CheapShow - Ep 167: Peeyobocksintreetsanaolddong
Episode Date: February 28, 2020What’s in the box? This week, we take a cautious peek into the CheapShow PO Box and see what’s inside. Luckily there are no severed heads, but there IS a rubber duck, a collection of dusty albums,... a selection of European candy, a collection of lesser known gross out cards and, in a shocking twist, our greatest enemy gifts the podcast with something actually kinda awesome! And if it’s your 18th Birthday, he also has a message for you too. Lucky you! (Yes, we know the episode title is stupid, but there is a reason! Honest!) 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-167-peeyobocksintreetsanaolddong 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 CheapShow Awards: Vote Here: www.tinyurl.com/cca2020nominate Paul is writing a book! Want to help make it happen? https://unbound.com/books/ghosts/
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Get your mic ready. You can bring the chair closer if you want.
Fuck you.
Eli got a telling off. Doodah, doodah.
His flatmate told him off.
Because he is a fuck.
Have you started?
Yes, we have started.
Don't start.
I've started already.
I can't hear anything. It's too boomy in here.
Well, you don't have headphones on. I do.
So I unfortunately have to hear you intimately in my ear.
Why is this? Who cares?
The reason why he's grumpy is because you're in a good
mood then his flatmate came out clear your shit out his face dropped like thunder and then we're
about to get going i didn't say spoff spoff actually open a pool actually opener i had an
opener then his flatmate came in we're all gonna die die of the coronavirus. It's like he bummed us out. He fucking bummed me out.
What can I do to cheer you up?
I don't know.
Do a good show.
Hey, do you want to know some good news?
Source report update special edition.
Oh, let me turn this light off.
Yeah, turn the light off.
Let's get it all sexy in here.
Here we go.
Oh, that's much more juicy.
It's much more intimate now.
You know what the problem is, Paul? You're acting like
we've started the podcast, but I've really not committed.
I'm not committed to this. I'm about to tell you,
aren't I? I've got a bit of good news.
Where's the music coming in?
Is the music coming up? I'm exhausted.
This is pathetic, ladies and gentlemen.
Right before we started, he was all ready to go,
and he got a tell-off, and now he's all sad
and grumpy.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, I could not be happier with the turnout at all.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Cheap Show.
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
Cheat Show
It's the price of shite
Paul Gannon
Eli Silverman
Welcome to Cheat Show
And I go and I nuzzle
What's the fucking update on the source? Welcome to Cheap Show. Big Mac sauce didn't have lumps of gherkin in it. It does. It literally has lumps of gherkin in it. Yeah. I've never noticed that before.
Well, next time you have one.
Well, anyway, I got a text.
No, sorry.
I got a tweet from a guy in Canada saying that in Canada,
they've had McDonald's sauces available separately for a donkey's years.
Wow.
And he showed me a picture of like, yeah, there's the Big Mac sauce and a squeezy bottle.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
They're so civilized over there, aren't they?
Isn't Canada the land of dreams, isn't it?
Yeah. It's the utopian city of tomorrow Isn't Canada the land of dreams, isn't it? Yeah.
It's the utopian city of tomorrow.
It's the land of blacking up.
I don't think saying the land of blacking up is honest, though.
Well, he's their Prime Minister.
Yeah, but it's not like everyone does it.
It looked that way in the 70s.
It seemed like everyone was doing it.
I don't know.
Come to Canada, land of blackface.
It's really going to sell it.
So there's that.
That's part one.
Part two, I think you might have seen as well.
But McDonald's are releasing candles scented with pickles and ketchup and Big Mac sauce.
Yeah.
And I just thought...
What are your thoughts on that?
I think that's very silly.
It's a gimmick and they will sell a load, but it'll end up on the secondary market with
eBay and things like that.
And we'll pick them up, won't we?
Yeah.
We'll probably pick up secondhand.
They will.
Sauce candles.
Unless they're really expensive. They'll end up in charity shops before you can say will it be jib jib yeah
even if they are expensive even anything that is sort of a total gimmick and a novelty item and
doesn't have any real use ends up in charity shops thing is right eli you like pickles don't you
you're a pickle man that could be said that i've partaken yes you've dabbled in pickle you could sometimes
insinuate that
I've had a pickle
or two
or sniffed a jar
that's what they say
you've dabbled in the old
has he sniffed a jar
in the old green veg
has he dipped his
little finger in a jar
and sniffed his finger
and gone
ooh pickle
ooh pickle
ooh pickle
so
sniffle pickle sniff
you like pickle
we're getting that right yeah I've jarred but would you rather send Or pickle. Sniff or pickle sniff. You like pickle.
We're getting that, right?
Yeah, I've jarred.
But would you want the scent of pickle from a candle emanating in your room?
Frankly, Paul, yes, absolutely.
Would you?
Yeah.
You'd like your room stinking of pickles. Smell of gherkins, yeah.
Okay, I'm just going to backtrack a bit.
All right.
Are you trying to be off-putting to the female form? No. In every element of your being?
Some women like the smell of pickles.
I don't care for them.
I want to talk about the women
who are, I don't know,
normal, adjusted people
who go,
oh, Eli looks nice.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
I'm going back to his place.
Oh, I'm in the front door.
Oh, it's a little bit weird in here.
It's full of records.
Oh, what's his bedroom like?
Oh, it's like a serial killer's den.
Smells of pickles, though den smells of pickles though
smells of pickles and that's this is her she got it looks like a serial killer's den but it smells
of pickles and that's getting me moist i shouldn't say that i shouldn't that's what dapper laugh says
pickle makes me moist is what you think is going to be no i don't i'm i'm tired of your well as
agreed there'll be no more
dog fucking material.
I think I've reached
the end of that
particular line.
Although there was
that guy who...
Puppy Tuggers.
Puppy Tuggers.
Show us a picture
of a product
that said Puppy Tuggers.
Now, it's not
what you'd imagine,
which is Eli
furiously tugging
at the genitals
of small dogs.
It's not that.
It's some kind of
squeezy plastic toy with a dog head
that you can squeeze and pull and tug.
Right, it's like a stress toy.
Yeah.
Dog-shaped stress toy.
You know, we haven't done those on the podcast, have we?
Those little egg toys you get when you go to a machine.
We have done egg toys.
No, but we haven't done...
We have done eggs.
I mean, I've got the ultimate egg toy.
Tommy eggs.
No, I know.
But what I'm saying is we haven't done those kind of...
Stress eggs.
Pound in a machine, turn the clang, clickety-clock,
egg comes out and you get, I don't know, like a hat.
Clickety-clock?
Clickety-clock.
That's quite good.
It makes that noise.
Yes, the mechanism.
You put the pound in.
It's called a vending machine.
And then you go, a clickety-clock.
And the egg rolls towards you.
There must be an official name for those turners, though.
Handle clamps.
Handle clamps.
You slot the coin in and go...
Yeah.
Pool machines have a similar mechanism, don't they? Yeah. It's really satisfying those pool tables.. Handle clamps. Handle clamps. Slot the coin in and go whoosh. Yeah. Pool machines have
a similar mechanism don't they?
Yeah.
It's really satisfying
those pool tables.
Yeah.
When you chuck it in
and you shove it.
You chunk it in
and then
chunk it in
and it goes
and they all start
and they roll into
that little vestibule.
It's very satisfying.
What's that
but why are you doing that?
Because you know
you put the coins
in the slot don't you?
Because sometimes
they're face down
or sometimes
they're on their side in slats.
But either way, you put the palm of your hand against that handle and you push it in.
And it goes...
And then...
And the balls fall out.
I was listening to some ASMR on the radio.
I mean, a program about ASMR.
Yeah.
And they played some ASMR videos.
God, it's annoying.
Some people like it. It's all mouth mouth i can tell you for wet mouth noises
which make you know make me my skin crawl well some people like it mr biffo likes asmr and he's
told me on numerous occasions he he uses asmr to really yeah he to uh the sounds he clears his
throat to it well he said his favorite video was goat screaming. No, he didn't.
You're just trying to cultivate
a goat fucker image.
You're a dog fucker.
He's a goat fucker.
You're such an idiot.
I'll have you all fucking animals
before the end of the world.
Before the end of the world
you'll have us all fucking animals.
When the coronavirus comes
I'll be standing on a stack of tyres.
Why?
Holding a mop aloft
and saying,
mop aloft!
You're in a stupid mood, aren't you? i'm tired any other news that was good on the source report welcome to cheap show welcome
to cheap show everybody every now and then we have said that on this cheap show on this very podcast
we're going to take a break from amusing ourselves and we're going to let you amuse us so we have got
a package today full of things that that you the listener have given to us in our post box i'm looking forward to this paul and if you'd like to send something to cheap
show send it to our post office spot post office box office boss oh we're both on terrible it's
cheap show p.o box one two seven one harrow h.a threeN-S. Post office box 1279
Harrow
H-A-3-3-N-S.
If you'd like to send us anything.
Now,
what could they send us?
Anything.
Noodles.
Noodles.
Records we've had.
Noodles.
Toys.
Bespoke prices and shites.
Sauces.
I will say this
before we get into the episode proper.
Pickles.
If you do send us something.
Modular items.
Paltis making kits.
If you can make a Paltice-making kit for Eli,
I'll make him wear it and take pictures.
Catapultus.
A whole tranche of poultice-based modular units.
Are you just going through all your cat trades?
I'm just trying to get him in.
Amplitude?
Fuck that one.
He's in a right hissy fit today.
I am, man.
He's on his blob.
Come on.
No, I just wanted to say, if you send something in the PO box... I say moist man he's on his blob come on no I just wanted to say
if you send something
in the PO box
I say moist
and you say on his blob
we're turning into
a late 2014
alternative comedy act
yeah
skin it and bedill
unplanned
innit
please add your name
to the package somewhere
put a little note
in saying who it's from
and then we can thank you
because we'd like to thank you
because sometimes
I could do nuzzle rounds
you could maybe come to your place
and give you a secret nuzzle.
A midnight scrunchle.
So that's what we're doing today.
We're diving into the P.O. box and pulling out all kinds of things.
And let's see...
It's a P.O. box episode, Paul.
It's a pox.
Oh, come on, man.
What?
Come on.
A what?
Come on.
What?
Let's get through this.
We've got to get through this.
Right, let's just put this on the record now.
This is going to be bollocks, this episode, isn't it?
It already is.
It already is.
So here we are in the house of mash,
about to delve into one of your
lovely packages
now
there's a few things
we're going through today
oh yeah
oh god it's a big box
it's a heavy box
this is a box of boxes
it's not one box
full of stuff
it's other many
many things
did you
you coagulated
a bunch of other boxes
into a larger box
yeah
is that what you're saying
yeah
oh here's one
so I'm going to start with this one because it's a little bit of fun there's some things in there I think you'll find coagulated a bunch of other boxes into a larger box. Yeah. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Oh, here's one.
So I'm going to start with this one,
because it's a little bit of fun.
There's some things in there I think you'll find amusing.
I'm going to read the letter it comes with,
because this person put a little letter with it.
Hand me it, then.
It says, don't go rooting yet, because there's surprises. I won't go rooting, but just let me hold it, please.
All right, I'll let you hold it, but don't go rooting.
I'm just going to put my hand in, ready to root.
Right.
Nice postcard.
Oh, it's a Where's Willy one.
It's a Where's Wangy. It's where you've got to look for a way it's not you've got to stay hard where's
you look for a willie no you don't it looks like a weird where's wally it's a willie it's not a
willie this is a willie that's not a willie that will never be a willie get it out i've seen it
you have not seen my winkle i have how it looks like it looks like keith
he's not called keith anymore by the way why why is he not called keith now my winkle. I have. Ow. It looks like Keith. Shut up.
He's not called Keith anymore, by the way. Why?
Why is he not called Keith now?
You can't just casually drop that in.
He's called Keith, but I'm talking about Cheggers.
What's wrong with Cheggers?
He's almost shrunk to a point of infinite
smallness.
Can I do a penis joke now, please?
He's now called Chegwin.
Chegwin? Chegwin Chegwin Chegwin Keith's
embryo mate
right
do you want to
throw that out
it has a more
regal
noble air to it
Lord Chegwin
yeah
no that's it
yes
no
he's Lord Chegwin
the rat fetus
well just throw it out
you don't have to
keep hold of it
I'll keep it
why
it's a little fetus and it
you are gonna be single forever no i'm not come on you're telling me there's no women in the world
who wants to enter a room with a smell of pickles and like embryos and all the filth and dust and
misery i'll go spoff you choose some music on soft music sexy music, you know. Hoots mon, there's a moose. Loose, a moose, there's a hoose.
Da da da, da da da, come on love.
And I'll reach over and she'll think I'm giving her
a piece of jewellery because Chegwin lives
in a jewellery box and I open it up, there you go.
And then she screams
her heart out. What is that? Some kind
of nut? No.
It is actually a mole. Lord Chegwin.
It's Lord Chegwin.
Alright, come on, read it out. Let me have a look at that postcard, please. No, you can read it, you can look at it after Lord Jaguin alright come on read it out
let me have a look
at that postcard
no you can read it
you can look at it
after I've read
can't do both
hello Paul and Eli
I was clearing up
I was clearing up
it's good that they
said hello to both of us
isn't it
just admit that's good
say hello back
it's not worth it
if you're going to
interrupt every time
I talk
just say hello back
to bring that to the
attention of myself
and I Eli
I don't care.
I really need you to focus.
Oh, I am focusing.
Right.
I was cleaning up
and found some things you might like.
So, one.
I'll hand them to you.
And you can review them.
Okay.
Right.
Here we go.
Here's the first thing for Eli.
These are...
It is five packs
of toxic high school cards.
Cool. And there is gum in there, but obviously don't is five packs of toxic high school cards. Cool.
And there is gum in there
but obviously don't eat them
because they're probably
like 20 years old.
Are they?
So I presume...
How old are they?
I want to eat the gum.
I presume toxic high school cards
are kind of like
riding off the
garbage pail kids train.
They must be.
Yeah.
I'd like to get...
Not that I'm not grateful for these.
I'd like to get some of those
dinosaurs attacks ones. I do. I want to get Mars attacks ones as well oh they are you never see those no i mean i love
mars i open one of these yeah open one let's have a look at these toxic high school packs i want to
see what's in it i've never heard of to be honest i don't i only vaguely remember toxic high school
oh these are definitely the same um are they from Tops? Yeah, I believe they are. Are they? Not that I can see.
Two cards in a pack.
And they are definitely...
They're like high school scenarios.
I'll open this one then.
They're all gross in a similar way.
Because I've got one here, Acne Club.
Yeah.
Which is all the kids with acne in the Acne Club sort of thing.
So it's like...
Oh, so is it like a yearbook kind of thing?
Yeah.
No, it's not a yearbook kind of thing yeah no it's
not a yearbook these
look cheaper oh yeah
put the big light on
these do look cheaper
than the quality of a
garbage pile kids card
and they're smaller are
they yeah they are
smaller they're not
really the same design
as garbage pile kids
they're not like mad
magazine or they're more
like these are stickers
yeah there is garbage
pile stickers they were
weren't they they're all
stickers aren't they
yeah you can put them on exercise books or I might you know I might stick this on something yeah Oh, these are stickers. Yeah. They're Garbage Pals stickers. They were, weren't they? They're all stickers, aren't they?
Yeah.
You can put them on exercise books or... I might stick this on something.
Yeah.
Stick it on your pickle.
I've got Acne Club.
I've got Debate Club.
An unblemished record.
It says.
And Senior Prom.
Yeah.
Warren couldn't get a real date.
And then what are we seeing?
Weird people in a hat?
I don't know.
You tell me what's there. It looks... I don't get the joke on that one, a hat? I don't know. You tell me what's there.
It looks...
I don't get the joke on that one, do you?
I don't get the joke.
They seem to be wearing hats or something.
They're like Russian hats.
Yeah.
Those Russian Lister hats from Red Dwarf.
Yeah.
And she looks like her mum.
Oh, it says son on her arm.
So yeah, he brought his mum to the prom.
He brought his mum to the prom.
Well, I've got one that says debate club.
The best way to get your point across.
And it's two people with massive hammers.
One says yes,
one says no.
And the yes man
has smashed his head in.
Oh, they've got things
on the back as well.
I've got nose picking club
and it just says,
you dig?
Oh, and does it say tops?
It is tops.
The tops company, 1991.
It definitely is
because that's just
very similar in concept
to the garbage pail kids,
isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
Oh, look, there's stuff on the back that relates to the stuff on the front.
I told you.
Yeah?
Go on, then.
That's quite cool, isn't it?
So you've got the Acne Club.
You've got all the members of the Acne Club there.
But the writing's extremely small, as it may.
It's fucking tiny.
I'm doing my head in trying to read this.
I can't read it.
It's too small.
Oh, look, there's a nose-picking club thing.
I have to pick your nose.
And this guy's putting his whole fist up his nose.
Yeah.
There is that gross gross out sort of humour
which is definitely
the Topps trademark,
isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
A bugger chart.
Well, maybe this is
our reprints of
original Topps cards
that they did.
Do you know what I mean?
Does it have that feel to it?
I don't know.
It just honestly looks like
very, very cheap
end of the line
cash in on garbage
pearl kits.
It does, doesn't it?
But it says Topps on it.
Yeah.
It's made by Topps.
But this is what I'm saying. Like, obviously, they had some brands that made? But it says tops on it. Yeah. It's made by tops. But this is what I'm saying.
Like, obviously, they had some brands that made the money.
90, 91, these are from.
Yeah.
Some brands made the money.
Is that late?
When was the golden era?
Mid-80s?
No.
I mean, look, what wasn't Dinosaur Tax and Mars Tax?
Like, 60s and 70s.
They were 60s and 70s, weren't they?
And their baseball cards were, like, huge in the 50s and 60s.
Which were actual baseball cards.
I would argue that maybe the 80s was their least successful time.
But I don't know.
These are 90s.
But they've got a look
about them like
50s high school.
Do you know what I mean?
So I'm wondering
if they're reprints
of stuff they did earlier.
Maybe.
I mean, it's possible.
You are right,
because it has that kind of
mad magazine sort of thing.
And then there's gum.
Well, I've got hygiene class.
It all seems to be
different classes
or clubs or societies, doesn't it?
Oh, the gum's got black bits on it.
Yeah, the gum is gone, mate.
You wouldn't find me...
He's huffed the gum.
Come on, that just smells a bit mouldy.
Oh, God.
I didn't expect that.
Mate, he's gone full gag reflex on that.
Oh, blimey.
Why did that set you off, mate?
I have no idea, because you're right, it wasn't that bad.
Paul, do you need a bucket?
I can go get the crab bucket.
The crab bucket.
No.
All right, well, there you go.
I've got hygiene class.
Someone's wee-weed.
And they're all swimming in wee.
In wee-wee. And also, I've got hygiene class they're all someone's wee-wee'd and they're all swimming in wee-wee
and also
I've got the school nurse
and she's hooked him up
to some kind of
unspeak
she's killed him
basically
all he had was a
hangnail
and then she's chopped him up
or something
it's all very 1950s
isn't it
yeah
I shouldn't open the other two
then we'll save those
shall we
right so next is
nice those are nice though
I like them
I like
I like cards
the problem with them
is the quality's poor.
Because they're small and done on a budget, I kind of feel like...
That's what it is, isn't it?
They're too small.
That's why the writing on the back is unintelligible to me.
It's fucking painful to read.
You can't read it.
Right. Next one is, would you like 3,000 dong?
Yes.
There you go.
It's 3,000 dong.
Oh, money!
There you go.
Money.
I've made it.
I'm going to rub it on the old gooch. N, money. There you go. Money. I've made it. I'm going to rub it
on the old gooch.
Nubbin.
On the gooch.
Not the nubbin.
Not the nubbin.
He says it's about
98% of a penny
or something.
I think that's a percent.
98% of a penny.
Is that real dong?
Yeah, mate.
That's real dong.
You want to feel
my real dong.
That's the only reason,
isn't it?
Dong, dong, dong.
Mate, I'm happy for it.
Shlong.
Shlong. Shlong, dong. I don't it? Dong, dong, dong. Mate, I'm happy for it. Shlong. Shlong.
Shlong, dong.
I don't.
Come on, mate.
Oolong Dick.
Oolong Dick.
Yay.
The character with no voice.
So that's that.
So he sent us 3,000 dong.
Thank you very much.
So that's about a pound, that.
Is it?
About, I think.
Do you know what?
Where's dong from?
Where do you get dong? Vietnam. You go to Vietnam for your dong. I don't go and a pound, that. Is it? About, I think. Do you know what? Where's dong from? Where do you get dong?
Vietnam.
You go to Vietnam for your dong?
I don't go and get dong, mate.
I don't need dong.
I've got dong.
Dong.
Listen, I've got all the... Why don't you put dong in your mouth?
I've got all the...
Roll it up and put the dong in your mouth.
I've got all the dong that is needed.
Mate, you put 3,000 dong in your gob right now.
I will.
Do it for me.
All right.
Yeah, go on.
He's going to put a big dong in his mouth. Do you really want me to do this? Do you want to watch000 dong in your gob right now. I will. Do it for me. Alright. Yeah, go on. He's going to put a big
dong in his mouth.
Do you really want me
to do this?
Do you want to watch
it go in?
The question, yeah.
Slowly.
Slower.
Slower.
Oh, his dong's in his gob.
Alright, and then the
last thing.
The last thing you're
going to love.
I won't even say what it is.
I like this.
This is great.
Who sent this to us?
This is from Tom.
Thank you, Tom. This is the last item Tom sent and I think you're. I like this. This is great. Who sent this to us? This is from Tom. Thank you, Tom.
And this is the last item Tom sent.
And I think you're going to like this one the most.
What is it?
Oh, it's a playing card of some sort.
Wait.
Turn it over.
I'm turning it over.
It's mint on card.
Yay!
It's a polo mint on a playing card.
Now, Paul.
Well played, Tom.
Is that mint on card or what?
That is mint on card. Quite literally mint on card. There you go. So Tom is that mint on card or what that is mint on card
quite literally
mint on card
there you go
I might get that out
whenever I need to say
mint on card
about an object
because you know
how much mint on card
I get
I get plenty
mint on card stuff
I get plenty
mint on card
so there you go
that's our first
little package
thank you very much
thank you Tom
Tom's dong
you're now
manhandling his dong
how much
no but you know what my uh
flatmate just came back from vietnam they don't go lower than a thousand dong oh is that like
that's like the one pound note kind of thing no that's like a one penny no really well they don't
go smaller so what i don't understand is maybe there's a reason for it just lop off lop off a
bunch of zeros yeah but why don't they call it one they generally. So if you go to a shop you go how much is that?
They go 20.
They mean 20,000 dong.
Wow.
Do you see what I mean?
Yeah, yeah.
I've always never
understood why money
gets that high.
You know what I mean?
Why?
It's a process known
as inflation.
I mean I know that
but I've never
understood why they
don't adjust.
Otherwise, you know,
20,000 dog, dog,
not 20,000 dogs.
Dogs, God.
20,000 dong.
20,000 dogs.
Now you're joking. No, we're not. 20,000 dog. Dogs. God. 20,000 dongs. 20,000 dogs. Now you're joking.
No, we're not.
20,000 dog dongs.
Right.
Thank you, Tom.
Thanks, Tom.
That's a lovely little prize.
I'm in some card.
Right.
Here's the next box.
This is a big one
because we're going to end
on the platters
which came separately.
We've got some great platters as well.
Let's just, without spoiling things too much,
surprising platter.
It was a very surprising platter.
Right.
Now, this one comes with a letter.
I'm going to let Eli rummage.
So, there you go.
Oh, is this the whole lot?
The rest of this box?
No, apart from the record, which is separate,
this box is the main segment now.
So, we had Tom.
This is Michael.
He's from Austria, but he spent the last five months studying in Ireland.
So excuse his bad grammar.
English is his second language.
I've always appreciated people who can learn another language because I never, ever could.
I wanted to learn Italian for a while and I couldn't keep it in.
Why did we both strangely wanted to learn Italian for a while and I couldn't keep it in. Why did we both
strangely want to learn Italian?
The woman I was with
at the time spoke Italian well
and I would go to
Italy with her
and sometimes
Have you visited Italy, Paul?
Yes, I have.
I went to a place
called Riva del Garda
which is a nice little place
I think it was
Northern Italy.
That's where they all die
from coronavirus.
Yeah, correct.
Keep it chirpy.
Keep it chirpy keep it chirpy
anyway I'm going to read on while we do this
it's a long letter
it's a long letter but I want to get through as much as I can
ooh baby
I've just seen something in here
oh my words
alright leave it
you've handed it to me
I can't help but scrummage Paul
you give me a scrummage, I'm straight in there.
Rustling and scrammaging away.
Ooh, what's all this scrabble, scrabble, scrabble?
Read it then.
Read it.
I'm holding up the podcast.
So he's talking about he's living in Ireland and he's studying
and he says some very kind words about how the podcast gets him through some tough times.
He likes the Tompy episode a lot, so that's really lovely.
You've got to bring Tumpy back, man.
He said he went to the record store, and out of the records he bought, he put three in this box.
So we're going to quickly go through them because, no offence.
It's a poor show.
It's what we would call a regular dig in a charity box selection.
So what have we got there briefly? Well, you've got one
7-inch and four LPs.
Yeah. A Merillion
7. Merillion, which is one
of, I think it's Biffo's favourite band, isn't it?
He's well into them, isn't he? Yeah.
And he told us that Hocus
Pocus by Focus. No, just
Focus. Focus by Hocus. They're called Focus.
No, they're Focus. Focus by Pocus. It's Hocus Pocus by Focus. Focus Pocus by Hocus. No. Chocus Pocus by Focus. No, just Focus. Focus by Hocus Pocus. No, they're Focus. Hocus Pocus by Focus.
It's Hocus Pocus by Focus.
Focus Pocus by Hocus.
No.
Chocus Pocus.
Dog, dog, bing bong.
Willy, willy, bing bong.
Bing bong, bing bong. Shut up.
Hocus Pocus.
Look, everyone likes it when you do silly words.
I'm going to start doing it now.
Willy, willy, bing bong.
Willy, willy, bing bong is not silly words.
All right, okay.
Come on, come up with a silly word then.
Hackety, hackety, hack. No, terrible. Spur, come up with a silly word then. Hackety hackety hack. No, terrible.
It has to be... Spurft.
The level of spurft.
Flopoppage.
I have got lots of amounts
of flopoppage. So what other records he's got?
He said he went to a charity shop and he found a few
and he's put a few of these in this box. So who are the ones?
We've got Merillion. Warm Wet Circles
remix. The Sound of Music and the Vienna Boys
Choir is a great example of what I would call
the kitsch version of Austria,
and I wanted to share it with you.
Oh, so maybe those songs, albums he recognises
because they're part of his kind of...
His Johan Strauss, isn't he?
It says actually on Fontana,
this Vienna Boys Choir.
Can't imagine myself...
Look at the quality of this.
This is a record that is completely untouched.
Holy shit.
Yeah, look.
You can see that pristine glimmer that vinyl has.
It is pristine.
No one has ever played.
This is unplayed.
Nah, someone must have played it once.
No, no.
Must have.
No, there's marks actually on this side.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Played it.
Yeah, played it.
James Last, he's got in there.
Now, this is a cover that has popped out at me i
like the cover of it it's popped out at me from um from many a record box and you think oh what's
that and then you think oh it's a james last yeah isn't it it's like a con it's like oh that's
interesting yeah we haven't really covered james last on the show before he is probably
one of the if not the most prolific uh recorded musician of all time, I'd say.
Everywhere you go, there's like him and Mrs. Mills
albums in charity shops. Yeah, but have you noticed
there's so many different James Last
albums. I think he put literally about four out
a year for 20 years. And they're all puns
on the word last. Last night in
Hollywood. James Last's
forever.
James, last but not least.
Last to go-go. At last, James Last. James, last but not least. Yeah. Last a go-go.
At last, James.
James, last.
Oh, I can't last five seconds in bed, James.
Something like that.
It's the end of the record.
At last.
At last.
Right.
James a go-go.
So he's done versions of some classics on this, like Mack the Knife.
What does a go-go mean?
When people say, oh, it's a go-go or something, what does that imply?
A go-go. Yeah, but what does that imply? It means it's all hip and a go-go mean? When people say, oh, it's a go-go or something, what does that imply? A go-go?
Yeah, but what does that imply?
It means it's all hip and a go-go.
Is it like 50s rock and roll, like a go-go?
A go-go was like 60s pop, wasn't it?
In fact, it's one of those terms, like rock and roll,
that has been used to apply to all sorts of different scenes
and genres, because I've got this record,
which is a very sort of early
soul R&B record called Get On The
Go-Go Train. So it was
already around obviously in the
50s, the words go-go.
It means, a go-go is a dance, isn't it?
Yes, it is. I couldn't tell you what kind of dance. It's a disco.
It's another word for a discotheque. A go-go.
Then he talks about... But I don't know, you say
a go-go, something a go-go, don't you?
It usually means like something upbeat or a bit weird. A go-go. A don't know. But you say a go go something a go go don't you? Usually means like something upbeat or
a bit weird.
A go go.
A go go.
It has a very
striking silver and
neon pink sort of
negative.
Which is striking.
I like the look of
it.
Lady on the cover.
It's a con.
Is it a lady?
It's a lady's face.
Oh.
Can you see that? Oh yeah it is. Now I can see it. Let's just lady? It's a lady's face. Oh. Can you see that?
Oh, yeah, it is.
Now I can see it.
Let's just see what the track listing is on this.
And he's tried to go all fancy-pancy by calling it front and back
instead of side one and side two.
You know, what did that mean?
So we've got My Love.
Don't recognise that.
Mack the Knife.
That's a very famous tune.
Yeah, no standard.
Little Brown Jug.
Do you know that?
Is that Little Brown Jug?
It's Claire Miller, isn't it?
Thank you.
That's life.
That's life.
Lara's Theme closes off the first side or front.
Oh, that one goes like this.
No, it doesn't. Doggy dog. You you haven't sleep that past me by the way i just want you to know
yeah and then the back has fly me to the moon fly me to the moon caravan that's you know caravan
what a good place to be i believe that's caravan No, that's Caravan of Love. Oh, no, it's not, actually. It's Happy Hour.
Well, how does Caravan...
Every woman, every man, join the Caravan of Love.
Thank you, Paul.
Stand up, stand up, stand up.
I can't.
I'm on a caravan.
I'll fall over.
I'm your brother.
Shut up.
No, Caravan, I think, is like a Louis Armstrong, like an early jazz classic.
America, that must be the Paul Simon tune.
Don't know.
Or it could be off West Side Story.
I want to be in America.
Could be that, couldn't it?
Who wants some chips in America?
I get mugged in America.
Do you like eggs in America?
Can you get a single egg in America?
No, you can't.
It's the answer to that.
You go in a place, you say, can I have an egg?
They go, eggs.
You say, no, I'd like an egg.
Eggs.
No, just one egg.
I'd like one egg.
And they go, eggs?
Eggs, eggs, eggs.
I'm a British man and I would like one egg.
I would like eggs in good art.
Yeah.
Can you get tea in America?
No, you fuck up.
No drink tea in America.
They put lemon in the tea in America.
Why can't I buy a kettle in America?
Can't you?
You can't buy pet kettles, right?
When I lived in America, it was so hard for me to find just a normal fucking kettle that
the people I was living with were like, oh, just use the steamer on the coffee machine
to heat the water that way.
And I went, you fucking savages.
So, on side two, America then.
What now, my love?
No idea.
What, you're asking me a question?
And then, very strange.
Yeah.
To close the backside, funiculae funicular.
Funiculae funicular, don't.
Let me, I'm just looking at some of the writing credits
so we can check America.
Oh, Ellington.
Caravan is Ellington.
I was right.
Duke Ellington.
Or did I say Louis Armstrong?
Whatever.
One of those guys.
America.
Let's go on to the important stuff.
It is America from West Side Story.
Okay, great.
Good.
Well, here's the best bit.
Read out the letter.
Well, the rest just goes into the whole record.
And we've done that now. We're not going to do Demi Rousseau. Let me have a look at this Demi Rousseau one. Oh, God, Demi. Read out the letter. Well, the rest just goes into the whole record. And we've done that now.
We're not going to do Demi Rousseau.
Let me have a look at this Demi Rousseau one.
Please, come on.
Quickly.
Fire and Ice, Demi Rousseau.
Does he look like he's contemplating the smell of his own farts on that cover?
That is very much a man wondering if he should say he's Christ.
He's like, part of him is thinking, I could tell everyone I'm Christ.
But should I?
He's strong
he's got the most
hilarious imagery
on his covers
didn't he play a song
of his a few weeks ago
on Cheap Show
with Demi Rousseau
some respect recently
the disco one
yeah
yeah it was cool
I like you
or whatever it is
I like you
it's nice
so this is
I'm just trying to see
if
because he worked with
Vangelis of course Vangelis, of course.
Vangelis, yeah.
In Aphrodite's Child, which was their psychedelic Greek.
They were busy mates.
And he produced some of his early stuff as well.
It doesn't look like this.
It was produced by JC Dismati.
Opening up the album, On the Greek Side of My Mind.
She came up from the north.
There you are.
Good days have gone.
Too fucking
right now.
Too fucking
right.
This used to be
amusing, this
podcast.
This used to be
my playground.
We shall dance.
Yeah.
Well, shall we?
I'll be the judge
of that.
songs from Demi
Rousseau's albums.
I know, I'll do it
again.
That sounds like a
serial killer's play.
Fire and Ice, that's
the name of the
album, closing the
first side.
Nice.
Strong closer.
End of the line.
We're on the other side now yeah we are
my blue ships are sailing
my blue balls are straining
I was going to
tell you off
the straining thing
yeah
and that worked
sealed it
thank you
mountains beyond
oh my friends
you've been untrue to me
he's like Christ
isn't he
he feels like he's Christ
one of you has
deceived me lord of the flies oh god and without you it's all original stuff i'd be interested to
hear it well you know you can now we've been given 1971 i should say it's been sent by a guy
called michael thank you michael thank you michael sent this letter um so let's talk about the snacks
now oh can i just say one more thing about Marillion warm wet circles
yeah
where would you say Marillion hail from
Ireland
Marillion the singer Fish was Scottish
but they don't come from there
they still go in Marillion
yeah
and they were joined on stage by Focus
and they played
by Focus with joined on stage by Focus. And they played... Hocus Pocus. By Focus.
Yeah.
With Focus.
On stage.
Marillion.
Marillion love songs later.
Can I grab the box of goodies now?
Because we're going to go...
Hang on, wait.
Wasn't there a thing you wanted to say about Marillion?
That's it.
What did you say?
It completely went over my head.
I just said they're not Scottish.
That's not something worth adding.
It's not much of a fact.
And they played...
It's not a fact to say something that someone's not.
Oh, here's a fact. This isn't a blue room. Good fact there, Paul. I like that. It's not something worth adding. It's not much of a fact. And they played up. It's not a fact to say something that someone's not. Oh, it is a fact.
This isn't a blue room.
Good fact there, Paul.
I like that.
It's not a fact.
Thanks for telling me that.
That's an anti-fact.
No, thanks for telling me that.
That's good, yeah.
It's not good.
Oh, I've got one of these.
It is a fact.
All the windows aren't open.
Also interesting.
Thank you.
It's not interesting.
It is.
Right.
I'm handling the dong.
He handles it well. Oh, great. Right, let's go on to the dong. He handles it well.
Right, let's go on to the snacks.
Let's go on.
I mentioned the kitsch version of Austria,
that's why I sent you two very touristy Austrian snacks.
The Mozart Klugen, or Mozart Balls,
is what they're called.
Mozart Balls.
Mozart Balls.
I'm going to stuff Mozart's balls in my gobble.
Honestly, when you wake up in the day,
you never think you're going to hear a friend of yours say,
I'm going to stick Mozart's balls in my gobble.
That's what we live for here.
These look like some kind of praline or something.
So he says they exist in many different versions
by many different companies,
and some of those are getting into legal disputes
over the Mozart Kugel trademark.
Ah, so it's actually a delicacy.
It's a type of chocolate.
That isn't one thing.
Interesting.
Because if you're looking at that,
you'd think that must be the brand.
Well, I'm guessing it's like Jaffa Cakes to some extent.
Jaffa Cakes, yep.
Because Jaffa Cakes aren't a McVitie's brand.
They're just the name of that kind of biscuit.
And people bring out...
Cake, biscuit, whatever.
Yeah, they can call their knockoff a Jaffa Cake.
Yeah.
It is a Jaffa Cake. Yeah. Because's not... It is a Jaffa cake.
Yeah.
Because it's just a form of cake.
A form of orange, a form of bread.
Yeah.
Bread.
Orange bread.
It's cake bread.
Cake is bread.
Bread-y cake.
Cake-y bread.
I like cakes that are more like bread.
Yeah?
Like a banana bread.
Or pineapple upside-down cake.
Have you had that?
No.
That's fucking great.
I'm not...
I'm very funny about where I want my pineapple.
Upside-down is good. No, it's not. I'll very funny about where I want my pineapple upside down is good
no it's not
I'll hand you one of these mate
I've already got one out
there we go
so I'm going to try one
now these are little
they've got a picture of Mozart
on the front
they've got a bit of weight
to them these don't they
I think they've probably
got some praline in
they've got a bit of girth
praline
praline
praline
praline
praline
what the fuck are you talking about
I've always struggled with that word praline how do you say it I say praline praline but I fuck are you talking about I've always struggled
with that word
how do you say it
I say praline
praline
but I think I mostly
say that because of
Monty Python
is the praline
oh is that where
they have the chocolate
box full of ducks
yeah you know
it's like the crunchy
frog it's that thing
now be careful
it might be liquid
filled
it feels like it's
got a raspberry in it
or something like a
oh you know what I mean
it smells just like
one of those liqueurs
those chocolate liqueurs yeah that you get in the chocolate boxes at a oh you know what I mean it smells just like one of those liqueurs those chocolate liqueurs
yeah
that you get in the
chocolate boxes at Christmas
and you think oh
that's got liquid in
I bet it's got liquid in
careful it doesn't drip
down you
I'll be careful to not
drip mozart balls
on my tongue
it smells of cherry
yeah that's what I just
fucking said
you didn't say cherry
it's like do you remember
those sweets in
ages ago that came in
like packs and like
they were chocolate
dark chocolate with a
cherry kind of crumbly fondant-y
thing in the middle.
I can't remember what
they were called.
I'm going to try this.
I've had these before.
No.
No!
It's got what I hate in.
What?
Fucking marzipan.
Oh, God.
Thank you. Mmm.
Thank you.
No.
Mar...
What's your problem...
Marzipan!
What's your problem with marzipan?
There's something about the flavour that really upsets me.
Why?
It's got that...
Almond.
Almondy.
I don't like it.
I don't like it,
and I won't have any more of Mozart's marzipany balls in my mouth.
Right.
However, if you do like that kind of thing, I can imagine it being quite nice.
So, you know, there's a Wikipedia article about this strange confection.
Personally, I don't much care for them.
The version I send you is a store-bought one by Manor.
The company is particularly famous for their hazelnut-filled wafers called Manor Schittinen.
Manor Schittinen. Youafers called Manoschnitten.
Manoschnitten.
You say it.
Manoschnitten.
Manoschnitten, thank you.
Manoschnitten.
It's funny, when I hear it said, it's easy to understand,
but then when I'm reading it, my eyes go, I don't want it.
There's two S's there, and it goes... Schnitten.
You know when the S's are all backed up, and they go...
Is that what this is?
No.
What's that?
Isn't that Manoschnitten?
No, I don't know.
We've got a wafer.
He sent us two of those wafers.
All right, let me read the letter again.
Oh, this is Manor Schnitten, yeah.
It is.
Well, it says Manor there, doesn't it?
Oh, and ween.
Hang on.
Oh, hang on.
Yeah, no, he's talking about this now.
Two of which I've put in the package.
Okay, cool.
Personally, I enjoy the taste, but there are many similar products.
To me, there's a certain nostalgia surrounding these wafers.
I get that.
You can see there would be it's not a nice design but it's again sort of mid 20th century style design
isn't it it's like an old-fashioned rap kit kat almost but the design is like another one of those
sort of mid mid 20th century sort of uh railway posters or something like that you know what i
mean that's a sort of uh that kind of opening both just open that one i'm opening the mannish
knitting he's opened the mannish knitting right a little it's a very wafery huff because wafers that sort of that kind of say what say you're opening both just open that one I'm opening the Manish Knitten just open the Manish Knitten
right up
it's a very
wafery huff
because wafers
you know the old
pink wafer
that's an old
British staple
isn't it
the old pink wafer
I think this is
going to be
extremely similar
Paul to that
but what kind of
it's got
it looks like
it's a wafer
with like
chocolatey
segments
oh no
hazelnut chocolate
segments by the
looks of things
that's fine
yeah it's a
hazelnut chocolate
wafer and it's vegan well that's Yeah, it's a hazelnut chocolate wafer.
And it's vegan.
Well, that's good.
Oh, it's not made of any animals.
Or dogs.
Or animals.
How much of this do you want?
Just a small bit?
Just give us a half,
whatever it comes like.
They come in nice little wafers.
Oh.
I've come in wafers.
Have you?
You know what I mean?
Have you come into a biscuit?
Have you ever played Soggy Biscuit?
I don't know.
You did, didn't you?
I did.
You fucking totally did.
What I want to know is how do you manage to come on the biscuit?
I've never played Dribble Bicky.
I've never played Dribble Bicky.
What I want to know, though, Paul, what is turning me on?
What is turning you on?
That's a good question.
No, when I want to wank onto the biscuit.
The idea of finishing on the biscuit.
Of not having to eat it.
No, you have to eat it.
You don't have to eat it.
You do in my house.
It's the last one to come.
So it's a race to the end then, isn't it?
Yeah, but just trying not to eat come.
You just focus and think of your mum the whole time
when you get there real quick.
You know what I'm getting at?
Yeah.
I'm eating it.
Standard wafer.
Standard wafer.
Pleasant enough.
Okie dokie by me.
That's quite nice.
Hmm.
I don't really like wafers, though.
I'm not really a big fan of wafers.
It's fine.
It's got a nice crunch.
Quite nice, yeah.
Bit for Lillerie.
Who sent this letter?
And this box?
Michael.
Michael, thank you.
Won't go to waste, mate.
No.
He'll make sure it goes right down.
My flatmate's like a fucking hoover.
Leave stuff out that you want finished.
Honestly.
It's like a room bar.
The last snack I sent are some sour gummies.
Oh, baby.
For a long time.
You saved the best for last, Michael.
Oh, I've got impact.
For a long time, I thought they were Austrian,
but they are German,
as I found out putting this package together.
Hitschler.
They're called Hitchler.
Great.
Heil Hitchler.
No.
You think that's how he found out they were German?
Oh, God.
I originally bought them a few years back as a snack for vegetarian friends, as there's
no gelatin in them.
They are very sour, which I enjoy a lot.
How sour?
Thank you for the...
Yeah.
So, once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
All the best.
Michael, thank you very much, Michael. Thank you, Michael. I've never seen these before. Oh, and the rubber Yeah, so once again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. All the best. Michael, thank you very much, Michael.
Thank you, Michael. I've never seen these before.
Oh, and the rubber duck, he says at the end,
sorry, at an amendment, is a present
from a friend who bought it at a sale, but
I don't know the price. There is no
story behind it. It's just, I just
left it in. Well, yeah, it's going to be our good hands.
Well, it's a lady rubber duck. She's a
princess. No, she's a wedding duck.
She's getting married. She's a bride. Virgin bride? No, I don't know about virgin. Well, she's a wedding duck. She's getting married.
She's a bride.
Virgin bride.
I don't know about virgin. Well, she's not a virgin anymore, mate.
No, because you're going to stick it on your nubbin.
Right?
That's just...
Nubbin action.
Deployment.
If anyone sends anything in the PO box,
and it's like a toy, a teddy bear, a plastic figurine,
Eli will smear his dick.
I'm not smearing.
Come on.
He will smear.
Don't smear me by suggesting I have smeary parts.
You have very smeary parts.
No, I don't have smeary parts.
You have dribbles.
This is a dry denim rub rub.
That's what it is.
Anyway, the point is...
And there she goes.
She's enjoying it.
They will be face first to his genitals.
That's all you need to know.
I'm doing this rubber duck doggy style.
God.
The thing is, ladies and gentlemen...
I call her madam.
He does this.
He doesn't just say it.
We all laugh.
I'm watching him rub
a rubber ducky
on his nubbin
listen it has to be real
for people to believe it
no I think it has to be real
for you to get a little bit
of a chub on
no I haven't got a bit
of a chub on
how dare you
show me your chub then
show me it
I'm not showing you
show me it now
and prove me it
prove it it's nothing erect
oh I wish I'd never
said that
there's nothing there
no
you've heard that before.
Shut up.
Right, so let's try the gummies to end on.
We're going to try these gummies, veggie gummies.
Wait, wait.
Oh, it's got a squeezy action.
It says 100% veggie.
Oh, but I'm going to have that in the bath.
I mean, I'll put it in the bath.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I'm going to play with it in the bath.
And then you're going to put this bit right on the end of your meters, aren't you?
And you're going to blow.
Oh, you could get an embolism doing that.
No, you couldn't get an embolism by blowing it.
If you've got bubbles up your meters,
that could be serious.
Bubbles up your meters sounds like awful reggae.
That would be, honestly...
Bubbles up your meters.
Shakedima implies.
Implies with bubble up your meters.
And now, Aswad, with bubble up your meters and now Aswad
with bubble up your meters
look into your big brown eyes
right let's have a look
at these comedies
you know the other thing
that sort of tells me
this is a bit
Nazi
is it's 100% veggie
it's not
that's lazy comedy
woof woof poo poo
willy fannies come on no come on you know there's that the whole sort of I think it's 100% veggie. It's not. No, no. That's lazy comedy. Woof, woof, poo-poo,
willy fannies.
Come on.
No, come on.
You know,
there's the whole sort of... I think it's not true.
It's not true
that Hitler was vegetarian.
I don't believe that's true.
No, I don't think so.
I don't.
And also,
when people tell those stories,
what are we meant to think?
Oh, it wasn't all bad
because he didn't fucking eat meat.
Yeah.
No, no, they're not.
It's anti-vegetarians.
Oh, is it?
Yeah, there's people
who think that all evil
in the world is started by vegetarians. It's not. It's anti-vegetarians. Oh, is it? Yeah, there's people who think that all evil in the world is started by vegetarians.
It's not.
There's a website called Vegetarians Are Evil, and they're serious, man.
Really?
Yeah.
How can you be bothered to be bothered about that?
I know, but this is one of those things.
How can you get worked up?
It's like when people get worked up about,
oh, there's going to be a female 007 in the new Bond film.
I can't watch it.
I think, fuck off.
Fuck off.
Take a hot pin and fucking jab it
up your fucking unused meters.
Unused meters!
And get a proper fucking
HH Omzon. Also, the other thing about those
arguments are like, Hitler
also loved dogs.
So what we're saying is Eli's like
Hitler. No, Hitler
also loved children. So are we meant to
think that all evil people love children as well?
It's just false.
It's false reasoning to say that his vegetarianism,
or not a lack of it, had anything to do with the atrocities.
Because when you have a story, and the story is X is bad,
and you've got nothing more to say,
some cunt eventually goes, ah, but X also did this.
Yes, this is what I mean.
This is exactly what I'm getting at.
When you've run out of stories to tell, you then start going... I'm going to give this a proper Huffington. Oh, he's going to give but X also did this. This is what I mean. This is exactly what I'm getting at. When you've run out of stories to tell,
you then start going...
I'm going to give this a proper Huffington.
Oh, he's going to give the gummies a huff.
Pressure injection huff.
Oh, that's got a strong, fruity huff.
That looks like that was an acidic huff.
It's got a good, gummy, strong, gummy huff.
Let's have a look.
I want to have a little sniffles.
Have a little sniffle there.
Oh.
Oh, cool. Do you know what I mean? It's got a look. I want to have a little sniffles. Have a little sniffle there. Oh. Oh, cool.
Do you know what I mean?
It's got a strong smell.
I'm going to pick...
I'm pulling it out.
I'm going to take two.
I've got orange and I've got purple flavour.
Do you think they will be differentiated in terms of their flavour?
I'm hoping so.
Right, I'm going to put them in my gob.
And we want to know how sour it is as well.
Not sour enough for Paul, obviously.
It's not an instant sour.
They're not very sour.
They're sour.
They're not like...
They're not a fizzy sour.
It's more just a sort of...
It's a sweet sour.
But it's not like an intense, hard sour like the Vimto one, for example,
which is impossible to keep in your mouth.
I think these are very nice.
They are quite nice.
Are they different flavours?
They're different colours, then?
Let me try this one now.
I'm going to try a different flavour.
I had a yellow one.
All right.
I'm having a purple one now.
I'm having a green one now.
I think the answer's probably.
They taste exactly the same.
Yeah.
But nice.
Yeah.
As far as those things go.
Go on, mate.
You know, I've cut out sugar from my diet.
Yeah.
This segment's bad for me.
I'm already getting a fingle.
A weird tingly fingle all over me.
Really?
From eating the sugar?
It's good that you cut them down.
You had that latte.
That was packed full of sugar.
Right, that's the end of that segment.
Thank you very much, Michael.
Thank you.
That's a lovely box.
We're looking forward to chowing down on all the good things you've given us.
What are we going to call the duck?
Diana Duck.
Yeah.
What? Yeah. What's wrong with that, the duck? Diana Duck. Yeah. What?
Yeah.
What's wrong with that, Diana Duck?
That's good, yeah.
It's a bit of alliteration.
Dirty Diana.
I could sing that to her.
Duck.
I could actually.
Can you fill him with water and squirt it out?
Probably.
You could probably put it in the bath, squeeze it,
let it go under the water, suck it all in.
Yeah.
Remove it from the water.
Retrieve your bellend from under the water.
Squeeze the tip of your helmet
put the duck
on the top of the penis
meet us
and then with a little
bit of a squeeze
yeah a little bit of a squeeze
just open the eye up
and then
you squirt that water
right down
how you clean
the inside of your meter
yeah
right out
blast it out
I don't think you need
to clean inside there
I think it's
normal processes
do that
well I use a swab.
I'm glad we're ending this segment now.
I'm glad we're ending this segment.
It's ending segment.
We didn't have anything.
Dirty Diana duck.
Quack, quack.
Meet us.
Dirty Diana.
Quack.
Shut up.
We've had a bit of a dong update.
We have had a dong update.
I've recorded that, so I'll stick it at the end of have had a dong update. I've recorded that, so stick it at the end of the episode.
All right.
I've recorded that,
so stay behind the credits
for a little sneak peek
about Eli's dong.
It's everyone's dong.
It's everyone's dong now.
We've all handled it.
It's got our dirty fingers all over.
I'm bored of dong dancing.
What's coming up next on the show, Paul?
Well, we were given...
We were sent some seven-inch singles,
but we don't even know who by.
No, unless there's something in the packaging somewhere
you can see, is there?
But someone took an album cover and cut it off.
Quite well-packed.
Yeah, quite well-packed.
So they obviously know what they're doing.
They've used a background music specially recorded
for film, radio and television LP cover,
Boozy and Hawks,
which is one of those companies,
like KPM or whatever. Like we've used on of those companies. Yeah. Like KPM or whatever.
Like we've used on the Twitch stream.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One of those.
So he sends us in that.
I mean, presumably he could be a she, could be anyone.
Could be little Ruffy Ruff Ruff.
It won't be Ruffles the dog.
It might be Ruffles the dog.
It might be Bicky's.
What about Quentin the dog?
Quentin the theatre critic dog?
Do you even remember what that voice is?
Five stars.
I'm convincing.
Leave.
So, what did you think of Parasite, critic dog?
Second watch.
Bottles.
Oh, he's so fickle, isn he good themes okay stop that i'm sick of
fucking quentin now so we were sent a bunch of uh vinyl what some of which i'm going to save for a
later date for various reasons it was a lovely selection i have to say really good when we get
it shits all over michael's piss poor demi you you leave Michael alone and that fucking fell for the oldest trick in the book the fucking
pink and silver
James Laster
go go LP
James Laster
go go
the sound of music
he sent us as well
come on
but the point is
is that it reminded
of his Austrian roots
that's why you picked
the Austrian
sound of music
you know
oh of course
because that's based
in Austria isn't it
it's in the Alps
isn't it
on the border
and the Beethoven
buttons
Mozart balls Beethoven buttons. But Mozart balls.
Beethoven buttons, I don't know what they are.
They're a different thing.
Yeah.
Mozart balls, Beethoven buttons and list snacks.
I know.
Come on, you think of another composer then.
There was Mozart balls that didn't have alliteration.
So come on, you think of another composer right now, Mr. Silverman, and make a snack.
Who's that guy, Bar?
Black Sheep
I think he had some wool
Bartok Balls
you can't
so balls again
you come up with something new
Bartok
Bartok Bonbons
Bach's Bonbons
Bach's Bonbons
I will give you
that's good
Tchaikovsky's Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
Tchaikovsky's Coffee Drops
yes
yes
yes woo yeah join us tomorrow on the breakfast show for more Tchaikovsky's Coffee Drops. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes.
Woo.
Yeah. Yeah.
Join us tomorrow on the Bradford Show for more composer puns.
Tomorrow, it's composers and movies.
Bach to the future.
Yeah.
We have fun, don't we?
We have a lot of fun.
We have a lot of fun on Cheap Show.
So, yeah.
Do you have fun on Cheap Show, ladies and gentlemen? We do. We have a lot of fun. Have have a lot of fun on Cheap Show. Do you have fun on Cheap Show, ladies and gentlemen?
We do.
We have a lot of fun.
Have you got a lovely little selection here?
So someone sent us some records and...
Going to save a couple.
Yes, because they are pertinent to future programming.
We will start with this one, though, because we can't play it.
It's just the kind of novelty records.
Oh, you're going to cover that, are you?
Yeah, but we can't play it.
But I want to bring it to attention because I think it's interesting.
Maybe I can find it online and play a clip.
Okay.
So, a selection of seven inches.
Mostly of the novelty or children's record genre.
I mean, I don't know if he...
To be fair, it looks like these have been curated.
Like he's picked these out or they've picked these out.
I was thinking they.
To be of interest to us.
Because these are definitely the type of record that we cover on the Splatter, isn't it?
Definitely.
On the splatter segment
which if you don't know
is the Silverman's Platters
which is the segment
of the show
where we talk about records
and songs
and the patron saint
is
Clyde McFatter
so get with it daddy
oh you know the scene
okay daddy
so the first one
we're going to talk about
because we can't play
but let's mention it
is a
I thought it was going to
come with a book
but it doesn't
it's one of these
learn about records where it's a piece of vinyl and you learn about things like the
alphabet numbers manners words safety animal sounds colors seasons in the calendar sounds
shapes and this one that we've got here cars boats and planes and it says on the back using a
marvelous combination of information comedy and songs songs, the marvellous Dr. Swan leads children into the world of education in a way that is often unique and always entertaining.
Learn About deals with the everyday life experience of the preschool child and can relate to these adventures.
This series, through the use of stories and memorable songs, subtly teaches perceptual, auditory and motoric skills.
Motoric?
Motoric.
Motoric skills. Explainic? Motoric.
Motoric skills.
Explain what it looks like.
Now, a lot of these kids' records of this ilk,
seven inches of this ilk,
if you'll notice,
the cover is taller than your standard seven-inch sleeve.
Yes. You see that?
Much taller.
It looks more like a book.
Yeah.
But they did that for some reason with these kind of records.
I don't know why,
because I have a Planet of the Apes story record
and it has, again,
an elongated cover.
Yeah.
So it's something to do with...
And this looks like
it could be made
by the same company, actually,
as my...
Well, the company's called
Learn About.
And it's from Peter Pan Records
and I believe Peter Pan...
Yeah, they make these.
It's the Peter Pan...
It's the Peter Pan format
is to have a longer...
I think Peter Pan
did the things like the Pac-Man albums and stuff like that.
Yeah.
They did kids' records.
Yeah.
They must have folded at some point when records went out of fashion.
Well, you can't fold a record, can you?
Well, if you want to break it, you can.
Peter Pan.
Now, you know what's interesting as well that I noticed?
When you said all these educational titles.
Yeah.
So you've got the alphabet, important. Yeah. Num alphabet important yeah numbers fucking i think they're important manners yeah
fine words safety animal sounds colors seasons all of these are important yeah there's one that's
just sounds yeah also good shapes also good but then you've got cars boats and planes it was like where's that fitting it was you know that is that is important the sound of like industry or transport is as important
it's because they said can you make 10 out 10 records to send that they went well we've got
good ideas for nine and then they sat there what are we going to do for the 10th one the car goes
past that's fucking car that is a plane there's a boat. There's a fucking train. Train, boat, cars.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
Have you got a speedboat, Alan?
Send Gary out one.
Have you got a speedboat, Alan?
Yes, I do, actually.
I would it on Balls Eye.
Well, get it out.
That's a good one, that.
I've got a boat.
He doesn't have a boat, does he?
Gary just sits in the corner and says he's on Baywatch.
No.
Balls Eye.
Am I the only person in the world who's confused Balls Eye and Bayswatch?
Bayswatch.
Fuck it, Al.
I'm too tired.
You're too tired.
It's a late night show, ladies and gentlemen,
and we're reaching the end of our tether.
Heart, heart tired.
So see if you can find some of that.
I do love the design of these children's records
and especially the dot work on the actual label, Paul.
You know what I mean?
Oh, it's nice.
That little dot work.
Unfortunately, the record itself was in pretty bad condition
with scratches and blotches and blobs and crusties.
Yeah, it's got some encrustments.
And we just didn't fancy Ken Friedman as Dr. Swamp.
Have you heard of Ken Friedman?
Absolutely not.
There you go.
Oh, look, the Twin Towers.
They're in New York.
Oh, yeah, it's in New York.
Hang on.
What's on that cover that I would like to complain about?
Two children?
No.
A whale?
No.
Statue of Liberty?
What's a submarine doing there?
Is a submarine?
Is a submarine.
Is it a boat?
Is a submarine a boat?
They call it a U-boat.
Is it a boat?
No.
Well, then it shouldn't be on that fucking record.
All right.
It was because they had a job lot of sound effects.
What have we got left?
We've got car start, engine, car start.
No, car close.
Brain not work.
Brain not work.
Beginning to worry.
Brain not work.
Car start, train engine, submarine noise.
Yeah.
Whoop, whoop.
Now they go, doof.
Doof.
Don't they?
Doof.
Doof.
Come in, Jim.
I'm underwater.
Doof.
Come in, Jim.
I'm underwater.
Are you trying to do Star Trek there, weirdly?
No, there's some guy called Jim who's in a submarine.
And he's, come in, Jim.
Come in.
Come in, Jim.
I'm underwater.
Well, I'd be interested to hear that.
I might play a bit of it.
There's not the encrustments on both sides,
but it's a nice item, isn't it?
Yes.
Well, ferry boats and tugboats,
and I saw some canoes and sailboats,
of course, the submarines and the ocean liners.
Well, they're all going places on the water.
Going places on the water. Going places on the water.
Nothing could be finer.
You can fish in a little rowboat.
Or sleep in the cabin of a big ocean liner.
Going places on the water.
In a boat with a sail.
On a lake or on the ocean where you might see a whale.
You can take a boat and learn to water ski.
You can take a ferry boat
To the Statue of Liberty
Going places on the water
Paddling a canoe
Going places on the water
Is a fun thing to do
Well, Mr. Wheeler the Wheel was listening to all this
and learning that although he was important on the land,
that he wasn't the only way of getting around.
The thing is also,
could I just say one more point with children's records?
Because they're children's records,
it's very hard to find.
They're one of the genres
that is going to be the most bashed up,
if you think about it.
Yeah, true, because they get a lot of play.
Kids on them, aren't they?
Kids, Dirty Anne's touching them and sticking them.
That's like you start to get mint copies of the Muppet show records.
Because kids have ruined it.
I love those.
Kids ruin everything.
Those are possibly the best in the genre.
What, the Muppet show ones?
Muppet show album one and two are both classics.
Were they made to be albums?
Like they were recorded specially?
Yes, absolutely.
They're great. They're great.
They are great.
Because you know,
they obviously might have released
edits of the TV show.
There are songs that are featured
on the TV show,
but they've done it.
They've gone into the studio
and recorded new bits
and it's all for the studio.
Yeah.
I bet that's nice.
I've not heard any of them.
Have you not?
They're classic.
They're part of a real central part
of my childhood
was the Muppets album.
Right, well next one.
We're going to do...
Well, this is interesting.
We were sent a track called...
Oh, I can never say this.
Pressen Colleen Insen Anil Kilsol.
Easy for you to say.
It's really fucking not.
Pressen Colleen Insen Anil Kilsol.
But you said this is the original version of this song.
It must be the original version because he...
The artist, who is? Adriano Celentano,
and he wrote this song and it's called that title and it sounds like this.
Prison call in Aynst and Aynst, you's all.
You're the cold maids of Seywan.
Prison call in Aynst and Aynst, you's all.
All right. We'll be right back. ¶¶
¶¶ So the reason why I know this song
He's Italian not Spanish by the way
Oh he's Italian
Well here's the reason why I know this song
Because you know a comedian might read
Triffy.
He was also in EastEnders.
He's also in EastEnders.
And he did my favourite version
of Chantilly Lace.
He also did a version
of this song.
I'm going to play that
now as well right now.
Cool. What happens to the kids on the kettle machine? Like a line in the tits and have a grub, a grub, a good time
That's the trick, y'all
We can see them in the shadows of the whole gum of man
There are 200 cars and not a whole one to drive the thing
Aye, aye, my sand flex
And if it's so joey, pay so high
You can call me to say one breezing cone And if it was so, Joey Peso, I...
You can call on me to say one breezing cone,
Her name today ain't too so, all right.
She got Bill Shigga down at the door,
Left a favour of a nasty light beating you all. so here's that's why you know it but you say oh this is It's not. It just happens to be a song that... Well, okay, so Adriano Selentano, Italian singer-songwriter. He is dubbed il mollegentio, the flexible one, because of his dancing.
Ooh.
He was a good dancer.
Let's have a look into his biography, shall we?
Born in Milan, and the address of where he was born 14 via Cristoforo Gluck became the subject of a famous
song il ragazzo della via Gluck the boy from Gluck City wow do you know that no no anyway they moved
north as a family heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and American actor Jerry Lewis he started
playing in a rock band with Giorgio Gaeber and Enzo Giannacci.
I don't know who they are.
Anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Different bands, different singer.
He was cast as a rock star in the film La Dolce Vita.
That's a famous film, isn't it?
It's part of the Italian New Wave, yeah.
Like bicycle Vs and things like that
came from that whole movement.
And La Dolce Vita is like the one.
Is it called the New wave in Italy as well?
Because it was in France as well, wasn't it?
Wasn't it Italian neorealism?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think so.
And it was French new wave.
French new wave, Italian neorealism.
But they were going on at a similar time, weren't they?
They were.
And that's why you get that, like the growth of Truffaut at the same time as that whole movement.
So a lot of those films have similar styles.
Yes.
You can imagine like Bicycle Thieves is a very kind of whimsical nature,
the same as like The 400 Blows.
Bicycle Thieves was one of the first films to use non-actors, didn't it?
Oh, yeah.
It used just street children.
It's been a long time since I studied Italian neorealism cinema.
Oh, you studied it, did you?
I did, actually, at university.
Antonioni?
No.
I don't know.
He did Blow Up.
You know Blow Up. Oh, I do know Blow Up so he was in that
you know Blow Up
oh I do know Blow Up
that's Antonioni
yeah
that's good
that is good
he always interesting
what's that one with
Travolta
that was like
which is
like an update
of Blow Up
but it was
instead of that picture
that he revealed
it was sound
it was sound
it was called Blow Out
Blow Out
and it was directed by...
De Palma, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Celentano.
He also played the role of Satan
in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
Oh, really?
God.
Yeah.
Does Satan appear?
I thought there was just a baby.
I can't remember.
It was just an evil baby.
He was like the Satan baby or something.
I only watched it out of morbid curiosity
to see what the fuck that film was all about.
And instantly,
I mean,
almost within the first 50 minutes
regretted putting myself through it.
It was a miserable
fucking film.
I didn't like it,
but I did like...
The Last Tentation of Christ?
No,
the one where the
the Incas or whatever
and they're running around.
Indiana Jones
and the Temple of the Crystal Skull?
No,
the Mel Gibson one,
Atlanticano or something.
Oh, Apocalypto.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You a big fan of Mel Gibson? No Atlanticano or something. Oh, Apocalypto. Yeah. Yeah.
You a big fan of Mel Gibson?
No.
Do you agree with his opinions?
He's been in... I love the Mad Max franchise.
I love the Mad Max franchise.
What about Lethal Weapon?
Don't like that that much.
What about...
Do you like Mel Gibson in...
Nothing else.
Bird on a Wire with Goldie Hawn.
I haven't seen that.
You don't?
No.
It's not very good.
So anyway,
the song we're talking about now,
because he's released 40 albums
in his life,
flipping heck,
three live albums,
eight compilations.
His most popular songs are
La Copia Più
Bella del Mondo,
which sold over a million copies.
Also,
Press Con...
This song we listened to.
This one.
It's a nonsense word, isn't it?
Well, it said it was written to mimic the way English sounds to non-English speakers
despite being almost entirely nonsense.
I'll give it a go.
And he was mentioned in a...
Price and Colleen and Sine and Cusol.
Yeah.
Weird.
He was featured in the song
Enjoying the Blockhead's Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3
for being in Fellini's 1986 film Ginger and Fred.
Okay.
He's a big defender
of animal rights
and likes Inter Milan
as a football team.
Oh, well, we've learned
all about him, haven't we?
I want to talk
into the track itself.
So,
Prescon
Prescon
Illilixisol
is a song by this guy.
Yeah.
Performed by him
and his wife.
Let's see the covers.
Let's have the cover versions.
What are the cover versions? Well, I'm having a look, aren't I? covers. Let's have the cover versions. What are the cover versions?
Well, I'm having a look, aren't I?
I bet there's no other cover versions.
The song was released in 1972.
It did all right.
UK release was given a simpler title of The Language of Love.
Oh, so this isn't the UK release that I'm holding then?
No, no, no.
The song appeared on the 2008 dance compilation album Pop Life Presents Pop Life Sucks.
There's a hip-hop parody.
This is the English release.
Well, maybe, yeah.
This was made in English.
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
It doesn't have any English in it.
It doesn't have any foreign language in it.
It's nonsense, isn't it?
Yeah, but you said they changed the title.
Yeah, they changed the actual title of the song when they showed it.
But obviously, they haven't there because it's got the full track on.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
And the song became a bit of an internet meme. In 2009, it
was posted on Boing Boing.
I don't know. Maybe the video's a bit weird for
it. I don't know.
God, there's loads of covers.
There's loads of covers? Yeah.
The song is also used as one of the revolving
bumper song intros to the Rush Limbaugh
radio show. Wow.
What a fucking weird thing.
So yeah, there's been... And obviously, as I say, Mike Reed did a cover of it, so that's been and obviously as i say mike reed did
a cover of it so that's good would you say you prefer the original or mike reed's interpretation
mike reed's obviously it is actually better you love his version of chantilly lace as well
i love it and it's what it's literally the song i want played at my funeral chantilly lace his
version yeah it's good to know just to put it out there that's all right
next track is is one that i think is i don't get it i remember this this is quite a faint you know
when you something's you remember something but you don't know in what context or anything else
apart from the fact that you remember it you see i've see, I've never heard of this. It's called Now It's Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder,
Alice Cooper, Elton John by
Clive Baldwin. And can you explain
to the song, to the people listening, what the song
is about? Well, it starts with a
sort of skit where a man wakes
up after 25 years in a coma
and then is told that
there is Paul McCartney now
or something. And then he sings in a sort of
cod, what would you call that style of
singing? It's meant to be
Al Johnson's singing.
So it's that whole kind of blackface
music. Minstrel
sort of jazz singer. Because that's the thing, Al Johnson
before I remember, was a white
guy playing a black guy
and singing in the style of
a black guy. So that voice was affected
wasn't it? It wasn't his real singing voice.
It was an effective accent to make him sound black.
It was a sort of stereotype-type black voice.
Can you tell me what the artist's name is again?
Sorry, I'll do a search for this.
Clive Baldwin.
Clive Baldwin.
This is a proper novelty record.
He did an album called An Evening With Al Johnson.
So is he...
He just did an impression...
He loves Al Johnson.
Jolson.
Hang on.
The Gazette Live.
What's this?
If this is the right...
If this is the same guy,
there's an article for the Teesside Live Gazette,
and it says,
Clive Baldwin lives in a black and white world,
and in a very politically correct world,
that incorrectness is most unusual.
What a fucking horrible sentence.
Terrible.
You're meant to be a journalist
and you write that?
Well, they work for the T-side,
whatever, don't they?
He has been banned,
told to cut out the black
and made to keep
everything whiter than white,
but his legend lives on.
Yorkshireman Clive
is a singer,
but more than that.
Great, we've uncovered
a racist.
Another old racist cunt
appears on Chief Show.
He is a minstrel,
possibly the last.
It was that rapist
last time, wasn't there?
Yeah.
The fucking guy stalking people in his fucking...
Anyone could get a fucking record deal back then.
Oh, what's your USP?
Oh, fuck dogs.
Eli, your record career is...
You can't talk.
My brain is not fucking working.
It's because you...
Sorry, Paul.
I'm sorry.
It doesn't.
Your brain...
I can see what you're trying to say
and then you can't say it.
I can't get there.
I've got pod impotence.
Yeah, know what it is.
It's like a stutter, isn't it?
Anyway, he's a minstrel,
possibly the last,
arguably the best
and is the most famous
for being someone else.
He's a cunt.
Just write normally,
you fucking cunt.
This journalist,
it ate him.
He colours his
white face black
and becomes
Al Jolson
there we go
he blacks out
yeah
before the second
world war
Jolson was the
first great
world entertainer
and the first
superstar
he spoke the
immortal first
words ever heard
on film
and when he
declared at the
start of the
original movie
you ain't seen
nothing yet
Clive can say
the same
Teesside audiences
love him and he loves Teesside audiences love him
and he loves Teesside
returning regularly
year after year
this is a terrible article
he is the Ken Dodd
of the music business
do you know what this sounds like
this sounds like
he's written this
sent it to the journalist
and the journalist
just fucking
tidied it up
and then gone
yeah because
they don't
no one would call him
no one would call him
the Ken Dodd
of the music business
he's come up with... This Baldwin's
a cunt, mate. And his record's
shit. And I don't know what his voice sounds like, but it's about to
sound like this. The audiences are tremendous
and people are always glad to see me.
That's the kind of response I get, he
says. His Legend of Jolson
show. This is a fucking
horrible written piece of crap.
Well, you're going to have to try and get through it or let me take
over, Paul. Shall I take over?
You take over.
I'll review it from the very, very top.
It's not just me.
It seems like it's written.
I'll try and get through.
Yeah.
It does sound badly written, to be honest.
It's not just you.
Okay.
His Legend of Jolson show, Clive Baldwin, The World's Greatest Minstrel.
That needs some punctuation, right?
It needs like quotation marks around the title.
It needs more to sort of, yes.
It's the way it comes in and it's his name.
It doesn't sound like the title of, but that's what the title it needs more to sort of yes it's the way it comes in and it's his name it doesn't sound like the title of but it what that's what their title is okay so his
show is called clive baldwin the world's greatest minstrel right is in the region and plays the
civic theater at darlington on tuesday god quotation marks he was a genius in black and
white he declares i try to establish myself i'm aided and abetted by Al Johnson, but I'm not him.
Despite this, many think he is Al.
And Clive really does not mind if you call him Al.
What?
Paul Simon joke?
Oh, that's a, yeah.
You like this guy now.
No, I just understood that it was a joke.
And now I'm kind of like, actually, it wasn't worth the travel.
And we go back to Baldwin's quoting.
Yeah.
He says, people fuzz the line between who is who, he says.
They don't care how much I disclaim it.
They still think I'm him.
But when I see how satisfied they are after each show, what can I do?
It's a magic thing.
And more so here than anywhere I've ever noticed.
There's a real adulation.
I love it but I've never lost sight
of who I am.
A cunt.
Now pushing
into his late 60s
Clive has been singing
professionally like Jolson
for nearly 50 years.
Yeah.
That's more than him
he says.
He only sang his famous songs
for 30 years.
Oh God.
Do you want to continue?
Depends on how much he goes up his own arse in this article.
Because he's crawling up there deeply.
These include his songs, they mean, Jolson's songs that he sang.
These include Mammy, Swanee River, April Showers, and California Here I Come.
And as Jolson died in 1950, they should have been confined to the great old charts of history.
That's right.
Yeah.
That they live on is as much down to Clive as anyone else.
He comes from Hull,
but has been living in America for nearly 40 years,
has acquired a solid mid-Atlantic accent,
and for the past 35 years has been married to his second wife, Lenore.
Lenore?
Yeah.
He's fresh.
He has been singing and talking like Jolson pretty much since his voice broke.
My mother noticed it before I did, he says.
It's the tonal quality.
It means he can genuinely sing like Jolson.
Fuck me, this article.
The point is that in 75...
He has his imitators and they do a terrific job.
I've been accused of being an imitator,
but I'm not.
Fucking shut up.
It's just me.
I can't believe how great I am. I'm sorry I'm great. Everyone keeps thinking I'm not fucking shut up it's just me i can't believe
how great i am i'm sorry i'm great everyone keeps thinking i'm the real thing it's just me being me
it's my own voice i'm stuck with it i don't have any other so now i just let it roll out
god that's actually quite sad when you think about it he's been cursed to sound like al
jolson all his life and his career is built on fucking racism yeah doing just that around the
world brought him to the attention of Sidney
Lanfield, who directed Jolson in Swanee River.
Where most of his records ended up, funnily enough.
Sam Raffleson, who wrote The Jazz Singer, and Jolson's understudy,
Buddy Walker.
Clive was at radio station in Miami Beach in the 70s,
where he learned Walker was around, and he was asked to sing
California Here I Come to him.
Right.
That's Jolson, said Walker. No, I said. It's me. Oh, him. Right. That's Jolson, said Walker.
No, I said, it's me.
Oh, fuck, you sound like old Jolson, man.
Do you sound like Al Jolson?
Do you know what, though?
In some cases, I imagine
if you talk to a really elderly person
who basically remembers
Al Jolson the first time round
and she hears it, she goes,
are you still the real thing?
My mind ain't what it used to be.
It's the real black man. Isn't it? used to be it's the real it's the real
black man
isn't it
it's what it is
the only audience
who are saying
you look like him
are the ones
whose faculties
have failed them
sometime in the
fucking 90s
we've found a
toxic shitty
record Paul
we've had a
toxic shitty
record and it's
taken up way
too much time
it's a guy
this article
keeps going as
well
no more
no more
no more Clive
you've had enough
from us
fucking hell Clive fuck off Clive the other point had enough from us. Fucking hell, Clive.
Fuck off, Clive.
You know what the point is, though,
is that in 75,
he released a song
to basically bring Al Jolson
back into the pop chart.
It was like,
I can't sing it any other way,
so I have to fold his songs
into that disco sound
or that fucking contemporary music
of the time.
Yeah.
And no one in their right mind
was going to buy
a jazz rag disco song sung by a mind was going to buy a jazz rag
disco song
sung by a white guy
pretending to be a black guy
pretending to be another
white guy
pretending to be another
black guy
now it's Paul McCartney
Stevie Wonder
Alice Cooper
Elton John
as if to say
it used to be
Al Jolson
and now these are
the superstars of today
and what's the story
like he doesn't approve
there's a whole
sort of framing concept
that he wakes up after 25 years
and he doesn't know who these singers are.
Even though, strictly speaking, he dared.
He didn't wake asleep.
He dared.
And his corpse comes back to life.
I think it was a minor hit, though, this record.
Was it?
I think so, yeah.
Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper, Elton John
Electronic, quite the funny Things have changed since you were gone.
Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper, Elton John.
Electronic quadraphonic, things have changed since you were gone.
Oh, nobody's singing from a family.
That little gray-haired gal from Alabama What about my pride and joy
My one and only sonny boy
Now it's Cora Cartney, Stevie Wonder
Alice Cooper, Elton John
Electronic, project-phonic Things have changed since you've been gone So it's another example of something that comes up a lot on Silverman's platters, Paul, is terrible novelty disco.
We had it with that Elaine Page record the other day, didn't we?
I found that I Love Lucy theme one.
That's very good.
Disco version of I Love Lucy. disco lucy oh well okay to finish this segment uh his uh he's a
cunt let's talk about something else he's in the chicago tribute as well saying the exact same
stuff wow almost almost the exact same word for word stuff in the chicago tribute saying the whole
same thing and I guess this is
from that album
called An Evening
with Al Jolson
starring Clive Baldwin
God
we did a bunch of covers
anyway we're going to
end today with
what we think
is the
I'm not going to say
no more
I'll let Eli take over
but this has been
the surprise highlight
of our platters
in a long while
it certainly has
one of the best
we've come across
and it really fits the bill
so if you sent this
thank you very, very much.
Please give us your details so we can give you the credit.
This is a real find.
And not something that comes up a lot.
No.
With this genre of record.
It's a promotional item.
Yes.
I think you could say.
It's a promotional seven inch with a gatefold.
I don't know.
This is a special type of sleeve.
You don't often see seven inch singles.
No.
With a gatefold like that.
So it opens up.
On the front it says, Happy Birthday, 18.
And 18 is in sort of those illustrated numericals.
Oh, you know what it looks like?
It looks exactly like the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
Yeah, the animation.
It's very sort of aping the 60s look.
It's like that with a bit of yellow submarine.
Yeah, a very yellow submarine, sort of psychedelic sort 60s look. It's like that with a bit of yellow submarine. Yeah.
A very yellow submarine, sort of psychedelic, sort of Candyland.
Candyland?
Yeah, go on, I'll take it.
Yeah.
And it's got women, guys with long hair in the eight.
And there's a lady dancing, doing that.
What's that dance?
Freak dancing.
Freaky dancing. What they did at Woodstock and stuff.
And there's a car, vroom, vroom.
Uh-huh.
And then it says, happy birthday, 18, from...
Oh, go on.
Who's it from?
Noel Edmonds.
Oh!
Home.
Oof!
And Barclays Bank.
Oh!
It's a promotional item from Barclays Bank.
What a gift.
Also, in the one of the 18, you'll see this, because you can look on the website and look
at these pictures.
There is Noel.
There is Noel.
Noel is depicted by the artist.
I quite like the artwork.
I love the artwork.
It's quite a nice illustration.
And there's Noel
in a sort of cartoon version of Noel.
Open it up
and there's a photograph of Noel
in all his mid-70s pomp
with a sort of facsimile
autograph there.
Let me have a look.
Let me just check
if it's not the real thing.
No. Of course it's not the real thing no
of course it's not
as if he'd sign those
for Barclays Bank
I don't know
there might have been
a stack of a hundred
he spent an hour
fucking signing them
no it's too many
this was mass produced
item man
yeah true
so the idea is
Barclays if you were
with them
sent you this
when you were 18
to basically say
happy birthday
and also think about
maybe making your
account more of an
adult one
yeah or maybe
you automatically sort of got updated to an adult account.
Or they wouldn't, you know, by law or something,
they couldn't provide you with a child's account or something.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, something like that.
Because I remember when I started my bank account when I was a kid,
it was like...
I got one of those piggy banks, piggy in that west piggy bank.
Oh, yeah.
Remember those?
Yeah, I think so, yeah.
Because we had something similar.
I only got the baby because I didn't save shit.
It's meant to encourage kids to save money.
You save money and then you get another piggy bank, which is big, and then you save all that.
And the one when you've saved like a grand or whatever, really rare.
They'd like pork a pig.
He's like a big fat cat pig.
They go for a lot of money.
They go for a lot of money, those things.
Yeah.
I found in a box my first barclays uh
children's account right which came with like a little comic book and a checkbook and okay so
barclays have basically got form in terms of sort of this promotional stuff for kids basically and
this is for a teenager yeah this is like legal to have sex isn't it 18 or is that 16 you make it
sound like it's a genuine worrying question that you're asking. I don't know. What is 18?
You know, because I'm trying to just sort of identify what is the thing you can do at 18 that you couldn't do when you weren't.
Is it?
I think you can't drink until you're 18.
You can drink at 16. But this is 1975, so I don't know what the rules were and stuff like that were.
I bet in those days, 14-year-olds in the pub all the time getting drinks.
It would like a black, a cider and black, please, publican.
Right.
And so, and the home on the
cover refers to a rock
band.
But what we're going to
do right now is play you
the whole, the whole of
side A is it?
Yeah, it's the first
side.
Where Noel introduces you
to the record.
Now usually we play a
little bit, but I'm going
to give you the gift.
I think you should have
it all, yeah.
You need the gift of the
two minutes of Noel
Edmonds doing effectively the goon show. so here we go enjoy noel edmonds welcoming
you to your 18th birthday thanks to barclays okay i know what to do as soon as the stars
touches the record i'll start the fanfare what what's that it's touching already. Ah, well, then cue the band.
Ladies and gentlemen, never before in the field of human endeavour has one... Excuse me.
What?
Can't you see I'm busy?
Would you like a donut?
No, thank you. They make me go all spotty.
You mean?
Yes.
Donuts for Sackney.
Oh, my darling.
Oh, my gosh.
Why does everybody have to try and be a comedian?
Cue the band again.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Excuse me, sir.
Oh, kill the fanfare.
Now, what do you want?
A special delivery, sir.
What is it?
It's a door.
Would you like me to open it?
Oh, yes, please.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday with Barclays.
Yeah, did you say Barclays?
Yes, I did.
Get out of my bathroom. Happy birthday to you.
Noah Edmonds, Noah Edmonds. Yes, that's me, and multitudinous greetings to you. Oh, yes, of course,
a happy birthday. Allow me to pour you a congratulatory drink. Ah, lovely drop of Chateau bottled Mac Blagic wine. Ah, what's that?
You've never heard of Mac Blagic Chateau? Good heavens, I thought everybody had heard of Chateau
Mac Blagic. Gosh, this wine really does look good. You know, I once went round a vineyard and
did you know that the grapes, or at least the vine terraces, actually sink about two feet a year?
It'd be quite dangerous if it wasn't for the fact that grape vines sink alike.
Oh, well, anyway, it's your 18th Barclay.
Oh, sorry, birthday.
Hello, Supernoddle here, Crime Fighter Supreme.
Did I hear you say Barclays?
Yes.
Barclays Bank?
That's right, the organisation with a memory.
Really? Yes,
a bank takes all the worry out of remembering to pay bills. Ah, you don't say. HB agreements,
mortgages, in fact anything that requires regular payments, the bank remembers. Ah,
so I have banks for the memories. That's it, the only safe way to handle money. Ah,
you know, I wish I'd known that before. Why? Well, last week a lady gave me two fake five-pound notes.
Counterfeit?
Yeah. She had two.
Get out.
Actually, maybe Barclays could help you.
A chequebook's got to be one of the safest and most convenient ways of making payments.
And the bank also issues regular statements on how much money you've got. And if if and if you need money you might be eligible for a loan then also if you need a reference
Flynn what are you doing well I think this record needs music so I'm getting me piano
ready then I'll sing but Flynn I'm a baritone you know but Flynn me voice will
send you to sleep but Flynn Flynn! In fact, you could
say I'm a pheno-baritone.
Flynn! There's music
on the other side of the record.
Oh, what is it? A nightingale sang
in Barclay Square? Flynn, say
happy birthday. Happy birthday.
Say goodbye. Goodbye. Say
no more. Nudge, nudge.
Now, he comes across like a bit of a cunt,
doesn't he? He is, though. I mean, still. He's smug and confident and I get it. It's the smugness. Iudge, nudge. Now, he comes across like a bit of a cunt. He is, though.
He's smug and confident.
I get it.
It's the smugness.
I don't mind confident.
I don't mind confident, but the smugness. It's the smug.
The whole other thing is the whole self-depreciation
without really self-depreciating himself.
He doesn't.
He just takes the piss out of old grannies,
like Bruce Forsythe did.
I get the impression when when he's doing like
groups of people in a room
discussing a show,
they'll say,
hey, no, let's make,
let's make fun of your beard.
He goes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.
He goes, yeah,
let's make it look like,
like a dirty fanny.
Don't you dare say
it looks like a fanny.
Yeah.
You're out.
That's it.
Yeah.
And someone goes,
it looks like a dirty mouse.
All right.
All right.
It's a dirty mouse.
It doesn't know.
No.
It's a dirty fanny. What's this dirty mouse it doesn't know no it's a fanny
i can't imagine you didn't really build the picture of that meeting
it's like you're asleep or something like edmund's in a room having a meeting someone says
why don't we call your beard
a dirty fanny?
It's not realistic, mate.
I couldn't think of anything I was just to make fun of.
I was just thinking, he's in a meeting
discussing a few jokes on the show
and it's like, oh, isn't it
funny? I know what you were
trying to do. A mane of hair.
You know, a big mane of hair.
Yeah, let's make fun of that.
He's probably vicious and gets rid of...
There's sort of a hint of narcissism.
There's lots.
You get a feeling of narcissism.
Look, let's be honest.
He's successful.
And he's been very successful because of his business work
and the record shops and the franchising.
He's a good businessman.
He is.
But he's also now one of those famous people
who's very rich,
who now believes, you know,
the shit that they're selling,
which is why he can go,
I've got a box that cures cancer
and positive thinking, you know,
is good and people who have bad thoughts
deserve to die.
Yeah.
You think,
I hope a tragic accident happens
where in some respects,
your body is found next to a naked child
and a blobby costume.
Really?
And there's no more context
and that's the mystery of your
death. That would be good.
Just in a field.
Edmund's dead! Blobby costume
near! Mystery child found.
Right.
It's like you're asleep.
It really is like
you're asleep. So anyway
we got through that and we were like alright he's
trying to do the goon thing.
But I also think
there's a real massive
sort of Kenny Everett.
It's stuff that
Kenny Everett does better.
Who was the other guy
I was talking about?
Justin Lin,
the other radio presenter
who's right up
his own fucking arse.
But he also does
that mad cap.
It's that mid-70s
sort of...
The cut-ups,
the kind of audio play.
And also that Steve Wright
kind of inherited
that mantle into the late, into the 80s, didn't... The cut-ups, the kind of audio play. And also that Steve Wright kind of inherited that mantle
into the late, into the 80s, didn't he?
You don't get that kind of comedy DJ sort of...
It's because radio doesn't want that anymore.
Yeah, they don't.
People who listen to radio engage in it differently.
They want it on in the background
when they're driving or in the kitchen.
The breakfast show is always important
because that's when people are travelling into work
or they're driving into work
and they want a bit more content.
But after that, it's just like,
fucking get the songs out. Yeah. Because they worry that if your song hasn't been played or they're driving into work and they want a bit more content but after that it's just like fucking get the songs out because they worry
that if your song
hasn't been played
your favourite song
hasn't been played
in a while
they'll move over
to another radio station
just to try and hear it
which is why
songs get played
every hour
it's just terrible
people are terrible
it's just the way
radio is
so I don't think
commercial radios
allow for a lot
of that kind of
creativity and freedom
though
no
you'll get a Chris Evans
who's got too much
you know
swagger yeah or, you know,
swagger.
Yeah.
Or maybe, you know,
the Radio X stuff that happens.
Talk radio is completely different,
but you know what I mean?
Like commercial radio is now just about
hitting the clock,
hitting the ads,
getting all those songs
in as many as you can in an hour
and maybe throwing a competition
out there.
Yeah.
That's why a lot of people
who are hosting those shows
have very little personality
but lots of enthusiasm.
Ah.
Because they're professional,
they do the job well,
but there's no edge to them. It's about being friendly and presentable. Even Edmunds has
more of an edge, doesn't he? Oh God, that's
oppressing, but true. He did. It's true.
He made an impact. So he's
got a real smug look on his face on this
record. Yeah, it's not very good comedy,
but it's reasonably well produced,
isn't it? Sound effects and stuff.
It reminds me very much of the Everett style
with the sound effect.
Bit of Goons, bit of Python,
bit of, you know, bit of radio show.
Now, here's the thing.
When it said,
and now the B-side's got a song on,
we were like,
oh, it's going to be shit.
Because we'd not heard of this group, Home.
Home.
And we've got,
there's a picture of them
on the other side of the gatefold,
and they're very sort of soft focus, very long, tawny.
Is that the word? Hair.
They've got very... It looks very clean.
They look like clean hippies.
Clean, nice boys.
And the name Home also made me think...
The band was called Home, yeah.
They are called Home.
Yeah, the song's called Dreamer.
Dreamer.
And all of that suggested to me, and to you, Paul, I think you'll agree,
a real middle of the road.
And the fact that it's on a Barclays Bank promotional record item.
Before we started playing it, you said,
we're not going to get very far into this, I'll give it a minute at most.
Yeah.
And then we played it, and it sounded like this. guitar solo Do you always waste your time away
Make a dream a day to hide away
I really wish you would throw your dreams away Why not wake up from oblivion
Start to live again
Life's not really bad
Dreamer, dreamer, paint your world black
Like a bird Flying far
Searching for
Not forgotten Shangri-La
It's fucking pretty good, isn't it?
It's fucking quite good.
It kind of fucking rocks.
I thought it was going to be kind of early, you know,
Black Late is going to be very kind of, you know...
Brotherhood of Man.
Brotherhood of Man or something.
Just terrible.
That terrible pop. Do you want to know about Home? It's got that finger-picking or something that kind of thing just terrible that terrible pop
do you want to know
about Home?
it's got that finger picking
riff
that kind of eagles
and the
yeah
Fog Hat or whatever it's called
that kind of thing
Lynyrd Skynyrd
sort of Allman Brothers style
country rock
southern rock
they call it
that style
and also the
rhythm section
like the bass and the drums
pretty tight
I was like
I generally love the guitar licks too pretty funky yeah and even though like the bass and the drums pretty tight yeah I was like I generally love
the guitar licks too
yeah
and even though
like the chorus
stroke verse
is kind of softer
yeah
it still builds
right back to that lick
and it's got that
fucking guitar solo
at the end
and it's one of those
ones that goes
at the end
it's fucking sweet
so home
we're a British rock band
says Wikipedia
they rock
in the 70s
they are according to the genre page here rock progressive rock the core line up fucking sweet. So, home, we're a British rock band, says Wikipedia. They rock. They're in the 70s. They are,
according to the genre page here,
rock,
progressive rock.
Ah.
The core lineup featured
Mick Stubbs on lead guitar
and vocals,
Laurie Wisefield
on lead guitars and vocals,
Cliff Williams on bass guitar
and Mick Cook.
And they also had
various guitarists,
keyboardists,
sorry,
at the time.
Okay.
Formed in Wales.
A Welsh prog sort of.
After the first band, Sugar Split. It's like, have you ever seen like the League of Gentlemen? You know, the time okay formed in wales and a welsh prog sort of after the first band
sugar split it's like you've ever seen like the league of gentlemen you know the guy who was in
that uh creme brulee band in the 70s you know that's a shit business he's all like all that
music right is that what it feels like this it feels like that so they teamed up and they signed
a cbs record under the band home in 1971 released an album called Pause for a Horse. Horse. As in horse.
Horse.
As in horse.
Hey, you've used your noise, your mouth noise, in a different way. I know.
I know.
It's a very versatile wobbly mouth noise you've got there.
They toured in November with Led Zeppelin.
Right.
At the second Electric Magic Show.
So that says something about how, you know.
If Zeppelin are like, yeah, you can perform with us.
Yeah, they're standard.
Yeah.
Yeah.
magic show about how you know
if Zeppelin like yeah
you can perform
yeah they're standard
yeah
and then they open
for groups such as
Argent
the Jeff Beck group
and the Faces
oh the Faces are great
and then they released
the Faces was
Rod Stewart
yes
you know
and what was that
other one you mentioned
sorry
there was
the Jeff Beck group
Argent
do you know what Argent is
no
Argent was the keyboard
player from the Zombies
and that was his band
zombies with
time of the season
and she's not there
yeah yeah yeah
and he also wrote
God Gave Rock and Roll to You
that was an Argent tune
the original of that
was an Argent tune
I didn't know that
and Kiss had just been
milking it for fucking decades
Kiss just had a hit with it
yeah
off the Bill and Ted film
yeah
well there's a third one
of those coming out
isn't there
yeah
is that going to be good
I hope so
same director no same writers and you know most original cast are back Bill and Ted film. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a third one of those coming out, isn't there? Yeah. Is that going to be good? I hope so. Same director?
No.
Same writers and,
you know,
most original cast are back.
Did the first two films
have the same director?
No.
Okay.
So you had a different...
Different directors for all three.
Okay.
The second one was a British guy.
The first one,
I can't remember the name.
Okay.
So it's not...
It's more to do with the writing.
The director,
you just need a steady pair of hands
for the direction,
don't you, really?
So anyway,
the album that they brought out
reached number 41
in the UK album charts.
So not great, but not awful for the time either no they went on to support mott the hoopoe and the enemy wrote in their review of the show of the october 15th that they
were performing at those who went to see mott the hoopoe that night came back talking about home
instead and they were called the fifth most promising new name in the region's poll. They just obviously never quite had the hit or crossed over.
They opened for Slade at certain points.
So what is this from 71?
I think it was 75, I think that.
72.
Then they split in 72.
This is 72, this item.
Oh, okay.
They split in 74.
Yeah.
A couple of years after they did the Barclays.
I wonder if this was like a millstone around their neck, this Barclays.
Yeah.
Perhaps people said you sold out
because at that time, you know,
people did get accused of that.
You know, these days, no one gives a shit.
It's the only way you can ever make any money or live.
But do you know what I mean?
Back then, you could have been,
I bet people thought they were phony
because they did this.
Yeah, I can see that.
But it's also more likely that what happened was
Barclays reached out to, I don't know,
whoever the company was, CBS.
Have you got any bands who are up and coming
who you want to get?
Well, maybe Noel brought them in.
Maybe Noel did, yeah.
Because Noel, you know,
was obviously on the radio.
Read what Noel says at the beginning
because Noel says something which suggests to me
he hadn't heard of home before.
But I don't know.
Go on, read it.
Okay, this is his little blurb, Noel's blurb.
I can't do the voice.
A few months ago, Barclays came to me and said they were thinking of producing a rather special record.
Would I like to be on it?
Fine, I said.
What do you want me to do?
Sing?
I bet you'd love to, wouldn't he?
Dance?
Read poetry?
I'll stop being so fucking chummy and not funny.
Chummy cunt, innit?
Chummy, fanny, cunted face.
Bell end.
Actually, we just want you to do an intro.
Who am I introducing, I asked, as my dreams of stardom vanished.
Mate, you're on Radio 1 and you're famous and rich and you've got a jag and a rolls.
Look at you.
The worst thing about this is I'm looking at his face as I read it.
Yeah, and he's just looking at that face he's got on.
His fucking hairy face. His fanny face., and he's just looking at that face he's got on. His fucking hairy
face.
His fanny face.
Dirty, mingy,
fanny face.
Dirty mouse beard,
fanny head.
Well, we were
hoping you could
suggest someone.
A pop group,
perhaps.
And this is the
result.
Yeah, he suggested
it.
Oh, okay.
The group is
called Home.
The track is
called Dreamer.
It's great and
it's a birthday
present to you
from Barclays.
Hope you enjoy it.
And just to
somewhat very quickly
afterwards the band
split in 74
Cliff Williams
went to join the band
Bandit
from 75 to 77
after he left them
he was asked to replace
ACDC bassist
Mark Evans
who remained with the band
until his retirement
in 2016
oh he's in
the bassist
in
the bassist from home
is the
yeah
he's very good
isn't he
by the evidence
of this track
he was
exactly what
ACDC needed
which was like
metronomically
tight
bassist
and that is
Laurie Wisefield
joined Wishbone Ash
and stayed with them
until the 80s
another good band
Wishbone Ash
should be into that
kind of thing
I don't know
Mick Cook
joined the new
line up of the
Groundhogs
in late 75 Groundhogs in late 75
Groundhogs
had this guy
who had schizophrenia
who was the lead guitarist
but they have some amazing stuff
Is that Clive Brooks?
Yeah
Because then he replaced
Clive Brooks on drums
No it was the lead
Okay
In fact he's got a tune
called Split
I think by the Groundhogs
which is about being nuts
Oh shit
Okay
And it's really good
there's some good
Groundhogs stuff
if you're into that
Psyche proggy stuff He also appeared in the 80s in a band called lick my lolly
lick my lolly my lolly lick my lolly licky licky fanny fanny my fanny lick my beardy lolly nolly
lick my fanny face uh mick stubbs was a member of the short-lived paradise in 1975 but continued as a performer and
writer including lulu's single i love to boogie in 1979 do you know that one i don't so there is
what we thought was a wonderful discovery this is a lovely item and you don't see promotional
things like this not really no no no not at all it has it could, no, not at all. It could have been a Flexi,
couldn't it?
It could have been.
Easily could have been a Flexi.
I've seen Flexis housed
in this sort of pocket.
It's a gatefold pocket
style cover.
So, okay,
let's go through these
very quickly.
What are we going to rate?
Well, we can't rate
the children's book,
but what can we rate
the Al Johnson shit?
I'd only give it one.
I did not like it.
It's a splat for me,
not a platt.
But we really should.
Next time we do platters,
we should get Disco Lucy out
just to show you
how that can work.
The whole novelty
disco crossover
genre can work.
It just doesn't very much.
And then we had
Adriano Celentano.
Yeah.
I would say that's
I quite like it.
And we didn't mention
the B-side disc jockey,
which is a five and a half
minute long tune.
And it was kind of the same
because then it ends up
going into
the A side
does it?
yeah it starts going into
the whole riff
so it's got a very
sort of an extended
sort of version
yeah
on the other side
I would give that
I would say
that's a plait to me
not a splat
yeah it's a plait for you
yeah what about you
maybe three plaits
yeah
and then finally
the Noel Edmonds
the happy birthday
18th Noel Edmonds home
and Barclays Bank
do you think an 18 year old would like that song? maybe quite possibly do you think there's a boy and a girl one And then finally, the Noel Edmonds... The Happy Birthday 18th Noel Edmonds Home and Barclays Bank.
Do you think an 18-year-old would like that song?
Maybe it was a boy... Quite possibly.
Do you think there's a boy and a girl one?
Maybe there's one for boys that they sent out, one for girls.
And the girl one maybe had like Donny Osmond or something on it.
Well, maybe.
But these guys look a bit like a heart.
They look kind of...
Do you know it's a glossy sort of photo?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it's probably too good.
I'm being quite cynical. But I think they made a mistake including that here because it was too good it's not yeah it's
not a kind of teenagey song it's like a proper like yeah it's definitely a plat though isn't it
it's great i really like that song i might even play it on my radio show well there we go highest
praise all platters who would have thought that would have thought that noel edmonds
finally brought joy to
this fucking podcast he
did and the artwork is
actually really pleasing
yeah aesthetically nice
yeah noel if you're out
there if you're still
living if you still got
hope in your heart thanks
for giving us home and
dreamer because what else
have you given us other
than years of regret and
blobby and blobby you've
given us no one needs
blobby in their life do they what have you done what why you need to atone for blobby and blobby you've given us no one needs blobby in
their life do they what have you done what why you need to atone for blobby no if you're listening to
this a hashtag atone for blobby don't know how you do it don't care how you do it but thou must atone
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we've extended the
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We haven't been promoting it
on the show.
I hate myself.
Right.
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If you go to our website
or you go to
at cheap...
Ah!
You wanker!
He's forgotten it.
I'll tell you where it is.
Yeah.
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Possibly.
We were thinking about
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But I'm not going to say anything
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Eli is?
Eli Snoidy.
L-I-S-N-O-I-D.
Paul.
I just noticed one last thing.
And the email address,
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Now, Eli,
please end with your piss-poor observation.
I just noticed this mint on card
is actually on the Joker.
He selected the card of the Joker
to sellotape the polo team.
Yeah.
This works on many, many levels.
That's what I said.
It's good touch.
Yeah, it works on many levels.
Joker, because it's like me. I'm the Joker, and I say mint on card, and everyone loves it when I say it. It's good touch. Yeah, it works on many levels. Joker, because it's like me.
I'm the Joker
and I say mint on card
and everyone loves it
when I say it.
No one loves it.
No, they love it.
No one loves it when you say it.
Everyone goes,
ugh, when you say it.
That's the feeling they get.
There's scuffage.
It took a bit longer
than usual, ladies and gentlemen,
but he got there in the end.
I haven't broken.
I'm fine.
Thank you.
It's been enjoyable. I like going through the box, Paul. Every now and then, but he got there in the end. I haven't broken, I'm fine. Thank you. It's been enjoyable.
I like going through the box, Paul.
Every now and then,
we are going to dabble
through your P.O. box deliveries.
I've got a little ducky.
You've got a little ducky.
You've got candies.
You've got records.
We've got new music in our lives,
which we never expected until now.
You know what I mean?
Home, Dreamer.
Who would have thought it?
Who would have thought
we'd be given and gifted
these wonderful things by you,
our Cheapskate listeners?
Thank you very much.
Is it at Project Cheap SK8?
Is it something like that?
Yeah, yes.
That's it.
That's it.
I'm so shit tonight.
I'm so shit.
No, I'm editing all that out.
I'm depressed.
I'm sad.
Shut up.
Let's just say goodbye, Paul.
Oh, goodbye, Paul.
Goodbye, Eli.
Bye-bye.
Bye. Bye bye. You've been earning old dong? These are the modern dong.
Yeah, if you want to borrow them.
So what's that dong?
This is probably old dong, like old fibers, you know, when they were paper.
You can still get thousands, but they're plastic, I remember.
Is there a thousand there or is it a ten thousand?
It's a ten thousand.
There's a ten.
Yeah.
So basically that is one of those is worth three P. Yeah, that's a 10. Yeah. So basically that is one of those is worth 3p.
Yeah, that's what I like.
So that is 10p, basically.
10p.
Yeah.
Look at that.
Cheap show.
Cheap show it is.
So that's 30p, 10,000.
Yeah.
And that 30,000 is a pound.
That's a pound.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So that's 60,000.
That's two pounds. 50,000 is two pounds.'s 60,000 that's two pounds. 50,000 is
two pounds. No 60,000 is two pounds. 30,000 dong to a pound. Right. Alright. Well there
you go. Eli's been handling all the dong which is alright. Right. Mint on card. Mint on card. That's all that's said in the video box.
Charlie J.
I don't get it.
I say mint on card a lot.
Mint is when something is brand new and it's on the card.
Oh right. I don't even get it.
Yeah, it's a don.
Anyway, we need to go to Vietnam. We need some don.
I'll ask for your don I'm forgetting to hand me dong
that lowest
that thousand's
the lowest in nomination
but they're plastic now
yeah
they did
I did see some 500's
but they were in a charity shop
oh they're going to be worth nothing
so they
I think they've gone out
out of
like half penny pieces
yeah
yeah
oh well we've all learned something
there were a thousand and all learned something a thousand
and they never say
a thousand
they always say
like one
one
yeah
one dong
well there we go
we've learned something