CheapShow - Ep 21: The Berenstain Bears Conspiracy
Episode Date: May 11, 2016Welcome to CheapShow! Well... What should've been a short and sweet little feature on just how much your old 80s & 90s toys could be worth quickly turns into a messy tangential omni-shambles. El...i and Paul end up talking less about the toys and more about which rock bands became crappy ballad merchants, cheesy crisps and whether we are all living in a alternate dimension simply because people can't figure out if some bears are called Berenstain or Berenstein! It's a nightmare! But don't worry, the CheapShow chaps also play a round of "The Price of Shite" & regale us all with another "Tales from the Dancefloor" It's another episode of the random pop culture economy comedy podcast! Share & Enjoy. Subscribe or Die! You can see pictures and accompanying videos on our website www.thecheapshow.co.uk 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... all that jazz! Subscribe to us on Stitcher, iTunes or most good podcast apps and get fortnightly fun WARNING *Show contains strong language and adult material
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Ladies and gentlemen, here we are in Southampton, in the studio.
Yes, it's Eli Silverman.
Joining me is Paul Gannon.
Cheap Show 21
From the future
Cha-cha-cha-cha
That was a very bold introduction
I liked it
Did you like that?
I did
I want you to talk for the rest of the show in that voice
Okay, I'll have a coffee
Silly bang
Hello, you alright?
Yeah
Another episode in
Episode 21.
Yeah, that's good, isn't it?
We never got this far, even with the Unclickables.
Which was our other...
The show that became Cheap Show when we realised Unclickables was really hard to find online.
Yes, and also sounded a bit like Unclickables.
Yeah.
Which is a bit like Unclickonables, which is a bit like nobody listened to this.
Either way, have you ever seen that film, That Thing You Do?
You know, like, the conceit behind that film.
Is that Efra Noren?
No,
it's Tom Hanks' movie.
It's basically a kind of
American version of
The Beatles' story
and it's very tongue-in-cheek
but the joke behind it is
is that they're a
one-hit wonder band
and so they call themselves
The Wonders
but spelled O-N-E-ders.
One-ders.
Yeah,
Wonders.
See,
but in the film
everyone gets it wrong
because they see it and go
The O-E-N-Ders? You know, and that's kind of what the problem with Unclickable is is you couldn't really does one does yeah one does see but in the film everyone gets it wrong because they see it and go the oen does
you know and that's
kind of what the
problem with
Unclickable is
you couldn't really
spell it
and it's like
join us online
at T-H-E-U-N-Q
anyway so
now we are
Cheap Show
we are Cheap Show
which is a lot easier
a lot more friendly
it's easier and
Cheap Show has come
of age
it has
we're 21 today
yes which means
we can now what
vote?
no
drink in America
we can drink we can drink. We can drink in
America. Yeah, that's nice.
Well, you do get bigger drinks out there. Do you?
In terms of what? Size? Well, there's none
of this sort of like one shot, two shot.
No? Yeah. The bartender likes
the look of you. He'll free pour. And how
did people give you a lot of free pouring?
Oh yeah, I always get free pours, mate.
Because you're a hot bit of fucking rough.
Exactly. Exactly.
Yeah.
Do they have pint glasses in America?
I know it sounds ridiculous.
Because I've been in America and I've drank there.
But I never remember if they serve you like a pint of something.
They will in the...
You've got Irish pubs out there.
Oh, the Irish pubs.
Or the old English-y, yoddy pubby.
Yeah.
In those places where they serve fish and chips.
Oh, yeah.
Then they'll serve you a pint, yeah.
Oh, okay.
But by and large, if you go and get a drink yeah. Then they'll serve you a pint, yeah. Oh, okay.
But by and large, if you go and get a drink in a bar and they pour you a drink, a beer,
it just comes in what?
A glass? A half pint, sort of.
One of those long, thin ones that you'd like.
Yeah, I don't like drinking out of that.
I think it's a waste of fucking time drinking out of that shit.
I won't have it!
I won't have it!
When I get wrecked, I want to get wrecked with a proper glass!
Yeah, but I've found pints are unwieldy.
Because you have one, you have two, you have three, you're fucked.
Do you know what I mean?
I'm fucked on one, to be honest.
Yeah.
But it's more controllable with a can or a bottle.
The problem is, I've noticed when you drink beer out of a can,
it goes flat or the flavour goes quicker in a can.
Is that just me being mad? But things taste staler quicker in a can. I agree. Yeah? That's
one of the problems with canned lagers, yes. And yet when you drink from a bottle, like the Coca
Cola situation, Coke always tastes better out of a bottle. It certainly does. So does good old
fashioned beer. Yes. Lovely, lovely, lovely ale. Lovely, frothy, sassy beer yeah num num num cheap show
sponsoring alcoholism
yeah so I've had
quite a boozy
boozy little weekend
have you
oh have you got a
Tales from the Dance Floor
I have a Tales from the
Dance Floor
floor floor floor
we need to get a
proper jingle for that
although we don't have
any jingles at all yet
so
so as you know
yeah
I do a bit of DJing
club work
yeah
club work and the DJ
superstar DJ
and last night I was in Camden Blues Kitchen Camden which is in London I do a bit of DJing, club work. Yeah. Club work and the DJ suit. Superstar DJ.
And last night I was in Camden, Blues Kitchen Camden.
Which is in London for those who are outside of the country. It's in that London.
In that there London.
And it's swanky.
Is it?
No.
Yeah, it's not.
Anyway, sticky would be the word.
Grotty.
Anyway, I love working there though.
What a shithole. I love working there though and uh what a shithole i love working there please don't fire me so it's coming towards the end of the night uh the last bit up to 3 30 the final
band's been on you're winding up i'm doing the last bit and uh a girl comes up onto the stage
where my dj booth is and comes over i beckon her over yeah and with a finger i do do that with the finger yes
because they always stand at the bottom of the stage and try and make eye contact hello hello
and then they try and sort of mouth a request to you like as if goff yeah as if you're gonna hit
be able to decipher in the dark what someone's saying three meters away you know you beckon her
in i beckon her over yeah like dove above. And she comes over and she goes,
what I first think she says is,
could you speak up, please?
That's what I thought she was saying.
I thought that's what she was saying.
Could you speak up, please?
That's what I thought she was saying.
And I thought, okay, her English isn't great,
so it must be, could you turn it up,
is what she means.
Do you see what I mean?
She doesn't know the word for could you turn the volume up. make it that louder make it louder which i think yeah that could be what
she's saying but that's a bit strange yeah you know i mean because it's loud i mean it's not
very loud in there yeah loud enough put it that way and then i realized she's saying could you
speed it up please oh speed she's asking not for an artist or a song or a genre of music. No. She's asking for the tempo of the music to increase.
So she's not saying, can you put a faster song on with an upbeat tempo?
She's saying, can you make the revolutions of the songs you're playing?
No, she's saying play more faster music.
Oh, she is.
She's not like saying, can you just switch it up?
She's not saying put it this.
Yeah.
But anyway, so I was like, I was, I was ready to like you.
You know, I was ready to like you.
I was ready to think, okay, you had something constructive to say.
Now I fucking hate you.
Immediately I hate you.
And I was like, what?
Make it faster?
That's weird.
I kept saying, that's weird.
That's weird.
And she just looked at me.
And I was like, oh, the speed.
And she was like, yeah. And she kept licking her lips and going, hmm.
She looked like she was on speed.
She might have been on speed. Maybe she was asking for speed. Maybe her English is bad. I was like yeah and she kept licking her lips and going she looked like she was on speed she might have been on speed
maybe she was asking for speed
yeah
maybe her English is bad
I was like what techno
she's like no I like rock
but more fast rock
more fast rock
I'm just like
just go
just go
just fuck off out of my sight love
she kept doing
taking these selfies
oh no
her and her mates
where she'd gurn
you could
I could see her gurning
her face up
yeah
duck face doing the worst duck face and also her putting her neck back Her and her mates, where she'd gurn. I could see her gurning her face up. Yeah. Duck face.
Doing the worst duck face.
And also her putting her neck back at like a 90 degree angle.
So she's basically taking a picture of her head against the floor.
What the fuck?
It's like extreme selfies.
Yeah.
So did she take that and just leave quietly?
Or was it a whole thing?
Yeah, she hung out.
They always do.
When they go, look, this is terrible.
No one's dancing. You just go, no, look, behind you whole thing? Yeah, she hung out. They always do. When they go, look, this is terrible. No one's dancing.
You just go, no, look, behind you,
everyone else in the club is dancing.
You are fucking complaining.
And then she was dancing, yeah.
Obviously, it was fast enough for her after that.
Do you ever think, though, you take the wrong track?
Because I keep saying to you,
your problem is you say no to these people too much.
You should just say yes and get rid of them.
I do do sometimes do that.
Yeah, because I think if you just say yes...
I do do that. Yeah, because i think if you just say yes i do do that yeah but like for instance imagine in the future your your kids come
up to you and say daddy how did you meet mommy you should say she came up to me at a dance club
i was playing some music she said can you play faster and he went you know yes and then you got
dancing yeah i didn't like her i don't like anyone who's that stupid. Wow. But they're also drunk and stuff.
You have to have allowances for that.
Never in my life, Paul, have I been in a club and thought,
I don't like this song.
I'll go and ask for them to change the general tempo of the music.
Do you know what I mean?
No, it's not a call-in radio station.
You know what I mean?
I'm doing a job here, and you're, you know, don't wave your hand.
Yeah, I know, Paul.
The thing is, I thought that Stenson was going to say,
I've never, when I'm working, been drunk.
And I was like, no, that's not true either.
I have been drunk, yes.
You all mostly inebriated come three in the morning.
Yeah, I do.
But I'm, you know, since I started doing that kind of work,
you learn, you learn the hard way.
Not to get wracked.
Yeah, because I used to, when I first started working that place,
you get some free drinks.
I just start drinking as soon as I got there.
Oh, I know.
And then, by three in the morning, when the place shuts, you're not the good kind of drunk.
No, what happens then?
You're the I'm-going-to-have-trouble-getting-home kind of drunk.
Yeah, and you turn into a boozy Beckick play, where there's silence, and obviously you go,
I'm going to vomit.
I'm going to vomit.
Yeah, and then you don't really vomit, but then you hold yourself in a completely stasis, kind
of frozen moment.
And I'm watching and you go, I've got a bump.
And you never do.
And then you eventually do.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
What a terrible drug.
Booze.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't, I mean, I get it.
It's awful.
It makes you feel like awful.
But I've just realised if I'm going to get drunk, I will find that moment where I know
I'm getting wobbly.
You know, when you get tipsy and you start like, your mouth to get drunk, I will find that moment where I know I'm getting wobbly.
You know, when you get tipsy and you start, like,
your mouth starts being more... I don't know how to explain it,
but, like, it's harder to talk when you start drinking.
Yes.
That's my cut-off point,
because I know any drink after that
is going to make me feel awful the next day.
Sickie, sick, sick.
Anyway, that is my...
Tales from the Downsville.
Floor, floor, floor, floor.
That was a good one.
It wasn't bad.
It was all right.
I mean, it's the same basic story of a woman comes up to you with a request,
and then you say, fuck off.
Or, go away, and you say, I hate you.
I mean, there's a definite...
It's got a basic format.
That's what people want.
That's what our listeners want.
They want a basic format.
I want a twist where it's like...
And then we were married, him.
Yeah.
Reader, we married.
Or even just, you know, you put on fleetwood mac in the end you know i do
sometimes i don't put on fleetwood mac but i have if you had to put on a fleetwood mac song to appease
their rabid desires what would you play in that context if it was to appease them it would have
to be riannon i don't know that one or you can go your own way you can go your own way that's
beautiful paul beautiful uh or do you know what would be an interesting one to play?
What's that one?
Can you hear me calling?
How's your name?
Yeah, that.
But in fact, did you know that Fleetwood Mac were like a 60s sort of blues rock group?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With Peter Green, who was a genius player.
I like that stuff.
I would, obviously, but that's really good.
Right, should we just move on at this point?
Well, yes, let's move on.
Let's just move on.
Okay, then, Paul.
So, we're back.
Back in the room.
What's happening?
So, I've got a feature.
I've got a news story to talk about.
It's very exciting.
So, you know how I'm a kind of fan of, like,
those shows Toy Hunter and Comic Book Men,
where they talk about
you know things that
you had as a child
now they're worth
maybe a little bit of something
you know comic books
or action figures
worth less than the
Toy Hunter's going to
pay you for basically
yeah
more rather
well it depends on
what you've got
but Metro
a newspaper in London
a free newspaper
did an article recently
it's not only in London
is it not
it's nationwide
oh you're right
I've seen it in Liverpool and Manchester.
They've got it in Brighton.
Yeah.
They push that shit everywhere.
Yeah.
Yesterday's news today.
Yay.
They should put that on the title.
They shouldn't.
Anyway, they did an article this year, a few months ago, actually a few weeks ago, called
11 Things You Had As A Child That Are Worth A Fortune Now.
Oh, yeah.
The thing is, I got some of these things. What I can tell you
is they're worth fucking nothing because
they've been well played with. That's it.
They're worth a fortune if they're as
new in box. If they've never been enjoyed by
a child. That's the point, isn't it?
If your dad just went, look,
that's going to be worth something someday, so look
at it, look at it, and that's it.
I'm going to put it into the attic. You'd think, I hate you, Dad.
Wouldn't you? Daddy, why can't I play with a with the game boy it's gonna be worth a lot of something in the morning
just don't fucking take the back off it so i thought we'd go through the list see if you had
any of them and talk about it okay so number one this is an interesting one to start off with
because i thought this would be absolute shit vhs tapes yes they are becoming collectible yeah
the article says they're pretty much useless in a world of digital downloads and Netflix,
but their monetary worth, pretty staggering.
Now, they're not talking about, you know, the kind of stuff you bought in a shop
to just record the sport off the telly or the movies on Christmas Day.
Not blanks, no.
No, they're talking about actual VHS releases, copies, stuff like that.
The example they give is the most valuable vhs recording according to love antiques
dot com is a film called frankenstein's castle of freaks that is now worth 1500 pounds yeah it's
good that isn't it isn't that weird see now our friend yeah richard sandling richard sandling
is a bit of a vhs expert he is a purveyor of it yeah yeah Yeah, and he saw those, that 20 most valuable ones.
Oh, yeah.
And his comment was, yes, but even back in the day,
these were quite rare and hard to get hold of.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it?
Do you see what I mean?
So they kind of suggest, oh, you were swimming in all this money,
but it wasn't actually that clear cut, you know?
No, you'd think, oh, if I had the original VHS of Robin Hood,
Prince of Thieves, or the original Batman video, that must be worth something.
No, the problem with those two particular examples, even though I just gave them, is that they were huge sellers.
Yes.
I mean, they released unprecedentedly early onto the VHS market after the film came out.
Really?
Yeah, I mean, I think I might be wrong, but Robin Hood.
About a year.
That was the usual turnaround between the release of the film and the VHS about a year year i think robin hood prince of thieves was like three or four months oh it's
really quick and it was these days quick yeah it was kind of crazy it was unprecedented at the time
the list of films they give you and they had that song in it everything i do i do it for you
yes thank you beautiful singing today bro brian. Brian Adams. That song literally would not go away, would it?
It was at the chart.
16 weeks.
16 weeks, yeah.
It would never happen now.
It couldn't happen now.
It couldn't happen now.
They don't even have the charts these days.
And I'll be honest, kind of thankful.
Yes.
Because I don't want to fucking go,
and number one for the 15th week running is everything I do.
The amount of saturation on that was just...
You know what fucking bugs me
more than anything
else right
regardless what you
think about Brian Adams
as a musician
most people go
oh you know
Summer of 69
or whatever
it's like yeah
rock
the minute they
have a massive
hit with a ballad
and that's all
that band will do
so Brian Adams
releases that
and then all of a
sudden he's doing
that one from
Three Musketeers
you know he does
a ballad for that
fucking song
did he do a ballad
for Three Musketeers
I can't remember
what the song was
called so he's now his staple is ballad from period action drama well not anymore
because it was the 90s we're talking about but like you look at bon jovi uh you know he did he
released always i will love you always always or whatever that song and then after that ballad
after ballad aerosmith one of the hardest rockers of the 80s
right
oh yeah
did Armageddon
what's that song
could you be
diddle-oo
diddle-oo
the most beautiful
girl
that's not Aerosmith
I know
it just came into my head
I can't remember right now
no it's that one
where she's snogging
her dad
no she's not snogging
her dad
it's Liv Tyler
her dad's singing
while she's snogging
someone
that's what it is
what's that song no don't tell me snogging someone that's what it is yeah what's that song
no don't tell me
do not tell me
I know what it is
I'm gonna look it up
but do not tell me
I won't look it up
okay don't fucking
ruin this for me Paul
alright I'm not gonna
alright I've got it
yeah now I remember it
it's like okay
it is
I Will Always Love You
no
that's Whitney Houston
and I
will love you.
It is...
Oh, just tell me.
You've got to kick yourself, because I kick myself internally.
I don't want to miss a thing.
I don't want to miss a thing.
I don't want to miss a thing.
I don't want to close my eyes.
I've got to take my colon medicine.
I've got to take it regular.
Anyway, to cut a long story short...
Oh, and I don't want to miss that.
Yeah, basically bands do that, don't they?
They release a load of ballads and then they peter out professionally.
Well, but then you've got Westlife, who literally their whole career from beginning to end was ballads.
Nothing but weakest piss ballads.
Yeah, where they sit on a fucking bench or a stool.
They've all got their own stool.
I'm flying without wings.
It's called falling, mate.
Yeah.
Not the same thing at all.
Anyway, here's the list of
videos that they have on this metro site so frankenstein's castle of threaks uh 1500 pound
tell me if you've seen any of these films by the way i think i may have the beast in heat
horrifying experiments in the last days of the ss wow that's worth 1200 pound who fucking wants
to pay for that does it have to be in good quality?
I guess it doesn't.
I'd imagine so, but obviously if they're rare
and they're exploitative kind of B-movie things,
there are collectors for that shit.
Yeah.
Because they're not on DVD, they're not on Netflix,
the copyright's fallen away, and so these are kind of,
I mean, you say rare objet d'art,
but they're awful fucking films.
Farewell Africa, the most startling motion picture achievement
in the history of filmmaking,
consumed by savagery,
conceived in blood.
Oh, it's like one of these Mondo sort of
African ladies with their bits out
for the titillation of Westerners.
Yeah, and they call it art.
Yeah.
That's worth 600 quid.
Yeah, it's a lot of kind of black-sploitation,
you know,
Oz-sploitation stuff.
The Legend of Hillbilly John,
£1,000,
from the ghostly Hawk Mountain,
this eerie story of witches, voodoo, devils and monsters.
And there's a guy running with a guitar.
You know what someone should do on YouTube?
They should do like a whole, all of those films.
You know what?
I would not be surprised if someone's already gone on top of that
and is, you know, doing it.
Gone on top of that and is doing it.
I was reading and talking to you at the same time i'm basically saying someone's already done that idea on it they're on it yeah and they're doing it yeah okay good okay so what's
what else what might i have at home that um all right okay so the next one on the list is your
super soaker what apparently super soakers um one that was made in 1990, a classic. It's worth £123 currently on eBay.
The guy who created that, though, worked for NASA.
And apparently, he was coming up with some kind of way of...
Drinking water in space?
No.
You know, like fuel injection cables.
Have to fire that quickly down a hose or whatever.
It's rocket fuel injection in rockets.
Because there's no gravity in space, so you can't rely on
gravity to move that thing,
so you have to inject it.
The Super Soaker
came from that design.
I did not know that.
Yeah, there you go.
But that guy's very rich.
Also the same guy
who created Nerf guns.
Is it the same guy?
I think so, yeah.
Nerf and Super Soaker
sprang from the same
genius mind.
From the same genius man, yeah.
So, my friend Virgil,
we used to have
big Super Soaker sessions.
In fact, we once...
Two men.
Two young boys exploring each other.
Exploring.
Spray.
Shut up.
But then Virgil started driving and we got the bright idea to go around super soaker.
What, drive by super soaker?
Basically, yeah.
It didn't last long because the police stopped us.
Of course, yeah. Quite rightly't last long because the police stopped of
course yeah quite rightly too and the police had a very stern word with us did you shit your pants
i wasn't happy we did a whole bus stop and so forth but um basically the police said
not unreasonably yeah this could be urine i mean you know it's not but it could be
good point yeah you'd assume it was urine these days.
You know, in the cynical age we live in,
if you got sprayed from a moving vehicle, you'd assume.
You'd assume the worst, wouldn't you?
Yeah.
Because you just can't trust people these days.
It was a halcyon age of innocence.
Me and my friend squirting people out of cars.
He had a VW Beetle truddling along.
Japes.
Japes. Childhood Japes. Japes.
Childhood Japes.
Anyway, if you've got
a Super Soaker,
it's in good nick.
120 quid.
Not too bad
for a piece of plastic.
They were quite expensive
at the time.
They still are quite expensive
at this time.
Yeah, God,
they're quite costly.
30, 40 quid,
something like that.
You can probably get
a cheap one for about,
you know, a tenner.
You don't want a cheap one.
You want one you can
pump action with a
fucking thing on the back.
You're in Virgil
pumping your fucking guns and spraying passes by outside your VW Beetle.
You sound like one of those VHSs.
Yes.
All right, here's the next one.
Okay, here's the next one on the list.
I'll give you a little clue.
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So, Game Boys are worth something.
Game Boys, apparently.
Here's a story.
If you have, and again, it's very particular,
a wrapped, sealed, original Game Boy from 1988, 89?
Yeah.
It will get you at least a grand on eBay.
Really?
Yeah.
But it has to be unopened. It would have to be one of those Game Boys that was unloved and unused.
Just someone...
I wanted a Game Boy so badly when I was a kid.
Virgil had two. Of course he fucking did. Rich Virgil with his superstar daddy. Just someone. I wanted a Game Boy so badly when I was a kid. Virgil had two.
Of course he fucking did.
Rich Virgil with his superstar daddy.
He did.
Of course he fucking did.
Virgil, you're a prick.
With your car and your super soakers.
They had a VH, they had a Beater.
Like a Beater.
Beater Max.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Years before anyone.
Laser disc.
They had a laser disc.
You make me sick, Virgil.
I know he listens, so I'll be personal.
Yeah, and he had Game Boys, yeah.
Well, here's the story.
Okay, so obviously, poor family, me, Boohoo,
really couldn't afford a Game Boy.
Well, how much were they when they came out?
I think about 100 quid.
Wow.
89 to maybe 99 quid in that bracket.
Yeah, but that's a lot.
It was a lot, but still affordable.
Because you're looking at the original NES,
and that must have been closer to £100, I think,
when you bought that originally.
So £100 for a Game Boy is not that bad
in the broader look of things, right?
But still, in 88, that's considerable more than it is now.
It's like equivalent to about £300 now, isn't it?
Probably something like that.
I mean, the 3DS that comes out, that goes for about £180.
But they're selling those on a loss
because they're making the money on the software yes nintendo anyway the point being is that poor
family couple of kids mum really couldn't afford to get me a game boy so i hate to go to school
and seeing kids with game boys playing like right you know zelda or super mario and i was like
i mean i wanted one so bad um andvers, they're the cheesy crisps.
Mate, of course.
Of course you do.
They're in my top five.
Yeah, they...
I had a pack the other day.
Yeah.
They're good.
They are good.
One of those crisps that keep...
Giving.
Yeah.
They're not like, you know,
you have like a pickled onion Monster Munch these days.
You're just like,
that's not fucking right.
That's just not fucking right. Quavers are satisfying in a way that only they still are they still are yeah so anyway um
frazzles we're not talking about chris don't you you hate talking about chris i like chris you have
to talk about chris too much time or the place all right i like crisps all right good anyway the
point being is that quavers had a thing where a a competition where, you could win a Game Boy.
If you opened, you know, it had crisps and then you got a little card inside and you opened it up and it said, you win or you lose.
That summer...
Was this like your Willy Wonka moment?
Yeah, it was the golden ticket moment.
Except, you know, like in Willy Wonka, he eventually finds the golden ticket and it seems to come true.
Yeah.
It didn't happen for me.
It never did.
It never happened for me.
I ate so many fucking packets of crisps over that summer.
Was it only Quavers?
Only Quavers. Because that summer only Quavers
as good as Quavers are you want a break
every now and then
I didn't give myself that break
my mum would be like where's your pocket money gone
and then my bag would rustle with a pack
of like a hundred bag of Quavers
eat some food Paul
I can't I must win a game boy
and also the problem
with Quavers is you eat them with your fingers.
After a while, your fingers do smell like they've been up your anus.
Yeah.
Cheesy, cheesy Quaver finger.
So I stunk at school.
Not only did you not have a Game Boy, but you stunk too.
I'm black and cheesy crisps.
So fast forward two years, finally got a Game Boy for Christmas.
Best Christmas ever.
Mum got me Tetris because it came with it.
That's amazing.
Tetris was the game that sold the console.
I don't think I've ever experienced gameplay that addictive, before or since.
No, and that was the game that sold the system.
Mate, you'd play it for three hours straight, then you'd try and go to bed and you'd literally have dreams.
Have Tetris dreams, yeah.
You'd be literally moving blocks around in your abstract brain space.
They use Tetris for people who've survived traumatic experiences,
like car crashes or whatever.
Yes.
Because they reckon if they play that,
the whole Tetris dream thing starts replacing the negative memories you have.
Yes, I've heard about that.
It's an interesting thing.
I don't know all the details, but that was the gist of it.
Anyway, so, yeah, you can get £1,000 on eBay for that.
But if you've got a used one, you could sell it for maybe about 50 quid,
if it's in good nick.
Well, I've got Game Boy Color, I think. I have about 50 quid if it's in good nick well I've got
Game Boy Color
I have one of each model
so far
you do don't you
I have a Game Boy
Game Boy Micro
Game Boy Pocket
Game Boy Advance
you're overcompensating
for those two years
when you have no
fucking ideas
Game Boy Micro
3DS original model
2DS
and also
that was like
completing Super Mario
Super Mario Land
yeah
I completed it.
Yeah.
And wow.
You know, back in those days, you know, you had to complete it.
For me.
No one's going to fucking sell you something to help you complete it.
No one's going to, you know.
There wasn't magazines that gave you guides.
Had cheats.
We didn't need them.
No.
The hardcore didn't.
It was a frontier.
For me, the four games that defined my Game Boy experience was Tetris, Super Mario Land,
DuckTales, which is mwah, and Zelda Link's Awakening, which I still contest today is my favourite Link game of all time.
My favourite Zelda game.
Zelda game, yeah.
I just love it.
It's so quirky and unique and beautiful and simple.
Anyway, Game Boy.
We'll move on.
There's a few more here.
Pokemon cards.
Do you give a fuck about Pokemon?
No, fuck that.
However, if you get a first generation Charles charizard card charizard um that's worth
around two thousand five hundred dollars on uber and that's about 1755 what about pogs i've got
some of those uh pogs are worth nothing absolutely nothing really next one beanie babies here's an
interesting one as well uh beanie babies not on the list but absolutely worthless now yeah all
the fuss that was made about them.
It was like everyone's going to invest in Beanie Babies.
People did.
People put way too much money.
Yeah.
And they've got like a whole garage full of just completely useless.
Mouldy rags.
Shaped like fucking dogs.
Yeah.
Or biscuits.
I don't know.
Mouldy dog rag.
Yeah, fuck them.
Idiots.
Here's another one, interestingly.
Old cereal boxes.
Well, see, this is ephemera.
Ephemera. Vintage cornflakes. It's another one, interestingly. Old cereal boxes. Well, see, this is ephemera. Ephemera.
Vintage cornflakes, it's that whole nostalgia thing.
Because it's just anything that people would not think to keep. Someone sold a
Kellogg's box on eBay for
320 quid. Nice. An 80s
brand. An 80s one, yeah. Yeah. And I guess
if you've got a rarer box, that maybe has gone out of fashion.
Like, for instance, in the 80s, especially in America,
they sold a lot of things like Ghostbusters cereal
or Mr. T cereal.
Yes.
Boxes of that, sometimes even sealed and untouched,
would sell for, you know, $50, $60, $70, something like that.
They're very good.
Well, I've got those Ghostbusters transfers.
They came in shreddies, didn't they?
Yeah, they did. I've also got some High Five drink Ghostbusters holograms
that I foolishly tore out and stuck on an exercise book.
So that was my mistake, but I still got them.
Yeah, they're there.
Anyway, number six on the list.
We're rattling through this now
because we're going off
on a massive fucking tangent.
Oh, sorry.
My Little Pony.
My Little Pony.
Skinny and brony.
I am a brony.
Made out of plastic.
I'm wanking my bony
as I think of the pony.
You really stroke your dick
when you're thinking about
My Little Pony toys?
Well, they must, those brony guys.
I don't know if they do.
What, it's a way of them to negate having to think about how horny they are?
There are probably guys who are into My Little Pony who take out the stitching on, you know,
Twinkle Bell Pony and fuck it.
And just fuck it.
Well, they're plushies.
They're people who are into plush furries.
There's all sorts of perversions around that area, isn't there?
Yeah.
And that's the problem.
It's like some girls would go to my little pony conferences.
You know, it's got a whole new resurgence with the revamped cartoon.
Yeah.
I find out that there's barely like 20 girls and like 5,000 guys there.
Yeah.
Well, I think guys are more into just being geeks and nerds, generally.
I don't know.
There's a documentary on Netflix called Bronies which is all
about that.
Just weird.
Just get away from me.
That's what I'd say to
them.
Hey Brony.
Hey Brony.
Step back.
Go fuck a horse or
something.
I'll watch you know
some grown up stuff.
I'll fucking watch a
man fuck a proper
horse.
Thank you very much
on YouTube.
That's what I'll do.
Not your animated shit for kids
Yeah
Real horses for me mate
Yeah
Please come and arrest us both
My Little Pony's original ones
Certainly can get up to 50 quid
Not all that much
But if you've got a dream house
I went with the dream house
I bet you did
My sisters
You see my sisters
Yeah
Were into it
And I was not
I liked Thundercats or whatever
You know
Thunder, thunder, thunder, thundercats.
It did not go like that.
It did.
He went, how did schnaff?
Schnaff.
Lionel.
This is just turning into a mess.
Lionel.
Schnaff.
Fuck off.
Fuck off, Schnaff.
That's what Lionel must have been like.
Yeah.
Schnaff.
Drop it.
Drop it.
Drop the level.
You're not a Smurf.
You don't need to say Smurf this, Smurf that.
Do you remember the real Schmoo?
Like the new Schmoo.
The new Schmoo.
Yeah.
Not the real Schmoo, sorry.
There was a Schmoo show, then there was the new Schmoo.
I only came to it when it was the new Schmoo.
Yeah, because Hanna-Barbera would just put the word new
in front of nearly every new series or something.
Do you remember Squidly Diddly?
I do remember Squidly Diddly, and I remember also Captain Caveman.
I love Captain Caveman. Captain Caveman is the perfect one for me. Captain! diddly diddly i do remember squidly diddly and i remember also captain caveman and i love captain
caveman captain caveman is the perfect one for me here's a two-foot hairy angry angry hairy guy
surrounded by beautiful women he just drives around crazy and then just is allowed these
blah you know he's um the only real difference between you and him is the whole surrounded by
beautiful women part of the story yes and i don't don't have a van, or ever. Or solve crime.
Or do anything, really.
I've got a big club that grows.
Right, moving on.
Next one on the list
is Tamagotchi.
Remember those?
I do.
Alright, here is the
advert for that.
By the way,
it's obnoxious.
Tamagotchi
Friends
Need love and care
Girl or boy
Take her anywhere
You can feed, play and take care of your Tamagotchi Bump, bump Connect you to me What's the fucking point of that? Tamagotchi! Hooray! Check out TamagotchiFriends.com for even more cool stuff. Tamagotchi Friends from Bandai.
What's the fucking point of that?
That is quite obnoxious, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, Tamagotchis were those virtual pets.
Yeah, it's like feed the pet.
Fuck it.
Fuck it.
How about that?
I mean, don't fuck the Tamagotchi, but just blow it out.
Don't blow it.
Ignore it.
Ignore it.
Just put it away.
Just fucking shut up, Tamagotchi.
I really wanted one when they first came out, which I the mid i was intrigued and i put what so you just basically
it's like an alarm clock essentially that keeps buzzing yeah it's basically across an alarm clock
and a needy child yeah but you can't just go actually shut up tamagotchi i'm watching the
opera can you you can't get that it's a fucking nightmare Yeah And the ad's really annoying He's like
You know what that ad reminded me of
No
That Billy Piper song
Because we want to
Because we want to
Why do you want to play that song so loud
Because I want to
Because I want to
Yeah
They pop it out of fashion
If you have an original generation Tamagotchi
You can rack up over 100 quid
for one online.
It's like a little keychain.
It's all it is,
a keychain with a virtual baby
and it goes,
feed me,
clean my arse
because I've just shat.
It does not say that.
There's a little icon on there
that looks like a little poo
and when it lights up,
you have to clean its bot bot.
You do.
And it tells you
when it's hungry
and when it wants to play
and you play little mini games
and then eventually it dies
and the child is traumatised until they press the reset button and go all over when it's hungry, when it wants to play, and you play little mini games, and then eventually it dies, and the child is traumatized
until they press the reset button
and go all over again.
Similarly speaking,
Digimon is also a thing.
That was the same?
Yeah.
It's basically the same shit,
but with more of a Pokemon edge to it.
Old Lego is number nine on the list.
In 2007,
they brought out
a Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon,
right?
Lego. Lego.
Lego.
So, big thing.
That now goes for, have a guess.
£400, £500?
It was probably sold originally for about £400, £500.
What?
Yeah.
I mean, the Ghostbusters Firehouse that I want.
Yeah.
Brand new.
That's still £300.
I know.
It's Lego.
I know.
You have to fucking make it yourself.
I know, but. That's a pain in the ass. Yeah. I know. You have to fucking make it yourself. I know, but...
That's a pain in the ass.
Yeah.
Anyway, if you wanted to get that Millennium Falcon...
That's how I'm saying ass from now on, by the way.
Good.
I approve.
Ass.
If you want to get it on Amazon...
Ooh, me ass.
Right, calm down, dude.
Dickhead.
If you want to buy that Millennium Falcon on Amazon, it will set you back £4,000.
Shit.
Shit. But it'd have to be new,000. Shit. Shit.
But it'd have to be new in box.
Probably.
Frankly, I never want to spend that much on Lego at all.
On this subject, you know my...
I told you about my friend who collects Star Wars figures.
Yeah.
And he was trying to get the last 17.
Oh, yeah.
Has he got them?
He's got Snaggletooth now.
Oh, you need to go see a doctor about that.
Is that your IBS?
Yeah, it is. I'm getting very nervous. Yeah. No. Yeah, he's got Snagg doctor about that. Is that your IBS? Yeah, it is.
I'm getting very nervous.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah, he's got a snaggle tooth now.
That's excellent.
So how many has he got to go?
16?
I don't know.
He's got them all, I think, actually.
Oh, wow.
But he doesn't buy them in box.
He buys them sort of...
Just loose or in a collector's bag.
Yeah, but they're still like 300, 400 pounds, you know.
Yeah.
Anyway, the last one on the list, number 10, is easy bake ovens.
What's an easy bake oven?
It's an oven for kids that bake shit it
actually bakes stuff yeah it's a big it's a big in america eyeballs well that's one of the problems
of the earlier models is that they would basically set fire to you or you know well because okay for
instance back in the day you could buy like certainly in the 50s and 60s in america you
could buy atomic science kits that had actual fucking uranium you know um they're nuts crazy easy bake ovens things like that came from the
same thing was like let's just take an oven or basically a metal box with a really hot lamp in
and when you can make little cookies in it or biscuits or little things like that you know i
mean it's just a little like a little kitchen kind of little oven a classic easy bake oven and these
go back to like the 50s these toys some of them can get over
500 pounds on amazon even a modern version which you know are now safety checked and have different
things going on in them cost around 40 quid on amazon i mean they're fascinating toys because
there's a guy on youtube who does a website called i think it's called penny arcade toys or
lucky penny whatever it is it's definitely penny and he buys toys vintage and classic
and then opens them
plays with them
and gets them all out
he has so many
different types of
easy bake ovens
that he gets out
and makes recipes
so was it
not one company
it was
the patent was
passed around
I think it was
passed around
to different companies
over time
but like even
Pizza Hut
had an easy bake oven
where you can make
easy bake pizzas
and there comes a little
you know
slimy thing
are they shitty
are they fucking Pizza Hut this is you little, you know, slimy thing and you just throw it in. Well, I mean, like... And a fucking pizza hut.
Do you...
This is...
You know what?
You know some people believe
that Mandela died in prison?
Wow, that's really a weird segue.
You know that...
You say he died in an easy-baked oven.
No, and that...
You know, these people think
there's a glitch in the Matrix
because everyone remembers,
but it's not the way it actually happened,
but everyone remembers.
Right.
You know, and like those bears, the Berenstain bears. Yeah. And everyone remembers, but it's not the way it actually happened, but everyone remembers. Right. You know, and like those bears, the Berenstain bears.
Yeah.
And everyone remembers them not being called the Berenstain bears.
Right.
And so that's a clue.
How, just one note, how is this related to Pizza Hut?
No one remembers.
Pizza Hut were going to change their name in the UK to Pasta Hut.
Do you remember that?
How the fuck have you gotten from Nelson Mandela to Pasta Hut?
Look, I'll explain it to you, Paul.
You're not following this, right?
I am following this.
I just don't see how your brain works.
It's my Mandela died in prison moment.
Right.
Do you see what I mean?
Our Berenstain Bears
used to be called
the Berenstain Bears
or whatever.
Yeah, that Disney thing
because it was a Disney ride
or something, wasn't it?
No.
There were these kids books
called the Berenstain Bears.
A lot of people don't remember how they were spelt but because we live in an age of absolute moronacy yeah they think
that that is a glitch in the matrix or that is proof that we live in a an alternate reality you
know and same with people who seem to remember that nelson mandela died in prison when in fact
he didn't uh berenstain Bears conspiracy proof.
There you go.
Let's just listen to this.
Somewhere deep in bear country Lives a Berenstain Bear family
The Berenstain Bears
Small bit of news just in.
Parallel universes exist and we're living in a different one than we did in our childhoods.
I don't know if you guys heard, but apparently at some point in the last decade or so,
a large number of us got shifted to a parallel universe and the Berenstain Bears proved that. What? I thought you were talking bullshit. This is an actual thing
Yeah, all right. Let's investigate more this goes on for about four minutes. We might take a big big big segue
Apo writer and do parallel universes exist?
Sure, but are some of us actually from a parallel universe and somehow got shifted into this one. That's a much bigger question
Let's find out. This is hashtag news Are some of us actually from a parallel universe and somehow got shifted into this one? That's a much bigger question.
Let's find out.
This is Hashtag News.
This is Hashtag News.
I'm a very cute.
I'm a T.
I'm a T-spec.
Respect my authority.
I'm a T-spec.
Anyway, I'll let them go on.
Now we all remember the lovable Berenstain Bears of our youth.
That furry nuclear family with wholesome all-American names like Papa, Mama, Sister, Brother.
Very creative.
But it's their other name that's causing all this controversy.
Apparently, everyone remembers that it's spelled Berenstein, E-I-N,
but according to the publisher and writers, it's never been spelled that way.
It's always been Berenstain, A-I-N. How does that prove we're in a different fucking universe, then?
Because everyone remembers it as something that it's not.
Right, let's see what they say.
If you spell it E-I-N, if so, you're like most people.
If you spell it A-I-N, then you're clearly part of the cover-up.
Now, some people have noticed this strange phenomenon before,
but rapper, producer, and admitted pothead LP stumbled across this crazy idea and brought it back into life.
It says on the video, LP has put a tweet saying,
I will not be fooled by the Berlimati.
Pothead. Pothead.
Pothead.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Can we stop with this now?
No, no, let's play it through.
Berenstein Bear Theory, as it's known,
posits that at some point in the last 10 years,
our universe crossed over with an alternate parallel universe
where the bear family name is known as Stain, not Steen.
Now, it's not just low-level rappers that are pushing this idea.
A graduate student of physics put some elbow grease
into really trying to show that reality
has been tampered with,
and history has been retroactively changed.
He claims that somehow our universe rotated by pi over two,
kind of like 90 degrees,
and while most things line up,
just some things are different,
like the spelling of these beloved bears' last names.
Now, as for me, personally,
I do remember it being Berenstein.
I mean, it just makes sense.
There are so many famous Steens.
Einstein, Frankenstein, R.L. Steen.
That's not how you say those.
Okay, nice try, but I can only handle one conspiracy theory at a time, please.
Just fucking tell me the news, you wanker.
Exactly.
You asked for this.
I'd want to know more.
I've not heard about this.
This is blowing my tiny little mind.
It's not.
It's a load of crap.
All right, well, let's see where it goes.
So if that's not their last name, then what is real? Now, if you go do
your homework, look at the pictures of the book covers.
They all show the name as Berenstain
with an A, and the TV show confirms this.
The Berenstain Bears.
The Berenstain Bears.
Though her accent doesn't help clear any of this
up. But there is some evidence
of a possible Berenstein past
and subsequent cover. A Reddit user
claims to have pictures of lots of evidence,
but for some reason his posts have been mysteriously deleted.
Another piece of evidence, a TV guide from the 1980s,
and a few other instances of the EIN spelling.
Now, while some may say that the Reddit user is lying,
the pictures are photoshopped,
and that the other stuff could just simply be typos,
I think that they're probably right.
And if they really were rewriting Berenstain history,
I think they probably would have gone back
and erased this blatantly racist book
where Papa Bear hates pandas.
See that fucking sign on the door?
No pandas.
No pandas, no faggots, no dogs.
No koalas.
I don't want a dirty koala stinking of eucalyptus.
No, what?
It's their eyes.
They're black eyes.
It's the bamboo.
It's the stink. All the bamboo sh. It's the bamboo. They stink.
All the bamboo shavings
leaving them around.
Filthy.
Fucking druggies.
Wankers.
So what was my
Berenstain moment?
You said it was when
people didn't remember
Pizza Hut.
Pizza Hut
was going to be called
I've never heard of this
by the way.
Pasta Hut.
And it was an article
in the newspaper
and everything
and I thought,
oh that's strange
because they were trying
to reposition themselves into a healthier sort of you know uh just so you know
I have proof of this on YouTube would you believe listen to this
Pizza Hut introduces something so big it will change everything.
Pasta Hut.
It doesn't say it in the outfit, but it says it on the screen.
So there, I'm vindicated.
We're living in a different reality.
A one where they didn't go with Pasta Hut.
Here's the thing, though.
If that's true, if you are right, if this is all correct,
the Berenstein, Barrenstein, whatever.
Mandela died in prison.
How would we know?
We live in a parallel universe. We would now have record of that past
We wouldn't, that's exactly right
But we remember
No, but we don't because it's proof online
Yeah, it's bullshit
It is bullshit
Obvious bullshit
All I can say from this whole section
Which was meant to be a quick, breezy
Easy to digest top ten of things that you owned as a kid
Has gone off on so many fucking tangents
Sorry
From Gura Smith
I'm sorry, I've got a magpie brain.
Well...
Is that magpie? Is that right?
I don't know.
All I know is that...
Let's talk about bird metaphors.
No, let's just basically...
What's the last one on the flipping list?
That's it. That was it.
Beezy Bake Ovens.
I wonder how much Berenstain Bears books cost.
Do you want me to find out?
No, not really.
Let's move on with Cheat Show.
Oh, my God.
What a waste of fucking time this whole section was. Anyway, if you've got old toys, look, you know. Let's move on with Cheat Show. Oh, my God. What a waste of fucking time
this whole section was.
Anyway, if you've got old toys,
look in your attic,
you might find that
they're worth something.
Although, if you have got
something in your attic
that's worth something,
it means you didn't love it
as a child.
You didn't play with it.
You're some kind of weird,
cold, antiseptic.
Yeah.
Well, get the gloves out
and look at the old toys
that no child has ever enjoyed.
No one must touch my Sylvanian family playset for I am Lord. Don't look at the old toys that no child has ever enjoyed. No one must touch my Sylvanian
family playset, for I
am Lord. Don't look at it. When you
look, make an observation. It changes
the material of the physical
universe. Conspiracy!
Right, after all that,
it's now time for
one of my favourite parts of the show. What's that,
Paul? It's the price of shite
That's right
And I've got a new
New wave
Electropop style jingle
Oh fuck
Alright
Okay
Because your last one
Last time sounded like
Jimmy Savile having a wank
Which is an achievement
Yes
Yeah
You ready?
Yeah
Oh
Great
It's really
I really like it
It's short Don't really like it. It's short.
Don't fucking interrupt me.
Alright, okay.
Oh.
What's the price?
The price of the shite!
Right, okay.
Couple of questions.
Eh?
First of all, that's shit.
Secondly, um...
Shite.
Shite.
Secondly, you said it was kind of an electro-80s thing.
You can just put some computer noises in after.
You do it again, and I'll do the electro music right now.
What's the price?
The price of my shite!
You know what?
Now it's got a bit of electro on the background, I like it.
Yeah.
I do like it.
Anyway, okay, three items.
You know the rules, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah.
Three items of shite.
Let's hit it. First item. Yeah. Three items of shite. Let's hit it.
First item.
Yeah.
First item here.
He's got a little bag with him.
A little bag of tat.
Got some lovely shite in here.
Ooh, what's this?
Now, this is a plateau hors d'oeuvres.
Show that, I can't see.
Ooh.
It's a plateau horse horse derves
you just don't get
horse derves these days
do you
horse derves
this is so 70s isn't it
the box is brown
I mean obviously
the pictures we'll put up
on the website of that company
this episode
plateau
and I'll just give you
a little translation
yeah
plate for nibbles
ooh
it's a specialist
nibbles
plate
I had a friend who had
a budgie called nibbles once let me tell you this story right so you know specialist nibbles plate I had a friend who had a budgie
called nibbles once
let me tell you
this story
right so you know
like some
yeah you know
some
some
budgies can talk
or they can
they can mimic
yeah
so he had this budgie
they can't actually talk
I know
but you know what
I'm getting at
he had this budgie
for a year
he called it nibbles
and every day
right he'd say
say nibbles nibbles say nibbles nibbles for hours yeah and for a year nothing and then one day i was
staying over here for the weekend and we're having cereal and i'll chat and he's going say nibbles
say nibbles and i'm like i'm getting tired of this yeah anyway toward the end of the breakfast
the cage kind of flutters around the bird flutters around and then it goes
and dies.
Really?
Yeah, died right there and then.
God, that laugh is evil.
He was traumatised.
He would be.
But I genuinely thought it was hilarious.
It's quite sweet, isn't it?
Well, it's kind of like...
At least he got nibbles out before...
I don't know.
It sounded more like a fuck you.
Really?
Nibbles?
Yeah, you know, like when a suicide bomber has it, or someone has had enough, and they go out in a really spectacular way.
It felt like that, like the bill was just like, fuck you, mate.
I'm off.
Anyway, sorry.
Halls.
Ball of nibbles.
Halls Dervs.
Plateau Halls Dervs.
Now, this is by a company, made by a company called Luxem.
Ooh, nice.
It's got the word Lux in there.
It says on the side.
It's in a lovely brown...
Lovely brown 70s kind
of... Box. You've got the box there, so
that will affect the price. What does it say on the side there?
There's a little bit of writing on one of the edges.
One plateau. Yeah.
Three compartiments. Nice. One relish
tray. Relish? Yes.
It's made in France by Veropa.
Oh, okay. It's the Luxem is the brand.
It is a French item. And it has the box. It is a French item and it has the box.
So all of these are going to affect the price when you get a guest.
Have you used this yet?
No.
So you haven't put your relish in it yet.
I haven't dunked my relish in there.
It's so immature.
I'm really immature.
Now look at this.
This is quite nice.
It's got like a crystal design on the bottom.
It's nice.
I will say that.
Like a snowflake kind crystal design on the bottom. It's nice. I will say that. Like a snowflake kind of design on the bottom.
Yeah.
And then it's like two inches deep, maybe.
And then you've got a sort of...
Split compartment.
Rather similar to the CND symbol or the...
Can I have a look up close with this?
The C on D symbol or the Mercedes-Benz badge.
It's split in that way into three.
Is it glass crystal or is it just glass?
I think it's just glass.
Yeah, I don't know what the difference is.
It looks like, first of all, when they handed this in,
didn't really clean it first because it looks like it has been used
as an ashtray in its past.
It certainly does.
It's got the markings of fag ends dabbed deeply into the glass.
Yeah, look at that bit.
There's like a little kind of black smudge that looks like it.
It's been an ashtray.
Yeah.
Which is disrespectful because that is obviously not an ashtray yeah which is disrespectful
because that is obviously not an ashtray it's a plateau deserves out of interest because you're
keeping this you'll be using this as an ashtray no i won't you're going to be putting your relish
in one compartment i'm going to be compartmentalizing my nibbles now it's nice actually it's not let me
ask you paul yes you've got the triumvirate of bar snacks or whatever you like pretzels peanuts uh and in
the third compartment i don't know it's an interesting question maybe i personally i would
put uh cheese uh those cheese square things you know cheese shapes what you mean those the walkers
cheese moments no you're not the little like biscuits but they're very cheesy oh like cheddars
yeah like little tiny mini cheddars maybe yes okay so what you are so
full of shit you're so backward why is that backwards look what did you say peanuts peanuts
well that's all right yeah get to pass is there a particular type of peanut i should be putting in
i mean i thought salted is the i like a salted peanut but you know what you know i've been
getting into in my later years as i mature as a peanut eater? Horse pornography, apparently.
You can get these kind of roasted salted peanuts, but they have the skin on.
Do you know what the ones are made of?
In the same way like a pistachio has its kind of little crispy, not the shell itself, but the crispy skin.
They're good.
They're really good.
So they're roasted and salted, but they've got the skin.
And it's a bit salty, flaky.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very nice.
So that's in one compartment.
What are you putting in the other two?
I would have some wasabi peas.
See, let's take this up a class level.
See, I was just thinking, you know, generic, safe, everyone's happy with it.
Wasabi peas is an audience splitter.
Yeah.
You know, it's going to get people to either go, what a waste, you know.
Well, I love them. I love them too. I'll have some wasabi peas in there. Yeah. You know, it's going to get people to either go, what a waste, you know. Well, I love them.
I love them too.
I'll have some wasabi peas in there.
Yeah.
And what about, go with me,
some little mini chorizos.
Or some little tasting salamis.
I don't know if you should mix your nuts with your meat.
Anyhow, that is, it's beside the point.
Yeah.
That is a lovely little...
I like that.
Yes.
I like that. Now, that now um that's not the
name of the game it's not called do you like the shite it is the price of shite so all right i'm
gonna say now think of think of the the uh yeah the background here i'll just take you through it
it has the box with it i know the box it's not in great nick it's on's in a range called Luxem.
And it's French.
Right.
Will you tell me where the charity shop was?
Can you divulge that?
Will it give it away?
This was Raise My Voice Foundation, as usual.
Oh, Raise My Voice!
Yeah, the helium shop.
Right.
I'm going to go ahead and say that that was £1.50.
That's your final?
That's my final. Shall we move on?
We'll know at the end.
What else have we got here now?
This, I don't know how to describe it.
Then try.
It is...
Because it's an audio podcast and we need all the help we can get.
It's some kind of ornamental plastic tile.
Right.
From Greece with a picture of a warrior
A warrior?
A warrior
Oh a warrior
Not someone going
Oh where's my bill
No he may be a warrior
He might be
Well I'd worry if I had a penis that small
But um
What on the plaque
I can't see
There you go
Holy shiz
What is
That is like a fake
Greek
Hercules
Thing What is that? It is like a fake Greek Hercules thing.
What is that?
It's like, it's difficult to actually define what that object is, isn't it?
Well, it's definitely a very small penis, put it that way, in terms of the drawing.
So, what we've got, I'll just describe it to the listeners.
Yeah, describe it.
You've got a sort of fake wood effect plastic.
With that kind of rectangle pattern.
That has an ornamental sort of carving in it at the top.
There will be a picture along with the podcast.
Then you have a round sort of disc of see-through plastic
in the middle of this,
depicting what I think is probably some kind of
ancient Grecian myth or legend.
With a warrior, there's a guy in a full suit of armour
and he's getting speared
by a naked bearded warrior
who seems to be defending a lady.
Well, this is the thing.
That man is nude
and he's going up against a man in full armour.
That man,
regardless of what the picture shows,
has balls.
He has balls,
but my God,
they are the size of wasabi peanuts.
Yes, they are.
This guy has a little pointy micro phallus.
That's what I'm calling this episode.
Pointy micro phallus.
Honestly, I mean, you know, I know we've discussed, you know, how I'm not that into like my own penis.
But that guy, come on.
That, Matt, I mean, the thing is he makes up for it in beard.
In fact, actually, if that little drawing put on a few stone, it would look just like you. Shut up. that guy come on that Matt I mean the thing is he makes up for it in beard in fact actually
if that little drawing
put on a few stone
it would look
just like you
it would
just put a little bit
of a gut on it
I don't
what I don't understand
is what it's for
because you see
at the very top
there's a little
nublet
a kind of little
yes there's a little
nublet at the top
a little handle thing
does that connect
into something
no I'll tell you now
this will help
with the
with the pricing With the pricing.
With the pricing. Yeah.
There were six of them. And you only
bought one? I bought one. They didn't sound
as upset. She did
offer me a price for the set.
So does that mean the little thing that it...
No, they're all exactly the same shape.
So you'd have them sort of all in a row, I think.
It looks to me like it's some kind
of coaster maybe yes
that's what it is it's a coaster isn't it it's it's very weird it's an awful awful thing this
is proper shite ladies and gentlemen i think it's got some suspicious stains on it yes
will you buy a lot of suspiciously stained items no i just i want a price for this don't try and
delay by trying to say i've spanked on something. It's not good.
That was typical delay tactic.
Makes me think.
I'm going to go ahead and say that that's not that much.
I'm going to say 50p.
Okay, that's your second price.
So what do we say for the... 150 for the first item.
For the Plateau d'Aux Derves.
Yeah.
And 50p for the strange, unidentifiable...
Greek... Tourist tile. Yeah. Microphallus. Yeah. And 50p for the strange, unidentifiable Greek tourist
tile. Yeah. Micro phallus.
Yeah. Are you ready? Yes, I am
always. For our final item of shite today?
I'm very much looking forward to it. It's a dog's
head. Oh!
It's a dog's head. It's a dog, I mean,
it's not a real dog's head. It's an ornamental
dog's head. Wow. It's a
sort of plastic effect dog's head.
Let's have a look. I don't know, what kind of breed of dog would you say that is?
Interestingly enough, did you look at the bottom of this?
Yes.
It says...
Of course I did.
Do you know anything?
I checked the shite out.
I go for the most interesting shite.
Unlike you, Paul, who just goes, oh, there's a book on Ghostbusters.
I want that.
Yeah.
How much is that?
I want that.
Yeah, fuck it.
It's on the show.
Yeah.
Oh, there's a fucking kitchen utensil I need.
Look, this is shite.
There's no use for this stuff,
apart from perhaps the platter.
The relish platter.
The sticker on the bottom of this says,
New Pontons, born February 2011.
So you see, it's an antique.
It's not, no, antique is not.
It's five years old.
Look, come on, that affects the price.
The dog is...
The dog was born five years ago.
What kind of dog is that?
A Rottweiler?
Yeah, it's got a Rottweiler sort of colouring with a beige and black fur.
It's a happy Rottweiler dog head.
It's a smiling dog head.
Absolutely fucking shit.
Yeah, it's pure shit, isn't it?
It goes on your mantle piece along with your shit clock.
What's Pontins?
Do you know about Pontins?
Pontins is like Butlins.
Yeah, so this came from a gift shop in a terrible holiday camp.
Nothing says, I went to a shit British holiday camp that's not even as good as Butlins when you buy a dog's head.
What did you get me? What did you get me? I got you this fucking dog's head.
Oh, hooray.
It was born. It was born. It was born.
I think that means new Pontins was born in 2011.
Have you seen at the bottom it's like he's
curling his claws round yeah he's like oh i'm a doggy dog i'm a severed dog's head i need a price
for the dog's head oh i'm going to maybe say 25 pence okay so shall we see how you did, Paul? Let's see how I did.
For the Veropa Luxem Plateau Hors d'oeuvres, you said
£1.50.
The price was £2.
That's not too bad.
Not bad.
I still think £2 is a bit too much for that.
I did balk slightly, but then I thought
it's the show.
I like your commitment to the format.
So do I get a point for that?
How do we score this?
Did we just give up on the scoring for this section?
I think we did, didn't we?
Well, there's no competition when it's just you and me.
No one wants to be on our fucking podcast anymore.
The audience isn't here.
It's not that.
It's more down to the fact that it's like, oh, I'll come on your podcast.
Where is it?
Southampton.
No.
There will be different formats of shows coming up. We've got some live stuff coming up. Yeah, live stuff coming up. We've got all sorts. Where is it? Southampton. No. There will be different formats of shows
coming up.
We've got some live stuff
coming up.
Live stuff coming up.
We've got all sorts.
This is just pure.
This is a pure cheap show.
This is just me and you.
Just me and you
in a room.
Just fucking doing it.
Looking at micro phallus
coasters.
Talking of the micro phallus
coaster,
here it is.
I said 50p for that.
And the price was
50p.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
On the nose. On the nose. On the price was? Yeah. 50p. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. On the nose.
On the nose.
On the microphallus.
Actually, actually, actually.
What?
Oh, he's doing some studio wizardry.
Was I correct?
You like it?
Yeah, there we go.
Okay, do that bit again.
All right.
Let's do this one again.
And so, Paul, moving on to the micro phallus greek tourist
coaster tile yeah i said 50p the price was yeah 50p yay we have a sound effect that's good i like
that sound effect yeah that's exactly right yeah it's the on the nose sound effect all right sweet
we're never going to play that again then lastly yeah born in 2011 in pontins yeah it's a
awful awful killing the world big lake of plastic in the middle of the atlantic ocean
dog's head you said i think i said 25p and the price was 50p oh so 50% wrong oh i was gonna say
50p but i thought you'd mixed up the prices,
so I wasn't going to go with it.
I can't mix up the prices, can I?
No, no.
The price is what the price is.
I know.
I report them faithfully.
I know.
And that, ladies and gentlemen,
is the fucking price of shite.
And that's right.
Thank you.
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