CheapShow - Ep 187: Sentence Nonsense
Episode Date: July 17, 2020There is more sentence nonsense this week in an episode called "Sentence Nonsense" featuring Paul & Eli playing with a Tomy toy called "Sentence Nonsense". As you can imagine, it helps the chaps build... a lot of nonsense sentences. Not that they need any help doing that. Elsewhere this week, Paul regrets ever mentioning the highly suspicious "Frosties" famine, the PO Box delivers a new, bespoke Price of Shite and Eli becomes obsessed with putting his fingers into places he probably shouldn't. Typical. 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-187-sentence-nonsense 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 Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! Podbible Interview: https://podbiblemag.com/2020/06/12/a-special-cheapshow-celebration/ MERCH Www.cheapmag.shop www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow Paul is writing a book! Want to help make it happen? https://unbound.com/books/ghosts/
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Oh, ho, ho.
Yes, it's here.
We're here.
Ooh.
Time for the Cheap Show.
Aha.
Now.
Is that it?
You've given up 30 seconds in.
Is that it?
That must be a record.
Paul.
Yeah.
You're drinking.
I'm not.
Can we talk about that?
No, we're not going to talk about the drinking.
I've just decided.
We're not going to be talking about that.
I've just decided when we do Cheap Show when we're doing it remotely,
I like to have a little,
you know,
bourbon and ice
just to the side,
just here.
It's nice.
It's like refined.
It's not refined.
It's a tricky,
slippery slope.
Also tricky.
And when you slip down
that slope,
you've slid all the way
down there
and you're bumping
your head on the way down
and then there's
a little nettle that gets you.
Is this coming from experience, oh, master pisshead?
Oh, master pisshead.
Oh, master pisshead.
I am not old master pisshead, thank you.
You're grabbing the crown of cheap show pisshead.
Well, I have you know, it is just the one.
I make it last.
There's a bit of ice to dilute it.
It's not that strong.
It looks like it's about the one which is four fingers deep.
I like being four fingers deep.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Do you?
Welcome to Cheap Show.
In a cow?
What about in a cow?
Yeah, all right.
You'd need four fingers for a cow, wouldn't you?
You'd need a hole.
And the thumb.
You can't go cheap on a cow.
They want the whole hand.
Would they go, moo, put the thumb in, moo.
Moo-aw.
Put moo-aw in.
Yeah, well.
And the sheep go.
I say it every week.
And the sheep, they only take one or two fingers, but they go, that's bad.
They go, what?
Oh, fuck off.
No.
Welcome to cheap sheep.
No, you give them.
I got it.
I got it.
I got it, Paul.
What?
You give a sheep one finger.
What?
Right?
No, let's say you're an amputee.
Like, your fingers, you've only got two fingers.
Wow.
And you've got a sheep.
And you're friends with a sheep.
You've had a long-term relationship.
Yeah.
And you come out and you give it one finger.
But it knows you have two fingers. It goes. Yeah? It goes. Yeah. And you come out and you give it one finger, but it knows you have two fingers.
It goes, yeah? It goes
Both.
Both. Both fingers.
Both fingers. No.
No, no, no. I'm not having
that one. That's bad.
That's so bad. That sounds
like a goat, not a sheep. Well, it's a goat.
They all look the same, goats and
sheep. I can't tell them apart in the dark. then a cat would just go fist me i'll tell you what i'll tell
you who's asking for it though paul no one's asking for it no one in the world asks for it
there is a whole species of slutty animals that are asking there's not a species of slutty animals are asking for it. There's not a species of slutty animals.
Bees.
Bees.
Bees with their little frilly giving me the eye.
Right, well.
Winking their stingers at me.
Winking their stingers at you.
Let's just do the intro, all right?
Welcome to Cheap Show.
All right, right.
What?
Welcome to Cheap Show.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
Is it an economy comedy?
How?
Let's do a call and response thing. Go on. So you say, welcome to Cheap Show. Is it an economy comedy? How? Let's do a call and response thing.
Go on.
So you say, welcome to Cheap Show.
It's an economy.
And I say comedy.
And then you say podcast.
That's an echo.
It's not a call and response because you're not responding.
You're echoing.
Well, let me just say that word.
It'd have to be something like, welcome to the show.
What's the show?
And then you say cheap.
And I say show.
Cheap show.
Cheap show.
Yeah.
But then what about economy podaby
podaby pod baby is that a thing all of this is not working for me including the idea i had
all of it is bad and we are four minutes in and we haven't done the titles yet one thing one single
thing before we do the titles paul right is there is there a thing in this world which is called a
chod hopper chod hopper i don't believe there is all right must have been a dream sorry let's get
on with the show ladies and gentlemen welcome to the economy comedy podcast that we like to call
cheap show welcome in your most welcome in
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 Tee show.
Off-brand, brand-off, off-brand, brand-off.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep.
Tee show.
It's the price of shite.
Paul Gannon. Eli Silverman. of shite paul gannon eli silverman welcome to cheap show and a go and a nuzzle hello welcome
to cheap show i'm paul gannon and who's this cheeky chappy i'm eli silverman it's lovely to
be here again paul on cheap show um and we've got a brimful of Asher show, which is brimful of goodies and content, isn't it?
What have we got coming up on the show today, Paul?
Do you think Asher has ever done like a gag where he's done, oh, that's a brimful of Asher or something?
Brimful of Asher.
He's 45.
I don't know.
No, you know, you're tempting me now.
You are tempting me.
Everybody needs a nubbin for a pillow.
Everybody needs a nubbin.
Chawed full of spanky on the hopper five.
I've got a chawed hopper spanky.
Wow.
Chawed monkey spanky on the...
And you wonder why I drink, ladies and gentlemen,
on the podcast.
To get through the pain.
Fill my chawed hopper with spodger.
Week by week, Eli, you leave the English language behind, don't you?
Like breadcrumbs, you just scatter them on the pathway to the candy house of madness
that awaits you in the woods of civility.
The woods of civility?
Civility woods, yes.
What, do you go and you be nice there and you do things for your neighbours?
Yeah, and you're walking away from that to the Candy House of Madness.
Yeah, okay, I like the Candy House of Madness.
Come in, little boy, to the Candy House of Madness.
Do you have candy corns?
We have candy corns of madness.
Do you have lollipops?
Oh, we have lollipops of madness.
Do you have lollipops? Oh, we have lollipops of madness. Do you have meringue pie substitute?
We have meringue pie.
Meringue pie substitute?
Of madness.
I'll take the candy corns of madness.
Here you go, young boy, candy corns.
I'll save some for my chod hopper spodgy.
Of madness.
Come on, just do it.
What have we got?
Today on the show, we are going to be giving a good old British try
to the old game of the old favourite that we old guys like to play oldly.
It is the old, good old price of old shite, old good old shite.
The prissy prissy price of shitey shitey shite.
Yes.
Donated by, yet again again the fantastic mark honeyborn he's given us a lovely little box full of knickknacks he's found
and we're looking forward to playing because we don't know do we the answers are sealed it's a
bespoke one i haven't looked at it paul i just want to assure you right now before we get into
the body of the game yeah i have i've protected it i protected it from myself and i've protected
myself for myself by locking it and i have the the number for the lock it's a combination lock
no one's seen that i've got someone else to set that for me and that's locked away it's under my
bed i'm gonna have to go in there i don't know if i have looked at it it would have been in some
kind of drug induced madness but no it's there i't seen it, just to assure you of that right now.
Okay?
And we have the best security surrounding the answers,
Freddie...
We do.
Goon.
That's it.
Because Jimmy Goon got killed.
Oh, yeah, but Freddie Goon does do a bit of...
I didn't want him on this job, though, Paul.
Well, you know, I didn't either,
but he was the best available and he was cheap. I can't him in the in the house of uh pickles you know what he's like it's
like he gets turned on and then it's like he does get hard somewhere where does where was it he got
hard it was in the lower half yeah it was in the downstairs area wasn't it it was in the downstairs
area yeah there we go what we got coming up After that, we've got another little Tomy treat that we hope will lead us on a merry adventure or two.
Yes.
That's it.
Also, I want to bring this up now before we get started.
I wish I'd never read that bit out about the Frosties because now I've had people all over Twitter saying,
Oh, there's Frosties here.
And there's Frosties here.
And there's Frosties here.
I don't care.
I don't care i don't care and my mistake was
reading it out in a vain attempt to conjure up some cheese moment style conspiracy fun but paul
it was me who brought it to your attention don't you remember because my friend had said to me
that he couldn't find them in his supermarket and then you found that article yeah but that was an
american article but then it turns out there's still 18 different types of frosties out there
they have marshmallow frosties honey nut nut Frosties, egg Frosties.
Do they have candy corn of madness Frosties?
No, they just had Frosties.
Of madness?
So what was discontinued then?
I don't know.
This is what I'm saying.
As of right now, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, listen to the podcast.
I officially check out of this argument.
I don't want to talk about it.
I will not retweet anything anymore. I don't want to talk about it. I will not retweet anything anymore.
I don't care.
Oh, my God.
I'm still interested.
If anyone wants to get in touch with me about, you know, discontinued cereals,
I'm your man.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Well, there you go.
Frosties.
What a lovely...
Well, that's that segment.
Also, I want to show off a little toy quickly.
Eli, show you this.
Look at this on the camera. What's that? I was just about to ask you what the hell that segment. Also, I want to show off a little toy quickly. Eli, show you this. Look at this on the camera.
What's that? I was just about to ask
you what the hell that was. It looks incredibly
modular. It is Jenga.
Oh, it's like a... It's plastic
Jenga. It's Jenga, official Jenga, but
what makes it unique is that it's called
Jenga Quake, and you build your blocks
on this platform, and it vibrates
like earthquakes when you play it
randomly. So I'll just turn it on very quickly
and look, it's pulsing
and vibrating, you know, to there.
That's terrible. And when you move it,
I'm going to take a little brick out.
Oh no! Oh no,
I can't believe it!
Oh shit, hang on. That's going to fall
over straight away. It's stupid.
I hate it. But it makes it
exciting. No it doesn't.
Jenga's exciting enough.
If you want it,
you could spice up Jenga yourself.
Do you know how you spice that up?
Get wasted.
Well, you just, no.
Wasted Jenga.
Instead of blocks,
you put little sweets
or like refreshers
or oblong sweets
or like,
I don't know,
novelty condoms.
As little prizes,
little party favours
that come out of the...
So you turn it into like
past the parcel
with jenga yeah what about pickle jenga yeah well you've got pickles all stacked in a jenga
combination you've got to take a pickle they haven't made cuboid pickles yet have they so
that's seen some use hasn't it the vibrate no i haven't used it for wanking you have yet now that
you've given me the idea it's's a B-Day of love.
And what I could do is put the little plastic base that vibrates right under my scrotum.
Just rest the plums upon the top.
Get a ham on your plums.
And then as I'm, not to be coarse, but beating my meat, every now and then, as a surprise, it gives me a little vibrate.
And it's like, oh, hello.
Hello, cheeky.
That's good, isn't it?
Yeah.
And if I time it right, I can blow my load when the earthquake bit goes off.
I can go...
Yeah, might as well.
I can say I'm just going for a Jenga nasty.
Listen, don't try and take my nomenclature, yeah?
Milky raspberry.
Milky raspberry.
If you were drinking one, it'd be good.
Drinking what?
A milky raspberry.
What's a milky raspberry?
What's a milky raspberry?
Yes, what's a milky raspberry? I'll tell you what a milky raspberry. What's a milky raspberry? What's a milky raspberry? Yes, what's a milky
raspberry? I'll tell you what a milky
raspberry is, Paul. You know what a milky
raspberry is. I don't. You need to tell me again so I
can remember and then agree or disagree.
One part tea. Yes.
Yeah. One part raspberry
herb tea. Right. One part
milk. Right. Sugar. Drink hot.
A la milky raspberry.
And do it when you're shoving Jenga up your
arse. Well, we haven't found the good way
out of this segment yet. So what do
you want to do? Do you want to keep digging?
Or should we just draw a line under this bit now?
Is this the segment? God, is it still going?
This is the first bit of the show, I know. Let's just
end it. I've lost hope for the rest of the show.
I lost hope before we started recording.
Let's crack on. Okay.
Paul? I lost hope before we started recording. Let's crack on. Okay. Paul.
Yes, Mr. Silverman, sir.
Why do you call me that, Mr. Silverman?
It's your name, isn't it, Mr. Silverman, sir?
No.
I want you to call me Dickie...
Dickie E-Boy.
Dickie E-Boy?
What?
Do you want me to call you that?
Yeah.
All right, Dickie E-Boy.
Paul.
Yes.
Oh.
Come on, I'm starting the theme off.
Oh.
What do you want me to say?
The second word of the theme of this segment.
Oh.
It's the fucking price of shite.
It's the fucking price of shite.
It's the fucking price of shite. It's the fucking price of shite.
Oh, it's the fucking price of shite.
And that's right.
You fucked it right at the end.
You fucked it right at the end.
It's shit.
Let's start again.
Let's start the whole show again.
What were you saying?
Were you going to say, and that's alright?
And that's, and, oh yeah, or something
Yeah, exactly, you fudged it
It's meant to be, and that's right
The most singular and important part of the intro
Okay, can we do it again, but do it really quick?
No, because it's painful for us to do just then
It'll be painful for me to edit
And it'll be painful for the people to listen back to, despite the edits.
But I don't want to do it twice.
I'm in pain now.
We haven't introduced the segment properly.
No.
What's happening?
What segment is this, Paul?
It is The Price of Shite, ladies and gentlemen.
And that's right!
No, that doesn't count if you don't claw back a victory.
I clawed back a victory from the gaping jaws of defeat.
The price of shite, ladies and gentlemen,
is a game on this podcast where usually Eli and I
go to a charity shop, buy a few items,
and then price of right style,
we have to guess the prices of those items.
Sometimes we mess with the formula,
but by and large, they're the golden rules.
Get the price spot on, two points.
Or as we like to call them, a betwing.
Oh, we do, don't we?
Oh, a betwing.
But if you get it within 25p either way of the final correct answer,
that will be just a one betwing.
The betwings for me are very far, few and far between.
It's been a while since we've betwinged.
It felt like it's been a year since my lips last said
betwing. Has it? Feels like it.
I've got the Price of
Shite here, Paul. It's a lovely
little bespoke Price of Shite kit
that was sent to us.
I have the answers. They are sealed.
I have been bound for 24
hours to my bed
and rubbed down every 15
minutes with anointing oils essential oils who rubbed you down
tiramisu oils no who rubbed you down who if you were if you were bound to your bed but you had
to be rubbed down who rubbed you down freddie goon he's running the whole rubbed you down he's running
the whole secretarial uh detail The whole security detail, rather.
Not the secretarial.
Sorry.
Now, what I'm going to say is being bound to your bed so you can't look at the answers is one thing.
What I want to know is what is the significance of a man rubbing you down with oils as you're strapped to your bed?
Because I have to remain pure in thought and pure of soul. How can you
be pure in thought when a man's
rubbing you off as you're bound to your bed?
He's not rubbing me off, thank you. He must
have. Get your mind out of the gutter.
I bet he asked for
a bit of a happy ending and you went
go for it, mate. Fill your boots.
He asked for a happy ending, Paul?
Yeah, he was rubbing you down. Why would he
ask for a happy ending? He's providing me a service. He should be offering me a happy ending, Paul. Yeah, he was rubbing you down. Why would he ask for a happy ending?
He's providing me a service.
He should be offering me a happy ending.
But he doesn't because it's all above board.
It's an anointing with essential oils to clear the mind so I don't think about the prices.
My cock is away in its panty drawer.
It's not.
Your cock is proud and angry,
awaiting anointment from Freddy Goon's tender fists.
There's no cock anointing going on
in the security detail of this podcast.
Well, then, what a waste of time.
I have in my hand a bag
containing the bespoke Price of Shite selection.
And who sent it in this week, Paul?
I believe it was our good friend mark honeyborn
not a real friend now price of shite answers no cheating you can see this is sealed yes they are
sealed when it was in my possession i also obviously did not peek it was impossible to
it was sealed with a loving kiss so when i own you we will all know it was my betwings and my betwings were earned.
And I earned the betwings alone.
I alone earned the betwings.
Right.
I'm losing it.
I'm losing it.
Right.
Here are the answers.
Now, with you, Paul, Mr. Gannon, sir.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
This is me, Dickie Boy E-Boy, asking you.
Dickie Boy E-Boy, asking you... Dickie Boy E-Boy.
It doesn't work.
It just doesn't.
Well, I'll be the judge of that.
It's my name.
All right, Dickie Boy E-Boy here. No, you won't be.
I'm going to tell you right now, it's a ball bag name.
Who are you talking to, Paul?
You.
Who else am I talking to?
No, but who?
Because there's a lot of people here, so...
There's no one.
You have to say their name, mate.
If you want to know which of the people here you want to talk to,
what's their name?
I'm not conducting the rest of this podcast like a fucking seance
where I'm calling out to people in an empty room.
I wish you would.
Eli, are you there?
Come through the void.
There is no Eli. There is only Dickie Boy E-Boy now.
Now, I believe he sent a letter with a few parameters of the rules of the game.
Okay, I think I've found that here.
So have a quick scan of that. I think it's towards the bottom.
I've got it. Okay, you ready?
I am.
Hello again, Eli and Paul.
Hello.
Hello. Got another box of and Paul. Hello. Hello.
Got another box of segments here for your perusal.
One of the benefits to having a girlfriend... Fuck off, mate.
Rubbing it in.
What's all this?
Oh, no.
One of the benefits of having a girlfriend who runs a charity shop
is that I have to have a nose.
I get to have a nose.
No, you do have to have a nose for most things.
Yeah, you do.
He gets to have a nose, which is nice, I guess. He happens to have a nose no you do have to have a nose for most things yeah you do he gets to have a nose
which is nice
I guess
he happens to have a nose
no he gets to have one
I think they get
they've got a nose section
in the charity shop
his girlfriend steals
a nose for him
Eli if there was any
if there was any
noses on a shelf
would you pick one
yeah
of madness and then I'd start a bogey collection in a jar marked Todd Bucket on a shelf. Would you pick one? Yeah. Of madness.
And then I'd start a bogey collection
in a jar marked Chod Bucket.
Chod. Chods.
Chods number one. Chods number two.
No. Chod
offerings. Chod chunky
chod fodder.
Chodder.
Right. He gets to have a nose. This is what he's
saying. He gets to have a nose of what they get in. He gets to have a nose. This is what he's saying. He gets to have a nose of what they get in.
He gets to have a nose, Paul, of what they get in.
So I've made the suitable donation and grabbed some tat for you.
He's making a donation still.
He's not ripping it.
He's not getting special pickings.
He's not going, love, get me the nice stuff, you know.
Now that you've got a job at RSPCA, get us some nice stuff, yeah?
Grease the wheel, love.
Let me in.
Let me sneak in the back.
I'm the type of guy who defrauds charities, yeah.
Is that what you do, Mark?
You come out at night when people have left bin bags
in front of charity shop windows and doors,
and he goes and has a rummage,
and then he blames it on the foxes.
Dirty Mark.
He's made the suitable donation and he's
grabbed some tap for us paul we are the beneficiaries here because we have a lovely bespoke
price oh de shite oh and i'm gonna be a rummaging and scrummaging around in it and pulling out an
item very soon okay so just as soon as we get to the end of the letter fucking read it okay here
we go i'm just gonna skip to the price of sight letter. Fucking read it. Okay, here we go. I'm just going to skip to the Price of Shite list.
Yes, please do.
Oh, here's the list.
I've got a list.
So should we go through them in the list that he's said?
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
But I think he says something about the prices just after the list.
Have a quick look at that.
Yeah, I've got that.
Do you want to get that information now?
Yeah, read that out because I think it sets some parameters.
Can I just ask you, Mr. Gannon?
Can I ask you?
Dickie Boy Eli coming right at you.
I'm not doing the Dickie Boy Eli thing.
I'm just not.
Dickie Boy E-Boy.
Dickie Boy E-Boy says, have you got pen and paper?
I want to see the pen and paper, and I want to see our names.
I don't have pen and paper.
Listen, I went through.
Give me a second.
I'll get some.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, I went through.
So all that oil in, all the chains and the oil in.
I've got a pen and paper, all right?
Now write our names.
I'm doing it now.
Let me see it.
Oh, this pen ain't working.
Oh, for flipping, flip's sake, flippy.
Oh, it was working for a second and now it's not.
Give it a good squiffing too.
I'm giving it a good squiffing.
Right.
He's off again.
He wouldn't even...
I prepare.
I was on a...
I prepared.
I had to be put in an Iron Maiden overnight with oils.
Stop vamping.
You're not good at it.
Right.
I've got a piece of paper.
Look, see?
That's wrong.
You've written my name wrong.
I haven't. E-L-I is how. I've got it written down. You've written my name wrong. I haven't.
E-L-I is how you spell it, right?
No, you spell it D-I-C-K-Y-B-O-I-E-B-O-Y.
All right.
Try it again.
Is that how you spell it?
Fuck you.
I'm not...
Listen, I won't play.
And I could have cheated.
I had to go through a serious regime with Freddie Goon, Fuck you. I'm not... Listen, I won't play. And I could have cheated.
I had to go through a serious regime with Freddie Goon,
tying me up,
oiling me off,
putting me in an Iron Maiden,
and spiking me with a big pole.
For you, he's writing something else funny.
Are you ready for your first item?
Is this it now?
Dickie Boy, Eli Dick Boy.
Yes!
That's what I like it.
Right, got it. So it's Paul versus Dickie Boy, Eli dick boy. Yes. That's more like it. Right, got it.
So it's Paul versus Dickie boy, Eli dick boy.
Now, there will be per twings awarded in the manner which Paul summarised at the top of the segment.
And it will be standard rules in every way plus the three per twing bonus.
Yes?
Excellent.
For the order.
Okay.
Now, here is the information.
Here's the background.
Here's the little lowdown on the sort of realm we're working within the framework,
the pricing framework we are trying to place the shite within.
We need to hang the shite in the conceptual pricing framework,
which I'm about to say to you now, Paul.
No item.
No item.
No item.
No item was more than £2.
Right. Only £1.50. item no item no item was more than two pounds right only one pounds and 50ps so it's either going to be 50p one pound one pound 52 pound well he seems to be suggesting every item is either a
pound or 50p but it could be one pound 50 or two pounds because he said oh yeah any more than yeah
yeah okay so it could be 50p one pound one, £1.50 or £2. That's the whole range of prices we're working with.
It's refreshing.
It's a refreshing...
But also, does that mean two items might be a pound the same?
Prices included separately.
So, yes.
Okay, here we go then.
What's the first item?
No, no, no.
There is more conceptual framework and world building
for the pricing scale and structure which we'll be working.
Go on.
It came to £7.50.
That's important info. Altogether. Yes.
And it came from the RSPCA shop in Hereford. Right. Alright.
Are you ready? Gladiators ready
for the first item? Yeah.
Gladiators
ready.
I'm having a little scrummage.
I've located the first item right what's the first item show
it to the camera for me it's mustache straws oh god what's that well you've got some straws
and then you have these plastic disc mustache things which we've have little hooks so they
hook on the straw right and when you raise the straw to your mouth, it appears that you have a moustache.
That's very witty, isn't it?
So they're just separate straws,
blue, normal blue straws.
There are five of them, Paul.
Five novelty moustache things.
Do you want to know what these moustaches are?
Because it will affect the price of this shite.
This is proper shite.
Novelty shop crap
filling up the world
with shit that no one
needs or ever wanted.
It's textbook
charity shop fodder.
Several thousand years
in a landfill
sticking into a rat's arse
in the future.
Do you know what I mean?
Some rat
will have one at the end
of one of these
up its arse
in the year 3000
and we're going
ahhh
ahhh
The little computer Wally
will be folding them up
into tiny cubes.
I prefer to think of a rat
with it up its arse.
Right.
Of course you would
because that's what you like,
isn't it?
You like animals,
arses and discomfort.
Right.
Are you ready
for the first type of moustache?
Yes.
The American Standard.
What's that mean?
It's the default moustache
for the United States of America.
It's not too thick nor too short. Too thin thin why did i say short when there wasn't the word that was
there i know why and it's psychological fuck you no i'm happy with my height and the size of my
knob you shouldn't be to either of those things it cuts a swathe i'd let me tell you that sonny
jim no it doesn't it cuts a fucking swathe like a scythe doesn't it cuts a swathe. Let me tell you that, Sonny Jim. No, it doesn't.
It cuts a fucking swathe like a scythe.
It doesn't.
It cuts a swathe through the chaff.
A garden-variety earthworm nodding its head in the breeze
has more of the swathe than your gangly, sad windsock of a disused penis.
It's gangly?
Yeah.
It's not too thick, not too thin.
This is the American Standard moustache.
Yeah.
Centrally located and moderately groomed,
the American Standard is often seen on Highway Patrolmen and Pawn Stars.
Mmm.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha.
I hope you need a very strong liquor to be in the drinks
that you are attaching these straws to, to make it all right,
to make things okay.
To make it funny.
You know, meths or something.
Marketing humour is my favourite kind of of humor you also have the devil notable for the sinister upward turn at the
tips that's the bits that will go into a future rat's arsehole the devil is the very emblem of
evil the devil tells people you're not here looking for trouble trouble is here looking for you
the handlebar dignified sophisticated refined and
above all else menacing the more mere presence of the handlebar automatically makes you a card
carrying member of the league of evil fuck off let's put some jokes in put some fucking jokes in
you know i mean also i hate the way that it's like it's saying that mustaches are something some
some kind of exotic almost thing.
Do you know what I mean?
Well, no.
What bugs me is that it's suggesting that the type of moustache has some kind of psychological impact on the person you are.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, let's look at you.
You have a beard and a moustache,
but I don't look at you and look at that beard
and think anything other than botherer.
You're one of life's botherers.
What do you mean I'm one of life's botherers? You go around and you bother people. You're than botherer. You're one of life's botherers. What do you mean I'm one of life's botherers?
You go around and you bother people.
You're a botherer.
No, I don't.
But that's just what I see looking at your beard.
It's not what you're really like, is it?
When I look at your beard and moustache,
I don't think, oh, shady character
I would not like to see in a pub.
But that's not really you, is it?
That's not really you, is it?
No.
Even though you look like
randy santa you're not though are you i'm dickie boy e-boy yeah you're dickie boy e-boy the
botherer right the next type of mustache is the chevron traditional symbol of sex and confidence
the chevron wearer is lean serious and absolutely incapable of putting up with bull fuck off
marketing people.
I've had right enough of you.
And then lastly, the horseshoe,
which is another post-apocalyptic rat-ass-bothering one
with long, pointy ends.
Right.
The U-shaped track of hair.
The horseshoe says a million different things
in a million different languages,
and all of them are,
I'm going to get this place on fire,
set this place on fire.
The horseshoe is the single... Oh, place on fire the horseshoe is the single
oh fuck off the horseshoe is the staple of convicts bikers and general badasses no i don't buy that
this is the worst item i've ever seen and i wish i never knew it existed it's pure bum toys for
hyper intelligent rats today's tat is tomorrow's rat bum toy.
Now, Paul, I am going to need,
it is traditional at this point in the proceedings,
for me to ask you...
A price.
Well, I'll take the first guess,
and then you can take the first guess on the next item.
I'm going to go ahead and say that that is £1 on the nose.
What say you, Mr. Silverman?
I'm going to undercut you. Yeah?
And I'm going to guess one pound fifty...
Fifty P. Fifty P.
You don't know how to undercut. I'm going to undercut you
by adding fifty P
on top of your price. Listen,
I took enough of that shit from you just
now, calling me a fucking Randy Santa
botherer. You're right. I should have called
you a misguided cult
leader are any cult leaders not misguided though i mean you know they they've got some some would
are cynically self-motivated by a power ego in the id that's still misguided they're misguided
by their own by their own demented desires and and delusion does that make you anyone different
than a confident young businessman up and coming on the career ladder?
Are they misled?
That's the question I'm asking you.
Yes.
So anyone who wants to be successful, in your mind,
is nefarious in some way.
This is an original Bluebell Aerobee.
Right.
Are you ready?
Next item.
Next item on the list.
Yeah.
Musical tune.
Musical tune. What does Musical tune. Musical tune.
What does that mean?
Musical tune chips.
That's it.
Ah, got it, got it, got it.
Now, this is interesting.
Musical tunes, yes.
There'll be pictures of these items on our website, thecheapshow.co.uk.
Aha.
Now, I've worked out what this is, Paul.
This is one of those musical cards, but it's just the musical bit.
So you make your own musical cards
because you've got the little,
the chips,
they're little computer chips.
Right.
So instead of buying a card
that you open and goes,
na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
this time you can just
record onto it?
Yeah.
How do you record onto it?
That's what I don't get.
So you get a little speaker,
a little microchip,
a little bit of sticky tape
and what?
Oh no, there's music,
there's music already on these. And what, you get to pick speaker, a little microchip, a little bit of sticky tape and what? Oh, no, there's music already on these.
And what, you get to pick your favourite?
Yeah, so shall I try one?
Yeah, why not?
Okay, so I take... I bet it sounds absolutely piercing.
Right, let's try one.
I'll put it... I'll stick it on the moustache thing.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to mod the moustache card.
All right, now, what do I do?
I don't know. You've got the whole thing in your hand i've
broken one oh that's fucked it god they're all falling off oh they're fucked they're fucked mate
what do i do press what how do i activate it i don't know right peel off protective paper
yeah on the back of the musical choose device to expose adhesive all right done that align the
notches on the musical choose device to the fold on the greeting card.
Press in place.
Oh, I've got to align the notches, don't I?
Yeah, because you've got to attach it to something so when it opens, it pulls the cord.
Oh, here we go.
I've done it.
I've got it going.
You ready?
You ready?
Here we go.
It's very quiet.
I can hear it now.
You ready for the other one? Try again.
That one doesn't work.
Right.
Right, last one.
Right, last one.
God, these are shit.
Wasn't that the theme
from love story
or something
it was like
na na na
na na na na na na na na
na na na na na na na
yeah this one
doesn't work either
oh there we go
yeah it is that tune
let's just do this for the rest of the show no let's not use this for the rest of the
show i'm just i'm mesmerized don't take my little chip away right i want to guess the price so we
don't have to listen to that anymore i can't make it stop make them stop
i made it stop good no it's it hasn't stopped it can't make it under a pillow right right how much
do you think it cost one pound fifty one pound fifty says mr silverman oh no no i'll go for two
pounds for those two pounds sorry two pounds is what i've written down i'm gonna go for one pound
fifty terrible what terrible things.
It is a terrible, terrible
thing, isn't it? Terrible thing.
It won't shut up either.
It's playing in my dreams.
Right. Next item.
Number three. You've recorded those,
have you? Yes.
The third item, Paul,
is a notice board peg.
I swear, can you hear it?
It's still fucking going.
I can't hear it.
It's driving me mad, you know, when it's in the corner of your ear.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's that one.
Fuck you.
Oh, right.
That's putting into your fucking catawalling.
This is a bit more likeable.
It's got a robust feel.
I'm showing you the third item now, Paul.
It's a little wooden peg for a notice board.
But how do you peg it on a notice board?
Simple, effective.
It won't shut up.
The thing won't shut up.
Fucking. effective. It won't shut up. The thing won't shut up. Fucking
fuck.
Once you start
them, they never stop. They're not...
They're just disguised as little chips
that you put in cards. In fact, they're...
Well, they have to turn off somehow because you put them
when you close the card. Is it like light sets them off?
No, it's a little hinge. I've broken the hinge to get
them going and now they're permanently open.
A bit like your mum's legs
how fucking dare you
you dirty naughty
I'm sorry Mrs Galen
continually on this podcast
attack my dear mother's good name
if you're not attacking her
if you're not being sexually suggestive towards my mother,
you're also getting off on the suggestion
that she likes to put big vegetables in ovens.
There's nothing sexual about that.
It's an agreement that I come to with some people's mums
about my vegetable in oven needs.
That peg's 50p. I'm moving on.
I think I'll stick with you there, Paul, and say 50.
50p. All right.
Right, you ready for your next item?
No, there's another six or seven.
Oh, no.
No, there's only one or two.
Tops.
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
Stop counting things that aren't relevant to this.
21, 22, 23.
Hang on.
Hang on, Paul.
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29!
Right, what's your fucking item?
Right, where is it? Where's the paper?
This segment is already 33 minutes longer than I expected,
and this segment's 33 minutes.
Put on your joy specs, yeah?
Have a little laugh. Have a little laugh
with me. Come on then.
The words, I'm looking at these words again.
It says stoned rat. Oh, it's a
rat. Okay. I think he had a spelling
mistake situation go on. He didn't spell
check his work. It's a stoned rat.
It does look like a little, it's a little toy
rat. A little fabric rat.
Very cute. And he has a resemblance to
the 80s. He's lost an arm
as well. He's got string arms.
He's lost one of his stringy arms.
Well, maybe one of them wasn't there.
Right. I've just had a scenario.
Paul, this rat... Yes.
Yeah? You're going to end up fucking this.
I fucking knew it. The minute
I gave it to you, the next destination
will be Eli's Cock End
Central. Final destination, Eli's Cock End.
Oh, where are we going today, darling?
Oh, we're going to Eli Village.
We're going to a little place there called Little Dick on the Balls.
I have a fucking miserable time as I'm rutted up against Eli's dirty, hairy ball mound fest of genitalia
that hasn't been washed since Princess Di's wedding.
Princess Diana's wedding?
Anyway, this rat's got one arm,
so I'm going to invite it to my farm
where I've got the old blind sheep who likes a finger in,
and he'll stick that in,
and he'll know that the rat only has one arm,
and he'll go, both! Both!
Wow, this is getting better, Eli.
Yeah, see? Callback. Right, now. Two pound for that, I. Yeah, see?
Callback.
Right, now.
£2 for that, I'm saying.
Really?
You're going the high end, yeah?
Yeah.
That's a deluxe cat toy, that.
It is a cat toy, isn't it?
And it does have a resemblance to Roland Ratt, we were saying.
The 80s TV host.
Do your Roland Ratt impression.
Go on.
Ah, ratty.
Ah. No, don't do teen yeti how did rolling around set
that's it essex kind of boy but with blakey crossovers from on the buses
you're gonna go fuck a sheep with my hand. Stop. Okay, stop. Last week was sticking things up your arse.
This week is your sheep violation obsession.
One finger.
That's all the sheep get.
No, stop talking about sheep molestation.
The rat agrees with me.
One finger's enough for my sheep.
Right, so, Paul, can I ask, in the name of gentlemanly sport and amusement,
you've said £2 for the rat, yeah?
Yeah.
The stoned rat.
Now, I want you to tell me what your whole column adds up to.
Well, we've got one more item, haven't we?
Because I know it's £7.50 altogether for the thing.
Yes.
I've got £5, so already I'm feeling some of these prices are off.
I'm going to go for £1.50.
£1.50.
So, at the moment, your overall to go for £1.50. £1.50.
So at the moment, your overall price comes to £4.50.
Last item, Paul.
Yeah.
This is quite a nice item.
This is probably my favourite of the lot.
It is some RSPCA branded character rubbers.
And they are all animals.
No sheep.
There's no sheep, which is a shame.
That's probably for the best.
Now, you've got a piggy.
A piggy wig.
Doggy.
Mr. Waffles.
Catty.
Mr. Cat Meow.
And Badger.
Colonel Badger.
Badger is there, but Badger is doing his own thing,
because if Badger is feral, all of these other animals are domesticated.
True.
Now, I'm going to say £2, and it's purely for strategic reasons because i need
to get it up to near 750 you said 150 by the way oh for that yeah sorry two pounds yeah i'm gonna
say two pounds as well okay it means i think we're very wrong eli it is time to reveal in one of the
most protracted games of the price of shite we've ever played the final scores eli reveal the prices
okay i will do that paul i'm happy to do that, but I do need to
retrieve them because they are in the security
detail. They are. And
I've been, you know, I don't even
know where they are exactly because I couldn't,
I've been chained down, I've been oiled
regularly, and I smell
of oranges now, but
I'm going to do the special tap.
They're going to open the locks and then
he'll come through. Yeah, go for it, go for it. He'll're gonna open the locks and then he will come yeah go for it go
he'll come through yeah and then uh yeah uh yeah okay so just just wait just wait a second yeah
freddie yeah all right later i promise freddie come on. Downstairs. Yes, downstairs.
Now.
Okay.
Thank you.
Downstairs.
Very hard.
Yes.
Okay.
Now, Paul, I've retrieved the answers. You've finished your little play for today, have you?
I've retrieved the answers now, Paul.
Here we go.
They are clean as a whistle.
And there is the seal.
You can seal the seal.
Yeah.
Break the seal now, Mr. Silverman. I'm breaking the seal. You can seal the seal. Yeah, break the seal now, Mr. Silverman.
I'm breaking the seal.
Hear that?
Oh, satisfying.
That's the ripping sound of the tape.
First item.
I said £1.
Eli said 50p.
The actual price was?
£1.50.
Ah!
Oh, we're both out.
Double out.
What was that again?
That was the straws.
Mustache straws. Oh, God. £ out. Double out. What was that again? That was the straws.
Mustache straws.
Oh, God.
150 as well.
Next item was the musical horror nightmare of madness.
That will never stop.
You said two pound.
I said one pound 50.
And the price I have on the piece of paper here, Paul, is two pounds.
Between, between for me.
Only for me.
Oh, he gets it.
Between, between.
Oh, the nusslage.
That will be coming.
Ooh.
Right.
All right, come on.
Next item, number three, the clothes peg.
The peg.
We both fed 50p.
We were both out.
It's £1.
Oh, fucking hell.
The next item, the stoned rat.
Stoned rat.
I said £2.
You said £1.50.
The stoned rat was £1.50.
Number two, twing!
Fucking hell!
P-twing-a-twing-twing!
A-ming-a-twing-twing-a-twing!
And finally, the RSPCA erasers, we both said two pound.
They were one pound and fifty pence.
Oh, mate.
So, at the end of that...
At the end of this game of Price of Shite what are the between counts now paul please
paul gannon did not get a single between in the whole session but eli races ahead with four
betwings from a possible 10 it's been a good day paul i tried to get the betwings you know i was
out there i just tried to guess the the answers because what that's what this game's all about
is guessing the answers so i'll try and do, try and concentrate on that and try and get it as close as I possibly can.
And I'd just like to say thank you.
Thank you for Freddie Goon for guarding them.
There's no question of any kind of impropriety
or me getting spoffed off by a huge hulking gangster
with his big gleaming teeth and his lovely linen trousers.
Well, ladies and gentlemen,
Eli Silverman, your prize tonight
is your very own sheep
with a special fist available size arse on
for your own fun and games.
While you won't be going home
with just one or two fingers,
tonight you're taking home
a whole fist's worth of sheep,
Mr. Silverman.
Oh, fuck this for a laugh.
Jesus Christ.
And we're back from the sound effect.
It's time for a brand new bit of the show we've conceived here.
Right here for you.
No, we're not doing that.
We're not doing that segment.
No, it's still, it's a new toy.
Mate, oh dear, you rushed straight in all blustery all full of confidence oh don't get me wrong i like to see it but how about i
give it a no you went listen i think i can nail this intro to this section right in nail it right
in but you don't now poor you don't know what this segment is i don't know
exactly what it is i just need another go please give me one more chance to shine built for success
all right i'll put the sound effect in again now and you can just you know do it from there okay
sound effect please right enjoyed the sound effect good Now it's time for a freewheeling fantastic another fucking episode.
Segment of...
There we go. There we go.
The wheels came off at the first corner.
You and I, Paul, we both love Tomy toys here on this podcast.
Tomy this, Tomy that. We love it.
We love them physically.
And I refuse to do the rest of this segment in the tone of a football commentator.
It's what you're apparently doing.
It's the only way I want to talk.
I don't want to talk to someone pretending they're doing grandstands right now.
Right, this just in, Paul.
Is it two fingers up a sheep's ass?
I'd forgotten about that.
Totally.
Right, we've got this'd forgotten about that. Totally. Right.
We've got this Tomy toy, Paul.
Yes.
So a bit of a backstory then.
Over the last year or so on Cheap Show,
we've discovered and fell in love with a number of Tomy items.
Tomy, Japanese toy company,
but they had a thing going on in the 70s and 80s
where they made what we like to call physical platform games,
like elaborate ball bearing, mechan maze labyrinth booby trap salt course type plastic toys there's one called ah and yeah
and i've got wow wow over there yeah and we've got those pocket ears which were like pocket little
toys poker version of the pocket ears i also my favorite tomy discovery paul were the eggs uh
which were the tomy The Tomy eggs?
For very young children and are just sort of toys,
but are beautifully conceived, designed,
and just a lovely toy.
Lovely, lovely toy.
And it's the aesthetic that you like, isn't it?
Yes, absolutely.
And I also have the Noodle Vehicle,
which is another Tomy.
Tomy are...
Oh, it was as well.
Tomy are great.
They have a similar sort of level of world building and creativity to Nintendo, I'd say.
But they just, it's not as focused, obviously.
No.
To me, I thought you were going to say like Fisher-Price.
They have a similar kind of ethos to Fisher-Price.
That's right.
Dependable toys, well made.
Yes, but Nintendo did used to make toys, didn't they?
And they had a sort of Tomy feel to them, the Nintendo toys as well, didn't they, wouldn't you say?
When they made toys,
yes,
they thought to some extent
outside the box,
which is why you had
the grabber
and the love tester
and all those weird things
that eventually led
to the Game & Watch,
you know,
and then Nintendo changed
from that point on.
Did Tomy ever venture
into pure electronics
or sort of
computer game territory?
I mean,
they did do a lot of
LED and LCD games.
A la Game & Watch, like Game & Watch type things.
Yeah, but more like table-based stuff.
I want to say there was a game they did called Kong Man,
or no, Cave Man, which was a little tabletop LED game.
I remember my friend had that.
I've played that.
Yeah.
That was good.
I don't want to do the research because, you know, whatever,
but I do believe they strayed once or twice.
So they have a lot of stuff that is original that they do,
but they also seem to be willing to try and sort of jump on the back
of other successful brands and stuff, don't they?
To some extent.
But I think they're just primarily a young –
they make toys for younger children.
And I think it's strange in many respects,
like the demand for those kind of toys like WoW and R isn't there anymore.
They just don't make those kind of toys now.
No, but they appeal to me.
Yeah, I remember in the 90s, and we haven't touched on these yet,
but they did the water puzzle tower and the water puzzle games,
which were like you filled them with water and they had a little pump button.
And you had to pump, like for instance in the famous example,
you had to pump a bunch of ghosts into Pac-Man's mouth.
Yes, I've played that game as well.
Those were great, but you do get extremely cheap versions of those knocking around these days, don't you?
You do.
But they're not by Tomy.
I think we've even had one or two on the show.
The Tomy ones are always going to be, you know, at least a good standard of build and stuff.
Now, this Tomy toy is a vintage one, and it was sent to us by Yvenne, the amazing, talented Yvenne,
who, if you want
to buy the official magazine that she's made it is uh at cheap mag dot shop and you can get physical
editions of those amazingly well put together magazines and we highly recommend you do and if
you're a patron you get them anyways digital downloads that's exciting uh so this is was sent
to us and she also sent me the Tomy vehicle, noodle vehicle
she did didn't she
I love this item as well and is it in the
Pocketeers range because the size is exactly
like a Pocketeer
it is the same size but I don't think it is
I'm going to examine the back
tell everyone what you've got there Mr Silverman
it is a Tomy Pocket Game
maybe that's the line, Pocket Game
rather than Pocketeers.
And it's called, it has a lovely illustrated panel on it,
and it's called Sentence Nonsense.
Sentence Nonsense.
And it's exactly what it says on the tin, Paul.
It is a nonsense sentence generator machine.
And how does it do that?
It has a lot of tiles in the covered section at the back.
You shake it all around, and those tiles randomise.
They randomise, Paul.
And there's a slit.
There's a slit running.
There's five slits all in a row.
And there's five slits all in a row.
And each slit opens into a little viewing chamber
where the tile will be selected into when I've randomised it.
You can hear it shaking around there.
It's got a lovely little rattle, lovely weight to it.
And I was saying, they kind of slide out like...
Tiles.
The prices used to come up on an old till, an old cash register.
So it's no electronics, it's purely mechanical,
and it's a five-word sentence.
And the tiles are also designed beautifully with different fonts for the different words and little illustrations, little diagrammatic illustrations on there as well.
So basically, it's like those story cubes we've used, but instead they're tiles that you shake and slide out into a pattern that you make into a story.
And it's got a lovely little Tomy trademark on the back and a date. Made in
Hong Kong and
from 1975, the year of my birth.
Oh, it's as old as you!
But it was interesting that Tony were making pocket
sized toys for kids
way back when. They're like mobile phone sized
sort of thing, aren't they? Like deck of cards.
And my theory now is I think all
the Pocketeers are the ones that use magnets
and ball bearings.
Or springs.
Yes.
But we are going to play a little game with this object, aren't we, Paul?
Because this sentence nonsense generator, Tommy Pocket Game, it makes sentences.
And we are creatives.
We are professional creatives.
We are.
And this is what we do.
We're the weavers of dreams.
We're the...
We build tapestries of imagination.
Welcome to my memory castle.
Yeah.
Snuffle at the truffle house.
That was very poor.
That was very poor.
It was very poor.
Snuffle my bollocks.
My bollocks are emanating the waft of pure creative joy.
Yes, I am bulbous with creative juices and I wish to squeeze them out through the whims of my mind
in order to create a cross-stitch image of beautiful story imagery.
Do you know what, Paul? I wish this phone had like a grill on it and the air went through
so you could suck up my bollock oil, the stench of my bollock oil.
One of the benefits of not having to have been doing the podcast in the house of pickles is that i am free of the
various and varied stenches that emanate from your room one day it could be a salty smell the next
day it's a really funky beefy hearty gut gut gutty i don't know gutless i don't know chunky fecal smell it's a chunky fecal smell
and then some days it's a bitter acrid stingy lemon piss kind of thing i have to keep the
miasma going here it's a very delicately balanced ecosystem as we know you know what scribbles
scribbles weren't meant to live in bedrooms they were meant to live on dung heaps.
So what you're saying is your bedroom's like SeaWorld.
You have captive creatures in that are too big for the space you live in,
and they suffer.
They're not mine.
It's the old man of the mountain.
Don't introduce that character.
It's rubbish.
What character?
And every time you bring up the old man of the mountain character,
I'm just going to step on it.
I'm just going to ruin it and kill it dead.
Why?
Because it goes nowhere.
We've already got Teen Yeti. No,
he is Teen Yeti. That's what I call him
now. How can Teen Yeti
be the old
man of the mountain? And a man.
He started in the 80s. He was a teen
then, but now he's, you know. So what, you're saying
he uses the name like New Kids on the Block
shouldn't because they're no longer new
or kids or near a block. Exactly.
It's his stage name but
he's actually well there's speculation but he's in his sort of late 50s he's been hiding his age
for this time that's why i call him the old man in the mountain he's just peering out at me from
out grot pants well this is a revelation sometimes you hear a bit of music coming i think he's
working on something very good well we don't know about that you know because he's gonna have to
address to his fans he's gonna have to address the whole thing that happened on the train.
Well, he came off social media, didn't he?
And he came off Facebook.
Yeah.
Well, you know, Yeti book.
And he just looks out his window sometimes.
And when you look up there, his face goes away.
Spooky.
And you think, what the fuck is he up to in there?
In the lab.
Anyway, he feeds the scribbles.
He still has to feed the scribbles.
So, you know, the skiddies get delivered and it's as the smell gets even worse when the skiddy gets
delivered it's tuesday skids delivery uh day and uh he does appear he appears at the garage
in a bathing gown usually so i'm just gonna do the uh international recognizable symbol for wrap it
up we'll get move on all right move on right i'm ready'll move on. All right? We'll move on.
Right, right.
I'm ready to move on.
So how about you generate a sentence and I'll do a story, all right?
We'll do story time.
No, but what?
Do we have to include the sentence in the story?
No, we have to use each symbol as part of the story.
No, see, that's not going to work.
I didn't want to bring this up actually whilst we were recording, Paul,
but it's not going to work like story dice because you'll notice this is sentence nonsense this isn't story dice generator well then how about the
sentence is the title of the story you will tell okay sure give us give us a sample shake see what
we come up with okay i'll give it this is good we'll give a couple of samples just to see what
we're dealing with here yeah yeah okay the. Okay, the first sentence, sample sentence,
and you won't be asked to be making a story about this one.
This is just a test sentence.
The excited electric clown ran sideways.
Right.
You see, that's a whole sentence.
It's not elements of a story.
No, but maybe it's the starting point of a story or the title.
Okay, we'll try again just to get... Trying to get them of a story or the title. Okay.
We'll try again just to get... Trying to get them to come out of the slit.
Come out of the slit.
You ready?
Yeah.
The round candy girl screamed upside down.
Right.
Candy girl.
Let me write this down.
What was it?
The what?
Round.
The round...
Candy.
Candy girl.
Screamed.
Screamed.reamed Upside down
Alright, okay, here we go
Is it you?
I'll start off with this, here we go
I have to listen to this, do I?
Yeah, and you have to judge me on how well I incorporate this sentence into the story I tell
Okay, well, just to remind you, I have the sentence here
I have it here, I've written it down
The round candy girl screamed upside down
Yeah, just to be sure
I've got it, I've written it down. The round candy girl screamed upside down. Yeah, just to be sure. I've got it. I've written it down
brother. Here we go.
Is there a timer? No, I'll just keep
it short. Just do like
two minutes tops. Just a short story.
Here we go. It better be interesting.
Let's find out. Alright. And so the story
begins. Tingle, tingle,
tingle, tingle, tingle.
One day, I woke up in my lovely, cosy bed in the dingly Ganondale.
Oh, fuck off. I looked up at the sky and I saw Mr. Sun shining down on me.
Hello, Mr. Sun, I said.
And Mr. Sun beamed his lovely warm beam all over me facey
kins. So then I
slipped on my jolly wolly
pin pants and skipped
out into the Dingley Dell
Forest. And the Badger
Award! One day, no,
today, the day I'm telling the story, this day
I bumped into
Alan
Rat. And Alan Rat said
Oh yeah, have you heard what's going down
in Candyland? And I was like
Oh no, tell me
Oh there's a terrible to do
You've got to head down there straight away
They're asking for you
Asking for me I said, Alan
And he went, yeah, stop wasting time
So I waited at the bus stop
and got the Jolly Jelly bus all the way down to Candyland.
Where there I saw, oh, a strange commotion.
Everyone was huddled around the big old jelly old tree, old lovely old jelly tree, gummy gum, yum yum.
And I moved up and everyone was going, oh, no, see, kids, what's going on?
Loo-lee-la-lee-lay.
Oh, sorry.
up and everyone's going, oh, no,
see, kids, what's going on?
Loo-lee-la-lee-lay. What's up?
Paul, can I just ask you?
No, Paul, Paul. I'm getting to it.
I'm getting to it.
So you're going to say the sentence.
I'm getting to it. You're ruining my flow.
So I push through the crowd
of people from Candyland
and there, oh,
I saw a strange sight indeed.
What I could make out was a little candy girl hanging upside down from her knickers in a tree,
and the round candy girl screamed upside down,
Get me down from this tree!
And I went, oh, I'll help.
And so I took out my massive machete
and I hacked the tree down until it collapsed
and she could roll off safely onto the ground.
And everyone went, oh, Paul,
it's so good that you carry a big machete around with you.
And I went, yes, I do.
And everyone made me tea
and I went home,
and I went to sleep,
and that's the end of my lovely, jolly,
num-num-num, gummy-gummy, yum-yum story
for lovely lady plops
and diddly-dinky-dong-dongs.
There you go.
Don't, don't.
The end.
It was pretty good, that.
Bravo.
Pretty good, that.
Bravo.
Paul?
Yeah?
Don't, one, one thing I noticed,
you tried to put in one of your smash hits,
Madame Lady Plops, just to say it at the end.
It's a little bit of an Easter egg.
It's not an Easter egg,
it's remember that thing I did that was actually good and that wasn't this thing that
i'm finishing now don't you judge me also the girl was round incidentally you just said round girl
it was no there was nothing about her roundness that impacted the story at all or was it in any
way she was round yeah but that's that's a cop-out, okay? And also, I didn't like that. And also, I didn't like...
It's very, I don't know, almost problematic.
She's hanging by her knickers.
She fell out of a tree.
How old is this girl?
She's trying to get a candy apple down,
and she fell from a tree.
So she's...
But she's getting wedgied, like,
to a sort of surgical degree by her knickers.
No, she's hanging upside down from a tree by her knickers,
and everyone can see her bum.
Yeah, but what's...
So all her weight is getting supported in the knickers.
It must be riding right up there.
No, she's upside down, remember?
Hanging from a branch.
And how are the knickers staying on then?
They're quite tight knickers, so they've...
It's just the branch has gone right through the gusset and kind of...
I see.
And kind of just like...
She's kind of just like kebabbed the gusset of her crotch on the branch.
Not nice.
She's hanging upside down.
Not nice.
You know?
Yeah, and you make yourself to be the hero of this.
You could have hurt her.
You're very reckless and dangerous.
A dangerous man with a big machete.
And it just seems to be sort of wish fulfillment
and this sort of kind of penis envy thing running through the whole thing.
Are you ready for my story?
Yes, I'm ready.
Out of 10, what would you give my story?
It wasn't your best effort, Paul.
It really wasn't.
And trying to dress it up with gummy this, wiggly that, wooby woob this.
I thought it was very effective.
You tried to make it twee and wistful by just putting in jelly sound words,
and I did not appreciate it
i'll be doing the opposite i'm going punk rock on this deconstructed punk rock get ready right okay
well then here we go what have you got what's your sentence right give it a good shake it's
like the dice man the silly polka dot clown flew at night to Say again. The what? I want to write this down so I make sure you're not cheating.
The silly polka dot clown.
The silly polka dot clown.
Yeah.
Flew at night.
Flew at night.
All right.
That's the sentence you have to work into your story.
Your story, Mr. Silverman, if you're ready to tell it begins now who am I again
oh mate no
I'm not having every story
that you do begin with some amnesiac
on a beach beginning to
pieces piss poor
imaginatively stunted life
together
oh come on no you are not allowed beginning to pieces, piss poor, imaginatively stunted life together.
Oh, come on.
No, you are not allowed.
I'm just going to say it now.
You're not allowed to begin your story with a blank canvas character.
Okay, I'll start again then, yeah?
Please do.
When I was only small, I had a birthday coming up,
and I would wander around the house.
When is it my birthday?
When is it my birthday?
Why do all your characters ask questions?
Because they're probing the meaning of life for Paul.
Why doesn't he know when his birthday is? Surely he knows what day and date.
I'd had a terrible accident the year before.
Oh, has he got amnesia?
Is that what it is?
Yeah.
You twat.
And I'd had very...
Are you going to keep interrupting the story?
I'm sorry.
When was my birthday?
Oh, I can't recall, I said to myself,
because I'd had amnesia off a head injury the year before.
Oh, but luckily I had a loving family
and my mother would always tell me when it was my birthday.
And she kept it a surprise for me.
She'd always hire some kind of entertainer.
One year it was Spider-Man.
One year it was a balloon person.
One year it was someone who blew those bubbles made of plastic
that smelled of dry cleaning establishments.
And this year she intimated to me that it was going to be the best ever.
So I waited and I waited.
And I made up games to pass the time in my yoga room.
Yoga room!
It's another adventure of Eli,
the upper middle class half-wit.
Right, and then...
But then, suddenly, the night before the big day,
I didn't know it was going to be the big day,
but I did have a premonition in my sleep.
It's so awful.
I had a very peculiar dream.
And in this dream, I was lying on a platform in empty void.
And an empty mask was lowering slowly, slowly, very slowly down onto my face.
This mask was coming down.
And I couldn't make out what it was a mask of because I could only see the inside of it, Paul.
It's a very important fact and then it but then I could see it got very close to my face very going very slowly very slowly and it got very close to my face and I could see all glue all glue on the
inside of the mask and I thought that's going to stick to my face and I will never be able to
remove it I don't know you know I had that dream knowledge that dream knowledge that it was going to be super glue
then I woke up and what do you know it was my birthday oh flashing lights all streamers my
mum came into my room and gave me a lovely breakfast cake oh breakfast cake
because I got cake all day on my birthday back then Paul um and anyway she said we're having a
party just relax it's your day little Eli come out the yoga room and come downstairs and I came
downstairs and there was my surprise party clown there he was he was called Mr Miggins
Mr Miggins the clown and he had polka dots Paul and he had polka
dots and he said oh I've got something for you and he said have you have you sneezed Eli and I said
no I haven't sneezed he says take this anyway and it was a handkerchief that had polka dots on it as
well and he said oh you owe me for that you owe me for that handkerchief now I'm gonna get out my
little book of where I write down what people owe me and who I owe.
And the book, do you know what, Paul?
The book was polka dot.
And I looked in the book and he was writing it with a polka dot pen.
And the book itself was polka dot.
The pages themselves were polka dot.
And I thought, that guy's got a lot of polka dot stuff.
A lot of polka dot stuff, Mr. Miggins the Clown.
But I thought, I'm sick of this. I'm sick of this. I'm getting dizzy. I'm sick of this polka dot stuff. A lot of polka dot stuff, Mr Miggins the Clown. But I thought, I'm sick of this.
I'm getting dizzy.
I'm sick of this polka dot stuff.
I wonder if he's going to entertain me.
Where's the balloons, Mr Miggins?
Where's the little card trick?
Where's the never-ending handkerchief?
Where's the red nose?
Where's the car?
Where's the pies?
Stop asking questions.
Just stop asking questions as a character and as a
storyteller do you know what paul mr miggins delivered he performed well me and all my
little friends little daniel little midji little uh little anna he was performing he performed
very well and we were all very sated with lots of cake and jelly and ready
salted crisps and kit kats and then he left the room and i was very curious to see what he did
when he was you know winding down cooling off from a performance uh mr miggins and i looked around
the corner i was very small and i looked around the corner uh of the door into the kitchen where
he was he was you know he was taking his make-off off.
And I heard a very wet, mucal noise, like a chrysalis breaking.
And then I saw he wasn't a clown at all.
He was some kind of fucking demon, yeah?
And his wings came out and there was a stench of sulphur in the room.
And also, if you spit on your top lip and you raise it up and you have a little, that sort of spitty smell.
There's a spitty smell in the room.
And he turned to me and he went, I fly by night.
You fucking...
Don't get the game.
That's not the sentence.
He flew and I fly.
No, it's not the end yet, Paul.
No, you fucked it.
You've wasted 10 minutes of our time.
When you got to the sentence, you couldn't even remember it.
I wasn't.
I was about to say the sentence.
Can I finish my story, please?
Yes.
So he's got these funny, stinky wings, all mucal, all drippy.
But do you know what, Paul?
Do you know what?
What?
Those mucal, satanic wings were polka dot.
Red and blue.
And green.
So he goes, I fly at night.
And it was dark because I'd been up all day and I was high on cake.
And he flew out the window,
leaving a trail of very bad smells,
too numerous to name here.
But he also, when he was flying,
he said 5G causes COVID,
which is a very stupid, very stupid opinion.
And I thought that silly polka dot clown flew at night.
The silly polka dot clown flew at night, not that silly polka dot flew at night so i'll just
give you a review right now mr so i wrote a few words down here just just out of interest based
on my feelings of the story uh hit me i wrote the word frustrating down all right i wrote the word
aimless repetitive tedious it's a true story Paul. I've got facile written down here.
I've got fecund.
Immature.
I've got a ball sack right here that's ready to slap on your chin.
Mate, that story was awful.
It was boring.
How many?
It went on for ages.
There was no incident.
What do I get?
Out of what?
Ten.
You gave me four.
I'm going to give you two.
That's only because you could barely string a sentence together, you monkey brain fucking cave humping sheep fingerer.
Cave humping? I'd need a lot. I'm King Kong's cum cave fucker.
Cum cave.
That was literally a waste of our time. That might be the biggest waste of time in Cheap Show history.
Do you want another one? The silly pig.
No, I don't.
The tiny green clown sang at once.
I am the clown. I am the green clown. I come from Clownsland. I like balloons. I'm turned on by
balloons. I have a predilection for squeezy, squeezy balloons. Oh, you popped it. Oh, you
popped it. I'm the green clown. Oh, you popped it. Oh, you popped it. I you popped it I'm the green clown Oh you popped it, oh you popped it
I've swapped on my costume
Right, you know what, that's it
We're done with this segment ladies and gentlemen
Let's wrap this episode up
Because I have reached the fucking
Tip of my limit
I'm the green clown
I eat popcorn
I eat popcorn.
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