CheapShow - Ep 140: Irish Jimmy
Episode Date: August 16, 2019Special Guest: Stuart Ashen. This week Tat Lord and YouTube botherer Stuart "Ashens" Ashen finally agrees to rejoin the CheapShow chaps for another edition of the economy comedy podcast. To celebrate,... Paul and Eli pull out all the stops and gift him with something both delightful and painful. Merry yet depressing. Random yet straight laced. Yes, we are granting Stuart the gift of "Derek: The Storyteller From HELL”! This story may be the most anti-climatic yet! But don't think for a minute that Stuart gets all the fun stuff. No, we found a bargain board game called "What's That Smell?"... And some of those smells are NOT nice. At all. Hold tight! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Photos/Videos for this episode can be seen at https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-140-irish-jimmy 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 @Ashens If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Www.cheapmag.shop www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow
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There is no zone.
Watch.
We know we're in the zone when Paul does his voice changes.
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
Phone voice is on.
It is.
My podcast voice is my Cheap Show voice.
Oh, fuck.
Shut up.
Give me 10 seconds of silence.
All right.
It's the hardest thing, isn't it?
Do you know what 10 seconds means?
Do you know what 10 seconds means?
Right, five will do now.
Oh, fuck you.
I was waiting for the full ten.
Well, I was going to give you the full ten.
Oh, no.
But you asked me to pull out and I only gave you the top two inches.
The subversion starts right from the start, doesn't it?
Yes, it fucking does.
It's Cheap Show.
What do you expect by now?
I just want you...
I want you to play fair.
I thought you were going to say die then, to be fair.
Anyway, you can do the intro today.
Okay, hello everybody.
It's cheap show time again.
It's me, Eli Silverman, and I'll be taking you, along with my co-host Paul Gannon,
through various shops that sell things cheaply.
Four fucking years and we can't get an intro right.
It's just sad.
Or second-hand items.
Such as...
It's just sad.
Such as...
Yes, run it down.
Charity shops.
Yes.
That's a big one.
Yeah.
Second-hand stores.
Bazaars.
Jumbo sales.
Discount stores.
Fates.
Fates.
Tom Bowlers.
Tom Bowlers?
Discount stores.
No, we're sounding like...
Flea markets.
We're sounding like literally...
Thrift stores.
Flea markets.
Boot sales.
And charity shops.
Of Great Britain.
Who's doing the intro?
I forgot, I forgot!
I thought you were taking over the intro from there.
Right, anyway, welcome to Cheap Show.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles, alright?
It's a fact of Cheap Show.
You're going to have to fucking reset.
Noodle time.
Tales from the dance floor. How's the big guy? The price of the site? This is George Gannon saying hello.
Eli Silverman.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
We're not going on a nuzzle.
Hello, Mr. Silverman.
Hello.
Let's just get it straight out the way.
He's been on the show numerous times in the past.
I don't know why.
But he has, but only in a live capacity.
And we thought, you know what?
Let's give him... It's what, let's give him the full
fat future experience.
So ladies and gentlemen, please stand up.
If you're driving, stand up. If you're on a
bus, stand up. If you're sitting down,
stand up. Everyone stand up, and
please,
salute the majesty of Mr Stuart
Ashen.
Thank you, thank you. Please don't stand
up if you're already standing up
Because that's probably
Some sort of
Horrifying existential event
Oh no
But if you can
How would you stand up higher?
If you were standing up
If you were standing up
How could you stand up?
Get somebody to lift you up
Like in Titanic
I'm having a vision now
Oh here we go
Of your whole skeleton
Just going
Straight up
Coming out of the body
Yeah
Pulling itself out And then the rest of you just
collapses into a heap of jelly.
Hello Stuart, welcome to the show. Thank you. That's an image.
So, how are you feeling? How are things?
I'm alright, thanks. How are you doing, guys?
You know us. It's the same grotty little podcast with a heart of gold.
But it's a nice location.
It's alright. We are recording once again at the Soho Radio Studios in Soho.
And we have there reasonably nice looking,
but unfortunately does resemble a Weatherthunes pub interior.
It's well like, it's mock Tudor.
It is.
For want of a better description.
Yeah, very mock.
And it's got a very Soho selection of random books on some shelves.
Yeah, I've actually looked at the books on the shelves.
There's a free copy of Shindig magazine out there.
Oh! Two free copies.
Maybe.
We've arrived.
Chief Show has arrived in Soho.
So what?
Let's have a look at the books.
They've got How Art Made Pop.
What's Harper's Shortener?
Shorter.
Harper's... French English.
French English translation.
You need it in Soho.
Non?
Mais oui. C'est bon. French House. French English French English translation You need it in Soho No French house
That's a famous place in Soho
Have you heard of this?
I have
They will only serve you half a pint
Why?
It's a French house
It's not an excuse is it?
Oh my god you've killed my children
It's a French house
It's a French house
You can buy two halves
Stop shagging my wife
It is's French house. You can buy two halves. Stop shagging my wife. It is French house.
They just don't have pint glasses is what it comes down to.
So they only serve half?
If you want to get a pint,
can you ask for two halves? You can.
And will they serve it with disdain? No, you don't
say a pint. If you say, oh, can I have
a pint of? They're like, oh, no, no, no.
Oh, no, no, no. You mean two halves? Yes. They If you say, oh, can I have a pint of? They're like, oh, no, no, no. Oh, no, no, no.
You mean to halves? Yes.
They will literally say, we only
serve halves here. We only serve. Well, that's alright
because you're tiny. Yeah. Yeah?
Because you're small. I'm a half-breed, am I?
No, I didn't say half-breed. Well, you implied half-breed.
Well, that would presume you're something else.
No! Was that the word? No.
Is that the fuck? I'm sick of this.
Let's just eat some fucking crisps
Oh
Let's segway out
Halfbreed sounds like nightbreed
And there's a Clive Barker's A to Z of horror
Oh
Where's that?
He's off
Just over there
Never distract me like
There's a book on Edvard Munch
Oh hang on
Oh that's the most Ponce London name I've ever heard
A thousand years of a London street
By Mike Reid, not that Mike Reid, surely
Oh, I hope it is that Mike Reid
I'm going to have to go and look, hang on
Terrific
London, terrific
No, not that Mike Reid either
Which Mike Reid did you mean?
We're talking about cuddly Radio 1 presenter Mike Reid
Racist, Brexiteer
Yeah
And they've got two copies
Hey
It is him
It's not terrific then
No it's R-E-A-D but it doesn't necessarily mean it's
Racist Calypso man
So just at random
What's tickling your fancy about this book
Just the history
Yeah really I just want to see if it's Mike Reed or not
I'd love that though
I'd love that
Oh yes it is him
It starts off by saying about about the author, right?
So what's the first thing you think of when you think of Mike Reed?
Twat.
The DJ.
Yeah, twat.
That Calypso-style anti-EU song he did a couple of years ago.
Yeah, maybe Mike Reed's pop quiz, something like that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, wait for it.
Mike Reed was created a Knight of Malta in 2011 and is chairman of the British Plark
Trust.
Presumably that's plaque, actually, not plaque.
Like teeth.
Yeah, it's like bad teeth.
That's right.
If you want bad teeth, go see Mike Reid.
It can't be the Plaque Trust,
because that'd be like the Tumour Trust or something.
Don't say the actual symptom of the thing you're against
as the name of the trust.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to be honest.
It's Plaque Trust, as from the blue plaques
he'd be lucky like wouldn't he well that's the whole thing with the streets of london thing
isn't it as well yeah it all ties in it's like kenneth williams lived here between 1965 and
didn't let anyone of his guests use the loo no no did you know that yes i did how fucking uptight
you have to be you don't allow your close well closest
loved one he had to shit in your house he had problems massive bowel problems in the end
i've got the same problem with your place except with me i just i'm frightened to use the toilet
in your place fuck off well i don't know what's down there do i what's lurking a load of shit
in the dark obviously what else is down there what What? I've got super rats, do I?
I've got super cannibal rats in my loo, do I?
With shark fins.
Super cannibal rats in the loo.
With shark fins.
Super cannibal rats in the loo.
That never caught on.
With shark fins, though.
You've got to include shark fins.
Shark fins.
Shark fins, mutant rat in the loo.
Shark fin, mutant rat in the loo.
In the house of vehicles.
Watch your bum.
Here we go. Right. Tony, loo. In the house of vehicles. Watch your bum. Here we go.
Right, Tony, draw that.
You're listening, Tony.
Draw that.
Oh, God.
Don't do it, Tony.
Be your own man, Tony.
No, be ours.
Can I just point out that Mike reads book that they have two fucking copies of.
It costs 13 quid and is the cheapest, shittiest vanity printing I've ever seen.
It looks like one of those unbound, whatever they call it, the roughs,
you know,
the unbound roughs,
that kind of thing.
It's basically print on demand
from Amazon.
Yeah.
Well,
there you go.
A quick sojourn.
What's the word?
Sojourn?
Tranche.
Tranche.
Holtus.
Listen.
What?
Stop nicking my fucking stuff.
Yeah?
Don't look.
He's guilty.
That's why he's rubbing the table.
Do you know what that is in body language?
You're trying to clean the table.
Trying to clean your bad morals.
Trying to clean yourself of the guilt.
You did look like a little boy who'd been pulled up by the headmaster.
Do you know what I mean?
I saw you doing that graffiti, Gannon.
Yeah.
Stop nicking my words.
Look, if I'm going to be psychologically judged by anyone, it's going to be him.
All right?
Not you.
Don't say poltergeist.
I'm pointing
and you now have to guess who I'm pointing at, listener.
That's right. It was Henry VIII.
Paul, what have we got coming up on the show?
We have got coming up on the show
we're going to do a Ganon's Golden Games.
It's not a classic in any sense of the word.
Is it Ganon's Golden Games though, is it?
It's a game. It's Ganon's Games.
Does it need some kind of jangle?
It needs me to do some kind of thing, doesn't it?
You can wait my hurry when it comes to jingles, alright?
I can wait your hurry?
Yeah, you can wait my hurry.
What the fuck?
What?
I've never heard that.
Have you heard that?
No.
Don't try and pass that off as something that people actually say.
That's what my family would say.
My mum would say, what?
Wait my hurry.
Meaning what?
This podcast has destroyed me.
You know what I mean?
No. We just started.
Let's have a little situation.
Yeah.
I'm your mum, let's say.
And I've got some kind of large array of vegetables.
No, they're not going to go in an oven.
No, I'm just going to put them in the oven.
That's at the beginning.
How is it you remember that?
At the beginning of this scene.
What do you mean, how? It ha remember that at the beginning of this scene what do you mean how
it haunts my
every waking moment
this image
but
yeah
but you've got to
the point is
we're going to role play this
and then you're going to
say
what was that stupid
meaningless thing you said
you can wait in my hurry
so
we've got to wait
until you're ready
wait until you're convenient
yeah that's what it says
I saw it
Paul Paul I need some help putting this vegetable no before you go any further So we've got to wait until you're ready? Wait until you're convenient? Yeah, that's what it says. I saw it on your arm.
Paul, Paul, I need some help putting this vegetable... No, before you go any further, you've not done your customary...
There we go.
Paul, I really need some help putting these large vegetables into this oven.
But you're doing something.
Oh, mother.
Oh, mother.
Oh, you can wait in my hurry.
Okay, I'll wait then.
So people are Welsh now? Oh, mother. Oh, mother. Oh, you can wait in my hurry. Okay, I'll wait then.
So people in Wilsh now?
Look, all I know is that my family have coined,
well, not coined, but used that term when I was growing up in terms of if you're being impatient,
you can wait until I'm ready.
All right?
You can wait in my hurry.
All right, then I will.
I don't know if he's telling the truth or not.
It's true.
All these years I've known you, I've never heard you say it.
I've phoned me mum.
Don't do that again.
No, to be fair, when she phoned, I did not know it was her
because she was putting on a voice.
Wow.
Did you hear about that?
No.
A 27-hour broadcast, not record-breaking talent.
Stuart was there for it.
He came.
I wasn't there at the time you had a random call
from your mother impersonating another person.
I've not heard this story and now I am interested.
His mum called in.
When we were at like the 26th house
and we were both
a little bit
and my mum calls up
and she spoke to the producer
and she goes
I don't want him to know
it's his mum
so I'm going to do
a silly voice.
So I'm on the phone
oh we've got a caller for you
right
and then it's like
I can't even remember
what the accent was she did
she did some kind of
What was the gist
of what she was saying?
It was like
oh you're very good
but oh you swear a bit
don't you
and oh I've been listening
all night and it's all fun.
And I'm listening going, who is this mad bitch?
Who is it?
I just talk nice and get her off the phone as quickly as possible.
And turned out to be his mum.
Yeah, because she goes, don't you recognise the sound of your mother?
And the whole world just fell out of my arse at that point.
I was just done.
I was so close to the end.
Eli's content for that podcast was shouting out bus numbers that went past the window.
There was a lot of bus action going on around there.
To be fair, after 24 hours, the brain's gone.
Do you know what I mean?
What are you going to talk about?
I had to talk about what was around me, such as the buses.
The buses outside.
You need video games.
These Twitch streamers can do it.
Oh, yeah.
We should do Twitch.
Have a laptop with Fortnite on or something. Yeah, I'll can do it. Oh, yeah. We should do Twitch. Have a laptop with Fortnite on or something.
Yeah, I'll put Fortnite on.
Oh, God, please, no.
I only found out recently why it's called Fortnite
because I was thinking it's an American company.
I haven't gotten a clue.
Apparently, it's because in the game,
it takes you two weeks to build a fort.
Yeah.
Something like that.
And that's why they call it Fortnite.
I don't think they understand that it also means to...
I don't know.
It's to do with the regularity with which the island shrinks in half.
Every two weeks in game time.
Yeah, yeah.
And they call it fortnight.
Or it takes all night to make a fort.
Yeah.
Something like that.
It's to do with the periodicity of it.
Oh, no.
So it's nothing to do with a crazy themed party set around a fort.
No, it's not like that. No, it's not like that, is it?
It's just sort of buy this new thing.
Sounds like a 90s comedy that never was.
Their whole business model is totally evil.
It totally just exploits.
It's astonishing.
It's the ultimate freemium model, whatever.
Because it's totally free to play,
and you have no disadvantages
if you don't give them any money whatsoever
in this online tournament.
Oh, really?
But, wait for it,
it's become like a playground
thing where kids get bullied if they
don't buy the right skins. Literally
default, as in the stuff you get, is like an insult.
It's like going to school wearing
off-brand Nikes. Exactly, yeah.
Blue Flash trainers instead of the green Flash
or something. It's really bad, isn't it?
That's solidly depressing. Kids should be
bullied the old-fashioned way, like I was.
Absolutely. Face down the toilet.
Fire crackers down the front of the pants.
Did you have that?
Liquid napalm in the ear.
Stink bombs in the mouth that you crush
and then stick in and then seal their mouth.
That's hospitalisation.
And potential death.
Needle in the rectum.
I do remember stink bombs, though. You don't see those around.
What?
I think they were one of the ones
that didn't get
into the modern era
because those old jokes
all exist now.
You can still buy,
you know,
splatter vomit,
rubber vomit.
Fake poos.
And those black face soap.
Hello.
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
on behalf of Chief Show,
I do have to apologize.
You are of your finest,
most racist soap,
my good man.
No, you know what I mean, though, guys.
No, I don't.
Yes, I do.
It's dirty face soap.
Yeah, when you rub it, it makes you old.
I think they did call it black face soap.
They might have done.
Because there was also red face soap.
Yes.
Maybe that, but there's probably a version of that still.
There is, yeah.
But stink bombs, I don't think they've got through to this modern health and safety style era.
Last time I encountered a stink bomb was about, Jesus, 20 years ago.
Now I feel old.
When I was working for a pensions company and we went out for a nice lunch with the whole office
and some old bloke who was a bit of a tit let off a stink bomb in the restaurant.
Wow.
And everyone had to leave?
Well, you couldn't kind of leave.
And the staff knew who it was and came over and said,
have you done this? And the manager was all
like, excuse me, I think we'll
find we're professionals.
And we were insulted that you would in some way
insinuate that one of us would be as childish and ludicrous
enough as to set up a stink bomb in your
establishment. And we're all just like, it's fucking Roger.
He's a weirdo.
Roger the weirdo. And sure enough,
they found a stink bomb under the table.
What kind of mentality is that?
It's not good.
You know what?
He bought his wife.
In a future cheap show, we are going to do.
He bought his wife.
I thought you were going to end that sentence.
He bought her a stink bomb or something.
That's the end of that anecdote.
He bought his wife.
Yeah, from Russia.
Oh.
I think it was somewhere East Asian.
It may have been Malaysia.
I can't remember.
If you remember, just tell me.
No.
What price did he pay?
Well, he never went to that.
You can't afford it.
Oh, fuck off, Paul.
You can't.
You can't even pay me back 20 quid.
How are you going to pay for a Russian bride?
I owe you 20 quid.
I know.
That's why I'm bringing it up now on the podcast, so you remember.
Anyway, on the show today we've got
Gannon's Golden Games, it was a discounted game
It's reasonably new but I got it £5 down from £20
originally so that counts
And then, to mark Stuart being here
we're going to all listen to
the latest episode of Derek's
Storytime, it's episode 3
It's episode 3
I'm so excited and yet terrified
All I can tell you is that Tom from Weekend Lolligaga,
who's been giving me these,
and apparently now I'm the custodian of the tapes,
he's going to send me them.
That's like being given, I don't know,
Jeffrey Dahmer's diaries.
I don't really want it.
The Pankese tapes have seen that.
How many more are there?
There's one more story,
but apparently, here's the twist of the last story.
It's a UFO one, apparently,
but there is no ending.
There was never an ending.
It cut off, so we don't know the ending.
So maybe we can invent one
When we finally touch on that last story
Is Derek still alive?
Can we ask him?
No, I'm going to speak to Tom about that
Because I want to get a kind of
He's going to send me a breakdown of his life
And all the stories
He's been sending you Derek's breakdowns on tape
Yeah, he has
So we've got a Derek story today
And it's called, I think
Jimmy the Irish Orphan
Now I Derek's story today and it's called, I think, Jimmy the Irish Orphan. Now, I... Fucking hell,
we've hit the mother load.
What could possibly get wrong?
I honestly don't know
the content.
What's on your mind then, Stuart?
What do you think?
Well, knowing Derek's
previous stories,
this is just going to be... This is going to be horrendous.
There'll be some racism towards the Irish.
Yeah, absolutely.
We're racist views of the Irish.
Racist stereotypes at bare fucking minimum.
Yeah.
There will be inappropriate magical realism.
Yeah.
Because every story's interesting.
Every story's both a massive disappointment
and a wonderful experience at the same time.
It's hard to explain.
You kind of want it to go over the edge into madness,
but it never quite goes there.
That's why it's like a dream.
Instead, you're left going, what?
Yeah, that's why it's like a dream, Paul.
That's why it has a surreal quality,
because surrealism, as it was first formulated,
was maybe a mixture, half and half, of two extremes,
contradictory states, such as dream and wake consciousness.
When you said it doesn't tip straight over into full madness,
that's what gives it that dreamlike
quality, because it's almost...
It's almost realised, but it's not quite realised.
You know what I mean? It's almost totally absurd.
But he kind of tries to hang on.
Yeah, he does.
So we'll be analysing the story afterwards using
Dali's paranoiac critical method.
It is a long one.
It is a long one.
I will say that.
It's 20 minutes.
Oh, God.
I think he's a man who's into the female form
in a sort of kinky way with sort of...
I think it was, you know,
the way that the haunted Hoover, you know,
totally sucked off his home help's knickers
and they were red lace.
Yeah, well... They were red lace. Yeah.
Well, they're red
silk.
There was no female
nudity in the first
where there was a
man.
There was a female
tiger who died after
seeing a massively
distended penis.
The power of the
distended phallus
slays the feminine,
you know, the feline
feminine.
I think that's all we have time for, for Arbitrary Psychology.
Do you know what I mean, though?
Imagine Freud just poking his head around the door and just nodding.
I'm not getting my hands dirty with that shit.
Right, before we kick off the show, Stuart has brought a little offering to the great Eli gods.
Stuart, what have you brought for us?
I have brought some potato chips, specifically Zapp's potato chips.
The dill chip with zip.
Fucking hell, what does that mean?
It's Potbelly brand dill pickle
flavoured crisps.
I'm making noise.
Oh, wow.
That's what that makes me think.
I will warn you, they've been crushed up a bit
in my bag and they went out of date
approximately a year ago.
So they may not be as crisp as they should be.
Eat them.
I've literally been holding on to those for about two years
to give them to Eli and finally remember.
Thank you very much.
He could have given you them early,
but he actually wanted to wait for the date to go out.
It wouldn't be Stuart.
In date food.
If I have to eat this shit, so do you.
Right.
I think we may have had their ranch flavour zaps.
Maybe.
I think they're quite a famous crisp manufacturer in the States.
Okay.
I had a, on the subject of pickles, Paul, I had a pickle flavoured noodle the other day.
Oh.
And amino.
It's mentioned.
It's one of my top noodles.
Amino, which is a Polish brand, gherkin flavour.
Yeah.
You know what I put in it
your dick
no
balls
none of it
none of my junk
dick and balls
yeah
if you're going to be
childish
about this
we are
we definitely are
I put in some
preserved mustard greens
Chinese preserved mustard greens
chilli flavour
probably enough
you think I'm a been more mustardy.
It's called Fishwell.
That's the name of that brand I use.
Eat the crisps.
Eat the crisps
because I'm not
interested in your
noodle stuff.
If anyone is,
because we're going
to do that,
I think we're going
to pimp a pickle
noodle as well as
do a pickle sandwich
where the bread
of the sandwich
is pickled.
That's all coming
up, guys,
on Eli's Urban
Noodle Country
Kitchen. No, Eli's's Urban Noodle Country Kitchen.
No, Eli's Country Urban Noodle Test Lab Kitchen.
Thank you.
There is a subtle difference.
Let's get the hoof on these.
He's having a hoof.
Oh, Stuart.
Oh, I got one.
I'm sampling that.
Oh, Stuart.
That's one to get out of context.
Stuart.
Oh, mate.
You seem very pleased with these.
Fucking great. That is
pure gherkin flavoured
scratch and sniff out of Brent Cross in the
80s. Oh, God. I love that.
Let's have a huff. It's got
that, you know that kind of pickle? Oh,
fucking hell.
You're not flatty, boys. That's
got a great huff. That smell is a meal in itself.
I'm going to tuck right in.
These are nice. They're like kettle style.
Sort of, you know.
Oh, yeah.
They're nicely made crisps.
Still got a crunch.
That's good.
That's good.
The crunch and botulism.
Yay.
You go get the crisp botulism.
They're not as crisp as they once were, you can tell.
Well, yeah.
But still, there's a crunch on it Apart from that
Fucking hell mate
Yeah
Yeah
Five out of five
That's a top
Crisp mate
And would you like to put your
Tackle in
No
You know what Paul
You know
As strange as it seems
Isn't that like a fleshlight to you
I can
No
Oh god
Do you
No one wants to hear you
suggest that I put my shit...
Your crispy,
pickly chunder.
No.
Chunder?
What?
So I vomit in the...
No!
I eat all the crisps,
I vomit into the packet,
and then I fuck the packet
full of my own vomit?
Yeah.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Now you're talking.
Now you're talking.
That sounds like
one of those VHS tapes
you could send off for
in the back of Viz
in the late 80s.
What, he's going to eat crisps then now?
Are you going to try these?
No.
Because I know I'm not going to like them.
You are such a wuss.
No, the difference is, between you and me, is that I'll know they're disgusting, so therefore I'll avoid the sensation.
That's not even like an insect or something.
It's a normal crisp.
I just don't want to have a pickle flavor.
Oh, go on then.
I hate pickle flavor stuff.
At least you have some fucking dignity and you'll eat something on this.
I'm just surprised I've drunk all my water so I can't take the taste away afterwards.
Genius.
Oh, go on then.
Go on.
Oh, they're not too bad, actually.
I don't want to be Fortnite bullied by Eli because I didn't have crisps.
Oh, default.
Oh, God.
No?
I quite like them, actually.
Yeah, you can tell they're not quite as crisp as they once were.
Not too bad, though, for being a year out of date.
Yeah.
You know?
Foil packet.
I ate this fucking podcast.
Didn't you like those, Paul?
No.
Really?
They don't taste anywhere
near as potent as they smell.
No.
And that bit of subtlety
gives it something.
I think that's a delicious
and excellent product
and I love the artwork
of the cartoon-style pickle rendering.
Right.
Great. What a way to end the segment.
I'm happy.
Let's just crack on with the show.
All right, crack it on.
Crack one off?
No, crack it on.
I'll crack it off.
No, you won't.
I'll jack it.
Not into the packet.
I'll vomit the packet, and then I'll jack it with the packet.
Can I end this segment, please?
I want a fucking vomit packet, Chris.
Shut up.
Anyway, welcome back to Cheap Show.
Have you had a good time during the three seconds since you last heard our voices?
It's been ages for us.
Oh, so we're going to play...
What's that smell?
No, fucking hell.
The one time I gave you a set up to say Gannon's Golden Games.
No, but I don't like saying it when you ask me to say it.
In that case, we'll just crack on.
Gannon's Golden Games!
Oh, that was painful.
You know what?
You only have to listen to it on and off.
It's like listening to a queen,
it's like listening between a... It's like, shut up!
Gallant's Golden Games.
It's literally like a cross between...
Gallant's Golden Games. It's like Bruce Forsythe... I'm creeping out a bit, that one. Go game.
It's like Bruce Forsythe's worst impersonator.
It's Bruce Forsythe and a Haribo advert.
Yeah, go game.
Have you finished?
It's time for...
Go game.
It's time for what?
That's the one.
Go with that.
Go game.
Yeah.
Don't listen.
You've made this podcast a mockery.
And on...
Yeah, yeah, games today...
I hate you. We're going to play a game called... What's That Smell? Itery. And on Yagya Games today. I hate you.
We're going to play a game called What's That Smell?
It is.
Today on Gaz Golden Games.
What's That Smell, Paul?
Yes.
Well, What's That Smell was a board game I found at a toy shop called The Entertainer.
They're a brand.
They have stores around the country.
And they were selling off a load of board games quite cheap.
This one originally was 20 quid.
I got it for a fiver.
Bargain.
So it count as a cheap show ready segment as a result.
Yeah.
But what's the game you say?
He's very stipulous about, you know,
making everything on message with the cheap.
Has to be cheap.
Has to be at least, what, 75% off?
Yeah, at least.
Or below a certain amount.
It's just I believe the topics in this show
should be inspired by the things we find in charity shops,
pound lands, bazaars, jumble sales,
discount suit stores, thrift stores, in charity shops, poundlands, bazaars, jumble sales,
discount suit stores,
thrift stores,
flea markets,
and other, right?
Charity fates.
And then that sounds familiar.
But we don't just go,
let's talk about rainbow.
You know, like,
this is what you said last week.
I, oh.
Actually,
quick, quick interruption.
This is an update.
Not only did Black Lakes make a second album called Party Party 2,
Jesus Christ.
but they covered on it Russ Abbott's Atmosphere.
I love a party with a happy atmosphere.
The thing is, you'd think, oh, Black Lace must make a good version of it,
because you know what Black Lace are like.
No, it's actually more interminable and annoying to listen to their version. Yeah, it's weird.
It's like they mess around with it, and they fill it with, to be fair,
a lot more sound and production than Russ Abbott.
It's just their voice
is inherently awful.
They're terrible singers.
Paul, but didn't you say
that we thought there was one
on that album that we looked at?
Yeah.
That was written by them?
One of the filler tracks.
I think it was actually
Do The Congress, those.
Oh.
Because every song they've ever written
has never been from their mind.
Agadou came from a German holiday camp
that they changed the lyrics to.
So they just ripped it off.
Yeah.
Well, literally,
the story goes,
we mentioned it in the last episode,
but basically,
the story goes is
they managed a holiday camp
when, have you heard this?
Held a recorder,
recorded it off the speakers
and then they went home
and translated it into Agadou.
My God, it's like something
off Father Ted.
Yeah.
Bloody hell.
Well, I look forward to hearing
that story again on the way home,
which is when I was planning
to listen to the last podcast.
We do a lot more to it there.
But, Paul.
Yes.
So, you said, do the do-do-do the conga was theirs.
Do-do-do, come on and do the conga.
Do-do-do.
But that must have been based on.
A train around the floor.
So, they just sort of did a version of a conga dance.
Because the.
Updated it.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, the usual conga is.
Da-da-da-da conga.
Da-da-da-da conga.
That's not theirs.
All right, you stop that.
So is Do Do Do The Conga the only song they ever charted about fucking eels?
Yes, apart from the band The Eels.
Ah, please fuck us.
The number three hit.
Right, anyway, we're playing What's That Smell?
And it's a very simple game.
Basically, you get a box full of little cards that you scratch and you smell them.
You've got to guess the smell.
And there are other things that we'll go through as we play the game.
Did you actually get this from the entertainer or did you find it in Mr. Biffo's bins?
No, Mr. Biffo is now no longer allowed to buy smelly things.
He's not allowed smells anymore.
Is there a moratorium on it?
Every time I go to his place to film the minis,
he's bought more what I would call a pet cemetery.
You know, it's just animals and jars of things.
And like, oh, I didn't know it was a sexual arse electrode.
Just check it, Biffo.
Paul, do you know what he does need more of?
Vetoing on his eBay account?
No, he needs just to build the channel.
And it's not me who's saying this.
Oh, really?
Fuck.
There's been people saying stuff.
What was that character?
Fat Pig.
The Fat Sal character.
This character's old.
This joke's old already.
I think there should be more Fat Sal on that channel.
I'd like to recast it.
Who?
Who could possibly?
Who could play it?
I don't know.
Let's just put Toffee in a dog's mouth and then give it to the puppy.
It'd be the same difference.
Fucking hell.
Oh, that's Larry.
Larry will do it.
Larry will do it, actually.
He's game for everything, that poor bugger.
Sometimes you go, no, don't, Larry, don't.
And then he goes and does it and you think, fair play.
I'd never do that.
I enjoyed his Dr. Robotnik at the live show.
That was possibly the high point for me.
And there's Peter's string theory.
Oh, God.
Which is both arousing and horrifying at the same time.
That may have been a low point of my life.
God knows what it was for him.
High point of ours.
We're playing What's That Smell?
There are six cards ahead of me that you will both smell, right?
Randomly.
Ahead of you?
It's weird you used the temporal dimension for that.
I have seen my future.
There are smells.
Shut up. Lying ahead, there. There are smells. Shut up.
Lying ahead,
there will be smell cards.
You know what?
When we do a podcast
with a guest,
I tend to realise
quite quickly
where the guest takes sides.
I've already seen this.
I've already seen this going on,
this little whatever.
You're the games master.
You're Ganon.
Ganon Golden's game.
Ganon's Golden games.
Aren't you?
Cast them as your big lead
in your movie.
The Golden game is Ganon's
and you are Ganon. Cast them as your best fucking mates, aren't you? Cast them as your big lead in your movie. The Golden Game is Ganon's and you are Ganon.
And all your best fucking mates, aren't you?
Let's do our special handshake.
Bang.
They have one.
I'm upset.
We were in the film, Paul.
Which we're not going to mention.
I can't believe how that incredibly bad handshake we just made went.
That was not good.
It wasn't bad.
It had two aspects.
Nobody's going to believe that. Bump and sprinkle. Bump't bad. It had two aspects. It was a bump with a little... Nobody's going to believe that.
Bump and sprinkle.
Bump and sprinkle.
Ooh, that's good.
Bump and sprinkle.
Ooh, love it.
You can do it.
My favourite of the Rice Krispie elves.
Bump and sprinkle.
Now we're all doing it.
Okay, what's that smell?
There are six cards.
Each one has a scent.
Have you started?
Because I can smell something.
Have we started, Paul?
Shut up.
Have we started, though? up Have we started though?
There are six smells ahead of us
That you have to smell
You've got a piece of paper that asks you to name the smell
What you think, what your memories are
We'll go through it bit by bit
But we have six ahead of us
At the end of these six smells
The winner wins
The loser has to smell one of the
Or then I will make you both smell something horrible
Because I have to give the audience something Alright so there's six smells And only one of the uh well then i will make you both smell something horrible because i have to give
the audience something all right so there's six smells and only one of them's horrible no well
they're a mix there's there's actually on the uh explain on the back there are six categories no
sorry seven categories of smell available there is tutti frutti so this smell will be something
fresh that grows on a tree or artificial flavour These are just general headings
I thought there was only six smells in the whole thing
No, there's loads of different smells
See where the money went now
I thought there was only six fucking smells in the whole thing
Where do you think they find all these smells?
Was there a smell researcher?
There is, there's a load of work
No, come on, the world of smell is a hugely
But there's got to be something
quite sort of distinctive though, isn't it?
Like petrichor or something.
The smell of the rain.
You can't just have a faint smell of granny or something.
Nobody's going to be able to work with that.
Well, let me explain.
I like a faint smell of granny.
You fucking hound.
Horrible monster.
I'm a horrible monster now.
Yeah.
Fuck you.
Right, here are the categories of smells you can expect.
So we had tutti frutti.
There's also sweet stuff.
So sugary things could be natural, baked or bottled.
You know what else is a sweet smell?
Mate, I just want to get through this next bit.
A corpse.
Really?
Rotting human flesh.
Does it depend on the level of rot?
Has a certain sweetness.
Just want to get through this.
The top note is the sweetness, and then behind is the putrefaction.
Get me out of this podcast.
And then right at the bottom, it's brute.
I've got my legs stuck in the podcast. Can you get me out? this podcast. And then right at the bottom, I'm stuck. Brute. I've got my legs
stuck in the podcast.
Can you get me out?
Paul!
What?
Come on, what else?
Right, spice it up.
From cinnamon to garlic,
this is a spicy smell.
Oh, yeah.
Blooming fresh.
This could be a rose
or the cut grass
or fresh peppermint.
Smoke factor.
Earthy, leathery, smoky.
What more can we say?
All things chemical.
You may find these scents under sinks
In medicine cabinets
Or in the forgotten corners of the garage
And finally, just plain stinky
These are not air freshener material
Think farts, cheese and unwanted wafts
Or Eli
I've showered
I've showered
That's all I have to say
Alright, okay, well let's start the game
I don't smell bad
In real life, everybody
Do we have to pick the category as well as the specifics?
No, no, no, no
This is just telling you what to expect
So we have six categories
We'll do one each
So you can both have a smell
And then we'll go through all six
But Eli, I'm going to let Stuart pick
Because he's our guest
What number would you like to start with?
One, two, three, four, five or six
Can I have number five, please, Mr. Gannon?
Okay, number five
So you've got to be careful
All you can do,
because if you move the bottom flap down, it reveals
the answer. Oh, yeah, that's what she said.
So, if you
move the bottom
flap... Is that what your granny said?
That's what my granny always used
to say. Right.
So, what you'll do is you'll... Unfold the flap.
Shut up! Just shut up!
Fuck you. Just shut it! Right. Continue. I'm sorry you'll... Unfold the flap. Shut up! Just shut up! Fucking hell. But don't reveal the answer.
Just shut it!
Right.
Continue.
I'm sorry you had to see that, Stuart.
I enjoyed it.
You will move the flap up, run your little card across, and then sniff, right?
If you move the bottom flap down, it will reveal the answer.
What about the game, though?
Please do not refer to my penis as my little card.
Well, I can't think of any witty.
There you go.
Right, so run that little bit of a card across the top.
There you go.
And that should release the scent.
Literally scratch and sniff.
Yeah.
And then you sniff the card itself, hopefully.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Now, don't reveal it because, obviously, you're against each other.
So once you've had a good sniff, pass it to Eli.
I don't know the answers
They are as secret to me
As they are to our players
It smells of fucking cardboard
Well maybe smell the green bit
Oh I see
Perhaps I'm smelling the wrong bit
I was smelling the wrong bit
There you go
That's what she said
No
Can we not
Can we just put up in it
She says a lot of stuff
She does
She never shuts up
Does she
Only something
What are you I'll let Eli have a go Before you say anything Okay so I This bit yeah She says a lot of stuff. She does. She never shuts up, does she? Always something.
I'll let Eli have a go before you say anything.
This bit, yeah? Yeah.
So give it a rub and then give it a smell.
Oh, now.
Yeah, I know what that is.
Yeah, I think I do.
Okay, so all you've got to do is guess.
So you get five points for a guess and then you've got to put it in a genre.
Do you think it's a tutti frututti smell, a sweet stuffed smell,
spicy, fresh, smoky, chemically, or just stinky?
So you put what you think the smell is, then you tick the box with the smell category.
Okay, I cast my vote.
And then it says smell association.
Your funniest memory with that smell.
It's like the BBC trying to get us to write jokes for it or something.
Fuck off.
Funniest memory
to do with this smell.
You know what,
let's just skip that
because otherwise
we'll just go,
unless you think of something,
we'll skip that.
So we'll just worry about
the guess itself, right?
Gotcha.
Okay.
We'll be here all night.
It will just be five points
for the correct answer
and then an extra point
for the category correct.
Right, genre guess, yeah?
Yeah, so...
That makes sense.
Ready?
Playing this competitively.
This is quite good.
I can see why it was worth a lot.
You've got one, two, three, four...
Seems quite effective so far.
Yes, it's a good little party game, isn't it?
Number three, please.
One, two, three.
There you go.
Same process.
We're not revealing yet, okay.
Scratch.
Hide your answers.
We'll reveal all at the end. This flap? Yeah, the top three. There you go. Same process. Oh, we're not revealing yet. Okay. Scratch. Hide your answers. We'll reveal all at the end.
This flap?
Yeah, the top one.
This.
Oh, God.
Just tell me.
You just...
This bit.
So, flap.
Got it.
Right, thank you.
Rub your card against the flap.
Have a sniff.
I'm giving it a good rub.
He's giving it a good rub.
He's very vigorous.
Oh!
Actually, you know what?
I haven't smelled these.
I'm going to have a little smell.
Oh, if that's... I'm intrigued now. That's what I think it is. I don't know what? I haven't smelled these. I'm going to have a little smell. Ooh, if that's...
I'm intrigued now.
That's what I think it is.
I don't know what that is.
I'm looking forward to this.
There's a certain familiarity.
You know what? I don't know the answers, but I'm going to play along as well.
Makes the right noises.
Ooh.
Oh, dear.
I've discovered I'm not very good at recognising
smells.
I actually thought the
last two were about
the same.
Yeah.
You can see that the
base that they use to
make them is a similar
substrate.
That's sometimes the
problem with Biffo's
scents because all that
have that chemically
base smell which
sometimes overwhelms
it.
Are you both happy
with sniffing it?
What number was that,
folks?
That was number...
Number two. No, that was one, two, three.
No, number three. That was number five.
No, five was the first one. I said number three.
It doesn't really matter. You just put it in order when you write it down.
You've got them just... Yeah, but just make sure they're in order.
I'm keeping them in order. Okay.
I'm getting competitive now.
Alright, good. Just warning you.
Pass us that. I'm going to lose this
really badly. Well, remember, there is
a horrible stench
For those who
Lose
So Stuart
You've got pick a smell mate
Can I have six please
There you go sir
Rub it and snuff it
Snuff it and huff it
Then jack it
Open this panel to reveal
Smell zone Zip it, smack it, then jack it. Open this panel to reveal smell zone.
Zip it, smack it, then
jack it. Any of these
hitting, Paul? No?
Oh, God, again. They're so similar.
Smells the same to you, yeah? Well, not completely the same,
but... If you want to be a bit more vigorous, by all
means, go for it. I don't think I'll be playing this game
a lot.
It all smells like Poundland.
It really does.
These are all aftershaves.
I don't know.
I think there's a definite...
Have a sniff.
Oh, yeah.
I know what that is.
Oh, he's got it.
Oh, bloody hell.
Oh!
I know what that is.
That smells like my nan.
I see.
Oh, I'm playing along now.
This is good.
It's a good game, mate.
I like it.
Extra value. All right. Okay, so... now. This is good. It's a good game, mate. I like it. Extra value.
All right.
Okay.
So hopefully my smells are good.
I would be horrified.
Who picked last, Stuart?
So Eli, you're next.
You've got one, two or four.
Go for four, please.
There you go.
Jacket.
Jacket.
Whack it and jack it.
I'm going to scrub it, then snap it.
Well, that's a good one.
So far, has anything particularly stuck out of you?
Have you found this easy?
Well, there you go.
Oh, no!
Oh, that's a nasty one, man.
All right, hand it over to Mr. Stewart.
Oh, fucking hell.
All right, hand it over.
This one isn't going to be soap, is it?
Here we go.
Stewart's now going to sniff the stinky card.
There's no other word for it.
Sniff my flap.
Sniff my dirty flap.
Oh, bloody hell.
That's bad. That's properly bad.
What is it?
It's really bad.
Oh, fucking hell!
What?
Tiny fraction of a second of nausea.
That really is effective.
All right, let's have a sniff of nausea. That really is effective.
All right, let's have a sniff of this one.
Oh, baby.
Are we doing digitiser or is this cheap show, Paul?
Oh, yeah.
Is this digitiser or cheap show?
That was a vom moment.
That was bad, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Well, if you are going to vom,
could you do it in the empty crisp packet?
Oh, yeah.
I wonder if you were playing it up for the camera.
You really weren't.
No. Fucking bad, man. Oh, God. I wonder if you were playing it up for the camera. You really weren't. No.
Fucking bad, man.
Oh, God.
What number was that one? That was our fourth.
Our fourth number.
That was our fourth.
Oh, yeah, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
All right, Stuart.
Oh, God, that's stuck in my nose.
It's a bad one.
I'm glad you had that one first so I didn't inhale too deeply.
All right, we've got one and two left, Stuart.
What would you like?
Two, please.
It's number two. I just realised number two isn't a good thing. Number four was number left, Stuart. What would you like? Two, please. It's number two.
I just realised number two isn't a good thing.
Number four was number two, everyone.
Aren't you witty?
Aren't you a witty man?
The curse, Paul.
The curse.
Well, that was definitely a nasal nightmare.
Yes.
Oh, God.
So potent. They seem the nasty ones are more potent, so this is obviously not a nasal nightmare. Oh, God. So potent.
They seem the nasty ones are more potent,
so this is obviously not a nasty one.
No, this is very much not.
Stuart's having a little wonder.
This, to me, is like the first one, but more potent.
Oh.
I mean, I don't know if there are repeated smells.
He's got a little hint of the stink from the last one.
I need to clean my little card in the sink or something.
You're going to have to wash your flap out.
Oh, there it is. It's stuck to this.
Sniff that one.
I need a new card, man. Alright.
Give me a different card. There you go.
Thank you. Would you like a new card?
I think those cards have been
besmirched.
Oh, it's a croissant.
Yes. Oh yes that was nice
better than garlic
what was your other one
uh
snot
snot
it was a sock
cross between a snood
and a sock
now that
put it over your head
have you sniffed it yet
I'm gonna sniff this one
this is number what
four
four
no this is a five of six
so it's our penultimate smell
I know what that is
alright give it a hit
I'm gonna have a sniff
he's too good he's too good oh oh I don't so it's our penultimate smell. I know what that is. All right, give it here. I'm going to have a sniff.
He's too good.
He's too good.
Oh.
Oh, I don't...
You two are such losers. Like there's a rabbit.
I don't know.
It's...
I don't know.
I'm just going to have to put that down
and then put that one on that one
with that one.
What am I talking about?
Shut up.
I put that one in there for the hell of it.
Right, and now...
Last one.
Last one.
So you get to start this one.
There you go.
Statistically, this could be another bad one.
Which means nothing, because any of them could be.
One in six should be.
I've got no idea.
I'm making it up entirely.
How many categories are there?
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven categories.
We can actually work out the probability.
No, you can't, because I picked them at random
and there's all these ones left as well.
Presuming an equal amount of each.
Equal distribution of each, Paul.
So that is the assumption to make.
Don't get on the maths, yeah?
We can do it.
You cannot do it.
Ooh, that was vicious.
Maths roasts.
The most vicious of all roasts.
Maths roasts.
I'm warning you, I'm already getting a pre-smell of this.
Trigonometry motherfucker
Yeah that's a nasty one
That is a nasty one
Yay
Sniff it
Give it a huff
Not as bad as the last one
Judging by your reaction
I don't know what that is as well
That's a strange thing
Usually if it's revolting
You can pin it down
Yeah I think I know the category
But not the
Yeah
Well the category I can guess
From your reaction
No it's not
It's not the category
I first thought
Now I am intrigued, sir.
Here we go.
It's exciting, this.
Oh.
It's a strange reaction. It was like the silence of the lambs.
I know what that is.
Okay.
Right, I don't think that is a stinky one.
No, I don't think it is.
I'm going to have a little look.
Do you know what I think it is?
Oh.
I think it's a chemically one. Oh, no, no, I've't think that is a stinky one. No, I don't think it is. I'm going to have a little look. Do you know what I think it is? Oh. I think it's a chemically one.
Oh, no, I've gone different for that.
I've got to be...
Maybe I'm mostly just guessing.
I feel confident, which is usually when I fail the hardest.
So, you know, like...
And that's my favourite one.
That's your favourite smell out of the whole lot.
No, no.
You failing magnificently is my favourite thing.
Just say it.
I love it when you fail.
I love it, Eli, when you catastrophically fail.
Right.
To fail is art.
Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's see what the scores on the doors were.
So, it's What's That Smell?
You first chose number five.
And Stuart, what did you say you thought it was?
I went for peppermint
Peppermint
This is the first one, yeah?
Yes
And what category would that be then?
I would put that under blooming fresh
Right
Eli, what did you say?
I think that was leather
Leather
New car
Oh
I'd say it's in the smoke factor
Right
Interesting
The answer is
It's leather, new car.
Holy shit!
I never would have got that in a million years.
And the category is chemical.
Oh.
Oh, that's...
So, you get five points for that,
and I'm going to give you an extra three
because you said new car, new suit.
I think, come on, man.
How many points do I have now?
Brilliant.
One question in, he's already got a fucking bonus,
and I've got nothing.
Eight.
So you have eight points.
So write eight down.
All right, I'll write that down.
I thought that was Polish.
That's what I thought there.
I wouldn't have even got to say anything.
All I got was the alcohol hit and then something,
which is how I felt for most of these, to be honest.
Well, as we know, Stuart,
you did take a lot of cocaine in your 20s,
so that's ruined your notes.
That's true.
In the 1920s.
The opposite is true.
I don't think cocaine
does destroy your sense of smell.
It doesn't do much for your septum.
No. That's also a myth.
What? That cocaine
rots the flesh.
It's what happened to Daniela Westbrook.
That was because of the sheer amount of
any...
It was like sandblasting her nose.
It would have been like just a neutral white powder
of any kind.
No, just a safe one.
Is neutral white powder that far right pump band?
It would have done that to her.
It was the physical amount
of stuff that she put up her nose
to do with the property of coke.
Next week on Coke with Eli.
Yeah, because he'll fucking know.
Oh, fuck off.
Right, here's the next one.
This is your second smell.
Eli, we'll start with you.
What did you think it was?
A pickle, or dill pickle.
Oh.
And what category?
Spice it up.
All right, okay.
And Stuart?
Shit, I mean, if anyone's going to know a pickle,
it's going to be Mr. Sullivan.
That's because I said that.
I gave you a clue, because I said that's very familiar. Eli to pickles. I put noodle. No, I mean, if anyone's going to know a pickle, it's going to be Mr. Sullivan. That's because I said that. I gave you a clue because I said that's very familiar.
Eli to pickles.
It's an iPad noodle.
No, I don't think so.
Well, no, Eli to pickles is like pigs to truffles.
He can find them.
Well, what?
They don't use them anymore because dogs are more efficient.
Oh, shut up.
Yeah, don't eat the fucking truffles.
Thank you.
We found that interesting.
What did you say?
I can't remember.
No, ice put, cinnamon.
Oh, and what category?
Spice.
Spice it up.
It's pickles.
Five points to Eli, but you both get a point for the category.
Both right and spice it up, so I'll get six for that.
Oh, dear.
Yeah, six in all, and just a one point for Stuart today.
Bloody hell.
I'm on 14.
But, you know, we've still got four to go.
Things could change In this exciting game
You could overtake me here
You like me
You smarmy bastard
What?
I'm good at smelling
I love this
Let's do this every week
Eli sniffs
Yeah
I will huff
I'll huff anything
He'll huff
Till he's had enough
Yeah
Right
Next one
We'll start with Stu
What did you think
Question smell three was?
Be honest
I didn't have a fucking clue,
but it vaguely reminded me of grandma's soap,
so I put sandalwood.
Okay.
I can see you're working there.
What category?
I can see the process there.
What category is that?
Sorry, I was too busy being patronised.
Yeah, welcome to my world.
No, I went for spice it up.
All right, okay, Eli.
It was aniseed or licorice.
Oh, that is a good shout, actually.
Aniseed, and I've got it in spice it up as well. All right, here we go. Theed or licorice. Oh, that is a good shout, actually. Aniseed, and I've got it in spice up.
All right, here we go.
The answer is licorice.
Yeah, did you see?
Ah, in sweet stuff.
Yeah.
So no points there.
No, but I said licorice.
No, you said cinnamon.
I said all licorice.
You said aniseed.
I said aniseed, and look, I've got licorice.
Look at my working.
I'm going to give you half a point.
You can have one point for that.
Look, you can see it's true.
I've written licorice
in brackets there.
And as much as I hate to say it,
licorice does contain ANSI,
doesn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, fuck off.
Stop helping him.
I got it right.
You're sapping his will to live.
I get five points then
for the right.
All right, five points.
Trying to help you out here, mate.
It's too late for me.
Save yourself.
Man, come on.
Did you hear any of these
this far?
I'm the only one who shit.
Hang on.
I said polish for the first one Peppermint
And I did say licorice
For this one
So I got that right
Oh good
Did you put that in sweet stuff
No I put it in spice
Same here
Weird
Weird
It's a spicy thing
Right
This game's good
Here's question four
I know I already do
It's great
It's a successful
Barshan segment
Right here we go
What did you say for
Eli
What would you say for smell number four?
I've got poo, and then I have brackets, just to be sure, fecal.
Fecal poo, as opposed to celestial poo.
I can hold it in my hand.
It stinks.
Stuart, what did you say?
I went for rotten cheese.
Rotten cheese.
Well, basically, it just stank.
And it was in stinky category, I presume you proved.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. Just plain stinky. Rotten cheese Well basically It just stank And it was in Stinky category I presume you proved Oh yeah absolutely
Just plain stinky
Well funnily enough
This just says
Fart
But in the plain
Stinky category
So you both get a point
Each but I'm not
Going to give you five
Because it does say fart
And has a picture
Of a bottom
Erupting green gas
That is what poo is
That's fecal
It's the smell of
To be honest
I put down nothing
I'll accept it
No because there's
More gas in a fart
I'll accept it But everyone knows I got it right.
I was close.
What did you say?
Cheese?
Yeah.
What's closer to a fart?
Cheese or...
It's not who's closest.
It's not.
It's who's getting it right.
Come on, Matt.
Listen, basically...
This isn't the countdown numbers round.
They're basically two forms of the same thing.
A fart and a shit are two forms of the same thing.
One's just the gaseous version of the other.
You're ahead.
Stop being...
Hang on. You see what I mean? You couldn't say cloud when gaseous version of the other. You're ahead. Stop being... Hang on.
You see what I mean? You couldn't say cloud when the answer was
the sea. Yeah. You could.
You couldn't, but you'd be fucking wrong, son.
Look, you shut up.
Alright. I put nappy down for that because I thought
it was a nappy, urinary kind of thing.
I thought it was very nappy-ish as well.
Alright, two more down to go.
So, Eli,
what did you say smell number five was?
It was peppermint.
And I put it in sweet stuff.
Shit.
And Stuart.
So my problem was I thought it was peppermint too,
but I'd already put peppermint.
And because it was more powerful than peppermint,
peppermint, peppermint, peppermint, peppermint, peppermint,
I put...
We got one point each for that last for the...
Yeah, we did.
Menthol.
Okay, the answer is...
What category did you put it in?
Sweet Stuff.
I went for Bloomin' Fresh.
In that case, Stuart gets a point for Bloomin' Fresh.
Eli gets a point for Peppermint.
I'll get five points.
Five points, sorry, yeah.
So there you go.
Although I'd be tempted to give him the five points for that
because he was waving around it.
Menthol, yes.
I'm going to give you five points.
Come on, take it.
It's different.
I will not take your pity points, yes. Yeah. I'm going to give you five points. Come on. Take it. It's different. I will not take your
pity points, sir.
I was wrong.
You were wrong.
I will be a man and
admit it.
It looks like it's
going to be an obvious
win, but let's just see
where this goes.
Right.
So we've got one last
smell.
Stuart, what did you
think the final smell
was?
I didn't have a
fucking clue.
I ended up going for
apple.
Oh, okay.
Eli.
The answer is
Quartz
TCP
And it's an all things chemical
TCP or some similar sort of
Antiseptic
Yeah antiseptic
Huh
Apparently it was dirty socks
What?
That wasn't a very good one
No
No
Because it does smell like bleach
It's just really chemical
Oh that's ruined it
Right in the bin
In the bin
Right in the bin for
that.
Right, so.
Five points there then.
What were the final
points?
So, my final points
are apparently in
fucking binary.
Zero, one, zero,
one, one, zero.
Zero, one.
So that's three.
Three.
Eli, how did you
get on?
I got 25.
Right.
Right, I'm going
out on a limb here,
Eli, but I think you
might be in the lead.
In that case, Eli, you are today's winner.
Congratulations on what that smells.
Yay!
And as a result, I'm going to mix the bad smells up
and you're going to pick one up
and then that's whatever you smell.
Stuart has to smell.
He doesn't have to identify.
He just has to put his nose in and stink it.
Do you leave them in the packet
and take them out?
So what's this game
that we're playing now?
This is the forfeit.
The loser has to smell the...
I'll take one for him to smell.
I'll tell you what.
Here are the four things
you could be smelling.
Tonight,
you could be smelling...
Eww-on!
You could be sniff-sniffing
hot, chunky vomit.
Lovely.
You could be stinking.
Smelling.
Stinking.
Smothered in BO.
Ooh.
Or how about this?
Extra old toe cheese.
Or finally, on the whiff of shame.
How old is extra old?
Extra old. Yeah.
Or finally, you could be sniffing diaper blowout.
Ooh.
So, I'm going to mix these up
As best I can
You have to remove them and scratch them
I don't think you need to scratch them
I can smell these from here
I picked one at random for which you must smell
For which to you for smell
I smell from that you give to me
I can smell it from here
I haven't even opened the fucking packet yet
I smell the BO from here
And what is it that you have picked for Stuart today?
Today, Stuart, you will be huffing down hard on your loser card, which is Diaper Blowout.
Oh!
A fine choice.
Also the name of my first album.
Well, this is French House.
Right, so he's opening up the packet. Oh, I don't want to touch it with my human hands. Well, this is French House. Right, so he's opening up the packet.
Oh, no, I don't want to touch it
with my human hands.
Yeah, I wouldn't.
They come with resealable bags
so you can seal them off.
Oh, nice, I'll get that ready.
Yeah.
I won't use that to put Johnson.
I've got to find the onion scratcher.
No, garlic scratcher.
Here we go.
He's rubbing it, he's scratching it,
and he's going to take a big huff
of diaper blowouts.
Oh, it's fine. It's slightly unpleasant, but it's just very chemouts. Oh, it's fine.
It's slightly unpleasant,
but it's just very chemical.
Oh, is it?
Oh!
Hand it over.
It smells more like burnt something.
Let's have a look.
That fart,
that was apparently
like the worst thing ever.
You know what?
I think you just built up
a tolerance to it over the years.
That's so nasty, man.
I'll get it ready for you, Paul.
All right.
I'll rub it.
I'll scrub it.
It's coming off it.
Did I not scratch it enough or something?
That is fecal.
It's a fecal.
It's a fecal miasma in here, man.
No, wait.
No, I'm seriously not getting it.
What?
It just smells like something burnt to me.
To me?
Something happened to your nose.
Oh, God.
I do keep smashing it with a pan for a laugh.
Just do it.
No, I am surprised at how badly you did,
because I don't think I did that well.
Yeah, I'm seriously, this just smells like something burnt.
Perhaps I'm, like, missing some smell thing.
Maybe.
What does it do with you eating out of date food for a living?
Maybe it's destroying me from the inside.
This stonk, this rumour.
No, I'm getting nothing from that.
You know what, I'm going to take respite in this empty dill crisp.
Right.
Oh, bloody hell.
Mate, smell that.
Now, the other one was awful but... UGH! Hahahaha!
I just...
UGH!
For everyone listening, I just said to Paul
to sniff the empty crisp packet as a
little joke and it really set him off.
Pickle and shit is not
my idea of a fine smell time.
We're terrible solicitors.
Right, Eli, for that I'm gonna make you smell one.
One of the bad ones? Yeah.
Alright, fine.
Oh dear.
It's just weird, I'm quite good at taste.
It isn't taste and smell supposed to be very...
They're linked.
Scratch that, you twat!
I'll teach you.
What is this one?
You'll find out.
You'll find out, my friend.
I'll tell you which one it is.
No, Eli's not getting this one.
This is where he finds out he's immune to this smell
Is that the smell?
Not that bad
Oh yeah it's not that bad at all
Which one is it meant to be?
B.O?
No it's hot chunky vomit
No that one's actually quite nice
It's not nice
It's got a kind of ting to it
What the fuck it smells like soap or something
Oh I'm going to have to smell all of these now Just for science Nice. It's got a kind of tink to it. What the fuck? It smells like soap or something.
Oh, I'm going to have to smell all of these now.
Oh, God, really? Just for science.
Oh, one of them's going to be properly bad.
The BO1 I can smell already.
Yeah.
Oh, don't use the key to get in here on it.
Oh!
Oh!
Toe cheese is fucking...
Is it hellacious?
Is it hellacious?
It's not good.
Oh, I'm genuinely worried about this.
Yeah, that's bad.
That's real 14-year-old locker room.
Oh, God.
You know what I mean?
It smells like a games workshop.
Oh, God.
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Jesus.
It's got that kind of, that smell of like deodorant used to sort of cover it.
That's what I was thinking.
So that's the clever bit.
It's like they've tried, may just be the alcohol.
They're quite, they're quite well done. That's pretty bad bit. It's like it may just be the alcohol. That's bad. They're quite well done.
That's pretty bad.
But still, not as bad as the normal one we had.
Well, let's end with this one.
That was the fart one we had earlier.
That was by far the worst.
Oh, God.
What's this?
I don't know, but it's not completely unpleasant.
It's the BO one.
That's because you're attracted sexually to whoever.
Yeah, well, why don't I want to boff you then? That's the worst. That's the worst. It's the B.O. one That's because you're attracted sexually Yeah, well why don't I want to boff you then
That's the worst
That's the worst
It's not
For the last one
It was more B.O. I would have said
No, this is so B.O., man
This is next level B.O.
That really
You know what I mean
Oh, that's too accurate
That's horrible That's like real dried That's real Do you know what I mean? Oh, that's too accurate. Yeah, it's really accurate.
That's horrible.
That's like real dried.
That's real, like someone got on the bus and you're going to die.
They're in the sealed bags for a later date.
Seal that shit right up.
Well, that was a successful segment of Gannon's Golden Games.
Yes, it's Gannon's Golden Games.
Gannon's Golden Games.
What's a game?
What's a game?
It's Gannon's Golden Games.
This room smells of shit now.
It really does.
Ladies and gentlemen,
it is...
I've already done the silence bit.
Don't worry about it, mate.
Right, so...
Oh, we're against the clock,
ladies and gentlemen,
but we do want to get in
this Derek story
because fucking hell...
It's Derek 3.
It's Derek 3.
The madness of King Derek.
This time it's personal
So we don't have much time it's a long story
So shall we just crack on
Let's get Derek on
Now what did you say it was called
Well I've called it
Well it's because there's no official title
But I did call it Derek and
Jimmy the Irish Orphan
My god
What could go wrong?
Here we go.
Now, again, the audio on these cassettes are not great.
This is a copy of an old cassette transferred via WAV,
cleaned up, noise reduction, compression.
I've tried to get the best sound out of it.
Some of it is illegible,
but some of it hopefully will be enough to get us through the story.
Are we ready, team?
I'm ready, too.
Come on, Derek.
You can take it away.
Go, Derek.
Have you heard my story?
The fact that I gave you my name?
I thought I'd have to tell the story of a little boy.
Little boy.
Got the first words.
Irish Jimmy.
Irish Jimmy.
Taught him how to be a ninja.
him how to be a ninja.
After a quick night,
on the Friday afternoon,
I had a telephone call
from my friend,
oh no.
He's a car
hire specialist? Taxi business.
Oh.
North Sidon City.
North Sidon City.
To collect this little boy.
Oh, God.
Take him to the special school.
Okay.
Just to recap.
Let's just recap.
This is how the story opens.
He's been asked by a friend who runs a taxi firm to pick up a little boy from a special school.
To take him to the special school. From his home a little boy from a special school on the north side of town.
To take him to the special school.
Take him to the special school.
From his home
to bring him to the special school.
Now, I want to know
what he might be inferring
by saying special school.
A school for children
with learning difficulties.
The X-Men school.
Yeah.
Professor Xavier's Institute.
Well, let's hope it is.
I mean, that would be
a great turnout.
That would be fucking amazing.
He might shoot lasers
from his teeth or something.
It's certainly better
than him having a, you know,
a neural disease that we can't laugh at. Well, shoot lasers from his teeth or something. It's certainly better than him having a, you know, a neural disease
that we can't laugh at.
Well, let's hope he doesn't.
But you know what, Paul?
Oh, go on.
What got me is like,
so what?
He runs a taxi company,
this guy,
his friend,
doesn't he?
Yeah.
Why is he calling
our Derek now?
Can't he just send
one of his own fucking taxis?
No, I think he,
Derek in this
is like a taxi or car for hire.
He said a friend who was also in the Uber.
This is getting very Scorsese, isn't it?
It's like Taxi Driver.
He saves this disabled...
Harvey Keitel will play Derek.
I'd fucking pay to see that.
Here we go.
In the afternoon at four o'clock, bring him home again.
I would correct him at 8.50 in the morning
and take him home at 4.50 at night.
Thanks, we really needed that specific.
Great.
He said he was overbooked with his bookings
and he couldn't carry it out.
But I knew this journey until further notice.
I agreed.
Monday morning came.
I went to this bungalow.
Beautiful bungalow.
Beautifully laid out garden.
Right, good.
I knocked on the door.
Off the garden.
The lady came to the door.
And... It was Miss Peregrine's home
his head and shoulders
were in an iron frame
his snakes
were in calipers
and he had
two sticks
to enable him to
walk
two sticks yeah two dicks I thought you said the kid had two sticks. What? To enable him to walk.
Two sticks?
Yeah, two dicks, I thought he said.
The kid had two dicks.
He didn't want him to fucking settle.
A very special skill for lucky boys.
On to which his school satchel was hooked.
Okay, he's got a bag on.
The satchel was hooked onto his frame.
I helped him to the car
is it possible
the child is a cyberman
I
I'm thinking
he's confusing the small child
with those little kind of
charity donation boxes
you used to have in the 80s
you know
with like
this able child
outside the butchers
or whatever
he used to put money in his head
there was a blind little blind boy
I like the idea of Derek
pulling this plastic
fucking money bank
into the back of his taxi I'm thinking it's more like the idea of Derek pulling this plastic fucking money bank into the back of his taxi.
God, this kid's lazy.
It's more like the end of Aliens, isn't it?
It's like he's done an exoskeleton thing.
Jimmy and his power loader.
Stand away from her, you bitch.
Big horror.
The secret bit.
He took my vehicle.
Okay, he's forcing a kid into his car.
Great.
by vehicle.
Okay, he's forcing a kid into his car.
Great.
So,
with me in the front seat,
I said,
yes, sir, you can be.
Sir, you can.
You can go to the meeting for you.
He's saying he'll get in the front.
Oh.
And off we went.
His mother,
through the guard gate,
waved goodbye.
Okay, he's waving goodbye to the guard gate.
He's going to be taken to school.
20 minutes later,
in the afternoon,
I went to collect him
for a block.
Right.
By then he...
The narrative engine in this.
He came out
and his dad ended up with me
halfway home.
Halfway home.
He requested
would I
stop
at the newsagent
halfway home.
We get it.
A bottle of pop, as he called get it A bottle of pop
That's what old men call it
Not what children call it
He said I won't be home
With great difficulty
He got out
Wait the kid wants a bottle of pop
But the kid has to get out the car to get it.
Derek's like, you can fuck off.
He's got a massive calip on his leg.
The entire upper half of his body is apparently in some sort of frame.
Fucking hell.
Derek's like, you wait here, little Jimmy, Irish boy,
and I will go.
I'll pop in.
No, no.
Go in yourself, and I'm going to see you looking angry
while I wait for you.
And tucked while looking at my watch.
I walked into the shop to get this bottle of pop.
Oh, he did go into the shop.
Which he told me he did every day.
No, he did.
With the other driver.
Yeah.
With my friend, Mr. Deamer.
Mr. Deepa, the new agent put it in a carrier bag and hooked it onto the special hook.
Ah, the pop hook.
So it has to leave its hands free.
For fighting.
To use its walking stick.
Oh, yeah, he's got to use his walking stick.
Two walking sticks.
Got back into the car and I could sticks. He's making this story up.
What do you think?
I hope no editors listen to this.
They'll be just going, strike through, strike through.
All right, no, strike through. The following day, I get to the major resort in the morning.
The next afternoon,
I take the usual address.
Could his top
or the bottle of pop?
Oh, okay. We've got the thing.
We've got the basic now. Day two,
halfway home, bottle of pop.
He does it every fucking day, David.
And save me time as well
because it's getting near Christmas
and I'm rather busy.
Okay, so hang on.
It's getting near Christmas.
It's getting near Christmas
and Derek's rather busy.
Yeah, he'd get better things to do than this.
Paid work just like every other thing he does.
Yeah, so this orphan boy with a disability.
Yeah, fuck it, mate.
You just sit at home and not learn.
Listen, mate, it's near Christmas.
So I'd like to pick you up
and take you places,
but I've got to catch this tiger.
I will go and get it for you.
Anyway, I went and got it,
made myself out to the shopkeeper.
I wasn't working here anyway.
And made the purchase
pay for it
and Jimmy
said how
is the money
for the bottle
I said
Jimmy
I don't want it
have that on me
he said
but you're not
going to do that
every day
I said
Jimmy
never mind about that
I said
we'll get off home now and I hope of Derek now. Well, it's Christmas.
Okay. He's not an orphan though, Paul, he said we're breaking up for the Christmas term.
Okay. He's not an orphan though, Paul, is he? Mother will telegraph you.
Oh God. Alright. And I'm ready
to go back to school.
Right. Mother will telegraph you.
I said that's alright, do you mean?
I presumed he was an orphan. He's not an
orphan. Alright, fuck off.
I'm going to go home
and wish his mother and him...
His mother.
He's discussing it explicitly.
When I got back home to the office...
Got back home to the office?
I took him to the shop, he said.
Toilet, yeah.
Toilet with a pencil.
I made myself a note here.
Right.
And I said, will you do me a favour?
He said, what is it, Derek?
I said, I would like a bottle of a crate.
A bottle of crates, yeah.
A little Lewis Carroll poem.
This is all about how he's such a nice guy, isn't it, this story?
He's buying him a crate of popcorn.
It's the last day of school.
Something perverse will happen by the end.
I don't want to collect it. I say I want
to give it to him as a present for Christmas.
I said, also,
I want a nice big box
of chocolate.
Alright, fucking I'm going to whine him and dine him first as well.
The chocolate
poisoned him though, so it turns out Jimmy was a dog.
Yeah, it was like a Dr. Moreau thing.
That's what the cage was for.
Mum's like, thanks for the pop.
Jimmy's diabetic.
Jimmy's dead now.
You've been giving Jimmy daily the pop we explicitly say he's not allowed to have.
Now, what he describes as pop is actually his insulin.
Right, go on.
Let's see how this goes.
Well, no, come on.
You've got to rewind it a bit.
I'm doing it.
Rewind a little bit.
All right.
I want a nice big box of chocolate.
Yeah, chocolate.
Right.
I've heard he tells me his favourite colour is red.
Right.
Now, could you put a little piece of red ribbon around each
bottle? A nice big
red ribbon round about the
chocolate.
And also have a nice card
ready.
For which
I can write it.
For which I can write it.
It's not fucking Interflora, mate.
It's Corner Shop. We're putting's not fucking Interflora, mate. Go to the shop.
We're putting ribbon around each bottle for you, freak.
And I've already made arrangements
for her to receive it this evening.
While Jimmy had his friend in the lounge,
I don't want him to see me bring it.
That's okay.
I blame the call for that one.
I called it the shop
And he'd done it up beautifully
Oh nice
He loves a bit of craftsmanship
Doesn't he
He does
Yeah he appreciates the
He's so focused on sort of things
You know
Yeah
He'd
Dread
All about the land
I didn't park
Where I could be seen It was a moonlight night?
A moonlight night.
He's creeping around this kid's house, basically.
Let's just figure out, I can't figure out where we are.
He's got the package now from the shop of the drinks.
He couldn't be seen.
And it's a moonlit night. He's got the package now from the shop of the drinks. And he's smart where he couldn't be seen. Yeah. And it's a moonlit night, so.
All right.
He's creeping around with these fucking boxes.
This has been too positive so far.
Something's going on.
Then Ramesses II appears.
And I said to his mother.
How much for the night?
It's a card wishing him
and you
a very happy Christmas
she's a widow
maybe
now I said
when Christmas is over
you will let me know
we do want to go back to school
won't you
she said yes Derek
that's quite alright
a happy Christmas to you and your family right Right.
Right.
Suspense!
Suspense!
Bitterly cold.
Bitterly cold.
Jimmy's frozen corpse.
It's like if Pinta was a dirty old man.
I chased Jimmy into a maze.
He froze solid.
The hedges came to life.
But not in the film version.
And the mum's taking their kids to life. But not in the film version. The mum's taken eight kids to school.
But not Jimmy.
Not a word.
Happy.
He hasn't
heard from Jimmy.
I lived another week at home.
Is Jimmy dead?
Jimmy's just trapped in one of the
pop bottles, inexplicably. Like a genie. Jimmy's just trapped in one of the pop bottles.
Like a genie.
Jimmy's used the red ribbon.
Well, we'll fucking find out!
I'm from the edge of my fucking seat here.
That's because there's no space.
Jimmy's dead, Paul.
Let's find out. I don't know.
I think now,
Jimmy will have died, but then he gets a visitation from Jimmy's spirit.
And he just vomits pop all over him.
Like a red ribbon falls from the sky out of nowhere.
And the man is so surprised a bra flies off.
What if Jimmy's used the red ribbon to hang himself?
Oh, shit.
That's, right, well, let's hope not.
Oh, my God.
Here we go.
Come on.
Okay. Let's hope not. Oh my God. Here we go. Come on. I lived another week.
Okay.
That 10 days.
14 days.
All right.
I can't remember that time.
But you can remember every fucking day.
The mother came to the door.
Right.
I didn't recognize her.
What?
I just didn't recognise her.
There's face blindness.
She was ghastly white.
His mother came to the door, but I didn't recognise her.
Because she was white and pale.
I could say something dreadful had happened.
She stayed between songs.
Derek.
We've lost Jimmy. Jimmy oh Jimmy's dead
who didn't say that
I just could not believe it
shame because you set it up very blatantly that you could
Derek this is the worst story so far
man this is really dismal
this is really
wait
they told me
how that evening
evening I feel tired. I'm going to have an early night.
Oh, God.
He said, that's all right, my son.
Oh, tell us in more detail, please.
Aren't you going to have your last popcorn, Paul?
Oh.
Would you do it?
I'm sorry.
Oh, melodrama.
You see the mother.
The mother reveals that the son's dead.
He's like, tell me, tell me about it, you.
But it's the husband.
But Gerard's like, why, haven't you drunken the pop?
I got you.
He's better a fucking drunkle that before he dies.
Tell me his last moments.
Tell me his last moments.
Did it involve my present?
Yes.
Well, because he has to string the story up.
Also, now there's no man in your life, is there?
Ah, but I do suspect the mother is also Derek
because she talks and puts too much detail in exactly like he does.
I can't remember exactly the time, but I do remember the date.
And the craftsmanship.
It was beautifully made.
We made some small talk, which I will relate to you in full detail.
With big gaps between words
that you're waiting for things to fucking happen.
Come on.
I want him to get it on with it.
There's seven minutes left.
So one bottle of pop remained undrunk. Anyway, he went into the bedroom.
He said, call me when you're ready,
and I'll come and take your irons off.
That's what he actually called them, his irons.
His irons.
Ah, right.
That was the only time he was free
of that dreadful iron cage. His irons. Ah, right.
God!
Get on with it, for fuck's sake, you freak! He called out to Jimmy.
Jimmy, what do you have to say?
You know he's dead, though, Derek, so it's like... I'm confused. I'm confused.
She's relating the story of Jimmy's death to...
Is that what's happening?
Yes.
So he's now doing flashbacks in his fucking stories.
No, it's herbacks to his fucking stories. No, that's no.
It's her relating to him what happened.
So she basically, she went, Jimmy, he goes, I'm tired.
I'm tired, Clement, I'm tired, very tired.
And she took off all his.
I bet he went like that.
Yeah.
Tiny tip.
But I would be strong in the morning, mother.
Yes.
And she went, oh, do you want your last bottle of pop, little Jimmy?
And he's like, no.
A large amount of sugar before I go to bed
could impair my sleep.
He's like,
no, I'll have it when I'm strong enough in the morning.
Right, okay.
She removes his exoskeleton.
In the morning,
she has a cup of tea.
Then she's like, Jimmy.
But the whole point is we know he's dead.
So there's no...
There's no drama. There's no thing in this. This is like when you watch those trailers for films and they give but the whole point is we know he's dead so there's no there's no drama
there's no thing in this
this is like when you
watch those trailers
for films
and they give away
the whole plot
like we're not gonna
bother watching the film
now
fuck you
unless maybe he died
inside a bone hoover
fucking a tiger
so you know
there's still surprises
there's been no
magical realism
so far
hold on tight
let's find out
the ghost of Jimmy
has the last bottle of pop.
That's my guess.
That's my guess.
Trapped inside it.
No, I was expecting to come back and drink it.
Would you like a cup of tea?
Yeah.
Fucking hell.
Okay.
I'll have two sugars.
No, three.
No, two.
No, actually.
She was frozen to the spot, though, she told me. She's going. No, actually. She told me.
She's going up into the bedroom.
Right.
She had the courage to enter.
She had to.
But it was too late.
Jimmy had passed away peacefully in his sleep.
Good.
You were excited. At least he wasn't in a sleep. Good. You were good,
but you...
At least he wasn't
in a lot of pain.
Still up
at the side
and open.
The bottle of
pop...
unopened.
The bottle of
pop?
The bottle of
pop.
The ambulance
was called.
It was all
to know of him.
The doctor
said, yes, Jimmy had died.
Great doctor.
Yeah, good work.
Probably 3am.
As far as they could tell.
That morning.
Oh, died at 3am.
Yeah.
Of what?
Being peaceful.
Of what?
It was just too peaceful.
It's a hard go, but...
A pop deficiency.
And she did. The doctor's like, I'm not quite sure,
but for some reason,
he's got an aggressive amount of sugar in his bloodstream.
Pop deficiency sounds like it.
It makes me feel like I'm migrating.
Right.
Jimmy, would you like a cup of coffee, Derek?
Oh, it was tea a minute ago.
Make your fucking mind up, son.
No, tea was for Jimmy in the story.
Oh, sorry.
Coffee's for Derek hearing the story.
You idiot.
What's she drinking?
I must know.
Pop.
Tell me the whole story.
Right, yeah, we noticed that, mate.
You just fucking told us.
When you were going to a composure,
you took my hand
and said, come with me.
We walked over to the door and opened it into a huge L-shaped lounge.
I'd never seen so much colour in a lounge in my life. He was having a migraine.
I'd ingested LSD.
I was at one with the cosmos.
To the left of the fireplace were hundreds of cards of condolence sent to his mother and Jimmy.
From friends all over the country, and from a group of those, you told me,
that Jimmy had many friends, of course.
Ten friends as well. He used them as a wank sock.
On the right.
He was sent cards of condolence.
The mum got called over the country.
From all these people who liked Jimmy.
And it's like, was she farming him out?
Oh.
Oh, what?
Paul, I don't think that's called for.
What do you mean?
What do you mean, what do I mean?
What? This is how he gets his pop. I don't think that's called for What do you mean? What do you mean? What do I mean?
This is how he gets his pop You're suggesting
Child
Prostitution
No
Maybe odd job
Suggesting some kind of
Epstein relationship
With the newsagents
No
I'm sickened
We're doing a comedy podcast
I was thinking
Like you know
Going up the chimney
Or something
He's not going to get up the chimney, is he?
He has.
He's got super sticks he can grab off.
That's not how it works.
With his frame, he could be like Cirque du Soleil.
He could be all like that.
And then what?
And then knobs off.
I'm not saying knobbing off.
Jimmy is not knobbing anyone off or being knobbed.
He seems to in your fucking narrative.
All right.
He seems to have.
Yeah, he was.
Jimmy the disabled child got a proper knobbing off.
Happy.
Happy.
Let's crack up.
Bloody hell, even Derek's not going to reach that depth.
Come on. We've got three minutes.
I want some ghosts or something.
How did Jimmy know all these people?
Seriously.
I know.
Perhaps he's big on the internet.
He's a fortnight streamer.
In the centre of those two groups of cars,
there was a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Oh, here we go.
I realised then what I should have known
They were Irish
What's that?
What?
Oh, Derek
Oh, God
You beaut
You beauty.
What a blithering fuck.
Did he think that was his sixth sense twist?
That was his big twist, man.
I mean, that means Catholic, you daft bastard.
Like, what?
Oh, my God.
He sounds like my fucking granddad.
Yeah, the fucking Irish.
That's his thing with him.
He won't allow the whole bed and breakfast.
Fucking hell.
Oh, how do you want us?
Let's see where this goes.
What the fucking hell, Derek?
He gets worse every time.
I just don't know what he's going to wrap up in the next three minutes.
I have no idea where this is fucking going.
So far, we know Jimmy was a poor disabled kid who went to a special school.
He was picked up by Derek dropped off by Derek
and had an effect on Derek
Derek was obviously
very fond of him
he bought him
all the fizzy drinks
every day on the way home
he got a bottle of pop
and on Christmas
he got a box of chocolates
red ribbon
and a big crate of pop
with red ribbons
tied around the neck
of the bottle
he comes back after Christmas
the boys die
he's talking to the mum
the mum goes
look at all these cards
from around the world
where we've sold Jimmy's ass.
And to make things worse, we're Irish,
Derek.
Now Derek seconds. And then he goes, he looks at the
Virgin Mary and it's like, at that moment
I realised the fact they'd
been staring me in the face this whole time.
They're Irish.
They came from this union country
of ours.
I have this image, if you filmed this,
of all around there's shamrocks and lebrons.
They've got a Nolan Sisters album.
It's like the end of The Usual Suspect, isn't it? You see the wall.
He's looking.
Notice Jameson's.
Right, come on, Derek, take us home. I'm searching, Harry. Right. Notice Jameson's Right
Come on Derek take us home
Right
Right
What
Ross Hogg
different cards.
Ross Hogg. Ross Hogg?
There was a large photograph
in the old crates of Jimmy
in his arms
taken two years previous
smiling. He looked so happy.
He looked so happy.
What?
Don't get incoherent now.
Who knew the story?
Next to that
was the card from his mother.
His mother sent herself a card
to commiserate herself.
Highly honoured.
My large red Christmas card
was next to hers.
Oh, it's a Christmas card.
Ah, OK.
And what
upset me most
was seeing the one bottle of pop that he never got round to drinking
stood by my card with the red ribbon still tied round the neck.
I had never been so moved
in all my life.
Because he turned you
pop into a fucking vigil.
He was a wonderful little boy.
Fuck yeah.
Wonderful.
Tasty.
As she took my hand.
Oh, there we go.
Oh no.
We had a show.
Grief fuck.
All the colour
shining in it.
I turned
and said,
goodbye, Jimmy.
Goodbye.
His mother
never really
got over her loss.
And as I drove away
in my taxi that night,
I thought I could still see Jimmy sitting on the front seat.
He's possessed!
He saw Jimmy sitting on the front seat.
I knew Jimmy would never ride with me again.
Goodbye.
Now, James and Steve and the boys and Wendy,
I hope you've got your box of your Kleenex out.
The story's over!
What the fuck?
The story's over and now he's talking to the kids listening to the story
and saying, I hope you got your Kleenex out for that sad tale.
It's like, what the fuck happened?
I can understand a word of that.
He went well demonic then.
The quality drops off because I think he records.
Something changes, doesn't it?
I think he recorded an ending to it.
He gets possessed by Pazuzu.
Yeah, the audio quality changes because I think he records an addendum to it
where he talks about the driver.
Oh, that's what he's saying.
And now he's talking to his relatives.
The nephews who are never going to get it.
Yeah, who would never listen to this.
Oh, he went from microtape to standardised tape. You said that as if you were never going to get it. Yeah, who would never listen to this. Oh, he went from micro-tape to standard-sized tape.
You said that as if you were genuinely interested in your life.
Sorry, I know.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Goodbye, children.
Goodbye.
Well, that is literally...
Can I just say, firstly, that's the weakest of the offering so far.
There's no magical realism, no perviness.
No.
I mean, we're in the Derek Hall marks.
You say there's no perviness there, Stuart,
but I could sense a throb hallmarks? You say there's no perviness there Stuart But I could sense
A throbbing
Desire for the mother there
Do you know what I mean?
There was a reason I imagine
That there was no father
There was no father
Where's the father?
No
He was boning
Maybe in his imagination
Maybe the subtext is
Derek was the father
Yeah
Oh
And he wouldn't pick his kids up
Unless they played a game
where he had to pretend
to be a taxi driver.
Yeah.
Just fucking see your kids.
He wouldn't admit
to the child
that he was his father.
But it's pure white saviour,
isn't it?
It's pure...
But it's literally 20...
He's the knight in shining armour
in this, isn't he?
It's a 20-minute story
that's set up like a joke
where it's like,
pick the kid up,
took him home,
bottle a pop on the way home.
Isn't that Rule of Three
where you think,
on the third time
something happens, where they're like, okay, no, alright, your main character way home. Isn't that Rule of Three where you think, on the third time on the island,
where they're like, okay, no, all right, your main character's dead.
Oh, that's it, that's the story.
He was a great kid.
The kid's dead, and now the mum has a bottle of pop on her shelf forever.
It's the motif of the bottle of pop.
I've probably drunk that bottle of pop on my sofa.
Yeah, was it that one with all the floating shit at the bottom?
Yeah, the cresta, yeah.
Oh, God.
I love Derek's stories.
I do.
Do you know what I mean?
I love that you get this kind of background information
and you feel the kind of places that he's talking about
and the kind of houses he's been in,
like the lovely bungalow.
And it was such a colourful living room.
You can almost smell the living room there.
Do you know what I mean?
Is Derek becoming more ill and infirm as it's going on?
Because he seemed to be, not only was his voice
a little weaker, but there seemed to be a lot more pauses
and breaths.
The thing is, to be fair, when
all the recordings I've ever had from Tom have had those
gaps in, and when I edit it for the show, I take
a lot of that out. But
there is a sense that
he did a bulk of stories sent them all
off and the story goes i think tom heard the first one as a kid then the mum went i need to veto these
in future oh god i did hear the first one he did he hit the first one i think the tiger
we've been listening to them in the order in which i honestly don't know when i get the next batch
from tom with all the breakdown and everything,
hopefully then I'll have a better idea
of the life of Derek.
Because we kind of need to break that down
at some point.
It's so fascinating.
But it's...
I think Derek 3 is definitely...
It's the Godfather part 3.
It's Death Wish 3.
Hopefully you can pick the franchise up
by the fourth instalment.
I don't know.
Let's look at popular fourth instalments of franchises
Die Hard, Indiana Jones
Has there ever been a good fourth instalment of anything?
Oh
How does the Fast and Furious go for four?
Or five was very popular
Was four Tokyo Drift though?
No, three was Tokyo Drift
And apparently that's set after the events of five, six, seven and eight
I think it was one of those ones where people started to say,
oh, this is actually really good, about the fifth or sixth.
Fifth one.
People still rate the fifth one as the best of the series so far.
But also, what about Police Academy 4, Citizens on Patrol?
I don't remember that one.
They're all pretty terrible after the first.
Yeah, I mean, they're all pretty terrible.
No, the first is pretty good.
Oh, no, the first one's great because it's got a nice blowjob.
Yeah, the first one's good, yep.
That's exactly the only reason why.
That scene is hilarious.
When he's getting the blowjob
and he's giving a speech.
Can we name all the Police Academy
films in order?
Can we do this?
Police Academy,
what an institution.
Police Academy 2,
their first assignment.
Police Academy 3,
back in training.
Police Academy 4,
Citizens on Patrol.
Police Academy 5,
Might Assignment,
Miami Beach.
Police Academy 6,
City on the Siege.
Police Academy 7,
Missions of Moscow.
Fucking hell. And the animated episodes
Were episode 1
Yes
Tackleberry takes down
Terror
Right well
That was Derek's
Third story
I'm going to give that
5 out of 10
It had a few high modes
But ultimately
It was 20 minutes
Of wasted time
No I'm giving that
Like 3
Because it didn't go
Anywhere
Didn't get the magic
Realism in there
It only gets that
For the Irish comment To be fair I liked him that for the Irish comment, to be fair.
I liked the way he tried to make it dramatic.
What a boy.
What a boy.
Just by pausing.
He was such a boy.
Oh, Jimmy.
Oh, Jimmy.
The best of all the boys.
Such a nice bottom.
Yes.
And also, I liked some of the, again, I liked some of the detail about sort of, you know, where he lives and stuff.
The whole sort of weird focus on the bungalow.
It was a lovely bungalow.
It's all detailed and no story.
It's like bloody Lord of the Rings or something where they spend five pages talking about the fucking grass.
It makes you think not only did he have sort of designs on Jimmy's mum, but also on perhaps inheriting through marriage.
Oh, maybe.
But her lovely bungalow.
Maybe he's just mildly on the autistic spectrum
and just looks at these small details and misses the big picture.
He does like a craftsmanship.
That's the other thing, doesn't he?
He loves something when it's been well produced.
Or owned by Ozymandias.
What we can take away from this is that by Stuart's logic,
Derek is our generation's C.S. Lewis.
Right.
C.S. Poo-ist.
And that's the end of the Cheap Show
for this week. Thank you, Stuart, for being with us.
Thank you very much for inviting me. What a joy
that story was. Thank you. Thank you for sniffing
our flaps. Thank you for sitting through
Derek's horrible chattel
with a widow
who's grieving now.
But she was Irish,
don't forget.
Oh, don't forget that.
Oh, we didn't mention that.
That was the real revelation.
We thought that was the twist.
He didn't give a shit.
It bears no
part of the story at all.
It occurred to me
they were Irish.
Right, rest of the story.
I loved him, yeah.
Wouldn't the accent
have given away
I don't know
Stuart where can people
follow you if they have to
online not in person
because that's weird
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oh Paul
oh fuck yeah
I did just remember
something yeah
right
someone
with reference to
the noodle video
that's just gone
to the public
hasn't it
the noodle pimping video
the one where you
fart aggressively
directly into the lens of the camera.
Did I?
Yes.
I don't remember that.
It's you.
This is fake news, man.
It's you.
Don't you fucking go front on this show.
You've put farts in,
but we all know I don't fart.
Apart from the video footage I've got
that explicitly shows you farting loudly.
I've got medical condition.
That's a fake app.
I don't like to talk about this very much, Paul.
I don't like to talk about it.
You, come on.
But I have a medical condition
which means I'm unable to fart.
And instead of farting...
Like a horse or a rabbit that can't vomit.
The sweet smell of CK1 comes out of my ears.
However, when you ejaculate, arse gas comes out the front.
When I ejaculate?
Yeah, when you ejaculate.
Oh, I ejaculated.
Anyway.
No!
What I wanted to say is during that video, we did a basic pimping session on a chicken-flavoured noodle.
Yes.
Which was a coca brand.
Yes.
Someone on Twitter has gone, just for why, why don't you just use, if you're going to use a basic noodle,
why don't you use like a Tesco own brand sort of very basic ramen?
Stuart's tuned out.
I'm not interested.
No, no.
I'm actually trying to work out.
And I just want to put this right.
And you gave me the wrong answer
you said oh I just bought them myself
you sound like Derek
I just want to say no
coca is a much better brand and it is the best
of the cheap and you can get two sachet ones
with the lobster
or the crab flavour which is a classic noodle mate
so don't try and tell me that coca
is on a level with those much cheaper
own brand ramen.
So it's worth that
little bit extra investment
to get to a basic level
of noodle.
That's it.
Thank you very much,
Stuart, for making that clear.
Noodles!
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