CheapShow - Ep 152: What's In The Box?
Episode Date: November 8, 2019CheapShow finally, properly, returns to the House of Pickles for more Economy Comedy "larks"! This week, Paul and Eli take a deep breath and hope for the best as they take a deep dive into the content...s of their PO Box. As you can imagine, there are some delights to behold, but also, some truly nightmarish discoveries too. Will the cheap chaps figure out the appeal of “Haw Flakes”? Do the new Garbage Pail Kids stack up well against the classic cards? What Tomy toy has got Paul excited this week AND we take a listen to a bunch of vinyl that bounces from dinosaurs to bikinis to world parties... And pretty crap word parties at that! CheapShow's back in the HOP! 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-152-what-s-in-the-box If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Www.cheapmag.shop www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow https://www.teepublic.com/en-gb/user/PageBranson
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Do the fucking intro then.
Do you want me to do the intro?
Do the intro.
Ladies and gentlemen, hello.
I'll do the intro.
Oh, fucking hell.
Gary Sparkles.
Oh, fucking hell.
Gary Sparkles has been hired via his agent, Madam Spaff.
Oh, fucking hell.
Madam Spaff got me this gig and I'm going to do the intro to what I believe is a very solid podcast.
Oh, fucking hell.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm so dreary.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. I've got the script there in front of me. Here we go. I've got the script.
There we go.
Go on, then.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this edition of the Economy Comedy Podcast Cheap Show,
a show that goes for the bargain bins, the charity shops,
the frist stores, the jumble sales of Great Britain and brings back the treasure amongst the trash.
I'm the introduction man.
His name I've fucking forgotten.
Gary Sparkles, I fucking know it.
Madame Spaff, I'm on fucking book.
So please, ladies and gentlemen,
with your host Eli Silverman and Paul Cannon,
welcome to another edition of Cheap Show.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles.
It's just a fact of Cheap Show you're going to have to learn to fucking accept.
Cheap Show you're gonna have to learn to fucking accept. Cheap Show.
Cheap Show.
It's the price of shite.
Paul Gannon Eli Silverman
Welcome to Cheat Show
And I go and I nuzzle
Well what a wonderful introduction that was
That was probably the worst ever
No you always say that
It was lacklustre
Because you're a miserable old man.
It was lacklustre, Paul.
Alright, well then
you do one.
Alright.
Go on then.
Are you doing the voice then?
Just don't interrupt me.
Alright.
Oh, hello.
Oh, I'm Barry Shiners.
Hello, I'm Barry.
You complain about me.
You go with Barry
all the time.
I'm Barry Shiners.
Hello, I'm Barry Shiners.
I've been employed by Madame Spiffspoff to introduce...
You are creatively bankrupt.
You know that, don't you?
Oh.
Do you want to carry on or do you want to tap out?
I don't know.
I don't want to do this.
Do you want to tap out?
Oh, we're still poorly at HQ.
We are.
Sorry, everybody.
It's been a long day.
It's been a long day.
But we wanted to say,
I just wanted to say a few things, actually.
First of all,
you may have noticed a few changes on the website.
We've got new artwork now.
Beautiful.
You can support the podcast by Tony,
who's done a lot of artwork for us in the past.
And you can check out the art that Tony's made.
I particularly liked the Halloween special artwork.
Isn't it nice?
It's fantastic.
It was far more...
It had a real sense of, I don't know, adventure about it.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, it did.
It had a bit of spooky to it as well.
Bit of spooky.
I'm looking at you like you can.
I like that.
The way I'm looking at you like you can.
And I'm like, oh, it might be ghosts.
You know, it might be ghosts.
There wasn't.
There was no ghosts.
There's one called Barry.
And beans.
That fucking cracked me up at the time.
Yeah.
It cracked me up.
So, that bean, Venus costume.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, Venus.
Venus is a generic, readily available costume.
But that's what made me wonder.
So, there's no trademark
associated with the costume
no
so we can be Venus
I'm a Venus
yeah
I'm a Venus
yeah
I like these
anyone can do it Biffo
anyone can do it
although he has said
because there have been
people online dressing up
he's going to have to
accentuate the costume
in some way
to make it his own thing
yeah
yeah yeah yeah
well I personally I'm deeply tired of Venus already he's going to have to accentuate the costume in some way. To make it his own thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I personally, I'm deeply tired of being this already.
Yeah.
But, you know, you just don't know what's going to catch on.
You don't. Anyway, so Tony's now the, I don't know, the artist in-house.
Official Cheap Show artist.
And if you want to buy anything from Tony's website, Redbubble site,
there's a link on our webpage,
thecheapshow.co.uk.
And there is a Street Chow logo now.
Street Chow.
You know what?
The minute we started doing that,
I thought,
that's going to be a T-shirt.
Do you know any podcasts say that?
When they say something,
they go,
that'll be a T-shirt.
Yeah, but with us,
it actually will be.
It fucking is.
We'll say something daft like,
Fanny Splat Ding Dong.
It's like,
there's a T-shirt.
No, don't. Fanny Splat Ding Dong is It's like, there's a t-shirt. No, don't.
Don't.
Fanny Splat Ding Dong is a brand new game.
No, stop saying it.
Stop saying it.
It's a new board game.
Hello, I'm Barry Shiners.
I've got a brand new game.
It's called Fanny Splat Ding Dong.
Come on.
No, I can't.
I've got clinical depression.
So, but I did want to say,
for the past 100 or so episodes,
our art was supplied by Paige Branson.
We're still going to sell Paige's...
You mean the logo?
The logo.
It was Paige Branson's.
And I wanted to say a big thank you for that
because that was a huge, big deal for us
when we got that.
Fantastic artwork she did for the Cheap Show magazine.
Yeah, on the front cover.
With it all hanging off the clock
and that was brilliant.
Her work's amazing
and I'll put a link
to her Ko-Fi page
on our website
and also if she ever wants
to sell that logo art
like Tony and like Evendu
with their stuff,
Paige can go ahead
and do that.
While we're talking artwork,
are you going to take
that painting away?
Oh, we need to do something
with that painting
because it's unnerving.
Yeah, it's just nasty.
How about we do, I'll think of a competition and then we'll sign it and then we'll give it away.
Okay.
All right, we'll do something like that.
Let me have a think, but someone else can have it.
Yeah.
Do you think someone will want it?
I think it might be haunted.
Yeah, it's nasty.
And also.
Yes.
The new theme tune as well.
Ah.
That's exciting.
Funky.
A friend of mine, mine Jamie who did the
who did the score
for the Ghostbusters documentary
which Ghostbusters documentary?
the one that's coming out
it's finally released
called what?
the Ghostbusters documentary
no it's called
Cleaning Up The Town
it's been like in the works
for 10 years
Cleaning Up The Town
oh fuck off
it's a good documentary
I've watched it
and it's been getting
good reviews at Filmfest
I reckon over the years
Ghostbusters is just
going to appear more and more right wing isn't I reckon over the years, Ghostbusters is just going to appear more and more
right wing,
isn't it?
I don't think Ghostbusters
is necessarily a...
A rapian right wing.
It's not at all.
Don't be ridiculous.
Neo-liberal
fucking propaganda.
There's a...
I will say with Ghostbusters,
there is a tiny sliver
of the thread
about Reaganomics
and things like that.
The whole line about
everyone has three mortgages
these days,
all that kind of stuff. Well, they are
small businessmen, aren't they? They're entrepreneurs.
It's a blue collar
rags to riches story.
It's like
a kind of ghost version of Secret of My
Success with Michael J. Fox.
Which has
Oh yeah. By
Yellow in it. I know. it's the archenoise.
Can I just say to everyone,
everyone, do you remember?
Do you remember?
That every other movie in the 80s,
when it had a sexy car chase sort of scene.
Or just a sexy scene in general or something.
Sexy or a sort of car.
No, a car chase always...
Sex in a car.
It was always in a car.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
No, there was...
Yellow did two pieces of music that was used...
That were ubiquitous in certain scenes or films of the 80s.
So, oh, yeah.
Chika-chika.
Chika-chika.
Chika-chika.
All that stuff.
Yeah.
Was always used in a lot of kind of...
And that song's called Oh, Yeah.
Yeah.
But that was used.
I'm bringing it up now because it was used in Secret of My Success with...
Yeah.
And it's probably
used in something else.
That's the first time I actually,
it was very effectively.
It's the sex scene he has
with his aunt or something,
isn't it?
Yeah.
It's when he's,
yeah,
the older lady gets,
gets food.
That's very full of shit.
I only remember enjoying it
a lot at the time.
I remember enjoying it,
but there was like a whole load
of those films in the 80s
where it's like,
you look back and you think,
oh,
what a load of wank.
Yeah.
And also,
The Chase.
I want to say chase I want to say
I want to say
that was used in
Nuns on the Run
yeah
that's the one
that's coming to mind
but then the other thing
the other tune
that was used a lot
which I remember
was definitely used
in Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation
yeah
was I'm So Excited
and I Just Can't Hide It
that was another one
Pointer Sisters
and that was using the A-Team as well
was it
do you know what
there's so many songs like that
like I Need A Hero
by Bonnie Tyler
that were just used again
and again and again
they don't do that now
well they just use old songs
don't they
like Joker has
has
White Room by Cream in it
and what is the
bloody
the
all of Baby Driver
yes is like Needle Drops I think Baby. And what is the bloody all of Baby Driver? Yes.
Is like needle drops.
I think Baby Driver
is the
I re-watched that again recently.
Yeah.
And it's not good.
It's not very good is it?
No, I'll rephrase it.
The chase scenes,
the action scenes
cut to the music
which is what the film's about.
Yeah.
It's good.
The plot, I was like
and characterisation
and then the spectre
of Kevin Spacey
hanging over it now as well.
Yeah, and it's the bad smell of Spacey all over it.
And he's basically an abusive father figure in the film, isn't he?
Yeah.
Do you know what I mean?
He's nasty.
No.
He's this pretty young man that he wants to keep close.
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
Who he manipulates and exploits.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's kind of got that which is against it.
And also, yeah, I just thought the script's terrible.
And that thing at the end thing I just don't believe him
that whole thing
where he's living
with his adopted
black blind father
yes
I just don't believe this
do you know what I mean
it has this artificiality
to it
that it's just
completely
nothing real about it
sorry
this isn't a film review show
this is cheap show
five bags of popcorn
I haven't done any
what
anything stupid.
What do you mean stupid?
I usually do something
stupid, don't I?
Do you?
Yeah, by now.
I think we should go with
they're a touring
comedy duo.
What are they called?
Gary Sparkles.
And Barry Shiners.
Yeah.
Shiners.
They're not great.
Too many voices I can do really well is that.
What?
No, come on, ladies and gentlemen.
So, I'm not saying my fucking
wife's an idiot, but it took her
an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
I thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not my gag.
It's not my gag.
But at least I'm telling everyone now it's not my gag. It's not my gag. It's not your gag. It's not my gag. That's not your gag. But at least I'm telling everyone now it's not my gag.
As opposed to,
it's a gag.
Demerara.
No, but I thought,
that was convergent evolution.
Yeah.
I just came upon that pun.
You came upon the pun.
I came upon the pun.
I squirted a load of jizz jizz onto the pun pun.
I'm still ill.
I'm very poorly meant to be going to a fucking party tonight.
Well, get your party shoes on.
I can't do it.
Get your sparkly parky shoes on.
I can't do it.
Party shoes.
Here's a little tip for you.
Yeah.
Coke.
No.
Shut up.
When you're deodorising, Put a little spray on your knob
A little spray
On me knob
Why
Why
Just to get rid of the nasty smell of your knob
I don't
I've never had a nasty smell on my knob
So I think
Eli
That's what you say
No I
My penis
I don't want to discuss your penis
I just gave you some fucking advice
No
It wasn't advice
Squirt up here Squirt up here Give me a little squirt Down down there Disgust your penis. I just gave you some fucking advice. No, it wasn't advice so much as you had missed it.
Squirt up here.
Give me a little squirt down there.
Squirts have fucking deodorant on your knob.
I make it smell nice.
Mate.
Roll-on.
A roll-on you might have a problem with.
No, mate.
Imagine getting the roll-on caught in your foreskin.
The foreskin actually going in the roll-on. It looks like a penis, a roll-. No, mate. Imagine getting the roll-on caught in your foreskin and the foreskin actually going in the roll-on.
It looks like a penis,
a roll-on,
doesn't it?
It looks like a penis
with all the foreskin around it.
Oh.
What are we doing
on the show, Paul?
I don't know,
losing our fucking minds again.
Well, it's too late for that.
Mate, you can't
put tea on the table.
We are, today,
what I've decided we're going to do
is because every time I go to Biffo's
to just do some digitiser stuff,
there's a P.O. Box bundle, right?
Ah.
So, I thought, once a month,
we'll do an episode that is a...
P.O. Box.
A P.O. Box deep dive.
Deep dive P.O.
You need to work on the title.
Yeah, Pooh Box. Let's dive into our Pooh Box.O. box. A P.O. box deep dive. Deep dive P.O. You need to work on the title. Yeah, poo box.
Let's dive into our poo box.
Oh, God.
What?
We all know we were going to go there, didn't we?
We could see the letters in our head.
P.O.
P.O. is like poo.
Poo.
All right, well then let's workshop it now.
Come on.
No.
I'm going to call it.
You really did just give up then? Wow. All right, well, then let's workshop it now. Come on. No. I'm going to call it. You really did just give up then?
Wow.
All right.
I'm looking forward to getting some of this PO Box stuff out.
Right, well, listen.
I will say this before we go any further.
Today's episode is going to be a PO Box dive.
So we're going to dive into our box, right?
Yes.
We're going to go into a deep dive.
Some people send some wonderful stuff, but they don't write a letter or put their names on it,
so I don't know who sent stuff.
Well, they'll know when it's them, when we mention it.
I guess, when we say, this is a thing.
Yeah.
Great.
And also, I'm an idiot, and so when I collect the stuff from Biffo's,
I pour it all into a bag, so then it all gets mixed up,
so then I don't know who's brought what out.
So, in fact, the first bit of what you just said
was just a defence against what you've done,
which is completely anonymised.
No, the first thing I said.
The P.O. Box contents, haven't you?
You've ruined it.
You would hell with me with the second.
You've ruined it.
You've messed it all up and ruined it.
You're fucking it, you.
No, don't start.
I'm not the energy for that.
Yeah, you're unwell.
Don't get into fisticuffs.
There's going to be a new Paul Gannon from 152 onwards.
A more chill, a more relaxed, a more, hey, cool kind of guy.
Okay, good. More upbeat. Yeah, I'm going to be more upbeat. Okay, you could'm more chill. I'm more relaxed. I'm more, hey, cool kind of guy. Okay, good.
More upbeat. Yeah, I'm going to be more upbeat.
You could be more upbeat. Yeah, because I don't
want people thinking I'm bitter or angry.
I'm only a little bit bitter
and angry. You're very bitter and angry. I'm not.
I'm not. You are. I'm not.
I'm a lovely boy from the land of nice.
Paul, before we jump into
that very exciting PO Box
Dive, PO Box Bounty, I would just like
to have a little...
Yeah.
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Do-do-do. stuff. What's this? Look what I've got. Pat Kaz Hot Mango Pickle.
That's right.
Essentially not a sauce.
It's more of a pickle.
But it's a house of pickles, isn't it?
I'm just saying.
I walk it like I talk it.
There's pickles in here.
You're full of shit.
You really are. There's pickles in here, is what I'm saying.
That's mango. Do you like mango pickle? Sometimes. Depends on Is what I'm saying That's mango
Do you like mango pickle
Sometimes
Depends on what mood I'm in
It's not chutney
No I know
It's not the chutney
I know
No let me
Let me make this clear to you
I've had that before
Paul let me make this clear to you
It's not the chutney
Oh you dreary man
Dreary
You dreary tiny man
The other thing
Source report
Source report
Oh my God.
Wait,
I need to interrupt you.
Okay.
On the train today,
I'm just sitting there,
I'm coming in,
there's nowhere to sit.
No,
nothing like that.
All right.
But I had this weird encounter.
So it lasted a second,
but it was one that's really stuck with me.
On the train,
couldn't get a seat,
standing up,
had my bag with all the cheap show equipment in,
you know,
that I carry around,
blah, blah, blah.
And then this very small man
I don't know what you
can
you call them
they're not
what do you call them
dwarves
you don't call them midgets
a little person
a little person
very little person
yeah
came up
onto the train
okay
and he was looking around
for somewhere to sit and stand
and he made eye contact with me
and then just went
like that he threw his hands out went as if like he'd walked into like a dirty place
and then just backed out of the train let it go away fucking weird but he did it to me yeah
you know that reminds me of what the end of don't look now yeah
he was wearing a hood though he was wearing. Yeah. He was wearing a hood, though.
He was wearing a black hood.
He was wearing a hood.
Yeah, a hoodie, but it was a black hoodie, not like a red one.
If it was a red one, it'd be fucking weird.
Yeah, I'd get off the train thinking it was an omen.
That's what I would do.
Well, he got off the train.
Well, yeah, but luckily...
Strange, Paul.
It was a strange moment.
Sorry.
Source report part 2
someone's brought it
to my attention
online
because I was in
remember we
we went in Taco Bell
and I got some sauce
packets from there
and I said fire
was their hottest
sauce
were you wrong
yes
what is their hottest
Diablo
Diablo
yes
have you got Diablo
I haven't
and the person who posted it
said
showed a bottle.
They sell it by the bottle.
Okay.
And they mentioned maybe you didn't get it in Britain
because we're not as into hot sauces.
Fair enough.
Here in this fair isle.
People think we're a very plain country when it comes to spices, don't they?
Well, we are.
Well, maybe that's changing.
Thanks to the Cheap Show and Sauce Report.
And all these people growing chilies down in the South West.
Oh, yeah, of course.
There's loads of places like that.
That farm we got.
What are they called?
They're up there.
South Devon Chili Farm.
Now, that's not the same one.
Is that the same one?
No, it's a different one, isn't it?
It's called Uncle Grumbly's Spicy Mix.
Hello.
No, come on.
Hello.
No, you can't come back.
I've got something spiced.
What is it?
Is it a mystery prodding bag?
It's a hot bag of sick.
Right.
Is it lumpy?
It is very lumpy.
It's a hot bag of sick.
Very grumbly sick.
Brought up by the finest tramps and alcoholics of Soho.
I take a pick and mix scoop and I scoop it up off of platforms,
off of trains, off of guttering, off of sewerage.
Sewerage.
And then I just all filter it and I make it all special
with a special Uncle Grumbly special recipe. That's spaff
and it all goes in a jar
and I wipe the excess off the rim
and then I put a sticker on it
that says Uncle Grumbly's sick.
Do you wipe your smegma on the label?
No. Uncle Grumbly
doesn't put his own special sauce in.
Here's another little tip.
I haven't finished the character.
I've got to finish him off. You have. I've got to finish him off. No, you have.
I've got to finish him off.
Goodbye.
There we go.
Goodbye, Uncle Grumbly.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Another little tip, Paul.
Yeah.
Going to the party.
Yeah.
Brush your teeth, yeah?
Yeah.
Give your tongue a little brush.
Oh.
Give your tongue a little brush.
Squirty, squirty, knob, knob.
Tongue a little brush, brush.
All I've learnt from that
is your mouth stinks
and your cock smells
so no wonder you don't
get invited to parties
use a whole can
of Link's Africa
oh
did you hear about
that kid who died
from what
using too much deodorant
in an enclosed space
he asphyxiated
really
yeah
was it Africa
it was Link's
oh
like used a can and a half
dead
oh dear
would be a terrible way to go as well, wouldn't it?
Don't bless the rain down in Africa.
Lynx Africa.
Toto.
I couldn't think of anything funnier.
Let's crack on.
That should be on your gravestone.
I couldn't think of anything funnier.
It's P.O. Box time.
It's P.O. Box time. Let's have a look in the p.o box booty right so we had a
opening up we had a big collection of stuff to collect now i will say this a big collection of
stuff to collect yeah you're watering on thin water right Right. Don't blow the goose.
So there's lots of stuff,
but some of it we can't use for various reasons.
Some of it, like for instance,
someone sent me a USB port.
I'm not putting that on my computer.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Some of it, yeah.
And some people send us records,
but they're completely damaged.
So we can't play them. Yeah, so always be aware that vinyl...
Check it before you buy it.
Past a certain point, if it's below fine, or whatever they call it,
well, they won't really know.
If it's dirty as hell and scratched a buggery, maybe don't buy it.
Because we can't play it.
No one can play it.
And some things are just random.
Like someone sent a drill bit.
You've opened up this Pandora's PO box.
Pandora's bin box.
Oh, fuck off.
I can speak.
You can't.
What's that dude's tongue twister showdown?
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they felt smart.
Do it.
One smart fellow, he smelt fart.
Yeah, you couldn't do it, could you?
I did it on purpose.
Pickle, pickle, pickle peppers.
She sells sea shells on the seashore.
I like pickled peppers.
Pickled peppers are actually a thing.
I'd like to scoop some sick on a stick.
I'd like to scoop some sick.
I haven't heard that one.
We did it in our Patreon podcast.
You fucking idiot.
I can't remember anything.
Who am I?
You are Eli J. Silverman.
Where is this?
This place?
The J stands for Jacob.
Jacob.
Jacob.
As in Jacob Rees-Smogg.
Yeah.
I share a name with that fellow.
You do.
And that's all you do share with him.
I know.
Give some money.
Right.
So, I've filtered out a big load of stuff.
And some stuff we're going to save for a cheap show,
half hour YouTube video we're going to make.
Aha.
Which will hopefully get up before Christmas. Eh? So, we're saving some stuff for a cheap show, half-hour YouTube video we're going to make, which will hopefully get up before Christmas.
So we're saving some stuff for that because it's visual.
All right.
I want to prepare.
So basically what I'm saying is...
My little tip, Paul, if we're preparing to shoot a video,
you need to do hydro-rising.
Squirt, squirt there, squirt, squirt there, squirt, squirt on your bird.
Knob, knob, downstairs, knob, knob.
Make sure your knob is smelling good tonight.
Make sure your arsehole is near to some aerosol.
You want to make it nice and smelly, bumhole.
And make sure that your balls are nice and your cock looks just as nice
and everything is lovely and nice and nice.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
You don't have to make it look nice.
Just make sure it doesn't smell bad.
I'll put a little bow tie on it.
People do that.
People do that.
I'll call it Lieutenant Bird.
That's a good name for a penis,
as we said.
Right.
So,
we're going to split this PO box
into two segments.
One is going to be a platter.
And then the next bit
is just going to be
from the recent batch,
a load of stuff I found
really fascinating
and I want to talk about
on the podcast
so what you're trying to say
to sum up Paul
is just because you said
it's a drill bit
it doesn't mean
it's going to end up
on the podcast
potentially yeah
and some stuff
I'll give back to a charity shop
and all those kind of things
it will all be given back
to a charity shop
yeah we'll keep
the wheels moving
I got one of those
I got a happy meal
the other day
right and what
are you pointing at
the little
rainbow rat thing.
Oh!
You said it was like a Beanie Baby.
Well, Ty, T-Y, Ty, they made the Beanie Babies, didn't they?
Oh, that's the company that made the Beanie Babies.
I believe so.
Aren't they shamed of themselves?
Well, I believe Larry Bundy Jr. did a video about the whole history of Beanie Babies and things like that.
So, obviously, they're trying to get back into it with these kind of things again.
They're not going to try and make a sort of market for collecting now.
No, because that was fucking nightmarish.
It's Sakeef there.
Yeah.
Look, the witch hole and then you've got the cartoon rat next to him.
Oh, it's very funny.
It's a juxtaposition.
It is a juxtaposition.
We should do an episode one.
They may be a podcast for Patreon where we just go through all the things on your shelf,
like an art gallery, like your installations.
It's just too dense.
It's too dense.
It'll be a multi-parter.
All right.
Yeah, there you go.
I'm an idea machine.
Let's get out the first segment of this P.O. Box special.
Right, we'll start off with some nommies.
So here we go.
We've done these before, but we're going to mention them again
because remember we did the gummy pizza?
Yes. And gummy foods. It sparked a lot of interest. because remember we did the gummy pizza? Yes.
And gummy foods.
It sparked a lot of interest.
It did.
And the gummy taco.
People remember those.
Yeah.
And especially this brand.
You've handed me a trolley, bag of trolley stuff.
Trolley.
Who are coming up from behind, aren't they, when it comes to candy?
What do you mean?
Well, you said, didn't you, trolley are kind of like the pretenders to the throne.
They're trying to get the Haribo action.
Yeah.
Well, because we had those sneakers, didn't we?
Yes, we did, which were fine.
They were fine.
They were fine.
But I think what the corner of the market they go for is moulded jelly sweets, isn't it?
Yes.
It's moulded gels, isn't it?
Moulded candy, gelatin candy.
They go for this sort of mould.
And you've handed me something from the PO box here, Paul.
You can't get in.
I can't get into it.
Just tear it like a monster.
There you go.
It's been taped up good.
Yeah.
It's like someone also sent
a big bag of sugar-free gummy bears.
Oh, no.
I might have had the shit
to the next day.
Did you eat them?
Not the whole bag.
It was a huge fucking bag.
There's that famous Amazon review
when the guy ate a whole...
They're big.
Have you read that? Have you read that?
No.
One guy got a load
of sugar-free Haribo
and ate a whole pack
and then there's
this huge Amazon review
where he talks about
how he shat his life out.
Wow.
So,
have you not aware of that?
No.
And you did get the shits
after eating them?
Yeah,
but this wasn't
the Haribo brand.
It was some other brand.
Sugar-free gummies apparently just have that effect.
So we've got a trolley multi-pack, basically.
Multi-pack.
And it has lots of different trolley products in it.
Yeah.
It's fascinating.
The first one I pick out, one I haven't seen for a while.
What is it?
It's a trolley hot dog.
Trolley hot dog.
Got a hot dog there.
Trolley hot dog.
It's weird.
That's really unhealthy food.
And it's portray's really unhealthy food.
It's portraying really unhealthy food as well.
It's all just shit all the way down.
It's the inception of snacks.
There's another hot dog in there.
Another hot dog in there.
Now, this is a classic.
A big burger. Extra large burger.
Extra, extra large.
It's a big old bass of that one.
That's a big old trolley gummy burger, mate.
Yeah.
It's full of all the chemicals.
What's the smell of it like?
I bet I can imagine
exactly.
You can imagine the smell.
That kind of
chemically sweet
tang.
Sort of vanillary.
Yeah.
With that chemical.
Yeah.
It's quite nice.
I can't smell shit.
It's like being in a sweet shop
when you're a child.
I can't smell shit right now.
That's a useful talent.
Especially in the house of pickles.
Not being able to smell shit.
You can smell everything else
but not shit.
No. I just mean to smell shit, you can smell everything else but not shit.
No, I just mean... Did I exhaust you?
I am a very poorly
boy.
That's an extra,
extra large trolley
What I really want is
to go into a bed with
a hot water bottle.
We both do.
Just cuddle up and
put a podcast on and
listen.
I've got news for you.
Just have a nice
listen.
There's only two
types of thing in
this trolley bag.
That's fine, maybe
there's only two
types of thing. Extra, extra large burgers and hot dogs. I'm a nice listen. Yeah. There's only two types of thing in this trolley bag. That's fine. Maybe there's only two types of thing.
Extra, extra large burgers
and hot dogs.
I'll keep two
for photographs later.
Yeah.
There you go.
Shall we try one?
Because I bet
they taste the fucking same.
We're on form,
ladies and gentlemen. We're on form ladies and gentlemen
we're on form today
Paul
we're firing all cylinders
Paul
yeah
one thing about this
these trolley things
is
cheaper products
will have
there's no difference
in the actual flavour
of the different elements
of the fake food
but I think they do
I think like the
the lettuce
in the burger
is lime flavoured
and the
there's a cheese slice in there.
And a cheese slice is probably lemon flavoured or something.
Do you know what I mean?
You don't want to eat it.
I can have a bite of a slice.
Let's just have a bite of a bit.
I'll open this other burger then.
Open the burger up.
Because I'm sure the hot dog tastes the fucking same.
It's got one of those packs that you get on annoying electronic goods.
Yeah, a clamshell kind of thing. I'm having a one of those packs that you get on annoying electronic goods. Yeah a clamshell
kind of thing.
I'm having a sniff
of mine.
Can you smell it?
Oh yeah it's very
villainary.
Villanery?
Vanillary?
Vanillary.
Da da da da da da da.
Vanillary and
ivory come together
in perfect harmony.
I'm eating some of
the fake lettuce.
Yeah I'll have a bit of bite of this one.
Have some of the cheese.
I'll eat the cheese.
What's your opinion on cheese in burgers?
Yeah, it's fine.
I like it.
Do you go for it?
If you had the choice, would you go for it?
Yeah.
I like a cheeseburger.
Yeah.
That's a good quality gummy, really.
It is a good quality gummy.
Yeah, it's fine.
Don't do that.
It's fine. It's a fine gummy. It's a fine Don't do that. It's fine.
It's a fine gummy.
It's a fine, fine gummy.
Next.
Next.
I don't know what this is.
I'm a bit frightened.
It's called
Whore Flakes.
Oh, yeah.
H-A-W Flakes.
Whore Flakes.
Oh, yeah.
Ingredients.
You know who's been around here?
Sugar.
You know who this reminds me of, Paul? Go on. Whore flakes. Oh yeah. Ingredients. You know who's been around here? Sugar. You know who this
reminds me of Paul?
Go on.
Granny Sprinkles.
Granny Sprinkles is
an absolutely lovely
lady and I don't
think you don't
besmirch her.
She's a yeast
spreader.
Oh God.
Here comes the
yeast spreader.
Murderer.
So it's sugar,
whore 30%.
Oh like hawthorn
maybe.
Like a herb. Colouring, preservative sodium. What is whore, 30%. Oh, like hawthorn, maybe. Like a herb.
Colouring, preservative sodium.
What is whore?
I don't know.
Warning, E124 may have effects on activity and attention in children.
Yeah.
Serving suggestion, ready to consume.
What is whore?
Are you looking it up?
H-A-W.
I'm just going to open up one of the little packs.
They come in these little kind of little packs,
these little kind of rolls.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
See?
Like a tube of old sweets.
Oh, yeah.
Like a Toffo's.
Remember Toffo's?
White dog poo.
White dog poo.
Chimpers, chimpers, chimpers for golfers.
For fuck's sake.
A bum dog poo.
It's horrible.
All right.
What, are we going to say what whore is?
Yeah, what is whore?
I'm going to find out what whore is.
I want to know what whore is.
And I want you to tell me.
Oh, dear.
Oh, I don't know what this is.
Whore flakes.
Yeah.
Say what it is before I put it in my mouth.
As the bishop said to the choir boy.
Horflakes cheesecake.
What?
All right, okay, what is Horflakes?
Okay, all right, I'll tell you.
Yes.
Horflakes, Chinese, are Chinese sweets
made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn.
I was right.
What's hawthorn?
It's like a fruit, isn't it?
Okay.
It's a thorn.
It's like a berry thing, isn't it?
Just look at these.
They're discs. They're discs. I'm reading about what theseny. It's like a berry thing, isn't it? Just look at these. They look like...
They're discs.
They're discs.
I'm reading about what these are.
They're pale, dark pink candy
formed into discs,
two millimetres thick,
cylindrical stacks.
Yeah, that's what I've got.
Like Chinese fireworks.
Here you go.
You have...
Well, I need to get the good huff on the pack there, Paul.
Yeah, you'll be doing huffing today
as my huff skills are low.
Your huff hoot is honked up
with
not a very strong smell
it's a bit fruity
sort of like a
dried fruit smell
oh really
like a dried fruit
yeah that's what it is
isn't it
it's a dried fruit
I guess it's basically
dried fruit Paul
I'm going to go
and have a little nibble
of this whore flake
right now
oh dear
oh dear
it's like a
lady whore flakes
oh Oh dear. Oh dear. It's like a... Lady Whore Flakes.
Oh.
What a strange flavour and texture.
It reminds me a bit of that tamarind candy stuff.
It's a bit like that. It's sort of like just weird dried fruit in a wafer.
It's crumbly and chewy at the same time.
Yeah.
And it has got that dried fruit, fruit roll-up kind of flavour.
Yes, that's it.
Definitely right.
Just not very nice.
It's not unpleasant.
It's just...
I wouldn't...
I wouldn't get a...
It's not Moorish to my mouth.
No.
It's not.
The Horish ain't Moorish.
Yeah.
Although, actually, there you go.
Here's an advert campaign for you.
Na-na-na-na-na-na.
Oh, it's cold.
I'm outside.
I need some Horflakes. Oh, I'm Granny Sprinkles. Hello. outside. I need some Horflakes.
Oh, I'm Granny Sprinkles.
Hello.
No, you're Lady Horflakes, the one who gives me the snack.
No, but I am Granny Sprinkles.
All right, Granny.
I'm playing.
I'll be playing.
Let's start from the outfit from the top.
I'm Granny Sprinkles.
Hello.
Calm down.
Let me introduce the problem before Granny Sprinkles solves the problem.
Shut up.
Yeast shall fall like rain.
Yeast? Yeast flakes. Right. Shut up. Yeast shall fall like rain. Yeast?
Yeast flakes. Texture to vegetable protein. Here we go. Here's the advert.
Yeast.
Shut up.
Oh, it's cold.
I'm outside.
If only I had some snacks.
Some sugary fruit snacks.
La la la, walking down the road.
Deeply ugly woman?
I'm floating on a cloud of sprinkles.
Oh, hello.
Who are you?
I'm Lady...
What is it?
You fucking...
Horflakes.
Lady Horflakes, hello.
Hello, Lady Horflakes.
I'm cold and outside and I need some snacks.
Have some stuff that's come out of my fanny.
Oh, let me put this Horore flake inside my mouth.
Oh, I regret that.
All right, Paul.
I'm moorish for whoreish.
Paul, I didn't like those.
No.
Didn't like them very much, but interesting.
Thank you for sending it in.
Yeah.
Oh, God, I'm chewing it.
Yeah, it's a bit just sort of fruity.
Right, what time have we got?
There's no, I mean, I can't think of it. Yeah, it's a bit just sort of fruity. Right, let's have a go. There's no...
I mean, I can't think of a...
So, Eli.
What?
Some people look at this podcast
and I think we want to see stuff we don't.
And every now and then...
Like, for instance, you know you like playing cards.
I do like playing cards.
Here are two packs of playing cards
for you to enjoy and own.
What's the first one?
Stray Cats. Fair. It's Stray Cats. What's the first one? Stray Cats.
First, Stray Cats.
What's the other one?
Sex Poker.
It's full of deeply, deeply graphic and ugly 80s porn on a card.
Oh, God.
Now, I can't stress how much I fucking hate looking at
80s full-on hardcore pornography images.
It's just something mucky.
There's something dirty about being near them.
There's something horrible about touching them.
Even looking at them sobers my mind.
I will not be putting pictures of these cards
on the fucking website.
Let me just put it that way.
Oh, God.
Honestly, I don't even want you to describe
what you're looking at.
Wow. The Joker's just a woman
licking the top of a
plastic bottle
okay that's quite tame
yeah
yeah
that's porn cards
that's porn cards
here's a game show for you
I'll just put those
down there Paul
yeah
do you want them
or do you want me to
throw them away
I'll take them
if you want me to
throw them away
give them to me
I'll throw them away for you
alright throw them away do you want me to throw them away? I'll take them if you want me to throw them away. Give them to me, I'll throw them away for you. All right, throw them away.
Do you want me to keep all the clay?
Just put them down there.
Just put them down there.
Oh, they're filthy.
They're in the bin, Eli.
Good, that's where they deserve to be.
On the shelf next to your monkey ground.
It reminds me, did you have a neighbourhood porn stash
that was shared between everyone in the neighbourhood?
No.
We did.
What a horrible concept.
It was under a damp plank at the neighbourhood. No! We did. What a horrible concept. It was under a
damp plank at the bottom of one
boy's garden. Damp plank for a sad
wank.
I never
had that. The best we had was I had a
friend whose dad had a mobile video shop
so he'd drive around in his car and he'd
open the bonnet up. Not the bonnet, the boot up, sorry.
And there'd be videos in the back.
Fight the Navigator, Evil Dead 2, Terminator 2, Aliens, yeah. And then he comes back the next week and picks them up and there'd be videos in the back you know fight the navigator evil dead 2
terminator 2
aliens yeah
and then he comes back
the next week
and picks them up
and you can swap
that's cool isn't it
and though
but if you wanted
something special
under the table
under the bonnet
you know where you
keep the spare tyre
yeah
under that fake bit
of flooring
yeah
underneath the
absolute grot
absolute filth
dirty
readers wives
fucking in kitchen
with 80s decor
it's just that
you're right
it's the way that
it looks all grimy
and dirty
it's like you look at
American porn
and it's overproduced
and it's you know
soft focus
and it's all glamour
and erotica
and it's like
heightened fantasy
you know
and you look at
British porn
it's like
Ken Loach
with a fucking dildo
and some guy going
do you like it up the bottom love
do you like it up the bum
I know
one in the pink
not in the stink
you know what I mean
you're like you can't
British porn
where did you get that
I don't know
pop the pink
not the brown love
did it
no you said
one in the pink
but not in the stink
I've heard that somewhere
you've heard that I've heard that somewhere you've heard that
I've heard that somewhere
you must have
it babbled out
there's just something horrible
about British porn
there's something horrible
about what you just said
there's absolutely something
and it spreads into that whole
carry on
sex life
potato men
grubby
grubby dirty
doggy
doggy
is that a British
I think it is
phenomenon
doggy
I think it is of course it fucking is.
And there must be
similar things.
I just washed that
fucking Ford Escort.
In France they call it
Le Chien Chien.
Do they?
No, they don't.
So they're all just
stray cats.
The other deck of cards
that we have
is, yeah,
stray cats.
Which is fine.
Are they strays though?
Well, we don't know.
We're taking their word for it.
There's two pictures,
two separate pictures of cats near an urn.
There's one on a wall.
Cats that ashes.
There's one with a shoe.
Yeah.
There's one on a wicker basket thing.
Yeah.
Pillows.
Yeah.
Cats.
Let's see what the Joker is.
The Joker is a fish.
He's a little fish.
That's like a joke, isn't it?
He's a little Joker.
Right.
Thanks for those.
Next.
What should we do next?
Have you seen that?
Well, I can shuffle cards.
Upside down bridge.
No, you've shown that.
You're actually quite good at handling cards,
considering your issues.
These stray cards are terribly made.
They're bending.
They're very cheap, maybe end of appear kind of tourism shit.
They're not for playing cards with.
You could have one go of shit and they'd be ruined. Also're not for playing cards with. You could have one go
of shit in with that
and they'd be ruined.
Who fucking plays poker
with like sex porn cards?
No one does.
No one does.
Royal Flush.
What other poker names
can we make dirty?
Full House.
Oh, I had a Full House.
Gave her a Full House
the other day.
Gave her a full round the house.
Me, Gary, Sandra. We had a Full House. I bet there is house the other day gave her a full full round the house me Gary Sandra
we had a full house
I bet that is
that is probably a
porn
industry term isn't it
yeah
when you have three men
and two women
yeah
it's a full house
or a run
I don't know
that's great
that's next
oh I like this one a lot
I can't remember
and again
didn't put a name on it
as far as I know
I might
I might I'm really sorry but you know I love this what a lot I can't remember and again didn't put a name on it as far as I know I might I might
I'm really sorry
but you know I love this
what's this
say what you see
ah he's handed me
oh yeah
yeah what a lovely thing
this is
this is a little
handheld game
this is a proper
old one isn't it
this is
I'll tell you in advance
this is a
Pocketeers
yeah it's a
Tomy toy
Rat-a-tat
yeah
and this is based on
sort of 50s
Al Capone gangsterism.
Yeah, but there's a very similar one.
You've got a little gangster there with a Tommy gun.
Yeah.
The idea is you've got to shoot the balls to force the car along the top into its special hideout.
You see?
So you've got to fire at the car.
I'll show you.
I'll pull it back because right now it's hiding away.
So Pocketeers were basically handheld little kind of games.
Yeah.
Similar to the WoW R
yeah but they're
much smaller
yeah these are
very simple
but you could get
a mini pocket
version of
Kong Mountain
you know the game
that you
you get a little
pocket version of that
this is again
nowhere near
basically you have
a battery on it
yeah
this is not
battery operated
no this is all
springs and coils
so you've got
a little disc that fires ball bearings.
And it's got a little gangster on it.
A little gangster car.
And you've got to fire up the car to push it into the hideout.
Okay.
Let's have a go.
There you go.
Where's the cars up there?
It's up at the very top.
So you've got to fire at the car.
The car's got all gangsters in it.
Yeah.
Like the Mill Hill Mob or whatever it's called.
How do I load the Tommy gun?
You turn it clockwise to load.
Because I think it loads one or two at a time.
And then you pull back on the little red lever and fire it.
How do I know if it's loaded?
I don't know.
I mean, it will just...
Yeah?
Did it load?
You've just got to keep reloading it.
Rat-a-tat!
Rat-a-tat!
It's a little Tommy toy.
And they go on eBay quite cheap.
So one or two I want to get, like a poker machine.
Like one of them, you just press a button,
it spins through a row of five.
Deck of cards.
Yeah.
Deals you a poker hand.
Yeah.
So I've put an order in that on eBay because it's 99p.
This is a charming thing.
You can have that.
What would Tommy do these days?
They still make toys.
They still make toys for kids and young adults.
Do you know what I mean?
Young kids.
Adult babies. I don't know. Fuck it up. They still make you know toys for kids and young adults you know what I mean young kids adult babies I don't know
fuck it up
they still make toys
but they don't make
things like this anymore
because everything's like
fake iPads
and my first computer
and what nottery
well I'm stuck
it's not as easy
as it looks
no
or as pointless
what point score
did you get
five six
yeah
five
it's alright
it's a lovely little toy
though
I love those kind of things.
So I'm going to go on eBay
and I'm going to buy a few more Pocketeers
and bring them to the show next time.
I love them as well, I have to say.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's very nice.
So I'm going to keep that one.
And there's the hideout.
Yeah.
The hideout is a sticker
that's on the end outside
and that survived, which is good.
It has survived.
It's mint on card.
It's not that great condition,
but it's brilliant.
It's probably found in a charity shop.
What's wrong with the condition? It's just a bit worn on the tape, on the stickers, that's all. That's it. It's probably found in a charity shop. What's wrong with the condition?
It's just a bit worn on the tape, on the stickers, that's all.
That's it.
And the plastic's a little kind of, you know, musty.
Well, it must be 40 years old almost.
Something like that.
But there is an identical one with the same mechanic,
but this time you have to gun down a helicopter.
So the idea is you keep shooting at it.
Instead of a hideout, it's an explosion.
So it looks like you've blown it up.
So that's the idea, yeah.
So there's loads of those.
There's little kind of gambling ones. There's a roulette one, you know you know you spin a roulette well a couple some of them are shit but some of them i'm really keen to see because the mechanics
are interesting to me yeah so that's very basic i love that i love toby toys of this era like this
yeah they were great they also did um a type of wind-up toy that came in a little kind of fake
arcade thing it looked like a little box and came in a little kind of fake arcade thing.
It looked like a little box.
And it was the same kind of thing, ball-bearing shooting.
But one was like a shooting gallery
that had little bottles on a wall that you could shoot like this
and shoot them down.
And then one was like a basketball.
You had to fire balls.
I love all that shit.
That's a very nice item.
A rotating aeroplane that you had to fire a ball into.
That was nice.
So that's that.
What else have we got?
Oh, this next one, though.
Oh.
It's a big, big surprise.
Well, this is kind of a two-part thing.
One that I bought off eBay
because it was cheap
and one that I was sent in the post
almost through the P.O. box.
Coincidentally, at the same time.
Coincidentally.
At a not-too-unsimilar time of year.
Have a look at this.
Someone sent me.
Garbage Pail Kids. Oh, G sent me. Garbage Pail Kids.
Oh,
Gannon likes his
Garbage Pail Kids.
But there's no name
on this envelope.
Wow.
These are a load of
fresh,
unopened packs
of Garbage Pail
Kid cards.
Now,
these aren't old ones.
These are the new ones
that they've just brought out,
I think.
They've just brought out,
yeah.
I think so.
I haven't actually
looked at the date
on the back.
Should we open a couple of these?
Yeah,
definitely.
Let me just have a look at the packs. I just want to have a look date on the back. Should we open a couple of these? Yeah, definitely. I'll hand you one.
Let me just have a look at the packs.
I just want to have a look at...
I've got like a zitty guy.
What was he called?
They had two names each, didn't they?
Well, we'll get into that, but hang on one sec.
Five cards per packet.
Look for special lenticular cards.
Oh, Johnny likes lenticular.
Do you like lenticular?
Oh!
No. Eli? Yes? Hello. Hello. I likes lenticular. Do you like lenticular? Oh. No.
Eli.
Yes.
Hello.
I'm lenticular.
Oh, Christ.
Oh, I'm lenticular.
And look at me one way, and I do this.
Look at me the other way, and I do this.
This.
This.
This.
I'm lenticular.
You're Mr. Ticular.
Yes, hello.
You're under arrest.
No, I'm not.
Yes, I am. Oh, I'm lenticular. I'm two things at Yes, hello. You're under arrest. No, I'm not.
Yes, I am.
Oh, I'm lenticular.
I'm two things at once, depending on how you look at me.
Ask me a question.
Who do you think you are?
I'm lenticular.
Ask me again.
I'll look a different way.
Who do you think you are?
I'm Bob Carroll.
Geez.
See, I'm lenticular.
I'm two things when you look at me differently. You're coming with me, Mr. Ticular.
Am I?
Am I?
Oh, we both agreed on that.
I'm lenticular.
Make this character fucking work.
Right.
What year is it?
I can't find a year.
I want to see when these came out.
They're still tops,
and these are a pound.
Oh, they sold in the UK.
I had a feeling then for a minute
that they were new,
or made in the UK,
like they were imported.
There doesn't seem to be a date.
I can't find a fucking year.
All right.
Anyway, let's open a packet.
It's got a sad onion.
Oh, that's good.
Stuart will like that.
All right, let's have a look.
Just one packet random.
You've got a packet random.
Okay, I've opened a packet here.
All right.
So these are all new, are they?
I think they're a mix of...
But they're a different set.
I think they're a mix of new and classic.
Okay.
Let's have a look.
I've got... I've got a guy puking in a bath.
Upset Tommy.
Upset Tommy.
Oh, what's on the back?
Oh, there's stats.
They're like top trumps.
Oh, maybe they're trying to turn it into a top trumps-y thing.
You know, like a kind of magical gathering thing.
Yeah, so Upset Tommy.
Mate!
I'm lenticular.
I've got a lenticular card.
Oh, you've got a lenticular one.icular card I didn't get a lenticular one
I've got one called Dumped David
and alright
he's lonely
it's a guy with another guy
coming through his back and out of his belly
vomiting up
a bunch of stuff into a pan
have you seen that before?
no, these are all new artists
these aren't the original.
One of the things I'm not sure...
The artwork isn't as good, is it? It's not quite
as good. No. It's not quite as good.
Not that bad. It's not bad.
David. Oh, he's
duplicated. Yeah.
He's duplicated. That's where there's two of them.
Oh. Alright.
Next, what have you got?
Snot Witch Sandra.
And she is making a sandwich with her own snot.
It's quite disgusting.
Uncle Grumbling might want to be in touch.
He proves it there.
Maybe I should reach out.
Look at that.
Oh, Uncle Grumbling approves.
Is that a different artist?
Is that more like the original?
Well, they're drawn in the original style.
You know, the Art Spiegelman style.
Yeah, but he's not quite.
Were they all done by Spiegelman?
Yes and no.
We'll get into it.
All right.
I've got Takeout Diner.
I've got Takeout Diner.
Weird.
And that's a little baby
eating snot on a...
Chopsticks.
Chopsticks, yeah.
Right.
I've got Acid Wayne,
which is a guy
swimming in infected water
and below the waterline
he's all skeleton
because he's all been burnt away.
I like that one. That's quite been burnt away. I like that one.
That's quite a good one.
I like that.
And I have Neon Leon
who is just
a neon sign.
And she's
or he's
squirting some snot out.
And this is
Free Reeling Frank.
It's a little guy
on a car window
like a Garfield
stuck on with suckers.
Yeah.
It's a bit cluttered
that image
and the logo gets in the way.
It's not...
They're nice, but they're not quite as...
Iconic.
Iconic as that original batch.
And what, did you get a lenticular one?
No.
Well, I got a lenticular one.
I got a...
Well, this says corroded coal, but this was another guy with zits from the first series.
Zits from the first series.
It's a redrawn car from the first generation generation well maybe second like i get a bit fuzzy oh and the lenticular action is
making the pus squirt out of the the pimple that yeah i like that i like lenticular hello i'm
lenticular okay i'm over here i've told you once have you you didn't tell me now tell me again i'm
over here yes i'm looking in a different direction,
so therefore I'm doing something different.
Mr Ticular?
Yes.
Have you met my dad?
He's very specific.
What's he called?
Particular.
Shut up.
No, I like it.
That's good, yeah.
Good thinking.
Thank you.
So yeah, he moved that back and forth,
and look, he squeezes his spot.
And the puzzle comes out.
That's probably why they redrew it, to be fair, though.
And also, these lenticulars have beveled edges.
What's that mean?
Well, they've got rounded edges.
Oh, that's just nice.
I like lenticular things.
But the other ones don't.
When I was a kiddy wink,
my favourite thing that got free in Cornflakes
was a dinosaur lenticular card.
It's got little dinosaur lenticulars.
Lenticulars are an interesting technology, isn't it?
I love them.
I fucking love lenticulars. Like, you know don't get scary photographs and you turn them and they go
but you know they can get really quite um advanced yeah like i saw these special edition ones for the
phantom menace yeah um that were like and it was like a whole sort of shot yeah from the film
so it doesn't just have to move there's moved. It was action. Yeah, it has frames.
It has several frames.
So it's like a whole thing,
like Darth Maul sort of jumping
and twisting his sabers and stuff.
Oh, that's quite nice.
Do you know what I mean?
Oh, Lenticular likes that.
So it's not only just these simple ones
where you've just got two.
Yeah.
You can build up the frames or whatever.
So I've got a big load of packs over here.
So I'm going to enjoy going through these
and opening them up
and having them
because I like them
but this is what
it leads me to
the movie
we should watch the movie
we've talked about the movie
on the podcast already
I know
maybe we could do
a commentary for Patreon
I hate that film
yeah
and it's a shame
really
but this is the other
thing I got
again I got this
second hand off ebay
Garbage Pail Kids
it's a book
it's a book
of art
from tops of the first,
I think,
five generations or so.
Oh,
and it comes with some cards.
On the back
with a similar drawing style
from the artist,
whoever that guy is.
But again,
This is lovely.
It's a lovely thing.
It's just literally the artwork.
You know what's really nice
is that the cover,
Yeah.
the slip cover
on this hardback
is exactly like
that bubble gum paper
yeah
they've made that
out of the same stuff
it's exactly that
it's amazing
that's real detail
isn't it
it's great
it's so sticky
it's like that paper
yeah
if you get any of these books
because Topps have done
a range of these books
you can get Star Wars
we've restored the Star Wars
Planet of the Apes
that's a huge big
trading cards
yeah
Mars Attacks
but they haven't
done dinosaur attacks i've been told i'd like to get the mars attacks one next i love this
it's got like the history of it yeah there's an interview with art spiegelman in it where he
talks about how he got the job and how he designed the first couple of generations and how other
people took over series one starting in 1985 which is crazy yeah and like i didn't know this until
read that book but the film has a line up
of Garbage Pail Kids
and I thought they were from the first generation but it turns out
no there was actually like from the first couple
of years they picked out their own characters
from those first five generations of cards
and put them in the film whenever that came out
86, 87 so it had been out for maybe
a year or two then
it's an awful film
I don't know if you could ever do a good
version of
Garbage Pell Kids
Well it's not a story
It's just a bunch of
Sort of visual puns
Yeah I mean
But they also did
An animated series
Was that good?
I don't know
I've never seen it
I've seen clips
But not enough to have an opinion
Because like
There was loads of that
There was like loads of fads
That got TV shows
That you forgot about
Like did you know
Remember Madballs
They had a cartoon series
Have you seen those balls
That spit out other balls? No They're like Madballs? They had a cartoon series. Have you seen those balls that spit out other balls?
No.
They're like Madballs.
They're like a ball which has a scary face on.
Yeah.
But then...
You squeeze them.
And like another little thing comes out.
Oh!
Comes out of their mouth.
Maybe it's a Madballs mod.
Who knows?
But I love that book.
But yeah, there's an interview with it.
That's a beautiful little book.
It's a lovely little book.
I think I got it for like a fiver on eBay, which was handy.
They were cool.
I remember them coming out when I was in school,
and then they were like a little thingy, sort of a bit naughty, you know?
Yeah.
A bit like, yeah.
And I loved them all because-
Look at this.
Look at this.
It's all got snot on it.
Yeah.
And I liked, I had these ones where little garbage candy bins,
and you open them up and there's a little plastic toy in.
They also came in bin bags.
You get a bin bag.
Oh, but they were like one colour. Yeah. But there was a little plastic figure of. They also came in bin bags. You get a bin bag. They were like one colour.
Yeah.
But there was a little plastic figure.
I remember those.
I had the full set of them.
Adam Bomb and Leaky Lindsay and Liberty Libby, whatever her name was.
The whole range of them.
Boney Joanie.
Talking about little toys, Paul.
Did you know Happy Meals, they're going to do classic Happy Meals.
Have you seen this?
What does that mean?
They're going to bring back toys that they did before.
Oh, okay. Little nuggets. Little chicken nuggets toys that they did before. Oh, okay.
Like little nuggets,
little chicken nuggets
that talk to each other.
Oh, all right.
They're desperate, aren't they?
I mean, they are.
But isn't there a whole thing
at the boat where like
they're trying to...
They shouldn't do it, yeah.
They're trying to make...
They shouldn't make it...
Happy Meals shouldn't be a thing.
Well, no, they can be.
I got a Happy Meal the other day
and the guy went,
you want the toy?
Do you want a box of the toy?
I'm like,
I fucking ordered a Happy Meal, dude. Yeah. Of course I want want the toy? Do you want a box with a toy? I'm like, I fucking ordered a Happy Meal, dude.
Yeah.
Of course I want the fucking toy
in the box.
And then he was like,
what do you want else?
Do you want a fishing rod
and some wire?
Do you want to dangle it
over a school fence?
You nonce.
I just want a cheap Happy Meal.
You know what I mean?
It's a good bargain really
when you think about it.
You get a drink and a thing
and a toy.
And a toy.
That's the whole fucking point.
Three quid or whatever.
Do you want the toy? Yes.
It's joyless. Do you know what I mean? I want the fucking toy.
No, I'm a joyless grown-up and I
issue any fun. Do you know what I mean?
Maybe I want a daft little mystery
machine on my wall that projects ghosts.
Yeah. Maybe I want a wanky monkey claw.
Maybe we want a wanky...
We want wanky monkey claw.
We want wanky monkey.
It comes along. It comes along. It wanks you off. It comes along, monkey, we want. It comes along. It comes along.
It wanks you off.
It comes along.
You use it away.
It comes along.
It comes along.
Wanky, monkey, claw.
What else is in the PO box?
I think that's it.
No.
Until we get to part two.
Oh, no, there's one more thing.
You've got one more thing.
And this is a little present for you.
I'm going to let you have this.
All right?
All right, so put your hand out.
Do I have to close my eyes?
Yes.
It's not going to be dirty, because frankly, we've done that gag a lot.
And every now and then, you've just got to let it go.
So here we go.
I'm going to put my cock in your hand.
I'm not going to close my eyes.
No, close your eyes, seriously.
Why?
Because you've seen one before, but not like this.
Okay, put it in my hand.
It's my cock. Oh, there you go. All right, but not like this. Okay, put it in my hand. It's my cock.
Oh, there you go.
Right, so here we go, Freddie.
Have a little feel of it before you open your eyes.
What do you think it is?
It's a fidget spinner thing.
Fidget box.
All right, but now you can open your eyes.
What kind?
Oh.
Oh, he likes it.
I like this.
Do you?
Yes.
It's a Transformers.
It's Bumblebee.
Bumblebee fidget cube cube so
they've turned the whole of him into a fidget cube so his eyes his eyes i'm pressing his eyes
paul yeah what else has he got a thing on the back a little ball bearing a little feet they
don't do anything unfortunately well they're part of the modeling aren't they yeah oh well you've
got a little clicky thing on the side for his his arm. It's good, isn't it?
And a...
Nice action.
A dial.
It's got little horns.
Yeah, and a click.
Rubber horns.
Oh, they're fiddly as well.
They're fiddly.
They're nice little rubber nubbin horns.
Point them in your thumb.
You can press the nubbin.
Press the nubbin.
Press the nubbin.
Rub that nubbin.
You can twang the nubbin.
You can flick the switch and twang your nubbin.
You can get both fingers round the nubbin.
Round the horns, the nub in horns
blam
blam
blam
blink
twang
twing
twang
twing twing twing
that's my copyrighted
bling bling bling
ka-pling
ka-pling
ka-pling ka-pling
it's my copyrighted
point scoring
is it
alright good
only for the price of shite
yeah that's a lovely thing
thank you
there you go
so that's out the PO box thank you who ever sent that's a lovely thing thank you there you go so
that's out the po box and uh thank you he ever sent that in and also i remember i gave you those
noodles and that chili sauce as well from the po box recently a really good click actually yeah
it's got a nice bit of action that's a really that's a high quality click it's got on the top
yeah see the spring on that yeah it's really clicky yeah you know i mean it's satisfying
it's good it's got a good build i don't i don't very good build quality it's a nice gimmick but
i still prefer the regulars
just because they're a bit more kind of tactile and rolly.
But that is a lovely little thing.
And Eli Silverman, it's yours today from the poo box.
Thank you very much.
Bumblebee transformer thing.
Yeah, there you go.
That's a bit of fun.
And we've got a few more things,
but they're coming up in our next section
because they're platter-based.
So say something witty and we can end this segment.
Fried eggs. I'll take it
I'll take fried eggs
you were drinking last night
was I
yes I was
the owner came in
the owner had a special party
yeah
and I drank where was it discount came in. I only had a special party. Yeah.
And?
A dragon.
Where was it?
This count?
Yeah.
Are we recording?
No.
We are.
No.
Yes, you're doing the voice.
I'm not doing the voice.
Hello, I'm Paul Gannon.
I'm doing the voice.
I'm not doing a voice.
I wasn't doing a voice.
Hello, I'm... Maybe I'm just more professional than you.
Coocher.
Coocher.
Coochbooch. Did you say coocher? Coocher. Coocherooker kooker they put it in the kooker
did you say kooker?
no I've always said cook
why?
I don't know why
prick
not a fucking prick just because I say that
anyway
fucking prick
those porn cards are horrible
you were looking at them when I was out of the room Paul
I was looking at them
you were getting a grumble
weren't you
you were getting a twinge
no
everything about it
was just so
fucking grotty
just
for adults only
sales to minors
prohibited
yeah it's like
54 playing cards
sex poker
it's not even mean
that's what it says though
it's just porn
porn on playing cards
and on the back
it's even
I'll tell you how grotty it is.
The image on the back,
you know, the...
What do you call the back image of a card?
I'm not sure.
It's not the face card, is it?
It's just whatever.
It's the design, yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's so grotty
that even the rear part of the card
is gross to look at.
And that's just a lady licking a strawberry.
But the strawberry looks rancid.
It's just horrible.
The strawberry does look weirdly rancid.
It looks all dried out
and mouldy, that strawberry.
There's old pictures of women and men looking demented,
spilling their business.
It's just horrible.
I want to burn those cards.
I mean, I'm no prude. I like, you know,
sexy erotica. We all do.
But that just makes me
genuinely feel sad inside.
It's just
everything about pornography.
It's the whole gynecological meat slab
butchers thing going on.
You don't want to see the Ace of Spades, mate.
No!
Oh, the Ace of Spades!
Right, anyway, we're doing...
We're carrying on an RPO box deep dive
and we're going into
the platter section
ah
ah
ah
he's perked up
ladies and gentlemen
yes it's time for
Silverman's Platters
what's the jingle for that
maybe we should come up
with a new one now
we're in a new generation
of cheap show
it's all modern
and professional
okay
let's come up with a new jingle
for just platter
ha ha
it's cold
no that's street chaff
that is street chaff That is Street Chaff
Street Chaff
Listen, don't do that
Don't do that
Can everyone realise as well
That they nicked Street Chaff off
Street Life by the Crusaders
I think we made that abundantly clear
When we were doing the episode
Can I ask you a question
Before we get into the platters?
Have Casey and the Sunshine Band and Kool and the Gang ever performed together?
To the best of your knowledge.
I don't know, but I would.
Have they ever released a song together?
I am not aware of it, but I would not be that surprised.
If in the 80s they did do that.
I found this out and I was surprised.
There was one song
they teamed up
to sing together on
yeah
and it wasn't until
1997
97 wow
and it's called
Casper the Friendly Ghost
wow
it was made for a
horrible straight to
DVD sequel
to the Casper movie
called Casper
A Spirited Beginning
and they teamed up
to do a take
of the famous
Casper
Kool and the Gang
and Casey the Sunshine Band isn't Gang and KC the Sunshine Band.
Well, it's just KC the Sunshine Band were just session guys.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
KC was the songwriter.
But no, Kool and the Gang were a proper group.
Yeah, legit.
I mean, they were both legit
because KC still banged out some proper hits.
Some classics.
Yeah.
Absolute classics.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
What's that?
Ba-ba. Everybody wants you. Yeah, they did that-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba- It's not as famous, but it is. All right, I'll check that out. You check that out too, listener. That's the way I like it. Ah, that's the way.
Which the original is good, but they re-released that.
The version I knew was sort of some kind of rework from the early 80s.
Is that the one they use in all the adverts?
Yeah.
And they're like, oh, I've got to always fucking use it or something.
Yeah.
But I think that's sort of a nasty 80s sort of repurpose.
They did that one as well.
Yeah.
That's the way.
That's the way I like it.
I like it.
I reckon one of their best is I'm Your Boogie Man.
I'm your boogie man.
No, it doesn't go like that.
Boogie, woogie, woogie.
I'm your boogie man.
I like their early stuff, which was on the J-Boy label.
Before the J-Boy label became the TK label.
Oh.
TK was like, he was the in-house songwriter for the TK label.
Okay.
Who also put out Anita Ward's Ring My Bell.
Oh, you can ring my bell.
That was on TK.
Ring my bell.
Ding dong.
Miami-based disco label.
Yeah, you can definitely sense that in the song.
Yeah.
Because it's kind of trippy.
Not trippy, spacey.
You know, it has that sound where it's kind of like it's almost San Francisco-y
but it's not
which song
Casper the Ghost
no Ring My Bell
oh yeah
you know what I mean
you know what I'm getting at
it's pure disco
there's an unearthly sound
it's good
yeah it's droney
yeah
so anyway
we're doing platters
after that elongated intro
well can we hear that song
I want to hear this
Casper is crap
I'm going to put it in
and it is crap
imagine the song
Casper the friendly ghost is the friendliest ghost in town.
Yeah.
But awful.
Casper the friendly ghost.
Casper the friendly ghost.
Casper the friendly ghost.
Casper the Friendly Ghost Casper the Friendly Ghost
Casper the Friendly Ghost
The friendliest ghost you know
Though grown-ups might look at him with fright
All the children love him so
And yet Casper, the Friendly Ghost Love and Stone He always liked to say hello And he's really, really
Back to me, Chuck
Wherever he may go
He's kind to every
Living creature
But like, you know, two bands
Not in their heyday
Making it work
Does it sound like two bands playing together at the same time?
It sounds more
Casey in the Sunshine than it does
Cool in the Gang.
Interestingly, you know who did the theme, Casper and the Friendly Ghosts,
for the actual movie, the big proper
theatrical release one?
Little Richard.
When was it?
That would have been
5-96, I think, Casper.
That's when I fell in love truly with Christina Ricci. Was it a good film? I like Casper 95, 96 I think Casper. That's when I fell in love
truly with Christina Ricci.
Was it a good film?
I like Casper a lot.
I think it's
for kids
for what it is
it's great.
And also
until you know
the video game
was the last appearance
of Dan Aykroyd
as Ray Stantz
in his Ghostbusters uniform.
Was in Casper?
There's a whole
elongated cameo scene
where like
Ghostbusters cameo
in Casper?
Ray Stantz Dan i croyd goes into
the house to catch the naughty ghost stinky stretch and whatever right and then you hear
all these sounds and he runs out and he goes you know you're gonna call someone else and then runs
off so it's just a gag it's a gag i was so angry as a kid that one moment because i was like he had
a mustache for a start i was like are you telling me Ray Stantz can't deal
with three pesky ghosts?
Yeah.
Bullshit.
He saved the world.
Right.
So you were just like...
And then like a priest comes out
and he goes,
you know,
he looks like the guy from Exorcist
and he comes out
with sick all over him.
So they're quite an adult
sort of metatextual
sort of level of comedy in it.
There's bits like that.
There's even a bit where
I can't remember who the actor is.
I think it's Bill Pullman.
He plays the dad.
He looks in a
mirror and he starts
seeing hallucinations
and he morphs his head
morphs to like Clint
Eastwood and Rodney
Dangerfield and someone
else he's like hey I
can't believe it
so there's stuff for
the parents to enjoy as
well
and Eric Idle's in it
doing Eric Idle shit
no he just plays
bumbling British idiot
I liked him in
European Vacation
when he did that
I don't like Eric
Idle's movie career.
My nasty little
barb was always
Graham Chapman
had a much more
successful movie
career after his
death than Eric
Idol did in his
old career.
Did he though?
It doesn't matter.
I can't think of
anything Eric Idol's
done outside of
Python that has
been worth.
That's good.
You know what?
The Rutles.
I'll take it back.
The Rutles.
You like The Rutles.
But what I like most
about The Ruttles
really
was Chapman
is no
is Neelan's music
yeah
the film's fine
it's a fine comedy film
the sequel
Can't Buy Me Cash
or whatever it's called
is awful
really
it's just recycled shit
with new talking heads
that just don't relate
into anything
so
what are we doing
I don't know
we're doing Splatters
brought to you by Clyde McFatter Clyde McFatter the patron saint just don't relate into anything. So what are we doing? I don't know. We're doing splatters.
Brought to you by Clyde McFatter.
Clyde McFatter, the patron saint of this segment,
ladies and gentlemen.
So not all of these,
but some of these records are related to this letter.
Dear Mr. Gannon and Mr. Silverman,
I like it.
Official.
Hello.
Good to see you.
Hello.
Hello.
Long time fan of Cheap Show.
Long time fan of Cheap Show.
So I thought I'd send you a box of shit to have a look through he did uh fairly confident there's a couple of items in
there you'll like even sent one of a few of my platters i apologize about the one with the shit
clown on the cover but it is signed by whoever the fuck it is anyway keep up the good work always
cheers me listening to a new episode cheers ash for wolves from Wolves. Bring back Fat Sal hashtag.
Now, in contention.
So, he's given us a platter.
Can I just say something on that, Paul?
Just a little thing.
Yeah.
I just need to say a few magic words.
Venus meets Fat Sal.
Oh, coming summer of 2020.
Venus meets Fat Sal. That's all you need.
Is it?
That's all you need.
Is it, though?
No one needs it.
It sounds like one very bad idea made up of two very bad ideas.
So this is the LP that he mentions.
With the clown on.
That Ash mentions is Yule Dean's On With The Motley.
And it is signed by Yule Dean.
It says, to Dorothy oh hello
love and kind thoughts
Uldine
so Dorothy
was a big fan
obviously
obviously
he's not much of a looker
he's alright
he's fine
but that image is not
good
he's in clown make-up
on the cover of this LP
why is he in clown make-up
he looks like
what a killer
because he's a child killer
it's Pagliucci isn't it
the first song
is from
I Pagliacci
which is an opera
okay
it's a song
or
Pagliacci's the character
of the clown
from the opera
yeah
these are all kind of
like lighter operas
which like I said
is quote
referred to in
Smokey Robinson
and the Miracles
Tears of a Clown
is it because that clown
painted a tear on his face
or something
yes
is that part of the character well he hides he's sad he hides his sadness in The Miracles, tears of a clown. Is it because that clown painted a tear on his face or something?
Is that part of the character? Well, he hides his sadness underneath an exterior of frivolity
with the clown make-up.
He's the original The Joker from The Batmans, isn't he?
But he is almost as scary, isn't he?
I mean, if I saw that...
He looks really glum.
And he looks like John Wayne Gacy, doesn't he?
Just a bit too much like John Wayne Gacy.
Because you were talking about Gacy having angular stuff.
And he's gone for angular.
He's got triangles above the eyes, blue triangles.
He looks more like the crow than he does a clown.
He does look, and he looks angry.
He looks vengeful.
Yeah, he does, actually.
I think he's trying to go for sad.
He's going for sad, but he looks angry and mean.
It's like, I'll cut you.
He does, yeah.
I'll take you to my fucking box.
You've pushed me.
He's got that look like, you've pushed me too far this time.
I'm going to come over there.
I'm going to whop it out.
I'm going to...
Why does it always go there with you?
Why do you always want to whop it out
when there's not much of it to whop?
Oh, I wasn't talking about
I was playing
the character
of Yul Dean.
I'm Yul Dean
hello.
I did a little
bit of research
on him.
Basically Irish
guy singer.
Opera singer.
He was a tenor.
He appeared in a
film though.
He only a tenor?
I mean I know
we go for the
obvious gag on
this podcast.
Yeah we do. Even that. Even that on this podcast. Yeah, we do.
But even that, even that.
Doctor Who, you just said it.
He was in a movie.
As far as I know, his only screen credit, but I might be wrong,
Rillington Place, whatever the number of that house was.
10 Rillington Place?
Yeah, he was in 10 Rillington Place.
He was in that?
Yeah.
As an actor?
Yes.
I believe he did one or two things,
but he's mostly known for being a singer,
but he is in that film. I have not seen that film. That's a great film. Oh. I believe he did one or two things, but he's mostly known for being a singer, but he is in that film.
I have not seen that film.
That's a great film.
Oh, I love that film.
And it's sad and tragic,
but an amazing story.
It's pitch black dark.
Is it Richard Attenborough in that one?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
In a fucking, frankly, terrifying performance.
Yeah.
The Psycho, yeah.
Yeah, it's a great film.
He gasses the victims.
I was blown away.
John Hurt.
I was blown away.
And Hurt's amazing in it. He's the tragic guy who takes the fall, isn't he? Yeah, he gets framed, yeah. He gasses the victims. I was blown away. John Hurt. I was blown away. And Hurt's amazing in it.
He's the tragic guy who takes the fall, isn't he?
Yeah, he gets framed, yeah.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Yeah.
I've never seen John Hurt better.
Well, I mean, John Hurt's an actor who, by and large, is never shit.
No, he's never shit.
That's why he used to work so much.
I hate to...
Because people would sort of go, you know, he gets...
So he was in a lot of bad films because they knew...
But he was never the worst thing in them.
He was never the worst thing in them.
It's like you think Alien and you think fucking Elephant Man.
Also, when he played Doctor in Doctor Who,
when he played the War Doctor, he was fucking great in that.
He was good.
He was so good, in fact, that Big Finish gave him
a whole series of his own adventures to do.
And he did them well.
I've heard one or two.
He did do them.
Yeah, there's a whole series of stories about the Doctor
during the Time War.
And he plays that Doctor during the thing.
When were they made?
Recently, like two years year ago before he died
anyway
anyway Yul Dean
so interesting
we talked about John Hurt
for ten minutes
but I think we all know
he bought it for the album cover
he totally did
I mean the songs are
I mean if you're into
that kind of stuff
they're okay I suppose
yeah no we had to
one or two track
and it sounds nice
and clean
opera singing
I'm not into opera
I like opera
I've been to one or two
I saw Die Fledermaus
and Cosi Fantuti
and Carmen
and Carmen was interesting
I saw that in LA
and it was kind of interesting
Guys and Dolls
is based on Carmen
isn't that right
I don't know
what's the story of Carmen
the basic story
as best as I remember
is Carmen plays
is a gypsy woman
who
I can't remember
Laws
not Laws
but he's an army man
who ends up getting
distracted by her gypsy friends and I can't remember but it ends in tragedy a man But he's an army man Who ends up getting Distracted by her gypsy friends
And I can't remember
But it ends in tragedy
For them both
Or him separately
It's a tragedy
It's a love tragedy
Right
Now
With that in mind
Again
The Carmen character
Being this wispy gypsy girl
Who tempts men
With her dancing and volity
Right
Just for the listeners at home
Paul is doing
A little gypsy dance
And it's getting me stodgy
So We're sitting there And it's getting me stodgy.
So, we're sitting there and it's very impressive,
this performance,
apparently, of Carmen.
It was done at the nice,
big LA Disney-built opera house thing
that was acoustically brilliant.
No matter where you sit,
you get good sound, apparently.
And I'm looking through the guide,
I was like,
who's playing Carmen in this amazing role?
And it's like this woman
in the little square,
picture of her face,
thin, beautiful, you know, Romany-like almost? And it's like this woman in the little square, picture of her face, thin, beautiful,
you know, Romany-like almost.
And it talks about her career.
Now she's done all these things
and won all these awards
and she's well-known throughout the world
and she's known for this character.
And I was like, oh, that's interesting.
And then it started.
Oh, and one of the, you know, the three tenors,
well, you know, those three famous,
like there's Pavarotti and-
That's 30.
30, those three tenors.
Yeah, fucking hell.
But you know, there's like- Yeah, Pavarotti's the only one I couldn't think of. Yeah, but there's- Dotti and that's 30 30 yeah fucking hell but you know there's like
yeah Pavarotti's the
only one I couldn't
think of
but there's
Dominguez
yeah maybe it was
him but he was
conducting the orchestra
well he's a singer
why is he a tenor
because he wanted to
do that he wanted to
conduct the orchestra
fuck off
I would have been
like fucking go
fucking
maybe it was his
project
go sing
no he's his project
go here Pavarotti
anyway
go and have a
sing
Carmen starts
give me that
recording
that fucking
conducting baton
I'm going to
shove this up
your arse
great thanks
great contribution
to the podcast
so I'm sitting
there and the
show starts
and the whole
cast of characters
come on it's all
very impressive
and beautifully sung
and then Carmen
comes on
and I tell you
what
whatever that
picture was
in the book
it was taken 30 years ago because
the woman who came on was much older and much much bigger than she was in that picture and don't get
me wrong i'm not talking about ageism and blah blah but the character's meant to be this wispy
temptress kind of thing and she's not on her feet no and then there's one part right before the
interval where someone has to pick her up yes there's a. And then there's one part right before the interval.
Where someone has to pick her up?
Yes.
There's a whole bit where there's a bar song and everyone's singing, you know,
and having a merry old time in the bar and everyone's getting drunk.
Okay.
And then four guys.
Four guys.
She stands on the table.
Four guys go on the table and stand around and then go to grab her.
And I swear to God, over the music, over the singing, over everything,
I heard four guys go, and they tried to lift her and I swear to God over the music over the singing over everything I heard four guys go
and they tried to lift her up
and then
they all toppled back
and everyone
just rolled onto the stage
and then the curtain
came down for two minutes
they fucked up
yeah
and then the curtain came up
and she bowed
and everyone had a laugh
and then she kept on going
and it was a great show
but that moment was like
should have let the roll go
a long time ago
but whatever
we should just not do
the bit where you get
picked up
well I don't believe
they may have done that
in subsequent performances
was that probably
the first night
was that the first night
it was the first night
I was going
I think it was like
we went to the technical
rehearsal
that's exciting
you saw a mistake
yeah
but anyway
there's my opera story
that's good
tales from the opera
yes
people say we're lowbrow or nobrow yeah I got noshed off Anyway, there's my opera story. Oh, that's good. Tales from the Opera. Yes.
People say we're lowbrow or nobrow.
Yeah.
I got noshed off at Kirsty Van Tooty.
That's a tough taffeta.
Tough taffeta.
Fucking light opera.
Yeah, Pavarotti.
An early rector.
I don't know.
Anyway, we've got three more singles now to go through.
Dominguez is a cunt.
Wow.
Here's, we're going to go through some singles.
The platter, very quickly.
Seven-inch singles in the platter splatter.
Brought to you by the patron saint of this segment,
Clyde McFatter. Thank you, Clyde.
Clive?
Clyde.
Clyde.
I was right there.
That was good.
So here's the first one.
It's a seven-inch.
It was sent to us in the PO box.
I can't even summon the energy to look at it.
Don't worry.
We're not going to be talking about it long,
but it does have one point of interest.
So it's a seven-inch single.
It's called World Party,
and it's by the band.
Not band.
It's by the group The Calypso Twins.
The Calypso Twins.
And it sounds exactly like this. this Well, I ask you what to do.
And you say, get out on the streets.
We're having a world party.
You can dance with your lover.
She don't have to go home.
Get out on the streets.
We're having a world party.
I want to tell you now, my friends
Again and again
Get out of this dream
Now, you know when people walk out of movies
when they don't like it and they storm out?
We stormed out of this record.
I sometimes go, I don't do that when I watch a film.
I watch the bitter end and have an opinion.
Yeah, we stormed out of this song.
Oh, terrible. We put it on for five minutes film. I watch the bitter end and have an opinion. Yeah, we stormed out of this song. Oh, terrible.
We put it on for five minutes, and it's that shit.
It's flaccid.
Piss-weak Calypso that was popular.
What was it about Calypso that was popular in the late 80s?
Was it?
Well, it kind of was.
It was like bits of Calypso out there, wasn't there?
But it's not even proper Calypso, is it?
It's not proper Calypso.
It's sort of popped up, sort of.
So it's a double act.
It's two guys, and you know who one of them is? One of them is Ainsley Harriot. Really? The Calypso. It's sort of popped up. So it's a double act. It's two guys. And you know who one of them is?
One of them is Ainsley Harriot.
Really?
The Calypso twins.
I can see now.
That's Ainsley Harriot.
So the Calypso twins were a comedy double act.
And they did like...
This was comedy?
Well, that's not comedy.
That's not funny at all.
It's barely music.
No.
So Ainsley Harriot started doing comedy with a guy.
I think his name was Peter something or other
but that was their double act
he's a white guy
so there's a black guy
and a white guy
and they did comedy
calypso songs and bits
and they've been
at the comedy store
and they've blah blah blah
and then they released
this song
in 89
and it is
fucking garbage
it's total pants
it lacks
anything
well first of all
I would never put this on
at a party
because it does nothing
to dance to. You say
it's not proper Calypso. It's just that
suggestion of
Calypso, but without
any of the energy.
The production is so flat and lifeless.
It's just
instantly forgettable whilst you're listening
to it. Oh, and the B-side?
Stinky poo poo no-nos. I don't like it.
The B-side is an instrumental and it's
called Cobbler's Calypso and it's a steel drum
sort of tune. Easy listening steel
drum sort of tune. So out of, the only interesting
point in that, it's Ainsley Harriot who went on to have a career
as a TV chef and book writer
of recipes. Just a sort of
all-round guy. And he was big for his
big, you know, oh they like it!
He was a big character, wasn't he? Very large
in life. Yes. Very extreme. He was big, wasn know, oh, they like it. He was a big character, wasn't he? Very large in life. Very extreme.
He was big, wasn't he?
Grind the pepper, grind the pepper.
Has he given up on TV now? I think he does bits and bobs,
but I honestly don't know.
I do have a story that I'm not
going to keep in the podcast that I'll tell you now and then edit
out, and it goes like this.
Did it get dealt with?
I don't believe it did.
Anyway, we're back in the room.
Paul, what happened to the other guy?
Don't know.
There's no link on him.
I tried to look for him separately,
but there's no link to him on Wiki, on Comedy.
It's just nothing.
He was known for this.
And that's it.
And that's it.
So God knows.
Maybe he's gone into business.
Someone may know.
I'm not going to do the research.
It's a fact. I'm happy to lose down going to do the research. It's a fact.
I'm happy to lose
down the back of the couch.
It's a void.
So I'm going to give that
0.5
I did not like it.
out of 5.
And I'm only giving it a 0.5
because at least it exists.
I'll give it 0.5
of a platter as well.
I'm happy for us
to do that Paul.
I'm happy for that.
Yes.
I'm happy.
Sadly though
isn't it even good enough
to go in your collection
of Michael Anius stuff? Absolutely not. So that's going back to the charity shop. Yes. I'm happy. Sadly, though, isn't it even good enough to go in your collection of Michael Anias stuff?
Absolutely not.
So that's going back to the charity shop.
Yeah.
Isn't it good, Nick?
Someone won't enjoy it.
Someone will enjoy it.
They won't.
No, they won't enjoy it.
No one will enjoy it.
Ainsley Harriet will enjoy it.
Next track.
Now, we've wanted to talk about this guy for a while.
And here's the song and the reason to do it.
Because I have in my hand a 7-inch.
Eli, tell me what you see.
This is Bombal Arena.
Yeah.
And their cover version
of itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow polka dot.
Bikini.
And it goes all the sounds like this.
I like it.
Go on, go on. Go on, go on, go on, go on. Oh, yeah. Go on, go on. कि अ लाइक आ यह लाइक आ यह लाइक आ यह That's Kimo for the first time today The nixie, nixie, teeny, weeny, yellow polka, that's the kitty
So when I saw her, she wanted to say
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was as nervous as she could be
She was afraid to come out of the locker
She was afraid that somebody would see
Two, three, four, tell the people what she wore
It was a nitsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow bocas, a bikini
That she wore for the first time today
A nitsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, yellow bocas, a bikini
So in the locker, she wanted to stay.
Now, tell me about the original track.
Do you know anything about it?
No.
Because it's part of that kind of, was it 50s?
You know, they had that purpley, peepalita song.
There's all those kind of gimmicky, teenage beach hits.
And I think this was one of those.
It was before the Beach Boys sound.
Yes.
But it was that.
Similar, sort of popcorn pop.
Like, how much is that doggy in the window?
You know, almost.
Sort of just like a novelty sort of tune.
Yeah.
And it's an old standard, you know, the whole...
And it's based on a polka sort of rhythm, isn't it?
I mean, no, the polka's design isn't of the bikini.
I can't remember if the song itself, the original song, is polka-ish.
I don't think it is.
I think it's more just kind of... Does a polka dot have anything to do with polka dancing? I don't know. That song itself, the original song, is polka-ish. I don't think it is. I think it's more just kind of...
Does a polka dot have anything to do with polka dancing?
I don't know.
That's a very good question.
I think it must be...
Yeah.
Me?
I don't know.
I honestly don't know.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know out there?
We're trying to keep this internet free so we can just have a nice old chat.
Now, but Bomba La Rina...
Bomba La Rina.
...was really a studio studio project let's be honest
yeah
not like a group
and it consisted of
it was very cynical
corporate almost
cash in
on what
novelty pop
yeah
you've got to remember
repackaging novelty pop
from decades before
and it falls into
a thing we've seen
a lot on
on this show
it is the novelty song
performed by TV presenter
stroke radio disc jockey.
You know what I mean?
This is, now I will say this,
this is vastly superior than Simon Groom's
Oh, that sounds pretty helpful.
Which is, I mean, the Calypso world thing is just bad.
It's just forgettable crap.
Yeah.
But that is toxically poisonous
to your thoughts
to listen to
it's a very special
kind of bad
it's tragic
it's weak
you can see
it's the equivalent
of the guy
who's made the movie
it's like the Miami
Connection
you know that guy
with a vision
to make a movie
and then that's the film
that comes out
the Miami Connection
or whatever it's called
which what are you
talking about
those B movies that are made with earnestness to make the best action film ever but then it comes out, The Miami Connection or whatever it's called. Which, what are you talking about? You know, those B-movies
that are made
with earnestness
to make the best
action film ever
but then it comes out
and it's absolute dog shit
but then you kind of
don't mind,
you're kind of
fond of it.
Bomba Ballerina
was fronted by
TV presenter,
children's TV presenter
Timmy Mallet.
Timmy Mallet.
And for those in the UK,
Timmy Mallet
should be
a name you recognise
of a certain age
he was a TV presenter
I think it was mostly
through Wackaday
initially
he was the wacky
presenter
in the morning TV show
yes
but he used to
they used to just
cut to him
and he'd be doing
Mallet's Mallet
wouldn't he
and then it would
cut back to the studio
he was just the
slightly wacky one
who did all the
kind of odder bits
of the show
he was zany
he wasn't just wacky he was zany and Mallet's mallet was a game we had a big foam um hammer a mallet and it's a
word association game where you mustn't pause mustn't hesitate and if you repeat a thing you
get a bonk on the head like this all like this and what as soon as you got one bonk you were out
uh no it's just whoever had every time you got a bonk, you were out? No, it's just whoever had... Every time you got a bonk, you got a plaster on your head.
And so basically, the one with a few plasters won at the end of the round.
So let's do it.
Word association.
Okay.
Ready?
Dog.
Cake.
Eat.
Smell.
Snuff.
Ow!
Bonk!
I'm getting this.
All right, do it again.
You start.
Piano.
Keys.
Mum. Dad. Father. again. You start. Piano. Keys. Mum.
Dad.
Father.
Sister.
Pool case.
Stick.
Bomb squad.
Shut up.
That's a whack.
I'm going to hit you.
No, right.
I'll hit you with my mallet.
Why are you going to hit me?
Because bomb squad means absolutely nothing to after stick.
No, but it's just free association.
Aren't we going to be delving down into the psychology?
No, we're not delving.
I'm afraid to dive into your mind.
Come on, let's do it.
Mummy took me to...
Oh, no.
Just don't.
Don't attempt that.
Oh, they all loved the Zodiac.
Oh, they all believed in the future.
Paul, weird.
Mummy took me to weird fairs.
Paul.
Paul.
What?
Weird.
You're being weird.
You're weird.
You're weird. You're weird You're weird
You're fucking weird
You're weird
That's the strongest we get
So Bon Ballerini
Yes
Timmy Mallet releases this song
On the basis of his wacky character
And
It was a minor hit I believe
Was this his first one?
Because we did cover
Very early on
We did an album of his
I think recently
No we did
Very early on
Another tune That he did Did we? Something like a Latin one Remember that? an album of his I think recently no we did very early on another tune
that he did
did we
some like a Latin one
remember
when Brian Weck
was on the show
it was that
that's episode one
that's episode one
oh
I think that we did
really
Bob Ballerina's other tune
in episode one
oh god
and this was the big hit
yeah
but they had a few
because this
this obviously was a huge success for them.
Yeah.
However, the worst part is the executive producer.
Would you like to reveal that to the audience?
It is Andrew Lloyd Webber.
What a fucking cunt.
He's behind everything toxic, isn't he?
I'm Andrew Lloyd Webber.
And everything I put to taste.
It doesn't, though.
I mean, these days it does.
I mean, artistically.
Yeah. It's terrible. I will give him Phantom of the Opera, right? I mean, these days it does. I mean, like, artistically. Yeah, it's terrible.
It's like, I will give him Phantom of the Opera, right?
I'll give him that.
I'll give him Joseph, because that's a bit of fun, right?
Yeah.
Phantom of the Opera is good, isn't it?
Cats, up your arse.
Cats has nothing to it.
It's based on a poem, isn't it?
Starlight Express, up your arse.
I liked it at the time, because I was into roller skating.
Also, Andrew Lloyd Webber was another executive producer of Dr. Spin and the Tetris song that came out.
He's just behind all sorts of terrible, cynical cash-in pop, isn't he?
To be honest, that sounds, the B-side especially,
sounds like 90s samples the single.
Yeah.
Where every sound that you ever remember from the 90s is in this.
Including that one, which has to be the most notorious.
And the other one.
Woo! Yeah!
Yeah. Woo!
The rebels here in New Street.
And that beat is so familiar.
It's stuffed
with those tiny little
hooks. At the time,
it's almost like you just felt like that
was everywhere. That R year was on everything for years.
Do you know what I mean?
It was just, those samples were just so ubiquitous
on everything you heard.
But it's almost a joke in that,
because I think people remember that bit from the song
more than anything else,
because someone would go,
Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow bokeh dot bikini
na na na na na na na na na.
Our year.
And that was it.
That was the hook.
That was what they added, wasn't it?
And that's it.
But, you know,
Timmy Mallet apparently
hasn't shaken the 90s off.
Tommy Boyd, I think,
did an interview
a fair few years ago now
talking about Timmy Mallet.
And he was saying
he never turns it off.
Yeah.
The way you see him on TV
is the way he's like in real life.
I know, that'd be awful.
And he can't turn it off.
And I think Tommy Boyd,
he's a genuinely smart
and creative
and astute man
but there's this character
he exists in
that I think
as a result
people underestimate
more people don't take him seriously
as an adult
but he's fine
I don't know
he must be
he's still involved
in sort of
TV production still
or something
I believe he does like
cruise ship DJing
and he does
what was that thing
Pat Sharp told me this I think like he does like cruise ship DJing and he does, what was that thing?
Pat Sharp told me this.
I think like he does like Mallet's Mallet at university,
fresher weeks and he turns up and a bunch of kids who won't remember who he is.
You know what I mean?
Maybe when I went to university, it'd be interesting to see Timmy Mallet.
But like these days, come on ladies and gentlemen, remember from the TV, it's Timmy Mallet.
Do you know what I saw?
Crickets.
Do you know what I saw? Whatickets Do you know what I saw?
What?
At university La Petite Main
That guy the fart guy
Really?
Yeah
And that's what you took all your inspiration
No I can't fart musically
No
I can do that breathing thing
You can't
Well
And that's essentially what he does
Well that's interesting
He's perfected the arse breathing technique
Perfected?
He's perfected it
I'm glad I'm glad It's a show He's Mr Fartman And it'shing technique. Perfected? He's perfected it. I'm glad.
I'm glad.
It's a show.
He's Mr. Fartman and it's a show that he does.
Mr. Fartman, put on a show.
Make it so farty it will blow.
My hat and coat off and also my skirt.
But please don't fart too much in case it hurts.
Splat your shit up.
Right, okay, good.
Do you think he's ever done that? Like during a performance, he's gone, splat your shit up right okay good alright
do you think he's ever done that
like during a performance
he's gone
and now
for my final piece
I would do
the rasping trombone
and then he goes
there's a drum roll
brrrr
you will adore
the sound
brrrr
and then there's shits
all over the stage
and on the audience
and there's
oh with my wee
I apologise I have never shat on the stage and on the audience. And there's, oh, I apologise.
I have never shat on the stage
before in all my career
as a fighter.
Sorry,
Frads.
Paul,
there was an incident,
wasn't there,
that keeps popping up
where some trapeze artist
apparently had diarrhoea
and shat all over.
Yeah,
that always pops up on Facebook
and Twitter.
That's nightmarish.
Imagine that.
No.
It's not good for him, his co-performers, and the audience.
That'd be properly traumatic.
That'd be like, you know.
Well, I don't know.
Maybe someone was torn apart in front of you.
On your deathbed, you'd be like, I got shat on in the circus.
Anyway, there's nothing more to report.
It's that song.
It was catchy.
Clap your hands, stomp your feet is the terrible B-side.
Which is literally 90 samples of the single.
Right, final song and maybe the best.
Certainly the one that brought...
You saved the best till last.
I'm just going to let you explain it.
You tell them all.
This is...
He's generally happy about this.
This really is a piece for the Michelin-ish bucket of crap
where I keep my novelty TV tie-in records and things.
And there's Dusty Bin in there.
That's a terrible record. 3-2-1. Ted Rogers, Dusty Bin in there. Yeah. That's a terrible record.
Three, two, one.
Yeah.
Ted Rogers, Dusty Bin.
And that Pump Up the Bitter, whatever it is.
No, but this is actually quite nice in a lot of ways, isn't it?
Whoever sent this, please get in touch with us.
We want to say thank you.
It's good.
I really like it.
This is David Bellamy.
Oh.
Who is...
Grimbley Grumbley.
Was a naturist.
No, that's a nudist.
Conservationist, I think you could say.
A conservationist, yes.
He was like a David Attenborough,
a Chris Packham.
Yes.
Terry Nutkins.
Terry Nutkins.
Why are you showing me half a finger?
Because Terry Nutkins only had half a finger, remember?
Because a mole ate it or something.
I can't remember.
Maybe a knot a bit his finger off.
Something like that.
He was good.
I liked to see Terry Nutkins. Yeah. I've got some stories I could tell you that could head bit his finger off. Something like that. He was good. I liked to see Tony Nutkins.
Yeah.
I've got some stories I could tell you
that could head out of the podcast.
Yeah, but I won't.
About Nutkins?
Yeah.
What?
Naughty Nutkins?
I don't know.
Come on.
Anyway,
Brontës is dead.
You can say what you like.
Oh, can I?
He's a nonce.
He's not.
He was not.
That is not it.
Brontës, this platter, the final platter today, Paul, He's a nonce. He's not. He was not. That is not it. I'm so sorry.
This platter, the final platter today, Paul, on Silverman's Platters.
Yeah, P.O. Box edition.
P.O. Box edition.
Brontosaurus, would you wait for me?
By David Bellamy.
And on the other side, now, often with these novelty throwaway tie-in with a TV celebrity record.
Yeah, minor celebrity releases a novelty hit.
Sort of thing.
Usually the B-side's completely throwaway.
We've discussed this before.
It's usually just a piece of like an instrumental piece.
Padding shit.
But they've gone for a whole other different dinosaur-based song on the B-side here.
What's that one called?
Ostegosaurus.
Yeah.
Osteg.
And here's the thing.
So David Bellamy was known in the UK
for being a TV conservationist. He'd talk
about the plants and the animals and how you should look
after them. You'd get down in the undergrowth.
But what we loved about him was that he was
a little man with a big beard
and a peculiar voice.
And shorts on all the time, no matter what the weather.
And a polo shirt.
It was grubby. Let's do his voice.
A waskly wog.
Oh, in the grove.
Oh, lovely.
Lovely.
Oh, I've got the scossy
squishes. You know what?
He's the original Nuzzle Man, isn't he?
He is the Nuzzle Man.
Oh, in the Nuzzle Man.
Oh, dear.
Oh, lovely bit of bubbly grub. nuzzle bag. I only nuzzle. Come down here. Trimbley crumbles. I've got a lovely
little bit of
bubbly grub.
What are you saying?
Bubbly grub?
Rubbly grub down here.
Rub it on me.
It makes...
All right,
well, it doesn't quite
sound like that.
But when...
Down here.
Rub, rub, rub.
Down here.
Rub, rub, rub.
Rub it down here. All right, you've been doing this for two minutes now.
Are you quite over it?
Even I got bored of it. Come down here in the bodyguard.
What have you got down here?
What are you doing?
You've gone glassy-eyed.
Listen, look. When you take... Shut up! you've gone glassy eyed listen look
when you take
shut up
when you take
that voice
not that voice
but when you take
his very distinctive voice
and you put it on a song
it sounds like this
now I always wanted a pet not the kind that the other kids get.
I didn't want a dog or a cat or a parrot or a mouse.
But I was walking in the woods by the shore when I found what I was looking for.
With a net like a land post and a I knew, he was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend.
He was my friend. He was my friend. He was my friend. He was my friend. He was my friend. Will you wait for me? Don't hide your head up there in your face, mid-tree.
You know, I just want a word with you.
I can see that you're very shy.
But how can I have a word with you when you're way up high?
Can I just say, lovely bit of moog.
It's great.
Very children's TV moog there at the beginning.
It's nothing particularly special about it,
but it's harped in the right place,
and it's really hard to hate it.
You can't hate him.
You can't hate him.
He's doing a lovely thing.
It does that thing that lots of these novelty records go for,
which is the children singing.
Yeah.
So it's a bit like Grandpa We Love You, isn't it? But with a brontosaurus.
Yeah. And I guess
it's fine. It was definitely par for the course
of the 70s and 80s to release songs like that
because he's not a singer.
He shatters his way through most of the songs.
He totally shatters it, yeah.
But it's lovely to hear.
But his voice
isn't as deep
as I remember it.
He's got a peculiar accent, doesn't he?
He sounds very excitable in this one.
He has a real distinctive voice and way he says things.
Yeah.
It makes the song sound a little bit weird as a result.
And the cover is weird because you've got like a cartoon Brontosaurus head
coming out of a bush with glasses on.
It looks like a penis.
I mean, a big donger. dozens yeah it kind of does it really doesn't i mean that's if you squint on it
imagine it and then we'll get your sex poker cards out get the cards out i like the one with
ace of spades um there's frogs here paul frogs on the cover yeah and as I say the B-side is kind of
it's a little fishy
yeah
the B-side
has some actual facts
about brontosauruses in it
it tells you a little bit
about it
stegosaurus
but the B-side
is musically a lot weaker
it's a
cod reggae sort of thing
yeah
and does even sound
more like
grandpa
we love you
yeah
oh stegosaurus
but it's worth it
because there's a snippet of information about it.
Yeah.
About the creature, you know?
He tries to be informative.
It says on the back,
there's an armadillo wearing a sandwich board
and says,
why not join me,
sing the dinosaur songs
and become a conservationist?
Remember, extinction is forever.
Extinction is forever.
So that's very much a message that's being put around today, isn't it, Paul?
What they're saying is that there's beautiful animals in the world
that we've lost forever because of...
Yeah, it wasn't our fault.
To be fair, that's where the argument falls down.
It's not like we came up and were like, yeah, out.
Several million years ago.
That's always been my thought about religion.
If human beings are so special, why weren't we made first?
The only reason dinosaurs didn't
die is because of
bloody the meteor
isn't it
well people do
dispute the scientific
well they're fucking
idiots
they say we were made
first
no well we weren't
6,000 years ago
no well we weren't
no obviously we
weren't
no
what about stegosauruses
that's what I'm saying
we're missing out
I actually think the
artwork is pretty good
this was a planet made
for dinosaurs
not humans
we're freak show
we're an absolute a freak show.
We're an absolute fucking freak show.
I like the cover.
Dinosaurs would never have invented Twitter.
Dinosaurs would have hands.
There you go.
They'd have proper hands.
Dinosaurs would still be living.
Imagine how wonderful this planet would be if dinosaurs had lived on.
It wouldn't be Flintstones.
It wouldn't be Flintstones.
I know it wouldn't be Flintstones,
but we wouldn't be around,
so it was pointless.
Well, great, even better.
Well, what?
You're just saying,
wouldn't the world be good if I didn't exist?
Yeah.
That's pretty nihilistic.
Is it?
Yeah.
Anyway, David Bellamy.
So, I was just saying,
the cover,
it's one of those covers
where the design goes...
Around.
Around.
Yeah.
Which is always nice, isn't it?
It's always nice.
The back and the front match the other piece.
Yeah.
And it's got a big pink brontosaurus.
And then I think you get a glimpse of a yellow stegosaurus, lady stegosaurus.
He's having a little nibble.
She's having a little sniff around the tail area.
A little sniff around the tail.
Brontosaurus, which is more like dog behaviour.
You know.
Well!
You go, oh, what's that?
It's poo. It's piss. It's a bit of what's that it's poo it's a bit of
bronty plop
it's a bit of
fucking musky
in there
bronty plop
bronty plop plops
and there's an
aardvark
not an aardvark
what is it
I can't have a look
armadillo
yeah but it's not
it's a dinosaur
you want
it's a
tripiclisaurus
triceratops
no it's not
a triceratops
no a triplosopetitus
you don't know what you're saying
it's a Tipilitopolis
dinosaur characters
Bron and Delilah
which I presume
are the ones on the cover
oh that's it
yeah
copyright
of Dusty and the Dinosaurs
yeah
so maybe this is
some relation to
something else
Dusty and the Dinosaurs
book or something
yeah
it's worth looking into
what's the label
what's the label
MD Music.
No, no idea.
Who knows?
No idea.
And you've got a...
There's a credit for the person who drew the cover.
What's his name?
Chris Masters.
Chris Masters.
Well, he's mastered the artwork on that.
I think it's quite good artwork.
Isn't it a lovely thing?
Yes.
So, what are you going to give that out of five?
I'm going to give that a 3.75.
I'll give it a four.
He gives it a four?
I mean, musically, it's not, but you get to hear weirdo Bellamy.
A gribbly-grabbly, wibbly-wobbly.
And there's a big bit of...
Moog.
Sort of, yeah.
It's a nice moog.
Sort of, yeah.
Strutting moog.
Yeah.
Yes.
So, yeah, it was good.
Oh, yeah.
By Yellow.
Woo!
Yeah!
Paul tried to say to me earlier, everyone,
that that, oh yeah, was by...
Art of noise.
And I was wrong.
It wasn't by art of noise, Paul.
I know.
It was by yellow.
I know.
And that's fine.
I learned a valuable lesson today.
And that is,
when you think you're going to win an argument,
you'll put money on it.
That's what it comes down to.
That's what my spice of life, mate.
But then that means I know I've lost the argument.
Because the only time you're ever confident about money
is when you're gambling.
That's why you're all flip-poker.
I've lost money with those bets.
Yeah.
About what's a fact.
I just know when to cash in
when you start getting cocky about your own money.
When? You've never cashed in?
No, because I don't like gambling.
I'm not a gambler.
I don't like the idea of gambling.
It might mean in some respects,
as a human being,
I'm a bit timid
and a bit afraid to take chances.
And that's fine.
I'm not a competitive person.
Okay.
Fuck you judging me.
How fucking dare you?
Well, sometimes it's...
I'll just open myself up.
It's in a sense...
Oh, mummy.
Paul.
Mummy.
What I'm saying is sometimes...
Mummy made me go to clairvoyance.
Sometimes you have to have risks
yeah it's true
you know
and you have to gamble
yeah no I get that
so it's not all bad
yeah no it's not
and I'm fine with that
but inherently speaking
I'm not a gambling person
I don't enjoy gambling
is that gambling though
saying to someone
I bet you that
that this is the case
yeah
is that gambling
that's not really gambling
I believe so
it's betting it's risk you're making money based on risk the risk that you're wrong yeah and i
would say that was gambling okay so there we go ladies and we've had an interesting chat about
random outcome no it's not that kind of gambling no random outcome determines whether you win or
lose no but it's based on knowledge yeah so if you don't have it then it's gambling isn't it
yeah but if you think you're right,
then you've got nothing. Then it's not gambling.
Yeah.
But for the person who doesn't know,
it's gambling.
You gamble.
You risk.
You take a chance on something.
But neither of you think you're right.
Oh, I'm bored of this.
I'm bored of this.
And that's Cheap Show.
Thank you for listening once again.
We'll see you next time on the show.
Now, Paul, I know I always say this,
but God, what a weak show it was today.
You always say this.
Always say it.
It was so bad.
I don't know.
We got a brand new character out of it.
We got Lenticular.
Oh, hello.
I know.
I'm over this way, and I believe in this,
and now I'm over this way, and I believe in that.
I'm different depending on which way you look at me.
Yes.
I'm Lenticular, the character I refuse to let go.
I wish you would let him go.
Anyway.
No, but there was also, what's he called?
Barry Sparkles and...
It doesn't matter, does it?
It doesn't matter.
It's the same voice as all the other characters I know.
Right, we're moving on.
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Yeah.
Can we do some talc-ing?
Yeah.
Can we do some talc-ing? Let's do some talc-ing. Slapping some talc-ing on. We we do some talc-ing? Yeah. Can we do some talc-ing?
Let's do some talc-ing.
Slapping some talc-ing on.
We'll slap some talc-ing on.
Not on camera, but get the dust effect.
Yeah.
Slap him on.
Whatever you want, mate.
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Pultuses.
Shut up.
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I want a set of pultuses.
I just want to wrap the show up.
And each is modular.
Do you see what I mean?
And so they're exchangeable pultuses.
I would just like to wrap the show up.
That's what modular means in this context
great
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Okay. Let's end
with looking at the sex
poker cards. Here we go.
I for one, Eli, and I don't know about you, want to
see the Ace of Spades. I'll show you. You'll be
sorry. Really? Yeah.
Alright, show me. I'll get it out.
Alright, we'll end with this.
I dread to think what
the Ace of Clubs is like. No, it's the Ace
of Spades. It's the Ace of Spades. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I dread to think what the Ace of Clubs is like. No, it's the Ace of Spades.
It's the Ace of Spades.
The Ace of Spades.
Come on, whip it out.
Whop it out.
I'm trying to thwop it.
Can't believe you can't.
Major thwoppage.
You can't get it out.
There is major thwoppage in this.
Come on.
Ace of Spades.
Oh, the...
Oh, the grub-beated watch.
Oh.
That's that dribbly.
Dribbly.
Quick, quick, quick.
Oh, I've lost it.
Oh, you've lost the ace of spades.
I'm going to have to look through them all.
No, don't.
You know what?
I'll save you the horror of that.
I'll get it for you.
I don't know if I actually care anymore.
No, here it is.
Is it?
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Christ!
Goodbye.