CheapShow - Ep 399: Rambling On (Mono Edition)
Episode Date: August 30, 2024In a change to their usual fortunes, Paul and Eli are getting to talk about CheapShow in a proper TV show. They’ve been invited to the studios of London Live near the centre of London for a quick ch...at about their forthcoming 400th episode. However, once the interview is done, what are the Cheap Chaps going to do next. They don’t really have an idea either! So, when all is said and done, they will do what they do best… They ramble onwards. In an impromptu “walkabout” episode, they’ll zip through East London, along the South Bank and back into the city centre and take in the sights, sounds and unfortunate smells of the capital! 400 is coming and so Paul and Eli decide to chill and take it easy this week. How do you think that goes? MONO (Keep it simple) VERSION See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-399-rambling-on And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you want to, follow us on Twitter/X @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid www.thecheapshow.co.uk Now on Threads: @cheapshowpod Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Merch Shop: www.redbubble.com/people/cheapshow/shop www.cheapmag.shop Thanks also to @vorratony for the wonderful, exclusive art: www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ
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On that day, little did they know, their podcast was about to collapse like a house of cards.
Going there and getting murdered in a weird murder room, man.
That looks like the kind of building where you go in and they go, here you go, ehh, euthanised.
Yeah, like where rich people pay to see the poor die.
It's probably Apple, it's probably Apple, one of us, because we've been talking bad
about their 30% charge.
Let's give some
context hello dear Cheap Show listener it is Tuesday and we're about to head into a
building in Finsbury Square called what was it AlphaBeta or AlphaBeta do you think? AlphaBeta
where the studios... AlphaBeta is better than AlphaBeta because Beta is such a beta and Alpha Beta is better. I'll beat you off with my Alpha male cock. Yeah yeah anyway
warm it up. I am warming it up. Anyway we're going into this building because there are the
studios for London Live which is a London based sky channel isn't it?
Freeview what they used to call a freeview channel isn't it? Something like
that. It's basically cable yeah British version of local cable right?
Yeah. So to celebrate 400 a very kind friend of mine called Jerry who deals with mostly musicians
has
gotten us a quick spot on this London live. I don't know who's interviewing us. I don't know what we need to do.
I've got the person you know who's interviewing us. I don't know what we need to do. I said something you know, that's it's no
She's just organized it. So it's about 10 20 in the morning right now
And we're gonna go in of us. I am nervous because don't you don't shit the bed
I I'm good at not shitting the bed
You don't have wind or morning and loud loud and violent and a very pungent wind
Well, you're not really you don't usually get up this early.
I know you said you're quite well rested.
I am.
You don't get up this early.
And one thing you, people who get up early in the morning
understand, Paul, you get up and then about half an hour later
it all starts to get going.
It all starts to jostle.
The old jostle and plop.
The old jostle and plop. Yeah it. The old jostle and plop.
Yeah, that's what they call it.
Once the body wakes up. I mean, I'm at that point, mate, where my guts are in a state of...
Come on, man.
...need. Anyway, look, so we're gonna go in.
That's good.
And we will come out the other side and report on how it went.
And then we'll have to make an episode up
because we've got no fucking plans for this week have we?
No, I think we are well situated just at the edge of the city of London to do a real scenic
walk of some sort. I was thinking maybe Shadwell Basin? Have we been there?
Is that some Welsh guy? No?
You know what? I feel like I've got hay fever but apparently the
pollen's low. My face is erupting. Yeah. When we get in we'll be fine. Listen I
tell you what, right here we go we're going in, best of British everyone.
Shadwell Basin? Shadwell Basin, maybe. We could go to the South Bank, what I mean is all
within walking it. We could do a John John Rogers walk Nick one of his one of his yeah we could just Nick one of John
Rogers. Go look at the London Stone the oldest part of London ever yeah could do there's lots of
stuff we could do. Right by the city is all I'm saying. It all depends on what happens in the
next half hour here. As soon as we get this nightmarish plug out of the way. Anyway.
I hope that we don't have to be funny.
Oh, that would be terrible.
Tell us a joke.
My life up to this fucking point.
Laugh at that.
Right, we're going in.
Are we?
Yeah, because we have to get there for 10.30.
We're here.
Right, we're going in.
Wish us luck.
See you on the other side.
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Welcome to Cheap Show. Welcome to Cheap Show. Right, we got kicked out for swearing and being naughty boys. No we didn't, it all went very smoothly.
I said this is run by John Osborne or whatever his name is, George Osborne.
George Osborne, is it?
Evening Standard in the London live is the same thing, isn't it?
Oh is it?
So yeah, I don't know.
Anyway, it went alright ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
By the time this episode comes out it may have been on the telly already, I don't know.
No, hopefully it will come out before 400. next week sometime. Oh we don't know. You know what we don't have an
episode this week. Do we have an episode for them this week? I mean I mean
obviously this is it what we're doing right now but are you saying do we have
a theme an idea a concept? Do you have any clue what we're gonna do for the
rest of this episode? Eli let me tell you with full confidence that I have no idea what we're going to be
doing this week on the podcast.
Okay, so what options do we have on the table?
I'll tell you option one.
Option one.
Shadwell Basin.
I know you've been talking about Shadwell Basin, but I looked it up mate and it's not
exactly the most thrilling and I would just...
We could go.
We could go down to like Norton Fulgate and Peticoat Lane, Ripper Country.
Ripper Borough.
For episode 399, let's go to Ripper Country shall we?
No, I'm taking you to Pret first.
Oh yeah, we've got to go to Pret.
Alright, well tell you what, how about this boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen of all ages?
The Near East End is there and that's quite sort of, we can explore bits around there. Yeah and we'll talk a little bit more about what we did in there in a minute but I just thought
we'd get it underway this episode so welcome to Cheap Show. Hello it's the comedy comedy comedy
comedy podcast where Eli and I go through bog and bins charity shops. You get it. We find the fun
in the frugal everyone. We do. We find the treasure amongst the trash and this week the treasure is content itself hopefully we'll find some but we don't know it is kind of a impromptu
walk of our episode because well we've all we've all been tired and here's
prep look they're still open right we're still gonna like we're gonna go prep
like seeing a bit seeing a bit abandon segment, I want foodie nom noms.
What are you gonna have?
Coffee, innit, nom nuts?
What do you think I'm gonna have?
That's a drink in most people's, sir.
You're gonna have solid coffee?
Yeah, can I have?
You're gonna have solid lumpy coffee, are ya?
I would like a block of coffee, please.
Right, I'm gonna go.
Do you know, that's how they invented instant coffee,
as a kind of coffee chewing gum
that was for fighter pilots in the Second World War. Well there you go, you did learn something from our little
whimsy there. Well I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna pick some food as well I think
I might get a toasty. Let's get a toasty. Oh yeah. Alright we're gonna do that. See you in a bit.
Hang on, let me just wrap this up.
So here we are sat on a park bench, we've been to Pret, we've bought ourselves a
Sammy and a lovely cup of coffee. Well I Pret, we've bought ourselves a Samy and a lovely
cup of coffee. Well I did, you didn't get a coffee did you? I already had one earlier so I didn't
want to over caffeinate Paul because then I'd be going 100 miles per hour. Well that was my first
coffee of the day and much needed it was too. What mph do you think you're going then? 50, 50? I'm
driving, I'm getting up there to 60. Eli, you're over the limit.
I'm pumping.
There's a child in the road, Eli, get out of the way!
She's dead, she's dead, she's dead.
They'll always die.
So we are on a park bench in a graveyard.
Bunhill Fields.
Bunhill?
Bunhill Fields.
Not Bunghill Fields, as I humorously mentioned.
Because I like the word bung. It's got a nice ring to it bung doesn't it?
Bung is a great little phoneme to be bandying about. Oh there's goes a gate. Oh and chain sound as well.
Bung. Because it comes from bunged up. Your face can be bunged up can't it? A bottle can be bunged up.
Also isn't a bung when you slip some money? It's a a bung mate. Yeah yeah that's also a word for a bribe yeah.
Yeah. But this is bun as in hot cross or... Hot cross, one a penny, two a penny, hot cross bung.
And of course famously buns, not called buns all over the UK, some baps, batches,
mard cakes. I used to call them batches growing up. And then when I moved down to London
or moved out of Wirral, it was like,
what the human fuck are you talking about?
What's a batch?
It's like a little cob, what a cob.
It's a little bun.
Oh, a bun, a bread bun, right.
Or a bread roll.
That's how I used to say it.
Bread roll.
Well, this is the kind of content on Cheap Show
you can expect for episode 399.
Looking where we are.
He's looking where we are.
Because this grave is the grave of, what was his name, Tony Bunyan or whatever.
John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress. I don't know what that is though. A famous early
text. It's like a Canterbury's Tale kind of thing. I think it's similar to that, it's a fiction,
early literature, fictional literature. So he's buried here and then we've got another guy.
Barnhill Fields burial and gardens officially but we're in the fields bit here on the edge of the
but there's still some burial going on. Right around us. Look there's a gravestone behind us.
The Reverend Theophilius Flinzi. Theophilus. Theophilus, Lindsay, MA. What does MA stand for?
Master Action. Master of Arts. Isn't it like an MA? Have
an MA. Yeah but this is when? When did he die? Oh it's all Roman numerals. VIII567858.
He died in November 58. That can't be right. Age XLVXLXIIII. That's shit. Just put numbers
on. Just put fucking numbers on. Fine, people used to be able to do Roman numerals
I can't do them. So the other most famous the most famous person buried here in Bunhill
fields
Is what's he called again?
Dumas William Defoe
William Defoe, that's the actor
Alexander Defoe, John Defoe John Defoe Billy Bob Defoe
what's he fucking William what's he called you could look it up anyway he
wrote Robinson Crusoe the book about a man who gets down on an island with a
friend with his friend called my man Friday and they live what happens at the
end is just get off the island or something I do not know it's extremely
colonial basically basically it's extremely colonial in flavor.
Basically it's like Castaway but without Tom Hanks and a ball which you know is for me
a negative point. But anyway Alexander Defoe isn't it? The author of Robinson Crusoe. He's
doing google words google it. Daniel. Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on the 25th of April, 1719.
1719, oh dear.
Yeah, so it's very deep history and this is right, it's basically on the outskirts of
the city of London, but you've got up there, you've got lots of places around here.
You do, we are in London with lots of places.
But what are we going to do for the rest of this podcast, Paul?
We're just going to do a ramble.
I thought you were going to get the lapel mics out.
No, it makes no odds, maybe we'll just use this.
Lapel mics are great, but they end up having a lot more for me to process in the editing at the end of the day to get them loud enough.
Paul, I do have a taz from the dance floor. Shut up! I've had enough of you now.
Do you?
It's a bit of a dark one though.
Nah, not in the mood.
Why?
Did someone say have you got a song?
It's for my dead baby.
No, I just went to the loo at the end of the night and I went to the men's loo and there
were loads of staff in there and the bouncer was pulling trying to open the cubicle door,
like break it open because obviously someone had passed out in there.
Okay, it's not that dark then it's not like can you please play a song for me
because my baby died on this day and it's in memory of little baby Jacko.
They were obviously insensible not waking up the guy was literally gonna
tear the cubicle door off his hinges.
Meanwhile you're trying to have a piss next to it.
I didn't go in there because there were female staff members in there I just I was I held it oh and then I got on the
bus home and there was some proper street business going on but there was
this strange man and he asked he went sorry to be cheeky can I have your
water and I was like I had a bottle of water on my trolley I was like yeah okay
and then was he a man of no fixed abode
shall we say look like or just a pisshead who would have gone angry if he said no
strange sort of androgynous man who had obviously had some kind of lip filler so
the lips were like they were plump you know like that kind of look that
androgynous sort of but with some kind of cosmetic stuff going on. Like that dude who was in Dead or Alive.
Yes, very much a sort of blitzkid,
new romantic kind of vibe going on.
But there was all sorts, they couldn't get on the bus.
I got on and then these people tried to get on
and they just got into a mad shouting match
with the bus driver.
It always bums my vibe out when there's an argument
on a bus and you just wanna go home and the bus isn't moving because
someone's going driver driver. No I've seen it all. We've seen it all.
I mean I've said it before I saw someone drop a hot brown cake on a chair.
I mean I've never seen that. That happens apparently in New York when you get the
subway all the time you see the subway train come in and you see that there's a car with no one in but all
the cars around it are full of people. Don't get on that car because someone has shat on
that car. Or vomited or pissed. I mean vomit you do get in London. People sometimes puke
on the train. Sure but you don't see full fecal treatment that often do you? No. Especially intentional like because he pulled
his pants down he did a squat and he dropped a deuce on a chair. You shouldn't do that. No and
then he just got off you know and then you have to tell the driver I'm sorry you might have to
drop this whole route. No the train gets totally pulled anything like that happens yeah the bus
gets pulled. I was on a bus the other day's someone had left like a glass wine bottle on the top deck and just as I was
walking up the stairs it came past me rolled past me and I couldn't get it in
time it's smashed on the stairs they took that bus out of service next stop
you know and all because some dickhead can't carry their trash with them away
don't even get me started it's a glass bottle just don't put that don't get me
started what does it take you take it off the don't put that on the bus. Don't get me started.
What does it take? You can take it off the bus and put it on the street.
It's laziness and it's also just selfishness.
It's not being societally emotionally aware.
You know what I mean?
It boils my piss, Paul.
Are we turning into grumpy old men?
Yeah, but I've been like this since about the age of 23.
I've always been a miserable humanity hating prick
who tries to see the best in things
but I'm done with that now.
I'm done with looking for the best of things in people.
I just hope the person in the toilet is okay.
Well it could have been someone who was doing nasty drugs
and they were hiding in there for some reason.
It was Sunday night so I think the sound guy did say to me it's a bit of a festival crowd in that they'd been drinking all day and they're all pretty far gone in one way or another.
I was heading into work on Sunday, obviously you know big swathes of crowds from Notting Hill Carnival coming on the tube. There was one guy bald about my height,
obviously pissed off his brain, but he had like you know booze sweats and seriously he wasn't doing anything but he looked threatening. He was just staring across the platform to the other
side of the station, sweating profusely, dead-eyed and just going, you know, like this big puffs through his mouth.
Yeah, that's not.
Like that.
Yeah, you think he was drunk.
You can smell him from there.
But I get the impression if you bumped into him or said, excuse me, that would have been
just what he needed to kick off.
Oh, he looked like he was ready to kick off.
So like everyone was taking the widest berth around them.
Because you know, you see a man in a Hawaiian shirt.
I think I'm going to have to stop wearing them, you know you see a man in a Hawaiian shirt yeah yeah yeah I think I'm gonna have to stop wearing them you know this is our thing. The Moogaloo boys in America who are
fascists their thing was Hawaiian shirts you know that and also there's a lot of
people on the left who say you shouldn't because it's like cultural
appropriation because they're Hawaiian I just like. So I'll tell you what I'll go
back to being my fucking boring middle-class plaid shirt fucking get up
with all the other 40 year old men in media.
You fucking have nothing.
Why are we allowed to wear plaid shirts then?
I don't like plaid.
I don't like it.
And then I looked in my cupboard one day
and saw that I had almost nothing.
But plaid, yeah you've gone off plaid.
You've moved towards Hawaiian, or loud.
Or loud or colors, just in general colors.
I know, it seems a shame that you're not allowed
to just wear something that just makes you feel
a bit brighter, you know what I mean?
I mean no one is stopping you. Look we're wearing our shirts today.
It's like he was in a you know all of these problematic people in in Hawaiians.
Yeah but that hasn't stopped people but shopping at Moss Bros or whatever it is.
What was the name? They did these like they did dye the costumes for slaves.
Oh no you're think of Hugo Boss
Oh, but the Moss Bross are a big suits manufacturer in the States. I heard a dollop about it and they literally
They were yeah, no, they they were making clothing
Supplying clothing for the slavery trade making slave clothes
Basically slave chic clothing or like just super basic super minimal clothing.
They had all these contracts with Confederate basically slave owners.
I didn't know they were going that long.
Yeah.
I didn't know they were...Moss Bross had been going since the Confederacy.
Yeah, yeah.
So there you go, you have learnt something.
Because Moss Bross is like a byword for like a Wall Street...
that's what they wear, the Moss Bross suit.
It's like a shorthand for like a certain type type of or if you want a cheap suit for a wedding I
seem to remember just moss bros suit just moss bros your wedding yeah
moss bros your wedding I wouldn't moss bros oh oh oh
froth bros forget it that's all that's the Ganon and E like clothing line
froth bros malarkey can we have malarkey there? Yeah, froth, froth, malarkey line of clothes.
We do Hawaiian shirts.
Oh, it'd be great if we had a cheap show Hawaiian.
We could as well.
We've got enough and all.
We've got enough and all iconography
to design cheap show Hawaiian style shirts.
Pickles, Winky design.
Tony sort of pickle, cartoony.
Oh, he's gonna sneeze.
Right, hang on. What are we gonna do? I don't know. This is the point, we're just r Yeah. Oh, he's going to sneeze. Right, hang on.
What are we going to do?
I don't know.
This is the point, we're just rambling.
We need to decide now.
This is a literal, maybe just, I tell you what,
let's just make this a ramble episode.
We just want to have a little
rambling and rambling.
We just want to have a little
walk into the city.
And rambling.
So we walk across the.
Yeah, stop sneezing and go away from me.
Every time you sneeze, it's like a wet fireworks night.
It's just spray in the air.
Oh, he's off now.
Right, well, since he's off now, he's lost interest in me in this conversation.
I'm going to say goodbye.
Oh, something really...
Yeah, Eli's got hay fever today.
Even though it's low pollen?
It's a bit like a bad video game, isn't it?
It's low poly... gone...
No, you know what? Ignore that.
It's low polygon.
Yeah, low polygon. It wasn't good. Right, so, we'll see you in a bit when we you know what ignore that one. Low polygon?
Yeah low polygon it's not, it wasn't good.
Right so we'll see you in a bit when we've decided what we're doing.
It's a Rumble On episode. We're rambling on and we're rambling on.
Do you know what a Rumble on by...
The Stones.
Led Zeppelin almost.
Led Zeppelin.
It's the one where he goes in the darkest days of Mordor.
In the heart of Transylvania, in the vampire hall of fame.
I saw a girl so fair, the Gollum and the Evil One crept up and stole away with her, her,
her yeah.
Her, her.
Her, she had lovely her her yeah her her lovely her lovely hair go
lemon the evil one a little spunked in a way Led Zeppelin did the theme tune to
Count Duckula in the heart of Transylvania in the vampire hall of
fame yeah there ain't no one is any here was Duckula Count Duckula Oh Ducky boo
wasn't Brian May was the main singer in Led Zeppelin.
Robert Plant.
Yeah, Robert Plant was the voice of a nanny
in Count Duckula.
He was the one who went, oh Duckie Booze.
It's a fact, you look it up,
it's not a very well known fact that Led Zeppelin
are the creative voices behind.
It's one of these facts, it's not very well known,
and also not a fact.
It is a fact, it's like, you know the goodies
did the voices for Banana Man?
Or Led Zeppelin were watching Banana Man and they went...
The goodies did the voices for Banana Man?
I'm thinking of Super Ted, which was Griffiths of Play School.
Circus of the Daughters, yeah we've had that before.
We've had it all before.
Erm, what was I going to say?
Alright.
So yeah.
At least I had sex.
Come on, we're getting noticed here in Bunhill.
They're going to try and bung us up our uphill.
Up our hill.
Danger Mouse's voice has been written by the Who.
Right, let's move on.
Let's move on.
Get it out there.
Let's go for a wander.
Don't do that thing with your fingers.
You'll swallow it every time.
Oh, what's that guff?
We're walking our way through the city. Great Swan Alley, not
Great Swan. No, Great Swan. Listen, I forgot to mention we start off at Finchbury
Square near Liverpool Street and we're on Great Swan Alley
and there's a little bit of a hunk isn't there in the air? There's waves of pure sewage but not like sewage it's more, it's more fresh
it's almost like, it's like hot brown, hot fresh brown laid shit stench
but also like brie? Yeah there's a cheesy, there's a sort of burnt cheese top note to it
I wonder what it is? Oh god! You can't escape it, what is that?
Where is it coming from all these slots in the hole?
Slots?
Slots.
Are they?
Because that's a fucking mega honk.
That's a mega honk.
It seems to have blown away.
It seems to have blown away, but that was really unbearable.
I just thought it was worth documenting that.
Hot tod in the city. hot tod in the city tonight.
Hot tod, shitty in the city, back of my pants are brown and gritty.
Pull them off, it's not so pretty. Lots of dirty chunks of skin.
You've done written that before?
No, I'm just doing it now because I'm an absolute master at making up music.
Where are we going?
You're trying to get to the bridge, right?
What bridge? Temple. What's that bridge by Temple?
Temple Bridge. No.
The one that kind of goes over the road, but under the road and over that road?
Round there, yeah. Up round there?
It's up round here. Yeah, you haven't said that in a while, have you?
Let's go up here. Let's go up round there.
We're on Cocktawl House Street, are we?
Cocktawl House Street? Cocktawl.
Cocktawl? Cocktawl.
Then we're up to another one, City Hall Buildings.
There's Cockthall Close and there's Cockthall Buildings at the end there.
So we're just rambling on.
This is us rambling on.
Cockthall Buildings.
Cockthall.
Cockthall Buildings.
That's Cockthall Close.
Towards a bridge that Eli wants to talk about or go over, I don't know.
No, I just want to get to the south side.
Do you want to get to the south side?
Yeah, I want to get to the south side. Of you want to get to the south side? Yeah, I want to get to the south side.
Of the river.
Yeah.
Thames.
That's right.
Riverside Thames.
Or as it's sometimes known, the Thames.
Oh yeah, by Americans.
By Americans.
Who over-pronounciate words they can't understand.
Oh, we've got to go this way.
I think this one comes out by...
Yeah, this is a rock.
Comes out by the bridge, doesn't it?
Yeah, I think so.
It's just... Well, anyway, I only turned this on so we could, this is the right by the bridge. Yeah, I think so
Well, anyway, I only turn this on so we could talk about that honky shit pipe stink
But now that's done. We could just keep on because it was really almost making me want to honk honk
Left leaving a pavement Pollock in our wake, right? Okay, let's cock on
What do you do? Oh, did you catch yourself on the wall?
I always hit my hand when I'm walking on things that are too close, my right hand.
That's another thing.
Well that's a weirdly odd specific ailment to have.
I know, but if you keep doing it, you kind of...
Something about my visual...
I swing my hand and I smack it on things. It hurts Paul. Great content.
See you in a bit everyone. Right we've passed the monument at The Monument and
what's special about The Monument? It's the monument to the great fly of London.
The great flies of London. Is that the huge big flies that came in in 1800 and
shat on everyone's food and ate it?
They were known as the great spunky flies of London of 1800.
And that's why the monument is a giant golden fly.
And that's how we have the song of course.
The spunky flies they come and down a London town.
They spunk their dirty flyges up and down the town.
I don't know if that's the kind of thing you want to do in public.
The flyges comes up and down, it splashes all around the town.
I think he wants you to stop as well.
Comey, comey, fly spunky, funky London town.
Really in public you want to do that?
No, you started it.
I didn't.
You started this fake history.
But did I decide to...
The Great Fire of London, that's where I used to work.
Because he'd always say, what's this bridge we're on?
And I went, oh you mean London Bridge?
It's so...
Where the fire started.
So ubiquitous that I forgot the name of the bridge. But you mean London Bridge? It's where the fire started. So ubiquitous that
I forgot the name of the bridge but it's London Bridge everybody. London Bridge is falling
down my fair ladies. It's not falling down when we cross it right now. Well if it does
it'd be the worst London disaster in decades. I know. Wouldn't it? Countless dead. Yes I
would rather not be amongst them. Yeah. So.
We're just rambling. This used to be the bank.
This road that's going under us.
We're under...
The bridge crosses a road before it crosses the river.
And that used to be the bank.
The old Roman bank.
It's noisy, isn't it though?
Everything's beep-bop-beep.
Wait till we get to the other side.
So...
Where should we...
Where should we reach the vein?
I don't know what we're doing this week.
Well, we're going to get to the other south side of the river.
I wanted the day off for Monday because I was knackered.
We could go up towards the South Bank, or we could go down towards Shadwell.
I'm not doing Shadwell. Just on principle.
I want to stay away from that.
I don't mean Shadwell, I mean Shad Thames, the warehouse district.
The Welsh guy. Shadwell Thames.
Hello there, I'm the London's most famous Welshman, Shadwell Thames. Hello there, I'm the London's most famous Welshman, Shadwell Thames.
And I'm very proud to get my penis out in public for Five Bob.
And that's the best I could do for that character.
I mean, my fly song was much better.
Mmm.
Much, much better. Just admit it. Just admit it.
Hey, don't look at me. Oh no, I was going to say don't look at the sign, but now I've said don't look at me, which means you looked at the sign.
I was going to say, do you know the post go for London Bridge?
It's EC4.
Well, because it's right on the fucking thing, isn't it?
Oh, now we're crossing.
Now we're crossing.
See, there's the big shard.
There's the shard.
There's the shard.
There's Tower Bridge.
And you know what? A lot of people go, oh, everything's always in London.
Why don't you come and do something enough?
We will one day, we can't do it though, because of my schedule and is.
But we will do it, we want to do it. Just leave me alone.
I'd like to go to Norwich.
We've done Norwich.
Did we?
Yeah. Not properly.
I'll tell you what we should do, because someone was asking for this and I would agree.
We should do another tat hunt episode, a two parter, one part tat hunting, two part reviewing,
eating, whatever.
Like with Denise Finchley.
Part two?
Yeah, I'm up for it any time of the week, mate.
Look, you can see the battleship, one of those battleships.
There's Tower Bridge, the bridge that is famously confused with London Bridge in American minds.
It's very close as well, isn't it?
Yeah.
They're close together.
Because that's the old adage, innit,'m gonna buy that Yankee was like I'm gonna buy
London Bridge thinking it was Tower Bridge and then he bought this one.
And this one, this isn't the original London Bridge it used to run down there.
London Bridge is now in America going across some huge fucking lake or something.
The original bridge was one of these, I don't know what they call them, the technical term is,
but it had all buildings along on the bridge.
Yeah.
That would have been incredible if that had stayed.
Isn't that like the bakery where the fire started or whatever it was in?
No, the fire started up there, Lud Hill, which is just behind, that's my old office building
where I used to do market research.
Yeah, that's horrible.
No, it's nicer than the ones next to it.
Christ.
Then there was that terrorist stabbing. Nearly put my willy in you there. it. Christ. Was that terrorist stabbing?
Nearly put my willy in you there.
That's the hall where the terrorist stabbing started, just there as well.
Do you remember that?
Do you remember that?
It's like, what is it with your view and all your negative flavoured stories of London?
It's like I said to him before, oh that building up there, the Cockdawge Inn, that's where
I got married in 2001.
And he was, oh yeah, it's the same place a man threw himself off because he was depressed.
It's like, alright, thanks. That it's the same place a man threw himself off because he was depressed. It's like, all right, thanks.
That wasn't the memory I was reaching for.
That was my magical wedding day
before it all fell apart a lifetime ago.
We still haven't decided what we're doing.
Are we gonna go up there towards the Tate and so forth?
Yeah, let's do that.
There's more interesting stuff up that direction.
That direction is kind of cool
because it's like all the old Docklands
where they used to film Doctor Who and shit, but now... It kind of runs out of interest
so should we take the Thames path? You know what I would like to do? What? Go up the Thames path towards the
South Bank and then let's end the episode with a nice bevy and a drink and a boozer or something.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah I don't want to drink booze but yeah. All right we'll have a lemonade, I'll have a
alcoholic drink and it'll be our intro to 400 because
this is episode 399.
Is it?
Yeah.
No it's not.
It is.
Is it?
Yes, I'm in charge of the podcast, I know which one's which.
Who's in charge of this podcast Paul?
Sadly me.
All its successes are mine and all its failures are doubly mine.
I don't think you should, that's a very unhealthy way to look at it.
I'm here, I'm here with you man. Yeah. Whether I like it or not. Whether I like it or not. Well you...
Telly Savalas wanted to do your job and I said no to Telly. Why? Because he was dead. Because he's been dead. Zombie Savalas. Zombie Savalas was like, who loves you baby? He looked like a lollipop I get out of his jaw.
You know those are the most hated steps in London there.
Why? Because they're steep.
They're at a weird angle.
Have you never seen those ones?
I have because we've been up and down them.
It's one London bridge.
Yeah, we have been up and down them.
But we're going the other way this time.
There you go.
So, right, we're going to take a walk along the...
We've crossed the bridge now.
And we're now going to go up 10th passage
on our way towards the South Bank Centre. And we'll see you a little bit further along on our journey.
Oh it's another cheap show Rambalong. I've got a Rambalong. I've got a big honking
throb on. How about that? That's where you used to work, the Sun. It's not the Sun is it?
Maybe the Sun is in there but I know, well News UK where Times Radio is
is in that building. That's Murdoch I think, News UK. Yeah it is.
And it is all of them.
And so I used to work for them
and they used to have to get up at 3am
to get there for four to do a breakfast show till midday.
No, I got a taxi there every morning and I hated it.
I hated getting up at three.
I hate it.
There's steps down.
Right, we're gonna go down the step.
Proper sign off now, Tati Bay.
Right we're on the Thames Path now as you can hear there's lots of construction in the background. What's this? The Golden Hind. What's this? What is this big boat then?
Golden Hind. It's been around the world. Yeah. Did it find my baby?
It says look there's circumnavigation. Did you see that? It's been around the world and
it did find my baby. RIP Lisa Stansfield. She's not dead. I know but when she goes.
Oh you mean her career? No when she goes. Just getting it in early. If she dies in the
next week you're going to feel pretty terrible.
I will, but I'll also feel pretty powerful.
Let's say like someone evil.
Maybe they'll drop dead.
Who do I want to die?
Oh, I'm off. I'm off.
Circumnavigations.
Oh, yeah, they go around the world.
So it's like it looks like a kind of pirate boat, doesn't it, from back in the day?
I think it must have been through a lot of reconstruction over the years.
1500s. And even was going through on the 1979 route.
No, it can't be.
It says there, 1979 route.
I know, I see, I see. That can't be real.
But why would they make it out of...
Oh, they made the boat again and then they did it across the world.
Yeah, or as some kind of a promotion.
Anniversary circumnavigation, yeah., but look you can also do an escape thing
It's a in the boat. See it's like it looks pretty ropey down there by the keel
It's a dry job. You know when like before when allot lost did that ghost hunting the Peterborough Museum
They also had a escape room in there as well. So it must be like a side hustle
It's a massive side hustle for these menus. That's what I'd say, Paul. We need to do a cheap show escape room.
We really should, as an episode.
Well, you know, we get people in to solve it.
They're all puzzles.
And we can be like the quiz master.
You'd like to do that?
Yeah.
Why not?
We could use the studio again.
I think that's a good idea.
Because it's very kind of cheap show adjacent,
the whole idea of escape room.
Well, I've got a load of escape room board games
that we could reconfigure into cheap show stuff.
Yes.
Yeah that's something to look forward to in the next year.
Well that's because we want to have a bit reflective. It's hard to be reflective of the noise of that rock drill.
That drill is really going for it man.
Well I just wanted to talk about this boat because it's pretty.
Alright let's get out. We're going past the clink, the world's oldest prison.
Yeah that's also the one that has a torture museum or a prison museum in it.
Watermen, you see that there?
Yeah, that's Dennis Waterman.
That's started by Dennis Waterman.
Yeah, I like good stuff.
You know what, they're catchphrases as well.
Watermen's, we could be so good for you.
Yes, they could be.
There's good stuff in it.
What's this thing?
Is this part of the London Wall?
No, I think it's an old church, isn't it?
Oh, mate, can you take a picture of that boat?
I want pictures. I always take pictures and then I end up not in pictures on the podcast
on our website because I don't take a good selfie.
I've got a gurney twat face.
I'll take a picture of the boat. You want me to picture you?
I'm going to stand in it. Yeah, I want to be in it.
That's what I want to do. I want to be in the picture this time.
I'm posing. Is this good?
And here I am posing in front of the Golden Hind,
which is a boat that has travelled the world.
Yeah?
God. Right, now we can go.
They do ghost hunts in the Clink as well, apparently.
Well, you would, wouldn't you?
I bet they do a scratch.
Extra scrap room from the clink,
was that bit too on the nose? I bet they fucking do, I bet they get you scratch. Oh it's all really
old looking up there isn't it, what was that Winchester's Road, Square? Street. Square, SQ.
SQ, SQ, um, Squire? Squire. I love the way that that church is like embedded into the new building,
it's just latched onto it like, as we can just latched onto it like old and new Lego.
It's the Great Hall.
It's the Great Hall.
These are the ruins of the remains of the Palace of the Powerful Bishops of Westminster.
Winchester.
One of the largest...
That road Winchester Square up there that we just talked about.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
What did I say?
Westminster.
Bollocks.
Anyway, I am very aware of that
Anyway, it's it's a bit of an old wall. Well done
I've lost you've absolutely lost my interest now in that you've denied. Oh, that's old
Old stuff is bad stuff. That's what we need to remember
Anything old is shit. Everything new is instantly cool. We're skirting red bus shop London gifts. Oh, it's gonna be a tacky
thing in it
Look at that. It's like you know what you're right
I do like this area because it's kind of old and you rotting up against one another. Yes
It's a it's we're walking along the Thames on the South Bank. We're going
West yeah
Go west on the South Bank. just skirting the outskirts of
Borough Market don't want to go into Barrow Market. Who's Gary King? I don't know some guy.
Yeah here's the clink so yeah it is a old prison museum. Oh apparently it's
where all the clink was where the term was coined here. Yeah. Didn't know that. Yeah.
Oh, it looks like a ghost train in there. I don't like it.
Do you reckon we can get concessions as a family?
I'll be two adults and you can be two kids.
Would that be cheaper?
Wouldn't be cheaper than?
No, it would not be cheaper.
It would be 10 pounds more expensive.
There's monks down there.
Yeah.
You don't get monks in prisons. Trans-global underground.
Well I think Bankside hasn't changed much since the Clink's prison days. Local streets
reflect its historical past as much as Clink Street, Bear Gardens home of bear baiting
and Rose Alley site of the Rose Theatre. So that was where they literally just used to
get bears fighting in a pit. Yes
You know, this used to be a proper country. Mr. Silverman
You were entering the original site of the clink. Yeah, no
It's spooky in there, but I bet it's really expensive to rent it for a ghost hunt as well. I guarantee you of course
Explore the mystery coffin. What does that say rodent hunts for kids?
Explore the mystery coffin. What does that say? Rodent hunts for kids.
How many rodents can you count hidden in the...
Okay, not real rodents.
Are you brave enough to dig deep into the coffin?
What's inside? You decide.
Why would you decide what's in the coffin?
Just on the pose for camera.
Pulse Beyond Delight. Is that...
Some kind of exhibition?
For fanny toys?
I don't know, it's some kind of... Multimedia Korean art exhibition. No, no, no, no, it's good. Pulse Beyond Delight, is that for fanny toys?
Multimedia Korean art exhibition. Ah, it's good.
See, there's lots to see and do, isn't it?
Dirty Lane.
Oh, I wonder what happened up Dirty Lane.
Let's go up Dirty Lane.
Oh, yeah, oh, Mr. Silverman.
Oh, I'd love to have you take me up Dirty Lane.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
This is like a new shopping thing under the arches.
Quite impressive isn't it? Spooky lit. It's like an arcade down here. Do you like, hey
listener, do you like just hanging out with me and Eli as we wander like two
tourists through London town? I do, we should do it all the time. I'm gonna take
a picture, it's nice. I like it. I like the look.
Right, here we go.
Yeah, that'll do.
So I don't know where we're going from at this point, but we are going. We ramble on.
Stonecutters Lane.
Silverman. Stonecutters Lane. Is that where we are? Look there.
This is all under the rail. We do, we do. Isn't that the stonecutters from the Simpsons?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star? We do. The stonecutters, why? Are they like the masons?
This is crazy down here. It's this whole complex they've built under the railway arches. It's all full of Bijou posh place things.
It's amazing. Just in terms of a space.
Yeah. It's all a bit out of our price range, innit, in terms of interest.
It saves it. I bet it's privately owned, all of these spaces.
Oh, knife shop.
Pricy Japanese knife shop down here.
Knife shop. Pricy Japanese knife shop down here.
Bespoke facials you can get there. I've got a place you can get bespoke facial. I went to a freelance circumcisionist the other day. Left a tip.
That's an old one. I know. That's what he said as well when he looked at it.
I've got all the gags ladies and gentlemen. One, two, three, four, five gags.
I didn't realise they can build this here. It's relatively's relatively new this must be new I don't remember this we've been with now we
need to keep going that way we have this pricey shopping arcade we found this
muse amusing so pure this way fortune teller informer scapegoat chimney surgeon
what am I reading it's an art piece I think.
Bloody artists, I hate them.
I want to earn a living by slapping things on a canvas.
Nobbers.
I tell you what, I'm going to...
Let's take a break from this recording gold.
Oh, there's two cows on a roof.
It's good, isn't it?
I know, I know.
We're going to do it now, aren't we? But you're the one who
want to go down the pretty alleyway. Right, we're gonna try and find our way back to the path.
Right, when you last heard us, which was me in seconds for you, it's been a bit,
what, about 20 minutes for us, if you went for a little bit of a wander.
Along the Thames, along the Thames along the Thames and we saw some lovely sights uh tourists buskers opera singers guitarists uh now we're
arriving at the National Theatre South Bank and look at it and it's magnificent concrete glory
before us and we're going to the understudy yeah which is the great little pub yeah tucked down
here just tucked down there now earlier year, we were at the same location
where we surfed for our Sounds of London episode.
Is that where we're down here?
Yeah.
Did we go to the understudy?
No, we went to the National Theatre,
because remember there's like one sound effect which is like,
oh hang on, here's a sound effect from London.
Oh, don't.
I don't know if you caught that.
You know when we went into that wetness.
39, oh, that was really wet as well.
I feel like I've added the pint or something to my knickers. You shat yourself yourself is that what you're saying? No it's just the it's just the ambient moisture
in your pants yeah. Ambient brown. You know I think something to do with that is the fact that
we don't have any direct way of sensing wetness. Who? Humans. Humans. Humans. Like other things
actually have wetness receptors but we have none of those.
So we have to infer wetness, which is why sometimes you can't tell whether you're wet or not.
And I think a similar effect...
I know a lot of women I've been would have said that as well.
I think you're feeling a similar effect in your pants.
There's a moisture-ness there, but it's not actually become fully wet.
There's a kind of funk all over my kecks tonight.
Is there any books open? No, there's no books today.
There's no books today.
I don't think so. Do you see any? I need to have a look.
I really need a drink of water. Yeah, they're the books.
There, I can see the books.
Where? I can't see books.
They're all looking at them just there under the bridge.
Say people were all sort of looking down in a row.
Take me to the place I love.
Take me all the way.
Paradise City?
No, under the bridge.
Take me to the place I love.
Oh don't start with those.
Take me all the way.
How many other songs do we have?
Zero, it's zero.
Roller coaster.
That's not their song, that's Ohio players.
Still good though, innit?
Right, where are we going to again?
Have you paid money to go see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in concert?
No. Good.
Although I did go see Maroon 5.
Are you joking?
Yeah, I'm joking about that.
I'd rather see Chili Peppers than Maroon 5.
Fair enough.
It's like, someone's got a gun to my head, you better buy tickets for chilli peppers now otherwise you're going to Maroon 5.
Okay, I'll buy the fucking tickets.
I love this place, the understudy.
Well we're going to go for a quick drink because hey, it's £3.99, next week's £400, why don't
we celebrate and rest on our laurels somewhat?
I'm somewhat rested on my old dampened laurels.
Let's go into here then.
You just want to lemonade or take it?
Let me see what they have in the soft drink selection.
Here we go, here we go, we're going in.
Right, well we have had a little drinky poo, haven't we?
I didn't, I only had a rose lemonade.
That's still a drink, isn't it? Still a drinky poo, isn't it?
It's got a more naughty drink.
I didn't say it was a naughty drink.
You had a whole pint of naughty juice.
I had some citrusy IPA thing which was absolutely delicious and I'm not one for booze but I'm a little bit randy now. I know that's all that happens to you. I know it's gonna get me in problems one day isn't it? No hopefully not. No because I'm too much of a coward. We had it at the understudy which is the pub inside the National Theatre building. Betwixt the building. No it's in there. It's not betwixt it. It's betwixt. It's betwixt the pub inside the National Theatre building. Betwixt the building. No, it's in there.
Betwixt.
It's not betwixt shit.
It's betwixt.
It's betwixt the floor and the sky.
Yeah, it's betwixt the building and the sky.
No, it's in the building, you twat.
It's betwixt.
It's betwixt.
You ain't betwixt shit.
Betwixt.
You ain't betwixt shit.
I'm just enjoying saying the word betwixt.
How about that?
Betwixt.
Bixnay on the...
Bixnay.
It's betwixtn Bix-nay?
So, we've decided, because this is a rambling episode full of nonsense
and some would argue a squandering of episode 399
Well, we do what we want on this podcast
This is what we're doing
We're having a little walk
We've been cooped up in the House of Pickles for too long
Let's stretch your legs If I was going for a type of pink lemonade that I preferred to
rose it would be raspberry. I don't like the floral edge of the rose, it's a bit
perfumey, it's a bit old granny's perfume toilet. I like that though. You like that old
granny's perfume toilet, yeah you could you like elderflower similar. And I like
me Palmer Violet shit as well. I love this nice. I love this building. I'm back at the NT.
Well, it is a different building though,
but it's in the very sympathetic Brutalist style.
Even more so.
How many times have you said the word Brutalist
on this podcast?
A lot.
I wonder, I wonder.
Everyone's gonna think London's gonna think
about Brutalist buildings.
Look at those little, they are very lovely little inlets
that are very reminiscent of like a
Castle. A castle castle isn't it
it's beautiful it is a beautifully designed building. I think it's more
form than function. Form is function. Stop motion BFI stop motion
talking about Leica and Morph. Morph features. Morph was a big stop-motion thing. Yeah. No I
know Morph but also Leica are being Artman and Leica are the two big ones. You know Morph comes down for tea does he? Yeah. No you're going the wrong way. Me and Morph are tight.
But I would actually, is that a thing? When is it August or October? Celebrating handmade
animation on the big screen. Oh actually you know what I would like to see that.
We should go to, we should see. Because look it's obviously Harry Howes and stuff there.
Should we grab a brochure? Yeah let's do it. Because that's the nice thing about the BFI
and the South Bank there's always something going on isn't there. Oh the film scores of Philip Glass.
What would that be then? He did a... Coyonauts Guadzi. Bless you. Martin Scorsese selects hidden
gems of British cinema. Oh that would be good as well. gems of British cinema it'll be it'll be
frenzy it will be peeping Tom if you said they're not mainstream because a
lot of people if you said someone named like a Hitchcock film and then you said
have you seen frenzy I would think 80% of people asked would have never seen
frenzy saying was a late Hitchcock film.
And Peeping Tom was also a massive flop and ruined the career of, was it Pressburger or
Powell?
Yeah, Powell I believe.
So they were known now because media circles know of those films but they're not huge hits,
they're not in the public consciousness in the same way Psycho is.
No. Frenzy is a Hitchcock film everyone, a late.
One of his last.
Set around the Covent Garden when it was still a vegetable market.
And it involves grizzly, grizzly murders. And a lot of humour.
And that's why it didn't really hit at the time.
There's no humour in that.
The suspense becomes humorous. It's almost clowning.
There's lots of...
I'd have to watch it again but I don't remember it being fun.
No, there's a lot and that's why people didn't like it.
No, aren't you getting confused with his last film, Family Plot,
which was a comedy film?
No, Paul. No, I am not. I'm sorry.
There's a lot of slapstick almost.
In Frenzy? Yes, there is.
I'm not disagreeing. All I'm saying is when I saw it,
I don't remember there being a lot of slapstick and humour to it.
I remember it being a very grisly, grim, mucky movie.
A bit sad.
Well, we'll see if it's on the list
because I think he's gonna go deeper than that.
Well, I'll go deeper than you.
Let's go in.
Let's go have a look at a brochure.
Be careful in here though.
I'm gonna turn it off in case they tell us off.
I'm gonna do it now.
See if you can find a brochure.
Right, turn this off so we don't get told off.
I'm tired of that.
In and out like thieves in the night. Right, you picked it up, did you?
Yes, I'm trying to find the Tarantino.
Trying to find the Tarantino thing.
Oh, it's Scorsese. It's not Tarantino, it's Scorsese.
Did I say Tarantino?
Yeah.
I thought I said Scorsese.
Both did.
That's weird, isn't it?
So you're going to change your mind now about what Scorsese would select?
No no no, because I would still say it was the same.
Who's Scorsese?
I brought Tarantino, because we were talking about Tarantino earlier.
Yeah privately between us, not to do with you.
We like our private Tarantino conversations.
Yeah we do, yeah.
F*** fetish c***.
What has he picked?
He's picked shooting stars.
Have you heard of that?
No.
That's from 28.
Satire on the film industry.
Oh dear.
That's interesting.
See, already I want to go see these.
Brief Ecstasy.
That's what my bedroom antics are called.
From 1937.
Went the day well.
These really are.
The Man in Grey.
Is that espionage?
I don't know.
Yeah.
Second World War British film finally began to loosen its stage and flaunt its sexuality
in the shapely form of Gainsborough's period melodramas.
Who? Claude Gainsborough?
The Seventh Veil.
Oh God, it's a bit stodgy isn't it?
Wow, they're showing all sorts of stuff.
Human Cry.
Oh they were good.
Lucky for Linda.
That's where they got their name, did you know?
It's from a film.
Yeah.
Yield to the Nights, Stolen Face, Mandy.
I haven't heard of any of these. These could be good, like Noirs.
The Damned. Among the most unusual films ever made at Hammer.
American emigre Loesle's disquieting, fatalistic chiller begins in the familiar mould of the juvenile deliquent film,
before shifting into paranoid Cold War-era science fiction.
Yeah, that's the village in the...
Oh, The Legend of Hell House!
Oh!
Shall we see it? Let's go see it.
Because I've never seen The Legend of Hell...
I've read the book recently and I was like,
how the fuck are you going to convert that to a film
because it's fucked up.
Monday, 7th of October is probably a good one for us to see it.
Let's do it.
Do the podcast and then go see it.
Oh, let's do that then.
I would love to see Legend of Hell House.
Good.
Mr Jekyll and Sister Hyde.
Have you heard of that?
Yeah, it's pretty bad. I've actually seen that. I'm surprised that's on the list, frankly.
The Damned is the village of the Damned. You know, the children are with them.
Yeah, it's not the same thing. What do you mean?
It's not the same. It's nothing to do with the village of the Damned. It's just the Damned.
Isn't it the same?
No, it's nothing to do with it. That's the village of the Damned.
It's just about the Damned as in the youth.
No, it's American Tourist.
Dumbles a secret military project involving
a group of children.
Yeah, but that's it.
No, no, the Village of the Damned is a UFO crashes,
and then these women wake up pregnant,
and then they give birth to these kids,
and then blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's it.
That's all of the Scorsese ones, but there's lots of...
What does it say about Legend of Hell House?
Because I love that.
What does it say?
Who directed it?
Adapting his own novel. So Richard Matheson wrote the script for it as well.
Nathan, well known for writing... John Huff.
I Am Legion, the original book.
Yeah, and lots of Twilight Zone and stuff.
What's that book called? We Are Legion?
I Am Legend.
Menacing mood, camera angles, Delia Derbyshire on Settling Score.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I did know that.
We've got to go see that.
So I've been trying to get it on Blu-ray but you can only get it in Germany.
I did not know it was a Delia Derbyshire score. No, cool. That must be all like noise stuff, you know, rather than strings and that.
Oh, that's exciting, isn't it? Oh, we're going to the movies.
Delia Derbyshire, everyone, was one of the pioneering electronic musicians who worked for the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra.
We've mentioned it before on the show, shut up.
She did a lot with her, well she did some with her, Anthony Eulie didn't she?
The Bimbo Bombo's or whatever it was that she called them.
Yes, and we're coming up on the backside of the most,
one of the most beautiful, brutalist buildings in London.
Right, I'm not having fucking the word brutal, I'm not, you can talk all you like.
I'm not, because I'm walking away from you, therefore I'm going...
Go up there!
Why?
Excuse the building!
I thought we were going to the bus stop. Therefore I'm going... Go up there! Why? Use the building!
I thought we were going to the bus stop.
The bus stop is up here, you prick!
Yeah, but I thought we were going to Waterloo station where all the buses go from.
Well, we're not.
I'm not fucking up here.
Oh, well done then, fucking dozy dick.
So we may as well go to Waterloo station then, mightn't we?
No, not this bridge, because we're not getting the bathroom Waterloo!
We're getting it from this bridge, you idiot.
I don't like the way you talk to me in public.
You're an idiot.
You're an idiot and you're a squat little fascist.
Oh, I'm not. How dare you?
Look out for the car.
How dare you?
Squat little fucking prescriptivist cunt.
Prescriptivist?
Yeah.
What have I prescribed?
No, you're locked into your ways and you won't change them.
I haven't prescribed anything. You don't even know what prescriptivist is.
Yes, it is. It's someone who's locked into old values of their own that they've made up over the time.
Yeah, a prescriptivist value.
That's not true.
It is actually true.
It's not.
I'm sorry you're not well read.
Does the word prescribe mean to dictate or run the outlaw for others?
Right, okay, Google.
Define, oh I've forgotten the word now, what did I say?
Prescriptivist. Now I've said the whole now, what did I say? Prescriptivist.
Now I said the whole sentence.
Now I'm saying this sentence.
It's kind of the...
Prescriptivision.
A prescriptivist is someone who believes that they are correct.
Hang on, let me read out properly. Prescriptivists are people who believe they are correct. Hang on, let me read out properly. Prescriptivists are people who believe they
are correct and that language should provide, oh, prescriptivists focus on how language
should be used rather than how it is used. So you're a prescriptivist.
Where was a moment of prescriptivism? When you tell me what to think and how I'm
using words wrong., believing that they are
correct and wrong to use language and books about language, I fucking hate AI.
It's a linguistics term.
It's a linguistics term.
Yeah, but you're still one.
You're still that person.
It's too opposed to linguistics.
So you can say, you know, it's not right to do a double negative.
Then you'd be prescriptivist.
But if you're a descriptivist, you say actually that's just a different way of saying the same
thing and it's just as legitimate as a piece of language. You make me sick.
We're back to this, the 400th hour last. I've had enough of this. Is it? Yeah. Make your own podcast.
Eli's prescriptivist weekly or something I don't know. We've got to walk to this
bus stop on the bridge.
Oh, it was all going so well this walk
and then you got all narky.
This is the bridge.
I thought we were going to go Waterloo,
I thought it'd be nice.
I don't know why you said that.
We could, but this is a quicker way
to get to Trafalgar Square, mate.
Yeah, you're right.
We're going to get a bus from Waterloo Bridge.
This is Waterloo Bridge, isn't it?
Yeah.
To Trafalgar, where we're going to wrap this walk up.
There's a station a bit further down there,
another five minutes down.
Yeah.
Oh, that can, look at it.
Lonely, rolling.
Going in the wrong direction up the road.
Isn't that a metaphor for life?
It's like that beautiful scene in American Beauty,
where the bin bag all goes up and down, up and down.
But it's a can and doesn't
have a sex offender in it anyway oh it's you get the super looper yeah six Wait is that? Several buses. Is that touch screen? No. It's different though isn't it? Wait is it update? Is this update?
Hang on. It's got a button on it. But it looks like paper.
No it looks like kindle. But it's got time. It looks like digital ink. That's what it is.
It's broken. I've never seen one of those.
No it's weird isn't it? It looks like paper though. It's got all the times.
It's just like a kindle if you think about it. Can we get this one?
Yeah. No. this one? Yeah, no.
This one? No?
Oh, I will not get it.
The only ones we can't get.
Right, anyway.
We can't get home, are you looking for it?
We're going to wait till we get on a bus now, we're done here.
We're done here. You've soured this, you've turned it all salty.
I haven't. You just decided to get all outraged.
Did you get outraged because you were telling me what to think and do and how to live my life?
How was I? I was not.
I don't know.
I was just saying go up these stairs to get to this bus stop.
It wasn't prescriptivist.
It was.
It had nothing to do with language.
Yeah, well here's some language for you. Bog off, Chodder.
172, 243 or 59.
Yeah?
Yeah. Oh there's a 68, is that coming past here? And 188, 243.
We get the 243 in one minute, that's us.
That's it, it's coming right now.
Right, we're getting on it.
I need my wallet, don't I?
Getting on it on the wallet.
I like it when we get on the bus, nice sound profile.
But we're going to have to walk down a little bit now.
God, here we go.
Running all the way.
Thank you.
I'm getting on the bus, we're on 243.
2, 4, 3, 2, Wood Green. Are you happy? We're sat down now.
I'm behind you.
All right.
Right.
I won't get my fair share of talkie time.
So I'm turning it off now.
OK, turn it off then.
Turn it off then.
My bing ding ding, we're off.
Off to Trafalgar.
On the 2, 4, 3.
To wrap this ramble up.
Let's wrap up this ramble.
What makes a house a hill house, hill house, hill?
What's what?
What makes it special Hill House, Hill House, how... What's what?
What makes it special?
Oh, boosh.
Howsome Hill House.
The Haunt, the Legend of Hill, of Hell House.
Legend of Hell House.
Is what it's called.
Why is it important in the history of British horror?
It's not, I mean, I would say it's not, but what it it is is a really good British horror film. It's a good one.
Although it's not really British because Richard Mathis is an American writer, right?
Yeah, but it must be a British production.
I'm going to presume so.
I mean, Derbyshire is very much a British.
Yeah, it's got, is it Malcolm McDowell in it or something?
Yeah.
Who's the one who played Caesar in the original Planet of the Apes films?
Roddy McDowell.
Yeah, he's in it.
The thing is, the book is like
it's like
no he's a British guy but he just made his name in America
doing things like I don't know
well Planet of the Apes and stuff.
That was us getting off the bus.
Yeah we had to change bus because
Eli got us a bus that went one stop
and we could have theoretically just walked
the bridge and got off anyway.
Yeah, but we've been walking a lot.
I like walking, get me steps in
because I'm a fatty bumbatti, aren't I?
We get a bus here, mate.
Here?
This very stop?
Which one?
That, a 26 or a 91.
Then we ride three stops.
Well, there's 20 minutes to the next 20. Hang on, I can't be right.
Oh mate, we could just walk it.
No, let's get in the bus man.
Don't you like getting the bus anymore?
I do.
This is where you got married.
The Devil Wears Prada is becoming a musical with the music by Elton John.
Wow, do you want to listen to a number of things I don't want to go and see?
Why?
I like The Devil Wears Prada.
You like Elton John as well don't you? I don't want to list a number of things I don't want to go and see. Why? I like the Devil Wards priority. You like out on John as well, don't you?
I don't.
His early stuff.
I don't like the last 30 years of his output.
Anyway, it doesn't really matter, does it?
What buffs are we getting?
3-4-1.
We get the 91 or the 26.
Doesn't the 3-4-1 go past you in the other direction?
Am I getting confused?
No, we're at the wrong bus stop.
Mate, let's just walk. That's not past may let's just walk the 91 to Fargo Square well with all these buses coming
now we're not gonna make it well that doesn't look like it's gonna go any time
oh it's gone I'll say that bus or do you want to walk to Fargo Square from here I'm happy to walk
walk let's walk the back route no walk that route there's no way we can't go along the strand
no you can go that route back route that road over road over. Can we end up on the Strand?
No, we won't. Look, see behind Mamma Mia. Back road there. Come on, we're causing
attention to ourselves now. Well, that's what we do. We're Maverick podcasters.
The Club Pomeri we're walking past. Yeah, Oldwich. You know what, you've got a lot of British guys in
there. They're all Poms. Pomeri they call it. That's why they call it that. Okay, so the one
Oldridge hotel. That's where you got married. I got married to my first wife.
It was before it all fell apart when I was happy. Do you want to tell me a story about someone who threw
themselves off the roof of this? I've got someone else. Ivan Avello.
Ivan Biggan. Yeah, there you go. Ivan Avellolla well I've got a little book to haven't I've got a little book too there we go aren't we isn't this how we got to
400 episodes yeah yeah see what I mean all up this way we're in theater land
and look there's mama Mia where they jammed wrong I can fuck off there's
something about there's something about that show that fucks me up and rubbed up I hate that. The player that goes wrong. Oh, I can fuck off. Really?
There's something about that show that fucks me up and rubs me up the wrong way and I don't
know why.
I think it's because it's got this kind of rather comedy vibe to it of actors who'd rather
be actors than comedians doing comedy.
Yeah.
Because it was huge at the Edinburgh Fringe years ago and that's how it made the transfer.
But it just comes across as plummy, chummy, middle class, jolly, meta comedy. It's just like
oh just fuck off. It's just fuck off. Pat yourself on the backie. Self congratulatory.
I mean our podcast has been going wrong for nine fucking years mate. And do we get a West End show? No. Good.
We're walking past the Opera Tavern. It's a tapas bar.
Oh, Bodine's have got a branch here.
They've gone downhill.
There's a lot of information there mate, want to calm down?
They do pig stuff.
What's playing at the Royal Drury Lane?
Where such shows as Monty Python performed in their day.
That's the famous one. That's the place, I never put the two and two together.
I saw the producers here back in the day but does not like they do music.
They don't have any builds outside.
Is there no musical here anymore or something?
You can go to the Terrace, no look Hercules.
Oh Hercules is coming next year, interesting and they do Frozen.
They've got big shows here mate.
Well why aren't there any big
billboards? There's the billboard on the building next to it. It's almost as if they're trying to say we're
gonna keep the front of this posh. Why not? I think don't ruin it, it's a historic
building. It's haunted as well. There's meant to be quite a few ghosts from the
rural Drury Lane theatre. Who's this bloke? Augustus Harris. He must have... He was the one who got fat and got stuck in a tube at
Wally's Wonkers factory or whatever it's called.
Wally Wonkers Factory.
I think he must have founded the theatre.
We're walking through Covent Garden basically.
Sorry everyone, it's another fucking London roamabout, isn't it?
It's a roamabout, it's a rambleabout.
Right, well we've talked now so let's just...
We're heading to Trafalgar Square, the back way. We're going to walk to Trafalgar Square because the buses were just pointless.
Pointless, especially for some London savvy chaps like us, who know London like the back of our hands.
So we're not going to bother with buses.
We'll have a little stroll through the Camden, I mean Covent Garden environs.
And then we will alight downstream in Trafalgar Square
at Ar Ar Ar. We will share our final thoughts and then end this week's episode so we'll
see you in a little bit. 400 next week everybody. It's going to be a big one but we'll tell
you about that a little bit later. Ivor Biggan. Ivor Wee Wan. Scottish grandad. I've a wee one. I'm a wee one. How are you downstairs?
I've a wee one. That's not our best material.
Right, well, we are nearly at Trafalgar Square. We started our day at 10am at Finsbury Square for our TV appearance on London Live.
Hope that goes out this week or something.
Well I hope so.
I mean, I don't know, I hope so.
If it is there'll be a link on our website to it probably, a clip or something, I don't
know.
I don't even know where it's going to be.
It seemed a bit ramshackle, didn't it?
It made our outfit look slightly professional at times.
But they did have a proper film crew and camera crew and all that stuff.
TV cameras and big monitors. I found that quite interesting.
So anyway, we started there. We weedled our way through the city of London, I guess.
The city area. Onto the South Bank.
And now here we are
finishing today's episode for no real reason in Trafalgar Square. Oh there's
something going on here what's going on? It always is mate. Are we gonna walk up to it?
What's that smell? It's a nice smell though. It's like fig tree can you smell it?
Yeah. And it's coming off these fig plants here I'm sure and it reminds me
of being in Cyprus. It's got a coconutty smell to it. Yeah, you know that what I'm going on about
But it makes a nice change from like, you know shit pipes
Here when you walk into Trafalgar Square because it feels like a sort of meadow or field smell anyway, sorry
I just go ahead one of those. No, it's fine
So we are we're walking in this
Is a busker on his guitar. Let's get out of here.
I hate the noise of those people.
I'm sure he's very good, but I don't know.
Is that an Ed Sheeran cover or something?
I bet it is.
He is a ginger lad on a guitar, so for all we know, it could be Ed Sheeran cover or something? I bet it is. He is a ginger lad on a guitar so...
I hate that kind of music.
For all we know it could be Ed Sheeran. I don't know.
I mean, that's sort of middle of the road singer songwriter stuff.
You know what? Let's just stop complaining shall we?
Well, let's do my head in. Why is he subjecting me to it?
He's probably making good money as well.
It's called busking. It's what they do.
They go, look at me and my talent. give me a couple of pennies for it please. The repertoire is so lifeless. Oh god stop complaining Jesus Christ. Just, just mate, just give,
show a little bit of love. Give a little bit, give a little bit of your love to me. Super
tramp. How dare you?
Right, so how's it going?
What do you want to do? About 400 and how much we love everyone and blah blah blah. Well when you frame it like that
Let's go over here. It's a bit spaced
Here we are we're at Trafalgar Square where if you remember we started our adventures earlier this year doing um
Sounds of London Was that, that was that day yeah, we had a huge Mard on when I met you
because you pissed me right off but here we are we're gonna end this week's
episode here why not? Personally we're in a bit of a better place right now guys
Touch and go, touch and go. So why were you so Mardi because you've been working all
weekend yeah and you were late and then gave me a fuck about. I was a little bit late yeah. Then I had to come and see you when I've been in the same
place for ages waiting for you. I did another wind. We managed to clear it all up.
We're by the famous fourth plinth aren't we now? The one where there's a rotating artist.
Famously. There was that pregnant lady with no arms and legs.
That was a big one for a bit.
And then there was something in a jar, I think.
Yeah, there's all sorts of different ones,
but this is semi-permanent now.
I've got a semi-
I think this has got something to do with the colonial past.
I read it-
I don't know, what is that?
That was the same statue that was there.
I think that's the permanent one now.
Well, what is it of?
It's, I think he's a preacher or someone who fought for the freedom of colonial...
Whatever. Anyway, it's time to say goodbye.
...independence.
So, next week on the show...
Oh, we're going to say about our pins.
Oh yeah, we went to the Transport Museum in Covent Garden on a whim.
Because I wanted to get a super loop pin, which I haven't been able to identify,
which they've been giving out when the super loops launched, but they're all launched now. Yeah, but I've got one a Superloop pin which I haven't been able to identify which they've been giving out at when the Superloops launched but
they're all launched now. Yeah but I've got one haven't I? So I'm great. It must have been
someone who got it from a driver at the launch of the Superloop. And I got it off
there. Do you have Superloop in the British Transport Museum? No, it's mostly train focused.
London Transport Museum, sorry. TfL isn't it? It's got a lovely, we have a lovely paper bag with the rondle.
Nice brown bag with a rondle on. I'm gonna keep this bag. I've got a rondle on. And what
badges did you get? Well I've got a Piccadilly line one which is a bit because it's the same
colour the round bit the same colour as the actual line which makes it quite plain. Uniform
but it's your white uniform and stark and interesting. I got a Metline one and I
got a museum badge one and a 70 years of Rootmaster one. And they were cheap
they were only £2 for the 70 years of Rootmaster.
I bet it's because 70 years of Rootmaster was last year or something.
And then I got a badge set of a train, a bus and a taxi. That's what I got.
Pictures on our website.
Rainbow Museum Rondell.
It says museum on it, which is quite nice.
Nice satisfactory.
Good prices on the pin badges there.
Cause they can gouge on those, can't they?
They could put them up to a fiver.
But they weren't all under a fiver.
So I got three badges for eight quid all in.
Whereas I went to Disney Store
to get some Haunted Mansion pin badges.
Got two, cost me 12 quid.
Yeah, I mean, yeah. You know what I mean? So here's what's happening. Got two, cost me 12 quid. Yeah, I mean yeah.
You know what I mean? So here's what's happening. This time, well not this time next week, it
depends on when you listen to podcasts I suppose, but next Friday is our 400th episode, nine
years, 400 episodes and we thought we'd do something different and special. So whilst
the podcast episode, there will be a 400th podcast it won't be a 400 episode that
will be exclusively on YouTube premiering premiere earring on YouTube
8 o'clock 8 p.m. UK time live premiere Eli and I will be in the chat room to have a
little chat and talk to you I will be working yeah but didn't we had this
discussion last week we said oh I could do it live from the thing and DJ.
Oh yeah, whilst I'm DJing, yeah?
Yeah, it's only a chat room, we don't have to be on camera or anything.
Oh, can I do that? I'd like to do that whilst I'm DJing.
Past the time.
There you go, so, live, 8pm, YouTube, UK time,
episode 400,
a visual episode,
with all the usual segments in,
and a few other surprises.
We've got some animations, some music, some all sorts of...
Little bit of this, little bit of that, Paul.
And you're pleased with how the footage came out?
Yeah, I've looked at it and I'm very happy with how it looks on our budget.
We really took our time.
I think that was one of the breakthroughs for you.
We took three days to just film an hour and a half, it's going to be something.
But we could have basically done it in one day, but it would have been flat out for the whole day.
And so we took a whole day just to set it up, just to set up the set,
which was nice to have that relaxed, measured approach.
And we had lots of help from Stuart Ashen who helped on camera,
Tom from Channel 84, so many contributors to next week's episode
that we will save for the credit sequence and we'll talk about it in the chat room
But effectively next week episode 400 a visual cheaps you on YouTube
There will be a podcast thing, but it won't be what you think
So if you want to listen into next week drunk, we're gonna get drunk and just talk shit
Yeah, but what should we get drunk on because it makes big difference cocktails. All right, but what should we get drunk on because it makes a big difference? Cocktails! Alright, but what should we get?
That's up to you innit? I'll let you decide.
What kind of cocktails do you want? Margarita style? Like to kick?
No! We should only buy one bottle.
You know? We should decide what we're gonna have.
Are we gonna have like margaritas?
We could do G&Ts.
If we could do G&Ts, um, we could do, um, martinis.
You like a martini?
We'll see. I don't mind. I'm just saying we should get it inini? We'll see. I don't mind.
I'm just saying we should get it in.
You pick. I don't care. I'll drink anything.
We can do gin. We can do gin.
As long as it's not vodka based I don't mind.
Okay.
So the podcast version of 400 will not be the podcast version of the YouTube thing.
It will be a unique, very throwaway, very stupid
hour of audio to accompany, kind of, the main event on YouTube.
It won't be a commentary.
It won't be a commentary or an audio version of the visual thing. We're not doing that.
We're going to give you something fun and throwaway and silly. But either way, if you
have listened to us over the past nine years, or listened to all 400 episodes,
or if you've been supporting us in any way...
They can't have 400 isn't out in here.
Yeah, but by the time they get to it maybe.
Shut up being pedantic, you prescriptivist evil man.
Evil?
Yeah, I've added that as a declamative statement.
I'm sorry, you just... Just think about what you say before you say it,
but that's all I ask. Bing bang bollocks, mate. Bing bang wubbly woo wah dee da doodly dae da bo say it. That's all I ask.
Bing bang bollocks, mate.
Bing bang wubbly woo wah dee da doodly dae da bollocks.
That's what I think.
Diddley dae da bollocks?
Diddley dood da da bollocks.
Listen, if you have supported us in any way over the years,
if you have-
You're starting to sound like a cancelled Disney show.
I apologize for the text messages of my penis that I sent.
You text messaged with your dick?
Yeah.
It was in your pants.
And what did your dick write? Hello baby, fanciest sad time. That's a lot for a dick to say. Yeah. Via text.
Right, well there you go. I keep trying to do something sincere and you keep interrupting me
with your asinine nonsense. Oh that, that works. Thank you. Listen, I'm sincere too. Let me just
finish this. I'm sincere. Let me just finish this and then you can talk Billy Bollocks all you like.
I don't want to talk Billy Bollocks.
I want to say a heartfelt thank you to our listeners.
You say your thank you first then so it's out of the way.
Go on.
Well I just think we both can say this together Paul.
No, I'm going to say it my way.
What's your way?
You always just repeat it endlessly.
That's because I never get the sentence out.
I never get the sentence out and therefore I have to repeat myself just to have a clear message being sent out.
Go on then.
And I'll do my Billy Bollocks afterwards.
Thank you to everyone over the past nine years
or 400 episodes, if you've supported us in any way,
whether you came to us via Digi,
via Barshans, via Stuart Ashens.
It's like an albatross around our neck, Barshans.
Whether you used to follow us in comedy.
Whatever you've done to help support us
and keep us going.
You're losing your voice, mate.
Yeah, because you've interrupted me again!
I'm going to move over here.
If you're any one of those people,
then thank you.
Because we've been an independent podcast for all this time,
weekly, making the content,
doing something that we think has been fun, not only to make but to listen to, and it means a lot.
In this time of BBC, Bauer, Capital, global podcasts, you can fuck off mate, it's hard to get
noticed and it's increasingly more difficult year by year. So genuinely all jokes aside all meta prodding out of the
way all all the silly snarky stuff. Meta prodding out of the way. Yeah you know when you're kind of above your own content you make fun of it and
broad draw attention to it. Oh my god. Regardless of all that genuinely thank you we love making Cheap Show we love making it
week in week out and we hope you'll join us for another 400 or until the wheels come off in about five weeks time and we quit.
Sounds like the wheels are coming off right now for you Paul.
Been coming off weekly for years, go on your go.
Thanks for listening everyone and stick with us and 400 will be good and we've got other
stuff coming up like the live show in October, see I just know how to just effortlessly say and thanks very much honestly and for anyone who supports us via patreon
patreon yeah thank you as well because that really does make a difference and
helps us to keep the boat afloat. The patron followers will be getting
special behind the scenes 400 stuff they'll get a commentary probably as well
lots of goodies for them.
Early September though, because we need to get all this stuff out the way.
So anyway, look, patreon.com forward slash Cheap Show if you want to help us in any way.
If not, help us online by spreading the word, giving us a review, spreading the love any way you can.
What are you doing now, Paul? You're going to go and buy an Oasis Blur record at Big Department?
How dare you? I'm getting a Blur album, yes.
Which one are you after, the live one?
The live Wembley one, yeah.
How much is that gonna be?
I dunno, if it's too expensive.
That's gonna be £50, mate.
Well if it is, I'm not getting it then, am I?
What's your cut off?
£20?
£30?
I think £30's fine for a double album.
Yeah, for a new one.
Stop fucking pointing out my spending habits to friends.
To my own dirty money, I'll spend it how I like.
Alright, I wasn't saying that.
I was gonna get a cartridge now, but thinks I'm going to be spending Mr. Willy
Nilly.
You're going to get a cartridge for your record player as well.
Yeah but I might not now because you're either making me sound like Mr. Moneybags.
Oh.
And it's my birthday in a couple of weeks.
Is it?
Yeah.
I'll get you something nice this year.
You fucking won't.
You've yet to get me anything nice for my birthday so why start now?
Right, say goodbye Mr. Silverman.
This has been episode 399, a
literal and figurative ramble on. We've been rambling all day but now we're going to stop.
Good night, God bless, sleep tight. I don't know why I said God bless, why didn't you
say that? I said it as well. You're an atheist like me. God bless, God bless the Queen. Good
night. Good night everyone. Good night and
good luck. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. And we're going to leave you with the sounds of
the ambience of London.
You wanker! In order you...
Scram! You wanker!
Lavender! Lavender!
Et cetera.
I've got an oinker at me bam bam!
Can I fix your pipes? I don't know what that is!