CheapShow - Ep 123: Episode 46: Dark Tower
Episode Date: April 19, 2019In this week's episode Paul and Eli discover Incoming Transmission ...Our last ever episode will It's another episode of the economy comedy podcast! This week, Gannon and Biffo once again look at ...another strange book called which will get you clenching! ...and in another Gannon's Golden Games, we investigate "Dark Tower" and ponder, "Is this the best Charity Shop Find ever on CheapShow?" ...As well geriatric erotica, hiding amongst wax works and how your anus can help you be happy! With very special thanks to Rich Wentworth and The Hadron Gospel Hour Podcast www.hadrongospelhour.com @HadronGospel See pics accompanying this episode at: www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-123-episode-46-dark-tower And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @mrbiffo If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!
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So there we are ladies and gentlemen.
That was...
Spoff...
Wanking your dick.
That was the last ever
Price for Shite. Eli won it.
Fair and square.
A nice way to end this
very last episode.
Very good. And it was very
cheap items there Paul. The most
expensive was only 700 billion pounds
What a
What a bargain that was
Bucket change
Absolute bargain that was
That was well done
Absolutely
Well
It's at the home of the show now
We've got to say goodbye
Oh
W
W
W
No no no
We're closing it all down mate
We don't need to
Eli snored
Eli
No we don't do Twitters
We haven't done Twitter in 30 years.
Don't do it.
What do they do now?
No, they just...
Mind void, innit?
Mind void.
You upload your sentiments to mind void
and it just gets neuro-passed to every downloadable quinnlet.
It's the future, Eli.
Land of the...
Land of the...
Land of the law.
Thank you.
Anyway, thank you very much.
It's the last ever cheap shot, Paul.
Last ever cheap.
Mate, it's been 40 years.
How long?
40 years.
40 years.
Anyway, we just wanted to say thank you for supporting us for 50 odd years.
It's been a ride.
And we can't do it in the...
No, we've got...
We can't do it in the home, the got We can't do it in the home The robot care home
We're both scheduled for death next week
Oh
Every year they cull people over a certain age
And it's high time
Oh so it's a bit like Logan's run is it
It's a bit like Logan's run
That was what I was inferring
You're not sounding very old anymore
Shut up
So thank you for listening.
But it's time.
He's lost it.
Oh, the wee-wee's coming.
He's lost it.
Paul.
I've lost control of my bladder because I'm an old man.
Paul.
Yeah, well, let's just say goodbye.
All you cheapskates who've listened.
W-W-W.
No, stop it.
We don't do that no more.
Right.
I love you.
Wankin'.
Wankin'.
Goodbye. Thank you for listening. Wankin. Goodbye.
Thank you for listening to Cheap Show.
Goodbye.
Bye-bye.
Oh, my.
Nothing relieves the existential ennui of being trapped in a bunker that's floating outside of time-space quite like an episode of Cheap Show.
By the chemistry between Paul Gannon and Eli Silverman, the frank discussions about bodily fluids and austerity.
Well, I almost can't imagine what I'd do without their... Oh, wait a minute.
What did they say?
Something about this being their final transmission?
No, that can't be so.
Ashley, rewind the tape and replay that last bit.
Will do, Doctor.
A nice way to end this very last episode.
Very good.
Gads, this cannot be.
Ashley, enhance 150%.
Incoming.
A nice way to end this very last episode.
Very last episode.
Very last.
Very last.
Very last episode.
Very good.
Now reverse.
Oh, no.
This is much worse than I thought.
I know what I must do.
I must hunt down and find another Timelines Cheap Show at all costs.
Ashley, please notify me when you find a match for...
Oh, that was quick.
Ashley, please play this sweet, sweet episode of Parallel Universe Cheap Show.
You've lost weight is that sincere
yeah
you're looking healthy
I don't think I have lost weight
you do
you look good
well that's very strange
I had my hair cut
yeah
yeah
which one
that's good isn't it
I did a joke
yeah
well maybe it was the
my head looks thinner
that's it your head looks thinner.
That's it, your head looks thinner, and it's made your body go out of whack, visually.
It's all gone wrong, there's a glitch in the matrix.
Anyway, I'll do the intro, shall I? I shall do the intro.
If you really want to.
Yes, as always... Hello, welcome to Cheap Show, the economy comedy podcast, with me, Paul Gannon, and my co-host...
Mr Biffo. Oh, it's where we go
through the power lines, the bargain bins, and the...
Get it out. Pardon.
This is going to be
carry-on, isn't it, today? A little bit rude.
What did I say? Power lines,
bargain bins, charity shops.
That's him. That's what they're called.
We've only been doing this for 20 years. I know.
I know. Feels like yesterday
It does feel like yesterday
Yesterday
All my troubles
How does it go next?
There seemed to
How do you not know
The next line of that song?
I've dried up
Yesterday
All our troubles
Seem so far away
And now it feels like
They're here to stay
Oh I believe in yesterday
I don't think they're the lyrics
I don't think they're the lyrics.
I don't think they're the lyrics.
Are you accusing me or not?
I believe in the Loch Ness Monster.
The only I believe I know is the one by those two guys from Soldier Soldier.
They did a song called that?
I believe for every drop of rain that falls.
What about?
I'm singing. A flower grows.
I believe that every time a tortoise cries,
I blow my nose.
I believe.
I don't know what I'm fucking doing.
What about the Cher song?
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
I believe.
Any more I believe?
Orville?
No, we don't talk Orville.
No, sorry.
Do you know what?
I got confused.
It was R. Kelly that did I Believe I Can Fly, wasn't it?
Not Orville.
Yes, it was.
I didn't know your Kelly did that.
Was it R. Kelly?
No, it was your Kelly.
R. Kelly.
R. Kelly.
Anyway, welcome to Cheap Show.
Hey, you and your digi-possy.
I turned around and Michael McIntyre was looking right at it.
It's Gannon's Golden Games.
Biffo's Bibliography.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
Clicky click.
Clicks help me recognise visually on the timeline where I put the theme tune.
Our lovely theme tune.
That's what the clicking's for.
Some people have asked me, I hear clicking every now and then,
and I go, yeah, that's the thing for the thing, and I should have edited it out.
What I was impressed with is that you did your clicking with your pelvis.
Yeah, come on, that's not even a joke anymore.
I mean, back problems and everything.
I know, but at least it's not a slipped disc, eh?
It's not a slipped disc then, eh?
Yeah.
Oh, right, there's winky news.
Winky news.
I'm going to make it brief,
because we're still in the process of putting it all together
But apparently
Someone reached out to the website via email
And said I'm the woman who got married on the billboard
Do you want more details
That's insane
I know
That happened to me once
Do you remember Castaway 2000
The TV show
Yeah where it was Ben Fogle
Where he was first discovered
Was he discovered like that?
Yeah, he was living on an island.
It was like he thought the
Vietnam War was still going on. Yeah, he was like
that Japanese guy who still thought the war was going
on in 1973. Yeah, but I wrote
an article about that years ago
on a website that I had at the time,
and one of the women from it
contacted me about the... Anyway,
I've pre-empted and ruined your Winky news.
That was it.
No, that was it.
I don't want to go too far at this point
because I think she's obviously listening
and I want to make sure that the information is correct.
So it's an exciting development.
It is.
I will say that.
I know.
I wasn't expecting that.
This is a twist.
When we first discovered Winky, you and I, together...
Yeah, I remember that.
That warm winter eve, that uncommonly warm winter's eve where you and first discovered Winky, you and I, together. Yeah, I remember that. That warm winter eve.
That uncommonly warm winter's
eve where you and I discovered Winky.
Bundled up, you know. Things changed forever.
Wooden igloo.
Is that a euphemism? It sounds like one.
A brown igloo. Yeah.
Oh, I went round to her place. You know, what happened?
I gave her a wooden igloo.
I don't even know what it is. It sounds
filthy.
Oh, my igloo's gone all woody.
Oh, he has.
I should have got splinters.
I couldn't make that work.
I couldn't make that work.
I didn't top it.
Right, so on the cheap show today,
the Economy Comedy Podcast for your ears,
we're doing a few lovely familiar games.
Obviously, Gannon's golden games is
back love it but i'm looking forward to another one of your auditions of uh biffo's bibliography
yeah i've got a couple of gems for you this week do you yeah yeah you want to give us a little
tease well one of them the title is how to goodbye depression how that's not even a sentence how to
say goodbye to depression would make more sense how to goodbye depression by horoyuki nishigaki that's easy almost for you to say do you want do you want the uh subtitle
yeah book it is if you constrict anus 100 times every day
yeah full stop yeah malarkey question mark or effective way oh i see so it's basically saying
can retracting your arsehole help with depression?
Or is it absolute heffalumps?
Yeah. So we're going to find out.
I look forward to it.
Alright, cool.
And I've got a very, very special
Ganon's Golden Games that we're not going to play, but we are
going to talk about in depth because
it's too visual and
it's fucking complicated.
Can we not paint a picture for the people with our words?
Yeah, that is the art of podcasting, isn't it?
Yeah, good point.
Yeah, it is.
You'd think I'd know that after being doing this so long.
You'd think you'd know after all these years working with me,
your good old pal, Paul Michael Gannon.
Here's a question.
Okay.
Mr. Biffo.
Yeah.
Does Mr. Biffo have a first name?
No. No, well, it was just from Biffo Yeah Does Mr Biffo have a first name? No
No well it was just from
Biffo the Bear
You know from
The Dandy
Creatively bankrupt oaf
Well it wasn't meant to be a thing
It was meant to be
When someone asked me
Oh what's your name?
And it was like
Oh good Mr Biffo
So you Kaiser Soza-ed it
Yeah
You just went
That thing
That there
So yeah
I just wondered if it was like
Mr Stephen Biffo
or Mr. Alan Biffo.
I was going to ask you to suggest something,
but if your suggestions are that awful.
Bankrupt.
Creatively.
What about Hercules?
I thought you were going to say herpes.
Herpes Biffo.
Herpes Biffo.
Actually, cancel that.
That's going to catch on.
No, that sounds like a euphemism as well.
Odin.
Yeah.
Oh, she's got a horrible case of Hercules Bifo
It does sound like a Latin name
It does
I'm sorry
You've got three weeks to live
You've got Hercules Bifo
And that's what's coming up
On the show today
Let's get going shall we
Go on
You've got a choice
Choice of two this week
I'll take her
Well
Send the other one away Get out wench So you can either have Well You've got a choice. Choice of two this week. I'll take her. Well.
Send the other one away.
Get out, wench.
So you can either have, well, Goodbye Depression.
How to Goodbye Depression, to be exact. Or you can have a book entitled Granny Fanny.
The problem is, I'm obviously going to pick Granny Fanny, aren't I?
I'm going to pick Granny Fanny.
We can do both.
Dip into both.
Let's start with how to goodbye depression,
since we toyed with that at the start.
Before dipping into Granny Fanny.
Hang on, what's your jingle?
Do your jingle.
It's Biffo's Bibliography, yeah.
I like the death breath at the end.
It's like someone's last request before.
All right, love.
It's nice, that.
So, this book,
it portrays a novel method
for beating depression and other issues
such as sexual impotency
by constricting your anus 100 times a day.
Yeah, you leave that book here before you go.
You don't need the book.
I'm doing it as we speak.
Yeah, I can tell.
So it makes no sense.
But what I mean by that, not only does the method make no sense,
the way the book is laid out literally makes no sense.
Okay.
He appears to have started his theory
on a news group,
a depression news group.
So he's gone onto a website?
Well, no, a news group.
That's a thing.
Do you not know what news groups are?
No.
For the love of God,
you've been on the internet before.
Yeah, but you know where I go.
Well, yeah, there should be plenty of those.
It's nude groups I go to.
In the days before forums
and reddit
things like that
you had news groups
called things like
alt dot depression
oh okay
alright fine
alright good
so this is just like
so it's like a forum then
people go on
they talk about shit
basically they were like a forum
you should have said forum
then shouldn't you
news group
with your fancy fucking words
just because you're in the media.
Barely.
They don't want me.
So anyway, so he began by posting in this depression news group
about his theory about constricting anus 100 times.
Now, he has cut and pasted his exchanges on this news group
at points throughout the book.
So huge sways of this book, as well as kind of there being chapters where he explains the theory about constricting 100 times a day.
It's full of people taking the piss out of him.
Yeah, of course.
And it's put in the book without any context or without any warning.
There's no flow to it just the points
you get these uh these exchanges i just can't believe it because it's one of these things
where it's like if you are on forum and then someone posts i know how to beat depression
clench your eyes 100 times wink you think oh here's another fucking troll going out you wouldn't think
he's this guy trying to write a book about it well there's there's people in there kind of
sort of saying yeah this might not be the best place for this.
Yeah. This is a serious news group,
but then they,
because he doesn't let it go.
So they,
you know,
he,
he just keeps,
keeps his theories
banging away at it.
And then,
then he gets particularly angry
and he starts,
gets angry.
Well,
I don't know if he's angry,
but he,
he gets quite passionate about it.
And he says he's going to start a club
called the Anus 100 Club.
I got a leaflet about that the other day.
Now it makes sense.
Let me see if I can find it.
Where's he going?
And also, if I got a leaflet saying,
do you want to join the Anus 100 Club?
There's no way I'm fucking joining it.
Not without a copious amount of lip balm
okay so here is right here's a thing okay here's a thing in the book there are points
where it's this is quite difficult to read out um where he says he can make something three times in
succession without drawing out however when he refers to this and he refers to it throughout the book,
it's just two asterisks.
And it's on the back of the book as well.
Furthermore, he can make two asterisks three times in succession
without drawing out.
What does that?
What does any of it mean?
To me, it suggests sex technique.
The idea of, you know, he can do three pumps.
Well, maybe it is that.
Maybe he can do three thrusts.
Maybe the asterisks are meant to look like an anus, which they do.
But is there no part of the book that says, here's what the asterisks mean?
Well, to be honest, I haven't gone that far into it.
That's fine.
I don't blame you, to be honest.
There's people asking him what it means.
But then you get, you know, people in there,
I'm so glad i didn't
have coffee in my mouth when i read this roll on the floor laughing my ass off i don't think he's
read what people have said to him he's he's made a book out of basically copying and texting well
no there are there are whole sections such as okay here you go there's um there's whole chapters
where he uh does go on about it for instance you go. He talks quite a lot about having diarrhea.
Great.
So for instance, this he was talking about
one time when he was on a plane
flying over the Arctic Circle.
And when a big explosion occurred within abdomen
one and a half years ago,
I felt dizzy and could not stand up for a while.
Your abdomen may begin to shoot out
a big blank upward through the top of your head. What? And a big vortex of your energy may begin to shoot out a big blank upward through the top of your head.
What?
And a big vortex of your energy may begin to whirl automatically within your head, chest, abdomen or legs.
What's he fucking talking about?
I don't know.
All I know is that this is an unhappy guy who's fixated with his arsehole.
Yeah, basically.
That's it.
But he says it can improve your sex life by constricting anus.
Now, that's apparently true, though, isn't it?
They say that when they have sex techniques.
Like, if you clench your arsehole during sex, it helps prolong ejaculation.
Or it helps keep the wolf from the door, so to speak.
So to speak, ladies.
So, you know, if you're listening and you are a three-pump chump,
then by all means, clench your arsehole.
Clench it it because that helps
I'm doing it now
with me
go on I'm doing it
there you go
let's all do it together
that does feel quite nice
it's lovely
it's like
almost like that sense
you get when you go over
a bridge too fast
in a car
and shit yourself
no
I'm never getting
in a car with you
yeah
he's talking about
old black
solid excrement
sorry that's was the bit I was reading I'm never getting in a car with you. Yeah, he's talking about old black solid excrement.
Sorry, that was the bit I was reading at that point.
So does he basically say then that, from what you've read,
to deal with depression means you have to concentrate on your arsehole's health?
It's your arsehole and your navel.
Your navel?
Yeah, you should somehow constrict both a hundred times a day. How do you constrict your navel?
Oh, a bit like that.
Well, that's your belly, though, isn't it?
It's like you're tensing your belly muscles.
And these days, it gets harder to bring that back.
I haven't seen my navel in years.
It's like pulling a huge, heavy duvet down the bottom of the bed.
It's just...
Oh, God.
Mine's hidden in the rolls.
Yeah.
My car. Like that Adele song, Hidden in the rolls yeah my car
like that Adele song
hidden in the rolls
is that the song
I don't know
so that's
there you go
if anyone would like to buy that
how to goodbye depression
can I have a quick look at it
I just
I'm very keen
is this like self published
well I'm assuming so
it didn't
it came quite quickly
when I ordered it
our universe
well he came quite quickly
because you ordered it
hey all
thank you very much.
I think constricting anus 100 times and denting navel 100 times in succession every day is
effective to goodbye depression and take back youth.
So you can do it at a boring meeting.
Oh, God.
At a boring...
You're at a meeting.
Not any other type of meeting.
You're all right there.
I'm having a whale of a time.
What's the deficit this year?
Oh.
Basically, you need that face that babies do when they're having a poo.
You know that, but they've got a thousand-yard stare.
The thousand-yard baby shit stare.
That sounds horrible.
I've known a 70-year-old man who has practiced it for 20 years.
As an adult, he has a good complexion and has grown 20 years younger.
His eyes sparkle sparkle he's full
of vigor happiness and joy he's neither complained nor born a born a grudge yeah under any circumstance
furthermore he can make asterisk asterisks three times in its succession without drawing out
in addition he also can have burned a strong beautiful fire within his abdomen
it can burn out the sticky dirtiness of his body.
Release the immaterial fibre out or third attention,
which has been confined to this stickiness.
Then he can shoot out his immaterial fibre
or third attention to an object,
concentrate on it,
and attain happy, lucky feelings
through the succession of concentration.
If you don't know that concentration can give you a particular pleasure, your life looks like a hell.
Isn't that true?
God bless Google Translate.
What is he?
He's a graduate of Osaka City University in 1963.
Lives in Japan.
Employed by the Kyoto News Agency until 1976.
Author of three books in Japanese,
including How to Attain Silent Knowledge.
Silent Knowledge?
What is that?
And the author of one book of Unveiled Hidden Phoenix.
I don't even know what that is.
But bless him.
He's had a go, hasn't he?
As my mum would say, God loves a trier.
Well, this is the trouble with the book,
is that there's no context for anything it's just it's just a stream of consciousness which occasionally mentions black sticky ex-woman well with you know what great find i love that what
else have you got give me well here we go granny fanny granny fanny grannyanny, which is a book in a series of elderly sex novels by a lady called Sally Hollister, who...
I don't know why that amused me.
That's a funny name, isn't it?
Sally Hollister.
It's locked up a little bit, isn't it?
And she specializes exclusively in sex books or sex stories about elderly people.
I mean, they need love too.
Well, yeah, I'm not knocking it.
But you should try it first.
You should give it a go first.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
There's nothing I love more than watching two mounds of leathery white flesh go at it
in a hospital bed filmed by an orderly.
A salt and pepper mound of pubic thrusting.
So,
watching two hairless
cats fuck.
That's to the point.
But they need love.
They all need love.
A couple of leathery
flip-flops
being bashed
in the wind.
Oh,
maybe,
no.
Oh,
what?
How's that too far?
It's all slappy,
isn't it?
It's like,
yeah.
I like it.
Do you ever wonder what sex is going to be like when you're old?
If I have any when I'm that age, I'll take whatever I can get.
They do do it, some of them, don't they?
I know.
Some of them get quite randy.
I'm a Viagra now.
But isn't it all kind of a bit, I don't know, sandpapery?
Depends what you've done with it.
Why is your penis sandpapery?
I was more thinking that...
Oh, well, there's lubricants.
And, you know, even if you can't afford Viagra,
maybe make a splint out of two magnum ice lolly sticks.
Elastic band.
A couple of Frankfurters.
Yeah, that's what you need.
She won't know.
Why have you got three cocks?
He gives her a big sausage
and she gives him a cold, wet chicken.
Oh, man.
It saves them getting up.
They just exchange
a dry, overcooked chicken.
A chipolata being pushed up
a dry, overcooked chicken.
Dirty, dirty men.
We could write one of these books
quite easily.
It's easy.
Yeah. It's just like any any porn but you make it more sad
just putting a lot of death rattles yeah just like it's like having two
two xylophones wrapped in carcass meat
right go on well you want me to read a bit out?
I do.
So this is the start of...
Now, is this book for free?
Can you get...
What is it?
It's free if you've got Amazon Unlimited.
Okay, so I presume you have.
No.
I paid money for this.
£1.11.
You know, there's a certain kind of secrecy
to buying things online.
You don't have to walk in and go to a bookshop
and buy a book called...
Granny Fanny.
Granny Fanny. And then go, I would like this book. You know, you can just get it online. That don't have to walk in and go to a bookshop and buy a book called... Granny Fanny. Granny Fanny.
And then go,
I would like this book.
You know,
you can just get it online.
That's a great thing.
Then for the rest of eternity,
I'm now going to be recommended
Granny Porn.
Well,
let's just say
it's a kink
you might want to investigate.
Well, yeah.
Sooner or later.
Right.
So here we have
the beginning of this.
Yeah.
I thought that...
How many have we begun? I don't know. I'm tensing Yeah. I thought that... I haven't even begun.
I don't know.
I'm tensing up.
I thought my days of sexual activity were over when I became a grandmother,
but nothing could have been further from the truth.
I've had a look at a few of her books, and they basically all start the same way.
Oh, there's a longing there.
There's a transference of emotion going on.
In fact, my new status seemed to make me even more desirable to men.
In fact, my husband, Frank...
That's all you need to know.
Don't need to know his job, how he looks after me.
It's Frank.
Frank noticed.
That young chap next door looks like he'd be more than happy
to rip the knickers off you, Ruby.
Oh, so her name's Ruby then.
There you go.
I like finding out the characters as we go.
Who, have you ever?
Okay, don't take this too personally,
but you would be appalled if your wife, Tim,
you said, wouldn't you like to rip the knickers off the girl next door?
You'd be like, that's not going to happen.
Yeah.
No.
No.
I know.
I'm going to start.
Let's see if she's like 60.
I will skip on because the rest of this,
the next two pages are just discussing about ripping off of the knickers. Okay. No. I know. I'm going to start. I see if she's like 60. I will skip on because the rest of this,
the next two pages are just discussing about ripping off of the knickers.
Okay.
So they're going into the delicate art of knicker ripping.
Yeah.
Anyway, so we skip down a bit and Ruby writes,
When I brought my washing in, I glanced up at next door's window.
And sure enough, there was Paul.
That's the neighbor.
Oh, I can put myself in this story now.
Right, I'm in.
There was Paul staring at me intently.
And that got me wet in the undies.
Let me tell you.
This is a British written porn thing.
Wet in the undies.
No, it's such a British way of... It's not sexy, is it?
All right, darling, you like it, don't you?
You like it up there, don't you?
A bit wet in the undies. You like it in the under it, don't you? You like it up there, don't you? You're a bit wet in the undies.
You like it in the underpants department, don't you, darling?
In the underpants department?
Pop the pink, not the brown, love.
So we'll skip on a bit.
Because this is all, well, you know, this is all scene setting.
So we'll get to the good stuff.
It's important for romance.
You don't just push a person into bed and say,
here you are, skipping all the fucking
set up.
So,
here we go.
Well,
yeah,
I know.
Well,
we'll,
trust me.
Fine.
Send me the link.
Don't you worry,
I will.
So,
here we have,
here we have now
a conversation with
Ruby Frank.
Veronica's now been
brought into this.
Who's Veronica?
I think Veronica's
Paul's wife. Wife. Oh, Veronica. Some been brought into this. Who's Veronica? I think Veronica's Paul's wife or partner of some sort.
And this is Ruby giving Veronica some advice.
Oh.
Because I think...
She's not satisfying Paul in bed.
Yeah, well, Veronica, I think their sex life is.
It says here, tapering off.
Great.
We've all tapered off.
Yeah, mine does at the end.
Gee!
Like the world's saddest windsock.
Veronica wants to know whether Ruby still has sex.
All right, okay, fine.
A bit personal.
I would never ask my neighbour that, but go on.
I was surprised at the intimate nature of the question,
but put it down to the openness of youth.
Well, I don't get it as much as I used to, I admitted with a laugh.
The libido decreases with age,
but if a couple still love each other,
they'll make an effort to show it.
Oh, God.
All right, stop judging yourself.
He's touching his special part.
The doctor's got me on antibiotics,
but I'm not allowed to have sex till it clears up.
Sexy talk.
This is just awful.
Oh dear.
That was Veronica speaking
there by the way.
So this is Ruby.
Oh dear.
That's not so good.
Still,
there are other ways
a girl can satisfy
her husband.
Right.
That was Ruby.
Okay.
And Veronica replies,
oh,
I've been giving him
hand jobs and blow jobs
constantly
but I don't think
they're doing the trick.
Does it come in your
hand or your mouth?
Then it's doing the trick. Don't worry about it so here we go here comes here comes the good stuff
right here we go ruby says yeah wish i could help to which veronica replies perhaps you could
if it doesn't sound too absurd paul's always had a thing for older women so if you could
lend me a pair of your knickers for me to rank him off with
I'm sure he'd enjoy that
I don't know about that
I don't know about having a bunch of
fucking tenor ladies
size
appropriate grey knickers
it's gotta be a big pair of old lady knickers isn't it
yeah and it'd be musty and it would smell like
aloe vera.
Liniment.
Yeah.
It would smell like a collection of, like, boiled sweets and potpourri.
Germaline.
Oh, God, yeah.
That antiseptic smell.
There's no less sexier smell than germaline, surely.
Oh, love, I couldn't find any sex lube, so I'm using Vicks tonight.
You like mentholipidus, don't you?
You dirty bastard.
Oh, makes it tingle.
And it helps you breathe
when you're going down on me as well.
In fact, it's a great idea.
So anyway, so it goes on.
Romantic.
Ruby again.
Yeah.
My knickers have probably got some pubes in the gusset.
Oh, for f...
If that adds to the attraction for him.
It doesn't.
You shave yourself like all the young girls these days, I assume.
Well, hairy pussies are rather retro.
There's a retro channel you don't get on YouTube, is there?
It goes on
for a while there
with a conversation
about whether to shave
or not.
Oh God.
Paul complaining
about the stubble
scratching his cock
so she has to
shave it off again.
No one complains
about that.
I've never complained
about a stubbly
part.
Pubis.
Pubis.
That's a good word, isn't it?
Yeah. You know what, I'm not going to
make myself look stupid by asking a question.
I can't even say it. Pubis.
Pudendum? Pudendum?
Pudendum. Pudendum.
And that's why men need
sex lessons. Yeah, what is the
pudendum? You're looking it up.
Okay, Google.
Pudendum.
Pudendum.
No, not addendum.endum No not addendum No not addendum
Podendum
Not addendum
Why can't you understand my P
Podendum
Like that's it fuck off
the internet does not
want me to know
what a pedendum is
and now I don't
want to know
no
we'll just drop it
in a conversation
and
one pedendum or two
darling in your tea
no I need to know
go on
because I need to know
whether you can put
a pedendum in a cup of tea
alright well you
I'll do some research and you carry on with the saucy story oh okay you look it up I need to know. Go on. Because I need to know whether you can put a pedendum in a cup of tea. All right. Well, I'll do some research and you carry on with the saucy story.
Oh, okay.
You look it up.
I need to know.
I've lost where I was now.
Oh, so I've moved on a bit here.
This is a Ruby Pleasuring Paul now.
Pedendum.
Person's external genitals, especially a woman's.
Oh, do you know?
Yes, I remember now.
Because do you remember that picture of a...
It's not a flower from my mom then.
Do you remember that Yeti picture?
It's quite a famous picture of a Yeti.
It's a photograph of it.
The one walking through the woods and it's half...
No, that's the video.
There's one propped up with a stick.
It was like this.
It's quite famous that they claim they shot it.
Shot Yeti?
Yeah, shot a Yeti or a bigfoot or something
and i remember because i i know these crypto zoologists between you and my ghost hunting
friends we have a right circle don't we just uh and they described it to me because apparently the
um the hunter claimed that it was a male yeti because you could see its penis and one of the
monster hunters once told me uh it was clearly not a male because you you could see its penis and one of the monster hunters once told me uh it was
clearly not a male because you you could see it had a distended pudendum right so it's not that
picture is it that's my dad there's a picture here of sasquatch images is it this one yeah that's
that one yeah it looks like gonzo without the beak. Yeah, can you see it's pedendum? I can see it's pedendum.
Right.
Sorry about the tangent.
Now we can go back to fanny flaps or whatever it's called.
Granny flaps.
Granny flaps.
Oh, dear.
Christ, I've come to the end of the book.
That was short.
Jesus.
We did skip all the salient information.
Did she end up having sex with him?
Okay, so basically they appear to be having a lot of all sex.
Right.
I sucked him and sucked him out into his pleasure by fondling his big hairy balls.
Ruby's giving it to Paul.
This is Ruby giving it to Paul.
Right.
Oh, no, they do.
Here we go.
She slipped.
He was in me instantly.
His big cock spreading my old fanny wife.
There was no subtlety in it.
No delicacy.
Just a young man desperate to spurt his lust into a woman.
Spurt his lust.
What a great Phil Collins track.
Oh, hang on.
No, Veronica was involved as well.
Oh, good.
When Ruby climbed off him, she saw Veronica's pretty little head still busy bobbing up and down on Frank's cock.
But, oh, no, Frank.
Wait, hang on.
That was a foursome.
Oh, all right.
Fair enough.
So they've done a swapsie
yeah
oh
Frank's cock
but he came soon thereafter too
and she swallowed his aged spunk
with relish
oh god
and the word relish
doesn't fucking make it
even better
well
that was very nice
I said
what you say
after a nice meal
yeah it is
it's like Christmas dinner
well that was nice.
So here we go.
Here's the ending.
I thought it would be it.
I thought it would end once Veronica's pussy was better.
Remember, she was on antibiotics.
Because that had been the deal.
But it was she who insisted that we continue seeing each other.
She wanted to give her pussy to Frank.
It seemed as if she hadn't had a man that old.
It didn't worry me
just as long as
young Paul was
obsessed with my
granny Fanny.
Don't want to be in
this story anymore.
Wanted to keep
giving it to me.
That's it.
Jesus.
I feel
soiled.
I feel wronged.
Not as wronged
as Veronica's Fanny.
Yeah,
I got bashed out of shape
by dirty old Frank's old hammer.
Frank's mallet.
Oh, God.
I do want to know...
Oh, no, I don't want to know.
Well, she's on Twitter.
The author is on Twitter,
if anyone would like to follow her.
We've got to.
We've got to now.
What's her name?
Is it Sally?
Sally Hennessy.
Silky Sally.
There she is.
Follow Sally on Twitter.
Sally Hollister.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, loading error.
Oh, I'm gone.
People.
Sally Erotica is her name.
Sally Erotica?
That's what she is on there.
Right.
Erotica.
No results for Sally Erotica. Well, maybe she's gone. Yeah, it looks like she's is on there. Right, erotica. No results for Sally Erotica.
Well, maybe she's gone.
Yeah, it looks like she's not on there anymore.
Oh, Sally!
Sally, come back!
All is forgiven!
Sally, love!
I want to read your next book, Senior Squirters.
Actually, we can have a look at some of her other entries, so to speak.
Well, there's one called Debauchery, O'Connell Chronicles,
Sally's Hot Reads 11.
Erotica Ecstatica.
Yeah.
Oh, The Bumper Book
of Bonking.
That's such a British
fucking title.
It's
Sorry Dear,
But I Got Horny.
It's all written
by Alan Bennett.
Knobbed by the Neighbour. just another pizza girl that looks like an old man with a young woman imperial leather lust success as in success yeah
got it you got that senior source oh god i don't want that senior sex fund Sex fun being hyphenated. Yeah. When the panties come down.
Geriatric pork.
Oh, you'll like
this one.
Back door is best.
No comment.
Born to watch
Vicar's Wife.
There you go.
You get the idea.
I think this might be
one of the grottiest
segments we've done
in a while.
And I applaud you.
I applaud you.
Oh, I know which
side my dread's battered.
Oh, God, no!
No!
And now it's time for one of
our shop floor fables
where we ask you to get in touch
and tell us a story about your experiences
working maybe in a charity shop, but
also any old shop.
Any old shop.
Any, any, any, any.
Any old shop.
Right.
Here's one from a guy called James Dunn, who I haven't read the email yet,
so there's a very good chance he says,
please don't use my name, James Dunn,
in which case I'll be editing all this out.
But if not, James Dunn, James Dunn, James Dunn.
He needs to open a shop called Dunn and Dusty yes that sells vacuum cleaners
he could open up
a public lavatory
called Dunna Poo
if you go to Australia
you can just call himself
Dunny
yay
there you go
you've got lots of ideas
there James
he's a successful banker
or something
career advice
but based on this story
I don't think he does
dear Paul and Paul
I'll do my best
to keep it concise
He doesn't
This is a really long
Fucking story by the way James
Fucking hell James
It's not even in like
Big font
It's just a long story
But anyway
He's doing his best
To keep it concise
Which shows to me already
There's a lot of moving pieces
In this story
Sounds like it
Strap in
Consider me strapped
When I worked at Domino's
As an in-store assistant
This means you do everything From make pizzas Scrubbing the shit out of toilets and washing the windows
That's great, all in one
One memory has stayed with me from this thankfully short experience
It was a quiet night in the middle of summer, everyone was having barbecues and nobody seemed to be ordering in
It was a brilliant end to the weekend because it looked as if my manager
And a couple of the girls who had worked there longest would send me home early
But this was not to be A couple of the girls who had worked there longest would send me home early.
But this was not to be.
A couple of pizzas came up on the electronic board.
Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
Is that like the screen that comes in and just says... It's an electronic board.
Yeah.
It's a TV screen, isn't it?
Yeah, that's another word for telly.
Yeah, it comes up on the telly, James.
It's not going to be like one of those ones, you know, when you get big stations where
the letters flip around.
Hawaiian. Meat feast. the telly james be like one of those ones you know when you get big stations where the letters flip around hawaiian meat feast vegetarian deluxe inverness don't care where you put it hey really batting low today right a couple of pizzas came in on the telly i'm changing the story
made in order for delivery so i stopped cleaning and hurried over to make them
just when I was
finishing up
the first pizza
an intoxicated man
with the brightest
ginger hair
you've ever seen
stumbled through the doors
and slumped
over the counter
oh dear
this better be Ed Sheeran
it's the story
of Ed Sheeran
you know what
no matter what happens
let's all imagine
Ed Sheeran
this person
this is Ed Sheeran's
origin story
so Ed Sheeran intoxicated stumbles in anderan's origin story So Ed Sheeran intoxicated
Stumbles in
And slumps over the counter
I am now changing the character
To Ed Sheeran
Sorry James
I put the finishing pizza
In one of our rotating ovens
And walked to the counter
To serve Ed Sheeran
I hate to add
This was a store
In the north east of England
And us Geordies
Though a friendly bunch
Can be absolute raving
cunts that's his words not ours sorry viewers this guy ed sheeran looks like he's been hitting
the white lightening a bit much and orders a plain pizza with light cheese this is directed
at me with light cheese light cheese oh i thought you said like lychee. No. It was my bad diction. Thanks for pointing that out.
We all know about your bad diction.
Your love is like bad diction.
Sloppy.
Bad.
Limp.
Mumbles.
Flaccid.
Okay, so he directed at me this order for light cheese
with an almost incomprehensible slur.
So Ed Sheeran's walked in.
Light cheese!
I want light cheese now!
Unfortunately, the store had run out of light cheese,
which I told to the man, who looked
at me like I'd just rubbed shit
into his hands.
Ed Sheeran shakes his head at me,
calls me a prick, and just stands there
shaking his head as if he'd received some really
bad news. I sort of just tell
him sorry a couple of more times, not really
knowing what to do before asking him if he's
alright. You alright, Ed?
You alright?
I was going to make a reference to one of his
songs and then I realised I don't know any of his music.
Didn't you do Bloodstream? I think that was
one. I think. How's it go?
You don't know!
There's bloodstream!
You're not in charge of jingles no more.
Out of nowhere, the guy looks up at me,
Ed Sheeran, and with a burst of energy
from somewhere, just hops over
the counter and pushes me hard to
the floor, winding me. Because
we are low on staff, Ed Sheeran runs
through the small building uncontested
and through the staff exit, which is
open due to the summer temperature and out
of the building. Or so we thought.
Oh.
My manager asks if I'm alright and rushes to close
the staff door, lest the maniac
Ed Sheeran came back in.
I think that should be how he's
always referred. The maniac
Ed Sheeran. He died today.
In at number one, the, Ed Sheeran. He died today. In at number one, the maniac, Ed Sheeran.
Yeah.
And he should cover the maniac.
Maniac from Flashdance.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that was a gag too far.
I'm a maniac.
La, la, la.
Stop singing.
Never sing on this podcast again.
Only I may sing.
I've got a beautiful voice.
Yeah, no, you don't.
You have a beautiful voice for talking.
No.
But singing is like someone forcing tins of three fried beans up my arse.
Three fried beans, just the three.
Shut up.
My manager, Tom, says he couldn't see him when he checked,
so we assume he ran off out the back of the shop for another piss.
Why are you hesitating there?
Because I read it wrong.
Off the back to a corner shop for another bottle of cheap piss.
Ah, there we got it. Oh, gotcha. So they reckon he's run out to get some booze okay we did not see him
again that evening so i get home earlier than usual but not as early as i'd hoped and went into
work on monday two days after that shift we'd received some new stock in that morning and it
was my turn to unload the stock into the cold room which is basically just a giant room-sized fridge
right makes sense that's where you keep your pepper army and your light cheese yeah and your to unload the stock into the cold room which is basically just a giant room-sized fridge. Right? Makes sense.
That's where you keep
your pepperami.
And your light cheese.
Yeah, and your light cheese.
I started loading the boxes
into the cold room
and this included
boxes of dough
ready to stretch,
toppings and desserts.
What I found
in the cold room
I still think about today.
I've got a horrible feeling.
Oh dear.
I know where this is going
under a large pile
of flattened boxes
lay
Ed Sheeran
the maniac
Ed Sheeran
who had jumped the counter
two nights before
he looked very pale
so my immediate thought
was that he was dead
dead Sheeran
I reached to check his pulse
and was relieved to find he had a heartbeat.
So I called for Tom to call an ambulance.
I presume Tom's the manager.
Yeah, who knows?
You're just dropping names in there.
I bet he was just calling out for Tom
out of Tom and Jerry.
Tom!
Tom!
Who are you shouting for?
Oh, dear.
Instead of doing that,
he rushed in to find out what the commotion was.
He then called 999.
Ed Sheeran was completely
unconscious, so I grabbed him by the arms
and dragged him into the kitchen, where
we did the dishes.
That's bad
advice, people.
Never move a body. No.
Least of all, dragging him by the arms.
Yeah, making him do the dishes. Oh no, that's where
he did the dishes, not there doing the dishes.
And they found... Oh. They dragged him into the kitchen where we do the dishes. Oh, no, no. That's where he did the dishes, not there doing the dishes. And they found...
Oh.
They dragged him into the kitchen
where we did the dishes
and found that the palms of his hands
were saturated with brown stains.
Oh, what the fuck?
And then the smell hit me
and I called for another member of staff,
John,
to keep an eye on him
whilst I checked out the cold room.
Yes.
And he pulled him by his hands or...
Under his arms. Oh, under his arms. Oh, even so. Yes. And he pulled him by his hands. Under his arms.
Oh, under his arms.
Oh, even so.
Yes.
Of course it was shit.
It had to be shit.
After all, it was my shift after all.
Oh, I wasn't meant to be in World New Day.
One of those.
Get over it.
Deal with it.
Thanks to your day,
you have now made content for a podcast.
So you've contributed.
Well done.
That's a little bit mean-spirited no to the
audience he just needs a
bit of rational reality
and I'm saying
congratulations on your
awful day give me
something to laugh at
poor man in the cold
room the smell of shit
wasn't really present
but I searched the place
from top to bottom with
the knowledge that the
man must have pooed
somewhere if you've been
holed up in the room over the weekend his hands, presumably.
Oh, girl. Ed Sheeran had, of course, feasted on the raw cookie dough and replaced the ones he'd eaten with some of his own.
He must have sat there,
shit into his hand,
rolled the shit into similar-sized balls
because they all looked very precise to me.
I was horrified
and ran to tell Tom,
who didn't believe me
until he checked for himself.
I don't know where the guy pissed
and I don't really want to know.
I put in my notice that night
and didn't need to do the rest of my two weeks work
that I was contracted
to do
rebel
wow isn't he just
stand up for your
love rights
one thing is for
certain I wasn't in a
rush to order from
that Domino's after
that
thank you for making
cheap show I've got
you from from really
rough times keep up
the good work you
guys are the best
do not mention my
name thanks James
did he actually say that no he didn name thanks James so there you go the
story of dirty Ed
Sheeran and his poo
cookies
babba nose
pizza shit
pizza expressed
bit cerebral that one
I wouldn't go that far to describe it as cerebral Where else you got? Pizza Express. Yeah. A bit cerebral, that one.
Yeah, I wouldn't go that far to describe it as cerebral.
Papa John's.
I'm trying to come up with one for Zizzy.
You got it right.
Oh, the shitty.
Shizzy.
Shizz.
Shit.
Well, I think you've ruined this segment now with that.
Shizzy?
Yeah, you've ruined it now now isn't that shizzle
means shit
I don't know
all I know
shizzle to my nizzle
no
you're digging yourself deeper
by now sounding uncool
we had a lovely story there
about shitty Ed Sheeran
shitty Ed
and then we had to go
and pun it out
that's the segment
that's it
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We don't care.
I don't care what you do with your life.
You want to get in touch, do it.
You can waste it by sending stuff into podcasts and shit.
Yeah, why don't you get in touch with...
There's no such thing as fish.
Fuck off!
What is that? I did that on purpose
so I can sample that
and use it in my noise reduction
you didn't do that on purpose
I did
I just forgot to do it
three segments ago
stop trying to justify
your clumsiness
I am not clumsy
I am fat handed
subtle difference
you rude prick
get off
muff fingered right I'm fat-handed. Subtle difference, you rude prick. Get off. Muff-fingered.
Right.
It's time for one of my favourite segments.
It's Ganon's Golden Games.
How is that jingle better than any of mine?
It's bedded in.
It's like when they released the Nintendo Wii name,
I thought, what a stupid fucking name.
Then a year later, it was like, yeah, Nintendo Wii.
I've just bedded in that jingle.
I've been doing my jingles for years now on this show.
Yeah, but they've not been up to standard.
I'm sorry this comes out now.
I'm sorry.
You needed to bring this up at the recent EGM.
Yeah, well, I didn't.
I'm doing it now, and I'm sorry,
but the audience has to know your jingles are piss poor.
Oh, fuck you. I've got another one in. I've got something else has to know your jingles are piss poor oh fuck you
and I've got another one in
I've got someone else in
to sing your songs for you
in tune
yeah
the maniac in tune
I kind of want to find
who that guy was
who shat in the cookies
and
see if I can put my
stars in your eyes
shit in your hands
oh ITV if you're listening it's got to be better than Naked Attraction Shit in your hands.
Oh, ITV, if you're listening,
it's got to be better than Naked Attraction.
Although that's Channel 5, isn't it?
Who would you get to present that?
Paddy McGuinness?
He'll do it.
Paddy.
Paddy McGuinness. Paddy McGuinness' sister.
Paddy and Paddy.
Paddy McGuinness will fucking do anything.
He will.
He literally will.
He's in Top Gear now.
What's the deal with his hair?
I think it's stitched in
yeah there's something
going on there isn't there
there's something going on
it's not right
maybe he dies it
well he definitely dies it
but there's some sort of
skullcap type situation
going on there
see my question about
Paddy McGuinness is
what's the fucking point of him
I hate him
you know he's in
Madam Tussauds
in Blackpool
what work in there
or is he a statue
is he a statue
he's scrabbling around on the? Or is he a statue? Is he a statue?
Scrabbling around on the floor.
Yeah.
Well, not a statue.
A waxworks.
God, they give anyone a waxwork.
Well, up there, though, he's a sort of god, isn't he?
Where's your waxwork?
I want to see digi-waxworks.
I want to see a deformed, pasty,
slightly translucent...
We should get some made up.
Yeah.
There you go go for the live
show by the same person who did the they should be molded by the same woman who did the bust of
lionel richie's head in the hello video you ever wonder though with waxworks it bothers me you know
a man of two swords you can just go and touch them can you yeah they're all there because you
can pose with them oh okay so there was like i think it was carly minogue's ass basically wore away because
so many people have been touching it that's depressing it is a little bit depressing but
you would wouldn't you yeah also don't put a black light over it but you're touching imagine
you put a black light over man and two swords and the place is caked in spunk. Oh, yeah. Like Jackson Pollock of semen.
No, I don't want to know that. All over the Queen's face.
I've touched...
I was broke into Madame Tussauds.
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah.
The one in Baker Street.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Long story short,
but I'd been to some games event.
Yeah.
The Planetarium.
Yeah.
I was quite drunk.
No.
And we snuck out.'re professional yeah i'm fresh professional drunk yeah okay good and we snuck out and we uh
we went through a door that we weren't meant to go through yeah and we were in man and two swords
and it was all lights out it was all lights out and it was genuinely like out of a film where we
had to hide from a security guard with a torch.
Oh that is amazing.
And they were like
doing the scanning.
We didn't stay in there
long but not enough to
hide from the security
guard because we
realised where we were.
It's like a kind of
drunken Metal Gear
Solid isn't it?
We should have
actually posed as
waxworks.
Yeah.
And they just flash
like past your face.
That would have been
a dream come true.
Wow.
Next time. Next time.
Next time.
Next time I break in.
Anyway, we're talking about games
and today we're doing something a bit different.
Usually I buy a game and we play it
and it's a bit of fun.
The game I bought today
I wanted to really talk about for two reasons.
One, there's a lot to talk about
and two, we could never play this in 20 minutes.
It's super fucking complicated.
Is it like Risk,
one of those that goes on for months
it does say I think
between 60 and 90 minute
gameplay this
that's too long
my attention span
wouldn't last that
no but
anyway skip to the point
today I found
oh we're talking about
the game by
MB Electronics
Dark Tower
the only thing I remember
about this
is the advert
I know but I don this is the advert.
I know, but I don't remember the advert.
I'll tell you what, I'm going to edit it in right now if I can find it.
Last night I journeyed backwards in time to the medieval world of Dark Tower.
In this amazing game, I had to find three keys, lay siege to the tower, and defeat the enemy within.
Each move was a challenge. The computer kept track, giving me secret information,
pictures, sounds, surprises.
Then, ahead of my opponent,
I made my move.
The battle was joined,
and I was victorious.
Dark Tower, from MB Electronics.
And if I didn't find it,
that was an awkward pause on the show.
That was an awkward pause.
Yeah, it was...
It wasn't the music of the advert.
I just remember the actual main
monolith
was it kind of
one of those
80s-esque
adverts
where it was all
like
like a shot
of the tower
on its own
and a light behind it
yeah it was one of those
yeah and it sort of
panned up to the tower
and her voice goes
why don't you
have an adventure
with wizards and dragons
no no
it was more like
bog standard voiceover man.
You need to go to the dark
tower. Have you ever considered
going to the dark tower?
Sorry, I've slandered that.
You like that? Bit of AMSR.
But the reason why I got this,
two reasons really.
One, I saw it and thought, well, I've got to have it.
But two, it's like,
apparently this is like a unicorn,
this game,
in that it's incredibly rare
not only to find,
but also in working condition.
And not only did I find this,
obviously,
but it is in immaculate
working condition.
It's the box itself
has barely got a scratch on it.
No, I mean,
it's a bit battered in the corners
as I did expect over 30 years. Now you've turned it round around it does look like someone sat on it yeah but considering what like
for instance my board game boxes for that day era the old smashed and ripped yeah no it's it's
intact so what was amazing about this is i went into uh it was i believe it was mind charity shop
went in at the time I was in back agony
because my back was fucked
last week.
I remember you whinging
about it online.
Shut up.
That's what I do.
All me whinging.
And then people go,
why don't you like,
why don't people like
talking to you online?
I don't know.
Because you're a miserable,
miserable cunt.
Yeah.
I had a bad back.
I was carrying shopping already
and there was no way
I could carry this big,
it's a huge fucking box by the way, ladies and gentlemen. no way I could carry this big... It's a huge fucking box,
by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
As you can see,
if you go to the pictures
on our website,
thecheapshow.co.uk.
I believe that was a book
by Sally Hollister.
Huge fucking box.
The dark growler.
The brown growler.
No.
No more Sally stuff.
But I bought it
because I knew
that if I didn't get it now,
I'd come back tomorrow
and it'd be gone.
So I looked at it
thinking it's going to be
about 20 quid this.
Four fucking pounds.
That's insane.
Look at that.
Four pound.
And I don't think
they knew what they had.
Even looking at it,
well, you're talking
50 quid minimum for that.
In some places, I'm sure.
But I was going to get to this at the end, but may as well mention it now. Four pound for this. It's quite rare. at it i well you're talking 50 quid minimum for that in some places i'm sure but i was gonna get
to this at the end but may as well mention it now four pound for this it's quite rare very rare in
working condition on ebay it's been going for anywhere between 250 and 300 pounds you're gonna
sell it here's the thing it might be asking for that money whether anyone's gonna spend 250 pound
300 pound on it is a different question altogether.
Just because it's priced like that doesn't mean I'll get that
for it. So a collector's going to have
to have it. They're probably going to have to
live in the UK because selling this internationally
would be very expensive.
So I don't know. I don't know about selling it.
Go on holiday if you could.
I could, but where would I go for £250?
Oh, you look on EasyJet, that's what you do.
I want to go Disneyland Paris.
Yeah, we all want to go there.
No.
I went there last year.
Good.
Yeah.
Last time I went there years ago when it first opened,
I went when they gave a fuck about the Jules Verne look.
Oh, yeah, they're not.
But yeah, it's now the Space Mountain is Star Wars themed.
But it's very good.
That's horrible to me.
Yeah, I know, because you hate Star Wars. No, no, no, it was very good. That's horrible to me. Yeah, I know,
because you hate Star Wars.
No, no, no, it's not that.
It's because the original Journey to the Moon
is such a beautiful ride.
Did you ever go on it
when it first was built?
Ah, years ago.
Yeah, when it had the cannon
and it shot you out.
It still does all that.
It's still got all that.
The only difference is...
It doesn't have the
Mellier stuff, though,
and the steampunk.
All they've done is
stick some projections
of TIE fighters
and stuff on there.
Which is fine, but it lacks that world building that existed in, what is it called?
Discovery Land?
It's not called Future Land, is it?
No, I think it is Discovery, it's not Discovery Island.
Something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Discovery Box or something.
Another one of Sally's books.
What are we talking about?
Anyway, so this.
So, I wanted to talk about the game today
and have a look at it and just see how it all works.
But I thought, you know what, let's go on Wikipedia.
Oh, why don't we?
I'll do a little bit more background reading on it.
So, Dark Tower game.
Wikipedia says this.
1981 it came out.
So what would have been out at the same time?
What games of that era?
Because I've got a book
over there somewhere
called like the history
of board games
and it tells you about
how games like this
started coming about
because they were
competing with Atari systems
and all that kind of stuff
well I suppose
that's kind of the era
of Simon and Merlin
and all those
other electronic-y things
that sort of straddle
board game
and toy
toy
yeah so this would have come out yeah before this was before the NES period before the whole second generation things that sort of straddle board game and toy. Toy. Yeah.
So this would have
come out, yeah,
before this was
before the NES period,
before the whole
second generation.
Yeah, so in terms of
yeah, computer games
then, you know,
that's 81, that's
pre-ZX Spectrum.
And also worth
remembering at this
time, Dungeons &
Dragons was fucking
huge.
Yeah, yeah, I guess
that was the era
then when that came
out, was that late
70s D&D?
Late 70s, I think it was firsts dnd uh late 70s i think it
was first created sometime in the late 60s and it developed and grew g gary guy gax or something
wasn't his name gary guy gax that could be a bunch of syllables to me but it was i mean it's also a
man's name it could be two things prick right so um and also 81 height of the satanic panic
in America
really
yeah
is that on Wikipedia
no this is my
addendum
pedendum
to the story
because again
okay so I've got two books
which are pertinent now
I'm going to get them
hang on
oh he's gone off
we talked about this
show you and me
on the show
book on the show before
oh now he's fanning around behind the telly.
It's all right.
He's got his...
It's rough and tumble, this show.
It's rough and tumble, isn't it?
Now he's putting his ear pods back in...
In the house of Harrow, where we are today, recording again.
I said, just give away where we live.
Harrow's a big place.
I'm not giving him a postcode.
There's perverts out there who want to come and stick things through the letterbox.
In that case, my postcode is... So, first of all, this all this book it's all a game it's a really good book about oh tristan
donovan yeah i don't know do you know no i haven't got a clue uh we talked about this book before but
basically it's a history of of board games of different types so chess obviously monopoly but
then there's a whole chapter about this guy which is fascinating oh what's this fucking name it's
like glass or something his name is but, he was a guy who found out
how to do plastic moulding and turned it into toys.
So, you know, chattering teeth and whoopee cushions
and all this.
This guy invented all that stuff.
And then he led to creating things like Mousetrap.
So, board games that were toys as well,
that had some kind of toy movement.
And so, they were always fighting over the next revolution.
So, while he stuck with toys, some kind of toy movement and so they were always fighting over the next you know revolution so why
he stuck with toys the companies decided to invest in things like this right you know elaborate
putting electronics in bits of plastic basically yeah so that leads me to this satanic panic a book
that i bought recently about a pop culture paranoia in the early 80s and it's a bunch of
essays about how pop culture expressed like devil worship or
dungeon dragons they talk about that so this was part of the whole you know far right christian
fear thing yes so is it are you one of these people who just buys books and then just drops
that information into conversation kind of like you've always known it yeah but that's what that's
what isn't that what information is you You learn it from somewhere and you impart it somewhere else.
Yeah, but it's like
your information only goes as far as your current book.
You can fuck off out this show.
Years I've put up with her.
Yeah, years. Years like
a marriage. I'm just trying to show that I read
at all.
Whoopie doo, you can read a book. I'm just trying to show that I read. That's all. Whoopie doo. You can read a book.
I read books about pop culture
and more pop
culture and you've got books about
granny flaps and Uranus.
Don't you come to my house
and give it all that. At least I can't
drop any of that into a polite conversation.
No. So you're old.
Oh, fuck off.
Do you remember this on the first
did you want this
when you were a kid
no
I actually didn't
I wasn't
I got into D&D
when I was like
14
so
81
I would have been
10
okay
so a bit before your time
in terms of
well yeah
but I remember the adverts
oh that looks good
but I wasn't
oddly wasn't that
that fussed by it
it looked a bit complicated
well that's the thing
to me it is complicated let's uh let's just go through it so 81 board game milton bradley
made it one to four players object of the game is to amass an army collect the three keys to a tower
and defeat the evil within it came out during the height of the role playing craze in 1980s
and the advert yeah the voice of awesome wells ohes. Oh, it was Orson Welles.
There you go. Voice over man, Orson Welles.
Yeah, famous voice over man
and advocate of peas
Orson Welles. He was a famous
voice man. He was because he
became drunk and angry and he would do voice
overs for adverts and stuff. War of the Worlds.
That was all voice. Yeah, that was his
theatre group though, wasn't it? I don't care what it was.
Yeah, but he then...
And then his last role, famously, was?
Backing singer in Cher's band.
Now, you've got to know this.
What was Orson Welles' last role?
Was it...
It was the Cliff Richard musical thing.
The Cliff Richard musical thing?
What's that?
Wasn't Orson Welles in...
What, Summer Holiday
with Awesome Worlds
Cliff Richard was in
a musical called
Time
yes he was
and I'm pretty sure
Awesome Worlds
I'm looking this up
what did the voice
over
yeah it did
kind of appeared
on a screen
at the back of the
in a War of the Worlds
style way
yeah I'm looking
this up
Awesome Worlds
I'll tell you then
the last role he played
I might be corrected
I might be wrong
was the voice of that planet in Transformers what's it called unicron ah
i don't like transformers do you know why i don't yeah i don't and i know that's a bold thing to say
it's bold to have an opinion like that on transformers but go on they replaced for me
star wars in shops you know and I was seeing my voice broke then
did you hear that?
Yeah.
It actually cracked.
Yeah.
All the bloody
Star Wars figures
disappeared
and were replaced
by these
fucking robots
that could turn into cars.
Yeah.
It is sad.
I always felt a bit like
that with Ghostbusters
because in my head
Ghostbusters popularity
was overtaken by Turtles.
Yeah.
And to be fair
Turtles is a better by Turtles. Yeah. And to be fair, Turtles has a better, longer-lasting legacy.
So...
Yeah.
Don't get me wrong, Ghostbusters is my thing,
but I can see why Turtles was probably far more successful.
Yeah, I remember going to America the year before
they kind of became big over here when they were here at Turtles
and they were just everywhere.
And I was like, this is...
You wait, kids.
Yeah.
You wait, daddy-o.
Sorry, I'm distracted because I'm looking up Cliff Richard
and whether Orson Welles was in his thing.
Yeah.
You were looking up whether Orson Welles was in Cliff Richard's thing.
Cliff Richard.
I don't know, he was like, maybe not.
Oh, no, I got it wrong.
It was the other one, Laurence Olivier.
Oh, who's the voice of the narrator in War of the Worlds? Richard Burton. Richard Burton, no. I got it wrong. It was the other one, Laurence Olivier. Oh. Who's the voice of the narrator in War of the Worlds?
Richard Burton.
Richard Burton, yeah.
Oh.
Gone for a burn.
Who is it now at the moment?
Is it Liam Neeson?
Liam Neeson, yeah.
Maybe not for long.
Anyway, so the components.
The game consisted of a battery-powered centre,
the unit, the Dark Tower.
A circular board game divided into four interlocking quarters,
four cardboard tokens, plastic bits, blah, blah, blah, blah, The Dark Tower. cells which when backlit by one of the three mounted underneath lights display the appropriate
picture on display. The display
cover also concealed a digital
LED display for representing numbers up to
99 and the tower rotates
illuminating the appropriate
cells during gameplay.
It also emits sounds for the events
represented by each cell.
See that? It's giving me anxiety. It's so
complicated. Let's so complicated.
Let's whip it out.
I'm going to put it on not here because that's noisy.
I'll get told off if I do that.
You've sat me away from anything.
I have to tell myself off.
It's hard because you want to rest your hands.
We're a pair of fidgeters, aren't we?
Yeah.
So, board.
Oh, here's the board.
Oh, now that I like.
I like that a lot. It's nice, isn't it? There will be pictures, as I say, on the website. You can check it out there.'s the board. Oh, now that I like. I like that a lot.
It's nice, isn't it?
There will be pictures, as I say, on the website.
You can check it out there.
Circular board.
And I believe, yeah, each, you get a quarter each, and that's your land.
Right, okay.
But the idea is you've got to move to each other's lands to get your keys.
Take it over.
Yeah.
These are the little scorecard things that you get.
You can have a look
at those
reminds me of
Mastermind
you remember the
Mastermind game
yeah
it's a weird little
apparently in the
first generation
it was just these
plastic cards
but then they put it
on the tray
the tray's nicer
isn't it
the tray's nicer
and also it has a
little divot there
so you can put your
keys and things
I like that
it's nice
it's almost like
having a kind of
I guess you'd call it
a HUD these days
On a game screen
A HUD
H-U-D
Heads up display
Yes
Did I just say a thing?
HUD
Yeah HUD
I'd say HUD
But you know
Roy Hood
Roy HUD
You get a Roy Hood on your screen
Doing Two Black Eyes song
Boys in the HUD
No
That is a mash up
I want to see
No that's a U-tree
Newspaper column
Again when I bought this
It came in a
Did it come with those batteries?
No I bought those batteries
Because there was two in them
And one of them
Had slightly corroded
And I was like
Ah it's fucked
Long story short
Gave it a scrape
Cleaned it out
Bought new batteries
And yes
Works fine So I'm not going to get All of these out But There's a little Long story short, gave it a scrape, cleaned it out, bought new batteries, and yes, it works fine.
So I'm not going to get all of these out, but there's a little, like, that's a bizarre little street area that you put on your map.
And the idea is you plug these little bits into your quarter of the...
So you get to build a sort of civilization.
Yeah, you build a little civilization on your quarter, and it's the same on every quarter.
So everyone has the same building.
So there's like a store
a bazaar there's a
place where you can
you know train your
army all these kind
of things
but there's the each
of the areas looks
different on the board
what are you talking
about
what I'm saying is
these little plastic
bits yeah in each
quarter because you
get four the same
color oh I see right
okay I'll put in the
same orientation on
your quarter of the board.
Right.
So you have to set that
up beforehand.
Yeah, pretty much.
So you don't kind of
buy them like in Monopoly
where you...
No, the buildings
are already there
and you go to them.
Because as you can see,
you see these squares here?
Yeah.
They're your movements.
So they're not squares.
They're more like
geographical areas
you move to.
Right.
And then that means
you go to your little battalion. What's that one there? I don't know. I mean, I think that is like where you train your troops. And then that means you go to your little battalion.
I don't know. I think that is
where you train your troops. Yeah, that looks like
a kind of 40 type
thing. Yeah.
And you get these little figures, which are all nicely
made. These little kind of play figures.
They are. They're like
Games Workshop type figure.
Yeah, it's got that...
I guarantee a proper nerd might do that.
Yeah, this is a very, very nerdy game, isn't it?
Oh, is that a dragon?
It's a big dragon.
Well, look at him with his wings.
He's sticking his tongue out.
Yeah.
Ready to lap at something.
Hopefully not a book written by Sally.
Ready to lap at a grey growler.
Anyway, there's the board.
Blah, blah, blah.
You get your things, get your pieces.
You set it all up
As you would
Yep
And then the tower
Here it comes
The titular tower
Now it's in one of those
Foamy things
Sliding it out
He's sliding it out
Ladies and gentlemen
It's slowly coming out
Of my hand
Oh it's a bit thick
Oh
He scraped it
Against the sides
Right
And here Is the tower Oh that it's a bit thick. He scraped it against the sides. Right.
And here is the tower. Oh, that's very Sauron's tower.
Let's have a little look at that.
Isn't it pretty?
I mean, it's very good.
It is nice.
So what have you got on there?
Bazaar, haggle, tomb, ruined dark tower.
Yeah, it's an incredible nick.
Look at that.
Can I turn it on?
No, there's no batteries.
I'm just going to stick those in now.
So, lovely thing.
Very good condition.
And apparently you can pull this out and you can change the light bulbs,
but the light bulbs are really hard to get hold of now.
They're like the old torch.
They're like those old torch batteries you used to get in the 80s.
It's pre-LED then, presumably.
Right.
Right.
Kodak batteries.
Where do you get Kodak batteries from
Poundland
oh I didn't know
Kodak made batteries
two for a quid
they probably last
five seconds
alright well
Dark Tower has a
little nibble it
on the bottom
that's so you can
spin it
well that's because
it needs to sit
on there like that
so it sits on a
little groove
so it rotates
the tower rotates
throughout the game
it's like a lazy
Susan for nerds
yes it's a nerd Lazy Susan.
It's not troubling at all.
So let's switch it on, shall we?
See how it works.
I'll tell you what, hang on.
We got to the point in the podcast
where we're about to turn the tower on.
Right?
That's where we're starting.
So let's try it.
It'll do, at first, a test.
So what should happen is
it should make a sound,
that should light up,
and then it will show.
Right.
But it should also rotate.
By itself?
Yeah.
What?
Consider my mind blown.
Here we go.
It's on.
I did not expect that.
It's doing a flashy thing there.
See if I can just get that shown.
The light is flashing red.
Which means it's good.
It's working.
It's testing.
Now it says
you should just leave it for a bit
and then press any button and it will do a test. Leave it for a bit. That's what it says. As it's good, it's working, it's testing. Now, it says you should just leave it for a bit and then press any button and it will do a test.
Leave it for a bit.
That's what it says.
As it's warming up, the book says this.
It's got to warm up.
This is the ground.
This is old technology, isn't it?
There we go.
I'm just going to press any button.
Oh, farting.
The fart tower.
Oh, it's counting.
It's counting lights.
They could have put little figures in those windows.
They could have.
Well, they did.
That's the point.
Are there figures in those windows?
There is.
Cell.
There are film cells with little paintings on them.
I can't see it from this angle that you've made me sit at.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
There's not much to see, though.
That's the problem.
It's like, until you get the game going, it's hard to do anything, because there is a film
cell in there that rotates as the tower i see so it's just like the outside of the tower
that rotates around a thing why i want to see it rotate because that's how you pick a level how you
want to start playing and it sets the difficulty of your engagements with the tower the tower is
like a dungeon master i guess guess, in the game.
So you go, I'm going to go to
there and I'm going to battle those
things. And the tower goes, here's how that
turns out. Right, it does all the calculations
for you. Yeah. So then there's
buttons on there that allows you to
retreat, fight, buy,
sell. Cool.
Hang on, let me just have a quick look at this. Hang on,
here we go. Get up close.
Getting up real close.
And there are buttons there on the bottom.
But why is it not rotating?
I only want to see rotation.
Well, that was my concern.
When I tested it,
it made the rotating sound,
but didn't rotate.
Oh, no.
I don't care about it beyond that.
I just want to see it spinning around.
I don't know if that's because I didn't put it on properly.
Are you absolutely sure it's meant to
rotate by itself?
No, but there's
a motor inside that has it rotating,
so why wouldn't it? Well...
Why wouldn't it, smarty pants?
Why have a motor that makes a rotating sound?
Maybe it's not a rotor. Maybe it's a sound to
indicate that it is time
to rotate the shower.
The shower?
The tower!
I thought you said shower.
The dark shower.
We've all had one of those.
Oh, that moment where we find that patch of hair we've never seen before.
And start sobbing.
Because some people can see it.
It's hard doing the video, I've realised, and talking in the podcast. Don't then.
One or the other.
So, I don't know. Well, that's...
I'm really disappointed.
I really wanted to see that revolve.
I don't know, honestly, if it's meant to
revolve or not. I might be wrong. It might be
that... That seems very high-tech for
1980... I actually saw it said
1982 on the box, not 81 as you
previously stated
ah the inside's rotating
is it
yeah it's the inside
that rotated
did you see it rotate
yeah
so if you look
it's not the outside
that
you watch
so I guess
yeah you move it
to your segment
and then you start
your part of the game
ah ok so there you go
you watch
player one
and then I don't know part of the game. Ah, okay. So there you go. You watch. Player one.
And then, I don't know.
So, okay.
So it's done that.
And now... You have a look.
I'm going to go...
Oh, I'm going to go to meet Battle...
Battle Modroth, the Dark Wizard.
Tomb.
Let's go to the tomb.
Oh, it's farted.
Is that going to be a door opening yeah there you go see look look
look see look there you go see i missed it there you go oh
okay so that's i like that a lot that's almost as good as the entire thing rotating so i think
what's flashing now is
the decisions that have happened right after going to the tomb it's now saying
there you go look it's rotating again well you don't get to read it for very long do you no but
i think the problem is there is that it's that's why it flashed a few different times right and
that's where you bring in sorry about the noise and that fucking thing that's when you bring in
this right mastermind yeah and
like that will say you just lost five warriors so you had 10 and you go oh i'm back down to five now
or you go oh i had gold but i spent at the bazaar so i now only have one gold so well there's lots
about it that i like there's also a lot about it that i don't like which is how complicated the
whole numbers game of tracking gold and keys.
I mean, I don't know how I ever played Dungeons & Dragons,
mainly because the Dungeon Master would just do it all.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, he would behind his little screen.
Well, here's what's good as well.
The instruction booklet that came with it.
Let's have a look at that.
Dark Tower.
You can have a read.
Go have a look.
Oh, thank you very much.
I'm flipping through the game in brief
god there's a thick
old book
it's a thick
it's a daunting
thick old book
oh god
you see I'd be so
disappointed if I got
this for Christmas
and then was expected
to have to bloody
read this
I would never have
played it
you know what would
have happened
I'd have used that
tower and had my
Star Wars toys
yeah or have He-Man
have a battle on it
or something
I didn't have He-Man I didn't have He-Man.
I didn't have He-Man.
It was after my time.
My brother had a few He-Men,
but we talk about them less than we should.
Anyway, so it's a nice thick book,
but it is daunting because it's like,
there's how you travel around the board.
That's your Gryffindor and Hufflepuff
and all the other things.
Oh yeah, you've got four houses.
Game moves, they can be that or they can...
There's a fucking lot to take in.
It's too much.
There's a lot to take in on this fucking thing.
Particularly when you see on the box it says ages 10 and up.
There is no 10-year-old that would be able to do this
unless they were a 10-year-old Spock.
Yeah, and a horrible, precocious child.
Father, my dark tower is not working.
Why is it not rotating, Father?
Come here, I'll fucking rotate it.
Right, but this book is, I've said it before, it's daunting.
It's like so many pages.
I'm not even, yeah, the words are just swimming in my vision.
Because I imagine Dungeons & Dragons is a little bit like this as well,
because you have to keep score of your magic points and your battles and your hits and the dice rolls.
But I used to play it with my mates.
We just told stories.
That's how we did it.
Okay.
You know, there was a bit...
More like the community episode.
Yeah, yeah.
That was, you know, we didn't worry so much
about whether, you know, you rolled a double six
or whatever you had to do.
We just, you know, went on adventures.
That's fair enough.
I like that. That's more freedom of imagination, went on adventures. That's fair enough. I like that.
That's more freedom of imagination, isn't it?
Exactly.
That's how we did it.
You didn't worship Satan like that book said.
Did you, sir?
Did you?
We used to get bored doing the role-playing
and when our friend's mum went out,
we used to turn all the lights off
and play hide-and-seek.
Oh, yeah.
And I once glued a loofer to his bath
during a game of hide and seek
and he went ballistic.
Yeah, no shit.
What was the concept behind that?
What, doing that?
So he couldn't ever clean his shit
from the bottom of a toilet.
Well, I don't know.
I found,
I was hiding in the bathroom
and I found some of this,
it was like sort of thick
brown industrial glue
and I glued it to the bottom,
I stuck it,
or squirted it.
Was it like Ed Sheeran's
yeah it was
I came out of the bathroom
and he said
what's all that
over your hands
what's that brown
sticky stuff
anyway
I stuck the loofer
to the bottom of the bath
and he wasn't happy
because I couldn't get it off
rarity
working copies of Dark Tower
are increasingly difficult to find
and thus
highly sought after
by collectors
this is primarily
down to two things
one
wear and tear on the tower unit,
which tends to experience technical faults
with the light bulb and the carousel after prolonged use.
Amazing.
You've got that for four quid.
Yeah, and what suggests this to me is
whoever bought this played it once
and never played it again.
Yeah, it was a 10-year-old boy who got that for Christmas
and went, oh, what?
And then two years later,
got a Super Nintendo or whatever it was.
Not then.
No, I don't know time.
And two, the starring what was his name? Cliff Richard
and the other one. Yeah. Wasn't it
Chess? Was Cliff Richard in Chess?
No, that was Barbara Dixon.
Barbara Dixon was in Cliff Richard.
Barbara Dixon.
There's the irony there, isn't there?
And two, the fact that the game went out of print shortly after release
due to a lawsuit brought against Milton Bradley for intellectual property theft.
Wow. Naughty Milton Bradley.
Here's the story of that.
So Dark Tower was the subject of trade secret litigation in 1985.
Two independent game developers called Robert Burton and Alan Coleman
submitted a game, not this, to Milton Bradley titled Triumph, which involved an electronic tower as the centerpiece.
Milton Bradley said no.
They rejected the game, but proceeded to release Dark Tower sometime later.
So the investors sued for misappropriation of trade secrets and won a jury verdict of over $700,000.
Jesus Christ. trade secrets and won a jury verdict of over seven hundred thousand dollars jesus christ now the judge
the trial judge however vacated the jury's judgment i don't know what that means but i
presume it means he threw it out they went for the plaintiff nah you bunch of idiots despite
finding that milton bradley had likely plagiarized the plaintiff's idea without so much as a
buy your leave quotation marks.
The judge proceeded to issue a directed
verdict for the
defendant because
Burton and Coleman
had signed a contract
waiving any
contractual relationship
which arguably
included any duty
of confidentiality.
So what they're saying
is that when they
signed this thing
they necessarily
didn't protect their
idea of doing so.
And allowed M.B.
to rip it off.
The First Circuit
Court of Appeals,
which doesn't sound
like a real thing,
it sounds like a magic place
in Nintendo land,
reversed that decision,
finding evidence
that Milton Bradley
entered an implied agreement
to keep the game confidential
and reinstated
the damage award
to the two guys.
So, okay,
so did they get the money or not?
They got the money.
Right.
700,000,
that was a lot in those days.
Yeah.
You'd be talking more like two million dollars now, wouldn't you, I if not more i don't know money well 982 and diction no barber diction legacy several web-based versions
of the game have been developed over the years and i downloaded this just today oh you did there's
a thing called droid tower for you get for android right and it's this it is literally dark does it
look is it got all the same sounds though yeah i think wow it's got the same map Android and it's this. It is literally Dark Tower. Has it got all the same sounds though? Yeah.
Wow.
It's got the same map on there.
It's not the same though,
is it?
Because the whole point of this is the tactile element of it,
surely.
Yeah, the toys,
the figures,
the actual tower,
the rotation.
The mechanical rotation
and yeah.
But apparently to end on,
the creators or two people
are working on a sequel
called Return to Dark Tower
by Restoration Games.
They announced it last year
and some guys I don't know are involved in designing the game. are working on a sequel called Return to Dark Tower by Restoration Games. They announced it last year.
And some guys I don't know are involved in designing the game,
Robert Davio and Isaac Chaldres.
I bet you what they do is, in lieu of that magical window,
you put your smartphone in it.
Oh, yeah, they will. Because that will keep things cheap, won't it?
It will keep costs cheap.
You can print out a plastic tower, slide your phone in.
Job done. I hate that. Because they're doing it with scalextric and everything nowadays you do
you can follow your master view master it's always smartphones smartphones taking over toys they have
and i don't i don't like it i don't like it i don't like it i tell you what's interesting though
as well is that because of board game resurgence now yeah the tabletops and stuff like that this could easily come
back oh yeah these be
successful I don't know
what to do with it I've
had a friend called
Paul Flannery who does
Nightmare Live he's the
guy who plays the main
guy in that said he
wants to play it with a
bunch of his D&D
friends so I reckon I
might take it down to
them play it film it and
then maybe sell it then
I think so that you go
on holiday for 350 quid.
If someone pays for your holiday.
Yeah, I'll go to Amsterdam.
I bet you would.
I would, because that's the best place in the world.
Yeah, because of the marijuana,
but also because of the museums and the art.
The prostitutes.
No, I don't do that anymore.
Anymore.
No.
I got mugged in Amsterdam.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, no, that's sad. sad well it's not sad because i
had a really strange reaction to it where i stood up to them oh yeah um and then i genuinely did
they had a knife to my stomach and i told them they weren't getting any money and my mate um
handed over all the money that he bought with him for a weekend uh and after we got mugged we ran down the street and then my legs
just gave out
because I realised
what the fuck
was I doing then
they had knives
yeah
were you just stalling
so your mate paid first
was that what it is
no
I just
it was
they did one of these things
where they bump into you
and claim that you
spilt their drugs
oh
yeah
they're holding out
a little bit of paper you spilt my drugs give Yeah, they're holding out a little bit of paper.
You spilt my drugs.
Give me money.
Give me money.
Said it to my mate.
But for some reason, you know, I was quite a bit taller than my mate, but they put the
smallest guy onto me who had his knife out and he just didn't know what to do because
obviously they'd tried this before and people just give them money.
He was like, just give me some money.
He must have been beforehand going, I always do nothing when we do the muggins can i have a knife to hold
oh yeah you could you could stick the knife in the big guy but yeah it was weird it sounds like
i'm sort of boasting that i was really brave but i wasn't no absolutely shit myself afterwards i
don't know if i've spoken about this on the show before but there was a story where when i was
living in shepherd's bush we had one of those you know basement flats yeah we had one of those and
it was a lovely sunny day like today and the window was open but the blind was down and i was just
you know i was think i was like writing or doing something at the time either way i'm sitting there
and there's a knock at the door right and i go i'll ignore it i'll just ignore it big knock at
the door and then i see the shadow of the guy because the window is kind of like the window
you've got here in fact it's very similar but the front door was by that window that window would
have been open knocks on the door the door. I go quiet.
I don't want him to know anyone's in, even if the fucking window's open.
Then he knocks one more time.
And then he stands there for five minutes.
And I was going to...
I wanted to say something, but I was like, what is he fucking doing?
Is he writing a note?
Is he going to do something?
Walks over to there.
And then he puts his foot through the window.
No way.
So I grabbed the nearest thing I could find
and I ran to the window
and jabbed it
into his
like his side
as he was coming
in through the window
and I
in my best scouse accent
I went
you fucking come in here mate
and I'll fucking cut you
leg shot out
he runs off up the street
and I look down at my hand
and I'm holding a spoon
a sharpened spoon
but just like you,
afterwards I was like,
what the fuck did I do?
Because it was not good.
I got so drunk that night.
We did leave the hotel
for 48 hours
until this kindly Scottish couple
took pity on us.
Oh, that's nice though.
Would you like to come out with us?
Was it a Scottish accent?
No, would you like to come out now?
Come on out with us.
We'll fight off demogas.
Anyway, I guess that's Dark Tower in a nutshell.
It's an amazing find.
Maybe the best find we've ever had on Cheap Show.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Yeah, definitely.
I think definitely.
Why better than that other one?
The other one we did. Last week. Yeah, that was I think definitely. Way better than that other one. The other one we did.
The last week.
Yeah, that was a great find, that one you found.
Yeah, I found that one.
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do you want to say
something rude that I
can laugh at or should
I just oh do you want
me to say something
rude we need I think
we need something to
dark towering dark I think we did that with the dark me to say something rude? We need something to... The dark towering...
Dark...
I think we did that
with the dark growler and stuff.
Yeah, we're not going to talk
about growler.
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