CheapShow - Ep 121: Noodle Pimping 101
Episode Date: April 5, 2019It's time to get your pimp on! Your Noodle Pimp on (whatever that means)! This week, Paul takes another magical trip to Eli's "Country Urban Noodle Testlab (Kitchen)" to get a lesson in how to spice u...p a regular, boring old instant noodle. The results may surprise you. Elsewhere in the world's best economy comedy podcast, there is a full fat edition of "The Price of Shite" that bounces from kitchenware, 70s nostalgia and classic BBC Radio 4 comedy. This is also the episode where Eli thinks podcast content is just saying the names of pop stars he recognises and where Just A Minute becomes an impromptu round of "Don't Get Mad"! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Photos for this episode can be seen at https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/noodle-pimp-101 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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Right, before we get started then, I'm giving this room a spray.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
We'll set my asthma off.
This room stinks of shit all the time and it's over.
I'm bringing... I'm bringing cotton fresh air to this room.
How do you like that?
Stop it. You're spraying it in my face.
Yeah, good, because you're dirty as well.
Hang on, I've got this around the fucking thing. Hang on.
That's better. Go on, I've got this around the fucking thing. Hang on. That's better.
Go on.
Do-do-do-do.
Welcome to Source Report.
No, we're not doing it straight off the top.
It's a cold open.
We have to do the fucking intro first.
No, I am.
This is the new intro, Paul,
as the will of the people.
The fucking will of the people.
Do-do-do-do.
Welcome to Source Report,
incorporating Cheap Show
with me, Eli,
and various guests. Who's going to be a fucking guest? Well, Paul. With me, Eli, and various guests.
Like, who's going to be a fucking guest on this?
Well, Paul Cannon this week.
I'm not a guest.
What have you got?
What sources have you brought?
I'm not taking part in this.
What sources have you brought to the table?
Fuck off.
I'm not taking part.
Do-do-do-do.
What a great segment that was.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Cheap Show, the economy comedy podcast.
Ah-ha-ha-ha.
Ah-ha-ha-ha.
Here we go for the charity shops, the bargain bins, and the pound lands of Great Britain.
What else do we go through, though, Paul?
Jumble sales.
Jigga jigga jumble sales.
Jigga jigga jumble sales.
That's right.
And the b-b-b-b-b-bazaars.
What are you doing?
Let me just do the intro.
The bazaars.
Do we go to the bazaars?
Let's just do the intro, and then you can be wacky and crazy like you like to be.
Brick-a-brack hasn't got a look in.
Brick-a-brack.
Brick-a-brack.
Jumbo sail.
B-b-b-b-b-bazaars.
You twat.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
Thank you.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles, right?
It's a fact of cheap show.
You're going to have to fucking reset.
Noodle time.
Tales from the Darkspawn.
How's the big guy?
A fight of the Shite.
This is for Gun and Saint Helen.
Eli Silver. Welcome to Geek Show. guarantee hello hello yes welcome to cheap show oh yeah how are you how are you mr eli i've been a little bit under the weather oh that's a surprising unusual isn't it you're never under the weather you
you're usually quite healthy aren't you i came down with a bit of the alergy last week,
but I also went on Crystal Maze experience yesterday.
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Go on, tell us about how you did in that, you big fat bastard.
Go on.
I did three games, Paul.
Were there any physical ones?
Yeah, that's the one I got the crystal in.
Was it?
In the physical game, yeah.
The only one I got the crystal in Was the physical game
So who's so fat now?
Alright, go on
You would have hurt your back
Because I had fun when I did it
And I did a few physical games
And by Christ
They nearly killed me
Yeah, yeah
You did it
When it was in
When was it out?
It was in Angel
Not too far away from Angel Tube Station
Now they've just recently
Just the other day, in fact,
we were the first day of the new opening in the Truckadero,
part of what used to be the Truckadero.
In fact, it is where I used to be a croupier.
It's in the old Golden Nugget Casino,
which is no longer the Golden Nugget Casino.
It is now the Crystal Maze Experience.
Well, that's exciting, isn't it?
And it's been closed for a while.
So it was quite bizarre going and doing a crystal maze experience
where I used to be
a croupier
weird
I just find it weird
that you used to be
a croupier
I had my little bow tie
did you have a beard then?
no
so you were all
young and fresh
I was clean shaven
you looked like
a little bloody angel
you didn't you?
yes
they all came to your table
thinking he was
innocent and honest
I was
you weren't
how many dodgy deals
did you do?
No, they really,
you get done.
You get done for that.
Yeah?
That's why you're not
allowed to play yourself.
You're not allowed
to go to any other casinos
owned by that group.
Oh, really?
It's quite very strict
after all the corruption
that was,
like the Cray era
in the late 60s.
Hang on,
this is me standing corrected.
You're not
your back is a mess
fuck off
I'm not bringing my back up
alright
Crystal Maze
croupier
he's doing the fucking
kick get on with it
yeah come on
people want to hear about
the sources Paul
well there's been
not a lot of sources
we've established
let me just do
the source report
this is like a bad
Ronnie Corbett monologue
do do do
do do do source report shut up I need a bad Ronnie Corbett monologue. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, You're going to enjoy the source report. You do what you fucking like. I don't care.
Do what you fucking like.
It's your show.
And here goes a source report.
Nothing to report.
Then what's the point of having the theme?
You could have just said this week there'd be no source report.
No, there is a report.
But the report is nothing to report.
No, that's not a report.
That is a report.
The report would be before the report.
If there was no report.
Report!
You fucking cunt.
No, that was if there was no report. I'm sorry for. No, that was if there was no report.
I'm sorry for calling you a cunt.
It was too early for that on the show.
And you spat as well.
There's no need for that.
I apologise.
So I did the crystal maze.
Wait, what happened to the source report?
That was it.
There was nothing to report.
You should have just said,
I'm sorry, Paul, there's no source report this week
because there's nothing to report.
That would have been enough.
You don't need a report to say there's no report.
No, but people still want to know that the source report is a thing. Like the bracket exists nothing to report. That would have been enough. You don't need a report to say there's no report.
People still want to know that the source report is a thing.
Like the bracket exists of source report.
It just happened to be empty this week.
Well, again, you could have done that without all the pretty sources.
Well, there you go.
What a waste of time.
What a waste of time.
All right, anything else?
Crystal maze.
That's it.
I hurt my finger.
You get a crystal?
Yeah. What was a crystal? Yeah.
What was it physical?
Because I had teething problems.
The one game where I actually got the crystal,
which was like a soft play maze where you had to get these batteries
and bring them back.
And I half killed myself, hurt my finger.
Oh, little buddudumdum.
Look at that.
Oh, it's a bit bruised.
The nail is bruised.
On the nail? And then he goes, you done it dum dum. Look at that. Oh, it's a bit bruised. It's bruised. The nail is bruised. On the nail.
And then he goes, you done it?
Yeah.
Get the crystal.
And then, you know, they got the little slot where the crystal is.
No crystal.
Where's the crystal?
They forgot to replace it after the last slot or something.
Oh.
So he's like, you got a crystal.
You know what I mean?
You did get a crystal.
Yeah.
Like.
Yeah.
I didn't get to get the crystal, though, did I?
Do you know what I mean?
That's really frustrating when you say it like that
everyone else got the crystal
it's like I've got blue balls
I've got crystal maze blue balls
I certainly did
I won three crystals when I did it
out of my four games
I did three games and won one crystal
so you did better than me
and the one I was most embarrassed by doing was the laser grid
where they fire lasers across the room and they're green and you've got to weave through them So you did better than me. Yeah, and the one I was most embarrassed by doing was the laser grid,
where they fire lasers across the room and they're green and you've got to weave through them.
Yeah, like Entrapment with Kathleen Zeta-Jones.
Zeta-Jones.
She's not in many films these days, is she?
No, she's married to Michael Douglas and sucks his withered old cock.
You know, like when an old person tries to blow up a balloon.
That's what it must be like when she gives him a sock.
Is that the noise?
We've reached a peak with last week's episode, Paul. I thought I'd be clever and lie on my back and slide across the floor under all the lasers.
Yes.
Because I thought there was enough space.
There wasn't.
And I'm going on the...
And everyone started shouting
stop stop stop
and they were like what
and they all shouted
your fat belly
and I looked down
and my fat belly
was that close away
from touching the green thing
so I was like
sucked it all in
scooched across
grabbed the crystal
scooched back
it was not good
I was near tears
but then how did you
I thought you lost
I didn't I got the crystal I nearly set it off with my how did you... I thought you lost. I didn't.
I got the crystal.
I nearly set it off with my big fat tongue.
Very sobering.
And what have I done since?
Made it fatter.
So, that's an automatic lock-in, that one, isn't it, as well?
It is.
When Joe did it, he got automatic lock-in within like three seconds.
But...
It was like spider web.
You had to climb the ropes and get the crystal.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Without ringing the bell three times.
That's hard, that one.
Literally, he runs in.
Clang, clang, clang.
You're in.
Locked in.
The thing is, with your version, they had the space.
There was a place you'd go if you were locked in, wasn't there?
And then you actually had to get bought out.
This, if you get locked in, you have to automatically buy them out.
There's nowhere for them to go.
Oh, really?
So you could end up with no crystals.
You can't even...
Yeah, because as soon as
you get locked in,
you've lost a crystal.
But then you get
minus crystals.
He was saying,
the guy was saying,
you're my second group ever
and the first one
was on minus two crystals.
So how does that even work?
Then if you win two crystals,
you're even
and then you've got
to win two more.
Yeah.
Well, you can't.
You've got minus crystals
going into the dome.
Well then,
so that means you can't go in the dome.
Put off the fans.
Turn off the fans.
Turn off the fans.
Get out.
Well, poor bastards.
We'll bring this up very quickly and have a quick rant about this
because people pointed it out to us on Reddit, on Twitter,
about Channel 5 sometime last week as we record this.
They did one of those list shows and they did. Oh, they actually have a show that they're promoting. It was a show, not just a top... They won those list shows. And they did...
Oh, they actually have a show that they're promoting.
It was a show.
Not just a meme.
It was an actual show.
And here's what they came up with, apparently.
Crisps.
They're top tier, tier, tier bullshit.
We don't like tiers.
We don't do tiers.
We don't do tiers.
We treat this scientifically.
We fucking have a score.
And sensibly.
They're science deniers.
Yeah, it is.
You know? They're going by gut feeling, not by actual science and study. They're science deniers. Yeah, it is. You know?
They're going by gut feeling,
not by actual science
and study.
They're not going by gut feeling.
They're like,
Tim,
where's that junior researcher,
Tim?
Get Tim to do it.
He's always,
Tim,
fucking put some crisps
in some fucking tears.
Oh, all right.
I'm going to put
quivers in.
I'm going to put skips in.
Also,
whilst you're down there,
here's a blow.
Wow. That's a blow. Wow.
That's what it's like.
It's not.
That is what it's like at Channel 5, I've heard.
Is it?
Yeah.
You've heard it here first.
Fucking get some researchers in, young'uns,
and I'll fuck them in the mouth.
Fucking hell.
That's what the head of Channel 5 is like.
Is it?
Yes.
Facts.
Before we go into how utterly, utterly random
and fucking incorrect the tiers are, Paul,
can I just say, why was Dave was the first sort of erroneous tier and now Five are doing it.
Dave didn't do a show based around it.
Channel Five stretched out this fucking show.
Is it all about crisps or just...
Yeah, have celebrities talking about it.
Oh, well, the skips.
I remember skips, yeah.
I used to put skips on my exposed belly
and it used to all go sucky sucky.
And it all smelled like prune sandwiches anyway.
I used to take a quaver
and mash it up
and whoop it out there like a
poultice
yeah here we go
poultice
he said it
ladies and gentlemen
congratulations
trademark poultice
if you're playing
the cheap show bingo
you can now scratch off
the poultice square
amplitude poultice
when I was at school
we used to play a thing
called what's it pocket
where
you used to try and
put them in
what's it's in
in your pockets
as much as possible
well I used to stick them up Kevin's arsehole I used to try and put them in in your pockets as much as possible well I used to stick them up
Kevin's arsehole
I used to take a shoebox
like trainers I had some dunlops
take my dunlops out
take a shit in the box
take it into school
and fucking sit at the edge of the playground
just fucking smearing it around
I used to give out sticky pringles
at birthday parties where I'd come in a I used to give out sticky Pringles at birthday parties
where I'd come in a tube of Pringles
and then I had to bounce.
Sticky Pringles?
Sticky Pringles?
No, it's a new sauce they're doing.
That's what I used to say.
It's a new special sauce.
It's a new sauce, isn't it?
It's a new sauce they're doing.
It's a new sauce, isn't it?
New Pringles sauces.
Sticky Pringles?
Sticky Pringles.
Sticky Pringles.
I used to carefully deface the actual Pringle writing on the side of the tube to say Sticky Pringles. Sticky Pringles. I used to carefully deface the actual
Pringle writing on the
side of the tube to say Sticky Pringles.
It says Sticky Pringles. Sticky in blue biro
above the Pringles. Weak coconut flavour.
Right, anyway, let's do this fucking thing.
So on their bottom tier, which they
say, humorously next to it,
don't come anywhere near me with
these, right? Mini Cheddars, salt and shake. Okay, Mini Cheddars I don't like. near me with these, right? Mini cheddars,
salt and shake. Okay, mini cheddars I don't like.
I have to say. I like mini cheddars.
We're going to have to do mini cheddars on the
League of Christmas Snacks, Paul. Yeah, I know.
But I like them. Just going in with that knowledge.
We haven't done that, have we? We've never done mini cheddars.
No. What about goldfish?
Cheddars, I don't even know if I'd count them as a crisp, though.
Snack. They're a snack. Yeah, true.
That's what it is. We've done peanuts.
Salt and shake.
They're a great crisp.
Yeah, they're a novelty crisp.
I like them.
I like them.
We're going to talk about them on the show.
They, for me, if you're going for just a plain crisp, like a ready salted, they actually
do taste better than a ready salted crisp.
I agree.
Because the way that the salt, do you know what I mean?
Oh, you're boring, man.
It's the way that you get the granulised salt.
Yeah.
It's not just an even coating of salt.
Like that kind of pretzel salt.
Yeah.
And so it's like little bursts of salt
that, you know,
that it makes the whole texture of...
Can I get through this?
Because I just want to get through this.
Knickknacks, nice and spicy,
and Smith's Square Crisp Salt and Vinegar.
All wrong.
All wrong.
All wrong.
That's a good solid salt and vinegar crisp.
None of those are worst crisps.
Anyway, mid-tier.
Hula Hoops regular, Monster Munch pickle, Quavers, Wotsits, Chipsticks.
They're all fucking great snacks.
They're all fucking great crisps.
Pickled onions are universally...
Monster Munch pickle onion are one of the best snacks of all time.
Universally loved.
Yeah.
Who's made this fucking list?
It's some fucking
12 year old
with his head
full of memes.
Head full of memes.
I like that.
The gift that keeps on giving.
Top tier.
Maybe you can understand
who put this list together
from the top tier.
Really?
McCoy's regular.
If you'd like our report
on the scientific
lowdown
on McCoy's and It was a few episodes our report on the scientific lowdown on McCoy's.
That was a few episodes ago.
It was a few episodes ago now, but go back to that episode and give it a little listen.
Give it a little listen.
We'll give you the rundown of McCoy's.
We'll give you it.
We explain what McCoy's really all about.
Anyway, top tier.
McCoy's, those crisps.
Kettle, chips, the balsamic vinegar ones.
Sensation.
You like those, don't you?
I do, but I would never put them top tier.
No?
No.
Sweet Thai chilli Walker
sensations. Yeah, they were a good crisp again.
And Tyrell's salt
ready salted oven crisps.
It's just all like all the posh ones.
God tier. Yeah. Walker's
salt vinegar, Pringles original
and spicy hot Doritos.
Utter, utter
shit. Spicy chilli heat wave Doritos deserve to be on the bottom.
That's it.
They're terrible.
Listen, if you're listening and you see any more of these lists.
I'd rather eat them Pringles.
I'd rather eat your special sticky Pringles.
Well, let me whip them.
I'd rather just you take all the Pringles out and just come in the Pringles can for about a year and a half. See what
happens then. Let's see what happens
then. And you drink it.
You slurp it down. It wouldn't be liquid.
With a straw. It'll be
like some of it will be powdery,
some of it will be half congealed. No, I'd
keep it full. I'd keep it regular.
I'd keep it liquefied.
I'd keep it warm. I'd keep it
I'd keep it. I'd keep it I'd keep it
I'd just keep it
Have it in a jar
Shake it about
No you can't have it in a jar
I'd turn it into a lava lamp
Spunky lava lamp
No it's a Pringles
Full of my
Never wear babies
It's meant to be a Pringles jar
A Pringles tube
Yeah but I'm
I'm going off on one now
Aren't I
You've inspired me
Why are you always inspired To come into some receptacle?
That's been your big thing.
No, no, no.
It's fun, isn't it?
It's fun to do it.
It's not fun.
And I think it's a lot harder to fill something than you think.
Well, challenge accepted.
Right, end this segment.
All right.
Let's crack on.
All right.
Right, Paul. Yeah. I was thinking I could do the Price of Shite theme
This week
In the style
Of the Filthy the Dog music
Well, ladies and gentlemen
I don't know about you but I'm excited
So let's hand it over to Eli Silverman
For one of his very special
Price of Shite introductions.
Take it away.
Oh, what is it?
It's the fucking Price of Shite.
Oh, who is it?
It's the fucking Price of Shite.
Oh, what is it?
It's the fucking Price of Shite.
Oh, and that's right.
The dog.
Beautiful.
Wonderful stuff there.
Oh!
Challenging.
Who is it?
Urgent.
I like it.
I love it.
I'm going to give that a nice solid eight out of ten.
Why are you marking me?
I can judge you.
You can judge me.
And I will.
And I'm doing it.
I don't want to mark.
I don't need your marks.
It's a good mark.
Eight out of ten. All right, I'll take it. There you go. Shut up. So we've got Price of Sight, Paul. Yes. And I will. And I'm doing it. I don't want a mark. I don't need your marks. It's a good mark. Eight out of ten. Right, I'll take it.
There you go. Shut up. So, we've got
Price of Shite, Paul. Yes. And that's right.
And that's right. Now, we're going to play
a little bit of a special version. Ah,
different little variants. Just a little bit. Now,
it's basically what we do when we do the live show.
We do the live show version. We don't ever
really do it within the podcast. Oh, the live show version
is where I just need to put them in order. Yes.
From cheapest to most expensive.
Let's have a little recap
of just the
the Price of Shite journey
that we've been on
with this game
over the years, Paul.
Let's just have a little recap.
All right, yeah.
I'll put some nice guitar music
on in the background.
Now, Price of Shite started as a simple price-guessing game.
Just a simple game.
Three items.
Yeah.
And the other person would have to guess.
A nice bit of fun.
A spin on The Price is Right.
The Price is Right.
You know, that was where we started those many years ago. Oh, thank you for making us over on the million pod... A million
listens. Fucking hell. Thanks.
Anyway, go on.
A million listens. We've had a million
downloads.
A lot of those could just be one episode.
Yeah. Like the 69 episode.
Yeah. Still counts.
We haven't made one million
episodes, have we?
That would be better if we had made one million episodes.
So it started like that.
And then what was the first variation?
Oh, I think it might have been the live one where we tried to do it live.
We used to do MTM.
Yes.
So the classic Price is Right is three items, three or four items.
One of us has to guess the prices and you get points depending on how close you are.
Yeah.
Simple, simple times.
Then we did it live because live, you had the idea that live it would work better if you just have a bunch of items.
And they rank them.
And you just put them in a big row that you think from cheapest to most expensive.
Yeah.
Visually.
I'll tell you what you've done, because you're doing a visual representation.
Yeah, it's just a nice little way of doing it.
And then what's the other?
Well, the cliffhanger one.
Then there's a cliffhanger one.
Yeah, we haven't done that in a while.
There's also the cliffhanger version of The Price of Shine.
Which is a bit of fun.
You climb a mountain.
Again, a spin on the popular Price is Right game.
And also, the Beg, Borrow, Given one.
BFG. And that is the latest, borrow, given one. BFG.
And that is the latest, most avant-garde.
Bought, found, given.
Which you cheated utterly on with your redefining what the very basic concepts in the English language.
Hey, Bill Oddie, check out these birds.
What did you nick that off?
Me?
I just made it up now.
No, you didn't. Yeah, you think you made it up now. No, you didn't.
Yeah, you think you made it up now,
but I bet it's off some episode of Bossom or something.
It's not, though, so shut your fucking mouth.
Oi, Bill Oddie, look at these birds.
I'm giving him the bird, ladies and gentlemen.
Oi, David Attenborough, look at this prehistoric dinosaur.
I'm giving him the bird.
Right, And then
what else do we do? Is that it?
Yeah.
So this is another variation,
a whole new variation today, is it? Well, this is just a
studio version, a House of Pickles
version of what we do live. Of the live. Okay.
And I'm going to call it Price of Shite
Rank Me Off version.
Rank Me Off. Brilliant.
Genius.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So I'm going to give you four objects in no particular order.
Let's get them, though.
Let's get them going.
Get them out.
Get one out.
Object one.
Get the first one out.
Here's your first item.
Say what you see.
It's lime green.
Do you remember in the 90s?
Remember? Remember? I remember. In the the 90s this is a slap chop it's a slap chop it is a slap chop i like this yeah slap chop to explain what a
slap chop is so those who might not know it's a vegetable chopping uh kitchen device yeah
it allows you to finely chop things like garlic or onion in a space where it can't escape.
It has a lid here and a space where the blades come down.
Yeah.
And you put your clove of garlic or whatever in there.
Put it on the table.
Slap chop it down.
Slap chop.
Is this actually branded slap chop?
I don't think so.
It's got some kind of logo on the top.
I don't know what that's from.
It's lime green.
I find that colour extremely depressing. Yeah, I know. Do you know what I mean? Almost sickly. I don't think so. It's got some kind of logo on the top. I don't know what that's from. It's lime green. I find that colour extremely depressing.
Yeah, I know.
Do you know what I mean?
Almost sickly.
I don't know why.
Sickly lime green.
It's not exactly the same shade.
But you remember there was like a time, about a year period in the 90s,
where just this colour, the lime green colour, just sort of got extremely popular.
Yeah, with that neon pink, it almost kind of rebranded the 80s version of that kind of...
Because remember shell suits were all those kind of colours.
I know, but there was just one period where it was just that green.
Yeah.
What did you make that noise for?
I actually don't know.
Weird.
You're losing it.
Yeah.
You need mental health professionals.
As well as someone to deal with your back, mate.
Anyway, so it's a slap shop.
I don't know what else to say.
It's a bit of a
sticky one, but I could
actually use that. Well, you're not, because I bought it
for me. I actually do want this.
Hey, Bill Hoddy!
Have you seen these birds?
Oh, look, they're perching on this mic stand.
Hey, Terence Nutkins!
Get low, please! Heching on this mic stand. Hey, Terence Nutkins, get low on these.
He's shown me his balls.
Right, okay, so that's your first item.
Now, here's the thing.
There are three points on offer per item.
Obviously, you can guess the price.
Okay.
And then 25p out, all that kind of stuff.
Oh, so that's still...
Still in there.
But also, once all four are out and you get them in the right order, you get points
for if they place in the right order.
But shouldn't I guess the price after I've done the order?
Yeah, you can do it in any order you want. I think that's the best
way to do it. Because if I guess that now,
but then I think something, do you know what I mean?
No, that's fine. But,
it's a nice little piece in good condition.
Needs a bit of a wash, but that's about it.
Give it a wash, you could chop some veg
with that. But, where did you buy it?
It was at Secondhand, yeah?
Yeah, and I got it from Oxfam.
Okay.
That's a good clue, because Oxfam are on the more pricier side.
Are you ready for your next item?
I am.
Bring it, get it out.
No, I'll give you this one.
Oh, don't get it out.
Here we go.
What's this?
This is an annual.
Yep.
An annual is a kind of
book. Yes, like a hardback magazine
that they do once a year.
Usually once a year. Christmas time?
Is it always Christmas? They're usually
sold around then because they make good Christmas
presents, don't they? And they did them for
like comics
and they also did it for TV
programmes. And stuff.
And this one in case in point, Top of the Pops.
One TV programme.
Top of the Pops, as we've mentioned before,
music show on BBC One, bands performing chat hits.
It was probably the biggest ever pop TV show.
Biggest pop TV show brand of all time.
Yeah.
And it was in our fair isle.
So, can you name any of the themes from Top of the Pops?
There was The Wizard by Paul Hardcastle. So, can you name any of the themes from Top of the Pops? There was
The Wizard by Paul Hardcastle. Correct.
There was Whole Lotta Love
by Led Zeppelin. Yeah. And
I can't think of any others. Yellow Pearl
by Phil Linnett.
Really?
Really?
Electronic, electronic, electronic.
What period was that?
Like mid to late 80s, I would have thought.
Okay.
Maybe early 90s, I'm not quite sure.
After the Hardcastle.
Yeah.
No.
Because that was quite sort of, you know.
Yeah.
No, no, no, 19.
19.
No, no, no, no, 19.
Yeah.
Double, double, double, double, double.
Anyway, so an annual
of Top of the Pops from 1981
And on the cover
No pedos, so that's good isn't it?
That's a good, that's a good one
Debbie Harry of Blondie
who's dominating the
photo space there
She was the hot lady
at the time
Amazing looking and a good singer Just to put that she was the hot lady at the time so hot amazing amazing looking
and a good singer
alright
just to put that
can you face me
so you can talk into the mic
alright
and
you've got Gary Newman
looking very blue
yeah
Boney M
here in my car
yeah
Boney M
Boney M
that's interesting
you've got Boney M down there
with their numbers
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian Queen
Yeah that's their best one
It is
And er
By the rivers of
Babylon
Don't like that one so much
No
I do like their version of Sonny
Right
And you've got Rod Stewart there
Yeah
He's very quaffed
Do you think I'm sexy
I am very sexy
And on the back
I don't know who that is
Isn't that Olivia Newton-John Yeah Olivia Newton-John and Who is that I think I'm sexy. I am very sexy. And on the back, I don't know who that is.
Isn't that Olivia Newton-John?
Yeah, Olivia Newton-John and... Who is that?
Oh, it's the Boomtown Rats.
They are so shit.
They are shit.
I don't know what the fuck is going on with them.
One Hit Wonders, literally,
put something...
They've managed to stretch that out.
They put so many records out, though.
You go to charity shops,
it's literally swimming with, like,
just these Boomtown Rats singles you never knew even existed bob bob are you doing another live aid is it to raise money
or so you can perform i don't like mondays again live also i was at latitude festival yeah and i
heard this racket going off and i thought that sounds sounds shit. Who's that, I thought.
Oh, someone.
It's the fucking Boomtown Rats.
Shit band.
I'm sorry.
Pootown Crapsmore, like.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Bumtown Squits.
Tinkle Linkle Town Rodents.
Anyway, it's a BBC Top of the Pops annual.
Who are these other cunts as well in the Boomtown Rats?
No one knows.
They look like some kind of fucking dwarf.
That looks like Fergal Sharky.
How small is that guy compared to the rest of them, though?
They might be just very tall.
He might be very far away.
He might be your size.
He's really short, man.
Can I be a Boomtown Rat?
No. Bob's like, yeah, I like small people. Makes I be a Bob Tower rat? No.
Yeah, Bob's like, yeah, I like small people.
Makes me look like he's from Yorkshire.
Shut up.
Oh, look, this is good, actually.
Yeah, it's got some good stuff in it.
You've got wings there.
Now, what we should do is play a game where how many pages...
I can see the price there, Paul.
That's not how much I pay for it, put it that way.
Let's play a game.
Someone has put 20p on the inside cover. Let's not how much I pay for it, put it that way. Let's play again. Someone has put 20p
on the inside cover.
Let's play U3
Countdown.
See how many pages
we can get past
before someone who
pops up is a
confirmed nonce.
Okay.
Right.
And also, the
original price is here
on the first page,
£1.95.
Which is, in 81,
would you put it
in about five, I
guess, now?
Yeah.
That's about right.
That's about right.
Okay, so you've got
wings in black and white on the first page.
There's Boney M.
Fucking Boomtown Rats.
The rats are all wrong.
Were they that big, though?
Were they that big as band?
I think they were just...
They were...
Because what was their style?
Was it like...
What was their angle?
It was just pop.
Sort of new wave pop.
Sort of not punky.
Was it not like...
Like punk, very watered down punk.
Very pop. You like Dexys. Was it part of that whole kind of thing?y. Was it not like... Like punk, very watered down punk, very pop.
Yeah, like Dexys.
Was it part of that whole kind of thing?
Yeah.
All right.
Kind of gypsy, tramp, punk.
I think, basically,
they were particular favourites
of the BBC
and of Top of the Pops in particular.
Because they were rough,
but they were safe.
But they always used to do like,
put on a big show.
They'd put on,
they'd have some kind of concept, like we're going to do this costume for this tune, do you know what I mean? So the TV people were like, they were safe. But they always used to do like a put on a big show. They'd have some kind of concept like we're going to do
this costume for this tune. Do you know what I mean?
So the TV people are like that's great.
They will light it like this and it will be a thing. You know what I mean?
Right. Rather than like this is a
good song or anything. Yeah it's not.
There's quite a lot of them.
Six member band as well. Can you name
them all? There's Bob,
Jeff, Gazzmo,
Alat,
there's Twinkle Fingers,
and Squatch.
Squatch was my favourite. Yeah, he's the small one.
Uh-oh, we're three pages
in, Paul. And what have we got? The
nonce of all time. Savile's
back. Savile's there. What's it say?
Why I'm deadly serious about Top of the Pops.
Oh, I bet you are.
We haven't got time to go into this, really, have we?
Look at him.
He's an evil monster.
Look at him.
Look at that.
Mad psychopathic eye.
And then we've got Fleetwood Mac.
Gary Newman.
Hello.
I've got...
Here in my cars.
Cliff.
Yeah, he might be.
Allegedly.
Pop Puzzle.
Rockin' Rod.
No one ever accuses
a ladies man
is he
yeah
look at him
oiled
ready to go
there's wings
there's wings
only the band
the Beatles
could have been
it stick together
what was the band
he was in
was that Roxy Music
yeah
he was in Roxy Music
Virginia playing
Dibble Jane
yeah that was much
earlier than this
period they went throughout the 70s you made a new vow hot chocolate I love hot chocolate Yeah. He was a Roxy Musial. Virginia playing Dipple Jane. Yeah, that was much earlier than this period.
They went throughout the 70s.
You made a new vow.
Hot chocolate.
I love hot chocolate.
Great band, great numbers.
ABBA.
Yeah, we're doing well.
Salute the Queen.
Who's this?
Oh, a queen.
Queen of there.
Who's that?
Talking to the mic.
Snap.
Who are they?
I don't know.
Never heard of them.
Are they called Snap?
Right, let me read the first paragraph.
Let's have a little quick read so we can get a bit of context.
There's basically an article called Snap,
and there's a picture of a band that we don't recognise.
Blondie beware.
The photos are about to take over the picture.
Where America ruled supreme through Blondie,
Britain is taking over in the delicious shape of Wendy Wu and the photos.
With the benefit of hindsight, I can say, no,
they're not. Who the fuck is
Wendy Woo and the photos? That's Wendy Woo there.
Wendy Woo and the photos. And these are the photos.
I've never heard of them. No.
Wendy and her three companions are the British
answer to the long search to unearth
a rival to New York-based Blondie,
for whom lead singer Debbie Harry created worldwide
fame. So this is kind of
a pre-fab Blondie band.
It won't be easy for the photos to follow the Blondie success trail.
No, it really wasn't.
Well, we'll look into that, I reckon.
They're totally forgotten to me.
Bee Gees, now they're famous.
They're not nonces.
But mostly dead.
Lena Lovitch.
Who's that?
My magic number.
Remember her?
No.
Magic number, you know that.
Was she a bit like a kind of...
She was in stiff records. Was she part of like, you know, what was that, Toya Wilco. Magic number, you know that. Was she a bit like a kind of early... She was in stiff records.
Was she part of like, you know, what was that, Toya Wilcox?
Oh, no, that.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Oh, yeah, that's her.
Yeah, that's Magic Number.
Lena Lovish, yeah.
She's good, I like her.
Was it a bit of a one-hit wonder, though, that?
That was her biggest hit, but she did have other numbers.
Also quite good.
Kind of electro-pops.
Well, at least I remember her over Wendy Wu.
Don't know.
Who's that?
I don't know. Who was that? I don't know.
Who is that? Oh, that's the Eurythmics.
Yes, it's the Eurythmics. That's a very early photo of the Eurythmics. Very early, isn't it? And do you know
who that is? That's Police. Police, yeah.
There we go. Alright, I'm not a five-year-old.
Fuck the podcast, let's just do this.
Yeah, it's great, isn't it? Who's that?
That's Fergal Sharkey.
Two hearts are dead, a heart to find.
Two hearts! So let hearts a fight two hearts
so let's go easy
with this hard man.
What was the one
he was a big hit with?
Never fall in love
with someone
never fall in love
with love
with someone
never fall in love
in love with the man
you should.
That's a totally different
but he was in that though.
No.
He was in
The Undertones
and that's a picture
of The Undertones.
What was the big hit
they had though?
I thought that was it.
Their big one
was George Michael
sorry
was George Michael? Their big hit was had though? I thought that was it. Their big one was George Michael, sorry.
Was George Michael?
Their big hit was George Michael?
It was John Peel's
favourite song of all time.
Remember?
Go on.
Go on.
Remember?
Remember it?
I don't know.
Just tell me.
What?
I don't know everything.
I know,
it's just that I'm not...
What,
now you don't know?
I can't remember it.
So great.
You're looking at me go, I can't remember anything down now. It's just that I'm not... What? Now you don't know. I can't remember it. So great. You're looking at me go,
I can't remember anything.
No, it's there.
It's just at the...
John Peel's first song.
It's just...
Buzzcocks.
Favourite.
Favourite.
It's not the buzzcocks.
The undertones.
Undertones.
Red, red wine.
I'm gonna hold you tight.
Teenage kicks right through the night.
All right.
That one
Alright
Alright
So that was a hit
Alright
What else is in it?
Come on, skip it
We've got lots to do
Alright
Jesus Christ
Who's that?
That's the undertones
Alright, can we stop
I wanna hold on
Let me take it
Do you wanna fucking calm down?
Do you wanna calm down?
If I knew this was gonna excite me much, I would never have bought it.
Who's that?
Aswad?
Yeah.
Or UB40?
No, that's UB40, isn't it?
I don't know.
Right, well, just get on.
Who's that?
Specials.
Stop telling me.
Who's that?
Ian Jory.
I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do this.
Stop pointing out.
Jerry Rafferty.
Barry Manilow. Stuart Copeland, Elton John, Leo Sayer.
Who are these guys?
The Manson twins.
Come on.
You just want to know if there's any more child abusers.
Oh, there we go.
All right, Pete Townsend.
Pete Townsend.
I was writing a book.
Where's the book?
It's written in spunk.
Yeah.
In jury.
Yeah, good.
You're pointing out pages now.
Blondie.
How is this interesting content?
Never cared for Elvis Costello
myself.
Commodores.
Yeah.
Very good.
Look, there's a very young
Lionel Richie.
Yeah.
Hello.
Elkie Brooks.
Now she's kind of
a bit of an anachronism now,
isn't she?
What's that song?
Earl's a singer.
Pearl's a singer. Is that her a Singer. Pearl's a Singer.
Is that her?
Yeah.
Pearl's a Singer.
They like Elkie.
This is quite good.
I like the way they've done this book.
Yeah.
John, come on.
Keep going.
If you're going to shout the names out.
ELO.
ELO.
Donna Summer.
Yes.
All the acts of the time, Eli.
Kate Butch.
No.
Edmonds.
No.
Edmonds.
Edmonds. What's itmonds. Edmonds.
What's it say?
I owe everything to Top of the Pops and to the intuitive balances of the cyber nature of Cosmos.
You fucking chummy cunt.
There he is.
He has to pop up, doesn't he?
Oh, look, he's got the grams and he's doing a bit of CJ.
Oh, he's got a suit on in that one and he's doing he's got a suit on in
that one yeah what's he got a suit on for he's presenting jake box jewelry oh he's got a natty
tie wow what so interesting where are they now section and it's got a picture of fucking david
bowie there and he's saying a mixed bag for those with mixed fortunes that's the only way to describe
the bunch of stars we highlight here on their fall from grace in the
pop world. In 81, they're
writing off Bowie. It's mad, isn't it?
What was he about to do? Ashes to
Ashes. So, huge
here. Yeah. Let's Dance. Is Heroes
from that? Heroes, no. It was a few years
before. Okay. No, he's just
about to do Ashes to Ashes. Huge hit.
Yeah. China Doll.
Yeah. My China doll.
Ha ha ha.
And Let's Dance.
Let's dance.
Oh, yes.
Put on your dancing shoes and sing the blues.
And he's about to do the most fucking funny video of all time.
What, Dancing in the Street?
Dancing in the Street.
That was like 87, 88, that, wasn't it?
That was when they were both kind of.
He didn't disappear. No. He went on to make
shit loads of money. But that's interesting that
they're writing him off almost. These other people
I don't recognise, so maybe they did fall
from grace. Yeah. Oh, these cunts
you just don't know. Strange. Yeah.
Super Tramp. That's what they call you.
And the police.
There you go. Great. We spent
fucking ages. You're just
calling out bands from the 70s and 80s.
So item two is top of the box.
Ready?
Around a pound, I'm going to say.
Next item.
BBC Just A Minute card game.
Yay!
Packed with 70 challenges.
Yeah, it's Just A Minute.
You know the game.
So you have to talk for a minute.
Can I do it?
Can I do one?
Let me just hang on.
Can I do one, I thought?
For international listeners, there's a Radio
4 show been running for absolutely
years called Just a Minute. Old parlour game.
The idea is you have to talk
for 60 seconds on a subject that's
given to you without deviating
from the topic, repeating yourself,
stuttering, erring,
you know, pausing, and
hesitation. And that's it.
And that's the aim. It's quite hard to do. It is quite hard.
Should we have a crack at it? Yes. Alright, hang on,
I'm going to get my stopwatch out.
So when, I tell you what, when you want to
buzz in, you know, if I'm talking and you want to stop
me, just say and I'll pause as soon as I can.
Right, timer. One
minute. So are we getting a card out for
randomly? Yeah, just pull it all out. So yeah,
it's a box full of cards with topics on
to talk about in just a minute. Pull it all out and then it's a box full of cards with topics on to talk about in just a minute
pull it all out
and then what should
I do with the cards Paul
you can rest them
on your flaccid cock
okay we'll do it
oh they've all
fallen on the floor
right
right just pick one
because I have to start
so pick one at random
because you're going to
have to interrupt
aren't you your subject is
yeah should you accept does he say that no he doesn't that's mission impossible oh yeah Your subject is...
Yeah.
Should you accept?
Does he say that?
No, he doesn't.
That's Mission Impossible.
Oh, yeah.
Hosted by Nicholas Parsons,
who's in his mid-90s now.
He's old.
He's still got his faculties
when it comes to presenting the show, though.
Your subject is...
Yeah.
Stiff upper lip.
Go.
They say the British member of... Oh,ish member of oh fucking hell hesitation i was thrown
off because i didn't know if i'd press how many seconds do i have left 56 on stiff upper lip
starting now stiff upper lip is the upper lip of a person who has some rigidity in their mouth
around that part of their face and it usually refers to someone who has a lot of class,
and they boss people around, and they don't show their emotions.
Like someone like Theresa May, who...
Pause. You said like too much.
Like three or four times.
I did, didn't I?
Yeah, you did.
How many seconds have you got?
37 seconds left to a stiff upper lip.
You say when?
Go.
People say having a stiff upper lip is a good thing i
disagree i think it means you don't care having a stiff upper lip suggests personally that you just
look down on a problem and you don't engage in it in any way i think it's better to have a soft
upper lip and actually care and have it wobble when you get upset when you see, I don't know
a baby cry or an animal
fall down dead in the woods
that's just my suggestion, I don't think
a stiff upper lip is a very proud
thing to boast, I don't know why British
people believe it's a great thing to have
I don't know
Oh, I got it, I got it
Ayo, I'm pointing
If I'd been...
That wasn't good.
I'll pick a card out for you to start.
Right, Eri?
Yeah.
Your chosen subject, Eli, should you choose to accept it, is party poopers.
Okay.
Starting now.
Party poopers are people who go to parties and do poops in the corner and then
smush it all around
with their feet
and then
say to
Stop, pause.
No.
You said then too many times.
Shut the fuck up.
You said then too many times.
I've got this.
No.
I'm going to shit here.
I'm going to do shit here.
We're not doing
Don't Get Mad.
Can you let me have
the rest of my minutes?
No.
I will shit.
Don't get here. I'm going to shit on my bed. Don't Get Mad. Can you let me have the rest of my minutes? No. I will shit. I don't care.
I'm going to shit on my bed.
You've got to bring those fucking shit in your bed.
Well, give me another chance.
No.
It's how I play the game.
Right?
You've got to think about what you say.
So, are you ready?
I'm going to start now on the subject of party poopers.
With 49 seconds left on the clock, here we go.
Party poopers are the kind of people that come to a party and ruin it sometimes
it's with a poor choice of music they will poop the party by suggesting black lace they say
ironically but we all know that what do you mean repetition you said party twice party poopers
no no no no no no no but you can't say you no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, put, you can say anything on the card Poo-poo-poo-poo-poo
Fuck, I'm going to count you
Right
I've got 33 seconds left
Oh, you do, do you?
Yeah
Well, this is bullshit
No, because you don't know how to play the game and you're shitting it
I fucking
Here we go, 33 seconds starting
Now, also, they can ruin a party by offering poor conversation
For instance, suggesting the weather as a topic.
That'd be awful, wouldn't it?
I hate people at parties who drone on and on about their record collection.
There's one guy I know...
On and on!
Repetition of on.
Technically, yes!
Fucking have that!
Don't know how to play the game, Paul.
Oh, fucking...
You've got 17 seconds left to talk on the topic of party poopers starting now.
Party poopers are people who come to parties
and then they don't shut up about their own rectal spaces.
Inside my rectal space, one party...
Stop, pause.
He said rectal.
Fuck, yeah, I did, didn't I?
Twice, eight seconds.
Shit.
Eight seconds to talk on party poopers starting now.
Also, party poopers come in many different disguises.
For instance, they feel compelled to dress up in a wacky manner
to be the focal point.
Oh, that's another point to me.
I think I'm good at this.
Put me on the radio.
Shut up.
Put me on the radio.
They'll never put you on. Come on, I want to be on radio four. You me on the radio. Shut up. Put me on the radio. They'll never put you on. Come on.
I want to be on radio
for. You won't be on.
I want to do a nice show. A pro-kill show about
travelling with my dog. Can I
do that? No. I want to do a comedian's guide
of Britain with me dog called
Wowzer. You're more likely to end up.
Oh, come here, Wowzer. What do you think
of Birmingham? You're more likely to end up.
Woof, woof, woof.
I remember Birmingham. You're more likely to end up... Oh, I remember Birmingham.
You're more likely to end up in Thailand,
addicted to heroin,
fucking a dog for money on stage every night.
All right.
Just for just a minute.
Well, that's what I call my show,
Just a Minute,
because that's how long it takes me to pump my dog.
Just a minute of me fucking a dog.
Just a minute of me fucking a dog.
And you know who would
come and watch you?
What?
Gary Glitter.
Gary Glitter will come
and watch you
fucking a dog.
This is very poor.
This is very poor.
Say sorry.
Sorry.
Right, one last item.
That's a...
Again,
as an item,
that's fine.
I mean, it has the rules,
I guess,
written,
but it's not much of a thing.
You wouldn't really need all of those subjects, would you?
No, you could invent them on the spot, really.
Yeah, so...
But it's a bit of fun.
You don't need the actual item.
It's a bit of fun.
Is this the last item now, Paul?
Yeah, here we go.
It's in paper, which makes me think it's ceramic,
which I think I'm right.
And it's brown.
It's a...
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, isn't it?
Yeah, hello.
Your collection's starting. Yeah, hello. This is... Oh, isn't it? Hello. A little connection starting.
Yeah, hello.
This is...
Oh, don't you have one of these already?
No, here's the thing.
What I have is something similar.
It's egg cups.
Remember I got the egg cups?
Ah, this is a Cadbury's cream egg.
Yeah.
Mug.
Coffee or tea mug.
But it is shaped like a sort of egg.
Yeah.
A broken off egg or egg cup.
And it looks like it's got a little bit of poorly torn tin foil at the top. No, that is. So it's designed as... But... And it's got the little birdie. Yeah. Broken off egg or egg cup. And it looks like it's got a little bit of poorly torn tin foil at the top. No, that is.
So it's like designed as butt. And it's
got the little birdie. Yeah. Which is their
logo birdie. And it says
hot do... No.
Hot do you... How do you eat
yours? Hot do your eyes.
It says how do you eat yours on the bottom.
Yeah. I don't know. It's quite a nice little thing.
It's a lovely little thing, isn't it? No.
It doesn't look like it'd be that efficient
no
it looks like
the rim
the rim would be a bit
on the lip
would be a bit
unsure
you don't like the rim
on your lip do you
no
I much prefer to
fuck some guy in the arse
and then wipe my dick
on the curtain
oh
aren't we funny
on this show
million downloads
of that.
No, it's all right.
It's all right, Ace.
Yeah, lovely, isn't it?
I've got the Smarties one there.
Yeah.
And have you got another chocolate-based market?
Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
You've got milk for that?
Yeah.
That is shaped like the actual...
Square, a chunk of the bar.
So there you go.
There are your four items.
Just to quickly recap, we had the Slap Chop.
We had the Just a Minute. We had the slap chop we had the just a minute we had the which he cheated we had the top of the pops album annual sorry and the only
one nonce one nonce one alleged nonce that's all right okay it's a big come down since the last one
a few years earlier because we're into the 80s which is they're out of the hit you know the the
peak peak you tree was a few years yeah yeah we're out of the peak U-tree was a few years before, wasn't it? We're out of the woods now.
Right, anyway.
Cadbury's Cream Eggs, the fourth and final.
Now all you've got to do is put them in order.
So let's start with the cheapest.
What do you think the cheapest was?
I'm going to write these down.
Eli's choice.
I think it's got to be...
Well, I'll tell you what I think the most expensive was, Paul.
Okay.
I think the most expensive was the Slap Chop.
Slap Chop?
Because it's got some utility to it.
Do you know what I mean?
It's quite a solid build, and it's basically as good as new,
but it just hasn't got the packaging.
Yeah, it's not a branded thing.
Yeah.
I think that's probably the most expensive.
All right, so let's work backwards then.
What do you think is the next most expensive item?
I think it could...
It's either the mug...
Can't help you now.
You're on your own.
I think the next most expensive is either the...
I think the top of the pops is the cheapest.
You think that's the cheapest?
Yeah.
Do you want me to commit to that?
I'm going to write it down?
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's at the bottom.
Yeah.
The slap shop is at the top.
Okay. okay so that's at the bottom yeah uh the slap shop is at the top okay and we've got in between
juggling for a position in my mind space okay uh crabberries cream egg mug and the just a minute
totally useless if you just did a google search yeah i know but anyway so what do you want to put
as the second most expensive after this from marks and. Are these from Marks and Spencers? Yeah. Weird. Originally.
They do all that kind of shit, though.
Do they?
And they put them in the shops for Christmas and then people buy them.
They try and do middle-class themed...
Stocking fillers.
Stocking fillers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which is what this is, really.
That could be quite cheap, because it's so shit.
Right, well, do you want to put it second or third?
Maybe this is the cheapest.
What are we talking about?
Range, price ranges here.
Well, I can't tell you, because that will ruin the guessing for your price.
Are they all between zero and five pounds?
Between zero and four pounds overall.
Yeah.
All right.
So the most expensive isn't four pounds.
No, but it doesn't go any higher than that.
Okay.
So at the moment, you say the cheapest is Top of the Pops.
Then you've got two blanks.
And then the most expensive is Slap Chop.
Slap Chop.
Slap Chop. Da-da-daap Chop, diddle-iddle-iddle, come on.
Okay, so I think cheapest Top of the Pops annual, 1981.
Yeah.
Second cheapest, just a minute card game.
Okay.
Then third cheapest, the mug.
Mug.
Yeah.
Now.
The most expensive Slap Chop, yeah.
All right, okay.
With that in mind, what are the prices that you have?
Okay, I think that the...
Where did you get these items?
What part of the country, Paul?
That would help me.
Okay.
Because there is a big difference between Cambro and Lundro on the price.
That and that.
The cup and the slap chop.
Yeah.
Wood lane.
Wood green.
Wood green.
Fuck off.
Wood green.
Just a minute.
And the annual harrow.
Ah.
Ah. Aha. Aha. Aha. Aha. No, I'm a liar. Just a minute And the annual Harrow Ah Ah Aha
Aha
No I'm a liar
Just a minute
Harrow
Top of the pops
Camden
Notting Hill
Notting Hill
Notting Hill
Right I definitely think
Just a minute
Is the cheapest then
You think it's the cheapest
Yes
You sure
Because you put it in Harrow
Yes
So you want me to swap it round?
Definitely.
Alright, just a minute
is now the cheapest.
Notting Hill is full
of this all lardy
dardy, do you know
what I mean?
Yeah.
But the spine is
quite damaged on the
top of the Pops
annual.
Yeah.
So come on, you've
got to commit because
we've got to move on.
Okay, so that's the
order.
I'd like the order
this cheapest, then
the annual, then the
mug, and then the
slap shop.
Right, now the
prices, what do you
think quickly they are. Okay, I think
that the Just A Minute Car Game was
40p.
40p? Yeah.
Okay.
Top of the Pops annual?
75. 80p.
80p.
80p.
Okay, the mug? 120.
120. And the slap chop
250
250
okay
you ready
I don't think I've done very well
so
let's do it
in order
first then reveal the prices
so do I get a point
for each one that is actually
in the right position
yeah
so if you put
1, 2, 3, 4
but only 1 and 3
in the right place
you still get 2 points yes yeah yeah okay so you said the cheapest was just a minute the next
most expensive was top of the pops then the mug and then the slap chop the in the most expensive
that's what i did here is the order the cheapest item was the top of the pops annual which you had
said originally was that then it it was Just a Minute.
Then it's a Slapchop.
Fuck that!
Fuck this!
And then it's the egg.
All right, here we go for the prizes.
So how many did you get right there?
None.
You could have had at least two right,
and you swapped them last minute. I know.
It's a very satisfying feeling I'm getting right now.
Right, so Top of the Pops.
No, just a
minute.
You said it
was 40p.
Fucking hell.
The answer was
£1.
Fuck.
You said the
Top of the Pops
annual was 80p.
Well, of course
it's not that
because it's
fucking, oh,
fuck this.
And it was 50p,
cheapest item.
It was £1.50,
but the damage,
I said I will not pay £1.50 for that damage.
Anyway.
I knew the damage was a factor, didn't I?
You said the mug was £1.20.
Actually, it was the most expensive item.
That was £3.50.
What?
I know.
You paid through the fucking nose for that.
I know, but I wanted it to match my eggs.
I guess.
And the slap chop, you said £2.50, £3.
Right, so I didn't get any points at all.
Absolutely fucking none.
What a great addition of the price of shite.
And that's right.
That's wrong.
And I was totally incorrect.
Oh, it feels so good.
You love it when I fail.
I'm going to spill my little tummy beans all over my wrist family.
Oh, my wrist family. My wrist family?
My little palm kids.
Anyway, you leave here tonight with fuck all.
I can't drive either.
It's a good thing I didn't win a car because I can't drive.
You can't drive.
Luckily, I'll never offer you a car as a prize on this show.
You never know, mate.
Well, a little toy car maybe.
I've got a toy car, don't I?
Yeah, you've got that one that blows bubbles. I've got you. That's a good one. I. You never know, mate. Well, a little toy car, maybe. I've got a toy car, haven't I? Yeah, you've got that one
that blows bubbles.
I got you.
That's a good one.
I like that one.
Happy days.
Happy days.
Nice.
Well, on that lovely note
of Eli's utter failure
to get anything right at all.
You really paid a lot
for that mug, mate.
I agree that I paid
too much for that,
but I really wanted it.
I can see that, yeah.
So there you go.
It's not a great deal of money
in the scheme of things
but it's a lot for an item
on the price of shite,
isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
One of our most expensive
I would have thought.
I know, but you know,
lovely little thing.
It's a good mug.
Yeah.
You want the Smarties one?
No.
Why?
I don't care.
Well, it's good.
I don't care you have it
and also,
because you've had it
in this room a little while now,
I don't want to touch it
ever again.
It's probably got all kinds of droppings off you.
Don't spray it for bees.
It stinks in here.
It fucking will affect the fucking environment.
You don't know what effect that will have on the scribbles.
The scribbles might fucking inhale that and start dying.
They're a vermin.
They are not vermin. They are not vermin.
They are vermin.
Get rid of them.
They're an important part of the bottom of the eco.
Get rid of them.
Of the food chain in here.
I'll set a trap.
I've got a scribbles trap.
If they are vermin, why do I spend money importing expensive skiddies from China?
Pre-made Chinese skiddies.
Listen, I'll get my mate Doug to come in and he's a scribbles catcher.
And he'll get rid of them for you like that.
Oh, yeah.
What kind of nationality is he?
What can I speak to him?
Because I want to vet him first.
Yeah?
Can you call Doug up, please?
Oh, hello, Doug.
It's me.
Yeah, you know that job I was telling you about
with the... What? You can't speak to Eli right now. Can he speak to me, please? Oh, no, Doug. It's me. Yeah, you know that job I was telling you about with the...
What?
You can't speak to Eli right now.
Can he speak to me, please?
Oh, no, he's very busy.
He's very busy, but he's telling me...
Tell him I'm going to have to vet him thoroughly
before I let him anywhere near the Mount Groppants and the scribbles.
He's saying, don't you worry about it.
He's got this covered.
He's done this before.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
In where?
South Africa.
He did a scribbles case there.
In South Africa? Yeah. He sounds like a racist. He did a Scribbles case there. In South Africa?
Yeah.
He sounds like a racist.
No, it's just where the job was.
He said the next one
was in Paris.
There was a Scribbles outbreak there
and he dealt with it there.
He's the number one Scribbles...
A Scribbles outbreak?
Yeah.
So he knows what he's doing.
All right, bye then, Doug.
Yeah, I know you can't
speak to him right now.
Bye.
Oh, he couldn't speak.
I'm going to need to speak
to Doug eventually.
Well, at some point,
but until then, don't you worry about it.
We've got it covered.
I bet Doug sounds exactly like Jimmy Biscuits.
Doesn't he?
I bet in your head you had the voice of Jimmy Biscuits playing then, didn't you?
Well, no more questions.
No more questions.
This interview's over.
All right.
All right.
Ah, here we are, flying through the sky again,
floating in on a magic noodle cloud,
heading to our destination,
the Country Urban Noodle Test Lab kitchen.
Let's fly in through the window and see if Eli is ready and waiting for us this week.
Ah, he is.
Oh, I've landed.
Hello, Mr Silverman.
Hello, surprised to see you come through the window, Mr Paul.
Well, I thought I'd just come by and see one of your wonderful noodle recipes.
Well, we've got a little special visit to the Country Urban Noodle Test Lab kitchen today, Paul,
because lots of people who are interested in noodles
and interested in this podcast, Paul,
have a very deep interest in noodles.
Yeah.
Are you lying to yourself, you demented prick?
And sauces, as we know.
Good.
From the will of the people.
Stop saying will of the fucking people.
Like it's a get out excuse
for every argument
you want to win.
Well...
Yeah.
Anyway.
So,
this is a special edition
of the Country Urban Noodle Kitchen.
We're going to take
our first tentative
toe in the water, Paul.
Yes.
And look at
the pimpings.
The elements of pimping.
Pimping.
The elements of noodle pimping
I call this.
Is this pimping 101 volume one? Volume one.ping, I call this. Is this Pimping 101, Volume 1?
Volume 1.
Now, if you're listening to this and going,
oh, I wish you could see what Eli's up to.
Well, if you're a Patreon person, you could be,
because we're filming this, and it's going to be exclusive to see.
So, it's like Nigella Lawson.
So, what you're saying, Paul, is for as little as $1 per month,
So what you're saying, Paul, is for as little as $1 per month,
they could have visual access to the pimping secrets of Noodle Meister E and his noodle pimping kitchen time.
Well, yeah, but I might put up to 10.
Really?
Well, you've got to give people incentive to give.
They can't give it all away.
So this won't be available.
This would be a tear.
We haven't discussed this.
This is really awkward.
This is awkward. All right right so here we go so what we're doing pimping a noodle paul let's just take it back to basics is what the term that i have for taking a noodle and adding to it you
pimp it up in a way the exhibit pimped his ride for so many years on MTV's programme.
What a great frame of reference, pimp my ride.
Okay, so, but I'm going to pimp my noodle.
I like to pimp a noodle.
There's very few noodles in the range of noodles in this world that stand up just by themselves without any pimping.
And it's a rare noodle.
It's a rare and exciting noodle that does that.
Now, there tend to be three baggers.
There tend to be three baggers.
So, where pimping comes to its own noodle that does that. Now there tend to be three baggers. They tend to be three baggers. So where Pimpin' comes
to its own is in the low
sachet spectrum of the noodle
world. Great. What we've got here
this, you can't really get
a noodle more basic than
this. This is a coca noodle. It's a one bagger
and that bag is chicken
flavour. Show it to the camera.
Show it to the camera. A bit closer.
There we go. Lovely. He's showing it to the camera. Show it to the camera. A bit closer. There we go.
Lovely.
He's showing it to the camera.
So, plain, ordinary chicken Kona noodle. Very ordinary.
And you know that kind of chicken, that artificial sort of chicken soup flavour.
Yeah.
Very unexciting.
Very boring.
This would be a very dissatisfying noodle if you were to just make it and put that on.
Okay.
It'd be really, really thin on the ground.
Oh.
were to just make it and put that on.
It'd be really, really thin on the ground.
So, I'm going to take you through
a very basic pimping
process with this cocoa
chicken flavoured noodle, Paul.
Now, it's what I call the student
pimp.
Which isn't a funny way
to make money when you're a student.
Not funny.
That's why I ignored ignored it let you crack on
it is how i started the in the pimping noodle again oh i see this is a this is like a student
this is a back to basic roots pimping now the problem is is this chicken broth sachet has no
power it has no nothing to it so what i do and this is a pimp that will work for a lot of noodles,
but if the noodle has three sachets,
it's probably been covered.
What you do is you do a soup base.
This is behind the curtain now.
We're through the looking glass here, people.
Okay, so tell me what ingredients
you're going to be adding then to this recipe.
I'm boiling water,
and I'm going to just boil some water first
first i take some garlic i'm crushing the crushing it oh i could crush a garlic oh we're getting in
there garlic and i'm smashing them and then i'm going to chop them finely okay uh as my dad likes
to call it goodfellas garlic goodffellas Garlic? Why? Because you smash
its head in?
Well, no,
because it's a reference
to this prison scene
in Goodfellas.
Have you seen it?
Where he's slicing
the garlic extremely thinly
so that it dissolves
straight into the oil.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
I don't.
Goodfellas is shit.
Come on, mate.
You're just trying
to rob me.
You're just trying
to rob me.
So, I'm going to chop this garlic very finely.
He's chopping it finely.
I've got a nice knife to do it.
Did you know as well that garlic tastes different depending on how you chop it?
I did know that.
So it's much more bitter if you puree it with one of those crushes.
This show is dangerously close to being informative.
But it's less bitter and sort of a bit more fragrant if you just chop it as i'm doing here so you're roughly chopping it
roughly chopping some garlic and i've boiled some water there the other pre-pimp element
is ginger now you don't want to be too ginger using it isn't that right
it's uh it's very strong and i, and I don't like ginger in things
where you've got big chunks of fibrous ginger
and you're chewing down on that hard.
Do you know what I mean?
You like a hint.
Yes, I like the taste of the ginger
without having to deal with the, frankly,
sort of fibrous quality of it as an actual physical object.
Do you know what I mean?
Well, it's three minutes
in and i've lost the will to live ladies and gentlemen it's chopping very finely the ginger
and then i'm putting those together as you see and then chopping them all together paul look
oh he's chopping all together it's madness this is going to give our noodle a real flavor base
that is going to you know just add to it so much you
can do this with almost any kind of simple noodle what you mean chop something up yeah you're right
you can do that to nearly any fucking simple no what i'm saying is you wouldn't want to do it if
it's a three packer and it's got like a quite sophisticated lot of flavor going on you might
actually ruin the flavor that the manufacturer's going for with this but with a basic thing like
chicken shrimp flavour you know what i mean like one of the very basic flavours beef yeah yeah this
is always going to work so i've boiled my kettle does anyone know how much pain i'm in right now
now i've boiled my kettle and now look at how much water does it say is needed. I'll have a look.
Place noodles into 400 mils of boiling water.
400 mil, that's standard for one of these basic noodles.
And cook for two minutes.
Add seasoning and stir.
So you can see, because this is my trusted noodle pan,
there is actually a line that has sort of burnt into this pan,
and that is 400.
I know that to be 400, so I can just do it by eye.
That's fascinating.
That's a cook's tool if ever I saw one.
Amazing.
So, can you turn the heat on at the back there?
On here?
On the back one.
Oh, shit.
If I'd known that,
I wouldn't have put my camera there.
I didn't know.
I thought we were just doing it in a fucking pot,
didn't I?
What do you mean?
I thought you were just going to do it in the kettle.
I didn't know you were going to carry on boiling it.
No.
This is not one of those... I don't know how you turn this fucking thing on. were going to do it in the kettle. I didn't know you were going to carry on boiling it. No, this is not one of those...
I don't know how you turn this fucking thing on.
Ah, it's clicking in my ears.
Right, there we go.
I've got the pan on.
Right, you've got the pan on.
There it is.
Now, I pre-boiled it so I'm not waiting for it to come to the boil.
I'm just taking my garlic and ginger Crushingtons and I'm going to scoop the crushingtons
scoop
into the water there.
Straight into the water.
And I'm going to let that
boil. Let that come to the boil
for a few minutes, okay?
This is fascinating stuff.
We're doing my pimpy noodles.
Now you will
There we go. And it's going to imbue it with a lot of flavour. Now, you will... There we go.
There you go.
And it's going to imbue it with a lot of flavour.
It's going to imbue it.
Imbue the water with a lot of flavour.
Imbue it.
Excellent.
Before we cook the noodle in it.
Right.
But whilst that's happening, Paul...
I should put it in your mouth, not mine, because I'm not talking.
Whilst that's happening, Paul, let's look at...
What I...
Your dick.
Come on, ladies and gentlemen.
Get it out.
Get your noodle out.
Oh, no.
No.
No.
No. Think how much money we'd get if you could
get your dick out? Well, how much are you offering me?
I want cash on the table.
£250.
I want
50s lined up
as long as I can extend my dick.
So, £50.
Eli's got a small penis. It does need repeating. In all seriousness, Paul,'s got a small penis.
It does need repeating.
In all seriousness, Paul.
Eli has a small penis.
You can't even look at me when you say that.
You're looking at the camera, are you?
You have a small penis.
Fuck off.
No, I don't.
It's reasonably sized.
It's economic.
It's ergonomic.
Because people look at it and go
ugh
oh mate
that is poor
that's a very poor pun
so
what am I holding
in my hand now Paul
spring onion
that is
if you ask me
the most basic
pimping item
you're ever going to get
for a noodle
it's the atomic nucleus
of noodle pimping
it's a scallion
or a green onion or a green onion
or a spring onion.
Oh, you scallion.
Yeah.
So,
any noodle
will be improved with this.
Right.
I'd say,
I couldn't think of a single noodle
that wouldn't be improved
with spring onions.
My ex-girlfriend,
I made her a noodle once,
yeah?
Do you know what she said?
I don't like wet spring onions.
You betrayed me.
I don't like wet...
She said, I don't like wet spring onions. You betrayed me. I don't like wet... She said, I don't like wet spring onions.
What does that mean?
What kind of weirdo?
Every spring onion you eat is going to be wet, you idiot.
No wonder we broke up.
Yeah, that's the reason why.
And not your copious amounts of issues.
Well, someone bumped into her the other day.
She's living on a boat on a canal,
and she had a can of white lightning.
So, you know.
Oh! It's doing better. It's interesting, isn't it?
It's doing better. Well, I mean, come on.
She is, yeah. She is.
She lives on a boat.
Let's have a look at your onions. Here we go.
I'm giving the onion a trimming.
And I'm cutting the... Hang on, I'm just
tearing this down a little bit, the volume. Hang on.
The dried bit off. Yeah.
As long as you take all of the outside layers off,
you don't really need to wash a spring onion
because it's so packed together, you know, what's the point?
But if they're long green bits,
I will rinse out the dirt that sometimes accumulates
in the hollow stems at the top, okay?
There you go.
Chop the hairy Norman off.
Hairy Norman?
That's what the head of the onion's called.
Is it? Look, what does it look like to you? A Norman off. Hairy Norman? That's what the head of the onion's called. Is it?
Look, what does it look like to you?
A hairy Norman.
Hairy Norman.
It's undoubtedly a hairy Norman.
Hello, I'm hairy Norman.
I'm not a new character, that's for sure.
So, chop, chop, chop the onion.
I'll put the camera back.
Here we go.
Here we go.
That's nice.
That's nice, ladies and gentlemen.
Are you getting the odour coming off that?
I am getting a nice oniony...
It's like a garlicky, gingery odour.
Yeah.
So you can see that's the flavour that's going to give a lot more background to the chicken.
And I'm chopping a spring onion.
What I do with spring onions as a pimp is I will add that at the last minute.
So they completely retain their freshness.
Bit of bite, bit of crunch, bit of freshness.
Grassy, oniony freshness it's the
atomic nucleus of noodle pimping it is the spring onion spring onion pimp recipe item number one
i can't emphasize that enough paul i am dead inside at this point okay now with the classic
student noodle i would have cooked some bacon as well.
And I would be dicing the bacon.
But I'm not doing that because I haven't got any bacon today.
But that was the classic.
That's what I always used to do.
Spring onion, sweet corn.
I've got a can of spring corn here.
That's going to add a lot.
What's happening now then?
I'm going to drain my sweet corn.
Now, I think it's boiled long enough.
Yeah, it is now boiling.
So, I'm going to do the classic noodle breaking technique.
We've all been here before, Paul, but it warrants repeating.
In half, both halves, I have four easily manageable quarters of the noodle pad ready to go in.
Are you fucking lucky?
Now, let's get this one pack.
Look at that.
It's a terrible pack, and it's got a picture of a cock on it.
Chicken.
Chicken.
And I'm going to put my noodle.
That water's been boiling away the garlic and the ginger.
This is like, remember the 90s shows?
Get stuffed.
This is like that.
Yeah.
And just as annoying
and cheap.
I used to love getting stuffed.
Get stuffed!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's more like this,
isn't it?
Oh, making an egg omelette.
Whilst my noodle's cooking,
we'll only take two minutes, Paul.
Yeah.
I'm going to drain
the excess water
off my sweet corn.
Sorry, say again.
I'm going to drain
the excess water
off my sweet corn,
which, some people don't like sweet corn, mainly because say again. I'm going to drain the excess water off my sweet corn. Which,
some people don't like
sweet corn,
mainly because it just
turns up in your poo
and so you sort of
associate it with poo
when you eat it.
Do you know what I mean?
It's like asparagus.
You know asparagus
makes you wee smell
of asparagus.
Then you start thinking
the smell of asparagus
is like the smell of wee
and you go off it.
It depends how often you
And can I just say
Pea, celery,
yeah?
Don't attack celery this
fucking at this point
I've lost he's gone
drain it then I'm
fixing the camera I'm
draining the sweet
corn and that's not a
euphemism so he's now
pissing in the sink
ladies and gentlemen
no he is just draining
that was funny yeah
thank you right so
I've drained my sweet corn I've got my spring onion I've been actually Yeah. Thank you. Right, so I've drained my sweet corn.
I've got my spring onion.
I'm going to actually do one and a half spring onions, Paul.
Right, okay, good.
Sorry.
So first off, I've not used this camera a lot, so I'm trying it out.
So it's so exciting.
And then I'm going to be sprinkling that on the top.
So this is basic pimping.
I mean, there's not much more else to say.
Our noodle's going to be ready um what i like to do what they do say on most noodle instructions paul
is that you should put the soup base in right at the beginning before you even cook the noodle
i don't think that's the right way to do it then it's softened first yeah and i'll just put the
i'll put the powder in the bowl and then just pour it right on it keeps the powder fresh
so the so that it's not, you know.
Great tip.
No, great, great tip.
You're pouring it in the bottom of the bowl.
Let's just get the camera
having a look at this.
There we go,
straight in the bottom.
There you go.
The powder goes
in the bottom of the bowl.
Now, is my noodle ready?
What do you think, Paul?
I don't know.
How long has it been in there for?
Like two minutes?
It says two minutes
on the fucking thing,
doesn't it?
Two minutes.
How tender does this look?
I don't... It looks tender.
I don't know.
It's a fucking noodle.
Is that a noodle?
Does that look tender?
Oh, I'm gone.
What are you doing?
I'm just taking it out.
Does that look cooked to you?
Yeah.
Okay, so we're ready
to take the noodle out.
It's really hard juggling
both of these fucking things
right now.
Well, don't fucking
complain to me.
I'm the fucking talent.
What am I pointing at?
What am I pointing at? What am I pointing at?
I don't know what I'm pointing at anymore.
Don't mess this up.
People need guidance
on how to fucking pimp their noodles, Paul.
Fucking moaning.
Right, I've taken the noodle off the heat.
Oh, I like to get the liquid off.
And just first liquid...
Oh, it's making the camera all foggy. To get all the powder dissolved before.
Then splosh.
There, it's gone on.
The noodle's in.
And now, oh, mate, that's taking me back.
That is reminding me of being a student eating noodles,
the smell of that chicken noodle.
Okay, now we want some sweet corn.
Do you like sweet corn, Paul?
Yeah, it's fine. Time and a place kind of snack well i think it works very well in this noodle because
you will be tasting this noodle telling me what you think great so those are the two basic pimping
elements uh i've put my sweet corns in canned Canned sweet corn I find works. You can do frozen, but then, you know...
It loses something.
I think it does.
And then I'm sprinkling, liberally sprinkling,
my chopped spring onion on top like that, Paul.
On top there.
Now, there is a certain fan of the show, Paul,
who posts sort of pornographic close-ups of noodles that he's pimped.
Don't know who you mean. Yeah.
Something about homeless
ejaculate
window cleaner. Something like that.
Something like that. His name. And then
those pictures that that person
posts of his pimped noodles
always have a big wedge of lemon in the
noodle. What? What's going
on? Cut that out.
What's the wedge of lemon
talking about?
Why does that work?
For certain dishes,
noodle dishes,
dry noodle dishes,
like a pad thai,
yes, a squeeze of lemon
is required.
But for this,
you just get a watery
chunk of lemon
in your fucking noodle.
That's not pimping.
That's like being a madam
and you just sit downstairs
and let the punters
go upstairs.
It's nothing like that at all.
It's the worst fucking analogy you could have made.
Comparing lemon in a noodle to prostitution and sex work.
Well, that's what the metaphor is pimping, isn't it?
Well, that's great association then.
Right.
So do I only get 5% of this?
Yes.
You get 2%, mate.
So.
If you're a dick, I'm lucky to get that.
Give that a huff and tell me,
does that smell like a nutritious and tasty snack?
Oh.
It smells a bit Gregsy.
Gregsy?
It's got a feeling like Greg's sausage rolls.
Yeah, it's that artificial chicken stock kind of flavour, isn't it?
Actually, that's what it is.
You're right.
That's what it is.
Now, we're going to look at what I consider...
Hang on, stop talking, I'm doing this.
God.
Right, here we go.
Okay, Paul.
Now, I've prepared the noodle.
Just to recap on the pimping that happened
with this very basic one sachet coca chicken flavour noodle,
I finely chopped some garlic and ginger
and boiled that in the noodle cooking water before
to add flavour.
That's an important pimping element.
Then I took the atomic nucleus of noodle pimping,
a spring...
You had to stick with us.
A spring onion.
It's the way you draw it out.
And then I put...
I'm just recapping.
I put the spring onion in and some sweet corn.
But what it needs is the finishing pimping touches now
Paul. The condiments. Yeah?
Never skimp on the condiments. Never
forget the condiments. And we go to
possibly
the second most important pimping element
of any noodle. Paul?
Soy sauce. Soy sauce. Right, get on with it.
Now, there's a little thing
about soy sauce. You get two types. Do you
know the two types? The main two types?
Brown and white. No,
Paul. Brown and black. I've seen white
soy sauce. Brown and white. I was given
white soy sauce.
Oh, yeah? Special white. Skip to the
end. It's bunk.
Skip to the end. No. There
is light soy sauce and dark
soy sauce. That's what I said. But you'd assume
that the dark soy sauce was more salty
wouldn't you
it's not
the light one
is in fact more salty
anyway
little tip for you there
which one's this then
dark
it's got more flavour
it's got a sweeter
and it's got more flavour
less salty
more on the sweet side
okay
so why is it called light
if it's saltier
it's actually the colour
it's actually the
it's a different type
of soy sauce oh what a load of shit it's just the It's a different type of soy sauce
Oh what a load of shit
It's just cut lighter
But it is salty
Load of shit
So
Like it salty?
There we go
Liberally give
That's too much
That's not too much
That's too much
That is definitely not too much
That's too much
What do you think ladies and gentlemen? That's too much No it's. That's too much. That is definitely not too much. That's too much. What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?
That's too much.
No, that's fine.
That's too much.
Now, the other thing that I love my noodles to be spicy, Paul.
So.
Right.
I'm going to put some of this oofed.
Oofed.
Oh, we've heard about it on the show, but oofed's coming into the picture.
It's a very strong Trinidadian hot sauce.
I'm going to pour it in there there just a little bit at the side
and then mix that thoroughly in so you get an even heat and then all the soy
sauce has gone in look at that. So one last look for the camera. Now this is yes
it's a basic... can you smell that? Oh, it's... Hot sauce coming off it.
Yeah.
Now, Paul.
So I would say that's a very basic pimping I've done there to this noodle.
The most important element, spring onions and the soy sauce.
If I had to get rid of everything else, the spring onion and the soy sauce would still make that good.
Okay?
Yeah. Now is the moment sauce would still make that good. Okay?
Now is the moment of truth, Paul.
I'd like you to take a little bit, taste a bit of the noodle with some spring onion and
sweet corn on it, and then have a little sip of the broth.
Okay?
Alright.
It's hard to get it all on.
Just taste it.
You can have a few goes, you know.
Oh, here's a good bit.
He's eating some noodle with the spring onion and sweet corn there.
Now have a little bit of the broth.
Sip a little bit of the broth.
Oh, yes, daddy.
Oh, that's a spicy meatball.
It's spicy.
So what are your impressions of my pimped chicken noodle there, Paul?
I pity the fool who doesn't like
your noodle pimping.
No?
So what do you really think?
I really like that.
It's nice.
I like the spice
because it lingers
and gives more to the flavour.
It's quite spicy, salty
and you've got some texture.
Yeah, it's got flavour and texture.
So not bad.
Considering what we started with,
that's a much more exciting meal.
It is, but
you'd still want,
you'd prefer like the flat
because I know you have been
privately buying yourself some broad noodles.
I do, like hot.
Hot and spicy ones. Hot and sour, aren't they, though?
They were very nice, and they're very satisfying.
But they're mega hot.
But this is a nice trade-off.
This is not too hot, but it leaves a nice tingle.
That brings me back.
That really takes me back to my early noodle career.
Ah, so there we go.
That's the basic noodle 101, chapter one,
of Eli's country noodle urban kitchen test lab.
Yeah.
And we'll be looking at more advanced pimping options.
Next time.
Next time.
Including frozen deep fried tofu and chilli oil with shrimp.
Well, that's all very exciting.
Well, I have to go now, Mr. Silverman.
I must fly away.
All right.
It's been lovely in your noodle urban kitchen.
It's been lovely seeing you, Paul.
All right.
Fly away.
I've learnt something and maybe you've learnt something as well, kids, listening to this.
But I must go.
Here I'm off.
Just going to open the window. And off I fly to join you back another day at the Eli Silverman's Country Urban Noodle
Test Lab kitchen.
Bye.
Here we go. And welcome back.
It's time to say goodbye.
We hope you've enjoyed your time with us on Cheap Show
and that you'll fly with us again in the future.
Hello, would you like some TWA coffee?
Or perhaps you'd like a bit of my TWA tea?
Get it?
Twat!
Yeah.
Twat!
Do you have a twat?
I do.
Where is it?
Above my gooch.
Oh.
What?
That's where most people's twats are.
Sounds like a horrible fucking UB40 song.
Above me gooch.
Twat above my gooch.
Jig it. Jig it. Let's hear it. Jig it. Jig it.. Chick it. Chick it. Let's hear it.
Chick it. Chick it. Chick it.
Chick it. Chick it. Chick it. Chick it.
I got me twat above
me gooch.
What was that? It wasn't even close to a
sentence. Oh, yes it is.
Oh, I got me twat above
me gooch. Oh.
Chick it. Chick it. Chick it. Oh. Chick it. twat above me gooch. Oh, twat above me gooch.
Oh, twat above me gooch now.
Right, anyway.
It's a gritty, gritty tale.
Yeah, thank you for listening to Cheap Show.
If you support us on Patreon, thank you.
Haven't you got some news coming about that?
The Patreon tiers are going to be changing a bit.
A little bit.
I keep saying this and never get round to it,
but I've been really busy.
But I think, Paul.
But I think, Paul,
you've run it past me
and it sounds much fairer
and more value,
a better value system
with the tiers.
It's just easier for me to do.
Basically.
It's easier,
it's streamlined
but it will be
a lot of benefits.
There'll be extra...
We'll give an hand jobs out.
Extra pog...
You just come round
the House of Pickles.
Come round the House of Pickles.
We'll be waiting.
And I'll just
get your lad out.
First, I'll produce a skinny.
I'll feed it to Scribble.
You can watch his little scrubble mouth.
Scrub it all off.
And then you can pet him.
But don't get too close.
Don't get too close.
You'll scrub all your finger.
And that can be quite nasty.
We have a Scribble's petting zoo.
Yes.
It's at the foot of Mount Groppant.
Yeah.
You can get to go on the Mount Groppant. Yeah, you can get to go
on the Mount Groppant
ride experience.
And you get a little
personalised source report.
Nothing to report.
You're going to have
to produce something for it.
There's not going to be much.
I mean, look.
There's not for it then.
There's sources.
Your source report's
going downhill fast.
Right, anyway,
shut up.
If you'd like to support
us on Patreon, please. But no, we really, really appreciate it, Paul. That's what I, shut up. If you'd like to support us on Patreon, please...
But no, we really, really appreciate it, Paul.
Thank you so much.
Patreon.com forward slash CheapShow and decide
if you wish to support us there. I've cut my beard off
so I can't give him Scrabble Lavacus.
You can give a bit of Scrabbles.
A little bit of Nozzle Nicious.
Nozzle Lavalavacus.
I could just squirt some oil on their window.
You know Tim the Toyman from the thing?
Tim the Toyman from the YouTube channel?
Grand Illusions.
Yes.
He's recently on an episode said,
nozzle, nozzle, nozzle.
Did he?
Yeah.
It's just like fucking Rhett and Link, isn't it?
Again.
They've been fucking...
They come to the raw coalface of our creative process.
They steal the diamonds as they fall out the wall.
I thought that was quite good metaphor in the end.
Quite good indeed. Well done.
Look at them. We're
shoveling away and they stand
behind us as soon as a diamond glints.
Fucking, fucking have it.
What was that? Oh, yeah.
Brett and Lig.
You are nasty and you stink.
We have to set them up by actually tasting
each other's calming little pods. No.
Apparently one of them's already drunk
someone else's piss on
the show.
And when they
actually do it you
think there's no way
to compete with that
because they're
obviously just
attention seeking.
They remind me of
who's that comedian
who no one likes
him?
Tom Green.
Oh yeah.
He used to suck
cows tits and stuff.
Yeah.
Great.
As mucky as this
podcast is I hope we
never end up under a cow
sucking its tit in a field
so do I
you know what I mean
I'd like to do that in private
I'd like to do that
for my own personal pleasure
I wouldn't do that for money
no I don't want to be
it'll bring the spiritual aspect
of sucking a cow off
and I don't want to be
no I wouldn't suck a cow off
right
Paul's looking at me like
uh oh
look can I just say
mate this might have to be a wrap-up.
Fucking hell.
I'm sorry about this week's episode.
Hopefully...
It's fine!
All right.
Shut up!
Thanks for supporting us.
Yes, thank you.
Can't be rock and roll every week.
I can't be rock and roll.
Stumpy fucknugget.
Right.
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I don't know why
I keep going into
that voice today
I don't know why
you keep doing
anything
I'm done
yeah
done
bye then
I'm just yeah done bye then I'm just mentally done
bye
bye