CheapShow - Ep 146: Sonic Showcase Showdown
Episode Date: September 27, 2019Guest Sooz Kempner. Another week, another mad dash through the bargain bins and charity shops of the UK... And this time we are joined by the grotesquely talented Sooz Kempner who has waded into the w...orld of CheapShow unprepared for the pain that awaits... There is a nasty surprise for Eli, Paul is in agony every time he laughs and Gannon's Golden Games becomes less about playing "Treasure Hunt" (based on the classic Channel 4 quiz show) and more about the weird culty upbringing of Mr Silverman instead! It's packed with revelations and a whole lot of Sonic the Hedgehog crap. 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-146-sonic-showcase-showdown 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 Guest: @SoozUK 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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Oh, no.
I need to say something before we get started.
You need to know something, right?
I'm an old man.
And yesterday, while sneezing, I tore a muscle in my side here.
So I've got a heat pack on.
Oh, my goodness.
But it does mean every time I cough, blink, not blink, cough, hiccup, sneeze or laugh, I go through amazing amounts of pain.
So can we make sure this show isn't too funny today?
Just so.
I'll do my best.
Good start.
Thank you, sir.
Hello, welcome to Cheap Show, the economy comedy podcast.
I'm Paul Gannon.
I'm Eli Silverman, hello.
And let's just get it straight out the way.
We are joined today by someone who I can't even describe with my power of words,
which I've just shown there I don't have.
Mate, stop trying to laugh.
Shut up.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome on to Cheap Show, Suze Kempner.
Yay, me.
Yay.
Me, that's me.
That's my name.
So do you know what you're in for?
I've got a terrible idea.
Ow.
Oh, sorry. It's not going to work, Paul. I'm fighting through. I've done this show. Have you done in for? I've got a I've got a terrible idea. Ow! Oh, sorry.
It's not going to work, Paul.
I'm fighting through.
I've done this show.
Have you done some painkillers?
I've done this
Yeah, I've done lots
of painkillers.
Don't you worry about that.
My girlfriend gave me
her special painkillers.
Oh, yeah.
Which is why
you're having
ears on your head
right now.
I'm having ears
on my head!
Oh!
He's doubled over in pain. Oh, that's No, that's fine. Good start. I'm having ears on my head oh he's doubled over
in pain
no that's fine
good start
I'm having ears
on my head
you're having ears
on your head
what have I got
on my head
nothing
no ears
nothing
there are no
witty comments
you're like some
serenest
I'm the faceless
face of the damned
eyes without a face
yeah
so
yes
you're on the
economy comedy
show podcast where each week we go through the powerlands the charity shops the thrift stores Eyes without a face. Yeah. So, yes, you're on the Economy Comedy Show podcast,
where each week we go through the pound lands,
the charity shops, the thrift stores,
the bargain bins, the jumble sales,
the bazaars of Great Britain,
and deliver content upon the things we find there.
Hooray.
So with that, can we just go to the credits?
Thank you.
See you all next week.
Paul, it's not boding well, mate.
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 Darks for a while.
How's the big guy?
The price of shite. This is what we're gonna take. Hello. Hello, yes, welcome.
No, it bodes very well, Mr. Silverman,
because I've done this show with headaches,
with pulled leg muscles, bad back, toothache.
I have done this show with a litany of symptoms.
Are you all right?
Do you think you should?
You sound like you have a lot of health issues.
I mean, let's not turn this into a health podcast.
I try and tell him this, but then he attacks me.
The way he does it, he attacks my health issues, which, you know. And he doesn't see that it's out of care.
It's not about us comparing
who's going to cark it.
I still haven't vomited and shat myself at the same time.
I'm just going to put that out there. I did that when I was
drunk. Twice.
Which did you choose to
get in a container?
Well, once when I was getting off the bus, obviously
there was no option
there and I had to do the waddle.
Puking.
The old puke.
That was years ago, though.
The other day, I was getting chatted up by a barrister.
A barrister?
Yeah.
What's a barrister?
Someone who makes coffee.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Civil lawyer.
Yeah.
And I drank too much and then I had the deal.
What's it called
the coin flip
the decision
the binary decision
you talk to us like
it happens to us as well
yeah it's literally
I've never
the way you said that
you went straight to
which did you choose
to put in a container
and it seemed there
was some sort of foreknowledge
of that sort of realm
no I've just
like my first thought was
what would I choose
but I've never had
you choose the poo poo
obviously
in the container every time.
And so did I.
I'm not insane.
Hey, that's funny you bring that up.
Would you like a little present for Mr Biffo?
Oh.
What's that?
Would I?
This is from one of the videos we did on Digi recently.
Well, first of all, hang on.
Every guest who comes on the show gets a prezzie.
So let me just sort the prezzies out.
First of all, you get a cheap show badge.
Thank you.
Oh, that's not horrible.
Thank you.
I like it.
It's not horrible at all.
And again, this week, today's special prize,
and you're getting one too, Eli.
It's like Oprah Winfrey.
You've got one.
You've got one.
It's a twisty, wiggly worm.
Oh, I remember these.
Oh.
I like these.
I really like these.
I had a bright blue one for obvious reasons.
I called mine Sebastian. I want to keep it mint on card, though, Paul. You can if these. I had a bright blue one for obvious reasons. I called mine Sebastian.
I want to keep it mint on card, though, Paul.
You can if you want to keep it mint on card.
I'm going to keep it safe because when it's a collector's item,
I can sell it for like 40 coins.
Did you sign it as well, Paul?
Yeah, I can sign it for you if you want.
They were called magic worms when...
Yeah, magic twisty worm.
It's a magic twisty worm.
And it's got a little invisible piece of string on it.
Yeah.
And you twizzle it around.
You can weave it through your fingers and do tricks.
People get quite good at it, don't they?
Yeah.
I'm a master, mate.
I'm a master.
I'm a wiggly worm master.
You're a master wiggly worm operator.
The pictures on the back are drawn and he's got a big smile on his face.
But in reality, he has zero expression.
He's in very great pain.
Aren't we all?
Ladies and gentlemen, aren't we all?
You are.
Yeah.
So anyway, I've got a little present for Mr. Biffo for you.
Oh, okay.
He's very much looking forward to you opening this.
All right, let's see.
Now, these are taken from a recent video, but there's a bonus in there for you.
Is it going to stink?
Should I have seen the video?
Is it going to smell bad?
The reason why I'm giving you it now is because you haven't seen the video yet.
Oh.
Okay.
So just be very careful when you open it.
Oh, no, I don't want to do this.
I don't want to look.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's handed me...
It's nothing, Dad.
A plastic gold...
Crate.
Like a Chinese dragon symbol.
Like a little treasure chest.
Like a Chinese treasure chest.
Treasure chest.
Treasure chest.
What's in my cheshire chest?
He's got a new character.
I don't get the lock.
Is there something?
No, just take the lid off.
Just take the lid off.
There's a little red mechanism on the side.
It's a spoon for scooping out the innards of the thing that I bought in there.
It's all right.
It's just sand stuff.
It was like a little dig box.
You know, you see them?
You know them.
It appears to be a
lump of cannabis.
Is it? Would I give you a lump of cannabis on the
show? Is it poop? It looks
like poop. It might be poop.
I've touched it now.
It's Biffo's, it's owl poop.
Specifically owl poop.
Is it owl pellet? It's a pellet? It's a pellet.
Okay, that's not poop.
Again, it's funny that we've come to the same thing.
Poo and puke, and which goes in the container?
Well, it's all magically coming together.
And it was an owl pellet, which is sick.
Which is sick, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So this owl made a decision to...
He tossed the coin.
They might poo as well, though.
Do owls just do it all?
They shit like a bird.
Well, they're birds.
Shit like a bird. I like owls. do it all? They shit like a bird. Well, they're birds. Shit like a bird.
I like owls.
That well-known song from the 90s.
Shit like a bird inspiration.
What's that?
Oh, it's broken, is what it is.
A plastic spider with a gold crown.
It's a scorpion.
It's a scorpion.
It's a tiny little...
Still an arachnid, so I was half right.
Is it?
They are related, aren't they?
Yeah.
They're mates.
They're closely more related
closely more related
scorpions and
spiders then
those two insects
you dig a bunch of
shit out and you get
that toy in it
do you know they used
to be giant
but it was my decision
to give you the poo
I like this
yeah
yeah I like him
I think he's alright
he's lovely
and there's also
another little
plastic green bug
he's got like
what's his name from Mad Max?
He's got a breathing mask on.
Oh, who's that guy?
Lord Humongous.
Joe, big guy Joe.
Imparator Joe?
Is that his name?
Imparator Joe.
No, because it's, what's her name to the Imperator?
Cotton Eye Joe.
Cotton Eye Joe.
It's Cotton Eye Joe.
Joe Swash.
I've been forgotten, Joe.
I've been married a long time.
We need to bring this back.
What was Aqua's second hit?
Turn Back Time.
No.
Dr. Jones.
Yeah.
Dr. Jones is what Cotton Eye Joe should have been.
You know what I mean?
Well, good.
Yeah.
I don't think either of them are classics, if I'm honest.
I like Aqua.
Sorry, guys.
Don't diss Aqua.
It's all right.
It's only me who's a...
It's an even smaller green spider.
That's a spider.
That came all in the same box. Green't diss that question. It's all right. It's only me. It's an even smaller green spider. That's a spider. That came all in the same box.
Okay.
And there's a very small, like a hand grenade thing.
I don't know what that is.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Let me see this.
And there's a lump of quartz.
That came from another big box where you can chisel out
and one out of every hundred boxes,
you can get a real piece of diamond.
No, you can't.
That's what it says on the box.
What nonsense.
It does.
That's because diamonds aren't inherently worth money. Are, you can't. That's what it says on the box. What nonsense. It does. That's because diamonds
aren't inherently worth money.
Are they not?
No.
De Vere's,
there's loads of diamonds.
De Vere's in the 30s
created an advertising campaign
saying you should spend
half your salary
on your engagement ring
and a diamond ring
and that's where
it comes from,
the diamond ring
as an engagement ring
and they just charge
a fortune for him. That's why if you buy a second-hand engagement ring, from, the diamond ring as an engagement ring. And they just charge a fortune for him.
That's why if you buy a second-hand engagement ring,
like an antique diamond ring,
they're not that much money.
Yeah, a really beautiful one for 100 quid.
Ladies and gentlemen, you've had a tip on this show.
A fact and a tip.
So that whole thing with diamonds is just...
It's a load of bollocks.
But they just keep reinforcing that with films
like Mission Impossible or whatever.
They've got a huge diamond.
That's it. it's the most
I mean a giant one
will be worth a lot of money
because you don't find them
with crystals that big
normally
but
it's like that one
the Queen's got
there's loads of diamonds
yeah the one in her hat
yeah
the hat diamond
real nice hat love
probably worth
40 quid or more
after waiting till I sell
my wiggly worm
in 10 years
I can't laugh.
Sorry.
No, it's all right.
One last thing before
we end this
introduction segment.
What am I going to
do with this alpug?
Well, do what I did.
Eat it.
Open it up and look
for little bones and
things because it's
got like shrew skulls
and stuff like that.
A skull?
That's pretty actually
cool.
That's really cool.
That's what we did on
the episode.
We dropped it in some
hypopropyl myocardial
gold.
Hypopropyl myocardial gold. Shut up. Hypopropyl myocardial gold. It some hypopropyl hypopropyl shut up
isoprofil
you do what? isoprofil
isoprofil
isoprofil, I love EastEnders
did it to you again
see what you did with the Phil
you don't even know
I don't know EastEnders
Phil Mitchell
and Danny's brother
Danny
come round here
it goes down places
so we now have a PO box
and we have our first
PO sent to us
in the mail
right
this is from David
or at Wubbings
don't know what that means
but it says
hello Paul and Eli
mainly Eli
that's what he says in comment
mainly Eli
sucks to be Paul today, doesn't it?
Not just today.
It's an ongoing daily grind.
Nothing but health issues.
Eli's out there living his life, puking out of both ends.
You've not seen his life.
Yeah, it's true.
There's things.
I mean, I'm not going to...
There's things and stuff.
There's things in my life, like stuff.
There's no hope.
Right.
I would like to say thank you for starting off my interest. Like? Stuff. There's no hope. Right. I would like to say
thank you for starting
off my interest
in charity shop hunting
as I now earn money
from buying cheap
and selling high
on eBay.
Great.
Sometimes items
are too obscure
and they don't sell.
Fair enough.
It's like that
Castle Grayskull thing
I found.
Still on £450.
No one's buying it.
Two people watching.
It ain't going for £450.
Well, then that's why
this is when you step in
and you put one on for 150
and then it goes
because everyone's going
that's too much.
Then you get a couple of bidders
and they're like,
no, no, no, no, no.
You're not winning this.
I'm winning this.
See, I don't know this game.
You need to put it on.
I'm a big fan of eBay.
Put a reserve that's realistic
but much cheaper
than the other places.
No income tax,
no VAT,
no money back,
no guarantee.
Put it on for what?
150.
Put it all on red.
You're a singer, right?
So it's all going to go singy.
It's going to go very singy.
If I get my way.
Oh, way.
However, I did one item find.
No, that wasn't a sentence.
I did find one item that was too obscure for eBay Marketplace.
And I feel it will be a great fit for Eli.
Right, so I'm just going to throw you it.
Catch.
What do you see,
Mr. Silverman?
This is a Nestle
Wonka
Nerds
Calculator
and it's mint on card.
It's not.
Stop saying mint on card
when you just
need it in its box.
Mint on card,
mint on card,
mint on card.
Mint on card.
Does that mean
it's still in its box?
I'll demonstrate it to you
so if I hand you this magic twisty worm that is mint on card. Mint on card. Does that mean it's still in its box? Yes. I'll demonstrate it to you, Cece.
If I hand you this magic twisty worm,
that is mint on card.
So I can see.
Okay.
And also, the bridge, what's that called?
Where they hang it up on the...
Hole.
Hole.
It's a hole.
I bet that's got a technical term, though.
Yeah, it's intact.
If that was bad, it wouldn't be mint on card, would it?
If that was broken.
If the banjo was broken.
Mine's still got the thing in the hole that you'd have to pop out.
Now, that's even more mint on card than this one.
Very mint on card.
We'll have to take photos of these to demonstrate mint on cardedness.
But the plastic that the worm is in has been crushed a little.
Yeah, so has mine.
You give with one hand, you take with the other.
Anyway, this is a nerd calculator.
It's just a giant plastic toy.
Yeah.
It doesn't look like a calculator.
I think its back opens up and you can do math.
Nerds, what do you think of nerds?
I like them.
I love them.
You love a nerd.
I prefer them to the much hyped millions.
Oh, millions, yeah.
Millions are more chewy.
Millions just waded, walked onto the marketplace,
chest out and went, look, we're big billy balls.
Hi, we've got two flavours.
They're really similar.
Is that it?
Millions are not good.
Not compared to the good old Nerd.
You couldn't chew just one,
whereas a Nerd, you could put just one in your mouth
and you'd be laughing for two minutes.
Fair enough.
So this Nerd's calculator, which is almost mint in box,
he does say it on the letter,
and it's now not because he's opened it up,
was bought from Age Concern for £1.49.
The prices in the northern region are much cheaper.
That is true.
That is true.
The further south you go, the more charity shops get costly.
It's a good one in Clapham, though.
It's a very good one, isn't it?
Age UK on Clapham High Street.
Really?
It's where I've just been.
Oh, mate, we had to go there.
I was looking for some turds for a show on your show.
All I found was excellent clothes for not very much money.
I love that.
Well, that's the funny thing.
When I spoke to the charity shop
retail association recently
about something or other,
they said they don't like people
thinking of their stores as cheap.
They like thinking it was like
good clothing for affordable prices.
Oh my God.
And things like that.
I just got for £18
two pairs of Topshop jeans
that I'd never buy in store
because they treat their workers horribly
and they're £40 a pop.
£3.99 a pair.
And I got for £1.99 an ASOS top.
That'd be like £15 new.
And a silk warehouse jumpsuit.
This is for all the clothes.
My ears perked up.
That's like 70 quid, surely.
So basically over 150 quids worth of gear, £18.
There you go.
We haven't done a fashion one yet.
We need to do a fashion cheap show.
We're going to do a fashion one.
We keep planning on doing a fashion cheap show.
Would you like to know what I got on eBay recently?
Can you legally tell us?
Yeah.
Sounds really ominous.
Yeah, no.
On eBay, I just came back from the fringe and decided I really wanted a nice trouser suit
because I don't own one.
And I thought that'd be a cool look for gigs, like singing gigs and that.
trouser suit because I don't own one
and I thought that would be
a cool look for gigs
like singing gigs and that
and I found
a brown pinstripe
with a cream pinstripe
Ralph Lauren
silk trouser suit
it was
it was a beauty
and I've got a friend
she adjusts clothes
and it was on for £9.99
had a week to go
and I went
I want it so much
I'm going to bid £400
£400?
I bid £400
that's how much I wanted it
no one else bid
I got
a Ralph Lauren
two grand trouser suit for £9.99.
That is uncredible.
It arrived in a fit perfectly.
Is it uncredible then?
It's uncredible.
Hang on, how did you get it for £9.99 if you bid for bid 400?
Because you put your highest bid on.
If no one else bids, you get it for the starting price.
Yeah.
Oh, because there was no other bids.
Yeah.
That's how it works.
We should do an eBay episode as well.
Well, yeah.
No, thank you.
That's twice in 15 minutes
You've had two salient facts
We've done episodes
Without doing anything like that
Episodes
Happy to help
Edutainment
A little update on this
Frankly
Quite charming
Nerds calculator
It's cute isn't it
It's got personality
It's quite cool
That it's backside opens
Is it a frog
Or is it
It's not
It's a nerd
Oh it's a nerd
Yeah it's what the character
Is on the box I recognise my own I didn it... It's a nerd. Oh, it's a nerd. Yeah, that's what the character is on the box.
I recognise my own.
I didn't know.
It's associated with this Willy Wonka type.
Willy Wonka, he's merely selling the sweets.
Yeah.
And what the nerds are, the sweets.
He doesn't speak for them politically.
He's a supplier rather than a nerd.
It's got a little, quite a rigid tongue.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
That's a nice detail.
And you open its backside and I can tell you now, it does work, this guy. Excellent. So I've got a little, quite a rigid tongue. Oh, yeah, look at that. That's a nice detail. And you open its backside, and I can tell you now,
it does work, this guy's got a little zero there.
And it goes on and off.
Oh, thank you, David.
Now the post box is open.
I am looking forward to a whole shitload of horrible crap
coming into this show on a weekly basis.
That's very nice, but I just don't have room for any of this stuff.
I'm going to have to put it on the shelves.
Well, one of the things we're going to do on Cheap Show
in a future episode is Biffo and I
Are going to do a car boot thing
Where we'll set up a stall and try and sell some stuff
And do a challenge
Like one of those shows you see on telly
We'll go down and take a big bin bag and flog it
Right, shall we crack on with show?
We've got a packed show ladies and gentlemen
Tonight we've got a very special edition of
The Price is Shite
And we're going to play another
Do it with the fucking mean gusto What do you mean no? ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we've got a very special edition of The Price is Shite and we're going to play another Ganon's Golden Games.
Do it with the fucking mean gusto.
What do you mean no?
Because it's only fun
when you don't want me to say it.
Can I do it?
I've got showbiz.
All right.
Give it a bit of showbiz sparkle.
Okay, lead it in.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we've also got coming up
in the last part of the show
a very special edition of
Ganon's Games or something.
Oh, fuck.
Rubbish.
It's now time, ladies and gentlemen,
for everyone's favourite section of the show
that we can't get rid of and adapt every week
to suit our whims.
Mate, stop.
What?
You're just inept sometimes, that's all.
I'm sorry.
Go on, then.
It's the fucking price of shite.
That's it.
I've truncated.
What happened to us?
Is this the last episode?
Every episode is the last episode.
You have no idea.
It's like an abusive relationship, isn't it?
It's a bit like one.
It's a lot.
It is one.
You're the friend who's been invited over on a Sunday
for a nice coffee evening
and had to put up with something frosty going on
between the loving couple.
You've never loved my mother.
Oh, my mother's a saint.
Fascinating.
Have you got any other stories about your mum? Maybe... No, don't you dare. Maybe, never loved my mother. Oh, my mother's a saint. Fascinating. Have you got any other stories
about your mum?
Maybe...
No, don't you dare.
Maybe, I don't know.
About what?
Did she go down the market,
get some vegetables,
bring some veg home,
put some veg in an oven?
Did she put it right in the oven?
Does she put large vegetables
into the oven?
Fully clothed?
Fully clothed?
What is this?
You have...
Is there not anything like that
you can recall, Paul?
Eli's got a kink where he likes to imagine my mum
inserting big vegetables into the oven.
Or like a parsnip, just on its own.
Don't get started.
It could be anything.
I like cucumbers.
In the oven?
Bake a cucumber?
That's disgusting, isn't it?
Look what you've done to Paul.
Cooked cucumber.
Have you ever had one that's gone cooked?
No, of course I haven't.
They're a salad vegetable.
They are. That's what I'm trying to say. But, of course I haven't. They're a salad vegetable. They are.
That's what I'm trying to say.
But you do have dishes where you just have them with warm food.
I hate this show sometimes.
Well, a lasagna with a salad.
Have you ever had a Hainanese chicken rice?
No.
You said the word Hain's wrong.
Hainanese.
It's like rice which is cooked with garlic and ginger,
boiled chicken, and then cucumber is there,
and then chilli sauce.
It's,
oh.
Right.
And then they serve it
with a little side
of just chicken broth.
Okay, well.
Clear broth.
And you,
you know,
you've got the cold cucumber,
the hot broth.
Did you hear about that band
from the 80s
called,
uh,
Broth?
Their favourite song was
When Will I Be Savoured?
Okay.
What's this price is Shite then?
Oh, look.
You didn't deserve that.
It would have been better if it was a lisp joke.
You should have been laughing at that.
They're called Broth and their hit was When Will I Be Famous.
That's much better.
Yeah, no, it's better.
Good punch up, Elo.
Anyway, we're playing the Price is Shite.
Serves you right for laughing at that.
That wasn't funny.
It's funny.
I didn't laugh at my own jokes.
I'd never hear any laughter.
Oh, God.
This has become a real marathon of pain.
Are we going to do a Twitch later?
Are we going to have to cancel the Twitch?
No, we'll do the Twitch.
You're doing Twitch?
What are you going to do on Twitch?
I believe we're playing
Philip Schofield's Five Golden Rings.
Yeah.
Nice.
Which is not a euphemism.
Another board game.
Another board game. Another board game.
Look at him.
I saw this in Double H Smith's going for £30.
£2 in charity shop.
But was it £30 like 15 years ago?
No, like as of last Christmas.
You are kidding me.
Because they buy these games for Christmas.
No one plays them.
They go in a cupboard and then a few months later they say,
let's get rid of some shit.
Yeah.
Pointless, the board game.
Played that on Christmas one day. Pointless. It was rubbish. Yeah, let's get rid of some shit. Yeah. Pointless, the board game. Played that on Christmas one.
Yeah, pointless.
It was rubbish.
Yeah, really?
I'd rather watch the TV show.
And the QI board game,
absolutely awful.
There's been reviews
on Board Game Geek
saying,
it's nothing like the show.
It's just trivia questions
and you get to hear the buzzer.
Well, but sometimes
something won't necessarily
translate,
like QI.
You know,
there's nothing to it.
It's the personality of the people on it. Exactly. It's pure panel, isn't it? And when you'veI. You know, it wouldn't be. No, there's nothing to it. It's the personality of the people on it.
It's pure panel, isn't it?
And when you've got personalities such as you or I,
oh, it's a bad time.
I just don't want to work with you when I do that kind of work.
That's all.
Shut up.
It's now time to play The Price of Shite.
Now, this is the Showcase Showdown edition.
We've never done this before, but this is all aimed now towards Suze.
Really?
Because Suze, in case people don't know,
brilliant comedian, brilliant actress, brilliant singer,
all of which was shown when she did Digitiser Live,
where she debased herself for Biffo, as we all do.
Was that in the second half?
I think I was all right.
I did do something in the second half.
I can't remember what.
I don't think I...
I think I got off quite lightly in the show.
Yeah.
I sort of went away,
not feeling like I'd come to any harm.
Nothing was splashed
on me or anything.
Yeah, I did sniff
some tube,
but that was your own
inclination.
I decided to sniff a tube.
Yeah, you made the choice to.
Sniff the tube.
You took control.
I took control
and just...
Sniff the tube.
I dosed myself
on the tube juice.
Whereas I just say anything.
I say yes to Biffo all the time.
Because I'm desperate for attention.
Just on that point, now that we're on that subject,
what am I going to do with this album?
Open it and look for a skull.
Oh, yeah, look for it.
Should I do that now?
No, because this place will stink.
Well, do it on Twitch.
Do it on Twitch.
Look for a pellet on Twitch when I'm far away.
I'm going to open this album.
All right, good.
So, Suze, going to open this out. All right, good.
So, Suze, explain to people why specifically,
because you recently came back from Edmund doing a show about Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yeah.
Why?
Why?
Why the obsession with Sonic?
Why?
Why?
Why? So, I like to look back on my childhood for comedy,
because I remember things really well
from my childhood
but I don't
but it's so long ago
yeah
and a large part
of my childhood
was playing Sega
Sega
Sega
Soos
so I
like to look back on it
and link it to video games
and put it in a stand up show
I've done two now
based on
yeah
both about Sonic
last year was
Super Sonic 90s Kid.
That was mostly Sonic.
This year was called
Mega Drive.
It was mostly about
Mega Drive.
Right, so there were
other games that you covered.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
No, I don't want to
pigeonhole her as a
Sonic obsessive.
What was the original
Toe Jam & Earl?
Was that Mega Drive?
Yeah.
And Toe Jam & Earl 2
was a lot edgier.
Was it? Yeah, it came out last year. 2 was a lot edgier. Was it?
Yeah, it was only
came out last year.
No, they remastered it
this year and brought it out.
Yeah.
So Toe Jam & Earl 2
was from that era,
the same era as
Toe Jam & Earl 1.
I think so, yeah.
Unless it was a Saturn thing,
but I don't think so.
I remember playing
Toe Jam & Earl.
Don't give me style,
you're Saturn.
299.
Toe Jam & Earl was fun, but a bit pointless.
All right, thanks.
Thanks for your input.
I used to watch someone else play it.
Did you?
Yeah.
Was that your whole life, watching other people play video games?
A lot of it was, because my friend, you were the first Let's Play viewer.
I wasn't in a family where they got me consoles at all.
Because they were big hippies, and it wasn't about that.
Hey man, the only screen you need
is in the sky.
Ow!
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Don't apologise.
Sorry for being really funny.
Whilst everyone was getting
their master system
or whatever,
Atari,
I was, you know,
fending off cult members
and eating...
What cult?
It was a benevolent cult
luckily
but yeah
it wasn't like
Om Shurikia
or something like that
it wasn't even huge
no it wasn't
I can't imagine him as that
although you do look like
a bit like the main guy
I would have liked to be
in Om Shurikia
you would have done really well
you probably would have
made it happen
nutters
roaming around
one of their
subterranean
speed factories
with ricin in balloons
on the tube
oh my goodness
yeah perfect horribly horribly perfect one of their subterranean speed factories with ricin and balloons on the tube yeah
perfectly
perfectly
horribly
horribly perfect
so it didn't work
did it
on Shumrikiya
they only got
they got close
yeah they
I mean they
they wanted to kill
like 20,000 people
I think
it was something like
8 or 30
well in terms of
how much they had
of that gas
sarin
they had enough
if it had been
utilised efficiently
properly to kill like 7 million yeah to wipe out we just said that of that gas, sarin, they had enough if it had been utilised efficiently, properly,
to kill, like,
seven million.
Yeah, to wipe out...
We just said that.
We just said that.
I think I said 20,000.
I mean, still,
I'm going to go with her.
She's the expert.
But essentially,
their mission failed
even though they did kill some.
Yeah.
So, because they were incompetent.
And on acid.
They were on acid.
Yeah, they were high as balls.
So it wasn't that kind of cult.
But it meant that I did not...
It was like TV was banned.
It was very much that hippie sort of approach
where it's like vegetarian, no TV, it's all evil.
All of this sort of media is evil.
Armish.
Computer games.
You're a Quaker and an Armish.
Computer games are definitely out.
Okay.
They were part of that whole, you know,
sugar on like sweets and...
So you used to go and play it with your friends
and watch it with your friends.
And he was...
My friend was well-to-do. Yeah. So you used to go and play it with your friends and watch it with your friends and he was my friend was well to do
yeah
so he used to get everything
he got the Atari
two Gameboys
two
two Gameboys
yeah two Gameboys
what so he could play
two player with himself
no he didn't even have
a link cable
so his mate could play it
mental
I just borrowed
his other Gameboy
nice
he had a Lynx
sounds like Will Smith
or something
he had a Lynx
he had a Lynx
yeah
fucking hell
I'm pretty sure my mum got all my toys off the back of a lorry can of Dodger things.
Seriously.
So called like a Blinks.
Well, no, yeah.
No, no.
We had a proper thing.
It was a real thing.
But I sometimes think, considering the consoles we had, and I know my parents couldn't afford
it, where they got it from.
Wow.
On the layaway or the HP, wherever they called it back in the day.
Possibly, yeah.
Unipackard.
Right.
So he had everything.
But basically, the end of that story, Paul,
is that I,
because it was his stuff
when I was around at his house
and he played them all,
and I generally, you know,
used to have to watch him play.
Yeah.
For hours.
I see.
And then he'd give me a go
and I'd die immediately
because I didn't know how.
And he also used to have
a real problem with rage quitting
back then.
I've seen him, like,
smash his head
against a Game Boy
and fling it across the room and break it, literally.
My brother did that.
He would get the Game Boy and just go,
oof, nutty!
That's the thing.
Like Pennywise in the new It films,
pushing through the glass.
The ultimate rage quitter.
What did you think of the new It film?
Right, too much CGI, too long,
wouldn't have changed a thing.
That was my book.
It's my favourite book.
Yeah.
That was my book, realised on the screen.
I think it was made with love.
And I see why there was too much CGI.
And I see why it was that long.
Because they had to.
Was it as good as the first episode?
No, I think the first film was better.
But I think the first film, I think the two films suffer from the fact that the book, the timelines run concurrently.
And they tried to do a bit of that with the second film.
Yeah, that's why Her doesn't work so well.
It was like they did it reasonably well, but they didn't know they were definitely going to make a second film.
So I see why they had to do the one with the kids.
Because it does feel reasonably self-contained, the first one.
But it's like when they let it wear back and added To Be Continued to the end of Back to the Future when that was re-released on video.
Really?
They stopped the To Be Continued on at the end of that.
Because when it was originally released, it was just the end of the film, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Was it?
Yeah.
There was no To Be Continued when it was originally shown in theatres.
I saw it in America when it first came out.
Did you?
All right, clever.
Was your cult in America?
No.
My parents were American, but the cult was...
He was an American, the guy, Dar Darth Rejon, who was the guru.
Darth what?
Was he a Star Wars character?
No, Dar, D-A.
Dar-free-jon.
Dar-free-jon.
It does sound like Darth Re-don, though.
Is this a bit famous?
Is there, like, books on this?
Oh, yeah.
It wasn't huge, but it was...
What was it called?
Him.
What was the cult called?
I don't know.
It was, like, the inter-Darth Rejon.
Dar-free-jon.
It was just him. It was called something, so the Order of the Thingamajigs or whatever. Order was the cult called? I don't know. It was like the inter-Darfreed John. Darfreed John. It was just him.
It was called something.
So the Order of the Thingamajigs or whatever.
Order of the Phoenix.
Oh, okay.
Order of the Thingamajigs.
He wrote a kid's book, which I had to read.
Oh.
How to be happy.
If I look into this and it's like terrible crimes have been committed, I'm going to ask
some questions.
You're going to be a guest.
It was about how to be happy.
You're complicit.
The book was basically saying, look at this apple.
It's all atoms.
Everything's vibrating. And nothing is nothing at the centre at this apple. It's all atoms. Everything's vibrating.
And nothing is nothing at the centre of it all.
So just be happy.
Okay.
Well, I mean.
It didn't work for you, did it?
Because you're invisible as fuck.
Right.
Let's just get on with the show.
All right.
Sorry.
So here's the thing, Suze.
Okay.
I've designed this to pick up things that I've found either I've been given and I've found
the price for or I've bought online or I've found in a charity shop.
They're all Sonic related.
Oh my God.
I've gone out of my way. Now, here's the thing. You're going to see four items.
Okay. So Sonic related.
So all Sonic related, right? You're going to see four items.
Okay.
You look at them one at a time. We'll discuss them a little bit. Then at the end, they want
you to give me a price of what you think the whole package is worth. If you are in £2.50,
either way, the correct price, you will win everything you see tonight. You'll be going
home with this tonight.
So I hope you brought a bag because I'm not taking it back. I have brought a bag.
It's full of jeans.
So she's going to win it whatever happens.
No.
You've just totally punctured the whole thing.
What do you mean?
No, I'll give it to you.
Or we'll smash it in the street.
I'll just give it to her.
So I don't want more crap.
I've already got a big piece of plastic crap and some owl puke.
You've got an owl puke and a nerd calculator.
You're up on the day
already, mate. Don't forget the twisty worm.
So here's the first thing. This we used on a
digitiser video, so I've asked Biffo how
much he paid for them. So we're going to start off with this one
because it's a little bit damaged.
Suze, tell me what you see.
Could I play as well? Yeah, of course you are.
Oh, shit.
These are marshmallow
with jam filling Sonic sweets.
They look disgusting.
Yeah, can I just say...
They're open.
Is it how much they're worth?
When we bought them.
Yeah.
Mint on cart.
It's not mint on bloody cart, is it?
It's not mint on cart.
I just explained that to you.
Why did you open that?
Because we used it in a Digi video.
Because they ate it in a video, maybe.
It's just a run-off from Digi, isn't it?
Yes. Shut up. I'm fine with that. I'm video, maybe. It's just a run-off from Digi, isn't it? Yes, shut up.
I'm fine with that.
I'm fine with that.
There's probably a lot of people watching and listening
who would kill to be in my position.
Oh, yeah.
The way Sonic's head's been ripped open.
As is.
If you can put it a certain way,
it makes him look like he's a bit backward.
Like when you fold the Queen's face on a note
and she looks a little bit...
Can I see them, please? Yeah, have a look at these. So, yeah, have she looks a little bit... Can I see them, please?
Yeah, have a look at these.
So, yeah, have one, take one out.
Can I take one, please?
You'll be trying one.
Can I eat it?
Yeah.
I'm quite excited.
But that's like official Sonic artwork, isn't it?
Oh, yeah.
It's the official merchandise.
It's a licensed Sonic piece of horrible crap.
Oh, it feels horrible.
Jam-filled marshmallow.
It feels like when you pick the poly filler from the side of the bath.
Yeah.
It's not even blue.
It's white.
No, they put it in blue wrapping.
So from behind you think, oh, it's blue.
This is what I've been tricked with Bombay Sapphire like this.
Okay.
Bombay Sapphire would be much better if it was blue.
Blue colour.
Oh, my God.
Are you enjoying it?
Is there any jam yet?
Is there jam filling?
Oh, I found the jam.
It is at one minuscule corner of the marshmallow.
It's like...
Oh, God.
It's like a black gel.
It looks like a scab.
Yeah.
Eat that scab.
Oh, of course Eli likes it.
I mean, it's all right.
I like it.
I don't like marshmallow anyway, so...
I don't like marshmallow. Do so... I don't like marshmallow.
Do you know what I do like about this?
Go on.
Not too sweet.
No, okay, I'll give you that.
It was not horribly sweet, like some cheap...
Like sophisticated.
Sophisticated Sonic marshmallows.
That's not too bad, really.
It could be a lot worse, couldn't it?
A really good jam.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
It's kind of the jam.
I imagine they come out the way they went in there.
The jam isn't overly artificial tasting,
is it?
I'm pleasantly surprised
considering everything.
Yeah,
no,
I think,
as I say,
you've got off quite lightly
with certain snacks
because we've had some
marshmallows that were revolting.
Yeah.
I just don't like them.
What's the point of them?
You burn them and then what?
I like a burnt marshmallow.
Yeah.
It's very nostalgic for me,
but I just think,
in reality, Did you do that in I like them in their molten form. No's very nostalgic for me, but I just think,
in reality... Did you do that in...
I like them in their molten form.
No, I did not do that in the cult.
Kim Jong-il.
Right, so that's the first item.
You don't have to tell me
your price right now,
but if you want to give
a ballpark figure.
How much he paid,
imagine it was on import.
It's got a price tag on it.
How much does it say on there?
Because it's not how much it is.
It says seven.
Just the number seven. Seven. So don't worry on it. How much does it say on there? Because it's not how much it is. It says seven. It's just the number seven.
Seven.
So don't worry about it.
All right.
I've got a guess, and I've guessed it.
All right.
It doesn't matter if you want to tell me now,
because you can adjust it as we go.
Five pounds.
Five pounds.
Wow.
Five pounds, I think,
because I think they're probably imported.
All right.
Wow.
And these were bought in this country, were they, Paul?
I believe so. Wow, five pounds. I have a bit of writing on the back, actually. Yeah. And these were bought in this country, were they, Paul? I believe so.
Wow, five items.
I have a big writing on the back, actually.
Yeah.
Next item.
Okay.
Next item.
Say what you see, sues.
Oh, I like that.
That's a good catchphrase, isn't it?
Say what you see, sues.
Say what you see, sues.
Do that.
I know it doesn't really work for a podcast.
No.
None of this is working for a podcast.
Shut up.
Anyway, next item.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Okay. This is next item. Okay. Oh, yeah. Okay.
This is...
Right.
So, Right Said Fred,
the greatest band in...
You've got the Beatles, Queen, Right Said Fred.
Yeah.
In that order as well.
And then the Stones, yeah.
They released a single.
It's called Wonder Man.
And it says it's got a sticker on the front.
I'm not saying that Right Said Fred's careers weren't going in a direction they would have liked, says it's got a sticker on the front. I'm not saying that Right Said Fred's careers weren't going in a direction they would have liked.
But it's got a sticker on the front that says, as featured in the Sega Sonic 3 TV commercial.
There's a lot of caveats.
There's a lot of caveats.
God, it's so bottom of the barrel.
And this is the 7-inch.
Yeah.
So a little vinyl.
So if you ever wanted Right Said Fred 7-inches.
There you go.
1994 Sonic 3?
Yeah.
Yeah. So basically what that suggests to me is that they had the song out already.
And it was licensed for the commercial.
And then they decided to try and boost the sales by putting the sticker on.
Yeah, it looks like it.
I think the thing was they released the song first and then Sega came to them and went,
well, we're releasing this soon.
Would you like to be the song of Sonic 3?
Yeah.
So off the back of that, they probably re-released it with that sticker on.
Yeah.
And the artwork.
And they did a new video.
New video.
Yes.
Yeah, because the artwork on the front, he's got Sonic's gloves on.
And that was basically the last thing they ever did, wasn't it?
I don't know.
I think it might have been.
When did they do the stonk?
What the fuck is that?
That was the comic release song they did in the 90s.
Was it the stonk? No, Stick It Out. Stick It Out was the... What's the stonk? The stonk was Hail was the comic relief song they did in the 90s was it the stonk
no stick it out
stick it out
what's the stonk
the stonk was
hail and pace
don't get me started
on comic relief songs
I know them
spirit in the sky
featuring the kumars
that was the last decent one
they did
ever since that
it's been bloody ballads
at least that had a comedy
element to it
so it was just the kumars
doing spirit in the sky
no
gareth gates was singing it
yeah
not young ones
and cliff richard or banana rama and lanadini nunu with help It was just the Kumar's Doing Spirit in the Sky. No. Gareth Gates was singing it. Yeah. Not Young Ones and Cliff Richard.
Or Banana Rama and Lananini Nunu with Help.
And it's certainly not The Stonk by Helen Pace.
Name some other ones.
I bet you can't.
Love Can Build a Bridge by Cher Naina Cherry.
Okay.
I want two more.
McFly, It's All About You.
Okay.
And one more.
Yeah.
And then Mr Bean, I Want to Get Elected.
You do know a lot of uh comic
oh isn't um show me the way to amarillo that was one as well yeah that was an unofficial release
because the one that they had at the time was i think like fucking boys own doing some band and
they were like this i've got another french in the background falling over what's that guy called
who sang show me the way to amarillo originally christy the way to town. I've got a single by him
Don't Go Down To Reno.
Yeah.
He's got a thing about places
and where you shouldn't
He has a song called
Avenues and Alleyways
which is a great song.
Do you want to hear a story
about me being asked to sing it?
Yes.
It's not long.
I used to do a lot of pubs.
We're going back about eight years.
I used to take my PA assistant
to pubs and sing
for like three sets.
And a guy came up drunk and went Do you do Avenues and Alleyways?
And I went, no, sorry, I don't.
Great song, but I don't.
He walked off.
Came back later more drunk and went, do you do Avenues and Alleyways?
I went, no, I don't do Avenues and Alleyways, but great song.
And he went, oh, walked off.
And he came back really drunk just before the third set and went
i want you to do avenues and alleyways and i went i don't do avenues and alleyways he went
fuck off you cunt and i went to the bar and that guy's just called me a cunt and they went oh that's
simon god that's depressing yeah so there's my song there's my story about the song avenues
it's a thought because you used to have tales from the dance So there's my story about the song, Aventures. You know what?
It's a thought.
Because you used to have your...
It's a tale from the dance floor, really.
It's a tale from the dance floor you've given us, Thea.
Thank you very much.
I've had a similar thing where they get really aggy.
Really?
It's like, yeah.
I think it was like a Diana Ross tune he wanted me to play.
I think it was...
What's it called?
Can't Hurry Love.
Yeah.
And I didn't have it with me.
And by the end, he was like, you fucking better will. I want to hear Can't Hurry Love. Yeah. And I didn't have it with me and by the end he was like,
you fucking better will.
I want to hear Can't Hurry Love.
You know what I mean?
You fucking better will.
It's like, whoa.
I can't physically do it.
That's what people don't realise.
If you can't hurry love,
you better hurry yourself out the door, mate.
So you had your own backing track tape.
Is that right?
Oh, well, they were all on my computer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
My backing track tape.
No.
It wasn't 1986.
Sorry.
Right.
Are we ready for the next item?
Sure I am.
By the way.
Oh do you want a value for this?
Oh yes I should.
Have you heard the song?
Do you know it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not good.
I'm going to play a clip of it now.
Wonder Man.
Wonder Man! There he is, having a blast We'll see you next time. Out of tune with him, power sneaking He's that good, just ain't that easy Wonder Man
He is a Mr. Wonder Man
Wonder Man
He's a Mr. Wonder Man
Wonder Man
Wonder Man
Wonder Man
He's a Mr. Wonder Man
Yeah, it's not great.
It's so bad.
It's a bit deepy, deepy, deeply dippy.
Deepy dippy.
That deeply dippy was a big hit for me.
I like deeply dip, dip.
Why can't I say deeply dip?
Oh, I did.
Deeply dippy.
Yeah.
I've ruined it now.
I like it.
I like deeply dippy because I like a song with a good horn section.
Yeah.
I'm a sucker for a good horn.
Don't you snigger.
It's not a very good song.
None of their songs are very good.
No, they're rubbish And he cannot sing
No
I'm valuing this at
Six grand
How much did
So how much was it paid for
I got this online
By the way if it helps
And again it's not expensive
So don't go crazy
No I can
I'm opening you up here
Can I ask something about the cover
Sorry to interrupt
Can I
Is it
Have they put a Sonic hand on him as well
He's got Sonic gloves on.
Is that a sticker as well?
Sonic gloves as well.
Wonder man.
I think it's actually the first design for Sonic from the movie.
I think they went with this first.
They should have stuck with that.
It's nicer.
It's not as...
I haven't got uncanny value looking at that.
It just makes me sad.
I reckon...
Oh, God.
They're going to change it, though, in the film, aren't they?
I think you paid £2 for it.
Oh.
All right.
Okay, so £2.
Next item. Can I have a guess? Oh, you pay £2 for it. Oh, all right. Okay, so £2. Next item.
Can I have a guess?
Oh, yeah.
I forgot your ear.
Go on, yeah.
I haven't guessed on these either.
Go on.
Have a little moment.
How much do you think for that?
How much for the sweets?
I think they're not going to be a five.
I think they're going to be more like three.
Oh, all right.
Okay.
Okay.
And the single.
Can I ask where you purchased this, Paul?
eBay.
You got it sent in.
I got it sent in, but it's cheap.
And I'm not including postage and packaging.
Oh, thank you.
All right, here we go.
Yeah, I think you're about right.
So I'm going to undercut your...
Okay, okay.
It's just slightly insane.
I was being kind.
£1.75.
£1.75, right.
That's how he likes to do it.
Because this might be one of those ones
where it's like, I got it for 1p.
Yeah.
Next one.
Okay.
Oh, this is wonderful.
Say what you see, Suze.
Oh, this is fantastic.
Okay.
So it is a completely, you know, not 2D, but not 3D.
It's like a.
Voxel, isn't it?
It's a pixel.
It's a brand called Pixel Pals.
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
It's a pixelated 8 a brand called Pixel Pals yeah oh I see okay it's a pixelated
8-bit Sonic
tapping his foot
I think it's 8-bit
Sonic tapping his foot
which I like even better
and he's like
all pixelated
it's about
I'd say
sort of
6-7 inches
high
and you can stand it
up on your desk
does it light up
yeah it does
does it
yeah turn it on
it looks even better when you light it up on your desk. Does it light up? Yeah, it does. Does it? Yeah, turn it on. It looks even better when you light it up.
This is beautiful.
Better get the price right then.
Oh, my God.
I love it.
Can I just say this record is on Tug Records.
No one noticed it, so I just wanted to say that.
Wonder Man on Tug Records.
This is like, okay.
So what I'll say is this
before you go any further.
Okay.
Right.
It is from the Digitizer set.
I wasn't allowed to take it.
The price is valued
on how much I saw
a similar one
in a charity shop
in Cambridge a year ago.
And what was the one
in the charity shop?
It was a link.
Okay.
I like this more.
So it's a fake price
for a different item.
But I'm judging on that price.
So it would be fair.
If I was on like a charity shop, I'd expect to see it for similar. So we're looking at a second-hand price for a different item. But I'm judging on that price. So it would be fair. If I was on like a charity shop,
I'd expect to see it for similar.
So we're looking at a secondhand price for this.
This is the only outlier.
I love it.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm like,
what I would pay for it
is probably different
to how much the link was in the charity shop.
Because I would pay like everything I have.
I think in the charity shop,
four pounds.
Not enough. No, £4. Not enough.
No, never enough.
Never enough.
True guess.
You know what?
Not a bad guess.
I'll go higher on that.
I love it.
I'll say £5.50.
£5.50.
See, he bounces around.
You won it, don't you?
Finally.
You won it.
Finally.
Not much to it
but it is a beautiful thing.
I've also got another one.
I've got a Mega Man one
which is adorable.
I'm not a big Mega Man fan
but it's a lovely little lamp. What a lovely is 8-bit isn't it that looks like the
8-bit sprite i think they've scaled it differently so it fits the the the molding that's the thing
he does when he taps his foot and he's waiting for you to play the game it's how it'd look if
you put your face right up against the screen yeah yeah because it was only in 320 by 320 or
something yeah well there you go and here's the last item today. Okay. This is the special one, I like to think.
There we go.
It's a Tiger Electronic Games Sonic the Hedgehog.
I mean, I don't want this at all,
because, like, here, get the sound effects and everything.
Start.
Let's go.
I'm glad it's got batteries.
Basically, if you were...
Is that Sonic music?
No, I think that was turtles in the hardship.
I can't see him.
There he is.
That's horrible. Oh, Buzz Bummer. If you were a parent, no wonder you fucking hatedtles in the Horseshoe. I can't see him. There he is. That's horrible.
Oh, Buzz Bummer.
If you were a parent,
no wonder you fucking
hated these in the day.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
And this is
the game where
Sonic is in the middle
of the screen,
but his legs move
to give you a sense of running
and then creatures appear
and you jump.
Off.
Why wouldn't it turn off?
Yeah, there we go.
Turned it off.
Okay, basically, guys,
I mean, everyone who's listening will know this
Tiger Electronic Games
were
they started coming out
in the 80s
didn't they
and
it's a very
the LCD
numbers
on a
watch
they found a way
that they could do that
with different sprites
it's quite ingenious
but it makes the games
virtually
impossible to play
and this is a Tiger version of Sonic.
They're like basic Game & Watch games.
Game & Watch, yeah.
They tended to be quite, at times, ornate.
The Zelda one I've got, I've got a Zelda clam-shaped LCD game.
And there's a lot of gameplay to it.
You do have to explore Dungeons, collect weapons, fight dragons.
Donkey Kong, man.
And Donkey Kong, again.
Really? So it's playable?
Because I've never found a Tiger electronic games that was no the nintendo ones not all of them but a lot
of them were fantastic as you might they came out before the nest didn't they game yeah yeah yeah
what was his name mr watch or something mr game and watch is his name who's a character you can
open in smash brothers yeah and it's beautiful so yeah that whole character and obviously they
transferred those LCD games
to the Game Boy Advance
when they did the Game & Watch packages
where they revamped them
and made them look pretty
I mean why would you want them?
I think that
you've got a Nintendo Game Boy Advance
you don't need to play
you don't need to play those games
you don't need to play Game & Watch
it might be the style
do you think a lot of people
wouldn't buy them?
it's an easy fiver isn't it?
but these Tiger are very much
the cheap end of that market
Tiger was disgusting
the same technology essentially
isn't it?
they did oh they really went there they did you know remember the Virtual Boy These Tiger are very much the cheap end of that market. Tiger was disgusting. The same technology, essentially, isn't it? They did.
Oh, they really went there.
They did.
You know, remember the Virtual Boy?
Yes.
So Virtual Boy was Nintendo's idea of virtual reality.
It was a pile of shit.
And I think it didn't even last a year in stores
before they were flogging it off for like 30 quid.
But you tried it for Digi, didn't you?
I played it on Digitizer, yeah.
Did it give you a migraine in like five seconds?
It didn't.
But it's not fun to play.
No.
Because you can't find a comfortable place to play.
No.
The table depends on the size.
But put some boxes.
And then you're in this weird position where you've got to put your hands around the back
of the console with the controller.
It looks like a robot or something.
It's horrible.
My friend had a barbecue.
It looked like one.
All the games are basic as fuck.
The only two ones that I enjoyed were, no, there's only one I really enjoyed, and that
was Wario Land.
Wario Land was fantastic
but everything else
was pretty much
elaborate game on watch games
and it's all in red and black
isn't it
yeah
I was just thinking
did you just say
someone had a barbecue
that looked like
yeah they had a barbecue
and I was shouting at it
I was pointing at it
going your barbecue
looks like Virtual Boy
and no one at the barbecue
I was the
I only knew my friend
and no one at the barbecue knew what Virtual Boy was so everyone was just like Katie your weird friend is shouting at the barbecue i i was the i only knew my friend and no one at the barbecue knew what
virtual boy was so everyone was just like katie your weird friend is shouting at your barbecue
um i bet twitter went crazy for it uh that's the picture of it but um tiger did a version of
virtual boy where did oh they did our zone that must be even worse. Oh, it was...
I've never seen one, obviously,
but you sort of put it over one eye and...
It looked like a Borg add-on.
It was like a monocle.
It was like a thing you wore on your eye
and a little kind of glass visor,
and it would shine.
Like Google Glass.
Yeah.
And you looked just like a bell-head wearing that.
And it beamed the very, very simple...
You know when you see Tiger Games
and they're all basically forwards and backwards and kick,
or left and right and car games.
Yeah.
Very basic.
That was all it was.
It was fighting games.
Did Tiger do the Game.com?
Was that them?
Oh, yeah, I think they did.
Game.com?
Game.com was like the pre-3DS thing.
But that came out in the...
That's probably only 20 years old.
That's late 90s, I think.
It was, yeah.
Virtually unplayable.
It was like a touchscreen gaming thing.
And it sounded like that.
And it had brands on it as well.
It did have...
It had Sonic Jam.
And Resident Evil 2.
Yes.
Fucking random stuff like that.
Unplayable.
Stuff it couldn't promise.
Possibly deliver on the promise.
Just do Solitaire and a Diary, mate.
We're chuffed with that.
It wasn't even good at that as well.
You could go on the internet with it.
You could plug it into a modem and look at your emails.
Imagine.
Fucking imagine.
I was going to check my emails.
Give me half an hour.
Well, yeah, and you can only plug it into a modem.
So it's not like, I'm on the go.
I can check my emails on the go.
That was back in the days when I had my first internet phone.
You could only do WAP.
There we go.
I was on WAP.
I tried to load one thing and then just never used it.
2004 Olympics.
I'm obsessed with the Olympics. I had to go away for somewhere then just never used it ever again. 2004 Olympics. I'm obsessed with the Olympics.
I had to go away for somewhere for two days when I was 19.
I was on the WAP just reading all the articles about the Olympics going,
see, it's fine.
Don't need a television.
Me and my phone building.
Right.
That's the last item then.
So what would you want to give that a price for?
I mean, this is more like a price from you.
You can revise this.
You have to give me £20 for even having to look at this.
Okay.
I think you pay.
Did you get that in a charity shop?
This is the most expensive one.
And this was bought online.
See, maybe it's collectible.
It's the most out of everything here.
Yeah.
But it's not crazy expensive.
No.
I spent £50 on it.
Okay.
I will say that when it comes to these items,
no one costs me more than a tenner,
which gives you a lot of wiggle room.
But so far, you're doing all right on price guessing.
I will say that.
£9 for the Tiger Electronic Sonic game.
You're saying £9 for that.
For the Sonic Pixel Pal, you said £4.
£4.50.
For the Wonder Man, you said £4.50.
£4.
£4.
Yeah, that's what I said.
£2 for Wonder Man.
£2 for Wonder Man. And for the Sonic Marshmallows. £4. Yeah, that's what I said. £2 for Wonder Man? £2 for Wonder Man.
And for the Sonic marshmallows?
£5.
Now, I'm going to throw you a lifeline here.
Okay.
It's too much.
Really?
So I'm going to leave it like that and let you revise your final opinion.
I think you paid 50p for Wonder Man.
50p for Wonder Man?
No, I mean the marshmallows.
The marshmallows were less than £5.
Yeah.
I think they're £2.50.
All right, £2.50.
So that means your overall score today is £2.50.
Yeah.
£8.50.
I want this pixel thing so much.
£9, £10, £11, £12, £13, £14, £15.
£9, £10, £11, £12, £13, £14, £15, £16, £17, £15.
It's a nice item.
£17.50 is what you say so far, right?
I'd pay triple that just for the pixel pound. £17.50 is what you say so far, right? I'd pay triple that just for the Pixel Pal.
£17.50.
Eli, what would you like to say?
Hello.
Sorry.
Sonic the Hedgehog marshmallows with jam filling.
Yeah.
I go three.
I'm going to stick with three.
He's going to stick with three.
Okay, go on.
Next, Wonder Man the single.
Wonder Man the single.
I said £1.75 originally. Yeah. I'll go for that stick with three. Okay, go on. Next, Wonder Man, the single. Wonder Man, the single. I said £1.75 originally.
Yeah.
I'll go for that.
£1.75.
What was the next item, Paul?
Sonic Pixel Pal.
The Pixel Pal is the wild card, isn't it?
It's the wild card.
It's the wild card.
I've been fair and I've not been crazy.
No.
I think that was a fiver.
£5.
And finally, for the Sonic LCD game.
I'm going to go for £7.50 for that one
£7.50
Which means your overall score is
£7.89
£7.89
£7.95
£7.95
It's great when you have to add it up
And we just sit here
£7.95
So, okay, so
Altogether you say the total amount is
£17.25
Right?
Really?
Yes
Okay
Suze says £17.50 Right? Really? Yes Okay. Sue's says
£17.50
We're very close
I can now reveal
what the final results are
and what the final price is on all the items
Sonic Marshmallow
was £2
So Sue's
was a 50p out, as was Eli
in many respects
You were a quid out Wonder Man, Sue's was a 50p out As was Eli in many respects You were a quid out
You took three, okay
Wonder Man, Sue said two, you said £1.75
The actual price was
£1.50
I'll get one point for that
Sonic Pixel
Sue says £4, Eli said £5
The actual price was
£5 on the nose
Three points, I've scored three
points. We're not playing that game though, are we?
I don't know what game you're playing, Paul.
You have a mate. But I tell you,
I'm having those points. Alright, fine.
That's the first time I've got something on the nose in a
year and a half. I'll give you it.
Right, and finally, the
Sonic LCD game. Yeah.
Oh, Sue said £9.
Yeah. Eli said £7.50. Well, Sue said nine. Yeah.
Eli said £7.50.
The actual price was £10.
Really?
Which means the overall price
altogether was £18.50,
which means today,
Sue's, you have won
today's showcase showdown.
I can't believe it.
You're taking home
the Pixel Pal,
the LCD game,
right, said Fred,
and whatever's left
of those horrible marshmallows.
I can't wait to put everything but the PixelPal in the bin.
I'm going to treasure everything.
Yeah, you better.
These are such great additions to my collection of Sonic memorabilia,
which is all in my head apart from this stuff now.
All right, good.
Well, at least you've got something now you can put on a shelf
and make into a shrine.
Yeah.
Maybe some kind of thing.
That's it, we can light up. The PixelPower will... Good. Well, at least you've got something now you can put on a shelf and make into a shrine. Yeah. Maybe some kind of thing.
That we can light up.
The pixel power will...
I walk past it on the way into my house and sort of do finger guns.
Hey, buddy.
You can put it and light it up and then bow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And salute.
Oh, I will.
Does Sonic have a catchphrase?
Depression's no good.
Is that what he says?
I don't know.
He never said that that but he thinks it
he thinks it all the time
because he has to keep
the smile on
even inside it's a pain
he lives in a dystopian
nightmare
well I'll just end by
saying this segment
you did very well
thank you
certainly for a first timer
really
yeah very good pricing
I've been to a lot of
charity shops
yeah well you seem to
know your stuff
so round of applause
thank you
I got three points
you did get three points
and you were 25p away
yeah
from like if you'd guessed
26p more
than you guessed
you could have
walked over all this
all of this could be yours
I'm going to have one more marshmallow
great
go for it
alright
see you after the sound effect
everyone
and now it's time
for the very famous part of the show
I like to call...
Yeah, Gannet's Golden Games.
Gannet's Gannet's?
I hate you doing that.
It's the most appalling sound.
Gannet's Golden Games!
The facial expression does nothing for me.
Honestly, mate, when we have guests,
I've been embarrassed to do it.
I'll be honest with you.
There was something to see and hear.
See, she likes it.
I didn't say that.
No, she didn't say that.
Not one word of that.
Paul, just one more time.
It's Gal Gal Games!
I hate you.
This concept, my life, and all the career choices
I've ever made that brought me to this moment in time.
But Paul, what are we playing on Gal Gal Ghost today?
What are we playing?
We're playing Tiger Electronics.
No, we're not.
I will eat that if I need to.
Gal's Gal Ghost.
My pika will enjoy it.
Gal's Gal Ghost.
Don't fight me.
Guys, this is
this is not good
content
because they can't
see the punches
rain down
I'll take you out
with your stretched
stomach
it's alright
there's no evidence
if you're a brick
muscle you'll be
a walking apart
for me my son
your poor body
is falling apart
and you're trying
to get into a fight
come on
come down the end
of this table then
you're feeling
a bit pokey, are you?
He's coming back.
Don't come back.
He's going to fight you.
No!
Where's the owl pellet?
I need to keep it safe.
I'm going to smear this pellet on you.
I need to keep it safe like it's Leeloo in The Fifth Element.
Yeah, you're looking suitors here.
Or I'll mull you.
Why did you smell it? It's called a pellet....Susazere or Almulia. Why did you smell it?
Don't...
It's called a pellet.
Do not smell it.
Christ.
You shouldn't have done that.
Paul.
This is...
I'm sat here with...
You're falling apart because you've just smelled an owl pellet.
You're falling apart because every time you laugh, your sides split, literally.
God, yeah, literally.
I've split the sides.
I'm surrounded by sonic memorabilia.
Yeah.
This is an average episode of Cheap Show.
Very average.
I'll tell you what, Paul.
Yeah?
We will not be dissecting that on the stream tonight
because I will lose my lunch.
Excellent.
That's exactly why I'll be pressing for that to happen.
Is it because that's your lunch?
Oh, God.
Eat it.
All the bones.
Eat the owl pellet.
It smells of spit.
It's good enough for an owl. It's good enough for you. Eat it. Oh, God. Eat it. All the bones, all the shrew bones in there. It smells of spit. It's good enough for an owl.
It's good enough for you.
Eat it.
Owl pellet.
Oh, I've really released the odour
and now I can notice.
I'm noticing it.
It's coming through the box.
Sorry, continue.
I can't smell it.
Good.
I can't smell it as well.
That's why I sat this end of the table.
I'm breathing through my mouth.
That's why.
Right.
We're playing today on Gannon's Golden Games,
a lovely game i've wanted
to get my hands on for a while it's funny i'll say this going forward out of all the shows to
be revamped for a modern era i'm surprised this particular show hasn't been revamped why agree
no i agree i this what we're playing today was a board game based on the hit channel 4 tv quiz show
treasure hunt i never understood that treasure hunt. She'd just run around and then they'd say,
oh, here's a map, and then I'd turn over.
Challenge Annika was the spin-off, wasn't it?
Challenge Annika was just shot at Annika's bomb
as she built a hospice.
Yeah, yeah.
And just went up to people and go,
go on, do it for free.
Okay, so she just had to corral people
through the goodness of their heart to help her.
Yeah, and they'd build a playground in a hospital.
So it had a similar
sort of approach as
Treasure Hunt, but totally different game, really
Well, that one was a game show, and the other one
was an altruistic piece of
entertainment for Saturday nights
And she'd be on the mobile phone
in a lorry, and that's why people
tuned in, because they were like, oh my god, she gets to see a mobile phone
and she'd go, hello, I need 30 metres
of PLY wood Do you remember that? And then they went, it's plywood, and she went were like, oh my God, you get to see it on mobile phones. She'd go, hello, I need 30 metres of PLY wood.
Do you remember that?
And then they went, it's plywood.
She went, oh, how embarrassing.
Bless her.
I like her a lot.
She's got a big bloody phone.
Yeah.
So the idea was the contestants were in the studio with the guy.
Oh, what was the name of the guy who hosted Treasure Hunter?
Bamber Gascoigne, is that him?
It's someone like, it's a Bamber Gascoigne kind of guy.
It could have been Bamber Gascoigne, couldn't it?
Was it the guy from 15 to 1?
Bambergastgoin did University Challenge, didn't he?
Maybe I'm wrong.
I don't remember Treasure Hunt.
I only know of it.
You know of it.
Yeah.
There was a lot of shows like that.
I'm slightly too young, but yeah.
Yeah, there was a lot of shows like that.
Thank you for that.
I'm slightly too young,
but you guys seem to remember it very, very well.
I don't know.
With all the internet these days,
I'm sure you haven't just unsubconsciously attached
that memory to your own childhood and made it your own and defended it.
I remember watching Treasure Hunter.
I was six months old.
I had to watch it on YouTube without the adverts back in the day.
Then I tuned into some adverts on YouTube.
Yeah, there was this.
There was obviously Challenge Amico.
That was a bit different.
But there was also, was it The Enforcer?
Krypton Factor.
Krypton Factor doesn't really count
that is a soul course
why doesn't it count?
it's a soul course
because the format's different
the Enforcer was like
evil treasure hunt
where you were on the ground
running around
there was a bad guy
in a helicopter
chasing you with a laser gun
that was cool yeah
and that was
not Linda Lusardi
what was the lady
who took over from Anika
you know what
I've gone down a rabbit hole
and I don't have that
to the internet
and now it feels like every pub conversation I ever had.
Come on, someone wants to know.
There'll be comments below saying,
I can't believe you didn't know that it was actually...
Why are you talking about this
when you should have been playing the game?
Why are you talking about Tiger Electronic Games
when everyone knows you should have just been talking
more about Game & Watch?
Why have you got women on the show?
I hate them.
They're scary.
They're scary.
I like it.
And that's why I've decided to never have sex with one, ever.
Ever again.
I shan't.
I won't.
And you never will.
Bad luck, love.
Right, so here's the rules.
In the TV show, the contestants will be in a studio with encyclopedias and all kinds
of stuff, and there'll be clues which would tell Annika where to go to get her next clue,
right?
Right.
Yeah, so with all that in mind
they had an hour to do it.
What happened if she found it?
Well she won.
There was like five clues
over the course of an hour
they had an hour.
She won but who benefits?
Me.
Me watching on YouTube.
Yeah well you
but everyone watching it
in hindsight
so they can just
skip past the boring bits
like I do with Ball's Eye.
Were there people
who said people who win money
though in the studio?
Yeah they win a proper prize.
And so are they helping
their members of the
public are they?
The host was helping
two members of the
public to do the
research of the
encyclopedias to find
out the answer to the
clues to feed back to
Annika in a helicopter
to land and find the
next one.
We're going to land
the helicopter now.
The board game works
in a similar fashion.
You'll be given a
player piece and a
dice right and also a
clue card.
I'll keep hold of these
because when you're
playing it with a
group you just have each other's cards.
Because I'm not playing,
I will just be in charge of the place.
It's just a versus.
And what happens,
each clue tells you where you need to go, right?
And then you get there.
When you get to that particular place,
you move on to your next clue card, right?
Every turn, you can either ask for a clue
or you can make a roll of the dice
and move around the board.
For instance, if you think the answer might be York,
not that it's on this map,
then you can maybe move towards York.
I've turned off.
Yeah, I know.
I've completely turned off.
Just play the game.
I didn't get any of that, Paul.
I don't know what I'm doing.
The point is, in 20 minutes,
we'll see if you can get a card
or as far around the board as possible.
They're all real places.
It's a realistic map. I know.
Of the southeast.
What colour would you like to be?
There's blue, black, yellow, green and white.
You've got East Anglia there as well.
Blue, please.
I'm reminiscing.
Yeah.
It's really deep.
Yeah, blue like Sonic.
I'm going to try to be on any blue helipad here.
Folkestone, please.
Where's that?
It's there.
That one?
Folkestone and Kent.
And what would you like red?
Where do you want to start?
What's that down there?
Bournemouth.
I don't like that.
That's where I went to uni.
I've never been back.
Never been back.
Never been back.
I went to work in Bournemouth.
Should we go Norwich where I went to uni?
Is there one in Norwich?
It's nice.
I like Norwich.
There you go.
And so per turn, you can either ask for a clue,
and that means you don't get to move around the board,
or you can move around the board anywhere you want,
square by square. So where's the treasure?
Well, you don't know.
You can either make travel on a roll and try and get there.
Make travel?
You can either travel in a direction,
hoping that you're maybe going in the right direction,
or you can just get clue after clue after clue.
I can't believe someone was giving this game away.
You only get three clues.
Yeah.
For the whole game.
Yeah.
For fuck's sake.
So shut up, both of you.
It's time to play Treasure Hunt. Thank you. Right, so
roll the dice
see who goes first
or do you want to do
ladies first
and be a gentleman
for our guest?
Well, I
It's 2019
That makes me feel weird
I know
I'm going to put all this
on you now
You go
Oh, it's alright
Fine, I'll do it
Alright
Four
I rolled a four
Right
So
Where are we trying to go?
Well, you don't know yet.
We've got to find the treasure.
How do you know if you've found it?
Because I'll tell you.
So it's on one of these squares, is that it?
Yes, it's not a blue square, it's like Birmingham.
You might want to get to Birmingham, so you've got to get to Birmingham
based on the clues you're given.
So you've rolled the dice, you've got a four.
Now, before you do a move, I'm going to give you
your first clue, all right?
So this is your first clue
of where you're going to go.
But she's decided to roll the dice
and not have a clue.
I didn't decide anything yet.
I'm giving you your first clue
before you do any movements.
No one's talking about that.
Well, because you keep
interrupting me, don't you?
I don't understand.
Feckless, hairy gobshite.
Right, here we go.
Here's your first clue.
Looking at my pixel, pal.
Nearby lies the RAF jet fighter base at Conningsby.
Conningsby?
I've heard of Conningsby.
Do you want another clue or do you want to roll a dice?
You only get three clues.
I'm going to roll the dice again.
All right, okay, so now you can move anywhere you like on the board.
I've got two.
Right, okay, so move anywhere you move anywhere you like on the board. I've got two. Right, okay,
so move anywhere you want.
I'm in the sea.
I'm in the sea.
All right, well,
she thinks obviously
where she needs to go
is in the sea.
I'm in the sea, lads.
All right, so Eli,
you're in Norwich.
Here's your first clue
before you get to roll the dice.
I'm just trying to remember
where Conningsby is.
Right.
Does it not exist anymore
like Yugoslavia?
It's a really old game.
The place you're going to
Try and look for
Yeah
Oh there's
So we've got
You've got
Yeah you're going on
Two different journeys
All these details
Coming out
After
Shut up
Ron Atkinson
Was once manager
Of this university's
Town football team
Oh
Ron Atkinson
You don't know do you
Fuck
Right so
University town
Right do you want to roll the dice
Bournemouth I went there
I'm going to give you
A clue and a roll first
As I've given to
Suze
What an awful game
Yeah
Do you want the dice
What do I do
Come on
You're meant to be
You're meant to move
Do you want to roll the dice
Or do you want another clue
Before you move
Five alright
Do you want to move then
I'm going towards
A university town
Alright
Which had Ron Atkinson famously manage their university football team.
Yeah.
Or their football team of the town.
Great.
Can I have a clue again?
No.
Oh, yeah.
Ron Atkinson was once manager of this university town's football team.
See?
It's not the university football team.
No, the town.
No, it's the town.
All right.
It's the same difference.
Also, back then there were less universities.
Back then when this game was made.
So, by the way, you can just go to another heliport.
1989, it's 30 years old.
You can just go to another heliport?
Yeah, I should have told you that at the start.
Oh, fucking hell.
And I'm in the sea.
So you've got to roll your dice first before you get another clue.
Right.
This fucking game, man.
Shut up.
Right, Suze, your go again.
Now, you're in the sea, so you're going to have to go back to the heliport,
but at least I'll say this.
You don't have to get an exact number.
Well.
Unless you get one.
I've got five.
There you go.
Can I go to any heliport?
You can go to any heliport from the one you need to go to first.
So we're just disregarding dice rolls now?
No, that's important.
We're slapping off rules left, right and centre.
When you've got to get to the town,
you've got to roll to get to the town.
You can't go by heliport or everywhere.
You can't just land your helicopter
in the town centre of Exeter, can you?
You can.
A few people die.
Exeter, that's a university town.
It is.
I interviewed there.
What for?
A degree.
Of?
Script writing.
Script writing?
Turned it down.
Went to do script writing
at Bournemouth instead.
Really?
I didn't know you could do a BA,
is this, in script writing? It was 2003. On the clock, mate. What kind of didn't know you could do a BA in script writing.
It was 2003.
On the clock,
mate.
What kind of
scripts?
Films and plays?
Movies and TV.
Oh, movies and TV.
And as you are
well aware,
I'm a prolific
movie and TV
screenwriter.
Oh, yes.
Right, I'm back
on my helipad
in Folkestone.
How much longer
are you playing this?
17 minutes.
Yes, put up with it.
God, have we only
been playing three
minutes?
It's so shit, Paul.
Just play it.
I don't know whether
to roll the dice or what.
It's up to you.
You're going to have to
get to a helipad
if you want to travel
any further.
How much did you pay for this?
It was a fiver.
Oh, man.
It's not bad.
I've got more joy
from that pixel power
which costs the same.
Is there a picture of Annika
I can look at?
No, there's no picture
of Annika.
There's loads on Google, mate. If you want, there's a picture of Annika I can look at? No, there's no picture of Annika. There's loads on Google, mate.
If you want, there's a picture of a very beige middle class family.
Oh, that's classic.
They all look like...
No, they look like two couples playing it.
They're playing Swingers Treasure Hunt.
It's got the original...
As we play Treasure Hunt, then it's time to swap spouses and cry.
It's got the original Channel 4 logo up there.
Yeah, you see?
It's an official licensed game. And there's. Yeah, you see, it's an official
licensed game.
And there's,
I think that's
Emmeline Hughes
from the 80s.
Oh, yeah.
And Gloria Hunniford.
Oh, right,
and they all get together
and play Treasure Hunt.
Yeah, they do.
And that's Nick Kershaw.
It's not Nick Kershaw.
The pop singer
Nick Kershaw.
Yeah, and that lady
at the end
is Wincy Willis.
Wincy Willis?
Yeah, they're all
the 80s in one picture. I love it. That's not Nick Kershaw right there. It is, it's Nick Kershaw No it's not That's Sally Dunn Wincy Willis Yeah they're all the 80s
In one picture
I love it
That's not Nick Kershaw
Right there
It is
It's Nick Kershaw
That's Nick Kershaw
No
I've made it up
Because I don't know
Who these people are
16 minutes
Do you know what
Nick Kershaw's song
Don't let the
I won't let the sun
Go down on me
That's not Nick Kershaw
Oh is it
No
No
Nick Kershaw
Never gonna give you
No
Never gonna let you down.
Won't let the sun go down on me.
I won't let my son go down, et cetera, gag from when I was 15.
I remember because this girl, Crystal, who was in my class, was in the video.
16.
The Nick Kershaw video, yeah.
Really?
It's like a family in the video.
He's going up and down the stairs.
What a great music video that sounds.
Up and down stairs. Yeah.
Crystal, I remember. Hold the dice and get
to a helipad. 15 minutes to go.
Four.
Where do you want to go? To that helipad?
Sure. Do you want a clue?
Yeah. Alright, here's your next clue.
Have a clue. Get it right. End the game.
United play at
Abbey Stadium here.
Do you know the problem with these questions?
80s football. Every single one? Is it Sheffield?
It's like 80s football.
They are, aren't they?
Every single one.
Is it Sheffield?
No, because that's up there.
You can only go to the north-east of England,
the south-east of England. It's also very south-east centric, isn't it?
Well, you can turn it over and play on the other coast
with Devon and stuff.
You can?
That's amazing.
Oh, the south-west is on the back.
Yeah.
Still very south-centric, isn't it?
Yeah, to be fair.
So there's your second clue
No one in the North South divide
What's it
Abbey
Crawley's on there
That's where I'm from
United play at Abbey Stadium
Here
Right
Suze what do you want to do
Do you want to fly to another helipad
Or do you want another clue
I want a clue
Alright
The Pilgrim Cottage
No
The Pilgrim College
Here
Has space reserved for visitors
For its new world namesake What The fuck is that I'm more interested in the Pilgrim College here has space reserved for visitors for its new
world namesake
what
the fuck is that
I'm more interested
in the Pilgrim Cottage
you know
Pilgrim Cottage
yeah
is that what the
cult was called
Pilgrim Cottage
with me
Daryl Sung
okay
alright
erm
I don't know
where that is
can I go anywhere
can I go anywhere
you can go anywhere
if you want to go
to another helipad, you can.
I think we've dispensed with this formality of the dice, haven't we, Paul?
I've been in the sea already.
Yeah, let's just forget that.
I'm going to go to Bournemouth.
Oh!
All the way down to Bournemouth.
Yeah, I used to work in Bournemouth.
Oh, yes, still a shithole.
Where were you at Bournemouth?
When?
What years?
2003 to 2006.
Oh, I was there 2000 to 2001.
You worked there?
What were you doing there?
I wrote for a video games magazine
called 64 Magazine.
The N64?
Yeah.
For Paragon Publishing.
In 2000, 2001
when it was finished.
On its arse, yeah.
It was like,
what are we going to review this week?
Didn't last that long, did it?
Yeah, absolutely nothing.
There were hardly any games
released for the system anyway,
were there?
They didn't release that many.
I reckon it's...
It's Derby, yeah.
It's not Derby. It's Derby, yeah. It's not Darby.
It's Darby.
Is that your cult leader?
Sorry.
I'll stop bringing it up.
I really want to know.
He's got Darfreedron.
I tell you what,
I had to have a shrine to him.
I had to put fruit in the shrine.
No, you didn't.
I seriously didn't.
And you had to look at it and go,
everything's made of atoms
and nothing is real
and that makes me happy.
But he was a god, like,
was he like a...
He was meant to be worshipped
as a god?
Uh,
no.
Okay.
But you know,
it's the same with all of these cults.
They go,
I'm not a god,
I'm,
and then.
Did he have sex with whoever he liked?
No,
I don't think there was a lot of that.
So I lucked out,
honestly.
Yeah.
As cults go.
It's well dark,
so it's not like,
you know,
it's not like Midsommar,
the thing you went to.
It could have been well dark.
Oh yeah,
or like that,
what's the real cult? Children of God.
My dad won't talk about it.
Why not?
Because he's so embarrassed.
Did he have to eat a baby?
No.
Did he have to eat a baby?
Did he have to eat a fruit stuffed baby?
No.
It was all fruit and then you weren't allowed meat and stuff.
It was quite strict.
It sounds like you'd pay a lot to be in it.
Did you have to give a lot of his salary to them? I'm not sure how much, but I don't think it was quite strict it sounds like you'd pay a lot to be in it did you have to give
a lot of his salary
to them
I'm not sure how much
but I don't think
it was that much
but there was a lot
of people hanging
around the house
really
what kind of people
hanging around your house
just people
who were in the cult
you know
they were just coming
in and out of your house
yeah
to do what
just hang out
was your mother
a recipient
can we stop the game
and just talk about the cult, please?
I'll tell you what.
Here we go.
I'm going to read all three clues out.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The other one has to eat a bean.
Right.
Eli.
Okay.
I'm going to read them out one at a time.
So you've had your first two clues.
So, Suze.
Nearby lies the RAF jet fighter base of Coningsby.
Do you know the town?
Right.
Eli.
Ron Atkinson was a manager.
I know.
I'm going to go for the motions.
All right. So let me do it.
It's fucking boring.
You're making it more boring.
You're boring.
No, I'm not.
Your attitude's boring.
You bore me.
Your face, you're boring.
This is quality content.
United play at Abbey Stadium here, do you know?
No.
No, I've told you I don't.
This is pure repetition.
Right, I'll just skip to the last ones on each clue.
Do it.
Suze, wrestlers named The Crab after this Lincolnshire town.
Don't know.
I don't know.
Obviously.
And Eli, this elite edifice of higher education stands on the River Cam.
Oh, Cambridge.
Yeah, there you go.
Oh, that's easy.
It's Cam.
Yeah.
I know where that is.
Where do you think yours is?
What, the wrestler?
Yeah.
No, what's the wrestler's name?
The Crab Wrestler.
Is he called The Crab?
In the sea.
He's a crab. I've been there. In the sea? I think she should get that. No, but the answer's Boston wrestler's name? The crab wrestler. The crab wrestler. In the sea. He's a crab.
I've been there.
He went in the sea.
I think she should get that.
No, but the answer's Boston.
You get a crab out of the sea.
Boston.
Boston crab.
Oh, though, funnily enough.
I went to Cromer and had crab.
Have you had crab?
Cromer crab.
It's great.
Did Panto there.
Look, I'll be honest.
You did Panto in Cromer?
Wow.
Ate a lot of crab, mate.
Was it good?
Was it a good experience?
It was all right.
Panto's Panto, isn't it?
Who did you play?
I was, what's her name, Alice Fitzwarren in Dick Whittington.
And I had to come on stage.
It was a children's panto, obviously.
Had to come on stage and immediately do a sexy dance
while Dick Whittington did some grinding dancing near me
to Mr Bombastic.
That was the level we had.
Did you touch him on his back?
Touch him on his back?
That's in Mr. Bombastic, isn't it?
Is it?
Touch me on my back.
Romantic, semi-fantastic.
The weird thing is, every time I think about that,
I don't think of Shaggy anymore.
I think of Mark Lamar on a table in a 50s diner
being pulled through the air on Shooting Stars.
It's a great little moment
so
here's a question for you
when you do panto
you know the photographs
of the old pantos
they have on the wall
there's a checklist
you can play bingo right
right
Operation U-Tree bingo
yeah you
almost
yeah frankly
there is
I did a tour
for this thing called
Psychic Science
that ghost hunting show
and you go to all these theatres around the UK
and everyone has this wall of pantos going back every year.
Yeah.
And all the same people turn up.
Grumble Weeds, they're in there.
Crankies, always there.
Always, always.
Dave Lee Travis comes up a lot, which I don't understand.
He's a very multifaceted talent.
Oh, he thinks that.
I bet he thinks that, yeah.
He thinks, he just wishes he was an old Edmunds.
No, he does. We did a show, a cheap, he just wishes he was an old Edmunds. No, he does.
We did a show,
a cheap show.
Imagine wishing you were an old Edmunds.
We did a cheap show edition
where we read out an interview
from an old Top of the Pops annual.
Oh, God.
He is full of himself.
Oh, I bet.
Really, really.
Apparently, he liked to prank
the German production team
of a TV show he was working on
by unscrewing the lens
before they went to shoot.
Oh, isn't he funny?
That's what he said.
He's like Val Kilmer
when Val Kilmer
was having his meltdown.
What did he get up to?
Val Kilmer,
he used to be a prick on set.
It's why his career really stalled.
He was going to be
the biggest thing in the world.
Absolutely huge.
I mean, he was bad.
I mean, he was in Heat
with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.
And Don't Forget the Saint.
Don't Forget the Saint.
And then he was in
The Island of Dr. Moreau.
With Brando, one of Brando's last roles.
The story behind them.
Have you seen the documentary?
Oh my God, Lost Soul.
Was it a flop as well as a disaster?
Oh, a complete, yeah.
And it was expensive.
Oh, that documentary's amazing.
Lost Soul.
Isn't it amazing?
Lost Soul, everybody.
Have you seen it?
No, is that about the island?
It's one of my favourite, yeah.
Which is a remake of like a 50s horror.
Well, it's a book, isn't it?
Is it H.G. Wells?
Jules Verne? Jules Verne? It's one of those, isn't it? It's not Conrad, is it? I think it might be H a book, isn't it? Is it H.G. Wells? Jules Verne?
Jules Verne?
It's one of those, isn't it?
It's not Conrad, is it?
I think it might be H.G. Wells.
I think it is H.G. Wells.
I don't know.
But either way, it's based on that.
And there was a version made, I think, in the early, I want to say 40s.
It's an old black and white one, isn't it?
Yeah.
But yeah, I know the story's about like Brando turning up and saying,
I've got this little fella.
He can be in the film, right?
And it's like, well, no, not really.
No, he could be in the film. He's got like well no not really no he could be in the film
because i'm marvin brando right i was like all right and there's brando he had a little person
with him yeah they were friends or what he'd found him hadn't he yeah his whole career was an ass
just an ass yeah but it's quite funny he's quite likable from the documentary like he arrives on
set and he hasn't learned any of his lines and the girl playing no no and the girl playing
his daughter
is Farooza Balk
who obviously was like
so excited to work
with Brando
and she went
could we get together
and maybe discuss
our characters
he went
I don't know
if we need to
and she went
I'd love to
look over the script
with you
and he went to her
oh darling
I didn't read the script
he said this movie is terrible.
Don't worry.
Everything you're doing is great.
He does an English accent in the film,
which is so exceptionally good.
He, like Brando,
could do the most incredible English accent.
Obviously effortlessly
because he wasn't going to put any effort in.
No, did he think he was making like Apocalypse Now 2
I think he thought
I'm being paid
a million pounds
to be here
he got his body double
so he decided
his character
should be completely
painted white
so that his body double
could do most of the work
and he had an earpiece
with the lines
with his assistant
reading them
from his trailer
and on one take
he just interrupted
the scene
by going
damn it
I told you not to act to his assistant.
Oh, wow.
And Val Kilmer probably had a similar story.
He was like, I get to play with Brando.
And then Brando came around and said,
I will be doing scenes with you at the same time.
He was a real shit to Brando.
He was an arrogant pig for Kilmer.
And then the two of them hated each other.
The documentary is amazing.
I'm going to check it out.
I think it's on Netflix.
It was on Netflix. Maybe it's on YouTube. to check it out. I think it's on Netflix. It was on Netflix.
Maybe it's on YouTube.
Maybe it's on YouTube.
Maybe it's on YouTube.
Maybe it's on Vimeo.
You just don't know.
Dailymotion.
Dailymotion.
Not around this part.
It's where I watched the whole of Frasier recently.
But what did you do for fun in Cromer after the show was finished?
We drank a lot.
Ate crab sandwiches? A lot of crab. We were actually in Sheringham, which is the neighbouring finished. We drank a lot and then... Ate crab sandwiches?
A lot of crab.
We were actually in Sheringham,
which is the neighbouring town.
Yes.
Anyway, have we gone for enough time?
Is the game over?
Five minutes left.
I was enjoying the panto tour.
We haven't talked about panto before.
Okay, well, that's cool.
I just thought there'd be elasticity to this.
This is the driest of dry.
This is one of the driest games.
Yeah, there's like nothing.
Right, okay. Where was I meant to end up? Where's my treasure? Yeah. Yeah, there's like nothing. Right, okay.
Where was I meant to end up?
Where's my treasure?
Yeah.
Boston.
We're Bostoners.
America?
It's not even on this fucking map, mate.
No, no, no.
There is a place called Boston.
I was on the right track when I was in the bloody sea.
I don't even know where Boston is.
I imagine it's on the coast.
I thought, yeah.
I bet there's people listening in Boston now being upset.
You bastards!
I'm in Boston!
It's got a famous church.
Yeah. So you've got a clue for. You bastards! I'm in Boston! It's got a famous church? Yeah.
So you've got a clue for me then, Pipe.
It's nearby Oxford Church
saw the first performances
of Benjamin Britton's
Noice Flood
and Curlew River.
Come on, you know this.
Oh my God.
They're not even well-known,
Benjamin Britton.
This musical town is north-east.
This musical town is north-east
of Suffolk's capital. North-east of Suffolk's capital? Yeah. town is north east of Suffolk's capital
north east
of Suffolk's capital
yeah
what's the capital
of Suffolk
I don't know
is it Ipswich
Ipswich
Suffolk
the capital
it's a good old joke
that was another joke
don't worry
at least no one laughed
and I wasn't in pain
we need to punch that up
Paul
when I was in Panto
walked past
oh my god we walked past, oh my God,
we walked past some youths
on a bench
when we went shopping
and they were sat there
and one of them went,
what's the capital of China?
And his mate went,
there isn't one.
Right, I'm not playing
Treasure Hunt no more.
Flip the board.
It's all over the floor.
I'd flip the board,
but then I have to pick it up
and my back hurts. You flip it then. Flip the board. Yeah, fuck over the floor. I'd flip the board, but then I have to pick it up and my back hurts.
I'll do it.
You flip it then.
Go on, flip the board.
Yeah, fuck off.
Fuck off, Trezor.
Rebel yell.
Fucking shit game.
Paul looks to Brexit.
The winner tonight was Brexit.
Again?
Keeps bloody well.
Poor Paul, look him.
Poor Paulie.
Shut up.
And that's the end of another cheap show.
Any final thoughts, Eli?
Great.
Oh, the alarm's gone off.
Is that the...
What?
What?
The oven alarm for the veg that you want my mum to stick things into?
No, but wow, yes.
Bake a cucumber, mummy.
Well, what would you do if I asked my mum to send me a picture Wow yes Bake a cucumber mummy Well Take that Mary
What would you do
If I asked my mum
To send me a picture
Of my mum putting
Like a vegetable
In the oven
I wouldn't be in
Trip Paul
Because it's just
A joke thing
That I do
Oh I see
You wouldn't go home
With it
What's wrong with his mum
No there's loads
Wrong with her
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Mrs Gannon
The old harpy
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where can they
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S-O-O-Z-U-K on Twitter, Suze UK.
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Fair enough.
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Thank you for having me.
And me and a pixel pal are going to go
solve a crime
I think you should
I don't want to see
pictures of said crime
being solved
we're going to commit it
then solve it
because we know
who did it
it was us
if it's good cop
bad cop
who's which
I'm good cop
and Sonic
look at him
yeah he's bad
that's the bad cop look
you know it
you go
I don't speak
and I go
hey I don't want
to leave you with him
I don't want to have
to leave you alone with him so you might as well speak I can't control him don't speak. And I go, hey, I don't want to leave you with him. I don't want to have to leave you alone with him.
So you might as well speak.
I can't control him.
Don't let me let him off the leash.
You don't want that.
What was that?
I'm squinting so I can see him more clearly.
Oh, good.
Oh, I see.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's pixelated, isn't he?
Because it's weird.
Half his eye is sort of sticking around the corner.
I'm pretty sure that is 8-bit.
Well, that's the big problem with Sonic in a nutshell.
His eyes.
Apparently the big bullseye.
He's got one big eye.
Yeah, just one big eye.
Like Cyclops, Soncops.
So that's why they changed it for the film,
because the film producers thought,
hey, we're going to make it edgy and trendy and youth.
But look, on that point, they are actually reshooting, aren't they, so to speak?
Redesigning the Sonic, yeah.
So what's he going to look like?
He's going to look like that, do we think?
I mean, I think that the design of Sonic was not going to be what made or break that film
having watched the trailer.
Yes.
It looks very...
It looks shocking.
I think that Jim Carrey's Robotnik
is going to annoy me
in about two seconds
because it's certainly
in the trailer.
Yeah.
Very big long improvised riff
from Jim Carrey in the trailer.
It's terrible.
And it's that whole...
It's that 90s thing.
The thing is,
this feels like it's a 90s film that's been made 20 years too late. Yeah. It's terrible. And it's that whole, it's that 90s thing. The thing is, this feels like it's a 90s film
that's been made 20 years too late.
Yeah.
It's got that Inspector Gadget
feel to it.
Well, why wasn't there
a live action Sonic movie
in the 90s?
Probably because they couldn't
figure out a way to do it.
They weren't doing many
sort of video game crossovers
because the Mario one.
No, Super Mario Brothers
was such a flop, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think that probably
scared off all of Hollywood,
didn't it?
And all the other films
that came out at that time.
Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter. Mortal Kombat that came out of that time Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
was the only
successful one
Mortal Kombat
maybe Resident Evil
actually on reflection
because that whole
franchise
Mortal Kombat
probably did great
on home video
yeah that sounds
about right
but if nothing else
we look forward to
the Sonic the Hedgehog
movie here because
why not
something to talk
about isn't it
we've got next year
the Mario films
coming out as well
by the people
that's an animated movie
good they should have
animated Sonic movie
they did an Angry Birds movie
which is for children
the message of the movie
is if someone new
comes to your town
you don't trust them
you're probably right
it's good
it's a good message
it's a good message
and there's also
a Minesweeper movie
that was called
Hurt Locker
it was very good.
Have we rambled?
We've rambled.
Let's say goodbye, everybody.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Bye.