CheapShow - Ep 47: Paul Gannon's FrothShop
Episode Date: June 28, 2017Important Note: In this episode we accidentally give out some actual proper advice! We apologise wholeheartedly and promise never to knowingly do it again! With that out of the way, why not enjoy anot...her hour of cheap tat, cheap tunes and cheap laughs. In this episode, Eli rummages through more of his weird and wonderful vinyl... Paul tries and fails to create a new exciting feature for Cinefiles... Gannon also looks into a collection of off brand candy AS WELL as knockoff BeanBoozled jelly beans called Double Dares! One particular flavour will send shock waves through one of the hosts, but who will it be and what flavour? Finally, Paul & Eli discover two annoying new sounds that aim to show their smug appreciation of a thought! Welcome to the FrothShop! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Subscribe or Die! You can see pictures and accompanying videos for this episode 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!
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do your intro this time i won't ruin your intro by trampling all over it with something boisterous
and long-winded like i did last time because i thought last time what i did there was step over
your quite brilliant work by kind of focus pulling which i know you've got a big problem with
recently i know you don't like me focus pulling so i'm just gonna i'm gonna say nothing i'm just
gonna let the music roll i'm gonna let you do your thing i'm not gonna big you up in any way i'm not
gonna talk you down in any way i'm not going to give you any kind of big intro
just basically saying that for this one moment
this one episode
I'm going to let you do your thing
without any interruption at the beginning at all
so when you're ready Eli
it's time to go
build up that courage
you can do this
give us your introduction to Cheap Show right now
whenever you're ready
but ultimately right now
are you ready?
say yes Paul
say yes paul say yes paul
fuck you paul hi everybody i'm eli silverman this is the cheap show podcast and here's your
co-host paul danner wow that is the let me count one two three yeah the least amount of fucks
you've ever given to an intro.
It's because you've deflated me from beforehand.
Oh, I didn't mean deflate you, darling.
So, for the record, let the record stay to that, we are recording this episode on the same day we did the live show, the same day we did the previous episode.
It's still hot in London.
No one wants to hear about your hard workload.
They've had a hard day at an actual job
probably paul an actual thing that they do and you're just undermining them oh poor me i went
to comic con and i had to do things and then i had to come back and i'm gonna fucking hit you
don't don't and that's another thing what the physical threat of violence it's only physical
it's not something anyone should have to put up with.
You're right.
All right?
Yeah.
All right?
I'm not going to make a joke of violence.
You're very deadly serious about it, yeah.
You ruin everything. I'm drinking
I'm just basically saying
Paul is drinking everyone
hello welcome to Cheap Show
it's hot today
all I'm saying is
we're recording on the same hot day
in the house of pickles
it's still hot
with the one Yeti microphone
oh
and it's hot
and I had to have a cold drink
and I fancy drinking
some lager
which is very rare for me
yeah but it's not
it's that stupid
kind of lager
I'm saying
go on you're saying
it's that Desperado
lager
which is flavoured
with tequila
we're not endorsing it
that's piss for people
who don't know
how to drink properly
you see we're not
endorsing it
you fucking
you wuss
it's just because
it's very sweet
I like sweet things
you like sweet things not like. It's just because it's very sweet. I like sweet things. You like sweet things.
Not like actual men's things.
Does it matter?
It doesn't matter.
Are you just going by gender norms?
I'm not gender normative.
Opposing them onto me.
No.
You can enjoy sweet things.
Frilly things, if you like.
You're a cook, mate.
C-U-C-U-K.
Oh, God.
C-U-C-U-K.
This has got to be one of the worst openings to a podcast.
You've really lost it.
You have half a bloody shandy.
I'm saying it.
I'm tired.
It's hot.
And all we do is talk.
And it's hard to talk.
Hello, welcome to Cheap Show.
My name's Paul Gannon.
Hello.
All right, good.
That's what we should have done several minutes ago.
So thank you once again if you've been a Patreon.
Hopefully we've been rolling those things out to you.
Again, if you want to help support the show, help us buy, you know, a new microphone.
You can do that, though.
Do that, though.
Do that, though.
You can do that, though.
What can they do that, though?
Basically lay the land on the land.
You can go to patreon.com forward slash cheap show
and give a dollar or give 50 or whatever in between
we'll give you lovely things back and you'll help keep this bloody podcast going thank you it's been
awesome actually we've had a lot of lovely people get a love and we're on twitter i'm quite chatty
on twitter i send you beard nuzzles you whatever that means so i've got whatever that means i've
got you know what it means you don't be coy with me paul you know what it means you don't be coy with me Paul you know what it means
what have we got
I want to do a new segment
that is just for me
because as you know I am a
student of media
I had film studies at A level and went to a media course
at university
you know what they call that
useless job I have a 2-1 in watching telly I had film studies at A-level and went to a media course at university. Yes. You know what they call that?
Useless job. Yeah.
The total useless for cunts.
I have a 2.1 in watching telly.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
Did that get me a great job?
Well paid?
No.
Go to patreon.com forward slash cheap show.
No.
I want to do a segment that reaches to that pot.
You have the music.
That's your passion.
I like pop culture and movies.
That's my fashion passion.
My passion.
Shut up.
I've got a passion for fashion.
It's my passion.
And I thought I'd have a segment called Paul's Top Shelf.
Okay.
Does that have to justify this to me?
I'm also a fan of the moving image.
I know.
Yeah?
I know our tastes differ.
They certainly do.
Wow.
But I thought I'd tell people about the DVDs and movies that I buy second-hand in charity shops.
Yeah, so you picked something up in a charity shop recently.
Yes, I have.
It is called Guesthouse Paradiso.
That's the film I'm going to be talking about today.
Now, if you're thinking, Guesthouse Paradiso sounds like a charming British comedy from the 50s, maybe.
Or it sounds almost like an art house, sort of.
What is that? Merchant Ivory.
And I think it's riffing on...
Cinema Paradiso, isn't it?
Yeah, Cinema Paradiso.
I think it's trading on that in terms of its humour.
But basically...
It's not an art house film, though, is it?
No, it's not.
It's a movie based on the popular sitcom from the 90s, Bottom.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Morning.
I am, in fact, a qualified gynaecologist.
Well, strictly speaking, I'm an amateur, but I'm bloody keen.
Oh, here's a pencil.
Ah! I think I'll have the fish. Sir, but I'm bloody keen. Look! Here's a pencil!
I think I'll have the fish.
Wise choice.
Can I ask where your eggs come from?
Hen's vaginas.
I shall bring your luggage up directly.
Mice.
Hey, hey, give her one for me, won't you?
If you get too tired, don't worry, just phone Nan.
I'll happily come up and give her one myself.
I'm not joking, actually.
I'm Eddie the Bellboy.
The Bellboy?
That's right.
Oh!
Oh!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
No! No!
Ah!
Ah!
What happened to you?
Candle in the eye.
Righto.
Starring Rick Mayle and Ade Edmondson.
They wrote and directed this movie.
Well, Ade Edmondson directed this.
He plays Eddie Hitler.
Oh, he directed?
No.
Has he directed any other features?
I don't know without double-checking right now.
And you don't like it when I get OK Google out.
No. But he might have done, won't he? I think so know without double checking right now and you don't like it when I get OK Google out. No.
But he might have done
won't he?
I think so
but he definitely
directed this anyway.
Here are some results
from the web.
It heard me.
That's creepy.
I know.
You insist on having
that fucking thing.
But look.
It didn't even look
for guest house parody
to look for baby monitors.
Because you said
OK Google
after we did you see what I mean? OK Google because it... Baby monitors. Because you said OK Google after we...
Do you see what I mean?
It only...
OK Google,
Ade Edmondson,
Director.
Since we're here now.
Alright.
Here are some results
from the web.
You've let me down again.
Ade...
OK Google,
Ade Edmondson.
There we go.
According to Wikipedia,
Adrian Charles Edmondson
Is an English comedian
Actor
Writer
Musician
Television presenter
And director
And director
So let me see
While we're here
Let's do a bit of research
Shall we
What he's directed
He played in those
He was part of the
Reformed Bonzo Doodog
Da da band
I knew that
Yeah
Filmography
There you go.
So, yeah.
As director.
Doesn't have them.
Mostly actors.
Bottom, absolutely fabulous.
Oh, God.
This bit's pure gold, Paul.
I really love the new segment.
Shut up.
It's working.
I'm working it out as we go.
Oh, my God.
Why won't you just fuck...
Anyway.
He probably only directed the movie.
I'm guessing. Yeah, could well why won't you just fuck... Anyway, he probably only directed the movie.
I'm guessing.
Yeah,
could well have been his only directorial. Anyway,
it's based on the sitcom Bottom.
Now,
Bottom was a kind of dismal,
sad...
No,
it wasn't sad.
It was like,
it was a very violent,
funny comedy
about two lonely cunts
in Hammersmith
living in poverty
and trying to get laid all the time.
Sort of an existential
way the God Godot meets...
Yeah, it's Pinter-esque, isn't it?
It is.
With the violence...
With slapstick.
With the anarchy.
Broad slapstick.
Yeah, with the anarchy comedy,
kind of alternative comedy.
Great show, I have to say.
It generally is my favourite sitcom of all time, Bottom.
There are better sitcoms out there.
I'm saying it means the most to me.
Love it.
Love it.
So this is the movie version that came out long after the TV show had finished,
because I think it finished early 2000s.
And this movie was made in the year of...
God, really?
1999, actually.
I thought it was a bit later than that, but that makes a lot of sense.
But it's not the characters from Bottom that they're playing.
But they are very similar.
In the movie they're called
Eddie and Richie
as they are
but their surnames
are different in the movie.
Ah.
So that's how it's different.
But they're very similar.
Very similar.
I mean they don't do much.
I think they changed the name
so they didn't have to pay
the BBC to use the characters
from Bottom.
Ah I see.
That's why the movie's
not called Bottom probably.
Yeah.
Anyway
I love it.
I love this film.
It's not great.
It's one of Simon Pegg's
earliest movie roles
I believe
where he plays a
young father of a family
and it turns out
he's got nipple rings
and
he ends up hanging
from the ceiling
on a fishing wire
because
Rick Mayall
is fishing for his
nipple rings
or something
I guess it's
you have to see it
really
it's well known for its
wacky, violent fights
and its wordplay
and its grimness.
But what ruins the film for me
is the last third
when it gets just gross
for no reason.
It ends up with the whole cast
vomiting everywhere.
Because there's been
a bad fish dinner.
And everyone vomits.
And then the bad guy
tries to vomit and stops and holds his mouth in.
So the vomit builds up behind his mouth until his head inflates so huge
that the ball of sick rolls out.
That's very cartoony.
Just weird ending, full of sick and snot and balls of vomit.
And you just think, I can't show this to my mum.
No.
My mum would say, you're sick.
You've got a sick mind.
You have.
This DVD includes
outtakes from the movie,
a DVD-ROM game.
That's good.
I might have to check that out
and report back.
The making of documentary
and original trailers
and moving menus.
That's not like a computer game.
A DVD-ROM game
is more like a sort of
role play
with just pages load. Isn't it? Yeah, probably. I don don't know it might be a thing where you hit a button and it
goes richie richie richie or it's like go in here what do you do now yeah i'll report back you know
maybe i'll put it in the patreon special right you can find out more there and when it says moving
at menus i think it means they're animated not not that, you know, they're heartfelt.
And you're going to, you know, oh, that chapter selection touched me in a way I never expected.
So I got this for 50p in Oxfam.
It's a nice price.
Yeah, I could have bought three for a quid, but I just wanted this one.
You didn't want anything else there?
It's been a while since I've seen it.
And there are some lovely bits.
There are some horrible bits. It's not an unmit I've seen it and there are some lovely bits there are some horrible bits
it's not an
unmitigated success
the whole way through
then
no but it's got some
lovely bottom bits
it's just got a lot of
unnecessary
dirty bits
right
you know
too crude
too gross out
for your taste
too crude
too gross out
this is me talking
yeah
this is me talking
I know it's you
so
was it not you
talking before?
no who was talking before? No.
Who was talking before?
This is film critic Paul talking now.
Oh, I see.
I mean, the mise-en-scene in this film
leans towards the kitchen sink drama
British gritty movies of like,
you know, the 50s through to the 80s.
You know, the Ken Roach.
Has it got that kind of...
It has that element to it,
but with the Fawlty Towers-esque.
Well, it is a guest house, isn't it?
So he's... Is this Rick Mayall doing his the Fawlty Towers-esque Fawlty Towers. Well it is a guest house isn't it? So is this Rick
Mayall doing his
Basil Fawlty?
This is bottom
inner hotel basically.
You're right it's
Fawlty Towers by
Rick Mayall and
Ade Edmondson.
For better or for
poorer.
You know.
Could we have
real Paul who isn't
a film critic back
because fucking
film critic Paul is
creepy with his
mouth noises.
It's just my thoughts
you know
I think Aidan
Edmondson is a director
that's not
that's not going to
fly with anyone Paul
honestly
that's one of the worst
film critic approaches
hello
and tonight
on film
with Paul Cannon
you love it
I'll be talking
to Mickey Rourke
about his
resurgent career
that's awful
so
the reviews
taken
I'll let you read
the reviews
and then where
they came from
and see if you
kind of reach
the audiences
you kind of
yeah you can see
behind it
like you know
Daily Mail
this is great
it's obviously
it's a fascist
propaganda
it's a horrible newspaper and it's not going to like this is great it's obviously it's a fascist propaganda it's a horrible newspaper
and it's not going to like this film
but
it's called
Rude, Crude and Very Funny
by the Daily Mirror
uncut magazine
which I don't believe
is still going anymore
I think it is
is it?
it was like a loaded
kind of thing
but a bit more trendy
edgy
for the alternative blokes
yes
that says
mindless and hysterically funny
four stars.
Bottom with knobs on,
says the enemy.
All I'll say is,
I went to see it in the cinema,
and it was just me and my mate.
That was it.
That was opening night.
It didn't do well then?
No.
It disappeared without a trace,
would you say?
Yeah.
So,
that's the film I've taken from Paul's top shelf today.
Guesthouse parody, so rated 15.
Rick Mayle, Ed Edmondson.
If you like Bottom, you know what you're going for.
I would give it...
Don't make the noise.
Out of...
Right, good.
Yeah?
Yeah, good.
Oh, I like that bit.
That feature blossomed.
Yes.
Right, good. Yeah? Yeah, good. I like that bit. That feature has blossomed. Yes. All right, next bit.
So, next up, it's time for Eli Silverman's Platters.
I love Silverman's Platter.
It's becoming one of my favourite parts of the show.
This is where we look at records that I possess.
And that means you own, not spiritually inhabit.
No.
Like a ghost.
I know.
Haunted records.
I rotate.
Wow, you get fucking three sips of Desperado down your gullet
and you're like all over the shop.
And it's ladies night.
And the feeling's right.
Come on, Kath.
Okay, I have to apologise to everyone.
Paul is pissed.
I'm not drunk. I'm just hot and everyone. Paul is pissed. I'm not drunk.
I'm just hot and tired.
Alright.
And I'm trying to
beef up this
sadly lacking podcast
with some spunk.
Oh, some spunk.
Okay.
Frothy spunk.
Right.
Hang on.
So,
what's the first record
I've decided to put
on this...
Oh, no, let's start
with...
You've got a question.
Yes.
Every now and then we say on Twitter,
do hashtag AskSilverman,
because if it comes up with AskEli,
apparently that goes to some music singer in America
who has a hashtag Eli thing.
So, hashtag AskSilverman,
and put a question to us.
And a friend of the show, Alison,
had a very good question.
What was it, Mr. Silverman?
I think I'm paraphrasing the actual wording of the question, Alison, had a very good question. What was it, Mr. Silverman? I think I'm paraphrasing
the actual wording
of the question,
but I think she said,
what would be a good,
reasonably priced
record player
to buy?
Yes.
Now,
then,
I didn't want to just
answer her
immediately
on the Twitter
because I wanted to
have a little think
about it, Paul.
Yeah, I understand.
I'm glad you're taking the time.
Now, the problem is
I don't know what she means
by reasonably priced
and I don't know what her budget is.
I would say, let's say
between $30 and $100.
I reckon that's mid-range.
See, that's the problem.
That's not mid-range.
That's bottom range.
Is it?
And basically,
you are never going to get
a record player in that price range
which has anything near just even a basic hi-fi standard sound.
This is quite the dry section of the show.
I know, that's why I didn't want to.
All right.
Basically, you've got a load of these portable ones.
Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, Paul will be saying frothy cock any moment now.
Anyway, you've got a load of portable machines.
Yeah.
Which have sort of, with the resurgence in vinyl, the kind of nostalgia.
That you'll find in like a Maplins or Radio Shack, that kind of 90-pound...
Or Urban Outfitters.
But didn't you say to me, it doesn't really matter, sometimes it just depends on how good your needle is.
So you could get a cheap machine, but then get a really good needle.
Not at that level.
What makes the difference, then? What is it?
They've got cheap plastic cartridges,
which is the bit which holds the needle.
Okay, that makes a difference.
Terrible.
Okay.
Cheap plastic tone arms,
which is the arm that the cartridge goes on.
Yeah.
And it doesn't even track properly the groove.
Okay, because it's not weighted or something.
Yeah, and it has a weird angle on it.
So the further into the record,
the more at an angle the needle's going to be in the groove.
So your sound quality's going to deteriorate there.
I think you need a...
I'm not going to make that noise.
I was just thinking you might want to throw maybe your own noise in when you get nerdy about music.
Just a thought.
I don't need to.
It's just a thought.
All right, how about this?
So...
I like it.
So, yeah, so those cheap boxes also have built-in speakers yeah which
are like are terrible okay um so if you're going to spend in that range yeah a lot of it's just like
the retro design
but honestly
it's enough to put
turn people off
vinyl
vinyl
because you get none
of the richness
of tone
it's a bit tinny
and dynamic range
and warmth
yeah you don't get warmth
that you get from a proper
hi-fi system
so what I'd say
everyone's saying
what's the
the amplitude of sound
you could almost argue
the amplitude i'm not gonna go there is it a quality item you're about to suggest yes so you
really don't you need to be spending a bit more in the sort of at the very minimum 150 pounds yeah
which is 200 or so i guess okay and over and then more, I think. If you're spending 250 quid, you're spending more like $300.
It's around that.
Okay.
Sort of $200 to $300, maybe.
Yeah.
And there is a company called Project...
Yeah.
...who make quality turntables.
Hashtag spawns.
They make quality turntables in that lower range.
Right.
And that's when you hit hi-fi quality, and it's just...
Revolutionary. It's going to be much better, the sound quality. And it's just... Revolutionary.
It's going to be much better, the sound quality.
So just by paying an extra hundred...
This is a separate...
It doesn't have any built-in speakers, so you will need a separate amp.
But if your budget is a hundred quid...
And speakers, it's a hi-fi, aren't you?
Yeah, but let's say your budget is only a hundred...
Let's just say your budget is a hundred quid.
Can you get something manageable?
You might be able to get a second hand.
Interesting you mention second hand.
Like a Craigslist or an eBay or a Gumtree.
You probably could get a second hand higher quality.
But if you're going to get a new one...
If you're going to get a new one, I mean, you just spend some money.
All right, honestly. And it just spend some money. All right.
Honestly.
And it does have to be modular, ideally.
So don't make sure it doesn't have a CD player built in
or it has a cassette player either as well.
No, I wouldn't go for those.
Make sure.
I'd go for a modular piece, yes.
Modular.
Modular.
So I hope that answers your question, Alison.
Alison.
And maybe anyone else listening who wants
to get into vinyl
well it's a bit of a dry one
but you know
I'm happy
I'm happy
right moving swiftly on
let's go to your vinyl
platy
your Silverman
platy
the platy
first song you've got
today to play
is a song called
Gimme Dat Ting
by
the Pipkins
let's listen to it now. Gimme, gimme that, gimme, gimme, gimme that thing How do I do the matrimony without a full brain?
Well, you try to be a fast-grinning body
Never tell me sweet dreams
How do I tell the rhythm written on the bar?
How can you ever hope to know just where you are?
Oh, you gimme that, you wanna make an old man happy Yeah, well, give me some of that Interesting.
So that was one of those tunes that was almost kind of ubiquitous in my childhood.
I remember a lot.
It was just in the ether, wasn't it?
It was just recognisable.
It must have been on several thousand adverts, really.
I was going to say, it must have been in an advert.
Shall I do a little bit of research?
Oh, my God.
What?
All right.
OK, Google.
You could cut this bit out.
Yeah.
OK, Google. Give me that ting. No, I just want this bit out. Yeah. Okay, Google.
Gimme dat ting.
No, I just want to do it.
No.
I'm not going to look it up then.
Okay.
Interesting.
So, Bit Glam.
Very much of the glam style, but extremely poppy and throwaway.
It's a one-hit wonder.
We do know that.
Yes.
Pipkin seemed to be like a one-off novelty hit band just for this one.
It sounds like they weren't really a band. They were just sort of like the name of the band that they put together when
they put this out it almost it has that sort of universal quality of a popcorn or a song like
that just like a just an earworm for the pure sake of it isn't it because it's meaningless
it's a meaningless piece of frippery it's got a bit of charleston to it it's got a bit of honky
tonk piano to it yeah knees up mother brown to it it's an interest of Charleston to it. It's got a bit of honky tonk piano to it. Yeah. It needs up
Mother Brown to it.
It's an interest.
I do like it.
But it's like again
it's like something
like Moldy Old Dough
by Lieutenant Pigeon
who we'll be coming
to in a little bit
actually.
You remember.
Right.
Fuck's sake.
Give me that ting.
This is what
Wikipedia says.
It's a 1970s
popular UK song
of the novelty type.
It is a novelty tune, isn't it?
Song sung by one hit wonder, The Pipkins,
and written and composed by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood.
Released as a single, it is the title section of an album
which The Pipkins recorded and released with EMI.
The song also featured on a bunch of compilations
and also with another up-and-coming group called The Sweet.
Now, The Sweet were proper glam.
They were proper.
That was pop glam, but of a high quality.
I like The Sweet, actually.
Tiger Feet was them.
Tiger Feet wasn't them.
Wasn't it?
Oh, that was Mud.
Yeah.
They did...
Bullroom Blitz.
Bullroom Blitz.
And Piece of the Action.
Yeah.
And Your Love is Like Oxygen.
Do you know that one?
Yeah.
That's fucking excellent.
Yeah.
And they've reformed recently, The Sweet. Who? The Sweet that one? Yeah. That's fucking excellent. Yeah. And they've reformed recently,
the suite.
Who?
The suite.
Suite?
Yeah.
Why?
Because they need money
when they go on tour.
Fair enough.
And I saw a review
of the Osmonds
because they'd also reformed.
Oh, great.
And I read a concert review
of the Osmonds
but the suite
were supporting them
and the reviewer was like,
fuck the Osmonds.
The suite blew me away
basically
you know what I mean
the suite were proper
proper
stompy
yeah
no they were really good
I like that kind of music
I like that type of glam
that
stompy
pop glam
it's like you know
the Fratelli
that came out a few years ago
they had a very similar style
yes
I like it
and Slade of course
and Slade
you can't miss Slade
Slade is the daddy
you know yeah for me when you say glam I think of Slade of course and Slade you can't miss Slade Slade is the daddy you know
yeah
for me
when you say glam
I think of Slade
oh
you know
I know it's probably
what about David Bowie
I mean come on
yeah but he straddles
so many more genres
and styles
he's multifaceted
but again
like there was a
and dead
there was a dichotomy
wasn't there
yeah
you had the pop end of it
yeah
sweet mud Slade yeah then you had the kind of of it. Yeah. Sweet, mud, Slade.
Yeah.
Then you had the kind of more highbrow, although it was still very popular.
So what?
Iggy Pop.
Bowie.
Bowie.
Elton John.
I guess so.
And also, of course, what's the band with Brian Eno and Brian Ferry in called?
Ferry Eno.
No, it's not.
Eno Ferries.
Twig a twig. E&O Ferries. Leave it to Twig.
E&O.
Oh.
Don't start with...
The whole...
Look.
Gimme Dat Ting
was used as a
Gimme Dat...
Roxy Music.
That's glam.
Didn't you claim?
Is it?
Yeah.
Is it?
I would have thought
that was more new romantic.
It's considered
a part of the same
sort of thing.
Genesis.
No, that's prog. Prog zeppelin hard rock really yeah pink floyd psychedelia
stroke prog i tend to okay all right think of a band i am squeeze squeeze were from the 80s so
it's much more.
They were sort of New Wave.
Okay.
What you'd call New Wave.
But they were also straddling the pop line.
Oh, yeah.
No, they were very poppy.
Yeah.
Very, very poppy.
They're poppy.
Give Me That Ting was called Give Me That Ring by Coca-Cola to advertise their new ring
pull cans in the early 70s.
Oh, see.
So that must be it.
That's why it got so...
Ring number seven in Canada.
Also, it was the tune of one of the several musical accompaniments
to time-lapse slapstick scenes on The Benny Hill Show.
See, that's what I mean.
It was just everywhere.
It was just...
You just soak it up.
1997, the song was used in adverts for Dairy Lee.
Yeah.
A cheese-based product in the UK.
And finally, a live version was performed
at the Fremont Town Hall
and appears on the album
Shags Own Thing
by the Shags
oh the Shags
I don't know the Shags
oh the track was also used
on a commercial for
Pucker's Pies
yeah so
there you go
so there you go
that was our first song
I like that
it's a jolly little novelty
it's annoying
it's a jolly little novelty
it's a very annoying record.
It's not very offensive, though.
Right, next one.
Are we going to give it a score?
Yes.
I'll say six.
I'll also say six.
Okay.
But a more positive six.
Copying me.
Seven.
Why don't you say six and a half?
Seven.
All right.
I'm going to go with seven.
All right, thank you.
Give me that ting.
Give me that next platter.
Nice segue. Well, the next segue is the song called The Villain by a popular band on a cheap show,
Lieutenant Pigeon. Oh, my God. This is the B-side to their huge hit, Moldy Old Doe.
Moldy Old Doe.
Basically, if you want to know what Moldy Old Doe sounds like,
just listen to that clip again that we just played.
Very similar.
It's got more honky-tonk pianos similar to...
This has that glam thing that comes in.
It's got that fat bass.
It's that big bass glam. It's that big bass glam.
It's almost like minimalist glam.
It's like glam pared down to its very bare bones.
Very barest bones.
Which I find kind of pleasing.
Do you see what I mean?
It's so minimal and sort of weird.
And it sounds like it's got an insane person on it.
It does sound unhinged. It does sound unhinged.
He does sound unhinged.
I think that was part of the appeal.
And so this is like, strange, it's like dark music.
It's dark side glam, novelty glam music.
It's just not, it's nothing like it, is there, really?
No, can you imagine going into someone's room
and you hadn't seen them for a few weeks,
you don't know where they are,
but you know, the last time you saw them was in their room.
When you open the door, you hear that...
Well, it's called The Villain, it's meant to be.
And you go in and you can see the song playing.
It's stuck on a groove,
just that fat bass sound over and over.
And you see your friend and he's in a distorted angle.
He's like screwed up and with his face white with horror
twisted
and
what does his eyebrows do
his body
his face has been
shocked out of
all the arrangements
it's been
like a lightning
deformed
chewed
gnawed
gnawed
they're just all
twisted and branched
and the nose is split
and punctured
like a splatted tomato
right
and his eyes
bugged out
terrified
the eyebrows pull back
so much the skin is split
above the forehead
thanks for getting to the eyebrows
I was going to ask about that
and then lightning strikes
and you're on the wall
you see
make it stop
written in blood
with his own guts
on the wall
with his own guts
yeah
how do I know it's his own guts
and they're hanging out of his body
because he's pulled them out
right so he's
my friend is dead and he's listening to out. Right. So he's my friend
is dead and he's
listening to the
villain.
Wouldn't that be
bad?
It's like yeah
yeah it would be
it would be yeah
yeah.
It would be yeah.
I like that again
because it's so abnormal. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. I like their their because it's so abnormal
I like it
yeah
yeah
I like their
their work of that period
I have to say
done a lot of weird stuff though
haven't they
it's a strange
instrumental glam
weird
but sort of
excellent to have sex to
that song as well
and Moldy Old Doe
keeps your pace
just right
yeah
da da da
da da da
da da da
da da da
and if you can come
when he says
mouldy old dough
you've won life
mouldy old dough
where's it gone
missing my face
well
so that's that song
out of
I say 8
I like 8
I like it
I'm going to stay with 7 on that
I actually actually like it
I think it needs to bring in
the fat bass earlier
yeah it does me under
a little bit it's just a B-side.
It's obviously something they just thought.
And, you know, if you are thinking of killing someone,
maybe that's the song for you.
That's all I'm going to say.
Could be.
Could be.
Could be a soundtrack to a killing.
Yes.
And to continue the dark theme,
the next song is called Nightmare by...
Arthur Brown.
Because I keep forgetting.
You can't remember the guy's name.
I can't remember that guy's name.
It's Arthur Brown. And I keep forgetting. You can't remember the guy's name. I can't remember that guy's name.
It's Arthur Brown, and it sounds like this. Dynamic explosions in my brain Shatter me to drops of rain
Falling from a yellow sky
Orange faces through an open eye
Stop me Hold me but as I jerk So that was Prelude,
pre-entities, closed, parentheses for closed, parentheses open,
Nightmare.
Arthur Brown.
From the crazy world of Arthur Brown, the album.
I think it's the first track off of it.
It's a strong track.
Yeah.
All the breathing.
I really love that Prelude.
It's like they've said,
let's make a weird piece of music,
which is a bit like being asleep and being in a nightmare
and they really succeed
I think
and it's got a real
feeling to it
it's got a tone
yeah
it's like
the amplitude
of it
shut up
it's just right
it's a quality product
you know
I try and fucking say
something serious
on this fucking podcast
you know what I mean
we've been doing it
for years Paul
you just fucking
you have to fucking
two years you've been doing this now years, Paul. You just fucking... You have to fucking...
Two years you've been doing this now.
And the best thing we've got is this
fantastic app. Oh no, he's
bought the app out.
Don't get the app out.
Like, you can get all
his lovely catchphrases
like, you look like shit.
Or, I'm willing to taste it.
Or, this could be
donkey dick meat
it's free to download
from the Google App Store
yeah so I love that
prelude
and I just like
it's a rocking tune
as well isn't it
it's a very rocking tune
I like it
very much in the psychedelic style
it's very
do do do do do do
and the lyrics are sort of
those nonsense
Lewis Carroll style
which was big
with the glam
surreal
is it glam no psychedelic rock psychedelia he did say yes style... Which was big with glam. Surreal. Is it glam?
No, psychedelic rock.
Psychedelia, you did say.
Yes, yes, yes.
This was just before glam
really came in.
Mmm.
The psychedelic period,
very short.
Oh.
From about 68 to 1970.
Oh.
In British rock.
Oh.
And it started with
Sgt Pepper?
The Beatles.
Well, yeah, mainly.
Is that what people say?
Yes.
There was no snifter of that
beforehand?
There was. A big snifter. Oh. And even from other bands. Even, yeah, mainly. Is that what people say? Yes. There was no snifter of that beforehand? There was.
A big snifter.
Oh.
And even from other bands.
Even earlier, from 66.
It was starting to happen, basically.
And the Beatles album Revolver has a lot of Psyche...
It really does.
...elements on it.
It really does.
Yeah, it's good.
I like Arthur Brown, and he kept going to the 70s, more of a straight rock thing.
And more people remember him for the song Fire. Fire.
I leave you to burn.
Which is an absolute stonking classic.
It is. And was released
on Pete Townshend of the Who's label.
Really? Track records, yeah.
And was it a big success
for him? I think it was a number one, wasn't it?
He's probably living off it right now still, isn't he?
But he famously
had a headpiece.
Yes.
Which was like a metal crown that he put petrol in
and it had flames coming out.
And it burnt his head and stuff, you know.
Health and safety in the 60s, forget about it.
It did not exist at all.
And there's that footage on the BBC of him of him playing on uh on top of the pops like
oh the pops i thought was the old grey whistle or something yeah it's in black and white and um
the smoke that's coming off his helmet his fiery helmet his big hot helmet is literally distorting
the camera you can see it's really hot and white smoky you know because it's petrol yeah and he
must have been thinking,
this was a very good idea when I was stoned,
thinking about this.
He must have been stoned the whole time
just to avoid the blisters on his head.
Yeah.
Is he bald now, do you think?
Yes, he is bald now.
Well, there you go.
If you want to keep a full, luscious head of hair,
why not set your head on fire?
And before we go on the subject of hair as well
I posted a picture
from our live show
on Facebook
and there's been a few
comments underneath
that I have to share with you
I just have to share with you
so
I will say this
so
there's us
a lovely picture of you
me, Tom and Ash
and someone pointed out
that in that picture
you look like
Will Ferrell
from Zoolander
it's hard to disagree
I don't have white hair
and then
Joe
comedy friend
Joseph Wilson
sent this picture
of what you look like
oh my god
Dom DeLuise
I do not look like
Dom DeLuise
you do
no I don't
yeah you do mate
well who do you look like
usually when you
describe me
a Giacomo pedophile
that's a good bad name so that's our at Eli's what are we going to give that last one There you do, mate. Well, who do you look like? Usually, when you describe me, a Giacomo pedophile.
That's a good band name.
So that's our... What are we going to give that last one out of ten?
Oh, I'm going to give it nine.
You're going to give it nine.
I'm going to give it eight.
Okay.
Doesn't quite tickle me in the same way as other songs.
They had a theme running through them today, all quite glammy.
Yeah, really quite glammy.
But it's the variance within that whole genre
isn't it
because you've got
a kind of
throwaway novelty
pop record
then you've got
a weird novelty
bit of experimental
almost experimental
pop
you could call it
I'd say
yeah
and then you've got
the psych
which is a sort of
precursor to that stuff
but also
so everyone once again
learns a little something
about the musical genres
around us
right let's go on to the next bit So everyone once again learns a little something about the musical genres around us. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.
Right, let's go on to the next bit.
Eli.
Come with me and you'll see.
It's a world of pure imagination.
Yeah?
It's a lovely place if you let it in your heart.
If you want to view paradise,
simply
look around and view it.
Where am I going? There's no simple
way to do it. I don't pull.
If you want to do it,
B and
Q it.
We're going to
Paul's Candy
Sweet Shop
Sweet Shop
I
haven't wanted to do this bit
for a while
good
because you know
we do cheap eats
but I wanted to do
Paul's Candy
Sweet Shop
Paradise
mate
let's just keep it
to Sweet Shop
I think we
you know
Paul's Sweet Shop
let's stop brainstorming
Gannon's Sweet Shop
we should basically
brainstorm the
names of the segment before we recording. Gannon's Sweet Shop. We should basically brainstorm the names of the segment before we
record the podcast. Gannon's
Sweet Candy Shop.
What about Gannon's Candy Land?
What about... That sounds creepy.
What about
Gannon's Frothing Rock?
Hmm. We'll get the froth in.
Gannon's Frothy Sweet Shop.
Gannon's Froth Shop.
Froth Shop.
Poor Gannon's Froth Shop. Froth Shop. Paul Gannon's Froth Shop.
Right.
Makes no sense, but I like it.
Yes.
So, welcome to Paul Gannon's Froth Shop.
Thank you.
What's frothing this week, Paul?
Well, it's in my sweet shop called the Froth Shop.
I'm going to have to explain it every time now.
I've gone to a little corner shop near me because they have a brand of candy
by a company called Bobby's.
Now, whatever Barrett make,
you know Barrett make like sherbet dips
and all the dips.
Barrett's liquorice short sorts.
Yeah, and wine gums and things like that.
And liquorice short sorts, yeah.
Bobby's is the knock-off brand version of Barrett's.
They copy it, do they?
It's Bobby's.
Bobby's Sweet Shop, ladies and gentlemen.
They also do crisps.
Yeah, they have crisps.
They've got onion rings.
We'll be doing that.
Tomato balls.
We'll be doing that in the froth shop in the future.
They've got those twisted...
What are those spiral twisty things?
Spiral tris...
Computer.
Computer?
Spiral crisps.
Welcome to Paul Gannon's
Stream of Consciousness podcast.
He's drinking beer.
He's high on the desperado.
Yeah.
You've really loosened up, Paul.
I don't think I like it.
Tickle, tickle, tickle.
No, stop now.
Tickle, tickle, tickle.
No.
Right, okay.
Wow, you're really sensitive to booze, aren't you?
Right.
Okay.
It's hot.
I'm hot.
I'm delirious.
Yes.
Anyway, it's my thrift shop
And you're welcome in
Okay thank you
I went and bought some Bobby's sweets
They're all knock off
All their versions of popular sweet brands
Okay
We're going to try them out
And what I like about Bobby's
Is you buy them
And it is like the sweets you buy
In a Wonka's
You know
Like an 80's
Sweet shop
You know
It's all big
Like for instance
Let's get this big one out of the way
It's a big sticker
it's called
Bobby's Snake Winder
twisty
turley
fondant
filled candy
strawberry and cream flavour
wow
and it's a great big
it's a long one
isn't it
so
yeah
and it's sort of like
a straw
it's a snake
it's long
it's playing on the
snake motif
it plays on the
snake motif it's got it's quite nice packaging the snake motif. It plays on the snake motif.
It's got...
It's quite nice packaging, really.
Yeah.
You could see that would appeal to a child.
It's got, like, a cartoon snake head there.
A big jar of them, with them all come out the top.
Shall I open it?
Please open it.
I'm getting a strawberry sort of smell coming through the pack.
You'd think so, with it being a strawberry-flavoured snack.
I'm unsheathing it.
You're pulling it from its sheath.
I'm not doing a very good job.
Why don't you just tear a bit off?
I'll just pull it all out.
There it is.
I've flopped it down.
You've flopped it down the desk, yeah.
This is Eli's flopping his big snake winder down on the table.
Here we go.
Listen.
Yeah.
That's not very impressive.
Yeah, I'll have half of that.
I'll have half of this.
Let's have a bite.
It's basically strawberry laters, isn't it?
It's just like those strawberry laters they do in Tesco's, isn't it?
But with a fondant centre, as it says.
Bounding it together.
I like that a lot.
I have to say, that's really...
I mean, the strawberry laters are a little bit artificial.
They're not as...
I mean, they're all artificial.
Yeah, just the standard taste of them. But the sharp sugar is a bit more apparent in this one, I think, they're all artificial. Yeah, there's just a standard taste to them.
But the sharp sugar is
a bit more apparent in
this one, I think, than
Tesco or Sainsbury's
brand.
Tesco or Sainsbury's
brand tend to be a bit
softer.
They're a bit more
kind of flatter a taste
but in a positive way,
so it's more juicy than
just sugary.
Okay.
Yeah.
So you're saying it's
not as high as standard,
the actual strawberry
string bit?
Well, you know what?
I've had to clean my
palate with some booze.
You can
unpick this
which is also good
for kids.
It's nice to be able
to play it.
A bit like cheese straws
you can strip it down.
Exactly like cheese straws.
You can pull it
and you can save the fondant.
If that was your favourite bit
you could save that.
There's a suck on that.
Yeah.
So you can whip it out.
That's what I've done.
I've
stripped the fondant off.
I've de-robed the fondant
and it's there
and it's
dangling
naughty whiteness
naughty whiteness
and yeah
I enjoyed that a lot
well anyway
we can now find out
if the strawberry laces
taste the same
because I bought
a bag of Bobby's
strawb
laces
but this is just going to be
what he's wrapped the snake in
maybe
maybe not it'll be exactly the same we just don't know do we Straub laces. But this is just going to be what he's wrapped the snake in. Maybe.
Maybe not.
We'll be exactly the same.
We just don't know, do we?
So let's find out. How much was that?
I think that was like 35p.
That's worth 35p.
Definitely.
Anyone's money.
So this is Straub laces, Bobby's stretchy candy.
This is 39p.
So that must have been maybe 39p as well.
But go on, have a few of those.
Now let me have a taste of these.
Now these are a lot thinner actually than the snake ones.
Yeah, I think, I suspect they're exactly the same in terms of their makeup.
Hmm.
These are sort of like red straws.
Laces.
Like red spaghetti, red laces, yeah.
Like gelatalous laces.
They're nice.
Yeah, but they're exactly the same.
I think they are the same.
Just I think they're a little bit thicker.
But I think that makes it,
because they're thinner,
that makes these
a bit more palatable.
They're a bit nicer, yeah.
Yeah, you know?
Because the fondant
is a bit too sharp and sweet.
I mean, I just like that.
I mean, it's nasty.
Okay, what else
have you got by Bobbies?
Well, diabetes
probably on the way.
But let's have a look
in my sweet shop thrroff Shop bag.
What else have I got?
This is a strawberry and white chocolate flavoured bar
called a Spobby's Strawberry Milkshake Bar.
They're getting to strawberry.
They must have a load of strawberry flavouring.
Must be part of the factory.
Fucking hell.
Vera's brought another fucking batch of strawberry in.
Stop making the strawberry. We're going to have to Vera's brought another fucking batch of strawberry in stop making the
strawberry
we're going to
have to come up
with another
fucking free
product called
strawberry
I can't think of
any more puns
with the straws
on it man
but that's all
I know
brilliant bit of
acting there
I have to say
so I don't know
if I'm going to like this
because it's white chocolate.
It's white chocolate.
But the strawberry
might offset it quite well.
Why do they call
white chocolate chocolate?
It's not chocolate.
Why do they call it
what do they call it?
They should call it sugar piss.
They should call it
puke solid.
Yeah.
Now look.
I unsheathed it
from its pack
and it's
50-50.
It's two tone. You've got a strawberry end and the white chocolate end its pack and it's 50-50. It's two-tone.
You've got a strawberry end and the white chocolate end.
I thought it'd be segmented.
And it looks like a radiator or something.
It's got a ridge.
It does have a ridge.
It looks like a bath mat.
It looks a bit like a bath mat with a fence around it.
Beautifully put.
Thank you.
So I'm going to snap a bit off.
Got me doing the noise now. I think we should snap off the white bit first. I don't want to. I don't like it. I don't like it. Beautifully put. Thank you. So I'm going to snap a bit. Got me doing the noise now. I think we should
snap off the white bit first. I don't want to.
I don't like it. I don't like it. It's a very
white chocolate. As well, you look at it, it's very white.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paul has
had a reaction to the white chocolate.
It's bringing back all sorts
of traumatic childhood memories.
The Milky Bars are on me!
They're all over me!
The Milky Bars are literally in you.
I had a really violent reaction to that.
Yeah.
That's the first time I've had white chocolate in years, I think.
Yeah.
Years and years and years.
I tell you what, Paul,
shall I taste the strawberry bit?
Because I'm tasting strawberry there.
I think it might just be
a cosmetic difference.
So it tastes like strawberry and cream,
but the colour's different.
The whole thing is, yeah, I think so.
I'm tasting the pink bit now, guys.
Thank you for taking the dive for me on this.
That's all right, Paul.
I saw that was a genuine
piece of disgust there.
I need to wash it down
with lovely booze.
Yeah, it tastes exactly the same,
the strawberry bit. It's basically
a combination of...
It's called a milkshake bar, so yeah.
Not my thing. Not my thing.
It's got no tang. It's all just... It's sickly.
I think it's the word.
To put it bluntly, it's not my ting.
See? We're a professional podcast.
What's next?
In Paul's candy bag thrift shop.
Let's see.
I mean, I don't know if I can take much more.
I'm getting...
These are called Bobby's Kickers.
They're fruity, they're fizzy.
Pick your kick.
Fruity and frizzy, chewy candy discs.
So what do we think this is a sort of take-off on?
I think either wine gums or um what were those things tutti frutti's you remember those square things but i think they're more
now that's a classic sweet that's a great british sweet the tutti frutti yeah you never see that
anymore do you mix pick and mix bags the tutti frutti ladies and gentlemen was a hard candy but
it again then went chewy I mean it had a unique
kind of make up
it had a
crispy coating
and then
like a kind of
fat skittle
yeah
that's probably the closest thing
a fat skittle
yeah
but better
because they were square
and they were
not as soft as a skittle
so more
yeah
more work
a little bit more of a fight
had to be had
with the thing
so
I'm glad we've had that reminisce
yes
these
these kickers are...
Oh, they're like little...
Oh, I don't know.
I was going to say jellybeards,
but they're not.
They don't look very good, do they?
Some are shiny and some are matte.
Yeah, I think they're just not very well produced.
I'm going to try one,
but they do look like a halfway house
between Skittle, Tutti Frutti and...
No, there is a distinction.
Some are shiny and some have got a mottled...
Like a matted thing.
Let's try an orange one.
It's a Skittle.
With a cheaper flavour.
I think.
What flavour was that one
you just had?
Orange.
I had an orange one.
What?
You like that flavour?
I think it tastes fine.
It tastes like Barocca.
Yeah.
That's what I mean.
It's got that real
artificial orange flavour. Let's go for those purple ones because they look the same. Okay tastes like Barocca. Yeah. That's what I mean. It's got that real artificial orange flavour.
Let's go for those purple ones because they look the same.
Just different shape.
Right.
Oh, that's much softer.
Oh, they're tart.
They're quite tart, aren't they?
Oh, they're very tart.
They are.
I like that, though.
I like tart.
Fizzy.
It says fizzy.
Oh, there we go.
We should look at the pack.
You've got a fruity and then on the other end a fizzy
just so you know
I read out fruity fizzy
when we read this
okay I didn't pick up on that
but that's why
because you never listen to me
during this fucking podcast
I've noticed
I got real there
I got real
you need to start
with the drinking
I'm going to go
with this green
oh yeah
check yourself
before you wreck yourself
I'm going to try a green one
but is it a fizzy one
or a fruity
they're all fizzy.
No, they're not all...
The ones that are shiny
are...
Fruity.
Fruity.
And the ones that are mottled
are fizzy.
Yeah.
Have a little test.
That's totally...
They're different.
It's two different sweets
in the same...
Now you brought it to me.
My attention.
That's what I've been
trying to fucking say.
Well, I'm having them.
Get off.
They're actually really...
They're the best thing
so far, aren't they?
They're nice.
Quickly, let's break them.
That's a good confectionery product.
How many froths?
So, one to five, right?
So, the first one, which was the strawberry winder,
the strawberry fondant winder.
I'll give it three froths.
I will froth three times, too.
And?
Next one was the milk and strawberry bar.
No, it wasn't.
It was just the laces.
The laces, strawberry laces.
Three again?
Three again.
It's basically the same.
Nothing remarkable, but three again.
But I'd say to have them over the... I don't need the fondant. No, I just want the laces. The laces. Strawberry laces. Three again? Three again. It's basically the same. Nothing remarkable, but three again. But I'd say to have them over the...
I don't need the fondant.
No, I just want the laces.
You know what I mean?
So the next one was the milkshake bar.
New, new, new, new, new.
I didn't like it.
Barely a froth from me.
I'll give it two.
It's more of a squirt.
Not so much froth.
Just a little bit of jism.
Prejizz.
A little oily pellet of prejizz.
Kickers?
They get four.
I'm going to give four and a half.
I like the fact that it's a bit of a gamble.
Very nice.
Very nice.
They were well conceived and executed.
Skittles knock off.
Yeah.
Well done, Bobbies.
Because Skittles, you have to buy a whole pack of the sour ones or a whole pack of the
fruit ones.
And then you have to mix them yourself, don't you?
You think, is this too much work?
I can't stand it.
And also, they're forcing you to buy two packs.
Yeah, fucking corporate.
Bobbies are all over it, mate.
Go with Bobbies.
Go with Bobbies.
We'll give it hashtag spawns.
Bobbies.
Seriously, Bobbs.
Bobby, baby.
Listen to me.
This is Candy Don't Stop.
Next one is Bobby's Soda Blast Cherry Burst, 50p.
It's a little plastic cola-esque shaped bottle with what looks like little tiny sugary cherry
probably fizzy sweets.
Okay.
It says just twist it.
I've got sugar sweats.
You've got sweat for every fucking thing.
You've got meat sweats, booze sweats, fucking life sweats.
Right.
Right, I'm going to tip a few onto your hand.
The little diddy little things they are. They're like little ecstasy pills. Yeah, I guess they to tip a few onto your hand. The little diddy little things they are.
They're like little ecstasy pills.
Yeah, I guess they are.
Little pill-shaped.
They're little sugar-balled sweets, compressed.
Just sherbet.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I have just had the biggest flashback eating one of these.
To what?
There used to be a sweet van that went around the streets when I was growing up.
Right?
So growing up in the North West... A sweet van? Yeah, a van that would drive around and ring a bell. I mean an ice cream van to be a sweet van that went around the streets when I was growing up. Right? So growing up in the North West.
A sweet van?
Yeah, a van that would drive around and ring a bell.
You mean an ice cream van?
No, sweet van.
I've never heard of such a thing.
Every day of the...
There's a certain day of the week it would come to your street.
You'd hear the ding-a-ding-a-ding-a-ding.
The same concept as an ice cream van.
And a candy floss van that we had coming around as well that did the same thing.
Oh, yeah.
Somewhat.
But this sweet shop van,
every Thursday, let's say,
I ran out to it,
vividly remember this,
buying some sweets from a pocket money.
Yeah.
One of the sweets I got,
I can't remember the name of,
but they tasted...
Exactly like that.
Well, here's the thing.
I want you to hold that thought
because this is the cherry one.
I bought lemon and lime spritz.
Now, I think...
It's the same thing.
Sodablast.
I think...
These are...
They're sherbet. Essentially little
sherbet tablets. But they taste
just like the sweets I had growing up when I was
a kid. This brand I can't remember. I think
it was actually an orange flavour.
But... It's just like that. Yeah.
Mate. Well the bobbies
are very traditional sort of...
They use those cheap flavours that you remember from your
youth, don't they?
So that's cherry. You've got lemon and lime.
I'm opening lemon and lime.
Just give it a twist.
Oh, I like them.
Ooh!
Very tart.
Oh, really?
Oh, that's really artificial.
It's almost like soapy, isn't it?
Mate, that's like crunchy fairy liquid.
Yeah, yeah.
That really tastes toilet ducky.
Yeah, it tastes like toilet duck.
So, the clear winner of the soda blast is the cherry burst.
The clear winner is the cherry burst.
Yeah, that's harsh.
That kills 99% of germs dead kind of blast.
Yeah, that's very soapy on the lemon and lime.
Oh.
But we have...
Christ, I don't know if I can take any more, Paul.
Honestly.
Well, then you're going to hate this.
Because the last one is the piece de resistance.
Is this by Bobby's as well?
No.
Actually, this is by a company called Zed Candy.
We need to give a mark for the soda bottles.
Soda blast for froths for me.
For the cherry burst.
Yeah, for cherry.
But that one, two.
Two for the lime. It's really but that one two two for the lime
it's really antiseptic
and toilet ducky
bleaky
I'd say
one froth for the lime
yeah
and
two for the cherry burst
two froths
really
yeah I'm not into that
okay well
difference of opinion
anyway
the final one today
you're not looking forward to this
but
Zed candy
have something called
double dares
and if you want to know what they are I'll say one word to you and it'll explain exactly what this knockoff is You're not looking forward to this. But Zed candy have something called Double Dares.
And if you want to know what they are, I'll say one word to you,
and it will explain exactly what this knockoff is.
Beanboozled.
It's a Beanboozled knockoff.
Now, this is a quid, and it's basically a test tube full of jelly beans of different flavours. And like Beanboozled, a green one is going to be two flavours.
So it could be grass, or it could be apple.
It could be a disgusting one, or a nice one.
I will tell you the flavours we have in this tube, apparently.
Green is either watermelon or...
What do you think it is?
Snot.
Is correct.
The brown one is either cola or squid.
Dog shit.
No, squid.
Dog shit.
God.
How do you even know if that was correct?
Barry knows.
I know.
Right.
I'm blind.
Pink. No, orange is either peach or cough medicine. See, I wouldn't mind. I know right I'm blind pink
no orange is either
peach or cough medicine
hmm
see I wouldn't mind
blue
no I think they're both fine
I like the taste of cough medicine
blue is blueberry or toothpaste
again
why is toothpaste so derided
see but they've
because
the bean boozle
the jelly belly bean boozles
yeah
have toothpaste
as one of the nasty flavours
no don't get it
and freshly mown grass is one of the nasty flavours and freshly mown
grass is one of the
nasty flavours
again not a nasty
thing
it's a bit herbal
but this seems to
have all three
it has toothpaste
what is it
what was the other
one you said
snot
no that's nasty
squid
squid I don't mind
well the next few
flavours are
strawberry or fresh
blood
now that's nasty
and lemon or rotted cheese.
Nasty.
So, that's yellow.
So, shall we just pour these out and try them out?
Yeah.
I think there's two of most of them.
I've not tried these.
I'm opening this for the first time.
And you're hoping we can use these instead of being boozed on.
Still for protection.
Yeah.
Make it a deal with Bobby's.
This is not Bobby's.
This is manufactured by...
Zed Candy.
Okay.
They're out of the tube.
We'll go for yellow first.
Shall we start with yellow?
There's quite a few yellows.
So...
Actually, I can smell the cheese ones.
You can smell it?
I can actually smell the jelly belly cheese ones.
That's just the remnants of the cheese pot noodle from the previous episode.
Can you not smell the cheese ones from there?
Yeah.
Don't get so close to the mic.
That's unsettling.
All right.
Let's pick a yellow one each then
okay
ready
I'm not feeling
good about this
3, 2, 1
I've got cheese
I've got cheese
I've got lemon
that wasn't bad was it
it tastes just like
that cheese pot noodle
oh
really
it's the same
fucking company flavouring
maybe
I guess you could spit
into that and empty it out later.
That's all right.
I mean, it's not that bad, actually.
All right.
Oh, is there cheese?
These are not as good at all.
Well, we've only tried one.
Yeah, but you can tell the whole...
The texture.
The texture's just wrong.
It's slightly chalkier.
Yeah, yeah.
Much chalkier and crumblier.
They don't have a good consistency.
Okay.
And also, that may have been cheesy, but it didn't have a very strong flavour.
Maybe that will help us out when we get to some of the other flavours.
Right.
I think we should do brown next, which is cola or squid.
Okay.
I've picked a brown one up.
Okay.
I'm going to go with a brown one.
This one.
Ready?
Three, two, one.
Oh, that's really bad.
Cola.
I've got squid.
It's very dog shitty.
That is deeply unpleasant.
Oh, that's so bad.
That's one of the worst bean boozles I've ever had.
Wow.
That's really rough.
Does it taste of squid, though?
Yeah.
Mouldy squid.
Oh.
It's musty.
Honestly
they've put fucking fish
essence in that.
Smell that.
That does smell very fishy. It does
doesn't it? Fucking hell.
Now that came out of left field. I was
not expecting that after the weakness
of their cheese offering.
The weakness of a cheese offering does not appease me.
Whoa.
Can I just say, I'm glad I didn't get that one.
That's really, really unpleasant, mate.
Well, there's two blue ones.
Shall we have a blue one each?
Well, this could be toothpaste.
It's a palate cleanser, basically, though.
So it's blueberry or toothpaste, all right?
Here we go.
I've got toothpaste.
I think this is blueberry.
Why am I getting all the nasty ones
that is a good point
and you're picking them
weird
yeah that's toothpaste
which again
but that's fine
minty
it's very minty
that was nice and blueberry
that was fine
nice flavour
really
Paul as you said
the texture
isn't quite right
you're right
but
you can tell the cheapness
with the texture
but honestly
that squid one Paul
yeah
what haven't we chosen
we haven't done
the greens or the reds we haven't done the greens or the reds.
We haven't done the greens or the reds.
Or the orange. Did we do the orange?
Yeah, because that was either squid or...
No, no, we haven't done orange, so that's fine.
Right, we should do...
I hope you get a nasty one, Sue.
Let's do green. So what is green again?
It is... Watermelon or snot.
I'll let you pick my one, then. Just point.
Okay. So you touch it. Sorry. Well then, you have to pick whatever you want, then. Ready? Okay. Watermelon or snot Watermelon or snot I'll let you pick my one then Just point Okay Until you touch it
Sorry
Well then you have
Pick whatever you want then
Ready
Okay
Watermelon or snot
I got watermelon
I got watermelon
You're such a lucky bitch
There were two left though
Should we try the other two greens
Must I
Right ready
Yeah
Watermelon
Watermelon
Didn't get one snot
We didn't get any snot
Okay
It's not a very good watermelon flavour
Very artificial
Yeah very artificial
Not strong or
Doesn't feel right
No
It's not quite right
It's not quite right
Alright
Okay so what do you want to end on
It's almost kind of floral
Yeah
You know what I mean
Florally
Lavender-esque
Yeah it's got a lavender thing
Which is strange
So there is
There's peach and cough medicine left
And strawberry and fresh blood
What do you want to end on
Well let's go for the orange and then the red.
Then end on red.
Yeah.
All right, okay.
What is this, peach or?
Peach or cough medicine.
So I think either way, I'm going to be happy with this.
Yeah, again, cough medicine isn't that disgusting.
Yeah.
Or might be, I mean.
That's peach.
That's peach.
Shall I try that one?
Yeah.
Get a nasty one.
Okay.
Here we go.
The second orange.
Oh, that's a cough medicine
yeah
oh but it's nice
is it
like a cough drop
yeah yeah yeah
oh
exactly
cough drops are a legitimate sweet
people like that
it's like a cough drop flavoured one
mmm
nice
well it's like double
smell my breath
I'm not smelling you
smell my breath
you'll get
oh I got it
yeah it's almost like a anise
yeah
cough medicine
yeah
oh that was nice, that.
Well, you know.
So, to end on, we have three left, three red ones.
And blood.
So they're going to go for an irony, sort of.
We'll see.
I don't know what it's getting at.
I've never...
Believe me, the squid was so bad.
That was outstandingly bad.
Really bad.
So, you pick one for me, then.
It was almost like the fish sausage that I tried.
Oh, right.
Amplified. Amplified, yeah. Yeah. Which one almost like the fish sausage that I tried. Oh, right. Amplified.
Yeah.
Which one?
Shall I have that one?
Yeah.
Okay.
So strawberry or blood?
Oh.
He's gone for the smitter.
Was that blood then, Paul?
I got strawberry.
Describe it to me.
Lots of iron.
Yeah.
Really unpleasant.
Like chewy garbage?
Yeah, it was really bad.
Oh, God.
I think the bad ones are...
I feel like I've been punched
and I'm tasting my own blood.
Yeah.
The bad ones are
actually worse
than Bean Boozled,
aren't they?
That's really disgusting.
Yeah, I know.
I told you,
the squid was out of this world.
Can I try that?
I'm not trying it.
I've already got
a bit of a dicky tummy.
I'm going to try it
simply because
it's the last red one
and it might be strawberry
and clean my palate.
It might not be.
I don't want to see you
vomiting in the house of pickles.
I have a little nibble.
All right?
Here we go.
Mr. Fucker.
Good.
He had a bad run out.
What was that?
So.
I need bleach so I need bleach
I need bleach
yeah he's going to take
the lemon and lime
oh he's pouring the lemon
and lime bobbies
mmm
down there
mmm
nice and fizzy
and bleachy
ok so to sum up
double dez
not
not as good quality
confectionery
as
jelly bellies
of course jelly bellies
are like primo
aren't they
well they were
marketed originally as the gourmet jelly bean yeah very much the gourmet yeah so these are not as as Jelly Bellies. Of course, Jelly Bellies are like Primo, aren't they? Well, they were marketed
originally as the
gourmet jelly bean,
weren't they?
Yeah,
very much the gourmet.
Yeah.
So these are not
as well made.
On a basic level.
I mean,
they still put the
same processes in,
but the slightly
quality of the
colouring is different.
They're more crumbly,
the texture's more
crumbly and sort of
sugar crystal,
crystallised sugar sort of.
And in terms of the
flavours,
less nuanced
than your Bean Boozled.
But the bad ones...
Horrible.
Really?
I mean, they weren't messing around with that squid.
I was going to be like, shall I try the squid for a laugh?
And I was thinking, if your reaction is like that, I will barf in your bedroom.
It was really bad.
Really bad.
Mate.
That blood one was awful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
mate that blood one
was awful
yeah
yeah
so
full marks
to Zed Candy there
for coming up
with some
truly disgusting
disgusting
I'm going to
tell you what
I'm going to give
that four and a half
froths
but not because
it's a great product
but because actually
it does what it says
on the tin quite well
maybe better than
Bean Boozled does
I mean Bean Boozled
does have some
disgusting ones the vomit is pretty bad but you know what the balance is the good ones for Bean Boozled does. I mean, Bean Boozled does have some disgusting ones.
The vomit is pretty bad.
But you know what the balance is?
The good ones for Bean Boozled
taste much better as candy
than the good ones
in the Double Dares,
whereas the bad ones
for Double Dares
are far more potent.
Yeah,
they just seem to be more
like a real essence,
like a real fish essence
that they somehow got in there,
you know?
It was magical.
So,
yeah,
I'm going to give that
four and a half froths
just for, I don't know. It's quite good, really. And it's a quid. It was a quid for that. That's alright there, you know? It was magical. So, yeah, I'm going to give that four and a half froths just for, I don't know.
It's quite good, really.
And it's a quid.
It was a quid for that.
That's all right.
And you get, what, about 20 or 20?
It's your little entry into the world
of disgustingly flavoured...
So is that candy?
All right, mate.
Yeah, because they did Bean Boots.
Oh!
Jelly Belly.
But they also had the Harry Potter ones.
And the Harry Potter ones had different flavours, didn't they?
We haven't tried the Bertie Botts ones
yeah
I think it's very similar
we could give them a try
and end up
that trilogy I guess
I think we should
alright then
well that has to be
Gannon's Throff Shop
thank you
do you think it works
I think we need to
work on the title
oh god
I'm just
sorry
I keep
tasting the blood
as well
you know every time
we record Paul I think maybe the podcast has well you know every time we record Paul
I think maybe the podcast
has reached a new low
I'm glad we're still
reaching down
okay
let's say goodbye
that's it
it's the end
I'm going to swig
my last bit of booze
yes
now
I don't think
you should do that
I know it was a hot day
and you wanted a hot beer
I mean a cold beer
it's been a long cheap and you wanted a hot beer. I mean, a cold beer.
It's been a long cheap show day.
Yes.
Cheap show HQ.
And if you beguile me.
No, begat me.
If you make me feel bad for making me drink one Desperados, then mate.
I'm not.
We're not afraid of you. I know.
You're afraid of you. I know. You're not a friend of you.
You really...
It really seems to affect you.
25.9 vol-ca-hol.
Vol-
Volume of alcohol.
Yeah.
You're just not a big drinker,
are you, Paul?
No.
Right.
Paul likes his drugs.
I've just realised
my mum listens to this now.
I don't do drugs,
mummy.
Good.
So,
wow, it really smells bad. Yeah, I'm a squid. That don't do drugs, mummy. Good. So, wow,
it really smells bad.
Yeah,
that squid and blood sweet,
bad.
Anyway,
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