CheapShow - Ep 163: No Characters Guaranteed
Episode Date: January 31, 2020After last week's thrilling murder mystery epic, it's back to basics for Paul and Eli on this week's economy comedy podcast! There is a strict "NO CHARACTERS" policy this week as a result, but who kno...ws what happens when push comes to shove. Luckily there is plenty to discover this week when we get a mini Winkie update, reply to some reader emails, dip into the PO Box, tackle a Price of Shite that becomes a "peh-twing" fest and ends with a reveal so demented, so stupid and childish, that one of the cheap chaps will have their reputation in tatters! But who? 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-163-no-characters-guaranteed 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
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I'm feeling relaxed, Paul.
I'm feeling relaxed, too.
Oh, his voice has come on.
What do you mean, my voice has come on?
You just go, ah, ah, ah.
I'm Paul.
Ah.
I'm feeling comfy, Paul.
Right, start again.
No.
Okay, I'm all right.
I'm all right.
Are you, though?
Are you, though?
Something cracks me up.
It's just...
Something has cracked me up.
What was that thing you said before?
Crack, crack, poo-poo. what was that thing you said before crack crack poo-poo what was the thing you said oh yeah this is i keep keeping this thing that these
i i know we're gonna record the pod right and the show used to be about jeep things
and the phrase comes into my head and today it was bum bum gravy Bum bum gravy Gravies
Bum bum gravies
Bum bum gravies
Bum bum gravies
Watery ones
We don't need any more
Thank you
You will not be entering Eurovision this year
I thought you were starting something off
No
I thought you were passing the ball to me
Bum bum gravy
Bum bum gravy
Okay and I'll come in Bum bum gravy Bum bum gravy. Bum bum gravy. Okay, I'll come in.
Bum bum gravy.
Bum bum gravy.
Watery ones.
Right,
that's it,
is it?
Granular ones.
Granular what?
Bum bum gravies.
What do you mean
granular what?
You're just going to
run down a list
of different types
of ass gravy.
God almighty.
It's a list song.
Hello, welcome to Cheap Show, the apparently economy comedy podcast. We've ruined it. of ass gravy. God almighty. It's a list song. Hello.
Welcome to Cheap Show,
the apparently economy
comedy podcast.
We've ruined it.
Where me, Eli and I,
fuck,
Eli and I
go for the charity shops,
the bargain bins,
the thrift shops,
the jumble sales
and pound lands
of Great Britain
and bring you the treasure
amongst the trash,
the wonders
amongst the weirdness.
Wonders and,
yeah, but weird,
what about weird wonders?
What if it's both weird and a wonder?
Then it's fine.
So they're not enough of a...
Separation of opposites.
Yeah.
No, you did.
You hooked on one.
I'm trying...
The concept I'm trying to articulate there,
which is they're not of a...
They're not opposites.
Doesn't it sound like an amazing sci-fi novel?
The separation of opposites.
Yeah, it does.
Sounds like quite hard sci-fi.
Yeah, it would be
it's about a man
that would be like
mid 70s
called Adrox 5
yes
and he lives in a
thought bubble
created by his owner
whose mental state
keeps him alive
so he's connected
to the owner
yeah
does he know he's in the bubble
yeah he does
he knows he's a
conjuring existence
yeah
a phantom
a technological phantom
an electronic dream. But the man
doesn't know that this
guy exists. So what's he doing
there then? It's a good question. It's all very
complicated. The separation
of opposites. Right. Out next
year. So what all I mean is
weird wonders are things, aren't
they? Yeah. Welcome to Cheap Show.
God. aren't they yeah welcome to cheap show god I hate you
and your
fucking noodle
posse
people love
noodles
it's just a
fact of 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
Yes, hello, welcome to Cheat Show
We're okay, yes, hello
We're fine, we're good
Hello, Paul
So, the murder on the old Cheap Show. We're okay, yes, hello. We're fine, we're good. Hello, Paul.
So, the murder on the old Cheap Express, eh?
That certainly was something. What?
The last episode.
What happened in the last episode?
Wasn't it just us sitting in here again, as usual?
Right, good.
So, what's going on?
We didn't have noodles with a dragon.
You're going to deny the law of Cheap Show again.
What?
I don't know what you mean.
Oh, shut up.
It's stupid.
It's my little novel way of...
It's not novel.
...graying out the boundaries.
Novel means new.
Yeah.
That's not new.
It is new.
You always try and go, no, no, it isn't.
No, never happened.
No, novel could mean unique.
Novel doesn't mean unique.
It can mean...
Unique means unique.
That was quite novel. Yeah, as in new. New. New. It can mean... Unique means unique. That was quite novel.
Yeah, as in new.
New.
New.
It's a synonym of new.
I'm looking it up.
You'll be wrong.
Oh, don't twang the thing.
Okay, Google.
Define novel.
This is the definition of novel.
Interesting new or unusual.
Oh, okay.
You're right.
Adjective.
He hit on a novel idea to solve his financial problems.
No, I thought it was a cinema noo.
I've been in this scintillating mini-segment,
Paul looks up the meaning of a word.
It's our brand new segment, ladies and gentlemen.
Paul looks up the meaning of a word.
I could have got a stroke machine at the end.
What word is next week then, Paul?
I don't know. It'll come up in the conversation
and I'll spring into action.
But you were totally right. I was wrong.
Thank you. It's nice to hear every now
and then. Which is novel.
Oh!
Anyway, welcome to Cheap Show.
Yeah, you said that. We've played the
music already, haven't we? Yeah, we've done all that.
It's a low-key episode today. It's nice and
chill. It's just like a relaxed, fit kind of episode fit i'm literally in my gym jams which is i'm thinking
isn't good can i also say eli what laid a trap for me today before we started i i went to get
the lighter to smoke a cigarette and uh i noticed he placed his lighter, I reckon on purpose, right on the gusset of his used pants on his bed.
It's next to where his head rests when he sleeps.
But describe the patterning on those particular handles.
It's like brown streets.
No, look, there are no brown...
This is where I draw the line, Paul.
Bum-bum gravy.
The bum-bum gravies go all the way down the lulus.
I get all the shit in the toilet. We are, week by
week, destroying the English language.
Well, at least we've got this new segment
where we look up the actual definitions of words.
There's going to be an episode that will completely
be in sounds and claps. I want to do
that. I'm ready to do that. We're not going to do a
60 minute episode of us going
We did all in
well, that's what that band did
Karamba
that's what they did
a whole album
that is true
that is true
but it was also musical
and therefore
you can get away with it
if someone just
oh you know what
I've never heard Cheap Show before
let's put
a random episode on
it would be a bit like
you know
what was that
Lou Reed album
Metal Machine Music
why what's that about
well he
I honestly don't know
so fill me in he made an album called Metal Machine Music. Why? What's that about? Well, he... I honestly don't know, so fill me in.
He made an album called Metal Machine Music.
Right.
Which, usually, he's like a rocker.
Yeah.
He sings songs, and some of them are good.
Yeah.
This was, like, completely avant-garde experimental, and it consisted of maybe three tracks just
screeching...
When was this?
What year?
I think late 70s.
Okay, okay.
I'm just trying to get an idea of the Lay the Land Out scape.
Late 70s, I believe.
Yeah.
And I believe there was some kind of animosity with him and his label that he did it because he had...
On purpose?
I think it's one of those.
But it's like...
No, but I think he was serious about it as well.
But the studio didn't have...
A lot of artists have these sort of hidden electronic avant-garde albums.
There's a George Harrison one that I've got in there.
Oh, Paul McCartney as well,
The Fireman.
And is it complete,
it's like...
It's electronic music
as far as I remember.
Yeah, but does it have
like rhythms and melodies
or is it all bleep, squawk?
I mean, I don't know
if it's completely off.
Squawky, squawk.
Yeah, I don't know
if it's that.
It's probably just...
Bleep, squawk,
you know, that kind of...
Squeaky.
And now we lose you, like,
in a big bowl of word porridge.
Squawk.
Go on, here we go.
I do want to get spruft, the word spruft.
Spruft?
No, spruft.
Spruft?
A drunk man said that to me once on the tube with disdain.
I want to cover you in my spruft.
No, he got up and before he got off he turned to me.
Spruft.
No, he didn't.
He fucking did.
Why would I remember that?
Why would he say Spurft?
Exactly what I've been wondering ever since.
He distinctly articulated the word Spurft.
Yes.
All right, good.
Spurft.
What are we talking about?
I don't know.
So I thought...
What we've got coming up on the show, Paul.
We're going to do a Price of Shite,
which we've received from the P.O. Box.
Oh, a little bit Spurft, Price of Shite. Mystery. Now received from the P.O. Box. Oh, a little bit of Price of Shite.
Mystery.
Now, Paul.
Yeah, I haven't seen the prices.
I haven't seen the prices.
Now, fucking look at the prices, because you've ruined it.
It's a competition.
It's a betwing-off.
It's a betwing-off.
It's a betwing-off.
Yes.
So we'll be playing a Price of Shite as a curated by one of our dear listeners.
And if you'd like to send anything to the PO Box,
you can go to our website,
and there'll be details at the end of the show
for the address to send stuff.
Could I say where they send the emails to
at the end of the episode?
Yeah, and we'll play our favourite game.
I know.
I'll do it at the end of the episode.
No, because I like playing the game where it's like,
I give you a slap on the arm if you get it wrong.
You like that game?
I do. I get a full-on... What do you get it wrong. You like that game? I do.
I get a full-on...
What do you call it in your mind?
Spanky times?
I call it pre-spank McBank.
Shut up.
You can't have an...
Anyway.
It's my pre-spank before my main spank.
And he gets a little nickname, pre-spank McBank.
I don't know.
Do you see him as a little Scottish stereotype?
He's a little tiny Scotsman in a kilt.
Like tiny, like an inch tall.
Does he have a little straw-like red beard?
Yeah, and a hat.
The hat they wear.
What's he called?
You've forgotten what he's called now.
Spank Bank McQuite.
He's not that.
Shut up.
I think that's his name now, though.
You've forgotten what you said, what we said.
We forgot what we said.
Let's get it.
Have you finished describing what's happening on the show?
This is only out of this.
We're doing a tiny little platter.
Oh, platters, yes.
And, oh, okay, bit of shop talk.
Bit of shop talk.
Bit of shop talk, yeah. So, one quick thing. bit of shop talk. Bit of shop talk. Ah, bit of shop talk.
Right.
So, one quick thing.
We aren't going to do a major thing for our fifth birthday,
which is around June, July.
Ah.
But we are going to do a big show for our 200th episode
around October, like last time.
Well, couldn't it be a combined fifth year?
Yeah, probably.
Why not?
Fifth birthday and 200th episode.
Yeah, I'm going to make it a big thing.
No one's, you're in charge of all that.
But it'll be one big show,
so we'll try and find a bigger venue,
and it will be in London.
So if you want to come,
bear in mind,
nothing's planned yet.
It'll happen sometime in October,
and at a reasonably decent-sized venue.
That's that.
Okay.
Next thing is,
we are going to do,
again,
with the help of Rhiannon,
the Cheap Show Listener Choice Awards 2020.
And as you know, last time it was a massive success. I think it went
brilliantly. I think we put on a massive
What are you doing over there?
I know you've got indigestion
or something.
Why do you have to bring light to it?
It's because I'm trying to talk and it looks like you're having a
stroke in the corner.
And it's really distressing.
I was generally thinking of stopping the recording then to get help.
Really?
Yeah, because you're holding your arm and you're twisting.
And then I was twisting.
I'm twisting away from the mic so they don't hear me grouch, man.
Yeah, but you look traumatised to me.
You'll put the grouch on with some fucking effect on it and it'll go blah, blah, blah.
Shut up.
Anyway, next thing is the awards are happening again
so if you want to get involved
Rhiannon is sorting stuff out now but you can
follow her on Twitter if you go to
at projectcheapsk8
like
projectcheapskate but it's at
projectcheapsk8
numeric 8
and there'll be details about how you can vote and
things. And everything and it's been streamlined Yeah, so hopefully it'll mean there'll be details about how you can vote and things. And everything. And it's been streamlined.
Yeah. So, hopefully
it'll mean it will be another two and a half hour show
that I have to edit and go mad doing.
Are we going to go back to the Spoff and Pickle for it?
I don't know. I was thinking about getting a really big
venue. You know, a really big fancy one.
I was thinking of like, maybe... The Spunkodium.
Oh, mate.
Come on.
That's the worst thing you've done in a while
The Grand Spunk
Wow
Wow
You stayed with it and committed
The old posh spunk house
Right
Do you want to carry on
Just saying things
Well what
What's your take on this fictional venue
Which is posher than the Spoff and Pickle?
The O'Poo.
Good, yeah, you won that.
You've won everything today so far.
Great day for me.
Great day for me.
I wonder what the betwings are going to be.
The betwings are the real measure.
Before we go any further, I do just want to say,
again, I resent the fact you made me reach down for the lighter
and hangle your grundles.
Yeah.
You haven't described...
They were like leopard print
or something.
Yes, they are leopard print.
Thank you.
The very idea of you
just wearing them.
Put that out there.
I just want you to put that out there.
I do not want you
to put that out there.
Not all my underwear
is leopard print.
No, just the ones
you masturbate in.
No, there's nothing wrong with those.
Are they your special wank pants?
No, I do not have
special wank pants. You should. Why? As if what? I have to fucking dress for myself to masturbating. No, there's nothing wrong with that. Are they your special wank pants? No, I do not have special wank pants.
You should.
Why?
As if what?
I have to fucking dress
for myself to masturbate?
No, I'm just saying
if on special occasions
when you want to go posh
you put your special pants on.
I don't subscribe
to any of those myths
about masturbation.
With the soft rubbity rubs.
Yeah.
Yeah, the smooth rubbity rubs.
What, a posh wank?
You do it in a johnny?
The silky.
The silky.
That's, why is that
why is that sexy? No, I don't. To do it in a johnny? No. That's what a posh wank is do it in a johnny the silky the silky that's why is that why is that sexy
to do it in a johnny
no
that's what a posh wank
is known as
well I have been
doing it like that
when I do it
I spunk into a trifle
I put it balls deep
in the trifle
and I empty myself
into it
right into the
fruity chunks
how can you get
the whole thing
into a trifle
because the trifle
what's the trifle
on a table or something
it's on a small stool
how do you get that it's on a small stool.
How do you get that?
It's on a small waist height stool.
So you've had thoughts
about the problem
of access to the trifle.
It's not about working
the problems out.
It's about building up
a solid structure around me
that allows me to easily
bend my erection downwards.
Get a trifle in a bowl.
Yeah.
Right.
Cut a little hole
in one side of the bowl and enter from the side. Yeah. Right. Cut a little hole in one side of the bowl
and enter from the side.
Yeah.
No, but the problem is
you miss out on the best bit
which is penetrating
the custard top.
Right.
I'm glad you enjoyed that.
I mean, you're winning today.
Trifle is quite delicious.
You know what though?
My penis does
end up looking like an angry clangor.
Well, Paul.
Hello.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
This is the calm, relaxed...
Not welcome to.
We've done that already.
We're just back from the break.
We're back from the sound effect.
Welcome back to Cheap Show. From break we're back from the sound effect welcome back to cheap
show from the sound from the sound effect and uh you're joining eli and i today is we go through
the mailbag and we we haven't done it in a while we haven't done it yeah we've got a fair few
so the next few episodes i think will be a little scrimmage through the mailbag pulling out some
you know sizable emails have a little scruffle around in the mailbag have Pulling out some sizable emails. Have a little scuffle around in the mailbag. Have a little scuffle in the mailbag.
Have a little scuffle in the mailbag. Don't just
take that as a cue to fucking start singing.
Please.
The desperation in your eyes just then.
It was a real emotion, that.
Grundles. Grundles.
I handled your grundles.
I had to
wipe that lighter down in case I had smearing on.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
It's got to have some residue of it on.
Listen, this whole room is about at least sort of 10 molecules deep in it, isn't it?
God.
I don't like the idea that this room is nothing but a thin layer of your greasy, dirty DNA.
Yeah.
I bet you...
Porn those porn cards.
Oh, that's the thing, Paul.
Porn cards. Pass me those thing Paul Porn cards Those pink cards
These are the Waddingtons
I've had my eyes on these
For a while
Right
We've talked about
My disappointment
Because that platinum deck
I bought
The shiny silvery ones
Was a defective
Pack of cards
Just clubs and spades
Very strange
No diamonds or hearts
I've never
No
You know you get very cheap cards
Like £1.50.
Yeah, where they have doubles or a few.
But not Waddington's is a trusted brand.
But that means that somewhere out there, Eli...
It had a little seal, it had one of these...
Eli!
Somewhere out there, there's a person, right,
with just the hearts and diamonds.
It must be.
Imagine if you two met, and it was like...
I got married.
Yeah.
You don't know.
Maybe that's the beautiful story here.
They buy a pack, you buy a pack. They put up a post on... She that's the beautiful story here. They buy a pack.
You buy a pack.
They put up a post.
Is it a she?
It could be a he.
Doesn't matter.
Puts it up on Instagram.
Oh, I can't believe me.
Look, someone copies you in.
You say, I can't believe my luck.
You live around there.
All right.
Well, let's go for a drink.
And you get your cards out at the pub and you have a little drink and you buy the first round.
Then he buys the second.
And you go, I've got time for another one. So you buy
a third because you don't want to be left out. He
buys a fourth. Now you're drunk and you're playing
with your cards and your hands touch
and you go, oh! And you look
into each other's eyes and for a minute you both
giggle and it's all embarrassing.
And then you say, I'd live around the corner.
And she says, no. Just no.
This is not what it's about.
Just wanted to share my cards. And then she walks out no, just no. This is not what it's about. No. Just wanted to share my cards.
Well, that would be on the cutting room floor.
And then she walks out.
She walks out.
No, what does she do?
No, she walks out and gets an Uber home and she's safe, right?
And shits her pants.
No.
You shit your pants right there.
Something happens.
At the pub table.
And you can hear it bubbling under the fucking fabric of your pants.
Now.
The warm, bubbly scrubs of hot dirt coming out of your bottom, Eli.
I don't shit myself.
You do.
When you're sad, you do.
I don't shit myself when I'm sad.
I'm an adult.
I don't have...
I just want them to know that
I don't actually...
I'm not a poo-poo person, Paul.
I'm not...
You know what I mean?
It's not something I have any kind of issue with.
Every time he's glum,
poo comes out of his bum.
That's not true.
It is true.
That story was so lame and unfunny.
It didn't have to be funny.
I was painting a picture.
A moment.
Can I talk about my cards, please?
You got pink cards.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Is it just the back that's pink?
No.
Ah, now you've got the interesting bit.
All right, you've got me.
Pink cards.
Yeah.
Waddingtons, classically, come in two main varieties.
Perhaps you don't care to name what those are.
Red and blue.
Okay.
It's the standard.
You know, that extremely standard with that pattern.
You'd recognise it if you saw it.
It's a very standard pattern.
These have a different pattern on the back,
which is just a pink checkerboard,
but every single card is pink.
So it doesn't matter the suit, it's all pink.
Yeah.
Doesn't that make it hard?
It would make it hard, but also, I mean,
if you think about it, clubs and spades are already both black,
and same with hearts and diamonds.
No, but if, like like Snap, for example,
a very simple game like Snap...
You'd still be able to do it.
Yeah, but I reckon it'd be a harder game.
But I like the way that the Joker is also pink.
This whole thing's pink, mate.
Why do they do these variations then?
I don't know, maybe...
Who goes, mate, we've got a card game,
we need the pink cards?
Because people collect special edition cards and there's a whole
almost like stamps or something like that there's a whole market for this just seems to be a weird
thing to do uh special edition and limited edition packs of cards don't open it but i also got that
one that's a more sort of typical example of the type of thing i'm talking about it's just
uh special bicycle cards bicycle bourbon So it's a special bourbon
design that they've got on the back. 808 proof.
Bottled in Kentucky.
So that's got... I bought that as a gift for someone
but... There's an old Kentucky
proverb. They've got like... I'm reading!
It says on the back, there is
an old Kentucky proverb that says
keep your friends close
and your bourbon closer.
Now you can do both with the Bourbon deck from bicycle playing cards.
It's not a real brand of Bourbon, though.
No, it's a brand of playing cards.
They make special editions like this, and they also have tie-in ones like Harry Potter, obviously.
They have all sorts of things.
They can license anything because they just get the artwork from it.
So what are the cards like on the inside there?
Just what?
Just normal cards?
A linen finish, you know, rather than plastic.
Linen finish.
I love his albums.
And I imagine these will have a poker layout
where it's bigger.
Have you seen the way they...
Mate, I know we agreed about no characters this week
because of last week.
No, no one
no one's coming Paul
don't
Linen Finish is a great name
I just want to bank it
can I just bank
can I just bank
the character
don't do him now
of Linen Finish
maybe a 70s
like rock star
yeah
alright
Linen Finish
just write it down
you can look
you can write your own
I'm writing Linen Finish down
you're writing a book
just put it in your
fucking Ghostbusters book
and then I thought of the character Linen Finish I love the word I love it You can write your own... I'm writing Lin and Finish down. You're writing a book, just put it in your fucking Ghostbusters book. Lin and Finish.
And then I thought of the character Lin and Finish.
I love the word.
I love it.
It's got a ring to it.
All right, we'll workshop this next week.
Okay.
I also like the name for a character,
Middling Holding.
Middling Holding.
I'll make a note of that.
So to you, does that sound...
Middling Holding,
you see what actually the meaning is there?
You sound like a kind of accountant type.
Do you know what those two words, that phrase means?
Middling holding.
What would you say that means?
I don't know.
Like a small amount of money.
Yeah, exactly.
So I was just wondering if that,
because it's quite specifically sort of poker terminology, but.
Oh, is it?
I was wondering if you see the double meaning in that.
I guess I do.
Well, we've got a couple of names there, Paul.
This is all very sober.
Cards. Anyway, those are the cards.
Is this a new segment? No, it's definitely not.
No, it's Eli's cards. I'm bored myself.
You fuckers, you just...
Shall I read the letter out then? Is that what we're doing now?
Yeah, that is what we're doing. We're going to do a
segment called, and we haven't
done it in a while, Tales
from the Shop Floor. This is where
you, the listener,
write down
things that's happened to you in shops.
Maybe working in shops or maybe
in some kind of other job.
Stuff happens. People shit.
Sometimes shit. Someone's
bleeding. Someone comes in
and shouts something, vomits, is alcoholic.
It's dead. Someone dies.
Dead. Dead people. It's mostly shit and spoff. I's an alcoholic. It's dead. Someone dies. Dead. Dead. Dead, people.
It's mostly shit and spoth though.
I like them when they're dead
and they're lying in shit.
Okay, well,
that's a sentence that I hope
gets turned into a fucking t-shirt, Eli.
With your big face saying that.
I like them when they're dead
and lying in shit.
Great.
What a lovely, lovely...
You fucking egged me onto this.
I didn't.
I didn't.
Yes, you did.
I did not. You fucking
did. You're not giving me anything.
I'm going to start saying stuff.
Warning. I'm warning
you. Hopefully it'll be funny stuff.
Eli,
you're not on top form today, are you, mate?
Let's just be honest. Let's be clear right now.
No, I'm floundering. Yeah, you are.
So do you want to just... Shut up. Do you want to take a moment?
Do you want to take a moment, Do you want to take a moment?
Here we go.
He's broken again.
Giggling like a twat.
What's going on?
Is this a podcast anymore?
Or is it just...
It's like the madness of King George.
You.
You.
You're doing it to me.
Am I?
Stop doing it to me.
Just give me the letter.
Let's do...
I need structure.
Do you?
I do.
I need structure.
Yes.
Yeah? I need... Not just you I do I need structure yes yeah
I need
not just you
the madness of
King Silverman
on that fucking
bench
sitting there
on that bench
with your headphones
on
I'm like a weird
goblin
the way I sit on
this chair
every fucking week
I know
we've got to get
out of the house
of pickles man
I don't know
if we really do
I'm in my gym jams
it's a whole thing
with the
I never thought when we started podcasting I'd have to do it surrounded by your dirty leopard skin man i don't know if i'd if we really do i'm in my gym jams it's a whole thing with the i never
thought we started podcasting i'd have to do it surrounded by your dirty leopard skin pants
it's got a flavor it's got a flavor to it it's got a tang i'll give it that very sharp tang paul
yeah tell us from the shop floor yeah so this is a story that's been sent in by, and then I'll read it out. All right.
Well, if I can do that.
His name is Johnny Two Feet.
It's a nickname.
Yes.
Can we just refer to him as Johnny?
Yes.
Well, see how much I like him. Or Two Feet.
Halfway through the letter.
Well, I'm Two Feet.
How you doing?
When I ascertain his level of prose style.
What?
I'm going to judge it.
I'm going to judge his story for narrative and style. What am I calling him? judge it. I'm going to judge this story
for narrative and style.
What am I calling him,
Two Feet?
I like that.
No, fuck that.
All right, Two Feet.
That sounds like...
How you doing?
Do you know what it sounds like?
What?
A fucking Shane Ritchie movie.
All right, Two Feet.
We called him Two Feet.
Two Feet.
No characters.
Write it down.
No, but this is a real person
who's written us a letter.
Yeah, but I just say
it's Johnny Two Feet. Oh. No, he's called Johnny Two Feet. written us a letter. Yeah, but I just say it's Johnny Two Feet.
Oh.
No, he's called Johnny Two Feet.
Yeah.
All right.
Are you ready to say hello?
Yes.
Okay, you ready?
Hello.
Wait till he says hello.
Who?
Johnny Two Feet.
Is he here?
Oh, I'm Johnny Two Feet.
No, he's not.
He's not a character.
He's not a character.
He is the author of this letter.
Eli, are we characters?
Oh, shut up.
Are we ourselves characters?
Discuss, debate.
Fucking hell, mate.
You really are tiring me out.
What if Eli, what if Eli, right?
What?
You had an accident like five years ago and you've been in a coma and this podcast.
This is it.
This is your Jacob's ladder.
Sometimes I wonder.
Do you know what? Eli Jacob Silverman's Ladder.
Oh, you know what that makes me think of, Paul?
What?
I saw someone used your Anne Frankenstein joke.
Really?
Totally used it.
Where?
It was on some TV thing or something.
Radio, a Radio 4 thing.
Just saying.
Are you ready to say hello to Johnny...
Two Feet.
No, he's not called that.
He is. They used to say his name was Johnny Two Feet. No, he's not called that. He is.
They used to say his name was Johnny Two Feet.
Well, let's see.
It may be in the body of this letter.
He'll mention what he needs us to refer to him as.
Probably not.
Please don't call me Johnny Two Feet.
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I'm saying.
He might, you know, might be a problem.
All right.
Might be a Two Feet problem.
You know who could deal with that?
What?
A character I really want to do right now
we can't
just tell me and I'm writing them down
but this is one from the last episode
Captain Inch
right what was his name
Captain Inch
I'm making notes
so next week at the top of the show
we just go
just go crazy
just vent
hi Paul and Eli
hello
oh hello
I used to edit low budget UK
porn for online distribution
for a not well known company
that specialised in the point
of view POV. Yeah.
Girlfriend experience. So that's
where I imagine. You've
viewed this type of material have you Paul?
You're aware of this
form of material are you?
It's been brought to my attention of the genre.
Yes, I love it.
I absolutely love it.
It's good, Neil.
I don't like it that much.
What do you like?
Do you like to be...
Other stuff, which I'm not going to go into now.
Broadly speaking, do you like the stuff that you get where you're distanced from the action,
or do you like the stuff where you're kind of in the action?
You're not in the action.
It's point of view, isn't it?
No, but that's what it is.
You're meant to be in the position. You're not in the action. It's point of view, isn't it? No, but that's what it is. You're meant to be in the position
of the person enjoying the sexual activity.
I enjoy
a wide range of porn. Not a lot
of it. Just a wide... Anyway.
You're like wide. You're gaping.
No, no. Oh, God.
Normal. 100% normal in
every way.
Dog fucking.
I'm not...
Absolutely not. Dog fucking. I'm not. It's not.
Absolutely not.
Come on.
Let me look for your search history now.
Dead old dogs and
shit.
All hot stuff.
You could.
You could look through
my search history.
I don't mind.
I would never.
I would not mind.
I would.
I would never want to
see.
Well, don't.
Why are we discussing
this?
Why am I framed as the poor weirdo? I'm not. I didn't say that. well don't why are we discussing this why am I alright we'll save it
for the next episode
sequel
I'm not
I didn't say that
I haven't
yeah
thou doth
protest too much
all I fucking said
Paul
all I fucking said
yeah
yeah
yeah
was that point of view
style porn
wasn't my favourite thing
that's all I fucking said
now I'm
fucking
piles of dog shit or something I never said you were you's all I fucking said. Now I'm fucking piles of dog shit
or something.
I never said you were.
You fucking did.
I never said you were.
You implied I'd like to.
No, I implied
that I made this material.
No, I didn't.
Yes, you did.
That I'd go stalking
the streets at night
looking for
stray dog turds
to photograph myself.
Right,
your phone's turned off.
It's because I'm not
doing the show.
Are you ready for the rest of this story?
Yes, go on, I'll shut up.
Fucking hell, mate.
You've been really naughty bad boy today.
Specialising in point of view,
girlfriend experience.
Right.
I will give your viewers the benefit of the doubt
and explain the point of view.
Oh, God.
I didn't realise he was going to go into it as well.
Let's get through it then.
Point of view means that the events take place from the gentleman's point of view.
This can be achieved many ways.
The performer simply holding a handheld camera.
The mechanical sound of the Zoom gives that away.
Yeah.
Or by a cameraman hanging over the shoulder of the chap at work.
Oh, yeah.
At the time I was working, GoPro could have done with a combo there.
At the time I was working, well, it could. It all right. Yeah. It doesn't matter, yeah. At the time I was working, GoPro could have done with a comma there. At the time I was working,
well, it could. It all right. Yeah.
Doesn't matter, though. I'm just saying.
At the time I was working, GoPro cameras
had got cheap. Maybe you didn't need a comma, actually.
You twat.
I just needed to read the whole sentence before
I got there. Yeah, maybe. Anyway.
He's such a pre-emptive wank.
Third time's a charm. Good luck.
At the time I was working GoPro...
Hey!
At the time I was working...
Hey, everyone.
This will be in the bloopers video at the end of the year.
Oh, do you remember when he couldn't use his fat fucking mouth to say anything?
Oh, now my mouth's fat.
As well as my hands.
Yeah.
Fuck off.
Fucking obese tongue twat.
At the time I was working, GoPro cameras had got cheaper and had better quality so they became
the camera of choice and were promptly
strapped to the performer's forehead.
Great. That makes sense. It does. Totally.
On one occasion I was sent footage to edit
of such a set up. Okay.
But is this footage
in this I think. Time poem.
In this footage the camera was turned
on early. Oh. And caught
the preparations of the male performer.
Right, so the guy's wearing it on his head
and they've recorded it all, set it up.
They've just, yeah.
And as he's trying to basically get erect,
is what I'm thinking.
Oh, I see.
That's it, the preparations.
You get it up, don't you?
You get it up.
You don't want to start flaccid.
Well, maybe that's part of the charm, isn't it?
I don't like those ones where it's like...
I want to...
I'm from the start.
Oh, you don't want to think
about that really
you just
it's just ready to go
no I think
I like to see
a tumescence
see it go
I like to
yeah
really
it's like
you like to see the man
get a recce
yeah
oh wow
we're diverted here
we've diverted
I think it's interesting
to see
you know
the story grow
fucking hell this we should never
have agreed to read this you were desperate to read this one out you said paul i want to read
this one out the most out of all the stories on the list can i please paul read this one
you said i want to read this one so much if i don't i'll cry fuck. Fuck off. Just behave. Can you behave? I can't get through this.
Got to get through this.
Daniel Bedingfield.
Jesus.
Webbed.
Got to get through this.
Right.
On one occasion.
I'll start from this
whole paragraph again.
Did he fall out of a plane?
Daniel Bedingfield.
No.
Not that I recall.
He just stopped making
hit records a long time ago i only
had a sister works in natasha beddingfield she had some hits as well didn't she fell out of a
plane or something didn't she what happened one of them fell out of a plane i do not recall a
bedding field plane accident falling out of i don't know why i thought they'd fall out of planes
on one occasion i was sent footage to edit of such a setup but in this footage the camera i just thought of a band name for price of shite the between things
all right they can come in write it down that's a whole band mate no that's quite good though um so
on one occasion i was sent footage to edit of such a setup but in this footage the camera was turned
on early and caught the preparations of the male performer.
Okay.
It all started normally.
The only odd thing was seeing the bloke's face as he looked in the mirror,
something I wasn't used to seeing.
Oh, yeah.
All of a sudden, he started crying,
a sort of gut-wrenching, silent crying,
broken up only by him telling himself that everything was okay.
Fucking hell.
Wow.
Oh, God.
That's raw.
It's a cry wank.
That's raw.
It's a self-fluffing cry wanker.
How did he not decide to check if the camera was on?
He doesn't care.
He's well into his cry wanking ritual.
It's okay.
I'm okay.
Like that.
I'm okay.
I'm okay. Enough of that. What? It's unpleasant to see. okay! Like that. I'm okay! I'm okay!
Enough of that.
What?
It's unpleasant to see her, and it's unpleasant to see.
I'm okay!
Please stop.
Fool.
Okay!
Okay!
I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm not doing it.
That's the problem, isn't it?
You have a new character.
No.
Cry wanker.
No.
No.
Cry wanker is not a good new character. Come on, that is dynamite.
No, the problem is that we both know it's a bad idea.
And right now, everyone listening is thinking, no, we want more cry wanker.
Okay, stop.
Don't please them.
You write it down at least.
Write it down.
After some time, he entered the arena.
Right.
Quotation marks.
And the show began.
It was a basic girlfriend experience.
The whole guy comes home and is surprised by a scantily clad partner.
Oh.
Then it turned.
Oh, the tone.
Like the tone of the scene changed.
Yeah, but again, we need a full stop there.
Right.
We really do. Then it turned and then there's a full stop there. Right. We really do.
Then it turned
and then there's no full stop.
We go straight to get on with it.
But Paul...
Be professional.
It's hard.
I'm just trying to read it out
for the first time
and it's not properly punctuated.
Is it?
I don't care if you're hard.
You'd be fucking struggling
like a cunt.
No, what I would do
is just reformulate
the sentence in my head
to make it fit
and then just carry on.
You'd be like an alcoholic doing the 100 metre hurdles.
Zing.
The madness of King Silverman.
Shut up.
Right.
Can we get through this?
I'm not saying a fucking word, mate.
You need to get through this.
You need to get through it.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's having a breakdown.
Live on Cheap Show.
It's not a breakdown. No, this is a breakdown.
No, it isn't. I've got the
giggles. That's all it is. Yeah, alright.
Just let me blow my nose.
There's nothing.
Shut up.
Right, we'll get through this letter.
It's a good letter. It is.
I want to know where it goes.
All right, so.
It turned.
They're in the scene.
They're doing it.
Oh, hello, darling.
Yeah.
And then something happens.
I've got something for you.
Oh, yeah.
Then it turned.
Yeah.
The girlfriend, quotation marks, started hurling abuse at him.
And I had to edit out a lot of the director telling her that this wasn't the type of feeling they were going for.
What?
This is not what we're looking for, love.
More sexy, not angry.
Yeah.
Come on.
Now I can see where this is going now
because remember what happened before he was crying.
Tell her that this wasn't the type of feeling they were going for
but still she continued insulting the sizes of his member,
saying he was useless and beating on his chest
when the position allowed.
It was at this point I checked the note,
the notes, it should be, that were sent
with the footage. No, the note. I checked the note.
Sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
It was at this point
I checked the note.
No, were, then he uses... Come on, mate!
It's bad, man! He uses the word were and note. Were, were, then he uses... Come on, mate! It's bad, man!
He uses the word were and note.
Were is for plural.
Notes.
Right, I'm going to do this sentence one more time, okay?
God.
It was.
At this point, I checked the notes that were sent with the footage.
This is like someone doing a bad Shakespeare audition.
Only to find a message that read...
Right.
Try to sort this out
best you can.
It's his ex-wife
and she caught him
fucking her mum
a few years back.
Jesus.
So he fucked her mum.
They broke up
and now they're still
working in adult films
together.
God, if that's you
get in touch with the show.
I still to this day have no idea
where they thought they could work together.
But I still see them.
Again, that word is missing, the word see.
But I still see them pop up as a couple
now and again.
But their videos have switched
to the BDSM nut-kicking
variety, which I can only imagine must be
well paid enough. Listen, Margaret, we can't
go through this every time, right?
I can't take it. I've apologised. I don't know what else
you want from me. We can't keep doing these videos.
Alright, I've got
an idea to balance this out.
We still do the videos, but now we just do
it where I punch you in the cock in the video
anyway, and you grow to like it
and hopefully do lots of sticky mess. He must like
it. He must to a certain extent.
Well, do you? Lots to think about in this particular letter.
Also, Eli probably wants to know this.
Yeah.
It takes about two months for the footage
not to gain a reaction from downstairs.
It's the reaction from downstairs.
So, as you can imagine,
watching a lot of porn dis-entitles you
to the erotic nature of the content.
Fancy that though, seeing
just hours and hours of dicks and
fannies and arses and tits
and all sorts of
angles and body parts
You just have to edit it.
Fluids and solids
and all sorts.
And toys and everything
Imagine seeing that every day. Imagine everything imagine seeing that every day
imagine
imagine seeing that
every day
every
every day
seeing
all sorts of
mucky
mucky things
oh
like what Eli
what else
like dogs
Eli
is it dogs Eli
it's not
it's like dogs
yeah
fuck off
what is you
it would be bam eggs dogs bam eggs oh here we go that sounds like a brand dogs are you like? It's not. It's like dogs. Yeah, fuck off. What is you?
Bum eggs.
Dogs bum eggs.
Oh,
here we go.
That sounds like a brand of something you'd buy.
I mean,
I show up and I highly
recommend.
Dogs bum eggs.
Dogs bum eggs.
Silverman brand
dogs bum eggs.
It's up your bum hole.
No,
please,
please stop
with the poopy talk.
Please.
Well,
you stop doing it then. No, would you do a better episode, please? Please stop with the poo-poo talk. Please. Will you stop doing it then?
No.
Will you do a better episode, please?
Even though he has a sick obsession with dogs.
Oh, fuck off.
Dogs.
Stop the recording.
Are you ready, boys and girls?
I'm ready.
I'm back in the room.
I'm very much present and relaxed.
Present in the moment.
Yeah. He just popped out
next door
to get a bit of fresh air
got some fresh air
and cleaned his lungs
and then he was there
for a minute
and I heard him using his phone
and all I heard
then after that
outside was him
was a little video
and he was playing
I could hear
I don't know
it sounded like
you're going to keep
this doing this are you
you're going to keep this up
and then I heard you say
that's what I want.
And then you came back in and you sat down.
Can we just draw a line under this?
Can we draw a line under this?
I'm glad it's messaging.
We'll draw a line under this.
All right.
On the dog fucking obsession.
No, I'm going to come clean.
I'll come clean.
All right?
Yeah.
I fuck dogs.
Okay?
Is that what you want to hear?
Touche.
Yeah, that's what you want to hear.
Can we draw a line under that?
Yes.
Before we go any further...
Oh, it's a bespoke fly to shite, mate.
Well, before we get into that...
Oh, yes.
There's something I wanted to mention.
Little announcements.
So, we had two little things that came in over Christmas in the PO box,
and I thought it was worth pointing them out.
I'll quickly mention this.
Someone, and I'll look up the name now.
Bear with me, bear with me.
I have copious notes here.
Billy is his name.
Billy sent me a fucking excellent patch for my Ghostbusters uniform
that he'd made himself, and it is of the logo
from my Ghostbusters-based solo show, The Little Red Triangle.
Oh, you used that, but it was also,
you designed it for your initial Ghostbustering group when I was a kid.
Yeah.
It goes way back, is what I'm saying.
It goes back before the solo show.
Early 90s, this, mate.
Early 90s design.
And where did you get that design?
You did it.
Do you know why I drew it like that?
Because I kind of like, you know, trapdoor.
And it's got that trapdoor look.
It has a very trapdoor feel to it.
It does.
So it's like a trapdoor ghost in a red triangle.
And funnily enough, I'm writing a book about my solo show for Unbound.
So I'll be begging for
money in a few weeks time so prepare yourself for that no it's gracious of me how gracious of me
to once again put the hat out and say i can't do this without your help well uh but you get a book
out as the whole model of the of that kind of publisher so billy wrote me a really really long
letter and there was some personal and honest things
in there that really
touched me.
I don't like to get
too cheesy on this show.
You know,
when we tried to read out
the letter of thanks
from everyone
about a year ago.
And we got halfway through
and we thought,
we can't read this out
because it's too nice
and we were being dicks
just for fake lols.
No, we are dicks.
I just wanted to say that.
I'm a dick.
Yeah, you are.
I just wanted to say that. I didn't want you to say it. You're a dick. No say that I'm a dick yeah you are I just wanted to say I want you to say it
you're a dick
no that you are a dick
you are a dick
I want you to say
the following sentence
I am
I am a dick
I want you to say
that sentence
I just said
I'll say it again
the sentence I want you to say
I want you to say
I want you to say the sentence
I've just said to you to say
I want you to say
you are a dick
I've done it Eli Silverman say. I want you to say, you are a dick.
I've done it.
Eli Silverman is a massive dog fucking dickhead.
Anyway, sorry.
So, Billy, I wanted to say your letter was really... I've had about enough of this, I have to tell you.
Billy's letter was fucking sweet.
Move on.
Right, thank you, Billy.
I hope you realise that the sentiment was really, really quite nice.
And thank you very much.
It's a lovely patch, I do have to say that.
It's an amazing patch.
Really good.
So thank you so much, Billy.
Really good.
And also, the next thing that we got was this fascinating one.
I got one of these as well.
Now, because you were going, oh, I can't have a winky bag.
Well, it was disappointing to me.
After discovering and basically being the patient zero of the worldwide winky resurgent phenomenon, Paul.
Yes.
Yeah?
Yes.
I couldn't even have a winky.
I couldn't have a winky.
I discovered them.
I took it to the attention of everyone.
The winky.
Yes.
Stop saying winky.
Well, I'm just saying.
I think I've got a point.
All right.
The guy sold out.
That guy said, I've never seen such a run on Winkies.
No, they're still selling them.
They're just more expensive now that everyone started buying them.
Yeah.
I think they've got up at least $10 or so, maybe more.
It's still around the $30 mark, are they?
How much do they go for?
I don't know.
The last time I checked, they were about $28, I think.
And I got mine initially for like $18.
They're all in the States.
Yeah, there was some guy in the States.
18. They're all in the States. Yeah, there are some guys in the States.
But we opened the pay-o-box
and out roll
two replica Winky
badges. Bespoke Winkies.
Designed by Ross.
And Ross sent a little letter, which I'm going to read out now.
But basically he sent two badges
that he made that are replica Winkies.
They're bigger than the original.
They're almost double the size. I'd say size and a half.
Size and a half size and a half but
he's back engineered it
to
be a function
so it's got the
but there is a
there's a slight difference
from the original Winky badges
a slight difference
and what would you
what is that Paul
explain what that is
well it has your name on it
oh it has my name on it
and yours
and mine has my name
in the actual
at his forehead spot
yeah
just above the forehead of Winky
is the name
yeah
in the
and it's translucent rather than black yes yellow and translucent rather than black At his forehead spot. Yeah, just above the forehead of Winky is the name.
And it's translucent rather than black.
Yes, yellow and translucent rather than black.
But there'll be pictures on our website, thecheapshow.co.uk.
It's a fantastic piece of work.
And if you look at the soldering on the back, Paul.
It's beautifully done.
Very, very pleasingly soldered.
And there's a little switch.
Yeah, that's the other thing the other one didn't have, a switch.
It has a switch so you can just turn it on.
Yeah.
And apparently he put it all together.
Yeah.
And there's that little micro switch.
It's just so pleasing. Yeah, pleasing.
As a component.
Yeah.
It's like great.
So I wore it for the digitizer videos we did recently.
It's also got the original.
Connectors.
You have the little connectors.
Yeah.
Well, replica things.
Little metal.
I mean, let me read the
letter and see if it goes into a lot more detail dear paul and eli i found the winky saga so
awe-inspiring i went and reverse engineered it despite never actually seeing one in real life
that's what irl means i found out and i had to look it up when i read this letter are you joking
i didn't know what irl means every now and and then, someone will go, oh my God, I can't believe
that this happened.
And I'll be like,
what is FWIT?
What's that?
For when I think,
for when I touch?
Yeah, yeah.
It's one of those
that you never bother to learn.
Five wishes in...
You had to look it up.
Yeah.
So I didn't know that.
I'm an old man now.
Right.
So,
they mention
general operation
may be off,
but I believe it's close enough.
Very close, I'd say.
You can be the judge.
I think it's amazingly close
because I think the only information he had was
I took a picture of the back of the badge
where you can see the electronics of the original Winky badge.
And so I think that helped him get an idea of how it worked.
But again, the letter goes on.
I present to you Winky.
And there are two Winkies.
Some said an off-brand Winky was simply too fucking meta.
That's true.
That Winky's winking technology was beyond moral comprehension.
They were wrong.
I've put the PCB layout and assembly instructions on my website
so anyone interested can make one of their
own. He's sharing the winky
knowledge. It's open source winky
knowledge. Everyone can be
a winky owner. I mean, this is a better
than the original winky, isn't it, really?
It's a yes and
no answer for me. There are a lot of things I like about it
because it is not modern and new. It's great.
But also because the other one's smaller and more
badge-like and it's got that 80s it's it's just got that origin it's got the it's the
original thing it's original thing yeah yeah i know i know you're saying but i don't know that's
pretty good winky yeah you know i mean i'd be pleased just in terms of it being bigger like
who's got the biggest winky you know i mean literally it's not about what you i've got a
bigger winky and it's got my name on it do you know i mean that you all you people you've got
a small name.
My God, you've got a small name.
Buying off all the Winkies.
Yeah.
Eli, you don't need much space for the right of that, do you?
So you're all right.
Anyway, the website that you can get the instructions from is
rosshudson.co.uk forward slash posts forward slash Winky.
W-I-N-K-I-E.
Winky. As in Winky. Yeah. So rosshudson. H-U-N-K-I-E. Winky. As in winky.
Yeah, so Ross Hudson. H-U-D-S-O-N.
Ross. Ross Hudson.
Ross. Ross Hudson.
Ross Hudson. Ross Hudson. Dot.
Ross Hudson. Ross Hudson.
Ross Hudson. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot.
Ross Hudson. Ross Hudson. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot. Dot.
Portree ones.
Posts. Granular ones.
Stop now. It's not working. Dot, dot, you get it. Portree ones. Okay, posts. Granular ones. Stop, no.
Modular ones.
Don't, it's not working.
One that I do in the poulties.
Right, anyway, the letters.
I spread it in the poulties.
I spread it up my poulties.
Let me finish the letter.
Modular poulties.
Let me please.
Modular poulties now.
Hopefully, he says.
Modular poulties.
I'm going to fucking lamp you.
Winky, modular winky.
That's what I'd like to see, Paul.
A modular Winky.
Right.
Hopefully, I've extended the lifespan of Winky.
There's limited originals in existence.
It's true.
And they'll soon be gone.
May Winky live forever.
Fantastic.
In all seriousness, I love the podcast.
It's routinely the highlight of my week.
Oh, bless.
Hope you like the handmade off-brand Winky.
Cheers, Ross.
At Ross Hudson. Cheers, Ross. At Ross Hudson.
Oh, no.
Hoss Rudson.
H-O-S-S-R-U-D-S-O-N.
And now it's time for the fucking price of shite.
Oh, the fucking price of shite.
Oh, the fucking price of shite.
Oh, the fucking price of shite.
And that's right.
That's right indeed.
Right.
That's a different letter.
That's a different letter.
Oh, you looked at the fucking prices again just now, didn't you?
No, I just said that's a different letter.
Fucking.
So it's not the letter.
I shall be the recorder of the between.
Well, look.
I'll take the score, mate.
I'll do the score.
Okay.
It's here.
Don't open it.
I presume that's the whole thing.
I believe it's even got the name. Just don't look. Don't open it. I presume that's the whole thing. I believe the team got the name.
Just don't look.
Don't open up anything.
There's an envelope.
It says price of shite answers, but we've pulled that out,
but we haven't read it.
There is two items in me hand wrapped in lots of sellotape and cloth.
Oh, hang on.
It says here, TVO items both the same price.
So there are two items, but they're both the same price.
We need three items.
Well, there is.
There's three items, but two of the same price three items well there is there's three
items but two of the same price apparently apparently that's a little wrinkle isn't it
little little wrinkle now what's your these look like little they've wrapped in kitchen tissue yes
one's very much heavier than the other can i uh take a picture of the kitchen tissue before we
tear upon it two items both the same price in the heavier packet yeah it was a long heavy packet
and then there's a bit of weight much lighter much lighter packet yeah what should we do first Both the same price in the heavier packet, Paul. A long, heavy packet.
And then there's a smaller, much lighter packet.
What should we do first?
Open the first one first.
And what is the first one?
The single one.
Okay, the small, light, square one.
I'll open that.
Do you mind if I open it? You go ahead.
You take the reins, baby boy.
And I'll be writing down our guesses for the price.
There's nothing else that suggests what range these prices must be?
No. I don't know. It might have been a letter, but I've lost a lot of shit. guesses for the price. There's nothing else that suggests what range these prices must be.
No.
I don't know.
There might have been a letter,
but I've lost a lot of shit.
We'll make our guesses,
but we're only coming up with two prices because those two items are the same price
in the other thing.
I mean, I presume so.
Two items, both the same price.
Okay.
That's unambiguous.
Okay.
I'm having trouble.
Can you pass the scissors, please?
Pass the meters, Snippers.
Just grab them by the meters hook just grab them by the meters hook
grab them by the meters hook i've said to you last wednesday he comes around here with his little
spear and he says oh my oh that's he enjoyed that though oh my meters right what is it he's opened
it up it's a fridge magnet speaking to the mic he's opened it up it's a fridge magnet speaking
to the mic it's a fridge magnet it's a fridge magnet yeah it is a fridge magnet it's great
uh it's a picture frame fridge mat fridge magnet it's got some people in a hot tub
as a sort of stock photo in there i'll add it to you paul yeah doesn't it what a weird fucking
thing it looks like the back of it looks like it either had a stand
or a way to pull it out.
Possibly,
but can you open it
and get the stock photo out
so I can slide something else in?
I don't know if I can.
Let me see, yeah.
Let me have a look.
There must be a way.
Yeah, you've got it.
It opens.
There you go.
It just pops open.
Oh, lovely.
It does stick a picture in there.
I'm just looking for a little picture.
To fit in.
That will fit in.
Here we go. Centre Parks. It's Centre Parks. It's from Centre Parks. I'm just looking for a little picture. To fit in. That will fit in. Here we go.
Centre Parks.
It's Centre Parks.
It's from Centre Parks.
I can see Centre Parks logo.
It's a big fat dad
and what looks like
his daughters,
well you hope they are.
Yeah.
Oh God.
It's his family.
Well,
just write the photo.
Oh,
come here with these
two little girls.
And then he goes past
the gift shop
and sees,
he goes,
I need to buy all of them goes I need to buy all of them
I need to buy all of them
is he in a rubber tyre
yeah
they're all in rubber tyres
going down a big tube
a watery tube
and I presume
it's all very innocent
let me see
yeah they're sharing
it looks like a
a big water raft
yeah
it's different
he seems to be
astride some kind of
protuberance.
So you're going to try and put a different picture in now?
I'm putting a picture in.
Give me where's the meters clippers.
He's got a bag, a paper bag.
I'm going to measure a picture so it fits in there.
What are you doing?
I'm doing some craft.
Doing a bit of craft, mate.
He is.
This is wonderful.
He's taking out the scissors craft he's taking the scissors
and he's cutting out
a design
from the paper bag
which
I presume
was from
a company called
Gosh
comics book
shops
yeah
comics book shop
a comic book shop
yeah
which started off
opposite the British Museum
but now is in
Soho
Soho yeah
yeah
it's funny as well
when you go to a charity shop and you see like
piles and piles of some i was so into them i still to this day i have these sort of dreams about
discovering a shop that sells all these comics that i want yeah or like a little cachet in a
sort of market i'd love to find loads of look-ins and i'd love to find loads of real ghostbuster
comic books that is i know i've got a load that That's achievable, isn't it? Yeah. In this world.
I'm not going to bend over backwards, though.
I'm just measuring this.
Oh, he's measuring the glass, and he's trying to make the...
Make it fit.
Make it fit.
I think I've achieved this.
I think he has achieved it quite brilliantly on a limited time.
I call it a lady's head.
A lady's head.
Looking out the window.
Well, look at that.
You know what?
You've instantly improved it.
Yeah, it would look great on a fridge.
It almost looks like she's looking at UFOs.
She's looking out over the skyline.
Yeah.
What a great thing that is.
Okay, not too bad.
Well, I'm going to shake your hand.
There you go.
Don't sex-finger me.
No, I'm not doing it.
That was a proper, honest, cool-blind-me-governor.
Well, it just shows the potential for that little...
So you took a potentially dodgy candid photograph.
Are we guessing in British pound sterling?
Yes.
We are.
This is from Britland.
Yes.
Oh, it's from Centre Parcs.
Yeah, yeah.
It was probably from the Centre Parcs gift shop, wasn't it?
We've covered this, haven't we?
And it ended up in a charity shop.
We've covered this already.
Yes.
I'm just trying to get into the second package.
Butt plug thing.
What?
It looks like
a chrome butt plug head,
doesn't it,
at this moment?
It looks like a butt plug.
Little small butt plug.
The delicate butt
for the show.
Oh, they are.
I think they are.
What on earth are they?
Are they butt plugs?
They're bottled stops,
aren't they? Yeah.
Fucking hell, mate.
But I bet you, though, they have been up someone's arse
and then was like, I'll give them to the charity shop.
I won't wash them.
I'm giving them a huff.
They do smell a bit like they've been cleaned with something.
Anyway, ass.
There's some weight to it, though, isn't it?
Literally, you could kill someone with one of these.
You could kill a mouse with that easily.
Right on the skull. Is it definitely a bottle top? Yeah, there's a rubber though, isn't it? You could literally kill someone with one of these. You could kill a mouse with that easily. Right on the skull.
Is it definitely a bottle top?
Yeah, there's a rubber seal, isn't there?
It seems to be almost too small for the neck of a wine bottle, doesn't it?
Is it that way?
Shunk?
Or is it that way?
Shunk?
It would be that way, right?
Because otherwise it's too long and it would go in the drink.
So you'd have to do it that way.
Shunk?
Yeah.
Wait, there's a little bottle here from a few weeks ago.
Uludag. Uludag. It's the fruit-flavoured, clear Uludag. that way shunk yeah wait there's a little bottle here from a few weeks ago this is the ooloo dag
it's the fruit flavored clear ooloo dag i'm gonna just rest it upon the top that won't fit
it won't go in that way no you don't want the thing sticking right into it well no that's
gonna happen isn't it but that must be the way put it down all the way in put it in
it won't it's very tight don't you're to break that and cut yourself. It just about goes in. Does it work?
What a terrible thing. So,
I'm going to need a price from you. Oh, yeah.
Two prices. A price for the first item,
which we infinitely preferred. Yes.
I'm going to say... Not infinitely.
That's stupid. I'm sorry.
I'm just sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
Sorry. I'm going to say 50p
for the magnet. 50p
for the... Shouldn't we do this as a private ballot?
No, because otherwise we don't tell anyone.
We don't tell the audience and we just reveal the answer.
I'll say 70p.
70p.
70p for the magnet.
70p for the magnet.
So remember what you said, yeah?
I said 50p.
And I said 70p.
And let's go over the rules one more time.
If you get the price spot on, you get two points and that means between between exactly
if you're 25p either way out from the answer you get just the one between between however if you
get oh it doesn't really matter there's not enough to be in order so you get two or one
that's why i invented between to try and lively up that fucking bit of the show, Paul. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? I've lost faith in it.
Petwing.
Right, so the book plug bottle caps.
Yeah.
What do you think?
Shall I guess this one first?
Yes. That's only fair.
Yeah.
Because then you go under, over, over, over.
Petwing, petwing, or just a petwing?
All right.
Paul, go on then.
What do you think?
They're quite weighty.
They're reasonably well made.
Two pounds. Two pounds. No, but they're the same price. Oh, yeah. What do you think? They're quite weighty. They're reasonably well made. Two pounds.
Two pounds.
No, but they're the same price.
What are you saying?
Oh.
Pound each?
Yeah.
Oh, I don't know.
I'll say pound each.
Pound each.
I'll go pound each.
That's a problem because I would have gone with that as well.
Yeah, well, you might.
Go say 99p each and then you get the between because you're closer.
What if I say they're 75p each?
We could all
just completely
between out here
and not score anything
at all
I'm gonna say
you need to
guess the price
of shite
I'm gonna say
£1.50
75p each
75p each
yeah
it's a good guess
I might have gone
for that
if I had gone
for the much more
attractive
£1 apiece
yeah yeah
you have to admit
it was good
the guess you would have gone for probably I don't know you just said that The much more attractive a pound a piece. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to admit, it was good.
The guess you would have gone for, probably.
I don't know.
You just said that.
Yeah.
What am I reaching for?
Oh, the answers.
Yes.
Han, are you ready?
Yes, I am.
Is it going to be a betwing fest?
Is it going to be a blank out?
It's a betwing fest.
Who do you think's got it?
Who do you think's got this in the bag?
Is it a tiebreaker?
Probably you this week.
I might win this week.
Is that what you're saying?
So I just want to quickly say,
I said 50p for the magnet and 75p each for the bottle top bumhole.
Bumholes.
Bumholes.
Bumhole rod.
Spunk.
I know, you just threw it in.
And you said, how much for the magnet?
One pound?
No.
How much did you say?
70p. 70p, all right. And a pound apiece for the but? £1? No. How much did you say? 70p.
70p, all right.
And a pound apiece for the butthole scrunkers.
Scrunkers?
That's a great pop band.
The butthole scrunkers. Don't, don't.
Are you going to write that down?
No.
Bloody hell.
It's a bit too much like the butthole surfers.
It is.
Right.
I'm quite disturbed with a picture I see.
What's in it?
It depicts our friend, stroke, enemy in real life. Oh,
the Edmonds. The Edmonds.
We haven't spoken of the Edmonds in a while.
It's quite disturbing, anyway. He's done
fuck all, that's why. The lonely psychopath.
Check it out. He's naked.
He's on the set of Deal or No Deal
and he's got a little
micro phallus.
He's got a little dingle on. Oh my god.
Look at his little dingle.
That is...
There's a dinosaur on the table, a little Barney dinosaur.
Barney the dinosaur.
Who'd have thought it?
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Fridge magnet.
Yeah.
You said...
50p.
I said...
70p.
50p.
On the nose.
Give me those betwings, Mr. Silverman.
There's an item missing.
Oh, no, is there?
Yeah.
That's all I have.
Where's the packaging?
That's it.
I gave you everything.
That was it.
No, it's not.
What's missing?
What's missing?
A doll.
Oh.
You left it at home.
I did.
Because I thought it was...
Yeah.
Okay.
So imagine a doll.
But like, you know, there's ones with the kind of eyes that roll back
and the head that's hard for the body soft?
This is no.
I'm not going to accept this.
Just imagine it.
I will not.
I know the price.
It's one pound.
How do you know?
I don't.
That was on me guessing right now.
You're lucky it isn't because I would suspect foul play.
Okay, but I don't know.
So you've got a chance for more betwings just by leaving it at home.
Right, well, quick.
You get the...
I can tell you now.
You've scored two fucking betwings for the fridge magnet.
Excellent.
Petwing, petwing.
But I do get a petwing
because 70p is only 20p
above 50p.
Well done,
you played a good game there.
Can I have that?
Just give me the petwing.
Petwing.
Thank you.
You haven't done the petwings for me.
Petwing, petwing.
Thank you.
It's been a fucking
petwing fest the first round.
I had to do my own.
But I...
A butt plug,
bottle stop. I said 75p plug. Yeah. Bottle stop.
I said 75p each.
It is 75p each.
Are you fucking joking me?
Oh, mate.
Have you cheated?
No, I haven't cheated.
Are you cheating?
Because I opened it
before we started the show.
I tore the bag.
Petwing, Petwing.
Mate.
I don't even get one there,
do I?
Oh, yeah.
I said a pound.
It's right on 25p.
Give it to me.
Give it to me now.
No, no, it's not. Yes, it is. It's not. I said £1.50 for both. And I said £ pound. It's right on 25p. Give it to me. Give it to me now. No, no, it's not.
Yes, it is.
It's not.
I said £1.50 for both.
And I said £2 for both.
Yeah, so you're 50p out, not 20p.
No, because they're separate prices.
So separate prices means you...
I said a pound each.
I said they were a pound each.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
Wow, that got a real technical.
That's one between each then.
It wasn't one price.
So that's two betwings, but one between each.
It's the same price.
Yeah.
But I get... Two betwings, but one each.. It's the same price. Yeah. But I get...
Two betwings, but one each.
Oh, so you get four betwings.
Is that what you're saying?
I've lost count of the betwings.
No, by strict rules.
You're right, Paul.
Because it's two items.
So you've got one betwing each.
You've got four betwings, and I've got two there.
So I've got eight.
It's been an absolute betwing fest.
Fucking hell.
And then we only...
One item
So how many
Petuits have I got in all
I've got
Four and eight
No you've got
No the fridge magnet
You've got two four
It's one item
Okay two on its own
You've got six
And then two
Plus four
Yeah
Which is
So six
So I've got eight in all
No you've got six
Fuck
I've got six
It's very easy
Alright how many have you got then Because you've got two ones And one one didn't you Yeah I had three So you've got six. It's very easy. All right. How many have you got then?
Because you got two ones and one one, didn't you?
Yeah.
I had three.
You got three.
Yeah.
So, and we can't do the dolly, but I forgot to bring it.
But it was a little dolly.
But you should, you need.
Yeah.
You said, what, your guess was a quid.
Yeah.
You were wrong there.
All right.
How much was it?
It's £1.50.
Okay.
How much would you have guessed?
£1.50.
All right.
Well, you get two betwings. Betwing, betwing. So, five betw much would you have guessed? £1.50. All right, well, you get two per twing.
Per twing, per twing!
So five per twings for Eli, six per twings for Paul,
and that's how you play the Price of Shite.
Yeah.
Yay!
Put that in my fridge.
Does it say who sent it on the letter?
Yeah, sorry.
We should do that.
We should do that.
Sorry.
Crisps, rubbers, and most sauces are from Thailand.
That's a weird name.
It just says that out of the blue.
Okay.
Most sauces are from Thailand.
I'd contest that.
Yeah.
Perhaps this person sent something else.
Maybe.
Crisps, rubbers and sauces, I reckon.
I think I've given you the rubbers then.
And maybe the sauces as well.
Have you?
Separately. I haven't had sauces. Mate, I reckon. I think I've given you the rubbers then, and maybe the sauces as well. Have you? Separately.
I haven't had sauces, mate.
I don't want to get into that, but...
Name?
I haven't had sauces.
You have had sauces.
I have not had sauces from you!
I fucking haven't, mate.
Name?
Samuel.
Thank you.
Sam the King 25.
Thank you, Samuel.
Mr. Al Purchase.
Thank you, Mr. Al Purchase. Thank you, Mr. Al Purchase.
I think maybe.
God, we can't remember what we even fucking say.
I don't think it's even a reference to something we did.
I'm just like, nappy.
Put nappy on.
Put dog nappy on.
Hello, I am linen finish.
No.
No.
That is not canon linen finish.
We need to go to the next segment.
I just want to say, Samuel says, many thanks for making
such an amazing and funny podcast.
Oh, thank you, Samuel.
Thank you for the price of shine.
That was a good price of shine.
Sorry, Paul ruined it.
But I still won.
You did.
Yes, you did.
But you still got five for Twings.
When was the last time
you had more than one?
You gave me a fucking sympathy
for Twing there.
We both know it.
At least you got a Twing.
I was happy with fucking three for Twings.
That is more than I've made in years
but you've had five now
I can't just get
two per twings
just from seeing
it written down
yeah I'm going to
give you it
because I cocked up
I don't want it
because I cocked up mate
and I think you should get
there are three real per twings
you should benefit
from my
it's three real per twings
and it's good enough for me
no
you got five per twings
mate
you've earned those
five per twings for your intelligence and've earned those five petwings.
For your intelligence and my negligence, alright?
Petwing, petwing, petwing,
petwing, petwing.
Just for you. What's happened to us?
We've gone petwing...
Barmy!
No, I'm getting petwing drunk! welcome back from the sound effect everybody uh now it's time for silverman's platters
why don't you vote below on what your favorite sound effect is is it the cash till is it the
bank machine paying out or maybe it's the coins in a cup? Or maybe you like
my little bespoke ones that I do sometimes.
You haven't done one in years, I think
actually, and even the ones I think you did do,
I would probably cut out.
So I don't think anyone's ever heard you all between...
No, no, no. I like, I call this one
a... What are you doing?
I call this one... Oh, sorry.
What are you doing? I'm fine. You're not.
You're very not. Call this one. Oh What are you doing? I'm fine You're not You're very not
Call this one
Oh
Shut up
Twat
He tried to shake the coins
And instead just threw coins
Across the room
What are you doing?
Stop foraging in your bedroom
I'm going to give you
A sound effect mate
Go on
Do you call this
The Nescafe?
Doesn't make any sense
Maybe those ads Yeah but they were Coffee beans He always had it in his hand Yeah Yeah that's why I call it the Nescafe? Doesn't make any sense. Maybe those ads.
Yeah, but they were coffee beans.
He always had it in his hand.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's why I call it the Nescafe.
I'm showing him the beans.
No, you're not.
As if...
You're not showing me the beans.
Dear listener, imagine the coins are the beans.
I'm referring to the coins as the beans.
Beans?
No, don't say that.
We can do it.
I reckon we can.
What's he going to do? Stop me?
What's he going to do? Tramp on the street.
That's a new sound effect
for you. That's a very distasteful one, I thought. I'm not going to
put that one in. No, tramp. Not
a homeless person. Vote below, ladies and gentlemen,
if you thought that was insensitive.
And one of the rare occasions of Eli really
punching down for humour. I'm not punching down. You want me to censor this now, do you? that was insensitive and one of the rare cases of Eli really punching down for humour.
I'm not punching down.
You want me to censor this now, do you?
This and the dog fucking.
You're a monster this week, Mr Silverman.
Drawing a line under the dog fucking.
Don't even mess with me on that.
Honestly.
I can't wait for the day
when Out of Context Cheap Show Twitter feed
just has that line.
What?
Drawing a line
under the dog fucking
and we'll look at it
and go
what fucking episode
is that from
oh no
and I'll say
it's the one
when you lost your shit
I didn't lose my shit
yeah
I haven't lost my shit
you have
I'm feeling fine now
alright so
without you
I'm doing fine now
without you
baby you remember that one yes I do it was the four tops nah yeah Without you, I'm doing fine now. Without you, baby.
You remember that one?
Yes, I do.
It was the Four Tops.
Nah.
Yeah, it was.
It was.
It wasn't.
It was like the Chi-Lites or something.
Commodores.
Persuaders.
The Avengers.
The X-Men.
Which one are you plumping for?
Justice League.
Oh, I saw a shot called Pumpkin Express.
What kind of shop was it?
It was like a restaurant, but I think they misspelled pumpkin.
Pumpkin.
They thought pumpkin was spelled...
I'm going to have to write pumpkin down.
I want to be the pumpkin.
Yeah.
Pump King Express.
But the thing is, they spent loads of money on a really sort of quite expensive sign.
And it was like Pump King Express.
That sounds like a
like a porn train or something yeah oh that's our next special
right orgy on the pumpkin express i saw that and i also saw something less amusing but i've
still amused me which was like a polish uh polish del deli, which on the side said, ham sausages.
Like I say, it didn't amuse me as much as pumpkin.
Or, you know, at all, in this
context. Or anyone listening.
Ham sausages.
Stop it!
Do you know how many
words I can pull from your mouth today
and use as titles for the episode?
I know.
Episode 163, ham sausages.
So funny.
You don't get ham sausages.
That's why it's funny.
But is it though?
No.
No.
What's funny is you finding it amusing
and then laughing yourself into a state of madness.
No, I'm fine.
I told you I was fine.
That's on a good t-shirt as well.
Eli, Jacob,
I fucked Don Silverman.
That is losing his
fucking mind this week.
What a shame. What a downfall.
What are we doing?
He's the most favourite member of all the shows he's involved in.
Where's Eli? What's he doing? He can't take the shows he's involved in where's Eli
what's he doing
he can't take the
popularity
he can't take the
fame
it's gone to his
head
I'm fine
told you
when his
appearance in
Stuart Ashen's
film comes out
I don't do that
there
I say stuff
yeah but there'll
be premieres
you'll go to
and interviews
and you have to
do EPKs
haven't they had
the premiere already
they've had the
premiere
the character's
very interesting
what are we doing spaff EPKs. Haven't they had the premiere already? They've had the premiere. The character's very interesting.
What are we doing?
Spaff.
You've lost it, mate.
We're doing... You have lost it.
Mini platters.
Admit that you've lost it.
I haven't.
Say, I am a dick who has lost it.
You are a dick who has lost it.
Right.
Don't do that.
What are you doing? You're losing your mind. Don't do that What are you doing?
You're losing your mind
Don't do that
Calm down
We're doing
What are we doing?
We're doing the platters
The fuck?
Oh yeah
Right
Platter time everybody
This is the section of the show
Watching this podcast
From my point of view
Watching it
Has become like
a thrilling stunt show
where like
all the explosions
and stunts
are happening
on Eli's face
shut up
shut up
right
we're doing a little
mini platters aren't we
we're only doing two
we're not talking about
all of this crap
no just do the two
oh I need to organise it
you don't
there's only two
and you know which two
they are
the front the singles alright and not an honourable mention for Disco Erotica to organise it. You don't. There's only two. And you know which two they are? The front.
The singles.
All right.
And not an honourable mention
for Disco Erotica?
Let's give Disco...
Oh, no, you know what?
We should save that
because when we went down
the rabbit hole,
it led to an interesting
side story.
So let's save that
for another time.
That is an interesting
side story.
Very cheap show
on message as well, isn't it?
Yeah.
So we'll hop on to that.
A little thing to look forward
to on another edition of Splatters coming
up. Just as long as we remember. I've found
them, Paul. Good. Were they at the front like I literally
said? Yes. That's another thing I've won.
All I've done is win today.
All you've done is lose your mind.
I know, I know. I'm sorry, everyone.
I truly am.
Shut up.
Shut up. I'm not saying anything. It's a stupid Goonies t-shirt that's putting me off. I'm face level with it. I truly am shut up shut up
I'm not saying anything
it's a fucking stupid
Goonies t-shirt
that's putting me off
I'm like face level with it
I feel like I'm on that island
with them
you shouldn't be
looking for the boat
that's not a scene
that happened in the film
is it
bullshit
that's not a scene
that happened in the film
is it
what they all watch
the boats sail away
at the end
do they
yes
I don't know if it's
exactly that image
it's not like that
don't look like that
it sails away from under a mountain it doesn't go out into the open sea does it it's in the fucking
no anyway it does because the whole i don't like the goodies i like the bit where he shuffles his
truffle i mean that's fucking great obviously but that's it one moment shut up talking
because all you're going to do is talk yourself into an angry moment where you'll complain about
yourself and your own actions and then when you find out the ridiculousness of it and it twigs
that's when you have another mental breakdown and the loop continues this constant spiraling
fucking cavalcade of fucking crap yeah welcome to silverman's platter
welcome to silverman's platters this is can't do it. Do it. Welcome to Silverman's Platters.
This is the...
Eight minutes
and we haven't started yet.
This is the section of the show
where I introduce records,
which I've bought.
Yeah, I mean,
that's factually true.
The Platters That Matter
on Silverman's Platters
brought to you
by the patron saint
of this segment,
Clyde McFatter.
Thank you. And the first one today
let's go to the one
which is not that funny
and is a bit
unsettling
unsettling
Mini Pops
it's a 7 inch single
I've picked up
talking to the microphone
it's a 7 inch single
that I've picked up
Paul
now is it a little EP
I didn't actually listen to it
I was preparing
the house of pickles
that's not a euphemism
I'll tell the audience what Mini Pops is before we go into what the single is preparing the house of pickles. That's not a euphemism.
I'll tell the audience what Mini Pops is
before we go into
what the single is.
So,
and this is me reading
from Wikipedia now.
Mini Pops
was a television series
broadcast in 1983
on Channel 4
in the United Kingdom.
Designed primarily
for younger viewers,
it consisted of
music performances
on a brightly coloured set
featuring pre-teen children singing then contemporary pop music hits and older classics.
The children were made to look like the original performers, including clothing and makeup.
Controversy over children singing songs that often contained the subtext of adult content in adult costumes and makeup led to the show's cancellation after one series.
One series.
So the criticism actually
who history was mini pops was the brainchild of martin wyatt who created a new child group from
london called the mini pops and released an album of 19 in 1982 which reached the top 30 in uk and
europe this resulted in the french record label releasing a single from the album cupid stupid
cupid that's not this no which was sung by martin wyatt's
young daughter joe the song reached number one in france knocking ebony and iry off the top
stupid cupid stupid cupid i presume so yeah it's not no his is cupid draw back your bow
stupid cupid stop playing you done me who did it say had the original hit? A version of... I'll go to the link.
Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka
were getting a hit for Connie Francis.
Right.
Oh, yes.
Doop-de-doop-dee.
I've got it now.
Yeah?
You've brain-wormed me.
Good.
I mean, ear-wormed me.
Paul, this might be a moment
to bring up your ear-worm ability.
Yeah, I was thinking of...
It's in the music part of the show.
I was thinking of charting that
on Twitter in the future.
Every time I wake up with an ear-worm, I'll announce what it is.
You have an earworm.
If you were a superhero, your ability to instill earworms with just a couple of bars from across the room or downstairs.
I was thinking of the B-52s we had this morning.
Rome.
Yes.
It's a great track.
And Give Me Back My Man.
Check that track out.
It's a fucking wicked track.
Robster?
I mean, by the lobsters. No, by the B-52s. Sorry Gimme Back My Man. Check that track out. It's a fucking wicked track. Robster? I mean, by the lobsters.
No, by the B-52s.
Sorry, the lobster people.
I associate them with lobsters.
Would you like to do a different podcast, Eli?
What do you mean?
Just on your own.
Do you want to just lock you in a room with a microphone?
Drop some acid.
You were explaining the mini-pops to me
and I felt safe for a moment.
Safe for myself. Head of entertainment myself head of entertainment
cecil cora channel 4 and record producer mike manfield embraced the idea of producing a tv show
around the mini pops it believed it would boost and broaden the group's audience appeal so channel
4 in general yes uh on july 4 july 4th 1982 thousands of amateur child performers from
across britain descended onto a London theatre
to audition in a search to find
additional children to sing and star in the
TV show along with the
for me that must have been a fucking
nightmare because I've never understood
waiting you know I've never understood
the appeal of those kind of bands
where it's like let's get really young kids
to sing songs because
young kids won't want to buy that
stuff. Young kids don't want to hear themselves
be successful in the pop charts. So it's for
mothers and older women
and questionable
men.
It's a cliche, but a lot of pop
is, that was the cliche about
pop. It's bought by two main markets.
Homosexual men
and teenage women it seems that
the mini that's a cliche that's what they say about pop it feels like mini pops are designed
to appeal to mothers mothers and maybe like aunties you know those kind of things yeah but
what you i think what you're trying to say paul is it kind of appeals to nonces by mistake so
you can't do that is that's what you're saying. Well, the problem is,
is that, okay,
so here we go.
We're going to just play the track
because I'll be honest,
the track is awful.
It's a bunch of children singing.
That was their single,
but then what,
this is from the TV show.
We've got an EP.
Let's just explain
the technical details
of this platter.
We're all higgity-jiggity.
It's an EP,
which is a seven-inch record
with multiple tracks on.
Extended play.
So you've got three tracks, though.
Yeah, three or four or maybe up to five.
So even with three, you can still call it an EP?
I would, yeah.
All right.
And also, an EP generally has a picture cover,
which is unusual for seven-inch records in Britain.
Okay.
So they're little sort of mini albums that people like the Kinks
and those 60s bands would have loads of them.
There's loads of them.
Okay.
And the Beatles had EPs. That up there, the beatles twist and shout is yeah i'll bring
that down and show that no it's all right i can see it for me i don't i don't care you need to
look at the back yeah i know it's got all kinds of stuff that's an ep how many tracks per side
has that got twist and shout a taste of honey do you want to know a secret and there's a place four
tracks on a 45 rpm ep so i just trying, that's the classic format.
Yeah.
This is one of those.
This seems more like a single though,
with just two tracks on side B,
because they're both short.
Side A is a horrible, boring version of
When You Wish Upon A Star.
And I don't want to play that because it's awful,
but I do want to play the beginning of side B.
Side B, which is called...
Why Can't We Love Each Other All Year Round? Hmm.
Why can't we love each other all year round?
Light up the world and shine it all around.
Caring and sharing.
Oh, why can't we love each other all year round?
Oh, why can't we love each other all year round?
Everybody's heart should be Singing out in harmony Thank you. I mean, it's upbeat, but it's still awful.
It's very, very awful.
I don't know if it's taken from something,
but then the other side has also a second track.
What is that track?
Bright Eyes.
Oh, fucking hell.
Written by Mike Batt.
Can I ask a question?
He's been doing the rounds.
You know he's got a book out, Mike Batt.
No.
Of the Wombles.
Is he the songwriter of Bright Eyes?
Is he the worst songwriter ever?
Ever, who ever lived?
It's like everything he writes is like bad gravy.
Bad gravy.
It's like you think there's beef in it, but actually it's quite runny.
It's thin.
You think it's thin gruel.
Bright Eyes is one of the worst fucking songs ever.
But people remember it for that three-second hook that the chorus had.
That's what you can make it.
You can make it as a producer and a songwriter.
And also, what if you get one hook of that quality?
I personally don't care for Mike Batt either.
No.
And find him obnoxious when I've seen him in an interview.
But you've got to hand it to him.
He's right up his own arse.
That's a good hook, isn't it?
Yeah, but he's up his own arse.
He's part of that weird corner of Britain that existed in the 70s and 80s
where everything was beige.
And everything was drawn with coloured pencils.
You know what I'm saying?
The country, weird, beige, hunt, kids having adventures in the forest
adventure show
you're talking about
Scarfook again
and then you're
crawling into
the darkness
of the 70s
what shipped down
which is like
hey
how is Britain
going to compete
with Disney's
animation studios
well let's do
a cartoon show
about horrible rabbits
dying horribly
and innocent lives
dying and it's a bit
miserable
it's grim
what should our follow up be plague dogs about dogs that escape from a lab was Mike that horrible rabbits dying horribly and innocent lives dying and it's a bit miserable. It's grim.
Grim.
What should our follow-up be?
Plague Dogs?
About dogs that escape from a lab and are full of plague?
Was Mike that involved in Plague Dogs as well?
Don't know.
He did The Hunting of the Snark.
Yeah, which we...
And his book that apparently he has out now
is like a fantasy sort of novel
with all grumbles and squawkle trades
and booble shankles
and wiggin' bongin' smongin' slangs
and boogie boogie boogie bo wiggy bongy smong and slangs. That sounds... Boogoo boogoo boogoo.
Spurft.
Come on.
Get away from the dog fucking.
Back to Spurft.
I'm sorry about the tramp side effect as well.
Take that out.
Please.
Make me look better.
Please.
I do every week, mate.
Mike Batt.
So he obviously, he was into that.
Anyway, so their version of it is, again, insipid.
And it's just like, who's that appealing to?
It's awful, awful stuff.
So anyway, they made the TV show.
And the series was a success for Channel 4.
It had 2 million viewers.
Wow.
It's one of those things where I can remember it going on
and people reacting badly to it.
But you keep it on because it's like what do you call car
crash you go i can't believe i'm watching this yeah all right little thought was given to the
ethics of child performing songs originally written for older artists and dressing and
dancing in a provocative style inappropriate yes often influenced by the original performance
whilst embraced by children who love the idea of ordinary kids singing and dancing, as they did along with their favourite songs,
the show sat uneasily with some adults.
This was capped by a performance from Joanna Fisher,
who covered the Sheena Easton song, Nine to Five, in nightclothes,
and included the lyrics,
Nighttime is the right time, we make love.
In response, the programme began attracting criticism from commentators in the British Isles,
who suggested that children being portrayed in this manner was somewhat sinister.
One caller on Channel 4's right to reply fumed,
Mini Pops should be called Mini Whores!
Are you people out of your mind?
Whoa! Hot take! Jesus!
See, the internet existed all the way back in 1980s.
Fuck Mini Whores! He's attacking the performers.
Yeah.
The Daily Mail charged Minnie Pops
with partial responsibility
for the slaying of childhood
and criticised, oh God, the show.
That's really depressed me,
that guy, the Minnie Horse guy.
Is it merely priggish to feel queasy
at the sight of primary school minxes
with rouge cheeks, eye makeup
and full gloss lipstick
belting out songs like Torch Singers
and waggling those places
where they will eventually have places oh the final act of this week's daily mail the last
final act of last week's show featured a chubby blonde totlet thigh high to a pedophile in a raw
raw skirt and high heels her black knickers were extensively flashed as she bounced around singing the words,
See that guy all dressed in green?
He's not a man, he's a loving machine.
Fucking hell.
A shop window full of junior jailbait.
What does the show thrust premature sexual awareness
onto its wide-eyed performers?
Christ.
That is definitely the Daily Mail
having its cake and eat. Listen to this filth
in great detail as I stroke my
cock as I write.
Can you imagine the filth of this?
I'm going to describe it.
I know. The whole tone
is like, that's so 80s though,
the tone, that tabloid tone. That Fleet Street
wank. Fucking
hell. Fucking hell.
So yeah, discography, they released an album.
They had a TV show and some specials.
They were popular in Canada.
They had a three-week tour in 1983.
Okay.
They're a thing.
Yeah.
They're not my thing.
Goes without saying, really. Anyway, that was awful shit.
Fucking hell, that's terrible.
How many stars do you give that?
One.
I won't go there.
I won't dame.
Before we move on,
it was this situation
where I think a year and a half ago
when I was still living in Cambridge,
there was a charity shop
and in it,
there was the full album of mini-pops
where every track was one of them
doing Boy George or Madonna
or Madness and things like that.
And I thought,
wouldn't that be great for Cheap Show?
It's 25p.
It's such a good thing to talk about
in terms of the topic.
And I thought, but I'm not picking it up
and taking it on its own to a counter.
The walk of shame.
Oh, he's buying an album with kids dressed in fishnets and skirts.
It's like, why are you buying this, sir?
It's for a podcast, man.
Oh, yeah, that sounds even worse.
I'd rather not.
It's for a podcast.
It's not a great excuse for anything. It's not a great excuse. Go look at your hard drive. It's for a podcast, mum. Oh yeah, that sounds even worse. It's more than not. It's for a podcast. It's not a great excuse for anything.
It's not a great excuse. No.
Go look at your hard drive. It's for a podcast!
Yeah, exactly. I've washed my hands. It's all these
dog fucking videos, Eli. No, shut up!
I could get done. People will think
of me as a dog fucker. Good.
Every fucking time you drop something or a fucking
biffo drops something. Oh, Paul Gannon fucks
puppets. You wanted me to fuck a dog
on the 150th episode.
If you thought, quote unquote, it would be really funny.
Did I?
And I begged you to say, can we make it something more like
I had sex with hand puppets?
Because I didn't want to be seen as a dog fucker
because it gets out of hand on comments on Twitter, etc.
Well, it didn't go out. The dog fucker comment
about you didn't go out, did it?
So you're putting it out now that I'm a dog fucker,
which is completely false. You found it funny, though, when you putting it out. So you're putting it out now that I'm a dog fucker, which is completely false.
You found it funny, though, when you brought it up.
So why is it only funny when it's me, eh?
Fucking hell, you've got a complex.
You are a proper fucking bunny boiler, aren't you?
Yeah.
Fucking fuck off.
I didn't buy mini pops from watch Dog Talk.
Shut up.
What's next on the list?
Oh, God.
I know where this is going. What is it, Eli? What's the on the list? Oh god I know where this is going
What is it Eli?
What's the song that you bought?
I see what you've done now
You bastard
What's this song that you
You're trying to win everything this fucking week
Aren't you?
What's the song that you bought?
I'm just going to put honorable mentions of other discs
What did you buy Eli Silverman? What's the song called? What's the song that you bought? I'm just going to put honorable mentions of other discs. What did you buy, Eli Silverman?
What's the song called?
What's it about?
Oh, fucking hell, mate.
Come on.
All right.
Come on.
Drum roll, please.
This is a song called Put the Bone In.
What's it about?
It's by Terry Jackson.
It's called Put the Bone In.
What's it about?
Shut up.
Well, it's a pastiche.
I'll talk about the style first, Paul.
Yeah.
You take your time, mate.
It's a pastiche western song.
Hey, listener.
The song's called Put the Bone In. What do you think it's about? Let's see if you get it right. It's a pastiche western song hey listener the song's called
Put The Bone In
what do you think it's about
let's have a
see if you get it right
it's a pastiche western song
Terry Jacks
on the Bell label
I've got it with the
press out centre
is intact
so that
very good condition
however I'm more interested
outside of the condition
called Put The Bone In
and
it tells the story
in song form
of
a conversation, really,
that happens between a woman who goes into a butcher's shop.
She basically...
It's fine. It's totally fine.
Her dog...
Her dog's been run over.
Her dog's been run over. Her dog's been run over
and her request is,
put the bone in.
She's buying some meat.
We know what kind of meat it is from the lyrics.
It's pork meat.
But it's very suggestive, isn't this song?
It's more like a song about,
oh, go and put the bone in for my dog.
Put the bone in, she begged me.
It's one of the lyrics.
I can see why you were attracted to this song. The pork meat is me is one of the lyrics I can see why you were attracted
the pork meat is sweet
is one of the
you probably bought this
thinking it was one thing
and you got another
didn't you
you thought it was
going to be a lovely
touching song
about a man
fucking a dog
no I did not
and instead you got
a sad story
I can't believe
I'm denying that
as if I actually
believe you think
I fuck
that you fuck dogs
I fuck dogs
I fuck dogs I do not dogs. I fuck dogs.
I do not fuck dogs.
It's too late.
The suggestion's out there in the wind.
You could get done by the RSPCA.
You could.
I've done nothing.
You should get done for spreading malicious anti-dog... You've got evidence right in your hand of you with your dog obsession.
You can't stop buying things about dogs.
It's disgusting.
How many? Just look around.
This is the only dog-based thing within
eyesight here in the House of Pimples. Yeah? Yeah.
Can you spot another dog thing? Dog things?
Look, there's a frog. I'm into frogs as
well, Paul. Whatever else, we've got a fish
up there. We've got a frog there. Yeah, two
frogs and a crocodile. Yeah, but dogs...
And that Nerf thing. Do you know what I do with that, Paul?
I do both rounds.
I go round. What does that mean?
Oh, you mean, oh, you've got a Frisbee
that you throw to dogs. No, it's a Nerf calculator lizard.
But here's the thing, you're not thinking wrong.
I don't expect you to have things with dogs
in this room. Why? I expect you to have things
that dogs like, like a Frisbee on your
mirror hanging down. You throw that to dogs.
They get to lure them, don't you?
I've got nothing to do with dogs,
I'm telling you.
You throw them out and you throw them frisbee
and they go,
and they come back
and then you take it into your van
and you do whatever it is you do.
I don't drive.
Easily disproved
by the fact I don't have a driver's license.
You've got another frisbee right there.
It's one of those foldable ones.
It's not a dog frisbee.
A dog would destroy that.
What's that foldable one
that you had in a little pouch as well?
That's one where you're having emergencies,
isn't it?
You're having your back pocket
on the fly in case you're walking through the park.
Where is that?
That's a very good one.
Yeah, where do you leave the evidence?
I bet it's in a dog.
Have I lost that?
I've lost my Skyro, my fold-up Skyro.
Yeah, well, I reckon it's in a park.
I reckon it's behind there.
It's in Camden Park under a bench.
So the song's called...
When you wrestled the dog down and took pictures of it.
So the song...
Listen, this is...
You're skirting very dark territory.
It's funny you've got a few dog toys as well, haven't you?
No, I don't.
Squeaky dog toys, things that dogs would like.
No, I don't.
This room is a crime scene.
You're making stuff up.
This podcast is over.
I'm doing, this has become a true crime podcast again.
There's a crocodile, miniature teapot.
Do I like to fuck them as well?
No.
Well, what are you trying to say?
That's what you pour dog treats out from.
Can we discuss the song, please, Paul?
Oh, yeah.
Put the bone in, she boked me.
So the story is, she's like, put the bone in.
My dog got hit by a car.
And put the bone in.
I want him to be okay.
And we don't know.
It's quite hard to tell whether the dog is actually dead or just injured at home.
I don't know.
What turns you on most? But you know, wouldn't you
if you're going to get your dog a bone, you wouldn't have to wait for it to
get hit by a car before he's like a special treat.
No, it's just saying it's poorly. It's been hit by
a car, so I'm going to give it a treat by giving it a bone.
Is that the subject for a song? Put the bone in.
Is that a subject for a song? Well, apparently.
The pork meat
is sweet and I give it
my hairy treat.
Put the bone in. She begged me, and she gaped open.
Does it actually sound like that? It actually sounds like this.
Put the bone in, she asked him at the store.
Cos my doggie's been hit by a car.
And I do want to bring him home something.
Put the bone in.
She begged him once more.
him once more.
The meat from the pork
is sweet.
Give the bone
from the pork
meat to me.
Put the bone
in. She begged him
As she paced around the floor
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
And it's fine
Put the bone in
She begged me
You lost your shit when you heard it here before
It's a funny song, I think it's funny.
It's all right.
That bit where he goes to park me in the street.
It doesn't upstate its welcome.
It's nice and short.
I'll say that for it.
Also, it has children singing on it, doesn't it?
Yeah.
At some point, they sort of back him up at the end.
Yeah.
It's just weird how all this kid stuff...
I was trying to get some platters together.
There was that other circus tune.
They didn't make it on platters today.
Ooh, la, la.
Los Machachos.
Machachos. Los Machach Yeah. Los Machachos.
Machachos.
Los Machachos.
Los Machachos.
Might as well play a bit of that as well.
Go on.
Los Machachos is now with Ooh La La La La. tous les soirs Il faut être en scène dans une heure à peine Oulala, oulala, oulala
Oulala, oulala, oulala
Comme tous les enfants
sont déjà à l'île
Nous on se prépare
et on se maquille
Oulala, oulala, oulala
La vie pour nous commence avec les jours
Amon et Pedro vont nourrir les chevaux
Pachon et Juan répétent de leur goût
Et puis tous ensemble on monte les chapiteaux
Oulala, oulala, oulala, oulala
Mona et Garen, Miguel quelque part That's got kids in it as well, hasn't it?
Yeah, it's better than anything that's done in Britain,
because all Britain's stuff is,
Grandma, we love you, and Grandad.
That fad of putting children's voices on records
is very much over with, I'm, for one,
I'm very glad. Is it Winifred Skill
Boys Choir or something? There's loads of records like that
and they obviously were doing it in Europe as well. It's just like
get a bunch of kids in a circus
tent and get them to go ooh la la
nonsense. Some overbearing fucking
theatre mum is all like, no,
no, no, all look like the same thing.
God, the world's so awful. It is, isn't it?
Isn't it an awful world? But you know what makes it better?
Laughter.
Joy and laughter
and sharing a silly little giggle
on the way to ultimate...
Yeah, what?
Attacking one of your best friends
with a fallacious, made-up perversion
and not even one that's ridiculous,
like puppets or sort of, you know,
a bit lightweight,
but actually fucking dogs.
Abuse of animals.
Fucking... And then you wouldn't drop it.
You wouldn't fucking drop it at any stage.
All I'm saying is that this episode is a clear win for Paul.
It's a clear win.
Fine.
Yeah?
Let's wrap this up.
Have we done enough?
We have done more than enough to damage your reputation.
You've done your fair share.
I added a little bit of petrol to that flame
and I was all like, woof, up like that.
Also, I didn't mean to say woof and get you excited, Mr. Silverman.
Shut up.
Dog fucker Silverman.
Fuck.
No.
Stop it.
That's what we'll call the episode.
Episode 163.
Oh, I think.
Eli fucks a dog.
Do you know what I think?
In all seriousness.
Paul. Yeah. I think people are going to think you're cruel. You don't like it when people think you fucks a dog you know what I think in all seriousness Paul
yeah
I think people are going to
think you're cruel
you don't like it
when people think you're cruel
do you
no I think
they'll listen back
and they see how I played you like
let me just say one thing
your delight
I don't often get the win
that you'd
for some reason
got on a dog fucking tangent
way early on
then your delight
when you realised
that the record
at the very end of the show was called
Put the Bone In, was about a dog.
You didn't plan that.
You were the most delighted
I've seen you in ages. I saw it coming halfway through.
I really did.
Oh, you're the mastermind, are you?
What have you got? Dog fucker.
You're going to just talk yourself
into another mental breakdown again, are you?
Because I'm more than happy to let you go.
It's just because you're fucking prodding me.
Keep prodding me.
W, W, W, W.
Shut up.
Right.
Now to end on, we're going to play my favourite game
with Eli tries to do all the social media stuff
and when he's not, he gets a slap.
I can do it.
So here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Here we go.
I don't want to try it.
No, you do it.
All right.
That's it, I'm done.
You sure?
Yep.
I'll give you a freebie.
You can have one go and I won't slap you if you get it wrong.
So give me the website address.
Five years, Eli.
We've got the website for you.
www.
www.
Five W's.
No.
Just have it as red.
Do you want to start again?
Clean slate.
www.
www.
That's five again.
You did two then.
No, I didn't.
And then you did three.
Start again. Make it clean. www.theche five again. You did two then. No, I didn't. And then you did three. Start again.
Make it clean.
www.thecheapshow.com
No.
.org.
.co.uk
You fucking...
No, I won't take it from you.
You don't anyway,
otherwise you wouldn't know it by now.
You don't absorb facts.
Just dogs.
I don't absorb dogs.
No, you don't.
I don't have anything to do with dogs.
Keep bringing it up.
I have stuff to say and stuff, and you've just totally bedraggled me.
Shut up.
Don't start getting the violin out now to get some late-in-the-day sympathy.
All right?
When you've clearly lost your fucking mind this week.
I haven't lost my mind.
It was okay.
Your constant make-or-breakdowns, your mad laughter, your dog obsession.
It's just gone out of hand this week.
I have a...
Playing cards.
There we go.
Spurfed.
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It's random.
So if you follow us on Twitter,
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Or, you know, it's Cheap Show Etc.
I stick stuff in his face.
Cheap Show Etc. I put stuff in his face.
Stuff you blow up.
You often put inflatable stuff right in my face.
Inflatable into his face.
And make sexy movements.
Right into his face.
And then says, go on, bark for me.
I do not do that.
Is that it then?
I think so, actually.
Fucking hell.
Thank you for joining us once again for another mad cap edition of Cheap Shade.
Worst episode ever.
You always say that.
No, but I truly believe it in this moment.
I don't know.
We'll find out, won't we?
We truly do.
We'll find out.
It was all dog fucking me, dog fucking the whole thing.
But we didn't do any characters, really.
But to sum up, here's what you can expect.
Here's what you can expect in the coming weeks.
You can expect to meet the Pump King, Captain Inch,
the Betwingtings, Middling Holding, Cry Wanker, and Linen Finish.
Yeah.
All coming up over the next couple of episodes.
Definitely.
Right, is that it? Yeah.
Well done.