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May 23, 2018 1 hr 41 min

Ep 77: Hot Mess

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Episode 77 is a literal "hot mess"! Not only in terms of what the CheapShow chaps get up to, but also what fair-weather co-host Ash Frith forces down their throats! Eli seems to think Paul's heart's not in it, whereas Paul feels Eli is being too critical. Ash just has to sit there and watch Mummy & Daddy fight. It's a packed show, with a tonne of great cheapshow goodness. There is a rather revealing Tales from the Shop Floor, a fizzy and energetic Cheap Eats and we even get to hear about The King of Hay-On-Wye in another edition of CheapShow Storytime. Finally, Ash forces everyone into the Kitchen of Pickles to reveal his favourite "Vegan Meal" which everyone will regret eating in the morning! With thanks to walterjohnhunt on Reddit for "Eli & The Snoid Boys" and their hit song "Suck Mah Dick"! 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 [email protected] And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow @elisnoid & @ashfrith If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!

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it's a player to put I can talk like I don't have to pop up to talk I was pleasant I don't know you fucking do it as well so I thought for a bit of a change because attitude here why don't ask me the intro said of your shit but never fucking works fine yeah actually he gets an under the intro ladies and gentlemen now what's your approach was through it no I was just about to do for me you've got to I got to I'd said you look the more like Paul McCartney and by the second yeah so look at me three Monday's every week if you ever seen that video I've been so good good. Paul, we got me. I'm funny with you can't do a scale accent and yet it is your accent. It's close to a little bit.

It's a soft accent I tend to find. Although I can do it and go start. No, I can't. I'm going to start this.

It has not started. It has. I've got this recording started. It's recording now.

It started. That's pink. Do you want to do the intro then? I'd love to.

Yes, please. I'm going to go on. Ladies and gentlemen, all the way down. Ladies and gentlemen, all the way down your internet tubes pumped directly into your ear canals.

It's one man who is hard and ready. Paul Gannon. He's there. So hello, Paul.

Hello. And a man who is soft but also ready but you need to work at him a little bit to stiffen him up. He likes Silverman. Oh, hello.

This ladies and gentlemen, if you will have us with your due consent, it's cheap show. Hey, you and your fucking mood tossy. He's very good. Well, get him to do the fucking intro then.

Fucking will. He didn't interrupt him. Is it good? I was hanging on with every fucking word, then.

You're having an affair where you're like, I'm a cat. I'm a cat. No, you're a cat. Why would you eat show?

The comedy comedy comedy podcast. I'm going to say the comedy comedy podcast. All right. Do you know where we're shooting this this episode?

It's second time in the, well, has now coined drinking by Twitter from our live leading. They want to call the House of Friday eggs. Okay, because of the Friday. So how to move what town are we in the pickles?

What town are we in London? London, London. What? I don't understand.

I don't understand. He's moving in Cambridge. We're in Cambridge. Oh, London, London.

It's going to be in London. It's not at all. So I took the Vicky line down to the land, bro. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Go and then Paul. You disappoint me.

What's going to disappoint me? What's happening in this episode? I'll tell you what, it's not as funny as the one we just did. We don't know how it's going to pan out.

Where's your moxie? I'm full of cut sparrow and moxie. Yeah. Bloody hell, guys.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Riddles.

Are you weird? We're cut. We're going to be and riddled with on we. Yeah.

Is that the artist? No. Oh, I forget. Oh, here we go.

I was at my day job the other day. Yeah. And you have to call people up to do research with them. Yeah.

There was a lady whose name was Miss Lobbion Cave. Wow. Lady and cave. That is amazing.

Good night. I'm out full. Just the amount of mouth. Wait up.

Wait. I heard it in my earphones. Like a dandruff. It had a clatter when I do it.

Yeah. So we have a it's back. We have a host, Ash. Thanks for the intro.

Very good. Brilliant. You could have said Londro. But she said Londro.

It's live in Londro. It's cheap show. Yeah. It's not brilliant.

It's not it's like recorded in front of a live audience. Yeah. Of my flatmates underwear. They're just really not enjoying themselves.

They'll chip in with cheers and laughter if they enjoy it. Well, we have a packed show today on the cheap show. We have our we're going to start with some tales from the shop floor. It's very exciting.

Well, shit. Yeah. Probably. Well, find out.

Listen, yeah, it will only be fitting. So you try to pollute my fucking health with your fake tie. Shit, I don't touch it. Don't put it in my tea.

You're a poo-tie. Fuck you. It's named Chudra Frusher. Pooh-t-oh.

You want to be a poo-tie? You want to be a bad guy. So we're talking about that. And then we're going to win magical after that.

We're going to Ash's vegan kitchen. Ooh. Delicious. What's that going to be about?

Well, I've been vegan now for some months, depending on when this episode goes out. And I, well, I'm a father. Yeah. I'm a lover.

And I'm a midnight smoker. Yeah, sometimes. Yeah. No.

OK. We see. I make the information. I do the implication.

And then we'll leave it at that. And then one notes. Yeah. I have to see it badly.

It's very difficult. People often ask when you're vegan, they say, like, wait, you get your vitamin, okay? Nutrients. I bet you find them ties and what we say about that.

But I found a meal that gives you everything you need in one delicious meal. Oh. Now that we're on the subject, sorry, I'm doing the pointy thing. Have you heard about the new diet as a sort of reaction to veganism where these people are claiming that they just eat me?

Only me. I know. Can't, can't. Yeah.

I read this article the other day and they're like, yes, my libido's gone through the fucking roof and I love it. They're like, I don't even have to think about food. I just sort of get steak and eat steak. And that's it.

They're going to die horribly. They are. They must do shit. They're like, cool, as environmental fucking disaster.

Is this like the old writer food? Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the key.

No, they're serious. They say, I've got a great alertness. I don't have any sort of my bowel is compacted. My arteries are literally closing up.

Got one. That's the one the good thing about it. Because when you get the alt right, like nothing happens to them. They're just got very strong opinions and they're horrible people.

Yeah. But when you're alt right against veganism, you die. It's much better. It is much better.

Well, there we go. So, obviously, I wouldn't agree with that. I mean, the whole point is there's got to be somewhere in between me. Yeah, there's got to be a place somewhere in between.

It's speaking. It's my nothing. No, this is not. I'm a vegan, but I totally believe everyone should just make their own decision with their own books.

It's none of my fucking business. It's not. Do it. Do it.

You want. That's not a one. That's not a happy. What do you matter?

Well, unless you've heard the other animals or kids. The argument would be Ash, don't do your one because your addiction to flesh is killing the world. And that's actually addiction to flesh. And then we're going to end with a segment with we it's our dollar basket still.

So I had got a story from a book that I would like to read about a very unusual man and you know you can listen and learn and chipping with some witty reports to it. So, that's something. Okay. And that's the show today.

So what you up about the show? I'm happy about the show. I walked in the door, even after Paul's, you have lost your professional demeanor. I haven't.

I saw you ran out your resignation of the show. We don't want to accept it. I'm not right. Come back.

Come back. That was a letter to Louise Wenner from Sleepo. I was writing her a love letter. That's right.

Dear Louise, I was a big fan of Sleepo in the 90s and I think you're nice. I know you'll be formed now and you're going on tour. Can I see your show? Love Paul.

What was their big hit? What do I do now? Can I think I can't handle it right now? Was it then that they did the one about the boyfriend?

Possibly they most. She was going out with Blurz, Demi and Alton. No, wasn't that the girl from Republicor? No, it wasn't Elastica.

Is that not him? No, it's not that. Who are you talking about? Louise Wenner from Sleepo.

Oh, the band is called Sleepo. I don't know, something er. Blurr, Sleepo. Oh, why are you asking?

Republicor. Republicor. If you've got that in Flint, it's not Conan for all. Conan for all?

Conan for all. You don't get that. It's a joke for me and me and Eli. And are Patreon followers as well?

Good. I'm not running a Patreon for all of them. I've been on. No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. I'm not going to have to stop supporting my own podcast through Patreon. You're not supporting yourself.

First time for something. I need to listen to them. You won't say it to me, don't you? Let's crack on with the tails from the shop floor.

So, yeah, it is no time for. In a professional manner, Eli Silverman. A great segment of the show on Chief Show. It is what we like to call Tails from the shop floor.

And it goes a bit like this. Well, people sending their stories about when they work in shops. Do the theme show. I can't remember the theme show.

Make one up now. Tails. Tails from the shop floor. I got involved.

I'm also nice to come here. I have been awake for a while. Have you been there? Get out.

Get out. Go to the naughty corner. Yes. It wasn't a hat.

I was a horse. I was a Spanish horse. They were friends around. They were like, doing a Tails from the shop floor.

Listeners and supporters. Send me emails. They might not be supporters. and say that was the wrong word.

Shut up. Listeners. Listeners are fine. They might know he's been a listener.

Well, why haven't they heard about this section? And just sent in and hate us just on principle. And they send in one. They just, anonymously send in.

An ostomously. Yeah? Oh, Ross, not an ostomously. He's Ross with notally.

He's a friend of Richard Brandoff. Oh, is he? Richard Brandoff. He's reporting.

Is he? He'll be back. Yes. What does he sound like?

I love this. I don't know. He don't remember the deal. Oh, wait.

I love Richard Brandoff. I don't know that counts. I love Paul. It was a bit more.

Yes. I am. Richard Brandoff. Right.

I'm Richard Brandoff. We got him. Hello. I'm Richard Brandoff.

The audience love this category. Strange is huge. Strange. Come in here, Miss.

Miss. Miss Jenkins. Come in here and spank my knob off. I'm a material raise.

The voice is a can do any. But the concert is very similar. It is. It's not making those sounds.

Half, half, half. Stop it. Right. He's gone there.

Richard Brandoff's gone. Good. He's a very unusual man. This is due to the shop floor.

We have had a few letters in. We've got to get three maybe one or two weeks. So here's the first one. It's a guy called Walter Hunt.

He said I have an old detail that sadly features no for Hunter. Water Hunt. Really? Really low.

I think. Wait a minute. Really? I didn't get a really.

I just didn't know it. I expect more from you. I expect more from you. I'm sorry.

Stop it. That's the noise of the matter. Sadly, this story features no fecal matter. But it still might be amusing to my fellow cheapskates.

Being an American my first legitimate job was a McDonald's. It was a small town in the state of Montana where I spent my summer holidays living with my mom. This sounds like the thing tuned to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Now this is the story.

Oh, please. Oh, please, please. I'm not going to be into Ninety Nails and the Goths' culture. I wonder if he was a trainer, Goth.

What does that mean? He'd got off. He'd wear sort of white trainers. What a awful name for pointless things.

Fuck's sake. You know, you're Goth, but you only wear white trainers and not the sort of de-aimps. Don't dive in. Yeah.

You've just got sort of fields of an effluent t-shirt and not trainers. I'd be nothing. So. Read the story then.

This is one thing you're meant to be able to do. You're interrupting me. Right, here we go. Fuck's sake.

Anyway, it's a popular choice of white boys in suburbia at the time in the 90s. My mom was supportive of me. I'm not a stupid lifestyle choices, but was also poor as fuck and living in a white trash trailer only slightly bigger than one of your British caravans. In order to have any money of any kind, I had to get a job.

So he did. I got a job at Donald's, which was an hours walk from where we lived. I hated it. The uniform was black, cocky trousers and the rofist is just wool-pulled polo shirt in ugly plummy maroonish color.

I can picture it. Yeah, we've all got a vivid, well-described image in our heads. Well done for the description. Excellent work.

The only upside apart from getting paid was the copies amounts of food out of the deal for the job. Now, we can't. Did he steal those frozen onions that you have to put in the water? No, he's not the one that they put on the hamburger.

Yeah. That's one of the only things I missed from being vegetarian or vegan. That was an onion. And the burger sauce.

I'll give you a tenet to have a burger yesterday. I'll buy you a burger. No. No.

No. No. No, it's not the number of burgers. Is it not?

No. Three burgers. Actually, yes. You've got Turkish around here.

You could probably get some very nice starters. Yeah. Yeah. So some hummus.

Good hummus. You like a hummus? I love a hummus. Yeah.

A hummus. Yeah. It's one of the big hummus. Oh, yeah.

You're vegan. I'll just smother everything in the whole machine. Yeah. It's one of the big flavors.

Oh, and squash. It's a hard hit. But avocado isn't as versatile. It's just squash.

I like squash. Yeah. I like squash. Name one thing I don't like to eat.

Come. No one does. Are we going to do this story? You're kidding.

They're opting. All right. Here we go. So he's stealing food.

It's not going to be better than we know. He doesn't involve shit. He's like, well, let's find out. If you fucking let me.

So he's going to do the job. Here's what I wanted. I was all the crotch out of my trousers. Of course, I also chosen to go commando that day.

Oh, oh. And so I was free balling. He's like nicely put. He's free.

Free balling. Hey. They need a deep fat fryer. No.

Look, none of my co workers have noticed, but I was standing there with my cock and balls on the kitchen. Full of waist high grills and deep fat fryers. Yeah. Yeah.

No. Noggits. Oh dear. Pan-extricking.

I rush to the break room where I had a cunning plan. I concocted a diaper from some extra aprons and covered my genitals and the black aprons wouldn't be all that notable against the black trousers It had worked or very clever. You made a secret diaper. I would just say look look boss.

This is what's happening now I'm gonna be ball free. I can't add my cock out in the restaurant. Just hygiene issues. Yeah, what have you got a smegma flick?

Right, so okay, so it worked either man who didn't know this or didn't care as no one mentioned to me about it all That's because everyone's dead inside they're working with Donald's I still I still had one problem the long walk home. Oh dear. I've the loading up on stolen burgers pies on McNuggets. You see Yes, just don't cook truly buying No, no cook you have to cook.

Well, you take a moment to cook imagine trying to steal pre-made burgers. Yeah, they're too bulky Once they're in the barn. Oh, yeah, yeah, the system. Yeah, that's just a pack of actual patty packs Yeah, the system.

Yeah, the system. You know me right. I propose the long trek I ensured my improvised shame diaper was tied up tight and headed off it mostly off without hitch However after crossing the busiest intersection on the town. I unknowingly stepped on the apron stream mind a huge dog shirt No, the apron string that a come loose and the whole flag and the whole affair or rabbled and fell to the ground Nick someone's flag.

Why didn't you just wear the apron as an apron and there? I was standing at a crosswalk in front of tons of people with my knob flapping in the breeze People pointed in laugh tung the horn to the whole oh Famously covers that area but it fell off I try to picture what happened to the crotch of his trousers. It must have just Yeah, it's got to because it went up for it was free balling. Yeah, I thought it was just the balls No, no, it's the whole it's the whole packet.

It's the whole Christmas Yeah, I've ever told you about when I was at school and I went up where the French oral exam And I went up to the well done for The teacher says and it was she would say something in French and she was saying in English and in French We survived all and she as I walked up stood in front of her She went on as she I can see your bits and pieces and I look down and my school trousers and Boxer shorts wide open and I just see my penis Wow It was fully exposed to Mrs. May the French did you have a thing for her? No, she was not she looked like When I tell the story normally I would say that she said ash I can see your penis and I respond as you'd rather Why? Even if it was exposed no one would see it because it would be too small like a maggot on a fucking bowling ball It's time for a line description of his penis on a big thing on its all So yeah, so we finished a story People laughed at their horns and he ran home with tears in his eyes my balls slapping my thighs I went home got very stoned and very drunk and drowned my soul.

It was chicken Look at the next day my boss called and said I was fine Not only had they heard about the incident a small town with Donald frowns on it decent exposure I was wearing a company uniform. They also were very well my braids and We're thinking you know the lead there mate, but it all worked out in the end I got a job on a ranch bailing hey, I got some decent muscles lots of my virginity But that's a story Well, that sounds like a nice little ending. Yeah, sounds like a real sort of American story. I don't Making hey Cocking balls out.

He's a very rural story now in terms of that story Paul. Yeah, it would be better Yeah, it would be better if he shot himself at some point. I guess yeah Yeah, what I'd like to see is a fucking turn in a deep fat fryer It was sorely lacking shit if his balls had got dumped in the jigamick nugget fryer as well and got a bit crisp I just let like go I was like like that balls to a stop. I never tell from the shop floor.

Yeah, you sure Yeah, I would like someone to find some shit in the bag. I like those the days I live for yeah When someone's like I found some shit in a bag. I had to right here. Let's take some urine to the doctors right in a in a Container yeah, yeah, and I took it to the dentist.

That's true I went to the wrong place they're in there on the counter I went up to the counter is it it's got it's a sort of a NHS center Right, so in the same building are the doctors the dentists. They're all there. They're all in the same building So I just went in I've done it. I was kind of an autopilot.

I'm just saying I've got a urine sample and they just were like this is a Probably gonna be upstairs right great. So okay, so here's the next part of the show it's one comes from Louise okay, Louise sends this hello Louise. Thank you for sending your tales No, I'm saying that to her I'm trying to read and be slow and not be Just wait me. I never slapped you in front of before In a nice way I want to hear about the movies.

Yeah, read the story. I have a table to share with you that Shop for okay, just so why it's a say dance for you know what I mean? You just be watching sound a m I Know Stereo completely innocent of all charges and that's the latest news on cheap show at six o'clock Fuck sake man I have a tell us from the shop for you says Louise Yes, that happened during the 13 years I worked for a well-known high street news agents think pushing chocolate sales at the till and over price station. They'll be on their double H So potentially it's actually double.

Yeah, it is though I work in the book department and we had many regular customers who my colleagues and I got to know quite well This is the voice I've chosen to read this letter To these regulars call them Barry and Amanda you thought that was their name maybe I'd be way of hiding the fact I kind of making it an open secret yes So these two regulars used to come in bearing a mander and in probably once a week more to chat with the staff and then purchase anything But we didn't mind it through both pleasant enough on this particular afternoon Barry and Amanda came in and had their usual chat with me and my colleague and then they had a stroll around the store while We got on with work after about ten minutes or so. We saw Barry and Amanda were about to leave the store me But then a cheerful goodbye Barry was walking away slightly in front of Amanda I am and I hope you haven't shut yourself and he reached the exit He stopped dead in his tracks stirred into space for a few seconds and then ran out the store Amanda Who as I said have been a few steps behind stopped at the point where Barry had been stood looked down at the carpet Ran over to the till with me and my colleagues were stood pointed over on the spot on the carpet instead the words He's done that She also then ran from the shop with the words. He's done that Before we had she also ran from the shop before the chance to ask any questions we couldn't see that particular The till blocked off you so we gingerly made our way over to see what Barry had done to a utter amazement stroke discussed Barry had somehow managed to Sit down his trotter leg. That's what people do like serial public in public shitters.

They've got this technique They can get it down their leg without breaking up too badly on the way That's the sound water hunt. He could have done that Could I just open the trap door the bomb bay only straws and just plopped it down? No, it is quite skilled like you've got you've got to have some firmness I remember myself as a four-year-old and feeling it sort of do the slide. Yeah, that's not you don't want to feel it Trically You want it to sort of dryly just drop well Like those people who only meet they'll just be trying to get the T-shirt a little bit more to give we couldn't believe it because he managed to shit down his trials a leg and leave three little nuggets of poo I Mean It's true We stood there laughing sorry staring at it disbelief We didn't know whether to laugh or wretch we quickly decided neither of us were prepared to clean it up and so called I'll sit down to a situation she came down from the upstairs staff there with a bucket of hot water a bin bag and some bleach and Proceeded to pick up this shit and scrub the floor to the ninja of its life I couldn't do that and I definitely can do with a human shit you could do it you're too swamish I wouldn't be able to feel the warmth of the shit on your hand as well.

No, not interested So surprisingly enough Barry and Amanda continue to come into the store weekly basis No, nothing had happened. No, it's been come in you mustn't come in Barry would come up to the this is what I did Barry comes up. I'll be Barry. Yeah.

Oh, you know I see on You're not welcome. I want to talk to you. What about the three nuggets? Shit that you did in our store we had to clean up how do you talk to you about the fucking weather?

I know you're fucking he didn't mean to you can't help himself. You're like gaping anus. It's at the end of the story Pretty much coming in I can't believe that we tap and they would come in and you're right. You're right She's complicit.

She's complicit. She can do the do she also. That's fine. Is it?

Well, she doesn't prove herself to be a fool I think you have a problem Word anyway, so we get to the end this so they continue to come in and we'd happily chat with them knowing all the time that Barry would forever be known Is him who shit on the carpet and next time Louise writes old lady project out vomit here half They just did breakfast on to the lottery counter That was much more in the spirit The shop floor. Yeah, that was good one. Yeah. Well, thank you.

Well, thank you. I better than like his balls I just don't believe it. It's better than your shit. We get a lot.

It's dick for maybe maybe poked out He had a whole rucksack full of fucking burgers. Yeah, story underneath the story. Yeah. Yeah, it's a thief He's a burger thief Go on Mistakes I don't think ever grow up growing up growing nicking.

No, no the theme that links to stories from tells from the shop floor today You're like it's one word nuggets. You're right. There was a theme nuggets and if you wrote the word mug it's down Then you've won a prize and that prize is Eli me saying nuggets Yeah, yeah, that's right. Tells me that tales from the shop floor and a rosy selection it was too Well, it's a bit of a foody episode on chief show today We'll be a bit the foodie foodie foodie food when we go to Ash's vegan kitchen slaughterhouse Before then we're gonna do a quick cheap Pete's Eli like to the cheap eats jingle you want to get all the end yeah, all right, here we go Like that we've got very emotional well, I thought we do something a bit fizzy putting a bit not frothy a little bit fizzy So we haven't done that thing like this in a while We just taste three different types of you know cheap food and I thought it's about time We did anything because everyone knows that market leader is the red bull there's been big changes in this market I know why sugar tax is coming.

Oh, you know in the UK. It's not a law, but it's a general agreement. You're over 16 Yes, so they will do age checks in Tesco now, so you can't buy red bull if you're under 16 Which is a really good thing. Yeah, it's very nice.

I know sugar law must be affecting cuz one of the things about energy drinks is they massively full of sugar Oh, yeah, yeah, it's really a lot sugar. It's really effective stuff. This sugar tax like you know Like sometimes when I do you know what the coke yeah, okay, lovely coca-cola What the fuck is that? It's like Pepsi zero We will not do the money to get it so all of the bars and everyone is changing so they're like sugar free or peck cheaper brands Oh, I went to the Odin cinema.

Oh, it's nasty. It's nasty in seven cinema. They're not doing any of the sugar drinks anymore They basically said if you want you can buy bottles of coke the tap-dispense drinks It's all the three free they're like if you want and they're like one pound. Yeah, 90 or something for a bottle of coke the cheap Show report beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep It's a national scandal It's a national scandal But I know what is it for?

It's fascism. How can it be? I don't drink a lot of soft drinks I don't like it like to have my the taste of ash breath Essex. What do you think about this situation?

It really annoys me that they can take the sugar out of fizzy pop. Yeah, you can still buy facts Like what you say to that well you can still buy this you guys great for you being taxed on being taxed anymore It's like a minimum this is my unit for booze With other issues over the audience you say over there with the red glasses You there with Completely blocked me that's a bad improvisational move you're on professional I'm sick inside of this this behavior and you for the listener pause fingers four inches from you guys knows you are gonna get a proper spanking Right, you can't get up because then he's a bit back and forth. All right, so let's go up to the studio audience now And see if they've got any questions. Yes, man with the glasses.

Hello. Yes. Is it true that? Making everyone drink sugar free is actually good for the country even if it is imposed It's a drop in the ocean stop the kids eating all the chocolates I just don't like the way it's impacted the drinks that I'm available to me Well, I don't think it's good and what I've got a bunch of new ones now that they're trying to sort of relaunch their zero by having a peach flavor And a cherry or a little peach and I taste like arles.

Yeah, it's yeah Artificial well on that note. We're gonna try a range of budget energy drinks. Okay. These were both B&M They were about 39 peague.

Maybe one of them was 38. Oh really? They're all that cheap. Yeah, and so obviously Red Bull's a market leader Monster maybe comes next would you say yeah?

Yeah? I don't understand monster relentless It's a huge yeah, I think they didn't sell relentless anymore. I think I don't know Yeah, I was walking in Camden one day and my dad What's happened to you? Instead of bottles Yeah, that's how you bought and then I remember bottles are facing those out But Coke always takes nice around the bottle.

It's just nice. It's not about it. It's like 11. Oh nice.

Right. Here's the first one I have chosen It's cool. I'm gonna share this all our lips all gonna be yeah, but rank it in dirtiness So me then I said you that's how the drinking so I'm a very clean drinker. Yeah Right, so this is a drink called emerge energy drink dual.

I don't know what's your merging from no, it's a word It's an actual word emerge growth spurts. Sam spur would be a good one. I drags spurt the night What about cock's explosion? That's good.

Oh, there's a beef on the back I'm a leader of it energy. You're is a great tasting energy drink specifically developed in your body when you need it most Nia sin panthro thenic acid vitamin B6 Contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue and shumin moderation part of a very balanced diet There is touring in this And please don't make me lose me But not anymore do you can't do this then can you? It's all synthetic. Oh, well, there we go.

Let's give it a go. What flavor is this? Well, it's any drink flavor, so this is a standard one Yeah, it's not like they're they haven't added a flop smell this and go. Oh, yeah, it smells like an any drink I have a sub-seap right now.

Okay. It's not awful. It's sweet. It's got a little bit that sweet It smells like do you remember when you're kidding you had medicine?

It was just glucose. Yeah, like good old original recipe glucose I got a Lucas lady, but it's much more sour and sweet. No, it's the kind of generic smell of knock-off ready It's very bubbly. This is the kind of stuff I was out waiting in America once and they had this stuff actually on tap log on the mixer tab Yeah, they actually had this stuff.

Wow, and you could get I have a soda stream machine and the energy drink It's very similar to the do you can make with that? Yeah, it's just Tosa generic energy drink. Do you think of generic energy drink that's what you find? Give it a second though because it fades off It leaves a bit of an aftertaste, but leaves that bitter.

Yeah, it's a it's a saccharine Yeah, yeah, where I think that is the difference because red ball. I sometimes have a robot with a little sugar Yeah, this doesn't this is it's still chemically but it's more kind of colorful fruity chemical taste. Yeah, yeah, you'd have it I think you'd know that 90 cheap drink with the cheap ones. I tend to prefer I don't do it so much these days, but I prefer to go for like a tropical or cherry flake Yeah, I can have a sour that's one of these is going on.

Yeah, it's like when a red ball a few years back brought out their flavor range Yeah, I kind of liked it. I like the blueberry. I did a burp out my nose and it's all burnt on the No, but we do are stuck in camp. I do want to rate them what out of five what do you rate?

The red ball is a flavor a lot. Let's say if you have to class is that yeah, obviously probably might hate the taste of Red Bull So it's you know, that's a two. Yeah, it's the compare if you use Red Bull as the narrative. Yeah, it's not very nice I was that's three unless I'm just a good exactly middle of the road I think it just it fades too quickly.

Yeah, it's all full of sweetener. It's a merge dual. What's it? Julie doesn't really say really best serve I think she'll say is everything else.

Hi caffeine. Hi caffeine The next one is called Carabao Carabao Big brand and it's been on the Recently They sponsor the big one of the big the main cups in football Really? So this is a big brand big brand. I my team got to the Carabao Cup final And I didn't know what carabao was until the day of the final when eventually my friend told me I was like Oh, I've not been I've been like I wasn't like going out of my way not to find it But I just thought it'd be really interesting if you could get a big huge spot They must pay tens or hundreds of millions to sponsor it and I thought it's really good I don't know what it actually is.

Yeah, but imagine they were far right group It wouldn't matter because it's an awful competition. We lost the final. Well, you don't get anything like a medal I don't know, you know in football I'd have to kill you a shit. No prizes for second place ball unless you get a second Play price.

Yeah, silver medal. Yeah. Yeah Hey, wouldn't I eat only meat and must win. What's fucking don't they say like in terms of actual worth the silver de bronze worth more than the gold?

Oh really just played it's just I don't know something I don't know that is such a boring thing No, that's interesting when you said that comment I was transported to some kind of old man's pub in like 83 I'm really really excited to try this changing out Paul after finding out about it just very very recently I've never ever seen a can of it in the shops. I have and it's in the ads though They've got rockin's role. There's there's some kind of rock star who's a caribou or something I'll be more like this guy. I don't know anyway, we're not here to review the advertisements.

We're here to review the brand itself So it's apparently reasonably well-known. It's an open comma. It's a big account is that a little bit? This is 250 mill and this is 330 mill I think this was still about 39 Improvement because this is just an flavor as well.

So I think about this one's okay Branding that's usable really does use a ball branding now. It's got this interesting room. It's all recognizable anything, but something grassy Oh, it's a grassy. Well, I'm gonna find out.

Okay. Okay. Go in Huh, what does it taste of for? How'd it go?

It's I want to flowery, but it's not it's more aromatic. Yeah grassy Yeah, you know what I mean? It's like meadows. It's like meadows Hey bombs and fruit fields.

Oh, it's energy drink. It's car. That's not bad That's really fresh. Yeah different It's fizzy but not aggressive It's like double the fizz of what I'd normally it's kind of got more of a lemon II tartness than a standard red ball.

Yeah, I like that actually It took me energy drink out of that. I think that'd be a trip to pleasant drink if you took that sort of glue Very sweet. Oh, it's not as sweet as the other one Yeah, it's nice. It's again like grassy or it's fruit It's definitely done their work in sort of differentiating it from red ball.

Yeah I think in a good way you have to do that because otherwise why you're just gonna buy yeah Oh, I could buy red ball or the thing that says just like it. Yeah, but if you actually like that flavor more you go to that Yeah, okay points for that. I didn't like it very much. I would say for I would get it to refreshing difference I think I do I think that I think the if it didn't taste a bit like red ball It tastes like red balls be put into something.

Yeah, it's a bit like distilled But we still want its own flavor of whatever that is. Yeah, okay It's like a rebel with a bit more of a citrus. Yeah, and it's lighter. Yeah, I like rich It's not so syrupy the finish.

It's sort of got cuts off and it lasts. It doesn't go bland I'm from the second well four four and three from Eli onto our third and final I've been looking for this because I think the shops that I love the packaging of this one. This is MTV up, okay because you know MTV TV still a thing. Yeah, but they don't play fucking music on it these days apparently Yeah, it's anything and it's nice kind of 80s.

Yeah, I really like it. I'm gonna be like an actress Now is a time for MTV to be branching out into products because some company went up to MTV went up to the icon Where owns it and when we make this energy drink you want to slap your logo on it? They'll go oh, I don't know They do like the Kardashians because YouTube destroyed the point of MTV so MTV became a reality TV channel with stupid sitcoms and shit When you see a Tory on something you go, it's always nothing but you wear the C shit. Yeah, Tonya hat You know, I mean it's a it's a playboy one of your well, I guess MTV's logo is like that I think you know it's just a sort of an entity that some company owns that they just put on things Yeah, so there you go, so it's now a brownie.

I'm expecting that to be fruity. Well, almost a vinto We buy them just looking at it. Yeah, two fifty so a little bit more than the cheapest one we have here again I think there's no more than thirty nine forty piece on that There's nothing to do with the same size as the emerge two fifty. Oh, yeah, they're both Okay, I'm sorry.

I'm not a look. I'm pretty sure they all do the second one. Yeah, Tory. Yeah, Tory and hi Kathy made in Potters Bar Not far from here.

This should be to Hong Kong. That is the opposite. Oh, yeah, so here we go. No more talk.

Let's walk the walk We should done that noise in the mic. That's a good kind of barely smell anything. No smell I know there's this there's a definite energy drink smells of this book. Okay, Paul's not looking impressed from his Yeah, it's a bit tastes a bit like lollipop like a kind of doesn't taste like red book.

No, but it's definitely red ball Esque. Yes, it's got the weakest smell. So weak. Yeah, which might not be a negative.

There's nothing to that It's not awful. It's not like this. It's just kind of like this very very nothing. No, but again That's not there's a place for that.

See if you go on down. I can't bear the taste of red balls too strong Yeah, it's got no kind of neutralized that kind of medicine. He's a little bit. It's just fizz Yeah, that's quite pleasant.

I don't know. I don't like the appetizers a little kind of middle of the road tank off There's no mention of anything to do. Oh, it is Viacom. There it is 2018.

Yeah, it's just a logo I've just you I bet you the fucking console on empty there like holding tins of it while they talk to fucking Moss death I don't know if I wrap it right I actually prefer that to the emerge. Yeah, I would probably agree with you on that though. I prefer it. No, I would think I would because that's a little bit sickly chemically.

It's very nothing but it's a bit dangerous because I could drink it more It's got more I think of the three that is the sort of most that first question. Yeah, I like about the second one The second one is sometimes you know what I get with energy drinks It's like I'm tired. I need an energy drink. Yeah, kind of thirsty, but then you take that go doesn't really quit your first You know, I mean it's so sugary and sort of seriously that would that would point your point.

Oh, well points What do I give you three? I'll be three what did I give the carobale? I think you gave that to I gave it three Two for that now instead of four MTV is my favorite really yeah, I think MTV might be my thing interesting I can't I just I just want to do it properly. No, it's fair enough.

I just find that more refreshing and it's different and it's exciting Whereas that is a lot more to the carobale. Yeah, it's just too. Well, it's too sweet for me. I'm gonna go for an MTV Which is the same as I go.

I don't know. This is really weird drink. I like that. Yeah, all right Well, I think I'm gonna put them level But I think I slightly prefer the MTV saying that though for thought let's just say most of them one of them might have been 69 people But there were no cheaper than 39 so let's say like a lot of it's like that's quite good.

I'm not saying that's the problem People get addicted to that stuff. Yeah, you know, we are circled back at the beginning of the discussion and some of these one of the things there Is yes, but caffeine by itself should I improve them to be harmful conclusively? No, in fact, they seem to find that it's good for you It's very good for my great coffee seems to help to ward off dementia people who drink coffee You know, if you ever migrate and having an energy drink can open up blood vessels and actually help with my grace some people Do you have my grades my girlfriend stuff is very bad energy drink help pro plastas Well stay with us after the break we're talking to doctor Steve Jackson about the validity of those claims and Ash will be talking from my grains have The Jackson like the guy did the fight No, it's just not Peter Jackson. I just said he and Jackson The guy who did fighting fantasy nothing I'm sitting down in terror, you know Dungeon choose your adventure books.

Oh, yeah, but you know that I don't make up a name which is someone I fucking Okay, so that case that his name was the blue dee and farquark Klugeon for you Yes, because you mentioned her so now I know labien cave of the lugeon farquark. I also had to come up called Kim Chari We haven't this in a while I'm gonna be the book that has an interesting story in it. So I'll down close my hands. Yeah Don't do this sound though.

I will talk about it like we did be a Collier's Mansion and like we did John Megas This is one of those dollar Pesc row rumps through history. Oh, no, I was looking at you get any grief and call me I know a geography teacher looking P though or you know Jack emo soldier Yeah, so and today's always taking from a book called the world greatest cranks and crackpot all credits You go to Margaret Nichols who wrote this book and all I can do is read from it But I want people to know that Margaret Nichols Nicholas is a book writer who wrote this book called the world's greatest cranks By octopus books I'm a painter by a tooth canvas The author wishes to thank it was been done for his patients and encouragement and Vic made you for enthusiasm for the original idea First printed in 1982 and it's a book So the story has a bunch of loads of small stories for instance a chapter called Barbie Builders and talked about the up and down of Beckford How is that actually an interesting one? There's a great story in here somewhere about a guy who builds massive tunnels and the leaf is mentioned Like the whole chambers and rooms. Oh, yeah, so, you know, that's a good one.

So didn't didn't that only resolve itself quite recently? I don't really know he was actually causing subsidence. Oh, this is like years ago It's like 18 hundred twenty so there was one more recently some guy who was doing so much that the yes people said like people gardens Start caving in and stuff. Well, blow me tight.

Today's story boys and girls It's called the book of seller royal the self-crowned king of hey on way doesn't that sound delightful? Hey, I'm why hey on why? I Think's words in yeah, I can't even do it right. We believe in you right the story begins thusly April 1st 1977 is when this first I know well that's why yeah, yeah 19 9 yeah A single shot fired out from a rickety boat on the river.

Why what a provocative first image? You don't look impressed It's signaled the start of a new era for the residents of the small Welsh border town of hey through hey why where? You did nothing for ages when you do offer it is piss poor like that be grower. Oh, really cocka mouth.

Yeah place place Prats there's a place for prat. Yeah, there's not there might be Though the salvo did little more than start all the docks It meant the beginning of the home rule and independence from Great Britain That is if you happen to be a supporter of the books are extraordinary Richard Booth in future to be known as King Richard the first of hey on Why it's his story it sounds very much like Danny Wallace when he decided to make his own country. Yeah, oh did he yeah? Yeah, Danny Wallace Danny Wallace Danny Wallace.

So good. They named him for us. He was racist or something Yeah, Danny was a racist and he wanted to keep them out so we built a little town. That isn't true.

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