tangy cheese. Now, but I'm talking to you, Eli.
Now, the next flavour of Dorito is the tangy cheese.
Now, I don't know about you, Paul, but this is my personal favourite flavour. Again, I don't like...
It's got a very cheesy huff.
I find them too intense flavour-wise, and they come across as quite cloying.
It's a very cheesy huff, but not like a Watsit cheesy huff,
which is quite intense.
They do have some of the Watsit-style orange dust, though.
It's an orange dust snack.
But is that nicer?
Have they changed the flavour?
No.
Because for me, this doesn't seem as thick with dust as it used to be.
You're thinking of the cool original.
You're thinking of the cool originals.
I don't know.
I remember these being really cheesy.
We haven't shaken the bag.
Get the powder
all around it.
I actually do think
I prefer this snack,
this flavour
to the Cool Ranch though.
Yeah.
It hasn't got that
vinegary aftertaste
the Cool Ranch one.
That kind of chemically
sweetness.
There's not much of that.
Yeah, that's better.
0.5% better?
0.5 of a... What was the one we gave for flavour last time? 0 better 0.5% better 0.5 of a
what was the one
we gave for flavour
last time
6.5
I would say 7.5
oh even that high
yeah
I think it's quite
a comfortable flavour
it's a full point
higher than
by a long margin
oh well they're my favourites
yeah
what would you have said
without me involved
would you have gone
a higher score
with the flavour
no I probably would have
gone about 7.5
yeah
alright 7.5
and then ooh now we're back to the fucking a score with the flavour? No, I probably would have gone about 7.5. Yeah? Yeah. Alright, 7.5.
And then,
ooh, now we're back to the fucking
almost swimming pool.
It's almost chlorine-y.
There's almost
a chlorinated smell.
What flavour is that?
These are
chilli heatwave.
It's on a heatwave!
They've got an almost
chlorinated smell.
I got confused
and I sniffed the microphone then.
Very good.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
And that's that
artificial-y-ness. Yeah. The artificial chilli. We've had a then. Very good. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And that's that artificial-iness.
Yeah.
The artificial chilli.
We've had a half.
Shake it.
Shake the powder.
Shake it.
Shake it.
Shake it like a Doritos bag.
And he's going to have a little few.
I'm also going to have a few.
It's not strong, is it?
What they do, and what I don't dislike about a lot of products that claim to be chilli products,
is there is some heat that they put in it, but they mask it in a load of sweetness, don't they?
They kind of make it more palatable by sweetening it up.
Do you know what that tastes like to me?
It's really sugary.
That tastes like ketchup.
Yeah.
But that's how they...
Is it like a sriracha-y kind of thing they're going for?
Yeah.
It helps.
It's not unpleasant, but it's a bit unremarkable.
I don't like it.
Do you think it's what...
Well, this is what we have to decide now, Paul.
I would still probably have them over the Cool Ranch.
You would.
Yeah.
So, are we going to say...
And Doritos also do plain now as well, don't they?
Should we put them...
We can get this nice and symmetrical by putting them exactly halfway between the Cool Ranch
and the cheese in the flavour scale.
Okay.
So, yeah.
Let's do that then.
So, there'll be a seven. And then 7.5 for the cheese. And let's have the final scores Okay, so yeah, let's do that then So there'll be a 7
And then 7.5 for the cheese
And let's have the final scores for the Doritos
Let's do...
Have you got a pair?
Just as a...
What have you got?
Just as a comparison
Oh, okay
I have some organic nacho corn chips
Now, we will not be rating them on the League of Snacks scale
No, not including that
But let's just have our thoughts about these
These are sort of
expensive
cheese flavoured corn
okay
alright
corn chips
are these a cheap brand
or just a foreign brand
like an import thing
imported
they've definitely got
much more coarse
grained
corn
you know what I mean
they're much cornier
yeah but they're also
again
I think they've been
open a while
because they're a little
bit stale
which is affecting the overall impression I'm having on them they are Yeah, but they're also, again, I think they've been open a while because they're a little bit stale.
Yeah.
Which is affecting the overall impression I'm having on them.
They are.
But try and ignore that.
And the cheese flavour's very subtle, isn't it?
It's subtle, but I actually prefer the Doritos cheese flavour.
Yeah.
Again, it comes across as a little bit too weak.
Too weak.
Okay.
Interesting.
Well, there you go.
It's got a very interesting addition.
What's the overall score then across the three snacks?
Let me just find my pen. While he's looking for his pen, it's time for my latest song. So. It's my new song go It's been a very interesting Edition of the What's the overall score Then across the three snacks Let me just find my pen While he's looking for his pen
It's time for my latest song
So
It's my new song
It's called
I found my pen
Where's me pen
Oh baby
I've lost my pen
No I found it
Very short song
Yeah it's a short song
Right
So that makes
Cool original
Of a score of 30
Cheese
A score of 31
Oh
I guess that makes sense And It's a full point more So it'll of 30. Cheese, a score of 31. Oh. I guess that makes sense.
It's a full point more.
So it would be 30.5 there.
30.5 for the chilli heatwave.
Interesting.
Also, annoying 90s nomenclature as well, isn't it?
Chilli heatwave.
Just call it chilli flavour.
Well, that's not what you're going to call it.
You're going to call it cucumber bumhole flavour or something.
Cucumber bumhole flavour.
I'd like to try that.
You know what I mean, though?
Like knobbly pickle flavour or something.
I'd eat those.
But I mean, you know.
Yeah, I know what you're getting at.
It's like a blade.
It's trying to create a feeling rather than a flavour.
I've got a better one.
Go on.
Like surfing hot dog flavour or something. Or it's more like, no, it'd be more like skateboarding cat.
Autumn Peppers.
I like that.
Autumn Peppers.
They sound like a soft rock group.
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Autumn Peppers with Where's Me Pen.
Ooh, baby, baby, where's my pen?
I found it.
You have to pay for this, the hiring of the studio today, Mr Peppers.
Oh, do I?
Yes, because you told me you could sing.
Can we cut this stuff?
I'm recording and it's a bit awkward.
I can't afford it, mate.
Well, you'll have to have sex with me.
I'll suck you off.
Yes.
I'll suck you.
I was going to suggest that.
Yeah.
Please do it.
Fourth with, jump on this
knob off
my gob goby
my gob jobby
job on
no
oh
we're meant to have been doing
a league of snacks
don't make yourself gag again
he's rolled up a packet of tobacco ladies and gentlemen and he's put it into his mouth and now he. Don't make himself gag again. He's rolled up a packet of tobacco, ladies and gentlemen,
and he's put it into his mouth,
and now he has.
He's made himself gag.
That's his...
It's standing for material.
This segment is now over.
Cool Ranch, 30.30.
No, 30.
Cool Ranch, 30.
Cheese.
What's the cheese one called?
Tangy Cheese.
Tangy Cheese.
At least that's descriptive.
It is descriptive.
Tangy Cheese, 31. And... descriptive. It is descriptive. Tangy cheese,
31,
and
chilli heat wave,
30.5.
Well,
what a,
what a successful,
what a congratulations.
What a congratulations that was.
And what a
fine addition to the
League of Snacks that was.
I think that ranks about right
compared to everything else
we've done so far.
Yes.
Maybe we need to find
a League of Snack soon.
A snack that's,
you know, well known. Like a pretzel. Well Liga snack soon. A snack that's, you know,
well-known.
Like a pretzel?
Well, I'm just saying
a snack that's well-known.
What about those sticks?
Those salty sticks?
No, I know,
but what I'm saying is
find a proper thing
that's good for the Liga snacks,
but a snack we know is bad
because we need, I think,
a spad Liga snack entry
to kind of get an idea of,
you know what I mean,
a barometer of like...
So we need a spectrum.
Because we've had like
30 and 32 and 36.
We need to find a snack
that's bad.
Well, this was quite low
as far as they've gone so far.
True, but if we can think
of a bad snack
that's eligible
for the League of Snacks,
I think we should try it.
We need to get hold
of the spreadsheet, Paul,
in all seriousness
so I can do some research
and sort of crunch the numbers.
Well, we're going to crunch
the numbers on that
and then we'll think
outside the box
with some blue sky thinking
and hopefully knock this one out of the park
after some spitballing ideas.
Yeah.
That was the League of Snacks.
That was the League of Snacks.
That was the League of Snacks.
And crisps.
Oh, it's becoming one of my favourite parts of the show.
Oh, yeah.
It's Eli Silverman's platter.
But they're not my platters today
are they
no they
one was gifted
two were gifted
at the live show
and one I picked up
in a charity shop
up the road from here
that death charity shop
shall we start with
that one then Paul
show
which one
the one you picked up
from a charity
death row charity shop
did you say
a death
no not a death row
charity shop
a death charity shop
that'd be weird
wouldn't it?
Why?
What are you sending them?
Last meals?
He's shrugging at me.
I've got nothing.
Look, you could send a burger through the mail to them.
No, I think we should start with the one...
Because I think the last two have a theme.
And the first one is a bit of...
A bit different as a result.
So let's first of all talk about a song that was gifted to us at the live show.
It's Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince singing I Think I Could Beat Mike Tyson.
Is that the actual title?
Yeah.
Not in my hand.
I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson.
And with the year of release.
Yeah.
It's got to be early 90s, right?
89.
Oh, 89.
Yeah, that makes sense then.
Yes.
Yeah.
So it's Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff,
who we know from Boom Shake the Room and Summertime.
And The Prince of Bel-Air.
And The Prince of Bel-Air.
Now, I will be honest.
Here is a clip of it right now at the beginning.
Here we go. Uh-uh!
Leroy, Leroy.
Yeah?
Did you hear about that boy Mike Tyson?
Mike Tyson, he the boy that played football for Montreal, man.
No, you old coot here.
He a boxer, man.
Let me tell you, I went to his fight a couple months ago.
I seen him hit that boy.
He hit that boy so hard, his head flew off into the 18th row.
Had to go get his head out the 18th row.
I was in Jeff's crib one night about 8.
We were watching a couple of Mike Tyson fight tapes.
Jeff was like, man, you see how hard Mike's punching?
Come on, Jeff.
The other guy was just lunging.
Left, right, left, right, another KO.
If that was me, I'd have been okay, though.
The very next day, I gave Russell a ring with JL and Leor, and we all called Don King.
I said, yeah, Don, I got a problem.
Tell him, Prince.
Yeah, what's up?
What you saying?
You trying to solve him?
Forget the small talk.
Let's get to the nitty gritty.
Me and Mike, two months, Trump, Atlantic City.
Yo, you got this. You on a bus, dude.
Yeah, you can be my trainer. Word up. I'm rough like a freight train, smooth like ice. So I want to listen to that.
You know the first thing I thought of?
I can't stand this.
Well, okay.
The second thing I thought of was when he starts singing it,
I was like, this is the exact same as the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song.
It's exactly...
It's like it begins with that whole...
And this is the story all about how...
But it's...
This is the rhyme structure.
The rhyme structure is exactly the same.
Yeah.
And it has a sort of novelty...
It's almost a novelty rap record
it almost is a novelty
but that's also
what I don't like about it
because it's like
trying to be sort of music
but also being funny
and where does it lie
because what
is it called
it's not for the parties
it's not for the
for the block party
see the thing is
I don't know too much
about Jazzy Jeff
and the Fresh Prince
outside of his
you know appearance
on the TV show.
But in terms of how did he get his break, what music was he associated with?
Because this is quite family-friendly for rapping, you know?
Totally.
Well, it's meant to be funny, isn't it?
There's no cussing, is there?
No cussing or swearing.
No, because it's the back end of the Gangster War rap stuff.
No, that would have been happening...
About now.
Early 90s.
Into the 90s, yeah.
So it was coming out...
When was...
Public Enemy?
They were 80s.
They were innovators
in hip-hop. Yeah, innovators. And they had
protest songs and it was quite hard-edged.
Fuck the Police, NWA.
That's not until 93.
Or 94. Okay.
So he still was an anomaly within that music
because he was quite family friendly.
He looked nice and it was all cheeky fun.
Yeah, but rap was,
it did take a turn towards the gangster stuff, didn't it?
Yeah.
It was kind of more friendly.
He had like De La Soul and stuff.
I mean, he did do a gangster song at one point in his career,
the famous Wild Wild West.
That was not a gangster song.
It's about, he's a gunslinger.
Yeah.
He's a gunslinger.
He's a gunslinger.
Yeah.
Not a gangster.
Right.
Same difference.
Now, I really hate the production on that as well.
What didn't you like about it?
Because I thought it was too noisy.
It was too noisy.
Yeah.
Very bright and cluttered.
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
There's too much. Oh much there's just too much
going on in it
too much going on
that riff
too much synth
like synthy drums
and sort of like
and like almost a kind of
cavalcade of beats
yeah
that just kind of
fall over each other
it doesn't work
like the last
like 30 seconds
when like he's talking
to Jazzy Jeff
about saying
no you can't do it
the beat's going on
and they're riffing
and trying to wrap it up and it just it's not good it's noise and saying, no, you can't do it. The beat's going on and they're riffing and trying to wrap it up.
It's not good.
It's noise.
And it feels hastily thrown together, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Can I also say one thing?
What?
Did this song remind you of something
we've also done on this show before?
Think.
Another song we've covered.
Yeah.
This reminds you of it.
It reminded me of the World Wrestling Federation tune.
Oh, you see, you know what I was thinking of?
That Frank Bruno rap. Oh, that was mad. Do you remember that? But do you know what I was thinking of? That Frank Bruno rap.
Oh, that was bad.
Do you remember that?
But do you know
what's interesting?
Do you know what's
interesting though?
Is that if that song
perfectly represents
Frank Bruno and
white rapping,
then this perfectly
kind of illustrates
the kind of cheesy
equivalent of that
with Mike Tyson,
but it's more produced
and it's got,
it's like, it's like,
it's more legitimate than the other one.
And it's back in a time when the boxing was sort of right in the mainstream culture,
which doesn't seem to be these days.
Do you know what I mean?
I guess at this point,
Tyson hadn't,
you know,
done the rape stuff.
Had the rape problems.
And the bite ear thing.
And the bite ear thing.
He was now on the,
He's world champion.
Yeah.
As he says on that.
Yeah.
Years.
Yes. Yeah. So, uh, it's a joke. He can't be, he thinks he can. and the bite a year thing he was now he's world champion yeah this is the Don King years yes
so
it's a joke
he can't beat
he thinks he can
the story is
he's watching videos
tapes
fight tapes
yeah
and he thinks he could slip
and he could dip
and he could flip
he sort of figures out a way
to beat Mike Tyson
so he goes off
and he tries it
he describes shitting himself
he does this at the moment
where he basically says
very politely,
I shat my pants.
I evacuated my barrels
into my panties.
Because he gets hit so hard,
he said,
his inside chick.
He eventually has this fight
with Mike Tyson.
Oh, does he get hit?
Yeah, and he gets hit
and he goes...
And then at the end,
he runs away
after the first round.
Yeah, he runs away.
And all the newspapers
are saying that Fresh Prince
ran away from Mike Tyson.
Yeah.
Mainly because he broke his ribs and shat his pants. So, fair enough. And then at the end, and all the newspapers are saying that Fresh Prince ran away from Mike Tyson yeah mainly because
he broke his ribs
and shat his pants
yeah
so fair enough
and then at the end
Jazzy Jeff
Jazzy Jeff
goes now you were wrong
he gets the fever
the fever of trying to beat
Mike Tyson
do you think a lot of people
watched the Mike Tyson match
though and thought
yeah I could have him
no way
because I'd watch that
and go
you'd just be dead
he's playing off his character
as a sort of braggadocio,
you know, like he plays in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Yeah.
Sort of cocky.
Do you know what I mean?
Cocky, but ultimately a bit of a coward.
Yeah.
Which he plays off.
Maybe immature.
Immature, yes.
Because this is the thing,
it's like,
I don't know too much about...
He's written it for that persona,
hasn't he?
You can tell.
Was he like California West Side rapping?
That kind of sunny, light, happy-go-lucky kind of popular? You can tell. Was he like a California West Side rapper in that sunny, light,
happy-go-lucky
kind of popular?
What kind of music
was he doing?
Because he doesn't seem like...
I'm not sure.
But he was a TV star.
But it was very pop-friendly.
Yes, this is very poppy.
Boom Shit in the Room
was obviously a huge hit
for him in 1994.
He had several huge hits.
And Summertime.
Yeah, I was going to say
we've already mentioned
the two big ones.
And Summertime
is the other big one, is it?
Yeah. And he had a somewhat credibility, I was going to say, we've already mentioned the two big ones. And Summertime is the other big one, is it? Yeah.
And he had a somewhat
credibility as a pop
rapper,
but he was never
one of these sort of
hardcore gangster guys.
He was like Gangsta
Light.
Not even Gangsta Light.
He was like domestic
gangster,
because it kind of
has that kind of,
oh,
I've got beef with
my gran.
Anyway,
I didn't hate it,
but it's...
I hated it.
I really wanted it to
end.
Yeah,
about half a minute
before it did. What would you give it out of five platters, then? Two. I really wanted it to end. Yeah, about half a minute before it did.
What would you give it out of five platters then?
Two.
I'd actually agree with you on two then.
It wasn't novelty enough.
Not enough.
No.
Next track.
This is more of an LP, isn't it?
So I found this one in a charity shop up the road from you for deaf charities.
Okay, so it goes back to the things I fucking love about... One of the things I loved
growing up as a kid, so I think I've mentioned on the podcast
before, in the past when I was a kid,
for Easter, outside of an
Easter egg, my mum would always get me a rainbow book and tape.
What did she get you inside of an Easter egg?
You'd think most
things would be happening outside of an Easter egg.
I'm interested about what happens inside the Easter egg.
Special party time.
Special egg party time.
I'm going to punch you.
Don't punch me.
So hard in the face.
Come on.
Shall I introduce the record?
No, do you know what?
Because I wanted to do it in my special way Oh, it's a little trip down memory lane
With our resident podcasting technology expert
Paul Gannon
We've mentioned on the podcast before
That I enjoy read-along adventures
You know, a cassette with a 26-page book
Your new watch
I've mentioned it on the show before
We have not mentioned the watch
So, alright
Go on, start again
So anyway, I like these cassettes
and books
that have a cassette
and you can read along
with the cassette
and the action
the sound effects
and the music
along with the books
it kind of gave you
that sensation
of enjoying the movie
that you'd seen
at the cinema
but it wasn't on telly
I know
I never got into that
but that's what
the books were for
to give you the feeling
of enjoying the films
without
I know
but I always found them
just sort of
I didn't want to do it
I don't know,
I like them.
I like picture books.
we've mentioned it on the podcast before
because we talked about
the Ghostbusters one
and the Rambo 2 one.
I kind of like that.
I've got them up there.
Look,
I've got the Mad Max,
that's one of my favourites
is the Max Hedrum one.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, the Mad Max Hedrum
one up there.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah, it's a nice bit
of thing, isn't it?
It's a nice bit of thing.
It's a nice bit of thing.
Weird.
Weird movie.
We'll have to talk
about Mad Max prop. Have we not, have we mentioned Mad Max on the show before? It's not Mad Max, Max Hedrum. Oh, Max Hedrum on the show before. it's a nice bit of thing isn't it it's a nice bit of thing weird weird movie we'll have to talk about
Mad Max prop
have we mentioned
Mad Max on the show before
it's not Mad Max
Max Headroom
oh Max Headroom
on the show before
we must have
did we play a song of his
did you see that video
about his Christmas special
he had a Christmas special
yeah
it was very bad
I got off on a tangent
we'll have to talk about
Max Headroom another time
anyway
so
anyway
I love these things
I have a collection of them
but I saw this in a charity shop
and I had to get it what kind of things for Ghostbusters have you got a Ghostbusters one yeah Ghostbusters I had a few these things. I have a collection of them, but I saw this in a charity shop and I had to get it. What kind of things?
For Ghostbusters?
Have you got a Ghostbusters one?
Yeah, Ghostbusters.
I had a few Star Trek ones.
I had a lot of Disney ones.
No, didn't care for Star Wars.
Actually, no, I had Empire Strikes Back.
Ah.
But I think that was part of a pack.
Nice.
So I had...
Rage is Lost, though?
Yeah, I had that.
I had Gremlins.
I had, like, Pinocchio and Snow White.
Some classic Disney ones.
Some of the classic Disney ones.
I think Disney dominated the market in this kind of thing, didn't they?
Well, they did.
Because again, Disney had that thing about the Disney Vault
where they would never release on home video their classic films.
So it was more of a big deal when they did.
They never did, did they?
It was a big deal when they finally released Snow White on VHS at home.
And that was like the 90s when it was finally...
Into the 90s, really?
Yeah, I think so.
They're very...
They do sort of
I mean that's gone
completely out the
window now
but it was very
rare
it was like
you'd only see a
Disney film
usually if it was
just on TV at
Christmas
like Pinocchio's
on Christmas
morning
oh
and it had a
certain cachet
didn't it
still
right into the
90s
I remember
weird
so anyway
I went to a
charity shop
and found this
it is a book
and tape
so it's a book
and a cassette but actually it's not. So it's a book and a cassette.
Actually, it's not a cassette. It's a
33 and a third
long playing record with a 24 page book.
It's a 7 inch disc but plays at
33 and a third. Is that rare?
Yeah, relatively.
Things like this often
they are. But in terms
of the music
just sort of pop and rock rock it doesn't happen although
i do have a grand funk railroad oh yeah you do uh which runs at 33 seven inch that runs at 33
and a third and uh it's very good paranoid and that's cool so anyway this is a disneyland record
book this package includes a 24 page book with full color illustrations and a seven inch 33 and
a third rpm long playing record with the narrator reading every word exactly as the child sees it Now, what's the Disney story we have on here?
Is it Dumbo?
No.
Is it Alice in Wonderland?
No.
Is it Mary Poppins?
No. No. Is it Mary Poppins? No.
It's Walt Disney Presents Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev.
Prokofiev.
Prokofiev.
Five, six, seven, eight.
So this would be 68, I want to say.
Five, 68.
Yeah.
Yeah.
68 this came out.
1968.
1968.
So that isn't one of their animations, is it?
This is just for...
This was basically one of their merry medleys.
You know, so basically it wasn't a full feature.
It was a shorter Disney cartoon that was released.
Oh, really?
And they did.
They made an animated feature along with the famous Peter and the Wolf.
Did they?
Was it a feature?
Yeah.
You could buy it.
Again, when Disney were releasing like...
You know, they released this on a double feature with like the three Caballeros or whatever
that Disney cartoon is where Donald Duck goes to Mexico.
Right.
And it had those double features.
It's not one of their more famous cartoons, though, is it?
It's not at all.
But, again, this is a book that tells the story briefly in 24 pages of Peter and the Wolf.
Here's a little clip of it now.
Here's the beginning.
This is a Disneyland original little long playing record,
and I am your story reader.
I'm going to begin now to read the story of Peter and the Wolf.
You can read along with me in your book.
So as not to spoil your enjoyment of the music,
which runs right through this story,
there are no bells when we reach the end of each page.
Let's begin now. This is the story of Peter and the Wolf. Now, as you know, in the musical score of Peter and the Wolf,
each character is represented by an instrument in the orchestra. Peter is represented by the And his trusty pop gun by a pop.
The bird, whose name is Sasha, by a flute, which plays very, very high.
Sonia, the duck, by an oboe.
Like this.
What I find quite interesting is at the beginning he says,
you won't hear a bell telling you to turn the page.
Which is different.
So live with it.
Well, that's the thing.
Because every other one is like, when you hear R2-D2,
that's to turn the page.
So you could follow it, you know?
But this, because of the musical score,
which is so heavily reliant on the story,
you know, because all the musical...
Yeah, but do you think some kids will, oh, I need a bell.
I don't know what to do.
Well, what he did know is he was listening to it.
Oh, I don't know what to do, mummy.
Where's the wolf?
I don't know what to do.
There's no bell.
I need the bell.
I need the bell to turn the page.
I'll give you a bell.
Oh, gosh.
Really?
I'm your babysitter.
Oh, mate, come on.
Dan, Dan, the babysitter man
steals your kids and off he ran.
Where they are, white
van, where is it hidden?
Amsterdam.
Uh...
Dan, Dan, the babysitter man.
I don't want to explore Dan, Dan, the babysitter man.
At the back of his hand
where he goes to
no one understands,
Dan Dan, the babysitter.
The thing is, he's a really good babysitter,
but he's just got this voice.
Yeah, and he has a whole rhyme to do with him as well.
He's really nice, but he's like,
yeah, I'm Dan, I'm going to look after your kids.
I'm going to look after them really, really good.
He's actually a nice guy, isn't he?
He's a really nice guy.
Puts TV on
educational
entertainment
he makes popcorn
everyone has a good time
you know
they touch his dick
it's fine
Paul
what?
I used to think my baby's
his puppet
Richard
what?
he has a little puppet called Dick
he gets to touch his dick
oh
yeah I know it was a
misfortunate name but it's his grandfather's called Dick
so he kind of wanted to name it after his grandfather
who was a ventriloquist
and where do I go to
hire Dan?
you can go to
dandanbabysitterman.com
and
do I have to, has he got a CRB check?
you have to use Bitcoin
and you can only talk to him
via a messaging system.
Do I have to put the mask on?
Do I have to put the mask on to talk to him?
It depends on if you meet him in the street or not.
Just do it over the internet, it's fine.
But if I go on the street, I put a mask on?
Yeah, because it mostly hangs around the dockyards.
Do I have to go on a slippery slide?
No.
Do I have to...
No, this is things you want to do now, isn't it?
Do I have to go climb very, very high and go on a slippery slide?
Like we've lost Eli.
So the thing is, it does a really good job of explaining all the instruments related to an animal.
So the flute was the bird, the cat was the oboe, whatever, whatever.
Yeah, but that was
Prokopiev's original...
That was the gimmick of it,
wasn't it?
I think so, yes.
Yeah.
And it's reasonably faithful to it.
Now, in my memory,
I remember some of the characters
dying in Peter and the Wolf
or being eaten by the wolf.
Okay, so it was a bit darker.
But they Disney-fied in this
where they,
oh, he's eaten.
Oh, no, he's hung by a tree.
Okay.
Oh, everyone's happy.
Yeah.
But ultimately,
it has got that... He goes out and kills a wolf. Everyone's happy. But ultimately, he has got that.
He goes out and kills a wolf.
That's the story, isn't it?
He goes out to try and catch the wolf.
He fails and loses the friend because he gets followed by a bird and a cat and a duck and things.
And then one by one, they're picked off.
You're putting me off the wolf.
And then they capture him.
They snag him in a snare.
The town come and they fucking put a bullet in the back of the wolf's head.
Really?
No, not in the cartoon version.
They just leave him hanging in the tree.
You know what they should have done, Paul?
What?
He's got a gun, though, doesn't he?
Yeah, it's a pop gun.
Weird.
That's the whole point, though, isn't it?
He's ill-prepared for the job at hand.
I like that picture of the wolf on the back page.
That's for colouring in.
Now, we should mention the quality in terms of the condition
is extremely high
because these type of things
are children's things
and they're destroyed.
It's hard to find
good quality children's records.
Torn, drawn upon.
And this hasn't got any of that.
It hasn't been coloured in.
Even the record's in good condition?
No, but the point I wanted to make
Yeah, Paul.
is
if you'd really wanted to kill the wolf
I know a technique.
Pop a couple of Viagra.
Oh, yeah?
Wait for it to come round.
Wag all the wiener at it.
And the wolf.
And then the wolf
saw Eli's erection.
And he had a
terrible stroke.
And my friend Eli's genitals were in pain.
God, it sounds like you're doing him well, man.
Such a horrible state.
So, the duck's not the right size.
I'm picking holes in this now.
The duck's not the right size.
Doesn't matter, it's a cartoon.
The duck's fucking huge.
And it's a cartoon.
Duck's too big.
It's a fucking cartoon, mate.
So there you go.
I really like that.
As a platter, it's lovely.
It's a nice little thing, Paul.
It's well presented, well narrated.
It's in good condition.
It somehow manages to boil down Peeps and the Wolf to, what, 15 minutes or the whole story.
And it's educational to some extent for kids who like music.
Now, these are some of the other ones you can get in the series.
Yeah.
Sleeping Beauty, Mary Poppins, Three Little Pigs.
Read into the mic.
Jesus.
Sleeping Beauty.
Yeah.
Mary Poppins.
Yeah.
See, these are all things you couldn't watch on telly.
That's not a Disney thing, Wizard of Oz.
No.
They must have sublet it.
I think the company that makes these,
some of them were released as Disneyland titles.
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby.
Yeah, that's not...
That's the whole Songs of the South thing, isn't it?
Yeah.
Rapunzel.
That's a good one.
They did eventually make it to a Disney film.
Cool Tangled.
Oh.
But it was computer animated.
Yeah.
Looked all right.
I'm not seeing it.
Some people think it's better than Frozen. Pumper's Race. Frozen shit. That's like a computer animated? Yeah. Looked alright. I'm not seeing it. Some people think it's better than Frozen.
Thumper's Race.
Frozen shit.
That's like a little story.
Yeah.
Thumper from Bambi.
Did you just say Frozen shit?
Yeah, Frozen shit.
It's got one good song and the plot's boring.
Tangled's better.
I think that's quite controversial, Paul.
Don't fucking come at me, Disney freaks.
Whoa.
I'll fucking school them on proper Disney.
Seven Dwarves Diamond Mine. Disney freaks whoa I'll fucking school them on proper Disney seven dwarves
diamond mines
so they've got
little ones that
just are
yeah
are not even
the whole story
just a little
adventure with the dwarves
it's a little dwarf
adventure
and Thumper's Race
seems to be
yeah
one of those
Haunted Mansion
yeah I'd love to get
my hands on that
that I bet
that one's pricey
now there's a website
you can go to
called readalongadventures.com
where they've uploaded
some of these to the website.
I know, but you'd like a copy of the Haunted Mansion one.
I fucking love a Haunted Mansion.
It's basically a little, it's a bit like this.
It's a musical score trip for the haunted house.
You go through and it's every story page.
Now, I'd like to see that.
Based on the rides.
You see this a lot.
Yeah.
And it's interesting because the readalong story version of the Haunted Mansion
features the hat box ghost, which was a big feature at the time,
but was removed really early on the Haunted Mansion's life
because it didn't work.
It stays in all of the media around it.
It's only recently been added back to the Haunted Mansion
because they had the technology to finally do it.
Oh, they couldn't even achieve it when they built the original.
No, because the hat disappeared from his head
and then appeared in the box and then went back to his head.
But because the lighting had to be perfect,
it meant you could usually see the head still,
even after it quote unquote disappeared
I remember that
yeah
but you've got
full story ones as well
Bambi
Snow White
Tokyo
again all stories
that you couldn't
watch on TV
and you've also got
It's a Small World here
now I wonder
is that the same
as the picture disc one
I got you
no
because I think
that's just a single
I imagine what they've
done with that
is they've turned it
into a book
where it's like
here we are in London
everyone's reading
it must be a read along Disneyland what they've done with that is they've turned it into a book where it's like here we are in London everyone's reading it must be a read along
Disneyland record and book
I love that
let's have a score for that
that's a four for me
I'll say
I'll go with you for four
if that had been
Haunted Mansion
that's a stone cold
fucking five
oh yeah
but as it stands
a four
I mean that's easily
the most desirable one
on the list
the Haunted Mansion
don't you think
oh god yeah
I mean I quite like
the Mickey Mouse ones.
Yeah.
Again, you've got all these sort of racially questionable ones, like Little Hiawatha.
Lovely.
I think that's Native American, isn't it?
Yeah.
Goldilocks and the Three Birds.
Yeah.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Yeah.
The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met.
Oh!
Have you ever heard that?
Yeah, it's the story of Joseph Wilson.
Yeah, and our last item. Our last item today was donated to us at the Met. Oh! Have you ever heard that? Yeah, it's the story of Joseph Wilson. Yeah, and our last item.
Our last item today
was donated to us
at the show, again,
by someone
I've forgotten the name of.
We should have made notes, mate.
I'm bad.
We should have.
We were too busy
and people were throwing
things at us.
Find out and just insert it here.
There you are.
So, I'll insert it there.
I'm Pondstopper.
Give us a kiss.
Get off me!
Oh! Oh! No, it's not right. I'm busy.stopper. Give us a kiss. Get off me. Oh,
no,
it's not right.
I'm busy.
Oh,
they're tangling.
Oh,
it's a blur.
It's a blur of arms.
Oh,
oh,
oh,
no,
no,
no,
no,
I've come.
I'm off.
You bastard.
Goodbye,
Pondstopper.
You bastard.
Thanks for coming.
Love me and leave me.
Hate him. Love him, really. Love me, leave me. Hate him.
Love him, really.
He'll never marry me.
I know.
He looks sad, everybody.
Paul looks sad.
He keeps saying,
oh, I've got to leave my wife first
and then I'll come to you
and he never does.
Oh, well.
Last song on the album.
Last thing on the show.
No, is it the last thing on the show?
The last thing on the segment is this.
It's the... Let me talk, Brian. All right, go on, you do it then. thing on the show. No, is it the last thing on the show? The last thing on the segment is this.
Let me talk.
It's an LP called Care Bears To The Rescue.
To The Rescue?
To The Rescue.
And it is made by Parker.
Parker Brothers, yeah, who made board games.
Who are a toy manufacturer, right?
Now, this reminds me of that record
that we covered before
the garbage
oh the cabbage patch dolls
sorry the cabbage patch dolls
was that made by Parker
as well
no I don't
I don't think it was
I can't
is it Mattel
but there also was a record
which had the label
was just the toy manufacturer
yeah
it doesn't seem to be made
by anyone else
apart from
so it's an album
that we thought
was just going to be
a bunch of songs
about Care Bears
but actually
like the cabbage patch dolls there's a plot running through it but is essentially a toy advert oh it's an album that we thought was just going to be a bunch of songs about Care Bears, but actually, like the Cabbage Patch Dolls, there's a plot running through it.
But it's essentially a toy advert.
Oh, it's a massive toy advert.
And you know what I noticed about all of these?
What?
They're kind of militaristic.
There's...
You know, they've got kind of military jumps.
They're like the NATO of love.
When they come, and they're never really distinguished.
Because they want you to buy every single bear,
buy all of them,
and pest your parents to get them all,
they don't really distinguish between the bears as characters, do they?
No, they do.
They're this sort of unit.
No, the characters are reasonably broad, yeah.
But Grumpy Bear was still grumpy.
Love-A-Lot Bear was all the nice one.
They had a certain kind of broad character,
but it weren't,
it wasn't in depth.
And they do sort of
act as a unit.
Yeah.
Then they help out.
Because they're stronger together.
Yes.
But that is,
I can't help but cynically
see that as Parker Brothers
just trying to sell
the whole lot.
Yeah, but you know what?
You could also sell them on.
It's like if you had a kid
who was afraid of something, you could buy him a Care bear so this care bear is scaredy bear and he's always
frightened but if you hold him close they'll help protect you you know it's that kind of thing and
the story in this is our kevin is he called the care bears are 10 roly-poly little bears who live
high up in the land of fluffy clouds and rainbows called care a lot like camelot but right to the
round table and replaced with
Care Bears. You see what they've
done? I see what they've done there. Whenever
you want to share your special feelings
with others, they come right down to help
because they really care
about you. One look at the Care Bears
tummy tells you why they're so good at helping
you express whatever you're feeling.
In this musical story, all the Care Bears
come to the rescue of a young runaway who needs help the mad scientist professor coldheart tm fucking hell yeah
wants to freeze the feelings of the whole world so that no one has any feelings or cares about
anyone else why don't you sing along with the care bears tm and help them in this exciting
adventure remember every day can be a care bear, and then it's song after song after song telling the story.
And Paul, I have to say, the songs are very
saccharine and nasty.
I don't think they're... Do you know who wrote
this music? Edelman. Randy
Edelman. Randy Edelman.
Do you know what he's just called?
I do recognise the name. Tell me.
So, I only know from one
film soundtrack, unfortunately, which is predictable.
He did the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack.
Oh, my God.
Which is not a great score.
It's not a distinguished score, is it?
He's a hack.
He also did Bloodsport.
He did Scandal Sheet.
The Chipmunk Adventure.
Dennis the Menace.
Was that the live-action Dennis the Menace film?
Yeah, but one in 87, so not the 1990s one.
Feds, Twins,
Ghostbusters 2, he did Quick Change,
Kindergarten Cop, Drop Dead Fred,
V.I. Warshawski,
My Cousin Vinny, Beethoven,
Last of the Mohicans.
That's a step up.
He's done a lot of film work.
Beethoven's second, The Mask.
The Mask and the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack sound very similar.
Really?
Yeah.
I wouldn't be surprised if we reused stuff.
While you were sleeping,
down Periscope,
Dragonheart,
Daylight,
Anaconda,
Leave it to Beaver,
Ed TV,
The Whole Nine Yards,
Head Over Heels,
Osmosis Jones,
fucking hell,
Triple X.
What's Triple X?
It's that American Bond movie where like,
Van Diesel can do things, but he's more extreme.
So, yeah, lots of stuff.
Recently, the most recent film he did was Max 2, White House Hero.
Max 2?
Is that like a cat or something?
Fucking don't know.
Don't care.
Unless, actually, no, I do care now.
I want to know.
Now, the music, I have to say, Edelman, you have a pedigree.
You've worked a lot in Hollywood.
I did not like your sugary sort of sub-show tunes that you made for this album.
The other thing is the people performing it,
they sound like fresh out of stage school, just sort of, just the most...
Well, I think they used...
...cliched sort of musical theatre style
vocal performance
well what's confusing me
is that
obviously it's an American product
and it's blah blah blah
and a lot of the Care Bears
do sound like
from what I remember
the characters sounded like
in the movie
yes
right
but the kids
definitely British kids
singing this
and then I found out
it was recorded in England
they got them out
of the stage school
PRT Studios England
it says
yeah
so they went
we've got Kelly East.
Oh, Randy also sings in it.
So maybe he did the voice of the Care Bear.
Also, Max 2 White House Hero is about a clever dog who protects the president.
I knew it was a dog or a cat.
Now, I hated this record, Paul.
I personally thought it was harmless.
Terrible.
It was better than the Cabbage Patch Kids one.
No, I was going to say,
it made the Cabbage Patch Kids ones
sound like a work of genius.
Now, this record belonged to a person called Karen Elliott.
Oh, Karen, we've got your record.
Wait, I want to show two things.
So, you know, you've got different songs,
so let's talk about the three points quickly.
One, Professor Coldheart,
yet another Eastern European,
possibly Jewish bad guy.
He's all like, yeah.
He's a mad scientist, isn't he?
Those are really unbearable, those.
Always the same.
Always the same kind of voices.
They've always got a sort of foreignness to them, don't they?
Yeah.
Which is, I guess.
And the Care Bears theme's quite good.
And I thought Care a lot was a good theme.
But I think they took that from the movie.
I might be wrong.
I can't remember now.
Did he probably did the music for the movie as well?
I don't think he did.
To the internet again.
Okay, Google,
who wrote the songs for the Care Bears movie?
The Care Bears movie's music was composed by Patricia Cullen.
Patricia Cullen.
I think the songs were better in the movie.
There's this good bit, though.
It's not a good bit.
Care a lot talks about the Care Bears, what they do, because the Cloud Keeper basically narrates the movie. There's this good bit, though. It's not a good bit. Care a lot. It talks about the Care Bears,
what they do.
Because the Cloud Keeper
basically narrates the story.
He's the big,
fluffy, godlike character
in the sky
who sees all those adventures.
These are the Care Bears.
Green, pink, yellow, and blue.
They've got pictures
on their tummies
that shows
just what they can do.
Why have you got a picture
on your cock or on your belly?
I'm dick a lot better.
I dick that.
And I dick that. And I put that there. Now, Paul. See a lot better. I dick that and I dick that and I put that
there. Now, Paul. See that
plant pot? I dicked it. See that
bowl of porridge? I put my dick in that.
I'm dick a lot better.
You don't get to
come on our adventures very often, do you? No,
because I'm dicking things. I've
dicked your food. I've dicked your sandwich.
I dick that. Dick you.
Paul, now. And finally, Paul, finally, the point I dicked that, dick you. Paul, now. And finally,
Paul, finally, the point I wanted
to make, where it's like,
Care Bears, what does it say? Well, folks,
don't forget, Care Bears
are always alert, and if you ever need them,
they'll be right by your side.
That's false. They won't be right
by your side, will they? No.
Imagine, imagine,
imagine you're a little 10-year-old, right?
And you've gone to the shopping market
with your mummy and your daddy.
The shopping market.
The shopping market,
the shopping mall
with your mummy and your daddy, right?
The shopping market.
And then you go,
your mum and daddy look busy
and you sneak out of the shop
and then next thing you know,
they're not in the shop anymore
and you panic
and you don't know where you go
so you think you go back to the car park
and wait by the car
but you're too young to remember what level you're parked on
so the 10 year old gets lost in the car park right and then he goes i don't know what to do so i'll
wait outside and he goes outside and there's a motorway in a wood and he panics and he runs into
the wood and the night comes and it gets dark and he's shivering in the cold and he's crying
and he's crying because he's lost his mummy and daddy he doesn't know what he's done he's crying because he's lost his mummy and daddy. He doesn't know what he's done. He's all lost and frightened. And then he hears voices.
And it's the Care Bears.
No, it's an animal out to get him.
A beast.
And at that point in the re-
No, that's the point.
Where are the Care Bears?
They don't exist.
That little kid's going,
Where's happy, happy little blinky boy?
That was a long way of saying that.
And he says, I want him, I want
him. And the kid dies in the
water. I'm interested. You know what I'm interested
in, Paul? What? The shopping market.
What about it?
So they sell Care Bears? In the
shopping market? Yeah. Now, your
extremely weak bit about
Cock-a-lot-Bear,
which he should have been called. Dick-a-lot-Bear?
No, Cock-a-lot-Bear. No, because called Dick-a-lot bear No cock-a-lot bear
No because dick is good
It made me think
There must be some adult fetishists
Who like to get dressed up
Like the care bears
Well possibly
Like the bronies
Isn't there an equivalent thing
To the bronies
Maybe
They fuck each other
Dream-a-lot bear
He helps you dream
Fuck-a-lot bear
Good luck bear
Come-a-lot bear
Alright all the obvious ones
Yeah
Gush-a-lot bear Yeah yeah alright Anyhow Shit-a-lot Sweat-a-lot bear Spunk-a-lot Helps you dream. Fuck a lot, bear. Good luck, bear. Cam a lot, bear. All right, all the obvious ones, yeah.
Gash a lot, bear.
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Any else?
Shit a lot.
Sweat a lot, bear.
Spunk a lot.
Spunk a lot, bear.
Yeah, is that it?
That's all you got?
Slosh my gob off and off, bear.
Right, that doesn't even work and it's pointless.
Anyway, slosh my gob off, bear.
We haven't played a clip yet. Let's play a clip now of a song.
Bear. We haven't played a clip yet. Let's play a clip now of a song.
Funshine Bear is such
a clown. Tender
Heart Bear helps to end
a frown. And Birthday
Bear brings sweets and cake
and cheerbuilders your tummy
ache.
So call on us
to lend a hand.
Think of us. We're just around the corner. Concentrate hard and snap, it's true. A Care Bear will be next to you.
Enjoy your way. Care Bears wanna be friends to you and me.
Come join our parade.
Spreading rainbows every day.
In our special Care Bear way.
Care Bears care a lot.
Care Bears love a lot.
Bringing tender thoughts your way. Care Bears wanna be friends to you and me. Yeah, that stuff.
That's what it sounds like, basically.
Awful, awful saccharine, awful.
I hate it.
Anyway, Care Bears were huge.
I don't think they were cabbage patch dog huge,
but I remember one and one.
I never got a Care Bear growing up.
I was much more of a Wuzzles kind of person.
You were a Wuzzles kind of person.
Yeah, I had a Wuzzle.
What's a Wuzzle?
Wuzzle was a Disney show that ran for one season.
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it?
Was it? Yeah. And it it? Was it? Was it?
Yeah.
And it was about animals that were both, it was two things.
So they were both one thing and another.
Like Bumble Lion was half Bumblebee, half Lion.
They're cool.
I had one called Tycoon.
Half tiger, half raccoon.
They're like chimeras.
Yeah.
Mythical beasts.
Yeah.
And they lived in the land of Wuzz.
That's where I was in the 80s with Fluffy Dolls.
Okay.
But Care Bears was still very popular.
They have a kind of resurgence
going on at the moment.
People are buying them again
and the retro thing
leaning into that.
So, you know.
It's a brony thing.
Yeah.
It could be an adult
Care Bear collection.
But that is harmless.
Honestly, I would,
if I had to give that
out of platters,
I would give it two and a half.
I would say two.
I'm going to say three then
to knock it up a full point.
You can say what you like.
I'd imagine if I was into Care Bears
and I got that as a kid, I'd fucking love it
and never stop listening to it. It also has their name in Dutch
Turtle Birch. And when my mum and dad
were having a fight and splitting up over
another silly argument and they're shouting at each other
and saying hateful things, that's what I'd play as I cry
in my room trying to drown out their
screams and bitterness and
anger. And in French they're called Les
Bisonneurs. Turtle Birch which I think is Dutch. It must be Dutch, right? screams and bitterness and anger. And in French, they're called les bisonures.
Turtle birches.
Which I think is Dutch.
It must be Dutch, right?
Yeah.
Turtle birches.
Yes, the kerbush.
The fantastic stuff.
Let's poke a big doobie in the kerbush.
Hey, mate. Hey.
What?
Don't.
There's a certain character.
Yeah, I know.
He's not here now.
Anyway, that's the segment over with now for Vinyl Platter.
Which one is the best one today? Which is your favourite?
You have to pick one. My favourite platter
would be Peter and the Wolf.
It's quality.
There you go, Peter and the Wolf
wins today's Silverman's Platter.
Even though up until today, we've never had a
winner on this segment at all.
Paul, you've lost it.
Are we recording now?
We're recording now.
Okay.
Right, ready? What's the last section of the show, Paul?
Well, Eli's only got 20 minutes because he's going somewhere more important than making good quality content for you, the listener.
That's how much he cares.
What a little shit.
We're playing a little game because I went to b&m before i left cambridge
and bought a bunch of stuff right i've got to speak fast eli because you've got to go somewhere
more important what a cunt what a horrible person he doesn't support the cheap shape
skate fans or community you never see him talk to people on twitter notice that on reddit never
engages on instagram what a horrible person and yet people like him don't understand that i put
all the work in but do i get any of the love? No, Eli gets all the love,
and then he can wander off this podcast recording
whenever he wants.
I'm not.
Because he throws his weight around,
ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, I know it looks like I'm the boss here,
but Eli calls the shots.
Ultimately, people don't realise that.
So I do.
I bend over backwards to accommodate him.
Right, I went to B&M,
and I bought a bunch of stuff,
and we've used it all,
bar this one last thing.
Oh, I've just got the half off that and it's not happening.
So what is it?
It is this thing.
Oh no, Paul.
We're going to have a problem here.
We're going to have a problem here.
Well, let's explain what the problem is.
We are going to have a problem here.
I bought something called the Bug Tucker Challenge.
It's basically a spinning dial with gummies around the outside.
And when the arrow lands on a gummy, you eat it.
But it could be fruit,
or it says meat.
Right.
It's strawberry and durian fruit and bacon-flavoured gummies.
That's what's on that dial.
The smell has just hit me,
and it's fucking horrible.
That's the durian, mate.
We're not going to be able to do this.
With bud, you will eat.
Here's what we'll do.
We'll do three questions each right
I just smelt it and it's not good man
Can I have a sniff
Oh my god
I've never
Mate that's awful
it's over
this segment is over
you're not going to be able
to get through this mate
you're not going to be able
to get through this
we'll have to try
because I've
I've decided
this has to
this has to work
as a segment
I've bought it all now
mate that is
fucking horrible
that's horrible
yes sir
we have a dial, and then...
I've explained the rules, mate.
We've got some gummy sweets,
and they're very nicely made, aren't they, Paul?
They're nicely put together.
They look like bugs.
A lot of detail, though.
Like the spider's got little white eyes
and red ridges on its back.
I'm sniffing me Coke tin because I can't.
And there's a fly, which is like four colours.
Paul is literally very...
I didn't think about the smell.
I didn't think they'd smell this bad.
And when I said we have a problem,
I told you you didn't want to...
I said we had a problem
and you didn't want to listen to me.
Stop fingering the bugs.
I'm fingering the snail.
Does this spin well?
I want to know what the spinning circle's like.
It's not great.
We should take it out.
No.
Otherwise it won't point at the bug, will it, you dickhead?
We're just going to eat some bugs, are we?
No.
I got this pack,
and it was from Tommy Dempsey,
who sent us a pack of all the... We mentioned it earlier,
the Ghostbusters drink
and the beer and the stuff.
Remember the ale?
So we're going to have that
on a Ghostbusters special.
Remember I mentioned that?
But he also, in this pack,
had this.
Tell me, Quiz,
the answers change on every spin.
So I thought we could use this as
the barometer of who gets to spin when.
Right? Fine.
He left a little price tag in. He got it
from Birmingham
St Mary's Hospital. £150.
I'm going to be sick.
Come on, it's just
durian. It's a fruit.
If does that help?
The game is to collect the most cards
by being the first to call out a suitable answer.
There are two sets of questions on each card.
On each card, the upper question precedes the larger question mark.
This is too complicated.
Oh, I see.
So it's a spinner.
It's got two levels.
It's a spinner that has the alphabet on,
and you spin it until it stops and look, oh, T.
And then you have all these little mini playing cards,
and it says, a 20th century invention.
You have to think of one beginning with T.
Telephone.
No, we'll do it properly.
All right.
We'll do it properly.
So we'll read a card.
I know where this is going, Paul.
It doesn't matter what you say.
The first person to think of one gets to dodge it.
You know what I mean?
So if I go N, and then I read a a card and it says things to do with golf.
But then you're reading it.
You've got an advantage because you've read it.
You can do the next one.
Because we'll do four.
But who eats the bugs?
Whoever, you've either wrong or if I get it first before you,
then you have to eat the bug.
How would we know if we're wrong?
We're going to have to look online.
No, this isn't working at all.
It's not.
Trust us.
Trust us.
Trust it.
I'm making it work.
Here we go.
Round one.
Let's go to the shopping market.
Bug, bug, letter.
Tell me game.
Tell me bug game.
Tell me bug.
Bug Tucker.
Tell me Bug Tucker.
Here we go.
Spinning the wheel, spinning the wheel, and it lands on H. Ready? Yes. Yes, I am. Okay. Here we go Spinning the wheel Spinning the wheel And it lands on H
Ready?
Yes
Yes I am
Okay
Here we go
H
A job or profession?
Hotelier
Bollocks
Eat a bug
I've got to spin the wheel
It's landing on the spider
I'm not going to put the whole thing in my mouth
Is that alright?
I mean I need something to spit this out into as well
If all that is wrong Use this coffee cup okay? Yeah What does it smell like? It smells I'm not going to put the whole thing in my mouth. Is that all right? I mean, I need something to spit this out into as well, if all goes wrong.
Use this coffee cup, okay?
Yeah.
What does it smell like?
It smells like...
Hold your nose,
and you're going to have to take a little...
Paul, are you going to actually vomit?
I'm going to bite it now, all right?
See, the texture's quite nice, actually.
I'll say that for it.
I'm talking so I don't have to chew it yet.
It's just resting in my mouth.
Just chew it.
You're going to have to chow down.
Pass it here.
Paul, Paul.
Paul.
What are we doing with our lives?
You know, you ever wonder that?
Ever wonder about that?
I hate this
I hate this
Next one
I'll eat one mate
You're so squeamish
L
A board game
Ludo
Eat another bug
No that was a draw
Come on
I think
Come on please
Please Give me a chance eat another bug no that was a draw come on I think come on please please
give me a chance
was that a bad bug then
are some of them nice
yeah some of them
were just apples
and that was durian
was it
or bacon
fuck that was
horrible
really
durian probably
C
ready
yeah
a word that describes you
crazy
you eat one
alright
I'm gonna
give it give it a spin.
It's that brown bug.
Oh, it's a brown bug.
It's kind of stuck a bit into his tray a bit.
My eyes are tearing.
Now, he's very well.
And I'm all over.
I don't like this game.
It smells like a bacon-y one.
It smells like a bacon chew.
So I'm going to bite this head off. He's taking a big bite. Yeah, it's bacon-y one. It smells like a bacon chew. So I'm going to bite this head off.
Well, he's taking a big bite.
Yeah, it's bacon-y.
Not very nice.
I got the bad black Dorian one, which just tastes like blood and death.
That's pretty unpleasant.
Yeah, it's not good.
Next letter.
We're going to do two more.
Here we go.
That's the right answer.
Here we go.
Aye.
Are you ready? Yep. The name of the book. Here we go. What's the right answer? Here we go. Aye.
Are you ready?
Yep.
The name of the book, Indiana Jones Goes Golfing.
That, yeah, spin it.
Oh, what have you landed on? Scorpion.
Now, this might be a nice one.
Give it a smell.
Give it a smell.
Bad?
I don't know.
It might have the smell of all the other bugs.
Right.
No, because this one is actually quite nice.
Oh, mate, stop eating.
I'm going to have a little bit of the tail.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Bad?
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Right.
I'm having a nice time here.
Why does this always suck for me when I do this fucking stuff?
My one was actually really nice.
Last one.
B.
You ready?
B.
I'll eat the dirty one.
I'll eat the dirtiest bug.
Something made of metal.
A chair.
Oh, Eli. Spit it. Spit it of metal. A chair. Oh, Eli.
Spit it.
Spit it.
I've got that.
All right, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
You spit it.
You spit it.
I spit it.
Right.
Oh, it's empty.
Now, I have the white bug one.
Do you think that's a nasty one?
I don't know.
I just want to give them a smell.
No.
And see which one's nasty.
And then, oh, I think that's a bacon one.
Which one? The white one's bacon. But I want the durian. I want the real nasty. And then, oh, I think that's a bacon one. Which one?
The white one's bacon.
But I want the durian.
I want the real nasty.
Oh, God.
I don't know.
They all smell bad.
What's that one?
Is that the durian, yeah?
Oh, mate.
Oh, mate.
Now, this is a big bag.
That's a big green one.
I wouldn't have taken that big a bite.
Oh. Oh, that big a bite.
That's deeply unpleasant.
I can't do this.
That's the durian, I think.
It's really toilety. God, it's like...
It's like taking a mouthful of shit.
It is. It really is bad
That is the worst thing I've put my mouth on this show
In a fucking long while
Oh that's disgusting
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I'm going to press stop And be violently sick in your cup.
Don't be sick in the cup.
Go out to the other room where there's a hole.
This is the worst thing I've ever done.
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You sign off.
Goodbye.
What do I do?
Press this button?
Just press that square.
I've got to vom.
I've got to vom.
Are you going to vom?
Don't vom. Just have a deep breath, Paul. Okay? got to vom. Are you going to vom? Don't vom.
Just have a deep breath, Paul.
Okay?
Goodbye, everyone.
I'm going to see to Paul now.