CheapShow - Ep 98: Underground Chicken Train
Episode Date: October 19, 2018What happens when you inherit a title in the UK and become gloriously rich? Why, you start building tunnels of course! That way you don't have to deal with people. Simple! This is certainly what Will...iam John Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland did. The idiot. Paul & Eli look at the Duke's strange life and along the way bash a few Fraggles, find a kinky use of a letter slot and take a ride on the chicken train! If all that is too high brow for you, don't worry, the Cheap Chaps also look at the character creation process of the podcast and take a pop shield free trip to Eli's Country... no sorry... Urban Noodle Kitchen. It's gonna get spicy! And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Subscribe or Die! www.thecheapshow.co.uk If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!
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Hello, everybody. It's time for Cheap Show.
Here I am. I'm Eli Silverman.
We are in the House of Pickles for a lovely, lovely episode.
And here is Paul Gannon. He's the other guy who does it.
Take it away, Paul.
Hello. Welcome to Cheap Show.
It's the economy comedy podcast for your ears.
Welcome to Cheap Show.
It's the economy comedy podcast for your ears.
And welcome to Cheap Show. It's the economy comedy Podcast for your ears. And welcome to Cheap Show.
It's the Economy Comedy Podcast for your ass.
Don't need to say anything.
For your ass.
Right, well, if that's your mood today.
It's for your ass.
Okay, this is just... Welcome to Cheap Show.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse people love noodles all right it's a fact of cheap show you're gonna have to fucking reset
noodle time
tails from the Darks for a while.
How's the bit got next?
A fight of the Shite.
This is called Gun and Take Hello.
Eli Silverman.
And this is a show all about the things you find in pound lands, bargain basements, charity shops, thrift stores, car boot sales.
I'd like you to add more to that list. Jumble sales and bazaars.
Jumble sales and bazaars. That'd be a nice way to finish that.
Alright. Jumble sales and bazaars
and we deliver it back to you
and say, look, look what we found for nothing and
how much fun we're going to have. I've got something to say to you, Paul.
Yes, what is it? I'm coming for
the news!
Is this going to
be your thing for this episode, Dan? Well, you never know.
No, I don't know. that's the problem I have with you
You never know
I love your ears
What?
Don't shrug
Is this all you're going to give to me this episode?
You got your ears
What was the inspiration for that?
Because I was saying
For your ears and then i thought
that sounds like for your ass i'm gonna say yes inside the acting process with paul gannon hello
and today i'm speaking to actor uh writer and comedian eli silverman hello hello paul
welcome on to the show so tell me about process. When you come up with all your characters.
I think of words that sound like dirty words.
Then I elongate them.
It's worked for me.
Can you give us an example?
Say something like click.
Click.
Click.
Click.
Click.
Clit.
Clit.
Ooh, I rub your clit.
Give me another example.
Well, I mean, okay, so...
Another normal word, just an everyday word, and then I take it.
It's my process.
Chimney.
Chimney.
Chimney.
Chimney.
Shitty!
Shitty! Shitheep! Shitheep! That was actually really moving.
I like it, thank you.
Of course, we will go back to some of your most famous roles.
Sticking in your rays!
Of course, it's the popular one that we all know you for.
When did that character come to be?
About half a minute ago.
Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Yes. You're great at interviews. four and when did that character come to be about half a minute ago yeah yeah yeah yes
you're great in interviews so what uh tell me when did you first decide you wanted to get into
uh performing when i was just a weak child my mother said to me she said oh eli pass me that cup. And I was like, cup, cup, can't.
And then from that moment, a star was born.
Yes, thank you very much.
So what's coming up in the future in your career?
Do you have any exciting projects on the go?
I'll be swearing.
Yes, you'll be swearing.
I'll be swearing down by the Thames.
Oh, good.
Is that a fringe theatre thing?
It's very fringe.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
And can we get a maybe...
You can't come.
No one can come.
It's me and my misery.
And a bottle of port.
Beautiful imagery.
I'll be swearing.
At?
The river.
Right.
Well...
You smell!
If you want to see Eli's latest performance... How dare you! I'll give you a little thing. Right. Well... You smell! If you want to see Eli's latest performance...
How dare you!
I'll give you a little thing.
Okay.
You flowy bastard!
You flowy bastard.
You flowy wet!
You wet flowy bastard.
You wet flowy bastard.
Oh, you...
Oh!
Look at you!
All slishy!
Look at you, all slishy.
Splishy sploshy.
How dare you, you muddy, muddy bastard.
So, Paul, enough about me.
What have we got coming up on the show?
Well, today we've got a lovely little show coming up.
We're going to go soon to the Country Noodle Kitchen.
Oh, yeah.
And we're going to have lots of fun there.
Back by popular demand, Eli talks noodles and prepares them while Paul just stands around.
Pretty much.
That is it in a nutshell.
But we've got three lovely noodles.
Any little hints of what's to come?
Well, it's one I've been going on about for years,
my favourite noodle of the moment,
Paul.
Wow.
And also another couple.
It's a historic episode.
Another couple,
one,
it's Sam Yang,
I can give that away,
which is a very popular noodle brand.
Okay.
And just three
very diverse noodles
showing the real range
in the market
at the moment.
Wonderful.
Well,
that's all to come
on the show today.
Again,
this is, I think this episode goes out after the live show. Well, that's all to come on the show today. Again, this is
I think this episode
goes out after the live show.
101? No, this would be
episode 99.
We have done the live shows,
but they'll come out after this.
This is our last double dish
episode. Yeah, this is our
99. This is our flake.
Yes. Isn is our...
Isn't that a sexual position, a 99?
Like a 69?
99 would be...
Is that like Bami?
No, it would be Cicero.
Bami.
It wouldn't be that.
It would be the Roman numeral X, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
It would be.
It's just Bami.
Maybe it's just bum-to-bum cuddling.
Something sweet.
Bum-to-bum cuddle.
Yeah, so anyway, it's our 99, right?
And maybe it's a bit of a daisy chain, because 99, they're like spooning each other. You can just keep going. That's what I mean. Yeah, so anyway, it's on 99, right? And maybe it's a bit of a daisy chain
because 99,
they're like spooning each other.
You can just keep going.
That's what I mean.
Yeah, that's beautiful imagery.
Cheap Show is like
being taken from behind.
Yes, I was at some party
the other night.
And you were taken from behind.
99, just let me say this,
99.99999.
What does that mean?
We're all fucking each other
in a big row.
No, you wouldn't have gone
to a party
where that happens anyway.
I'm just making it up.
I know, but it's not even realistic for you and your reality.
You'd never go to a party where you knew there was sex.
No, sorry.
Rewind that.
Was that sound effect for rewind?
It was the tape rewind sound.
Yeah.
Not very good.
Whatever.
No, no.
Yeah, that's better.
That's cunt
by the way I won that ice cream debate
oh god I couldn't give a shit
at all
I won that basically
who fucking cares
I care
don't throw an egg at me
I just threw an egg at him
I'm not doing the show
what are we going to do
it's fucking you do it.
Fine.
Hello, welcome to episode 99 of Cheap Show,
starring me, Paul Gannon.
And we've got some stuff coming up.
We're going to do Country Noodle Kitchen.
They know that already.
And we're also going to read a story
from one of my books that I found in a charity shop.
And this one's a lovely little dollop-esque tale
of a man who, how should I put this,
lived a bit of an underground existence.
So join me, Paul Gannon's Cheap Show,
for the rest of the show.
And have a fun time with me talking to me.
How are you?
You know what I'm going to do?
You know what I do feel like doing?
How are you listening?
Paul, I'm going to do a little link.
We've finished the intro link.
Done there.
I've knocked you a little bit.
You've knocked me.
I think that's kind of it, yeah.
Keep knocking the microphone
because it ruins it.
I'm going to do it again.
Keep doing it literally twice.
I'll do my own links, thanks.
No.
Use that.
That's good.
It's not.
Stop looking at me with hopeful eyes.
It's not happening.
Come on, that's excellent.
It's not.
I put them in for a reason.
You don't need to now.
You're going to do that every time we do a segment, then?
I'm just going to do this.
Do that live, then?
Yeah.
Yeah. Good idea. then? Yeah. Yeah.
Good idea.
Good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stop it.
Here we are flying over the streets of London.
Me, Paul Gannon in my flying machine, flying over North East London.
And here I am swooping down, swooping down.
And into one particular window.
As I fly in, close the window behind me.
I find myself once again in Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen.
Hello, Eli.
Hi, we're not calling it that anymore.
What are we calling it?
It's City Kitchen Noodles with Eli Silverman.
Hello.
Hello, City Kitchen Noodles.
Yeah, because why country is just some shit you came up with, which was shit.
Sounds nicer, though.
It's not a country.
We're not in the country.
Noodles aren't a food of the country. It's an image we're selling isn't it it's an image
it's an in it's a an image with a lot of internal um inconsistencies paul and i'm putting that right
right now i know you did your little shit little swooping in fine yeah Yeah? But, this section will be called City Kitchen Noodles.
City Kitchen Noodles.
Here we go.
With Eli Silverman,
formerly known as
Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen.
Welcome back to my kitchen, Paul.
Yep.
Formerly known as
the Country Kitchen.
City Kitchen Noodle
doesn't sound as good.
City Kitchen.
City Kitchen.
Yeah.
Okay.
City Kitchen Noodles
with Eli Silverman.
I don't know why you have
a problem with it.
I don't care.
Frankly, this is my fucking section Come in, come into the kitchen
I'm coming in
I'm inviting you
Close the door, I get it
Ooh, what a lovely city kitchen this is
You can see some houses out there
Cars Should have put a pop screen kitchen this is. You can see some houses out there, cars.
Should have put a pop screen on this, I didn't.
Anyway.
Okay.
Yeah, there's cars.
I mean, it looks like the exact same kitchen.
Yes, it is.
Now.
Great.
Now, what we're going to be covering today, Paul, is very varied.
It's going to show, today's episode is going to show the range of these kind of things, yeah?
Of noodles.
Of instant noodles.
The absolute range.
Great.
And we really are going to start with a noodle that's been obsessing my mind skull for almost half a year now.
I have been bang on these fuckers.
These are broad noodle chili oil flavor.
Sorry, say again? Broad noodle chili oil flavor. Sorry, say again?
Broad noodle chili oil flavor.
Brackets, sour and hot.
What does broad mean then?
If you can see by the pack, Paul, these are almost an inch wide, these noodles.
They're like ribbons.
They're also known as ribbon noodles, I think.
Nice.
I think in the West they're known as ribbon noodles.
Sichuan, it says. as ribbon noodles Sichuan it says
It's a Sichuan
So it's a sour and hot
So it has a vinegary and a hot
And this is basically
In terms of noodle technology
And the modularisation
Of the whole process
Don't just put words like modularisation
Don't
Don't interrupt me
This is my city kitchen Don't. You listen. I'm poking you. Don't. Don't interrupt me. This is my city kitchen.
Yeah.
Don't invent words just to
appeal to a very niche fan
base of yours.
You like when you say
they love it.
Average here.
Modular.
The modularization of the
noodle.
Authentic.
It's really very impressive.
And if you ask me, it's
delicious.
Oh, here we go.
My flatmates come back to the city noodle kitchen.
It's no longer the city noodle kitchen.
We'll have to come back to this in a second, Paul.
We're back in the room, or the kitchen.
These broad noodles have been obsessing me.
They're delicious, and I think you'll find they're delicious as well, Paul.
Well, I'm very much looking forward to that.
Now, that's number one.
Now, what's number two on the docket?
And I think that's a Chinese-style noodle noodle it says non-fried here interestingly so this is real cutting edge because you know um non-fried which means that they haven't fried
the noodles in palm oil which is destructive to the environment and the habitat of great apes
um which is something i i'd give a shit about pa Paul. And it says there's no cooking required.
This is just to pour it on.
You pour the hot water on.
There is no cooking required.
Well, that's exciting, isn't it?
You wait till you see the goodies, the way that...
The goodies are going to turn up.
No.
Timbrook Taylor.
Fuck off.
Bill Oddie.
The treaty's in there.
Not like a treaty where you agree something, but like a treaty. Yeah, the treaty is in there. Not like a treaty where you agree something, but like a treaty.
Yeah, the treaty is in there.
Now, going to the other part of the world for the next noodle, Paul.
And this is an Amino, which is a Polish noodle company.
They've done one of my favorite noodles of all time, the gherkin flavored noodle.
That's exciting.
Boom.
But we've discussed that before and this isn't
I thought was very much indicative
of the different flavour profiles
that different noodle manufacturers in different parts
of the world employ. Because this
is fasolawa and bakchim
flavour. And
do you know what that means Paul? No.
Beans and bacon.
This is a beans and bacon flavoured noodle.
So I'll be very interested to see what their flavour profile's doing on this
here in my city country...
City shit.
Urban city kitchen noodles.
Oh, it's urban city kitchen now, is it?
So there's what?
Any comment on that?
No, I expect it might be quite soupy.
Oh, yeah, that is a soup noodle.
You can see from the serving the suggestion.
Quite soupy. But it's only one of the three that has the soup element. Oh, yeah, that is a soup noodle. You can see from the serving the suggestion. Quite soupy.
But it's only one of the three that has the soup element.
This is a dry, stir-fried style noodle.
We've seen that before.
Yes.
It's only really the noodle itself which is different.
I think this is the ultimate, though.
This broad chilli oil really is the dog's bollocks.
So, on to the third and final choice.
Now, this is a brand that you are very familiar with, Paul,
because the dragon made us eat one of these.
And I don't care what you say, it was a dragon.
Do you remember?
No, there is no dragon.
Now, we tried one of these.
Only Zool.
And then we tried the one that was double hot.
Remember, this is a Samyang chicken ramen flavoured noodle, yeah?
Exciting.
And you've liked these in the past, haven't you?
I have.
Remember those?
Now, this is one of the biggest brands in the world i think at the moment is samyang and this is a numbing pepper flavor though instead of a chili heat flavor numbing pepper it's not
something you get in this part of the world but in sichuan cuisine i believe they use a lot and
these are peppercorns that numb the mouth has a numbing flavour
and people swear by it
but doesn't that affect
like eating in general
like how can you taste
anything if it numbs it
it's like a spicy
a spice effect
I think the closest translation
is to call it numbing
that's what they describe it as
but you will see
you'll experience it yourself
and we'll see
if numbing is the way
to describe what those peppercorns do
we'll have to have it last
that is very famous though
Samyang
it's basically chicken ramen flavour again it's a stir-fried style with no soup and look at the
thick look the pepper corns there and how much do they cost by the way this one is these are
premium first one one pound 20 the second one which is the the polish is standard it's only
a one packer i, I would imagine.
Again, doesn't require any cooking, that one.
As you can see, just pour the water on, yeah?
And that was 59p.
Great.
And then our third one, much larger, Korean-style,
spicy chicken ramen, numbing pepper-flavoured,
Samyang one, was £1.30.
Okay, so the most costly of the lot.
Yeah. I think, actually, they were the same price. The broad noodle was £1.30. Okay, so the most costly of the lot. Yeah.
I think actually they were the same price.
The broad noodle was £1.30 as well.
Well, shall we get going then?
But I just wanted to mention,
whilst we're on the subject of Samyang, yes?
Yeah.
That we've got the live show coming, Paul.
Yeah.
And I've got my friend Paul, Mark.
Sorry, I always get you too confused.
My friend Mark's coming down and he's been... We're the only two friends you have.
He's been... Shut up. That two friends you have. He's been...
Shut up.
And even he bailed.
That's not fucking true.
You're a cunt.
All your friends live in the fucking sticks.
At least I've got them.
So you come round here,
I've got nothing to do.
You come round here
and I'm here to fucking entertain you.
Fuck you.
We work in a podcast together.
Well, fuck off.
How about that?
And Mark,
who does the noodle reviews
on our Reddit page,
is bringing one of these.
There's a stop pointing at me.
There is one of these, which is a Samyang spicy ramen-flavoured noodle
cheese flavour in a pink pack.
And he's got to have seen it.
He's bringing it along.
We'll be tasting that, Paul.
How?
By eating it.
Not then, but then we'll do it.
In an episode. I'll brandish it at the
live show. I'm going to be brandishing
it. Great. Okay. So, shall we
start with the preparation here?
Let's go. We're going to do the broad one first?
Yes. Well, let's do these, cook these two
at once, because this needs a boiling, and this
just needs the water
on. Yeah? Okay, excellent. Well,
here we go. This is where the
excitement begins now. The kettle is is getting filled let's have a listen
and also careful that you don't get water on oh he's funny, isn't he, boys and girls? Right, the kettle is going on.
Right, so...
The bacon and cheese...
Bacon and whatever this one was again.
The fasso...
That can just go in a bowl, kettle over it, job done.
Yeah, and same with this.
Oh, okay.
Except you have to...
Yes.
You add...
Now, I'll talk you through this with the board
because it is a piece of genius.
A bit of genius now. Let's get a nice bowl for this.
Let's get a nice bowl for this.
He's getting a nice bowl for this.
I'll open this up and I'll take you through. This is a premium noodle.
The broad bean by the way. He's opening the broad bean.
And it's got three sachets of absolute loveliness, Paul.
So, say what you see.
Look at this noodle cake.
Very unusual.
Not something you would have been used to.
Oh, no, it's very...
Compacted little noodle cake.
It's vacuum-packed, almost.
And you can see these are the broad noodles.
These are an egg noodle?
No, I think they're rice.
Rice noodle.
And they're just big, flat...
They're wheat.
They're a wheat noodle, I believe, actually.
Oh.
And I think I heard, I read that very good article about his noodles the other day.
And I read a review of a restaurant that specializes in these.
And I think Sichuan is part of China where they grow more wheat than rice, which means they do more noodles.
Because when rice growing regions,
they tend to have rice dishes.
Okay.
All right.
So you can see three packs,
including the essential vinegary watery pack.
A vinegary watery brown pack.
I mean, look at that.
Just look.
Are we taking photos of this?
Well, you take them,
and then I haven't got my phone with me, have I?
You don't fucking...
People love this
section, yeah?
And just stop trying
to fucking not put
enough effort into it.
I let you do all
the talking.
You take pictures of
all your cunting
ghostbusters shit.
There's not been
that much.
Oh yeah.
And I just want to
point something out
about this article
said to me as well,
Paul, yeah?
It said they're
constantly, the whole
instant noodle market worldwide, they're constantly trying to innovate because people get bored of them
so they innovate there's this churn where they start come with new ones new ones look at this
one i've got up here this mate this is fucking this is artificial vegetable and spare rib flavor
noodle and it has kung fu Panda on it. It does.
Yeah.
So there's always
and only about 5%
of the noodles
new noodles made every year
will actually survive
past that year.
Yeah.
Because people don't like them enough
or whatever.
Or they're just a gimmick
and they phase out.
How many new Ghostbusters films
have there been?
One.
In the last 20 years.
It's not
Ghostbusters comes to an end.
The knowledge of Ghostbusters
comes to an end.
It's finite.
Noodles go forever. Noodles will be going forever. It's finite. Noodles go forever.
Noodles will be going forever.
Noodles are great.
Noodles are my friend.
I'm just going to go over here because I've got the controller.
You've got your phone there.
Why don't you take pictures yourself?
Come on.
There's your phone.
Take pictures of all the salient parts.
Come on.
Do something for this fucking podcast for a change.
Take a little photo of that.
Images will be on the website, thecheapshow.co.uk,
to see what we've been eating.
Here we go.
It doesn't matter how much water you use,
because you're going to drain the water off, Paul,
as you do with these.
So I like to get it nice and covered.
He has steeped it well in the hot water from the kettle.
It's completely submerged the broad,
and he's covering it with a little bowl.
A little tip, as we know, if they've got a sort of oil packet in there that might be,
because it's cold, might have solidified, you can always stick it on the top of the
plate that's covering your bowl with the noodle steeping in, and then some heat will come
out of that, and it will make sure that you's get a nice easy slippage out of the packet
yeah i know what you're saying mate i like it when i slip it easily out of my package
those there you got three packs you got the vinegar water you got the chili oil which has
blackened sesame seeds in and you have a sort of standard soup based pack as well which is powder now let's get the water
also onto our bean and bacon one now i will be surprised if there is more than one pack in there
because it is a cheap noodle he's all over the place he's all over the place
there you go he has a bowl now. Let's open up this bean and... Bean and bacon
garlic bowl. Oh, there is a sachet.
It's less one big sachet.
That's their style.
They're sort of more square
noodles. Are you going to break it?
We're going to break the pad, the
cake up so it just fits better in the...
And all they say here
is you put the powder on before
and you just put it in and that's it
there really is minimal cooking on this
well it's also the cheapest
have a huff on that
it's very bacon-y
it's a bacon noodle
I don't think I've ever come across a bacon noodle before
but you will soon
don't start
you can't do that
you'll come across it in a minute won't you
I'll be discovering it in a minute won't you yes
I'll be discovering it
in that sense
in a sense
yeah
I don't want to talk to you
you just record
things I say
yeah
I am doing
right
I'll get the water on that
right
the kettle is re-boiling
for one more time
and it pours itself
I'm getting the water
on the bacon
and bean flavoured noodle.
Now, once again...
What's that smell?
It's kind of got a...
It's kind of like
smells like artificial bacon.
It smells like frazzles.
Yes.
It smells very strongly of frazzles.
Frazzles now.
Not as they used to be
or like those bacon wonders
or whatever they are.
You know, the...
Bacon wonders?
What are they called?
Crispy choices. Bacon Wonders? What are they called? Crispy Choices.
Crispy Choices?
That sounds like...
Yeah, that just sounds bad.
Last night
I made some proper crispy choices.
I've made some crispy
decisions.
Right, I've got to get my noodle pan out
for the... Vera, I've got to make a
crispy decision soon. Right, I've got my noodle pan noodle pan out for the... Vera, I've got to make a crispy decision soon.
Right, I've got my noodle pan out for the...
Because those actually need cooking.
So we're on to preparing the third and final Samyang noodle now.
He's breaking it up in the bag.
And I think you need more of a measure of the water for this, don't you?
You drain it.
No, you just... That's it. It's weird. It's got a weird cooking because you just more of a measure of the water for this, don't you? You drain it. No, you just...
That's it. It's weird. It's got a weird cooking because you just sort of make it...
You just cover it and you put enough in.
It kind of cooks off the way you might do rice. Do you know what I mean?
It cooks it until most of the moisture is done.
Now, this noodle definitely is in date.
Right, we're back to noodle number one.
The broad noodle, chilli oil, hot and sour flavour.
If you're keeping up at home, here's the stasis.
We are now looking at the broad noodle.
Look at that.
It has softened.
Softened like a treat.
I just like to tease it apart because they can get stuck together, these noodles.
And I'm teasing.
Look how broad they are.
Very broad.
They look a bit like tripe or something
don't they
don't splash it everywhere
it's
let it soak
look you're getting it
everywhere you messy
shit
fucking
back off
yeah
my country
it's your country kitchen
is it
it's my city kitchen
urban city kitchen
yes
on all kitchens
urban
in the city. Yeah, but yeah,
just to add... Add nothing?
Yeah, to add nothing. That's what I like
to do, Paul. Anyway, he's draining the water
from the broad noodle.
Letting that
noodle out. Now the kettle is boiled.
So that means that water
now will be going on to the third noodle, the Samyang.
And as of yet, the second noodle, the bacon and bean, is yet to be taken.
The bacon and bean is just ready.
It's just sitting there, it's ready.
Paul, I want you to be a witness here to the beauty of this noodle.
Because you've got a powdery thing.
And you're like, oh, it's gone powder.
How's that?
Because I've drained it.
I've drained all the moisture off,
and all the powder's just going to sit on top of the noodles there.
Do you know what I mean?
It's all just...
Yeah.
I mean, it's not going to be a very nice thing,
but then you've got the wetness of this vinegar thing,
which dissolves the powder all onto it.
Does it?
Do you see what I mean?
They've thought of that.
So, look.
Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle,
and it's all dissolved, the powder, onto it, Do you see what I mean? They've thought of that. So look. Sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.
And it's all dissolved, the powder onto it.
And then we go into our third one, which is the chili oil and blackened sesame seed thing. It's that.
That's gone all thick and gloopy all over it.
Basically, I'm glooping it on.
A lot of it can get caught in there.
put it on a lot of it can get caught in there so I'm just sort of massaging chunks of black and sesame seed out to the nozzle that I've perforated into
this sachet and just I don't waste it and then you have to give it a good mix
mix up good mix up and toss it basically toss it lightly and in no way wanky.
So Eli's tossing it right now in front of me.
And you want to get a good covering of all the sauce.
Yeah.
All the sauce on all the ribbons.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So there it goes.
I don't know what you're thinking.
There, that's ready.
I've got a fork.
Right. While you're doing that, Paul, I've just thinking. There, that's ready. I'll get a fork. Right.
While you're doing that, Paul, I just forgot.
This has a dried vegetable.
Oh, look, and it's got little bits of tofu in it.
It's got dried mushroom in it.
Chicken ramen one.
So that needs to go in because it needs to rehydrate now.
That's going in the third noodle, the samyang.
He's tried the broad.
Oh, that's nice to give us some.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah? Yeah.
Thank you. That's lovely.
What are your impressions there, Paul?
It's nice and hot, but not unpleasant because it's got this nice kind of warmth.
It's got this very cosy flavour
to it, which means the spiciness
matches it well. It's kind of a mouth-coating
sort of thing, isn't it, that sauce? You'll see,
it's very umami-ish. Yeah.
But with a sort of sour vinegar as well,
has. Yeah, it's very moorish,
but the heat would get to you after a few bites.
Good, innit?
Mate, just in terms of, there's no
extra thing in that.
You know, you could just eat it by itself, do you know what I mean?
I think there's enough there to enjoy
as a bite to eat. Yeah. But usually, you could just eat it by itself. Do you know what I mean? I think there's enough there to enjoy as a bite to eat.
Yeah.
But usually, if you've just got a...
Sorry.
If you've just got a basic...
With loads in his beard.
And now you've put snot all over it.
Don't put that towel there.
It's got snot on now.
Put it on the floor.
Oh, dirty...
God.
Shut up.
You love it.
You love this.
I don't love watching you snotter.
So, that's such a delicious noodle.
It really is.
And, yeah.
That's the broad.
I don't know what the manufacturer is called.
Because it's in Chinese.
What are they called?
Sichuan Baiji Food Industrial Company Limited.
Interlink, it says.
But I think those are just the importers.
So who knows?
And they do a lot of other ones.
I've got, but none quite as good as that
because they do ones that are the same type of noodle,
a broad noodle, but in soup.
Oh, okay.
Which doesn't work as well.
It's the way that they get the sauce to cover every,
the noodle, do you know what I mean?
And it's quite a sort of complicated flavour.
Yeah, it is. As far as an instant food product goes. cover every the noodle do you know what i mean and it's quite a sort of complicated flavor yeah
it is as far as an instant food product goes because you've got the salt you've got this the
vinegariness astringency of the vinegar and the heat yeah and also a bit of smokiness coming from
the blackened um the blackened sesame seeds it's a lovely flavor it's a good noodle isn't it um
out of five go on i give it a top five if For me, at the moment, it's my best.
It's not my complete favourite.
I don't know why, but I'd maybe give it 4.5.
It's very enjoyable and very tasty.
And for £1, what, £30?
Yeah.
That's all right, isn't it?
As a basis of a meal, and you can pimp it.
It tastes good by itself, but you could get all sorts of pimping.
Veggies and all sorts.
Meat, veg, whatever you like.
Just slam it in there.
Great. Slam your, whatever you like. Just slam it in there. Great.
Slam your meat in that one.
And I recommend you do.
Now, let's move on.
So the Samyang is still boiling as we speak.
Samyang is still boiling.
That's good.
That's good to go.
It needs to lose a lot of moisture.
But now we're going to go on to the amino bacon and bean flavour.
Now, it's a pot noodle, really, when it boils down to it.
Yes, but it doesn't have, like, bits that are pretending to be bacon.
It has bits of carrot, and it's sort of a clear broth.
And I've not tried this one myself, Paul, so...
Go on.
I'll let you go first, then.
But the noodle's quite attractive with their squiggly...
Their kind of kinks.
Do you see what I mean?
They're different from other noodles.
Is that a European design, maybe?
Yeah, it's for that brand, Amino.
They're all
like that basically right it has it does really have a uh super noodle look to it to be honest i
can taste bacon in that broth but i'm not getting any bean paul's going in i think i can taste the
bean but i like that yeah it didn't do anything for me no No? No. What's the artificial bacon flavour not floating about?
It's not that I don't like it.
It's more that I don't find it impressive.
It's a basic noodle.
A very basic noodle.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, but I don't know if I would enjoy that.
I'd probably have a lot less.
If you put some real bacon in there, would you like it then?
If it had some more texture, yeah, definitely.
If it had more filling it out.
Okay, so we need a mark for that.
I'll go two and a half for that one.
I'm going to go three.
Three, okay.
It's serviceable, but I'm not interested in it.
It's really what it comes down to, not interested.
No, I know what you mean.
It's kind of boring.
It kind of just doesn't go anywhere.
You need to pimp it, otherwise there's not much to it.
And after tasting that noodle, which has just so much going on,
you kick, it's got presence so much going on, you kick.
It's got presence.
It's like, you know, a young Cilla Black.
It's like a young Susie Quatro.
Yeah.
Presence or Cilla Black.
Up against Vanessa Paradis.
Okay.
I think I'm just going to have to lose a bit of water here.
Right.
Okay.
We're on to the third and final now.
I've prepared this, Samuel, perfectly. But I'm going to have to lose some of of water here. Right, okay. We're on to the third and final now. I've prepared this Samyang perfectly,
but I'm going to have to lose some of the moisture here.
But you're supposed to just boil it off. Do you see what I mean?
But I think I put too much in.
Amateur. Amateur mistake there.
It's meant to be sort of sloppy and wet.
I've gone over here to have more of that broad noodle.
It's nice. It's really nice.
And in fact,
talking of those broad noodles, Paul,
that has been the style in actual Chinese cuisine now.
There's a place, Biang Biang Noodles,
which just opened up in Petticoat Lane.
Okay.
And it has sort of like a normal menu,
which is like fried rice and, you know,
crispy chili beef and all those sort of anglicized
Cantonese dishes.
But the main part and the bit that everyone goes for
is they've got several of these broad rib and
noodle dishes. Do you know what I mean? Sexy.
It represents a sort of more modern
take on what people in China actually eat
and what people in
definitely Taiwan and
Hong Kong and places like that
eat. So it's more so quote unquote traditional?
Well it's more sort of, yeah.
I don't know. Does traditional work in this context?
Because it is sort of traditional but it's also more modern.
Yeah.
At the same time, do you see what I mean?
Yeah.
Whereas that kind of old-fashioned 70s Chinese food, like, you know, the gloopy sort of pink stuff and orange sort of stuff, that was never real food anyway.
It was just sort of created for what they thought that the Brits would want.
Yeah.
Do you see what I mean?
Let's just put loads of tomato fucking sauce on stuff.
Yeah, exactly. Or whatever. Yeah, make it really sweet.
Okay, so I'm pouring out.
So here we go. The noodles are now
being poured out of the bowl.
And I just need to put the sauce
on.
Always make sure you turn your grill on,
on off, and on and off.
On and off.
Went a bit wrong there. Always make sure you turn off your on, on off, and on and off. I went a bit wrong there.
Always make sure you turn off your grill.
And all of these San Juan chicken thing products have a very gloopy blood-like.
It's very blood-like.
And they're very hot.
Even the one time's hot, I find, I struggle with.
How hot is this meant to be?
This is just normal heat, but again, it has... A kick.
What it's selling on is the numbing pepper.
This is a numbing pepper one, so it's different.
He's mixing it up now.
He's mixing the first sauce pack up.
There's only one sauce pack, so it's a two-packer.
Is it?
Yeah.
I'm getting it almost like licorice-y, a nice sort of flavour coming off that.
Yes.
Do you know what I coming off that. Yes.
Do you know what I mean?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
So almost like an aniseed-y sort of. Yeah.
Star of anise, maybe, or like five spice, that kind of thing.
And I'm just going to go in and...
He's diving in.
They do get a good texture, these Samyang, I have to say.
They're like, you know, the sauce adheres to the whole noodle in a pleasing way.
Do you know what I mean?
There's no mixing issues.
He's going in. He's blowing it.
Blowing it.
Blowing it. And he's in.
He's biting down and he's slurped it up.
What's wrong with you?
It tastes very similar.
Wow.
That's so much hotter than that.
Go in, Paul.
Oh, dear. Here we go.
Oh.
Yeah?
It's hotter, isn't it?
It's strange. It's like when you're eating it.
That's the numbing pepper you're getting,
that strangeness.
Yeah.
But then, like, it goes away, and then you're left with the heat. And then like it goes away
and then you're left
with the heat
yeah
and then the heat goes
ah
yeah
it's like ow
yeah maybe it sort of
numbs it
so you don't feel the heat
and then it hits you
as soon as the numbing
yeah
it's just like
it's just
it's just enough numbing
to make you not realise
you're about to swallow
a literal matchstick
oh
it's quite nice though isn isn't it, really?
Got a lovely flavour to it.
Once you get into the bite of it,
there's not much of that aniseed flavour in there.
It's more the scent.
It's very sweet.
There's a very sweet flavour.
Oh, and a heat.
I know what you mean now.
The kick comes in after you.
For a little while.
Oh, come on, that's delicious.
That is delicious.
I'm finally getting it.
The Samyang.
Oh.
Oh. That might have been, the Samyang. Oh. Oh.
That might have been too big a bite.
Oh.
Oh, God. You're struggling more.
I mean, I struggle more with the
others, but yeah. That's a spicy
noodle. It's got all the mucus
melting in my head. Yeah.
We are teary-eyed in the house
of Pickles Urban City Kitchen today.
Right, should we wrap this up?
Let's have a little sum up then, Paul.
So what would you rate that out of five
before we do the sum up?
I'll give it a good four.
Solid four.
I would say four.
It's a nice noodle.
It's a very nice.
They're good.
Sam and I,
you can see why they're dominating
the world with noodles, though.
It's a punishing heat.
But people who are actually into
eating instant noodles
and hot food, you know, for £1.30,
that's like, it's a lot of flavour.
Yeah, maybe too much.
It's packing a shitload.
Yeah.
Woo!
So, in summer.
I knew we needed to taste that last.
That was good because it would have ruined us for these other two, wouldn't it?
Yeah, especially that one because it would have masked the heat.
Right.
It doesn't sound like a pig.
Right.
right it looks like a pig right let's start paul where we started today with my favorite noodle of the moment which is the broad noodle chili oil flavor sour and hot which is brilliantly designed
noodle the way that they have three packets of stuff one which is very watery and helps to melt
the other powder one that's's the point I made.
It's very nice.
Quite complex flavour. What do you think?
I think it is my favourite. Jump ahead a bit.
Yeah. Because
the flavour is so nice. The broad
nature of the noodle makes it more of a meaty, meaty
kind of texture. It has a more texture.
You know what it reminded me of just then when I ate it?
What? A Greg sausage roll.
Right, so you're getting, yeah.
With like spicy heat.
Yeah, okay.
So there is a real lovely mouthfeel.
It's got a lovely mouthfeel.
It's got a umami thing going on.
That is probably my favourite of the three.
Yeah, I easily mind.
So then we move on to the so-so amino bean and bacon flavour.
It's all right.
For the money, it's fine.
If you put a bunch of spring onions in there,
you know, it would be a sensible repast.
Chop up a sausage.
My mouth is now burning so much from the third noodle.
Yeah.
I can't even, I feel my lips are numbing
and I feel like, blah, blah, blah.
I can't even talk properly
and I've got the tingle-wingle in the tippy-top
of my tongue and lippy-lip lips.
He's so,
he's right.
My mouth is also,
it's electrifying.
Amino,
but I think the gherkin flavour
is really nice
because it's very gherkin-y
and it reminds me
of those scratch and sniff
gherkin stickers
that I used to get in the kit.
Gross.
For me,
it's the ultimate gherkin flavour.
Gross.
And finally,
fuck me,
right,
finally,
we have the Samyang market leaders
I believe
and this is the numbing
and look at that
the artificial meat
they've got in there
oh yeah
no it's mushroom
they've got nice bits
of dehydrated shiitake mushroom
in there
yeah nice
yeah
which is literally
like a hunk of mushroom
it's dehydrated Paul
yeah
and what do you think
again of that
that was beautiful a nice heat but maybe a bit too powerful too much heat like a hunk of mushroom. It's dehydrated, Paul. Yeah. And what do you think, again, of that?
That was beautiful.
A nice heat, but maybe... A bit too powerful.
Too much heat for an enjoyable meal.
Like the broad bean, you can sit down and eat that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you go back to more.
This starts to hurt.
It does start to hurt, basically, doesn't it?
It hurts quick.
And that dragon, when he made us eat the double...
There is no dragon.
We've never done that.
Seriously, it's getting old now.
And if you're a Sam Young fan,
my friend Mark Allen is coming along to the live show.
Don't eat and talk.
If you're a Sam Young fan,
my friend Mark Allen, who does noodle reviews on our Reddit page, Paul.
I'm sure he's delighted to be associated with this podcast.
He'll be coming along and he's bringing a cheese flavour,
chicken ramen flavour, one of those.
So can you imagine what that might be like?
The cheese, one of that.
I'm already tenting.
I'm fucking, I've got a mental groan on.
Right, well, there we go.
Is that wrapping up the Country Noodle Kitchen?
It's Eli's City Noodle Kitchen.
Good.
Any final thoughts?
Any tips of the day?
Anything you want to put to fellow noodle heads out there? Just look out for the
Samyang cheese ones. Yeah.
And I'm glad I covered one of my favourite noodles
of all time today. The broad
noodle chilli oil flavour. So when
people want to ask me, what's your favourite noodle?
Now you know. Yep, there it is. Okay.
Well, it's time to once again
fly away from the...
Come back.
I'll come back next time.
And we're going to cover some other things.
Great.
I've got things in the locker.
I've got all sorts of shit in the locker.
Great.
Noodle-wise, yeah?
So do come back.
Well, I'm going to fly away now.
I'm going to get on my flying machine.
And here we go.
Oh, the things we've done.
The things we've seen as I get upon my flying machine.
We've been to the noodle kitchen today.
We had fun. Hip, hip, hooray.
We tried some noodles. Some were nice.
Some were full of very hot spice.
But now I go in my flying machine to fly away for another dream.
I'm flying now. I'm flying now I'm flying away Hello, welcome back everybody
We've been to the Country Noodle Kitchen
We've had some lovely nom noms
And it was lovely, absolutely lovely
But now it's time for story time, isn't it?
The Eli City Noodle Kitchen.
As you made abundantly clear in that segment of the show.
Okay, so stop calling it its old name.
I'll call it what I want.
I still call Prince Prince when he changed it to symbol.
Or taff cap.
Is that how you want debates?
Yeah.
Right. Is that how you want debates? Yeah. Ow.
Right.
I want to make a piano out of all your sound.
Ow, ow, ow.
That's not my sound.
Just do that.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. you know what
we should mention that
Paul
we're going to do
a new segment
are we
new old segment
which is
Eli's platters
but from the past
we're going to revisit
some that were lost to time
or we didn't give
due diligence to
yes
so things from the Unclickables that we may want to highlight again is the platters rebooted yeah We're going to revisit some that were lost to time or we didn't give due diligence to. Yes.
So things from the Unclickables that we may want to highlight again.
Is the platters rebooted?
Yeah.
What are we going to do?
Super Dog.
Super Dog is going to be one of those ones.
No, but that's...
You're doing Don't Make Me Wait by New Shoes.
Yeah, that's it.
But Super Dog's that other one.
One Star Podcast.
So, a little while ago, I went to the British Heart Foundation and I found these books.
The World's Greatest Cranks and Crackpots
and The World's Greatest Com-Men and Bell-Ens or something.
Tricksters.
Tricksters and Com-Men.
So.
Scammers.
Because we like doing our little history moments on this podcast every now and then,
inspired by a certain podcast that we shall not mention,
I found this story book.
You want to read it today, don't you?
I'd like to read it, Paul.
So here we go.
I just want to mention these books.
I remember these.
You know that we had that?
Always in their libraries.
Not a lot of people know this book.
Not a lot of people know this.
The Michael Caine book.
Remember that?
No.
Oh, that one I got you.
Yeah, that was like next to this in the WH Smith in Brent Cross
that I always used to go to.
It was the light reading.
It's still there.
Is it?
That Brent Cross is still there.
That's good, isn't it?
Yeah, I was up there the other day.
I think we should go to Brent Cross Shopping Centre in North London.
And have a little memory lane.
And do a little on location episode up there.
I'd be up for that.
Let's do it.
That sounds lovely.
Okay.
Now this is from
the world's greatest
Cranks and Crackpots.
And what?
Cranks and Crackpots.
Alright good,
just checking.
You're way with a little there
if you don't mind me saying so.
And this is a chapter
and I'm just going to
read it to you, am I?
It's not really like the dollop
because they do proper research.
Research, yeah. We just read from books.
Credit the writer. This is by
Margaret Nicholas. Thank you, Margaret,
if you're alive. If you're not, thank you.
Thank you still. What are you trying to say?
Thank you for your work and research. What are you trying to
fucking say, mate? Nothing. I'm just saying
I didn't know what... Nothing. What are you fucking
trying to say? Nothing. Just start the story.
What's it called, Grandad? The Duke
Who Detested Daylight. Who what? Detested. I can try and say. Nothing. Just start the story. What's it called, Grandad? The Duke who detested daylight.
Who what?
Detested.
Detested.
Detested.
Detested daylight.
The Duke who detested daylight.
The Duke who detested daylight.
He built 15 miles of tunnel under his estate.
What a short story.
Like a mole hiding from the light of day, William John Cavendish, Bentick Scott, 5th
Duke of Portland, is posh. He's a bit posh.
He's very posh.
Hello.
What's his name?
William John Cavendish, Bentick Scott, 5th Duke of Portland.
I'm the Willie Mole.
I am the Willie who hides in mole holes.
Come at me, Willie pops out.
Willie pops out of mole hole.
Good, good.
We've got that.
Excellent.
Pops out of mole hole.
Good, good.
We've got that.
Now.
Excellent.
He vanished underground when he inherited Welbeck Abbey in the Ducaries County of Nottinghamshire.
Oh.
Welbeck had always lain too low for most members of the Portland family, but it was not low enough for William John, who, after coming into the title in 1854, spent the rest of
his life burrowing.
Burrowing? Burrowing. Burrowing. Yes. So what? of the title in 1854 spent the rest of his life borrowing borrowing borrowing borrowing yes so what he was like here's all your money in the title i'm gonna start digging mum yeah why what's
he goes on to explain okay good to know he hated meeting people and never invited anyone to his
home yet he set out to construct a vast complex of subterranean rooms, which included the largest ballroom in the country,
a 250-foot library...
Underground?
Yeah.
A huge glass-roofed conservatory and billiard room big enough to take...
Hang on.
A dozen billiards...
Where is... Hang on.
So it's underground, but there's a glass dome.
What, with sand on top of it?
Do I have to explain this to you?
Is the skylight through the ground?
Obviously.
I don't know.
He might have just put it on and then covered it with dirt.
The roof, the glass roof is at ground level, so to speak.
Right.
Yeah, there you go.
And then you've got a ballroom.
A ballroom.
Well, it's the country's largest ballroom.
What does it look like?
Fucking fraggle rock.
Largest ballroom in the country.
Yeah.
And a huge
glass roof conservatory.
So yeah.
I'm Willie
and I've been burrowing
and I found these little men
who helped me
these little devils
called Fraggles
where they are.
No, the Fraggles don't help.
Shut up.
The Fraggles eat the stuff.
I fucking know this.
If you let me finish
I want to explain
the ecosystem
of Fraggle Rock to you.
Well, you're not doing
a very good start.
You didn't let me.
How are they helping what?
Build his thing?
No, they don't help him build his thing, do they?
They're open.
It's the little men, what they call them.
They're singing and dancing and offering moral encouragement.
What are the little men called who build all the stuff?
Dozers.
They're the ones who are helping.
Yeah, and they use radishes to build the construction with, but the fraggles eat them.
Eat the constructions.
So how could they help Willie if they're eating the stuff that's being constructed?
It's the opposite of helping him.
The Fraggles would be a pest.
This guy would be up with his shotgun.
Where's that fucking Fraggle?
Take your cares away.
That means farah.
Somebody kill Wembley.
I'll splatter that Fraggle right up.
Right.
You got it wrong, Paul.
Just to go back to the fraggle thing, right.
Explain to me this.
How do they get on?
What's the trade-off?
If the fraggles eat the radish stuff,
what do the dozers get from the fraggles?
They don't get anything.
They just keep going.
So they like to work.
They just do it.
So the destruction that the fraggles cause
makes them happy
because then they can carry on.
They keep working, yeah. They just keep rebuilding. It's weird. But there were those big things with the destruction that the Fraggles cause makes them happy because then they can carry on they keep working they just keep rebuilding
that's slavery
it's weird
but there were those
big things
the king and the queen
the big ones
the big monsters
were the king and the queen
weren't they
they were just bigger
they weren't huge
they were bigger than
the Fraggles
no they were
they were the trash monsters
up on the ceiling
I got a Fraggle
that one
they lived topside
what about the big king and queen
they lived topside
they were the baddies.
They were all topside, yeah.
And then there was the trash heap.
Yes.
So the Fraggles did live underground.
Yeah.
So they could burrow.
They could help him.
And Uncle Fraggle.
Yeah, so they probably helped move some stuff around.
And they sang.
We're going to make it today.
We're going to build a wall.
We're going to make a ballroom to dance in.
Oh, we're going to do it.
So I complete this now.
All right.
All right.
I'll continue, yeah?
Yeah.
As the Fraggle Diversion ended.
I think we're done with Fraggles.
Okay.
Down at Fraggle Rug.
And a billiard room.
We're still in this list of what he built.
Christ.
Billiard room.
Okay.
Big enough to take a dozen billiard tables.
That's 12 billiard tables. That's a lot of space. He was billiard room, okay. Big enough to take a dozen billiard tables, that's 12 billiard tables.
That's a lot of space.
He was mad about tunnels.
No shit.
There were 15 miles of them
running underneath his park,
linking the buried rooms
with the rest of the abbey
and with each other.
One tunnel,
a mile and a quarter long,
ran from his coach house
to Worksop.
So this is just so
he didn't have to go outside.
Worksop is a town nearby.
So he basically built an elaborate tube system from his house to the nearest town
so he didn't have to go overground to meet people.
That's crazy.
It was wide enough to take two carriages
and was eerily lit by domed skylights during the day and hundreds of gas jets by night.
That's spooky.
It's extremely...
Is he like a British Batman?
It's well...
It's like...
This is well steampunk, isn't it, man?
It's a bit steampunky, but it's also, to me, it sounds like Batman.
You know, like he built a cavern, he built a bat cave, he's got a special...
He's a steampunk Batman.
I'm William, and by day, I am William...
What's his name?
Duke William...
Bentick Scott. Bentick Scott.
Duke of Portland.
Duke of Portland.
But by night, I am...
Winged Creature Man.
The story of this lonely, eccentric duke
who was seldom seen by anyone but builders during his lifetime.
I bet the builders fucking saw him.
Yeah.
Fuck me.
He probably was shacked up with one of them.
No. I love you.. Yeah. Fuck me. He probably was shacked up with one of them. No.
I love you.
You build stuff for me.
I like the way you dig me out.
I like the way you burrow.
Build a tunnel in my arse.
One star.
One star.
Okay.
Go on.
It's one of the strangest
to be found in the history
of the British aristocracy.
No kidding.
No shit. Born in 1800, he lived whatest to be found in the history of the British aristocracy. No kidding. No shit.
Born in 1800, he lived what appeared to be a reasonably normal life as a young man,
frequenting London society, holding commissions in fashionable regiments,
and even, for a short period, representing King's Lynn in Parliament.
But he was awkward in the company of women.
Ah.
Oh.
And a confirmed bachelor.
He's Batman.
And gradually, his acute shyness,
apparently inherited from his mother,
took over his whole personality.
It's always the mothers, isn't it?
It's always the mothers.
Is it?
Yeah, because remember the mother from the maggot story
was also a weird hoarder and stuff like that.
Do you think people inherit...
I think if the mother has a strong enough connection to the son,
they can pick up their worst traits.
Yeah, definitely.
And she was all like,
Build a tunnel!
I must build a tunnel!
So you don't have to be seen. Perhaps they're vampires.
That's what I'm getting.
He could have a whole blood farm down there.
You think? Yeah. He could have v whole blood farm down there. You think?
Yeah.
He could have vats of bubbling blood farm. Do you know why he's not, though?
Because then he wouldn't have skylights in his building.
You didn't think that through?
Well, he's probably got some kind of early UV protection in this.
No, not in 1850.
Well, look, he managed to build a huge billiard room.
Yeah, but if you were a vampire, you'd cover every chance of a window up.
From the moment he moved into Welbrook until he died,
he went to the most extraordinary lengths
to avoid contact with people.
He stripped the great rooms of the Abbey
of all their fine tapestries, carpets, furnitures
and ancestral portraits
and stowed them out of sight in a jumbled heap.
Then he retreated to four or five sparsely furnished rooms tucked
away in the west wing. And it was here
that he worked out his plans for burrowing.
It's like
Goonies. It certainly is.
I found their treasure map. The door of each
room had a double letterbox.
One for incoming, one for outgoing
notes. Don't come in.
I'll post out what you want and you post in
what you need. And if I need it jacking, I'll just
stick it through. Fucking jack that!
I'll put it in the out slot and if I want it
sucked, it comes through the in slot.
Fucking hell. So I don't care
who's on the other side of the door. I just want it done.
Why is he Northern all of a sudden?
I don't know. I don't care
who does it. I don't want to see who does it.
Just make sure it attends me.
It will suck it. I don't want to see who does it. Just make sure it attends me. It will suck it.
I don't want to hear your
voice. I don't want to make eye contact
with you. The dick will be sucked at 12
noon henceforth
after porridge. Then I'll give you
porridge. I'll spooge hot
runny porridge.
I'll spap your face
off with my porridge jet.
Continue.
Spipper, spapper, spipper.
Stop saying sounds that you think are words.
Spipper, spapper, spop.
Spop, spop.
Come on.
The Dorvytrum had a double letterbox.
One for incoming, one for outgoing notes.
His valet seemed to be the only servant allowed near him.
When he fell ill and needed medical care,
the doctor would be asked
to stand outside whilst the valet took
the Duke's pulse and reported his
condition. Such secrecy.
I love the idea of like, the
servant goes out, right,
and goes to see the doctor. The doctor goes,
can I see him? No, no, he won't let anyone
come anywhere. So it's like you could go
take his pulse. So he goes in and
the doctor says, I've got to take your pulse. Alright. Alright, then you can take your pulse so he goes in and he goes doctor says I've got to take your pulse
alright
alright
then you can take your pulse
okay
alright
he goes back
alright
what else
goes back to the doctor
so it's
200 over 50
whatever
I don't know what the fuck it is
and he goes
alright okay
go on and touch his arse
what
yeah
just have a root around in there
I'm a doctor
put your finger up
just have a little root
and then give yourself
a bit of a play with it.
And then he has to go back in
and says,
doctor says I've got to...
Yeah.
The doctor could get up
to all sorts of shenanigans.
Could do.
The guy go,
doctor says you've got to suck it.
Suck it dry.
Right.
Can I continue now?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Such secrecy led
to the wildest rumours.
Some said that he had a hideous skin disease
and was not fit to be seen.
Others felt sure he had gone raving mad.
But in fact, a photograph,
which he'd allowed to be taken in typical Victorian style
with his gloves and his tall hat on a table by his side,
showed that he was a very pleasant-looking man
with a wide, generous mouth, large nose...
Pfft!
It's... Yeah. It's very... Yeah. pleasant-looking man with a wide, generous mouth, large nose... I'm the doctor.
Put it into his generous mouth.
Feed his generous, wide mouth.
I'm the doctor, goddammit.
Strange terminology there
I think you'll all agree
with wide generous mouth
large nose
and mutton chop whiskers
Mr FJ Turner
the resident agent
at Welbeck
I don't know what a resident agent is
maybe like a state agent or something
must be
it's probably not a theatrical agent
no
hey
hey
Willie
you gotta come out of the cave that man. That's who it is.
Yeah, they're calling me up. They want you.
No, I'm not. I can't. They love your generous wide mouth.
I can't. I love it. Your mouth,
I'm gonna plaster your mouth all over
Hollywood. You just gotta come out.
I can't. You gotta come out of the cave. I can't.
Nobody, people are saying they put, you put your
dick through the letterbox and get your servant to
suck it with your doctor. What's going on
with that? No. No, mother says no.
Mother says no.
Mother says no.
His mother is...
Your mother's dead, Willie.
Mother says no.
Mother's not real.
Must dig more.
I must dig.
I'm going to hang up now, Willie.
I'll be digging.
Hey, everybody, let's dig.
What are the Muppets doing there, fool?
They're fraggle.
Oh, right, okay.
They're a Muppet.
You're a fucking Muppet.
Go on.
All right.
Okay, so we're talking about his large mouth and great big nose.
Mutton chop whiskers.
Right.
The resident agent at Welbeck, who must have come into contact,
he must have come in contact with his employer at some time,
so he was an agent for him.
Okay.
He told the fifth duke that he was an extremely handsome, kind, and clever.
Oh.
And please, rim me.
No, he didn't say that. It says here, And please, rim me. No, he didn't say that.
It says here, and please rim me.
It says that in the book. He said he was
extremely handsome, kind and clever, and please
rim me. Right, okay, right, if it says it
in the book. For years,
he was completely absorbed in building his
underground rooms and tunnels.
There was no comfort anywhere. The whole place
looked like a mammoth construction site with
mountains of builder's rubble, wheelbarrows and shovels all over the ancestral pile. His passion for bricks and mortar Wow.
Herself?
Oh!
Oh.
Okay.
She was a bit of a brickie.
I'll build this fucking tower. She built. You! She bought it, yeah. She was a bit of a brickie. I'll build this fucking tower.
She built.
You'll see if I don't.
She built.
Get out of the way, urchin.
I'm here to build a tower.
I don't like this character.
Can we just...
I'm not fond of it.
Move on.
Everything he did was on an enormous scale.
Oh.
Including poo-poos.
Oh, come on.
What do you mean, come on?
Just crack on.
He did a big shit, Paul.
I'm not going to draw this out.
He did a big shit and then post that through the letterbox, give it to the doctor.
Right.
Yeah?
Put that shit in a big can.
Put it in the doctor's mouth.
Right.
Are you happy with that bit of material?
Are you happy?
I feel like I've regressed.
Yeah.
It's really poor.
Carry on. Everything he did was I've regressed. Yeah. It's really poor. Carry on.
Everything he did was on an enormous scale.
Right.
Hundreds of workmen were employed at a time.
God almighty.
The underground ballroom alone measured 174 feet long and 64 foot wide.
Whoa.
And had a hydraulic lift able to carry 20 guests at a time from the surface.
That's crazy.
It comes down like a big platform.
Yeah.
Comes down like fucking...
This is...
It's pure...
Steampunk.
Yeah.
And it's crazy.
2,000 people could have danced with ease
under great chandeliers
and a ceiling painted to resemble a glowing sunset.
Wow.
Why did this lonely man build a ballroom?
Because he was cuckoo bonkers.
Presumably, in his heart
the Duke longed to be a different kind of
creature altogether. A man who gave
parties and balls and received his guests with
lavish hospitality. But he never
summoned up the courage. The Duke was
said at one time to be one of the best judges of
horse flesh in... Excuse me?
What the fuck?
I don't know much about him.
I tell you what. Yeah. I saw
him the other day. Yeah. I said, what's that?
He said, it's horse flesh. I said, that's uncanny.
You are
God among men. But how good is it?
It's quite good. And it was!
It was quite good. What the fuck does that mean?
Judge of horse flesh. Is he going to explain?
Yeah, maybe.
I think what it means is horse owner, sort of a good...
Like the quality of a horse, if it could run a race well or something.
It could, yeah.
Okay, all right. It must be that.
Let's just say it's that for now.
I've never come across that phrase before, though, have you?
No.
He was one of the best judges of horse flesh in England,
and his stables at Welbeck held nearly 100 horses.
So he liked horses, then?
He does, none of which he ever rode,
because it would mean going outside.
He could have rode them on the ground?
He could have.
We never know.
He had to have done if he had his carriage
taken from that to the Soham station.
Yeah, but he wouldn't ride the horse then.
He'd ride in the carriage.
Oh, well, yeah.
Maybe because if you're a horse on the tunnel,
you're, ow, ow, ow, every time you gallop.
The buildings above ground included
a windowless riding school, the second largest in the world, lit by 4, every time you gallop. The buildings above ground included a windowless riding school,
the second largest in the world, lit by 4,000 gas jets.
Christ.
So this is the age of gaslighting.
His bill must have been extortionate.
Gaslighting.
Yeah.
Gaslight.
It was an era, wasn't it?
It was.
Before the election.
That's how he must have powered his tunnels and stuff.
For some obscure reason, he ordered all the great bare unused rooms in the Abbey
to be turned into
sex party rooms
to be painted
in a most unsuitable
unsubtle rather
shade of pink
vagina pink
I like that colour
it's unsubtle though
Paul
is it?
I don't know
electric pink
is unsubtle
yeah perhaps it's more electric
than vagina pink
I just wanted to say
vagina pink
I know you did
vagina
you want to say any more times?
Vagina, vagina.
And one more.
Vagina.
Thank you.
All right, system.
Yes.
Have you said vagina enough?
Vagina.
Vagina.
Yes.
Go on.
Most unsubtle shade of pink.
And in the corner of each, exposed to full view, was installed a lavatory basin.
Nice.
A pink toilet.
He made every room a pink toilet.
Yeah.
Weird.
It's got a yawning shitter.
Mate, he's had loads of shitters all over the place.
So basically, here's your room.
Here's your bed.
And there appears to be toilets in here.
And there's a toilet just opposite you.
Yes.
And if you have a little peek in there, you'll see everything I do is on an enormous scale.
I've left you an example.
Yes.
Feel free to flush it.
Look at that.
It's a fucking turd mountain.
Look at it.
Look at the teeth on it.
It's got muscle, that one.
He wouldn't be talking to anyone, doesn't he?
He doesn't talk to anyone.
Yeah, well, on his ground,
he may be a bit more comfortable than when he goes out.
They don't know
why you put a toilet
in every room.
I think for the embarrassment factor
to make people uncomfortable.
Really?
Yeah, think about it.
You go into a room
and there's a toilet in there.
There's a toilet right there.
Nowhere else.
So, again, like I say,
if your wife's in bed,
you have to get out
and you're having a big crap
and your wife's in bed
and you're going,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Mate, that's, you know,
that's part of being in a relationship.
I would never take a shit in front of my girlfriend, any girlfriend.
I would never take a shit in front of a woman or any other person.
What if you were forced to?
What situation would I be forced to take a shit?
I can think of, I don't even have to start.
I mean, there'd be all sorts of situations.
Give me one.
Okay.
All those thoughts then.
You're stuck in a lift.
Right.
There you go.
Okay.
For 20 hours.
All right.
Yeah.
Just piss in the corner.
No, you will need to take a shit.
For two days.
At some point, you're going to need to shit, Paul.
You've just had a big fucking curry.
I had a poo before I got in the lift.
No, you didn't.
I did.
You don't know what happened to me on that day.
You're weird about it.
I'm not weird.
You can't even admit.
I'm weird because I don't want to.
You can't even admit that you would in a situation that I've totally made up.
But you can't even admit to it.
You've got a weird thing about shitting.
I'll just say that now.
I'm sorry.
The idea of shitting in front of strangers.
All people I cared about.
I'm not into it either.
I'm just saying you're weird.
You're particularly weird about it.
The way you said, I will never shit in front of anyone.
You're weird.
You've got hung up.
You're hung up.
Carry on with the story.
Weird.
We've got in some deep territory.
It's the pinkness of the room has set you off, didn't it?
It's like the womb.
It's like, no, nobody watch me poopy.
It's basically you're in a child's world.
He's closed his eyes, ladies and gentlemen.
He's closed his eyes. he's trying to block me out
And I can't
Oh I'm poor, I don't want to shit
Carry on
Why's mummy watching me shit
Fuck's sake
Why's mummy watching me shit
Yeah
Shut up
I'll start when I want it
As work progressed
At Welbeck
He was sometimes
Forced to come into contact
With his workmen
But they were given
Firm orders
On no account
Must they show any sign
They had recognised him
If a man
Touched his cap in deference
He was dismissed
Oh
His tenants were told
To pass him by
As if he were a tree
Oh there's our boss.
It's my first day on the job.
Maybe I should give him a little nod of the hat to say thank you, sir.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, I'll go and do it now.
No, no, no, no, no.
He's coming past now.
No, no, no.
Morning, sir.
Right.
You're a fucking...
Right.
No, sorry.
I'm me.
I...
Excuse me.
You were fired.
Pardon, sir?
You were told to treat me like a tree.
Now, if you'd taken your handsome spaniel there
and let it take a wee-wee up against the old leggy-leg,
I'd be up for that, and then I'd take an enormous shit.
I need this job so much.
Come on, Sebastian, take a dump on Daddy.
Come on, come on.
I'm a tree. Don't look at the tree.
Arr, arr, arr, arr, arr, arr, plop.
There you go.
He plopped on me, sir.
Do I have a job?
Or are my wife and 18 kids going to suffer?
Just say something admirable about the size of that shit.
That shit looks like the arm of a wrestler, sir.
Does it look like a swan's neck?
No, it's got more muscle than that sir it's
got proper segmentations you can see where you can see where you've bitten it down it looks like
a string of sausages my lord happy you're not meant to address me in any way i'm talking to
you eli right now i'm not happy of course i'm not happy go on uh the only time you would venture
out for a walk was in the dead of nights
when a woman servant carrying a lantern
was sent 40 yards ahead of him
with strict orders not to speak
or look behind. Don't
look at me! That's creepy though.
Don't look at me!
What if she got attacked because she was
sent out ahead? No one would care. It was the 1800s.
How dare you? How am I going to get back now?
He had a most peculiar
style of dressing.
Sometimes,
on sweltering hot summer days,
he was glimpsed
wearing a full-length
sable coat.
On other occasions,
he put on three frock coats
of different sizes
all at once,
one on top of the other.
His trousers were tied up
with a length of old string.
Yeah, he's mad.
Just above the ankles.
Whatever the weather,
he carried with him
an old umbrella and a heavy top coat.
If someone approached and looked...
Is he Doctor Who?
Could be, couldn't he?
Yeah, could be.
If someone approached and looked likely to address him,
he would immediately cover himself with the coat and snap up the umbrella to hide his face.
He took to wearing a dark brown wig.
He had boxes of them in his bedroom,
and top of it he would perch a stovepipe hat nearly two foot high.
He was a complete nutcase.
He's a wibbly wobbly man.
I've got a hat full of wigs.
Yeah, your lord, yeah, of course you do.
And it wears a hat.
The best hat in London.
His daily diet was chicken.
Always chicken.
Macaque?
Alright, Paul, good.
chicken.
Macaque.
Alright, Paul.
Good, yeah.
For years,
he had one killed every morning
and roasted
on the spit
in the kitchens
above ground.
When ready,
it would be lowered
by lift
into a heated truck
which ran on rails
through one of the
underground tunnels
and into the house.
What?
He had a chicken train.
He had a chicken train.
Fuck me.
Here comes the chicken train.
Ooh.
Macaque.
Macaque. Macaque. Macaque. Macaque. Mac train. Fuck me. Here comes the chicken train.
That's the best thing you've done all day.
All right.
That is.
All right.
Okay.
Weird.
Really weird.
Underground chicken train.
In spite of his strange behaviour, he was a good and thoughtful employer.
Unless you looked at him, in which case you got fired.
His workmen were paid good wages and were given in addition an umbrella to protect them
from the rain and a donkey
on which to ride to work. Fine.
In the pleasure garden at Welbeck, there was
a large skating rink and a man
was employed specifically to look after the
skates of every size that were kept there.
The Duke had decided it would be
good for his domestic staff to have regular
exercise and housemaids were sent skating daily, whether they liked it or not.
Skate, you bitch!
Do it for me, skate!
I don't like it, I don't like it!
Get on the fucking...
But I don't like it!
I don't like it, I don't...
I don't like it...
Oh, I've pissed!
Oh, it's melting, because I've pissed on it. Yeah, great, go on. No, you've made my grape. Oh, it's melting because I've pissed on it.
Yeah, grape on.
No, you do have to play along.
No, I'm not playing along with this setup.
Oh, I've pissed myself.
Oh, you shouldn't have done that.
Okay.
You're fired.
Sorry.
Right, good.
It does sound like a mad whole world out there in this estate, though.
There's like a, you know, can you imagine it?
All the dock workers coming on donkeys.
And then here comes the chicken train. They're all skating around. you know, can you imagine it? Like all the dock workers coming on donkeys. And then here comes
the chicken train.
They're all skating around.
You know,
it's crazy.
Ballrooms of hydraulic lifts.
Hydraulic lifts.
Like platform thing.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Okay.
They had to skate
whether they liked it or not.
The farms,
schools and roads
on his estate
were kept in excellent condition
and his greenhouses
were amongst the finest
in the country.
What was he growing in there?
Your marijuana.
Your drugs. Your drugs.
He laid down avenues of fruit
trees and had a huge vegetable
garden. When the Duke decided to
go up to London, his departure was
contrived with the utmost secrecy.
He would leave Welbeck via
the underground tunnel in the black, hearse-like
carriage drawn by black horses.
It's Batman. Yeah. Except when Batman gets into the tunnel, hearse-like carriage drawn by black horses. It's Batman.
Yeah.
Except when Batman
gets into the tunnel,
he just gets on the train.
Green silk blinds
completely covered the windows.
He would remain seated
in the carriage
while it was loaded
onto a railway truck
at Worksop Station.
They took the whole carriage
and just loaded it
onto a flatbed
on the train.
Fucking mad.
Yeah.
That's a way to travel. I'm not getting out.
Well, you've got it.
Just put me on the back.
It's like, have you...
My friend Mark used to live in Brighton
and in the square where he lived,
there was this tunnel
that had been for Prince Albert
to ride elephants down.
That's right.
So he could get to the beach.
He got shit done, didn't he?
These rich people of the 18th century.
I want to ride my elephant to the beach.
Well, it's a bit impossible.
I'll fucking build this tunnel.
Build a fucking tunnel.
This guy's like, he's basically got a modular system
where his carriage becomes a train carriage.
And then becomes a carriage at the other end.
That is modular.
Okay.
All right.
I'm not just trying to pepper the whole episode with words
to try and curry favour with the listenership.
But no, that is modular.
Okay.
And he would not leave it for the entire journey.
When he arrived at Harcourt House,
his London residence
in Cavendish Square,
it was a bit posh, wasn't it?
Yeah.
All the servants would be ordered
out of sight
while he climbed down
and hurried through the front hall
and into the study.
Get out!
Don't look at me!
Yeah, they're all sitting around
having fags and having cake and stuff
and it's like,
fucking hell, he's here!
Don't look at him!
Don't fucking look at him!
Get out! Get out,
get out of the back!
He'll get you
to pretend you're the doctor!
Precautions were taken
to ensure his,
I don't know why
they're talking like that
in his London's residency.
I don't know,
it doesn't matter.
We only do a few voices,
so it doesn't matter.
Oh,
blimey,
governor,
don't look at him,
yeah?
Don't look at him!
Precautions were taken
to ensure his absolute privacy
by erecting screens
all round the garden.
For years, his neighbours had been
tortured with curiosity and
most were convinced that orgies were taking
place. We just don't know. We don't know what's going over
there. What do you think it is, though,
John? I don't know. I hear every night him going
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
And what do you think that could be?
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.
And what do you think that could be? I don't know.
I've never heard
such sounds before.
What?
No.
Can I hear it again?
What does it sound like?
He kind of goes
And yes,
and does it build
to some kind of crescendo
in the noise?
And then he kind of goes
And then how does it sound
when he's
And then he goes
I hear him say
The thunder's coming.
The thunder's coming.
And then what does he say?
And then and then
does he
slap it all hard
I don't know
I don't know
what happens next
all I know is
I hear this little voice say
thank you very much
you know what that sounds
like to me
what
an orgy
I don't
I've never had an orgy
it's crazy
when I make love to my wife
it's in
it's out
job done
no messing about and I go back to the gentleman's it's in, it's out, job done, no messing about,
and I go back to the gentleman's club.
You don't shake it all about in there at all?
No, in, out, that's it.
No shaking it all about?
No, I'm not a child.
I like to shake it all about.
In, squirt, out, gentleman's club.
Could you just say that again?
In, squirt.
I'm jacking it.
I'm now jacking it.
I'm jacking it so flipping hard.
Go on.
Let's cut it. Cut when I laugh at so flipping hard. Go on. Right.
Let's cut it. Cut when I laugh at myself, yeah?
Can you cut that out? I will highlight it.
Don't highlight it. Okay, so they all
thought he was banging, but he was not.
Yeah. Welbeck Abbey was in a state of
utter chaos when he suddenly died
in his 80th year. Fuck.
In December 1879.
His cousin, arriving with his family in a carriage to take up the inheritance,
found the drive overgrown with tangled weeds and grasses and strewn with rubble.
Motherfucks always!
Planks had to be fetched to ease the carriage over the debris.
Wow.
When the great front door was thrown open, the sixth duke was staggered to see that the hall had no floor.
Wow.
He went on to discover the strange pink rooms with the lavatories
and then to find all the treasures of Welbeck stuffed away
like worthless bric-a-brac, the tapestries in tin trunks,
the ancestral portraits stacked against the wall without their frames.
It's like that film The Money Pit.
Yeah.
Kind of.
With Tom Hanks.
Yeah.
Shelley Long.
Fuck, man. It baffles through the floor and the terrace. It's not a very good film, is it? It's all right. kind of with Tom Hanks yeah Shelley Long fuck man
it baffles
through the floor
and the terrorists
not a very good film
is it
it's alright
I think it's a remake
of a 1930s film
called
Mr Blanding's
Builds His Ideal Home
I think it's something
like that
but the world
had not yet finished
with the 5th Duke
oh
he'd been buried
buried
buried
he'd been buried yeah with the utmost Buried. He'd been buried.
Yeah.
With the utmost simplicity.
He would have loved that.
And his grave.
Wouldn't he?
He would have loved that.
He wanted to go underground.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm very happy now down here.
And his grave tucked away in a shrubbery at Kensal Green Cemetery.
He used to live up near that cemetery.
No, really?
In North London when the whispers started.
It's a fantastic cemetery, Kensal Green.
Yeah.
One of the biggest.
I want to say I've been there, but is it the one past East Finchley near me?
No.
No.
I think that's like St. Pancras Cemetery, I think it's called.
Marylebone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyhow, it's a huge, I think, traditionally Catholic cemetery, the one in Kensal Green.
And it has the River Brent goes by the side
oh okay
the canal goes by the side of it
and it's got like
big mausoleums and stuff
the whispers started
after he was buried
okay
had the Duke been
leading a double life
what
nothing could have been
easier for him
I guess
his comings and goings
were always secretive
secretive
secretive
secretive
don't start that and few people knew what he really looked like were always secretive. Secretive. Secretive. Secretive. Ruff, ruff, ruff.
Don't start that.
And few people knew what he really looked like.
Rumours had been going around
London for years.
That's actually a good point though
when you think about it.
He's Batman.
He gets some guy
to take a picture.
It could be anyone.
Is he Jack the Ripper?
No, it's not.
No, it was too early for that.
He was a few years off
by about 20.
Well, maybe he didn't really die
and then when he was
Jack the Ripper after that.
Well, this is the thing, isn't it?
It's like, when you think about it,
if you spend most of your life being secretive,
then no one really knows who you are.
Rumours have been going round London for years.
It all came to a head in the Druce Affair,
which provided English society with enough gossip for a decade.
Oh, have you heard the latest scandal?
I think I might have heard of this, actually.
A widow named Anna Maria Druce, who lived at 68 Baker Street, London,
claimed that the late Duke had been none other than her beloved husband,
Thomas Charles Drews, owner of a flourishing shop called the Baker Street Bazaar.
Where are you going tonight?
I'm just going out.
You never let me come with you.
Going back to my house.
Which house?
Shut up. You're not allowed to come. It doesn't sound that credible from what we know, does it? No. you never let me come with you going back to me house which house shut up
you're not allowed to come
it doesn't sound that
credible from what we know
does it
Druce was thought to have died
in 1864
but his widow
swore that the funeral
at Highgate Cemetery
had been a mockery
the coffin had been filled
no it had been a cemetery
not a mockery
she reckoned that the coffin
had been filled
what
with chickens
with lead it was she claimed no more than a ruse to allow her husband who had grown tired Not a mockery. She reckoned that the coffin had been filled... What? With chickens? With lead.
It was, she claimed, no more than a ruse to allow her husband,
who had grown tired of his alter ego,
to return to his reclusive but aristocratic life at Welbeck.
She therefore claimed the title and lands of the Portland family for her son.
Oh, there you go.
You see?
I was married to him!
Yeah.
Well, we never saw you with him.
Well, he was very secretive, wasn't he?
Yeah, but...
Well, so how do you know? Yeah, but we never saw you with him. Well, he was very secretive, wasn't he? Yeah, but... Well, so how do you know?
Yeah, but we never saw you with him.
Well, he was very secretive.
He had underground.
When we used to...
When we had the conjugal moments,
he'd actually burrow right under me
and then come up.
Come up through the ground.
Hello, love.
Right up my skirt with his cock out.
Nice.
That's impressive.
Then he'd go back into the earth.
But I don't think we can give you his land, really.
We can't prove it.
It belongs to my son.
Yeah, but you can't prove it and we can't prove it.
Would you like to have a look at my fanny?
Right, let's wrap this up.
The 6th Duke treated the claim with supreme contempt.
Of course.
But enough speculators were found to put up £30,000 in an attempt to fight the case, which dragged on for years.
Wow.
When it eventually came to court, the Drews family and their supporters committed perjury so many times that the case became a national joke.
Eventually, in 1907...
The Duke once bought me a golden biscuit.
Yeah.
He once bought me an owl made of glass.
And it was real.
Eventually in 1907 it was decided
to open the alleged Thomas Drewes' grave
in Highgate. Oh, cool.
He was found lying there, aged
and bearded. Do you mind?
Do you mind? I'm trying to fucking sleep.
And perfectly at peace.
Oh, good. The case collapsed, the tricksters
were sent packing and the Fifth Duke was allowed to sink
back into, at last,
into the obscurity
that he had so passionately desired.
Wow.
So what happened to all the tunnels then?
They've probably been preserved.
Might do some research on that
and report back at a later.
We could visit it.
I'd love to.
I'd love to go see that.
I'd love to see it.
I bet they filled it all in
and shipped it by now.
They might have done
because you don't know what happened.
That's over 100 years ago that they found it.
Do you know what, as well?
I can't remember all the details right now,
but in Liverpool, there's a very similar story.
In Liverpool, there are miles and miles of tunnels under the city.
And some are massive, like a cathedral size.
And some are narrow and tiny.
And I think the story is, this very rich guy just started saying to workers,
just dig.
Just dig and i'll pay you
what we digging it doesn't matter just dig and so people were digging for at liverpool building
these tunnels for no reason and now and then it all faded off and whatever whatever and like half
of them were half paired and the other half were just like tiny knocked down tunnels so it's
fascinating then there's loads of it i love i love london is london is is one of the most tunneled
under places on the planet.
Oh, I want to go on a Goonies adventure.
Yeah, so do I.
You know, with booby traps and tunnels.
That's what that made me think of, that story.
Yeah.
Very, very rich for the imagination,
the whole idea of his old sort of personal world underneath there.
Underneath there.
Can it have a giant mechanical spider?
Yes, it's got to have a giant spider in it.
Yeah, he could keep a giant mechanical spider under the house, Can it have a giant mechanical spider? Yes, it's got to have a giant spider in it. Yeah, it could keep a giant mechanical spider
under the house, couldn't it?
Yeah.
Good, I like that.
I enjoyed that, Paul.
That was a nice one.
You told it well.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
So, that was our story today.
Let's wrap this bitch up.
Wrap it up like a little thing.
And that's it for Cheap Show 99.
100's on the way.
It's exciting times.
The way this works, we've already recorded it by the time this goes out,
but we haven't done it yet, so it's a weird kind of,
whoa, it might never go out because it might be a shit show.
We just don't know.
But if you're joining us at the live show, great.
There'll be professional sound recording, won't there?
I hope so.
Otherwise, it's going to be me and my little dictaphone going,
speak louder, Stuart!
That's not good.
Anyway, the worst one was that one you put out when we did the Comic-Con.
Yeah.
That was bad.
That was bad.
I managed to rescue it somewhat.
Wow.
But it was annoying.
But anyway, ladies and gentlemen, it's episode 99.
We next cross our threshold to 100 and become a big grown-up podcast.
Ah, and there'll be no more swearing.
No more swearing.
There'll be no more jokes about masturbation.
No more bombing jokes.
There'll be no more denigrating our fellow podcaster.
No.
There'll be no more...
It'll be lovely, serious, well-researched comedy content.
Yes.
Maybe not even that much comedy.
I think we should take it quite straight.
Just sort of some plain stuff about, you know, you could do a little bit, Paul, about how, you know, just sort of some plain stuff about you know you could do a little bit paul about how you know the uh technical
side of podcast yeah i could do a little bit of that and you could maybe go into a bit more the
kind of ingredient side of uh noodle noodles yeah yeah so there's lots to do as we go into a next
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Do you know what, Paul?
What?
I sometimes look at cheese and think,
if I curdled my own cum with some whey,
would it turn out like that?
I would give you £10 to do it.
To try and make some dick cheese.
I think the problem is... You want me to make some dick cheese
I want you to make dick cheese
well I need some whey
get some
I need to put whey in it
and then like some kind of microculture
alright well do it then
I'm making myself insane
I'm never going to spank again
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