CheapShow - Ep 49: Bum Eggs
Episode Date: July 24, 2017Paul & Eli tackle more delightful and demented charity shop finds in an episode carefully entitled "Bum Eggs". Why? Well, why not find out? It's a bumper edition of the show to tide you over until the... forthcoming "epic" 50th edition and the cheap chaps cram in lots of the usual features. Eli fields a new batch of noodle questions, much to Paul's annoyance... Can you tell the difference between brand and off brand snacks? Eli takes on the challenge to see if Aldi's range of bubbly chocolate and potato hoop snacks stacks up to the genuine article and the results are shockingly surprising... There are more random vinyl singles in Silverman's Platter to listen to, some of which are actually quite good for a change (but not many) and it's Gannon's turn to deliver "The Price of Shite" with one item concealing a horrid, unsettling surprise! It's more of the usual awesome bouts of tat and chat and, for some reason, Paul is not going to take Eli's crap any more (and Eli isn't particularly bothered)! 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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Ladies and gentlemen, it's another time.
Just do your intro.
Just do your intro.
I was going to be witty.
You can't.
Just do the intro.
I was going to do another one of those witty long ones.
You know where I've gone for ages and you get annoyed?
You're not going to do that, yeah?
I'm not going to do that.
Okay, so you're not going to interrupt me?
No.
Unless this counts as interrupting.
It does.
Does it? But you haven't started anything yet.
You were looking at my face.
You could see me inhale. You're looking at my
lips. I'm always looking at your lips.
Your lovely, lovely lips like two
hot sausages in a nest of
face hair that I just want to stick my
lovely tongue on and go...
God, this is already...
Okay?
Yeah. Hello, everybody!
Right then! No, that's way too
loud. Oh, fuck's sake.
That's way too loud.
If you're going to do it...
Okay, sorry.
Almost 50 episodes and you haven't known my technique.
Go on, here you go.
No interruptions at all for me today, as promised.
All right, everybody!
How are you doing?
Is that too loud?
It was shit.
Yeah.
That's the problem with that one.
Right, this one's all the gravy.
Right then!
Hello!
It's Cheap Show, everybody!
My name's Eli Silverman,
and who else is in the house of pickles with me today?
It's none other than, you know,
you guessed it, ooh, I like it,
it's Paul Gannon!
Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
In the house, in the house, in the house, in the house.
We're on fleek for cheap, ladies and gentlemen.
On fleek for cheap.
I don't know if 40-year-old men can say that.
Don't limit your identity, Paul.
It's fluid.
You mean I have word salad?
No, your identity is fluid.
Oh, I see what you mean.
You have word salad.
Because you thought you were talking about my speech.
No, your identity.
That you always take the piss out of and, you know, makes me inside quite hurt and self-conscious
about my language skills.
I agree that maybe I should think
before I speak a lot more.
You just seem to be able to just
draw a word from nowhere. It just arrives
and it has no use.
Helipad. Exactly.
Exactly.
So anyway, hello. Welcome to Cheap Show.
This is episode 49.
We're one away.
Is it really?
Yeah. I knew you were going to give me a look when I mentioned the nine,
because we're going to do House of Pickles, which counts as 48 beforehand.
Episode 49, everybody.
Oh, it's very exciting, because we're nearly at 50.
Ah, and what's going to happen on the 50th episode?
Well, I think our plans are to do a real time episode of Cheap Show
so we'll record it in real time no edits
and the idea is we'll give ourselves 10 minutes
per classic segment of the show and we'll try
and do as many segments as we can in an hour
and are we going to try and fit in every single segment
that we possibly can I think the plan is
to do a top 3 life hacks
we're going to do a cheap eats we're going to do
top 3 life hacks you mean you combined
them both top 3 life hacks I'm going to fucking eat your dick off I'm just going to do a cheap eats. We're going to do... Top three life hacks. You mean you combined them both. Top three life hacks.
I'm going to fucking eat your dick off.
I'm just going to grab it.
I'm going to go...
Right.
That...
Let's put that aside.
I'm going to put the balls and the cock in my mouth.
So I've got a nice tight seal around your genitals.
And then I'm going to, in one swift jaw movement, bite your cock and balls off.
And then...
Well, that will save me money.
For what? Ball removal. And dating and sex lives. And anything. You never have to pay. bite your cock and balls off and then well that will save me money for what ball removal
and dating
and sex lives
and anything
you never have to take
that could be a life hack
yeah
cut your knob off
it'll make you make
more sensible decisions
yeah
yeah
you won't be
affected by libido
at all
anyway we're doing
all the other stuff
all the stuff you can think of
we're going to do
don't get mad we'll do that don't get mad cheap eats price of shite affected by libido at all. Anyway, we're doing all the other stuff. All the stuff you can think of. We're going to do Don't Get Mad.
We'll do that.
Don't Get Mad,
Cheap Eats,
Price of Shite,
Life Hacks,
Eli's Top Ten,
Vinyl Platter,
something else.
Tales from the Dance Floor.
It wouldn't be the same
without that, Paul.
Yeah, because we can
just spare two minutes
to tell the same story again.
Why not waste two minutes
on that story?
Me, Kassa, Sue, Kassa.
I was DJing
and this girl comes up to me.
Comes up to me. I think
I asked the girl,
just show me your phone.
What about?
Paul, I think we need a ban
on you doing the Eli voice.
Or at least once per episode. We apparently
need a ban on me using the soundboard on my
phone. A lot of complaints about that.
Yeah, it's shit. Oh yeah, thank you. I would like to take this time to say I me using the soundboard on my phone a lot of complaints about that yeah it's shit oh yeah
yeah thank you i would like to take this time to say i took on the feedback from our listening
good public and i have decided to go along with what they say which means i am fucking disgusted
with our listening audience how dare you tell me how to run this show how dare you you what and
your little fans i know you're getting them out. I know you're getting them out there.
I know you're getting them out there.
Your little Eli Arby.
You're all like, I don't tweet.
And then you're tweeting stuff like.
You're doing the voice again, Paul.
Yeah.
In one segment, we're allowed to use it in that segment.
Okay.
Which is possible.
So, hello, Twitter fans and girls.
I'm stalking online.
Now, I take exception to that, Paul.
I do not stalk.
Why don't you go tell Paul to fuck off on Twitter?
Go on.
Go on.
I haven't been doing that.
You get people hating you all by yourself, Paul.
I don't get noodles, darling.
People love noodles, all right?
It's a fact of cheap show you're going to have to fucking accept and live with, my friend, okay?
Just accept it.
I do accept it.
It'll just make me happy.
It's noodle time.
Noodle time.
All the time.
Well, maybe you should do your own spin-off podcast called Eli's Noodle Time.
Don't fucking tempt me!
You won't, though, because you're bone idle.
No, I won't.
You won't, will you?
No.
Could you do it for me?
Oh, my God.
Anyway, thank you to everyone who's been giving to us on Patreon.
Oh, yeah.
Everything's being sent out.
We missed the Google Hangout.
So, Paul, I've had this.
Yeah.
I've got an idea.
For Patreon.
Yeah.
Go on.
Because they're so nice.
What are the people who give?
They're so lovely.
Yeah.
I was thinking, right.
Ladies and gentlemen, where do you think this is going?
Where do you think?
Let's find out.
I was thinking, right. Yeah. gentlemen, where do you think this is going? Where do you think? Let's find out.
I was thinking, right... Go round there.
Who?
Anyone.
Who's donated what? A dollar? Ten dollars?
Randomly.
He's going to go...
Just select one.
Randomly.
Those lovely people.
Boy or girl?
Find out where they live. It doesn't matter to me.
Go on.
Find out where they live.
Go up.
Knock on their door. Watch them. No go up knock on their door watch them
no not knock on their door
then they'd know I was there Paul
alright
I go up
I see if there's a good vantage point
yeah
like a window
ground floor window
get my beard
yeah
all oiled up
all greased
I'm scared
I've got a bit of a job on
with lard
yeah
and then I go and I nuzzle
make a nuzzle mark
well wait till they
on the door
I'll wait till they leave
yeah
I'll look at them
while they're asleep
yeah
and leave a nuzzle mark
where
just to show my gratitude
on their window
right
to show my
deep
deep
gratitude
I'll nuzzle the window
right
thank you patrons on Patreon.
You'll be getting a visit from me, but you won't know I'm there.
The nuzzle man is coming.
The nuzzle man is coming.
Then I'll get...
I'll have some kind of...
If they do see me.
Yeah.
If they do see me.
Daddy, daddy, there's an Eli at the window.
Hopefully there won't be any kids.
All right.
So, I'll
yeah
I'll get my little ferret
it's a baby ferret
baby ferret
it's a minish
has it got a name
no
he's the ferret
right okay
and then I'll give it nugs
nugs
if they're watching me
I sort of abuse the ferret
but
yeah
don't worry
the ferret
no
the ferret's safe
right
yeah he's safe. He's safe,
but it looks like I'm giving it a bit
of S&M.
Look at me hurt, the ferret!
Something like that, Paul, I was thinking.
Okay, that's not at all troubling.
I don't know what tier you'd like to make
that. I think that should be a $50 tier.
Okay. But you can't
let them know. No. Because that's
the whole point. The nozzle man, he cometh.
Yeah, all over your windows, you dirty little monkey.
It's a ferret, not a monkey.
I just think the ferret's a step too far.
I think...
Well, tell the ferret that.
I think, here's what you should do.
If someone sees you when you're doing your whole nozzle man thing...
Nozzle man.
Yeah, you knock on the window.
And you beckon them towards you, right?
And then they get the ferret out.
No.
Ignore the ferret.
The ferret is not part of this equation. I'll give the ferret nugs.
It looks like I'm biting the head of the ferret.
No, no, no ferrets.
No ferret cruelty.
I want the ferret.
Fake ferret cruelty.
That doesn't matter.
I want no suggestion.
It's all for show.
The ferret's playing along, like I said.
It's safe.
It doesn't matter.
I don't want any ferret. I don't want any
ferret action in this.
I want something a bit more level-headed. I want them
to come over. A shrew. If they don't come
over, you drop the front of your prance
and you put three pink pancakes
on their window.
You see, now that's just crude.
Three pink blobs. That's just crude.
You've gone straight to blobs and bollocks
and wanking. You've pushed your blobs on the window. Frothing,'ve gone straight to blobs and bollocks and wanking and frothing,
no doubt, fizzy,
panty, whatever.
What have we got coming up on the show, Paul?
No, seriously, people, thanks for giving
money. If you do want to give money to us
for whatever reason, please,
seriously, we don't sleep well at night
without your donations. So, if you
do, go to patreon.com
forward slash cheap show.
You can go on there and pick any tier you want.
We give out special podcasts.
We give out special bits of tap from the Eli collection,
artwork, and the chance for you to appear on the House of Pickles podcast version
of the cheap show brand.
And there's going to be one of those House of Pickles
featuring some of you lovely, lovely patrons.
Coming up soon.
Coming up soon.
Coming up soon. Okay, soon. Coming up soon.
Okay, good.
So that's it.
So thank you for Patreon people.
Excellent.
Thank you for supporting us.
What else?
Well, there are a few more.
The thing is, we've been talking so much about ferrets and bloody...
Well, I thought that, you know, we've kind of just not...
I was going to talk about two things.
Someone put it out to us on Twitter.
Let's just do it.
We can cut some.
You know, that's the joy of editing, Paul.
Yeah, but...
That's what you do.
Isn't it?
Or everything is what I do.
And if you could, just have a think about the noodle spin-off.
Yeah?
No.
No, not happening.
Unless you come up with a really snazzy name for it right now.
Noodle Time with Eli Silverman.
You haven't thought that through at all.
You said right now.
I know, true.
Good point.
But I'm still...
What were these things you wanted to discuss?
Well, I'm not going to do that one because that would be well too meaty.
We'll save it for another podcast.
Guy on Twitter, at Omar Salazar C, he sent us a picture.
He went out and bought a little plastic fruit machine that you can get in pound shops and stuff.
It's like a coin bank, but you have a little knob and it has the little things that spin around.
Does it actually pay out if you win?
No, I don't think so.
It just is for show.
It's just for show.
He bought one, but what he did was he frothed it up, as I like to say.
He put a Cheap Show branding on it.
So he took all the stickers off and put special stickers on with your face and my face.
Why haven't I seen this?
Because we got it today as of recording.
So I'll put it on our website.
If you go to thecheapshow.co.uk, go to episode 48's page or 49.
No, 49's page.
We're 49 now.
This one.
Yeah, you'll see pictures and that picture from there.
It's a really cool little effort as well.
Excellent.
So it's like me, you as little spinner things.
Oh, and a little till.
And jelly beans.
So it looks like a till or it looks like a fruit machine?
It looks like a little fruit machine.
All right.
That's nice.
That works.
And then we've had a few people suggest us noodle stuff.
Oh, yeah.
So first of all, cold noodles.
Someone said it's a pot where, as far as I'm aware, you prepare this noodle with cold water.
Yes, at Nissan,
which is the original cup noodle brand.
Oh, God.
Look, I said one thing.
One little bit of information.
You hate detail, you know that.
I hate you,
and then I hate you talking about noodles.
Well, I'll keep this short then, shall I, Paul?
That's what she said.
To me.
So, yeah, I saw it, it's by Nissen
and it was in
Chinese writing
or Japanese writing
so I couldn't read it
but it did seem to be a cold noodle
an instant cold noodle
So you just used cold water rather than hot?
I guess so. Ice cubes?
Well the thing is
there is in in China...
God, I hate this section so much.
They eat cold noodles.
It's a dish.
Yeah.
You knew that.
It's like gazpacho soup for noodles.
Yeah, but there's a lot of real noodle dishes, not instant noodles, like proper food that
is cold noodles.
Okay.
Sober and so on.
And, you know, they've started to introduce them
in some of the don't give me that face some of the uh the ramen restaurants in london now have
these cold noodle dishes which usually have a nice sauce on them so if it's something like that
that'd be cool i hate my life uh but it looked to me like it could just be a fake sort of weird fake
painful fake ice sort of ice cream noodle crossover picture
we'll have to investigate that further Paul
yes we will have to investigate
that further
next one ramen beer
someone pointed us into the direction
of someone who makes beer
with ramen juice
or they make it
well it's wheat based isn't it
so it's flavoured ramen beer.
Is that...
What is it like?
Chicken flavoured?
I don't understand
because ramen is not...
Shall I double-check
via the internet?
Yes.
On the Twitter.
Right, here we go.
One, two, three.
I've had chocolate beer.
Have you?
I've had raspberry beer.
I've had strawberry beer.
I've had oyster.
Oyster stout.
Oyster stout?
Yeah.
That's lovely.
No.
It doesn't taste fishy.
It's sort of got a texture to it though.
Well.
Gelatinous.
Don't start doing that noise.
Whatever your fucking sound is.
Oh,
hang on,
I'll show you the picture of that fruit machine.
Okay.
Have a look at that.
That's fucking excellent.
That is fucking excellent,
isn't it?
Yeah.
Well done,
that man
Omar Salazar
Thank you Mr Salazar
Oh okay
Wait where has it gone
It was right there a little while ago
The image of the ramen beer
Oh here it is ramen beer is brewed with actual ramen noodles
Yeah so
The link to food and wine twitter account
So let me read this to you
Okay Yeah, so... The link to food and wine Twitter account. So let me read this to you. Okay.
Ramen beer is brewed with actual noodles.
Craving more ramen in your beer? Blah, blah, blah.
According to the website, the collective brewing project is Forthworth's destination for funky and sour beer.
And this concoction certainly fits into the category.
Didn't skimp on the ramen flavouring.
They brewed a cup-o-beer with...
That's the name of the beer, by the way. Cup-o-beer.
Cup-o-beer. It's a play on
cup-o-soup or whatever.
Cup-o-noodles. They brewed the cup-o-beer
with 55 pounds of noodles, perhaps
to give people the strong aroma
of nostalgia along with their drinks.
It's described as slightly tart.
Interesting.
Slightly tart with a hint of
lemongrass, lime, ginger and coriander.
Okay, so they've gone for a spicy profile.
Because the taste of an actual plain noodle is pretty neutral, isn't it?
Do you know what I mean?
I can't imagine the actual...
It's just a noodle, isn't it?
So they've gone, they're cheating a bit there.
Just a little bit.
I would love to try some of that, though, on the show
and let our listeners know who care about noodles
and all things noodle related.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
In fact, I want to round you all up.
And what?
Say, oh, I'm the Milky Bar kid.
Don't be ridiculous.
Just put you into chambers.
You put me into chambers?
Yeah.
What kind of chambers?
I want to put you all into small cells, right?
Right.
And then I'll feed one of you...
Is there a ferry involved in this?
No.
Because you can't...
I'll feed one of you noodles, right, through a hole,
and you eat it, and you have to slop out your noodley mess into a bowl
and slide that under the door to the next cell,
and they have to eat it.
I was like human centipede.
But with shit.
I think human centipede
had shit. Yeah, but this takes out the
intimate part of it all.
So it's like a weak version of human centipede.
And when it gets down to the very, very end,
that person gets a proper bone of
noodles and it goes back the other direction.
So the person in the middle would never
eat proper
noodle. I would call it
the crap don't fuck up. Wow. I would never eat proper noodle. I would call it the crapped on factor.
Wow.
Well, you came up with something there.
Right, one last thing.
This is an advert that appeared on the internet,
one of those, you know, kind of a Craigslist-y,
Gumtree kind of adverts.
Some people on Twitter thought you might have posted this.
So I'm just going to read it out.
This is what the advert says.
I will pay you $ dollar, US dollar,
to sit in my bathtub
full of noodles while you wear a one-piece
bathing suit. I will
not be home, nor will anyone
else while you do this.
I will leave keys for you, and you will
sit at your leisure.
I will require at least a five
minute stay.
A neighbour will watch the front door from across the street
and using a supplied stopwatch will time your entry and departure.
Please supply your own footwear.
The noodles will be cooked and therefore slippery.
Do not bring any sauce.
I will season the pasta after I return home prior to dinner.
Uh, weird.
And that's it.
Location is in
Pittsburgh, Northside.
It is not okay to
contact this poster
with services or
other commercial
interests and the
compensation for this
job is one US dollar.
I think he has a
camera in that room
with the bathtub.
But he said that
he's going to eat
the noodles after
the person's been in
them.
So maybe that's his
thing.
Where is the sexual
content?
Where is the sexual
moment for him? It's just the whole concept. Where's the moment where he pulls out his chub? He been in them. Yeah. So maybe that's his thing. Where is the sexual content? Where is the sexual moment for him?
It's just the whole concept.
Where's the moment
where he pulls out his chub?
He's eating them.
When he's eating the noodles
thinking some stranger.
See, no, I don't think that's true.
I think he's masturbating
while they're in the bath.
I think he's masturbating
whilst he wrote that.
Maybe.
Yes.
That's why it's very short sentences.
I can't.
Do not bring pasta sauce.
No, I think there's a camera
in that bathtub
and he goes somewhere else to watch it.
So they just sit in the bath, happy, whatever.
It's creepy as all hell, I'd say.
And then he's sitting there watching it.
Doesn't that creep you out?
Yeah, it really creeps me out.
I will not be there.
I will not be.
I will be remotely.
I will be there remotely.
It's like that.
Who's the neighbour?
All right, mate.
Yeah, it's Bob across the road.
It's him, isn't it?
It's Bob across the road.
How you doing, Bob?
What's up, Bob?
Am I busy tomorrow night
around
no
no I'll be in
why
you want me to watch the house
oh where you going
to your special place
okay right
and what do you want me to do
look for women
going into your room
in a one piece bathing suit
and coming out
besmirched with some noodles
yeah
and time for five minutes
alright Bob
yeah Bob
I'll do it Bob
see you Bob the neighbour is a red heron Margaret call the police little Bob's at it again some noodles. Yeah. And time for five minutes. Alright, Bob. Yeah, Bob. I'll do it, Bob. See you, Bob.
The neighbour is a red herring. Margaret, call the police.
Little Bob's at it again.
I think the neighbour is him.
So he's like, hello, I'm the neighbour. I've got
a big twirly moustache. So he has two
houses. One across the road from the property
where he has it. This is a big operation.
The house across the road is just full of tech
and screens and it's just a whole operation.
It's like that film, is it Silver? Sliver?
The film where Sharon Stone masturbates in the bath,
but the landlord's watching it.
I've never seen that.
I've seen it 20 times.
Tell me about it. Make something up about it.
He's watching her on the CCTV.
She's frothing it.
She's fapping in the bath.
Oh, God.
Fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping, fapping the vlogapping in the bath. Oh, God. Fap, fap, fap, fapping. Fap, fap, fap, fap, fapping.
Fap, fap, fap, fap, fapping.
Fapping the vlogger in the bath.
And then she's like,
oh, oh, oh.
And he's like, oh.
Yeah, he's going, oh, oh.
Is he?
Yeah.
Is he?
Yeah, oh.
And then they both go, oh.
And then it cuts to a shot of a man eating a dog.
No, it doesn't.
No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't.
You don't remember that film.
So anyway, yeah, he's definitely the neighbour.
Yeah.
And it's very strange.
Why would he, if he actually wants someone to do it,
what would, it's like by putting it at one pound,
he's kind of saying, you are like me.
You know exactly what I'm talking about here.
You'll do it for a dollar.
Yeah, because you love it.
I'll buy that for a dollar.
You love anonymous people setting up noodle challenges.
And they're eating the noodles.
What if I'm in the bath of noodles and I want to rub it?
I want to give it my own sauce.
I don't think you'd get your dollar.
How would he know?
Unless he's filming.
How does he know?
How's he going to know?
He'd expect the noodles.
How's he going to know?
He's not going to know. He's going to eat them later How's he going to know? He's not going to know.
He's going to eat them later.
And he's going to recognise that a little bit of that bathtub got a little bit...
He'll check for special sauce, man.
Does he?
Yeah, and you won't get your dollar.
A little blacklight.
Oh, I'll take it.
You won't take it.
Money up front for me.
You've ruined the whole thing.
Money up front for me.
I'm not doing it unless I see the money, baby.
Well, you can't do it then.
Well, then I'm not going to do it.
Payment on delivery.
Well, I'll find some other total freak
And that's that story
Right okay good
Rate that story out of five
Two
Two
That was alright
Let's just start the show
It's time for my new favourite segment of the show
That was called Bland vs Brand
But now I've changed it yes what is it called
now i've changed it to why are you singing because i'm thinking of a jingle as i go so i've changed
it to off brand brand off off brand brand off off brand off off brand off off brand off brand off
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I've got two challenges, which I like more.
One is a challenge, one is more of a kind of personal opinion.
Don't stop. That's not going to be a thing.
I like this thing.
There are going to be complaints about that, just like your silly soundboard.
And I'll deal with the complaints in the exact same way I dealt with them last time.
By setting up some kind of torture chamber and feeding us our own poo.
Yeah.
Good.
Okay, glad I've cleared that up.
So, I've got good form on this section.
You do.
I will go ahead and say you are very good at this.
But I'm like, because I've done so well so far, I think maybe I might just mess it up today.
I'm sorry, I'm only human, everybody.
He's only human.
Flesh and blood.
Stop singing.
No one likes you.
Okay, I like you sometimes.
That surprisingly hurt me.
Sorry, I'm sorry, Paul.
That was surprisingly cutting.
Okay, so we're going to do some brand or off-brand taste comparisons.
Now, the first one, what would you like to do, savoury or sweet first?
I'll let you choose.
What would you like, sweet or savoury?
Let's go with the classical order of things and start with the savoury and then have dessert.
That's a fine plan Mr Silverman
Can I shake your hand?
Yes
Well done
I can't believe we're actually doing that
So it feels weird
Doesn't it?
This was pointed out to me by someone who reads
I think it's Shortlist Magazine or Metro
One of those free publications you get in London
About Aldi
Who are now selling their own brand of hula hoops
Called
Hoops.
See what they've done there?
They just dropped the hula bit.
Yeah, hoops.
Hoops are an actual shape, isn't it?
Yeah.
So they make their own hoops now called Snackrite,
and they're just like hula hoops.
They're potato rings.
Oh, what?
Snackrite is the range.
Is the range that Aldi sell.
That's the Smiths or the Walkers
Or the Bobbies of Candy
If we want to reference an earlier episode
But Bobbies also do crisps
We'll cover them at a separate date
When we go back to my froth shop
We will be doing Bobbies crisps
So these are hoops
These are hoops
Again, as I say
Exactly like hula hoops, potato ring snacks
Very salted They really have gone for a copy again as I say exactly like hula hoops potato ring snacks very salted
they really have gone for a copy
of the whole look of
Walker's
hula hoops there
side by side they're small red packets
these are like multi-pack
packs that you've got here
but the actual hula hoops
actually don't have a branded
brand name on them that's the difference
okay hula hoops one of my all-time classic crisps it's been going it's a classic crisp for as long
as i remember and paul a little bit of color here um i remember when i was a very small child i used
to love it when my mum would buy me some hula hoops and i used to pretend that they were little
creatures right i'd put them all on my fingers you know you put one on each finger because they're
hoops and i used to believe that i as the destroyer of worlds as i ate them and crunched down on them
they would be reincarnated at the bottom of the pack and come through like this whole sort of
cycle of life like i was destroying them but they were coming through don't worry little hula hoop person you will live again
as you're regenerated at the bottom of my pack but what happens when you run out of pack well
i was a child i didn't you know it was a make-believe so basically you weren't that deep
into the idea you were just kind of a little silly fantasy but it was an enduring fantasy
that lasted over
like at least three years i'm gonna say 30 then for i don't still believe that the hula hoops are
little people that i'm eating and then regenerating at the bottom of the packet good uh that was very
much in my um tutti frutti and a packet of hula hoops phase which was a staple for me if you ever
make an autobiography i want you to call it the
hula hoops and tutti frutti book okay so so shut up we're going to do a taste test this is our
first taste test because oldie said well the review for the oldie brand said that the hoops
were very very good some even preferred them to the hula hoops original yeah but they have been
like all crisps, Paul.
Yes.
There's been a slow degeneration as the health consciousness kicks in.
Well, yes.
And the reduction in salt.
I mean, you know.
No artificial colours or flavours.
I'm sure we've discussed this before, but frazzles.
They're a shadow of their former self.
Do you think?
Yeah.
I can't really remember now.
They used to be more bacon-y.
And now they are bacon-less or less bacon-y?
They're just salty now.
Unless, yeah, have less. And it's just definitely to do with the
reduction in salt.
All these manufacturers are forced to do.
They take our fun.
They take our bloody fun away from us.
They take our world away from us.
Eli Silverman,
leave voter. Shut up.
So we're going to do this. How confident
do you think you'd be able to take the difference between the hula hoops and the hoops?
I'm going to say pretty confident, Paul.
Okay, good. Well, I'm going to open these packets now.
I need a blindfold.
No, you just close your eyes.
I know, but it can't be... I can't trust myself.
Sunglasses.
It's all right. I think I could put fucking sunglasses.
Oh, yeah, sunglasses. Those great obscura of lights.
But you stick socks behind your eyes. Okay, all right, I'm up for put fucking sunglasses. Oh, yeah, sunglasses. Those great obscura of lights. But you stick socks behind your eyes.
Okay, all right, I'm up for that.
Yeah.
Eli Silverman is now putting dirty socks...
Out of the grotty ocky over here.
By the old grotty ocky.
Oh, he's doing it.
He's putting the sunglasses on
and tucking dirty socks to the front of the lenses.
How's that?
You look like an utter prick.
Well, it's working though, Paul.
Where's my mic? Give me my...
Why don't you just sit down?
Fuck you! Stop touching me in real life!
There's your mic.
Am I speaking into it all right?
Yes.
Okay.
All right?
Okay.
Actually, the smell of these socks is kind of going to interfere.
Well, maybe that will help.
Maybe that will help.
It will add a slight cheesiness to both of them.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay, I'm ready.
Here it is.
I'm going to give you your first one.
Okay?
I'm not telling you which one it is.
Hand out.
Because I'm not going to stick this in your mouth.
Okay.
Hand out.
There you go.
There's your first one.
Right.
Okay.
Now, from touch alone, I cannot distinguish this from a normal hula hoop.
Okay, my little friend.
Don't worry.
You'll be regenerated.
At the bottom of the bag.
I'm going in.
All right.
He's going in.
Mmm.
Interesting.
How are you taking it on a first bite situation?
Mmm.
Mmm.
This is the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen by
the way you holding a great big microphone with a yellow foam on the top with sunglasses on and
socks tucked behind your eyes you look like the saddest cosplay of deputy dog i've ever seen in
my life i will um so what hits me very nice potatoe flavor a very nice potatoe flavor sort
of straight away that kind of potato floury and then
you know like potato flour which is essentially what they are of course um there's a lack of salt
interesting it's that it's that lack of salt that is leading me to think that this is the knockoff
basically interesting um but why not why not the new brown since it's reduced salt and everything like that
i don't know because you were just saying they had to reduce salt they did they did but i i just
think a real hula hoop is slightly saltier than that in this effect and also it was crunchy but
it wasn't really crispy okay so i mean felt a little underdone i don't know i can't tell no it's yeah a bit
underdone a bit raw and flowery and there is a slight staleness that comes in after the potato
hit okay well are you ready for potato like a dried up chip you know yeah a bit like the edge
of the rind of a dried up right should finish being all fucking of course i can't food and
wine i can't drink i can't tell until I compare here.
And this is, I just want to say now, halfway through, Paul,
this is definitely the hardest challenge I've ever had to face in your life.
Right, here's the next one, right?
Here we go.
Here is the second.
Yeah, immediately, very different.
Yes.
The potato doesn't hit you first.
It's sort of the salt, and it is kind of more brittle.
And you know what?
Yeah.
I just think I can do this.
I just think that second one was the real hula hoop,
and the first was the knockoff.
Is that what you're believing?
And I prefer...
Which one did you prefer?
That's the interesting question.
I prefer the first one.
It's more fresh tasting, yeah.
Yeah?
Even though you said it was a little underdone?
Yeah, but it still had
a real potato hit
straight away,
the first one,
which, stop touching me.
Because you can't see.
I've been flicking the V's
for the past five minutes.
It's been wicked fun.
You've been flicking the P's?
V's!
Oh, sorry.
I thought you meant a wanker.
Giving you the bird.
You wouldn't...
Anyway, so,
you're going to say
the second pack is hula hoops,
but you prefer the first.
Yeah. You are, on you prefer the first. Yeah.
You are,
on the first point,
absolutely correct.
The second was
the hula hoop.
I'm so good at this, man.
Yeah.
I am the brand
off-brand
fucking don.
You are a super taster
when it comes to
chips and eggs.
I can just do it
with crisps, man.
I can just do it.
I don't know.
I thought this might
have tricked you.
Not so much tricked you,
but I thought...
No, I thought it was
going to be hard.
Yeah.
But it really wasn't hard. I can recognise the taste of a hula hoop. All right. I mean, I've been eating have tricked you. Not so much tricked you. No, I thought it was going to be hard. But it really wasn't hard.
I can recognise the taste of a hula hoop.
All right.
I mean, I've been eating them for years.
But I can see the people who are saying that that's better.
It has a sort of more wholesome, almost, less artificial effect.
You know that when we take the show seriously, people don't like it as much?
What do you mean?
When we're serious about stuff.
Are you trying to give me notes whilst we're doing the show?
Yeah. Can you just get angry
at me for no reason?
Stop eating. Why are you eating? You're not allowed to eat.
Why am I not allowed to eat?
Just not. Why?
I'm the taster.
Fucking hell. Well, keep your blindfold on
because the second food... Congratulations on the first one.
Thank you. The second one, I've got lined up for you. keep your blindfold on because the second food... Congratulations on the first one. Thank you. The second one I've got lined up for you.
Is your blindfold on still?
Yes.
Cool.
The second one I've got lined up is a type of sausage.
No, you're not allowed to eat this sausage.
Oh, yeah.
It's like a cigar.
You just have to suck it for a bit and you get the flavour.
Very, very funny.
There are two sausages I'm going to give you.
Oh, God.
I'll end up noshing you off.
Oh.
And I'll get all bubbles coming out my nostrils.
Is it that kind of sausage, Paul?
All phlegmy bubbles all bubbling out.
Anyway.
What's next?
I'm going to look.
I don't trust you.
All I need to do is open your mouth as wide as you can.
Wide as you can.
Because there's a lot to get in and there's going to be
even more on the second round. Oh, for God's sake.
Because the second sausage comes with a
creamy filling.
Good. Right, that's out of the way.
Right, so the next one. You've got something else. I have.
For real. This is a genuine second
thing. Now, you said you wanted sweet, so we're going to do
sweet next.
You can keep the blindfold on because the packaging will give it away
as well. Really? Yeah, to some extent.
So, let me just fish it
out because there's quite a lot of packaging.
Okay,
so we're going to do chocolate now. Nothing crazy,
nothing silly, nothing like chilli chocolate, no beer
chocolate, no von chocolate, nothing like that.
What's the brand? I'm trying to remember.
Well, if you'd just give me
30 more seconds of your impatient time,
you hairy little fucking vagabond
twat. Wow, you're really
trying to get the rage in today,
yeah? Yeah, you like that,
yeah? You like it, yeah?
Touch it.
The brand we're going to talk about, chocolate-based,
today, is Aero. Do you like Aero?
Yeah. Bubbly chocolate? Yes. If you don't know,
in the UK, there's a brand by Nestles, or Nestle, called Aero. And you like Aero? Uh, yeah. Bubbly chocolate? Yes. If you don't know, in the UK, there's a brand by Nestles,
or Nestle,
called Aero.
And it's a nice,
light, bubbly chocolate.
I think,
did they,
I bet they started in the 80s.
It seems to be something
that was new
when I was a child.
Really?
I honestly don't know.
I want to say 70s.
Yeah, maybe 70s.
Okay, Google,
what year
was the Aero bar invented?
According to Wikipedia,
it was originally introduced to the north of England as the
New Chocolate by Round Trees in 1935.
Whoa!
1935!
I see, I was going to say, I read that article by Roald Dahl, and he was an essay saying
all of the chocolate, classic chocolate bars were all invented in the 1930s.
Everything.
Anything you care to mention came out in the 1930s.
So, that's
another one. I mean, that's surprising.
So, Aero... Boo!
No, that's surprising.
Oh, fuck off. Right, good, because you
couldn't see me, and I was right close to your face
the whole time. Look, I've got these
dog flaps over my ears.
I mean, eyes. Dog ears.
Right, anyway, we're doing Aero chocolate. It's a brand of eyes. Dog ears. Right, anyway.
We're doing Aero chocolate.
It's a brand of chocolate
that has got bubbles in.
What's the man...
So the Aero and...
Have we gone for a plain flavour
or what flavours have we got?
This is milk chocolate.
Milk chocolate Aero
and the brand knockoff...
Okay, so the bubbly bit
on the inside
is milk.
Is it?
Milk chocolate.
There's no mint, no orange.
And then it's got chocolate
all the way through.
What don't you get
about...
Because some of them
have got like a minty
bit in the middle.
But I said
it's just chocolate.
It's just milk chocolate.
Right.
If I'd said mint chocolate
or orange chocolate
or...
Crystal clear.
It would have been
clearer.
But for some reason
you can't fathom
that there's no catch
to me saying
it's chocolate.
Right.
I just didn't
understand you
for a second.
Anyway, you've got Nestle Aero,
and you're going up against, in terms of brand or bland,
a company called...
It's not called brand or bland.
Fuck off!
I like that.
It's a company called...
Fuck off!
Hello, I'm Paul.
I've got a little puppet.
I'm doing my Paul voice now.
Fucking hell!
Why does my voice sound like a Scouse ghost?
Because you're into Ghostbusters
And you're Scouse
You twat
Well I stand corrected on that one
So the company is called Dairy Fine
And the chocolate brand is called Bubbly Milk Chocolate
They've gone for descriptive
They've gone for two very different shapes
I don't know how much that might be
Or not a giveaway to the brand.
Well, I'm not that familiar with Aero, the shape that it comes in.
You're going to give me one chunk each?
Yes, I'm going to give you one chunk in your mouth.
You're going straight in for the mouth, are you?
I'm going straight in for the mouth of my chunk, right?
So you open your mouth and I'll put my chunk in it.
And who's the manufacturer?
Is it, again, like an Aldi that is making this chunk?
This is from Aldi as well.
It is?
This is from Aldi. So it's their
off-brand, right? Their subsidiary
brand called Dairy Fine.
So again, we're going to give you an option.
So I'm going to go with this first handout
because I'm not touching your fucking mouth. You're not touching my mouth.
No. I thought you could have a little bit of play
there. That is chocolate number
one. Overall, what's
your mouth feel?
Standard. Standard chocolate.
It's got a bit of the texture of the Aero
sort of bit. Yeah. Really very
over-sweet, the chocolate.
And the cocoa
flavour that I'm getting is kind of
it's like, you know, chocolate money,
Christmas chocolate money. It doesn't feel like very
good quality chocolate. Oh.
Kind of a muddy. Muddy chocolate?
A muddy cocoa taste. I like his album. Muddy chocolate. Very good blues. Oh my And kind of a muddy. Muddy chocolate. A muddy cocoa taste.
I like his album.
Muddy chocolate.
Very good blues.
Oh my God, that's lame.
Gannon's doing the dad jokes today, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, he seriously is.
You know what, ladies and gentlemen?
Paul is such a dad joker.
The other day, we were walking along, I stumbled, and he went, what did he say?
I said, why didn't you send me a postcard from your trip?
I mean, how dad is that?
That is worse than...
That is like dad from the 1940s.
But you know that it's because...
Like postcards.
Who fucking sends those anymore?
Not you.
No one does.
When's the last time you received a postcard?
You fucking...
This dated dad joke.
I can't have kids.
Ooh. Okay. Ooh.
Okay.
Is that funny to you?
It's not.
Just the way it is.
I can't have kids, mate.
I've had the tests
and I'm barren
and so I make dad jokes
because that's a part of my life
I don't think I'll ever really tap into.
Fine.
So go ahead and make jokes.
No, I'm sorry.
Because I can't have kids.
Right.
Right. That was chocolate number one. What do you think? Meh. I'm sorry. Because I can't have kids. Right. Right.
That was chocolate number one.
What do you think?
Meh.
Yeah?
Okay.
I'd say meh.
Right now, would you say it was brand or off-brand?
I know for a fact it's off-brand.
Okay.
All right.
Cool.
Because the shape gave it away totally.
It had a very bubbly, bubbly shape.
Like a bubble.
Like bulbous.
Bulbous.
A bulbous shape in your mouth.
A redundant bulbous.
No, but in my hand, I could feel it. I'm sorry. I'm just too good. Just too good. I'm going to take that out andous. No, but in my hand I could feel it.
I'm sorry, I'm just too good.
I'm going to take that out and sample it.
It's in my hand. I'm just too good.
Oh my god.
That's going to be on the app.
We're going to make an effort not to make wank jokes.
You can get it on Google Play.
Get it down on your phone right now.
You can have things like Eli saying,
it's in my hand. I'm really that good.
Look, if people want me to record them a sex tape.
Yeah.
An oral sex tape.
Just give me the chance.
Basically, if you want a sex tape from Eli, he'll record a three-minute missive for you.
So you can fap or josh to whatever you fancy.
Fap and josh.
Fap and josh.
That could be a dance act.
Yeah.
That might be our erotic stories characters. Fap and josh. Yes, I'm josh and you. Fap and Josh. That could be a dance act. Yeah. That might be our erotic stories characters.
Fap and Josh.
Yes, I'm Josh and you are Fap.
And we tell sexy stories from around the world.
And this is our turn.
Our turn.
Extrapolate magician.
That's what I fucking said.
Right, here's the next chocolate.
Give me it.
Very fine.
Give me it.
Oh, no.
Here we go.
Good.
See, this to me has the shape of Arrow. Give me it. Very fine. Give me it. Oh, no. Here we go. Good. See, this, to me, has the shape of Aero.
Yeah.
I might be wrong.
So I'll go on the taste.
I mean, that wasn't very good, that first taste.
Right, here we go.
This is chocolate number two.
Is it Aero or bubbly?
Mmm.
That is more pleasant.
Is it?
Yeah.
Is it?
It's more pleasant.
It's nicer.
The texture of the bubble aerated centre is more...
And it's got a creamier finish.
A creamier texture.
If you are editing this into a sex tape, you've got plenty to go on now.
It's got...
In my hand.
I hate to say this, Paul.
I know I'm trying to avoid this, you know, but it has better amplitude than the first one.
He said it, ladies and gentlemen.
He said amplitude.
It has better amplitude than the first one. He said it, ladies and gentlemen. He said amplitude. It has better amplitude than the first one.
I'm sorry.
I can only be myself.
Take me or leave me.
I've got to say amplitude.
Yeah.
If you've been playing Cheap Show Bingo,
you can cross off the amplitude square.
You're close to winning.
Congratulations.
Yeah, it's got a much smoother, more pleasant effect.
And there's none of that muddiness from the cocoa.
Everything is working together.
The flavour is much better there and the texture is better.
It's just better in every way and that's the arrow.
The second one is the arrow and the first one is the knock-off.
Okay, so you're saying the first one was the knock-off and the second is the arrow?
Am I wrong?
No, wait there. I'm just getting it right.
So that's what you've said and you you prefer the second. And I also way prefer
the second one. To the first. In that case,
I can tell you, Eli,
that once again, you're wrong.
Am I? You're wrong.
The first was Aero.
The Nestle Aero, the official, so to speak,
brand. And the second one was
the Dairy Fine Bubbly. You can take off
your sock mask
now. Okay, yeah.
There you go.
So you see the new branded bars are all bulbous-y.
They're all bulbous, yeah.
Maybe that fooled me.
But I do honestly think it's nicer.
What do you think?
I've not tried that one at all.
Try the knock-off.
Okay, you've had a taste of the Aero.
It's not very impressive, is it?
It's as I expected it to be.
And here is the knock-off.
Oh, I see what you mean.
It's nicer.
Smoother. It's smoother and it doesn't have that sharp here is the knock-off. Oh, that's what you mean. It's nicer, smoother.
It's smoother and it doesn't have that sharp, sugary twang that Aero does.
Yeah, that sharp sugar, sort of, yeah.
Well, Nestle, you need to up your game because they are winning, hands down.
We both agree.
Bubbly Milk Chocolate by Dairy Fine is superior to the Aero.
And yet we've also found today that the Aldi brand hula hoops, on a budget,
10 packs for a pound,
better than six packs for a pound,
the hula hoop.
Just as good, really.
Just as fine.
Just as good.
You could put them in a bowl at a party
and no one would question
your party snack buying skills.
I just happen to be extremely familiar
with what a real hula hoop...
Apart from one little child.
He's like,
excuse me, mater.
I don't believe...
Mater?
Is that the right word for mother or something? Fucking hell, you're so not in your 30s today. You're like everything, excuse me, mater. I don't believe... Mater? Is that the right word for mother or something?
Fucking hell, you're so not in your 30s today.
You're like everything.
Excuse me, organiser.
I am a precocious nine-year-old and I believe...
What is it, Johnny?
Timmy?
I believe your hoops in the bowl are not, in fact, Hula Hoop branded snacks as I'd preferred
and demand.
No, I have been led to believe by reputable sources and my own taste buds
that actually this is the off-brand make
and I shan't have it.
I shan't have it in St Winifred's.
First of all, that's a girl's school.
I don't know what you've been doing there, Timmy.
Modern times. Things have changed.
They're letting anyone in.
Do you want me to call your mother to come and pick you up?
Because that's what could happen,
you little precocious bastard.
Mother understands my genius.
Mother supports it.
Mother feeds me titty.
Right.
Get out.
I won't be doing that.
And daddy feeds me dick titty.
Oh, God.
I just wanted to know if I could break you.
I'm sorry.
I went to a very obvious place.
Dick titty, everybody.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Poor mental note.
Please do not call this episode Dick Titty.
I know you're going to want to.
I know you'll think it's funny.
But no, just keep the surprise for the listener.
All right.
So, well, that's the first time I failed, I think, on that.
But in a way, that had a positive result.
It really did throw me because that's not the...
They're always experimenting with different aero things, aren't they?
Have you noticed that?
Yeah, they've got all sorts of products.
It's like whisper bars,
but whisper bars are more packed,
condensed bubbles, you know?
Different texture.
It's a different texture.
It's more crumbled.
It's folded, isn't it?
It's a folded...
That's twirl.
Ah.
But they're just like...
Whisper bars are just aeros,
but they're tightly packed bubbles.
You know what surprised me as well?
It was invented in 1935.
I know.
We've all learned something today.
We've all learned something.
Okay, good.
I don't get it. I know, we've all learned something today. We've all learned something. Okay, good. Okay, now, ladies and gentlemen,
it's another edition of Silverman's Platter.
I've been picking up some bits of obscure vinyl, novelty records,
all kinds of cheap crap that clutters the charity shops of our nation.
I go there, I buy it, it fills my room up, it collects dust, it's a bit sad.
Yeah.
So, but we've got some today, Paul.
Have you?
Yes.
What delights have we got today on the platter?
Well, first up, this is a true novelty record.
Is it now?
The artists
The Duke and Earl
Never heard of them
Do you know anything about them?
Absolutely zero
What's the song called?
The Bruno Rap
Right, let's play a little bit of it
Let's play a little bit of it
And then come back and review
This is MMTV
Coming to you live from Las Vegas
I think we can now go over
Yes, I think we're now going to go over to Harry Carpenter
in Frank Bruno's dressing room.
Hello and good evening.
I'm in the dressing room.
I'm talking to Frank Bruno.
Frank, say hello.
Hello.
All right, Harry.
Hello.
Hello.
All right.
Now, Frank, over the years, you've built up your career, training in the lawless camp and lost a chance to be a champ. The whole of England's with you, Frank, but do you know what it takes to be a champ?
Hard work.
You know what I mean, Aaron?
Yes.
Hard work.
You know what I mean, Harry? Yes. Hard work. You know what I mean, Harry?
I think so.
From dawn to dusk I'm in the gym.
This time, Harry, I'm gonna win.
Look how long I've been waiting for my chance.
Anticipating if Mark's gonna fight me or not.
This time, Harry, I've got my shot.
Iron Mike is what they say, but when I eat him, he'll melt away.
Hard work. Do you know what I mean, Harry?
Hard work. Do you know what I mean, Harry?
This is the main event of the night.
12 rounds of boxing for the heavyweight championship of the world between Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno.
Very, very depressing.
Very 80s.
From 1989.
Yeah.
Composed by Elle Beckett.
And it was around the time of the very famous
Frank Bruno-Tyson fight.
Probably came out beforehand, I would have thought.
I don't know. Do you know why I don't know?
Because they're very specific in the song about
how the match plays out. Maybe, yeah.
Because he goes, round one, and then round
two, it's like he goes out to
put the slap down, and then he goes, oh
no, and then it stops. He got knocked out.
So did he get knocked out in round six? Yeah, he got
knocked out. So I think it was made after that then.
Must have been. Okay, it's got terrible
80s instrumentation. It been. Okay. It's got terrible 80s instrumentation.
It's very basic.
It's almost Casio keyboard level.
Very much so.
Very unusual label.
Pekka.
And it's got a strange sort of almost Russian constructivist design on it,
which I have never seen before, that label.
Or heard of these people.
They sound like they're just two kids in their 20s
who have gotten the chance to make a piss-poor rap spoof.
Because you know there's one thing I hate more than anything else?
White guys rapping.
There are obvious examples, Eminem, Beastie Boys.
But by and large, when you're from Wolverhampton or Milton Keynes
and you decide that your life's going to be spent rapping,
I think you need to just baby step back
check yourself before one
wrecks oneself
you are on shaky
ground oh I know that I do
white rap I know I do it
and I don't think I'm not proud of it
who's the man he's the silver man he's the silver man
coming out for Christmas number one
buy it download it we'll get it to number one
for Christmas so the Bruno. Buy it, download it. We'll get it to number one for Christmas. So the Bruno rap.
Mike.
No, not Mike.
Frank.
Frank Bruno.
Frank Bruno at the time was a huge celebrity.
You know what I mean, Harry?
And he used to say that.
And he was referring to who?
Harry... Seacombe.
It's not Harry Seacombe.
He's the guy out of the Goons.
Yeah.
And Crossroads.
No, not Crossroads.
The religious show on Sunday.
Songs of Praise used to do that.
Yeah, Songs of Praise used to do that Oh I'm a signer
Yeah but
Yeah he's also
Harry Seacombe
I'm not going on a tangent here
But Harry Seacombe
Records
They clog up
They just
Fat in an artery
They clog up
Charity shops
Really do
That and Cliff Richard songs
Singles clog up
Santa Vani
All that stuff
Lots and lots of...
What was that band
they saw lots of
no matter where I went?
Five Star.
Lots of Five Star singles.
And Yaz.
Yeah.
Different charity shops.
All same kind of singles
that have been donated.
It's...
You now know the pain
of the charity shop
vinyl digger.
I could write a novelty record
about that
which no one would hear.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb. I really like... I go shopping for songs. I could write a novelty record about that which no one would hear I'm Eli
I go shopping for songs
My name's Eli
It's all too wrong
I'm Paul, I'm on this show
I'm doing rap, even though I hate
white guys doing it
Awful
I'm Paul
I'm Paul
Don't call me the Milky Bar Kid because I'll do shit on the lid.
Your rap skills are so bad.
Well, I just...
Well, I'm proving your point then for you.
All right, fucker.
I'm Eli.
I like a little bit of vinyl.
I'm right, Eli.
And my decision's made that final.
I'm going to go into a shop and spend some money I've not got on vinyl
to burn down my house
that was good
thank you
thank you
so the Bruno rap
not very good
but it made me think
about
these
sporting events
used to generate
novelty records
so you've got
the Bratz
with Chalk Dust
which is the
McEnroe
John McEnroe
Wimbledon one
yeah
there's also
the Amphibian Rap,
Liverpool.
Yes.
A lot of football teams
released songs, didn't they?
Of course.
That's a whole genre in itself.
But I'm talking about like incidents
and this is very,
this is one sporting event really.
Yeah.
Sort of commemorated almost
in a novelty,
a knockoff novelty record.
Yeah.
And I would be surprised
if this was the only
sort of novelty record
featuring the Frank Bruno, Hello Harry bullshit.
Hello Harry, you know what I mean Harry.
It's hard work.
That was such a depressing part of the song.
It kind of has this jaunty rap and then it cuts to this plodding kind of
It's hard work, you know what I mean Harry.
And he was also a staple of Impressionists at the time, wasn't he?
You know what I mean. And then, a staple of impressionists at the time wasn't he you know what I mean
and then
thankfully
he got to have a break
on that
because everyone
discovered Chris Eubank
and all of a sudden
it went from
you know what I mean
to I'm not a bokthar
yeah
I'm a fighter
I'm a bokthar
but you know
both of them
say yes Paul
it's similar
okay so
how many silver platters
out of
out of five how many platters I? Out of? Out of five.
How many platters?
I'll go for two.
Two?
It wasn't that bad.
You know, they gave it a go.
They did these sort of little bits where they have the commentator and at the end they,
you know, they did little bits.
They're trying to be funny.
Yeah.
Trying.
Very poor.
Anyway, moving on.
Track number two is?
Indians in Moscow.
And what's the song called, interestingly?
Well, it's hard to tell by the cover because they've covered it in Moscow. And what's the song called, interestingly?
Well, it's hard to tell by the cover, because they've covered it in crap,
but it's called Jack Pelter... Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jack Pelter and His Sex Change Chicken.
Well, I bet you're wondering what it sounds like.
Well, it sounds like this. Oh, where's my 30 pieces?
I've had enough of theirs
A slideshow would do nicely
But not in my front room
I tried to walk the dog
But the neighbors wouldn't have it
That old farmer is a briar, briar, briar I owe it all to my sex change Now, Paul, trying a bit too hard, do we think, to be kind of zany in that 80s, that quintessentially 80s way.
It's like you said,
it's that little bit of Transvision Vamp
slash blondie, shouty,
rock, pop, techno, 80s thing.
Well, God, you fucked that up.
How have I fucked that up?
I'll just try and summarise
what you're trying to get at.
It's like Transvision Vamp
meets the Spitting Image team.
What, rock techno?
Those are two fucking
diametrically opposed genres of music.
Would you not say that
if bands like Transvision Vamp
had elements of modern techno music
and rock elements like guitar
They definitely had rock with synths
and samples and stuff like that.
I guess they did, yes.
So, I was wrong Paul
and I must be
punished
how
how would you like
to be punished
I would like
you pick your
poison
dick titty
oh dick titty
coming out
dick titty
dick titty
comes out once a day
so yeah
it's just
don't you get that
kind of
trying to be funny thing with this
Sex change chicken
You know what I mean
It's bullshit
But it reminds me they've gone to town
Someone's painted the cover
With a chicken drinking a cocktail
Again you can see not only the videos
Accompanying this episode that show you the songs in full
But we'll take pictures of the vinyl covers themselves
And you can get to see
Oh it's a pretty vinyl
though isn't it? It's a white vinyl, yes
It's a very nice vinyl
Is that a reprint? No
Original, 1983
Do you know why it looks like that?
Have a look at it, why do you think it looks like that?
It looks like an egg. Yeah, it looks like a fried egg
But they've got the colour wrong on the
inside label, haven't they?
It's orange.
Albumum part.
I guess you sometimes get eggs like that,
but it would read egg much clearer to me if it was bright yellow.
Well, we're going to have to argue the toss over the shade of orange
that suits your brand of egg.
You're going to need to take a photo of that.
I'm going to take a photo of that, don't you worry.
Very interesting.
Again, another label, Kenick Records,
which I have never even accounted ever before or since.
I found it hollow, that song.
Like it doesn't go anywhere. Awful. Awful.
Piece of knock-off. Out of five
splatters? One. One
platter. One platter. So more of a splatter
than a platter. Well, more of a splattery
egg. Oh, not your best
gag. Right, next one.
I was just going to try and make the point though. Back in
the 80s it was like novelty records
they were the equivalent of memes or something.
Do you see what I mean?
This is what I was thinking.
They got out and you share them as a laugh.
You know, there was something in the popular consciousness
that was like an event or like, you know,
McEnroe being angry.
And instead of it just being endless people
doing shit on the internet with it,
people would go into a recording studio
and write, conceive and write a novelty pop song about it.
That's why they call it
The Streak.
That was a huge novelty song.
Remember that one?
The Streak?
Yeah, which is about streakers.
Yeah, because that was
a huge thing at the time,
wasn't it, in America?
These sporting things, yeah.
What we should do,
one episode of Tube Show
should be like a
Top of the Pop special
where we'll count down
the top ten novelty songs.
Okay, I'm up for that.
Yeah?
Yeah.
And we'll film it as well
so we can surround you by beautiful girls and you can say,
Oh, Nolan, Nolan.
Coming up next is...
Rolf Harris.
Well, there you go.
Anyway.
Gary Glitter versus Rolf Harris.
Smackdown.
Right.
They should do that.
They should pit them against each other in a field of death.
Mate, that's been done.
No, I want to see Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris
in a field, like a cornfield,
surrounded by scarecrows,
all holding weapons.
And they're thrown in.
Oh, the scarecrows are holding weapons?
Yeah.
I like this.
But they get thrown in.
Naked.
Naked.
They have some kind of loincloth.
Here's the thing.
Naked, right?
They've got leather loincloths.
They've got a little pouch on, right?
And they're allowed to choose
one weapon from the scarecrows. Well, who's going to stop them using others? Ah, the scarecrows. They've got leather loincloths They've got a little pouch on Right And they're allowed to choose One weapon
From the Scarecrow
Well who's going to stop them
Using others
Ah
The Scarecrows
Are robots
The Walking Dead
You know
Zombified humans
They're zombie robots
They're human
But they've had a part
Of their brain removed
So they're practically zombies
Ah okay
And they're dressed as Scarecrows
And they just need to
Hold on to that weapon
They're dressed as Scarecrows
Yeah
Right
If they do go for a second weapon
It's an army of zombified Wurzel gummages Yeah If they do go for a second weapon... It's an army of zombified
Wurzel gamages.
Yeah.
If they do go for a second weapon,
they're allowed to get off the crosses
and march into the fighting...
They're on crosses?
Yeah, they're hanging on crosses
because they're scarecrows.
They're allowed to get down
off the crosses
and then start using their weapons
on Gary or Rolf.
And so then they're fighting...
They have to behave.
So if they pick one weapon,
they fight to the death.
If after half an hour
they're still alive,
we send in dogs
and these dogs have not been
fed in a while. And the oil
that we cover them in is like chippy
chip oil. The oil that we
cover them in? Gary Glitter and
Ralph Harris. They're in
chippy chip oil. The kind of chip oil that you see
out the back of, like, how do you know dogs like that?
You don't know dogs like that. These dogs will be trained to like it.
Well, why not just
cover them in chum
because
because that's silly
you're saving money
that's silly
you're saving money aren't you
are we
yeah training the dogs
to like chip oil
that's a whole
that's a list of
I'm going to do an amendment
right
cover them in chum
and then what happens
who wins
we win
because we get to watch it happen
alright
they see the conceit there
you think one of them gets to win no mate no mate they don't get to win they get to suffer
painful horrible death in the last few grisly moments of their life okay good paul and if you'd
like to give us money on patreon good please go to patreon.com forward slash thecheapshow.
One last thing, sorry, to mention about Indians in Moscow.
We're only two records in.
The last thing to mention about Indians in Moscow
is that it's very similar to the other record
that we recently reviewed on...
Farmers Boys.
Farmers Boys.
Yeah.
It again had a cartoony cover and a kind of lame...
A joke kind of attitude.
But a sort of kind of straight down the line crappy pop song.
Middle of the road.
The best thing about Indians in Moscow is the white vinyl with the egg.
That's about it.
Okay.
Ready?
Next.
Doctor Who.
Ooh.
Now, I've just let you into a little secret, everybody.
I...
Paul's been staying at the House of Pickles.
You have a choice now, by the way.
What?
You can either tell this story and then get a massive slap on the arm afterwards.
Oh, don't slap me.
Or you can not tell this story.
Oh, come on, this is nice.
This lets them in, Paul.
I'll make you, I'm letting you make the decision.
You either continue the story and then I smack you.
Paul was crying at Doctor Who.
I was, yeah.
Peter Capaldi was all dead and it was sad.
He was like, fuck off, I'm crying, I'm having a moment. That was. Yeah. Peter Capaldi was all dead and it was sad. He was like, fuck off,
I'm crying,
I'm having a moment.
Jesus Christ.
I would have been less embarrassed
if you'd caught me masturbating
when you came in.
Yes,
it's more embarrassing
than wanking.
Crying at Doctor Who.
But anyway,
he's into it.
He's a true fan,
everybody.
I'm not so much a Whovian
as more of a kind of
respected fan of the show.
You were crying.
It was emotionally engaging.
It was making you cry.
Okay.
Alright,
fine,
I don't want to dwell on it.
Thank you. Doctor Who. All right, fine. I don't want to dwell on it. Thank you.
Doctor Who.
This is the theme from Doctor Who,
theme from the BBC TV series.
So it's got the Doctor Who theme by Ron Granger.
The traditional, well, there's many versions of the theme,
Frouted Rob.
And this is a lame version.
This is the one.
We're not going to play them the Doctor Who one.
Just go play Little Snip.
No, but we're doing it. No, not the Doctor Who not going to play them the Doctor Who one. Just go play Little Snip.
No, but we're doing it.
No, not the Doctor Who theme.
They all know the Doctor Who theme.
More interesting to me and the reason I really
picked this up
was side two, Paul.
Yeah, side two.
The flip side
is the astronauts.
Peter Howell
and the BBC Radio Phonics.
Is he Peter Howell?
No, that's Peter Davison.
He's just the Doctor.
Peter Howell works
at Imagine
without doing any research at all,
at the Radiophonic Workshop.
And this is an original composition by himself.
Yeah.
Peter Howell is someone with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Now, I love the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Yeah, I have lots of respect for them.
Julia Darbyshire, who worked on the original Doctor Who theme.
Yeah.
Brilliant.
So, shall we play them a bit of this?
Let's play them a bit of this let's play them Thank you. So, for me, that's very reminiscent of, like,
a sort of 80s action cop film,
where they, you know...
Yeah, I mean, even though it has got that sci-fi tinge,
you could easily apply it to another genre piece.
Definitely, and it also has a very 80s tangerine dream feel.
Oh, yeah, a nice bit of tangerine.
I quite like it.
I liked it. I quite like it.
I liked it.
We were really impressed
when we listened to Side B
on a whim.
Yeah.
And thought,
that's much better
than the Doctor Who fucking theme.
The Doctor Who theme,
they've really taken all...
The Doctor Who theme.
The Doctor Who theme.
Yeah, I just mispronounce stuff.
I don't put like a stupid,
like totally deconstruct language
in a fucking...
in an almost insane way.
Paul.
I don't want slapsies.
You.
We were very impressed by that anyway
because we put it on just to see what it would be sounding like
and it would be sounding quite good.
It's got that kind of
John Carpenter stuff almost.
Oh yeah.
Like a kind of Escape from New York-ish thing.
And also the Warriors had bits like that.
Yeah.
That was a nice surprise.
And what, 20p?
20p.
That is cheap.
So don't be saying we're spending a lot of money.
No.
Because we're not.
So how many platters?
I'll give that three platters.
Oh, I was going to give it three and a half.
Okay.
You can.
I did. Well, good then. Oh, I was going to give it three and a half. Okay. You can. I did.
Well, good then.
All right.
All right then.
Dick.
So, but just to say as well,
the Doctor Who theme is very poor.
What version?
Or the theme in general?
No, the theme is great,
but I don't like that version.
It's lost all of its analogue charm.
No, it does...
You know what it is?
It's the synthesizers that they used to
have at the BBC
Radio Phonic Workshop
in the 60s and early
70s.
All these analogs
and also they had
tape loop stuff like
Melatonin, which has
a really excellent
sort of sound and
nostalgic kind of
But the minute a
computer can start
doing it.
They've got in the
80s, they've gotten
to digital.
These are digital
synthesizers they're
using, if I'm not
mistaken.
And they don't have
any of that organic
you know what I mean
it's kind of
glassy
and
yeah
just not as good
and a bit too
kind of Casio
Bontempi keyboard
definitely
yeah
it's that digital
it's the digital
as opposed to the analog
but what I like about
the modern theme
is that they've
kept the structure
and they've got the orchestra
in there
and the
they've got full orchestra
the full orchestra
but they've also got that
80s synthesizer thing lurking at the fringes of it.
The synth line has always been a thing that they've kept the same.
And it's nice to keep that in.
Yeah.
So, all right.
Yeah, cool.
What's the next track then?
Last track today, everybody.
Stardance by John Ford.
Oh.
Don't know anything about it other than what I heard, which was this. Down, down
Get off the ground
There's a star
Far away But the B-side is also interesting.
I think you should play them some of that as well.
Flight of the Jumping Boots?
Yes.
All right.
Here's a bit of that. Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! ¶¶ Anything to say?
No, because...
It's kind of space disco.
British space disco.
I like a bit of space disco.
I mean, that astronaut's a bit space disco-y.
Yeah, I like this.
Until he starts trying to do a sort of American disco sing-y thing,
which is excruciatingly bad.
Oh, hey, baby.
Yeah, that thing.
How you doing?
Yeah, baby.
Move it, baby.
I've got lots of things to say, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think he's Dutch, though.
He's not Dutch.
He's not Dutch.
But we can try.
Hey, Barbie, let's go party.
Hello, Barbie, let's go party.
Yes.
I love that guy in Barbie.
Yeah, do you?
Is he your role model?
That is an absolute classic.
The fucking guy in Aqua. Who, do you? Is he your role model? That is an absolute classic. The fucking guy in Aqua who goes,
Let's go party!
And you're a role model to him, are you?
I'm a role model to him?
No, he's a role model to you.
Let's go party!
Anyone who says, let's go party.
Yeah?
You know, come on.
Yeah, but you're the kind of person who goes,
I can't be fucked.
That's you.
I think you've done the voice a number of times, Paul.
No one likes it
Everyone likes noodles
And no one wants to hear you do an impression of me
And you don't get the soundboard out
This is where you'd get the fucking soundboard out
And everyone would hate it
And we're going to lose subscribers because of it
So give me a fucking score
You haven't told me anything about this
What's your mood? Do you like listening to it?
Have you played it live?
Do you talk to yourself
when you get to the fucking
B-side?
But I am into this
weird, obscure disco.
Like the Outer Reaches.
And this really falls into this.
It's a bit of an oddity.
If someone liked that,
where would they go next?
Where would you point them?
Well, it's kind of
Space Disco.
It's very similar
to a band called Space.
Yeah.
Who had a big...
Not the Scouse band
in the 90s, Space.
No, a different one.
Okay.
Which is a disco band
from the 70s.
Yes.
Space with Magic Fly was their famous one.
Very nice.
Very good.
And the jump flight, the jumping bean, just strange.
I've not heard it because you sprung that on me.
So I won't be able to hear it until I edit it in later.
That's fucking professional.
So I've got two options.
I'm going to give you two responses.
Here's my first.
I really like that, actually.
I was surprised.
I thought, judging by the first side,
it's going to be very similar,
but actually it's musically different enough
for me to enjoy.
And there's some interesting parts there
that kept me amused right till the end.
But that's take one.
Take two.
Didn't really like that one as much.
Nah, not really my thing.
It was a bit too weird, I thought.
I thought the first side was a bit more classical,
a bit more fine with the second.
Just a bit too odd.
A bit too desperate to please.
I'm going to give side A three platters,
and side B, I'm going to give two platter, one platter.
All right?
Okay, then.
Well, that's Eli's Platters, everybody.
What a load of shit. It's the fucking price of shite. It's the fucking price of shite. It's the fucking
price of shite. Oh, it's the fucking price of shite. And that's right. Welcome, ladies
and gentlemen, to one of the most popular segments of Cheap Show. It's called The Price of Shite.
The game where I simply, or Eli simply, buys a few items and you have to guess the price of shite.
You've got to guess the price!
It's that simple! I can't believe it!
Now, it's my turn this week to deliver some Price of Shite to you.
Drop off the shite.
And I'm reasonably impressed by what I've gotten.
Good language. Yeah what I've gotten. Good language.
Yeah.
I've gotten.
Of what I have got.
All right.
I am happy with what I have got.
Okay.
All right.
And yeah, we're going to keep the roll rules.
25p under or over gets you one point.
Yes.
On the nose, two points.
Two points.
And if you get anything further out than that,
then I give you some dick titty action
you're making it
the title
aren't you
no
I'm not going to
no
I'm definitely
going to call this
episode dick titty
right
are you ready
I'm ready
for the price of shite
now I bought
all of these
in North Finchley
in London
and were they
charity shop items yeah they charity shop items?
Yeah, all charity shop items. One is a charity shop
called RFFR. I don't
know what it was, but it's a registered charity.
And the other, I believe,
I might be wrong, I think the other was
a Bernardo's, I think. And what's the,
not having visited North Finchley,
Good stock. What's the charity
shop scene up there? There's quite a few up there.
Especially as you
come off Ballard's Road
in North London
just the whole
you know
kind of North Finchley area
interesting selection
the RFFR
if I've gotten that right
charity shop
was like
Aladdin's cave
you went in
it was two dusty old shops
next door to each other
one had clothes
and board games
no one had clothes
and bits of bric-a-brac
the other one was literally
like a bric-a-brac shop.
Shelves full of board games and toys and cutlery and glassware and bowls and gadgets and toys and records and...
You said toys.
Videos.
Did I say that, Mr Dickhead?
Whoa!
I'm sorry I said that no one liked you, Paul, okay?
I'm really defensive now.
All right.
I know people don't like me as much as you.
I get that. I get it? I'm really defensive now. All right. I know people don't like me as much as you. I get that.
I get it.
I can only be me.
And if people can't take me for me,
go fuck themselves.
Oh, yeah.
I was going to say,
I'm going to kill myself.
You don't kill yourself.
They can go fuck themselves.
They can go
and take their issues
and put them on a posting board
of their choice.
And you will read it.
And talk to like-minded cretins
about how... What have they done? cretins about how what have they done
what have they done hey they certainly haven't done a podcast about nonsense in their fucking
sweaty little box room let's just do this fucking show right here we go so the first item i'm going
to keep simple just to break you in i'm not too impressed with it but i liked it so here's your
first item okay you're gonna break me you're gonna close your eyes or should i just give you it
just to hand it all right here we go item number one it's a snow item. Are you ready? Are you going to break me in? Are you going to close your eyes or should I just give you it? Just hand it to me.
All right, here we go.
Item number one.
It's a snow globe.
Say what you see.
It's a snow globe of the Taj Mahal.
I thought it was a Taj Mahal.
I wasn't quite sure.
Is it the Taj Mahal
or is it the Kremlin or something?
I don't know.
I thought it was the Taj Mahal
but it could have been
the Victoria Palace in Brighton.
I'm noticing some stuff about this.
Yeah?
It's only half full of water.
That's what time does to it.
Water can't exist like that forever.
It will evaporate.
It's a little greenhouse.
Of course the water's going to evaporate.
Where to, though, Paul?
Oh, that's a very good question.
So there must be a leak.
Because otherwise it'd just be condensation.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
If it's perfectly sealed, then the water shouldn't...
Well, it looks like it has just been filled to that level.
Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, what I'm looking looks like it has just been filled to that level.
Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, what I'm looking at here... And there's no snow in it.
That's the other thing I was going to say.
There does not seem to be any snow.
Now, there are some things in the water.
It looks like glitter.
So they've gone for a glitter effect, but it really doesn't work.
Do you think maybe what's happened is it once had lots of glitter in
and it was full of water and either someone dropped it or broke it
and then they filled it up with water.
Could have.
Tap water.
Could have been.
But as it is, it's like quite an ornate four-pillared squared building.
It almost looks Islamic.
Yes.
Or something like that, like a mosque or a church.
It's got Middle Eastern design to it.
It certainly has a Middle Eastern flavour to it.
Or certainly maybe even Indian. We couldn't tell.
It's one of those. It's got minarets.
It's got four minarets on all the corners.
I quite like it,
actually, I have to say. If it was full,
it looks like it's the day after tomorrow.
It's like poking up out of the water.
It looks like the sunken lost city of
Al-Kabazbad. Al-Kabazbad.
I like that.
That's a great name for a film.
No snow in it.
No snow. But you wouldn't really expect a building like that to be situated in a place with lots of snow, would you?
Not really.
Or underwater, let's be honest.
Or underwater.
And also the globe itself has a sort of flattened front, which looks like it might have had a sticker on at one point as well.
This is not an original item in its original state.
Is this the equivalent of buying a car from a used car dealership?
It's a product of India.
And then found that it's...
Taj.
It is the Taj fucking Mahal.
Well, we figured it out.
Don't we look like a pair of fucking chumpdows?
Well, you.
I did very little explaining.
What?
You didn't know it was the Taj Mahal, did you?
I think one of the first things I said was,
I think it's the Taj Mahal.
I said that as well. Not as fast as quickly as I did. Right. It is the Taj Mahal, did you? I think one of the first things I said was, I think it's the Taj Mahal. I said that as well. Not as
fast and as quickly as I did. Right, it is
the Taj Mahal, everybody, and it was
made in India. Say it again.
The Taj Mahal, everybody. No, say, Paul, you
were right, and I was wrong.
Paul, you were always right, and I was wrong, and
I would be barely existing in this
world without your efforts, your sterling
efforts. Everyone loves you,
especially when you do things with
soundboards.
I don't believe that was a genuine comment.
Alright, here we go. So, I have to guess the
price of this. Yes.
This is a charity shop item.
I do know the price
of these, by the way. I have remembered that information.
Eli, what do you think it is?
50p.
50p. Okay, for the globe
I'm not going to call it a snow globe
I'm just going to call it a globe
Taj Mahal globe
Yeah, that's what you said
What would you rate that in terms of shite?
I like it
I like a bit of architectural
I like unusual snow globes
People do collect them, don't they?
They do, I was a big fan of them But. People do collect them, don't they? They do.
I was a big fan of them, but I can't afford them.
Where would I put them?
Yeah, they all get all manky and they all get...
All spermy.
All spermy and manky.
And often you see them and they're half empty like this.
So there must be some issue with evaporation.
You're right.
There must be.
If they sealed them correctly, there must be ways of conserving them that the real collectors are into.
There must be a way.
It's like people who collect beer cans and they want to keep the ring pull on,
so they just make a little incision at the bottom of the can with a pin or something and drain it out so it keeps the top sealed.
Do they drink the beer?
I believe they some might.
Do they get drunk?
Some might.
I'm not here.
I'll get my collection of beer cans.
I'm the most successful man in the world.
So, you said 50 pieces.
Oh, 80, did you say?
No, I definitely said 50 pieces.
You're giving away some shit there, are you?
Maybe, shut up.
You said 50.
It's locked in.
It is locked in.
Can I just change that to 55?
No.
No, you can't, you prick.
Right, here's item number two, and it's a two-part item.
Well, all right, I'm excited.
Let me just double-check.
Right, here we go.
What do you make of these?
Oh, yeah.
Now, what we're seeing here, ladies and gentlemen,
is a pair of Cadbury's Cream and Egg-branded egg cups.
Yes.
They're quite large for egg cups.
They are more bulbous around the middle than the opening at the top.
You could fit an egg in there, couldn't you?
What's so funny?
I'm being rude.
You said bulbous and head.
So, yeah, you could actually put a Cadbury's cream egg in one of these.
Maybe it's for Cadbury's cream eggs.
I suppose it is, isn't it, really?
We just don't know.
Even we couldn't figure that out now,
because cream eggs are much more than they used to be in the 70s
when I think these eggs were made.
You think these are authentic 70s ones?
They've got to be.
Look at the wrapping.
The wrapping is so 70s.
It's different.
The logo.
Is that different to how they are?
Yeah.
Look, it's red, green, and blue.
Okay, so this could be a vintage...
I'm happy to be wrong, but these look...
They've got to be at least 80s, 1980s, this design.
Could be a vintage item.
If anyone's listening to this podcast and you want to go to our website
and have a look at these eggs and maybe have a guess themselves...
The egg holders.
The egg cups, then please do comment.
It'll be on our website.
Okay.
They're lovely, aren't they, though?
I like them.
Nice.
Very kitsch value.
I can see why you've noticed those.
I like branded gimmicky stuff.
Ceramic. Ceramic egg cups branded with the Cadbury's cream eggs.
And what is there?
There's always a controversy every year with fucking Cadbury's cream eggs, isn't there?
Someone going, they changed it.
Oh, they changed the size.
They did.
First of all, they changed how many you used to get in a box.
Because you used to get six in a box, like eggs.
And then they've changed it now.
So you only get five, but it comes in a long row.
That doesn't look like an egg box.
No, it doesn't.
That takes the joke away.
Also, since the company was bought by Kraft, I believe they changed the chocolate recipe.
So that doesn't taste quite the same anymore.
And the size has changed as well.
They've got smaller.
Like most things in life.
Mars bars, Snickers.
Frazzles.
Curly Whirlies.
Cream eggs. Bags of Crisps.
See, now, I'd be interested to know, we were talking about the origins of chocolate,
whether Cadbury's Cream Egg came out in the 30s as well.
Shall we do the internet thing?
Do the internet thing.
Okay, Google, when was Cadbury Cream Egg invented?
According to Wikipedia, while filled eggs were first manufactured
by the Cadbury brothers in 1923,
the cream egg in its current form
was introduced in 1963.
And by then, it was sold as Fry's cream egg.
Oh, it had different brands.
And then in 1971, it became Cadbury's cream egg.
And also, another item that is pretending to be an egg,
just like the record we had earlier.
It's an egg-themed show.
It's an egg-based show.
Bum Egg.
Contribution.
Bum Eggs and Dick Titties.
Mate, that's like a Beautiful South song that they did put on the album.
Bum Eggs and Dick Titties.
Anyway.
I was going to try and do an impression of Beautiful beautiful stuff and then I realised I can't really do it
I need a little bum egg
I need a little bum egg
okay so
in the grave
now
these are quite nice
they are
and they're in good condition
they're in very good condition
there's no chipping
a bit of wearing
around the rim
where the egg would sit
or maybe that's just
how the glazing's happening
the glaze is just thinner there
and yeah
they're good
good Nick
I wish there was more
information on them.
Like a date or a time or a print.
that they are two pounds.
That you paid maybe two pounds for those.
Each or both together?
Both together, two pounds.
Because I'm looking at it,
I'm thinking someone probably goes,
oh, they're, you know,
I'd say two quid for those.
Because I just want to mention,
I picked up the other day
Yeah.
my Ghost,
what are they called?
Pac-Man.
Pac-Man ghosts.
Pac-Man ghosts.
Salt and pepper.
Shakers.
Yeah.
Which are a much more recent item
because they've got like
a website on the bottom.
Yeah.
Obviously some kind of...
Namco probably made them
in association with...
They are.
Bandai.
Bandai Namco made.
There.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now, those were two pounds.
They're both ceramic items and they they're similar size to these.
So I'm going off that, basically.
Okay, all right, fair enough.
Okay, good, so I've written down £2.
Here is your last one.
Now, this is the one I was looking forward to,
not because I think it's particularly clever,
but what I found inside surprised me,
and I bought it with it anyway because I really kind of wanted that,
but thankfully.
Basically, what I'm saying is what I've bought is equivalent to buying a porn mag and hiding it in the daily mirror to buy it you know
what I mean there's something something snipped in did it yes this is always exciting when you
find a mystery item in in an item that you thought you were buying another item yeah and inside that
item is an even more special item Paul I'm not going to say specials no it's like amazing but
in a kind of all right here we go go. Tell me what you see at first.
This is a copy of Fatboyz The Twist
with Stupid Death vocals by Chubby Checker.
Come on, everybody.
This is like a novelty rap record.
Yeah.
The Fatboyz was a big hit, wasn't it?
Let's play a little bit of that right now.
Twist!
We're fat, fat! Come on, baby! Twins! And go So that's that.
Do you remember the Fat Boys had a really depressing record
about falling asleep in an all-you-can-eat buffet?
Oh, Beansity.
It's bad for me.
I'm gonna die of dysentery or something.
Do you remember that?
No.
It was really, really depressing.
I fell asleep in a pizza and like, I'm fat.
It was strange.
Like, that's one of their B-sides.
Yeah.
So, on the back?
On the back, you have how to do the twist.
The twist, obviously.
No, didn't they have Wipeout?
Didn't they do that as well?
No, I think they did Wipeout.
That was the Fat Boys, wasn't it?
Was it?
Yeah.
It might have been.
The twist, obviously, is a tune by Chubby Checker from the 1950s
that they've just repurposed as a kind of novelty rap record.
Big at the time.
I remember it being big at the time.
Now, your preamble has led me to believe that this isn't all that meets the eye.
No, there is something in there which is a bit of an Easter egg, you could argue.
Yeah, I'm going to look inside.
There's two records.
There is a copy of the fat boys good
nick very good nick but and it's also got a 45 rpm adapter in it which is good for you you like
them i like those click that good and there's another record in there and what is it tell me
what read what you see stylophone by dub ray a stylophone, for people who don't know,
is that little kind of keyboardy thing you use a little metal conductor
to make kind of vibraphone sounds with.
But that's not all, is it, Eli?
What else is on that record?
Side one.
Rolf Harris.
Star of my Hunger Games-style deathmatch.
Yeah, introduces the revolutionary stylophone.
With the exception of rhythm guitar
and bass accompaniment.
All sounds on this record
are produced entirely by the stylophone
and a child molester.
And on side two,
Rolf Harris again.
It's the same on both sides, I think.
And stylophone,
249 to 289 Cricklewood Broadway.
It has the address of the Debray manufacturers
Yeah
Grew up round there
Did you?
Yeah
You were home near the birth of the xylophone
Yes
Should we have a listen to it?
The funny thing
Oh go on
Let's have a listen
Say what the funny thing is
We were going to pick this up weren't we
And we thought it was a bit too child molesty
To put on the show
Did we find that once before?
The other day when we were looking
for items up in Crouch End
I thought that was
Noel Edmonds
we found a video of
a vinyl of
no we found this
don't you remember
it was a Flexi though
oh it was Flexi
this on Flexi
so this record has found us
I found so many Flexi
this while we were about
and some had some
really interesting stuff on
but I couldn't buy them
because there was a folder
or a kink
and they're just unplayable
once you get a little notch
in it
we should do a Flexi special.
Because I picked up that other one with engine noises
described by Charles Murray.
What's it called, Charles Murray?
Walker, Murray Walker.
Murray Walker.
And you won't believe the sound of this truck.
Yeah, basically, it's a quite detailed breakdown
of all sorts of engine trouble on Flexi.
So without any further ado, should we go and listen to this?
Let's go and listen to this.
All right, let's go.
Hello again.
You know, the ideal way to get the most enjoyment out of a stylophone
is to play along with records.
And for this purpose, we've produced a great selection
of special play-along records and tune books,
like, for example, Christmas carols and traditional tunes,
and there's a special Glenn Miller album with all his favourites,
tunes like Moonlight Serenade, Pennsylvania Six Five,
Oh, Oh, Oh, remember that one?
Chattanooga Choo Choo, At Last.
All fantastic stuff.
And there's a Latin American album with lovely tunes like Laura and How About You and
Brazil. Oh, La Meca may want to get up and dance. Relax, Ralph. Don't get carried away now.
Settle down. Seriously, though, let's play along with a track from book number one.
This is a lovely traditional tune called Coming Through the Rye.
I'll just slip the record on the record player.
That's it.
Wait for the tuning signal to see that the stylophone is in tune with the record.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I forgot to mention that.
You can tune your stylophone up or down
to match any other instrument or record player
simply by turning a little control knob.
Oops.
Here's the signal.
Now, the stylophone,
you look for the key marked A, and you play that, and it's, oh, you see now it's slightly out of tune, so I'll just hold that note on there, and I'll turn the knob at the back,
and just move the stylophone note into tune with the one on the record. There you go,
and we're in tune. Now, just
wait for the introduction. And away we go. So, Rolf obviously has a much more colourful history now
because of what's happened to him with the whole Operation U-Tree,
Jimmy Savile fallout.
Yes, he's the child of Lester
so that's not very nice
let's not make fun of that
because I think
I did sterling work
with my Gary Glitter
Ralph Harris death match
yes
which I think is
as the history books
will show
classic bit of satire
but
it's just weird
because they genuinely
thought at the time
Stalaf was going to be
the next big musical instrument
that would
you know all the kids would start playing in schools
and start making bands about, I guess.
Yeah, but it's just too limited, isn't it?
You say that, but have you ever heard of bread domino?
No, what's bread domino?
Brent domino.
Brent domino.
What's bread domino?
It's like domino.
Bread domino.
Stop saying bread domino.
That'd be good.
Bread domino would be good.
You could have a game, have a snack, eat some jam.
Or maybe little domino-shaped breads.
That's what I'm talking about. Well, you should have made that more
explicit then, shouldn't you? Of course that's what I'm talking about.
What did you think I was talking about? You cloth-eared
fucking nincompoop. I'm not cloth-eared.
Yes, you are. You never listen to people.
You never listen to people. You're just thinking there, going
when is it my turn to speak? Now!
You're a cag!
No!
There has to be a ban on Paul's Eli voice. When is it my turn to speak? Now! You're a cunt! You're a w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w Ralph Harris because at the time he was known for his didgeridoo. Sorry.
His didgeridoo and his wobble board.
His wobble board.
God.
What is it about those celebrities that have led themselves,
because of their crimes, to just being,
everything is now retroactively awful and creepy.
Yeah, I know.
It's just one of those things, isn't it?
It's like Jimmy Savile, when he was still a kind of cuddly old daft dodger
from the old bygone days of Radio 1,
when he said,
I was about that then.
And you think, aw.
And now you just think that's horrifying.
That's terrifying.
If you were at night in your room,
maybe in a hospital ward,
and the lights were all off,
and in the middle of the night you heard,
I was about that then.
No.
You would be scared.
It would have been like a Slender Man.
It would have been the It clown. It would have been like a Slender Man. It would have been the It clown.
It would have been a nightmare fuel.
That's the sum it is.
Rolf Harris was a big proponent of weird musical instruments,
and so that's why they got him.
He was known for introducing instruments to children.
Yeah.
Oh, dear.
Oh, dear.
Oh, God.
Oh, dear.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, no.
This is shameful.
Really, we should not be in the top 50.
We don't deserve it. We don't deserve it.
We do not deserve it.
We deserve spanking.
So, yeah, and so he's introducing...
I might call this episode
Ralph Harris's Dick Titty.
It's changed.
No.
So he's introducing on that record,
he's introducing the instrument...
The Marvellous World.
The Marvellous World of the Stylophone.
It was a little bit late on that side B
where he goes,
and you can play along to
learn how to play.
You can play along to
a record that you
recognise.
Yeah.
And so you get this
horrible sensation of
this very particular
70s sound of
stylophone over kind
of classical music.
Yeah.
And it sounds like
that kind of end of
a pier British holiday
haunted seaside resort
vibe.
It's got that weird
kind of you go into a
ballroom and all that
is playing.
There's no one dancing
and there's one guy
having a fag
and drinking beer
and there's someone
standing in the corner
and you can't see their face
you can't quite see
what he's doing
and the people behind
the bar are all smoking
and looking disenfranchised
and it's just that
depressing
it is that depressing
it's got that sound
eerie and depressing
yeah
so anyway
but you found that
so you got two
for the price of one
because that
Rolf Harris
stylophone introduction record,
again, clogging up the charity shops of this fair nation.
Lots of Gary Glitter songs all of a sudden appearing in charity shops.
Everyone wants to donate them.
Who's going to buy them?
No one.
No one.
We've got a Gary Glitter blockage.
Glut.
A glut of glitter.
A glut of glitter.
Right.
So how much do you think that vinyl cost me?
Now, see, I know something of this now
so generally yeah charity shops price vinyl seven inch singles yeah ranging from about 25p up to a
pound okay but now that the vinyl sort of people have realised more about the actual value
of vinyl
there are more vinyl collectors now
compared to a few years ago
yeah
they do tend to price them up
a bit more
okay
which is one of my
bugbears
you know
when you go and see
a very tatty old LP
perhaps the Beatles
and they've looked
do your sound
that's the one
they've done
yeah
they've done
you know they've just looked at the price,
but they haven't taken into consideration the condition,
which affects the price so much.
Although the condition of that record was not too bad.
And the Rolf House one, Crumply Crinkly,
which we apologise for because we've had to...
Crankly.
Crankly.
So we've had to record the Crankly version we've got.
Yeah.
So apologises for not having a crystal clean quality version of it.
But with all that in mind, how much do you think it's going to cost you?
It's still quite suburban where you bought it.
So I think they could be on, play this safe, 50p.
Even if it's 25p, I've still got the point for being close if it's 25p.
Okay.
With that in mind, let's now find out just exactly what was the price of that shite.
Of that shite.
Of that shite.
So first of all we
started with the Taj Mahal snow globe so long some so long ago you said 80p no you said 50p
it was 80 it was 80p oh god it was so 80 so you were out by 30p there unfortunately so no point
uh now for the eggs you said £2
for them both.
Now this is where you get upset slightly
because they were £1 each
but when I bought them
she went
how about £2 for £1.50
and I was like
alright.
So I paid £1.50 for those eggs.
So come on.
So 50p out there again.
So unfortunately
Let's go back to 50p out.
Oh is that interesting?
When you made a big fuss about the points system in the first place,
everyone gets a fucking point.
What's the fucking point? You need to change it.
It doesn't make sense, Paul.
Why are you so bad at making games, Paul?
Why are you all so shit, Paul?
You know what, Paul? Just 25p.
25p. Will you agree with me on that?
Pretty soon, Paul. Yeah, I'll agree with you on that.
Pretty soon, Paul. You're just going to be able
to do this podcast
by yourself aren't you
you just do
you've got a little me
living inside you
nothing is scarier
generally than the idea
of me sitting in a dark room
going hello
welcome to the cheap show
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
how's Eli doing
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
he came up to me
and I was like
get the fuck out
get the fuck out
I don't have it
I don't have it I don't have it
but I'd still want payment
in some kind
for using my image
using your likeness
vocal likeness
okay so
I didn't score there either
no
and yet
if you kept to my scoring system
you'd be two points clear there
yeah
well
I've got to accept it
I've made my bed
you made that bed
you forced me to get in that bed
with you
I haven't ever made my bed
and now we're both cuddling in that bed.
And now you want me out of the bed.
I want you out.
Well, you can't.
You made the rules.
Get out of my bed!
I'm in your bed.
Forever.
Get out.
Right, so last thing is the vinyl.
You said 50p on that.
Now, the price was one pound.
One pound on all the vinyl.
I was going to haggle the cost,
but it's also where i
got these the eggs from and so she gave you a discount on the eggs so i kind of didn't want
to argue the point with the thing because i kind of felt like i was getting a good deal overall
okay so you were again 50p out you could have been three points up at the end of all three items
were more expensive than i thought yeah apart from that actually the egg cups were less expensive
yeah so no let's let's let's just just rack up the information we built throughout the show.
One is you're not very good at guessing off brand stuff anymore.
You've lost your tip.
I've lost my tip?
You've lost your skill at being able to shut up.
I've lost my tip.
I'll cut your tip off.
Also, we found out that you're not very good at pricing things anymore.
You seem to have lost that magic there.
Is it about time, Eli, to admit to me and the podcast listening audience
that you've lost it, mate?
I have.
You've lost it.
You've become a parody of what people know you for.
I can't do it anymore.
I can't produce the goods anymore, Paul.
You are.
I don't know what to say to you.
I don't know.
You have to come up
with something.
Could I say something
about shitting myself
here?
Would that help?
Let me have a think.
I think if you did a rant
that involved you
showing your willy
or your bottom.
Right,
I'm getting out
of the crow's beak.
Oh,
oh,
I'm getting out
of my bottom.
I've shat on something.
I'm angry.
You're a dick.
Something like that.
Yeah,
that's fine.
Isn't it sad
that we can now
reduce this podcast
down to these moments?
This is what this podcast has become.
It's become a show where it's like,
oh, Shat the Bed, oh, Frothy Cock,
oh, Knob Gag, oh, Jimmy Savile.
We should be ashamed of ourselves.
We so should. I think we've reached
a point here, Paul. Have we? A point of
no return. We've become,
this is what happens when you get
50 episodes of anything. Yeah. You know?
It's just become reductive.
Recursive nonsense.
Right. Is this the end
of the show
for today? Do you want to touch my
winky? No, I do not want to touch your winky.
Ever. Ever, ever, ever.
What if? Even if
the house was on fire and your
winky was the button
To start the sprinklers
Right
So you would rather
Something burn
I'd rather burn alive
Than touch your winky
To put the sprinklers on
What if
You were in
You were drowning
Right
In the water
And your winky
Your balls were full of oxygen
My winky was full of oxygen
And you could breathe on the water
And rescue yourself
No
You would not do it.
You would not?
I would die.
I chode
just for oxygen.
I'm sitting there
like a merman going
blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
Well, perhaps
lick my love stick
and perhaps
it would destroy
physically destroy your nuts
to have them pumped
full of oxygen.
So that would be enjoyable.
I'd give it for you.
You'd do that?
I'd save your life.
You'd destroy your whole nuts, Sam?
I'd give up my nuts for you'd do that. I'd save your life. You'd destroy your whole nuts out. I'd give up my nuts
for you, mate.
They're barren anyway.
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Don't shake your fucking head!
I've lost my tip. I was doing a really
good way to signing off then, and you had to
cut in. You had to cut in
with your little fucking thing.
So, thank you
everybody. Is that it?
Yeah. What about your big sign-off? Come on, give us one of your
witty sign-offs. Well,
it's funny you should say that, Paul, because I
was in a restaurant the other day.
Were you?
I was having a tomato,
and the person I was eating with said,
I've got cancer.
What the fuck?
What the holy shit?
And I was like, that's sad.
This tomato's nice.
God almighty.
Oh my. Right, goodbye. We'll see you in episode 50, is nice god almighty oh my
right
goodbye
we'll see you in
episode 50
which will be our
50th special episode
I don't think we
should do it
we haven't earned
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we've earned the right
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