CheapShow - Ep 6: Eggsy's Trick Or Treat
Episode Date: June 22, 2015Special Guest Eggsy (from Goldie Lookin Chain) It's time again for CheapShow to wander blindly into the world of the supernatural and pray they escape with their lives with a horror special! This we...ek the boys over use the spooky sound effects and ghostly music to bring you a show jammed packed with Halloween Goodness.... HOWL in despair as Paul rolls off more of his purifying puns! SCREAM as Eli tells a tale of vampire seductresses! GROAN with anguish with Ash Frith's tall tales of terror. SHRIEK as our special guest, Eggsy (from that Welsh Rap band you like) has to referee the world's whitest rap battle about Les Dennis. GASP with surprise as The Hadron Gospel Hour podcast interrupts the show to save all the universes! WHISPER in fear as Eli creates his own monster using Paul's face and £5 of horror make up. WAIL with fear as Eli gets possessed by the spirit of another long dead 80's comedian. CRY for your sins as all the lads chow down on a disgusting selection of "Trick R Treat" candy. And SQUEAL until you pass out as Eli's Top 3 Horror Movies discussion comes to another verbally violent conclusion! So turn out the lights, draw a candle close and pray that listening to our Halloween special is the only thing keeping you alive for one more night... Follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow or @elisnoid @ashfrith Visit our lovely website for more podcasts at www.geekatorium.net as well as find out when YOU can come to our next recording. And another BIG THANK YOU to our friends at The Hadron Gospel Hour Podcast for their awesome cameo appearance! Check them out at www.hadrongospelhour.com/ If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, join us on Facebook - just look for "The CheapShow" or "The Geekatorium"! If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, share, comment... all that jazz! Subscribe to us on Stitcher or iTunes and get weekly geeky fun WARNING *Show contains strong language and adult material
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NAMASTE Ladies and zombie men, it's nearly Halloween.
Or maybe it's just after.
Anyway, we're in the vicinity.
Ooh, it's scary.
I'm Eli Dead Silverman.
And here's your co-host, also dead, Paul Scary Gannon.
No!
Hello, my name is Paul Gannon, and that is Eli Silverman.
Hello, everyone.
We have literally thousands in tonight, the Camden severed head in Camden.
Yes.
So we actually introduce ourselves in a way that we think seems fit,
and so here's how I introduce Eli.
Eli, imagine Baron Von Frankenstein was looking for body parts for his new monster,
and all he could do was break into the Ron Jeremy cupboard
and pull out a bunch of severed Ron Jeremy parts
and a Danny DeVito face.
Put it all together, stitch it up,
sap it with electricity,
and then you get Eli Silverman.
Right, your turn.
My turn.
Paul Gannon, imagine a child star.
He starred in It's Only Me,
which was a short-lived Granada TV thing from the 80s,
and now he's put on weight, he's doing crack,
and he likes sucking rent boys off.
It's Paul Gannon!
So do you want to know what happened to my week this week?
I had a very spooky week.
Really?
Yeah, with it being Halloween, I had a very spooky week.
First of all, I bumped into the Ghostbusters.
Ooh.
Yes, and they were going to go fell walking, but they had to stop doing that.
Why?
Because they're not allowed to cross the streams.
What?
I'm feeling disheartened all of a sudden.
All right.
Well, then, later on that week, I'm walking disheartened all of a sudden. All right, well then, later on that week,
I'm walking down the street,
and this man runs up to me,
drops his trousers, shows me his bottom,
and I instantly turned into a werewolf.
Why's that?
Because it was a full moon. No. No.
All right, okay, fine.
And then finally...
Is this going to top him?
This is going to be the best one, isn't it?
All this stuff happened.
Right.
My penis got possessed.
It did.
The tip of my penis got possessed,
so I had to get an ex-circumcisionist in
to get rid of it and he did
but afterwards he had the cheek to ask for a tip and i was like you already took it mate Oh, God.
What?
That was my week.
That really happened.
Oh, good.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Good.
What about your week?
Oh, it's funny you should ask.
Go on.
Because it was good in a way.
It was really good.
But it kind of, I don't know, it's heavy.
Heavy stuff happened to me this week.
Oh, God.
Tell me.
I was in this club, you know, late night drinking, as I do.
As you do.
You know, it's exclusive.
This exclusive club, they call it the Tombstone. It's like a... Oh, I've heard of it, late night drinking, as I do. As you do. You know, it's exclusive, this exclusive club.
They call it the Tombstone.
It's like...
Oh, I've heard of it, yeah.
Yeah, the Tombstone.
It's in Soho.
A bit of a gothy one.
Huh?
Gothy one.
It's a bit gothy, yeah.
I'm there, you know, I've had a few whatever, Bloody Marys or whatever,
and I get chatting to these ladies, and they're very nice looking,
and they sort of beckon me across the bar
and I start talking to them.
And I'm just hitting it off brilliantly
with all three.
All three at once.
I'm like, you know,
your instinct is to say
which of these is going to be the money shot.
The money shot.
But all three just seem to be coming on to me.
And then they say,
how would you like to live forever, Eli?
Holy shit.
Live forever in our castle.
We've got a castle in Romania.
And you can be our super dick for all time.
And it turns out they're vampires.
And they want to make me immortal.
And I'd be a lord of the underworld.
I'd be...
And so I flew over there that night.
They've got this private jet, all black, with scary eyes in the windows.
Obviously.
And I went over there.
They bit me.
They anesthetized it.
Yeah.
It's quite modern, the way they do this vampirism lark these days.
None of that sort of screaming and howling.
You know, they put me under, they bit me, and now I'm immortal.
Holy shit.
And I own several thousand acres of forest.
And I've got a whole bunch of hot vampire ladies just looking after,
not only, you know, my sexual needs and wants,
but all of my finances and stuff as well.
Did that really happen?
No.
What happened?
I went to a club and puked on a lady's shoes.
Right.
Good.
So a typical week for you there.
All right, well then,
we're going to get started with our supernatural version
of Blunt Force Satire.
Blunt Force Satire is where we attempt to be satirical.
I have no interest in the news because it depresses me.
Eli is slightly more well-read.
So here is our basic setup-up, quick satire set-ups,
Eli's witty, blunt responses.
Are you ready?
This is all stuff that's happened this week.
I'm not prepared.
You never do.
Yuri Geller blames psychic powers on iPhone 6 bending.
What a twat he is.
Look, it's like, oh, we all forgot you existed.
As soon as the word...
He must have sort of search bots
online looking for anything that bends
and then trying to fucking be responsible
for it. You know what I mean?
Oh, she bent over. I did that.
Oh, oh, he's
bent. He's a bent copper. I'm responsible
for that. Boomerangs. I did that. You know, there's
some terrible bridge accident.
Oh, it bent. That was me. No, hang on.
That wasn't me. People died.
What a twat he is.
So he shakes off all responsibility
once there's death involved.
It's because of people's psychic powers
that they bend.
Is that what he's suggesting?
Everyone needs to tap their psychic potential
to bend small metal objects?
No.
It's not very useful, is it?
No.
Oh, it's an army of spoon benders.
Make sure your cutlery is in a cupboard or something
or get plastic
right good that's fine
next one Ebola victim
rises from the grave as a zombie
you know see I think what's happened here is the Ebola
victim wasn't actually the Ebola victim
just had a bad head cold and they buried him
quick smart and
quick smart
and he sort of came up.
And they went, oh, zombie.
No, it's like, it's bad diagnosis.
So you think a guy with a nosebleed got buried alive
and woke up really pissed off.
Yes.
Which is fair enough.
You'd be so pissed off,
you might come across as sort of wanting to eat people's brains.
Yeah, I would.
You know, you'd be like, I'm angry.
I'm so angry, I'm going to bite your skull.
Next one, or last one, is Dudley Castle ghost picture. Oh, I'm going to bite your skull. Next one. Our last one is
Dudley Castle Ghost Picture.
We could talk about this, but
our regular co-contributor
Ash has something on this already,
so I think it's only about time we bring on our
first special guest, our third member
of the Uncleekables almost, Mr. Ash
Frith.
Hooray!
There you go. Grab a mic.
So, we asked you to come along and bring some spooky stories.
What did you bring?
Oh, well, I'm quite proud of this lot, this little bunch.
Let's start with the Dudley Castle thing,
because I think this is a particularly riveting story.
Definitely the proof of ghosts, I would say.
First of all, does anyone know this story?
Have you heard of this story?
So, the gist is,
someone with a camera phone took a picture of a ghost
at Dudley Castle.
Dudley in Birmingham.
Dudley in Birmingham,
which is already
scary enough as it is
as a premise
for this story.
Go on,
you can carry on.
So,
the building dates from 1071,
so it's obviously haunted.
Yeah.
If it's old,
it must be haunted.
Anything older than 50 years
is a haunted house.
So,
when is the cut-off, by the way?
Because I live in a 10-year-old house.
When is that potentially going to start being haunted?
As soon as some child dies there.
Fuck.
Then there's going to be a lot of dead babies.
You better get started now.
Just start hacking them up, burying them in the garden,
making it a future-proof for sales.
I've got a haunted house
it's very good
full of dead babies
yeah I just think it's
you know
the older something is
the more likely
lots of people
died angrily
yeah
Mike
yeah
that's horrible
I used to live in a very old pub
I've gone off the issue
I lived in a 700 year old pub
not a 7 year old pub
you live in a 700 year old pub
I used to
I used to live in a 700 year old pub
my bedroom overlooked a graveyard
do you know how many ghosts I saw?
Two.
None.
No ghosts.
I was thinking you'd see a load of ghosts.
No, there weren't any.
Did you ever see anything else creepy in the graveyard at night?
My grandad.
He was there.
What was he doing?
Digging away.
Oh, digging away.
I don't know.
Did he have a hobby?
Yeah, looking for his old wife.
All right.
All right, good. So, yeah. So, that's a hobby? Yeah, looking for his old wife. Right. All right, good.
So, yeah, so he's...
So, Dadley Castle.
Yeah, go on.
Dadley Castle.
Built in 1071 in Birmingham.
Amy Harper, 28.
I don't know why you need to know her name,
but it's in brackets.
I think her name is in fame now.
She visited with her husband, Dean.
And they...
Yeah, fair enough, Dean.
It's not the best name.
Dean Harper.
Dean Harper.
And they decided to take some pictures, so the story goes.
It all checks out so far.
It's all legit.
Yeah, do it in a Birmingham accent.
Do it in a Birmingham accent.
Can you do it?
Okay.
The building dates from...
No.
No.
I told you it's Adrian Childs.
Arsenal, just have a good chance. I can't do it. Dudley tell you to A.J. Childs. Yeah. Arsenal just haven't got a chance.
It's not his.
I can't do it.
Dudley.
Dudley.
Dudley.
Dudley works.
Dudley goes.
Amy Harper, 28.
She's an old lady in Dudley.
You don't live that very long there.
She visited with her husband, Dean.
They decided to go and take some pictures, as you do.
Then they.
I'm going to stop.
Yeah, I would have thought...
Later on, they were looking at the pictures with their children,
their three children,
and they saw what appears to be
a grey woman
in one of the doorways.
And I've seen the pictures, and there is a picture of a
grey woman in one of the doorways.
However,
Amy Harper then
says, this picture is definitely proof
that the castle is haunted
or that it's a glitch
when you zoom in heavily
on a long range photo
on a smartphone,
which has happened before.
So there you go.
The odds are good
that maybe it's not a ghost,
but just a collection
of ugly pixels.
Yeah, she's basically
taken a previous picture,
zoomed in,
and it's merged two pictures.
Yeah.
And it's happened before.
I've done a ghost hunt
at Dudley Castle.
Have you?
A few years ago.
And we did a show there live.
And the thing is,
the staff at Dudley Castle
dress in period clothing.
Oh, right.
Because it's meant
to invoke the period.
There's loads of...
There's a museum in the castle
and all this kind of stuff.
So, of course,
there might be a woman
dressed in grey
lurking in the doorway. Having a fight. Having a of stuff. So, of course, there might be a woman dressed in grey lurking in the doorway.
Having a fag.
Having a fag break.
Yep.
I bet, like, this ghost smokes Marlborough Lights.
We will love it.
So it must have been during opening hours that she took the photo.
Yeah, it's a daylight picture.
So it's a photo of one of the staff members.
And then she went to the shop and sold a sandwich.
She was there from eight until five.
And she got in a Citroen
AX GTI and drove home.
She's not working tomorrow.
So that's...
Do you want me to do the...
Yeah, do them all.
This is a spooky story.
So this is great.
Basically, I like the idea
of a ghost.
Because ghosts obviously
don't exist, as we all agree.
Some people spend more time searching for them than others, Paul.
I don't know who you mean.
He searches for them, even though he knows they don't exist.
That's the definition of useless behaviour.
I treat ghost hunting in the same way I treat looking for love.
So I looked for some really good ghost stories which were like...
Real.
Excuses.
So first of all,
there's not much
of a story to this,
but you know the actress
Lucy Liu?
I know her very well.
You know, she says
that she's had sex
with a ghost.
How many ghosts?
Just the one ghost.
Just the one,
but it's enough?
Yeah, I think that's enough
to prove she's a lunatic.
What did she say
it was like having sex
with a ghost?
She said it was incredible.
And I quote.
I haven't written it down. I think she's... She was on drugs. No, I think what she's done is she's confused having sex with a ghost. She says it was incredible. That quote. I haven't written it down.
I think she's...
She was on drugs.
No, I think what she's done
is she's confused
having sex with a ghost
to sitting on her hand
for half an hour
and then fapping.
No, no.
Well, she's in Hollywood, isn't she?
I mean, some of those old
Jewish producers
must be translucent.
They're so old.
Do you know what I mean?
What?
You know, skin gets all translucent
when you're old.
Yeah.
Well, why do they have to be Jewish?
Because some of those people who work in top level in Hollywood are I've heard
Like the Weinsteins and the whole of Hollywood
The Weinsteins?
You're making it sound like a kid's cartoon show
I'm allowed to say Jewish
I know
Everyone's allowed to say the word Jewish
Well, why have you picked up on it?
Because you
I was just painting a picture
You could have had any... You know what,
Ash, carry on. One of those... It's probably just
one of those old Hollywood producers who
could be of many creeds who
have translucent skin.
Who had sex with Lucy Liu. Yeah, and it was amazing
because, I don't know, he read the Kama Sutra
or something. Charlie's Angels. Maybe it was one of the angels.
Oh, that Charlie's Angels film.
I feel like I've opened a door I don't want
to look behind. Yeah, and I've put a doorstop in.
She's nice though, Lucy Liu.
You know what she once said as well?
She said Asian people, meaning Orientals, because there we go, Jews first, now the Asians.
Where is it all going?
She said Asian people don't really like soy sauce.
And that struck me.
That was the most profound statement.
It struck me because, yeah, I mean, you get it in all the restaurants, don't you?
Chinese restaurants and what have you.
But why would she say such a thing?
And she said, oh, that's just sort of an affectation of the West.
We proper Asians don't really like it.
I thought, that's bullshit, isn't it, Lucy?
I mean, you make it there.
You're talking as if you were having a chat with her at the time.
And now, not only do I think that's bullshit, I think it's doubly bullshit
because she's claimed
to have sex with a ghost.
So almost anything she says
is obvious claptrap.
It's got a point.
Well, yes.
I heard a story once
about this guy
who said he was being
raped nightly
by a sucker bus.
Raped nightly?
Yeah, seriously.
That's what he was saying.
Is that Kira's sister?
No.
Come on,
I've got a high five.
I've got a high five there.
I was trying to form that joke
and then he got there.
That's why he works.
That's why we get him on.
Yeah, so he was saying
that every night
a sucker bus,
a female nasty ghost
would come in
and make love to him
and the wife would wake up
and he'd be thrashing about
and ejaculate all over her.
Seriously.
And then the marriage broke up
because he couldn't convince her
that that was a proper excuse
and not just him wanking night wanks.
No justice in the world.
There's no justice in the world.
So, you know,
there's a certain kind of precedent set.
This is another weak story.
Meatloaf said he saw a ghost
on set at the Bat Out of Hell video.
And he said that he saw a woman
in white on set.
So he told her she wasn't allowed to be there.
Run downstairs to the
guys who were like the crew of the shoot and said uh guys there's a groupie up there and then uh
they said well how did she get there there's no way in it's impossible so they returned back up
there and she was gone oh definitely a ghost so someone he saw and said you're not allowed to be
here when he went away and came back, had gone. Basically. Oh, that's
definite supernatural. And again,
not a similar story, but one of those ones where
someone tells you a ghost story and you think there's a logical explanation for it.
A friend of mine, when she was younger, 15,
said she was haunted by a ghost in her
house and the ghost would move her around
the building. And she said one of the things she'd do
was she'd stand at the top of the stairs, close her eyes,
then she'd wake up half an hour later at the
bottom. And I was like, of course you fucking would.
You've fallen down the stairs with your eyes closed.
They must have manhandled her because she was covered in bruises.
She's dead now.
You know, just as a brief aside, you know the film 13 Ghosts?
Yes.
You know the tagline to that is,
there's nothing scarier than 13 ghosts.
How about 14 ghosts?
No, because they've done it.
They've done the science.
Have they?
Yeah, if you look at the graph of scariness
and ghost numbers along the bottom,
it gets to 13.
It pans out.
And then it starts to...
Well, it doesn't pan out.
It fucking drops right off.
Really?
14 ghosts is just amusing.
Yeah, a horde of ghosts.
That's why 13 Ghost House, very scary.
Haunted Mansion in Disney with 999 ghosts.
Not scary at all.
Not fucking scary.
So there we go.
We've proved
that point there is a science behind it well played what do you mean there is as if i'd make
something up on the spot right so the next one um this is a great excuse but it's probably i'm
gonna go with like my least to my best of these stories okay um in tasmania uh this guy set up
cameras in his house because he was sure that his house was being haunted by ghosts so he set up
cameras first off in his son
his 16 year old son's bedroom
and the first night he did it it captured
his new
wife his son's stepmother
creep into the room and have sex with
his son which is bad
he's caught them at it there's no ghosts
you imagine there's a stiff talking
to going on oh yes however they obviously got over it because the next day he set up a
camera in the kitchen uh which he hoped to catch some evidence of paranormal activity
viewing the footage the man saw footage sue uses the word footage uh the uh two once again making
love on the worktop so day two he's caught them again for the second time.
This happened a further two times in the bathroom
and sitting room of the property.
Like, there's no ghosts.
They're just constantly fucking.
Yeah, and you're married to some kind of sexual athlete.
What?
Well done, son.
Maybe he's just really proud.
I don't understand how they're still living there.
I think he was getting frustrated.
He knew there was a ghost there.
He was putting a camera up
and then they'd interrupt the shot.
He was like,
I'll put it in the fucking kitchen then.
Could you two stop fucking fucking?
Well, I'm trying to catch some fucking ghosts
in Tasmania with this accent.
Well, a lot of northern people do move there.
Yeah.
This one is a bit closer to home for us, certainly.
This is the story of the Hammersmith ghost murderer,
which happened in 1803,
where in Hammersmith in London,
numerous people had claimed to have been attacked,
or their children were attacked, sorry, by a ghost.
And on the 3rd of January of the same year,
Francis Smith shot and killed plasterer
thomas millwood because he was wearing white overalls so he'd sort of set up a blockade to
catch this ghost because they believed it so um uh yeah francis smith was sentenced to death
which was downgraded to one year hard labor so he got away with it because he proved that um
obviously he believed in ghosts and he was trying to save the town from the ghosts however which was downgraded to one year hard labour. So he got away with it because he proved that, obviously,
he believed in ghosts and he was trying to save the town from the ghosts.
However, over the years, this went on for about 110 years,
them looking into this case,
it turned out that Thomas Millwood lived with Francis Smith.
They were friends.
And Francis had warned Thomas twice about going out in the streets looking like a ghost
because people might attack him.
To which Thomas said, where's the quote from him?
Shut up unless you'd like a punch around the, in brackets, bad word, head.
So then Francis, clearly annoyed, just shot him in the streets
and claimed that he'd been a ghost.
And it turns out, anyway,
that he had been
scaring the
local shoemaker's sons
because, telling them scary
stories, and that's why he was pretending
to be a ghost. Well, that story says two things
to me. One, don't wear overalls
or you'll be called a ghost, or be seen as a ghost,
which means, thank God, Rod, Jane and Freddie weren't banging
about in the 1800s, or they'd be dead. ghost, or be seen as a ghost, which means, thank God, Rod, Jane and Freddie weren't banging about in the 1800s, or
they'd be dead. And secondly... Sorry, was that a reference
to...? Rainbow. 80s
kids show. Thank you. Just for the listeners
at home, who might have been born after, I don't know,
1984, and have
no idea of what the sock puppets...
Was that when your show was on as well, Paul?
Which show? Come and say hello
to Paul! Fuck you!
How dare you! You know, when you were the little kid.
Shut up. And the second
thing is, wouldn't Ghostbusters be more awesome if they just
had shotguns?
Just loading up.
Bang. I'd love that.
My favourite story of the ones I hastily
cobbled together is the one of
The Shrine, which is
a famous Japanese ghost story
which has many different
twists and turns, so you can read different versions
of the story, but the long and short of it is
that an ancient
samurai warrior was
walking around Kyoto
late one
night when he was attacked
in brackets sexually by
a naked pervert
as the samurai was about to draw his sword to kill the
naked pervert the naked pervert bent over and contorted in shape to revealed a huge eyeball
peering out of his anus various versions of the story end with the warrior either i'm going to
say wanking off the um the pervert monster or blinding the monster with his penis.
This, to me, is a story of a samurai warrior
getting caught having sex with another man
and saying,
Oh, it was a monster.
I was poking at its one eye.
It's a brown eye.
Well, I was obviously going to do the brown eye gag.
I know, but oh.
The Van Morrison song. Yeah, brown eye gag. I know, but oh. The Van Morrison song.
Yeah, brown eye girl.
Or the worst one, don't make that brown eye blue.
Which I imagine he did.
And that is the end of my Ghost Stories.
Round of applause for Ash and his Ghost Stories.
They love a tentacle penis, don't they, the Japanese?
Yes, there's a reason for that, though.
They don't use a lot of, there's no, like, thing yeah if i've pronounced that right i'm not quite sure have i
hentai because they can't show penises in you can show a tentacle you're not allowed to show your
penis in japanese porn and artwork you can't really show the penis the phallus they replace
it with tentacles or vegetable roots and things as a penis replacement. And then that became...
And does it work, like, if you go and order calamari,
do you get penises?
Yeah, but they're all blurred out.
Yeah, you'd have to.
There's lots of eyes up bumholes as well, aren't there?
In what respect?
Well, there isn't that story.
Well, that one story, yeah.
Demon eye.
They like eyeballs, though, don't they? What, the Japanese? Because, you know, you've't that story. Well, that one story, yeah. Demon Eye. They like eyeballs, though, don't they?
What, the Japanese?
Because, you know, you've got the ring.
That's her eyeball is peering out from behind her hair, isn't it?
Well, that's a very different version of the ring, if you ask me.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Was that where you were going with it?
No.
Oh.
Shitty.
Shitty mess.
It literally means butt eye.
That's where she said butt eye.
So, yeah, it's actually got a whole
word for it
you know
but some people would argue
that
all of the whole
the J-horror thing
is all about
fear of technology
yes
because you know
in the ring
it's the video
isn't it
and the grudge
is
a new house
torrenting
Richard Sandling
would be the scariest
man in Japan
if video
is the most scary thing out there.
His video collection
is the Japanese
equivalent of having
a haunted library.
It's just one of these
oh my god.
Beverly Hills Cop 3.
Oh Beverly Hills Cop
Chihuahua
is haunted.
Cop and a half.
I'm just going to
listen to the film.
Stop or my mom
will shoot.
What I'd like to see
is Attack of the Mushroom People.
Have you heard of that one?
No.
Yeah.
Well, there you go.
What, is it a real thing?
It's a real film,
a J-horror film.
Well, we'll be looking into that
in time.
Yes.
Right, can we get our
major huge guest on then, please?
Ooh.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we've got our guest coming on
for the show tonight.
I've asked for him for a while.
He's finally come along
for our special Halloween special.
Please, use all your applause in a roundabout fashion to clap on stage eggsy from
going looking chain
hi how you doing sir i'm having a great time good i'm glad you've come all the way from uh
furthest wales south w Wales. Come down today.
I'm having some fun.
I've had a drink.
I've had a hot drink, a cold drink.
And now I'm having an alcoholic drink.
Oh, he's doing all the drinks.
Yeah, man.
All the drinks.
A lot of fun.
A lot of energy in the room.
And having a great time.
Woo!
Come on.
Oh, you've hurt yourself there.
I got too excited.
Watch yourself there.
Punch the light.
You don't want to get infected.
I don't want to do that.
So do you have any ghost stories? Yeah, I quite like a. Watch yourself there. Punch the light. You don't want to get infected. I don't want to do that. So do you have any ghost stories?
Yeah, I quite like a good ghost.
I've always been fascinated with the paranormal and the occult.
I've got a shit joke that I made up about 20 minutes ago.
This is the perfect place to try it out.
This is a really shit, it's a Ghostbusters joke.
Oh, perfect.
And I've got to get this right because I only just made it up and it's really bad.
Which Ghostbuster
stole Slimer's drugs?
I don't know.
Which Ghostbuster
stole Slimer's drugs?
Egon.
There you go.
So that's my...
That's better than
your whole intro.
That's my shit
Ghostbusters joke
for you there.
Crossing the streams.
Yeah, that's a great one.
So that's a bit of fun.
It was a good one.
But I like the occult.
I like ghosts.
I don't know if they exist, but I like the idea of ghosts existing.
Have you seen anything spooky?
I've had the sheets pulled off my bed.
Not particularly spooky, but apparently that happens when ghosts are in rooms.
Yeah, they like to mess around with sheets.
They pull sheets off beds.
Nothing much.
I saw some weird lights
about a week ago.
I was looking out of my window.
Yeah.
And there's some trees.
There's a skyline.
This is more alien-based.
Okay, no, that's fine.
We can be flexible.
And there was a heavy cloud formation.
And I was just looking across.
And two lights,
very bright white lights, appeared.
They were there
for about two seconds. They moved
along, then dipped down in a curved
formation and moved on and then disappeared
again. It didn't scare me. I just
thought it was fascinating. It is.
It is fascinating. I've seen some strange things.
I once came back from
we performed at a
festival, as we often do in my moderately successful pop group,
and I came back from a festival, it was about three or four o'clock in the morning.
I got home, I was out of my mind, and I was looking up.
No.
Yeah, strangely enough, I was out of my mind, and I was looking up into the sky,
and again I saw three exceptionally small lights moving at what would have been an intense speed,
just sort of gliding, and then they broke off into extra lights and went off in another direction.
Was it just me on drugs? I don't know.
That's what I always think. I always see UFOs, and I think, no, actually...
Just drugs.
It's drugs.
It's first on the checklist. Are you on ecstasy? Yes.
I was at a festival, and I was really off my head, and there was this thing on the checklist are you on ecstasy yes so it was at a festival and i was like really off my
head and uh there was this thing on the hillside this sort of pulsating light thing i was like
fuck me that is a ufo it's a guy with a torch i love it i love it i love it you just reminded
me actually of um a terrifying um supernatural story a friend of mine told me uh great uh family friends
of his were building their own home and they lived in a uh sort of portable uh cabin what's the word
a caravan a static caravan whilst they were building their own home and the grandmother
so it took them 18 months two years to build this beautiful home and they lived in this giant um
alan partridge style port cabin and uh as as as
the building went on the grandmother was very old she's i'm not sure if i'll make it to see the house
being built but you know we'll keep doing this and as long as we've got a tv here i'll be okay
because i love the show dallas i also love the show dynasty absolutely loved them great shows
as they were as they were um you know she watched these shows every night religiously and finally
they built a house.
And they're like, Graham, we've built a house.
So now you can watch your favorite shows, Dallas and Dynasty, in the house.
And this will be great.
But sadly, just as the house was ready, she died.
Very sad times.
So the first night they were in the house, they put on Dallas.
And apparently whenever they watched Dallas or Dynasty,
the Grand's head would appear above the television and spin around 360 degrees.
That's fucking mental, isn't it?
That's fucking mental.
At this point,
I'd be like, checklist,
yeah, I'm on ecstasy.
Yeah, I think.
So the entire family were on drugs
and they probably didn't even build a house.
They probably just lived in a ditch.
That's a fucking wicked life to live.
Yeah.
House, haunted house,
spinning Nan's head, dynasty.
That's a perfect Wednesday night for me, frankly.
So that's another scary one there.
Again, no evidence to back this up, but they sound great.
They sound great.
Most haunted has been basing itself on that.
Going back briefly to the aliens thing.
Have you heard about this?
The Russians are going, oh, America.
Hey, you better tell everyone about the aliens or else we will.
Maybe they're going, we know.
Michael, come here, Michael.
Ashley, please pause the podcast. Michael! Come here, Michael!
Ashley, please pause the podcast.
Pausing podcast.
Pausing complete.
Hey, Doc. Ashley.
I was just helping Cyrus with his Halloween costume.
Oh yeah? What's he going as?
A wall sconce.
There really aren't that many options.
Yes, excellent.
Well, I'm afraid we have more pressing matters at hand than the man in the wall, Michael.
You've heard of the Unclickables podcast?
Sure. Paul and Eli, right? Yes, that's the one.
I'll admit that it's very primitive and rudimentary, and the humor is often juvenile,
but I find that, despite myself,
I've grown to be quite a fan. Are we talking about
the same podcast? It's really very funny,
Michael. If you say so. I have trouble
with the accents. So why'd you call me
for, anyways? I left Cyrus with a lampshade in his
head, so I should probably get back.
Ah, yes, Michael. Well, in this Halloween
episode, Eli is on one of his
customary rants. You know, those aren't too bad.
Affirmative. And Paul is not
entirely without entertainment value. Right.
Well, anyway... So funny. It pleases
me. It really pleases me.
Yeah, Paul's pretty funny, too.
Maybe I should revisit... People, focus, please!
Listen, in Eli's rant, he very
foolishly reveals the true nature of ghostly apparitions.
What, the future ghost thing?
Really, Doc?
Really, Michael.
Now, I happen to know for a fact that in every other timeline where this revelation has occurred,
death and destruction immediately and inevitably followed in its wake.
You tell him, Doc!
Destruction not unlike the horrific aftereffects of the terrible Hadron event.
That grisly accident that I myself presided over.
That accident which tore through the very fabric of space-time.
That accident which I fear I shall never fully-
You know, I know all about the Hadron blast, Doc.
We're recovering fragments of your wife every day.
You really don't need to recap.
Michael, we need to go back in time and stop this event from happening!
The Hadron event? Hey, that's not a bad-
No, no, the destruction of the Unclickables podcast.
I don't know how I'd be able to get through my work week without it.
Yeah, but do you really think we should interfere like that?
I mean, I know we've pretty much
interfered with every timeline we've come across.
Some of them more than once,
but... Michael, my mind is made up!
I'm afraid we'll have to go back in time
and kidnap Paul and Eli! Okay, Doc,
listen, I'm surprisingly indifferent
to messing with timelines, but kidnapping?
I might be a little biased, but doesn't that sound kind of extreme?
Well, I suppose we could just jam the broadcast.
See?
Maybe a post-hypnotic suggestion or two?
Right?
You should both know I don't approve.
Nonsense, Ashley.
I totally agree, Ash.
Anything particularly bad about this one?
Well, I took the liberty of using my quantum processing power to run every possible outcome.
It's pretty bad.
How bad?
Well, your planned intervention would save the podcast, but...
There you go. Excellent.
But the ensuing chain of events caused by your intervention would create a 99% probability of a nightmare scenario
involving Eli Silverman's transformation into a powerful, sexy vampire.
In his reign of global terror, Eli uses his vampiric powers
to enslave the population for his bizarre sexual entertainment.
Eventually, after hundreds of years,
Earth's civilization is deemed too sexy and dangerous
and is eradicated by, um, future ghosts.
Aliens?
Well, yeah.
Okay, well, that decides it.
Yes, Michael, it does.
Ashley, jam the broadcast and initiate hypnosequence. But, Doc... You know how I can get when my routine is interrupted, yeah. Okay, well, that decides it. Yes, Michael, it does. Ashley, jam the broadcast and initiate hypnosequence.
But, Doc...
You know how I can get when my routine is interrupted, Michael.
Well, he's got a point, Ashley.
But be sure to be clear.
Their language is kind of odd.
True.
It is strange how our American words mean different things to them.
Okay, well, sit your fanny down and let's save the unclickables.
Ashley?
Jamming broadcast.
Going back briefly to the
aliens thing. Initiating hypnosequence. Denizens of this timeline, I am Francis Oppenheimer Valdini.
In the year 2008- Doc, stick to reprogramming, right? Ah, yes, quite right, Michael. First off, allow me to apologize for the interruption in your podcast consumption.
I will be brief.
That doesn't seem necessary.
You will disregard the incendiary revelations of Eli Silverman.
You will not remember anything he has said regarding aliens and Russians.
You will enjoy the Unclickables podcast and rate and review it on iTunes. And that's a bit crass. Silverman will most likely soon visit upon you as a result of our actions. But please, rest easy in the post-hypnotic
knowledge that your sacrifice will
ensure that at least one brilliant scientist
will benefit greatly from your
generations of empiric bondage.
That's sufficient, right, Michael?
I guess. Well then, resume
your listening and remember nothing.
Oh, and happy Halloween
from all of us at Hadron Gospel Hour.
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
Alright, Ashley Ashley end transmission I hope we haven't made a huge mistake
I love a good alien I love a good ghost
I think
what an alien ghost
why not
well that's one of the theories isn't it
aliens are in fact the ghosts of us in our future past
it's a classic one
this is the other issue I are in fact the ghosts of us in our future past. It's a classic one. This is the other issue
I have.
You often see ghosts
of sort of medieval
gentry
or you might see
someone from World War II.
Yeah.
Why doesn't anyone
ever see the ghost
of a dinosaur?
It's a very good question.
You know what I mean?
Because they didn't exist
because God created
the world a few thousand
years ago.
Oh right,
I forgot about that.
Of course,
I forgot about that one.
I forgot about that loophole.
So you know, these are strong issues and we're bringing them to the forefront here. Oh, right. I forgot that. Of course, I forgot about that one, yeah. I forgot about that loophole. So, you know, these
are strong issues and
we're bringing them to
the forefront here.
Yes, absolutely.
This is a great time.
This is a great time
everybody.
It's a good question
though because, like,
do we see, like, hoodie
ghosts or, like, you
know, little council
estate hoodie ghosts
going around?
Well, I always thought
maybe to be a ghost
it's like you're trapped,
you know, you hadn't
lived out the full
potential of your life
you would so you died in a violent or sort of sudden way sudden way and the dinosaurs they
just sort of ate a load of grass and then there was a comet and they went oh shit well we're done
here who wants to come back he's well yeah actually that's a good point it was quite sudden if i was
a dinosaur i should be able to send a parcel and i was wiped out by the comet i might come back as
a ghost to make sure that parcel is delivered.
You'd see the bang off on the other continent, and then you'd go,
oh, better go to my cave.
There's not going to be much vegetation next summer.
Notorious ghost historian Richard Felix has a theory about why ghosts wear clothes,
because they don't so much believe that ghosts...
Because, you know, if you die, why do your clothes come back as ghosts?
Why are all ghosts naked?
And also, that would make a much more interesting episode
of Most Haunted.
The point being is, his logic is that
the building acts as a recording device for humanity,
and so if there's a violent attack,
there's a theory going around,
a very poor theory,
that buildings made way back when
had certain kind of a...
Granite.
The stone tape theory. The stone tape theory theory i was just about to say yes jane asher's classic 70s tv show oh it's great
get back in the kitchen there are no ghosts make some cakes but there are ghosties there are ghosts
and then it just pretty much there's some flashing lights in it pretty good but that was the idea that
that stone had recorded it as if it was a tape so yeah so that's the idea the reason why we see
them in ghosts is because it's a recording being reverberated back into the environment.
So he built a machine called the Ghost Box Recorder.
Classic.
And what he did was he thought the theory was if you put enough power into this building, like the wall or whatever,
you can generate enough energy, feeds it back into this machine he built,
project it onto a cloud of fog, and you can see the ghost from the wall through his fog machine.
Right? Did it work? No.
Because
the machine was literally
a nine-volt battery. A discog
smoke machine? Was it a discog smoke machine?
Yes! I'm not even joking,
though. The whole machine was a box,
and when we went on tour with it, it was in the shape
of a coffin, right? Because, you know, added class.
It was a coffin with a 9-volt battery in, two wires that plugged into a wall or some haunted item,
three disco lights and a fog machine.
I'm thinking it needs a CD deck, and he's set.
Paul, tell us the story about him, that classic story.
Oh, okay.
Well, we do this ghost.
Basically, I would present this show called psychic and science
and it was like most haunted live have you seen most haunted it's if people who are listening
it's a british show where this bunch of uh idiots go from haunted house to haunted house and they
try and catch every the supernatural richard felix was a historian on the show for a while
um he would start his section of the live show by going up to the audience saying okay who here
believes in ghosts and like the whole audience who believe us would put their hands up. And then they go,
okay, who's ever seen a ghost? All the hands would go up. Who's ever heard a ghost? Half the hands
would go up. Who's ever maybe smelled a ghost? One or two hands. And then he would say, okay,
I asked this question one night. I said, who has ever had sex with a ghost? And then at the back
of the room, one man went, yeah, I have. I've done that. Rich, I've done that.
And Richard said he stopped the show, walked to the front of the stage and went, excuse me, sir, you may have misheard me.
Maybe you got confused.
Are you telling everyone here that you have had sex with a ghost?
The man went, oh, no, I thought you said goat.
Every fucking night, that story.
And every fucking night, 40 women past the age of 60 laughed their knickers off.
They loved it.
But Paul, that wasn't the story I meant.
Oh, which one?
Oh, okay.
The other story was, he's a bit eccentric, Richard Felix.
If you ever watch the show, you can see he's a little bit not there.
He's a nice guy, but he's not really there.
And the story goes, again, that he told me was that he wanted to kill his own turkey for Christmas.
Because he owns farmland and the farmer next door had some turkeys.
And he went, oh, can I have one for Christmas?
The farmer went, yeah.
So Richard said, okay, well, how would you kill a turkey?
And the farmer went, it's very simple.
You just put some tarpaulin down the floor.
You hang the turkey upside down over it.
The blood will rush to its head.
It will eventually pass out.
You break its neck.
You chop it.
It bleeds out.
You can pluck it, skin it, turkey for Christmas, right?
Long story short, the turkey escaped and he burned his house down, good that's the kind of guy he is good uh so yeah i look good yeah good good
strong good yeah i just think you know why it's because ash is one of those
what ghost hater vegetarian oh okay okay he's on the yes. Strong views here tonight, guys.
I like it, I like it. Strong views on vegetarian ghosts.
Yeah, you don't know what if there was a ghost vegetable,
like a spooky broccoli,
or a cauliflower from beyond the grave.
A beetroot.
Damn it, why is everyone being funny?
That was good, that was good.
All right, then let's do our interview, shall we?
Oh, we're going to do that, aren't we?
We're going to do our interview.
So we've got a few questions.
We're going to treat it like a chat show.
Great.
And just, you know, give us your responses.
Okay, great.
Let's go.
Is there music?
No.
Okay.
Not quite yet.
Can you do the music to Parkinson?
Can you do... Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da I just want to say very quickly before the interview begins,
Parkey took part in a classic BBC horror many years ago.
Ghostwatch.
Ghostwatch, which Mr. Pipes, the terrifying creature,
the fake cameras hidden around the house,
and the best thing I ever saw Parkey do was at the end of the show,
the ghost goes crazy
takes over the TV studio
and kills everybody
everyone runs off
and all you're left with
is Parkey
walking towards the camera
possessed going
round around the garden
like a teddy bear
round around the garden
like a teddy bear
and he just says that
repeatedly
and I just
that's the best thing
Parkey ever did
saying
brilliant
round around the garden
like a teddy bear
wonderful
we went to see it
didn't we last year we went to see it, didn't we, last year?
We went to see a special screening
of Ghostwatch at the BFI.
Yeah, and Parky was there.
He was there.
Did Parky react
round and round the garden
like a teddy bear?
It was a shame, Matt.
It was brilliant, Matt.
But what was great about it
was when we watched it
back in the day,
in the 90s,
it was fucking scary stuff.
I remember being terrified by it.
Missed the pipes.
However, there's a problem with it
when you watch it back now.
It's shit.
Well, no, it wasn't shit.
It stands up really well. It is, no, it stands up really well.
It is quite good.
It stands up really well.
It wasn't designed, firstly, for a cinema screen.
So that's a problem.
And it also wasn't maybe meant to be viewed over and over because it loses its impact.
Yeah, of course.
The worst thing about it was where Mr. Pipe's hide is under the stairs.
Yeah.
However, they called it the glory hole.
Yeah.
They just keep referring to it as the glory hole.
It kind of breaks the magic. When I was 13, it was like, the glory hole sounds like the keep referring to it as the glory hole. It kind of breaks the magic.
When I was 13, it was like, the glory hole
sounded like the scariest place in the world.
And now that I'm 36, it's still the scariest
sounding place in the world.
It's like, oh look, Mr Pipes is coming
through the door. Almost literally.
Right, start off as an interview.
Right.
Right, okay, interview.
I'll start round around the garden like a gentleman okay okay right question number one okay
do you believe in ghosts um i like ghosts i cannot answer that question though I want them to
I want to believe
I want to believe
Okay
Next question
So
When did you first get into rap?
Probably when I was about 10 or 11
And I heard James Brown's Sex Machine
Up until then
Pop music had just been
Men in makeup with fruity cuffs and collars
That girls listened to.
I was in the back of my dad's car and I heard the funky drummer and I heard Sex Machine.
And I burst out laughing because I was like, they've made a song about a machine you can have sex with.
I didn't really know what sex was, to tell the truth.
I knew what machines were.
I knew it was something that adults did.
And I thought, this is great.
And then later on, hip hop started and I heard the same drum break.
And I was like, this is amazing. So that Sex Machine and those guys with the music, this is great. And then later on, hip hop started. And I heard the same drum break. And I was like, this is amazing.
So that sex machine and those guys with the music, this is awesome.
And that was kind of the birth.
I see.
And also Camouflage, that song Camouflage.
Remember that song Camouflage?
Whoa, Camouflage.
I wanted to get it, but I could never find it in shops.
Things never quite the way they seem.
It's haunting.
It had a rap break in it, did it?
No, just the element of someone taking some music and just making up a story over the top. quite the way they seem it's haunted it had a rat break in it did it um no it just did the the
element of someone taking some music and just just like making up a story over the top that's not
about falling in love but a guy in vietnam saving you and he's a ghost that's fucking awesome and
paul card hassles 19 i had a massive obsession with the vietnam war as a child and i watched
platoon about six times in a row on vhs i was about 10. And my mother came in and she said,
turn this off, it's full of obscenities.
She said, fuck you, you don't understand the horror of war.
And I was 11.
So that was great.
Does anyone remember that tune?
I remember that camouflage tune.
Yeah, great tune.
Wasn't that tune about the guy who played guitar in The Devil?
And he had a guitar battle with the devil.
That's, um um isn't that
yeah
what was that
Devil Went Down to Georgia
yeah
that's an old one though
and what about that one
the trucker
Big Bad John
or whatever
Big Bad John
that's another classic
those
all those tunes
were kind of influential
because
they were about something else
yeah about something else
well those were novelty records
weren't they
you don't get novelty fucking records these days do you it's all about the novelty Yeah, about something else rather than kissing someone. Well, those were novelty records, weren't they? You don't get novelty
fucking records these days,
do you?
This is it.
It's all about the novelty.
All about the novelty, guys.
Next song.
See, I love your band
and I would want to know
where you got the name.
Band loosely,
use the term band.
Yeah.
And I wanted to know
where you got the name
for your group
Fun, Love and Criminals
because I loved it.
Well, yeah.
Pick it up.
Me and the Fun, Love and Criminals.
That was you.
Classic hit. We got to number one with that and criminal. That was you. Classic hit.
We got to number one
with that.
I was just hanging out
in Staten Island
and just,
Hughie was just,
he just left the Marines
and we were smoking
a lot of weed
and we were high, man.
And we got in trouble,
we got arrested.
I can't say what it was for,
but it was wild.
And when we got arrested
the policeman
I'll never forget this
he put us in the back of the van
he said
you guys show a bunch of
fun loving criminals right
as we were laughing
as he put us in the van
and we just said
that'll stick
and we gave him 3%
of all the royalties
oh brilliant
so there you go
there's the background
to that story
I told you how they got their name
I told you that was it
you didn't think I was a fan
of their work
he knows it all he knows it all I've got well done on six music you can listen to that as well
well well researched thank you your next question so it's not proper music is it rap um not really
but then who's to say what proper music is well i i'd i'd say richard claderman proper music he's
a genius okay there you go. You know, you've got
all of these figures. These figures.
Picasso. Yeah.
Richard Klederman. Klederman Classic.
Bobby Crush. Bobby Crush.
Bobby Vinton. Yeah.
All the Bobbies. Elvis.
Yeah. Dougie Fresh.
No, not Dougie Fresh. You're ruining it.
Okay, yeah. Now, these
are all proper artists. Yeah.
You know, is Mr. T as talented as Dougie Fresh, you're ruining it. Okay, yeah. Now, these are all proper artists. Yeah, yeah.
You know, is Mr. T as talented as that in what he does?
I'll let you into a secret.
Mr. T made a film, and there's raps on it.
There's one called, something like, Be Kind to Your Mother.
And Ice-T wrote that rap.
Ice-T wrote all of Mr. T's raps.
So that's a fact there.
So, Mr. T.
Yeah, this is Ice-T. I wrote all the thongs for Mr. T's raps. So that's a fact there. So it's a Mr. T. Yeah, this is Ice-T.
I wrote all the songs for Mr. T.
90-90.
Fucking amazing.
What a guy.
And then he performed as a kangaroo.
What was that film?
Cat Tank Girl.
Best thing Ice-T ever did,
he uploaded a video of himself onto YouTube
about five, six years ago.
You can see it.
It's just him smashing up his Mac computer
in his backyard.
You don't want people to get in contact
with your hard drive
just smash it up
with a hammer
and then he smashes it up
and throws it in a bin
that's wicked that is
have you seen that cover
he's got his wife
in some kind of bikini
with a
the power album
yeah
it's amazing
and he's got
she's got some kind of
armament
like an Uzi
or something
got the gun behind her back
yeah
they're all there
at the front
stood there
and then when you turn the album around,
they've all got guns behind their backs.
Yeah.
And then he's like,
what?
Watch me in law and order.
Criminal,
I call it.
I don't know which one he's in,
but you know,
he's a serious.
Tracy Morrow.
He's actually a very good rapper.
He's amazing.
Yeah.
He's good.
He's very good.
All right.
Next question.
Okay.
Mums died seven,
pops died 11.
So he's dropping that low in everything.
Go on.
Sorry.
No, my next question is, oh, shit.
So you wrote, is it because you like ghosts that you wrote Scooby Snacks?
Scooby Snacks was.
Is that why you wrote that song?
We got out of Rikers Island after we committed that crime.
Oh, right.
It was a pretty heavy time and we hadn't smoked for, it was like nine months.
So me and Hughie
just got the biggest
bag of weed you ever saw
I thought you were Hughie
what's this
I thought he was Hughie
he's Hughie
I'm Lee
oh for fuck's sake
I'm Lee
I'm the other one
I'm Lee
from the band
but yeah
you said you'd get Hughie
I know
what's the fucking point of this
he won't come
he won't leave the house
he's got a lot of
he's agoraphobic man
he just won't leave the house
he's too busy
presenting pet shows.
Showbiz smashed him up.
Showbiz just mashed him up.
He can't deal with large groups of people anymore.
Fuck you, E!
I know.
He's too busy watching the EastEnders omnibuses.
Don't do that anymore, do they?
Classic Sunday afternoon TV.
All right, okay, that's that.
Anyway.
Your next question.
Go on.
Anyway, I reckon anyone can rap.
Yeah?
Yeah, even Paul.
Even though Paul's shit at actually speaking.
Paul could do it.
Yeah.
Paul could do it.
I can do it.
Anyone could rap.
Could you do it, Paul?
If you can draw a picture of a knob on a piece of paper with three drips coming out the end,
you can probably do a rap.
Fact.
I don't know.
Scientific fact.
I've got my rap name, though. Yeah, what's your name? Big Papa Hamster. Nice. Fact. I don't know. Scientific fact.
I've got my rap name, though.
Yeah, what's your name?
Big Papa Hamster.
Nice.
Oh.
Now, this was something to do with being touched
by an uncle
in a past podcast,
I believe.
I was informed
that that wasn't
appropriate to say
in front of an audience.
So now,
it's my rap name,
Big Papa Hamster.
What does the big
refer to?
My girth.
Okay.
Right.
Papa is police code for pee.
And hamster is because it's the most ferocious of rodents.
Girth, pee, rodent.
Girth, girth, pee, rodent.
It's a country music sort of name now.
That's my country name.
Hey there, guy.
I'm Girth P. Rodent.
I'm going to entertain you tonight.
It's going to be a great time. I'm going to take my pants off. Wonderful. Well, that's my country name. Hi there, guy. I'm Griffey Rowe. I'm going to entertain you tonight. It's going to be a great time.
I'm going to take my pants off.
Wonderful.
Well, that's my rap.
I can rap.
You cannot rap.
There's only one way to decide this.
There's only one way to decide how we can get this song.
I fucking detest it.
I don't even think it's a real art form.
But I will own you.
Oh, here we go.
Clash of the Titans.
In that case, I think it's only fair.
Two men, one rap.
All right. This is going to be an epic rap battle. We are going to let Eggsy Clash of the Titans. In that case, I think it's only fair. Two men, one rap.
All right.
This is going to be an epic rap battle.
We are going to let Eggsy decide who is the winner.
All right.
Now, do you have a topic in mind
that we can rap about?
Anything we can do?
Maybe Halloween-based?
Do you have any ideas?
Can I?
Les Dennis?
Les Dennis.
Les Dennis we're going to rap about.
That's good.
All right.
Les Denis.
The French fire engine. All right. I think a Shooting Stars. That's good. All right. Les Denis, the French fire engine.
All right.
I think it's a Shooting Stars reference.
All right.
All right.
So do you want to go first?
No, you're going first.
All right.
Then you start the music then.
And I'm going to rap about Les Dennis.
Then you have to rap about Les Dennis.
This is going to be good.
Right.
I can't.
No, actually, this is going to be adequate.
That's what it's going to be.
Right.
Oh, you haven't picked
the record then.
All right.
The select is just
getting the beats
lined up now.
Ash, can you rap?
In no way, shape or form.
I leave all the rapping
to go to the chain.
All the rapping?
All over the world?
Everything.
That's cool.
That's not a bad plan.
All rap should go through you
I could do that
yeah
I try
I will do it
but it's like
when someone offers you a job
and you can't really do
but you say you'll do it
then you realise
you fucked it up
and you get sacked
after like three months
comedy
that's what I do
okay
can you do this gig
you have performed
to more than 30 people
before
yeah
all the time
all the time
is that Cupmaster Swift
on the decks back there?
That's a real epic
hip-hopping drop there.
Here we go.
I'm going to do it.
Here we go.
Here we go.
I'm going to drop it in.
Ready?
Here we go, yeah.
One, two, three.
Feeling the flavour.
Here we go, here we go.
Rapping is hard.
There's all kind of contortions.
Like the guy who hosts
Family 4.
Yes.
He's the man
who's called Les Dennis
to everyone else. He's a bit of a menace.
He lives in Highgate.
It's not a nice place.
He's got a nice house there.
Look at that face.
He's making all the money.
He wishes he was fly.
But he was never good when Dustin G died.
Yeah, that was good.
See?
That was good.
Your turn.
Okay.
Well, let me start.
It's over. It's over. Come on. It's over. Well, let me start. Ah! It's over.
Come on.
It's over.
Come on.
It's over.
Slam to the ground.
Slam down.
Come on.
Let me start by saying something about Paul Gannon.
His pants are filling up with bacteria like a Danon.
You're good.
You're hurt.
Your face is all splirty.
I'm going to come and give you 30 of the best lashes off your bum side.
I'm going to take your face and make it fried. I'm going to take your fakes and make it fried.
I'm going to have Les Dennis for dinner
and I'm going to tell him you're a sinner.
I like the bit where he said,
I'm going to have Les Dennis for dinner
and I'm going to tell you you're a sinner.
That was good.
Let's see where we go.
He was a star of Ross Abbott's famous Madhouse,
but ever since then he's become a big lad
All he does is sit and drink
He licks about his life and he thinks it stinks
He was once married to that girl on X Factor
But I can't remember her name
Because she looks like a tractor
Fuck Liz Dennis, let's talk about you
I'm gonna mash your face
I'm gonna jump up in your place
Like a Maasai in your face
A Maasai warrior
You are shit
Strong use of you are
shit there. This is a great rap battle, guys. This is one of the epics. Come with it. All
right. Come with it. This is good. He's dirty. He's squat. He's fat and he's ugly. He shouldn't
have rapped ugly, should I? My malevolent eloquence is rapping over your relevance.
Irreverent. I'm herbivore like a rogue elephant.
What?
I said I'm herbivore like a rogue elephant.
Like a rogue elephant.
Okay.
What about the ones that they all know?
My malevolent eloquence is destroying your relevance.
Irreverent.
I'm herbivore like a rogue elephant.
Didn't work the first time.
Right, last one.
There's Dennis and Eli Silverman sitting around looking for scraps in the outside bin.
They'll find some food and maybe drugs, but they have to search through all the horrid bugs.
They find some tabs.
They find some washout.
They drink from the drip tray because they're washouts.
I've only rapped twice.
I know that's not right, but you're just fat and ugly and shite.
Strong use of shite again there.
This is a classic
rap battle here.
Execute him.
You talk about
Les,
Dennis,
but you are something
known as a penis.
I mean penis.
You mean us.
I'm going to take your penis
and then I'm going to
say some words
that don't actually
mean anything.
Give it up everyone
for the second best
rap battle of all time.
Holy shit.
Even the music couldn't take it.
Oh, God.
I had all my rhymes ready, and they all fell flat.
That was strong, guys.
Let's give it up, all four of us.
Yeah, come on.
You are shit.
Well, thank you.
It was a good one.
All right, okay.
We've got to do this every time. We have to, please. So, all right. Okay, so...
We've got to do this every time.
No.
We have to, please.
I don't want to do this every time.
It was hard enough tonight.
It was really good.
I take it all back.
Rap is very hard.
You have to be verbose.
I think you have got
a lyrical dexterity.
Yeah.
But Eli really did pound you
with the you are a shit.
Yeah, that was a strong...
It was great.
It was really good.
You staggered back
like you'd been hit. I was. I was a bit high-duking about it. It was a strong, it was great. It was really good. You staggered back like you'd been hit.
I was.
I was a bit high-duking about it.
There's a lot of rap battles that probably have resulted in people getting shot.
There's a serious side to this, guys, and the gang warfare.
I think if you say you are a shit, it'll just close that battle down
and someone's going to back off.
Do you know what I mean?
They're just going to back off.
You are a shit.
That's wonderful.
No, I have to...
Listen, in all honesty,
I have to say, Paul, you won.
You won the battle.
Really?
Oh, wow, that's nice.
This is what a lot of rappers don't do
and that's nice.
That's nice.
It's a very British way of rapping.
Well done, sir.
You took me down considerably.
You did.
You got the Les Dennis thing
and you got Dustin G in
and like Family Fortunes.
Mate, I know my Les Dennis shit.
I'm all over Les Dennis.
Amanda Holden.
I did like the thing about a Maasai
all up in your face
like a Maasai in your place.
And you physically jumped a bit as well.
Of course, the Maasai are famous for jumping.
Yeah, and the shit.
I'm more strong on the sort of delivering the lyric
in a sort of
hip-hop style.
The power of rap,
it makes me emboldened.
Now I'm going to have
an affair with Amanda Holden.
I see.
I had an idea.
I wanted to work
for a tabloid paper
and I wanted Amanda Holden
to be having an affair
while she was on a beach,
right?
And I wanted her to be topless
and I wanted the paparazzi to have taken pictures of this
mysterious man putting suntan cream
on her boobs and a headline
just so the headline could be, a man to hold him.
It would have been really good
but I didn't get a job.
The sad thing is that that's all I ever hear when I hear her name.
A man to hold him.
A man to hug and kiss.
So, okay, are you happy to receive or should we give it to the audience to give a cheer? No, no, I'm happy. Amanda Holder. Amanda Holder. Amanda Hug and Kiss. Right, so, okay.
Are you happy to receive,
or should we give it to the audience to give a cheer?
No, no, I'm happy.
I concede.
You're never happy.
That's bullshit.
I know, that was good.
It's nice to be important,
but it's more important to be nice, guys.
I was rehearsing.
I had this whole thing rehearsed in the bath.
I just lost it.
Give it up for all of the rappers
involved here tonight.
Thank you.
Wonderful times.
All of the rappers.
Right, well,
at The Uncleanables,
what we like to do is,
it is a show that celebrates
the economy.
It is a show that celebrates
cheap and nasty stuff
that you can get the best out of.
And so it's Halloween,
obviously,
and maybe you don't have
a lot of money to spend on...
I'd love to smoke a spliff now.
I'm having a really good time.
I wish we could.
I'll hook you up after
we finish the recording.
At any point.
Right, so...
So,
it's Halloween. You want to get dressed up you might
not have a budget so we've decided to go to a pound shop and get five pounds worth of stuff
that you can use to transform yourself and eli is going to do that makeover on me for simple five
pounds worth of cash it's just to demonstrate you know you don't need to be uh trained makeup
artists you don't need to spend loads of money hiring people. I can make you look estate with this stuff.
Let's see what we've got here.
Now, for the listeners at home,
how much did you spend in total, Paul?
Well, five pounds, literally.
I mean, there's five items there.
Well, we've got some...
These are all by the classy company Fright Night.
Night.
Fright Night.
Don't they do a lot of these special effects
for most horror films
these days?
You'll have seen these in all the recent Del Toro films.
You know, all the Spielbergs.
This is top-notch stuff. It's their budget range.
But...
Oh, it's actually in Spanish on the back, so I think you're right.
Aviso is warning in Spanish.
Apparently.
So, you're going to make me up
live, aren't you?
Nice, let's do this.
So you've got some horror teeth there, but we've got the makeup kit.
Now, perhaps, Ash, I'm not going to be able to talk.
Let's let Exy do the makeup.
Well, you both did you.
Because I'm not going to be able to talk, I'm going to have to concentrate really hard.
I'm very excited.
I don't know if I can mention this before you get it out,
but there is a horror glove here,
which is basically a very cheap rip-off
of the classic Freddy Krueger glove,
which brings back a lot of Halloween memories for me as a child
because I had a brown leather glove
and had five pencil sharpeners as a child.
I took all the blades out of the pencil sharpeners
and stuck them on the glove
and made my own Freddy Krueger glove.
But this is the thing about that Freddy Krueger glove. But this is the thing
about that Freddy Krueger glove.
It's a nice horror prop
but it is effectively
a toy that says
you can dress up
as a child killing
monster.
Yeah,
who dresses like
Kurt Cobain.
Yeah.
Which is quite fascinating.
Look,
the stripy jumper.
Very true.
So Eli is just applying,
what are you applying right now?
A bit of white.
We're going to start you off
with the ghostly look.
Okay, so it's on there.
How's that looking?
Makeup's going on now.
Makeup is.
Already there's an air of terror in the room.
I can feel the horror building up now.
Eli's got not only what he lacks for in lyrical dexterity,
he makes up in actual dexterity with his fingers.
It's wonderful, isn't it?
He's just applying some of the white cream.
Can I just say, it's improved your complexion. No end. It's wonderful, isn't it? He's just applying some of the white cream. Can I just say,
it's improved your complexion.
No end.
It's really working beautifully.
Well, I thank you.
It looks adequate.
He's just applying
some cream to what's known
as the T-zone
by makeup artists
at the moment.
This is the area
of the forehead
and the bridge of the nose.
Quite thick up the top there.
Yeah.
It is quite thick.
And the makeup brush,
which is actually a human finger,
which he's using to apply the...
You look like a sort of
a very hard-worked geisha
at the moment.
Yeah.
A gay what?
This is...
I like the big...
All the obvious gags.
So the white's on.
The foundation's on.
The foundation's sort of
sort of been spread across. I think you're missing a patch here, but I imagine that's going to be for blood The foundation's Sort of Sort of been spread Across
You're missing a patch here
But I imagine that's
Going to be for blood
It's alright
That's going to be
Yeah
He's got little pens out
I like the bit that is
Just teetering on the edge
Of your actual eyeball
So at some point
This stuff will burn
He won't go blind
He will go blind
By the end of the year
So what colour is this?
Right
Eli climbing up To get the best...
Oh, my.
Actually, you look sexier now.
The eyebrow is...
I went out with a girl from Southend who looked like this.
Unscrumple your eyes, please, Paul.
Unscrumple them, Paul.
Just applying the sort of eye make-up now.
Sort of the eyebrow?
Yeah, I'd say eyebrow there.
Sort of the LA style, sort of tattooed on eyebrow.
That's what I'm saying.
I went out with a girl
from Southend
with a very similar
complexion.
They were tattooed on
though, weren't they?
The thing is,
I should have spent
£6 in all,
£5 for the props
and extra £5
for the makeup removal kit
I could have easily afforded.
Didn't think that through.
You don't need to
because you're looking
pretty good.
So the colour red
is coming in
and rather than being
used for blood it's going straight on
as lipstick here.
Eli is building a girlfriend.
Yeah.
The sinister laugh there
as a man
turns another man into a woman.
It puts the lotion on his
skin, guys. It puts the lotion
on his skin.
So for the diseased.
So for the diseased effect,
the use of green makeup has come in here.
Oh, he's got a green dot on the chin,
like the... Don't stab me in the eye!
The well-known Halloween ghost,
Green Dot Chin.
He's that famous scary monster
from our childhood stories.
Oh, Green Chin. Oh, Green Chin.
Oh, Green Chin.
It's Green Chin.
How's it looking so far?
It looks really...
Impressive?
Strong.
It's a strong look.
If you buried your face in the T-shirt,
it'd be like the Turing Shroud of the Joker.
It is a bit Joker-y, actually, isn't it?
Yeah, it's very Batman-y.
He's putting some red on.
That's effective.
Your eyes are bleeding.
You now look like a sad clown.
Yeah.
I reckon I look like I've got Ebola.
I know that.
This is a great look.
How's it looking?
Yeah?
Can I just say,
this is a bit I was most excited about.
The actual blood is coming out now.
Just keep it above the face.
It's turned into a terrible porno film. Here we go. The blood is being sprayed now. Just keep it above the face. Oh, this has turned into a terrible porno film.
Here we go. So the blood is being sprayed
now. Oh, it's horrible.
Wow, that is actually quite horrific.
That's good blood. That is very good
blood. It's a...
Look at that. Put some in his mouth.
Eat some of the blood.
Eat some of the blood. I think it could be sugary.
It's got to be safe to eat.
No, I think it's deadly flavour. Okay, that's fine. It is of the blood. I think it could be sugary. It's got to be safe to eat. No, I think it's deadly
flavoured. Okay, that's fine.
It is really good blood, isn't it?
A lovely red wig is
a dawn upon my head. Do you know what?
I used to live across the road from a kid
called Mostyn and he looked
just like Mostyn did when he was
a kid. Mostyn isn't a name. It's a
real name. It's a real name, yeah.
It's a Welsh name. It's a Welsh name. He sort of explains it. But he looks. Mostyn isn't a name. It's a real name. It's a real name, yeah. It's a Welsh name.
It's a Welsh name.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mostyn.
He sort of explains it.
But he looks like Mostyn.
Mostyn Wilson.
Good old Mostyn.
Big up to you, Mostyn.
How's he doing now?
He's all right, actually.
I saw him...
He lives in London now.
I saw him about three months ago
with his wife.
His wife just ran a marathon.
Good.
So that's pretty cool.
He's not a child anymore, I take it.
No, no, he's fully grown,
fully developed, and he's not married, so that's nice.
But he does look like Marston.
Unbelievable, yeah.
So wig, glove, and now the teeth.
So the rubber teeth are going in.
This is wonderful.
Horror.
Horror, full horror. That is impressive. Fangangs are in a great wig is on
he's got a terrible the teeth made me gag hang on he gagged on the phone this is a strong look
wonderful wonderful i never knew until i did this show what a bad gag reflex i had just be
a fucking professional and stick the teeth in.
Yes.
A friendly Ronald McDonald.
That is a great look.
Can you just, can you do it?
Can you say, I'm free?
I'm free.
There you go.
Look at that.
Horror at its peak.
So if you want to see what I look like,
the image will be online in our enhanced podcast
with video imagery and pictures.
And if you want to see what Eli's done
to my face, then you can
do by logging on to our YouTube account.
Oh God, I realised I
really should have brought makeup remover.
It's very effective. But we're
in Camden, so you're going to fit right in.
I'll be right in Camden.
This is dressing down for fucking Camden.
Just go out and have a good time.
So there you go. For £5, ladies and gentlemen,
do you think I've effectively
become something quite terrible?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
That's good.
You're a monster of a man now.
Oh, God, that really made me gag.
Right, now, the next section is...
Is that it?
Yeah, you go fucking wash your face off.
Right, I'm feeling a bit crazed. Yeah, I'm going to just remove the wig and the gloves, but I might have to keep the face off. Right. I'm feeling a bit crazed.
Yeah, I'm going to just remove the wig and the gloves,
but I might have to keep the face on.
You have to help me with my vinyl selection now.
Do you want me to set it up?
Yes.
All right.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, listeners at home,
it's a Halloween special,
and I've got a vinyl selection.
We're going with the Halloween theme.
This is The Witch.
The Witch by The Rattles. Go for it. This is a vinyl selection. We're going with the Halloween theme. This is The Witch. The Witch by The Rattles.
Go for it. This is a great tune.
Can you see me running?
I've been running
for my life
It's a man coming
If I'm running for my life
Can you see the witch?
Can you see the witch?
Can you see the witch by my side?
Can you see the witch? Can you see the witch? Can you see the witch by my side? Can you see the witch? Can you see the witch?
Can you see the witch by my side?
The Witch there by The Rattles.
I've done a bit of research about them.
They're German.
Are they German?
German group, yes.
Are you familiar with Finders Keepers records?
Oh, really?
I think that was reissued on Finders Keepers records.
Yes, great label, Finders Keepers. Really good label, yeah. Andy Votel, I think, is the guy from Finders Keepers records. Yes, great label. Really good label.
Andy Votel, I think, is the guy.
I once saw him do a DJ set at Green Man Festival.
Was it good?
It was.
It was 100% Turkish psychedelic rock.
Yeah, he's got some amazing stuff. Just unending for about three hours.
He's got some amazing music.
Yes, absolutely.
But I feel pretty chuffed now because I picked that up for 50p.
Did you?
Yeah.
Get it on eBay. You'll make a load of money. Yeah, 50p. Did you? Yeah. Get it on eBay.
You'll make a load of money.
Yeah, it's quite popular at the moment.
eBay it right up.
The collectors will pay money for that.
Is it in good nick as well?
Yeah, pretty good nick.
Get it on eBay.
Lovely.
Can I just mention,
I've just looked at the ingredients with Eggsy here
for the Fright Night blood spray.
Yeah, I did suggest you eat the blood.
We've looked at the instructions.
It's definitely not sugar-based. No. But I love this bit eat the blood. We've looked at the instructions. It's definitely not sugar-based.
No.
But I love this bit here as well.
It says,
some individuals may experience instances of extreme sensitivity.
Test by placing a small amount on a wrist before,
and leave for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, it's all over my face and a little bit in my mouth.
Just like a Saturday night out, really really why would it need urine in it i don't i don't think it's your your definitely piss it's definitely can i just say it definitely has got pissing yeah
definitely got pissing so i walked past the um pound shop actually and as i was coming up here
tonight and there was a guy looked like he worked there going, I sold some of that piss to some dude.
Which was wicked.
Blood piss for these terrible illness.
Dean, you know that blood piss?
Just sold some to some guy.
So that was nice to know.
I've just sprayed it in his eyes.
I do apologise.
No matter how much money you could make, it's also a urinary infection if you could bottle it and sell it.
I don't know if that's going to catch on.
Well, no, it does.
Well, not in that way,
though.
Very catchy.
Right.
It's a great game.
Next part of the show,
we are performing tonight
at the haunted Camden Head
and this venue,
well, it's had a lot
of comedians,
so as a result,
there's been a lot of
death on this stage.
Yeah, I was going to say,
I died here once.
But Eli has a gift,
if you didn't know.
Wow.
Eli is a clear,
sentient, buoyant, psychic medium.
Oh, nice.
Isn't that right, Mr. Silverman?
Yes, that's right.
I don't like to talk about it too much, you know.
It's not something I'd ever try and profit from.
No, because that would be disgusting, wouldn't it?
And the other problem with that is my gift's very particular.
How so?
Well, I can channel the dead, but it's only dead comedians that have been incarcerated.
So comedians who have had a criminal past that have died,
and now you can channel them.
That's the only thing.
Only then.
That's very particular.
Yeah.
Because remember we did it last year.
Bobby Bollocks.
Yeah.
He pops up a lot.
Sadly so.
I wouldn't recommend anyone listens back to that episode,
episode three, Creepypasta,
because it's a little bit kiddy-fiddly.
So we'll move on.
But you're willing tonight to...
I've seen it once again.
Someone else.
Yeah.
Is there a way you have to get into the...
Oh, no.
I just close my eyes and it just...
Oh, he's already gone.
He's gone under.
That was very quick indeed.
Come through to us.
If you can hear my voice, come through from the netherworld.
Hello?
Hello?
Who's this?
It's Mike.
Mike.
Hello.
Mike what?
Mike shit.
Great creativity at its best.
I'm Mike shit.
Hello.
Hello. So, do you know you're dead?
What?
Do you know you're dead?
Oh yeah, yeah, I'm dead, yeah I'm dead, yeah
Everybody else here is fucking dead as well
How many other people are there with you?
Well, there's hordes of dead comedians here
You've got Terry Terrible.
He's my mate, Terry Terrible.
You've got Michael Dead.
Right.
He was the puppeteer, wasn't he?
He was the puppeteer. You've got John
Rotten.
Not to be confused with Johnny Rotten.
Fair enough.
John Rotten.
And then you've got absolutely awful Sid.
Okay.
They're my little gang up here, you know,
because, fucking, I'll tell you what, the afterlife.
What's wrong with it?
There's no, well, there's no laughs.
No?
There's no laughs back here.
Well, there's not much here either, so.
Yeah.
Either way.
Oh, well, all you get on tv is wogan wogan repeats oh in
the afterlife that's it are you interviewing a dead comedian you're just gonna witter on
right okay sorry so what's it what how did you die well i was on stage one night it was in clapham
and uh i just did my bit about beating my wife up. Used to go down a storm
and someone
he ran on stage
and stabbed me.
Oh no. Turns out I'd been fucking his
wife. It was a crime of
passion. So yeah, that was
how Mike's shit died.
So you're on stage now. Would you like to do
some of your material, you know, as a comeback?
A comeback from beyond the dead?
Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever been on an airplane?
What about the food? It's awful.
Made me want to go to jail.
Food's better in jail.
You don't get any room for your stuff, do you?
Can't fit shit in there.
And then you get the other side.
Food's awful, isn't it, in Spain?
I don't know.
I've been dead a long time, you know.
But funnily enough,
the topics are still quite prescient.
They are.
Good comedy is always in fashion.
It's universal, isn't it?
It's universal.
Universal things.
I do sort of watch,
sometimes I appear as a phantom
and I watch some of these newfangled comics these days.
All the rabbit whimsy.
With the fucking haircuts and their stupid biscuit-based humour.
I think, fuck, fucking hell, I wouldn't have had a career if I'd been alive now.
Oh, I've got to go.
Do you have any advice?
Has anyone got any questions before you go?
Do you have a question for Mike Shit, Lexi?
I haven't.
It's just amazing.
I'm just blown away.
Ash, do you have a question?
It's so clear coming through.
I just wondered, did he have a television career?
Yeah, did you ever?
It's funny you should say that.
Celebrity Family Fortunes with Les Dennis?
No, I was going to have one.
It was going to start filming the week after I got murdered.
It was called Shit on Sunday.
What was the format?
It was like a magazine show.
Some children would be...
Right, you know what?
We're just going to move on from anything that involves kids at this point,
if that's all right, Mike.
Mike, I've got to go anyway.
They're showing Woken again.
All right, well...
I'll see you next time.
Mike, shit.
I beat my wife up.
It's okay.
Wow, that was a deep one.
How are you feeling?
Eli's back in the room, by the way.
I'm always a bit...
Space down, sorry.
Okay.
Do you have any idea who comes through to you?
No.
Who was it that time?
That was Mike Shit.
Oh, Mike Shit, yeah.
He's hilarious, isn't he?
No.
No.
Okay.
Right, so...
Funnily enough, him and Bobby Bollocks go way back by the sound of things.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We should make sure
we do this every Halloween
oh absolutely
where you get possessed
by a dead comedian
with his awkward
five minutes of silence
and then we move on
which is just like
those ghosts
I told you it wasn't
a very saleable gift
it's just something
I've been doing
my whole life
have you tried
extending your reach
to maybe people
who have died
but have no
interest in beating
there seems to be
a special afterlife
just for shit shit comedians
who got murdered
what's the worst gig
you've ever had
Mr. P
because you must have
had some wild shows
we've never had a bad gig
because I think
as long as you have
a good time
it's okay
yeah
that's the way I look at it
do you know what I mean
so I've never had
I mean no one's ever
been murdered
there's never been a fire
there's nothing
really
outrageously bad
um mike mike balls who's in the band has got habit being sick quite a lot
and um self-inflicted or just being sick on people uh just during the shows as well we went to japan
we did some shows in japan and and it's wonderful to travel that far to a whole of a culture a whole
you know a part of the world not many people go to and we're in this stadium there's thousands
of people there and mike was physically sick on stage but the japanese are so efficient a small
man just ran in and cleaned it up during the show and then just left again which is brilliant and
then a few years later mike was sick over a promoter's back shortly after coming off a stage which was really good and um he's just really good at being sick so i think that's
we've never had any really bad shows but we've had some sort of bad uh sort of moments where
members of the band have vomited vomited yeah but nothing nothing really bad has ever happened
i'm getting the impression that the shows you put on kind of in enjoy the viva kind of thing isn't
it everyone's in the right frame of mind
everyone's in a good place you get one smashed up they have a laugh yeah that's
all it is our shows are like on the Eli
we did we did a gig in and Sweden once and it was wonderful because we played
in Gothenburg it was quite good yeah it was really good and then we played in Gothenburg it was quite good yeah it was
really good and then we played in Malmo which is like the third city and four
people turned up two of them were some guys we knew from Cardiff and the other
two were just some local girls but we were like well let's do the show so we
did the show and then we gave the girls their money back afterwards. Nice.
But the guys from Cardiff, they still paid.
No, you've got to be careful.
Fair enough.
But no, there's been no sort of light in trusses falling on people.
There's been nothing like that.
No stadium collapsing.
No.
Was it Pearl Jam had a few people crushed at a festival once?
You don't want that happening.
Well, fingers crossed for the future.
Well, there was Curtis Mayfield.
Yeah, he had a... Curtis? Yeah. You don't want that happening. Well, fingers crossed in the future. Well, there was Curtis Mayfield. Yeah, he had a...
Curtis?
Yeah.
Mayfield.
Oh, okay.
I was thinking Stigers
for some reason.
No, that would have been
justice.
That was tragic
before any accident
would have happened.
Yeah.
Oh, that matters to me.
Was that Curtis Stigers?
That was Curtis Stigers, yeah.
That's my mum and dad's
favourite song to dance to.
And I wonder why
we're all
all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all That's Curtis Stigers, yeah. That's my mum and dad's favourite song to dance to.
That's Stigers, isn't it?
Or that old Bette Midler.
Yes. He's like that.
I think he's doing
Curtis in the club style.
Oh, okay.
No, that's just Curtis Stigers
full stop.
That is just Stigers.
That guy, the 80s guy,
Michael McDonald.
Was that his name?
Yeah, I can't believe
we're not in love anymore
I'm a believer
a bit of it
that one
very much like the woman
from the end people
moving on
moving on
how annoying
can I just say now
how annoying
is her fucking voice
it's wonderful isn't it
it's
yeah
it's really
it's almost like
there's some phlegm there
that is
she can't quite get it out she can't quite get it out
she can't quite get it
you know
into
sorry they stopped doing
albums because she just went
yeah she just coughed one day
yeah
yeah and she's like
okay I'll sing
moving on
no where's the
where the fuck's the
we can't sell a record now
and you know
it's true
fucking annoying
Lighthouse Family as well
while we're on the subject
well they're all session players though
they were just a session player band that got together to crank out mediocre middle of the road pop crap yeah It's true. Fucking annoying. Lighthouse Family as well while we're on the subject. Well, they're all session players though.
They were just a session player band that got together to crank out mediocre middle-of-the-road pop crap.
Yeah.
They made my life just that bit less enjoyable. Yeah?
Kicking balls for your window, ringing your bell, running away.
That fucking band!
The Lighthouse Family playing Knockdown Ginger again!
You bastards!
Alright, good.
The next part of the show is our cheap
eats section.
In this section of
the show, I try and
feed Eli food on a
budget.
I tend to feed him
mostly horrible stuff
ranging from a
jelly bean, vomit
flavoured jelly beans.
That's what we had
last time.
Yeah, we did bean
boozled, which is a
jelly belly creation
where some of the
flavours taste of
vomit or barf or
baby's nappies.
That was bad.
I'm remembering it.
Yeah, and then there was the marshmallow I covered in ketchup.
That's literally the worst thing I've ever tasted in my life.
In your life.
I don't know why my accent changed halfway through that.
Green jelly tea, hot turnip juice, but it's Halloween, so we can trick or treat.
So what I've done instead is I've got some trick or treat sweets on a budget from the local
99p stroke pound shop Emporium
where they sell that blood piss.
Yeah, okay, great.
I'm just going to reach over and grab my
bucket of sweets.
Ooh, this is really good.
Look at the mini bones.
What's first then?
Well
What do I taste first?
Eli gets to taste them first
And the audience can all have a try as well
So the first one we're going to try today
Is this one
It's called
The Murder Hotel Radioactive Pumpkin Pops
Now they're little hard candy
Pumpkins
With a glow stick
Stuck in them.
So you can eat
the chemicals as well?
Well,
since I've been doing
this already tonight
with the blood spray.
Is it a real glow stick?
That's not,
that's not right.
You don't eat the glow stick.
That's,
that's amazing.
That's good.
Oh,
it's gone on the floor.
You've got to eat it.
Oh,
he's,
it's alright,
give it a blow.
That's a scientific way
of getting the germs off. Give it a bit of a blow. You've got to, you've got to break it. Oh, he specks. It's all right. Give it a blow. That's a scientific way of getting the germs off.
Just give it a bit of a blow.
You've got to break it a little bit.
Snap the stick and shake.
Snap the stick and shake.
So suck it.
It's a nice taste.
Yeah?
Mm.
Yeah?
What flavour is that?
Chemically sweet flavour.
That's very nice.
I like that taste.
It's the fact that I like that taste.
It's the fact that I'm looking him right in the eyes I do it,
which is the off-putting thing.
Would you like to try one?
I'm crunching it. Yeah, I'll try one out.
Yeah, this is radioactive pumpkin pops.
Would you like to try a radioactive lollipop?
Let's have a fucking rave.
Yeah.
Mine tastes fucking horrible.
Oh, wow.
In that. that's your drink
that's my drink
I didn't think
we'd have to have a spit out
that was
that was
you deceived me
you eat these sweets
you smile
you laugh with your clothes
that tastes like fucking mud
that's quite nice
yeah but that's the difference between your taste buds and the human racers wow that was You eat these sweets, you smile, you laugh with your clothes on, it's like fucking mud. That's quite nice.
Yeah, but that's the difference between your taste buds and the human racers.
Wow, that was... I've got a glow stick out of it.
Is it glowing?
I haven't activated it yet.
I've activated mine.
Mine's not glowing all that much.
I'm activating.
You're meant to snap it on you and beat it.
Oh, look, he's in the corner having a little mini hairy rave.
That was horrid.
Yeah, so you didn't like it?
Did you like it?
How was that?
Why don't you get through the sort of plastic taste?
You're eating the wrong bit, the top bit.
The liquid inside is delicious.
It's good.
This glowing liquid.
All right, okay, next one.
That wasn't very nice.
Out of ten?
A four.
A four. And there's two points for the glow stick.
So six.
A very standard boiled sweet flavour.
Very nasty.
The next one are called Atomic Heads.
The little plastic skulls or pumpkins
with a little fizzy powder or something inside.
Now, if it's the right kind of powder,
tonight you will be seeing UFOs on the hill.
So...
No, Ash is enjoying his lollipop.
He's enjoying his radioactive pumpkin pop.
So it's got some kind of sherbet in it.
Yeah, so you have to scoff it.
Death dust.
Yeah.
That's just vim.
You've just eaten vim.
Oh, I've just seen Eli's cum face.
It's not pleasant.
How is it, Eli?
It's quite nice, actually.
I like it.
So who wants to try one?
Do you want to try one?
There we go.
Should we share a powder?
Yeah, go on.
I don't want to.
Oh.
Yeah, let's do it.
It's just, oh, look at this green.
Okay.
This is horrific.
I've got the plastic skull.
I'm just pouring some.
Just into my.
On a table.
Do you need a credit card?
I had a friend who accidentally
Did crystal meth
And this is a bit like
The story he told me
Accidentally
Are we doing it together?
Yeah
Ash and Eggsy
Now we're trying it out
They're dabbing it on their lips
Right
Let's just
I've tried a little bit
Actually that skull's
Going to look like a treat
On my tat shelf
So
Yeah you're looking forward
To having that skull Can I have one? Yeah you can have shelf. Yeah, you're looking forward to having that skull.
Can I have one?
Yeah, you can have the skull.
All right, they're licking it.
They're licking it.
What do you think?
Mediocre.
Tasteless.
Yeah, it's tasteless pap.
I'm going to try the pumpkin one.
Yeah, this is fucking nasty.
Actually, though, It would be cool
If you did have your cocaine in there
To fucking
To impress the ladies
I'm snorting it out of a skull
Because I'm fucking rock and roll
And in one sentence
Eli explained why he was single
That is not great
So you guys didn't care for it?
I have
What do you think?
It wasn't for me
It was sort of tasteless but bitter
It was like eating sweetener wasn't it? It was just like do you think? It wasn't for me. It was sort of tasteless but bitter. It was like eating
sweetener, wasn't it?
It was just like
eating sweetener.
Next sweet for Eli.
A bag of bones.
A simple little packet
full of little candy bones.
These already,
I can tell,
are shit.
These are just
extremely moldy,
moldy oka.
Moldy oka?
Mediocre.
Moldy old dough oka.
Ash is gonna...
Ash, do you wanna taste one? Do you wanna taste one? I don't think so. No one needs. Moldy old dough Oka. Ash is going to... Ash, do you want to taste one?
Do you want to taste one?
No one needs to...
Can I try one?
Absolutely.
I'm just going to try one.
It's a bit of the sort of things you buy in an airport from a vending machine.
They're very bad.
The consistency...
They should be crunchy.
But they're soft.
They're slightly soggy, yeah.
I thought they were going to be a lot more crunchy than that.
Can I try another one?
It's something...
Of course.
Yeah, it's something...
Yeah, it's...
I'm going to try another one.
Yeah, it's horrible.
Yeah, it's definitely...
It's definitely violent.
It's like the stuff, the powder that was in the plastic skull.
Someone's sort of put them in a mould and made them into an actual sweet, yeah.
Well, there's more to come.
Oh, God, is there?
I'm getting a bit of a dicky tummy.
These are Murder Hotel Cyclops Eyeballs.
Now, what is this Murder Hotel they talk of?
It's a brand of these candies
that they bring out at Halloween for the shops
because they come in a little packet
with the words Murder Hotel
and then Police Line do not cross.
So you're eating
criminal evidence
from the crime scene.
Ah, I see.
I get it.
Now what I don't get
about it.
These look better.
These are gummies.
Yeah, but here.
It was provided
by Samurai Warrior.
Was it?
No.
I don't know where
they've been.
Oh, that's really bad.
Yeah, good.
Can I try a Cyclops eyeball?
There you go.
Are you not going to have?
They've got to be vegetarian.
No, they definitely won't be.
Oh, I forgot about
the gelatin content.
In fact, I can taste a bit of cow.
I can taste the horse in it.
I can taste horse.
Is there a type of liquid inside?
No.
No.
They wouldn't...
There's not a liquid centre.
There's no liquid centre.
I would have called this a witch's tit,
because that's more what it looks like.
It's like a little witch's tit, a little...
Black's...
Yes, it's like a cold witch's tit,
which they reputedly are. Yes, it's like a cold witch's tit, which they reputedly are.
I'm more likely to eat the Cyclops eye than any other of the sweets.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I'm a bit of a jelly fan.
Let it be said, these are still fucking nasty.
Yeah, they're nasty.
They're horrific.
But I did eat a whole one.
Those are the lower end of the scale of gummy sweets.
You've got Haribo and their ilk at the top.
And then these are just cheap.
Well, we've got one last thing.
Do we?
I'm starting to feel a bit...
I'm feeling a bit...
And I wonder why we hold on
With tears in our eyes
Good, we've got Steiger going.
And I wonder why we...
The last candy selection
are simply called
Mishmallows
because the font is awful.
Okay, so this is...
And it literally says
Mishmallows.
Mishmallows.
Sort of a Dutch confectionary
for the undead.
They're just marshmallows
and they're in the shape
of little ghosts or pumpkins.
Now, Eli likes marshmallows,
so we're going to try a little blue ghost.
Can I just ask a question?
Before you eat the marshmallow, is it one of those cheap marshmallows with a horrible crispy sugary covering over the top?
Yep.
You know some marshmallows have a nice fine powder.
Other marshmallows have the cheap crunchy sugar over the top.
No, there's no cheap crunchy sugar, but it looks...
It's sparkly.
It doesn't look good.
Okay.
What, this?
Oh, there's a two-tone flavour
thing going on here. Holy shit.
The eyeballs are filled with a different
kind of liquid
jelly thing. Kind of a pus? Kind of a type of pus?
Kind of pus, yeah.
Some kind of volatile, horrible, gelatin pus.
Do we want to try one? I'm going to try a pus one.
I'd like to see what you think. I can clearly see
these
marshmallows do have a type of liquid in them.
That's right.
Funnily enough, I'm eating the pumpkin.
What I think is the pumpkin.
Yes.
And if you look at the pumpkin face on, it actually looks like a cross section of a human phallus.
So what I'm eating here is a marshmallow version of a cross section of a human phallus.
Here goes Van's deference flavor.
Here we go.
Makes the difference.
He doesn't look happy.
You know,
it's not good.
It's not good.
The thing is,
I hate marshmallows anyway,
so I'm not going to try them.
Oh, go on.
We want to get
the gag reflex going.
I traditionally like
a marshmallow,
but this...
So, in conclusion...
In conclusion.
All of those shit sweets
were shit.
Hang on, let's go through them very, very quickly again.
Glowstick lollipop out of ten.
Four.
You said four, right?
Well, for the sweet, but for the novelty glow, you know, you can discard the sweet, put on some techno.
Instant rave.
Take some tea.
Instant rave.
All right, good.
Next one up was the powdered school sweet stuff out of ten.
No, no, not a popular choice.
Again, I'd give it two.
It was a very bland.
It didn't have any sort of sherbet bite.
No.
Which I'm looking for.
Bones, one.
And finally, the eyeball.
Oh, no, five.
Now the eyeball.
Eyeball.
We'll go for five because we do like a gummy.
Finally. Oh, the audience is sending strong responses to the audience there. eyeball we'll go for five because we do like a gummy finally
all the
oh the
the audience
is in the wrong response
from the audience there
and the marshmallow
what a turn
well the marshmallow
they're trying
because they've put
they've put
they've put a different flavour
in the eyes
and the
that sounds like a
serial killers manifesto
I can
I had the flavour
in their eyes
Gary Gilmore's eyes
in a marshmallow but but very very not a not a taste not a tasty thing they're horrible I had the flavour in their eyes. Gary Gilmore's eyes.
But it's very, very, not a taste.
Not a tasty thing. They're horrible, but I will be using them on Halloween
for the kids outside on our street.
Because that's how you get rid of all horrible candy.
Well, that's how you give them a treat and you get the trick anyway.
They go, this is shit.
And then they egg your house.
You've had a very tough upbringing.
Have you ever actually done that to someone?
What, egg their house?
No, if you actually take
several rolls of toilet paper
and throw them over their house,
you actually fucking cause them
like several hundred pounds worth of damage.
And to finish on tonight,
ladies and gentlemen,
Eli likes to impose his views onto the world
and today's views are his top three what?
Scary movies.
So, go on.
Top three scary movies.
Let's see how this goes.
Right, in third place, So, go on. Top three scary movies. Let's see how this goes. Right. In third place,
Jaws.
Good. Alright. Okay.
Everyone's on board so far. Second place,
Psycho. Alright. Strong.
And most scary movie of all time,
obviously,
The Shining.
No. It's The Shining. It's not a scary movie.
Okay. What are your top three? What are your fucking top
three then? I want to hear it. I want to hear you come up with a film that's scarier than The Shining. Come on. I want The Shining. It's not a scary movie. Okay, what are your top three? What are your fucking top three then? I want to hear it.
I want to hear you come up with a film that's scarier than The Shining.
Come on.
I want to hear it.
Come on.
I want to hear it now.
All right.
Three.
The Haunting, Robert Wise, 1963.
Fuck you.
That is a great film.
Thank you.
Good film.
Yeah?
Top three.
No, no.
You've had your say.
Suck your lollipop.
Right?
So, The Haunting.
All right. I'll give you that, but not...
Number two.
The Blair Witch Project.
I like that a lot.
Are you joking?
No, I like it a lot.
I went to see it when I lived in LA,
and I saw it with no hype, no buzz.
Scared the shit out of me.
Took a friend along.
She thought it was real,
because I told her it was real.
She left crying.
That's a win win if you ask me
deeply traumatized i can't take you seriously you look like a melted clown
yeah i know and then my top favorite horror film of all time evil dead 2 that's not scary
neither is the shining but if you're going to put it at the top of your list the shining is scary
oh let me cut here's an idea Stanley Kubrick
I'm not saying he's a shit director that's not what I'm saying here
what I'm saying is if you want a character in a horror film
who devolves into a madman
don't cast Jack fucking Nicholson
Jack Nicholson is a mental from the beginning
you are full of shit mate
Jack Nicholson goes from slightly mental
to a little bit more mental
no he doesn't he goes from charismatic and charming
family man to utter madman and creep.
He's not meant to be.
He's meant to be an abusive, alcoholic guy
who never achieved anything in life.
I believe him.
Listen, I'll tell you what, mate.
Go on.
Not only is The Shining
the most fucking scary film of all time,
Jack Nicholson would be my number one
leading man of all time in Hollywood.
Ever?
Yeah, easily.
Above Tom Hanks?
Easily. What are you talking talking about in the fucking same sentence hanks doesn't deserve to fucking lick
the poo from his private toilet what his own private no jack nicholson's private toilet jack
nicholson can lick his own poo in his own he doesn He doesn't lick poo. He's a fucking dude. And the best ever Hollywood leading man
in the most scary film of all time.
I disagree.
Which is The Shining.
It's not scary.
No, it is.
It's scarier than fucking Evil Dead 2,
which is obviously played for laughs.
You're a dick.
I'm right.
I don't care what anyone else in the room thinks.
Well, I happen to think you're wrong and fat.
So there you go.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
You're catching up.
Ash, Eggsy, what are your favorite horror films?
I like Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows.
Have you seen that?
Yes.
That's not what I would call a horror, but deeply depressing.
Oh, it's scary.
It's horrific.
Yeah.
Scum, the prison movie.
So you're going for oblique references.
Yeah, yeah.
Scum, the prison movie.
And the most terrifying of all the films, because it could be real, Threads.
You ever seen that?
Yes.
Never watched Threads.
Is that the one where the woman gives birth to a baby and it falls out all beet-toated?
Beats a baby at the end of the film.
And there's that whole...
It's set in Sheffield and the whole thing blows up and a woman pees her pants.
For those people who've never seen it, very quickly, it's based on life in Sheffield,
which would be a key area to drop a bomb
if there was a nuclear war.
And the BBC made it all based on fact,
and it's semi-documentary, semi-drama.
To cut a long story short,
a young couple buy a house.
They're about to have a kid.
Then the bomb drops,
and then you're like,
oh my God, everyone's dead.
And then you watch the survivors
coming out of the rubble.
And you're like,
what couldn't happen?
How could it get much worse than this?
And then it projects to
something like seven years in the future
and it shows how society's broken down
and people are just dying,
eating each other's skin.
And then it projects to about 15, 20 years in the future
and it just ends with a girl
crying as a beef burger baby falls out of her.
And we watched this
after a month-long tour
on the bus traveling back home it was about three o'clock in the morning we've been touring
constantly getting mashed out of our minds and uh i just remember adam who's in the band just
turned to me and he's he turned gray and he just said does anything good happen and then the credits
started to roll and and we didn't we didn't speak to each other and although I own it
on DVD
I've never been able
to watch that film again
it's the only film
I've never been able
to watch again
it's horrific
Christmas Day though
it's wonderful
start the day off
with When the Wind Blows
for the kids
it's a cartoon
Scum for just after lunch
Prison Life
makes you feel good
to be alive
and then of course
round the night off
with a glass of gin and thread
Merry Christmas
Actually I'd like to swap out Blair Witch Project
for The Mist
You can't fucking do that now, you have to prepare
That was well reasoned
Nice top three there, thank you
You, however, are a fool
What have you got?
Ash, go on
I'd say It
That scared me what have you got Ash well I'd say It okay nice
that scared me
the mist
strictly speaking
not a movie
because it was a
mini series
put together
and released
in a double VHS
box set
in the late 80s
I fuck you
tell the 8 year old
me that
no no but great
I mean Pennywise
is a genuinely
scary creation
not as scary as
the face I've got
on right now
if I'd been like come join us us, Timmy, with this face,
Tim Coy would never have had a look in for that audition.
That's true.
Yeah, The Mist is good, isn't it?
The Mist.
The Mist is good.
I mean, have you seen The Mist?
Yeah.
Do the ending.
I don't want to spoil it because I do like taking the surprise.
If people haven't seen it, we won't give the ending away.
I actually watched it and I didn't see
the end bit
so someone had to tell me
the end
it's foggy
in the cinema
it's a bit foggy
but it is
it's a wonderful film
yeah
with a fantastic ending
yeah
it has got
if a smidge dark
well yeah
I mean the thing is
what I'd like to do
is use a version of that film
where after the horrible events
happen the film's about to end
I just want to hear
a little trombone go
wah wah
as it all fades to
black and you see the army coming through i love that but what it does tell you is monsters not
scary as mental religious freaks yeah and humanity in general just a very grim depressing film but
with excellent spiders with human faces giblet creatures one yeah yeah and number one for me
i'd say is uh critters Oh, my God. Nice film.
Critters was the first horror film to scour me.
Because you know when Billy Zane gets eaten alive by the Critters?
That stuck in my head growing up.
Because you see it eating into his belly and it eats.
Is it Critters?
Can they find the darts in Critters?
Or is that Critters 2?
I think Critters 2 has the giant Critter ball that rolls down the hill and eats people.
And Critters 3 has Leonardo DiCaprio.
And Critters 4
is set in space
because every horror franchise
eventually goes to space
I just very quickly
it's not scary
Ghost Dad with Bill Cosby
I disagree
get the shit out of me
that film
with the jelly pops
and the put pops
it's amazing
brilliant
brilliant impression
so that's it
that's that it
should we wrap up
let's do this.
Can I just do a quick Curtis Stigers?
That's beautiful.
There you go.
Thanks.
In that case,
round of applause for Eli's top three.
And now to the housework. I just want to do a big round of applause to our guests tonight,. And now to the housework.
I just want to do a big round of applause to our guests
tonight, Ash Firth and Eggsy. So a round of applause to these
two chaps for coming along and getting along with our
daft little podcast.
And if you want to subscribe to our podcast, you can. We're on
SoundCloud, but you can also subscribe to us on iTunes
and Stitcher. That's kind
of it, I think, in a nutshell. Eli,
this is where you play us out with another selection
from your selection. Oh yes, and I've in a nutshell. Eli, this is where you play us out with another selection from your selection. Oh, yes.
And I've got a very Halloween-y selection.
And what's it called
tonight? It is
Jack the Ripper by Screaming Lord Such.
Oh, beautiful choice.
A lot of people don't know, this was
actually produced by the infamous
Joe Meek. Oh.
Well, there, we've all learned something.
Ash, want to say goodbye?
Bye, everybody.
Eggsy, do you want to say goodbye to all the lovely Halloween people?
Thanks, everybody.
It's been a wonderful time.
Goodbye.
I've been Paul Gannon.
That's been Eli Silverman.
Don't have nightmares.
Just have great looking hair.
Mr. Music, will you play? Yes! so tired he's got a big black cloak hanging down his back well that's a one-bed cat just a hate to fight